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THE CHINESE EMBASSY.

Being somewhat fatgued by their journev from
washington, and having particular engagement
on hand the native members OF the Chinese Embassl
took things very quietly yesterday, remaining
secluded In their apartments at the Westminster
Hotel the whole day. For Minister Burnoame ana
his accomplished secretaries Messrs. Brown and I'd
Champs, there was no such thing as rest, however.
although they need quite much their celestial
friends, perhaps more so, seeing that they have
had to bear the brunt Of diplomatic anxieties and
lators between Them to say nothing OF their suffer,
ings in the way OF official dinners &c. Finding
saver full OF cards his breakfast table, Mr. Bur.
lingame abandoned all hopes OF the much needed
rcpose and good-natureG devoted hmsel;to the en-,
tertanment OF his visitors. During the day
quite large number OF distinguished and influential
persons, native and foreign ofilcaf and otherwise,
called to pay their respects to the Embassy and the
usual number OF fashionable idlers unmtigated
bores, indefatigable autograph seekers, and other
regular nuisances," who pay respect to any.
body, dropped IN from time to time and finding
themselves unnotced, dropped out again. looking
very much disappointed. Public men public
property and one Of the prncipa penalties Of great
ever Minister Burlingame is blessed with an excellent
constitution and q most aniiable disposition, and
consequently, Ia enabled to bear up bravely under
the troubles and annoyances to which he Is occa.
sionally subjected. II was rumored that the Chin 70
members OF the Embassy intended paying another
visit ito Niblos Yesterday evening, but II such an
Intention was entertained IL was not carricdl out
After the bewildering glOries Of the White Fawn's
the "Barbe Bleue" would be tame. indeed, 20 such
enthusiastic admirers OF the beautiful az Chin Taeu
and his apprec alive friend Sun. Mr.. Brown was the
only member OF the mission who patron zed TIE opera
bofe last night, and, no doubt, he enjoyed. himself
for the tanest thing in opera boDe must ba prefe a.
bic 10 being bored TO death by curious visitors.
the Chinese gentlemen employed their les are yeter,
day Is not know but doubtless, In vIsw OF t,eie
approaching visit to Boston, they avail themselves oil
every opportunity b. read up and cram, on ali
sorts of abstruse Subjects that they may not he
put to the blush by the superior learnsQ and attain
ments OF the far.fame blue stockings OF the Hub.
Unless info cen 4 cumstances shsuld occur there
Will be no GLANCE In tle programme OF future move
ments published In the HERALD OF yeSter,iAy. IL Ia
probable that some Of our celestial uskoss may ven-
ture forth today and saturday for the purpose of
visiting one or other OF the places ~ interest and to
take q farewell look at New York; but on SUNDAY
they will, no doubt be occupied with pEeparatloua
for the proposed trip up the Hudson.
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TuAD STEVENS SATISFIED ON THE GRKENBAoK
QUESTION. Stevens always addresses a
friend when he wishes to define his position on
any public matter, and he has done so now
on the greenback question. His letter will
be found in another part Of the paper. He
is happy that the Funding bill Of Mr.. Sher-
man, which has passed both houses of Con-
gress, and which if ''it is not now law is
because the President has not signed it, has
settled the gold and fve-twenties question.
The old man was never more amiable in his
life; for he thinks this Funding bill heals all
differences and difficulties in the republican
party, and he rejoices over the fact that almost
every republican voted for it. Old Thad and
Greeley can now embrace in the most cordial
manner, in spite of the terrible abuse hereto
fore lavished upon each other. Still we arc
not informed how this Funding bill is to be
carried out or who is going to give up volun-
tarily his six per cent bond for four per cent
one. However, it may answer the purpose Of
reconciling these radical leaders for the time.
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and he has accomplished his mission so far
most successfully. Never had China greater
benefactor. He has acted all through with
fixed purpose and with admirable discretion to
promote the interests of the government and
people who honored him with their conf
dence. At the same time he was fully
convinced his native country and the rest Of
the world must be benefited by his action.
