The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1869, Page 6

0 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN. STREET. JAMES ‘GORDON BENNETT, VROPRIBTOR. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume NXXIV.... T3 THI EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hiocory DiccoRY Dock. SaaS Wood's MUSEUM AND TH Broadway on wad evening M BOOTHS THEATRE, 2 Riv Van Winkix, BOWERY THEATRE, Row; 08, Wit AND THE Way—Jacg Bowery. —Mysraniks OP CAR GRAND 2 and 23d street CENTRAL 2th and Beth sts. SE, 20h Bowery.—Cowto 20 MINSTRELSY, 2c, OPPRA HOUSE, Br ContRst FoR THE CHAM NEW YORK BCIENCr Ani A S&UM OF ANATOMY, 615 Broadway.— LADIES! NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Broadway. —Festates ONLY IN ATTENDANCE, TRIPLE SHEET, New Yerk, Tuesday, August 16, ISG9 Enrope. ‘The cable telograms are dated Au Twenty thovsand Spanish troops a tto Cuba in Septe: r. The first bu: Sortes On assembyi king. The government requires the bishops to what steps the. taken to restrain aisioyaliy among seized in Madri lists were taken prisoners last w and them shot, Another Carlist plot has been dis in Madrid The nov nerican Consnl Genera! at Paris has re- ceived bis éxequator. Sixty-two miners in te De- Partmeut of the Lolre have been tried and tmpris- oned for noting, 1 of the Austro-Hungarian Reichs- Important session uy, during “tof the Foreign Minister was dis Baron Beust defended the pubiication cussed. Of the red book, Cuba, The Cuban Junta in this city yesterday received a mail from President Cespedes which contained news Of great importance. Puerto Principe 1s vo be at- tacked oa the 15th inst.; the attacking Lorce are only awaltiog the arrival of artillery, which has been re- cently landed. The whole number of vessels so far Janded in Cuba with men and supphes for the revo- lutionists is nine. The whole numper of filibusters ), Mostly Americans. General Quesada 7,000 men, well armed and sup- Pled, besides 8,400 men enrolled who have po arms except the machew® The army is in good neulth and has a supcrabundance of provisions. Miscellaneous. Seflor Mariscal, the new Mexican Minister, arrived in Washingtou yesterday and presented 1s creaen- tials at the State Department. He will probably be received by the President to-day. Sefior Francisco Gomez da Va cio, commissioner under the claims aiso arived yesterday morning. It is ome didleulty may’arise in organizing a, a8 the Mexican commissioner ob- poinément of an American wapire, and a commissioner has no wish to see ‘ position. Sefor Palacio says that 4 claims against our goveroment wil of onr own citizens against Mexico, It the commission will coatinue «wo or ‘TYhere has been achange of base m the Susque- hanna Ratiroad war, active operations having been transterred from Aloany to Binghamton. Yesterday the Sheriff of Broome county seized the office and attached the roilmg stock of the company at Bing- hamton on the authority of a writ of Judge Barnard, placing Mr. Vantyle, of Einghamton, im charge of the ofMce. Tyo engines were seized oy the Sheriff, and the passenger train was sent out under charge ‘of an Erte conductor and drawn by an Bric engine. Mr. Fisk, as receiver, has appointed Superintendent Pratt, of the Erie road, superintendent of the Sus- quehanna road. Several counterfelt coupons, paid by the Assistant Treasurer in this city, were received at the Trea- surer’s office in Washington. They are }thographs, and poorly executed. General Canby has issued an order revoking so much of an order issued by General Stoneman per- mitting certata officers who could not take the test oath to huld offices to which they were elected. All persons hoiding office and who cannot take the test oath ure to be at once removed, Oliver Ames, Presidentof the Union Pacific Rail- road, denies the rumor that bis road has issued bonds for 100 miles more than has been completed. He says tuat, on the contrary, the Union Pactfic Railroad have not soid as many bonds as they are entitled to issue by $1,000,000, On Friday last James H. Day, formerly private secretary to Colonel Ryan, made his appearance at the Clifton House, Niagara Falls, with leiters pur- porting to be written by the Cuban Junta, urging the Colonel to return to thia city immediately with Day. The Colonel suspected a trap and accused Day of treachery, which the latter finally contessed, Ryan became so incensed that he at once gave Day ad unmerciful horsewhipping. and only desisted When the guests of tue hotel interfered, The auncxationists of Nova Scotia are divided in regard to the course to be pursued in securing an- exation to the United States. One party tavor a fodta, direct annexation movement, and are deter- mined pon nothing less than complete severance from Greal »yitain. The other party advocate an antertor policy of inj pendence as certain to lead to athe desired result. The receipts from the internal Fevatne "1s season are much higher than the