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a - . + 4 ret, kK HERALD NEW YOR Y AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic espatches must be addressed New Yorr Heratp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Volume XXXIV ++No. 268 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERHGON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Faresouutz— GUNMAKER OF Moscow— Bowery.—Den RERR'S WIFE. GRAND OPERA HOU: Sd otreet.—PaTRIE, Mi ot Eighth avenue and WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 220 Broadway.—A GuAND Vaniery ENTERTAINMENT, Matines at 2. OLYMPIC. THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus DgAMA OF UNoLe Tom's CavIN. Matinee at 2, THE TAMMANY, Fourtoenth strcet.—Ixt0N—Tu® QUEEN oF Hraurs. Matinee at 2. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 1ith street,—Matinee at 1—La Duive. Evening—HERRMANN. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 33d Enoow ARvEN. Matinee al FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ai fourth sircet.—DRRAMS, Matinee at 2. woen Sth and 6th ava.— AM venue and Twenty. 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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOUNCE AND ART. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 ¥EMALES ONLY LX ATTENDANCE. TRIPLE SHEET. tae York, Saturday, September 25, 1869. Bat ae THE NSBWS. Europe. Cable telegrams fre dated September 24, General Sickles is said to have held more concilia- tory language towards Spain on the Cuban question ‘since General Prim’s return to Madrid. The London fournala canvasa the Cuban-American subject, lead- ing, generally, to the inference that the United States vernment is not much concerned in the affair of Spanish rule on the island, Father Hyacinthe has ‘returned to the house of his parents. England 1s Gisposed to regard the Pér eHyacinthe as & modern Luther. Specie is being shipped from England tor New York. A French journal says that the annexa- tion of Baten by North Germany will be regarded a8 cause of war. A letter, hitherto unpublished, in Lord Byron's handwriting, on the subject of his married life, is expected. General Fleury 1s ap- pointed Minister of France to Russia. Article four—the vital one as between France and Worth Germany—of the Treaty of Prague, appears in our columns with an explanation of the position of France in regard to ita observance by Germany. By mail from Europe we bave additional special Getails of our cable telegrams to the 1ith of Sep- tember. Cuba. A letter from an ex-member of the Confederate Congress, now in Cuba, states that dissensions, in- ited by jealousy or Spanish gold, have compelled the reorganization of the patriot army. The brothers Marcano, Dominicans by birth, each noldtng a gene- fal’s commission in the Cuban army, have been assassinated, becaus9 they were of forelgn birth. It 13 feared this dastardly outrage may result in porious disaster. ‘ Sefior Lemus, the Cuban Envoy, yesterday pub- {lished a card in reply to Senator Sumuer’s assertion that the Cuban republic authorized slavery in tts ter- ritortes, He cites decrees showing that slavery had been abolished unconditionally by the patriot goverument. Hayth. Advices by telegraph to the 11th inst, state that Balnave’s wound fs not serious. He had returned to Port au Prince and reorganized his Cabinet. Pre- parations are making for another attack on Aux Cayes, and the two government gunboats have been Bent ont to engage the two rebel gunboats if they meet. Misecllaneous. The return of the President was the signal for Congressmen and politicians to seek the national capital, and the city begins once more to show signs of vitality. Senators Cameron, Drake and Sawyer, and Representatives Potter, Clark of Kansas, Hop- kina, Ingersoll and Brown are now in Washington. A full Cavinet mecting was heid yesterday, and it ‘was reported that a telegram was read from Minis- ter Sickics announcing that Spain had declined the offered mediation of the United States between her and Cuos. General Sickles’ course was fully sus- tained. Koopmanschap, the great Chinese coole contractor, had an interview with Secretary Boutweil yesterday on the coolie question, and was informed that tae Sec- retary had no intention of interfering with Chinese immigration provided the laws were not violated. The President bas shown most unequivocally his opposttion to the Hamilton democracy in Texas, Beveral federal ofice-holders, supporters of Hamil. ton, have been removed ana radical repuolicans appointed to fill their places, and it !s expected the work will continue until every Hamilton man has ‘Deon removed. Mr. Constantine Catacazy, the new Russtan Min- ister, was yesterday formally presented to the Prest- Gent by Secretary Fish. The usual addresses were made by the Minister and the President expressing the friendly feelings entertained by each govern- ment for the