The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STRECT. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HeErarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW STADT THRATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Nick oF tax Woops—PAauL Jonzs—Ropger EMMET. NIBLO'S GARDEN, ‘“Brosaway. —Tas Warn Fawn. » WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Tue Lorrery oF Lire. BROADWAY THEATRE, LiguT Nina. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—HUNTRESS OF THE MississipPi—Inisy Rasen, ‘&C. . Broadway.—A FuasH OF NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— ‘THR GRand DucnEss. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.-HumPry DUMPTY LYRIC HALL, Sixth avenue. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, street.—E1Hi0PIAN MINSTRELS: LIND TOM. many Building, 14th BNTRICITIRG, £0. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—POPULAR G@anpEn Concent. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Mn. A. BURNETT, Tux Humonist. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tas Stregts oF NEw York. NEW YORK eoenUM oF ANATOMY, 8 Broadway.— SHEET. TRIPLE EUROPE. "The news report by the Atlantic cable is datea yea- terda ing, July 2. General Napier had reached London. He was re- ceived with popular and parliamentary honors, the thanks of Parliament being voted ‘- the Abyssinian troops and their commander. The French Ministers assert that the arma- ment or disarmament of the empire “equally promise peace.” A grand international German American féte has been arranged in Berlin for July 4, 1869, Minister Bancroft was negotiating a {natu- on treaty with Wurtemburg. The Servian ‘ure approved the succession of Prince Milan. nsols 94%, Money. Five-twenties 73}; a 73% In London and 774 a 77% in Frankfort. Cotton quiet, with middimng uplands at 1144. Breadstulls quiet, Provisions steady. Ly mail from Europe we have a most valnable spectal correspondence in detail of our cable tele- Frams to the 20th of June. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the Committee on Naval Affairs reported a joint resolution to admit six persons designated by the Japanese government as pupils in the Naval Academy. The bill granting the use of an island in San Francisco harbor to the Western Pacific Railroad was amended and paased. ‘The Civil Appropriation bill was then taken up and passed and the Senate adjourned. In the House the Committee on Ways and Means reported the bill to collect atax on United States bonds by reducing the interest, the report declaring ‘that thé committee does not approve the bill. The Dill and report were ordered to be printed and re- ferred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Butler asked leave to introduce a bill emai taxation and to reduce the Public debt, @ fund, system of perpetnal fout per tot |, payal ie tn gold and untaxable; but orth was made. Mr, Stevens, from the Reconstruction Committee, re- ported his bill to erect two additional States in ‘Texas, which was ordered to be printed and recom- mitted. The Senate amendments to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill were then considered in Committee of the Whole. In discuss- ing the amendment relative to the Glove contract Mr. Garfleld urged that the system of publishing the reports of Congressional proceedings at government expense be abolished, and that the matter be left en- tirely to newspaper enterprise. His proposition was rejected. The House soon after adjourned. THE CONVENTION. The delegations to the National Convention have nearly all arrived, although many of them are as yet unorganized. The new Tammany Hall, where the Convention is to sit, was open to visitors yester- day. The New York delegation held @ meeting at the St. Nicholas Hotel, in which the propriety of nominating Governor Seymour was broached. The Governor himself being present positively declined and urged that as he was a member of the delegation private honor compelied him to say that his name must not be pressed by his friends. No action was taken, the Chairman stating that no ballot would be hold to the Convention for President before Monday. ‘The delegates to the Soldiers and Sailors’ Conven- tion are arriving in large numbers, They generally express a preference for Hanceck. The Pendleton escort also arrived yesterday. General F. P. Biair has published a letter permit- ting the presentation of his name to the Convention and setting forth the principle that the reconstrac: tion work of Congress must be overthrown by the democratic President even should Congress continue radical, MISCELLANEOUS. . The North Carolina Legislature was organized at Raleigh yesterday, the members qualifying by taking the oath prescribed by the new constituiion. J. W. Holden, son of the present Governor, was eiecied Speaker of the House, The constitutional amend ment known as the fourteenth article was then adopted in both houses, in the Louisiana Legislature yesterday the const!