The New York Herald Newspaper, June 24, 1868, Page 6

see eee es uence NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUN& 24, 1668,—TRIPLE SHEET. 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Volume XXXIII........ Sa HakaTaiok des No. 176 x AMUSBMENTS THIS BVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Tus Lorreny or Live. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway. Puase oF Lientana, Broadway.—Tas Waits Fawn, THEATRE FRANCAISE.—Puivats Deawatio ENTER- ‘TALNMENT BY MADAME Ristont. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tus WizaRp SKIFF— Pu, THB SuowMAN. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. — ‘THE Gaanv DuouEss, iC THEA’ HUMPTY Mere cures be TRE, Broadway. De NEW STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Pouics Sry—Tom Any Jzney. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Plan ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, KELLY 4&4 LEON'S MINSTRELS, Boorntmoities, &c.—La |. = Broadway.—ETai0- ANOING, dc. 720 Broadway.—So: LL. N. ms Bor ta 4 OPERA Hi Tammany Building, 1th root Brio Fiat MINSTRELS "y IL8Y, EOORNTRIOITIES, 40. THEATRE COMIQUE, roadway.—BALLET, Fanos, 40. Matinee at 239. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowory.—Comio VoOoALi8x, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &o, Matinee at 23. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoPULAR GaupEn Concenr, TERRACE GARDEN—Porvutar Garprn Concert. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Oun AMERICAN CousIN. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOENOE AND ART. TRIPLE SHE ET. New York, THE NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday, June 23, at midnight. The Pope delivered two allocutions to the Sacred Consistory. Menotti Garibaldi is said to be prepar- ing @ movement against Rome, The French General Dumont announces, in Civita Vecchea, that Napo- leon will never abandon the Pope. A disastrous fire occurred in Bremen on the 22d inst. Prince Milan, of Severia, was enthusiastically received in Belgrade. ‘The Scotch Reform bill was read a second time in the House of Lords. George Francis Train was ar- reated in London. ‘The proposed intervention of the United States in the war between Spain and the South American re- publice ts regarded in official circles in Madrid as a virtual close of the war. Consois 94X, money. Five-twenties 73% in Lon- don and 77% 8 77% im Frankfort. Paris Bourse orm. In the Liverpool cotton market middling uplands closed at 11}4d. Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions steady. By steamship from Europe we have more details of our cable despatches to the 14th Jane. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Sumner reported from the Foreign Committee, with an amendment, a bill to protect American citizens abroad. The amend- ment does away with the proposed retaliatory mea- sures and makes tt the duty of the President to re- port the detention of citizens abroad to Congress for its action. The credentials of Messrs. Rice and Mac- donald, the Senators from Arkansas, were read, and Mr. Thayer moved that they be,swornin. Mr. Davis asked that the credentials of Messrs. Jones aud Garland, Senators elect from Arkansas under the State constitution of 1865, be also read, which was done, and they were then laid on the table, A motion to refer the credentials of the other parties to the Judiciary Committee was negatived, and the Senators were sworn tn. The Legislative Appropriation bill was again taken up, The clause repealing the offices of Second Assistant Secretary of State and Examiner of Claims in the State De- partment was stricken out. Several other clauses and amendments were acted upon and the Senate, after an exective session, adjourned. In the House the credentials of the Arkansas mem- bers, at the suggestion of Mr. Maynard, of Tennessce, were referred to the Committee on Elections. The Special Tax bill was then resumed, and Mr. Van Wyck'’s amendment fixing the tax on whiskey at fifty cents per gallon was debated at length and adopted by a vote of 37 to 37. An amendment mak- ing the tax payable before removal was allowed lost and laid over until the warehouse sections were reached. Mr. Blaine, by agreement, made a speech tn the interval on the local taxation of United States bonds, and the House immediately afterwards took @ recess until evening. On reassembling the Tax bill was again taken up. No quoram being present a cail of the House was ordered, and after avout an hour occupied in the call @ quorum was made up. Several other sections of the bill were then acted npon and the House adjourned. THE CITY. A dinner was given last evening to Minister Bur- lingame and the Chinese Embassy by the Chamber of Commerce at Delmonico’s. Governor Fenton and numerous distinguished citizens of the