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KEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVII No. 143 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENIN6. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth bt and Brand way.? Naval Engagements?Belles or tuk Kitchen. WALLAOK'8 THEATRE, Broadway und 13th street? London Assurance. FIFTH avenue THEATRE, Twenty-fourth stroot? Article 47. ST. .TAMES TTTK \TRE. Twenty-eighth street and Broadway ?MacEvoy's New IIibkhnicon. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th St.?Per formanccb aiternoon and evening.?On Hand. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery ? Ireland as It Is? Coals or Fibs?Dick thi: Newsboy. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Hroadway.?Tue Ballet Pan tonibk or llUBrTV Dumtty. BOOTH'S THEATRE. Twenty-third street, corner Sixth ov.?Enoch Audkn ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street?(Ihuman Opera?Lk Pbopii kte. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.? Boy Detective. MRS F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.? East Lynne. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway?Coxio VoCAL isns, Negro Acts. Ac. BAN FRANCISCO HALL, 585 Broadway.?Sam Sharp ley's Minstrels. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.? Negro Eccentricities, Burlesoukb, Ac. CENTRAL PARK QARDEN.?Oh and Instrumental Concert. PAVILION, No. 688 Broadway, noar Fourth St.? Lady Orchestra. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.? Science and Art. TRIPLE1 SHEET. New York, Friday, May 34, 1873. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HEUALD. "AGE. I?Advertisements. 9?Advertisements. 9?The Swamp Angela: The Murder of Colonel Wisliart by "Steve" Lowery?The Search for Dr. Livingstone?Trial or the Ilev. Dr. Huston?Kydd's Treasure Found: Fishing for Silver and Cold InStaten Island Sound?Army Orders?Naval Intelligence?Art Matters?The Long Strike?The Arcadian Club. 4?'The Sources of the Nile: Reports from the Herald Correspondent at Khartoum of Sir Samuel Raker; The Expedition at Goiu'.okoro; Three Months Dragging a Steamer Through the Upper Nile Marshes; Terrible Suite ling of the Expedition; End or the Slave Trade in Egypt?The Methodist General Conference? The Baptist Homo Mission?Ordination at Father Becker's?The Shakspeare Monument: Unveiling of Mr. Ward's Statue at Central Park Yesterday?Naval Intelligence?The House of Refuge Revolt?Frightful Suicide In Newark, N. J.?The Supposed Assailant of Officer Tully?Sad Accident. 5?'The Impeached Judges: Prlnole and McCunn Before the Senatorial "High Court;" The Question of Jurisdiction; The Causes Ad journed to the isth of June?Greeleyana? Proceedings in the CourtB?Stokes: Special riea Submitted by Stokes' Counsel, the Nature of which He Declines to State to the Court; The Case to Re Resumed this Morning? "lteddy the Blacksmith"?'The Markets?Da ?urtrnent of Parks?The City Advertising? 'ayments by the Comptroller?The Fatal Snooting of Klcrnan?Re-election of a Pilot Commissioner?New Jersey Republican Con vention?The Connecticut Seuatorshlp?North Carolina Democracy?American Mining Engi neer?A Disgraceful Scene. 6?Editorials: Leading Article. "The Effect of the Political Convulsions on Congress?Good and Pad Legislation''?Amusement Announ cements. 7?Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)?1The Treaty: The Supplemental Disgrace in the Senate?Cable Telegrams from England, France, Spain, Italy, Australasia, Mexico and Cuba?News from Washington?The Weather Report?Business Notices. 8? Cuba: The Release of the Students and the Wrath of the Volunteers?American Jockey Cluh: Horses In Training at Jerome Park? Fleetwood Park?Quickstep Park Trailing As sociation?Horse Notes?Tne National Game? The International Poat Race?The National Amateur Regatta?The Jersey City Frauds?A Wife's Revenge?Brooklyn Affttirs?Americans Abroad?Sale of Rare Books?The Rockaway Shooting Case?The Alsaclansand Lorralnes? A Probably Fatal Assault. 9?Financial and Commercial: Gold ll4t?; Fur ther Upward Movement In the Premium, with Continued Heavy Specie Shipments; Decline in Erie ami Pacific Mail; Stocks Generally | Dull, but Active and Excited Movements lu the Favorites; Sale of 12,000,000 Government Gold?Marriages aud Deaths?Advertise ments. 10?Monuonism in Washington: Brigham's Hench men "Working" the Legislature?North Carolina Politics?The East Side Nuisances? Raid on a Colored Dive?Probable Murder? Shipping Intelligence?Advertisements. 11?Advertisements. 