The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1868, Page 4

1 EW YORK HERALD . N oneal » BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ~8 : JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. , All business or news letters and telegrapnic despatches must be addressed New Yor Herary. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. MIBLO'S GARDEN, Tas Waits Fawn. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Yar Lorrzry or Lire, Test BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.Sons oF Lisery— Pauw CLirroxp. acl OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humere Duurry. NEW STADT THEATRE, 46.and 47 Bowery.—THE PHAN- ‘vom Cavrarn—SrEENix, THE WANDERER, way and 1b street.— (RBNCH THEATRE.—Oururry AUX ENFxns. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite: New York Hotel. PaRis any HELEN, AOADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Afternoon at 13¢— wanarrt OP Mx OBDES OF BLES. ad #A4¥ FRANCISCO MINSTR! 585 Broadway.—Braro- riaw ENCRRTAINMENTS, SINGIN Danone, &0. KELLY 4 LEON'S MINSTRELS, Broadway.—8on‘ Koornrnsorties, &c.—La BEE we sag _ BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th street, —Erurortan drasreaete, BOOMWRIOITIES. "20. i THEATRE COMIQUE, O 4 Broadway.—BALuEr, Faron, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA H 901 Bowery. Volnuisit Huon dineranese oe ee CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoroLar CARDEN CONCERT. DERRACE ARDEN—Porvtas Gagpan Conoxer. MkS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— SAVOURNEEN DERLIQA. A HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklys.—Ergiorias MINGTRELSY—A TE TO PARIS, BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, corner of Atlautic ang Clin- | too atreets,-LINGARD'S MIMIO CONORRTS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— KOIKNOK AND ART. New York, Monday, June 8, 1868. THE NSWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, June 7. The French people express the idea of approach- ing war. Prince Napoleon is at court in Vienna. ‘the Austrian national debt is to be funded. Count Bismarck recommends an international plan of ship measurement. The Emperor of Ruasia relaxes the sentenees of many exiles in Siberia. Five-twenties 77 in Frankfort. | MISCELLANEOUS. ‘Velegraphic-dates from Sisal, Mexi state that Cepeda hag been re-elected Governor of Yucatan. One hundred and fifty of Colonel Domia- guez's force had escaped from the Indian massacre which oecurred some time ago. The English in Be- live continue to sapply the Tudians with munitions ot war. Our Yokchauin Japan) letter is dated April 28. The | Dutehand french ministers had paid a visit to the | Mikado, but their accounts of him differed so widely that it i seriously believed an inferior person- age was introdaced to them as the Mikado fora joke. Stringent orders in reference to attacks on foreigners ave been issued, making high officials so offending Viable to decapitation and loss of caste withont the honor of a hari kari. The Envoy Plenipotentiary of the Mikado had orders to raze Yeddo to the ground. A propesition is reported to be under consideration by the Mikado to open the entire country to trade aud travel. At St. Patrick's Cathedral yeeterday the festival of ‘Irinity Sunday and the close of the 7¢ Dewm directed by We Pope atiracted a large congregation. The Arebbishop officiated. Rev. H. W Beecher delivered a sermon at Plymouth church on proverbs, in which he gave some solicited advice on the ordinary affairs of fife, At the Bloomingdale Baptist church the Rev. Pope Veaman delivered a sermon entitied “Ephesus and New York.” Services were held at all the other ches during the day, the attendance, however, being somewhat slim on account of the weather, A ‘Varge increase wes noticeable yesterday in the number of arrests for violation of the Excise law. SIX persons were brought before Justice Mansfield at the Kasex Market and eight before Justice Hogan. ‘hey were all required to give bail in $100 each. ‘The enforcement of the law had of late become very lax, aud this anusnal vigilance is attributable mainly to inte chauges and promotions among police captains and a consequent ambition to do new duties well. ‘The annual regatta of the New York Yachi Ulub will twke piace on Thuraday, the 16th insta An oficial ndtice of the evenj, with the sailing courses and divections for the start, will be found elsewhere in the Heeato this morning. ‘The Gerwan Odd Fellows of New York have orgauzed a ceutral society, and intend eventually to butid a hall from funds raised by pienics and other festivities aud such means as they may liereafter adopt. ‘The piano the only f skers? strike is ended, the employ¢s of | ywhich held out til Friday night | having resumed work on @ compromise. The vlothing cutiers are ina fair way of getting the in- crewed pay demanded by them, nearly all the larger hoases having agreed to pay it, The Bakers’ Union No, 4, and part also of Nos. 2 and 3, are on a strike for three dotiars more per week, five dollars extra tor board aud the reduction of the day's hours of labor to twelve, If more than a majority of the | vakeries un the city will not agree to these terms by sattirday, Jun the journeymen bakers intend to quit work in a body. it wilt be remembered that Colonel Reed and Major Porter, two army oMcers, fought » duel sume thoe ago near Richmond, They recently wrote a letter 1@ the editor of the Southern Opinion, threatening '@ hold him personally responsible if he commented on the duet, and this letter coming officially tothe notice of Gencral Gordon Granger, commanding at Richmond, he arrested the two officers. 