The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1869, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. Letters and packages should be properly | NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway. EXTRAVAGANZA OF SINBAD THE SAULOR, OLYMPIC .-Hicovnr Dicoory Dook. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 284 ENocu AuDEN. WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and ist street.— Dowa—Biack-Exep 80: BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—Our Bor Fro LIMERICK. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 2d strect.—THE CHILD STEALER. THBATRE, . between Sth and 6th ave.— h avenue and WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 720 Rroadway.~Moon CHARM—TWeNTY MINUTES WITH A TiGkR. THEATRE COMIQUE, Last--Ir TAKES TWO TO 814 Rroadway.—Cavant ag TARREL, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth Broadway.—A‘eruoon and evening Performa: BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth atreet, ETHIOPIAN MIN6T! Ao. 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Houg bton, of New York, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. | pr, A. Casanova, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Reuling, | of Baltimore, are at the Clarsndon Hotel. | 0. Gazaino, of Uuca; SW. Worthington, of Cin- cinnati, and Peter Blow, of St. Louis, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Charles Dwight, of Boston, and C. ©. Chaffee, of Springfieid, are at the Albemarie Hotel, General F, T. Moses, of South Carolina; A. Gos- man, of Nova Scotia, and L. 8. Huntington, of Moa- treal, are at the Homfhan House, Prominent Departures. | Chief Justice Chase, for Boston; Mayor Beach, for Troy; Colrnel Bogardas and Major Blodgett, for Hartford, Conn., and Dr. Phillips, for Boston. The Suez Caual—Modern Progress. We learn from a cable despatch that M. Lesseps has officially announced that the ceremony of the opening of the Suez Canal will take place on the 17th of November next. This grand affair will divide the attention of the world with the great Ecumenical Council in Rome, the opening of which is to take place on the Sth of the following month. Since the last great Exposition in Paris the world has had no such sensation as that which will attract one class of pilgrims in November to the banks of the sacred Nile, and that which will attract another class of pilgrims in Decem- ber to the shrine of St. Peter. Our own Pacific Railroad was in many respects a more gigantic undertaking than the Suez Canal; but great undertakings are so natural to us on this side of the Atlantic that the completion of the gre@test railroad the world is ever likely to know was marked by no unusual demonstra- tion. In after ages the historian will be com- pelled to speak of 1869 as a year of wonders. The Pacific Railroad, the French Atlantic cable, the Suez Canal, the Ecumenical Council, are events which will give to this year of grace undying fame. ti The Suez Canal is unquestionably the great prospective event of the hour. Long deemed an impracticable scheme, pooh-poohed by the politicians and engineers of England, and persistently from the outset denied the assist- ance of English capitalists, it has nevertheless been begun and carried forward to a point which at least promises success. It is not our belief that the Suez Canal will be an accom- plished fact in November, or, indeed, for many months and perhaps many years to come. It will indeed be a great day for Egypt and for the world when a vessel of large tonnage shall traverse its entire length from sea to sea. That ADVERTISEMENTS and Svsscrirtions and all letters for the New York Heratp will be Jeceived as above. THS WEWs. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated July 18. The Emperor has issued a decree announcing the names of those who have been appo.nted as mem- bers of the new French Ministry. Don Carlos has left France and has crossed over | into Spain. Paraguny. Later advices by Atlantic cable state that the allied army, after their victory, advanced on Villa Rica and now command ali the approacies to that pigce, The Consuls of France and Italy have been declared deseriers by Lopez. | Miscellaneous. | President Grout is still at Cape May and yesterday again reviewed (he Gray Reserves, a crack Pailadel- phis regimcat, commanded by Colonel Latta. Some | disappointment was felt at his non-arrival at Long | Branch, to which place, however, he will go to-day. | Fourteen h d visitors have arrived at Long | Branch wiutun forty-eight hours, | General © (is stated on reltable authority in { Richmond, has written to the members elect of the | new Legisiture, individually, to find out how many are competent to take the test oath. In case there isa } quorum abie to qualify ne will call the Legislature | togetner, excluding those unable to take the oath, | and lave United States Senators elected and the | fifteenth amenament ratified. The incompetent | members may then come in under