The New York Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, NEW YORK: cer and again placed upon the Virginia, to the com- | mroxtce and Bare mander of which Commander Roe gave orders to land the smacanopin pond cones him ata foreign port. On the return trip the vossel Heconstructe the World. arrived at Siaal on the Lith inst, when the commander | Our Mexican correspondent sends us again, BRALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1867—TRIPLE SHERT. Resignation ef Genoral Sickles—Progress of the Obstructive Plan. General Sickles has asked to be relieved of More Exposures of the National Bauke. watered avenues of Central Park. Why nol We had an inside view of the working of the | “down with the dust?” infamous national bank system in Mlinois, alice of the liberal forces came aboard and offered to arrest | ahead of time, news from Maximilian aud the | bis very important command ; and this request | Michigan, and some other parts, through the | Theatre Barsing—Another Tewon to che nlite him. The General deciared that he was a prisover in the | Juarez government. It appears that on the 34 | #8 natural, in view of recent events ; for, since | special correspondence of the Huratp pub- - mie: JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR., —- bared ca se Rend the commander of the | inst, his trial was postponed uniil the arrival | the President and tho law are distinctly and | lished a few days ago. Yesterday we published | 1m yesterday’s Hunan we recounted another MANAGER. bears bapa fr pone gta ge of a Minister from the Unit:d States. Tho | Widely at variance, he clearly cannot obey | additional revelations from our correspondent, | ‘#!¢ of horror. In this instanoo it was neithor vessel with their guns pointed at ber, and the demand being renewed, and a guard of marines boarding the vessel, it was considered useless to resist, and Santa Anna was taken ashore, General Tavoada, commanding the imperialists at Vera Crus, had demanded an expians- tion from Commander Roo, The commands of Boryas ‘and Canales, at Tampico, and the citizens of that place, ave formaily pronounced for Santa Anna, and pronun- ciamiento to that effect has been issued. General Fiores had'beon designated as the person to present the aotion BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches ( must be addressed New Yoru Hunatp, Letters and packages should be properly gsealed, Rejected communications will not be returned, Volume XXXII Ne. 172 ” of the city to Santa 7 AMYSRMBITS Fs evanina, . eve Ana and ordered to proceed to New 4 “BROADWAY THRATRA, Broadway, near Broome | UF special correspondence from Rio Jansiro is dated sreet.—East Lrxwa. . May 25, The Brasilian Parliamont met on the 23d of May, the 3d being the constitutional day, but no quorum was present owing to the difficulties of travel. The Emperor Don Pedro opened the session with the usual formalities, In his address he recommends the promo- tlom of colonization schemes, public tostruction, and a revision of the military and penal laws, Over a thousand emigrants had recently arrived, half of whom wore from the United States. The cholera bad broken out among the Paraguayans, who wore throwing the bodies of those who died of the disease into the river. This had caused ® reappearance of the epidemic in several towns in the vicinity, The disease had almost completely dissp- peared from the camp of the aliies, By mail we bave advices from the British West Indies, dated at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 8th of June, Thir- teen insolvent debtors were gazetted. The ship Ganges, in eighty-six days from Calcutta via St. Holena, arrivod WORRELL SISTERS’ NEW YORK THEATRE, site New York Hotel —Favar, om rum Dawox—Tum Doctos np rus Davis's Daavaut—A Kiss it Tua DARK. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, and Sixth avenue,—Tus Mexcuant or Venice. OLYM PIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Taxasurs Trove, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Hippex Hayp—Foow or rum Famuy—Ben tas Boatswain. BANVARD'S NEW YORK MUSEUM, Thietioth sireet.—HusuanD ov ax Hl Afternoon and Evening. TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue and Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth streets.—Taxopor jOmas? Sonvanen et 890i Fite nae Porutan Gapous SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 5% Broadwa: the Metropolitan Hotel—In tumin Rrwsorisx Mamta, Sinoina, Dancing Honrexs rnow Russian Broad odaavene Lino, opposite NTERTALN~ URLESQUES.—Tax Walrus ES 2 yEprs nets La, 720 Broadway, oppo. | at Port Royal with three hundred and ninoty-six immi- Seen, Nannon u Roxne Daxcas, Boome | grants, Twonty six deaths occurred during tho voyage, At public meoting in Troiaway, at which the leading Planters and merchants of the parish were present, the firat resolution was—‘That the financial measures of the Present Logislature are calculated to aggravate the dis- treased condition of the colony, and betray a defective acquaintance with its capabilities and resources, which cannot but inspire us with the gravest apprehen- sions for their future.” The negroes paid the new taxes with eagerness, The commercial report says:— The stock of flour is very limited, and the price con- tinuesat the advanced figure. Tonnage is plentiful, but no charters effected. The crop of ordinary coffee has closed, and none coming to market. Very little pimento is, coming to market; the lot on hand 1s advancing in rice, m Our advices from St. Tho:;as are to the [3th of June, The market report says:—Busi in all descriptions of American imports has pees rah owing to the high cost of flour and many other articles the demand for consumption of the island seems to be much leas, Extra Ohio flour, $12; rye flour, $9 a $9 50.; corn meal, last sale, $6 25; white bonus, $40 $4 50; Canada peas, $3 50 per bag; East India rice, 60. » 6%0.; pilot and navy bread, $5 50.8 $6; the articles being from store. Provisions are dull, Mess pork, $20 0 $21; prime pork, $17 a $18. Beof, $12 a $14, as to quality... Lard, 16c, Cheese, 17c, a 180, Candies, 8's, 12’s and 24's, Inst sale 140. Kerosene oil, lot 450, tins, American Potatoes, $3. 