The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1869, Page 4

sy 4 NEW YORK HE ERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ~ Volame XXXIV. SS 5 aseaunmapilan THIS EVE: VERLEY THEATRE, No. 720, Brondway.~Moon CHARM—TWENTY MINUTES With 4 TIGER BOOTH'S THEATRE, Wat., between Sth ant sth ave— Bwocu Agpxn. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broatway ant il sireet.— Tax LONG Sraike. BOWERY THEATRE, on vas Warn. Bowery.-—-PutsaM—WttTing GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighib afenue and MEd stroel.—SATAN UN PARIS, Novurne— NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broaaway.—Goon Ixton. THEATRE COMI UE, S14 Broadway.—Roagy O'Mone; on, GLEN OF TLE OLLY. i rina OLYMPIC THPNTRE, Broaaway.—Miovoay Diccory 00K, 9D'S MUSSUM AND TH \dway.—Afieraoon and e} CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, ia av., between $&h and CERT. Goth ete,—PoruLan GarbEN HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—-Hoouny's MINSTRELS—Tur RED GNoxr, dc, NEW YORK ris SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broziway.— SOIRNOE AND Al LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 * Broadway.—FEMALEa ONLY LN ATTENDANCE, New York, Thursday, July 29, 2 SS EE it eae 1862. THE NEWS. Europe. ‘The cabie telegrams are dated July 28. Mr. Gladstone’s health is improving. Ike Har- vard crew are practising every day. Agrarian out- rages in Ireland were the subject of inquiry in the House of Commons yesterday. ‘The bill for the abo- ition of capital punishment failed to gain a second Treading. The Sussex reces commenced yesterday. Numerous arrests of Carlists have been made by the Spanish government. It is rumored that Don Carlos has ordered a cessation of the movement in his favor. The Humboldt centennial anniversary served yesterday with great ceremonies in The Presse criticises Baron von Beust's la and says that Pruss true and solid friendship with Austria. The new Au rea upon the duties of hy Arrangements have beeu made to gr leave of absence to French soldiers whose f will soon expire. Japan. The finances of the empire are tu g ized siate. disorgan- Paragaay. Three members of new the provision«l govern- ment have been elected by popular voie. Cuba. Communication between Nuevitas aud Puerto Principe has been cut off, and the Spanish troops tu the two cities are closely besieged and are suffering from disease and want. A number of prominent government officials are held by Quesada as hostages for the proper treatment of Cavans who may be- come prisoners to the Spanish. Important engage- ments have taken place near Remedios and Sagua Ja Grande, in which the Spaniards were defeated, Miscellaneous. President Grant and Secretary Fish ieft Long Branch for Washington yesterday by special train to attend a Cabinet meeting. The President will return on Saturday, and wil! probably attend the Saratoga races next week. The radical Mississippi delegation is reported to have had an interview recently with the President on the Mississipp! question, and to have told him that Judge Dent, his brother-in-law, was a tool of the old rebels, and had received sums of money in times past to influence votes in Congress. The President listened attentively, and agreed, if they could prove their assertions, to do his part towards giving the administration's support to the other candidate. The delegation are now suppir meget Thier car burning disaster 1s is” reported. A Orleans train ran through a trestle near Ciurksyille, Tenn., yesterday, and was smashed up and burned. Three persons were killed, aud twenty-seven or twenty-cight wounded, some of them seriously. oa nt mentee Movements of the Doaeernay—te Third Party and che" A The movements of. the “Gomoeraee, North and South, show that tie one oiling element 1 Of #6 old party are all at sea, and that, Ailce Webster's mariner, they are awaiting the lift- ing of the fog and the reappearance of the sun in order to take their bearings and to shape their course, In their Tammany National Convention of last year the party was made to proclaim all the reconstruction doings of Congress ‘‘uncon- stitutional, revolutionary, null and void,” and that greenbacks, tho currency of the country, Are good enough for the “bloated bondhold- ers” in the redemption of the public debt. These were the great issues upon which Seymour and Blair were put in the field against Grant and Colfax. Seymour wished and did his best to make the fight upon the money question; but Wade Hampton, in the Convention, with the potential and trenchant letter of Goneral Blair against the reconstruc- tion acts of Congress, gave the cue to the republicans. They took it up and compelled the democrats to fight over again their dis- astrons baitles of 1864 and 1866, on the issues of the war and with the same general results. The Tammany Convention, moreover, was em- boldened to this step frora the apparent popu- lar reaction against the radicals in 1867, from Connecticut to California, Upon this broad and revolutionary issue the democracy under Seymour and Blair were de- cisively defeated, and the reconstruction policy of Congress was