The New York Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Alpha; £150 to Captain Hunter, tho master of that vos- sel, and £150 to her officers and crew, ‘The Bermuda papers contain reports from 5t. Thomas, Demerara, Barbadoes, Antigua and Jamaica; but the «sls adele dates are old, and the advicos have been anticipated by nows direct from tho islands, already published im the JAMES’ GORDON BENNETT, JR., Hugatp. A mocting was held in Barbadoes to consider MANAGER. “ the proposals made by a New York company to establish saa & half-monthly line of steamers between Now York and the West Indies, viz:—the route to be from New York to St, John, Porto Rico, thence to St, Thomas, St, Kitts and Actigua—bere to coal, and transfer their mails, passengors, &c., to intercolonial boats, which would touch at Guadaloupe, Martinique, Barbadoes and Deme- rara, and to leave New York on the lat and 15th of each month. The company uw said to have a capital of four millions of doilara, bus had only igaued $1,500,000, all of which had been takon up ia the States; but it was proposed to tasue a small addi- tional number in islands, ‘‘more to show their co- operation in the line than because it was nocessary to seek for more capital to work it.’ The rates to be charged for passengers, $10 per day. They had a pro- mise from their government of $250,000 per annum and Turks? Islands offered £1,500, The Presidential party loft the Fifth Avenue Hotel at an early hour yesterday morning, and took passage for Boston on the New York and Boston Railruad, They were met by enthusiastic crowds as Stamford, Nor- walk, Bridgeport, Now Haven and Hartford, at which places the stay was too short to admit of any dewonstrations more extensive, Tho first apeech of the occasion was delivered at Springfield, Mass., where dinner was prepared for the party, and whore the largest concourse they had yot met was waiting to receive them, The reception at Boston was of a character @o cordial and hearty as to resemble an ovation, and was the subject of consid- erable bewilderment smong the tourists and the Bosto- niaos themselves. They were serenaded in the evening, and the President and othors made spocehes, which were repeatedly cheored, is It is asserted in Washington that Secretary Stanton intends to resign, General Sheridan yosterday tolegraphed to General Graat declining to extend tho time for registration in Lovisiana, in compliance with conditional instructions from the President, on the grounds that she rogistration BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ‘All bustneas or news letters and telegraphic despatches aust be addressed Naw York Hanarp, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in theyear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, overy Saturday, at ¥1ve arms per copy. Annual subscription price: One Copv.. Three Copies. 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Ho characverizes the Attorney General's opinion ascalculated to open a broad road for perjury and fraud to travel on, and remarks upon the President's bitter antagonism to the Reconstruction law. Tho trial of Surratt was resumed yesterday, the evi- dence adduced relating mainly to the attempt on tho life of Mr. Seward. Mr. Frederick Seward, Colonel 4CO MINSTRELS, 585 Brosdway, opposit opolian Hotl—In tama Hrmiortan Lxre! BENTH, SINGING, DANCING AND BowLxsguus,—lo.itical Mauasove FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSM, Nos. 2and 4 West Fwonty-fourth street.—Grireie & Cuntyre's Minsramis.— Brmorian Minstasisy, BaLtans, Buauesques, &¢c.—lne Biack Cxoox. TONY PASTOR'S OPKRA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Cowrg Vooatum, ne eens, Bos.asauss, Batume Diver. | Augustus Soward, the colored servant of the Secretary Sipeantaer. Ac.—A Managun’s TusA1s, on THE COMTANT OF | GF Sate, and the soldier nurse who saved the Secretary's life by this grapple with the assassin, wore all examined. A new motion to permit witnesses to be recalled was taken under adygement by the Court. Minister Romero has collected in book form all the public documents and diplomatic correspondence relat- “ing to affairs in Mexico since the Freach intervention, and hus furnished one copy to each of the States of the Union. A lotter of Maximilian, dated February 9, 1867, to his Minister Lares is published, in whioh he expresses bimself anxious to bave matters adjusted without far- ther bloodshed. The answer of Lares accompanies it, After consulting with the imperial council he recom. mends the concentration of the army at Querdtaro and the opening of conferences with Juarez witha viow to Peace and the revision of the constitution, In making these propositions he urges Maximilian to keep them secret from Miramon and Marquez, who would see their Interests in danger from negotiations for a retum of peace. A grand sobeme for the ‘benefit of the Southern or- phans, which has boon extensively advertised receatty, and which purported to give each ticket holder « prize ranging im value from « stately mansion to a photo- graph album, has been brought to grief by a quarrel among the managers in Baltimore. Palmer & Co., who Topresented the directors, bave been indicted for selling lottery tickets, on the testimony of Mrs, John L. Ham- mond, the