The New York Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. No. 213 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.Jeuey Le D1 Goov Fron NOTHING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Bighth avenue and 28d atreet.—East LYNNE, soueese THEATRE, Broadway.—Qicoory Drccorr OOK. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth atreet and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23d st., beiween Sth and 6ih ave. — Bir Van WINKLE. eeacws THEATRE, Broadway and Ih street. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th arv,, between Séth and 58th sis. —POPULAR GARDEN CONCERT. HOOLEY'S OPERA HO‘SE. Brooklyn. —HooLer's MINGTRELS—PONGO, THE BRAZILIAN APE. 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Mr. Gladstone is recovering slowly from his late Ulness, ‘The manager and two of the editors of the Rappel newspaper, in Paris, have been severely punished for publishing false news. ‘The Carlists are consolidating in the north of Spain. Napoleon's course towards the Carlist con- spirators has given great dissatisfaction in Madrid. General Sickles has presented his credentials to the Regent. On the occasion complimentary speeches were made by Marshal Serrano and the American Minister. Baron Beust intends to publish all his official despatches with Prussia. Caba. The oficial estimate of the expenses of the Spanish Government in the island for the month of August places the amount at $2,200,000. of which $800,000 is intended for the use of the army. Mexico. The dates from Mexico city are to July 2% An in- surrection had broken out among the Yucatan In- dians, The volcanic eruption in Colima is in- creasing. South America. Our Panama letter 1s dated Juiy 2% On the 20th the President of the State issued a decree pardoning all persons expatriated for political offences in 1366, The movement in favor of Mosquera is going on quietly, and the commander of the Colombian forces in Panama has disarmed the State troops, for fear they might go over to the Mosquera party. The Costa Ricans are planning an expedition to seize avd possess the Cocos Islands, under pretence of hunting the gold of the old buccaneers. Minister Sullivan had taken leave of President Gutierres at Bogota. Guatemala remains quiet. The volcano of Isalco, in San Salvador, bas been again at work, A revolution headed by ex-President Martinez and Jerez has broken out in Nicaragua. So far the revo- lutionists have seized Leon and several other towns, and have met with no opposition. Our Valparaiso letter is dated July 3. The news is unimportant. The hostile Indians on the frontier are stilt unsubdued, and among other depredations they recently attacked a body of Indians friendly to the government. The United States steamer Powhattan sailed for the United States on the 16th of June. Miscellaneous, Mr. Jenkins, chairman of the State Central Com- mittee of the Wells wing of the republican party in ‘Virginia, recently proposed a fusion of the two par- ties to Dr. Gilmer, chairman of the Walker com- mittee. The latter, in reply, says the Walker men ‘were forced to leave the Wells party because it opposed the policy of the President, but that the Waiker party being the Jona jlde national repubil- can party of the State, has no divisions to heal. Wells men will be warmly welcomed to the party however, he says, if they are willing to enforce those “national principles of which President Grant and Congress are the head and front." ‘The Franco-American Cable Company announce ‘that the tariff over their line will be reduced on the 15th inst. about twenty per cent. Press despatches will be half price, and other facilities to be an- nounced in future will be given. A family of six persons were thrown into the ‘water opposite Bull’s Ferry on Friday by the careen- ing of a small boat in whicn they were sailing for pleasure. The man and his wife and two grown daughters were drowned, and two babies, that could not lisp enough to tell their names were saved. They were found alone in the boat by two persons who eaw the accident from the shore. The family is sup- posed to have resided in West Hoboken. General Sheridan is in Burlington, Vt, where he received an extremely cordial reception on Friday afternoon. An old soldier had his arm blown of ‘while firing a cannon fn his honor. The Claims Commission for the settlement of claims pending between citizens of Mexico and the United Staves organized in Washington yesterday. It ts composed of Sefor Palacio aud W. H. Wads- worth. The Louisiana Supreme Court has decided that Governor Warmouth has no power under the State constitution to remove judges, and a judge who was removed for ineligibility under the fourteenth amendment has, consequently, been retained in his seal, ‘he Fenian scare still prevalis in Canada, Troops 4n the Three Rivers district had orders on Thursday to be in readiness to march on the frontier at an hour's notice. The Jwborers on the Missourl river bridge at NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. Omaha having strock Chinese iaborers have been ent for vo San Francisco. ‘The meeting of the Canadian Parliament has been farther postponed