1*?Advertisements. The Prospects or the Granvtlle-Fibh Surrender.?The Senate debated the Gran ville supplemental rale to the Treaty of Wash ington for five hours yesterday in executive session, and' rose without coming to a final vote. Our advices create thu impression that the English demands will be complied with, ulthough there is to he some pretence, for political effect, at alteration of the phraseology. The surrender is nevertheless to be complete. Yet the timidity, hesitation and cowardice of the 8onatorsv are of themselves sufficient to prove how sensible they are of the degrading part they arc enacting. Is toe Caklist Insurrection Ended re Spain ??Wo ore told one day that the Carlist movement in Spain has been effectually stamped out by the King's troops, and again, perhaps the next evening, that there has been a sharp action between the forces contending in arms. To-day we hear of a battle in Gerona, in which the royalist forces completely de feated the insurgents. It is to be hoped that the fighting may really end at an early mo ment and this Spanish civil war be termi nated positively. Penal Exile of French Communists. ?M. Henri Rochefort, with other convicted Com munists, will leave Franco to-day in penal deportation to the reformatory settlement of New Caledonia. The prisoners will perhaps make profession of their exalted patriotism, even at the latest moment, using the words of some of the first involuntary exiles from Eng land to Botany Bay, who alleged that they were the most disinh re itcd and truest citizens of Britain for tho reason that they left their country for their country's good. Annexation in the Pacific.?It appeal from our Washington despatches that, tli President has made some sort of treaty or l>ai gain with tho chief of Tutuila, one of th Navigator's Islands, in the South Pacific an in about fourteen degrees south latitude, for port, naval station and naval depot. This i on the route from our Pacific coast to Australi and New Zealand. There are thousands c beautiful anil productive islands, both sout and north of the Equator, in the Pacific, lik this of tho Navigator's group, and when on people have once got u good footing union them we shall fiud that 8eu Island cottoi sugar, coffee and other semi-tropical an tropical products will bo cultivated th< rc c; teusivoly. This acquisition, small thrmuh be, may lead to impeitaut results. The Effect of the Political Convul sions on Congress?Good and Bad Legislation. It Is curious to observe the effect the political movements of the day are having upon the re publican Senators and Congressmen who have been doing their best for the last twelve months to weaken, if not to destroy, a strong and hon orable administration. The nomination of Horace Greeley at Cincinnati, and the undeni able influence and respectability of tho liberal convention, seem to have suddenly opened the eyes of these politicians to tho necessity of car rying out by legislation the well known views and repeated recommendations of the Presi dent, and hencowe find them in a single nigbt rushing through the Senate such measures as the Amnesty and Civil Rights bills, which, during months of the session they have stu pidly embarrassed and obstructed. In his in augural address, nearly four years ago, and in his subsequent messages to Congress, General Grant urged, in strong language, the removal of all disabilities imposed upon those who took part in tho rebellion. In theso official recom mendations ho only adhered to the generous and wise instincts that prompted him while at tho hoad of tho army of tho United States to grant honorable terms to tho Confederate soldiers j who lay at his mercy at Appomattox ; that in- I duced him to protest emphatically against an attempt to indict Geueriil Lee for treason in contravention of the conditions of surrender, and that led him, in his report on tho 'condi tion of the South, shortly after the restoration of peace, to condemn a policy of oppression and revenge. If the narrow-minded politi | cians in Congress, who profess friendship for General Gnmt's administration, had faithfully carried out his views instead of following their own intricate plots and intrigues, they would have done, mouths ago, the work they accom plished in last Tuesday's night session of the Senate, and thoy would have made it more complete and satisfactory than it now is. The Amnesty bill, which was passed in tho shape in which it came from the House, was promptly signed by the President and is now n law. It continues the existing disabilities m the cases of Senators and Representa tives of the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military and naval service of tho United States, heads of departments and foreign ministers of tho United States who took part in the rebellion. These will number only a few hundreds, in cluding Jefferson Davis and John C. Breckin ridge. The oxcluded are set down in the party organs as about two hundred, which is, how ever, too low an estimate, and it is claimed that the exceptions will moet with general ap proval. On tho contrary, we regard the re striction in the law as inexpedient and un popular. The great value of amnesty was not that it would remove political disabilities from a certain number of ex-rebels, more or less, and enable them to hold office, but that it would bury the dead past and blot out forever the last bitter remembranco of our civil strife. In order to thoroughly accomplish that good n ork amnesty should