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American Travel In Egypt Wine and
Honey in the Land. IU

From Cairo, Egypt, we have special cor
respondcnce to-day which will attract very gen
eral attention, not so much Oh account of the
variety Of news matter which it contains as by
the widespread domestic and national interest
which it affords by its personal enumeration Of
the American travellers who have just lately
visited the territory Of the viceroy The list
commences in the year SGT and concludes
with the year 1869, at and subsequent to the
Inauguration of the Suez Canal. 1T presents
curious exhibit of the system of cosmopolitan
checks aud balances which is just now prevail
ing among the populations of the world to
find the youngest nation of the earth sending
forth its sightseeing, money spending and un-
preiudiced inhabitants in utiltarian propa-
gandism for the reviyilication OF the people of
the most ancient. This social missionary travel
is calculated indeed to show forth the vast
and universal progress which has been made
within few years under the influence Of tho
ciyilizing agencies Of steap aud tbe elsptria
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tween the ins and the outs of their fighting

tween the ins and the outs OF their fighting
politicians.
The Mexican Indian element, comparatively
passive and tractable, and completely subju-
gated by the European element, nevertheless
still has the Indians ruling passion for war;
Hence among the Indians Of Mexico there is
always mercenary gang ready to join the
standard of any upstart leader who can give
them show for pay and plunder; and If
their leader is defeated they are ready to join
on the same terms the party defeating him.
The scheming Mexican factionist has accord
ingly the materials always al hand for revo-
lutionary rising. He has only to gather under
his banner few highwaymen as q nucleus
and next to seize a passing conducta or com
pei forced loan from some church, town or
city in order to gather about him trouble
some army.
Again, very serious difficulty to the centra
government in maintaining peace in the diff
ferent States lies in the slow aud difficult lines
and modes of intercommunication throughout
Mexico. A mountainous country like that, Of
great extent, without navigable rivers and
without railroads Except the line from Vera
Cruz to the capitaD, is admirably adapted for
Mexican revolutions To keep the peace
Macmillan, as Emperor, found it necessary to
make every salient point over the whole
country military station, occupied by a
strong repressive force; but Juarez has not
the means, and cannot rely upon his subordi-
mates to carry out this plan. Therefore we
find him involved in Gordon of revolutionary
factions and risings which will continue till he
is superseded, and then they will begin afresh
against his successor and the new party in
power.
Now, has moi this state of things in Mexico
been tolerated long enough? In the interests
OF civilization, law and order and humanity
does it not become the duty of the United
States to intervene in Mexican affairs9 The
anarchy revived in that distracted country
since the departure of the French and the
bloody execution of Macmillan is scandal
to republican institutions and reproach to
the United States. Our government, in view
of the public sentiment of this country and ga
decent respect for the opinions of mankind, ;"
cannot much longer evade its responsibilities
in reference to Mexico. Annexation or pro-
tectorate over that chaotic republic is only
with us a question of time, and we would
respectfully submit to General Grant that the
time has come. Mexico may keep better than
Cuba but sound policy and all the interests
of civilization, peace and progress call for
action in case like this. We say this, too,
because we cannot believe that General Grant
is hopelessly ignorant Of or Indifferent to the
active, expansive and progressive spirit of the
age
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The PRINCE IN BosToN.-No attention
whatever, except that OF being left alone aud
having bad attendance at his hotel, is being
paid to the Prince at Boston. There was not
q single native Of that suburb who offered
yesterday to show him the Common or the frog
pond or Fancuil Hall or Bunker Hill monu-
meDt, or who outwardly seemed to know
or care who he was. He was all day
left to wander about, winding in and
around the may labyrinths they call streets,
without The guidance or company OF anybody
bnt his s,lite, aud the whole party might hgye
got lost in the interminabe twistings and
turnings for all Boston cared. The Hnotes
are on their dignity, and if prince snubs
them they are evidently determined that hs
shall find his own way through their town,
which is about as hard a thing as nr'"cf
y ever comDelled to do.
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The Churches Yesterday.