president of the easociation. The postal meney order system, although practically a complete success, is not as well understood by the Public as it should be, and in consequence its advan- tages have not been made available to the extent that the system warrants. A fall account of the various ways of transmitting money through the mails will be found im another column of the Hxzatp this morning. The United States apprentice ship Sabine has arrived ‘at Annapolis for the purpose of presenting ten ap- Prentices for selection ss studemte at tho Naval Academy. A highly interesting account of the prac- tical working of the system by which the government trains its sailors on board the Sabine will be found else- where in the Hnnaxp this morning. An injunction against the Merchants’ Union Express Company has been applied for in the Auburn courts, on the grounds of alleged reckless squandering of funds and the intention of a few prominent officers of the concern to wind its affairs up suddenly for their own benofit. Nine buildings were consumed by fire on Lake street, in Chicago, on Friday evening, and twenty others mere or less injured. A woman was burned to death while trying to save the lives of others, The loss is estimated ‘at $100,000, General Sherman arrived at Omaha yesterday from North Platte and Fort Sedgwick. Spotted Tall was anxious for peace, and had afew days ago turned over to General Sherman a white man who had been inciting the Indians of his tribe to attack train near at hand. A wealthy banker of San Francisco recently died and loft $20,000 in his will to help defray the national dobt. Aman and his wife and two horses were killed and three children severely injured, in Ohio, yesterday, while trying to drive across a railroad track in front of a train, The insurance companies of Newark are taking steps to prevent the use of fireworks, guns, pistols, &c., on the approaching Fourth of July. The artists are all preparing for a summer fight to the country. General Sickles has written a letter to Senator Wilson informing him that the appropriation for the expense of reconstruction is wholly inadequate, and the fands devoted to his district are already absorbed. He says tho Navy and Treasury Deparimenis have declined to assist him with funds Tho full sum appropriated was $500,000, and that amount is required for the Caro- linas alone. Little All Right, the Japanese, is in Boston, well again, and anxious to try it over. BUTLEMS AMERICAN THEATRE, 473 Broadway.— Bacwer, Faxce, Pavtowime, Bouriesques, Krauortan, jomtd Aw Sentiwenta. Vooatisus, &0,—Roven Diawonn, NEW YORK ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 1,193 Broadway.— Peoressor Lovcrenia, tax Ammpextexous PRestivicita- HOOLEY'S OPERA AOUSE. Brooklya.—Ermroriam Mine @restsy, Bartaps anv Buacasques.—l eran Pires. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 613 Rroadway.— Bes avo Ricwt Anw oF mst—Tne Wasnixarom fonpaas IN Naturat History, Scumnow anD ART. ama Dar, Open from 8 A.B. ul WW? M. SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING.—Qraxn Sacuxp Concent at Teeuack Ganvex, Third avenue, Fifty-eighth and Fifty fainth streets, at 8 o' Clock. THS Waws. EUROPE. ‘The aews report by the Atlantic cable, dated yester- day ovening, announces the sentence passed on Stephen J. Meany in Dublin, a fact which was specially tele- Graphed to the Hsxap through the cable the day before @ad published in our columns yesierday morning. ‘Moany is to be kept at hard labor. ‘The Sultan of Turkey left Constantinople yesterday for Paris. Napoleon and King William of Prussia are eid not to be in complete political accord. The new Constitution of North Germany has been ratitied. The Yogislative body of France has adjourned the considera- tion of Napoleon's reforms to November. Consois closed at 944. for money, in London. Five- ‘€wenties were at 73 in London, and 77% in Frankfort, Cotton closed dull in Liverpool, with middling up- faads at 11d. a 114d Breadstuits without material change. By the steamship Hammonia, at this port, at an carly ‘hour this morning, we have interesting mail details of ‘our cable despatches to the Lith of June. THE CITY. ‘The work of repaving Broadway has been commenced Rear Battery place. Tue new pavement is to be an im provement on the Russ plan, the material being of Granite. The curve of the street will be changed to four finches ‘The ocean sweepstakes of tho New York Yacht Club ‘will take place on the 13th of July. Fifteen vessels had ‘Deen entered up to yesterday. The annual regatta of the Hoboken Club takes place on Friday next, and that Of the Jersey City Club on Wedacaday. A man named August Beck was suffocated by heavy wes in a deep well, in Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn, E. D., yesterday, One of his fellow workmen ventured down to rescue him, but almost immediately suffered the same fate. A third workman volunteered to de- cond for the rescue of his comrades, and he too was suffocated. A fourth brave fellow ventured below, but, ‘warned by the fate of his predecessors, he attached the rope to his body and was soon pulled up into the air egain, almost lifeless. His three comrades were dead and their bodies were only recovered by the use of grap- pling iroas, The last man who