The New York Herald Newspaper, June 24, 1866, Page 4

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Postage five cents per copy for three months. Volume XXXI1. sereeeeee NOs 175 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—Broraen Sam—INvisiBLe PRINOE. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth Avenue.—Kwo.is OreRa—A Nicut ix Rome. GEORGE CHRISTY’S—OLD Scuoor or MiNstRELsY, Baxiaps, Muscat Guus. &c.. Fifth Avenue Opera House, 08. West Twenty-fourta street. —Souxmuxn- uoxs's Bor. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sam Saanruxr's MINSTREL amp Comsixation Teoure—VoL 40 NT. SAN FRANCISCO Metropolitan Hotel. — Tue Nacaka Lyar 01 STRELS, 535 Broadway, opposite HIOPIAN SINGING, DaNciXa, &C.— ue BUSY FAMILY, \ BRYANTS’ MECHANICS’ HALL, No. 472 Broadway.— Cuancer Wutre’s Compination Trovrr i 4 Variety or dagut ann Lavonasie ENrextanmunts.—Tux Arans. MRS. ¥. B. CONWAY'S PARK TITEATRE. Brooklyn.— Jas Manion Brotugas—Tua Sixosiste—Mapauw Zan. KETTA, TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenne, between Fifty- gighth and Fifty ninth streets.—Tuxo. Tuomas’ OncuRsTRAL GarveN Concerts, commencing at 8 o'Clock. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Ermioriay Mise erresy—BatLaps, BURLESQURS AND PANTOMIMES. NEW YORK MPSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P, SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, 645 Broadway.—"Fan- ~ New Yerk, Sunday, June 24, 1866. CONGRESS. Both houses of Congress were in session yesterday. In ‘the Senate a bill was introduced to secure the speedy construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and to se- cure the use of the same to the government for postal end military purposes, The bill requiring parties ap- pealing from the primary examiners in patent cases to pay afee of ten dollars was passed. The joint resolu- tions authorising the leasing of a building for the State Department and to provide for the publication of the official history of the rebellion were adopted. The Tax Dill was taken up and considerable progress made, when the Clerk of the House announced the action of that body on the death of Hon. James Humphrey. Mr. Mor- gan delivered a eulogy on the deceased, and the Senate adjourned. But little business was transacted in the House except of « private character. Mr. Waskturn, of Massachu- setts, presented the records of an investigation into the accounts and official conduct of George N. Carlton, spe- cial agent and acting surveyor of customs at Memphis, showing the government to have lost about half a mil- lion dollara, The subject was referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency. The Committee on Mining reported resolutions recommending an increased duty on foreign copper of at least sixty cents per pound on ingot ‘and three cents on fine copper, which was referred to the Ways and Means Committee. Several claim bills were reported and passed, when Mr. Darling announced the death of Hon. James Humphrey. Appropriate eulogies were pronounced and resolutions adopted, and, as a further mark of respect, the House adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS. Our correspondent in Toronto, ©. W., furnishes a very important letter, dated June 23, touching the po- litical situation in the British North American colonics generally, as affected by the confederation scheme of the home government and the late Fenian invasions, He takes the position that “manifest destiny’ points un- erringly to annexation to the United States, and that the righ movement at Eastport demonstrated tho facile practicability of a conquest of the Canadian territory by our government at any moment. Confederation will be hurried through to its realization as a set-off to this condition of affairs and shaped as a menace to the American Union. The Fenians, he thinks, rendered the success of the scheme certain, and tho ex ample just set by tho colonists of New Brunswick at their elections will be used as a powerful argument in support of the attempt to weld the provinces under one executive, Religious differences, fomented by the off- cialg of England for use in former days, are likely to prevent any cordial union, as at this very moment the Orangemen of Upper Canada are waging a ferce war on tho grant of @ separate school fund which has been guarnateed to the Catholics of Lower Canada as a sop to gaia their support to the measure, The abrogation of the Reciprocity treaty, the writer thinks, retards annex- ation to the United States, The first fruits of confedora- tion, it is alleged by ite advocates, will be to consolidate British power on the continont and “attract” the border Population of the United States towards Canada, the “queleus of a great government.” Goneral Napier, commander of the Canadian forces, on Friday issued an order mastering out the volunteers called to arms to repel the late Fonian invasion. Gene- ral Napier took occasion to impress upon the minds of tue volunteers that, although the late Fenian attack had proved a failure, the