The New York Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1870, Page 5

UROPE. The American Prelates in the Eoumeni- eal Council and Their Attitude ‘ Towards the Papacy. The Archbishop of St. Lonis on the Infallibility Dogma. English Opinion of Premier Ollivier ang the “Cesarism” of Bonaparte. ‘Tbe Cunard mail steamship Scotia, Captain Jud. Kins, from Liverpool the 30th of April and Queens town the Ist‘of May, arrived at this port yesterday morning. The Scotia landed our special European correspondence and a newspaper mail report, in de- talbof our cabie news telegrams, dated to her day of salling from England. Pall Mali Gazette makes a severe attack upon the Prime Minister of France thus :— What sort of moral constitution can be looked for ma ba reg which takes @ rhetorician and @ centimentaiist of the Qluvier pattern ory its prophet?’ His ‘public career, since he rose to power, Is tho negation-of all political moraitty, since the best that can.be said. of It is that bis “eud’? 4s Mberty, and that the end justifies the means he 1a, uw Ing to attain it, What, wen, will be the result of this enormous myatifieation of the sth May’ Whom wu the mine, en rn iceneine t Flap ihe peor supers eraries who form the procession to A the Bumperor i his Ministers who are behind the Acenes; not the- pudlic opinion of Europe, or the crities in the, pit and Gallery. ‘This vast conspiracy of setf.decep'ion whl give neitner safety nor prestige to the second empire, The pleriscite will do tor ic Casarism what the Eoumenteal Council is doing for the Papal supremacy—sitt its pretensions reduce tw tnfail buity aa absurdum, Tn London, at a meeting of the Metropolitan Boara of Works, it Was decided to petition the House of Lordsagainst the Metropolitan District Railway bill, An amendment by Mr. Roche to petition only against the proposed unsightly station in the middle of the strect Was negatived. The following resolution was adopted by twenty-three votes to six:— ‘That m the opinion of the board it is desirable that there should be one central municipal government, WHh Jurisdiction over the whole metropolis, and that there should pe a readjustment of the districts into which the metrapolis is at preseak divided for the purposes of local government. A great deal of religions, or rather ecclesiastical, bitvernéss had been imported into the outdoor dis- cussion of the English Education bilt. Prinee Arthur, of England, has attained his twen- tieth year. He was born on the let of May, 1850, and entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1867, IMPORTANT FROM ROME. of St. Louis to the Arche p of Baltimore—The War of Infal- ibility Transferred from Frauce to Americn—A Contest of Words—Action of the Prote:tor—Won’t Vote Infallipilit “Under Any Pretence.»—Religions Part! sanship~The Papacy Rebuked by a Free Domocracy. e Rome, April 28, 1870, By degrees the war of words, pro and con, on the dogma of infailibility has been ‘transferred from the camps of Fellx of Orleans and the Primate of Matines. There all men have shown learning of a high order and exhibited wonderfal industry, but the laurel for sefolarship has ‘been awarded, by geueral consent, to the great Bisnop of Oricans, They @re resiing upon their oars during the Easter season. We don’t know when or owhére another battle wilt commence, but the long heads are of the opinion that Archbishop Dechamps has ‘a hard road to travel’? when an- Swermg the unanswerable arguinents.of the Bishop of Orleans, I wrote you some time ago about the letter of the Archbishop of Baltimore aud the great displeasure that was [elt vy a number of bishops when they saw the fame. No one was more displeased than the Archbishop of St. Lou's, whose brother, the prede- ces-or of the Archbishop of Bal(imore, wes quoted as endor-ing Papal infallibility. He was displeased also at the leiter because Bishop Dupanloup stated nothing Mat any memver of the Ainerican Eptsco- Pacy could, by hook or crook, take offence at, but the desire for writing (cacoethes scribendid avtacked the Baltimore Monseigneur and he was determined to nave a hand in the wordy war and see his name in- print. *Tis pleas: Boat n The letter was read and 80 much on account of its ancé and mn aspect of-hard times.’ The lead. ing point in the mater was ihe press translation ot the Word debveret in Latin, wiich Bishop Dupentoup. stated to he i fut in French, and so the argument of the archbishop of Baltimore hinged and pirou- etied, hopped and rotated around the vast saloir, and there was surprise that he would lose his time on such a frivolity, supposing Bishop Dupanioup to be wrong, Which he was not. But the most reve- rend geutieman from Balumore incidentally referred to the late Archbishop of Baltimore as a teacher the dogmia of the personal infallibility of the Pape, and quoted from one of his works in support of nis statement. The Archbishop of St. Louis, who, like his late brother, is one-of the best of scholars, has answered the letter of the Archbishop of Baltimore in Latin. The American bishops who remain in Rome‘and enerally laughed at, not revity as its Poor appe who have signed tne protest against the d a of infalithili we felt called w to assure Bishop Dw of their earnest and sincere co-operation, and they have authorized Archbishops Purcell and Kenrick to write him @ letter se'ting forth the same, and — a letter has been wriiten and will shortly be published, ere are not words complimentary enough in our tongue to praise the nobie and unselfish position of these two eininent prelates. Both natives of that unfortunate island that has stood by Rome when she ouzht to have stood by herself, but over half a cen- turyin the United States, and almost that time mem- bers of the priesthood and hierarchy of the Catholic Chureh, they are earnestly and cea, oppveed to te new dogma,and will not vote for it under any pretence nor: any Account, and all stat-ments you See to the contrary should be treated as falseloods, ‘This question of Mfallibility has assumed a shape of intense partlsi the mort abject of the Dishops admire the ‘who, trite to the solemn dictates of conscience, and who -have labored as long a8 any living pishope for the gvod of the Chureh, stand determined to discharge tier duiy and’ laugh at all the eajolery and ihunder of te Vatican. Rome has never felt sich a rebuke as the Ameri. can bishops have administered, nor have the ears of the preiates heard such language as feli from the lips cf Bishop Vevot, of Savannah, Kenrick aud Connoliy. They uttered sentences that ‘were new to the region of Rome; it wil! be wisdom if they are profited by. ‘These Americans do not care much about our pomp and splendor,” grimy remarked “a ming bishop” (one without a diocese) the otherday, “Faith, they do not, nor for your climate and no!some ‘smel's either,” responded a bishop in paritbus, It is thus that the Americans have made tneir Mark at Rome. If Archbishop Spaiding had co- perated with the Archbishops of Cinetnnatt, St. uis and New York there would have been a spien- did and sublime phalanx from the New World ainst the cape em of the dogma of the fest but the Archbishop of Baltimore has chosen heret vo sit straddled across the theological fence, and, like the master of an oysier boat wait- at