State, as well as the principal members of the Embassy, were Present. In reaponse to the principal toast Mr. Bur- lingame paid a high tribute to the progressive spirit recently evinced by the great Power he represents. ‘There was an explosion yesterday in the store of Messrs. W. J. Lyon & Co., dealers in flreworks, at No, 304 Broadway, in which Lawrence Ludlow Lyon, son, of the senior proprietor, met with a sudden and fearful death. There were no other casualties, ‘The explosion caused great excitement in the vicin- ity, and fora time it was feared several lives had been lost. The cause of the eaplosion is unknown, bat may possibly be revealed at the coroner's in- quest to be held to-day on the body of the unfortu- nate deceased. The building and stock were damaged in about $8,000, fully insured. ‘The real estate sales of yesterday were unusually large and the prices obtained were very satisfactory. The sales embraced New York and Brooklyn proper ty, besides a large amount of real estate in Hoboken ‘and the Mansion House property at Long Branch. Considerable competitien was manifested smong ‘The testimony im the Pornaad Wel hice, ti tion case was closed in the Supreme Court: and the counsel on The Erie contempt cases came before Judge Barnacd yesterday, at Supreme Court, Chambers, on the sum- ming up argument by counsel on the testimony taken G in Maren argument it was ad- heating Oakes, wife of the late Henry Stein- Way, applied to Justice Giibert yesterday in the Supreme for a writ of habeas corpus directing Wi Steinway, the pianoforte manu- facturer of this city to produce ner children, whom, she alleges, have been unlawfully withheld from her by the respondent, and placed in charge of a petty magistrate in Germany. In her aMidavit Mra. Oakes charges Wiliam Steinway with having withheld her {income from her late husband's estate, and also with Reglecting to furnish her with funds therefrom to pay even necessary expenses, Judge Gilbert ordered habeas corpus to issue, and the case will be shortly brought before the court again, when singular de- velopments are expected. A case, said to involve an illicit whiskey fraud to the amount of $4,500, in which James 8. Black is Plaintiff, against John F. Harris, J. U. Walker, Charles F. Copeland and Emil M. Blum, came up tn the Superior Court yesterday on @ motion to va- cate an order of arrest against the two frst named defendants, The hearing was postponed until Fri- day next, In the Court of General Sessions yesterday the indictment for grand larceny against Joseph Durand, of No. 24 Broadway, wae dismissed and the ball dis- charged. Bennett Gateman was sent to the State Prison for three years on a plea of guilty of grand larceny, and Francis Ferria was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment on a plea of guilty of attempted grand larceny. The case of Asa Craft, a compulsory bankrupt, was argued on appeal in the United States Circuit Court yesterday, and involves important questions as to the right of a debtor to appeal from an adjudi- cation of bankruptcy aeclared against him. Judge Nelson reserved his decision, In the United States District Court in Admiralty judgment was rendered yesterday in the cases of Pentz and others versus the steamer Ariadne, and Crawford and others versus the steamboats America and New Haven. In the former case the libel for damages for collision was dismissed, with costs. In the latter the libel was dismissed as against the America, but sustained as to the New Haven. The case of the United States versus Ferdinand Sulzberger and others, indicted for the Illicit distil- lation of whiskey, was concluded yesterday in the United States vistrict Court and given to the jury. No verdict had been rendered at the adjournment of the court. ‘Tho stock market was strong and active yesterday. Government securities were very strong and active. Gold closed at 14054 a 140%. MISCELLANEOUS. The Mississippi election on the acceptance of the new constitution commenced yesterday. So far the democrats are reported to be ahead, even in dis- tricts-where the colored votera have a majority on the registring list. In thirty-nine precincts they have a majority of two thousand. Both parties aro working hard. General Biddle, the military commander at Jack- son, Miss., waited upon Governor Humphreys yesterday and demanded the surrender of the office, Humphreys replied that he must use force to get it, when two soldiers were called in and Humphreys vacated. He has, however, fitted up another room as bis office and still claims to be Governor. President Sainave, of Hayti, etill holds out in his besieged capital and refuses all parley with the in- surgenta outside. He threatens to bombard the town before it shall be taken, and has commenced insulting all fyreigners but the Americans. Faubert had