The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1869, Page 6

. Sho negroes. 6 "NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. Thursday nominated @ city ticket, Ralf the candl- dates being republicans and bait demoorats. ‘The State Fair at Elmira closed yesterday. The total receipta were $15,000. An Englishman named James Armstrong, living in North Bridgewater, Mass., yesterday morning attempted to murder his father-in-law by sbooting him with a pistol, but missed bim and wounded a neighbor, He then turned apon his mother-in-law and shot her dead. 4 noted border character called “Wild Bill,” the hero of many sketches of Western adventure, while being taken to the Colorado jail on Tuesday last, was shot and killed by aagassins concealed in 6 thicket, The City. Margaret Connolly was yesterday sentenced to the State Prison for five years for attempting to murder police officer Kearney. As the prisoner was leaving the court room she turned to officer Kearney and swore that she would take hia life as soon a8 released from prison. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EROPS ATOM All business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York Heracp. Rejected communications will not be_re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the gear. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription sekce 929, Henry Straus, a German, twenty-three years of = Es | age, living at No. 90 Rivington street, being crossed Volume XXXIV.. ee cccecevee seeseesN@s 26% | in love, sought consolation yesterday by blowing out <== | his brains, AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. On the 1th inst. the United States Treasury con- tained $102,852,343 in coin, including $21,355,040 in gold certificates, Except about $4,000,000, this coin ig in the United States Sub-Treasury in this city. Frederick A. Tallmadge, ex-member of Congress and for several years Recorder of this city, died at his residence in Litchfleld, Conn., yesterday moro- ing, aged seventy-elght years. ‘The French steam corvette d’Estaes arrived yes- terday morning from Havana. Since last June there were ten deaths on board from yellow fever, including her captain and first officer. She was de- tained at the lower quarantine. The stock market yesterday again underwent a large decline amid considerable excitement. Gold rose to 136% and fell off at the close to 13634. The sidewheel steamship Manbattan, Captain Woedhall, will sail as three o’clock this afternoon, from pier No. 5 North river, for Charleston. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Samuel Brannan, of California; E. C. Billings, of New Orleans; D. W. Ingersoll, of St. Paul; Volonel Runkle of Washington; Dr. Bowen, of the United States Navy, and Colonel H. ©. Potter, of Connecti- cut, are at the Astor House, General M. S. Littiefleld, of North Carolina; Chas. S, Sherrill, of Washington; General J. M. Brannan, of Connecticut; George W. Swepson, F, A. Sawyer, D. A. Jenkins and W. A. Smith, of North Carolina, and General L. M. Shackelford, of Alabama, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Sir A. T. Galt, of Montreal, and Baron Krase, of the Prussian Legation, are at the Brevoort House. A, T. Dortie and the Countess T. de Perugaux, of Paris, are at the Hoffman House. General W. W. Avery, of the United States Army; Colonel Devonne, of the French Legation, ana Edward Smith, of Engiand, are at the Albemario Hotel. Colonel William Warner, of Indiana; B, J. Sherl- dan, of Nashville, and Colonel J. V. Clark, of Fort Columbus, are at the St. Charles Hotel. vu. R, Stuart, of Heiena, Montana, Colonel S, Sim- kins, of Florida, and J. W. A. Robinson, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Prominent Departures, Bx-Secretary of the Navy A. E. Borte, for Phila- delphia; Abvott Lawrence, for Boston; General R. W. Kirkan, for Springfeld; Governor A. M. Patton, for Georgia; Judge Race, for [ilinois; General G. W. Cass, for Pittsburg; Governor William Dennison, for Ohio. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, 14th street.—HapManN, THE PareriviGiTaTZUB. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28dat., between 6th and 6th avs.— Bir Van WINKLE. Matinee at 2 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth sireet.—Dazams, Matinee at % FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- Bue. —ENGLISH OPEBA—LA SONAMBULA. Matinee at &. NIBLO'S GARDEN, | Broadw: Bat.eoap To Ruin, Matinee bg Pommonsi on, Tas WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and WW8h sireet.— Tux ScuooL FoR ScaNDAL. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—NIck OF THR Woops— Dick, 1aB NEwas0x—TuR SNOw BiRd. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—JocRisex, THE JUGGLER, Matinee at 2 GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Bighth aveaue and ‘We aireet.