- tutional amendment was adopted. Twelve demo- cratic members of the House were sworn in. The military were again posted in Lafayette park, but the excitement was considerably The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania yesterday morning decided that the registry law passed at the fast session of the Legisiature was unconstitutional. ‘The court also decided the act of the Legisiature, based on an act of Congress, preventing soldiers from voting as unconstitutional. An extensive sheet of water, or collect, in South Brookiyn, was the scene of a terrible calamity yes- terday afternoon, in which five persons lost their lives by drowning. It appears that three little girls went into the water for the purpose of bathing, and getting beyond their depth were drowned, while a ™man and woman, in attempting to rescue them, met with the same sad end. The deceased were all poor people tiving in the vicinity of the catastrophe, Dougias street near Fifth avenue. At the Schuetzenfest yesterday the target shooting of the militia regiments was commenced and will continue to-day. Several silver and gold medais have already been awarded, ‘The summer meeting at Jerome Park closed yester- ay with five races. The first was won by Bawie, the second by Duke, the third by De Courcey, the fourth by Climax and the fifth by Black Knight. Eagle, ‘who won the first race, a hurdie, against Blackbird ‘and Gerald, sold lowest in the pools, and baiked at the start, not moving until the other horses were near the first hurdie. He then went for them and after a most exciting struggle won the race. ‘The College of the City of New York held ite com- mencement exercises at the Academy of Music last evening. The various gold medals were severally ond degrees conferred. 10 * Admiral Bell were conveyed to 4 ali the mourniul hopors yen ee aerial iterates emeeaitieeitnie ESE NEW _ YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JOLY 3, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. accorded by the navy to its distinguished dead. They were buried with impressive ceremonies at St. George's Cemetery. The testimony in the case of Moser against Pol- hamus and Jackson, the alleged perjury case, which has been before the Supreme Court, Special Term, since Monday last, was closed yesterday afternoon. ‘The case will be argued and submitted to the court this morning. ' ‘Phe case of the United States against Joseph F. Talsen, in which the defendant is charged with hav- ing perjured himself in giving testimony in a patent right case, was before United States Gommis- sioner Osborn. The prisoner was recently arrested in Chicago and was committed yesterday to await the acvion of the Grand Jury. The Inman line steamship City of London, Captain Brooks, will leave plier 45 North river at one P. M., to-morrow (Saturday), for Queenstown and Liver- pool. The European mails will close at the Post Office at ten A. M., July 4. The National line steamship Helvetia, Captain Cut- ting, wil! leave pier 47 North river at two P. M. on the 4th of July for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, The steamship Britannia, Captain Laird, of the Anchor line, will sall from pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Glasgow and Liverpool, calling at Londonderry to land pas- sengers, ‘The North American Steamship Company's steamer ‘Santiago de Cuba, Captain Smith, will sai! from pier 46 North river at noon on Saturday, 4th inst., for San Francisco, via Panama. The Merchants’ line steamship Orescent City, Cap- tain Holmes, will leave pler 12 North river at five P. M, to-day (Friday) for New Orleans direct. The steamship Mariposa, Captain Kemble, of the Cromwell line, having been thoroughly refitted, will "leave pier No. 9 North river at three P. M. to-day (Friday) for New Orleans, The stock market was variable yesterday. Govern- ment securities improved in the afternoon. Gold closed at 1403. Ruel, the poisoner, was executed at St. Hyacinthe, Canada, on Wednesday—Dominion day. He met his death with the most abject terror. It 1s stated that the President will soon issue another general amnesty proclamation, which will include in its provisions Jeff Davis, John C. Breckin- ridge and other rebel leaders. The Democratic te—The List from Which They Are to Choose Him. Our city hotels are already swarming with delegates, regulars and militia, to the Demo- cratic. National Convention. In numerous cliques and coteries, right and left, and in every hole and corner they are discussing the all-important question, Who is the coming man? Great is the effervescence among the intermingling acids and alkalies of the party. Whether the party shall remain wrapped up in its old ragged and rusty garments and die, or emerge therefrom like the butterfly from its chrysalis in all the glories of a new creation sand a new life, is the main proposition. There is a tremendous internal pressure going