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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01

| french C0Dic-IUOuern frO8rcSe-Vno
| Position OF the United States.
! The French Atlantic cable makes satisfac-
| tory progress. In day or two the Great
| Eastern will be off the banks of Newfoundland,
! and sooner than we expect the connection will
| be complete between St. Pierre and Brest A
miserable, narrow-minded set of monopolists
| may for time prevent the landing of this
| cable on the territory of the United States;
but no monopoly, no power in the United
States, no power in the world can perma-
nently stand in the way of progress, and pro-
gress insists on landing this cable on our
shores. 1t is useless otherwise, and the COM
mon sense Of the people of the United States
will not allow this great enterprise, with which
their own future prosperity and greatness are
SO much identified, to end in failure. We can
not have too many cables. The more the
| merrier, and the better too. Ten years hence
| it will not be wonderful if more than a dozen
cables bind Europe and America together.
| Portugal and Spain and Germany will become
rivals of England and France in this matter,
and as we cannot lose, but gain, by such en-
terprise, it is our duty to give every encour-
| agement to those who by steam or electricity
| multiply our connections with the Old World.
This fresh attempt to annihilate distance and
time is richly suggestive. 1t is another of
the many indications which every day is fur
nishing that ours is the central Continent,
and that the centre Of our Continent is the
United States. Two cables connect US with
| Great Britain. In few years these will be
found insufficient for the manifold require
ments Of public and private business Great
Britain has, besides, her almost countless
lines Of steamships, which keep up almost
daily communication between the two CONT
nents. France, under the inspiring genius of
| Napoleon has become envious of British supe-
| riority in this direction. France has, in con-
sequence, established her line of steamboats,,
which have been largely successful aud
| France has now so far put in execution her
purpose to have telegraphc as well as a
steamboat connection with the centre OF the
New World. Germany has her numerous
steamboats, on the same pathway. These are
sure to increase in number, and German
/
tant day is destined to be the first Power in
Europe On different pathways Spain and
Portugal have been successful in establishing
steam communication with the New World
A cable connection between Lisbon and Rio
Janero may be regarded as a probability in
the early future. Spain, if she were out of
her trouble, would be found as eager as any
of her neighbors to be in electric communica-
ton with her many children on the American
Continent North and South. simultaneously
with this European eagerness to benefit by the
New World, and chiefly with the United States,
we find the tide of civilization turned, and Asia,
which in all past time has sent her hordes
westward, is now, in spite Of the mighty
waters sending them eastward. BY our late
war we commanded the attention of the
world. Our success In that struggle eli
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01

The GREAT DEoLINRR.-From his repeated
refusals Of the Presidency, the democratic
nomination for which he at last accepted.
Horatio Seymour has been called the Great
Decliner. But this title will avail him no
longer. Miss Anna Dickinson is said to be the
heroine Of two hundred destinations of matri-
mony, and ''the cry is still they come" and
is the Great Decliner; but, as there is no
accounting for the ways of politicians or
women, she may, like HOratio, accept at last.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01
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OF THE New YORK HERALD, No. las Fulton street,
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ADVERTISEMENTS and SUBSCRIPTIONS and all
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01

THE TEMPERANCE MONUMENTAL NEW PARTY
IN THE FIELD.-The temperance people of
Maine have come out as an independent party
and have put forward N. G. Hickborn as their
candidate for Governor, with an evident deter
mination to eight 1t out on this line." This
may prove to be the beginning of an important
diversion from the republican party. Made
up originally of the scattered fragments of the
old wing and democratic parties, all the isms
of the North were fused into it on the great
issue of the abolition of slavery. Now, slavery
being abolished and negro equality being
substantially established, the isms are going
back to their old notions, such as labor reform,
women's rights, temperance, &c. And so the
temperance radicals of Maine are out as an in
dependent party, and their brethren in several
other States are moving in the same direction.
They are all to meet in National Temperance
Convention on the LIST of September at Chicago,
when there will perhaps be national organi-
cation proclaimed for the abolition of whiskey
drinking. This is tougher job than the
abolition of slavery; but we suspect that it
will contribute to abolish the present dominant
party.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01

George Briggs.

