The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD De eermeeaaeveae aneaaaed JAMES. GORDON. BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river at one P. M. on Saturday, 4th inst., for Queenstown and Liverpool, The mails for Europe will close ate Post Office at twelve M. to-morrow. OAptain Grace, (Saturday), from The National line steamship ‘will sail at twelve M, pier 47 North river for Liverpool, calling & Queeng- town to land passengers. ‘The new steamship Crescent City, Captain Holmes, of the Merchants’ line, will leave pier No. 12 North All business or news letters and telegraphic | river at three P. M, on Saturday, 6th inst., for New Orteans direct, despatches must be addressed New Youre | “OT star independent line steamshtp Heeatp. Thames, Captain Pennington, will sal for Savanned, Letters packages should Ga., to-morrow (Saturday), leaving p! North ai be properly | river at three P. M. seoled. ‘The stock market was variable and trregular yes- Rejected communications will’ not ‘be re- | terday. Government secunties were dull, Gold pes closed at 140. [SSS Our Abyssintan correspondent furnishes this morn- olume XXXUIT.......0sersceseeseeaee ing 9 most interesting account of the last days of be srrseseNow U67 | OY English occupation of Magdsla and the com- mencement of their homeward march, The con- gratulatory order of Napier to his victorious troops is given in full. : We have correspondence from St. Domingo and NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Warrs ¥4w™. | Hayti, but the main items of news have been antici- agape pated by the Gulf cablé. Our correspondent believes SOON EINER RnaerTE OEE S that Samané will in a few months be a free and neu- WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1Nb sieet-— | tral port, under the common protection of all the Maske AND Facks, maritime Powers. e BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—D2s FarisouUr:—-O1t- | The Fenian scare in Canads is increasing, Two Twrer: —_— men were arrested in Sweetaburg on Wednesday FRENCH THEATRE.—Mante ANTOINETTE, charged with being Fenians. Large numbers of men OLYMPIC THEATRE. Brosdway.—Huurrt Dowrry. | fe collecting at St. Albans snd Malone, but Fenian afetinte: ola eine giao fairs are in operation at those places, and attendance KELLY £ LEON'S MINSTRELS, 730 Broadway.—Soxes, | nent Fenians confidently expect to have a foothold Koonw TRO: 7086, &c.—GRAND DUTOU “8, in Canada within the present month. Venezuelan despatches to the 224 of May corrobo- Tate our previous intelligence relative to the agree- ment between the belligerent commanders. The funeral of ex-President Buchanan took place at Lancaster, Pa., yesterday with imposing cere- monies. The remains were interred in Woodward Hill Cemetery. The trustees of the village of Flushing, L. I., are in a squabble over their right to remove certain merchants’ business signs, which are claimed to bo obstructions. The oficial majority im Michigan against a new constitution, which provided for negro suffrage at the election in April, was 38,826 in a vote of 182,338, The Republican State Convention for the nomina- tlon of a Governor and other State officers will be held on the sth of July at Syracuse, The Alabama Democratic State Convention ad- journed yesterday, after electing delegates to the National Convention and adopting a series of reso- lutions proclaiming their adherence to the ordinance prohibiting slavery in the State, and declaring their solemn purpose to faithfully and impartially ‘ad- minister all the laws recently enacted as soon as the military are withdrawn and they are permitted to By special telegrams through the Atlantic cabié, | manage their own affairs, by way of London yesterday, we have advices from A convention of conservative soldiers and sailors Portugal, Rome and Abyssinia. has been called by the National Executive Commit- The United States steamer Shamrock sprung | tee, to meet in New York city on the 4th of July. aleak at sea on her voyage to New York and put The case of Deacon Andrews of Kingston, Mass., back to Lisbon for repairs. Ex-Minister Adams was | who is charged with the murder of Cornelius entertained at a banquet of American artists in | Holmes, lias been referred to the Grand Jury with. Rome, | out @ preliminary examination, Six Abyssinians were drowned by the ralp food, Governor Harriman, of New Hampshire, was in- aot six hundred as incorrectly stated in an English | augurated at Concord yesterday. official telegram, the India House correcting the mis- Weston, the pedestrian, failed to walk his one take. Generai Napier reports that a “small detach- | hundred miles in twenty-three houra. ament’’ of his army will remain at Zoulla. The troops ‘The annual Convention of New York State Spiritu- were healthy, notwithstanding the rains, Theo- | alisis met in Hudson yesterday, where the General dorus’ crown of state had been returned to his | Synod of the Reformed Church is also holding forth, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BREW YORK Botel.