The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Albusiness or news letter and telegraphic Aeapatches must be addressed Naw Yous Haran. Rejected communications will not be ro- turned, Letters and packages should be properly THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strset.—T My aets—Tue OLp Wowan Tuat Liven © NIBLO'S GARDEN, Tax Wiox.ow W rp BOWERY THRAT! CwILD ov Tam Warcn— Vrewou Sry—Evew LOR orner of ORAND opens Boge r fe atreet.—THE Ska OF low, WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 120 Rroadway.—A Qnawp VauikTt EXTERTAUNMENT, Matinee at 9). OLIMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. Dook. Matinee at 1s. oes BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 4t., Dewween Kb and Gib ave. — Bir Vay WINKLE Matines at 8. sb avenue ond a soooy Dicvont WALLACK'S THRATR#, Broadway and Ith street Viotima--Tu® Pxorca's Lawren, THEATRE © DM 1g", .—Dow Casan DE Bazar—Catouine a tinee at 2 WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street ond Broadway.—Afieradon and eveniag Performance. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Tweoty- fourth streel.—PLAY, Mutluee at 2. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, th av., beiween Seth and GPth sts, —VOPULAR GaRDEN Concent, TONY PASTOR'S OP AO 8B, $1 Bowery.—Cowro Vocalis, NEGRO NI LOY, &c. Matinee at Si. NEW YORK U 'AGUM OF ANATOMY, 418 Broadway. BONO avy Aat EW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, TRIPL E SHEET. New York, Saturday, August 28, 18698, THO NOWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated August 27. ‘The London Times yesterday had an editorial on the late Erle Raiiroad troubles. The article says that the darkest side of the story 1s the prostitution of Justice, The health of the Fmperor ts vastly improved. The Empress left Toulon yesterday. General Prim has @rrived in Paria. The Portuguese Cortes has closed, The King in his speech assured the members that the government was lavoring faithfully to restore the financial equilibrium of the country. Henry Leys, the artist, died yesterday in Antwerp, Belgium. Africa. A travelling party, consisting of Miss Tinne and two attendants, were recentiy murdered in the Safara by two of the camel drivers. Paraguay. A despatch by the cable states that General Por- unho was marching with tue allies to Villa Rica, and the iron-clads were steaming up the Tebicuart. A battle was imminent at any moment. The Para- guayans assert that their stronghold 1s impregnabie and that the allies have not attacked it because they dare not. They nave heard rumors of an uprising ta the Argentine Republic against President Sar- miento and Brazil Saudwich Islands. The Duke of Edinburg (Prince Alfred) arrived at Honolulu on the 25th ult., and was received by his Majesty with distinguishea honors. A ball was given at the King’s palace, at which he danced a Scotch reel. The vatives paid him tribute in cattle, pigs, fowls, fruit and vegetables, enough to stock his ship. On his departure for Japan the native wo- men covered bis person with wreaths of flowers, literally burying him, Cuba. Considerable excitement exists in Santiago owing to the assassination of citizens on the neighnoring Foads, Several insurgents had been attacked by ‘@ambuscades while escaping from Santiago, but had repulsed their assatlants. War munitions from Mexico have deen landed tn the Bay of Nipe. No United States man-of-war has touched at Havana for two months. Miscellaneous. The national debt statement next month will pro- bably show an additional reduction of $2,000,090, notwithstanding heavy payments made by the gov- ernment during the month. The President and his party ascended Mount Washington yesterday by the Sky Railroad, They passed Jast evening at the Profile House, Ben Wade has arrived there. : Mr. veabody wili arrive in Washington probably on Monday, where ie wil! remain several days as the guest of W. W. Corcoran. A gentleman of St. Louis recently received a letter from Chiet Justice Chase, in which he says:—“I am out of all future political contests, and no one need be jealous of me hereafter.” The Coast Survey ec ipse expedition, which wit- nessed the eclipse from the Chilkah river, in Alaska, report that they found a position, after considerable aimouity, only twenty miles irom the central path of totality. The day was cloudy, bat the observations through occasional breaks in the clouds were almost perfect. Secretary Seward visited the camp of the expedition, and saw the phenomenon. The Indians were so much alarmed that they hid tn their houses or took to the bushes. The dam at Fort Edward, in this State, was washed away on Taesday, and the mills and foundries have veen compelled to stop work, Two-thirds of the working people of tue village will thus lose their summer's work. ‘The loss by repairs to the dam will amount to about $20,000, while the loss by the en- forced idieness in the worksiops apd mills will amount probably to $200,000, William Lake, the circus proprietor, was shot and Killed at Granby, Newton county, Mo., on Saturday last, by @ mau whoiw he had ejected from the show for