The New York Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK IER BROADWAY ALD AND ANN STH. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Allbusin despatches must be addressed Heravp. sor news letter and telegraphic New York AMUS NTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Hioco Doox. THEATRE. Broadway and 1th strect.— DoRA—BLAOK-ExED SUSAN. BOWERY THEATRE, Bow Dump MAN OF MAN- OWESTER—SVITALFIELD WEAVER, &0. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and ‘26d street.—OLIvER TWIST THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Cavaut at Last—It Takes TWO TO QUARREL, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tur SPEOTACULAR EXTRAVAGANZA OF SINBAD THE Sarton. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Atiernoon and evening Performance. BRYANTS’ OPERA HO atreet.—E1ni0riaN MINS Tammany Building, Mth LBY, &0, CENTRAL PARK GAR y between Séth and ‘59th sts.—POPULAR GARDEN C: | oMotats from that city, nas pablished a card in which | he says that he was¢reated very courteously on the occasion by everybody except his Honor Mayor | Bowen and his brother oMciala of the Common Council, ‘The telegraph operator at Fort Bridger, Col, bas sent word to a brother-in-law of Joon Sumner, in | Chicago, that no man has reached there from the | Powell expedition, and the report of the loas of it | probably ortgmated from the drowning of a Mr. Hook in Green river. ‘Two distillers in Williamsport, Pa,, named Bill- mire and Uliman, have been convicted of illicit dis- tilling and sentenced to two years in the Peniten- tary, a term which they are now serving out. They are the largest distillers and among the wealthiest men in that part of Peansytvania draft of Parliamentary reform, or, as we may The City, call it, a Napoleonic sketch of some few of the Asharp riot occurred in the Bowery last evening | many measures which France really requires, between a party of Orangemen who had been cele- i i Meaiinehelaanipactat anime Pade eeeacre sincerely hope her people may and some Catholic spectators. The melée became | tain. When the result of the late elections in very fierce and general at one time, but the police France was made known, and Napoleon's ap- Napoleen and the Corpe Cegislatif. Yesterday, as we are told by special cable telegram from London, Napoleon III. yielded to the demands of the reformers in the Legis- lative Assembly, imperialism endeavoring to cloak the humiliation of its forced capitula- tion by an entertainment or. sort of French White Bait dinner at St. Cloud, during the progress of which his Majesty perpetrated a few grim jokes, acknowledged he was growing old, made a point of the fable of the disabled lion and alluded to his dynasty and the succession. He subsequently sent in his managed to restore order after some twenty or thirty persons were injured, uone of them very | peal to popular judgment at the ballot box for seriously. ‘ Tanscheaninad were fired in City Hall Park | ®8 8ppreciation of his efforts and an endorse yesterday by order of the Mayor in honor of the | ment of Bonapartism was answered by a ver- yacht Dauntless, which has jusi arrived at Queens- | dict which gave nearly half the votes of the town after a run of twelve days, seventeen hoursand | empire to the opposition, the Emperor is re- six minutes from this port. ported to have said, “At last we are face to Accountants have been busy recently coun ting the assets in the Sub-Treasury of this city, the occasion | face with the revolution, and I know how to being the installation of General Butterfeld’as As- | deal with it.” For seventeen years France had sistant Treasurer. ‘The currency notes and gold | enjoyed a season of tranquillity almost un- mcs are ll counted. dt ard, uy | paralleled in the istry of continental gov- See 29. enepee,. "Oe ne ernments; it had been long since the peace of One of Colonel Ryan's Cuban command has | the well-ordered city of Paris was disturbed by escaped from the encampment on Gardiner’s Island, | a crowd, and the friends of the empire had be- and, with two or three others who have become dis- gun to flatter themselves that the people were HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOSE, Brooklyn.—-HooLer's MINSTRELS—SINBAD, THE SAILOR. NEW YORK 4 UM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOMENOF AND Ant. LADIES" Pld) YORK MUSEUM OF NATOMY, 620 Broadway.