— PA THEATRE, opposite Mew York BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Butlding, Mth atroet,—BTHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, ECORNTRICITIES, "ko. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Brondway.--BaLLer, Fanon, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 901 Bowory.—Comic VousLtem, NEGKO MINSTRELSY, ko. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.— POPULAR SARDEN CONCEBE. TERRACE ¢ARDEN—POPOLAR GARDEN ConoRRt, MRS, F. B. CONWA STREETS OF NEW Yo! HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. MixSTRRLSYTHY IMPEACHERS, NEW YORK 4 KUM OF ANATOMY, 613 ROTRNOR AND A’ PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Brooklyn.—ETaiorian rondway.— HEET. June 5, 1868. New York, Friday, cen vo Queen, The National Board of Trade continued 11s session The news report by the cable is dated yesterday | in Philadelphia yesterday. A constitution was re- evening, June 4, ported and several art of it adopted. John Bright advocates a firm tiberal union against the tory party of Britain; the radicals to put forth all their force at the next Parliamentary election. Consols, 9634, money. Five-twenties, 72}; in Lon- don and 77% in Frankfort. In the Liverpool cotton market middling uplands closed at 113¢ pence. Breadstuffs and provisions without material alteration. Our special correspondence from London, Frank- fort and Berlin embraces very important detatis of our cable despatches to the 23d of May. CONGRESS. in the Senate yesterday the resignation of Forney as Secretary was aceepted, and Mr. George C. Gor- ham, of California, was elected to the vacancy with vnly one dissenting vote. The Senate thon adjourned ntl to-day in respect for the memory of ex-Presi- dent Buchanan. in the House, after the transaction of a little rontine ‘vusiness, the Tax bill was again considered in Com- mittee of the Whole, beimg generally debated. An evening session was held and the first section of the bul was amended so that the present Commissioner of Internal Kevenue shall continue at the head of the proposed new department. Several untuportant amendments were made in other sections and the House at ten o'clock adjourned, THE CITY. The Charaber of Commerce, at tis meeting yester- day, recommended that the tax on distilled spirits ve reduced to fifty cents per proof gallon, and re- The Oregon El General ‘tion—The First Response to jrant’s Nomination. The election in Oregon indicates that the name of Grant has no magic to change the verdict against the republican party that is written in the mind of the whole people. It also shows that the deep con- viction of the dangers of radicalism to the country—the conviction that made itself felt at the polls in California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and New York, and gave those States to the democrata by good majorities—is a deep conviction still; that it has not worn away with time, and that nothing whatever of promise for the better is felt in anything done by the radicals in the period that has elapsed since a State last ro- corded the judgment of its people against that party. Within that time have come two great party events—the impeachment and the nomi- nation of « Presidential candidate. Impeach- ment, it is sufficiently notorious, has deepened everywhere the conviction that the domination of the radical party is not consistent with the safety of our institutions; but how it might be quested Uonatals be inlay ties: Bocestary Spgtopstns with the nomination of Grant no man could tion for the purpose of raising the wreck of the positively say. Party men of one side or the steamer Scotland, now forming a dangerous bar of | Other, and ail who pretend to be weatherwise of Sandy Hook. in the political atmosphere, could predict to The General Committee on the great international | their own satisfaction just what would come ae 0 ee a lames tee peed to pass; but the truth is that no one can divine read a report of the Committee of Arrangements, de- the secret currents of a people's thoughts—no tailing the progress made thus far, and giving an | one can accurately estimate the hidden forces outline of the programme of festivities as agreed | that yet seem to move the whole mass upon for each of the ten days during which the festi- | of the nation by electrical unanimity to wal will last, ‘A disastrous fire occarred in Amity place early the same result, But the ballot box tells all, The seam crops out at an election yesterday morning. One building was completely demolished aud several others were injured. Be- | and the mind of the people is shown. Hence tween $60,000 and $00,000 worth of property Wa | the significance of this election in Oregon destroyed by the conflagration. m1 ‘A peper mill on Red Hook Point, in South Brook- determined with unequivocal clearness for the lyn, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The | democrats right on the heels of the