organization still existed and medi- tated a renewal of the invasion, and that they should continue to perfect themselves in drill and discipline, 80 ‘as to successfully repel any future aggression that may be altempted. One of our correspondents in Canada reports that a little skirmish took place on Friday evening, at Pigeon Hill, Canada, between a small reconnoitering oarty of Fenians and a company of Canadian light in- antry. Severn! shots were fired on each side, bat no ne was injured, and the Fenians retreated across the 18 into the States, Sur special correspondence from Vienna and Florence M the newspaper reports published to-day contain Thortant details of the European news to the 10th of Sho, particularly with reference to the probable issue Obhe great Italo-German war struggle. It is intimated 6 Austria and Russia, in alltance, may penci! outa new ‘B® of Europe, bat arranged in pian completely different fro that eketched by Napoleon and Bismark. G correspondent travelling with Generals Stedman Andullorton furnishes us with another communication, containg interesting Information in regard to the work- 10g \the Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama The same iil fee ig manifested by the poor whites towards the Diack® Alabama as in the other States through which the cottission have passed; and it ts shown pretty con- clusivelyhat such antipathy ts general throughout the South, Ye burean appears to bo administered with Tiuch gremp guccoss in Alabama, under General Swayne, (han in thegates recently visited. The agents exercise ho Judicial fers whatever, their duties berng simply to relieve thttestitate, to supply a friendly arbitration in disputes aso wages, and to report to the military au- {orities any Os of outrage or oppression against the fo-dmen; and ye existence of the bureau has excited Jess prejudice am hostility among the citizens of Ala- Yava than almosanywhere else, and at the same time the negroes have gen protected in their rights, Joun Bright's réyarks, in the English House of Com- mous, lo oppositids to the law of primogeuiture in the irhusmission of ha,estate in England may be regarded the Grst direct tarning of chango given by the people ~ & Was GoUUEY Vo Ke poorage aud aristocracy, * There was but little business done yesterday; but the Nsw YORK HERALD,’ SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1866. Rumors were in circulation yeaterday relative to the increase of cholera, but, with three exceptions, there was no truth in the report, An affray occurred in a low house of prostitution, No. 114 Centre street, about ton o'clock last night, in which the proprietor, Charles Heinner, a German, forty-six years of age, shot James Brennan, a native of the United States, twenty-four years of age, killing him instantly, the ball entering the heart, The argument on the oconstitutionality of the new Excise law was commenced yesterday in the General Sessions, before Recorder Hackett, the matter having been brought up on » demurrer to seven indictments for violating the act, Mossrs, James T. Brady, District At- tormey Hall and Mr. Tracy discussed the questions in- volved, and the argument will be resumed on Thursday next. The number of arrests made during the preced- ing twenty-four hours was one hundred and thirty-one; previously reported, five hundred and sixty-one—making the total number arrested six hundred and ninety-two. ‘The old Board of Excise held no meeting yesterday. On Thursday Jast, in the United States District Vourt of South Carolina, in session at Charleston, Judge Bryan presiding, Messrs, William Whaley and W. D. Porter ar- gued against the constitutionality-of the test oath. The question came up ona motion that the clerk should show cause for refusing to attach the certification of the court to @ writ drawn by Mr. Whaley, the latter declining to take the oath. The stock market was dull but steady yesterday. Gold was firmer, and after opening at 1515;, advanced to 1685, and closed at 1523, little that was done was at about Friday’s prices, which, however, were in most oases nominal. Foreign goods were generally held firm, but domestic produce tended in favor of the buyer, In sugar and coffeo there was scarcely any business, Cotton was also very dull, and prices tended in buyer's favor. On 'Change flour was dull and heavy, There were no transactions in wheat, and prices were nominally lower. Corn was dull and heavy ata decline of ic. Oats were a shade lower. Pork decidedly lower and unsettlet. Beof steady. Lard quiet and heavy, and whiskey and petroleum dull and nomi- nal. The Canadian Parliament on the Fe- nian Question—Dangerous Ground. Ottawa City, the present seat of the Cana- dian Provincial Parliament, is a bustling little inland lumbering town of some eight or ten thousand inhabitants. It is situated on the Great Ottawa river, a hundred miles or so above its junction with the greater St. Law- rence, at Montreal, and about sixty miles by rail north of Ogdensburg, New York. Thus the late gatherings of the