The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES. GORDON BENNETT, JR, MANAGER. BROADWAY ANP ANN STREET, Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome atreet.—Tux FLowsas or tHe Fongsr. WORRELL SISTERS’ NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo- alte New York Hotel.—Faust, on tas Dewow, Tar Docton ano tus Devit's Daavout—A Kiss in tue Dank. THRATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, and Sixth avenue,—Kiomarp IIL. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tasasure Trove, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.— Foo. oF tux Famity. Oy a Maen Raa BANVARD'S NEW YORK MUSEUM, Broadway and Thietioth atrect,—Iivssanp Afternoon and Evening. Oe Rete ay, Sige, TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue and Fifty-eighth and Fitty-ninth streets, —Tuxopoms Tuomas” Convants, a 8OClock P.M. NOMA ForvLan Ganpax SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 5% Broxdwa: the Metropolitan Hotel—in tusk Etulorian Encoeente : SNTRRTAIN. MENTS. 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Matinee every afternoon at 234 o'clock, SUNDAY (THIS) EVE NG.—Granp Sacrep Concent ID at TeRRAC! Thi oie eee rae avenue, Fifty-eighth and Fifty. su mm A TRIPLE SHE%T poriiaciaelt.n lect ‘ cd Now = ‘ky Sunday, Jung 46, 9- a -367, a TH a. Nur yp DOORS ws. wo EUP By epeoial telegrams ** im London, Constant} early hour on Frid’ Very interesting Lord Stanie -OPE. -orough the Atlantic cable dated aople, Cronstadt and Madrid at an ay morning we have important and advices from Europe, during the 7’8 action in the London Peace Conference sharply ’ negotiation of the Luxemburg treaty was thes, ’ assailed in Parliament, the opposition asserting Ear +n consenting to tho guarantee clause, he pledged + sland to armed intervention in the event of a war vetweon France and Prussia. Lord Stanley defended bis course on the ground of the existence of an urgent necessity for the prevention of war. Omar Pasha officially claimed a very important victory ever the Christians in Crete, entailing heavy losses on the insurgents, A debate in the British House of Commons on Fenian affairs goos to show that the, English reform leaguers sympathize with the Irish revolutionists to some extent. Quoen Isabella of Spain has despatched a Special En- voy to Washington, with instroctions to the Spanish Minister relative to the war situation with Chile and the other Spanish-American republics, British reinforcements have been despatched by steam- ship to the army in Canada. The King of Prussia and Count Bismarck have reached Berlin from Paris, Tne Ozar Alexander was at Darmstadt, en rowle to St. Peters- burg. The military, with the police, were in severe Collision with the Fenians in Waterford, and two of the Fenians died from bayonet wounds. Consois closed at 9444 for money in London. Five- twenties were at 73\¢ in London and 78 in Frankfort. In the Liverpool cotton market middling uplands was at 1134. Breadstuffs quiet. Produce heavy, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The second instalment of the Attorney General's opin- fon on the Reconstruction law is said to be ready for the press, It relates more especially to the duties of the qilitary commanders, Prominent officials state that ho argues that two governments are provided for in the rebel States by the military act—one civil and one mili- tary, and both provisional, the military commanders merely acting as conservators of the peace, and not as abrogators of the law, Not having the power to remove from office, they are in consequence without authority to appoint Thad Stevens publishes a letter in the Washington Chronicle, suggesting the propriety of holding the July session of Congress. He says the opinions of the At- torney General require explanatory or supplemental acts, The Afbany tragedy has assumed a new and curious phase. Mr. Hadley, counsel for the prisoner, was yes- terday presented by the Grand Jury of Albany county for contempt in not fully answering certain questions Defore them relative to certain papers of the prisoner which had come into his possession profes. sionally, and an order of the court was asked for to compel him to produce a letter said to bave been written by Cole at Syracuse just before the tragedy occurred. ‘The order was granted and served upon Hadley, who made return that the paper was received by him as counsel for the prisoner, and as such wasa privileged communication, After an argument between Lyman Tromaine, counsel for Hadley, and the District Attorney, the court issued an order for the production of the pa- per, which Mr, Hadley thereupon placed in the pi 5 sion of the Clerk of the court General Benjamin F. Butler, upon whose staff the prisoner Cole served during the war, is said to bave been retained for the defence, The obstacles in the way of a trial of John H. Surratt seem to thicken as the case proceeds. Judge Fisher was ill yesterday, and Judge Wylie presided, for the purpose, as be said, of empanelling @ jury, as unless ‘a jury 1s ompanetled before Monday the proceedings must be commenced de nove, Objection was made by counse for the prosecution to Judge Wylie officiating, but the Court overruled it. Twelve jurors were finally drafted out of the large panel sammoned, and they were dis