The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1869, Page 6

* 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVI ROOTH'S THRATRE, 28d at., betwoen 6th ana 6th avs.— Fiust Part or Kine Henny LV. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Brosaway.—Darivs Durron— A BULL IN «4 CHINA SHOP, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Dappy GRay—CndoKMaTe, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broaaw: ov Fin FLY. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtieth st.—Matinee dally. Performance every eve ning. Tue MILITARY DRaMa BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Faustus—Tas Iniso TuToR. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway amd I%&b street.— Homx—A REGULAR Frx. FRENCH THEATRE. 08, LIGHTS AND SHADO ith st. and 6th ay.—Lonpon; oF Tuk GREAT Crry. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strect.—Tam HANLON BRoTunns, &c. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, coracr ot Eighth avenue and street. ENG LIed OPERA—MARITANA. MRS. F. 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Cable telegrams are dated December 1. M. Guizot has, it 13 said,a daily audience with Napoleon. The Paris correspondents of the London press say that Napoleon’s speech “fell flat’? and “disappointed the public mind,’ and that the im- perial effort is not at all liked. Russia will, tt is in- Jerred, seek to develop an extensive cotton grow- ing interest in Asia, The Burlingame-Chinese mis- sion was received at the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, A London journal says Napoleon has not mastered the “truth” of the situa- tionin France, and is evidently “embarressed be- tween the principles.’ M. Schneider was elected President of the Legislative Chamber of France, The Irish radical political agitation 1a extending in England. Manchester is agitated on the subject of the in- creased duty on French textile fabrics. The British ship Monarch, with George Peabody's remains on board, will, 1t 1s said, sail next Wednes- day trom England. The Turkish government seized a vessel laden with gunpowder, supposed to be intended for the use of the Buyarian insurgents. Our special correspondence from Europe, pub- lished elsewhere, supplies important details of our Cable telegrams to the 20th of November. Cuba. News has been received via Key West, Fila. that Cienfuegos has been surprised by the insurgenta, who seized 8 large quantity or medicines, clothing and provisions and retired in good order. Paraguay. Count d’Eu, commanding the allied forces, has reached St. Estanisiao, lately occupied by Lopez. Miscellaneous, ‘The national debt during the month of November has decreased $7,571,464. Secretary Boutwell says that his refusal to sell gold on Tuesday was on account of the low price offered. Mr. Colgate, of the firm of Trevor & Col- wate, called on him yesterday and demanded that the gold for which his firm had bid should be de- luverod ; but Mr. Boutwell held that he had the rignt in his own discretion to refuse to sell if the price did ot suit. Prosident Grant, it 1s said, dictated a despatch to Minister Curtin yesterday in regard to the Jewish Appeal to the Czar of Russia, and it was agreed that the Secretary of State should furnish a copy of the appeal to Mr. Catacazy, the Russian Minister at Washington, and also to Minister Curtin at St. Pe- tersburg. The President was too busy at Bia message yester- day to receive visitors, and will probably finish it to-day. At a convention of Red river insurgents assem- bled at Fort Garry, November 16, to devise a govern- ment for the colony, the following propositions were olfered:—Compromise with Governor McDougall, an tudependent republic, annexation to the United | States, a colony under British rule or return to the | Huoson Bay Company's protection. Governor Hoffman has declined to interfere with the sentence of Joseph Messner, the wife murderer, who is sentenced to be hung at Rochester on Friday, the 10th inst. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, in an tnterview recently with our Washington correspondent, said that the time had not yet arrived for a resumption of specie payment, that it was dangerous to the commercial classes and should be gradual. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Con- Guctor Parker, of the New Jersey Railroad, who ejected Patrick Lane from the car recently while the wan was on a bridge, so that Lane fell through the bridge and was drowned. Parker publishes a card saying that he did not know the train was on a bridge at the time. Prince Sunmanna, of Japan, left San Francisco yesterday for the Kast by the Pacific Rat !road. The female operatives in the Cochees works at Dover, N. H., on @ strike against a reduction of ‘Wages, nave organized a Working Women’s League, The works will be closed until the operatives accede ‘to the reduction. The City. In the Spanish gunboat cases Judge Pierrepont ‘was served with copies of papers erday on which it is intended “substanually’ to base tho motion for the discharge of the boats, These papers are not yet perfect in form, and the belief was pre- valent at the District Attorney's office that they may be changed again before the hearing of the case, which has been adjourned to Saturday next, as they have already been changed twice since origmally prepared. The frigate Severn left this port on Tuesday to relieve the Powhatan as Nagship of Admiral Poor in Cuban waters. In the matter of the drawback frauds, James NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. terday, all the.evidence tending toestabiish hisinno- | which the whole country looks for some guidance in the probable embarrassments which beset the political future. First of all they must learn to recognize the great facts They must not forget that in this progressive age, and in view of the progress going on all around us, there is some- cence, A number of additional warrants for the arrest of parties not hitherto suspected were issued by the Commussioner on information furnished by Getective Whiteley. The Galler-Wedekind mystery completed its first phase yesterday, before Judge Hogan. Dr. Wede- kind was committed to the General Sessions on the caargo of extortion, and was held to answer in $2,000 bail; as thia was not forthcoming he was removed to the cells, Dennis Byrne, & silverplater in Brooklyn, was shot three times, and perhaps mortally wounded, yesterday, by John Magee, also a silverplater. The latter, tt seems, had repeatedly insulted Byrne's wife and sister-in-law, and Byrne yesterday demanded an explanation of nim, 3 was shot without any further provodation. we jee odcapeds Ata meeting of the Woman’s Suffragé Association yesterday the recent Richardson-McFarland tragedy was made the basis of an argument to show wo- man’s right to @ voice in the making of the divorco laws. The Coroner's jury in the case of Robert Muir, the» established by the war, thing more demanded of them than devotion to the ‘‘time-honored principles” of the demo- cratic party, and they will have to mould their policy in the matrix of progressive thought. They must learn also to abandon those old issues on which they were defeated in the Presidential contests of 1860, 1864 and 1868, as well as in the other decisive fights of inter- vening years, remembering that as they enter upon a new era of power there isa new condi- tion of things to which they must adjust themselves if they hope to preserve supre- eaperado, wht Whe Filled in’ Watamsbari'on Tass: | Z207° bo she leaders of she Teramasy: demic: day morning, by policeman Thomas Lanigan, ren- | Cf=2y see the question in this light? We dered a verdict yesterday completely exonerating | think that Peter B. Sweeny comprehends the Lanigan from all blame in the matter. situation, and as he has declared that Burke, the convicted murderer, whose sen‘e0c® | although not claiming to be the chief, he is the reporved to have aaid that he would rather die.” | ®0viser of Tammany, he may 40 direct ite The North German Lloyd's steamship Union, Cap- | Counsels and so shape the action of the next might just as well stop their misrepr esenta- tions and hostility, for they cannot arrest the progress of China in its peaceful destiny to freer intercourse with and assimilation to tho civilized nations of the world, GENERAL GRANT AND THE SPECULATORS,— Last September, when the gold ‘‘bulls” threatened a panic by a movement which if uninterrupted would have put gold to fabu- lous figures, General Grant ordered the sale of a few millions from the Treasury and the bubble bursted. Day before yesterday, when the gold “‘bears” were selling right and left in expectation of eventually getting the gold from the Treasury, he ordered @ suspension of the government sales, to the great relief of the merchants, whom the sharp decline was threatening with bankruptcy. If General Grant will only continue to fight it out on this line, and give the ‘‘bulls” and “bears” a check whenever they get too bold, he will put an end’ to the speculators and their evil influences upon the legitimate business movemenis of the country, tain Dreyer, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day | Legislature as to lay down the landmarks for for Southampton and Bremen, The malls for Europe | the party throughout the whole country and ‘The stock market yesterday was feverish until Inte | ™&kKe things all square for a democratic candi- im the day, when it became steady and strong at an | date in 1872, The democracy have a fair advance upon the lowest prices of the recent de- | show to make good their ground of occupation 10140. cocain cud” Avetecae hg wae hy. trols their counsels in this very delicate crisis General 8. Keefer, of Orange, N. J.; Surgeon Lud- | Of their history. A good deal will depend ington ard General E. Norton, of San Francisco; | upon the initiative which the Albany Legisla- ell, of Boston; Judge F, A. Coe, of New York; Gen- nseqi eral J. ©, Savory, of Des Moines; Colonel E. L. Parker, sa 2 mently be watched with ‘much of Philadelphia; General 'T. Anderson, of New Jersey, | ‘terest. Steamship Company, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. ‘The Puritagame Mission gud Ite Enemies. Major F. E. Taylor, of the United States Army; From the first movements of the Chinese Captain De Leon, of New York; Professor W. Farrell, | mission of which Mr. Burlingame is the chief— napa Saskina’Gt kenibee Beotta; Captain W. it was assailed in every possible way by the C. Stout, of Stamford, and Lieutenant Colonel W. B. apes — = — smugglers, both n China and England. 