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NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heracp. Letters and packages should be properly eealed. 6c Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery. — pe NESLE—InisH HaAYMAKER—BRIAN Donowine bins FRENCH THEATRE.—Matineo at 1—Oxraee aux EN- Fens. Evening—Gkanpg DucuEsss. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite York Hotel.— Panis AND HELEN, Masizos ee 2 Nee NIBLO'S Matinee at WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th strect— Tue Lorreny oF Lire. BROADWAY THEATRE, LIGHTNING, Matinee at Lg. > cama Broadway.—Tas WIT Fawn, Broadway.—A FLASH OF BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sons oF Lisentr— PAuL Ciirroup. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.-Humpry DuMpry. Matinee at 1. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Eruro- PIAN ENTERTALNMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, &c. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 790 Broadway.—Sonas, Evognraio:tics, 4c.—La!—Beuu—L, N. Matinee at 2. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th street. —BTUIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, EOURNTRIOITIRG, £0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BALLat, Fanos, &0. Matince at 2g. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio Vooauisu, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, fee” Matinee at B56. IRVING HALL, Irving plage.—GReat MONOLOGUE Ex- ‘TRRTAINMEN?. Matinee at 2. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoruLas GaRpEN Concext. Matinee at 334. TERRA ARDEN—Porotar GagpEn Conognr. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyo.— PIONEER PATERIOT—PRIDE OF THE MARKET. HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—ETai0Pian MINSYLELSY—A Tmp TO Panis. Matinee at 23s. BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, corner of Atlantic and Clin- ton strects.—BLIX» TOM. Matinee at 2. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOlRNOE AND Ant. No. 513 BROADWAY.—Wonne! UL FREAK OF NATURE New York, Saturday, June 13, 1868. THS NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic sable is dated yesterday evening, June 12. The Czar of Russia in his desire to alleviate suffer- ing in war objects to the use of bullets which ex- plode in the flesh after penetration. Napoleon unites with him in condemning their use. The specie in the Bank of France decreased in amount. Politics dull in England. An Atlantic cable dividend will be paid on the Ist of July. The fourth day of the Ascot Heath races passed pleasantly. Consols, 95 a 9514, money. Five-twenties, 72% in London and 774 a 7734 in Frankfort. Cotton heavy and lower, with middling uplands at 10% & lid, Breadstut’s and provisions without marked change. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a joint resolution request- ing the President to intercede for the release of Mc- Mahon, the Fenian prisoner at Kingston, Canada, ‘was passed. The bill providing for contested elec- tion in Washington city was reported back with amendments, A bill in relation to the Western Union Pacific Railroad, allowing the company to occupy portions of Goat Island, in San Francisco, harbor, for a depot, was discussed until the expiration of the morning hour, when it went over, Mr. Sherman’s National Currency bill was then taken up. Several amendments proposed by the Finance Committee were adopted, and without taking a vote on the passage of the bil] the Senate went into executive session. The Hon. Reverdy Johnson, who was nominated as Minister to Eng- land a few hours previously, was confirmed, the Senate tendering him the compliment of acting upon his nomination without the usual reference to a com- mittee. In the House a motion to accept the invitation to attend the National Schuetzentest tn New York on the 27th inst., and to have the House represented by seven members, was agreed to. The Senate amend- ments to the Southern Restoration bill were agreed to by yeas 111, nays 28. The bill now goes to the President. A large nutber of private pension bilis were reported and passed. The Tax bill was again considered in the evening session. Several para- graphs relative to stamp taxes were disposed of, and a lively discussion ensued on a proposed reduction of tax on the amount of circulation of banks and bankers. An evening session for to-day was dis- pensed with and the House adjourned, MISCELLANEOUS. Our Mazatlan and La Paz (Mexico) despatches state that Galan, the Governor of Lower California, is stil! a prisoner for having permitted an American vessel to discharge her cargo at La Paz with a reduction of the customs dues. The feeling against Americans continues very bitter. Vega was being hotly pursued by Davalo’s troops. The Jerome Park races have been postponed on account of the late storm until Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, when they will take place, rain or shine, The Chinese are still enjoying themselves in Wash- ington. Yesterday they visited Caleb Cushing, who was the first American Minister in China, and Gen- eral Hancock, who invited them to a review of the garrison on the 18th inst. Ben Wade was also vis- ited. To-day, however, the