The New York Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1868, Page 6

6 ee NEW YORK HE RALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphie despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications -will not be re- turned. ~ RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. ANTHON MEMORIAL CHURCH.—Morning and evening. BLOOMINGDALE BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rry. W. Porr ‘YeaMan.—Morning and evening. BROADWAY TABERNACLE.—Frexon SERVICE BY ‘THE Rev. MR. PILaTTE, Evening. NEW from government was referred and tite Convention adjourned sine die, In the General Synod of the Reformed Church of the State, at Hudson yesterday, a resolution was adopted providing for @ memorial to the Legislature in conformity with the action of the Church regard- ing ecclesiastical titles, A resolution was also adopted for the formation of a stock company with a capital of $20,000 t6 publish a new religious paper. The Texas Reconstruction Convention is in full blast. The report of the State Treasurer very unex- pectedly shows that the finauces are in a satisfactory condition, there being $200,000 on hand. General =! introduced to the Convention on Fri- Ys Our Formosa, China, correspondence gives a de- tailed account of the earthquakes which took place at that place in December, The steainship Virginia arrived at quarantine yes- terday from Liverpool with 1,063 steerage passengers, among whom the smallpox was raging. Fifteen cases were sent to the Blackwell's Island Hospital, and the vessel was detained to be fumigated, ‘The Masonic Convention, which has been holding forth in this city since Tuesday, closed their session yesterday. In the United States Commissioner's Court, yester- day, before Commissioner Osborne, William Skip- worth, Peter Cunningham, Daniel Costigan, Thomas McLean and Patrick Fogarty, charged with running a BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.“ Rav. DAY K. LEx, Morning and evening. CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CH ROH. .—Fyening. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS.Rev. De. DErns. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE REDEMPTION.—Rry. Uriau Scort, Morning and evening. CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Rev. Davip MircueLL., Morning and afternoon. DODWORTH HALL—Srimitvatists. Paor. CHANEY. Morning and evening. EVERETY ROOMS.—SrimtvaLists, Mrs. BYRNES, — and evening, JCAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE 10% TRINITY -—Rev. DR. KROTEL. Morning and evening. is Pant CHURCH DU st. ESPRIT.—Rev. Dr. VERREN. ian CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rev. East- BURN BENJAMIN. Morning and evening. distillery on board of the barge Franklin, were brought up for examination and admitted to bail in $1,000 each, their further examination being set down for Tuesday next, at ten o'clock. With but few exceptions, the markets were ex- tremely quiet yesterday. Coffee was in light de- mand, but steady in value, Cotton was dull and depressed, though prices were not quotably lower. On Change flour was sparingly dealt on, but steady at former prices, Wheat was dull, and prices were nominal. White corn was’ dull and nom- inal at a decline of 1c. a 2. Oats were steady, with a fair demand, Pork was dull but held about 25c. higher. Beef was quiet, but steady, while lard was, in fair demand at unchanged prices. Petroleum was active and ‘xc. a 4¢c. higher, crude (in bulk) closing at 14¢., and refined (in bond) at 30'c. Spirits turpentine was active, but at ‘sc. a le. lower prices, while rosin, though quiet, was YORK HERALD, SUND: AY, not oby » the necessity of another dissolution and another appeal to the constituencies early in 1869. A compromise, therefore, is the result. Mr. Gladstone permits Mr. Disraeli to hold office and Mr. Disraeli does not object that Mr. Gladstone shoud lead the House of Commons and legislate at will, Such is the sitnation and such are the reasons why Mr. Disraeli, in spite of the adverse vote of Friday evening, continues to be Prime. Minister of England. As to the debate of Friday evening, interest centres chiefly in the amendment. By whom soever conceived or introduced it is impossible to refuse to admit that it was a flank move- ment of a very skilful and very dangerous kind. A suspensory bill in regard to May- nooth and in regard to the Regium Donum is a proper logical sequence of the Suspensory bill for the Irish Church Establishment. But the same might be said of the Scottish Church Establishment and of the English Church Establishment. If the Irish Church is to go by the board, why should not the grant to Maynooth and the grant to the Presby- terians? If the endowment of religion is to be discontinued in Ireland, why should it be continued in Scotland or in England? If the principle of State endowment is wrong at one place, it is wrong always and every- where. If it is indefensible in Ireland it is equally indefensible in England and in Scot- land. This is the issue which the amendment has brought distinctly before the mind of the entire British people. It was not convenient to Mr. Gladstone and his friends to encourage such a view of the case, It was too broad, too sweeping, too rapidly revolutionary. The amendment was therefore voted down. It will not surprise us, however, if it be found to have firmly held; Whiskey was dull and nominal. Freights were dull and heavy. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL.—Rev. ToHomas ARMITAGE. Evening. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— KY. Dz. W. §. PLUMMER. Morning and evening. MADISON AVENUE BAY — . Curry. Morning and BAPTIST CHURCH. PRY denM MORAVIAN P. E. CONGREGATION. —Rrv. A A. REINKE. Morning. ST. PETER'S CHURCH.—Rrv. Gro. F. SEYMOUR. Evening. SEVENTEENTH STREET M. No CHURCH.—Rrv. W. P. Constr. Morning and evening. TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH.—Ray. J. SANDFORD HOLMES. Morning and evening. LOR CERAPYE, Washington square.—Bisuor Snow. Af- TRIPLE SHEET. New York, saulane ‘Sune cA) 1868. EUROPE. Bywspecial telegrams through the Atlantic cable, dated in London yesterday, we learn that the North German Confederation ts about to propose a plan for the establishment of a uniform national system of ship measurement. Admiral Farragut was at Antwerp; & portion of his fleet was at Brest. The news report by the cable is dated yesterday evening, June 6, General Garibaldi writes to the United States au- thorities to discourage enlistments for the Pope's army in the republic. Pigott, the “seditious” Irish editor, is still held in prison. Fine weather prevailed in England. The Russian troops were completely successful in Central Asia, holding Bokhara and Samarcand. The report of the death of the Emir of Bokhara needs confirmation. The captives lately released in Abyssinia have reavhed Suez for England. Consols, 95 a 954, money. Five-twenties, 78 a 7334 in London and 773g in Frankfort. Cotton quiet, with middling ‘uplands at 114d. Breadstufls lower. Provisions dull. CONGRESS. Tn the Senate yesterday the new Secretary was sworn in. The bill for the readmission of the South- ern States was taken up again and considered, but without a conclusion. The Conference report on the Arkansas bill was agreed to, It makes a very slight alteration in the bill as it passed the House, Mr. Trumbull expressed a wish that Senators would come on Monday prepared to pass the wholesale restoration bill, and the Senate adjourned, after an executive session, in which the nomination of Gene- ral McClellan to be Minister to England was rejected. In the House a resolution extending a public re- ception im the Representative Hall to the Chinese Embassy was adopted unanimously, and Tuesday, at eleven o'clock, was fixed asthe time for the recep- tion. A large batch of private pension bills was passed. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the new Tax bill. The twenty-second sec- tion was amended so that assessors are not empow- ered to add an additional per cent for failure to make returns, No other amendments were made to any sections up to the fifty-third, at which point the bill was laid aside, the Committee rising. The con- ference committee offered a report on the Arkansas bill, but while the vote was taking on a motion to lay it on the table the House was adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS. Telegraphic dates from Vera Cruz are to the 1st inst. Romero, of the Mexican Treasury, had sailed for New York in order to get married, according to one report, and in. reference to American claims on ‘the Juarez treasury, according to another. Congress had adjourned until September. Numerous insur- Pections are reported, one band in Querétaro pro- claiming in favor of Santa Anna. Escobedo and Cortina were marching on them. Fenian preparations for a grand demonstration on Canada are still reported. Arms are arriving at Ma- Tone, and contracts have been made for thirty thou- sand pounds of hard tack. On the Canadian side the same activity is going on, and troops and munitions are being forwarded to the frontier. The Louisiana Board of Registration appointed by the late Reconstruction Convention has taken direct issue with General Buchanan on his recent order, and has issued a manifesto directing all officers elected at the late election to take possession of their offices on Monday, June 15, and also directing the General Assembly of the State to convene on the 22d inst. It will be remembered that Gene- ral Buchanan recently ordered that the elected Officers should qualify some time in November, and that the Legislature should not assemble until Congress had accepted the new constitution. Mr. Packard, the chairman of the Board of Registration, who signed the document, was arrested yesterday, but on being taken to headquarters was" released on his personal recognizance to appear before a military commission, which will be organized