The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Saad JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be propery sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the tear. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. JOB PRINTING af évery description, also Stereo- typing ana Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- <uled at the lowest rates: Volume XXXKV......ccseeeee eee eeseeeee No. 21 Ee hecouaialaey fa AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND ME) ner Thirtieth at.—Performances @RIB, Broodway, cor- ry afternoon and evening WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway anda 13th street.— Fuitz, Ove Cousin Come aie 8 BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—VanieTy ENTERTAIN- MENT. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Bighth avenue and ‘22d st,—S1TALA—TBE NATIONS, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- RIELY ENTERTAINMENT—Com10 VOCALISMS, &0. 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Politics and Progress—Found browned—Per- Jonal Intelligence—The Discussion on Poly- gamy—Heavy Fraud in Jersey Otty—A Horse ae Ceptared in Hobokena—Cricket—Murder at. 6—The Nathan Inquest: Testimony of General Blair, Dr. Peckham, Dr. Janvrin, Dr. Ruppaner and Others; A Strange Story by a Newsboy; The Murder Stili Shrouded in Mystery—The Fourteenth Street Tragedy—Execution tn Vir- ginia—The Williamsburg Murder—Death of a Snake Charmer. G—Editorials : Leading Article on the War in Eu- rope—Amusement Announcements. ‘Y%—The War; Rapid Advance of the Crown Prince of Prussia; A Battle Said to be Raging at Metz; Vast Preparations for the De'ence of Paris; fa eee Said to be Iu at Chalons; Marshal ne Commander-in-chief of the French Army; French Report of MacMahon’s Deteat; A Levy en masse of the French Nation Probable—Miscellaneous Intelligence—Terrific Explosion—Business Notices, S—Monarchy in Retreat; The Disarmament of Canada; the New Bulwarks of the Dommion— News from China—John Chinaman as 2 Hus- . band—Obituary—The Social Evil in ouis— Brooklyn City News—Fire at Sea—New York City News—The Courts—Base Ball Notes— Colored People Seeing the Elephant. O—Russia One Hundred Years Ago—Criticisms of New Books—The North Carolina Anarchy— Army and Naval Intelligence—Chicazo Rail- road Progress—Financial and Commercial Keports—Marriages anid Deaths. 10—The Yacht Race (Continued from Thira Page)— The War in Earope. Our columns this morning present a chaotic mass of inteHigence regarding the war. That Prussia has gained a victory which slmost determines the campaign is conviction which is shared by every nationality, French- men scarcely excepted. The news this morn- ing clearly shows that the French on Satur- day were found unequal to the Prussians at two points of their line—at two points which deserve to be spoken of as their right and left flanks. The victory of the Crown Prince was scarcely more complete than was that of Von Goeben. General Frossard was not more com- pletely defeated between Saarbruck and For- bach than was MacMahon at Haguenau and Woerth. Oa each of her projecting points France was punished. The news of this morning seems to imply very general demorali- zation all along the French line. MacMahou's army seoms to have been cut to pieces; and, according to late intelligence, it was hope- lessly cut off from the main body of the French army. It seem#*to have been equally: bad with the forces under Frossard. Forbach is in the hands of the Prussians, and, according to Prussian reports, it is a most important strate- gle point. This, hawever, does not fully state the ad- vantages gained by Prussia. In consequence of the victories won on the right and on the left the Prussian army felt emboldened to move forward’ along its whole line. The result has been that not only have the French on the right and the lef! retired, and retired in confu- sion, but the ueadquarters, which were at Metz, have beeu drawa inwards, the Emperor retiring, sick, it is said, and almost in despair, to Chalons. Without going too much into details, which more perplex than enlighten the reader, it may be said with confidence that the whole French army has been driven back, and that the original plan of the campaign, so far as France is concerned, has been a completa failure. Napoleon assumed the aggressive; he carried the war into the enemy's country ; but, in place of marching direct and triumph- ant to B.rlin, he now retires crestfallen and sick towards Paris. At the moment we write it is possible that a great battle is going on—a battle not of divisions, but of whole armies. All accounts agree in this—that Prussia is pressing on in the rear of the retreating : NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, court’ whenever the clrous'came along. Yes terday the brokers, who disliked betraying their indifference to business while the yacht race was in progress, finally ‘confessed the maize” and adjourned at the close of the morning call. The only dealers who remained in the street were the speculators in gold. Their solicitude was so thoroughly aroused by the war news that they dared not leave the, Gold Room, but hung to its railing all day long. The Yacht Race. Our lower bay often sees a grand array of contesting yachts in the regular regattas of our home clubs; but it has seldom seen such a brilliant