The New York Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1869, Page 6

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The cable telegrams are dated August 3, ‘The yacht race for the Queen’s Cup yesterday was won by the Egerla, The Rose of Devon won the Empress Eugenie’s Cup. The American yacht Dauntless is at Cowes, The Brighton horse races commenced yesterday. The London Times says that rumors are prevalent of an agreement between Spain and the United States relative to Cuba. A dreadful colliery explosion occurred near Dres- Gen on Monday. Over 320 lives were lost. At the opening of the session of the French Senate _0n Monday M. Rouher made an address. He spoke with warmth of the proposed reforms by the Em- peror, The Senator’s consultum was afterwards read, The Captain- General of Madrid has addressed a letter to the Regent and to Marshai Prim deploring the existing state of affairs and threatening to re- sign. The document has created much sensation among the Spanish Ministera, The condition of Spain is regarded as most gloomy. The volunteers @re acting ina mast disgraceful manner. Several Carlist rows have occurred, in which the adherents of Don Carlos have got the worst. The preliminary surveys of a canal through Schles- ‘wig-Hoistein, to conneet the Baltic witn the North Seas, have been completed. » Cuba. Letters from the revolutionary leaders received in Washington state that there are a Jarge number ef prisoners in the hands of the Cubans, and, as they are held as hostages, the instant execution of Cuban prisoners by the volunteers has been stopped. Gen- eral Jordan reports that he and his troops are in excellent condition, equal to three times their num- ber of Spaniards, and are confident of success, General Quesada bas about 9,000 troops with him, andjwould have entered Puerto Principe before now but for the unhealthy condition of the city. Havana despatches state that the journals are dis- cussing the increase of the contraband trade ove- tween Havana and the insurgent camps. Thirty in- surgents were killed recently ia a tight near Cinco ‘Vilas, St. Domingo. A battle between che forces of Baez and Cabral ia reported imminent. The steamer Tybee has arrived at Puerto Plata, St. Thomas, ‘The United States steamer Semtnole was in port on the 29¢b ult. Venezuela. Caracas dates of the 24th state that the national troops were about attacking Pulgar, who is neadiag the rebellion at Maracaibo. Miscellaneous, No Cabinet meetings will probably be heid until next month, Rawlins and Cox are the only mem- vera in Washington, but Creswell will probably re- turn on Monday. Iv is generally understood that the test oath will not be required of the members-elect of the Virginia Legisiature, and that General Grant will oppose the advice of his whole Cabinet if necessary before he permits it to be applied. It is certain that some of his covstitutional advisers favor applying the oath. Governor Pease, of Texas, has been assured by President Grant that he would not interfere in the ‘Texas election which comes off iu November, There are two republican parties in that State, as in Vir- ginia and Mississippi. Postmaster General Creswell’s forthcoming report Will not show much reduction of the deficit of the previous year as yet; but his estimates indicate that be proposes to make the department almost self-sus- Vice President Colfax and party will leave Chicago to-day to furtier augment the nuuver of notabies on the Pacific coast, General Dent and Fred Grant are at the Iuter- national Hotel, Niagara Fails. The dissolution of the injunction against the eccle- Stastical court ta Chicago, which commenced to try tue Rev. Mr. Cheney, of the Christ Episcopal church tn that ctty, for altering the words of the baptismal service, has been denied by the Chicago courts, An amended bill is to be filed before the Supreme Court by the otshop, and it will probably be reached in January next, The Graud Jury commenced investigating the mMutinies and escapes in Sing Sing Prison yesterday. An old convict, who was serving @ second term managed to escape the day before. In @ case in New Haven, where two parties were On trial for prize fighting, the court decided that if there was no materiai reward or prize at stake there ‘was no prize fight in the meaning of the law. The Kiowa, Comanche and Arapahoe Indiana in the Southwest are ochaving in quite an orderly man- ner under the new Quaker policy. They are doing well on their reservations and have three members of the Special Commission sojourning with them, Mr, William 8. Dodge, of thia city, among the num- ber. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered that in future no claim for refunding taxes will be con- Bidered untess tt is fled within two Hrs eve shia time, of from the date of the ment of the tax. The Brith tantra Bell pared af Hafez recently from the Rio Grande with yellow fever on baard, eighteen deaths having occurred during the trip, The commander and first HMeutenant were among the victims. The ninth annual session of the American Dental Association is being held at Saratoga. Mr. J. G. Ambler, ot New York, delivered an aadress of wel- come yesterday to the delegates and wound it up with a poem, The Wuite House was placarded yesterday, “To let, to @ permanent tenant.”” Anegro woman 119 years old ts Living near Al- bany, Ky. The $24,000 recently stolen from the Arsenal, in Philadelphia, has been found in the loft over the museum. The City. Thirty gunboata, which are in course ofjerection in this city and Mystic, Conn., were seized yesterday by the United States Marshal on the complaint of the Peruvian Minister that he has reason to fear they were being constructed to carry on the war against Peru, President Grant and his family took tneir de- Parture from Long Branch yesterday. The guesta of the Stetson House paid them @ hearty compliment on the occasion of the farewell. They assembled in the parlors, Attorney General Brewster made a good-bye speech, to which the President responded, and a hearty handshaking and kissing ensued amung she favorites. The Presi- dentigt party arrived in this city yesterday, and are staying at Mr. Corlin’s. They will go to Garrl- son’s on Thursday, where they will be the guests of Mr. Fish for a few days. At the Woman’s Suffrage Associ ation last evening a resolution denouncing Horace Greeley for “poking dastardly fun” at the movement, was aiscussed with some warmth and finally laid on the table, The Citizens’ Association have recently examined the public institutions under the charge of the Com- missioners of Charities and Correction, and unite in strong commendation of everything they saw. James Everard has been awarded tne contract for making the excavation for the new Post office, and Delafield & Brown that for furnishing the cement, The two notorions Higgins Brothers, of Broome street, were fined ten dollars ‘edch yesterday and held in $1,000 bail by Justice Ledwith for beating a man nated Brady nearly to death. Brady refused to enter a complaint against them and the police- Man preferred the charge. Each of the brothers has committed a murder recently, a negro being the victim in each case, but they have never been brought to trial and keep thelr barroom open day and night without molestation, although they long ago had their license revoked. The Cunard steamer China, Captain Heckley, will sall to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool. The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The sidewheel steamship Magnolia, Captain M, B, Crowell, will sail at three P. M. to-day from pier No, 8 North river for Charleston, 8. C. Gold opened yesterday at 1355, advanced to 1363¢ upon the report of the failure of a prominent house, but reacted later, and closed at 135%. The stock market was dull and steady, without import. ant change in prices except in Harlem, which touched 166, Prominent Arrivals tn the City. Governor Powell Clayton, of Arkansas; General M. 8. Littlefield, of North Carolina; General John Corse, of Chicago, and Judge G. W. Dobbins, of Bal- timore, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. C, C, Chaffee, of Springfield, and George W. Bent- ley, of New London, are at the Albermarle Hotel. General W. A. Fisk, of Connecticut, and Professor J. H. McAllister, of Toronto, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Judge L. A. Buchard, of Saratoga, and J, 8, Chapin, of Boston, are at the St. Charles Hotel, Captain R. A. Fenton, of the United States army; General W. ©. Hurd, of Saratoga; D. W. McKay, of Chicago; Colonel A. D, Carrington, of Syracuse; Judge Thomas 8S. Field, of Canandaigua; Rev. F. D, Curtis, of Chariton; Captain S.C. Hunt, of Boston, and Sudge G. P. Jessup, of New York, are at the Me- tropolitan Hotel. Seizure of the Spanish Gunboate—Geveral Grant Comes Out with a Vigorous Amert- can Policy. Thirty gunboats, the property of the Spanish government, were seized yesterday by the United States .authorities, Fifteen of these vessels were at Mystic, Conn, and fifteen here. They were in different stages of con- struction, but some were nearly complete, and at least one was to sail from this port ona bellicose errand on Thursday, It is evident, theretore, that if our government holds neu- trality to be more than a name, and does not concede to Spain the right to use our terri- tory asa base of operations against her ene- mies, its action in regard to these vessels could not have been longer delayed with safety. For it would have been impossible in the future to plead ignorance in regard to these craft, since from the laying their keels to the present time it has been notorious that they were war vessels, and