The New York Herald Newspaper, July 1, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ~* JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. of, YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— fax Granp Ducuzes. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humety Domrrr Matinee at 13s. and 47 Bowery.—CHEVA- NEW STADT THEATRE, RD—MOUNTAIN OUTLAW. LIEB, OB FeENCH Jack Sui) NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas WuHITB Fawn. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Tus Lorrery or Lirs. ‘ulonenteo. THEATRE, Broadway.—A Fusso OF ‘ BOWERY THEATRE, .—DEVIL IN PARIS— Wivow's Viort™. { BRYANTS' OPERA HOUS! street, ETHIOPIAN MineTRR Tammany Building, 14th , EoogNTRIoIttEs, £0. “Rony PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comio Yooarien, Naono Minerarusy, ge. Matinee at 245. SCENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.POPULAR JARDEN CONCERT. DOPWORTH HALL, #05 Broadway.—Me. A. BURNETT, THE Humonist. SERRACE GARDEN—Poru % GARDEN CONCERT. MRS, FB. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— ALL THAT GLITTERS 18 Not Goup, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Sornnos AND Ant. TRI PLE SHEET. Yorks w shaoupiomend July 1, 1868. © HEB NEws. | EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- | terday, June 30, at midnight. Bavaria has concluded a naturalization treaty with | the United States. The Fourth of July will be cele- brated in fine style at W.esbaden, Ex-Minister Adams has embarked for New York, The French Legislative opposition objects to the heavy cost of the military force kept in and near Rome, /The city of Belgrade remains deeply excited and the Chief of Police had been assassinated. Two of the murderers of Prince Michel, of Servia, were convicted, but had not been sentenced. The English House of Lords rejected the Irish Church bill and advanced the Scotch and Irish Re- form bills. Consols 945; a 94%{, money. Five-twenties 73%, a 73% in London and 77% in Frankfort. Cotton closed with middling uplands at 11444. Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions steady. By steamship we have a very interesting mail re- port in detail of our cable despatches to the 20th of June, including a report of Mr. Disraeli’s speech to the Merchant Tailors’ Guild, of London, on the political situation. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Osborne, Senator elect from the State of Florida, came forward and after a long discussion on the wording of his credentials he ‘was sworn in. Several amendments to the Civil Appropriation bill were acted upon, and Mr. Sherman Offered his funding bill as @ rider to it in the form of an additional act. git was discussed , but not acted upon. The resolution of the House to adjourn on the i5th inst. was laid on the table. In the House Mr. Boutwell presented a substitute for the bill taxing interest on the government bonds. It provides for a new issue of bonds to be valid only when inthe hands of United States citzens. The credentials of Charles M. Hamilton, of Florida, were presented and referred. The consideration of the River and Harbor Appropriation bill was resumed and passed by a vote of 80 to 59. A concurrent reso- lution to adjourn on the 15th of July ‘was passed. Numerous unimportant bills reported by the Judiciary Committee were passed. A series of resolutions in reference to treaties were offered and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The bill appropriating $7,200,000 to pay for Alaska ‘Was discussed at considerable length in Committee of the Whole, Mr. Banks and others making extended arguments in its favor, and the House adjourned, THE CITY. “The summer meeting at Jerome Park opened yes- | importance, and that is the character of the terday with four capital races. Nemesis won the first, Flora McIvor the second, Invercauld the third and R. B. Connolly the fourth. The mile and a quarter dash won by Nemesis was made in 2:12, or 2:46 to the mile, a trifle faster a enya record, e Boara | of Supervisors met Festerday;, ‘Teceived ® communication from the Clerk of the Court of Appeals announcing that the court would be held on September 29, in the chamber of the Board; ordered the superintendent of the central Harlem Bridge to inform the Board of the condition of the bridge; audited and allowed the pay roll of the laborers on the new Court House, amounting to $3,438; rescinded The Fésolution giving justices of the Supreme Court on circuit to this county $10 per day, and adjourned 18 t at the call of the chair. . t Tracey, the keeper of the saloon No. 199 Bowery, Was shot yesterday afternoon by a man mil Zensman in the restaurant No, 3 Riving- ane Bea th was almost instantaneous. The Scheutzenfest 1s a continued success, but no shooting has yet been done. The delay has caused some dissatisfaction among the sharpshooters from abroad; but the matter was explained to them yes- terday and the shooting will certainly commence ta- day. Counterfeit twenties on the Consolidation National Bank, of Philadelphia, altered from dives, were in circulation last night. ‘There were 427 deaths in this Me | leat weet § and 1% in Brooklyn. aon = ee George