made the descent is in a fair way of recovery. In the Supreme Court, General Term, yesterday, « Motion was made in the case of Salmon Schuster ¥s, the Metropolitan Board of Health, for an order of injanc- tion to restrain the defendant from removing of abating the plaintiffs piace of business as a nuisance, ‘This is the test case of seventeen, the plaintiffs in each of which are butchers, and against whom the Board bas proceeded under the provisions of the statute by which it has created, giving it power to abate nuisances, &e. A docision will be rendered July 18. The examioation of witnesses in the Heenan case, ‘which bas been for some time past before Justice Dodge, & the Jeilerson Market Police Court, was concluded Y ing. Yachting in America has received an extra- yosterday. District Attorney Bedford appeared for tho - Pople. Tho accused were admitted to bail in the sua | OTdinary impetus within a few years past. It of $5,000 cach, is not long since New York had only one yacht ‘The summer meeting of the American Jockey Club Closed at Fordham yesterday. Four races closed the sports—a hurdie, bandicap, two mile dash and selling Promium, The first was won by Blackbird, the second by Earring, the third by Morrissey and the fourth by Redwing ‘The stock market was strong yesterday, at 133. Domestic produce was quite freely sought for, and Govidedly higher prices wore realized for the leadiag erticlos, while merchandise generally was very Grin and moderately active, Ooilee was essentially unchanged. Cotton was dull and a shade easier, On ‘Change spring flour was im active demand for speculation and ship- ment at an advance of from 10 to 25 cents per bbi., White old four was noglected and bigh grades wore Bominally lower, Wheat was decidedly firmer, prices Deing fully 10c, a i5e. higher, Corn was in active ex ‘Port demand, and prices advanced 2c, a Se, Onts showed fome improvement Pork advanced a trifle, while beef nd lard remained etéady. Freights were almost inac- tivo, Whiskey wassteady, Naval stores were generally Quiet, Petroleum continued dull, but holders were quite firm. MISCELLANEOUS. Tho President's circular of instructions tothe military commanders at the South, accepting the Attorney Gon- erai's opinion as the practical interpretation of the Reconstruction act, has been issued. He directs the Bouthern commanders to conform to the nineteen points ‘of the opinion considered in Cabjoet council on Tuesday Jas. The order im fall will be found in another columo, We have dies from the West Indios (ated at Bermuda on the 11th of June. In the Court of Vice Admiralty, the claim of Alfred F. Adams and he State of Maine, to the hull of ‘Whe derelicypchooner Ann Cariot and cargo was admitied. ‘Whe ciaim of the Atlantic Matual Insurance Company of Now York, as underwriters of cargo, to restitution of pro- ‘Goods of same, was put in but not allowed. Consideration Qeierned Tha Court decread £000 for saivens. and clab known by that name. Now there is in our immediate vicinity the Brooklyn Yacht Club, the Atlantic Yacht Club, the Hoboken Yacht Club, and others of less pretentious claims, but sll participating in their regular annual regattas. We do not expect to find yachting and yacht clubs confined to our im- mediate waters; for although the stupid Legis- lature of Massachusetts refused to grant a charter of incorporation to the Boston Club, the spirit of the Boston yachtmen was not curbed, for all that. They refused to be snub- bed, and they have discovered that a charter does not build better boats nor make them sail faster. If they have not the legal forms and regulations of a club, they have all its esprit, its love of emulation and its capital boats. As the time for the summer cruise of the New York Yacht squadron comes round we shall probably see the Boston Club and all the others gathering at the rendezvous at New- port, and presenting a goodly sight of canvas and trim built craft, from the little twenty ton sloop to the more majestic two or three hun- dred ton schooner. England boasts of her seventeen yacht clubs and her thousand yachts. Before very long America, who taught her to build iron-clads, grain-reapers, sewing machines and monitors, will be able to show as many yachts. Even now she can show a few as good boats, in point of stanchness and swiftness, and we are only in the beginging of war Yeohbunm bike Gold ciosed jstration. General Sickles forces the fighting in his letter asking to be relieved of his command. He puts bo‘ore the nation, stripped of all dis- guises, in bold, distinct reaiity, tho actual point at issue—the point that the people must. see and understind before they can satisfacto rily determine who is right—the point in rela- tion to which the President would confuse popular vision—that he would cover up and overlay with all the fine phrases of legal pala- ver. It is Mr. Johnaon’s desire and purpose to manceuvre—to advance and retreat—to watch the popular humor and his own occasion— to keep this object sccret from the people, and ail the time practically defeat tho law by delay, and thus, be!ween worry and dis- gust, weary the nation out of its now positive will. He counts upon stolid obstinacy in re- fusing to obey the law,and upon justifying himself before the people by