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NEW-YORK HERALD |" eens yur nna Greciey. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York Hexarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- er Fhlrtieth shee Matine’ dail Perforaiaoo every evening. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and $4eh—Tue TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. BOOTH’S THKATRE, 28d a1., between Sb and 6tn avs.— ‘Tax Huournors. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Capkr LE PERuE—Tne Boupign’s Rerun. ™ WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— ‘Tue Bev Liaut. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Fen- NANDE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—T) ae ‘RE, way.—THE FIELD OF THR TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. Bowery.—C1n- DERELLAN Tun ParMior's BEDE Be neyo MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PAK THEATRE, _ a'Wxw War To Pay O1p Dens, ee THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 B: oon - max, Necro Acts, tc. jroadway.—Comio Vooar KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No. es SPrIBiT STAR—HUNTING A Yuinok iveae a CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58th and ih sta,—Tuxovone Thomas’ PoruLaz ConcrRts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 B 1a BOIENOE AND Azr. “a seasons TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, June 21, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. Pace. & parantapee 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. | 3—Washington: Important Amendments Proposed to the Tax Bill; The Attorney Generalship— The President Sticks to Ackerman; Senate Discussion of the Post Ofice Appropriation Bill; Appropriation Bills Passed by the House; Ben Butier Gets in His vommican Annex: ation Resolution—Proposed State Government for New Mexico—The National Gane—Chess Mattsrs—The Boy Constable in| Newark— Yachting: Twin Regatta of the Harlem and Mahattan Ciubs—Razor Exercise; Cutting a Rowdy’s Throat—“Go and Sin no More?— Don Juan in Black, 4—West Point: A West Point Romance; the New Appointments of OMicers in the Cadet Corps— Cuba: A Searcn for Cuban Leaders; Another Gross Outrage on an American Citizen—Utah: Stiver Mining in the Territories; Deaths Among Infants—irish Landlordisn Bold Raid on a Bank—St. Domingo: The National Indebted- ness of the Repubilc; A Few Words Regarding Annexation—Woman’s Rights in a Practical Shape—The Flood in the Susquehanna—stage Murders—The Romance ot Outlawry—Trouble With the Dominion Currency—Crops in Ken- tucky—A New Plant. S—Cuban Expeditions: Snevesstul Landing of Men During the war of our great rebellion, our readers will remember, we published on seve- ral occasions some very curious disclosures con- cerning Jeff Davis, frém Oolonei J. F. Jaques, an Illinois Union soldier and clergyman, em- ployed on a mission to Richmond, among other things, in the secret service of the govern- ment, by President Lincoln. It now appears that this same confidential officer, in a recent examination before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, has been disclosing some very interesting facts relating to some other secret service expeditions involving the status on the war question of the late ex-President Buchanan and of Horatio Seymour and Horace Greeley. It thus appears, from this testimony of Colonel Jaquess that he (in the fall of 1864) was commissioned by President Lincoln to “‘crack that nut” of the rebel peace diplomats, Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, George Sanders and others, on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, that extraordinary rebel diplo- matic experiment’ by which Horace Greeley was “taken in and done for ;” that, in order to get an “‘open sesame” to that Canadian gang of rebel peacemakers, Colonel Jaquess found his man to be ex-President Buchanan; that, repairing to Wheatland, the Colonel readily succeeded in getting into the confidence of Buchanan, who was found to be “thoroughly advised of and familiar with all the movements of the enemy on the ‘border (Thompson, Clay & Co.) and in full sympathy with them;” that ‘he (Buchanan) preferred that they should succeed in their wicked designs against the government rather than that the republican party should succeed in saving and keeping control of the country ;” that from Buchanan the witness in this matter secured the entrée into the Canadian Border Rebel Convention, the deliberations of which “were confined to the best methods of securing the election of the democratic candidate to the Presidency, the defeat of Lincoln and the ele- vation of themselves to power.” From this testimony, then, we see that the rebel chiefs, in the fall of 1864, as the last resort, hoped for the success of their designs through the defeat of Lincoln, and that the rebel conspirators on the