The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —_>+———_. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Haunaw. Volume XXKVIL,..........:6.ceceeree- NOs BEE AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THBATRE OGMIQUE, 614 Broadway. —Nsw Yors Ex- Pusssman, kc. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadwa: street—Ixion; om, Tux Man at tax FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street ~ Dramonns. and Thirteenth WRKL. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Bighth ev.—Ror Canorre. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth javenue.—Tux Batts; on, Tas Pousn Jew. BOWERY THEATRE, Bower; |AMOND. ‘az Gauester—Roven WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirtieth st— Cuow-Cuow. Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—Rep Pocksrsoox. WHITE'S ATHENSUM, 585 Broadway.—Neoro Min- etrutsy, do. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner Oth av.—Nxoro Minstaxisr, Eccentricity, £0. 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R—Advertisements, 3—The Nathan Murder: The Man Oharged with the Crime Brought to This City Last Night; GEPcenanee, and Conduct of ‘Forrester’ on Way to the Cell; One of the Most Notori- ous Men in America Caught at Last—Yacht- ing: Cruise of the Brooklyn Yacht Club—Ser- eant Bates in—Another Indian War— jassacres by Indians—News from eee ton—The Metis Investigation: More Tes! mony by Passengers—New York City—Music and the Drama—! jlaneous Telegrams, ir Expedition: From Panama to San NEW YORK HEKALD, TUESDAY, SHPTEMBER 10, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘wme Maine Election and the Presi- dential Canvass—Another Voice for Grant. The result of the Maine election has verified our prediction of yesterday. The State has declared for the republican candidates by one of its accustomed majorities, and has united with Vermont in testifying that the liberal se- cession from the republican ranks has not affected the strength of the party in the New England States in any perceptible degree. In 1868, in the State election immediately pre- ceding the Presidential vote, the republican majority in Maine was twenty thousand four hundred, and upon this foundation a majority of twenty-eight thousand was built up for General Grant. This year it is estimated that the majority for the republican Governor in yesterday's vote has reached about fifteen thousand, and this of course secures the seven electoral votes of the State again for the republican President. The verdict is the more significant since the case was argued with considerable force and earnestness by the counsel for the losing side, and lively hopes were excited of more favorable finding. Added to the un- questionable depression recently evident in the liberal cause and to the apparent lukewarmness of the democracy in the cam- paign, this new triumph of the administration cannot fail to exercise considerable offect upon the more important trials about to take place in Indiana, Pennsylvania and other States. It has been claimed by the liberals that the great revolution prom- ised by them in the republican party was not to show itself in the preliminary State contests, or at least that nothing would be soen of it until Pennsylvania and Indiana should be called upon to speak in October; but this position has been virtually relinquished by the vigorous efforts made to break down thé re- publican majorities in North Carolina, Ver- mont and Maine, and it will not do for the liberals, now that they have failed in two out of three of these cases, to put in the plea that they are, after all, of no consequence and can have no effect one way or the other on the Presidential question, The elections in Ver- mont and Maine must be accepted for what they are worth, and, as we have said, unlike North Carolina, they indicate that the liberals have not succeeded in ing the republican strength, at least in the New England States. The practical lesson of the Maine election is to teach the opposition that their efforts to take any of these States from General Grant will be unsuccessful. It is now as certain as any future event can well be that Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will cast their electoral votes for the republican candidate. In Massachusetts there will no doubt be a material falling off in Francisco; Acapulco, the Beauties of the Bay and Drawbacks of the Town; The Pro- fessor and the Snake Charmer; Orchilla Gatherers and Their Staple; Sen Diego and the Stars and Stripes; A Visit to the Ruins of the First Catholic Mission; Through the Golden Gate at Last; End of ‘Agassiz’s Great Work—The Weather—Beaten to Death—The American Institute Fair—Obsequies of An- drew Carrigan—The Methodist Preachers— The German Catholics of Jersey City—Trou- Ville: The Season at the Fashionable French Watering Place—Spain Showil Her Strength—A Doctor in Trouble—Run Over by a Car—Horse Notes—Great Race Meeting at New Orleans—Pigeon Shooting—Boat Race— Cricket in Canada—Fatal Runaway in Hobo- ene by Hanglog—Shot by Her Son- Ww S—Getting Naturalized: Something About the Manufacture of American Citizens—Munici- i Affairs—The Iron Steamship New Or- ns—Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Jefferson Market Police Court—Yorkville Police Court—Lon, Branch: Secretary Fish a Guest at the Presi- dential Cottage—Clever Counterfeiting Scheme—A Fireman Burned to Death. