The New York Herald Newspaper, September 9, 1872, Page 6

f 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI1..... --Mo, 253 a “ 2 Shit AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Br. ‘The Une-Term Absurdity—Shoald the President Be Ineligible for a Second ‘Term? There has been a great deal of talk among 4 certain class of politicians for the past year or 80 about the wonderful virtue of a single term of office for the President of the United States. According to these theoretical political econo- mists the constitutional disqualification of the Chief Magistrate for a second Presidential term would prove a panacea for all our gov- Bleecker sts.—Rxp Pockrrooe, 7 vetween Houstonand | § mental ills and an infallible protection THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —New Yous £x- Paessuan, &c. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadwa: street—Izion; on, Tux Man at rux Wu and Thirteenth RRL, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— LAMONDS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourtecnoth strect—Mencuant or Venice. 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[ a New York, Monday, September 9, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. + ‘Pace. « 1Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—The Nathan Murder: The Long-Hunted For- Tester Caught at Last; A Strange Story— Japan: Imperial Relations Towards Corea and the Probability of War—John Livingstone's Testimony: His Warmest Congratulations to the HeraLp—Sunday at Jeiferson Market— Miscellaneous Telegraph. 4—Religious; Return of tue Wanderers from_the Places of Pleasure to the Shrines of the City; The Congregations Crowding the Churches; Ceremonies and Services Commemorative of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary; The Bishop of Tennessee Fears Catholicism; Talmage at His Tabernacle; The Rev. Charles B. Smyth on Theatrical Auditoriums; Rev. H. H. Gare nett on the Burning of the Bienville; Ser- mons and Services in the City an ‘Ise- where—Sunday at Far Rockaway—Newark Common Council—Discovery of Human Skeletons. $—January and May: Carlisie’s Great Romance and Trial; Review of the Famous Steinecke- Schoeppe Case; The Courtship and its Conse- gnencess Her Last Sickness and Death; ‘The ody Secretly Exhumed by Relatives and Sent to Bditimore; Aiken's Forcible Analysis; The First Trial Under Popular Frenzy; A Verdict of Guilty; Three Years Under Sen- tence of Death; Second Trial; The Charge by the Court; “Not Guilty ;” Out of the Gibbet's Shadow Into Freedom and Wealth—Music and the Drama. G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The One-Term Absurdity—Should the President be Ineligi- bie for a Second Term'—Amusement An- nouncements. Y%—Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page)—Tho Alabama Claims—Cable Telegrams from Eng- land, France, Germany, Holland, Spain and Italy—The Maine Election—Great Fire in Mempbis—The Cruise of the Brooklyn Yacht Club—The Heat Yesterday—Personal Intelli- oT a ates Telegraph — Business jotices. 8—Cuba : The Coachmen’s Riot in Havana; How It ‘Was Quelied; News About the Insurrection— ‘The Metis Disaster—Obituary—The Fight-Hour League—A Narrow Escape—lacing Notes— Seda Afairs—New York City—Brooklyn Navy Yard—The New Steamship Greece— Theatre Ticket Offices—Movements of Mr. Greeley—Attempt to Burn @ Town—Free to @—Financial and Commercial: Why Money Re- mains so Easy; A Further Elucidation of the Problem of the Hour: The Fifty-four Million Act and the Distribution of Banking Capital; The Bank Statement Now anda Year Ago; The Situation in Trade and in Wall Street— Blackwell's lsland—The Report of the Com- mittee on the Re-organization of the Peniten- tlary—New Emigrant Insane Asylum—Aqua- tic—Marriages and Deaths. Jo—The Northwest: Civilization Raptaty Advanc- ing Upon the Haunts of the Red Men—News from Washington—Shipping Intelligence—Ad- vertisements. Jx—New York and Brooklyn Courts—Fatal Run- ‘ away Oasualty—The Seldon Malpractice Case—Killed at Lawrenceville, N. J.—Adver- tisements. R2—Aavertisements. y pate ‘Tae Amount or THE ALABamwaA Cramms AWARD tt Geneva is set down by a London Sunday journal at three millions of pounds sterling, or m millions of dollars. Still further evi- ce that the people of the United States we vindicated a grand principle of inter- tional law, or, rather, that they have bap- ized its infancy, and will, with the aid of the ther great nations, nurture it*to a healthy, development. The money cost, or the pense of the undertaking, is scarcely talking about. , Tae Anaio-Frencu Commencia, Treaty.