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The New York herald., 1869-07-07

THE MAN FOR THE CHINESE.
movements are afoot for the introduction or
Chinese labor, in the South and Southwest, on
railroads, levees, cotton plantations, &C., and
the first thing needed, after the organization of
company, in view Of such labor and the de-
mand of the needful capital, is a competent
agent to go out to China for the laborers. Mr..
Cesare Moreno, at present residing in this
city, is well qualified for this business. He
has spent many years in China and the
Oriental nations thereabouts, and among the
islands of the great Indian archipelago, and
knows all about all those people. He is the
autocrat of an island in the Indian Ocean,
which he would sell TO the government for q
naval station. He is man of intelligence
and great experience in Asiatic affairs, and in
every way fully qualified to act in China a.
the agent of an American company in search
of Chinese laborers.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

THE NEGRO POSTMASTER AT MACoN.-The
arrest of Turner, the negro Postmaster at
Macon, Ga, for completely in stealing un-
signed Treasury notes at Washington and pass
ing them with forged signatures in the South,
is sad blow to the negrophilsts. Coming as
it does so soon on the heels of his appoint
ment, and before the accusations of a similar
character made against the Pennsylvania
colored appointee are forgotten, it will form a
text everywhere for the opponents of the
darky. We do not know whether it is the ma
ture of the colored citizen to steal, and that he
cannot help it, as some insist, or that he has
learned too much from the carpetbaggers and
white politicians he has associated with since
his emancipation. Be 1t which it may, we
advise Sambo to look sharp at those he puts
forward as his representative men in Office.
Stealing may be one of the qualifications for
that profession, but quickness at being found
out is not.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

The IRISH CHURCH BuL--The members of
the English House Of Lords have come down
from their class dignity and abated their sys-
tenn Of Senatorial obstruction to the progress
of popular reform very considerably. This is
prudent, even if not noble. The Lords are
after debating the clauses of the Irish Church
bill just like ordinary mortals, calmly and
critically, have passed the measure in COM
mittee. Private rights and corporate privi-
leges are cared for, while ecclesiastical
monopoly and episcopal and glebe lands
engagements find but few defenders. This is
as IL should be- Freedom in religion, with
every man to pay his own parson, will secure
peace in Ireland. Voting in support of such
remedy for the ills of the island may insure
the Lords longer lease of the law OF entail
in property.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07
The Spanish Regency.

In the HERALD of yesterday we printed q
long and able letter from the pen of our
special correspondent in Madrid. The letter
gives full and a very instructive account of the
political situation in that country, including
the installation of Marshal SerranO as Regent
of Spain and the popular estimate of the
regency.
spondent that the Spanish people are by no
means unit in the matter of the regency.
There are some who regard it with bitter
hostility. There are others who regard it as
te mporary expedient which may last six
months, but which can scarcely last longer.
The republicans are evidently dissatisfied,
and the scOrnfully eloquent speech of CASTELAR,,
with it's numerous and pungent historical refer
ences, will unquestionably echo and re-echo
over the length and breadth of Spain, awaking
in many cases memories not favorable either
to regency or monarchy.
1t is undeniable, however, that Serrano has
been pushed into this high position somewhat
against his will. No one, not even among
the ranks Of the republicans, has ventured to
impugn his motives Personal ambition, which
has frequently been charged upon Prim, has
never once been mentioned in connection with
the name of Serrano. His patriotism has been
unquestioned. He is the acknowledged chief
of a united party which represents the talent
and the respectability of Spain. The MAORI
ties which have voted for all the government
measures in the Cortes leave us no room to
doubt that the regency is fair expression Of
the sentiments of the most numerous, the most
thoughtful and the most respectable portion of
the Spanish people. The comparative in
difference which was manifested by some sec
tions towards the installation of the Regent is
no doubt to be explained on the ground that
many of the people, and these of all
| shades Of political sentiment, are of opinion
that the regencys is but a temporary arrange
mcnt preparatory to the enthronement of a
king 1t will not be a surprise to US If the re-
gency remains permanent institution. There
| must of course be an executive, by whatever
name named. In the absence of a king and
as the nation has declared in favor of mon
archy, the regency is just as good name az
| any other. The Regent is the elect of the
Cortes, and the Cortes is the elect of the
people. The Cortes can remove the Regent
at will, and the people can act upon the Cortes
promptly and with effect. II will be Just as
natural for the regency to become presi-
dency as to lapse into monarchy. If il works
well with Serrano it may last for many years
and furnish the world with new example of
| constitutional government.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07
The Postal Telegraph in England.