40,000 white pine lumber, from Boston, $23. 600,000 extra No. 1 cedar shingles sold at $4 40. There is some demand for handy tonnage for Europe and United States. The banks have advanced their rates for drawing to 50234 a 505 for ninety days. American gold, 1a13¢ percent promium, The health of tho island is FIFTH AVENUE OPFRA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Fwenty-fourth street.—Gnirriw & Cnnistr's Mursramus.— Brmorian Misraucs LLaDs. Bueiesgres, &0. Rivar's Ruxpesvous—Loi tax Poor Ixpian. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Coma Vocatisu. Negro Minsrenisy, Burtesqus. Batuat Diven- ‘TissEMENT, &C,—Tue Buicaxp Boy. BUTLER'’S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Bacuwt, Fanos, Pantomime, Buruxsques, Ermiorian, Some amp ,Seytimznta, Voca.isms, 40,—Smitas xD ROWNS. BROADWAY OPERA HOUSE, No, 600 Brondway.—Tus Qeonata Minsrunts, vam Stave ‘Taovrs, me rain Prouiar ASTIN. HOOLEY SOPERA HOUSE. Brookiya.—Eruroriag Mrv. ermrisy, Kavtaps and BURLESQUES.—THum TeRmisic FLicut On TE JAPANESE. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 619 Broadway.— ead a0, Rigat — or pe neeee Ean Wasuinaron foMpans IN Natural Histony, Sourxom an Ant. Leorvass Day. Open from $ A.M, Ul WP. M. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, June 21, 1867. EUBOPE. By special tetegrams through the Atlantic cable we have advices from England dated in London and Bir- Mingham yesterday, June 20, ‘Queen Victoria was thirty years on the throne of England yesterday, and the anniversary was colebrated fa ao loyal and jubilant manner in Londoa and at the The corporation of London adopted resolutions con- @ratuiating the Czar of Russia and Emperor Napoleon on their recent escape from the assassination attempt, Qur special cable telegram from Birmingbam informs us that the riot excitement was lulled and the city com- paratively quiet, The anti-popery haranguesof a person named Murphy are said to be the exciting cause, Many houses wore sacked during the demonstration. The Mob beld tho city at one time, over a hundred thousand persons assembling in the streeta, The military did not re, but the police used their cutiasses very freely. The news report by the cable is dated yesterday even- ore publish this morning what has never been pub- Ushed before, the official report of the proceedings of the President's Cabinet im counciL The President an- nounced om Tuesday to his Oabinet that the opinions of the Attorney General on the reconstruction laws would be taken under consideration. The summary was then Tead, and each section was discussed, considered and voted upon separately, the majority coneurring in the Attorney General's views. In the mecting yesterday the President announced that he concurred with the majority im favoring the Attorney General's opinion, and that be would communicate in an order to the com- manding generals immediately the points decided upon in the council. ‘The President and suite will arrive in tnis city at half. past five o'clock this afternoon They will be received by the Mayor and distinguished citizens at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Connecticut Legislature have adopted resolutions inviting him to visit that State, and preparations are being made in Hartford and New Hasyen for his reception. His welcome in Boston will be acordial one, it is said. Governor Bullock, the City Council and the Masonic fraternity are making exten- sive arrangements to do him honor, After the dedica- tion of the Masonic Temple he wilt visit Governor Burnside, at bis home in Pro 108, KR, 1; thence he will repair to Nowport, where he will remain several days. In the trial of Surratt yesterday further testimony of great importance was elicited from witnesses for the prosecution. A lengthy discussion ensugd between counsel on the propriety of allowing witnesses already examined to be called back and cross-examined again, bat the Court ruled against such a proposition. The re- marks between Mr. Bradloy and Mr. Pierrepont became somewhat curt at one time, Mr. Bradley intimating that if Mr, Pierrepont could not be courteous he (Mr. B.) would teach him to be so, Efforts were made om the part of the defence to shake the evidence of some of the witnesses by impugning their character, but the quos- tions wore not deemed admissible, Mr, Cleaver, ond’ of the witnesses, confessed to having had a conversation with Sanford Conover and Congressman Ashley before he could be prevailed upon ta give his testimony. ‘Tho registration question in Virginia has developed an interesting feature. Two well known citizens of Rich- mond were arraigned yesterday before the United States Commussioner for