— ident Thiers’ government appears disposed relax its effort for the maintenance of the, rinciple of commercial protection in its nego- jation of the new trade treaty with England. first provisions of the paper have been so modified on the part of the French as to ren- ler the instrament much more acceptable, as a hole, to the British people. Compensatory ‘rench duties are still to be maintained on cot- silk and woollen manufactures, but accord- to a reduced scale of charges. The Thiers cession goes to prove, notwithstanding, t the life-long theory of the venerable states- with regard to international commerce not by any means infallible or inviolate, d that, on the contrary, the doctrine which enunciated by the late Richard Cobden ing his negotiations with Napoleon on the se subject enfolded a grand cardinal prin- iple, full of life and diffusive. ‘Count Sctoris paid a touching tribute to memory of his deceased friend, Cavour, at Geneva city banquet given in honor of the bama claims arbitrators. He mentioned e fact that Cavour’s mother was born in e Swiss city. This was done with the view, 0 doubt, of accounting, to some extent, for stern simplicity of character which marked @ career of the great Italian patriot. _ “Dae Crroess or Swrtzentanp express them- elves honored by the presence of the Alabama aims arbitrators in Geneva. It looks as if Bhe arbitrators and jurists liked Geneva vastly; that we may assume the most pleasing con- ition of social feeling remains on both sides. Taz Frencu Repvs.ican Government main- & strict watch on the political movements the more advanced radicals in France, Thiers appears to think that there isa point which liberty may degenerate into de- license. against official corruption. Let the President be ineligible for re-election, they say, and we should see the beginning of the millennium in public life. We should then have men ap- pointed to office on account of their capacity and honesty, and not in consideration of political influence, or efficiency in a primary election or at the polls through abundance of muscle or plentiful lack of honesty. We should then have Custom House officials attending to the collection of duties, and not of political assessments, and studying how to promote the interests of the commercial classes instead of plotting and manoeuvring to carry conventions in the service of those who keep them in office. The opinions of some of the honored Fathers of the Republic are cited in support of the one-term principle; but while the accepted sayings of these vene- rated men are moral and terse enough to form model texts for writing-book copies, they are not always exactly adapted to the present times. This may be a proper subject for re- gret and may reflect upon the honesty and virtue of the age we live in; but it is, never- theless, an undeniable fact. The gallant Henry Olay, the darling of the old whig school, and Senator Benjamin F. Wade, the pet of the old abolition school, are both put on the stand as witnesses, whose testimony is powerful against the double term ; but it is just possi- ble that their evidence may be slightly biased by their sense of the folly of the American people in failing to appreciate their own claims to at least a single term in the White House. In the dizzy whirl of the campaign and in the constant springing up of more exciting issues the anti-renomination cry had recently lost something of its force until the parting words of Senator Sumner recalled it to men’s minds. That scholarly pleader in the cause of liberal reform regards that attempt at political regeneration mere sham which does not include the fundamental principle of a single Presidential term. According to him, the President no sooner gets into office than he is framing and bending the power of the whole civil service to the accom- plishment of a renomination by his party. The pretence of an honest competitive exam- ination for all applicants for office Mr. Sum- ner regards as a delusion and a snare, while the Executive, who has, after all, the appoint- ing power, is measuring in his own mind the qualification of every candidate by the stand- ard of his fidelity to the succession. The Massachusetts Senator upholds, on Christian grounds, the one-term principle, for does not the most beautiful prayer ever uttered by an inspired heart teach us to pray ‘Lead us not into temptation ?’’ and Mr. Sumner sees a terrible temptation to a President to advance his ambitious aims by the improper use of the federal patronage. Indeed, he traces to the want of this rule all the ills that civil- service flesh is heir to. The President, as soon as he has taken the constitutional oath for the first four years, is pictured by him as making his selections for office not by the good Jeffersonian rule, “Is he honest? is he capable? is he faithful to the constitution ?’’ but under the inspira- tion of the test, “Is he faithful to re-election?” This failing, says Mr. Sum- ner, all merit fails. What follows? Every office-holder, from highest to lowest, according to his influence, becomes propagandist, fugle- man, whipper-in, under the direction of Cab- inet Ministers, heads of bureaus and Custom House collectors. If a dishonest revenue offi- cer, paymaster or clerk embezzles the public money, the fault is overlooked because he is in Eliot, Fowler and last, not least, Wilson of, Massachusetts, candidate for the Vice Presi- dency, were all bought up in Congreas by the Union Pacific Railroad job, by bribes at the rate of two thousand to three thousand shares each, making them no better than the corrupt representatives who yearly fatten on the legislative plunder at Albany. When republicans paint these pictures of republicans what can the people think of the fraud practised upon them for the past twelve years? As to the unfortunate democrats, their bad character was so satisfac- torily established in the war that they cannot be said to have been sailing under false colors until they undertook to bring their pirate craft into port with the ensign of Cammodore Greeley flying at the fore. This campaign ex- perience serves to show how little reliance can bo placed on any of the virtuous professions made by the politicians pending an election, ‘and will help to satisfy the people how much sincerity there is in those who are just now clamoring so loudly about the evil of electing a President of the United States for a second term. Neither Mr. Sumner nor any of his asso- ciates has yet satisfied us how the one-term principle, if adopted as a constitutional re- striction, would remedy the evils of which they complain. S80 long as political parties have an existence the office- holders, who of course are adherents of the party in power, will labor for the success of their political friends; and the President who is capable of intriguing for his own renomination would not scruple to use the fedoral patronage for the purpose of en- suring the succession toa candidate of his own stripe, Besides, it would be undesirable to forbid the people in any event to re-elect a President. There may be peculiar qualifica- tions or particular circumstances to render the continuance of a Chief Magistrate in office fora second term eminently wise and bene- ficial, and it would be the part of folly to place any such restriction as that proposed upon the popular will. No person can pre- tend that the country suffered by the double terms of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe or Andrew Jackson, and few will deny the prudence and justice of giving Abra- ham Lincoln the opportunity to complete the work of reunion at which he had so faithfully labored. In like manner, if the commercial and financial interests of the country deem it expedient now to extend General Grant's term of office another four years, in order that the peace and prosperity he has given the country for the past four years may continue, without the risk insepa- rable from a change of administration, can Mr. Sumner and his friends advance any sound reason why they should be denied the privilege “to carry out their wishes? ° The narrow-minded views of politicians fail either to grasp the true evil of an undue desire to continue the dominant party in power or to discover its proper remedy. The effort at re-election is too apt to paralyze the arm of an administration, and for at least a fourth of the Presidential term to deprive it of a firm and well-defined policy. The country has re- cently felt this in the management of the Alabama controversy, in the treatment of the Spanish question and in our Mexican inaction, and the people, who were so disgusted with “my policy’’ in Andrew Johnson’s time, have not been satisfied with the ‘‘no policy” of the present administration during the last twelve months. They will be heartily pleased when the election is over and General Grant is at liberty to mark out for himself an independent course free from the control of the political managers who at present surround him. In so far, then, as the effort of the dominant political party to secure the ‘succes- sion either for the incumbent or a politician of their own school equally reliable is calcu- lated to cripple and palsy the arm of the gov- ernment, it is decidedly an evil; but, as we have said, it is one that cannot be removed by tho one-term restric- favor of the renomination of his chief. The evil grows in proportion as the Second term draws near, and at last we are called upon to witness such scenes as marked the republican conventions while ‘Tom Murphy was acting as the Collector of New York and lieutenant of the President,” or as manifested themselves in the North Carolina election. All this start- ling picture is painted by Senator Sumner's artistic brush in glowing colors on the canvas of a