Strausse, who, ith Ferdinand Sulzberger and others, wag gonvictea last week of defrauding the revenue ‘by the illigitit distillation of whiskey, surrendered himself yesterday to the United States District Court, and was ordered to pay a fine of $6,000 and to be imprisoned for ten days and until the fine is paid. large number of condemnations in internal reve- nue cases was made yesterday ia the United States Cireult Court, The Supreme Court, General Term, yesterday ren- dered decisions affirming the orders appointing re- ceivers in the cases of Richard Schell vs. the Erie Railroad Company, and Fanshawe vs. the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. Also a decision reversing the order granting an injunction in the case of Pullman va. the Mayor, &c., restrain- ing the city from executing the contract for the noto- rious twenty years gas contract. The case of Moser against Polhemus & Jackson, a suit brought to set aside a judgment for $156,000 ob- tained by defendants against Moser in a Pacific mail stock transaction, and in which Moser charges fraud in obtaining the judgment, was resumed yesterday in the Supreme Court. Some strange revelations of perjury are expected to be developed on the trial, A “free fight’’ between witnesses took place yester- day in the court building immediately after adjourn- ment. ‘The case of Ernestine Oakes against William Stein- ‘way was again called up yesterday in the Supreme Court (Brooklyn), but an adjournment was ordered until the 10th of July. The Cunard steamship Russia, Captain Cook, will fall about two P, M, to-day for Liverpool via Queens- town, ‘The steamship Arizona, Captain Maury, will leave pier 42 North river at noon to-day for Aspinwall and San Francisco. The steamship General Barnes, Captain Morton, ‘will leave pier 86 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, Ga. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of | Leary’s line, will sail from pler 14 Fast river, foot of Wail street, at three P. M. to-day for Charleston. ‘The stock market was unsetiied yesterday morn- ing, but afterwards became strong. Government NEW YORK _ HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1868 TRIPLE SHEET. Securities were dull but steady, 14054 a 140%, : MISCELLANEOUS. Gold closed at Advices from South America represent the war be- | tween the allies and Paraguay as languishing, She allies having made no hostile movement since their repulse on the Gran Chako, It was reported that the Congress of the Argentine Confederation would im- peach General Mitre for making alliance with Brazil. | In the Louisiana Senate yesterday the nineteen members who had taken the test oath were alone | called on the roti, A democratic member demanded that his name be called, but the Lieutenant Governor very caustically informed him that he must not in- terrupt the business of the Senate. A telegram from General Grant again suggesting that members are Not required to take the teat oath was read and re- ferred to a committee. The same thing occurred in the House, the democrats being refused a hearing in all cases, The New Orleans city officers were sworn in, taking the path contained in the new constitution. The Governors and Lieutenant Governors of North and South Carolina were removed by General Canby yesterday and the officials elect were put in their Places. The General has directed that the members of the North Carolina Legislature, which meets in Raleigh to-day, shall take only the oath required by the new constitution and not the Reconstruction law test oath, Rufus Ludwig, who killed his wife after being married to her only eleven days, was hanged in Salisbury, N. C., on the 26th of June. He went to the scaffold smoking a cigar; but when the officers offered to put the noose around his neck he resisted violently and a desperate struggie ensued, ten of the deputies attempting to overpower him. The noose was finally placed around his neck, and he was swung off with a muttered curse for his parting word, Serffttor Fessenden has written a letter to certain prominent gentlemen in Boston who recently prof- fered him a public dinner, declining to be present | on account of his dutiea in Congress, and setting | | forth his views on the late impeachment. The military commission for the trial of the Ash- burn murderers convened tn Atlanta, Ga., yesterday, Alex. H, Stephens appeared as counsel for the prisoners and entered a protest against the jurisdic. tion of the court. All the prisoners plead uot guilty. One witness was exainined, The Present Congress and the Next=The Approaching Election, The question as to who shall be the next President seems to be the absorbing one, and there is no doubt it involves great issues and important consequences affecting the future of the republic. But there is another one to be solved at the same time of still greater next Congress, There is more noise made about the Presidential election, because the enormous patronage of the government is the prize aimed at. The politicians, who do all the convention and electioneering work, are intent upon the offices and the three or four hundreds of millions of spoils every year; and that is