the State consti | tution, If there is not a quorum he will order new elections to be held in districts represented by those | 9 cannot take the oath. By this process two | radical United States Senators will be elected, pro- | bably Goveruor Wells and L, B. Chandler. ‘yhe International Convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association, at Portland, Me., closed tts session on Saturday. A movement towards edu- cating colored clergymen to preach the Word to the colored people in the South was inaugurated | and @ large amount was subscribed to further ii on the spot. The Convention will next meet at In- dianapous. ‘The excitement at Far Rockaway over the recent assault on two Catholic priests has risen to such a piten that threats have been made of mobbing Mott, the hotel proprietor, who is supposed to have been tue principal assailant. Notices have been stuck up in the village ordering all the guests and servants at hia hotel to leave. No disturbance has, however, taken place so far, and as the Sherif of Queens county has arrived with @ posse it is probable none will take place. Corser, the barkeeper, who is charged wiih assisting Mot! in the assault, has dis- appeared. Rey. Mr. Mitchell, a Methodist clergyman of Chit- tenango, N. Y., it is alleged recently forged a draft on the Fourth National Bank in New York tor $5,000, payable to another clergyman named Greenleaf. Mitcheli looks so much like Greenleaf that Mr, Carleton, the publisher, identified him to the satis- faction of the bank officials as Greenleaf and ne drew the money, His resemblance to Greenleaf, | however, finally caused his detection, and, after re- } storing $4,609 of the money, he disappeared, | successfully carried out. day we fear is not near. It is, however, our confident opinion that the success already achieved points to final triumph and lends the appearance of justice to the contemplated cere- monial in November. It is impossible to refuse to admit that to M. Lesseps first, and after him to the Emperor Napoleon and Ismael, a large meed of praise is due. If it should be found that for purposes of commerce the canal cannot be extensively useful for years to come, itis a triumph in itself to have demonstrated that the scheme is not impracticable; that a canal connecting the waters of the Indian Ocean with the waters of the Mediterranean is not an impossibility. There are those who think that such a canal once existed. Tuere are others who think that the idea, which is as old or perhaps older than the Pharaohs, and which on more than one occasion already has sought a practical shape, has never yet been fully and Jt is certain, that traces here and there of an old canal have been discovered. It is well known that the Pharaohs, the rulers of the days of Persian supremacy, and later, the Ptolemies, spent much time and exhausted the resources of Egypt, both in men and money, in attempting to cut the isthmus and establish a useful water connection between the two seas. Whatever may have been the success of the particular experiments referred to, it is undeniable that the canal, if ever completed, was never last- ingly useful. It is a credit to the nineteenth century, and a special triumph to M. Lesseps, that that which has so long existed in idea must at no distant day be an accomplished fact. It is impossible to overestimate the im- portance of this great work. It is no small matter to have Constantinople brought nearer the far East by some four thousand leagues, It will surely be a gain to commerce to have the great centres of Asiatic trade brought nearer to Marseilles by over three thousand leagues ; nearer Amsterdam, Liverpool, London and St, Petersburg nearly three thousand leagues, and to have the distance between those centres and the ports of the New World les- sened by some two thousand or three thousand leagues. The advantages which the canal will secure for Europe generally are incalcula- ble. It will give new life to the Turkish empire, It will develop the internal resources of Anstria, and draw the strength of that em- pire more and more in an Eastern direction. Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal will all share the common benefit. The Mediteranean will again become the great sea of commerce. We have not mentioned Great Britain and France ; “but those two Powers, who may yet be brought into deadly conflict for the mastery NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, JULY 19, 1869. John Polgett, of St. | Suez Canal will be found a mighty lever—a great transforming power. Egypt will cease to be an Eastern and will become at once a European Powor. In that country, so long 90 dead, reforms march apace even now, The Turkish pacha can searcoly bo recognized in European garments, Balis and grand public receptions haye now become common within the forbidden precinots of the harem, Euro- pean manners and customs are taking hold of the people from tho highost to the lowest. The canal will muliiply