other, General Canby’s correspondence with prominent Virginians, just published, shows that as early as a Month before the election he announced that he Would require the test oath to be aaministercd to the members of the Legisiature. Charges of the most serious character are pre- ferred by the New Orleans papers against United States Senator Keliogg. It is sald investigations show that whilo he was Collector of the Port of New Orieans frauds of the most stupendous character Were perpetrated in the most bold and Sagrant manner. Ata meeting of the Executive Committee of the Army of the Tennessee held at Louisville, Ky., yer- terday, resolutions were passed expressing the sor- fFow of the association at the death of its late Presi- Gent, General Rawlins, and inviting General Fil an to deliver a eulogy on the life and services of Arthur, accompanied by Governor General Toung and suite, arrived at the Clifton House, ‘Magara Falls, yesterday afternoon, from London, GeNAee As every town where cho train stopped gz NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBE2 25, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEF™ large crowds of citizens assembled to pay thelr re- spects to the Prince and received him with great ca- thusiasm, About noon yesterday, while a party from Provt- dence, R. I., was riding in a carriage in front of the Clifton House, Niagara Falls, Canada side, the horses became unmanageable and backed the car- riage, containing four ladies, down a precipice & aistence of fifty feet. One of the ladies, @ Mrs. Smith, was horribly crushed and killed instantly, Another lady, Miss Batlow, was fatally injured. ae other ladies were severely bet hot dangerously wounded, [§ is Famored that this tragedy was Caused by the carelessness of the driver, who sprang from his sext before the carriage went over the bank and escaped with slight injary. The City. The excitement yesterday in Wall street was intense, owing to a rise in gold to 165 and a sudden “preak'! to 138, the price closing eventually at 131%. The stock market was feverish and very irregular, but comparatively neglected. Secretary Boutwell yesterday ordered Assistant Treasurer Butterfleld to sell to-day in this city $4,000,000 gold and invest the proceeds of the sale in the purchase of government bonds. ‘The California pioneers arrived in thts clty yester- day. About seventy of them departed immediately for old homesteads tn adjoining States. To those who remained a banquet will probably be tendered m a few days. A respectable looking man was brought before Justice Hogan yesterday by an officer who asked the Justice to discharge him from custody, he having been kept in the station house for eight days by order of the Inspector at headquarters for an alleged theft of a horse three years ago. The complainant failed to appear against nim, and he had conse- quently been sent to Justice Hogan to be discharged. The Justice declined to do so, however, and said that the Inspector had violated one of the most important rignts of citizenship in taking evidence in the man’s case and locking him up, and he would, therefore, hear the evidence before he discharged him. ‘Subsequently Inspector Dilks himself dis- charged the prisoner. Prominent Arrivals in the Clty. Major Hinsell and Colonel Hoyt, of the United States Army; H. B, Goodyear, of New Haven; F, Builings, of California, and forty-five members of the California pioneers are at the Astor House. Ex-Governor J. G. Smith, of Vermont; ex-Con- gressman W. Windom, of Minnesota; D. C. Little john, of Buffalo; J. C. Kenuedy, of Washington; R. D. Rice, of Augusta, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General B. H. Hill, of Georgia; Samuel J. Carring- ton, of Richmond, Va., and W. H. Blackford, of Bal- timore, are at the New York Hotel. Professor S. B, Foster, of Pennsylvania, Dr. Rus- sell Childs, of Saratoga, and Captain H. K. Brace, of FAN RR i a a a seh cine Spain and the Cuban Crisis—Is General Roxbury, ments, or of maintaining them if reached, when the locking up of a few millions of gold can produce such results as we have seen to-day, is simply absurd, This is a question that de- mands the earnest attention of Congress, The demand for specie, to pay dutigs sives all the vitality to gold faring, and places the mer- chan) atthe mercy of the gamblers, Shall we not have to come to a uniform currency for all purposes? Itisa delicate and an important question, but one which calls for serious con- sideration. The national banks can afford no relief, and if the greenback currency be with- drawn and the national bank circulation ex- tended, as Mr. Sumner, Jay Cooke and the national bankers desire, the evil would only be exaggerated. There would be no return to specie payments. The people would have to take national bank notes, and the banks get all the profits of a national circulation, while the government would have to raise gold