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The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the HERALD at the same price it is furnished tn the city. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. Brooztyn Cangigrs asp Newsmen will in future receive their papers atthe Braancn Orrice ortae New Yor«& Heratp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svnscriprions and all Ietters for the New York Hexarp will be teceived as above. Europe. The cabie telegrams are dated August 15. ‘The improvement in the rowing of the Harvard crew on the Thames is quite marked. Yesterday the hundredth anniversary of the First Napoleon's birthday was celebrated in Paris. The city was gay throughout the whole day and evening. ‘The Emperor issued a decree pardoning a number of persons accused of press and political offences. The Prince Imperial represented the Emperor at the camp at Chalons. ‘The Carlists are cropping up all over Spain. The government is considerably perplexed in conse- quence. Conflicts between the national troops and the revolutionists have occurred at various places witnin the last two days. A general movement on the frontier is anticipated. Cuba, The embargo at Havana on the telegraphic news reports has been removed by direction of the Cap- tain General. Despatches state that Jordan’s com- maad has been driven to the mountains and that the Manzanillo, Bayamo and Jiguani districts are compietely under Spanish control. Letvers re- ceived in Washington, however, say that the Spaviards were completely whipped by Jordan’s command near Holguin and lost 170 killed and about 700 wounded or deserted. Many slaves are Joining the Cubans. Generai Quesada is about to attack Nuevitas, and a fleet of transports is assem- bling in front of the town to remove the Spanish garrison. Miscellaneous. Diplomatic correspondence between Prince Kang, of China, and Minister J. Ross Browne, relative to the ill treatment of coolies in Pera, nas been re- ceived at the State Department in Washington. Minister Browne enclosed to the Prince a petition of the coolies, setting forth them sad condition and the horrible treatment they were subjected to, which had been sent to him by General Hovey, the United States Minister at Lima. Prince Kung repiied by asking that Minister Hovey investigate the matter Bnd assist the coolies until the Emperor was able to take direct measures. He proposes to instruct Mr. Burlingame and the other Chinese Ambassaaors in the matter. Generals Meade, Howard, Shaler, Barlow, Slocum, | Geary snd probably Generals Wright, Hancock,, Sykes and Schurz will be present at the reunton of officers at Gettysburg on the 23d inst., and also’ General Heth and a few minor officers of the Confed- erate lines who took part in the memorable battle, A postal convention has been arranged with Swit- gerland by which money can be transmitted between the Untted States and that country by means ofthe postal money system now in use here. ‘The propeller M. V. Schuyles was barned at Albany yesterday. She wes under way at the time and the passengers and crew had to leap overboard, making arrow escapes with thetr lives. It is said that several diplomats in Washington ‘who lived high last winter have disappeared recent- ly leaving heavy otlls unpaid. One representative had his bills paid afterwaras by his government, ‘which would not allow itself to be compromised: by is antics. Mark Twain has bought an interest in the Buffalo Express and will go on its editorial stam. The City Gemeral Witliam J. Nagle, one of the Fenians re- Jearjed some time ago from an English prison, was Kil’ jed yesterday by a fall from a window of his resi- Ae moe, 89 Madison street, Ohoy-Chew and Sing-Man, the Chinese merchants, ‘ged Mr. Leland’s country place at New Rochelle syesterday. ‘They will go to Loug Branch to-day and remain there for some time. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Sefior Roberts, Spanish Minister, ana Sefior Valles, Beoretary of Legation, and L. Smith, of the United Btates Army, are at the Albemarle Hotel, Colonel B. 8. Jameson, Colonel J. 0. Woodlands, Major J. H. Deal and Judge MoLane, of Texas; Rev, 4,8 Merkland, of Rnode Island; Coloue! H. Bacon, possible, since it is not desired by any consider- able number of the people of Spain and would be discountenanced by neighboring Powers. The Prince of Asturias stands a much better chance; and, if his election with Serrano as regent would be acceptable to Napoleon, as reported some weeks ago, his claims will be strongly pressed by the friends of dynastic suc- cession, a considerable number of the clerical party and the late adherents of Isabella's gov- ernment. progressive tendencies of the Spanish nation anything promising a continuance of the old régime will not meet with favor or support at the hands of the Cortes. ances entailed by the government of the ex-Queen will not readily be forgotten, and there is every reason to believe that Isabella and her family are doomed to private life, if not perpetual banishment. the Spanish throne, is pressing his claim with a zeal and obstinacy worthy of a better cause. His prospects, though gloomy enough, are more flattering now than at any previous time since the commencement of the insurrection. The