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Maine Elec- tion and the Presidential Canvass—Another Voice for Grant’—Amusement Announce- ments. %—Editorial (continued from Sixth Page)—The Alabama Claims: The Three Millions Sterling Award Report Contradicted Omicially; Pro- ramme of Preparation for @ Fraternal lose—Cable legrams land, France, Germany and S} laine Election—Scenes at the litical Headquar- ters in this City—Miscelianeous Telegrams— Business Notices. nanciai and Commercial: A Brisker Move- ment in the Gold Market; English Aversion to the Award at Geneva; e Gold Pool Twisting the Operators for a Decline; Ad- vance in Gold and bie of the Foreign Ex- changes; Sixt#Day Sterling Selling at 108; Money Basy at Five per Cent; Stocks Unset- tied and Lower, with a Rally at the Close; Daniel Drew Reported Gone Into the ‘Coffee, Cakes and Ice Cream” Trade; The Question of the Dividend on New York Central—Fire in Chrystie Street—The Memphis Fire—A Policeman Assaulted—Marriages and Deaths. 9—Deaths (Continued irom Eighth Page)—Adver- tisements. 10—Dr. Livingstone: The Brighton Affair; The London Spectator and the Saturday Review on the Two Expeditions—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements. U—Advertisements. Aa&—Advertisements. ‘Tae Nataan Murver.—Billy Forrester, tho man with many other names for different flocalities, arrived in this city last night from Washington in the custody of police officers. ‘The memories of the monstrous murder of the wenerable capitalist in his own bedroom, with this sons sleeping under the same roof, Sn the house he deemed specially secure | because of its exposure to observation, were renewed and discussed yesterday, and its baffling questions again came up in the minds of thousands. That Forrester is decid- edly ‘‘wanted”’ by the police, not only of this city, but of several places in which he has committed crimes, is well enough known. Few believe he had any connection with the Nathan mystery, yet his presence here may tend to clear up the darkness which has so long | shrouded that bloody tragedy. | i Buackweut's Istanv.—It is satisfactory to | mote that the recent Hznatp exposures of deficient discipline in the Penitentiary estab- | lishments on the islands is bearing good fruit. A Committee of the Commissioners of | Charities and Correction, on investigating, | found the difficulties to exist as we had shown, and have adopted prompt measures for their correction. The design is that imprisonment | shall be an actual punishment to those who are sent up for offences, and that they shall be usefully employed with reference to sup- | porting themselves and training them for | honest industry after their discharge. Greater strictness on the part of the guards and keepers is to be the result of the examina- tion which has been given to the subject by Mozssrs. Frear and Bowen. Tue Spraxiso Treasury Bupert.—The Spanish Minister of Finance has completed his Treasury budget statement for the use of the Cortes. The paper will show an enormous deficit in the national income, amounting in the gross to one hundred and thirty-three mil- lions of American dollars, The King’s gov- ernment contemplates a new loan to meet the wants of the Treasury. The question is, Where can it be obtained, and on what the republican strength, for Banks and Sum- ner will carry with them a large number of the republicans; but, unfortunately, in that State the majority to be overcome reaches seventy-seven thousand. However gallantly the seceders may fight, they can never hope to break down this enormous figure; and if General Grant receives the thirteen votes of the state it is immaterial whether he secures them by one hundred majority or by one hundred thousand. Connecticut alone remains as disputable ground, and even theré the ‘chances “appear to be that the State will be found in November in the same position it occupied in 1868, when it declared for Grant by three thousand ma- jority. We have thus got something tangible at last to lay hold of in this singular Prosi- dential scramble, for we find that there is no defection in New England sufficient to wipe out the republican majorities of 1868, and that all those electoral votes may be scored as tolerably certain for Grant. We