Fenians in the neigh- borhood of Ogdensburg may be readily ex- plained. General Sweeny had his eye upon Ottawa City, the Canadian capital, and in the outset he had every reason to anticipate that a brilliant success or series of revolutionary suc- ceases, beginning at Ottawa City, would crown his expedition. The Canadians were thoroughly frightened, especially at Ottawa City, where they were saved from capture by the Fenians only through the active intervention of the United States, : Her Majesty’s provincial legislators at Ottawa City, therefore, ought to be especially grateful to our government for interposing and saving them, as it has done, from the tender mercies of the ferocious Fenians. During their late cam- paign there were probably twenty thousand of them, most. of them veteran soldiers, strewn slong our Northern frontier; and if a passage across the river could have been secured whereby ten thousand of them could have been concentrated on the other side, they would have sent her Majesty’s provincials, military and civil, whirling through Ottawa City, as General Sheridan not long ago sent the dis- gusted Generel Early and his rebel army “whirling through Winchester.” But instead of gratitude for their salvation from the Fenians by President Johnson, Mr. Seward and General Meade, the Canadians, especially those stupid colonial Solons of Otta- wa City, with a few rare exceptions, are pain- fully ungrateful and insufferably impertinent. On Friday evening last, in the Canadian House of Assembly, Mr. Galt moved for the indem- nification by the United States of the provincial government for the expenses incurred by them on account of the recent Fenian troubles. Several members of the government and government party spoke in support of the proposition, and conspicuous among them was that famous jumping philoso- pher, Thomas D’Arcy McGee. But there was one man, a sensible and courageous man too— Mr. W. F. Chambers, of Brockville—who warned the government party that they were treading on dangerous ground; that, in a military view, it was absurd to attempt to defend Can: against the United States—three millions “of people against thirty-five millions. To attempt to get up a Canadian military force to defy the power of the United States “would not only,” he contended, “be unwise, but de- stractive of the interests of Canada”—meaning, no doubt, asa British colony. Mr. Chambers was interrupted by hisses, groans, shouts, laughter, and all sorts of disturbances; but he seems to have persisted till delivered of the wholesome truths he had upon his mind. The motion of Mr. Galt, of course, was carried; and if Lord John Russell is no wiser than he was before the sinking of the Alabama we may before long hear of a claim being pre- sented at Washington for indemnity for the expenses incurred by the Canadians in their defensive measures against the furious Fenians. We jndge, too, from our reporter’s report of this Ottawa Parliamentary debate that her Majesty’s loyal Canadians expect some trouble from this business, and are disposed to pick a quarrel with us and fight it out. We must say, however, that the tendency to such @ course on the part of the Canadians is not only very fool- ish and very impertinent, but that there is dan- ger init. Indemnity from the United States! Why, the boot is on the other leg! The ex- penses incurred by our government in the way of iron-clads, gunboats, troops, transportation, &c., to arrest and put down these warlike Fenian movements on this side of our Northern boundary will probably cost the federal treas- ury over a quarter of a million of money. These expenses, we tell them, and something more, will be exacted of the Canadians if they puch this badgering about indemnity much further, Mr. Chambers was only talking com- mon sense to them, and if they do not listen to that they will have to listen to something worse. General Sherman, in a recent speech at Goderich, Canada, said that “the United States did not want Canada,” but that “if we did a campaign of five days would bring it;” and General Sherman is a soldier whose opin- ion, eapectally on military subjects, is entitled to great respect. We have only, therefore, to warn her Majes- ty’s Previsional Parliamont of Canada not to trifle too far with this business of indemnity for the Fenians, or the Fenians may be allowed to cross the St. Lawrence by the authorities on this side. What then will become of the au- thorities on the other side, including the Par- liameni at Ottawa City? They will be gobbled up before breakfast. Let them beware | The Senate at Washington is making consid- erable headway in the consideration of the Revenue Tax bi. Several important amend- ments are being inserted in the bill as it passed the House. Some of these modifications are just, while others have not improved the meae- ure. A radical change is there been so much evasion as among the dis- tillers; and what is more, they seem to be pro- tected in it by the department. A system of compromising with all those who are