The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1870, Page 4

———e BROADWAY ANP AN TREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ’ All business or nows letter and telegraphic Gespatches must be sddressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Bighth avenue and 98d ot.—La GiskLLe—Tue Nations. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th sirect.— Fuirz, Our Cousin Genuan. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Vawiery ENTRRTAIN- MENT. x woop's ner Thi TONY PASTOR'S OPERA AOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Tus BiAMEsR TWIMb—O110—OUR AFRICAN COUSIN, £0, JUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- st.—Performances every afternoon and evening URS. F, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. A Viotim oF CinoumstTaNoré—Brrro. THEATRE COMIQ"E, 514 Broadway.—Comto Vocal. tem, NEGXO ACTS, &0. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broudway.— La Brice L. N. SAN FRANCISCO NT BUOKLEY's SBxzNADI ROOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—BLaox Even BusAN—Usep Ur. TERRACE nue.-GRAND TREL HALL, $63 Brom way.— RDEN, Fifty-elghth street and Third ave- LAND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 518 Broadway,— BOIRNOE AND Ant. DR, KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— Boreson AND Aur. Pace. T—Adver no European French Min- hvone Claim; Stili ¢ russia Dissatisded and Belgium 1 uation of the k Alarmed; non Cabinet; stantinople ht Race— ue Riot at Elm ueral Howard—The 2 mt Attorney Morris— te Collegiate Insti Brooklyn— Awieh Islan Munifeent Inteligence—Business No- vorhl War Move. ron the Battle of ¢ Prague—New York ings in the Now York igence—Vessel Owners’ ga Burglar— Darien Canal. Commercial, Reports—The Miss- e—The Patent Testiinony Case—The stion—Marriages and Deaths— ecutive Seasion of, Bills Passed Tae Orp F, raren—The old fable of the wolf and the lamb, in the muddy- ing of the water on the Holenzollera ques- tion, Fexever Lost.—The pohiical shadow of death bas overtaken Senator Fenton. He is not the first man that has been ruined by an overstock of presumption. Trve as Gosret—The wise observation of old Police Justice Dogberry, that when two men undertake to ride the same horse one must ride behind. So it is with our two Sena- and Fenton tors—Conkling rides in front rides behind. Tar Frexon Can signed office. The resignstion by the Duke de Grammont of his position in the Ollivier Ministry was rumored in Paris yesterdsy after- noon. The Paris city journals of the evening reported that the entire ministry had lett office, The news was not absolutely con- firmed ata Inte hi ght. It may be trne, however, par y in view of our special advices froin Rowe relative to the in- fallibility vote. Morr INorans 18 e Sioux chiefs ‘our Bears, k-—aceom- e of come from in charg vited Tail and Red Clond, who rec rece led them, were representatives of th ty, but Little Swan and his compa: re representatives of the peace pariy of numerous and powerful tribe. The latler ed the San Francisco Minstrels aficr their arrival on Tuesday evening, They shonid also atiend Thomas’ concerts at the Park in order to con- firm their pacific intentions, for ‘Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.” NEW yORK HERALD] Senator TiproN, THE TER OF THE Funton Wrxc, who comprises ia himself one- third of the whole power of his party, has become 60 indignant at President Grant because the Senate confirmed Tom Murphy that he has launched his whole force against him, mustered that one-third solidly in opposition and bids fair to carry the whole Fenton wing of the Senate in a body against him, He furiously read the President out of his party yesterday on account of the nomination of Potts over Ashley as Governor of Montana. We may therefore presume that Ashley is also one of the Tipton party, and General Grant ought to be willing to be read out of it. Potts, of course was confirmed. A Lucky anp Sessuste Eprror.—-Daniel Dechert, of the Hagerstown (Md.) Muil, some eighteen months ago bought a good farm in Halifax county, Va., cheap, and went to work on it. He writes to « friend that he expects his crops this year to net him not less than ten thousand dollars; that he will have of wheat fifteen hundred bushels, of Indian corn five thousand bushels, of oats “vo thousand bushels, ten tons of broom corn and three thousand dollars’ worth of tobacco. No wonder he says, “I begin to see more money in farming South then in printing in Maryland, and am preparing 4o locate permanently on my plantation.” Spoken like a sensible man. The South is the region for industrious men, Tho European War Clond. When armies have been est in motion by a politioal difference, apparently or really tri- vial, the determination of that difference doos not always arrest the movement of the armies ; and thus