The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1869, Page 6

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ADVERTISEMENTS and Svnscnirtions and all jetters for the New Yora Herarp will be ieceived as above. TAB NEWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated July 23. ‘The address of M. Thiers, intended to be issued in the name of the electors of Frauce, has been rejected by the trreconcilables, who are much displeased that the Corps Légisiatif will not meet until Octo- ber, The Miisters are busily engaged drawing up the new laws to be submitted to the senate. Prince Napoleon will address the Senate on tae proposed reforms, The new President of the Council on bis installation deciared emplatically for Liberty of speech. The subject of the Irish Church bill was taken up in the House of Commons last night. Mr. Glad- stone moved that the amendments inserted the day previous be agreed to without exception or reserva- fuon, St Roundeli Palmer and Mr. Disraeli also Spoke, On the conclusion of the latrer’s speech the amendments were agreed to without a division. One of the clauses of the telegraph Dili now vefore the British Parliament binds the Post OMce Depart- ment to coliect and distribute messages by subma- Tine cables, The collery explosion at St, Helen’s ‘Was more serious than at drst reported. Over fifty- eight persons haye been killed. Recent storms in Ireland have interfered seriously with the working of the telegrapi wires, ‘The Spanish omcers lately arrested for politica of- fences have been exiled to the Canary lalauds. An- other serlous plot has been discovered and frus- trated. Genera! Sickies has arrived in Madrid. The Sultan of Turkey has refused to receive the Viceroy of Egypt. Indic. The Kirgheses have risen against the I The inhabitants of Turkistan are greatly distu tn consequence. Cuba, Advices received tn Washingtou from Cuban lead- ers state that on the iLsth General Qu as ate tacked, between Puerto Principe and N tas, by General Letona, who was repulsed with a fifty kilied and wounded. The attack was the next day with like resuit, the Spanish | over 100. A portion of Cenerai Jordan’s command, under General Figuerro, forty miles from Santiago Ge vuba, was attacked on the izth by 1,200 Span- fards, under Valmaseda, who were repulsed after three hours’ hard fighting. The foliowing day . another attack was made, and tue & rds again repulsed. in the two fights the Spanish ioss ta re- ported at 400, The Cubaus lost sixty-two killed and wounded, ‘ The arrival of the United States monitor Centaur : at Santiago de Cuba cicated a great sensation. Ad- miral Hoff examined into tue recent executions of Americans at thet place, and the explanations of the authorities proved satisfactory. A banquet was tendered the Admiral, but declined. Tho rnmored removal of Mir. Lemus, the Cuban 6 @nvoy, is pronounced untrue by the Cuban Junta in tbl Washington. Mr. Lemus is the only official agent tm this country of the Cuban government, having received his credentials frow Cespedes, the acknowl- edged head of the revolutionary movement. Parngany. A despatch from Buenos Ayres states that Lopez ‘Was surrounded in tue mountains, A brigade of Bra- gilians, 2,000 in number, in pursuit of Lopez encoun- tered the Paraguayan rear guard and were repulecd, The Paraguayans then crossed the upper Parava without molestation, The rebellion tu Uruguay con- tinued to make headway, aithough tie country adja- Gent to Montevideo continues tranquil, Colombian. Our advices from Panama are to-the 15th inst. The Fourth of July was celebrated at Panama and Aspinwall in # becoming manrer, free trains being Ton over the Panama Railroad, tothe great deight Of the citizens, The news from the interior of the Republic indicates trouble between the different po- Aitical parties. An election riot occurred at Santa Martha on the 13th ult., which ended in the kiiling via ‘of one person and wounding of two others. Tho steamer Kayo, formerly R. R. Cuyler, which was sunk at Carthagena, has been raised and repaired, Miscelinneous. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has determined to permit national banking associations to substitute for their fve-twenty securities on their circulation ten- forties at the rate of eighty-five per cent of thelr par value and other gold-bvaring six per cent securities at the rate of ninéty per cent. This exchange 1s sub- Ject to revision If it ovcurs so frequently as to become onerous to the Department. Since the departure of the President from Wash. Angton the auininution of oMce-seekers ja tual city w very observable, The beads of departments say that about ali the changes determined upon have already been made, and consequently it will be useless for place hunters to remain any longer at the capital. The Treasury Department will soon issue new United States notes of the denomination of one dollar, the’plates for which are now being engraved. Upon the new notes the bustiof Washington will be sub- stituted for the vignette of Chief Justice Chase, This ts in accordance with an act of Congress, which prohibits the likeness of any person now living from being on the face of the national cur- rency. Several supervisors of the internal revenue having Proved incompetent or dishonest, Commissioner Delano has determined to assume the responstbtlity of removing them during the recess of Congress, being satiafied that the intent of the law justifies ais action, Peter Riddick, colored, convicted of murder and highway robbery in Norfolk county, Va., suffered the extreme penalty of the law at Portsmouth yester- day. He refused to make a confession, although he intimated that he was cognizant of all the facts concerning the murder with which he was charged. William Edwards, oolored, convicted of killing another colored man, was executed in St. Louis Mo., yesterday. After the drop fell it was dla @overed that the rope was too long, tt allowing the toes of the culprit to touch the ground. The cou- tortions of the poor wretch were fearful in tne ex: treme, and # was not until he had struggled fear- fally thirteen minutes that ‘ife was pronounced ex- tinct. An international industrial exhibition will be held st Buffalo, commencing October 6 and continuing ali the montn. Buffalo, enjoying superior facilities of transportation, offers great advantages to contri- butora, and great results are anticipated from the exhibition, Ex-Governor Henry L. Crapo, of Michigan, died yesterday morning at bis residence, in Fiint, Mich. John Ramsden, s prominent citizen of Paterson, N.J., died yesterday of Asiatic cholera. Being an isolated case no spread of the disease ts appre- ended, One handred and twenty thousand dollars of the Rew ten and dfteen cent currency have already been issued. Canterbury Hall, erected as a theatre in Washing- ton city fifty years ago, was destroyed by fire yester- day morning. ‘The City. Upon the application of Willlam H. Balley, holder of several Fenian bonds, Judge McCunn yesterday issued an injunction restraining receiver Barr and August Belmont from paying over the Fenian funds in their hands to the claimant, O/Mahony;until hae the bonas have been redeemed. John Howard, implicated as an accomplice of “Reddy the Blacksmith,” and recently sentenced to the State Prison, yesterday received an uncondl- tional pardon from Governor Hoffman. Tha Cuban libusters, 124 in number, captured on Gardiner’s Is!and and confined in Fort Lafayette, Were discharged yesterday on parole not to violate the neutrality laws of the United States, Yesterday morning Elizabeth Trippes, a native of Switzerland, a domestic, employed at No. 137 Liberty Street, was found dead in her bed, having com- mitted sulcide by taking a quantity of Paris green. A construction train of the Sag Harbor branch of the Long Isiand Railroad ran off the track near Cedar creek yesterday, and was precipitated down an embankment, fatally mjuring two laborers and seriously injuring two others, Yesterday the Newark and New York Railroad waa opened to the pubile and fuily 20,000 persons were transported between Newark and Jersey City witnout the slightest accident. This 1s the most ex- pensive road in the country, beiug but little over six tailes long and costing over $2,000,000, The paince car “Wasatch,” the pioneer car through from Sacramento, Cal., without change, will arrive at the Hudson River Railroad depot this morning. Among the passengers are two French oficials, who will take the steamer for Havre this afternoon, and expect to make the journey from the Pacific coast to Paris tn seventeen days. On Thursday evening Augustus Zubelt, a passen- ger On one of the Staten Isiand boats, fell overboard and would undoubtedly have been drowned but for the bravery of William Hilton, a deck hand, who sprang into tha water and rescued Zubelt. ‘The stock market yesterday was strong but busl- ness dull, Gold fuctuated between 13534 and 12544 closing finally at 19594. The National line steamship France, Captain Grace, will leave pier 47, North river, at three P. M. to-aay for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown. The steamship Britannia, Captain Campbell, of the Anchoring, will sailat twelve M. to-day from pier No, 20 North river for Glasgow, touching at Londonderry, The steamship Paraguay, Captain Dixon, will not sai! for London before Tuesday next. The sidewheel steamship Manhattan, Captain Woodhuu, will leave pler No. 6 North river at three P. M, to-day for Charleston, 8. U. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General Moses, of South Carolina; Judge R. 8. Hale, of Elizabethtown; J. Marquis, of San Fran- cisco, and Alfred White, of Detroit, are at the Hor- man House. Captain B. Levy, of Mobile, Ala., and C, L. Piquott, of Detroit, are at the Fifth Avenue Hote). Colonei J. R. Reynolds,fof Mobile; Captain 0. S, Thotupson, of Albany, and Major Frank Elmer, of Syracuse, are at the St, Charles Hotel. General D. Wright, J. J, Bosietnand Colonel D. N, Welch, of New York, are stopping at tho Brevoort House, Depart oF ovr New Minister to Brazit.—Hon, Henry T. Blow, of Missouri, left this port yesterday in the eteamship Merrimac for Rio Janeiro. He will represent this government at the Court of Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil. Mr, Blow is a Western mai national instincts. We have no doubt he will represent our government and people at this imperial court upon a republican continent with an eye toward the progress of civilization snd American advantage. A man of opulence, he will be shove the small jobs that disgraced the action of his predecessor, A man of nerve ond sense, he will not be engaged in petty disputes like those that have heretofore stained onr {ntercourse with a friendly and neighboring nation. We expect much from Mr. Blow, Let us hear from him soon. wit Preparine ror THe BALL.—From the shop- ping excursion of General Grant and wife to this town on Thursday last it is inferred by the ladies that the President and lady intend to be particularly fine in the Long Branch ball on Monday evening. Itis said that the General {g not only getting accustomed to these bril- Nant assemblages of youth and beauty, but in learning to dance {s really beginning to like them, next to an afternoon’s drive behind a pair of two-forty nage on a plank road. But what do the Cuban prisoners in Fort Lafayette think of all this? We don’t know, and we suspect that General Grant does not care, Tar Mutrary Governor or Viraixta.— There appears to be no doubt that Gener Canby, by the process of the iron-clad is resolved upon weeding out the n Legislature 60 a8 to leave the rity with the ultra radicals, With the returu of General Grant to Washington we hope bis be called to the propriety of som structions to General Canby, jon will cial in- Monsy ANp Grory. —The | fight in Pennsyl- vania for Governor is between money and glory, Packer has the money, and Geary has the glory and the inside track; but, with the money on the side of Packer, it will be a hard Sight. i Napoleon—The Empire or Revolution. ism will sweep away imperialism, and with it | Opening ef the Newark and New York In the formation of the new Ministry in the dynasty of Napoleon. France we have another evidence of that pe- culiar Napoleonic shrewdness which seems to accord much while in reality it yields noth- ing, Clothed with all the semblance of good intention and a readiness to accede to the wishes of the people, the spirit of liberal con- cession which appeared to actuate his Majesty ia his address to the Assembly has certainly miscarried in the Ministerial changes which were to have proven so many steps towards “the crowning of the edifice.” The promise made the Corps Legislatif, to name two of their number in the new Cabinet, has been respected. But how? Instead of selecting from those recently elected members supposed to represent the liberal tendencies of the public mind, others are chosen for their un- questionable conservatism and well known devotion to imperialism. France has gained nothing; Napoleon has sacrificed nothing ; liberalism has made no progress; while Mons, Rouher, its most determined foe, is honored with the presidency of the Senate. The proposed reforms, for the considera- tion of which the Senate is to be convoked, will no doubt, if entertained at all, come out, under the manipulations of imperial- ism, embarrassed with such governmental restrictions as to render them powerless weapons in the hands of the opposition, The old Napoleonic theory, which hopes and promises to reconcile strong personal govern- ment with popular liberty, is still the ideal of the Emperor, and he cannot understand why the people, since France has prospered for seventeen years under his rule, should demand of him the surrender of those rights and pre- rogatives ‘“‘which are essential conditions of power as the safeguard of ordor and society.” In promising to give satisfaction to the liberal aspirations of the people he qualified that pro- mise by declaring his determination to stop at constitutional boundaries, which, according to his construction of the constitution, means nothing more than liberty under the empire. “You must