The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1866, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. —- rs Volume XXXI,....0.0-++++ veneeneeesseeM@e ATL AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, the St. Nicholas otel.—Tue Tunex StsreRs—Too Mucu ror Goop NaTums, jatinee at 1}; 0’ Clock. TAHRATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth @yeouc.—BuGtisa Orsaka—Tus Koss of Uastiis. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRBLS. 58 Broadway, opposite tan Hotel.—Krmoriam Sixcina, Daxcixa, &0— ‘ue COMMITTER ON Wars 4D MEANS. GRORGE CHRISTY'S—OuD Sowoou or MinstRecer, os, Musicat Guus. &c.. Fifth Avenue Upers House, os. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth street. MIDSUMMER war's Daan. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sax (Basuecer’s Minsteet ap Coxnination TT rou 4 Wire, Matinee at 2¢ o'Clock. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE. Brooklyn.— | red Buoruses—Tus Sixceists—Mapaue Zan- ‘ TERRACR GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty- ighth and Fifty-ninth streeta.—Tuxo. Twowne lca ADEN CONCERTS, commencing at Seven o'Clock. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermroriax Mise jermest—Hattaps, BURLESQUES AND PANTOMIMes. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. ‘Open from 10 A. M. till JOP. M. LOWE'S ARONAUTIC AMPHITHEATRE, Fifty-ninth Bireet and Sixth avenue.—BazooninG, Ticnt Kore axp Figeworas, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Corner of Twenty. jthird street and Fourth avenuc.—Exuisition or Omiginan ‘Wouxs sy Living Annists. New York, Wedne jay, June 20, 1866. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for the Wexxuy HeR4Lp must be handed 14m before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, imerchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country i increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- serted In the Weekty Heraxp will thus be seen by a largo portion of the active and energetic peopie of the United Siatos. THE NEWS. CONGRESS. Io the Senate yesterday Mr, Fessenden gave notice that he should ask the Senate, at one o'clock to-day, to take up the Tax bill, Mr. Sherman called up the Army Appropriation bill, and offered as an amendmenment an additional section appropriating $6,470,000 for the sup- port of the Freedmen’s Bureau, The amendment was agroed to and the bill passed. The bill in relation to the Dracific Railroad was then taken up, and after a lengthy disousston passed, In tho House Mr. Garfield called up the motion to re- consider the vote by which the bill to establish a De- partment of Education was, on the 8th of June, re- Jected. The vote was then reconsidered, and the bill was passed by 80 yeas to 44 nays. The House then pro- feveded to the consideration of the special order, being ‘tho bill reported from Mr. Schenck, from the Committee ou Military Affaire, on the 14th of June, to reorganize ‘ead establish the army of the United States. Twenty- iHive sections were discussed, eighteen more remaining ‘80 bo considered. The minority report of the Reconstruction Committee of Congress was presented to the House yesterday. The pminority was composed of Reverdy Johnson, Henry Grider and Andrew J. Rogera, They state solid facts ‘and arguments and strongly advocate the Immediate ad- ‘mission of Southera Representatives equally as a matter ot right and of policy. The report quotes largely from Goueral Grant, the speeches of Mr. Lincoln and the ction of the late sessions of Congress in support of its Propositions. THE CITY. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday. The report of the Redistricting Committee was received and adopt- od. The city by this report is divided into twenty-one Asombly districts instead of seventeen as heretofore. wo cases of cholera wore reported to the Health Board yesterday, and rumors wore current of several ethers throughout the city. The weekly report of deaths Phows a totalof three bvadred and fifty-five, mx of which were produced by cholera. One death had oc- urred on the hospital ship, bat no new cases were F pe ‘The now wing to the Bellevue Hospital, containing the Morgue, where the corpses of unknown persons afe laid wut for identification, was opened for inspection yester- slay, This.addition renders the Bellevue Hospitat fully qual in efficiency to the largest edifices of the kind in SLondon or Paris, The annual review of the squadron of the New York ‘Yacht Club took place yesterday. Although some of tho best vessels were not present to Be thrown open to ‘tho visita of the lady friends of the owners, the inspec- tion was decidedly successful. A meocting of the butchers’ association was convened yosterday to take action against the order of the Board of Health destroying slaughter houses in the city. The matter is to be tested in the courts, and the meeting piedged funds to sustain the action of the committee. A oumerously attended meeting of the members of the Kings county bar was held yesterday forenoon in the Supreme Court, Chambers, Brooklyn, for the purpose of exprossing their sentiments and condolence at the loss of the late Hon, James Humphrey. Addresses eulogiatic of Lue deceased were made by