European influence a thou- sand fold. The Crescent, which has long been waning in that land bofore the Cross, will soon {have disappeared. Turkey in Europe and | Turkey in Asia will yield to the same all-con- trolling influence. What with Europe acting so forcibly on Asia on one side, and with America acting with equal force ou the other, it is not unreasonable to conclude that trade and commerce, steam, electricity and the print- ing press will soon accomplish what the preach- ers have failed to accomplish—the conversion of the world, the bringing of the whole family of man under the influence of one common civilization, and that civilization Christian. Washington Rumors About Cuba. It is now reported in Washington that. the statement about the administration preparing the way for the purchase of Cuba is a canard, and that the State Department denies giving General Sfekles any instructions to that end. It is also said that Senator Sumner has writ- ten to Washington deprecating any action on the part of the government with a view to re- cognizing the Cubans as belligerents, as such a course might damage us in the settlement of the Alabama claims. Then, again, it is stated that a prominent radical Senator from the West ia preparing an elaborate argument in favor of according belligerent rights to the Cubans at once. Now we have reason to he- lieve, notwithstanding the -reported denial of the State Department, that General Sickles’ mission has special reference to the condition of Cuba and eventual destiny of that island. It would be strange and a short-sighted policy onthe part of our government if it had not. As to Mr. Sumner, he has but one idea on the question. He can see nothing only through the medium of the Alabama claims. But we think that on the reassembling of Congress not only one Western Senator will take ground in favor of the Cubans, bat that there will be both in the Senate and House of Representa- tives a powerful movement for Cuban bellige- rent rights or independence, Nine-tenths or more of the American pepple cordially sym- pathize with the Cuban patriots and wish them success, and our representatives in Congress will learn and be impressed with this -fact dur- ing their sojourn among their constituents. The administration is not acting in accordance with popular sentiment in straining a stupid and un-American law to the injury of the Cu- ban cause and in support of Spanish tyranny and oppression, The action of the House of Re- presentatives at the close of the last session indicates what we may expect next winter. This bugbear of the Alabama claims ought not to deter the United States from a plain duty to those who have been heroically struggling now a long time for independence and republi- can principles. It would be a shame for this great country to ignore the priaciples upon which our own independence was achieved and government founded, and to abandon that American policy declared in the Monroe doctrine which we have all along proclaimed, There is no parallel between the hasty action of Great Britain in recognizing an integral portion of this republic as belligerent and the recognition by us of the Cubans as such efter along, heroic and successful siruggle. We think this bugbear of the Alabama claims will be swept away when Congress meets, agree- able to the sentiment of the country, and we advise the administration to be wise in time and not to needlessly continue in conflict with the popular will and the sympathy of Congress. } Tne Hempsrzap Pains Purcnase.—The overwhelming vote on Saturday of the Hemp- stead citizens in favor of selling the Hempstead Plains to Mr. A. T. Stewart, even at a lower price than certain speculators were eager to offer, shows that they fully appreciated the advantages which would accrue to the com- ‘Phe next meeting of the Society of the Army of | Of this game canal, must immediately reap Tennessee ts to be held in Lontsvilie on the oh of | from it larger benefits than all the other na- November. | tions pul together. Of course it will be a ‘The Columbia Typographical Union in Washington | gain to the United States; but our intercourse has decided to amend its constitution so that the | te a z Congressionn! printer may increase the number of | With Asia must be more immediate and more his apprentices, and to postpone the case of Douglass, | direct. The Pacific Railroad, which is but one the colored ayplicantfor membership, until tne next | of many lines which will yet connect the At- stated meeting in January. ., | lantic with the Pacific, has already made the General Sherman ts in Boston and will probably an American lake. We, too, and that isthmus will soon not conceivable that our canal attend the commencement at Dari mouth College General Sheridan fs av Newport ' have our ist be cut. It nus, The Clty. AMr. Higgart, while standing in tront of his door | will be a failure, whatever may be the fate of ‘on Fourth street and Ninth avenue, at eleven o'clock | that of