This gentleman died at his summer residence In
Saratoga at O'Clock yesterday, in the sixty fifth
year Of his age Mr.. Briggs was born In Fulton
county, Of this State, during the year 1905. While no
was boy Of eight years of age his parents moved
to Vermont taking HIM with them. There he was
educated and engaged in agricultural and mercau-
tile pursuits for several years. ain 1887 he was elected
a member Of the lower House Of the Vermont Legis.
lature, serving one term, at the end Of which he
removed from the State and returned 70
New York, taking up his residence In this
city. Engaging in the hardware business he
soon amaSSed large fortune and became prominent
in political circles. In 1s4S he was candidate on
the wing ticket for Congress- from the Fifth district.
embracing the Eighth Ninth and Fourteenth wards
of this city, and was elected by plurality vote In
consequence Of the great split that year between the
Van Buren, and other factions OF the democracy. the
vote standing 5,627 for Mr.. Briggs and g. 1873 divided
between his opponents, Spencer Walsh and Has.
brOuck. 1t was this year Qs4s) that Of the thirty
carried thirty.twO. At the expiration OF his term he
was reelected by majority OF about 300 In 1852 the
year famous for the final overthrow OF the wings,
Mr.. Briggs declined a denomination nor did he re-
turn to public life again until 1858, when he was
again elected to Congress as an Independent candi-
mttee on Revolutionary Claims He does not
appear to have allied himself to any political or.
ganiZati0n after the disruption OF the whlg party,
but in 1865 was delegate to the Philadelphia
National Union Convention, showing that he was
very conservative in his political principles. As
high position. He was much esteemed by oil who
knew him for those traits Of character which mako
a man worthy OF estimation His many friends will
h ear OF his death with profound regret
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TRIPLE HE E T
Now York, Thursday, July 1, 1869.
MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS.

The DAILY HERALD VIII be sent to subscribers
for one dollar month.
The postage being only thirty-1ve cents o
quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement
Can receive the HERALD at the same price it is
furnished In the city.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01