—ParRiz. Matince at 2. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No, 130 Brostway— Quand Vauiety ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 2. OLYMLIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tas Dawa OF UNOLE Tom's CAuIN. Matinee at 2. 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The mossago which the Sultan has just sent to the Viceroy, and which we printed in the Heratp of yesterday, reveals to usa state of things which does not by any means guarantee tous the peace of Europe. If it does no more it at least threatens to revive the Eastern question in a shape more dangerous than ever. The Sultan insists that the Egyptian army shall be reduced; that certain war vessels, guns and other munitions of war supposed to be ordered in Europe shall be countermanded ; that taxes shall be levied only in his name and imposed only with his sanction; that no foreign loan shall be contracted without his approval, and that generally the Viceroy shall be more mindful than he has been of his sub- ordinate position. A manifest willingness to comply with these conditions will make the Viceroy welcome at Constantinople. The conditions, it must be edmitted, are hard. They are all the more so when we consider the present position of the Viceroy. By a course of policy which the Sultan has not hitherto seriously questioned, his vassal, the Viceroy, or Khedive, as he is now called, has made himself almost independent. He has, with the help of England, constructed one of the grandest and most useful railroads in the world—a railroad which brings all the wealth and resources of the East to the very threshold of the Western World. He has supplemented the railroad by a most useful and efficient system of telegraphy. Not con- tented with this, and acting with a full knowledge and appreciation of the central position of Egypt, he has enlisted French intel- lect and made use of French capital in the construction of a canal which, when fairly completed, will revolutionize the trade of the world. While these works have been in pro- gress the Viceroy has himself made large sacrifices. Naturally onough, he has used all his talents and all his influence to secure the resulting benefit, if not to himself, at least to his family. The Sultan, a3 we have sald, bas not hitherto been stubbora. He has, at the Viceroy's request and after the receipt of large sums of money, changed the order of succession in favor of the heirs male of Ismail Pacha. A change so violent and so unheard of in the East has begotten its natural fruit. It has banished the Viceroy’s only brother, Mustapha Fazil Pacha, from Egypt and made of him a most bitter enemy. It has done the same to the Viceroy's uncle, Halim Pacha, the nly surviving son of the founder of the fam- ily—the celebrated Mohammed Ali. The Vice- roy’s enemies have had no power in Constanti- nople. His career of prosperity has been un- checked until the present time, when the European tour and the invitations given to European princes to come and witness the opening of the Suez Canal have suddenly opened the Sultan’s eyes and half convinced him that his vassal was, in the eyes of Europe and the world, a more important personage than himself. Hence the present excitement; hence the Sultan's repeated messages; hence his exacting and somewhat extravagant de- mands. Those who know Ismail Pacha well and who judge him from a domestic standpoint do not and cannot love him. He is essentially selfish man. His behavior toward certain members of bis family has been shameful, and but for the skilful manner in which he doles out backshish to the various Consuls General would have brought down upon his head the indignation of Europe and the world, It is stated on the very best authority that whon, some two years ago, Halim Pacha found it necessary to leave Egypt some hundreds of thousands of dollara distributed to the differ- The Datty HERALD will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month, The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by thig arrangement can receive the HERALD at the same price it is furnished in the city. THES NEWS. Europe. Cabie telegrams are dated Septemoer 17. By speciaicabie reports we learu that the Spanish government will summon the Cuban Parliamentary Geputies to meet in Cortes in Madrid. Five war frigates are to sail for Cuba, General Prim had an- Other audience with Napoleon, the Emperor advising him to recommend Spain to sell Cuba to the United States if she could, end reminding him of his own experiences in Mexico. Spain is deeply agitated. King Victor Emanuel consents to his son taking the throne of Spain. The Hespano-Ouban subject was earnestly canvassed by the English press, the weight of opinion inclining towards