nomina- lous is catimated at $120,000, The insurance compa- | tion of Grant by the radicals. Grant, to put nies express considerable vexation at the absence of | it at its lightest, is not so great a man, not a ‘the newly appointed Fire Marshal, who is in the name so thoroughly satisfactory to the people ein of es A eter ee that they will venture another four years of ‘The regular monthly meeting of the Union Repub- | radicalism to have him. He is too evidently lican General Committee was held last evening at | only the gilding of the pill, and the people their rooms, No. joes inde way. Resolutions iookiDg | thrngt him aside. And this is settled, not on the pe ae Seat aaamantenes arguments or declamations of partisans, not thers endorsing Grant end Colfax were adopted. ; ‘A men named U. A. Ingalaoll was arrested in this | on the forecastings of those who believe that city yesterday on the charge of being implicated in | Grant will be beaten because they hope it, but the famous otf ern ar aca cot tron it is settled on that only positive source of taken from an German dis treasure tu the hands of the banks. Ingalsoti was | ‘formation under our system—s test at the somewhat astonished at the charge, and immedistely | pole, an experiment before the people, the volunteered to return to Pennsylvania with the | honestly delivered vote of a great State. detectives without waiting for erequisition eo the} ‘The growth and progress of such convic- Goveraae’ tions in the public mind as have produced the Lmpaint war made yeeeraey ioe Kingwiand, | democratic triumphs of which this in Oregon charging a broker named Lefferteon and e lumber | is the most noteworthy nothing can now arrest, dealer aamed Jones with the robbery of Kingsland | and the inevitable consequence will he a com- seat a Shae cores ern 2a tes rene. Sibate 7 on nh 2, bonds for $5,000 had been traced to thelr henge hes occurred in much the same way. ‘The president of the Farmers’ Stott was once expected to walk over the Presidential course somewhat as Grant's adhe- tional Bank of Brookiyn, Oren arraigned in the United States Circuit Court frente expect him to walk over it now; but his ended in a great disaster. Grant's and Citizens’ Ni ‘M. Beach, fie day on ri oie of embezzlement, in misapplying certain moneys, fands and credits of the aeee- ciation, amounting to the sum of $46,500, the | Peem@e very likely to end in the same way. acoused pleaded not gullty, and gave bali in the sum ‘eteady, constant but undemonstrative of $10,000. ibe tn the minds of the people results from tn the United States District yemterday, be- general feeling of the necessity of saving Shee sake Jobn Brien, revenue red aaaie fe constitution from the assaults of the politi- dicted for removing whiskey from s distiliery onder | tal desperadoes who find it an obstruction to Scinnre, Ryan was soquitted, on the prisoners | \heir schemes. ea te realized the ‘Kennedy and Brien were found guilty. hecessity for # constitution. ey have heard In the Sapreme Court yesterday the arguments in| |. thanbe one way and another over oon- ‘the Chicago and Rock Island Railway litigation were jit jonal and have given little concinded and the Court reserved judgment. ti pointe, atten- ‘The North American Steamship Company’ssteamer | \ion, They have heatd the declaration of the Santiago de Cuba, Captain hg a ve boa ragha ris | radicals that they would govern ‘“‘ontside the Panama Railroad, will leave North bonstitution,” and) hardly fealized what ft to-day (Friday), for Aspinwall, connecting at od Guaneie with the bow summaniy Bovees. meant. But when they eee in the aote of these ‘Toe eveamablp City of Baltimore, Captain Leitch, a NW. YORK: HERALD, FRIDAY,..JUNK 5, 1863. law and civil government trampled down in | Telesraph frem Our Pacific Coast te Chine | armios in peace times should be ten States, and a great section of the Union ruled by s military despot; when they see the whole power of a great bi of ‘the govern- ment used to destroy the Executive, and to strike down the Supreme Court, they naturally consider what result the suécess of these efforts would produce; and the fear to con- tinue the government in the hands of auch a party changes the vote of every thinking man. It is a change that goes on silently and appears only in its consequences, as is the case with all great operations of the national intellect. In that great explosion of national purpose which followed the firing on Sumter appeared the thought of many months; and it was so magnificently unanimous only because every man had determined what must be done and was ready—because the national thought was prepared like a mine of gunpowder and waited only the match. In election after election following one another in different States we now see the growth and progress of a great change, and it is clear that counting on this the party that avails itself of the great fact in the right spirit will best utilize it for the na- tional welfare. It is a change