detected - in frauds has been carried on to such an ex- tent that they are encouraged to continue evad- ing the payment of the tax in the future. Con- gress should not only legislate upon the law, but investigate the manner of executing it. It owes that much in justice to the distiller who comes forward and honestly pays his tax. There is a great deal of very just indignation among the old established distillers of liquors in regard to the system practised by the gov- ernment in compromising its olaims with those establishments caught in evad- ing the tax. This practice has now become so extensive that a distiller who comes forward and honestly pays his tax is unable to com- pete with those engaged in evading the law without being certain of ruin in his business. In other words the Internal Revenue Department has made dishonesty the only road to success in this line of business. The effect has Peen that distilleries are springing up in all sections of this city and Brooklyn, where the liquor is manu- factured during the night and sent off at an early hour in the morning, before itis inspected or the tax is paid. The result is that those engaged in this illicit mode of conducting the business are able to sell it at a less price per gallon than the amount of government tax and still make a handsome profit. When the dis- tiller who pays his tax of two dollars per gallon comes into market he finds himself un- able to compete with his neighbor who is thus evading his tax. Several parties engaged in evading the tax have been caught by the revenue officers and the full tax assessed against them; but all these cases have been in some way com- promised by the payment ofa small sum. In- stead, therefore, of breaking up the business, it only encourages it; for the distillers find it 80 easy-to compromise their crimes with the government that they are able to make more money in that way than by paying their tax honestly. Formerly there were only two or three concerns in this city which tried this mode of evading the tax. "These parties have been so succesaful that now they are numbered by the score, and the honest distiller io placod at their mercy, with ruin staring him in the face. It is also reported that several parties connected with the govern- ent have gone into the business and find it exceeditigly profitable to evade the tax. The question is, under what influences do those officials who have the final adjustment of these cases of fraud settle with the parties? There are very strong suspicions that there has been 8 division of spoils and large fees pocketed for rendering decisions to suit these cases. A few months since we published accounts of a raid upon the distillers of this city by certain officials from Washington ; but from all accounts those cases were all compromised, and instead of putting a stop to the business it has increased at an alarming rate, as the result of the action of the government in those cases. It is now assuming proportions of no trifling character ; for the honest distiller will be obliged to go out of the business, and the government will then receive only the amount of tax which the agent who settles with the fraudulent parties finds it to his interest to require of them. Taking the results in these cases and the con- niving with the brokers in Wall street, the gov- ernment is in a fair way of losing a great pro- portion of its revenue and also severely punish- ing all those who pay their revenue tax honestly. This may be the object and intention of the Inter- nal Revenue law ; but such is not the public in- terpretation of the measure. We therefore call upon Congress to investigate this business of compromising with the illicit distillers and let the public know the inside workings of the law and who is responsible for this singular procedure. Tur Firra Avenve Jos.—It is stated that a committee of wealthy residents of Fifth ave- nue have agreed to pay over a certain sum upon condition that the Common Council will take no action in regard to removing the stoops upon that street. This is all right if the wealthy people are willing to pay; but we warn them that every future Common Council will make « similar raid upon them, now that it is ascertained that they can be bled #0 easily, If these foolish capitalists had been possessed of less money and more brains they world have laughed at the threats of the Common Council hlackmailers; but as the case stands we must give the Common Councilmen credit for a keen knowledge of the weak points of human nature. They have opened s mine of money which can be worked: to their pecu- niary advantage every year. Whenever the Common Council want cash let them revive the project of removing the Fifth avenue stoops. ‘Tur MASTER SHIPWRIGHTS AND THE CUALKERS.