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NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Orrick N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAOC STS. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, Aunual subscription price:— Annual subscription price, @24. a Five cents per copy fen Copies. Postage Ove cents per copy for three months Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers 150 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club often, Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, ‘and any larger number at same price, Ap extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. Theve rates make the Warxty Henan the cheapest publication in the country. The Evrorgzay Eprom, every Wednesday, at Six cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Groat Britain, or 66 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage, ‘The Cauyornia Eprmios, on the Ist, 11th and 21st of @ach month, at Srx cents per copy, or $3 per annum. ADVERTISEMENTS, toa limited number, will be inserted ‘nthe Wxexty Heraty, the Europcan and California Editions. TERMS cash in advance. aithe risk of the sender. New York taken. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We @o not return rejected communications. Volume XXXI.......ceceeeeeceseeeeeeees No. 162 5 <= —— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Money sent by mail will be None but bank bills current in BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street. —Tuk Corsican Brotusns. WOOD'S THEATRRA. Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—Invisiste Puinck—Mr. anv Mas. Peter Wuirs. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, oear Sixth avenue.—ENGLisu Orgra—Tux Doctor oF ALcaNTana, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 2) Bowery.—Sam Saarriey's Minsteg, aND Comsination Taovre—Tux Civ Rigars Bint. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE! ona Hotel.—Ermiorta: OUNG APLC ON TuE FLYING 585 Broadway, opposite INGING, DaNcixG, &c.— "AZE. GEORGE CHRISTY'S—O.D Scnoor of MiNstReLsy, Battaps, Musica Ges. &c.. Fifth Avenue Upera House, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourtn street.—Iz ls Nxvex Too Lats to Mex. TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenne, between Fifty- eighth and Fifty-ninth stroets.—Tuzo. Taowas’ Oncmsstaat Gaapex Concents. MRS. Ff. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tas Naud Quexx. BOOLEY'S OPERA AC Brooklyn.—Ermorian Mis eraeisy—Battans, BuaLe ot : 44ND Pantomime: -Comnia’s Concant, IRVING HALL, Irv NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner of ‘Twenty. ‘@aird atrevt and Fourth aveaue.—Ax? Exuisition. 33 —— : MEW YORE MUSFUM OF ANATOMY, 3 Open TO OA DE JO MAA TOMY, O18 Broadway. Se New York, Monday, June 11, 1866. jn SE TO CARPENTERS. Proposals will be received until June 15 for the car- penter’s work of the Hzratp Briipma now tn course of erection on Broadway, Park row and Ana street. Plans and specifications can be seen the office of Joba Kellum, architect, 179 Broadway, New York. EUROPE. By thogrrival, yesterday, of the steamships Hibernian @t Father Point, and Edinburg and Malta at this port, ‘we bave news from Europe to the ist of June—two days later—with our special correspondence from Vienna, Florence, Madrid and Paris, dated to the last day of May. ~The correspondence ts of a very important and inte- resting character, portraying, as ft does, the dangerous situation tn which the monarchies of the Old World are Placed, with an Intense and violent war excitemont end preparations prevailing over the greater portion ef the Continent at the very moment that tae day was being named for the assem- Diage of a peace Congress in Paris. At the latest hour the aspect of the German question was not materially changed. It was thought the Congress would organize, but the poopie had little faith mm the efforts of the diplomatists to prevent war. Italy may be sald to be on fre, and the Austrian General Benedek had left ‘Vionna for the field. Indeed we are told that Austrian and Prussian soldiers had already met, in a sort of tm- promptu skirmish, in the neighborhood pf Kiel. Austria kept up a bold military appearance, but ber finances were sadly deranged. It is said that Napoleon will proside over the Congress ahould it moet, The disbanded Austro-Mexican volunteers had some violent rows in and near Trieste, Our Madrid correspond ‘nt shows that Spain was about to awaken from the cabinet delusion of conquest in South America, She was likely however to endeavor to retain her hold of the Chinca Islands, The continued war of the radicals in the American Con- gress ‘gn-Prosident Johnson and his measures for rocon- pach still attracted attention in England. ‘The great prize of Paris was won by an English horse, the property of the Duke of Beaufort. There was a great display of the incongrous material which constitutes the “fashionable world” of France on the course at Long- champs, The scene and running are described by our Paris correspondent. Consola closed in London, on the Ist of June, at 87% 0.87%. Five-twenties were 66% a 66%. The Liverpool ection market closed firm, at an