The New York Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters and packages should be properly scaled. Volume XXXIV. Ne, 201 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPS® THEATRE, Broadway.—Htccogt Diccoay between Sth aod 6th ays THEATRE, 234 DEN. Broadway and 18th street. HOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Marenea—Oow Boy Prom LIMERICK tANO OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and suvel. Ie CHILD LER ATRE COMIQUE, S14 Broadway.—CacautT at LavrIt LAKES TWO 70 QUAREEL. M AND THEATRE, Thirtioth atroet and ep any Performanoe. ARDEN, Brosaway.—Taw #P¥@racota® ZA OF SINBAD THE BATLOR, RYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, ith \. EintOrraAN MINBTRELSY, &0, CONTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7 ry between Sh and t POPULAR GARDEN CONORET: LEWS OPERA HOUSE, RBroobiyn.—Hoorer’s ‘eLs—THR PRACE JUBILEE, £0. RK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. AND ART. LADIES NEW YORK MU ‘M OF ANATOMY, 620 Bi PeMauts ONLY IN ATTENDANOR. RIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, July 20, 1869. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. vhe Datty HERALD will be sent to subscriders for one doliar a month, postage being only thirty-five cents 3 country subscribers by this arrangement colve the RERALD at the same price tt 1s furnished in the city, The quarter. can THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Noiice ‘to Carriers and Nowsdealers. Bro n Carrters aNp Newsmen will in {uture rec cy rpe New York Henatp, No. 145 Falton street, Erooklyn. eive their papers at the Branon Ovrice Apverrisements and Scescrtrtions and all for the New York Heratp will be Jeceived as above, Jetters ZaHB NOWS. Europe. The cable news ts dated July 19. Political news in England ts dutt, The Grat gene. cof the Women’s Franchise Soctety was held yesterday. ‘The French regard the present Cabinet only as a temporary one. South America, We have dates to June 23 from Rio Janeiro. A correspondence of some interest has been gotng on between Lopes and the Comte D’Eu, in which the former demands that the allies prohibit the use of the Paraguayan flag by the native battalions in the allied army. D’Eu had advanced with his army to Pirayi, about seven miles from Lopez's headquar- ters. Miscellaneous, President Grant, with his family and suite, arrived at Long Branch yesterday morning, and took rooms at the Stetson House, Colonel Whittiesey and a oumber of Virginta radi- cals are in Washington getting up documents to prove that the election in Virgiuia was carried by fraud, Afidavits are being prepared aud will ve placed before the Reconstruction Committee at the meeting of Congress, It is hoped by this to have the election set aside or else have au investigation held, and thus delay the admission of the State. The republicans in New Hanover county, N. C., (the Wilmington district) are divided on @ choice for a legisiator to succeed Cetonel Estes, The white carpet-baggers have vominated a negro for the po sition, and the negro radicals, who have bolted from the carpet-vaggers, have nominated a white man. Mayor Bowen, of Washington, has recommended to his city Council that the public schools of that city be open to children of bath races alike. He also nominates Professor Vashon (colored) to be a mem- ber of the present white Board of Schoo! Trustees. Two Frenchmen employed in the silk mills at Pat- erson, N. J., fought duel near the depot in that city at about half-past niné o'clock on Saturday evenifig, about some trivial matter that occurred in the milla. Their seoonds failed to appear on time, gad the two went to work without’ them. The weapons were pistols and the distance ten paces. At the first fre one was siightiy wounded in the lip. Another fire was demanded, and both were severely wounded in the right arm. themselves satisfied, shook ti nothing about the duel. i (ig aud swore to say They had to tell the sur- air thus leaked out, yey then dec! conservative negro any nyton are rals- ing a subscription to deiray the expenses of indict- ing certain radical negroes for mobbing them and inciting to riot at the revent election in that ¢ Ben Wade is in Washingiou. He highly lauds Sec- retary Boutweli’s policy, is sore over the result o1 the Virginia ion, thinks we ought vo enter a wedge tor the separation of Cuba trom Spanish rue, and says he will probaply stump Ohio for Governor Bayes. ‘The Canadian government bas decided to release Father McMahon, te Fenian prisoner in Kingston Penitentiary, He was tricd sometime in the tall of ‘1806 for compiicity im the Fenian raid a Pails and sentenced to twenty years in the Peuiten- tiary. Several efforts were made by Secretary Sew ard to have him released, but without avail The present action of the Canadian government ts taken without any reference of the matter to the English authorities. ‘The Mechantes' National Bank at Trenton had to suspend business for the day yesterday because the gafe could not be opened. The maker of the safe