ex-Judges Greenwood and Birdseye, Judge Dikeman, J, M. Van Cott and Alden J. Spooner. Appropriate resolutions were adopted. A quantity of gun cotton in the premises No. 93 Crosby aireot exploded yesterday, shattering the windows and Trames and setting fire to the building. The damage a nounted to about two hundred and fifty dollars. At a moeting of the New York Historical Society last, evening General Dix presented the report of the exeou- ‘ve committee, embodying resolutions on the death of J.ieutenant General Winfleld Scott. General Dix pre- Faced the presentation of the report with a few remarks So eulogy of the dead chieftain. The commencement exercises of the New York Law University were in progress yesterday. Twelve gentie- mon obtained their degrees, and were admitted to prac- fice as attorneys and counsellors. Tho steamship Eagle, Captain Greene, will sail at three P, M. to-day, from plier No, 4, North river, for Plavana The mails will close at the Post office at haif- atone P.M. The stock market was fim yesterlay. Governments ‘wore heavy. Gold opened at 154), declined to 149%, Bod closed at 1555 a 163K. Commercial affairs weré completely unsettled by the great dectine in gold, and vaiues of all kinds of merchan- alive were exceedingly dificult to determine. The sales of nearly everything were at ® decline, bat prices were entirely nominal, and the sales reported yesterday are wm arceiy any index to the market to-day. Cotton and peroceries wore dull and easier, On ‘Change flour was wdull and commen qualities lower. Wheat was quiet. orn lower. Pork lower. Beef steady. Lard lower, PFreights dull, Whiskey nominal. Vetroleum a trifle Bower. The market for beef cattle was but poorly supplied [ehis week, and prices were nocordingly about onthe prrorage, higher, and the advance would have been far but for the fact that the butchers were well sup- (pptied Crom last weok's market, Prices varied from 13e. 186. Milch cows were dull at $35 to $96. Veale wore Prrm at from Bc. to 14. Sheep and lambs were active jand higher, ranging from $4 to $10. Hogs were also jective and firmer, varying from 1040. to lijje. The oral receipte were 6,162 beeves, 80 cows, 1.685 veals, ae sheep and lambe and 14,521 hogs MISCELLANEOUS. Ry the bark Susan Jane, Captain Huxford, at thee port prsiontay, wo have advices from the French West Indies, “dated at Polnt-a-Pitre, Guadaloupe, on the 29th of May Wrive sugar crop had an abundant yield, but the supply Jor market was likely to fall short, owing te & want of ands to gather it, 80 fatal had been the ravages of the aan among the colored population, About fifteen howsand of this class ef the inhabitants had died of the f s.ase on the istand. The city of Point-i-Pitre was free from the disease when the Scsan Jane left, The weather Pras warm and dry. } We have files from Bermuda to the 13th of June, ut the papers contain nothing of interest. Governor 1 bad opensd the Colonial Legistature, During his ion ue: galds—""L regret that I cannot speak in com gratulatory torms of the financial condition of the col- ony. The provision made for the services of the current year has proved insufficient to meet the demands upon it With the additional demand now made by the im- perial goverament I much fear that it will prove imposs!- bie to proyide efficiently for the public service without the imposition of additional taxation." ‘It is rumored in St Albans that the Canadian govern- ment has made @ demand for the extradition of Generals Sweeny, Spear, O'Neil end other Fenian officers. It is Suthoritatively denied that’ the President or any other government official gave assurances to the Fenians that they would pot be interfered with {f they attempted e raid on Canada, General Sweeny is expected in this city to-day. Tt ts ‘stated’ that the Prosident yesterday sent to the Senate the nomination of Governor Holden, of North Carolina, to bé Minister at San Salvador. ‘The Comptroller of the Treasury has decided that m atilated national bank notes must be sent to the offices from which they were issued, for redemption. All United ‘States notes when not defaced more than to the extent of one-twenticth will be redeemed at the Treasury De- partment at their full face value, Wisen the mutilation is greater the redemption will be in proportion. The Cadets’ ball took place in the Academic Butlding, West Point, on Monday evening. The last parade of the graduating class was held yesterday afternoon on the Infantry plain. Attorney Goneral Speed arrived yesterday at the Academy, with his son, who is a cadet, and was received with customary honors, Dick Turner, the turnkey of Libby Prison, who has been in confinement since the fall of Richmond, was re- eased on Monday by order of the Secretary of War. ‘The brig Edwinston was wrecked at Little River Head on Monday, off Eastport. She was bound to St, Johns. The bark Winslow, for Portland, was ashore at Muskeyet, ‘Music Hall, Boston, on Monday evening was the ecene of very pleasant exercises, occasioned by a committee of, officers of the Seventy-first regimont of this city pre- senting the Independent Boston Fusileers with an olabo- rate testimonial, consisting of large size photographs of the members of companies B and ff