advance ¢: nced daring the woek, on the Ist of June. Provisions dull, with prices unchanged. Breadstaffs dull and easier, THE FENIANS. Avother skirmish bas taken place between the Fenians end their enemy. About eight miles from St Armand a brigade of British regulars charged upon the small portion of Spear’s army that had remained, Whind and captured sixteen prisoners, Some of the Fenians were killed, but how many is not known This fight took Place almost on the boundary line scross which the Fenians were compelled to retreat, The English» however, had no idea of stopping on account of bound- ary lines, and they charged forward across the line, Gring upon the retreating band of Fenians. Thoy also Made some captures on American soil This afeir has , been reported te General Meade, who is at present inves, gating it. ‘The Fepwons are stil) busily engaged m attempting to war material toward the border, but the vigil- nce of the neutrals defeats their purpose, most of thelr material being captured. General Sweeny and Colonel Mehan were paroled yee terday to the limite of the town of St. Albans by Gén- eral Meade Fifteen bandred Fenians from the Canada line reached Boston yesterday. They were furnished transportation ‘by the United States, Smaller parties of them are re- Ported at various places en route for their bomes. At a moeting of the Provincial Cabinet yesterday at Ottawa it was determined to administer an oath of alle- G'anoe to every clerk in the government service. Soveral arrests for Fenian proctivitios have boen made and war- rants are out for others. ‘There are now about one hundred Fenians in prison at Toronto, exclusive of those arrested on suspicion. 1s is said that the feeling im favor of banging them all /has subsided with the excitement and terror occasioned by the invasion. Only the Canadians found in arms and ‘tho loaders will be put to death. ® ‘ho Fonian excitement waa congiderably cooled dow? yesterday, im this city, owing te the nows from the fromk Mr. Roberts stated to @ gentleman, who visited him at bis apartments in the jail, that it was» mistake to think the movement was crushed. All telegraph com- munications for Fenian purposes have beon stopped by the government, The Feniane think that is the hardest blow yet, Mr. Roberts will be examined to-day, before Commissioner Betta MISCELLANEOUS. The weather being ploasant yesterday the anti-Excise- men made another raid on Jersey City an¢ Hoboken. The rusb’of visitors continued from nooe till night, and it Is estimated tha: twenty-five thousand people visited Hoboken alone There was oc disturbance, although everybody was more or less merry with wine. The Broadway concert saloons, with their waiter girls, were in full blast during the entire day, dealing in ice creams, gods water, lemonades and the milder class of drink- ‘ables One saloon hada large organ in it, from which sacred music was dispensed Three arrests were made, one of them a barber, whe was arrested for sponging his customers’ faces with bay rum; bat the Justice let bim off with ap admonition. The proprietor of Falk's Belvedere, located on Eighth avenue, near the upper end of the Park, kept his place open for the patronage of the public yesterday in spite of the new Excise law. More than thirty thousand persons visited the place during,the day, and nothing oc- curred to mar their enjoyment. No attempt was made to close the establishment, and it is mot probable that any steps will be taken to prosecute him unloss the in- Junction granted by Judge Cardozo to restrain the Excise Board sball be set aside, This case attracts almost uni- versal attention, it being regarded ase teat case, and consequently affects, more or less, all those engaged in the sunday liquor traffic, eapecially the keepers of tagor beer saloons, gardens, ko. No official report was received yesterday from Dr. Bissell as to the state of the cholera patients in the Lower Quarantine. The garrison on Seguine’s Point were allowed to pass the Sabbath in quiet repose, an@ the islanders ceased all discussion of the quarantine question for the day. We publish in the Hunatp this morning a List of the receipts and assessments of the internal revonwe for the Fifth district, from January 1 up to the present month. Some instructive statistics are given in the list, which will be of considerable interest to taxpayers. General Dulce drove through the Park yester- day afternoon. He will leave this evening for Phila delphia and then proceed to Washington. The Dona Isabel la Catolica, the vessel in which he came here, will after hie return from Washington and a stay of a few days in this city be ready to depart with him for Spain, The Atlantic Club yacht race will come off to-day. That of the Brooklyn Club will come off to-morrow. The other yacht clubs have not quite completed their ar- rangements for a regatta The corner stone of a new schoolhouge to be erected on the corner of Thirty-frst street end Ninth avenue, for St. Michael's parish, was laid yesterday afternoon with appropriate ceremonies by the host Rey. Archbishop McCloskey. The Archbishop delivered an eloquent dis- course on the occasion. Rev. Dr. Isaac Wescott, at