anchor in the Potomac for @ fair wind to bini.to the nest of the bivalves, look over the Roman side and see if the chances were eine to be “the first American Cardinal,” and over the other side if the opposition were strong and liavie tO carry the day. ‘The public session oh Sunday next, however, Is the great Fople in all circles; many suppose infatlibiliry ‘will come up soon after; no one really knows whelt it willcome up. It will meet foes, however, when it does snow ita neads, as earnest as they will be sincere, Letter of Peter Richard Kenrick, Archbishop of St. Louis, to the Archbishop of Balti- more. Mos? ILLUSTRIOUS AND REVEREND LORD: = Letters from your Lordship lately transmitted to the <Aureélian Bishop impose upon me the ne- ccesity of making the sudjomed examination of some things therein contained which relate to the opinion of my deceased brosher in reference to Pontifical infaliibility, Jest the error that may be discovered in them should Invade the minds of others In the Zneologia Dogmatica written by him, to which you refer the reader, there ts em- bodied his view of the Pontifical limitations, to which he has devoted bis whole strength, and has done away with all those things ¢hat may be set wo nthe other side - he was most deeply atiad ed to the Roman Beet whose ur ssi be Went through the course Of theological at 0, and Whose vights and priv As his delight to extol and defend, Bat eld or taughi Pyniiioal infaliviley, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY ll, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. fn the sense of the canon pro) which have: taken ie Saas Scag eweicehae tae ra tae to which you pe meee ey rt Thus, he wrote after he had aay thos things to whic! joa paregindeds on ‘the Pontiff is commended as De 4 wait alone. 1s not acceptable; for hat Brivioge of recdown nor cree vo him as om. Ete saan om fen a aerate @been the ease Bishops fully adhe: ne of orthodox, falth hes dented tine the mpoatidest sotnitions ace cepted by the College of assembled or in thelr ¢ eos, OF In sub- scribing decrees or ‘not. op) them have infalli- ble force and jority.’? Opinion of the wi at fat no assont of the bishops acoruing, and 4 im the was no inherent right in the Pontifical fear ig ‘ashopse as he clearly ex- reases in the w “not opposing.”” For were he Pontifical and in itsert degree irrevocable by there wonld be no need of the assent of the bishops tor of thetr votes ome enceres in council, or of bew apzipa spel, sige ‘e# in their own episcopal sees, much | ‘wonld it be allowable for any bishop to oppose ip As I lesa desirous of weighing the of this opinion than of making evident the error of fact into whieh you have tallen, I trust that you and others moved by the authority of these letiers array es iy ral lege the Sptaton of your Prageoqsaor 0 BUP] @ proposed definition. am the the most humble servant of Your Gran- deur in the. Lord, & PETER RICHARD KENRICK, ‘Archbishop of St. Louis. Rome, Third Holyday of the Passover, A. D. 1870. The Church Militant—Eastern Mitres. A letter from Rome, dated in the Holy City on the Mth of April, Yeports the following incidents of life outside of and in the Vatican:— ‘There has also been a disagreeanle incident with a member of the Sa Collere, On floly Thursday Cardinal Coreg Spay ety tet Fore from the balcony of St. Peter's to the Paulint chapel, where he was to assist in serving the supper, when he saw among the crowd, behind the files of the Swiss ard, bis valet with his vestments, and he asked e Commandant Sonnenverg to let him pass. That officer answered Fadel. “T have received orders from your superiors to let no one pass, and I shall take no orders from you.” The Cardinal made no reply, but went himself to the valet and changed his vestments tn the middie of the crowd. On return- ing home, however, he wrote an angry letter to Car- dinal Antonelli, who is prefect of the ‘apostolic pal- ace, and demanded an apology. Cardinal Antonelit endeavored to get off with an evasion, but hig offended brother wrote again to say that he would Hover appest at the Vatican tll be could go there without bemg insutted, ‘This threat brought to his apartments next morn- ing the Commandant Sonnenberg, who was begin- ning @ rambling speech, when Cardinal Saccont ex- gained, “You insulted a cardinal of the Holy Roman hufen. If you have come here to ask pardon, do it at once; if not, go away!” The Commandant found the leek must Pe gihen, and, without further shut Ming,ghe swalio wn, The Holy Father .1s not go satisfied with the Oriental'bishops, He threatened Monsignor Kasan- gan res of Antioch and Abbot General of e Armenian Monks of St. Anthony, with imprison- ment in Fort St. Angelo unleas he complied with the decrees of the Propaganda. The Archie! has shut himself up for tree weeks in the Antonian convent from fear of being seized by the sbiritof the Holy Office, ani he Sopeued for protection first to the Porte and then to France, The affair is sald to have been arranged yesterday by bis submission. FRANCE. Fine Weather, New Life aud Paris and Sub- urban Enjoyments—Public Calm Before a Political Crisis—Party and the Plebiscite= Napoleon the Third, and After Him—{econ- struction and the Dyuasty—Financial Spee ulatious and Israclite Interests. Pasig, April 27, 1870, For the last three weeks we have had such magni- ficent Weather that all classes in the gay, pleasure- seeking capital have given themselves up to the en- joyment inspired by the premature advent of sum- mer. From the biting blasts that came sweeping over the snowy plains of Russia, and which ren- dered the weather toward the close of March tutole- rable, we found ourselves all of a sudden basking in the soft, genial sunshine of early June. The transformation in the vcefmpera ture is a8 sudden as @ descent from the top of the Alps into the balmy plains below, which nowadays is an affair of a few hours, and the stirring effect of this delicious sunshine on the Parisians and their lovely gardens and umbrageous proma- nades could only be appreciated: by an eye witness, Alreauy the multitudinous cayés of the capital are turned inskie out, #0 to speak; for thelr endicss guests are now seated at rows of tables two or three deep out of doors and under awnings, eating and drinking and staring at the passers by. Nothing delights your true Parisian more than to find him- seli under the full blaze of public observation. The beautiful trees, too, which abound in Paris, both in the numerous gardens aud in the streets, were sud- denly awoke from their winter torpor, and under the fiery embrace of the glaring sunbeams they vurst almost without stopping to bud into the full luxuri- ance of their summer toilet. We have been preci- Ppitated in this unexpected way from the cold lap of winter into the genial arms of summer, aud so intoxicating has been this magieal change that everything else seems for the moment forgotten. The new constitution has been drawn up and promulgated. The nation en masce has been formally called to vote on it the 8th of May ensuing. The Emperor has sent forth his proclama- tion. The ministers have made their manifesto. The opposition of all shades, from the Legitimists to the “Mrreconcilables,” have had their fling, Public meetings to the number