missed until ten o'clock at night, when they were sworo and agsin dismissed until Monday morning. Judge Wylie then adjourned the court until that time. Genoral Grant is at West Point, He will present their dipiomas to the graduates on Monday, An explosion of fireworks occurred at the store of Pardoy & Co., Maiden lane, yesterday, by which two men were injured, one of them It is supposed fatally. ‘The second annual regatta of the Atlantic Yacnt Club of Brooklyn takes place at noon on Tuesday. The course Will be from the club house in South Brooklyn to the @takeboat beyond the Narrows, off the Southwest Spit and return, Eight first class and eight second class sloops are entered for the contest. The Long Island and Flushing Railroad Companies bave always been at odds with one another, and on Friday, while workmen employed by the latter company wore laying & track across the track of the former, they were interrapted by a constable, who arrested them for trespass, The tracks they had put down were torn up by the adherents of the Long Island Company, who were arrested in turn onthe same plea. Their adversaries being thas Aors de combat, the Fiushing Company con- tinued thelr work, and under the protection of a equad of metropolitan police completed it yesterday. Additional intelligence from Japan is to the effect that the American Minister has made public for the benefit of Americans the information that Osaka, Jeddo and other ports will be opened on the Wet of January ox . \n interesting article elsewhere in the columns of the ferato this morning gives am account of the internal evenae, the law of 1861, increasing that mode of Lovernment income to mest the requirements of the war, bow it was received by the people aad how it ope rales at present, “ : -soator Wade's exeursion party were entertained at « Daoquot in St. Louis am Friday night by the Mayor and SAGA SANDOIL DE the Gitr, Most of the members of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. the party made speeches favoring govornmoas ald for the completion of both Pacific railroads. The Convention of Workingmen's Trade Unions was held at Early Closing Hall, in the Bowery, last evening. About thirty-one societies were represented, but no business beyona the election of permanent officers was transacted. The object of the convention is to put into operation the new law of the Legislature making eight hours a day’s work. An imperfectly reconstructed judge at Tarboro, N. C., is reported to have adjourned court recently because negroes were summoned as jurors, He claims that the ‘Stato laws which he bas sworn to support do not recog- nize black jurors, and therefore he will not recognize them either, Tho till of John L, Street, 27 Dey street, was tapped by two fashionably dressed gontiemen yestorday, and over $1,500 taken. Among the passengers who sailed for Europe yester- day were A. T. Stewart, Commodore Garrison, Bierstadt, the artist, Maggio Mitchell and George Bancroft, the Minister to Berlin, Devastating storms passed over Texas on the 2d and ‘84 inst., destroying many lives and much property. Tn the Louisiana Republican Convention yesterday a resolution asking Congress to buy or seize Cuba was tabled. George Winnemore, the convicted murderer of Mrs. Magilton in Philadelphia, was sentenced to be bung yesterday. The stock market was dull, but steady, yesterday. Gold closed at 137%. ‘The amount of business consummated in commercial circles yesterday was exceedingly light, and domestic produce was generally lower. Merchandise, however, ruled very firm at previous rates, Cotton was not essen- tially changed. Coffee was steady, On ‘Change flour was dull, irregular, and 150. a 80c, per bbl, lower, with some forced sales at a decline of 60c. per bbl. Wheat and corn were dull and nominal. Oats opened a shade firmer, but closed heavy at the improvement, Pork was a shade lower, though more active, Beef ruled firm, while lard remained heavy, Fieights, though quiet, were firm. Whiskey was unchanged, Naval Stores were dull and depressed, Potroloum ruled hge:,y, with a limited demand. The Puritanism of New England ter and Its Manifest” tions, 2 A devout, pious, sarcas | and rather witty donmiay pallsaine Cha stian Advocate, has for AOBSD, WeOke. BASS } een pointing out with a lieve #ONDY’ of ability the shortcomings of the rey B88 Pad the infidel characteristics of the, oy a Press of. thig country. The editor z: a allen Advaaite is evidenwy ® read- wele! uking map, not indifferent to the .are of his country and not unwilling to do good to the extent of his ability. Like many other well meaning men, however, Dr. Curry s2e3 the evil which he deplores through a dis- alts Charace to its root. He knows it is there, but he neither sees it clearly nor tells us whence it comes. He is one of those men whom Bacon would unscrupulously have put in the “cave.” In the “cave” he lives and out of the “cave” he looks. He sees nothing but what is in the “cave” or what hap- pens to pass its mouth. His vision, therefore, is limited. His logic isfaulty by defect. With some of the opinions advanced by the editor of the Christian Advocate we decidedly agree. From some of them, for the reasons just given, we as decidedly differ. Some of his statements are singularly correct; som> of them are strikingly