The New York Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD . BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volame XX XIII. Sq AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Pate BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sons ov Listery— Pact CLirronp, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Homrty Dumpty. NEW STADT THEAT! 45 and 47 Bowery.—Tuk Puan- tow CartTain—ToM CRINGLE's Log. FRENCH THEATRE.—OnrHer Aux ENvEens. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. - Paris AND HELEN, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tua Wurre FAWH. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1h street. ‘tae Lorreny or Lirz. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—A FLASH OF LIGHTNING. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Eturo- PLAN ENTERTAINMENTS, BINGING, DANCING, de. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Soxcs, TRIGITIRG, &c.—La !—BeLL—L. N. NTS’ OPE! USE, Tammany Building, 1th eee ETS ee arsoranust, EourNtRicttigs, &0. ‘THEATRE COMIQUB, 514 Broadway.—BauLer, Faron, 20. TONY PASTOR'S 01 Vooatism, Necuo Mt IRVING HALL, Irving place, CRRTAINMENT. A HOUSE, 201 Bowery.-Comio ELBY, Ac. BEAT MONOLOGUE EN- CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PorULaR GARDEN CONCERT. TERRACK GARDEN—Porctar Gaupen Concer. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— PionrEs PaTgtot—Youna Wipow, HOOLGX’S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Eraiorian MINGTRELSY—A Tur TO Panis. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE.—OvR AMERICAN CousiN—PooR PiLLcoppy. BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, corner of Atlantic and Clin- ton atreets.—BLinp TOM. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ROIENCE AND ART. No. 513 BROADWAY.—WONDERFUL FREAK OF NATURE SHEET. New York, Thursday, By special telegram from Belgrade, ‘orwarded by way of London and through the Atlantic cable, we learn that Prince Michel the Third, ruler of Servia, was shot down by three assassins armed with re- volvers, in the first named city, yesterday eveping. Prussia is about to extend and strengthen the for- tifications at Cologne. The North German govern- ment invites an international, European and Ameri- can, arrangement to secure private property at sea in time of war. The state domain of Austria is to be sold. The Cunard mail steamsbip Cuba, Captatn Moodle, which left Liverpool onthe 0th and Queenstown the Sist of May, arrived at this port at an carly hour yesterday morning, bringing @ mail report in detail ofour cable despatches dated to the day of sailing from Engiaad. CONGRESS. in the Senate yesterday the bill to amend the Mall ‘ransportation act in the clause relating to the matis in the Western Territories was passed by a vote of | twenty-six to twelve. The conference report on the Naval Appropriation bill was concurred in, The Southern Restoration bill was then taken up. Mr. Sherman's amendinent striking out the fundamental vondition imposed upon Georgia relative to certain debts was rejected. Several other amendments were acted upon, and the question finally being upon the passage of the bill Mr. Sumner read @ long oration from manuscript in favor of it. The bill was then passed by a vote of thirty-one to five, and the Senate at a quarter of eleven o'clock adjourned, In the House a bill to increase the revenue from «luties on imports and tending to equalize exports and imports was reported from the Committee on Ways and Means, ordered to be printed and referred itis published in full in our Congressional to-day. The bill for the relief of two as oficials elect was passed. The bill author- wing @ contract with @ New York steamship company for the transportation of mails and emi- granta between New York and a port in Europe was amended and passed. The bilt for the erection of the new Post Office in New York was reported from the committee, ordered to be printed and recommitted. The House then went into Committee of the Whole om the Tax bill, the call of yeas and nays on the sub- ject resulting yeas $2, nays 57. Five paragraphs re- tating to the special whiskey tax were reached, but reserved until the direct tax could be disposed of. A substitute for the clause on cigar makers, reileving them of all tax but requiring them to register, was igrecd to, Finally, having reached page 124 of the hill, the House at twenty minutes afier ten o'clock adjourned, THE CITY. ‘The Jerome Park Course opened yesterday with four races—-for the Fordham stakes, the Beimont stakes, Wie Hopeful stakes anda premium of $800. | personal popularity. These things, however, The frst, a handicap dash of one mile and a quarter, was won by newall Jackson; the second, for three year olds, by General Duke; the third, for two year | Of the Western democracy, They have rallied vlds, by