the reason we hear so much more about the Presidential election than the Congres- sional elections. But as regards the welfare of the country it is much more important to elect a conservative and an able Congress. It requires no argument to make this clear; for we have seen by the conduct of the present Congress that the Executive is powerless—is a mere cipher—when there is an overwhelm- ing majority against him. A radical revo- | of England in direct collision by voting the ward. Most of the Southern States will be fully restored to the Union, and probably all, however objectionable the terms and manner of the restoration may be, and thus difficulties | | and agitation about reconstruction will be | removed, Qongress will then have the oppor- tunity and - time to consider the various ques- | tions pertaining to the finances. Indeed, the full consideration of them cannot be deferred longer. We expect little or nothing from the | present Congress, for, as we said, it has shown itself utterly incapable. There will remain, then, a most important work for the next Con- gress todo. The people should begin in the different Congressional districts to hunt up their ablest and purest men for representa- tives—for practical and thorough business men who have some knowledge of financial matters—and they should be resolved to elect such, independent of old party affiliations or party machinery. Ifthe members of the present Congress should be returned we may expect nothing but inextricable confusion in the finances of the country and the most burden- some taxation. There is no hope but ina sweeping change and in the election of new men for the next Congress. Parliamentary Collision in England—The Irish Church Bill Rejected by the Peers. By cable telegram from London we have the highly important intelligence that the members of the British House of Lords, true to their feudal instincts and with a devotion to the privileges of their class which would have been termed chivalry in the days of the Crusaders, have placed the two branches of the Legislature rejection of the Irish® Church Appointments Suspensory bill, lately passed by a very de- cisive majority of the Commons and the prin- ciple of which was fully approved by the Crown in the reply of the Queen to the address carried to the foot of the throne from the lower house. This decisive act was accomplished at an early hour yesterday morning, after a very exciting debate commenced on Monday evening and conducted in the presence of the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred and an unusually crowded audience. Ninety-seven peers voted for the bill and one hundred.and ninety-two against it, the Irish establishment being sustained in its present position by a | majority of ninety-five votes. Our telegrams close at such an hour this morning as precludes any lengthy comment on a legislative fact which will vastly hasten the constitutional revolution which is hourly pro- gressing in England towards a solution. The reform party will now, most likely, add to their hustings cry such words as ‘‘Reform the House of Lords!” ‘‘No hereditary legisla- tors!” “‘An elective Senate of limited dura- tion!” ‘The New Legislatures in Louisiana and North Carolina. lutionary body like the present one not only paralyzes the Executive, but intimidates the Supreme Court and over- rides the constitution. Have we not seen this done? Has not this branch of the govern- ment controlled the others in defiance of the plain meaning and checks and balances of the constitution? In the hands of a reckless radical majority it has assumed all the despotic powers of a legislative and governing conven- tion, just asthe Jacobin convention of revo- lutionary France did. We have experienced this remarkable anomaly in our republican and federative system of government, that a political party which happens to have an overwhelming majority in Congress for the time can set aside the constitution and put its heel upon both the Executive and Judiciary with impunity. There is no remedy while such a Congress isin existence, and no appeal but to the voige of the people. How vastly important is it, then, for the people to pay particular attention to the election of wise, conservative and prudent representatives in the place of those incompetent, violent, revolutionary and corrupt men now in Congress ! With regard to the character and conduct of members of the different parties or factions there is little difference. The republicans, democrats, radicals and Know Nothings, or whatever else they may be called or call themselves, are much alike. Few have any capacity for legislation, some are a dir. grace to Congress and the county, and others are reckless revolutign*jts, Look at the men who reprege%t, or rather misrepresent, this hoe metropolis—at the Woods, Brooks, Mofri Mrrisseys and others, who have been tha mere tools of the radicals, while frretending to be conservative. The | South might have been restored long ago but their stu; idity. obey have been the cause & prolored disunion and the iptive onerous measures imposed upon the South by playing into the hands of the radicals. Instead of having