sent his best workman to open it, but he did not suc ceed. Acontinued plying of crowbars and siedges finally broke it open. A fatal case of genuine Asiatic cholera, not infec tious, # reported in Newark. Miss Elia Rice, one of the young Jadics named in connection with the Far Rockaway dificuity, denies all the allegations tn reference to her being insulted on the beach or complaining to Corser. The new cen and firteen cent currency bas made its appearance. The twenty five and filty cent bills will be out shortly, Tue guage of the Missouri Pacific Ratlway was recently changed ta twelve hours without the delay of asingle train, Additional particulars of General Carr's victory over the Indians ave received. Among the killed is @ noted Ladian chief, Mrs, Welzel is the name of a white womaa who was rescued. Three Sioux Indians were killed by the Pawnee scouts on Repub- lican river. Generai Kastinan was wounded by Indians near Fort Benton on the 16th, and when the citizens of the fort 4 it they killed three Indiaus who happened t be tn the town at the time. A Pennsylvanian signing himself “Honesty, geuds $400 to the Troasury Department, as a part of his Income tax, wiuet p to pay that way in preference to having the fol! amount of his income published ia his coonty pay Araiiroad bridge over th Morals des Cygnes, In Kansas, feti ia om Sunday, aud four mea wore killed. : : ‘The valuation of taxable property tm Novraska is $42,000,000, «ix times greater tiwn en | P t f bourg and Hamburg, ed, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1869.—-TRIPLE SHEET. $8,000,000 is the property of the Union Pacific Ratt- road. A Saengerfest of socteties from Buffalo, Erie, Syra- cuse and Hamiiton bas just commenced a session in Rochester, The July interest on the,Virginia State debt cannot be paid until January, and probably not then. Eighty Austrian families are coming to settle near Richmond, Va. The City. The United States steamer Guerriere has arrived in the lower bay from Rio Janeiro, where the yellow fever is prevailing, but the surgeon reports ail well on board. There are now bit three cases in the Quarantine Hospital. A number of dealers tn counterfeit internal reve- nue stamps were arrested recently by the detective oMicers under Cotonel Whitely in this city, and, from evidence received, a raid was immediately made on a factory near Snake Hil, N, J., where a fine lot of machinery for making the stamps was discovered and confiscated, The prisoners, ali but one, pleaded guilty, and were consigned to Ludlow street jail. Count Eugene de St. Claire, third Baron De Oney, France, was married at the Jefferson Magkgt Police Court yesterday to Miss Fanny Abbitzef, of Houston Street, After the ceremony was over, the Count fled in dismay from his blushing bride, who did not trouble herself much more about him. ‘The laborers are agaif busy in thé construction of the Elevated Railw: The pillars are erected as far up as Thitfieth stféet, but the beams are laid continuously only so far as Kector street. The work 1s progressing now quite rapidly, however, and it is oped that the line will be completed to Thirtieth street within a month. In the case of the People against Von Boskirk, on trial in the Court of Oyer and Terminer before Judge ‘Cardozo, and in which the defendant pleads not guilty to a charge of usury, an adjournment was had till Thursday next. ties pleaded guiltg to a like charge of usurious deal- ings:—Edward RMorrison. The action of the court with regard to thege cases stands over till after the trial of those wko may picad not guilty shail have been decided. In the Supreme Court, Spectal Term, the Dowling- McClellan case occupie? the court during yesterday. ‘The argument of counsel will be resumed this morn- ‘The following named par- Jones, George Phipps and David ng. In the Board of Assistant Aldermen yesterday the resolution of the upper Board appointing a com- mittee to consult with the United States Commis- stoners relative to exchanging the site of the new Post Oflice was concurred tn, An Italian, named Dominick Vietry, was brought ‘o his home at No. 70 Thompson street tn a dying condition on Sunday by two brothers named Geiger, also Italians. Tne Geigers stated that while sleeping alongside of a railroad tack near Easton, Pa., all of them being at the time on a musical tramp, Vietry was struck iu the head by a passing tratn‘ Vietry, in a lucid moment, said, however, that he had been struck by @ man, and the two brothers have been ar- rested. The Brooklyn aldermen have determined to pro- hibit the ringing of bells on junk carts and the un- necessary loud blowing of factory whistles in that city. The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Allemannia, Captain Meyer, will leave Hoboken attwo P.M, to-day for Plymouth, England; Cher- The mails will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. The steamship Manhattan, Captain Forsyth, will sail from pier 46 North river at three P. M, to-mor- row (Wednesday) for Queenstown and Liverpool. The