perjury, in registering as voters when they were ineligible ageording to the State constitution adopted at Alexandria in 1865. This constitution, which fg as acceptable to the radicals as they could wish, having been adopted when it was thought the State would be returned to the Union on the strength of it, it is now claimed ie in full force, not being set aside by the Reconstruction bill, and the Attornoy General having made a special exception in its favor jin his recent opinion, Both cases were continued, but if they are decided in favor of the prosecution nine-tenths of the whites in the State will be disfranchised. The radical coalition are jubilant over the new development, ‘and have issued @ circular urging upon loyal men the uty of challenging all who offer to register while dis- franchised by the State constitation. ‘The Constitutional Convention moet at the asual hour yesterday, Almost the entire day was occupied ta de- Dating @ resolution authorizing the publication of the reports of the proceedings in two of the Albany papers, for which they shall each receive $4,000, which was finally adopted, A resolution calling on the Tax Com- missioners of New York city for a list of taxpayers in ‘that city was also adopted. The Committee on the Legislature was, on motion, instructed to inquire into the propriety of amending the constitution so as to pw | hibit the Legisiature from passing local or specle) “j.wa regulating the internal police, the administrate”, of jug. tice, &e., within corporate limits. ‘The case between the municipal auth? rities and the Board of Metropotitan Police, involvir.g the question of the power of granting licenses, a8/, also the constitu. tonality of @ section of the Tax, ‘Levy recently passed by the Legislature, came up on ‘appeal from the decision of the Sapreme Court in the Court of appeals at yesterday. The argumoat was heard and the Court took the papers, reserving its decision, probably until the close of the term next week. The President bas iasued his proctamation announcing the ratification of the treaty between the United States and Russia for the purchase of Ruasian America. The Grand Jury of the City Court of Mobile bave reported upog the recent riots in that city, Thoy find that the whole affair grew out of the too common habit of carrying arms by colored people; that it was probaviy not premeditated, and mot prodaced by anything in Judge Kelley's address, Thirteen deaths in ail have so far resulted from the burning of the American Varioties theatre, at Philadel. phia. . The Iowa Republican State Convention made nomina- Sea Nec creas and demanding the punishment of Jef Davis. General Sheridan yesterday ordered the removal of two petty officers in Texas for rerusing to arrest & man aconsed of murder. * sc74 Stanley announced te the House of Commons thatthe British government had no official information of the crumti#s said to have been perpetrated by Omar Pasha in Crete, as p/¢sed in the pablic prints, Tho new Minister commissioned by {h® Sultan to the United Btates has set out for Washingiog.” The sgreign Mints- tee of France beld a special conference with the Am- Dassadors of the United States and Spaim {a Paris on the subject of the war between the allied South Ameri- cans and Paraguay, Consols closed at 941; for money in London, a decline -of one-fourth. Five-twenties were at 73 in London and ‘17% im Frankfort. The Liverpool cotton market was inactive and closed doll, with middling uplands at 1144, Broadstuffe were irregular, with corn 34. lower at the close. Provisions wore generally steady. THE CITY. ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. A resolution relative to public baths was referred, A statement of the receipts and expenditures of Washington and West Washington markets for 1865 and 1866 was received from tho Comptroller. A resolution was adopted direct- ing the removal of the City Hall Park fountain to Madi- son square, The Counci!mamie resolution appropriating {$20,000 for the celebration of the Fourth of July was laid over. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday. Resolutions ‘were adopted granting permission to the Hudson River Railroad Company to continue to run their locomotives to Thirtieth street during the continuance of their char- ter; also to ran dummy engines to their depots at a fee of $60 each annually. ‘The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund met yoster- day, when @ communication was recelved from Mr. Manierro, Treasurer of the Board of Excise, declining to turn over the monoys received for licenses, fines, &c., during the month ending May 25, except on an order of the Board, A resolution to enforce his compliance was adopted. A resolution was adopted by the Board of Ex- cise on the 13th of June refusing the payment of money thus accraed while the litigation is pending relative to the law undor which the demand is made, unless on an order of the court for its protection. A copy of this resolution was directed to the Comptroller, who is also member of the Commissioners. ‘The Board of Health met yesterday. The usual weekly report of the Sanitary Superintendent of his inspection of unwholesome premises was received, During the past week 296 cases of infectious disease have been re- ported, twenty-nine of which proved fatal, The Board of Excise held their regular weekly meet- ing yesterday afternoon, during which a special commit. tee reported in