The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New York Beravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. . Seucenesee papanwar THEATRE, Broadway.—A FPLasi OF Learning. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Soxs oF Lipenty— Pauw Ciirrorp. Peer Oy THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrry Dower. NEW STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—TH® PHAN- Tom CaPTaIN—HANDY ANDY. FRENCH THEATRE.—Ourure Aux ENPERS. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Panis ax Hau. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broad’ Tak Wars Faws. WALLACK'S THEATRE, g, Broadway and 18h street.— Tus Lorreay or Lirz. 2 SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Eraio- PiaN ENTERTAINMENTS, Sinemne, DANoIne, 4c. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 arenaway: Sones, Kooznrmicities, £c.—La!—BeLi—L. BRYANTS' OPERA HOU ‘SE, Tammany Building, 14th stree—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, ECCENTRIOITIES, &0. 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Riotous demonstrations tn sympathy with France had been made in Luxemburg, but were promptly Suppressed, The fiscal appropriations of North Ger- Many have been voted. Napoleon received the new Ministerfrom Russia with a pacific speech. The Ascot Heath (England) races opened with a Qne day's sport in presence of a brilliant assembiage Consols 95a 955%, money. Five-twenties, 73 a 73 fn London and 77% @ 77% in Frankfort. Paris Bouree dul! and heavy. Cotton dull, with middling uplands at 11% @ 1144. Breadstutfs quiet. Provisions steady. The steamship Germania furnishes our specia! Eu- Topean correspondence in interesting detaii of our cable telegrams to the 29th of May. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a memorial from Mrs. Eliza Potter, of South Carolina, setting forth that she had expended $40,000 in succoring Union prisoners during the war, and as she had been reduced to pov- erty by raids, asking to be reimbursed, was referred to the Committee on Ciaims. The bill to promote a uniform currency among all nations was reported back from the Finance Committee with amendments and a recommendation to postpone it until next ses- gion.. The Southern Restoration bill was then taken up, and Mr. Wilson's amendment to include Alabama was adopied by a vote of twenty-two to twenty-one. Some other unimportant amendments were made, and the Senate adjourned after a short executive Beasion. In the House the Burlingame embassy was re- ceived. The Speaker made an address tendering the embassy a warm welcome and Mr. Burlingame re- plied. The members of the embassy were then introduced individually to the members of the House and tuok seats in the area to observe how business was conducted. At noon they de- parted. The bili providing for the installa- tion of officers and the meeting of Legia- Jaturea in the Southern States was passed by a vote of 113 to 31. After some further unimportant business the Tax bill was again con- Gidered in Committee of the Whole, The article on brokers was amended in several particulars, foreign brokers being taxed $5,000 and Custom House brokers $20 inatead of $10, Mr. Barnes, of New York, moved to amend the paragraph relative to patent Mericines by striking out “ totlet water” and exempting manufacturers of cosmetics. Mr. Butler Opposed it, and the amendment was rejected. Mr. Butler gave notice that he would move to-day to Postpone the bill until December. Mr. Schenck, in reply, said if the House failed to act upon the bill ow the present members would never be returned again by ‘ieir constituents. The Committee soon after rose and the House adjourned. THE CITY. The Empire Club of this city held a largely at- tended meeting last evening at Masonic Hall. The club pledges to support the nominee of the Dem- ocratic National Convention for the Presidency, no matter who may be the candidate. The mention of Mr. Chase's name in this connection was enthusias- tically received, the whole meeting riving and cheer- lag vociferously. At a special meeting of the Board of Counciimen yesterday the tax levy for 1868 was received from the Board of Aldermen and laid over for future con- siieration. The Board then adjourned unt! Thurs day, ate o'clock A. M. ‘There 349 deaths in New York last week and ‘Diney-six tn Brooklyn. The cause of this great de- crease in mortality is attributed by Dr. Harris to the humidity of the atmosphere and the outdoor exer- cise taken by all classes on the cessation of the rainy SHEET. June 10, 1868. Beason. ‘Twenty-eight inquests were held in New York during the week. The anv val Sabbath school anniversary of the Gowanu's <wibath schools took piace yesterday aftar- moon. A large number of littie ones were out and seemed extremely happy. John A. Crabtree, the father of Lotta, the actress, ‘Was arrested at the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday, on en indictment charging him with robbing his Gaughter of $21,000. He was committed to the ‘Tombe for trial without bail, In the Supreme Court Circuit yesterday, before Indge Ingalls, a jury rendered a verdict in favor of Gerkin, who sued the Adams Express Company for money lost from valise while in their charge for transportation, to the full amount ciaimea— $5,204. ‘The stock market was dull and unsettied yesterday, Government securities were firm, but quiet. Gold Closed at 1394. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Honolula correspondence is dated May 9%. It @ives tho views of several distinguished men of clence in regard to the late volcanic eraptions tn Hawai, That island is still quivering with the NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. earthquake, which has been in operation for forty- one days.. The United States steamer Mohongo haa relieved the Lackawanna. A war appropriation had been called for, and our correspondent hints that it may be to enforce the withdrawal of United States vessels of war from the harbor. A water- spout in the valley of Punalua, Hawall, had caused considerable damage. Our St. Domingo letter is dated May 20. Baes is Supposed to have made the same propositions to France and England thbt he has made to the United States regarding the sale of Samand. He was perse- cuting all the eminent ‘men who do not support hia administration add numbers were being sent into exile, Venezuelan advices of @ late date state that a ® compromise had finally been agreed upon, but the terms of it are not stated. Military rule had been abolished. ‘The steamship Nevada, from New York for Vera Cruz and Sisal, with passengers and a cargo valued at $400,000, went ashore on the shoals off Cape Hat- teras on Friday, June 5, and floated off on the follow- ing day, sinking in twelve fathoms of water. The passengers and the crew, with the exception of one seaman, were saved, The vessel and cargo will prove a total loss, General Grant left Washington yesterday for Weat Point. The Chinese Embassy partook of a State dinner at the Executive mansion last evening. Among the other guests present were Baron Stoeckl, M. Ber- themy and Mr. Thornton. The Councilmanic squabble in Washington still continues. The conservative Boards met yesterday, and acommittee reported that they were again re- fused posseasion of the ballot boxes by the Register, The radical Council assembled, but for want of a quorum were unable to proceed to business. The conservative Board returning, @ quorum was declared present, and with two presidents officiating, the radical committee read the returns declaring their majority elected. The radical Board of Aldermen found their chamber door locked, but the President and two negroes overpowered the jani- tor and gained admission. The Impeachment Managers had before them yes: terday Messrs, Shelley and Van Volkenburgh, who obtained $17,000 from Wooley. A number of leading radicals in Boston propose to give a public dinner to Senator Fessenden as an en- dorsement of his integrity and independence. Gover- nor Bullock will preside, and James Russell Lowell, ex-Governor Washburn, President Hlll, of Harvard College, and other prominent radicals will be present. In the Texas Reconstruction Convention recently General Buchanan was the recipient of considerable radical abuse, one Mr. Hamilton, of Bastrop, calling him a copperhead. Propositions were made to di- vide the State and to sell a portion of it to the gene- ral government. Prospects for continued peace with the Indians are very siim. Colonel Leavenworth, an old peace- maker, who has always believed the Indians to be in the right, has expressed himself as favorable to vigorous War measures and a stoppage of the an- nuities, Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, has been re- elected. Callicott and Enright arrived at the Albany Peni- tentiary yesterday, had their heada shaved and don- ned the regulation uniform. Callicott claims that he Knows no mechanical labor and would prefer to do some light clerking. Canada 13 still vigorously preparing for war. The war ship Jason is expected soon at Montreal, and the gunboat Minstrel is bound for Prescott and Corn- wail on patrol duty. Military or Civil Government. Will the people have military government or civil government in the United States? This is, what they are to decide in the next Presidential election. This is the real issue that must be fought out between Grant as the impersonation of the republican policy and the candidate of the opposition, if the opposition has any practi- cal purpose to win the battle. There is some appearance that the opposition is not awake to this fact. The Western democracy presses its favorite candidate, Pendleton, in a way that in- dicates absolute ignorance of the true differ- ence between the parties that are to appeal to the people for