immediately. Twenty-three young men were ordained priests in the Catholic Church by Bishop McFarland, at Troy, yesterday, and nearly one hundred others were ad- mitted to deaconship and minor orders, ‘The Cheyenne Indians are reported to be fighting the Kaws upon the reservation of the latter. sheriff Bealles, of Junction City, with ten men, was on his ‘way to the scene to put a stop to the war. The United States steamer Jamestown has arrived at Victoria, V. L., from Sitka, May 3. The indians in Sitka report that goid ts being collected by the handful at Lakir river, and emigration from Sitka ‘was setting in that direction. | The National Board of Trade in Philadelphia yey terday adopted resolutious favorable to national improvements generally, and also additional gov- ernment aid to the Kansas Pacific Ratiway and a feduction of the tax on whiskey. A resolution pro- viding for a recommendation to Congress that no Pational bank be allowed to sell the gold received The Church and State Question in Eng- Iand—The Ministry and the Opposition. In the Henaxp of yesterday we published a cable despatch giving a summary of the pro- worked a world of mischief, to have set the nation by the ears and to have given the ‘‘No Popery” ery a tremendous impulse all over the three kingdoms. Looking at the State Church from our own favored standpoint as a free people we can have no difficulty in arriving at a conclusion as ceedings which took place ia the British House of Commons on Friday night. The Protestant Established Church Appointments Sus- pensory bill was read and passed in committee. It was not passed, how- ever, until some very dexterous movements were made by certain friends of the Ministry. It is the object of the bill to prevent all further appointments to existing or possible vacancies in the Irish Church Establishment until the fate of such Establishment be finally deter- mined by act of Parliament. It so happens that in Ireland there are two other bodies be- sides the Church established by law which re- ceive State aid. These are the Presbyterians and the Roman Catholics. The Presbyterians have enjoyed since the time of William III. a special gift from the Crown, hence called Re- gium Donum. The grant is not large—has never, in fact, exceeded seventy pounds to each minister, and, of course, has done little more than barely keep Presbyterianism alive. The Roman Catholics have since 1845 received an annual grant of thirty thousand pounds—a grant for which they were in- debted to the catholic spirit of the late Sir Robert Peel. It was moved as an amend- ment on Friday night, in the course of the debate on the Irish Church, that a similar sus- pensory bill be passed in regard to the Re- gium Donuwn appointments and also in regard to Maynooth College. The amendment was negatived and the original motion carried by a large majority, amid the ringing cheers of the Gladstone liberals. The Suspensory bill now awaits the decision of the Lords. Such is the state of things up to the date of our latest news. The. situation in England is peculiar and deserving of special attention. For the first time since the earlier years of George the Third the Ministry, in spite of a series of the most damaging defeats, continues to hold the reins of government. Nothing, in truth, of a precisely similar kind has ever been witnessed in the entire history of Parliamentary govern- ment in England. Mr. Disraeli and his friends retain office with all the accompanying emoluments and opportunities. Mr. Gladstone and his friends, without office and the attendant emoluments, opportunitiés and responsibilities, do the legislation. In other words the op- position rules the country in spite of the Ministry, and, from the nature of the case, without the advice or consent of the Sovereign. Talk as we may of coming revolu- tion, this itself is revolution with a vengence. The question which naturally arises to the mind of the reader is why such a state of things shoukl be tolerated by a party which commands not only an unquestioned majority in the coun- try, but, as the facts themselves show, a sweep- ing majority in the House of Commons. The difficulty is not hard to explain. It has been the custom in England since the government began to be conducted by responsible minis- ters for the chief of the Cabinet, on the occa- sion of an adverse vote—certainly so goon as it became manifest that on any great leading question he was in a hopeless minority—to see his Sovereign and give place to the leader of the opposition. It has not only been the cus- tom, but it has been a point of honor which no leading statesman up to the present time has ever dreamt of violating. Pitt, Wellington, Melbourne, Russell, Peel, Palmerston, Derby, each in his day by a voluntary resignation recognized the principle that the majority, not the minority, should rule the country. It was reserved for Mr. Disraeli, who is evidently possessed of that tenacity which is a charac- teristic