1 is andersived that the bill providing the appro- yrtation for the purchase of Alaska will soon be re- vorted iavoraily by the House Committee on Foreign Affaire, ‘the tmpeachment Committee, it is thought pro- able, wil have their State prisoner Woolley held over the adjournment if he does not answer. Recent witnesses before the committee stated that $22,000 nad been paid the President's counsel, ‘The Chinese Embassy, after keeping the Sabbath apa day of rest, will recommence their perambula- ‘ious to-«lay, most probably going to Mount Vernon, Jn the reven ‘utter Northerner, “The Roll of Honor No, 14," a record of twelve Thousand Union soldiers who died in rebel prison pens, hws just been published by the Quatermaster Gen-; erat, ‘These rolls are necessarily incomplete, many « reporis of rebel prisons having been destroyed by the keepers #( the close of the war, another big Indian land job is reported. On Wednesday (he Osage Nation was induced by prom- isex aod inuimidation on the part of the commission vihiow is headed by the Indian Commissioner, Taylor, \osett eight million acres of land on their reserva. ton dor twenty cents an acre, payable in fifteen year yrivete party, while numerous better bids were made for the same by other parties, fue State of Virginia finds her treasury so im. ‘thet it will be impoesible to pay the inte- yest on Wer debt for some years. There is barely yh money in hand to meet expenses. 08 0 the Nawbville and Northwestern power ieiv eal aapensin eS Raflroad struck on Friday for their pay, which ts eight months in arrears, and are preventing trains from Several persons in White county, Ark, have died recently from eating r‘niberries on which locusts had deposited thetr eg:s, ‘ Astorm of wind and rain, in New Hartford, N. Y., on Saturday blew down a tall brick chimney, which feli upon @ machine shop adjoining, crashing in the roof and killing one man and severely injuring four others, The War Against Kadicaliom—A Demo- cratic Nasional Party aud Its Daties. Diodorus Siculus relates that the forests of the Pyrenean Mountains being set on fire the heat penetrated the underlying strata of rock, rent it madly asunder, and that through the huge clefts there gushed forth pure streams of silver. So in circumstances of severe national trial unexpected national resources are surely developed. The line of policy pursued by the radical republican party since the close of the war; the military despotism established over the Southern States recently engaged in the re bellion ; the bold infractions of the constitution ; the base endeavor to destroy the Executive; the audacious curtailment of the prerogatives of the Supreme Court to advance partisan measures; the late unscrupulous attempt to make members of the United, States Senate, sitting as:a court of impeachment to try the President, bow submissive to: its partisan will, and s foresight of the eutmination of this policy if allowed to run its course, have set on fire the American heart. The heat is penetrating the great body poli- tic, and in copions and splendid profusion are being developed the nation’s resources— latent wealth of loyalty, unlooked for treasures of patriotism, a graud rally of the firm and true and noble patriots of the land to save the country from the threatened thraldom of de- lirious radicalism. ‘Che wisest counsels of our wisest statesmen and confederate action of patriotic men to resist these extreme, oligar- chical and baneful measures, to quench. the fierce party spirit which rules in Congress, to evoke peace and harmony from the disturbing elements so rife in the present political horizon, were never, in the entire progress of our na- tional growth, more demanded than now. The coming political contest is to be a oon- test against the insolence of tyranny, a war- ring against the radicalism that rules in Con- gress, that controls our army, that exercises sovereign away over our navy, that holds in contempt personal and constitutional rights; a radicalism whose acts are an- tagonistic to the will of the people; an oligarchy as despicable as it is odious, as insolently tyrannical as it is base- ly unscrupulous. / What shape its next aggression may take to itself none can tell. Ti requires, however, no gift of prophecy to tell that the people will not much longer sub- mit to being cheated out of their rights. The next general election points out the remedy. They will then shake off the shackles of usurped control, Thut great fundamental principle of our republican government, that the people govern, will then assert itself in all its strength and majesty at the ballot box. In city, in country, in village, in hamlet, in the counting house, in