it has been repeatedly published that they were for Spain, though exactly what use she intended to make of them was not so clear. Nations, indeed, seldom explain themselves on such subjects, the more especially when popular fancy is conveniently ready to cover up a real purpose by assigning one more obvious to the general thought. It is noteworthy that this seizure was made by the direct order of the President to the United States District Attorney here, and we under- stand that the government iq so sure of the ground upon which it moves that there is no probability whatever that the ships will be bonded, or that by any means or contrivances they will slip through the meshes of the law and get away at last. Thus, thanks to the positive attitude of the President, we shall not stand before the world as lending our great naval capabilities to crush our neighbors in the interest of a contemptible tyranny beyond the Atlantic, Here certainly we see the Presi- dent looming up as the representative of a prime and grand American idea ; for sympathy with the peoples near usin their struggles is declared in all our platforms, and even our metropolitan democrats are clamorous on this theme. But on what ground is the seizure made? Will it not complicate our relations with Spain, and is it not practically a concession of bel- ligerent rights to Cuba? Such are the queries that naturally follow the fact. Practically this action may lead to good results with re- gard to Cuba; but in its origin and in its legal aspect this step has no relation to the contest waged by the Cuban people. It may be remembered that her war with the Cubans is not the only one that Spain bas on her hands in this hemisphere. Her war with Chile and Peru will long be remembered for that barbarous fact in its progress—the bom- bardment of Valparaiso—in which Spain sent her naval forces on a wanton errand of destruc- tion that could accomplish no legitimate pur- pose of war, She has obstinately persisted in keeping that quarrel open. Although she could not send armies thither, though she could secure over those South American republics no honorable triumph, though she covld in no event do more than repeat the barbarity of the former bombardment, she has refused to make peace, and-no other reason can be con- ceived than the treasured purpose to avenge herself for her very impotency by other acts of Spanish brutality on that coast, Such is the attitude between the several allied South American States of the Pacific on the one A cable despatch informs us that the British government intends during the parliamentary recess to consider the desirability of purchas- ing the Irish railways. Another cable despatch has it that's company is organizing in Loudon hand, and Spain on the other, and now these allied States observe that Spain is building o fleet of war ships in the yards of this country. They hear, of course, the conclusion to which the people jump—that these are for use in Cuba; but their regard for their own safety requires them to scan things more narrowly and in view of their own experience of the treacherous indirection with which the Spaniard always moves toward his object. In this pogi- tion of affairs the Peruvian Minister has laid be- fore our government what reason he has to fear that the Spanish fleet constructing here ts for use against his government and its allies; and thus moved by a nation with whioh we are at peace the government, in the observance of a true neutrality, has no option but to take effi- cient action to prevent the sailing of the ships. We cannot regret that the first effect of this action is to establish a sort of moral equality between Spain and Cuba in our tribunals, Our law has restrained the Cubans, and now it re- strains Spain. Nor do we regret that a good reason thus appears for detaining ships that, if the Peruvian Minister should happen to be mistaken, might be used with terrible effect against that fight for freedom in Cuba with which every man, woman and child in the United States sympathizes; for, while in obedience to our duty as neutrals, we have embarrassed the Cubans in their efforts to use the United States as an arsenal and a recruiting ground, we should have seen with pain that their enemy was free to uge all our resources against them, If, indeed, it should finally appear that our government has even stretched the point of good will toward Peru, why that is an offence that the nation will forgive with a rousing three times three for the man who committed it, Such a step once taken commits the government to & policy of progress in all {ts relations with these our neighbors. It will put as before the world, whether we will or no, as the defenders of these feeble ones, and when it is once felt with what hearty readiness the people accept that character, the government