The New York Herald Newspaper, June 13, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volame XEXVILI,.........600sseeeee +++ No. 165 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st— Ovr Covorep Brzruken. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Swanr Avcris—Yax xxx Duxiiist. e THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Cmicico By- vork tus Finv, DURING Tax Fire axy Arex THe FIRE. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner i 6th av.—Enauisn Orera—Manrna, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third strect, corner Sixth avenuc.—Exocu ARDEN. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Lith st. and Broadway.— Fourowi0 anp Ur3 Girrxp Servants. and indignantly rejected by our government, THE FUNERAL OF MR. BENNETT. and followed by the retirement of our case from ETS the Geneva Tribunal, they were doomed to The fanerl of Mr. James Gordon Bennett secs peau cm uaa ood . . new will take place at half-past ten o'clock this proposal, and the article was amended by the morning, from his late residence, No. 425i Senate and returned to Earl Granville for exe- Fifth avenue, corner of Thirty-eighth street. eution by his government. According to our special despatches from Washington, published b eaecemeieeennneened Bi to-day, the alterations simply set forth in more’ The Treaty Question in the British 3 distinct terms tho rule embraced in the original Parliament—What Remains To Be Marticlo, as dictated by Lord Granville, as to the Done. non-liability of a neutral nation for indirect When the British Ministry, on Tuesday last, fj damages on account of the acts of its citizens; in accordance with a notice previously given, but they proved unacceptable to the English made an explanation to the two houses of#Ministry. Our government, aroused at last Parliament of the present condition of the} to some sense of its humiliating position, let us treaty negotiations with our government, Bi hope, by the teachings of the Henan, positively ithe Marquis of Salisbury insisted that theffrefused to make any further concessions orf Lords and Commons of that august body{to change the supplemental article from the had been fed too long on scraps of information shape in which it had left the Senate. This supplied from this side of the Atlantic through Mogain brought Mr. Gladstone and his asso- the corruption or indiscretion of American jMciates to a stand; but they had another resort. officials. We can pardon the ill-temper and They proposed a postponement of the time for# WALLACK’S THRATRE, Broatway and Thirteenth strect.—Tax Lona Struxe. bad taste displayed by the noble Marquis ing@filing the arguments for eight months, by FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street —jgj 45 allusion to our own people in considera-gjmoans of an additional article to tho treaty, Anmicux 47. tion of the severe test to which the patience of uullifying tho positive provisions of the fifth lta EDWIN'S THEATRE, 72) Broadway.—Gzonara Mj the English nation must have been put by the’ article in the original contract; but this also singularly deceptive and unfortunate state-Our government declined to favor. They ments so repeatedly made by the British gov-§88¥ no chanco of agreeing in eight ernment in relation to the treaty question andfgmonths if England's refusal to accept ithe disagreements connected therewith. The the supplemental rule as shaped by the Senate explanation—for, however little they may ex-f was to be considered final. Mr. Gladstone plain, these official utterances are dignified thereupon changod his base, claimed the right pes iialy with that titlh—made by Lord Granville inJfto postpone the submission of articles on XBW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. Fione house and Mr. Gladstone in the other, the sole demand of one of the contracting DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Anr axp just prior to the Henaxp’s publication of the parties, and sent the letter to Minister Schenck Scrmnce. ; entire correspondence between the two govern-fjand the instructions to the British agent at MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ‘Tum Natad Qures, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— Negro Eccentuicitixs, Buauasave, &c. 8AM SHARPLEY’S MINSTREL HALT, 8% Broadway,— ‘Sam Suanriey’s Mixsteeis. Matinee at 2%. PAVILION, No. 638 Broadway, near Fourth street.—' Lapr Oncuxstra. , ees ments and of the text of the supplemental f Geneva as published in the Hematp yesterday. rule demanded by England, represented At the same time the ministerial explanation the controversy as so near a satisfactoryjin tho British Parliament leaves it to be in- TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, Jane 13, 1872, % and honorable close that Disraeli congratu- lated the Ministry on its success, and even the bilious Earl Russell did not venture to mar ferred that the adjournment of the Geneva difficulties in the way of the treaty are in a CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Btbe occasion by more than a passing sneer. f™fair way of removal. The plain statement of Paces. i—Advertisements, —Advertisements. Indiana: Proceedings of the Democratic State Convention—Politics in Missouri, South Caro- lina, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont—A Sister's Honor—Beacon Park Races—Yacht Race: First Regatta of the ™@ Season by the Eastern Yacht Club—Yachting in England. 