The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1869, Page 6

6 BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Ailbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravv. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XX XIV.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THEATRE, 234 +7 TARATR' Dowa—Buacu-EvEp He BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—MERRY CopeLen. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, cor LD STRAL er ot Eighth avenue an R. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Cancitt at Last—Ir Taxes TWO TO QUARREL. Matinee at 2. woop's Broadway ‘noon and eveaing Performanss. NIBLO'S EXTRAVAGANZA OF BINBAD THE Sat.on. OLYMPIC Doox. Mat: BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammaay Buildin; Mt atreet.—LanioriAN MINSTRELSY, do. SCIENCE AND Ant. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Broadway.—P' Raves ONLY LN ATTENDANCE. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, July 21, 1°69. ~ MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Daicy HeEzALD will be seat to subscribers for one dollar a month, The postage being ry subscribers by this ariangement can receive the HERALD at the same price it i furnished im (he city only thir between Si and 6th ays,— Broadway anid Uhh street. — UM AND THEATRE, Thirtiot street and DEN, Broadway.—Tum SrrovacuLas TRE, Broaaway.—Hicooxy Diccony iway.--MOoN NEW YORK M''SEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broalway.— ve cents a Of Mlinois; Judge Cutting, of Maine; ex-Commis sioner Rollins aud Assistant Attorney General Field, Some barges navigating the Rideau Canal, in Canada, broke loose from their fastenings during a storm, and were carried along with such force as to break turough six ‘gates, damaging the canal to such a degree that the repairs cannot be completed in Jess than four weeks, Two lives were lost, ‘The Harvard crew arrived at Queenstown at noon on Monday. They are in fine physical condition, and ready to enter upon their regular training at once. ‘The City. About one-fourth of the liquor dealers entitied to have a portion of thetr license money refunded - | to them have failed to call for it, After the 23d checks om licenses will be paid only on Friday of each week, and applicants need not call at other ‘times Gregorio Dominguez has been reappointed Consul at this port by the republic of Ecuador and his exe- quatur bas been issued by President Grant. ‘The collection of harbor masters’ fees unposed by & law passed at the last session of the New Jersey Legislature is resisted by the Cunard Steamship Company, on the ground of its unconstitutionality, The matter will once brought before the higher courts for adjudication. The tobacco factory at No. 151 Fulton street, Brooklyn, velongimg to Valentine Korn, was seized yesterday for \violation of the revenue 1aws, One hundred aud twenty-five thousand cigars, 2,000 pounds of leaf tobacco anda large quantity of smoking tobacco was turned over to the custody of Marshal Daiton. The recora of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shows that during the last three years 1,200 norses have perished by fire in this city. In the United States Commissioner's Court yester- day, before Commissioner Shields, the alleged counterfeliers N. en, Paul Benone, Martin Frank, John avann and Actilli Poly were committed in default of dail to await the action of the Grand Jury 4 b Séth and In the Supreme Court, before Judge Cardozo, there was another day’s hearing of argument in the case Brooklya.—Hoouky's } of MeClellan vs. Justices Dowling and Kelly, Argument of counsel will be continued this morning. In the contempt case of John O'Mahony, late chief executive of the Fenian organization, against August Belmont and Ernest B. Lucke, the motion for an attachment for coutempt, the defendants having refused to pay the Fenian fund into the nands of the receiver appointed by the Court, was set aside, the defendants ha purged themselves and con- formed to the di ion of the Court by paying over the mouey to the receiver. ‘The stock market yesterday was duil and heavy until after the last board, when there was a stronger feeling inthe general list and prices suddenly ad- vance. Gold sold down to 155, closing finally at The Cunard steamship Scotia, Captain Judkins, ) y jor Queenstown and Liverpool, The a Post Ofice at twelve M. ary Chauncey, Captain Seanury, North river at 12 M. to-day tor t ~ | will leave San Francisco rr Aspinwall. camship Magnolia, Gaptain Cro- e, Will sail at three P, M, to-day ‘orth river for Charleston, 8, C. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Baron Krause, of Washington; @x-Congressman THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. The sidewheet weil, of Lea: ease from pier No, 8 Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. Brooxiys Cartiers anp Newswen will iv future receive their papers atthe Branca Orrice | pruyn, of Albany; Henry Boggs, of London, aud H. cr THe New Yore Hexatp, No. 145 Fulton street, | L. Boulton, of Caracas, Ven., are at the Brevoort . ® House, cea Rey. W. R. Alger, of Boston; M. P, Bemis, of Mays- ADVERTISEMENTS jetters for the seceived as above. and Svsscrserions aud ll | vine; Thomas F. Durant, of New York; W. W. ‘Teall, of Syracuse; C, H. Porter, of Albany, and James S. Kendall, of Chicago, are at the Fitth Ave- nue Hotel, Gencral B. H. Hill, of the United States Army; General Z. B. Tower, of New York, and J. Townsend Burden, of Troy, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Coonel Schuyler Crosby, of the United States Army; General H. A. Barnum, of Syracuse; E. A. buck, of Buffalo, and H. Kendall, of Leavenworth, are at the Homan House. H. Ward, of Halifax; H. Kellogg, of Milford; Rus- sell Hinckley, of Miimois, and George Gillum, of Port- land, are at the Coleman House. Colonel 0. V. Mack, of Washington; C. W. Wood- ward, of Cincinnati; M. W. Warren, of St, Louis; Colonel T. S. Allison, of the United States Army; Judge Hamilton, of Elhott City; J. H. Piggott, of New Orleans, and James Redmond, of New Jersey, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Colonel George Stewart and Major Frank Taylor, of the United States Army; General A. B. Garfleld, of Ohio; Lieutenant Cushing, of the United States Navy, and Professor Williams, of Cambridge, Mass., are at the St. Charles Hotel. General N. H. Harris, of Vicksburg; Henry Winter, of Baltimore, and £. D, Willett, of New Orleans, are ut the New York Hotel. New York Henarv will be Europe. ‘ne cable telegrams are dated July 20. ne Harvard University boat crew arrived in Lon- yesterday in fine condition, The London Times o8 the Lords to accept the Irish Churcii bill in its cmal shape. sneral Lersundi has been approached by the ts of Isabella, but he refuses to side with her ex- saty’s cause. The Carlists movements are ex- . fear. Cuba, : view of the prompt action of the Uni ornment in preventing the departute o1 +xpeditions Governor General Rodas “ree annulling article seven of his proc de 7th last, relative to the right of Svan to search neutral vessels in Cuban wat ush Bank will soon issue notes for a s: nent loan. Miscellaneous. sh says he has no authority to grant | * land the, French cable at Duxbury General J, M. Brannan, of the United States Army; nority beloogs solely to Conzress, | 4. M. Newhall, of California; E. Cook, of towa; ary expresses the opinion that Con- | General Littlefield, of North Carolina; L. Wright, of ¥ interpose no objections. Oswego; H. Bliss, of Maine; Jndge N. Davis, of 1@ newly appointed registers are jargely in- ; General £. Higgins, of New York, and ising the number of votes in East Lennessee. i. B. Carse, of the United States Army, are 5 gives great offence to the more intolerant | at the St. Nichoias Hotel, cals, and troubles are apprehended at tue polls election day. fhe official majority of Governor Walker in Vir- tsa te 18,202. tormy session the democra' convention New Mexico, nominated Recente Romero ne delegate to Congress. rhe late rains in litimois and Missouri caused great damage to railroads and seriousiy 1 upted travel, The road between Hanuibal and Palmyra, Mo., #8 so much injured that trains have been withdrawn until repairs are completed. The Yoledo, Wabash and Western road is so badly dam- aged that no trains passed over it from Friday to Monday. A portion of the track of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, near Augusta, was carried away, and on Saturday night a p. ger train narrowly escaped running into the break, through wich the waters rushed with the joree of a@ mighty ri Much damage was done to crops, Prominent Departures. g. A. Andrews for Peoria, J. M. Marvin for George Peabody and George Peabody Rus- Sulphur Springs, J. Wister for Philadel- phia, C. Koopmanschap for San Francisco, P. Diez de Revera for Washington, Commander Terry, Charles Walsh, Jr., and J. D. Lawson for Saratoga, Colonel J. C. Burnham tor Philadelphia, H. C. Lord for Cincinnati aid Dr, Belt for Paris. Genera Saratog sell for A SEASONABLE QuesTioN.—Is General Grant more partial to the swells than to the serfs at Long Branch? Tae Tencantereo RatLroap.