Presidential double term. There is a great deal of political cant and claptrap about all partisan campaign cries, and while we do not question Mr. Sumner’s honesty and sincerity, we are compelled to re- gard the one-term clamor as of this character. The politicians who have raised it would no doubt be very glad if a President after their own hearts was a candidate for ro- election with as fair a prospéct of success as lies before General Grant. The people under- stand this well enough, and they are learning more and more year after year of the frauds and deceptions practised upon them by politi- cal parties. The pending campaign has given them a clearer insight than was ever before afforded them into the tricks of which they are made the victims. For some time they have been taught to believe that all the purity, intelligence and virtue in the body politic vested in the republican party, and what names have been more honored in that party than those of Greeley, Sumner, Banks, Trum- bull, Farnsworth, Sprague and others now associated with them in their new departure! Yet they now learn for the first time from the regular republican prophets what false gods they have for years been called upon to fall down and worship. They are told that Gree- ley has been all along a disunion traitor, and is now a half-crazed visionary; that Gratz Brown is a boozy drunkard; that Fenton is almost a convict; Schurz a villain, Banks a timeserver, Kilpatrick a debauched rowdy, Trumbull a corrupt public officer and a falsifier, Sumner a false and malicious knave, Depew a corruptionist, and Grow, Austin Blair, Farnsworth, Sprague, Julian, Hickman, Pal- mer, Alvord, Littlejohn, Hutchins, Chief Jus- tice Chase, Judge Harris and Judge Davis no better than they should be. Turning to the other republican side the people are astounded to hear of the moral, social and political turpi- tude of the President, whose many virtues they were taught to reverence four years ago, and horrified to discover the vile character of all his family connections. They are assured by the liberals that Boutwell, Blaine, Colfax, Dowes, Bingham, Garfield, Patterson of Now tion. If there is to be a_ partial remedy only it must be found in the extension of the Presidential terin to SF eight yea which would make it of less frequent occur- rence. If it is to be wholly eradicated it must be done by stripping the “Preeldential office of its already overshadowing and dangerously in- creasing patronage, and thus removing that high position from the corrupt and selfish scramble of the professional politicians and chronic office-seekers of the country. It is unquestionable that the power and influence of the federal patronage threaten to become perilous to republican institutions, and the day is not distant when the people will clamor for its curtailment. If Congress, which is the real and immediate representative of the country, possessed through independent ma- chinery the appointing power, we should have no more such heated, violent and demoralizing Presidential campaigns as that which is now dangerously agitating us at home and degrad- ing us in the eyes of foreign nations. A sub- stantial civil service reform under our present system is,as Mr. Sumner says,.a sham. In the absence of that let us have a-distribution of patronage that shall leave no: single office with the anti-republican and threatening power that now attaches to that of President of the United States. The Maine Election—The Prospect of: @ Republican Victory To-Day. To-day the State of Maine adds her voice to those that have already spoken directly on their State issues, but indirectly on the more important question of the Presidential con- test. The result is looked for with some anxiety by the politicians; for a sharp cam- paign has been prosecuted on both sides, and each party has some hope that the trial will terminate to its advantage. The liberal candidate has been on the field in per- son, and his pilgrimage is confidently re- garded by his friends as having been produc- tive of good; certainly the only political speech he ventured to make was well-timed and happy. On the administration side the bland, persuasive candidate for the Vice Presi- dency and a host of able speakers have been actively at work, and _ hence, we may be assured that if the good people of Maine aro still unsettled in their political views it is rather from a multi- plicity than from a lack of teachers. There is every reason to anticipate a full vote, for cer- tainly no effort has been noglected to arouse the State and call out the electors. Wo bave very little doukt that Maine, like iy w+ Vermont, will prove faithful to its unshaken republican antecedents, and that its voice will decide in favor of the regular party candidates by an old-fashioned