fields, ia workshops—every- where throughout the length and breadth of the land the popular voice will make itself heard. Its w x utterances can now ‘be heard in the : in thunder tones it soon will speak ; its words will be imperial; the will of the people will be sovereign. General Grant will “bow to the will of the people,” as he says he willin his letter of acceptance, but not with stately effect from the portico of the White Tfouse, as he expects and as his friends and supporters who are hoping to dictate and con- trol the bow expect for him. Foreshadow- ing this result, this the defeat of General Grant in the coming election, were the large democratic majorities in the last elections in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Connecticut, California and New York, and it is more plainly proclaimed in ‘the recent elec- tion in Oregon—the first verdict of the people since the nomination of General Grant—a positive denunciation against the domination of the republican party, the initiatory sword thrust that will strike low in the dust the giant despot of radicaliem. The days of ignomini- ous subjugation to radical rule are already numbered, The present embraces a most eventful and important period in the annals of our political history. Political complications and emergen- cies have arisen fraught with danger and peril to constitutional liberty and threatening the desiruction of the very government itself, ‘There is but one way to unravel these political complications, to meet these emergencies, to ward off the coming danger to our liberties, our institutions, our free goverument. As in the late war the loyal North and [ast and West, in glorious unity of patriotism, united to fight the armies of the traitorous South, so now must the people of this country unite to fight against radicalivm and iis trea- son to the constituiion and civil liberty and traitorous trespassing upon our most sacred in- dividual rights. crowned with sucees® our armies and saved the Union from threatened dissolution, So now, by similar concert of effort, resolution and steady purpose, we can save the country from the new perils threatening it, How shall it be done’ ‘This ia the all important question now; it soon will be the all-engrossing It is clear the ele of General Grant will not accomplish the desired result; neither will it do to throw the election into the hands of Congresa and thus inake Ben Wade President &@ much worse and more dangerous man of the two. The democratic party has only to select ag its Presidential candidate Chief Justice Chase, and in bis election lie our best hopes in the future, He is a man most eminently fitted for the place. His long and tried and faithful lence in public We, hie marked force of character and energy. the incisive vigor of his intelle his thorough independence, his clear, broad and comprehensive views inpon all the leading polition! questions of the day, and his firmness and integrity, point him ont aa capable of filling with signal honor and ability this highest place in the gift of the American people. Bis unbending conservatiam and oppo- sition to the fanaticn! fury of radicntiam have shown themselves repeatedly, bv occasions were more sublimely exhibited during the late Impeachment trial, True and unflincbing loyalty nerved his heart and his intellect, Like one of the old Roman heroes of whom Cicero wrote, “he bore himself aa one who bore the, republic i hia heart” | Concert of will and action | NEW YORK This is trae worth, true faine, the acme of human eulogy. Such worth, euch fame, such eulogy are his, But the democratic party, to put in nomination Mr, Chase, must be some- thing more than what is now known as the democratio party. It must be a democratic national party—a party that will rally around its standard the conservative element of the country, a party arraying itself against radical misrule, a party that in the coming political contest will prove itself as united, and for this reason as irresistible, as were the grand Union armies in the late war. Sec- tional views and schisms and scrambles for spoils must bo set aside. Above all these the party must rise. It must work with one aim, with one purpose—to give the deathblow to radicalism. A more magnificent opportunity for a splendid achievement in politics and to save the country was never presented to any political party. Let the opportunities be im- proved, Success is sure to follow. The wide- spread spirit of discontent pervading the masses of the people gives guarantee of sucha result, With tho party properly organized and conducted, with Mr. Chase put in nomination, and with Mr. Chase elected, as he is sure to be with Proper management, it is easy to see the glorious future of our country ; to see embodied and illustrated here the true ideal of a true republie, and to safely predict the perpetuity of our national strength at home and increased influence awd respect abroad. Mere Revolutionary News from Mexwo. Our latest news from Mexico says, among other things,’ that a revolutionary band had pronounced at Querétaro in favor of Santa Anna, that they numbered about five hundred men and were in a flourishing condition. This