—FRMALES ONLY IN ATTENDA TRIPLE SHEET. July 13, 1869. New York, Tuesda; MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. ‘fhe DaILy HERALD will be sent to subscrivers for one dollar a month, The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter. country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the HERALD at the same price it is furnished in the city. contented with the way things were arranged, has 5 . come on to this clty. ‘These men say that they have | ®#tisfled with the one-man government. been generally enjoying themselves on Gardiner's Behold the change. Armed force has been Island, but that {il feeling had been engendered be- | required to quell popular demonstrations tween Colonel Courrier and a portion of the recruits against the government throughout the.coun- from Virginia owing to the Colonel’s political senti- ‘3 “ 7 aay ments. Ryan and Courrier secrete themselves at try; mobs have shouted “A bas TEmpire in night, and place guards around the isiand to warn | the streets of Paris, and an opposition, aston- them of the approach of suspicious vessels. ished at their unexpected electoral successes, Several vessels have recently arrived 1n the lower | have entered the legislative halls, emboldened bay with yellow fever on board. They hail from i Rio Janeiro and Cuban ports, by triumph and backed by popular sentiment, The trot at the Fashion Course yesterday between more: powerful, imperious and uncompromis- American Girl and Lady Thorn resulted in the tri- | ing than at any former time in the history of umph of American Girl. The whole affair was | the empire. In other than a despotism there farce, being merely for the gate money, and no speed would be no cause of apprehension for the was attempted. The best time was 2:24}. : Several indictments are said to Lave becn already Peace of the country ke or the stability of; gov- found by the Grand Jury against alleged Wall street | erament by anything like equalization of politi- usurers, but the examination of witnesses still con- } cal parties, but in the independent, increasing tinues. A bank president was examined recently | minority in the Corps Législatif, as well as in d si e 1, rey 5, and stated that he had frequently charged more the outbursts of political fury, declaring hos- THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdeaters. Brookiyn Carriers anD Newsmen will in future receive their papers at the Branca Orricz a or THE New Yors Heracp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. and Svusscriptions and all York Herarp will be ADVERTISEMENTS jetters for the aeceived as above. 2B NEWS. Europe. ‘The cabie telegrams are dated July 12. Napoleon yields to the demands of the Corps Légusiatif, but will not, for the present, change his Ministers. The Cabinet, however, is to be reor- ganized. The Emperor's shrewdness ts observable in this manner of treating his political opponents. The agitation for political’ re- forms has not beea hushed into silence. Among the subjects which the Emperor invends to submit for the consideration of the Legis- lative Assembly are:—The right of the Corps Legis- latif to elect its own officers; the simplification of the methods of presenting and amending amend- ments; projects of law; commercial treaties; the budget, and the extension of the mght of interpel- lation. The Great Eastern when last heard from ‘was only thirty miles from the point where it was expected to make the splice of the cabie. Messrs. Brig at and Forster have withdrawn thelr resignations to the Reform Club. The Oxford boat crew have commenced training. The London Times yesterday in an editorial said that it considered the absorption of the petty Mussniman States by Russia @ benefit to tue world. Russia much not encroach on England's India possessions though. The Orangemen and Catholics in the North of Ire- land yesterday regaled themselves with an insignifi- cant riot. Fenian outrages are reported as of daily occurrenco. A Captain Lambert, residing near Gal- Way; was shot, probabiy fatally wounded, on Sun- day night. The Austrian redbook, just published, says that the government is interested in maintaining the ex- isting status im its dealings with Prussia and the other German Siates. New Miscellaneous. The President and family will leave Washington on Thursday for Long Branch, tn the steamer Talla- poosa, ana will put up at the Stetson House. Governor elect Walker, of Virginia, had an: in- terview yesterday with President Grant, in which the latter assured him that his election was satisfac- tory and that he should receive the hearty support of the admii on. . ‘The counsel of Yesger, who is on trial in Jackson ({Miss.) before a military commission for the murder of Colonel Crane, an officer of the army, have peti- tioned Chief Justice Chase for a writ of habeas corpus taking him out of the hands of the military commission. The Chief Justice fixed Wednesday morning for hearing argument in the matter. ‘The trouble between the Indian Peace Commis- sion and the Indian Commisstoner has been re- moved by the withdrawal of Messrs. Weich and Campbell, the two members of the Board who were dissatisfied. These two, it appears, contended that the Indian Commissioner could not purchase sup- plies or expend any of the $2,000,000 fund without the advice and consent of the Board. They said that such was the understanding when they ac- cepted the appointment from the President, but as the rest of the Board did not agree with them they resigned. The State Department has issued a circular setting forth the terms of the convention with Mextco for the settlement of private claims between citizens of the two nations, and giving instructions to claimants as to the mode ot procedure