The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1867, Page 6

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SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Graxp Musicat. Fxsti- vat—Tie StapaT MATKR, at Steinway HL Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue. TRIPLE. SHEET. New York, 8: nda, Lisi » Ase The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, June 8. The Pole who attempted the life of the Czar had no ecoomplice, as already announced by the special Titstad TMB the Heeaun, Francis Joseph of See Hn Pesth with great pomp. The Turkish sqasdrg ‘hes blockades ® Greek ship in a port of the sop: Jelands; | in fact ima Groek port. Prussia will evaquate ibe. fortress of Luxemburg within the aext weer, -Comsols closed at 94 for money in London, Five- ‘twenties wore at 73 in London and 77% in Wranklort. The Liverpool cotton market closed easier, with mid- dling uplands at 113¢4. Broadstufls without material change. Provisions unchanged, MISCELLANEOUS. Ex-Governor Wolls, who has retained possession of the archives and records of Louisiana, although removed from his position as Governor by General Sheridan, re- cently refused to surrender them up to Mr. Flanders, the new appointee. Whereupon General Sheridan de- spatched one of bis siaff officers to the obstinate oid Governor with instructions to put him out by force, In his communication he says that Mr, Wolls always urged upon him the right of removal from office until his own cage came in point, and at present he doules such right, He, however, surrendered, ashe said, ‘to the sword,” secured witnesses to the act, and betook himsolfto a consultation with eminent counsel on the subject, Governor Flanders immediately entered upon the dis- charge of his duties. General Grant denies the report that he and Secretary Stanton had censured General Sheridaa for his course in removing Governor Wells. The ship Arnold Bouinger, from Rotterdam with four hundred and twenty-two passengers, arrived at Quaran- tine yesterday. Thirty-four deaths occurred during the ‘voyage, from excessive debility and the use of unwhole- some water before leaving Rotterdam. She was detained below, and will be fumigated. ‘The investigation of the Albany tragedy was con- cluded yesterday, the prisoner declining to produce fur- ‘ther testimony at present. He was thereupon committed for murder. C. M. Cole, his brother, and recently Con- sul at Acapulco, arrived duritig the day and had a pro- tracted interview with him. Our Paris Fashions letter this morning contains a glowing account of the ball at the English Embassy, the Grandees who were present, how they were dreased, who they danced with and numerous other items particularly attractive in the eyes of tho fashionable worid. ‘The mail matter shipped to Europe in three of the Steamshipe sailing yesterday amounted to 46,401 pack. ages. ‘The excursionists to the Holy Land departed in the steamer Quaker City yesterday. The yacht Henrietta arrived at this port yesterday from Cowes. Calvin M. Northrup was sentenced yesterday to twelvo years ponal servitude for the alleged attempted poison- ing of bis wife. ‘A grand hop was given to the cadets at West Point last night by the ladies who are attending the examination. It was a grand affair, being the first of the kind that the stern guardians have ever permitted during examina. tion exercises. A Geet of forty steamboats, from Montana, is coming down the Missouri river, with 120,000 tous of freight on Ddoard. Judge Bryan, of one of the federal courts in Chasles- ton, has decided that telegraph companies are bound to submit private messages in evidence when required, A largo bended warehouse in Chariestown, Mass., fell in yesterday, erely injuring three men. Captain C, C. Duncan, the originator of the Holy Land excursion, lodged a petition in the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday, praying that he be adjudged a bankrupt and be discharged from all bis debts, amounting to about $25,000. In the afternoon he sailed, with the other pil- grime in the Quaker City, for the Mediterranean and the Holy Land. In the case of Johneton et al. vs, Sylvester—an action in the Marine Court—the jury returned a verdict for the Gefendant, The plaintiffs are proprietors of a livery stable in this city, and brought suit to recover $500, the value of a horse which th jad hired to defendant as Plaintiff claim for a drive to Central Park, and which died sbortly after being returned to the stable from Overheating by fast driving On the trial it was shown that the defendant had driven tho horse as far as High Bridge; but the stipulation not to go further than Central Park was not proved. The stock market was heavy yesterday morning, but afterwards improved and closed firm, Gold closed at 136%. Onty @ moderate business was consummated yester- day, but previous prices generally were well sustained. Coffee was quiet, but steady. Cotton was scarcely so firm, though prices were not quotably lower, On *Change, flour was quiet, but steady. Wheat was a shade firmer. Corn opened firmer, but closed weak and unsettled. Oats wero doll and nominal Pork was in feir demand, but at lower rates, Beef was steady, while lard was without decided change. Freights were firmer, though quiet, Whiskey ruled firm. Navai stores were dull and depressed. Petroleum remained quiet and Deavy, ‘The Presidential party — to Washington yes- ferday. re \ Ninty-nine one thousand “dottar bonds have recently eon reported missing from the Treasury Department \No clue to them bas aa yet been discovered. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Attompted Assassination of the Czar—Its Folly and its Probable Results. Clouds are liable to gather upon the bright- est sky. The happiest day may end in sorrow. Death treads closely on the heels of life, and when life is most keenly enjoyed the fell stroke of tho arch-destroyer is moat to be dreaded. Such is a specimen of the language which gives expression to universal human experience, and which is sanctioned by all time. Never did bright day more narrowly escape ending in blcod and sorrow than Thursday, the 6th of June, 1867, A magnificent spectacle had been witnessed on the historic Champ de Mars. Emperors, kings, princes of the blood royal, grand dukes, generals, men of art and science, empresses, princessés—all that was most gifted and all that was most beautiful, representatives, in short, of every class and ofevery interest, from all parts of the civilized world, had beheld with amazement and delight the pomp and the splendor, the strength and the glory of France. The day so far had been acomplete success. Paris had entertained her illustrious guests in a style of unparalleled magnificence, and Paris was satisfied with her- self. The four hundred thousand spectators had begun to disperse; the imperial party had left the grounds amid a tempest of enthusiastic and heaven-rending “ vivas.” Suddenly, amid all this jubilation, the report of a pistol is heard; the horse of a mounted guard riding close to the imperial carriage is shot; a lady is wounded ; but the occupants of the carriage mysteriously escape unhurt, Thus has the experience of the past been confirmed and the lesson been brought home afresh to all the world, that in the midst of life we are in death, and that no day isso happy that it may not end in sorrow. Since the assassination of our own President Lincoln no event has created throughout the civilized world the same amount of excite- ment as has this murderous attempt in Paris. Nor is this to be wondered at, Than the Czar Alexander and the Emperor Napoleon there are no two men living on whom the welfare of so many millions of human beings more imme- diately depends. Rightly or wrongly, such is the fact. Errors—crimes, if you will—it may be possible to lay to their charge. At the same time it is impossible to refuse to admit that both of them in their respective spheres have proved themselves, on the whole, to be wise, beneficent and patriotic rulers. Both of them, tuo, are deservedly popuiar with the masses over whom they respectively rule. Under the skilful administration of Napoleon, France has reclaimed her proud position in Europe and has attained a point of true and substantial prosperity unknown in her previous annals. Russia, under the paternal care of Alexander, has devel- oped her resources as they never were developed before, and the comfort of the indi- vidual, for the first time in Russian bistory, bas Docu CUuma.fa ee ~-—.-1:-— with the devel- opment and expansion of the emp re. Tas emancipation of the serfs, in opposition to the ‘wishes of many of his most powerful nobles, will secure for him a high and honored place among the patriotic rulers of mankind. On these two men more than upon any others the peace and prosperity of Europe depend. The maguitude of the crime which the assassin con- templated is increased and its heinousness is aggravated when it is borne in mind that he recklessly imperilled both thess lives, The one was as liable to fall as the other; both might have perished. The death of either would have been a public calamity. The death of both would have been a loss incalculable, not to Europe alone, but to the world. We know we but echo the sentiments of the Ameri- can people—sentiments which our government has doubtless by this time formally and offi- cially expressed—when we say that the marvel- lous escape of the illustrious personages is a source of universal gratification, and that the would-be assassin has brought down upon his head the moral indignation of mankind, There are many points of view from which this sad affair might be looked at, and in which it would be found to suggest matter for serious reflection. There is one point of view in which it is specially instructive. It affords one more striking illustration of the absolute folly, not to say wickedness, of all such attempts to rec- tify real or imaginary political wrongs. It is certainly a fact to be deplored that, notwith- standing the experience ot well nigh two thou- sand years, any