returns exhinied a» [Wis period last year. For some time past they hate averaged $600,000 per day, and yesterday they were Within @ fraction of $1,000,000, ‘The Fourth of July was enthusiastically celebrated ip Sitka, Alaska, St. John’s Day was also duly observed by the Masons, who gave a picnic, which ‘was attended by the school children, iadies, clergy and municipal authorities. ‘The emigration of French Canadians to the United States causes much concern in Quebec, ana a public meeting has been called in that city to consider the best means of remedying the evil. As Thomas Gilmartin, of Gleveland, Ohio, was attempting to enter the house of his father, early yesterday morning, bis father heard him, and think- ing it was a burglar, fired a shot, killing his son in- stantly. ‘The California Pioneers Association of San Fran- cisco, composed of persons who settled in California prior to 1850, purpose taking an excursion by rail to New York the ensuing fall. Most of the Pioneers have not visited the Eastern States for a period of borhan isp ‘The City. The President arrived in this city late youterday NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, afternoon and procecded at once to the residence of his brother-in-law, Mr. Corbin, At twenty minutes Past nif o'clock the President, accompanied by Secretary Fish and General Porter, left for Wash. ington. The ceremony of breaking ground for the building of the new Post OMce was duly performed yesterday morning. The first shovel full of earth was turned by Colonel Josepa Dodd, the oldest attaché of the Post OMce in this city, having been employed in the office since the year 1816. The tailors’ strike continues, the journeymen showing no signs of receding in their demands, About 3,000 strikers formed m procession yesterday morning and marched to City Hall Park, where they were addressed by Nelson W. Young, President of the Worktngmen’s Union, and by several other Speakers. About 400 members of the craft from Newark joined the procession, the strike having ex- tended to that city, 3 In the Superior Court Judge Cardozo yesterday AUGUST 10, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. white men—to give their political acts sub- stance and reality. Hence came republican platforms so purged of the offensiveness of radicalism that Southern democrats could stand upon them without loss of caste or loss of self-respect; and hence also came demo- cratic utterances that were not mere repeti- tions of the old secession gabble, nor even echoes of the Northern copperhead press. Thus was gained a ground of much importance between the men who could put the Southern States in satisfactory relation with the general government and the men who could really secure the voices of the people. From a coali- tion between these everything was to be ex- pected, and everything came, No other party has any standing in the presence of the one delivered an opinion im te cases of certain parties against the Merchants’ Union Express Company, argued before him some three months since, deny- ing the application to remove Mr. Allen, the receiver, and to appoint a successor. derer and outiaw, came up before Judge McCune yesterday morning on writ of habeas corpus. ‘The case being called on and the accused not being present the Judge demanded that he snould be Produced, and adjourned the case until the after- noon, before whom the examination of tue priscner was pending, ordered, as @ matter of courtesy to the Court, vaat Pratt be taken before Judge McCunn, noufying the Judge that Pratt's examination was bemg held before him, the Commissioner. the reassembling of the Court Prati was present, and Judge MeCunn remanded the prisoner to the custody of the Untted States authorities, agains: the prisoner is saul to be overwhelming, and a requisition will be immediately forwarded trom Texas for his rendition, deaiers, of Leonard street, suspended yesterday. ‘Their labilittes are said to exceed $2,000,000, the Hightands, ing the passengers out of their berths. Fortunately the steamer received little damage. ship Cimbnia, Captain Haack, will leave Hoboken at at two P. 3 mouth, Eng will close at the Post Office at twelve M. yesterday, and, with a fair supply on sale, the mar- changed. a l6c., fair to good, 4c. a 15e., and inferior to ordi- “nary lve. a ise, Me. a ldc. prices w prime and extra, $75 a $85 for fair to good, and $45 a $70 for inferior to common. better demand, and prices were higher, especialy for prime stock. lle, a12),¢., and inferior to good at 8c. a 10. Sheep were selling moderately at 6c. a 7c. for prime and extra, 5c. a 634¢. for fair to good, and 4c. a 4},¢. for Inferior and common, while lambs were quite steady at Tc. a9. Swine were dull and prices Were nominal at 10c. a 10};c.; the arrivals were 8,787 head, all for the combination of slaughterers. of Schuyler county; Judge D, Towle, of Raleigh, N. J. Corse, of Chicago; Z, Pratt, of Prattsviile, and