The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1869, Page 6

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The London 7imes comments on the late boat race in a truly iaternational spirit and tone. ‘The rules for the navigution of the Suez Canal are published. Our special correspondence and European mail re- port are in very interesting detail of our cabie tele- grams to the 20tn of August. China. A despatch by the Atlantic cable says twenty-one Christian intssionaries have been murdered tn China. Paraguay. No opposition was offered by Lopez to the allied advance on Villa Rica, beyond which no operations against the Paraguayans have as yet been attempt- ed. Lopez is strongly intrenched in the Cordilleras, ‘The British subjects living under Lopez are faring well and have no desire to leave the country. Mivis- ter McMahon was carrying money for them home to Englaud. Cuba. Despatches from Havana contain the usual ac- counts of desuitory figbting, without any decisive results, The Diario claims that seven of the central and eastern jurisdictions are held by the Spaniards. Ferrera, ® member of the vigilance committee, charged with enforcing the coliection of customs, bas been dismissed for smuggling. Secretary Fish, in reply to imquiries from Cubans in Washington, states that he has no tnformation as to any action of the Spanish government on the proposition to sell Cuba. It is believed in Cuban circles that the Serrano government will make no ecision in the matter, but will leave it to the King, Who is to be chosen by the Cortes on the 16th of September. Dr. Simons, a New Yorker, who has been a pris- Qner at Havana for the last seven months, has arrived in Washington to secure Secretary Fish’s aia in recovering the property taken from him by the Spaniaras during his confinement. He repre- sents that he was shamefully treated by his captors, and several times narrowly escaped being shot by the volunteers. Miscellaneous. Mr. J. Ross Browne denies that he denounced Mr, Burlingame or his Mission, and says that the Chinese Would not progress except by the enforcement of treaty rights. Prince Arthur attended a reception and a ball in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, yesterday, and @ general holiday was observed. fe opened the ball with the Mayor’s wife. General Canby, commanding in Virginia, it is now stated, has written to General Sherman asking authority to install Governor Walker immediately, in order that certain important appointments may be made. Mr. Peabody, accompanied part of the way by General Lee, loft White Sulphur Springs for Balti- More yesterday in a special car. _ His health is much improved. He was in Washington yesterday after- noon as the guest of Mr. Corcoran. Judge Dent expresses no doubt of his nomination by the Mississippi conservatives, He has great ele ments of strength of the State, having at one time been the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner there, when by lils tact he managed #0 woll as vo secure the ardent attachmient of both rebels and negroes. He will stump the state during the canvass. Ben Butler and General Rawlins are quarreling between themsbives, A quartermaster in Rich- mond bined some buildings used as a hospital NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. uring the War, in Which, itis stated, General But- ler was interested, At this the General demanded that the Quartermaster ve instantly dismissed, and the Secretary refused. Colonel Stokes called upon Commissioner Delano yesterday to have the recusant revenue officers in Tennessee removed. The Commissioner said the President and Secretary Boutwell must be consulted first. A great fire is raging in the Dismal Swamp in Vir- ginia, Many miles of fences and cordwood have been destroyed, and numerous wild animals have been driven out into the open country. A drove of cattle, seventy in number, stampeded 1n Buffalo yesterday and raged about the streets, at- tacking all the citizens they met. Several persons were injured, The drove scattered, some of them swimming the Niagara river to Canada. Charges have been filed against Mayor Bowen, of Washington, by @ commissioner of that city, of entering, it is alleged, into a conspiracy with certain contractors to defraud the city of $11,000. A boiler in the Phoentx Iron Works, at Phonix- ville, Pa., exploded yesterday, killmg two men and fatally injuring two others. Several houses were damaged by lightning in Binghamton on Saturday afternoon, and one was completely demolished. Two ladies were severely shocked. The Susquehanna Railroad war came up in the Albany courts yesterday; but no witnesses were ex- @ghined, ana it was again postponed until the 15th of September. The famous century plant of Baffalo haa been shipped to Chicago, to add one more to the numer- ous sensations of the latter city. Over 20,000 strangers visited it in Buffalo. A man named Marshall fell asleep in a boat at Buffalo on Saturday, and was covered and killed by ® cargo of wheat subsequently put into the boat. A woman named Elizabeth McCarty and a little girl named Elizabeth Jordan were drowned at Pater gon yesterday by the upsetting of a rowboat. ‘yhree monitors, in a very dilapidated condition, have arrived