on in favor of this transformation, too powerful, we believe, to be successfully resisted by the old Bourhons; but still the issue is in doubt. The list of Presidential candidates from which the Yemocratic nomination will be made’ is, from the lights at present before us, limited to the following names:—Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, Chief Justice of the United States, dem- ocratic republican; Horatio Seymour, of New York, democratic bondholders’ candidate ; George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, whose motto is ‘* greenbacks for the bondholders ;” Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, a second edition of poor Pierce; General Winfield Scott Hancock, of Pennsylvania, President Johnson's favorite military man, because he is more a soldier of the George Washington type than any other officer in the army ; General George B. McClel- jan, who carried New Jersey, Kentucky and Delaware in 1864 against Abraham Lincoln ; Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, conservative, recently nominated and confirmed as Minister to England; and last, though not jeast in the estimation of his backers, Andrew Johnson, of the White House. There are some other pro- babilities or possibilities mentioned, but from this list we believe the democratic champion against General Grant and the radicals will be chosen, and we think his name is Chase. Mr. Seymour we consider, in good faith, out of the fight as a candidate, but in it as an active worker for Chase. It appears, too, that he has the New York delegation at his back, as well as the Empire Club and the mass of the eighty odd thousand democrats of this potential democratic metropolig. From the East and the South the favorite among the delegates on hand is Chase; but from the West and the Southwest the Pendleton men still claim that they have a majority of the Sonvention. The conflict, therefore, may be considered as narrowed down to Chase or Pen- dieton, and all these other candidates are only used as decoys or stalking horses to divert votes from Pendleton or Chase, when, after the first two or three ballotings, the scattering begins. What, then, are the chances as between Pendleton and Chase? Pendleton is strong only as a representative of the democratic party and platform of the late war—a sort of strength which makes him very weak and which signifies defeat certain and sure. Chase is strong as the embodiment of constitutional law against military domina- tion and as the representative for the demo- cracy of the new order of things resulting from the war and fixed in the supreme law of the land. An amendment has been added to the con- stitution abolishing and interdicting slavery within the limits and jurisdiction of the United States; another amendment—article fourteen— has been, or shortly will be, so far ratified by the States that it may be now considered part of the constitution, This amendment, among other things, on the condition that suffrage and representation shall go together, leaves the question of suffrage absolutely with the several States. It upsets the extraneous conditions imposed by the bills of restoration upon the reconstructed States and gives them the full right to reduce the blacks or the whites, or both, to a reading and writing or property qualification. Upon these amendments, with Chase as their candidate, the democracy may win in +this coming election every one of the restored Southern States by winning over the negro balance of power; and they may also demolish the radicals in the North on their outrageous Chicago platform, whieh endorses a compulsory universal negro | suffrage from Congress for the Sonth' and negro | suffrage as each State may choose to-have it in the North, Moreover, so broad and clear and prominent is the Union record of Chase, as the financial chief who fed and clothed the army and the navy and kept the Treasury above water during the war, that he will fairly divide the honors of the war with Grant with the great Union party of the war. Hore, then, are the man and the plan for the democracy—Chase and the now amendments | Galied ; to the constitution or the constitution as it is, not as it was. If the Tammany Convention undertake to upset this fourteenth article of the amendments of the constitution, on the ground, as recommended by Francis P. Blair, Jr., that it is the work of an unconstitutional Congress, they must repudiate, also, the amendment abolishing slavery and every- thing done by the President and Congress, at least since Lee's surrender. On that tack they willbe annihilated, and from Lee's sur- render to and including this article fourteen there is no halting place. Chase, then, on the restoration and suffrage questions is the man for the crisis, and his nomination on the simple recognition of ‘fixed facts” is all that is wanted. Declafe next for the payment of the debt according to the law and for the tax- ation