not paying his fare. Tne man escaped, fecretary Rawlins’ health is improving. Mr, Seward has reached Victoria, Vancouver's Island, on his return trip from Alaska, and has been accorded a demonstrative welcome by the authori- ties. Treasurer Spinner still reposes enough confidence in the locks on the Treasury vaults to trast them gione against any barglarious assaulis that may be | brought against them. The bank note companies are furnishing the Treasury with fractionai currency in quantities that appear to be very inadequate for the amount de- mManded. Two hundred thousand dollars a day were ered by the department, but yesterday only eve delivered, The Clty. An os ciation of eltizen purpose holding a world's exposition in this city in the year 1870. The Com- missioners of the Park have been applied to for per- mission to erect the necessary building on the “Green,” promising, at tue close of the exposition, to dovate the buliding to the city for @ national maseom, Although government has not relaxed its surveil- lance of the Spanisa guuboats building in’ this city, still work pon them progresses rapidly, and one of them, named the Friesson, can be put in readiness for #ea In w few days. Marshal Barlow has Informed tho butiders that no attempt must be made to send these vessels Lo 8ea, 43 Uke neutrality laws will be Pigtliy enforced. Mr, Oliver Charlick, President of the Long Island Raliroad, was hung in efigy on Tuesday in Maui. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. tuck, a station upon the line of the Long Island Railroad. ‘Yhe store of Dreschfleld & Co., om Eighth avenue, was entered eariy yesterday morniag aud robbed of about $3,000 worth of goods. The burglars were soon aher met by @ policeman, who recovered the pro- perty and secured one of the robbers, The stock market yesterday was heavy and de- clined wntil late in the afternoon, when It underwent 4 reaction, closing strong, but dull, Gold was ex- cated, rising to 154% and Closing at 1335¢ a 1334. Prominent Arrivals iu the City. General A. M. Weet, of Mississippi; James M. Cavenangs, of Montana; William Reynolds, of Meadville; B. E. Smith, of Onto; Dr. R. Miller, of Mobile; F. T. Backus, R, Hitencock and H. B. Harl- bat, of Cleveland, and Hiram Bliss, of Maine, ere at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel J. H. Martindale, of Rochester; J. F. Hill, Of Milwaukee; Captain Bountakofsky and Captain Kalnsky, of the Russian Army, are at the Hofman House, Dr. A. Hl. Okie, of Providence, and C. N. Shelten, of Connecticut, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Colonel McComb, of Delaware; 8. P. Johnson, of Chicago; J. A. Fraser, of Cincinnati; J. H. Ramsay, of Albany, and J. Davenport, of Richmond, are ot the Pifth Avenue Hotel. 0. W. Peabody, of Boston, and 0. P. Rice, of Springfield, are at the Brevoort Honse, Colonel J. W. Kendrick aud Professor 0. H. Ste- Yons, of Connecticut, aad E. R. Lenox, of Cuba, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Alfred Ely, of Roohester; Dr. T. D. Martin and W. H, Willard, of North Carolina; Jon W. Pomeroy, of St. anthony; Jobn J. Olcott and J. Howard King, of Albany, are as the Coleman House. The Great International Boat Race—The Result. The great international boat race between the crews of the two oldest universities in England and America came off up to time and strictly according to the programme yee- terday. Oxford can boast of the victory by just four boate’ lengths, in a race of four mijes and two furlongs, ber representative oaremen winnlng by about six seconds time ina rua which lasted only twenty-two minutes, forty and a half seconds, For the first two miles and a half Harvard had the lead—that is to say, from Putney to Chiswick, taking the Middlesex side of the stream. Our despatches say that Oxford then came to a level and gradually gained upon the Harvard boat, and kept her place ahead until the post at Mortlake was reached, thus wining the race, after a close and hard fought contest. The enthusiasm, we are told, was immense in London. We kaow that the excitement here was accelerated almost to fever heat. The race wae regarded as an international affair, rather than a trial of skill between the universities of Oxford and Harvard, although they are both the representatives of the most ancient collegiate institutions in the two coun- tries—Oxford being the growth, probably, of | the monastic schools of Alfred the Great, but | cartaialy founded in the reign of Edward the Confessor, as far back as a thousand years after Obrist; while Harvard was endowed six hundred years later, namely, in 1639. The friendly rivalry out of which sprung the race on the Thames, however, assumed an interna- tional shape from ite very incipiency, when young Harvard flung down the glove, which young Oxford gracefully and gallantly picked American, Well, it be accepted from the result, that the Thames “‘atyle” is predominant on the Thames and the very best thing for those waters, The race has proved this at allevents, if nothing more. Upon the whole there is not much reason to rogret that this terrible conflict between Eng- land