There is no subject which comes more d.
rectly within the province Of newspaper than
the church gatherings, services and sermons.
They include all the varied interests Of every
day llfe-politics, fashions, music, finances,
commerce and the stirring events and reforms
Of the day as well as religion. The sermons
Of Sunday are like weekly reviews or edito-
rials on the news Of the past week, and the
congregations that come to be edited come
also to have their opinions formed by the
editorials from the pulpit as they are by the
editorials of the press. And whether these
gatherings are Of the lowly or of the great, the
mediocre or the gifted, the humble or the ele-
giant, the press performs its duty to the public
in reporting them fully and in laying before it's
larger congregation the views expressed by
the ministers who claim the attention Of these
gatherings. For these reasons we devote a
larger space than usual to-day to our report Of
the church services yesterday. The services,
too, were more than usually brilliant, and
the right of the rich to worship God according
to their conscience and with view
to their comfort was fully confirmed.
The old doctrines of wearing sackcloth and
grinding ones knee bones for the honor of
God has gone out with the Inquisition and the
thumbscrew, and the new idea that man
should worship God in his good clothes and on
comfortable seat, has come in. Grace
church, where Bishop Potter oficiated and the
suave Brown gave his attentive presence,
blossomed like flower garden, with its
thousands Of beautiful worshippers and the
countless hues and colors of their costumes.
The Church of the Covenant, ST. Stephens
church, the Church of the Divine Paternity,
ST. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, the
Church Of st. Francis Xavier, Plymouth
church, and all the numerous temples Of God
in this city and Brooklyn, teemed with humble
devotees in silks and satins and broadcloth
who prayed with fervent anguish out Of gold
clasped prayer books, kneeling humbly upon
thick lined cushion to confess their sins
and ask forgiveness. DR.. Chaplin, at the
Church of the Divine Paternity, with his over
powering eloquence, laid down the injunction
of the lowly born Son of Man to these brilliant
worshippers :-"Be ye therefore followers of
God and His dear children" Father Mignard
discoursed at the Church of st. Francis Xavier
on the law of divine charity, ''to love one
another and to forgive your enemies" Thus
while the hearers illustrated the humbleness
and character Of riches and fashion the
preachers held forth upon the loftiness and
power of the poor aud the lowly.
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THE New NAVY REGTsTgR for this year, a
resume Of which We publish this morning, con-
tains much interesting information on naval
matters. Of.eighteen hundred officers in the
service not less than thirteen hundred and
balance two hundred and forty-eight are mid
shipmen at the Naval Academy. There are
one hundred and lightweight vessels of all
kinds and classes, from ships Of the line to the
little torpedo boat laid up in this harbor.
During last year fourteen vessels were sold
and one (the steamtug Maria lost.
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European News by Mail.

Our special European correspondence by
mail, published in another column to-day, sup
plies very comprehensive and interesting
detail of our cable news kilograms to the 25th
of January M. Rochefort's arraignment be-
fore the criminal tribunal Of Paris, his trial
and sentence are reported. The account oc-
oupies q very short space in the foreign
journals. In this respect alone it illustrates
the public advantage which accruss from
strict, impartial and somewhat sum
mary administration of the law; for,
it acted on under system full OF
balls, replevins, new trials motions,
injuuctions and counter injunctions, with
all the varieties Of the mandamus, such as wa
have some little experience of here, it would
be interminable, Prince Pierre, even tho
Prince Imperial, running q good chance Of
being forgotten before its conclusion. Our
special writers in Rome, Ireland and Spain
furnish matter of immediate import relative to
the progress Of the Ecumenical Council, the
difficulties, doubts and lay and royal inhu-
ences which prevail in and distract the assem-
blage, of the working Of the land system in
Ulster and the local tenant right, and Of
Prim's position, aspirations and dangers in
Madrid. Our foreign budget is consequently,
as usual, piquant, lively and instructive.
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Medcrs Jonrualiam-A Stop In tho Righs
Direction.

Medcrs Jonruaiiam-A Stop In tho Rigts
We publish to-day an article from the
Philadelphia. Morning Post upon the sub
ject of the formation Of new press
association. The ideas expressed are sound
The old Associated Press organization, %
it now stands, Ia hardly up to the pro-
gress Of the age as evinced in modern
journalism. The ideas Of quarter Of
century ago cannot be applied at this day to
enterprises that have made such wonderful
strides in advance as are to be observed in the
mode Of managing and conducting newspapers.
We anticipate much good from the new press
association, even if it does nothing more than
to incite the old association to renewed efforts
in carrying out the objects for which it was
originally instituted. Competition is the Life
of trade, in the newspaper as well as in all
other kinds of business, and when the Press
Association shall discard some Of it's exclusive
features, practice more economy and infuse .
little fresher energy into its operations, the
better will it be for newspaper proprietors and
the public generally. We hope the new asso-
citation will be allowed fair trial for in the
success of the experiment the people at large
have an especial interest.
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Up the Niic-Our Special Letters from
Egypt.