— The master shipwrights are dealing very un- justly if not tyrannically with their employes. Having given up their strike the caulkers were prepared to resume work, when the bosses exacted a most unnecessary and arbitrary pledge from the men. They were required not only to yield all they had been so long contending for but to abandon their trades’ association, ® purely benevolent institution, which has been in existence for many years. We do not believe in combinations of any class of workmen to force employers to pay 9 certain amount of wages. That is a business which will always regulate itself, But to de- mand that workmen shall not belong to this or that benevolent association is an assump- tion of authority which cannot aad should not be tolerated. As well might these bosses dic- tate the style of the religion of their employés, ! or define what they shall eat, drink-and wear; what sort of houses they shall live in, whether they shall remain married or single, or attempt to regulate any other domestic concern as to forbid their becoming members of any charita- ble institution they choose. We trust the master shipwrights will reconsider their action in this matter and not take undue advantage of the necessities of the poor workmen. Sales of Gold by the Treasury Depart- ment. It is evident from the ventilation tho sales of gold by the Treasury Department are getting that both Congress and the public are very much dissatisfied with the transactions, The Secre- tary of the Treasury committed a great blunder, and we suppose he sces it now. First of all it is not legitimately within the sphere of his duty to enter the arena of the bears and bulls in this city to speculate with government funds. He is not a banker or broker now, but» high official of the government, and the gold he used belonged to the people. We are not dis- posed to think Mr. McCulloch acted with any other than the most honorable and best inten- tions. He thought, doubtless, he was acting right; but, as it has turned out, he made a mistake both as to his duty and financial policy. There was no necessity to sell gold; the government did not want cur- rency, and if it did, the currency could have been obtained in another way. The motive assigned was to keep the price of gold down, ®@ matter, as we have said, the Secretary had no right to speculate in. But instead of keep- ing gold down it has gone up since nearly forty per cent. In fact it commenced to rise immediately after the sales. There have been other causes operating ; the state of things in Europe, as one for example, to send gold up, but we have no Goubt that the sale itself of such a vast amount contributed to the rise. That is, the effect produced was just the con- trary one to that expected and operated for. It depleted the Treasury of a considerable amount of gold and facilitated its exportation abroad. The direct loss to the government, taking the difference of price between what it sold for and what the price of gold has been since, has been something {like ten ‘millions ot dollars. In plain terms, the government has sacrificed within five or six weeks about ten millions by this blundering transaction. Mr. Van Dyck, the Assistant Treasurer at New York, made a still graver mistake by act- ing upon his own authority in selling a large amount of this gold. The plea Mr. Van Dyck puts in and which Mr. McCulloch urges in his behalf is, that there was not time to communi- cate with Washington on one occasion when a great deal was sold, and that, therefore, the Assistant Secretary acted upon his own judg- ment and authority. This was when the Cuba arrived with unfavorable financial intelligence from Europe. Mr. McCulloch and Mr. Van Dyck say this news arrived toe Iate in the | afternoon, though before the stock board closed, to communicate with Washington. The Secretary adds that could Mr. Van Dyck have communicated with him the probability was that he would have ordered a suspension of the sales before so much was sold. This ap- pears to us to be a very lame excuse for such an important and disastrous transaction. The telegraph could have been used and an answer to ® message might have been re- ceived within half an hour or in less time. There was no necessity for the Assistant Treasurer acting without special instructions, and it was his duty to use the telegraph to obtain them. We have no disposition to im- pugn the motives of these high officials; but may not one or the other, or both, have been duped by designing men? There are cunning gold operators and stockjobbers among the politicians and friends that surround them, of whose schemes it might take a wiser head than that of either to penetrate. Evidently some- body has been immensely benefited. Do any of these political or personal friends know anything about it? Can Thurlow Weed give us any information on the subject? Let us have light. As Congress has taken up the mat- ter we hope the whole affair will be thoroughly ventilated. Above all we hope some action will be taken to prevent similar blundering transactions in fut ure. Penstons To THE SoLprers or tHe War or 1812.