The New York Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1868, Page 4

4 ns NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorE Agratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIIU.......:ccseeeeeeeeseeesN@e LSS AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ae WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1%th sireet.— Tax STRANGER. Pe THEATRE, Bowery.—Dzn FREIscuUTZ—PEEP FRENCH THEATRE.—MAanie ANTOINETTE. pon nll OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Huurrr Domrrr. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Tags any Hatzy, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas WaiTe Fawn. ! r BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—CAMILLE. ga saat GERMAN STADT THEATRE.—MARTHA. eee BTEINWay HALL.—O:t BpuL's Concent. 2 el CISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETuIO0- Ran eeancingg TB, SINGIN DaNOLne, &c. Y 4 LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Soxes, Prenat 4c,~La |—BELU—L, N, BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th sireet.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTBELSY, ECCENTRIOITIEG, 40. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BaLuur, Faxcz, 0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, VOCALI8M, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—POPCLAR GARDEN CONCERT, TERRACE GARDEN—Porvu.ar GARDEN CONCERT, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,— STERETS OF NEW YORK. HOOLRY's OPERA HOUSE. MINSTERLSY—THE LMPRACHERS. 201 Bowery.—Comio Brooklyn.—ETHIOPIAN MADISON SQUARE HALL, 954 Broadway.—PANORAMA or THe WaR. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— New York, Monday, Juno 1, 1868. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday, May 31. Napoleon and Engénte visited Rouen. The Em- perdy delivered two speeches, the religious sentiment predominating. The steamship America brings a European mail report to the 19th of May, but the main points of the ews have been fully anticipated by our cable tele- The London journals of the 18th and 19th of May publish correspondence from Australia describing ‘the clroumstatices of the attempt on Prince Alfred’s life. Inthe Hgratp of the 15th of May—three days before—we printed the complete account of the same event, written by our special correspondent in Sydney and forwarded by way of Panama to New York, 80 that, as we anticipated at the time, it is Ukely Queen Victoria had the full details from our columns bf the cabie }-efore she had even the oficial despatches from Austraiia. The Abyssinian correspondence of the London Times describes the storming, capture and burning of Magdala, with the appearance of Theodorus’ body after his suicide—all of which have been already re- ferred to in succinct form in the telegraph letters of the HERALD, dated before the fortress, The pons season onthe Thames commenced April 18 with a cutter match between vessels be- *onging to ménubers of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. / MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The churches were all well attended yesterday. The festival of Whitsuntide was celebrated in the Catholic and Episcopal churches, and grand and im- posing pageants were displayed in some of the for- mer churches in commemoration of the Virgin Mary. The corner stone of the new Church of the Holy Cross, on West Forty-second strect, was laid with appropriate ceremonies, the foundation being blessed by Archbishop McCloskey. The United States steamer Lackawanna arrived at San Francisco on Thursday, having left Honolulu because the King of the Sandwich Islands considered her presence a menace. The smoke from the Folca- noes still fills the air for several hundred miles at sea, The new system of requiring the payment of taxes on bonded whiskey before the owner can ply his dis- tilery is working at present in this city with results very satisfactory to the tax collectors. In the year and seven days from the Ist of May, 1867, to the 7th of May, 1868, fhe sum total of whiskey tax received at the New York Treasury under the old system was $545,932, and for the last twelve days of last month, under the new system, the receipts exceeded $112,669, The great procession of the German Roman Catho- le Central Union took place, as announced, yester- day morning. It was favored by an extraordinarily beautiful bright day and was an imposing demon- stration, About noon the procession returned to the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, on Third street, where high mass was read and Rev. Father ‘Wayrich delivered a sermon. The business proceed- ings of the Central Union will commence this morn- ing at nine o'clock at the German Assembly Rooms, after having attended high mass at the same church. The first anniversary exercises of the Hebrew Christian Brotherhood were held last evening in the Presbyterian church, Twenty-second street and Fourth avenue. Rev. Dr. Crosby, pastor, presided. The object of the society is the evangelization of Is- raclites. Notwithstanding the barriers to success the society gives an encouraging report of progress in the work. Eight hundred thousand acres of land in Southern Kansas were deeded many years ago to the Cherokee Indians by the government in return for half a mil- lion doliars in gold held in trust by the government for the Cherokees. The land being apparently unoc- cupied and unclaimed was taken possession of by settlers and pre-empted, fifty thousand