J. M. Scovil, of Camden, N.J., are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Elmira; Dr. Wallace, of Philadelphia, and E. P. Crosby, of Hartiord, are at the Astor House. United States Navy, and L. H. Kellogg, of Mil- waukce, are at the Hoffman House. ger, of the French Legation, avd C. Townsend, of Newport, R. I., are at the Albemarie Hotel. of Montana; J. B. Campbell and J. Barrett Cohen, of Charlestown, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, House. of Louisville, and J. F, Butterwortn, of Newburg, are at the Coleman House. the United States Army; Professor Reid, of Massa- chusetia, and Dr. King, of Toronto, are at the St. Charles Hotel, ters, arrived in this city yesterday from Antwerp. Count Toreane and Count Dironne for Newport, J. Bardwell tor Boston, Minister Ruiz for Saratoga and W, 8, Cathbertson for Albany. The Southern ElectionaThe Maddie Among Tennessee makes a material change in the Southern States. the bone of the people that despite the suffer- ings bronght upon them by their faith in its thus formed. Radicals of the savage sort, who thought that all depended on an appeal to the hatred of the nigger—the stronger the better—are swept out of sight, and the rabid Southerner who wants to have the war over again is buried as effectually as he wasin a Confederate bombproof during the war. In the slaughter of these extremes is the best security that reconstruction will take no back- ward steps. What effect will these Southern events have on parties inthe North? It seemed at one mo- ment as if they were to be tremendously dis- astrous to the republicans by leading Northern democrats to act on the shrewd example of their Southern fellows. Witness the nomina- tion of Rosecrans by the democrats in Ohio. Fancy the copperheads seeing some good in the hero of Stone river. What a chapter of party history is there!’ There was a similar tendency in Pennsylvania, but the good im- pulse to nominate Hancock failed of its point; for Mr. Packer is very rich, and a rich man is a wonderful thing in Pennsylvania. Even despite the suspicion with which the country very justly regards everything that now comes before it in the name of democracy, it is im- possible not to see that if the democrats should make their appeal on such names as Hancock and Rosecrans—names that guarantee the grand points of patriotism and unswerving fidelity to the national unity—they would seri- ously trouble the republicans in all the great States. Indeed, this possibility, in view of what has just taken place in the South, has thrown the republican leaders into no little alarm, They are ina semi-demoralized state, with the consciousness that their party has in a great degree lost its affinity with the popular will, and the fall elections in the great States must be over before any man can be certain that they have not abundant cause for their uneasiness. . The case of John #. Pratt, the reputed Texan mur- During the recess Commissioner Osborne, Upon The testimony The firm of Bowers, Beekman & Co., dry goods Tne steamboat St. Jobn on her upward trip y night collided with a collier just above The shock was quite severe, throw- ‘The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- to-day for Hamburg, touching at Ply- ‘and, and Cherbourg, France. The mails Beef cattic were only moderately sought after Was heavy, though prices generally were un- Prime and extra steers were quoted, 15¢. ‘The most of the sales were at , and the average price was about cows were slow of sale, and nominal $90 a $120 for at Veal calves were in Prime and extra were selling at The Decadence of Our Watering Places. The fact can be no longer doubted that the watering places this summer have been a com- parative failure, For some years past the number of visitors has been gradually declin- ing, but this year it appears to have reached the minimum. It is true that Fashion still makes an effort to maintain her dominion on the old-time theatres where she was accus- tomed to be worshipped with an almost insane fanaticism, and it is true, also, that invalids and hypochondriacs still hasten to the mineral waters—chalybeate, sulphur and magnesia— just as the victims of old sought the pool of Bethesda, to cure all their ills, But there is a decided falling off, even in the most favorite resorts, such as Saratoga and Long Branch, although the decay of watering place excite- ment is perhaps less visible at these two points than elsewhere. This may be accounted for in a measure by the peculiarities which they possess. Nowhere on our coast does the Atlantic roll in more superbly nor present a more boundless horizon of sky and water than at the Branch. The waters of Saratoga, which, in thejr aggregate capacity, are pre- sumed to be a panacea, in fact to embrace a cure for all the disorganizations of the human constitution, can be found nowhere else on this Gontinent, and hence, for these reasons, to say nothing of the