The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. N EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Tur Lorrery oF Lira. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sons OF Listnty— Pau CLIFFORD. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homrty Dumpry. NEW STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Tux Puan- ‘TOM CAPTAIN—STKENIE, THE WANDERER. FRENCH THEATRE.—Onpuer AUX ENFERS. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. - PARIG AND HELEN, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tax Waite FAWN. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Brondway.—ETHTO- FIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, &e. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadwa: Boorntaioirtes, &c.—La!—Beii—L. N. BRYANTS' OPERA HO!'SE, Tammany Building, Mth gtreet.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, EOUENTEICITIES, £0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BALLET, Fanor, 0. f ‘TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Com1o Vooauism, NEGRO MINSTRELST, &c. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Gneat MONOLOGUE EN- ‘TERT AINNENT. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue,—Porvtar GARDEN CONCERT. TERRACE GARDEN—Poro.ar GAgpEN Concert. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— SAVOURNEEN DEELISA, HOOLEY’S OPERA HO'SE, Brooklyn.—Ermiorian MINSTRELSY—A TRIP TO Panis. BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, corner of Atlantic and Clin- ton strects.—LINGARD's MIMIO CONCERTS. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner 28d st. and 4th av.—EXHISITION OF PIoTURES, &6. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SOIFNOF AND ART. New York, Tuesday, June 9, 1868. THE NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday evening, June 8, The great French race for the grand prize of Parig ‘was won by the Marquis of Hasting’s horse Easil. ‘The treasury plans of Austria attract attention in Paris. Ex-Governor Eyre’s case is still canvassed in Jegal circles in England. By the steamship City of Boston we have very inte: ing mail details of our cable despatches to the 25th of May, inciuding our special correspond- ent’s account of the great Derby “event” and “Derby Day” scenes in England, and a report of the execution of Michael Barrett, the Fenian, at New- gate, London, for his participation in the Clerken- well explosion. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a joint resolution provid- ing for the removal of a suit from a West Virginia Circuit Court to the United States Courts, in relation to the Harper's Ferry property, was passed. The bill for the readmission of the Southern States was then considered as the special order, but pending discussion upon it the Senate adjourned. In the House numerous bills and resolutions were offered under the Monday call of States. Mr. Hol- man’s resolution providing for the taxation of gov- erument securities was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, A letter was read from Minis- ter Burlingame accepting tlie invitation to a public reception extended to the Chinese Embassy, and no- tifying’ the Speaker that he would be in waiting to- day at the hour designated, The Senate was invited to participate. The conference report on the Arkan- sas bill was agreed to. The speaker asked the consent of the House to present a petition from the witness Wooley. Mr. Butler objected, a tong de- bave ensued and the paper was not received. A re- solution ordering Wooley to the bar was adopted, and he was soon afterwards brought in. He presented a communication in writing which, however, was not r ceived or read, but is published in our columns this morning, and on expressing a willingness to answer the qnestions before the committee he was remande, ‘The tax bill was then considered, several amend- ments | nade, and the House ata quarter past ten adjourned. THE CITY. ‘The standing Committee on Street Openings, to whom was referred the project of widening Broad- way, met yesterday afternoon, tn the Council Cham- ber, for the purpose of hearing a discussion of the proposed idea by the property owners immediately interested. It was generally condemned by those as a detriment rather than an improvement. ‘The Board of Audit yesterday decided to hold ses- sions every day until September 1. Cases reached and caiied up will be thrown off the calendar if bot responded to, The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon, divided the Seventeenth and Nineteenth wards into “convenient election” districts, decided to pave Joith from First to Fourth avenues, with Fisk concrete pavement; Howard street with Brown & Miller wooden pavement; Forty-sixth street, from Third avenue to East river, with McGonegal pave- } postponed indefinitely the resolution to ap- a general clerk, and adjourned until Monday next at two P. M. At a meeting of the Kings county Board of Super- visors yesterday acommitiee was appointed to in- quire into t onduct of the members of the Board of Superintendents of the Poor and to investigate the expenditures at the Almshouse. The Brooklyn Woard of Aldermen met yesterday, when it was stated that some malicious persons had broken $1,300 worth of plate glass in the store win- dows on Fuiton street. The Mayor was requested to otter a reward of $50 for viction of the scoundrels, ‘The deaths in Brooklyn last week were only