The British government has taken an in
portant step by annexing the telegraph service
to the Post Office Department and buying out
the interest of the we'll known Reuters Agency
for the sum Of some three millions and half
of dollars. The telegraph service is but
system of accelerated communication, and
should be placed under the same jurisdiction
as the Post Office. Moreover, it is but right
that such important services to the community
at large should be placed beyond the influences
of private speculation and competition. Most
of the European nations have adopted this
plan, and, in consequence, enjoy much cheaper
rates of transmission for messages and more
reliable administration than we can boast of at
present. The question has been sifted by
competent men, from reliable statistics, and
the result proves decidedly in favor of the
service being carried out by the government
At the present period, when really slime is
money" this question is all important, espe-
cially to the commercial world, and recent
events in connection with private undertakings
have proved that the service should be freed
from such letters. There is no reason why the
telegraph, If added to the Post Office and pro-
perly administered, should not in time become
the most important branch, and with an equi-
table scale of charges would doubtless soon
become conspicuous source of revenue. The
immense distances to be traversed between
our principal points of commercial interest
render this question Of more Importance to the
United States than any other nation in exist
ence, and call for immediate consideration.
Let Us prove that we are not only nation Of
inventors, but that we can also successfully
apply our inventions when made.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

wrested from us." This is plain and strong
speaking; but where do these opinions Of Mr.
Stockton stOps They carry US back to 1860
They cover not only the fifteenth amendment
establishing universal negro suffrage, but the
fourteenth, in reference to civil rights, the
national debt, the rebel debt &C., and the
thirteenth abolishing slavery; for they were
all carried by an enforced ratification upon the
unreoonstructed s ,uthern States. We know,
too, that it was General Frank Blair's letter
declaring all these reconstruction proceedings
Unconstitutional revolutionary, null and
void, that killed last years Tammany Presi-
dental ticket Of Seymour and Blair from the
start And that ought TO be the last OF this
question.
But there is still another point and incident
in Mr.. StOckton's speech deserving of notice.
In his reference to a recent decision OF Chief
sonian dogma of State sovereignty, our re-
porter assures us that there was a spontane-
GUS outbreak of applause in Tammany among
the small and the ''bg Indians" which was
the special incident of the days proceedings.
From this we infer that Mr.. Chase, as a strong
and thoroughly acceptable candidate for the
democracy, has gained hold among the rank
and file of the party which places him to-day
far ahead Of all other competitors, not except
ing Governor Hoffman.
Mayor Hall followed the regular orator of
the day, Mr.. Stockton, in one of his never
failing, facetious and pungent speeches. The
salient points of his somewhat discur and
miscellaneous remarks were these:-That ''the
Army of the Potomac is keeping alive the
embers of civil war" "a very suggestive re-
mark) that General Grant is responsible for
the lack of anything like practical sympathy
from the government for the Cubans, and that
we (the democracy must make an issue Of
this in the coming fall campaign; that, like
Andrew johnson, General Grant, before the
end of his term will be turned out of his party
and on account of his division of the spoils;
that ''four-fifths of what is said about
the Alabama claims is the sheerest
humbug in the world" that give the
democratic party chance and there will be
practical sympathy, and to some purpose, for
both Cuba and Ireland; that the democracy
expect something from the Virginia election,
and that in the fall they will be wide awake
in Pennsylvania and New York.
Thus it will bs seen that the powerful if-
teen-inch coumbiads-Cuba and the Alabama
claims-apparently neglected by the admins
tration, are to be turned in New York againstit it
this fall, and that mpractioable as are the views
of Senator Stockton ON reconstruction, the is
sues suggested by Mayor Hall are such as will be
apt, in the coming October and November
elections, to bring out the full strength of the
democracy against the demoralized and dis.
organizing republicans. If, as they say, it takes
something like defeat to wake up the ener-
gies Of General Grant, there is prospect
that he will be thoroughly reused by the COM
ing fall elections.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