by dutles or some other means to pay the bondholders. Paper for the people and gold for the bond- holders would become the established state of things, and the gold gamblers would revel in high carnival more than ever. inflation of the currency; but it is a question whether that ought not to be made uniform, and of legal tenders only, to give stability to financial affairs and business, and to prevent such scenes as occurred in Wall street yester- day, and that may occur again any day. We want no The New York Democratic Convention—An Inside View. Judging from the platform of principles as embodied in the series of resolutions adopted by the Democratic State Convention which met at Syracuse on Wednesday last, it would be sup- posed the greatest unanamity prevailed, and that there were no discordant or antagonistic elements at work within the party. most fallacious and portentous calm, however, that brooded for a time over the deliberations of the leaders. long lured the party to put itself in antagonism to the progressive doctrines of the age, and the increasing liberal views of the peoplo of the United States, was at work in preparing Tt was a The fell spirit that had so Grant Poady for Action? The friendly sugestions of General Sickles to the Spanish yovernment in reference to Cuba appear to Ave awakened a general out- ery of wrath frowall parties and factions in Spain against thUnited States, aurpassing the warlike flare-up i Ragland over Senator Sum- ner's astounding:xpositions of the Alabama claims, It is a urewd trick on the part of tho Spanish regencyto divert the attention of the factiods at hoe from their revolutionary schemes to thedanger which menaces the “Ever Faithful sland ;” but it is a trick which will serve no pactical purpose. Nor will the rash resolve tosdd twenty thousand Spanish troops to the feces of the Captain General of Cuba. The firt Napoloon sent out a formida- blo fleet and ararmy of twenty thousand men, under his broter-in-law, General Le Clerc, to reduce the rebllious blacks of St. Domingo, but the expedion turned out s disastrous fail- ure. How, thn, is Spain to succeed against the rebellious Cubans? It will bo the old story of all th other Spanish-American colo- nies from Mexco to Chile. Spain fought them all to the last itch, and each in itsturn, She lost them all. The absurdet of all the absurdities of Spain in this businss, however, fs her recent at- tempt at blusbring after the fashion of John Bull, This gme of bluff is entirely preposter- ous, notwithsanding the encouragement given to it through certain official or semi-official newspaper orans of England and France. We are satisfled hat General Grant understands all this bluger and bravado, and that he is not frightned by it in the least degree. We think ve may safely undertake to say that le elther Spal, France tains any selous thoughts, in any event, of a quarrel withthe United States over Cuba; that he earnestlydesires to maintain friendly rela- tions withach of those Powers; but that, if necessary meet it, he will not shrink from the ultima iatio regum—an appeal toarms. A rupture betveen the United States and Spain not believe that or England enter- doea , 2a88., to claim some unfortunate belong to their family, of whose fate ther haaocen made acquainted by adverti4s- A very little specimen of humeaity (Supervisor Little) thought that earyttising in tho Brook- | lyn pane-z, watch nevéF get this side of the | East river, would be quite sufficient. It evi- dently does not prove to be 80, for the Super- concerning these matters at all. Compounding FelonyAn Engllteh Case. By mail from England we learn that Clo- ment Harwood was brought before the Lord and uttering endorsements to them, Mr. Clement Harwood is the young English gen- had him to their quarters in Mulberry street immediately on his landing, looked into the matter of his industrial capabilities, did not returned him to London. which the sun, as we all know, ing heard the boast frequently, sets.” He cannot go on British ritory. ain” and “his face to the west.” visors voted dowa the reaolution to advertise | Mayor of London, charged with robbing a mercantile firm in that city, of which his father is a member, of bills of exchange to the value of fifteen thousand pounds sterling, and forging tleman who visited New York a short time since, attracting the attention of our detective officers in such a marked manner that they think much of them, and, having come to the conclusion that his peculiar talent was more in the direction of absorption than production, There he was brought up before the Lord Mayor, who con- sented to his discharge, the prosecution having been withdrawn, on his giving an ‘‘undertak- ing to the Court that he would leave the country;” so that young Mr. Harwood, who is likely to become an involuntary tourist, has no donbt already set out on another journey- ing. The question