farmers being now settled on the land under the Homestead law, ‘The Indians in 1866 demanded the value of their land, and by some manceuvring, it is alleged, of Mr. Harlan, then Secretary of the Interior, 1t was bought by speculators, and thus the settlers, who would have paid more than the speculators, are in a fair way to be ousted or swindled. This peculiar arrangement was originally fixed up in secret ses- sion of the Senate, the House having no knowledge whatever of it, The ceremony of decorating the graves of Union Soldiers was continued and concluded yesterday throughout the country, The scenes at the large patton were even more impressive than on Satur- jay. The trial of Je Davis, by agreement of counsel, Will probably be further postponed until the October term. It was to have commenced on Wednesday, All is now quiet in the War Department, General Schofield assumes control to-day, Stanton is ready to depart and the ad interim subsides into the Adju- tant General. Two $1,000 notes were received at the Treasury Department yesterday, from New York, for the con- science fund. The writer was 40 careful to conceal the source of their emanation that the address on the envelope and the lines inside were clipped from an Old newspaper, and the numbers of the notes were cut out. Wooley’s harsh treatment has caused a lively agi. tation of the question whether a committee has the right to serve a witness in .auch @ manner merely for contumacy. General Adama, who is one of the parties implicated by Thurlow Weed's evidence, ‘Will appear before the committee to-day, The bark Marco Polo has arrived at quarantine, ‘where ghe is detained by the Health OMcgr, twenty: NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1868. EEE four deaths, alt of children, having eccurred gp the voyage from Bremen, apparently causod by scaria- tina. ‘The Inman line steamship Etna, Captain Bridgman, fax, N. S., to land mails and for Nova Scotia, &c., will close at the Post Oiice at twelve M, to-day. The Presidential Campaige—Chace and Dix j for the Democracy. What will the democrats do? Whoever can tell this can solve the problem of the Prest- dency and foresee four years of our future; for all depends on the action of the leaders of the party that seemed defunct so short a time since and has been revivified by the almost incredible blunders of the republicans. There is a breach in the lately dominant party that nothing can heals It is sheer nonsense to sup- pose that the shallow radicals can ever whip into the party lines again those resolute and determined men who so wisely and de- Uberately opposed them on the impeachment verdict; and it would be an insult to human nature to suppose that these true statesmen and upright judges can descend to make terms with the vulgar clamorers who shout against them in Congress and in the radical press. There is an inevitable antagonism between the two elements that must go on and deepen with its progress until one side or the other prevails and is accepted by the people as the party of the future, Strangely enough, the democrats stand in a position just now to turn the scale one way or the other in this contest. If they follow the policy that we much fear will be instinctive with them—if they act with that want of true perception that has marked their course on some memorable occasions hitherto, and nominate men whose record in this late great war has been one of hostility to the nation—they will fairly drive the country into the arms of the wildest radi- cals. All differences in the republican party will be forgotten, and people will accept the lead of the most extravagant rather than see aman of doubtful history on the war made President. If, on the other hand, they nomi- nate such a man as Chief Justice Chase, they make themselves the asserters of the rights of the nation by that very act, and they present a candidate on whom patriotic voters of every stripe can unite—a man for whom the most extreme democrat can vote and feel that he is giving the moral weight of his voice against the government of the country “outside the constitution”—feel that he is en- deavoring to give force to the principle of government by law rather than government by military machinery, and at the same timea man for whom conservative republicans can vote as the recognized great intellect of the war—the head and front of the republican party, so long as that party pursued a grand national purpose. Chief Justice Chase would be a President with a policy—not the mere tool of any legis- lative clique—not the ready suppliant for elevation, promising beforehand to do what- ever may be dictated by the party that gives him position. He stands above that. Like some others of the great men of our history, he was not supple enough for the manipulation of party, and itis because of his unbending honesty that he now stands in a position to make him the standard bearer of the great conservative masses of the nation. He is the greatest civilian that has a popular name, and the moral dignity of his character, as shown by his course on the trial of the President, and the conservative principles in virtue of which he stands forth as the great type and re- presentative of the supremacy of constitutional government—all these peculiarly fit him to be the candidate of the party whose history in the past is identified with the defence of the constitution and the dignity and purity of our republican system. On the same ticket