the conviction that the Spaniards cannot hold the Island, and should nego- tate the terms of @ sale or surrender. Napoleon appeared in the streets of Paris. The Sir John Franklin expedition story from California fs discredited in England. Prince Gortschakof was tn London. Lady Palmerston was buried. Rumors of Napoleon’s coming abdication were’ again rife. Prince Napoleon went to sea in his yacht. A French legislator ‘demands’ that the Corps Legisiattf shall assemble of its action without animperialsummons. The Statistical Congress was in session tn Holland. The lfverals of North and South Germany are likely to fuse in one national party. The land question was still agitated in Ire- land. phe Russian Sclaves congratulated Bohemia on the Huss festival. A Berlin newspaper was sup- pressed for an attack on Count Bismark. ‘The Doncaster, Evgiand, races afforded excellent sport. Our special European correspondence and mail details of our cable telegrams to the 4th tnatant are quite interesting. Turkey. A lightship displaying double lights has been an- chored in the Black Sea. Exypt. The Viceroy \s disposed to object to the terms of ‘the Sultan's mission. Miscellancons. The number of fires is alarmingly on the in- orease, five large confagrations being reported this morning:—The flouring milis of Sibley & Penny- backer, in Philadelphia, loss $50,000; the freight Gepot of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad at Cleveland, loss variously estimated at from $50,000 to $200,000; the skate factory and 28,000 pairs of skates, belonging to M. F. Sperry, at Syracuse, loss $40,000; the Canadian Chemical works at London, Canada, loss $30,000, and three dwelling houses in Toronto, Canada. In this last fire two chilaren were burned to death and one fireman was killed, and another fatally injured by the failing of # chimney. The National Capical Executive Committee have Issued a call for a convention to be held in St, Louis, Mo., on the 20th of October next, of all in favor of removing the national capital from Washington city to the Mississippi valley. The Governors of all the States are invited to attend the convention. Lewis Carter, who was buricd by the caving In of Avault at Jamaica on Wednesday, was rescued at two o'clock on Thursday night. Carter was found ttanding knee-deep In water, closely wedged in by a large stone lying on his breast, He was not injcred (np the least, Don Cameron's prospects for the War Department are said to have been spoiled by the attacks of a Usmeron organ upon Secretary Boutwell, whom the President looks upon as the wheel horse of his ad- tministration, Pennsylvania is not likely to be represented iu the Cabinet during Grant's adminis- tration. Waday Thompson, arrested with Perry Fuller at Bt. Louis a few days since on charge of defrauding the government, while en route for New Orleans ‘was taken (rom the custody of the Marshal at Jack- gon, Tenn., on Thursday, on writ of habeas corpus and discharged by a Tennessee Judge. He was tm- modiately rearresicd on the same charge, and after- ‘Wards released on ball. Daring an altercation between a party of negroes and whites tm Hartford yesterday morning, two white men were severely, if uot fatally stabbed by The Demooratic Convention of Cincianatt on ent consuls gave the Viceroy an easy victory over his more amiable but less powerful rela- tive. The fates, however, are not so unjust as we are sometimes disposed to regard them. The offended brother and uncle, both now in Constantinople, have waited long for an oppor- tunity. The opportunity has come. Mustapha and Halim have made their case one. Mustapha, one of the very ablest of the party The Tammany Tweed-Belmont muddle {s settled. It was settled with the return of Sweeny—Peter the Great, The flare-up by the Tweed organizations in certain wards against Belmont was a’ trick from the begin- ning to work certain little wires for certain ward nominations, including aldermen and Our special correspondent in Florence, writ- ing from the capital of Italy under date of the 30th ef August, supplied the interesting and valuable exhibit of the condition of the king- dom—political, industrial and social—which was published in our columns yesterday. The facta as set forth were derived from no less an ma sik * The Boat Race—Temper of the Engfish Mr. Dickens’ speech at the rowing club din- ner was much nearer @ true appreciation of the recent boat race than any other English utterance. He called the fortune of the Harvard men ‘a great defeat’—putting the word great in its most favorable sense—and he continued, “T gay that it is in the essence and life flood of individual case, of young Turkey, long in disfavor and deemed a dangerous theorist, is now high in favor at the court of the Sultan and occupies a promi- nent place