remains, Where will he go ? The Lord Mayor of London tells him to leave the “country,” which means, of course, the dominions of her Majesty Queen Victoria, on hav- “never ter- Master Harwood will consequently be forced to turn “‘his back uato Brit- We will have him among us again, and we fear that he will prove a vory useless surplusage to the $$ of ene grand civilizing agencies of the hour— of steam and the telegraph, the electric wire and the railroad, of the steam plough, the river steamer and the rest. Let the churchmen wait and see what the use of the “modern improvements” will accomplish. The miaslon- aries and the Bible may follow, and will then, we doubt not, accomplish a great work in Asia. It will be a day of ‘tpeace and harmony: ad bliss” when the loading Forevspers will be. telegraphing to New York the proceedings of the firs} church anniversary meetings, attended allke by Europeans, Americans and Asiatios, which will be held in Pekin and Jeddo, If the missionaries will only keep quiet this ‘‘day of Jubilee” is at hand. Tho Bonaparte Dynasty—Family Jara. According to a cable despatch the Emperur Napoleon's recovery of health has had a salutary effect on the general politics of France. The probability of the Emperor's death had already bred trouble in the imperial family, and the friends of Eugénie and the friends of the Prince Napoleon were known to be at open feud, A little longer suspense and the situa- tion might have become critical, With the comparative restoration of the Emperor's health the situation has improved. This little affair shows us what we have a right to expect ifthe Emperor were out of the way. Supposing that France were to remain faithful to the dynasty, the question of the guardianship of the Prince Imperial might @ivide the popula~ tion. The Empress is more than suspected of , ultramontane tendencies, and as a natural con- sequence a large portion of the French people would cry out against her influence over the young Emperor. With this party Prince Napo- leon would be the favorite. The imperial family divided, itis not dificult to see that the factions ono and all would gather strength and take courage. The republicans, the Orleanists, the legitimists would each be up and full of activity. Another republic or another restora- tion might grow out of the anarchy, and might be weloomed as a happy deliverance. The longer the life of the Emperor is spared the better, certainly, for the dynasty of the would sett the Cuban question in ten days; the platform for the State Conventions of 1869 and 1872, It was only at the last moment that wiser counsels and abler statesmanship stepped in to save the party of the State from taking the last false step that would have con- signed it to utter political destruction. It was beyond all question an accepted fact that the democracy of this State, through their leaders, was prepared to put itself in the gap in oppo- sition to the fifteenth amendment, and, if pos- sible, by its stand on that question, to head off some ofthe other States whose Legislatures have not yet taken action thereon, and so prevent the necessary constitutional majority of States adopting it, The new State constitution population. the recognifon of belligerent rights in behalf of the Cubas by General Grant would, per- haps, with twenty, certainly in thirty days, establish tle independence of the island. If it is from fear of this recognition that Spain is tireatening war sho {fs acting very foolishly, Truly do we believe that her only course of wisdom in regard to Cuba is through the friendly offices of General Grant, to get the island off her hands on the good terms which she may now command for tho sake of peace. Humanity snd civilization call for the active intervention of the United States in Cuba in behalf of peace. Spain has forfeited there all claims to consideration as a civilized power in of the United States Army, are at the St, Charles Hotel. Colonel C. F. Fargo, of San Francisco; Major J. G, Bronson, of Chicago; Major F. K. Donner, of Soath Caroiina; J. W. Coffroths and fifty members of the Californta pioneers; Captain H. Tuthill and Major F. S, Roberts, of Penn Yan, and fifteen members of the Philadelphia City Council are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Captain Stockton, of the United States Army, is at the Albermarle Hotel. Captain J.P. Story, of the United States Army, and Rev. Dr. Jackson, of Hartford, are at the Hoff- man House. George S. Haskell, of San Francisco; R. M. Steel, of St, Johns, and W. A. Bryant, of Baltimore, are at the Westminster Hotel. Judge M.M. Cohen and General T. L. Clingman, character.” ot North Carolina; Colonel J. F. Conally, of Texas; | W88 also to have come in for a | | enough of the evil disposed for all criminal G, W. Cass, of Pittsburg; General J. M. Brannan, of | sweeping denunciation and entire repu- Prosecuting) the war agelnst ie Nae ae