The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1869, Page 6

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PL E New day, July 22 1se9. many year: from the Couimons, was taken up tor ¢ was evident from the manner of tho vhat a@ serious crisis had arrived. Zhe was warm throughout. The opposition fon, It present debate showed a bold front, and the government members were enuaily determined. On a vote being taken the majouty against the g oni was seventy-cight. Yesterday a Cabine: me rg Was held, bul no defaite conrse has becu resolved on. Dissensions are said to exist among the mem- bers, one portion counselling moderation and the others urging the extreme measures. Lal meetings in favor of the government nx be held immediately. ‘The London uew yesterday contain editorials on the pr of affarrs. wnass position Spain is in a sad condition, judeing tvom latest “advices. Excitement pievalis through- out the whole country. The people are in fear of another revolution. The army 13 dis- affected and several oiticers have heen a- rested for disioyalty, A fight between the govern. ment troops and the insurgents occurred ai Ciudad Real on Tuesday. A foul plot to assassinate Ser- rano, Prim and Rivera has been discovered. October 26 is the day appointed for tue opening of the French Corps Législatif, A muuticsto be shortly be issued by the Deputies of the Le: 1 ing on France to sit in juagment on recent even China and Japau. By telegraph trom San Francisco we have news from Yokohama, Japan, to the 80th, and Hong Kong, China, td the 19th of June, An old Confed- @rate steamship called the Tallahassee, was wrecked on Plymouth Rock, near Yokouama, June 17, aud twenty-two lives were iost. Hakodadi has bee y tured by the imperialists. The Mikado is avout leaving Jeddo to avoid receiving the Duke of Bdin- burg. Par!inwent is still in session. In China icais are eniertained. of anoiler great rebellion, a8 evidences of a strong conspiracy to seize Soochow and other ciltes on the Grand Canal, have beon discovered. The British Consulay Hankow and his wile were among @ party of foreigners re- cently attacked by natives near that city. Rewards were offered at Ichang for the destruction of“he British gunboat Opossum, which was—Starioned there, and also for the murder of foreigners, Cuba. Three Unites “States men-of-war the Albany (Con- toocook) nagship; the Gettysburg aud the Centaur bave arrived at Santiago. A sharp engegement is reported near Manzanillo, in Which twenty Cubans wore killed. ay Porto Rico. The steamer El Heroe, which sailed from New York on the 3a of June for the river (rinoco, in Venezuela, put into St. Johns, Porto Rico, in distress ‘on the 30th. She was suspected of being a filibuster, but her true character becoming knowi suc was not molested. South America. Our Buenos Ayres letter is dated Junc lt. Lopez, it is stated, was about to torture his prisoners, in retaliation for the refusal of tue Comte d’u to pre- vent the Paraguayan batallion in the allied army from carrying the Paraguayan fiag, when Minister McMahon interfered and declared them all under the protection of (he United States. Commander F. M, Ramsey, of the United States Navy, was married recently at Buenos Ayres, to Miss Annie McMahon, a sinter of the Minister. Miscellaneous, The United States steamer Semiuole, which left Norfolk recently on a secret expedition, is said to be cruising in Haytien waters for the captare of the Haytien privateer Hero, which has been jong prey- tg on American commerce in those waters. She is to be captured and brovghe at once to Wash- ington, This Hero is not to be confounded with Bi Heroe, now st St. Johns, Porto Rico, the recent movements of which are recorded in @ paragraph elsewhere. Colonel Warren, the Fenian, and Mr. J. dD, O'Connell wailed upon Secretaries foutweil and Robeson and Attorney General Hoar yesterday and told them of the wrongs {nfieted upon the Fenian prisoners in ‘Thoy intend to lay the matter individually every member of the Cabinet, Attorney General Hoar was not at all gracious to them and iatimated that the favaders of Cauada were @ se) of Hueves and robbers. The citizens of Boston propose to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Humboldt birth on September 14, by founding @ scholarsiip in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, to he called the Bumbolat selolarship. The scaffold at the new Catholic church bomg erected on Summit street in Hudson City, gave way geaterday, and precipttared four men to Lhe ground, Two of em were killed almost instaniiy and the othor (wo ave seriously injured, Colonel Ryon ond Colonel Currier, the Cuban fili- land. Dusters, have appeared