The New York Herald Newspaper, June 14, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. pore tacts Mal JAMES GORDON BENNETT, 3 PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, < _WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. faux Bap Licet. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth ot—Fua- mands. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth atreet.—Granp VaniETY ENTERTAINMENT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus Dancing Ban- BER—DAUGH1EE OF THE REGIMENT. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broad or. ner Thirtieth st.Matinee daily. Performance very ‘oven ing. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and 984 s-—-TOk TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Ixion--THE MILITARY Drama oF Nor Guitty. q BOOTH'S THEATRE, Tas Hoaurnors. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.-Bap Dioxey—TaR Buuvp Mine. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Muwnia’s Luck. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.— Vv usm, NEGRO ow dor ss pliigesenai ase BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Buildin; " @t—ALLEN a Purrincisve Minerapea, > TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.— Vooatisu, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, £0. baci a503 ween Sth and Oth avs— BELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway.— Srinit Stau—HUNTING A PRinok Dowy, ‘eo. agli COLLISSIUM BUILDING, Sixty-third strect and — Afternoon and Evening—BEETUOVEN FESTIVAL, sghcy CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th ay., betwoon 58h 60th ats.—THrODoRE, THOMAS’ POPULAR CONCERTS, is NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— EET. TRIPLE SH New York, Tuesday, June 14, £570. —— —= = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. ¥ Paos. 1—Advertisements. ‘Advertisements. 3—VWiashington: Rich Developments in American Diplomacy; The Manner of Negotiating Treaties in St. Domingo; The President’s Me on the Confict in Cuba; Strong Grounds Against Cuban Belligerency; More Land Grabs At- . Setbied; Macuralisatzon ee Through the —" ing at Beacon Park, Mass,—The Methodist Book Concern Mudie.” 4@—Kurope: Defence of Israel; Spiritualism in Il uck in Russia and Italy; the Denham (Eng- land) Seven Murders Investigation and the Three ‘‘Aliag” Man Committed; Horrible Case of Infant Murder in Ireland—Political Notes and Comments—Woman’s Rights in a New Phase: Interference by Female Suffragists Be- tween Man and Wife—The Great Schuetzen- fest—The Public Heath. 6—The Red Men: Spotted Tall Boarding the French - Frigate, Visiting Fisk's Steamers, the HERALD ‘Office and the City Hail; Their Departure for ‘Chicago; Red Cloud and Ths Retinue Bid Adieu to the National Capital—Important from Africa—The Evangelical Alliance Conference— Regatta of the New York Yacht Club inl, fa Horse Notes—A Mad Dog Adventure—The Na- tional Game—The Romance of Crlme—The Quarantine War: Brooklyn Beginning to Show Her pemmper: The Merchants Endorse Dr. Cochran—Milltary Obsequies—The Barbaric Tribes of Norttern Germany—The Suez Pas- senger Trafic. 6—Lilitorials : Leading Article on Spain, Prim oti the Situation, ie Real Difficulties in the Way—Amusement Announcements, ‘Y—E:itorial (continued)—Telegraphic News ym all Parts of the World: France Preparing for the Regicide Trias ; General Prim Promises a King for Spain; Charles Dickens’ Grave; Health Report from India—The Beethoven Jubilee : First Concert aud Success of the Enterprize— Brooklyn City News—Personai Intelligence— Westchester Court Matters—fhe Fat Bolling Nest—A Mysterious Baby Case—Baptist Sun- day School Union—Police Summer Uniform— Mad Dogs, Picnics and Assaults in Hoboken— Police Board—Cut a Friend's Throat—Station House Warming—An English Valet’s Adven- tures—Business Notices. S=—Proceedings in_ the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Keal Estate Matters—Financial and Commercial Reports—Anotner quack Murdaer— Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 9—Adveriisements. 10—We:t Point : Before the Homeward March; the Awarding of the Diplomas to Take Place on Wednesday—Alieged Homicide in Newark— Tommy Hadden, the Water Street Missionary, on Trial for Burglary in Jersey—-Music tn the Parks—Another Morris and ‘Essex Rutlroad Outrage—A Jersey Outlaw Disposed of—New York City News—The Cruz Bond Robbery—Ex- citing Svene on a Jersey Ferryboat—Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 11—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements. Taz New York Yacut Crus Reeatra takes place to-day. There will be a fine dis- play of canvas and excellent sport, especially if the weather keeps up to the promise of a blustering, breezy day, such as we have been having for the last weok. A Monument To Dickens, &c.