The New York Herald Newspaper, September 1, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. A/l business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HeErap, Rejected communications will not be ro- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXIV.......cccceeeeeeeee sree No, 244 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—RoMRO AND JULIET— Puipe or THE Hag, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and {Ed street.—TAE SEA OF IoR. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—A VintiTy REFRATAISMERE. Matinee eh be ee OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hto: Dock. Matineh at 135. " pate Uaraey BOOTH'S THEATRE, 2d t,, between Sth and 6th avs.— Rip VAN WINKLE. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and 13th street=— Viortms--Tae PRoria’s LAWYER. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—A Lira'’s Ra- ‘VENGE--Goop ror NOTHING, Matinee at 2. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tum QUEEN OF Hrauits—Tu® OLD WoMAN TuaT LivED 1 SShor. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth atroct and Broaiway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. FIFTH bias, | 4d THEAT! Fifth ity fourth street.—PLAY. eins hdr ecaaaniiarag NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Aggau na PoGus; OR, Tar WickLow WEDDING. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—FirLp oF THE CLoTa oF GoLD—LatLa Rooxa. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58h and ‘S8th sts,—-POPULAR GARDEN Conornt. TONY PASTOR'S OPE! Vooalism, NEGRO MIN HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Couro RELSY, &0. Matinee at 2}4. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETH10- PIAN MINGTRELSY, NEGRO ACTS, £0. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—HOoousr's MinsTRELS—OFF TO CUBA, &c, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BOIENOZ AND ART LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Broadway.—FEMALES ONLY IN ATTENDANCE. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, September 1, 1869. THE NaWS. Europe. Cable telegrams are to August 31. ‘The frigate Sabine mutiny and executions story is officially denied by the American Legation in Paris. The harvest prospects of England are very prom- ising. The Harvard boat crew sail to-day for home. Don Carlos left Spain for England, Eugénie was slightly indisposed. Napoleon was busy at Cabinet work. Prussia and Austria are approaching an entente, The Sultan will honor the Empress of France with a grand military review. Ismael Pacha will visit Constantinople. ‘The international boats’ crew /éte in London was a very Drilliant and agreeable affair. By steamship at this port we Dave interesting mail and special details of our cable telegrams to the 21st of August, inc.uding a complete official report of the correspondence between Turkey and Egypt. China. The Paris journals state that the Chinese govern- Ment has specially recognized Mr. Burlingame’s treaty-making exertions. Japan. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEST. near Newtown, Iowa, was washed away on Monday, one brakeman were killed. L. G. Riggs, an editor at Meriden, Conn., was knocked down and bruised by a young man yester- day for an obnoxious article which appeared in his paper. Q The gas in an oil tank at Newton, Mass., exploded yesterday, and one man was burned to death. The striking miners who attempted to stop work in the mines at Scranton have gone away, being deterred from their purpose by the demonstrations of the citizens. All is now peaceable, and work will probably be resumed. Some of the fractional currency furnished by the New York bank note companies ts said to be sO badly printeg as to be unfit for use. Charles 8. Archer and others, well known mer- chants of this city, were arraigned in Commissioner Shields’ court yesterday on a charge of making fraudulent returns of revenue. The former book- keeper employed by Archer stated that he had made Out the return of sales each month and on several Occasions had been told to cut the amount down $6,000 or $10,000. The defendants claim that the whole affair is a blackmalling operation. Dexter yesterday trotted a mile in 2:21%, to aroad Wagon, at the Prospect Park grounds. He was driven by Mr. Bonner himself. General Sherman is at Bangor, Me., with his daughter. The American Spiritual Association is in seasion at Kremlin Hall, in Buffalo. The olosing ball of the season at White Sulphur Springs, Va., was given last night to the press. The City. James Wood, living in a shanty on West Fortieth street, near Eleventh avenue, was arrested for being drunk yesterday morning; but an investigation of his premises disclosed the fact that his wife had been murdered, and the evidence of neighbors im- plicated Wood himself inthe murder. It is stated the man and his wife were drunk and quarrelled, whereupon he beat her until she became insensible and subsequently died. He was committed and an investigation will take place. The stock market yesterday was heavy at the opening and underwent a sharp decline, particu- larly tn the Vanderbilt stocks. A reaction ensuing, the whole list recovered and closed buoyant. Gold Was steady and closed ‘finally at 133 4;. The public schools of the city will be reopened on Monday. Many alterations and improvements have been made in the buildings during the vacation months. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor Hoffman, of New York, is at the Claren- don Hotel. Lord Adare, of England, and Mr. McMichael, of Philadelphia, are at the Brevoort House. General T. D, Seweller, of Washington; Judge Bach, of Michigan; Major H. C. Clark, of Providence; General M. T. Wall, of Texas; J. P. Totten, H. D. Reeve and Geo. Ashbury, of the United States Army, and J. W. Page, of the United States Navy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General Sackett and General Averill, of the United States Army; Professor Adams, of Philadelphia; General H. W. Ledie, of Onicago; Judge Comstock, of Syracuse; A. Hardy, of San Francisco; Colonel W. Mason, of Taunton; Colonel McComb, of Dela- ware, and John 8. Irwin, of Boston, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A. A. Hays, Jr., of Shanghae, China; Commander Lowery, of the United States Navy, and General H. A. Barnum, of Syracuse, are at the Hoffman House. General E. W. Leavenworth, of Syracuse; George L. Duniap, of Chicago; Major Perry Fuller, of Wash- ington; Colonel M. J. O’Brien, of Augusta, Ga.; Judge N. H. Swayne, of Columbus, Ohio, and Gen- eral N. Davis, of Cnicago, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Rev. S. A. Morgan and Rev. P. F. McCarthey, of Washington, are at the Coleman House. Prominent Departures. Governor W. Dennison, for Ohio; ex-Governor Harris, for Tennessee; Major General George Meade, for Washington; Colonel H. G. Hays, for Saratoga; Judge A. Doun, for Philadelphia; Colonel W. D. Mann, for Washington, and Robert Rivner, for By way of Europe we have confirmation of the news of the capture of Hakodadi by the Mikado. Mexico. Advices from Mazatian are to the 20th of August. Lazada had refused to aid Vega in his revolutionary project. The Governor of Durango 1s opposed to forming a separate republic of the Western States. The Apaches in Sonora are committing numerous depredations, Paraguny. Intelligence from Asuncion by the Atlantic cable fs to the effect that the provisional government meeis many obstacles in pacifying the country. Lopez holds strong positions, and the allies are re- maining inactive for want of provisions. Caba. The Havana journals doubt that the United States has made any proposal to Spain for the independ- ence of Cuba, and hold that such a proposal would certainly be rejected. No information in regard to the action of Spain on the proposition to sell Cuba has yet been received at the State Department. The agreement to which Cuba consents is to pay the price of the public build- ings in the island and her share of the public debt, the independence of the island to be concedea first. Miscellaneous, The Cabinet meeting was held yesterday, the President and all the members being present except Messrs. Hoar and Boutwell, who were represented by thetr chief assistants. Several important matters were discussed, and a telegram from Mr. Burlin- game was read by Secretary Fish denying that his | treaty had been rejected by the Chinese government. To-day the President and Secretary Fish will proba- bly decide upon a successor to Mr. Haggerty, the Consul to Glasgow, whose exeqvatur was refused by the British government because he was a Fenian. To-morrow night the President will start on his re- turn to Saratoga. The New York Democratic State Convention ts to be held at Syracuse on the 22d of September. The careless apothecary’s clerk in Boston, who some time ago gave alady laudanum for rhubarb and thereby caused her death, has been admitted to bail m $2,000 to answer to @ charge of man- slaughter. The Board for the Equalization of Taxes for the State will meet in Albany to-day, when the Citt- zens’ Association will argue for the reduction of taxes in this city. Mr. Seward has reached Portiand, Oregon. Prince Arthur, after making @ hurried tour through Nova Scotia, returned to Halifax last night, where he attended a grand ball. In the special term of the Supreme Court at Al- bany yesterday Judge Hogeboom heard argument on the receivership question, in the Susquehanna Railroad litigation. That portion of Judge Peck- ham’s injunction which restrains Fisk from institut- fing legal proceeaings for the possession of @he com- pany’s books was dissolved, and the argument was adjourned to the next special term. The ship laborers at Quebec are on a strike, anda procession numbering about 3,700 of them, while marching through the streets yesterday, became disorderly and roughiy handled the Mayor and several prominent citizens, The military were called out to prevent a riot. Bishop Oxenden, the