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thoroughfares, and how, towards nightfall,
easy and rapid access may be had by
two hundred thousand people to their homes
from their places of business. The various
topics upon this important branch of our mar
vellously growing city, including the opening
of new and the extension of old streets, the
underground and overground railways, &C.,
are handled with judgment, accompanied by
sagacious recommendations. All that the
Mayor thinks necessary to be done in order to
accomplish necessary improvements is, to use
the language of President Lincoln on former
occasion, for the city government to ''peg
away" That is good peg upon which to
hang the growth of the city, provided our City
Fathers adopt it.
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INDIAN AFFAIRS. President Grant has
issued q series of rules for the regulation Of
Indian affairs and the general conduct of that
department. These rules are binding for the
present, both on the Bureau and the members
of the commission appointed by the Execu-
tive, under the authority Of the new law, to
cooperate with it, The President is specific
and minute In his detail of duty. II is to be
hoped the Indians will experience benefit from
his solcitude.
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NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.-THK SPECTACULAR
OF SISBAD THE SAILOR.
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on the three year.odn race there was but one
pool sold and this gave Major Barker so much work
that ne was glad TO leave It, Glcngary brought $25;
. Lexington colt $40; InveruHas. IS, and the 1eld
Tor &2o. The field included vespucius Hanover.
Legatee, Onyx aud Colonel +.
On the selling race there was but one pool sold ana
but three horses named as entered. The prices
brought were Bolster, t26; Flora McIvor. s22 and
Uberon. 40.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty.
fourth stree.-LA PERlcHoLE.
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BowERY THEATRE, Bowery.-IxIoS-THR ARTFU
DODGER-
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

wALLAcK's THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street =
MOTHER HUBBARD.
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WOODS MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth stree. an
Broadway.-Afiernoon and evening Performance.
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The ied. according 10 the pool slate, comprised
II. u. Connolly, Red Dick and Vney.
wEsTCuRsTER CUP.
In tho noos for this race Lancaster was the favor
ito rom the start Although there were nineteen
entries on the printed programme thero we're but
six named on the pool slate Inc principal pools on
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That is a very just and reasonable suggestion.
The Department of Public Charities and
Correction comes in for complimentary word
from the Mayor. AS evidence that our city
is progressing in more than one respect IL is
recommended that new city prison be i'm
mediately constructed, as the present one is
disgrace to the city.
Tho Mayor states that there are two hundred
and twelve miles Of streets in the city, of which
eghty-one miles are in block and five miles
in wooden pavement. The Nicolson pavement
has not been found reliable except in side
streets. The Stowe pavement (wooden) and
the Fisk concrete pavement are commended
the former having been tried with success in
San Francisco and the latter in Paris and
other Continental cities.
The miserable quality of street light Is re-
ferred to, with recommendation that the city
become Independent of the gas companies by
adopting other modes of obtaining light. An
interesting experiment In regard to artificial
light is mentioned as having occurred in the
Tuileries in the presence of the French En-
peror.
The Mayor thinks the streets could be kept
in better condition If the taxpayers would con-
sent to pay proper sum for 1t. This is an
open question.
The great subject Of city improvements at-
tracts large amount Of che Mayors attention
He goes over the whole ground, paying parti-
cular attention 10 two main points, namely
How 70 prevent in the daytime the chokings Of
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Spain and the CarIists.

A cable despatch informs us that the Carlist
trouble has not yet ended in Spain. We have
al along known that the Church was on the
side Of legitimacy and absoutism Don Carlos
is the representative Of both. 1t appears now
that the Church party has taken an active part
In some OF the recent risings. The govern
ment has in consequence taken severe mea-
sures. A decree has been promulgated order
ing bishops to recommend to the. priests of
their respective dioceses obedience to the
laws, and threatening to deprive all who prove
refractory of the right to preach and to hear
confessions. This is severe, but Il is right
and proper. If the Church goes beyond its
own sphere and intermediates with politics II
cannot blame the government for taking a
similar liberty. This decree means open
war between Church and State. Il is difficult
to predict what may be the immediate conse-
quences; but it is not difficult to see that the
Church in the long run must yield. In all the
Catholic countries--in Italy, in Austria, in
Spain, In Portugal-the Church, must take q
subordinate place. A free church within q
literally constituted civil society is all that
any church can now hope to be. The DAYS Of
Romish supremacy are ended.
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The Decadeuce of Our Watering Places.

The Decadcnce Of Our Watering Places.