8 same party has Hotel. ‘4 Ex-Congressman J. V, L. Pruyn, of Albany; Alder- tilit Th ; iy. ough powerless to injure the mission See aae Sone nee naan Boxee Bt or to retard its important work, this old British Brevoort House. party has vented its venom of anger and mis- Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), Miles Wash- burn, of Boston, and Thomas D. Pearce, of Philadel- told, for instance, that Mr. Burlingame’s senator George E. Spencer, of Alabama, and E. treaties and proceedings were not approved Palacios, Minister of Guatemala, are at the Everett | by the government at Pekin, that he and his House. ree was no intention to sanction what he had done. Pe °F! So powerful and plausible have these British General Meyer, of the United States Army, ana. | traders and opium smugglers been that they ae his ob Rae S ae Mr. Ross Browne, to their side, and against Vinship, of New Haven; 8. T. Cozzens, of West | the interests of his own country. Weak as Point; 8, Foster, of Providence, and J, M. Miller, ot this gentleman was, evidently, it is cloar these Judge Rush R. Sloane, of Sandusky, and Judge T. Miller, es Hudson, N, Y., are at tho St. Nicholas | in the ports of China and at London. Hotel. Prominent Depar They have never recovered from the blow E. B. Judson, for Syracuse; Colonel 8. M. Jonn- given to them by the splendid reception of the ington; Senator Foster, for Connecticut; James | it in this country, for these necessarily led to Watt and James Douglas, sailed yesterday on board | g cordial reception and similar treaties in te ce te SE A Europe. Much as the India and China traders She Democratic State Council. American treaty and the new policy inaugu- Tho democracy of the State, represented by rated by that, the government was Sarasa the most intelligent elements of the party, have to make a virtue of necessity by receiving the leaders—who are to be the guides of the future to the one made in the United States. Still the policy of the party by right of the Priority of | British do not like the new policy, and are per- majorities as well, perhaps, as by their tact as sistent in their endeavors to make it appear that tie Does prominent men of the party through- Pekin. We have been satisfied all through that out the entire State, an opportunity of compar- | this was a malicious misrepresentation. Now ing notes with them suggesting new policy the news that comes to us from the embassy of the democracy, not only in this State, but been no foundation for these reports. Tho throughout the whole country. In many re- proceedings and treaties of Mr. Burlingame spects this was a most important council, It are approved at Pekin, and the delay in rati- tion, becanse the members were not elected at tility to them, but simply because the Chinese ‘i . a primary meetings, but were invited to meet wernment is waiting till the embassy has the chiefs in the State capital, and in the S . 7 dyptests “i completed its labors and all can be considered Dlace just now. It was not s caucus, because little doubt of the ratification of the treaties, it possessed none of the features of these myé- | for they are favorable to China and a necessity terious intricacies of party machinery, as it in the present affairs of the world. This, in nominate. But it was all the more remarkable the position of the Chinese government, The event from the fact that it was free from all the old opium smugglers and British traders commonplace action of conventions and cau- that council realized the result of their delib- erations and measured the strength of the pre- sent position which the democratic party they must have seen that a good deal depended Tue Montuty Dest SratgemMENt.