among what we may call the Privy Councillors of the Empire. The two Egyptian princes have now the ear of the Sultan and the sympathy Of the Sultan's advisers, and we may rest assured that they will not allow the opportunity to slip. Revenge is sweet. It is especially so to a Mussulman. We have no doubt that difficulties will be so far smoothed down that the Viceroy will be able to make his intended visit to Constanti- nople and that a plentiful outpouring of Egyp- tian gold among the Sultan's needy attendants will so far give him the victory that he will return and preside in triumph at the opening of the Suez Canal towards the cloge of the year. The conditions laid down by the Sultan to bis vassal are more hard in seeming than in reality. It will not be difi- cult for the Viceroy to comply or to seem to comply for a time. It would be foolish—it would not pay—to allow trouble to arise before the Suez Canal is formally opened. The Viceroy will be well advised; so will the Sultan, and some convenient agreement will be patched up. Yt would be absurd, however, to imagine that any arrangement that may now be made will be permanent. The Viceroy will cling to his purpose. His purpose is to have Egypt proclaimed an independent kingdom and secured to his family. The Suez Canal must be opened before he takes final action. So soon as the canal is opened for purposes of trade Egypt will be less a portion of the Turkish empire and more a part of the mod- ern world, By the common consent of the nations the Sultan will no longer be allowed to interfere in the affairs of that country. West- ern Europe will take the land of the Pharaohs under its protection, and the Suez Canal may become the bounteous parent of another great Eastern empire. It is by no means certain, however, that this change will be effected without war. a dying effort to maintain the integrity of the empire. would be followed by rebellion on the banks of the Danube, and Roumania would follow Egypt. All thes questions will have to be considered in the reconstruction of Eurepe, which many canses render imminent. that there is any immediate danger of a rup- ture between the Sultan and the Viceroy, but we do not think that the general con- dition of Europe warrants us to hope for the continued integrity of the Turkish empire. Unless the Sultan hurries up the railroad and the telegraph and the steamboat and the canal and the newspaper will accomplish his ruin. The Disposition of The Sublime Porte may make Rebellion on the banks of tho Nile We do not consider the Avondale Rellef Fand. There appears to be some doubt and con- siderable speculation as to the proper distribu- tion of the Avondale Relief Fund, which it is thought may reach near two hundred thousand dollars, that in view of this large sum being contributed @ portion of it at least should be made a permanent investment for suffering miners and their families generally—to establish for the future maimed, widows and orphans of the mines a permanent charity, good enough if the contributions had been made for that goneral purpose, but they have not. They were made for a specific object, the relief of the families of the miners whose lives were lost in the Avondale mine, and cannot honestly be applied to any other object. These families are entitled to the whole amount, whatever that may be—have, ina cer- tain sense, a property in it—because it was subscribed specifically for them. Though the sum may be large, or larger than was antici- pated, that does not alter the case, we are opposed to any such manipulation of the money by committees, agents or trustees. It might fall into the hands of unprincipled parties, who would filter fees, charges or com- missions out of it, and the poor people might derive little benofit. Suggestions have been made, too, This idea is Besides, The simplest and best plan would be, probably, for a committee of gentlemen unconnected with the mines to take charge of the fund, and this committee to ascertain what amount is needed for the present wants of the families, and then to pay over on the spot the necessary sum in each After that the balance should be safely invested upon good interest, and the interest periodically distributed to the families in proportion to the number of persons in them, but to the families of the Avondale dead miners alone, for it belongs tothem only, This will be just and prevent any jobs, and we hope the large amount subscribed will be disposed of in that way. Iscomes.—Commissioner Delano evidently means that the internal revenue shall be col lected efficiently while he is in office. He has soveral times decided important points in a way to givo peculiar gratification to all who desire to see the great revenue swindling business cut short, and his last move for the reassessment of incomes and an efficient col- lection of that tax indicates that he knowa the defects of the department over which he pre- sides, Ex-Prrswwent FintMore on Humpoipt.