The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1869, Page 11

‘ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1269.—TK E S ui om bs ‘The United states, on ining he inferior gage, piece Pee, s., bas A upon. OFLBeED CODLBEAE OL q ami rule over their countey ai R TH E F A R e re her Soha ae extends to some of tire West | the ciements, water, antmais and the productions of the land. These Kami, by their assistance and in- tarceasion, will obtain for worshippers rewards In ‘Me future life proporti:nable to shelr bekavior tn uns. ‘They can also make tiem happy aud misera- ble in the present world, and tho very act of Worstip, combined V8 feeling of reverence Se far as snese are concerned the plan she adopts from the goveruments to which they belong. hardly be objected to. And we do not know thas we should particularly call attention ta the subject bus for the madver io wich the. us Cubs ace reported to be going eee Material Progress in Japan i ge Which 8 Wes it, to cleanse and purify and China, See tho heart, (So they” argue, There is evidently eee g the past been confident iy, asserting, aud ese thought lying 1 bottom 3 ag aamravanbzarh ene’ 1 tas, hosp ocndpalts sanerindf reasoning, The od Chinese region aired ‘the Spapiab und United States governments for the sale the Emperor to worship the Supreme Being, ci {t te quid that an eminent merchant of Boston, Mr. | and the oiticers, 1 tO abst tore” omicers and An Austrian Trade Treaty With Faron fa actualy nt Machid- wit Myisuctooe tv tegsieas | {On ne oc RUNES gas Purchase, The sum mentioned is $10:,.09,000. Cuba | Yo,o1e must worship the Suen of the hills aud rivers, the Hikade. ate ea dra apo poy rend of wore we | Of the grain and land. iC 1s the same idea, We oniy would not urprising, thetefore, if such an offer were to be | find defective the worship of che supreime Being by RUSSIAN PROGRESS IN ASIA The Tectric Telegraph, Cotton Cultivation and Yachting. the Mikado, ‘Dis ougit to ve ug law of Japan; bub Kaemphfer has omitted the record of it. Tue Bupertority of the Mikado to the Kamt is also like that ciated by the Chinese emperor over tue Shen, While he adores heaven as a anbincl, be grants to the Shen titles and houors as their lord. ‘the objects offered to the Kami resemble those Presented to the Suen by the Ohinese, Among these, Which embrace ornamenis, modela of sips, imaged and rare curiosities, are found mirrors. These are used to indicate that the Kamit knows our hearts and actn ‘They seean to be used more by the Shinto sect than By the Chinese /auisis, but they are net renting in this Gountry. 1t1s common to see them suspendes over the doors of the temple of the protector of the city, the Un'eng wang Miaw. A van he wih falsehooa will present a mirror to tims divinity, as am appeal to him im his capacity as judge. He ia supposed to know the hears and to administer pun- ishments impartially. ‘The mirror is, therefore, called the Ohau tan kil whe mirror whicu reflects the tutenor ofa man. Hither the heart sin) or the jail fan) is used in this name, The mirror is only faund im the temples of Shen who have judicial MiMiead te formed , ikado is formed from mi, (Sanscrit, Maha; | Latin, “Magntis), and Kado," door, (Monga, Henan door; Oni hu, door—oid torm, gu). usage Now, considcring that there ls an American Min- later at Madrid and a Spanish Minister at Washing- ton, it seem strange if such 4 business as the fi ge of @ lighty prized appanage of the Spaaish ‘M#hould be committed to a Boston merchant like to know what commission he 1s w recetve upon the purchase; and ure not surprised to find that he goes himself to Madrid, to execute tho order, rather than send it in the ordinary way as an indent to his mercantile correspondents Iu that city. After all, whether Quba fallg inco the hands of the United States by purchase or not, whatever is being done fs fair and above board; and netther the gov- ernment por people of the great republic atempt to hide the fact of thelr wish to see Canada and Mexico nexed © them, But with Russia it is different. herever she goes, whatever sno does, ta witha quiet siyness, that reminda one of the stealthy ap- proach of the more ruthiess of the fetine tribe. Those Who have watched her doings i Circassia, and seen ber make her way to Bokhara; who view her encroachments on the Auoor ana now her ope- tons in the north of Japan, must be suspicious atep ahe takes. Indecd, ate is Pita ied hich By mail at this port from Furore and California ‘we have our newspaper files from the Far East, @ated at Shanghae and Hong Koug, China, Uctover 39, and Yokohama, Japan, October 27, from which ‘We sre enabied to supply the following important Qetails of the condition of affairs then existing Asia. Who Austro-Hungarian Treaty with Japan— Ratification by the Empires—Reception of the Austrian Embuesy by the Milindo— meee, Presents from Brancis Joseph, cable, from the gaze of the "great Powers, | 19 like thay of the Turkish sublime Porte, denoting {From the Yokohama Times, Oct. 30.} For instance, she @tresty with Japan, but she and the Chinese Chau-ting (Gourt-hak), the Sull meaning tie Emperor.} The Telegraph in Japau—Action and Policy of the Government, From the Japan Gazevte, Oct. 28.] Our eemed contemporary the Japan Heratd, last evening, ailuding to the telegraph thad 2s in course of construction between tis and Jeddo, finds fault with the Japavese government for repadiating the offer (we suppose of @ foretguer) “or an expert- mental ine * * from an apsurdly jealous fear of foreigm ascendancy in any one matter, and now, at greater cost than would have otherwise been incurred, the Japanese govern- meat will only achteve wnat mignt have been done long ago—What ig of litteor uo service to them selves, and will be of no service to the mercan- tue commmntty, who are preciuded trom its use.” Lice our comtemporary we regret the “absurdly Jealous fear’? se often displayed by the government. Our readers have good cause to know {t; for here, ag in every country m the world, tt ts not dne or two Temonstrances only that lead vo a change for the better. ‘ihe public for whom our local evening sheet 19 prepared, is bound to put up with a good deal of repeutinn and o1 hammering at one sudject; because it is all for the public weal. Bnt we confess what in ulis one particular—the telegraph—we do not think vhere 13 much room lor complaint. Up to the present. ume there fs no foreign community m Jeddo to whom the telegraph would de of the siugivest use; and we greatly aamire the spiritof the government in get ting out from Europe not only a very complete set of apparatus and a code of signals invented at their desire and adapted vo their language, but a comye- tent man to superimtend 16, and to iMaugurase tele- gtaphy in the country. ‘To the native mercantile community no very harm will be done by having tue lacuity of eommu- nicating by means of the velegraph delayed a iittie longer. itisas well that in a country situated as this tg the government should be permitted tu enjoy Lhe new toy for & limited period all to themseives. They will goon discover that the work they can give it to do will nob occupy It a quarter of ite ume, and then we dare predict that they will see lor them- selves that a revenue may be derived from 1s which it wilt be well to avail themselves of, Do not let us abuse them for showing @ desire to lead the way in introducing the great annibiiator of time and distance into the empire; and let us wait wiih what patience we way the natural effects and consequences of tnetr present action, ‘The Herald suggests that the Japanese governinent should ‘contrast their action with that of wie Eng- lish government. There, estavlished as a scientilc experiment, the telegraph bas become a national, Mercantiie and social Decessity, the value of which 19 KO patent to all classes, thai the State, to facili- tate wand Cheapen its use, has decided to buy up tne Whole interest of tae promotors and sharenolders Yes—a pretty contrast Indeed to vapam. ‘The gov- ernment