the Bloomingdale Baptist church in this city, delivered a sermon last evening on the life and services of the late General Winteld Scott, in which the salient points in his military career were noticed and Attingly eulogized. Yesterday was the twelfth anniversary of the opening of the Church of Holy Innocents, on Thirty-sevonth street, and the day was duly celebrated by an appropriate sermon from the rector, the Rev. Joha J. Elmendorf. The annual Goancial report of the church shows that little has been done by the congrogation to liquidate the floating debt. . Of this fact the pectoredvised his hearers, and recommended them to make‘good tne lost time oy renewed exertions § . . Aconference of the Picrrepont, Street Baptist bhurch was held in Brooklyn yesterday on the subject of Chris- Yan union. This denomination are entering heartily Into the work. Last evening the Rev. R..C. Shimeall delivered an ad- dress, at the Presbyterian Assembiy Room, corner of: ‘Sixth avenue and Forty-second street, on the moral and religious aspect of affairs in New York. In the course of his observations he introduced some statistical matter ‘on the subject of unprofitable expenditure of large sums of money in amusements aad encouraging habits of do- pravity. We publish in our news columns a full account of the Teception of the late Lieutenant General Scott in the spirit tand, as described by Miss Emma Jay Bullene in a lecture delivered before the Progressive Spiritualists at Ebbitt's ball last evening. Edward McComber, the son of a wealshy resident of Fifth avenue, was arrested on Saturday night, charged with being grossly intoxicated and using indecent ana insulting language. He was committed proparatory to a transfer to Blackwell's Island. A Now Yorker by the name of Campbell has made some curious revel im Washington relative to the tostimony given before the Judiciary Committee of the ‘Housy regarding the implication of Jeff Davis inthe as- sassination conspiracy. He says, and offers to corroborate his statement, that many of the witnesses testified falsely and under agsumed names, Connory, the principal wit- ‘Ress, was sent to New York to obtain evidence corrobo- rative of -his own testimony, but he never returned. Horace Greeley, it is understood, has been in consulta- tion with several radical Senators concerning the release of Davis on bail, and it ts further stated that Greeley offered to become one of his bondsmen. The Mexican Minister at Washington hag rocelved in- formation that General Bazaine bad formed the French troops in the city of Mexico and notified them that the Emperor had ordered their withdrawal from Mexico. ‘The officers declined to accept service and promotion under Maximilian by remaining after the troops left. We have files from British Guiana, dated at Goorge} town on the 15th of May. There is nothing of interess in the papers. ‘The body of Anton Probst, the murderer, was dissected at Jefferson College, Philadelphia, on Saturday. The brain of the dead criminal was found to be in a healthy condition, weighing thirty-six ounces. The result of the examination will, it is expected, be given in a fitting form soon to the medical fraternity. Covert, the murderer of the Roosa family, was found guilty Saturday by the jury who were trying him, at Lebanon, Ohio, of murder in the first degree. A destructive fre occurred in Charlestown, Masa, on Saturday night, which rendered sixty-one families houseless. Afire occurred in the Frankfort Hotel, in this city, yesterday afternoon by an explosion of gasoline. One man had his hands badly burned. A collision occurred between @ yacht and the steamer Dean Richmond, on North river, on Saturday, by which the yacht was capsized and one man drowned. Fruspuen’s Evivence Aoaper Tam Freep- uxn’s Burgav.—Thore has been a disposition on the part of the radicals to depreciate the official statements of Generals Steedman and Fallerton concerning the operations of the Freedmen’s Bureau in the Southern States throagh which these commissioners are travel- ling. They told too many truths about the evils of the Bureau to prove palatable to its radical friends, and therefore their report was pronounced fraudulent when the substance of it first appeared in our columns; and when its authenticity was undoubted the radical journals endeavored to represent the statements of Generals Steedman and Fullerton as partisan in their character, if not false in their facts. This was a very weak manceuvre and 80 con- temptible as to have no weight. The last account we have from these gentle- men is from Augusta, Georgia, where it appears they had summoned the freedmen to attend a public meeting and there asked them to state their own case and present their condition pro and con openly and freely. And what was the evidence? So far from being the victims of op- pression, requiring the protecting hand of the Freedmen's Bureau, these impartial witnesses Stated that they were treated witl,the greatest kindness and justice by their foiner masters. We have no doubt that they find .iuch better friends in the men who once owed them as property than in the agents and officials of the Bureau who are endeavoring to resurn them to © worse slavery than tho system sbolishod by the war. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY; JUN LH, 1866. Latest Aspect of the Burepean War | of tho City Council or Legislature to compel Question. The news from England to the lst of June and from the Continent of Europe to the 30th of May gives us but little more information of « decisive character than we had before. The notes of invitation fora congress or conference of the great Powers which had been sent by France, England and Russia to the other gov- ernments concerned, had been received and responses given by Austria and Italy, and, it was reported, also by Prussia. If the report be correct as to the latter, and it probably is, the six great Powers have agreed to confer with a view to talk over the difficulties, if not to ad- just them, The Diet of the Germanic Confed- eration also: had been invited to send a representative, and had agreed to do 60. The Paris Conference would thus be com- posed of the representatives of France, Eng- land, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Italy and the Germanic Confederation. The lesser States and Spain, which is not so directly concerned, sp- pear to be left out. The day for the assem- blage of the Congress had not been named at the latest moment, it was asserted, in well in- formed quarters in Paris, that the Emperor Napoleon would preside over the deliberations of the body in person. Hardly ever did an European Congress meet under more difficult circumstances; and there does not appear to be much hope of a peaceful solution. The British government, through its Minister, and the British press express their fears, at the same time they are using all their influence to avert war. Italy has promised not to commence hostilities at present, but will not suspend her armaments. The people of Germany, particularly of the smaller States, are anxious to avoid war. Still two millions of armed men are held ready, with their hands on the instruments of death, to strike at any moment. A little spark would set this tro- mendous magazine in a blaze. The greater par if not the whole of Europe rests on a volcano of war and revolution, the focus of which is ‘m Italy. It is true, as the Paris Constitutionnel remarks, that the three Courts which have made a movement for peace are supported by the unanimous voice and general interests of Europe which they represent; but this support may not be able to withstand the revolutionary fervor invoked in Italy and which is spreading over the Continent. Between the ambition of the reigning families and the deep revolutionary underswell of the masses there does not seem to be much chance for peace. We see from what has occurred since the combined movement of Prussia and Austria on Schleswig-Holstein that the political condi- tion and international relations of Burope are such’ that one step cannot -be taken in war without producing diffivultics in other portions of the Continent. Tue artificial system of the balance of power, which was cdpstructed at the conclusion of the wars with the first Napo- leon, and which has been patched up several times since, cannot be disturbed without placing Europe in imminent danger. The war in a corner of Northern Europe about the pos- session of a small territory commenced the trouble. The two great German Powers com- bined to wrest from a feeble neighboring State ® part of its ancient possessions, profersedly because the majority of the population were German, bat really because one of them, Prus- sian, wanted to increase her dominions and her weight in the Confederation. The quarrel of Austria and Prussia over thie led to the war- like movement in Italy. Now the question of the Elbe duchies is overshadowed by that of Italy. How many others are involved in the Italian one? How many revolutionary move- ments may grow out of this? Or what change may it produoe in the map of Europe? The Italian monarchy is not more ambitious to enlarge its dominions than the people are to unite the Itallans under one government. Garibaldi.and the masses are as much in ear- nest as the King and the Court to wrest Venetia from Austria and annex it to the kingdom of Italy. Austria is determined to defend her possessions against wa: from without or revo- lution within, and has an army of eight or nine hundred thousand men for that pur- pose. The voice of the Paris Conference may be powerful enough if the representatives should agree to hold young Italy in check; but that ig doubtful. The Pewers of Europe may see that so long as Austria possesses that part of Italy there will be danger of war, if even it be avoided just now, and may propose the cession of it to Italy. But will Anstria consent to this under any circumstances? It not, how can war be avoided? - Territorial compensations have been intimated as a pos- sible solution of the difficulty. Who is to be despoiled to compensate Austria for the loss of Venetia? Turkey? We think the “sick man ot the East” will become very sick if these proposed compensations are made. The Dan- ubian principalities already begin to loom up again amidst the smoke of European troubles. It is not