Bonnic Lass, afd the fourth by Generat | around bim as the embodiment of their ideas McMahon. on the political questions of the day. He be- The Board of Supervisors met in their chamber in the new Court House for the first time yesterday. it is gorgeously furnished, and is intended also for the use of the Court of Appeals. The county tax ry from Negrete or Otega, Civil war twagain threatened in Matamoros, - By the arrival of the steamer Columbia from | Havana, June 6, we have Mexico city favices to May 20, The troops lately engaged in suppressing General Martinez have been recalled, @ portion of them under General Arce going to join in the pur- suit of Rivera, ‘The revolutionists in Querétaro who pronounced for Santa Anna are quitepowerful. Dr, Larriozabal, of Venezuela, who was imprisoned for complicity in Rivera's treason, has been | released, Negrete had made a narrow escape from capture by Bocardo's forces, Congress of all its railroad pro- Jects had provided for only one, a donkey road be- tween Vera Cruz and Jalapa, the steam railroad en- terprises ai! being defeated, Our mail advices from Aspinwall contain tate in- telligence from Central America, Chile and Peru, ‘The yellow fever continues to rage in Nicaragua and Pern. Two hundred persons are dying daily in Lima. Ex-President Prado, of Peru, was banqueted at Santiago, Chile, on the 2d of May, New Orleans also has @ municipal muddle, Mr, Conway, the recently elected Mayor of the city, was refused permission yesterday to assume the duties by Mayor Heath, who was appointed by General Sheridan, and who denied the legality of the late election. General Buchanan afterwards sent an ald, who had Heath arrested and formally instatled Con- way. <A writ of quo warranto was immediately issued by one of the district judges, but its effect is as yet unknown. The New Jersey Democratic State Convention assembled at Trenton yesterday and elected dele- gates to the National Convention in New York. Another ocean yacht race is arranging between ves- sels of only two and @ half tons. Andrew Arin- strong, the only survivor of the wreck of the yacht John T. Ford, and F, E. Fitch, mate of the little Red, White and Blue, are to command the contesting vessels, . A large republican ratification meeting was held in Faneuil Hall, Boston, last evening. Three thousand persons were present, and speeches were made by Generals Hawley, Sargent and others. The Massachusetts State Temperence Convention, through their committee, have published an address urging the republicans of the State to place the republican party on a prohibition basis. A monthly steamship, line for the conveyance of mails between New Orleans and Belize, Honduras, has been established. The Democracy, Mr. Chase and the Presi- dency—Mr. Pendleton’s Position—The East and the West. We lay before our readers this morning a very interesting and suggestive letter, setting forth the position of Mr. Pendleton and the Western democracy on the Presidential ques- tion and the great issues upon which they pro- pose to fight their battle in the approaching National Democratic Convention. From this fetter it will be seen that the attitude of Mr. Pendleton and the views of the Western demo- eracy in reference to Mr. Chase are very sharply defined. Between them and the East- ern democrats the line of division on the financial issue seems to us as broadly marked and deeply cut as that which separated the Western supporters of Douglas, at Charleston, in 1860, from the Southern supporters of Jeff Davis (headed by B. F, Butler, of Massachu- setts), on the slavery question. Mr. Pendleton is the champion of the West against all comers, and especially against Chief Justice Chase. In truth, the fight as to the democratic candidate has been rapidly nar- rowed down to Chase or Pendleton, the East or the West. Inbehalf of their favorite and his platform the men of the West are preparing for a vigorous fight in the new Tammany Hall, and Pendleton is with them. He is in for it, and his eye is resolutely fixed upon the White House. His supporters cannot understand the consistency of their brethren of the East in their sudden and surprising enthusiasm for Chase. The Western democrats cannot see how Chase can be made the democratic candidate without an entire recantation of all the party principles to which he stands committed or the absolute aban- donment of their ancient party faith by the Tammany Convention. The Western dele- gates can find nothing but antagonism to their principles in those of Mr. Chase on banks, bonds, currency and debt, and no common “half-way house of diplomatic rest” on negro suffrage or negro rights. Lastly, it appears, in the estimation of the Western democrats, that Chase lacks those elements of personal popu- larity so essential to success and which Pen- dieton so largely possesses. Hence