The New York Herald Newspaper, July 4, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NE Republic. The Fourth of July, 1870, is more truly an W YORK HERALD Tue Fourth of July—The Position, of tho | Singular Conduct of Congrean on the Ine | come Tax, On the 24th of last month the Senate struck occasion for national self-gratulation than any | out of Mr. Sherman's Tax-Tariff bill the sec- the American people have ever seen, not even | tions for continuing the income tax by the excepting the days in which they immediately | decislve vote of thirty-four yeas to twenty- celebrated the assured fact of independence. three nays. The people in every section of $0 business or news lettes and telegraphic | It is the first return of our great anniversary | the country rejoiced over the death of this in- despatches must be addressed New York Hera.p. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. that sees all the States in the enjoyment of the | quisitorial, oppressive and corrupting tax. i rights that constitute them equal members of ] was a war measure, and the cquatry was glad the Union, after the privation of these rights in a struggle of greater danger to us and | restored five years. to see it discontinued after peace had been No one supposed, after greater moment to humanity than that | such a vote, that the tax would be reyived Rejected communications will not be re- | against the British tyranny. Had our | again or any further action upon it be taken. turned. forefathers failed to make good against | Mr, Sherman, the chairman of the Senate = ot Britain the claim of 1776, that they | Finance Committee, who had urged the con- Volume XXXV.........0.065 tssesesssesNo, 185 | were of right entitled to the control of | tinuance of the tax, admitted, in his remarks in AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 38d st., between Sth and 6th avs.— ‘Tas HuguRNoTs. Matinee at Lig. BOWERY THEATRE, Mazerra—New Yorx Fi rery.-LOTTERY TICKET— AN, Matinee at 2, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broad: cm MINNIE's LUOK.. mad jway and 18th street. FIFTH AVENUB ANDER, Matines at OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broad Swiss SWains--Day AFTER woop's ner Thirtieth, *ogemaceaps Twenty-fourth st.—FER- —THE First Niout— ‘alg, Matinee at 2. MUSEUM AND MENAGERIR. Rroadway, cor- st.—Three Performances, at 11, 2 and 8 P. M. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and THR TWELVE TRMPTATIONS. Matinee at 2. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Tuk D&UNKARD—NEW YORK IN SLICES, &C. Matinee at 2. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE. Brooklyu.— GUBHING CLORINDA—ROMEO JAFFIER JENKINS, THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.-Comic Vooar- 19M, NEGRO AoTs, 40. Matinee at 2. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway. FRrow-FRow—HOxrse FLY Don’? TICKLE Mz, &v. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—HooLry's MIN- STRELS—EVERYBODY'S FRIEND—PLUTO. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th ay., betwenn 58th and 9th sta. —Tazovone TuomAs’ PoruLak Concerts. TERRACE GARDEN, Fifty-eighth street and Third ave- nue.—GEAND CONCERT. APOLLO HALL, corner 26th street and Broadway.— PANORAMA OF SCOTLAND. _NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIRNOE AND ARr. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUN, 745 Broadway. — SCIENCE AND Ant. SH "July 4, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pace. their own destinies, that failure would not have given the English domination a respite of twenty-years. In that early age we were already a resolute race, and if ever there was a people fitted to bequeath “from bleeding sire to son” the unfinished fight for freedom it was the people that bred their cool temper and firm will on every slope from the cold shores of Maine to the blue hills of the old Mother of States. The power competent to hold this people in a system of government against the general consent has not yet grown upon the earth. Looked at justly, therefore, our independence of a domination beyond the Atlantic, if it had been deferred in one decade, would have been se- cured in another ; it was simply no more than a question of time as to who should prevail; and we cannot believe that our defeat in the first war would have ultimately imperilled this grandest humane experiment of all the ages by which we are endeavoring to demonstrate that the best government is that which views humanity from what we may suppose to be the standpoint of God Almighty himself, and recognizes no distinction between his crea- tures but such as we must believe He also would recognize. But there was a greater danger than that with which we were menaced by the govern- ment of the country from which the first colonies came. It was adanger that was great only because it had its growth among