have been complete and universal; there should have been no excep tions whatsoever, so that the very name of po j htical disability might bo obliterated from the constitution and laws of the county, and die out from tho memory of men with the events that gave birth to it. Tho people now desire to forget the rebellion and all connected with it, ami hence wo regard the exceptions made by the present law as objectionable on principle as well ns absurd in their practical operation. General Grant has himself con demned the policy of excluding certain parti cipants in the rebellion from full pardon and restoration because they happened to have been previously of sufficient standing and character to be elected to prominent positions, and ho would no doubt have preferred that the law he has just signed should have been unre stricted in its operation. Nevertheless, the action of Congress in passing the law in its present shape is a step in the right direction, lor which we may probably thank the political convulsions which are evidently reminding our representatives of the duty they owe to the ^ people. The practical benefit of the law was made pleasingly apparent, immediately the , intelligence of its signature by tho President i was received in the House, by the prompt j swearing in of one of the members elect from | North Carolina, who had previously been 1 unftb,? to tako Wb seat on account of disa bilities, and by the gratifying announcement ' that every State and district is now fully rep resented in the national House of Reuresenta tives, for the first time since the commence ment of the rebellion. The passage of the Civil Eights bill by the Senate was another concession to the exigen cies of the times; but it was attended by a piece of slinrp practice scarcely fair to the champion and father of the measure, Senator Sumner, who lias been laboring nearly all the session to secure this protection for the colored race. During his absence from the chamber Senator Carpenter mutilated his associate's pet measure, which had previously met with con stant obstruction and opposition, and rushed it to a vote in its filtered form, when it passed by a majority of thirteen. In its present ? hapo it imposes a penalty for the exclusion of any person on account of color or previous conditions of servitude from any public inn, I licensed place ol amusement or public convey ance, but does not apply, as Sumner's bill did, to churches, schools, cemeteries or juries, and hence is not satisfactory to that Senator and his friends. When reached in tho House, through which ordeal it has yet to pass, it will probably encounter some opposition on this account, and an effort will be made to restore it to its original comlition. If passed at all, like tho Amnesty bill, there is no reason why I it should not have been made as comprcbcn | sive as its projector desires. The expediency ( of the law is a question on which a great difference of opinion exists, but, if wise and just, its mutilation by the Senate is to be condi runcd. Every lair-minded person must concede the pro priety of insuring to the colored race the full privileges of the equality to which they arc now entitled under the constitution and the laws of the country ; at tho same time it is the belief of many that these matters, if left to the people of the Southern States, will in due time bo satisfactorily settled. Tho true safety of the colored men of tho South lies in the fact that they enjoy political rights and are now a power in the laud. Their votes will bo wanted by aspirants to office, and as Boon as the Southern States 1 ore left entirely free under t?ie operation of ft general amnesty law the colored citizens will find as many and us warm frionds in the South as naturalized citizens now meet with in the North. Political parties in auy South ern State will then as soon think of excluding a negro, on account of his color, from any of the privileges enjoyed by a white man as political parties in New York now think of excluding an Irishman or a German from the Common Council on account of his nativity. Indeed, the chances are that political honors will before long bo forced upon the colored citizens of Florida and South Carolina as libe rally as they have for years been forced upon the Irish-born citizens of New York. There are many persons, however, who have no belief that the former slaves will ever be voluntarily accorded equal civil rights in their old States without the aid of a strong law at their backs. To such men a Civil Eights bill appears a necessity and an act of humanity and justico. But if it be so, it should bo made sweeping and comprehensive, and not cramped and limited as is tho bill passod by the Senate. It seems, indeed, from the sharp trick prac tised upon Mr. Sumnor, as if the Senators were influoncod by political considerations in their action on tho Civil Rights bill rather than by any regard for the measure. | It is to be regretted that while thus pushing through the