vote. There is no reason to doubt that General Grant is as strong there to-day as he was in 1868, when he received twenty-six thousand majority. The republican State ticket was elected that year by about eighteen thousand majority, and that is the least contribution to the administration cause now asked and confidently expected by the re- publican party. The liberals claim that this figure will be materially cut down; in fact, that. the administration majority in Maine, like that in North Carolina, will be so dwin- dled es to be equivalent to a defeat; but we were promised some such result in Ver- mont, although not so confidently, and the close of the polls left the “republican strength unshaken. While we do not regard the Maine election of to-day as any more decisive of the Presidential contest than West Virginia or Vermont, it nevertheless receives importance from the efforts made by the friends of the respective candidates, and should the struggle be a close. one, or should there be any con- siderable decrease in the republican majority from the State vote of 1868, the liberal side will, no doubt, hail it as a reaction in their favor. If, on the other hand, the republican State ticket receives its legitimate vote, it will be accepted by the country as an additional evidence that the liberal defection has not made sufficient inroad into the republican strength to render the defeat of that party in November probable. This we believe most likely to be the result of to-day’s trial. The Livingstone Expedition and the African Slave Trade—The Testimony of Dr. Livingstone’s Brother. We publish in the Hxraxp to-day a letter from Hon. Charles Hale, Assistant and Acting Secretary of State, enclosing a communication from Mr. John Livingstone, of Listowell, Canada, the brother of Dr. David Livingstone, forwarded to the Department through Mr. Freeman N. Blake, the United States Consul at Hamilton. Mr. John Livingstone, while conveying to the Henatp and to the leader of the Search Expedition, through that official source, his congratulations on the successful issue of the enterprise, takes occasion to ex- press “the most implicit confidence in the statements” of both, and adds: —“‘I can assure you that Dr. Livingstone holds the American government and people in the highest estima- tion, principally on account of the late aboli- tion of slavery in the United States; and I trust that his persistent efforts to check the nefarious traffic in slaves in Africa will be crowned with success." We presume that Mr. John Livingstone adopted this formal mode of forwarding his communication in view of the apparently stubborn unbelief of a small portion of the American press in the reliof expedition and all relating to it, down to the point of incredulity in the existence of such a person as Mr. John Livingstone, of Listowell, Ontario, in the New Dominion. We are correspondingly grateful to that gentleman for the precaution he has taken to forestall the efforts of the enterprising journalists who have imposed upon themselves the duty of testing the genuineness of all the Hera cor- respondence on the subject, and who would doubtless have been speedily on his track to ascertain the authenticity of his letter had it reached us in the ordinary manner. As it comes backed by the endorsement of the effi- cient Consul at Hamilton and the accom- plished Assistant Secretary of State at Wash- ington we presume it will be accepted, even if grudgingly accepted, as a sufficient proof that the brother of Dr. Livingstone in Canada unites with the son of the explorer in Eng- land, the British Foreign Office, the Royal Geographical Society and Queen Victoria her- self in differing with the profound authorities who pronounce the Livingstone letters forge- ries, and deny that the Doctor was ever dis- covered by Stanley at all. When the Herat fitted out its Livingstone Search Expedition it had two objects in view: — First, to carry relief to the renowned explorer, in the confidence that the rumors of his death ere unfounded, iy fegx tha ust be Sy Alea a ae ment in his unprotected condition, and in the conviction that it needed only energy and courage to follow the track he had pursued to find him, if living, or, in the sadder event, to obtain certain proof of his death; and, second, to secure the credit and advantage that would assuredly follow success in such an enterprise. Any person who may be so disposed, is at lib- erty to reverse the order of these motives and to make the more selfish one predominate. We shall not quarrel with such critics, but shall be content to regard their judgment as the natural product of their minds. It is enough for us that in both instances our most san- guine anticipations have been realized. The assistance that was fortunate enough to reach