here may reply that they are unable to diaw mucn beneiit from the comparison of this country with Engiand. But before there can be such a costly experiment Made by private enterprise In Japan, and the telegraph becomes a national losutution aé m Eugiand and. many other countries, there must be & great change In the habits of the Japanese, and a wonderful alteration in the extent and nature of ita commerce, If any Joreigner had been perimitea to erect a telegraph between Jeddo and Yowobame, 16 1 antl ‘nat any commerciat telegrams of imporcance would pass— ceriaimly un insuiicient number to make it a paying conceri—and if the governmeut saw no advaaiage in making use of iv largely. they cannot be blamed for not giving their sancuion. They might, however, very welt argue that they are content to take a ies. son from Knygland’s later movement and make it a government instituiion, Without doubt, soreign- ers could retort that they had not yet a properly or- ganized foreranaer of Wwe telegrapa—a government Dost Office; Dut all this seems to us chiid’s play, and can dono good, There isan immense deal to ve acteved in Japan before they get telegraphs tnroughout the county; aod the government has done weil in the begianing It has made. Lhemterval trom tie accession of Yosbi-hisa to the iycoonate and the breaking out of the rebellion Was one particularly anteresting, jor the rapidity with which old obstacles and annoyances were removed from the intercourse between foreigacrs and Japanese. We are now at the commeuceiment of movement after a terrible siaie of rewogression; and Jt fs easy to see that if we do not expect too much ata tame we shall find rapid tinprovement in the acts of the auchorities, As we write our minis revert to Inany bhings Liat require atienuon, upon some of whica we Lave of late written very muco, When We look upon tue peculiar circumstances wm which the government is placed (which we grant they have breught upon taemseives), willie we can- hot yet accord them much laudation, we are in- clined to give them credit for au increasing ear- nestness in thelr efforts to act judiciously; and cer- tainly we wiki not cavii at trifies. If in Kngland legisiation 1s proverbially slow, we cannot wonder that 80 inexperienced @ vernment as that of Japan takes a good deal ol argument and aemon- hag no representative, ag other treaty (’owers have, at or near tue seat of government; ana tno only use she makes of her privileges under the treaty ig to clum residence, i required, for a consul at a far outport; while her sips occasionally vielt the voast i @ mysterious manner, create uneasi- ness in the minds of the Japanese government as to what she wabout, Meanwhile ste has, on grounds dimecult to understand, long had @ few soldiers on the island of Saghaien, Not hiking this occupation OL owe territory, & mission was despatched by the Tycoon to st. arg im 1866 Lo adjust the master; but ail that could be done was to get the Car to consent to a partition of the island—that one portion should be yieldea to him, but the otver re- main Japanese, Now, however, appearances denote further encroachment on the part of Russia, and Es quietly aiming at the appropriation of the } whole, The Japanese government are awakening to the actual danger of the case. We beueve that they bave coosuited foreign miuisters in wnom they have confidence; but what may have passed or what ad- vice has been given we are unable to state. ‘They are now fitting out an expedino: to colonize the northern portion of Yeso. The real object, however, 1s to prevent the crossing of the Russians wad their occupation of auy portion of that isiand, They have left it wntil 80 late, that whoever may be sent, must, we should think, suffer severely from the inclemency of the weather and the tong winier—during which but little remunera- tive work can be undertaken (uniess i¢ be mining), It must therefore be supposed that ulose who now bave Lo take with them their supplies of aii sorte, and what, for the frat year at allevents, they must be dependent on the southern part of Japan for their commissariat, Under vhese circumstances wo do not think much.of the expedition being one of mere colonization, for & would be absurd to dis. patch colonists at such @ period of the year, It can hardly be otlerwise than a military wovement—to have the means of saying vo Russia, tf she attempts to land on Yeso, “This land is occupiea—you must not come,” and to oppose her by force if she endeavors to secure a fvvting by means of soldiers and satlors. We hope that Japan may not become embroiled with Russia. It is certain that our ministers know more about the whote arfair than we do; and if 1t be necessary that they will make proper representa- tions to their own governments. And we think that (hey have sufiqient sympathy with Japan to do ail that is necessary for her aid. But Japan might help nerself efiectually in a very simple manner. Throw the whole country open as aii other countries are, and it will he to the inverest of ail the treaty Powers to Keep a watch on each other and to prevent any encroachments on the part of esther of them, ‘There ig no sympathy so strong as Uiat created by tuter- est; and rt will then be to ute mterest of eaca to see that no imyustice is done by the others. Religion in Japan~Philology of Non-Ariau Races of Asia—Chuarch and State, (From tne Chinese Recorder, Sept. 18.) There are few subjects of inquiry more deeply interesing at the present time than the connection of the nop-Arian race’ of Asia with eacn other in religion, phttclegy and ancient customs. Little rooin exists for doubt that the aboriginal races of India, the Chinese, Japanese, Coreans, Birmese and Siamese, with the ‘Tibewan aud ‘Turanian nations, ore ove great family, baving once a common retigious velles aud janguage, Perhaps the principal dis culty that occurs to the apprenension of tius ancient unity of 80 many races 18 found in the remarsenie points of resembiance aiso existing among them to the Arian janguages and modes of taought. Hun- dreds of old Chinese words agree in form with the monosyllabic roots of the Jndo-Buropean Jan. guages; anda multicude of facts suggestive ol a like conclusion strikes the ooserver when te examines the vocabulanics of the other races now mentioned, modern philology bas tor its task to account frst lor the resemblances lu Wuought and language eaistyg among the Basiern Asiauc races, and then for those Stil] more ancieut links of untoa Rotiveable beiween the vocabularies and religions of these uations and chose ot the {ndo-uropeaa area, Of this problem one example 1s the relation exist. ing between the old reigious opinions of Japan and nina, Uur chtet authority on the religions of Japan 18 sti old Kaempier, the learned Ger. man physician, Who neatly two centuries since visited titat country, His valvabie history of Japan Was early translated into English; ana twenty-five years since the parts bearing on religion appeared Ih the Chinese Repository. He was tne lirst to de- scribe the Buddlust sects of China; not that he knew Obina, bat ne described them as exisung in Japan, and comparison shows that the suodivisions of the Curmese aie are ba asi Fase i carne, nd consequenuy they have to ‘Mac eoumey fy all ther ramificauons. ‘This was a matcer in Wluch the Roman Cathoiic mntssionaries did not mnterest themselves. They wrote next to nothing on Buddhism. It says much for the tuteiti- gence of Kaempler; that—busied ag he was Our overland issue Was published on Thursday for Gespatoh for Hong Kong bv the Chma. It was a Very interesting namber, containing, among other Matter, @ full account of the Mikado’a reception of the Austro-Hungarian Embassy, and of the presents made to him, which have excited so much adumira- tiou ag to have beem made the subject of special letters of acknowiedgment.. We quote irom the summary the iollowing paragrapha;— The most noteworthy event of the period since we last addressed our reudery nas been the srgnatare of Ube treaty of cowmerce and Ravigation