Canadian border were ‘chiefly employed in considering the best methods to secure this great object; they counted upon peace on their own terms with the’ defeat of Lincoln, and that so the loyal States understood the Chicago democratic platform in declaring the war for the Union ‘‘a failure.” Buchanan, the attitude in which he is placed by materially from the prevailing impressions in the North of his capitulation to the Southern secession democracy in reference to Fort Sum- ter. old slaveholding oligarchy as the rightful mas- that As for that feeble-minded old man, the witness quoted does not differ He had simply learned to look upon the The Labor Problen—The Chinese. In the employment of a company of Chinese in one of the New England shoe shops there ia. 4 great step taken in the solution of one of the inost perplexing questions of the time. Capital and labor, although essentially necessary one to the other, have always been at issue, and the strife that has been between them at differ- ent times in different lands is responsible per- haps for almost as much misery as war itself. Capital, always endeavoring to multiply itself, is mostly instigated by a short-sighted view of its own necessities and does not respect .the rights of labor; and labor, forced often to revolt for the assertion of its rights, has thus been taught a bad habit, and revolts frequently when its rights are not really at stake, but when often it only fancies some cause of dis- content, or is led by the nose in the interest of soreheaded schemers, The aspect of the trouble in Massachusetts just previously to the introduction of the Chinamen was this: Labor was demanding concessigns that capital posi- tively and peremptorily declared it could not and would not make. The concessions demanded related not only to the price of labor, but to the control of the establishment employing it. The wages de- manded were not only greater than employers believed they could pay, but the laborers insisted upon dictating who should be employed and what man should hold one place and what another. This assumption of the right of societies of laborers to govern in the establishments in which they work is one that has had disastrous effects in many countries, and in Massachusetts it determined the extreme experiment now in hand. The practical effect of this experiment just now is that capital suddenly, finds itself enabled to do without labor—that is, as the word labor has hitherto been understood in all the coun- tries vexed: with the labor problem. It is able to operate entirely without regard to the whole class of persons with whom hitherto it has had to contend—whose ignorance, petulance and passion it has had to humor, resist and give way to, according to the necessities of every case. It findsitself suddenly in posses- sion of that wonderful creature, a laborer who can be guaranteed against membership of any trade societies—who cannot be wheedled, nor tempted nor even driven away from the employment he has taken—who cannot be argued into the notion that the wages paid are a beggarly distance below what a free citizen of the great republic ought to get. In short, it finds itself in possession of a laborer as docile, tractable and steady asa machine, yet with intelligence and adaptable versatility of hu- manity. Capital has acquired this laborer in one place; why shall it not have it in every place where the necessity may arise? What stands in the way? Certainly not the law. Thero is no statute against a man’s contract- debate NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1870.~—TRIPLE SHEET. Glimpsce of the Rebellion=Bu- Congress—Tho Franking PrivilegeAppreprl+ ation Bills in the House. The Senate worked away at the franking privilege yesterday with a business-like avid- ity that gives us some hope of its complete abolition. The Post Office Appropriation bill contains the germ of the Honse bill to abolish the franking privilege in the form of an amend- ment, and it is in this particular light that the Senate is now discussing it. Several experi- mental votes were taken which indicate a very favorable disposition towards its abolition. Mr. Sumner’s amendment, reducing post- age to one cent, Mr. Nye’s reducing it to two, and Mr. Drake's to allow five hun- dred dollars extra to each member in lieu of the privilege, were each rejected, and an amendment of Mr. Spencer's fixing the time when the abolition is to take place in Septem- ber next was adopted by a vote of 35 to 23. The main amendment, however, was not dis- posed of, The Southern Pacific Railroad bill was very generally discussed in the evening session, In the House Mr. Butler succeeded, during the call of States for bills, in having his reso- lution to annex Dominica as a State introduced and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. It provides for the payment of one million three hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars in gold towards the liquidation of the debt of Dominica by the United States and the surrender of all her public buildings and fortifications to the Federal government on her admission. The resolution is intended as a dernier ressort, in case the Senate refuses to ratify the St. Do- mingo treaty, and it will probably not be effectually discussed until the Senate has so decided. The Fortification Appropriation bill was discussed in committee of the whole. Mr. Butler made avery good point in the by his remark that stone forts are no obstacle to heavy iron- clad ships of war, and that even wooden ships can frequently run by them without much trouble. It is true that, with the new inven- tions called forth by our war, the improve- ments in projectiles and in ship armor, the best harbor defences lie in ships of war them- selves, Itis tobe regretted that Congress does not keep its measures up to the advanced spirit of the age. The twelve hundred thou- sand dollars appropriated by the bill which was passed would have better served the public interests if devoted to securing a more efficient navy. The Army Appropriation bill was also passed, Mr. Dawes urging the House to great industry in disposing of the appropriation bills in order that the Senate might consider them thoroughly before adjournment. Tue Proretter Nunpa ran down a small boat, containing twogeptlemen and two ladies, near Milton, on the Hudson, on Sunday even- ing. The two ladies and one gentleman were nD Tho Public Debi—The Treasury Ready (to | Christianity in Roghand—The State Church; Pay the July Interest. We learn from Washington that the Secre- tary of the Treasury has his schedule ready for paying the interest on the national debt which becomes due on the Ist of July. The amount to be paid is in round numbers twenty- eight millions. In a few days, therefore, there will be another pretty large flood of specie thrown upon the market, which will enter into the avenues of trade and tend to bring down the premium on gold. It is. not very often that the Finance Minister of a great nation has in these times such a plethora of money on hand that he hardly knows what to do with it, but such is the happy condition of Mr. Bout- well. He is paying the debt at the rate of about a hundred millions a year, aad is al- ways ready to answer any demands on the Treasury, or even to anticipate them. No country was ever richer, in more prosperous circumstances or had such a prospect of pay- ing an enormous debt. Europeans are not less surprised at our financial resources than they were at the strength of the government and the military power of the republic during the war, No wonder that General Grant is desirous to seize the opportunity these favorable cir- cumstances afford for reducing the debt as much as possible. We must give credit to his administration for what it has done and is doing to liquidate the debt. The President looks at this matter in a broad and statesman- like point of view. He knows that by con- tinuing to pay the debt the country will be in the course of a few years powerful enough for any emergency, and that when the burdens of taxation are lifted from, the people they will feel a giant’s strength. But it is not necessary to ¢aise the enormous revenue we are now raising. Taxation can be greatly reduced, and yet there will be a large surplus income to be applied to the liquidation of the debt. Let Congress co-operate with the Presi- dent in his policy, in practising economy and in reducing and simplifying taxation, and by the end of his term, in 1873, we shall see most of the evils of the war obliterated and the republic on the high road to such prosperity and grandeur as no nation ever experienced. The Darien Expedition—No Route There. It is pretty evident now that the experiment to construct a ship canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, through the Isthmus of Darien, has had no hopeful results. All the experi- ence gathered by the exploring expedition goes to show that the difficulties are almost insurmountable. One obstacle alone would probably stand in the way of success, and that is the enormous expense of cutting through the ridge of mountains which, from the back- bone of the isthmus, running, as it does, northwards from New Granada almost un- broken to the northern boundary of Costa Rica, except in such gullies as admit the Panama the Pope and Modera Israel. The Archbishop of Canterbury, England, has addressed his mitred brother of Bristol, advising him to let the Ecumenical Council in Rome, its sayings and doings, its fallibilities and infallibilities just “slide,” or, in other words, to permit both its decrees and declara- tions to “go by the board.” His Grace thinks that action in this direction willbe more “dignified, wise and sober,” as the English Church formularies