must find in that fact the warm support of popular will it may deem necessary for such a step as the recdgnition of Cubay belligerency. The President, by the act we chronicle to-day, shows to Spain that she cannot wage war in this hemisphere without our cénsent, and this points directly towards the end the people would force, the cessation of the butcheries ia Cuba, The Public Debt Statement. Mr. Boutwell’s monthly exhibit of the national debt for August is a flattering one and creditable to thé management of the Treasury Department. Fortunately for the Secretary and the country the revenue con- tinues to come in like a flood tide. The debt has been decreased nearly seven millions and a half during the last month, and yet the Treasury is full, There is on hand over a hundred and three millions in specie, which, if reckoned in currency, amounts to a hundred aud forty milltons of dollars, and in currency over twenty-three millions—in all upwards of a hundred and sixty-three millions in cur- rency. With this endrmous sum on hand, and with the prospect that the revenue will continue to come in at about the same rate, why should not Mr. Boutwell buy up and cancel a much larger amount of the debt? Why keep this stupendous fund lying idle? A larger amount of the debt should be paid and the interest saved. Tho Secretary is doing well, but he can do more. Let us hope that the next month will show a much greater reduction of the debt than the last one, The Revolution in Spain. The territory of Spain proper is still con- vulsed by the consequences of civil war and its inhabitants distracted by party dissensions. Tt appears as if, with excellent cause, it were very easy to effect a revolution in that coun- try, but exceedingly difficult to consolidate the effects of the governmental change beneficially, Individuality of aim and interest seem likel: indeed, to extinguish the nationality of the’ people. We are informed from Madrid that the Captain General of the city yesterday addressed a letter to the Regent Serrano and General Prim, in which he asserts that during ten months since the accomplishment of the revolution “greater abuses, widespread immo- rality and deplorable anarchy prevail,” and that he took part in the movement hoping for ‘‘morality, law and justice,” but has been disappointed. This gentleman asserts that the cure—the only remedy—is to be found in the immediate choice of a king, und con- cludes by announcing that if the existing gov- ernment-does not immediately take action in this direction he will abandon all hope and re- tire to private life. He is evidently a ‘‘mon- archy man” and has, no doubt, a royal candi- date in his mind’s eye this moment, The existence of such a state of affairs is to be regretted ; but it may be that the revolution has not had a fair chance even within a year. Let the people have a trial. Goop ror Cuba.—From London, by way of Paris and through the French Atlantic cable, comes intelligence to the effect that ‘strong rumors” were prevalent in England yesterday pointing to the fact that the Spanish government had arranged the preliminaries of an agreement for the sale of Cuba to the United States. This news, which is highly important, hag an air of credibility about it. If confirmed in its main particular it will be good news for Cuba, good for Spain and good for the American people. pt chara leita TaRovGH the old Hospital Green there is to run o street that will continue the line of Pearl street to Thomas street, We hope that who- ever stands sponsor for streets in our munici- pal system will have the grace to make the name of this street memorize the old hospital in some sense, Iy Dvatiy a public mecting of very respect- able proportions demanded the release of men confined for-Fenianism, That sort of agitation will perhaps have more effect on the fate of the prisoners than a great many similar meet ings in New York, and we recommend agite- tors on this subject to change their base, to lay a telegraph cable from the north of Scotland via the Orkney and Faroe Islands to Quebec, and thas there is a probability that the line when completed will be purchased by the government. These are steps in the right direction. We cannot have too many tele- graphic connections with the Old World. The more the better for us all. The sea is a bar- rier and we cannot have too many bridges. The other matter, the probable purchase of the Irish railroads, is a sigoificant feature of the times. Time was when private companies conveyed letters and thus did the work of the Post Office. The postal system-has become the property of the governments all over, and the fact isa general good. The telegraph is but an improved postage system, and the convic- tion is universal outside the ring of the mo- nopolists that the telegraph should be incor- porated with the Post Office. It