at New Orleans from Mound City, and two others on the way are aground below Memphis, A large number of coal miners appeared in Scran- ton, Pa., yesterday, with the intention of preventing the miners of the Lackawanna Railroad Company from working. The citizens were organizing to pro- tect the miners, Considerable lawlessness prevails in Sumner and Rutherford counties, Tenn. The negro laborers arg flocking into Nashville, demanding protection, and even the planters are asking aid to rid them of the desperados who prevent their laborers from working. The City. The “uniform rule” of the Police Commissioners has been modified 60 as to permit officers to be re- lieved of wearing thetr uniform in special cases by the Board or its members, or by the Superintendent, Gustave Berbau, a Frenchman newly arrived, was robbed in Broadway, near Bond street, about twelve o'clock on Sunday night, of 2,800 francs and a gold watch by a number of thieves, who beat him until he wasinsensible. Three of them were captured by the police, but the property was not recovered. The stock market yesterday was heavy and ex- tremely dull. Gold declined to 13334, closing finally at 13334. The market for beef cattle yesterday was tolerably active and prices were quile steady. Prime and ex- tra steers were quoted 164c. a 16c., fair to good l4c, a 15c, aad inferior to ordinary 10c. a 13%c. The of- feringa were large, being about 2,500 head at the new yards at Weehawken, 1,559 at Communipaw and $49 at 100th street. Milch cows were in light re- quest ana prices were genetally heavy. Prime and extra were quoted $90 a $125 each, fair to good $15 a $85 and inferior to common $40 a $90. Veal calves were in moderate demand at 104c. a 114¢c. for prime and extra, 9c. a 101¢c. for common to good and 8c. a 8340. for inferior. Sheep were in brisk demand and firm at 7c. a 7¢¢. forjextra, 6%¢. a 6c. for prime, 5c. a 6c, for common to good and 4c. a 434c. for inferior. Lambs were in good demand and firm at 7c. a 8%c. for common to prime. Swine were heavy at 9. a giec., with arrivals of 5,131 head, chiefly for slaughterers. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General U.S. Grant, General Porter and General Quimby; Colonel J. Baldwin, of Virginia; C. Preston, of Indiana; J. H. Denham, of Chicago; Ernst Men- delsohn and Ernst Wesphal, of Prussia, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Major General George G. Meade, of the United States Army; Colonel A. Boyd, of Pennsylvania; J, J. Van Wauroy, of Mobile; J. B. Turner, of Chicago, and Captain Robert Leitch, of steamer City of Lon- don, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge G. M. Curtis, Dr. F. D. Curtis and Dr. A. L. Aldridge, of New York; J. A. Hayward, of Panama; Judge Grier, of Belfast, and W. A. Kirkland, of the United States Navy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel Owens, of Kentucky; W. M. Allen, of Mount Parnassus, and Major John Butts, of Vermont, are at the St. Julien Hotel. E. Howard, of Halifax, Ca.; U. W. Adams, of Bos- ton, and W. E, Kilbourne, of Keokuk, lowa., are at the Westminster Hotel. H. B. Ledyard, of the United States Army, and George Campbell Anderson, of Nassau, N, P., are at the Clarendon Hoiel. volonel T. G. Bayler, of the United States Army; W. G. Fargo, of Butfaio; E. K. Cahoun, of the United States Navy; James A. Woodbury, of Boston; John Endry, of North Carolina; George Hillyer, of Georgia; Frederick Irwin, of London, England; F. F. de Crane, of Philadelphia, and C. Gurnee, of San Francisco, are at the Astor House. Prominent Departures. Count Faverney and Selor Roberts, for Wash ington; Seiior Valles, for Newport; Major Trum- bull, for West Point; J. 8. Hodgeson, for Sara- toga; Charles Hopkins, for Mobile; Dr. C. Reese, for Baltimore; Samuel Randall, for Philadeiphia; Colo- nel C. T. Davidson, for Boston, and Dr. 8, Reese, for | Saratoga. More TrovBLe AMONG THE PENNSYLVANIA Coat Mixers,—Scranton, Pa., was the scene of considerable excitement yesterday. Some fifteen hundred coal miners met there for the purpose of preventing the miners of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company continuing at work. To the time our despatch was sent no forcible measures had been resorted to. The citizens, however, laboring under an apprehension of violence, had held a meeting and were rapidly organiz- ing for the preservation of the peace and for the protection of the threatened miners. It is to be hoped that moderate counsels will prevail and that nothing will be done to precipitate a conflict, which is as unnecessary as it is preju- dicial to the material interests of the country. Po.tok Untrorm.—There is another ridicu- lous excitement in the police department in regard to clothes. It is ‘‘ordered’’ that a policeman shall not lay aside his uniform even when off duty, save in his own house or when out of his precinct altogether. This isa piece of petty and ridicu- lous tyranny. What good purpose does it serve to keep aman thus in a certain kind of dress when he cannot even be called upon to perform the duty for which that dress is merely a badge of authority? We favor giving a policeman the rights and privileges of a citizen to wear any dress he pleases at such.times as his absence from duty relieves him from the direct force of Police regulations. Tue Dirrere, z.