between the Ausirio- Hungarian nionarchy and the empire ot Japan. This wus conciuded atJeddo on the 18th inst., ‘She anniversary, oddly enough, of tue expedition’s @eparture from the portvet ‘rieste, The condiuons, With certain necessary transpositions and jmoditicu- ons, are those or the North German Confederation treaty recently made, the ¢ ea belng Of 4 benc- Zcial character, as giving to the document a more comprenensive ana logical form. Indeed, itis the Most complete of the muny etmilar contracts with Japan, and may well be taken ag a text in future discussion on our treaty reiations with the country. Two days before the treaty Was simned the Mikado Received the Ambasay in lms palace, and the recep- lon, We are loid by a0 eye Witaess, Was most cordial @nu satis.actory. The envoy of his Imperial uo Royal Majesty, Baron von Petz, preseated jus letters @1 credence, accompanied by his suite, the Captains o1 the Hgpac and krahersoy meudrich, tleg Captain Von Wipplinger and Captain Von Pitner, Ur. Scher- ger, Chief Commisstoner tor the Commercial and Bcientitic Deparunent, Herr Bebe on Calice, the Cousul General aud Chargé d’Atfatres ad incerins Jor Japan; Baron Herbert, Counselor of Legation; pate ‘Irauvenburg, Secretary o1 Legation, aud jaron Ransonuet, he, Al@Ramder Von Siebolg, Esq, Japauese Secretary and Interpreter of ihe British Legation, accompanied the Kuvoy aud was B80 presented LO the Mikado. “His Imperial Majesty Fecelved the Mmbassy in ike audience hail of the castle of Jcddo, surrounded by ms Ministers and the high dignitaries of the Japanese empire. On Admiral Vou Pets delivering fms credentiais the Mikado said a 1ew courteous words expressive of his pleasure at receiving the Embassy, aud banded to w native interpreter @ paper comaming a more formal reply, to which @ trausiation in Kuglisa was attached. ‘Phis conciuded the Interview. The Mikado’s pieuipoventianes who signed the freaty on hf bettal were Sawa Jiusan f Kiyowara ee and Terashima Jid-sil-bujwara Alune- or! On the same day the presents vrought by the Rm- Dassy tO tie Mikado were displayed in @ roum adjoining the audience nail and déitverea to the Officers appoinied to recelve them. ‘bey are im greut variety ana of very considerable vaiue. Con- splcuous among them ate a marble statue, Lile size, Of tue Kinperor and King, vy Caur, an Ausiriau sculptor of cimmencé; @ splendid plano, by the Jamous Bosendorter, of Vienna; tiungarian varness and richly oruamenied shabraks apd some sixty beautifully printed volumes from the 1mperiat press On BEIeEnUUC subjects. Ihe statue excited great admirauon and Wouder. ‘The aiuntsier toc Foreign Anaus senPto the Aduurat a special ietier, thanking him tor the p! is generally and stating vhat be had becu direcied to wake speciat charge of the platue and preserve it for time everlasting a8 an imperial treasure, and @ token of the special sym- paluy and iriendstuy of the Emperor ot Austria. Tue plano Was aiso particularily admired, aud the Mikado haying eXpressed Dts dese wo lear 13 music Baron icansounet, attaché of the Mission, a Drs rave amateur, played Beveral pieces on it, giv- Ig speoimens OF Various SChOOIS Of Music, bDelore a Ruliber of the high dignitaries of the Court, the Aukado Nimesell listening veliad a sercea and re- eadiy expressing his deinght, Itis mteresting to fnow tat wis Imperial Majesty picked Out a piece of Chopin’s, “On the Piazetta,” and an Ausérian polka tor special commendanon. ‘Tie piano 18 m- tended wi a present to ais young cousort, Who is expected to join tim shortly in Jeddo. ftts Majesty bas expressed a Wish that iistruction iu planolorte playing should be given to a Japanese orticial unusician, -Wwuo Will, presumabiy, be herealter the Kmpress’ teacher; but there 18 no royal road Wo proticicncy 1m art, and we fear it will be jong bejore her Majesty wii be enubled to deiigut her August spouse WILL Le strains of lia favorite com- poser, ibe most useful of the gilts, the vooks, are lutended for the library 01 the Japanese Lustiuce ior Foreign Sciences, ® inll Uited establishment, which has wiready maue good progress towurds teaching & Jarge numover of young Japanese of gold fawily the languages in Which a Knowledge of bese sciences lies wt present hidden trom them. Thé solid value of Unis present 18, we are told, as fully appreciated as the beauty of those of a more ornament Gharac- ter. Some of the ovoks, Works on medicine ana Burgery, have gone to the Japanese hospital, to- gelner With some surgical insriiments and scicutitic apparatus, We hope ty be able W pubish, In our t is said Xt Issue, Copies of the letler from the Emobuss: with natural history aad nuieria medica— ‘8 ee i * a whic Mochi Apia the bu0KS, wad Le reply of the ne should, during bis residence in Japan, eed ie volegroote Lat ws Frick uh hee wie Japanese goversmeni, the latier a most interesting | have adaed to bis collection of facty on } noye document, a8 ludicutive Of the liberal and euligit- ened policy ol the present réyime, A dinner party 10J0Wed, given by Admiral von Pets at his Legauon, the turmer resiveuce of the Engush ktubassy, at which were present, besides Sawa and Lerasiina, (be bwo Jupaucse Pienipo.en- varies, the Prime Minister, Saujo Udaijin aud an uncle of tue Mikado, Nin wajk luoba Ktu no miya, Here, aguln, the music of the tne band of the frigate Grew 1Orth expressions vi adinifation fro the isn- Voy's gucsia, On the 2uth, vile burliday of the Mi Kado, Who hag now attained his eignieenth year, Toya. salutes were tired mi Jeddo aod Lokonuma by all the Vessels 1 foreign Powers and returned by the Japanese soips and forts, add ab nvon tue Mikado’s Ministers cntertumed she Joreigu Ambassadors and their secretaries af & banquet of uNntsuUd: splendor. Of more Msportauce wW Lhose hivvested in tue trade which will soon be #o rapidly developed, are tue following items Of information, which we have reserved to conciude our sketch Of this emimenty sBuccessiui Visit, On the duy aiter tue treaty was guued an aulograph leer, he first which Ue Mikado has ever writen to a foreign sovereign, was received by (ne Enyoy to be lorwarded to the Km- peror. lu it ne eXpresses bis particular valisiacuion at having at jength Concluded a treaty with a Power hike Austra, Whose principal object 19 tue develop. meiit of counmerce. ‘4his compicwely bears out the sentiments ex- pressed in an arucie m our jeading columns, written Wd uays before We received iG iMiormaAtion We are DOW able Wo give to our readers and LWo days before the treaty was signed, aud shows, too, Low well the bavoy of tue Kinperor aud Kiug las succeeded In lig mission. The otper and a most importaut fact is uae the Japauese government bus at last siopped the Mstaiution o1 mercnant consuls, ‘yno Austrian Kuvoy inade no objection when the point Was ryised; in facg Would, prapaviy, have sug- gested it, Kad He Hot been ALUicipaved by Lag request ol the Japanese goyerument, Iv is well tae point was raised; indeed, tis ta cceplance Of tie ad- Vice Wich some foreign Aunisiers dnd some foreign journalists have jox We past Lou years been pressing Upon the Japanese, is a WU-b MrauTyihg circu stance. In consequence, an arraugement has been Made between Lae Austro:- Hangariin Ka voy and sir Harry rarkes, by virtue oF Winch Boglisi consular oficers Will act at Wue Open ports as Agung Ausirian consuls uptik whe Austrian luachoharies arrive, ‘Ying subject 18 Wo large & One Wo discuss here, but ‘Wo may express the hope that (he Japanese govern- Hseus Will /UW Up Lei presene move by Ue Most Hecessary one uf relusiyg Wieik ConseAk to Lie ap- poiniment of any more mMeércuant Consuls Whatever. AB tue present lucumbeals gradually disappear drom the country, Wue governinent sould insist Upon their bemg replaced by proper viivers, those suljects go iuil and accurate an account as he has given of the religion, poitios and soci ide of the people of that Pan, Buddhism was conveyed ta Japan under che Wet dynasty. Bat there haa been intercourse before, During tne Tsin and Whe Han, Olja became