The fact can be no longer doubted that the
watering places this summer have been COM
parative failure. For some years past the
number of visitors has been gradually declin-
ing, but this year it appears to have reached
the minimum 1t is true that Fashion still
makes an effort to maintain her dominion on
the old-time theatres whore she was accus-
toned to be worshipped with an almost insane
fanaticism and it is true, also, that invalids
and hypochondriacs still hasten to the mineral
Observation-Disclosures, sulphur and magnesia-
just as the victims of old sought the pool of
Bethesda, to cure all their ills. But there is
decided falling off, even in the most favorite
resorts, such as Saratoga and Long Branch,
although the decay of watering place excite
ment is perhaps less visible at these two points
than elsewhere. This may be accounted for
in measure by the pecularities which they
possess. Nowhere on our coast does the
Atlantic roll in more superbly nor present a
more boundless horizon of sky and water
than at the Branch. The waters Of Saratoga,
which, in their aggregate capacity, are pre-
sumed to be a panacea in fact to embrace
cure for all the disorganizations of the human
constitution, can be found nowhere else on
this Continent, and hence, for these reasons,
to say nothing Of the Presidential ovations at
the Branch and the excitement of the races at
Saratoga the decrease of visitors is not 30
great.
II we were to trace out the causes why our
watering places have not been very extensively
patronized this season we might find them first
in the lateness and unusual cold and wet of the
summer, the whole month of June and nearly
the whole of July having passed over without
that accelerating motive power which drives
people from the cities, namely, high Their
mometer and an oppressive atmosphere, and
next to the fact that summer season at the
watering places is found to be very expen-
sive luxury for people Of family, and that hotel
life In the country is regarded by many as
bore, and not much conducive to comfort.
Hence great number of people prefer to visit
Europe during the summer, finding upon close
calculation that it does not cost any more
money to see the Old World, while the variety
is infinitely greater and the results thousand
times more satisfactory. In all these facts can
be found the reasons why our watering places
and other summer resorts during the present
season are not in as fourshing condition as
usual, and probably may not be again, until
some greater attractions are offered and q
| good many reforms adopted.
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white men-to give their political acts sub
stance and reality. Hence came republican
platforms so purged of the offensiveness of
radicalism that Southern democrats could
stand upon them without loss of caste OF loss
Of self-respect; and hence also came demo-
cratic utterances that were not mere repeti-
tons of the old secession gabble nor even
echoes of the Northern copperhead press.
Thus was gained ground of much Importance
between the men who could put the Southern
States in satisfactory relation with the general
government and the men who could really
secure the voices of the people. From coali-
ton between these everything was to be ex-
pected, and everything came. No other party
has any standing in the presence of the one
thus formed. Radicals Of the savage sort,
who thought that all depended on an appeal to
the hatred of the nigger-the stronger the
better-are swept out Of sight, and the rabid
Southerner who wants to have the war over
again is buried as effectually as he was in a
Confederate bombproof during the war. In
the slaughter of these extremes is the best
security that reconstruction will take no back
ward steps.
What effect will these Southern events have
on parties in the North? 1t seemed at one mo-
ment as If they were to be tremendously dis
astrous to the republicans by leading Northern
democrats to act on the shrewd example of
their Southern fellows Witness the nOmina-
ton OF Rosecraps by the democrats in Ohio
Fancy the copperheads seeing some good in
the hero of Stone river. What a chapter of
party history is there! There was a similar
tendency in Pennsylvania, but the good i'm
pulse to nominate Hancock failed of it's point;
for Mr.. Packer is very rich, and a rich man is
a wonderful thing in Pennsylvania. Even
despite the suspicion with which the country
very justly regards everything that now comes
before it in the name of democracy, it is i'm
possible not to see that if the democrats should
make their appeal on such names as Hancock
and Rosecrans-names that guarantee the
grand points of patriotism and answering
fidelity to the national unity-they would ser-
ousy trouble the republicans in all the great
States. Indeed, this possibility, in view of
what has just taken place in the South, has
thrown the republican leaders into no little
alarm. They are in semi-demoralized state
with the consciousness that their party has in
a great degree lost its affinity with the popular
will, and the fall elections in the great States
must be over before any man can be certain
that they have not abundant cause for their
uneasiness.
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The Southern ElectiOns-The Middle Amous
the Republicans.

The result of the elections in Virginia and
Tennessee makes material change in the
political positions of those States, and there is
promise that it may do much more. There
was common difficulty in nearly all the
Southern States. Democracy was so bred in
the bone of the people that despite the suffer-
ings brought upon them by their faith in its
many cheats any ticket that bore only the
name of democracy could carry the day even
with niger suffrage in full operation. But
what use could be made of such victories?