that points towards a positive assertion of the supremacy of law in the government, of which principle Chief Justice Chase is the conspicuous repre- sentative, and it is therefore a change that must make him President of the United States. Rumered Sickness of the poleon. In our issue of yesterday we published a cable despatch to the effect that the Emperor Na- poleon was sick. This is the second report to the same effect in the space of some few wecks. It will not surprise us if it turn out that the rumor has been ill founded or that the actual fact has been greatly exaggerated. True or not true, the rumor is deeply suggestive. On the life of no man now living do so many con- sequences, probable and possible, depend. It is well known that for years past his health has not been good, and no one who knows the condition of France and of Europe can wonder that a rumor of the Emperor's illness is felt to be the most startling sensation of the moment. Were the Emperor to die at this time it is quite impossible to say precisely what would or what would not follow. One’ thing it is safe to say——that notwithstanding the skill with which Louis Napoleon has managed France for nearly twenty years—France at his death would be plunged into a state of anarchy and confusion. Of course his son would succeed him as Napoleon the Fourth. The Empress would be regent of the empire. Prince Napoleon in all likelihood would be & prominent member of the Council of State. Either he would or he would not; but whether honored with office and power by the Emperor's last will and testament or ignored and left aside he would be equally a dangerous man to the interests of the Napoleonic dynasty. Trouble would be sure to arise in the imperial family, and this trouble would furnish the desired opportunity both to the Bourbons and to the republicans. This, however, is not all. Europe from the moment of the Emperor's death would cease to be fearful of France. Italy would become bolder, Austria less cautious, Prussia more determined and Russia more aggressive. We would have the Italians again marching on Rome, Prussia hurrying forward German unity, Austria, perhaps, in civil war in consequence of the sympathies of her German subjects, and Ruasia pushing herself toward Constantinople. France, without a head and at the mercy of contending factions, would be so oceupied with her own affairs that she would be unable to do more than enter her protest. Looking at the situation from this point of view we cannot much wonder at the importance which is attached to the Emperor's life. France has, perhaps, seen her highest point of greatness under his rale. At the close of his reign France and Europe generally will come under new conditions. Emperor Na- The Banjo in the Catacombs, ‘The Academy of Music has at length reached a congenial sphere, as far as the now cele- brated one hundred and ninety-nine and a half stockholders are concerned. On Monday night--following the example of its next-door neighbor, Bryant-—this colossal establishment will be formally inaugurated by the ancient and honorable Order of Elks as a minstrel hall. Verdi and Meyerbeer will give way to “Nicodemus Johnson” and ‘‘De Lubly Gal ob Arkansaw,” and ‘‘Fattie Stewart,” 6r some other dusky celebrity will replace the high prized prima donna, or the tenor with his ut de poitrine. Instead of the ballet of ‘I’ Afri- caine,” “Robert,” or ‘‘Un Ballo en Maschera,” the eye will be fascinated by the wonder- ful evolutions of some champion dancer's preposterous feet in the Virginia break- down or the no less renowned Irish jig. The melodious tones of the banjo will re- verberate for the first time through the spacious halls of the Catacombs, mingling with the wail of departed voices and “burst up” managers: ‘The gentle tinkle of the ‘‘bones” accompanying the tender strains of “Not for Joseph” will soothe the hitherto ruffled feelings of the one hundred and ninety-nine and a half veterans of the Academy, and the renowned drum major, abandoning his Knickerbocker uniform, is ex- pected to don a suit of cork on his manly countenance and a pair of clogs on his agile pedestals. The advertisement announces only one hundred and fifty performers, but we can hardly believe that the remaining forty-nine and a half will be absent on this momentous occasion. Altogether it will be a memorable event io the history of Italian Opera in this city when the opera house which was originally constructed and chartered 8 & permanent home for the works of the great Italian, German and French composers is transformed into a negro minstrel hall. We trust that the stockfolders will not take the worthy association of elks by the horns in the same ruthless manner a8 they have all their predecessors. It is #pity that the poor eynocephalus is not alive to witness the triumph of his race and the successful result of his efforts on the other side of the street. When Italian Opera gives way to Ethiopian eccen- tricities in the so-called loading