until September 27. Two wealthy Chinese merchants are belng taken to Chicago by the commercial party from that city who recently visited San Francisco, If they escape from Chicago they will come on to New York. Mr, Mullett, the superintending architect at Wash- ington, bas been examining bids for excavating for the foundaticn of the New York Post OMice, for ce- ment, gnd the removal and purchase of stone fence aad coping. The City. Judge Cardozo rendered a decision yesierday ta the Dowling-McClelland case, declining to tasue the mandamus applied for to compel Jndge Dowling 10 allow McClelland to practice m the Tombs Police Court. He sald no personal malice was disclosed on the part of Judge Dowling, and it might be that tf Mr. McClelland should present himse!f at some future day his license to practice in that court would prob- ably be approved by Judge Dowling. The Coroner's investigation over the bodies of the victims of the fireworks explosion ta Chatham street was concluded yesterday. In their verdict the jury recommend that the authorities prevent the use of fireworks on such occasions in future, ‘The stock market yesterday was dull and tnactive, except for a few of the list. Gold was quict, and closed finally at 1564. With but few exceptions the markets yesterday were characterized by extreme quietude. Cof- fee was negiected, but firmly held. Sugar was steady, with a fair demand. Cotton was more steady and in improved demand. On ’Change, flour was quiet, but without Particular change in value. Wheat was dull and lower. Corn was also dull and lower, while oats were quiet, but rather firmer. Pork was tn better demand, but at lower prices. Beef and lard were duil, but unchanged. Naval stores were quiet, but generally steady. Petroleum was steady for crude, but dull and jc. lower. for refined. Freights were moderately active at steady rates, while whiskey was dull and heavy. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Sir James Anderson, commander of the steamship Great Eastern, arrived in this city yesterday from Boston. Governor H. H. Wells and Secretary 1. £. Higby, of ‘Virgina; Colonel Charles Schlatter, of Brunswick, Ga.; M. L. Henlein, of Spain, and G. B. Livingston, of the United States Navy, are at the St. Denis Hotel. Colonel Seja, of New Orieans, and Captain Keris, of the steamship Germania, are at the New York Hotel. Baron Kubeck, of Austria; J. Rice, of Philadel- phia; J. W. Ladd, of San Francisco, and Rustem Bey, of Constantinople, are at the Fifth Aveaue Hotel. Ex-Governor James E. English, of Connecticut; charles H. Shernii, of Washington, and Db. M. Leatherman, of Tennessee, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Prominent Departures, Judge N. Davis, for Aurora; Governor G, C, Walker, for Norfolk, Va.; George McUartee, and BE. D. Webster, for Washington; General Burnside, for Providence, aud General McCook, for Saratoga. Sir John Barrington, Sir Samuel Canning, Mr. A. C. Beli; Mr. John Temple, of the French cable ¢: pedition; Judge Field, of California; Mr. Whitehead, of New York; Mr. Beranger, Consul of France; Miss Clara Thompson and niece, sister and daughter of Miss Lydia Thompson, of Nibio’s, sailed in the steamer City of Brooklyn, for Liverpool, Protestantism—Is it a Success or a Failure? We have heard a good deal of late about the Ecumenical Council. In these columns we have discussed its merits and demerits with nota little fulness and some freedom. We have already told our readers in terms plain enough to be well understood that we have ceased to hope great things from the Council. it promises to be a job, and a bad job. In dis- cussing this Council from time to time we have had occasion to state our opinions abont the Eastern Church and also about the Protestant Churches of the great and growing West. We are willing to allow the Greek Church to re- main for the present undisturbed; but we think the time has come when onr judgment should be more fully expressed in regard to the present condition and future prospects of the Protestant world. We adopt this for our text in the present instance all the more heartily that the ques- tion has been put and seriously discussed in various quarters, Is Protestantism a failure? We have no hesitation in answering the ques- tion at once, Judged from a certain standpoint we have no choice but to say the failure has been signal and complete. It is now more than three hundred years since Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five Latin theses to the door of the Schlosskirche at Wittenberg, and thus initiated that struggle which shook Christen- dom and permanently rent the great Church of the West in two hostile divisions. No such blow had ever been struck at tbat ec- clesiastical system which dates from the third century of the Christian era, and which, by allying itself with the temporal power, held Western Europe in bondage from “the days of Charlemagne, *Popery was shorn of more than half its strength, and a rival ecclegiastical system, backed up by potentates and Powers, was firmly established. Jt is a noteworthy fact, however, that as an eccle- siastical system Protestantism revealed its weakness