of the bondholders on the principle of equal rights, and Chase is atill the man for the democracy and the conservative republicans against Grant, as the candidate of the radicals and of Congressional despotism and military supremacy. The talk we hear of—‘‘the time-honored principles of the democratic party”—is all claptrap and moonshine. There has been a deluge; the face of the political world is changed. There has been a great revolution. We are entering upon a new epoch. Old things must be done away with, and the demo- cracy must keep pace with the march of events or they will be broken up, routed and scattered to the winds. The Field Dinner in London. The complimentary dinner given to Cyrus W. Field in London on Monday evening, and gracefully presided over by the Duke of Argyle, was unquestionably a unique thing in its way. It Rot reveal. a4 new w thing properly so ; but it ‘is, per! aps, the first time that countries so remote as London, New York, Havana,. San Francisco, Vancouver's Island, Salem, Oregon were practically brought to- gether at adinner table. There is no doubt much to laugh at in the whole affair, but to the mind that can penetrate the mutual admiration vapor in which the whole thing is enveloped there is some food for thought. It was, after all, this telegraphic dinner, one of those un- conscious outbursts that show how different the world of the present is from the world of the past and that foreshadow in dim but sugges- tive outline the wondrous future. We see what one cable cando. How different will it be when Atlantic cables are numbered by the dozen, and when Pacific cables, even more numerous, connecting us with China, Japan and Australa- sia, shall make the United States of America the real centre of the world! The old Scrip- tural prophecy which Bacon appropriated in¢ clumsy Latin, ‘‘Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased,” is already ful- |’ filled. As yet, however, we see only the be- ginning. Time and space have hitherto been hindrances to the transaction of business and to the communication of thought. They are already less hindrances than formerly, and we have not long to wait when they will be hin- drances no more. The world. promises to be one in a sense more complete than sage ever foresaw or poet everdreamed. It is something for us to know that, whatever the future may be, the pre-eminence of the United States is secured—a pre-eminence which implies the tremendous prosperity of New York and San Francisco. Epvoatina Nigezrs How to Vors.—The proceedings in the House of Representatives yesterday were enlivened by a debate which arose on the Senate amendment to the Civil Appropriation bill appropriating twenty thousand dollars for the ‘Depart ment of Education,” Non-concurrence in this amendment was recommended, and forthwith Mr. Garfield, who favored concur- rence, read a letter from John Bright, of Eng- land, supporting’ the proposition. Mr. Don- nelly favored the measure also, and called at- tention to the radical defeat in Mississippi as a proof of the necessity of an educational bureau, he attributing the disaster to the, ‘‘want of edu- cation on the part of the colored people.” Here was the whole case in a nutshell. The old saying of there being a “nigger in the wood- pile” has been changed since this Fortieth | Congress first organized, that unfortunate or | too fortunate nigger being in every bill. Even | Thad Stevens was compelled to oppose the amendment, which was luckily rejected. If it had been concurred in we would soon have seen another department organized for the purpose of taking care of male nigger babies and rearing them in a strictly loyal and radical fashion. A Gaxxeat ‘Auxeer. —It is reported that | the President intends to issue a general amnesty proclamation to-morrow, and that it will include all of the unpardoned rebels— Jeff Davis, Breckinridge, Lee and other leaders of the rebellion. We have no doubt that such a measure will be satisfactory to the people at large. There is not the slightest prospect of another rebellion in ‘the South, or even the inclination for another, and it will not injure the country to pardon the late leaders of the Southern confederacy. Take Your Cuxotoe.—M. Magne, Minister of Finance of France, assured the Legislature yesterday that the ‘‘armament or disarma- ment” of the empire was ‘equally a gage of peace.” The opposition replied, through M. Ollivier, that ‘‘nations were led to arm through fear.” The Emperor and people have each a choice. Hoxgst Ferxanpo.—Fernando Wood voted may on the question whether the govern- ment bonds shall be taxed. This is a question whether the rich man should be taxed as well as the poor man, and Fer- nando votes no. He is a great friend to the poor man about ¢lection day, but this friend- ship, it seems, is nothing by comparison with his desire to prevent the taxation of the small amount he probably holds in government securities, : Cattie Driving AND SLACOHTERING IN THE City or New York—Dectston OF THE Court or Apprats.