government has done much to give vitality to a cause which promised at the outset to be a mere bagatelle. revival of the obnoxious martial law of April, 1821; the stricture imposed on the clergy and other oppressive measures have swollen the ranks of the Carlists until uprisings and battles are of frequent occurrence, and the utmost vigilance of the government is exercised to prevent the movement assuming proportions of a formidable revolution. The priests, as in the former Carlist war and sub- sequent revolts, are the most active agents in propagating the insurrectionary movement. They are encouraged by the partisans of Isa- bella, who are glad to embrace any opportu- nity to embarrass the government of Prim. The republicans, on the other hand, co-operate with the administration against Don Carlos. That Don Carlos people of Spain at this time we have no question; yet time has worked many changes ‘in governments under revolution, and time and a few victories may strengthen the Carlist movement until it becomes powerful and popu- lor. attempts at Strasbourg and Boulogne, yet he persisted until welcomed by seven millions of voters and crowned Emperor of the same people who received him at the outset asa criminal and an adventurer. ‘Metropolitan Hotel. Pay! Navy, and Colonels Dixon and Langdon, of England, are af the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Prominent Departares. Count Feverney and Oh. Beranger, for West Point; Colonel Stewart, for Buffalo; Colonel E, Whiteman, for Troy; Judge S. Weed, for Canada; General D. Livermore, for Boston, aud Major A. Deane, for Sarataga, The Aspirants to the Throne of Spain Princo Napoleon’s Prospects. Spain wants a king. The government of Prim and Serrano has been tried and found wanting. The unhappy condition of the coun- try calls for the discontinuance of an adminis- tration which, inaugurated under the most pro- pitious circumstances, has so long and signally failed in proving itself adequate to the exigen- cies of the situation or capable of developing the essential elements of order and good gov- ernment, The Captain General of Madrid spoke not unwisely or prematurely in declaring that, inasmuch as anarchy and disorder were everywhere prevalent, inasmuch as the con- stitution had proclaimed monarchy, the choice of a king was alike indispensable and impera- tive. Such is the now accepted alternative, andeuch the very important business to come before the Cortes in October. There will be no lack of candidates, and in the abundance of ma- terial presented for the manufacture of royalty, and the conflicting ideas and interests repre- sented by the architects of State who are to fashion the future incumbent of the throne of Spain, we may expect much perplexity and no little diplomatic wrangling ere an election will have determined upon a model calculated to meet the wishes of the nation. In the time intervening between the assem- bling of the Cortes Spain goes on increasing in troubles, harassed by feuds,gnd dissensions at home and misfortunes abroad. While it may be taken for granted that ntthing short of strong government and a monarch will give even a temporary quietus to the internal com- motions of Spain, it is difficult to surmise into whose hands, invested with regal power, the sceptre wrested from Isabella will fall. have no assurance as to who shall be the com- ing man, yet it is not improbable that approach- ing events will settle this question, and deter- mine beyond peradventure the popular claimant whose election will be forced upon the Cortes as @ matter of public necessity. The claims and merits of the aspirants will be thoroughly canvassed by their respective friends before the meeting of the Cortes. to speak of the prospects of some of the several candidates. We It is our purpose The rehabilitation of Isabella is next to im- Unless, however, we mistake the The many griev- Don Carlos, the active aspirant militant to Injudicious legislation, the the is not desired by the Louis Napoleon was less favored in his It is reported that Prim intends offering the Spanish crown to King Luis of Portugal, in which event the two countries would be gov- erned ina manner similar to Austria and Hun- gary, the king dividing his residence between Madrid and Lisbon. true ; but it is to be presumed that neither Prim nor Serrano would take such a step without consulting the Cortes, and it is hardly probable that the latter would vote the humiliation of the Spanish people by choosing a ruler from a third or fourth rate power. Portugal has quite This may or may not be enough todo te take care of ite own govern- ment, without shouldering the burden and troubles of its peninsular neighbor. The fusion of Spain and Portugal under the ‘Iber- ian Republic” appears more plausible than the union of the two under one King, and that King Dom Luis of Portugal. Prince Alfred of England has been men- tioned as & candidate for royalty in Spain. But, independent of the powerful opposition France would likely make to the nomination and elec- tion of a British prince, public sentiment in Spain would scarcely entertain the idea of such an arrangement, even were it accompanied with all the persuasive inducements of pro- mised aid and comfort from Great Britain. The next, and really the most plausible candi- date we have to consider, is Prince Napoleon of France, Although little has been said respecting | the cousin of the Emperor as candidate for the Of Sax Francisco; Judge A. Kirkland, of Cleveland, and Cplonel J, R. Bramerd, of Springfield, are at the- J.8. Cunningham, of the United States NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1869. portunity for another coup @'état, which would serve’, tention ” his people from home grievances, tend to restéxze the prestige of the Napoleonic dynasty, and an.