man should be found willing, and any society should be prepared to en- courage him, to play the part of a petty Brutus. No gocd has ever come of such attempts. No good can come of them. As a rule it will be found that they have proved helpful rather than otherwise to the cause which they were in- tended to destroy. Cwsarism did not perish under the stroke of Brutus, but the name of Cesar acquired a power which martyrdom alone could bave given it. He was greater in death than in life. “Allhis acts, his writings, his words, his promises, his thoughts,” says Cicero, “ have more force since his death than if he were still alive.” Sometimes they have created even greater horrors than those from which it was their object to deliver. To quote the words of the present ruler of France, words as truthful as they are full of point, “ Brutus, by slaying Cesar, plunged Rome into the hor- rors of civil war; he did not prevent the reign of Augustus, but he rendered possible those of Nero and Caligula.” Similar lessons may be learned from the assassination of Henry IV. of France, from the assassination of William the Silent, and last, but not least, from the assassination of our own Lincoln. The name of but one great assassin continues to be mentioned with respect; but the name of Brutus has already lost much of its power. Christianity is convincing the world not only that Brutus did wrong, but that under her benignant reign a Brutus is im- possible. The name of this wretched Pole, Beregouski, must henceforth be classed with the Ravaillacs and Gerards of a former age, and with the Orsinis and Booths of our own— names ever to be pronounced with loathing and horror. It is premature, perhaps, to discuss the pro- bable results that may flow from this attempted murder. One thing at least is certain: it will damage the cause of the Poles all over the world. Possibly they have been too much made of. For generations they have been « nuisance both in this country and in Europe. What little sympathy still remained for them will, we fear, by this event be finally and for- ever extinguished. It may be unjust that a whole people should suffer for the doings of one man, but it is inevitable, President Making—The Manhattan Club Philosophers. A short lime ago the political philosophers of the Munhattan Club—Augustus Schell, Barlow, Belmont and others—got up a dinner with a view to make a President of the United States. They had everything cut and dry for this momentous piece of business, and invited the candidate they had pitched upon to dine with them. This was no other than the gal- lant Admiral at the head of the navy. Of course they did not tell him what the object was whe they sent the invitation, intending, no doubt, to create; as the fashionable phrase goes, “an agreeable surprise.” Probably they thought, too, that by being discreetly reticent till the proper moment came they might then, under the genial influence of good wine and a sumptuous dinner, pop the question with more success, and mould the old hero to their own fashion. We can imagine how happy they all felt in contemplating the success of their care- fully prepared scheme. But alas! the best laid plans are sometimes doomed to fail, and these Manhattan Club philosophers failed. They were doomed to realize the mutability of human affairs and the infelicity of disappointed Politicians. Farragut is too old a bird to be caught by chaff, He was either informed by some friend or he had an instinctive knowledge of the object of the invitation to dinner. Intending not to be made a tool of by these copperhead leaders, and at the same time not wishing to treat their invitation impolitely, he quietly informed them that he could only dine with them on the condition that they had no_politi- cal object in view and would make no allusion to the Presidency or politics at the entertain- ment. Of course they had to accept this con- dition and bear their disappointment with the best grace possible. The dinner was eaten, the wine drank, and nice little complimentary speeches made; but not a word said about politics or the Presidency. Whatever views or ambition the Admiral may have with re- gard to the Presidency, he evidently had no confidence in a nomination by these copper- head leaders of the Manhattan Club. He flanked their movement as cleverly as he did the rebels at New Orleans and Mobile, and put them hors de combat, The parties concerned were too modest to give the public informa- tion of this attempted Presidential coup d’éat. We, therefore, from a pure, generous feeling toward them, gratuitously publish what their modesiy prevented them from publishing. These philosophers of the Manhattan Club are in an unhappy condition. They do not know where to find a candidate for the next President. Farragut cannot be used in such suspicious company and in a cause so very doubtful. Grant keeps aloof from the old par- ties, as he will be the candidate of the people and of the conservative elements of every party, He, in fact, will be the nucleus around which the