—We call special atten- tion to the decision of the Court of Appeals in favor of the Metropolitan Board of Health in the case of certain butchers, who would fain have insisted on their selfish claim to the “vight” of endangering the safety and the health of the public by driving cattle through the city and slaughtering them withia its Umita. The court avore that the Leqisiatare | has entire control over the streets of New York and may delegate its authority in the matter to any local organization, and that its orders cannot be reversed by a jury trial or interfered with by injunctions. This decision, therefore, endorses the extraordinary powers conferred by the supreme law of the State on the Metropolitan Board of Health. The Proposed Ten Per Cent Tax on the Interest of Bonds. The Committee of Ways and Means yester- day reported a bill to.tax the interest of United States bonds ten per cent, in con- formity with the resolution of the House of Representatives to that effect. We conclude, therefore, that the bill will pass that branch of the national legislature without difficulty or delay. It is to be hoped the Senate will act as promptly and wisely in the matter. No tax could be more just, proper and popular. The following table shows what it will yield:— palgm ore rest, Tax. $1,! ie vO 44 $108,000,926 $10,800,002 220,812,400 10, 0,040,620 As 2,020,827, 841 ‘$118,011, 546 $11,904,154 CURRENCY INTEREST. $25,902,000 $1,554,120 $155,412 177,215,540 12,405,087 ‘1,240,508 $203,117,540 $13,959,207 $1,395,920 165,257,904 16,665,815 Total currency............$179,217,201 $18,061,735 Nearly twelve millions a year in gold, or over eighteen millions in currency at the present quotation of gold, isa nice round sum to be added to the income of the government. And who will feel the tax? Not the poor or mass of the industrious classes; for they hold few bonds. And then what is ten per cent on an interest which in currency amounts to over eight per cent on capital invested in the bonds? Rich people and the wealthy corpora- tiens who own the bonds chiefly can surely afford a tenth of such an enormous interest on their investments, We hold a large amount of these bonds and will gladly pay the tax, and we think the rest of the bondholders, if they be wise and have any patnotism, will willingly do the same. Only the national banks, money lenders and usurers would oppose such a just measure. Some of the organs of the capital- ists and Shylock bondholders make a ridiculous fuss about the savings banks, and assert that the depositors in these banks will be the suffer- ers. This is all nonsense. It does not matter to the depositors in what the banks invest—in United States bonds, in State or city stocks, in loans, in mortgages or in real estate. The bank officers invest in whatever is most profit- able, and the depositors neither know nor care, so that they get their stipulated interest. No this tax will only bear upon the rich, who are best able to support the government and who draw the largest income from the government. But we gecommend Congress to apply this income of eighteen millions a year asa sink- ing fund for the payment of the debt. If it were held sacred for this purpose—and that seems to be its legitimate purpose—the debt would waste away imperceptibly. If it were used at compound interest the debt would be extinguished in about fifty years. Suppose, however, the government were to take another wise step and withdraw the national bank currency and substitute legal tenders in its place, a saving of over twenty millions a year would be made, From these two sources only nearly forty mil lions a year could be derived and made a perpetual sinking fund for the debt. The whole of the national debt could thus be extinguished in twenty-five to thirty years, or even in less time if the amount should be used at compound interest. And who would suffer ? Who would feel it? The debt, as we said, would waste away in a remarkably smooth and gradual manner, and year after year the | people would feel the burden of taxation re- | since, or who know the history of the coolie moved. Congress has begun well in the matter of the ten per cent tax on the interest of bonds, and we hope it will go farther. Never was there such an opportunity for statesmen, if we have any, to serve the country and to acquire imperishable renown. Who in Congress will rise above party politics and petty measures to inaugurate such a grand scheme for the establishment of a sinking fund and the ex- tinguishment of the debt ? ational Bohemiantem. Mr. Henry W. Longfellow, the New England versifier, ranks, as we write, equal with ‘‘Bull | | Run” Ruasell on the roll of collegiate honorary | distinction. Each is an LL. D., or Doctor Learned in the Law—the one in the law of doctoring other men’s ideas and prosody to suit his own peculiar verbiage and rhyme, and