serious business of the mission with the State Department will commence. ‘The steamships City of New York and Loulsiana arrived at Quarantine yesterday, with an aggregate of 1,820 passengers on board. The City of New York was detained for fumigation, baving had smallpox among her steerage passengers. Timothy Heenan, @ brother of the pugilist, was shot in Philadelphia about twelve o’clock on Thurs- day night, He had an altercation with a mob of roughs on Fifth and Spruce streets, and twelve shots were fired at him. ft was thought he would re- cover. Jerry Eaton, said to be a well known pick- pocket, and three other persons who were in the crowd were arrested. In the Texas Reconstruction Convention on Thurs- day & proposition to adopt the State constitution of 1861, 80 far aa it does not conflict with the constitu. tion of the United States, was offered, and referred to the Judiciary Committee, The Loutsiana Hoard of Registration have received @ despatch from General Grant advising them to issue no More proclamations in conflict with the orders of General Buchanan relative to the installa- tion of lately elected officers, as the subject is now before Congress and such action isa violation of the reconstruction laws. ‘The South Carolina Democratic Convention as sembled at Columbia on the 8th inst. and elected delegates to the New York Convention, among them Wade Hampton, J. B. Campbell, R. B. Rhett, Jr., and M. W. Gary. The impeachment trial of Robert ©. Dorn, the Canal Commissioner, which has been quietly pro. aressing before the State Senate at Albany, was con. cluded yesterday by the acquittal of the accused on all the charges by @ vote of 8 to 19. At the regular monthly meeting of the American Geographical and Statistical Society last evening Prof. Hartt, of Vassar College, Poughkeepate, late Geolo- gist and Naturalist of the Agassiz expedition to Bra- 21l, delivered an interesting discourse on ‘The Coast of Brasil.” The B Demo- cratic Convention organized in , bub expressed no preference for aay candi- date, The Cincinnati delegation to the New York Con- vention, in a caucus ) determined to insist on the nomination of Pendleton, and in the event of Chief Justice Chase receiving the nomination they will arrange to have Pendleton in his Cabinet. Silas and Charles T. James, brothers, were sen- tenced to death im the court at Worcester, Mass., yesterday for the murder of the gambler Clark. The Board of Audit yesterday heard the claim of the New Haven Steam Navigation Company for $16,000 for expenses incurred in repairing their steamboat pier at foot of Peck slip, destroyed by fire in July, 1865, The Comptroller has already disposed of some $2,000,000 worth of stock in the city and county re- venue bonds, A new trial was ordered yesterday by the Supreme Court in the case of Margaret Welsh, alias Fanny Wright, who was convicted in December last of the murder of police oMicer McChesney, in Canal street, near Mercer. The woman was sentenced to im- prisonment for life, A suit was commenced in the Supreme Court yes- terday by Charles Knox against the Mayor and Com- monalty, for $25,000 damages, for losses sustained by plaintitr in his business in consequence of the erec- tion of the Loew Bridge at Broadway and Fulton street. Plaintiff also sues for the abatement of the bridge ag a nuisance. Decision reserved. John G. Winter sues N. H. Chittenden in the Su- preme Court for the recovery of the value of a horse taken by the defendant from plainti( in 1865, after the surrender of the rebel armies. The defendant Was an officer in the Union cavalry, and the plain- tiff was a citizen of Alabama. The case came up at Chambers on a motion to discharge Chittenden from arrest. Motion denied. The stock market was dull but firm yesterday. Government securities closed strong and active, after being dull and heavy during the early part of the day. Gold closed at 14034. Extreme inertia was the ruling characteristic of the general merchandise markets yesterday, as it was during every preceding day this week. The depression in the Liverpool market for cotton and breadstuffs was reflected in a marked degree in this commercial entrepot, and the influence extended to nearly all branches of business, but especially was it felt in those branches which are more nearly con- nected with and dependent upon the foreign markets, The revenue questions appear to be as far from final solution now as at any time since Congress assem- bled and the probabilities are that, though @ bill be passed at the present session, it will be rushed through at the last moment, and the pernicious tn- fluence of hasty and unwise legislation, formerly evidenced im the hasty passage of the crudest measures, occasions apprehension leat the evil con- sequences which almost necessarily emanate from hasty Congressional enactments are to be again ex- perienced from the passage of the important but half digested Currency and Tariff and Internal Revenue bills which are now before Congress. Ootton, bread- stuffs, provisions and other leading commodities steadily favor the buyer and are lower, almost with- out exception. The Presidential Contest—The Southern Bal- ance of Power. i The elections of last fall, culminating in the fifty