is difficult to discover any good reason why railroads should not come under the same category. They are quite as much a public necessity as are the telegraph and the Post Office. We shall re- joice to see the time when the Post Office, the telegraphic lines and the railroads shall be in each nation under one central government control, In each of those departments we have found out that while government control might be a blessing, private enterprise has been, if not entirely, at least almost, a curse, All the world over we have arrived at the con- clusion that great public necessities should be under government control. Governments ought to be useful, In each of those three de- partments utility insists upon government control. Napoleon and His Retorms. The reforms contemplated by Napoleon are now 40 far known to us that we can speak of them with some degree of intelligence. The draught of the Senatus Consultum has been made public, Without going into details we may say at once that Napoleon has accepted, as pearly as possible, the English constitution e pattern of his new government. If the otitlines furnished us are correct the only difference between the new French govern- ment and the government of Great Britain consists in the fact that the Emperor intends to he his own Prime Minister, This is in per- fect harmony with all that we have said on this subject. The Emperor, we have always sald, would never let go the reins, This we think is a great mis- take, The beauty of the English system is that, argh gan never, exept by shee, folly, ae e) ina Sad dade The position which Napoleon reserves for hini- self will bring him into perpetual conflict with the Corps Législatif and the Senate, It will not be wonderful if after a short session we should find the houses in colligion with each other, and one or both in collision with the Emperor, In such circumstances the Emperor will have no choice but appeal to the people. He has now, by conceding so much, fully re- cognized the power that made him, He cannot go back without making a direct appeal to the army. Is it impossible that on the occasion of the first appeal to the people the people should go against the Emperor? In France the moneyed classes rule, as they rule all the world over. If the moneyed classes go against the Emperor unjversal suffrage will not save him. We require but some such illustration to convince the world that universal suffrage is amockery, a delusion and a snare, Domingo—The Awicrican Gibraltar. it. ee Secretary Fish {s at all ambitious of imi- tating Mr. Seward and surpassing him in use- fulness he has now s good opportunity. The Dominican government is at this moment in great difficulties—nothing new, by the way— and President Baez is prepared to enter into negotiations with our government for the lease of the Bay of Saman4, This bay is forty-five miles long and about eight miles broad, and, in addition to being one of the finest harbors in the world, might be made, with a very little assistance from art, one of; jafest and most impregnable. The holds in reference to the various inter- oceanic routes to the West Indies, the Gulf of Mexico and Central America, would make it invaluable not only in a commercial point of view, but in case of hostilities it would com- mand the island of Jamaica and the Wind- ward Islands to the east. In 1867 a special envoy was sent to Washington to offer the lease of it to our government for five millions of dollars; but Mr. Seward was at that time so engrossed in the question of purchasing the island of St, Thomas that he would have but little to say to the proposal. Alaska and St. Thomas, the two extremes, seem to have filled the measure of his ambition ; and yet the Bay of Samand, though less pretentious, would have been a more useful purchase than both. This proposal, like a tempting bait, has been dangling before Pierce, Buchanan and Seward, and nibbled at more or less by all three, but has been left to Secretary Fish at last to swallow it, Samana Bay once ours, by lease or otherwise, the complete annexation of the fsland would soon follow asa matter of course, A Ming Prr Horror.