ourselves, because it was rooted in our vices, weak- nesses, passions and vanities. This danger was that the consent of the whole people to a single system of government would not con- tinue long enough to give our experiment a fair trial—that ii would fail not on a test of its 1—Advertisements. Rm Adv 19. : Politics, Piety and Pulpit Pyrotech- vetrinal Firecracker Fired in the Face ident Grant; Preaching of stray Shep- herds to Out-of-Town Fashionable Sheep; The Prophet Snow on the Religious Situation; Ser- vices and Sermons in the Metropolis, the Capt- tal, Hartiord, the Watering Places, Brooklyn and Jersey ho 4—Keligious (continued from Third Page)—Six Cutidren Diet on the Jimson Weed. S—Europe : Napoleon's Health, French Quiet and City Life in Paris; The Industrial Exhibition in St. Peter-bu Royal Amusements and Aristocratic Moralities in England—Personal Intelligence—Art Notes—Sunday Excursions About the Metropolis—Horrible Accident on the Morris and Kasex Ratlroad—Fatal Case of — Somnambuilsam—Sulcide by Hanging. 6—Etitoriais: Leading Article on the Fourth of July, the Position of the Republic—Mutder ur @ Wife—Amusement Announcements. 2—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World: The French Court in Mourning; Paritamentary Exile of Orleanism from Fra Papal Infa\- lipiity in Rome and St. Petersburg—The Dominican Prisoner: Arrival of Davis Hateh in this City—Th irand — street i tn the Bow from ‘The &, ew York City Excise La Maiters—Presid ‘tieut—Probable Fatal Affray—United rican’ Mechanic-—Pistol Practice in a Policy Shop—Hariem River and Port Chester Railroad—Marine Transfers—Business Noti 8—Yachting : An American Yachtman’s Rem and Appeal; Apparent Lack of Interest by Yacht Owners—The Colored Voters of the South; Poliard’s Address to His Negro Fellow Citizens; Reasons Why They Should Vote With the Conservatives—Cost of Labor and Subsist- ence in the United States—The Prize Ring— The New Judiciary. 9—South American Commerce: Gigantic Opera- tions on the Amazon—News from Jamaica, W. I.—Fatal Blanders—Bitten by a Mad Dog— Another Row on the Hoboken Meadows— Brooklyn City New Farmyard Horror— ‘The Coal Trate—Murder Trial in Utica, N. Y.— Financial and Commercial Reporis—Marriages and Deaths. 10—independence Day : The Celebration of the Na- tion’s Natal Day; The Programme of Obser- t Grant m vances in the Metropolis and srburbs; Parades, Reviews, Excursions, @rations, Salutes and Pyrotechnic Display Ipping Inteiligence—Advertisements. oe 11—Tihe East: A Curious Chapter of ‘Turk- ish History—Dickens and the —The Slaughter House Case in New Orleat8—Novel and Impressive Funeral Rites—A_ Bloodthirsty Little Savage in Saratoga—Loss of the Ten see—Severe Rain Storm in Cleveland—The New Constitution of llinols—Singular Suicide near Boston. 42=Chile aud Pern: Political Affairs in the West Coast Republics; The Indian Troubles tn Chile; Arrival of the Peruvian Monitors at Lima— The Tendencies of Government—The Cadet- Selier Whittemore 8} ks for Himself—Long Jsisnd City Electi reat Destruction of diighways—The of Heat upon Stone— A Falsehood Branded—The Alligator Horse— Adyertusements. IN “Por Yourserr His Piace”—New reading of Charles Reade’s latest work by ‘Tom Murphy e/ al. Tae Great Inrernationar Yacnr Race will be among the pyrotechnic devices 0 be exhibited in Tompkins square to-night. It will be one of the most original, brilliant and “telling” affairs that pyrotechnic art and skill can produce. = Le Paci Acaist Peter.—The ( lics threaten, as we are told by a telegram from St. Petersburg, to become Catholics of the Greek Church should the dogma of Papal infallibility be promulgated in Rome, This reads somewhat like robbing Peter to pay | Paul, The Czechs want to be men and falli- | ble. How do the Poles vote? merits, but because on minor points the great nation would split up into half a dozen or more parts as contemptible as the worst of an- tiquity in their pitiful bickerings and wasted wars. This danger arose from two facts. Slavery was one of these; the other was that mischievous invention of small politicians, inspired with geographical prejudices—the notion of State rights. In the organization of the country there was a seed of civil war—of bitter collision between the parts—which needed for its germination only the heat of party contests. The States, it was conceded, were separately sovereign within certain limits. The whole nation was sovereign also within certain limils, If either power should pass its assigned limit it must collide with the other. Here, then, were hostile sovereignties operating within the same circle, and each kept in its proper sphere only by the intellec- tual restraint of a set of legal definitions. Legal definitions are an infinite subject of dis- pute, and it therefore could not but happen that such differences of opinion should arise touching the respective