The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR., MANAGER. MKOADWAY AND ANN STREET, 148 S EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway. etccet.—East Lanne, o tak ELOreMEnt. WORRELL SISTRRS' NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo. site New York Hotel—Tux Invisisue = Prisce—Uin DKAKLLA. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Ta erasure Troyy. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Gio, tux ARwoneR OF ‘Trax—Pusscurnvs Eviwwencs. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place,—Tux Iwreaiat OF JAPANESE ARTISTS iN Tuxin WONDERFUL f'RaTs. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broudway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel—Ls rucia Craorian Lorearatx- Sinema, Dacia ano BonLEsquas.—Tux Firing oe—lereRiaL Japanese Trove. ‘KRGLY & FEON'S MINSTREL. near Broome 729 Broadway, oppo witethe New York Hotel. —Ie tame 3ovcs, Daxous. Boorx- weve ca, ‘do. pek-Laon—Tux LONG AND Guoar Strix. FLPTH AVENUE HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 W RELAY, ies, fo. Tne Boues Jaraxuse Juodcass—Tuw Stattx Lovin.> TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 2 Rowery.—Como Vooa.isu. Necro Mi . Buriusques, Backer Drvun > Wasemure, &C.—M, RRoGE's BwoRD, OK THe WiLo Bor (Or ux Gattxss. HOOLEY'SOPERA HOUSE, Brook!ya.—Priiortay Mine = Battaps anv Bowinsguxs.—Tax Inrivian Jas THE RUNYAN TABLEAUX. Union Hall, corner of ‘Lwenty-third street and Broadway, at &—Mosn oF mx Picria’s Paocress—sixry ms. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday ai 2); NEW YORK MUSEUM 0) Heap anp Ricur Ag oF NG—WONDERS IN NaTuRai, Open (rom IP TOMY, 618 Pxodwag.— onst—The Wasiinutor TORY, SCIKNCY. AND ANT, 4.M. Ul UP, aM. LE SHEET. Now York, Tuesday, Muy 28, 1867. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. | Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi~ fied they should be sent in before half-past cight o'clock in the evening. THS WEaws. EUROPE. ‘The nows report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester. Gay evening, May 27. ‘The death sentences pased on the convict Fenians have all been commuted to imprisonment for life. Denmark explains to the great Powors that Prussia has mot offered to negotiate for the retrocession of Schleswig to tho King’s government. Louis Kossuth publishes a fetter on Hungarian politics, in which he terms M. Deak’s recent policy and action towards Austria umpatri- Portis. Consols closed at 9314 for money in London. United Brates tive-twenties were at 7214 in London and 7714 Qa Frankfort. ‘Tho Liverpool cotton market closed quiet, with mid- @ing uplands at eleven peuce. Breadstufls firm. Pro- visions firm. By the steamship City of Baltimore, at this port yes terday, wo have interesting details of our cable despatches 0 the 16th of May. THE CITY. ‘Ths Board of Aldermen met yesterday, but adjourned for want of a quorum. / The quarterly report of the Superintendent of Metro- Politan Police shows that there were 24,866 arrests made {a Now York and Brooklyn during the quarter ending in May, 5,878 of which were of females; 10,876 of the Mumber arrested were married and 13,990 were single. ‘The nationality most largely represented was Ireland. ‘The occupations most largeiy represented were laborers , Prostitutes, clerks and tailors, and those represented by @he smaliest number (represented at all) were clcrgy- (men, policemen, actors, editora and reporters. A woman in Brooklyn yesterday gave birth to four @hildron weighing in the agcrogate twenty-fdir pounds. The mother and chiidren are doing well. Goorge W. Buell, a young man, was bronght before Justice Horan, at the Tombs yesterday, for alleged iar- Cony and forgery. His mother-in-law, Mrs, Ripley, an old and feedle lady, m: complaint charging the Prisover with appropriating nearly $60,000 of ner prop- erty, but on hearing her written statement read over re- fused to sign it, and, in consequence, the prisoner was discharged. In the Supreme Court, General Term, before Judges Leonard, Smith and Ingraham yesterday, the case of the ory authorities against the Pohoe Commissioners regarding the transfer of the power to grant licenses ‘was resumed. Mr. D. D. Field, of counsel for the authorities, replied to the points raised by ex-Judge Wooden for the Commissioners, and argued that the flaw of the Legislature under consideration was uncon- @titutional and that all public duties could be trans- ferred 1a the same manner if the law was not declared pull and void. In the Supreme Court, Chambers, the ease of the pro- ple on the relation of Rufus Match ve, A. L Pritchard, ‘Troasuror of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Comping, came up on application for an order to show Cause wy mandamus should not issue to compel the Feapondent to exhibit to the relator the transfer book and sBtook 1ist of the company, to enable the relator to ¢ approaching ejection of Directors. The < will be resumed to day, ar- tion of witnesses for the defence was closed, and the Caso will be snbunitted to the jury this morning. A decision in the motion of Kdwin Forrest, argued tn the United States Circuit Court some time ago, for