Suez; and E an vessola, espe- | yesterday morning, Was assaulted by rowdles and | cially those of the great Westeru Powers, will probably escaped the fate of Mr. Rogers only by not | p seek the ports of China aud Japan by way of retaliating for the severe blows they gave ! Rev. Heury Ward Beecher preached at Plymoutn | Darien rather than by way of Su Tn the shurch yesterday on ‘Hope as the Anchor of the general development of trade the Sr Ja Soul,” Rev. David Mitchell, at the ¢ street | will be a positive gain to the whole world; but Presbyterian mh bigs - codes ue Neck it cannot alter the fact that we, a a nation, bie ary mods ral the Vieay | OCCUPY the central position on the great General, | rel sermon. ntral nor can it prevent There are the trade of world from pase wisth mrcrast ; ty ing through our hands, With regard Schiee, Matiew Campbell, sohn Parcel! and William | 4° Pevnt herself, it cannot but be that the TTT Tif wiaaieiainentedl bw the City. canal will he (oher an immense hoon, It may General Julius Hayden, of the United Srates Army; | considerably aller and improve hey climate. fH. Mosford, of Lowell; Charles #. Sherrili, of Wash- | In that Innd water is wealth, ff the canal ington; Major W. C. Beardsley, of Aubarn; ©. lous. | prove a suecess, towns and villages will spring pr ppv ts nape eal naga (. F. Bea | yp on its banks, aud the desert on either side 6a Oe ee "| will rejoice and blossom as the rose, Nicholas Hotel. b Sa parent io EB. Parsons, of Alabama; Goneral In the interests of Obristian civilization the ~~ munity from transferring the waste lands in question to a public spirited man who had distinctly set forth his laudable purpose to expend millions in order to make such per- manent improvements as would lead to the speedy peopling of thousands of acres at present unproductive with orderly, tax-paying, wealth-creating inhabitants. The public at large will commend the decision of Hempstead citizens, and will share with them the incal- culable benefits of an effort to make the wilderness glad and cause the desert to re- joice and blossom as the rose, Appies.—In the central, western and north- ern parts of this State the apple trees are liter- ally loaded with fruit. So great a crop has not been known for a number of years, Toe Broapsrims AMone THE INDIANS.-— The President, in appointing Quakers to nego- tiate with and pacify the Indians, was in- fluenced, no doubt, by their aupposed virtue or piety. These good men, he thought, were the persons of all others to tame the savage tribes. Now it appears that these broadbrim gentlemen are inade of the same flesh and blood as other people, and that their first thoughts are upon the squaws, Mr, Janney ie troubled because he ‘‘had not seen a hand- | some Indian wowan.” The little yallantries | of the new Indian Superintendents will have | to be watched by the military, or we m iy have | to record fresh wara over the dusky Helens, if | there be any, a8 Homer did the ‘innumerable | woes of Troy” over the Grecian beauty Tine Cotronks.--That the rit is willing but the flesh weak is complete} ata grand truth by the still de ion of } our metropglitau and suburban fashionable | chrare A fervent practice of relivion, com= ) bined witha realm endurance of the heat of the } Weather and ,heaithfal application of the | points of a lengthy sermo rather too | much for sweltering humanity ; so it may be | said that nature has aeserted herself, and the | emancipated congregations remain scattered at the sea shore, the springs and on the | mountains, A little later, and a touch of cold will restore the members to piety and the fold. “Tt was snow that brought Si. Anthony to reason,” What Is St. Pierre and How and Why In tho Now Cuble There? St. Pierre is a very little island—a mere speck in the blue sea. Its area is but one hundred and six square miles, and its permanent popu lation but two thousand persons. But as it is & national rendezvous and shelter for the French boats that fish in these seas, its popu- lation is very movable in numbers as well as otherwise, Itis one of three islands that com- pose the French colony of St, Pierre and Miquelon. Thero is name enough if not much land, Thfee little smitches of earth, mero freaks of the sea current, This is all that remains to France of the extensive dominion she once held in the Western hemisphere. How does it happen, then, that even these remain? Since she lostso much, how did it come that she did not lose this very little more? Since all the Canadas and that wide swathe of continent, the Mississippi valley, slipped away, by what magic did the great nation hold fast to the vow ef praterea nihil of St, Pierre and Miquelon? It is a story of the mutation of national grandeur. These islands are that last stamp and assurance of conquest, the grace vouch- safed by the conqueror. France was the first of nations that gave her attention to that now familiar edible, the American codfish. Within twelve years from the discovery