Known to the Japanese, and they then took from tis counuy the knowiedge of writing, of books and reiimon, poutics and te arts. ‘auism began to de rife in China about the time when Tsim Sut-kwang sought ta the Eastern Sea for the islauds of the Geni, His short lived dyuasty lasted {rom B, 0, 250 to B,C, 206. Then came the Western and Eastern Hap, extepamng to A. D, 220; and tue Tsin dynasty ruled lor auotaer century und @ hall, to A. D. 3387, before the Wei, @ Yartar family, came to the throne of North China. A new linpuse was at this time given to the missionary zeal of the Buddhists, which resuited 10 the religious con- quest of Corea and Japan. So long a tine as 500 years of mtercourse bad a before the Budd- tusts undertook a new feld, inere Was abundant opporwunity lor the communication of a knowledge o} the Cinnese langaage, and religious and political ideas, ‘The tity syiluvies of Japanese writing, based on select Chinese characters, became weil egtab- lisaed in use. That part o1 the Japanese language known as the Kan-won (Han yin) then Tor the first ume becume, by We spread of schoo} instruction, an incegral part of the covoyuiml medium. tt was at this time that the Tauisin of China powerfully mfu- enced the native religion of Japan, changing It from its original Lorm Uo the Shinto aysiem now known, ‘The Shinto religion takes 8 name irom Cuina— Shen-tau, the doctrine uf Lae Shen. [ts temples are culied Miya, a native word, but In Its origin ideati- cai with the Chinese Miau, which 13 calied by te Japanese biyo, Lf it be ASKed WHA paris of this re- gion are hative the auswer must be somewhat typ. thetical, ‘The most striking ieature 1s the spirt- wal jurisdiction of the Mikado and his claims tu be reverenced as @ living Kami. It is tis tat consi- tates the distinctive caaracteristlc of tue Shinto system, and which it is hard to trace back to any but @ native origin. Ifthe Mancha reigniog famiy ip Us Country takes a pleasttxre La the Deueit of a diving ancestry (oc tse 1t is surpriging that ry ago the Japauese bhould have claimed Los their ruler alike beginning? Kucinpler, wih great probability, derives iis adoration of tue hviug Kaui from le worsiip. “A sitopie act ot respect and gratitude was turned by degrees into adoration and Lae Superstition at last was carried so far tat the All- kado, of ecclesiastical Bereaitary emperors, being lineal descendants of these great heroes and gup- posed heirs of thelr excelieat qualities, are looked on as soon ag they Have taken possessivn of we throne as wae and ving images of ther Kam), or gous, as Kank themselves, possessed of so much Noluess that mo gege (a Secular, not divine pergon) dare presume to appear in tue presence. Nay, mhore, all tue Kami or gods of (ue country are under an ovligation to Visit him Ones & year, and to wait Upon his sacred person, tuough In an invisivie manner, during the venth month. Hence that month {8 caved Kaminaisuki—that is, the MON Without gods, and no festivals are then celevrated, because the Kami are supposed not to be at fiome tn we temples, but av court Waiting on their Dair.”” Ihe Misado, or Duiri, in his capacity as spiritual ruler a ines the power of Canonimunyg Meritorious peisons, Usually On acount of therr apparition after death, or some miracic satd to be wrougnt by them, There is here a resemolance to Cotton in Asin—The Orop and Its Condition In Central Undia, From . Rivett-Caraac, Esq., Cotton Commis- stoner for the Central Provinces and the Berars, co the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, bom- bay, dated Simla. October 19, 180¥. Sin—I have the honor so confirm my telegram of the Lota inst. of the Loilowing exfect Heavy rain early in the month caused great alarm and some damage in the cotton districts, uring this week weutier bas been fine and plant ha; re- covered. Dainage mach less than at first supposed. Shonid fine weather contunue an excellent crop may be SFpected. 2, The information on which the above telegram was based was sent by wire from the several cotton districts, and the detatled reports since received by post coniirin the belief therein expressed, that saguld the weather continue fine, as it promises to do, an excellent crop may be expected this season from the cotton districts of the Central Provinces and the Berars, 3. In my last monthly report, No. 2,913, dated sep- tember 11, 1869, 1t Was explained that the unusually ary weather which characterized the early months of the monsoon had been succeeded by heavy rain; that at toat season (September), when the piant was beginning to flower, sunsiine was “Whuch required and that continued and heavy rain at that seagun might cauge much dam: to the crop, Unfortanately, the much wisved for tine weaver did pot return and this season the wet weather Las been prolonged into Uctover, the rain which was 80 much wanted in Juae and July, coming when it was, Most welcome, Just as the flowers and boils were forming on the plant. ‘rhe anseasonable weather caused great alarm and some /itue damage as the Tollowing extracts from the detatied reporly wil show. 4. Warden Vailey.—The Commissioner of tha Nagpore division, whose charge inciudes the whole of the Wurdah valley country, from which the Hingunghat suppltes are drawn, lias been so good aa to favor me wil the following iniormation regarding the crop iu the Wurdah district, Under date the 12th inatant he writes—‘Continuous and sometuines heavy cain fell during the early part of last week, ‘The rail ceased here on Thursday at noon, and we have bad no rain here since thon, ‘The Tehseelder of Mingunghat, who bas been bere this morning, teils me that it ralued there up to Fri- day. Lwas at Wurdah for turee days in the early part of the week, and 1 heard a goud many com plain about the rain. The people said that, in Heids, where the cotion plants were woll grown, and had flowered and volled, tuck demi had been done by the late rain, Lhe voila had got wettod, or had been knocked of while the leaves and piant lad rotted from the extreme wet, ‘This appled only to the fielda where tue cot- ton bad pitherto peen growing well. in the jands where, trom one cause or another, the cottom was backward, no harm Hd yet been doue by tne rain. Some of the growera said that the outturn would be only halt wiat had been expected. Others Ave @ less gioumy accollu of matiers. From what Tsaw myself Lshouid say that very much harm had not been done. But ten 1 visited cowon telds in the Pownar and Anjeo roeons ony, where tie rato fds been iyuter viva ta Hlagangiat and Une doree, The Hhingunguat Teliwee dar las this mora. Russian Interests and March Towards Japan, {From the Japan Gazette, Oct. 12.) There are two nulious, ab Wy present ume who seem bent on territorial acguisition, although they Are already in possession of mutlous OM MIilons Of acres thatare dardly peopled ab alt, and in boul & large portion of tie ‘unpopulaied Coutiry 14 ft for occupauion, Lvere are orner countries, no doubé, desirous of extending toeir pouudaries, DUt under touuly Siferent civoumstances, prance and Prussia, foOrPMoUves OF pokey fauiiiar to ai, nave Meu eye On diatiicis as yel Veyoud Laer rule; bub America and Kussia appear ty desire ig increase their | the power exereisea by the Calnese Einpevor of) ing told ive taut in we well grown beds dozens of aiready enormous territories Jor tie mere picasure | deifying generals who are killed tm battle, oiicers | boils are to be seen Lyiug on tic ground, kuocked oft of seving Wem spread. It was of ola quite | massacred by revels and women Who commit suicide | by the rau. At tirst he said Unde hall the crop had common to het Kuogland abused jor lier | at wie taking or cities, There can be httie doubt | gone; but be afterwaras cue down to saylag that Just of dowumion; but any unpreyadived reader | wal the Mikudo’s claims to divine honor and pre- | provably & quariver of ine crop Would be (vst, of history Muse admit thut i Was not a just | tensions to Ule power Of canoniting Are an to leas | myseil GM quike sure Liab We Ball