am fnjunction to siay Catharine N. Forrest (Mra. Sinetair) from collecting cortain judgments recovered against him, or claiming from him any monry by reason of the wame, was yesterday rendered by Judge Nelson denying the motion. Tho case of the United States against the alleged Chilean privateer Meteor will be to-morrow argned be- fore Judge Nelson in the United States Ciremit Court. The oxamination of Alfred St. Cleir, charge with having forged Custom House pay roils, was resnined yesterday before United States Commies! White. ‘Two witnesses for the defence were examined, whose toattmoay went to sustain the principal potnt of defence in the case—an alibi. The examination will be resamod ‘and concluded this morning. The stock market was dull yesterday, but closed firm. Goid closed at 157. Business opened dull yesterday in all its ramifications, and business especially in imported merchandise, most of which was very quiet, with a downward tendency, was small, The markets were depressed by the decline tn gold, and prices, as a general thing, were nominally Yower Coffee and cotton ruled steady. On ‘Change, our declined fully 10c. a 1c. per bbl. Wheat was Bominally lc. a 3¢, lower, Corn opened firmer, bat closod dull and heavy, while oats were without decided ehaoge. Pork closed firm. Beef and tard were un- changed. Freights wore dull and heavy, Whiskey was @rm. Naval stores were dull and generally tower. Pe- droloum was not essentially changed. Consequent upon a largofdimination in the receipts— Doing about 1,700 head loss than last week—and an ac- five demand, there was decidediy more firmness in the market for beef cattio, and an advance of NC. ale per Pound was easily established, extra being sold at 19¢. ; Prime, W9Ke. a 18K. ; ret quality, IT%e. «18; fair to good, Ie @1Ti<c., and ordinary to inferior, 160, a 46%. The offerings—which w quality—were disposed of long before day. Milch cows—Common ruled dali valuo, while fancy were in good de Prices ranged all the way from $45 to $120 at tho tatter figure were efected at Chamberiain’ ‘Veal calves were in fair od, and prices advanced a trifle. Fxtra was quoted at i2¢. ; prime, 116. ; ordinary @ commbn, O46 & 10%ge, and inferior, So a o-. Shoop aad lambs declined about Keo per pound, the continued light arrivals the de. Wo quote extras, 90.; prime, tif, mds sold at from ruled steady at not! mand was light, and inferior to 1 199 10 87 66 por bog NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY MAY 28> 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. last wook's Ageres, clovea car loads were om ealo at tho Fortieth stroct hog yards, and ail sold ab 7340. a Ti0., the later price for heavy prime com fed. Tho (otal re- corps wore 4,157 veeves, 92 miloh cows; 2,101 vent Calves; 11,171 sheep and lamba, and 16,632 awine. MISCELLANEOUS. The intoilligence from the interior of Mexico, dated the 16th of May, is to the effect that Querétaro was taken by assault that day, and Max»miliam, Moja, Castello and Miramon were captured, The despatches are signed by Escobedo and Juarez, and are confirmed by various des- Patches from other authorities, President Juarez, it ia said, had sent orders to shoot Maximilian and hia generals immediately. The liberal force which took the town 6000 afterwards started for the capital. A naval expedition against Vera Ceur had been ordered from Matamoros, Elsewhere in the Hxraco this morning we publish ia- teresting sketches of the unfortunate importa! prisoners, Dates from Havana to the 2lei instant say that the Spanish admiral commanding the maval station had satled for Samta Martha on business connected with (he recent affair of the steamer R. R. Cuylor or Rayo, @ re- Ported Colombian vessel, believed to bo a Chilean Privateer, A New Orloans Jadge recently passed sentence of death upon’ a negro for rape on the person of a white ‘Woman, subject to “the approval of the Commanding General of the Diswict,"" General Shoridan returned it ‘With ine endorsement that he believes the sentence should be executed, but did mot gee why! hu approval was required, It is betioved im Charleston’ thet one ef the princepat causer of the faiture of Frazer, Treahotia & Co., was the | fact that they had come to the relief of an old friead, and inercisant who had assisted thoi In their ombarrags- ment several yoars ago. It ts iutumated im Montreal that the imminence of a Fenian raid was one reason why @ demonstration was not offered to Jeff Davis, some loyal Americans there broadty hinting that it would be considered in bad taste to say the least, ‘The news of Queen Victoria's mediation vetweon France and Prussia is said to bave caused a rapid rise in the price of white oak staves in West Virginia. The Fronch aad Spanish wine merchants are supplied largely with this wood for wine casks from that region, and the (rade is thereby, peculiarly sensitive to the (luc tuations in Europe, ¢ The proposed Fenian raid is taking definite shape. A secret circular bas been distributed to all the circles, calling them to arms. Munitions of war in large quan- tities have been taken toward the border and secreted ready for use when wanted, Quite a number of