of his race, to ignore this ancient cus- tom and to despise this point of honor. The plain reason why Mr. Disraeli is not driven from power by an actual vote of want of confi- dence is to be found in the fact that in the event of a vote of want of confidence being passed he would, ashe has threatened to do, appeal to the country, This is the whip which he holds over the members of the House of Commons. A general election would not conduce to Mr. Disraeli's advantage ; it would not establifh him in his position; but it would prove both an annoyance and an expense to every member of the House. It is provided in the new Reform act that whenever bills similar to that which has been patsed for England shall have been passed for Scotland and Ireland Parliament shall be dissolved and &n appeal made to the new constituencies, The Scotch and Irish bills have not yet passed into law, consequently a dissolution of Parliament nd an appeal to the constituencies now would l ‘their principles the same. to whither events are drifting all over the Old World. Our system is the only true and correct one. We tolerate all forms of Chris- tianity—we favor none. Our system will sooner or later be everywhere adopted. The State Church system may have had its ex- cellences, and may have been the best pos- sible for other times and other circumstances ; but the times and circumstances have changed ; we live under new conditions and new require- ments, and the excellences, whatever they have been, are less apparent than formerly. The Irish Church movement is but the entering in of the wedge which will ultimately break up the Church Establishment system of Great Britain. The movement will receive a power- ful impulse from the new constituencies. The movements now going on in Italy, where Victor Emanuel sells Church property, and in Austria, where Francis Joseph disregards concordats and politely informs the Pope that much as he values the blessing of His Holiness he values the throne of the Hapsburgs more—these move- ments have a similar significance, and they will have a similar result. On the voluntary offerings of the people, and not on the benefi- cence of monarchs or on the grants of legisla- tures the Church of the future must be dependent, and it is not a future which is dark or cheerless to any of the sections into which that Church is now divided. Chief Justice Chase id the Situation. The platform indicated by Chief Justice Chase in his reported conversation with Mr. Harris, of North Carolina; as the one he has everstood upon—and still stands upon, without respect to arbitrary party lines—is also the one upon which the whole mass of the people of the country now stand. Itis the platform the republicans would have held if their organiza- tion had continued the party of the people and had not switched out from the straightfor- ward course into the devious ways of the radi- cal faction. Had the republicans been true to their original purpose—had they regarded it always as their primary duty, having finished the war, to secure in the government its good results—and not forgotten that purpose in the pursuit of revenges and private ambitions, they would to-day have stood exactly on the ground held by Chief Justice Chase and on which the whole mass of the patriotic democracy and conservative republicans meet him and find This platform is simple. It accepts the results of the wat as the facts of history and considers that in those results is accomplished the destiny of the ag- gressive prinéiples of republicanism; that radi- calism is dead and must be put out of sight; that it is the duty even of those who were hon- est radicals to become conservatives now and to rally for the protection and support of the law that will guarantee the perpetuity of the changes they have secured. Having made their fight for certain ohanges in the govern- ment and secured those changes it is now their duty to their principles to array themselves around the law and protect it against reckless assault, lest revolutionary violence should go so far that these very changes, thus secured, should become worthless, Undoubtedly the whole mass of the people stand on this ground to-day; for no reasoning man is so wild as to wish slavery alive again. All accept the result of the war and all wish to stay the fury of the revolutionary desperadoes, Reconstruction by this platform should only be sought in the prac- tical way of making the Southern people forget as far as possible their humiliation and failure ; and hence all agree on universal amnesty, even though universal suffrage go with it and is corrected byit. Here is the whole political purpose of the nation, and on all this the people and the Chief Ju Justice are in full agreement. Political How To Break vp tne Waser Rives— Reduce the tax to one dollar or seventy-five cents the gallon. We shall thus obtain a larger revenue, a cheaper and better whiskey and a general smash up of the whiskey rings. If the radicals of Congress wish to satisfy the people of their honesty in the matter of diminishing official corruption, let them try this experiment. Mr, Thurlow Weed will furnish them the need- ful statistics, We fear, however, that the whiskey rings will prove too strong for Con- gress. Tuverow Waev's Exrranation—Tae Op Fox Caveat at Last.