—Encouraged by recent additional grants from the govern- ment of Mexico, the Tehuantepec Railroad is now to be built, and within five years we shall have a still shorter route to California than d large quantities of Wheat recently harvested were i poparsiods 7 2 a were | that “at present offered by the Panama line, ‘The Cencral and Union Pacific railroad companies | The fact of Marshall O. Roberts being at the have agreed to carry fruit from Californta to New York for tive cents per pound and to transport emi- grants from New York for fifty dollars per head and thirty-eight doll rs from Chicago. Arrangements have been made for printing inter- nal revenue stamps in the same manner as the postal currency is priated. The stampe, wiih new designs, ‘will be printed in New York and Philadelphia and the seal wiil be altached at the department in Wash- | ington. It is reported in Canada that negotiations concern- ing a reciprocity treaty will be resumed at Wasbing- ton in September. Jerry Storms, the notorious horse thief, was lodged in Hackensack jailon Monday night, having been captured at Wilmington, Del. He swam te Dela- ware river and fought desperateiy with his pur- guers before surrendering. The mutiny at Sing Sing Prison has been efectually quelled, ana about 300 of the prisonets, who had been placed in close confinement, have been released and returned to work. The leaders intended the re- ‘voit to be universal, having for its object a general clearing out of the prison, at no miatter what sacr.~ fice of life. ‘The New Jersey Court of Pardon at its recent sea Kentucky CaLtep to A Froxt View oF sion pardoned forty convicts, four of whom are} THe ALmichtyY Nie@er.—The Louiaville ae se sao Prine ein tn ype Journcl is beginning to discover that Ken- en iminais of other 4 ere serving 4 . ut sentences of from two to twenty years impris- tucky, as things have been and are going, can- qnment. | not afford any longer to stick to the constitu- Millie Gaines, a colored woman, was tried yester- | tion as it was under Buchanan, when ®erday in Washington for the murder of James 0. | negro had ‘‘no rights which a white man was yeot.” The Kentuckians are told Ingle, @ white man. Her counsel set up the piea of | Round to insanity, which was successfully maintained, the | Ay fury, after an absenco of oniy (wo minutes, ren. | that they might as well concede at once the dng @ verdict of not guilty. ‘The jury was composed | negro’s right to testify in the courts, because of ix white men and six blacks, | next year, under the fifteenth amendment, he alance committee called upon the Mayor o! | wil}, even in K " i 33 Ping a few days since, and si oy ey | hd omer Ee age be Anveused. wits the sign. The Mayor, however, not nizing the right of suffrage, a a that then all the politi- guthority of selfeonstituted authorities, determined | cians will be pré iming themselves to Sambo fo hold.on vo his office. | as his best friends. This is plain talk, but it ‘The centennial commencement of Dartmouth Col rings Kentucky to a front view of Sambo, Jes oe moplsned gredustes of that snativation who | 200 ehe will do well to take bim ae she finds Jed take part in the exercises are Chiet Justice him and turn him to good account, as they ‘Base, yenator Patterson, Long John Wentworth, | have done in Virginia, head of the enterprise is not only a guarantee that the scheme will be carried out, but also that it will be rendered as effective as possible in its operation. In the present age of pro- gress it becomes necessary to multiply the means of transit, which cannot be too numer- ons, and commercial exchange increases in proportion to the facilities offered to it. The next new feature in those regions will be a sbip canal through the isthmus connecting the two oceans and allowing vessels to pass through without breaking cargo. Such an undertaking is quite as feasible as the work— now so near completion—of cutting a canal throngh the desert on the Isthmus of Suez. The natural wealth of Mexico will be developed, and the government of that country has shown mach wisdom in offering ample inducements for the investment of foreign capital in works that tend to its national aggrandizement, ‘The Movements of Our Political Parties | Tho Triumph of the Franco-Amertcan Tele The Administration, In the South the Virginia election and the active campaign now in full blast in each of the States of Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas, and in the North the recent State conventions, especially of the democratic party, have developed some interesting move- ments on the political chessboard. A new anti-proscriptive and thoroughly liberal party has come to the front in Virginia, This party, accepting the reconstruction conditions of Con- gress, including the fifteenth amendment and nogro political equality, has won the day in { Virginia, in taking ground for white emanci- pation and political equality; or, in other words, for a general amnesty, blotting out the test oaths and political disabilities under which certain claases of Southern whites participating in the late rebellion are now suffering. General Grant is satisfied with this result in Virginia, some of the more advanced of the republican journals are satisfied, and anticipate with pleasure similar results in the approach- ing elections in Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas, and in all the other Southern States in their turn, But Mr. Boutwell and several other members of the Cabinet and a powerful combination, it is