Presidential ovations at the Branch and the excitement of the races at Saratoga, the decrease of visitors is not 80 great. If we were to trace out the causes why our watering places have not been very extensively patronized this season we might find them first in the lateness and unnsual cold and wet of the Summer, the whole month of June and nearly the whole of July having passed over without that accelerating motive power which drives people from the cities, namely, a high ther- mometer and an oppressive atmosphere, and next, to the fact that a summer season at the watering places is found to be a very expen- sive luxury for people of family, and that hotel life in the country is regarded by many as a bore, and not much conducive to comfort. Hence a great number of people prefer to visit Europe during the summer, finding upon close Promfeut Arrivals in the City. Judge Noal Davis, of Albion; General G. I. Mayer, eneral Benjamin Le Jeose, of Ohio; General A. B. Mullitt, of Washington; A. D. Webster, of Mayor Beach, of Troy; Paymaster Dack, of the Count Faverney, Chargé @’Affairs, Ch. Beran- Major Thoureycraft, of England; Dr. G. B. Graaff, O. W. Peabody, of Boston, 1s at the Brevoort Dr. E. T. Wright, of Hartford; J. A. McClelland, Colonel Stewart and Major George Butterfield, of The Stamese twins, Chang and Eng, and daugh- Prominent Departares. Sefior Roberts, Spanish Minister, for Washington; the Republicans. The result of the elections in Virginia and political positions of those States, and there is a promise that it may do much more. There was a common difficulty in nearly all the Democracy was so bred in many cheats any ticket that bore only the name of democracy could carry the day even with nigger suffrage in full operation. But what use could be made of such victories? Representatives ghosen by democratic votes were certain to be refused admission to Con- gress for a good reason or a bad one. Consti- tutions made by democrats would fot be looked at by the men of the party dominant in the national councils. Either the men that demo- cratic victories put in. power in the Southern States, being mostly small creatures, could not for fear of inconsistency make any terms with the party in power at the capital, or the men at the capital, small creatures also, would not treat with the democrats, Democratic victories were an obstacle, and democrats themselves saw that, to make any advance, they must consent not to assert their power. They consented to play they were dead, in order that they might get constitu- tions, governments and their places in Con- gress by radical triumphs. But even then the event was not satistactory. Radical victo- ries were secured by nigger votes—and the votes of a horde of political vultures cast out by the North—and they were shams, as the whois Country saw and felt. Every Southern election, therefore, Fesulted either in the choice of governments worse that udeless, because Congress would not recognize them, or governments that had no respect from the country, because they were shams, not chosen by the people and not representing the people. That difficulty is at an end now. {It was in- evitable that sooner or later the true spirit of the politician would come into play—the spirit that looks upon all party relations, positions and platforms as good only so far as they tend to secure success. Democrats saw that they must abate their ancient éxtremity and acknowledge all the results of the war so far as it should be necessary to induce republicans of a moderate type to act with them, that they might not be forever shut out in the cold; and republicans saw that they must secure the ac- cession of democrate—that is, of Southern calculation that it does not cost any more money to see the Old World, while the variety is infinitely greater and the results a times more satisfactory. In ali these facts can usand be found the reasons why our watering places and other summer resorts during the present season are not in as flonrishing a condition as usual, and probably may not be again, until some greater attractions are offered and @ good many reforms adopted. —— anne Spain and the Carlists. A cable despatch informs ug that the Carlist trouble has not yet ended in Spain. We have @il along known that the Church was on the side of legitimacy and absolutism, Don Carlos is the representative of both. It appears now that the Church party has taken an active part in some of the recent risings. The govern- ment has in consequence taken severe mea- sures. A decree has been promulgated order- ing bishops to recommend to the. priests of their respective dioceses obedience to the laws, and threatening to deprive all who prove refractory of the right to preach and to hear confessions. This is severe, but it is right and proper. If tho Church goes beyond its own sphere and intermeddles with politics it cannot blame the government for taking a similar liberty. This decree