though it is formally announced in Madrid, and reported from Paris and Berlin, that the Priace of Hohenzollera is no longer a candidate for the Spanish throne, and though this declaration is accepted in Paris as settling the immediate point on which France took fire, yet we hear again from Berlin that the tone of France toward Prussia is still “alarming and provoking,” and from Paris that parties in the Corps Législatiff are eager to force a war, while in all the news there is no intimation of any purpose to discontinue the vast military preparations already on foot, There is no doubt that in France the movement of troops has gone much further and been far more ex- tensive than has been telegraphed hither, for the use of the wires would not be permitted by the French government for any news on this subject. We can only judge of the activity in France by the movements that we koow to have taken place in Germany, for these movements were only made to meet preceding movements of French soldiers, The fact that the King of Prussia is in conference with Moltke rather than with Bismarck—that he takes advice in strategy, not diplomacy and statecraft—may furnish hint how far matters have gone. It is possible, therefore, that France may now declare that she is in the attitude of war; that she has been compelled to assume this attitude through the machinations and encroachments of Prussia—of which the can- didature of the Hohenzollera was only the last—and that the mere withdrawal of this step toward the Spanish throne is not enough ; that while she bas her arms in her hands she noes eta dene creer SET, HY ae Me ea must insist upon sonks sufficient guarantee that Prussia will confine herself to the terms of the treaty of Pra, 2, Or, otherwise, that Trance iiust have an equivalent for all sible aggrandizement that would come to Prossia with the treaty of Prague sot aside, this equivalent being the left bank of the Rhine, dn assuming this ground France would be neither arrogant nor domineering. She would only be actiag upon and applying to the ease before her the princi- ples that govern now as they have governed in all past time every nation in Europe possessed of the power to make its purposes felt. There can be no question that Prussia in Ler recent history has acted on the maxim of the Greek, that ‘‘oaths were invented to cheat fools.” She has regarded, in a spirit of the most impudent indifference her owa pledges, made with oll the circumstances thet give the sanction of iaw to treaties, direcily violated her faith with Austria; tram- pled upon the rights of the Danes with a bully- ing contempt for her little neighbor that should have been offensive to all Europe, and has never ceased in insidious encroaciment, that, as it was always more or less threatening to France, was certain one day to call forth the protest and resistance of that Power. It is clear that if France is ever to fight Prussia she must fight her now. She will likely never fiad it more-possible to cope with her. Should she wait till Progsia has added to the Power of United North Germany that of all the South German States—till she has crowded Ausiria still further down the Danube, and is joined in treaties ofintimate al- liance with all the small Powers that are uneasy in the neighborhood to France—continuing this very policy that would have puta German on the Spanish throne; should France wait for all this her contest with the German giant would ba hopeless from its inception. Ag this is evi- dently felt in France—and as it seems to be widely conceded that collision between the two Powers is only a question of time—there is still a high probability that despite what may now occur touching the throne of Spain France may resolve to try whether the brilliant triumph of Prussia at Sadowa was notin a great degree due to the fuct that she contended against a feeble and coniemptibly commanded army, and whether the needle gun and the Prussian troops may not cut avery different figure when once really tried in well contested battle. With these possibilities before us it is not yet safe to rely onthe peace of Europe, whatever sentimental notions Hohenzollern may have of “the duty of a German soldier.” Tre Lave Riov arf Park was a breach of the public peace, and by the attacking on of public rights whieh can- not be justified or tolerated in this country. The Orangemen have the same right to cele- brate here their chosen anniversary as the sons of St, Patwick, or the German Turners or the African Fifteenth Amendment Brotherbood, and no party has any right to disturb them while peacefully parading the streets or listen- ing to speeches or music in any public or private place,- This thing should be under- stood, and it should be impressed by the pub- lic authorities upon all purties concerned, Furthermore, we would ask the question, what was the Superintendent of Police, Captain Jourdan, doing while this riot was going on, and why were his police so long in coming to the front aud suppressing this scandalous dis- turbance of the public peace ? With twenty- five hundred men at his finger’s ends he should have hada strong detachment on the ground with the first symptoms of ariot. He has failed this time, and we shall want to know the reasons if he fails to do better next time. Justice is justice, and fair play is a jewel. We want no winking or blinking at rioters of any creed, race or place. UNaenteeMaNty Conpuor or sHE West Poss CAvets.