thousand democratic majority of the Em- pire State, broke the spell of republican in- vincibility and convinced the rank and file of the party that a dangerous popular reaction had set in against them, They had regarded the Presidential succession as a foregone con- clusion ; they had been sanguine of a certain, easy and overwhelming victory for their Presi- dential ticket with any candidate. But Con- necticut, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York dispelled all such delusions, and after the startling revolution in the Empire State the republican masses and finally the radical leaders began to realize the necessity of calling upon Hercules and to confess that only General Grant could save them. They have accordingly made him the republican candidate. As with Taylor in 1848, there was the apprehension that, if not taken up by this side, General Grant might be by the other, and, as with Scott in 1852, it was felt that if saved at all only the first soldier of the land could save the party. Still, it is apparent that against the revolu- tionary measures, schemes and tendencies of radicalism there is a powerful array of hostile elements existing, and that all these elements may be readily combined under the banner of Chief Justice Chase as the candidate of the National Democratic Convention. With Chase thus nominated against Grant the radical and the conservative party will each have in their candidate the proper embodi- ment of their policy. In Grant, the General-in-Chief of the Army, we have the appropriate embodiment of the radical policy, which looks to the supremacy of mili- tary authority; and in Chase, as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, we shall have the fitting embodiment of that policy which looks to the supremacy of the constitution and the subordination of tho military to the civil authorities in times of peace. On the score of availability the argu- ment in favor of the Chief Justice as the democratic nominee is equally strong. The re- publican party, with the abolition of slavery, fulfilled its mission, and with the extinction of slavery the old democratic party, on its old “time-honored principles,” really ceased to exist. The republican party of to-day, asa reconstruction party, is drifting to a consoli- dated military and financial despotism; the democratic party, therefore, has no other alternative than the new departure of recog- nizing the legitimate results of the late rebel- lion and of fighting with these recognitions for the landmarks of the constitution. In this view the nomination of Chief Justice hase will require only the simptest explana- tion in the way of a platform. His name and his record, bis position and his character, past and present, will be sufficient to attract to him allthe regular opposition forces and large re- inforcements of conservative republicans, East and West. That he will thus carry a majority ~ * bi F: < election, and for the 1 “that thelr votes may be needed to secure General Grant. This Southern balance of power is an item, then, to be considered. It may be secured by the opposition with the nomination of Mr. Chase. His name and reputation among the Southern blacks as their friend will break the power of the carpet-baggers and bring over the black voters in large bodies to a fusion with the mass of the whites, and thus a large majority of the electoral vote of the South, if not the whole vote of that section, may be gained. With the nomination of the Chief Jus- tice as the democratic candidate all fears among the Southern blacks of the restoration of slavery with the success of the democratic ticket will be dispelled, and all apprehen- sions that the suffrage may be wrested from them will be set at rest. A fusion with the whites upon the mutual interests of the two races will follow, and upon this basis law and order and industry and confidence will be restored among them. The Southern black vote will thus become a bond of har- mony as between whites and blacks and a balance of power against Northern aggressions upon Southern interests. On the other hand, if the present division of the Southern people, with the white man’s party and the black man’s party, be continued even @ few years longer, it must inevitably reault in a war of races, unless held in check by a regular stand- ing army. Mr. Chase, then, is the man for the new democracy. They seem to understand it. They are beginning to realize the real issues and necessities of the crisis, They want a man who will bring them heavy reinforcements from the great Union party of the war; a man whose nomination will be the signal for a new departure anda new national party movement of the highest promise; a man whose name will fuse all the opposition elements of the North against radicalism and at the same time abolish the white man’s party and the black man’s party of the South; a man who can be elected with or without the restoration of the outside Southern States; and Chief Jus- tice Chase is the man. The Madison Avenue Extension. Ancient mythology has no more beautiful or poetic conception than the Lethean stream and ita potency to hide the memories of the past. The modern managers of our municipal affairs, if they will