Amnesty bill in such hot haste,' ftftor tho temporizing and delay to which it has boon subjected all tho session, tho Senate marred its work by simultaneously passing the bill authorizing the continued extension of military law over tho Southern States during the recess of Congress. There is no dangor that tho power thus placed in tho hands of Goneral Grant will bo improperly used, and the fears expressed by tho opponents of tho administration, that the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and tho uso of bayonets at tho polls wdlf render tho Presidential election a mockery in tho Southern States, is more political rhetoric, used for effect in tho campaign. Neverthe less, tho principle, the precedent and tho effect of such a law are offensive and dnngor ous. Tho cry of military usurpation raised against tho administration, groundless as it is, has, beyond doubt, had its effect, ami the truo policy of tho frionds of Goneral Grant is to remove all pretenco for such unfounded charges. It docs not reflect credit upon a party to hold out amnesty to the Southern States with ono haud and military law with the other, and it creates tho impression that tho former boon was granted only for politi cal effect. It does not help tho credit of the nation abroad or increase its self-respect and fraternal fooling at homo, to publish to the world tho belief of tho Congress of tho United States that tho States recently in rebellion still require to be hold in tho strong giasp of military law, and cannot bo entrusted with the great safeguard of a people's liberties, the writ of habeas corpus. It is tho honest belief of tho country that tho South, if left alone, will bo as law-abiding and as loyal as the North, and it is notorious that the turmoil and trouble yet existing in some portions of the Southern States are the work of carpet baggers and scalawags from tho North, and not of the Southern citizens themsolvos. Gen eral Grant is fully awaro of this, and did not fear to publish the fact at a i time when it was inoro dangerous than I it is now to speak tho truth about such matters. IIo would be tho last himself to counsel or desiro the law just passed by tho Senate. Tho IIouso has yet to act upon tho bill, and it is possible that it may not bo reached, or may be defeated. It will be well for the administration if it should fail to be come a law. Goneral Grant is strong enough without the aid of such measures, and he would not avail himself of them under any circumstances. But tho odium of their enact ment fulls unjustly upon his administration. Universal amnesty has been advocated by the President from tho time of his election up to the present moment, and its success in Con gress is his triumph. Let it not lie marred and disfigured by tho passage of a law so of fensive and unnecessary as the Habeas Corpus Suspension bill. "Let us have peace." New York llapUl Transit?The Mills Signed by the Governor. Now that Governor Hoffman has signed two bills passed by the Legislature which promise rapid transit to New York, we wish to see the corporations on which the proper powers bavo been conferred get speedily to work. The west side three-tier plan seems a very am bitious and hazardous experiment, but if its projectors mean business let them set about their undertaking at once. This complex sys tem, which provides for a freight tunnel under ground as the lowest tier, a horse car line on the level of the streets as the second tier, and a four-track steam engine road, on iron arches, ftbove the street level, as the third tier, proposes to run through the blocks and to gain a triple transit to the upper end of the island. It is not exactly what we would prefer in this direction? namely, two simple viaduct roads, ! one on the east and the other on the west side of the city; but as, something passed into a law we accept it, as the city would have been obliged to accept the charter of the Seventy if the Governor had not wrung its complicated neck. Wc now look to the corporators for a speedy commencement and vigorous execution of their pretentious plan. New York will not be slow to award praise to and lavish profits on the first line which will take the city toilers as far north as Harlem in fifteen minutes. The Vanderbilt Tunnel Road bill, also signed by the Governor, has had weighty advantages given it by the Legislature; advantages tor which we fail to see completely the compensating public benefit, and in which the travelling public, in whose interest it is supposed to have been drawn, will bo placed to a great extent at the mercy of railway rapacity. But, although it is intended much more as a freight feeder for the Hudson River and New York Central Railroads, and although Commodore Vanderbilt will be at liberty to charge passengers going farther north than Fifty-ninth street as much over ten cents as he pleases, wc want to see the road as speedily . as possible in working order, from its future ? dej)ot at City Hall Bark up to the Harlem ! River. It