it may be | his people? safely assumed that the West will leave no stone unturned to defeat the nomination of Chase. : But wherein lies the wonderful strength of Pendleton, this Samson of the West, among He is « man of fine abilities, good presence, high character, genial manners, and in his immediate community a man of great have not made him the Presidential favorite lieves in State rights and State sovereignty touching the question of suffrage, and s0 do they. He holds, and 80 do they, that for the levy was approved, and the Comptroller was directed | fifteen, sixteen or seventeen hundred millions to tssue bonds for the County Court House stock to | of five-twenty bonds afloat the holders have the amount of $500,000, bearing interest at six per cent, Three men, paintera, were precipitated from a lad- ier scaffold in Front street, near Fletcher, yesterday, ® distance of thirty feet, to the ground. Two of them were instantly killed and the third was severely cepted dnjured, It is shown by the financial statements of the city authorities of Brooklyn that the cost of maintaining | @Xcrescence, ‘the parks for 1869 will amount to $68,300. The cost of maintaining the Fire Department will be, trenchment, economy and a sinking fund, $170,933 33; for the police, $576,553 35; for public achools $632,000 is asked; for city purposes, $572,200. ‘The celebrated Peruvian bond case, in which An- tonto Millan, @ Peruvian agent, and Domingues, the Consul of Ecuador, were arrested, was decided yes. | Mr, Pendleton respond, “‘Amen and amen. terday by Judge Nelson in favor of Millan and Do- Even so shall it be.” mingues. The decision orders thetr discharge and fully vindicates their character in the transaction. noright to demand gold in redemption, and that they must be satisfied with the national paper declared by law a legal tender in pay- ment of all debts not specially by law ex- He demands the abolition of the national banking system as a useless and costly the taxing of the govern- ment bonds and provisions through re- with a view to the extinction of the national debt within five or ten years; and to all these propositions the followers of He might go farther without diminishing the number of his adhe- In the United States District Court yesterday the | rents; and doubtless their enthusiasm in sup- case of the United States va. Mullee, in which defend- | port of his platform arises largely from the be- wat is charged with violation of an injunction | jief that it means more—much more--than it stitution with the ratifications of the recon- structed Southern States, and thus the suffrage question will be settled on the basis that snf fr'age and representation shall go together, as each State for itself may elect, whether a uni- versal or restricted policy; and go this question will be ont of the way. It would appear, then, that there is really nothing in the antecedents or fixed principles of Chase to prevent his nomination as the demo- cratic candidate; for with this article fourteen (the distinguishing features of his whole creed) will be the constitution, and 80 beyond dispute, on the money question as well as the suffrage question, The late democratic Legislatures of Ohio and New Jorsoy repealed the ratifications of said amendment made by those States the year before; but with the ratifications made and soon to be made in the South that amend- ment will still have the endorsements of three- fourths of all the States, and will so be pro- claimed # part of the constitution, It may be so considered now. Unless, therefore, the Western democrats intend to fight this amond- ment, which swept the country from Maine to California in 1866, they cannot fight Chase; and if they make hostility to this amendment a sine gua non they willbe swamped as they were in 1866, The Pendleton men, however, claim to hold the majority of the Democratic | Convention, and they evidently intend, first, to demand their platform. If they succeed in this, as they calculate to do, they will doubt- less secure their candidate, and they will go | before the people for another defeat, more dis- astrous than that of McClellan, saddled with Pendleton, in 1864. The Reception of the Chinese Embassy by Congress. + The House of Representatives showed marked consideration to the Chinese Embassy in for- mally receiving Mr. Burlingame and his asso- ciates on Tuesday. Whatever we or the Chi- nese may think about the members individually, they are in their official position the repre- sentatives of the people and of @ great nation, and their unanimous vote to honor the Embassy by a formal reception on the floor of the House shows the importance attached to the mission and the wish to distinguish it in the highest manner possible. Though any embassy from China would have been well received by our government and people, the