4—Sherman’s Tour in Russia: The American Tour- ists in the Ancient City of the Czars; Waiting for the Emperor; Alexander Warmly Wel- comes Sherman to Russia—The Reformed Church—The American Press on the late James Gordon Bennett—Benjamin F. Butler— ‘The HERALD and Dr. Livingstone—Laying the Corner Stone of a New Church—College of the City of New York—Alleged Homicide—An Officer Badly Beaten—Trotting at Fleetwood Park—American Jockey Club—The Jewish Feast of Pentecost—Smallpox in Jersey City. S—The Strike Sustained: Workingmen Movin, Solidly to the Front—Yachting: Columbia Mj mer mystification and muddle. last came yet another “‘explanation,’’ and it justify the prediction we then made. We have Minerve—OmMcial Corruption—France: Speech consisted of the bare announcement that aj™ evinced our disposition to eat the leek offered proposition had been made on behalf of Eng- land to the American government for an eight months’ adjournment of the Geneva Court off™settlement of our didiculties asever. We now Arbitration, which is to mect on Saturday warn Secretary Fish and Earl Granville that next, and for the postponement of the time for filing the arguments of the contracting parties fond reckless a manner that at any moment to a future date, in order that further efforts may the differences still two governments. in the Commons, uor Earl Granville in the Yacht Ciub Regatta—Arrival of the Daunt- less at Cowes—Aguatic—The French Frigate of the Duke d’Aumale in the French Assembly on the Reorganization of the French Army— Brookiyn Financial Estimates—The Slung Shot ala Wake—Fire in West Twenty-sixth Street. 6—Evlitorials: Leading Article, “The Treaty Ques- tion in the Britt: Parltament—What Re- mains to Be Don Amusement Announce- ments. J—The Warin Mexico: Correspondent Defeat—The Wa HERALD. astrous bie Tele- ermany— Livingstone— Dominion of Can: ews from Washington— Miscellaneous Tele: S—The Real Estate Mar Late but Certain Ac- tivity in City Property in Boulevard Lots—Pr York and Brooklyn ¢ Homicide—The Inu Child—The Last Brookiyn ark Shooting Asfoir— Speculation in the New rts—the Fifth Ward Stealing a —The New- ters— l—remaie B Jarming Condi- 9 “A Truce ing 9—Financial 3 the Gold Ma t Market on the Rais of 114; Foreign change Active and Unsettled; the erpment Purchase of Bonds Again feated; Firmness in the Southern List; An- other Tumble in Erie; a “Bull Ciique in London Overwhelmed by Their Losses; Stocks: Weak and Lower, and the Speculation Lean- i to the Bearish Side—Marriages and L 3—Advertisements. 10—The House of Refuge Horror: Third Day of the Trial of Justus Dnnn for the Killing of Keeper othe] National Game—shipping Intel- igence. M—Advertisements. 12—Advertisments. ET AT REE LEE Lrenostoxe’s Drspatces From AFRICA— A telegram report from Bombay to London, and thence specially to the Heraup by cable, brings later and most interesting news Tt was not many days beforo it became evident have been premature. Last week Mr. Glad- stone again surprised and delighted the Com- mons by the sudden announcement, on the alleged authority of Minister Schenck, that our government had unconditionally with- drawn the claims for indirect damages from be- fore the Geneva Tribunal, and the news was received with cheers from both ministerial and opposition benches. This gratifying ex- planation, however, was soon discovered to befg& course, equally unsatisfactory with the others, and the singular controversy was restored to its for-j™ teeth On Tuesday be made to harmonize existing betwen the Neither Mr. Gladstone Lords, alluded to any refusal on the part of our government to consent to such adjourn- ment.and postponement, but, on the contrary, rather encouraged the inference that the ar- rangement had met the views of the adminis- tration at Washington. Tho latter in particu- Steady lar is reported by the cable as saying that ‘he believe that England is attempting again to had consented to tie idea of an adjournment of the Geneva Board to give time for the re- moval of the difficulties,’ thus clearly imply- ing that the idea had originated with the Amer- ‘icans, and not with the English. No state- ment was made by the Ministry of the instruc- tions that had been given to the British agent and representatives in the Geneva Conference, although the diplomatic announcement was fy vouchsafed that they had been armed with full powers, and nothing at all was mentioned of any letter addressed by Earl