—The Committee on Invalids and Pen- sions in the House of Representatives have re- ported against granting pensions to the soldiers of the war of 1812, The Chairman of this committee, who made the report, we notice hails from Maine. This would indicate that the old prejudice against that war in New England has not died out, but that there is a determina- tion to continue the opposition manifested at the time of the war as long as one of the soldiers who took part in it lives. The report of the committee is not only unjust, but, in view of the fact that Congress is appropriating mil- lions of dollars for the negroes, it is an outrage. There are but very few of those sol- diers who participated in that war living, and moat of them are in needy circumstances, and they are the only class of petriots whose ser- vices have never been recognized. It would require only an appropriation of a few thou- sand dollars, and it should be granted without any farther ceremony. It is a good sign that the report met with considerable opposition, and we trust that Congress will reverse the action of the committee and give to these old soldiers the pension which they deserve, for many of them never received a cent for their services nor pay for their clothes, It is time that they were rewarded. We know that it is late to begin ; but better late than never. Cuotgra ALanuists.—The Board of Health continues to publish its two or three columns a day of facts and fancies about the cholera ; and the homeopathic, allopathic and other schools of doctors are sending around circu- lare informing people what medicines they must take to prevent and what to cure cholera. The reault is that all who read these docu- ments feel very sensitive about the least dis- order of the stomach ; and if our citizens are not frightened into the epidemic it will be be- cause Providence is more merciful than the physicians or the Board of Health. Almost the only sensible suggestion we have recently seen in regard to preventives is that of Dr. Harris, who insists that the vessels lying at our wharves shall be thoroughly cleaned and kept in a first rate sanitary condition. Cleanliness will prevent any epidemic, as was shown in the case of New Orleans, « city that always suffered from yellow fever until our soldiers put it in order, for Country Bxcursions—Di@i- culties of « Fashionable Summer Exodus and Dati the Family ” Claims of Rival New Dresses—Indoor and Wai¥ing Cos- Sackets and called im to settle which bathing place they go to; ® matter which has been a bone of dis- cord between husband and wife ever since there ‘were no more balla to dress for. It is not until the neuralgic fits have come on with undeniable intensity that Monsiour secs it is urgent to put an end to them by sending for the family doctor, and at this crisis the modern Esculapius finds ita bard matter to bring ‘things to a satisfactory conclusion. After many pros and cons he discovers that the same watering place would not at all agree with both parties. Madame is sent to Spa and Monsieur to Vichy, which ultimatum agrees with everybody. But then every one caunot afford to have neuralgia, hysterics, physicians and mineral waters—people whose position in society demand that they should have something the matter with them, some- thing to account for their shutters being closed and their servants dismissed. It is a case of economy, a case of necessity, There must be, as they say, a rule to go by in every well conducted household. ‘One cannot give balls in winter and be expected to keep servants in sum- mer." In consequence of which fact showers of cards bearing the initials p. p. c. aro rained down on suspecting frionds. Some little, dirty village a few miles from Ver- sailles or St. Germain is honored with their presence and the name of a campagne, till a course of strict pinching in cotton gowns has sol the scales straight and strengtn has been recruited for another campaign. There are others whose respectability depends on their not being seen in Paris during the summer, and who can- not even boast of a white plastered house, with a kitchen garden and dunghill in front. They have nothing to do but support voluntary incarceration in their own éage of which they only inhabit the back rooms. They go out for very early rambles before any of their acquaint. ances are up and where they are not likely to be met. They spend the whole of each Sunday either at Auteuil, St. Cloud, Asni*res, or some such suburban rural places, and write to friends every Sabbath, dating their letters trom the above mentioned retreats. Thus they have tho privilege of being everywhere and nowhere, of keeping up appearances, and, moreover, they escape tho danger of being taken for authors or journalists, or of being classed among any other set of intellectual people. Re- finement and respectability may be carried a little too far; but it will not prevent me from saying that Paris is @ glorious place in summer, and none the worse for nothing so enjoyable as seeing the insides xes, especially of those who, with the re- turn of balmy days, complain of chronic headaches, dys- Pepsia, want of appetite, &c. The time when such dis- eases. come on is sure to bo in the week