The New York Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1870, Page 6

EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ere Volume XXXV.... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Magerra—New York Fine WALLACK'S THEATRI vem Bey ae E, Broadway and 18th street. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth at.—Fer- NANDE, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cot The Stery of Labor and Tradc in Ireland. - The great trade strike in Cork, based as it is upon the action and influence of a number of lubor unions combining together to exclude competition from hele ae of Indus‘ry, is a sad illustration of the fact how intelligent men, when blinded by prejudice and carried away lessons that the history of their own country affords. No community on earth has been so Bowery.—Lorreny TickeT— victimized by arbitrary and violent action against her #kili and workmanship as Ire- land. Two hundred years ago the fame of her woolen manufacture was heard all over Europe. The products of the Irish loom were sent to all the north countries, and even to ‘ner Thirtioth st.—Performances every afternovu and Peace France, Spain and Portugal, whence came a GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and —THR TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Tur DRonkaxp—New Yorx 1n Sxices, ac. THEATRE OOMIQUE, 514 oo a 19M, None nie gd Broadway.—Couto Vocat. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway.— Frow-Frow—Honsg Fry Don’t TIOKLE MB, £0, . HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.--Hoo.ky's MIN- STREL.S—EVERYBODY'R Fainnp—PLuro. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th ay., bot ‘S0th sts.—THRovoRE Tuomas’ PoruLA® Co (68th and 78. APOLLO HALL. corner 2h street and Broadway.— PANORAMA OF SCOTLAND, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, rondway.— SCIENOE AND Art. Tecan Sh PEON DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 145 Broadway.— sterling without finding the coin of all the SOLENOR AND Aur. New York, Tuceday, July 5, 19870. TRIPLE SHEET, CONTENTS OF 1O-DAY?S HERALD. Page. Sr Aavertisements. Advertisements. 8—The Glorious Fourth: Celebration of the Ninety- fourch ps eecoags of ghe Nation's fndepen- dence; Imposing rafes, Reviews and Pyro- technic Displays—Washingiou: Holiday Ses- sion of the Senate—Ciinese and Crispins: Movements of Reformers on the Labor Ques- tion in Massachusetis—Huropean Markets, 4—Europe: Religion as It Is in Russia, Poland and Great Britain; What Enzi: thinks of the ou the City of Guayma:—The County Government—A Rowdy Vendetta—Arrival of Swedish Immigrants 1n Georgia. G=—The Ocean Yacht Race; History of the Chal- lenge; the Discyssions and Objections and Final Acceptance; Full Descriptuons of the Cambria and Dauntiess—Claims of American Citizens Against Venezucla—Cuda: Erect of Senator Sumter's~ Resolutons in Havana; Spain Will Permit No Interference—Tue La- test Trout Story—Brains Blown Out. G~—Eiitorial: Leading Article on the Story of Labor and Trade in Irelasd—Yachting: The Atlantic Yacht Club Regatta—Amusement Announcements. ~ ‘Y—Telegrayhic News from All Parts of the World : Cabinet Reorganization in England ; The Span- ish Throne (Question and Crown Difficulty ; Bishops Leaving Rome and Infalhbility Looked for; The Livel on the Emperor Na- | American Ceiebrations in Europe— @ ‘Transocean Yacht Race: The Dauntiess and Cambria Started July the Fourth; Muster of Vesscis and People at Queenstown; Crowds on Shore, in Yachts, on Steamers aud War Vesseta; Salu Naval and Popular; Taking Position, the Bearin; Rig and Start; The Weather and First Performance of the Vessels; The Sapphoto Run to Beat Both on Time— Aquatics—Cricke-—New York City Nows— Notes—Shipping Intelligence—Busl- ness Notice. 8—The Tammaiy Powwow: Independence “Talk” at the Council Fire—Items from Asia—The Nationa! Game—tTrotting at Fashion Course— Real Estate Matter:—A Boy Committed for Highway Rovbery—Religion in Germany— Brookiyn City News—Double Elopement in Newark—The Hoboken Meadows Row--A Wo- man Shot by a Dog Fancler. 9—Australasia: Freshets and Floods; Premier Gladston’s Nephew Killed—Dickens’ Pro- perty—Atfray at Niagara—Melancholy Death of au Ailegea Criminal—Murder of a River Pilot in Memphis by a Woman—Clvil Rights in Louisiana—Journalistic Notes—Financial Re- port—Marriiges and Beaths. 10—Ovation to the President: Grand Fourth of duly Celebration in Counecticut; Enthusias- tic Reception of the President at Woodstock; Grand ‘lurnont of the People of the Land of Steady Babits; Speeches by Ex-Lieutenant Governor Woodlord, Henry Ward Beecher and General Butler; Ex-Governor Hawiey in Delence of Chiese Labor—Obsequies of the Late General Hainblin—Advertisements, 11—Egypt: American Travel in the Land of the Pharaolis; Tourists from the Youngest and Freest Nation to the Fountain Head of Man's Freedom; A Heraid Guide for the Travellers; Sights by Day, in the Evening and at Night; The Resting Piace of the Infant Saviour. 