—In England the boatmen, the press and the people accord the Harvard boys all honor, and with the true gallantry of nothing to spare. But in Canadian utterance we see the ‘“‘tuppenny” spirit of the Canada people. They argue that Harvard might have been beaten by half an hour if ithad been worth while, fair opponents concede that the victors had 4 General Grant and the Caban Question— The Political Prospect for 1872. Political affairs at Washington are at dead low water. The tide has never been so low there for half a century or more, For some time past the President, Vice President, Con- gress and the Cabinet, excepting Secretary Rawlins, and he is an fovalid, have been out of town, To-day, however, there will be some signs of animation observable, occa- sioned by the Cabinet meeting; but as Presi- dent Grant returns to Saratoga to-morrow, and as it is probable the heads of depart- ments will follow sult, the capital is likely to resume its unprecedented dulness. Such a general clearing out of the government has never been known before this since the occupa- tion of Washington by the British in 1814, In all this, and especially in ‘the never end- ing but still beginning” pleasure excursions of General Grant, the democratic journals and politicians see the signs of an inglorious failure of Grant’s administration and the breaking up and dispersion of the party in power. Gen- eral Grant, we are told, is doing nothing on any of the great questions of the day, because he is alike ignorant and indifferent concerning them and the consequences—that on the Cuban question, for instance, he has no policy and no purpose but that of drifting along and trusting to luck. In regard to Cuba, however, we are entirely satisfied that General Grant's inactiv- ity is not the result of indifference. We are satisfied that he is a close and earnest student of events, and that he is confident that before long Cuba will be free; that events in the island and in Spain are rapidly tending towards this solution, and that if the doubting Thomases will only yield to a little patience they too will in a short time be convinced. We are, in this connection, gratified with the assurance that the Secretary of State is not op- posed to the recognition of belligerent rights in behalf of the Cubans, but is in full accord with the sympathies, expectations and purposes of the President, and that in due season all doubts and apprehensions will be scattered to the winds touching the policy of the adminis- tration on the Cuban question. But what does all this signify? We pre- sume it signifies that before long we shall have either a satisfactory treaty with Spain or the recognition of the revolutionary Cubans as a belligerent power. Meantime it is apparent from the enthusiastic receptions of General Grant by the people at every point where he appears before them that their con- fidence in him Is unshaken ; that they fully be- lieve in his capacity and purpose to carry out the promises of his inaugural; that they care nothing for the growlings and whinings of disappointed place-hunters in the division of the spoils, and. that on the Cuba question, the Alabama claims, the Mexican question, recon- struction, suffrage and the money question the people have full faith in General Grant, and that if he is doing notbing, if the government is standing still, it is because that just now there is really nothing to do but to wait for some further developments of events. Hence it is still too soon to attempt the political horoscope for 1872, although, under the present appesrances of things, General Grant mast ineysably be nominated and elected for a second term. So fyrashe is concerned the opposition party in the South has disappeared, and both parties swear by his policy and his administratton. In the North there is no agitation in the republican camp of the claims of any candidate in opposition to Grant, while to the Northern democracy the city of New York, and through the city, the State is all that is really left from the wreck of the Sey- mour and Blair campaign. Thus the demo- cratic chiefs of this city, the Tammany Sachems—and more powerfully than the old Albany Regency—hold the democratic party of the Union subject to their control. Accord- ingly, they expect to name the democratic can- didate for the succession ; and if not their first choice their second choice will surely be the man. Their first choice is Hoffman, and their second choice may be Pendleton should the com- ing Ohio October election give him a fresh start in the West. Seymour is done for, Chase is apparently used up, and Hancock, Hendricks, Packer, Adams and the rest, appear to be all in the background in having no fixed power to bear upon Tammany Hall. But what can Tammany Hall do under the present division of parties, North and South, against General Grant as the republican candi- date in 1872? Absolutely nothing. The first thing Tammany is called upon to do is not to trot out Hoffman, but to bring about a reunion between the Northern and Southern demo- eracy. To this end, if the mountain will not come to Mahomet Mahomet must go the moun- tain, or peradventure