ninety- six—a remarkable decrease. Theophilus ©. Callicott and Colonel R. C. En- apprehension and con- right, convicted in the United States Court of defrauding the government out of a considerable amount of taxes on whiskey, were re. moved ye ‘day from the Kings county penitentiary to the Albany prison, A petition for the pardon of John 8. Allen, conetated with Callicott and Enright, was signed yesterday by the Brooklyn Aldermen and the Kings county Supervisors, The Fernando Wood lease case came up before the for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passen- gers, &¢. ‘The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Teutonia, Captain Barenas, will sail from Ho- boken at two P. M. to-day (Tuesday) for Hamburg via Southampton, The Huropean mails will close at the Post OMlce ab twelve M. ‘The stoek market was irregular yesterday. Gov- ernment securities were firm but quiet, Gold closed ab 13954, ‘The beef cattle market yesterday was only mod- erately cctive, and the prices realized were generally 34. below those obtained last Monday. The offer- ings were large, being 2,037 head. Prime and extra steers were disposed of at 17¢. a 18¢.—the latter an outside price; fair to good, 16%. a 17¢. and inferior to ordinary, 15c. 8 16¢, Milch cows—Common were dull and heavy, while good were in fair request and steady. We quote extras $100 a $110, prime, $90 a $95 common to good $60 a $80, and inferlor $50a $55. Veal calves were more active ang firmer, extras selling at 12!sc. a 13¢,, prime Llc. a 11%<e., and infe- rior to good 8c. a 10},c. Sheep were more sought after and higher, extras selling at 8c. a 84¢c., prime Tig. &75¢C., Common to good 6c. a 7c., and Inferior 5c. a 53¢c, Lambs were higher, selling at 12c. a Lic. ; and for swine the demand was limited and prices were lower. We quote prime 8%c. a 8%c., fair to good 8c. a8%c., and common 7c, a 8c. The to- tal receipts for the week were 6,357 beeves, 100 milch cows, 1,969 veal calves, 13,008 sheep and lambs, and 14,757 swine, MISCELLANEOUS. The City Council of Washington proceeded to or- ganizi yesterday, when it was discovered that the conservatives had a majority of three on joint ballot. Great confusion ensued, as a recent enactment of Congress giving the appointment to the Council in- stead of the Mayor was passed, under the impression that @ radical council would certainly be elected, while the Mayoralty was doubtful. The radical mi- nority bolted at the organization and elected officers oftheir own, who, amid a confusion that may be imagined, proceeded to business with the conserva- tive officers sitting at their elbow engaged in a simi- lar manner. Great excitement ensued among the populace outside, but no disturbance arose, The radicals claimed that some of the conservatives were illegally elected. Certain New Orleans radicals in Washington called upon General Grant recently in retation to the pend- ing sqnabble between General Buchanan, command- ing in Louisiana, and the radical Registration Board. It will be remembered that General Buchanan or- dered that the State officers elect, mostly radicals, should not qualify until November, and that the State Legislature should not convene until Congress had passed upon the new constitution. The Board of Registration denied his right to do this ana issued a counter proclamation convening the Legislature, and installing the officers during the present month, Hence the squabble. General Grant, after hearing the story of his radical visitors, declined to interfere, declaring that General Buchanan had acted in accordance with the law. The Loutsiana Board of Registration issued a procla- mation yesterday endorsing Mr. Packard, their chair- man, and denouncing General Buchanan. They were arrested, but released in obedience to telegraphic orders. Im a private letter of Chief Justice Chase which we are authorized to publish, and which will be found elsewhere in our columns to-day, he says that he has been strongly denounced as a partisan in his conduct during the impeachment trial, but that he was partisan on neither side. The republican party may read him out if they choose, but he will fojiow his old lights, The Chief Justice has very generally ventilated his opinions on politi- cal matters during his present sojourn among the people of Virginia. He fully confirms the report given some time ago by our Washington correspond- ent as to his democratic views. In answer to a question whether the Southern democracy should go back into the Union content with their present radi- cal constitutions, the Chief Justice quietly hinted that it was best to trust to the people for rectifying such evils after the Union was fully restored and sectional excitement had abated, Commussioner Rollins, of the Internal Revenue De- partment, has tendered his resignation to the Secre- tary of the Treasury. Two reasons are assigned for the step—his ill health and the unsatisfactory work- ings of the revenue system, owing to the conflict as to the appointment of oficers. ‘The statement of the public debt on the Ist of June shows the total to be $2,643,753,560, with a total in the Treasury of $133,507,679, An increase in the debt since May 1 of $9,717,059 is thus disclosed. Senator Sprague has been renominated by a repub- lican caucus of the Rhode Island Legislature which mmects to-day. “The boat race of the West Point crews came off yesterday, having been postponed from