may be regarded as the most significant revo- lutionary movement and the most dangerous to Juarez of any of the whole serics that have threatened him during the last six months. Santa Anna, we may assume from this move- ment, has contrived to get a faithful confede- rate into Querétaro with funds for active opera- tions, and if so we may look for the extension of this faction, and the return, before long, to his ‘beloved country” of* the irrepressible ex- dictator himself to fight it out on the old line to the “halls of the Montezumas.” Simultane- ously, it appears, with this movement for Santa Anna in Querétaro, another revolutionary band a6 Pachuca, under General Batanzo, in the State of Mexico itself, had pronounced in favor of General Porfirio Diaz. The band was reported four hundred strong, but had been routed by the government troops. At the same time the rebel bands under General Negrete, in the neighborhood of Tulancingo, in the same State, remained in full blast. They had routed the federal troops of General Velez; in the Chiquihuite Mountains ; and the same is said of the revolutionists under General Rivers, in the same State, where several private citi- zens had been kidnapped and held for ransom in the sum of $40,000. At the same time it was reported that down in Campeche seven hundred government troops, under the com- mand of Colonel Dominguez, had been en- trapped by a band of Indians and all massa- cred but three, Dominguez being among the slain, Thisis probably the same Dominguez who did such good service to General Scott in Mexico, at the head of his spy company or counter-guerillas in the war of 1846-47. From this budget of revolutionary bands and their doings (only a small part of the whole number in operation) the prospect for the con- tinuance of the Juarez government to the end of the year is very gloomy. The oppésing factions need only a leader to combine them ; and let old Santa Anna get his ‘foot on his native heath again,” and that leader will soon be recognized. Let Juarez keep a very. sharp eye upon Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, or it may be all up with the present régime in the capital before the end of the dog-days. As for the United States, we can do nothing for Mexico till after the fourth of March next, Till that time they must fight it out among themselves. Movements oF CaNApiaN Troops AND Fy, N1ANS.—We learn from Montreal that a strong force of soldiers bas been ordered from that place to Sherbrooke, that additional supplies of ammunition are going to St. Johns, and that two batteries of field artillery had gone to Isle aux Noir and Huntington. Per contra, we have it from St. Albans, Vermont, that Sweeny, the Fenian leader, had lef} that place fo} Malone ; that four cases of Fei an jarms had arrived at Rouse’s Point from Albany, and that the Fe- nian leaders had contracted with a large firm in Ogdensburg for thirty thousand pounds of army biscuit, This looks like business on both sides. ‘Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire.” With fifty thousand able bodied Fenian men in the York alone they only need ski minion, We shall not be surprised, therefore, | looking at the political complexion of things { this side the border, to hear of auother Fenian ! raid into Canada at any time, The Senate on Saturday rejected the noming tion of General McClellan as Minister to KE land. No doubt there were various party reasons influencing the radicals to this course; but we are inclined to the opinion that the principal reason was a generous desire on the part of “Old Ben Wade” and company to | secure, if possible, the nomination of General | McClellan as the democratic candidate for the Presidency. We advise Mr. Belmont, however, that this connter proceeding would neither right MeClellan nor help the democracy. Gory IN ALASKA. —-It ie reported that cer- tain Indians had come into Sitka with the glorious news “that the white men were col- lecting gold by handfuls on the Lakor river,” on the mainlund of Alaska, and “ that parties were starting for the diggings.” We are glad to hear it, for though the walrus oi) and the codfish and ihe salmon of Alasks seem to make no impression upon Congress, let some rich gold plagers be found up there and the appro- priation for the purchase of that stupendous country will go through both houses in short order. Let Mr. Seward produce some of those hyberborean gold washings, and he will yet secure his monument on Mount St Elias before hia retfrement to Auburn, A Gosrat Trvin.