—The discourteons treatment which the young men at the West Point Mili- tary School extend toward the colored cadet Smith is, to use the mildest term, ungentle- manly. Cadet Smith has the same rights at that institution that any other cadet has, They are all there at the public expense, and if any young man is dissatisfied with the regulations the government has seen fit to establish let him at once resign, and not remain and make NEW YORK | mained sil She has ; a blackguard of himself, PapaL Isranipittry was discussed, as we are informed by special telegram, for the last time in the Vatican Council yesterday and adopted by a vote of four hundred and fifty who desire, upon a small outlay, productive to eight. So far the Qld World is not in farms, sure profits and a comfortable home flames, but more’ peaceful than it was « few for their children. dave since. Tue Swamping of Fertoa~Ramors. of a | Miliary Rectprocities=-The New Rebellion tu the Camp, ‘The terrible defeat of Senator Kenton by tho elmost unanimous confirmation of Murphy as Collector of this port, together with the appointments of Grinneli as Naval Officer iu place of General Merritt, Hilhouse as Assistant Treasurer and Judge Davis as United States District Attorney for this district, all anti- Fenton men, puzzles the politicians. On both sides they are discussing the question, what does it all mean? Upon the proposition of confirming the nomination of Murphy, after Fenton's charges, specifications and insinua- tions against him, ina speech of two hours, that he was an Andy Johnson conservative, supporter of Hoffman, a spoils confederate of the Tammany sachems, an active enemy of the republican candidate for Governor in 1866, anda sort of shoddy speculator during the war, and all that, how stood the Senate? Let us see, - There were fifty one votes cast—forty-eight for Murpby’s confirmation and three against him—Fenton, Harris and Tipton. All the republicans except these three voted for Murphy, and all the democrats voting, without anexception, voted for Murphy. But ina full Senate there are seventy-four members, and excepting a baker’s dozen of democrats, they are all republicans. There were, then, upon this Murphy question twenty-three Sena- tors who did not vote. Some of these were absent, but some were present aod remained silent. The democrats liked the nomination, because from Fenton's exposition of Murphy they rather liked the man, and because, no doubt, they saw that in crowding Fenton into a back seat he would rebel! against the powers that be and carry some of his followers with him, The republicans voting for Murphy were saligfed that he was a fair man anda good républican, Tho republicaus who ab- sented themselves to avoid the rate of who re- t or motionless when the vote was taken, did so booti they did not care to ap- pear in opposition to the President's wish in the matier, and because they desired to soften the blow to Fentoa. Explain it as we may, the vote on Marphy’s confirmation was a stun- ning blow to Feuton, The question recurs what will Fenton do? The New York Custom House for tho last forty years, with its spoils and plunder, has been always a sort of Pandora’s box to the party holding it. President Pierce, in giving the office first to Bronsoa, a democratic hardshell, and then to Redfield, a democratic soft- shell, eplit the democratic party of the State into two violently and nearly equally powerful hostile factions, and fa the gap thus made between the two wings the republicans came to the front and took possession of the State, President Lincoln, with Preston King as his Collector, got along smoothly, and Andy Johnson, with Collector Smythe, a good man, got along as well with this troublesome office as could have been expected. Grinnell bas been a sal tory Collector to the merchants end to the Treasury Department, but not giving satisfaction to the hungry politicians clamorous for the spoils he has had to retire, end Murphy, » younger and more active man, and a shrewd politician withal, takes his place. Bat the politicians will have it that Marphy’s appointment and these other appointments mean simply that Grant has resolved to snuff out Fenton as the great radical Mogul of the republican party