choose between the empire and revolution—between nelther gystem indivi- duals can be set up,” said the Emperor to a number of deputies some days ago; and it really appears from present indications that, acting under this conviction and regardless of hopes inspired by his message, he is deter- rained to prevent the realization of concessions tending to encourage the friends of liberal government. The new Ministry gives no pro- mise of material reforms in the interest of the people, and whether accepted as ‘‘one of transition only,” to be succeeded by another at an early day, or as an indice of the policy of the Emperor, there is no reason to believe that the Cabinet will be less Napoleonic in ideas, and every reason to suppose that liberal France will gain nothing, short of successful revolution, under the régime of Napoleon. While it is true that liberal aspirations are more general, popular discontent more ex- pressed, and revolution more likely to follow resistance to the demands of the party of pro- gress than at any previous time in the history of the empire, a serious conflict cannot now be regarded. as imminent, even when the du- plicity of the Emperor is again discovered. France is not yet ripe for revolution in be- half of republican ideas and principles, though the period may be hastened when she will be- come so by the revelations of the near future, Napoleon thoroughly understands his people and has weighed well the chances alike in yielding and resisting. He may not-desire or intend a conflict, but that he will not shrink from it if necessary for the maintenance of imperial rule, is abundantly proved by his past career, In yielding to the pressure of radical reform he knows full well there is no stopping point at which the people would he satisfied short of the downfall of his empire. In seem- ing to yield on minor questions, it may be his purpose to throw the responsibility of revolu- tion, when it does come, on his opponents; while by resisting at the outset, sustained as he is by one-half the population and the army, he would undoubtedly triumph over his enemies, and, by a strong repressive govern- ment, might succeed in checking the republi- can tendencies of the nation during his lifetime at least. But just here comes the rub, It is quite probable that France will be gov- erned by Napoleon II, so long ag he lives, The close of bis career may be as tempestuous as the past seventeen years have been serene 3 but he Is too skilled a ruler for one to predict that he will not be able to master the elements of discord sufficiently to keep down disastrous revolution, For himself he is not over solici- tous, but for the perpetuation of his dynasty, the great object of his lifo, he must be anxious indeed in view of the present state of the country. He is now in his sixty-second year. In the course of human nature the time of his death cannot be far removed. His son is near fourteen years of age, and will be in a short time prepared to assume the reins of govern- ment, under proper supervision, of a people contented with the administration and willing to continue the dynasty. But will France endure imperialism under Napoleon IV. as she has under Napoleon III,? Will any course, whether of oppression or concillation of strong unyielding government or of kindly rule con- tent the people with empire when the present Emperor is no more? Will republican ideas have progressed so far that empire shall be incompatible with the wishes of the nation and inconsistent with the peace and order of government? These are the quostions that now interest Napoleon III, and will interest him in all his doings. Jt is not to be supposed that he will abandon the cherished dream of perpetuating bis dynasty, and liberalism must accept in this a determination to perpetuate imperialism. If the people become fully re- solved on liberal government no concessions or compromises will content them with empire, and revolution, as Napoleon has said, ts the only alternative. Be the consequences what they may, in empire lies the only hope of Napo- icon, and he will not sacrifice, unless in sheer ceapair, any essential prerogatives of power that would weaken his authority or tend in any way to jeopardize his goverament or the per- potuation of his dynasty, The issue is plainly empire or revolution empire at any and every cost, #0 far as Napo- Jeon is concerned—revolution if the people are determined on free government, There can be no intermediate point at which the hostile forces may meet and compromise, Imperial- ism must triumph over liberalism, or liberal- The Irish Church Disestablished. The disestablishment of the Irish branch of the English State Church fs complete. In the House of Commons