stock market yesterday was dull and declin- Gold was heavy and closed at 13554. Beef cattle yesterday were only moderately sought after, and with fair offerings, mainly composed of common quality, the market was heavy at 15\c, a Tho Resources of the Treasury and the Country=The Prospect Before Us. The accumulation of money in the United States Treasury, notwithstanding the Secre- ey continues to use a portion of the surplus in buying ip the bonds, shows the surprising resources of the government and country, and makes the national debt appear a mere baga- telle if the finances be properly managed. No wonder that our securities steadily advance in the markets of Europe and continue to go up athome. Capital is essentially conservative, and Europeans, especially the English, are slow to learn about or operate in trans- atlantic securities, They have been hereto- fore more disposed to invest in home govern- ment stocks, bearing three or four per cent interest, than those of this country with six or seven per cent interest. They are, how- ever, waking up to the fact that not only do investments in American securities pay double, or nearly so, on their capital over those of Europe, but that there is a far better prospect of the principal being liquidated wtthin a reasonable time. Our five-twenties to-day are intrinsically worth double the British three per cent consols. That is, if these consols are worth ninety, the five-twenties should realize in the market a hundred and eighty. Still they are quoted below consols, the last quotations in London being eighty-two and a half. Yet, as we said, they have steadily advanced, for they were last year at this time more than ten per cent below what they are now, the quotation being on the 19th of July, 1868, seventy-two and a half. With all the preference of foreigners for home se- curities and the timidity of capitalists to in- vest in stocks abroad they must become im- pressed with the extraordinary resources of our government and country, and, as a con- sequence, our bonds must continue to rise. Let us glance at the comparative condition and prospects of the United States with those of the nations of Europe. There is scarcely one of the great Powers abroad which can do more than make both ends meet—the current expenses of which do not fully absorb the income—while most of them are getting deaper in debt and going from bad toworse. Not one has the least prospect or expectation of ever paying the principal of its debt. It is true there is occasionally a spasmodic effort made in England, and, perhaps, in one or two other countries, to establish a sinking fund, but no appreciable result is produced. Wars are constantly recurring, and in time of peace vast armaments are maintained, with all the other stupendous expenses of monarchial and arbi- trary governments, to devour the largest in- comes, and even any little surplus that may possibly accumulate. People are taxed to the utmost limit, and every year pauperism and the burdens of government are increasing. Intreality the governments of Europe, not ex- cepting that of England, are bankrupt; for though some of them may manage to pay the reference to the Fenians in Canada. Cuba, ~ Genoral Canby and the Virginia Election. the Virginia Legislature, asking of each if he can take the iron-clad oath of loyalty to the Union; that if he can thus raise a qualified quorum of both houses he will issue a pro- clamation convening the Legislature to ratify the fifteenth amendment and elect United States Senators; but that if a quorum of iron- clad oath members cannotjthus PO procured, the commanding general of the military dis- trict of Virginia will order new elections to fill the seats made vacant by reason of ina- bility to take the oath aforesaid. This plan of operations it is conjectured will secure two ultra radical United States Senators, in the exclusion of the large number of conservative members elected to the Legis- lature who cannot take the iron-clad oath that they have never given aid and comfort to the rebellion, &c. General Canby may also plead that according to the letter of the law he is compelled to enforce this oath; but he did not enforce itein the reconstruction of South Caro- lina, He admitted members to that initial Legislature who could not take the iron-clad oath; and why, then, should he apply a differ- ent construction of his duty under the law in regard to the initial Legislature of Virginia? Why should he make fish of the one and flesh of the other? The duly registered voters of Virginia under the reconstruction laws of Con- gress, moreover, in a fair election have voted that the political disabilities attached to men giving aid and comfort to the rebellion shall be removed, and a proper respect for this judg- ment of the people resulting from the express instructions of President Grant requires that at least the same liberality extended by Gen- eral Canby to South Carolina shall be given to Virginia. If necessary we hope that Gen- eral Grant will interpose a