The vast results of his mission can only be
seen in the future, though we may form some
idea of them. The treaty with the United
States gives to China the powerful moral sup
port of mighty nation. The party in power
in that country, favorable to foreign inter
course, represented by the reigning dynasty
and Prince Kung, will be strengthened
against the native rebels, and, as conse-
quence, will probably maintain its authority
England, France and the other Powers of
Europe will sooner or later have to follow the
United States in the liberal policy inaugurated
here Indeed, we have no doubt these Powers
will accept the treaty made here as the basis
of their future policy towards China. Though
an American, Mr.. Burlingame seeks no exclu
sive advantages for his native country. The
governments of Europe, seeing this and realiz-
ing the fact that the old throat policy of coer
cion must necessarily be at an end, will doubt
less act in concert with this great republic in
sustaining the integrity and progressive i'm
pulses Of China. The result will be vastly
enlarged trade with that empire and the intro
duction of railroads, the telegraph, steamboats,,
machinery, our superior implements of industry
and all the improvements and influences of our
Western civilization. Such are the pros
poets promised from this extraordinary and
unique mission. Having finished its official
business it will leave the United States in the
course of few weeks We shall watch its
progress in Europe and hope it may not be less
successful there.
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The NntiouuI Debt.

There is threatening cloud rising in tho
South and the spirit of rebellion is still active,
as the recent speeches of Wade Hampton
and other Southern leaders, who are seeking
to fire the Southern heart anew, abundantly
show. The perilous condition of affairs in
Tennessee, growing out of the conflict between
the Brownlow government and the disfran-
chised white population of the State, at the
same time adds to the dangers of the situation;
for we may hear of bloodshed there at any
time after the militia is called out. How far
the revolutionary signs of the tipes may
develop into more menacing proportions IL ID
premature at present to Indicate; but The
question occurs. what would DO tho result O.
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refused to grant an order upon application OF
Wright, Glies and James w. Gillies and against
William 8. Conc ana william Martin, to show cause
why the defendants should not be declared bank
rupts In the criminal term of the same court Judge
Blatchford decided that mortgage upon distlery,
given prior to seizure OF the premises for violation
OF the Revenue laws, did not exempt them from
seizure.
Charles Hartman and Ferdinand Sulzberger, con-
victed OF conspiring to defraud the revenue, ana
sentenced to Imprisonment Of ten days and to pay
fine Of 5000 EACH have had their fines RENTED by
the President.
The Inman line steamship City Of Paris, Captain
J. Kennedy will sail from pier As North river about
one O'Clock P. NJ tomorrow, August l, for Queens
town and Liverpool. The European mails win close
at the Post once at twelve o'clock NJ on the day Of
sailing.
International line steamship Pennsylvania, Captain
Hail. will leave pier At North river at two p NJ to-
morrow Saturday for Liverpool calling at Queens
town to land passengers.
The Anchor line steamship Columbia Captain
Carnaghan, will sail from pier 20 North river at
twelve NJ. tomorrow Saturday for Glasgow, touch
ing at Londonderry to land passengers
The sdewheel steamship Crescent City, Captain
Holmes, Of the Merchants line, will leave pier 10
North river at three P. N. on Saturday, August l,
for New Orleans direct.
The Black Star Independent line steamship Thames
Captain Pennington, will sail to morrow Saturday
from pier 10 North river at three p. M for Savannah
Ga.
The steamship San Francisco, Captain Deaken, will
sail from pier II East river at ten A. NJ tomorrow for
Sisal and Vera Cruz.