theatres of the two systems of government as would put the whole people by the ears. Conciliation, mutual deference—a spirit of giving way on smaller points in view of greater ones—the moderate tone of public thought which was not swayed by party passion from the regard to public welfare—all these things kept the national harmony until the fight arose and the quarrel was pushed on the topic of slavery. Here the time had come when there could no longer be any compromise. The founders of the government had first assented to this institution from the necessity of the case. On no other terms could the slave States have been brought into the same unity of govern- ment with the free States, But undoubtedly the true spirit aud aims of the American republic were more nearly laid down in the Declaration of Independence than in the constitution, and it was the aspiration and tendency of the national thought to grow toward the better ideal. Half a century made a sentiment against the insti- tution, which, while it was morally praise- worthy, was fanatieally aggressive in taking no regard to the right of the other side and to the compromises that bound us to respect that right. Some were thrust into a war to determine whether slavery should perish, or whether, slavery surviving, the Union of the States should give way and the future should see on one hand a slave republic, on the other a fanatical puritan republic, with a great group of commercial States growing be- tween, and the West behind all with a destiny vague and undefined. No human creature can doubt but that we have reached the better result, aud certainly none among us dispute | this but those to whom the issue was individ- Tue CABLE states that the arrangement to start the yachts in the international ocean race from Old Head of Kinsale has been changed, | and that Daunt Head, about thirteen miles | further east than Kinsale Head, has been fixed | upon, This will make the distance to be run | a little more (Daunt Head being nearer to Cork than Kinsale), the honor to the victor none the less, Tar Far. Campaion.—Referring to the fall campaign in this State, the Ogdensburg Jour- nal says it ‘‘feels it in its bones that things are working which will result in a republican victory in November.” The way things are working among the republicans in this city it seems ag if there is likely to be considerable | rattling among the dry bones in the party be- Sage long all over the State. f “Cowérussmen Ar Laraz’—Is the title to {Many editorial articles in Western papers about these days, It takes the place of the purase ‘of old times, “The schoolmaster abroad.” The féason that so many Congress- mien are found at large in the West is because there aré 60 few penitentiaries in regions where land-grabbing, Indian treaty knavery ‘and corrupt jobs generally are the principal ooupations of the M. C.’s. he ually oppressive in crushing aspirations of personal ambition and a pride that could only have been gratified at a price that no pride is worth. We have come gloriously through the war, and at last are escaped from even the dangers of anarchy that threatened as a con- sequence of the war. Safely for the present, therefore, we stand, a republic of thirty-seven States and a dozen Territories—without an im- | medlate internal danger and without a foreign foe—and the Fourth of July that finds us thus has ever known, Tue Coat Trare—A Curious Proc.ama- tion. —The Miners’ ’ournal (coal monopolista’ | organ in Pennsylvania) addresses a proclama- tion “to the press abroad,” declaring that the supply of coal will be above a million of tons more than last year, whether the strikes continue or not, and advising consumers | abroad not to rush into the market and ‘cause a fluctuation in prices which is not beneficial to, and which ia not desired by, the trade,” This is very kind advice indeed. Had the neglect of Congress to abolish the duty on coal anything to do with it? “Winp Easterty—Fresu! be a glorious breeze for the international ocean yacht racers to start with. the debate last Monday, ‘‘that he had no hope the vote of the Senate would be changed.” He suggested to Mr. Howe and others who attempted to'waive discussion on the subject “that the-question had been decided.” But on Friday the advocates of the income tax, under the lead of this same Senator Sherman, took what may be termed a snap judgment over the Senate and restored the tax, . There was a great deal of parliamentary filibustering over the question, the majority voting yea at one time and nay at another. There never was a more singular instance of Congressional inconsistency and indecision. No further amendments being offered to the Tax-Tariff bill, it was reported on Friday from the Committee of the Whole to the Senate, when the amendments were concurred in, ex- cept those upon which separate votes were asked. The first of these upon which a sepa-* rate vote was asked was that striking out the income tax sections.’ Mr, Wilson, of Massa- chusetts, moved to continue the income tax for two years longer at two and a half per cent, instead of five per cent, as it now stands, This motion was nezatived by twenty-eight nays to twenty-three yeas, Then the ‘Senate voted upon the amendment of the Committee of the Whole striking out the income tax sections, when the vote stood yeas twenty-three, nays twenty-one. This was regarded as a finality. Mr, Sherman then made an argument against sweeping away so many taxes, and urged that the government could not get along unless some of those stricken off were retained. Thereupon Mr. Edmunds gave notice that he would move to reconsider the vote striking out the income tax sections. In the evening session Mr. Edmunds brought up his motion to reconsider. This led to some discussion, but finally the motion to reconsider prevailed. The yeas were twenty-six, nays twenty-five. Mr. Wilson then renewed his amendment to continue the tax for two years longer at two and a half per cent. After a lengthy dis- cussion this amendment was agreed to—yeas twenty-seven, nays twenty-one. The ques- tion then being on striking out the sections imposing the income tax, as amended by Mr. Wilson, the Senate refused to strike them out, thus reversing its former action, The yeas were twenty-six, nays 22. This shows that the Senate got into a curi- ous muddle over this income tax question. It is not easy to understand all these parlia- mentary dodges and rules of action; but we suppose the income tax, as far as the vote of the Sevate goes, is to be continued for two years longer, and ata rate of two anda half per cent. instead of five per cent. The Senators favoring this unpopular and offensive tax took advantage evidently of a great many of their colleagues being absent to rush through their measure. The vote was a small one. There were some twenty-six Senators absent or not vot- ing, and there were nine short of the number that voted on the 24th of June for abolishing the tax altogether. This con- duct—this snap judgment and filibustering— on the part of Senators is discreditable to that body. Mr. Sherman himself must be surprised at the success of his management of this affair; for he declared only a few hours be- fore that the question had been decided and that he had no hope the vote of the Senate abolishing the tax would be changed. However, the House of Represen- tatives may still refuse to concur in the ac- tion of the Senate, and may let this abomi- nable tax die a natural death. Jf the mem- bers have any regard for their popularity and the wishes of the people they will do so. They have only to notice the unanimous ap- proval of the first action of the Senate in abolishing the tax by the press of all parties and shades of opinion, and the general gratifi- cation it gave to the public, to guide them in this matter. Mr. Sherman’s pretence, that this tax is needed for the support of the govern- ment, is absurd. With all the taxes re- duced or taken off by the Tax-Tariff bill there will be still an enormous surplus income. Even with the abolishment of the income tax as well the revenue would be quite large enough, or more than enough, for the current expenses of the government and for a good round sum to be applied to the liquidation of the debt. We hope the House will refuse to concur in the action of the Senate on the in- come tax. Tur Warat Crop—Goop Rerorts.—From Virginia to Georgia we have reports of an excellent wheat crop; from East Tennessee we learn that the harvesting has been going on for some time in all the counties; that some little smut is reported (indicating an abund- ance of rain for the growing corn crop), and that the heavy wheat is considerably tangled in some places, but that ‘the yield will be tre- mendous.” In Virginia the crop is so large that the farmers are afraid that they will hardly get a compensating price for it. But is certainly the most truly glorious the nation | they may dismiss all such apprehensions, The European crop, doubtless, will this year be less than the average yield, and ow sur- plus, in making up this European deficiency, will give a fair compensation to our wheat growers, and help'us very much in meeting our purchases of European goods and the interest on government bonds held over the water. At the same time, looking to our great body of bread consumers, we rejoice that our wheat crop this year will be large enough to meet all foreign demands, without giving to the ‘‘bulls” of our home markets any chance for a corner on wheat. Let the people rejoice! Tae Mississtre: River at last accounts waa still rising rapidly. Look out for rapid steam- boat “‘risings’ of a different sort during the racing fever. MONDAY, JULY 4, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEXT. Church