of a baker's dozen are held nightly all over Paris. Subscriptions for the expenses of the coming plebiscttes are pouring in tor and against the government, Besides all this political fermentation there aro ugly reports of numerous “strikes” In Paris and over France, and, worse than all, owing to the long drought, the price of bread is going up, and the clergy are beginning to pray for taln. , Yet, would you believe it, so enchanting is this daily sunshine with the soft temperature and its gentle breeze that all Paris snaps its fingers at the events of the day, and jumps into an open carriage for a drive in the Bois, or sits at a little round table tn front of a café sipping and smoking, whoily absorbed in the delights of the hour, regardless of the pastand tmsouciant ot the future. This is the exact tableau of the state of Paris at the present moment, and I can't blame these practical Parisians for making the most of it, since itis necessarily short-lived and preca- rious, It is only April, after ail, and before we settle down into flue weather wo must put on our over- coats again, holst umbrellas, and perhaps, even, light our‘ires, Ihave heard of frosts as late as the end of May, but should we have one now tle ruin to fruits and flowers would be incalculabie. Iam speaking soberly when I say that the public calm is something indescribable, considering the great political ordeal the country ls now passin; through. The Emperor, all confident in univers: suffrage, has decided on another appeal to its be- hests. Upon the result depends the future, not only of France, but of his family. His las: appeal, in 1852, was answered by brid eight millions of affir- mnative voters, 11 is not at all likely that the present One will reach that number; for then the country ‘was greatly excitzd and alarmed, and now they are just the opposite. Still if tha vote ts a couple of millions less the revolutionary party will take ade vantage of it and cry the empire is going down. They may ory as nruch as Rey please, however, as it will never go down while Napoleon III. lives to carry iton, After him, Quien save? I send you, ag apropos of the present situation, @ history of all the piediscttes that havetaken place in France since the first revolution inaugurated the old Roman motto of “Vox popult, vox Dei: — For. against, Constitution of 1793 (republic)..... 1,801,918 — 11,610 Constitntion of 1799 (conswlaie).... 8,911,000 1,569 Constitution of 1801 (consulate for | Ile) .,+00eserestnccsreres 8,508,185 9,079 Constitution of 1804 (empire 3,321,675 2,579 Piebiscite of 1851 (coup a'état) 647,292 eastitution of 1852 (empire). 258,145 You see fron the last national vote that nearly all electoral Frarice turned out to reconswuct the Napoleonic dynasty, alias the empire. I deem it i. muprobabie that anything like the same vote wiilbo cast now; for circumstances don’t. demand it. If there was any danger of the revolutional party» getting the Up nd, then you woul seo another Sor Malllion vote, but as the masses of France have entire confidence in the strength of the government they will make great exertion, ee. I infer the poll will be smaller, perh: considerably 80. Still it will not do to, positively, for we are ten days of the event, ‘and many things mby happen to atir up the people before then. ‘ne Emperor’s proclamation is considered a very hones] le, straightforward document, but the remark is general that it 18 not as energetic and obey | a8 most of his writings and speeches, Some Peopic think he is, pernaps, Losing his pluck and vigor, and some don’t think so, but the impression Prevails that 1t is leas animated than was expected. The manifestos of the “Left” and of the mM tame and weak, and, ivided and contentious, party” are all pronoun Some propose to vote against the copeiitution, op ‘98 usnal, the opposition Relea ty Bieta Sea at Igy ibedon gaia "woud crams i they iGoosials oe aos vot lt Tau aware the preney moment of action no sooner comes than A hia nd quarrel among themselves, apd down @0 in consequence. Ali past history Proves this, , may be said of politics in France 18 1s certain that justice mly and hones! is. We have had Pee ‘ing proof of {ft 1e Pepren itty neo & company of rich Israelites ex: the Lo Serene”, well known here, I pane brown Simon. and it Ue a atee aia RURRED Sah , ny here tho. Grédit Mobili, ‘and. afer ra the shares toan extraordinary height Uney step from under with some tweive millions of dollars in thelr pockets and left the company.to take care of 11 The, ‘set to work building a palace for their own quiet rf Joymentand put up ascandidates for bes og mean for the Chamber of Deputies. No doubt they toting how welt they had auannged to} wer oni mani eir own ockets. But in France, whatever may be the case in New York, or London even, you are uot allowed to swindle people out of their money with impunity, a lal others and not nvithstanding- uy had ae, to pay back or compromise on giving up $7,000,008, they have Just been condemned by the couris to reimburse the defrauded shareholders not only of the whole eum due, but the Interest that hag accrued. 1 dare. say they will fail to cursing like old Shylock and de oy this Seer ‘ of lar” oe piel unwor this lal @nd practice. It'ia a timely essen, newever; 10" Such ts tne rage for companies and schemes and enterprises of «Il gorts that Paris that nothing could be more fortunate for the Public than this righteous verdict that has fallen on the rich and powerful , who considered themselves beyond the reach of judges or juries, Beware, * bold and be tip specula'ors of judy ere are of the Ri laken possession of Paris! hadamanthus pattern, and you had betier come into court with clean hands woen you are obliged to face them, OPERA. I meant to tell youa great deal about Christine Nilsson, the famous soprano of the Grand Opera here, who 1s really coming to the United States tus autumn, but I have not space enough for this Piquant topic at the tail end of my letter. I say she is coming, for she 1s engaged by that very enter- prising and successful person, Maurice Strakosch, the same Who discovered some ten years ago that little Adeiina Patti had a wonderful voice, and who by effort got the idle, piayiul girl to learn to sing. pon this day Maurice Strakosch has boldiy en- ged the iNustrious but expensive Nilsson, and to iew York she will go the coming September, unless vhe Grand Opera manages to make her change her mind, Already they hav® set all their sotence to work, for she will be a fearful loss to them. Who will sing Ophelia when she goes? Who will venture to take her rdle_ in “Robert le Diablet” Talking of the opposition that will be made, I may mention that on Saturday last, when she sang at the Tulieries, the Empress asked her if it were true that she was the United States, and on replying in the aMrmative his Majesty set to work the most gpilane but earnest manner to oppose it. The fact ‘said Christine next day, if I knew how I could get away from my signature 1 should propose to cancel my engagement to New York, for his Ma- oe threw out such inducements for me to remain at the Opera that I promod, to stay af possible. THE SCHOOL TRUSTEE BRIBERY CASE. Continuation of the Examination by a Spe- cial Committee of the Board of