made by Columbus, French fishermen were ‘‘on the banks.” That was prompt for those times. The first definitely recorded voyage was made a little later, in 1508, by Thomas Aubert, from Dieppe, to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. From that time the French fisheries grew rapidly ; money was made, and the first of the codfish aristocracy spent its cashin avery different Paris from that known to this age, and courted royal favor even under the eye of Henri de Navarre. But a stormy day came in savage differences with that grasping rascal, John Bull, and the result of more than a century of dispute was that the French, from claiming and owning all Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, were com- pelled to keep three leagues from the coast. Certain privileges were allowed on the eastern coast of Nova Scotia, and thence grew the settlement of Cape Breton and the building of that American Gibraltar, Louisburg. How Pepperell and his Yankees—‘‘loyal provin- cialists” they called them—did England service in the capture of that stronghold is an old story. By that every inch of soil here was wrested from France, and in one year the French fishing fleet dwindled from five hun- dred to one hundred sail. No wonder they authorized Pepperell to call himself ‘‘Sir.” By the treaty of Paris made in 1763 it was agreed that French fishermen might take fish, with certain restrictions, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and at fifteen leagues from the coasts of Cape Breton, and at that time the three islands, Great and Little Miquelon and St. Pierre, were given as a refuge and harbor to the storm-tossed fishermen, parted from their homes by all the width of the Atlantic. Hence the ‘‘colony.” Here, then, is a theme for the philosopher. This scrap of land, thrown as a grace to the poor mariner of France, is changed.in the alembic, and becomes one of the great places of the earth, one of the nervous centres of the world, and the only foothold this side the sea of so grand a part in the growth of our time as the French Atlantic cable. Vindication of Law in Dutchess County. A call upon the military to suppress a dis- position to riot among workmen is fortunately an event of rare occurrence among us. We know how very different it is in Belgium and England. Pleasant Valley, near Pough- keepsie, was, however, on Saturday last an exception to our general rule. Some hun- dreds of quarrymen, who were deprived of their wages through the absconding of a con- tractor with several thousand dollars, took possession of the barn, horse and wagon be- longing to the absconding contractor in lieu of the wages due to them. Of course this sum- mary mode of payment could not be submitted to. After some ineffectual negotiations the military were called in from Poughkeepsie, and, through a judicious mixture of firmness and moderation on the part of Sheriff Ken- worthy, the ringleader was arrested without bloodshed ; the others quictly dispersed after engagements had been entered into that the wages due to them should be paid at an early day—Tuesday, if possible. It seems to us that, as the wages were really due, it would have been just as well as politic to satisfy the work- men sooner that the money would be fortb- coming. They didn’t want to be paid with. bullets, but greenbacks. Prompt security for early payment would have averted all this military display, which is more European than American, But for the pradence of Sheriff Kenworthy we might have had to record a tale of riot and bloodshed, and if so, would it be right to say that the workmen only were to blame? Tae Racwwa SreamMers.—The Long Branch steamboats, Magenta and Jesse Hoyt, still keep up their strife every afternoon in the lower bay. The managers of the former boat have sought to quiet the nerves of timid peo- ple by informing them that they are restricted to forty pounds of steam, while the majority of travellers know that they could not carry that amount of steam in a race if they tried never so much, and everybody knows that in racing the danger does not lie in explosions, which | never occut \when steam is being worked off, | but in collisions, fires, breaking of machinery and other mishaps which might be traceable to negligence on the part of the managers, | Un- less one of the above named boats alters ite time of departure we shall expect some fine afternoon to be called upon to send a reporter to the lower bay to gather the firets of a hor- rible disaster _ Pracnes.,—The trees in New Jersey ave | Joaded, and in Delaware the limbs are unable to beay the burden of the fruit which is npon them, and are breaking down, Navo.gon’s ALInY—Hrench police in pursuit of Don Carlos, in order to prevent his entrance to Spain from France, Cautious, to say the least. If the Spaniards desire a closer communion with the empire they must come | towards France of their own accord and voli- tion. Medern Bonapartism does not seize territory; it merely accepts, after