Services Yesterday. Tt is true that we have no national Church, | but this fact does not prevent all the preachers from being exceedingly patriotic. Yesterday religion aided in glorifying the noble bird of freedom, and in the sermons was said. a great deal which the mere orator of to-day would hardly have thought of saying. It is, indeed, gratifying to reflect on this Fourth of July that but for American independence Christianity would, by this time, have been almost lost to the world. Not that any clergyman yesterday said it would, for none did, that we are aware of. But there was something in the manner in which they connected the anniversary of our independence with religion which suggested the idea that this republic was made specially ‘to save Christianity from utter ruin. Dr. Chapin, at the Church of the Divine Pater- nity; Rev. Mr. Smyth, at the American Free Presbyterian church, and Mr. Swift, at the Attorney street Methodist church, eloquently dilated upon the glories associated with this memorable day and showed wherein they are connected with divine glories. But it was at Hartford, at the Park Congre- gational church, that the most remarkable sermon of the day was delivered, The cler- gyman, Mr. Burton, is a relative of Henry Ward Beecher, and his discourse was as orlgi- nal, not to say ag startling, as anything the apostle of Plymouth church ever delivered. Whether it was that the presence of President Grant in his church flurried Mr, Burton we regret our inability to state. It is certain, however, that the reverend gentleman, if we may judge by his sermon, was considerably flustered. He opened by inviting his congre- gation to “‘ascend into the upper air,” doubt- Jess In a balloon, and they would see ‘an up- roar” wherever they looked. Not only on the face of the earth does this uproarious state-of things exist. ‘Fly out beyond the stars,” said Mr, Burton, ‘‘and you'll find realms and spheres of uproar; or go straight into the solid globe, and from its rind to core of fire, the whole way, there are signs that even the whole world does not escape.” This is very interesting intelligence, and we deeply regret the certainty of no living person doing as Mr. Burton advised. If even we could fly, to get Beyond the stars would in- volve a journey of some millions of miles, with no means of carrying an adequate sup- ply of provisions; and as for going straight into the solid globe, we decline the trip at present. This universal uproar the clergyman seemed to be personally aware of, for he even assured his hearers that the ‘‘infinitely stead- fast nature” of God is moved by it, although he did not explain how anything ‘‘nfinitely steadfast” could be moved atall. Further- more, Mr. Burton asserted that ‘“‘there is a partnership of heaven, earth and hell” (limited, we suppose), and thata ‘general sensation” (doubtless President Grant’s presence) shocked all. It was gratifying to learn from the preacher that all this discord is to cease. ‘*His- torical investigation,” said he, ‘‘shows the necessity of a readjustment,” and he proceeded to explain how things are to be readjusted. It may be that after hearing this sermon Presi- dent Grant enjoyed his dinner; but if he did it was due solely to his being a soldier, and says much for his digestion. After reading Mr. Burton's sermon all the others delivered yesterday appear tame and commonplace, excepting that of Bishop Snow, who, as the only true prophet, predicted all sorts of woes. At Mohawk Hall Dr. Boone gave the Pope and Catholi- cism a, raking, Of the others that of Father McSweeney, at St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic church, on the ‘‘Apostles as Fishers of Men;” of Dr. Deems, at the Church of the Strangers, and Father Kearney’s, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, will be found full of in- terest and religious instruction. In Brooklyn the Sabbath discourses were as good as usual. The absence of Mr. Beecher from the city kept a large number of his congregation away from Plymouth Church, they not caring so much to worship God as to hear their pastor preach. Some of them did go to the taber- nacle, but rather rudely left before the prayers were finished and a reverend editor could begin a very learned and very dull discourse. In the matter of attendance none of the churches were crowded, and even at the watering places it was apparent that the season of summer religion had been checked by the sudden change of the weather. We hope to make a better record of next Sunday's churches. The Smailpox in ParismAmerican Ab- senteeism im Europe. We are sorry to hear that there is no ap- parent diminution of the smallpox in Paris, It has been prevailing there as a sort of epi- demic, and the Paris comic papers have found in the ruling passion of the citizens for vacci- nation frequent subjects for amusing