have also seen enough to convince any reasonable mind that the negro vote will be cast solidly on the republican side, and that Sambo North and Sambo South will adhere to the blue coat and brass buttons to which they religiously be- lieve their race owes its freedom. From this we may fairly conclude that the sdministration will also secure the Southern States in which the colored voters predominate or form a large percentage of the population, such as South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Virginia, thus leaving the battle to be fought mainly in the Middle and Western States. Over these States a doubt still hangs ; but it will be tol- erably well settled by the votes in the October elections. We shall then be able to tell with something like certainty whether there is really to be a popular revolution in November or whether the famous liberal movement is to prove itself of no more account in the larger States than it appears to be in New England and the South, and is to collapse in advance of the great final battle. At all events, what is already known is sufficient to show that the opposition have a hard task before them ; for if we are to concede that General Grant goes into the race with thirty-two New England votes, excluding Connecticut, and fifty-four Southern votes, not reckoning Virginia, in his favor, we give him a start that carries him more than half way to the winning post. It must not be forgotten that the democrats in New York and some other States have up to this time been remarkably apathetic in the contest and have made little or no concerted effort to draw out their strength. This may be reasonably accounted for by the fact that they have both found it difficult and deemed it inexpedient to exhibit great enthusiasm for the Presidential ticket they have agreed to support, and hence have decided to wait until, through the action of State conventions, demo- cratic candidates for State officers should be joined with the Cincinnati nominees, and thus justify, as it were, democratic fervor. It may also be that many democrats preferred to wait until the so-called ‘‘straight-out’’ movement should have exhausted itself and proved its own weakness and fraud before entering energetically into the business of the cam- paign. If the inaction of the democracy is to be correctly attributed to these causes, we may expect to witness a revival that may put more life into the apparently drooping liberal cause ; but, as yet, the battle appears to have been almost confined to the republicans, and if this is to continue, with the experience of Vermont and Maine beforo us, we cannot re- gard the result as doubtful. There are im- portant States which the democrats by vigor- ous and united action, joined with the known republican defection, might secure beyond a peradventure; but we can discover no signs of @eourity ? Present moment, except, perhaps, in Pennsyl- vania and Indiana, and even in those States much disaffection exists in their ranks. Indeed, what between incompetent leaders and cold-hearted followers, the great party that polled a popular vote of nearly three millions iu 1868 seems almost disposed to suffer judgment to go against them by de- fault. In the meantime, outside the politi- cians, the people appear to be making up their minds to suffer our national affairs to go on for the next four years without change, and the financial and commercial interests of the coun- try apparently shrink from the extreme experi- ment of turning over the administration to Greeley, with a double-headed party at his back, whose members would, probably, be dragging him in opposite directions in the event of his success. It is possible that all this may yet change, for this is an extraordinary and won- derful campaign. It may be that Pennsylva- nia and Indiana may yet lead ina mighty po- litical revolution; that the democratic party may yet throw off its lethargy and enter vigorously upon the work of the campaign; that a change may even come over the careful financial mind; that men may deem it pru- dent by a change of administration to secure a thorough overhauling of the important de- partments which have remained for four years as close corporations, and may think it wise to set new officers to discover whether our gold balances are correct, our securities actually in hand and our currency issue free from fraud. All this is possible, although at present it does not appear prob- able, and we can only conclude at present, judging facts as they are, that the States which voted for General Grant in 1868 will all, or nearly all, vote for him in 1872, and that there will be no more change in In- diana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, &c., in October than there has been in Vermont and Maine in September. al and Its Settle- ment of the Alabama