°d France o valuable ally in Prim and Olozaga would S4ppor$ this cand dature if made under the auspces of Napoleod. General Prim is now in Paris, more likely hunting a king in the person of a Bonaparte than a Bourbon. Apart from the advantages which Spain would realize in having the support of France with a Bonaparte on the throne the people, in view of the disordered condition of the ceantry. and the gloomy prospects ahead, might be induced to acccept with good grace an arrangement which is certainly preferable to a con- tinuance of misfortune under either the re- gency, Don Carlos, Prince of Asturias or Montpensier, and may, perhaps, prove the very best that could have been effected. Prince Napoleon is a man of considerable ability, and large and liberal views. Indeed, he has been considered somewhat of an ex- tremest in liberal ideas in France. He is a good Catholic and would unite tho clerical party in hissupport, Backed by the Emperor of the French, and endorsed by Prim and Olo- zage, his administfation would surely give promise of a healthier and better state of gov- ernment than Spain has realized for many years. At all events, French policy will be dominant in Spain, and ite future government will no doubt be modelled under the inspiration of Napoleon. The growing popularity of Prussia and the influence of Russia and Great Britain on the Peninsula will be checkmated when- ever the Emperor sees fit to make a move in that direction. The firat Napoleon, in his con- quests of war, provided sceptres for his family. He made his brother Louis King of Holland, his son King of Rome, and his brother Joseph first King of Naples, and then King of Spain, May it not have occurred to Napoleon TIL. that he should also make provision for his family, and what better could be offered than the Spanish throne for his imperial cousin? If Prince Napoleon should be put forward under the sanction and support of the Emperor it is to be hoped that the independence of Cuba will have been recognized, and its annexation provided for by our government, before Span- ish and French troops, under the direction of amaster mind, shall be sent to compel the submission of the ‘‘ever-faithful isle,” The Coal Monopolists and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The people, suffering from the high price of coal imposed upon them by an infamous com- bination of railroad and other monopolists, will read with satisfaction the letter. of our Wash- ington correspondent, published to-day, which shows that one great railroad company at least refuses to join this conspiracy against the public. Mr. Garrett, the President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has had the good sense and public spirit to let out the se- cret of the monopolists and to oppose their schemes for taxing the people. In bis report of the business of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road Company he tells us that the ‘‘coal car- rying interests of Pennsylvania have urgently pressed his company to advance materially its tariff rates.” It was “‘urged that an advance of one dollar a ton, which would make a dif- ference in the net receipts of the company of $150,000 a month, the great demand for coal would still cause the full capacity of the company to be used.” To gain one million eight hun- dred thousand dollars a year was a great temptation offered by the monopolists to join their infamous combination. But Mr. Garrett, looking to the interests of the public, and, as we believe, to the interests of his com- pany in the end, refused to join the monopo- lists. The comparison he makes between the rates charged by other railroad companies and his own shows still more his liberal conduct and large views in the management of the Bal- timore and Ohio road. We call the attention of our readers to his statement of the facts. -It is gratifying to see, too, that the business of this company is increasing very much. For the ten months ending the 3ist ult. it had car- ried 1,088,304 tons of coal to market, which was nearly double the amount of the preceding ten months. We hope the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will quadruple or more this amount in future, and thus check the rapacious mono- polists of the Pennsylvania railroad companies. The Pennsylvanians are the most unscrupulous of monopolists, and are continually assailing Congress to tax the people of the whole coun- try for their special benefit. It is understood that they are now preparing to have a most formidable lobby at Washington the coming winter for this purpose. We hope Congress will have the good sense to spurn these men and to repeal at once the duty on coal. This is an article of prime necessity—as much 80 a8 the bread we eat—and to tax it for the benefit of a few Pennsylvanians is a monstrous injus- tice to all the rest of the community. Dent ON Mississtrr1.