to be had before the commission which meets in Washington soon. Columbia Typograpiical Union No. 101, of Wash- ington, last night referred the question of appren- ticeship in the Government Printing Office to agelect committee of five. Mr. F. A. Smith, of the firm of Smith & Payne, bankers, in Newark, N. J., has been arrested on a complaint of Jay Cooke & Co., that he purchasea of them $6,000 worth of government bonds, for which he gave a check ona bank where it is alleged he had no funds. Mr. Smith was too ill to be removed, and a constabulary surveillance is kept over his person. The Saengerfest at Baltimore was formally inau- gurated yesterday with an imposing civic and mill tary procession, The societies competed in the evening for prizes for singing. The proposition for establishing the equality of al) citizens has been promulgated by the Servian gov- ernment. ‘The disposition among the radical darkies defeated im the late Virginia clection seems to be averse to quietly submitting to their defeat. They assaulted a Walker negro in Richmond yesterday, but he escaped them. ‘The train from New York to Washington on Sun- day night ran into @ handcar near the Susquehanna river, and a portion of the train was thrown down an embankment. No one was hurt, although the ears were crowded. The handcar was being used ‘without authority by the Western Union Telegraph Company for carrying telegraph croas-arms. Hatton, the colored Councilman of Washington, Who viewed Gettysburg with the delegation of Stelwagen’s saloon, on East Fourteenth streci, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree, and was sentenced yesterday by Judge Bedford to im- prisonment for life. line, wil leave pier 45 North rive:, at one P. M. to- cay, for Queenstown and Liverpool, calling at Hali- fax, N.8., to land and receive mails and passen- gers, &c, * *o good $75 a $85 and inferior to common $45 a $70. steady in value, prime selling at lixe., Common to good at 9%. a 10c. and infe- rior at 7c. a 8c. Sheep were only moderately sought after, and prices were rather heavy at 6c. a has silenced those who would now and then Te. for prime and extra, 4c, ae, for common to | venture to expose the evils of the govern- good, and 334¢. a 4c. for inferior, The supply was | ment, and how even the anti-dynastic party terers. General H. L. Robison, of than the regular rate of interest, but that he and * orokers generally considered the law merely a dead | tility to Bonapartism, and the unmistakable letter, the observance of which was an exception to | verdict of the great centres of population and the general rule. intelligence against the ‘‘one-man power,” John Siebert, who stabbed and killed Jacob Stel- France sees trouble ahead, and Napoleon Wagen in August last, in an afray occurring in ; Sige realizes that a crisis is approaching. Will he meet it, and how? is the question of the hour. As might be supposed, the increased power of the opposition has emboldened them to de- mand concessions and compromises from an executive chief whose will heretofore has been well nigh law supreme. Moderate at first, it remains to be seen whether or not these de- mands will become imperious and insolent in the end—whether the concessions granted will still leave the reins of empire in the hands of the master who has hitherto managed them, unimpaired in prestige and prerogative. The steamship Etna, Captain Jones, of the Inman ‘The Hamburg American Packet Company’s steam- ship Silesia, Captain Trautman, will leave Hoboken at two P, M, to-day, for Plymouth, Eng., Cherbourg and Hamburg. ‘The mails will close at the Post Of- fice at twelve M. The steamship Nebraska, Captain Guard, will sail from pier 46 North river, at five o’ciock to-morrow a (Wednesday) afternoon, for Queenstown and Liver- The demands of the “radicals” so far seem pool. to us on this side of the water tobe nothing The stock market yesterday was strong and | unreasonable; but in order that their import- buoyant for the railway shares and government | ance may be properly appreciated and the bonds in particular. New York Central sold freely tent pA eee gel pa are maki at 200, and the five-twenties of '67 at 120%. Gold * ad was firmer and rose to 137%. headway in France be fully realized, we must Beef cattle were only in moderate supply yester- | remember the reception such demands would day, but the demand was not active, and the market | have encountered six or twelve months ago, was heavy, especially jor the common grades, which composed the bulk of the offerings. Prime and mae nnd pan Lance aS Ve be extra steers were sold at 15ic. 916%c., fair to gooa | Coup d'état inaugurated a despotic system at 14%c. @ 5c. and inferior to ordinary at | vesting the governing power in one man. We lic. @ 14c., the bulk of the sales being at 14c. a 15c. | must call to mind the danger incurred by any Milch cows were still slow of sale and heavy in price, one who dared express opposition to the em- ti pets. end. extra being Gepeed 0.8 Fee eee pire; how studiously every murmur of dis- Veal calves were