THE PRESS IN INDIANA.-They have estab-
lished new system Of censorship Of the press
in Indiana. Our despatch from Terre Haute
shows how it works, policeman named
Erny having maintained running fire from
revolvers, with succession of smashers with
''billy," on the two editors and proprictors of
one of the city journals. One of the newspaper
men is mortally wounded. 1t is not stated
why the policeman acted in such fashion.
Most likely there was no cause to state
Fined ''two days pay"
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

THO Virginia Elecsioa-sis.s Of Decisive
Conservative Victory.
The returns so far received Of the election
in Virginia yesterday indicate . decisive con-
servative victory. The election embraced
first the ratification of the State constitution
adopted by the radical State Convention some
two years ago; secondly, the question of the
ratification of the fifteenth amendment Of the
federal constitution as required by Congress; /;
thirdly, Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
and State Legislature fourthly, members Of
Congress.
On the constitutional question, under the
authority of Congress, General Grant ordered
q separate vote on the rebel disfranchising
and one or two other clauses of the State con-
stitution before the people, and it is upon this
disfranchising clause that tho two parties
have been mainly divided. The radicals, in
ouding the bulk of the blacks, have fought
the battle for the constitution with this rebel
DISTINGUISHING clause, the conservatives for
the constitution without this obnoxious
clause The conservatives accept the
fifteenth amendment and the stua-
tion generally, the great issue being
the question Of rebel disfrauchsement.
Walker, the conservative candidate, is a mod
crate republican, and what is known as a car
pet-bagger-that is, Northern man. Wells,
the radical candidate, is also carpet -bagger.
The conservatives, it will thus be seen, have
accepted the new order of things, and have
undertaken, in good faith, to secure the State
on the terms laid down by Congress.
If, then, they have carried the State, in
cluding the enfranchisement of the hitherto
DISTINGUISHED rebels, they have the State
henceforward for long time to come, and 80
of the reign of the radical carpet-baggers
South we have here the beginning of the end.
General Grant, under the laws of Congress,
has given fair play in this contest, and, so far
as we have seen, he has not shown himself an
active partisan, and we presume will not be
seriously disturbed by Walkers election. AS
suming that Walker is elected and that his
party have won the State on the constitution
and the Legislature and on Congress, the re-
suits show how the whole South may be won
by the Southern conservatives, and how the
conservatives Of the North may in due time
sweep the country from New York to Califor-
mia. On this line, before they get to the end
of 1t, they may also find themselves in accord
with the administration. Who knows?
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

ASSOCIATED Press INTELLIG ENCE. THE
following is portion of despatch sent by
the Associated Press agent from San Francisco
yesterday. It refers to the trial trip of the
new air ship -
It is claimed that the present "Aritor'' IL not
criterion of success. The principle has been
developed. The scale of its machinery n 30
trininG-the engine and boilers weighing less than q
hundred pounds-that Its failure or success would
be matter Of no surprise.
Can any of our phiologsts solve that
pathological puzzle, sent to us over three
thousand miles of telegraph wire at fabulous
cnsf2
The New York herald., 1869-07-07
A Mormon Organ on Chinese Immigration-
Poor SambO.