at all improabble that the ancient friendship of Russia and Austria may return under present complications and that an alliance to check Russia in the East will not be possible again. Every way the state of Europe just now is full of interest. The pros- pect is that there will be a war on a gigantic scale and that revolutions and a rearrange- ment of the map of Europe will follow ess consequence. The reports from Paris, Vienna and Flo- tence, written immediately previous to the sailing of the last steamer from Londonderry, on the Ist of June, indicate that very little faith was entertained in either city as to the ability of the diplomatists in the Congress to maintain peace. Italy remained in « blaze of war fever, the King and Garibaldi were mas- ters of the situation and it was anticipated that the united people of the kingdom would soon strike the first blow. It is stated from Kiel, however, that blows had been already exchanged between some Austrian and Prus- sian soldiers, but as “no deaths occurred” an “official inquiry had been instituted.” The Old World continued in a dangerous crisis. Pvstic Berores Fmerroor and SaFEty oF Konzss.—The fires which have destroyed so many public buildings, and places of amuse- ment in particular, in this city, should warn us against erecting any others not fireproof. We refer to this matter just now because we notice It ts reported that an opera house or academy of musio is to be built on the site of the old one, and that other places of amusement are about to be erected. Every place of this kind in which @ great number of people congregate should be fireproof. end if there be no law this to be done such a law should be passed. We think, however, the city authorities have « good deal of power in their bands over euch buildings, and we call upon them to. use it. Let them see that the proposed new opera house and other buildings to be erected for places of amusement be made as safe as pos- sible. If they cannot eompel the proprietors to make these buildings fireproof they can do something in the way of improving the con- struction so as to save life in case of fire. We think it would be to the interest of the proprietors to make thelr buildings fire- proof in the first instance. But the city author- ities should compel not only the new places of amusement, but all the old ones as well, to have capacious doorways, and enough of them, in front and on the sides, to enable an audience to get out safely in a few minutes when- ever a fire occurs. Will the City Council do their duty to the public by attending to this matter at once? We think, too, an ordinance or law should be passed regulating all build- ing in the city, so as to make the structures as nearly fireproof as possible. We rarely hear‘of great fires in Paris, because houses are so con- stracted. The destruction of property and:life in this city is fearful, because houses are noteo constructed. The Hearn office has been seve- ral times in danger from fires in surrounding buildings and would have been destroyed, probably, had we not had an efficient fire de- partment connected with the establishment. That saved us; but few establishments can keep a fire department, Great reform is needed in the manner of building in New York. We call the attention of property holders to thia, fact and we ask the city authorities to do whatever they can to make the reform. Let them begin with the places of amusement. Finale of the Fenian Foray—The Warn- ing to England. The Canadian campaign of the Fenians is ended. The expeditionary forces, baffled and disappointed at every turn, demoralized and disheartened, have been recalled, disbanded and dispersed. It was manifest that such would be the fate of the enterprise with the eadden failure of O’Neill’s Fort Erie movement, inas- much as success in all such adventures depends upon a prosperous beginning. American neu- trality rendered anything like a systematic and formidable invasion of Canada impossible in the outset, and the necessity thus devolving upon the Fenians of advancing to the border their.men, arms, munitions and supplies in small parcels and by stealth defeated the ob- ject of concentration at any available point. It is manifest, however, from the number of fighting Fenians gathered along our. frontier between Buffalo and St. Albans and from the large amounts of their arms and materials of war captured en roule at various points between the town of Erle in Pennsylvania and the Ver- mont northern border, that they had men enough, arms enough and munitions enough to open a campaign, once in force-on the other side of the line, that would probably have car- ried them through from Toronto to Halifax. American neutrality has rescued her Britan- nic Majesty’s North American possessions from what would have been a terrible and bloody war had our government adopted Lord John Ruseell’s British neutrality. But General Meade, in the line of his duty, bas been as active and vigilant in vindicating the honor of the “old fing” against these followers of General Sweeny as he was against the armed rebel legions of Jeff Davis. General Meade has also shown a stroke of stateaman- ship in