—From Central Bu- rope comes intelligence of a mining disaster, attended with such appalling fatality and la- mentable consequences as to throw all our more recent accounts of railroad casualties and such like ocourrences in this country in a still more dreary shade, Inthe mountain district of Saxony, near to the city of Dresden, three hundred and twenty persons employed in a coal mine were instantly killed yes- terday by an accident, the exact nature of which is not stated. The cable says that the consequences are attributable to ‘stormy weather," This is not very intel- ligible, unless it means that the accident was caused by an explosion of ‘fire damp,” pro- duced by the upsetting or opening of a lamp in the hands of some person, thrown over per- haps by a gust of wind. To the dead it mat- tera nothing, To the living it suggests again the question—Can science, foresight or cau- tion, or all three combined, be utilized so as to prevent such catastrophes? We republish to-day an official table show- ing the gross recelpts. from sales or subscrip- tions of the various newspapers printed in this city for the past nine months. The table {s compiled from the returns of the Internal Revenue Department, and may, therefore, be regarded 48 legal testimony of the facts therein stated. The figures will show that the Hesato nearly doubles the circulation of any other daily journal. It may be noticed that many of these papers which appear to make a return of their daily circulation print not only weekly editions, but semi-weekly and even tri-weekly issues, which are all included in the return of their general circulation. We need not say that the Heratp prints only daily and weekly editions, The weekly papers, with two or three exceptions—and the excep- tions are chiefly those journals devoted to stories or pictorial attractions—have a very limited circulation; but it will be observed with satisfaction, as an indication of the in- creasing taste for newspaper reading among the people, that nearly all the papers show an advance in thelr circulation for the last quar- ter over that ending on the 31st of December, 1868. We may eonclude that those papers which exhibit no advance are behind the age, and do not fill the measure of the public de- sire for knowledge concerning the vital inte- rests of the day. Agilance at the table published in another column will suffice to show that however easy it may be for newspapers to boast of a large circulation, and exhibit figures of fabulous dimensions to prove it, the legal evidence found in the Assessor's office would be the best thing after all, if the statements were only correctly made in all cases; but we know that they arenot. For example, the circulationof the Sun is not more than one-third of that ascribed to itin this table. In fact, its circulation is limited almost exclusively to the city, and it is hardly known or heard of outside of it. A more truthful return is, probably, that of the World, which shows a falling off of nearly one-half, or thereabouts, within the past six months. Of the weekly papers Bonner’s Ledger and Harper's Weekly maintain a very marked supremacy, for the reason above stated, that they possess two most attrac- tive features which harmonize in a great mea- sure with the prevailing taste of a large class— sentimental tales and fairly executed pictures. Upon the whole these internal revenue returns furnish 9 very curious commentary upon the mode by which some newspapers create a fic- titious circulation. Trying to Win a White Elephaxt. A meeting of citizens has been held ip $t. Louis for the pufpose of fneideriog the ques- tion of removing thg fiatlonal capital from Washington to that city, Various suggestions wore ifiade in regard to inducements that should be offered for the proposed change, such as the cession of a tract of territory by the State of Misgouri, the donation of sites of land for the public buildings by the wy of St. Louis, and so on. A propositioh call a convention of the Western States interested in the undertaking, to bo held in St. Loula, gid not meet with much favor, inasmuch as two State conventions are shortly to assemble, one at Keokuk, which, it was stated, will represegt very largely the commercial interests of that section of the country, and the other at Louis- ville, especially representing the interests of the Mississippi Valley. It was furthermore urged that ‘‘whenever the bill is passed to re- move the seat of government” it will not be as it was in 1790. At that time Congress was sitting in New York or Philadelphia, while buildings were ip 3! erected’ in ton city for the seat of government, Now there will be a great portion of the present buildings removed to the new seat of government—that is, valuable portions, such as marble columns, works of art and iron work. Briefly, ‘‘every- thing that can be moved will be moved.” These are the views of the spokesmen at this initiative meeting in favor of the transfer of the federal capital to the growing empire city of the Mississippi Valley. What may be re- garded as somewhat remarkable, this move- ment to make St. Louis the capital of the na- tion receives favor at the hands of such rival cities as Chicago, Omaha, Keokuk and other thriving places, while Cincinnati puts in only a faint demurrer, just for appearance sake. It is the most singular instance of unselfishness and complaisance ever chronicled in the his- tory of Western rivalries and jealousies, Now, is there not some sort of “‘old dad” under that load of hay? Is there not some nigger in that fence? It would seem so—so far, at least as Chicago is concerned—for the papers of that city, in giving an account of the above meeting, place their arms akimbo, as it were, and with a loud guffaw—‘‘Ha! ha! ha!”