opera house of the metropolis we may then be prepared for any change, no matter how startling, in the amusement line, It is a sad commentary on the tastes and enterprise of those who claim for thomeelves tho Grat place in the managerial men just what it all moans; when they see | world TP, mihi _ and Japan, I~ We notice @ movement has beon made in | Congress to promote the construction of telegraph lines from the Pacific coast to Chins and Japan, We have only a very brief an- nouncemént of this initiatory step—which was by petition to Congress, through the hands of Senator Cole, of California, for certain privi- leges for this purpose—but it is a step in what must prove to be one of the most important enterprises of the age. We do not know who the parties are composing the company that has petitioned Congress or what is the nature of the privileges asked, but if they be the right parties to carry out such an enterprise the government should give them all the facilities possible. The nations of Europe, and particu- larly England and Russia, are pushing tele- graphic connections into the heart of Asia and up to China with a view to extending and enlarging their commerce. Shall we be behind them? The great outlet of the trade of China is along the seas facing the American Con- tinent, and we have greater facilities anda better opportunity to make a telegraphic com- munication with China and Japan for the pur- poses of commerce than the nations of Europe, Indeed, the news and business transactions between this part of Asia and Europe may be carried better by this route and across the American Continent than by any other. It would make the United States the centre of the world, commercially and for the diffusion of ideas, as it is geographically. By looking at the map it will be seen that this telographic connection is quite practicable. Of course land line along the coast from San Francisco to Alaska is easy enough. From thence a suc- cession of short ocean cables by the way of the Aleutian Islands to the most southern point of Kamtschatka would not be more than two thousand five hundred miles, and no one of the cables need be over five or six hundred miles in length. All would be south of the sixtieth degree of north latitude, and in a cli- mate not as severe as that of St. Petersburg or the most northern part of the coast of Maine. From Kamtschatka to Japan is about five hun- dred miles, with a chain of numerous islands lying between. From Japan to Shanghae, in China, is only a few hundred miles. There the American and Pacific lines would connect with those of the East India Telegraph Com- pany, which are to connect all the great ports of the Chinese empire. And we may feel assured, from the progressive disposition of the government of China now, that it will not be long before a network of telegraph wires willextend to Pekin and throughout the in- terior. Now is the time to start this great movement, and it is to be hoped that Congress will give all the aid it can to the company who will carry out the enterprise. ‘The Negro Disturbances at Washington. The riotous and murderous conduct of the blacks at Washington after the charter elec- tion had resulted in a radical victory may well alarm the country. It matters but litile whether the first blow, which was the proxi- mate, accidental cause of the riot, was struck by a white or by @ black hand. All accounts seem to agree, however, that an inoffensive white man, a soldier, was the first victim of negro violence. Cut across the ribs with a razor, he died in a short time. Another white man was killed by a negro, who cut him across the wrist with a razor, severing anartery. The house of a conservative judge of election was entered and gutted by a negro mob, which was prevented only by the strategy of a police- man from demolishing the office of the Na- tional Intelligencer. Restaurants were stoned, forcibly entered and robbed. The windows of other buildings were broken, and the wife of a police officer was struck on the shoulder by one of the missiles.. Throughout the city a large number of negroes were arrested, most of whom were found to be armed with muskets, clubs and : pistols, but, as if indicating the savage ferocity of the infuriated blacks, their favorite weapon was found to be the razor. What strikes us, however, as a still more hor- rible detail is the incendiary speech addressed to the negro mob by Mr. Forney. Our cor- respondent, in his letter which we published yesterday, states that the ex-Secretary of the Senate told this mob that there were two regi- ments of Lee's rebel troops in the city with hoatile intent against the colored people, No language can be too strong in reprobation of such « direct appeal to the worst passions of an ignorant and excitable race. Its tendency to provoke dangerous, if not fatal, collisions between whites and blacks is inevitable. Yet this is the tendency of the entire policy of the Jacobin leaders of the dominant radical