in Ciifion, C. W., where Sheit Licadquarters are to be Nxed for (he present, ‘The groat coclesiastical triat in Chicago has com- menced. Rov. Mr. Cheney te vomg tried before an 2} Board for alleged unauthorized omis- sione—maiuly of the word “regenerate” —in the bap- temal rites of the Church. Mr. Cheney is rector of Christ Episcopal church, in Chicago. BP case of yellow fever has occurred atiye ms quarantin’. ca, te OT a ‘Trade ba wiilk discussing the Gr ayenwers (rom wat vort even Liverpool, Light draught prop ellers haY* ‘yee: recommended and medeying aX 4 boing taken to = subscriptions to build Zyoh vessels. Only sj of the newiy elected members of the Vir- | ginia Legislature ever held positions in that body before. Thomas R. Bowden, Attorney General of Virginia, has resigned. Admiral! Farregat passed through Chicago yester- day on his way to California, Tie City. The Seventh regiment departed for Saratoga yes- day in the steamer City of Hartford, Thé trial of policeman Matthew Campbell for the alleged murder of Maurice Long, tn Washington street, on tie Sd inst., was Commenced in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday. The jury was em- panelled and charged, and the matter was post poned until this moratag. * The Dowling-McCielland case was closed yester- day, and Judge Cardozo rezerved his decision. ‘The steamship Weser, Captain Wenke, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. Tue mails by her will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The steamship Missonri, Captain Palmer, wilt leave pier No. 4 North river at three P. M. to-day for Havana, The stock market yesterday was steady until after the boaras, when it became heavy and de- clined, Gold sold down wo Why closing finally at 186 a 1354;, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Covnt de Turenne, of the French Legation at Washington, is a: the Albemarle Hotel, General J.B. Murray, of Seneca Falls, is at the Hoffman House. Senator J. G. Harris, of Louisiana; Senator Fen- ton, of New York; Judge A. Nelson, of Poughkeep- sie, and George B. McCartee, of Washington, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain the Hon. W. Ward, of the British Logation at Washington. and Martin Deschapelies, of Phila- delphia, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Goverpor Ciayton, of Arkansas; Senator J. W. Nye, of Colorado, and General J. C, Hutchings, of California, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain KR. H. Waterman, of San Francisco, and RB, Vaughen Richards, of London, are at the Bre- voort House. R. Pruyn, of Albany; Colonel J. Bingham, of Philadelphia, and J. A, Richardson, of St. Louis, are at the Astor Mouse, Major General J. C, Robingon, of the United States Army; General E. F. Jones, of Binghamton, and yr Ross, of Kausas, ave at the St. Nicholas Parke Godwin and Miss Godwin arrived here morning trom Europe, in the stcamer omineut Departures. ana nel Starr, for Albany: Bish- 0 Major George S, Leland, for Sara- Tilford, for Rutland, Vt; General B, Sewport; Colonel Whitley, for Wasitng- Baron Kr op Mel toga; ¢ HL. Hl, tor ton, Dr, Harkoess, Mrs, Boggs, A. Mefwen and H. ®. Duncan sailed yesterday ia the steamship Scotia for Europe. Rey, J. C. Fletcher sailed yesterday for Portugal, to eater upon ihe duties of the consulate of Oporto. The Opening of the Suez Canal—The Great Work and its Consequences, On the 17th of November next one of the reatest, if not the greatest, works of modern times will be completed and be inaugurated with most imposing ceremonies, We need hardly say that we refer to the Suez Cai e other great work of the age, the Pacific Railroad, which is not less remarkable for the skill, enterprise and energy that have marked its construction, and the results that must flow from it, has already been opened and is in successful operation. A greater noise has been and will be made over the opening of the canal, however, than over the completion of the first line of railroad across the American Continent, because the former, for the present, at least, has a more international character and importance, though in the end, probably, the latter will have as great an effect in changing and con- trolling the currents of commerce in the world. It is a remarkable historical fact that in this year of 1869 both these mighty works of en- terprise and of modern science will be accom- plished. They will form one of the greatest epochs in time, and are fraught with a greater revolution, perhaps, in the history of com- merce and nations than any preceding epoch has been. But the sulject we are oi now is more par- ticularly thie Suez Canal. The details of the work and many interesting