12—Egypt (continued from Eleventh Page —Arrest and Release of a Murderer—The Shakers: A Visit to tae Waterviiet Family—The Cotton | nations and were well employed; population rose from three to five millions, and the wages Supply in Europe—Assassination—Canadian affairs—Votces of the Revolution of 1776— Sunday in the Interlor—The Fortunes of the Davises—The Indiana Double Murder—Sad Tragedy in Southbridge, Mass.—Adyertise- ments. Tue Emperor NAPOLEON AND THE AMERI- oan Bonapartes.—For eight days the Empe- ror Napoleon wears mourning for Jerome Pat- terson Bonaparte. Very respectful, unlike and not unworthy of Napoleon the Third’s wisdom and common sense. great nation the compliment might never have been paid. Taz Evrorean Matz at this port yesterday supplied the ample and very interesting | that brief period memorable forevermore in résumé of Old World affairs which appears in our columns to-day. The religious question is taking hold more firmly on the public mind in | the last semblance of her independence, and Europe hourly. It is canvassed from the Bal- tic to the provinces of Poland and from Rome ) quced so fierce a competition among the many to Paris and London. The British revisers of | half-starving workmen that in 1838, when the Bible report one day’s work, The gen- eral, or more mundane, part of our foreign | ¢,jend of Ireland, denounced the outrages that news narrative is also instructive. Tar Corps Lea@isLaTIF AND THE ORLEANS Proxozs.—The Corps Législatif has by a pow- erful majority pronounced against the return of the Orleanist Princes to France. The vote of the Chamber is regarded as final. After all the wild talk it does really seem as if the Emperor Napoleon was as strong in the popular branch of the French Legislature as he is in the country at large. This vote of the Corps Legislatif is, if possible, a bigger tri- umph than the plebiscite, France needs Napo- leon, and therefore France says we must have him. Tmery Years Aco—Prooréss By Steam | must inevitably follow. The sad history of anp Exgcrricity.—Thirty years ago yester- day, July the 4th, the steamship Britannia sailed from Liverpool for America—a grand event in tho history of the world; simple, almost noiseless, yet pregnant with the most | has come in the very latest years. These, serious and glorious consequences to humanity. The Sirius, the Great Western, the Britannia ; the “latest news,” the greatest newspaper, the electric telegraph, the deep sea telegraphs, lightning printing presses, and the news of | that still prefer tempting the deep and the British victory in Africa forwarded specially from Abyssinia to Egypt; from Egypt to Lon- don, from London to the Hzraxp Building, in New York, and thence returned in compliment | soil, even when backed by trades unions, well to Queen Victoria and the London press, all | stimulated from outside. The harp that was followed in consequence and in regular order.. The Fourth of July is and should be, in every | inzevery string wien swept by rude hands way and on such account alone, a firecracker | to utter the.tones of defiant oppression, and day, a day of goaheadativeness, and a day of | will echo to itg hallowed strains of old no more, hope on account of what is coming. years ago there were but five hundred. Not | former size. But it | gentry and the rich splendor of its archi- does not justify the past, nor is it unfair to say | tecture became the wonder of the most that if the United States had not become a | distinguished visitors from England and profusion of wines, fruits, oils and silks in return, with a host of other commodities that beautified the Irish homes of other days and encouraged in the Irish gentry the refined tastes which, amid all the misfortunes of their native land, they still retain. The French government even gave Irish manufacturers standing contracts, by which they furnished the peculiar kind of cloth that was used for its army wear. Says Swift in his instructive ‘Letters :”"— ‘The condition of our trade was glorious and flourishing. * * * At that time the cur- rent money of Ireland was foreign silver. A man could hardly receive one hundred pounds Northern Powers and of every prince of the German empire among them.” But in 1696 the manufacturers of Bristol, England, jealous of this beautiful Irish pros- perity, petitioned the King, complaining that “the cheapness of provisions in Ireland, the advantages of water power and the goodness of theclimate doth invite over his Majesty's subjects to settle there, and if a stop be not put to it by legislative enactment that coun- try (Ireland) would possess itself of the chief trade of the empire.” To this the King re- plied that he would ‘do all in his power to discourage the woolen trade of Ireland.” On June 9, 1698, both Houses of Parlia- ment addressed the Kiog on the same subject, and referred especially to tho excellence of the material as one great cause of Irish success. Finally the act of 10th and 11th of William III. was passed, prohibiting the export of wool and woollen manufactures from Ireland under penalty of forfeiture of goods and ship and five hundred pounds sterling fine. . The exportation of ful- ler’s earth, so necessary in the manufacture of cloth, was prohibited in England, and tho Trish trade was thus additionally crippled, ‘Twenty-two embargo laws were subsequently passed in forty years, and all Irish