The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1868, Page 6

ee nr NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, 5 All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York ‘Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th strect.— Tan Lorreny oF Lirx. BROADWAY THEATRE, Ligutnine. FRENCH THEATRE.—MAzIE ANTOINETTE. Broadway.—A FPLase oF BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tas WIZARD SKIVF— Putt, TAR SHOWMAN. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Tun Granv Docusss. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway._Humerr Domerr NEW STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—MIANTI- NOMO—OUTLAW OF NEAGLEDAWN, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taa Waits Fawn. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—LiscHen AND FarrzourN—La GRaxpe DucuRsse. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Eru10- PiaW ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, AC. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth sreet.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, EOCENTRICITIES, £0. ) eearaga COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—-BaLLet, Fanos, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.Com1a Yooa.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. LA BELLE HELENE. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoruL az GanpEn Concert, TERRACE GARDEN—PoPuLar GaRpEN Concert. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Ovum AMERICAN COUSIN. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—BURLESQUE OPERA—ALADDIN—CAMILLE—PADDY MILES' Boy. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ‘ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SOIENOR AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, June 25, 1868. os = wun NUWSs. EUROPE. rhe news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday evening, June 24. ‘The Pope condemns the Austrian reform legislation In bulk—punishment for observance of the new laws to be tn the other world. The Austrian government resolves to maintain the laws. Protestants from all parts of the world are flocking to Worms to attend he Luther statue festival. Florence ramors antici- pate an early war between France and Prussia. England will offera national thanksgiving for the (Abyssinian victories next Sunday. Consols, 94%, money. Five-twenties, 73% in Lon- Gon and 77% a 77% in Frankfort. Cotton irregular, with middling uplands 1144. a 111%. Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions steady. Pro- [luce easier. Special mail details of our cable despatches to the (8th of June are published in the HeRaLp to-day. CONGRESS. In the Sénate yesterday Mr. Howard introduced a bill providing for the discontinuance of the Freed- men’s Bureau upon the readmission of the South- ern States. The bill making eight hours a day’s work for laborers and mechanics im govern- ment employ was very generally discussed and finally passed by a vote of 26to1l. The Legislative Appropriation bill was again taken up. The salaries ‘of chiefs of several naval bureaus were stricken out. An amendment increasing the appropriation for sala- Pies and expenses of the internal revenue adminis- fration from six to eight millions was agreed to. onsiderable further discussion ensued, and at the close, without voting upon the bill, the Senate ad- journed. In the House the Committee on Elections reported in favor of the three Arkansas Representatives, who were thereupon admitted to their seats. Mr. Brooks, for the democratic members, then presented a long protest against their admission, which was received nd read. The Tax bill was then resumed. The first rection was amended so that the fifty cents tax shall ve paid before removal from the distillery, In the evening session no quorum appeared, and another ‘nour was lost in the call of the House, The forty- ainth section, regulating the exportation of distilled spirits, was stricken out. The question of the pay of Arkansas members was referred to the Judiciary Committee, they having claimed pay from the be- ginning of Congress against a decision of the Speaker, The House then adjourned. THE CITY. ‘The Brooklyn Yacht Club will hold its annual re- @atta to-day, the course being from opposite the Club House, in Gowanus bay, to Southwest Spit and ceturn. Thirty-five vessels are entered, fourteen of prhich are representatives of other yacht clubs. A race has been agreed upon between the yachts Sappho and Dauntiess, the course to be from a stake pif the club house on Staten Island around the light- ship of Cape May and return to the lightship off Sandy Hook. It will take place between the 4th and Jith of July. Columbia College held its one hundred and four- teenth commencement exercises yesterday. ‘The master masons held another meeting at their Exchange Rooms, in Liberty street, yesterday after- moon. A number of resolutions were unanimously passed, all tending to resist the eight hour system sought to be introduced, and to invite ali other