per- sons, supposed to’ be Fenians, are in St. Albans, Ver- mont, Filty thousand troops are reported ready to take the feld, backed by fifty thousand more tn case of need. ‘Strakosch’s opera troupe, while en route by rail from Chicago to Cinetnnati, met with an accident, the train running off the track and three coaches being thrown down anembankment. Brigaoli and Rosa were elighlly injured and Madame Lagrossa had ber collar bone brokea. Madame Parepa escaped unhurt. In the Newmarkot murder trial at New Brunswick, N, J., yesterday, the case for the defence rested and the rebutting evidence on the part of the State was taken, The District Attorney was engaged in summing up to the jury when the bour of adjournment arrived. The trial of John H. Surratt has been postponed on motion of the government until the 10th of June, in order to secure the attendance of several important wit- ‘messes. Boston hasan attack of anniversaries, religious and temperance, To be continued during the week. Seastor Wilson presided at oue of the latter last evening. Alady school teacher in Springfield, Mass, has geen bound over for trial on the charge of whipping her pupils too severely. Reconstruction is not a decided suocess in Texas. A judge there has recently decided that negro. testimony is inadmissible on the trial of white men, tho sheriff of Victoria county has refused to take greenbacks as a legal tender, and an attempt to collect the taxes levied during the war in confederate currency was only stopped by an order from Gea. Griffin. At Genoral Lee's College, in Virgisia, three hundred and ninety-nine students are in attendance, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky having the largest representa- “tives Pollard’s tecture on the ‘Chivalry of the South ’’ was uot delivered, because there was nobody to Sadie ‘Seward bas received a despatch from London informing him that the capital sentences passed upon the Fenian leaders, Burke and McCafferty, had been commuted to penal servitude for life, The Brazilian Minister has addressed a letter to Mr. Seward in which be says that he bas no official notifica- tion that a decree emancipating the staves in Brazil had been iasaed by the Emperor, Dom Pedro. A young couple of highly respectable and wealthy parentage, who were married in Lacon, Ill., a year ago, have asuit for divorce pending between them at pres- ent. The wife contends that her husband kept lewd characters in the house, and he conteuds that she did the game, and, moreover, read immoral books, and wanted to open a house of ill-fame, A fire in Oshkosh, Wis., on Sunday, destroyed eleven buildings, Joss $15,000. The Relan of Anarchy in the City. The Supreme Court of this district has been occupied for a few days past in hearing the lengthy arguments of counsel in a suit be- tween the Corporation of the city and the Metropolitan Police Commissioners, to test the the constitutionality of the law of the last Legislature by which the licensing power here- tofore possessed by the Corporation was sought to be transferred to the Police Board. The arguments were closed yesterday and the decision is reserved. The jaw in quesiion was enacied in the shape of « clause in the tax levy, and tacked on to the bill in the last hour of the session by a piece of sharp practice on the part of the friends of the Com- missioners. The Common Council, it will be remembered, immediately after the adjourn ment of the Legislature, repeated all the city ordinances regulating and providing for licenses, in order to prevent the contemplated trenster of the power to the police authorities, and left us virtually without any municipal laws. This action was designed to checkmate the Police Commissioners, and it was to be followed up by the enactment of new city ordinances, to which it was supposed the objec- tionable clause in the tax levy would not apply. The Commissioners paid no attention whatever to the proceedings of the Common Council, but at once prepared to set in motion the machinery for issuing licenses, without refer- ence to the Corporation; and the pending suit is (o test the legality of their action. The whole matter is an indecent scramble for spoils and power ina mixed and muddied govern- meni, without any sesponsible bead. While the Corporation was buying up the Legislature tor its own purposes, on one hand, others were operating upon the members against the Cor- poration and in favor of the City Commission on the other hand, and the whole result de- pended upon which side could do the greatest share of lobbying and corruption. The taxpayers will have to suffer for all. The expenses of the litigation and the heavy fees of counsel fall upon them and help to swell their taxation to over twenty millions of dollars. There is only one remedy for all these evils—the State Constitutional Convention must provide in the organic law of the State such a sysiem of government for all political divisions—cities, towns and counties—that henceforth the people will know under what sort of rule they live. We must be governed in New York by one executive | head, elected by the people and directly re- | sponsible to the people, and the