said, of the radical republi- can leaders, in and out of Congress, are actively at work, by hook or by crook, to upset this Virginia election—firstly, through General Canby, the military commander of the State, in the organization of the Legislature, or, failing in this, they will, secondly, attempt to set aside said election in Congress itself on charges of fraud. Now, upon this question General Grant has a fine opportunity to reconstruct the re- publican party upon the liberal platform of the Walker organization of Virginia, and to make himself master of the political situation without the slightest difficulty. An order to General Canby requiring him to deal with the new Virginia Legislature liberally in the matter of the iron-clad oath will suffice. It will at once clearly identity General Grant’s administration with the new republican party of the South, and thus compel the radicals of the North to fall into line or to bolt into the barren fields of an outside political faction. Such is the splendid opportunity offered to General Grant for liberalizing the republican party on the Virginia platform of the emanci- pation of the Southern whites, The move- ment may require @ change or two in the Cab- inet to make it effective, but such impediments as intractable Cabinet members may be easily removed under the amended Tenure of Office law. In any event, General Grant should seize upon this fine opportunity tg reorganize the republican party on’ the reconstruction platform of his administration, inasmuch as he will have from the start the masses of the party, with a majority in each house of Congress, tq back him. On the other hand, the adminis- tration, in playing fast and loose with the republican proscriptives and the republican liberals of the South, will only make confu- sion worse confounded to all concerned. Next, with regard to the Northern demo- cracy, we had supposed that, taking counsel from the Virginia conservative victory, se- cured by the fusion en masse of the democrats of the State, out-and-out Bourbons of the elder branch, with the Walker republicans, we say we had supposed that the Northern demo- cracy, upon this practical hint, would accept the general situation and boldly strike out for a new departure. But the Northern demo- cracy, so far, have done no such thing in any State, and evidently contemplate, with some- thing like disgust, the idea of fusing with this new liberal party of the South. In Ohio, Cal- ifornia, Penasylvania and in every other State where they have lately spoken, excepting Iowa, the Northern democracy have taken substantially their old ground of hostility to “the nigger,” and most radically not only against the ratification of the fifteenth amend- ment, but against its recognition when de- clared ratified, as they expect it to be with the reassembling of Congress in December. Thus the democratic party on the negro question are still floundering on @ 1 ee shore; and their only hopes in the coming fall elec- tions lie in the sporadic movements of the temperance societies against lager baer for an independent political organization in this State, that State and the other, and in the revolt of disappointed radical office-seekers. In fact, both the republican and the democratic parties, though their leaders generally do not seem to understand it, are ina transition state, and the reconstruction of the elements of both is stillin the hands of the administration. The great money question, the Cuban question, the Mexi- can question and the Alabama claims, are the issues upon which General Grant may repeat the réle of Monroe in fasing all parties in an “era of good feeling” around his administra- tion; or, as at the close of Monroe's service in the White House, he may leave us the ma- terials in abundance for a scrub race, open to all comers, for the succession in 1872. As matters now stand no President since the time of Washington or Jefferson can be named as possessing a better opportunity than Geveral Grant for shaping the political issues of the new dispensation and the party of the succession and the destiny of the republic. We must await the drift of events. What the administration is to he, however, upon the living questions of the day we expect to learn, at the latest, with General Grant’s first regular message to Congress. Very Fast.