—Dent is called Grant’s brother-in-law; but the truth is that, 80 far as politics go, it is Grant that is the brother-in-law. Dent is the true man, and certainly understands the position of parties in Mississippi and the needs of the crisis much better than his relative, the President, * His letter to Grant puts the Pres{dent’s support of the extreme radicals in a clear light’as a mischievous step. His classification of the present political elements in the State indi- cates that the people there are rallied not against those who fought for the Union, nor against men of Northern birth nor against re- publicans, but solely against men who urge @ proscriptive policy in reconstruction, and it ought to be considered a great error that Grant has taken the Wendell Phillips side in this difference. Caxpy's PLax.—It is evident now how it ts intended to defeat the popular will in Virginia, and to declare on the part of the administra- tion that it will not accept the only reconstrue- tion that is possible, All members of the Le- gislature are to be brought up to a sort of legal five-barred gate in the shape of the iron- clad oath, and if there are any who cannot jump it, or will not try, then the candidate who received the next greatest vote is to haye the seat, This is the patent plan to make the radical, | throne of Spain, it fs just possible that the man at the Tuileries has been debating the subject in: his own mind, and may be watching an op- a remedial agent in diverting the at- case of need. It has been whispered that both candi- minority victorious, the minority being always Gold for California—Sending Coals to Newcastle. Tho Administration Divided: At length there is a very serious difficulty in Calffornia supposes that she is a little better | the Cabinet; thatisto say in the administration ; than other States and that the money which does very well for them is not good enough for her; so she plumes herself upon her coin cut rency and now wants to borrow from us the specie to keep up her pretence. She will be richer than we are if we will lend her the money to It seems there is plenty of col be rich with. jin up in the United States Sub-Trea- sury in 1 Rade Fa n is to be carried irom here to that city, Why will not the gov- ermment accommodate the San Francisco mer- chants” No doubt the attitude of the people of the rictt Pacific State in regard to gold and the currency is more or less in hostility to the national finances, and the government ought not to be requ! 0 go out of its way to keep alive an clement of disaffection; but we hope the government will not insist upon this course with a view to compelling the Californians to take their little share of the national burden in the matter of paper money, for the result would be not the reduction of the Californians, but a return in a small degree to the financial system of the ages that preceded the invention of “exchange.” Give the Knickerbockers a Chance. The politicians all over the country are con- tinually throwing out baits to catch the votes of the various class interests that are ready to be caught, as boys are taught pigeons are, by throwing salt on their tails. At one time the ‘wirepullers are at work to catch, as it is called, the Irish vote, at another the German vote, then the nigger vote, the labor vote, the temperance vote, the Woman's Rights vote, and pretty soon we shalt have traps laid to catch the Chinese or coolie vote. In this city, especially, all sorts of schemes are resorted to by politicians to obtain the foreign vote. The Irish vote is set down as democratic, flat- footed. The struggle just at present is for the German vote; but the republicans have be- haved so shabbily in regard to the Excise law that their prospect of obtaining even a moiety of that vote is very slim. Now, in the midst of all these traps and bids for the Irish vote, the German vote, the nigger vote, the coolie vote, andso on, why don’t someone put in a bid for the Knickerbocker vote—the vote of the old residenters of the city, whose influence and interests are rarely thought of when the poli- tical slates are being made up? We believe that our old Knickerbocker families have rights which all parties should feel bound to respect, not in the sense of native American or Know Nothingism and all such exploded nonsense of bygone times, but in a spirit of right and justice. cratic party in this city would infuse a little of the old Knickerbocker sturdiness into its coun- cils and have an eye to the Knickerbocker in person in the distribution of the spoils it would not only augment its political strength as a party, but considerably enhance its popularity among all classes of respectable citizens as the ruling dynasty in the metropolis, the Knickerbockers a chance, the Knickerbocker vote? If the omnipotent demo- Give What is bid for Pull Them Down. That insufferable and inodorous nuisance the fish market at Fulton ferry was happily pulled down on Saturday, leaving not a rotten timber standing. crumbling away in filth and wretchedness, tainting all the air and spoiling one’s goft for