reaflirmed by the people and practically settled. At the same time a new issue was raised in another step forward by the republicans on the negro question—in the proposition of the fifteenth amendment, providing for impartial suffrage to male cili- zens of all colors throughout the United States, with the power to Congress to enforce it. Under the endorsoment of General Grant this amendment has so far been ratified by some twenty-three States, aud having been made a condilion precedent to the restora- tion of Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, but little doubt is entertained that, with several other favoring States, the necessary twenty- eight for the constitutional rati ion will be soon after the return of Congress in December. It is upon this fifteenth amendment, how- | ever, that we have not only a split ia the re- publican camp, but a complete separation of the Southern from the Northern democracy. ne, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California and ewhere the Northern democracy reaflirm their fixed hostiliily to negro suffrage, and in- cidentally to the fifteenth amendment, even if adopted, and they have nowhere committed themselves to anything like » recog- nition of the fourteenth amendment, touch- ing ciyil rights, the national debt, the rebel debt, &c., mor of the thirteenth, abolishing pre Covhran6; {a his recent addross to the Grand Jury of Westchester county, took occa- sion to allude to the frequent escape of pri- soners from Sing Sing Prison, and pade a few forcible and apposite remarks on that subject. He complained, and with reason, that the safe custody of oriminals there is by no means practically guaranteed, since we find that within the last few months a very large num- ber of such criminals has effected an escape, many of them atill remaining at large, and he impressed upon the Grand Jury the neces- sity of their making all the inquiry within their power as to the cause of this as well as to the circumstances attending the recent strikes and mutinies within that prison. Now, all this is substantially what we have often ex- pressed a wish to see done, and what we trust will yot be done in one way or another. The Heraxp has more than once called for an in- vestigation on this whole subject of prison management, or rather mismanagement, sug- gesting, however, that the Governor himself should make it and afterwards embody the re- sult in a report to be laid before the next Logislature. We have seen nothing as yet to make us alter our view a8 to the expediency of this suggestion. In all questions of this nature it must be borne in mind that it is extremely difficult without thorough investigation to arrive at the real truth, buried as it is under a mass of con- tradictory statements. The officials of the prison, for instance, lay the blame of the escape of the prisouers upon the want of a sufficient number of guards to prevent this happening occasionally; and as to the mu- tinies, they allege that a lax state of discipline had been suffered to grow up under the former administration, which, when they attempted to reform, the convicts broke out into revolt, hoping thereby to compel them to relax their efforts at improvement. Now, all this may or may not be the case, but it is only fair to state that other and different reasons have been assigned, some of them—as Judge Cochrane admits—‘‘reflecting injuriously upon the offi- cers of the prison.” While, therefore, nothing definite has as yet been ascertained on this subject, sufficient ground has at least been broken, and doubts enough raised to justify an immediate and thorough investigation. And while on this subject of prison discipline we should not forget that Sing Sing is by no means the only prison where reform seems necessary. We would instance as a case in point the Auburn Prison, where frauds have been perpetrated through the prisoners being in colleague with outside speculators. Surely such a state of things is disgraceful. All this subject, indeed, of prison discipline and man- agement seems to need a thorough overhaul- ing. As far as society is concerned the worst slavery. In fact, from all the evidence on the subject the Northern democracy hold fast to the doctrine that all these amendments are excrescences upon the constitution, of no bind- ing effect. But the Southern democracy are on the opposite tack, and they have disappeared, for the preseut, at least, as a wing of the democratic party. Virginia will serve to show their position. In that State last spring, in the outset, the democrats adopted the po- licy of masterly inactivity. They would have nothing to do with elections in which their for- mer slaves were admitted to vote while their masters were excluded form tho pallana rabols and traitors. But still two parties came into the contest—tho proscriptivs radical, nndo= wus, aud we liberal republicans, under Walker. As the campaign weat on the demo- crats discovered that by fusing with the Walker party they could carry the State, and acting upon this idea the State has been car- The army officers are exercised over the idea that those left out by the reorganization