new and great conservative party of the 1UturY WiIh-retiy, ‘Phvy tried McClellan, and failed with him. He will not do for the next race. We really feel sorry for these copper- head leaders in their dilemma. What are they to do? How are they to find a candidate? Perhaps the best way will be to advertise for one. The detective police frequently find the man they want by advertising. That is now almost the universal medium of doing business and reaching our objects. Let them advertise, then, for a Presidential candidate. We will insert their advertisement in the Hmracp at as reasonable a rate as possible—at the same rate as for Corporation advertisements, They must pay, however, in advance. We are par- ticular about this, as the Corporation does not pay. Under all the circumstances, this is the best advice we can give. Let the philosophers of the Manhattan Club try what advertising will doin finding a candidate for their party for the next President. More Telegraphic Commanication. American enterprise is rapidly extending telegraphic communication from this continent to all parts of the world. The latest design on the fapis isa telegraph line from Florida to Cuba, and extending thence through the differ- ent West India islands to Cape St. Roque, in South America. We publish in another column a statement of the plans of the company about to carry this project into effect. This line will not only bring the whole West India group into telegraphic connection with us, but will enable us to extend it from Cape St, Roque, via the Cape Verde Islands, to the coast of Africa, and thence by a coast cable, touching at the Canary islands, to Cadiz. We believe that the latter connection between the coast of South America and Europe is contemplated by @ French company. The line between Key West and Havana, one hundred and two miles in length, will probably be constructed immediately. The connections with the West India islands and Europe will consist of twenty-two sections, the longest being between the South American coast and the Cape Verde isles. Considering that the trade of the West Indies amounts annually to nearly five hundred millions of dollars, and our de- pendence upon those markets for many articles of consumption, telegraphic correspondence with them becomes of great importance, and, should none other of the foregoing projects be carried out, we will have gained much by the connection between our coast and the West Indies. Thus almost every day is adding a link to the chain which is uniting us to the civilization and commerce of the whole world. The Fashions. We commend to the special attention of our lady readers the Paris letter on the tasbions in that capital, which appears in another column. The gayest week which Paris has seen for many years afforded opportunity just at the opening of the spring season tor a grand dis- play of all that is elegant and magnificent in costume, such as bese 2 een rarely witnessed before. At balls, ées and fétes the roy- alty of nearly all Europe disported in its most superb style, the nobility following in its train in no less gorgeous fashion. We do not pre- tend to appreciate all the details of costume as well as our correspondent; but we note among the minutim that “bodices were never worn so low, trains so long, front widths so fiat, nor sleeves 80 invisible” before as at one of the late imperial balls. Of bonnets it appears there is a little more to be said than usual; for we are informed that the latest style is “actually larger” than a cheese plate. Not many years ago we were a season be- hind our French models in the fashions; but now, with our telegraphic communication, we can learn every morning what the guides and leaders of that ganzy realm wore the night previous; so that we can fairly keep pace with the fleet foot, whirling thought and ever-chang- ing capriee of Fashion. Mexico and Maximilian. From Matamoros via New Orleans we have dates from San Luis Potosi up to the 18th of May. It appears that Maximilian and all his generals are held as prisoners of war. It is stated that General Miguel Lopez, high in the confidence of Maximilian, betrayed one of the strong forts to Escobedo, and thus hastened the surrender of the besieged city. This being true, it only proves what a desperate and un- principled set of men have been upholding the empire, and how little confidence the royal Archduke could place in his generals. It isa similar case to that lately reported from Mexico, which caused the shooting of one of the imperial ministers who wished to betray the capital to the liberals. Little wonder that Maximilian has failed to hold out long against the republic when he had such faithless blood to lean upon and second his efforts. Any new attempt of the same party to prove their love of empire by the introduction of a scion of royalty to lead an imperial movement will doubtless be taken at its value in the Old World. There is something in the chivalric surrender of Maximilian which strikes a chord of sym- pathy in the breast of every