facts connected with it are published in another part of the HeERaxp to-day, and we need not go over that ground again. We will look at it, however, in its commercial, political and social bearings upon Europe, Asia, Egypt, Turkey and the world generally. In the first place, it will change to a great extent the current of trade to and from India, China and other parts of Asia. This trade, as we know, is vast and highly valuable. All great maritime and commercial nations, from the earliest history to the present time, have made extraordinary efforts to secure that; but hitherto it has only been carried on by long, tedious and expensive voyages round the Cape of Good Hope. Numerous wars and extensive conqud3ts were made ia the rich and populous countries of Southern and Southeast- ero Asia, and many colonies were established by the British, French, Portuguese, Datch and other European nations, especially by the Bri- tish, for the purpose of controlling or monopo- lizing that trade. England, as we are aivare, finally obtained the largest share, as well as an immense empire, in that part of the world, It was to reach these rich countries of Asia by a shorter or easier route and to increase com- merce with them that led Columbus to sail westward across the Atlantic and to discover America, This commercial spirit, ambition and rivalry led to other important resulta, which cannot be enumerated here, and which would have led to the ultimate conquest of China had not the liberal tendencies of the age and the influence of a new and great Power in the world, that of the United States, interposed. Will this rivalry cease with the opening of the Suez Canal and such greater facilities for commerce? Rather will it not be more active aud intensified? What quarrels, then, what wars, what changes in the status of nations may not take place in consequence? We see already the spirit of rivalry and ambition arise, for a leading French journal, speculating upon the future, esye:--‘The euccess of M, de | Lesseps is the success of an entire nation, of an entire race, It is the rehabilitation of the Latin race that its rival, the Anglo-Saxon race, | has so tong looked upon as incapable of carry + ing out practical works, as incompetent to un+ dertake anything beyond that which apper- tains to the domain of frivolous arts and luxury.” Yes, all the so-called Latin nations | bordering the Mediterranean—France, Spain } and Italy, as well gs Aystria—are alive to the ommtietl oppéttimnities before ther, and | honce are making extracrdiaary preparations future. jealous and nervous, and evidently fears the growing power of the Viceroy. NEW “YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, ‘SULY 22, to New York, the Mexican ports, Rio Janeiro cd ta 2 galebrute be aaa event of opening the Suez Canal. No doubt they will have impor- tant advantages; and if thera be any of the old commercial spirit left they may revive some Tio Lrish Church Bill=The Lords and Come mons in Collision, It appears from our cable despatches this morning that the @readed collision between of the commerce and maritime grandeur of | the Lords and Commons has at last taken former days, But England wiil not be behind in this race, nor will that other and more vigorous branch of the Anglo-Saxon race in America, which is destined to draw @ large portion of the trade of Asia across the Pacific, independent of the Suez Canal; nor, indeed, will Russia, which is extending her railroads and other moans of communication toward Central Asia and China, The commerce with Asia will be increased undoubtedly through this new and short means of communication; for every fresh avenue of commerce increases trade, and it may be that those parts of that Continent where once flourished mighty empires, but which are now comparatively desolate, may revive again. And what may not Egypt, both lower and upper, with iis surprisingly rich soil, become? It may yet be the granary of the Old World again. The commerce that will centre there and the influx and enterprise of foreigners that will go there must change the habits of the people and the face of the country, On the ruins of the most ancient civilization may arise a modern empire greater than that of the Pharaohs. This country, which after the rule of the ancient Egyptians has been successively under the empire of the Persians, the Greeks, when Alex- ander conquered the country and built the city of Alexandria as the seat of a great empire; the Romans, after it was reduced to a province by Julius Cesar; the Saracens and the Turks, is now virtually independent under the rule of the Albanian family of Mehemet Ali—the present Viceroy, Ismail, being