and America should have taken place just in this shape. There might have been more serious consequences—for example, if the issue had been staked upon the Alabama claims, the conquest of Canada or any other belligerent question. As long as the greatest excitement of the day is only to be found in the battle involved in @ boat race on the Thames, we may congratulate ourselves that we are living ina time when the motto under which the government is supposed to be con- trolled is, ‘Let us have peace!” A Remarkable Meeting at Damascus. A public banquet was recently given at Da- mascus in honor of the Governor of Syria, to which members of all religions subscribed in- discriminately,” It is a fact worthy of mention that these subscriptions were volunteered, equally freely by Mohammedans, Jews and Christians; moreover, the Ulema, the Great Rabbi and the Greek and Catholic patriarchs all sat around the same table. Not long alute that same city of Damascus was the scene of bloody strife between religious factions, On referring to history it Is easily proved that re- ligious differences have perhaps caused more bloodshed than any other—for instance, the Crusades, the rule of Cromwell, and still more recently the rebellion in India. May we hope that the partaking of the bread and salt of hos- pitality may tend to a permanent understand- ing among the various religlous sects? Coming events cast thelr shadows before them, and the above incident may well be regarded as one of the steps of progress Initiated by the great events now occurring around us, The opening of the Suez Canal will cause people hitherto almos®unknown, and deprived of the means of communication with the more cfvilized na- tione of the earth, to be brought into more immediate contact, and the ultinfate results cannot fail, On the other hand, prelates and messengers of peace and brotherly love are fast assembling in Rome from all parts of the globe In order to take common counsel on the most prominent points whereby to obtain unity of opinion on religious mitters, We are now passing through an era of wondrous events, and it is to be hoped that the results will be fraught with benefits to the universe at large. Coat.—The strike in the mines having ended, the miners iu the region owned by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company will go to work again on Monday at Scranton and in the vicinity. This resumption of work will probably be followed by the miners in the employ of the Delaware and Hudson Company and of all the other compa- nies mining coal In the Wyoming region, There is no danger that there will be any scarcity of coal next winter, The strike of which so much has been sald was in a large up—thus accepting the challenge from young America to contend with young England for the championship of the oar, We have had many international contentions with England before—some on the sea be- tween our yachts, with var}ous sucgess ; some in the prize ring, the lier not so agree- able nor so creditable to either nation; but there has been none which concentrated so much interest within {t as this honorable strug- gle for ascendancy between the students of the two colleges, not indeed {a classic lore, but in the athletic orena—not contended for amid “the dust of the schools,” but in the manly atrife of the gymnasia. We may liken it, per- chance, to the contest of the Oxford Horatil and the Harvard Curatil, except in one sense. It was a bloodless and not a bloody conflict. It was not short swords, but long oars, that tried the courage of the contestants and de- cided the victory. The Horatii came out the victors, as they did inthe Roman story. We are not despondent at the result. The Ameri- can crew fought a gallant fight. They never lost the pluck, from the first stroke pulled in their earliest practice on strange waters to tho last étroke which brought them in to the winning post almost upon the atern of thelr opponents—the pluck which led them to challenge the Snest oarsmen perhaps in the world to a trial of skill upon their adversary’s own ground, with a know- ledge that all the advantages were on his side, and that nothing but almost superhuman excel- lence on their own part could secure them the victory. If they have not achieved suocess they have done better—they have deserved it, Let this be their consolation, sustained as It is by the applause of their countrymen, and as it must be by the generous recognition by the whole British people of their gallaatry in entering into an apparently unequal contest, and the splendid manner in which they acquitted themselves under the inspiration of national pride in order to do honor to the country they represented. ‘The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong!” There is now open an opportunity for the chivalry of Oxford to show itself. Our gallant boys of Harvard—all honor to them—went over uninvited to contest with the crack crew of England for the supremacy of the Thames, Now let Oxford try the mettle of our Ameri- can crew next year on the Charles river, or, which would be better still, upon the un- ruffed waters of Lake