England KeepiEs Sharp Lookout.
We perceive from some comments Of the
English press on the reported departure from
this port Of Cuban flbustering expedition or
two that John Bull is keeping sharp eye on
American neutrality. The London Star, for
instance, says of this country that ''her
neutrality laws must be thoroughly and effect
lively enforced or she will lose the hold she has
gained on public opinion, which insures the
fair consideration of the Alabama claims"
Is it there We areP But, eeain 'The de-
parture n eight hundred men from New York
harbor, we are told, ''appears to be an infrac-
ton of neutrality just as fragrant as the escape
of the Alabama, and which could have been
more easily prevented" This is, indeed, beg
ging sthe question. But it will not do. The
activity of the government in enforcing
neutrality in reference to Cuba is and has
been that Of extraordinary zeal in behalf Of
Spain. Mr.. Fish is quite as earnest and vigi-
liant in this business as was Mr.. Seward in
arresting and breaking up the Fenian move
ments for the invasion of Canada, and evil
IDENTIFY for the same object Of avoiding a
charge of British neutrality.
The simple truth is that if our government
still withholds the recognition of belligerent
rights from the Cubans it is because it does
not wish to spoii. those Alabama claims by
following England's tempting example. Mr..
Fish no doubt expects to get Cuba in some
other way; for otherwise he would not be so
careful in avoiding the opening of any loop
hole of escape to England on those Alabama
claims The British government may depend
upon it that If the administration at Washing
ton contemplates the purchase Of Cuba it also
calculates upon making England, on those
Alabama depredations, foot the bill. Other
wise there would be neither sense nor purpose
in the present rigid neutrality policy Of General
Grant
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The managers must have reckoned on the
natural reaction Of the public taste from the
sparkling nonsense of French opera 6owfs and
from Shakspearian tragedies, inasmuch as they
now largely depend upon Tennyson and Dick
ems, the 'Arabian Nights" and "Mother Goose"
in order to fill the theatres during this summer
weather. The success of s'Enoch Arden" at
Booths, 'Dora" and 'Black-eyed Susan" at
the Fifth Avenue theatre, the "Old Curiosity
Shop" at the Waverley, ''Sinbad the Sailor"
at Nblo's, 'Coralline" and s'Mother Hubbard"
at Wallack's, "East Lynne" at the Grand
Opera House, ''The Wandering Jew" at
Woods Museum and ''Hiccory Diccory
Dock" at the Olympic shows conclusively that
If ballet, burlesque, pantomime and the sensa-
tional drama still retain hold upon the inte-
rest Of playgoers, they are also expected to in
dulge in the pathetic and the sentimental to q
degree unusual in dogdays. The sweet, sad
idyls of Tennyson have met with unexpected
welcome in their dfamatized form, while
''Mother Goose, having lost none other ancient
attractiveness, delights alike children and
children of a larger growth" A five year
old critic deliberately pronounced his opinion
the other evening that 'sHicoory Diccory Dock"
beats ''Humpty Dumpty," the "Forty Thieves"
aud even the Fourteenth Street Circus. Not
withstanding the exodus of New Workers. to
the various places Of summer resort, there is
always sufficient number Of stay-at-homes
and of transient visitors to crowd our theatres
during the present season.
1t is not surprising, however, that all 'the
coolest theatres in the city," notwithstanding
their various attractions and although rein
forced by Tennyson, Dickens, the "Arabian
Nights" and '.Mother Goose" are partly de-
serted almost every evening by their usual
frequenters, who flock to the deservedly popular
concerts of Mr.. Theodore Thomas at the Cen
trail Park Garden. There they can sip ice
cream and indulge in Havanas and refreshing
beverages and enjoy the gay crowd which they
help to swell, while they listen to the unri-
vailed playing of Mr.. Levy on the cornet-a
piston and to choice selections from the best
composers, whose music is admirably executed
by one Of the finest orchestras in the world.
Unquestionably these superb garden concerts
are accomplishing more to develop and train
the musical taste of our community than could
be accomplished by dozen monster jubilees.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01

Health look to them, or the heavy rains and
hot sunshine Of this extraordinary season will
breed from these sloughs and sinks of poisoned
water and fostering garbage fearful mortality.
They have the yellow fever and the cholera In
the West Indies, and New York city must be
on its guard.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01

NOT LIKE QUAKER. Bright has
thrown up his membership in the Reform Club,
London, for the reason that gentleman whom
he endorsed was not elected one of the body.
Is the Right Honorable the Cabinet Minister
becoming less Quakerish or ''more nice?"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01

We regret to state that this offlcer died OF yellow
fever Tuesday evening on board the hospital steamer
Illinois, in the lower bay He was a native and resi-
dent Of this State and entered the naval service on
the 23d OF November, 1889. During the rebellion he
served with credit on board the Ossippee. He was
last year was commissioned lieutenant command
er, which position he held at the time OF his DEATH
He was one OF the most promising young officers In
the navy, and his loss Will be deeply felt Leuten,
ant Commander Van Week was secO nd In command
caught the yellow fever while on the usual summer
cruise IN the West Indies.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01

A Coon ORDER-That just issued by Gene
raj Candy, Commander Of the Military Depart
ment of Virginia, extending for one year the
benefits to certain debtors of the Stay law
against seizures of property to satisfy their
creditors. 1t appears that three hundred and
eghty-fve thousand executions were out in
Virginia, largely issued by Northern mer-
chants-executions which If carried through
would inevitably create much distress and gene
raj embarrassment in the business operations
Of the State, just hopefully emerging from its
terrible losses and trials of the war. Hence,
we say, this order of General Candy is good
one, and doubtless the whole people concerned
will 80 consider it.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01

THE NEGRO DIFFICULTY AMONG THE WASH
INGroN PRINTERS The radical City Councils
of Washington have entered into the contro-
versy concerning the employment of Lewis
H. Douglass Gree colored American) in the
government printing office. A resolution is
before the Board Of Aldermen (black and
white) providing that committee of one from
each branch of the Councils shall be appointed
to wait upon the proprietors Of the several
newspaper offices of the city and request ''that
the men who are VIGOROUSLY open-mouthed
and noisy adherents of the late rebellion, and
especially active and vindictive" in reference to
this case of young Douglass, be dismissed, and
loyal men put in their places. The negro ele
ment controls the local government Of Wash
ington, and from this beginning we may look
for some queer doings there by and by in the
development Of negro equality. 1t will be, we
fear, the old story Of the beggar on horseback.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01
Prominent Departures.