goon in the way they do, if they will insist in every possible way to cheat the public, and if they will allow contractors to do the same, should devise some practical method of hiding their misdeeds from the public. But they do not do this; they could not do it if they would; the fact is patent to everybody. Their misdeeds rise up in perpetual judgment against them—are visible in every Corporation job. ll their power centralizes in filling their pockets from the city treasury, in corruption, in robbery of our overburdened taxpayers and in protracting the robbery to the utmost limit of possibility. In no work connected with our uptown im- provements does this fact of corrupt jobbing and unpardonable and outrageous delay more palpably, more glaringly and more audaciously show dtself than in the present condition of Madison avenue above Fifty-ninth street. The fault of the delay is wholly chargeable to the Common Council and the contractors having the work in charge. Tho street should have been finished long ago. Large sums have been drawn from the city treasury for the ostensible completion of the work; but it dtags on its slow length—so slow, indeed, as scarcely to be visible to the naked eye. Between Fifty-ninth street and its upper ter- minus the street is in precisely the same condition it has been for months past. An occasional cart and an occasional solitary laborer may be seen going through the mys- terious motions of manual labor on the street, and that is all—a show that something is being done—this and nothing more. Excavations almost as difficult and dangerous to pass as the gorges of a mountain range meet the eye at frequent intervals, huge piles of paving and curbstones are scattered all along, and at every step and turn ‘‘how not to do it” is most beautifully and impressively revealed. This state of things should not be allowed to con- tinue, The public want the street completed. It is urgently needed as a relief to travel on the other uptown avenues. Public patience is exhausting itself. Military Law. O. L. Shepherd, who signs himself a ‘‘Brevet Brigadier,” and commands in a sub-district of Alabama, is evidently a very shallow fellow, with an immense zeal to commend himself to favor near the headquarters of the army. Some sol- diers recently expressed their political opinions, They hurrahed for the candidates they like and groaned for the candidates they are opposed to, and straightway down comes the astonish- ing Shepherd upon them, clothed with all the terrors of a general order. Shepherd, per- haps, does not often get the chance to make himself heard through general orders or other- wise, and therefore was not the man to lose this. Where was the offence? Is it an offence for soldiers to have political opinions? Why, then, has the republican party given so much activity to fostering political opinions in the army, backed by the legislation of the Congress that created the army? Is it an offence for soldiers to give expression to their opinions? That can hardly be, since Congress authorized their voting even in their camps in the very heat of the war. But they groaned for Gene- ral Grant and cheered for McClellan and for of the electoral vote of the North is morally certain, admitting the popularity of Grant as the conqueror of the rebellion; for ifany man can neutralize that popularity and bring this contest down to the great living issues of the day it is the man who provided and supplied the sinews of the war, the money which, after all, in raising, equipping and feeding our armies, subdued the rebellion. As a Western man and as the democratic nothinee Chase will hold Ohig’even against Grant, and the re- action of last fall in Pennsylvania and New York will not be lost, but extended. The re- publican journals are evidently alarmed and are pleading the cause of Pendleton and the Chicago platform of 1864. The radicals of Congress, apprehensive of danger in the North, are hurrying up the work of Southern restora- tion. From their proceedings we conclude that North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas Will be admitted to voige ip this Prosidential Andrew Johnson, and as Grant is the com- mander of the army, that, says Shepherd, is insubordination. But Grant is a pro- per subject for the political opinions of the people. He is a candidate, and that is the character in which, undoubt- edly, he received the attention of the soldiers. How far, exactly, is the spirit of discipline to be carried in the matter of com- manders who are candidates? Will it be an offence punishable by court martial for any soldier to vote against Grant? It is doubtful whether Shepherd himself knows which was the greater insubordination, to shout against Grant, who is commander, or for Johnson, who is President; but perhaps, when he has con- sulted the carpet-baggers who come to him from his radical masters at the capital, he will be able to answer any questions on that point, How long shall men hold their liberties at the discretion of creatures like the Brevet Briga- dier? NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1868. Justice Chase. We give elsewhere some expression of the sentiments of Mr. Clement L. Vallandigham on the Presidency, the