The Salt Lake Ielegraph-Mormon organ
says the Mormons do not object to the influx
of the Chinese into California and Nevada, or
to any other part of the United States, to
settle; and as to John Chinamans devotions,
our Salt Lake contemporary shrewdly suggests
that the sectaransts should be really glad of
his saying his prayers to anything as long as
they were actually the prayers of his heart;
and as to his idols, if they are ''mean looking"
so,ne inventive Yankee will assist him in fur
thering his ideas of architecture for instance,
the affairs and interiors of some of the fashion
able churches of the present day would be
very appropriate. eyes" says our Mormon
friend, 'let him 60 where his inclination
prompts him, and if he is treated as his station
only demands, rest assured he will not en-
deavor to get seats in Congress, ask to be
appointed Minister to Hayti, Postmaster at
Macon, Ca, without any bondsman, or COM
nit outrages upon defenceless females" These
dagger thrusts at Sambo show how much he
is esteemed among the Mormons. What q
singular moral spectacle this whole question
presents. These Mormon people, raised In
this country in many instances among profuse
negro population, prefer the influx of the Asiatic
element even into their own settlements to
that Of the blacks. The fact is Sambo and
Dinah have been getting along little too fast
in this country within a very few years past to
suit the interests of any class of people. In
the end the blacks, as laborers, will find them
selves crushed between thu upper and neither
millstones--the Irish, German and other Euro
peans on one hand, and the Chinese and other
Asiatic immigrants on the other. Even the
once despised Mormons do not come to the
rescue of the negro, now clothed in all the
glory a state of freedom can confer upon him.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

Tnmmany Hall ON the Next Presidency
The Plans and Hopes Of the Democ-
racy.
Tammany Hall is power in the land. The
city tax levy Of twenty odd millions is enough
to show it for Tammany rules the city, and
the city has become strong enough to carry the
State, and the State is the mainstay of the
democratic party of the United States Hence
the outgvings of Tammany on the political
situation mean something. Accordingly the
party views, doctrines and hints thrown out
from Tammany on the ''glorious Fourth" are
entitled to special attention, foreshadowing, as
they do, the present position and future course
of the irrepressible democracy.
First, then, after a solemn, a very solemn
ode from De Witt Van Buren-and there is a
poet among the Van Burens, as there have
been statesmen, politicians, wits and phoso-
phers-after poem from Van Buren, calling
us to
Look where broken laws neglected oaths and shat
tered States proclaim
The triumph Of the hollow heart, the glory OF its
shame,
Judge Garvin proceeded to the nomination of
Governor Hoffman as the democratic candi-
date for President in 1872, and at the same
time defined his platform. The learned Judge
in the course of his remarks said :-s'But the
day will come-when the soldier who now
occupies the White House, when his term of
Office shall expire-that we will send to be
President man from the city of New York, by
the aid of the votes of the people of this great
country, who will do honor to that position,
and who will demand atonement from England
and from Spain for the terrible outragea
which they have perpetrated upon this
country" all of which was received with
enthusiastic applause. Having thus cleared
the ground for Governor Hoffman and his
foreign policy to the satisfaction of the assem-
bed sachems, another step was taken touching
our domestic affairs in foreshadowing the
democratic programme for 1872.
Senator Stockton, of New Jersey. was
| assigned to this important duty and dis
| charged it with the ability of a regular old
| time democratic constitutional expounder
| He took the ground that from the mode
adopted by Congress of enforcing upon the
late rebel States the condition precedent o.
the adoption Of the fifteenth constitutions
amendment, establishing universal manhood
suffrage of all colors, the ratification of thii
amendment will be null and void, "and the
attempt to enforce it revolution" Speakiu,
of the States required by law to adopt il Mr.
Stockton said These States are deprive,
Of a free vote. They are to be coerced to
vote that alters the constitutions of the United
States and of New Jersey fundamentally,
and 81 pronounce it violence and revolution
| He further said that ''the question of VIII
votes and who does not vote sinks into irsg
nificance compared with the Fundamental
alteration of our system Of government whicl
is proposed, and the fraud and violence b.
| which our home born liberties are " b
The New York herald., 1869-07-07
Wtrc Traaways-TAc Now sysso@
TRANSPORTATION.