Ex.Postmaster General Randall, for Elmira; Judge
Hood for Wisconsin; General Hunter, for Philadei-
pha; Colonel j. Johnson. Charles E. Leland and
Judge Sheehan, for Albany; Colonel J. o. P. Burn
side for Saratoga; J. W. sheldon, for Washington,
ana Colonel James T. Fitzpatrick, for Baltimore.
Professor Marine OF Columbia College, in this city,
LEFT yesterday for Europe in the steamship Nevada.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-19

sicklv chid-.nd so get done with him: We
confess that, whenever we nave Degun
one of Mr.. Dickens novels, we nave not
telt unite easv in our minds TILL we nave
been able to discover which cnaracter IL Is
that has been brought into this word soiely
with the view Of being speedily usnereo quiz 9uI VI
il. His children, from little Dombey down.
ward, might fairly rise up against hlm with
the old reproachful question of the tombstone
"what was begun for
To be so soon done forW
To Mr.. Dickens the whole modern sentiment
tai school must certainly look up as its head
He has been the source of great deal OF most
fearful writing; might we suggest, if he stands
in need of motto, that Hinc att0e sdchry'ng
would be most appropriate MI. IhacheTay
himself is not free from the same cnarge. -de
saw how easy the tear trick was to perform and
what applause greeted his great rival each time
he peated it; unhappily he could not keep
from irving it also. At imitation, OF course,
Mr. Thackeray was perfect, and we must allow
that Colonel Eewcome's death quite equals,
i. does not actually surpass, MI Dickens,
most lachrymose efforts. II Charies Ii. nau
liyei nowadays, he would scarcely have
Thought it needfil to apologize for being
most unconscionable time dying. The fashlon
has changed, apparently, since his time, and
few can now get their dying done under nall
a dozen pages or 80. We altogether protest
against these death-bed scenes; we nave nad
enough of them, and more than enough.
Henceforth, if man has to die, let him, like
a wounded wild animal, creep off to some
hiding-place where he may pass out OF the
world with dignity and alone. We have, un-
happily every year to read and to critic cfte;s SEA
we will not tolerate any more deatn-oed
scenes, and more last dying speeches. Even
our very executions are now private NOW
that Jack Ketch does his business with
dignity, it is not too much to expect
that our novelists should show some
little respect both for themselves and their
readers We hold that this overstrained sentl-
mentality, so far from widening and strength
enlng a mans sympathies with his feliow-crSa-
lures, really narrows and weakens them. The
reader is so flattered by the tear he drops over
the imaginary sorrow Of some hero or heroine
that he cannot but congratulate himself on the
possession of a tender heart. His conscience
remains satisfied with the sympathy he has felt
for sufferings which have had no real exist
ence, and his charity has been sufficiently ex-
ercised In the aid he longed to bestow on those
who by no possibility could have been the re-
cipients.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-19
xNTyILHcTUAL CORRUPTION.
from the Saturday ReYiew.l