Quinaigamond, near Worcester, in the old Bay State, crowds, They will have a smooth surface to work in, and the Harvard mon will be os much at home there as the Oxonians were | yesterday on the Thames, ‘‘Falr play is a jewel.” We hope the successful English crew will give Harvard Unversity a fair chance upon its own courae. The race yesterday, after all, cannot be con- sidered 80 much a test of strength or muscle The English press so regarded it, and ina measure prepared the way for tho possible contingency of an Oxonian defeat, upon the idea that it was a contest of international “style” rather than international manhood, The Harvards certainly verified this idea by putting in an entirely American style and in an American boat, By thia resolve they decided that they would make the race, as far as they were concerned, in handling the oar and ob- serving thelr own rules, purely aud inflexibly There the | rival crews will be free from interraption or | as of what is called style in oarsmanship. | measure @ bogus strike, Its object was to alarm consumers into hurrying to lay in their winter's supply at exorbitant, fictitious prices. But the prompt exposure of the scheme by the newspapers put the public on thelr guard against this cunning dodge. Consumers have delayed thete purchases, and they may safely delay them until Ootober. Alarmed in thelr turn at the unexpected result of their combina- tions, the coal dealers have at leng‘hfchanged their base and the bogus etrike {s at an end. Coal dealers fo due time learn that in their operations, ag well as in all other opera- tlons for supplying the community with arti- cles of prime necessity, honesty is the best policy, Servep Tasm Riont.—The ‘many promi- nent business men” {n Philadelphia, Baltimore end Washington who are said to haye been re- cently swindled out of at least fifty thousand dollars by counterfeiters offering to sell them “good counterfelt money” and mmaging to be disturbed before the sums agreed upon could be carefully counted, are on o par, 60 far as honesty is concerned, with those who not fong ago had dealings with the vendera of stolen bonds and in Ike manner bad their fingers burned, In the latter cases the verdict of the public was that the recelver is as bad as the thief, and in the former it will be ‘‘served them right,” Biters bitten can expect no sympathy. If they had not been swindled they would have been condemned as guilty of complicity with the counterfeiters. Swindled, they can put in no plea of innocence, inasmuch as it is ap axiom that the tooral quality of an action resides in the Intention, Honest men never thus strike hands with rogues, Mexico ayy THe Eaoie or me Norra.— A late Mexican paper says that the local affairs of that country are getting worse and worse | every day, and that ‘‘when revolutions have | destroyed the republic, when our elds, laid | waste, shall be saturated with the blood of our | brothers and the eagle of the North shall | swoop down upon the corpse of our country, its treacherous politicians will go abroad to enjoy the pleasures which thelr riches will | purchase, while the poorer sons of Mexico will | be dragging in the dust the chains of slavery.” | But this picture fs too gloomy. When the | eagle of the North ewoops down upon Mexico it will be to liberate her people from the chains | of anarchy, to take off thelr rags of poverty | and wretchedness and to clothe and feed them | from the fat of the land, This is what follows when the eagle of the North swoops down upon any country to gobble it up. Berotans Anovr.—Whoen even burglars confined in the Tombs can grease their heads, | squeeze through a six inch epertere, sealen | forty foot wall and teke midnight strolls to parts unknown, and those outside the Tombs | successfully escape efter perpetrating in open daylight such daring burglaries the one | committed at the howe of Mr, Schank, at | Washington Heights, on Thureday afternoon, | | residents ia the suburbs of New York, to in- crease their vigilance. Citizens and police- men alike should be continually on the alert | against the ‘‘fellows of a boxer sort” who | | make a regular business of lying ia walt for | | every opportunity to steal and plunder, A Goov Ravomm Movewrst—That for ten hours # day as the extent of a day’ the New England factories. Ina thove factories there ig a great fleld for labor reform, | The London Times thinks that the time has it behooves our citizens, and especially the | The Eastera Question—Peace or War. For a number of years past the Eastern question has occupied the attention of the world ; it has long been a stock article of dis- cussion in Europe and in this country. The battle of Navarino brought it into notice, and it has since occupted a very prominent place before the public. Innumerable essays and books have been written on the subject and we are as far from any definite result as ever. The Crimean war was an attempted solution of the problem, but the experiment proved to be so enormously expensive in blood and treasure and so barren of results that the European Powers have very earnestly tried to avoid a repetition