reception in this case, doubtless, has been more cordial because the chief ambassador is one of our own citi- zens, and @ gentleman who had in former years distinguished himself as a representative in that very House where he appeared on Tues- day as the Minister for China. The repre- sentatives of the American people and the people themselves feel proud of the honor con- ferred upon Mr. Burlingame and the compli- ment paid to this country by the im- perial government of China, This brilliant appointment gives the fullest assurance that the Chinese government has revolution- ized its former exclusive policy as regards foreigners; that it desires to enter into the family of nations; that the mission means—-as Mr. Burlingame says—progress, good will, a broader trade and more intimate relations with the Western World, and that the United States is regarded as the first ally among the great Powers to aid China in carrying out this new, liberal and progressive policy. The Chinese government, no doubt, will fully appreciate the cordial reception given to the Embassy by Congress, the Executive and the whole people of the United States. The address of the Speaker (Mr. Coifax) to Mr. Burlingame and his associates was well conceived, though, as might have been expected from him, it was clothed in very florid language. Still this natural exube- rance of fancy in Mr. Colfax was not alto- gether ont of place; for the arrival of such an embassy was a great event, and the occasion of its reception was worthy of some extra eloquénce. Mr. Burlingame’s response to the Speaker's address of welcome was in his pecu- liarly felicitous style, It opens more fully to our view the general objects of the mission than anything he had said before publicly. ‘‘It is,” he remarked, ‘‘a mighty revolution,” “‘Itis the Occident and the Orient for the first time in that electric contact whose touch makes the world kin; it is the meeting of two civilizations which have hitherto revolved in separate spheres.” He tells us that the Em- bassy is the herald of good will, that by it China seeks friendship and equality with other nations and the good of all, and, what is more direct and practical still, that China invites us and the rest of the world to a broader trade. All he asks from the West is a fair response to these liberal aspirations on the part of the Chinese—‘‘a fair and open policy, instead of one founded on prejudice and on that assump- tion of superiority which is justified neither by physical ability nor by moral elevation.” This he will get, undoubtedly, from the United States, and, we believe, from the Powers of Europe as well. From the success of the mission here the Embassy will cross the Atlantic with a prestige and strength that will make it successful everywhere ; for it holds out the same hand of friendship and offers the same advantages to all the Western nations, Looking at the mission in every point of view it must be regarded as one of the most remark- able events of modern times, and we shall watch its progress with the greatest interest. Divipina Texas.—It is not much in favor of any movement that it originates with the Com- mittee on Reconstruction; yet despite this origin we are disposed to regard with favor the bill to make three States where there 1s now but one--in Texas. Texas is imperial in propor- f in the Goodyear patent rubber sult, came says. “p om application to diachat the ri woner, and tie court reserved ths decision. The On the other hand, as representatives of the case of the United States against William Doran, | Eastern democracy on the money question, the indicted for counterfeiting, was postponed until next |“opinions of Messrs. Seymour, Belmont and week. Satan Byrne pleaded guilty of passing coun- | Barlow are substantially embraced in the tetfelt currency, and sentence was deferred to enable Chi blicae plstform, shaped the prisoner to produce evidence of previous good to cover character in mitigation of punishment, The case of | the East and the West. The national banks the United States vs. E. L. Watson will be called on | and bonds are mostly to be found in the Hast, for trial to-day. The prisoner is charged with de- franding the government by ilictt distillation of weiskey. A large number of condemnations in in- ternal revenue cases were also ordered, and the parties 1y interested in them hold the balance of . In the West the masses who are not direclly interested {in them are in The celebrated Forman will case came up yester. | an overwhelming majority. Hence the repub- day at Supreme Court, General Term, on appeal from an order of the Surrogate admitting to probate +8 one will two papers propounded as the last wit lican plattorm is ingeniously adapted to both sides of the house, and if the democrats at- aud testament of Ann Maria Forman. Decision re. | tempt a