mas- fer mechanics to join in the opposition. A more permanent organization was perfected, and the Ex- ecutive Committee will now meet every evening, corner of Twenty-second street aud Broadway. A full report of their proceedings will ve found else- here. The Alumni Association of the New York Univer. sity Law School held its first anniversary last night at Delmonico’s. A number of distinguished guests were present. The anniversary was successful throughout, and friendly greetings were exchanged between vid classmates. At the mass meeting of the members of the Schut- zenvund and others last evening the presentation of the gold medal voted did not take place, as it was not yet finished. The Mayor was unavoidably absent out of town, A number of new prizes were received and will be added to-day to the collection now on Tree exhibition at Steinway Hall. Resolutions were Passed requesting the citizens to decorate their houses on (he streets through which the procession will pass ucxt Monday. Brown “od Tyler, the oarsmen, rowed @ match race on the Hudson off Hoboken yesterday. Tyler won the race, and Brown being taunted with selling out by the Gulick Boat Club, @ distarbance arose, in which ,the club were only prevented from roughly using Brown by the intervention of the police. Mr. John W. Devereux, an aMdavit, clerk of the Commissioners of Emigration at Castle Garden, re- cently resigned his position and has filed with Richard O'Gorman, Chairman of the Irish Emigra- tion Society, several very serious charges of mis- treatment of emigrants against the Commissioners. Coroner Keenan held an inquest yesterday over ‘the remains of Lawrence Lyon, the victim of the fire- works explosion in Broadway, and after the hearing of considerable testimony @ verdict of death from bruises by the explosion was rendered, the cause of the explosion being undetermined. Three alleged lottery dealers were arrest + day, on a charge of violating the iaws of the te against lotteries, They were held to bail in two thousand dollars cach. ‘The trial of Michael J. Conte and Charis Burke aa NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1868.—TRIPLE scceasories with Thomas Fitzgerald for the killing of Miss Ellen Hicks in August, 1866, took place at White Plains yesterday, the case being summed up and given to the jury. ‘The case of Yates against the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company was before the Su- preme Court yesterday on a motion to continue the preliminary injunction granted on the 9th instant, ‘The suit is similar to those brought against the com- pany by Hatch, Fanshawe and others, which were recently settled. The court reserved decision on the motion. ‘The old litigation of Mumford against Greenleaf ‘Was argued at Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, 0n & motion by the assignee to compel the plaintiff to aurrender the moneys obtained on the judgment in the original suit. Decision reserved. In the case of Sedgwick, assignee, against James K. Place and others a motion was made in the United States Circuit Court to set aside the assignment of the defendants’ property; that the assignee be com- Pelled to account and be restrained from further exe- Ferdinand Sulzberger, George Strauss, Charles Heitman, Jacob Fleischeimer and William Silver were convicted in the United States District Court on Tuesday of defrauding the revenue, Silver was never arrested and the other defendants were out on bail. When the jury rendered their verdict of guilty the prisoners were not to be found, nor has any trace of them since been discovered. A motion was made yesterday in the Superior Court for the discharge of Max Strauss, who was ar- Tested on the complaint of Charles F. Copeland for having sold plaintiff one hundred-and fifty barrels of whiskey on which the tax had not been paid. De- cision reserved. The North German Lloyd’s steamship Hermann, Captain Wenke, will leave Hoboken about two o’clock P, M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office at twelve o’clock M. The steamship Morro Castie, Captain R. Adams, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three o'clock P. M. to-day for Havana, The Cuban mails will close at two o'clock P. M. at the Post OMice. The stock market was dull, but drm yesterday. Government securities were dull, but steady. Gold closed at 14014, MISCELLANEOUS. Our Havana letter is dated June 20. The Ameri- can brig J, M. Burns had been compelled to pay two dollars per. ton on a cargo of molasses when the legal rate was fifty cents, and the United States Consul had laid the case before the State Depast- ment at Washington. The six military commis- -| sions in Cuba had sentenced twenty-seven prisoners to death in three months, Advices from Port au Prince, Haytt, state that Sal- nave’s friends were rapidly deserting him. Delorme had stolen $200,000 in gold when he sailed for Ku- rope. Venezuela advices by telegraph are to the 7th inst. General Monagas had demanded the surrender of Caracas. The Secretary of War