Education Evidence of the Witnesses for the Prosecue tion. Pursuant to adjournment the examination in the case of John R. Hennessy, School Trusteo of the Seventeenth ward, accused of accepting $100 from Miss Mary E. Cannon for her appointment as teacher 1m evening school No, 9, was resumed at four P. M,, in the chamber of the Board of Education, by the special committee, consisting of Commissioners Sands, Gross and Lewis, appointed for the purpose. ‘There was quite a large outside attendance. ‘Miss Cannon was recalled and her cross-examina- tion resumed:—Sho had talked with some of her friends about the trial since the last adjournment; she had told her aunt that she must come here and testify; her aunt was a laundry woman, or washer- woman, if the counsel chose, 80 to designate her; she washed for City Judge Bedford and family and no one else; how much her aunt received for wash- ing she could not tell; ber aunt let out a furnished room; she paid sixteen dollarg a month for her rooms; she did not make any false statements to Mr. Henneaay to induco him to give. her Qn appointment, except, perhaps, stating that she was an orphan; her father is alive, but has never done anything for her support; she put the $100 inan envelope, in pre- sence of her aunt, aud gave the eanaape to Mr. Hennessy; Mr. Rochell said if she would give $150 to any school trusice she could get a position as teacher In any school; her aunt got the $100 out of the Bowery Savings Bank; sne did not spend the money for dresses; she received two dollars a nizht for teaching, and, deducting what she paid to Mr, Hennessy, lett her sixty cents a night for her services; r. Spiker, a friend of hers, a butcher, made the calculation for her; she told Mx. Hennessy that the money was a resent from her aunt to his children; Mr. Miils told her he had frequenily heard of teachers paying for their positions, The witness was cross-exainined at great = ieip but no material additional facts were elicited. . Mrs. Bridget Nugent, the annt of the Preceding witness, Was next examimed:—She gave Miss Can- non $100 to give to Mr, Hennessy, and tell him it was ® present to Is ehfidren for his kindness to her niece. her cross-examination she said she did noi know of her own kuowledye that her niece gave Mr. Hennessy the money; ail she knew was what her ilece said. Henry L. Sloate, the succeeding witness, knew Miss Cannon as having been appointed teacher in an evening school on recominendation of Mr, Hen- Bessy; the appointinentments were made in July 1869, in the Seventeenth ward; he was | pep honts by, invitation at a meeting last Friday of the trustees, at which Mr. Hennessy was present. Witness was asked if Mr, Hennessy did not then con‘ess taking the money in question. This elicited a lengthy dis- cussion between opposing counsel a3 to the pro- riety of the Interrogatory. The question was at length allowed, and witness stated that Mr. Hennes- By said the accusation was false, and got up by Mr. ‘Mills, one of the trustees, becatse he (Mr. Hennessy) had introduced a bill in the Legisiature to abolish school inspectors, Mr. Hennessy got very much excited and called Mr. Mills a scounarel and a coward, Mr. George P. Stulzmann, a trustee of the Seven- teenth school, testified that he was present at the meeting of the trustees referred to by the preced- ing witness ; Mr. Hennessey said that he received nO money, but that he was not responsible for any presents to his wife and children, The case was here adjourned to three o'clock in the afternoon on Friday, A PRISON PANDEMONIUM. An Incipient Revol¢ at Sing Siug Prison— Stabbing Affray Between ConvictaAte tempted Escape by a Desperado. Two convicts, named respectively James Wilson and Joseph Rawle, employed in the shoe department at Sing Sing Prison, got into an altercation a day or two ago, during which the latter had a shoeknife plunged into his thigh, During the struggle a third convict, named James McGuire, a man of great muscular ability, joined inthe fight, unttl the three were separated by their keeper, who at once ordered them to follow him for punishment, The two first named obeyed, but McGuire defiantly refused to 0, and when theyard keepers subsequently entered the shop to take him out the desperado resisted him vio- ey while shoes, lasts and other missiles hurled at ig head by several convicts compelled him, to seek safety outside of the shop. At this critical juncture the assanited oficial sought counsel of the principal keeper, who rompuy directed him to call assistance and take cGuire out of the shop, “dead or alive.” Havin summoned the aid of five or six keepers, who went in with drawn revolvers, McGuire surrendered, and his fellow convicts throughout the shop quickly resumed Work. Inspector Scheu, who at present in charge, happened to be at the prison when the ¢meute occurred, and his immediate appearance on tho scene of ine ciplent revolt 1s believed to have exercised a whole- some influence over the rebeillous convicts, The principal offenders have been inwnured in dark celis, where they will be allowed ample time for re- troapection. An adroit attempt to escape from the prison was made by a convict named Bernard Rielly, on Mor- day afternoon, which, happily for the welfare of the community, was frustrated. ‘Rielly, with three others, had been unioading wood from 4 vessel lying at the prison dock. When the work was finishe Rielly conceaied himself, and was not missed until half an hour after the schooner had left her moor- ings.- Meantime, as is the custom, the vessel had been thorou; searched for ‘‘stowaways” and reported “all right’? before leaving. Fortunately, however, after she had been hauled out into the iver there was no wind, and the vessel Was compelled toanchor. While there the man was mn! and @ boat mauned by guards pro- eee Beli SC) ree when tot r search 034 al snugly stewed away under some wi in the hold. He stated that it was his intention to have jum) and swan ashore as soon a8 the vi got under way. an in ounty en- dorsed a ae or meroantile firm or ‘ 000.2 Dis- aster came frm; and the first endorser being the clergyman, tho obligation to rested ‘upon him, He said "al yme and I wilt do it About two weeks ago venerable man made hig last teh and cancelled the obligation, the principal aa Hntercet amounting to someting over 4 DARIEN SHIP CANAL. Later from the Exploring Expedi- tion on the Isthmus. Se The Fleet and Party in the Harbor of San Blas— Prospects for a Practicable Route at This Poin: Mere Favorable — The Caledonia Bay and Lasardi Routes Impracticable— Amount of Work Performed by the Expedition—The Canal Treaty Be- fore the Colombian Congress. UNITED States STORESHIP stra San Bias, Aprii 28, 18) A schooner returning to Aspinwall gives an oppor- tunity, to send more news of the Darien expedition. On the evening of April 13 Major Houston and his marines (excepting four or five foot-worn atraggiers, one of whom had been accidentally shot in the arm by 8 eallor) reached the Guard, together with nearly all the members of surveying party No. 1, after hay- ing made a military reconnoissance of the Suoubt! and of the Chugnanagna along the yery tortuous Courses of those rivers towards the Pacific. Messrs. Schulze, Collins, Sullivan and Carson, of the surveying party, accompanied Major Houston, whose command left the ship on the 4th inst, and marched forty-five miles beyond:Camp No.9 But for the accidental breaking of the barometer they might have been tempted to makethe provisions to hold out even Jonger than they did in thetr eagerness “cross the Isthmus.”