powers of the | Common Council must be limited strictly to | necessary municipal legislation. Then we shall be protected alike from grasping commissions, corrupt Corporation, and wanocpaary and | republic: it ia ta this. light that Europe looks foreign nations in a moral sense make upon, us. We must meet thom. We must respect this demand upon us. Mexico must be told’ that we cannot tolerate this wholesale slaughter, ‘aot even on the plea of retaliation for the murderous work of Maximilian. It is time the bloody annals’ of Mexican warfare were de- corated with a page of peace and mercy; and itis our duty to see that {t fs done. Mexico is in contact with us, and from us should learn be permitied any ionger to write it in blood. The whole execration of the civilized world will call forth a feeling of indignation far greater even than in the United States, through which theysee the deed reflected. To Louis Napoleon this event will be a rude blow; for all the crowned heads will throw upon his throne the whole biame of the unfortunate expedition and its sfill more unfortunate resulis. The terrible scathing which the opposition in the French Legislature will have an opportunity to pour out against the government will again stir the revolutionary fires of that country, while the Austrian throne, already embittered by the base desertion of their prince by the French Emperor, will not fail in its enmity towards him to prove a thorn in hisside. The letter of Porfirio Diaz, which we published yesterday, proves, too, that the Freach Emperor not only basely deserted Maximilian in an enterprise where he had sworn to uphold him, but that Bazaine, upou bie evacuation of Mexico, even offered to sell large quantities of muni- tions of war to the liberal government, which they went to Mexico to overthrow, and against which the Prince whom they had intro- duced into the country was still waging war. ‘Thus this Mexican tragedy still trails its bloody form before the world; and each act, more bloody than the preceding, calls loudly for a sirong hand to stay the tide. Imperialists and Viborals, bent on mutual destruction, fill the history of the New World with tales of horror which have rarely been equalled even in the blackest pages of the history of the middle ages. Another sanguinary page like this, and the people of the United States will demand tbat Mexico be blotted from the list of nations, and the memory of her people buried so deep under the tread of the Anglo-Saxon race that no pen can rake up the black events of Mexican history with which to curse the progress of the nineteenth century. Proposed Sui the world in an entirely new character. putting down a gigantic rebellion it was necessary for us to blockade some three thou- sand miles of sea coast. To do this a power- ful navy was necessary. Now that the rebel- lion has been put down, and that we have re- sumed the cultivation of tho arts of peace, we have no desire to imitate the improvident con- duct of the Old World by allowing our ships to rot in the dockyards. to the best accouat possible. willing that other governments should benefit by our labor and experience, have come that we shall again require a navy we will refit one which will be better suited to the wants of the hour. ships for sale. We are willing to part with Fall of Querctare—DMaximitian to be Shot. By telogram we have the most startling news from the Rio Grande. On the 15th instant the imperial line of worka at Querctaro waa pene- trated, the convent of La Cruz captured, and the garrison of the city, escaping to the Cerro de la Campana, was, with all the generals and Maximiliva at their head, forced to surrender. The Sombra de Zaragoza, the official journal published at San Luis Potosi, the present head- quarters of the liberal government, states that orders were immediately forwarded to General Escobedo to shoot Maximilian and his generals. The next news we receive may be that the Archduke is no more. The terrible consequences that-may srise from this desperate act on the part of the Mexican government cannot well be estimated to their full extent. In extending our moral support to Mexioo, we have, to a cerlain degree, become responsible. forthe acts which the Mexicans coramit im the. restoration of ‘the | upon us, and these are the demands which mercy. She is our deighbor, and from us should learn republicanism. She pretends to wrile history on the same page with us; but ahe cannot will be called down upon her and her repub- licanism for this act of fancied retaliation. The necessity for it no longer existed; for Maxi- lian no longer had the power to enforce his deoree of 1864 against the liberals, and there- fore revenge, not retaliation, has been the incentive in the present shooting. In Europe the consequences of this murder of the Miantonomoh aug Other Iren-€ te the Czar of Russia. In yesterday’s Heratp we printed a series of special telegrams from different European cen- tres. Petersburg, May 25, it appears that a proposal has been made by our government to the Czar From one of these telegrams, dated St. Alexander to sell him the Miantonomoh and other first class iron-clads. It further