will be dis- charged from the service by the next Congress. The House Committee on Naval Affairs, in imita- tation of their perambulatory coadjutors, propose to travel along the lakes on legislative business, ‘The slieriffs wounded in the East Greenbush anti- rent riot are still alive, but one of them ts in a criti- cal condition. Ex-Seoretary Seward has received a checring wel- come at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, where he ar- rived on the 20.h, ‘The laws against the coolie trade have been totally Gisregarded in San Francisco. Itis proposed now to organize a company to enforce the law. Representatives of the Chinese corr tes in San Francisco intend visiting Chicago, New York and the South soon. ° The City. The Board of Health decided yeste the Ist of October no bone-boiliug, si urning or rendering establishments shail be tolerated in the city below 110th street or in the bui't-up portions of Brooklyn. Lady Thorn and Goldsmith Maid trotted for $2,000 on the Union course yester horn won in three straight heats in 2: Lg—the fast- est aggreute time ever made in this State, ‘The taliora of the city have demanded an increase of from twenty-five to thirty por cent upon their wages, and threaten to strike, ‘The testumony on both sides tn the trial of police- man Campbell for the murder of Maurice Long was closed yesterday, Tbe summing up will commence to-day. The North German Lloyd's steamship Rhein, Cap- tain Meyer, will leave Hoboken at two o'clock P. M. to-day for Bremen, via Southampton. The malls will close at the Post Office at twelve o'clock M. The steamship City of Mexico, Captain Deaken, will leave pier 17 East river at twelve o'clock M. to-day for Sisal and Vera Cruz. ‘The steamship Columbia, Captain Van Sice, will gail at three o'clock P. M. to-day, from pier No. 4 North river, for Havana. The stock market yesterday was [everisn, excited and declined. Gold fell to 135%. Prominent Arrivals tu the City. Baron Krause, of Washington, and Judge Field, of California, are at the Brovoort House. Count M. Esterhazey, of the Auatrian Legation at Washington, is at the Clarendon Hotel, Judge J. H. Goss, of Florida, and J, ©. L. Wade worth, of San Francisco, are at the Puli Avenue Hotel. Senator T. F. Bayard, of Delaware; ex-Mayor Homer Ramsdell, of Newburg; Captain Hockiey, of the sveamstip China, and T. Berenger, French Con- sul, Sandwich Islands, are at the New York Hotel. Count Nicolas Hagas, of Havana; Genera: George White, of Lexington, Ky., and Professor &. H. Bald. win, of England, are at the St. Charles Hotcl, Colonet A. Klein, of Amstera Judge C. Peck, of North Carolina; Judge G. H. Palmer, of Masea- onusetta; Colonel A. D. Bradiey, Dr. Potter and Rev. Dr. H. Payne, of Washington; Colonel &. Gebnart, of New York; Colonel McGrotty, of Mexico; Judge Hi. Ricard, of Indtana, and Judge Clark, of Wiscon- ein, aré at the Metropolitan Hotel. W. A. KR. Carrington, of England; Professor Ro- bert von Schlagintwelt, of Germany, and Colonel E. Houstown, of Fiorida, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Prominent Departures. Colonel R. McMichael, for Saratoga; Colonel &. R. Btovens, for Washington; Captain 1. Palmer, for Boston; Dr. F, D, Hughes, for 2!%& Sing, and Colonel Vath bos Saratoga, ay that after tied by the Walker republicans, and thus the Virginia democracy are merged in this new organization. The Southern democracy have become a new party, with the liberal republicans, on the compromise of conceding negro political equality, with negro civil rights and negro suffrage, for the equivalent of the removal of all rebel political disabilities. We say the Southern democracy, for in Tennessee, Missis- sippi and Texas they they are going as they have gone In Virginia, and doubtless the same example will be followed by them in all the other Southern States, But where is this new Southern party to go? Its destiny is not yet fixed, It is believed to have the sympathies of General Grant; we know that Senator Wilson and other practical republicans are warmly in favor of its admission into the orthodox church; but we know, too, that this proposition is stoutly resisted by a powerful body of radical leaders, headed by Secretary Boutwell; and itis by no means improbable that, with the reassembling of Congress, this difficulty will split up the republican party in the Cabinet, in Congress and throughout the country. Most of the Northern radicals be- lieve this Virginia Walker party a Trojan horse, and that the conversion of the old Vir- ginia nullifiers, of the school of Hunter, is too sudden and too overwhelming to be sincere, Meantime the Northern democracy give to this new, bold and startling movement of the Southern democracy the cut direct. They do not understand it, and they cannot endorse it. The surrender to Sambo required is too much ; for in New York, for instance, Tammany, in adopting the Virginia Walker platform, would demoralize and break up the party, The whole cage, then, may thus be summed op, The Southern democracy, having failed to se- cure any profits from the promises of their Norihern brethren, have cut loose from them, and are