The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD! BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR, Volume XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. N(BLO'S GARDBN, Bri Vex WICKLOW WEODIN' BRAM XA POGUE; OR, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Everacar—Tur Hon- MARIAN CHIRE, RAND OPERA HOUSS, corner of Kighth avenue and wireet. THE SEA OF WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.--A Guanp Vauiery ENTERTAINMENT, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaw Doon, SOOTH'S THEATRE, 20d st,, between Sth and 6th avs.-« Rip Van WINKLE. —Hrcooxr Diocore WALLACK'S THEATRS. Brostway and 13th sireet.— VioTIMs--THR Pror.e’s LAWYER THEATRE COMIQUE, S14 Broadway.—A Lirn's Ree yrxaR—Goop ror Notmixe. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tax QuerN or HeaRrs—Tux OL Woman Tuat LIVED IN & SHOK. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth sirest and Wroadway.—ATterooon and evening Performance. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Tweaty- fourtle otreet,—PLay. CRNTRAL PARK SARORY, 7th av., between Séth and SO) a18,—POPULAR GaRDEN COnoRRT. VONY PASTOR'S OPERA BOCSB, Wl Bowery.-Couro Vooals8M, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &¢, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—-FTuio- rian MIN@TRELSY, Nagao AoTS, AC. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoounr's MinSTRELS—OFF TO CuBA, £0. NE&W YORK ROURNOK AND 5! NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 —FRMALES ONLY IN ATTENDANOR MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. aur SHE York, Sunday, New telegrams are dated yesterday, Augusi 28. .¢© Engish press comment extensively in a (iendiy way on the result of the international boat ors respecting the declining health of Napo- France and England are ned towards aninesty for political offences. Spain was sui looking out for candidates for the iorene. ‘or Cuba, Eugenie was in Corsica. General Todie- ven is employed on additional fortificattons for Se- pastopol by the Czar. By steamship at this port we have mail details of our cable telegrams to the 17th of August. Cuba, Andrew White, an American, who has veeu in prison at Havana for seven months, was released recently through the intercession of Consul General Plumb, Twe men were shot by the voiun- teers yesterday for usmg seditious language. 1 Miscellaneous, i ‘fhe President and nis party arrived at Saratoga | yesterday. | We publish this morning a correspondence be tween J, Ress Browne, our late Minister to China, and the Britisn community of Shanghae. Mr. Browne, in his letter, expresses his distrust of the progressive policy m China, denounces the Burtin- | same treaty with the United States as a trick of the | mandarins, and roundly abuses the Chinese govern- | ment. The British ground, and express the opinion that Mr, Browne was recalled because he continued to express views: contrary to those on which bis government was mis- ‘ed by Mr. Burlingame. Prince Arthur was formally received vy the Cor- poration of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, yesterday. He was presented with 4 giowing ad- aresa by the City Recorder and made a very com- mendable reply, in which he warmed the hearts of tae Prince Edward Islanders by informing them that the Queen especiaily enjoined upon him to pay a visit to them, The Nevada Supreme Court has deotded that the telegraph 18 a branch of commerce and subject to ‘awe regulating Inter-State commerce. Professor Davidson, in his recent eclipse expedi- hon in Alaska, discovered @ range of iron mountains community take the same | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. $1,000 dail. Hegaid he only intended to frighten Delany. Colonels Ryan and Currier, of Cuban fltbustering notoriety, surrendered themselves to Marshal Bar- low yesterday and gave ball, Ryan in $10,000 and 500, to Keep the peace and appear for In a case in the Martne Court yesterday of 2 rag- Picker, who claims damages for dog bite, it was shown in evidence that the net profits from ragpick- ing amount to from two to three doliars per day. Evidence to the effect thats man or dog with the itch was more ferocious than usual was excluded. In the case of Charles Meyers, a minor, who dé- serted from the army, was discharged therefrom on awrit of habeas corpus and was afterwards ar- rested by the military authorities at Fort Hamiton, Judge Troy, of Brooklyn, recently issued another wnt which was returnable yesterday. * General Vogdes and Lieutenant Colonel Counselman ap- peared without the boy and stated that they had orders from the War Department not to surrender him; but the Judge said that no orders could legai- ize his detention. He, however, granted time untli Tuesday next to allow General Vogdes to confer with the War Department. A crazy Woman tried to drown herself m the Cy- presa Hill reservoir, in East New York, yesterday. She was rescued by the keeper aad taken to the Flatbush Asylum. The Stock market yosterday was in the main steady, but dull Gold rose to 134%, closing finally atlse With but few exceptions, the markets were quiet, yesterday. Cotton was in light request, but with smail offerings prices were frm. Colfee was quiet, but steady. On ‘Change four was heavy, though the business was large. Wheat was duil, irregular and luwer, while cora was