Claims. The despatches from London, special to the Henratp, and from other sources, which are published in our columns to-day, go to show that the Genova Arbitration between the governments of Great Britain ond the United States for the settlement of what has come to be known as the Alabama claims bill is closed, and that the members of the Court are engaged in revising the judiciary minutes of the proceedings, so as to shape the proven facts to the form of a justification of the verdict at which, it is safe to infer, they have arrived. The statement that the Arbi- trating Tribunal awarded only three millions of pounds sterling, or fifteen millions of dollars, to the United States is officially denied. ‘Change was excited in London yesterday, owing to the uncertainty which prevailed for a time on this point, and the absence of any exact information relative to it among the financiers exercised a depressing effect on the money market. The truth of the matter appears to be that Great Britain stands convicted of the international crimes, as alleged against her in the United States indictment, of non-exercise of duo diligence in preventing the escape of Anglo- rebel privateer vessels from her ports, and of the more deliberate, snd consequently ‘more ‘Berlous, aot of failing’ generally in her duty asa neutral in war. Such are the bases of the judgment. Whether the tribunal of ar- bitration has found as a unit or given a unani- mous verdict is not exactly cleax Or the arbitrators may have arrived at the same con- clusion of Court, but by a different pro- cess of personal reasoning. We are specially informed that each member of the Geneva Tribunal will deliver a written, independent, separate opinion, and that there already exists a variance in the seve- ral judgments. The papexs are voluminous singly, and must thus be exceedingly bulky in the whole. The stern course of justice has been moderated towards England so far that, in compliment to her national feeling, the decision will not be made public, literally, for some time tocome. This course is more than courteous—it is merciful, and its adoption by the Court, with the consent of the Americans, will serve to add additional lustre to our effort for the vindication of a great principle. Meantime, as at Washington, with the con- clusion of their work of the treaty by the Joint High Commission, the peacemakers at Genova, with the conclusion of their work, have been dined and wined to their hearts’ content. At the dinner to the arbitrators by the city of Geneva, on Saturday last, Mr. Carteret, in behalf of his fellow-citizens, de- clared that the presence of this great tribunal of arbitrators was an honor to the city of Geneva, and that it was his hope that all nations would follow the example of England and the United States in settling their differ- ences through such a peaceful appeal to reason and justice. Of course, Count Sclopis, in be- half of the tribunal, was bound, in response, to compliment the city of Geneva, which he did very handsomely, referring to it, among other things, as the birthplace of the great Cavour. The concluding council scene and parting outdoor féles are yet to come off. ‘‘All’s well that ends well;’’ and so, for the sake of this good example of arbitration, let us be thankful that the long agony of these Alabama claims is over—that the Northeastern fishery difficulties and the navigation of the St. Lawrence and its canals are settled upon principles of reciprocity, and that the Em- peror William is charged with the duty of settling our Northwestern boundary dispute, and that three fixed rules of neutrality have been established between the United States and Great Britain, and ‘let us have peace.’’ The Vanderbilt Underground Railway. Next week the agents of Commodore Vander- bilt will begin work on the Underground Rail- way, for which he has obtained such valuable franchises and by means of which our citizens hope to secure rapid and commodious transit from the crowded portions of the city to the free air of Westchester as well as to the upper part of the metropolis. For the uses of this underground road he will erect a depot one hundred and twelve feet long and fifty feet broad, in the Park, opposite the new Post Office. General and deep regret will doubtless be expressed at this encroachment upon the small remainder of the only green spot in the neighborhood of the City Hall; but even this the public is willing to sacrifice to the paramount necessity of speedy communi- cation with the northern portion of the \carnestness and heart on their part up to the | city and the country beyond, No question of money checks the work, and the popular de- mand is for the utmost promptness in its prosecution. We are all impatient over the long hours now required for a journey which should be made in a tenth