tolerably active and quite | content and every aspiration for liberty has 10%¢. @ | been stifled heretofore by the vigilance of im- perialism ; how effectually the severity of law fair. Lambs were selling moderately at 9'¢c. a 126., according to quality, Swine were dull and heavy at 9c. a9%4c., With arrivals of 4,685, chiefly for slaugh- in the Legislative Chamber had learned to moderate their opposition to the mildest degree of censure. A change, indeed, has come over the spirit of Napolgon’s dream, when he finds a powerful opposition demanding as their ultimatum the retirement and official ostracism of a favorite minister, one of the stanchest and ablest friends of imperialism, proposing terms to the Crown, and urging at once a responsible min- istry and the autonomy of the assembly. For those who have witnessed the workings of the great government machinery, directed, as it were, by the genius of one mind and one hand, which knew no resisting force for so many years, it is difficult to realize the pro- gress of liberal ideas and governmental reform which now compel the motive, ruling power to halt and treat with the enemies of his dy- nasty as to the best means of directing the course of the ship of state in the future. We are not convinced that the hasty zeal of the opposition will not encounter difficulties, and those difficulties may be sufficiently serious to compromise eithér the cause of liberty or that of despotism; in a word, may resolve the question into the alternative of absolute des- Goop News rrom Mgxico.—Secretary Fish | potism or the fall of the Napoleonic dynasty. has issued the important official notification, | It is true we are told by telegram that the sit- which we publish to-day, announcing that a | uation is not disquieting, and ‘‘while one side convention has been concluded between the | is not disposed to make exaggerated claims, United States government and that of Mexico, | the other is equally resolved not to make ex- under which ‘‘all claims on the part of corpo- | aggerated resistance.” But, again, we sub- rations, companies or private individuals, citi- | mit, will the concessions granted appease, for zens of the United States, upon the Mexican | any length of time, the ardor of the opposition ; republic,” will be heard and adjusted for set- | will liberal reforms, wrested from the hands of tlement by a mixed commission. The instru- | the executive chief, satisfy the radical leaders ment is retrospective in intent, embracing in | or the people; will any compromise, consist- its scope all cases which have occurred since | ent with the history of Napoleon and the ma- the signature of the treaty of Guadalupe | jesty of his position, serve to content France Hidalgo, in the year 1848. If the object be | with empire and the ideas of government fairly and fully carried out the members of the | represented in the person of an emperor ? commission will have no sinecure job, but may | Rather, will not every concession now be ac- become considerably ‘‘mixed” in idea by press | cepted as evidence of weakness and declining of business before they report. In this way | fortune, instead of a sincere wish on the part we do not object to hear from Mexico, but | of Napoleon III. to advance the liberties of have no wish for news about revolutions, pro- | the people and satisfy the aspirations of the nunciamientos, stage coach robberies and Cus- | nation? tom House seizures, Whenever the Mexican The power, prestige and stability of despot- republic “pays up” it will commence to come | isms become jeopardized whenever oppression right. sibs begins to yield to popular will, and, the retro- Tue Streets or BrooK.yN.—Such streets! | grade movement once inaugurated, royal pre- Talk of New York! New York is a model in | rogative once forcibly assailed and compro- comparison. We know that Brooklynites are | mised, it only remains for continued resistance suffering from an interregnum. The old con- | 8nd revolution to complete the work of their tractors have just gone ont, after having done | overthrow. nothing fdr some months. The new con- If Napoleon begins to yield on important tractors have come in; but the Brooklyn | questions he must continue to do so, his dy- people wait for some proof of their usefulness. | nasty will be virtually at an end and the suc- In this hot weather Brooklyn streets are a dis- | cession of his son at once incompatible and grace and a shame, impossible, To just what extont he may be Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor elect Gilbert ©, Walker, of Virginia; Binghamton; J. B. Chaffee, of Colorado; Nat. Paige, of Washington, and W. H. Seward, Jr., of Auburn, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ch. de Luca, Italian Consul General to Washing- ton, is at the Clarendon Hotel. General D. Vickers, of Philadelphia, ts at the West- minster Hotel. General W. Dwight, of Boston; Professor G. F. Barker, of New Haven, and General W, W. Averill, of New York, are at the Albemarle Hotel. General Vodges, of the United States Army; Alfred Ely, of Rochester, and A. L. Meriam, of Washington, are at the Coleman House. General H. L. Palmer, of Milwaukee; D. M. Taylor and W. H. H. Benyaurd, of the United States Army, and Governor S. Gibbs, of Nebraska, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Postmaster General Randail, of Washington, and T. R. Trowbridge, of New Haven, are at the Astor House, Senator T. J. Robinson, of South Carolina, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Prominent Departares. ° Governor John Evans, for Denver; General Part- ridge, for Long Branch. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY) "JULY 13, 1869—TRIPLE’ SHERT. safe in yielding will be developed in the near future. If, on the other hand, he is only ox- perimenting with the temper of the people, and becomes satisfied that the revolution has at last arrived, we may expect that he will meet it, not in a spirit of conciliation and compromise, but with a will and might, detor- mined to crush out the opposition, triumph over the elements of discord and disaffection and re-ostablish his power at any and every sacrifice of blood and treasure, The opposition have it in their power to provoke revolution by immoderate haste, and may thereby post- pone indefinitely the propagation of liberal, constitutional ideas and government. The fortunes of Napoleon are evidently on the wane, and will continue to decline until impe- tialism will have perished with the death of the Emperor, unless revived by ill-timed and extravagant measures on the part of the oppo- sition. We await the result of the movement now in progress with considerable interest, as ominious of great consequences in the history of #rance. Wall Strect Yesterday. The important announcement from Wash- ington that the Secretary of the Treasury in- tended additional purchases of government bonds produced a very cheerful feeling in Wall street at the opening of business yesterday morning. The general satisfaction was due not only to the prosperous condition of the government finances which such purchases in- dicate, but to the relief which the money dis- bursed in payment for them gives mercantile and all business circles. The accumulation of currency in the Treasury had been proceeding at a rate which placed the money market within the control of the speculators and checked legitimate operations in the commercial world. The release to circulation of the surplus be- yond what is necessary to the current ex- penses of the government should be Secretary Boutwell’s aim in the interval to the fall ac- tivity in trade, when the South and West draw upon us so largely for funds with which to move their cotton and corn crops; otherwise the natural outflow of money from this centre will produce another violent spasm ata time when it will be most injurious. Secretary Boutwell has a fine opportunity to maintain his popularity with the merchants. The results ot the late Virginta election aro 60 very extraordinary as to create the suspi- cion of a bold political game not yet dis- closed. The successful conservative candi- date for Governor, G. ©. Walker, is a North- ern man, and was put in the field by tho moderate republicans against Wells, the ultra radical, test oath and rebel disfranchising can- didate. Otherwise the two men and the two par- ties occupied substantially the same ground— for the constitution, bya radical State convention ; for negro political equality, includ- ing several negro conservatives elected to the Legislature, and for the fifteenth amendment ofthe federal constitution establishing univer- eal negro euffrage, with the power to Congress to enforce it in every State. Now the question arises, have these negro equality doctrines, these radical changes from the democratic creed of negro inferiority and subordination, been honestly accepted by the Virginia democracy in their support of the Walker ticket and the moderate republican faction in this Virginia election? If so, the conversion of these Virginia democrats to the new dispensation is only second asa miracle to the miraculous conversion of St. Paul on his way to Damascus. The Virginia demo- cratic politicians are of the old Southern State sovereignty school, and to the last gasp wero thoroughly devoted to the late Southern con- federacy. From the declaration of their lead- ers they accepted the Walker ticket and the Walker platform in this late canvass as a choice of evils. The great concessions to the negroes involved were accepted in order to carry the election and to secure possession of the State. Now having, by this masterly flank move- ment, secured the Governor and the Legisla- ture, with two-thirds of the State delegation to the lower House of Congress, the next step in the programme became exceedingly impor- tant and somewhat doubtful withal. As far as we know a majority of the Legislature thus elected is made up of the old dyed-in-the-wool, inflexible anti-negro democratic elements of the State. Will they ratify the fifteenth amend- ment? Will they proclaim the ratification of the new State constitution? Will they