crying in and out of season that he refused obedience in the in- terest of froedom—that the law was tyrannical and destructive. But his whole plan is de- molished by the one crisp sentence in which Sickles says the Aftornoy General’s declaration “prevents the execution of the Reconstruction acta, disarms me of means to protect life, pre- perty or the rights of citizens, and monaces all interests in these States with ruin.” Here is testimony as to what the President is doing for reconstruction. He who testifies is a sol- dier and a lawyer—a man nobly known for his good record in the war—a man of acute intellect and a high sense of his hon- orable responsibility. He has had practical experience of the operation of the Reconstruo- tion act during two months, and he testifies that on the foundation laid in that statute tho social fabric of the Southern States waa going up well—that the abrogation of the law “men- 8ces all interests in those States with ruin,” and that the President’s interpretation abro- gates and nullifies it. In these words full light is thrown on the President’s course, and the issue between the President and Congress is put before the people. This same outspoken soldier once before held a high command in a dangerous hour— when the hot July sun was blazing down on the little town of Gettysburg and the open country near. Then the army had a com- mander appointed to his high place only three days before, and this commander had just hastily concentrated several corps in the presence of anenemy fiushed with recent triumphs. He would have been a more than commonly bold man if the thought of manceuvring somewhat in the presence of the enemy had not crept into hismind. Yet the word manceuvre uttered then would have sickened the heart of the army and paralyzed the country. Lee had gone round our right wing in Virginia as if our army had a toy general—had swept across Maryland and into Pennsylvania, and talked ef Harrisburg and Philadelphia. Philadelphians were getting their vaiuables ready for the New York train. But the army of the Potomac was coming on, singing its John Brown chorus all the way, and on the Ist of July .it was so hard on the heels of Lee that he had to turn and face it. It had caught him in the broad Pennsylvania fields in flagrante delicto, and had him out of his swamps and woods, on solid Northern ground, face to face. What would mancuvre have been then—manceuvre with more or less of possible retreat—what but shame and dis- grace? The cards were drawn for an open, straightforward, stand up fight. The army and the country saw this, yet the ominous word manceuvre was certainly whispered in high places, and the long second day was going by without battle. Manceuvre was getting the best of the discussion, perhaps. But while the discussion was going on, suddenly the roar of battle was heard on the left. What could it mean? The commander did not know. But it was soon explained. One of our corps was in motion; its general saw the enemy on his front; thought the enemy was coming at him, and so went at the enemy. The question of manoeuvring and retreating was settled—the country was saved by a great victory, and Lee driven to the Potomac. The general who went at the enemy was Sickles, and the country owes him its gratitude for forcing the fighting then, and a not less definite debt for the same sort of action now; for an equivocal course would be as dangerous as it might have been then. Let the nation contrast General Sickles’ opinion of the Reconstruction law with the official administration view concocted between the President and his Attorney General. It is not so long, and is immensely clearer. With- out the power given by the law he cannot protect life, property or the rights of citizens, and in view of its abrogation ruin “menaces every interest.” Yet this is the law upon which the President has exercised a veto power by interpretation. The law says “no legal State governments exist in the rebel States,” and this is interpreted to be a giving of power to the governments it endeavors to deprive of power. What is this “interpretation” but veto and defiance—contempt of the legislative power of the people? Some time ago the Washington organ of the administration urged that an interpretation of the law should be put before the several commanders “in such shape that no military officer would dare to treat it with contempt or indifference.” It is now for Congress in its July session to put the national will before the President in just that way—so that he will not dare to disobey it, to defy it, to treat it with contemptand trample upon it, as be has done on the law already made. It is difficult to see how a law can be made stronger than the military bill. The problem of the hour is not how to make the law stronger, but how to force its enforcement upon a dogged and hostile Executive. This is the point for the deliberation of the July session. Magnanimity of the Czar and the Kaiser. The Czar of Ruseia and the Emperor of Aus- tria appear to be vieing with each other in the exercise of clemency to their recusant subjects. Alexander, at the very time when an unfortu- nate crazed Pole attempted his assassination, was knocking off some of the chains from the limbs of Poland in the amnesty