Saturday. ‘The first class crew won the race and were presented with the champion flag. A tub race followed. ‘The parish elections in South Carolina, last week, show reduced radical majorities, The Supreme Judicial Court which met in special session at Worcester, Mass., yesterday, has six mur- der cases on its calendar. The Western Democracy and Their Can- didnte—The Old Game of 1860. The Pendleton democracy of the West are becoming somewhat excited over the move- ments among the democrats of the East in favor of Chief Justice Chase as their coming man. For instance, we find in one of the Western Pendleton journals, a Kentucky paper, lying before us, and in an article on “The Democratic Situation,” these opinions:—“That the star of George H. Pendleton is in the as- cendant;” that he is the man; that ‘‘the move- ments for Chase and Hancock are shiftless ex- pedients” which the common sense of the people will reject;” that ‘‘General McClellan and Governor Seymour being out of the way Mr. Pendleton remains in the foreground as the sole embodiment of democratic principles, democratic precedents and the democratic battle line.” As a sample of the senseless twaddle of the old democratic Bourbons this will do very well; but we find something a little more emphatic and a little more to the point, from a leading Pendleton organ of Ohio, in these words:—‘“‘If the Democratic National Convention shall so far forget itself as to nominate Chief Justice Chase for the Presidency, or any other man who was not true to the democratic organization in the days when timorous souls denied their association with the party, the Statesman will not support him.” And again:—‘'We are convinced from ex- perience that a positive democrat,a man who has all along believed in the principles of the party Svoreme Court, general term, yesterday, on an ap- peai from Judge Cardozo's order settling issues by a jury trial, The Corporation Counsel and Mr. Shea, counsel for Mr. Wood, argued the appeal, and the Court reserved its decision. In the Court of Common Pleas, Part 1, before Judge Daly, yesterday, Wolfe Burkein va, Wolfe Sil- berstein came up for hearing. It was an action to recover damages for an alleged assault and battery and robbery of $800. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. In the Court of Common Pleas, Part 9, 2, before Judge Brady, J. J. Mucklin bronght an action yeater- day against the New Jersey Steamboat Company for ‘the loss of his carpet bag, Which he alleged had beén stolen while @ passenger from New York to Albany in August, 1866. Verdict for the plaintitr, goo, + In the United States District Court yesteraay, pe fore Judge Blatchford and a jury, James MeHermot: and Patrick Connolly were found guilty of working a distillery without @ license and with intent to de. fraud the government. Sentence deferred. ira Barber, tried in the same court on a charge of carry. ing on the business of a manufacturer of cigars ‘without paying the tax thereon, was also found Tue steamship Minnesot, Captain Price, of the Liverpoot and Great Western line, will leave pier 46 Hort river at nine A. M. to-morrow (Wednesday) & and has never been ashared of it, will run infinitely better than any other sort of candi- date. At all events we shall support none other.” This means Pendleton or a bolt. These West- ern democrats with Pendleton, in short, appear to be resolved upon the same game in 1868 which they played with Douglas at Charles- ton in 1860, They went into that Convention as the New York Van Buren faction went into the Baltimore Convention of 1848, to rule or ruin the party. They went down to Charles- ton resolved upon Douglas and his squatter sovereignty platform, ‘‘inside the Convention f we can, but outside if we must.” The New York delegation, in the hands of Dean Rich- | mond, an illiterate man of a narrow gange, could do nothing against this Douglas pressure from the West. So the democratic party was split up throughout the country between Douglas and Breckinridge, and the opposition 46 the répablicans between Douglas, Breckin- \ ridge and the Bell-Everett ticket: and so Abra- hem Lincoln in the North. as the republican candidate, on his platform of ‘‘no further exten- sion of slavery,” walked ever the Presidential course. Then came the secession of South Carolina; then the Southern Confederacy and our great rebellion; then, with the suppression of the rebellion, the extinction of slavery and the Southern slaveholding oligarchy and the substitution of the liberated blacks by a repub- lican Congress as the new Southern political balance of power; and so stand the recon- structed rebel States to-day, upside down and wrong side up, under this new rule of South- ern negro supremacy. Such have been and are the results of the rule or ruin policy of the Western Douglas democrats at the Charleston Convention in 1860. Thus the Southern or right wing of the democratic party was cut off, cut up and destroyed, and thus the Northern rump or remnant has been fighting the profit- less battles of a feeble minority in Congress for the last eight years, Now an opportunity is offered, through the defections and divisions inthe ruling republican camp, to rout the whole concern, horse, foot and dragoons, in the choice of the proper opposition Presidential candidate, and by common consent the most sagacious Eastern leaders of the democracy recognize in Chief Justice Chase the