—The idea has been started of a monument in our great Park to Charles Dickens. If his numerous friends and admirers desire it, Jet them get it up. At the same time it has been suggested to us that there ought to be a monument In the Park, embracing a group of the states- men, soldiers and literary celebrities’ of the city and State of New York—such as Hamilton, Clinton, Steuben, Cooper, Irving, &c.—as a contribution from the city. This, too, is a good idea, and the centre of the Mall would 9e the very place for such a monument. Quack Mcrperrrs.—There is a man now in the Tombs, namod Wolff, who should be hanged as warning to a large tribe of other persons in this city who follow his calling. He is a quack doctor, without a diploma, and most probably without any educa- tion whatever. He was placed in the Tombs some time ago for causing the death of a Miss Henningsen by producing an abortion upon her, and yesterday another of his victims died of the same cause. He has therefore at loast two murders on his hands, and it is quite likeiy that he ought to be made to answer also for a much longer list of other crimes worked out by his abominable practice of an art of which he knows nothing. Has any quack doctor ever been hanged for mur- dering by abortion, and will this fellow be hanged even for two murders? Tuomas CARLYLE CoMING To AMERICA.— One of our late cable despatches has it that the veteran author Tom Carlyle is coming ona visit to this country. It is not impossible that the despatch may be founded on mere rumor. At the same tine we know no good reason why such a visit should be deemed improbable. Carlyle is an old man, it is true. He is now in his seventy-fifth year; and examples are not numerous of men at his age making trans- atlantic trips. Still, all our late accounts agree that he is hale and hearty and full of work. If Carlyle does honor us with his presence he will have a hearty welcome. No living author has exercised so much influence on the intellect of his age as the author of “Sartor Resartus;” and his disciples are as himerous, proportionally at least, oh this con- tinent as in Europe. A personal inspection of * our American progress might lead to a hew pnd improved version of one of his latest pavers, “Shooting Niagara,” Spain—Prim on the Situation—The Real DiMeulties in tho Way Since Monday of last week the Spanish Cortes have been formally occupied in disous- sions relative to the future occupancy of the throne. It does not appear that the disous- sions have resulted in any satisfactory setile tment. The statement of Prim, made in the Cortes on Saturday, that the government bad sought a candidate fer the throne, but thus far in vain, clearly shows that the throne question is as much a perplexity to-day as it has been any time these last nineteen months. It is poor consolation to Spain, afflicted and ex- hausted as she is, to be toid after all this weary waiting that there was reason to feel confident that a candidate would be found within the next three months. Prim assured them that he did not mean Alphonso, Prince of the Asturias, son and heir of Isabella; nor did he expect that the anxiety which notori- ously existed throughout the country would ripen into disorder. Than the condition in which Spain now finds herself we can conceive of nothing more humiliating. In September of 1868 Spain, so long so backward, so long dying by inches, startled the world by the suddenness and vigor of her action, and seemed by one bold effort, by one daring leap, to recover her place among the nations. Men remembered the times of Ferdinand and Isabella, when Spanish arms were invincible wherever they were put to the test; the times of Charles V. and of Philip IL, when the Spanish flag swept the seas and when the Spanish dominion encircled the globe; and they naturally enough leaped to the conclusion that the pride of Old Castile and the chivalry of Aragon, though long dormant, were not yet dead. - The de- thronement of Isabella was a new triumph of the popular cause, a fresh hope, a resurrec- tion ; and on this Continent, as in Europe, the people and the friends of progress re- joiced. In the course of time the Cortes met, and the new constitution which they framed, although in some respects disappointing, was an advance in the right direction. The throne was not demolished, as, perhaps, it should have been, but good hope was given that the successor of Isabella would be a man of the people's choice, and that it would be difficult for him to govern contrary to their wishes. There was to be no delay in filling the throne. Yet here we are to-day, some twenty months since the revolu- tion, and the Spanish throne is. still begging an occupant. Europe is crowded with princes, with idle scions of royalty in eager quest of such toys as crowns and thrones; Spain has gone upon her knees to many of them; yet no prince but one, so far as we know, has been found willing to be a royal figurehead, and that one is obnoxious to the Spanish