—“The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner”-—and Chage is the man. te of New | fal leaders to | make a successful descent upon the New Do- | HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE The whimsical: absurdities, the hearty fun and the flashes. of playful satire which Offen- | bach has associated with bis sparkling music, | have all contributed to the popularity of the Opéra Bouffe in New York. ‘La Grand’ Duchesse” and ‘‘La Belle Hélene” enjoyed this popularity in unstinted measure, but so sud- denly as to make the change almost as ludi- crous as it isapparently mysterious and unac- countable. Opéra Bougje has been made the object of anathemas from a number of Bohe- mian journals in this city on occasion of the representation of “‘Orphée aux Enfers” at the French theatre. This is all the more extraor- dinary, inasmuch as at previous representa- tions in New York Orphée had entirely es- caped such an outpouring of wrathful criti- cism. For two years past Italian opera has been in a state of intermittent volcanic eruption, as remarkable in its way as that which has lately cansed so great a physical commotion in dif- ferent parts of the earth. At length these ex- plosive disturbances have reached also the Opéra Bouffe. At the Academy of Music they have subsided sufficiently to make it safe for banjo aud bones to venture this evening within the vast enclosure hitherto sacred to the. nine muses and the onehundred and ninety-nine and a half stockholders of the Academy, which seems to have been converted into a hall for negro sainstrelsy. But the suppressed volcanic fires have again burst forth; this time, how- ever, at the French theatre and not the Acad- emy. The entire Bohemian press has felt the shock, and from edvh separate vent has belched out molten lava, flames and sul- phurous smoke. The very same journals which recently paid assiduous court to the “Grande Duchesse” and went into raptures over the “‘Belflo Helene” and whispered not a word against the abandon of the cancan or the double entendres with which certain actors freely embroidered the text of the librettos of both the operas of Offenbach, which were not long ago so successfully brought out at the French theatre, are now suddenly smitten with a fit of prudery. Rolling their eyes with holy horror our Bohemians declaim against the triviality and the immorality of another opera, neither more trivial nor more immoral than its predecessors, and confessedly superior to either as a musical composition, This opera is by the same composer and has been brought out at the same theatre, although, indeed, by another manager. Bateman, with the bewitching Tostée, rode triumphantly on a storm and whirlwind of ap- plause until abruptly driven away somewhere into infinite space in consequence of # collision with the omnipotent representative of the stockholders of the French theatre, There surely must be a fatality that clings to stock- holders in this city, whether they number one hundred and ninety-nine and a half, a4 at the Academy, or delegate their authority to a single representative. ax at the French theatre. “Beware of stockholders” should be the warning to all managers, The i ible Geau, who first brought Ristori, the unrivailed fragédienne to this country, even if he were to fail in neutralizing the influence of the Mephistophclian Bateman, and in converting into eulogistic ‘ puffs” the blasts of abuse which the Bohemians, with dis- tended cheeks, like so many sons of Alolus, have been blowing apon ‘‘Orphée aux Enfers,” will not and need not be intimidated. It can- not be denied that Mile. Lambele, as even ghe the Bohemian critics are constrained to admit, has a cultivated and clear, if not powerful, mezzo soprano voice of cousiderable compass, that her manner is free, fresh and attractive, and her appearance decidedly prepossessing, That she is herself and not Mile, Tostée is not her fault, and should not provoke the indigna- tion of the Bohemians, Mr. Goujon, who per- sonates Pluto, is perhaps the best actor in the company. Mr, Decré (Orvhée) hasa fair tenor voice and plays the violin well, Mr. Edgard Glupiter) is indescribably droll, particularly in the réte of the fly. If there are fewer popular aire in this opera than in “La Grande Dachesse” or ‘La Belle Helene,” it can boast of two or three equal to the best in those later works of Offenbach. The crowded houses which have already appreciated and enjoyed “Orphée” at the French theatre seem to have heen gratified at being favored with third opera from the abundant repertory of Offenbach. And, ag we have said, Mr. Gran is not likely to be intimidated, even if “Orphée” should miss of the success won by its rivals, for he is capable of being stimulated to do just what we advised Mr, Bateman to do, to induce Mile, Schueider herself, who created the part of the Grande Duchesse, and M. Dupuis, who cre- ated the part of Fritz, together with the other celebrities in’ the famous original cast of “La rande Duchesse” at the Varictés in Paris, in the fall season Of 1866, io come to New York and to give us an opportunity of hearing all of Offen- With the hope that Mr. Bate- ight aspire to achieve this result we atiently with Mile, Tostee’s lack of voice bach’s operas, , and the frequent disappointments to which she Tar Reaerion or GeNerAL MCCLELLAN. = | subjected the public, applauding heartily her vivacious acting, as well as that of the per- sonutors of General Boum, Prince Paul, Baron Grog and the reat. But it strikes us as singu- Jar, to say the least. that the Bohemians who echoed our praises of Mr. Bateman’s company, and particularly of the voiceless Toatée, should now complain so bitterly that the company of Merers. Alhaiza & Cualabresi, engaged by Mr. Grau, “could come all the way from New Or- leans and not bring any voices with them.” However, there can be no disputing sbout tastes, An to the shocked moral sensibilities of the Bohemians, the least that is said the better. Tue Western Pexoieton Mun.