appears that the proposal has been favorably enier- tained. We are not informed,in so many words, that these vessels are intended as part payment for that portion of this continent which Russia has so handsomely handed over to us. This, however, may at once be taken for granted. We get territory which is of little value to Russia, but of some value tous. Ras- sia gets iron-clads, which are of little value to us, but of some value to Russia. We each bene- fit the other, and at a cost which is no sacri- fice to either. This transaction sets the United States before In We wish to turn them We are not un- When the time shall We have many more them for reasonable compensation. We do not object to land, though we should prefer hard cash—of whieh, in trath, we are more in need than iron-clads. The governments in the Old World and in the New who delight in War, or who cangot get rid of war, capmot act of the proad of the mame of Napoleon. The first ‘Napoleon was fondor of whipping than feast- ing the potentates of Europe. The present Na- poleon has tried the whipping process, too, and he has not been unsuccessful. We should not be surprised if he tried it again ; but meanwhile, and all things considered, it is more conve- nient to act as their host. A number of royal visitors have already arrived. Ina fow days more it is expected that the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Russia, with the Empresay the Emperor and Empress of Austria, the Sultan of Turkey—we are not told whether with or without his harem—are all at one and the same tims to be guests of the Emperor, and, of course, to visit the Exposition and the other lions of Paris. The assemblage of royal and imperial persons will not be the least attrac- tive of ythe many attractive sights which Paris at this season will present. sensibly for themselves and more kindly by us than to band us the cash, We shall gladly band them the iron-clads in return. We shall be glad to hear of more purchasers. Some of our friends in South America are in special need of ships of war. We shall be giad to oblige them if they put down cash or hand us veal estate. Congregation of Crowned Hoads ta Parie— What is te Come of it? After fifteen years of apparently fruitless labor Napoleon has at last been successful in gathering around him the crowned heads and leading prinoes of Europe. The parvenu of 1852 commands something more than reapect in the haughtiest and most exolusive courts of Europe. The last tims the princes made their entry into Paris their presence was a token of humiliation to France; this time their presence is a token of exultation. Then they came to exact reparation for the wrong doings of Napoleon and to render such wrong doings impossible for the future.. Now they come to -de honor.to France and to be the guests of Napoteon’s What isto be the result of this illustrious gathering? It certainty has a peaceful and hopeful aspect. In all probability it will pave the way to a final solution of the Eastern ques- tion. One other thing might be done. Napo- leon has never yet beon formally crowned. For fifteen years the world has waited to hear of his coronation. We can see no reason why it should be longer deferred. Let him invite the Holy Father to meet his royal friends at the Tuileries, and let the oceasion be seized for getting this business over. A more fitting opportunity can scarcely again occur. It will be an awkward thing if history has to record of Napoleon the Third, the acknowledged eldest son of the Church, that he was never anointed with the holy and consecrating oil. sion as te Whe are Entitled te Vete in the Seathora States. Attorney General Stanbery’s opinion upon certain clauses of the reconstruction acts is a 8 considerable portion of the Southern people. It gives the tative construct acts as ‘o suffrage, disfranchisement and partici- pation in the rebellion ; and in doing this deter- mines points that at present are of high impor- tance. It settles practically who are to vote in the elections provided for. inevitably determine the character of recon- sttuction, the kind of constitutions that States will frame, as it may even yet decide that some States will remain in their present subjection to military law rather than frame governments on the basis of negro equality, as it will deter- mine the dominance of parties, it is obvjous of what importance to the country may be the determination of the point—Who are now, under thé reconstruction laws, voters in the Southern States? interpretation, the authori- ‘of the vague phrases of the As this fact will Under this interpretation simple “participa- tion in the rébellion,” as the phrase. is popu- larly understood, disfranchises no one. “Other elements must concur” to authorize a denial of registration. If there is no concurrence of such “other elements,” it is the clear duty of the Board to register the name ; and the name once registered, its owner is a voter. There is no power of revision or alteration beyond the Board of Registry. amnesty exists for all rebels—who were not at the same time something more than rebels. Perhaps the extension of this amuesty was not the intention