reports the sum required to Meet deficiencies in the execution of the recon- struction acts at $631,578. Perry Fuller, of Kansas, a brother-in-law of Miss Vinnie Ream, the sculptress, has been nominated by the President to succeed Commissioner Bollins. The elections in New Providence, Bahama Islands, are over, and the liberals have a majority in the Legislature. A petition ts to be forwarded to Eng- land for the removal of the Governor and Seoretary. Business was very dull. The Philadelphia democrats yesterday nominated a city ticket headed by Daniel M. Fox for Mayor. The Nova Scotian memorial for the repeal of the Confederation act has been denied by the Home gov- ernment, and despatches to that effect have been re- ceived in Ottawa. The remains of Rear Admiral H. H. Bell and Lieu- tenant Commanders J. H. Reed and A. 8. McKenzie, who lost their lives while on duty in the China squad- Ton, arrived at Boston yesterday. The filibustering expedition for Mexico, recently Teported as nipped in the bud in New Orleans, turns out to have been a party of laborers engaged to work on & Mexican railroad. The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Monitor (newspaper) has been suppreased by the military. The corner stone of the new Masonic temple at Philadelphia was laid yesterday with imposing oere- monies. ‘The thirteenth annual international convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association assembied in Detroit yesterday. A fire occurred in Bangor, Me., last evening, which destroyed an entire block. Negro Suffrage in the Seouth—Taurning the Tables Upon the Radicals. Democratic niggers are beginning to make their appearance at various places down South. They have been turning out in such numbers in the Mississippi constitutional election as to mark a reaction which looks very much like a revolution, They elected in the late Georgia election in the cotton districts several demo- cratic members to the Legislature. They recently came forth in some strength in Louisiana, where the ocarpet-baggers have assumed to dictate the ballot for the black man. Even in old Virginia, where, between the radical terrorisms of Hunnioutt against the old ‘‘nigger traders” on the one side and the folly of the opposition fire-eating white polli- ticians on the other, the lines between the white man’s party and the black man’s party are very sharply drawn, even there. demo- cratic niggers are rapidly increasing. Among them has appeared a talented fellow named Breckinridge, who, in company‘ with a white conservative as ‘‘a man and brother,” is suc- cessfully stumping the State. In fact, the in- fluence of the carpet-baggers over the Southern blacks is passing away, and if properly en- couraged, as recommended by Wade Hampton, the democratic niggers in the Presidential election will wield the balance of power in every reconstructed State. With the overthrow of the late fighting rebel confederacy came the confirmation of ‘‘de blessed Massa Lincoln's ‘mancipation procla- mation.” This brought over the emancipated blacks at once en masse to Congress and ‘‘de Northern gemmen.” Senator Wilson, in his “‘prospecting” missionary tour among those freedmen, from Virginia to Georgia, was as- tonished at their unanimous uprising for the republican party. But having gone through two or three experimental elections, these Southern blacks appear to be considering their actual condition «as workers of the soil. Many of them had been led to “great expectations,” of free farms, free cabins and mules and wagons as rewards for their fidelity to Congress, and many had been frightened by the terrors of slavery against their late masters. But at last these blacks are becoming satisfied that their freedom is secure, that their right to vote is safe against all accidents, and that those free farms, cabins and mules promised them are all moonshine. Nay more, they are beginning to see that if they can turn: their votes toa good account with their white neighbors and employers it will be so much clear gain—a gain of good will between whites and blacks, mutual assistance, assured employment and something that will stick to the ribs, So far, indeed, have these practical Southern ideas been gaining ground among the blacks that some are beginning® to think that the Freedmen’s Bureau is only for fs, and that work and harmony with their white neighbors will not only bring the Sunday coat to Pomp, the wedding dress to Sally, and SHEET. “game as in do old times done goneaway,” but by and by the farm, the cabin and the mule to daddy, and the garden, chickens and cow to the old womaa, and ‘‘none to make them afraid.” In this frame of mind the Southern blacks need only a democratic Presidential candidate whose name is's guarantee that their civil and Political rights conceded by Congress will be respected by tim. Give them such 9 man and they will give him the balance of power in every one of the late rebel States voting in this elec- tion, not excepting Tennessee. There is only one man for the democracy