merchants, whether Catholic or Protestant, were abso- lately prohibited from importing or exporting anything excepting directly from or to British merchants resident in England, the goods to be conveyed exclusively in British built ves- sels. These laws drove out of Ireland forty- two thousand families, or about two hundred thousand people, for one-tenth of the whole population had been engaged in the woolen manufacture, They fled to the Continent, and were received with open arms, particularly in Germany, whose children are now so harshly met at the Irish threshold with disorders, fomented, as investigation would more than likely show, by agents not of Irish birth, but coming from the same centre whose emissaries are now agitating France. From that moment Irish trade and manufactures dwindled out, until, in 1782, Ireland began to feel the delight of self-government through a Parliament of her own, and from that time on, to use the expressive language of Lord Clare, ‘‘no nation on the habitable globe advanced in culture, commerce and manufactures with the same rapidity as Ireland from 1782 to 1800.” Artisans flocked in from all neighboring of labor doubled and trebled. In Dublin five thousand carpenters were busy; a few In the same city were .over fifteen thousand silk weavers, and lately there were but three hundred, although the city is now twice its The magnificence of Dublin, the wealth and elegant display of its resident Yet even all this material grandeur was eclipsed by the genius of her orators, her statesmen, her phi- losophers, poets and patriots, who made the Continent. Irish annals. But this gorgeous picture of prosperity faded away again when Ireland lost trade went down so low and its decline pro- Daniel O'Connell, the ‘‘liberator” and the true had been committed by the trades, and rebuked them openly at their great meeting held in the Royal Exchange in Dublin, he only narrowly escaped with his life from the infuriated leaders. Indeed, he had to be escorted to his residence by a body of police and mounted guardsmen. Alas! Irish brain had been poisoned by the leaven that was at work to divide, prostrate and conquer Irish nationality. Mr. O'Connell, in terms of the most com- manding argument and eloquence, showed the utter fallacy of the violent and oppressive trades movement, and pictured the dissension, the hatreds, the tyranny and the weakness that Ireland’s after years remains to prove how right he was. We might point out the changes, aad, in certain places, the development, that however, may furnish usa theme for future treatment, But as we look around us we be- hold on every side the faces of Ireland’s exiles, and each day read the record of the thousands long uncertainties of life beyond a wide and stormy ocean to the tender mercies of such labor laws as they have left them on their natal attuned to the sorrows of the brave must break The poor German who lands in Ireland to- day will fitly reprosent the poor Irishman who disembarked at the threshold of Fatherland two hundred years ago and him who sets foot on the quays of New York while we are writ- ing. To reject this testimony is to trample on all that was noble in the past and to invite the slow but sure and relentless retribution of God's -s++sNe. 186 | by unreflecting excitement, may forget the | Justiceinthefuture, But Erin, amid all her trials and her errors, Has ever had a guardian angel near, and her sons, if boguiled for an hour, will yet re-embrace the general cause of struggling bamanity, which is their own, and rally to the banner of trath more Armly than ever. ‘Tne Wniskey Rive in the Senate—twelve to thirly-one—have been defeated on a motion to double the tax on whiskey. From this vote we conclude that the whiskey-ring masters who have been buying up whiskey on the cal- culation of an increased tax will not get rich this year from their profits, ‘The Grent Earthquake in Greece. The old Hellenic land, which has lately given the world of journalism more than one interesting and exciting subject of remark, has just distinguished and well nigh extin- guished itself with a first class earthquake. The scene of special disaster is tho island of Santoria, one of the southernmost of the Cycla- des group, and the town of identical name recently standing thereon has been shaken down in complete ruin, with the loss, presum- ably, of many lives, At the same time all the mainland of Greece, including both Hellas proper and the Morean peninsula, has felt the shock, and at least one islet of the Archi- pelago has disappeared beneath the billows of tif ZEzean Sea. “These be parlous times,” in faith, for the dwellers on that flimsy crust of earthy deposit, which some oracles of geological science de- clare to be no thicker in proportion to the en- tire dimensions of our globe than the shell Is on theegg. For a period of about four years past this little planet of ours has had a most portentous ague, which has shaken the dead from their graves in Peru, swallowed up part of the coast and all of the treaty for annexation of St. Thomas, obliqued the per- pendiculars of San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, and most recently, if