been attacking the fort outside the city for four days. Our Mexican intelligence via Havana has been generally anticipated by cable telegrams. Pronunci- amentos are still frequent. Negrete had fallen out with a portion of his followers and had gone to join the Querétaro insurgents, The Constitutional Convention of St. Domingo have named Baez Dictator, but he has declined the honor. The Convention thereupon named him Gran Ciudadano. Twelve thousand pounds sterling have been sub- scribed by the citizens of Jamaica for the new float- tng dry dock to be built at Kingston. The Maine Democratic State Convention met in Augusta yesterday and nominated E. F. Pillsbury for Governor. Delegates were appointed to the New York convention and appropriate resolutions were adopted. Several gangs of men, supposed to be flibusters bound for Mexico in the interest of Santa Anna, were arrested in New Orleans yesterday. Mrs. M. Victor, of Cleveland, Ohio, who has been on trial for some time on a charge of murdering her brother in order to obtain his property and the amount of an inaurance on his life, was yesterday found ‘guilty, sentence being reserved. A batch of revenue officers at Norfolk, Va., have been indicted for malfeasance. The Radical Leader of Congress and His New Impeachment Articles—Mischief Ahead. The impeachment of Andrew Johnson, gene- rally considered at an end with the failure of the late indictment, is cropping out again. The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, it appears, has prepared a new set of articles against tho aforesaid Johnson, embracing the “high crimes and misdemeanors” involved, first, in his organization of provisional governments in the subjugated rebel States without the con- sent of Congress; secondly, in certain alleged abuses of the pardoning power in behalf of rebels and deserters from the army; thirdly, in the employment of his official patronage to obstruct in the rebel States the reconstruction laws of Congress; fourthly, in the corrupt use of the patronage of his office in the political elections of the last three years. What does this mean? We suspect that it means mischief—that it comprehends at least a deeply laid radical scheme again revived to remove Johnson, and under ‘‘Old Ben Wade” to regulate in advance the distribution of the fat offices under Grant's administration, When it is considered, too, that upon the late indict- ment against Johnson, limited to the removal of Stanton from and the appointment of Thomas to the War Department ad interim in disregard of the Tenure of Office law, and to certain stump speeches of the President while buyers, and the day’s transactions realized upwards of @ million do:lars. ‘The Board of Health have adopted and published @ report of their Chairman of the Sanitary Com- mittee on the resuscitation of drowning persons. Dr. Harris’ weekly mortality report shows that there ‘Were 387 deaths in New York and 119 in Brooklyn Just week. -" Superintendent Kennedy has issued the usual orders to ptevent patriotic little boys from cele- ‘brating tie Fourth with private pyrotechnics. The Schuetzenfest committees, are progressing rapidly with their work. A prige donated by the slarpshooters’ societies of Switagriand and one from the King of Prussia were received yesterday, and arrangements were completed tg open to public ex- hifbition all the prizes at Steinway Hall to-day at two o'clock. A meeting at the Astor House of honorary members elected Mr. Smith fly, Jr., for honorary President and a Committee of Reception. ‘The Jersey City Yacht Club heid tts annual regatta in the bay yesterday, Bight vessels were engaged in the contest, the Bila winning the first prize of the Pirst class, ar Comet of the second class, Manus fi J, the Fort Schuyler soldier who | ‘wre 1 have been executed in Westehester on Fri day, for the murder of Miss Ellen Hicks some time ago, as tween vespiied by Governor Fenton unt Gowler 19, “swinging round the circle,” the change of a single vote from “‘not guilty” to “guilty” would have removed Johnson from the White House, we can hardly dismiss this new move of Stevens asa trifling matter. The charges indicated cover alleged usurpations upon which there have been no dissenting voices among the republicans. These charges were not intro@uced in the late prosecution, because it was thought that Staaton's case, with those stump speeches, would answer the purpose and save time, The Inte trial has shown how nother can be carried to a successful issue, and, with the additions soon to be made of fourteen radical Senators from the seven recon- structed Southern States, representing, against Johnson, the policy of Congress, this new in dictment of Stevens, if seriously acted upon, may be pushed through within the timits of four or five weeks. It is not likely that another