one of that family—though nominally a province of Turkey. Ismail, or his successor, may be- come the chief of a modern Egyptian empire. It seema, indeed, that he is cultivating the friendship of the Powers of Europe on the occasion of the great event that is to take place in his dominions, with a view to the The Sultan, his nominal master, is It is proba- ble the European Powers may ere long have to consider the case of the ‘“‘sick man of Turkey” again, not, however, on the east of the Bosphorus and from fear of Russia this time, but with regard to Ismail’s ambition and the future of Egypt. such a cage? What will France do? What England? Vastly important and valuable as the Suez Canal will be to commerce, there is in it the germs of serious complications that may lead to wars or that may change the political condition of Egypt, Turkey and the whole of that part of the world. What will they do in Straggle for the Monopoly et the Southern Coolie Trade. The struggle for the monopoly of the Southern coolie or Chinese labor trade has already begun, left yesterday in the steamer for San Fran- cisco, and another was to leave Memphis to-day, on the same errand, by way of the Union Pacific Railroad—the latter with cash capital and letters of credit sufficient to pur- chase a gang of one thousand coolies for labor in the Southern cotton flelds, This is a new The agent of one company avenue of commercial enterprise opened to our go-ahead fellow citizens, The wonder is that the traffic was not long since commenced by the descendants of the original Yankee slave-traders in some seaport town in Massa- chusetts, like Salem, for example, which hag the credit of having carried on an extensive business in the nigger trade line in the earlier days of this ‘“‘celebrated republic.” of the agents ab; to take in his stip load of coolies and return ‘by Bea around Cape Horn or Cape of Good a One ‘mentioned is expected Hope direct to New Orleans, where the living freight, or the surviving members thereof, will be shipped up the Red river into the interior of Arkansas, and have a nice time of it during their natural lives on the plantations in that delightful section, This is a trade, therefore, the New England shipowners can engage in without soiling their irreproachable consciences on the nigger issue. It would, we have no doubt, be a safe speculation for some of them to telegraph to captains of their ships now in the Chinese waters to abandon the idea of loading with return cargoes of teas, silks, cassia, satinwood, fire crackers, and so on, and fill their ships with cargoes of human flesh, all alive and kicking, and carry them directly to the Mississippi, where the market is high, purchasers plenty and the cash ready, Thus will the struggle for the monopoly of the Southern coolie trade be fairly inaugurated between the descendants of the original Yankee slave traders, the original Southern slave drivers and Dutchwen with unpronounceable names. Tus Quesrest Case Yer—That of @ poet who wishes to resign a position in the Custom House upon conscientious political scruples, Fu.Lmors Axp Werp.—It is reported that there was a charming reconciliation between ex-President Fillmore aud Thurlow Weed at Saratoga the other day. An old political Al- bany lobby fend, no doubt, settled; but pre- cisely what we cannot tell, and it is of no con- sequence, as nobody cares, ‘Lot us have peace.” Cusan Lament at Honoxen “Oh, dear, Um ragred | know, But Pin hound to go of with Gin’ral Rarlow.? O11 Song. of our contemporaries aro raising a great hue and cry against what they denonnce as the ont- rageous hunting down and capture and impris- onment of the Cuban filibusters hereabouts, and especially against the invasion by United States Marshal Barlow of the “sacred soil” of New Jersey in his raids upon the Cubans, It must he admitted, too, that the adminisiration at Washington and its officers here are purau- ing the Cubans with a zeal which indicates « great desire to please the government of Spain; but in this very thing we may, perhaps, secure a speedy settlomont at Madrid of the whole Cuban question in Cuban independence or annexation, But unless we have some good news from Madrid before the Penusylvania October election the administration may look ont for bad news from Pennsylvania, To Be TakKgN WITH A SiRaAw~The cob. bler presented to General Grant by an evening contemporary yesterday. place, Our readers will romember that on Friday evening last the Lords’ amendments were rejected by the Commons. Oa Tuosday evening the bill was ranevic’ back to the | Lords vith tho decision of the lower house. {he Occasion scems to have been regarded a8 more than ordinarily