scarce, active and higher. Oats were steady, with a far demand. Pork wae in improved demand, but at 12340. @ 25c. lower prices. Other Kinds of provisions were dull, but unchanged. Petroleum—Refned was active, but 3c. lower, while crnde was dul! and heavy. Naval stores, thouch quiet, were firm. Freights were moderately active and firm. Whiskey was more active, but prices re- ceded 3c, a 40, per gallon. Prominent Arrivals fn the City. Baron Kilbeck, and Mr. Hock of Austria; General E, B, Gaines, of New Orleans; Colonei H. S. McComb, of Delaware, and J, J. Gresham, of (eorgia, are at Fifth Avenue Hotel. oes <1) Captain North aud Captatn Cleither, of the Forty- sevénth regiment, British army, Barbados, are at the Brevoort House. ©. ¥, Culver, of Pennsylyanta; Geo. T. Steadman, of Cincinnati, and A. P. Robeson, of Kansas, are at the Hoffman House. Note ; Serer Davigre of New Orleans; Captain Nor- ton, of the steamship Pnited States, and T. H. N, McPherson, of Washington, are at the Astor House. Colonel Comstock, of boston; C. L. Cobb, of North Carolina; Judge Geo. Goldthwalte, of Alabama, and ex-Governor Harris, of Tennessee, are at the St Nicholas Hotel. Colonel C. D. Mead, of New York, and W, B. Bar- A new Lieutenant Governor was appointed | row, of Louisiana, are at the New York Hotel. H. Labelle and Alfred Masson, of Montreal, ond Professor Williams, of Massachusetts, are at the Si Julien Hotel. Gaptain William Grace and Major D. M. Hughes, of the United States Army, and Lieutenant James Cushing, of the United States Navy, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Colonel Page, of Albany; Colonel B. Hutchings and R. M. Washington, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Prominent Depurtures. General W. W. Averill for Newport, General Bern- side for Rhode Istand, General 8. Barry for Balt- more, John McCullough for Califorma, Colonel Fry for Connecticut, G. W. Swepson and R. Swepson for Washington, and Coionel M. J. O'brien for New- port. New England Puritanism—Its Latest Mani- festation. We cannot say that this latest Byron scan- | dal, which has a woman, and that woman a Beecher, for its author, has absolutely startled the world, but we can and do say that Mrs. Beecher Stowe meant to give the world a sen- sation and that she has not been so successful as she intended and believed she should be. No matter. The attempt has been made. If the raking up of the ashes of the dead and the vilifying of great names have bronght money into the coffers of Fields & Osgood and into the pocket of Mrs. Beecher Stowe we have every reason to beliavye that they will be satisfied. Like the Pharisees of old they have done their work and they have had their extending from the Chitkanan river to a potnt as yet beyond exploration. It was 2,000 feet high, and caused a local deviation of tne compass of ten de- grees. The Chitkahah Valley possesses # highly favorabie soll and climate. ‘The City Tax Recetver’s office tn Philadeiplia was robbed by burglars on Friday night of $40,000 In checks, drafts and money. As the law requires the Receiver to make dally deposits his aureties will probably have to make good the loss. A wealtby citizen of Richmond, named George, ‘died recently, leaving $100,000 to be divided among nus beirsand no will, A colored woman of Piila- deiphia has put in a claim, on the ground that she was his wite aud thet be is the father of her chil- | dren, of whom there are several, nearly white. More severe rainstorms have visited Centra! lowa, | Aman and woman were struck by lightning and kitied near the town of > J, and a ratt- road train ran into the river W. © bridge had given way and two men were killed. The Hays Arctic expedition is reported by the | British brig Henry wo bave suiied from Ivigtul, Green | tand, July 27, for Disco Island and Melvilie Buy. Ail | were well on board. A fire broke out in Pine Ridge collie ar | Witkesbarre, yesterday, Sud great excitement en- sued, a8 there were Unirty-ve men in the wine at ine time. ‘They Were atl Fescued, ho General Canby bas nged the time of paying the interest on the Virgutia State dept to the soi nber. ver. ‘The Tennessee republican meeting at Nashville he prepared a memorial 10 Congress declaring the late wlection to be @ revolution produced by frauds, but asking no federal intervention. Governor Senter is also petitionea to convene the old Legislature and have the fifteenth amendment ratified. Pliny Jewell, father of Governor Jewell, and Deacon Morgan, father of ex-Governor Morgan, both died at their homes yesterday. Among recent revenue seizures was the tobacco ractory of J, N. tlenderson & Co., at Keokuk, lowa, which is in part the property of ex-Senator Hender- | son, of Missouri. A law was passed by the Thirty ninth Congress as acheck on Andrew Johnson, providing that no em- ployés of the navy yards should be dismissed for po- uitical reasons or taxed to carry out political pur- poses. A recent dismissal in (he Washington Navy Yard has resulted in unearthing the law, which was merely a rider to an appropriation bill, and the com- mandants of navy yards now find themselves ucterly unaole to remove the ‘truly disloyai” at the request of the Grand Army or the radical Senators. ‘The Woman's Convention at Newport visited Ida Lewis on Friday aud found her helping her mother at the washtub. Justice Grier, of the Supreme