—ery out, “St. Louis swallows the bait!” What bait? Whose hook is St. Louis swallowing? it is a shame that a city that claims so high a reputation for virtue and morality as Chicago should attempt to impose upon and humbug an innocent and beautiful sister city like St, Louis. But is not this whole movement among prominent Western cities to acquiesce in mak- ing St. Louis the national capital simply a dodge to ruin her morally, politically, socially and commercially as a competitor for the trade of the West? Make St. Louis the capital of the republic and you will make her the centre of all the vile intrigues, the villanous jobs, the plundering schemes that now disgrace the na- tion in that sink of political iniquity, the city of Washington, whose commerce, including the other ports in the District, twenty-five years ago was respectable to what it is now, being reduced from a large flotilla of vessels, transporting full cargoes to the North and all parts of the world, to an occasional shad boat or herring smack, That will be the fate of the now thriving city of St. Louis if she is tempted to swallow the bait so tenderly offered it by that mouse in the meal bag, Chicago. No young and growing city, whose energies are being developed as the tide of population and commerce flows toward it by the irresisti- ble progress of events, should allow her moral- ity and integrity to be undermined, the sinews of her enterprise snapped, and the entire our- rent of her prosperity diverted from her wharves and levees, her railroads and other communications with the interior, by some less favored but less ambitious point—by the introduction of the intrigues, the corruptions, the vice and demoralization that will follow in the train that carries the dome of the capital | tritie decal If St. Louis # her, out dat wasa’. from Washington westward. enters for the prize and wins it she will draw & white elephant that can be neither loaned, kept, sold, exhibited nor made any other use of except at the sacrifice of her honor, her credit and her now marvellous advancement to un- exampled commercial greatness and opulence. The Administration Flanking the Tammany Democrats. We had a full report yeaterday of the efforta of the Tammary democrats to make a new political platform on the Cuban and Iriah questions and to make capital out of these for electioneering purposes and future operatioas, Soarcely was the ink dry recording this fact before the surprising news came to us that the administration had taken bold action in a way decidedly favorable to the Cubans—that is, an order was issued by the President, through the Secretary of State, to seize all the gua- boats or other war vessels now being con- structed for Spain in this country, This is putting Spain on the same footing as the Cubans, and in an indirect way recognising the latter as belligerents. It is evident that the administration is taking a new start onthe Cuban question, and that it has flanked the democrats on this political issue. This is glorious news for the Cubang, but not so good for Tammany. There is but one course left for the democrats, as we said yesterday, and that is to construct a broader and more com- prehensive platform on some great national questions and to make their party thoroughly national in its organization and policy. Royalty in Homage to Philanthropy. By mail from Europe we have a full re- port of the interesting ceremony and scened which took place in London on the occasion of the unveiling and formal inauguration of the memorial statue erected by the citizens of the British metropolis in honor of George Peabody. The Prince of Wales officiated, and thus be- came the chief instrument in a work ennobling even to him. The Lord Mayor of London was the second most prominent personage in at- tendance, sealing officially by his presence the gratitude of the municipality towards the generous benefactor of their poorer brethren, both in the present and the future. It was a very grand and glorious moment, an epoch in strict accordance with the spirit of the age— marking a triumph of industry, genius, morality and the universality of Christianity in an indi- vidual yet living and worthy the commemo- ration, An English noble and writer has alleged that when “storied urns” and soulp- tured tombs tell who rest underneath they most frequently set forth not what the maa was, but what “the should have been.” This severe truth does not apply, in any respect, in the cise of Mr, Peabody. Born in a young republic he woh his wealth by patient application and toil, and can desire no more filting epitaph in the Iggd where he labored tan tho testimonial of what ho “was.” ANOTHER Gate ig to_be iaia. The cry ia stil they come. And still they come in British hands, too. It is said this last cable is to go from Scotland to Quebec. British America has its full share of these enterprises; but we gannot wonder, as they are all English. It thers fs AY Wohder itis that this latest Eog- lish enterprise, the so-¢alled French -cable, never touches British territory. Remove tHe Dory From CoaL.