favor of not allowing any ‘abatement of Acense fee’ to those persons who by reqgom of being licensed im the summer of 1866 could not sell liquors at times when those who were unlicensed and had sued out tnjunctions against the Board sold at all hours. ‘The Brooklyn Yacht Club held their anaual regatta yesterday. The sioops Witch and Muskodeed were whe winners of the first and second class prizes. Yesterday, the second day of the summer meeting of the American Jockey Club at Jerome Park, was the 0o- casion of a brilliant display of spectators and fine racing. The Wostchester Cup wis won by Loadstone, and in the other two races De Courcey and Fiestwing were the win- ‘bers. Twenty-one distilleries in the Eighth and Ninth collec. tion districts im this city have been seized within the last two days by the revenue agents for alleged non-com- pliance with the laws, Jeremiah O'Brion was sentenced to be hung on the Oth of August, in the Supreme Court, General Term. yester- day, for the murder of Kate Smith, # courtezan, in a house of ill-fame, on Prince street, on the 19th of June, 1806, By a singular coincidence the sentence was reu- Gored Just one yoar to a day afier the commirsion of the murder. ‘The stock market was dull and heary yesterday, Gold closed at 137%. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special correspondent on the steamship Virginia, writing at Havana ugdey dete of June 16, gives an ac- count of the adventures of General Lopez Santa Anna since leaving New York, The General and his staff s-avelled incognito to Vers Gxys ia oe Lyin Y iat nace cn the 84 ot Pa sl ae aie Co 4 openly welcomed by the liberals inside the ue American and Britieh dined wi ‘7 steamer, and all notil the Tu inet, Moited Steven steamer ryoaley, of the British man-of.war Jason, appeared on Teen: “vad and removed him, under protest, to the Tecoay, oe aye RS oft. 100ce be wee token to Secrificios, in charge of am of Gers of the areay end ooveral roemntore af Unearean. ee rn ree enn aoe ne imperial Indian, Thomas Mojia, had asked General Escobedo to defend bim in the court martial, but Escobedo refused. This ia all that could be expected from a liberal general whose honors have bean won by low cunning and the efforts of others, not by generalship. The fact that the Juares government are awaiting the arrival of tho United States Minister is an in- dication that due deference has been given to our request in behalf of Maximilian. It is snother indication, too, of the urgent demand there has been fora Minister near the head- quarters of the republic during the stormy period which has followed the French interven- tion and the attempt to foist the empire upon the Mexican people. Millions of dollars will not repay the losses that North American in- terests have sustained for want of such a repre- sentative ; and in the almost inextricable snarl into which Mr. Seward’s half-way policy has thrown our Mexican matters wo doubt if there are any but troubles for us in our future contact with them. During all this strife it has been the Huratp that has represented the United States people in Mexico, and the Hezatp commissioners have done more to- wards. cordial understanding between the two countries than all the United States Minis- ters we ever had there. A year since, finding that we had to, assume the direction of affairs in Mexico, we sont two of the Hgratp repre- sentatives, at great expense, to that country. One of them had orders to record the movements of Maximilian and the acis of the imperialists, and the other to hunt up the liberal government. The former has ao- companied the Austrian Archduke during all his campaign, staying by his side throughout the siege of Quer6taro, and, through the Huratp, giving the most rapid and accurate account of what has transpired, so that the nations interested might shape their political movements with reference to events, The eniire and detailed history of the siego of Que- rétaro, which we gave a day or two since, will do more to establish the reputation of Maxi- mailian in Europe than any acts of his own; for good historians make groatness; and it is probable that the late accounts we have given will go far towards seating Maximilian apon the Austrian throne, If our commissioner sent to the empire dis- played tho qualities of activity and energy in the prosecution of his mission, the ono accre- dited by us to the Juarez government was not less persistent in hig efforts; for nine hundred miles he foroed bis way through the country, from Matamoros to Chihuahua, and after being besieged one night in a rancho by eighty-two Apache Indians, reached the libsral govern- ment. The letter which the Hunatp published from the liberal headquarters completely upset Mr. Seward’s plan for the recognition of the empire, and created a great sensation in Bu- rope, where the liberals, previously supposed to be a myth, burst upon them, through our columns, in all the dignity of an organised Power, with troops in the ficld,a republican system and a nation of people supporting it Thus we brought Juarez into notice and struck the worst blow at the empire which Jt had re- ceived up to that time. Following up tho stroke, we detailed the march of the liberal government from the city of Ohihuahua to its present headquarters at San Luis Potosi. Bent upon forcing order out of chaos, we proved that the great popular cause of Mexico was the republic, and that, as ite