very man for the crisis, when again a Western democratic bolt is threatened. It is by no means estab- lished that President Lincoln would have been re-elected had General McClellan in 1864 been coupled with a good war democrat and placed upon the war platform which elected Horatio Seymour our Governor in 1862, and which that fall carried all the Central States against the republicans. But the Western democracy, while consenting to McClellan, saddled him with Pendleton, a peace man pending the war, and put him on that obnoxious Pendleton peace platform which denounced the war for the Union as “‘a failure.” Hence another reaction against the democracy, from which they only began to recover in the elections of last year. Surely, with these facts before us, we are justified.in the conclusion that Mr. Pendleton is not the man to ran against General Grant, and that the ‘‘democratic principles and demo- cratic precedents” still paraded in the West have run to seed. The Eastern democracy have been rather slow to recognize the fact that there has been a deluge. Otherwise, Mr. Brooks and his party colleagues in Congress, two or three years ago, would not have played as they did into the hands of Old Thad Stevens. With a little more sagacity they would have contrived some general basis of union with the conservative republicans, and we may say the same of Mr. Raymond and the anti-radical re- publican wing of the House. Brooks went the wrong way in doing the work of Stevens, while Raymond, in playing fast and loose, soon played himself out. But at length the rough lessons of experience have taught the New York democracy the way of wisdom, and Mr. Seymour, in moving for Mr. Chase as the man of all men to run against General Grant, dis- closes not only the broad views of a practical statesman, but the keen sagacity of the master politician. He has had enough of the fighting of windmills. He looks to living issues and the ways and means to practical results. He sees that Grant or Chase must be our next President, and that no man but Chase can con- test the field with Grant. This, too, is fast becoming the ruling idea of the democrats of the East. The Western democrats have yet this lesson tolearn. They are full and brimming over with Pendleton. They forget that, with a beaten horse against a regular Eclipse, the odds are against them from the start. But they are infor it. They will have Pendleton or they will bolt. We can only warn them that, as like causes produce like effects, if they persist in playing again in 1868 their Douglas game of 1860 they will again be routed, wrecked and left broken to pieces, high and dry. Ross Browne, Our New Minister to China. Mr. J. Ross Browne, who takes the place of Mr. Burlingame as American Minister to China, leaves this morning by the California steamer for San Francisco, on his way to Pekin. He goes under peculiarly favorable circumstances and at a remarkable period in the history of the great empire to which he is accredited. Mr. Burlingame, taking advantage of the con- dition of China and the liberal tendencies of its government, inaugurated a policy which sweeps away the former exclusiveness and isolation of a nation comprising more than a third of the human family and which opens a wonderful future for both that country and the com- mercial nations of the rest of the world. A broad field of usefulness, consequently, is opened for Mr. Browne, and we have no doubt he will prove a worthy successor to Mr. Burlingame. Both are men imbued with ideas of progress and material development and with the important commercial and political relations springing up between the oldest and most populous empire of the world and the mighty republic of the West. Mr. Browne is thoroughly practical in his views, a man of great and varied experience, and possesses that kindness of disposition and suavity of manners which cannot fail to have the happiest effect upon the government at Pekin and the Chinese people. As a Californian he represents the progressive spirit of his State and the rapidly growing interests of the whole Pacific elope with China, while, at the same time, he ie a fit representa- tive of the American nation and government. Mr. Burlingame was anxious about the appoint- ment of a Minister to take his place in China and had expressed the wish that no one should be appointed till he arrived; but we under- stand he is perfectly satisfied with the selec- tion of Mr. Browne for that important position. Mr. Browne deferred his departure till Mr. Bur- lingame arrived here, and these two gentle- men have had frequent and full conferences on the subject of the mission and affairs in China, The ex-Minister of the United States (who now has the brilliant position of Ambassador for China) and our new representative have the most cordial feeling for and the best under- standing with each other, which give assur- ance that the reciprocal interests of both coun- tries will be promoted. The dawn of a grand future begins to burst upon the great empire of Asia as well as upon the commerce of the | United States with that part of the world, and | Mr. Browne goes to the scene of his labors at the most fortunate time and under tba mogt favorable circumstances. ' however, moves in his favor. + | thon of Europe and Amerina will eacoursae | une The Spring Meeting et Jerome Par. The opening of the spring meeting at Jerome Park to-day suggests a