—Not out of “reciprocity” or good will towards Nova Scotia or any such nonsense, but because it is an intolerable burden on the people and taxes them for the benefit of those wholesale plua~ derers, the coal men in Pennsylvania. SzveRAL A No. 1 SHarks were caught in the East river the other day; and this fact in the papers might be very interesting reading to the hundreds of ten year old shavers who swim at the dumping place by Roosevelt street ferry—if only the said shavers ever read the papers, MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES, Bryants’ Minstrels perform at Taylor Hall, Tren ton, on Monday next. Professor Risley’s troupe of “Imperial Japa’ ate spinning their tops at the Crystal Palace, London, Jinks Lingard, with his “Pluto” and brigade of biondes, will commence an engagement at the Holll- day theatre, Baltimore, on neat Monday evening. ‘The damage done at Niblo’s by the explosion om last Monday nignt has been repaired and precaa- tions have been taken by the management to guard. tn tuture against occurrences of a similar nature. ‘The revival of “East Lynue’’ at the Grand Opera House has drawn large audiences for the last two nights, Mis3 Lucille Western's engagement has up to the present time been very successfal, Mr. W. R. Floyd as Cynosure and Miss Annie De- land as Mrs. Apex, in the comedy of “Self,” now on the boards at Wallack’s, with Mr. John E. Owens as John Unit, contribute in no small degree to the suc. cess of the piece. Mr. Floyd affects the atrs of the “heavy swell’? and the graces of a Parisianize’ American to perfection, while Miss Deland, tn the role of @ would-be leader of fashion, acts with @ naturalness which, to say the least, is as enjoyaule as charming, and she, furthermore, dresses her character with exceedingly good taste, two qualities rarely combined in an actress of the modern school, aud but seldom found nowadays upon the boards of metropolitan theatres. Chang, the Chinese giant, reputed to be eight feet six tnches high, 1s at present rambling about in this vicinity, exciting more curlosity than fear. He comes to this country to exhibit nimself, and. will receive visitors at an early day at Wood’s Museum, He ts accompanied by his wife, a little almond-eyed creature not quite six feet high. Mile. Josephine Morlacchi, one of the brightest and Most artistic children of Terpsichore who has. ever visited this country, has completed her arrange- ments and her troupe for the fall and winter season, She commences next week, at the Boston theatse, a long engagement. She will then travel through the ee cities in the West and South, The special featare of her season will be the union of arama and ballet in pieces in which she will sustain the ieading réles, Her company ta carefully selected andcomt- rises @uch artists as the Maazeri sisters, Sev, fant aud Ivers, besides an excelient corps de ete Signor 0; 1 has been en; for the season as leader of the orchestra at 10's. His concerts at Long Brauch during the summer have beea very successful, Mlle, Emile Knaress, the eminent pian- Ist, has been one of their principal attractions, A complimentary benefit to Signor Operti takes piace ‘on the i2th snat, at the Continental, Long Branch, ‘The next aeason at the Waveriey theatre will be inaugurated on the 23d of angoe with a firs vartety company, under Mr. Clinton Eddy’s m: amoug the attractions oftered will be thay eLingard,” @ Miss Anno Hindie, whose rapid change of character anJ costu ae ained her considerable popularity ia kK Carroli and Sam Kyao, two Naw. are algo engaged. Mile. Schneider's phrenelic dancing brought. her into alarming perli on the night of the 2ist of July as the St. James theatre, London, It was during tus gaturnalia of the last act of ‘‘Orphée aux Enters,» where Eurydice breaks Out ina cancan More mad and vulgar than tte mad and vulgar tribe. Fling ag and Kicking her dress about as usual, she fung of kicked it into a tray of colored fire which was tara ing near the wings to heighten the eect of acene, In an instant the light gauzy dress surive up in a blaze which seemed to 8 the actress ¢ pietely. The audience shrieked; the actors rusty forward, and several gentlemen sprang trout atalis fo the stage and Hun M3 Of the Bt ing Burydice, When the Ss parout t was found that Mile. Schpeder s u + She waa a @ de ¢ perhaps, When the cuder fell frow