? Crossing the Isthmus, how- ever, Was not the object of their reconnolssance, which confirmed the results already obtained by the surveying party and satisfled Commander Selfridge as to the utter impracticability of au interoceante. canal by that route, But their expertence, rough as it was, tends to show that Sfeutenant Strain was not, after all, so Imprucent as lias been supposed, in starting on his ill-fated expedition with only ten days’ provisions, which would, probably, have sumMced had he algo been supplied with an adequate military escort, ‘ Camp No, 9 was near the end of the Transit and Compass line, which was surveyed In the careful manner ordinarily pursued by civil engineers in lo- cating ratironds and canals. In order to insure as much accuracy as 1s practicable in such surveys an officer was always sent with the chatnmen to super- intend thelr work and get as nearly horizontal dis- tances on slopes as can be obtained with the lightest style of steel chain now used by surveyors. The levelling was executed by an experienced leveller. ‘The instrument used was a heavy Biunt’s level, two rodmen being employed and the foresigtit de- termined before intermediates were taken. The rods in all cases were read by the lev- eller. Those used were the Boston sta- tionary target rods, Barometrical observatiohs were taken at almost if not at all the bench marks. The coincidence between the elevations, determined by the most careful levelling, with an instrument which had been proved the previous summer capa- ble of domg work as nearly perfect asis possible with a Yievel, was excclient. The barometers used Were the Green cistern mountain barometers, one of large size teing carefully recorded at short intervals between daylight and dark, at the Observatory on Cocoanut Island, while the one carried was exposed Qt least Naif an hour, on an average, before. read- ings were taken, , ‘the attached thermometers and detached dry an‘ wet bulb thermometers wore read teach observation. ‘These had been carefully com- pared with ae Daa, er a Coast Foal Onice fore being brought to the Isthnins, ell ason the route here and after the arrival of the expedi- ‘Their value had thus been carefully ascer- tained. The comparison of the barometers used in observation with the standard gave data for accu- rate reductions, and to this fact must be attributed the colucidence of the results with those of the un- erring level when used by skilled hands. The dis- cussion of the results, to be he Core eer J pub- lished, will, doubtless, deeply interest scientiiic pes sons, As you have already been informed, the elevation which had been found by level at the Sucubtl was feet above the Kea, This pot was near the oni. pression which existsin the Cordilieras on this river, and an elevation of from 553 to 573 feet on the Sucubtt can probably be reached by passing over an elevation of about 700 feet, If this route were se- lected for @ canal a tunnel would have to commence three miles from this polnt nearer Caledonia bay, ora succession of locks, very expensive and with in- sufficient water to make tiem avaliable, this point being quite near the source of the Sucubt, the ony river which could be used for a@ supply. But if shts pomt were under- mined by @ tunnel or reached by & succession of locks, the question arises, where would the tunnel or the system of locks towards the Paciicend? The answer 18 ‘at the last slope, some two or three miles from the Galfot Son Miguel, The principal object of the military recopnolssance were to determine th 3 fact, to reacti the mouth of the Sucnbti at its Junction with the Ubuquanaqua, and to obtain its position by sextant and artificial horizon, and its cley: above the sea by repeated barometrical observation, and, moreover, to make as many other observations as might be practicable at. different points, both ‘oing and coming. ® Outhe ‘14th of Kort, Mr, Eaton, who had been left in charge of the picturesque camp, previously men- tioned, on the Sucubti, came back to the ship ‘With the remainder of the pariy. The laborious task of taking down the telegraphic wire was completed, the Carthagena donkeys were shipped to Sassardi and the solitude again -reigned at Nipsic Point, When all hands were nrmstcred on board the Guard on the morning of April 15, the following general orders were tend :— To THR OFYLOERA, BRAMEN AND MARINES ComPatsina SURVEYING Panty No, 1:— Upon your return fromthe arduons labors of the past two months your commanding officer deems it a proper moment to ccongratulate you upon the snccpss you have acileved. You have opened to the world oo almost unknown wilder- ness. You Have procured information that others before you sought for and fated to find, That this has not been done Hout great sacrifice on your part your commander is well But he has watched with pride the patience with which you have endured want and hardship; the perse- verance with which you have overcome the obstacles that surrounde,you, and the zeal with which you have seconied his wishes Tn promoting the objects of the expedition. SUll greater effortxhe may require of you, but he knows er Ny you will mevt them io the game’ spirit as you have overcome the past, and upon your return to your homes you will a!l ro- momber with pride the part you hie borne tu the expedition of 1870. THOMAS 0, SELFRIDGE, Commander, Commanding Darien Exploring Expedition, The Asplawall schooner will eave too soon to ad- mit of transcribing copious no.es—fopograpiiical, botanical, mlueralogical, &¢.—relative to the expe. rienced and observations of the Sassardi- Morti party, or surveying party No. 2, under com- mand of Mr. Hubbard of the Nipsic. It must sutice at present to add that fhe resilts obtatued and already transmitted to you grievously diaap- jointed the first favorable impiession of Commander Reiriage as to the sttpertor claims to feasibility pre- sented by the Sassardl, a8 compared with the Sucubtt route, and hal even decided bim to abandon bis in- tention of making an exploration from the Morti to the Chuqnanagua, when suddenly rumors came which the Sassardi Indians seemed to ba et aa equaily re- Mable aud dreadfal—to wit, that the Mortis ‘and Chugnanaquas were “on the war path.” It was solemnly annonnced by the Sassardis that those invincible tribes of the interior were about to advance in separate armies of fall forty bravos each, and to exterminate, first, the oxplorers on shore; then their allies, the trading Indians on the coast; then the Nipsic people, and, finally, to de- stroy the “big canoe,” as they cali the Guard, with every soul on board. AS it would never do to let the Indians of the interior have the slightest pretext for dreaming that still another Darien expodition had been frightertod and driven ao by such siliy threats, Commander Selfridge dela for a few dayslonger his projected departure for San Blas. He went “to the fronv’ himself, and after a pow-wow with the Indians was formally