word of comment, not only on the advantages afforded by that park for the display of the improved capabilities of the trained American horse, but also on the ad- vantages of the liberal and judicious expendi- ture to which the park owes its origin. In the British press, and even in the British Parlia- ment, a popular complaint has found expression against the persistent mourning which the royal widow of Prince Albert has maintained to the direct injury of numerous branches of trade and industry in London, Even what might be called the extravagances of fashion- able life in England, as affected by Court infiu- ences, are profitable to manufactures and industry throughout the British empire. In France, also, political economists recognize the material benefits conferred upon the shop- keepers of Paris, the silk manufacturers of Lyons and all the tradesmen and manufacturers of the French empire by the so-called oxtrava- gances of the imperial Court. In democratic America Wwe have, and we wish to have, no Court. But the prodigiously rapid accumulation of wealth has fortunately led to such a disbursement of it on the part of some of our millionaires as must prove both agreeable to them and highly’ advantageous to the community at large. "Two signal instances of this fact are offered by the successful results of the efforts of Messrs. Jerome, Belmont, Irving and Hunter to give character and tone to American eques- trian sports, and to the equally successful efforts of the late .Commodore Stevens, Mr. G. L. Schuyler, the late Mr. Wilkes and other founders of the yacht club, as well as those of ex-Mayor Kingsland, Mr. Moses H. Grinnell and their associates in developing and sustain- ing it, with a view to accomplish a similar purpose in behalf of yacht racing as an amuse- ment of national interest and importance. All classes of our metropolitan society will now take a personal interest in the horse races at Jerome Park and in the yacht races off Staten Island. Formerly, the cries of ‘Hi! hi!” as the swift wagons whirled through the blind- ing dust of Bloomingdale road were almost the only indications of a lively interest in horse flesh. But now the interest has become uni- versal, and ladies and gentlemen, after an ex- hilarating drive over the winding and well- watered avenues of the Park, may en- joy amid equally attractive rural scenery the pleasure of witnessing the animated scenes of the race course at Jerome Park. So, too, at the new yacht club honse at Clifton it may be expected that every facility will be af- forded for the gratification of the most highly cultivated tastes. An immediate consequence of the great change which has been effected within a few years in what may be termed the holiday life of New York will be patent in the improved style of both vehicles and toilets ex- hibited at the meetings at Jerome Park and at the regattas of the Yacht Club. And thus Jerome Park, on the one hand, and the Clifton rendezvous of our yachtmen, on the other, bid fair to become the centres of influences abundant- ly beneficial to those directly interested in horse racing and in yacht racing, and, moreover, to all who are.indirectly affected by the stimulus which the one and the other must give to a variety of manufactures and trades. To the elevating and refining social influences of the increased cultivation of these healthful and noble pastimes we have already alluded. Some of our rich men are still unaware of the splendid opportunities within their reach for enhancing the value of their wealth by ren- dering it the source of additional enjoyment to themselves and of incalculable advantages to others. But the founders and active promoters of the New York Jockey Club and of the New York Yacht Club have been wiser in their day and generation, and they will assuredly reap the reward to which they are richly entitled in the grateful consideration of their fellow citi- zens for them and their memory. The Reform Movement in Turkey. In yesterday's issue we published a letter from the pen of our special correspondent at Constan- tinople, detailing with fulness and accuracy the various reforms which the Sultan has,intro- duced for the better government of his empire. The principal features of these reforms were received by telegraph and published in the HERALD some three weeks ago. We have since given in full the text of the Sultan’s speech delivered on the occasion of the formal opening of the Council of State. We are now, therefore, in a position to give an opinion of the Sultan’s reform measures. When we remember the principles which have regulated the civil government of all Moham- medan countries, and when we bear in mind that the Sultan of Turkey, though not so great as he once was, is yet the highest civil func- tionary in the Mohammedan world, these reforms must be regarded as the greatest won- der of the age. Liberty in Turkey, and, indeed, in all Mohammedan countries, has sim- ply meant the right of the monarch to do as he would with the lives and properties of his subjects. In the entire community liberty was the property of but one individual, and he was the chief of the State. Liberty in matters of religious belief was not only a thing unknown, but the slightest divergence from the estab- lished standard was visited with the severest penalties. In Persia to this day a Mohamme- dan who abandons his religion is liable to be punished with death. Now