prospects of the demo- cracy, their candidate, platform, &c. It will be seen that this gentleman adheres as tena- ciously as ever to the ideas of that uncom- promising opposition of which he has become the accepted representative in popular opinion; at the same time he is evidently quite ready to accept Chase as the Presidential candidate of his party. That this exponent of the ex- ‘treme views of the extreme democracy should be disposed to support Chase without abating @ jot of his principles is the most noteworthy fact that has yet come out in the movement in favor of the Chief Justice. It is one of the strongest points also, indicating how readily men of every view will agree on a champion devoted to the common constitutional rights ofall. Pendleton is, of course, Vallandigham’s first choice; but he holds that all points of preference in regard to men will be held only as subordinate to the right policy to assure success, and that Pendleton’s supporters will not ‘‘be found pertinacious.” Next to Pendle- ton he seems to regard the ‘‘broad, deep and sagacious” Chase. Chase is acceptable as a statesman—a man of great ability; above all asa civilian. His position on reconstruction is satisfactory. Only two points are against him—his opinions on suffrage and his financial ideas; and these are, perhaps, not insurmount- able. He, for instance, may hold—as any man may—the conviction that negroes ought to vote, and this has little to do with the policy of the party, all the less that suffrage is a thing belonging exclusively to the States and with which the President can scarcely have any relation, As to the finances, Chase is even easier there. He is generally supposed to favor the payment of the bonds in gold. But Vallandigham has seen nothing that absolutely defines his position in that way; while on every greenback he reads ‘‘this note is a legal tender for all debts, public and private,” &c., which words were written by Chase, and were, of course, deeply weighed when written. The Chief Justice, therefore, is acceptable to the peace democrats; and this indicates how abso- lately he represents the main idea in the thoughts of the whole people that they are ready to lay aside peculiar differences in his favor, or themselves supply the arguments t6 get over those differences. Manicipal Troubles at New Orleans and at Washington. The municipal trouble at New Orleans has been summarily settled by the orders of Gen- eral Buchanan. Mayor Conway has entered upon his duties as the successor of the ex- Mayor, who, as appointed by General Sheri- dan, at first refused to recognize the authority of General Buchanan, which, after all, was final in the case by virtue of the simple fact that it is military authority, alone which is su- preme in the premises. For the same reason as the ex-Mayor, as having been appointed by General Sheridan, the old Chief of Police also declined to surrender his office until relieved by military authority. He did not recognize the Mayor's authority as sufficient to remove him. The old Recorder of the Third district refused to vacate without military orders, which were promptly furnished to the newly elected Recorder upon application at head- quarters. All the newly elected Aldermen, except one, and a quorum of Assistant Alder- men, have been qualified. What is specially noteworthy in the resistance of the New Or- leans radical officeholders to the military authority that has compelled them to vacate is this—that not the slightest objection or com- plaint was made by them or by their friends against the exercise of military authority to which they originally owed their offices. It is the old story of the difference between my bull goring your ox or youragoring mine. Military authority is an angel of light if it wields its sword in favor of the radicals; but otherwise it is a demon to be doubly damned. A similar inconsistency is manifest in the views of the radicals respecting the contested election case in Washington. Mr. Bowen, the republican candidate, having been sworn in as Mayor in violation of the city charter, the con- servative meinbers of the City Couricil were, on the 11th instant, excluded by the police from their regular places of meeting, and, re- pairing to the basement of the City Hall, held a joint meeting, at which they elected as Mayor, ad interim, ex-Alderman T, E. Lloyd. On the other hand the radicals have invoked not only the aid of the police, but also, in Mr. Stewart's bill, the direct interference of Con- gress, in order to enable them to carry out their schemes. Thus they do not hesitate to avail themselves of the strength of ‘‘the powers that be” when that strength can be diverted to their own favor. The apathy of the American public in view of arbitrary interference on the part of govern- ment, either by military authgrity or by police force, with municipal and individual rights, may be accounted for as one result of the stunning shock which our late civil war gave to all our previous habits of thought and action. The rigorous necessities of war con strained us to submit to many things to which we would never have dreamed of submitting in time of peace. So longas the reconstruction of the Southern States shall be postponed the sword must virtually rule there as the symbol of federal authority. But when reconstruction shall have been consummated, and the nation shall rejoice in a congervative President and a conservative Congress, acting harmoniously to- gether, we may hope that the American people will leara again their old lessons of self-gov- ernment, and that their former jealousy of either military or police interference with their municipal and individual rights will revive. Tar Orrosrtion TO CHase.