yesterday evening Mr. Gladstone, in easy tone and language of min- isterial authority, classed it as the ‘‘disestab- lished Church,” closing his address as an apostolic leader of reform by the utterance of pious supplication to heaven, invoking for its members the blessing that the religious insti- tution may “thenceforth develop the qualities by which her great career will be marked out for her,” concluding with the expression of the hope that ‘God may speed her in her new career.” The Premier was evidently impressed with a sense of the gravity and responsibilities of the occasion, He uttered no words of party triumph, and, with his usual tact and natural graceful emphasis, was courteous in expression towards the members of the opposition, both in the Lords and Com- mons, Thegalleries of the House of Commons were crowded with spectators, by whom Mr. Gladstone was warmly received. After taking his seat he immodiately rose and moved that the House “agree to the amendments inserted on Thursday without exception or reservation.” Sir Roundell Palmer, Mr. Disraeli, with other vetesan tacticians, expressed their sense of relief at the issue, claiming the use of an apparently ungrudged episcopal anodyne in the words that ‘‘ compro- mise was not unconditional surrender.” It is not, The Irish Church {is now free. Had its founders approached Ireland in the same attitude in the days of Elizabeth—with an open Bible and without the sword—the condition of Europe would be to-day quite different, Great Britain would have been spared many humili- ations, and the United States of America boon wanting in hundreds of thousands of emigrants, for better or worse. It now only remains for Queen Victoria, the Head of the Church, to sign the new bill, The Tehuantepec Route. We call attention to the very. full and in- teresting exposition of the projected Tehuan- tepec Railroad, carriage road and telegraph route, and the accompanying map, published in another part of this paper. The first thought of commercial nations and their gov- ernments at the present day is how to shorten distance, and thereby to save time and cost, between the seas and continents of the globe. Never was the idea expressed by the sentence that ‘Time is money” realized so well as at present; and, then, the commercial nations, stimulated by the quickening influences of the telegraph and steam power locomotion, have entered npon an exciting rivalry to secure the advantages of trade in all parts of the world, Hence those great works, the Suez Canal and the Pacific Railroad, as well as the projected Tehuantepec transit, the talked-of Darien Canal and other great enterprises; and there is need for them all in this wonderful age of progress, The American people are familiar with this Tehuantepeo project, for it has been before the public many years, though delayed through the revolutions and changes in the government of Mexico and other causes, We publish, however, to-day a great deal of fresh and valuable information about it, The time seems to have come now when the work will be carried out, whatever changes may occur in Mexico hereafter. In fact, such important improvements, of an international and world- wide character, must no longer depend upon political changes, politicians or the war of factions in any particular locality. The con- struction of the Tehuantepec Railroad will be valuable to the commerce of all nations, but especially to that of the United States, as our great republican empire r¢ests on both the oceans which {tis intended to connect, while the whole of that part of Mexico, which is surprisingly rich {a soil and teeming with other natural resources, will be made to blossom as the rose. With the completion of this work thonsands of enterprising Americans would go there and build up a chain of settlements from the Gulf of Mexico to the Paciflc Ocean. The route has been thoroughly surveyed more than once, and there is no question of the prac- ticability of the work. Let the company go ahead, then, and in the course of a few years we shall have another important line of com- munication for commerce and the promotion of international intercourse and comity. The Missing Steamship United Kingdom, We have refrained from making any re- marks on this subject in the hope that the worst fears might prove to be ground- less, and that something might yet be heard of the missing vessel, her passengers and crew. It is now, however, so long since the 19th of April, when tho United Kingdom left this port, that, as we have heard nothing of her in tho interval, with the single exception that she was spoken on the 20th of April some one hundred and fifty miles from Sandy Hook, we begin to think that all hope must be