of it, The source of the whole trouble consists in the very peculiar réle the Mohammedan Powers play in European poli- tics, From the position théy once occupied as masters of the Mediterranean basin they have fallen go low that Turkey owes her position in Europe to the jealousy of her more powerful neighbors. Of late years the Sublime Porte has been having a hard time of it; snubbed on the Danube by Austria, badgered by her late vassal, Greece, she is now in a great rage at her troublesome subject, Ismail Pacha, who has certainly most curfous and original ideas of fealty to his sovereign, and who, seem- ingly very much elated at the prospect of the profits he is going to reap from the Suez Canal, which passes through hig territory, has been junketting around at the different courts of Europe, from whence most suspicious whispers have reached the ears of his master, the Sul- tan, Ag in the case of the trouble with Greece, Turkey will not be allowed to go to war ff it is possible to prevent her. Not from any motives of humanity do the great Powers step in and try to allay difficulties; but it is the fear of the consequences that might ensne that drives them to this course. If Turkey, Greece and Egypt wanted to indulge in a little fight, in which it would be impossible for them to get any outside help, they would find nothing in their way to gratify this desire, The great danger, however, of Russla’s {nterfering in this little arrangement keeps the remaining Powers very active in maintaining the peace. The Suez Canal has given a new shape to the Bastern question. It has changed the re- lations of Egypt wonderfully and has made a very important personage of the Pacha, It has rendered the control of that narrow neck of land, which no longer unites Asia and Africa, of vital importance. And the ques- tion of who shall control the Black Sea be- comes comparatively unimportant when placed along side of the one which now challenges the attention of the. world, which is, who shall control the Suez Canal? That Is to say, who shall hold control of half the com- merce of the world? Who shall control that golden stream which for four centuries has been flowing to the West, and which has car- ried with it the control of Europe? Which gave Venice and Genoa and Florence their power and wealth, and which, when It left them for Spain, took that power with it. Which made England what she is to-day, and in the attempt to secure which America has just constructed that wonder of the age, the Pacific Railroad. For the very reason that the control of the canal would give its possessor undue power the quarrel which at one time seemed se- rious between the Sultan and , the Pacha has been smoothed over by the friendly intervention of the other rulers, Thé reconciliation, however, was too quick to be hearty; the Viceroy has temporized by the advice of a powerful friend, perhaps; he dare not fight alone for fear that Turkey might crush him, He Is, however, determined to be entirely iudependent of the Porte, and when- ever he sees an opportunity will eagerly em- brace it. The Sultan, on the other hand, is equally determined not to let Egypt go without a struggle, and although not a first class Power Turkey can make a very respectable display of forces. She has an army of some eight hun- dred thousand men, considerable navy, and, although in @ bad financial condition, she has nevertheless large resources in Asia to draw upon, The résult of a war with Egypt, in which other Powers would certainly be in- volved, would probably result in the expulsion of the Turks from Europe. The Sultan knows this, knows that he only remains in Christian Europe by sufferance; but shoulda general war occur he sould rally thousands of his Asi- atic subjects around the green banner of the Prophet for the last desperate battle with the hated Christian. Breach-loading rifles, how- ever, would be more than a match for the most exalted fanaticism, and a few iron-clads would easily master the elaborate but old fashioned fortifications of Constantinople. The fall of the Turkish empire, however, would be marked by such wqrs as the world has never yet seen ; all the nations of Europe would be involved and the classic shores of the Mediterranean would be the scene of battles beside which those of Hannibal, of Caesar and of Napoleon would appear insignificant. The war cloud which has threatened Europe for the past few years may burst at any time, and the Suez Canal may become tho innocent cause of boundless misery and suffering. For while it will certainly call into being new com- mercial routes, and will give an impetus to trade and civilization In the East Indies which will produce wonderful results, it may also make the narrow neck of land it divides famous as the camping ground of great armies and redden the sanda of the desert with the blood of Turk and Christian, A Hist is Beare or Prixok Artaur.— come for the consideration of the question whether Canada might not be permitted to assume her appropriate position as an inde- pendent power. In other words, if the Cana- dians are ready to proclaim Prince Arthur | King of the New Dominion her Britannic ty's government might consent to the Some such idea may be at the ment, Priace Arthur. Who knows? work in- Diooenes is tie Wrong Sror.