piscatorial diet. moval we are not indebted to the public autho- rities, It was the occupants of the market themselves, who offered to suspend their busi- ness altogether, in that locality at least, ifa new structure were put up. Now let the dealers in the meat and vegetable market across the. way follow this example; for it is nearly if not quite as great a disgrace to that portion of the city as the defunct fish market. highway on South street, Beekman and Fulton streets, by all, its outlying sheds and stalls, to such an extent that people have the utmost difficulty in finding passage way, especially upon the arrival of a ferryboat, while the old patch- work itself, which can hardly be called a build- ings, is offensive to the sight and smell. Let it be pulled down by all means, structure could be erected there in six months. If the Washington market dealers would take a similar step to that of the Fulton ferry fish- mongers it would be no harm to the west side of the city. For years it has stood there, For the blessing of its re- It obstructs the A decent Crry TeLkGrapas.—We understand that a city telegraph company is in course of forma- tion in this city. need of some such improved means of inter- communication—something that will supply a want long felt. transmit messages of twenty words to any part of the city for ten cents, guaranteeing that the message will be delivered to the party ad- dressed within fifteen minutes. pany will carry out this last promise, that of prompt delivery within the time specified, the public will never grudge the ten cents de- manded, gramme, and we can foresee no limit to the amount of business that will pour in, upon it. bags, and consequently deliver the country letters atanearlier hour, and the despatch companies may probably think of transferring some of their capital to something more pro- mising. When we shall have seen the city girdled with these telegraph wires and the long-promised cheap cabs plying in our streets Every one must admit the The new company engages to If the com- Let the company keep to this pro- City letter carriers will have lighter we shall not need to fear comparison with any city on this Continent or in Europe. A Nice Party ror Lossy Worx.—Tho radicals in South Carolina are in a delectable stew. {t is not long since there was a regular ‘(plug muss” for the spoils of the Custom House, and it now appears from a controver- sary growing ont of some misunderstanding between the leaders of the party that one of them—a Congressman at that—is publicly pro- nounced a thief, embezzler, forger and mur- derer. That style of character is just suited for choice lobby work in Washington. On Sovrnenn SuvtimENTs.—Grant believes that the Southern leopard will not change his spots; that it is “impossible for mature men to acccept sincerely and so suddenly views and opinions which they resisted at such cost.” Grant the President takes quite a different view of the Southern mind from that taken by the General Grant who immediately after the war was so sanguine that Southern men were seady to accept the situation. that is to say in the country; that is to say in the world. For what is there that touches the interest of this nation but touches the interest of the human race, more or less, from Lapland to Peru, by way ‘of the cable that is to be down the Amoor river and across the South Pacific, not excepting the Chinese, who are only’ counted out from humanity by the great ethnologist of Ireland and California, which hisname is Eugene Casserly? This momentous difference b.2gins with Dent. Dent is the cause of war. We nan, of course, one of the Dents. General Grant {8 sgainst Dent—olearly, un- mistakably; for is ot Dent mounted for the Mississippi races on that conservative demo- cratico-republican-recon. *truction nag that has just proved his powers in \“trsinia and Tennes- see, and does not Grant st.’ Ke his money on the radical animal? Here le." U8 drop the passing tear of a philosophic sorr\¥ over the errors of great men, and lament the ‘endency with which the gods sometimes afflict thsm to defer doing the right thing until it has becou?e the wrong one, and doing it then. For these many months have all the snarlers of the less rational press been snapping at Grant to throw overboard from his political ship those Jonahs, his brothers-in-law. He would not do it. Finally one of his brothers-in-law turns up in @ place where people would rather like to see a man left alone, and Grant rushes forward to hustle him out. But we rejoice to say that Dent can stand it. He,can stand the opposition of one part of this administration quite as well, perhaps, as the successful man in Tennessee stood the opposition of another part; for the administra- tion seems to have a happy faculty for putting ita foot down in bad places, and experience »well nigh justifies the observation that if it comes out with particular emphasis against a man he is pretty sureto win, We are not cer- tain, however, that this will apply to Dent, since in his case the administration, as we have said, is troubled with division of sentiment. While Grant is against Dent a more important personage is in his favor. This is Mrs. General Grant. Mrs. Grant was elected to the Presidency by a rather larger