contain ‘‘a suffictent response to the proceedings of the Roman Council.” His Grace of Canterbury takes a purely Christian view of the subjéct. Ho expresses himself in words fitting and suitable to issue from a cathedral which stands on the site of the first Christian church erected in Saxon England, and from a cloister which dates from the tweltth century. Hg speake of charity over the tomb of the Black Prince, and proclaims his oremus from the Chapel of the Holy Trinity and by the knee prints of the thousands of pilgrims who have worshipped at the shrine of Thomas 2 Becket. The Arch- bishop of Canterbury is really ‘‘up ‘to the occasion,” if he can only just induce Pope Pius IX, Cardinal Antonelli and Arch- bishop Manning to ‘see it.” His Grace of Canterbury is in really excellent tone for a State churchman. It is to be hoped that “My Lord” of Bristol—a place which smells awfully of sulphur, tar, turpentine and coal, but which has one hundred aud thirty fine churches and many schools—will seize the inspiration just in the acceptable time, and thus be able to completely exorcise the spiril of King Stephen from the aisles of the old cathedral. Mr. Disraeli, who comes from a moré ancient, nobler and more glorious name and stock than the Archbishop, don’t take things just that way, notwithstanding his early Chris- tian baptism. The author of ‘‘Lethair" pitches into the writers and editors of Dlack- woods Magazine for the criticisms which have been published in that periodical on his new work. Blackwood—having the fear of God before his eyes and the remembrance of holy Job in his heart—stops press, makes a second edition and publishes the latest literary budget chapter of the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer. Is this done in accordance with the Papal discipline code of “satisfaction,” “restitution,” ‘‘penance” and ‘absolution ?” We wait replies from the Archbishop of Can- terbury and the chief Rabbi. The Proper Terminus of the Erie Canal. New York is largely indebted for its pre- eminence as a commercial city to the inland navigation of the State, both natural and arti- ficial. Our public works have, in their ulti- mate results, exceeded the most sanguine an- ticipations of those statesmen whose wisdom and foresight conceived and executed them. The completion of the Erie Canal was an era” drowned. The survivor says that the pro- peller came upon them while their attention was directed towards a tow coming from another point, but that when she was close upon them they called to her to “hold off,” and no answer was received. After they were run down the propeller continued unconcern- edly on her way without stopping to assist them. It is but just to say, however, that the captain of the propeller denies this, and declares that he did go back and search for the ters of the government; for he had so learned to read the constitution. It is gratifying to have, after this testimony against Buchanan, evidence from the same witness of the practical loyalty of Governor Seymour after the Presidential election of 1864, in not only ceasing to oppose the admin- istration of Lincoln in the prosecution of the war, but in promptly answering every call upon New York for her quota of troops. It appears, too, that Governor Seymour was ing to have his work done at its cheapest, nor any commanding him to choose or respect any particular race of men. Only the trade unions have Litherto stood in the way of the complete freedom of employers, and now we see that itis possible to turn ail the devices, and arrangements of the trade unions to their own confusion. It is hardly possible that em- ployers will fail to use the means given them. Not one but has been oppressed by the tyranny of labor in one way or another, from the de- and Arms; A Seaport for the Gem of the An- tilles—Brooklyn City News—aquatiec: Sptrited Contest Between the Harvard and Rutgers K College Crews on the Raritan river; the Har vards Victorious—Kun Down: ‘he Propetier Nupha Sinks a Small Poat Containing Four Persans; Three of Them Drowned—New York jewa—Internal Revenue Returns—Red ud: A Starthng Leaf trom His History— Prize Fighting Extraordinary—Curing the So- ¢lal Evil vn Cincinnati—Capture of a Turtle—~ Old World Items. 6.