The stock market closed strong yesterday. Govern
ment securities were dull Gold closed at 144al q
1A7s
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SENATORS FROM GEORGIA. election to
the Senate of the United States of two con-
servatves by radical Legislature has queer
voting It Is an exceedingly good sign. If
these radical legislators can turn their backs
on the men who made them and act boldly for
the States and not for the carpet-baggers, It
will altogether change the face of Southern
politics. But there is yet doubt, we sup
pose, If the radical Senate will admit Hill, as
he was one of the Southern Representatives
who resigned his place in Congress to Ego with
his State"
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1t Is gratifying amid all the uncertainties Of
our immediate political future to know that tho
vast area Of the territory belonging to tho
United States and its immense fertility-thanks
to sunshine as well as to improved methods Of
alphabetically entit1e our claim to the pos
session of "a great country" Notwithssand-
ing the breadth Of territory over which our
late civil war extended, and the withdrawal OF
more than million of men from the producing
classes for employment in military service, L
is singular fact, which has attracted the at
tention of foreign students of our history, that
''the yield Of the great staples Of agriculture
continued to increase, and never were they
greater than in the last year Of the war;"
That the United States have gradually become
the granary of Europe is patent. Equally 80
is the fact that the population of the Eastern
and Middle States now rely mainly upon tho
Western States for wheat The rapid develop
ment of the shipments of grain from the West
is forcibly illustrated in the single case of the
city of Chicago. Prior to 1888 there was no
shipment of grain from that city, which in
that year exported in thirty nine sacks seventy
eight bushels of wheat; in 1862 nearly twenty
three million bushels were exported, and it is
now one of the greatest grain markets in the
world.
Everything seems to justify the recent pre-
diction of Western journal that the food crop
of the West-of corn and wheat more espe-
cially, the potato being below the average,
as the abstract Of the report of the
Commissioner Of Agriculture states
will be extraordinarily large during the
present season. Since 1860 there has not
been full crop. That of 1868 in Ohio
was only three-flfths of the crop Of 1860, and
that of 1866 fell thirty-fve millions short of the
crop of 1860. That of 1867 was better, but
that Of 1868 is estimated at 1,G95, 900, 600
bushels and if this estimate prove correct, as
it apparently will, 1--WE shall raise 366, 900, 600
bushels of breadstuffs more than in tho year
1850, the year before the war, and the most
favorable year we ever had" This prospect il
certainly encouraging. And when we add the
strong probability that at no distant period
California will become the great granary Of the
Pacific Ocean we shall be able to see how the
American people, if true to themselves and
worthy of their potential future, may prove
equal to the burden of supporting host of de-
vouring politicians, and at the same time to the
honor of developing national greatness COM
mensurate with the territorial greatness Of
their country.
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such a man as Blair becoming President OF
the United States2 Seymour is known
to be weak man, and some say the pro-
gramme is for Seymour to resign in the event
Of his election, so that Blair may follow the
fashion set by Andy Johnson and mount into
the executive chair. The Southern fre-eating
element would then be in the ascendant indeed,
and who knows what the party in power might
not accomplish? Would they not, among
other things be likely in their rebellious spirit
to try to punish those who furnished the means
for carrying on the war against rebellion by re-
pudiating the national debt3 The possibility of
such a contingency is Of interest to business
men, capitalists and the people generally, and
we suggest 1t merely in order that they may
stand prepared
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From the letters of our special correspon-
dents and from cable dispatches the readers of
the HERALD have been made aware of the fact
that Spain is in the agony Of another revolu-
tionary crisis. A late despatch informs us
that order is re-established and that peace
reigns over the country. 1t is the order that
reigned in Warsaw. 1t is the peacefulness of
death. In this case the revolution was not
permitted to take practical shape. If, how
ever, we are to judge of the character of the
Intended movement by the severity of the
measures adopted to defeat it, it must have
been more than ordinarily alarming. Such
Wholesale deportation Of marshals, generals
and officers of every rank Is something unusual
even for Spain; and the arrest and Punishment
of the Duke and Duchess of Montpenser lend
to what we may call the coup d6tat not only
European, but worldwide Importance.