Granville to the American Minister on the subject. This meagre, unsatisfactory and somewhat from Livingstone. The despatch which wefMdeceptive explanation being all that the publish to-day tells us something of the result British Parliament could obtain at the hands of Livingstone’s explorations during the many fof their government on Tuesday last, we fear years of his absence from the Christian civiliza- [that the ire of the Marquis of Salisbury will tions. Asa happy preface to the news we have JMagain be excited when he receives some more the assurance that the aged traveller is in the enjoyment of good health. He had placed his letters in the hands of the commander of the Heraup expeditionary corps forf transmission to England. Mr. Stanley was on & his way to the seacoast, carrying the pre- cious charge along with his own re- port for the Hrasnp. “He was at Ugogo, en route, at the latest date. Doctor Livingstone was not with him. He refuses to leave Africa, and has now gone to traverse a Great underground path. He tells us in our despatch to-day that he has been convinced, from the riparian discharge of the Rusji River, that the Tanganyiaka is not connected with the Nile. Such are the special aids which the Henatp contributes to the cause of science this morning. TE Tue Junome Park Races To-Day.—Five races will be run to-day by the American Jockey Club at Jerome Park. The first race will be for three-year-olds, one mile and an eighth; the second for two-year-olds, five fur- longs; the third, which will bring a large field to the string, one mile; the fourth race a match race, and the fifth, two mile heats, infM this entire controvery has been one of pro-fjGemeral Sherman at Moscow—His Re= which Harry Bassett will figure. The indica- tions are that to-day’s racing will be as bril- liant as any of its predecessors. The fame of the American Jockey Club has now made it a certainty that race day at Jerome Park must be @ oxistence; a success of the most brilliant kind. SS ERD Tar Disturep Srmrrs Trapz has been made the victim of a trick, in a bold manipula- tion of the Tariff act after it had passed thej™ bility of the repudiation of the obligations of Sherman, who was on his way to St, Peters~ “seraps of information’ from this side of the Atlantic. Yesterday the Hxratp published exclusively the text of the note of Earl Gran- ville to Minister Schenck and of the instruc- tions of the English government to their agent at Geneva, and to-day we are enabled to give the substance of the much-discussed Senate amendments to the English supplemental article. This important budget of informa- tion presents officially the exact situation of the negotiations between the two governments at the present moment, and clears away the fog and confusion raised by the British Ministry in their last attempt at explanation. It will dispel the illusion said to be still prevailing in England that the treaty is to be saved, and will reflect unpleasantly upon the recent course of Mr. Gladstone and his associates, who, if not amenable to the charge of corruption or indiscretion in giving correct scraps of information to the public, are at least open to the suspicion of a disingenu- ous concealment of the truth im their official utterances. Indeed, a candid review of the! facts cannot fail to lead to the conclusion that; the policy of the British Ministry throughout crstination, insincerity and deception. The conclusion is irresistible that Mr. Gladstone: has all along desired to destroy the _ of Washington, after having called it into but, fearing the effect his blundering diplomacy might have upon the existence of the Cabinet, has been anxious the facta is sufficient to show that the suspi- Bibat thé God had not yet been reached, and cion of bad faith and deception on the part off the ministerial congratulations turned out tofgjthe Rritigh Ministry is not idly or unjustly on- tertained. ne ft ee ar It is now the plain and bounden duty of the American government to put a stop to these disgraceful and dangerous proceedings. When the supplemental article was under considera- tion of the Senate, and it was proposed to make certain alterations in its wording, we told the administration that it was only sub- jecting itself to additional humiliation by such for that England would cast amended article in our insist that our surrender unconditional. The facts back — the and should be us by England, with a slight seasoning of our} own providing, and we aro as far from a they are playing with fire, and in so hazardous they may precipitate a conflagration that will wrap the worldin flames. The feelings of two excitable, proud and impetuous nations are wrought up to fever heat by the constant irritation kept up by a set of polititical charlatans who fail to understand the dan- ger cf the treatment to which they are subjecting the people. In England tho idea prevails that the Americans have dishonestly made