trial will be attempted this session, but a joint resolution providing for an earticr reassembling of the two houses than the firs Senate, cocked and primed, will, at the hint from Stevens, be ready for action. Andrew Johnson will be permitted to remain in the White House to the 4th of March next, the end of hie appointed term. The Chicago platform, endorsed by General Grant, pretty broadly authorizes a new impeachment prose- cution. The indictment suggested from Mr. Stevens he doubtless supposes will, with But- ler's report, for the present serve the purposes of an electioneering document, and that with the reassembling of the two houses the weak- kneed republicans will be made strong from the agitation of this new prosecution as 4 party measure, But the main design in view, we believe, is to get Johnson out and Wade in his place, in order that the radical faction, par excellence, may provide the Cabinet of General Grant, and for themselves the lion's share of the gpoils, and generally, in regard to measures and men, secure the whip hand over the next administration. General Grant having signified that he will have no policy of his own to interpose against the will of the people—that is, Congress—we may assume that if Congress shall indicate, through President Wade in the White House, any par- ticular line of policy, it will be accepted by Grant, and that he will be perfectly indifferent whether radicals or conservatives are thus made masters of the situation. He does not care a fig about it one way or the other. This radical programme, resting upon these proposed new impeachment articles from Stevens, it will thus be seen, is sufficiently inviting to the impeachers to lead them to another impeachment trial. It promises them the required two-thirds of the Senate certain for Mr. Johnson’s removal, the command of the President's patronage under Wade and the command of Grant's administration. Moan- time, as an electioneering trick, this threatened revival of the impeachment, it may be sup- posed, will operate to keep Johnson within bounds in the matter of his offices and to weaken the faith of the democracy in the nice appoint- ments and sterling virtues of his administra- tion. It may be part of the general scheme of Stevens to head off not only Johnson, but likewise Chase, with the Democratic Conven- tion, by the new impeachment articles sug- gested ; for was it not the Chief Justice, after all, who, with his casting vote on the post- ponement, put an end to the late impeachment, and is not Chase understood to be the second choice of Johnson ? Before the Fourth of July this proposed new experiment may assume a definite shape ; but the success of the grand scheme with which it ia connected depends upon this idea among the radicale—that the democracy in 1868 will stick to their old follies and repeat their old blunders in setting up a dead party politician on dead issues against General Grant and the living issues of the day. But let the nomination of Chief Justice Chase be proclaimed from Tammany Hall, and the radicals will have no time to waste upon Andrew Johnson. Tue Watskey Tax Bitt in Committee oF THE WHoLE.—The House of Representatives yesterday went into Committee of the Whole on the new whiskey and tobacco bill re- ported by the Ways and Means Committee. After a long debate Mr. Van Wyck’s amend- ment to the first section, reducing the tax on whiskey to fifty cents per gallon, was carried by the decisive vote of eighty-seven to thirty- seven. This was about all of importance that was done towards pushing through the bill, an amendment to make the tax payable by the distiller or owner before the whiskey is re- moved from the warehouse being ‘‘allowed to stand over until the warehouse sections are Important To THE Demooracy.—The Hon. Horatio Seymour, under the auspices of the Jackson Central Association, is appointed to deliver an address to-morrow evening, at the Cooper Institute, on the political issues of the day. Considering that Mr. Seymour stands first and foremost among the regular party leaders as the most available and acceptable man for the democratic nomination for the next Presidency, and considering the fact that he has already taken strong ground in favor of Chief Justice Chase, we think we can safely promise to the democracy, at this Cooper Institute meeting, one of the most important speeches on the political situation delivered by any man anywhere in this country since the surrender of General Lee. Tue Mississtrrt Evzotion.