gentlemen of experience, education and wisdom to represent this metropolis, men who understand the subject of national finance to represent this great financial and commer- cial cant, We have shoulder-hitters, littio scheming ward politicians and those notorious | as public plunderers. Then look at such Jaco- | bins as Butler, Stevens, Schenck, Bingham, Boutwell and a hundred others, who would destroy the best government and ruin the fair- est country for party purposes and to gratify their own passions and ambition. While, then, the people are much exercised about the Presi- dential election, we call upon them to pay the greatest attention to the Congressional elec- tions. The evil lies in Congress, and {t is there they must apply the remedy. Let them lay the axe to the root of the tree. All these old, incapable and corrupt Congressmen should | be left at home, and a new, better and abler | set be returned to fill their places. With such a change in the House of Representatives th Jacobins of the Senate would be kept in check, and with the revolution in public sentiment which this would bring about the character of the Senate itself would be changed in two or three years. Congress is the Magdala of ini- quity, ignorance and oppression first to be assaulted. If the people make a clean sweep there we may hope for a new reign of peace, union and prosperity. What will be wanted particularly in the next | Congress is capacity to place the national finances on a sound basis, contest will be over in the course of a few months, and the country will be relieved of | that political excitemont for four veara after- The Presidential | The Legislative muddle in Louisiana has been partially clarified by a very summary process. In the Senate yesterday the roll was called, and those members who had not taken the prescribed test oath did not find thefr names on the list. At this Mr. Sambola, a democrat, who is also probably an aristocratic darky, and has amended hia name to suit his better condition, rose and demanded | that his name be called. The shrewd Lieutenant Governor, who is certainly well posted in parliamentary dodges, coolly and caustically requested that the gentleman should not interfere with the business of the Senate. This dignified rebuff ended the mat- | ter, and the democrats confessed themselves defeated in both branches, the House having pursued the same policy in calling the roll, and, in fact, clinching the matter by giving several democratic seats to republican candidates who had not been elected. Another telegram was presented from General Grant during the day, in which he suggests that the members by right | are required to take only the oath prescribed by the new constitution; but the Lieutenant Governor contemptuously suggested that it be referred, and the Speaker of the House somewhat vehementty declared that he would accept no order from General Grant or any other Generel on the subject. Thus the radical candidate for Fag ne was again snubbed hy théfe Tadical ntients | trop hi fis “poliery In North Carolina, where the new Legis- | lature meets to-day, General, Canby has arranged matters, probably with a view to avoid the unpleasant imbroglio which thus | muddles Louisiana. He has ordered that the test oath be done away with in qualifying the judges and officers of the State, but * ig the Legislature will construe thy applying to its own members, wt will ol 80 construed, are very Foubetut questions, oh if ee Pope’s Bull. By special telegrati from Rome to London, and thence through the Atlantic cable, we are enabled to place before the readers of the Heratp to-day a poffite! outline of the con- tents of a by) issued by Pope Via the Ninth on Monday, directing that a general GBancil of | the Catholic Church shall assemble in the Vatican on the 8th day of December, in the year 1869. | The Pontifical programme of the duties of | | this venerable congregation is comprehensive , and of the very highest importance, the sub- | jects set down for its consideration affecting the public weal, general society and the routine, executive and domestic, of the -overn- | mente and peoples of every country 01 earth. | Their discussion by men wielding a vast in- fluence is rendered imperative under the Papal summons, and its issue is likely to produce very momentous consequences. The great principles which electricity has written on the , human mind in the word progress, and which | are being diffused over the world by steam and the railroad, as the essentials of enlighten- ment and civilization, are to be arraigned and | placed on trial before a compact hierarchy which has ever been suspicious of, if not | inimical to, their application. If the principles | ean be subordinated to the hand of the Most | Reverend corporation they will be retained; if not, most probably condemned. A Papal | | condemnation of progress, issued in 1869, will precipitate a conflict between free thought and the Catholic Church which will, by its very | violence, improve religion by shaking from the altars the cobwebs of the past and defining the exact limits aad duties of the universal i pastoral charge, ' “of the South, | to the festive—not