party. What Charles Lamb would have classed among the imperfect sympathies between the two races these blind leaders of the blind are trying their utmost to convert into cruel antipathies. An infinity of painful consequences must ensue, culminating, if not providentially checked, in 8 repetition on a grander scale of the horrors of the St. Domingo massacre. We firmly believe that both the former slave- holders of the South and their emancipated slaves would gradually have adapted them- selves to their new relation to each other, reaping mutual advantages from it, if fanatical intermeddlers had not wickedly sown the seeds of a dreadful conflict of races. The first fruits of this conflict are visible in the recent deplo- rable scenes at Washington. A full harvest of destruction will be the final and terrible result, Avermia Reor@anizina Har Agmy.—Aus- tria is reviving. Not one of the Kuropean Powers has #o heartily and fully accepted the altered situation of affairs in modern times as she. Sedowa was a severe school for her. Bat she came out of that school wiser and better than when she entered it, Not @ moment has been lost in repairing the disas- ters occasioned by the late war; nor hes any unreagoning folly or prejudice hindered her from insugurating genuine reforms, Hungary is contented, Bohemia bas ceased to grumble, The empire enjoys the blessing of internal tranquillity, It is, therefore, quite natural, considering the course which France bas fol- lowed, that she should now proceed to reor- ganize her army. A telegram which wo pablished in the Hunan of yesterday informs us that such reorganization has vigorously commenced, gnd that the standing army is to consist of ejght hundred thoushnd men and the lendwehr of two handred thousand men. It is ® painfil fect that such immense standing —TRIPLE $ YY *7 The New Intermal Tax Bill. It is evident from the opening debate in the House of Representatives on Mr. Schenck's Internal Tax bill that there is.a great difference of opinion on its various and numerous pro- visions. It will not be treated from a party point of view, and not so much as might have been expected in a sectional point of view, but chiefly on the merits of the propositions, as far as members understand them, irrespective of party. So far this is very gratifying. At the same time it is clear there is great want of harmony and lack of ability in Congress on this and other subjects pertaining to the national finances. We suppose, consequently, this tax bill will take a long time to mature and will pass through many modifications. We regard the bill ss much too complicated and extending the taxes upon too many articles. It would require almost @ lifetime to study and master all the details. It makes the whole machinery of our internal revenue system cum- brous, difficult to understand and expensive, The fewer taxes the better, so that they be sufficient to meet the wants of the government; and they should be laid chiefly on articles of luxury that would produce the largest revenue. Tobacco and spirits in their different forms are the fittest articles of taxation; for they are not only a luxury, but for the most part noxious as well. A very large revenue could be drawn from these if the system of taxation were properly arranged and the revenue department well managed. To say the taxes cannot be collected is to confess we have no government or that the country has become so corrupt that government is imprac- ticable. The whiskey tax and all other taxes can be collected if properly adjusted, the laws wisely framed and the government officials be held to a strict accountability. Great efforts are being made to get the tax on whiskey and other spirits reduced, and it may be that some modification might improve the revenue; but if the tax were reduced to fifty cents a gallon there would still be gigantic frauds and a miserably small income as long as the laws are not executed. It is said the temptation to commit frauds would not be so great if the tax sliould be made low. This is true only to a limited extent. There would be no lack of rogues or fraudulent distilleries should the tax be only fifty cents a gallon, as long as the Inter- nal Revenue Department is badly administered. The proposition of Mr. Wood, of New York, to raise a revenue of several hundred millions from the mines belonging to government is absurd and impracticable. The precious metals have cost in all ages and countries as much to extract them from the earth as they are worth, Of course there have been exceptional cases where rich lodes or placers have been found, as in some of the silver mines of Mexico and some of the gold mines of Cali- fornia; but these are only exceptional. As a general thing, and in the aggregate, the pre- cious metals cost theif value in labor and capital to extract them, and it is this, in fact, which regulates their market value. Be- sides, it is simply ridiculous to suppose the government could work the mines with profit, if