in the very beginning of its history. It had not at the outset—it never has had—any cohesive principle. In the sixteenth century Protestantism was, as it is in the nineteenth, arope of sand. Division, not unity, has been its unfailing characteristic. If the examples of earlier religious systems are to be regarded as of any value in forming our estimate of a Church, it is not to be denied that Protestant- ism has always been wanting in one important essential, It has been want- ing in unity. On one point alone have all the Protestant Churches been agreed, and that is opposition to the central authority at Rome. This bond of union, which is, after all, but a slender one, has been found quite compatible with divisions which are as nume- rons almost as the stars in heaven, The highest unity which Protestantism has ever achieved is that which is represented by a national Church, The Protestantism of Ger- many was a different thing in every different kingdom and duchy, Lutheranism was at one time a big name; but Lutheranism was never a unit, The Protestant establishments of Great Britain differed from the Protestant establish- ments in Germany quite as much as the two establishments of Scotland and England dif- fered from each other. This, however, does not fully state the case, Wherever Protestant- ism has established itself the want of the cohesive principle has been felt and divisions have grown apace. It is unnecessary to point to the dissenters of Germany, Holland and Great Britain, when we can point to the countless Protestant sects which exist and flourish among ourselves. It is undeniable that this want of unity—discernible at once in character and purpose—has been a serious drawback to the general efficiency of the Pro- testant Churches. It reduces discipline to a mere name, while it leaves it free to every re err tt aes man to found a church according to any pat- tern that his own foolish fancy may devise For all the higher purposes of the religious life Protestantism, devoid of unity of charac- ter and unity of purpose, has been largely found wanting ‘This want of concentration of aim goes far to explain why Protestantism, although it has never shown any strong de- sire to go back to Rome, bas not in three hun- | dred yoars made any very effective encroach ments on the domains of ita great rival, If we exclude the New World from our calculations the landmarks of the Protestant and the Catho- lic territories remain very much what they were in the days of Lather. If, however, we must admit that, when judged from a high ecclesiastical standpoint, Protestantism has beea found wanting, we cannot on the other hand deny that its his- tory bas been singularly allied with the mate- rial success and prosperity of the last three hundred years, Protestantiam rather than Catholicism has taken hold and made use of all the great agents of modern civilization. Protestant rather than Catholic countries stand in the front rank of the nations. Wherever all over the world intelligence is highest, industry most marked, wealth most sbundant, there Protestantism rather then Catholicism has beon at work. It has been said by « great historian and philosopher, now no more, that when in Ireland you pass from # Catholic to a Protestant couaty, in Switzerland from a Catholic to a Protestant canton, or in Germany from a Catholic to a Protestant State, you feel that you are passing from a lower .to a higher civilization. It is possible that there is some little exaggera- tion in the statement, but it is undeniable that it contains a large amount of truth, Pro- testantism bas unquestionably, whatever its drawbacks, contributed largely to the emanci- pation of the human mind from bondage ; and to this emancipation the scientific discoveries and material advancement of this age are mainly due. If Catholicism has done much | to preserve alive the religious principle in man, Protestantism has done much to hurry man forward to a higher development and a higher usefulness. The fact is patent to all the world that Protestantism is now little less a characteristic inside the Catholic Church than out of it. So long as Protestant conn- tries are so far ahead, and so long as Catholic countries are revealing such a dis- position to follow, it cannot in fairness be said that in any high and true sense Pro- testantism has been a failure. European Governments Reducing Their Kx- penses, The little kingdom of Greece—perplexed, as many larger nations are, with national debts, increasing expenditures, and having only smallincomes to meet their wants—has wisely considered the expediency of reducing her expenses before national bankruptcy begins to make itself evident. ‘The days are fast pass- ing away when peoples will submit uncomplain- ingly to enormous taxation without inquiry. Standing armies in times of profound peace are not regarded in modern times with that favor which characterized their existence in days of yore. Useless, expensive embassies at foreign courts, are also matters which are now being considered in a wise spirit. Greece in this respect has taken a step in advance which must commend her action to the whole tivilized