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8 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1869.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Prabal eaee NEW YORK HERALD ——eeeee BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. PORTE CO ECTS O OEE JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henan. Rejected communications will not be re- Volume XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE. Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- pue.—GRirritn GaUNT. Zi FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue apd Twenty- fourth street.—BARBE BLEUE. WALLACK’S THRATRE, Broadway acd 18th sireot.— O0L. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humerr Domrrr, with New Featunes. Matinee at 15. GRAND preee HOUSE, coraer of Eighth avenue and ‘20d street. fTux TEMPEST. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14th street.—THCSNELDA; O8, THE GLaptaToR OF RAVENNA, BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery.—Ta® Seven Dwanre; OX, HARLEQUIN AND THE WORLD OF WONDERS. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuz EmsnarD ING. 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JEROME THEATRE.—Gaann Vocat anv Inetuv- MENTAL CONCERT, APOLLO HALL, Twenty-eighth street and Broadway.— GRaNy VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONOEET. HOOLEY'S OPERA) HOUSE, Brooklya.—Hooter's Minerntis—Tux 4T Toieves, dc. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIRNCE AND Ant. ° QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, April 14, 1869. TO ADVERTISERS. All advertisements should be sent in before eight o'clock, P. M., to insure proper classiti- cation. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. Brooxtyn Canntigns anp Newsuen will in future receive their papers at the Branca Orrice or THE New Yous Henacy, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. Apverrisements and Scrscniptions and al) letters for the New Yorw Heratp will be received as above. THE NEWS. Europe. The cable *eleyrars are dated April 13. Napoleon has ordered an increase of pension to the surviving ‘soidiers of the republic and the first empire. The Spanish government authorities still continue | to make arrests of Cariists in Granada. ‘The elections of members to the Portuguese Cortes have resulted in favor of the present government, Cuba. The crew of the Mary Lowell have been reicased. They state that the vessel was seized within a mile of Regged Isiand, in the Bahamas, and therefore in British waters. The Spanish authorities claim to ve fully informed as to the movements of General Steed- man and his expedition from New Orleans, The Havana journals praise the course of the United States in reference to Cuba, Vrovisions are very scarce in Puerto Principe. Mexico, Our Vera Cruz letter 1s dfted March 31. A stormy seasion of Congress is anticipated. Belligerent rights will probably be granted to the Cubans, Very rich gold mines have been discovered near Sinaloa de Zaragossa. A slight shock of earthquake had been experienced in Jalapa. Sandwich Isinnds. Honolulu advices are to the 20th of March. The ship King Philip had been nearly destroyed’ by fire, Captain Killett, an old foreign resident, died at Kauai vo the 7th ult. The Senate.. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Sumner offered a resolution providing for the pripting of 500 addi tional copies of the President's message relative to claims against Great Britain. We desired imme- Glate action upon it, but, under the rules, the reso- lution Wag referred. In executive session J, Lothrop Motley was confirmed as Minister to England, and John Jay a8 Minister to Austria. The Alabama claims treaty, after atwo houra’ speech against it by Mr. Sumuer, was rejected by a vote of 54 tol, Mr. MeCreery, of Kentucky, casting the only vote in its favor. The Legisiatare. Bilis were passed in the State Senate yesterday providing forthe completion of Gowanus canal in Brooklyn; classifying the directors of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum; making the definition of the crime of arson more comprehensive, and a few others. Several bills of minor importance were ordered to a third reading. A resoiution relative to the depesits of canal tolls was adopted. The pro rata freight bill was committed to the Committeo of the Whole. The fifteenth constitutional amendment was post- poned till to-day. A bill was Introduced incor- porating the Belgian Towing Company, after which the Senate adjourned. In the Assembly the Richmond county contested election case was considered and after a lengthy discussion action upon it was postponed for one week. The report of the Conference Commitee on ratiroads held by lease was disagreed to, Bills ‘were passed equalizing the salaries of the judicial «+ OMcers of Kings county and authorizing the exten- sion of the Avenue © Railroad. A communication was received from the Gowernor relative to the Albany Soldiers’ Home. It was announced that the general government was realy to take charge of all soldiers now being cared for by the State. at the evening session bills were passed to reorganize the Public School system of New York; defining the powers ot the Board of Fire Commissioners; to anend the laws relative to classiug bank circulation and a umber of others. A very large list of nomimations was received from the President, including foreign missions, customs officers, district