furnishing the disbanded and moneyless Fenians transportation homewards.. It relieves them and the people on both sides of the bor- der. It puts an end to any further apprehen- sions of marauding incursions by squads of bun- gry and desperate men in search of subsistence, and it brings the war toan end. We guess, however, that the discovery that many of these Fenians were old soldiers from the army of the Potomac had something to do with this offer of free transportation. The question now recurs, what becomes of Fenianism? The O'Mahony wing failed at Campobello, the Roberts-Sweeny wing have failed ina more extensive militery adventure for an Irish base of operations on this side the Atlantic, and now there only remains untried the plan of Stephens, the C. 0.1L R., and his “men in the gap.”” O’Mahony has fallen under ® cloud, Killian bas been killed off, Sweeny has collapsed, O’Neill found the enemy’s country too hot to liold him, Spear has retired in dis- gust, and now Stephens looms up again as the Head Centre. What chance is there for Stephens? None, we apprehend, just now, Between the O’Mahony Fenians and the Roberts Fenians the American field of Irish patriotism in the way of “greenbacks” has been pretty thoroughly harvested for the present. Our hard working Irish Americans will probably now think it better to send oveg to Ireland the fonds they can spare to assist in bringing. to this country the members of their families still left behind. than to contribute any more money to these Fenian adventurers for the present. General Sweeny has at least given a solemn warning to the British government that “England’s difficulty will be Ireland’s oppor tunity,” and that difficulty may come sooner than is generally anticipated. That the news of the invasion of Canada by the Fenians from the United States will create a lively sensation, net only in Ireland, but over all the British islands, we have no doubt. With the Conti- nent on the verge of a general war and with the republican revolutionary elements there awalt- ing the signal to rise, it is not Hkely that the op- pressed and impoverished working classes even of England are insensible of the advantages that may come to them for one of those bold movements for reform which end in sweeping revolutions. At all events, this Canadian flurry of the Fenians will rekindle the agitation |.case’ of the Irish question throughout the United Kingdom into s flame which cannot be ex- tinguished short of some important and sur- prising results, « ; Meantime, as England is warned that her retention of her North American possessions from the Fenians depends upon American neutrality, we think the occasion justifies an immediate demand upon the British govern- ment for those indemnities due on account of the losses inflicted upon American commerce, from 1861 to 1866, through England’s peculiar neutrality. We should like to hear of the re- opening of this subject, not through Mr. Seward and Mr. Adams, but through » special am- beesador to England with en altimatam fora eattlement. . The Reconstruction ; Mevemonts Afeot. Through our private advices from Washing- ton we sre informed that the constitutions! amendment, as it has passed the Senate, de- signed to cover the reconstruction and read- mission inte Congress of the lately rebellious States, will probably, without furtber modifica tion, be passed by the House to-day ander the previous question, in order that this amend- ment may be submitted without further lose of time to the States for ratification. We understand, farther, that an extra cession of our Legislature may be looked for tc inau- gurate this work of ratification and that It is supposed this example will be followed by other States. The republicans in Congress, we are also informed, are sanguine that the re- quired ratification of three-fourths of the State Legislatures can be secured to this amend- ment in season to restore to their places in Congress most if not allot the excluded States during the next session. It is believed that the bill which is to follow this constitutional amendment, giving those States ten years credit on their share of the national debt, will have a decisive inflence over them, ready cash being an article of which they are now sadly deficient ¢ We are not advised whether in those move- ments the co-operation of Congress and the President is expected; but as Congress has abandoned its main issue with the President— negro suffrage—and has adopted his policy, he will not, perhaps, think it worth while to pusb the war with the radicals to extremities on the issue between Executive and legislative usur- pation. There is some generalship in the idea of a special session of our State Legislature and of others, to ratify this amendment, as it will clear the decks and give the republicans the actual occupation of the field in advance of the coming fall elections. In this view we await the action of the House upon the Senate amend- ment as for the first step in a very important programme. The Quarantine at Seguine’s Point. The steps taken by the Health Commis- sioners to appropriate the old Quarantine grounds at Seguine’s Point for the treatment of