world. Not alone are these ideas of reform confined to the Hellenic government, but even the powerful empire of Austria has also been at work considering the question of a reduction of her expenses ; and although the desire to do away with embassies at minor courts has not been carried into effect as yet, the fact of its being under discussion by the Reichsrath is sufficient to show that at a later day the mea- sure may be successfully put in force. Spain might take a good lesson from the action of Austria and Greece, and inaugurate similar systems of financial reform by the re- duction of her embassies at the courts of kindred Powers. Even if this was only adopted as a temporary measure it would be a benefit to the country, The Spanish Am> bassador at Paris receives more than the President of the United States, not to speak of what it costs to keep the embassy in that style which the pride of Spain desires her repre- sentatives abroad should assume. Now that the initiative has heen taken there is no good reason why all of the second and third rate Powers of Europe should not do something practical in these respects. National debts are not national blessings, the opinion of a profound financier to the con- trary notwithstanding, and the sooner they are removed the better. America has eet an example which cannot fail to stimulate inquiry among the civilized peoples or their represen- tatives throughout the globe. {t is hardly possible to realize the fact, and yet it is so, that the American republic is diminishing her national debt at the rate of about ten mil- lions of dollars a month, and this by a govern- ment founded, conducted and watehed over by the people, without the aid even of a stand- ing army. These facts are well worthy the consideration of European statesmen. We have now entered upon an age in which the old forms and effete customs of bygone years must crumble before the march of modern progress, Governments, as well as individuals, must be unemberrassed and ready to push on with the great movements of the age. How can they doso, encumbered as they are? Many of the countries of Europe will find it difficult enough to make both ends meet, without in- dulging in the expensive luxuries of foreign embassies and standing armies. Greece bas done wisely and well. What country will next follow her lead ? Cngar Ocean Postace.—Another step in the direction of progress is meditated by the British government in the revision of the rates of ocean postage between Great Britain and America. Cheap and reliable means of communication are among the first necessities required by commerce, which is the most im- portant element between the two nations; and in addition to reduction in the rates of postage it is to be hoped that the success of the new submarine cable will also tend to some modift cation in the charges now made for the trans- mission of messages. oroved tlie beneficial effect of the reduction. The cheap rates of postage charged by the British government between the mother country and the various colonies, especially Australia, have sufficiently | zens are not to be squared and measured by ‘The Now York Horald aad the Associated Prees. Elsewhere we give, from Wilkes’ Spirit of the Timea, s forcible and truthful statement of the present attitude of the New York journals in their relations with that creature of theirs that bas become half a master—the Asso- | clated Press. How great an embarrassment | that institution is to newspaper enterprise, | how it prevents and cuts short much of tho | energy of journaliats by depriving them of the legitimate fruits of that energy, declaring beforehand that they shall have no pre-emi- | nent success and that whatever news they gather in virtue of pecaliar skill, experience, foresight, boldness and liberality, must be shared with all the other papers. All this and all the effects of it no article or series of articles can ever make sufficiently plain to the public, The writer before us illustrates the position by reference to our reports from Abyssinia. We spent large sums of money to send a correspondent to that country, and our contemporaries could ‘yet have, equally with ourselves, all the news that he sent us by telegraph, and thus before the world could stand on the same level with ua, And what did it cost them? About one dollar to our hundred, they having to pay only a proportionate share of the charge for send- ing the matter over the wires, nothing for the reporter's salary, expenses, outfit, &c. And this happens every day; Hetatp reporters, in fact, do the bulk of the news gathering that is done for the press hereabouts, the other papers living cheaply on our enterprise. An instance is before the public now. When the Great Eastern was expected at St. Pierre we despatched a reporter thither to await her arrival and chronicle that event, with what- ever else of interest might take place in rela- tion to the grand enterprise of the new cable. No other paper did this; for when the de- spatch came all members of the association had the legal right to share it with us and did so, evidently depending upon us to furnish them with the account. Owe