representative, there was no man but Juarés who could restore order to that distracted people. The United States, from the accuracy of our reports, ac- cepted the truths we presented, and henceforth the Juarez government received the whole support of the country, and the empire, through the Heratp’s efforts, was doomed. The exact military details which our correspondent with President Juarez gave us of the probable re- sult of the Querétaro siege caused an applica- tion to be made in time for Maximilian’s life, which we have thus saved. Having restored Mexico to its republican condition, it becomes necessary, a3 is seen by the news, to have a United States Minister there to.fix up the odds and ends that our com- missioners had no time to attend to while en- gaged in the main part of the work. Had Mr. Campbell placed himself under the wing of our representative he might have sharel some of the honors; but—requicacat in pace! Either of our correspondents would now fill tte position of Minister to Mexico with honor, ani it would be wise on the part of the governmpnt to give one of them the appointment, or els give it to some other member of the press wha is aby to arrange Mexican affairs, We have given the public the “ynly accurate Mexican news, recalled the repr,plic into exist- ence, made Benito Juarez Ya greatest living Mexioan, struck the empl,» its most tatal blow, saved the life of Ma¥imilian, and opened his way to the Sustrian throne, Thuswe restore things to tholp prover order, and thus we re- construct tbe world. 9 ia1 Publication of the Cabinit Proceed. inge—A Desirable Reform The official proceedings of tle Cabinet Council on the subject of Attormy General Stanbery’s opinion on the pow:reand duties of military commanders, and the qualification of voters under the Roconstructim act, are published in to-day’s Herann. Thisis a move- ment in the right direction, and one which should be continued {n the future There is no reason why ths public should no be made acquainted with all the doings of th Cabinet, except where scorecy is demandoi for the interests of the country, just as mwh as with the procee lings of Congress. The people of the United States would have been «ified, no doubt, had they enjoyod the opporanity of learning the positions taken by Secretary Seward on the Mexican and other quetions for the past two or three years. Hithero a great deal of unnecessary mystery and s@recy has been observed in relation to all the doings of ihe Cabinet; bat this is done awaywith now by the publication of these official proceed- ings, and {ft is to be hoped tha the pre- cedent thus established will be followed in the future. Indeed, it would be « still farther improvement if reporten of the press should be admitted to th Cabinet meetings, im order to satisfy te public that the proceedings are, in reality, fulthfully s both. Mr. Johnson, by placing before the country a legal argument from his official ad- viser, palpably scoepts the argument as a basis of action, and thus compels commanders to choose between @ distorted interpretation of the law and the more obvious one they have themselves made. Indeed, the publication is a harsh rebuke to which the commanders ought not to have been exposed when they had once been left to their own judgments, It is a re- buke, also, accompanied with offensive phrases. “No legal State governments now exist in the rebel States,” says the Reconstruction law in its very first sentence ; and lest this should not be sufficiently positive, it is added that “all interference under color of State au- thority, with the exercise of military authority, under this act, shall be null and void.” Here @re sentences as broad and clear as they can -be made; and the generals, seeing that these words made them absolute, acted boldly and confidently in the execution of the law. Now they are told that they have been guilty of a usurpation of power, and that their “educa- tions” have not been such as to enable them to understand the law. Ina case where a com- mander bas been bred to the law this is an in- sulting sneer, and this sneer is permitted to be made on the authority of a man who is himself either not pure in his motives or no great lawyer; for it comes from one who, in face of the words “no legal State govornm nts now exist‘in the rebel States,” has declared ‘hat the law “recognizes” the existing goveramen's as legal and sufficient, and makes the military a more police power. We are assured by the quasi organ of the Executive in Washington that the remedy against the generals is to be “sternly applied,” by instructions that they shall conform their acts to Mr. Stanbery’s opinion. Thus they will all be forced to resign, doubtless, and thus the way will be opened for the President to put more convenient men in their plades, Suoh is perhaps to be the process of prevent- ing @ satisfactory settlement of the national difficulties, The Committees of the Constitutional Con- . vention. The presiding officer of the State Constitu- tional Convention has done his share towards divesting that body of a partisan character and making its work a success, in the selection he has made of mem»ers of the standing com- mittees, He seoms to have ignored , politics in his choice, and to have put men into position according as he judged them qualified for the duties they would be called upon to perform. The democrats who have any olaim to con- sider:tion thus find