— At the Humboldt celebration in Buffalo the other day ex-President Fillmore made a capi- tal speech on Humboldt, closing with the re- mark that he (the ex-Prosident) expects never to look upon his like again—meaning that Hum- boldt was about the biggest man of modern times. Very good. But what is to become of old Mr. Blair, pronounced by Mr. Fillmore, not very long ago, ‘‘the greatest man that ever lived ?” Two oases of shooting in the streets are re- ported. In one case at Albany a man resist- ing arrest shot five times at his pursuers, careless, of course, whether he committed five murders or not, Arson has always been pun- ished with great severity, often with the same severity as murder, because human life ‘may always be taken, Why shonld not this indws- criminate street shooting be punished with the same severity for the same reason? authority than Prime Minister Menabrea during @ personal interview, at which the actual posi- tion of the ancient and classio land, its modern hopes and aspirations, with the matérial pro- gress of the New World were reported and commented on viva voce and with an entire freedom from cabinet etiquette or personal restraint, General Menabrea ranks considerably above the present average of Italian ‘statesmen, not only in depth of thought and scope of intel- lect, but also in executive appreciation of the material progress of the peoples in all parts of the world, a desire to obtain correct informa- tion from abroad, and a wish to utilize such knowledge to the benefit of his countrymen. Proof of this will be found in the prefatory paragraph of the dialogue in which, with all the earnestness and volatility of a true Savoy- ard, he referred to the changes which have taken place in the United States since the termination of the war for the Union—the emancipation of the negroes, their disfosition to work as freemen, the capacity of the race for a higher civilization, the probability of a future antagonism between the Caucasians and Africans on our soil, the great energy of our people, their citizen difficulties, and, although last in order not least in emphasis, the Pacific Railroad, its rapid construction and the marked influence which its working will exert on the commerce of the nations, The HERALD cor- respondent was quite up to the occasion. Assured of this the Premier proceeded to touch the home situation in Italy. He spoke of the army and navy—the first named not being, he said, by any means too large—the agencies which are tending to the complete unification of the country, as well as the influences which retard it, One of the latter, geographical and by nature, he said, was to be found in the fact that Italy ‘“‘lives next door neighbor to two colossal Powers both armed to the teeth,” and if she ‘‘were not armed” she would ‘lose her ground.” He classed the army as a sort of involuntary national school for the Italian youth, concluding his compari- aon in this respect, however, by acknowledging the superiority of the American system of public schools. In finance tho country is improving. Count Menabrea took credit, and very justly, for the encouragement which has been given by the Italians to the great works of the Mount Cenis Tunnel and Railway, expressing the idea that their united opera- tion will finally neutralize the barrier which the Alps has hitherto interposed, not only to a commercial intercourse but to a popular every- day communion of Italy with the surrounding countries, The textile fabrics and general manufactures of the kingdom were spoken of, General Menabrea calling attention to the fact that he was at the moment clothed in the pro- duct—rough in texture and of sombre color— of native looms—an assurance of his patriot- ism almost similar to that given by a great Irish agitator when he said, in roply to a public question on the subject, ‘‘Yes, sir, my coat is of Irish manufacture, and the chap that’s in it foo.” On tho matter of the future capital the General treated the eubject of Rome delicately, but with hope, saying he supposed ‘‘Rome will be the nominal capital after a while.” The cause of the ex-King of Naples, as well as the claims of the royal ex- Grand Dukes and ex-Grand Duchess, for restoration, he regards as hopeless. The writer observed that Pope Pius the Ninth and Garibaldi—even politics produce strange bed- fellows—rank as the most violent enemies of Menabrea and King Victor Emanuel in his public capacity, aud that Napoleon the Third rates as his most powerful friend in exalted position, Sectional differences, evidently, hamper the Italian policy, and inherited preju- dices of birth and class—such as prevail