assured that “they had qneneed their minds,” and that no more opposition would be offered to an advance on the Cihuquanaqua river. Meanwhile the Guard had jeié Caledonia harbor and joined the Nipsic at Sassardl. At twenty minutes past two o'clock in the aiternoon OMApril 20 the Guard left Sassardi in tow of the Nipsic. At five minutes past five o'clock in the evening cast of bawser and the two ships Daa company. A fine moonlight night, a day oa tae mn sea, And another bright night revived and strengthened us all. bo gd and fatigue had in- creased the sick listof the Guard to a number of about twenty-one or two, twelve of which were cases of intermittent fever, But our brief sea yoy- age has improved evyeryvody, On the 22d inst. we anchored bere, in what Admiral Davis correctly do- scribes as “the admirable, spacious and deep har- bor of San Bias,’” rejoiming the Nipsic, which had arrived on the preceding day. soon as the Nipel¢ anchored Commander Selfridge began the preliminaries of @ thorough survey of thig route, Which 18 unquestionably the ~ shortest of all the proposed interoceanic canal routes, and which now promises to prove more practical and advantageous than anyother. But more tune than will elapse before the advent of the rainy season and 4 more liberal ay ignore by Congress than a bagatelle Ike $40, will be meeded fn order to complete satisfactorily such @ survey, and thus re- move what Mr. Oliphant stigmatizes as “a discredit to the civilization of the nineteenth century”—the fact that this part of the isthinua should not have been thoroughly explored, y the by, it should have been mentioned abovo that from February 22 to April 22, the date of our departure Sassardi, one telegraph line of seven and @ half miles and another of eight miies wore put up and used; that twenty miles of donkey tall were cut; and that somewhat more than 100 miles were surveyed in differeut directions—to say. poshing of Captain Luli’s bydvographical survey. This bare statement can give ony a very faint idea of the toll aud danger accompanying tks Vast amount we were meni watt ar ane ion of 1870 to Caledonia Bay and Saseardi has hed @ work of incal- eculable ecientife and prac a value. ‘The Nipsie Yeave on ER next for a fying trip to Aspinwall. The Caledonia Bay and Saseardi Routes Preven AmpracticableTke Expedition to Explore the Sas Biase ReutemGeneral Helue’s Statements. bi Panama, May 29, 1879. ‘The United Staves steamer Nipsic, of the Darien Surveying expedition, arrived at Aspinwall on (he Morning of the 1st inst, from Qaledonia Bay, Sbe Comics to the tsthmmua to procure a supply of coal, 4c, The expedition had completed the survey of that portion of Darien in the neigtborhood of Caledonia Bay, and decided that it was quite im- Dracticable for the construction of a canal, The sur- Veylng party from Lasardi had croased the Cordil- lera tothe head waters of the river Chuqunaque. Unfortunately they were not aware that the Nyack had arrived in the Guif of San Miguel, and the two parties therefore failed to connect, Had the sur- veyora from Caledonia known that the Nyack had arrived on this side they would have crossed over to the Pacific, The Nipsic will leave again in three or four days for the Guit of San Bias, where the balance of the expedition is Now engaged, Of all the canal routes proposed across the Is:hmug of Darien, that of San Blas Is considered the ivast suitable, The chain of mountains in that section has always been considered higher than in any other part of the isthmus, The latest accounts from the steamship Nyack say that she had passed up the river Sarana some =ixicen imitles and then anchored, Snail boats had been sent Up several miles further, to the mouth of the river Lara. The country on both sides of the river for a distance of some twenty-two miles had been tho- roughly surveyed, The health of those on board the Nyack was very . ‘Tue letter published in the New York papers by the “wouid-be” explorer, General Hetne, in regart to his experience in this region, contirms the opinion already expressed about aim here, It is remarkable that antelligent men in the United Staiés would allow themselves to be guiled by auch ridiculous twaddle as he has written. In the tetter referred to he siates that during nis thisty days’ teave of ab- sence he examined five different routes acro-s the isthmus, add he goes on to express an opin’on i re- gard to the morits of each. The gentleman in quea- ton never crossed the isthmus in his life, excepting on the line of the Panama Ratlroad or the old Chagres route, Allhe did during his late visit here was to hire @ schooner at Aspinwall, ran across to Cale- donia Bay and thence to the mouth of tue river Atrato, which stream he intended to ascend, He found the mouth of the river, whick is very wide, without difficulty, but could not make an entrance. In trying to do so he ran on the bar, and with dificully saved his vessel. Soon as he got her off he returned to Aspinwall, came over to Panama for a day or two, and then returned to the States. The impression he created while on board the Nipste was similar to that formed of him in Panama. The Star and Herd of this city, come menting on his letter, which appeared ia the Trt- dune, says:— G Heine will pardon ue; he be and doubti nat acorn ural to Wr rend general Bit auto eerie that he really Ive routes acroas the isthmus spol passed and re} he en of in his letter, and could take Pte ry pe The Canal Trenty Before Congress—Chauces of Its Ratification—The Isthmus Rendy for RevolutionA Canal te be Constructed Whether the Bogota Government Wills it or Not. PANAMA, May 2, 1870, A mailfrom Bogota hag becn received with dates to Apri 17, A private letter of that date informs me that the Senate 1s still, occupled discussing, articlo by article, the proposed canal treaty. Its progress is therefore slow. The writer of the letter referred to—one of our most prominent men—gives it as his opinion that the treaty in its present form ought fot to be sanctioned; tho hit 1s well known there is no ‘Colombian more frien iy towards the government and peopic of the United States of America than himself. The habage £ he affirms, contravenes section two, article eight, of the constiiation, which prohibits the States, and consequently thelr representatives from ceding any part of the naitonal territory to a foreign government. The writer could not say Wwhe:her the treaty wanld finally be sancttoned or not. Should it not be sanctioned he thought !t bet- ter to make & new contract with a company of North Americans who wouli undertake to coastruct the canal, The Dertcho, referring to tie same subject fays the canal treaty was undergoing the secon reading in the House. The above, it is true, is only the opinion. of a single infividual; but as that Indivi- dual is a leading and influential man ‘{t is worthy of note, Asi have hinted before, this isthmus ts every day becoming more ripe for independence and more desirous of cutting adrift from the tramme's of Bogota and country legislators. {t mat- ters itttle whetiler the rulers at Bogota sanction tie treaty or not. Mit is demonstrated that a canal 1s practicable, and the United States show any iuciina: tion to guarantee the independence of the istumu the canal will be