means open war between Church and State. It is difficult to predict what may be the immediate conse- quences; but it is not difficult to see that the Church in the long run must yield, In all the Catholic countries—in Italy, in Austela, in Spain, in Portugal—the Church, must take’ a subordinate place. A free church within a liberally constituted civil society is all that any church ean now hope to be. Tho dags of Romish supremacy are ended, Secretary Fish Defining His Position. The Secretary of State defines his position on the Cuban question very freely and fully in our special correspondence which we published yesterday from Garrisons. He tells us what the views and feelings of the administration and of the individual members of it are with regard to the Cuban struggle for independence and the ultimate destiny of Cuba. He gives us also an insight of the schemes and dodges of the Spanish Minister to make the United States government an instrument in support- ing Spain and against the patriot Cubans. He explains, too, the ground our government took for seizing the Spanish gunboats, and makes a very good case. In all this and in favoring the public with such an explanation of the position the government occupies on the Cuban question Mr. Fish shows his good sense. But more than that, he is inspired with a vigor and determination which we hardly expected to see in him. Still he manifests uneasiness at the impatience of the public, and makes a lengthy plea for the tardy action .or want of action on the part of the govern- ment in favor of Cuba, His conservatism is excessive, for in his zeal to make the United States appear very respectable in the eyes of the world he may lose sight of the opportunity to accomplish an important object. He may let the suitable time for carrying out a great national policy pass by, and be the indirect cause of unnecessary bloodshed and ruinous devastation in Cuba. If the neutrality which he proclaims to be his policy between Spain and the Cubans be enforced, that will be an important step, and would amount to a quasi recognition of the belligerent rights of the Cubans; but if Spain can buy arms and other munitions of war in this country and ship them freely to Cuba, and the Cubans cannot, that is a one-sided sort of neutrality. Non-intervention, he says, will be the policy of the administration until the pro- visional government of the patriots of Cuba manifests signs of a national existence. Are not these signs manifest enough already? We think that the people of this country would respond “yes” with singular unanimity. All great governments strain a point in such cases when the national will urges it and where na- tional interests and policy are in question. Much as we commend Mr. Fish’s outspoken language and views and the action he has taken so far, we fear his excessive conser- vatism amounts to causeless timidity. It is to be hoped, however, that the government will not let the cause of Cuba and republican liberty suffer by any unnecessary delay in formally recognizing the Cubans as bellige- rents or the independence of Cuba, The Central and South American ‘iews. The news from Central and South America is, with one exception, of the usual unsatis- factory character. The exception we allude to is Chile, the most successful and progressive of all our Southern neighbors. The Mexican frontier bordering Guatemala is suffering from Indian depredations. The Indian inhabitants of two or three towns there have risen in in- surrection against the whites, murdered the principal inhabitants, and, after obtaining re- inforcements from other points till they num- bered ten thousand, engaged, though unsuc- cessfully, with the government forces, But though thus. routed the depredations they continue to commit make them a source of terror to the whole frontier. From Nica- ragua we learn that the rebellion there is still formidable. A French company is about to commence work on a canal through that terri- tory, connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific, the republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica having wisely granted the company all the privileges and guarantees they demanded. Had the republic of Colombia acted in the same liberal spirit towards our government when we proposed to cut a canal through the Isthmus of Panama such a project as this would never have been contemplated. From Peru, the chief theatre of last year's destructive earthquakes, we hear of another severe shock of earthquake felt at Iqutque. The volcano of Isluga is in constant action, and partly from this and from other prognosti- cations the inhabitants apprehend with terror ‘Such another tidal wave and earthquake as spread ruinin their course last year. In Ecna- dor earthquakes are repeatedly felt all along the coast, and, though less severely, in the in- terior. Civil war still rages there, and trials by court martial and the severest military