—The | Spiritualists must be in the dark in their ridicn- lous orgies. At the Bloecker street 6 ance the | other evening they were thrown into a tower- ing rage by the apparition of a dark lantern opened upon them in the midat of tueir mysie- ries, aod Diogenes, with his lantern, had to | leave, Light was oot the article they wanted, m of the present mission of the good | Aathere and Publishers a United Stateo—Captala Mayse Roeld’s Experi- ence, With very few happy exceptions the history of the unfairly adjusted relations between au- thors and publishers has been a history of their quarrels. No love has been lost between them. That authors regard publishers as their natural enemies was indicated by the grim humor of the toast proposed, at the height of British anti-Napoleonic fury, by the poet Campbell— “To Napoleon Bonaparte—he once shot a bookseller.” That publishers waste little love on authors is manifest from their generally treating them as if authors had no rights which publishers are bound to respect. Tn the absence of an international copyright law American publishers have seldom recog- nized any rights whatever on the part of those English authors whose works they have en- riched themselves by reprinting. Charles Reade, who has given, so fur as he could give, to certain American publishers a pre-emption right to reprint his works, has had to implore the rest of them to abstain from reaping where they have not sown. Captain Mayne Reid, who served with ‘distinction in our Mexican war, and who is, we understand, a naturalized American citizen, is the author of thirty or forty volumes, which have mado his name a household word both in Groat Britain and in the United States. Névertheless he affirms that he has been so grievously wronged by his American publishers as to feel obliged, ia self- defence, to appeal to public opinion, Accord- ing to Captain Mayne Reid's statement he has learned by bitter exporlence that as an author he is expected to do all the work and to sur- render pretty nearly all the profits to the pub- lishers, More unfortunately still, he finds himself entangled by such contracts that he is bound to work on hopelessly for the future. As he expresses it~—‘‘Iam to labor all the re- mainder of my life with no hopes of being hon- estly rewarded. The prospect appals me.” It can be no comfort to him to know that he has many companions in tribulation, Now, what remedy can authors apply to cure the evils of which they complain? Is it possl- ble that writers of books are so deficient in common sense as to be unable to devise a remedy? What shall hinder them from laying aside the petty animosltics and jealousies lo which so many of them unwisely indulge, organizing @ simple but strong co-operative system, similar to the plans which have proved successful in other departments of modern labor, and becomlag their own pub- lishers? Untilthey shall decide upon vigor- ously doing something of this sort, they must submit to the tyranny of which they complain, and the same evils will continue to exist in the sphere of book writing and publishing that prevail in the theatrical profession, in which all the profits not monopolized by managers are absorbed by a few ‘‘stars,” while the rank and file of actors toil for a mere pittance. Perhaps Captain Mayne Reld ought not to have reckoned upon extraordinary liberality at the hands of puritanical publishers in New England. We have lately seen that with the godly twang, the pharisaism and the political claptrap of a certain exclusive clique of Yankee authors and publishers, with thoir jealousy of new writers and their depreciation of all outside the ring of their mutual admira- tion societies, their tuft-hunting abroad and their Bohemlantsm at home, they are not over- scrupulous as to the material which they use in order to make money and a sensation. The publication of the revolting Byron scandal shows to what lengths they can go with such ends in view.. There is no disputing about tastes; and if they prefer their lackadaisical Longfellow to Byron and his “‘thoughts that breathe and words that burn,” we can only-pity them; and as for their dealings with Captain Mayne Reid, we trust that if they cannot be generous they will at least try to be just. A Dent on THE Presipent.