professional—board of the | whe Old Fire-Eaters and the Democratic ; Convention. Eight years ago the Southern fire-eaters, after having for years ruled the Northern democracy with a rod of iron, went into the National Con- vention of the party at Charleston, and subse- quently at Baltimore, with the deliberate pur- pose of destroying the organization, as a pre- liminary step to the contemplated work of se- cession. They succeeded even beyond their hopes. The men from the free States who had been the toadies and lickspittles of slavery were insulted and abused by the chivalry; the convention was rent in twain; Breckinridge was nominated by the holters in opposition to Douglas; the defeat of the democracy at the polls was thus rendered certain and the way made clear for the election of Lincoln, which was to be the signal for the outbreak of the slaveholders’ rebellion. Now that the war is over these same old fire-eaters, who have care- fully preserved their lives during the four years’ struggle—such as the Rhetts, of South Carolina, for instance—again step forward and essay to run another Democratic Conven- tion and to dictate to the Northern democracy, with all their former insolence and effrontery, the policy they shall pursue. The ex-secession delegates to Tammany Hall are already renew- ing the game of browbeating and assumed su- periority practised so successfully at Charles- ton and Baltimore, and threaten that unless their sentiments are suffered to prevail they will repeat the game of 1860 and break up the party. This movement of the old pro-slavery oli- garchy has proportionately raised the hopes of the radicals and filled them with delight. In the revival of the exploded dogmas of the South and in the threats of the Rhetts to appeal again to the cartridge box lies the only prospect of success for the Jaco- | bin ticket. If the Democratic Convention can | only be induced to rej@@t Chase on account of | his loyal record, and, at the dictation of the Knights of the Golden Circle and the Ku Klux Klan, to place upon their ticket some copper head opponent of the war, the radicals will | have a clear track next November, as they had in 1860, and will elect Grant without difficulty. It is the prospect of this fatal action that makes Greeley, Dana, Thurlow | Weed and the rest of the radicals rub their hands in glee and chuckle over the predicted trouble in the Convention of the Fourth. We should not be surprised to see the narrow- minded blockheads of the Loyal League, in their exultation at the dictatorial insolence invite Rhett and the whole batch of seedy ex-secession delegates to a splendid entertainment at the Union League Club House, and in their gratitude give these hungry heroes the first substantial filling out they have had in the last seven or eight years. But New York has had enough experience of the dogmatic philosophers of secessiondom, and if they should seriously attempt to ride roughshod over the Convention and to control its action, the Empire State, with her vast commercial and financial interests and her large stake in the peace and welfare of the country, will once again prove that her people act as statesmen and not as partisans, and, reversing her magnificent anti-radical victory of last year, will give fifty thousand majority | for Grant. Mr. Disraeli’s Manifesto. Premier Disraeli, wishing perhaps to antici- pate the Pope and insure the political annihi- lation of the Anglo-Papal ‘‘conspirators” of the Parliamentary opposition, pronounced a powerful official bull, or manifesto, in London on the 17th of June, in the shape of an extra Cabinet oration—which we publish to-day— delivered before the members of the incor- porated guild of Merchant Tailors on the occa- sion of their annual banquet. The tories rallied in great strength, and the tory nobles and lay leaders, with their firm, unyielding and buoyant Israelitish master, were right welcome Merchant Tailors, the most thoroughly con- servative municipality in Great Britain. The Premier was equal to the occasion. He took his boldest stand against ‘impending change,” and proclaimed that C! and << ~ y and gba fossa: =e BS It to his Ministry for a continued success at homé an abroad, since its skilful recuperation of the national finances just after the “Black Friday” day on ‘Change down to the receipt of the latest despatch from General Napier in Abyssinia. The Gladstone party was proclaimed revolutionary and about to “level downwards,” and the voters of Britain were agsu of escape there remained no hope oath under the débris GA Gy Foutig. fee the ire tories at the general election under the Reform bill, This is really the grand point of the Disraeli bull, one which will be elucidated in the polling booths inatead of secret con- clave. TES TES The late Prince Albert, after his interferens? with the uniform, of the English army, was termed a ny! British tailor.” It appears, i aie Oe ; Disrpeli is about to prove the cS th spirited tailor in Europe ; fe he positively states that he will not alter or mend any article, and that the English millions must pontinue to wear their old constitutional | covering fo the end, no matter how badly it may fit. Ait gld garment is, however, very frequently “put off” at too high a rate—of | which, perhaps, the Premier may reflect in season. | Chat Tue AMERICAN BATTALION For THE Porr.