aban- doned. The conclusion {s now irresistible that the ill-fated vessel, with her unfortunate pas- sengers and crew, has gone down, and that the hungry waves have closed over all the agony with which her last moments must have been connected, How the London went down some years ago we know; how the Hibernia, of this same Anchor line, went down last year we also know. In both those cases survivors re- mained to tell the sad story, In this last cage, however, it is only reasonable to conclude that every voice has been hushed in the silent depths ofthe great waters, Such disasters at sea must, we suppose, be looked for. Science has not yet rendered them impossible. Science, how- ever, has done so much that such disasters aro rendered greatly less excusable than in times that wehave known. Itissaid thatthe United Kingdom was not in a fit condition for the risks of a transatlantic trip. It is said that her condition had become so bad that she was taken off the line that runs from Glasgow to New York and put on the easter waters of the Mediterranean. For what reagon she was called upon again to make an Atlantic voyage we know not. It has reached our ears, how- ever, that the captain who had long had her in charge refused to make this last trip. If it be found that this vessel was really unfit for a transatlantic voyage, and that this was known to her owners, the loss of this ship must prove a serious injury indeed to the Mesars, Henderson, the proprietors of the Anchor lino, | Ballroad=New Jersey Looming Up: Under the undisputed sway of the Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Com- pany, New Jersey, notwithstanding all the traffic and travel that traversed it from Phila- delphia on one aide and New York on the other, lingered behind the times. It was, indeed, long counted out of the United States, But as the tyranny of an oppressive monopoly has been gradually weakened the State has ex- perienced relief and reaped advantage in a thousand different ways. New railroads have been opened to various points within the in- terior. The value of improved lands has been greatly enhanced. Increased attention has been given to draining and reclaiming the ex- tensive marshes, which are yet to become fresh sources of wealth. Improvements have been made in the system of agriculture and in garden products’and the smaller fruits, New Jersey now ranks as one of the first States in the Union, The mineral resources of the State have beon more fully developed than ever before, The zinc mines yield more then half the entire product of the United States, and more than all the mines of Great Britain. There are only two States which in the pro- duction of bar and rolled iron, and in the value of iron founding out-rank New Jersey. The product of its marls is immense, Its manu- factures, which in 1860 were already estimated at eighty-one millions of dollars, are rapidly increasing. It can now boast of nearly thirty railroad companies, which have materially alded in promoting its prosperity. Along the new railroads towns and villages have sprung up with something like Western magico. And the Newark and New York Railroad which was opened yesterday and will begin to be regularly run on Monday next, with rates of fare re- duced to fifteen cents, will now give another lift to the rising fortunes of New Jersey. New Jersey is fairly looming up, and her invitation to the citizens of New York to seek, according to the length of their purse, elther cheap or elegant homes within her borders, is very tempting, It will be well for the landowners in West- chester eounty and its adjacent counties, as well as on Long Island, and for our State Legislature to see the drift of New Jersey en- terprise, which is thus diverting the strength of our city population from its more natural and conventent outlets to desirable rural homes within our own State. We have had talk enough about slow coach companies for making underground railways and elevated railways and the like, It is surely High time for less talk and for more prompt and vigorous aotion, If this criminal negligence of New York land- owners and legislators continues the migration of taxpaying citizens of our metropolis-to New Jersey will soon assume alarming proportions. Jersey City will be made a port of entry and rob New York of half its commerce before we awake from our Rip Van Winkle slumbers. The Pardon of John Howard. This man was jointly indicted with Willlam Varley, alias ‘‘Reddy the Blacksmith,” and Thomas Brennan for robbery in the first degree, alleged to have been perpetrated in the drinking saloon of said Varley, at No. 7 Chatham square, Brennan, tried and con- victed, a clear case, was ‘“‘sent up” by Judge Bedford for fifteen years. Reddy