preparing the way for the offer. What Dees Napoleos Moan ¢ The unexpected prorogation of the Corps Législatif on the eve of liberal concessions, which wero calculated to appease the ardor of the opposition and, for the present at least, satisfy the aspirations of the people, is an imperial stroke of policy which admits of many interpretations by no means favora- ble to the friends of liberalism. Can it be that Napoleon desires to gain time, and ascertain, wnembarrassed by the spur of legislative discussion, to what extent he may safely ylold to the people? Can it be that he has already repented of what he has promised, and is trembling for prerogatives well-nigh compromised by the pressure of reform on the one hand and a desire for conciliation on the other? In his mes- sage he seemed to concede all that was expected or demanded by the opposition; but every one knows that the realiza- tion of these concessions depends upon the sincerity which actuated them. The projected reforms are to be submitted to the considera- tion of the Senate. In the meantime all venti- lation of their merits in debate is precluded by the hasty and peremptory adjournment of the sittings of the legislative body, and time is given the Emperor to consider and determine what effect such reforms will have upon the temper of the people, and whether or not his government and dynasty are likely to be endangered thereby. The Senate, if deemed advisable by their master, can postpone indefinitely or reject altogether these promised reforms. The pro- vince of that body, presumed to be true and tried friends of imperialism, is to act as the guardian and interpreter of the constitution, regulate all questions not specially provided for by that instrument, and refuse sanction to all lawa or projects of law in violation thereof or endangering the security of the empire. The Senators, with scarcely an exception, are enemies to liberal government, and have proven ready and willing instruments, under the tutelage of Napoleon, for aiding and forwarding the ideas of imperialism, The plans and projects of the Emperor fail not to meet with their concurrence, and o mere intimation from him that any proposed measure is regarded incompatible with the well-being and dignity of his government is quite sufficient to insure their disapprobation of it, Jules Favre, the leader and master spirit of liberalism in France, appreciated the situation when he declared his protest against the sus- pension of the sittings of the Chamber; the members of the left understood it when they vociferously endorsed that protest; the liberal press realize the gravity and danger of delay, and charge the government with the design of stifling discussion by closing the session, and the people may accept this prorogation as in- dicative of a duplicity on the part of the Executive favoring the most hostile con- clusions. Napoleon has gone rather too far to recede unless he really means revolution. Judging rom his past history, his wisdom and fore- sight, we cannot believe that he now means determined resistance to popular will at a time when that resistance might compromise allthat he holds dear. He may be actuated by an earnest desire to promote the liberties of the people at every reasonable sacrifice of personal government and -prerogative. Con- vinced of the advent of an era of reform, he may even, with a boldness of initiative truly Napoleonic, realize, in forestalling them, the hopes of liberal France. In exercising his right to adjourn the Corps Léyislatif he may have desired nothing more than to prevent those zealous and ofttimes futile discussions which, ‘‘on the eve of a great liberal act,” serve ouly to provoke hos- tility among rival parties. All these and other good intentionsjmay have been his; yet, we submit, this sudden prorogation has a smack of authority and independence which savorg strongly of a continuation of the one man power. In submitting contemplated reforms to the consideration of the Senate we are in- clined, under existing circumstances, to re- cognize a desire to gain time, and who knows but in that time intervening between the pro- rogation and convocation of the Legislative Assembly changes may take place in the spirit of the opposition and temper of the people which will convince Napoleon that resistance at every hazard is necessary to prevent the sacrifice of his power and dynasty ? Free thought and free discussion are dan- gerous only to illiberal and oppressive govern- ment; but if reform and freedom are intended, if hopes created by a message at once concil- iatory and generous are not to be falsified, there can be no danger in discussion, as there is no necessity for delay. What- ever be the immediate result of this initi- atory contest in France no one can be blind to the fact that republican ideas and the system of free representative government are daily growing more popular in Europe and becoming too firmly implanted in the hearts of the people to be uprooted by revolution. The republicans have boldly launched their bark, and it now remains to be seen whether they are prepared to conduct it safely through the maelatrom of political agitation and possi- ble revolution, A Year or Pianry.