purposes, and quite enough of ‘‘compound- the United States Army; Colonel{W. Whaley, of South | diation by the party when the people | 80m according to the practices of savages. | i...» white the Sunday sermons, aa given in Action, upon every consideration of humanity, Justice and sound policy, is demanded from the administration to put an end to these barbarous atrocities of Spain in Cuba; and we can assure General Grant that the American people of all sections and parties are becoming impatient of longer delay, which many will understand Carolina; the Park Commissioners of Allegheny City, Pa., and ten members of the California pto- neers are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. H. Boughton, of Texas; T. D. Harris, of Portland, Me.; N. M. Smith, of Watertown, and G. G. Munger, of Rochester, are at the Gleaham Hotel. Prominent Departures. came to passupon it. There was nota leading democrat in this city a month ago that would not have asserted that direct opposition to these two measures would form the main plank of the democratic platform for 1869 and 1872. Even up to the last moment, while even the ment to terminate it. We can easily pity the position of his father at home, but must equally consure the conduct of the English magistrate as well as his use of the words:—‘‘The prisoner had betrayed a great trust and committed a vast wrong, and, in another country, he would have to undertake a great work to regain his lost If only for example sake, ho should have been permitted to undertake this most excel- lent ‘‘work” at home, as the sight of a sincere penitent in the British metropolis would be a vast consolation and a source of much encour- agement to others disposed to err. He is not required here in any line, as we have quite our columns each Monday, are all powerful for good, This magisterial compounding of felony in England, on the condition of a criminal exile to the United States, should be ended, even if it require the action of the United States govern- Master Harwood will Bonapartists. The Colorado Expedition. Professor Powell has returned to Chicago from his Colorado expedition, having safely run with his little fleet of rowboats, or a portion of it, the fearful passage of the mysterious river, down its wild rapids and cascades, through “the grand canyon” of some four hundred miles, from Green river to Fort Colville, where the Colorado emerges from its chasm into the plains of Arizona. Professor Powell reports that he made no valuable discoveries in this exploration; that the country traversed isa desert in character; that the rocky walls of the river, rising from five hundred to several thousand feet above the surging stream, are formed of strata of limestone. and sandstone, and of marble occasionally (he reports neither gold, silver, copper, lead, iron nor coal), and that, in short, neither in “‘the grand canyon” nor in the elevated plains or mountains through which the river passes, is there anything to attract the miner or the farmer. We appre- hend, however, that Professor Powell was too Mr. Estrada, of the Spanish Legation, for Washtag- ton; Colonel Jackson for Boston; Colonel Semper for Chicago, and Judge 8. Hunt for Boston; State Sena- tor Joseph Willgensterp, of Louisiana, and Captain F. Livingston for California, The Great Excitement in Wall Strect— Secretary Boutwell to the Rescue. Talk of gambling at faro, keno, rouge et noir, or in any other professional way! Why, Wall street gambling in gold and stocks beats all in recklessness and viciousness. The excitement on the street yesterday showed the desperate means to which the gold and stock gamblers will resort to pluck the unwary, the merchants, and even their own fraternity. A few of them, and respectable business men they claim to be, enter into a combination to buy up all the gold that could be got at for the purpose of cornering those who had contracts to fulfil, and thus send up the price. They succeeded ; for gold ran up in the morning to Convention was for a time in session, it was deceptive view of the temper of the Tammany Regency on these two vital issues the Seymour party, through the chairman of the State Cen- tral Committee, and to whom the drawing up of the platform must be entrusted, jubilantly concluded it was in their power to destroy the ambitions projects of Tammany with regard to the campaign of 1872. policy of rule or ruin. was the motto. was anticipated by Seymour and his friends, and thus Tammany and Hoffman were to bi extol the power of cash, Iikely in the words of the famous English poacher:—‘‘Justice be blowed ; you won't got no justico if you haven't no money in your pocket.” Tho example even is pernicious, as resulting only from indifference, ignorance or fear. We hear that General Grant, how- ever, is preparing for action; but the action that will settle the Cuban question, no prapar- ation, wo think, is needed. A simple declar- ation