nation. This, however, is not all. The Spanish people are worn ‘out with uncertainty and baffled hopes. The Spanish treasury is empty. Spanish bills will nowhere be discounted. Spanish trade is all but dead. Spanish colo- nies are sick of their connection with the mo- ther country. Spanish nobles. who have been filling the posts of duty seckto be relieved, and the only Spaniard who has been deemed wor- thy of royal honors politely but firmly declines them. In these circumstances it is that Prim tells the Spanish people that aking may be found in three months. Buckle did say hard things of Spain, but the worst things that Buckle ever said have been established by facts since Buckle’s death. Was ever nation in such wretched plight? Was ever revolution so fruitless? Was ever a people so disappoint- ed and disappointing? Twenty months of killing uncertainty, and no hope of deliverance! Search the whole field of history and find such anexample. We seek in vain. What is the cause of this failure? We have answered the question often before. We an- swer it again. We might put our answer in two words, and say—‘‘ Spanish impotence.” This is the true answer. It is necessary, how- ever, to be more particular. The resurrec- tion of Spain has been found impossible be- cause the people are held down by the Church and by the army, and because men are wanting to head the people in at- tempting to break those bands asunde™ and to cast away those cords. The Church will not accept the new constitution, and three-fourths of Spain at least swear by the Church, The army of Spain is a blind machine, but it is strong enough to make peasants aad unarmed citizens tremble, And during all those months no man has come to the surface prominently but one, and Prim seems to be without that force of character, wanting in that kind of nerve which makes revolutions lastingly triumphant. A Caesar, a Cromwell, a Napoleon would lead Spain into new paths, would arouse her ancient spirit and give her a new lease of life. But no Cmsar, no Cromwell, no Napoleoa comes to the rescue. Prim is the only man who has had the opportunity, but his courage has not mounted with the occasion. Uniil the Spanish Church is broken down and the people enjoy intellectual and spiritual liberty, and until the Spanish army changes its character and ceases to be a blind, unreasoning machine, we have little hope of Spanish resurrection. If there is any hope at all it lies in the possi- bility of the appearance of some patriot and hero who shall have the pluck to dare and the genius to lead. If some such man does not now appear it will not surprise us to learn that he who now commands the army and who has failed to be the Cromwell has actually become the Monk of the Spanish revoiution. This will be lamentable, but anything is preferable to the present state of things. Unless you give him the power you canaot blame the bed- ridden man who will not rise and walk. Such is poor Spain, Visitors AT THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.— On Saturday, while several persons were visit- ing the Treasury Department, an adroit thief managed to steal from a table in one of the rooms twenty thousand dollars in greenbacks, The very possibility of such an occurrence proves loose, insufficient, unsatisfactory management, If the money that is there in such quantity to tempt the cupidity, invention and enterprise of the most ingenious thieves is not so guarded and cared for as to defeat every possible ruse it is guarded badly. Ig an apartment where a great deal of money laid in packages on the table is only safe through the vigilance of one colored woman visitors should not be admitted, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDA ew TORR. See See Congtens—More Lind JobsTho » Mesanse of Secretary Fish on Cubas Two more land jobs were rushed through the Senate yesterday, almost without oppos!- tion—the first for a road from Brownville, Neb., to Denver, Col., and the second for a road through Dacotah Territory, The principal business of the Senate, however, was the discussion of the Congressional Ap- portionment bill, the question being on the amendment to the House bill increasing the number of Roprosentatives from two hundred and seventy-five to three hundred, Tho proposition was strongly opposed by Mr. Morton, Mr. Sumner and others, on the ground of making the House unwieldy and impairing ite efficiency. Senator Trumbull, in advocat- ing the measure, showed that under the pro- posed apportionment the representation of only one State (Vermont) would be decreased, while New York, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan would each gain three members, and Pennsylvania and Illinois five, The amendment was agreed to, as was also another, authorizing the election of the in- creased number of Representatives by a gen- eral ticket, and the bill finally passed. The old States, secing the national