News from Cuba. We published in yesterday's Hana s very full account of the progress of events in Cuba from both sides. From this it is evident the insurrection is gaining ground and that there is no ohance of Spain maintaining her authority over the island. In fact, we learn from good authority that the Spaniards, both in Cuba and inthe mother country, have little hope of subjugating the insurgents, It is said that even the Captain General privately admits that an army of a hundred thousand could not re-establish the authority of Spain. And we have reason to believe, from parties recently in Spain, that the Spanish people re- gard the independence of Cuba as inevitable. The government may be proud and dislike to give up this ancient and valuable possession, but it must yield to the force of circumstances. The intelligent men now atthe helm of affairs in that country must become convinced of the hopelessness of their efforts to hold Cuba. Under this state of things our own government and General Sickles ought to be able to stop the frightful carnage in Cuba and to secure its independence. The reported policy of the ad- ministration—to induce Spain to sell the island to the Cubans themselves and for the United States to guarantee the payment of the sum fixed upon—seems to be practicable, and, per- hups, the best policy that could now be pur- sued. But whether it be so or not, or whether Spain accepts or rejects such a proposition, it is clear that this country must soon take de- cisive action with regard to Cuba. The ad- ministration cannot resist popular sentiment much longer and will be under the necessity of recognizing the Cubans as belligerent or inde- pendent, We hope Spain will act with the United States in the matter and that the good relations of the two countries, as well as with Cuba, may be perpetuated. Napoleon and the French People. The general amnesty for all political offenders, which it is said the Emperor will issue on the 15th of August may be refused, as similar proffers have been, by Victor Hugo and a few other ‘‘men of 1848,” exiled leaders of the party of “‘irreconcilables.” But it is none the less likely to prove'a successful bid for popularity, and it is perfectly consistent with the Emperor's long since avowed inten- tion of “crowning the edifice” which he has reared with the copestone of liberty, All intelligent persons can appreciate the wit of M. Thiers’ latest mof, that ‘df liberty had at length been brought to bed it was by ao Cesarian operation.” But Mme. la Comtesse d@'Agoult (Daniel Stern) has rightly said that “the people” are impervious to the ridicule which may be poured upon their idols, and despite the satire to which the Emperor of the French, after his dictatorship of nearly twenty years, may be exposed on account of his arbitrary inauguration of liberal reforms, the French people at large will probably accept these reforms with unquestioning grati- tude, If the promises of the Emperor shall be honestly fulfilled his dynasty will acquire a fresh lease of life. The Naturalization Question, We are glad to see that the English Ministry intends bringing in a bill on this subject next session. It will probably be something similar to the treaty so lately approved of by Congress between this country and the North German Parliament. It is a pleasure to see Eogland compelled to keep pace with the spirit of the times, for her policy on this subject has always been illiberal and tyrannical. In fact, one of the acts of tyranny charged upon George III. in the Declaration of Independence was that he had endeavored to prevent the population of the States, by obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners. On the whole subject of naturalization her laws are one and all conceived in the spirit of the Middle Ages. “Once a citizen always o citizen” ig still British Jaw; although such « principle, if acted upon, would dena- turalize thousands among us who have been invested with all the rights and privileges of native-born citizens, It puts one in mind of the law that prevailed in Russia before the present Emperor's reiga, where the serfs that were born on an estate could not be sold out of it, as if they formed part and parcel of the soil. her standard. Les England, if she desires peace, amend her statute book, for the rights of American iti- Tao irish Church’ Discstablished—What Next tm Great Britain? All excitement about the Irish Church being now over, while the ball must still be kept moving, the question naturally arises, what will be the next change? When reading over the Lords’ protest—led off by Earl Derby's name—against the disestablishment of the Irish Church, it is almost laughable to see into what agrim state of terror those old fogies have worked themselves as to the consequences of doing 80 bare an act of justice as that. They may dub such measures by any name they like if they are tired of those they have so often used—‘“‘spoliation and sacrilege”—but we only hope to hear of many more measures like them. It is very probable that such legisla- tion may hasten on the destruction of their own feudal timed institution; but even so, even were