display of canvas as appeared on its waters yesterday. The occasion was one to call forth every available inch of canvas that the adjacent waters could spread. It was the first time in nineteen years that the possession of the Queen’s Cup, so gallantly won by the yacht America in English waters against an imposing array of English yachts in 1851, was contested, and the honor of its ownership was a prize that every American yachiman was ambitious to hold. There was, therefore, an unusual number of famous craft in line. The Cambria, the famous winner of the ocean race, was there, the sole English contestant (and as such she was overwhelmed with honors and courtesies) ; the America, the original winner of the cup nearly twenty years ago, was there, and the Idler, the Magic, the Paantom and the Daunt- less were there, besides dozens of others just as good though not individually ro noted. Excursion boats overshadowed every ripple of water that was not occupied by the contestants, and every foot of space on the excursion boats was held by greedy passengera, anxious to view the contest. In addition to this the wind was high, the sea was smooth and the sky was clear. Nature seemed to have taken a personal interest in the race, and made all her appointments accordingly. The start was magnificent; the run out and back was in the finest and fastest style, and no acci- dent of any importance marred the occasion. The whole story is graphically told in our columns elsewhere. It is enough here to note that the Magic came in winner, the Dauntless came in second, the Idler third, the America followed close on her heels, and the Cambria French; that the Prussian army numbers somewhere about eight hundred thousand men; that it is flushed with success, and that Napoleon, if he would save Paris, must fight at once. In the event of a general engagement taking place without delay it is not difficult to see that the chances are mightily in favor of Prussia. The forces of King William move on unbroken and cheered by victory at every step. The forces of Napoleon are broken on the right and left, scattered and, by virtue of retreat, demoralized along the whole line. This, however, is not all. German soldiers, like all soldiers of the North, go into battle counting on possible defeat and prepared to learn and tura, if possible, defeat into victory. French soldiers, like all soldiers of the South, go into battle counting on success and on suc- cess only. All the advantages of the situation are, therefore, in favor of Prussia. Napoleon must concentrate before he can fight; and in concentrating it is next to impossible to pre- vent the enemy from finding an easy way to Paris. Prussia is already in order and marches on like a living wedge. If Prussian troops are on!y quick enough they may be in News From Waslington—The Voice of the People—Political Notes—Shipping — In‘elll- gence—Advertisements. 11—Mormonism : Politics, Religion and Amuse- ments ; Anniversary Celebration of the Settie- ment of Salt Lake City—Sad Loss to the Turf— General Notes—Entries for the Saratoga Races— Washington Gossip—Cost of Quarrels— Acdvertisements. 12—Advertisements. Tne CANADIAN Press AND THE HERALD.— As will be seen by our Quebec correspondence, the press of the Dominion is unduly excited over the New York Herarp. The military authorities having some thousands of tons of war material for sale naturally advertised in our columns. Whereupon one loyal journal complains that by this means ‘‘the fact of the sale is published to the world.” That is pre- cisely why the British government, with rather more common sense than red-tapis's generally display, selected their medium. Royalty, as well as republicanism, pays its tribute to journalistic enterprise and energy. By tng EvropgaNn Mat we received a most interesting budget of special correspond- ence from the field at the seat of war, The exhibit appears in our columns this morning. One of our special writers dates at the head- quarters of Marshal MacMahon’s command, giv- ing a very complete detail of the French force which was then moving on the Rhine. The effect which was produced in Rome by the first receipt of the war news is described. The Prussian operation of exploding the via- duct, mentioned by the cable telegrams, is reported in a veryanimated style. Our special letters from London are of an interesting and important character. The Coming State Labor Convention. The colored men of this State, up to the pre- sent time debarred from taking part in many, nearly all, of the various occupations, mechani- cal and scientific, are now called upon to unite in the coming State Labor Convention, which will be held on the 24th inat. at Saratoga. The invitation is not conflaed to colored men exclusively, but is extended to all classes of workingmen irrespective of color. However, the Convention is intended to appeal directly to the newly enfranchised. The importance of this movement is evident, and no doubt it will be largely attended. As yet the different labor organizations have taken no steps towards a recognition of the rights of the colored man to a participation in the mechanical arts. Whether the present occasion willbe taken advantage of to send representatives to the Convention remains to be seen. Among the many matters which will come up before the Convention possibly the Chinese