new Metropolitan of Canada, fas arrived at Quebec. A court in Amherst county, Va., has decided to postpone all chancery cases for the present, because General Canby has reserved to himseif the right to appoint special commissioners and denied it to the courts. Yesterday was marked by @ destructive fire at Cape May, which destroyed several hotels, including the United States and Atlantic, and numorous other outldings, involving a total loss of over a quarter of million of dollars, The fire broke out at three o'clock in the morning, from the storey of Boyton, known as the “pearl diver,” who was arrested dur- ing the day, charged with incendlarism. ‘There was Baltimore, The Close of the Summer Pleasuring Season and the Resumption of Business— The Herald. The Ist of September marks the turn in the tide. The summer pleasuring season in the country draws to a close, and the fall season of business is again upon us. Through all the summer the currents of travel from every point of the compass of which this city is the centre have kept our hotels and our numerous places of amusement pretty full, but since the 1st of July our shopkeepers of all descriptions, wholesale and retail, have been unanimous in the complaint of the stagnation in business. Country customers coming in have been com- paratively few and far between, and the thousands, yea, the tens of thousands, of our citizens off to the seaside or the interior, or to the Pacific coast or to Europe, have made a serious vacuum in all our business thorough- fares. Our fashionable summer resorts, meantime, have not enjoyed a season of remarkable General Grant touching our domestic and and an engine and seven freight cars plunged ign affairs, and especially upon t through the opening. The engineer, fireman and Syelen iy te ly the gree money question, that will give a new impulse of confidence and enterprise to our financial and business men North and South, East and West. We entertain the opinion that General Grant has been making these summer plea- sure excursions with an eye to business and the general interests of the country, and we shall look for the evidence in his first annual message to Congress. Our advertising columns begta to show that the pleasurtng season is breaking up, and that business is again the order of the day. Our increasing subscriptions and daily sales of the Heraxp in town show that the return tide is fairly setting in, We predict the inauguration this fall season of a new epoch of progress and prosperity to this great metropolis without a precedent in the history of any people. We have made our arrangements accordingly to meet all demands from our advertisers and subscribers of the city, the State, the United States and the four quarters of the globe. The Hgratp has become the index of all the fluctuations in this great commercial and financial centre of the Continent, and the recognized organ of the independent masses of the American people in political affairs, as well as the best newspaper in the world. All parties, all creeds, all nationalities, all classes and all in- terests are embraced in our great constituency. Having shown the way how to gain them, we know how to hold them. The newspaper pioneer in modern American journalism—the advanced organ of public sen- timent and progress, of the new age of steam power and lightning communications over all the land, and from Continent to Continent— the Heratp does not and will not flag while all the world is moving onward. As for ex- amplgs, in the French invasion, occupation and evacution of Mexico, and the Fenian in- vasion of Canada and the splendid British Abyssinian expedition, the Hzratp commis- sioners will still, in all the great movements and events of the day, give the first authentic news in full to the world. From thirty odd years of successful -enterprise, experiment and ex- perience we have gained the assistants, the system, the machinery and the capital for any contingency. The success and superiority of the Hzratp as a daily journal of the news of the globe is established, and its facilities and advantages for maintaining this position are amply secured. Our readers know this to be true; our advertisers of even a few years have grown rich upon this doctrine, and they who have been with us from the start are among our millionnaires. The Gettysburg Advertising Dodge. The Gettysburg battle field commemoration assemblage, as it has been termed, was brought to a conclusion last Saturday and the general meeting dissolved. Military men who had participated in a fight which resulted, at the best, in a victory barely won, beat ‘to quarters” on every side and commenced their jourtey towards home. It was time, The tattoo which summoned them to meet on this modern Golgotha, formed of the bones of brave Americans of the armies of the North and of the South, was sounded in the interest of a new speculation—the sale of the water of the Gettysburg Springs. It was an advertising dodge—a dodge