important. The Lords, temporal and spiritual, mustered in full force. Large numbers of the Commons were present. Disraeli was soen sitting sphinx-like on the steps of the throne—a suggestive position. Gladstone leant éasily on the rails that separate the Lords from the strangers—a leas ambitious position, but scarcely leas sugges- tive, while John Bright, evidently en- joying the scene, moved to and fro like the incarnate spirit of revolution. The galleries of the House were filled with the élite of the land. The debate, in which took part Earl Granville, Lord Cairns, Lord Kimberly, Earl Grey, Lord Halifax, Lord Clanricarde, Lord Shaftesbury, Earl Russell, the Duke of Argyle.and the Marquis of Salis- bury, turned chiefly on a special clause in the preamble of the bill. The debate, which was evidently keen, was conducted with great ability on both sides of the House. On the motion of Earl Granville, that the preamble be restored to its original form, the House divided, and ninety-five voted for the motion and one hundred and seventy- three voted against it, The government was, in consequence, defeated by a majority of seventy-eight. Such @ result left Earl Gran- ville no choice but to move an adjournment of the House. Itis only natural that such an abrupt ter- mination of the debate should give birth to general and intense excitement. Yesterday the Cabinet was long in session. Various and conflicting rumors were afloat as to what the government was likely to do. It was bruited abroad that the Cabinet was not a unit in the matter—Lords Clarendon, Granville and one or two others advising moderation; the Prime Minister, Bright, Lowe and all the stronger members of the government, on the other hand, refusing to yield and counselling extreme measures. Later in the evening it was known that the Cabinet had failed to come to a decision. It is expected, however, that a decision will be come to to-day. What the decision will be we shall soon know. Meanwhile the wildest excitement prevails all over the three kingdoms. Large placards are posted throughout London, asking the question whether the Lords or the Commons are to rule. An immense meeting is to be held in Arundell Hall to-day, and itis intended that mass meetings will follow in all the great cities. It is manifest that the temper of the people is bad, and that it would not be difficult to fan the revolutionary embers into fierce and un- governable flame. We forbear for the present to predict what will be the result of this col- lision, but we have no hesitation in saying that if the Cabinet remains a unit Mr. Glad- stone is master of the situation and knows how to win, The Pacific Railroad Reduction of Hates, The good time coming, when cheap fares and cheap freight shall be the rule and not the exception throughout the United States, is foretokened by the announcement that the Central and Union Pacific companies have agreed to carry fruit from California to New York for five cents per pound and to transport emigrants from New York for fifty dollars per head and for thirty-eight from Chicago. It ia particularly encouraging that such a reduction of rates should thus early be made on the grand route which is destined to bring the shores of the Atlantic and of the Pacific into close and easy communication, and to assist in peoplixg vast intervening spaces with countless emi- grants from China and from Europe. One immediate consequence of this judicious reduction of rates on the Pacific Railroad will be the cheap and abundant supply of the New York markets with the cereals, fruits and vegetables to the growth of which the soil and climate of California are admirably adapted. During the first quarter of 1868 two million four hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars’ worth of wheat and elght hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars’ worth of of flour were shipped -from San Fran- cisco, suggesting the immense development which the wheat and flour trade of San Francisco with New York is bound to attain. A steadily increasing portion of this trade must now be carried on by means of the railroad instead of vessels, The hardier fruits which succeed so well in all parts of California, and the oranges, lemons, figs, pineapples and other tropical fruits which are raised on the southern coast, will find their way to Atlantic markets, to- gether with clusters of grapes larger and more delicious than the grapes of Eshcol. Cali- fornia is now cultivating more than three bun- dred varieties of grapes, and among them some of the choicest wine-producing grapes of Burope. ‘‘It is estimated that thirty millions of vines are already set, and will be in full