who can meet this requisition, while at the same time he can fur- nish a satisfactory record as « genuine Union democrat upon the supremacy of the constitu- flon against the radical theory and practice of the supremacy of military law. We have shown, too, that on the all-important money question Mr. Chase, the founder of our finan- cial system for the war, is‘the very nian to shape it to the just demands of the people and the wants of the country under a peace estab- lishment, Thus while he is the most available man to cope with General Grant in the East and the West, Chase is the only man who as the democratic nominee this year can gain the negro balance of power in the reconstructed South, including North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, South Carolina, Georgia, Flori- da, Alabama and Louisiana. It will be remembered that immediately after the collapse of Jeff Davis and his confederacy the Chief Justice made a political or philan- thropic tour of observation through the South- ern States—an expedition rendered somewhat conspicuous from his public assurances to the blacks at various points touching their freedom and their. civil and political rights. From that time the Chief Justice became a special fa- vorite among the freedmen for the Presidential succession, and they have not forgotten him. To be sure, these reminiscences clash some- what violently with the copperhead Jefferson Brick’s short catechism on negro suffrage, which winds up with ‘‘damn a nigger anyhow,” but we must deal with things as they are. Negro suffrage in the reconstructed Southern States is a fixed fact. Negro votes in those States may turn the scale in the Presidential election, and turn it against the radical party with Chase in the field as the democratic can- didate. We see, too, from various develop- ments in the South, that even the old fire-eaters, dyed in the wool, of white supremacy and negro subordination, get along very well with “nigger suffrage” when represented by demo- ratio niggers. The only trouble is that upon the capital stock of negro emancipation and en- franchisement the radicals South have secured the mass of the negro voters against the mass of the whites. Now, consulting the interests of their position in the same community with the whites, these blacks are ready for a change of tactics, They find thata black man’s party against a white man’s party is profitiess and full of danger. Give them a chance, and this blunder will be repaired. Give them Chase as the democratic nominee, and in the division of the Southern blacks between the two parties not only will the radicals be defeated, but by the very element created by them as a radical balance of power, and harmony between Southern whites and blacks will be estab- lished. The Popo on Reform in Austria. Pope Pius the Ninth has pronounced an allo- cution in sweeping condemnation of the mea- sures of national reform just passed by the Par- liament of Austria and signed by the Emperor, more particularly as they affect the Concordat with Rome, the extension of freedom to the press, religious toleration to dissenters, the right of civil marriage and the reorganization of the system of public education. His Holi- ness maintains that the Concordat was per- petual and not to be disturbed, and warns ‘‘all persons to beware of the spiritual pains and penalties attached to violations of the sacred rights of the Church.” This proves that the Pope entertains the most extraordinary ideas of concordance, when he seeks to maintain it by promoting a universal discordance, both here and hereafter. As tothe Civil Marriages bill, the Pontiff has expressed himself rather late, for the special correspond- ent of the Hzratp in Vienna tells us that a marriage has already been contracted under its provisions, Mercury and Venus being too quick for Cardinals Barnabo and Antonelli. What will be done in this case? In the olden time an Englishman was placed in the public “‘stocks.” A village ‘“‘shyster” lawyer took up the “grievance,” telling the man, ‘Government dare not do it, sir; dare not violate your rights; it would cause @ revolution.” The prisoner replied calmly, ‘‘They have done it; I am in the stocks.” So with the Pope. A man and wo- man are already married according to the new law of Austria, and we are now to presume that if their married life prove unhappy the news will gladden the heart of the Pontiff. The “all persons” doomed to ‘“‘spiritual pains and penalties” evidently includes Baron von Buest, the Premier, and the Emperor of Austria. As Baron von Buest is a Protestant he does not, as we see by our cable telegram, experience much alarm, and as Francis Joseph said he “should abdicate or sign the bills,” it is likely he will continue to enjoy himself as well as he can here on earth, ‘taking all the chances” in the other life, Rome evidently requires an- other Galileo, and one may come from before Luther's statue in Worms. Masonto Cetesrations.