undertaken for the sole pur- pose of bringing the water of these springs into notice. Advertising dodges are of very early date, and their successful perpetration for money-making uses taxes human ingenuity pretty severely at times. They have ever expressed deception, and consequently were calculated to mislead the public very exten- sively in the days prior to the complete estab- lishment of the cheap newspaper press by the subordination of steam and the electric tele- graph to its uses. The first advertising dodges were of an amusing, but, as in the case of the latest, heartless and unfeeling character. Twenty-five years since an Irish speculator in Dublin advertised for the services of any number of unemployed aged men, promising to give them “‘ sixpence a day and their board.” He had many appli- cants, but the poor fellows found in the even- ing that although they received sixpence in cash for the day their board meant only the large wooden shingles, to be carried one on the back and the other in front, on which his prosperity. Sensible people are beginning to | placards were pasted, the man’s head being find out that in seeking recreation, health or | driven through a hole in the centre. The per- | pleasure at these great caravansaries at thesea | ambulating cheap pencil man of Paris ‘“‘laid shore or the springs is paying dearly for the | off” some years since, and as no person could whistle, and quieter places of more modest | say where he went to it was given out he was pretensions have been the gainers thereby. | dead. He suddenly reappeared, however, in The flush times of fat war contracts and of | the streets, and his pencils were talked of shoddy and petroleum have passed away, and | more than ever, he himself observing, “‘Any even the gold gamblers of Wall street, in | person knows how to live, but few know how their holiday adventures, are learning to consult their margins of profits and losses. But the fall season of business is at hand, and our absentees in the country are returning to town. Henceforward, | too, till next July we anticipate good times to our business classes and satisfactory retnrns on the right side of the ledger. Though a drought has cut short some of the crops in the South and West, the general yield of the country in all our great staples is glo- rious and unparalleled. In cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco the South will perhaps have this year a margin of three hundred millions of money for improvements and investments in Northern and European products, manufac- tures and skilled labor, while the wheat and Indian corn crops of the great Northwest and of California are magnificent in quantity and quality. The same may be said of the gene- ral potato crop and all the fruits of the garden, the vineyard and the orchard. Indeed, in all these blessings to the people of the United States this may be called the year of jubilee, without the slightest reference to “‘the grand panjandrum” at Boston. But, again, the Pacific Railroad has given such an impetus to the working of the rich mines of gold and silver of all that vast sec- tion of the Continent from the Rocky Moun- tains to the western ocean, and to the settle- | ment and development of all those new States | and Territories from the Mississippi to the | Pacific coast, that among the early results must be the addition of many millions to the general wealth of the country and a corre- also a large fire at Quincy, Ill., by which a freight depot of the Chicago, Burlington ana Quincy Rail- road Company, and between twenty and thirty laden freight cars were destroyed. ‘A bridge oa the Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, spondingly increased demand upon the stores | of New York. And yet, again, we expect, with the return of Congress, the development | of a general policy from the administration of * to die in order to live.” A Californian advertised once in San Francisco by lettering his business and address on the shorn sides of puppy dogs, which. he bought from the boys, and then leaving the animals to run into the refreshment saloons. The greed of gain be- gets selfishness and cruelty, Hence advertis- ing dodges. To-day we have books, pam- phlets, bottles of water, canes, wine and dog fighting, with many other sorts of new adver- tising dodges. The Gettysburg Springs water case is the latest. It may be @ joint stock concern, perhaps; but in any view the nation’s dead should be permitted to sleep in peace. Tae Saping Consprracy AND EXECUTIONS Srory.—From Paris and London, by the Atlantic cable, we have the joyful intelligence that no conspiracy existed on board the frigate Sabine, and that none of our sailors were executed for mutiny at Cherbourg, A note from the United States Legation in Paris pro- nounces the story ‘‘as utterly without founda- tion.” It was circulated in France and Eng- land on Sunday. The latest intelligence will relieve the heavy care of many a fond heart, as well as remove a momentary stain from the national honor. Tae Caniner Mertinc.