to a vory great extent in Great Britain—do much towards preventing an agglomerated national fasion. All these matters will be more patent to our readers after a perusal of the correspondence. Its production affords fresh testimony of the vast and increasing influence of the great daily newspaper press. Here we have one of our writers superseding, almost completely, ia a single communication, the red tape routine of Washington diplomacy. The readera of the Heratp know all about the Italy of to-day, the report being taken from the lips of one of her leading statesmon. Another of our special correspondents a short time ago portrayed the situation of Prussia and United Germany, as given by Count Bismarck in dialogue form with the writerin Berlin. The intricacies of German politics were thus made patent to the American people by our enterprise. We painted the Italian yesterday. It is progress, science, judgment and care, combination which cannot fail, and the use of which, aided by steam, the electric tele- graph, overland and submarine, the Suez Canal, the Mount Cenis Tunnel, and such like works that will soon enable us to place before the American public cach morning in the pages of the Hunatp # condensed réswmé of tho events of the day previous ia Europe, Asia and Africa, Nations will then understand each other; ministerial circumlocution will end and a world-wide peace ensuc. Arr wy Mivgs.—What has just happened at Jamaica, L, L, may furnish a hint to the owners of coal mines that have only one shaft, By the caving of a well a man was buried, but owing to the earth forming an arch he was not crushed, Communication was opened with him by an fron pipe forced through the soft earth, This also furnished fresh air and kept him alive, Mines with only one shaft might bo drilled by the machinery for drilling arte- sian wells and pipes sent down, keeping their lower ends properly grazied. These, attached to’powerful air pumys gbove, would always be ready for an emergency. Such a provision for safety would be even cheap enough for the companies, Iv FINANoIAL combination, running up to purses of fifty millions, can make the market what it likes, why should not Uncle Sam rule with upward of eighty millions of gold in his hand? such a defeat to become at last sure victory.” Here is a man who knows what is coming, who understands the spirit and character of the American people better than most men in London, and who, when a struggle like this is waged to such close terms in a matter where the chapter of accidents counts fora great deal, knows that there is but little to glory over. Mr. Dickens, however, has one advantage. He has been among us since the grand develop- ment of heart and brain in the war made us truly acquainted with ourselves. Knowing the American people he can readily understand that for a satisfactory triumph there must be more than a boat’s length between Oxford's supreme and culminating effort after years of trial and Harvard's first raw attempt. Hence he naturally warned his hearers that the spirit that made that race, the spirit that sailed ‘‘a mite of a yacht across the Atlantic in mid- winter,” the spirit of restless rivalry in all gal- lant maritime endeavor, would push them to future trial with, in all likelihood, a very dif- ferent result, In the English press there isno compre- hension of the real philosophy of this event. Much has been said by the English papors. Here and there an article has been inspired by the same Cockney spirit that shines in Willan'a letters, and the major part, though in quite another tone, does not soar above Cockney compliment and patronizing superiority. They express mostly their rejoicing in having come through the mauvais quart @heure that the very thought of this trial gave them. We catch « glimpse of the spirit that is behind all their rhetoric in this sentence from the Times :—‘‘Now that the day of the great boat race Is safely over, we can afford to acknow- ledge the humiliation from which five gallant Britons have preserved us.” The day is “gafely over.” Just that, however, with not a spasm to spare, and the alternative of that safety was “humiliation” and ‘‘a national dis- grace.” They pour out their gratitude to us for having failed to win. Their experience ia the hour of the race comprehended this very humiliation; for they were so near to being beaten that they knew how it felt. Saved from that fate, but not saved by a victory that insures and guarantees their superiority and supremacy; yet saved for the time they feel a suddenly renewed consciousness of their dignity and attempt to cover their alarm by an assumption of gallant manners toward the causes of it. Poor and superficial effort at magnanimity. This race shows in little the relation that the two great maritime Powers of the