will suffice. Is the President ready for action? If not, we, in behalf of the American people, would like to know the reason why? quick in bis passage to settle these questions, and that a regular scientific exploration of the canyons of the Colorado and its tributaries, under authority of the government, will result in the discovery of mineral resources of great value, and of many fruitful green spots in the desert. supposed that on these questions there was and could be no disagreement. With this Christian Missions in China and Japan—A Bad Business, but a Good Time Coming. Our telegraph news from San Francisco, published on Monday, embraced the main points of an interesting budget of news from Asia, nar- rating, as it did, reports of the leading events transpiring in China and Japan to the 19th and No Stavery iN tHe Cuban RePuBLiO.— It appears that under the constitution adopted by the Cubans fighting for liberty all men are free and equal; yet, strangely enough, we hear of no risings among the slaves. Probably The Feast of Bonnets and the Flow of Rib- bons, Flowers and Feathers. Strictly speaking, however, there are no bon- It was to be the old “Seymour or nothing” On this principle the resolu- tions which were to bind the party wero drawn | nets any more. They are all hats. “Round | 99 of August, respectively. Financial dia- up. No opposition on the part of Tammany hats,” says the Heracp bulletin of opening day tracting and class jeslousies kept Japan the Cuban negroes are too recently from facts, “are fast superseding bonnets, and are Africa to understand anything about freedom still convulsed. The industrial and polit- ical situations experienced little or no change in either country, but from both we have intelligence of the existence of troubles with the Christian Church missiona- ries, of the murder of Catholic and other mis- ¢ | now exhibited on all occasions, in the evening, or equality. for visiting, at receptions, and upon the prom- enade.” Charming little things they are, too, giving piquancy to the quietest little faces, and harmonizing wonderfully with those proud fine heads to which naturo herself seemed to have Westen Crmna.—Our special correspond- ence from Further India, dated at Rangoon, Burmah, on the Ist of August, published to-day, presents an exhaustiye exhibit of the immolated on the political altar so cunningly prepared for them. But a Daniel came to judgment at the nick of time, in the person of Bismarck Sweeny. He penetrated at a glance the designs of Sey- mour, and in a moment he became master of the whole eltuation, Tho resolutions had | c#ty, though the round hat always adds just to be amended. A night was spent at] ® little more. In carrying that sort of freight the work, and in the morning they wero not | be ft noted all the burden-bearing heads of even yet acceptable. The pruning-knife was other lands are outdone by the heads of our at work during the greater part of the day, American women. Thera is a difference of and it was only at the night session they were | Phrase in the realm of fashion, too, it appears. submitted to the Convention. It would be | The round hat is “exhibited” on such and dignifying them beyond their merits to say that | Such occasions. Now bonnets used to be they are made up of the usual “glittering gen- ‘vorn.” This fixes the thought at once upon eralities.” They are a compound “‘of frivolous | the growing honesty of language and the generalities,” a dilution of milk and increase of the conveniences of life. Bonnets water, a tissue of lame and impotent | were “worn” when the elements beat against conclusions, The reading of them was | them, and the head was saved all that wear, listened to in silence, not a choer or token of | Nowadays heads hardly need protection from applause was accorded to them. Of course such gear. With our houses built as they are, they are not of the stuff Seymour intended | our close cars, omnibuses, carriages and they should be, and whether or not they aro | boats, the comfortable state of all places of such as the Tammany Regency itself would, if public resort, a lady may go through tho year acting independently in the matter, have put completely and never have on her head any- forth, they aro just the thing under the cir- | thing coming from the heavens but sunshine— cumstances they desired. and an answer to her pretty prayers. So as With the adoption of the resolutions, and | the shackle becamo @ bracelet, the bonnet which completely checkmated the Seymour | becomes still another ornament, and is “‘exhi- game, and gave the winning move to Tammany, bited,” of course, Thus does woman turn the the formal proceedings of the Convention tables on the very elements. But whatever it closed. All the previous work was cut and | is that woman's eyes are delighted with on dry. The delegates were dismissed to their | these gtand autumnal and vernal occasions of