proclamation, which permitted many of the condemned and exiled Poles to return to their homes. Since then, as we learn by telegraph, he has taken 4 further step in the direction of mercy by or- dering a suspension of the confiscation of pro- perty in Poland. This is taking a charitable revenge for the attack on his life. Francis Joseph, the Kaiser of Austria, animated no doubt by the kindly feelings jnapired px the recem$ coronation scenes in Pesth, has issued a general pardon to all Hungarian political offendom, even including Kossuth. It remains to be san whether Kossuth will pardon tho Emperor. When Napoleon extended an am- nesly to Victor Hugo, the veteran revolutionist and author thoughs that the proffer came from the wrong side, and so rejected it Austria may forgive Hungary, but can Hungery ever forgive Austria t The Pop: 1d the Council ef Bishops. Since the celebrated Council of Nice, in the year of our Lord 325, no more important as- sembly of divines has ever been convened than that which on an early day will mect beneath the dome of St. Peter’s, at Rome. Many deeply important anJ numerously attended gatherings of the recognized heads of the Catholic Church: have been held in the interval; but there was that about the first Council of Nice which gave it @ character and a prominence which have remained peculiar to itself, and there prom‘ses to be something about this approach- ing assembly, which, unless we greatly mistake, will secure for it a3 enviable and as undying @ distinction. At Nice the progressive and unifying spirit of Christianity was made visible on a gcale of magnitude which was sur- prising alike to the Church and to the world. Three hundred and eighteen bishops then as- sembied, at the request of the Emperor Con- stantino; and fa the persons and costumes of the different ecclesiastios were to be seen exemplified the semi-barbarism of the West, the North and the East, as well as the polish and refinement of the more central portions of the Roman empire. The assembly about to be held in Rome will be gathered from a wider area, and will be representative as once of a more pertect civilization and of « greater va- riety of races, The former represonted the empire of the Cesars; this will represent the world. At the Coune!l of Nice Constantine declared the Christian religion to be the Official religion of the empire, and thus effected that union between Church and State which has remained until the present time—a union which many have declared uvholy, which many more have declared unwise ; but which, whether unholy or unwise, or both, or neither, seems, by almost universal consent, to lie across the pathway of modern progress. The separation of the Church from the State, of the spiritual from the temporal power, is the great necessity of the day. It will be strange, certainly; but it will not surprise us if this approaching celebration should resolve itself into a council, and if, by its solemn sanc- tion, the work of Constantine should be effectually and forever undone. The Holy Father, we have reason to believe, is anxious to come to an arrangement with Italy. It will be well if the heads of the Catholic Church, in council assembled, autho- rize and sanction the step which it is believed: his Holiness has long meditated, but “from. which,” according to good. authority, “he bas been forcibly kept back.” it is desirable in the interests of Catholic Christendom that the breach between: Italy and the Pope be healed. The abandonment of the temporal power on the part of the Head of the Church alone can heal it. We can see no reason why the Holy Father should not be encouraged to yield up gracefully that which he cannot much longer re- tain, and which it isnot desirable he should re- tain, even if he could. The Church will gain rather than lose by the change. By ceasing to be a secular, she will become more and more a spiritual power. Freed from the gross entanglements which have hitherto restreined her action, she will realize more fully the true character of her mission and will enter anew upon @ eareer of growing usefulness and pros- perity. What course the Papal government may finally resolve upon will no doubt depend, to a large extent, on the unanimity of senti- ment which shall be found to: prevail among the assembly of bishops. We can scarcely doubt that the decision will be such as shall prove to the world that the chiefs of the Catholic Church are neither blind to the char- acter mor deaf to the demands of the age. Meanwhile, the entire Christian world looks towards Rome with an intensity of interest which, if it has been equalled, has certainly not been surpassed for many generations. Domestic and Foreign Art. Our artists, it will be seen, are busily pre- paring for their summer exodus. They leave this season with greater satisfaction, as regards the past, and more cheering hopes, as regards the future, than they have hitherto been able to indulge in. The artistic year about to close with the exhibition has been the most prosper- ous they have known. Almost all have found full employment, while the leading artists have been overrun with orders. The fact is, the taste for pictures is no longer confined to connoisseurs: they have become as much a matter of necessity with