the cholera patients who arrive at this port appear to create considerable dissatisfaction among the residents of that locality. Nor is it likely to entirely remove the danger of the disease being transmitted to this city. In the first place the location is not suitable for quar- antine purposes. A considerable portion of the Point is low, marshy land; the very worst place for that disease. The railroad runs guffi- ciently near for the infection from those at the Point to be communicated to those travelling over the road, and thus the disease will be brought to this city. The indignation of the residents in that locality over. the seizure of the Point is not, therefore, wholly without a cause., But the public, and especially the residents of that portion of Staten. Island, must bear in mind that the Health Commis- sioners were compelled under the pressure upon them to do something for the relief of the sick on the cholera ships. They were over run with cholera patients; men and women were dying every hour simply from the want of accommodations for their medical and sani- tary treatment. They knew not at what hour another vessel might arrive from Europe with the cholera raging at an alarming rate. Under these circumstances the Commissioners would have been derelict in their duties if they had not in come way provided additional facili- ties for the treatment of the sick. Humanity demanded something better for this purpose than the old hulks in which the sick and dying are now being huddled together. The Health Board found it necessary to se- cure some point om shore where the patients could be taken and treated es their several cases demanded. In looking over the whole field the only point which they could seize un- der the color of law was Seguine’s Point, the old Quarantine grounds and the property of the State. The fault is not with the Health Board, but with the State authorities, for not long before this providing suitable grounds for quarantine purposes on some of the islands far enough from the main land to have re- moved all possibility of the infection being communicated to the settlements at the sea- side. But we have no idea that it is intended to retain the Quarantine at this point perma- nently. The Board have taken possession for the purpose of meeting the present emer- gency and only to be used for that purpose until a permanent Quarantine can be estab- lished elsewhere—either on Barren Island or by the formation of a new island among the shoals between Seguine’s Point and Sandy Hook. Either can be done ina short time if the proper authorities will move at once. In the meantime we advise the residents of Staten Island to abstain from all forcible demonstra- tions and leave their cause in the hands of the general public. This, in the end, they will find will serve them better and secure the removal of the Quarantine from that section much sooner than in any other way. The fact that the swampy grounds form no small portion of the grounds now seized, as well as the danger of communicating the pestilence to this city, is sufficieat to awaken an interest here which will see that other grounds are secured as soon as possible. City Intelligence. Gznuas Faertvats—Tas Torwveer, Etc.—The Turn societies of the New York Turn District, embracing the societies of New York city, the New York Turnverein ‘and the Bloomingdale Turners, and those of the vicinity, will engage in a grand Turnfest at Jones’ Wood to-day. and give an exhibition of its im athletic oxer- All will bave to be till next Monday in cage the weather should be Vocal So- named John Dall teft here ins wagon to be married to & Miss Battie Mathison, living about six miles north of here, When about two mileson the road, he received « rifle ball through his body. He fell from the wagon and thinking by WASHINGTON. The Attempt te implicate Jeff Davis in the Assassination Piet. Allegations of Perjury and Se- cus Witmesses. Persistent Effort tc Release Jeff on Bail. &o. ae. Wasawctos, June 10, 1608, dBYE DAVIO AND THE ASSASSINATION CONSFIRA> OY¥—STARTLING REVELATIONS—THE QUESTION OP BIS RELEASE ON BALL. A New Yorker of the name of Campbell bas jest given to the world some queer revelations concerning the testimony lately adduced by the Judiciary Comat tee of the House tending to implicate Jeff Davis in the assassination plot He shows that a gross system of frauds and perjury bas been resorted to to prove Davis and others conspirators in the matter, and backs up Ris assertions by facts that startle all who are familiar with the testimony. It seems that many of the witnesses tem. tified under assumed names, and that no such persons a@ the ostensible and recorded witnesses exist. In additien to this, he atates that when Mr. Connory, who was the Principal witness or detective in the case, was asked to proceed to New York and procure some corroborating evidence of his own statements, which he had previeusty volunteered to furnish, that he gave the officer who was sent with him the slip in New York; has actually ram ‘away, 0s is supposed, to avold a prosecution for pexjary, and has not been heard from by the officer or committee for several weeks, Other