domain given away in such immense quantities for the benefit of railroads through the new States and Territories, appear disposed to claim a share for their own internal improvements, and accordingly, Mr. Ela, of New Hampshire, introduced a bill in the House granting pub- lic lands to his State for railroad purposes, at the rate of forty sections to the mile. If Uncle Sam will thus wantonly squander his estate it is but just that his elder children should receive their portion. Mr. Davis introduced his new bill for uni- form naturalization, which was passed. The bill is simple and pointed, making false swearing perjury and punishable as such; providing penalties for false per- sonation and use of forged papers, and gives United States Courts jurisdiction of all offences under the bill. Mr. Stokes made an unsuccessful effort to introduce a bill removing all political disabilities, making a clean sweep, even to including Jeff Davis in its provisions. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill, appropriating three and a half million dollars for improving certain rivers and harbors, was taken up and passed. The Speaker laid before the House a Message from the Presi- dent on the Cuban revolution, condemning the atrocious manner in which the war is waged by both Cubans and Spaniards. The Presi- dent declares his inability to see that the Cubans have acqnired such successes or are in such force as would entitle them to recognition as pelligerents, but thinks that the object of the Cuban agents in this country is to em- broil the United States in a war with Spain. The message was severely criticised by Mr. Cox,' who asserted that instead of being a legitimate State paper it was an attack upon the report of General Banks, which was pub- lished in the HERALD a few days since, The document is undoubtedly an anomaly in states- manship, and, presented at this time, when Congress has had all the facts relative to Cuba laid unofficially but forcibly before it in General Banks’ report, it appears to be merely another of those ill-timed and noa-progressive papers peculiar to our ill-timed and non-progressive Secretary of State. It is evidently the handi- work of Secretary Fish, whose head has been in danger since General Banks’ report was published, and who in his narrow statesman- ship probably thought such a message from the President would turn the scales in his favor. From the disposition with which both Houses have received it, however, it does not seem likely to have that effect. One thing is apparent—Mr. Fish exercises tod much power in his place. The President has allowed him to have his own way too much. It is quite likely now that the honorable Secretary will find himself ‘“‘hoist with his own petard,” and that the effect of this message will be to hoist him from his place. This is the day appointed for the considera- tion in Congress of the report of General Banks, of the House Committee oa Foreign Affairs, together with a minority report from the samecommittee. Goneral Banks recommends: first, the recognition of the existence of the Cuban struggle; second, a declaration of im- partial neutrality ; third, the same advantages to both parties in intercourse and trade with the United States; fourth, a remonsirance against Spanish barbarities.- Should the subject be brought before the House to-day for debate, as we expect it will be, a very interest- ing ventiiation of the whole subject will follow, and perhaps some resolutions that will create a considerable sensation, More Disorpnine WANTED IN THE GREAT Park,—Cannot our efficient Commissioners of Public Parks make the discipline in the grand Park a little better? For instance, cannot the police be instructed to prevent crowds of ragged boys from scrambling over the walls and rushing through the shrubberies? The Park, of course, is open to all the public, young and old; but there are proper ways provided for ingress which even our juvenile citizens should be compelled to avail themselves of. There is another little point to which the attention. of the Commissioners. might be directed. It is this :—vast hordes of rats infest the lower part of the Park, around the ponds, destroying the banks and making that vicinity disagreeable to visitora. While protecting the floral beauties of the grounds care should be taken to rid them as far as possible of hateful and destruc- tive vermin. We throw out this hint, hoping that it will be acted upon. CHARACTERISTIO OPERATIONS OF FEMALE SurrraGists IN THE WEst.