labor question wiil find a place. It will be interesting to know how the colored men feel on this subject—one that is destined at no very distant period to exercise an influence on many classes of labor through- out the country. From the prominence which the Chinese question has already obtained there may be a disposition on the part of the white workingmen to act in harmony with their colored fellow citizens, The time is not far distant, and a few days will tell the tale, Paris before Napoleon is able to get his army in fighting order. If it be true that the Emperor is sick the chances of France are nowhere. The absurdity of the one man power is likely to have an effective illustration before this war is ended. The general situation is enlivened somewhat by news from Italy. On the one hand we are told thatthe Pope, dreading an invasion by the party of action in Italy, has imploringly besought the Empress Regent to send him only one ship, that he may have a secure place of refuge. On the other hand we learn that Victor Emanuel has agreed to send one hundred thousand men to the assistance of Napoleon, Both reports are in all likelihood trae. If true it requires no large amount of observation to see that Italy is to be plunged into all the horrors of civil war. The Italian people cannot, at one and the same time, in- vade the Pontifical territory and send legions to the Rhine. Napoleon’s difficulty is Mazzini’s opportunity; and although the triumvir is old he had not, we may rest assured, abandoned his principles or given up his purpose. More than this. If Italy goes in for France why should not Spain? Why should not Austria? If Italy and Spain and Austria go ia for France, or if any one of them offers France assistance, the duel be- tween France and Prussia is ended and the war becomes European. Russia, to a dead certainty, will hurry forward her legions to the front of the fight, and Russia and Prussia, whatever Great Britain may do, will put down the South, The presumption is that Great Britain, in such a case, will come in as media- tor and probably end this fight. The Bible prophets, who see in this fight the battle of Armageddon, may not be so far wrong after all. * The conditioa of France as compared with the condition of Germany at the present moment is bad. France trembles. Germany is full of confidence. The morale of the struggle is all against France. It was Napoleon who began the war, and the pretext for war, according to the common sense of mankind, was contemptible. Napoleon talked big; King William was calm, dignified and willing to abide the issue. Napoleon was theatrical and talked of Louis and his first baptism of fire. The boy prince, after his baptism, is hurried back to bis mother. How much grander the conduct of King William! He waits until he has a right to speak. Com- pare the ‘baptism of fire” with the words, ‘“‘a great victory has been won by our Frilz. God be praised for His mercy.” The former is modern charlatanism. The latter has the fine ring of the good old times, when men had faith in the God of battles. Napoleon may yet turn the tide of victory and save France and his dynasty. But if he does not win a great battle before Monday first, which is his féte day, the house of Bonaparte is dvomed. According to all appearances Napoleon’s last blunder has been his greatest. Watt Street AND THE Yaout Raoz.—It came in eighth. This race may justly be taken as demonstra- tive, at least to some extent, of the superiority of the American mode! and of American sea- manship over the English. American yacht- men have the right to claim this; for they have been lacking in no courteous concession to their English competitor and have grudged him no praise for his handsome victory in the ocean race, While that race may have been affected by the different winds or. calms that prevailed in the widely differing latitudes through which the courses of the two con- testants lay, this was over the same course and with the same wind, and the English con- testant was given the choice of position from the start. It is true enough that with eighteen yachts to beat it seems like taking heavy odds to pit the one English yacht against the field; yet that is actually as fair a race as any, for the fastest aud best managed yacht will win, barring accidents, no matter how many other yachts start with her. As it was, the Cambria came in eighth, and therefore the American victory is complete. Seven American yachts have beaten her over a clear course, witha good wind, in an accepted race, where sho was allowed the choice of position, and an American yacht consequently still holds the Queen’s Cup: Another thing is evidenced by the race of yesterday. The America, the victor of nine- teen years ago, was among the leading yachts in the race. She rounded the lightship fourth and came in fourth at the stakeboat on the return with all the gallantry and speed of her old days, when she was the accepted world’s model of a racing yacht. We havo not there- fore improved much upon the America. It may be that our shipbuilding interests have lagged so that American ambition for improve- ment has not been sufficiently stirred, or it may be that there is no room for any improvement on the model of the America; but the fact remains as evidenced by the race of yesterday, not only that our American yachts excel