Dr. Livingstone in the wilds of Africa ar- rived none too soon. It found him baffled, worried, defeated; a ‘mere ruckle of bones;"’ feeling as if he was dying on his feet, and with destitution in that inhospitable wil- dorness staring him in the face. It supplied his immediate necessities, enabled him to re- sume the work to which he has unselfishly de- voted his life, left him in comparative ease and comfort, and secured the forwarding of sup- plies and help sufficient to insure him inthe future against the disappointments and snffer- ings he has undergone in the past. We leave others to estimate the credit due to the Henatp for its share in the enterprise, so well carried to a successful issue by its faithful and daring leader. The honor we covet finds happy expression in Consul Blake's letter to Acting Secretary Hale—the honor that can be justly claimed for ‘‘the expedition instituted by American enterprise." The discovery of Dr. Livingstone not only shows what indi- vidual American spirit can accomplish, but proves the real power of the American press. Independent American journalism will here- after occupy a higher position in the esti- mation of foreign nations, and its useful- ness, value and intelligence will no longer be measured by the standard of partisan organs. Indications have already been given that the lesson will have its effect upon our own jour- nalists, in the avowal of an independent posi- tion by some of our leading political jour- nals, The unfortunate bitterness of the pres- ent Presidential campaign has, it is true, tem- porarily checked this commendable spirit; but after the election is over there is a fair pros- pect that many of our best-conducted news- papers will recognize the fact that the Ameri- liad sion to perform than that of persuading for- eigness that all our political parties are corrupt and all our public men debased and dishonest. ‘We regard the triumph of the Livingstone Ex- Pedition not as the triumph of the Hznarp alone, but of the whole American press, and not the least gratifying of its effects is the im- pulse it has given to the promised improve- ment in the character of American journalism. There is one point, however, recalled to notice by Mr. John Livingstone, which, while it did not enter into any calculation of the probable issues of the Hznarp Search Expedi- tion when the was set afoot, may prove one of its most important results. In all his letters—in those to the Hxnatp, to the Royal Geographical Society, to the Foreign Office and to members of his family—Doctor Livingstone is earnest in his exhortations to the civilized world to stretch forth its strong arm over the suffering Africans and snatch them from the horrors of slavery in the most hideous of its revolting forms. ‘I trust,’’ says his brother, ‘that his persistent. efforts to check the nefarious traffic in slaves in Africa will be crowned with success.’’ This Christian object is no doubt uppermost in the mind of the missionary and explorer, who, in his sorrowing over ‘man’s inhumanity to man,” awards a crown of honor to the Ameri- can people for their abolition of slavery in the United States, without pausing to inquire how far the blacks owe their liberty to the uncertain chances of politics and war. The seed he planted in the letters sent home by the leader of the Heap Search Expedition has already borne some fruit, in moving the British government to the more energetic ac- tion on the African coast recently announced in the Queen’s speech to Parliament. But the subject will not be suffered to rest there. We have confidence that philanthropic men in all nations will soon take it up and make an effort to accomplish some practical work to- wards the uprooting of the inhuman system in the interior of Africa, as well as for its check on the coast. There are indirect means, however, as well as direct means, by which slavery can be driven from this stronghold. The extension of trade into the regions trav- elled by Livingstone would do more than armies to remove the evil, and in this respect the Stanley expedition may have worked a good not anticipated for it. The success of one resolute, practical man, and the plain statement of his experience, will tempt ad- venture more than all the essays that could be written in a dozen years. Despite his energy and perseverance, Dr. Livingstone has been looked upon as a scientific explorer, and ordi- nary men, who would hesitate before they fol- lowed on the track he might indicate in search of profitable ventures, would strike out boldly in the path pointed out by such a traveller as Stanley. If Livingstone had re- mained in Africa two years longer unaided and unheard of, even if he had lived to return home, the good work now hoped for would at best have been s0 long delayed. But we even