themselves in an unexpect- edly respectable standing on the committees. They have a majority of one of the most im- portant of the whole list—that on the finances of the State and the restrictions on the legis- lative powers relating thereto, as well as on the salt springs of the State, and privileges and elections. They ought, perhaps, to have had the majority on State prisons; but the Pre- sident has given that to the republicans. Four of the committees have democratic chairmen, including that on the State finances, The Com- mittee on the Organisation, Government and Powers of Cities is well seleoted, consists of eight republicans and seven democrats, and is likely to give usa good, responsible form of municipal government. President Wheeler has also displayed much discretion and sound judgment in~the dis- posal he bas made of the offensive partisans, copperhead and radical, in the Convention. Thus Greeley is put at the head of the Committee on the Right of Suffrage, where his vagaries can do no harm, but will at the same time have full scope, and where he can harmlessly indulge himself in a report extending the franchise to women, and Indians not taxed, as well as to negroes, if he should feel so disposed. The only other committee on which he finds a place is the unimportant one of Futvre Amendments and Revisions of the Cyynstitution. Brooks is suffered to air his ‘political quibbles on the Committee on the “Legislature, its Organization and Compensat¥on, and is prudently covered up by five republican members to two copperheads, Solomon Townsend, who does not belizwe that the Convention is legally in session, is appropriately made to look after the Pelation of the State to the Indians. Ben Field finds @ place only on the Committee on the minor powers and duties of the Legisla- ture. Our Albany correspondence states that the democrats are dissatisfied with the com- mittees, but he no doubt means the copper- head partisans, who join the radical paitisans in growling at the little consideration paid to them by President Wheeler. The Judiciary Committee is » good one. xn the people will expect from it a thoroughly reformed judl- cial sysiom “Senay Folger tthe air man, and 84g its members are Messrs. Eves and Piorrepont, ex-Judge Comstock and Francis Kernan, of Oneida; Waldo Hutch- ins, Judge Masten, of Erie, and ex-Judgo Parker, of Albany. The Committee on the Organization and Government of Cities is, as we have said, carefully chosen, and is com- petent to perfect a sound, honest and efficient system of municipal government, if disposed to perform that important duty faithfully. Alto- gether the opening act of tho real business of the Convention fs full of promise, and if the working members of the body in their deliber- ations and action will follow the example of their Président, ignore political considerations, and set aside the small partisans to be found among them, they will give the people a con- stitution which they will cheerfully ratify, and will inaugurate a new era in the State. Santa Anna’s Now Expedition.’ We publish to-day an interesting account of the late movements of Santa Anna. It appears that the old General is again in hot water; and this time it is doubtful if he escape with his life. Kicked about by all parties, to whom he has in time offered his services, he has at length come to grief. How much better it would who had reached Indiana, where, he says, next to Illinois, there are, perhaps, “more desperate financial adventurers than in any State of the Union.” Indianapolis is the fountain head of wildcat speculations and banking irregulari- ties. Since we commenced to make these ex- posures the Treasury Department and other defenders of the national banks have endeav- ored to make it appear that the government risks nothing and is amply secured for its de- posits. We expressed our doubt of this pre- tended security. Of course there could be no pretence that individual depositors are se- cured. The government cannot protect them. But it is evident, as our correspondent says, that the deposits of the Treasury Department are not safe, Many of the banks of Indiana have more than half their entire capital floating about in financial ventures, besides a very large part of government and individual de- posits. Somotimes, when the government has drawn upon them for even a tenth of the amount on deposit, they have not had the funds in their vaults to meet it, and only saved their credit by a few hours’ grace and through ex- traordinary offorts in borrowing. In one case the Treasurer drew upon a bank for forty thousand dollars whore he had deposited nearly half a million, and the cashior was in such a strait that he had to pay out gold interost- bearing notes just as (he interest was maturing, thus being compelled to mako a great sacrifice in this extremity. It is confidently asserted, and we do not doubt it, that thore are fully thirty millions of government deposits in the national banks of the country not secured by one cent, Many of the government officials, it is alleged, receive from three to five per cent on deposits in these rotten institutions for overlooking their condition. Public opinion against the national banks is growing strongor daily in the West. Almost all intelligent people, and particularly com- meroial men unconnected with these institu- tions, denounce the system as a disgrace to an tnlightoned government. They cry out for