—The opposi- tion to the nomination of Chief Justice Chase by the national party comes principally from the rankest of the radical organs. The demo- cratic and conservative papers all over the country are gradually declaring in tavor of the movement, and the wisest of the opposition leaders are yielding to the popular pressure and making haste to announce themselves as favorable to Chase’s nomination. Every sen- sible democrat ought to know that the mortal terror evinced by the radicals at the idea of Chase as the candidate of the national party is convincing proof that they consider the nomination of the Chief Justice equivalent to his election. Obstructing the Streets, “~*~ able of the | on our thoroughfares is the filling of the , whenever 8 house is about to be erected or repaired, with immense beds of mortar, piles of débris and pyramids of brick. The obstruction of an ave- nue cannot, perhaps, at all times be avoided; but these interferences should not, to the inconvenience of the public, be continued for weeks and often for months at atime. It is not necessary, because a builder is about to put up athree story house, that he should appro- priate half a block of the street to his con- venience, and to the injury, in many ways, of those who happen to live or have stores or offices in the vicinity. Except when necessi- tated to cart to or away from a place on which a building is in course of erection or repair materials for the proper progress of the work, no such obstructions as we complain of should be countenanced by those whose business it is to keep the great thoroughfares open to the public. In the upper districts of the city there are unimproved lots near every new structure which can be used to dump brick, lime, sand and timber upon; and in the more densely built sections the cellars may be made the scene for the mixing of mortar and the storing of brick quite as well as the pavement, so necessary to commerce. The Street Commis- sioner is by ordinance amply clothed with power to keep the avenues of the city clear of unnecessary obstructions, and he ought to use it in behalt of the citizens. Is It a Dead Lettert—Light Wanted! We desire information on a dark subject. Is section twenty-nine of the ordinance regulating accommodation coaches, cabs and other vehicles authorized to traverse the streets at night a dead letter, or has it been abrogated? Perhaps Captain Geer, of the Twenty-sixth precinct, or Marshal Tappan can inform the public why it is that so much of the section which requires every stage or coach run- ning after sundown to have ‘‘a sufficient light, lamp or candle” so placed as to distinguish the number of the vehicle is not more rigidly enforced? There is not a night in the week that this ordinance is not set at naught. Coaches and cabs may be seen passing up and down our thoroughfares at breakneck speed with no lighted ‘lamp or candle” on them to warn pedestrians of approaching danger, and the wonder is that so few accidents, under the circumstances, have happened. We are aware that “‘pedestrians have no rights which Jehus are bound to respect,” either on the crosswalk or the pavé,; but still it would be an excellent thing, now and then, for the Superintendent of Hacks to read to the drivers of public vehicles the following section, which they will find on page 399 of the Corporation Ordinances, revised edition, 1866 :—‘‘Every hackney coach or carriage, when driven or used in the night, shall have fixed upon some conspicuous part of the outside thereof two lighted lamps, with plain glass fronts and sides, and having the number of the license of the owner of such hackney coach or carriage in plain, legible figures, at least two inches in length, and no other figure or device, painted with black paint, upon each of the said lamps in such a manner that the same may be distinctly seen and known when the said hackney coach or carriage may be standing or driven.” Thisis an excellent provision, and it has a penalty attached, if it were only carried out—a matter which we trust will hereafter be fully attended to by Marshal Tappan and his subordinates, directly and indirectly, for this reason:—It costs much less to keep lamps supplied with oil while lighted for four or five hours of a night than it would the people to have a half dozen or so ‘“‘crowners’ ‘quests” held every morning over the bodies of gentlemen and ladies and children murdered in the dark by being trampled upon by horses’ feet and then run over and crushed into undistinguishable masses of flesh, blood and bone by vehicles furiously driven by drunken and foul-mouthed whips. The cabs and coaches licensed to carry passengers in the Park are permitted to charge good round sums, and we think the