unjustifiable claims and insolently re- fuse to withdraw them. In America the people browbeat the republic and is acting towards us with her proverbial bad faith and duplicity. An imprudent word spoken by men who have proved their incompetency as statesmen, a single misunderstanding or a hasty step on either side might bring upon us a de- plorable war. Yot Secretary Fish is en- joying the pleasures of a watering place and reading his diplomatic correspondence with England for the first time in the columns of the Henaxp, and Granville and Gladstone are making frivolous and unfaithful explana- tions in Parliament and impudently decrying criticism of their acts. This perilous trifling with the peace of two great nations should cease at once. The last singular position taken by England renders the termination of the controversy an casy matter. Our representa- tives at Geneva should firmly but respectfully insist upon the fulfilment of the require- ments of the fifth article of the Treaty of Washington and the submission of the arguments within the time specified therein. If England should refuse to comply with that: article and violate her obligations our case should be withdrawn from before the tribunal, which, indeed, will have no further official ex- istence. The Treaty of Washington will then fall to the ground by the action of the British government, and we believe the people of both countries will rejoice at its destruction. It has been a source of evil, of crimination, mis- understanding, ill blood and danger cver since the first pmans were thoughtlessly sang over its ratification. It could never have been productive of good after all the squab- bling and misunderstanding that have at- tended the attempted fulfilment of its obliga- tions, and every day of its existence is a peril to both nations. Let it go; and let us wait for a more propitious season and more compe- tent negotiators for a renewal of the effort to settle the differences that have been so long: outstanding between England and America, ception by the Czar. On the 18th ult. Goneral Sherman and party arrived in the city of Moscow after a period of ten days’ hard travel by rail across the Russian steppes. Arriving at the ancient) capital of the empire, which is not inappro- priately termed the Manchester of Russia, a to postpone the fatal moment and to throw fM cordial weleome was, accorded them by Prince upon the American government the responsi-§ Dolgoruky, tho Governor of the Province, Conference Committess of both Houses off™the treaty. ‘The first protest of Earl Granvillef burg, here learned that the Emperor was about Congress, The bill in conference read that against the American case was met by a calm {Mf to leave the capital for the Crimea, and as the the act should take effect on the Ist of July sof™assertion of our right to plead in our own man- it related to the consolidation ner, and not in accordance with the views orf might have to leave without an opportunity of| on wishes of tho opposing parly ; and hence, had gj meeting the Autocrat of all-the Russias. The the enrolled copy the England withdrawn at once from the Geneva far as of the stamp and spirits, but in other taxes General's stay is limited it was feared that he tact of Mr. Schuyler, the American Chargé date was altered to the Ist of August. This Court of Arbitration, tho responsibility of the Md’ Affires, tho good offices of Prince Dolgoraky defers thy much-wanted reform for one month. It reflects little credit on the oMicials in charge that such a change could be possible, whether f mean fraud js at the bottom of it or not, It submitted to our government as a satisfactory is a sevore comment on tho dangers of hasty Misettlement logislation, such as Congress always manages \4 whi th th to stumble through in tho last hous of the fd humiliating proposition would be promptly pession, failure of the treaty would have retained withMand the couriesy of the Emperor himself the English government. After o long courseMsolved the difficulty. The imperial pro- of negotiation Karl Granville prepared and grmme was changed by the Emperor, and he prolonged his stay at Moscow some minutes longer than contemplated in order to give an informal reception to General Sherman. The Ozar, on being presonted to Old Tecumseh by Minister Curtin, grocted bim with a the supplemental article upon the Senate subsequently acted. If the british Ministry entertained the hope that this NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1872.