—General F, T. Dent says that he ig one of the four Dent brothers, and the only one who holds a federal office, and that he is an officer of the army and has been for twenty-six years. One of the Dents, however, is, or was, the White House doorkeeper, but that can hardly be called an office; another Dent is spoken of for Governor of Mississippi, and that’s all, Thus it will be seen that Mrs, Grant's brothers, in- stead of being among the lucky recipients of the President's favors, are really left out in the cold, This, then, séttles the mean and paltry party accusation that General Grant has been making the government a family asylum, Srir me Great Hero Amona tHE Prorir—General Grant, This has been made manifest in his popular receptions at every point in all his late excursions, As in Penn- sylvania, for instance, 80 en route to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, at every stop- ping place the people have turned out en masse to welcome the President with cheers, salutes and the ringing of bells. The faith of the people in General Grant is unshaken, not- withstanding the croakings of disappointed politicians, Never Berrzr—The general health of the city. We owe something of this to our health authorities, but much more to the favorable character of the season itself. The summer, so far, has been comparatively mild, and in this quarter neither too wet nor too dry nor too hot nor too cold in the long run, It hae been a genial anda fruitful summer, and the country at large has never been so rich in all the essontials of life and health and strength and wealth as it is to-day, thank God! Watt Street was an interesting place yes- terday. The boat race in England for a timo overshadowed all olse, Thon the gold gam- blers got to work and created immense excite- ment. The first bulletin in the Gold Room announced the death of Napoleon; the next that he ‘wag better,” and the third that be was only paralysed. Erie, which hag been again trotted ont, was active and excited. The fact is, the heavy operators are returning to town and Wall street is feeling their influence, A Rerurn Maton.—The Oxonians having won the race on thelr own waters of tha | Thames, they should now propose or be invited to give tho Harvard boys atrial on Lake Quine | sigamond. The gamecock always fights best on his own dunghill and surrounded sy his own chickens, and this advantage to die Oxonians ng doubt gave them thelr late ¢ictory. WASHINGTON, Auguat 27, 186%, Further Reduction iu the Public Debt From present appearances the forthcom monthly debt etatement wtil make a very favorawe showing notwithstanding the heavy payments of the government during the current month, It if now thought the reductions will reach atleast two millions, The Specie in the National Banks. The Comptrolier of the Currency has prepared @ circular to cashiers of national barks requesting # detatled statement of the items of which their coin or specie account is composed. The information ts desired for general or statistical purposes, and not with any reference to the condition of the banks in this respect. The statement ls required from the morning of September 8 next. The Tennessee Election—Colonel Stokes Bee coming Reasonable. It ts understood that on the advico of severat republicans with whom he has consulted Colonel Stokes has.abandonea his intention of asking the President to convene Vongress in extra session next month, When Stokes revealed bis propost- tion to his party brethren, who are less excited than himself on the subject of the Tennessee elec tion, they dissuaded him from 1¢, giving it as their opinion that the President would not listen to it. He will now content himself with getting the fed. eral oMce-holders in Tennesseejwho voted for Sen- ter removed, and in this he will probaply be suc cessful. The Supply of Fractional Currency. About nineteen hundred dollars in fractional our- rency was received at the Printing Bureautrom the bank note companies yesterday, and twenty thou- sand eight hundred to-day. The Now Apartments in the Treasury Bullde ing. ‘The clerks of the cashier's oMce of the Treasury this morning took possession of their new room ia the north wing of the Treasury building. The abandonment of the old cashter’s room leaves northwest corner of the Treasury building to completed by continuing the hall of the weat front round to connect with the north wing, Health of Secretary Rawlins. Secretary Rawlins has recovered sumMotently this Morning to vislt the War Department for a short time, Prometipn for Mr. Blacque Bey. Reoent despatohes from Vonstantinople bring tn- telligence that Blacque Bey, the accomplished Turk- ish Minister 1n Washington, has been elevated by the Sultan to the grade of “Ullah,” the highest grade in the first rank of the civil service. This has been conferred as a special mark of the favor in which M, Blacque is held by his sovereign. Mr, Peabody. George Peabody will arrive here on Monday ta company with W. W. Corcoran, tn a special car, from the White Sulphur Springs. It is understood that Mr. Peabody will remain here for some days, and will be the guest of Mr. Corcoran. Visit of a French Journalist. M. Lucien Maro, a distinguished French journalist, connected with La Liberté and the Paris 2lustration arrived here to-day, and, in company with General Cornwall, of New Jersey, visited all the points of interest, In the evening he was complimented by a visit from many of the representatives of the press here, and left in the nine o’ciock train for New York, expressing himself very much pleased with his trip, The Indiaus in Arkansas, Parties who bave reached here direct from Fort Smith, Arkansas, report the Indian tribea in that vicinity as very quiet and industriously engaged in farming operations generally. The crops in that