Egypt.
From Cairo, Egypt, under date of the Goth
of December last, our special correspondent
continues the narrative of his experiences
when journeying on the banks Of the river Nile.
The letter is published in our columns to-day.
It comes filed with legend and romance,
and speaks Of tombs, temples, prayer and the
effect of modern European travel in the hoary
land. The scenes which were witnessed at
the dawn of morn and as sunset closed on the
with much elegance. The contemplation OF
them in their natural grandeur was not at all
more inspiriting and soothing than is the great
hope held out to the world by the writer in the
assurance of the certainty that this modern
return to the fountainhead of religion
and civilization will benefit both the
Old and the New Worlds peoples. The
river fringe populations of the Nile, their state
of morals and mode Of life, are noted with a
degree of accuracy which is slightly painful to
civilization, but hopeful withal. ''Bull Run
Russell" was there, and, as usual, made grand
blunder in his chronology. This is not to be
wondered at, however, for the man who could
not comprehend the jokes of the late lamented
President Lincoln, or recognize the charge OF
the Black Horse cavalry of Virginia, or the
cheer of an Irish brigade, would almost GER
tainly get ''mixed" in his ideas when in the
presence of four thousand years and in the
midst of sphinxes and idols, and at Abydos
and Thebes and Josephs river and such like
old-iashioned things and places. Our Ameri-
can account is accurate notwithstanding.
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NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY FEBRUARY l87o-rRPLE SHEET

most valuable island on the border OF the
republic, IL annexed, would not only greatly
enlarge the area Of our dominion and republi-
can liberty, but would tend very much to revive
our commerce and declining mercantile marine !;
would Increase the variety of our products,
and would strengthen. our power throughout
the American Continent, seas and islands.
The administration has but to lift its finger, and
Cuba would belong to us. Here, then, is =
fine opportunity to crafty national ambition
and TO promote national interests. Then there
is British Columbia knocking for admission to
ment on the Red River, in the heart OF the Con-
tinent and some of the British colonies on
the Atlantic side are casting wistful eyes to
the great republic. Can not General Grant
strike out in bold policy for the acquisition of
some or oil these territories as q settlement
of the Alabama claims or upon some other
terms? Extension of territory and increase of
population and products lead to an increase Of
commerce and shipping, and that is just what
we need now. Besides the President might
WVA sulA AtS dttcuIlOu W IucdSuTo6 lOT 6ALtuu-
ing our trade abroad and for reviving our
mercantile marine. The republic has reached
that prominent position when it cannot stand
still. 1t must advance exteriorly with the
wonderful progress and developments of the
age, with its internal growth and in accord
ance with the aspirations of the people, or
stagnation will follow, domestic trouble will
spring up, and we shall fail to fulfil the great
destiny marked out for US. If General Grant
comprehends the necessities of our national
situation, and should strike out in new and
bold policy in accordance with them, his
administration will be success but If his
vision be confined to petty local affairs and
party politics, if he cannot understand the
mission and destiny of this mighty country,
and remains the mere instrument of the mar
row-minded politicians that surround him. he
will prove a lamentable failure and his glori-
ous war record will be buried beneath the
unpopularity of his government
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The Political Situation I'm Great Britain
The Parliamentary Programme.