—Editorials: Leading Articie on Inside Glimpses of the Rebellion, Buchanan, Seymour and Grecley—Amusement Announcements, '7—ELditorials—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the Worla: Nawoleon Sti!l Invalided; Dickens’ Railroad to creep through. There would be two hundred miles of cutting required by this way. But fortunately for the plan of a ship canal there is still an easy route open and one that had been talked of years ago and tem- porarily discarded because it was never fairly tried, We allude to the Nicaragua ‘route. Hére we have a navigable river—the San Juan—running from the Caribbean Sea, at Greytown, to Lake Nicaragua, a fine not only in the history of the State but also’ an era in the history of the country, for by it a commercial pathway was opened to the Great West along which has moved the silent but resistless tide of immigration which has spread itself through the valley of the Mississippi, creating States, erecting cities and developing the wonderful resources of a vast country which but yesterday was a wilderness in the undisputed possession of savages and wild Memoriam and Last Will from the Pulpit; Dis- raeli and Blackwood, and an Archbishop and the Pope; Death of a Noble “Masquerader” in England—The Heatet Term: Com- arative “Temperature in the Leading ities of the United States—Personal Intelll- nee—Amusements—Muste in the Parks— arial of the Aucient—Indian Remains in North Carolina—More Marital Troubles in Jersey—Shocking Railroad Accident—Reck- less Revolver Practice—Business Notices. 8=Great Labor Revolution: Coolieism in Massa- chusetis; the Asiatics Hard At lv; the Death Blow of Trades’ Unions Predicted; Chinese Labor in the Soutn—Real Kstate Transfers— Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Couris—Peolice Department—Meeting of the Board of Health—Political Notes and Com- ments—First New Wheat. 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 20—Quarantine Quarrels: More Attempted Inter- ference with the Health Oficer—Hawau— Meeting of Sunday School Teachers—German Sprees—An Exemplary Woman's Right:—The ‘Tragedy at Ashley, Mo.—Obituary—Bears in brought round to this policy by the communi- cation to him in person from Colonel Jaquess of the views and purposes of Jeff Davis, which admitted of ‘‘no half-way house of diplomatic rest” between the suppression or recognition ofthe Southern confederacy. The HERALp, with the active co-operation of that experienced and sagacious politician, John Van Buren, succeeded, in 1862, in putting Seymour for Governor on the right platform for success— “a more vigorous prosecution of the war ;” but he was overruled by the peace copper- heads in 1868, and so they and he—for Gov- ernor again—went on to their defeat of 1864. But after this defeat it is grati- fying to know that Governor Seymour stood Califormia—shipping Intelligence—Advertise- ments. 11—Aadvertisements. 12—Advertisements. Rep Croup’s Warriors, 28 we predicted, are already prepafing for war. A thousand lodges of them are congregating near Fort Laramie to await the arrival of their chief. It is to be hoped that our government has taken measures to forewarn the military and the white settlers throughout the Indian country of the vicious spirit in which both Spotted Tail and Red Cloud departed from the capital. Nor Forcorren.—It seems the old ‘Bowl - ing Green,” at the foot of Broadway, about which clusters so many pleasant memories of times gone by, is not forgotten in the march of improvement undertaken by the Park Com- missioners. Yesterday workmen commenced turning up the old sod, and ina few weeks we expect to see this pretty little spot, like an emerald jewel, pendant upon the more expan- sive beauties of the renovated and rejuvenated grand old Battery itself. PorrvavesE Rerorms.—Saldanha has made arevolution in Portugal bigger than at first appeared. Among other reforms of greater or less importance Portugal promises to abolish the death penalty. Is not this a little too much? Does it not seem as if the First Napoleon’s mistaken humanity was becoming too general? Ifthe death penalty is every- where abolished what shall we do with our Reynoldses? In this general movement against the death penalty in Holland, in Prussia, in Portugal and elsewhere we seem to discover too much of the ancient levelling principle—a little too much of democracy. We don't despise liberty, but we have some regard for the value of human life. Suspay Rum.—We have been applauding Superintendent Jourdan for hisactive and suc- cessful campaign against the faro banks, panel houses and mock auction shops. We want him now to look after the growing crimes resulting from Sunday rum, consumed between midnight on Saturday and sundown on the Sabbath. Onr Monday morning records of bloody @nd often fatal collisions are discred- itable to the city. They do not speak very highly of the efficiency of the police, nor do they intimate avery rigid enforcement of the Excise law. Therefore we give a hint to the police authorities as well as to the Excise Board that there is room for improvement in (hare perficulars. faithfully by Lincoln in pushing on the war. What followed, in reference to Seymour down to November, 1868, we need not here repeat, only that it was the winding up of his political career. Greeley, whose aberrations and perturba- tions during the war asa supporter of the government, no man, living or dead, can satisfactorily explain, appears in this testi- mony of Colonel Jaquess as anything but an’ amiable man, and, withal, asa very profane man. After cracking that rebel nut at Niagara Falls to the satisfaction of the President, the witness in the premises says that he next, in behalf of the amiable Lincoln, undertook to reconcile Greeley—that is, in reference to his wild-goose chase to Niagara Falls fora treaty of peace with Jake Thompson & Go.