part of the time; and if the Underground Railway secures this desideratum we will not growl even about the destruction of the Park. The power which controls hundreds of miles of railway, to which this line is to be a direct and very important feeder, is competent to push this improvement with the utmost vigor, and the sooner it enables us to go from the Park to Harlem River in twenty minutes tho better it will pleage all whose business or pleasure demands their daily presence in the lower part of the city. No single road will fully accommodate the business; but the one first finished will be welcomed and will reap a golden harvest for its stockholders. Progress in Japan—The Imfluences of Christian Civilization. Our correspondence from Japan has for some time past been interesting even more than usual. We have been, mail after mail, steadily chronicling the great and unprece- dented reform which within the last few years has been progressing in Japan—a reform which, more than anything else during the last three hundred years, has preserved alive an almost dying belief in the ancient biblical prophecy that ‘nations would be born in a day.” Certain it is that the changes which have taken place in Japan—changes which have been of the most marvellously revolu- tionary character—have never taken place in any country now within the ranks of modern civilization since the first triumphs of Chris- tianity. The sudden and complete change which has taken place in Japan recalls the memory rather of the early triumphs of the Crescent than of the early triumphs of the Cross. In the Henarp of yesterday we printed a most interesting letter from our correspond- ent in Japan illustrative of this marvellous and progressive movement. Our correspond- ent is fearful that Japan, whieh Deda been ingulted by Corea, may be Yash enoug to rush into war with that Power and #o give an opportunity to the reactionists in Japan to undo or to mar the good work which has been done. It is a good anda healthful sign that the progressive party in Japan strongly urge the government to go in fora healthy chastise- ment of the Coreans without any fear of reactionary results. It is cleartoour mind that Japan has the right side of the question, and that even if China should come to the aid of the Coreans Japan has but little to fear regarding the result of the contest. The civilized world is on her side, and the civil- ized world, the United States particularly, will not allow Japan to suffer if help within reasonable limits can be given. In justification of what we have said regard- ing the progress made by Japan within the last ten years let us briefly note a few facts. The Japanese government has been central- ized by the abolishment of Daimios, thus resolving its political condition from one of numberless and eomparatively small States or principalities into a consolidated nation of over thirty millions. A few years ago Japan had no navy, and now it can boast of at least ten steam vessels of war, including two pow- erfal iron-clads. A railroad has been con- structed and is now in running order from Jeddo to Yokohama. Telegraph lines are in working order in many parts of the king- dom, and these lines are being worked by intelligent Japanese operatives. Light- houses and lightships all along the coasts help to guide the mariner and to ward him off from danger. An imperial mint coins gold and silver in Western fashion. There is a dry dock in which our own flagship, the Colo- rado, was quite recently docked, with all her guns in position, and repairs to her bottom were most sucessfully made. Private schools are numerous all over the country, and undersome of the best scholars in Europe and America the Japanese youth are receiving Christian culture. A college has been established at Jeddo and is in fine working order, there be- ing a first rate staff of professors and a large attendance of students. As we have said already we say again, Japan has made a for- ward leap. such as no nation ever made be- fore—she has made it largely through Ameri- can influence—and it is but little likely that war with a barbarous neighbor will be allowed to rob her of all which she has so nobly won. Japan owes her present proud and enviable position largely to the influence of the United States. In 1854 the first treaty made by the Western Powers was made by Commodore Perry. Treaties with Great Britain and France and other of the European Powers immedi- ately followed. Prior to that time, however, the penalty of death was visited upon any Japanese who had intercourse with foreigners, and trade with Japan was simply an impossi- bility. The Daimios or feudal lords were all- powerful in their own districts and ruled in their ownright. The Mikado was the spiritual chief of the Empire, had his own court and lived in obscurity at Kioto. The