different game they will lose New rverds ri MISCELLANEOUS. Gur special correspondent in Brownsville tele. graphs that Santa Anna’s agents are preparing for an invasion of Mexico from that place. Bagdad will iil immediately move on Monterey at @ signal k by the fllibusters on the 14th inst., and a York or Ohio, or perhaps both. On the ques- tion of negro suffrage we are told that not even the constitutional amendment known as article fourteen will satisfy the Western demo- crate, But within a few weeks the amend- ment will become part and parcel of the con- tions and will make three States of ample size, and this partition was foreseen and pro- vided for in the act of snnexation. No State government in such a country can well be efficient over #0 great an area, and this is rea- son enough, We have no doubt the popula- tion fully justifies the formation of the new States; for the population of Texas increased during the war by the stampede across’ the Mivelesippl, and has boon increasing ever since, ' Sorprmers vor +18 Porg.—The American bishops, in full acd oot unnatural sympathy with his Holiness Pio Nono in his many present troubles, have proyoved to provide an addition to his botyyeerd Hin Holiness, with knowledge wort which, though it may Surprise twvy wv wA unworthy of him, has replied thet wv wt unwilling to receive the addition W% We vv®yyoard; but he at the same timo pula Set the mon from the United DAY, JUNE 11, } 4 eres . tT States, taking it for granted that they are good Catholics, must be sent at the expense of his friends in the United States, must be main- | tained while in Rome at their expense, aud i when the time comes at which they ought to go home, must be taken back without in any way annoying the Papal Treasurer. All this is very well. It is very wise on the part of the Pope, and if his friends here wish to make Rome a barrack we can have no objection, of the Spring Meetiag ut Jerome Park. The 9th of Sune had been appointed for the first day of the Ascot races and for the first day of the spring meeting at Jerome Park. A violent rain storm postponed the latter for twenty-four hours. Otherwise we should have again shown how nearly the Atlantic telegraph has brought together the Old World and the | New World by publishing simultaneously accounts of both these fashionable race mect- ings. ‘The meeting at Jerome Park opened yester- day most auspiciously with a day so bright and cool as’ to duplicate that which old George Herbert called ‘‘the bridal of the earth and sky.” After the cleansing rain the city itself wore a holiday air, as if in honor of the day, while the Central Park and Jerome Park looked their loveliest. The verdure of their grass and foliage was intense; their spring and early summer fidwers bloomed gayly forth, and the finest effects of all the modern improvements in land- scape gardening were admirably illustrated in both parks. The birds sang merrily, and even if they were as unconscious of the festive occa- sion as were the swans on the picturesque lakes and as the parked deer, this by no means seemed to be the case with the spirited horses which were driven swiftly over the winding avenue that led through the Central Park towards Harlem. Driven single, tandem, double or four-in-hand, ‘‘at a walk, at an amble, at a trot, at a canter, at a hand gallop, at full gallop and at full speed,” bearing horsewomen or horsemen (very few, indeed, of either), or pulling behind them drag, jawnting car, han- som, buggy, sulky, chaise, carryall, phaeton, barouche or coach, the horses moved as if they shared with delight the unwonted excitement of the occasion, Almost every kind of vehicle was represented in the throng that from the Fifth avenue gate to the gate of exit encumbered the too narrow avenue of Central Park and stretched beyond in uninterrupted procession to the entrance of Jerome Park. Our landscape painters would have found choice studies for pictures on either side of Macomb’s Dam bridge, and both land- scape and figure painters would have found ample material for the canvas within Jerome Park itself, with its animated scenes, If the races, which are elsewhere fully de- scribed, were less exciting to veteran turfmen than the good old-fashioned three and four mile heats, they weré, nevertheless, interesting and highly creditable, and appeared to give great satisfaction to most of the spectators. Those same old-fashioned three or four: mile heats, after all, are far better calculated than short dashes, however brilliant, to secure bot- tom as well as serviceable and prolonged speed, and thus tend directly to increase the aggregate of our national equine wealth by at length quadrupling or quintupling the present value of the five million horses in the United States, Experience bas shown that nothing tends so effectually as racing to keep up an