at fault, We cannot agree with him, for example, in the distinction which he draws between a secular and a religious newspaper. In our opinion no newspaper should be purely secular or purcly religious; but every news- paper should be both secular and religious. A great newspaper conducted on purely party principles, whether religious or secular, is as impossible as it is undesirable, and Dr. Curry’s growing experience will yet convince him that a newspaper must be both religious and secular or nothing at all. We agree with him, however, in much which he says regard- ing certain literary journals and newspapers of the day. We should not have dwelt at such length on Dr. Curry, were it not that in the columns of the Christian Advocate he unconsciously en- dorses certain sentiments to which the Heratp has again and again given expression. It is a curious thing that the journals and the special features of journalism to which Dr. Curry takes exception should have a direct connection with New England and should be Puritanic in their origin. Sach, however, is the fact. A Christian journal bewails the irreligion and infidelity of the press. That portion of the press chiefly complained of either exists in or derives its inspiration from New England, the home of the Pilgrim fathers and the still boasted centre of religious life and thought in? the United States. We do not say it was the object of the Christian Advocate to give New England this prominence. But, consciously or unconsciously, the prominence is given, and it is only because in our opinion the prominence is merited and just we call attention to the fact. We can homologate all that the Doctor has said of the North American Review, of the Atlantic Monthly, of the Liberal Christian, of the Anti-Slavery Stan- dard, and of the New York Tribune. We could add other names, such as the Radical, a Boston journal of the extreme rationalistic school, not excluding from our list the sage and once saintly Independent, of Now York. Not one of these journals but is steeped in New England sentiments. In all of them—in some more, in some less distinctly—we behold reflected, as in a glass, the religious as well as the intellectual character of New England. It is a strange characier. It appears all the more strange when we remomber its origin. The contrast between the New England of the present day and the New England of an earlier period ; the New England of every religion or of no reli- gion, and the New England of unbending and intolerant orthodoxy ; the New England that can listen to @ parson avowing from a Christian pulpit his unbelief in the Holy Scriptures, and the New England that punished with merciless severity every departure from the one in- violable standard—the contrast, we say, is very great, It would be difficult for the orthodox tathers of old to recognize the features of their pious descendants, And yet the children are not so unlike their fathers, aiter all. The religion has been changed or abandoned, but the spirit which gave life and character to that religion still remains. New England has less religion or it has more “isms” than of old; but it is as selfish, as ambitious, as greedy of power, as impatient of opposition, as proten- sious, a8 opinionative, as bigoted, as intolerant as ever. These are the characteristits which mark New England of the present day, and which have marked her at every previous period of her history, It {s necessary in all things to yield hér the supremacy. She is never without her whims, and whatever is the whim of the mo- ment—whether it be @ religious, philosophic, philanthropic or transcendental whim, whether it be negro rights or woman rights, whether it be the extinction of witchoraft or the extinction of tntemnerance—she is eaually imperious and equally to be obeyed. ‘Now England is | Te Horald’s Special Onble Despatches—An the soul and centre of America, and as she eats, drinks and sleeps, so must America, 80 must all the world. If she is intolerant, she is also full of force and energy. It is not to be denied that these characteristics have at times Proved useful to the country. It is as litle to be denied that they have oftentimes led the country seriously astray. If we must admit that from New England has emanated influences blissful to the Union, it must also be admitted that from her, too, have gone forth influences which have proved in the last degree disas- trous. In accepting good from her we must be fearful of evil. That she is daring enough to push her peculiar opinions, and intolerant enough to be impatient of all opposition, is a special reason for watchfulness. In nothing is her influence more to be dreaded than in her literature. We are thankful, therefore, to Dr. Curry for the note of alarm which he has 50 unconsciously sounded as to the dangers to be apprehended from New England journalism. The Reconstructioniste im Need of Recos- merncth The radical reconstructionists are them- selves just now sadly in need of reconstruo- tion, and are in some instances making experi- men‘s in that direction, although with very little prospect of success. In Virginia, for instance, Botts has been endeavoring to groom the party on one side, and Hunnicut has, headed the negroes against him on the other side, ungil an entire breaking up of