Court of the United States, will probably soon retire from the bench, under the law providing for such @ course where tue Justice has reached his seventieth year, Heury Gordon, the Sheriff of Powhatan county, Va., by tollitary appotutment, was recently arraigued by the Grand Jury of the county on a charge of per- jury in taking the teat oath, he having served in the rebel artoy. General Canby yesterday issued an order quashing tue arraignment and discharging the security for Gordon's appearance. ‘The City. ‘The coroner's inquest on the body of Thomas De- oney, the lad who was killed by being etrack witha stone thrown at him by Christopher Raverty, on the 24th inst., on Twenty-fith street and North river, waa concluded wiin @ verdict yesterday in accord. ance with the facia, Raverty, who ts a laa of fit. toon, Was committed to the Tombs in default of { good reason, unless money be a good reason, reward, We have no desire at present to go into this dirty business. We cannot say there is blood on the bands of either Mrs. Stowe or the pro- prietors of the Atlantic Monthly; but if there is anything worse than murder it is, according to the common judgment of mankind in all ages, to disturb the dead or to vilify their memory, and of such sin or sine Mre. Stowe and the proprietors of the Adantic Monthiy have been guilty. Byron may have been as bad as Mrs. Stowe makes him, but she has failed to prove it. This, however, is not the main point. She has unmercifully, and without done a piece of work which is as filthy as any work can be, If it pays, Mrs, Beecher Stowe and her publishers will, we suppose, be satis- fied. To us this whole affair is interesting from another point of view. Itis a New England | piece of business, Fields & Co. is a New England house; the Beechers are a New England family, and Mrs. Stowe is one of the most illustrious of the Be New Eng- land has long claimed for itself the right to be regarded as the moral representative of the United States. Why not? Was it not founded by the Pilgrim Fathers’ Was it not the orignal home of the Puritans on this Continent? Was it not there where the perse- cuted non-comformists of England founded an orthodoxy which was more rigid and more intolerant than any system which the world had yet known? Severe and uncompromis- ing as Old England had been under the régime of Cromwell, it never approached in uncom- chers. to high moral distinction? Who can aay that she is any longer what she would have the world believe she is? . Who dare deny that she is living on a pastreputation? And, unless it be a something fitted to command respect to burn and otherwise destroy innocent and un- offending men and women, because they claimed a little independency of thought and action, who cares to lay claim to any of the early glory of New England? We think un- kindly of Spain because of the Inquisition. We have reasons of a similar kind to think unkindly of the New Englanders. If we have inherited good from them we ought to be grateful; but we have a per- fect right to ask whether our indebtedness would not have been greater if their principles and their policy had been nobler, wiser and less selfish ? Ove thing at least is certain—Puritanism ia New England, as in Old England, has, though less violently, begotten a reaction, aad that reastion has been against, not in favor, of morality. Puritanic rule has lasted longer in the New World than in the Old, for reasons which it would not be difficult to give. Into these, however, we shall not now enter. Suffice it to say that when, at the death of Cromwell, the reins were let loose im- morality -set in like a torrent. Never has England known such wickedness as that which followed the Restoratiow, Truthfully does Macaulay put it when he says:—‘The nation resembled the demoniac in the New Testa- ment. The Puritans boasted that the unclean spirit was cast out, The house was empty, swept and garnished, and for » time the expelled tenant wandered through dry places, seeking rest apd findin; none, The force of the exorcism spent. The fiend returned to his abode, and returned not alone. He took to hi seven other spirits more wicked than himself. They entered in and dwelt together, and the second possession was worse than the first.” As we have said already, the evils of Puritanism have devel- oped themselves with less violence in New England than they did in the Mother Country, for certain very obvious reasons, The fruit of Puritanism, however, has long been visible among us, and if the development has been slow it has at least been certain and unmis- takable. New England orthodoxy was severe and uncompromising, but the New England churehes, in spite of their severity, have broken many from their ancient moorings. The Trini- tarian theology has but few adherents in the whole State of Massachusetts, and Massachu- setts is a fair sample of New England. The New England States ever have been, as they now are, compelled to be externally moral; but vice, if more concealed and better attired, is more unblushing in Boston than in New York. The New Englanders are the Phari- sees of this continent. They make clean the outside of the cup and platter, but within all is rottenness and corruption. They are at best but whited sepulchres, The taste of New Sngland, as of late years revealed in its literature, has been of a kind not