with this great and up- right civilian we would place the name of that stanch old soldier General Dix. Him- self a democrat, this patriotic gentleman never could see that democracy was in any way in- consistent with the most energetic exercise of all his faculties in defence of the country when menaced by the organized treason of the South. He is a democrat of the grand school that thought the country paramount to all things; and with his good war record, his high tone, intellectually and politically, the association of his name with the name of Chase would do much to change that bad tendency of political combinations that inevitably puts a mere non- entity in the second place on the Presidential ticket. It is true that this putting in the second place in the ticket for the democracy of General Dix would smash up some of the pet arrangements of Tammany Hall and the ring masters, But Tammany Hall might better consent to have some of its little pet arrange-’ ments smashed up than to take the inevitable certainty of being smashed up altogether, as it would be with Hoffman on the Presidential ticket. Dix on that ticket would carry the country; Hoffman would carry nothing outside this city. But Tammany Hall is a power in its way, however, and it might be assented that, in consideration of some self-denial as to the Vice Presidency, Hoffman should be our next Governor, especially as this would leave the Mayor's present place open for Judge Barnard, whose term expires in proper sea- son—as do the terms of some dozen other | judges, if it were deemed expedient to change the name. Miss Vinniz REAM AND THE IMPEACHMENT. — From a debate the other day in Congress on Wooley, it appears that a certain Miss Vinnie Ream, a very worthy young lady, was, during the progress of the impeachment, reported to certain radicals as using ber influence with Senator Ross in favor of Andrew Johnson, and that her influence over that Senator was re- garded of such importance by the Hon. Mr. Julian that he thought it proper to have a talk with her on the subject; but that being assured by her that Senator Ross would vote for con- viction, Mr. Julian's mind was made easy, and so he gracefully retired. Here is a hint for Robespierre Butler. Let him consider the | question how far the ladies have exercised their powerful influence in the President's favor | and against him, and he may get upon a line | of evidence decidedly more interesting than | that of Thurlow Weed; for do we not know that from the time of General Jackson the ladies at Washington have broken up Cabi- nets and made Pregidente and qast them gut? Proposed Increase ef Natieual Bank Cur Treacy. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, has reported to the Senate from the Committee on Finance amend- ments to the bill estal the national banks, and among these amendments one to {norease the natfnal bank circulation twenty millions, It did not require a prophet or much sagacity to see what all the. noise that has been made by the on-to-specie-payment theorists about resumption meant, and we sball see, no doubt, that the Congresémen and news- papers that have been clamoring for contrac- tion and forcing specie payments will go for this or a larger measure of expansion, What these so-called regumptionists and the national banks want is to contract and ultimately to abolish the legal tender currency in order to inflate the national bank circulation. Their Object is to give the people national bank rags in place of the lawful money of the government and thus to increase the enormous profits and power of a gigantic moneyed oligarchy and add to the burdens of the people, It is beginning at the wrong end. If any more currency be needed for the business of the country or to equalize the circulation in the South or other parts with that in the Eastern and Northern States, legal tenders should be issued; and if no additional circulation be required, os the resumptionists claim, gr if any currency ought to be contracted, it should be that of the the national banks. The issue of twenty mil- lions of greenbacks in the place of that amount of national bank currency would save twelve hundred thousand dollars in gold a year to the people ;* for twenty millions of bonds would be bought up and cancelled. And were the whole of the national bank currency withdrawn and legal tenders substituted about twenty-five millions a year in currency would be saved. We should have at the same time a uniform and better currency, based directly upon the credit of the government. The more the cir- culation of the national banks is increased the farther we shall be from specie payments, even should the same amount of legal tenders be withdrawn and the whole volume remain the same. Mr. Sherman and the Finance Com- mittee are, as we said, beginning at the wrong end. The Crop Prospects for the Present Year. We publish to-day copious extracts from our exchanges and correspondence in regard to the growing crops of the season. It seems that, although the spring weather has been unusu- ally cold, wet and inclement, the prospects of grain in the great grain growing regions of the Weat are highly promising. Corn planting has been delayed in the more Northern and Middle States, but a few genial days, which seem at last to be about to bless the husband- man, will warm the soil and give a fresh im- petus to farming operations. The apprehen- sions about the effects of the frosts of the early part of April