admit or reject the negro conservatives elected to the new Legislature? If they do all these things in behalf of the equal rights of the black race they will inaugurate this new dispensation of negro political equality as the future programme of the democratic party, beginning with Virginia. Let Virginia lead the way, and the Southern democratic party, which on the negro question was the Southern rebellion, will follow Virginia in all the other Southern States ; and then the Northern democracy, to recover the Southern balance of power, will be compelled to go the same way. We have something of a leaning in this di- rection in the nomination of General Rose- crans as the democratic candidate for Gover- nor of Ohio, although the Ohio democracy swear they will never consent to this fifteenth Plagiarism Among the Preachers. Poets and divines have frequently been accused of plagiarism. In some instances the proofs of deliberate felony have been abun- dant; in others, the circumstance that genius, being equipoised in different minds might capture the same figures, in prose as well as in poesy, the same images in sacred as well as in profane fields of ideality. But the worst case of deliberate plagiarism that has recently come to our knowledge is ventilated by a newspaper published away out in Colorado. It seems that the Heratp some time since published @ discourse delivered by a reverend gentleman hailing from Cincinnati, which dis- course was entitled ‘‘Hell—Three Reasons Why.” Our Rocky Mountain contemporary asserts that a goodly portion of this sermon may be found in a work called the ‘Domestic Physician,” in an article prepared by the editor of am Indiana paper, who, in turn, stole the language from one of Prentice’s well known essays on temperance and the pros- pects of damnation. This treble-decked pla- giarism may, therefore, be regarded as a wonder in its way ; but the greatest advantage is that it will furnish some future plagiarizing lecturer an additional thesis for a discourse, in affording four instead of only three reasons why there should be’a hell, taking the reve- rend plagiarist’s as one of them. The Sacngerfest. From Baltimore we have an ample report of the celebration of the eleventh bi-annual festival of the German Saengerfest, or North- eastern Saengerbund, in that city yesterday. The procession, diversified in its component parts by a fine military muster and a complete turnout of the civic societies, with delega- tions from other cities, was organized in six divisions, the line requiring two hours to march pasta given point. Utilitarian, industrious and useful, the German emigrant never forgets his home associations and never gives up his love for outdoor amusements. In all countries, where the law permits, he associates with other Germans, sings, performs on musical instruments, joins a regiment and makes and drinks lager. He finds sunshine and creates an ideal Rhine in every clime. He is, conse- quently, particularly at home in the United States, and hence, in a great measure, the peculiarly native zest with which he conducts celebrations such as that which was observed in Baltimore. As a constituent part of the American nation the progress of the Germans is already immense; iis future and future results immeasurable by anticipation. Men now living in New York recollect when the first lager beer saloon was opened in the city. It was in a basement, and they, as boys, won- dered at it. They know to-day what it heralded and will read of the Saengerfest with pleasure. Tne Frencn Caste.—The French cable makes satistactory progress. By the time this is in the hands of our readers a landing may be effected at St. Pierre, as the Great Eastern was only thirty miles from the point of splicing yesterday morning. It is expected that the land line between Duxbury and Boston, to connect with New York, will be completed on the 20th inst., and, if the arrangements now in progress are successfully carried out, the connection between St. Pierre and Duxbury will be completed by the 25th. The Massa- chusetts Legislature has chartered a company to lay a cable from Duxbury oceanward which will splice with the French wire, thus placing the shore end in American hands exclusively. In a fortnight more, at mest, our three Atlantic cables will be in full working order. Will another year give us another cable, owned by Americans? Let us hope that it will. Trovusie IN PortTuaat.