—We publish to- day a report of an interesting case of a domestic nature lately heard before one of the courts in St. Louis. It seems that a young married couple separated, and afterwards would have rejoined each other and probably lived in bappy communion with their iwo little children, had it not been for the impertinent interference of certain strong-minded women ‘with their weMr-minded masculine aiders and abettors, who insisted upon the poor wife re- maining aloof from her husband and earning a living for herself and children. The posses- sion of the children seems to be the turning oint in the case, and sympathy is géneral in behalf of the poor little innocent creatures, who are made to suffer from no fault of their own, nor in reality of their parents, The trouble, it appears, all arises from the poke- Y, JUNE 14, 1870—THIPLI SHE ce ee ; nose ies of a set of busybodlos, who, having no cherished household gods of their own to worship, aim at bringing desolation into families that would otherwise live happy and contented. It is time there were some means of ‘legally reaching these criminal mis- chief-makers and preventing them from exer- cising their infamous avocation as professional diaturbers of domestic poace. The Indians Among the Pale Facos. Tho visit of the true blue ahoriginais, go. up with real foalp locks and natural red hue, has apparently had more effect on the white people than it has had on the savage. Spotted Tail and his friends look stolidly and uncon- cernedly at everything wonderful in the me- tropolis except the gilt and bullion on the soldiers who paraded past the Astor House yesterday, the big shakos on the heads of the drum majors, which suggested the idea of much scalp to the playful marauders, and the interior of the HERALD office, which the speck- led warrior visited yesterday, and which struck him with unusual wonder. Except in these instances, the untutored savage does not seem to have regarded New York or the white man as any great shakes after all, while on the other hand the white man, who so vainly expected to awe the red man into perpetual peace by a display of his wonders, has himself been awed into profound respect for his dusky guest by the dignity and decorum of his be- havior, Spotted Tail is only a sort of ward politician in his own country, but he is an im- provement on our specimens of that genus, and the white population honor him accord- ingly. Red Cloud, however, who will reach here to-day, is the grandest old Roman of them all. He is the grand sachem among them—the Big Six of the Sioux Tammanys. Asa statesman he can teach the wise men in Washington more than they will ever leayn from books. He says he intends to make’a speech in New York, and we hope all the Tammany chiefs in full dress will gather to hear him. It is probable that he can improve even on the teachings of Bismarck Sweeny. He talks plainly. He does not beat about the bush, He has made a proposition to the Secretary of the Interior that ifthe white men he wishes are appointed superintendents and agents in his country he will see that peace is maintained. Now this is fair enough, and we would like to know of the Secretary of the Interior if it is not a cheap experiment at least to try it. So far the proposition has not been ac- cepted as squarely as it was offered, and there- fore Red Cloud goes away mad, although he mournfully says he does not, But we have no doubt that he will organize war on a grander Indian scale than ever as soon as he reaches his people, and all because the Secretary has been trying to deal evasively with him, using diplomacy so that the old chief saw through it from the first. The Quarantine Fuss.” If there were less of ignorant presumption and impertinent pretence in the conduct of Dr. Cochran, of Brooklyn, we might seriously con- sider the possibly mischievous consequences of a systematic evasion of quarantine—but indeed this roaring fellow is evidently not one worthy much serious thought—and his con- duct altogether, bis airs of self-importance, his assumption of‘authority and general grand- iloquence, might be simply laughable, except that this city cannot afford to treat with indif- ference even a single violation of the laws made for the preservation of its health. The newly announced championship of the rights of Brooklyn with which this noisy roysterer comes forth is rather a thin delusion. In the first place he champions the right of a vessel to go to any dock in Brooklyn when its cap- tain is quite satisfied with the dock he has been sent to, If the captain is satisfied why should not the doctor be satisfied? Ah, he is appointed to protect the health of Brooklyn. Then, no doubt, as the vessel was from a yel- low fever port, his energy was due to his desire to keep her as far away as possible. On the contrary, she was already at the most isolated point on the Brooklyn water front, and he insisted on her going up to where the city is densely populated and where the danger of contagion is very great, if contagion be possible, Here is a new’way to guard the health of acity. But if the vessel was already ina safe place and the captain was satisfied, why should she not stay there? Because certain storekeepers wanted her unloaded near their premises, Here is the pith of all