brave man. His struggle after the French left was undertaken less with the hope ofsaving his empire than in that of gaining conditions for the party which had supported him; and although the French deserted that party under whose shadow the intervention entered Mexico, Maximilian deter- mined to boldly fight it out. This self-sacri- ficing spirit is one that must be admired, and one that especially commends itself to us as a people, who love bold action on the part of a man who, getting himself into a bad scrape, boldly determines to sce it through to the last, This action will commend the adven- turous prince to his royal cousins in Europe, who in modern times are rather unaccustomed to have their blood stirred up by daring deeds. Especially will the adventures of Maximilian commend him to the Austrian people, who have, since the time of the Archduke Charles, been ruled by very degenerate representatives of the Hapsburg blood. The Mexican republi- cans, 80 soon as their blood cools a little, will feel disposed to treat the request of Mr. Seward with the respect due to it; while the splendid opportunity now offered to them to place them- selves before the world as superior to their enemies will, we feel assured, induce them to spare the life of their royal prisoner. The United States will not, in that event, have the world clamoring around them for intervention in Mexican affairs, ané thus we shall be rid of a very troublesome shadow. The Mexican ex- perience of Maximilian will undoubtedly be of great value to him when he is called to rule over Austria ; but we warn Europe that, how- ever broad our republican philanthropy, we cannot start a school for European princes whose ideas are so opposed to the master, the United States. We know that an American education will soon, on the Continent, be ea- teemed @ great biessing ; but we are disposed to extend our favors ina quiet, civil way rather than pound republican ideas into royal brains. Suicide as an Epidemic. No less than three or four cases were added yesterday to the rapidly lengthening list of suicides which the Hmnacp has lately recorded. One was the consummation of a sad story of love and desertion. In another the Coro- ner’s inquest resulted in a verdict of acci- dental death, inasmuch as the deceased had been liable to fits, and may have fallen instead of thrown himself from a third story window. In a third case a young man shot himself in the head with a pistol, near the fountain in Wash- ington parade ground. The fourth case is the most extraordinary, in which a crazy German, who had a large amount of money with him, fancied that his fellow passengers were thieves and pickpockets, stepped out on the platform of the car in the Cincinnati express train on the Hudson River Railroad, while the train was passing Stockport, a little this side of Albany, at full speed, jumped off into the Hudson and was drowned. In a case submitted to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Chief Justice Nelson decided that suicide involved the deliberate termination of one’s existence while in the full possession of the mental faculties, and that self-destruction by an insane man or a lunatic was not suicide within the meaning of the law. Although nearly all life insurance com- panies maintain the stereotyped rule that suicide entails forfeiture of the policy, it would thus be difficult to prove a case of suicide in the legal sense of the word, and the popular notion is per- haps safe that insanity must be presumed to be the cause of suicide. The barbarous old English law, which inflicted punishment for suicide by ordering the corpse to be mutilated and to be buried at the crossroads with a stake driven through it, has become obsolete. Statis- ticians of the modern fatalistic school have gone 80 far as to affirm that the general average of suicides, as well as of murders, is always pretty much the same. Sometimes, however, both murder and self-murder become so frequent as to assume the character of an epidemic. Such seems to be the case at present, when instances of both are daily recorded in the newspapers. The only remedy that we can suggest—and even our statistical fatalists cannot object to this experiment, however ineffectual they may deem it to be—is to redouble all efforts to edu- cate the rising generation to so high an esti- mate of the value of human life and to such complete self-control that reason and will may be relied on to prevent each and all from Yielding to the temptation to murder either themselves or anybody else. Religion and the Secular Press ned the Herald. A curious controversy has arisen between the religious and secular newspapers as to the position, character, moral tendency and reli- gious bearing of the newspaper press of this city. The subject is being handled with all the warmth and acerbity which usually character- ize discussions of this nature. It seems that the religious press gives great offence to the secular, because it thinks the New York Heraty has more practical religion in its columns