the democratic campaign of 1872 may be more profitless than that under Seymour and Blair, which hardly paid ex- penses. The Sabine. It is a melancholy story that comes by the cable from the United States schoolship Sa- bine—rather the more melancholy, too, for coming just at the moment when the friendly rivalry of our boys on the Thames fills the air with acclamations so much in contrast to the spirit of this recital. Seven men have been hanged at the yardarm for mutiny, and an- other ghastly page is added to the history of our navy that may go side by side with the memorable story of the mutiny on the Somers and its rapid, perhaps precipitate punishment. With a large part of the public, avd certainly with all those who had relatives or friends on the Sabine, the first question will be, ‘Who were these seven men?” Why could not the telegraph vouchsafe the meagre satisfaction of their names? Here is a typical instance of the way news is sent us, An event occurs of very extended general interest, and of the most intense and particular interest to a large number of persons, and it involves an attempt at a terrible crime. Yet from the news de- spatch we actually cannot tell when it occurred, or where it occurred, or who were the guilty parties, though they have been hanged. Every one will concede that there can be no justification for the fury of rage that drives men to attempt such an actas blowing up their ship, and if it is clearly proven that the attempt wae made, and equally proven that the men hanged were those who made it, the justice of their punishment will not be brought in question. But nevertheless, and side by side with this clear recognition, must run the Mutiny on the inquiry, what dreadful tyranny and oppres- sion of naval ‘‘discipline” is bebind all this? Against what barbarity was this mutiny the protest? For what conduct was it that the sailors were thus savagely bent to ‘“‘revenge themselves upon their officers?” We cannot believe that it was an imaginary outrage— some figment of a sailor's brain. Sailors are apt enough in badly organized ships to be dis- contended and to find multitudes of airy griev- ances, but that sort of discontent evaporates in growling and does not attempt to fire the magazine. There is something deeper here— something that has taken a more desperate hold on heart and brain, and the naval au- thorities owe itto the country to make this case the basis of a most exhaustive investiga- tion into the very constitution of our navy in regard to relations between officers and men. Tho International Boat Race. By the use of the French Atlantic cable we are enabled to submit to our readers this morn- ing a complete embodiment of the tone with a very interesting reflex of the sentiment which prevails in England on the subject of the issue of the great international boat race between the Oxford and Harvard crews as expressed in an editorial which appeared in the London Times yesterday, and which we have tele- graphed verbatim. English-like, the article is candid, manly and impartial. It contains no words of exultation, but, on the contrary, does full justice to the thew and muscle, aquatic skill, power of endurance and whole- souled bearing of the representatives of “Young America.” It is freely acknowledged that in training, and consequently in the science of stroke and, it may be, the appre- ciation of every little riparian advantage just at the critical moment, the Harvards were from the first inferior to the Oxford boys; but it is also conceded, and with equal freedom, that our men were opponents calculated in every way, and from the very moment of the start, to render the use of the very best exertions and utmost caution of the latter absolutely necessary for the ultimate attainment of a hardly won victory. The Englieh writer describes the scene which was witnessed on the banks of the Thames during the progress of the contest, and by his repetition of the encouraging and animated “Ah! ah! abs!” of the Americans shows at once that the minds of our countrymen, even of those most experienced in the watching of the course of such events, alternated between the hope of victory and the fear of defvat frequently during the short, fleeting moments of the atrug- gle. It is acknowledged, as already stated in our columns, that it was blood against blood, the children of a common stock in friendly rivalry as to which would do the greater credit to the race and pedigree. In the British editorial we have the battle “fought o’er again.” The reader sees, as it were, the young men a3 they bend to the oar, sympathizes with the respective cox- swains and obliterates in his mind’s eye and by a natural and generous impulse the fact that Harvard and Oxford—the United States and Great Britain—are separated by an ocean width of three thousand miles distance. Science, as is shown by our cable report of the article to which we refer, has already anni- hilated the space, while the friendly and firm hand grasp interchanged between the men of both crews during the evening at the dinner table sealed an international attestation of the grand fact. The moment and opportunity for the use of the “steel gloved hand” as between the two coun- tries may have passed