excellent breed of horses for purposes of direct-utility as well as exciting amusement. Even the un- successful racer may become an admirably improved hunter, or cavalry horse, or saddle horse, or coach horse. Thus the entire stock throughout the country may ultimately share in the advantages of the special pains taken to improve and train the race horse, Many persons are opposed to horse racing, onthe ground that all its acknowledged ad- vantages—the gayety and prosperity to which the social gatherings at the race course greatly contribute; the circulation of money which it occasions by benefiting directly and indirectly a vast number of occupations, stimulating trade and affording employment to industry, and the positive, unequivocal good which arises from it as an exhilarating recrea- tion, particularly in ® commercial community like our own, in which, until recently, the chok- ing cares of business were rarely relieved by healthy outdoor amusements of any kind— that all these advantages “are but as dust in the balance when compared with the guilt and misery that arise from gambling ;” and gam- bling they erroneously regard as necessarily and inseparably associated with horse racing. They therefore applaud Southey's bitter dia- tribe against horse races. ‘‘Horse races,” said Southey, ‘excite evil desires, call forth evil passions, encourage evil propensities, lead the innocent into temptation and give opportunities to the wicked.” But the oppo- nents of horse races forget that the horse is no more than a pretext, like anything else, for gambling—-like the passage of rival steamers or rival yachts across the Atlantic, like to- morrow's weather, like impeachment or the result of an election. The argument, if argu- ment it can be called, proves altogether too much, Anything about which men can gam- ble might be denounced with equal justice, or rather injustice. * London journalists probably do not err in saying that an eager lust for gambling is » foul plague spot on the national character of the English, And this lust for gambling may have been influenced by one result of Blue Gown’'s recent triamph on Epsom Downs—the peying away by «large commission agent in London of £80,000 to the British public, The serious charges, whether well or ill founded, against the unlucky Marquis of Hestings— similar to those formerly brought against George IV. when Prince of Wales—could not have been insinuated were there no ground at First Day all for the general, heavy charge against the | Britich public on account of its passion for gambling at the race course, which has been 80 vividly set forth in the sensational cartoon of @ late number of The Tomahawk. While from this cartoon Lit might be inferred that racing is doteriorating in England, it is @ratifying to observe that in this country,*on the contrary, it is entering upon better path under auspices 80 favorable as those which prevail at Jerome Park. Here the ugly foa- tures of the British race course, which justly offend the moralists, bave been carofuliy eres attic nite eliminated and guarded against. The fact is that but comparatively few in the gay assem- bly on the opening day of the spring meeting at Jerome Park either know or care much about horse racing. Most of them know and care still leas about gambling, They go to Jerome Park in gala attire, as in the palmy days of the Italian opera in New York, although pro- fessing to know or care but little about music, they frequented the Academy of Music, to see | and to be seen, to form part of the brilliant spectacle of which they are themselves de- lighted spectators, Looking at the subject from this point of view alone, the splendid display of beauty, fashion and wealth at the Jerome Park yester- day, in the midst of charming natural scenery, is an encouraging sign of the rapid progress of our community in the culture of all the aris and elegancies of modern civilization and refinement, The Nowspaper Press, tn another column we give from the Paris Figaro an appreciation of the peculiar spirit and character of the American press. Under the new press law some considerable changes in journalism are anticipated in France, and, in view of the possibilities of the future, writers who have the attention of the reading public there have lately taken to study the press as found in its highest state of development where it is most free, most energetic and most successful ag the great organ of commu- nication between the people, and as the com- mon vehicle for all intelligence and discussion. Hence the attention lately given by Paris jour- nals to the press of this city. No writer has so successfully caught the true features of American journalism as the one whom we quote, Aside from some misstatements in matters of fact for which he has trusted rumor, but which have no necessary relation to