is to bo feared that it will not bo, ' by any means, a people's lino, whereby tho pent-up thousands who fester amid squalor and disease down town may bo carried | at rates within reach of tho work ingman to healthy homes in the upper part of tho Island. Yet, let it be wiujtmtcd, and when we have a viaduct road on tho oast side and tlie three-tier road on the west, running last trains day and night, at low fares, it remains to be seen whether the Vanderbilt road will not be forced, for mere profit sake, to adopt a similar scale. Wo may here say that we have no strong faith in any other force than that of lively competition bringing about a reduction of fares. Wo must not for get, however, in the midst of our fare-y specu lations, that not a single sod has been turned in City Hall Park and not a single brick displaced by the sky-parlor three-tier corporation. Our efforts for the present, then, must bo turned to urging on those who now have tho requisite authority to lose no time in giving as rapid transit in some form or another. We shall bo glad to note from time to timo what is being done in the matter. The Herald African Expedition to Join Hlr Samuel linker. On another page of this morning's issue wo publish a letter from tho Herald correspond ent sent out to join the Egyptian expedition of Sir Samuel Baker, in tho interior of Africa. Some timo ago, it will bo remomberod by our readers, it was reported that a mutiny had broken out in tho exploring army, and tluit tho indomitable commander was assassinated. Subsequent reports corrected this impression, and we have now the letter of our correspond ent to provo that Sir Samuel and his heroic lady are alive and safely established at Gondo koro. By tho date of tho letter published, the Herald correspondo nt, after crossing tho Nubian Dosort and touching at Berber, had arrived at Khartoum, at tho junotion of the Blue and Whito Nile. From this point he in tends to pash on for tho expedition of Sir Samuel, which he calculated to join in about three months from tho date of writing. Second only in importance to tho researches of Dr. Livingstono, who by this time, in all prob ability is on his way to tho coast with Stan ley, who commands tho Herald's expedition sent out in quest of tho great traveller, is tho undertaking of Sir Samuel Baker. With a well-equipped army under his command and the munificent aid of tho Viceroy of Egypt to 1 sustain him, it is to bo hopod that tho enterprise will prove in every way a success commensurate with its outlay. Wo may form some idea of the terrible nature of the task un dertaken from tho sufferings of those who have essayed it. Tho rigors of climate, tho ob structions of naturo aud tho ferocity of tho un civilized savages all conspiro against the pioneers of civilization and help to keep fast bound tho secrets of tho unknown interior of tho African Continent The labors of tho in defatigable and bold explorers who have gone beforo, as well as thoso now engaged in tho task of learning what may bo learned and see ing what may bo seen of the primitive lands and tho uncivilized people who inhabit them, had not up to this, been thoroughly appre ciated by the great public of civilized nations until tho press, through its correspondents, came to their aid. Tho works of Livingstone, Murchison, Baker, Spcko, Grant, Burton and other bravo travellers who have trodden tho unbeaten tracks of thoso rogions havo helpod to enlighten us and teach us what we kuow re garding them ; but for tho one who had read these works there are a hundred now who anxiously watch and learn from tho corre spondents of the great journals of the day in formation which was provioasly a sealed book for them. With the idea of carrying out its great mission the Herald despatched two of its correspondents to Africa?one to learn of the whereabouts of Dr. Livingstone and the other to join Sir Samuel Baker's expedition in the interior of Africa. After a year of anxiety tho glad news that Livingstone had been found reached as from Zanzibar, and probably by this timo tho Herald's other correspondent has joined the expedition of Sir Samuel Baker, at Gondokoro. From what wo have already ascertained the Baker expedition has experi enced the greatest hardships, and death and disease havo mado sad inroads in tho ranks of thoso composing tho exploring party. Poison ous miasmata and the fierce heat of a tropical sun have dealt death with a lavish hand on all sides. With decimated ranks aud reduced stores the expedition arrived at Gondokoro, there to find the Bari nation of savages ready to give the expedition fresh trouble, A month's campaign was the result, and the savages met with chastisement for their temerity. Whether Baker has pushed on further or is still halting at Gondokoro there is no information. From the Herald correspondent in Cairo we per ceive that his expedition has not given entire satisfaction to the Viceroy's government, and rumors were current that it was about being recalled. It is