of the Seventy-first. Lieutenant Colonel Coles made the presentation speech, which was responded to by Captain Proctor, of the Fu- sileers, The ships Saco, Savannah, Winnepec, Marblehead, yacht America and the flagship Macedonia, Captain Lace, acting Commodore of the fleet, were to have sailed yesterday from Annapolis as a practice fleet for the naval students at the academy. The course of the squadron will be along the northeastern coast, it is understood, and it will lay a while at Nowport. ‘The disaster which occurred on the Norwich Railroad recently was occasioned by one car being blown from one track to another by a heavy wind, causing a collision with itby a freight train. A fireman was killed and another employ’ of the road badly scalded. The Freedmen’s Convention for the purpose of me- morializing Congress on the subject of the elective fran- chise and trial by colored jury, meets in Augusta, Goor- gia, in July. The dolegates were elected on Bureau and Anti-Bureau tickets. Generals Grant and Sherman were in Cincinnati yes- terday. Goneral Grant starts for Washington this morn- ing and General Sherman was to have started for St Louis last night. Two men were found dead in their beds in Poighkeep- sio yestorday, and a colored woman and an Irish laborer dropped dead in Hadson on Sunday. " In the provincial Parliament at Ottawa, Canada, yes- terday notice was given that the documents received from Judge Coursol, relative to the St. Albans raiders, would be called up for the consideration of the mom- en disasters on the Lake are reported, as a conse. quence of the storm on Sunday night. The schooners Highland Chief, Almira, Josephine, Darien, and Suff-ll, were blowa ashore on Lake Michigan, and three other vessels are wrecked, whose names are unkuown. Over twenty vessels are reported in the lakes as wrecked or partially damaged. ‘The attendance at tho Hoboken races was quite large yesterday. The second race was won by Knighthood against Richmond, and the third race, of two mile heats, for which there were six entrics, was won by Climax Neither Climax nor Knighthood were favorites during the pool selling, and a large quantity of money was won by the few individuals who wore shrewd enough to invest on them. A fire on Washington street and another on Tremont street, in Boston, occurred yesterday and the evening before, The loss is estimated at $60,000. The Excladed States—The Enabling Act Before Congress. On Monday last, in the House of Represent- atives, Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, submitted a resolution, which was adopted, requesting the President to transmit forthwith to the Gover- nors of the several States the constitutional amendment which has passed both branches of Congress respecting citizenship, suffrage as the basis of representation, rebel disqualifica- tions for office, the sacredness of the national debt, the repudiation of all rebel debts and all claims for slaves, &c. A compliance with this resolution being only an act of official cour- tesy, of course the President will comply. In- deed, before the resolution was offered, he had officially announced, through the State Depart- ment, the action of Congress on this amend ment as complete. So far, then, this business of reconstruction is transferred from Congress and the adminis- tration to the States and the people. But this ‘amendment is only the corner stone of the Congressional plan or the beginning of the work. The regular order of the day on Mon- day last in the House was a bill from the Com- mittee of Fifteen providing for the restoration of the States lately in insurrection to their full political rights. The reporter concerned does not give us a bint of the details of the bill; but we take it to be the enabling act, which pro- vides that when this amendment shall have be- come part of the constitution aad when any one of the States implicated in the late rebel- lion shall have not only ratified this amend- ment, but modified its local laws accordingly, the members to Congress from euch States, if duly elected and qualified, shall be admitted; and, furthermore, that the State fulfilling these conditions shall have a credit of ten years in reference to its quota of the national debt on the presentation of satisfactory securities to the Secretary of the Treasury in view of payment when due. Now the question recurs, about what time may we expect Tennessee, for instance, to be reinstated in Congress under this enabling act? The amendment in question must first be ratified by three-fourths of the States, includ- ing Tennessee; and the State Legislature must then revise all its local laws in conformity with this aforesaid amendment, excluding rebels from office, among other things, subject to ab- solution, by » two-thirds vote of Coi and putting whites and blacks upon footing of perfoct equality under the State authority, &e. This is a process of purification as by fire and water which will not be finished this side the coming Presidential election. The object of the bill is evidently job of work which will keep out of Congress and our federal elections all the now excluded States antil after the set- tlement of the question of the next Presidency and the Congress to