Considerable interest is being awakened in
England in new system of transportation for
short distances and in places where railroads
are not applicable, by what is called a wire
tramway, providing simple and cheap sub
stitute for line of rails. An endless wire
rope Is suspended on a series of pulleys,
which are carried on posts like those of the
telegraph. Boxes are hung on this rope by
pendant which is ingeniously arranged to pre-
serve perfect equilibrium, and ut the same
time to pass without hindrance over the sup
ports. The motive power is supplied by
small stationary engine, the wire rope running
round drum, and the boxes carry from one
hundred to six hundred pounds of merchan-
disc. 1t is stated that wire tramway,
capable Of transporting fifty tons day, with
the necessary motive power and rolling stock
can be constructed for two hundred and fifty
pounds per mile, and one thousand five
hundred pounds per mile would build one
equal to the transportation Of one thousand
tons per day, at speed Of six miles an hour
The experiment is now being prosecuted with
shire stone quarries and railway station
three miles distant, and several on the same
model are said to be in course of erection in
France, Italy and Spain The most important
point in the invention is the method of passing
the points of support, which consists in so
curving the frame Of the truck box as to
make the centre of gravity come under the
rope. So admirably is this managed that
prominent engineers are now discussing the
possibility of constructing wire tramway be-
tween Dover and Calais. Such an invention
will find multitudinous forms Of application in
this country, and ingenious engineers will, no
doubt, soon be pushing it upon public atten-
ton, basing its claims to favor upon its cheap
cost. We see no reason why the grain ele
vators of New York should not be permanently
connected by this style of carrier with those of
the West.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

A FLANK MOVEMENT ON THE ADMINIsTRA-
TTON-That proposed by Mayor Hall in Tam
many Hall on Cuba and the Alabama claims
in our approaching November election. Old
Tammany has the fuel and is firing up, and
the track seems to be clear through to Buffalo.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

JUST LIKE THEM.-The slippery democratic
organ which last fall, in the crisis of the
battle, proposed to dismiss General Frank
Blair on account of his disastrous pronuncia-
msento declaring the Reconstruction laws Of
Congress unconstitutional, revolutionary,
null and void, the very same organ now finds
the same views from Senator Stockton worthy
of lauding 10 the skies.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

THE GROWTH OF OUR CTY.-We publish
this morning an interesting review Of the
growth and development Of our city, which
we commend to the careful study of every
reader concerned in the prosperity of thegreat
metropolis Of the New World.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07
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Two STRINGS TO HER Bow. .-Tammanv
Hall, with her two candidates for the next
Presdency-Hoffman and Chase. Where is
Pendletone aud what say the Ohio de-
mooraoy2
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

TExAs, with her luxuriant fields and bound
less herds, must follow the example of Vir-
ginia, and, when her time comes, go in like a
prairie on fire for Hamilton and the conserva-
i've h0ket.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

BAD FOR ALL THE SOUTHERN CARPET
BAaaERs-The Virginia election. II tells them
that their reign is over and their time has
emma
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

VIRGINIA FIGHTS IT Our ON GRANTS LINE. -
All honor to Grant for his second Appomat-
tox victory
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

Now FOR MISSISSIPPI Mississippi must fol-
low in the wake of Virginia, and roll up vote
like spring freshet for the conservative can
didates
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

cur! Ur! Ur|-All the boys for the con-
sessAiAss victory ia Virginia,
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

GRANT AHEAD ONCE MORE. Virginia ac-
knowledges the wisdom of his generous policy.
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Prominent Departures.

General Devereau, General Stanton General Bar.
mum, General Carl, for Baltimore; General Robin.
son, for Binghamton Colonel J. Robinson, for Bos-
ton Captain Schaler. for California; Count d'Aers.
chot, for Sharon Springs; General Pearson, for Bos
ton and General Hamlin. for Bangor, Me. Mr. ID. ID.
Howard and family, will leave to-day on the Russia
for Europe.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

BowERY THEATRE, Bowery.-JAOK sHErrAED-
BRIoKLAYKRs Oh LAMBETH
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

GRAND OPERA HOUSE. corner Eighth and
3gd street.--OLIvER TWIST.
The New York herald., 1869-07-07

ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.