the trouble, and the Brooklyn doctor is merely the tool of these persons, and neither they nor he care a button for the health of Brooklyn or any other city so long as they can put money in their pockets. But the law is made for all alike, and foolish and pitiful as is this opposition to the quarantine authority it must receive the’ same punishment as it would receive if it were less contemptible, No Fessel can come under the view of thisBrook- lyn doctor, during her quarantine time, save by the good will and lenient disposition of Dr. Carnochan. This leniency is in all cases based upon a promise of the captain to limit his liberty to certain isolated points. Now, however, that it is apparent that the captain’s promises are not to be relied upon, we shall doubtless hear little of any relaxation of the law even in favor of cases that might warrant it. By this stringency the merchants suffer and the lightermen thrive—and both may thank such champions as Dr. Cochran. AyatomicaL SprcimeNs.—An anatomical museum on Broadway (near Eighth street) has been seized by Custom House officers, charged with smuggling, as anatomical specimens admitted free of duty, forty cases of French mirrors, chandeliers, &c., subject to a duty of five thousand dollars, more or less. To the museum parties concerned, therefore, these curiosities, subjected to the comparative anat- omy of the Custom House, will be apt to prove the costliest specimens imported for some time. Red Cloud says ‘the white man grabs for too much. Tae Decne oF CHorera in Inp1a, which latest telegrams announce, is pleasant. We have to keep our eye on that part of the globe when Asiatic cholera is threatened. It is the seat and centre of the deadly disease. . The government at Washington and our Board of Health should watch closely the barometer in British India, War and Secession in Africa~Oko Jumbo, Ja-Ja and the British Neutrals. Our, mail advices from thé Wort Coast of Africa come to us replete with news of wan and rumors of war. The “irrepresaibla °°” flict” rages “at its fountain source, and is ex- tending. Divisions of tribe, feudal assump- tions of power and a thirat for the ‘‘spoils” of place stand forth and remain the exciting causes of the deadly strife, as they have in St. Domingo, in* Hayti, and among ourseives, ii inc tana 2f the brave and the home of the free. Oko Jumbo, Ja-Ja, Warrlb- boo and Addah Allison, chiefs of Bonny, and a European trader, are ‘fighting it out on that line,” away off in and ‘long the Gold Coast, Oko Jumbo has got hold of a battery of Arm- strong guns, carried to’ him from Great Bri- tain by an English steamer, and declares he will blockade Opobo immediately and knock Ja-Ja “higher then a kite,” or words to that effect, so far as the native dialect permits slang terms, Commodore Dowell, of the Bri- tish navy, has interfered between Oko Jumbo and Ja-Ja. The Commodore acts—as did England in the case of the Alabama—on the principle ‘of fiat ‘‘cut your head and then give you a plaster;” "for Oko Jumbo hav- ing received his rifled Armstrongs ‘all right” the commander of her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake offers to visit Ja-Ja and seek to induce him to “cave in.” Oko Jumbo don’t relish ‘foreign mediation,” how- ever. He stands both on his rights as a soldier and on the rules of war as they have been laid down and observed by all the great generals from Jugurtha and Scipio Africanus to Julius Cwsar, Charlemagne, Napoleon and General Grant. Oko Jumbo told the British officer that inasmuch as he (Oko) had defeated Ja-Ja the latter should be first to make proposals, for peace. The Commodore, however, pointed out to Oko that the so-called defeat of Ja-Ja was really a gain to that commander and that he wis consequently likely to soon have Oko Jumbo ‘just where he wanted him.” The British Commodore finally made propositions for @ peace. He threatened, and this is the serious point, that if British property or British subjects were interfered with he (the Commodore) would be likely to take both the native chiefs in hands, It is very probable, in consequence, that there will soon be a strong smell of palm oil and gunpowder prevailing all along the west coast of Africa and far away into the jungles where the British lion may eventually meet the parent beast and prove to him that civilization counts for something after all. In the republic of Liberia still wages the war of the “‘spoils.” President the Hon. E. J. Joyce appointed Mr. John Waller Good post- master and collector of customs at Palmas, Mr. Good, notwithstanding his name, had political enemies. Citizens rose against him. Judge Gibson, who attempted to administer the oath of office to him, was assailed. The “strikers” declared that if Mr. Good went into the Custom House “six men would throw him out of the door, break his neck and shoot him.” The excitement was terrible—a noisy combination