be elected at the eame time. This point secured, the admission of the excluded States may be delayed and put off for two or three, or ten or twenty years longer, according to the convenience of the dominaat party. There is no guarantee in this bill that the States directly concerned will ever be restored under its operation to their fall political rights. It is a device of the party in power to retain its power by the continued exclusion from the government of the States which might tan the seals, But this thing must come to an cease to exist as that of a republic. We can not undertake the indefinite exclusion and alienation of eleven States of the Union from the national councils without hasarding the gravest consequences. Nor is there any other way of superseding this plan and the party Proposing it than through the elections for the next Congress; but this remedy is simple enough and may be made effective. Let the people of the North who desire a practical restoration of the Union without further pretexts and ex- pedients of delay and who are anxious to see law and order, confidence and industry, com- merce and prosperity restored over the South, take their ground for a new Congress of new men and conservative principles, and the game is in their bands, Republican candidates for governors may be worthy patriots and popular men. Republican constitutional amendments and platforms may be all well enough in their way; but these things should not divert the public attention from the main question—the elections of the coming fall for the next Congress. The real issue, we say, covered over as it may be with disguises, will still continue the same—the indefinite exclusion or speedy res- toration to a voice in the government of the eleven Southern States, rescued by fire and sword from a suicidal rebellion. They have laid down their arms, they have met the con- ditions prescribed by President Johnson—sub- stantially the policy of this amendment from Congress—they are trying to prove their loy- alty to the Union by their good works, and if they cannot all at once be relieved of their prejudices in regard to the black man and be made to embrace him as an equal and a brother, they are still entitled to some indul- gence. The white men of the North, equally responsible for all the sins of negro slavery, in setting it up as a political idol with the creation of the government, have no right to pass a harsh judgment on this account against the South. For this blunder, which was worse than the crime, the North and the South have paid the penalty of the bloodiest civil war in the history of the hu: family. Now, this great stum- bling block of Southern slavery being removed, with all its pernicious and ferocious influences upon the body politic, what have we to fear trom the despoiled, disarmed, prostrate and poverty-stricken people of the South? They are powerless for any further mischief; but they may, with a little encouragement, greatly assist us of the North in the payment of-our national debt, Let honest, patriotic Northern men consider all these things in making up their tickets for the next Congress. Canadian Cheek a Fenian Indem- nity Qu jon. Ancient and modern literature contain many examples of that kind of unhlush:ng im- pudence popularly denominated cl There was Iago, who did his utmost to ruin the man who had befriended him; Jingle, in “Pick- wick,” who repaid Wardle’s hospitality by eloping with the maiden aunt; Claude Duval, the gentlemanly highwayman, who robbed the ladies uo politely that they were rather pleased than otherwise; Joseph Surface, in the School for Scandal, whose sentiments were as ad- mirable as his conduct was abominable; the pious Aneas, who heartlessly seduced Dido in return for her kindness to him and his party ; the old man in “Sinbad,” who strangled those who were good enough to give him a lift; Lady Macbeth, who appeared delighted to receive the guest whom she intended to murder; Robert Macaire, wao was equally remarkable for his scampishness and bis graceful urbanity; the Artful Dodger, who would pick the pockets of the gentlemen who were giving him alms; Charles Courtley,in London Assurance, who denied his identity to his own father; Chevy Slyme, in “Martin Chuzalewit,” who only abused those who befriended him; Falstaff, who was a coward upon instinct and boasted of the armies he had slain; Jemmy Twitcher, who indignantly defended himself against the charge of stealing egzs by asserting that he “didn’t suck ’em;” the radicals in Congress, who denounced the President's reconstruc.ion plan for five months and then ended by adopt- ing it; Jeff Davis, who has the conscience to declare that he does not consider himself guilty of treason. But far beyond and above all these instances is the check of the Canadians, who are now talking about demanding indemnitics from the United States government for the damages inflicted by the Fenians. When we remember that if it had not been for the vigorous action of this government the Fenians would have conquered Canada off- hand, and when we recall the amiable and Christian conduct of the English and the Cana- dians during our rebellion, we can fully appre- ciate the stupendous impudence of this