bearing iu three years.” Its climate Is equally favorable for stock raising, and no incon- siderable number of the horses, mules, beef cattle and Kheep, which are extensively raised there, may yet be conveyed ‘across the Con- tinent” by the Pacific Railroad, A large part of the vast golden treasure which California yields will also naturally reach the Atlantic coast by the same aveuue. But the utility of the Pacific Railroad will be yet more strikingly and infuentially dis- played by the transportation which it wilt afford to the emigrants from China and from Europe, who ere to help our native population In enlivening the unoccupied tracts of terri- tory, and opening the incalculable sources of wealth and power within the wide expanse of our American empire, The reduction of rates on this railroad will hasten the fulfilment of the most sanguine prophecies of the future grandeur of the United States, Yur Larest Insanity Morven Casx—-That at Washington, t2 which by « jury of six whites and six blacks » negro woman has heen acquitted of the murder of her negro male “friend,” on the ground of insanity, and turned loose again. Quory—Ought not these insane murderers and murderesses to be out into an insane savin? ef the Powell Exploring Exvedle By advices direct from Professor Powell himself, to June 7 (in the shape of extracts from his journal), we are assured of the safety of his expedition through a number of the cafions, rapids and cascades of the Greon | river, the main stream of tho Colorado 4f the West, down to the head of the great Colorado cafioa (pronounced kan-yon), at which, with his company and boats in excellent condition, he was about to enter that terrible river chasm of some five hundred miles in length, between perpendicular walls of rock, ranging from two thousand to five thousand feet in height above the surging torrent, This fearful passage was never before al- tempted by civilized or savage explorers, 60 far-as known, except by three prospecting American miners, some two years ago, driven down into the cafion by hostile Indians. The three men descended from the tableland into a bend of the river, where, finding sufficient driftwood for the purpose, they constructed a raft, and, preferring the perils of the stream to the danger from the Indians, they boldly undertook the dreadful voyage, At the end of seven days one of the men (White by name), more dead than alive from the hard- ships and famine of his unparalleled adventure, was rescued from his raft at Fort Colville, the southern outlet of the great cafion, and restored to health and strength again. His companions had been washed off the raft and drowned at one of the cascades on the route. In White's account of the trip is all that we know of the mysteries of the great Colorado cafion; but having rua it on his frail raft, Professor Powell was seized with the idea that it could be traversed by a scientific expedition carefully equipped for the purpose, and thatthe exploration would result in some valuable vontributions to science and the settlement and development of the almost unknown regions bordering the deep down, dark and mysterious river. Hence the Powell exploring expedition under the auspices of the Chicago Geographical Society; and we confidently await the issue of the bold adven- ture as a great success. Doubtless this awful Colorado cafion is the most wonderful of the natural wonders of the world, hardly except- ing Mauna Loa, that monstrous lake of liquid fire, of the chief of the Sandwich Islands. Feulan Fands and Their Bad Luck. An interesting litigation has just taken place, It is the case of John O’Mahony, late Fenian Head Centre, vs. August Belmont & Co., for the sum of $16,738 70, deposited with de- fendants in 1865. Bills of exchange were at the time drawn out, made payable to John O'Leary, but from some accident or other the drafts fell into the hands of the British gov- ernment, and could not, of course, be honored, The case has just been brought before Judge McCunn, in the Superior Court, and he decided that pending litigation the sum in question should be paid over to the receiver appointed, Thomas J. Barr, which the defendants, after some needless delay, have done, the case being adjourned for further hearing till the 27th inst. Here we have the irrepressible Fenian, scarcely less prominent than the negro, putting in another appearance in court, at least, if not in the battle field. Many of our readers will remember how, when, years ago, the victory of Slievenammon, or Slievegammon, as it came to be designated after the next mail brought the fall truth about the matter, a patriotic fund, amounting to about fifty thousand dollars, for