attorneys, marsbals, inter- nal revenue officers, Indian and pension agents, postmasters and others. Miscellancous. Mrs. Grant gave her second reception at the White House yesterday. It was attended by a large num- ber of fashionable ladics and disunguished gentie- men. Senator Sprague was serenaded last night by the workingmeu’s unions of Washifmton, and in re- sponse made a speech of considerapie length, elabo- rating his views relative to labor and capital. The fire in the Nevada mines brok out again, the seven hundred foot level in the Kentuck mine being in flames, The fire f still burning in the Yellow Jacket mine, and the steam and vapor arising from it is very hot. The bodies that have.been taken out are much disfgured, but still recog- nizable. A Coroner's inquest was held yesterday in the village of Spring Valley, Rockland county, N. Y., on the body of Joachim Fuerter, who was found mur- dered near there tn March last, Antoine Muerer, a Frenchman, suspected of being the murderer, was present in custody. Numerous witnesses were ex- amined, among them the prisoner, who, while his attention was otherwise engaged, was brought sud- denly face to face with the aciual head of the murdered man. Hé exhibited no emotion, however, and said that he did not recognize the features as those of the murdered man in question. The jury rendered a verdict implicating Muerer, who was thereupon remanded to the Rockland county jall to await trial. An individual from Boston, in a fit of remorse, re- cently returned, anonymously, two $500 United States bonds to the Treasury as a contribution to al- lay the pangs of conscience, Secretary Boutwell yea- terday sold the bonds for $1,175 and credited con- ‘Bcience with that amount. Messrs. Brown & Ives, ‘‘the great family of Rhode Island,” have published a card, declaring totally and maliciously false the allegation made by Senator Sprague in his speech on the Sth instant that they tried to induce him to join them in breaking down all their rivals in business. The other imguiations, they say, are couched in vague language, which they cannot notce, On Saturday night the village of Hancock, Mich., was almost completely destroyed by fire. Sgx entire blocks, containing 110 occupied dwellings and a number of barns, were destroyed, and over 200 families are let houseless. The loss 13 estimated at $100,000. ° . The policy in régard to the new Northwestern acquisitions to Canada, it ts said, in Ottawa circles, will be to organize a territorial government for the present, and as the popultaton increases, establish & provisional government and admit a certain por- tion as a province in the Union. It ts stated also in Ottawa circles that Measrs, Car- tier, McDonald, Howe and Tilley will be made lords under Earl Russeil’s-Life Peerage bill, A sale of ordnance and ordnance stores com- Mmenced in the St, Louis Arsenal yesterday, and the material brought unusually high price. There are now only twenty-four hours staging be- tween Omaha and San Fraucisco. The City. A meeting was held in the Reformed Presbyterian church tn Twenty-third street last evening, to con- sider the subject of a religious amendment to the constitution of the Unitea States, acknowledging the supremacy of Almighty God. Several divines made speeches, the proposed amendment was read and the meeting closed. ‘The strike on the Second Avenue Railroad still continues. The strikers sent @ delegation of new men to the depot yesterday, wno accepted situations as drivers and then deserted the cars at any con- venient point on the line. Superintendent Kennedy, ou being appealed to to prevent this, declined, as it was his business to preserve the peace, not to en- force contracts. Frederic Wallroth, who is now in Ludlow street jail, is charged by the Beard of Trustees of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran church of Gustavus Adolphus, in this city, of which he is treasurer, with embezzling $2,900 of a sum forwarded to the church by churches in Sweden gs a present. A warrant Is to be served upon him when he is released from Ludlow street Jail. . Hunternass, a yourg German milkman, was dis- covered in the Third precinct yesterday morning watering his milk at a hydrant. An officer accosted him when he saia that “it was all right. The officers all kuew him aod said nothing.” He was arrested and, after a severe reprimand from Judge Dowling, was fined fifty dollars, the Judge being sorry that he could not imprison him also, Three complaints were entered in the Central Police Office, Brovklyn, yesterday, of robberies at the hands f newly hired servant girls. In each case the ameunt stolen was $200, and the alleged thief was hired at an intelligence office. In the Court of General Sessions, yesterday, Re- corder Hackett sentenced John Moran, deputy sheriff, who pleaded guilty to permitting George King, the bond robber, to escape from his custody while charged with his conveyance to Sing Sing, to three years imprisonment ia the State Prison. Re- + corder Hackett also sentenced Thomas Donnelly and Thomas Downey, Who pleaded gulity to burglary in the third degree, the former to three years and six months in the State Prison, and Donnelly (whose offence was aggravated by committing au assault on Mrs. Price, the complainant) to four years in the State Prison. A drunken woman was arrested in the Thirteenth precinct yesterday who, it was aliegea, tried to roast ber little girl on