Tycoon or Shogoon, who originally was no more than the Commander-in-Chief of the forces or the Mayor of the palace, like Charles Martel in France, exercised supreme authority and lived in state at Jeddo. All these things have passed away. The Mikado has emerged from obscurity and resumed his rights as the constitutional head of the State. The Tycoon has been shorn of his glory, deprived of his false rights and reduced to his proper posi- tion. In addition to this radical governmental revolution those other changes which we have already mentioned have taken place all over the Empire, and Japan, to quote the words of Minister De Long, has marched at a ‘double quick’’ into full fellowship with foreign States. It is not wonderful that certain European writers should belittle Japanese progress, They seo for the first time in history the influ- ence of a people, themselves young, telling powerfully on one of the oldest peoples and on one of the oldest civilizations of the East. Europe cannot understand how a nation can take leap which virtually covers ten cen- turies. We are reminded that Japan has more than once already accepted the teaching and tried to accept the civilization of the West. On two occasions already the bright and promising day has ended in tragic gloom, and we are advised not to be too sanguine lest another night of darkness and sorrow should follow the present day of promise. We admit the danger of too sudden a development, of progress too rapid. Wo he- lieve that with nations as with men youth should precede manhood, and that to a perfect manhood the preliminary training of youth is necessary. We can never, however, despise a vigorous and healthful manhood when we see it; and so long as Japan continues to reveal nothing but health and vigor and steadily per- severes in her onward and upward course, if we can do no more we must at least do this— wish her God speed. For our part we have no fear either of a sudden or dangerous reac- tion. In the future progress must take place under conditions very different to those under which it took place in the past; and it will not do to blame Japan for making a leap which was not possible to any of the nations of Europe ten or twelve centuries ago. At all events, as Japan is now on her trial it is safe to reserve judgment until the trial has been fairly made. The Insanity Dodge—A Good Decision, A few months ago James Burns shot and in the Bowery. and indicted for murder degree. On the trial, in uly last, he was acquitted on the ground insanity, his counsel having urged that reason had been dethroned by exces- sive indulgence in alcoholic stimulants. He was at once committed by the Court of Gen- eral Sessions to the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, where he has since been confined till last week, when his counsel, on a petition stat- ing that “‘he was not confined on the sentence or judgment of a competent court,’ procured a writ of habeas corpus, on which Burns was returned to this city and brought before Judge Leonard on Saturday. Here counsel demand- ed his discharge on the ground of his present sanity. Yesterday Judge Leonard decided that the writ was improperly granted, and promptly remanded the slayer of Halloran to that con- finement which the Court of General Sessions, @ competent tribunal, had consigned him. It is to be hoped that this eminently proper and judicious ruling may have a tendency te cur- tail the use of the insanity dodge asa conve- nitent Toophole by which a murderer may avoid the halter. No more dangerous practice can prevail than that which may hold the com- mission of any crime to arise from mental aberration, and the perpetrator, therefore, be absolved from moral responsibility. In this case we have the prisoner so insane in July that he is not to be punished for killing a fellow man, and two months later it is claimed to bea hardship to him and a wrong by the community that he be subjected to the restraints of confinement in an asylum. Men who shoot are obnoxious in such crowded localities as New York city, and men who on trial for murder take the insane horn of the dilemma in preference to that which points to the gallows need not complain of such gentle restriction as the walls of the State institution at Utica present. For several years the prevalence of insanity among persons charged with serious crimes has been frightful. The mental malady appears apt to attack any one who wishes another's death or injury. Lax no- tions of the legal definition of insanity and the natural reluctance of jurymen to render a verdict of guilty in capital cases tends to give lawyers the power to save the life of even the most hardened and wilful murderer. Should the adjudged insane taker of life be set free assoon as he has exchanged tho prisoner's cell for the asylum there would be