Representative chosen by democratic votes
were certain to be refused admission to Con-
gress for good reason or a bad one. Consti-
tutions made by democrats would not be looked
at by the men of the party dominant in the
national councils. Either the men that demo-
cratic victories put in power in the Southern
States, being mostly small creatures, could not
for fear of inconsistency make any terms
with the party in power at the capital,
or the men at the capital, small creatures
also, would not treat with the democrats
Democratic victories were an obstacle, and
democrats themselves saw that, to make any
advance, they must consent not to assert their
power. They consented to play they were
dead, in order that they might get constitu-
tons, governments and their places in Con-
gress by radical triumphs. But even then
the event was not satisfactory. Radical victo.
ries were secured by niger votes-and the
| votes OF horde of political vuitures cast out
! by the North-and they were shams as the
| wboie country saw and felt. Every Southern
election, therefore, resulted either In the choice
of governments worse than Useless, because
Congress would not recognize them, Or
| governments that had no respect from the
country, because they were shams not chosen
! by the people and not representing the people,
| That difficulty is at an end now. It was in
evitable that sooner or later the true shirt oil
the politician would come into play-the spirit
! that looks upon all party relations, positions
and platforms as good only so far as they tend
| to secure success. Democrats saw that thew
must abate their ancient extremity and
| acknowledge all the results of the war 30 far
as it should be necessary to induce republicans
Of moderate type to act with them, that they
might not be forever shut out in the cold and
republicans saw that they must secure the &C
| cession Of democrats-that is, Of Southern
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Secretary Fish Defining His Position.

Secretary Fish Defining His POsItion.
The Secretary of State defines his position
on the Cuban question very freely and fully in
our special correspondence which we published
yesterday from Garrisons. He tells us what
the views and feelings of the administration
and Of the individual members of it are with
regard to the Cuban struggle for independence
and the ultimate destiny Of Cuba. He gives
us also an insight of the schemes and lodges
of the Spanish Minister 10 make the United
States government an instrument in support
ing Spain and against the patriot Cubans
He explains, too, the ground our government
took for seizing the Spanish gunboats, and
makes very good case. In all this and in
favoring the public with such an explanation
Of the position the government occupies on the
Cuban question Mr.. Fish shows his good sense.
But more than that, he is inspired with vigor
and determination which we hardly expected
to see in him. Still he manifests uneasness
at the Impotence of the public, and makes
lengthy plea for the tardy action or
want of action on the part of the govern
ment in favor of Cuba. His conservatism
is excessive, for in his zeal to make the United
States appear very respectable in the eyes of
the world he may lose sight Of the opportunity
to accomplish an important object. He may
let the suitable time for carrying out great
national policy pass by, and be the indirect
cause of unnecessary bloodshed and ruinous
devastation in Cuba.
If the neutrality which he proclaims to be
his policy between Spain and the Cubans be
enforced, that will be an important step, and
would amount to quasi recognition of the
belligerent rights of the Cubans but if Spain
can buy arms and other munitions Of war in
this country and ship them freely to Cuba, and
the Cubans cannot, that is q one-sided sort of
neutrality. Non-intervention, he says, will be
the policy Of the administration until the pro-
visional government of the patriots of Cuba
manifests signs of national existence. Are
not these signs manifest enough already? We
think that the people of this country would
respond Eyes with singular unanimity. All
great governments strain point in such cases
when the national will urges it and where ma
tional interests and policy are in question.
Much as we commend Mr.. Fish's Outspoken
language and views and the action he has
taken 80 far, we fear his excessive cOnser-
vatism amounts to causeless timidity. 1t is to
be hoped, however, that the government will
not let the cause of Cuba and republican
liberty suffer by any unnecessary delay in
formally recopniZiDp the Cuhans "a hp1lipp-
rents or the independence of Cuba
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The Central and South American

The Central and South American Jews.
The news from Central and South America
is, with one exception, of the usual unsatis-
factory character. The exception we allude
to is Chile, the most successful and progressive
of all our Southern neighbors. The Mexican
frontier bordering Guatemala is suffering from
Indian depredations. The Indian inhabitants
of two or three towns there have risen in in
surrection against the whites, murdered the
principal inhabitants, and, after obtaining re-
Inducements from other points till they num-
bered ten thousand, engaged, though unsuc-
cessfully, with the government forces. But
though thus routed the depredations they
continue to commit make them a source
of terror to the whole frontier. From Mica
ragua we learn that the rebellion there is still
formidable. A French company is about to
commence work on a canal through that terri
tory, connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific,
the republics Of Nicaragua and Costa RIGA
having wisely granted the company all the
privileges and guarantees they demanded.