seeking the support of General Grant in a new departure. The Northern radicals distrust them and intend to swamp them, while the Northern democrats flatly reject them. Here, then, we havea third party in the fleld, made up of the best Southern ele- ments of the other two parties. And so fair, liberal and popular is the platform of this third party that the support of the administration will speedily make it with General Grant mas- ter of the succession, while even neutrality to- wards it on the part of the administration pro- mises nothing better than a confused scrub race of parties, sections and factions in 1872, and, meanwhile, a new reign of disorder in the South, Tar Latest Discovert oF JeNKixs Con- ORRNING GENERAL GRaNt—That the General prefers brown sugar {n his coffee, army fash- ion, and has a great partiality for scrambled ed circumstance connected with this escape of prisoners from Sing Sing is that the escaped criminals for the most part belong to the most desperate class—men doubly outlaws, with the ability to plan and the wickcdness to per- petrate almost any atrocity. The Carlists in Spain. The latest telegrams from Spain, by way of Paris, announce that Don Carlos has ordered a cessation of the insurrectionary movement in his behalf, causing thereby a feeling of dis- couragement among his partisans. The coun- try remains excited and disturbed, although very many of the more active particir==te in the recent ‘‘risings” are suing for pardon. Ashe: swivel tight cccurred at La Mancha on Tuesday. Many Carlists have been ar- rested, while many others have fled to the mountains afier being defeated in the field. It does not appear, after all, as if the Carlisis, backed up as they are by the Church party, are likely to win any great successes in Spaiu. The attempts which they have made have been feeble, and the spirit of the progressive party in Spain is unmistakably against them. It is now many years since Espartero helped to put down the Carlist rebellion which broke out on the occasion of the accession of Queen Isa- bella in 1833. The old veteran still loves his country more than his life, and although he no longer fights for the daughter of Ferdinand VII. he is willing yet, so says the Atlantic cable, to unsheathe his sword against his ancient enemies. LEspartero’s sympathy with the party now in power makes a Carlist suc- cess impossible, although such disturbances produce very demoralizing consequences at the moment. GENERAL Grawt’ 8 Cart TO > Wasniarox— Wuat For?—On Tuesday Mr. Fish, Secre- tary of State, from Washington, post haste, went down to Long Branch to see General Grant. Yesterday President and Premier left for Washington to attend a special Cabinet council. What about? On the Cuban ques- tion, we suppose; and perhaps it is on some important news from Madrid, looking to a definite settlement of this difficulty on the basis of the purchase of the island by the Cubans themselves, through the mediation of the United States. We are not aware of any- thing else that could draw General Grant from the beauties and the cool sea breezes of the “Branch,” in all its summer glory, to the heat and dust of Washington, except some important international proposition in reference to Cuba, for the Alabama claims for the pre- sent are laid on the ehelf. Hayti and Dominica will keep, and Mexico will hardly be broached till the meeting of Congress, Toe Frexon Castt.—Tae Duxaury Sregzongrs.—At the French cable celebration in Duxbury on Tuesday the regular tonste were responded to by Mr. Thomas, a native of the town; Mr. George O. Brastow, Mr. Thomas Russell, Mayor Shurtleff, of Boston ; Mr. Day, of New York; Sir James Anderson, Mr. E. 8. Tobey, Dr. George B, Loring and Mr. ©. L, Woodbury. The speeches of these gentlemen were all superior to those which are usual on similar occasions, and the speech of Sir James Anderson particularly merited the applause bestowed upon it. Lord Sackville Cecil responded to a toast to the Indies, The American speakers at the celebration said enough, but not too much, about Pilgrim memories and the grave of Webster, “the great American,” alluded to the traditional sympathies of France and the United States and paid ample tribute to the electric telegraph asthe most potent and cunning ally of com- meroe, “in all ages the pionser of « wider olrilisetion,” Austria. Baron Von Beust has received the Budget Committee of the Hungarian delegation and made a speech which is richly suggestive. The relations of Austria with France had, he said, been on the best possible footing since Austria relinquished the Italian territories, and the interests and> intentions of the two countries were identical, With regard to Turkey, Von Beust said be no longor felt disposed io insist on the programme of 1867. It was his opinion that the Porte, while it might be advised, should not be forced in the matter of conces- sions to the Christians. The relations with Prussia be did not say were bad, but it was unequivocally stated that his efforts to estab- lish friendly relations with that Power had been unsuccessful. All this, taken in connec- tion with the triple alliance