and exhibits more quiet piety and unassuming grace and sanctity in its course than any other New York paper, religious or Political. It would not do for ws, through an exces of modesty, to geck to qualify testimany which, on a matter of this kind, must be re- garded as unimpeachable. We may be por- mitted to explain, however, how we came to oceupy the position allotted to us as the lead- ing religious and moral journal among the newspapers of the metropolis. Tilton, the greaivst twaddler of the day, and who for several years conducted a religious paper in this city, has gone over openly to Satan, and of course there has arisen a neces- silty for some one to readjust the balance of morality and religion in these eventful and critical times, We have assumed the task for two reagons:—First, because of its urgency, in view of Dr. Cummings’ declaration that the world is to come to an end in the course of the present year; and secondly, be- cause the Pope, in his recent appeal to the press, admits the all-potent influence which journalists now exercise in religious matters. In regard to Tilton, who has thus shamelessly deserted his post and gone over to the enemy’ of mankind, we can only say that we hope Satan will feel proud of him. It is our belief, however, that he has not got much of a prize in him. We could have picked up in the Five Points and in the spiritual circles of the city scores of people who would have been more efficient coadjutors and assistants in the work of demoralization. In regard to our own course, we have but little to add to the flattering things said of us by our religious contemporaries. We started to publish a newspaper on right principles, and we have stuck to our plan for over thirty years, without turning to the right or left. We never had any ambition to be either a religious or political class leader. Our pride has been to faithfully reflect and aid the spirit of progress, and to show up the humbugs and cheats who have been practising on publio credulity in the name of religion and morality. It will be admitted thatwe have ina measure succeeded. Presidential! Outcroppings. Who shall be the next President? This question is rising prominently in all directions. Even the South is awaking toa sense of the urgency and vital importance of this question, and throughout the North, as well as at Al- bany, it begins to agitate the public mind. One signal proof of the. interest which it already excites is to be found in the eager haste, tho violence and folly with which the extreme radicals have initiated systematic oppogition to General Grant, whom the popular voice «has spontaneously and unanimously nominated as the chosen candidate of the American people for the Presidency. The radicals have whis- pered slanderous insinuations against the pri- vate character of General Grant; they have sneered at his reticence as a cloak for paucity of ideas, and they have described him as a man of fow words and fewer ideas. They dare not and cannot deny his splendid record as a man ofaction. But they are wilfully blind to the sheér impossibility: of his having done so much and gone through such a tremendous ordeal so triumphantly without having had a great many ideas, which bis rare genius bas translated into action more eloquent than any words. Grant is head and shoulders above every other Presi- dential candidate who has yet been named by the press, in popularity, in ability and in weight of personal character. The efforts of the radicals to forestall public opinion by nominating Chase will only bring out and multiply the friends of Grant, and their name is already legion. As we have more than once predicted, the million of soldiers whom he led to conquest and glory, and the millions with whom those soldiers are individually con- nected, will make this greatest General and hero of modern times President of the United States. The little game of the radicals has been to keep the name of Grant under @ bushel, as it were, until they can nomi- nate Chase. But the people must be on the alert and see to it that in- triguers be foiled in their atiempt to head off a candidate whose name rises superior to all parties and factions. Now is the time for the politicians throughout the entire country to move with the people in the matter. The nomination of General Grant—of the man who saved the nation in war, and who can save it again from perils equally serious—would be an -earnest of peace and repose. It would rapidly hasten the proccss of reconstruction through which the South is passing, with what results the future alone can determine; and the future will largely depend upon the choice of our next Presidential candidate. Let the people primarily put forward their cxndidate, dispensing with the corrupt conv ntio: sye tem, which is unknown to the laws aid the constitution, and ought to be abolished. The attempt of the radicals to pack conventions and nominate Chase, Wade or Stanton, will only unite all, democrats and moderate repub- licans alike, throughout the land on the Grant