of Congress. The original Mili- tary bill contemplates disiranchisement for “par- ticipation in the rebellion.” Mr. Johnson un- derstood the phrase in relation to participation in the rebellion as disfranchising, and in his veto of the second bill based his main objec- tion upon the declaration that under its provi- sions “the great body of the people might be excluded from the polls.” Mr. Stanbery was at the time accredited with the authorship of that veto, Now the phrase upon which the supposi- tion of disiranchisement was based is shown to be mere verbiage and to have no force. phrascology it excepts from the class of voters “gach as may be distranchised for participation in the rebellion or for felony at common faw.” How, when, where and by whom “may™ they be disfranchised for these acts? No means have been provided or persons named. The acts themselves, “the mere facts,” sayis the At- torney General, do not operate thy disfran- chisement. It “must be ascertained by the jodgment of a court or by @ legislative act.” We can have no such judgment, if we reason from the case of Jefferson Davis, and there is no such “legislative act” in existence. not aware,” Mr. Stanbery says, “of any law of the United Siates which works distranchise- ment as to the right of suffrage. by force of the act itself; nor does such a consequence follow from the conviction for ‘reason, spiracy to commit treason, or for any other act of participation ‘in rebellion.’” Thus the distranchisement clause of! the Military bill is insufficient and fails. Thus, in voting, an actual By its “Tam or con: All disfranchisoment, / therefore, rests upon the Supplementary act and upon the oath in that act which every person presenting himself for registration is required to take. In this oath we find the “otner elements” whose con- currence with stance to the government involves disfranckAsement. These elements are “the holding of certain offices or the taking an official oath.” ‘The candidate for registration mast not only swear that he has not partici pated in ‘he rebellion and given aid to the enemies, of the country, but aleg (hat be wag not a member of any rebel legislatars ; did not | hed unluckily fallen into thy hands of obscure hold any executive or judicia! office in the | adventurers from Bohemia, or some other equal — rebellion, and had not, before he engaged in | ly remote portion of Kastern Europ, who had it, taken any oath to support the constitution of | 20 conception of the force of public opinion in the United States. The Attoraey Gegeral shows | our coun‘ry, and everything was mismansged. that this oath, asa disfrancbising machine, is | Like cheating trader, who first catches the eye comparatively harmless. As it must be sworn | of a credulouseustomer by ibe display of valua- to altogether, it can safely be taken by thoge | ble samples, and then shoves off upon him goods _ who resisted the government aud did not | of an inforior description, the manager or mis | bold office, or by those who hed any office | manager of the opera relicdfor = while apon ite | that did mot necessarily involve active “par- | past sucoceses; ar when the few good voices ticipation.” It can only diafranchise the | which were still oceasiongMy heard within few 4o whom both parts of it apply. | barn-like walls of the old Academy had bee “To work the two elements | hopelessly cracked, he went abroad and raa- must concur.” Upon the face its enumeration | seeked Europe for third rate and fourth rate Of officers would seem to include a very large | artists. For a season or two longer the boxes number; but the very generality that seems | of the opera house continued to be Giled by to give it euch scope limits its application. It | the subscribere who had liberally contributed must be interpreted strictly; and thus its | to its support, or by the friends at whose dis- words do not apply to offices they would | posal they were placed. But thir glittering describe, taken generally, but only to those | show of success was merely illusive'and tem- whose titles they name. Moreover, wherever | porary, and could not avert financial failure. there is any doubt as to the intention of the |-The Academy was at last abandoned to ¢ act, the presumption is in favor of the right-of the olsimant:to a vote. Thus it is not certain means the English, sad the would-be voter cam | that the members of the Jockey Club will net the war of 1812, he is entitled to registration. | recognize in the hearty good will and co-opere- There are some persons who will be shut | tion ‘of the American people an essential ele #| out of the registration, even with all this. What |. ment of success. They will win enduring sue jj of them? They are not left without hope that |‘cess only by judicious and persevering efforts \yy thoy may have a remedy against the injustice |.to advance the turf until it shall become's | of the law. The Attorney General, “taking it | truly national institution. aa granted that Congress has @ right to impose —__—_— auch an oath,” suggests at the same time some | Chief Justice Chase Before the Judiciary “late cases before the Supreme Court.” If the Committee—Ie