wealthy people as rich furniture and fine equipages; and many buy them, not because they know anything of their merits, but because their neighbors in- dulge in this expensive luxury. Fortunately for the most part, these persons, with the true Yankee dislike of being taken in, take care to consult experts before making their pur chases. The result, so far as the interests of art are concerned, is as advantageons as if the purcbasers were accurately versed in such matters, Tho leading artists receive not only fall prices for their pictures, but more orders than they can execute ; while those of lesser reputation pick up, in the rivalry thus created, sufficient to eke out @ respectable livelihood. If picture buyers sometimes make mistakes in not appreciating an artist at his true merit, artists themselves are not exempt from them. One of the most egregious blunders ever com- mitted by them as a body was the petition which they got up to Congress to increase the tariff on foreign pictures, That was a narrow- minded and unwise view to take of the neces- sities of their position. If there is one thing more than another which is detrimental to the interests of art it is protection. If it restricts competition it also limits the opportunities of the artist. Where there are no public collec- tions, as in our case, the absence of standards of comparison is not to be compensated for by fulness of patronage. Money is not the only reward to which the artist shonld aspire. If he does not covet reputation for its own sake, and not for. what it brings, then he is not imbued with the true spirit of his profession. To shut out the works of forcign artists by prohibiting duties would simply be to destroy the chances of his reaching the eminence he aims at. No artist can inde of tha defects ofhia works ote: NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEKT. awarded £300 to Mosara, Cunard, tho owners of the | Recemstruction—(iencral Sickles cept by comparison with those of others, What a suicidal policy it would be, then, to exclude the works of foreign schools, from which alono our painters can arrive at 8 correct appreciation of their deficiencies. We trusi we shall hear no more of such foolish attempts to fetter the progress of art. It should be recollected that if we are ever to form a historical school of painting it can only be done by the free introduction of foreign works, That an effort to limit it should he made by Amerioan artists does not, we are compelled to say, argue very highly in favor of either their intellectual or professional ad- vancement, Religiows Sects and o Pockets ef tho People. A fow days since » resolution was introduced in the State Convention to so change the con- stitution of the State that no appropriations could be made of the people’s money for the support of sectarian institutions ; but the reso- | tation was se vague in its wording that the religious leeches that suck at the public trea- ourics of the State and city of New York will easily find means: to evade the law and oon- tinue the process of bleeding the people. It is time some aotive efforts were made by our legislators to: stop this support of the churches from the public funds. We require a law which shall state in the very strongest terms that not one cent shall be appropriated for any sect whatever. The religion that has not within itself the eloments of self-existence should not be boistered up by drawing upon the purses of those whose: religious tenets are frequently diametrically opposite from those which our unthinking State and city ralers call upon them to support. We have no right to call upon the Jew to pay taxes to support the Catholic, nor upon the Catholic to support the Protestant, nor yet upon the latter to pay out their fands to build up the temporal do- minions of either of the former creeds, espe- cially when we consider that the appropria- tions made from our pockets for what are ealled Christian purposes are: divided with most unchristian fairness. See, for instance, the appropriations of the past year by our Common Council, nearly ten-tenths of which went toasinglesect. Traly, our republicanism is sorely pressed, Church and: State being already upon us with all the terrible evils that, in their union, have been a curse to Europe. With every dollar we invest from:our public treasury for the support of a religious institu- tion we plant a.seed for a future religious war, and at the same time we curse the religious sentiments taught to us by Jesus Christ ; for, by such appropriations we build up vast moneyed monopolies that finally forget their religious creed, or only remember it to make the people accept it at the point of the sword. If it has not reached that point yet it is fast | verging on it, the first move being to indi- rectly make the State support one or more creeds, and finally, with accumulated power, reducing the creeds to single one, force upon the people, at the ballot box, what: will be the ruin of their republican system of government. ‘We want no monopolies of head and pocket at the same time ; for when religion and avarice become linked they form the strongest combi- nation of which human nature is capable, and know no limit to their envy and bigotry of purpose. Italy, Spain