which sees the official inspectors leave town on their duties for the Thermal establishments; that is the signal. Afew days after their departure the bells are all ringing at every hotel in every corner that can boast of a mineral source or @ beach along the briny element. The festivities at all these resorts of fashion aro to outdo everything that has been done up to the present time. At Bagnéres de Bigorre, the pleasures of the opera and balleta are to be added to the usual balls and concerts at the, Casino, A little lower down I will describe a few costumes which were despatched thither yesterday. We have a formidable programme of en- tertainments in the Pyrénees, at Cauterets, Eaux- Bonnes and Bagnéres de Luchou. Lot mo not for- get picturesque Arcachon, which was frequented last year by the most brilliant society. It was the centre of overy attraction, and there it was that the first ‘tncredi- ble” costumes were sported by ladies of the highest posi- tion. No one hore will forget the outfit worn by the Baron Haussmann’s daughter; her very high boots, then a novelty; her very short skirts, then so startling; her wideawake hats, long walking stick, all the vermillion braiding and scarlet clothing, who, started fresh every morning on unheard’of expeditions. Arcachon isto be fairy land this summer as far as regattas, races, plays, balls, concerts, banquets and fancy costumes are con- cerned. A word for Spa, in which delightful little place five concerts are tobe given by artists from Brussels from 16th July till 7th September. A planist by the name of Jacl! will play at the first; the violinist Vieuxtemps at the second; Mr. Jourdain, a tenor, will sing at the third; Mile, de la Pommerage at the fourth, and the last will be a kind of olla podrida. ‘The first races at Spa will take place on the 18th and 20th of June. All Indies belonging to the demi-monde are to be excluded from the salons d+ jeu; hot work this for those members of the cominittee who are expected to keep them out, A place called Luxeuil (Haute Saéne) is recommended to ladies who are deprived of the blessings of offspring. A curious historical fact which has been brought down to us from the time of the crurades proves that when in cases of this kind everything bas yn tried and has failed, Luxeuil is sure to succeed, and women who have doepalred of ever being leave the wonderful place with promise of a forthcoming generation. A cer- tain physician of those times, having been consulted by two ladies in deep affliction, sent them to Luxevil while their lords and masters were exterminating the infidels in the Holy Land. On the return of these indefatigable we ba Myf a a sete be gpa that the male pai @ gent that period protested agatnet thr legion visibae thls placa end whee sear, were contracted a clause had to be entered on the Poy! | ra Rong that Ld gpm be sae ar hee go to Luxeuil without a signi ission eir _ igned perm| The dresses I saw before they wore packed for Bag- nires and were five in number—two evening dresses, one for matinéer, a morning robe and a walking “One of the evening dresses was a robe mado of gaze ete ee eee lek silk cord. The low and basques were Hi é Be i BF, aBe i { : : i ? 3 ornaments in to by Rng with this jueenly robe are o1 aot in gold bs "ced dress carla, wi a filigree butterfly raised wearer is Should there be any difficulty in getting the feathers embroidered, T that black lace leaves should be placed on each width instead. would be ‘but the ensemble would be quieter. Right See teat varpe, c mposed of pale. Bl silk, on which one t stripe, com; pale bine and’ white, with an iden of carmine, It was gored, and the seams ty a ng bo bin VE piping to match pe. set wil To Siete made to pe ng The trims were posed of pale brue cord and tassels on each shoulder, at the bottom of the sleover and on the back of the n A pointed Valenciennes collar and cuffs, white Vs ciennes parasol over bine ta tulle fanchon with trailing pale biuebelie breast, were to bn, | toilet, The morn ne robe was made of white h merino, open down the front, with a handsomely worked cambric muslin petti coat berween; body and skirt of the robe all in one i a white over the Worn. Both are worn in the same There ho exclusive cr in the cass op pe description are fashionable; some are loose, some tight, some worked over with beads or passemea- terie of beads and lace. The newest jacket is mot Cae ras ect, Mag, Tt has no seams under the arms, and a ‘These are richly beaded with jet, There are also short jackets, loose everywhere but at the neck. Thess are worm with the new robe & fourreau. A fourreau means & sheath, @ scabbard, @ cover, a something tight to put something else in. Our fourreax mean those marrow De i FS to dress themselves, very poker- Uke secteom,, Uk) toee_ Bed to move about gracefully thetr knees and all the ings alway he plins ins Weare noe toheve tent oy oeny, pted by many court ladies, but £ do not admire it. It is made of heavy colored gauze to match the bonnet, and is fastened over the chignon