in this State. What for? Becanse, they say, Fenton aspires to be the republican candidate for the Presidential succession, and hence the neces- sity for clipping his wings. This may seem very absurd, but we remember some mouths ago reading an editorial in one of the papers of our rural districts pretty broadly foreshadowing the availability of Fenton for the next Presidency. But if that buzzing bee of the White House has got into the ear of Fenion will Murphy stop its buzzing? Per- haps not. The general rule, almost without an exception, with your aspiring politician, when bafiled and defeated in his schemes, is revenge, or a Roland for an Oliver. Cal- houn, Van Buren, Tyler, Douglas, Buchanan, Fillmore, Chase, Johnson and a host of others, will serve as examplos of retaliation for real or iinaginary personal wrongs suffered in the line of political promotic Assuming, then, that Fenton holds himself as grievously wronged in the appoiatment of Marphy aud in these other anti-Fenion appointments, what will Fenton do? Mea who onght to know him say that he it; that as Greeley at Chicago tarned vpon Seward in 1860; that as Weed, the righthand man of Seward, tarned upon Greeloy’s man Wadsworth in 1862, and that asthe Morgan clique have now turned the tables against Fenton, so will Fenton have his revenge upon General Grant. They tell as that it is the great radical wing of the republi- can party of New York that has been made to stand back in order to bring to the frout the little mischief-making faction of Morgan, Murphy and Company, and that with- ont Fenton and kis devoted radical foliowera the administration cannot carry « single Con- gressional district in the State next tall, Very. well, If there is tobe a fight to determine the question whether Grant or Fenton is the head of the republican party, let it be pro- claimed at once. Asitis our opinion, how- ever, that Mr. Fenton has gone up the ladder as far as he is going, our advice to him, if asked for it, would be—accept the situation, abandon «Jl snch absurdities as those of per- sonal wrongs to be redressed, and fall in be- hind the administration. The republican party, under General Grant, can get along without Fenton, but Fenton will totally disap- pear like Senators Cowan, Doolittle and Dixon in fighting the established authorities of his party. Tae Dirriourry Between Dr. Coounay, of Brooklyn, and the Quarantine Commissioners has broken ont afresh. A vessel was landing her cargo in Brooklyn yesterday without hav- ing what Dr. Cochran considered a clean bill of health, and thereupon he arrested the cap- tain, one of the consignees, @ stevedore and a clerk, all of whom on being arraigned before Justice Buckley were released on five hundred Gollars bail each. The case will therefore come up before the courts and we shall have a judicial decision as to who is right. In the meantime our merchants are possessing their souls in as much patience as possible under the circamstanges, HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1870. Era of Good Feeling, This morning, bright and early, the Seventh regiment, Colonel Emmons Clark commanding, will begin their pleasant jaunt to Phila- delphia and Capo May. Should the weather prove as brilliant as it has beon since Monday last, this military trip will bo a most dashing and delightful affair, as agreeable, no doubt, to the Philadelphians as to our gallant Seventh. Their manly bear- ing and martial proficiency, the agreeable associations of former days in peace and war, the superb music that will accompany them and the exuberant spiriis and gentlemanly grace that distinguish ‘‘the boys” at the bivouac as on the battle field, in the boudoir as on the march, will all contribute to honor the courtesies which the refinement of the Quaker City and of ‘‘the Cape” may offer them. This handsome affair will be speedily fol- lowed by another of similar nature, but sur- rounded with special interest because of the noble opportunity it affords to show how com- pletely brave men forget all rancor when honorable conflict is over, and hail as com- rades and friends in time of peace the ad- versaries who had been worthy of their steelin time of war. The famous Fifth Mary- land regiment, General Herbert commanding, of Baltimore, will. also visit Philadelphia on the 21st inst., and there be received and enter- tained by the Eighth Pennsylvania, Colonel Gray. The Fifth Maryland served with distinction in the advance of Johnson's corps in the Valley of Virginia, and was of the flower and pride of Stonewall Jackson's renowned brigade. Its officers and men aro alike eminent for their soldierly and gentle- manly qualities, and they to-day march lightly and firmly to the music ef the Union with the national flag of Stars and Siripes at the head of the column, They, tov, will extend their jourbéy fo Caps May, gpd