—Secre- upon their proceedings. tary Boutwell has issued the debt statement of We have a fair outline of what the democrats | the United States for the month of November. with regard to the restoration of local govern- | inst., $2,648,234,682, with $194,674,947 in the ments, with regard to dealing with republican | Treasury, deducting which left the total debt commissions, and the delicacy with which these } $2,453,559,735. On the lst of November the to the fifteenth amendment and other’ im- | during the month was $7,571,454, or a total portant matters. The published and sensible | decrease since President Grant's installation of opinions of Peter B, Sweeny upon these ques- | $71,903,524. The unusually large sum of tions of the purposes and general action of the | attention. It exceeds by some millions any party, and we have no reason to suppose that | balance heretofore reported. these views were dissented from in the Albany the policy of the democrats will be. There may be difficulties in the way of this laid down policy, but one thing is certain, that if the they have a magnificent future in their control ; but if rashness infests their councils not only will « grand opportunity for the party itself be good to the whole community will go with it, They must act with the consideration for the interests of the State and the whole people, honest recognition of the immense responsi- bility resting upon them. A dominant party has its duties as well as its rights of conquest spoil, although they may be the most attrac- tive, are not the gravest things which belong oe to party success. A wise exercise of power in An Uaty Case.—There appears to be but disregarded without damaging those who would | on the New Jersey Railroad in the cise of heediessly set that claim aside; and this is | Patrick Lane. We gave yesterday the state- something which the victorious party must not | ment of an eye witness to the transaction, who” If the democratic party would lay a good | at night on the bridge, The man, naturally foundation for their Presidential aspirations in | supposing that he was on land, and attemptin; PI i 1872 they must act with wisdom, or they may | to walk away, was thus plunged into the river tion. But there is a good deal more than this | reputation for straightforward justice in cases mere ambitious longing expected of the Tam- | involving the loss of life, though her respect many democracy, They may be regarded now | for railroad organizations is also very great. Caldwell, who was charged with complicity in them, was discharged by Commissioner Osborn yes- will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. cline. Gold sold down to 12134, but recovered finally | for the Presidential fight if prudence only con- Colonel J. Nye, of Waterville, Me.; Colonel A. Stow- } ture may take, and the action of that body and Captain H. P. Connor, of the Panama Matl of New York, and Professor Thorpe, of St. Louis, yes, almost before it left the shores of China— Irwin, of the British Army, are at the New York pursued it ever since with unrelenting hos- W. E. Price, M. P., of London, Englund, are at the representation on all occasions. We have been phia, are at the Westminater Hotel, mission had fallen into disfavor, and that there Governor J. G. Smith, of Vermont; R. M. Rogers, G. Gaylord, of Philadelphia, are at the Hoffman | even brought over the late American Minister, yung Hank RT RGSS Bea old British traders have a vast influence both son, for Washington; Caftain S. B. Stone, for Ston- Burlingame mission and the treaty made with in London and the British press disliked the just been in council at Albany. The New York mission and by making a treaty with it similar managers—had an opportunity of meeting with Mr. Burlingame and his course are repudiated at and possibly dictating what shall be the future in Europe and from China shows there has did not partake of the character of a conven- fying the treaties is not caused by any hos- Executive Mansion to boot—a fit and proper and ratified at the same time. There can be had no “‘slate” to make nor any candidates to | 1 ,i¢ is the actual situation of the mission and cusses, and if the parties who participated in occupies in this State, as perhaps they did, propose to do under their new lease of power | From it we learn that the debt was, on the 1st latter must be approached, with reference also | debt was $2,461,131,189; so that the decrease tions may be received, we presume, as reflec- | money reported in the Treasury will attract council. Thus far, then, we can assume what democratic leaders in this State act wisely thrown away, but the chances of doing much and they must direct thelr course with an to consider, Power and the possession of the majority is a public claim that cannot be | little doubt of the culpability of the condictor forget. represents that the man was put off the irain be ousted from their present post of occupa- | and drowned. New Jorsey has a well-earned as the nucleus of @ new policy and a power to | Which will prevail just now? Compared with the Suez Canal. days at Darien are comparatively pleasant. are the cause of the intonse withering dryness which prevail most of the year over all that region up to the Mediterra- nean; while the Isthmus of Darien, lying inter- locked between two broad oceans, has a climate comparatively cool and moist, from whatever quarter the winds may blow. On the Atlantic side flows northward the great Equatorial current of warm water which, on emerging from the Gulf of Mexico, between Florida and Cuba, is called the Gulf Stream. On the Pacific side flows northward the great Antarctic current of cold water. Hence the isthmus