—From all parts of the country the cheering intelligence continues to come announcing the abundance of the earth’s productions, The wheat crop just harvested isallthat could be desired, and the yield is pronounced to be far above the average, in the South the cotton promises to furnish more bales than has been produced since the com- mencement of the war, In the West, except- ing a portion of Mlinois, the corn stands firm, and gives assurance of an nncommon harvest, In our own section all kinds of grain have done | exceedingly well, and potatoes, the farmers say, are too plenty to pay, now Jet us have peace, We have plenty, Tarking Ravage Lovo,—Was nob the Governor elect of Virginia talking rathor loud the other evening in Binghamton, when he de~ that ‘Virginia will soon take the laurels of empire from the brow of New York, and advance to the lead of all the States in the Union ?” bridge over which you have passed safely, but we submit that this is piling on the agony at rather too steep a rate, But perhaps the Governor elect has been tho victiin of a little high pressure revorting. clared nanan ear tL RN en It is all right to talk well of a | An Exceptional Bourbon. The Bourbons, who trace their origin to Louis IX., and have played s conspicuous part in the annals of France and of Europe since the beginning of the fourteenth century, are historically known as ‘‘never forgetting and never learning.” ‘This has always been the rule ; but at length itis still further proved by a signal exception. Prince Henri de Bour- bon addressed from Paris, on the 23d of June, a letter, which has just been made public, to the Minister of State at Madrid. In this extraordinary letter our exceptional Bourbon, “in testimony of his respect for the national sovereignty, and. recognizing in the proceed- ings of the Constituent Assembly of the Cortes a guarantee for all the radical reform which modern society demands,” swears fealty to the constitution. He professes to be in- fluenced neither by interest nor by ambition. Declaring himself to be neither a hypocrite nor ® consummate intriguer, he avows his bolief that the prince deceives himself who in our time devotes all his thoughts and efforts to the foundation of a dynasty, “for the universal tendency is towards a republic.” He moreover announces that he is not Louis Philippe, call- ing himself a simple citizen in order to get possession of the throne of Charles X.; that he is not his father, Philippe Egalité, ‘for te serve the real interests of humanity it is necessary to keep oneself honest and worthy.'’ In fine, he is ‘not the plagiary of any ambiti- ous egotist.” He adds that neither his polloy nor his pen shall ever exhibit the memory of Cwsar, the memorable despot of Rome; for he affirms that there exists more profit to humanity and more glory for a public man in the illustrious model of Washington. Ia conclusion he proclaims that ‘‘the legislator creates, while the hero of war scatters mourn- ing in the midst of his blood-stained laurels; he constantly destroys and stains liberty with his fatal liberty.” Such language as this is ia strange dissonance with that expression of the traditional opinions and sentiments of the royal family of the Bourbons, It is in full accord with the spirit of the present age. But, as we have already intimated, this signal excep- tion to the rule that the ‘Bourbons never forget and never learn” only serves to prove it. Great Cry anp Lirtie Wooi—The row with the Catholic priests at Rockaway. It turns out to have been only a short tussle be- tween a party of young fellows and their girls on one side and three reverend tathers of the Church on the other. Nobody hurt. LITERATURE. Reviews of New Books. ‘THE HOLLANDS. By Virginia F. Townsend, Lortag, publisher, Boston. ‘This is a simple domestic story and ts quite tnte- resting. There is no effort at fine writing, neler is there anything sensational about it, although it ts full of life and activity. Tbe characters, too, are very well drawn, albeit they are all quite ordinary, doing nothing very remarkable, but preserving a raiseworthy consistency and respectability through. ry There might not be any very display of art in such a work as this, but it is preferable to read to the multitudinous novels published nowa- days, in which the most extravagant sensations are cooked up in very thin literary broth. ‘The Hol- lands,” thea, is such @ book a3 any person can read without becoming tired of an author's pretentious nothings, and, as will undoubtedly taterest a large class, we recommend it to the pubiic, MaRRIkD AGAINST REASON. By Mrs. Adelheid Shelton-Mackeazie. Loring, publisher, Boston. For a first attempt at novel writing Mrs. Mackenzie has done exceedingly well. “Married