Commissioners thereof would greatly please the public if they would instruct their Park keepers not to permit vehicles of any kind to enter the grounds after the sun has set that do not fully comply with the section above quoted of the municipal law regulating hack- ney coaches and cabs, The Bourbons, In the Hrratp of yesterday we reproduced a letter which: has appeared in the Florence Nazione, and which is said to have been writ- ten by the Count de Chambord, Henri de Bour- bon, to the ex-King of Naples on the occasion of the marriage of the brother of the latter, the Count di Girgenti, with Maria Isabella, Infanta of Spain. The letter bears the date of May 21. The epistle is partly congratulatory. It is chiefly, however, a wail of sorrow over the fallen fortunes of the House of Bourbon. His ex-Majesty of Naples is a companion in tribulation. Tho Bonaparte dynasty is men- tioned only indirectly ; but it is not difficult to understand what the Count means by ‘‘usurpa- tion.” The letter, if genuine, is valuable chiefly from the fact that it proves that if there was ever any truth in the report that a com- pact had been signed between him and the princes of the House of Orleans, in 1853, by which the claims of both houses were merged, the Count de Paris, the chief of the House of Orleans, being thus considered the representa- tive of all the Bourbons, no such compact now exists. In the event, therefore, of the death of Louis Napoleon we shall have a scramble for the French throne not only between the Bonapartes and the Bourbons, but between the Bourbons themselves, younger and elder. We regard this letter as one of many indications that France has not yet seen the end of her troubles. Crase’s ANTRoxpENTS.—Chief Justice Chase has always been democratic in his politics, except upon the slavery question. He was educated a democrat and was a prominent member of the organization. &n 1840 he sepa- rated from his party on the anti-slavery issue and supported Harrison for President. On the death of Harrison he became the leader of the abolition or liberty party in Ohio, fighting both the democrats and the old line whigs on the free soil and free men issue, but on all others adhering firmly to his democratic prin- ciples, _ He never affiliated with the whigs and was only a republican 60 a 2 See teed he hes ao ment in common with the < Coast of Brazil; its Geography, Geology and Natural History.” Charies P. Daly presided at the meeting. ‘The iecturer stated that he had accompanied Pro- world waa pe! ne. three lifeless age; zoic or the - of the dawn of life. He would give @ history of agowen, of the eastern coast of Brazil, Professor posed of gneiss and of a slinilar character to that whi formed this island. It was formed in the eozoic age. the continent was ever, this 5 wing the sea and Boren i vee reached Fay” a verge of count then lateau. fates nd ‘other’ rocks reasmbhng thé gold- bods oa a Ei ae india a Be m0! - rian age. Here were some of the most valt prising people in this country discoverod god tn the unt fonds hat one of the vivere of Brazil. In the head waters of the river Good Success, as its namo diamonds were found, the search for which drew away attention from the gold deposits, of country was cut up with many deep valleys with steep sides, Here quartz veins were found which contained gold. Over this were sheets of gravel, which over the hills and valleys, Over this also was a bed of red clay. The two latter resulted from the grinding up of these rocks by the-base of a Pe In ‘gor? the clay and gravel were first and washed on the spot. The o of gold obtained here were sometimes nicely crystalline, the others were mashed and und. former were obtained from the quartz or rivers, but the latter had ex! to glacial action. ‘The glacial phenom- ena of Brazil was produced by land ice, and the action of there was not the slightest trace to be found action, Rocks along the seacoast were honeycombed with the holes of sea urchins, The reefs ane the coast of Brazil extended like a low, long, ni breakwater, at a distance of a few hundred from the shore. It looked as though there had been builta wall in the sea, with pet dicular faces on e¢ack side, flat on the top and running for many miles. These could be traced along the shores far to south- ward and far to northward. Further south a reef in process of ion was found which showed ite method of formation. ‘The shore was @ great aand- drift. The storms had made a ridge of these, whtch made the barrier shutting out the sea from the coast. The waves had beaten ee this barrier for an im- mense period of time. SI and broken corals were thrown up sone seed beach, and ee the sand ‘was composed of broken shells. soaking into the sand had dissolved the lime of the shelis and carri othe were formed plentiful: of Mexico ‘and in Fiorida. These had collected matter until immense reefs er wore formed, Corals were not the bones of insects which swim about in the sea, but were the skeletons of @ colony or family of starting from a le fndivian which had led or divided until they formed a or miiilions of ly of many thousands individuals, all of which had their bodies or skeletons in the great mass, These animals grow all over the bottom of