thera camp out in food old service style, with a round of reviews and (estivities to mark their stay. It is with unfeigued satisfaction that we hail these agr of a return to “the era of good reeling” etween fellow country- men, It was but the other day that some New Orleans guests were publicly entertained in this city, and from our exchaages we learn that similar “merry meetings” are everywhere replacing the ‘‘stern alarums” of a few years gone. This is as it shoutd be, among men who have beeu tried in the fire and have learned to know their new associates whose hands they clasp on the occasions by seeing them ‘‘rush past with the light of battle on their faces.” But why should not the Fifth Maryland be invited to our city? What say our National Guard? Here is a golden chance for a worthy and chivalric act. The great metropolis which poured out her blood and treasure in such unbounded fulness to maintain the Union and the flag may here set 9 proud example. Our people would make the reception a gala day of hearty enjoyment to one and all, and the youth of the nation, as in after years they recall the scene, would be none the less devoted, none the less sincere in their country’s cause for having learned, by practice as well as by precept, that courtesy is the very crown of knightly honor and that the bravest are still the gentlest when the fray is past. Who Goes to St. It is understood that some changes are shortly to be made in our diplomatic re- presentation abroad, including the recall of Mr. Motley and of Mr. Bancroft. For the place of Mr. Motley Mr. Secretary Fish, ex-Senator Frelinghuysen, Wendell Phil- lips and others have becn mentioned among the probabilities, We are also informed that the name of Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, in this connection has been discussed in the political circles at Washington. Senator Howe is a man of fine accomplishments, though- from his modesty his merits are not gene- rally known. He takes particular interest in all matters of art and literature, and in all measures looking to the education and eleva- tion of the masses of the people. He has been for some time acting chairman of the Committee on the Library of Congress, and is the author of the project of a grand national historical museum at Washington. He has travelled extensively abroad and is well posted in European politics and diplomacy, In the event, then, of the recall of Mr. Motley, Mr. Howe would be a good appointment for St. James, especially as on the Alebama claims he endorses the broad and satisfactory Ameri- ean exposition of Senator Sumn Tue Drovent IN NOE.—The drought in France still continues, notwithstanding the late report to the contrary. No rain had fallen over the parched districts for ten weeks prior to the 4th of July, and since that date there have been only a few slight showers, which have not been sufficient to revive the drooping crops. It is, in short, supposed that only half the average grain crop will be har- vested in France this year. Here we have, then, a powerfit! argument in France in behalf of peace, egainat which it is difficult to com- prebend the evident desire of Napoleon for war, Can he be apprehensive of internal troubles from sho«t supplies of bread, and is he seeking to avoid them by diverting the public inind to the duties of patriotism and the glory of France? We do not know; but we do know that a march for glory on short rations is a hazardous adventure, and in this view we look for peace. James Taken a Back Seat.—While Senator Fenton contented himself with proffering advice on the New York appointments his course in Washington was perfectly smooth and satis- factory, but when he assumed the ridiculous position of dictator he fell before the power of the President as a ship’s mast would be likely to go by the board in a storm if unsupported by shrouds and braces. Mr. Fenton will now probably be laid away among the dead wood of Congress. Watt Srrest—Gowp AND THE War News.—The Wall street excitement has almost subsided under the assurances of peace from Europe. Gold fell from 113 to 112 yes- terday, but was inclined to go up again at the close on the passage of the Fundjng bill and the curious intimation from Europe that Prussia will now demand satisfaction from France for the latter's alleged impertinent posi- tion and demands in connection with the Hohengollern matter. { Silinmeeemeeeeeee Oongress Yesterday. Tn the closing days of the session the reports of conference committees usually embody all that is important ia the business of Con- gross, Such is mainly the case at present, The great legislation of the country is left Ia the hands of the fow men who compose the committees, and the duty of the main parts of the two Houses merely lies in the acceptance or rejection of the reports, and consequeatly the bills, The