Treland’s liberation, was raised within a few hours, Archbishop Hughes contributing five hundred dollars ‘‘to the good old cause.” This was, it is true, no Fenian fund—for the Fenians had then no place in history, and since then they have occupied a very conspicuous one—but it was, at least, the fruitful parent of many a similar one to the same purpose and to a still greater amount. Thousands upon thousands of dol- jars have heen subscribed for Fenianism since then by every class of our Irish population— storekeepers, mechanics, farmers, laborers and secvant girls—these last being not the least generous, Bonds have been issued in the nameof the Irish republic, and actually sold in grest quantities, and costly chambers have been rented as official headquarters in Union square ; while as to manifestoes, Napo- leon’s famous one from the neighborhood of the Pyramids was scarcely more pompous or encouragiog than the most trivial of theirs; but still, we must confess that the crack of England’s doom has not yet sounded, and that the last important appearance of Fenian- ism was, as we have stated, in the peaceful chambers of our Superior Court. It is true also that we know 4 tree by its frufts, and, judged by this standard, we find the fruits of Fenianism to have been about half a dozen martyrs to Irish independence and about fifty State prisoners confined in English prisons, Of these men we do not for 2 moment wish to speak with disrespect ; they were brave, hon- est and patriotic. But are tose who con- tributed to the Fenian fund saiisfled that the same character belongs to the men who sent them? We know nothing of how the money has been spent; they who subscribed it know as little; we only know that many thousand dollars have been subscribed, aud we ask, Cui bono? Who, in Ireland, at any rate, has been the better of it? To Unies, “Raptoats AND > CoPPRRHRADS ON SurrraGe,—The ultra radicals go for the continued disfranchisement of Southern rebel whites, the copperheads for the continued dis- franchisement of Northern blacks, and radi- cals and copperheads are roundly rating each other for thetr inconsistencies on the suffrage question, It is the old story of the kettle call- ing the pot black. The women’s rights women cover the whole ground, They go for univer- sal suffrage, to men and women, white, red, yellow and black, and for eqial rights all round, and so they are far ahead of both our radical and copperhead half-way politicians, and ahead even of the Walker party of Vir- ginia, Gaeat GRaNprAToRR Grant.—A letter from the Quaker-Indian Superintendent, Sam- uel M. Janney, states that the Indians call the agent father, the Superintendent grandfather, and the President of the United States great grhndfather, Who do they call ‘Old Dad,” “Old Pop," “Old Granny," and 80 on? Per- haps, however, they include the entira Cabl- net, ee ee ae a a a ea a EE a Se ere a ee SERGE Pees) BSS ee oS se A ee ee aS SS News from the Far Enst. By stenmship at San Frandisco and thence by telegraph overland we have news reports from China and Japan, dated at Hong Kong and Hakodadi on the 19th and 30th of June, respectively. The publication of this intelli- | gence, of an important and variedly oa ing character, in our columns to-day, in conjunction with the announcement that the steamer landed twelve hundred and ba four passéngers on the shores of ‘Caligornta, affords additional and substantial evidence of the progress of that grand social and commer- cial revolution which is aggregating daily the trade ot the far East towards San Francisco and New York, as the New World emporiums for ils reception and distribution. The very thought of Europe, Asia and Africa will, and at no distant day, be reflected daily in our columns by means of the Snez Canal, tole~ graphs under oceans and geas, the Pacific Railroad and concomitant works of kindred magnitude. From Japan we hear of the wreck of the Jeff Davia war vessel, the Talla- hassee, near Yokohama, the disaster being attended with the loss of twenty-two lives—a fatal termination of the inglorious career of the ship. Civil war still prevailed in the empire, the city of Hakodadi having beom captured by the imperialists, For some un- explained reason the Mikado was about to retire from Jeddo so as to avoid a reception of the Duke of Edinburg—a movement which may be interpreted. as an insult to ‘‘her Ma- jesty’s peace, her crown and dignity.” France was active in her diplomacy. The American flag was well represented. Parliament was in ses- sion. The legislation was hostile to foreign inter- esta, and cousequently most injurious to native trade. From China wo are told that the great gates of Pekin were