—An exchange regards as the girl of the period the ‘‘American Girl’ That will do very well; but the ‘‘girl” referred to is rather fast. Is Att Its Grory—Long Branch, with General Grant at the head of the line of its summer caravansaries. And the roses of Sharon are there, too, and the lilies of the val- ley, and the violets and the marigolds, and the daffydowndillies and the magnolias, and the camelias and the night-blooming cereus; and “even Solomon in all his glory was not ar- rayed like one of these.” As for the hungry politicians, they, too, are there, and are to be pitied, for they Lave come too late for the good things of the feast. Only some frag- ments of cold victuals are left, and over these | they must be content to put in their claims, Tworenny Revencr—The charges of some pettifogger or Tombs lawyer, whose toes have been pinched, against Marshal Tooker, made in a local radical print yesterday. The arti- cle was not deemed worthy an editorial notice in the sheet that published the petty whines, graph Cable. It is a matter of national congratulation that the landing of the Franco-American cable has at last been permitted by the government at Washington. The grant, however, seems not to have been a free-will offering by the power elected by the people to guard their rights and expand their commercial and political interests, but to have been wrung from that power by an overwhelming popular voice, enunciated and developed by the expressions of the public press. We reproduce a number of these ex- pressions in the Heraup to-day. Besides, we show from a Washington correspondent that the attempts to hamper the movements of the Franco-American Company in their efforts to land their cable on American shores were con- ceived in the spirit of a well known Washing- ton lobby operation, which cannot but be re- garded as only little less than criminal. We refer to the fishing up of an old act, presented to and rejected by a former session of Con- gress, and which was palmed upon the Secre- tary of State as the most recent action of the national legislature, ard upon which he based his late actiom in regard to the Franco-Ameri- can cable. This system of shameful decep- tion on the part of the Washington lobby has heretofore been passed over in silence by the press ; but the very impor- tant concerns involved in the present trans- action call for energetic and decisive action at the earliest moment of the meeting of the next session of Congress. These lobbyists should be swept from the corridors of the Capitol. They should be wiped out as thoroughly as the halls and lobbies are cleansed.after an all night session, The people may bear with in- capacity in a department of the government, but they will put their faces sternly against the workings of a dishonest lobby upon such honest imbecility as has been displayed in the recent action of the heads of more than one of the departments of the government on this Franco-American cable project. The fact is, as we announced and recom- mended from the beginning of this cable im- broglio, the Franco-American Company need not bave paused a moment in their great un- dertaking. They might have gone on with their work, brought their cable into the harbor of New York, carried tho shore end up to the city and fastened it to the pillars of the City Hyll, without, in the present era of civilization and enlightenment, encountering any just opposition fromthe government or people. As Americans, progressive above all other nations in this marvellous age of progress, our people would have hailed such an event with joy and satisfaction. And as for the pother and log- rolling business ia Massachusetts, about form- ing a company under the authority of the Le- gislature to facilitate the landing of the cable in the town of Duxbury, in that State, or three marine leagues therefrom, it was not only a miserable dodge of some specula- tors, but an acknowledgment—one never cor- dially accepted by the fishing interests of Maine and Massachusetts—that our maritime rights extend only the distance mentioned from our shores—an idea that won no fame for John Quincy Adams when he permitted that restriction to be included in the settlement ofthe fishing boundaries question at the treaty of Ghent, in 1814, as @ compromise for some other concession, although he earned some his- torical renown for not permitting our Northern fisheries to be abolished altogether upon the demand of the commissioners of Great Britain during the discussions on that treaty. Briefly, the Franco-American Company have all along acted just as they have had a per- fect right to, and the sooner their cable is landed upon our shores the better. The future action of Congress in the premises will not militate against their interests, but, on the contrary, will afford evidence to the world that this is not a nation walled in with barbaric prejudices, but one free and open and ready to embrace with acclamation every enterprise that tends to enhance its material, its commer- cial and political interests, come from what quarter it may. Grant's Partiatity for Borie is said to have arisen from the fact that the latter was such a splendid judge of ‘‘sea-horse.” The Hempstead Plains Purchase—What is Now Wanted. Now that the Hempstead Plains have become the property of A. T. Stewart, and that this property is known to have been purchased by Mr. Stewart with the intention of converting it toa great public benefit, the question