the organ- ization is inevitable. A Congressional com- mittee from Washington and a number of “narrow-minded blockheads” from the Union League clubs of New York and Philadelphié recently made a pilgrimage to Richmond to harmanize the conflicting elements, and suc- ceeded in patching up a temporary peace and securing a single call for a convention in Vir- ginia. But Botts proved himself a smarter jockey than Hunnicut in the negotiation. He ob'ained all that he wanted; and as the negror.; will not trust Botts and cannot be induced to follow bis lead, the labor of the “narrow oat aa)? the- minded blockheags” will be all = away. In this State the ©Zman Republican Central Committee have just issued an address de- claring their intention to secede trom the re- publican party unless it shall wipe out tho “1 il i torting medium, and fails altogether to trace it} Metropoliian Excise law and provide in the new constitution against any “Sabbatarian and temperance legislation” in the future. The republican factions in the State Constitu- tional Convention are also represented as pre- paring for a strnggle among themselves. But all this squabbling and fighting will amount to nothing; for the time has come for the people to take upon themselves the work of political reconstruction, and in doing so they will en- tirely set aside all the old organizations.and factions. The Virginians bave already s‘gni- fied their intention to do so in a brief, emphatic and sensible manner. The copperhead de- mocracy is dead and can know no resurrection. The radicals, with their financial blunderings and their oppressive, fanatical laws, will soon sleep in peace by the side of the copperheads. In New York the great political regeneration of the country will commence, and its starting point will be the issue to be fought out on the new State constitution next November. That will inaugurate the new era, and the party formed then in this State will be the nucleus for the national movement next year, with Grant as its candidate for President, indepond- ent of all organizations, parties, cliques und factions. By this means alone can the country be restored to real peace and prosperity; and this is the “reconstruction” for which the people are prepared. ‘Tho Contagion of Orime. A fresh instance of the contagious influence of crime is .furdished by the Elizabeth street tragedy, which has so quickly succeeded the tragedy in Nineteenth street. Murder and suicide were the elements villanously com- pounded in each of these dreadful tragedies, although in the second the intention of murder failed to be consummated. At the inquest on the body of Henry Bundy, who attempted to kill his wife and succeeded in shooting himself last Thursday night, a letter which had been found in his pocket revealed the fact that his wife, like the reputed wife of King, had been & concert saloon girl; and one of the witnesses testified that the other day, after reading the account of King’s killing himself and wife in Nineteenth street, he said, “In a few days there will be another account in the paper like this; only it will be Henry Bundy and wife.” It is obvious that the weak mind of the suicide and intentional murderer was supplied with a proximate impulse to crime by the deed which he tried to imitate. In Paris whenever ons poor fool leaps from the top of the column on the Place Vendome it is likely that he will be followed by as many imitators as can elude the vigilance of the guards. In New York suicide complicated with murder seems to have become equally contagious. In all individual cases of crime, however, the predispositions to it exist, although latent, long before some proximate cause arises to determine the fearful shape which it may assume. Hence we must repeat the moral to be drawn from the recent outbursts of crime, that its seeds should be carefully extirpated by a thorough early education of the reason and the will. Smugaling and Other Frauds Upon the Gov- ernment. Hardly « day has passed lately without some news baving been published in our columns about smuggling, distillery frauds, or robbery of the Treasury in one way or an- other. There is something radically defective either in the revenue system itself or in the management of i, Perhaps in both. There is, too, a deplorable laxity of morality in gov- ernment officials, and in those having transac- tions with the government. We seem to be fast running into @ state of fearful demoraliza- tion, which, unless checked, will inevitably bring usto bankruptcy and revolution. It is not surprising that the revenue of tho govern- ment has fallen off greatly, when there are 0 many leaks and evasions of the law. Ono of the first things Congress should attend to, when it moots, is a thorough investigation and over- hauling of the revenue laws, and of the causes of fraud. Unless these frauds be stopped, the Tevenue better collected, and the government funds be made more secure from robbers, we shall soon find an ompty Treasury, and the people unwilling to be taxed heavily for the benefit of plundering rascals, official and an- offictal. Let us have an investigation, and such laws o wn be carried out without evasion. Interesting Europeas Budget. The Heraup’s special cable despatches to-day will be found very full and interesting, laying