special order to General Canby to interfere no further, what- ever may be the demands of the defeated radi- cals, to change the results of the late Virginia election, but fairly to give the conservatives the fruits of the victory they have tairly won. Don Carlos in Spain. The information just received that Don Carlos has crossed the French frontier into Spain, hotly pursued by the French police, is with a clean record. But the administration must have ulterior and higher purposes than merely td enforce the neutrality laws, other- wise it would place itself just where the administration of Andy Johnson was placed in Neu- trality was in that case fully maintained, but we got no thanks for it from England. The rigid exeoution of the neutrality laws in reference to the Cuban filibusters must surely indicate a definite policy on the part of Presi- dent Grant's administration in favor of the interests of the United States and the rights of We have the information that General Canby has sent circulars to all the members elect of ‘The New Quarantiae Bulldings—Duty of ~ It too frequently happens that such under Health Officers. takings are manipulated by wily and unscru- We are now in the very midst of the season | Pulous politicians, whose only object is to plun- which, of all others in the year, is most likely | der the public treasury. But, be that as it to prove dangerous to the health of the peo- | may, we again urge the government authori- ple, not only of this and adjoining cities, but, | ties tw insist upon the most rigid stipulations through this great centre of trade and travel, | with these who engage to do the work upon to the health of the people of the whole coun- | the new Post Office, in order that in the end try. The number of vessels from the four | we may have promptly erected a magnificent quarters of the globe which almost daily enter | structure, alike a conspicuons ornament to the our harbor oftentimes prove the innocent in- | metropolis of the nation and a lasting eredit to struments by which infectious diseases are in- } the nation itself, troduced into the country. In days past the records show that yellow fever and cholera brought to our shores by foreign ships proved & most dreadful scourge by desolating hearths and homes and robbing by these fearful dis- eases many families of their staff and support. With these dreadful examples before them to spur thoughtfulness into action we are glad to perceive that the authorilies have given us some practical illustration of their desire to respond to public expectation in hastening the completion of the new quarantine buildings in the lower bay; and though these edifices The fown Pemocracy in the Field. The Iowa demooracy have had a State Con- vention, from which they have proclaimed their State ticket and their new platform, In this new platform they declare that they view with alarm the unscrupulous majority in Congress ; that they want a reform in our national banking: system, and look to its ultimate abolition; that they are opposed to a high protective tariff, and to military commissions; that they demand no more and will submit to no less than the settlement of the Alabama claims are not all that could be desired they | according tothe recognized rules of interna~ are a great improvement on former tional. law (@ sort of leather and prunella arrangements, and the public can resolution) ;. that they are in fayor of economy, retrenchment and a reduction of taxes; that the Maine Liqaor law is a disgrace to the statute books of the State; and that (and here we get atthe main ideas of the Conven- tion) a national debt is a national curse, and that while we favor the payment of our present indebtedness according to the strict letter of the contract (meaning greenbacks) we would rather repudiate the same than see it made the means for the establishment ot an empire upon the ruins of constitutional law and liberty, Here we have repudiation fenced about with conditions and contingencies ; but the word is: there, and unless Congress at the approaching session shall do something with our abundant resources to lighten very materially our burden of taxes, and to open a way, visible to the naked eye, for an early extinguishment of the national debt, we shall hear this dreadful word repudiation more distinctly and more widely pronounced by the democracy than they speak it now. The Iowa democrats are looking evidently to the square issue, by and by, of repudiation; and at the same time they appear to have given up the battle on “‘ the almighty nigger,” for a resolution offered in the Con- vention on the fifteenth amendment was laid oa the table. In no two States so far do the democrats agree upon. their platform for the future; but on the money question they are, by a kind of natural law of gravitation, drift- ing to a common ground; and this general movement will lose or gather strength accord- ing to the folly or wisdom of the party in power in the management of the great money question, now rest more secure