constructed whether the powers ab Bogota wiil it or not. THE BALMORAL BRORERS AXD WOMANS RIGHTS. Mra. Clafiin’s Notion of Woman and Her Position. The following is the lates manifesto of the “be- witching brokers,” or, atleast, of one member of the firm, aud treats of the (to- them) new question of Woman, her sphere, &c.: ‘WOMAN'S POSITION, It cannot be denied that the position of woman in ail practical matters is infertor to man. Wile she is incapable of maintaining such an equality, sho ex- Cols 10 other respects; but these are cimefly such as do not add to personal fame or real importance. However much distinction there may be in the natural characterisiics of the sexes the time is now come when woman shall enter an eniarged sphere of action and use. In making the innovation upon customs the pre- sent condition contemplates, it 18 of essential im- portance that the boundaries of nature be not over- stepped. very advance made should hayo the sanction Of adaptation and use, When brate force Was the ruiing power—wien vast armies aecided the rights of kings—woman was but of Mite impor- tauce, The geneyal influence woman 1s now capa- bie or exerting 18 immense, and it will be used either for good or Lil, By being diverted into unforta- nate chaunels it becomes @ source of sor- row and misery, but when properiy directed no Power is more healtuful and produc: tive of good. Could all the noble qnalities of the eeX ba Well directed the world’s progress would be vastly acceleraied. If we admit the present condi- tion of woman 18 unfortunate, and that this arises from her being man’s practical inferior, she must than become his equal by the same means he be- came what he ig, She must bé educated to serve the same general purpose, Ns is not posseased of the qualities necessary to ¢ breastworks bristling with bayonets, and from which the screaming siell and rattling grape pour unntercifally form. ‘the means of conquest having modified, woman's talent ig required to meet the new demands arising froin the situation; besides, 11 i# necessary to open chan- nei for tie expenditure of her growing Pere. Insteat of sg eta idea, that In the duties of the wife the individuality of the woman must be lost, there must obtain the wider view, that when she becomes the wife, the truerand better part of her mission begins. Instead. of that condition being the chief end to be obtalned it mast be regarded a3 but one of the incidents of life that leads to wider ficlds of usefuiness, Marriage does not interfere with the general duties of man. He ts not educated with the idea before him that he {s preparing to be the husband froin childhood. The thought inde- penance a the main one He strives to become tied fur some special sphere of action to which bis inclinations tend, Le: woman pursue the sane course; let her learn to be independent, self-reliaut,, Les gah ear then she will never be thrown upon the mercy of the worid nor driven to conditions inst Which her soul revolts. ith such changes in the preparation of woman for the active duties of life the greater one now demanded will come. Though ae can never be like Tan, she can be his equal in all the rights and privi- Jeges of life. Among these privileges none seoma more fust than ‘that of having @ voice in choosing those who shail make the Jaws to which sue in common with man must be subject, Reverse the situation: would man haa submit. as woman has and does? Should lo then deny to woman this prtvilege? [tis no argn- Inent that the majority of women do not desire gullrage. If bnt one in a thousand does, she should not be restrained from 1t upon auy plea of inuttter- ence on the part ef the 992, Suffrage alone cannot elevate womag. It will prove, however, au incentive for her to attain wider experience. Ainbition is as common in woua as inman. If her sphere of action is eniarged her reaim_ of possibilitics will be proportionately ex- tended. In this sense and for this reason suffrage is desirable. It will open new avenues for thought aud action; will tend to draw attention from the frivolities of fashion and society, and in mény ine stances to Fecaee her from thedebasing ailurements of immorality and vice, With new incentives oftcred change in education would come. Accomplishment, aimpty as such, would be discarded aad practical life anticipated. Woman will not xrepare for responsibilities or duties she is debarred from entering upon. She wiil not educate to practice law while she is denied ad- mission to the bar. But if this and other spheres are opened she will prepare to enter them and com- pete for the prizes they oiler, Let man ford ge that woman has the rake to become his equal by removing all barriers taat Peters 80 that the charge of domination may no pod, ~ ‘ used tig aE bed there be “s poner for ju that. justice Can obtain, Let there be practical freedom, <3 that Limited equality may conse to exist. TENNIS QO CLAFLIN, No. 44 Broad treet. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA Affairs in the Central Ameriogn Republice—The Prespects of War jen Bolivia and Pern—Result of the Elections ia Chile, COLOMBIA. ress of the French=The Racing Sea- son—Tolegraph Concess! ’ AN AMA, May 2, 1870, Thore is very little of interest to communicate from the isthmus by to-day's steamer. No mail has been received from Bogota since I last wrote, Conse quently no news. Your “special” on board the Nipsio gives full details of the Darien Surveying Expedition, Gf local items there is quite a not so much as a revolution or an earthquake—not even a tidal wave to record. Your correspondens has therefore but little to work on,» ‘The bronze statue of Columbus, presented by the Rmapress of the French to the United States of Oo- lombia, to be erected to the memoi of the great navigator in the city of Colon wall), arrived m the French steamer Serre. General Correoso, and suite, accompanied by the 1) fore! representatives aud @ large umber ef Teeaing a zens, went over to Aspinwall on Saturday to es the imperial gift m fhe name of ae ce remony of receiving the statue took on day morning, on the Wharf, where suitable Noms nad beet made. oe eS a military band, were in at speeches were deiverea on the occasion Db; rench Envoy, the President and others, ceremony of reception was over @ was spread, to which a large number of gut Dy down and did ample justice, The party ret Panama by special trafi in” the out seven o'clock P. M, sat down toa Nificent dinuer in the Gand Hotel, Some. sixty covers had been spread for the occasion, Di the evening tne City Hall was brilliantly lluminat and the band discoursed their favorite airs im plaza fronting the hotel till about eleven o'clock, a Lo party broke up, ae Envoy returned to pinwall this morning, am aves Luis evening French steamer for St. Nazaire, ag Exceeding heavy rains have fation here during the past week, and it would seem as though the dry son had already come to an end, at least so the belt of rain clouds, said to accompany the sun et this season, would indicates ‘he following are the principal clauses of an act which has received Executive sancuon and been made public in reference to telegrapale communica- tion across the territory of Colombia:— The Executive is authorized to concede permission to aay company or person