to be mistaken. Witness, for ex- ample, the ravings of Theodore Parker. Witness the transcendental isms of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Witness the tone and ten- dency of the North American Review. There is not only a falling away from principle, but there is a falling away from power and any sensible purpose. Witness, again, the papers that find most favor in the Af@lantic Monthly. We could point to many recent tales, We have but to mention the article on Lord and Lady Byron to show the kind of literature which pays New England authors and publishers, and which, of course, the New England people love most to read. But for the power—the healthfal and invigorating power of the daily Our Chinese Diplemacy—Mr. Browne Botches It. Some extraordinary correspondence of Mr. J. Ross Browne, as the American Minister to China, will be found in another part of this paper. The peculiar views of Mr. Browne, a8 the official representative of the United States near the Chinese government, lead us strongly to the conclusion that the report by way of England of the rejection in Pekin of the Bur- lingame treaty with our government is proba- bly true. Mr, Browne's letter to the Chinese Chief Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Prince Kung, was of itself calculated to up- set the confidence of the Chinese Emperor, Cabinet and people in the friendly inclinations of the United States; but Browne's more re- markable letter to the American and British merchants at Shanghae, on his departure from China, seems to have been written expressly to overthrow all the work of the Burlingame mission and to bring our relations with the empire under British influence. In his letter to the Shanghae merchants Mr. Browne says that we cannot elevate the Chi- nese civilization to the Christian standard “‘by the unqualified acceptance of their claim to the independence enjoyed by Christian States ;” that “they do not possess it, in point of fact,” and that “I qnestion whether it is good policy to proclaim, in the solemn form of a treaty, that we will not interfere in the internal affairs of the em- pire, when our very presence is an interfe- rence, or whether anything is to be gained by an unconditional admission of the right of the Chinese government to determine the time and manner of introducing improvements.” The Burling 16 migsi Browng, thas Td 3 i rt] mie aie progress, and their whole diplomatic policy is ' trickery, evasion and delay. Now, whether the Burlingame treaty with the United States has or has not been rejected, it is morally cértain that Mr. Browne has made a bad botch of it in his first experiments as a diplomatic representative in China of the United States. Mr. Browne, however, had become a Californian, and we dare say he is a Californian on the Chinese question—that is, while regulating the internal affairs of China, as we regulate the affairs of our Indian tribes, Mr. Browne would exclude the Chinese from California as “‘outside barbarians.” This poli- cy may suit his designs as a California politi- cian, but it fully justifies his recall from China. It is probable, however, that the mischief which he has done may involve us in inextri- cable confusion in our relations with the Chi- nese empire, in connection with the manifest designs of British merchants, speculators, ad- venturers and emissaries. The Boat Race. While the enthusiasm concerning the boat race on the Thames has partially subsided, and the afflicted ones have probably paid their debts incurred by rash or patriotic betting on the result, there is still a good deal of interest felt as to the reason why the Harvard crew, having a fine lead and a choice of position, did not win the race, We think, judging from the full and complete accounts published yes- terday in our columns, that the failure of the American crew may to some extent be attri- buted to selecting the outer line of the circle, in the first place, on the Middlesex side of the river, and next in yielding for a time to their opponents and holding back when the boats ran close together. The natural and prover- bial courtesy of Americans may have prompted the action; but the crew most probably lost a few seconds in time by the concession, which was all-important, considering that the race was won by six seconds only. But the result of the race can, after all, be most reasonably preas—it is impossible to say to what depths of moral depravity New England literature would descend. Taking it as we have it, and judging from some of its very latest specimens, we may find it difficult to say of it that ‘it is clever, indeed, and very entertaining ;” but we can have no hesitation in saying that it is “earthly, sensual, devilish.” Puritan theology and morality have begotten their proper fruit, and that proving itself most unwholesome. Tin: Gerrysnure Reonrox.—A Philadel- phia paper remarks that it is pitiable to see the Southern papers sneeriog at the Gettys- burg failure for reunion. ‘‘Alad they,” it con- tinues, ‘“‘witnessed the earnest preparations to receive the Confederate soldiers by the citizens of Gettysburg, and especially by the Union officers. they would probably reconsider their ridicule.” It was the style of ‘‘preparations to receive the Confederate soldiers” in Gettys- burg on the first three days in July, 1863, that probably operated upon the same soldiers in declining to revive those memories by a visit to the same (to them) disastrous tield in 1869. But there is another souvenir about the hospi- tality of the citizens of Pennsylvania resident in the vicinity of Gettysburg. They demanded from the New York volunteers who went to protect their soil from the tread of an invader # “fippenny bit’ glasa of water. Tax Surremy Courr.