He to be Impeachod ¢ Supreme Court have power in the case, it must The Congressional inquisition, known as ihe be that the Southern States are within the pale | Judiciary Committee, has suddenly started ca of the constitution; and if they are within the | a new tack. After having been sitting daily pale of the conslitution, then, very clearly, | fora long time, trying to find a case of im- there is this point to be made; the law in | peachment against the President or against question is one “which takes away an existing | anybody else, and alter having examined a vast right as a consequence of acts done at a prior | Dumber and all sorts of witnesses on every time, and which at the timé they were done | conceivable subject, without coming to any entailed no such consequence.” It is an | decision or reaching any tangible pointen ex post facto law ; and does not all the world | which to hang a case, the release of Jeff Davia know the special declaration of the constitu- | has been seized upon: for investigation, and iy tion, that Congress shall make no such. laws? | likely to afford materials for impeaching some Are we to have a Supreme Court case on this | one. Here the Committee is standing on good point? uly ground; here it has something tangible to ge: upon, and is no longer chasing an ignis fatuue.. ‘The Spriag Mocting at Jerome Park. | The liberation of the chief traitor, without ~ The Heratp has reported fully and.minutely | even the form of a trial, and hence the virtual ~ the spring meeting at Jerome Park. The third | declaration that there is no auch crime as‘trea- © day surpassed the two previous days in: point | son, deserves impeachment, if anything doe, . | of ‘numbers general éclat. A muititude of | whoever may .be the responsible party. It people, representing all classes of society, and | there be no treason, the: government is a rope — who had hurried on horseback, on foot,.in | of sand,and there is no-security for the future. vehicles of all sorts, except, perhaps, the | Whoever, then, has been guilty, through offt- hearze (in which s grimly facetious character | cial misconduct or neglect of duty, in bringing in Richmond once invited a lady to ride with | the republic to such a humiliating situation, him to the races, ‘all other carriages having | certainly deserves impeachment. The laws’ been-engaged), met in and about Jerome Park | have been. violated, rebellion and treason heve on Saturday. On their way they had been | sacrificed’ million of lives and created thou- blinded by the dust, which ought to have been sands of millions of debt,the-republic has been © and might have been laid, if the roads- had | placed. on the verge of destruction, and yet been properly watered, like the avenues of the:| those whose duty it was to vindicate the lawa — Park. They bad admired the verdure and foli- | and: to’ make treason odious have winked age of the Park, and bad then been blinded.by.| at thé crime and let the chief traitor go un- dost again until reaching the narrow, shaded | punished.. 3 road which, skirted by villas and cottages, Who, then,. is: the party to blame? The hedges and trim lawns, leads to Fordham. | Jadiciary Committee, it appears, has under No gayer -or more crowded scene than | taken to inquire, and has: had before it Chief , that exhibited on the undulating acres | Justice Chase-and Judge Underwood. We are of Jerome Park can have been wit-| not informed.what was the evidence given or | messed even in the palmy days of | whatis the opinion of the Committeo; we know, | the Fashion Course. Probably no greater | however,.what should be the common sense variety of people ever assembled at an Ameri- | and logical decision. President Jobnson said, cam race course than met last Saturday, and | » long time ago that he was ready to surrender’ | gave s popular endorsement to the efforts of | Davis tothe judicial authority, and that the the Jockey Club to extend an interest in the | prisoner was only held by the Executive ag turf beyond the circle of professional turfmen. | the police hold a prisoner, waiting to surrender In all the vast convourse, indeed, there were | him to the courts whenever called for. Mr. comparatively few, excepting the knowing | Chase, as Chief Justice of the United States— ones, who “talked horse,” unless in @ most | as the head of the Judiciary—should have seem superficial and blundering style. Many of the | that the laws were vindicated. It was clearly? spectators cared but little and knew less about | his duty to have taken up-this important case jj the mysteries of the turf. They chiefly enjoyed | and:dispesed of it long ago. Ht came, in fact, | the spectacle, of which they formed a part. | within the circuit over which he exercises Many a dandy whose fine linen was branded | gpecial- judicial authority. Yet he neglected, with the conspicuous horseshoe, and no. a few | and at one time refused, on ® mere quibble, te elegantly dressed belles, regretted less the | bring Jeff Davis to trial.. Is not this sufficient gloves and trinkets which they lost in trifling | cause for impeachment? Ifit is not, there never bets than their own dusty disarray, occasioned | was a cause for impeachment in any case in this by the drive out of town. They had come | country. The Judiciary Committee has really partly tosee and principally to be seen. Of.