no doubt escaped a heavy penalty by forfeiting his bail bonds in running off; but justice is after him, and he may yet be caught, Howard, mixed in the mélée which resulted in the robbery, was tried and convicted, but recommended to mercy on account of the pecullar circumstances of hia case. Upon this recommendation to mercy Judge Bedford applied to Governor Hoffman for the pardon of Howard, and, having secured {t, the man is free again; whereupon we have a cry of virtuous Indigna- tion from some of our contemporaries as to the control of our courts of justice by the ruling political rings of roughs, &c. But the oase of Howard, from the facts presented, fairly required his pardon. From these facts it appears that he was an honest sailor, known soto be in Boston, but a comparative stranger in this city ; that on a land cruise on the even- Ing of the robbery in question he happened to drop In at Reddy the Blacksmith’s, and, seeing a fight going @, saflorlike, he “‘pitched In,” and that, being caught in the bad company of the two robbers of the man assailed and robbed, Howard was bundled off with them to prison and to trial, After a careful research into the facts of the case and the history of this prisoner Judge Bedford thought it his duty to apply for a pardon, Howard, among other testimonlals in his favor, having been endorsed by the Mayor of Boston as ‘‘an honorable, well-meaning young man.” Judge Bedford has, then, been fairly serving the ends of justice in applying for this pardon, and Governor Hoffman has ‘been doing nothing more than justico in granting the pardon; for it is among the highest duties of the judge, jury and pardoning power to see to it that the innocent shall not be made the scapegoat of the guilty, Sambo Versas John ChinamanThe Calle fornin Ropublicans. The homely old adage that ‘Chickens come home to roost,” when applied to those who meet with punishment or embarrassment as the consequence of their own acts, is verified in the case of the nigger-worshipping radicals of California, They have gone with their party for negro suffrage, for elevating the Southern negroes over the white people and for the constitutional amondmont putting all colors and races of men on an equality, and now they are alarmed at the consequences of thelr ultva-radicalism, They are likely to have ag large a dose of the Chinese as they have forced the Southern whites to swallow of the negro. They are sick at stomach in advance and in contemplation of the future. The Republican State Convention of Californta In its platform of resolutions emphatically “opposes Chinese suffrage in any form.” Like the radicals of other States of the North they magnanimously give the suffrage to the ignorant and brutal nogro—to the lowest race of mankind—because they have scarcely any negroes among them; but it is quite another thing when the Chinese are ha question, How itogical and inconsistent are these republicans! Every one acquainted with history, as well as every phy- siologist, knows that the Chinese are a far superior and more intellectnal race than the nogroea =‘They were a civilized people when many things we may yet learn from them. In some arts they are yét superior; in agriculture — they have attained a high point of excellence, and in the social or domestic virtues they will compare with the most civilized people, and they have maintained an organized govern- ment and system of society from the earliest times to the present day, while the negroes have never emerged from barbarism, except where some degree of civilization has been forced upon them by the white man. We tell these California republicans they must be logical in this matter. They cannot escape’ from the consequences of their own acts and the acts of their party. If the suffrage is not to be held exclusively by the white race of European stock, and if the negroes are to be puton an equality with our own intellectual race the Chinese cannot be excluded, If we are to try the experiment of a mongrel repub- lican empire that race which stands next to the Caucasian cannot be placed beneath the negro, the lowest of all. Many of our radicals may yet live to be seriously troubled by the political and social monster they have raised, The French Telegraph Cable. The expedition charged with the work: of submerging the French cable and subse- quently connecting the shores of the United States and France arrived at Duxbury, Mass., yesterday, The shore end of the line was laid in order, and one other of the great works of the age consummated. The wire is work- ing splendidly, Boston is already awake. Her citizens and municipality have decided te enjoy a grand cable celebration after the fashion, near as they can, of the