des- potism have usurped the place of the govern- ment. Civil war, insecurity to life and pro- perty and military instead of civil rule check the spirit of commerce throughout these coun- tries and retard that era of prosperity which they might reasonably hope for under a firm and just government. Tarkey and Egypt~The Prospect of Pence. The news from Constantinople shows that the difficulty between the Sublime Porte and the Viceroy of Egypt is in a fair way of being peacefully settled. This is the result of the firm attitude of the great Powers of Zurope, War in the East at thig {jgfe could not be per- mitted. Tog many grave complications affect- ing foreign nations as well as Yarkey and Egypt are involved. That part of the world is really under the protection of Europe, th nominally Turkey is independent and Egypt fas an independent goy: ft movement of a formidable tae ee from Naples to Malta, to be joined by the At- lantic squadron, together with the fleets of France and of other Powers in the Mediterra- nean, will keep the peace between Abdul Aziz and Ismail. The latter will go to Constanti- nople, it is said, and there make explanations, and the former will be So will for the present, Hoatie hetarie in hk East. But this can only be a temporary set- tlement. The future ot Egypt, in consequence of the Suez Canal and the new empire that must grow up there, will lead in time to other and more serious complications. However, sufficient for the day is the evil thereof, and the European world may rejoice that war is likely to be averted for the present, Broken.—The United States authorities have been about to break ground this great while for the construction of the new Post Office, and at last this breaking is actuallyg| done. ' The first spades went into the soil yesterday. As the line drawn includes the lower angle of the Park we suppose the com- mission was not able to arrange with the city authorities for the change of site, acannon tel tate aeiiaiaiainmee Laon The Obio Democratic Diftculty. The declination of General Rosecrans to serve as their candidate for Governor creates & difficulty among the Ohio democracy. The General telegraphs to them from San Fran- cisco that he resigned a very desirable position in the army and left his State (Ohio) to secure at least the possibility of fulfilling duties deemed sacred to his creditors and family, and that these duties now forbid him the honor of leading the democracy in the pending can- yass. This settles the question involved, and it is so neatly and delicately done as to sweeten the disappointment to the Ohio democ- racy. But for all this they are left by this de- clination of General Rosecrans in a very bad way. As the democratic leader he would have flanked the republican candidate on the war question and silenced the cry of copperhead- ism. In short, as one of the half dozen of our foremost Union generals against the late rebel- lion, in his splendid services, he would proba- bly have carried off the popular balance of power in Ohio; and it was this belief that secured his nomination over all competitors and all the devices of the unreconstructed cop- perheads to supplant him in the late Demo- cratic Convention. Now, as he positively declines the honor, the question recurs, who shall take his place? The platform upon which General Rosecrans was nominated, we presume, will stand, The leading positions are that greenbacks, the general currency of the country, are good enough for the “bloated bondholders,” that negro suffrage is not to be tolerated, and that the fifteenth amendment, establishing universal negro suffrage under the power of Congress, will be fought by the Ohio democracy to ‘‘the last ditch.” This platform, with General Rosecrans as their standard bearer, gave the Ohio democracy two strings to their bow. It identified them, with the Union party of the war,.and it embraced a peace offering to Vallandigham, with which Vallandigham and his followers were satisfied. But now what is to be done? The party State Conven- tion will probably be called together again, and Pendleton, as the last resort, may be called to the rescue. Within the strict lines of the party he is, by all odds, their most avail- able man; and as a candidate for the Presi- dential successién his friends, perhaps, may think it wise to keep him prominently before the people, sink or swim. But if the party are still intent upon a military hero General Morgan, the present Member of Congress from the Columbus district, may be called upon. As the hero of the Cumberland Gap retreat from the overwhelming army of Bragg—a very clever military exploit—he will answer to. dispel the offensive party odor of copper- headism. But neither Pendleton nor Morgan will fill the place of Rosecrans. Indeed, any other democratic leader in Ohio will be over- shadowed by the party platform on negro suf- frage; and here the chances are now against the party. We say