Against Rea- son” is a story of “middie class life’ in Germany, and as all the characters introduced and the inci- dents narrated were personally known to the authoress, and were actual occurreaces, they hava combined to make a very clever and entertaining work. It has nothing about it like intricacy of plot; but the narrative is smooth and flowing, the situ: tions easy and natural, and the characters tolerabi, well drawn. Aitogether this is by no means a bad te aud for a Urst efort 1s deserving of special praise. The August magazines have appeared somewhat earlier than usual this month, and are, on the whole, very good. One or two of them lack in quality and interest, but not suMciently to make them abso- lutely bad. whe Atlantic Monthly 18 an admirable number. There is scarcely a paper of 1ts contents which will not be read with pleasure and instruction. The magazine opens witha sensation sketch by J. W. De Forest, entitled ‘The Tailiefor Bell Ringings,’? the scene of which is laid in New Orleans, “Great Earthquakes of the Old World,” by N. 8. Shaler, is @ Very instructive paper and is well Written. ‘Zo- roaster and the Zend-Avesia,” by James Freeman Clarke, is @ very learned and interesting article. ‘There are one or two inaccuractes in this contribu- tion, but they are not of a very material character. ‘The other papers, witich are most worthy of special notice, are “The Hamlets of the Stage,” “The ‘Strikers’ of the Washington Lobby,” a very vigorous but not altogether truthful article, by James Parton, and "On Mr. Fechter's Acting,"’ by Charles Dickens. CO ge the Auguat number of the Atianuc the we have sevn for some months, The Catholic World opens with a paper entitled “Our Established Charch,” being a reply to an arti- cle bearing the same title which appeared in Put- nam’s Magazine for July. It is evidently written by Father Hecker, and is a vigorons and spicy reply to @ most unfair and insidious attack upon the Catholic Courch. A very cleverly written paper is “Spiritual- ism and Materialism.” An article on “Antiquities of New York” contains numerous, curious and enter- taining facts. “The Charms of Nativity” is a ver; thoughtful contribution, Leo cae in pretty sen! ments. “Two Months in Spain D the Late Revo- lution” ts continued. The other noteworthy pay are Ride Between Letter and Spirit in the isn Church," “A Sketch of Leo X. and His “Little Flowers of Spain.” The magazine tl a out is decidedly interesting and is far superior to tI July number, which was somewhat dry. We must not omit mentioning that the article entitled et vig Between Letter and Spirit im the Jewish Church,” 13 @ translation of a@ sermon delivered by Pere Hyacinthe, the great Carmelite monk of Paris, whese eloquence, a8 @ preacher, has made him famous throughout tne civilized world, The Galaxy is not quite go interesting as previous numbers have been. ‘Put Yourself ia His Piace” is continued with unabated interest. In connection with this novel there is @ characteristio letter pers Jew- " and from the author, Charles Reade, in which he states that, though he has been patd a liberal price for the work by the pub- lishers of the Galary, he admits their right to the sole publication is only a moral one; but he hopes: “all respectable publishers will respect that moral right, will put themselves in ther place and will forbear to reap where they have notaown.” We hope that “respectabie publisherg’ wii pot tren. upon any right, be tt moral or leg, “Mineral W ters,’ by Professor Draper, aud the “Age of Pur lesque,” by Richard Grant Winte, are too weil writ. ten papers and are worth reading. The ‘th Couvaercial Supremacy in A: 1s ai interesting. Mr, MoUarthy g! tremendous pat, waich 18 ve whole, Plon Plon ts unton but he ts no genius, ‘The owt f noticing. ‘The “Nebuiw’?? are cleverly wrivceo, aa usual. Putnam's Monthly shows but silent tarproves ment on the last number, “A Martyr to Set ence’ is an exciting story of a Mrench phy- sician’s efforts .(o discover the movements of the heart. “More Light,’ by Prote 7 ve fe Vere, is another very good ¢ comparatively Ory reading. Tt wil instrucuve than interesting.’ “Asoo: Roser” $a very good. “Old Times im Virginie. « D Few Parallels” is precious nouns, jus the author alms to show that Virginians w perstitions, imtolerant and eracl as were the Jathers. They nover olanned that they wore not they did not burn old women for witeles, murd vel rob Indians and oppreas. all who altered wich thon in religions faith, at the same tme casting up wards the hypocritical eye and calling upor ie 1 to witness that they Were the ony sauity upou parth, and that in them was co ned every human virtue, Now all that is precisely what cn “Pilgrim Favhers!? dtd do—aot all of them, bats very considerable proportion. The Doefevts of Women and How to Remedy Them’ Is interesting enough, but its ideas are decidedly ancient, ‘Ther? Gre several papers to this number that are excetions, but on the whole the mavazine if uncaual.