— It will be seen by a protest which we publish | elsewhere that the four Catholic Archbistops of the United States have defined their position in reference to the raising of troops in the Union for the Pope. While declaring that the men who have foisted themselves forward as the pious promoters of the scheme are not worthy of the confidence of Catholics, they contend that its success would, instead of benefiting the Holy Father, only increase the difficulties by which he is at present sur- rounded, The protest virtually puts an end to the Battalion for the Pope, and in all proba- bility has knocked in the head some big ‘‘job” that might have been profitable to somebody. “Orp Tan's” New Impracument Arti- ctes.—‘‘Old Thad Stevens,” it is reported, has his new impeachment articles in print and his speech in readiness, and is only awaiting Butler's report on the impeachment bribery investigation in order to oven fire again on | curious developments by and by with regard | system. The worst rookeries in the worst | system. The worst forms of savage life could | the delegates from the Southern States en Andy Jobnson. Tho game is, perhaps, carry this new indictment into the coming elections, and then, in the event of the success of the radicals, to make the impeachment and removal of Johnson the first regular proceed- ing with the reassembling of the present Con- | gress in November or December, as the case may be. : Taxation of United States Bonds. The action of the House of Representatives on Monday on the resolution of Mr. Cobb, of | Wisconsin, to levy a tax of ten per cent on the { interest of United States bonds has created some surprise and something of a flutter. It is true the resolution only instructs the Com- mittee of Ways and Means to report without delay a bill for that purpose, and that com- mittee may delay a long time before it re- ports. Still, the prompt and determined action ofthe House, and the large vote of ninety-two for the resolution to fifty-five against, show that even this radical Congress is disposed to appropriate Mr, Pendleton’s thunder on finan- cial questions. Taxing the interest of the bonds ten per cent is equal to reducing the in- terest on the debt more than a half per cent. Butler was the boldest champion of this re- solution, and, though we do not see the name of Thad Stevens among the rolls of yeas or nays, he would probably have voted with Butler had he been present. There are, how- | ever, a number of the names of. Igading radicals recorded for the resolution. This would be called by the radical press here repudiation in | Pendleton or any other democrat. What does | it say of Butler, Bingham, Farnsworth, Covode, the Washburns and the rest of the radicals who go for taxing the interest on bonds? The Committee of Ways and Means may be able to smother this proposition, or the Senate might refuse to concur in it, but the action of the House is nevertheless very significant. The Chicago platform does not appear to have much influence or to be much respected by its | framers. We shall undoubtedly see some to the course of Congress and the political parties on financial questions. The East Houston Street Mystery—Tene= ment Houses. The case which we reported yesterday of the supposed murder of Helen McBride by her | paramour, William A. Flynn, is one which re- veals in a striking manner the evils of the tenement house system. A drunken man quar- rels with the woman who is reputed to be his wife; a scuffle is heard ; on Monday morning, some thirty-three hours after the murder had been committed, the bruised body of the vic- tim is found in circumstances which leave no doubt as to the cause of death; yet the neighbors, of whom there are many on the same floor, and who must have heard all that took place, remained all these hours in a state of utter indifference to the terrible crime and to the body of the murdered woman. This is aterrible commentary on our tenement house parts of the oldest cities in the world can reveal nothing worse than what this tragedy has brought to light. We have no desire to prejudge this case, but we cannot allow the opportunity to pass without a distinct utter- ance condemnatory of the tenement house scarcely reveal more brutality; they certainly could not reveal a larger amount of callous indifference. Such a case as this warrants us to denounce tenement houses as dens of ini- quity. Tue Women’s Riots WoMEN AND THE Demooratio CoNvENTION.—The Central Com- mittee of the Women’s Suffrage Association of America, consisting of Mrs. Horace Greeley, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mrs. Abbey Hopper Gibbons and Miss Susan B. Anthony, have prepared a women’s rights platform for the coming National Democratic Convention. This association was given the cold shoulder and completely ignored by the radicals at Chi- cago, and the democrats have therefore a splendid opportunity to take the wind out of the republican sails on ‘“‘womanhood suf- frage” against ‘‘manhood suffrage,” and for especially, as better qualified for ee Moca ere éxercise of the suffrage #45 the thousands of black men just fescued from the ignorance of negro sl8%ery. The Democratic Convention turn the radical party out of doors upon this issue alone if only bold enough to take strong ground upon it in favor of at least the same political rights to white women that Congress has given to Southern niggers. Tue River axp Harsor Bitt.