now, because, beginning with the old State rights faction of Virginia, the democracy of the South have taken a new departure in favor of negro suffrage and the fifteenth amendment. On this tack the Southern democrats, abandoning their old party notions, have, with the liberal republi- cans, assumed the position of an independent party, looking rather to General Grant’s ad- ministration than to the radical managers or the Northern democracy for ‘support. In ad- hering, then, to their opposition to negro suffrage the Ohio democracy repudiate the Southern democracy, and are weakened to this extent in the general estimate of the situa- tion, while the Ohio republicans are corres- pondingly strengthened in favor of negro suffrage. But if the Ohio democrats, in re- calling their State Convention, or through their State Central Committee, could only take a hint from the democrats of Virginia and Ten- nessee, and reshape their platform accordingly, they might sweep the field, and open the way for a great political revolution in Congress in 1870, and, perhaps, in the Presidency itself in 1872.’ We apprehend, however, that, as with the thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery, and the fourteenth, establishing equal civil rights to men of all colors, the Northern de- mocracy, including Ohio, will fight against the fifteenth, on negro suffrage, till fixed upon them, instead of seizing it and using it, as the democrats have been doing in the South. We fear, in a word, that the Ohio democrats will throw away another fine opportunity for a great victory. Toe Empress Eversis ano tue Usrrep Srares.—Rumor has it that the Empress Eugénie this season or next intends to make a visit to the United States, From the fact that she intends leaving Paris for her Eastern tour on the 24th inst. the chances are against our seeing her on this Continent this year. The proper time for her to visit us is when we have put on our summer attire and gone to dissipate at Saratoga, Newport, Long Branch and the other ‘‘baths and wells” of the New World. If #2 aus up her mui ind to come we promise eF, inthe name of the rtm Brain hearty welcome. We do not care much for royalty for its own sake; we do not set much value upon it; but we like to look upon its representatives. If she comes during the summer season, when our watering places are gayest, she will see much gallantry and more beauty than can be found in {a delle France, Soe shen she may she ot find that we know how to entertain an illustrious guest, and France aftd the Emperor will have fresh proof that we have not forgotten our earliest friend and ally. — AvstRIa TO Fravox.—The spéey of Baron Beust to the members of a delegation of thé Austrian Legislature, as reported by the French Adlaatic gable, is of much importance when taken in connection with the present condition and political relations of the great Powers of Europe, at home and with respect to each other. The Premier, if correctly reported, has made a most decided move to draw Austria still more completely from Germany and bind her more closely to France. He indicates, indeed, the approval of a Franco-Austrian alliance, which, if petfected, will be likely to evolve momentous consequences in the Old World, “Someraine tight and short, not lower than the knee, and claspiag the figure with equal grace and firmness.” This is description of the ladies’ bathing dreas just coming to the light in France; Consider the offeot of all this with water, 7 The Suez Canal as an Agent of Civile zation. After ages of bloodshed and misery the world has learned the fact that it is impossible to civilize a people by force. The thing can no more be done than can a law make good and moral citizens. The process in both cases must be gradual. People cannot be made religious by means of Sunday laws; they can not be beaten into civilization, The process that the original inhabitants of this country have undergone is a most striking evidence of the failure of the compulsory prin- ciple, We, or rather the European races and their descendants, have succeeded, after having spent nearly four hundred years in the effort, in almost exterminating the unfortunate victims and have in return given them only our worst vices. Who can trace in the now lazy, ignorant, good-for-nothing native inhabitant of Mexico or Peru the descendant of those men who built the marvellous cities that Cortez and Pizarro so effectually civilized out of exist- ence? Granting the Indians of Cooper to have been fair types of their race, what has civilization done in turning one of the Mobicans into the thieving vagabond that infests our Western frontier? It is true that the races not of the Caucasian type seem to have reached their final development long ago and that for many years they have been retrograd- ing. Some of these races are undoubtedly doomed to extinction; but contact with higher civilized types has almost invariably hastened the inevitable