the Sultan talks of liberty, civil and religious, with an ease, an accuracy, an enthusiasm which leaves such philosophers as John Stuart Mill far in the rear. A Council of State, composed of members judiciously selected from all parts of the empire and fairly representative of the interests of race and religion, will advise with the Sultan and his responsible Ministers on all affairs of State. In addition to this Council of State @ High Court of Justice has been established, and it will be the duty of tbis court, to use the language of the Sultan, ‘‘to administer justice to our subjects on a%i points having reference to their persons, their welfare or their pro- perty.” : Y These ara great innovations. The Sultan has shown ‘nimself to be a man of broad, gene- rous and enlightened views. He has shown himself 9‘iso to be as daring in action as he is enlightened in opinion. He has unquestion- ably’ hard task before him. His reforms will be certain to provoke opposition. The world, Tho approba- him, If be have courage to persevere Mo- hammedanism will brea up 28 Catholicism broke up at the close of the MiJdle or Derk Ages. It is within the range of tite probable that Abdul-Aziz may figure in the East as Charles the Fifth figured jin the West, only in an opposite line of policy, and that he may prove himself a greater and a wiser reformer than Henry the,Kighth. The times are in his favor. The forces of modern times are on his side. If he only accepts their help, the press, the telegraph, the steam engine will all work for him. We wish him all success and lend him all the encouragement to which he is so justly entitled. Is tux Income Tax ConsrrrutionaL ?—We have never doubted that the income tax is un- constitutional; but there is no way of testing this properly only by bringing the whole ques- tion before the United States courts and finally to the Supreme Court, Itis surprising that the constitutionality of the tax has not been fully tested in the highest court of the country be- fore this, The citizens of New York are more deeply interested than any others in the ques- tion, for one Congressional district alone of this city pays a larger income tax than some of the largest States or than the whole South. Some of our wealthy men should combine and raise a sufficient fund to make a case and to carry it up tothe Supreme Court. The constitution provides that ‘representation and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers,” yet we see that a hundred thousand people in, New York pay more than millions in other parts of the country. Let the question be tested, then, not upon any side issue merely, but upon the principle ang in all its bearings, and we advise our citizens who are most interested to unite and raise a fund for this purpose. BOARD OF ALDERMEN. The City Tax Levy—Hats on the “Bust?— More “Wood.” At two o’clock yesterday afternoon the City Fathers, fully recruited after the sorrowful trip to Wheatland, convened at City Hall and proceeded to the disposition of public business. The chamber was neatly draped in mourning in memory of the late ex-President Buchanan, and the busts of distin- guished jurists which flank the President’s bench were crowned with “tiles of the latest fashion. After the usual preliminaries had been disposed of, and several unimportant papers had been received and laid over, the tax levy, as certified by the proper State officer was taken up. The young man-to whom is confided the reading in the Board struggled slong with the document; but the weight of the jobs whic! he had to tell of was bearing heavily upon him, and the President, seeing that it would require a stronger man to go throngh the document, took it in hand and disposed of it bravely. Then came a length: document referring to the division of the Seventeent ward into thirty-five election Cee aeek the reading of which the “honorable” member from the “deestreak”” where “good and healthy earth” and “corporation fences” are wanted for lots owned by certain parties was buzzing the venerable member from eee side. ame caus of the aes was speedily made ap} for no sooner the reading of the Seventeenth ward document been ended than the venerabie, table, republican economist leaned up and imulingty but nervous! said, “general order five thirty-eight.” His rem: was unheeded, and the question on the subject just read was stated and the vote called for, when the venerable gent again su; ited ‘five thirty-eight; the vote was taken and decided in favor of the reso- lution, and then the troublesome ‘“‘five thirty-eight” was heard from. It called for the laying of gas mainsin fo pete street from Le: on to Fourth avenue, This was adopted. Then the next gen- tleman in order—he formerly of the nice curly hair— called up another order for the gentleman from up town relating to the paving of Fifty-seventh street from Third to Seventh avenue with McGonegal wooden pavement. There appeared to be a Papert! of defeat. This was too muclr for the mighty Terence, and when his turn to vote came around he gave a most du- bious “No.” The resolution was lost and the bvenéfciare moved to reconsider the vote. It was Tecongidered and the paper again laid over, after which there came a discussion on the placing of a lamp in the middle of the street at the junction of Broadway and Canal street, just where the railroad cars stop. The matter was referred back to the com- mittee and then the