before our readers the latest intelli- gence from London, Ireland, Constantinople, Cronstadt and Madrid up to an early hour yes- terday morning. From London we have a concise and comprehensive report of a Parlia- mentary debate om the Luxemburg treaty question, arising out of an attack made by the opposition upon Lord Stanley for an alleged lack of statesmanship and prudence in his ea- pacity of representative of Groat Britain in that important conference. Mr. Labouchere and Mr. Ayrtoun, two of the liberal members, took the ground that by guarantesing the neutrality of Luxemburg England had in fact bound herself to an armed interference should the terms of the treaty be violated in the event of a future war between France and Germany. Upon this view of the case they endeavored to excite the jealousy of Parliament over its priv- ileges by attempiing to show that in such an event Parliament would be vir- tually deprived of its constitutional power of granting to or withholding from the Crown the war supplies. This Lord Stanley denied, hold- ing that Parliament would still possess the power to decide whether the country should go to war or not; and he justified bis course in the Peace Conferenee, dnd claimed that by England’s interference a general European war had been averted. Another interesting item of Friday night’s Parliamentary proceedinge, was the rejection of a motion to expunge f;om the journal of the House of Commons 9%) record of a petition pre- sented and receiw.q some weeks s.nce praying for the extens%on of executive leniency to the Fenians & ndemned to death in Ireland. This pctitio’a was from the English Reform Leaguers an? others, and contained severe animadver- ‘sions upon British rule in Ireland, which the mover of the resolution for ils obliteration from the reqprds regardod as insuliing to the Bits, army Aad government, The Housz, however, rejected the motion—a result which evinces the strength of the reform pariy in the British Commons, The news from Constantinople of a bad defeat of the Christians in Crete by the im- perial Turkish troops will probably impart an additional anxiety to the great Powers of Europe for a speedy and final settlement of the Eastern question. The Fate of Maximilian. Our advices state that Maximilian and his principal officors will be banished from Mex- ico; the republican government consideting this not only as a just concession to tho wishes of the United States, but also a dignified pro- ceeding in: behalt of their own country. It may be considered as settled that Maximilian will not lose his life at the hands of the outraged Mexicans for his filibustering exploits among them ; but at the same timo we believe it to be unwise on the part of the Mexican government to banish him from the country by the decree of Juarez before a formal trial is given him. To treat the case ot Maximilian as wo have treated that of Jefferson Davis is child’s play; and although the Mexioans have follies enough of their own, we hope they will not copy any of ours. The true way to proceed with the Austrian Archduke is to arraign him before the courts of the country and give him a thorough trial. Every effort should be made and no ex- pense spared to glean from Europe all the evi- dence that can be gained relative to the ori- ginal objects of the intervention and what bear- ings they had, not only with reference to Mex- ico, but to the United States. We are certain that some strange political developments would be made were this thoroughly carried out—that the restoration of the prestige of the Latin race in the New World by France meant the organi- sation ofa vast colonial possesion, and a cot- ton monopoly that would make France the first nation in Christendom. The trial, more- ever, would unveil the whole acts of the ccivilizing army of the Old World that marched over Mexivo to distribute the blessings that they boasted lay concealed in the folds of the French flag. This is indeed a glorious opportunity for the Mexicans to vindicate their cause, to show what brought on their civil warfare, what great political ques- tions have been pending between liberal and retrograde, the progressive and the priest party; to show whether the world has mis- judged their struggle or given them credit for the progress they have made for the past fifty years in shaking themselves free from the curse which did not leave the land with the banners of Old Spain. The Mexican people owe the republicans of this continent a debt which they can only repay by the trial of the royal filibuster in their hands. The day is past when blood pays for blood; and we have advocated for the life of the Archduke upon the principles that animate the age. But the dignity of the con- tinent demands a formal trial for the blow struck at its system of government, and then the sentence of banishment for the crime. The traitors who have, in supporting the empire, committed a double crime—rebellion and the betrayal of their country to a foreign power— we leave to justice. The laws of their country will deal properly by them; but Maximilian, the central figure, should be dealt with as we have stated. How far his plea that he isa government may go is of little account; the Mexicans will doubtless settle that in a most summary manner. Let Mexico give