which we an- nounced yesterday, points to possible com- plications which, at no distant day, may imperil the peace of Europe. Von Boust did not say anything about the relations of Austria with Lialy, but it is not unreasonable to con- clude that if matters are ali right with France they are all right with Italy. A triple alliance with 'rance has 30 often been spoken of lately that we begin to think it may not be without some foundation in fact, We do not think it means war; but we do think that the allies of France are so numerous and so power- ful that it will be the last thing Bismarck will do to force on a war with France. It is clear as noonday that if a war were now to break out between France and Prussia the combat- ants would not be hindered in the initial stages of the struggle. Prussia, we know, brought the Italian war to a close after the battle of Villafranca, 1860. France had her revenge when, in 1864, she compelled Prussia to stop short in her victorious career, or, as Napoleon himself put it, arrested the conqueror at the gates of Vienna. Is it not so that the op- portunity of Austria approaches and that in the next war it may be her turn to fling the sword of Brennas into the scale? The circle will then be complete. Meanwhile we do not think that war is so imminent as the complica- tions are interesting. Tho Vreeland Case and the Borivaed ralg Coxe. These two cases have this in common, that neither of the defendants can be mistaken for the original of a ‘‘Romance of a Poor Young Man.” On the contrary, one of them numbers more than eighty years; fifty years, at least, have elapsed since the other was legally an infant, and both are millionaires. As for Sprague, there is life in the old man yet; for, although the round sum of one hundred thou- sand dollars which he was condemned to pay Miss Craig was reduced to forty thousand, he seems no less determined to resist to the last the adverse decision of the courts than persist, despite all English dictionaries and spelling books, in writing the name of the second per- son in the Trinity with a little g. The Jer- seyman is equally obstinate in opposing the claims of Mrs. Vreeland to be his lawfully wedded wife; but either he or some injudicious agent seems to have been tempted to out- Sprague Sprague, whose apparently outrageous charges against Miss Craig have provoked so much unfavorable comment on the part of the press, and, if Delia Gill’s sworn affidavit be truthful, to resort to the most extraordinary, if not successful, means for getting rid of an nonest. aud Iconventenu wuuess, “Lhe details of the abduction and constraint to which this witness is alleged to have been subjected were duly recorded in yesterday’s Hzra.p. It will remain for Judge Cardozo, before whom the Vreeland abandonment case will come up on Monday next, to decide what bearing the story of Delia Gill may have on the facts in relation to the disputed marriage. Both the Vreeland case and the Sprague-Craig case promise to afford the lovers of gossip with abundant tea-table chat and the lawyers with a rich harvest of fees, No doubt Mrs. Vreeland and her pretty daughters, as well as Miss Craig, might spend more agreeably and profitably the money which the venerable defendants are bent on wasting upon the lawyers. Loss of Life on the Rail. We publish to-day the particulars of an acci- dent which occurred on the Memphis and Louisville Railroad yesterday. It was at- tended with frightful and fatal consequences, besides the wounding and maiming of a num- ber of persons and the present disappearance of one hundred thousand dollars in specie. A train from New Orleans ran through a bridge trestle work a short distance below Clarks- ville and was precipitated into Buck’s creek; four persons being instantly killed, and quite a number of others more or less injured. The cars took fire, and the entire train, with the greater portion of its contents, was consumed, one sleeping car only remaining, and that ina very damaged condition. The safe containing the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, which was on the train at the time of the dis- aster, could not be found at the date of our telegrams from the scene, Such fatalities are very mournful. Can they be reduced in num- ber or abated in their fearful consequences by extra care and caution? Perhaps the carry- ing of money safes and large amounts of specie by railroad tempts the oupidity of accident operators, The robbers who worked on the Ocean Bank would do anything in that line. Parson BrowNLow ON THE SITUATION IN TeNxxssze.