forever; the newspaper, the telegraph, the oar and the fleet yacht ef- facing perhaps all the pride of the war ‘‘victor’s glaive” as experienced in the olden time. The London celebrations in the evening, in and outside of the Crystal Palace, were joyous and cheering in the extreme, and all the details, as set forth to-day, are in appropriate illustra- tion of the ethnological fact that “blood runs thicker than water.” The Police Justices—The Mode of Election. The system of electing by the people the judges of the various courts in our city, from the Supreme Court down to the justices of the police district courts, has long been the sub- ject of great controversy. It has had its sup- porters and its opponents, but hitherto the elective system was maintained because pro- vided for by the constitution. The amended instrument, however, provides for an election at which the people shall determine whether the judges of the higher courts of record shall continue to be elected by the people or ap- pointed by the Governor. The result will be a true test of the judgment of the people upon this important point. But the amended con- stitution provides for no change in the man- ner of electing civil and police district jus- tices. According to the present system these officials are elected by the voters of the dis- trict in which they reside. A great injustice is done to the public thereby. For example :— There are districts where the peaceful and law-abiding citizens are greatly in the minority and the turbulent and riotous element over- poweringly in the ascendant. The latter have consequently the control of the ballot in their districts, and the candidate for the judicial office must base his chances of success upon the votes of the very class whom the laws he is to administer are designed to keep in check, and if need be to punish. There can be no proper enforcement of the laws under these circumstances, and hence the impunity with which crime stalks through the streets of our Obs of the remedies heretofore proposed for this state of things has been to put the candi- dates for these offices on a general ticket, the same as the judiciary ticket, and thus take from the voters in the district the arbitrary power of electing who shall preside as judges over them. This is a question, however, that only the Legislature can adjust and settle sat- isfactorily, and it is one that will be strongly pressed upon its attention at the coming session, Goopv Boys.—We are glad to note that the boat clubs move in the matter of receiving the Harvard four on coming home, It is well enough for them to move, though of course it will not be left to them merely, but will be taken up by the whole people wherover a gal- lant spirit is held in favor, Six seconds be- hind is a splendid record for the firsé attempt ona hew course anda now style of rowing, and is indeed equivalent to a viotory ; and we noed not be ashamed to take pride on this score, General Canby on the Situation tn Vir inia. We publish elsewhere a letter from Rich- mond in which it appears that the politicians of Virginia have agreed upon the resignation of those members of the Legislature who cannot take the test oath, provided General Canby orders a new election. A committee accord- ingly called upon the General for the purpose of obtaining his views, which seem agreeable to the proposition. General Canby, however, saw fit to present his ideas on the situation of affairs, which show him rather in the light of a partisan than in that of an impartial comman- der. Virginia, he holds, must be reconstructed on a thoroughly loyal basis, meaning by that that the State must be in the hands of the rad- icals before she can be restored to her place in the Union, The existence of the Democratic State Central Committee, he further holds, is a standing menace to—whom? Not to the re- public, but to the radical organization. And this fact fills him with grave doubts. Is not the existence of a Democratic State Central Committee in every State of the Union a stand- ing menace to the radicals throughout the re- public? Does General Canby imagine that these committees will disband to please the radical party? We cannot see that their ex- istence isa barrier to the restoration of the Union. We think it would be better for Gen- eral Canby to leave politics alone and submit to the will of the people of Virginia, whatever their decision may be. J. Ross Browne on China. It appears by a telegram from San Francisco, published yesterday, that Mr. J. Ross Browne contradicts the statement that came by the way of London, to the effect that the Chinese gov- ernment had rejected the treaty made by Mr. Burlingame with the United States. We expressed our doubt at the first of the truth of the report. He now says the ratification of the treaty {s deferred till the return of the Embassy. So far, then, our ex-Minister to Chins has been misrepresented. But there can be no question as to what he has written and published over his own signature on China and the Chinese. He thought proper to ventilate his ideas, and we fear his prejudices as well, in a letter addressed to certain British merchants at Shanghae, which letter was published in the Hzratp on Sunday. He has committed