upon the young fruit havo fortunately not been realized, and the pros- pect is that the yield of all the small as well as larger fruits will be abundant. California, it is estimated, will increase her last year’s enormous yield of breadstuffs fully forty, per- haps fifty per cent, the only trouble seeming to be about getting transportation to the great commercial marts of Europe and the Atlantic coast. The reports from the extreme South afford a much more cheerful picture than last year. One letter writer, after expatiating upon the luxuriance everywhere abounding in Alabama, remarks that what the South wants is ‘more work and less grumbling and poli- tics.” The freedmen are better disposed to work than they were a year ago, and seem gradually to be falling into the very proper notion that if they expect to get plenty to eat they must work for it. On the whole there is cause for congratulation at the abundance which the earth promises to yield the coming season, with happy auguries for a brighter future in those places where the dark shadows of the past have depressed and overwhelmed the people. A Jobd in Kansas. We give to-day ina letter from Washington the outline of one of the most heartless frauds ever contemplated or attempted to be carried out under the guise of a government operation. It is a job likely to fairly entitle Kansas to the epithet of ‘‘bleeding” that derision has fastened upon her. Years ago the government held in trust certain money for the Cherokee Indians, It spent the money, but, acting honestly toward the Indians, conveyed them an extensive tract of iand in what has since become the State of Kansas, The land lying unoccupied was taken up by settlers in good faith, and of course in ignorance that it was not an open part of the public domain. Now that-the land is nearly all improved and farmers suppose they own it, up comes the Indian claim. This claim could be paid if farmers would buy their own land at little more than a dollar an acre, while much of the land is worth fifty dollars per acre, Immediately a big job is concocted, and the land is sold to some favorite of the politicians in power for enough to discharge the Indian claim, and this gigantic jobber is at liberty to make what heartless bargain he may or can with the settlers, Jobbing has invaded nearly every sphere of our public life, has corrupted popular faith in all directions, and now it aims at the very basis of the vitality of the West and undermines the faith of the emigrant and settler in the title to bis lands, Decoratine THE Graves or SoLprers.— Saturday was observed with impressive cere- monies ina great many different parts of the country as a day for the decoration of the graves of the gallant fellows who died for the country, Private affection, remembrance and sorrow fonnd an’ expression in this way, and the public entered into it in sympathetic. respect for the heroes who were only theirs as they were their country's. It is to be hoped that this occasion may grow to be numbered with the national fusti, and may not be turned aside from its sacred and peculiar character by the inevitable politician who has already thrust himeelf into the affairs of the Gettya- burg and Antietam cemeteries, Freer RELiGion.—Ofall the religions meetings which have taken place in the month of May that which the Free Religionists held in Boston last week, and of the proceedings at which we gave e full report in the Henratp of yesterday, is the most wonderful. It is impossible to refuse to admit that it was held in a very proper place; for no place could be so well adapted for guch « gathering ap the “Hub of the Universe.” It must have been the strangest union of diversities which the world has yet seen, We must be pardoned, however, if we say that to our minds it bore a closqr resem- blance to chaos than to cosmos. We do not forget that out of chaos sprung cosmos; 80 we will not be too hard on the Free Religionists. Russia in India=the Peace of Europe Se- cured im Asia. « Russia is taking bonds in Asia for the good conduct of England in Europe. This is the especial significance of the vast strides she has made within a few years past toward the frontier of India, that vast source of British wealth, There was a time when her power on the sea made England practically nearer to India than any other great Power, but that was when the sea was the only highway of nations. We have got beyond that, and man can sweep across the level wastes of a continent now as readily as through the waves, and communi- cate by telegraph in a way that makes him in- different to distance, Russia, thanks to these results of modern discovery, can properly assert the power that geographical position gives as the frontiersman of Europe—pushing European civilization to the heart of the neigh- boring continent—and the practical conse- quence is that she can hold out a constant menace to the British power inthe colonial world called India. England “not risk the loss of that world, and hence she will be the meekest of the meek in all European complications that put the young giant of con- tinental politics on the side opposed to her. GevERAL Grant's SILENT AND SUBMISSIVE Po.ioy.