ocean winds, which are comparatively cold, come from the Pacific, while those which are warm and obarged with their abounding rains come from the Atlantic. The movements of our planet on its axis and in its grand yearly circuit round the sun, the frozen poles of the earth, the burning equator, the configuration of the continents, and the positions of the great islands and island groups of the oceans, the great moun- tain chains, inland seas, deserts and forests of the foyr continents, all contribute to give direction to the currents of the sea and the air, and to the winds which bring rain and life, and the winds charged with drought and death, Of all these causes those favorably affecting climates and productions operate in favor of the highest development of the regions around Darien; while the opposite causes make the countries on both sides, between Port Said and the mouth of the Red Sea, for great distances, a howling and irreclaimable wilderness, saving the narrow valley of the Nile. Tho equatorial basins of the Pacific, the Indian and Atlantic oceans, are the great boilers of the sun, from which mainly the rains of the earth are drawn, and from which various warm ourrents or mighty rivers in the sea go moving about the earth; while from the Arctio and Antarctic seas are discharged various cold currents, affecting the climates of different parts of the globe. The great rivers of South America and the rivers of Central America and Mexico add to the volume of the equa- torial current which passes north through the Caribbean Sea and the Mexican gulf. Hence the tremendous volume of the Gulf Stream through the Straits of Florida—a volume so vast and warm that in sweeping across the Atlantic it makes the genial climate of the British islands and softens even the arctic rigors of Sweden and Norway. Hence from this equatorial current, with its fruitful winds and abounding rains, the exceeding richness in their vegetable products of the lands of South America, from La Plata northward, and of Central America, Mexico and the West India islands. How advantageous, then, in view of our “manifest destiny,” will be this Darien Canal, to which the regular currents of the winds of heaven and of the seas will be tributary on both sides of our Continent. How immeasura- ble are the advantages offered to us in the Darien Canal compared with those offered to Europe in the Suez Canal a glance at a map of the world will show. In reference to tho construction of the canal the engineering difficulties prosented are not greater than those surmounted in the Suez Canal. At Suez not only had the canal to be excavated through a rainless desert of sand and shifting sandhills, but @ fresh water canal was first required to supply the men and ani- mals employeé {n the work. At Darien the heavy tropical rains and their washings will be among the most serious difficulties to be over- come in digging the canal. Hills of solid rock are harder to cut through than hillocks of sand, but once through the rock the canal is done and it is enduring, while at Suez the work of dredging will have to be constantly kept up. At Suez every stick of timber and piece of lumber of the thousands of shiploads required on the work they had to bring by sea from great dis- tances, At Darien the boundless forests of the finest trees will be equal to any demand, as they have been the greatest impediment to the explorations of the isthmus. We say nothing of the veins of silver and gold which lubricate the backbone of our Continent all the way through ; for we hold that the advantages suggested ought to be sufficient for the imme- diate undertaking and speedy execution of the Darien Canal. A Worp to THe Wisz.—Tammany is a great power, but Tammany must be wise. It will not be wise to ignore cliques and factions. New York is not Tammany nor helpleasly under Tammany. A considerate holding off of hands may do Tammany more service than an unreasoning exercise of its imperial power. GeyeraL GRANT AND THE IsRarLiTEs.— The President has promised to some of our Jewish fellow citizens that he will make a representation to the Emperor of Russia on behalf of the Jewish families recently expelled from the Russian empire. This is quite proper and commendable, and in view of the very friendly relations existing between this republic and the great empire of the Czar, there is every probability, and indeed we may reasonably anticipate, that an appeal will not be without good effect. It is one of the signs of the good time coming when in a spirit of comity representations of this character may be made as between governments and in the interest of the people. DaNoeRovs QuacKERY.