with the results which have been thus far accomplished to preserve them from the dangers of infectious diseases, But this is notall. Vigilance—untiring vigi- lance—is required of those in whose hands is placed the health of the people. Curious sto- ries have from time to time of late gone the rounds about the health officers of this port, and smuggling and other operations. Strange revelations have been made public. Now, it is an old axiom that one man cannot serve two masters, and as it is the imperative duty of the Health officers to use their best energies to prevent the visitation of any of those dreadful plagues, the public will hold to a strict: ac- countability those who are entrusted with the important obligations laid to their change, especially at this season of the year, when we hear that yellow fever is committing fearful ravages in the West India islands, and that cholera—the dreaded Asiatic cholera—is decimating whole peoples. The New Post Office in City Hall Park. We published yesterday a number of adver- tisements from the office of the Supervising Architect, Treasury Department, Washington, calling for sealed proposals for the beginning of the work on the new Post Office in the City Hall Park. In the first place, there is a call for the purchase of the old iron fence and copixg, amounting to some seven hundred and fifty feet, which is the first step towards clear- ing off the unsightly placards, booths, shanties, peanut stands, chain. and curb stone loafers and other disfigurements that have hung upon and around the old park railings and sidewalks for many years past. This rubbish Lager Beer Muddle in Massachusetts. They always had a.queer way of doing is to be cleared away by the 14th of August ensuing, or about four weeks hence, and the early day fixed shows that the department means to commence work. immediately and in earnest. Next come calls for proposals for excavating and carting away all the earth from the site of the new Post Office, for fur- nishing and delivering twenty thousand barrels of cement, one hundred and forty thousand cubic feet of dimension granite, ‘‘clear in color and free from seams, stains and sap,” and, lastly, we have proposals for a large amount of rubble and concrete stone. Thus has the work for the erection of the new Post Offiee been practically commenced, and, of course, there will be the usual strife among competing rings for the possession of the many fat contracts its. construction will require. But we sincerely, nay, confidently, trust that the federal authorities having the disposal of these contracts will: see that the proposals of nomen ot straw, of no middle jobbers or irresponsible rings of any kind will be permitted to have a finger in the magnificent plum pudding about to be,set before the sove- reign people by bounteous UncleSamuel. The Treasury Department, the Post Office Depart- ment and all other government authorities that 16c. for prime and extra quality, dc. a lic. for fair to good, and ile. a 13)sc. for inferior to ordinary, Mitch cows were dull and prices were nominally $90-a $125 each for prime and extra; $75 a $85 for fair to good, and $45a $70 for infe- rlor to common. Veal calves were in moderate re- quest at quite steady prices, prime and extra selling at 10sec. a 11\c., Common to good at 9c. a 1035c. and inferior at 7c. a 8c. Sheep were only in moderate supply, and prices were steady, especially for the better kinds, which were in most demand, Prime and extra were quoted 6}gc. a 734c.; common to good, bc. a6%sc., and inferior 4c.ad\c. Swine were dull, and prices were nominal at 9)¢. a 10c. ‘The arrivals were 6,321 nead—all for slaughterers. significant in more respects than one. It indicates, in the first place, a disposition on the part of Napoleon to maintain the most friendly relations with the new government established in that country, while, in the second place, it leaves little room for doubt that Don Carlos must be at the head of a faction which he at least deems strong enough to hold its own, or he could scarcely be such a fool as to risk his head upon the venture. We have no indications, however, that the party is of consequence sufficient to be at all for- midable, and we think that General Prim will make short work of the matter should the Carlists muster in sufficient force to take the field. They fought it out under better auspices than now from 1834 to 1839, and were thtn as defeated, demoralized and broken up as any political party ever was. We cannot see what reasonable prospect of success is before them now. Even the colonies, Cuba and Madeira, have already pronounced for republicanism, and can it be possible that the mother country, having once tasted the sweets of liberty, will volumtarily go back to the old system as it existed under the Bourbons? Don Carlos, we are told, entered the country in haste. We interest on their debts, none can begin to pay the principal. It is not long since the present Prime Minister of England, Mr. Gladstone, drew a fearful picture