carica- tures. One thing, however, will be apt to follow these reports of the continuance of this loathsome disease in the gay French capital— to wit, a reduction this year of the usual heavy American summer migration to Europe, for Paris is the grand object and centre of all the hopes and aspfrations of our young moths and butterflies of fasbion, who find life at home too slow, too monotonous and too pre- cise to satisfy any but ‘‘old fogies.” How many millions of American money are thus yearly squandered abroad we have no means of ascertaining; but we dare say that the sum of twenty-five millions, exclusive of the passage money of the European steamers, is within the mark. We have here the begin- ning of that absenteeism which has been the ruin of Ireland and which is yearly increasing the pauperism of England. But how are we to remedy it? Only by making the attractions | of our own country, even to summer tourists, equal to those of Europe, and by making the city of New York, which we can make, as attractive as Paris, Thus a hundred millions, yea, five hundred millions, as wo go on, to five millions of people, expended in beautifying this @ity, will in the toag run be the most profitable investment that can be made for the people of this island, and so in | proportion to its importance with every place | of any consequence throughout the United | States. Louis Napoleon, understanding this secret, has made the four quarters of the globe tributary to the attractions of Paris, and so with a tithe of his outlays wisely applied we can make New York in its attractiveness the peer of Par: _way one hundred and seventy miles in length. Bolivin and Brazit=Their Joint Progres- | Tue Old World As tt Ie—Its Royalism, sive ERiforts on the Amazon. We publish to-day an interesting account of the gigantic operations undertaken by the Na- tional Bolivian Navigation Company, just or- ganized in this city undor a charter lately granted by the United States Congress. The company has a no less object than the turning of the commerce of nearly the whole of Bolivia into the markets of the world via the Amazon river. The foundations of the whole enter- prise have been laid in South America within the last year and a half. Colonel George E. Church is at the head of the company, and the governments of Bolivia and Brazil have entered heartily into his plans, The former, looking to an early development of her vast, fertile and well populated territory, has granted to him concessions commensurate with the great works to be carried forward; the latter, such privileges as will enable him to span the rapids of the Madeira with a rail- For all these works the necessary capital is pledged in Europe, and such is the careful and solid basis upon which the whole enterprise resta that we may soon expect to see it in full operation. This is the first great step towards the de- velopment of the largest river basin on the globe. The commercial world appears to have ignored heretofore the fact that Bolivia, at the headwaters of the main branch of the Amazon, contains five-sixths of the entire population of the Amazon valley; that they occupy the healthiest, most productive and richest slope of the Andes; that their natural qutlet is down the Amazon to the Atlantic; that they have heretofore only been able to force a small mule- back trade with the world, at an immense cost, via the Andean passes, nearly 15,000 feet high. Next to Brazil Bolivia is the most populous State of South America. Within her borders are found the great remnant of the Inca race, which once extended its boundaries over a line of thirty-five degrees of latitude and from the Pacific coast to the present frontier of Brazil. The world has heretofore been almost careless of the existence of Bolivia, from the fact that she has been hiddgn behind the Andes and had no contact with the Atlantic. It now speaks well for her statesmen that they make a bold push eastward to remind the nations of their exis- tence, and pour their unrivalled agricultural and mineral resources into the channels of commerce. Bolivia, only twenty-five days distant by steam from Europe and the United States, should add largely to the riches of the nations trading with her. It is not much to predict that instead of her $3,000,000 annual importation she will, inside of ten years, import $25,000,000 of values, while the exports of her rare products will give a bal- ance, of trade in her favor, instead of being against her, as it is to-day. It is seldom in the history of the world that it falls to the lot of one company to undertake almost the entire commercial development of a nation—few geographical positions admit of it; few minds are daring enough to grapple with all the el@ments of such a problem, and furnish the patience and energy for its successful solution, Two governments opposite in politics, and