—The ‘‘old man” of the lobby, like the fox in the fable, who came out of & trap migue his tall. JUNE 7, 1863.—TRIPLE SHAE Tr. The Racing and Yachting Season. The spring meeting at Jerome Park on the 9th of June and the grand aquatic festival at the opening of the New York Yacht Club house at Staten Island on the 19th of June will render this month memorable in the annals both of racing and yachting. The full and minute descriptions which we have lately pub- lished of the Jockey Club house at Fordham and of the new yacht club house at Clifton show that no pains have been spared to render each of these club houses not only a most con- venient and enjoyable resort for the club mem- bers, but also an important centre of deepen- ing and widening interest on the part of the public at large, as well as of turfmen and yachtmen in their noble pastimes. Each of the club houses is picturesquely situated. The one is reached after an exhila- rating drive through the Park, already one of the finest and largest parks in the world, and it stands in the midst of Jerome Park, which rivals its neigh- bor in rural loveliness, if not in grandeur. Supplied with every appliance for rest and refreshment, incliding spacious parlors and dining rooms, and, of course, a choice and. abundant cuisine, this club house is near the race course, which next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday will be the scene of the exciting contests of the spring meeting. Neither at Chantilly, in France, nor at the Ep- som races, in England, does the pleasurable element of fine natural scenery enter so largely into the surroundings of the race course as at Jerome Park. Nor can any yacht club in England or in France boast of a club house more conve- niently placed than the new club house of the New York Yacht Club. Staten Island is our Isle of Wight, offering almost every variety of landscape in miniature, and _ over- looking unrivalled marine views. At the regatta and the promised dal champétre of the 19th of June the members and guests of the Club can enjoy the double pleasure of admiring both inland and ocean scenery. The gay summer scenes off Cowes, enlivened by the white sails of dainty craft flitting to and fro beneath the shadows of huge steamers and East Indiamen and other levia- thans of the deep, will be duplicated by the gay summer scenes off Clifton. If the rumored challenge of English to American yachtmen be actually offered and accepted there will be an international exchange of courtesies between them. American yachts having led off by crossing the Atlantic to England, let English yachts cross over to America and be heartily welcomed here. Let a generous rivalry be encouraged that shall occasion improvements in all means of securing speed, beauty of model, safety and convenience, for the benefit not only of those who gallantly brave the perils of the deep for healthful and exhilarating pleasure, but also of all who go down to the sea in ships and do business on the mighty waters. The club house at Jerome Park will radiate influences equally favorable for securing the improvement of stock and the steady growth of a popular and national, interest in racing. This can be done by encouraging the owners of the finest horses in the country to-enter them for competition at the spring and autumn meetings, and by rendering these meetings ac- cessible and attractive not only to a few ex- clusives of the fashionable world, but also to all classes of our community. Just as the opera fails to be a popular amusement when managers, or rather mismanagers, consult the prejudices and whims of but a small number of stockholders, instead of appealing to the ear and eye of the great public, so racing will lose its prestige if a similarly short-sighted and narrow policy be pursued in the manage- ment of a race course. A contrary policy will infallibly insure success. It will dissolve the bitter jealousies which, according to observant foreign travellers in democratic America, for- merly forced wealth to hide itself within the splendid but secret recesses of private dwellings. It will permit and aanc- tion the outward exhibition of a splendor in which all can take an honest and unselfish pride as indicative of the development of the inexhaustible resources of our national wealth. High mettled horses in faultless trim ; vehicles at once lighter, stronger and more elegant than any of foreign manufacture that figure at the annual promenade of Longchamps at Paris, or on Rotten Row in London, or on the Prater in Vienna; ravishing toilets in which American ladies, with charming inde- pendence, haveimproved upon Paris