—TRIPLE Wj hearty shake of the hand, which was in marked contrast to the coolness with which he subse- quently received Lieutenant Grant. After the reception, which took place in the railroad depot, was over, His Majesty lingered for a few moments on the platform and had a word to say to his many distinguished subjects who had gathered to do their sovercign honor, after which he entered the car and proceeded on his journey to join the Empress in the Crimea. The Hxnaup correspondent accom- panying the Americans rofers, in tho letter published elsewhere to-day, to the coolness of, the Emperor's reception of Lieutenant Grant, and argues from it that Alexis’ reception in Washington by the Prosident is not yot for- gotten by the imperial master of Russia. eT Democratic Movements—The Party Drift- ing to Greeley and Brown—The Two- Thirds Rale. There can be no longer any doubt that the great democratic party is drifting to the inde- pendent liberal republican Presidential ticket of Greeleyand Brown. Following the exam- ple of their brethren of the Empire State on their new departure, the democracy of each of| the States of Kansas, Iowa, South Carolina Band Florida, in State Convention assembled, on Tuesday last, declared for the Cincinnati candidates in their delegates or in their in- structions to their delegates to Baltimore. It! was only from the little State of Delaware, m where the old democratic hard-shells have not yet heard of the Deluge, that they protested against this new departure and pro- nounced in favor of a straight dem- ocratic Presidential ticket and plat- form, ‘sink or swim, survive or perish.” Yesterday the party State Conventions in Mis- souri, Indiana and Vermont indicated their iret ini alecadk £ preferences or their inclinations to be forf > cady agreed upon, and that the ' Greeley and Brown; and from these results, so far, we consider it morally certain that Greeley and Brown, on the first ballot, will be supported by a large majority of the Democratic National Convention. It is possible that the Greeley and Brown ’men may number two-thirds of the Copven-§ tion. If so, even under that rule there will be no difficulty in the nomination of this ticket. f But if they should number, all that can be mustered, less than two-thirds of the Conven- tion, what will be the upshot under this ‘“time- honored democratic two-thirds rule?’’ This’ is the all-important question, and before we answer it we will explain to the reader why we consider it the all-important question. Since the year 1844 a two-thirds vote has been the inflexible rule of the democrats in their Presi- dential nominations, and we are tree to say that the enforcement of this rule has been ex- ceedingly fruitful in democratic quarrels, splits % and defeats—that it is a rule, in fact, from which the greatest successes of the party have led to its heaviest disasters, beginning with the Baltimore Convention of 1844. In that Convention Martin Van Buren had secured a majority of the delegates; but the Southern men were not satisfied with his Northern attitude on the Texas annexmtion question, and they determined to head him off, and they did head him off and cut him out under the two-thirds rule, and Polk, a South- ern man, ‘sound on Texas,’’ was nominated, and under certain promises, being cordially supported by the New York Van Buren men, he was by a close vote elected. In 1848, how- ever, when the Baltimore National Convention again set aside the claims and expectations of| Van Buren and nominated General Cass, the dis- appointed man, Van Buren, bolted, and taking strong anti-slavery ground on the independent free-soil ticket of Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams, he carried off the balance of power in New York from General Cass, and turned over the Presidency to the whig candi- dite, General Taylor, So much for the two- thirds rule and its rigorous - Southern enforcement against Van Buren in 1844. Van Buren not only had his ample revenge in I848, but he opened wide the doors in that campaign to the great anti-slavery revolution and for all the terrible punishments which have since fallen upon the misguided democracy. Again, in the Baltimore Convention of 1852, all the regular party candidates and expect- ants, such as Cass, Marcy, Buchanan, Douglas, Houston and others, were by the two-thirds rule cut off, and, as the last resort, Pierce, who stood in nobody’s way, was taken up. Better still, on Henry Clay’s slavery com- promises he was, against General Scott, over- whelmingly elected, and almost exactly accord- ing to the Hrnatp’s predictions. But Pierce's overwhelming success was followed by a deser- tion of Clay's slavery compromises, which brought into the field the present republican party, full-armed, like Minerva from the brain of Jove. In 1856 the nomination of Buchanan was enforced at Cincinnati as a peace offering to Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania saved him by “the skin of his teeth” in her following critical October election. But Douglas, who had been remorselessly pursued by the South- ern oligarchy, like Van Buren, had a rod in pickle for them and their two-thirds rule, and he brought it into play at the never-to-be-for- gotten Charleston Convention of 1860. Douglas and his Northern friends went down to that Convention with the fixed re- solve of a settlement with the Southern