the models of the English, but that we have made little or no advance on the model of the fleet winner of the Queen’s Cup of nineteen years ago Public Funerals to Criminals—An Example. We have witnessed from time to time in this city grand ovations, tendered in conspicu- ous funeral obsequies, to those whom society generally regards as unworthy of much public note, because they have been violators of the law, and, happily indeed for the peace and well being of the community, have had their course of crime brought to a close as the law’s victims. It is a matter of rogret to see any portion of the public doing honor to individ- uals of this class, convicted and executed murderers; but at the same time it is con- soling to know that the respectability, the good sense and the obedience to law which form the strength of our metropolitan society utterly abhora and holds apart from such spectacles as that witnessed on Sunday at the funeral of the unfortunate Real, who, what- ever may have been his faults in life, Chris- tian charity should have given bim peace on the scaffold—peace in his dreary way to the last resting place of mortality—peace at least in his dying moments and in the final march to the grave—peace from the paltry trickeries of politics that in this cage shamed the usually solemn scenes of the death and the burial, Nothing could have been in worse taste than the outdoor exhibition at Real's obsequies, If it meant anything beyond a bid for a few votes at the next election, and the motive to excite political animosity to people in respon- sible positions, it meant that the law should Evil be defiled by glorifying the lawless; it meant that the couatry should see how justice can ba insulted in this great city by dolng honor to its victims. We need not touch the delails of this display. If all that is told of them as occurring at the grave be true they are too revolting for refe- rence. The spirit of the thing is apparent, and it must be—and no doubt it is—sternly condemned by every decent man in the com- | was a Western judge who used to adiourn ; munity as an ovil example to tha lawless AUGUST 9, 1870.—TRIPLE classes. It may be urged, in palliation, that the demonstration of Sunday was got up by the ronghs, the thieves, the burglars anda mere mob of such elemonts of society. But unfortunately this is not strictly so, These classes, perhaps, comprised the bulk of the crowd, because their sympatnies brought them there, and they were naturally conspicuous to every eye; but we find that men holding promi- nent positions—yea, even in the department to which the children of the people look for edu- cation—were noted as participants in the procession. This is the serious feature in the business. All such public displays are indecorous. They should not be tolerated. If there be a remnant of common sense lef¢ in the politicians who got them up they must see how little the apotheosis of a murderer can serve their turn. But this is not the question. Not only is the delicacy of the community affronted by these exhibitions, but the law which metes out justice to the criminal is openly condemned. If such displays are repeated we shall bo compelled to ask the Legislature to frame the penal code in cases of capital punishment so as to embrace the rale prevailing in England, that the body of the condemned mur- derer shall be burled within the precincts of the prison where he expiates his crime. The Voice of the Continental Press of Europe on the War. Our files of European exchanges, dating late into the closing weeks of July, and conse- quently expressing opinion at the great Con- tinental centres as it was announced in print only a few days before the imposing events now in progress, give a fair transcript of the public thought, We have already made copious extracts from the English papers, and here and there given some hints of the feeling that existed in the countries adjacent to France; but a more detailed notice of the latter will be neither out of place nor uninteresting at this moment, when the probable attitude of several Powers is so earnestly canvassed in the light of the reverses that have just befallen French arms. It is needless, almost, to say that the Prus- sian press, without exception, very firmly and, in some cases, enthusiastically uphold the cause of ‘‘King and Fatherland,” to use their own peculiar phrase, but it is worthy of note that this adhesion is shared by the ultra liberals and monarchists alike, and that in such expression there isno difference of creed. In South Germany a few papers venture to debate the propriety of conceding the whole position of control to Prussia, but not one that we have seen advocates an alliance or even a co-operation with France. In Austria the case is somewhat different. Nearly all the liberal journals, such as the Presse, the Neue Freie Presse and the Wanderer insist upon absolute and unconditional neutrality, but the aristocratic and mili- tary organs, without exceptien, favor France. The official journals, such as the Gazette and the Abend Zeitung, maintain a cautious reserve, and deny ali rumors of secret treaties and movements of troops and fleets, The Northeastern Correspondence refers to the resolutions urging neutrality which were passed by the municipal councils of Vienna and other leading cities of the Austrian em- pire, and blames