popular rumor be true, menaced a good deal of rick- ety architecture in the lower wards of New York and Brooklyn. The sun, too, the great infallible of our system, has been strangely afflicted with a sort of solar measles or breaking out in spots of most portentous size and fiery inflammation, and, taking all symptoms together, the celestial and terres- trial status has been of very questionable character. At this present writing the seismic or earthquaky paroxysm that seemed to have reached its height about two years ago, and then gradually subsided, appears to be return- ing upon us with increasing force and fre- quency of convulsion, The remarkabie at- mospheric phenomena of the current year, including the continuous prevalence of dense fogs for hundreds of miles over the North At- lantic, and the fearfully torrid heats and drought in every part of Europe, had prepared scientific observers for equally unusual elec- trical manifestations. The latter began not long since with violent earthquakes in Mexico and South America, have been followed up by || tremendous tempests in both northern hemis- pheres, and now the subterrancan agitator re- commences his regular march around the globe, taking again his old starting point in the Greek Archipelago, but, evidenily, on aline of nafrowing concentric movement that brings him into the middle latitudes. Within the space comprised by the thirty- sixth and forty-first parallels of north latitude and the thirteenth and twenty-seventh paral- lels of longitude each from Greenwich lies one of the grandest volcanic regions of the world. Its western outposts are illumined by the fires of Vesuvius, Stromboli and /®tna, and in the soutbeast the heavinzs and rumblings of the Cyclades remind the modern traveller that the tremendous power which the Greeks typi- fied as the Cyclopean God of Labor is still at work with unabated strength. There is not a league of all the land area thus designated that does not offer evidence of past or present convulsion. The Lipari Isles, lower Roman territory, the entire vicinity of Sicily; the Naples, Calabria, various parts of the Greek mainland and all the insular groups of the Agean are strongly marked and seared by volcanic action. The minor cluster of islets, of which Santoria or Santorino is the largest, produces the best wines of the Archipelago, for the very reason that its grapes imbibe their sparkling glow from the inner fires of the earth, The ancient writers mention the first appearance of these islets long before the Christian era as the direct result of volcanic upheaval. Other small islets sprang up within their circuit in the years 186 B. C. and in 1573, 1707 and 1712, when the convulsions of the surface were terrible. But 1866 was the chief year of wonders. The subterranean noises and tremblings began about the 30th of January in that year and continued almost in- cessantly until the close of March, during which time portions of the old shores disap- peared and new islets were thrown up with tremendous detonations. The isle St. George blazed with volcanic fires, and hurled blocks of stone, measuring many yards in diameter, into the air. One of these struck a trading vessel passing near by and killed the captain and fired the ship. Another general concussion in the same region was felt inthe middle of May, 1866, throughout all Greece, Italy and the south of France. There have been repeated shocks since then, but the severest one occur- ring previously to that of Friday last was on the 25th of April in the present year, when the volcano of Santorino—the ancient Thera— belched forth its flames so far over the adja- cent sea as to burn a small coasting bark and the crew that manned it. From the imposing signal which has juat been given we may, scientifically speaking, confidently expect to hear further. Year by year fresh volcanic forces seem to have been accumulating in the region embraced by the limits of latitude above described. The moun- tain promontory of Methana, on the eastern coast of the Morea; the calcarious island of Kalauria, beyond it; the Sicilian, Calabrian and Neapolitan craters and sulphur fields, and even the hills éncircling the Campagna of Rome, reveal symptoms that are not remotely associ- should not be surprised to hear of a succes- sion of seismic phenomena, on an appalling scale, in that direction, These reminders are timely in an hour like the present, when the arrogance of man dares to forget the Power “which shaketh the earth out of her place and the pillars taereof tremble.” The “Glorious Fourth.” The most glorious, that of 1776; the most enthusiastic, that of 1782, in con- Sequence of the surrender of Corn- wallis, October 19, 1781; the Froudest, that of 1789, thg first year under Wash- ington as our first Predieat and the frstunder the constitution of the United States of America; the most dismal, that of 1861, the first year of our great rebellion; the most impressive, that of 1865, in consequence of the suppression of the rebellion, Lincoln’s assas- sination, the capture of Jeff Davis and the policy of Andy Johnson; and the grandest, that of 1870, with the Union restored and equal civil and political rights