contem- plated demand. Why, if we had modelled our neutrality after that of England, the Fenian capital would now be established at Toronto or Montreal, and the British flag could not be seen floating upon this continent unless it-had the triumphant Fenian banner above it. At the time our authoritics interfered in the quar- rel the Fenians had effected a lodgment upon Canadian soil, had whipped the Canadian vol- unteers at Limestone Ridge and only needed reinforcements and ammunition to sweep every- thing before them as easily as Sherman did dur- ing his famous march to the sea. Our government saved Canada when nothing else could save it. The provinciale—whe are all amall-potato peo- ple, or they would have annexed themselves to the United States years ago—were frightened out of their few wits by the Fenian advance. Gold went up to two hundred in Montreal ; whole towns emigrated across the border to scek safety under the Stars and Stripes, and half a dozen Fenian cavalrymen captured and held ® Canadian village while the troops that should have defended it took to their heels. Now these very same provincials display their grat- ftude to this government for protecting them and suppressing the Fenians by demanding that we shall pay for the damage done to fences, corncribs and pantries by the Fenian army, although it is a matter of record that all such affairs were settled on the spot by the ten- der of bonds of the Irish republic. The fact that England still declines to remunerate us for the depredations of the piratical vessels which were fitted ont in her ports, armed from ber arsenals ‘and manned by her seamen, gives additional piquancy to the proposed demand for dam- ages resulting from an incursion which our government promptly checked and defeated. On the whole, we regard ‘his display of cheek as quite unparalleled, and we congratalate the t nadians u| having at last discovered sonsithe inehich they etoel all the rest of the world. end some day, or the ‘government ‘itself will | Question. ‘The excitement in reference to Mexico scoms to have been all of a sudden transferred from the Rio Grande to Washington. Now that Na- poleon has decided to withdraw his troops, there is » perfect effervescence among the fac- tions and great activity among all classes to obtain a foothold in that country. Washing- ton is just now the.centre of their operations, where numerous schemes are presented for the approval of Congress or indorsement by the administration, All manner of projects are presented, from making a President of the re- public down to fishing for pearls; from a loan in Congress to @ speculation in eilver mines, The correspondence which we published yes- terday furnished a general idea of the projects now under consideration in and out of Con- gress and developed many new and interest- ing features in the Mexican muddle. It is ap- parent that there is no lack of schemes, p&tented and otherwise, to save the republic; but we very much doubt if any of them will furnish the necessary relief if adopted. Taking the propositions offered altogether they present a very curious jumble. First we have Romero, begging of Congress for assist- ance and trying to secure all that he can, with as few promises on the part of Mexico as possi- ble. At the same time he is busy denouncing Santa Anna and other Mexicans, evidently fearing that they will step in and carry off the prize. He therefore hangs on to the coat-tails of the Lower California speculators, in the hope of saving himself by disposing of a por- tion of the territory of Mexico, if by no other way. While these things are fomenting Santa Anna arrives with a proposition to res- cue the republic, details of which have not as yet been made public. Next in turn comes General Ortega, the legal President of the republic, with a proposition toe enter into a treaty, embracing either a loan by our government to the republic, or the sale of some of our surplus war material in ex- change for Mexican bonds, for which he offers as an additional inducement a guarantee of special privileges to the commerce of the United States. There are also three proposi- tions for a government loan pending betore the Committee on Foreign Affairs—one presented several months since; the second introduced by Thad Stevens, to be secured by a mortgage on Lower California, Sonora, Sinaloa or Chi- huahbua, with the idea, no doubt, of some day foreclosing it and annexing these States to this country. Then we have the resolution of Rep- resentative Kelley, securing « guarantee of our government to all citizens of the United States for the payment, according to the terms thereof, of all loans of the republic of Mexico now offered or hereafter to be offered, not to exceed fifty millions of doHars. These, with the Lower California job of Butler, Alphabet Barlow and Company, contain the substance of the several propositions presented which the Committee on Foreign Relations is now con- sidering. The parties interested in the mean- time are anxiously waiting the result. What will be the result of all this intrigue and wire-pulling, or who will come out the suc- cessful party in this Mexican muddle, it is im- possible at presont to tell. A great deal fle- pends upon