—St. John’s Day was celebrated by the Masonic fraternity yesterday with great éclat. At Philadelphia the corner stone of a new temple was laid, and at Springfield, Massachussets, there was a procession and inthe evening a ball. The day was celebrated at other places, but not to the extent that it was in the two cities mentioned. The processions were large, the Masons enthusiastic and everything passed off harmoniously and pleasantly. Of late years the Masonic fraternity have made rapid strides in the public favor. Their num- bers have considerably increased} and their in- fluence is now felt throughout the country to a much’ greater extent than ever before. Of course with this progress has come a decided augmentation of wealth, and thus in nearly @very State we hear of new and costly temples being erected by this philanthropic society. Their celebrations and festive gatherings, un- like those of most benevolent societics, are no- ticeable for the possession of those social ament- ties which #0 aracafullg accompany begevo- tho gaw Ohriames juchem foc Auah Dinah. | logon Diplomatic Breeches. There is only one thing wrong in the world just now. The bloated aristocrats of Europe, Asia, Africa and other places want us to wear gold lace, and we refuse. We object because the thing is against our principles. It is against our principles because we are republi- cans; for every one knows that it is inconsis- tent with republicanism for a man to wear any garments but such as are made of black broadcloth, and in the plainest Presbyterian style. Just in proportion as a man looks like @ sexton dressed for a funeral is he worthy of his freedom and capable of appreciating the American eagle—a plain bird, that sports no gaudy colors. Just as a man gives way to the vanities of dress, cultivates elegance and art, 80 he falls the victim of luxury and becomes the tool of the tyrants of Europe, who do nothing else of much consequence but look out for tools te be used against our liberties ; and although our liberties have stood it very well thus far, we cannot take too many precautions or guard the future too carefully. It was with this idea that Congress passed a law to stiffen the backs of our representatives at foreign courts and keep them in plain breeches. People in Europe, especially kings and queens, have a queer notion that when they invite a man to a ball they have the right to say how he shall dress. It was proper for the repre- sentatives of the American eagle to assert their dignity by resisting this, and the law requires them to do so—all of whicll is wise and not a small matter at all, but a subject eminently worthy the attention of great nation. It is erroneous to suppose that being in Rome we ought to do asthe Romans do. We ought, on the contrary, to set the Romans a fine example. We ought to try to bring them out of their ancient medieval notions, especially on the subject of dress, and cultivate their taste to our standard. The most advanced type of our standard is the dress worn by the Shakers at Lebanon, which is the logical future of our present coat and breeches and is a dress in which no man can find any gold lacery or the faintest suggestion of that puorile vanity of taste that is related to auch ornament. When we have made that the court dress of Europe we shall have gotten a great deal of nonsense out of the way. Several of our Ministers abroad have re- ported progress in this great attempt, and Mr. Seward has just sent their important let- ters to that grave body, the United States Senate. Mr. Yeaman declares, all the way from Copenhagen, that he knows nothing about the law, but perceives that it will have a very bad effect. He doubtless reached this conclusion on general principles and a know- ledge of Congress. Mr. Hovey, from Lima, wants to know if he can wear his militia suit, and the Secretary consents: We must regard this as a weakness on the part of the Secre- tary. Itisa compromise, and as such is un- worthy of us. The Secretary evidently thought that in the case of a South American republic we ought to take what we can get; but we think this ground ought only to be taken in regard to Mexico. In that republic all must consent that the Minister should be permitted to wear any kind of breecheshe can keep in his possession, or, otherwise, the kind that is most ingeniously constructed for the concealment of the pockets. Satisfactory progress is reported by Sandford, Hale and Adams at Brussels, Madrid and London. Dix will write when he has considered how this subject is touched by the classical authors, and Bancroft is understood to be exhausting the matter ina volume that will be issued by a Boston house in four hundred pages octavo. We hear nothing as yet from the man who will undoubtedly prove the great authority on this stupendous question. Of course we mean General James Watson Webb, whose expen- sive diplomatic breeches were the first things secured on the oocasion of the famous appoint- ment to Vienna. Mr. Webb's experiences will make him peculiarly interesting on breeches, and his ability in the discussion