—onthe basis of a sop of four hundred millions of dol- lars to the Southern oligarchy for the emanci- pation of theirslaves. ‘‘But,” says the witness before the Senate committee-on the subject, “«T went to Mr. Greeley, but he was not will- ing to be reconciled. He seemed willing to receive me and to hear me, but was very much incensed at Mr. Lincoln. Greeley says he never swears; but to me he cursed Mr. Lincoln up and down, and Ihave a witness who can prove it. He called Mr. Lincoln a liar, and would not hear my explanation realiy about the change in Mr. LitRoln’s plans in reference to the Niagara Falls affair.” * * * ‘He in- sists to this day that Mr. Lincoln lied to him.” The questions here naturally come in, why this implacable wrath of Greeley © Why was it that “he cursed Mr. Lincoln up and down,” and called him a liar? And why insists he to this day ‘that Mr. Lincoln lied to him?” We sup- pose that it was, and is, because when Greeley went up to Niagara Falls the pr@émium straw- berry man thought himself a lion, and because when he came back he knew that, with Lincoln’s consent, Jaquess had made him a donkey. It was one of Lincoln’s jokes, and Greeley was too thin-skinned to take itasa joke, but had to get ima rage about it, and go to cursing the most amiable man in the world and calling him names excusable only ina lunatic. We can only suggest that, in regard to all these extraordinary inside glimpses of the rebellion from Colonel Jaquess, another chap- ter ought to be added to Greeley’s ‘‘American Conflict,” and for the simple reason that these glimpses behind the scenes are necessary to a clear understanding of the changing scenes on the stage, . mand for short hours to the dictation aa to the employment of persons. Workmen have gone so far in their many conflicts with employers that these have well nigh lost whatever con- sideration they may have had. Science has worked the great miracle of furnishing such a laborer as will revolutionize all the mechanical occupations in this country. It is nothing to say that the Chinaman in the Southern States will take the place of the negro; he will doa great deal more. He will free, for better occupations, the hands of every American now engaged in the meaner industries, The shoemakers whose places are taken by the Chinamen are reported to have earned from three to seven Aollars a day, and this at a labor so little skilled that the Chinamen will know it completely in a month. Men with such ambition in regard to their earnings should also be ambitious to improve their occupation; the Chinaman will permit them and will cheapen shoes at the saine time. At this the whole people can rejoice. We have a country whose one great incessant demand is for labor, and opposite us, on the Pacific, is a teeming population that cries out for the means toearn bread. With a realm that is almost illimitable, and the means of supporting a population greater than was ever congregated in the land, and with that popu- lation already finding the way among as, the end is evident. The wave of Asiatic immi- gration will cover the Pacific slope and deter- mine many knotty points this side of it ; and why not? Ignorance, prejudice, selfish greed can give many reasons why, but there are none that come from better authority. The Chinese do not yield to any people on the earth in any of the-virtues really proper to a people. Their vices are only the consequence of the conditions of life in China. They are intelligent, industrious, frugal; they abide by the law always, and what is only morality with us is law with them. They are patient, they are zealous in the performance of duties, and devoutly religious according to their creed, Shall a race with these qualities be ruled out of a constitution that has taken in the depraved, slothful, stupid and brutal African ? Tue Briotan Caninet Crisis.