magnificent display made by New York over the Atlantic cable at Newfoundland. Two British steamers were standing in with the shore end at snn- rise, and were expected to make their destina- tion yesterday forenoon. The terminus of the line from Saint Pierre fs fixed at Rouse’s Hummock, near the Gurnet Light, at the entrance of Plymouth harbor. Duxbury is quite animated. Telegraph men are conatruct- {ng two land routes of wire, one from Dux- bury to Boston, and a second, by the French cable company, along the Old Colony and South Shore Railroad. As a solid assurance of the effect of the enterprise we are told that the value of real estate in Duxbury has ad- vanced one hundred per cent in thirty days, “From the depths of the ocean” and so forth. Music and the Drama=—Prospects of the Fall Season. The only two ‘legitimate theatres” in town— Booth’s and Wallack’s—are understood to have already mapped out their programmes for the ensuing season, At Booth’s Jefferson’s en- gagement will be followed by that of Miss Bateman, who has achieved during the past yoar such signal success in Great Britain, and who will be heartily welcomed on her return to New York. Mr. Wallack has made ample arrangements in London, by purchasing new plays and engaging new artists, to maintain the well-merited reputation of his popular theatre, As for the other theatres, which have so long sacrificed all higher objects to creating transitory excitement by every possi- ble appeal to public caprice, running into the ground all the dubions attractions of the Black Crook drama and figs antetypes—these mana- gers appear to be, for the most part, alto-~ gether at sea in reference to their future plans, Theiy leg-and-blonde experiments, like tha French opéra boujfe, have manifestly and fortunately failed to secure a permanent hold upon the interest of the public. “It doth not yet appear” what will be the result of Daly's transfer of the sensational drama from apaciougs Niblo’s to the pretty little bandbox called the Fifth Avenue theatre, It is difficult to pre- dict, at present, precisely what dramatic on- tertainments will be provided for New York theatre-goers next fall, Meanwhile the musical prospects of the en- suing season are comparatively brighter and more distinct, It is probable, indeed, that all that has hitherto been promised in the way of Italian opera will prove to be “humbug.” We cannot assure our readers that anything serious will be attempted in this directiop after the blighting influence of years of mismanagement, But Mme, Parepa-Rosa and Miss Richings will certajnly supply us with English opera to our heart’s content. A somewhat mythical Frenchman, with an equally mythical com- pany, has positively engaged the Academy of Music for a series of French operatic repre- sentations. Oratorio is to be revived on an unprecedented geale, The centenary celebras tion of Becthoven’s birthday will be duly ob- served by the Phillarmonic Society, Harvey Dodworth is organizing grand concerts for the winter. Theodore Thomas, who has so per- sistently struggled and so triumphantly con- quered In his efforts to form and elevate the musical taste of our community, will continue his Central Park Garden Concerts until the revival of his symphony soiréos, The latter will doubtless prove as successful as the former. On the whole, a more enjoyable musical season than has been anticipated ts ia store for New Yorkers on their return int he fall from Long Branch, Newport, Saratoga and other fashionable summer resorts, AxoTueR DkFALOATION—The aixty-three thousand dollars deficit of the Security Insurance Company. What's in a name? Socurity—-pooh! A defalcation by any other name would smell as sweet. A Wor.p’s Fair 1s Wasnineron.—Such a thing is proposed for the year 1870. Why not make it 1878, and have the inauguration {n March, with that of our next President? 1870 is too soon afier the grand Paris Exposition for an attempt at such an enterprise In Wash- ington, and Washington is a poor place for it, any how, its only advantages being the public buildings and the models of inventions in the Patent Office. New York is the only place om this Continent for a World's Fair. WAVAL INTELLISENGE, Midshipmen F, J. Drake, J. B. House, A, H. Par sons and William ©, Strong are ordered to Washing ton on tne 6th of August for examination for pro- motion, AOCIDENT OW THE LOKG ISLAND RAILROAD, Aboft twelve o'clock on Thursdayfiwo men named Patrick Grogan and Willtam Shields, workmen on the Long Island Rauroad, whte jumptag from a gravel train at Sag Harbor were run over and 6a verely injured. They were found at Hunter's Point ye wborday evening by oflver O'Connell, of the Tweu- Be -tivat precinct, who took thoi vo Bellevae Loe piak