of diplomatic niceties will give permanent value to his treatise. His letter will be a treatise, of course. Perhaps the heat of the climate in Rio Janeiro may seem to him just now to make breeches of less consequence than some other things, and eo induce neglect; but the country hopes otherwise, and expects great things from the illustrious Chevalier. The Brooklyn Yacht Club Regatta To-Day The Brooklyn Yacht Club, in the arrange- ments for their annual regatta to-day, have introduced » feature that inaugurates an era in yachting matters in the United States worthy of general adoption. That a more general collection of model vessels, under proper auspices, should be brought together for a trial of speed than has,heretofore marked their aquatic reunions, this club, without dis- tinction and without the least reservation, save that their own sailing regulations shall govern the race, invited all yacht owners of kindred associations to join them. This desire to bring our yachts together in o manly, true, manner, sprung from the wish to further the pastime alone, and it is peculiarly gratifying that the responses to their novel and kindly invita- tion have been numerous. Thirty-six boats have entered and will compete for the prizes offered, which are of « design and value wor- thy the occasion. The founders of the New York Yacht Club, the parent aquatic organization, when on board the Gimcrack, off the Battery, twenty- five years ago, never imagined the rapid strides that have been made in the pastime of yachting, nor pictured such @ succes- sion of brilliant novelties as have re- cently interested the thousand votaries of the sport in New York harbor. The Brooklyn club, although numerically less than the parent club, possess the vim to carry to a grand success all that they attempt, and to-day's regatta promises to be one of the most impor- tant and exciting contests of its character that has ever started in our waters. —————— Pace Lesson FROM Avstria.—Prince Na- poleon Bonaparte visited the arsenal in Vienna the other day. Two Austrian soldiers, armed with a new rifle, were ordered out for practice in his presence, and within the space of one minute the two men placed forty-three balls in the butts, without missing once, at three hundred yards, The French Prince evidently experfenced a sensation akin to that felt by Captain Scott's coon—he ‘came down” and left for Constantinople. An excellant lesson ia fovor of pence in Euroge, Wer Rumers (rom Italy. Telegrams from London announce, the re- ceipt in that city of despatches from the Con- tinent reporting (hat. the Italian government has addressed an official oircular to the repre- sentatives of the King at the different courts of Europe declaring the intention of his Majesty to maintain a strict neutrality in the event of a war between France and Prussia. This intelligence is interpreted evidently in the sense of meaning that a conflict between Napoleon and North Germany is near at hand, and hence Italy de- fines her position, The report is scarcely en- titled to such serious consideration. France and Prussia may engage in a deadly struggle ata moment considered opportune by each for an endeavor to obliterate the memories of the respective occupations of Paris and Berlin and of the critical, ‘but unwelcome, appearance of BBliicher at Waterloo; but the date of that gigantic and, for the Continent, disastrous un- dertaking will neither be accelerated nor delayed by the circulation of documents from Florence. If the Italian Cabinet has sent out such a paper it must be with the in- tention of informing Prussia beforehand that Victor Emanuel will not attempt to repay the national obligation due to North Germany for her timely operations against Austria in Venice before and after Custozza—movements which had the effect of preserving the national life of Italy. ’ From Berlin and Paris we have assurances of peace. Italy is, however, exceedingly ap- prehensive of war, and her very nervousness on the subject may have indued her council- lors with a correctly prescient anticipation of the coming scourge. Anathematized to a sort of earthly purgatory by the Pope, with Gari- baldi grumbling, French engineers working at the fortifications of Rome, the September Con- vention unsettled, Austria going ‘‘ahead” with reform, and Germany, it may be, offended, itis no wonder if Italy has declared herself neutral for war. No Prorgction For AMERIOAN FisuE- Rrgs.—We have a statement from Washington that the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs will report adversely to the bill recently passed by the House authorizing the President to send a war vessel to the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the purpose of affording protection to American fisheries. The reasons assigned for thus ignoring the claims of an important branch of our commerce are that the measure is unnecessary and that it places power in the hands of the President to involve the country ina war with Great Britain. This last men- tioned reason is undoubtedly the main one. The desire to vest as little power as possible in Mr. Johnson—not to mention the taking away of as much of his constitutional authority as could be prudently done—is the whole animus of this coming adverse report ; and ao because the Executive of the republic is personally and politically obnoxious to a majority of our Senators he must not be authorized to adopt measures looking to the protection and preservation of American commerce. Tas Arkansas Detecation.