of the future of his country from the incubus of its enormous debt, and urged the necessity of some plan to he relieved of it; but he had no practicable idea how this was to be done. Indeed, the debt of England, as the enormous debts of the other monarchies of the Old Werld, can never be paid. Nothing but revolution and repudia- tion can wipe them out. But how is it with the United States? Since the war closed, now only four years or little more ago, we have paid several hundred mil- lions of floating indebtedness arising from the war, besides paying the regular and vast de- mands of the government for ordinary and ex- traordinary expenses. After doing this ¢here has been nearly all the time in the Treasury seldom less than one hundred millions of dollars lying unemployed. Yes, amuch larger sum than that if the gold be reckoned at currency value. And what are we doing now? Why, Mr. Boutwell is puzzled what to do with the money accumulating ia his hands. He is applying the utmost limit allowed by law to the sinking Prominent Arrivals in the City. Count Calabiano, of the Italian Legation; P. Diez de Kivera, of the Spanisn Legation, and Count Far- verney, of the French Legation, are atthe Albemarie House. Lieutenant Commander R. 8. Chew and Lieutenant Commander 8. W. Terry, of the United States Navy, are at the Hoffman House. Samuel Hoar, of Washington; W. G. Fargo, of Butaio, and R. M. Corwin, of Old, are at the Astor Hoase, Ex-Congressman T. M. Pomeroy, of New York; Judge K. B. Carpenter, of South Carolina, and H. A. Brigham, of the Caited States Army, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General George Bullock, of Philadelphia; Colonel T. Casey Cole, of Baltimore; Colonel Paul, of Virginia; Judge B. Parker, of Georgia; General Byron Padin, business in Massachusetts, and lately there has beon a striking illustration of the fact. One lager beer prince, who counted his stock by the thousands of barrels, was allowed to have his property, which had been seized under the probibitory liquor law, restored on the plea that it would spoil if it remained in the officers’ hands, while a poor devil of a subject of King . Gambrinus, the owner of but a solitary keg, not only had his treasure captured but himself locked up in durance vile for violating the law. This may be Massachusetts justice, but it smacks considerably of intolerance and pre- judice. The truth is, the republicans have “taken up the hot end of a poker in taking up this prohibitory liquor law as a political wea- pon. The democrats must gain strength wherever it is attempted to be rigidly enforced; for King Alcohol is almogt as powerful as King Sambo once was, and. the New England radi- cals will be made to realize this truth during the coming election canvass. Besides, there are probably a handred thousand lager beer drinkers in New England where there were one thousand at the time of the early Maine Liquor law agitation, fifteen years ago; and as most of this increase is among Germans who of North Carolina, and Fred Oexle, of Venice, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. ongressman J. M. Marvin, of New York, and Geo. Peabody Russell, of Salem, are at tne New York Hotel. Henry Tf. Blow, United States Minister to Brazil; W. L, Scott, of Erte, and Dr. Parson, of St. Louis, > Filta Avenue flo: Promivent Departures. in, for Caltfornta; Professor Atwater, . Frank Wentworth, for Boston; . for Montreal; ©, C. Cuattee, for for Saratoga; Dr. ; Colonel De Laney, for Norwich, for Boston. itcairn, for Kansa and Charles Dwight, : CaTHOLic Cuuron AND THE SOUTHERN Bracks.—It was stated at the late Interna- tional Young Men's Christian Association at Portland, Me.—an association of various Pro- testant denominations—ghat the Catholics educating colored priests to work among their race in the South; and the del- egate making this announcement gave a hun- dred dollars for a similar enterprise on the part of the Protestants, and that this roused the enthusiasm of the Convention so that a considerable sum of money was raised for the purpose on the spot. Very good. There is room enough for Protestants and Catholics for a great work among the blacks of the South. They are nniversally believers in the New Testament; but they need much in the way of practical instruction, and to Catholics and Protestants the fleld is open and the grain is ripe. were Tue Czar Fornips It.