greenbacks. They want the national bank currency swept out of existence and legal tenders substituted in their place. They see the gross favoritism to this monstrous mono- poly by taxing it less than other banks and other business and the community at large are taxed. They have their eyes opened to the infamous fraud upon the country in giving these privileged monopolists twenty millions » year profits on their circulation, when these profits ought to go to the government for the benefit of the people. This growing indigna- tion against the monstrous and dangerous system must swell up to a national movement. Institutions so ruinous to the industrial inter- eats of the country, so oppressive to the poor and so full of danger to the republic, cannot continue to exist. They will be swept away in a storm of popular indignation, and Mr. Chase, the father of thom, as well as Mr. Mc- Calloch and all other defenders of them, will become more odious than Biddle, of the old United States Bank, or Law, of the grand Mississippi swindle, ever became. In future times people will look back with wonder that such a system could ever have been estab- lished in this enlightened age and republic. The Jerome Park Races. The summer meeting of the American Jockey Club was less numerously attended on the opering day than might have been antici- pated from the brilliant success of the spring races. The members of the club, however, and their friends wore out in full force, and the display of fashionable dresses and elegant equipages was as gay as usual. On the second day the concourse of spectators was larger— thanks to the most favorable weather. The four races of Wednesday and the three races of Thursday, as will be seen by the detailed accounts of them in the Hzratp, offered many striking points of interest and evinced a steadily growing sense of what we have fre- quently commended to the club as its logiti- mate object—the promotion of the highest in- terests of the turf by all requisite means, and especially by offering inducements so generous as tosecure the competition of the very best horses in the country, and by making arrange- ments so liberal as to awaken and satlafy in all classes of society a taste for the exhilarating pleasures of the turf. If this be an acquired taste, like that for the opera, there is all the more reason for carefully cultivating it until it shall become popular and universal. The sports of the turf will become national only when a%ess exclusive and more general interest shall be enlisied in their favor than can be enlisted merely by liberal subscriptions on the part of members of the club and by fash- fonable display on the rt of their guests. The disposition of people to sastala th@ Jockey Club in its praiseworthy efforts to accomplish its avowed objects should he encouraged. In this country the popular elomens is indispensable to the success of every Sntarprisg, Two things would ada grsgete to the merited success already won by the club— alittle more tact in giving due publicity to the races at Jerome Park, and a little more liberality in extending facilities of admission to them. Many respectable foreigners and other strangers would thus be enabled to in- crease the pleasures of their summer visit to our metropolis. They would be glad to know when and where the races take place, and would cheerfully pay handsome fees for admis- sion to the enclosure. The respectability of a race in Jerome Park would surely be guaran- teed by the presence of the members of the club, thelr families and friends, and would suffer no more by the admission of paying spectators than Delmonico’s restaurant from the admission of transient guests who pay for their dinners. The gamblers and other dis reputable persons whom so many good people have had only too much reason in times past to connect disagreeably with race course asso- ciations would be blotted out and effaced wherever the vast majority of respectable spectators gives tone and character to on ae sembly. One evil certainly might be reme- have been for his reputation had he in his old | died, of which we mustagain complain. Even age remained at St. Thomas, and, with his bag | the recent heavy rains have not laid the dust of gamecocks under one arm and his sack of | forever in the roads that lead from Ki Goubloons under the other, contented himself | to the Jerome Park. Now, dust is fatl to the with mimic battles, instead of risking life and | elegant display of fashion and beauty which reputation by lending again on the main- | the ladies would as willingly make on arriving land @ {a Jerome Park asia driving over the woll a double murder, nor suicide, nor both com- bined, but the burning of o theatre, a matter as pregnant with suggestive lessons to the public as any of those just mentioned. Judg- ing from the frequency with which it occurs, theatre burning promises to become an esta) lished institution in the country. Of late in this city we have had no lack of sud burnings, although, fortunately, they have not been at- tended with any great loss of life. Philadel- phia has been leas fortunate. Night before Inst the Varieties Theatre in that city, which on more than one occasion already has beew the scene of destructive fires, was burned te the ground, a considerable number being killed and many seriously wounded. Why should fires be so frequent in our thea- trest The only answer that can be given te this question