certain, however, that Baker relied on being able to enlist the Bari natives to assist him in transporting his steamers to the Nyanzas; but his recent difficulty with these savages has delayed if it has not prevented such an accomplishment, lie has applied for more men, but the Viceroy feels loath to despatch a fresh contin gent. The next letter from our correspondent will probably be dated from Baker's headquar ters at Gondokoro, when we shall learn for cer tain of the intentions of tho expedition, and additional particulars of the hardships it has already suffered. The Remains of Kino Lotus PintippE.? I Presideut Thiers has accorded permission to the members of the Ilonse of Bonrbon that the remains of the late King Louis Philippe shall ! be removed from their present resting place in j England and conveyed for final interment in j the soil of Franco. This action does credit to the head and heart of the French President. Prince de Joinville, son of tho deceased mon I arch, commanded the expedition which con veyed the ashes of the Great Napoleon from St. ! Helena to the shore of France, and it is but meet and proper and respectful that the pres | ent administration of the government of tho i revolution should permit the nation to do honor to the memory of its first citizen king. M. Thiers may live to define tho exact line of conservative republican liberty for France, and to trace, for the benefit of the European peo ples, the boundary between free democratic rights and Communist rapine over the coffin lid of the son of Philippe d'Egalite. What's the Matter with the Eastern Mails??There is carelessness somowhero on the Post Office route between this city and Boston. The mail from Boston due at six o'clock P. M. sometimes brings tho Boston bag without tho Providence, and sometimes the Providence bag without the Boston. Let us have some regularity in this respect, Gen eral Jones. If the thing is to bo rouulurly i irregulwt U bad hvttvi he kgvwn, The Board of Health and the Street Car (location. When the public wore startled a few weeks ftg? hy the publication of a code of regulations intended to effect a revolution in the trimming and general getting up of the street convey ances some sharp people shook their heads suggestively. They had become so used to bo let severely alone by the Health Commis sioners that they had almost forgotten such a Board existed. It was, however, shrewdly sur mised that there was something behind that did not meet the public eye. For though poli ticians of all shades are known to be trimmers on occasion there seemed to be no good reason to suspect them of knowing anything about upholstery. Unkind people have been offering all kinds of unsatisfactory explanations for the decree of the Board. Enthusiastic re formers pointed to it as another proof of our rapid return to republican simplicity since the ever-to-be-reraembered overthrow of Tammany. Less credulous people touched their noses sig nificantly and murmured something about jobs, inquiring feelingly if there was any green in the Commissioners' eyes. Rumor with her thousand evil tongues whispered that there was in existence a certain cute Yankee, not in terested in upholstery, but who has some notion about a new style of car seat. It is admitted on all hands, however, that the Health Board never heard of this invention. It is merely one of those coincidences that "no fellah can understand." The time selected for the issuing of the orders relative to the car cushions displays a creditable considerateness for the opinions and purses of tho railroad companies. Simple people might imagine that some loss would have been incurred by these corporations, but care has been taken to guard against anything of tho kind. For tho most part the upholstery of tho street cars is in such a state that of necessity it would have to bo removed or replaced, and, as the former is much the cheaper, it will be to tho advan tage of the corporations to adopt it. It is therefore evident that the change is not alto gether in tho interest of tho people. To say the least, it is very lucky for tho Yankee inventor that tho change tnkos place at this moment. Ho will have a much better chance of improving his fortune, and, wo hope, our comfort, than otherwise would have been his lot The fact that he has no friends among the Commission ers will also be a strong recommendation for him with tho car companies. This reflection will, doubtless, tend to mitigate our feelings while wo Suffer tho pangs of tho bare-board experiment, and look forward with longing for some benefactor of mankind to come forth and save us from tho inhumanity of 'Health Commissioners and railroad corporations. We hope that no bashfulness will prevent the Yan kee gentleman to whom wo have alluded com ing forward boldly with his invention. Let there be no delay. We want to be saved from sinking into barbarism. We might havo looked for conservatism from a Board of Health, but the tendencies of the present body aro so subversive