pro- slavery fire-eators, and they held their ground under the advantages of the two-thirds rule, to the disruption of the Conven- tion and the democratic party. And what have been the consequences? Since that disastrous day of the revenge of Douglas against his Southern pro-slavery persecutors the democratic party, expelled from the flesh- pots of Egypt, has been wandering in the wil- derness. And what was left of it has still ad- hered to its greatest blunder, and its latest} Presidential folly was the enforcement of the two-thirds rule in 1868, whereby Horatio Sey- mour, in spite of himself, was made the demo- eFatic candidate, only to be defeated, and with the conviction from the outset that his nomi- nation was a defeat. Ar ee We submit, thon, that if this mischief- breeding and disastrous two-thirds rule should prove again to be an obstruction to the ma- jority of the Democratic National Convention, this rule should bo set aside and the will of the majority should be enforced as the voice of the party. Ina word, as the democracy appear to be resolved upon this new departure for Gree- ley and Brown, they would do well, in any event, to initiate this great projected political revolution by casting out this ubnoxious old deprocratio two-thirds rule, Lot it be thrown SHEET 5 REE RP APES NE reer! har the i ie with the rest of the old, worn- aceagory ne conquest and occupation of the garments and the faded rogalia of the party. Jj w! of Northeastern Mexico, from the Sierra ‘Madero to the Rio Grande, including the im ‘The. Escape ef the Cuban Filibusters—jm portant city of Matamoros. In the next place, ' Progress ef the Insarrection. if successful to this extent, the revolutionists: Wo have heard so from the ™9Y 800n gather up reinforcements and sup- thisers plies that will enable them to push their opera« that the insurrection in Cuba had been trampled tions far into the interior. At all events the out that the information of three important ex-eTeVolUtionary movements under Trovifio,’ berecied wih someting’ Hua ascatne ff eprems, tare amazed now Liem his wit like su, ve new his by the people. In the fhoo ofall these rumors decisive stroke at Monterey, and Camargo and) so industriously circulated in the Matamoros may next be captured, for so far,’ interest we have read from time to time og! least, he appears to have the game in his fresh relays of Spanish troops arriving in sca and the query has persistently arisen if is no insurrection, and insurgent, leaders are odds eobosannitag. what can and the Prussian Arbitration. the Captain General want with these troops ? ‘The British Ambassador in Berlin has pree ‘The answer is very simple. The insurrection sented the answer of the Queen's govern- of the patriotic Cubans has not been put ment to the American case in tho San down, and the trouble really is that Spainfg°%®" boundary question to His Majesty Em- cannot, in her present ‘embarrassed con-(gP°For Willism. ‘This action of the St. James RLS CE ERT ‘The San Juan Boundary Question dition, spare a tithe of the troops’ fwanted in Cuba, How far, if. at all, the dissensions in Spain have been fomented by the patriotic Cubans we cannot say, but it is pretty evident that they are at present taking active advantage of them. The various fili- bustering expeditions sent in times gone by from ports of this country against Spanish dominion in Cuba were more or less failures, from the fact that the well-meaning leaders deputed a good deal to noisy adventurers, and, between both, the necessities of strict secreoy ‘and despatch were impossible. Gaining ex- perience from these disasters to their cause, and with no discouragement at heart, the wealthy Cuban sympathizers set a movement on foot whereby the conduct of expeditions was placed in the hands of earnest, respon- sible men, above suspicion in every walk of life. From that time forward their cause has prospered. With abundance of wealth at their back, and honesty and determination to administer it, the Cuban cause stands, probably, nearer to the goal of success than ever in the history of the present movement. It is no small tribute to athe capacity of the Cuban managers that they have been enabled to elude the prying not; only of Spanish spies, but also of American officials who, under the orders of the State Department, exercise all possible vigilance to prevent the sailing of expeditions, bearing men and maiériel for warlike use against Spain. Notwithstanding all the precautions it would appear that three steamers have escaped, well furnished with arms, ammunition and the much-needed medical stores, and with a probable total of three hundred picked men, all of whom have seen fighting service, and most of whom are fitted for various grades: of command. Should these three expeditions safely land in Cuba it may safely be predicted that cruel old Spain will find a bitter, stubborn fight before her. Spanish arrogance and insolence are