—The cleri- cal party, which ia Belgium means the Roman purty, has for some time been in painful antagonism with what is known as the liberal party. In Belgium, as in Bavaria and Baden, the Roman party is numerically strong; but sometimes questions purely local make men forgetful of Rome. The Ecumenical Council in Belgium, as in Bavaria, has made the Catholic party a unit. Hence the present change of Ministry. The Belgian Cabinet crisis does not mean much. Belgium is big enough to bea, battle field, but not forceful enough to revolutionize Europe. Witt Farner Hecker tell us why be did not on Sunday last make any allusion to infal- libility? His was a good discourse ; but every one who reads it. as given in our columns yesterday, feels as he would feel were he wit- nessing the performance of ‘‘Hamlet” with Ham- let left out, Father Hecker ought to have come to the poivt- sufferers, but without effect. This lamentable disaster indicates how dangerous it is for small boais to venture in such a crowded stream as the Hudson, especially at night, when they are scarcely discernible from the deck of larger vessels, It would be a good suggestion, we think, for even the smaller boats to carry lights of some sort, in order to show their where- abouts. Ifit is true, however, that the propel- ler did not go back to search for the victims, the captain deserves as much execration as the infamous Captain Eyre, of the Bombay, and it is to be hoped he will receive a severer punishment. STAR PRB L Alpaesteis SS MELANCHOLY MusIO ,FOR THE CROAKERS.— While the grain markets in this country are re- sponding to feverish and speculative movements in breadstuffs in France on account of the appre- hended failure of the coming crops there, para- graphs like the following appear among our Western exchanges. We copy from the Mil- waukee Wisconsin of the 16th inst.:— Wheat is coming in faster than it can be shipped. At the present writing there are over one miilion and a half of bushels in store in the various elevators of this city, and still tt comes rushing in, by the hundred thousand bushels. Milwaukee suill has the credit of being the great primary wheat market of the world. This being the pressure of the old crop for shipment upon a single Western mart, what will be the effect when the new crop pours into the general market, us it is already beginning to do from some of the more southerly lati- tudes? Since the reports given in yesterday’s Heratp in relation to the prospects of the coming crops succeeding mails have brought accounts confirming in the fullest degree those before published, and all showing that the har- vests the present year will be unparalleled in abundance. Croakers, speculators and all “rogues in grain,” stand back! Tue Georce B. Upron’s Expgprtions.— We have at length positive information about the Cuban steamer George B. Upton, which left this port on the 14th of last May. Her mission was to aid the Cubans by supplying them with men, arms and ammunition. This work she performed well, visited the vigilantly guarded isle on two separate occasions, evaded the watchfulness of the Spanish gun- boats, and after doing the work marked out for her returned to this city. Both expedi- tions of the Upton, the one from New York and the other from Aspinwall appear to have been well conceived and ably executed. The account of the performances ¢f the George B. Upton, which are published on anc-her page, will be read with interest. Mart ALLEN, who is serving out aterm of five yearsin the State Prison for panel thiev- ing, is now trying to regain his liberty on legal technicalities. He claims that the jury was prejudiced against him, and that the in- dictment was invalid. Mart is one of those old offenders who are known intimately to all the police officers and most of the judges, and asthe evidence against him was‘ conclusive he should not be allowed to escape the penalty by a legal quibble. Judge Dowling settles these matters rightly. If he knows a prisoner to be a bad character he usually sends him up without allowing any margin for appeals or legal subterfuge’ Ms sheet of water deep enough to float a navy. From the western border of the lake to the Pacific coast there are only about twelve or fif- teen miles through which to cutacanal. The soil there is soft and the ground comparatively level. This mode of communication for ships between the two oceans has occupied the thoughts of many speculative minds in Europe. Several years ago the present Emperor of France in studying this question stated that this very location, the Isthmus of Nicaragua— this strip of land lying between Nicaragua Lake and the Pacific, if used for a ship canal, would become, politically and otherwise, as important a point on the American Continent as Constantinople is to Europe. A British naval officer—Captain Bedford Pym, we think—not many years ago made a careful survey of this route and pronounced it as his opinion that a ship canal could be constructed in the most satisfactory manner for twenty millions of dollars. There is a very important advantage which this route would heave over the Darien route, and that is that there would be a clear saving in navigation of between six hundred and a thousand miles for ships on each side of the isthmus, and a saving in time of fully three weeks and this is a matter worthy ¢«f consideration. Nature seems to have provided this route for our purposes. The distante from all the ports on the Gulf of Mexico, from New Orleans and Galveston to Sisal, would be reduced six hun- dred miles by the opening