heretofore oppos- ing in interests, have had to be dealt with, and yet the very ample concessions made by empire and republic prove how deli- cately and well the enterprise has been managed. The granting of a charter from our general government wa3 scarcely less import- ant, and under it the National Bolivian Navi- gation Company has a broad field for ope- rations. Brazil has shown great wisdom in settling her boundary line question with Bolivia and cordially co-operating in the opening of Bolivia as well as her own vast province of Mato Grosso. It appears that Bolivia can furnish nearly all the cereals and animal food required for consumption inthe Lower Amazon. Aside from this, the interests of the two countries will be one instead of being antagonistic, as heretofore. Again, the commerce of three millions of energetic people pour- ing through the Amazon must cause great progressive changes in the lower valley itself, enriching the empire and adding largely to ita wealth and importance. Peru, recognizing the vast wealth of Bolivia, is spending fifty millions of dollars in pushing a railway across the Andes to its northwestern frontier on Lake Titicaca. The Argentine Central Railway is to be extended several hun- dred miles northward to tap its southern bor- der. These two great enterprises are wisely planned, and must give great results, There appears to be a rivalry existing as to whether Bolivian commerce shall flow through Peru, the Argentine Republic or Brazil. A glance at the map shows that Brazil has the geograph- ical advantage over her neighbors ; for, by the way of the Amazon and the three thousand miles of navigable Bolivian rivers, the heart of the country will be tapped in all directions, Tne Ick Monopouists.—The combination of the ice companies of this city (suggested, no doubt, by the extraordinary demands upon them during the late ‘“‘heated term”) and the fearfully high prices—three times the price of last summer—resulting for the article, has created something of a panic among the ice consumers of the city and its suburbs, and the univorsal cry is, ‘what are we todo?” The only practical plan of relief we can suggest is to bring in a lot of those ice makitig machines which are used so successfully in the produc- tion of cheap ice in New Orleans, or to get up a combination of citizens and send a ship or two to Boston or Maine for a cargo or two of ice. Short of some such experiment we see no way of relief to our ice consumers, Until they take the practical remedy suggested into their own hands they are completely at the mercy of our ice monopolists, and the more you scold them the more they will laugh at you, while coolly informing you that ‘if you can't pay our price you can’t have the ice.” Taz New Jupiorary.—The new Court of Appeals of this State will hold its first meeting to-dayin Albany. It is conceded on all hands by all parties that this, the highest judicial tribe- nal in the State, is composed of men in whom the people can place the utmost confidence for honor, integrity, learning and experience, The Commissioner of Appeals will decide causes pending in the Court of Appeats on the 1st of July, 1869, and thus give the new court almost a clean calendar to enter upon to- day. one hand, and to Rome on the other. likely to return to first principles either by the route of the Jordan or the Via Sacra of the Eternal City. pitches into Blackwood's Magazine again and fiercely, for its assault on ‘‘Lothair” while the religious movement looking to a reunion of Christendom under Papal active progress in the British metropolis. So does the Old World move, as described by our special writers, and as it keeps moving and still ‘‘goes round” we do not despair of its peoples coming rightin the end. The Religion, Suferings and Crime, The special correspondence from Europe by mail which is published in our columns to-day embraces a very varied, interesting and really important detail of the progress of events in the Old World to the 24th of June. was convalescent and about to proceed from the Tuileries to St. more complete rest, and thus tone up his system more effectually. Paris was dull; really wanting in sensations. Wales, with the leading members of the Britiah aristocracy, enjoyed the sport of pigeon Napoleon Cloud so as to enjoy The Prince of shooting on an extensive and right royal scale at Hurlingham. The place, the scenes which were witnessed on the way to it from London, as well as the manner of conduct of the pastime are de- scribed by one of our special writers. The report birds at the close will certainly lead to the inferences and query:—Does pigeon shoot- ing as conducted at Hurlingham tend to ele- vate the humanities ; shooting good everyday practice for the future head, or Pontiff of a vast Christian Church ? From St. Petersburg we have a special letter describing the interior of