tae course adopted by Mr. Banks’ committee, and also whether Congress has more regard for a few speculators and the lobby thao it has tor the interests ot the republic of Mexico and the extension of our commerce into that country. It is very evident, now that Thad Stevens has put hig shoulders to the wheel, that Congress intends to do something for that re- public; but whether it will take the shape of indorsement of the Butler and Barlow pearl fisheries, a present to Romero, a loan secured by a mortgage, alliance with Santa Anna ors treaty with Ortega for the benefit of our com- merce, future events alone can determine. At all events this Mexican question bids fair to become the all-absorbing topic for some time to come. The equabble of the tactions to have a hand in its management will be not only in- teresting but amusing. In the meantime Maxi- milian’s empire is gradually falling to pieces, and to all appearances he is in as much need of financial assistance as the republic. He will, no doubt, soon be reduced to such straits that he will abandon the country in disgust and seek retirement in Europe, where crowned heads are more respected than they are on this continent. Tus Inrerxat, Revenve Br w THe Sexate.— The Senate Committee on Finance has at last re- ported the Internal Revenue bill to the Senate with a namber of amendments. The number of articles placed on the free list has been in- creased, while om many others there has been a reduction of the amount of tax required. Among the most important reductions is that on cotton, from five to two cents per pound. This is perhaps wise under the circumstances, tariff is being advanced in the same propor tion as gold rises by the action of gold itself, ard that if it was high enough before it is much higher now. They) seem, too, to be mystified as to the causes affecting the price of gold at the present time, when they cry out for a sudden contraction of the currency. If the volume of paper money afloat was but half what it really is there is every probability that gold would, other circumstances being identi- cal, be selling quite as high as it is now; and yet on Monday morning it touched the almost startling figure of 168%. In order to form a correct opinion of the gold question we require to look upon the precious metal as a commodity controlled by the same laws of supply and demand as regu- late the price of any other article of commerce, which it simply is during a period of suspen- sion. An exceptional state of affairs in Europe, to wit, the threatened war in Germany and Italy and the financial embarrassments caused thereby, has increased the necessities of our foreign creditors, who have sought relief by calling upon us for payment of debts due. These balances we could only pay in gold, and this we had to buy and ship; and in proportion as we bought and shipped and were likely to continue so to do, the price rose till it reached the high elevation we have quoted. To infer from this, however, that the country is threatened with ruin or distress is a grave misconception of the situation. The rise in gold will work its own cure by stimulating ex- ports both of produce and securities and dimin- ishing importations, and so turning the ex- changes in our favor. It is more than, likely that we have already felt the worst effecis of the European war news, and that the drain of spetie from our shores will not be much longer protracted. Although the outbreak of hostilities on the Austrian and Prussian frontiers was hourly regarded as more imminent at the date of our latest European advices, it is noticeable that the espect of financial affairs was improving, especially in England, as the quotations for console and American securities by the China indicate. And it is more than likely that the comfnencement of war will produce a feeling of relief calculated to promote a recovery of prices. This country has more to gain than to lose by the threatened war. It will make our securities the most desirable, both for safety and profit, that the Germans and Italians can invest in, and it will be strange if foreign capi- tat does not find its way here to a large amount, while, in addition to creating an in- creased demand for our breadstuffs and other produce, it will be likely to quicken the tide of emigration hitherward. There is, consequently, no reason why we should look forward to the probable conflict with the slightest dread. There is still less reason why the radical contractionists should clamor for a curtailment of the currency, now that prices are adjusted to its volume and faith in the public credit, based upon a revenue of five hundred millions, is strong beyond dispute, and when gold, by its fluctuations, excessive as they sometimes are, acts as the safety valve of commerce. roe Brooklyn City News. Trmore to THe Late Hon, Janes Howraney—Meenna or rar Brooxurs Bar.