the House of Lords no more, we can imagine the people of Great Britain going about their business as unconcerned as if such & change was not 80 appalling a calamity after all, But before this takes place, if the Lorda meanwhile are only wise enough to know when they are well off, and to go with the stream, we shall have other reforms to record of a more pressing nature. We find, in the first placa that Mr. Gladstone's Ministry is pledged t introduce a bill on Irish tenant right. It would be difficult to recount the number of bills that have been already intro- duced, sme even passed, on this subject; but these last were—and probably were meant to be—all verbiage, professing, no doubt, a great deal, but fencing every concession with #0 many legal yet necessary preliminaries that the Irish peasant, brought up in a salutary dread of the law, was afraid to have anything whatever to do with them; and so things went on as before. As the law now stands, when the Irish tenant makes improvements out of his sweat and small capital the landlord steps in to claim them as his own, and, finding that his property has been made more valuable, in- stead of compensating the tenant he increases the rent upon him—punishing him thus for being such a fool as to sow where the other only was legally entitled to reap. We think it high time that these Irish landlords should have law as well as equity arrayed against them, and Gladstone's Ministry is, we believe, both able and honest enough to do this. But while an Irish tenaat right bill will be the next important measure to be looked for from the British Parliament, other questions of vital importance will at the same time be can- vassed, and in the end carried through by popular suffrage, The Liberation Society, now that the Irish Church is disposed of, will direct all its artillery, great guns and little guna, against the Established Church in Scotland, and the voluntary churches there, which compose two-thirds of the population, will not fail to join in the onslaught. When the Scotch Established Church is brought low the English establishment will topple over soon after, thus severing the union so long existing between Church and State. Aristo- cratic institutions, primogeniture, entail and hereditary peerages will during all this period be fiercely assailed from more than one quar- ter; other times and a different state of society gave birth to them, and their proper place 1s to be found in medieval history. these changes we have mentioned are distanty although perhaps not so distant as may be imagined; but, meanwhile, if John Bright's views sway the Cabinet, we may look for our next parliamentary sensation to take in the whole question of Irish land laws, when we shall have many an episode on Irish disaffec- tion, agrarian outrages and rights of property from those who oppose every ameliorating meaaure as to Church or State. Tho Fashions. Our Paris fashions correspondent can find but little to expatiate upon save the bathing dresses worn by Parisians either Mention is duly made, however, of the mauve robe and spider-like drapery of the Empress at the reception of the Deputies of the new Chamber in the Seine or at the seaside, in the palace of St. Cloud ; of the singular cos- tume of Sister Patrocinio ; of the aqua-marine dress of the Empress at the fite given to the Viceroy of Egypt in the same palace, where the Empress’ nieces appeared in white with blue paniers; Duchess Letta in white amd coral, Mme, Post in white tulle, Mme. Leopold Magnan ‘ander a shower of snowballs on tulle,” Countess Primoli in white, with a green panier and natural flowers in profusion; her gsister, Princess Rocca-Vigione in silver gray gauze, white lace, roses and diamonds; Mme, Lesseps in pink, with a gauze tunic looped with black velvet, and Mme. Aguerro in a robe of white tulle, looped with water lilies and rushes and a splendid emerald stone on ber forehead. Here certainly is sufficient variety Branch, Newport, West Point, Cape May and Saratoga. in to-day's Heaton, from Mr. EB. HM, Hall, car furnished for the occasion. Some of de for the imitation of our own belles at Long Gort, or Course.—It will be seen, by an article given elsewhere, from the Havana Boletin de la Prensa that we are the greatest of all the sinners they hear of in Cuba. We, it seems, are to blame for all the murdering that has been done there since the revolt began, because the filibusters who went down were misled to auch step by us. No doubt the Boletin might go farther and say that we had @ hand in making the very rebellion itself, as no doubt we did, since all rebellions of that sort depend upon the apread of intelligence Roonp THe Wor.v.