a grave mistake in thus assuming an attitude of hostility to the policy of his own country—the country that he was sent to represent in China. His conduct is more reprehensible, too, for having made these foreigners, the British opium traders, who are the bitterest enemies of China, the medium for his publication. Whatever views he might have entertained or wished to express should have been ex- pressed to his own government alone, especially as the policy he discusses and con- demns was inaugurated at Washington and followed by a treaty made with the United States that formed the basis of similar treaties with the Powers of Europe. Such conduct may seem bold and independent, but it is unwise, indiscreet and unpatriotic, His letter, though smoothly and carefully written, lacks grasp of thought. Admitting even what he says to be true, that the Chinese government does not desire progress or a more free intercourse with the people and nations of America and Europe, and that the object of the Burlingame mission is to prevent such progress tather than to promote t, the cordial reception of the Embassy and the broad and liberal treaties made with it cannot result unfavorably. This was the true policy for the great civilized nations of Europe and America to pursue. It remains to be seen if China will reject the treaties lately made with this and other countries. We have yet to see whether the Chinese government has resolved, as Mr. Browne intimates, on falling back to its old policy of exclusion and retrogression. We are inclined to think it is not so, and hope itis not. It appears to us that the present government of China has shown too much good sense and liberality to justify the opinion that it would venture to trifle in such @ manner with all the great Powers of the world. It would be the height of temerity and folly. Prince Kung and the high mandarins that surround him must know such a course would raise a storm of indigna- tion throughout America and Europe not easy to be allayed, and that must in the end be very damaging to China. The Christian nations of the civilized world would do well to try the peace policy with the Chinese. It is magnanimous, broad, liberal and in accord- ance with the spirit of the age. If, as Mr. Browne thinks, the Chinese fail to appreciate this, and should resolve to evade or reject the policy of peace and progress, the alternative of war can then be evoked. All Mr. Browno’s talk about paganism, pagans and Christianity smacks very much of the old missionary and opium traders’ prejudices, and is outside of the real question at issue. The civilized world of Europe and America will not be trifled with, nor do we think the Chinese government so stupid as to imagine such a thing. Surely it has seen and felt the power of the great Christian nations too sensibly to make such a mistake, The liberal peace policy inaugurated on the arrival of the Burlingame mission is the true one if that be practicable. Let itbe tried fairly, and then, if it should fail, the great Powers can at last resort to force. We must wait the result of present efforts for peace and progress, and are not without hope, notwithstanding Mr. Browne's opinions, that they may prove suc- cessful, The Cotton Crop of 1869. A New Orleans paper, referring to the eati- mate we made of the cotton crop, admits that there are three millions of bales grown this year, but doubts that it can all be gathered. Now, while we agree with the writer that more labor is needed in the Southern States, we think that with cotton at twenty-five cents a pound:and upwards the people will not allow it to rot on the ground. They will, doubtless, make an extraordinary effort to gather the whole of this precious treasure, and if the negro labor proves inadequate, the white people—the plan- ters themselves, with their wives, sons and danghters—will go to work, The Southern people have learned the value of industry and economy since they plunged into war and since the war ended, and have shown too much enter- prise to improve their fortunes within the last { few years to admit the opinion that they will ——————— lose # part of their valudble crop through not using their own hands in labor. No, we expect to see the whole three miitions of bales gathered and three hundred millions of dol- lars or thereabouts realized for the crop. This will make the South rich again, and we cordially congratulate our fellow citizens of that section on the splendid prospect before them, The Americus vs. the Manhattan Club. Democracy in its generally accepted mean- ing is not always pure democracy. As there are two sides to every question, there are also two sides to the question, what is democracy? There is the democratic side proper, in which @ perfect vraisemblance of the true idea is always present, and there is that other side which, under the name of democracy, has only @ superficial resemblance to the ideal, This fact may be seen by a comparison between the two great democratic clubs of this city—one of them having its headquarters here on Man- hattan Island, from which it has taken its name, the “Manhattan Club,” and the other equally known all over the land as the Ameri- cus Club, and which has its local habitation, if not