the sea in certain regions. The lecturer here concluded aud was given @ yote of thanks by the society. LECTURE ON VACCINATION. A lecture was delivered last evening before a small audience at the rooms of the New York Medt- cal Journal Society, No. 58 Madison avenue, by Dr. John R. Garrish, on the subject of “Vaccination and Revaccination.” The speaker gave a highly inter- esting account of the early method and discovery of inoculation and the subsequent introduction of vac- cination as invented and practised by Dr. Jenner, together with statistics showing the gratifying re- sults that had attended its be ger hggg in England, France, Prussia and the United States. The scourge of smallpox had now become a disorder that could be contended against with almost absolute certainty of success, and wasin very rare instances only fatal unless engendered by habits of great incaution, which was almost invariably the cause of its assum- , in this advanced era of its treatment, an epide- ic form. It was the speaker’s opinton, based upon careful observation that as arule of rather tender age, and that its effects were not by any.mean: as beneficial to the system as when those who were operated upon were of maturer years. At present children were vaccinated while yet the merest infants, and he believed that its application would be far more gratifying if resorted to when the frame and physical system become more deter- mined. The principle of revaccination he considered as. eminently proper and wise, and it should by all means become of more general adoption. In vaccinating experience had convinced him that the too common system of cutting or cicatrizing the flesh with the lancet was not attended with results as satisfactory as in cases where the skin was-excoriated or re- moved carefully 80 as merely to reach the flesh be- neath. The reason of this was that the distinct incised wound caused too oe a flow of blood, and thereby prevented the virus from tufusing’ the system. He would recommend the use of @ very duil, but well pointed lancet, and that the skia should be removed only sufficiently to produce a slight discharge of blood. He had ‘used a vartety of instruments invented for vaccination pur; and was of the fixed opinion that they were inferior toa lancet in the condition described. virus should, he believed, also be applied tn the ode form as preferable to the ‘crust,’ there bei far less probability of its having perished, and larly go in a city like New York, where virus in the lymph state could be readily obtained. ‘The lecturer at the close of his remarks exhibited a large collection of instruments invented for tho purpose of facilitating vaccination, and while com- degree of ingenuity and mechanism displayed in their principles and manufaotare, claimed that they are of little or no geen utitiey or benefit. The original of Jenner's treatise on vac- cination and inoculation was also exhibited and ae by gentlemen present with great apparent interest. SUOOTING AFFRAY AT PHILADELPHIA. Attempted Assassination of the Brother of Joha C. Heenan. PHILADELPHIA, June 12, 1968. A terrible attempt at assassination was committed at midnight in the Fifth ward, the difficulty occur- ring at the corner of Fifth and Spruce streeta, tho cause being from political diMculties, and the victim Thomas Heenan, a brother of John ©. Heenan, the celebrated pugilist. The following are the particu- lars:~It appears that Heenan has for some time been the bone of contention among certain parties in the Fifth ward in consequence of his exposure of certain whiskey speculations, At half-past eleven last night Heenan was in the tavern of Michael J. Sullivan, at the corner of Fifth and Spruce streeta, pec pets well known to the sporting fra- ternity of New York, Sugar Jim, and another Svc whose name is unknown at present, entered 6a. loon, and the following conversation ensued :— JERRY EaTon—“Hello, old chap, ere I whi nil} oy ‘we Will warm aD (eninips i the prope if Of @ saloon on Frout party then reinforcements, nine men in all, well armed with voivers. Heenan saw they “Gentiemen, I don’t use such ti I first at ; bur tho party fetred. 2, kept on the other side of the street James Smith. Unfortunately, a Heenan’s, in eadeavoring to Pye es os vent Pofvors were levelled and twelve ants log R ball entered a jemorrhage. Pennsy\vanis ital dition is ox! ly ori continuous, The ball, there are slight a Jerry Eaton, who was fourd Len f ‘by the aide immediately surrendered himself to of the endeavored : z H Beaieee eiberhs He was quickly remov 3s nn WAS him with @ board across face. The ong then arrested the follow P James Smith, Edward Eaton, Wm. Neillis, Peter Bills, ‘The parties had a hearing this morning and were held to await the result of the injuries, Al nine o’clock this evening Heenan’s condition was much easier, The ball has been extracted, and there is now no danger of hemorrhage. Fortunately the ball struck above the nipple, and no bones were broken. Heenan’s physicians are confident to-night of his recovery. i Counterrstt NATIONAL CunRENCY.—Twentten, altered from fives, on the First National Bank of Boston wore reported in circulation yesterday in Brooklyn and some sections of this city. parties :—