—Parson Brownlow, supposed to be the most implacable of Southern radicals, has become a liberal, in favor of the removal of rebel disabilities. In a scorching letter against the radical Stokes party he says that “the Senter, men (liberal republicans) have sent no emissaries to Washington ;” that they “are willing to trust the administration without such missionary labor,” and that ‘President Grant will be entirely. satisfled with Senter’s success, and will find in Senter and his frionds honest and earnest supporters of his adminis- tration,” and that the Parson has no thought of selling out to the rebels ‘or of forming an alliance offensive and defensive with Andrew Johnson.” And yet the support of Senter by Andrew Johason has apparently given Stokes the inside track at Washington—a circumstance which makes the upshot of this republican feud in Tennessee exceedingly smoky, although It is generally understood that Stokes Wil! yo slguplly defeated. UESDAY, JULY 29, 1869. { Qoobrane’s | V2 Beust aud the Forcign Relations of Seuthore Delegations. We can readily conceive how mortifying to an unprejudiced Amorioan oltizen must be the perusal of such despatches as those we have recently been recelying from Washington. Politicians no longer depend upon the will of the people for election, They visit the White House gr journey to Long Branob %%r the purpose of obtaining from the President an assurance that their elevation to, power and office in their respective States will be accept- able tohim. In former times candidates cared but little whether the Chief Magistrate looked with favor upon their aspirations or not, except so far as he might lend them the aid ot such official patronage as was at his com- mand. Now the people are of minor conside- ration, Mr. Walker, the Goveruor elect of Virginia, before and after the election was careful to proclaim and announce on every occasion that he was a supporter of President Grant’s administration. No sooner was it known how the people had voted than he rushed to Washington, there to learn whether the powers that be approved of the expressed will of the people. So, again, now we have radicals and conservatives from Mississippi, or representing that State, flocking to Washing- ton and to Long Branch, there to ascertain upon which side the light of President Grant's countenance will fall. And why this seeking for Executive approval? Is it not because things have come to such a pass that Virginia and Mississippi will be denied participation in the government of the country unless they subscribe and submit to all the dogmas and so-called principles of most of the leaders of the radical party? “The Dog Star Rages.” If evidence were wanted to prove that we are in the midst of the season when the ‘‘Dog Star rages” it will only be necessary to refer to the catalogue of hot-tempered occurrences that have occupied the columns of the news- papers for the past few days. Here are a few of them:—The religious rows and muddles in Chicago ; the fight and scramble for the spoils of the Charleston Custom House; the bloody political fights in Barnwell and Charleston, 8. C.; the murderous freaks of a madman in New Jersey, who, it seems, is in the habit of having these amiable spells at this time of the year, which fact being known, by the way, it is strange the maniac’s friends did not tako care of him, Then we have had and still have the fight among the republicans in the interior of this State against the dictation of the New York city radical rings; the rancorous political campaign in Tennessee; the rows and riotings among the Massachusetts republicans in regard to the prohibitory liquor law; railroad accidents, shocking murders and brutal hangings have been as plenty as black- berries in August; and, finally, we have just had a revival of the old anti-rent feudal war in the shooting of several county officers while in the performance of their official duty. Verily, if all these things are not enough to make the everyday readers, as well as editors, reporters, correspondents, and all others con- nected with newspapers perspire at every pore, there is no usein having hot times physi- cally, mentally, socially, morally, politically, financially or religiously. The most promi- nent peaceful event of the past few days is that grand achievement of science, the suc- cesstul landing of the Franco-American cable on our shores, That event is a great victory Uf peavey WU SIyually demonotiatos tut peace hath indeed her victories no less renowned than war. We warn all high-tempered people to keep their passions in check, at least until the reign of the Dog Star is passed and gone. Tas Necro Surrrack Qurstion in New York.—In our coming November State elec- tion we are to have the popular vote (yea, several votes) on our new State constitution, including a vote on negro suffrage. our Legislature has ratified the fifteenth amendment of the federal constitution, estab- lishing universal suffrage of males, of all colors, above the age of twenty-one years, and as the dominant national party have the States and the machinery necessary to com- plete the ratification before the end of the coming winter, the question arises of what avail will be any opposition to the introduction of this rule of suffrage in our State constitu- tion, inasmuch as, voted up or down, it will be the same thing, the constitution of the United States being the supreme law of the land. It may be answered that as this fifteenth amend- ment covers the whole ground the negro suffrage article in our new State constitution may be rejected as a superfluity, and, more- over, as a deliberate expression of the voice of the Empire State on this negro suffrage fallacy. The democrats, at all events, will, we suspect, carry the State against negro suffrage by a heavy majority. Tar Stock Market.