figure than her husband can claim, for is she not the better half of that unit known to the law as Ulysses S. Grant? Grant and his wife, of course, are one so far as the law can see, and thus perforce the wife partakes of the hus- band’s condition. She, from merely being his wife, is as much President as he is, and from being the better half in this Presidential unity she is entitled to claim a rather larger proportion of the general vote. Thus the weight of division by political reasoning, and we have no doubt by avoirdupois also, is in Dent’s favor. Dent is General Grant’s brother-in-law ; he is Mrs. General Grant’s brother. People have wondered at Grant's support of his many brothers-in-law, and we have wondered at it too; and it seems to us that the hostility with which the President now regards a man bear- ing that relation is much nearer the correct attitude of nature. War between brothers-in- law is what has been ever since man was first afflicted with a brother-in-law, and what will be forever where man is at full liberty to as- sert his nature, unless he is a man exception- ally disposed to ‘‘have peace.” Grant's good disposition towards these gentlemen in the past is therefore eitber an evidence that he is a man of unusual amiability or that he has not had his own way. Now we know that he is not an ‘amiable man, but a regular fighter, and Mrs. Grant long ago told us that he was very obsti- nate. He has, therefore, been under the influ- ence of a will other than his own, and we leave Sorosis to guess whose will it was. (We nominate Mrs. Grant for an honorary mem- bership in Sorosis.) Now the world must have a great respect for the tact and diplomatic genius that have enabled this estimable lady to keep her hero down in this quiet way until the present time, hardly making herself known save in results, But what is the dreadful stimulus that has induced Grant to violently assert his own will at last? We fear that this portends a general rupture—a breaking up in the whole harmonious machinery ot the gov- ernment that may compel a grieving country to part with Fish and Hoar and Robeson e¢ al. A Chapter of Accidents. Disasters eausing the loss of life—it may be observed of late—come not “‘single spies, but in battalions.” This is particularly notice- able in the news of yesterday from various parts of the country. We had hardly got over the shock of the news of Mr. Grinnell’s death at the Isle of Wight, which was received by cable telegraph, when we hear of a succession of accidents occurring all within the space of one day. First comes a most extraordinary railroad calamity on the Susquehanna and Sclmykill road, where a locomotive comes into collision with a fallen rock weighing fifteen hundred pounds, jumps over two stone walls fifteen feet high, like a steeple chaser; runs along a country road, plunges into a canal, and kills the engineer and fireman. Next is the explosion of the steamer Cumberland on the Ohio river, by which eighteen or twenty people wera hurled out of existence. Then there is the sinking of a steamer near Atchison, Kansas, reported from St. Loujs; and, from the same quarter, the utter demoKtion of a gentleman’s residence near Waterville by # stroke of lightning, which threw three ladies clear out upon the poreh, insensible. Farther north, near the Falls of St, Anthony, in Min- nesota, a bridge was swept away and two. or three men instantly carried over the falls, One would think that this was a sufficient record of accidents for twenty-four hours, but that time had hardly expired when # calamity of a very sad nature occurs in Madison street, in this city, namely, the death of Brevet Brigadier General W. J. Nagle, of Fenian reputation, by a fall from the window of his residence. Thus it is that serious accidents, like great fires and great crimes, generally come in battalions, AN Exogtieyt Pome Wei Mave.—His | Majesty the Emperér of France is present in the camp at Chalons, and there are military | fetes, Meanwhile a Marshal of France dios, and his Majesty is 40 overcome with the afftic- | tion that he retires from public view. The army appreciates his sympathy with a soldier. Ir AN Anatrorr at Communipaw has to be abated as a nuisance where shall the busi- ness of slaughtoring cattle be done? The Churches. The reverend clergy are fo their pulpits from the seaside. They comé like giants refreshed with water, or pet with water and wine, and, conseq » Vigorous and inspirited towards a renewal of the “good fight” against the arch enemy of the souls of men, who is ever active, always persevering, and never permits his ardor to “‘cool off.” As the pastors would be vastly out of place with- out their flocks, the members of the different congregations are also wending their way homeward, in order to assume their proper places in church, either on the ai of repentance or the comfortable cushion of approved perfection, just as church discipline may direct or self-jus- tification dictate. Our repor<s of the services and sermons which were deliverea apd ob- served yesterday are more lengthy and ins{ruo~ tive than they have been of late, owing to this pious aggregation and brotherly reunion. They are also very consoling. The Methodist camp meeting continues, as will be seen, in