support in this canvass. Its ad- vocates seem to live in the geological museums of politics, where they wander up and down muttering or shouting ‘Pendleton and demo- cratic principles!” What are these astonishing democratic principles that only Pendleton* can stand for? Pendleton is distinguished, is known to the country for one great fact—he was @ peace man during the war. But the war is over. All men are peace men now, and the distinction is gone. Can it be that these demo- crats of the West, who were so long in some ways in finding out that there had been a war, are equally unconscious now that there is peace? Is this the reason that they go on with their Pendleton hocus-pocus, shouting that they will have no leader but one whom they knew in another struggle, who came be- fore the country on an issue that is dead and dried up and who died with it ? if this is an indication of the course the democracy is to be driven into by the West they will be fighting the battle where there are none to oppose them, and will fad when the contest is over that they have wasted their effort and their ammunition. These Western democrats insist upon ignoring the issue—they insist upon occupying some other ground than that which is important in this contest. They are far away from the main point and seem determined to keep away. They are uncon- scious of the fact that politicians cannot make issues, but must accept those that are the growth of events and do what they may to direct the people in regard to these. There has been much of this folly in our political history, and nowhere more than in the career of these same spurious democrats who now desire to control the course of the opposition to Grant. Never was there a more flagrant instance of it than in the circumstance that brought Pendleton prominently before the people, The great struggle of the democracy before the war was for the country against that disorganizing coterie, the ‘‘abelitionists ;” and the democracy went on blindly fighting this mere name of “‘abolitionist” until in the changes of time the whole people were abo- litionists—until the cause of the abolitionists was the cause of the country; and. then was seen the queer spectacle of a democracy arrayed against the people, of a party fighting in the name of a country against the measures absolutely necessary to preserve the very existence of the country. There is nothing clearer than that Pendleton is not a democrat as the people are now ready to apply that term. His so-called “democratic principles” are merely the copperhead rubbish that was used during the war in opposition to the nation and the cause of the people. If the democrats intend to gtand on such principles all will rejoice in their defeat. Any party that is to win in this contest, 90 far from boasting Pendleton as its banner man, must cover him up and bide him from sight and smell; for he has no political existence save 44 an offence in the national nostrils. between civil pita or eS domina- tion in this land. Grant's success means mili- tary domination, either by his will or against his will—with his kaowledge or without it. His party is pushed to that point that it can exist only as a despotic, absolute oli- garchy. Popular vitality is departed from it ; popntar principles and the cause of the nation are eaten out of it by Butlerism and the radical rot. Its purpose is to rule, and as it cannot rule by the conseht of the people it will rule everywhere as in the South. It has rehearsed the drama in the South that it will endeavor to play in the North, and, receiving the counte- nance of the country in the coming election, time being so given to it, it will deliberately organize a new government, not only ‘‘outside the constitution,” but on the ruins of the con- stitution—a government without an Executive, without a Supreme Court and without any new Congress—the absolute and inde§nite rule of the party in power, these oligarchs legislating themselves into their places for an idefinite term, as British Parliaments have done in past times. If the people would oppose this with any chance of success they must fight it. They must not go lose themselves in the woods and shout over the dead issues of past years with ‘Pendleton and his democratic princi- ples.” They must come out and fight the enemy where he is, and they must organize their battle around a candidate whose name is fully identified with the principle they fight for—the supremacy of the law. There is no such man in the land that the democracy can rally around with any hope of : :ccess but Chief Justice Chase. The Job of Jobs—The Rroaanay, Wideniog. From time to time our citizens have been startled by the immensity an@ barefacedness of jobs and swindles, originated by either the upper or lower branch of the Common Council, having for their object simply the wholesale extraction of money from the pockets of our already