—The Czar, it ap- pears, has issued an edict forbidding the attendance of the Russian bishops at the Keumenical Council. The Czar thus pro- claims that be is the bead of the Cburch in Russia, Catholic as well as Greek, and that the Holy Father at Rome and his bishops in Russia must, so far, obey the Czar. Ey tation for female suffrage. L18H POLITICIANS have renewed the agi- They demand that women shall have the right of voting at elec- tions, Why not enfranchise the three or four hundred thousand able-bodied males who are pining to death in the workhouses aud treated like criminals because they are poor? Let this class express an opinion on the system of gov- ernment under which they have been panpor- ized first, The women may be in order after- wards, John Stuart Mill is described by the cattle as ‘the author and statesman” in advo. cacy of the movement. This is news and a shall not be surprised to hear that he has made his exit quite as rapidly. When will these scions of old reyal houses learn to read.the. signs of the times and be wise? The people are fit enough to rule themselves in their own way, and every year finds them better prepared and more resolved to do so. fund and baying up millions of bonds and put- ting them away till Congress can authorize their destruction. Yet, on the first of this month he had over a hundred and sixteen mil- lions in the Treasury. The debt is undergo- ing a very material reduction now. We will not venture to say how much more could be done by strict economy on the part of Con- gress and the administration and by the most skilful management of the finances. Then, if we look at the enormous crops of the present season, which in every section are the most promising ; at our gold, silver, cotton, grain, corn and other productions; at our boundless resources and at our rapidly increasing popu- lation and wealth, have we not reason to say the debt is a mere bagatelle? While the na- tions of Europe are hopelessly steeped in debt and pauperism and must decline compara- tively, we are marching on with rapid strides to such wealth and greatness as no nation before ever attained. It would be strange, in- deed, then, if our securities did not advance in the markets of the world and if they should not continue to advance to a much higher point. The Grant at Lone Brancu.—President Grant, with his family, accompanied by some mem- bers of the Cabinet and a party of friends, reached Long Branch yesterday forenoon. The President enjoyed a respectful but qnist reception. Having stood the test of fire already it is to be hoped the General will pass through the ordeal of the ‘‘waters” equally unscathed. One Reason Way Seorerary Fisn Opposes tuk Frexca Cante—Because it may interfere with the right of eminent domain of all the little fishes. Tue New Frenon Mrxistry.—By cable we are informed that the Emperor Napoleon has called together a new Cabinet, and from the names transmitted it is apparent that the combination is one of experience and talent. Considering the liberal movement now predominating throughout France, we doubt, however, that the new Ministry can last long, from the fact that the ideas of the leading members hitherto, uttered are scarcely liberal enough to support the tendency of the public mind. The Em- peror having decided to.enter a liberal path, and to a certain extent forego personal gov- ernment by giving more power to the Chambers, must find new men of moderate politics; and suob are not wanting among the representatives recently elected. Cuban Filibusters Question, The remnant of the Cuban filibustering expedition—one hundred and twenty-four in number—surrendered on Saturday to the deputies of Marshal Barlow, and were con- veyed from Gardiner's Island to Fort Lafayette, to await instructions from Washington as to what was to be done with them. This abrapt “and disagreeable ending of their ambitious projects in durance vile, albeit but temporary, in dungeons described as more loathsome than Libby prison or Ludlow street jail, is ill calculated to sustain the enthusiasm of the Cuban patriots. They doubtless, however, set out on their expedition with hearts prepared for any fate. Perhaps their bad luck will convince them that for the present, at least, they must bide their time for a more favorable opportunity. Some of them might find their way singly orin small squads to Cuba, and thus gradually swell the ranks of the revolu- tionists; but, on the whole, we would advise them to wait pattently for the interesting and important newa, which may ere long be ex- pected, giving the results of the Sickles misaton to Spain, The Uniteil States government has 1 mad! done all it conid do to conciliate the now Spanish government and to enable and the Cuban Broken Cnina AND Tim Sprios or Sun- LELAN.—It seems that our new fellow citizens, the Chinese, are indulging in some: of their native eccentricities in San Francisco. They are breaking each other's heads, trying to cut each other’s throats, and stabbing each other most Christianly. When the sona of the Emerald Isle first immigrated hithor in large numbers their principal eccentricity was the use of the noble sprig of shillelah, in the exercise of which they did ample justice upon each other's sconces, Wo rather think the latter the most effectual way of polishing o man’s cranium and beautifying his, features, However, the Chineso eccontricity will com- maad atteation fora while, if only Leom its of tig | business pull combined. Genoral Sickles to present himself at Madrid extrome aovelty, may have the giving out of the work must bear in mind that there exists within the cir- cumference of the same park in which