a red hot stove, The stock market yesterday was declining and heavy at the boaids, but revived late in the alter- noon, Gold closed at 132%. The Cunard steamer Samaria, Captain Macaulay, wil! sail this afternoon from Jersey City for Queens- towa and Liverpool, The mails will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. . Prominent Arrivals in the City. Congressman Samuel Hooper, C,H. Appleton, of Boston; Congressman W. b, Allisan, of Dubuque, lowa, and Generai Scavnek, of Ohio, are at the Brevoort House, Captain McMicken, of steamship Australasia, is at the New York Hotel. Colonel Samuel De Bow, of Montana; Colonel J, M. Andrews, of Saratoga; Major 8. H. Webb, of the United States Army, and 8. Doane, of steamer America, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain F. M. McGee, of the United States Army, nd Major K. McMichael, of Saratoga, are at the st, Charles Hotel. Colonel Stewart, of the United States Army; G. W. Gerrish, of Boston; Osbora Howes, Jr., of. San Fran- cisco, and A. Warren Keisey, of Belinont, Mass, are at the St. Julien Hotel, Colonel W, H. Leonard, of Petersburg, Va., and A. L. Butler, of Hartford, Coun., are at the St. Denis Hotel. General J, Lloyd Green, ©. 8. Bushnell and Mar- shail Jewell, of Connecticut; J. Dui, of Massachu- setts; Robert H. Pruyn, of Albany; D. LAttlejohn, of Buffalo, and Ben, Field, of Albion, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Major C. F Plunkett, of Hartiord, is at the Hofman House. Congressman N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts, and Milton Taylor, of Cincinnat!, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman Oakes Ames and Congressman W. B. Washburn, of Massachusetts; George 1H. Pierce, of Dover, N. H.; Dr. Lewis Jones, of Galveston, yman, of Connecticut; E. i. Rollina, of New Hampshire, and Admiral Goidsborough, of the United States Navy, are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. Captain N. B. Palmer, for Stonington; W. B. Keid, for Philadelphia; Major J. Stevens, for Boston; Vap- tain H. W. McClellan, for Chicago; Captain J. Per- kins, for New Haven; General G. Hendérson, tor ‘Troy; Colonel J. Walker, for Mississippi, and Captain R. Donaldson, for Buffalo; Count Iwanhoff and Mra, N. B, Sandford, for London. Divine Rrre.—How thoroughly the service in our churches is a performance and not a worship is seen ina quarrel now raging be- tween two of the players as to their respective parts in @ recent grand Sabbath show. Par- son wanted to have the programme one way, fiddler wanted to have it another, and the end was disagreement in high dudgeon, | comparison, just as Buchanan made the ad- occupation, A naval war with England and upon the ocean, and nothing else will do it. Give our seamen but the shadow of a chance and they will soon make the ocean’ as unsafe to the British and French flags as the British priva- Fear in the Cabinet—The Stumbling Block of the Administration. Secretary Fish is the stumbling block in the path of President Grant’s administration. Ho sympathizes with the struggling Cubans, but is opposed to the granting of belligerent rights to them. He is willing they should fight it single-handed, and just as willing that they shall be hung or shot, He is afraid that England and France will combine with Spain and whip not only Cuba, but us too, if we show any sympathy for Cuba. In these puerile sentiments and inane fears wo are glad to see that he is alone in the Cabinet and that the President and every other member is wisely in favor of a vigorous policy in the Cu- ban question. Mr. Fish is no doubt a very worthy old Knickerbocker, but as a statesman he is far behind the times, and his duty to tho President and to the country calls him to re- sign at once the post he is not fit to fill, The position he has taken on the first live ques- tion presented to the Cabinet is one which, if maintained, will disgrace the administration and place it bofore the world in the ridiculous attitude of making Andy Johnson's administration respectable by employ Wendell Phillips to deliver it. Hear what he says of Christianity and the bishops :— “With the exgeption of » few personal vices he believed that even Thomas Paine—the name of all names that many Christian people reviled—when he went into the other world, was much more likely to be received with ‘Well done, good and faithful servant,’ than many a bishop who died under the Eng- lish mitre.” Is not this a terrible fellow? The Alabama Claims Treaty. Tho Alabama Claims treaty lately concluded by Minister Johnson on bebalf of the American people with the English government was acted upon by the United States Senate in executive session yesterday and almost unanimously rejected by that body—one mem- ber only voting in the affirmative, after con- siderable debate. This action of the Senate conveys, perhaps, the most signal rebuke |_prandial speeches and diplomatic policy of Reverdy Johnson—called by some persons “Dandy” Johnson, so as to distinguish him from ex-President Andy Johnson. The course of the United States government towards England in the matter of the Alavama claims is clear and simple. The amount of damage inflicted on our mercantile marine by the famous privateer, through the jealous trading connivance of the British government, has been frequently estimated and footed up, especially in the columns of the HeRaup. The duty of our Minister in London is to place the bill of