On an early day the British Parliament will
assemble. During the protracted recess Minis
ters have been unusually silent. Latterly this
silence has been broken by Messrs. Bright and
Forster Mr.. Bright looks forward somewhat
despondingly Mr. Forster is full Of hope. The
different views taken by the two statesmen
may, perhaps, be accounted for on the ground
that, although both are responsible Ministers,
both are not members of the Cabinet. Mr..
Forster is perhaps the more hopeful that he
knows not the sorrows of the inner and more
sacred circle. According to Mr.. Bright the
government intends to settle the land question
in Ireland, but he apprehends 80 much oppo-
siaon and sees in this one measure so much
work that he despairs of being able. to con-
slider any other question. Mr.. Forster sees
no more difficulty in the land question
than was encountered last session in
disestablishing the Church. He is not
without hope that government will find
time to abolish forever university tests,
and he is determined, if at all possible, to make
such provision for the educational wants of the
English people that it will be next to impos-
sbe for an English youth to grow up in
ignorance, or, as Mr.. Forster calls it, ''weak-
ness" weakness to resist temptation"
weakness that fills the prison and the work
house" 1t is not our business to say which
Of the two statesmen takes the more correct
view of the situation. 1t may be that the Irish
land question will monopolize the session, but
it is undeniable that other and deeply impor-
tant questions will be forced on the attention
of Parliament. Besides domestic questions
there are international questions and colonial
questions-all of them imperously demanding
immediate attention. In the next session Of
the British Parliament we look for great ex-
element, keen debate, great political rivalry,
the possible failure Of the liberals and the pos
sible formation of coalition ministry with
Lord Derby at its head. But Gladstone is too
strong to be easily defeated.
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TR l p f S III Il E L
New York, Monday, February =, 1870.
CONTENTS OF TO.DAY,S aEgaLD.

PAGE.
1-Adverflsemcnts.
2-Advertisements
3-Religous: TIE Superficial in Religion; Artu
ana Artistic Accessions TO Gospel Preaching;
Discources by Henry Ward Beecher Rev. DIS.
Potter, Chaplin, Hepworth McSwecney and
others-Reviews OF New Books our nallstic
Notes.
A-Europe: M. Rochefort arrsiQned by the .Crimi.
nal Tribunal, the Army and Printers OF France;
Prim's Position In Spain and the Elements OF
Counter Revolution; The Papal Council and
Lay Governmental Interests; Travel ia Ireland
aud the Landlord and Tenant Qucstion--ERypt
Revlvifed: American Travel IN Ihe Land OF The
Pharaohs.
S-The Social Evil: A Practical View OF Female
Depravty; Statistics and Facts for the Iegisa
ture-rhe Chinese Treaty Proclamation by the
President-Prince Kung's Opinion OF the La.
bors Of the Burngame Chinese Embassy
Tai Ghost; What Herr Grossman Saw IN Har-
lem-tebruary Term or the Courts-Row TO
Catch Rogues-1he Heaviest Drinking Yet.
6-EdHoriais Leading Article VIII General
Grants Administration he Success or
Failure s--Amusement Announcements
Photographic News from All Paris of the World
French Demand for Rochelorl's Surrender to
Prison; Political Persecution in Frances
Against the Ant,Poygamy Biil--Washing.
ton: The Sale OF Cadetships; Fashionable
Movements OF the Cabinet Corps and the
Corps Diplomatic Intelligence
O6ituary-Wlll the Gas Companies Examiner -
Descent Gambling Houses in Phlladel.
phia-Business Notices.
S-The Navy: Our Register for 1870; The Organza.
lion Of the Navy; The Marine Corps; List of
Vessels, Their station ana Condition; Changes
IN Nomenclature: Vessels Lost and Sod--Up
the Nle: The Dawn OF Morn and Sunset as
Seen on the Father or Waters; Legends Ro-
nance. Tombs, Temples and Prayer; Bull Run
Russell in the Presence OF Four Thousand
Years and the Egyptian Holy one-1he Hack
ensack Mystery.
0-The Erie Railroad: Observations Here and
There Upon the Management-Atlantic and
Great Western Railroad: Rssu,na OF Its
HIstory-The He'll Gate Distractions
Uniformed Gentlemen--financial and Com
mercal Reports-The san Francisco Yacht
Club-Marriages and Deaths.
t0-New York City News and Police Intelligence
Brooklyn City News--Suburban Intelligence
Musical and Theatrical Notcs-German Carni-
vas--Modern Journalism Hampstead Plains
The Flushing Contested Eection-The Latest
Newark Hoax-Fire ana Loss OF Life in
Pougnkeepsic--General Notes-.shlpplng intel
Observation-Disclosures
i1-Aiormonism: Progress 0. the New Church OF
zion: Operations OF the Normons Long
Isiand-Real Estate Transfers ADVERTISE
men.s.
IC-Auyertsements
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The QUESTION OF INDIANA DIVORCES is be-
fore the United States Supreme Court on an
appeal, and it is considered probable that full
force will be given to the pernicious doctrine
in all the States. AS one of the canses for
divorce allowed by the laws Of Indiana is in
effect the pleasure of the judge, it will become
an easier matter to be divorced than to be
married.
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The Lady Bankers Of Broad street.