—It is stated that Judge Grier, of Pennsylvania, has under con- sideration an intention to retire from the bench of the United States Supreme Court, and already the radical papers are picking out his probable successor, The absorption of the Supreme bench always has been a prominent promising severity the New England which sprang from those men who, better meaning than wise, first landed at Plymouth Rock. Old England, under the Puritans, had its martyrs, but it did not burn either Quakers or Indians or witches. We cannot deny that the principles which guided the New England settlers developed a hardy, thrifty, industrious race, whose power is felt to this day over the length and breadth of the American Continent. As in the case of the Jews of old, severity has bred force, and that force bas impressed itself in many ways during the last hundred years, and many times for good. The impress of News England is upon the nation, and in the character which New Eng- Jand has given us we are largely known to the outside world. We are gradually and surely emancipating ourselves from the thraldom of this ancient tyranny ; we are compelling the world to look at us in @ different and more still the character which is attributed by out- side nations to the American people. This general trath is proof of force. But who can say that New England has any longer a claim agreeable light; but the Yankee character is | feature in the programme of the radical party, and there will no doubt be a struggle to see who shall occupy Judge Grier’s place, who was appointed under a democratic administra- tion (Polk's). Judge Hoar, of Massachusetts, is already spoken of as his successor, but aa there is already a judge on the Supreme bench from New England (Judge Clifford) it is not unlikely the mantle will fall upon the shoulders of some worthy man from another section—-not improbably the South, A Casat IN Trnnusser.—A despatoh to a radical paper asserts that the arrival of cer- tain radical dignitaries in Nashville creates various surmises—one that they are to take steps for a thorough reorganization of the party, and as @ necessary incident thereto to demand the removal of all Senter federal office-holders in the State; another that they contemplate, during Senter's absence, seizing the State government, There are no Cwsars in Tennessee. There were a large number of Pompty smashes there during the war, but, credited to the style of oarsmanship adopted by the Harvard crew, with a great deal of allowance for the fact that they were racing in strange waters; that since their arrival in England they had not sufficient practice on the course, with every twist and current of which their opponents were perfectly familiar, and moreover that’ they carried a dead weight in their coxswain, to which they were entirely unaccustomed in their own method of rowing on American rivers and lakes, It is true that they nobly accepted the issue, kaowing that all these disadvantages existed. These facts, however, operate strongly in favor of the proposition to have another trial, and that it should take place the next time upon the Charles river or Lake Quinsigamond, where our boys will have an opportunity to make such terms and concessions a8 may be agreeable to the Oxon- jans, and we may be sure that, should such an event take place, Harvard will not bo found wanting in magnanimity, We publish to-day a very fall account of the various contests which partake of an inter- national character that have taken place for some years past between this country and gland, in the prize ring, on the turf, on the river and on the ocean, The story will recall many incidents of the friendly rivalry existing between the two nations in the matter of sports on land and water. Just at this time there are two events on the aquatic tapis which will create some excite- ment, The English yacht Cambria and the American yacht Dauntless are to start on or about the Ist of September for an ocean race between the Isle of Wight and Sandy Hook. This trial between two boats of known reputa- tion will doubtless create considerable interest. Then the rowing match on the Thames be- tween the American oarsman, Walter Brown and Renforth, who once beat Kelley, the crack sculler of England, is soon to come of. It would seem, therefore, that for the time being aquatic sports of an international character are to form the ingredients of popular excite- ment on both sides of the Atlantic, instead of wars and rumors of wars with their grizzly fronts. So much the better. It is part of the programme in our modern civilization that we should fight our battles with oars and sails and issue our protocols of victory by electric telegraph, A Strout Dirrerknox or Oriion.