world bear to one another, and, as a straw, it has its value, It indicates that the rivairy on the sea that has already led to one war is recognized as a legitimate part of the public thought in both countries, and that the people who, in their latest resort to arms, so revolutionized every principle of war on the sea as to make all the grand old navies mere heaps of lumber, are so impatient of asserted superiority in even the smallest points, and so eager to. test their mettle on any chance that they will face romantic odds rather than relinquish a mooted contest. It means that England cannot escape the persistent rivairy of the younger Power that has entered the field against her, and that is‘deterred by no impediments or obstacles, and which, per- fectly confident of its ability to beat her where- ever it can act on its own system, will even take the disadvantage of accepting her system, and give hor a gallant struggle then, too. This superabundance of spirit, this disregard to odds, this gallant resolve not to be ruled out by any difficulty as to terms, is the charactor- iatic of youth. This exhibition of fine quali- ties is the best part of the whole contest, and is all on the Amerioan side; and the problem for England is to consider how she is prepared to cope in a larger contest with a people animated by similar impulses, controlled and directed by maturer thought, assistant aldermen, offices worth hedging and ditching for. The idea was to tickle the Grand Sachem at the expense of the bondholder of the Manhattan Club, who is not in the Tam- many inside ring, The gamo was preposter- ous, and as it threatened to be dangerous Sweeny at once blocked it, and Tweed is satis- filed. His particular friends in the premises, in the excess of their admiration and devotion, were getting him into a bad box, and he was thankful to be helped out of it. The contest, however, for the city spoils, fat places and lean places, waxed warmer, and the little party cliques of the wards and election dis- trlots of this island, which overflows with milk and honey at this soason of the year, are all mining and pipe-laying for the spoils. It seems to be understood, however, that Tammany will not make up her local alates till after the State Convention at Syracuse next week ; for Tammany wishes to go into that gathering with an unbroken front, The sachems have discovered that the rural districts have taken the alarm and are likely to show some opposi- tion to the Tammany programme for regu- lating—first, the democracy of the State, and, secondly, through the State, the National Democratio Convention of 1872 under the banner of Hoffman. The interior likes Hoffman, but does not like the idea of being gobbled up by Tammany. Conse- quently Tammany at Syracuse must present a compact front and be prepared to play a skil- fal game, or her story may be that of the maid with the milking pail. The Tammany leaders, we understand, had resolved upon fighting nigger suffrage on the fifteenth amendment, under the idea that os the Governor intended to forget to forward to Washington the ratification by our last Legisla- ture of said amendment it could not be counted, and that so, with the election of an anti-negro suffrage Legislature this fall, said amendment would be squelched perhaps entirely. But as the Governor's transmission of the New York ratification, on the application of the Acting Secretary of State at Washington, has settled the action of New York on said amend- ment it will have to be dropped at Syracuse. There are red-hot democrats, of the New Jersey school, who are in favor of fighting for a Legis- lature to repeal said ratification; but as the State Department, under Mr. Seward, has de- clined to recognize such proceedings it might doso again under Mr, Fish. On the negro suffrage proposition of the new State constitu- tion, however, we presume that Tammany will take her stand, and that the Syracuse Conven- tion will second the motion against tho almighty nigger. And why? Because in the event of the failure to secure three-fourths of all the States to the fifteenth amendment pro- posed to the federal constitution, ‘‘the supreme law of the land,” the action upon nigger suf- frage in the State constitution becomes a matter of some importance, In any event we expect an interesting fight in this State this fall on negro suffrage. Under tho old state of things there would be no doubt of, an overwhelming majority against the nigger. But the new depariure of the South- ern democracy (Virginia leading off) in support of the fifteenth amendment, and the surrender of this question by the Wisconsin democracy, have changed the whole face of things on negro suffrage. It is sure to come, and under this general belicf the tide will probably be in favor of the everlasting