—A coroner's jury has just found, in a case in Elizabeth street, that death was accelerated by a state of facts “induced by gross ignorance on the part of John Scott.” John Scott's gross ignorance could have been no harm to the woman if he had not pretended to be a physician and had not tried to cure her disease by magnetic means, And all the coroner's jury does in the case is to threaten this fellow that it will be very severe with him if he kills another woman, and to recommend the Kings County Medical Society to prosecute him as an un- licensed practitioner. No wonder that quack- | ory flourishes, The Isthmus of Darien is only some ten degrees north of the equator, while the Isth- mus of Suez is crossed by tho thirtieth degree of north latitude; yet the summer heate at Suez aro frightful to think of, whilo the hottest The great rainless deserts on both sides of the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea heat and Tho Natural Advantages of the Darien as | The Suez Canal—Our Pert Said Corres- Pendence. arguments by the exhibition of figures and facts, which go to illustrate the many advan- tages and vast profits which must eventually accrue from it to the world at large, as well as to all those who are most deeply interested in the undertaking. The statements of the ex- tent and direction of the influence of the canal on the trade aad commerce between Europe and the East when the revolution of its current is completed wiff command the attention of not only the financial but the commercial and maritime interests of the country. Contemporaneous with this special let- ter wo have an article from one of the leading and most influential of the weekly journals of Great Britain, in which attention is called to almost precisely the samo points set forth by our correspondent, It is the attention of England alone, however, the writer having apparently lost a good deal of his cos- mopolitan humanitarianism in his nervously excited application to the care of insular in- terests. The English journalist is alarmed, and he reveals it. ‘‘Experience,” he says, “will show whether London and Liverpool can contend against the disadvantages of being one or two thousand miles further from Port Said than the rival ports”—referring to Mar- seilles, Trieste, Odessa and Venice. Lord Palmerston’s instinctive objections to the building of a canal Suez—which were almost prophetic, coming from a Briton—are reproduced in the words, ‘During a war the canal would place an enemy who could seize and fortify one of the terminal ports half way between an English army in India and the base of its operations, An expedition from Suez might reach Bombay in three weeks, while reinforcements from England would be three months at sea.” And persons still ask why England did not patronize the Suez Canal and rejoice at its successful completion and opera- tion. Hine tla lachryma, A Dull Philosopher Enlightened. The dull philosopher of the 7r#swne cannot understand haw an interoceanic canal at the Isthmus of Darien ‘‘will bring the traffic of the mighty Amazon by way of the Gulf Stream around to an interchange with the Mississippi Valley.” We can tell him. The Darien Canal will be followed by or accompanied with the annexation of the West India Islands, Mexico and Central America. Our merchants next will establish their trading houses all along the coasts of the mainland down to Darien. They will next establish their exchanges in trade between the coffee producers of Brazil and the flour producers of Minnesota, and these ex- changes of flour by the line of the Mississippi and the Gulf Stream (through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea) will pass into Brazil and draw thence by the same route the trade of “the mighty Amazon.” haps our dull philosopher is under the idea that the Gulf Stream has its beginning at the Straits of Florida, though it really comes from the equatorial basin of the Atlantic Ocean, and passing by the mouth of the Amazon skirts the American coast by Darien into the Gulf of Mexico. whole subject to the careful study of our dull philosopher, lesson. But per- We commend the And thus endeth our first Tas Juprorary ARTICLE.—Some of the legal hairsplitters have discovered that the part of the new constitution adopted by the people is in danger for the want of an enaeting clause. Because there is no specific declaration in the article when it shall take effect, therefore it may never take effect. part of the constitution in which was the de- claration that it should have force from January next having been rejected, it is argued that The such declaration is of no more account to us than if it were written in the laws of the Medes and Persians. It seems to us, however, that the people acted on the constitution as whole; they rejected certain parts and accepted cer- tain other parts; and in accepting the judiciary article they accepted with it so much of the enacting clause as may be deemed necessary to give that article force. Corron From Asts.