his subject, he presents very happily to his Parisian readers the picture of that marvel of marvels, a free press. Nothing is more instructive than a case in point; and this the writer in Figaro gives from his own experience to illustrate one great difference between the press in Paris and the press here. It would rather stagger the ordinary and not deeply thinking reader to be told that one of the results of our own energy is that we sometimes publish news in this city of interesting events happening in or near Paris before the events are published even in the Paris papers—and this, too, when the events are not of a political character—when there is no _ restric- tion whatever upon their publication and they are things of which every one is eager to hear. Yet this has happened; and New Yorkers have read in the Hxraup the news of the Paris races of the day before hours previous to the publication of the Paris papers containing the same news. “I recol- lect purchasing a number of the Hxratp,” says the writer in Figaro, “‘at seven in the morning, fifty miles from New York, on Monday, which informed me of the issue of the races for the Grand Prix de Paris ran for on the previous afternoon; and I knew the vic- tory of Tervacques after his dead heat with Patrician, with all the details of the great day, at fifteen hundred miles from France, before the Patrie and other papers had distributed their copies in the suburbs of Paris.” Such an instance puts in a striking light the differ- ence between Paris and New York in the press. It is a difference that is the consequence of other differences existing in the very consti- tution of the social fabric. Newspapers are great here because there is a large demand for news and the field is absolutely open and free for energy and genius to do what can be done to supply that demand at the earliest moment. Our people are like so many cos- mopolitan doctors, who feel the pulse of the world every morning in the papers. Our mer- chants, our men of energy in every pursuit, act in their daily transactions on the know- ledge thus acquired, and act intelligently with regard to the whole scene of their operations, though the scene takes in the seas, islands or continents of the other hemisphere. Paris does not live in this way. It lives on the Boulevard and the Champs Elysées; and as to knowing the news a day or a week sooner, it would say, ‘‘What is the use?” We suppose we know the use here; and we suppose when the press is absolutely free in France—if the time ever comes—they will rub their eyes and wake up there also. We are glad enough to be teaching Paris how to make a newspaper against the time when it may be permitted to have one ; but we are still more glad to be teaching our cola- borers here some later lessons in the same sci- ence. It is not more necessary that the press should be free than that it should be indepen- dent. The words convey the same idea with an application to different facts. The press must be free to be worthy its name. It must not only be free with regard to the govern- ment, but with regard to all other unduly con- trolling influences; not only guarded by law against the invasions of the police and the dic- tation of a censor, but guarded by loyalty to ite own destiny against the warping influences of party. If the government dictate what the press may say and what it may not, it is cer- tainly not free; if party discipline, party spirit or party intolerance dictate the same thing, it is as little free as in the other case. The whole body of the party press here is as much in slavery and of as little use to the people as the press in Paris, and we are glad to see by the excellent article from the Round Table we gave yesterday that younger members of our great guild are growing up in this conviction. Nova gotta anp Reowrocity.—In our Washington correspondence yesterday we published some facts which show that Nova Scotia is suffering from the misdoings of Cansde during our Jate war. Nova Scotia, as all the world knows, has coal; #0, too, has the United States. The United States coal is received in Canada free ef duty; the Nove Scotia coal is. practically prohibited, Tho Nova Scotians in consequence complain. Mr. Thornton has brought the question before Mr. Seward. Mr, Seward has brought the whole thing before Mr. McCulloch. Mr. McCulloch has promised to bring the whole thing before the attention of Congress. There the matter now stands. How it may end we know not. This, however, we do know, that if Canada is suffering she is suffering most righteously. Sho sinned and she has beon punished. It te for us to aay whother she can now be forgiven. TRURGRAPHIG. NEWS ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. ae Prince Michel of Servia Assas- sinated, GERMANY FORTIFYING ON THE RHINE, Threatened Invasion of Mexico from