—The fluctuations in some of the leading stocks which form the staple of commodities dealt in by the Wall street fraternity have been unusually violent of late—remarkably so for the summer season, when there used to be a general suspension of active operations, A rise or fall of ten per cent a day is nothing unusual nowadays. One successful speculator, who is supposed to have gathered his sagacity while on the floor of Congress, is said to have made half a million on Central within the past month, Latest FRoM Ovr Minister To Francr— His presence at the marriage of Carl Formes in Germany. Such are our pleasant relations with France. So much for the abandonment by Napoleon of his grand Mexican idea. Our Minister to Paris is a lucky man. Toe Granp Untmatum of Women’s Riants—The wearing of the breeches. This is the latest pronunciamiento of Mra, Cady Stanton. The wearing of the breeches will settle everything. Very well; and yet it is said by naturalists that the hen in learning to crow does not become a rooster, Any how, let us Have this question settled; let these women have their rights and.‘ : peace,” SCARCITY OF FEMALE OOMESTICS IN CINCILNATI. CINCINNATI, July 26, 1869. To THR Eprror oF THe HeRALD:— There Is a scarcity of cooks and chambermaids in this city and environs, We think 800 to 600 women Would readily find employment with families in and four dollars’ armed Bhdaid thar be etn Jour city Pause teed Now, as ‘ASHINGTON, July 28, 1800, The Contest ta Misslasippl. » An infaential delegation representing * ultra radical party of Mississippi have for several days cirontated between Watkins. fone Branch an® ae mbes aay vevr York city for the purpose of obtaining informa- tion that they hope will brighton their prospects tm that State, The more immediate object of tue’ visit 1s to obtain from the administration an avowal Of its policy in reconstructing the State. While in Washington they had several interviews with mone bers of the Cabinet, and they claim to have received the positive assurances of Secretaries Cox and Bout- well that they are in full sympathy with the party they claim to represent, and hostile to the party thas seek to secure the elevation of Judge Dent to the gubernatorial chatr, At Long Branch on Monday o Portion of the delegation had a lengthy toterview with General Grant on Missiasipp{ politics, during which tney assured lim they were prepared to Prove that the conservative candidate, Mr. Dent, had reeeived various sums of money to secure the Passage of bills through Congreas and influence Executive appointments, They further represent that the President lustened attentively to their revelations of Judge Dents trangactions at Washington, and their arguments ia favor of the radical party securing the moral sup’ Port of the administration in the approaching con- test, and that at its conclusion he intimated that tt they could satisfactorily sustain their allegations he would not be a party towards committing the admia- istration to the support of the conservative party. The delegates represented to his Excellency that there was no material difference in the policy of the antagonistic parties in Mississippi; that the onig quéstion really involved was one of men; that pote parties were in favor of conforming to all tho re- quirements of the acts of Congress; but that the conservatives counted in their ranks ojd rebels, whose atm was to again control the affairs of the State by folsting a carpet-bagger in the person of Judge Dent upon the State, in tho hope that his rela- tionship to the President would secure them the support of the government, The delegation spent some time in New York, and allege that they have orought with them to Wash ington evidence of a very damaging character against Judge Dent, with a view of submitting it to the President and Cabinet, The Saratoga Races. _ It is understood that President Grant wil! attend the races at Saratoga next week. Aaxiety Among Army Officers—Discharge of Reports from the Dacotah Indians. Information has been received at the Indian Bu- reau from the Yankton, Dacotah, agency that thé {ndians are highly pleased with the manner in whic the “Great Father’! proposed to take care of them, and represent their intention to live up to the treaty, The prospect of a due corn crop upon the reserva tion is excellent, Disabled Officers Anticipated, Considerable anxiety exista among those officers of the army who have recently been placed upon waiting orders, as they are fearful that at its nexs session Congress will take such measures as wilt discharge them from service. In this connection 1¢ will be remembered that General Sherman a short time ago issued an order discharging those oficers on the waiting order list who had applied to be assigned to other duty when placed at the direction of the Indian Bureau. A majority of the officers om waiting orders have bepn placed there against thele wishes, and in a number of cases are more compo- tent, except in point of physical ability, perhaps, than their more fortunate