—Yesterday the radical delegation from the now recon- structed State of Arkansas were, after a reso- lution adopted for the purpose, sworn in and took their seats in the House of Representa- tives. Subsequently a protest against their admission was presented and read. It was signed by all of the democratic members of Congress, and denounces the Reconstruction laws and the means by which the new Repre- sentatives were elected. Arkansas is now fully represented in the councils of the repub- lic, and as the Omnibus bill will be returned by the Presidént to-day, either with a veto or without his signature, it is reasonable to pre- sume that all of the other Southern States, ex- cepting Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, will be represented in Congress before the end of next week. Tas News From Mxxioo.—Our special correspondence from the city of Mexico, pub- lished this morning, confirms the estimate we have made of the’ sert of republicanism that prevails in Mexico. The head of the Juarez Cabinet held on to power until the Supreme Court made the issue decisive. The conse- quence was that s crisis took place inthe Cab- inet, and the excitement ran so high at the capi- tal that s revolution was feared. However, the adroit ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs has so managed that power remains in his hands. How long this is to continue depends entirely on the activity and energy of the rebel chiefs, who are even more numerous and active now than in the most flourishing days of Mexican anarchy. Tux Eront Hour System ror GovERNMENT Mronantos.—By a decisive majority the Senate yesterday passed the House bill providing that eight hours shall constitute a day's work for the mechanics and laborers employed by the government. As it is understood that the President is in favor of the movement we sup- pose that he will sign the bill, and that hence- forth all the men employed on mechanical labor for the government will go to work at eight o'clock in the morning and cease their labors at five in the afternoon. In the meantime a severe struggle is going on in this city between the master masons and the journeymen brick- layers on this very question of time, with the additional subject of compensation. Both sides express themselves determined not to yield, and as cach is said to be well supplied with means @ long contest is not altogether improbable. Lrve Issvrs—Railroads, canals, magnetic telegraphs, steamships, ocean cables, the newspaper press, an American Continental policy, tunnelling the Rocky Mountains, the world’s trade with the Indies, a latitudinal railroad across and a longitudinal railroad lengthwise of the Continent, reduced taxation, firmness in foreign diplomacy, and once more @ thoroughly united and prosperous republic. Deap Iseves—All that existed before the war relating to slavery and its train of dis- turbing influences. An Intrevat Revencer Commissioner Nomt- NATED.—The President sent in to the Senate yesterday, among other nominations, the name of Mr. Perry Fuller, of Kansas, for the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in the stoad of Mr. Rollins, who recently tendered his resignation, Tho Glorious end Explosive Fourth. The accumulation of fireworks in shops ia the city as the Fourth of July approaches: induces one or more accidents every year, and we have just had the first for the current year, resulting in the loss of one life. Maiden lane is the great centre of this traffic, and a very large proportion of the shops in that street are now stored with these dangerous articles, a0 that if within a few days to come we have dis- astrous explosions there and fires involving great loss of property no one need deem it strange. Perhaps we will in time learn by experience to keep these articles out of the city altogether. Men do learn some things by ex- perience, if they can get enough of it. It is notable that since the explosion of the fire on- gine in the street a short time since there is less trouble than there used to be in keeping the crowd away at fires; and on its way tothe scene of operations an engine nearly has the street to itself, Superintendent Kennedy's order in relation to the Fourth is very good, and will have one humane result, in preventing the mutilation of many boys whe blow their hands off with fifty cent pistols when left alone. We hope the Superintendent has not forgottoa that we will have a large influx of the unterri- fied democracy from every part of the country on the Fourth, andéhat the greater