—Some of the leading Western Pendleton men are threat- ening all sorte of terrible things in the event of their favorite being ‘superseded by o disappointed radica} as the democratic candi- date.” All this, however, signifies nothing. Let Chief Justice Chase be proclaimed as the coming man from the New Tammany Hall and the West will at once come into line. The only way to success at this crisis is to fight the enemy with his own weapons. Tne WawKey Tax.--The National Board of Trade, recently sitting in Philadelphia, unani- mously resolved that the whiskey tax of two dollars a gallon has been demonstrated as im- practicable and demoralizing, and that it ought to be reduced to * revenue standard. This is tne; but are not the whiskey rings with there for a reduction of this whiskey tax sive tt up: ig ge ‘Tho Judiciary and the Heference System. By's well’ meant and in itself judicious pro- vision of the code, framed to aucceed the sys- tem practised by masters in chancery prior to the abolishment of that court, a power was conferred upon the judges of courts of record enabling them, in the exercise of a sound discretion, to direct that certain civil causes triable before a court and jury should be sent before an attorney for hearing and some- times determination by judgment. The sys- tem was originated with a view of disengaging courts that might be excessively occupied by business from the long and tedious trial before @ jury of a certain class of actions involving a necessarily intricate and procrastinated exami- nation, as in suits brought for an accounting where extended bills of items and particulars are comprised. It was also intended to em- brace the taking of evidence in another elass of civil litigations, the hearing of which in open court might be prejudicial to the public morals or policy, as in actions for divorce. It will be seen, therefore, that a proper com- ? We } pliance with the intent of the framers of this a ee NA provision would be attended with results bene- ficial to the interests of the people ; but within the past ten or fifteen years the abuse of the system has become open and flagrant to 4 degree but lightly understood by the public. Tt has at last descended to the level of almost every other power conferred upon public off- cials, and is used as 8 means of securing per- sonal pecuniary emolument to the pampered’ minions, lickspittles and hangers-on of the judiciary, and as a quid pro quo for a certain amount of electioneering in- fluence and bartering of so many votes. We have in this city at the present day a class of worthless and notoriously incompetent law- yers, some of whom have never appeared as attorneys of record or counsel in any regular trial or argument before a court, and. who de- pend almost entirely for their livelihoods upon the income they derive from references, a cer- tain fee, not always predetermined, belng re- ceived for each and every sitting, which ait- tings arf so environed by ‘previous engagements” that they seldom — ocen- py more than one hour per diem and are then adjourned till a future time. These adjournments from day to day of course augment the fees.materially, as the litigants speedily {appreciate. And besides these ‘‘shysters” there is also quite a colerie ot sons, nephews and direct relatives of the judges who are in the receipt of handsome revenues from the same favored source. But the greatest of all the outrages perpe- trated under the closk of this reference system is the not by any means unfrequent, collusive and fraudulent judgments obtained by litigants and directed by the referees. Some of the de- velopments in the great Erie litigation which have at times cropped out unexpectedly, to those most directly referred to have been pregnant with evidence of undoubted fraud and perversion of that justice which is the right of every citizen, And the manner in which these outcroppings have been stifled as s00n as exposed is in itself presumptive proof of wrong and injustice, when it is within the power of at least some of the parties involved to refute the presumption if incorrect, and is, asa matter of personal honor and manly in- tegrity, incumbent upon them to disprove if actually false. Again, but a ehort time since the case of a United States Consul was before the courts in this city, wherein it was shown that by means of a “reference.” ordered by the Supreme Court of this county, though he was a citizen of a Southwestern State, he had procured # decree of absolute divorce from his wife, then living in Kentucky, and that the unfortunate woman had not only never been served with a summons to defend herself, but that several months had actually passed before she could ascertain in what court or State the judgment against her had been obtained. This case, in a decidedly curious phase, will be again before the Supreme Court here in a few days, and the public will be enabled to judge accurately of its merits. But judgments of this nature in divorce suits are of so