fashions— in fine, the whole display of luxury and taste exhibited on a fine day in the Park or at the race course in Jerome Park, will gayly illumi- nate the scene, to the delight, unalloyed by envy, of the multitude of spectators who them- selves form part of the brilliant spectacle which they admire. The horse races at Jerome Park and the yacht races off Staten Island will afford multiplied opportunities to witness the amazing advance made by Ameri- oan society, and particularly by the metro- politan society of New York, in all that per- tains to healthful enjoyment and to the ele- gances and amenities of the highest modern civilization. Our National Securities in Europe. Ever since the vote of the Senate on the eleventh article of impeachment there has been an increased demand at improving prices for our securities in Europe, and on Saturday the telegraph reported a further advance in five-twenties in London to 73734. The English and German bankers here have been large buyers of the latter of late, and the pros- pect is favorable to @ rising market for our bonds all summer, both at home and abroad, The fact that the remainder of the seven- thirty notes will be funded this month removes all apprehensions as to the floating debt being @ source of embarrassment to the Treasury, and the public credit stands higher than it has done at amy time since the suspension of specie payments. The investment demand for some weeks past has been heavy almost beyond precedent, and eo large has been the absorption of bonds, by the public that the supply of them in Wall street is at present below the average. Con- sidering that five-twenties yield six per cent per annum in coin, while British consols pay only three, and that while the former are sell- ing at 73 the latter are quoted at 95, ox dividend, there isa wide margin for a further advance in our securities abroad, and under s| the prevailing alys of money all over Europe it will be strange if five-twenties are not more sought after in the future than they have been in the past in England, France and Germany. The Grasshopper Piague of the West and the Army Worm of the South. In the Western border States of the Missis- sippi valley, from Iowa down to Texas, and in the great basin between the Rocky Moun- tains and the Sierra Nevada, we are begin- ning to hear more and more every year of the destructive ravages of grasshoppers. They are all of the locust family, and from the de- scription we remember of a Utah specimen brought eastward as a curiosity some time ago we believe that this Utah variety as nearly re- sembles the African and Asiatic locust as the Louisiana alligator does his older congener, Mrs. Malaprop’s ‘‘allegory on the banks of the Nile.” According to Professor Agassiz the vertebrates, mammalia, reptiles and birds of the American Continent and its indigenous vegetable productions adapted to animal life are as far inferior in size, development, quality and variety to those of the Old World as our native Indian is, as a man, inferior to the Cau- casian. This rule will hardly apply to the California grizzly bear or the Canadian moose, nor do we think it will hold good with the ar- ticulates of the dry land or the insect family. At all events, this Western plague of grasshop- pers is a plague of locusts, such as they are, and with the extension of agriculture into the plains and mountains this plague is alarmingly increasing. Geographically the United States, though consisting of four great divisions—the Atlan- tic slope, the Mississippi valley, the great basin between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, and the Pacific slope—may be reduced to two great sections—the European section; east of the great plains to the Atlantic, and the Asiatic section, west from those plains to the Pacific; for while the one section is European in its geographical features and productions the other is boldly and strikingly Asiatic. The Indians of these two sections, in their habits, as in their habitat, before disturbed by the white man, ‘differed as widely from each other as the wandering tribes of Tartary differed from the Northern barbarians that submerged the Roman empire. We dare say, however, that the Indians of the American plains have never been as seriously damaged by the grasshoppers as the Arabs of Asia and Africa, because of the ‘sweeping annual autumnal fires of our plains, which have served to consume the eggs deposited by insects as well as the germs of timber from year to year. But with the ex- tension of cultivation into these Western plains and mountains the patches are multiplied which are exempted from these annual fires, and here these grasshoppers are propagated. Inthe great basin, where they have a dupli- cate of the Sea of Galilee, the river Jordan and the Dead Sea, a vast region, which is generally desert in its character, is sprinkled with green places, or oases, seldom disturbed’ by fire, and hence in Utah the grasshoppers were found