what it terms the precipitate action of Southern Germany in recognizing the casus faderis, or federal pact, with Prussia at this time. The Russian press is somewhat divided, the quasi official organs confining themselves to a bold statement of facts, yet giving it in such a way as to reveal a leaning to- ward Prussia, Tae Journal de St. Petersbourg, however, is quite impartiat; but deplores the idea of war, and very sensibly points to its accompanying devastations and perils in the present state of Europe. The Goloa, which is considered the mouthpiece of Russian liberalism, on the other hand, comes out very decidedly for the French cause, and intimates that Prussia, in case of success, might become a very dangerous neighbor to the Muscovite empire. At the same time it does not hint at any direct intervention, but says:—‘‘Even should Austria and Italy inter- fere in this war we should not be compelled to follow their example. The more numerous the Powers involved in it the greater will be the advantage of neutrality to us. As proof of this we may cite the immense profits which Prussia reaped by remaining neutral during the Crimean war.” The papers of Sweden and Denmark with one accord, except- ing the official sheets, reveal strong French tendencies, and those that favor Scandinavian union are “‘hot i’ the mouth” in that direction, The Berlingske Tidende of Copenhagen, however, mingles some discretion with its valor, and. advises caution. Prussia has along and a strong arm, and is within easy striking distance. Italy is checkered all over with various opin- fons. At Venice, Verona and Milan the press have strong French sympathies, but prefer neutrality to any demonstration on either side, The same may be said, in a modified sense, of Turin, although Napoleonic views grow more distinct as we approach the French frontier, As a specimen we may quote the Perseveranza of Milan, which says:—‘‘The absolute prepon- derance of one as of the other of these Powers ia hurtful to us; but that of Prussia is, indeed, far more 0.” Again, “We must remain neutral, and should not change our attitude until the war should become European by the interference of other Powers.” However, in view of the trouble at Rome and the danger which ‘‘the defeat of France would terribly increaso,” it advises an armed neutrality. The humorous papers of all the Italian cities caricature Napoleon TIL. uasparingly and join the Garibaldian organs in demanding the occupation of Rome, with or without French consent. The Wazione of Florence, which is the organ of Victor Emanuel and his Cabinet, strenuously advo- cates a careful, watcbful armed noutrality, with increased naval and military preparation and concentration of resources. The Spanish press is somewhat indignant, as a general thing, at the dicta- torial interference of the French Emperor, but some of the republican organs cry ‘‘ Vive la France.” The Tiempo of Madrid predicts that the latier ‘‘will win her veritable object because it is in the nature of things, and what is natural always succeeds.” It predicts a short and terrible war, to result in good for Europe. ‘The Belgian and Dutch journals Or Tee eee eT ee ee SHEET, exhibit great alarm, and are almost unanimous for strictly neutral precautions; but where a shade of preference ts observable it is for the | French. ‘Lhe general deduction that the intelligent reader will draw from this brief and rapid survey is that France is likely to be isolated unless at the eleventh hour Italy and, as we have hinted in former articles, Great Britain come to the rescue; and in that combination many read the shibboleth of revolution. The Muddliug of Testimony in the Nathan Murder Case. Had the same ability been brought to bear in immediately taking possession of the house on Twenty-third street, rendered forever famous by one of the most atrocious murders that has disgraced humanity in our time, that seems to have been put forth to obliterate all genuine traces and confuse all rational testi- mony that might disclose the perpetrator of the crime, New York might well be proud of her detective system; for assuredly never was 80 artistic a jumble of facts, dates, names, people and implements brought about before. The infernal broth of the witches in ‘‘Mac- beth,” with its ‘‘double, double, toil and trouble,” would alone befittingly represent the seething, changing mass of assertions, contra- dictions, blunders, rectifications and atill more stupendous blunderings again, real or ap- parent, that have marked the progress of this 80-styled “investigation.” ‘Wool of bat and tongue of dog” have been plentifully inter- mingled in the brew; but the wool has been attempted to be drawn over the eyes of the public, and the tongue of ‘the dog” that lapped the blood of the murdered man, and lay all red and eager to utter its evidence at his very threshold, has been muffled and silenced. The. identity of everybody and everything has been covered with dazzle and mist to the common eye, and the hues and shapes of the kaleido- Scope are not more varied and incongruous than the pictures of patrolmen, sneak thieves, newsboys, stonemasons, yellow stamped papers, sleepy old gentlemen at windows over the way, frightened young gentlemen in their night clothes with and. without whiskers, bloody shirts in Philadelphia, which every day since the fearful