of what wo have been accus tomed to regard as evidences of civilization aud progress that there is no knowing where their rage for republican simplicity may end; for the argument brought against cushions will apply with equal force against coats or other superfluous habiliments. Hence we look forward with some apprehension lest we may some of these mornings find ourselves com pelled to adopt the fig leaf or other severely primitive mode of dress in obedience to an ukase of our Health Commissioners. The National Centennial Celebration? Information Wanted. In four years moro the American republic will bo one hundred years old, and the event will be joyfully celebrated in all parts of the world wherever one of her citizens can be found. The central point of attraction, how ever, of all the different celebrations, will be Philadelphia, since it was in that city that tho first grand Declaration of Independence was read and signed. In order. that the Quaker City shall be fully prepared to deck herself in gala attire for tho great event a commission has already been formed to attend to the mat ter. The members of this Commission want money in order to commence operations, and, of course, Congress is the most natural source to look to for the necessary funds. TkAy want the organization of a stock company with a capital of ten million dollars. Ten million dollars for a single celebration ! Why, it is enough to take one's breath away, even considering the fact that it comes but once in a century. What will they do with it ? Get up an old fashioned Moynmensing riot, give "the boys" free scope for a few hours and then pay for the damages out of this fund? Give all the juvenilos leave to indulge in any and all pyrotechnical experiments they may conceive on that day, and apply the ten millions to compensate for the probable results ? The ex amples of Portland and Chicago should con vince our worthy neighbors that such a dis play of fireworks as tho rising generation would likely get up, if left to themselves, would bankrupt a dozeu such stock companies as ihe one in contemplation. We trust that there will be no "job" in tho celebration of such a glorious centennial It is bad enough to be constantly saddled with "rings" of all sizes and all shapes, national and local, but it will be the last straw on the camel's back if tho grandest festival in the history of the great republic be also placed under the control of one of those unpleasant circular arrangements. Congress should exercise due care in organiz ing such a stock company as the one in con templation. Ten million dollars represent a rather steep sum to be expended even for sueh a national purpose, ami it is to be hoped that the term "job" will not be heard in con nection with it. Otxn Despatches fkom the Antipodes.? rhe Australasian news, telegraphed from 8nn Francisco, which we pnblish to-day, presents he antipodal colonies in progress of a very >leasing, substantial and hopeful development. | 'few mines of gold, copper and plutina had jeeu discovered. The telograph's network was >eing extended and interlaced at points still nore convenient for general communication. | Uilroad works were in progress. The wool rop of last season shows a heavy deficit. Tho | otton and sugar crops of tho present year jromiso a fair yield. The people were orderly ind quiet, even in Fiji, so that it may be ac- j :epted as a public fact that our friends? Vnglo-Saxon and Maori?are getting along licc-ly away out there, from Hydney and Mel- j >ovuc to the Gulf of Curpontwrgi, 1 Tie Tobacco (faevtloa Among (hi nethodUti. Tobacco Is an Tndlan weed, It was tho devil sowed the seed. Such is the device which a large party among our friends of the Methodist persua sion have inscribed on their banner. Witli that wide-awakeness to guard against tho wiles of the Evil One which marks the true Christian, those fighters of the good fight are resolved not to be caught napping at their post. Recognizing that the ways of wicked ness are many, they look with suspicion and even with aversion on tho treacherous narcotic weed by whose aid the Old Boy would seek to wrap their senses in oblivion. To their minds the fires of the pipe bowl are like unto the fires on the altars of Baal, and they fly from the unholy influence of the smoke incense. Unfortunately opinion is divided on the sub ject, for weak brothers have listened to the insidious promptings of the senses and are fast bound by potent tobacco spells. No rea son can convince these wnnderors from tho straight and cloudless path of unsmoked Methodism of the error of their ways, and they march on to destruction Btubbornly in a cloud of their own making which prevents them from perceiving the abyss that lies in thoir path and is visible to their clearer sighted brothers. Tho anti-smokists were not inclined to bo as consistent as men ought to be iu the causo of virtue; for wo must regard the attompt to pass a resolution recommending "young" ministers to abstain from the use of tho