Browns- ville by Santa Anna's Filibusters, SERVIA. The Reigning Prince Michel Assassinated— Agitation in Belgrade—Excitomeut om the Banks of the Danube. URBN’S HOTEL, LONDON, hs June 10,'1868—Night. Telegrams from Servia, just received, convey the startling intelligence that the reigning’ Prince Michet Obrenovitch ‘the Third, when walking in the Topsehidar Park, in Belgradé, at five o'clock this evening, was shot down. ue His assassin was one of three men, all of whom were armed with revolvers, who approached near te him for & moment. It is not clearly stated whether one shot only was fired, or if each of the assassins discharged his weapon with effect, At the moment of forwarding the despatches from Belgrade the city was convulsed with excitement, and the communication of the news ontside the walls was likely to agitate the population on the right bank of the Danube seriously, and disturb the entire terrl- tory of the Principalities. ‘There is no direct intimation, so far, as to the pro- bable cause of the murderous act; but it ts inferred that it is in some manner connected with the pop- ular disturbance, by actual revolt, existing in Bosnia, the western border of Servia, from the last week in May, since which time the Bosnian movement has assumed large proportions, Osman Pacha operating with a strong force of Turkish cavalry for its sup- pression, The promulgation of the Sultan’s plans of reform, accompanied by an announcement from Oonstanti- nople to the effect that his Imperial Highness, in receiving @ deputation from the Christian communities, declared that he wished that every one in his dominions might be able to rise even to the rank of Grand Vizier, without dis- tinction of creed, have also tended to inflame s. strong party feeling in the Turkish provinces, an@ the Prince Michel may have been taken off by the hand of some fanatic of the old school provinciala, as he is sald to have been friendly to the idea of pro- gress in Turkey. Prince Michel the Third was forty-three years of age, being born on the 4th of September, 1825. He was confirmed in the dignity of reigning Prince of Servia by a frman of the Sublime Porte tssued the 7th of October, 1860, He married in 1831 Julia, danghter of Count Francis Kethely, then a Grand Chamberlain of the Court of Austria. ENGLAND. Tho Ascot Heath Races—Second Day. LonpDon, June 10, 1868. The attendance at the Ascot Heath course to-day— the second of the sport—was numerous and verg brilliant and the weather delightfal. The Ascot Derby stakes of 60 sovereigns each, with: 200 sovereigns added, for three year olds, colts te carry 122 lbs. and fillies 118 lbs.; the second horse to save his stake, one mile and a half (32 sul was won by the Marquis of Hastingy’ b. c. The tar} by Young Melbourne, out of Bay Celia; Col Pearson's ch, c. Capaple, by Thormandy, out of Pan< oply, second; Baron Rothschild’s br. c. Suffolk, by North Lincoln, out of Protection, third. Four started. The betting was two to one on the Earl against the field, six to one against Capapie and two to ono against Suffolk. The Royal Hunt Cup, value 200 sovereigns, added to @ sweepstakes of ten sovereigns each, forall ages, one mile, was won by Satyr, Mr. H. Wilmer's chest- nut colt Eastiey, by Trumpeter out of Maud by Loup Garon, second; Lord Westmoreland’s bay colt Master Willle, by Tournament out of Gertrude, third. Twenty-two ran. The betting stood before the start at ten to one against Satyr, even on Eastley and seven to one against Master Willie. The Fern Hill Stakes of fifteen sovereigns each, with one hundred sovereigns added, two year olds to carry 102 pounds, three year olds to carry 120 pounds, fillies and geldings allowed three pounds, half a mile, was won by Mr. J. Dawson's chestnut colt De Vere, two years old, by St. Albans out of Apricot; the Duke of Hamilton's: olrestnut filly Leonie, three years old, by Newminster out of Oa@ Trick’s dam, sec ‘nd. Betting—2 to 1 against De Vere, even on Leonie. The Tenth Ascot Biennial Stakes of ten sovereigns each, with one hundred sovereigns added, for three year olds’ colts carrying 122 pounds and fillies carry- ing 118 pounds; owner of second horse to receive twenty-five sovereigns; one mile; sixty-nine suh- Vale Royal third, . Betting—2 to 1 on The Earl, 12to 1 against Suf- olk and 7 to 1 against Vale Royal, Four started. AUSTRIA. namepnninnnnnnnortnen State. Property fer Sale, VIMNNA, June 10, 1068, Toe Keicharath has adopted s bill: providing fer the sale of the State domain. OHIO. ‘Trial of Mrs. Victor for the Mardor of Hor Brother. OLRVELAND, June 10, 1668. ‘The trial of Mrs. Victor for the murder of William Parquet, her brother, in February, 1807, commenced to-day, The jury was em; witnons ined. On the exami dom ort , eleven death, juantity of arseni Mrs, Vioto! thenuraoce on hits for 3,000 when he dled. of HE 4