full blast. preparing people for future “glory” every hour. Bishop Laughlin dedicated a new Qatholic church at Hunter's Point, while the Rev, Dr. Rogers, of the same communion, delivered xn able and erudite sermon in the Cathedral of Buffalo, The Harlem Universalist Mission was attended to, and the time-honored. and venerable walls.of the Old Dutch church, corner of Fulton and William streets, in this city, was again made resonant with the voice and chant of prayer. The work was hopeful at all points. Tarkey and Egypt. We learn by telegram that the Sultan has written to the Khedive of Egypt, stating im full ail his grievances, referring in particular to the Cretan revolt of last year, the journey through Europe and the oppressive adminis- tration of Egypt, and concluding by intimating that he will insist strictly on the terms of the firman of 1841. Here we have matter enough for an Eastern war, and possibly European complications, should the Sultan persist in de- manding adherence to the stipulations of 1841 and the Viceroy prove refractory. The Sublime Porte is evidently not satisfied with Ismail Pacha. From his conduct in the Cretan case it suspected him not only of @ disposition to cast off his allegiance, but of intriguing for that purpose with the Czar of Russia, whose views on the ‘sick man’s” future prospects are well known. We learn by telegraph that the Gazette of St. Petersburg has just denied that part of the charge impli- cating the Russian government; but as the Sultan professes to hold what is all but conclu- sive proof thereof he is little likely to alter or modify his opinions. We owe it to no pacific disposition on his part, but to the interference of the other European Powers, that hostilities have not actually taken place between the Turkish and Egyptian troops. France is for- tunately anxious for peace until the trade of the Suez Canal has been established, and Eng- land, Austria and Prussia are not prepared for a war which might possibly lead to a disrup- tion of the whole Turkish empire. Complete independence is the end the Viceroy of Egypt aims at, even more than the cessation of a tri- bute which amounts to over three millions of dollarsa year. If unaided by any foreign Power Ismail Pacha could have no possible chance against the superior numbers the Sultan could bring into the field; and this fact, taken in connection with his all but open defiance of the Sultan, makes it probable enough that he counted upon Russian assistance. Such inter- ference, however, on the part of Russia, would be firmly opposed by the other great European Powers, who are jealous of her designs upon the East. When the restraint now imposed by France and England is removed the Sultan and his tributary may have leave to fight it out without foreign interference on the old historic ground of Egypt—a country which, thanks to the Suez Canal, is pretty certain to develop once again into a prosperous and powerful kingdom, The prize, therefore, is well worth fighting for, and as to the merits of the quarrel, the Sultan’s complaints are not only serious, but, we believe, well grounded, The Viceroy will, in all probability, acting under French advice, make the explanations and submission required of him, putting all chance of a war out of the question. We hope so, though we feel that the other alterna~ tive is at least possible. Stvauiar CorncwENcE.—In Spanish intrigue they have what are called Camarilla (or bed- chamber) plots ; that is, conspiracies concocted in private apartments involving all sorts of State matters, including even assassinations and the upheaval of dynasties. How singular itis that we should just have had a similar plot concocted, not in a bedchamber, but in an apartment in Chambers street in this city, which might have occasioned the shedding of gutters of blood and made the white marble of the new Court House, just opposite, pale with affright, just as if it feared a jike sanguinary doom awaited its jobbing constructors, Hap- pily order again reigns in the Chambers Boule~ vard, and the doughty horse marines have resumed their wonted vocation of attempting to catch Spanish horse mackerel in Buttermilk. Channel, A Foxe Cxanok ror tat Democracor—. For democratic organs like the Easton (Pa,) Argus taking up the cudgelsin behalf of the coak monopolists, and putting the blame for the present exorbitant prices upon the shoulderg of the poor miners. Democratic miaers tm Pennsylvania will relish the idea, perhaps. Very Goop.—The Chinese of the mining countries have already made their appeal the United States Supreme Court, under the Burlingame treaty, from the tyrannical local laws against foreigners. This isthe right step to take, for the sooner their true status is de- termined the better it must be for all, “ Birrer-Enpers” is another good descrip. tive scrap of nomenclature that has grown in our political strife, This is the name the Southern people now give to that olass of politicians who favor pushing the case against the South to the bitter end. Tue ReBerti0Nn Comm ro Towx.—Pratt, from Texas, in custody ; Roger A, Pryor, from Virginia, in court as his counsel, and Judge McCunn, some time Colonel McQunn, on the bench, No wonder a display of United States soldiers was necessary.