expres-' sions the world over which convey the idea of humbled pride endeavoring to sustain its pre- tensions by every means within the scope of! ‘misrepresentation—a pride which is never happy except in exhibiting to the weak the bloodthirstiness which Spain inherited from the Goths and had ingrained upon it by the Moors. In tombating such a Power, whose continual decline in Europe has been revenged, upon its colonies by repression and extortion in the shape of grinding taxation, it is not; astonishing that the free American people should sympathize with the Cubans. Our government finds itself tied by international ‘law on one hand—and certainly the Spaniards cannot complain of any loosening of the knot so far as the Secretary of State is concerned—| ‘but the immense mass of the people are at heart on the side of the patriotic Cubans in arms to pull down the flag of Spain from above the fair Queen of the Antilles. SE The New Dominion Parliament—The Repeal of the Ten ait Coffee Duties. f° In the New Dominion House of Commons on Tuesday night, as will be seen by a refer- ence to our news columns this morning, the House, on the motion of Sir Francis Hincks, went into committee on the resolution for the repeal of the duties on tea and coffee. The purport of the resolution was that all tea and & coffee imported from any country other than the United States should come in duty free, but that a similar duty should be charged on those articles imported from the United States! as Americans imposed on tea and coffee im- ported from places other than countries of its production. Itis not to be denied that them New Dominionites have a perfect right to legis- Inte, in a reasonable way, in their own interest, and we cannot say that there is anything un- reasonable in the resolution of Sir Francis Hincks. At the same time, it is not to be de- nied that the resolution is suggestive of retali- ation. Discriminating duties are always in certain quarters offensive ; but as we ourselves make discriminating duties in what we think our interest, we have no cause of complaint with the Canadians on this head, If there be cause of complaint at all the blame lies at our) own door. Speaking for the opposition, Mr. McKenzie objected to the resolution on the ground that it would be a violation of treaty obligations with the United States, according to which they were bound not to make any dis- criminating duties in any case. It was the opinion of Mr. McKenzie that the resolution was vistually an imposition of burdens on the people, because but for the new arrangement ten and coffee could be bought at a cheaper rate in the United States than the Canadians themselves could import them. The objec- tions of the opposition were satisfactorily dis- posed of and the resolution was carried. It) remains to be seen how the new tariff arrange- Cabinet was taken quite unexpected|; , but cor- rectly as provided for in the seat. of Wash- ington. Tho United States Minister in Ger- many was not unprepared. The American replication to the English state Paper is already im the hands of the Prussian monarch. The Emperor was prompt, as is his wont, for tho discharge of a friendly duty: He announced that his decision is ready, and that he will deliver it as soon as both parties request him to do so. This is really excellent work on the part of the venerablo gentleman who administers the affairs of the consolidated mation with such happy economic conse- quences. It should be adopted as a most use- ful precedent by the Geneva arbitrators in! the Alabama Claims case, Emperor William has unravelled all tho difficulties of tha San Juan boundary question and made straigh€ the windings of the Haro channel and its sur- roundings; litigated affairs which have gone to make up an international casus of ugly argument between America and Great Britain long betore the war of secession was dreamed! of or that John Bull had come to require abso- lutely as a necessity free cotton, a monopoly of the shipping trade, with the profitable business of supplying cotton night caps to the Chinese ‘and other Asiatics, from Pekin to Lucknow land Looshai. The San Juan boundary ques- tion has already puzzled the kindly good- natured diplomacy ofa grand American sol- dier, the late General Scott, in his ineffectual efforts for its amicable adjustment, and we rejoice and havo confidence from the fact that another illustrious officer, the monarch of Germany, stands ready to complete his work: Let America and Britain speak; Teutonism will pronounce. But it may be that tho dis- agreeing claimants will not, just at prosent, probe the oracle. ADRES How Srnranaz it will be, if it is to be, and yet it may be, that the stone which, the build- ers have so often rejected shall become the ‘head of the corner! LTT EE LY THE WEATHER. . War Department, OFFICE OF THE Ci1eF SIGNAL OrFioRR, WasHINGTON, D. C., June 18—1 A. M, ‘ Probabitities. Clear weather and winds gradually backing to southerly over the New England and ‘Middle States. Clear and partially cloudy weather, with light to fresh southerly winda, over the Southern States, with posalbly threatening weather and areas of rain over the Lower Mississippi Valley. Increasing cloudiness, winds backing to southerly and easterly, and very probably an area of rain over the Northwest, and extend eastward over the Upper Lake region, the Lower Ohio Valley, and, possibly, the Lower Lake region. Dangerous winds are not anticipated. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- rison with the corresponding day of last year, a& indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Bullding:— 1871, 1872. 3 A.M. 69 SP. A. a 6P. 9 A.M. 7 yP. 12 M... : 70 89 Average temperature yesterday. Average temperature for corre: last year THE GERMAN SAENGERFEST. Arrival of the Socictics Entered to Take Part in the Great Festival in St. Louis. Sr. Lovuts, Mo., June 12, 1872. A large number of societies to attend the Saen- gerfest arrived last night and this morning, and others will reach here to-day. All the preliminary arrangements for the festival have been completed. 'The weather is clear and very warm. The streets are thronged with citizens and strangers, and all the space in the vicinity of the Turner's Hall, where the procession will be formed, is densely packed with spectators. The entire city 1s in holiday at- tire. The decorations are very elaborate and meral. Nearly every block in the city is andsomely embellished with evergreens, flaga, banners and appropriate mottoes. A num- ber of arches of elaborate design, and span- ning the entire width of the street, have been erected on the route of the procession, and wers and shady nooks abound on every hand. jo such display has ever before been made here, and it is difficult to conceive that a finer one coul be made anywhere. The procession, which is now forming, will be the largest and most brilliant that has ever traversed our streets. About one hundred singing societies, nearly all the local civic associations, military companies, the Fire Department and thousands of citizens on foot, on horseback and in carriages, bands, banners, fags, mottoes, &c., will be in line. Tanz Abt, the composer, arrived last evening, and was received by the committee and escorted the headquarters, Turner’s Hall, where he was cor- dially welcomed by a large number of citizens. After which he proceeded to the residence of Edward Wusepel, whose guest he will he while in this city. Herr Abt will conduct the concert om Thursday night. eee THE INTERNATIONAL JUBILEE. The Programme—Division of the Time Devoted to Various Nationalitics—The Great Outburst on the 18th, Boston, June 12, 1872. The various Irish societies of Boston and vicinity have appointed a committee of arrangements for the reception of the Irish band, which will sail to- morrow. There having been some discussion as to whether the band was constabulary or not, Colonel ments in both countries will work, but wef rinan, of the a regiment, oxplaing thas it is longress ‘composed of forty men who are patriots throug! oo bre en ted t pen aides “th first day of the festival will be dedicated to if ii not he ten per e v ( eae 4 ‘ ibis d Pert america, the second to England, the third to. Gei cent dues on all articles imported from coun-Bi many, the fourth to France, the ith to Austria an £ of t the sixth to Russia, On the following Sunday even= tries Sat of the: Cape of Good maps. * in aon ing there will be a grand sacred concert. , very important respects the Canadians have fine ‘folowing is a part of the programme ‘for Tuesday, the 1$th:— British national anihem, now the advantage. “God Save the Queen” (Knghsh version), Sang by ene imemmeeieaeel the full chorus of 20,000 voices, With 80.0 by the 0 Latest can Despatcurs from eminent artist, Mme. Ermiua Rudersdcett, agcom- on La Mexr ¥ Matamoros embrace the statement to our grant orchestra of 1,000 performers, panied by the band of the Grenadier, Gard, the rio military rf ands of 1,000 full corps of drums, ay the bells of special correspondent in that quarter OfM Boston in chime and ayyeral babted.es of artillery General Corella as to the causeg tnd conse- ba tlved by eluctricity, quences of the defeat and caysitire of his army ¥ eS coe at Monterey by the Yevolutionary generals, During the prevatence of "ae tornado that swepd ‘Trovitio and Quirsgi, From this statement) the city last evening & fame butiding on the cor- i ¥ Mjnor of Finy-sixth strset aud Eleventh avenuo, im 0 oO Means o7 oy phceppenst sey ‘wo have by 1 be course of erection, was Piown down. Fortunatel estimated the advantages gained by tho revo-ino one was Wruted, ‘the gale swept witt are i f isi i fury turongh Houstgs, street that a tree in trout of Intionary foros in this decisive succos, inas-RUT xis Hopaenoat was cub ia ty aml OU inucdy 8 “ov actively following it thoy are la wail carviod qyory. > —