frequent occurrence that they attract comparatively little attention, and it is probable that the case alluded to would have been similarly treated were it not for the official station of the plaintiff. Ttis evideut, beyond a possibility of doubt, that the use or abuse of this importané-discretionary power should be regulated so that injustice may not etalk brazenly and be made a medium of profit in the halls dedicated, at least osten- sibly, to justice. The repeal of the power will remedy it, but will, at the same time, deprive the people of a wise and commendable privi- lege. Ifthe integrity of the judiciary and the bar is merely a nominal attribute and mock- ery, let it, however, be done, unless judges can be found who will not descend to corrupt prac- tices and who will teach lawyers that it is perilous to attempt imposture. The Free Trade Debate in Frawee. The French legislative debate on the ques- | tion of the propriety and national utility of re- newing the Bonaparte-Cobden commercial treaty with England after ite expiration next year, in view of the depressed condition of most of the prominent interests of home manu- facture and the unsettled state of the finances, haa opened up the whole mibject of free trade and protection, or protection against free trade, in the empire. The discussion, as may be seen from the reports published in the Herarp, hae heen conducted with great ani- mation. The Cabinet Ministers support the free trade idea, the minority generally advo- cate protection, and it ie quite patent that France is on the eve of an industrial revoln- tion which is likely in ite isque to affect her social system. as deeply, radically and per- manently ae did her vast political convulsion, Beyond the mare stavewent. of the opposing positions given above there is really nothing i the French Parliamentary argumenis, The Representatives talk « good desl, present «ta- tistics of imports and exports, of taxation, license, revenue and so forth, but it is easy to perceive that they want independent individu- ality in the Assembly, and are themselves aware that the spirit, the soul of progress dwells not in the House. They know that the “one man power” overshadows their logic, and that the Colden treaty will be reaewed if the | { Sidi Sapien this” feoling ‘ik the fol- lowing remarkable words —<‘‘I give my | entire “adhesion fo the principles of liberty “in manufacture ani trade, That is my first declaration. My second is, that T want political liberty, which is the indiapen- sable complement of that of commerce. With- out it we have to compete with the English who possess it, and that is the cause of our inferiorjty, Here is our inferiority openly pro- claimed in a solemn instrument :—The sovereign (Napoleon) stipulates in his name for the country without mentioning the consent of France, and the Queen of England under- takes, after receiving the. assent of the Par- liament, 1 demand that such a humiliation may in future be spared us.” {n this bold assertion of Jules Simon may be found the very life-easence of the free trade debate in France, The time and manner of the enunciation are equaily significant, an@ the consequences of the utterance may exceed in importance those of many State papers like the Cobden treaty. ' Tax Geaeran Interna, Tax Birs.—The committee of the-whole House on the general {nterual Tax bill, when they rose on S y and reported progress, had gone through slxty- six pages of the three hundred and sixty of the bill, At this rate when will the bill be finished?’ Not before the first frost. In fact it hegius to wear the suspicious countenance ofa pretence and @ sham to kill time. YACHTING. “@ure itere Upon the Waters”—Annual Re- gutta of the Now York Yacht Club. ‘fhe annual regatta of the New York Yacht Olub, aunounced to come off on Thursday next, promises to be of unusual interest. Tho increased facilities afforded the members in the ostablishment of their new club house for the entertainment of their guests insures a much larger attendance than at any previous start, and has already, in anticipation, con - tributed largely to the éolat of the occasion. As this yearly triat of speed and skill has always hereto- fore een noticeable for its ploasant ex- perieuces, bringing together as it did the most sctect assombly, composed of those who move only in the bighest and most cultared circles, with a capacity for enjoyment rendered the quicker and more delicate, ag well as enlargod and refined, by their sociat and intellectual superiority, it is safe te predict that the reunion of this year will but add anotier to the many agreeable reminiscences already exisling, Yhe following is the oficial notice of the eveni:— W YORK VACHT OLUA—i:eiATEA KOK 1868, wal regatta of the New York Yacht Olu witt come off on Thursday morning, June 18, at half- past ten o'clock. ‘The value of the prizes for the two classes—sloops and echooners—is $250 for each class. ic sailing courses and directions for the start are a LOWS — A Magboat will be anchored cbreast of the Claw “taten Island, about half a mile from the west of which the sioops will anchor in line forty yards apart, and the schooners in line two tundred