Board ordered the paving of 104th street from First to Fourth avenue with the Fisk concrete pavement and Howard street with the Brown and Miller wooden pavement, after which a gentleman from adown town district favored the gentleman from near ‘the other end of the avenue’ by calling up the resolution to pave Forty-sixth street from Third avenue to the East river with the McGon- egal pavement, The resolution was adopted. The resolution to appoint a general clerk was on motion of Alderman Norton indefinitely postponed, and after some further unimportant business the Board ad- journed until Monday next at two P. M. THE NATIONAL GAME. Base Ball Notes. The young men of Prattsville, Ala., have organized a club for base ball which, according to the Autuaga Citizen, is “the great Yankee game now agitating the country from centre to circumference.” They have a club in Wetumpka, Ala.j and this latter spurred the former into existence, That's right. ‘The national game will help along national unity much better than the national Congress can. The first notable game in Cleveland came off on ‘Thursday last on the new grounds of the Base Ball Association, Case avenue. The Forest City and Rail- way Union ciubs were the contestants, The latter won. Score, 21 to 14 in seven innings, ‘The Maple of New Haven and Eagle of West Haven played on Saturday last. The Maples won. Score, 30 to 25. The State tournament begins to-day. The Clifton of Buffalo and Niagara of Lockport, both Association clubs, will open the fun. . ‘The South Side ae Islip, L. I., have applied for admission tothe New York State Association. The Atlantics played their last game previous to their Western trip owe lg afternoon, on the Union grounds, Brooklyn, E. D., having for their op- ponents the plucky and pretty players, the Stara, of South Brookiyn. From the score given below it may be adjudged that the game was really @ Mne one in evel articular. Where almost all did well, it would be invidious to particularize, The little vet- eran, Pearce, was not in his place, but his substitute, McDonald, is a young man who has shown more than ordinary ability and agility asa patter and asa fielder, and for these reasons, in connection with his quiet gpd unostentatious manner and his uncor plain! apprenticeship in the ciub, should have preference as a member of the nine over others who have chiefly tricks and reputation (how- ever earned) to recommend them tothe club, Al- jhough the Atiantics are gc c le of ag their own affairs they have frien ho think (an doubtless rightly) that with Pearce in his old posi- tion at short and McDonald regularly in the flela— thus having a true Brooklyn nine—they would be aa strong as could be wished for. The Stars yesterday, one and all, shone brightly. The constellation was almost perfect, and it neéded not the assistance of lorgettes to determine that they were of the first magnitude. though small in circumference. In ordi- nary ball talk they were ‘too light waisted” to wi inst the Atlantic, and the ‘4 Tot from the ‘mi; ee succeeded in ota ok nally all but Hn of the brilliants and in leaving the score as fol- ows:— ATLANTIO, Play . 2 3 > 2 ) Players. tomo | Setememomtom” | cocmomcec™ = 83] wemmermrcceeso> wal Moon Ze Fol weocceces? r 2 Bl memcommton F Sl Som ct im Mh. 0 2 1-18 1; fy ball and ‘passed to 5 times. Club, 228 81 cummewete 8 inye—Pratt and Start, ing out Thomson and Out on fouls—Star, 3 times; At pa ee BSC ‘" a 5 ‘Time of game, 1 uour and 45 minutes, Matches to Come 0/;, June 9—Independent va. Harmonic, dune 9—Eckford vs, Mohawk, 07, Union Grounds, June 10—Mutual yé, Oriental, ¢n Union Grounds, June 11—Sock find Buskin v's, Quill and Scissors, on Union G/foihds, at one P. ¥,, June 12.Atiantic v8. National, Albany. dune 14—Kekford vs. Oriental, of New York, on Union Grounds. sive Rewer Ns ve, oa Union kage ge ‘ane 18—Union, of Morrisian . arjvilie. Unions take the eight A.M.’ train from "cwenty-alxth street. June 13—Atiantic vs. Central City, at Syracuse. June 15—Atlantio Me Youn aA Wood, U. W., at the Niagara, a i ve. Rose Hill. at Fordham. one 4 sa a eet *« TELEGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. FRANCE. The “Great Event” of the Frenck Turf—Race for the Grand Prize of Paris—Imperialisu and the People om the Course—An English Horse the Winner. Panis, June 8, 1868. The most animated, exciting and brilliant day of the French turf—exceeding in some respects the great English event of the Derby—passed at the Chantilly grounds yesterday, Sunday. An immense crowd assembied on the course, Paris pouring forth its gay and lively population im thousands from an early hour of the morning. The scene on the road differed from that observed on the way to Epsom Downs, inasmuch as the majority of the people were better dressea, more demonstrative* and chatty—in a word, more good natured towards one another than is to be seen when the “ruck’? thickens near the English resort. Imperialism, French aristocracy, the continental nobility, with a fair sprinkling of English sporting nien, students and “snobs,” biended most harmoni- ously. The Emperor. Napoleon, Eugénie, with the Prince Imperial were present and seemed to enjoy the pro- ceedings. ‘The Count de Fianders and his wife were also upom the grouna. The weather was warm and delightfully invigorat- ing and seemed to commune with humanity bent om relaxation and enjoyment. ‘The race was for the Grand Prize of