section of the State are in the most flourishing con- dition, the cotton promising an unusually large yield, The Indians in the Fort Smith Reservation are said to be well pleased with the substitution of the military for civil officers to conduct the business of the government with them, Selzures of Goods Under the Revenue Laws. The following letter from Commissioner Delano to Supervisor Perry, of South Carolina, shows what the Department considers proper grounds for the seizure and detention of goods for alleged neglect or failure to comply with the revenue laws:— i TREABUEY D&PARTMENT, Orica OF INTERNAL RRVENUE, WASHINGTON, August 27, 1869. Srm—I have received your letter, inclosing a copy of a letter received by you from Collector epee | of the Fires District, South Carolina, relative to the detention by him of forty boxes of tobacco for some. informality in the marks required to be printed or branded upon the boxes; also a copy of your letter of instruction to him, You cae the hope that our instructions to Mr. Donal eeyour “au ith Thave to Ij wi every box of tobacco, in addition to indicat- ing the ment of the tax, should have all the brands and marks which the law juires, and in wi ores ached or posted thereon. that rioted, Ke information deemed by Con- all the facts and gress requisite for complete identification should be upon every box or other package, I do not regard itas @ good ground for seizure where only sight ae rittes are discovered. If @ genuine stamp is fixed and cancelled as prescribed by the regulations of this office; if the box or package issuch as the law prescribes, and ail the material facta required by sections 62 and 68, printed or marked upon the box or package, the goods should be detained no longer than 18 bg 3 to obtain satisfactor explanation for any informality and to satis! the officer that no fraud has been committed or in- tended. { should, however, advise the detention of all goods for explanation which ere not pack stamped, cancelled. mar«ed, branded, and label in strict conformity with the laws and the regula tions of this office made In oe of law. ©, DELANO, Commissioner. Securing Stamps on Packages. The following 1s @ circular sont to all Collectors of internal revenue in the United States by Commis- sioner Delano:— sgSrr—You will tmmpdiately notify the gaugers in your district until otierwise instructed to;secure every stamp attached to any cask, package or spirits, by nailing the same with not than five tacks, Sone inthe centre and one on each corner of the stamp. The tacks to de used must not be leas than six ounce in size, with a large head, and must be securely driven, If -practicable to procure them, gaugers should use eight ounce galvanized carpet tacks. The use of tacks will in no manner dispense with any other requiremeat by prior regulations, The Locks in the Treasury Vaults. It 1s learned that Treasurer Spinner is not dis- posed towards making any change tn the locks now In use to secure the gold and currency in the Trea. sury vaults, Those iu use at present are considered amp! safe to risk any burglarious operations that might be attempted. Marder In Petersburg. ‘The following was received from Richmond:— During the meeting of a colored society in Peters burg last night @ quarrel ensued between Thomas Branch and Washington Jones in consequence of attentions paid by the latter to the wife of the former, Both parties soon er went into the street, When Branch struck Jones several blows with a club, froin the effects of which he almost lusiantiy expired, Branch was arrosted, Hevenue Appointments, B. W. Webur has been confirmed as deputy cot. lector and inspector; Lioyd G. Thompson, as deputy collector, and Wililam Butcher, as inspector, a: Ro chester, N. Y. ALLEGED BIG SWINDLE. A Returned Californian Relleved of $2,500 Detective McCord, of the Cen' yesterday afternoon @ man who Samuel King on suspicion of having swindled aman named Thomas Davis out of $2,500 in gold. #rom what is known it appears that early 19 this monta a man registered his name at Lovejoy’s Hotel as Tuomas Davis, and stated that he ha Fast retorned from California, While at the hotel be made the acquaintance of & man named Samuel King (the prisoner}, and to bim he stated that he had $2,500 tn old, which he wanted converted into greenbacks. King represented himaelf as being connected with @ Wall street firm who were in that line of business and stated that ne would get the money changed for him, The too confident Davis trusied King with the money. Result—the latter's arrest ou a charge of having swindied Davis. Detective McCord locked the prisoner up at the Centra! Office, and the troubie now is that the come. lainant, Davis, 18 Hot to be Found, It is believed ne fas goue to California, A FUARITUA Aman named Richard Windsor, who resides at No, 32 Ainity street, was robbed last evening Of $80¢ Worth of furniture by a boarder Who Was Yearing | him. The thief was neard to order the ar to to the Hudson Kiver Ratroad, bat w een ward detective going up there shovty ater nota a n was or had boen seen of him, Yas teeth tho casein taut =~ str ones uae