—A cable telegram informs us that political agitations have be- come serious in Lisbon, and that the govern- ment has found it necessary to adopt stringent measures to prevent an outbreak. We do not much wonder at this. Portugal is too near Spain not to be affected by the revolution which has just been accomplished in the latter country. Portugal has not the same ground of complaint that Spain had; but revolutions are contagious. It is not impossible that we may hear more of this troubia, negro amendment, never. They are far be- hind the Virginia democracy, then, unless the Virginians may be considered as playing a double.game. If they could fight off this new State constitution by legislative strategy till 1870, when a new Congress is to be elected, they might hope, with the new Congress, for a great change to their advantage in that depart- ment of the general government, Now the Vir- ginians may do this. They have only to make their work distasteful to Congress in order to have it rejected, and thus they may go on till 1870 in the hope that then there may be a democratic majority in Congress which will make everything right. It is only upon such theory that we can account for the astonishing concessions of negro equality by the Virginia democrats in their late election. Upon its face they have gained a great victory, but what it means has still to be revealed. There is a mystery about it and we fear there is mis- chief in it to all concerned. The British Ministry and the Lords. It appears from our cable despatches that the British Ministry or Cabinet held a meeting on Saturday for the purpose of arriving at a decision on the course to be followed on the amendments of the Lords to the Irish Church bill. It ia well known now to all our readers that when the bill shall have been read a third time and passed by the Lords it will be sent down to the Commons. It is for the Commons to say whether or no they will accept the bill in its amended form ; whether they will accept only some of the amendments, or whether they will send the bill back to the Lords in the shape in which it originally appeared before them, At the meeting to which we have re- ferred it was resolved that the government will not concur in any of the amendments which will in any way impair the principle of total disendowment. Rumor has it that Lords Clarendon, Granville and Hartington evinced a disposition to yield, but the other members of the Ministry being firm they were over- ruled. Mr. Gladstone has thus come up to the high expectation which the Hzratp formed of him. It has been our conviction all along that Mr. Gladstone had made up his mind after long and patient study of a difficult question to push mattera to the last extreme rather than yield on any essential point, We now feel assured of the fact. It is now certain that the Lords must yield. There may be a little of what the world calls compromise, but the principle of the bill must remain intact. We do not imagine that there will be any se- rious opposition on the part of the Lords, They have already given proof that they aro more disposed to yield gracefully than to sub- mit to defeat, The progress of the bill in the next week or two will command general, even world-wide interest. Working of the Prohibitory Liquor Law in Boston, A single week's experiment has sufficed to show how absurd, unjust and impracticable the Massachusetts Prohibitory Liquor law is. The attempt to enforce it in Boston has vir- tually failed. The closing of the lager beer saloons provoked so much popular indignation that the leaders of the republican party became alarmed lest they should lose the whole German element of their election majorities, A special meeting of the Execu- tive Committee was held on Saturday to con- sider the expediency of ignoring the law par- tially or altogether for the progegt, Subses ‘The Pea Reamer Foon of [uly et Election—Not Wot Out of the | quently the chief constable was sent for by Woods. the Governor and instructed to “loosen the sorew” on the lager beer dealers. On Satur- day evening all the saloons were open and in full blast. Our Boston correspondent saya that barrooms where liquors are sold do their business in closets or back rooms, and their sales have not thus far materially diminished. Seizures have been made only from small dealers, It seems likely that in Boston the law will be leas rigidly enforced than in the rural districts; but throughout the State it will doubtless develop the usual amount of hypo- crisy, injustice and drunkenness, inseparable from the working of a law modelled on the old Blue Laws of Connecticut. Nothing is more demoralizing than the habitual secret violation of a dead letter statute. The Massachusetts legislators, in passing the Prohibitory Liquor bill, betrayed their proclivity to run evory- thing into the ground and their inherited Puri- tanical indifference to individual liberty. “Where the law is there doth sin much more abound,” and this obnoxious liquor law will directly defeat its own avowed objects, injur- ing instead of benefiting the cause of tem- perance. Party Processions aud Riot. The Bowery, one of our most crowded city thoroughfares, was seriously disturbed yester- day evening by an Irish party, or religious faction, fight which occurred between certain natives of that country who class themselves as members of the American Protestant Asso- ciation and Catholics respectively. ing cause was the celebration of the anriver- sary of the battle of the Boyne, fought between William Il, Stuarts, testant party are, Orangemen. joyed, through the selfish divide et impera policy of England, a general license to abuse, batter, spill the blood of, or murder—as has often occurred—their opponents, the Catho- lics, during very many years, with impunity. Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumber- land, afterwards King of Hanover, was Grand Master of the Orange Society; but shortly before the death of the late King William 1V. it was proven to the satisfaction of the British Parliament that as such he meditated, by a coup de main, after the fashion of Don Carlos of Spain and Dom Miguel of Portugal, to wrest the succession to the throne from his niece, place Hence the passage of Processions act, after a message to Par- The excit- of Orange, afterwards William of England, and the last of the The members of this Pro- consequently, termed Their home association en- Queen Victoria, and on his own head. the Irish Party the present the crown liament from King William, the aged monarch, recommending that the ‘Orange and all other secret societies,” with the exception of the Freemason body, should be extinguished by law in Ireland. Thus repudiated by Eng- land the Orangemen endeavor to shelter them- selyes under our free flag, contradicting the first principle of the Ameriban constitution by a spirit of religious intolerance. As England herself could not endure such party turmoil it is really too bad that peaceable American citizens should be alarmed by it. Saint Patrick’s day processions and Orange proces- sions should be put a stop to. Within a couple of years we have had swords used on our police officers, swords drawn in the streets, muskets fired and a church wrecked in New- ark, N. J., with other outrages by Irish Orangemen and Catholics. Full time to end such displays. Toe West BANK Quarantine Hosprrat.— After much trouble and tribulation the State of New York has at last obtained a quaran- tine ground on the West Bank for the recep- tion of cholera and yellow fever patients, The island is an artificial one, and its completion has doubtless caused much vexation and expense. Is it not, therefore, a pity that the buildings erected thereon, serving chiefly for the sick and helpless, should have been built of wood, when fireproof brick buildings would have cost but a trifle more? The wind that often prevails about West Bank is none of the mildest, and should the existing buildings un- fortunately take fire the poor patients would stand but a poor chance of escaping from the fury of the flames. Tue Croton Watrer.—New York is par- ticularly proud of the Croton water, and to the Gothamites it is fully as important as the waters of the Nile are to the Egyptians or the holy Ganges to the Hindoos. The insti- tution is really grand and certainly of great benefit to the community, and, although we acknowledge these facts, recent investigation proves that the water is far from being fit for use. In fact, by the assistance of a miscro- scope, it might perhaps be successfully used asa cheap aquarium for family amusement. With such ample means at its command surely the Board can arrange to filter the water on leaving the reservoirs, so that it may be dis- tributed in a clean and healthy state and more fit for domestic purposes than it is at present. ILLNESS OF GEORGE PEARODY. SALEM, Mass., July 12, 1869. The public, both in this country and England, wilt share in the sorrow consequent upon the announce- ment of the illness of George Peabody. His illness is not of a dangerous character, however, and his millions of friends throughout the world will unite in one common wish for the convalescence of the renowned philanthropist. He spent afew days at Newport, R. I., but tne sea alr was more damaging than beneficial to his system, and by advice of his physicians he will shortly visit the White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia, where he confidentiy hopes hia constitution will regain its former vigor. He ts at present stopping in this city, at the residence of nis nephew, George Peabody Russell. On Wednesday he will, if his health permits, be present at tho dedi. cation of the Peabody Institute, in Danvers—an in- stitution which bas found {ts existence in conse- of his numeroes and generous donations for bapa of education. Health permitting he will algo be present at the same institution on Fri- day, where will meet and eutertaim numerous distinguished gentlemen. DESPERATE FIGHT BETWEEN FEMALES, About eleven o'clock last night Josephine Wait, alias Skully, of No, 69 Forsyth street, and Liazio Gibson, of No. 146 Chrystie street, who were out witnessing the riot in the Bowery between the popu- lace and the Orangemen, met by chance in Elizabeth street, near Canal, and had an altercation Tha profanity that followed attracted an immense crowd, who took sides with the respective woreen, who clinched and fought desperately for some minutes. During the contest Wall drew a knife an@ cut Gioson in the left vemple, infilcting a severe but not aanger- ous wound, During the affray oMcer O'Rourke, of the Fourteenth inct, arrived, dispersed the crowd = ;- Mg woman ‘re eae the injuries, . Armatrong dressed ni Gibgoo aud, ‘Wall waa lgoked up, *