—A mumerousiy attended meet- ing of the Brooklyn bar was held yesterday forenoon in the Special Term room of the Supreme Court, to express thoir sense of the loss sustained by the death of the Hon. James Humphrey. Judge Morse was elected chairman, and Mr. Bonedict, secretary. Ex-Judge John Greenwood o td eae im @ very touching eulogy on the 4 , conch his remarks by moving the ap- pointment of a committee of three gentiomen to propare resolutions appropriate to the memory of Mr. sens em The motion was adopted, and the followmg na: se. tlemen were appointed such committee :—Ex-Judge John Greenwood, on gndge Lucien Birdseye and General Philip & Crooke. After a briet interval the committee retura- ed, when the following resulutions were presented -— Resolved, That the sad and sudden dosth of the Jpmes Humphrey. te an ocramon requiring of the bar of county an expression of their jor ings y P ceo vege many virtaes and bis lose. considering the embarrassments attending the | fem te en ee at ewer und epee mane production of that article in the transition from | {sited wrth these charactersiles the kindest, moet courteous the old system of slave to free labor. Two ofthe pomrger ond pamiaiem, wae, never, Etnenes estas if pro! ‘of official contexte ‘Of private life. His private, professional and public fife are ail'slike Torthy of him and grateful to the affection- “‘huccatved, That tue members of the bar of Kings count ww in 9 bod; —- funeral of our departed fricad. o& Resolved, That Of these resol: chairman and secretary of thie meecing. family of Mr. Humphrey, with our heartfelt yz them in thelr bereavement ‘our hope that they find comfort in the assure: |. a8 he was pare and true in life, and eaveemed of all men, so now, as we trust and deheve, he ie Bappily at reat. eS ee ee ae fon of the resolutions. Fulogistic addresses ‘ere thew made doshas M. Van Cott, ex a Bicdee) Henry ©. Murphy, ‘Alden J. r Judge Diteman. The were |, also & resolution that the bar attend the funeral of Mr. Humphrey this afternoon at three o'clock, from the Church of the Piigrims. Tas Strovo Liner, Sort. —This ease is stil! on trial in the Supreme Court of Kings county, before Judge Bar. nard. The whole of yesterday was occupied in taking testimony as to the character of Senator Strong. The testimony is closed om both sider, and the case will be summed up today, after which the matter will be given to the jury. The case threnghout has only had a local interest, milan amotg ward politicians and professional ite cents is sufficient to establish the principle, while it cannot prove an embarrassment to the planter. It will test the question of the feasi- bility of the tax. There are other points in the amendments which suggest very forcibly the idea that moneyed corporations have been able to accomplish more in the Senate than in the House of Representatives. One of the most serious questions connected with the internal revenue is the success with which corporations and those interests which can unite and raise a large fund for feeing lawyers meet in their efforts to reduce and evade their tax. The ex- tent to which this has been accomplished here- tofore has awakened the serious apprehensions of many honest taxpayers as to whether the government intends to make the burdens equal or place the great bulk of our taxes upon the middle classes, who are unable to contribute toa fund to secure their exemption. It will be well if the Senate bears these facts in mind and in acting upon the different sections of the bill takes care that there shall be no loophole for injunctions or other subterfuges now being resorted to to evade the payment of the tax required by law. No Exrort Derr on Corrox—In the House of Representatives, on Monday last, Mr. Thad Stevens introduced a joint resolution proposing to amend the constitution of the United States by an article providing that “Congress shall have power to lay an export duty or tax on cotton exported from the United States.” A member, probably with view to refreshing the memory of Mr. Stevens, suggested that a similar amendment had already been referred to the Judiciary ComimMites. In order to show that his recollection rras still clear on the eub- A Sap Acaipent.— Yesterday Coroner Smith held an inquest, in Witliamsbarg, on the body of a little child, pamed Annie Rupp, about two years old, who was so Dadly injured by « plank falling on her, on Monday evening, that she died in the course of the mght. a boy who was carryipg the board Jet it fe accident. The ebild’s parents reeide at 60 Grab: 1, ED died on the 29h of May at his residence, Elgin Villa, Shawlands. Professor Roger was cae of the moet dis. Aingnished of American savans, and the only one who has received the compliment of a foreign whair Jersey City Newrn ALumcen Case or Pensery.