almost an entire absence of danger to those who choose to be insane to execute a criminal design. If the doctrine urged by the counsel for Burns should be admitted it would be better that the State be saved the trouble of sending an in- sane murderer to the institution. He might be at once set at liberty. Possibly, then, his frenzy might lead him to slay one or more of the jurors, in which case that fact would add to the certainty of his being morally irrespon- sible, Under Judge Leonard's decision in- sanity will not present such glowing charms as it would had he set Burns free to repeat his pernicious pistol practice at pleasure. Beer and Blood im Berlin—Bismarck’s Last “Coup.” There are a hundred delicate ways of devel- oping national characteristics, but it is doubt- ful if history records a more touching instance than that which took place in the capital of Prussia on Saturday last, while the grand military parade in honor of the three Emper- ors, was in progress. The magnificent ap- pointments, admirable discipline and needle- gun glory of the victors of Sadowa and Sedan were all made plain as a pikestaff to the eyes of the visiting monarchs. For ordinary coun- tries this would have been sufficient for a day; but the bold Berlinese were not content therewith, The god of war had been honored, it is true, but outrage had been heaped on the god of lager beer, and the bold Berlinese arose to resent it. They would de- monstrate to the world that the amber liquid of Gambrinus was beloved of them, and that they would not stomach it at any fancy price. Amiscreant brewer (what else can we name him?) by the appropriate name of Hopf had dared to raise the cost of imbibing lager, and in face of the crowned arbiters of Europe they would protest against this insult to the national esophagus. ‘Donner und Blitzen!" So while the troops were gayly disport- ing their pipeclay and ifle-glint and «“Wacht am Rhein,” bodies of citizens, depre- ciatingly described as ‘the disorderly classes,’’ pounced upon the offending brewery and wrecked it. The police, with that wretched want of national sympathy shown generally by their class, charged with drawn swords upon the votaries of the beer barrel, and the blood of the latter, we are informed, mingled with the streams of Hopf’s lager. Long and des- perate must have been the fight, when we know how lightly the child of Deutschland re- gards life when it means life without lager. What scenes of exalted heroism must have taken place among the brimming vats as the children of Gambrinus, hurling mallets and beer bungs at the minions of power, were them- selves hurled into the beer, covered with wounds! “Maudlin Claronce in his malmsey butt’ is a weak figure beattle the child of beerland smoth- ering in an ocean of beer, with his battle cry, ‘Zwei lager,” gurgling defiantly to his latest breath. What an impressive lesson this is for the Czar and the Kaisers, telling thom that peoples can exist without emperors or war-glory; but, ye gods, there be some who must have lager! Gortschakoff and Bismarck may have had weighty subjects before them, but will not thia beey imbroglio swamo thom all? It is the affirmation of the “sober, indus- tzious German element’’ that the stomach is & great matter in deciding all questions inter- national as well as social; it is matter break- ing away from the control of mind and as- serting itself. Herr Bismarck is a deep fellow, and we begin to suspect that this is another coup of his. Did he want any consultation with foreign potentates about the balance of power in Europe? Nothe. The secret leaks out at last; it was not to stay a flow of blood— nobody wanted to shed any; it was not to check an outflow of specie—it wag pouring into his Kaiser's coffers; it was (ah, wily Bis- marck!) to regulate the flow of beer, He could never have got Wilhelm, Franz Joseph and Alexander together if he tapped his seoret beforehand. They would have laughed the idea to scorn; but once on the ground, he burst the bung, and, in the metaphor of Sir Boyle Roach, ‘‘the cat was out of the bag.’”’ France, the Pope, the International, Turkey and cran- berry sauce all fade away as the beer barrel of popular discontent rolls over their imperial toes. It brings the popular will before them in a manner not to be despised. We may be certain that when in the evening, at the Im- perial Palace, the Ozar of All the Russias proposed the toast of “The German Army” he was divided in opinion whether he meant the Army of the Rhine of the mighty phalanx of beer. Be assured, however, that when the froth is blown off the affair of Saturday grave changes to Europe will be found among tha lees. There may be trouble brewing—who knows? Hoch! alles hoch! Spain and Slavery. For years and years Spain, under evory form of government that has existed on the Penin- sula, has