—Our first report of the Mississippi election on the ratification of the new radical State constitution, &€., is that by the negro vote the radicals have been defeated. Remembering, however, that our first reports of similar elections in.some of the other reconstructed States were of the same character, we await further returns before pro- nouncing upon the case of Mississippi. That the conservative whites, who are the landown- ere and the employers of the blacks, can com- mand the black balance of power all over the South, if they go earnestly about it, we have no doubt whatever. It may be that they have on this first regular trial turned the tables upon the radicals in Mississippi; but we await the full returns, Tue Festan Exorrement mom Caxapa.—The recent Fenian bugaboo having departed from ‘among our Canadian neighbors, and quiet on the border having been again restored, it may be well to ventilate one of the causes of the latest great scare. Two years ago, when some of the Hotspurs of the Fenian organization were making demonstrations along the lines, our government seized at St. Albans about thirteen hundred old muskets, Two or three weeks ago some of the Fenian officers made applica- tion for the release of those arms and for per- mission to bring them back to this city. Tho government consented to their being removed on bonds being given that they should not bo nged unlawfully. When they were ready to be shipped they were levied upon by the express company on charges accruing two years ago in their transit to the border. All dues have boen paid and the arms are now safely in thi vity, This is the whole foundation for the recent ramors of approaching Fenian invasions Monday in December will meet (mo case. | and the scizures of Fonian arms, It is, therefore, by no means certain that ons ats UE Tho New York Digner to the Chinese Em- indictment to take adyantage of the seusstion expected from Butler's report on the impeach- ment bribery investigation, and) we may be eure that the impeachers of the House and basey—The Splendid Speech of Br. Bar Upgamo. We surrender, this moraing, s considerable portion of our available space to the proceed- ings and speeches at the dinner given at Del- monico’s (Fourteenth etreet) Ist evening by our leading representative citizens to Mr. Bur- lingame and the Chinese Embassy, commis- sioned in behalf of a general treaty of peace and good will to the great Christian Powers of the earth, beginning with the United States, The proceedings and the speeches on this most remarkable occasion will be found extremely interesting, especially the speech of Mr. Bur- lingame, explanatory of the motives, the objects and the reasonable expectations con- nected with this extraordinary and exalted and sagaciouss adventure of Oriental diplomacy. This mission, in truth, stands without a pre- cedent in the history of mankind. At the head of it we Gnd the enlightened and generous minded diplomat acting but yesterday as Min- ister of the United States in China. It is the highest compliment to him, and it is no small compliment to his country that he should be. selected of all men around the Emperor to re- present the interests and the aspirations of the Chinese empire at this crisisand her claims to a fair treatment by the great Christian Powers, according to the broad principles of Christian justice and magnanimity. The speech of Mr. Burlingame on this comprehensive text is a most eloquent and splendid manifesto. It embodies a volume of instruction touching the great empire for which he speaks, its institu- tions, its people, its peculiar civilization, its wonderful progress of late in the way of re- forms, its recognition of the resistless powers of steam and electricity, in bringing the remotest nations into immediate contact and touching the desires of the Emperor to bring China into a happy accord with the ruling Powers of Christendom, upon the simple recognition all around that China shall be recognized as the rightful sovereign over her domestic affairs. The appeal of Mr. Burlingame upon this point against the mischievous foreign emissaries, in the empire and out of it, looking to the subju- gation of China, is clear and convincing. It establishes the sagacity of the Emperor in the selection of his chief ambassador on this important mission. This trust, involving the very existence of China as ‘an independent Power, could not have been placed in better hands. His method of showing that it is the interest not only of the United States, but of England, France and Russia to agree upon the maintenance of the sovereignty of China over her internal and international affairs, must carry conviction to all the great Powers concerned that this understanding is the proper basis for the most advantageous re- lations between all the nations of Christendom and the “Central Flowegy Kingdom.” We have no doubt that this truly magnificent expo- sition of the objects of this Embassy will open the doors to a cordial welcome in every capital of Europe embraced in the general instructions of Mr. Burlingame. The Fernando Wood Leases. At length the mystery in the