—Prince Gortschakoff is to support a plan for the development of a vast Russian cotton growing interest in Asia, “in order to be able to successfully compete with the United States.” Such are the words of a despatch which purports to be dated in St. Petersburg yesterday, and comas to us through the Atlantic cable from England. Prince Gortachakoff knows very well that England has already, during the period of our civil war and since, taken vast pains and expended large sums of money with the view of obtain- ing cotton from India, and with exactly the- same intent. He knows alao that the scheme failed, almost miserably. Lonpon Boys ror Kansas.—The idea of tho juvenile colony in Kansas to become a home for boys reclaimed from the slums of great cities is an excellent one. This plan for saving boys from the life of misery to which they seem destined to grow up when they begin in the gutter was originated, we believe, by the Children’s Aid Society, which sent 80 many of our Gothamite ragamuftins to comfort- able homes in the country. It worked well, and we are glad to see that the reform schools of London are disposed to send out their little charges on the same far journey, This is a noble development of the charitable spirit of the age. In tho first place the boys are hene- fited ia being saved from paupers’ or criminals’ lives; the eity that loses them loses so many possible recruits for its prisons, and the coun- try to which they go gains so many boys that needed only that opportunity to grow up useful and honest mon, We are enabled to present to the readers of the Heratp to-day a correspondence from Port Said, dated on the 9th of November, the first special written communication which has beer had from either terminus of the Snez Canal. The communication is of exceeding interest, and holds forth much promise of what is to follow in the shape of such like valuable despatches for our columns as tho effects of the new transit route are more and more developed and trade becomes revivified in the land of the Pharaohs. The writer pro- ceeds to answer aomo of the latest and more reasonable objections which have been put forth in Europe against the work, refuting the a Americans tn Paris, Our special correspondence from Paris men- tions some interesting details of the American eloment in that great capital. Tho average number of Americans in Paris throughout the year is estimated at ten thousand, which proves that they are not alow in availing themselves of the great facilities now offered to cross tho Atlantic. To the American travelling public Paris offers attractlons above all other European cities, and for several reasons. Firstly, it is the great centre of travel to and from all promi- nent parts; then it is the great emporium of fashion, and therefore naturally attracts both sexes, but especially the ladies, But the great attraction that draws Americans to Paris is the congeniality that prevails in general life. Tho stiff formalities and strict decorum which aro too often observed in American and English private lifo become tedious, Thoro iaa longing for relaxation; even a dash of Mabille offers a relief. Altogether there is 4 charm about Parisian life that must be experienced in order to be appreciated. Even Madamo de Staél found that her banishment from Paris was the Greatest punishment that could have been inflicted upon her, Tho savoir faire of the French, in relation to all connected with out! door lifo especially, has a tendency to auit the palate of the travelling public generally. Moreover, although Americans profess the strictest republican ideas at home there fs no doubt that the fact of being thrown con- stantly in contact with persons bearing high- sounding titles tends to tickle their vanity. Many daughters of wealthy American families have contracted high matrimonial alliances, and in this light Paris assumes an important position in the minds of pater familias. As in all other affairs of the same kind, occasional abuses will occur; but to Amorican citizens it cannot be otherwise than flattering to find that they are placed on an equal footing with the descendants of old noble families, to many of whom the fact of contracting alliances below their own standard is considered an unpardon- able sin, or, at least, a mésalliance. ‘The courteous hospitality extended to tho repre- sentative of the United States in Paris by tho Emperor is another link that will tend te strengthen the ties of international friendship, To the commerce of Paris the visits of Ameri- cans are of no mean importance, when wo con- sider that on an average they contribute the yearly sum of about one hundred millions of dollars. Unlike the English, who adhere almost exclusively to the Quartier St. Honoré, the Americans are found distributed through- out the city, and are consequently more gene- rally appreciated. It is true that the Ameri- can travellers are notorious for their lavish expenditure when abroad, but foreigners must not lose sight of the fact that under the modest citizen names registered among the Americar arrivals in foreign cities there are often com- prised the owners of colossal fortunes that far exceed the aspirations of princely descendants in Europe. BURCHARD LITERARY ASSOCIATION, Those who embark in literary pursuits ought to