result. A different policy has, however, been inaugu- rated; we are pursuing a more humane course towards our Indiaus; England is commencing to see the necessity of doing more justice to her countless subjects in the East; she is also about to give up the ‘‘gunboat policy” in her relations with the Chinese, thanks to the ef- forts of one of our citizens; Japan is feeling the effects of an enlightened intercourse with more civilized nations, thanks again to the movement inaugurated by our government. Egypt for years past has felt the invigorating effect of intercourse with more highly devel- oped nations; she may thank her geographical situation for the fact that the compulsory course of treatment has not been insisted on in her case; the control of the overland route to the East has been of such great importance that no one Power has been allowed to monopolize it; her treatment has been dictated by the mutual jealousy of the doctors, and the same with Turkey. An illustration in one of the late English pictorial papers marks a new era; the subject is an immense boat load of Mohammedan pil- grims on their road to Mecca, being towed by asteamer through the Suez Canal. What an immense field of thought this subject presenta to the political philosopher! The highest ap- pliances of modern skill brought to bear to aid the descendants of the very men who for ages were the greatest terror to the ancestors of those who are now helping them on their pil- grimage—the Frank helping the Turk. What would the shade of Charles Martel, that*hera who saved France from the fierce followers of the false prophet, say to this? And what effect will this have on those very pilgrims— what effect upon Egypt herself—Egypt, the very mother of civilization, rich above all other lands in records of remote great- ness? What effect can it not fail of having? Fanaticism can never be subdued by force. There is no truer saying than “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church ;” but men are always most open to material arguments, and none could be more convincing than those which the Christian races are now putting before the East. Christianity to-day certainly possesses the monopoly of power, of intellect and of influence in the world. Christians are physically better off than the followers of other sects, have better houses, better food, are bet- ter paid for their work. The best argument with the heathen is to show him the condition of Christians compared to hisown. It must be better than our system, he naturally says, since these men enjoy the comforts of life in so much higher degree than I do. The Suez Canal, by showing them what Christian enterprise can accomplish, is worth a hundred missionaries. It produces respect for the system whose followers can produce such results; it excites their ambition by hold- ing forth to them the most tempting rewards should they embrace the religion whose disci- ples rule the world. And the great enterprise which will mark a wew era in commerce, which will produce new; developments of the utmost importance in, the political relations of the world, will also,be a most potent agent in the regeneration and conversion of Egypt, Asia Minor and Turkey, and throggh them will react on the vast interior regions.of Africa and Asia, Court Exiquerre in THe ANTIPopRs.—It appears by our late news from New Zealand that the Maori King refused to see the English Governor of the colony because the Duke of Edinburg, Prince Alfred of England, had not made a farewell call upon his Antipodean Maiesty on the occasion of his departure from that country or had not consented to an inter- view with him. The New Zealand sovereign, therefore, leaning upon his dignity, and imi- tating the example of his European brethren, resents the affront of the English Prince in true courtly style by sing to pay Te spects {0 the English he mete Feo regarded as another phase of the progress of “civilization.” When court etiquette, the deli- cate sensibilities and the rules and customs of refined life can reach a wild, uncouth chief in the deserts of New Zealand, and not a very obedient chief at that, what cannot we hope to accomplish with our semi-civilized negroes the South, surrounded as they are by the ko nece_of carpet-bag society? Forses.—Mr. Forbes, isin Madrid, it seems, and wants to buy Cubs. bas refused to sell Cuba to the United States, but Forbes thinks she may sell it to him, and “con- tinnes his negotiations.” What does Forbes want of Cuba, and will he take it to Boston bay if he gets it? Who is Forbes? Tuat Brakeman who, seeing the imminence of a collision ata point where two railroads cross, uncoupled his cars and slowed the latter end 80 as to make a gap that the train on the other track passed through, ought to be en- couraged, _ Unrury.—In Ecuador the Executive hae been invested with extraordinary powers to quell threatened disturbances, but “earth- quakes continue ta be felt,”