Tax and Tariff bill was dis- posed off in this way yesterday, and now goes to the President with the income tax blunder still upon it, The Fund- ing bill was also disposed of by this minority style of legislation, with one of its best sections stricken out—that requiring new banks to use the new bonds. Thus two of the most important measures'that our national legislature has had before it this session have been disposed of--how satisfactorily our readers are able to judge from their own individual standpoints, In the Senate Mrs. Lincoln’s pension was again considered and an amendment to give her fifteen thousand dollars was rejected. The Deficiency Appropriation bill was discussed at length in the evening session. In the Honse the proposition of Mr. Butler to investigate the alleged ill treatment of the colored cadet at West Point was agreed to. A report was made in the Howard investigation case entirely exonerating General Howard from ‘the charges preferred against him by Mr. Wood and strongly commending his ad- ministration of the Freedmen’s Bureau. A minority report proposing that he be tried by court martial was submitted, but the House took no action in the matter. It will probably come up to-day. The Pekin Nothing has been received in coufrma- tion of the flaming telogram from ‘ien- tsin, dated June 25, and lately pub- lished by the London Post, announe~ Massacre Honx. s ae rs ~ ing the massacre of the Kreneh Secretary of Logation and other foreign residents by the patiye Chinese at Pekin on the 2ist of June. On the contrary, a private despatch recelyed at Paris directly from Pekin, and dated June a day later than the alleged massacre, couta’ not tho slightest allusion to it. The special telegram to the Pos! was provably a hoax. It is significant that such a hoax should have been perpetrated at a moment when Chinese immigration to the United States is attracting wor!d-wide attention. If it should transpire that opponents to this extraordinary immigra- tion have really been guilty of perpetrating this hoax it will be clear that they are bent upon making arrows of any kind of wood. At all events, the very ease and rapidity with which telegraphic mesages, whether true or false, can now be trangmittud all over the globe will necessitate special caution and discrimination on the part of telegraphic correspondents no less than on the part of journalists whose duty it is todraw inferences from such messages. The eleciric telegraph has its inconveniences and perils as well as its prodigious advantages, Some effectual means must be devised to make it a reliable agont for distributing facts in preference to mere sensational news or inten- tionally false reports, Coolie Labor in the West Indies. While the question of Asiatic labor is attracting much attention, especially among the working classes, in this country, it may be interesting to glance at it elsewhere. Todo this it is not necessary to go a great distance from our own doors. In the Antilles the im- portation of Asiuiis laborers has been car- ried on on a large scale for years. But it has been done so quietiy and the laborers have conducted themselves so peaceably that the people of this country never had their atten- tion attracted to the subject. Since the year 1848 the number of Asiatic laborers which have been imported to the islands of the West Indies has swelled to very near a million. The figures given set it down at 968,576. These are scattered throughout seven of the islands, neither Cuba nor Porto Rico being included in the number. If the coolie laborers on the island of Cuba were taken into ac- count it would swell ihe figure; Last year the number of coolies brought from Galcuiia to the islands of Trinidad, Deme- rara, St. Vincent and Mauritius footed up 12,912. The flow of emigrants, therefore, from the East to the islands of the West Indies is steady and continuous. Their frugal habits, untiring energy, temperate living and acquisi- tive proponsilies enable them to lay aside something from the meagre wages they receive for their labor, to sustain them in declining years or enable them to retura to their native country, The fact that four hundred and thirty-2ight coolies recently were able to return to Calcutta and carry with them a sum amount- ing in the aggregate to over sixty-five thousand doliars, is matter for consideration. In like manner three hundred and seventy-two coolies were sent home from Trinidad, their term of service having expired. These laborers did not go home empty-handed. They took with them eighty-eight thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars, their savings for years. No better inducement could be held out to the Chinese and Japanese to. emigrate to this country than the return of so many of their countrymen to their native homes with. their pockets well filled with the money they had honestly earned in a foreign land. From the facta and figures we have given it will bo seen that coolie labor in the islands of the West Indies, while it is of great advantage to the planters, affords the poor Asiatic an oppor- tunity to improve his condition and gather together a support for declining years. Cranes THE NAME.