—Chang- Chew, a Chinese disciple if not a descendant of Confucins, says Mr. Burlingame, special envoy of the Celestials to the Christian nations, is an ‘excellent man.” Mr. Rosa Browne, the representative of the United States in China, intimates that Mr, Burlingame like Andy Johnson, they lio of the base of Pompey's Pillar. isa humbug and a fraud, Ross Browne is slightly prejudiced, Twe Princes on Their Trevels, Young royalty is roving just now. One prince of the house of England is basking in the luxurious airs of the South Pacific; has just been getting smothered with flowers by the maidens of the Sandwich Islands, and thus already flower-clad takes his departure for the flowery land of Japan. So speeds it with the sailor Alfred. Young Arthur, who is just from school, and has as yet adopted no profes- sion, though of course he is destined for a soldier, is on a visit to his exceHent mother’s “New Dominion,” with a view of studying the social and political condition of that portion of an empire upon which it ia said—boastfully, and yet not untruthfully—the sun never sets. It may be necessary that these young men should travel in order to learn something of the world outside of the circumscribed limite of their home education. It is not to be supposed that they can learnmuch in Buckingham Palace, nor in Windsor Castle, nor even in Hampton Court. In Buckingham Palace they can be educated in all the ceremonial of royalty, be- cause it is famillar from the nursery to man- hood. In Windsor they may study, if they will, those genial freaks of Shakspeare’s humor through which jolly old Jack Falstaff flourishes in Windsor Forest. At Hampton Court they might linger forever upon the ex- quisite creations of Van Dyke and Rubens, of Lawrence and Reynolds, and they might dream their lives away in the shadow of the trees which Wolsey planted when his palace at Hampton was greater than the King’s and before fortune changed with him and none were found ‘‘so poor to do him reverence.” But these young men are living in a time when sentiment is the me shell of life gnd maioda relia otha" a to bg SA the substance. Hence it is necessary that they ehould see how the world works abroad and that they should learn that the restricted experience of their ancestors will make very small capital for them in the combat for life which is before them. Royal dynasties are not going to last forever. The younger shoots, from whom divine rights and immunities will assuredly pass away, are, therefore, wisely preparing themselves for the duties which they will have to perform, in one capacity or another, by acquiring a knowledge of the world and its progress. Let us hope that they will apply it intelligently. The Prince of Wales was the first of his race who ever visited the Nile and looked upon its mysterious waters, and he was the first heir apparent to the throne of England who set foot upon the free shores of the United States. If he has not learned anything from that visit it cannot be charged to any want of facilities extended to him by the American people, nor the dearth of laudations lavished upon him, It is worty of note that of the two princes now on their travels Prince Alfred seems to have made his headquarters in Australia, taking in the Pacific as the circle of his visitings, while Prince Arthur appears to be confined, ‘by authority’—if we can believe the story—to the New Dominion, excluding the United States entirely from his tour. Is it probable that the idea of two new British sovereignties is contemplated—one on the great insular Continent of Australia, and another in the New Dominion of Canada? Should such be the case it is not very difficult to divine what the result of such an experi- ment would be. City PoliticsThe Duty of the Tammany Chief. The close of the past week may be said to have terminated the usnal summer vacation taken annually by a large portion of our citi- wens. The long lull in business is at last broken, The mansions of uptown residents, after undergoing the rejuvenating touch of painter, paper hanger and upholsterer, are being once more thrown open to the light of day. The shops and stores, which have worn so deserted an appearance of late, are once more beginning to be thronged with purchasers, The fashionable churches are opening their doors, and the voices of the sensational preachers of the day are again being heard from pulpit and rostrum, In the places that know them throughout all the rest of the year there are, when they betake themselves to their favorite summer retreata, no absences more keenly felt perhaps than those of the politicians. When in their proper atmosphere they are ever either in the heat of a conflict or preparing for one. Their field of contest is the whole city, Bands of music, discharges of cannon, firing of rockets and all the commotion and excitement inci- dent to popular gatherings precede and at- tend the political contest. For the past month Tammany has not spoken, and its silence is felt all over the city. But the elec- tion draws near, and the time for action has arrived, In a few days more Peter Bismarck Sweeny, the great Tammany chieftain, will have returned from his European trip, and the whole political world of New York will be stirred to its centre. There are many important offices to be filled; but before a single indi- vidual of his party can dare to present himself for the suffrages of his fellow citizens he must first receive the nomination of Tammany—that is, of Mr. Sweeny. Under these circum- stances it is exceedingly fortunate that the great democratic