yards north of the sloops, about fifty gards apart, dn iaking ition in the line cach yacht may se- tect. its own in the order of ari at the anchorage. Mainsails, foresails and gaff topsails may be set hofore starting, unless otherwise ordered by the com- anittce, ‘The for starting will be announced ou the morning of the iy cong Yachts will proceed m the auckorage to the buoy of the Southwest Spit, passing it to the west and south, and thence to the Lightship, rounding it to the northward and eastward, and return over the same course, passing to the west of the fagboat of the olub house, Going and returning, all the buoys on the west bauk, viz., Nos. 11, 13 and 15, are tu be paased to the eastward. Kntries will be received until Tnesday, June 16, 1868, closing at half-past ten A precisely, They tmust be directed to the secret: of the club, and delivered at his office, No. 45 Liberty street, New bers will bear in mind that the present rules are materially chamged, especially in regurd to the forms of entertng yachts for a regatta: ‘ne entries are kept open to the last minute allowed (iorty-cigut. hours before the race); but it is desirable that taey should be made earlier, that errors of form or omia- sion may be corrected, which cannot be done after the hour for closing has been reaciied. Attention is also culled to the deposit of $25 required at the time of eniering a@ yacht lor @ regatta, G, L. SCHUYLER, Regatta ¥, WESTRAY, 7 PHILIP soubytEn, j Coes. New York, June = A steamer, furnished for tie use of the Regatta Committce and members of the club, will leave the foot of Desbrosses street at half-past nine A. M. After the start the steamer will touch at tae lower landing of the Staten Island ferry, near the club house, to receive members on board. An entertainment will be provided at the club house, under direction of the House Comittee, - members of the club and iadies accompanying hem. For information on any matter connected with the regatta desired of the committee please address, to ihe care of H. Morton, secretary, No. 45 Liverty street, New York. ‘ BOAT RACING QN THE HUDSON RIVER, PouGHKEgrrsix, June 7, 1368. ‘The Shatemuc Boat Club of this city, numbering forty-five nYembers, opened their aquatic scason ow the Hudson at this place yesterday afternoon. Printed circulars and invitations had beon given out beforehand, and all preparations had been made for @ good time, The boat house was anchored near # large grove at the ferry dock, where the twe hundred ladies and gentlemen who were invited to be present assembled. The company consisted of the fashion and clite of the city. They came ii private carriages and on foot, till all bad arriv: when Eastman gay BL commenced to dis- course sweet music, races took place during the afternoon. ‘The first was between the double shell Emma, rowed by J. Parish and G. Van Vliet, and the Lou- dele, rowed by A. R. Eastman and C. L. Houghton. The wind blew heavily when they started, and the swells ran high, which ited good time being made, The race was won by the Emma, in four- teen minutes thirty seconds, the Loudele’a tune being fifteen minutes six seconds. The distance rowed was a quarter of a mile, The next race was between single Mewriae bataho Da- by Thomas Corning and George W. Davids. won, Time, fifteen minutes thirty vids’ time was not taken, ‘The third race was in scull shells. The en- tries were trving Grinnell, A. L, Rives and H, C. Le Roy. Before & quarter | Seectape by te hoe ‘sea.’ Le Roy won in twelve aw . Sate Seem rere chads | wus not taken. The were Mr. Mason, of the Vesper Club, Yonkers; Roahr, of the Atalanta Club, New York, and Prof, H. @. Eastman, starter was Rev. J. 8. Corning, President of Shatemuc Boat Club. After the races were over the members of the club invited their gueste to @ refreshment stand in the ve, where all had s pleasant time, After refreah- t addresses were made by Prof. Wm. H. Oroaby, ey Uenson J. Losing and Mr. Mark D. Wilber. The band then played'““Auld Lang Syne,” and the woll MOaring the the members of the club sported thelr new uniform of biue cloth with silver tritamings for the first cit will take place. NAVAL, WWTELLIGENCE, ‘The Disaster te the v Men-of-War te Her Rescee, Sr. THomasy May 90, 1608, In going into the port of Pointe & Pitre, Guadaloupe, the Cnited States steamer Contoocook, flagship of Admiral tH. K. Hoff, got ashore, some eight or tem days ago, through the biund carelessness of the pilot. ‘two French war shigs very promptly went to the assistance of the toocook, and tm- iter the news of Isuates Se ores the vnited States — ‘taco, 0 cd mander Wilson, and hawmitty Commander roceeded (o the aasistance e the French war sieamer have news. to-day Bouvet, Lientenant d’Ainesey de Montpezat, from again and not fe Martinique, that she was afloat riously hurt. Probably she may be this way in » day or two for the mails from home, now due by yo Ln gge States aod Brazil mail sieamer Soutia America, STABBING AVFRAY.—Thomaa Hughes was atabbod last night, but not very dangerously wounded, by man named Thomas Quinn and some others, at No. 4 Delancey street. Hoe was conveyed to Beliovue Hospital, bat aig assailants cacaped,