Gonzales Bravo, the present Chief Minister of
Spain, who is admitted on all hands to be one
of the vilest and most unprincipled men who
ever ruled in any country, has accom-
piished deed which leaves even
the worst and most violent proceed
ings of Narvaez in the shade The
tyranny of Bravo may retain for Isabella q
little longer her tottering throne; but the
spirit of liberty is not easily killed. Weak as
it is in Spain, it still has life. Seventeen mil
lions of brave people, inhabiting one of the
finest countries on the face of the earth, with
resources practically unlimited, cannot forever
be held under the heel of the tyrant, no matter
how able he may be. 1t is difficult as yet to
get at the actual facts Of the case. That q
conspiracy of some kind existed may be taken
for granted. We are without any evidence
which in the slightest degree eliminates the
Queens sister and her husband. 1t is not
impossible that their principal offence con-
sists in the fact that they favorites with the
people, and that their continued presence in
the country was perilous to her Catholic
Majesty. Their Punishment may make them
more dangerous than ever. Spain is sick of
Isabella and her tools; but Spain as yet wants
that unity of purpose which makes a nation.
The tyranny of Bravo will not have been in
vain if it helps to create such unity. The
situati on at the present moment is full of
interest.
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FINE ARTS.

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL CHsoNr.-L. Prang s. Co., of
Boston, have just issued ancAher Of their exquisite
chromos. which for artistic 'trearmedt and genuine
resemblance to an oil painting las seldom II ever
been surpassed. It is entitlg,d "winter Land.
scape,n aud 10 truthful copy after j. Marviller. in
artistic skill and good Judgment and at q distance
IL would be hard to- distinguish II from the original
painting One could almost fancy while examining
Devn auivi Wy TIE brush.
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WAR RETALIATION IN HAYTI-Acting under
the rule of mutual murder lately agreed on
between the contending generals in HayH
thirty prisoners, surrendered and captured in
q little battle of the civil war near Jacmel,
have just been shot to death. The King Of
Dahomey frequently slaughters hundreds, the
difference arising from the fact that the King
has more of the raw material. The instinct is
inst the Same
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Seymour Of article fourteen Of the amendments
Of the federal constitution, now part Of the
supreme law of the land. If he will sign that
he will create the greatest political sensation
ever known In this country. And why uot'
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New York. Friday, July 81, 1868.
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Verbatim report, N. Y. Tribune April 80, 1861
Loud calls made for Gen. Grant, and that gal
liant officer was introduced by Mayor Hoffman. Gen.
Grant said that owing to the exhaustion which they
all felt after the entertainment given by his Honor
the Mayor they could not expect him to say anything
further" z-- -...- sce-r~~S
Speech at Niagara F0zs.
Report by the Herald, Sept 2, 1861
Loud calls for Grant !" My modesty compes me
to turn over that written speech to Mr. Hail. who will
deliver it for whenever it is written" Cheers and
laughter, d"
Speech to the Louisiana Delegation at Niagara Falls
Herald report Sept s. 1866
After leaving the President the Louisiana delega-
ton succeeded in securing Gen. Grant he smok-
ing cigar. After addressing him, and wrnging his
hands with frantic fervor the General made few
marks. He said that when be was in the vicinity of
Red river he always found the climate healthy, and
thought that it was pleasant place generally. He
stayed there altogether about fourteen months. The
first six months of the time only of their men died.
and these not from the insaubrity of the climate One
of them had his brains knocked out against tree and
the other quit drinking. The Louisiana delegation
laughed heartily at the joke at the close of the Speech
but the General exhibiting symptoms of losing patience
the delegation then retired whereupon he again re-
tspmed his cigar.
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| HARI-KARI EXECUTION following is the Letter
OF Commander Creighton, of the United States Navy
describing the harikar execution, witnessed by hin
at Hiogo, Japan:
the execution of the Japanese official Fati Zanzutaro
retainer of Matsdara Bizen-n koam, who ordered his
troops to tire on the foreigners this place on the
4th ult. This execution witnessed by me- at the
request Of Minister, Gen. R. B. Van Valkenburg
and is as follows
| left the Legation at about PM in company with
the officers attached to the Foreign Legations and pro
| ceeded to Hogo where were met by guard who
escorted us to the temple where the execution was to
take place.