particulars and sum total of the whole ia his pocket, walk over to Downing street, have an interview with her Majesty's Minister of Foreign Affairs, and demand payment. We do not especially require the money, but wish to see the national honor, dignity and interests vindicated and protected to the fullest extent: on land and on the ocean. This great Ameri- can principle England affects to despise, mainly in consequence of the cours? parsued by Minister Johnson during his after dinner orations and potations in London, Manchester, Birmingham and other places, when he insisted thet the English and Americans were “one people,” coming from a common ‘‘parent stock,” having “‘one idea and policy,” and so forth; thus leaving the inference that the Alabama claims constituted merely a sort of international account easily adjusted from a common family purse. It is full time that this fiction was dissipated, and the Senate has commenced the work. ministration of poor Pierce respectable. Ex- Secretary Seward, compared with and measured by Secretary Fish, becomes a perfect fire-eater. If_we look back over the past eight years of Seward’s administration we see that he had some comprehension of the march of the American republic, and that he labored to prepare the ground for our absorption of the whole archipelago of the West Indies. To-day the question presents itself to us ina living and urgent form, and Secretary Fish is afraid, forsooth—is afraid that it may involve us in a war with France and England. While we do not share these childish fears we can- not but perceive that at the present juncture in our domestic affairs a war with England and France would be the greatest good that could happen to the United States. Thanks to. ono or two English privateers, under the Confede- rate flag, we have been deprived of that large and remunerative share in the ocean carrying trade of the world which once was our boast, and our pride, The American flag driven from the sea has left our shipyards without employment and our mariners without France would restore us to our equal position The Herald. teers made ita few years since to the Ameri- can. Our shipyards would leap to a new life, and our docks would throng with prizes before whose numbers the Alabama claims would sinkinto the merest insignificance. Rut the man who to-day aspires to direct the foreign relations of the United States of America must lay aside all such childish fears. He must address himself to higher motives of action. Our great questions of public rela- tions must be considered in their relation to the rights, interests and dignity of the nation and of Christian ‘civilization. And herein is where Mr. Fish shows himself to be incompetent to the post he fills and to the duty he is called to discharge. The patriot Cubans are to-day bravely treading the wine press which our fathers so nobly trod before them. By their sacrifices and their deeds of arms they have raised a great American ques- tion, and we are called upon to decide it, not by the standard whether Spain is a friendly Power or not, but whether they are entitled to the justice they ask at our bands. And in matters of purely American interest Spain has no claim to friendship from us. In these she has ever proved hostile to the American Union and to the principles of froadom which it cherishes. But beyond all this we are called by every impulse of Christian charity and of civilization to withdraw our friendly counte- nance from the bloodthirsty and furious prac- tices of the Spanish volunteers in Cuba, They are a shame and a disgrace to the Power that practices them, and stiil more so to the Power that, without the incentive of either anger or ambition, palliates and excases them. When Mr. Fish acknowledges that he would falter in the path of duty, through fear of complications in our relations with France and England, he brings a blush of shame to every American cheek and casts a dark shadow across the hopes the country has entertained of the administration of President Grant. Rather would we trust the honor of the repub- lic to the truly national impulses of the daring Admiral Porter than to the timid fears of a Secretary of State who seems to belong to tho age of our grandfathers, and to be inspired in his counsels with the fears that animated the public mind seventy years ago. It was of such men that John Randolph declared they bad to be kicked into a war with England. The sooner President Grant purges his Cabinet of such cowards the better will it be for him and for his administration. Let him judge the spirit of the country to-day not by the cold- blooded fears of a Fish, but by the overpower- ing vote of the House of Representatives on the Cuba resolution, and the atill more patriotic vote of the Senate of the Upited States, where but one man was found to vote for the ratification of the inane treaty with England for the settlement of the Alabama claims, As for our relations with Spain and Caba, we call upon the President to recognize at once the wishes of the people of the whole country, and comply with them by an imme- diate proclamation of neutrality betwgen the belligerents. This will place those who are now struggling in Cuba, alone and unarmed, for that freedom which is so doar to all men, within the pale of honorable warfare, and save them from the fate of robbers and pirates. He should then entrust the maintenance of those neutral relations to