Lol have the bumper crop we expected; bub 1 tink wo shail, if the season continues favuravie, Rave & good or even atull crop. ‘Phe soil is thoroaguly moist and new boils Wil form on the large planta, whije we backward plants will forward weil, { thunk the TANS OPO Guile Over, Jor tne SKY Has cleared slowly and wraduaby during Ure last Cured days To-day it on of tae usages of te Chuuese court. ‘The Mikado decrees a tiie aud orders & Miya to be burit to the memory Of the deceased, and tue Hwang-ti of Ohina orders & Ube, or Chi-Cang, much In the paulo way. aempicr says the Shinto worship is Oflered Hot the Supreme Bowny, who, et etary ese avkDOWledge, dwells in the highest nor charge, the force of circumsiauces comgetod wer to Lake Up arms, and We chances of War Lurnig In Hertayor pitced her in possession of regina he never would have thougut of coveling; and now thas her envpire 8 80 eXtended Ble sels HOL Unwilling wo coniwact it by allowing some of her coiones wo Tako vicir independence whenever they chose ; 1aatmost cloudiess. Ifwe get more rain the cotton Ckop Will Of couse sufer, But sf 1 continues fine we shall have & £00 qui-turn, theuga we stall not have the very abundant dar-turn we expected. Ail the bay hs crops are in excellent case.’? 5. The taut Cotton Commissioner, Wurdah, vai Y, Writes under date of tie 11th inst. as fol OWS — As you will percetve by the annexed register of rain fall a devable quantity of rain fe during the Dust Week, aud what made it more unwelcome was tat rain fell most to heavy showers, accom- panied wi wind, From all quarters one bears complaints Of the damage cansed to the crop, a greet maay Cuilivators saying that “there will only ouly be au elgut auna crop.’’ “There may be, 1 dare Say, SOME CXAKZeration in this svatement, oUt there 18 no doubs tat in some itelds fuly a haif of the ie Bem pave mad besa ‘The last few days ave 2, an! think tt may be safely said that the rains are now over, “ Later accotuts by wire report that the weatiier has been fine since the 7th tust, and that the plant is recovering rapidly, 6. Basi Berar (Oomraotee)--The Assistant Cotton Commussioner reports under dato the 12th inst. :—~ “The damage wat has been done by the rain 1s till trivial, but prospects wil be matenaily ailected if tne rain returns.’’ And im u jater telegram he adda:—'The weather has veen fine and cold dur- tng the week. Cotton planta have greatly recovered, Cultivatora are now sausfled,”” 1. Weat Berar (Khangaon and Sheogan country).— ‘The foliowing are extracts from the report of the Assiatant Cotton Commuisstoner in this division, under date the 16th instant:—“Since writing my last report 1 bave vianea Khangaon and | was greatly. pinnae to dnd that, notwithstanding the unusually eavy ram that had fallen there, the cotton bad ) scarcely suffered, @ fact which proves the hardiness of ouran@igenous plant. The past week of sunshine has bad @ most beneficial effect on the cotton and I tee! comfident that if this weather continues, we shalt still have an abundant and excellent crop,” These cheering prospects are confirmed by @ later telegram 12 Which It is added;—‘The cotton gin has quite recovered iis appearauce. Damage mud Joss tuan at first supposed,” ‘these reports are fully confirmed of the informa- on sappiiled to the district autuorities, %. The above extracis will show that the past month has been an anxious one. 1a the backwarduess Of the piant has been ou fety. Cousequent on the Bcanty ram fall early in the season much of we col ton waa late, and the piant was not as forward ) a9 it generally is acthe beginning of October. fad thie not been the case, the dawage done by the rain during the first week of this month, would undoubt- edly have been greater thau 1 bave now to record. J lear we shail not have the extravrdivary crop In the Hingupgout connury that was at oue time hoped for, DUL as Lie Weaiter ie now fine, and as the area sown wita cotton is larger thaa ever, & good out- turn may bo expected. it nere that Lhe chief damage lias taken place, and the Hingunghat country, it mast be remem- bered, furnishes jess Wan oue sixth of the expors from these provinces, 9. im the Berare there ta, I believe, no cause for alarm, and i ail goes well now the crop wiil be an excellent one, © Doubtiess the rain knocked off many Nowers and young volis, but these loswes will, Kk may be hoped, be repaired by tie brigit sunshine with which the provinces are now favured acting ou the Mist 60, The Gamage was, at iirst, evidently ex. aguerated. Meavy rain at Uns season is aiways alarming, the plaut looks miserable, the weatuer depresses the cuitivators and every one else, and gioomy reports are received from all quariers; but With the return of tue suUusiine the plaat recovers, and with it the baromever vi every one's spirite rises, aud the reporw that follow are (ess alarming, 10, Tae heavy rain ta West Berar diled the quar. ries and foundations of the bridges with water, and necessarily somewhat impeded the pragress that 18 being made wis the brauch line of railway to Kh The works will nevertheless, if 13 hoped, ve finished early in January next, and the new railway will be ready tw carry the large and Cony sip cotton crop that may confidently be ex- pected. 11. Lsnall return to the Berara in the course of a few days, and my next report to your chamber will, 1 hope, coutaia a surther account of tbe crop, after a persoval inspection during @ lour through toe most important districts, together with copies of the re- tarog of the acreage sown this seasou with colton, the statistics of which will soon be received from we district authorities, I have the honor, &e., HARRY RIVETT. CARNAG, Cotton Cominissioner for the Ceutral Provinces aud the Berars. Ocroske 19, 1869. Yachting in China~Tho Shanghae Wacist Clab, (From the Shanghae News Letter, Sept. 18.] The Shanghae Yacnt Club open the season by a race, to come offon ihe 2vth inst. Great prepara- tons have been made vy the owners of the different yacits that have entered lor the cups. Exciting Sport is anticipated should the weatuer pe at all breezy. ‘I. J. Falls, of tue Kiaaguan Arsenal, bas given @ cup valued at Tis. 60, and the followimg Yacits are ty contend for the prize:— Colors. » Ovner. Partridge. Asiiey. janice. Phantom. Jreal, -Mackeuale. all the above yachts are about thirty-tive feet long on the watérie, have houses at least Lweive feet long, and spread about #50 feet canves; China nig. ‘The rales of tie Brookiyn (N. Y.) Yacnt Club are vo be observed as to allowance tor canvas. Japtain Paul is to sat! Mr. Roberts’ yacht and Caytata Lucas Mr. Haskeil’s, ‘The otner yachts are sailed by owners, CENTRAL ASIA. The Khirgie Rebellion—Russian Desivo for Territorial AnnexationThe Situation of England—Danger te Her Empire in Hine dostan. [Berlin correspondence of the London Times.) The Khirgis rebellion and the ease with which the mutinous tribes rewented into the more distant por- tions of the steppe have caused Russian military men to recommend the annexation of fresh territory to the gigantic aud ever growing empire. Their present design 18 on the eastern shore of the Cas- pian, which, south of the peninsula of Mangischiak, hag so long been allowed to retain its primitive inde- pendence, and on the northwestern coast of the Lake Aral, near the Barsukl desert, where Russian sway has been hitherto merely nominal. ‘Thetr purpose in planning this new conquest will be seen irom the following extract from the semi- otiicial Jnvatide, of St. Petersburg:— After the Khirgis rebellion and the events to which it has given rise it 19 manifest taat more is needed to strengthen our position in the steppe than the mere introduction Of administrative reform. Duiy impressed with what the circumstancea demani, government determined to extend the cnain of forts already existing In the eastern portion of the steppe, and as a commencement construct the necessary de fences in the district of Oreuburg. No time being lost in carrying out this resolve, two forts were com pleted last