overburdened taxpayers. To recount these jobs would be a needless task, as every observant man or woman must be already well acquainted with their general characteristics. But one of the most glaring ‘‘striking” opera- tions of the City Hall leeches is the* recent attack on Broadway, from Seventeenth street to the Park. This job was started in the lower branch of the municipal managers, and although a show of honesty has been made by allowing parties interested in the result of the project to ventilate their views on the aubject, no other conclusion can be arrived at, from the progress of the matter thus far, than that a direct bid is made for pecuniary influence on either one side or the other. The honest and respectable portion of the property owners and leaseholders on the line of the pro- posed widening have with remarkable force and unanimity protested against the scheme as a proceeding wholly uncalled for and one which, if carried out, would result in entailing an enormous tax on the property in the neigh- borhood, in imposing an additional assessment on the city at large and in destroying the util- ity of that portion of Broadway as a business thoroughfare. The Councilmen assert that it will cost only about three millions of dollars to complete the proposed widening, and that by making Broad- way one hundred and fifty feet wide it will but add to the beauty of the city by continuing the Boulevard downward to Seventeenth street. These assertions were most emphatically con- tradicted by the property owners, who showed conclusively that it would cost from fourteen millions to twenty millions of dollars, at the very least, to carry the job out successfully. The question naturally arises, by whom is this widening of Broadway asked for? The answer was given at one of the sessions of the com- mittee bythe chairman, who, in reply to a large property holder, said, ‘‘It aurgenated in a resilution in the Boord.” The property owners did well, perhaps, to attend and pro- test against the project before the committee, but they were foolish to go to any expense in preparing documents and maps to elucidate the subject, and should have waited to see if these fellows would dare—despite the earnest and universal protest of honest citizens, despite the recent decisions of the courts, despite the well settled question of their want of authority in such a matter and without the advice of their legal director~sttempt to carry on the work and destroy tho finest business thorough- fare of the metropolis for the benetit only of Aldermanic or Counclimaaic cormorants and railroad corporation: Pho Question of Peace or War in Karepe. Is itto be peace or war in Europe? The Nord, a Brussels paper ambitious of being al- ways well informed as to the secrets of the courta and cabinets of Europe, imforms us that it is the prevailing opinion in Paris that war will break out before the close of next autumn. We have no such opinion. We have already within a fow days given our reasons in these columns whyiwe did not consider war in Europe an early probability. How the Nord may have received its information we do not profess to know, but we must be permitted to say that nothing has occurred in the inter- val to induce us to change our opinion. All that the paper referred to tells us is simply this, that war rumors are prevalent in Paris; as if Paris could be Paris without war rumors, In another place in this day's Herap we publish a telegram received from Boston stating that a letter had been received in that city to the effect that the Greek government had received the Cretan deputies, thus virtually recognizing Crete to be a part of the Greek kingdom, and that the probable result would be war between Turkey and Greece—a war which might acquire European dimeasions, It is sufficient anawer to this letter to say that since it could have been written we have had a telegraphic despatch from most reliable sources in Europe to the effect that the Greek government had positively refused to recognize the Cretan deputies—a telegraphic despatch which has not since been contradicted, as it certainly would have been if this Boston letter had cor- fectly reported the case. Elsewhere there is no cause of war; and even if the Greek govern- ment could be guilty of such folly as the letter implies, Europe and the world generally would not only not be approving, but would show indignation by leaving Greece to her fate. Turkey is strong enough to deal with Greece. Ruasia ia the only Power which could be Lot the people mot be deceived by these | expected to reveal Gracian sympathy in the selfish and pitiful clamorers, Tho roql save ig promises; but Bussia is as little willing at tho sae moment to be entangled in a a Western war as any of the great Powers. Our voice must still be for peace until we have satisfac- tory news to the contrary. Public Executions in Engjand. The report of the