understand perfectly beforenand that they have about the same chance of fortune and fame before them as if they invested every cent in @ lottery, and they ought also to know that for every Byron that has lived there are a thousand Chattertons, Few associations of a literary turn of mind appreciate this, but there 1s one in the city, it is believed, whose members do, and that society is the one whose name is above. They neld their fourth annual meeting last night at the Thirteenth street Presbyterian church, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, and fully 2,000 ladies aod gentlemen were present to give the memvers who endeavor to be men of lettera a hearty reception and enthusiastic recognition. Orations, esssys, poems and discussions were the order of the ex- cercises, hs paadapiecl interspersed with music by artistes 0 celebrity. With the exception of a little monotony im gesture and enun- ciation, each of the geniemen who 4id service in helping to make tho evening o period to be remembered with pleasure did exceod- ingly well. Originality marked President Merritt B Sawyer’s salutation and Secretary W. ©. Christie's report, each sprinkled with just suMoient humor io make their respective dishes palatable. Fifty-four active and eighteen honorable members comprise the society, and it is named in honor of the Rev, ». D. Burchard, D. D., pastor of the church, where the exercines were held, The order of exercises follow- ing the reading of the Secretary's report was as follows:— Music, “Voga, vogs," trio on Stone, de Luea, 6 Oration, “Light"...... Essay, “Fame and Notori Music, “Under the Dain Poem, “Polly Ticl Oration, Culture’ Music, “Laughing Tassan. ig Discussion, “Should the Bible be exciuded from our Publie Bchools?”* ‘A(irmative —John J. Lewis and Nathaniel Lillis, Jr, Negative—Jobn M. Gi Music, Quartetto, Villane! Miss Dubreul, Mme. Miss Dubroul and Mme. de Lussan were deservedly encored. The sudience was dismissed with benediction, pronounced by the Rey. Dr. Prime. {Hz EUREKA LITERARY SOCIETY, | This association met last night at Ward school No, 44, North Moore atreet, ana after the formal pre- liminary official business nad been disposed of the association, which was well represented, became very literary. Three young gentlemen of the re- spective names of Brady, Mundy and H. W. Mcin- tyre declaimed three recitations. Mr. Brady se- lected ‘The Battle of Navarre; it lost a little of the force and fire he imparted to the ringing war ballad from tne obvious fact that he remembered it only in part, and reached the last stanza safely by the kindly promptings of the President. A few more efforts, and Mr. Brady may do better, Mr. Munday contemplated ‘The Sea as an Embiem of Liberty,” and in measured words rolled forth appro- priate images of ita boundlessness, its freedom, ita changea and ita azure brows. Mr. Mcintyre’ de- claimed a song of his own composing, It professed to be a dream, and as it dealt with realities that are seldom mentioned to ears polite, if it remains a dream posterity will have nothing to lament. Mr. McIntyre aiso read an original easay on the “Errand Boy of the Period," and if the errand boy sketched by Mr. McIntyre be o fair sample the sooner the “Eureka” goes in for s movemtnt for their regenoravion, and removing them & jittio further from the tuition of the Devil, the better it ‘will be for the poya and all who nave the unhappl- ness to employ them. A very good disoussion was started and sustained on the question of “Will chi. nese Labor be for the Benefit of the United States * The aMrmative was clearly proved, and was so ruled by the President, Mr. T. A. Henry gavo, with good effect and with superior elocutionary power, “Sneridan’a Ride,” and well deserved the unani- mous applause ho obtained. The roll was then called and the evening's entertainment brought to w close. ALUMNI DINNER OF THE CHI PSI FRATERNITY. The resident graduates of this honorable and ancient college secret society dined at the Astor Hongo iast evening, The repast was tne moat ele- gant and enjoyable that the Messrs. Stetgon were able to supply. After the cloth had been removart ts were proposed to the “Chi Psi Fraternity © our Departed Brethren,’ drank in asile ur Paren' hapter, Union”; “Our First Chapter, Williams; “Alpha, of the Peninsula Chay ter, Michigan; “The Twin Metropolitan Chapters, Columbia and Colloge of New York.” The seventeen chapters of the fraternity were represented by suitable deiegations, Letters of regret were road from numerous members who were unable to attend tho dinner. A permanent or- ganization Was effected by the members present, and annual dinners were determined upon here- after. Encouraging reports were made from South- ern chapiers, and it Was hoped that they will soon recover from the effecta of the ate unhappy “daifer- ences.” The bonds of Chi Pai were never loosened by the late war, and they are only strenginened how by the present Union, It was a late pour before vhe members parted,