—General Grant, in reply to the com- mittee announcing his nomination for the Presi- dency, said he had no policy of his own to interfere with the will of the people—that is, with the will of Congress. This wasa hit at Mr. Johnson, who has ventured to have a policy, and a sop to the Congressional oligarchy that brought about his nomination. According to this declaration General Grant is prepared to abdicate the constitutional prerogatives of the President in checking partisan and im- proper legislation. In a word, he will surren- der all the powers of government into the hands of a legislative majority. We doubt if this reticent man, should he become Presi- dent, would not be more disposed to play the réle of the sphinx of the Tuileries and have a decided policy to suit his own views and purposes. A man of military education and temper is not likely to be so extremely sub- missive when power is in his hands. However, the declaration does véry well for the present and for electioneering purposes. DIsRAELI AND THE Irish CuuRoH.—A cable despatch which we published in the HrraLp of yesterday intimates that Mr. Disraeli, in a letter to Mr. Gladstone, has given up the Irish Church. He admits that further resistance in Parliament is hopeless, and says that he will not oppose the passage of the Church bill. Meanwhile the Parliament has adjourned over the Whitsuntide holidays—that is to say, until the 4th of June. The change is so pecu- liar and unlooked for, and the 4th of June is so close at hand, that it will be safer to wait than to enter upon doubtful speculations. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. The New United States Senator Elect from Connecticut. The Hartford Cuvrant (May 20) says that the recep- tion of ex-Goveruor Buckingham, Senator elect, at the New Haven House on Thursday evening was largely attended by members of the Legislature of both parties, the State officers and other invited guests. After congratulations and greetings in the parlors of the hotel a repast was served in the dining hall. The following is the speech of Goternor Buck- ingham at the latter:— My FRienps—Having been elected by you to re} resent our State in the United States Senate for the succeeding six years, allow me to say that I am glad tohave the opportunity of meeting you on this oc- casion. Allow me still further to say that I have not been an interested spectator of the canvass which has been made in this connection. I cannot say how much | have been gratified by the manner in which tt has been conducted. There have been no unpieasant words and bitter attacks. It has been merely a contest between friends striving to further the same public interests by different tustruments, Tama not surprised that many of you should have referred some other than me as your Senator, but am surprised that so many of you should have selected me. There are others more fit than I am in many ways to occupy this position, and Ican but feel that you have made this choice not for my brillianey in rhetoric or marked statesmanship, but for other qualities, which, however, you might have found elsewhere, If { had made this choice in my secret soul rest assured I should not have decided as you did. For many years I have thought the position one of the greatest respon- sibility, and for this reason have shrank from it as a burden which | wished to avoid. But, gentlemen, it is not my choice, it ts yours, and as such I must accept it. (Appiause.) I doubt my own ability to fill it, for it has been honored by such men as Koger Sherman and Jonathan Trumbull, and I cannot, therefore, add to tts honor; but this I will aay, that I think 1 Know how to do that which seems to be diim- cult in th days, to behave when in Washington— (laughter and applause)—and, moreover, [ desire to say that when I ener the position to which you have called me I shall carry to it the same fidelity to public interests and the same regard for your interests that I have always manifested. (Applause. ) 1 thank you and the press that in this contest you have thrown the mantle of charity over my private life and public acts, and now I cordially invite you to partake of my hospitality. At the request of Senator Buckingham prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. Patton, after which the com- patiy discussed the viands set before them. Political Notes. The democracy of the Ninth Miinols district have nominated Thompson W. McNeely, of Petersburg, for Congress, vice Lewis W. Ross, who is now in his third term. The contest, in the primaries, was be- tween McNecly, Ross, J. ©. Thompson, of Macomb, and Lyman Lacey, of Havana ; and the (rst named won by substantial majorities. The district, two years ago, gave 775 democratic majority, In the Twelfth Illinois Senatorial district the demo- crats have nominated James M. Epler, of Jackson- ville, for Senator. The republicans of the Eleventh Indiana (Colfax's) district will nominate a candidate for Congress at Laporte, Jane 24. The Carroll (La.) Record says:—“Sorgeant Bates should undertake one more trip in order to cap the climax of the service (for it ts a service) he has ren- dered to his countrymen. Let him undertake to carry the same flag through New England, unarmed and without money, and see how long it would be before he starved to death on radical hospitality and patriotism in the prosperous North,” The Richmond Whig states that according to the registration lists, as they now stand, the negro voters in the First Congressional district (Accomac, &c.) outnumber the white by about 3,000, In the Second district (Norfolk city, 4c.) they outnumber by over 5,000, In the Third district (Richmond city, &c.) they outnumber by over 6,000, In the Fourth district (Charlotte, Halifax, 4c.) they outnumber by over 4,000, In the Fifth district (recenare &e.) they outnumber by over 2,000, It is evident that in every one of these districts—the negroes all voting together, as they seem to think it a duty todo—a negro can be elected to Congress. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following is a record of the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, as indicated by the ther- mometer at Hudout's Pharmacy, Herap building:— DB Average temperature for the twenty-four houra. 06%. ENGLAND. Despatch of the New Cuba Cable—Sir Charles QuEEn’s Horst, London, May 31—P. M. The steamer Narva, having shipped the new sub- marine cable to be laid between the island of Cuba and the coast of Florida, United States, sailed ata late hour this evening for her destination. The cable is in charge of Sir Oharles Bright. FRANCE. Napoleon and Eugenie in Rouen—Religion and Imperialism. Paris, May 31, 1868. The Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Eugénie visited Rouen to-day, where they were recelved with great ceremony and rejoicing by the authorities and citizens. i ‘The Emperor made a speech, in which he publicly returned his thanks and the thanks of the Empress to the Mayor of Rouen for the energetic and efficient measures of relief which had been provided by the municipal government for the poor of the city during the past severe winter, and expressed the hope that their sufferings were now ended. In his reply to an address from the Cardinal of Rouen, the Emperor declared, “We will not sever our love of God from our love of country.’’ { the evening the Emperor and Empress returned to Paris. SANDWICH ISLANDS. The United States — Lackawanna Leaves Honolulu=The King Considers Her Presence a Menace—The Hawaiian Vol- canoes. SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, 1868. The United States steamer Lackawanna arrived here to-day from the Sandwich Islands. She is re- ported as having left Honolulu because of the intl- mation that the King regarded her presence as a menace. Considerable sensitiveness prevails in Conta circles in Honolulu relative to American doings. ‘The smoke from the Hawaiian volcano still fills the air for several hundred miles at sea, CALIFORNIA. The Garrahan Quicksilver Claim Pronounced a Fraud—The Alleged Quicksilver Mono- poly—Grant Meetings. SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 1868. The Bulletin and Alta of this city pronounce the Garrahan quicksilver land claim now before Con- gress a fraud, and show by the records that it has been so declared by the United States courts in Call- fornia, The claim has been much complicated by ex- tending the original location so as to cover the New Idrea quicksilver mines. The plea for the bill, on the ground of preventing a quicksilver monopoly by the New Almadan Company, is met by stating that three or four other mines are now producing quick- silver in California, and it is estimated that ten dif- ferent furnaces will be in operation before the close of the present year, Republican ratification meetings are being held throughout the State. ‘Fight with Indians Near Paradise Valley— Progress of the Western Branch of the Pa- cific Railway. SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, 1868. An offical report from Captain Munson announces the result ef a conflict with a party of thirty or forty Indians in the vicinity of Paradise Valley, North- eastern California, May 7. Captain Munson’s force consisted of fifty men, belonging to the Ninth in- fantry and Eighth cavalry. The Indians occupied a strong position in the mountains, but were driven from it after four hours’ fighting, with a loss of sev- eral Killed. The troops lost one killed and two Lira Nearly all of the Indians were armed with rifles. The le of the Western Pacific Railroad be- Eta. ramento and San Francisco is advancing rapidly. B.S! Reading, one of the fintt American citizens of California, who resided here twenty-five years, died on his farm, In 1851 he came within a few votes of being elected Governor on the Whig Licket. JEFF DAVIS. . Another Postponement of the Trial Expected— Mr. Davis Not Arrived in Rich ad, RicHMOND, May 31, 1868. The trial of Jefferson Davis, which was to com- mence on Wednesday next, will probably be again postponed, the counsel on both sides having agreed to put it off until the October term of the United States District Court. This arragement will cause considerable inconvenience and expense to the wit- nesses who were subpcenaed to be here on the 3d of June. Mr. Davis has not arrived here yet, and it is supposed that, in view of the probable postpone- ment, he will not leave Canada at present. TENNESSEE. Postponement of the Republican State Cone vention, NASHVILLE, May 31, 1868, The State Central Committee of the republican party of Tennessee announce a postponement of the State Convention from the 11th of June to the second Wednesday in August. » convention is called to nominate an electoral ticket, Fire in Memphis. Mamriis, May 31, 1868, A fire broke out in D. E. Anderson’s grocery store, on the corner of Third and Adams streets , last night, and communicated to Joyce's Uvery stable, both of which were consumed. Several horses were burned. At one time it was thought impossible to save the Northern station house, adjoining the stable, and accordingly all the prisoners were turned loose, in- cluding one for murder. Joyce's loss is $3,000; no insurance. Anderson's loss is $1,200; fully