question whether the story he would then have had to tell would have worked any practical good in this important direction. The scientific fea- tures of his labors would haye engrossed pub- lic attention and the every-day facts would have been overlooked in admiration of the genius and devotion of the explorer. Stanley's successful expedition is of an entirely different character. He brings back information of the existence of a horrible traffic, which is going on every day and which can be stopped with comparative ease. He tells of riches in store for adventurers as tempting as the golden promises of the mines. He offers in his own person the proof that the land can be travelled in safety and that the natives are harmless and tractable. We shall be mistaken if his expe- rience and his story do not induce many of those bold spirits who are always ready to strike for fortune through difficult paths to seok the wilds of Africa for their easily gathered treasures. Who shall say how soon commerce and civilization will stretch from the coast into the interior of the land in which Livingstone is to-day again shut out from the world, driving abi nn a oe them more Chfectually that it 8 “Statiered by” armies? And who will deny that the ‘‘expe- dition ingtituted by American enterprise” faenty tended to promote this practical re- sult? Special Deqpatches by Mail from the Far East. Special advices from Japan and China, dated in Hiogo July 31, Yokohama August 5, and Shanghae July 5, furnish o detail of current events and of the bearing and tendency of the diplomacy in the far Eastern empires. The Chinese, moved by their natural astuteness and hereditary reverence for the cause of public education, appear to have resolved that they shall not be eclipsed by the Japanese in the race for assimilation with the outside Christian nations. The Pekin government has just developed a very formidable war navy, in which foreigners are freely employed. Another educational mission has been despatched to America. The pupils number thirty selected young men, who are ordered to remain among us during a space of fifteen years, so as to complete a full collegiate course, accord- ing to the ideas of the home faculty, which will fit them for the duty of instructors in the higher schools of the empire on their return. They will have their headquarters at New Haven. Rev. W. E. McChesney, an American missionary, was shot and killed by pirates near Canton. The traffic in. coolies remains exceedingly active, Chinese and Japanese being stimulated to en- gage in the trade by Europeans, who move, tor the most part, under the Portuguese flag. The imperial Japanese relations toward Corea remained in an exceedingly ruffled condition, indicative of speedy war. His Imperial High- ness the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia was anxiously expected in Japan. Tux Barrisa Troors mm Camp aT ALDER- snorr will be reviewed, in presence of the foreign Ministers serving at the Queen's Court, next Friday. The Secretary of State for War will entertain the diplomats at a ban- quet, and subsequently show them how Her Majesty's soldiers have been drilled'to work in the field. The council of the imperialist mon- archs in Berlin will have terminated, so that the British in-door féle and out-door parade will, no doubt, be accepted by the national Ministers as an agreeable diversification after the work of reading the despatchos from Ger- many, s o | Russia and Francis Joseph of Austria, w with the Emperor William, appeared in = mand at the head of their respective honorary regiments in the Prussian service; and the parade was witnessed by an immense con- course of people, And the eldest son of the wore on the occasion the Order of St. Andrew, conferred on him that very morning by the Czar. In the evening there was a Court dinner at the imperial palace, at which the Emperor William gave the toast of hospitality, “Our Guests;’’ and the Emperor of Austria gave ‘The Health of the German Emperor and His Family;” and the Ozar gave ‘Tho Valiant German Army.”’ And then there was a torch- light procession, with the playing of the Prus- sian tattoo by 1,124 musicians, selected from the bands of all the German regiments, and there were four hundred torch-bearers, and the city was brilliantly illuminated, and the streets were thronged with people, and two young German princes were made by the Ozar Field Marshals in the Russian army; and, in short, there never was before in Berlin such a grand occasion, such royal festivities, such manifes- tations of imperial brotherly love, or such a glorious time to potentates, soldiers, civilians and the populace. But tho only really important events of the day were, first, the business interview be- tween His Excellency Prince Bismarck and His Imperial