n ID curious to reflect how much an author
nay do to corrupt the heart or the head, and
how be may nevertheless, so long as he does
not sin In one point, escape all ceasure. II
be can only keep his book free from what Is
called immorality-that Is to say, II ne can
either ignore one side Of human conduct al
together, or else only touch upon it In the
recognized conventional manner-ne may
give his readers the falsest notions of human
lite. he may pervert their taste, he may rem
der them as weak as sentimentality alone
can render them, he may lead them to relish
nothing that Is not seasoned with the most
OUTRAGEOUS incidents and condolences, and
he hay still remain an author whose WORKS
would be placed by any mother In the hands
of any daughter. 1t is strange how bllnd the
respectable world usually is to all literary
licentious, it is held that 1t cannot be bad
book, We are inclined to question, however,
whether that which corrupts the Intellect does
not do as much harm as that which corruptS
the so-called morality. The tendency OF o
great deal of the literature of the present day
Is to give people thoroughly false idea OF
life. Our novels, with their sickly sentimen-
tality, their morbid self-analysis, their hateful
sensationalism, help to train up set of young
men and young women quite unfit for the
humdrum duties and pleasures which must
constitute the greater part of each ones life.
e Is not merely the rank and file of our novel
lists who offend Their tendency is now, as it
ALWAYS has been, merely to exaggerase the
errors of their chiefs. There is not one Of our
leading noyelists who has not much to answer
ior. and we hardly know on whom we should
Law most blame. Mr.. Dickens, perhaps, ranks
as the chief offender, for he tits who has work
ed sentimeatality TO such an extent as would
have raised, if that were possible, a blush
even on Sterne's brow. When the author of
fhe Sentimental Journey was going to play his
tricks on his readers eyes, at all events he
chose as his subject a jackass, and dead one
too If death is to be trsked % out It 50 10 as TO
work upon our emotions-h IL is TO be con-
staptly drawing upon our tears, we must con-
tess that for our part we feel less atter,shame
ct the tear We dropped over the defnnct
donkey than at those we have shed In
turn, over Mr.. Dickens long line OF dying
Sesoes. At all events, the Rev. Mr.. Sterne
orsiy killed his donkey once; while Mr..
Dickcns will never once for all Kill OH
his faysrits ehsrastsr-his Aalfidiot or his
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-19
Guerlal Notices.

ns- CHARLESTON SAVINGS INSTI-
TUTIoN.-The following amounts have not been
called for in the above named Institution. AS the
Office will be closed on the BIS. of December, all
persons interested are requested to bring in thelr
Pass Books and receive the amounts due them
Those who have drawn the FIRST instalment, but
not the SECOND will not lnd their names in this
list as the fact Of their having drawn one In
stalment is an evidence that they know Of their
interest In the Institution.
HENRY s. GRIGGs. Treasurer
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-19
n AUM & JURS
MERCHANT TAILORQ,

Have removed to No. III KING street, Ave doors
below their former stand where they will be
pleased TO see their former patrons and friends,
and the public generally.
Mr. Jurs has just returned from the North with
large and we'll selected stock OF Foreign and
Domestic Cloths, Beavers, Coatings, DoeSkins,
CasSimcreS and Yestings.
ALSO,
4 fine assortment OF Cents Furnishing Goods,
which will be sold at q very small profit.
Gentlemen in want Of any Of the above articles
will do we'll to can before purchasing elsewhere.
oeti1 NTH
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-19

MS MANHOOD.-AM MEDICAL ESSAY
on the Cause and Cure Of Premature Decline in
Man, the treatment Of Nervous and Physical De-
bility, &c.
'There is no member OF society by whom this
book viii not be found useful, whether such per-
son holds the relation Of Parent Preceptor or
Clergyman. Medical Times and Gazette.
sentby mail on receipt Of fifty cents. Address
the Author, DR.. E. DEF. CURTIS, Washington,
DC. sept1 Tyr
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-19
ns- A CARD.-A CLERGYMAN,

rs A CARD.-A CL E RGYMAN,
while residing in South America as Missionary,
discovered a safe and simple remedy for the cure
of Nervous Weakness, Early Decay, Disease Of
the Urinary and Seminal Organs and the whole
train OF disorders brought on by baneful and
vicious habits. Great numbers have been cured
by this noble remedy. Prompted by desire to
benefit the ariicted and unfortunate, will send
the recipe for preparing and using this medicine,
in a sealed envelope to any one who needs it,
free OF charge. Address
JOSEPH T. NMAN,
Station D, Bible House,
oct4 Smos* New York City.