and Austria all prove this, and hold themselves up to the world as nations whose rulere monopolize the present as well ag the future of map, and even hold con- trol over the tollgates to Heaven, charging a heavy price for these who pass through, that the chains may be riveted the firmer upon those who are lett behind. No Church and State, Let us have some legislation about it, and shake it off while yet we can. Spare neither Protestant, Catholic, nor any other sect.. We want no religion that is not sufficiently moral to receive its support from those who espouse its creed. Have we no reconstructionists in the State Convention who have the courage to chaoge the constitu- tion and save our money from these illegal ap- propriations? Let us still have the right to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and not be forced, indirectly, to recognize the precedence of one religion over another. The Sultan Refuses the Proposition of the Great Powers with Regard to Candia. A telegraphic despatch from London, Friday evening, June 21, published in the Heratp yesterday, gives a report that the Sultan of Turkey has refused to consent to the request -of the great Powers for a suspension of hostili- ties in Candia with a view to the settlement of the difficulties there. The Powers which sent the collective diplomatic note to the Porte for this object and tor the purpose of having a commission appointed by the joint action of the Sultan and the great Powers to act in the matter, were France, Russia, Prussia and Italy. England was nota party in this diplo- matic movement. The cause of Christian liberty os against Mahomedan despotism, the cruelty of the Turks, or the sufferings and heroism of the Cretans, cannot excite British sympathy when British policy or interests stand in the way. We question. even if the other Powers, except Russia, were very earnest or sincere in their note to the Sublime Porte. Nearly all these Christian governments, directly or indirectly, support the Mahomedan dominion in Enrope from selfish political con- siderations. The existence of Turkish power in Europe depends, in fact, upon the support of the Christian Powers. Were they in earnest, then, there is no doubt the Sultan must yield ang do justice to the Cretans; but as long as he sees they are not in earnest or sincere, and particularly as long as England stands selfishly aloof from the question, we may expect the war to continue and the greatest barbarities to be practised. The abstention of Engiand, and the want of earnestness on the part of tho Powers which signed the note in behalf of Candia, are the cause of the refusal of the Sultan to suspend hostilities or submit to a joint commission of inquiry. Ameri and English Ordnance. In another part of to-day’s Henaup we re. pridt an article entitled “American Ordnenee,” from the Pall Mall Gazette of June 7, in which will be found a minute and detailed account, from an Englieh point of view, of the merits of our “fifteen-inch monitor gun.” The gun which had been ordered—to quote the language of the article referred to—“with m view to a prac- tical solution of the gunnery questions on which we are at issue with our friends across the Atlantic,” had arrived in England, but had not heen tested. Judging from experiments ee made with the gun on this side, and also from the known capabilities of other guns of a kin- dred character, a conckision is arrived at de- cidedly unfavorable, not omly to this particular piece, but to American ordnance as a whole. Ina few days we sbali in all likelihood be able to give the result of the érial experiments. Meanwhile we commend the azticle to scientific gunners generally and to our Ordnance De- partment in particular. Tho Paris Fashious. Amidst the perplexing whirl of Paris fashions to which the arrival of the Czar and other visitors of royal and princely rank, together with the great Exposition itscif, have given a prodigious impetus, our special cor respondent has been able to distinguish and describe many of the most conapicuous (oilelles displayed at the reception of Alexander I., at the races, at the Russian Embassy and as the Opera. We are first informed that lace flounces are now used only on ball robes, that shawis are out of date unless worn like scarfs, and that mantillas also are antiquated unless worn: @ UVEspagnol, On the day of the Czar'e arrival the Duchess de Monchy, im mauve aad’ white, and wearing a most extraordinary bonnet, was singled out from a crowd of dis- tinguished princesses on the balcony of the Hotel de Canterbury, in the rue de le Paix, awaiting the approach of Alexander, who is received at the foot of the grand staircase et the Tuileries by the Empreas Eugénie. The Empress wears a blue robe covered with white lace and a lace train. At the races, om Sunday, the Duchess de Mouchy is in light bine and Alengon lace, and Mme. de Karsakoff im pearl gray and ocerise. Everywhere ate soem white muslias, white tulle bonnets and ruddy, glowing berries, with wreaths of foliage; larga colored silk sashes, the principal ornament om white robes ; jewels of plain gold, very large’ earrings, circleta ‘of gold worn around high, flat chignons; very flat overskirts and under skirta, with plissé flounces. At the entertain- ment given by