brothers who, by recent appointment from civilian iife,on the reorganization of the army and graduation from the Military Academy, have retained their physical soundness and are allowed to remain. Army Signal Code Adopted by the Navy, The foilowing circular bas been issued from the Navy Department:— BUREAU OF NAVIGATION, WASHINGTON, D. C., July 10, 1869, The Navy iment having adopted the army code of signals for use in the navy in addition to the naval signal code, a suitable officer will be assigned to duty, under thre Chief of the Bureau of Naviga- tion, as Chief Signal Officer of the rey Pe with Aras assistants ag occasion may require. duty of the chief signal officer to eep ne ‘haven hrough boncllred books corrected. He shall, aasistants, inatruct such of the Ine officers at naval stationg a the Chief of the Bureau may di in the use of EK army general service code and fa, the use of cipfie® As soon as the officers are or: dered toa slip? je commanding officer shall ‘detail an officer to act\as signal oMcer, who ea as a being thorought instructed himself in t the general ser'ioe and cipher power leeraset une line officers of the ship thoroughly in the practical use of each of those codes. fe shall also instructs the quartermasters, coxswains, and such others of the ships company as the commanding officer may direct, in the use of the general service code only. The erg omicers of noe and stations shall keep @ record of the names and rank of all persons under instruction, with the number of hours each has practised, bot with day and night signals; also column of remarks showing tne 4 progress made each person. The commanding oficer wiil fill o the column of remarks opposite the names of officers. A fair copy of this record to be forwarded at the end of each quarter to the Chiet of the Bureau ve Pb wie yet Ca the files of the Signal iP ees aupptiea ‘rien ana ‘et : Y pro- ju and one for the sign ere tore tere reermi — qt kit will contain staves, a3.and tore! rhea, eted under the thwarts in pout bd the davite or ready for service. Four copies of the “Army Manual of Signals” will be supplied to each first and second rate and three to each third or fourth rate vessel in commission. The 8! oMoer shall receipt and be responsibie for hows a“ nal appa- ratus, and will sce that it is at all times in readiness for immediate use. Before a ship ans from the United States the chief signal officer or hs aesistans shail iuspect to see that all her eaoet Be geo! is complete, and at the expiration of her cruise the chief signai officer or one of his assistants shall in- spect to see that the signal instructions have been complied with, and will make a written report to the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation as to the em. ciency of the signal instruction on board, both of men and officers. Constant practice being neces- sary, it is directed that alter the first three montha of the cruise each officer will instruct those men of his division who have been selected by the com- Manding officer for this instruction, JAMES ALDEN, oe of Bureau of Navigation. A RPreTe Gee oe ROBESON, Secretary of the Navy. Nomenclature of War Vessels. There is authority for saying that the statemont which has been published to the effect that Secre- tary Robeson does not propose to interfere with o change back the names of vessels of the navy, which. were altered by Mr. Borte, is incorrect. As soon ap Mr. Robeson can get time he will make the names of all our men-of-war conform to the act of Congress regulating that matter. Pieasure Excarsion of the Co: Affairs. The House Committee on Naval Affairs, in tmite- tion of the Ways and Means and other commitiecs, propose going on a junketing tour. They will om- bark on the revenue cutter Michigan and make @ tour of the lakes for the purpose of examining what additional legislation, if any, is necessary fou the better enforcement of the revenue laws on the frontier and for the suppression of smuggling. The cominittee will be gone some days, ARIN MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL. Tue Arion Vocal Society entertained thoir friends ata summer night’s testival last evening at the Ter- race Garden, on Third avenue, between Fifty-eight and Fifty-ninth streets, It was the third festival for the seagon which this society had arranged, and ta potnt of artistic perfection of the vocal and instra- mental performances, a8 well as in view of the very large number of visitors—there being about 3,000 persons on the ground—it was the most successful one of the series, The programme was as follows:— March from Mendolesohn, by the orchestra, followed by the overture to Weber's “‘Oberon;” that beauti/at “Shoen Roth Traut” was then sung by the ith great precision; a potpourri from Pe- lone,” by the orchestra; a night song from Abt in. by the chorus of the Arion, followed a TE aa) ted & mast at f aroarols bert's er ralt. ag came a ma Al a, tion, with orchestral a compani ment, and precision, lic! th ski! the ane a applause B from the audience. ‘the TP comic operette, ‘‘Wer ae ft rae yoine at the Meal ie Desang! lor, fa ‘vocal and dramatic ittee on Naval