who may solicit it to establish (land ?) om the coasia of the republic the extremities of telegraphic subs marine cables which shall place the nation im connection wilh other parte, of the world, ae wall a# to unite the wee lt a ry to whi aie esta c previous article refers, Of public benef consequentiy they will ‘the payment of a national and Bi taxes or contributions 6 lines which accept this concession will, from this fact itself, be obi to Wansmit gratuliously ‘ll of overnment of the Union or of ti ‘ureign war or {ntertor commotions, the Imes will only oper ate under the surveillance of the political authorities, PERU. The Bolivian Trouble—Favorable Condities of Pern—Her Credit Abroad=The sickly Season. Lata, April 22, 1870, ‘The rumors of war with Bolivia that were current at the date of my last despatch, have been, in a measure, dispelled by the news received by the. re- cent steamer from the South. The President of Bolivia, evidently convinced that if a conciliatory policy was not adopted by his country Peru would to extreme measures, ordered the obnoxious officer, Genera! Antesana, to be arrested, and a formal investigation of the charge preferred against him pro- ceeded with. Moreover letters have been réceived here from La Paz that assure us ofthe determination held by Geveral Melgarejo to adopt every means to- wards restoring good feeling and harmony between the two countries, and to escape from a position that reflected no honor on hisadministration, Neverthe- less, it 18 hardly to be expected that Pera will re- verse her decision respecting the abrogation of the existing commer¢lil treaty with Bolivia, and this measure, While generally bénefital to Peru, will be a very severe blow to Bolivian trade aud interests, since, dy doing away with the present advantageous Custom House regulations in Arica, Bolivian goods ‘Will be purchased from secoud hands or will be sub ject to increased duties. Peru has alWays found it jo te to refund to the Bolivian authorities tha import duties levied in the Arica Custoin House om Bolivian merchandise, aud the suons constantly arising regarding the payment of these duties fave been disagreeable and irritating, We are now in great hopes that ali danger of an outbreak has dis- appeared and that the two countries wll contioue in that state of peace ‘And friendship 80 absolutely necessary for their progress and development. The strong division of troops despatched from here ta the South arrived at Arequipa an! were waiting there, as a corps of observation, for the course of events. Preparstions.were made here to send a mumber of batteries and large quantities of munl- tions of war to the same place, but owing to the*in- telligence now recetved these warlike measures hava been suspended. Peru is far from anxious to engage in any war, forelgn or domestic, and more espe ina confict with a nat on like Bolivia, in which the fighting would have to be done tn a territury even more unfit for miiitary operations than Abyssinia itself, ‘phis republic is advancing 80 steadily on the path to wealth and prosperity, and the general attention is go @arnesily directed to public works, that any disturbance likely to retard their progress would be Tegarded as a genuine calamity. There i# probably no country In the world where, at the present mo- ment, greater proportional interest ts feit in mate. rial advancement, and engineers are now the rang splrits in Peru. Through the ane aud breadth the republic peop!e are engrossed in agriculture, In improving the vast hactendas and tm making, read: for that time when Improved communications wi render their oecupations more prositable and secure, The government is wise in dividing its attention fairly between the different sections of the couu- try, and wherever any discontent appears it is immediately soothed by the appearance of @ working party and the survey of @ line of road. Never has Peru been go tranquil, and seldor has an administration succeeded in gaining such dencral approbation as the present. Unpo| in the outset with the dangerous sections of the south, Colonel Baita has been iortunate in oyercom- ing their dislike and converting it into a totally op. po-ite feeling. ‘The Arequipa Railway 13 progressing rapidly aud wil suffer no interruption uti its completion, which TO es abou! the last of June. This line is principally important as the means of transport- ing material lor the road that, leaving uipa, passes through the great Indian district of Rino, terminating at the town of that name on the banks of Lake Tillcaca, It is not to be supposed that these Toads are being consiructed Without meeting almost insuperable dificnitics, Dut the very able corps of engineess under Mr. Meiggs is coniident of apeedy succes, The latest quotations of Peruvian bonds tn the London market speak very emphatically in favor of the credit of this couutry, and give every reason belleve that the bonds to be issued for the Puno ap Oroya roads will mect with ready sale, The securtt, given by this government, both fn guano and by Foads themselves, couid not be better, and the con- stantly improving quality of the Guanape Istand de. ae as the cuts proceed deeper, es assurances Lat if shortly will almost equal the Drore celebrated fertilizer from the Chinchas. The dangerous season for fevers and epidemics. all descriptions, by which we have been so sever scourged in past years, has nearly expired withor the appearance of any of these unwelcome The cify has been tmproved so much recentiy tn matiers pertaining to hygiene that we live in hope of hereafter escaping the plagues that have desolated and nearly decimated us. CHILE. The Reeult of the Elections. VALPARAISO, Apri! 10, 1870, ‘The political campaign which for so long has been agitating Oliie concluded On the 8d inst..in the gen- ora! elections that were held, and as far ag can be learned from the reports that are slowly coming in from throughout the country it would appear that the moderate liberal party has been successful in obtain- ing & majority. party s post- tion between the two extremes wae ways the favor- Te ree ane ene ral- aken part wi extreme ‘vative element. x Od agen ~' id eet oi in hae te deste ‘of the people regarding electoral reform will be obtained throngh the majority of liberal electors now chosen, The cuolce of Senators and mapreieniat e3_ takes place on the 17th tnst., and the wore will be shortly ‘commenced in Congress. The entire re- modeling of the constitution of 1833, which is unl- wi rf theaeee a ¥ Con Aes a chains ret duty of an such Teforins will be fhtrodnced tn the adi of public affairs as must lead to the bone*t of the nation generally. Were {t not for thi elections the continual trouble and anno; resulting from the hostile attitude of the Arauc: Indians, there would be found but little in the con- dition of Chile suMiciently interesting to call atvention of foreign readers. The spectacle South American Tepaite pening. Loma ig ex- cl ti Oi lides haviag resort te aris aid witout bloodshed oF Vide lence 13 of itself extraordinary; » the elections, 10 (isiurbance or trouble of momen occurred. Chile ts very proud of her tion, and secks every opportunity to assert her well- merited ciaims to rank a8 @ repabiie only second td the United states.