arises how is this result to be achieved? Mr. Stewart is not the man to halt or look back when a great work has been commenced. All the world knows that when he begins he means to goon. To the success of Mr. Stewart's scheme one thing is necessary at the outset—a swift, convenient and adequate means of conveyance from New York. The Long Island Railroad already exists, but that railroad is deservedly in such bad repute that it isas good as useless. In its present state it can be of no service in the carrying out of the Hempstead scheme. Would it not be well for Mr. Stewart to make this road his own, put it in good condition and thus render it at once serviceable to his present purpose and a benefit to the public? We have beard an air line road spoken of, but this will be a necessity only when Mr. Stewart finds it impossible to secure the line already existing. The contemplated boon would be immensely enhanced if it secured for the inhabitants of Long Island one good and useful railroad. A City NewspaPEeR ON TeLEGRAPH Mo- NOPOLY AND THE AssootaTED Prese.—We call attention to an article from the Spirit of the Times, published in another part of this paper, on telegraph monopoly and the Associated Press. ‘The facts are well stated and the argu- ments unanswerable, and It is only neceasary to refer our readers to them. Atleast one of our contemporaries has the courage and ability to expose the cupidity and arbitrary assump- tion of a.gross monopoly, and to show the necessity of emancipating the American press from the trammels, partiality, schemes and tricks of an irresponsible association, We hope the press of the country generally will have independence enough to follow the ex- ample, so that the whole system of telegraph- ing, as well as the collection and diffusion of news, may undergo a thorough reorganization. The existing monopolies are an anomaly, and opposed to both the spirit of the age and the interests of the public, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The Suez (anal, The daring passage of Vasco de Gama around the Cape of Good Hope led commerce, and with it influence and power, away from the cities of the Mediterranean. Venice, then the most important of them, fell from ber proud position ; her trade became @ myth ; her independence only a tolerated fiction, The route to the East and the control of the com- merce there has been for ages the richest prize that men have ever fought for. Spain once owed her immense power to it, and now England leans on India mainly for sup- port, The discovery of this Continent we well know was made in searching for @ route to the East, In fact, most of the great geographical discoveries were made by adventurers looking for a new way to ‘Farther Ind.” The Pacific Railroad has made a reality of Columbus’ dream, The road lies to the westward of Europe, and the shade of the old navigator must have zealously watched the march of the rails over the Continent. Another way will soon be open—a way which has been dreamed of by engineers for centu- ries—a way which has been the pet scheme of every ruler who has tried to found an Eastern empire—a way which was known and which was used in ages past; for the present work- men have found remains which leave without a doubt the fact that a former canal existed. Next November will see a gathering of celeb- rities such ag the world never saw before; the desert will receive the monarchs of the West; great fleets of war vessels will gather there vo do honor to the occasion, and, of course, ex- cursionists without number will rally in bands around M. Lesseps, the hero of the feast. The celebration of the opening of the canal will be one of the most imposing ceremonies French ingenuity can devise and French tact carry out; and rightly so. The completion of this great work is one of the wonders of this most wonderful century. It marks a new era in commerce, in the world’s history in fact. It is s prominent point from which future his- torians will take their departure. It may become the cause of such wars as the earth has never yet seen. The changes that it may, nay, that it must work, are of the utmost importance; the stream of commerce is rarely diverted into new channels without a shock and without unforeseen complications ensuing. A struggle will certainly come, sooner or later, for the possession of the canal. The frequent tours the Pacha is making and the solicitude The Muttmy at Sing Sing Prison. Notwithstanding the close confinement and the bread and water diet to which the mutinous convicts at Sing Sing prison have been sub- jected, the blasphemous yells with which they made last Sunday hideous, their incessant bat- tering of the cell doors with boards torn up from the floor, and the fact that their principal keeper has resigned his position, indicate any- thing but their return to such a state of disci- pline as ought alwaya to be maintained