—We are glad to note that the River and ries r bill, wyloh passed the fionbé of Repiteematives yesterday, is in a fair way to become a law, as its appropria- tion for the improvement of navigation at Hell Gate will give a good start in that useful labor. Although no plan for the opening of the strait aT a i} to | sary that some one else should goin? Of the | college. has been determined upon, the subject is in the nds jt hl te Seite dotn Newt, SARA He aa | ots tive means that sci = eae of wiles ay ade ages ‘and thus will not by a too early choice commit the government to the use of some plan that may not in the end be the best. We only hope the General will push the removal of these obstruc- tions as vigorously as in other times he pushed the removal of different obstructions at Crampton’s Pass, in the South Mountain, and at Marye's Hill, behind Fredericksburg. Mr. Jonson's Caances.—It appears that route to the Democratic Convention by way of Washington called at the White House to pay their respects to the President, against which there can'be no objection. But it seems that very few of them can leave the President with- out promising him the democratic nomination, and that some of the time-servers around him affect to believe that Johnson stock is rising, and that he may, after all, be the coming man. How many of these liberal minded Southern delegates are in earnest in their promises will soon appear, and we guess that after the Con- vention Mr. Johnson will feel at liberty to “brush away some of the noisiest of the swarm of gadflies that surround him. Their time is getting short. Wno 1s Commissioner ?—What becomes of the public service in the Internal Revenue Department while the President and the Senate quarrel and pout as to who shall fill the place? Since it is judged necessary that Rollins should go out is it not quite as neces- persons named for the place we have heard of Perry Fuller, Wisewell, Cutter (perhaps not likely to be revenue Cutter), and Colonel Simeon Johnson, of Washington, doubtless the best name. Wisewell has withdrawn and the correspondents report that Fuller has no chance, It is an imperative duty of the Senate to determine yea or nay forthwith if any man yet named is fit for the place, and if they determine nay it is equally necessary that the President should find a fit man. Our Sonprens’ Graves—A Prnvrine Jop.— It is a very pretty observance that the people should decorate the soldiers’ graves, though, as the thing was done this year, it was rather too official and of set purpose. Such a thing, to have any value, should at least appear spontaneous—should seem the ebullition of natural sentiment. The ceremony would have grown in that direction, however, if Congress had not just taken a step that will end in dis- gusting the people with the very name of this usage. It has founded upon it a notorious piece of jobbery, to be put into the printing bill, in accepting Mr. Logan’s proposition to print, “for the use of Congress,” all that hag been spoken and written on that subject. There should at least have been some limit made for this, so that the persons interested shall not pocket more than one hundred thousand dollars apiece. MANHATTAN COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. The annual examination and commencement exercises of the graduating class of Manhattan Ool- lege, Manhattanville, which were commenced on the 24th ult. and continued from day to day, were con- cluded yesterday afternoon. Probably to avoid the disagreeable consequences of wilted collars and save the ladies’ anti-swoon bottles muck of their labor the exercises were not held in the main room of the coliege, but under a raised canvas-canopy on the green sward in the rear of the building. Two larga platforms, each neatly carpeted, were erected undet the impromptu dais, on either side of the college en- trance, one being occupied by the graduates and the other by the exceedingly well trained band of the There was quite a large audience present, the ladies being greatly in the majority. The exercises were commenced with an overture from ‘Fra Dtavolo,”” by the band. Mr. Michael J. MeGowan then delivered an oration on “The late Dr, L, Silliman Ives,” and was followed successively an successfully by M. D. Edwin O'Nell, who discourse on the Big oe of Medicine,” and Mr. James _- Deer ring, my B., . Ae napen cathateencellyon if A “The Sanctity of the Chure! cont degrees then We eee a a iba mere Mon me i Ferdinand, M. D., O'Netl M. de Kemmick, “atv ‘sy’ Vailery Havant, Phnom MacOscar, causa h r the declaration the degrees Brother r’Pautlan, on behalf of the Philo-. mathical Society of the college, which had toe a ae appropriated $50 for the purchase of a alent