—There is a ricketty old steamboat down in the Lower Bay that the Quarantine authorities use to convey smallpox patients to the hospital buildings. It is called the Governor Fenton. Since the fall of the late distinguished New York Senator we learn it is in contemplation to change the name of the old boat. GENERAL Owen Starr and Colonel Thomp- son were both found guilty in the Canandaigua Court yesterday of violating the neutrality law. The jury recommended them to mercy in consideration of past services. We do not presume that the sentexce of the court will be very hard apon them, but it {s well to have this thing of violatirig the neutrality laws recog- nized as a crime, THE REW FRENCH MINISTER. af Arrival of M. Prevost-Paradol Yosterday—A Conversation with Him on the European Crisio—ixe Thinks That There Will bo No War—Doparture for Wash Ington Last Night. ‘The new French Minister to Washington, Mi. Prévost-Paradol, arrived at this port yesierday in the steamsiup Lafayette, having ieit Havre on the \ 2d tust. He 1s accompanicd by his cea and daugh- ter, Soon after the arrival of the vessel at her dock, 1 at pler No, 60, at two o’cluck, with the distingmshed i geutieman, @ nutider of visitors, including the French Consul, Weut on board io pay their respects, after which M. Paradol and suite proceedel to the Westminster Hotel, Where apartments had been pre- ; viously engaged for him in advance of his arrival. 1] Last evening a HERALD reporcer called at the 1" Westminster Hotel and seat up his card to M, Para- | dol, with the request (hat he would be granted an 4 interview whenever it would sait tho Minister's con. venience, ‘the answer was am invitation to walk up, M, Paradol was fonnd waiting at the door of bis apartments, siniting and coarteous; bis aalghver sat near table on which were a number ol ar- B ticles Which indicated that the party was en rovte, and the son of the Minister rectined on a eofa_ near by, an attentive obwerver of the conduct of all who entered. Mm = Paradol = hae ” large, clear hazel eyes; his face, always wreathed in sinides, Is ruddy with the glow of health, and his mauner is very engaging. He is under rather than over the middie nt, and has all the quickness and vim character.stic of Parisians. He speaks English fnenuy aut well, and 13 open and unre- servod in lis manner. A maa evidently honest and straightforward, his conduct of the important trust coufided to bim by his government will scarcely ve characterized by thoxe sinuosities of diple- macy so much aiected by European repre- sentatives in geuerai, Judging from nts qnick, ucrvous am bis cordial and hearty bearing “ond steaighttorward — style ot rare avis among diplomats, and ‘d (ie vid Oficial Loris 6 Com a wi the government to Ta 4 the moke y and 2at- porsonal mterview, ; quite cordially by the eal by his side, Jo not wish to ask you Fuld @utlireass you 10 ap of Eycope at tis moment joa la Ors £QpRtry, and as fy informed cf the condl- our views on the present lighted, sir, to x tain about ethemy, WOO a 18 SOUT AS Use Rerores mn aware, sir, that you lett be‘ore the prescut war clond ‘appeared on the peda horwon, sad therefore you can say nowing of ihe present siduation that we do not know already; are thoroughly acquainted witi the temper ple. Is French sentiment in iavor ussis ? ‘ARADOL—Well, I speak for myscif— | ‘The people of F con ately ‘OsT-! Hinan. ; they want peace, trad Bat should Prussia persist in | to France—Insist upon putting @ Prassian on the Spanish throne—au Fiance will be for war. A Prussian on tae Spanish throne!—is tt not ridiculous? Sir, 1t would be a blow at France—an insnit not vo be borne. The case of Frauce aii Prussia in this Hohenzollern afar is sunilar to wnat of the United States and Mexico, You could not stand Maximi¥an 10 Mexico; it would not do; the French cau’t stand & Prussian in Spain, Bat there will be no war. Bis- 4 mtck is not such a fool as to go to war on such & pretext; the muiter will be settled by the Trivolo: Emperor Paradol, suppose, a8 ts stated in some of the ms irom sngiand and France, ; that your gover i Will not be content with tie declension of the Prince Leopold (who, as you are @ doubliess aw: tas relapsed luto his original littie- ness), but insisia, oow that France is aroused, tae Prussia shail obserge the treaty of Prague, what then? | y, M. PARAPOL—Ah ! that 1s another affair, Prussia f Hedi emphasis) ought to observe the treaty” of rague. Mf the Kurperor says she shall she will. ‘There may be a war on that