—At the Cabinet meeting yesterday the Chinese mission and questions appear to have received much atten- tion. Secretary Fish read a telegram from Mr. Burlingame denying the statement that his treaty with this government had been rejected. The subject of a new Minister to China, to succeed Mr. Browne, is regarded with interest, and i is believed that the name ot the appointee will be announced in a few days. Revival of the Regomey. Very few of the readers of the Hzzatp have not heard of the Albany Regency, @ political junta that sprung into existence some fifty years ago, and had its headquarters at the State capital. It was a body composed of the ablest, shrewdest and most strategic politicians ofthat time. Martin Van Buren was the founder of it,and through the tremendous influence it exercised over the destinies of the country he was in 1836 its successful candidate for the Presidency. The first object of this ring was to acquire a controlling influence over the political affairs of the State. To ‘‘this extent, no more,” had the ambition of the parties form- ing the junta extended. But the success that attended its efforts in this direction, par- ticularly in the campaign that elected General Jackson to the Chief Magistracy, very quickly raised it to the pinnacle of political power in the State and gave to it an immense influence throughont the length and breadth of the land as a great political engine. With the accession of Jack- son the policy of the Regency entered in the administration of national affairs and main- tained its sway throughout the two terms of that President and the succeeding administra- tion of Van Buren. For twenty years the Albany Regency was thus a power in-the land, and its decline and fall mark an era in the history of the newspaper press of this country. The great party organs of those days—the Washington Globe, the Albany Argus and the Richmond Jnguirer—were subsidized by the Regency, and those papers lent their great in- fluence to perpetuate its power. But after a time these partisan organs succumbed to the rising genius of the independent press, which now began to manifest itself and give proof of the influence it was destined to exer- cise over all the institutions of the country, and which early set itself to oppose the schemes and plottings of the Regency. After 8 protracted struggle with this new and unex- pected opponent in the political field the Re- gency gave up the ghost and became a thing of the past. But now again on the political horizun, in this oity and State, can easily be discerned the dawn of a new and more powerful Regency— the Tammany Regency. All the political signs of the times indicate the succession of this new power to the sway of the democratic sceptre formerly wielded by the defunct body. But it has a far wider theatre of action before it, with vastly increased elements of strength and power at command, and incomparably greater influences to wield and interests to control. The arena on which this new party is to contend for political supremacy and the state of opposing parties offer to it at once the grandest scope for action, with the fullest assurances of success. It is the Tammany ring in a new réle—the ‘Tammany Regenoy.” Peter Bismarck Sweeny and | his faithful brother sachems and knights of the Wigwam compose the new Regency. They are all strong men ina political sense. There is Chamberlain Sweeny, Senator Tweed, Comptroller Connolly, Mayor * Hall, Recorder Hackett, District Attorney Garvin and a few others equally wise in counsel and bold in action. Their line of policy is already laid down. In the coming fall elections they will secure to their party every office in the city. The utmost efforts will be put forth to return a democratic majority in the Assembly, and then, with both branches of the Legisla- ture in harmony with the Executive, the work of the campaign of 1872 will be light to them. Their candidate for the next Presidency they have publicly annowhced—he is one of them- selves, and his name is John T. Hoff- man. The Albany Regency, under Van Buren, secured its power by the con- solidation of the great democratic party and in harmony of action on the political issues of that day, and then put the man under whose standard they had fought and won their first campaign in the Presidential chair. Now the object of the Tammany Regency is to make this city and State the great rallying centre of the entire democracy, North and South, East and West, and in their first encounter with the republican or adminis- trative pavty in 1872 march to the fight for the Presidency under the standard of John T, Hoffman. Thisis the mission of the Tammany Regency, and the people will watch with great interest the work they have entered upon and be anx- ious for the result. If they succeed—and they ought not to fail, with the immense advan- tages they possess in the sinews of war and on the disrupted