the other in doctoring the war history of diffe- rent nations after such fashion that the people most interested in the issue of the events fre- quently fail to recognize them when presented by his pen, and are as much puzzled to know what he means as was the late President Lin- coln when he read the famously doctored ac- count of the battle of Bull Run and immedi- ately transmitted to the writer that peculiar Washington degree which honored him with permission to remain outside the lines of the Union armies. Mr. Longfellow has been “‘toting” around Old England during a few weeks, and the Bohemian interest in Boston and New York is just now experiencing an ecstacy of consdla- tion in the perusal of a mail report from London describing a ceremonial which took place in the venerable and musty hall of Cambridge University on the occasion when the heads of the college, in the presence of some few of the students and a numerous assemblage of the ‘‘Mutual Admiration Society” of Great Britain, conferred on him the honorary degree of LL. D. The American Bohemians assert that the restless, wander- ing and aimless fraternity has completed a grand entente cordiale, and insist that the British branch has gracefully and libe- rally repaid, in the person of representative Longfellow, the American compliments bestowed on their native luminary in the person of ‘Jefferson Brick” Dickens, the great delineator of the inside of the docks of the Bow street, Marylebone and other police courts of the British metropolis, This account we leave to be settled by the members according to the rules of the order. We must, however, in the name of the two peoples, object most de- cidedly to the assumption that these ian visits show forth anything of a national charac- tor aa expressed in the following sentences, printed in a, London newspaper of the 17th —“Zust as Mr Nickema wae recemniced | by the Americans as belonging to them, so Mr. Longfellow is claimed by us as one of the great writers of our common English tongue. He represents among us to-day something more even than American literature; for he represents that community of faith and feeling, of tradition and of language, which makes it impossible that the literature of the one country should ever be foreign to the other.” Lord Byron once inquired of the wife of a London manufacturer of shoeblacking how her husband’s firm managed to praise the article daily in a new verse published in a city journal. The lady replied at once, “Lor’ bless you, sir, we keeps a poet.” If the Boston Bohemians choose to “‘keep a poet” it is no reason why good natured old John Bull should be deceived into the belief that the people of the United States and Great Britain-haye one identical feeling and interest, any more than he would be induced to restore the privilege of the habeas corpus to Ireland by the recitation of the fine linés of a learned pundit of Erin, Jimmy Burns, which read:— i Your mother ts a nod 2 TAA, And so is you It’s a cowld Westy me mornin, Come to the fire, Faddy. Indeed, Mr. Longfellow Waa found employed in the melancholy occupation of hunting up the grave of his great-grandfather in Carlisle churchyard just previous to the Cambridge college oration. He did not succeed in his search, however, as he himself told the people thus:—‘‘And yet so much strangeness is there that when I come to the land of my fathers I find nowhere any traces of my family or my name.” Now, if Longfellow possessed the real mens poetica he would know that a poet nascitur non fit; that he is born of Time and Genius from the beginning, and consequently has no ancestry, according to humanity, worth looking after. * * But Longfellow was in England not asa poet—for there is no poetry nowadays—but merely as the versifier of American Bohemian- ism, and in this light the LL. D. affair is agreable. We incline to the opinion, however, that ‘Jefferson Brick” Dickens has had the most profitable employment. During his late visit to the United States he had conferred on him the degree of L. S. D., or master of pounds, shillings and pence, and was sent home gouty with Delmonico’s rich wines, after drawing as many corksas Barnaby Rudge’s raven; so that he had only to recline in his stateroom during the voyage and keep counting huge piles of greenbacks. Gan the tough parchment of a Cambridge LL. D. and a cemetery visit at Carlisle compare with this? By no means. The American Bohemian account with Eng- land is not squared yet. It is nearly as bad as the aitgaries claims CASE, nae t_$ fe. Proposed Wholesale Swindling of Emile grants, ~ So-called emigrant aid societies are swin- dies, and swindles of the most atrocious sort. Their true object is not to assist the emigrant, not to facilitate his passage to a free land where he may honestly labor and live, but to wring from his toil the wherewithal to enrich rascals— to mortgage his future and make him indefi- nitely the slave of those who advance