established in the supreme law of the land. The Fourth yesterday, outside of the grand associations connected with it, was a magnifi- cent Fourth in point of weather. The air was cool enough andthe sun was pleasant enough. In fact, for a Fourth of July it was the plea- santest day that New York city has seen for many years. It was celebrated even more than usual. The President celebrated it at Woodstock ; the lesser dignitaries celebrated it in their own way in Washington; the Tammany Order celebrated it in Tammany Hall, with their own peculiar rites; the coun- try lads and lassies celebrated it with their rustic merrymaking, and the saucy gamins on the streets of the city celebrated it with their firecrackers and miniature cannon. ll sects, all ages, all political parties, all grades hon- ored the day as such a very glorious day should always be honored, ‘Hail, Columbia, happy land!” The Crispins and the Chinese. There is yet in existence a set of burlesque philosophers who aim at such Greeleyisms as an equal division of property, protective tariffs on labor, and other harmless but lunatic propositions ; and they are just now entertain- ing themselves on the Chinese question at Framingham, Mass., in old Harmony Grove. Usually these entertainments are dull and foolish, even when relieved by juvenile ont- bursts in a pyrotechnic way, intensified by a sharp rencontre of tongues between two elo- quent and vinegary female speakers; but they were less dull and foolish yesterday than usual, The subject was a fruitful ene, and it was discussed with great vim. The reformers seemed honestly anxious to let the world hear both sides of the question, so far as their rather shrewd inteliects—in some in- stances—could put it. And some of them made some very fair deductions from the premises raised by the Celestial importations. John is thus the live subject for all discursive bodies, and we believe that he will become more acceptable the more he is discussed. ; Doing a Handsome Thing Meanly. The Committee on Foreign Relations pro- poses to do what is right with the excess of the Chinese indemnity fund—give it to the Chi- nese. Thismoney cameinto our hands in a way that might give us a fair legal right to it. Upon our fixing a certain sum, with the reser- vation that if there was any excess it should be returned to the Chinese, they agreed to pay that sum; but they declared they would rather pay a smaller sum’ and relinquish the claim to any excess there might be, and they then named the smaller sum. We accepted the proposition, and the money was paid. Yet upon this smaller sum there was an excess, and this, though not legally bound to do s0, we are to return; but for these reasons, “This act,” says the committee, ‘‘will be a victory in a new field, making us first in a new order of conquerors. China, with infinite resources, will be more than ever open to American enterprise. Thus, while doing right, shall we benefit ourselves. So is justice to others the way tonational advantage.” These are mean reasons for doing what is right and degrade this money to mere purchase money at last. The committee has no right to make the imputation that follows when it apologizes to the country for doing what is honest. Marder by Medicine. The death of one more person through administration of the wrong medicine calls attention again to the fact that the -recent law made to prevent these melancholy accidents does not cover all the points in the case. - We are of opinion that in this latest Brooklyn case the physician is not without blame. It is true that the apothecary’s clerk did not understand the pre- scription, and that in the absence of positive knowledge he guessed at its meaning, and equally true that to guess at all in sucha case—to put up a powerful medicine that he was not absolutely sure was the medicine called for—to do this in any circumstance, is reprehensible, if not criminal. But the doctor wrote vaguely—wrote so as necessarily to leave room for guessing. Certain things drug clerks are supposed and required to know. They are supposed, for instance, to know the pharmacopeia, and it is neither safe nor proper for physicians, in writing prescriptions where error may Tnvolve the loss of life, to go beyond the preparations of that excellent compendinm.. It is dangerous to venture in the wilderness of patent medicines. The pharma- copeia has two so-called ‘‘tinctures of opium”—one of which is paregoric, the other laudanum—and when Mrs. Bernard's physician wrote fora tincture of opium and meant neither of these he invited disaster. Mork Trovuste Azovut THE Doema.—The Dukede Grammont, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has yielded to the clamor of the anti-infallibilists, and promised to com- municate to both Chambers the correspond- ence relative tothe Council, The dogma of infallibility, we are told, is to be voted upon this week. Meanwhile, the Czechs, resident in St. Petersburg, threaten to join the Greek Church if the dogma is proclaimed. This last is most significant; for the Czechs are the countrymen of John Huss, and Swarzenberg, Prince and Primate of Bohemia, is one of, tthe most determined of the anti-infallibilists, The darkness thickens, Trouble grows. “An in- ated with the Santorino catastrophe; and wo , fallible Pope may set the world rizht. We shall see. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET. Rumors from Washington About the Income Tax. It is believed in Washington that the action of the Senate on the income tax will be concurred in by the House, and that this will be the final disposition of the question this session, It appears, too, that Senator Wilson proposed his amendment, which was carried, to extend the.tax for two years longer at two and a half per cent, instead of five per cent, on income! with the impression that the tax could not be dispeided with ana Woind ac tie efiged with and wound tor be abolished altogether, Under these circum- stances he considered this modification of the tax better than nothing. No doubt this is bet- ter than the tax as it stands now; but the Sen- ate and the fepublican leaders in that body have made a mistake in not adhering to their first resolution striking out the tax altogether. They have made a mistake politically, as well as in their Quancial policy, in retaining the tax. Itisa@ most obnoxious and unpopular tax, and their constitutents at home will not forget their votes upon it. There is no doubt that the railroad men and othera who are de- termined to defeat the tax on gross receipts have been most active in their efforts to have the income tax retained, They saw, or believed they saw, that one or the other sources of rev- enue must be kept. Itis the powerful lobby and outside influence that caused the Senate to stultify itself by reversing its former deci- sive action abolishing the income tax. The republican party will suffer in the coming elec- tions if this tax remains, andif the leaders are wise they will induce the House to refuse con- currence in the action of the Senate or cause a reconsideration of the qeustion in full Senate. That is the only chance left now for the re- moval of this obnoxious tax. The New State Constitution of Iilinois—A Good Example. The new State constitution of Hlinois, from the returns before us, has been ratified by a heavy majority of the popular vote. It marks an important forward movement adapted to the new order of things in several matters of the greatest interest to all the States, For instance, it provides some wholesome checks against legislative bribery and corruption, and upon legislative appropriations of the public money, and upon compensations to public offi- cers, and also in reference to contractors for public works and supplies, &c. In regard to debts of corporations and individuals, the State shall not become responsible for them. Railroad companies are required to keap an office for the transfer of stock and make such report to the Legislature as it may require. They shall not consolidate with competing lines, A majority of the directors must reside in the State. The Legislature will fix the maximum rate of charges for all the railroads in the State, and no irrevocable grants or spe- cial privileges shall ever be made by the Legislature. These constitutional checks upon railways are of the utmost importance, not only to Illi- nois, but to every State in the Union; for when the State shall fail to govern its rail- ways, they will eventually combinoto govern the State. The Camden and Amboy despot- ism over New Jersey, and the Baltimore and Ohio railway despotism over Maryland will serve as examples of the grinding power of such monopolies where they are not held under proper limitations in the supreme law of the State. Inregard to these railway corporations, every State concerned, beginning with New York, would do well to follow substantially the good example of Illinois. Otherwise, Congress, hy-and-by, in the regulation of com- merce between the States, will have to take this whole business in hand. Coior in the Senate. John Chinaman has as yet no possible place in the temple of the constitution ; for the defi- nition of citizen of the United States requires either an American birth or a naturalization, and all our naturalization laws still require that the would-be citizen shall be a free “white” man. As a new naturalization law is before the Senate it was to be supposed that this point would come up, and itdid. Mr. Sumner moved to strike out the word ‘‘white” wher- ever it occurred. This immediately excited several Senators who represent constituencies that do not admire the Celestial, and they op- posed the motion with clamor. It is notewor- thy that they are irreproachable republicans and gentlemen who always kept their seats with commendable patience when Mr. Sumner was in the habit of making exactly the same motion in favor of Sambo. Hereupon, there- fore, arises the inquiry, wherein lies the infe- riority of yellow to black—what is there in the black man that we should yield to him what we refuse to the man of intermediate color? It will be one of the funniest things in political history to hear our Senators making argu- ments against the Chinaman that shall not condemn their own several courses with re- gard to the negro. Egypt in the New Light. The special correspondence: from Egypt, dated at