undergoing repairs—a fact which affords hope that even the city contractors of New York will yet become active, diligentand useful in the discharge of their municipal en- gagements, Another rebellion was in prog- pect, and the material progress of the Central Flowery Land was not by any means rapid. | If we can effectually impress the far Bast by steam and eleciricity, the railroad, the crow- bar, the pickaxe and shovel, the countries will shake off the infirmities of age and be regener- ated by liberation. It will come in due season. Deadheads on the Pacific Railroad. The Marysville (Cal.) Appeal states that all the dignitaries of Congress, Eastern railroads and newspapers are rushing over the inter- national railroad with chalked hats, and adda, “The tax is heavy, but the Pacific Railroad is a big thing on public land.” If there were less deadheads on this road the company might be inclined to reduce the rates for freight and ordinary passage, which are, at the present time, extortionately high. The same might be said of other roads where the deadhead system prevails, The practice of giving froe passes to newspaper men is especially wrong, for it is calculated to make the recipient unmindful of the imperfections of the management of roads, so far as publicity is concerned, and to give the public an improper impression in regard to the cause of accidents, the competency of employés, the condition of the tracks, bridges, &c., and - to throw over railroad slaughters a veil of palliation not warranted by the circumstances, The deadhead practice too frequently leads to deadhcads of a more melancholy character, and should be abolished on all railroad lines in the country. The Return of Southerners from Brazil. At the close of the rebellion a considerable number of Southerners, shrinking from the dreaded consequences of the triumph of the federal government, organized colonizing ex- peditions from Mobile, Charleston, Baltimore and New York—where they were joined by certain Northern emigrants—to Brazil, In the Brazilian empire the Southerners hoped to find in the existence of negro slavery a guarantee for something like the advantages which they used to claim in behalf of their own “‘peculiar institution” before it had been destroyed by the war. They had not the slightest idea that negro equality, as well as negro slavery, was possible in Brazil, Moreover, they had beon misled by glowing descriptions of the pro- digious fertility of Brazilian soil and the inex- haustible wealth of Brazilian diamonds, and they were not aware of what an ineffectual struggle had been maintained for centuries ‘by civilized man against the overpowering forces of nature in that strange land, The pitiful story of thelr disappointments was recounted in yesterday’s Heratp, which also announced the return of the survivors of these ill-fated expeditions to Brazil. The last of the home- sick American colonists arrived in New York on Sunday evening, on board the United States steam frigate Guerriere, from Rio Janeiro, The Northerners among them are satisfied that this is a better country for immi- gration than for emigration, and the South- erners are now ready to prefer their old homos, with all the drawbacks of negro emancipation and negro suffrage, to the state of society and to poverty and death in Brazil, notwithstand- ing its negro slavery (which cannot last for- ever), its surplus of vegetable and animal life and its flashing diamonds, They agree that, after all, the United States will do to live and die in. The most tempting offers on the part of the Emperor of Brazil will aot Tar Women’s Riauts Womgy.—The last weekly meeting of the Women’s Snifrage Asso- clation in this city (on Tuosday last) was a lively affair, the money question and the ques tion of.the ways and means for prosecuting the great work being on the carpet, Miss Susan B. Anthony, 96 usual, like Saul among the mighty men of Israel, towered hoad ond shoulders above the surrounding sisterhood, and she had a pleasing report to give of thelr Inte Convention at Saratoga. Springs, ‘The dies at this New York council, however, were all very chatty and full of fun, wit and humor and “great expectations.” They are going to raise lots of money and hold conventions every- where and bring all the men over to their side and revolutionize the olvilized world; for they fntend to have the ballot, beginning with Min- nesota, and then they will vote as they like and do generally what they please, and then we shall have the milleninum. Meantime, as thie woman's rights movement Is rathor up-hill work, small favors will be thankfully recoived and new converts to the party will be wratefully accented,