homes, having assisted In the little farce, and | opening day, jt is the “feast of the bonnets the Regency and its supporters returned to still,” to the finési and grandest feast of the New York oxulting in the complete defont of | ear, as the ladies and the'milliners can equally their opponents and confident of victory in the | testify. Tho coming of thle putumnal one, too, coming presidentinl campaign of 1872. is a sign that the last belle hag “orapaaged 5m t ee chosen summer resort and is to be found at Mbit at helt Alert home. So we begin to live once more, Cor the persistent and eminently succeseful nego- ne edito/ tiations of Mr. Burlingame China is likely soon ‘ to stand in a natural and proper attitude before the world, France, we see by our cable} the Kings county Board of Supervisors on dospatches, has agreed with Mr. Burlingame | Thursday the queation came up of advertising in for the establishment of “improved relations” | the newspapers the descriptions of bodies found with China, and will direct her officials | within the precincts of Brooklyn, in order that accordingly. England and the United States | they might be reclaimed by their friends. have hitherto done the same thing, Thus the | Supervisor (and Coroner) Whitehill introduced three great commercial Powers of the world | # resolution that such advertisements should are in substantial accord as to the demeanor | be inserted {n the New York Heracp, as tho they will assume toward the great Oriental | most valuable medium of securing publio people who have hitherto been treated as out- | attention and attaining the object desired ; sido the pale of nationality. Who is on the| “for,” said the Coroner, “the New York other aide? Only certain self-seoking tradors— | Henan, it ts well known, circulates in every only a knot of merchants who, having monopo- | town, city and village of the United States, lized the trade with China and worked it on | and there was no better way of furthering the the ring principle for many yoars past, fear to | recognition of missing persons who may be see the commerce with that country estab- } discovered in this way than through the me- lished on fair principles, as they might foar | dlum of the Heraty.” And Supervisor White- “4mpeonding ruin.” hill noted the fact that people had come from 165, being over twenty per cent higher than the closing price the evening before. Thus the gamblers who had made contracts on an enormous scale, with a view of fleecing their rivals, the merchants and the public, were caught and ruined by another set of gamblers. The detatls of this diamond cut diamond busl- ness we give in another column. As to these bulls and bears, or sharpers and sharks, of Wall street, on one side or the other, neither we nor the people have any sympathy with them, It would be a good thing if all could be smashed up and rendered powerless to do any farther mischief to the business com- munity, After gold had been driven up yesterday to the high figure mentioned by the gambling pro- cess the Secretary of the Treasury came to the rescue. An order came from him to General Butterfield, the Sub-Treasurer in New York to sell to-day four millions of government gold, and to buy bonds with the proceeds. This naturally had an immediate effect, and the premium fell within an hour or two to 31}. In so short a space of time there was a difference of more than thirty per cent. Of course the whole stock market was influenced by these great and sudden fluctuations, causing the wildest excitement. Four millions of gold is not such a very large sum, and would not, under ordinary circum- stances, probably, greatly change the market value of the precious metal or stocks; but coming at such a juncture it had the effect of breaking up the gambling combinations, Then these Wall street men knew that the Secretary of the Treasury had an immense reserve behind which be might.draw from atany time to checkmate any further opera- tions. Mr. Boutwell ‘has acted with prompt- ness, and wisely, we think, in this crisis, in giving relief to the business community. We are naturally led to inquire here whether there is any remedy for this gold gambling evil. Are the business men and public in thetr transactions to be at the mercy of a few men in Wall street? Is the value of every- thing, to the extent of hundreds or thousands of millions of property, to be regulated by a few millions of gold, more or less, in the hands of these men? Such 4 monstrous anomaly—such an inconsistency—cannot be found in the financial affairs of any country. There is something radically wrong in our monetary system when such a state of things can exist, To talk of reaching specio pay- given all the stylo and spirit a head could territory. advent of the Christian dispensation. date, is to prove to them the half as much ps they do themselves, sionaries, the hunting up of missing or strayed or lost