him a trial, and perchance it may result in a willing- ness on the part of civilized nations to give Mexico the same, and see if she can or cannot govern herself. Steambeat Racing. We perceive that steamboat racing has been inaugurated for the season on the Hudson. Whether it shall continue throughout the sea- son will depend on the frowns or the favor bestowed by the public on this culpable and perilous practice. It would be speedily checked—perhaps the sooner the better—by such » dreadful explosion as occurred two years ago on one of the very steamers engaged in this first of our Hudson river races during the present summer. That explosion involved the loss of two or three lives. No accident happened the other night, although the rival boats raced all the way from the city to New- burg Bay, where they ran side by side. In the morning one of them dashed through Athens channel half # mile ahead of her competitor. ‘The officers of the latter boat, it is said, bore their dofeat with composure ; and we must add that the oublic micht have beard with equal composure that the officers of both boats had been blown in‘o the air and drowned in the water, if it could only be hoped that such a consummation would prove an effectual warn- ing for the future. Canada Under its New Regime. In a few Lord Monck will arrive in Canada to assume his dutics as Viceroy, under the powers conferred upon him by the bill re- constructing the British Provinces into a con- solidated government. His position will be one of considerable difficulty, and will require more than usual tact to enable him to acquit himself satisfactorily of its duties, He has it in bis power to make himself one of the most popular, as he can render himself one of the most detested, of rulers. Although the mea- sure bas been suecessfu!ly engineered through the local and imperial Parliaments, there is no doubt that a large portion—we believe the ma- jority—of the people of the Provinces are heart and soul opposed to it. On the new Viceroy will depend the question whether their dislike to it cam be overcome. If he succeeds in re- conciling them to it, then the measure of his personal influence will be very great, 80 great, indeed, that the imperial government will find it difficult to displace him. Who knows but that he mag be destined to play as prominent a part in.the history of the new do- minion as did his ancestor, General Monck, in that of England? If he be ambitions, he may, like the Viceroy of Egypt, so strengthen him- self in the affections of the people over whom he is calied to rule as to compel recognition of his title to a more elevated dignity. If, on the other hand, he is sufficiently disinterested to appreciate the fact that the true interests of the Canadas aro bound up with this country, he my contribute to bring about a union which cannot but prove advantageous to both, In either case the changes inaugurated by his assumption of office can only be regarded as experimental, There are few thinking minds who regard the scheme which ha has been chosen to work out as offering any chance of | permanency. as THY Tho Church Property i Iuly, Tho refusal of the Italian Parliament to ratify the convention concluded by Signor Ferrara with certain Paris banking houses for a loan guaranteed by a tax upon the property of the Churon is significant of the fate to which the Church temporalities are destined. If this arrangement had been concluded it would have assured to the ecclesiastical establish- ments of Italy the continued possession of their endowments, They would have been heavily taxed, to be sure; but the revenue thus derived would have formed an obstacle to their confis- cation, inasmuch as it would have constituted a recoznition of the right to hold them. It was this view of the case which induced the clergy to withhold active opposition to the tax, and which also gave rise to the report that there was an understanding between the Pope and Viotor Emanuel, in pursuance of which the King was to bring sbout @ coup d'état and abolish the Parliamentary system altogether. This latter statement has been contradicted “on authority ;” but it is evident that it has not had the effect of convincing the members of the Italian Parliament. They evince their belief in it by defeating a negotia- tion which seemed to them to be intended to constitute a guarantee for the inviolability of the Church temporalities, On a former occa- sion we gave expression to the opinion that such # compromise was impossible, and we are now borne out in it by the action of the popu- lar representatives. Signor Ferrara will have to look to other sources to raise the money he wants, or he will have to face the question of confiscating the entire property of the Church end making such provisions for itas are deemed sufficient in France and other Catholic coun- tries. JAPAN. OMicial Notification ef the Opening ef the Porte te Commerce. San Francisco, June 13, 1867, ‘The following official announcement is published in the Japan Herald of May 25, 1867:— Luaation ov tas Umrrep Sri “s “ Osaca, Jarax, May 17, oe 2 In previous wi ve ula Fagen" te captte srr we United States are informed that port of Hi and ‘one on the west coast of Niphon, also the cities of Yeado ‘and Osaca, will be opened on the lst of ve gree cn Grounds for the purpose of residences and have been set at Hiago and Osaca, and yale ig od ments for Yeddo and the port on the west coast will completed st an eably and notice given accord- ingly. TB VAN VALKENDURG, United States Minister, &c. The following is a summary of the arrangements made for opening the Japanese porte:— First—The Japanese government will form at Hiago a settlement for the foreigners of all the nations having treaties with Japan, the ground to be situated between the town of Kabe and the Ikuta river, Second.