of Topsey, an abolition subscrip- tion Sunday in Plymouth church, and Exeter Hall after it received the news of the fire on Fort Sumter. ‘Further advices from Palmas waited for anxiously.” s The natives of Ashantee and Okwau had captured—it is feared they ‘‘gobbled up”’— three English missionaries. A friendly chief named Kumuse remained the sole dependence of the Church and religion in that quarter of the world. Kumuse had already received a pair of scissors and a piece of gum copal, so that it was hoped that the evangelists would come out ‘“‘all right.” Personal infallibility has, however, made very little progress in the direction of Okwau, so that the matter remains in ‘considerable doubt. The great questions put by Dickens’ Carry Jelliby and the late Lord Brougham also remain thus :—‘‘Africa’s a beast,” said Carry; the negro ‘‘a man and a brother,” said the ex-Lord Chancellor. Which? The Old World Aspect—Religion, Crime and the Spirltualities. The European mail of the 2d of June, at this port yesterday, supplies quite a variety of Old World news details dated to that day. The most interesting portion of the record is to be found in Mr. Disraeli’s defence against the assaults made by Blackwood's Magazine on his new book ‘‘ Lothair,” and his absolute de- fiance of British toryism as it was and is, This vigorous and spicy enunciation on behalf of the Ex-Chancellor is set forth in a London journal—a modern “harp of a thousand strings "—which endeavors, with much force and a fair show of truth, to prove that the “glory” has not departed from the tribe of Judah, besides intimating in pretty plain terms that the oppositionist statesman and great writer will in the future be both to the tory aristocrats and Gladstone reform cabinet men of Britain as ‘‘a snake in the ‘grass which biteth the horse’s heels, that the rider may fall backward.” Murder was rife on every side. The.cases of wilful destruction of human life which are recorded in one single copy of an English newspaper, and republished in our columns to-day, are really frightful both in the number of cases, the acts of perpetration and the consequences. Spiritualism, or the r **spiritists,” as its disciples are termed, was again active, seeing, perhaps, that there isa sort of Ajatus in the religious world. The effort, as it is told us from Naples, is not, how- ever, very encouraging of future success among the church pletists and lay moralists of the hour. The world still ‘‘goes round,” notwithstanding, and humanity must, at least for the time being, take its surface just as it, is presented. Sunpay Rum—Onty Eigut.—Sunday was an exceptionally orderly and quiet day in the city, as there were only eight cases of indis- criminate carving and shooting that are at all likely to have serious results. In one case a no doubt charming Cherry street lady, who despises the screamera for woman's rights, proved her equality by handsomely gouging out the eye of Henry Kearney. This is one of the pleasantest humors of life in that part of the city. Another very happy piece of spirit on the part of our exuberant people was the act of James Butler, who in his flight down Houston street merrily discharged his pistol at all the policemen he met, but unaccountably failed to kill any. This defective aim on the part of James resulted in his capture, By there little specimen incidents of our sober Sunday it is evitlent that we are not. dull even when we are decent. _ The Pacific Telegraph Project. . We cannot well understand why Congress --wg taking decisive action on the project etn +t America with Asia by telegraph to conne, +49 Pacific Ocean. A more im- cables across tu. heen brought before portant subject haa nu, ‘ve of the trade that body this session. _The Vatu * Asia of China Tyan and other countria# 9». cannot well be estimated. It has pééd tid” prize for which 4ll great commercial natigis have struggled for ages. It is capable of wow derful expansion. More than half the popula-_ tion of the globe is centred there. The enor- mous trade there now will be increased nmny times over by the creation of new wanta, tastes and habits which a more extended and intimate intercourse with Europe and America must bring. Steamship communication is . doing much to create this now atate of things; butthe telegraph will accomplish much more. That is the greatest civilizer that brings the people of the remotest parts of the world into close and constant intercourse, that creates wants and enlarges commerce beyond any other agent of modern times. To the United States especially is tele- graphic communication with Asia of the utmost importance. We'are in the best position geographically for this, The western shores of this Continent face the populous countries. of Asia, and a cable or succession of cables will bring the Asiatic world into as easy and fre- quent commmunication with the United States as Europe is at present through the medinm of the Atlantic cable. We have far greater advantages and opportunities for enlarging our commerce with that rich and populous part of the globe than England or any other nation.