and disintegrated condition of the party opposed to them—they will restore the democracy of the country to the high position it lost in the national councils by the repeal of the Missouri co mpromise. The Sultan’s Letter to the The letter of reprimand addressed by the Sultan of Turkey to the Viceroy of Egypt is fully expressive of the former's opinion of the slight paid to his dignity, The form of making the invitationsto foreign Powers to attend the opening of the Suez Canal direct, and not through the medium of Constantinople, has evidently touched one of the weak points of the Sublime Porte. The liberality of the Vice- roy, and especially his expenditure in the pur- chase of arms and iron-clads, would naturally cause a sentiment of jealousy to arise, because Egypt, being called upon to play a conspicuous figure, Turkey perhaps fears that a separation may be eminent. The fact of the Suez Canal being a success places Egypt in a most pro- minent position in regard to the entire uni- verse. In fact, she will, possess the key of speedy communication between the East and the West. Not alone will the increased trafic yield an equivalent revenue, but the wealth of the country itself will be greatly de- veloped by the facilities of transport offered and the frequent contact between the natives and enlightened travellers from all parts, Whatever may be the consequence, the great undertaking of the Sues Canal owes its completion to the co-operation of the Vice- roy of Egypt, and not to that of the Sultan. The Viceroy’s enlightened ideas, combined with a desire to increase the development of the com- merce of his country, induced him to strain every nerve in order to secure such a grand triumph. Proud of the success of his en- deavors and the cordial welcome extended to him on his recent tour through Europe, auch a viceroy. calling to account may yet cause him to desire that-his country may be free. Recent accounts state that the differe, ces between Turkey and Egypt have been satis, “sctorily arranged; but should the Porte assume too much authority we may expect a difficu:'ty that will cause a more severe concussion t? be felt than is generally expected. Greeley for China—The Right Man at Last. It is reported that twenty-one’,missionaries have been killed in China, and the 8dvocates of the old-fashioned style of intercou'tse with the Chinese will find great comfort in the deaths of these devotees, Already the,¥ are hinting that this new evidence of the barba ism of the Celestials ought to be taken as co'D- clusive against any liberal or fair treatment of such people, But this cannot be accepted as very strong argument. If twenty-one mis- sionaries have been killed there are only go many more instances that indiscreet zeal must pay the penalty due to those who heedlessly excite the religtous prejudices and inflame with stupid hostility the passions of a more or less ignorant populace. : Mobsonce excited are apt to kill men, even in this fair and rational city; and we know of nothing more likely to gather such a mob than the proposition to burn all the churches of a given sect. Sup- pose twenty ‘‘missionaries” of the Presby- terian bicker went up Mulberry street to burn St. Patrick’s Cathedral, what gort of figures would they cut before the coroner's jury ? Yet this is just the proposition of the Christian missionary to “‘the heathen” everywhere. He goes armed with his dogmata, and with his eyes resolutely shut to the fact that a people as capable of reasoning as himself will not ac- cept his theories at the first glance to the ex- clusion of the tenets held among them for thou- sands of years. He rushes forward to over- throw temples, to burn idols, and to degrade priests who have as strong a hold upon the people subject to their influences as he has upon his home circle—perhaps just a little stronger, since this hold depends mainly upon the ignorance of those who are held. He consequently gets himself chopped up. But he also does something that the world has greater reason to regret. He retards the progress of true enlightenment, delays and prevents the opening of free intercourse between nations of different civilization, and furnishes the ready pretext for the indiscriminate use of power against a people of different faith. "A point in our civilization at which God and Mammon stand side by side and face the same way is in the hitherto accepted mode of view- ing non-Christian nations. The platform of the missionary is exactly the platform of those British traders who recently addressed Mr. Browne and complimented him upon the fact that the views he had endeavored to further in China were not the views of his government, but were a great deal better, of course. It might be worth while to regret that we had been represented: in a foreign country by a minister who could be praised by such words if it were not the unfortunate result of our system of appointment that we are as likely to have incompetent and unfit persons