Majesty the Czar; and, second, the private consultation of two hours betweom the German Chancellor and the Russian Prince Chancellor Gortschakoff. And the only questions in connection with all these aforesaid proceedings in the gay city of Berlin of any consequence to Europe are the ques- tions which, doubtless, were broached in these Rassian\ consultations with Prince Bismarck touching the objects of this imperial confer- ence. The gorgeous festivities, meantime, which have marked the welcome of the im- perial guests of tho German Emperor, recall the royal carnival of the allied sovereigns, ‘the Holy Alliance,” at Vienna, of 1815. The enthusiastic Dr. Abbott, the great loudator, of the First Napoleon, has recorded of this Vienna Congress that the allied sovereigns thereof had been for months quarrelling over the spoils of reconquered Europe, when on the oc- casion of a grand ball of the Prince Talley- rand they heard of the escape of the ‘‘Little Corporal’? from the island of Elba. ‘“ One hundred thousand distinguished strangers were attracted by the splendors of the occa- sion at Vienna within the walls of that vo- luptuous capital. Eighty thousand of the most brilliantly dressed soldiers of the allied armies formed the magnificent cortége for this crowd of princes and kings. Seven hundred ambassadors or envoys participated in the de- liberations of those haughty conquerors, who had now again placed their feet upon the necks of the people. The regal revellers re- lieved the toils of diplomacy with feasting and dancing and all luxurious indulgences. The Emperor of Austria defrayed the expenses of this enormous hospitality, of which the im- perial table alone was maintained at an ex- pense of twenty-five thousand dollars a day.”” But that startling news of the escape of the “Little Corporal’’ from nis island cage changed these gay doings at Vienna into serious busi- ness; and with a declaration against Napoleon asa usurper and an outlaw, and with a joint resolution to put him down and put him out, the royal Congress at Vienna was broken up and dispersed to look after that little man who, single-handed, had dared again to defy them all, including the Bourbon on his throne. And now looking behind these splendid hos- Pitalities of Berlin to these consultations be- tween Bismarck, the Czar and Gortschakoff, apprehend that, “What shall we do with a is again the Thain question. Asin the early months of 1815, we have now a Na- poleon in exile; but the question with the im- perial allies at Berlin is certainly not ‘How shall we put him down or keep him out?" but is rather ‘How shall we get him back?’’ if Na- poleon enters at all into the heads of these three men, who, as the arbiters of Europe, have taken his place. We apprehend that a strong hand upon France is among the pur- poses of this imperial meeting. Tho peace of France now hangs upon the life or the whim of President Thiers, and he is a very old man. In losing the guiding hand of Thiers France may plunge into war again with Ger- many, and set all Europe in ablaze. She must be bound over to keep the peace. We have already in these columns repeat- edly offered suggestions as to the probable questions which will come under the consid- eration of the three Emperors during their sojourn in Berlin. We have referred to the readjustment of territory and the rectification of frontiers brought about by the late Franco- German war. We have alluded to the Inter- national as an institution most likely to receive attention. We have shown that Russia has strong reasons for seeking to undo the treaty provisions of 1856. It is more than probable that each of these questions, in so far as they affect the interests, real or supposed, of the three Emperors, will be considered and, as far as is possible, satisfactorily arranged. In some quarters we notice that grave suspicions are entertained that the Kingdom of Italy and the future of the Papacy will come in for a large amount of imperial attention. It is knowm that the Russian government, through Poland, has had for years serious trouble with the Holy See, and it is matter of his- tory that latterly Russia has adopted severe measures for the purpose of putting down Romish influence in what sho holds of the old Sarmatian Kingdom. We know that there is estrangement between Austria and Rome; and the attitude and action of the Berlin government toward Rome are known to every newspaper reader. In the German States immediately under the control of Prus- sia.the Jesuits have been disinherited; and Bismarck, we know, has stated that in the next Papal election Germany intends to make her influence felt. These are facts known to all the world. What the Emperors intend to do we know not, nor do we pretend to know. ‘All we can aay.for tho present is, that in well