witnesses have come forward and confessed to having sworn falsely. ‘The arrival of Horace Greeley, Augustus Schell, He- race T. Claik and other New Yorkers revived the rumers of Joff. Davis’ release on bail, and report went so fares to assert that Mr. Greeley was to be one of the bondsmea. When asked by a radical if he desired the release of Jeff he retorted by asking the interrogator if he was in faver of the indefinite imprisonment of the representative ef five millions of people without conviction or trial Mm Greeley was in consultation with Senators Chandler, Wi son and others on the subject of Davis’ liberation em bail, and favored it to the extent of alarming, if not di» pleasing, some of his party associates, He left for New York this evening. Mr. O’Conor is still here, but has thus far made little or no progress in the matter, The presumption Is that he expected to obtain some faves able consideration of the case, or he would not have ée voted eo much time to it, A day or two more is expest- ed to decide the matter, MAXIMILIAN’S ENVOY IN WASHINGTON. ‘The Count Resugurier, who is here for the Mexicam empire, is Maximilian’s Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Tn addition to dining with Speaker Colfax, General Ga» field and Senator Nye, he is known to have called apen Charles Sumner, but is believed to have received se em Couragement in that quarter. THE PARIS EXPOSITION. Announcements Lave been made by some of the Paris correspondents of the American press that several of the most stringent provisions of the French pateat low will be suspended during the Universal Exhibition of 1967, s0 thas mo patent mght cam be infringed if cer rectly secured. A-letter has been received from Com- missioner, Beckwith on the subject, in which he writes that this is an error, and that there has besa as suspension of giod‘fication of the patent laws, or of any portion of them, nor is any such measure com. templated by the Imperial Commission nor by the gow ernment. Both the laws and thé formalities will remain unaltered. It has also been stated that exhibitors free the United States will be permitted to display for eale duplicates of such articles contributed to the Expositien as they may desire to introduce to the notice of foreign purchasers, This ts practicable at all times; but ae change has been made nor intended to be made in the laws and regulations regarding foreign products \eaported for sale, All euch products will be subject to the equal duties and charges, TRIAL TRIP OF THE REVENUB CUTTER WAYTAMNDA, The Onited Statest revenue cutter,Wayanda made @ trial trip down the Potomac on Saturday, preparstery éo her departure for the Pacific coast, and acquitted hersetf to the satisfaction of all the government offichls en board. Secretary McCulloch and others were on the vessel to witness her working, and several officers of the wavy also accompanied her to test the efficiency of Brown & Level's life-saving tackle for lowering beate from the davits while the vessel was in motion. Pract cal seamen understand ¢his to be’a difficulty in gee@ weather and wholly impracticable in a rowgh sea under the old method. By means of this apparatus e boat wes lowered while the Wayanda was running at three-quarter speed, dropped into the water, and finally picked ep with her crew, in two minutes and thirty-five seconds, Its adoption on all government vessels is said to be de cided upon. The Yachting Season. The various yacht clubs have nearly completed thete @rrangements for their annual regattas, The Atlantis Club race will come off to-day, and that of the Brooklyn Club is to take place to-morrow. The race ef the latter is to be around Southwest Spit buoy, and es this is some six miles longer than the usual course—te buoy No. 9—the bylaws have been partially suspended, and the time extended (rom six to eighthurs. Twe steamers have been engaged for the occasion, the W. Fletcher for the judges and the Thomas F. Way for the ‘spectators, which may be considered an improvement ap far as the arrangements are concerned. It obviates the ‘necessity for a speedy return of the visitors and spesta- tors, so that the judges may be unencumbered. The Thomas P. Way will leave the foot of Fulton street a6 balf-past leven & M to-morrow, with the Governor's island vend to furnish the music the trip. There wil) probably be eleven of twelv the ricmnity. he. Fires im this City. Between three and four o'clock on Sunday aflernces @ ire occurred im the Frankfort Hotel, No. 203 Wilkam street, corner of Frankfort street. The accident it seome ‘took place in the lamp room on the first floor, -aused by ‘he vapor from some gasoline coming in contact with the gaslight. One of the boarders, named Robert King, im to extinguish the fre, was very badly burned em hen of the neured. aasist: SSriiion, tomas dar te Destractive Fire at Charlestown, Mase. Boerow, June 10, 1906. A most destructive fre broke out shortly before twelve Yolock last aight im the building on Main street, in 2 of tb caret of 1 most of the poor occupants their furniture. i i li 8a i i i H i 4 3 z $ i 3 i tH i [i ft at i i he

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