The Lady Bankers Of Broad Street.
King Solomon was Of the opinion that there
is nothing new under the sun. On general
principles he was, perhaps, right; but when
we come to'specialties, details and modifca-
tions of old things he was wide of the mark
Something new in this line is turning up every
day, and among the latest, the most interest,"
ing the most suggestive and the most promis-
ing of new things is the female banking firm in
Broad street of Woodruff, Clafin & Co.
They have created new sensation ''on
Change" not SO violent as, but more profound
than, the gold corner panic Of that awful
''black Friday" and these lady fnanciers, a.
dealers in bills, bonds stocks, &C., appear to
be so firmly seated in the saddle and so conf
dent and so we'll posted that the notion pre-
walls among the lame ducks and old foxes Of
Wall street that Vanderbilt, the Oldest fox of
them all, is at the bottom of the experiment.
No matter. The experiment is one Of great
Importance. If successful it opens new and
boundless field for employment to women-a
regular California gold placer, not only in
New York, but in every city and town in the
United States and in both hemispheres. But
if it should fail? FALL These ladies' of the
new banking firm, they say, are backed by a
capital of half a million, and that they cannot
fail. At all events, we like the experiment as
a new thing, and we wish it success
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MYSTERIES IN BRooKLYN.-The people of
Brooklyn, IL would appear, have "knack" OF
picking up human legs and feet that have no
owners. Within two weeks the Coroner over
there has been presented with three appen-
dagcs Of unknown human bodies, and is now
only waiting for head, couple Of arms and
. stomach. to hold twenty dollar inquest.
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THE CHINESE TgEAIy.-President Grant
has issued his proclamatian prVmulgating the
new Chinese treaty negotiated by Mr.. Bur-
lingames Embassy. The full text OF the
treaty and the proclamation will be found in
another column.
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Why NOT Pm the Missouri Legislature the
Of teachers was amended in the lower house
SO as to give females the same paw as males
where equally qualified and performing like
duties. And why not? This is matter of
womens rights upon which great deal Of
reform is needed throughout this country, and
needed in New York as much as anywhere
else 1t is matter, too. upon which for the
present onr womens rights agitators may
more proiitably employ their time than in their
travelling conventions on woman suffrage. II
our women's rights women could only be made
to understand that the Pyramids Of Egypt
were built stone by stone they would learn
that all great reforms are not accomplished in
single jump, but are reached piece by piece
PRINCE FIsK's REHEARSAL last Saturday
night, at the Grand Opera House, according
to all accounts, was right royal rehearsal of
oysters, boned turkeys, salads, sweetmeats
champagne and bouquets, all of which, amid
The popping of corks, the cracking of jokes
and the sparkling Of bright eyes, went off like
| hot cakes'at Pacific Railway station on a
| frosty morning. And they say that the Prince
of Erie has shus probably inaugurated a new
era in the theatrical world which will be fully
developed only when every place of amnse-
ment in the city shall have adopted the grand
idea OF regular Pilgrim Fathers festival
every Saturday night. This will be New Eng
land Purtanism ia a new phase. but it will
draY
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS evfNIss.

GRAND oPERA HOUSE. OF Eighth avenue and
ssd sI-Tna TWELVE TEMPTATIONS.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twen,y-.oae,h st-spRr
on, SUMNER SoENKs At LoNG BaANun
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NIBLo's GARDEN, Broadway-lsASo RouAsrlo
PLAY tas DUKES Morro.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broaowsy.-sysIoUs FAniLY-
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FRENCH THEATRE lah at. and s.s Av-axsxyiryr
n .~v
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ACADEMY or MUSIC, i4h s,re.,.-.lrAmAs orrxA-
MAsANIELLo
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WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERig. Broadway. cor
Thirsicth sAatnse daily Performances evary evening
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BOwERY THEATRE. bowery --Bucg, Buck, now
MANY HoRs.; OR, GOLD UP TO i55. su.