«-And this is the very thing we most need-at present. The war de~ stroyed in a great measure our commerce and shipping interests, and Congress is now greatly occupied with the question as to how these can be revived. Here is the opportunity. No fiuer one could be held out to us. Asia is the part of the world to which we sliould direct our atten- tioa especially. But we want the telegraph for this important object. That is the mighty agent to be used.” As far as individuals or companies are concerned, we care not: who the work is undertaken by or given to, so that it'bo done. Mr, Cyrus W. Field has a grand pro- ject before Congress for a Pacific telegraph. He has great experience in such enterprises and no doubt has the means and power to ac- complish the work. So far no better man could be found. True, he asks fora large sub- sidy, but not until the enterprise be completed. This, then, is a sufficient guarantee. A half a million a year for twenty years is a large sum, it is true, but after a few years the government no doubt will take all that out in the free mes- sages it will send through the line. As time rolls on the business will be vastly increased and the government will be repaid. But, after all, the interest of our commerce is the great thing to be considered. Let us have, then, without delay, a telegraph to China, Japan and the other countries of Asia; and whoever will give an ample guarantee to perform tho work best andat once let them have the aid of government. The Growing Trouble in the East. Day by day the cloud that was seen in the Eastern horizon no bigger than a man’s hand, last summer, before the Suez Canal was opened to traffic, is seen expanding. Already it covers the political sky of the Bosphorus and the Nite and is threatening to spread to the Ganges on the one side and to the Straits of Gibraltar on the other. Sultan Abdul Aziz, the Haroun Al Raschid of our day, in his admi- ration for modern progress and in the seati- ments which we, not long. since, reported of his address from the throne, is, notwithstand- ing all his liberality, displeased with his great vassal Ismail Pacha, the Khedive of Egypt. The latter has made topo conspicuous a mark in the history of our time, has gained too many brilliant successes and has become too popular with the Christian Powers not to occasion his great Suzerain at Constantinople some un- easiness, The first difficulty -with the Sultan was healed by the Viceroy’s prompt surrender of his new steel-clad war steamers and tha reduction of his army, but it has been reopened by the’ discovery that Ismail Pacha has been raising seéret loans in Europe and. enlisting many distinguished American officers for his military and naval service. The discovery of these facts has led to fresh demands by the Grand Seignor, followed by significant political and military demonstrations, The appointment of Halim Pacha to a ministry without a port- folio, as well as the elevation of Prince Musta- pha Fazyl to the Presidency of the Justiciary, and the bestowal of the Osmanic order in bril- liants upon the same individual, with a certain degree of ostentatious parade, give the Levant Herald and other papers in the East a theme on which to predicatethe Sultan’s displeasure with his great vassal, with whom the digni- tarics named are at high variance. But more than all this, the Sultan has ordered a grand concentration of troops to take place at Shumla during the present summer. All the garrisons that can be spared from the Second Army Corps, now stationed in Bulgaria, will march thither and be joined by about thirty thousand men of the Imperial Ottoman Guard under Mehemet Pacha. Shumla is the very centre and headquarters of the great Slavic movement sketched out by the Hungarian leader, Louis Kossuth, in his famous plan of a Danubian confederation, to be made up of Serbs, Roumanians and Bulgarians as well as of his own discontented countrymen. This plan is supposed to be by no means dis- pleasing to Russia, so far as it is likely to aid Muscovite designs, and the plot now in full revival has aiders and abettors at St. Peters- burg as well as at Constantinople, Jt is in the direction of Roumania, in fine, that the Czar might, by creating a diversion for which the revolutionary party would be used as & catspaw, most ‘materially aid the Khedive should the latter be attacked. by the Sultan. Hence the proposed concentration of Turkish brigades and the watchful eye turned towards Roumania, Meanwhile the Khedive pursues the even tenor of his way, employing toreign—chiefly American—officers, collecting the best arms and ammunition, and putting his whole realm in aatate of complete defence. Moreover, he