question, but I can ont give my Opinion on these matters as an indtvidual, not as @ minister, for tus complication arose after J left France. Reronrer—There seem to be in France just now x not one but several parties all having diffevent ideas of governm bat united tn opposition fo Uke empire. How Would # war atfect the:n ? PARADOL—A War With Prussia in defence of the legitimate infueace of France in the Peninsala would unite Orleunists, Bourbonists, Reds and all parties. Thore wiil be Dut One party in all France when the first shot is tired in defence of French honor, and that the party of the government, ‘The coachman Watitng at the door without show- ing unmistakable s:gos of uneasiness the reporter roge, bade the distinguished gentieman goodby ant withdrew. Mintster Provost-i’aradol soon after Yeti for Washington. eS ; SARATOGA RACES. Large Number of Arrivals to Attend tho Races—Pool Selling~—The Favorites—A Bril- Nant Season in Prospect. SARATOGA, Jaly 13, 1970, The opening day of the seveuth annual meeting of the Saratoga Racing Assoctation promises to be a brilliant success. The hotels aro filling fast, many of them to the extent of their accommodations, with ‘a class better looking, better dressed and im posses- sion of more plethoric pocketbooks aud superior in quiet elegance than any summer assemblage ever before gathered nere, The long, cool piazaas were all filled this atteraoon with representatives from every State in the Unton, and while they basked in the refreshing shade of the elms that skirt Broad- way and gain a new iease of life by this charming indvleace, the races to-morrow were foremost in thelr minds, Ladies blonde and ladies brunette bet their frieuds oa the result of the anticipated contests and pred imauy dollars on the starters, : so adept are in the love of the turf turfy. cf 01 8 While the genth thus vaunted their opinions the geuilemen aid their business more boisterousiy. At cight o'clock this evening the pool sellers of the association, Messrs. Underwood and McGowan, began the important work of opening the official yf betting. It was then announced what stables would start their horses. The first race is tor the Travers Stakes, for three-year-olds, one and three-quarter malle, fa which are seventy nominations, the gtables ' to be Lag eect being Beimont’s, Joseph McVon- , nell’s, F, Morris’, H. 8. McGrath's, McDaniels’, T. G. Moore’s, I. W. Pennock’s, Hunter and Travers’ and D. Swigert’s, the latter intending to start the bay colt Kingfisher, waich was the favorite over all the rest. During the betting it was announced that Belmont’s chestnut colt Telegrain was lame. before ¥ and behind, and might uobbe brought to the siand. . | Im the second race, sweepstakes for all ages, one 2 ' and a quarter mile, im which there are fifteen noml- nations, are Belmont’'s bay horse Glenelg, J. Ecker- son's chestnut horse Sanford, J. O’Donnell's chest- é nut horse General Duke, M. ff. Sanford’s. bay mare Niagara, M. 0. Little's’ choatnut Mily Maggie B., Bacon & Holland's bay gelding Corsican, aud W. R. Baicock’s poate eae ue betting was nearly even for all tne entries, The third race 1s for the Flash Stakes for two-year-olds, half a milo, in whieh there ave ent! inations eight probable starters, twenty nominstions and. erg! lg ie | as follows:—Belmont’s bay filly rt, W. Jerowe’s- Ui villy and chestnut. fig by Ke 4 Crawford’s bay colt " filly by Kentucky, Denison M A us, M. A, Littell’s chestnut fily Rattan, Hunter & Travers’ chestnus Miily ith ees , HL P: dicGrath’s chestnut colt MeK taney, and D, J, Crouse’ chesinat filly Alliance. ‘To dts hour no pools have been sold on this. race, ‘The trains to-vight are laden with new compra. Hops. are in progress at the Union, Halt and Clarondon. New York’s favorite and favored sons. abd daughters are here, The cool evening: does mach to uronse the latent energies of the > fashiongbles, and at the hour of thia despaton Sara- toga i<'more’ brillfans than ever before on the eve of & rachng meeting. BASTARDLY GUTRAGE BY A CONDUSTER. : Last evening an offictal attached to the Centra? Police Oflee represented to reporters that at twenty- five minutes to eight o’clock Tuesday morning, ve- tween Eight and Fourteenth streets, the conduetor of car No. 6, of the Broadway line, in lls presence, received fare from an oli gentlemen, aged abous fifty. A minute or two after be demanded fare and was Informed that he liad alveady col- ‘ ated It. A quatrel, in which the old maa dec! a that ne had been frequently cheated by conductors ‘on the road, follo When the ov tor seized the passenger and hurled him into the st where he fell — his back and sustained some slight tn- juries. e Central Office oMcral, AoCe led by passenger, procecded to the office the oom. the fyosteruny "to rerort the Frrets, OL, werE UALS Roose the Preaident of the company. "4 t