—We direct the reader's attention to an interesting letter on this subject We find there at what comparatively trifling ex- pense we can travel round the world by fol- lowing the most approved route, and yet see very much that must be interesting to every traveller, Of course the sew Suex Canal enters into the programme, and that alone must serve as an attraction to thousands from all countries, Besides seeing the principal cities of Europe the tourists will have an op- portunity of viewing many of the interesting and historical places of India and the beautifval island of Ceylon, as well as the Malayan group. of ialanda, hitherto but little visited by travel!.ers. China and Japan will also be visited, and thence by steam to San Francisco, returning ® New York via the Salt Lake and Omaba, io especial Here we have & programme that ought to tempt all who bave the time and means at thelr disposal to spead five or six months thus profitably. The probable expense he estimates at $2,000—a cheap outlay for such a tempting bill of fare. THE ECLIPSE OF AUGUST *, 1869. ‘The total eclipse of the sun, which wii®e visibie at the above date over a belt of country about 140 miles broad, and stretching from Alaska to Norte Carolina, bids fair to be more thoroughly observed and utilized 1n the cause of science than any otmilar Phenomenon heretofore. Numerous parties have been organized to make astronomical, physica? and photographic observations, and will be located along the central line which passes through or near Boones- boro, Des Moines, Burlington, Jowa; Springfleid and Shelbyville, Illinois; Bruceville and Newton, Indiana; Louisville, Mount Vernon and Manchester, Kentucky; Bristol and Estlivilie, Virginia; Union, Kingsport and Blountsville, Tennessee; Wilksboro, Lexington, Fayetteville, Clinton and Leesburg, North Carolina, Of these parties the largest and most compicte tn ita appointments will be that organized in Philadel- Phia, by Professor Henry Morton, under the sutho- rity of Professor J. H.C. Coffin, who has in charge the appropriation of a part of the fund voted py Congress for making such observations. This party will be essentially a photographic one, There have been secured for its use the equatorial belonging to the Philadelphia High School, of six inch aperture and nine feet focal length, provided with clockwork driver; also @ twin instrument belonging to the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, and a smaller telescope, equatorially mounted, but without clock- work, belonging to the University of Pennsvivania. All these instruments have been fitted by Mr. Josepa Teutmayer with special eyep ieces, instantaneous ex- posing slides and cameras, and are now deposited ina temporary building in West gare (rey maa fea convement location, placed at the disposal of the party, Preliminary experiments are now in progress, and some excellent results have been already reached, Thus, pictures of the sun’s disk, two und a half incnes in diameter, nave been taken, showing the numerous spots or dark markings with which our luminary abounds at regularly recurring periods of. eleven years, of which this {3 one, as well as whe faculw or luminous cioud-llke markings which are always found over his surface, and show especialy towards the edge of his disk. The exceeding shortness of exposure for these ictures 1s a curious feature. The act of exposing managed in the following mauner:—On the front of the camera box, at the lower end of the tele- scope, ts @ narrow opening across the tube, in which slides a plate of brass with @ silt across it, one- tortieth of aa inch wide. This plate is held uP to cut off the light ulled down by a atiff spring. When vhe trigger is lightly touched tt releases tho plate, which then flashes across, allowing the light to pass ou tothe sensiuve plate only during that tustant of time occupied by the narrow opel (of. one-fortieth of an inch) in passing across the centre line of the tuve. So powerful, however, 18 evea this momentary flash thet it was tound necessary to cover up the lens of the telescope, all except an opening of an inch and a@ halt in the centre, thug reducing the ameunt of light which entered to one- sixteenth of what would have passed the full aper- ture of six inches. The destination of this party—or, rather, this col- lection of three parttes—is Burlington, Towa, and its vicinity, That point is selected because it is the best situated of those which are equally accessible, ‘The further west we go the eariler in the day will the eciipse occur until we reach Alaska, where it comes about noon. This is both on account of the difevence of apparent time (it being at the same actual moment sunset on our Auantic coast and near noon on toe Pacitic) and because the moon travels over the sun from west to east, 80 that 1t takes nearly two hours of actual time for the shadow to traverse our Continent, The nearer to noon the phenomena occur the better for observations, espectaily pholographic ones, as there is leas risk of haze or coud about the sun. The duration of the total phase 18 also longer where tho eclipse occurs at noon; for then the surface of the earth 1s moving nearly in the same direction as the moon and its shadow, aud so tends to keep tn the shade longer. Near sunrise or sunset the surface of tae earth would be simply moving toward or from {he moon, and this motion (of one thousand miles au hour) would therefore have no eifect in keeping up With the moving shadow, The duration of the entire echpse, from first to last contact, will be about two hours. Besides the telescopes and photographic arrange- ments, electric