Cairo on the 24th of May, which ap- pears in our columns this morning, places the Land of the Pharaohs “‘before the public” fully and completely. The ancient soil has been written about, it is almost unnecessary to say, already. The Heratp special writer illustrates it as itis to-day—as it is seen and may be seen by American tourists. He sup- plies, in fact, a newspaper guide book for travellers to the mighty East--an effort which we may justly claim is without parallel in the history of journalistic enterprise, whether we regard the work in its conception, its present execution and finish or its world-wide utility, Itis needless to attempt to follow the writer to the tombs, the temples and the antiquities in general of which he speaks, He paints the river srenes and fringes of the Nile, tells of Cheops and Sesostris, of Sarah, of Pharaoh and of Joseph, besides recalling the wearied mind of man to hope, to faith and to a universal charity, by describing the resting place of the holy family, with the infant Christ, under the holy tree, after their arrival in Egypt from Petestine. The actualities of the day—how to get there, how you may journey, and what you pay—are set forth with much accuracy and minuteness. Lone Branch AneAp.—Seven thousand arrivals last week at Long Branch indjcate that that popular and convenient seaside vesort will be pretty full with the arrival of General Grant, some two weeks hence, . The Oconn Yacht Race. Yesterday the Cambria, Mr. Ashbury, and the Dauntless, Mr. Bennett, sailed from a point near Cork harbor for their race to the light- ship off Sandy Hook. The yachts were accom- panied to tne point of starting by a fleet of the Gnest craft in the pleasure navy of England and Franco, and, though it is reported from London that the event failed to excite much interest, it was evidently a great day for yacht- men, Perhaps it wag among the three tailors bid wired ss Ae that the lndfifsrauco | Was most apparent. The wind came with a stiff westerly breeze in the morning. Immediately after the start the wind was due west, blowing fresh, The people were out in great force. Mon-of- war's men saluted, An untoward circumstance appears to have occwred on the Cambria, if we can trust the report as to the dissatisfaction of her crew and the change made necessary. But this, we trust, will put no obstacle in the way of her making a splendid race. Ii is vain to specu- late asto the possible time when the gallant little boats will be scen in the bay, or to make comparison of the time of former races, Perhaps a guess may be ventured from time to time, as we have report of the progress of the yachts from incoming steamers, should any of those sight thom and make out their sig- nals, as it is highly probable they will. in Tanlaw AustRiA AND RusstA—A_ SIGNIFIOANT MreErinc.—At Warsaw the Emperor of Russia received the Austrian Archduke Albert. The cable despatch informs us that the Archduke was treated with exceptional courtesy. We can only regard this meeting as a proof of the peaceful desires of the Czar. With fewer whims than his great namesake, who for » time was the soul of the Holy Alliance—he has at least quite as many virtues. He has done many things for his country. It is clear that he desires the peace ot Europe. for the good of his own people. In Alexander's time it is not our opinion that Russia will provoke a European war. The entente cordiale is com- plete so far as Prussia is concerned. It is now safe to say that Russia is quite as anxious to be on good terms with Austria. We regard this Warsaw meting as a guarantee of the peace of Europe. YACHTING. Grand Display by the Atlantic Yacht: Club Harmonious Celebration of the National Anniversary—A Banquet aud a Billiant Pyrotechnic Exhibition. The Atlantic Yacht Club, an organization fast growing in popularity, spirited, enterpruing and thoroughly disciplined, celebrated the national an- niversary with becoming dignity and appropriate-- ness, The esteemea Commodore of the club, Mr. Wililam Voorhis, than whom, by the way, no better: yachtman lives, extended invitations to the mem- bers to visit his place of residence at Nyack. Ac-- cording to the genoral orders issued the fleet anchored at the club harbor, Gowanus Bay, on: Saturday, and on @ signal gun from the flagship the yachts proceeded to Nyack. After a pleasant ran the schooner Madeleine, Mr. Jacob Voorhis, Jr,, recently elected Commodore of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, first hove in sight, tollowed by the others at different in- tervals, On Sunday all the yachts were beautifully decorated with appropriate bunting, and the spec- tacle presented was pretty in the extreme. AG eleven o'clock divine service was held on board the Commodore’s fine yacht, the Tidal Wave, the Rev. H. M. Gallagher being the officiating clergyman. ‘The day passed off quietly, Yesterday morning, as early as five o'clock, ®: salute of thirty-six guns, composed of one gun from. each yacht, in succession, was fired at half-minute intervals, The eect was quite electric. Nyack Was aroused from its peaceful slumbers. Rumbling and re-echoing along the beautiful hills, the salutes were startling yet joyful in