among them. The recent startling interruptions to the order and quiet imperatively required by the prison rules, as, for instance, the at- tempted seizure of a vessel by a number of the convicts, the almost daily escapes of three or four, the frequent scenes of drunkenness and violence exhibited by prisoners supplied with free passes to the adjacent village of Sparta, in direct violation of the law which prohibits any convict from leaving prison unless by an order from a court of competent jurisdiction, a pardon of the Governor or the expiration of the term of service, have 80 much alarmed the neighbors of the turbulent Sing Sing community that many have been driven away to safer homes. Terrorism reigns for miles around outside of the prison. The public at large is deeply interested in having a speedy and final stop put to so dis- graceful and go dangerous a condition of affairs, Among the causes assigned for the insu- bordinate conduct of the Sing Sing prisoners certain changes of keepers have been men- tioned. But the real cause for it must be found in the fearful disproportion between fifty keepers and nearly a thousand prisoners of the roughest sort, who have now learned how much they can,hope to accomplish by co- operation and by help of the tools and imple- ments with which a large number of them em- ployed in the shoemakers’ shop, the black- smiths’ shop and other workshops, are neces- sarily supplied. The convicts sent to Sing Sing are recruited from a class of offenders which is yearly growing larger and more ferocious in our cities, The thieves and coun- terfeiters and burglars of the present day are desperate enough to hesitate but little at add- ing murder to their other crimes. They are sufficiently sharp witted to know that in a well-combined attempt to overawe and over- power fifty keepers scattered here and there within the extensive prison walls, the chances might, perhaps, be in their own favor. It is indispensable, therefore, that a stronger police force should at once be organized, in order to render absolutely impossible the bloody con- summation which must. otherwise be expected to result from yearly increasing violations of prison discipline. . Moreover, it is manifest that the prison at Sing Sing is overcrowded with ‘“‘fellows of the baser sort,” who might advantageously be dis- tributed elsewhere, at Clinton or at Auburn. In fact, it is becoming desirable to change al- together the location of this prison, which is at once a nuisance and a peril for one of the finest places on the Hudson river. Why not purchase Hart's Island, or David’s Island, in the East river, and build a new prison on one or the other, or else devote to this purpose a part of Blackwell’s Island? Past each of these islands the current runs so swiftly that attempts to escape would have to be aban- doned. Something must soon be done by the State government to restrict in our prison sys- tem evils which are assuming formidable pro- portions. Hanp Rovunp THe TamBouring.—The sub- ject of a Grant organ is again revived in Washington. “old Ben Wade” on Cuba. Old Ben Wade is a brick. When he speaks, it is, as every one knows, in a straighttorward way and to the point, with, besides, two excel- lent recommendations to set off what he wants to say—humor and good sense. Now that he has got back from his trip across the Conti- nent we are glad to know what views he takes of the political questions uppermost ; most of all, of this Cuba business. We are not sur- prised to see that he makes no mystery of his sentiments, and we wish the administration had some of his courage in handling this Cuban question. We think with him that they are losing an excellent opportunity of ‘‘putting in the wedge,” and should the Sickles negotiation end in smoke they will find that this neutrality law business won’t prove their best card at the next election. j Cuba, sooner or later, is bound to be ours. There is no statesman, here or in Europe, who doubts this. The Cubans themselves want it, and public opinion here, not only in the press, but throngh Congress, has spoken plainly enough on the subject. What, then, prevents it? Nothing but Spanish pride. Nothing but that miserable Spanish pride which shrinks from doing what France and Russia have already done—sell to us a territory that is no longer of any profit to them. For our part we think that instead ot hesitating the Spaniards have reason to thank God that they have yet a eolony left to sell. How long do they sup- pose this will be the case? We feel confident, even sanguine, that should this country main- tain the neutrality laws in all their rigor Cuba, single-handed, will succeed—though with much bloodshed—in freeing herself from the Spanish yoke. What the cholera and vomito fail to do Generals Cespedes and Jordan will accomplish, though at an unavoidable sacrifice of life. It is estimated that there are at