Paris, an object of art, the gift of his Majesty the Emperor, and 100,000 francs ($20,000 in gold) for the then three years old entire colts and fillies of any breed and any country, added to a sweepstakes of $200 each in gold, the second to receive $2,000 in gold and the third $1,000 in gold; colts to carry 121 pounds, fillies 118 pounds, abouta mile and seven furlongs; ninety-six subscribers. The betting on the leading favorites about ten days previous to the race stood as follows:—Two to one against the Marquis of Hastings’ bay colt, The Earl, by young Melbourne, out of Bay Celia; six to one against Mr. Goddings’ bay colt, Vale Royal, by Stock- well, out of Beatrice; and fifteen to one against Mr. H. Saville’s black colt Blueskin, by Skirmisher, out of Doeskin. ‘The day before the race the betting was about as follow8:—Even on The Farl, ridden by Fordham; three to one against Suzerain, ridden by Custance; five to one against Nelusko, ridden by Grimshaw; three to one against Vale Royal; cight to one against Blueskin. On the ground on Sunday, the race day, there was hardly as much interest manifested in the result of the race as previously, for the success of the favorite horse was regarded as almost a foregone conclusion. ‘The start was good. ‘The Earl won easily. The following is the summary of the order or arrival at the winning post:— ‘The Marquis of Hasting’s b. c. The Ear) Mr. M. A. Schickler's br. c. Suzeram Count F. de Lay Panis, June 8, 1868. The Evendard, in an article on the actiop of the Austrian House of Deputies concerning the national debt, advises the Reichsrath not to adopt the pro- posed heavy tax on coupons, ENGLAND. Ex-Giovernor Eyre and the Judges. Lonpon, June 8, 1868. Chief Justice Cockburn states that the charge de- livered by Judge Blackburn to the Grand Jury which révently refused to bring a bill of indictment against ex-Governor Eyre, of Jamaica, is contrary to the opinion of the majority of the Court of Queen’s Bench. THE INDIANS. Indian Depredations in the Missouri Valley— The Savages do not Care for Peace but Want Ammunition. ‘ Sr. Louis, June 8, 1868. Helena, Montana, papers report that the Indians are stealing stock in the Missouri valley. They fired on a pal of soldiers and killed two men within sight of their tents at Camp Reeves. They also fired into the steamer Hiram Wood above Berthold, but without doing cy injury. General Terry and Father DeSmet were at Fort Kice urging peace upon the Sioux nation. The Indians say they don’t care for peace but want ammunition. Departure of the Governor for Council Greve Trouble Between Indian Tribes. Sr. Lovts, June 8, 1868, The Leavenworth Conservative of Saturday saya that Governor Crawford has gone to Council Grove to look after the reported difficulties between the Cheyennes and Kaw Indians. He will obtain from Fort Leavenworth twenty thousand rounds of car- tridges, which he will ship on the tirsi.train. The Cheyenne-Kaw War—Depredations on Diamond Creek. Sr. Louis, June 8, 1868, ‘The Topeka (Kansas) Reporter of Saturday Bays @ despatch from Junction City to Governor Crawford states that the Cheyenne Indians had left the Kaw Reservation and were on Lyon Creek, driving off set- tlers and destroying everything as they went. Advices have aiso been received from Cottonwood Falls that some fivé hundred Indians were on Dia- mond Creek, driving off stock and committing other depredations. About twenty-five families had come into Cottonwood Falls for protection. CONNECTICUT. Large Fire in Windsor—Loss $60,000. HARTFORD, June 8, 1868, ‘The tobacco warehouse and cigar factory of Colonel FE. N. Phelps, at Windsor, a brick building, 50 by 80 feet and three stories high, was totally destro; by fire about ten o’clock Sanday evening. building was also occupied by the offices of the Se- quasson Woollen Company and ‘W. M. Perkins’ shoe store. Everything was destyoyed. The loss is $60,000; insurance, $45,000, #,35,000 of which is im Hartford companies and the 'yalance divided between six New York companies. ‘fhe fire was the work of an incendiary. Excarsion of ‘{ationnl Bonrd of Trade. DING, June 8, 1868, The excursior,ists of the National Board of Trade, eighty-five in rumber, arrived here this morning by special train., From here they went over the Leb anon Valley road to Harrisburg, and, returning this afternoon, went up the Reading road to Mount Car- bon, whr,ge they remain My To-morrow they will vist @ rtion of the Schuylkill coal regi after Y/hich they will visit the Carbon, Lehigh and Luzerne regions. OREGON. ‘The Democratic Victory at the Late Election, SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 1868, The steamer Continental, from Oregon, brings fuller returns of the late election. The election of Mr. Smith (democrat) to Congress, by 750 majority ta conceded. There is also a democratic majority in the Legislature. Washington, Yamhill and Clapsop counties elect the republican ticket. The hay and grain crops promise an abundant yield. CUBA. Sugar Market—Exchange Quotations—Marine Intelligence. HAVANA, June 8, 1968. ‘The sugar market is tranquil; offers have been made of 8% reals per arrobe for No. 12 Dutch “areca London, 11.011 t pre xcI ion, ia cent a ‘on United States, currency, Ki per cent dis) , count) in gold, 1B 1 r cent diacount, Potatoes, 50 per bbl. Flour, $12 1244 per bbl. The steamstlp Mercedita, Captain Smith, arrived, ‘The steamship Virgo salted toda y.