—As soon as the ground granted in the pro- ceeding article is occup! if more space should be re- quired, the settlement will be extended. The Japanese owning ground in the town of Kabe will be granted per- mission to lease the same to foreigners. Third—The government will set aside a part of Osaca, within which foreigners may hire bouses and reside; but no Japanese is to be compelled to rent bis house to foreigners, Laman are 3. a, the same facilities at Osaca (or ivasing grounds as at otber ports. Fourth—Describes the limits of the grounds alluded to Oy ime ee hi government will the Wth—The Japanese Bites at Hiago and in Osaca for tue cocupation of freign- ors by the Ist of January next, Sizth—The government is to be reimbursed the costs of preparing sites for the use of foreigners by rents on the lands, which are to be divided into low. The amount of bee glee is to '<- eaee on the aggregate total outlay e government ‘Seventh. The ground leased to foreignors at Hiago and Osaca is to be subject to the payment of an annual rate sufficient to keep in repair, to drain, clean, light and maintain order in the settiement; and aiso to the ordi. nary land tax, payable at the present date to the Japan- ment. “Eputa. The government is not to grant or dispose of the nd set aside in the preceding articles at Bastdiage or olhce purfooce, excopr at public. auction, bail or other yoges, ex! suls ue not to be provided with separate Foreign con! grants of land witbia or withoat the foreign settiements. | Ninth,—Io determining the price of the iands leased to “1 hinge and Oaeear the Japanese ts to oon- Heventh—The government is to lay out # cemetery for the use of ali nations at Hiago and another at Osaca, jy vd ae which is to borne by the foreign commun ay the rnment will select at Yeddo, in con- cert with the representatives, a port on the ‘West Coast, in which another foreign settiement may be formed. >. Houses can be rented by foreigners within Yeddo in accordance with the treaty and convention above mentioned on the basis of the present arrangements. Her Majesty's steamer Serpent has gone to survey the new port on the west coast, which will probably be near the province of Ranga. Four vessels had arrived at Hiago loaded with rice from American, Engiisn, porta, exports of tea from that ht wore six hundred piculs, at $1,694 noted at to New York per steamer were q Fo 4 322 HE 3 7 of eet. Exchange on London, six monthe, ‘xyes for the ramon wert rH Lee Tha, i atk’ ee good Trade an been exoeptionally dull ef : ; i fg f ; i f z / the intention of studying the science of running mae chinery. Doctor Monocsoys" at ‘Yekouana tn war r e ‘and at Osaea the Hartford and Wyoming. WASHINGTON. Wasnrnaton, Jane 15, 1667. Fivancial and Menetary Matters, ‘The securtties held by the Treasurer of the United During the week ending to-day there has been re ceived at the Treasury, from the Printing Bureau, $495,438 in fractional ourrency. During the same period there has been forwarded to the Assistant Treasurer a New York, $100,000; to the United States depository at Pittsburg, $40,000, and to the national banks, $109,308. Total, $24,980,385. The amount of national bank currency issued during the week was $75,650, making the total amount to date $308,012,456, From this there is to be deducted the currency returned, including worn out notes, amounting to $4,861,527, leaving in actual circulation at this dave $208, 160,929. ‘The amount of fractional currency redeomed and de stroyed at the Treasury Department during the wook ‘was $384,600, { The receipts from internal revenuo to-day wore $746,850, and for the week $4,169,549. The total amount for the fiscal year to date is $256,201,336. The amount of gold in the Treasury of the United States to-day was 163,000,000 of which sum $18,000,000 bas Dee® “eposited by partigs who hold gold batt cates, while $85,000,000 belong to the goverumeni, The Louisiana Natiodal Bank of New Orleans has, om its Own application, been discontinued as a deposit of publi, moneys and # financial agent of the United States. 