execution by hanging of Michael Barrett, the Fenian ‘‘conspirator,” at Newgate, London, which we published in the Herat yesterday, evidences at many points of the narration that humanity is about to vindicate itself in Great Britain, and that the public sentiment of the country is being slowly revolutionized toward a degree of refinement eminently calculated to enable the English people to win the fullest amount of political freedom, and, what is more important still, fit them for its enjoyment when obtained. Barrett's case was attended with great atrocity ; his defence in court, with the exertions made in his behalf after sentence, surrounded it with considerable romance ; he was an Irish- man, to be strangled in the prime of life, and Calcraft was to operate. Yet we learn that the space in front of the scaffold was scarcely filled, that the English ‘‘rough” was an object of curiosity instead of being ‘“‘master of the situation,” while it does not appear that a sin- gle word of acrimonious observation passed between the Irish and British nationalities on the occasion. The surrounding windows, af- fording a sight of the ‘‘drop,” were almost un- tenanted; there was no assemblage on the previous night; no payments for guinea and five guinea seats, and the London journals say nothing of demoralized crowds congregated in the “gin palaces,” as on like occasions in days just past. The mental serenity of the convict, as he looked at the sunlight for the last time, was un- disturbed by noisy demonstrations, and Michael Barrett was permitted to pass from life in a manner so different from that in which Courvoisier, Mra. Manning and Muller appeared on the same gallows that the London Zines, with its instinctive appreciation of coming change, predicts that his death on the rope makes the last public execution in England. The repeal of the taxes on knowledge, with the railroad, the telegraph and mail communica- tion by steam with America have regenerated the mind of the English masses to a very healthy extent. The prize ring has disap- peared, the public house is less frequented, the “boarding spike” and cutlass passed away with the ‘“‘wooden walls,” and the gigantic Life Guardsman will soon be ranked with the many- coated stage coachman, as an object of curiosity in uniform. Citizen amalgamation is produc- ing a community of good feeling. There is no triumph over an Irishman dead in Newgate, and it is to be hoped that within a few years Britain, emancipated from baronial ‘“‘privi- leges," will atand forth redeemed from the many demoralizations which their exercise produced among her ohildren. The Absorption ef Mexico. Our telegraphic despatches inform us that Senor Romero is on his way to the United States, and authorities differ as to the purpose of his visit. Some say he comes to geta wife ; others that he only wants to make a new treaty and borrow some few millions of dollars. Before he gets a wife, if that is what he wants, he ought to have a country; and before he borrows money they who are to lend it should weigh nicely the peculiarities of the investment. The truth is that money lent to Mexico is thrown away. Interest is never paid, of course ; the principal is repudiated when the govern- ment deems it worth while to make even that recognition of the existence of the debt, and if the lender is caught in the country demanding payment he is taken out and shot in the angle of some;convent wall, and is left to be buried by the accumulating filth. That is a résumé of the financial history of the republic. Is there any promise in the social or political con- dition of the country justifying the hope that in this regard the future will be unlike the past? None whatever. Since the ‘‘triumph” of the republican forces over the empire Mexico has gone steadily downward, and her progress seems to gain momentum every hour. Beginning with that atrocious butchery, the murder of Maximilian, the government has never failed to teach the people by example that there is only one settlement for every offence. It has denied with all the energy in its power that there is any such thing as a moral control over men. It paid all ecores in musketry. Thus taught—perbaps hardly in need of the teaching—the people have come to act.on the same plan. Any faction that is dis- appointed revolts and fights; any party that is defeated declares’ war; any man who has debts to pay takes to casting bullets or steals a dagger. Over the whole nation one indis- criminate scene of tumult and violence pre- vails. Commerce is dead, for no roads are safe, and even the small trade in necessaries that goes on at centres of population is con- ducted furtively, since it is dangerous to be known to have either goods or money. What is the remedy? What is to be done with States when from the failure of law so- ciety is likely to be utterly destroyed and the scene of erewhile prosperous government