been declaring to the world that measures were contemplated and would soom be put in force to abolish slavery in the colo- nies and to stop the slave trade. Nothing, however, has been done. We doubt if any of the successive governments of Spain have been sincere in their declarations. All, probably, have been falsely pretending to the civilized nations that they would abolish slavery and stop the slave trade, while they never intended doing anything of the sort. The power of the slaveholders and their allies has been too great at Madrid. Vast revenues have beon derived, both by the government and prominent indi- viduals, from the productg of slave labor, and they are not willing to give them up. Then the abolition of slavery would woaken the hold of Spain on her colonies, and this is a sore question with her. The revolutionary government of Ouba knew this when it declared in its constitution the freedom of the negroes and equality of all men. We learn now, by a telegram from Madrid, that there is to be an organized na- tional agitation for the suppression of slavery. The young King, Amadeus, and the liberal party that sustains him, have an opportunity of co-operating with such a movement and giving the final blow to the iniquitous instite- tion. Perhaps we ought to hope for the best results, but there is little reason, judging from the past and the character of the Spaniards, to believe in these seemingly virtuous protes- tations. The slaveholders in Cuba and the other colonies would be as likely to revolt against the Spanish government if it should attempt to abolish slavery as the patriot Cubans were for their independence. This question of slavery is one of the most delicate and embarrassing Spain has to deal with. If she should abolish the institution and concede local self-government to her colonies, that would be the first time of acting in such a lib- eral manner in the course of Spanish history. We must wait for the reassembling of the Cortes before passing judgment on thesincerity or force of the present movement for the aboli- tion of slavery. - A New Steamship Line to New York, and Lothair. Mr. Disraeli’s hero, Lothair, the Marquis ot Bute, shows a practical business and liberal mind in the aid he is giving toa new steam- ship line from Cardiff, Wales, to New York. The first vessel of this line was launched at Renfrew, Scotland, on Wednesday, and was christened by an American lady the Glamorgan. Another will soon be ready to Isunch. The Marquis of Bute is the principal shareholder in the steamship company. He has remitted the wharfage dues of the vessels at Cardiff for one year, and has engaged to supply them with coal, free of charge, for the same period. No line could be established under better auspices, and it is evident that this immensely wealthy nobleman is determined to make it successful. It will be a formidable rival to the splendid and long-established lines be- tween Liverpool and New York. But, in fact, there is trade enough for all. Numerous and capacious as the steamships plying between Great Britain and other parts of Europe and the United States are, they can hardly find sufficient accommodation for passengers or room for freight. It was long supposed that Bristol would become a great rival of Liver- pool for the steamship trade with America, but Cardiff, which is also up that magnificent arm of the sea, the Severn, is still nearer the ocean and the United States. It is nearer London, too, and is the natural outlet of a populous and vast manufacturing, mineral and agricultural region. The Marquis of Bute has an immense estate at and around Cardiff, and can very well afford to be so liberal to. the new steamship line. We regard such commer- cial enterprise on the part of the proud aristoc- racy of England as one of the most favorable signs of the times, and of the changes that are taking place in Great Britain. Tue FasntonaBLe SEASON ON THE French Ooast.—We print on another page of this day's issue an interesting letter from the Heraty’s correspondent at Trouville, the fashionable French watering place. Tho sea- son has been unexpectedly successful. The town is crowded with strangers and the inhabi- tants of the place are happy and light-hearted over the rich harvest they are reaping from the influx of visitors. President Thiers has been there taking a recess from his labors, if such a thing is possible for the veteran statesman, at this pleasant little place. The venerable Thiers may bo scen daily on the beach, in com- pany with his Minister of War and some gen- eral. Evenin his recreation the President never loses sight of business. From Trouville our correspondent paid a visit to the villages along the const of Normendy, and in all of them he found contentment. and cheerfulness prevailing [among pil classes. the voorer ones osnociall¥.