year, the one on the river Uul, the other near Ak-Tiibe, These points, together with the Emoa fort, guarantee the conunuance of oar rule in thoge parts, and will oon become tho seats of local authorities and centres of colonization. The Ak-Tube fort lies on one of the commercial roads between Orenburg and Taschkent, whue the fairs established on the Ull some tiwe ago will now be trausferred to tho new forton thatriver. Asa large portion of We steppe on the rivers Khobda, lek, Or, Tobol, &c., ly, moreover, perfectly ft for agricuitural purposes, the ume seems at length to have arrived when, making up for past mistaxes, we shoud put down the Insurrection and turn this portion of our do- mninions to account. In addition to what has iu hand, it will be indis- pensable co protect our territory trom the pre- davory, Influences that have lately been Taking their way from Khiva and Ust Urt up to our frontiers. At present the country between the Caspian and Arai ts quite open. The Kmba post and the Urai tort are at too great a distance from those southora regions to impose a ro- penetrate peaceful Aul on the Emba, or in the Harsukl desert, Thence turning to the east there 18 nothing to prevent these protessio: D- bers from infesuing the road from Osak to the northern section of the road bewween Oren- urg, and ‘Taschxent) and interrupting our com- munication with ‘Turkistan, The Use Urt, bar ren and waterless as it {a, offers no impedi- ments to the passage of these nomad hordes, accustomed to every sort of deprivavon. Every year the Adayeifi cross and recross that sterile region, with all their herds and Nocks, when betaking themselves trom the eastern shores of the Caapian to the bmba and back again. Considerable caravans have goue straight throug the Ust Urt on thelr way irom Kniva to Orenburg, and even simail detach- ments o! our OWL Woops Lave entered it more than once, In 1717 Prince Bokoviteh Tcherkagski started from Gurieit with an oscort of 3,00 men, and in We Tull heat of the summer—jrom May to Auguat—went direct to Kiva, throngh the Use Urt We will not deay thad the enterprise wag @ most dangerous and dificult Ove, and Liat the exhausted conaivion 1a Winea Our men arcived ab Kinva was the principal cause of twit deatraction. But whatl- ever Kussians may suiver In Venturing Into these dreary Bulitades vie natives, Dorn aud bred on these sandy plains and brackish Water counses, traverse them with smal peri. On the nerthern slopes of the Ust Urt we nave repeatediy built forta, Une on the river Tehegen, near Tchusbkekul, was constructed by Count Peroifski; apother on the Caspian shore, near the Bay of Kat- dak, ia KnOWn tn oor military annals as Fors New Alexandroftsk!. Both posts were eventualy deserted, al. ce which time the frontior remains entirely uaprotecved. the jase reveiom has opened our eyes io Lue necessity of securing our hoid of the country wh alirmer grasp. We lave seen Wie MULINONS Tmbes escape to vue Sohn wnd BOOK pelUge in he Tecosses Of Lhe Ust Ur Webave Witnessed (h@ leaders of the reveiliou making off in Wie Game direction and taking saelter im Kbiva, Uniess we wish them to return on the first favor avie opportuany we musé shut ovr irontiors and station ® suilcrent number of ioops where most required. As the Adayoilvi are habitaaily pomadizing in the western part of the Ust Urt, near the Caspian, and we Kuavimen and Turkomans freqaently penetrate as far north ag the I chogan aud the Barwa), posts must IPLE SHE be established in both these places. ‘The more east- erly wit have to guard the road bebween Orek aud Ki and. Protect the rous tribes annualiy wintering in the Baraukt, je detachinent de. spatched to the Barsuki in August is commissioned to reconnottre the region And look out for a favora- ble site for a fort. Nor wall 1 be very easy to locate the more weasterty of the two new stations pro- posed. The water of tho river Emba is jor tno KCAL pure of 14s COUrse BO Balt aS Wo be perfectly Uudrinkagie, Near its mouth tt goes of into many branches, forming wide swainps, at onnding in | anything cam be grown | rushes, and soarcey slong Ké banks, Tho river Sagis ia not better. Un- Inbabitable in the summer, these region are cagerly soognt out in winter by the Kinrvis, who hasten thither to shelter themecives anong the reeds. 1b 18 in these desolate parus Wuat he 6 lings have acquired additional ferocity and what the Orst resistance waa made to our new administrative lawa, To coerce the savage trlbed In Unis neighbor- hood is imperative if we Want to pacily Lue sleppa, Already, in the summer, a detachinent was ordered to march atong the Einba ana choose an eligible spot for a fort, if one could be found; another party sent Of in September for Gurieif is exploring in boats the shores of the Caspian, near the mouth of Of the river. if their endeavors are crowned with success we shak make & slep in advance, enable ovr adminis trative authorities lo extend thet influence, cut carry our fisheries to the tern shores of the Cas. pian, We must say we are not very sanguine as. to the results to be Obiained by the exploring partes, abd, even in te event of their discovering a spot or spots where a garrison can be safely placed, do not Tegard it as certain that two isolated earth works Will effectively practude th@ Utvasian of the wide lutermediate territory, As long as the haunts whence the robbers issue are beyond our line of posts they will always try to steal over into our poagsessions, and count upon a rapid retreat, hue ey suppose the Ust Urt Imacceasible to our troops, the Khivamen, Turco- mans and Adayeffai wit never be deterred from ad- venturoud expeditions north, and now especialiy when #0 many of our own Kiirgis bave decamped Into those distant highlands the tewptation fo revarn and do mischief is even greater than before. For- Uinately, the places where they congregate are mostly situate ou tue Caspian, near the Bay of Kara- bogas aud the Balkban (i) Mountains, eo that the occupation of auy pom on that coast, easily Teached by ship, Wil give us @ hold on them all. ‘The disorders Which have receatiy prevailed in the pili ad and the consequences they have led to Tender tt necessary to set wo work without delay and avail Ourselven Of our Opportunies to strengthen olr auluority On Lie eastera shores of the Caspian. What has to be done, therefore, mast be done at ones. The Alexandrottse! fort, on the peninewa of Maugisehiak, being on the extreme point of the promos tory Tak hargag, ts too lar from tie nomad encampments to Mifluence their action, a8 was proved im the jast reveilien, The bay, more- over, On whieh ib is elwate freezes im win- ter and has not, therefore, the requisites of ® safe port. Tne’ Kinder Bay, being for other reasons equally unfit, we shall have to go still further south, Where the sea never eeeseH, vo find au eligible locality, From the inquiries on ten years ago tere can be no doubt tat the Bay of Krasnovodsk, as we call che northwestern portion of the Baikian Guil, ollers the greatest faviities lor our purpose, In making this selection we are securing agood and always acceastble hurbor, in the inmme- Mate vicinity of the great bulk of the nomadtaing hordes, Auvther consideration wuich shoa.d decide us in favor of Krasnovodsk 18 the tact of the Amon Darya having in former tunes Mscharged tt4 waters mito that bay. Our central Asiauc commerce, too, Would gala by taking Gils route in preiereace to the long journeys turough the Urenburg aud siberian sleppes now pursued. If this proposal mw carried ont—as ite publication i the /nvatide vetokens—it wit! have ultertor con- sequences beyond coercing the nomads of the Ust Urt, From Kresnovodsk a caravan road leada through the most practicavle portion of the Ust Urt to Khiva, It 18 only 300 miles long, tolerably weil provided with wells, and wit! present no serious lundrance tothe march of a moderate force, Its serviceabieness may be gathered from the above artivie recommending Yt as @ commercial route in preference to the one now followed through the