| a good case before it now, and the calling o€ course it is not on such spectators that the } the Chief Justice and his. subordinate, Under Jockey Club can mainly rely t6 aid their | wood, before it so promptly appears to indi- ambition to inaugurate, at the grand meeting | cate their impeachment. We shall see whether | in June, to which this Spring meeting is merely | this Committee, after all the fuss it has made, preliminary, a genuine revival of interest in the | and now that it has a tangible impeachable American turf. But this brilliant gathering of | case, will do its duty or not. fashionable spectators admirably sets off, like perteeere eee kew eS: aa & parterre of flowers, the vast human The Panama Kallroad. mass congregated on such an occasion, and Some very interesting statistics of the traffic of attesting the obvious fact that the people are | the Panama Railway appeared in our correspon- ready to appreciate and share the interest, the | dence of yesterday. It appears that since ite growth of which the veteran patrons of the | construction nearly four hundred thousand turf, some of whose aames figure prominentiy | passengers have passed over the line; but it ie among the members of the Jockey Club, have | its traffic that most interestsus. In eleven yoars done so much to promote and have watched | nearly six hundred and seventy-five milliea so vigilantly in past years at the Fashion | dollars of gold, silver and other treasure have Course, the Paterson Course, the Saratoga | poured in from the Pacific to the Atlaatic races and the Hoboken race track, and more | side of the Isthmus. The shipments of sitver recently at the Jerome Park. The salient and | during the last three years bave beon steadity most hopeful feature of this spring meeting is | declining. Most of this product comes from the growing disposition which it has brought | the Pacific coast of South America; but also a to light on the part of the people at large to | large amount, previous to 1863, came from the sustain the Jockey Club in promoting the | western coast of Mexico, being smuggisd out interests of the turf. Liberal subscriptions on | of the country by British men-ofwar by know- the part of the members, and fasuionabie dis- | ledge and.consent of the British government, play on the part of their guests, will prove | and then shipped in great part for England insufficient to secure the avowed objects of the | via the Panama route. Tihe freight trafic elnb, unless a less exclusive and more general | in the eleven years endivag in 1866 shows interest in the turf is enlisted. More generous | a transportation of 614,535 ‘tons, but in 1866 inducements than have yet been offered should | alone it amounted to 107/598 tons; and this tempt the owners of the very best horses in the | year it is estimated that J 50,000 tons will pass country to bring and enter them here for com-'| over the road. The fa’ cts and figures hereia petition. Only thas can improved breeding | stated show the immen ge value of this’ short and training and better racing be the sure | transit between the tw o great oceans, and the result. growing importance if is taking as a channel Like the taste for opera, the taste for the | fur our Atlantic and J /acific trade. As yet the turf is acquired. Both the one and the other | value of the transit fis little known. Its vaat have been of slow and somewhat difficult | and fnereasing im’ sortance, however, is well growth in the United Siates. After years of | shewn by the sirug gle which is now going on toil and heavy expense the Academy of Music, | between English md American capital for the warmly and strongly encouraged by the | possession of the, route. Fabulous sums have Heratp, had become quite successfal. That | been offered to’ Sew Grenada, which, it appears, the public ear and eye had been educated toa almost expects to support the government from progressively higher standard of artistic exeel- | the sale of the/franchise. So far it is probable lence was shown by the plaudits bestowed on | we may hold /on to the road ; and we believe it such favorites as Adelina Patti and Miss Kel- | is absolute'sy necessary for us to possess this logg, and particularly by the universal enthu- | short cut from Europe to the Indies, More siasm with which the genius of Ristori was re« } over/we must hoid it, that we may control the cognized, and the million of francs, with whieh | trade of the South Ambrican States on the her unrivalled representations were rewarded | Pacific, which trade is to-day almost entiroly throughout the length and breadth of the land. | in Bagtish hands, Under all circumstances But for sowie time previous tg the welcome | our, merchants should control this great link with which Ristori was hailed 6n her arrival in | between the iwo oceans, and our governmep! New Yok the Academy of Music had been grad- | Should aid by every means possible to por ually Aoging the prestige Which it bed won, It} the offort, 5