resented to the writer of the pate on nthe “Life and Wri be ipa of ceene nd Gio announced that after & cal OX: amination of the vompositions Lenn the rare com- titors it had been decided to award the medal to ir. Richard J. Morrison. medal was conse- quently awarded Mr. Morrison, amid the 5 ay ofthe audience. Mr. John E. Ferdinand, M. D., then delivered the valedictory, and was followed by Mr. Charles O’Conor in an elaborate address to the students and gracuates. After reminding the fir pi that they were at the moment of his apeak- still the children of Manhattan College, but would embers of ae ould he world, come ters ‘and thelr alma mater woul ‘on trial bof judges who would impartially non their “delle ty and the institution's eee Beall ak ied in very com+ plimentary terms to the essays that had been deltv- ered. In relation to the tone me which they were written he said:—‘“A marked inclination to censori- os criticism would have evinced an ity in your ‘n_ tempers or an intolerance in your cymes ge not favorable to the adaptation of young m career of active beneficence; while on the ‘other oy measured eulogy would have indicated a tendency} to loose generalization in your habits of thought the absence of conscientiousness."" Mr. O’Conor paid @ high trébute to the character and daily og rd the Sisters of Mercy and the worthy men whi at their lives to the bringing up of youth in the Ww should go, and concluded as follows:—In ck am happy to add that your proficiency tn the reat branches to which they year has been devoted givea much satisfaction, and is highly creditable to your instructors and yourselves, it ever yours to re- member Manhattan College with sentimen:> of affec- tion and gratitude. Through life you will, fam sure, esteem it a sacred obligation to preserve intact that portion of her fame which, as it eae upon your own acta, is necessarily committed to your charge. Vicar General Starrs then addressed he graduates in a few ee remarks, when the audience dis) Manhattan College is under the direction of the bo aa Brothers, with Brother Patrick as preat- lent MOUNT WASHINGTON COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE. Wallack’s theatre from parquet to upper gallery was crowded yesterday afternoon with the friends of the young gentlemen graduates of this Inatitution. There seemed to be an unusual interest evinced by the ladies of the audience in the exercises, inasmuch aa the majority of the orators were very youthful, Among those on stage were Chancellor Ferria, Rev. Drs. vies Bh and Stryker, with othet prominent yn, whose interest in educational matters aré well known. The exercises were NN iced by selections of m omen extent ae, yar te arin Mr, B. Bs Dodworth. Prayer Rev. Dr, CE Re NE gee ceed matter of ite address, fall of £0" a. at times elo- quent, gave evidence of texr“atient training and elo- powers that “, ie reeled such Fo were del . the e colli once put In fot humor. Following ths is wae quite __ graduates by their enunciation and the live zp ay rm their discourses, rendering id monotony out of the question. lose or he a Ry. bad cl gO we ig Pe tn at roircnm Ue time se» AOYIe, Ae. Wide “nee will doubt lone bei rd fm pone ue Ginrks of the Thatifate, del i tnd Apjonii to = en, Whose names are as “ll ot Willtam 4. Rank,’ Jr., uae “ute, Ormes Ei Al ne , James John Albert Ses oe oo + ney Hea Inguuted se stead pt [i i2bh whieh teu to Cretf Tout nd Ennai feats from + - ‘aumphre hreys, oe (i ane a een ‘whion og of the per. novel and re tie petreen the sex Han Fo the disct wer ato Sere cs rood ir wore bie the diacussion, and the chai Sveors Y of al rok appitine. During toe. ry ‘orm: and Collegiate natttute’t ‘has been very Las orn re its numerous pupils, and the und f the senior department in their studies give the are evidence of future ability that yesvertiay Chai ized their elder brethren. Benedtesion was pronounced by the Rev. Dr, Stryker, when, amid the ae of the orchestra, the large audience isperser THE STEAMSHIPS CRESCENT CITY AND GEORGE CROMWELL. SreaMsHiP Crescent Crry, New Yora, June 90, 1468, To THE Eptror or Tie HRRALD:— I notice in your issue of yesterday a letter from Oap- tain Vaill, of the steamship George Cromwell!, in re- gard to the passage of that ship and the Crescent City, of the Merchants’ Steamship line. The two ships were on the bar at Southwest Pass the Crescent City being detained about one 9 13 my knowledge there were bets to a a ihe time of the two vessels Ly a New jeans to this rt, and I have a note from ©: Vail > fag extract of log of the Crescent ¢ i Ciey te to enable hi decide a bet, Captain mou FIRE IN West TWENTY“FIFTH STREET. At ten o'clock last night a ght a dre occurred in a frame puiiding, No. 102 West Twenty-fifth street, occupied by J. Knowison, locksmith. The fre spread to the adjoining store, occupied by Frederick Keller, tin- amith, and also to the carpenter's shop bl jo. 104. The fire also turn nto whe Sore ot betes Ly pay manufacturer of jew. elry; loaa on stock about Mr. Knowison's los is at bout , Mr. Keller's ‘ips ig about $250 and Mr, Lynch's about urance. e uild| were owned by Al ritton; toss abont #1. ‘RQ (nsurAace: no lexander