Orenbarg wastes. It ts therefore probable the Khiva will cease to og impregnable after the appearance of the green untiorm on its western Nauk, MARTINIQUE. Disappearanee of Yellow Fever—Arrival of a Large Number of Troops—Drought in the Colony—Speculations on the Causes—The Shesulis, as Shewn ia Agricelturai Opera- dons, We have rece ved Les Antilles and Le Propagateur to the 18th ult, The yellow fever has almost disap- peared. A large number of troops from Tonlon, in the French screw transport Ceres, had reacued Vortde France and been landed, and afterwards marched to the Pitona, it being considered advisable to keep them ciear of the town barracks~which, as our readers are aware, has been deserted for some time—unti! the public heatch w completely restored. The landing of the regiment by tie Ceres was evected by tie French math steatner Sonora, the government sieamer Alecton having lately been sent, WILh several cases Of fever on board, to the Bay of Marin. Of the weather the Antilles writes:—The most re- doubtabile arought that any agricultural country has ever experieuced continues to prevail Ia the An- Ulies and partioularly in this colony, Raton in tor- rent# hag not ceased to Jall In the heights of twe mountains of America, While in these isiaucs of the Caribbean 8ca there eXists, on the contrary, a dis- treasing drynesa, Vesuvius recently answered by strong grumblings to Caiumna and the other voi- canoes of the Andes, Which exhibit just now unac- customed activity. People say tbat the terrestal globe if trouvied with some internal malady which throws disorder into the electrical arrangemenis of its atmosphere, Be this as it may, never in the memory of man, a3 far as we are concerned, has such @ Season as the present been witnessed. Since the month of July we have not had a sensible shower, not even two hours of consecutive drizzies, in thie season of jarge cultivation and of general manuring of the soil, The prevati- ing weather loaves far behind that of the most des- perate or implacable careme Wwe can think of; the Neat ie stifling inevery direc tion, and every where, aiso, under the action of the sun, Which through an atmosphere of great impidity pours forth 1ts rays of fire, the springs dry ap, the stock succumb in the calcined pastures and the canes etiolate or are per- fectly destroyed. We repeat, never before have we experienced such a state of things and we begin to trembie for the next crop, tho counencement of Which from the present may be considered as put off to March, for the cultivation suffers to tuat extent as to render it @ mnatter of impossibility to carry any canes 40 the mill at the normal period of January. There are some days—alas, too often reproduced— where the thermometer in the suade atands at eighty-cight to ulnety degrees. WHISKEY LAWS 4ND TAXES. Elow to Secure Pure Whiskeys—What the Present Laws Will Result In. During the fall of 1868 and early period of 1869 @ large demand sprang up for the article of pure Ken- tucky copper whiskeys. This demand was occasion- ed by the passage of the present [nternal Revenue law of July, 1868, reducing the tax on sptrite from two dollars to fifty cents, or rather sixty cents, Special included. This law naturally led the dealers in liquors to suppose that pure copper Bourbons would fad a very large consumption over that of the commoner grades in view of the reduction of tax, and aiso from the fact that the present law being so completely effectual In collecting ail the tax on dis- filled spirits, that both the common and the fine grades of liquors would share alike in tho effectual execution of the present law, so different to that of the mgnner of coliecting tax under the ola law, Under that old law a large amount of the common or raw whiskey escaped tax, while the Kentucky whiskeys paid all or neariy ali of the tax, leaving tue advantages ip favor of the common grades For lduatration, pure Kentucky whiskeys @ year old, wnder the old law, sold on an average of $8 26 per gallon, while rectifed whiskey under the same law did not much exceed on an average $1 50, Under the present law dealova axe obliged to sell year old whiskeys from bond in Kentucky as cheap as the rectified spirits. This t# because contracts were made during the fall of 1808 with Kentucky distillers for about 160,000 barrels of pure copper Bourpons at prices ranging from $1 10 to $1 25, proof gallon, in cond (short price) new from the still, These contracts were made upon the basis and rea- son before stated, namely, that the present law Would entirely revert the consumption of liquors from the low grates to the pure copper, but it has not so resulted, and the dealers-in pure liquors have auffered and must suffer greatly for the fol- lowing reasons, for which they ask an extension of time to pay taxon the stock in bond:—Tnese con- tracts or sales were made on terms of four to six months from the time they were distilled and bonded, Bourbon and rye distilers, Muding the margin of profit so great, ran their works day and night and Med every dewer in the country With large stocks oh ryes aud Bourbons jn bonded warchouses tres feons the sill, ‘These whiskeys, belore they were or can be ready for consumption, must necessarily have age, not less than two years. Inthe meanume pay day came, Dealers began to find out that im mense stocks of pure whiskeys had accumulated In bond, and the trade genevally 1d not have the Toans Lo carry their pick bo. Qeqaire tie proper age, The money market tigtitened sud continues slrin- gent; many deaiera borvuwed to pay Cor the stock im bond, and now tho tax matures by limitation of law, and these unsalable liquors must be witie ll @rawn from bond or be confiscated. Thug algo the deulers are foreed to ruin, einer in saceriicing their swck abrutnous prices or allowing the goverpment to confiscate their goous, In view, therefore, of the discriminating law iu favor of the importer of foreign liquors, by which the lmporter cau carry his goods in bond three years to await a natural and not @ forced market, We dealers in domestics liquors—tbe mala stay of tlie reveuue—now ask that three years be extended to them to pay tax, charg ing the usual interest for allowimg it to remain in boud, ag in the case of the importer, One thing Seems certain, that should Congress aot Neten to the appeals of the dealers for extension of ume, and conpel them to fad money under its present cy 10 pay tax on over 400,000 barrels of pure ‘a bond now maturng, dealers will be ho one will ever dare again handie as & pure Whiakey, the revenue Will be reduced, and poisonous drugged whiskeys made fresh from the raw high Wines will be the only articie from woich the government may expect to derive any Tevenue tn this direction, On the contrary, Congress May say that merchants bought their stocks in boud, knowing What the law was at the tune, Tats would be very true, had the demand and consumption, the money market and trade continued as begun. Under this law if would have proven all right; but these goods are where they were Orat placed, and simply ruin to the trade will result in forcing them on th@ market; besides, the trade justty asks vo be piaced on @ level with the tuapeorter; Ludeed it ts claimed that whiskeys require greater age Lnan brandies to be prepared for market and consamption, business MILITARY NOTES. It 4s given out on very good authority that certain parties are actively preparing a bill to be presented to the next Legislature providing for the reduction of the term of service in the National Guard from #even to five years. The opponents of the measure contend that anybody who kuows anything about the State militia, the elements of which it is com posed and the diMculty encountered by good officers: in preserving @ wholesome state of discipline and efficiency in thelr commands, knows perfectly well that the proposed change would do most irreparable damage to the National Guard as a well organized body. To a member of the militia who has the wel- fare of the State troops at heart