chronographs Will be taken by party, which wili be 80 connected with the telescopes tuat each exposure Will be automatically recorded to the fraction of second, and thus such a series of perinahent observations will be secured as are with. out a parallel in the history of astronomy. So large & number of observers and so much apparatus could not have been Eyaue a On the field on the strengta of the governMeDE Appropriauvy eroue had it Nov been for the Kindness of Mr. Thomas Scott, of the Pennsyivania Central Railroad, who has provided free transportation for this entire party, with their apparatus, in a special car to their destination. To the expedition ts assisiance is equivalent to @ doubling of the government grant, aud with the aid afforded to other parties, raises this munificent donation to an equality with the entire appropriation of tae British government to the expedition of De la Rue to Spain during the eclipse of 1860, MR. GEORGE PEABOOT. ‘The following are the remarks made by Mr. George Peabody at White Sulptiur Springs, on the 28th ult., in reply to Mr. Segar, of Virginia, who presented to him the resolutions of southerners at the Springs thanking him for his unprecedented and munificent donation to the cause of education in the South. Mr. Peabody spoke as follows:— Tbeg to thank you most kindly for the kindly sen- timents you have expressed towards me. ‘They have affected me most deeply, and are such, followed as they are by the resolutions you have presented, that it is impossible for me to reply to them as f would. J can only answer briefly, and feel that even. then I must claim your indulgence. I can but say, as regards the kind and flattering remarks of your chairman, that I trast the ‘remainder of the time I have to live I may not do otherwise than justify your good opinion. I should be glad if my strength would permit me to speak of my own, cordial esteem or regard for the high honor, integ- rity and heroism of the Southern people. But that, too, I must Jeave forthe present. But I must not omit to say that of all the kind words you have- spoken those referring to the Southern Educational ‘und bave been the sweetest to my cars. Coming. ‘as they do from such a distinguished and intelligent body they corroborate the opinions already ox- ressed yy other eminent men of the South. The Reeitngs 0 my heart are interwoven with its suc- cess, a8 Lam sure are yours and those of allgood meneverywhere. The enterprise is still very young, only three years old; but itis growing with every year, and under the superintendence of the trustees? eminent agent, and under the guidance of the dius~ tinguished gentlemen of the trust, and with the warm Co-operation experienced throughout the South, it cannot but prove a success, and I am con- fident will serve an auxiliary in restoring the South toa state of higher prosperity and happiness thea ever beiore, God grant that It may. 4 OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL. In the papers published at Alexandria, Kgypt, it ts publicly announced that 200 of the principal Journal- tats of Europe have been invited by the Viceroy. of Egypt to be present at the inaugural ceremonies. of the opening of the canal in October next. M. de Lesseps has requested a list of some of the leading journals of this country to be forwarded. nam, with a view of sending special invitations from the Pacha to be present. A list of some twenty of the most influential papers has been forwarded. It us understocd that the representatives: of the press from the United States and Europe will be the guests of his Royal Highness, and will. be brengnt there and returned free of expense. A steamer ts expected to leave this port for Port Said and return, for the accommodation of those who may wish to be present at the opening ceremo- nies. ARMY INTELLIGENCE. ‘The following OMcers have been dotasied for re. cruiting service and ordered to report to Breves Brigadier General Reeve, at New York: —Captaina ¥. W. Perry, George L. Tyler, E. N. Wwieox ands, Y. Whipple. The following are to report to General Hatch, au- perintendent of mounted recruits at Carlisle Bar- racks, Pennsylvanie:—Captain Arthur McArthur, H. UB. Freeman, laaac N. Isay and Second Lieutenant Frank Madden. Second Lieutenant Charlies Hay, of the Twenty-third infaatry, has been ordered to con- qs the recruits from Carlisle Barracks to the I'act- Post Chaplain Edward H, Leavitt and First Lieu- tenant Peter Engals, United States Navy, have re- WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, A court of inquiry will convene at tne Navy Yard, io Portsmouth, N. H., on the 34 of August, to invea- tigate the charges of cracity to seamen alleged against Lieutenant Commander Sealey, of tne Pawnee. The court will be composed of Caytain Guest and rs Tewmpic, Wells and Mo Couey. Capa ©. H. B, Caldwell has been ordered to bod himself iu readiness for duty as Clef of the Norvs Atlantic Geet, under Rear Admirak Poor, re- heving Captuind, ©. DeKratt, now holdiwg that po- muon. Lieutenant George W. De Long bas been or- dered to report for duty to the Chief at the Bureau, of Navigation, for duty th the practice ef suuals,