5 A Witness ia the Surratt Case. Mra. Dr. Benson, formerly Mra. Mary Hudspeth, has arrived in this city from Canada to testify in the Surraté case. She will be r:membered as the witness who tes- tified on the assassination trial in regard to finding @ letter in a Now York street car signed ‘Charles Selby."” ‘The letter was addressed “Dear Louis,” and goes on te say: “The time has at last come that we have all se wished for, and upon you everything depends, As it was decided before you left, we were to cast lots. Accordingly we did so, and you are to be the Charlotte Corday of the nineteenth century. When you remember the fearful, solemn vow that was taken by us you will feel there is no drawback. Abe must die, and wow, You cam choose your weapons—the cup, the knife, the bullet, The cap failed usoncoand might again,” &c. Mrs. Hudspoth testifies to finding thie letter in November, 1864, and describes the Person who dropped it in the street cass as @ young man wearing false whiskers, and whose delicate haods indicated that he lead a life of leisure, Mrs, Hudspeth took the letter to General Scott, and it was forwarded through General Dix to President Lincoln, who seemed to attach little importance te it, ‘and threw it in his desk. It is probable that govern- ‘ent will bring forward this testimony to show that the assassination of Mr. Lincoln had long been premeditated, ‘and was not the result of a sudden change of pumpose by Booth on the very day that it took place. Retern ef General Grant. General Grant returned to this city last evening from bis trip to Washington, Pa., where he had been te attend the wedding of his cousin, Mr. Wm. Smith, Jr. Negre Laborers Wanted for the Pacific Raile road. An agent for the Pacific Railroad, California side, has arrived in Washington to obtain, through the Freed- men’s Bureag, the services of from one thousand to five thousand colored laberers on that road, offering them steady employment and high wages. There are thou- sands of colored men out, ef employment in this city and vicinity, and this work would seem to secure net only good wages for those who go, but will leave more opportunities for employment to those who stay behing Mere Rebel Pardons. Another batch of pardons for repentant rebels were acted upon by the President yesterday. ‘The applicants were all of the unimportant classes—individuals worth over $20,000 and persons who held petty civil offices under the Confederate government, lodictments Fou b: Richm le The Grand Jury at Richmond will, it is thought, ad« journ on Monday till the 1st of July. They have ime dicted Colonel James, Collector of Revenue, besides whiskey distillers, tobacco merchants and s number of postmastors. A New Internal Reven Grand Jury a¢ Coltector for Ricte mond. From a letter received by # resident of Richmond @ few days ago, trom Washington, there is no doubt bas the long expected change in the Collectorship of Inter- nal Revenue will occur next week. The prospective ap- pointes will not be General Mulford, as was generally hoped, but one, it is said, who was conspicuous through the war for his staunch adherence to Union principies in the midst of rebels. Adjustment of Public Land Accounts. The Commissioner of the General Land Office hag adjusted accounts between the United States and the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas for the five per cent fund accruing to said States in the year 1866 for publi, lands sold within their limits. The accoants have beer sent to the Department for settlement, Tho amount due each state on December 81, 1866, is as follows:—Micbigan, $11,747; Wisconsin, $5,674; Minnesota, $2,405; Kansas, $685; total, $20,502, Naval Affairs. The Minnesota, about to join the Europan squadroi sails immediately direct tor Cronstudt. Pithis idostine. tion may have some significance in the present reia tiong of the United States to Russia. The Franklin, Admiral Farragut’s vessel, has her destination probably to Oher- bourg. It is rumored and un that Admiral Farragut will be relieved next year by Vice Admical Porter. Admiral Davis’ Sagahio, ‘the Guerre, is ready to sail from Boston to Brazil. imiral Davis will cruise about a good deal and visit South Africa, THE "INDIAN TROUBLES. Governor Hunt’s Volunteers to be Mustored in for T Months—Giencral Shermaa’s View of the Situation—Attack on an Emt- grant Train. Sr, Lov, June 16, 1867. Omaba despatches say that late Denver papers are full of accounts of Indian depredations and murdera. They also contain despatches from Generali Sherman to Gov. ernor Hunt, in which the General says he has not troops enough to protect all the exposed points, and the for the it must fight the Indiang themselves. He advises Governor Hunt to send three hundred men immediately to scour cam River = then send them to Fort wick, whore bs will have them mustered into. sorvice for twa months. General Augur will scour the Piatte to Laporte and cross Snydus. Another party will scour the Large Pole and another the Laramie, General Custer is expected to strike the Cheyennes that were stampeded iast month by General Hancock. Wagon trains, stages and ranchmen must collect aud protect themselves. General Sherman says the greater portion of the Sioux are not within fifty miles of Fort Sedgewick; that the depredations are committed by small scattered bands, who, being successiul in stealing horses, may continue and de something worse. L. L. Hill, Division Engineer Union Pacific Railroad, ‘was killed on the 12th instant, of Laporte, and Mr. archer, Inspector of the road, se verely wounded. Mr. Hill's body was perforated nineteen arrows and five pistol balls, and scalped twice, An emigrant team was attacked at Dougiaas station, on the Atchison and Kearny route, on the 8th instant, ‘and $2,000 worth of stock run off. TORNADOES IN TEXAS. New Ontmans, Jane 15, 1867. ‘Texas papers contain accounts of dovastatiuy atorme of the 2d and 34 inst, by which many lives vid mack, property was destrovet. about forty miles north -.