the mere assertion of this fact is all sufficient, they think, without being backed up by proofs; but those who are not in the militia, and who have, therefore, not the same opportunities for judging of the question as members have, may cesire a little light on the subject, Mm tue Urst pluce the length of the term of service is seldom or never mentioned as an objection by @ recruit, As @ Competent authority on the sub- ject puts it, & short term of service would necessiiate @ much larger number of enlistments, while on the other hand, evenif the term was Mixed istments would not . The second rate regi- ments, that is, those which y litte milttary servi ‘rom thelr mem b a do not aspire to any particular efficioncy in drui or diseiptine, might temporarily increase their numbers by the reduction of the present term; but snould the wel- fare of the hard working regtments be endangered for the sake of those who suirk ali the duty they can? The same authority above referred to moreover Jastly aays:—"A shorter term of service directly and positively encourages frequent changes. Good oMicers are the result of long and falthfal service, and within the short period of five yeara 1% is hardly possible for any one to pass through the school of the soldier and vhe various grades of ofice aad secure the necessary experience for a commanding position in a company. The time devoted to drill in the National Guard is necessarily lumited, and tt ts af least two or three years before any one can become an accompushed private soldier, Members of the National Guard, with a very few exceptions, ure at the expiration of thelr term of service, | if they continue their connection beyond that peri they ca ot be relied upon for the monotonous t absolutely necessary duties of the driil room. Su will naturally and inevitably be the fact, whether ¢ term of service be three, tive, m or ten year, But, Whatever the term of service, members of any character or value will generally’ remain m the ranks until the end of that term, if, durmg the first two years, it is not clearly demonstrated that they are unfitted physically to perform thew duties’? The officers of tye hard workiug regiments of tae First division are Unaulmously opposed to the a on the groauds agove staved, aud they should kaow what is Woat in Une matter, ‘Yhe odicers of the One atten yeura, the number of en be materially diminis Huadred and Twenty. oth New York yoiunieers 4 their second, union dinner on Wednosday, tne iota inetant? Woodford tm the clair, After the justice to ine good things laid were made add tue iolowmg toasts were honored your lace comrades Wio neviy fell wh 6; LL One Hun dred and Tweu' y aud, whieh contributed so largely to the ranks of tue com mand.”? Aosent odicers were ordered 10 hold theul- selves in readiness jor the muster of 1870. The commusvioned omcers of tue Seventh regi- ment will assembie at the regimental armory, fatigue diess, with side aruis, on Wednesdey, the 29U inst., at eight o'clock im the evening, for thee- retical and practical insuraction. Colonel vlark has ordered batialion dilili, by division, as follows:— Friday, Jauuary 7, 1870, Companies A aud U, Thurs. day, January 18, Companies Band 1; Wednesday, January 19, Companies C and K; Tues duy, January 26, Companies E gud F; Monday, dapuary 31, Companies D and G. Koll call of com- panies at eight o'clock P.M. The following nawed Aon-compussioned officers have passed the Kourd of Examination of tia regument and have received Warrants as Non-commissioned ollicers:—k ist Ser- eant J. W. Clark; Sergeants J. H. Alien, J. K. Van Rensselaer and W. C. Waters; Corporals A. D, Bald- win, F. G, Brown, F, N. Howland aad J. H, Livings- tol ne ‘The officers of the Thirty-seve: meet at the armory on Monday, + inst., at eighp o'clock P. M., for Uieoretcal instruction (in fatigua. Every officer of the regiment is ordered to be pre- gent. Druls, by division, of the same regiment will ve held atthe armory as follows:—Companies A, EB aud H, December 20, 1869; January 6 aud 19, 1570, Companies B and K, Decemver 17, 1369; January ° and v2, 1870. Companies D and G, December 2 1860; January Gand 20, isid. Commandants are alternauvely assume command of their respect divisions, ‘ihe non-commissioned oficers Wik me for theoretical instruction ol Tuesday, 2ist 1st. eight o'clock P. M. Captain William Li. Cox will a as instructor, Hiow about the proposed change in the tuske of the Kirst division? Is i¢ not avout Ume tir those breech-loaders were coming forta? Who pulling the wrong way in the matter? And that feld in the suburbs tor rifle practice, Ia it never to be purchased or douated until the Yarious regiments jom hands and make common cause togetier? Street parades are all very well in thelr way, buta fine field day lke the volunteers have in Hogland would be far more preferavie, as as-uselul. The annual reunton of the 120th regiment, New York Volunteers, took piace at Kingstoa on the itn inst. Speeches were made by Generals Joseph Hooker, fremain, Gralaw, Sluarp, Coioucl Buras and otiers. The several hundred aspirants for the brigadier generalship of the Fourth brigade have ali gone into mourning over tne disbandment of the brigade, 16 48 said Unt several of them contemplated suicide When they jearned of tle Adjutant Generai’s order, and woud have carried out thelr plans for seli-de- atruction had they not been afraid of qeiliug no miuiliary funeral. “We know not what a duy may bring’'—evon in the militia. Just to think of the battalion Wastington Grey cavairy being consoitiated into one trovp! ‘THis int regiment will magnificent Organizauon turned out ma spleadia elrength at the late inspection—tweuly-tice rank and dicana now to Unk of it being telescoped uito # Almple slugie troop! If twenty-tiree men make @ baltalion how many Wii Dake & Loup, pray F But, sertoudly, what will become of Major Kent? Tue Adjutant Generai’s orcer places Che troop wader we command of Lieutenant Etingham M. Van Bu ren, OM eXceilent oilicer, virsually overlouking the Major's right to better treatment, Would it not be weil for the Albany authorities to authorize tne organization of thr riour bavteries alter the fashion of that splendid howitzer battery m Brookiya’ They would do more to “clear he way” in @ clot than ten infancy regiments, A correspondent wants o KioW aud Says that tae First divizion would !ine to Know Whence comes the authority for the appountment of Colonel Teller ae “Chief of Artery” by General Shaler, He says:— “The military code designates just wht die division stad sill consist of, aud General shaier tas ne power to appoint any ollers. Not @ Word 18 sald of any ‘chief vi aruiery’ or chief of anything else, ex- cepting ‘chief of stat,’ and we believe Colonel Teller ig still In omMee, “Paragraph 634, General Regulations, is in these Wotds:—'NO person shai be apposnted or elected te ¥ ollice not created by iaw Lp the military force of State.’ Has the Major General been guilty of @ breach of diseipune or is the amendiment pube lished in @ city newspaper without authority ‘There 14 no such stat officer in the National Guard as “clef of artillery.” Section three of subdivision one of the addenda to the Military Code prescribes: the rank and number of the stuf of divisions. It provides for an “ordnanee officer with the rank of Heutenant colonel,” If that position 1%, already filled i the irst division staf i stunds t0 reason wat & “chief of artillery,” ta the language of Sambo, “powha: Major Madden, of the First cavalry, who ran against Captain Henry Fischer for we positiom of heacenant cotouef lage November, he ge.tug four een ugainst seventeen Votes, took exception to the Vitlidity of the election, om tecanical grownds. The appcal Was Susiained by General Postiey, and & Dew election Wii be held op the 2irh inst, a6 tae regimens tal arwery, Tuero 1% @ rumor that the Forty-seventh and Twenty third regiments are to be Consolidated We gether, and that aa order of the Adjutant Goneral aunoaneng (im, awone obuer chabyes, Will soon bE desued.