is officlal carcleseness—a care- lessness for which the public have a right to hold managers responsible, Why, again, should theatre fires prove so destructive to life and property? They are destructive to property above all other fires because proprietors and managers will not adopt the precautionary measures which are taken in every olty in Europe, and the adoption of which in this very instance savod the contiguous building, the Continental Hotel. They are destructive to life because ia spite of all the sad experience we have had, and of the lessons which have been proclaimed, by the press, means of egress are alill misera~ bly disproportioned to the audience accommo dation. What is the cure for all this? We know of but one. The Legislature must interfere. Ia the interests of the public this interference is loudly called for. Let the means of egress be made convenient and adequate. Let all such buildings be made fireproof, and let themshave besides a complete fire extinguishing appara- tus. Science has rendered all this possible and easy. If a theatre does not meet these de mands let it not be licensed. The cure is sin- ple, but it is effective. The people must have the matter in their own hands. Rumored Emancipation of Slaves in Cuba. Our Havana correspondent mentions in his letter of the 16th inst. the rumor that the Spanish mail steamer, which had just arrived,, brought out a royal decree declaring free alll, colored children born of slave parents on and’ ‘after the Ist of July next. After that date any slave may obtain his or her liberty for the sua: of two hundred and fitty dollars, There seems to be no doubt that sucha decree had beem received by the Captain General, although ts had not been published, for fear that ite suddex ciroulation might occasion dangerous commo- tion among the negroes, Thus the onward march of ideas and events has at length been overtaken even by the Spanish government, which was, with the greatest difficulty, induced to assent to the: international treaties in opposition to the slave! trade, and which never adhered to those trea-' ties so faithfully as to relieve the cruisers of Great Britain and the United States from active: and vigilant efforts to suppress the infamous traffic. Setting a price upon the liberty whiolt any slave may now purchase will perhape/ enhance the value of the proffered boon an@ serve to stimulate ambition and industry. [8 is not improbable that among the te practical results of emancipation in Cuba mag, be s temporary disorganization of labor se ‘great as to raise the price of sugars and of prime Havanas still higher (if possible) thaa they rule at present. Bat with wise manage- ment all will come right ultimately, and we may rejoice in the prospect that slavery te +! about to be driven from its stronghold in North America. Eurepean Telegraphy and Bogus Despatches It is one of the notable facts of the age that in these days, when we are reading the com- ments of the European press on the attempt te assassinate the Czar, Europeans are yeading the comments of the American press on the same event. Thus the continents exchange views. It is another notable fact that our en- terprise in laying news before our readers by the telegraph is quite beyond the comprehen- sion of many would-be wise mon, and they show their inability to understand it by de claring our despatches bogus. Nearly every Herat special has been pronounced bogus by some sapient fellow, who hardly believes there, is a cable, may be, or disparaged by some jou. nal that cannot afford despatches of ita own, This business began with the illustrious Loomis, who doubted our news on tho faith of his own astronomy. We will only warn the, imitators of that strange philosopher by pola} ing to his fate. Discomfort on the City Ratlronds. There is, perhaps, not one citizen who travolg on our city railroads wha is hot convinged oe comfort or conveniehce forms no rot of thoie Sracoment and whe js Yoh Zisposed to hurt anal on the of the But of what avail are the imprecations of the + public or the prow'!s of the pross? The fat corporations who ar¢.oxtracting large profits from the several roads regaxd neither the com- plaints of their patrons nor the frequont ex- posure of the evils attendant upodi their bad management which the newspapers afe com> pelled to make. The overcrowding of the cars’ is an evil of such long standing that it has be- come a chronic disease apparently past cure, and people no longer complain of it with any hope of improvement. Another prominent cause of complaint is the indifference with which the drivers and conductors treat the summons to stop and take on a passenger, A feeble or elderly lady receives but littie consideration from this class of railroad em- ployés, and has often to hobble along half a block before she can reach the car. Upon this score, while women are neglected, mon are treated with supreme contempt, They must get on the car as best they can, and at whatever risk they may choose to run. Com- fortable travelling on the city railroads is almost out of the question, while even safety to one’s life is problematical on some of the lines. Take, for instance, the Coney Island Road, Brooklyn, on which the up and down tencks are 80 closely laid that © passonger on the open oars which are ran ia sammer—at 9 time when trafflo is largest—who may be Orowded to the edge of the cer is in constant, rae a ee | ee a> nd ee Ri he as