present sixteen thousand Spanish troops on the island, inde- pendent of the so-called volunteers, and an army of twenty thousand patriots. These last have held their own for nine months, without modern arms—we might say, in some cases, without any arms at all—and now that they are well organized, armed and commanded, is it too much to expect that they will do better than this? When the Spaniards come to leave the island—unless they previously listen to reason—they will have the devil to pay for their obstinacy. In that case our national indebtedness will be somewhat less and their national treasury, and, if possible, their national honor, will be a great deal poorer— honest Ben Wade's advice to the contrary notwithstanding. We fear the Spaniards, if left to themselves, will go on as they have begun to the end of the chapter. Waxteo Immepiateny—Any quantity of “whippings and scourgings” of negroes in the South by inhuman whites, for use in the ap- proaching elections. Apply at the office of the Union League, with which he is received all over Europe show the jealousy of the different Powers; the Sultan, who has so long been the ‘‘sick man” of Europe, begins to be alarmed at the pre- tensions of this younger member of his family. The pet ailment of the Sultan—Russian control of the Bosphorus—becomes almost insignificant when compared with the disease that his son, the Pacha, is threatened with—French control of the Suez Canal. We have seen how the great Powers have quarrelled over one ‘‘sick man;” what will the doctors do with two invalids on their hands, particularly when one of the patients insists on badgering the other? The .battles of the Crimes may be surpassed by those which may take place on the narrow neck of land which once united Asia and Africa, Egypt may again become the grave of French soldiers, and Turk and Christian may again redden the desert with their blood. What effect the canal may have, and what effect it will and must have, we can hardly guess; for philosophize over it as much ag we please we must find always the same result. It is an immense work; it will pro- duce results of vital importance to Europe and to the rest of mankind; it will create a revolution in commercial circles; it will bring into being new sources of wealth, and it may bring about a fearful war. Let us hope, however, for the best, and let us join in the celebration, and give all honor to M. Lesseps for his talent, his perseverance and his pluck. He has fought the great fight most manfully, and deserves all honor for it. A Martrer or Taste, Perwaps.—Would it not have been as well for the late Portland Convention of Young Men’s Christian Associa- tions to have been termed an ‘‘Inter-National” one, instead of a ‘‘National?” There was’about as much Canada in it as there was on this side of the line. Our Foreign Correspondence. Yesterday the Hgratp printed letters from special correspondents not only from almost every great centre on the American Conti- nent, and from some centres in Asia, but from London, from Dublin, from Paris, from Madrid, from Rome and from Constantinople. Itis thus that the Hzratp is a map of busy life. In no other journal in existence is the world, its fluctuations and its vast concerns mirrored with such fulness from day to day. It is by means of the Hzratp that the American people are kept posted on whatever is going on in any part of the inhabited earth. What is going on in France, in Great Britain, in Germany, in every part of Europe, in Asia, in Australia, in New Zealand, in South Africa, is as well known to the readers of the Hzrarp as it is to the people most immediately con- cerned. In not a few instances, in fact, the peoples are indebted to the Heraxp for their knowledge of their own affairs. This is the trne province of a great newspaper. Sucha newspaper the dash, the enterprise, the American thirst for live knowledge demand, and such a newspaper is daily found in the New York Heraup. This is our ambition and our success is our reward, A Canoe For Carpet-Bacorrs.—The Ya- x00 (Miss.) Banner advertises :—‘‘Wanted—A carpet-bag candidate for Governor.” Make a draft on Virginia. A Sournern Nationa Party.—Some of our Southern exchanges are advocating the organization of a Southern national party. Nonsense! Suppose there should be organ- ized @ Northern national party, a Western national party, an Eastern national party, « Pacific national party—what sort of national party would be the result? Each section would have its own ideas about a national policy, and then would follow a general smash-up of nationality all round. The old democratic party was national enough, and the republican party is trying to become so. Either of these parties may become national enough for all practical purposes by the time of the next Presidential election, and it is idle for the South to attempt to sot up a national party on ite own hook.