of the ship canal route by the way of Niciragua in compari- son with that at Darien, ifsuch a route were possible, which it appears is not. We cannot have much reason, therefore to regret the re- sult of the Darien expeditin if itleads us toa better line of communicatbn with the Pacific by way of Nicaragua. A Coot Piece or WorK—Recently a gang of five or six outlaws mad) a raid from their den in North Carolina atross the State line into South Carolina, and entering a village storeearly in the evening seized the store- keeper and imprisoned hin in one of his own rooms, took possession ofthe premises, cap- tured customers as they ertered singly to the number of eighteen, place¢ them in durance with the shopkeeper, an¢ after rifling the place of all they wanted iafely decamped to their own lair, stealing several horses on the way. Js it nota little singular that this mise- rable gang of outlaws should be allowed to accomplish such a cool pece of villany in the face of such odds? +The women themselves might have driven them of with their broom- sticks, What should the Governor of South Carolina say to the Governor of North Caro- lina under, the circumstatces ? Goop For Lez.—The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser of the 17th init, says:—‘‘More corn than cotton has been phnted in Lee county this year.” This is good news, and shows that the South is becoming wide Awake to its own interests. Plenty of land planted in corn will not only not retuce the price for cot- ton, but guarantee plenty of ‘“‘corn cake and chicken fixin’s” to home consumers -at mode- Tate rates. beasts. Every five years adds more than a - million willing recruits to that great industrial army which, while creating homes for them- selves, return here the product of their labor, and thus each one pays tribute to the commercial emporium. This is the source of our pros- perity. Every bushel of wheat that is raised in the West, every rail that is laid upon her roads, every farm that is opened, every house that is buili, all pay their tribute tous. We receive the results of their industry and dis- tribute them to the world, and in return we send to them the necessities and comforts of life which they do not produce. As each year adds largely to their population and increases their industrial resources, s0 must each year add largely to our prosperity. Yet what pro- vision have we made in all the years gone by to enable us to properly transact this vast and increasing business? Let our rotten wharves, our half-paved streets, our disgusting markets speak for themselves in answer to this ques- tion. Why has this condition of affairs been suffered to remain so long? Have we no statesmen capable of understanding the true principles of political economy? Are there none to,replace the Clintons, the Fultons and the Livingstons, whose far-seeing wisdom, sagacious counsel and well-directed enterprise made New York the imperial State of the Union? There are many yet living who heard the exulting shout that went up from the Atlantic to the lakes when, on the 26th day of October, 1825, the signal guns, placed atintervals for five hundred and thirteen miles, from Buffalo to New York, announced to listening thou- sands that the first boat from Lake Erie had entered the Western Canal, to be conveyed to the ocean, and who saw, also, that great pro- cession,in which all the trades and industries vied with each’ other in testifying in the most appropriate manner their joy at the comple- tion of the work, to them the dawn of a new prosperity. It was a coronation day; for Industry was that day crowned king in the metropolis of free America. Not Westmin- ster, nor. Rheims, nor pagan Rome ever wit- nessed so grand a scene. There were no gilded chariots, nor purple robes, but simply a long line of artisans of every craft working at their different trades, exhibiting their joy by assert- ing in their pride of manhood the dignity of labor. None who were present can ever for- get the simple grandeur of that occasion. Gold and silver medals were struck to commemo- rate the event, and an elaborate memorial by Cadwallader D. Colden told its history. Nearly half a century has passed since then, yet from that day to this the city has done nothing to show that here is the true terminus of all our public works, ‘ We have been content, like the children of the tropics, to pick the fruit that falls at our feet. No proper provision has been made for the vast and increasing traffic ofsthe great West. Fleets of canal boats and barges fill the Hudson, coming an@ going; yet when they arrive here there is a struggle for a landing place, and they are scattered along both rivers for ten or filteen miles, discharging their cargoes where best they can; interfering with the shipping, tm- peded by ferryboats, incommoded by each:

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