as any other in such places. But, altogether, we think there is plentiful reason to rejoice over the enforced recall of Mr. Ross Browne, as it has fixed public attention on the principal point in our relations with China, and as it has directly led to the nomination of a man for the place who is more fit for it than any other man under the sun. We refer, of course, to Horace Greeley. In another column will be found an article extracted from the Tribune of yesterday, which is principally important in its closing passage. Everybody will perceive at once that Greeley is there presented as the fit man to represent the American people in the presence or the neigh- borhood of Chinese majesty. His name, it is true, is not mentioned ; but fortunately he is a man of that class—of those broad and salient features of character that are recognizable without the addition of that arbitrary sign—a name. Let our new minister, says the article, “tbe a man of principle; one, moreover, who has brains and soul enough to understand that the only possible basis of profitable relation- ship with China is a foundation of integrity, good faith and justice.” Now this is Greeley, for the Tribune does not believe that there are two men on the face of the earth endowed with the amount of brains and soul set down in the memorandum, and who are at the same time ‘‘men of principle.” We cordially second the motion of our con- temporary. We conjure, pray, implore, beseech, and urge the President and all the members of the Cabinet, and all parties and persons having power in the premises, to send Greeley to the Chinese capital forthwith. He is fitter for the place than any other man, and fitter for that than for any other place. It is an appointment that would touch the Chinese to the very heart, for they would suppose it had been made in our American admiration for their great philosopher, Con- fucius. Greeley is a great deal like Con- fucius, and the Chinese would perceive this atonce. His philosophic indifference to the conventionalities of life, his sincere and undis- guised love of virtue, cowhide boots, old clothes and agricultural pursuits; his dilapi- dated coat and that white hat on the back of the head disclosing a half acre of forehead— all these bespeak hima true disciple of the Confucian school. He would stand higher in China than in any other country, and any economical use of our material would therefore dictate that he should go there. His very outlandishness, that would make him seem a simpleton in London or Paris, would be his best qualification in outlandish Pekin. They would hardly know that he was not a China- man. There he would find, too, that all his favorite ideas have been common property for ages. He would find protection inscribed on every stone in the great wall. He would open Confucius only to see that when Ke K’ang asked the master about the govern- ment, saying, ‘“‘What do you say to killing the unprincipled for the good of the principled ?” Confucius replied, ‘Sir, in carrying on your government why should you use killing at all?” He would thus, touch the sympathetic chord of opposition to capital punishment. He would find this agreement at every step, and who can measure the good effect that this discovery of intimate relationship would have on our diplomacy? For this place Groeley wants nothing but. a pigtail, and that he shall have. No doubt the fitists in hair who have furnished all ladies with chignons are equal to the vroduction of one. and we will head a i subscription to pay for it. Whatever else is forgotten at Washington this appointment must be remembered. Count Johasnes on the Byron Scandal. It is not surprising that George, ‘Count Johannes,” should be prompted by the spirit of the age of chivalry to defend a dead and slandered lady against the shameless, malignant attack which has recently been made upon the memory of the Hon. Mrs. Leigh. Count Johannes was personally acquainted with the half sister of Lord Byron, and some of his revelations are based on her own statements during one of his interviews with her at St. James’ Palace. The intimacy of Count Johannes with La Belle Guiccioli, with the Countess of Blessington, “Trelawney the Terrible,” the Count d'Orsay, the Earl of Harrington (formerly the Hon. Leicester Stankuope), who werevall intimate with Lord Byron,, certainly entitles him to speak with at least equal authority om the points at issue as Mrs, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Count Johannes has been singularly fortunate in enjoying the hospitality of emperors, kings, car- dinals and archbishops, and there is something impressive in his manner of skilfully reserving to the last, in his masterly refutation of Mrs. Stowe’s libel against the Hon. Mrs. Leigh, his strongest moral evidence, and citing the Qhneen of Eng- land, that model of chastity and all matrsnly virtues, as a chief witness in favor of his client. Our readers cannot fail tobe struck with the fact that