the great National Exhibition Building in the Russian capital, its management, its products, classification and ornamentation. our writer, affords solid grounds for the hope that the mighty empire of the Czars will at no distant day be carried—as was anticipated lately in our columns—from out of the sphere of the condition of the poor is the sport of pigeon The work, as it is set forth by of the desolating sweep of the sword of war and placed within the high and encrowning and _ consoling field of art, industry, material production and gen- eral progress. coercion, of her visitors from abroad being annoyed and frightened away by the police, of capital and muscle driven and exiled from her soil and of the want which dwells ‘‘on her freedomless crags, extending its steps to her desolate shore.” ” Ireland speaks again of British England was deeply agitated on the subject of the national moralities. Assuming himself to be almost perfect, ‘‘past all parallel” in his social condition, aghast at the recent police discoveries of the John Bull is just now standing “female masqueraders” and the existence of a regularly organized system of baby poisoning for pay, the production of an extensive cor- respondence by letters from many parts of the country with the alleged poisoner—who has over half adozen aliages—and the digging up of the dead bodies of some of the little ones really horrified. stuck down to the very utmost depths of his breeches pockets, his hair on end, and is sorely perplexed, accusing himself almost of being quite as bad, if not worse, than the Asiatics or Africans whom he has been so anxious to convert to his own system of Chris- tianity, or as the American ‘‘Salwanners”— according to John Willett’s pronunciation in Dickens’ “‘Barnaby Rudge”—whom he was so anxious to aid during the war of the rebellion against the Union. John is hands in and around London, He has his In such mental straits Mr. Bull is looking for comfort to ‘‘Lothair” on the He is A London Israelite writer auspices is in Negro and the Democratic Vote ia the South. Mr. Edward A. Pollard, a bitter rebel, who edited a leading paper in Richmond during the war, publishes an address to his negro fellow citizens of the South, giving them some rea- i sons why they should vote with the econserva- tive party. Mr. Pollard, like Wade Hampton, comprehended at an early moment how neces- sary it was to conciliate the negro vote, and in his present address he lays the matter quite clearly and quite flatteringly before. his--andi- ence. He wakes several new, points, claims that the gratitude of the freedmen for their release from slavery should naturally be. He directed towards the Southern people, who suffered by their emancipation, rather than towards the Northern people, who gained by it. The Southern people, he says, have lost two thousand million dollars by your emancipation. Would the North have paid as much to set you free? If it would, why did it not do so long before the war? These are Mr. Pollard’s weakest arguments, and we must say that, although designed by a little artful blending of puzzling statistics and abstruse logic to bother mediocre comprehensions into acceptance, they are weak enough. Other arguments which he makes are new and strong. For instance, he shows that the negro is not wanted among the laboring classes in the North, and that he is tabooed among the trades unions, while in the South he is the main dependence for labor. The question of party does not affect his rights, but he must not expect to receive favors from Southern men whom he abuses while in company with his Northern friends, In short, he wants the negro to set his face against Northern agita- tors and to join heartily with his old master. The Southern democracy should have presented these arguments to the negro before. We fear they are too late with them now. New York In A Braze or Guory.—New York will be in a blaze of glory to-night if the entire programme for the fireworks be carried out, The Park Commissioners have taken care that there shall be no official ‘‘shrinkage” this year in the amount contracted for with the Messrs, Edge. The people are to, have the full benefit of the ‘free show.” MURDER BY A WIFE. Last evening the Twentieth police precinct, Cap- tain Charles W. Caffrey commanding, telegraphed the Central Police OMice that in the back basemen, of 403 West Thirty-eignth street Michael Maddent rn fifty years, a native of Ireland, died suddenly atthe above number, supposed from injuries re- ceived from his wife beating him with @ iL stick yesterday (Saturday). These are all the details gent to the Central OMece last evening, and they are very unsatisfactory. Cap. tain Caitrey joted for his energy in n sending in to the Central OfMce full details of every. thing occurring in his inct, but somebody has evidently forgotten somakning iw this connection.