the Czar on Monday at the ‘Rue~ sian Embasey the Grand Duchess Marie wore am orange-colored robe. Her daughter is in white and cerise. Mme. de Karsakoff is in sulphur—a- new yélow—with her hair in long plaite ; and: all the other remarkable princesses whose names end in ski and skoff and ska, are in white satin. But the gala performance at the Opera surpasses all the dazzling shows which: have preceded it. Not to mention the illumi- nations, the house is ablaze from top to bottom with precious stones, with uniforms; diademe- and shoulders. The Empress of the French ia in white and red, with all the throne diamonds. on her boddice, temples and neck. The Princess Royal of Prussia is in white. In a word, Paris- shines- niore resplendently than ever as the Queen. of Fashion, whose empire extends throughout the world. ‘The Straggle (or Pazama. There was a time when Panama created much excitement in the world, when the free- booters sacked the convents and mado the monks carry the treasure to the boats, “griev- ing these holy men that they could havene share in the plunder.” Modern times and commercial wants and enterprise are giving Panama a new importance to which that of the past was but of slight moment. This me the little narrow. strip that holds North and South America together is threatening to be tossed. into the lists as the prize of him who handles the lance most suscessfully in a great national contest, and it.is not improbable that the com-, mercial joust may bring on a war. England,, bent upon the control of the Isthmus, has spread her gold profusely in New Granada, hag upset the government, supplanted it by a dio- tatorship, and. threatens, through Mosquera’s pen, to get possession of the groat transit between the Atlantic and Pacific. The posses- sion of this transit is of more importance to Great Britain tham appears at first sight; for there is a yearly flow of more than one hum, dred. million dollars of her commerce over it, and a rapidly increasing trade. As England,. by the Cape of Good Hope, controls the flow of Indo-European trade, as she holds the. Falk~ land Islands to govern the Cape Horn route, and as she robbed Gibraltar from Spain to hold the key to the Mediterranean, so it ia her desire, and in the direct line of her policy, te gain possession of Panama, that she may dom- inate the Pacific. It is magnificent prize, and will cause a long diplomatic fight in which British gold will not fail to be used profusely, as it always. has boen where the interests of: English commerce were at stake. We hava seen it upset the government of New Granada, and we may yetsce it bring Panama into such & prominence as will threaten. opea warfare between England and the United Staies. We cannot seo Panama fall ander the control of: any European Power, and we belieye that the United States would plunge into a long and desperate warfare rather than see its whole commercial interests hampered and made. tribute to a rival who spares no means to usurp every interest and dominate every im-~ portant geographical point in the world that may stand, sentinel like, over the commerce of other nations. THE PARK CONCERT. Bright skies, like yosterday’s, are always sure to crowd the myriad lanes, pathways amd resorts. of the Park, expecially on @ Saturday afternoon, when thirty brazen mouths discourse the ideas of the greet masters o of musie and Dodworth wields his baton in the charming, little pagoda, Tne atiendance yesterday was the largest, fo far, of the summer season. Kquipages of all sizes, and all fashions, each freighted with beavty and fashion, thronged the drives, while the more democrssic portion of | the Park visitors spread themselves over the commoa, sat around the pagoda and wandered through the iaby- } rinth of the Rarable. The music was of theselect and dix, vorsified order that might be expected (rom such = band, and such aleater, The gorgeous Semiramide, with its pe- caliarly Rossinian richaess and harmonpotides; a light, oparkling quadrille by Suppe, a das! "smarch, suggestive of the tinsel and ab of the bullet; an overture by Kucken, too seldom here; = selection from Mirellle, the opera which Paris wont into ecstactes; the Aagrora march, 0: n; one of 3 collocation or known popas Garsgle's pootical and dreatny wal digestible bash, made up of a score of far airs by Dodworth, and one of Faust he necaas were again strongly impt wish t! ing the music stand removed » more eligible site, fas it was impossible at times to Wr 4 nove of the music, @ of fear the Casing, eee a whieh the inter, built woud be & much better location, note could be distinctly heard in anyy weaorthe Mal “Waite seemed to be the prevaiti color in the ladies’ dresses yesterday, and we observ: many of the beautitnl Frapress chip bonuets aad the, how Parepa bat among the assemblage. The old 34! Vincent convent has been handsomely fitted up at the, north-east end of the Park, and the tittle chapel hag been transformed into a hall of statuary. Some of Crawfora’s best works adorn this beautiful hall, and! from the windows on either side the view 16 unrivalled! que effect and tariety, Theres is little need the metropolis making a hegira to the. bo it lops new charms each summer, and ‘wyrk of orogrogs Aad adorp;ment qos steadily on.