missionaries, as well as of the preva- lent existence of a still more intense spirit of native fanaticism at different points of the vast It fs the old story—Confucius against the Bible and the ancient religions of Sin-Siu and Buddhism, with priests descended from the sun, against the apostles of Exeter Hall and the American Board of Foreign Mis- sions, interesting and venturesome ladies, Brahmapootra explorers, writers for the mag- azines and dabblers in the sale of naval stores, Confucius, it must be remembered, lays down some very excellent rules for the guidance of man during his journey through this terres- trial valo of tears, and his writings have been and are received asa “standard authority” by tho Chinese and, to a great extent, by the Japanese, on all matters concerning both tho here and hereafter of man from a period which had become hoary in its antiquity before the The educated Asiatics are most acute logicians and exocedingly subtle in their mode of reasoning on the spiritualities, facts of which Francis Xavier, with others of the ablest propagandists of Rome, became convinced at a very early One of the very first demands which the natives make of a foreign missionary inspiration of the Bible from on highy and having listened, as they will, with great attention in such instance to his reply, they for the most part assure him, in other words, to the effect that his is a very nice theory, but not nearly so old or perfect in its connecting parts or unities as is that of Confucius, that the system A Senaraim Supgrvisor.—At the meeting of } Pf Confucius suits them very well, and that they are sonvinced the foreigners have no regular commission to teach or preach, not knowing It is no wonder, therefore, that we hoar by telograph of ntissionary troubles in China and Japan, and have been and still are compelled to print the doleful accounts given by our returned missionaries from these countries during anniversary wook in each succeoding year since we commenced, being the first newspaper to do so, to spread the homo anni- versaries’ proceedings broadcast before the world in our columns, Having learned a good eal about missionary ‘“Iabor” In the East by our enterprise in this direction, we beg to-day to say to the missidnaries to leave China and Japan alone for » time and pormit the people of both countries to experience the good effects condition of affairs all along the border of the vast domain of Western China, with o degorips tion of the line of the Indo-Burmesé réute to the territory, a history of the adventures and discoveries which attended and resulted from the Sladen expedition, and a Ms 3 of other valuable matter. The communication may be, in fact, classed as a newspaper geography of that particular part of the world, Its appears. ance in such form marks ogain the era of progress. Tue Burongr Cart.—Once more the butcher cart comes into play as the chosen means of bold highway robbery, ané a citizen is knocked down and robbed and the thieves escape in the full light of day. As the thieves could only have been posted for this robbory by knowledge derived from the business circle in which the money was owned, the clue must be found in the gentleman's own office. Anpy ALt Rieut, Pernaps.—It 1s reported that Andy Johnson, after comparing notes and counting the noses of the new Tennessee Legislature, has gone home satisfied that he is the coming man for the Senate, Very well. He is just the man wanted among tho impeachers of the Senate to stir them up. A Finmuster Arter ALt.—It appears that the steamer Hornet, detained and over- hauled as @ Cuban filibuster at Halifax by the Blue Noses, and then discharged for want of evidence against her, was a fillbuster all the time, and that “great expectations” are entertained of her by the Ouban Junta. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS. ‘rhe Mississippi Valley Telegraph Company have sold their line to the Paciflo and Atlantic Company for $260,000 in stock. A duel as fought about aix miles from St, Louts a day or two ago, between Baron von Alfeld, from Holstein, and Colonel Seever, of the new German aper. One shot was fired but nobody was tures 6 matter was amicably arranged. ¥ A man jumped from the suspension brid at Nashville, into the river on Thursday night, @ descent of eighty-four feet, and was drowned. ‘Whether the suicide was a nN or @ stranger can- not be known tll his body ts found, A countryman named Bord was robbed in a bagnio, in Memphis, on Sunday night, and nothing has been seen or heard of him since Monday morn- ing, Madame Granger and nine women have beea arrested on suspicion of being concerned tn his dis- appearance. Ground has been broken on tho Portland and Ogdensburg Ratiroad, and men are at work on the section aear the trotting park, at Port. land, A Heavy force will be put on tio whole dt- vision to Sebago Lake ag soon as shautics are bulle for the men,