nigger, even in New York. General Grant is em- phatically in favor of universal negro suffrage, and it must not be forgotten by Tammany that now, for the frat timo since 1865, the national administration and all its retainers work with the republican party. All this federal power in New York city and State is a clear gain to this party *tuce inst year, and it will be felt in the elecsion on this issue of negro suffrage. Cuba—Prim and Napoleon. Napoleon will not touch the Cuban ques- tion. Our special cable report from Paris published this morning leaves no room for doubting the fact that his Majesty so assured General Prim during his second audience at court. The Emperor, indeed, advised the General to negotiate with the Cabinet in Washington, and sell to the American people, if he could, instancing, in a delicate yet really forcible manner, his own experiences in Mexico, as illustrative of the utility of a timely retreat from an untenable position. Prim replied that he was not personally op- posed to the imperial plan, but feared that his countrymen would be fouad in some measure intractable on the subject. Spain, we are told, is ina blaze on the Cuban ques- tion just now, but the Spaniards will soon cool down, if only under the soothing words of a Bonaparte, This is just what we supposed and have said. General Prim’s intrigues in Paris amount to nothing. The language of very late news Is ‘“‘that at a recent interview with Gen- eral Prim the Emperor renewed his declaration of absolute non-intervention in the affairs of Spain, and declined to accede to the request that France should make representations against the recognition of the Cuban insurgenis as belligerents by the United States.” Napoleon, ashe acknowledges, has had quite enough of meddling in affairs on this side of the Atlan- tic, and will make no other experiment. Prim had better return to Madrid and advise the Regent Serrano to accept the hundred mil- lions for the muaependence of Cuba at once. English Inspection of Our Fire Departe ment System, An English commission has been in this country for aome time past inquiring into the matters of the organization, equipment and working of our fire system, with the view of reporting on all these subjects for the informa- tion of the home authorities, and suggesting plans of improvement in their own. The members of the commission have already visited New York and some others: of tho larger cities of the Union, and have, no doubt, obtained a very coasiderable amount of dsetul information. It was scarcely necessary, in- deed, that they should have journeyed further than New York. In this city they could have learned everything about our masters of the Fire King and how they subduo him. Sitting comfortably in their hotel they may have taken in the whole thing almost in a moment, They could, by a perusal of our city records, almost see the first “‘turnouts” of the firat settlers in the city, down away by the Fly Market, with their hand lanterns and the water pails which were “passed” along the line, noticed the progress to hose pipe and a cart, admired the shining glories of “Big Six” and the ready prompt- ness of the “boys” who manned her and the others of them, and thence come down to our steam fire engines, our network of fire tele- graph, our means of locating a fire by tele- graph, the rapidity with which the men reach the scene of danger, as well as the roll-call by telegraph after their return to the station houses, From all this the visitors must have gained a considerable amount of information, and to all knowledge so acquired they would bo, as they are, perfectly welcome, England has always paid attention to our Fire Department. Indeed, it is pretty certain that the present one is not the first commission which she has appointed to ‘look’ at it, Some of the others wore a little more secret in their proceedings, and not at all so friendly in character. They came, at critical moments in the history of the relations between the two countries, to examine, as is pretty well known, our fire organizations with a military eye, They were made up of military mon crossing SarRLy Tarovan, —We have a report from Great Salt Lake that Captain Powoll, of the Colorado river exploring expedition, had safely arrived at Fort Colville, at the outlet of the Great Canyon, up to which point the river has been explored, and can be navigated by small steamers from the Gulf of California, We may, therefore, expect soon a report from Cap- tain Powell of bis daring and ‘successful ad- venture, with an authentic description of the Great Canyon (said to be five hundred milos long) and of every particularly wonderful point along brid whole route, Is SARATOGA & hotel has just been burned down, It would only have stood empty all winter, and was fully insured,