Lady Byron herself is brought forward as a witness in behalf of the Hon. Mrs. Leigh. That the name of this much injured lady was bestowed upon Ada Augusta, the only child of Lord and Lady Byron, as a token of Lady Byron's belief in the innocence of the relations between her-hus- band and his half sister, is an interesting and significant fact. Mrs. Stowe’s account of the parting interview of Lord Byron, his wife and his sister, is shown to be a mere fiction. The cause of separation, as assigned by Mrs. Stowe, is equally false, and the true and natu- ral reasons are given in the Count’s letter,’ which defines ‘‘Byron’s curse of life” and portrays, with graphic power, the melancholy issue of ‘‘woman’s malignant tongue and tem- per conjoined.” Lord Byron's deathbed scene is presented by Count Johannes with great effect. Byron's dying declaration to his intimate friend, Stanhope, is conclusive, taken in connection with the incident as to the second name of the poet’s daughter. Light is thrown upon the broken sentences addressed by Lord Byron to his valet. In fine, the letter of Count Johannes is the first complete and co2clusive refutation of the most atrocious and Puritanical libel upon the dead which has ever defiled the his- tory of literature. It is rather an aggravation than a justification of that libel that it was designed simply as an advertising dodge, eclipsing all that Bonner or even Barnum ever attempted in the advertising line. No wonder that Bonner declares he would not have pub- blished it for a million of dollars. Mr. Bonner emphatically expresses our own opinion of Mrs. Stowe’s slanderous article on Lord Byron in the Atlantic Monthly, when he says:—‘‘I know of no article published in my lifetime calculated to exert a more injurious and de- moralizing influence on the rising generation.” Happily, Count Johannes’ letter supplies an an- tidote for the poison with which Mrs. Stowe and her publishers have tried to infect the public mind. City Politics—The War of the Clube—Bat- tle of the Democratic Elements. ‘Tan-tara! tan-tara! tan-ta-r-r-a!” ‘“‘Rata- plan! rataplan! rataplan!” Sound the trump- ets! Rattle the drums! The war of the clubs and the battle of the democratic ele- ments in the city of New York have begun. Field Marshal Tweed is already in the field, backed by his an Trish boys, with the bright emerald colors of the Americi flying in the breeze, and only awaiting the appearance of the silken and gold bespangled banners of the Manhattani, marshalling the German hosts, under the gorgeous Belmont, to enter into the contest and fight it out on any line until one or the other of the contending foes bites the dust. The first’ represents the Irish democratic ele- ment in the city; the latter the German demo- cratic element. The Germans say the Irish have had the run of the public kitchen long enough, and it is time they came in for a crumb of public plunder and a few drippings from the smoking and savory sauerkraut in the public cullender. They urge that they have for a long time helped to maintain the supremacy of the democracy in the city; that they have long been faithful devotees at the shrine of St. Tammany; that they have helped to swell the war whoops of the sachems when- ever the enemy was near; that they have ever been steadfast and true, and always voted the regular ticket without winking or blinking at the preponderance of beautiful Celtic patro- nymics that adorned the same. They now demand that their-fidelity should be rewarded ; that they should be represented in some manner: by the overruling providence which, at the dictation of St. Tammany, holds the bostowal of official position in the hollow of its hands, And why shouldn't they? Why shouldn’t the Teutonic element have a share in the stupendous city and county jobs that are breaking the backs of the taxpayers ? The Germans have always been good, sober industrious citizens. Their power has been gradually looming up, until, ike a pillar of fire or a puncheon of lager, it can. be seen by day and by night, Sundays excepted. That power will serve as % wholesome check upon the Celtic element, not that we have any fears of the impregnability of the virtue and probity of that element, but, in order that it may not, like all parties that become too power- ful, sink into evil habits and become vicious and corrupt—like. the radical party, for ex- ample. The Germans are naturally a quiet and phlegmatic race, indifferent to what is passing around them gg long as they are per- mitted to enjoy their meerschanm and their favorite beverage. ‘hese characteristics are more true of them in tho Old World than ia the New, far here they have a spur to their imaginations, a rasp upon their atolidity; and, as one Bismarck has just awakened their kindred in the faderland to a new life, so another Bismarck will prick their ambition into something like vitality and animation in this their adopted home, In other than voliticul importance are the Germans looming ’