their intonation, A few hours later and the beach was crowded by a fashionable and interestea throng. The exhibition was looked forward to with mingled feelings of curiosity and pleasure. It should not be forgotten, however, that the advent of the Atlantic Yacht Club at Nyack is an event of no ordinary importance to that charming locality. The pleasant recollections left by the club last year can scarcely be efiaced. It was unique and in every respect worthy the fast progressing organization. But the demonstration yesterday far surpassed it, and the inhabitants of Nyack cannot but entertain the kindilest feelings towards the members of tne Cf eae especially the Commodore. it was a hazy morning—worse, the prospect was a@ dead calm. Yet, despite those Soni eaae influences, the surroundings were delightful, nd as enjoyment, not contest, was the aim of all, the anticipation of adrifiing race up the Hudson was not regarded with regret by even the most san- guine yachtmen, and a glorious day was confidently awaited. At nine o’clock the scene in front of Ny ack was perfectly enchanting. The historic asso tions of the day, the gayly decorated fleet— yacht of which was freighted with best friends—the crowds upon the snore, the music, the salutes, the cheers and general enthusiasm—all contributed to create See of rejoicing. ‘The rays of a brilliant sun struggled fiercely through bg Be and finally succeeded, so that{by ten o'clock lendiad epee of the Hudson was beheld with some ad- vantage. Tho Commodor’s yacht was the ob- ject of much admiration, The strains of the fine band on were slowly waftea to the shore and boats constantly Oe thence to the vessel with additional arrivals, ie Madeleine was. no. less beautiful. Her ipreeieton | ortions elicted much comment, but not more than the de. light experienced by the many eager listeners to toe: splendid vocal and instrumental selections per- formed on board py the fairest of the fair and the most talented of gracoful cavaliers. The ay rivalry existing among all the yachtmen had mu to do in rendering the exhibition so exceedingly. brilliant. Filteen yachts got into line repara- tion for the start to sonia Point, viz. :—' diponcrs Tidal Wave (aaganip), Madeleine, Ca! )» Mysto; Dg, es St ene cman ata a 0, , loud. The Fico, ‘Commodore’ Kidd, one of the Inyited guests, joined inthe trip. At half-past ten o'clock the fleet ele ed anchor and proceeded to. their destination.» It was a dead calm, and all the yachts moved lasily from their anchorage. Not - being regarded, however, as @ race sO much aga, pleasure trip the time passed merrily. The national, spirit-stirring airs from the Tidal Wave sound beautifully over the water, while gt intervals charm- - ing quartets, trios and appropriate solos with, ue accompaniments came from the Madeleine, with fine effect. The foremost yachts proceedea only so far as Haverstraw, as there. was no prospect: of a speeay return, Withinseven miles of the home. stake boat a fregh breeze sprang up and activity be- came the order of the day, ne sloops had. quite @ lively race of it, while the- schooners Tidal Wave, Madeleine and Calypso. made matters additionally interesting —srate by thetr close proximity, and secondly, by the anticipa- tion of a friendly contest homeward. It was a hand- some beat downward. The Madeleine and Tidak. Wave crossed each other repeatedly, the Calypso all ‘ the time hotding an excellent ition. e last, mentioned vessel, however, did proceed so faim up the river, in the first iustancé, as oither of the others. After severat iuterestivg little brushes the Tidal Wave, by oue Pn ee » Penched the stake: boat ahead of the leleine, though the wind had moderated ere the Jatter made her final effort. ane Calypso sailed eAmtrably, and fired the first qu upon her arrAval. ne White Cap was the first of the éioop yachts, the others follow. ing in rapid ‘succession, The locality rang wifs welcoming s‘alutes, and the evening bade falr*co rival the ple asant spectacle of the morning. Upon. a signal from, the fagsbip the members of the chub landed an’ proceeded to the residence of Commodore Voorhis, @here they were Se ane entertamea, Speeches were delivered by the Rev. Mr. Gallagher, , a genuine wit and humorist, and ot! poe and Mts Vuoriis was the recipient of many kind well deserved compliments for the whole-souled hos- pitalvzy which he nad go liberally extended, A pyro‘cechnic exntbition subsequently took place, and the ‘qumerous guests separated at a late hour, highly pleased at the truly haudsome manner in which the natjonal anniversary had been celebrated at Nyack. Regatta of the Hoboken Yacht Club. Notwithstanding the preparations made for thig, regatta, owing to the calm the race was not more than a drift throughout, The course was trom thoir club house, on the lower point of Staten Island, around the Southwest Spit and return. The yachts started shortly after ten o'clock and the tide carried them off. Seeing no chance, however, of, making a race, the contestants returned. The yachts entered were the Gracie, Nellie G., Netto 8 and Broadbill, The contest will be renewed at som fyture day, uns dor more favorable circumstanves, r. Oakges