deed has seen dancing up and down through the columns of the press. A statement is hardly made in reference to any one of those who were nearest in time and location to the tragedy ere it is contradicted with equal solemnity, and pistols and prosecution are alike boldly hinted as a determined means of checking inquiry should all other methods of arresting it have failed. The iron instrument which was evidently used to beat the life out of that gray head is made to flit from the front door to the darkened room of assassination, and back again to the door, like a will-o’-the-wisp, only to leave the perplexed inquirer at last in the ditch of utter doubt and unbelief. The blood of the victim, which was daubed and dashed and besprinkled on the wall, where the dying man in his awful agony of terror and death-struggling had been throttled and desperately pressed and held against it, might not, we are told, have left one little stain or spot upon the clothing of the infuriate assassin. The noise of that panting hand-to-hand fight for life, the repeated blows and. the thud of the falling body as loud as ‘‘the slamming of a door,” which were, in all human prohkability, the very sounds that riveted the attention of two persons in another house, were not heard by any one of all who were in the dwelling of the victim, so profound was their slumber on that night of lightning and thunder so unusu- ally terrible as to call for universal comment all over this vast city anda region of twenty |. miles radius around it ! The electric flash, as the records of science tell us, has more than once photographed the most vivid and life-like images of objects upon adjacent surfaces, and had that wonder been repeated on the night of the Nathan murder, does any one believe, In sober earnest, that it could have revealed more startlingly and faithfully upon the ceiling or the glass the actual features of the assassin than did the traces in the room of death reveal the process of his work before they were confused and obliterated ? This is an inquiry which, with the others that grow out of it, leads at once to the first most natural and proper step in legal search. What was the exact condition and appearance of that room and its contents at the moment of discovery by the police? How far were those appearances modified, and when and by whom, and at whose order or request? What has become of the objects removed, and what is their present condition? When these points shall have been satisfactorily covered there are others that will immediately suc- ceed them. The place, the exact scene of the murder, is haunted by the crime. The Coro- ner’s jury and the officers of the law may sit elsewhere; but the finger of justice points to that silent room and blood-stained carpet, No confusion dwells in the mute yet eloquent en- closure of those four walls, The outside din of the busy day and the brooding loneliness of night cannot choke down or becloud the testi- mony thatis there for eyes that have skilled sight and ears that are willing to hear. and Chineso Immigra- ton. All thoughtful and patriotic Americans must ‘agree with the views which Governor Sey- Horatlo Seymour | mour presented in his letter to a mass meeting of workingmen at Rochester, on the 4th inst., as to the immediate and prospective import- ance of the question of Chinese immigra- tion to the United States, the danger of open- ing the floodgates and pouring in upon us the worst classes of overcrowded Ohina, and the fact that interest, justice and humanity com- bine to make it the great end of statesmanship to give comfort and plenty to each home and to take care that labor should be well paid. We are all opposed to the introduction of coolie labor and to the revival of involuntary servitude in any form. But a recent decree of the Chinese govern- ment has positively forbidden the exportation of coolie labor, and our consuls in Chinese ports have been instructed by our own govern- ment to see to it that this decree shall not be violated by any contractors from America. Henceforth only voluntary Chinese immigra- tion to this country will be possible, The dangers of an inundation of barbarism have thus disappeared. Chinese tmmigration will be regulated, like European immigration, by the old law of supply and demand. It will not be forced upon us. Jt will not overweeln us, The opponents of Chineso immigration are fighting against coolie labor—a phantom moaster which no longer exists save in their own imagination, Governor Seymour admits that “‘the Chinese have useful qualities; that they are.said to be good servants, ready to do the work of men or women;” but in almost the same breath he adds ‘“‘we must not judge of those who come here by those who stay at home. We get only tho dregs,” Now if “the dregs” have won great and» well deserved ~ praise for their ‘‘useful qualities,” what addi- tions to ourt national wealth may~not be expected from immigrants of a higher grade? Moreover, itis a mistake to suppose that John Chinaman can remain here long without having his eyes opened to the necessity and the right of better wages than he has been satisfied with at home. This is manifest from an incident recorded by a lady correspondent from California, in a letter which appeared in the last number of the MNational Standard. Alluding to ‘‘the ten conts a day theory,” on which the Chinese, it is said, can live and underbid white labor go as to drive it to starvation, this lady declares that ‘whatever they may have been obliged to endure in over- populated China they have, be sure, no inten- tion of repeating the experience here. Iu the kitchen last eventag Ah Chin—who had just finished his supper of omelet, custard pud- ding and strawberries, with English (?) breakfast tea to wash it down—in- formed mo that ‘six dollars week no good; seven dollars good. Much wash, much cook, You tell Mr. K. he no giveseven dollar you get another boy one week.’ Andin reply to my remark that [liked him, and should be sorry to have him go, he coolly observed, ‘Yes, yes, me likce you, too; like stay here; seven dollars!’” Thus the Chinaman, as well as the European, soon leagns to appreciate and demand “‘well paid labor” in this country. Nor will it be easy for Governor Seymour to con- vince us that we can discriminate as to the “creeds and customs” of Asiatic immigrante any more than as to ‘‘the creeds and customs” of European immigrants. In fine, scarcely anything need be urged against the arguments of the opponents of Chinese immigration, which they misname ‘‘coolie labor,” than this—that Chinese immigration is already what Mr. Guizot used to call un fait accompli—an ac- complished fact. It is here and we must make the best of it we can, absorbing it gradually Into the mass of elements which compose the society of our vast republic. American Isthmus Canal Surveys. The incalculable advantages of .a ship canal that shall connect the Atlantic and the Pacific, conveying merchandise without breaking bulk, saving the long, costly and perilous voyage around Cape Horn, rendering the cities of our Pacific coast the great receivers and distri- butors of European and Asiatic products, and fulfilling Sir Walter Raleigh’s prediction, that the isthmus will become ‘‘the key of the uni- verse,” amply justify the appropriation by Congress, at its late session, of thirty thousand dollars for a new survey of the routes of Nicaragua and Tehuantepéo. It is understood that Captain Shufeldt will command the expe- dition to be fitted out in August and to leave in September. It is also understood that about the same time Commander Selfridge—who is now preparing his final reports, and the mapa of whose recent survey have just been trans- ferred to /the Coast Survey Office at Washington to be worked up—will return to the Isthmus of Darien and examine the Tuyra and Atrato routes in order to ascertain their practicability as routes for an inter- oceanic canal. The more extensive and the more thorough all these surveys shall be, the more definite and conclusive the results will prove. To demonstrate the impracticability of any proposed route, or of a number of such routes, is next in importaace only to the dis- covery of a route altogether desirable and satisfactory, The three routes examined by Commander Selfridge on the recent Darien ex- pedition must now be considered eliminated from the problem of interoceanic communica- tion. Even if the Atrato and the Tuyra routes should be found equally impracticable, the problem will be still further simplified. The field for examination will then be narrowed to the Aspinwall and Panama route and to the Nicaragua and Tehuantepec routes. Admiral Davis, in his ‘Report on Inter- oceanic Railroads and Canals between tho Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,” alludes to two features of the Isthmus of Tehuantepeo as having drawn to it the attontion of the early discoverers—one, theremarkable depression of the Mexican plain at this point, and the other, the hydrographic basin of the Coatzacoalcos, which drains the northern slope of the sunken Cordilleras, and discharges itself into the Gulf of Mexico. The idea had long been enter- tained of opening a canal between the two oceans, when, a hundred years ago, itreceived a fresh impulse from the unexpected discovery in the port of San Juan de Ulloa, that some cannon cast at Manila had crossed the isthmus by the rivers Chimalapa and Coatzacoalcos. This.led to a succession of surveys, which are now of but little value, under the governments of the viceroyalty and of the republic. It will remain for Captain Shufeldt to reverse, if pos- sible, the opinion which Admiral Davis deduced from the really accurate and reliable survey by the scientific commission under the direction of Major Barnard, of the United States Engineers, in 1850-51, that “this route possesses but little merit as a practicable line for the construction of a ship canal.” Captain Shufeldt may also succeed in proving that the Nicaragua route fora ship canal is incontestably superior to every other, as well as peculiarly fortunate in having attracted the fovor of statesmen, capitalists.and men of science, on account of a variety of circum- stances. Among these are enumerated, by Admiral Davis, the accidental settlement of Greytown; tho establishment of a transit through Nicaragua; the actual navigation of the San Juan river and of Lake Nicaragua ; the connection of eminent names, including that of the present French Emperor, who foresees a future Constantinople in the little town of Managua; and the agricultural and mineral wealth of the Chontales regions. To these circumstances may be added, says the Ad mifal, “the gdvances seemingly made by