to close in returning barbarism? What is the remedy when a nation becomes a nuisance in the community of nations and a reproach to civilization in moral aspects, while in more practical ones it effects a common injury by keeping back from the wealth and comfort of the world the contribution of its peculiar pro- ducts? It is, then, for neighboring Powers to reflect whether they have not a duty to per- form. Before this we have had to weigh the same thought with regard to the same country. During the Presidency of Mr. Buchanan it was discussed in his Cabinet whether, in view of the then horrible condition of Mexico, we were not, in the interests of civilization and humanity, called upon to interfere in the affairs of that country.’ Our deliberations resulted then in steps that might have led to the establishment of « protectorate; but before we had gone #0 far the great rebellion broke ont and gave us all we could do at home. While the nar wae on our hands France endeavored to establish the empire, but was compelled to relingtish it when peace once more left us free. Her inter- ference and forced retirement have only ag- gravated the condition and made matters worse than ever. The war armed all the desperadoes afresh, gave new pretexts for every ontrage; and there lies that rich and beautiful country struggling in her agony like a man possessed with devils, Can we leave her so? Aside from considerations of humaa duty, ia it safe for us to have auch a political slough lying there breeding pestilence on our border, or safe to leave there near us for so many years a con- stant reason and excuse for the interference of European Powers in the domestic concerns of an American State? Any complication that tied our hands would produce an empire better organized than the last. For all reasons we believe that we should absorb Mexico, and we believe the democrats would doa wise thing if they should make the absorption of that coun- try a feature in their national policy. Russian Successes in the East—Asia Under New Conditions, It is not many years since Asia was com- paratively a sealed book to the Western World. The British, it was known, had built up a mighty empire in India, to which they were year by year making large and important addi- tions. The British empire in India had in fact become a wonder of the world and the object of envy to all the monarchies of Europe. The success of British arms, however, had driven the French from Hindostan and from the Asiatic Continent. Russia was the only European Power besides Great Britain which had a firm foothold in that part of the world. Territorially the Russian empire in Asia was infinitely larger than that of Great Britain; but while Great Britain held possession of an immense peninsula which was at once more densely peopled and more productive than any other part of Asia, Asiatic Russia was a barren and frozen waste and useful chiefly as a prison house for unfortunate Poles. The altered condition of things which modern science has begotten has Yor some time been revolutionizing Asia as it has already revolu- tionized Europe and America. The British have been steadily marching northward until they have reached the confines of Persia on the west and of China on the northeast, Russia, meanwhile, yielding to the spirit which has characterized the Northern races in all ages, has been just as steadily marching south- ward. The result is that Turkestan has been the only country which separated Russia and Great Britain. So matters stood until re- cently. Our latest news, however, from that part of the world shows that Russia has not only found her way into the heart of Turkes- tan, but has made herself master of Bokhara, the capital of that country, and has pushed her way as far as Sammercand, a city of ancient renown, and not many hundreds of miles from the British frontier. If Russia follows out her hereditary policy Turkestan will be- tome an integral part of the Russian empire, and in the valley of Cashmere and the Punjab Great Britain and Russia will moet face to face. From this point of view the capture of Bok- hara is an event of positive importance. In the event of another war between Russia and Great Britain the brunt of the battle may have to be borne on the plains ot Hindostan. It is now not so improbable as it once was, and as a certain school of prophets have long maintained, that in the battle of Arma- geddon Russia and Great Britain are to be the principal combatants. wisdom of Disreali’s saying a few months ago—a saying which was much ridiculed at the time—that Great Britain had become more an Asiatic than an European Power, is now appa- rent to allthe world. Itis only truth to say that this latest conquest of Ruasia will have a powerful and determining influence on the future policy of the British government. All this is unquestionably important; but it is, after all, secondary to this