body of New York is pre- sided over by so able and astutea leader. In the control of the municipal government he has no rival and no opponent, and, wielding the power fhasin his hands with judgment and a wise discretion, he can, if he likes, pre- sent to the citizens as the nominces of his party for the various offices to be filled in the coming election men of approved worth and acknowledged competency. It will be of very little moment to what party organization this or that candidate belongs so long as he possesses those requisites for office. There is a wide field in the city to select from to fill the vacancies on the bench and in the police and city justiceships, A Tammany nomination to any of these offices being virtually an election and tantamount to an appointment by the Tammany chief, why not make those appoint- ments from the best material, and apart from and independent of the professional political office-hunters? This is a question that Mr. Sweeny, when he resumes the duties of his post as chief slate maker for offices in the city government, would do well to reflect upon, and to present to the public a wise solution, The whole matter of these offices is in his own hands, and there we leave it for the present. a ELL LE LLL ALLA A General Rosecrans on the Democratic Party. ‘The letter in full of General Rosecrans, de- clining the democratic nomination for Governor of Ouio, which we published yesterday, is a curious document. He can't accept the nomi- nation, but he thinks he can give the demo- crats some good advice, and proceeds to give it accordingly. He thinks the party ought to be a party of principle, of life, of action and of progress. We think so too, He thinks the party ‘ought to hold high the banner of universal freedom, impartial justice and equality before the law of afl who live beneath the flag,” and should leave to the opposition party “of all shades and grades, all monopolies and favoritism based on class, creed, race, color or national origin;” which is excellent advice, too good, we fear, to be adopted till after a few more democratic defeats. On the public debt, the currency, revenue and protection, class legislation, free trade, gold and silver, offices and tenures, &c., he agrees with the Ohio democracy; but on the suffrage question he is so ‘grand, gloomy and peculiar” that we can’t make him out. In short, though evidently satisfied in his own mind that he thoroughly understands the political situation and the democratic road to victory, General Rosecrans, beyond a few “glittering generalities,” really throws no new light on the subject. The wisdom of his letter is mainly embodied in his declination of the honor proposed. | ee eee waned TRE CUSTOM HOUSE. A Nice Arrangement Between United States and City Weighers Unearthod—An Easy Way to . Make Money. ro Paget 4 It would seem that there is tobe no end to the Pea bs being dally made by the Collec- tor and fila chie? representative as to the prevalence of frauds in certain departments of the Custom House. No person who knows anything at all about. the subject can be ignorant of the fact that in the various departments of the Custom House there are Many “opportunities"—as the dishonest men cal loose ways of doing business—for peculators to profit by, and that it requires the utmost and untiring vigi- Jance of the proper authorities to keep the public crib intact, Although every now ana then the clerks and others are stirred up by a “revelation” that Mr. So-and-So has been found wanting as an honest man—to put it mildly—the great majority of them being, of course, honest are never aware of now extensive are the plans and ingenious the artt- fices made use of by the depredators to gain their unlawful ends. In almost every fraud that bas beer detected so far tnis feature of a decided planning has een prominent, and in the latest one that has been brought to light the underground workings of the persons most unfavorably concerned give ample proof that it requires, after all,a certain amount of brains of @ certain kind to be an effictent—or, to speak more pointedly, an inefficient Custom House clerk. A few days ago the “latest fraud” above men- tioned was discovered, and although the authorities have not as yet taken action in the matter it 1s safe to say that, ia a week orso, after they have accu- mulated the necessary evidence to make a grand disclosure, there willbe a terrible shaking of dry bones in the Custom House. The persons who are most implicated in the fraud are certain United States weighers, and the manner @f their connection ‘with it is given as follows:—They are paid a regular salary by the general government to do their work well, and are allowed the expenses thev incur in em- loying the necessary number of laborers to aid then in their work. Alter they have weighed, for instance, a cargo of tea, say of 20,000 cheats, the merchant to whom the cargo 1s consigned employs a city weigher to weigh the chests. or packages, as they are called. Ot course the merchant pays tae city weigher for his work, and out of his pay the weigher must pay whatever help he may require. The object of the consignee in employing the city weigher is obvi- ously to ascertain whether the United States weigher has weighed his cargo correctly and to make sure of its exact buik. Butit has been discovered—and here the fraud