Had the republic Of Colombia acted in the
same liberal spirit towards our government
when we proposed to cut canal through the
Isthmus Of Panama such project as this
would never have been contemplated.
From Peru, the chief theatre of last years
destructive earthquakes, we hear of another
severe shock of earthquake felt at Iquigue.
The volcano Of Isluga is in constant action,
and partly from this and from other prognosti-
cations the inhabitants apprehend with terror
such another tidal wave and earthquake as
spread ruin in their course last year. In Ecua-
dor earthquakes are repeatedly felt all along
the coast, and, though less severely, in the in
terror. Civil war still RACES there, and trials
by court martial and the severest military des-
potism have usurped the place Of the govern
ment. Civil war, insecurity to life and pro-
perty and military instead of civil rule check
the spirit of commerce throughout these coun-
tries and retard that era of prosperity which
they might reasonably hope for under a firm
and just government.
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SOMETHING tight and short, not lower than
the knee, and claspiag the figure with equal
grace and irmness." This Is description of
the ladies' bathing dress just coming to the
light In France: Consider the effect Of all this
with water.
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AUSTRIA TO FRAScE.-The speeSsse Of Baron
beust to the members of delegation OF TIE
Austrian Legislature, as reported by the French
Atlantic gable, is of much importance when
taken in connection with the present condition
and political relations of the great Powers Of
Europe, at home and with respect TO each
other. The Premier, if correctly reported,
has made most decided move to draw Austria
still more completely from Germany and bind
her more closely to France. He indicates,
indeed, the approval of Franco Austrian
alliance, which, If perfected, will be likely to
evolve momentous consequences in the Old
World.
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Turkey and Egypt-The Prospect Of Peace.
The news from Constantinople shows that
the difficulty between the Sublime Porte and
the viceroy Of Egypt is in fair way Of being
peacefully settled. This is the result of the
firm attitude Of the great Powers Of Europe.
War in the East at !AIs tne could not be per-
mitted. Too many grave complications affect
ing foreign nations as well as Turkey and
Egypt are involved. That part of the world
is really under the protection of Europe,
though nominally Turkey is independent and
Egypt has an Independent. government, The
movement of formidable British squadron
from Naples to Malta, to be joined by the At
lantic squadron, together with the fleets of
France and of other Powers in the Mediterra-
mean, will keep the peace between Abdul Aziz
and Ismail. The latter will go to CONSTANT
nople, it Is said, and there make explanations,
and the former will be satisfied: So will end
for the present, probably, the diiacuity in the
East. But this can only be a temporary set
Element. The future OF Egypt, In consequence
of the Suez Canal and the new empire that
must grow up there, will lead In time to other
and more serious complications. However,
sufficient for the day Is the evil thereof, and
the European world may rejoice that war is
likely to be averted for the present.
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uNRuLY.--In Ecuador the Executive has
been invested with extraordinary powers to
quell threatened disturbances, but "essth-
qnakes continue to be felt"
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THE EMPRESS EUGENE AND THE UNITED
STATES. -Rumor has it that the Empress
Eugene this season or next intends to max
visit to the United States. From the fact that
she intends leaving Paris for her Eastern tour
on the oath inst. the chances are against our
seeing her on this Continent this year. The
proper time for her to visit us is when we have
put on our summer attire and gone to dissipate
at Saratoga, Newport, Long Branch and the
other ''baths and wells" of the New World.
If she makes up her mind to come we promise
hef in the name Of the American people, a
hearty welcome. We do not care much for
royalty for its own sake; we do not set much
value upon it but we like to look upon its
representatives. If she comes during the
summer season, when our watering places are
gayest, she will see much gallantry and more
beauty than can be found in q belle France.
Come when she may she win find that we
know how to entertain an illustrious guest,
and France and the Emperor will have fresh
proof that we have not forgotten our earliest
friend and ally.
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BRoKRN.-The United States authorities
have been about to break ground this great
while for the construction of the new Post
Office, and at last this breaking is actually
done. The first spades went into the soil
yesterday. As the line drawn includes the
lower angle of the Park we suppose the COM
mission was not able to arrange with the city
authorities for The change OF site.
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THAT BRAKEMAN who, seeing the immnence
Of collision at point where two railroads
cross, uncoupled his cars and slowed the latter
end so as to make a gap that the train on the
other track passed through, ought to be en-
couraged.
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FoRBRs.-Mr. Forbes, Of Boston, = "a maor'd'
it seems, and wants to buy Cuba. Spain has
refused to sell Cuba to the United States, but
Forbes thinks she may sell it to him, and ~con-
Times his negotiations" What does Forbes
want of Cuba, and will he take II to Boston
bay II he gets it? Who il Forbes?