name, at the delightful retreat, Green- wich, Conn., on Long Island Sound. Ostensti- bly these two clubs are per s¢ democratic, but with » difference as between their relative claims to be so considered. The Americus Club is composed of an elected few, according to by-laws limited to one hundred. The other, the Manhattan, is only limited by the arbitrary exercise of the right of blackballing candi- dates for membership. Both to these several extents are exclusive. The Americus Club, however, in all other respects maintains its claim to general recog- tion as purely democratic. Everything con- nected with it, in it and of it, is of the demo- cratic type. Its founder and dubbed com- mander-in-chief is William M. Tweed, Super- visor, Deputy Street Commissioner, State Senator, Chief Sachem, and as many ef ceteraa in the same category as may suit his own digestive powers or satisfy the Aladdin- stricken imaginations of his friends, admirers and constituents. Withal a sterling democrat of the old school is William M., one averse to all innovations which threaten to trench upon the time-honored rights, privileges and immu- nities of the great unwashed, of whom he ia the true representative. The presiding genil of the other club are composed of very different materials. And here’s the rub, ‘‘Materlals,” democratically speaking, must have some spirits combined with them to make a perfect material or com- potation, as an Irishman might learnedly and feelingly express it. This ingredient is wanting in the composition of things at the Manhattan Club, and therefore it lacks the spirit to give it a fine democratic flavor. And hence the difference, no doubt, that has of late arisen between the two organizations. But the limiting to so small a number as one hundred of the Americus coterie must not be supposed to have arisen from a spirit of exclu- siveness or off-standishness. On the contrary, it was that this Spartan band and their suc- cessors for all time might give proof of their democratic hospitality to all strangers landing on the Greenwich shore, and who are at once confronted by the Americus motto of invita- tion, ‘‘Come and do as you d——d please.” Mr. Tweed, a8 before said, according to the record of his oficial rank, 18 cOmmander-in- chief of these democratic clubbists, all of whom hold titles and grades of military and naval rank, from commander-in-chief and admiral down to two solitary privates, the last “elected”—one a private in the land and the other ditto in the naval service, and who can only be promoted and relieved from sing- ing ‘‘Cruiskeen Lawn” all the time while on duty in case of a resignation or a death in these respective services. Here is pure democracy as known in its palmiest days. On the other hand, the Man- hattan Club belongs to a set of “bloated bond- holders” of the democratic stripe, who hold admission to their séances in their own handa, and permit none to enter without the secret sesame. This exclusiveness, however, does not prevent us from knowing and contrasting the inner club life of the Manhattan ‘‘gents” with that of the Americus ‘‘b’hoys.” The latter, like the good fellows they are, sing “Champagne Charlie” and smoke ‘“Connec- ticut fine cut” in their hours of imbibation of Bourbon neat, with Bully Bill Tweed at their head chiming the refrain. The Manhattanists, on the other band, in their city-house, smoke their Partages and sip their Roederer or Lac D’or—lacking in everything but the ephemeral spirit thus imbibed, and lamenting over the defection of the men whom they deceived in the past, and would deceive again if they got the chance. From this lifting of the veil may be dis- cerned the true nature and motive of the ac- tion of the democracy of New York in their first movement to wrench from what they deem the incompetent hands of Augnst Belmont—the Augustan autocrat of the Man- hattan Club--the sceptre of the National Democratic Committee, and to place the same in the hands of William M. Tweed, one of the The Sultan and the Viceroy. Affairs appear to be coming to » point between his Majesty the Sultan.and the Viceroy of Egypt. Our last despatches inform. us thaé the Sultan has resolved to ‘crush out” any attempt which may be made towards inde~ pendence by the Khedive, his servant and representative in Egypt, or to bring matters: to a. direct issue in a peaceful manner, Is any such attompt tending to. the independence of Egypt contemplated? It appears that an order restraining Ismail Pacha from employing the land and sea forces. of the Egyptian vice- royalty outside of the limits of. his bailiwick as set down inthe firman of 1841 was to be immediately issued from Constantinople, and that a regular account curren’ of the expenses of the viceroyalty must hencoforth be rendered quarterly 6o the Cabinet of the Sultan, More- over, it is to be ordgred in this decree that the Viceroy shall not impose or collect any more taxes, and that he shall wot hold any direct communication with any foreign government. This is drawing the reins pretty tight on tho Viceroy, It may prelude a revolt, if Ismail’s backbone is stiff enough for resistance. But the question arisoa whether cither England or France would per- mit the Viceroy of Hownt th be crushed out