comes in—that the city weigher, in- stead of doing his work after being employed, goes to the United States welgher who has weighed the gargo he (the city weigher) is paid to weigh, and for u certified check jor a good amount obtains the United States weigher’s figures. ‘These he, of course, hands to the merchant, and the latter, finding that they correspond exactly with the figures of the Unlied States weigher he has already been furnished with, comes to the conclusion thet all 19 right and that such correctness denotes wonderful exactness in his duties on the part of the city weigher. It is saul that a very large number of United States and city weighera are implicated in this kind of nefarious business, and that the coilector is determined to buy them up With a sharp turn. Indeed, it 1s understood that the men, laborers, who depend a great deaf bring the work that 1s furnished them by the city weigher when weighing a cargo, and who are consequently thrown out of employment when the city weigher buys the figures of the United States weigher instead of hey the cargo him- self and making out his own figures, have laid theingrievances before the Collector. They have besides furnisied him with some very spicy facts cont ing the mutual ments that exist be- tw the two classes oi weighers, which will no doubt give Mr. Grinnell an insight into a certain de- partment of the Custom House that he and but few outside the ring have ever been given before. It alleged that many of the United States weighers have obtained as much as $200 and $500 at one time in exchange for their figures. There will certainly be a stir among the weighers soon. The honest men, nee have nothing to fear, but the guilty every- ng. NAVAL INT-LLIGENCE, Despatches from the Asiatic Squadron—Af- fairs in Japan—Movements of the Squadron. WASHINGTON, August 28, 1869, Despatches to the Navy Department were received this morning from Rear Admiral Rowan, command- ing tho Asiatic squadron, dated from the Unitea States fagship Piscataqua, Yokohama, July 23, In anticipation of the war in the, northern part of Japan, as indicated in previous despatches, the Aroostook, Lieutenant Commander Bradford, had beep ordered to Hakodadi to afford any protection to our Consul and any American interest that might be there. Onarrival of the Aroostook at the latter place Lieutenant Commandef Bradford found Ennomoto strongly entrenched, and determined to resist any wttack on the part of the Mikado’s land and naval forces. AS s00n as the Mikado room had got in the rear of Ennomoto 1t was determined to make a com- bined attack by land and sea. The leadens of both parties Informed the consuls and commandors of ships of war that they would not be responsibie for the satety of foreigners in Hakodadi, and requested them ail to withdraw, The American Consul and his numerous family and connections sought protec- tion on board the Aroostook. Rear Admiral Rowan despatched the Oneida to Hakodadi, where she ar- rived in time to take an i omy ortion of the persons: who “ protection. The Iroquois, Commander Law, followed, to remain if necessary; tf not, to return and report the state of afairs. During the stege some good dashes were made by both sides. One of Ennomuto’s ships was handled with ability, but the Stonewall was more than a match for a score like her. Eunmoto having lost his navy and having had his fort knocked down by the Stonewall, surrendered to prevent a useless loaa of life, and 18 how @ prisoner in Jeddo, Com- mander Williams had an Interview with the cow- mander-in-chiet of the successful forces, who told iim that foreigners woud be protected, whereupon he landed all the women and children and sent the Aroostook to Nagasaki, as direcied. The country is now at peace and likely toremain #0. The Tyo on is @ voluntary prisoner at lis owa castle, and his family, the most powerful and influential in the ein. pire, has been deprived of much of its income by order of che Mikado, at the instance, no doubt, of the Southern princes, Who combined and deprived the Tycoon of the almost supreme power which his lamily had held for hundreds of years. ‘The Japanese government has advertised for pro- posals for the removal of Admiral Ennomoto’s aunk- en fleet from the harbor of Hakodadl. Rear Admiral 8. C. Kowan, In a despatch dated Yokohama, July 2, reports the disposition of the fleet as follows:—The flagship Piscataqua arrived ai Yokohama on the 2ist of June; the Oneida and Ida at 1; Ue Monocacy and Lroquois at Yowo- hama; the Ashnelot at Hiogo; the Aroostook at Ha- kodadi; the Manmee at Foo Choo, and the Unadilla at Hong Kong. SINGULAR SUICOE. At fifteen minutes before ten o'clock, last evening, & stranger drove to Sonth ferry in a hack, paid and dismissed the driver, and on entering the ferry house, deliberately took off hts coat, threw it down on the dock ana leaped into the river, OMmcers of the First precinct threw the itfe saving tackle to him, but be reiused to seize it, and sauk. The body was not recovered, The coat ts of biack broad cloth, and tn the pockets were a smail briar wood pipe, % lady's smal ized white linen handkerchief, edges doited with bluck checks and ratlway time tanies, Persons who observed him atate that he was of medium size and aged about thirty-fve years, The hackman, Who alone can throw hght upon the mystery, is uot kuown,