be- hind, where it falls somewhat like a curtain, whereas it were made of nothing but tulle I should be reconciled cloudy, round a ly’s shou! ut nol ea this hot weather. Bi goatee The Princcss of Esaling wears ene of these pink gause thick voils, 4 White maslins are very lovely but very extra made up with as little muslin as possible and as lace and insertion as can be cut in every pattern and de- sign. Inlaid squares, diamonds, leaves, all edged with Valenciennes and guipure. The muslin is also puffed with ribbons run under, Thus a puff and work im- is @ pity to see drawn along gravol walks; they are only fit for the boudoir, and drawing room. newest parasols are worked with cress Hes | cyphers, but ‘on one quarter only; all the others are plain. The new bathing costumes are the cameo and mariner. ‘Tho former 1s made of white woollen stuff and is com- posed of trousers and blouse with short sleeves; a stripe of white cameos stamped on blue merino runs up the trouser seam, round the blouse and the belt. The mari- ner consists of a blue jacket with white facings (em which a vessel is stamped) and blue wide trousers, The caps for both are made of white ollcloth, on one a cameo, on the other a ship; behind each a woollen net. City Int nee. Rauzr rox Disaruxo Souprers on THe Fours or Jeux, — A general distribution of relief among the most needy disabled veterans will take place on the Fourth of July, at one o'clock P. M., at the office of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Employment and Relief Agency, 136 Canal street. Applicants should have tickets of admission te discharge, poston and oiher papers. Donkivons of pre ischarge, jon ani f papers. of visions oan be sent to the elt , orin money tobe Treasurer, Theo. Gentil, No. 11 street. TammasY HALL ap THe CELEBRATION OF THs FouRTE,— The Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, has ex- tended an invitation to all those who believe that the Union was erected to be perpetual to join with them ia the observance of the national holiday, and a stirring rot petsiotte, agscenn-se-caiseaiiest ig renee yen nguished democrats throughout the country, signed by the mns.of Tammany. Tt is rife Richard O'Gorman has consented Ce i ne ad which they will be required to renew their licenses dur- ing the month of July, under penalty of ton doliars for negtect of notification. The fine is recoverable from eit the owner or driver. The officers ‘The fires of this monster ram were yesterday morning lighted under the forward starboard boiler for the @ret time. The object was to warm up the machinery an@ hor 3 ara ence aaa com, Ua pte ety a it Js thonght, that ep Seed upon her contract trial trip.” Fatal Mistake. —Coroner Gamble held an inquest at 146 West Thirty-olghth street on the body of Paal McElrath, who died from the effects of poison. Deceased, who had been sick for the last six months with the fever and ague, recently procured bome medicine from @ deceased had swallowed a large quantity of Paris The jury found that the poison was the cause of and it bad been taken by mistake. Deceased was thirty-four years of age. Gas Exrtooion ix 4 Texnueyt House. —Two men, named Peter Call and Owen Maloy, residing at No. 168 avenue A, wore badly injured at a Inte hour on Friday night under the following circunstances:—-A strong odor of gas proceeding from the store underneath their apart- ment, caused by a leakage of one of the pipes, they de- termined to investigate the matter, incautionslg en! the store with a ted @ terrific 4 son ok The room had become so char; ehh that ceiling and part of the wali were knocked mm, and the men so severely burned that they were removed to Believue Hospital. Fe ww Fourta Averve—Damacr Five Tnovease DonLams.—About twelve o’clock on Friday night a fre fire hang however, “4 rt wish ie vent jarut. Eimage 10 the inntrecoents was abva 95, Slaughter of tho Inneceats, On Twenty-fifth street, at its junction with East river, thoro 18 a low, dark shed, where stray dogs aro immolated daily, in accordance with law, Pet beasts from Fifth avenue, as well as ours from the cast side, lower dows and very few escape to tell the horrors of the Twenty- fifth street place, The newspapers of the day have made much of this dog slaughter house, with « view to inciting President Bergh, of the “Cruelty te Animals Society,"’ to interfere and prevent this whole- il § i | f 25% fii : Tho shackolling of Jeff Davis, as described by Surgeom Cravens, was pablished this morning tt the Register and Advertiser, Tt cnases universal indignation. The Regiser and Advertioer says: ‘The treatment of Napoleon Bonaparte by Groat Britain noble, ebivalrous, humane, courteous, magni cent, Then compared with ihe indignities inflictod in the name of America upon Jefferson Davis. It was not forson Davis alone that was subjected to crue! indig- AMirby this Cowardly act. The was comm ity by gard an recom, tholos cutered tote there souks, Ts OW enters into the soul of every honest virtrous woman that reads this story that will stir the soul of cont