by Fremont in his first explora- tions around the Great Salt Lake so abund- ant that they had become a staple article of diet among those Indians, and by the same processes of catching and cooking as are em- ployed by the Arabs around the Dead Sea. Some ten years ago the Mormons were seri- ously apprehensive of a famine from the ravages of the grasshoppers among their grow- ing fields, but in @ general turnout of the saints, as ina holy crusade ad extermination, the enemy was routed. Still, from the facts suggested the conclu- sion follows that from the Rocky Mountains to California our people, as they multiply, will’be more and more liable to famine from the multiplication of the grasshoppers with the increase of cultivated lands exempt from fires. Here is a matter worthy the consideration of some efficient remedy by scientific men. The same may be: said of the Southern army worm, which, in Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas especially, has become such a scourge to the planter as to make the production of even a bale of cotton from a hundred acres a very doubtful question. In these States, in the cotton region, there are neither autumnal fires nor wintry frosts to destroy the eggs of these insects, and when they come forth itis in such myriads that the sur- face, of the ground over thousands of acres at times appears to be in motion. Now, we would ask the question, what is our Agricultu- ral Bureau at Washington worth that it cannot elicit some discovery as a remedy for these evils of grasshoppers and army worms, which, unless checked, may, in the event of some un- usually dry season, reduce millions of people to starvation? The cereals and fruits of the North are beginning to suffer more and more, year after year, from other insects, which may be charged to the wanton destruction of the birds by idle boys and full grewn loafers, in the way of amusement. To remedy this mischief we must begin in the public school ; but the remedy for the plagues of the grasshopper and the army worm might well be considered as en- titled to a special bounty or premium through an act of Congress. Very Goop—The speech of Andy John- son to the Chinese Embassy on our foreign re- ations, and especially our relations and communications with the Central Fjowery Kingdom. The Brooklyn Frauds and Whiskey Rings. Now that Collector Callicott and two other petty larceny rogues have been convicted of defrauding the government out of a few thou- sand dollars, and sent off to the penitentiary with a loud flourish of trumpets, we may ex- pect a speedy revival of wholesale swindling and plundering throughont the entire Internal Rev- enue Department. For the past six or eight weeks the business of robbing the Treasury has been, to use a commerclal quotation, ‘dull and heavy,” waiting the result,of the proceed- ings before the Brooklyn court. Greeley and. the other backers of Callicott, Enright and Allen have been endeavoring to save them from jail and to invest them with the character of martyrs, while another set of whiskey ma- nipulators, with better success, have been striving to shut them up in prisonso asto close their mouths and prevent them from becoming prosecutors in their turn. Pending this strug- gle, which has been a spirited one, operations have been temporarily abandoned by the sev= eral rings; but now that a final result has heen reached and an example made we shall expect to see them all go to work again with renewed energy and spirit. In fact, the experience of the past proves that the immolation of a victim on the shrine of justice is regarded as a war- rant for the renewal of fraud and corruption on a grander scale than ever, We are inclined to the belief that Callicott and his gang have been made the catspaws of more magnificent rascals, who have availed themselves of the avarice of their victims to lure them into a trap, and have sacrificed them in order to cover up more extensive frauds. This is an old trick of the whiskey rings. We hear now and then of an important seizure of a few barrels of whiskey in an illicit distillery ; but we know that the officera are in close league with establishments that are plundering the government of millions of dollars, and that they make the seizure simply asa blind to deceive the public, just as the police will occasionally break up a third rate shinplaster gambling den while conveniently closing their eyes to the fashionable “‘hells” where the stakes are counted by thousands. Tn like manner we occasionally find a collector of internal revenue rushing off to Washingtom with a sure plan for putting a stop to all reve- nue frauds and making a tremendous fuss and flurry in his district; but before three months: have passed we hear of him only in close con- nection and friendship with the rings whose rascality he professed to be resolved upom exposing. The truth is that all parties alike have been tainted by the foul corruptions of the Internal Revenue Department, and