number of these will perhaps be sublimely patriotic before . the day is over and need attention. Emigration from Germa the United Staten. Emigration seems to have hecome epidemic in Germany. From ‘a letter written, by our special correspondent in Berlin, which we pub- lished in the HEratp of yesterday, it appears that from January 1 to May 11 the number of emigrants who started for the United States by way of Bremen was twenty-three thousand three hundred and fifty-six. Between May I! and May 31 some four thousand more sailed from the same port for this country, thus mak- ing a sum total from January to June of more than twenty-seven thousand. This, however, is not all. At the beginning of June some nine steamers were advertised to sail from! Bremen for New York and Baltimore, and some seven thousand were known to be making ap- plication for passages. Our correspondent makes mention of a fact which very strikingly illustrates the improved and improving oharac- ter of the times. An arrangement, it appears, has been made between the agents in Ham- burg and the agents in New York according to‘ which the passenger, by the payment of three thalers, secures the right of having his arrival’ in New York announced to his friends in Ger- many within twenty-four hours after his land- ing. All this is praiseworthy and encouraging.’ The manner in which affairs seem to be man- aged at Castle Garden, as will be seen from another article in this day's HERaxp, is a dis- grace to New York city, to the United States, to the nineteenth century. We are glad te notice that German emigrants are beginning to direct their attention to the South as a field of enterprise. In many important respects the South offers superior advantages to the indus- trious and thrifty emigrant than sre offered by the West. We commend the South to the Irish and the Germans both. The South needs their little capital, needs more their labor, and the rich and teeming soil is ready to reward them. Besides, a flood of Irish and Germaa emigration to the South would soon settle the negro question and determine the balance of power. ANoTneR oF SzorsTary Wega’ Ven- Turgs.—A great deal of ‘puffing of the new war steamer Ammonoosuc is now going on. We have reports from all quarters ecstatically describing how many revolutions per minute were made and how fast she travelled, and any person not acquainted with the facts would suppose this steamer to be about the beat ever built. The truth is that there is more romance than reality in the present stories. The Am- monoosuc went to sea without her ordnance and with barely sufficient coal on board to take her to Boston. At the start she may have made a passably good rate of speed, but what she did afterwards could not be ascertained, by reason of the loss of “log chips and much of the line.” We venture the prediction that this new vessel will prove as great a humbug as any of the other extraordinary looking and working crafts constructed by authority of the ancient and venerable Secretary of the Navy. Hats wt Roms anp New Yor«.—We are informed from Rome that Pope Pius the Ninth has “twelve hats at his disposal, but it is not likely that Ireland will have another one.” His Holiness must certainly be either very poor or very stingy, and rather mean to ‘‘go back” on his friends in the ‘‘old country.” The Sachems of Tammany Hall will give more than twelve dozen of bran new hats of the most fashionable style to Irishmen before the Fourth of July, and have more than twice that number ordered for the different nationalities by No- vember. No wonder the Irish like to come to New York. Tue Raproat Svoonaston in the House ef Representatives has become a matter of com- mercial enterprise. Hence Hon. Impeacher Bingham furnishes an estimate of the weight of Mr. James Mason as the successor of Hoa. R. P. Spalding, from the Eighteenth (Cleve- land) Ohio district, as if he were so many pounds of bacon. It will be as much as Mason can do to save it, from present appearances. Tas Boat Rack Yxustervay.—Yesterday the race between Brown and Tyler was the oc- casion for another of those disgraceful scence which are fast being regarded as inseparable features of boat races. There is something that needs purifying in this matter, else boat racing in this country will be brought into dis- repute and no respectable person will feel re- putable in being connected with the boat clubs. Gexerat Saepuerp at It A@aiw.—This puissant commander of the unfortunde State of Alabama is at work again. He recently is- sued a pompous edict on the subject of sol- diers expressing their political opinions. Not content with the laurels gained on that occasion, we perceive by @ telegram from Selma that he has ordered tho arrest of a newspaper editor for violating his orders, which means, we sup- pose, for writing‘editorials which do not please Shepherd. Ssvator Diok Yares, of Mlinoig, objects to the late ‘‘visible admixture” bill of Ohie. The principal reason is there was too much water in it for so little brandy,