is pro- and plundering contractors who infest the city and think they have a divine right to all the pick- ings and stealings involved in every new public work, They should also recall the unreason- able delays, the culpable extravagance, the bad faith.of those ring masters of a quarter of a century, ago, who had the job of constructing of the Assistant United States Treasurer, and just as the job of the new Court House in the park. has been kept in a convenient state of incompleteness at enormous expense to the taxpagers of the. city, in order to fill the have heretofore acted with the republicans it is plain that they will secede from the ranks of a party that has exhibited so wanton a dis- regard of their social rights and habits as to deprive them of their accustomed daily bev- erage, and by a flank movement wheel into the democratic line. posed. to erect the new. Post Office a monu- ment of eternal disgrace to the ring jobbers Watt Srreet.—The summer dulness has set in upon. the operations of the Stock Ex- change. The ‘‘bulls” are too listless and too few to maintain their side of the contest, while the “bears” are disporting in anything but Polar regions, Both sides have ‘given up” for the present and left the Long Room.to resound with the calls of the few lucky brokers who still enjoy the receipt of ‘ orders.” the then Custom House, at the corner of Wall and Nassan streets, now occupied as the office who kept the job ou hand for many years after the building should have been finished, c Tne Riva Loxe Branou Steamers.—We publish this. morning a card from the parties concerned, in the Long Branch steamboat Ma- genta in reference to the charge of racing with the Jesse Hoyt, of the rival line—which, perhaps, could make out as plain a case of in- nocence.. But, to avoid all appearances of racing, it would be best for both companies and, the public if they could agree to leave at a, different hour or half hour. In behalf of the public we submit this compromise, already plethoric purses of more modgrn ring masters. The old:Custom House, we believe, was the last structure of any importance built in, this city for the purposes of the United States by federalappropriations, if we except, perbaps, that dingy concern which, like the figurehead of a scavenger cart, shames the lower end of the Battery and is called a ‘barge office.” ‘The long interval, that has elapsed since the me- tropolis enjoyed the advantage of having a noble structure erected within its limits under the auspices of the general government is in no trifling degree attributable to the procras- tination in completing and the prodigal waste of the, public money in the case of the old Custom House, Now, let the government, acting upon the experience of the past, as well as in view of the signal evidences of jobbery that prevail in the pros- ent day, exercise the utmost precaution in awarding contracts for the proposed uew Post Ofice building. Let it be sure that none but proper men are engaged to do the work. ‘There must be proper men now-a-days for such @ purpose, or we should hear of complaints of private parties, who, like A, T. Stewart and other public-spirited citinens, are continually putting up princely mansions and costly ware- housee, There should be no difference be- tween the praportionate cost or time employed in the construction of public and private edi- fices upon an extensive scale, But, after all, it may not bo the actual contractors who en- gage to do the public work who are to blame, Waste Pargr—The paper used in writing: up the venerable W. H. Seward as a promi- nent figure in the political movements tor the next Presidency. Mr. Seward has served out his time, and is now simply on a tour of philosophical recreation, Andy Johnson may turn up again, but Mx. Seward is, politically, among the men ond. things of the past. THE MUTINY AT SING SING PRISON. Among the mutinaus convicts at Sing Sing Prisoa, the close confinement, with a bread and water dies, has as yet made very Little impression, although tt i said @ number of them are commencing to evince signs of contrition, Last Sunday the turbulent ones eclipsed, all thete former attempts at shoating and blaspheming, their yelta being plainly heard at a distance of neariy naif a mile from Me prison, In addition to this many of them tore the boards from the floors of their cells, with which they kept up’ an incessant battering on their cell doors, unul long after nignt- fall, Durwg the day hundreds of persons, attracted by # mortad curiosity, assembled on the hill in front .of the prison, in order to hear the ribaldry and fond. iyh Imprecations of the rebellious convicts. As con. finetweat id the only mode of punishment that car be wrought to bear on these notorious meng wv prigon authorities are deverinined tat Wis shall be Moved out ty them unstiutedi, Charles Wheeler, tie pry Ais position yesterday. 7, Crowioot, of Sin Sing, bas been placed ta oh til sich Ume (ue Board of luspeviors Make auotler appotnuacak al keeper, resigned SS