Fernando Wood lease litigation has been solved, and, assuming that the evidence adduced on the trial is true, it has also demonstrated that, aside from the question of jobbery involved, the people have been kept in the dark and the city has been embarrassed with a troublesome lawsuit for nearly three years because It was found to be to the interest of a political party to create the “mystery.” Tammany rules the roost in the government of New York city, and in the fall of 1865 and the winter of 1866 found that there were ‘‘breakers ahead," which were to be guarded against. The obstacle was the Mo- zart Hall democracy, and to break the spell the attack was directed against the chief of that organization. The city, under a former administration, had taken a lease of some of his property for ten years, at the certainly very liberal aggregate rental of one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. There was a wide margin there for the pre- sumption of a fat political job, according to the regulations of the Corporation ‘‘rings,” and the Tammany leaders ostensibly jumped to the conclusion that there was ‘‘a nigger in the fence.” Of course where 8 matter of rental of property for ten years at eighteen thousand dollars a year was concerned there must be corruption. The pious elty authorities, there- fore, direct their counsel, also of Tammany stock, to commence a suit, in the name of the Mayor and Commonalty, to annul the contract entered into between the city—under a former administration—and Wood, and claim that twenty-one thousand dollars was the price of the resolution authorizing the leases to be made. A “sham fight” in the courts, which are also ruled by Tammany, extends over a period of upward of two years, and Tammany, having made the charges, honorably resolves to dispel the shadow cast by them. They contrive to get ‘a cock and a bull story” into the ear of one of the counsel, who subpcnas the inform- ant and learns from him on the witness stand that no one who knew the facts ever believed there was any fraud in these leases, but that “at that time Mr. Wood was very troublesome to Tammany Hall and it became necessary to give him a bad character—and we did 60.” The then Mayor testifies that he signed the resolution for the Aldermen in consideration of their promise to assist another measure for the . good of the city, and the case is in a nutshell. Tammany and Wood have now reconciled their little differences, Wood is no longer trouble- some to Tammany, and Tammany, speaking with the voice of the courts, says, ‘‘Let him have his money.” Prince Alfred and Sir Robort Napier. The Atlantic cable hes informed us that on Monday, June 29, her Majesty's! ship Urgent sailed from Alexandris, Egypt; for England, having on board his Royal Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburg, and Major General Sir Robert Napier. This is gne of those an- nouncements which excite, startle, please. Why it should have such efféct it is not #0 easy to explain, There is unquestionably something in the coincidence. It is a curious oireum- stance that Prince Alfred, on account of whom England sorrowod, and Sir Robert Napier, on account of whom England rejoiced in the las week of April—the two men connected witt the two most startling events of the day, 90 far ag Bngland is concerned —should meetin Alex andria and sail for home in the same ship. 1 is only truth to say that the Urgent will have Fashion Against Pawubroking. has not been to vessel within ti {age coriously memory,” ’ hacer i aeate ee of of} “wilt receive aa ovation such as | their plan of profits, as well as by Joba htsto give. Itis not unfair to | heavy losses sustained in their every-day conclude that both the Prince and the General will be gainers by the fortunate meeting. The Johany Bulls will not unnaturally arrive at the conclusion that the fates are with England. The Political Sitention—The Chase Move- ment, The political canvass, unlike the weather, does not yet begin to wax warm. The repub- licans are entirely quiescent, scarcely a breath stirring the placid bosom of their political repose. Wherever a ripple is at all observable it arises from the stir about the democrats nominating Chief Justice Chase. Their Papera have ceased to extol Grant and Colfax, and apply themselves to the task of showing how inconsistent it would be for the democracy to nominate a man who had been notoriously hostile to a number of their favorite political measures. The wish, in many of those cases, is, no doubt, father to the thought. The radi- cals say they do not intend to begin the cam- pain until the dog days, and it will thon de- pend altogether upon who is the democratic nominee with what amount of vigor it will be prosecuted, In regard to the Chase movement our cor- respondence from all sections of the