dangerous and enticing weed as a com promise with the enemy unworthy of such high moralists. Why abandon the aged smokers to their fato ? The thought was un charitable and unchristian. Then the younger members might well feel aggrieved that the elders hoary should be allowed to enjoy certain questionable privileges from which their mora youthful brethren were excluded. This proposition very nearly produced a re* volt, aud though tho managers of the Confer ence are pretty well used to stormy scenes they found it necessary to abandon their com promise and to make their recommendation to abstain apply to all classes of the ministry. Not without considerable opposition did those who see damnation in cigars carry thoir point. While these denounced its baneful influence the smoking brethren proclaim with no uncertain voice its virtues. Father Richardson stood forward boldly as tho champion of the weed; for sixty years ho had found it a sovereign remedy for almost evory kind of disease. He said Shakspeare knew nothing about it, or he would never have recommended spermaceti. Not alone would ho strongly advise the rising generation to smoke, but to smoke largely, and even to chow. This was carrying the war into Africa with a vengeance; but the band of Christian men who wish to see Mothodism without stain or smoke rallied and overthrow their octogenarian foe. But victory was not yet, for Osborn took hold by tho teeth and carried on tho tobacco war. Not alone had ho found it good for the general health, but invaluable as a preserver of bis ivories. Throe times had he abandoned tho weed, and each time had he been punished by tho loss of a tooth. Having now arrived ut that stage when he could no longer afford to make experiments of this nature he was resolved not to aban don his pipe under any consideration. But the dental appeal of the good Doctor was with out avail, and tho holy men voted pipes an abomination without any saving clause. This new dogma of Methodism will be hailed with delight by tlia ladies whoso parlors ore dese crated by tho all-invading cigar, but wc fear it will prove a hard matter to make the mora muscular part of the Christian community accept tho new article of faith, and as the Conference can put forth no claim to infalli bility there is reason to believe that tho tobacco 1 resolution will end in smoke. A Ministerial Crisis in Spain is again puz zling Amadeus. His Majesty is engaged in looking around for a Premier. Tlio exciting cause of his present difficulty appears to exist in the fact that it whs charged against the ad visors of the Crown that a largo sum of the public money which had been appropriated to tho use of the secret service of the State had been diverted to party purposes and squandered during tho recent elections. This is an old story, and will not, it may be, convey the idea of any groat crime to the minds of the surrounding ministers. Secret service is no great service after all. It is frequently ren dered to mean service at tho ballot box and polls, fhe King will, no doubt, tide over the ! trouble. GUmort'a Musical Eruption in Bostom Vesuvius lias already spoken in very decided terms and deafened the ears and blinded tho eyes of tho Neapolitans and their visitors by its frequent explosions and lava glare, and unhappily the loss of human life has beon a sad feature of the last eruption. The Inter national Peace Jubilee promises to be an eruption of a different kind next month at Boston. Then contending forces will bo drawn together from all parts of tho world, and the loud-tongued flute will mingle ita tones with the dulcet trombone, the violin squeak with the soft whisper of the prize fog horn, tho melancholy bagpipes with tha gentle drum, whose circumference is said to exceed that of tho shield of Achilles, or, per haps, the orb of fair Luna herself, and tho whistle of tho locomotive with tho heart rending harmonies of tho hand organ. Sturdy blacksmiths will mako tho anvils ring amid tho roar of artillery and torpedo explosions that mark tho commencement of each musical measure* and an enthusiastic ijemzcn of the Nock hints towards tho probability of arrangements being made with California to supply a first clasO earthquake, with special subterranean thunder effect thrown in, for the performance of tho "Star-Spangled Banner." And amid thi* whirlwind of sound, this eruption of noises*, this blatant invocation of sounds, what Dos tonian, even of tho most adamantine ears, can think of peace or international amity? Why, the Franco-German war was but a murmur of soft cadences in comparison to the tempest of. noise to he hurled on the devoted hood of tho Hub. Still, tho modern Athenians seem- to like it, and, judging from the results of tho last jubilee, they also thrive on it Tho proceedings so far augur well for tho complete carrying out of tho colossal pro-' gramme. Mine. Pcschka Lcutner, of Leipsic, a celebrated German prima donna; tho Grenadier's Guard Hand, from London, Under the iliiwlinn r\t _r?~" J