that copperheads and radicals are united in plundering the gov- ernment, if divided in all other respects. The robberies have been committed heretofore by small independent rings—some composed of radicals, others of copperheads, and some of copperheads and radicals mixed, with conser- vatives thrown in. These rings have been ac- customed to fight and scramble among them- selves over the best chances of stealing, but when a common danger threatens them they are always to be found standing side by side. The grand scheme of the Jacobins in Congress has been to consolidate one magnificent ring that should swallow up all others and seize upon the whole plunder in the name of a repre- sentative oligarchy. It was to accomplish this end that the two co-ordinate, branches of the government—the Executive and Judicial— were to be abolished and supreme power cen- tred in Congress. This comprehensive scheme has been temporarily checked by the failure of impeachment, but it will be renewed, ané under the Presidency of Grant will be allowed full swing. It makes little difference, therefore, what may become of Callicott or any other in- dividual rascal; the people may make up their minds that whatever party is in power they will be plundered on a scale of magnitude un- equalled in the history of the world for many years to come, and that nothing can save them until 8 political revolution shall sweep over the country as fire swept over Sodom and Go- morrah and purify our entire governmental system. Wovutp Try Win or Losz?—If the demo- crats wish to win in this Presidential campaign, Chief Justice Chase is their man; if they de- sire to lose, Mr. Pendleton will serve their purpose. Which will they have? MUSICAL REVIEW. Ditson & Co. publish the following:—“Only Last Night,” & dream song, ©. Gounod. Although the name of the great composer of ‘Faust’ is placed at the head of this song, still we cannot believe for @ moment that he ever wrote it. A little, trifling,’ childish introduction and an uninteresting Sunday school melody is not what one would expect from such a maéstro as the renowned Gonoud. If he wrote it, then it is one of those things which “will happen in the best regulated families” and one of those weaknesses which some of the best musicians are heir to—witness Beethoven's ‘Wellington. Sym- phony.’” “Orphée aux Enfers,” potpourri, Knight. Much as ‘we are opposed to potpourris in general as an insult to the composer and the intelligence of the hearer, still we mpst give this work of Mr. Knight the credit of heing one of the best of its kind. The fa- vorite morceaux of Offenbach’s opera are pleasingly woven together. “Orpheus Galop,” Knight. Middling. “The Lost Birdling,” cavatina, Centemert. The : composer has evidently taken “When other lips’? « from Balfe’s ‘Bohemian Girl’ for his melody, and worked it up in@ skilfal manner. “I’m Dreaming of the Ball,’ Messrs. Birdseye and’ Korthener. Godfrey’s well known waltz is accom- panied with wel a words, which can be used. Without fear of fa “Vivandiere Gal alo ae One of this favorite: dance com} galops, which must. prove irresistable in a Maange M, Tremaine ee the following:— “My, Adelaide” ballad, musictanly introduc- en simple though it may a an attractive mei and a very beaut! 1 accompant iment. Only this a bag] yet pe ng Ore ‘ae | be asked for. Schulte rom whom the ideas and dyie are borrowed. Mr. oa i Cam Boares, ew poage ta absurd passage in measure >in yurth and the ninth tenth measures ti nthe sixtl are very 5 Dachauer anova publish a ballad by J. E. Per- ring, called ‘The Moss ” which is a favorable specimen in both ee and accompaniment ofthis popular com Componer’s w . A. Pond & Co, kc gt in their peculiarly haad- some stylé the follo’ of Me at My a Tucker. An uninger. cating song, with a very commonplace wy B = = ante mistakes in the accom bath Clos four app. A gnartot ol Irs. Knapp. voila ted for Sti schools and such It Howard Giover's works have found their. aed all over England. Among them we may notice.a legend musically told,, in the Henry Russell style, Ct “The Old Woman.of Berkeley,” whictr ei It isa worthy theme for al and Coed fail to ea aint tn wel men of, rst measure in Freeman, ithout the s without the approac! pk tallow Goudie erie 1 any papi pat oy dg could write sueh stu ‘deserves to ren ‘cher pieces stand oyer until our next. Cromw' i GeneraiAdex- famler Hamiltone en m York a, 2 Fitageraid. This in 5 vecy peennend ie imteresting drama by the sathor of “Thomeasé Beckett,” evincing great thowght and attention amd careful historical re- search, There are very few subjects wehioh. present ‘so Shir a fleld for dramatic representatian, aa the his- torical incidents of the times of “ Old Soll,” and yet, , atrange to say, but, a emall number ofauthors have’ fvailed themselves of the Opportunity thug. offered. ‘The drama in question opene in the, 2ar She "ae Seale” meet, SRS oo Me a Tete ccs the E Ca hy a fs condition Re are ‘Teeetay 8 tireeome,