the pit- tance that pays his passage hither. Men pro- | pose to establish agencies to encourage and stimulate emigration from European countries to this country, and they ask the sanction of the government to their scheme, and ask it to stamp the guarantee of honesty upon them by giving their agent the right to call himself an officer of the government. For what terrible abuses, robberies, outrages on humanity of the most sickening and horrible character this system would immediately become the cover | all can see who know the history of emigrant running as it existed in this city some years trade, or even of the slave ships, or who can fancy what must happen when ghe welfare of the defenceless and friendless is weighed in the scale against unfeeling avarice. If Con- gress shall pass a law lending its name to such a scheme it will do an act hardly less culpable than its destructive reconstruction in the South. The true way to help emigration is to leave it alone. There are agents enough already. Every emigrant that has been here a year is an agent. He comes, is protected from *‘agents”— another name for thieves—by the law, gets employment, thrives, and sends home money to bring out his brother. This fact is discussed in every household of the little village that was his home; and the friends that bid the brother goodby when he starts have already resolved to follow. In every land of Europe this idea | underlies the common life of the people and is the poor man’s poetry, that by and by he too shall be ready to start for the country in which his former neighbors are so happy. Agents can only do harm in any attempt to stimulate this, while the robberies and oppressions that companies would assuredly practice would spread in story and eventually stay the tide. America would soon be looked upon as a land of horrors rather than a land of promise. Let Congress attend carefully to this point and not give up the emigrant to the mercy of the jobbers. Let it give these fellows authority everywhere else, power to rob in any of the usual ways, but let it, for the sake of humanity and the interests of the country, insist that they shall respect the emigrant. Riguts or Man ts Virainta—A Question or Pork.—It is clearly one of the rights of. man to keep hogs. If hogs are a nuisance it is because people have become too nice in their noses, and they ought to steer clear. If the odor of many hogpens poisons the air and people die it is because they are feeble and not fit to live. This is the nigger platform in the war that now rages in Virginia, and before the sanitary authorities can kill the hogs they evidently must first kill the niggers. It is gratifying to see that the niggers have rights, know what they are, and dare maintain them. Whether any one else has any rights does not matter. Or Taap ALL “Riont on AL ASKA.—Not- withstanding all his kinks and crotchets, ‘‘Old Thad” has his lucid moments. He ts all right on greenbacks, and his speech on Wednesday shows that he is all right on the Alaska ques- tion. His herring story, ‘‘which he had heard ten years ago,” has a somewhat ‘“‘ancient and fish-like smell,” but he adduces in its support the evidence of one of the sea captains who originated the story. And there never was a stronger argumentum ad hominem than that which Mr. Stevens applied to his col- leagues when. alluding to the assertion that | até susceptible Sa EO ee ee ey Alaska was barren country, he declared that “it was not half so barren as members tried to make out; not half so barren as their brains were in arguing against the bill.” The dis- cussion which occasioned the speech of Mr. Stevens arose during the consideration of the bill appropriating seven millions two hundred’ thousand dollars in coin to carry into effect the treaty for the purchase of Russian Aumerica. Revenue Frauds. At various points throughout the coun- try parties guilty of revenue frands have been detected, tried and convicted, and, like Callicott and Enright, of Brooklyn, with Anderson, of Richmond, have been consigned to the Penitentiary. Those whose sins have found them out already num- ber nearly a score, and the names of others equally guilty, but as yet undiscovered, are not unlikely to be legion, The aggregate of the revenue frauds is modestly enough ‘esti- mated, even by the radicals, at one hundred million dollars. But this figure must fall far below the real amount of the plunderings of “the ring.” The sums already expended in suborning witnesses or in sending them out of the country and in attempts to buy up courts and juries will probably never be accurately disclosed. This state of things shows the utter want of system in the Treasury Depart- ment. At this moment there is no authority init anywhere. Nothing but avague dread of the Penitentiary remains as a bar against still further depredations. The cause of all this muddle is the deadlock between the Presi- dent and Congress, and the origin of these evils, which threaten to be prolonged and aggravated, isthe Pandora’s box of the Tenure of Office bill. Hope was left in the bottom of Pandora’s box. Is there no hope of a possible remedy against the consequences of that unlucky bill? Tae Yosemitg Vaiey Joz.