There was large number Of people on each side of
the street leading to the temple and quite number
OF soldiers drawn up inside and about the temple We
were shown into room adjoining the japanese off
cias, where we were asked if wished to question
the person about to be executed which we answered
in the negative; they also took the names Of every
official present
After waiting about half an hour we were conducted
by the Japanese officials into what appeared to be the
principal room of the temple which lighted with
candies, and in front of the altar raised platform
OF ABOUT foot III height which extended across the
ROOM ana we were placed upon the right of the altar
WITHIN few feet of where the execution was to take
place, with the japanese officials on the left In front
of the altar green CLOTH and in front of that
red one; we were informed that the execution would
take place on the red CLOTH Seating ourselves upon
the mats on the PLATFORM we waited the execution.
In few moments the prisoner came in dressed in
the usual japanese dress OF person of rank accom-
panied by the executioner, who his pupil and most
intimate friend. He walked with steady firm step in
front OF the altar where be knet in prayer He then
arose and went to the red cloth where be knelt and
made the confession that he was the officer that Or
dered bis troops to fire upon the foreigners and also
to hre upon them when they trying to escape
and that be was sorry for what he had done.
He then disrobed himself to the waist and reached
out for knife that him. which he thrust into
his bowels and drawing it towards his right SIDE and
leaning forward at the same time, the executoner,
with one blow from his sword severed his head from
ms body. This occurred at about 1890 Pm. The
Japanese then bowed to the floor, on which We all did
the same We were then asked if we were satisfied
with what we had witnessed, when we replied in the
affirmative.
After the lapse of few moments, we were Informed
tlre.
The whole scene was one Of great solemnity, and
very impressive.
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France-Health of the ex-Empress of Mexico.

|
| The Paris Debats of June 8 gives some details rea
tive to the situation, mental and bodily of the ex-
Empress of Mexico, then in Paris 1t says:
The state of the Princess is still painful one
although it has certainly improved. Her reason CON
tinues to be deeply affected and if hopes are still en-
tertaIned OF her complete recovery foresee
the period at which it may take place The intellect
alone SUFFERS and that not continuously. On the
contrary the Empress frequently seems to have
cred all her faculties. At these times she speaks,
reads writes plays in the best periods of her life
Always melancholy, however, and taking delight in
reVertng to the past and in calling back her remins-
cences of Mexico and Italy, those about her at such
times that she is perfectly conscious of her depor
able history, that she is not ignorant of any of the
gloomy incidents which carried her husband off from
her. and that she clearly understands the great msfor
tune. Wemay say that in all other respects her health
has become excellent since her return to Laekcn,
where she resides in the almost constant companion
ship of King Leopold her brother and of Queen Ma
rle The chateau is spacious and magnificent resi-
dence surround by fine gardens and where everything
| contributed to calm her majesty's grief She lives
there in the midst of the memories of her childhood
and early YOUTH and every step she takes every thing
she touches, reminds her of her father and mother
and of the and tenderness which they bestowed
on her
The effect ofthese salutary impressions is augmented
by the incessant attentions of the King and Queen
The spectacle is admirable and touching one of
this royal family 80 united and subjected such cruel
trial. The Empress Charlotte has recently given two
strong proofs that she is conscious of her msortunes
Learning that the city Of Trieste about to erect
monument to the memory of the Emperor Maximian
and that the Emperor of Austria and the King of Bel
GUM had each given ten thousand forms, she also
contributed similar amount and on the late ami
versary of her husbands DEATH she sent to Vienna to
be placed upon his tomb there to remain in perpetu
ty, funeral crown in gold, first watering it with
tear Of unaffected grief.
The fortune of the Empress Charlotte has often been
spoken OF. Everything concerning this subject has
been settled by arrangements agreed to between King
Leopold and the Count de Fandre on behalf of their
sister and the Emperor of Austria heir and represen
atve of his brother Macmillan. In the name of the
Empress all stpulatons in the marriage contract ad
vantageous to her have been renounced and also eve
ry right which she might have claimed over the prop
erty OF her husband Her marriage portion alone re-
mains, and perhaps share in the Inheritance of the
King, her father, who died at Laeken on the 10th of
December, 1855. ..-@