country— embracing the views of democrats and republi- cans alike, as well as the expressions of the ‘newspaper press, wherever they dare to ex- press an honest opinion—continues to strength- en our convictions that the Chief Justice is the only man yet named who can lead the democrats to victory, He is the only man who can stand a moment, as it were, before the hero of the Appomattox apple tree. He is the only man who can come before the people with a war record that will weigh equally in the balance with that of Grant. While Grant gave blood and courage to the fight Chase gave bread and cash, with- out which all the blood poured out and all the he- roic courage displayed would have failed to have brought the Union armies triumphantly through the terrible ordeal. Grant furnished the flesh, Chase the sinews of the war. But with all his popularity and merit we cannot close our eyes to the fact that a deadset and determined hos- tility exists on the part of the old political rings—the bald and played out hunkers and the meddling, waspish fire eaterse—to defeat, it possible, the nomination of Judge Chase by the democrats on the Fourth of July. Whether these rings are powerful enough to defy the undoubted will of the people remains to be seen. Time will tell, We shall soon know whether the democrats, olinging to the rotten planks of their shivered platforms, will sink ‘to the bottom of the ocean of political obli- vion, or whether, by nominating Chase and adopting the live, fresh, progressive issues of the day, they will elect to be borne along, as if upon an irresistible flood, to political position end power. Success with Chase; defeat and death without him. There you are. Choose for yourselves. Workingmen’s Strikes. Last Monday the journeymen bricklayers and masons of the city inaugurated a strike which, if it continues for any length of time, must inevitably inflict a great degree of suffer- ing on » large number of workingmen and their families. The cause of the difficulty is owing to the demand made by the members of the bricklayers’ and masons’ trades unions that eight hours shall constitute a day's work having been refused. It has for a long time been believed, or at least the belief is asserted by the trades unionists, that as much work can be accomplished in eight as was formerly performed in ten hours, This theory, however, has yet to be reduced to practice, The combi- nations of the journeymen led to like combina- tions on the part of the employers, and when the time came for the enforcement of the eight hour system the journeymen discovered that they had a more extensive opposition to con- tend with than they at first anticipated. The time is not long gone by when the trades difficulties in England were not settled without bloodshed. In the min- ing districts of England, s few years since, strikes, and subsequently lock-oute, were of more general occurrence than at the present day. These difficulties, originating in # de- mand for higher wages, led to disturban¢es of the most grievous nature. Property was de- stroyed and even valuable lives were lost, both of which occurrences arose through the diff- culties between the workmen and their em- ployers. In many instances it was found necessary to invoke the aid of the military in districts where the journeymen on strike preponderated over those who were not inte- rested in the difficulty. Of course this state of things produced an amount of hardship and suffering upon all classes. In Paris, about three years since, the cab drivers went on strike against thelr employers, and so arbi- trary were their demands and so insulting was their behavior, even in the imperial city of France, where the organizations of workingmen are held in such check by the authorities, that the government found it necessary to interfere to prevent outrages being committed. The recent occurrences in Spain have also told to surrender their claims and go to work at the master workmen's terms. The effect of this difference between the men and their employers had a tendency to drive work from the ship- yards of this city, and to thie day the business of shipbuilding has suffered in consequence. The bticklayers and masons are now running into the same error. Profiting nothing by the experience of the past, they have made a de- mand which they may not be able to obtain. Of course this will necessitate the stoppage of numbers of buildings now in course of erec- tion, and numerous families will suffer in con- sequence. Were the employers and their workmen to meet and calmly reason on the changes in trade customs which cither party might dee y, and be guided by com mon sense in their deliberations, we would iiave none of those disastrous occurrences which neriodically disturb the community. necose resort to their establishments for