at all. Such vagaries only show what sort of legislators we have at Washington and: what a prolonged and curious discussion we may expect on this Internal Tax bill. Proposed Reforms in the Merchant vice=Marine Schools. We are glad to observe the introduction of an important bill into the House of Represen- tatives by Mr. Eliot, This bill has for its ob- ject the greater security of life and property at sea by providing for the examination of mas- ters and mates in the merchant service and for athe establishment of public marine schools in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and San Francisco. That a majority of marine disasters result from the “dangers of the seas” alone is not the case. They are, in fact, the consequences, in » great measure, of igno- rance, cupidity or intemperance, and it is high time some legislation was had to arrest or pre- vent the wholesale destruction of life and pro- perty that we daily chronicle. Mr. Eliot's bill points out very clearly a remedy in the future by creating a Board of Examiners in each of the cities named, to consist of an officer of the navy, nominated by the Secretary, one person named by the local board of trade and one by the board of marine underwriters at their re- spective ports. These boards are to inquire into the sobriety, experience, ability and gen- eral good conduct of all masters and mates of foreign going ships, home traders, passenger and coasting vessels of over one hundred tons burden, and to issue to such only as may be found qualified certificates of competency, which certificates shall be approved by the presiding officers of the local boards of trade and underwriters, and a duplicate thereof trans- mitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall appoint » ‘registrar of seamen” for the preservation of these records, and to whom notice shall be given of all orders, suspensions, cancellations, &¢. Severe penalties attach to the fraudulent issue of any such certificates, and 20 vessel is allowed to proceed to sea without at least two officers on board fully competent in practical knowledge to manage her under all the incidental casualties of navi- gation. Provision is likewise made in the event of disaster, by which life or property is lost, elther through carelessness, ignorance, drunkenness or other misconduct on the part of the master or mate for » means of prompt investigation and punishment, upon the appeal of any owner, underwriter, shipper, passenger, officer or one-third of the orew to the Secre- tary of the Treasury, Finally, in order to promote nautical education, and to educate officers and seamen for the merchant service in ecientific and practical navigation, the Secre- tary of the Navy is authorized to supply » suitable vessel, with charte, books and instru- ments to be used in the establishment of public marine sohools in the porte of Boston, New York, &c. All of the material so furnished by the government may be given to the States wherein these ports are situated, on the condi- tion that the State Legislatures shall establish, at their own expenee, public nautical schools for the instruction of American youths or for such as are already engaged in the merchant service and. who may desire to improve themselves in professional education. A bill to establish a nautical school ‘nh tho port of San Francisco Sere ee ee was passed by the Legislature of Californis af its last session, and a similar one was intro- duced into the Senate at Albany last winter by Mr. Tweed, but for some reason or other it failed to be acted upon by the lower house. Taken in connection with Mr. Eliot's bill these measures on the part of the State Legislatures should hasten the action of Congress. Apart from the salutary effect of this bill upon the morale and efficiency of the mercaa- tile marine, it is calculated to build up o powerful naval reserve, which would be, le education and training, to our com emall navy what our militia and volunteer system is to our small standing army. The establishment of system of proper nautica? schools would open a means of instruction to a large portion of the community that have never before enjoyed such advantages; and im connection with the remote results of bene- fiting the country in time of war by providing men to commang the fleets of cruisers that are to cut up an enemy’s commerce, hosts. of boys, Row vagabondizing on the streets or becoming: candidates for the reform schools and other penal institutions of the large cities, could be instructed in the manly duties of able seamen. Every one at all familiar with our merchant service must be aware that it numbers among its members many first class gehtlemen whose professional reputation and long experience ia command would exempt them from any ex- amination by a board, and to these officers the successful organization of these local schools should be confided. Their rare. intelligence would obtain practical results out of the ex- isting chaos and infuse into these educational efforts the vigor and vim of self-taught mea. Mr. Eliot's bill has many commendable features, and ifhe succeeds in urging it through Con- gress he will have laid the foundation of a system of wholesome education which will be a lasting benefit to the country and an endur- ing monument for himself. The Reconstructed States and the Preal- dential Election. Mr. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Commit- tee of the Senate, has reported a bill to admit North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and Florida to representation in Coa- gress, with the following conditions :—That each of said States shall first ratify the com- stitutional amendment, known as article four- teen, and shall agree that there shall never be in the State any denial or abridgment of the elective franchise to any person by reason or on account of race or color, ‘‘excepting Indiaas not taxed.” The admission of each of said States shall date from the proclamation of the President announcing the acceptance of sald conditions, including in the case of Géorgia & condition requiring the striking out of her State constitution the seventeenth section of the fifth article depriving the courts of juris- diction in all cases for debt contracted before the first day of June, 1865. There is a separate bill for Arkansas pending between the two houses. We expect, then, that these six States will be admitted in seasom to participate in the Presidential election, and‘ it is probable that Virginia, Alabama aad Mississippi will yet finish up their appointed work in time, making nine in all. Texas, the tenth, is so far behindhand that she will most likely be excluded from the Presidential list, in pursuance of a bill introduced by Senator Edmunds, excluding from the electoral colleges every State not fully reinstated according to the terms of Congress. The constitutional amendment known as article fourteen, according to these terms will, with the restoration of the States concerned, become, past all dispute, a part of the supreme law of the land, by the ratifications from three- fourths of all the States of the Union; and this will settle the question of suffrage upon this basis—that suffrage and representation in Congress shall go together, restricted or uni- versal, as each State for itself may elect. Thus ® property or educational qualification, or both, may be adopted by the several States, aub- ject to the loss of representation in Congress in proportion to the population excluded from 8 voice in the suffrage, taking male citizens above the age of twenty-one as the basis of the calculation. For example, if one-fourth of the voters of a State on the universal principle are cut off from the suffrage by an educational or property qualification the State loses one- fourth of the members of the House of Repre- sentatives which universal suffrage would give her. This is fair, and this will be the end of the suffrage agitation in Congress. As for the vote of the reconstructed States ia the Presidential election, we believe that with Chief Justice Chase as the conservative Union candidate they may‘all, excepting, perhaps, South Carolina, be carried against the radicals; for the Chief Justice is known among the Southern blacks as a just and liberal mas towards their race and one upon whom they may rely. Tur Triat or Jere Davis Postronme Aaais.—By general consent between the parties concerned the trial of Jeff Davis has been again postponed, this time to the fourth Monday in November—several weeks after the Presidential election—and the bail bond of the defendant has been renewed. The Chief Justice, we think, acted wisely in removing this case outside the Presidential agitation; for after it is all over we may look for a cool, satisfactory and fiual disposition of thie white elephant. Gungrat MoCieiiay’s Oprion.—Iit ep- pears that General McClellan has indicated to e friend in Baltimore that he, the General, ts not the man for the democracy in this Prest- dential contest, but that they should nominate fome new man snd a recognized and acceptable statesman, which doubtless means that McClellan ia for Chase. Good for ‘Little. Mac.” On yesterday morning the Lower House of the Com- Roctiout Legislature, by & majority of fifty, passed a resolution authorizing the Air Line Rajiroad to build & draw bridge over the Connecticut river at Middle town. The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce adopted « role, to go tto effect July 1, that four barrelled te unmerchantabie unless it is head A told the seller or owner must pay ‘the ‘ine Rev. Dr. Jacob, late i) College, st. John, NB to dead PM OF King’s Chiet Justice Chase is en, intl on the civil docket in te United ‘states Court at Richmond. He will remain there about ven dae. bea prominent citizens have paid their respects te ‘The ‘auction sale of the steamships Ontario aad a oypesy on coe for vad gl | oale; price was deemed too great a (ho Vosacls were bid in by the owners,