insured. Bishop Tehan to-day administered the rite of confirmation to 200 candidat MAINE. Grant and Colfax Ratification Bangor. BanGor, Me., May 31, 1868. A large meeting was held here last evening for the purpose of ratifying the nominations of Grant and Colfax, Which was addressed by Mr. John A. Peters, Hon. Hannibal Hamlin and others. Mr. Hamlin, after speaking in very strong terms for General Grant, testified to the integrity and ability of Mr. Colfax, deciaring that “ a true man—one whose purity of private life is uarantee that he will do no public wrong.” CONNECTICUT. Meeting in Suicide of a Promineut Republican Politician of Hebron. e HARTFORD, May 31, 1868. Mr. E. P, Buell, of Hebron, & prominent business man and a republican politician, sixty years of age, committed suicide on Saturday by cutting his throat. Iil health for a few days had affected his mind. He was formerly a merchant, but of late had engaged in the manufacture of wrapping paper. CUBA. Sugar Market—Exchange Quotations, HAVANA, May 50, 1968, The following are the closing prices of merchandise for the week ending to-day:— Sugar, 74; 08 reals for Nos. 10 to 12 and 84% a0 reais for Nos, 15 to 20 per arrobe. Molasses 1 6 a7 reais for Nos. 7 to 10. Molasses clayed and 6 a 7 for muscovado. unsettl Honey, 38% a 4 Freighta Teals per lon. re firmer; per box to sorthers and Southern ports, $2 12% @ $2 25; per bhd. sugar to Northern ports, $9 50 @ $10; per hhd. molasses to Northern ports, 75 & $6 25; per hhd. sugar to Southern por, $5 50 a $9; per hhd. molasses to Southern 60 a $5 75. Bacon, 16c. a 164c. pound. r is in demand at 30c, a 50c. per Shooks, 9 reals for box; hoops, $50 per h for leas shores and $40 for short. Lard is plentiful ety declined. Lumber, $26 fat per thousand for white pine, and $18 a $23 for ine. Exchange-—On London, 19% a 11 cent pre- mium; on United States, surreany, tok per cent dis- count; in gold, long sight, 14 per cont iscount, MISSOURI. be disci Mr. Crabtree, father of Lotta the diMculty with his wi which Tecuken meoome from his wife's trunk $25,000 in ‘government and tee ed ioe ate the fernings " leay! ne: orning New York. He also struck his and carried of all her jewelry, leat her and her mother without money and an up| board bill. Crabtree announced his to re- turn to England and live at his ease earn ‘The affair has created a Governor Fletcher and a number of prominent eons have telegraphed to Governor Baker request- i him to release McCoole from confinement. iis i PENNSYLVANIA. EE ineeen The Presbyterian General Conference. HARRISBURG, May 31, 1868. In the General Conference of the New School Pres- to hold the next meet ni New York city, wil Old Brick church, wh @short distance of ere the Old School will meet. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. This is Ristori’s last week in New York and her final farewell. To-night “Marie Antoinette” will be given, and Bozzo, one of the most deserving mem- bers of this unequalled company, takes a benefit in the same drama to-morrow night. Matinées will be given on Wednesday and Saturday. On Thursday next the New Orleans opera bouge company will commence an engagement at the ‘Theatre Francais, opening with Offenbach’s “Orphée aux Enfers.”” Mile, Aline Lambele will be the Eury- dice on the occasion. Matilda Heron plays this week at the Broadway in her well known specialty, “Camille.”’ ‘This is the last week of the regular dramatic season at Wailack’s, ‘The Stranger,” ‘Love's Sacrifice,’? “The Rivals,” and ‘Masks and Faces’? will be given, On Monday, June 8, the favorite, John Brougham, will inaugurate the summer season with his local drama, “The Lottery of Life.” Whalley 1s still the great card at the Bowery. ‘This week his blood curdling, sensational drama, ‘Der Freischutz,”’ will be sandwiched between the ‘‘mag- nificent feats of agility, dances and Jigs” of the Kin- cade Family, who are said to be “simply immense.’? The yaad Princess Graceful, to use an Hibernt- cism which has crept into the text, “still seea the light of day ever, ht” at Niblo’s; and the “White Fawn” (which, by the way, wants a little soap and water now) still unfolds its attractions there, Ole Bull will give two farewell concerts at Stein- way Hal! on Monday and Tuesday evenings. He will be ‘assisted by the celebrated Somes George W. Morgan, and a number of other artists. “Humpty Dumpty” will celebrate its hundredth night at the Olympic on Saturday next. ‘ne Worrel Sisters are yet illustrating the crim. con. case of Paris and Helen, at the New York. Mrs. F. B, Conway is about tomake an experiment of atruly Hibernian nature—namely, to introduce pine Streets of New York” into Brooklyn at the ‘ark. : Birch, Wambold, Bernard and Backus, that inimt- table quartet of incorrigible jokers, are the principal delegates to the ‘Black and Tan Convention," nightly in session at the San Francisco Minstrels. ‘The success of the Central Park Garden ts an es- tablished fact beyond doubt. Every night crowds flock there to hear Thomas’ orchestra and wander through the beautiful grounds. Unsworth, the black Demosthenes; Eugene, prima donna, Eph Horn, the old guard of minstrelsy, Nelse Seymour and Dan Bryant are engaged in illustrating the manners of the Chinese at Bryants’ Minstrels. Carl Bergmann commenced his summer concerts at Terrace Garden yesterday by two “ grand sacred”? concerts, the programme consisting of marches, waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, &c. An