the sole pur- pose of leaving dresses there, never intending to redeem them, so a8 to show good cause for obtaining new ones, and being thus enabled to “keep up with the fashions,” The pawnbrokers are about to appeal to Par- liament for a bill authorizing more frequent sales of unredeemed clothing, so that they may offer something ‘fashionablo” at their auc- tions, dull and melancholy affairs at the best, but likely to be rendered raggy and funereal by the aristocratic whirl which is going on out- side, The ladies of Britain are alao going ‘down to the House” to seek the attainment of citizen franchises and privileges of different degrees of importance, and a meeting in the lobby be- tween a delegation of modern Shylocks from Seven Dials, Shoreditch, or Wapping, each one distraught with care and anxious for his “bond,” and a deputation of beauties from Belgravia and the West End, each one “‘airy as a fay and graceful as a duchess,” gliding in and out of the committee rooms, would afford @ subject for deep philosophical reflection. ‘The women’s rights advocates would, of course, be ‘made up” in the outdoor style prevalent the same afternoon ; while the Israelites would see at once that each robe, “floating free as mountain breezes,” swept away almost a “shent per shent” from their incomes at every movement of its skirt. Opposing forces, natural, social and politi- cal, appear to be engaged just now in fierce struggle all over the world, even in the ‘‘bowela of the earth,” for mastery or an equalization of balance, and certainly not the least curious of the inequalities is that presented in the con- flicting interesta of the fashionable ladies of England and the pawnbrokers. If the facile ecissors of the modéstes.can “shave” down the extortions of this ruinously accommodating fraternity, and ladies’ flounces éweep away the immoralities of the “spouting” shops of London, @ great work will have been accom- plished in a pleasing manner. Progress of Reform in England. Our cable news shows that reform is pro- @ressing satisfactorily in the British Parlia- ment. The Irish Church Establishment Sus- pensory bill is now before the Lords. The Lords like it not, but they are likely to be made aware that resistance is vain. The Scotch Reform bill passed the second reading in the House of Peers yesterday, and the drish Reform bill, as we learned by a cable despatch of yesterday, has been read in committee. The Boundary bill, an integral part of tho new English reform measure, has also been read @ third time in the Commons. The atruggle which has lasted so long in the Lower House is now transferred bodily to the Upper. The fight continues, but the combatants are new and the scene is changed. What with the Church Suspensory bill, the Scotch Reform bill, the Irish Reform bill and the Boundary bill on their hands, the Lords have enough to do, if they would get off to their shooting quar- ters early in August. The dread of an au- tumnal session, which is threatened, will have the effect of making speeches short and busi- ness sharp; and it now ceases to be an impos- sibility that there may be a general election all over the United Kingdom, under the new con- ditions, and that the reformed Parliament may find itself in session before the now year. It {s now all but certain that Mr. Disraeli will be the last Premier under the old régime. Whe- ther he will be the first under the new remains to be seen. CITY POLITICS. Tas Guauan DeMmooRacy.—The General Commit- teeof the German Democratic Union party mot last night in special session at their hall on Third avenue, near Bighteenth street, but except the appointing of ‘an Bxecutive Committee, with Coroner Schirmer as meet the Pe ae ea be as the the sitting of the approaching 7 vention. Mupring OF CONSBEVATIVE SOLDIERG.—A meeting wilt be held of conservative Union soldiers to-night at Lynch’s Hotel to for the of the ave to the Convention and to be represented in that body. ‘TELEGRAPHIC REWS ITEMS. ‘The Louisville Board of Trade urge the passage of the River and Harbor Improvement bill now before condition. end Ofty pounds, fell ‘morning. y " rt te for th AOE Fae Seka ieee yesterday acquitted, Chief State Constable of usctte \anued orders to suvordkanten tog etoree the law against liquor sellers m thie Rane the incendtary, and jail in ee ee a Monday nig’ Stewart, the Springfield, 0 at Amherst on Great preparations are being marte for the Masonic celebri on ot ‘St. John’s day tn Springs Maas., to-day. It will be opserved as a general holiday. Joseph Ferry, of Chicopee, who was arrested yos- terday in Springfield, Mass., for an incendiary at- tempt to burn @ dwelling house in that city on Monday nlgpt, because @ young lady, one of the ocoupants of the house, had refused his company, attempted to commit suicide in hia cell yesterday by