platiorm. Among the issues which are to con- trol the next Presidential contest will be an overhauling and cutting down of our present oppress ve national bank, credit and taxation systems, internal and external. We cannot believe that the people at large are ready to sacrifice the immense advantages of a full restoration of the Union for the sake of further- ing the pet schemes of Stevens, Samner, Butler and Wendell Phillips for Southern confiscation and for placing the white race of the South in political subjection to the emancipated blacks. It would be far preferable to upset the cost!y and powerful electioneering machinery of the national banks, even at the risk of spoiling the prospects of Chief Justice Chase as a Presi- dential candidate. Wendell Phillips might be allowed to empty ail the vials of his wrath if the nation were once to enter fairly upon the era of harmony and prosperity which would date from the inauguration of General Grant as President of the United States of America. The June Regatta. The annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club will come off on Thursday next, 13th inst. The starting point will be off Owl's Head, Long Island, and the course will be round the lightship and baek, yachts keeping the buoy of the Southwest Spit to the west and south. ‘Half-past ten o’clock in the forenoon is the hour fixed for the start. Two classes of boats are entered for the race, schooners and sloops, with a prize valued at $250 for each class. With a fair day and s good breeze a capital race may be expected, and as the course is not a long ono there will probably be close competition between the yachts. But after all the regatta will be little more than schoolboy pastime compared with the ocean Gontost and other races over a long cour - Horse Racihg in Europe. Our special mail reports of the great turf contests for the English Derby and Oaks, at Epsom Downs, and the French Derby at Chan- tilly, which we publish to-day, embrace ample corroboration of the accuracy of the special cable telegrams in which we reported the run- ning and result of each heat in the columns of the Heratp the morning subsequent to their occurrence. The letters which appear thia morning will be read with much interest, notwithstanding the spirited descriptions conveyed through the cable, as the writers by mail elaborate the details—the scenes on the road and grounds, the betting, the mounts and remuneration of the jockeys, and so forth—ina very pleasing and instructive form. The favor- ites before the races were beaten in both coun- tries, and in England one jockey (Daley) rode the winner of the Derby and Oaks, an unusual coincidence WASHINGTON. Wasnixaton, June 8, 1867. More Government Bonds Missing. A few weeks since a one million package of the now ovnsolidated one thousand dollar bonds was discovered to contain only nine hundred and one bonds, and not- withstanding the mystery has undergone the most dili- gent and searching invostigation by Messra. Moore, Wyman, Pratt and Gourlay, clerks who have the cou- fidenge of the Secrotary, no satisfactory ciue to the missing ninety-nine bonds has yet been arrived at though it is whispered that the Secretary is on the trail The loss was ascertained just in the very nick of time to prevent tho still furthor abstraction of forty-seven more of the same class of bonds, which would have made the little pickings amount to the snug sum of one hundred and forty-six thousand dollgrs. No informa~ tion was imparted to the Secretary concerning the mias~ ing bonds until it could no longer be kept trom him. Financial Affairs. Tho securities held by the Treasurer of the United States in trust for the National Banks reported to-day, are as follows: — For circulating notes. For deposits of public The amount of national bank notes issued during the week was $35,700, making the total amount to date $302,936,806. From this isto be deducted the amount of currency returned, including worn out notes, amount- ing to $4,834,627, leaving in actual circulation at this date $298, 102,179. During the week there has been received from the Printing Bureau $330,000 in fractional currency. During the same time there has been forwarded to the Assistant ‘Treasurer at New York, $100,000; United States Deposi- tory, $50,000; Assistant ‘Treasurer at Philadelphia, $200,000; Assistant Treasurer at Boston, $100,000, and to national banks and others $241,322, Total, $691,822. ‘The receipts from customs at the ports below named, from May 27 to May 31, wnclusive, was aa followa:— New York. Boston Philadelphia. Baltimore. ‘The amount of fractional currency redeemed. and de- stroyed at the Treasury during the week was $378,500. The receipts from internal revenue to-day were $565,968—making the total amount for the week ending to-day, $5,460,239, and the total since the beginning of the present fiscal year, $252,030,647. American Claime Against Vevesucta. i An official proclamation ts made of a convention be- tween the United States and Venezuela for a mixed com- mission in