—The Yosemite valley, with its incomparable collection of nat- ural curiosities, its towering ‘‘domes,” its prodigious cataracts, its mammoth tree groves and its diversified scenery, was ceded by Congress to California in order that its attrac- tions as a resort for tourists from all parts of the world might be preserved unimpaired. But it seems that the California Legislature has been tampered with by lobbyists in the interest of certain speculators who propose to gain a few million dollars for themselves at the expense of mutilating and spoiling the Yose- mite valley, which is to the whole coun- try what the Park is to New York—a source of inestimable enjoyment for all who sage qharms of natural beauty and grandeur. On Monday Mr. Sumner pre- sented to the Senate a memorial from Profes- sor and other professors of Harvard University, protesting against the ratification by Congress of the legislation of the.Califor- nia Legislature in regard to the Yosemite val- ley. The memorial was referred to the Com- mittee on Public Lands, which, we hope, will report in favor of putting an immediate and effectual stop to the destructive projects of the speculators so absurdly favored by the Califor- nia Legislature. Genera, Meape Resrortne Civit Gov- ERNMENT, —Out of the military commanders of the South at least General Meade has shown his respect for civil law and civil government. He issued an order on Tuesday from Atlanta declaring that military rule ceases in Florida, and he calls upon all commanders of sub-dis- tricts to abstain from interference with the civil law upon any pretext whatever. This is as it should be, and it may be said of General Meade that he is the right man in the right place. MicnigAN DeEteGation.--The delegates from Michigan had a talk among themselves yesterday and decided to second the popular cry for Chase for President. It is currently rumored that the delegates from the Pacific have opened their eyes and ears, and are willing to acknowledge that the Chief Justice is the only man that can stand the ghost of a chance. "YACHTING NOTES. The Phantom is painted ed white this year. The Rambler, we understand, is about taking a cruise eastward. Commodore Stebbins, of the New York Yacht Club, arrived here on the steamer Scotia a few days ago. During his sojourn in Europe he was everywhere received with marked respect and honor. ‘The steam yacht Josephine Hoey was towea tnto New London on the 30th ult. by steamtug 0. H, Hast- ings, having blown out her tubes on Monday morn- ing while on the passage from New York to Newport. She is eal orders from her owners ip New York. wuscaL AND THEATRICAL wares, Detroit is slowly improving. It now boasts of a circus, a concert saloon and the “White Fawn.” The “Fawn,” however, is a failure, Mr. J, H. Stoddart is turning an honest penny in Buffalo by personating Moneypenny in ‘The Long Strike.” Cleveland rejoices in a circns. So do Washing- ton, Baltimore and Detroit; likewtse Oalifornia, which latter place is favored to the tune of a dozen or more. Sefor Mesa, director ofthe Havre circus, has re ceived a first convoy of twelve bulls from Spain for the fights which have been announced. One of them was injured in landing and was obliged to be kiiled, The others, which are all brown, of no great height, but with enormous horns, are in good condition. Female gymnasts are rapidly multiplying at tne London music halls. Opera boufe is to be gravely undertaken next win. ter, under the management of Mr. Burnand, at the St. James’ theatre, London. The repertory will con- sist of M, Meg ing best operas, With imitations of aes. by Mr. Frederick Clay and other rising ooeptard ploy | with great success at the Theatre du Gerque, at Brussels, ‘The * ty waiter girls’ and the minstrel band of five, w fete ‘so conspicuously in the ‘Lottery of Tate,” at Wi jack's, are said by the knowing ones to be nuine, French theatre in Fourteenth street is at pres- ent undergoing extensive alterations, The entrance tad ae ms cic ona Leased with tC) tree’ (tas4 rane roves are lowered be enlarged and the batiding ¥ re hereat. wneated with steam instead of w! The alterations will be completed by the first of Sep- oy og and the expenses will be voluntarily borne by Mr. Gran. the famous collec- Nine Cremona violins, — day sold by aac. tion ta wendon for £2000, on for Mile. renege the young Itallan chanteuse e Parisians who enitvened th 80 na Man last winter, has late!: ‘eccepted an rae Vien} ot rane, she is especiall vices: Srensotel aa a ec young s*hriiste y the Fines AND Loss By Fras | FOR THE Monta oF JuN®.-Ex-Fire-Marshal Baker's statistics for, the month of June exhibit forty-six fires in this city, im-