—A man named George Ges entered the store of Alderman Daris on Monday aud demanded payment of a bill, bot “he store being full of people the proprictor could not accommodate him for rome time, Gee became insoler.t, and was ejected fram the store, whereupon he made a complaint to Justice Cutter that a violent aseutt had been committed on him, and the Alderman was arrested and bound over to appear. Tho latter then made a charge of perjury oat 0 90 om Gee, who wana turn arrested " mm Of 8609 10 Binawer. than Ofty years his ; times as a Roalcn, Searing. ihe soeerye ot wet py ie at others carrying his country’s , and obstacles far © than Cortez whea he Chief Justice a a fe actos ztece, Daly also made & low appropriate {uaarks Of ttle mame salject, when the resolutions were i adopted, Al riate resolutions were also. off on the death? of General fel roy hd continued yesterday. At nine A. M., in the couscl rooms, a number of young gentlemen, applicants for admission, were examined by the Professors béfore Cham- cellor Ferris. The usual branches of an academic course were given, including Greok, Latin and mathematics. ‘The anoual commencement of the law school took last evening at eight o’clock, in the large chapel of the University. Out of a class of fifteen fetta gentiomen ‘attorneys and counsellors. exercises sion were both interesting and entertaining, orations being delivered by two geptiemen of the class and an oration on the relation between lawyer client by Mr, Wm. Allen Butler. | The audience was cen Be poet co J. By Alex. “ nest Hall, John Hamilton, Hyatt Daniel P. Lippincott, M. M. Livi BF. Seaver, W. B, Sinclair, H. Wallace Lemuel 4 year, as ing Bo 4 Brot Baird; ‘Treasurer, 'Pre@ ry. Hupeow River Barnsr Association (Sovrm).—The am- nual Convention of the Hudson River Baptist Association (South), commenced its session in this city yesterday morning in the Madison avenue Baptist church. The a» sociation ‘embraces one hundred and forty-six churobes, in this city, Brooklyn, and the district on the C3 Yonkers, The interest of various Baptist churches enrolled in the association, relating to increase of membership and other tokens ef that of an! Peet an meameene of South Carolina, recogni e ‘and consequently there was no Sab- bath, whereby the law becomes null and void. resolution was to the effect that the thanks of of the city of New York be offered to the Excise for their prompt and decssive aciion. Exrtosios or Gun Cortos 1m Crosnr Sraeet.—At about ated from No. 93 Crosby street, inthe yard, caused by the explosion of some gun cotton placed there to dry by the manufacturer, who alleged that the explosion was caused in consequence of the occupant of the drst floor ing @ charcoal furnace near the cotton, is remonstrance. The force of the explosion the Ry Ae — ee as eee in iy’ be second floor, damag' @ building o extent twenty five dollars. MF. Davies’ loss will be about three hundred and fifty dollars. No insurance. New Evouvre Texpen.—Chief Engineer Kingsland has made arrapgementa to have an additional teader, com- taining each about five handred feet of hose, placed ta every engine house on the 4th of July, and two mem detailed to take charge of and use the same. Tax Case ov Cant Nostre.—It is understood that thie case will be argued before Judgo Nelson, at Cooperstown. Noelte, it will be remembered, is charged with having emberzled several thousand thalers, the property of Moyer & Co., bankers, Berlin, Pruasia, in whose employ- ment he had been engaged ax clerk. He ts at dotained in the custody of the Sherift of New York, holds bim under an order of arrest in a civil action. Counsel.on behalf of the Prassian ment bas made several ineffectual motions before 7 Newton to compel the Sheriff to hand Noelte over to the ‘States suthorities, so that, according to process he may be sent back to Prussia for trial; and the — Lgl and ong Hatoon 6 to Set us t jon, if possible, Morshal Murray Noeite by force out of ‘the Sheriff's custody. Tox NeeragAwvca, Scaverzex Fustrvat.—The ninth anaual festival of the New York Schuetzen Corps, com- é daring the engaged in prize aoe rte first oan secured by Mr. who shot down the crown of the double bird, whieh be the second prize, a@ the first dest will bo da and « on the third day. Prison vows Gott soveree Gord shot down the right crown, ir. Joiies Kora, who, broaght. down the left "hy Me. Fink, who made the right wing fall; aud by Mr. F. W. Scboler- mann, who shet of the wing. Om the third day there is always an interesting ceremony, which is to be performed by a number of young ladies. Scwoot E:xmarriox.—An exhibition of colored Grammar School No. 2 was given last evening at Cooper Institute, the receipts-to be used in lignidating the debt of St ment, aasteted by Mr. Wa ‘mcipal patna tt 5 of choruses, duets, dialogues and recitations by the scholars, The musie was under direction of Professor William Appo. A dia- logue by Masters Morris, Spelman and Holeom) was woll given. A tabiona flnished the evening's entertaramens, The hall was well filled by an audience chiefly of colored people. Ave yor The Scaxpixavian Ewronaxts, —Contributions Scandinavian emigtants now on the cholera show St the Lowe ‘wilt be rooeiwed by Mr. H. Dnowsrn.—On Monday last four young men, named W. L. Van Nost, ©. P. Ryor, of this etty, aud Charios Crawford and Heary Morgan, of Wilm ngton, Delaware, went on & fishing excursion along Ue Jermey suure, a when about a quarter of a wile from Christine creek they were upest by & squall, and young Ryor waa drowned before assistance coald be rendered him. The others tn owimming ashore. As Ryor wae comparatively a stranger W the party, his resdence in thisehty is at present unknown . Parts Frant.—There is much excitement in sporting circles in this city and Washington over the prowpert of a “mill” between two New York prize fighters, whica, if not interfered with by tho 11 take place some whore on the Virginia sido of ctoday, The waa 90 Souter 9 so nae gar 9, haan’ o, from New ¥