other considera- tion, that it is one of the many sources of influ- ence now at work to bring the entire Continent of Asia under the control of modern or Western civilization. The. book is not only no longer sealed; it is open, being read and it must be read more and more. Japan is now in the agony of revolution the only result of which can be the opening of the entire country to the com- merce of the world. The Burlingame mission from China is another illustration of the same truth. The Chinese government feels and ac- knowledges the folly of exclusiveness, and through the United States seeks intercourse with the rest of the world. Under the com- bined influence of Russia, Great Britain and the United States of America the day is not far distant when the entire Asiatic Continent will be intersected with railroads and telegraph wires; when her coasts and ker vast rivers will be covered with steamboas; when her pro- ducts will be inevery market, and when her untold wealth will give « pewerful impulse to the trade and enterprise of the. nations. Considering our proximity as a people to the ‘astern nations of Asia, it ‘s impossible but that we must benefit largely by the develop- ment of the resources of tht vast Continent. Railways and telegraphs wil by and by con- nect Central Asia with the great centres of Europe. Much, however, asEurope will gain, America must gain more; and the gain will be reaped principally, if n¢ entirely, by the United States. Not only will jelegraphs, steam- boats and railways soon bring China and Japan nearer to the United States than to Europe, but they will make it a necesity for Chins and Japan in seeking European narkets to trans- mit and receive. their movhandise via the United States. The interic of this country will thus be developed, Sm Francisco and New York will become the most prosperons cities in the world, and ral estate in both cities, in New York particulrly, will reach a point unknown in the conte history of the world. Another Bs “Indian hand Job. It is reported from Wastngton that the Osage aation has been indued, by promises and intimidations, to sell eightmillion acres of land on their reservation to a rivate party at twenty cents an acre, payables fifteen years, when better bids were made b other parties. All these stories about swindlig the Indians by private parties upon the complaints of other private parties should se taken with some grains of allowance. Welo not believe ssingle private party hae had dealings with the Indians for the gale of theirinds; and we fear it is the same with public arties for the last quarter of a century where he rights and interests of the Indians have ben fairly and squarely recognized. Among orivate com- panies and individuals it is th old game of diamond cut diamond; each i striving to make the best bargain he can sith the igno- rant savages, and each is equallynscrupulous as to the means employed. The rhole subject of purchases of large tracts of lads from the Indians should be undor the dirs supervision The | of Congress. By that aeans the lands would be kept out of the nands of the great capital- ists and greedy land monopolista, the rights of the Indians be better protected, and the poor settler and emigrant have a better chance to obtain good farms at fair prices. Mr. Schenck’s Tax Bill. : There does not appear to be much of a pros- pect that the Internal Tax bill reported by Mr. Schenck in the House of Representatives will get through very soon, if at all this session of Congress. It seems to answer the purpose, however, of giving the members an oppor- tunity for ventilating their ideas on general politica and all sorts of subjects when the. House is in Committee of the Whole. Nor ought the bill to pass. It is the crudest attempt: at legislation for raising revenue that ever was’ seen, and shows how incapable the present Congress is of treating financial and revenue questions. The firat object is to make the Internal Revenue Bureau an independent department of the government, responsible neither to the Secretary of the Treasury nor to the President— to make it, in fact, a government within a gov- ernment, with absolute power over the whole internal revenue system and two or three hundred. millions of taxes. It is a most astounding proposition, and could emanate from none but those of the most radical and revolutionary tendencies.. The idea of making the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, a mere head of a bureau, on a eomparatively small salary, independent of the President of the United States, is preposterous. The enormous patronage, and the management of internal tax- ation amounting to hundreds of millions, to be placed beyond the control or supervision of the constitutional. Executive, would be an alarming stride in revolutionizing the government. It is in direct conflict with the constitutional preroga- tives of the President, for he is sworn to see the laws executed; it would disorganize the government and open the door to far greater frauds and corruption than already exist. The astounding revenue frauds that have come te light may be traced in a great measure to the interference of Congress for partisan purposes with the legitimate powers of the President, and now it is proposed to take away his power altogether over the revenue system. Itisa monstrous proposition, and amounts to the abrogation of the constitutional executive department of the government.’ The way te prevent frauds is not to interfere with the appointments and power of the President, and then to hold him responsible for the execution of the laws. As to the cumbrous system of taxation to be extended and perpetuated by this interminable and incomprehensible bill, we can. hardly aud language strong enough to condemnit. Instead of raising revenue chiefly from a few artiotes of luxury in common use, as Great Britaia does, taxes .are imposed upon everything. There is hardly an article of necessity or in use that is not taxed. The conséquence is that the cost of collection eats up a large amount of the income, while fraud becomes universal and the whole community corrupted. Whiskey and other spirits, with tobacco aad all other such luxuries that are more injurious than beneficial, should pay the highest taxes that can be got from them. These would sup- ply,a sufficient revenue, if collected, without extending taxation to necessaries or to the hundreds of articles included in this monstrous bill. As to saying the whiskey tax of two dol- lars a gallon, or other taxes on luxuries, oan- ” not be collected, is absurd—is to say, in fact, that we have no government. They can be collected and would be collected, if Congresa were not to interfere with the power of the President and were to make and hold him re- sponsible. An internal tax bill of a few pages, including only a limited number of articles, is all that is necessary to raise an ample reve~ nue. Congress is wasting its time over the monstrous bill introduced by Mr. Schenck. If there are any statesmen in that. body—any who can grasp this subject of revenue and finance—they have the finest opportunity to im- mortalize themselves and to benefit the coun- try by introducing a comprehensive and simple measure of internal taxation in place of the one now before the House. Horry Ur Twat Avaska Parent. —If Coa- gress should not soon pay Russia. the palry sum of seven millions for Alaska the Russian government may back out of the bargaia, ¢r some enterprising foreige land compang, tele- graph company or gold and copper mining company will bid higher for it. There are al- ready indications of vast mineral wealth ia that Territory, and individuals may soon take advantage of the stupidity and procrastination of Congress to make a better bargain for Rus- sia. We are utterly astonished at the delayia paying for this country. In the course of a few years it will be worth much more than the sum to be paid for telegraphic purposes to Asia, to say nothing of the mineral wealth, the fisheries, the vast timber lands and other re- sources. The conduct of Congress in not ap- propriating the money promptly to pay for what the government engaged to pay is mean, stupid and short-sighted. OBITUARY. Commander Richmond Aulick, U. 8. N. Commander Aulick, of the United States Navy, died on Monday night at Washington, in the fortieth yoar of his age. He was a native of Connectious, ‘Dut entered the service as a cadet from the State of Virginia October 10, 1840. After a period of nearly eleven years of sea service and about thirteen years of miscellaneous duties in connection with the by <4 he was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance Washington Navy Yard. health bas for yeara interfered w! duties for which his abilit ea eminen vawory, and® under the indetatigable Maury under e wards 80 revetlious—he discharged duties of ‘i ——] consequence to science at large aad to the United States in particuiar. PUBLIC DINNER IN BOSTON TO SENATOR FESSENDEW, (From the Evening Telegram of yesterday.) Boston, Jane 9 tase. I(t appears that some of the leading radicals here. abouts are inciined to keep aloof from the movemenms to read ont of the y certaim Senators. whe voted against the im) it of President Johnson, for @ project is now on foot here to tender the ment of @ public dinner to Senator the purpose of his integrity and i yh appreciation of his independence oat ir Antelt ead me 7 a a sito, ota inent radicals who wiil bet rene Yond ‘toned ex-Governor Wessun Prone nay i a of Harvard College, and James Ruaselt Lowell. ATTAMPTRD SUTOIDE.—It was reported at police headqnarters last night that a woman namet Augen- meror, residing at the corner of Lloth stra and Rieventh attempted to 5 aurcite baat even Wy ae nip ac fedtionl aid waa Saitod hog 08 and alg ia cow out of danger.