order to settle the American claims. Products et American tikes A statement of oil and otner products of American fisneries received and exported during the four months ending April 30, 1867, prepared by the Bureau of Statistics, exhibits the following:—The amount of spermaceti, whale and other fish oil and other products of fisheries received during the four months at the several ports of the United States were valued at $2,462,237. The value of the same exported during the same period was 142,682. The Reward Offered by the Washington City Council tor the Lincoln Assassins. In the Equity Court of this District an order bas been made in the matter of the controversy relative to the disposition of the $20,000 reward offered by the Cay Council of Washington for the Lincoin assassins, Gen- ral L. G, Baker is at tssueon the question with nearly fifty competitors against him for the prize. The order by the Court directs the taking of testimony by Com- missioner Lieutenant E. P. Doherty, one of the respoad- ents, who was the officer in command of the detail of men from the Sixteenth New york cavalry. In his aa- swer he admits that he was ordered, on the 2th of April, to report to Colonel L.. C. Baker, agent of the War Department, and was ordered to proceed to Belle Plain and scour the country, information having been received which led to the belief that Booth and Harold wore im that section, and denies that he was under the command: of Conger, who, with L, C. Baker, accompanied the comman d. The Petition for the Pardon of Jet Davis. Governor Pierpoint, of Virginia, in answer to a request of Paul Bagley to sign a petition for the pardon of Jeff Bavis, writes as follows: — Commoxwrattn or Virginia, Executive Derartaayt, June 4, 1867. Task for the pardon of no man who will not ask for his own lon. God cannot pardon unless the trans- gressor first asks for bis pote anger Reason—Cont vo the lished law of God, ¥.-H, PIERPOINT, Rev, Paut Bacier, The Department of Education. Tho Department of Education ts new as far organized ag the timited means at the disposal of Commissioner Barnard will admit, in the absence of any appropriation by Congress. The Commissioner is devoting all bis energies to developing a system and procuring the necessary information for that purpose. The Depart- ment as yet bas no clerical force, excepting the chief clerk, Mr. Edward D. Neill, and Professor Z. Richards. The Department is at present engaged in transmitting ciroulars to the Governors of States, cailing for tho reqnisite information in regard to the educational interests of the states. It is also about to take the census of the District of Columbia, as a point of com- mencement for the statistical reports om the education of the country, The Commissioner intends to obtain the census of all the more important cities of the United States, with the same object in view; aad the city of Now York has already mado an appropriation of twenty-five hundred dollars to assist the department in this work, The Commissioner is obtaining information from the different States in reference to land grants made to the States in behalf of education, and is dovot- ing his especial attention to the Normal schools of the country. The efficiency of the department is consider- ably retarded by the fact that education in cach State is under the control of the State government, as alt calls for information, which will be very numoroua, will have to be made upon officers who have their official duties to attend to, and the Department cannot, there- fore, call upon any particular officer for replios to cir- culars, but can only request them. Like the Commis- stoner of Agriculture, the Commissioner of Education will report directly to Congress, not being subordinate to any other department of the government. Ho ox- pects to make a report of the operations of the depart- ment to Congress in December next. Civil Administration of Justice Im Georgia. Cotone! . C, Sibley, commanding the district of Georgia, on the 27th ult, issued an order, with @ viow to Avoid, as fat as practicable, a suspension of civil admin. } istration of justice throughout this State. Tho oficora upon whom the duty devolves are requested to report without delay to headquarters any vacancies that may now oxist in civil offices in the State, whother State or local, and as they may occur in future, The Amount of Gold Coin in the Trenaury. ‘The reports of the Treasury Department for the week ending to-day show that the government has in iss pos- geasion ond hundred million cight huodred and ninety- one thousand dollars in gold, eighteen millsen three hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars of which is reprosented by gold cortificates, Apeaaao S#ivpune,—Thomas Kelly cansed the arrest of two mon, who gavo thoir names as Thomas Flynn and John Loney, on « charge of having cheaved him out of $57. The complainant states that the prisoners ro- ceived a number of roereere prints (6 sell for him, and that they fated to oy wl by arate retarna £ - tie. . "ior a