important event is about to take place at Ke & Leon’s Minstrels. After one week more of Leon’ burlesque, “The Grand Dutch 8,” another from the same pen will be placed on the stage. The subject is “La Belle Helene,” but the name liar. “La t— Bell—L. N.” does not mean “‘S, T., Hag ” but there is a deep mystery of wit about it. elly will appe par in it. Lingard having concluded his very successful en- gagement at the Comique, the management have stilla Russian “wonder,” named Airec, or Break- neck, Signor Caron and Sons, manufacturers of classic groupings, aud a burietta for the delectauion of their patrons. Blind Tom and his plano will be exhibited this week in Jersey City and Staten Island, The panorama of the war and Miss Sallie Goodrich are still on hand at Madison Square Hall, Augustin Daly Teappears on the stage with a “Flash of Lightning.’ We hope Barney Williams will have @ sufficient number of conductors (not poe avenue, but lightning,) at the Broadway next week. Itisa sad commentary on public taste to find “Captain Jinks, of the Horse Marmes,” and the “Cancan” advertised as the great sensations and fa- vorites of the day. Wheatley has a ‘Black Crook” carriage and @ “White Fawn” driver, When the twin “stars,” Mr. William, allas oe Emerson and J., alias Jonny, Allen announced thi departure from Antonio, alias Tony, Pastor's there was such a commotion among the patrons of the Bowery Waliack’s that the “siars” were induced to “wait a little longer.”” Miss Annie Ward, the sprightly actress of Wal- lack’s, has been engaged for the next season at the same theatre. It is rumored that Mr. Wheatley is trying to sogeee the origina! Black Crook as coachman for his bi Crook carriage. The “Strollers” at Pikes are ‘Lost’ for the balance of the season. Ninety-nine persons, including the ushers, attended the demise of the original dramas, McKee Rankin, a truly deserving arust, is engaged for Daly’s new piece at the Broadway. Mrs. Frances Carter has made quite a stir in the neighborhood of the metropolis by her readings. iss Fannie Stocqueler has become a universal favorite in Montreal. The papers say that a more charming soubretie has never visited their city. Hooiey’s Minstrels enter — the last week but one of the season to-night in Brooklyn. The pro- gramme is an excellent one, : Madame Parepa-Rosa took her leave of New York last night ina concert at Steinway Hail, assisted by Messrs. Morgan, Pattison, J. R. Thomas, Simpson, Bowler, Keck, Toulmin, Dawson and Colby. The programme was one of extraordinary interest and was the cause of numerous encores. Morgan's organ Playing, Pattison’s inimitable pianism and Thomas’ rendering of one of Abt’s beautiful a were enthusiastically applauded. Two songs by Mr. W. J. Downs were sung by Mme. Rosa in admirable style. She satis to-day for California, accompanied by Messrs. Rosa, Colby, Bowler and Ferranti. At the little church of St. Anthony, on Sullivan street, near Houston, a concert was given last eve- ning for the benefit of the church and was in every respect a grand one. Several very fine selections, from Rossini’s beautiful “Stabat Mater,” Verdi's “ Nabuccodonazer,” Millard’s “Ave Marta,” ex+ uisite prayers from the works of Mercadante, am) and Stradella and id choruses from Vel a and Rossini's 1a sign in Egypt,” compr' ¢ programme ore Macaterri, Mesetmiliant, lini and Gariboldi, and Meadames Ghiont, Abner 8S. Brady and M. Sayers, together with large and efficient choruses, per- formed the several selections in most commenda- ble style. The concert was not as fully attended ag its merits deserved; but the good fathers in charge of the church should not be deterred by this fact from progressing, as their ability to select exquisite ge and inimitable artists has been, by last evening’ concert fully demonstrated. Miss Kellogg in “ia Gazza Ladrags in London. (From the London Times, May 19. Mile. Clara Louisa Kellogg is entitled to the thanks of all who admire the legitimate Ital school of a tic music for having been the yieans of ena-® bling Mr. Mapleson to revive the picturesque and charming ‘““Gazza Ladra” of Rossin’, which, since Mile. Patti played Ninetta at Cover Garden (1863), has been banisied from our stage. - Bat the — Ro Ke on Myer eT, coe which the chief interest rej etta, The part was, we understand, wholly strange to Mile. Kellogg; and if that be so it is merely an- other proof furnished of the young American's gular quickness and intelligence. Her perform: the Orst night was very The music, take ce saidgether, coarosty sults it er, iu sic of other operas in which lsfaction; she has Revertheless er personation of Ninetta through: arent in every character she bas hitherto hat she has formed a conception for bodied it with scruj ian this gy, and her ample rit’ the idee which Mile, Kellogg makes, dominant over all is that of filial affection; and sho works out with consummate skill. Her jainly realistic; and thus, as she never Pa fo forse J t that Zerlina is merely a peasan’t, 80 she never allows us to forget that Ninetta is merwiy But, without adding @ word, we oat yea ew Sesumxpton of Mile, Kellogg's y,72 honorably earned success; and her Ninetta will be al- ways weicome to the public, as much for its ovyn sake r that of the beautiful music it has Peiped to rescue from oblivion. It was a treat to heg'r the pic- turesque overture and the tuneful and vigorous ‘Sie. ruses of this genuine opera, execut they were aod chorus Under S'gnor Ards letiagt direction,