the Secrotary of the Navy, who is so ably assisted by Admiral Porter, and whenever Spain demands the réasons for our action let them be given by Admiral Hoff. But let us hear no more of the fears of the antediluvian Fish in the counsels of government, if it wishes to keep us out of disgraceful wars and save the honor of the nation. If he will not retire from the Cabinet modestly and as becomes an ancient fossil, as he is, we advise President Grant to shelve him in the antiquarian department of the Patent Office 98 & warning to ail our rising statesmen, sheet, yesterday we published another, to-day still another, and io-morrow we shall publish the fourth quadruple sheet given to our readers this week. Naturally this excites the astonishment of our country cousins and the envy of our contemporaries nearer home; for with alt this space at com- we are cramped for room to get in the news. Quadruple sheets have now taken with us the place that the triple sheet had before. We published ordinarily our double sheet, and the triple when the crowd of news and adver- tisements made it necessary; now we have the triple every day and the quadruple on occa- sion, So we grow with the growth of this great centre of American activity. One-third of the business of the metropolis is now done through our columns, Other newspapers here stand still and all the increase is ours. Larner Orrrations inv SmugGuine. Tas Summer.—Tho removal of the quarantine es- tablishment to Coney Island will afford the smuggler Grapeshot a fine opportunity to land “dead bodies” in canvas sacks. It may not be generally known that the ‘dead bodies” from the Grapeshot are always burked by con- traband dealers in cigars, sugar and coffee, PaitavEtrma iN Arms For Cupa.—It is stated that a monster demonstration in favor of the independence of Cuba is in preparation for Philadelphia. Keep the old fogies out and it will prove a success. A Caprrat Ckit.—The Philadelphia Press, in an article on ‘‘Capitally Convicted Felons,” states that within a few hours of the time Twitchell was to have been executed he “‘lite- rally held a levee in his cell.” The kind- hearted jailers of Moyamonsing should there- fore be lauded to the skies by the philan- thropic, anti-hanging philosophers of the day for permitting Twitchell to end his days by his own hand instead of by the righteous judg- ment of the law, and smoothing his pathway to eternity by a liberal supply of champagne and oysters fried on the Philadebphia plan, Ratner Format.—The Philadelphia Press states that President Grant formally recog- nized the claims of the national republican party in his selections for the leading foreign missions. The recognition seems to have been extremely ‘‘formal,” if not cold and icy, judging from the expressions of other republi- can papers ‘‘relative” to appointments: An Ataskan League iv Reoarp To Cusa.—Forney says Robert J. Walker is one of the champions for the independence of Cuba. Walker had just twenty thousand reasons in gold~for the acquisition of Alaska, and Forney’s “‘nephew” only three thousand. They may hitch together in regard to Cuba and drive a square team. It would, however, be only a one horse concern, no matter how they harnessed it. Status of Sintes In Rebellion=The Texas Bonde—Decision of the Supreme Court. The broad question of the statue of States in rebellion and the legality of acts done by the rebel authorities of such States came up before the Supreme Court of the United States, as an original suit, in the case of the State of Texas vs. George White, John Childs, John A. Hardenburgh and others, Chief Justice Chase delivered the opinion of the court. One of tho associate justices—Grier—dissented as to the jurisdiction and merits of the case, and two—Justices Swayne and Miller—dis- sented on the question of jurisdiction only. The decision is able and had evidently been well studied and carefully prepared. But it shows that not logic, abstract right or abstract principle governs the highest tribunal of the country so much as the law of necessily, The preservation of the government and to pre- vent dangerous complizations or serions em- barrassments to it seem to be the highest object of the Suprome Court, Though a Stato Out or THE Ror.—Any sootety that wants & prosy discourse, whose chief merit shall be | that it does not offend the old fogies, must not which has yet been given to the post-, On Sunday we published a quadruple’ mand go great is the rush of advertising that. | for the legitimate purpose of taxation, it makes incense Another Batch of Foreign Nominations. The President sent in to the Senate yestel- day a catalogue of nominations for office of all sorts, which, in point of numbers, exceeds, we think, any day’s work in this line of any Presi- dent of the United States since the foundation of the government. Among the foreign nomi- nations were Thomas H. Nelson, of Indiana, as Minister to Mexico, in place of General Rosecrans, What are the peculiar merits which have given Nelson this mission over. all competitors we do not know; but it ia plain enough that General Rosecrans does not stand very high in the books of General Grant. We dare say that that White Sulphur diplomacy fixed him. Henry S. Sanford, transferred from Belgium to Spain, is an improvement upon Hale, the alleged diplomatic furniture dealer. William A. Pile, of Missouri, for Brazil, will necessitate the return of James Watson Webb, and, if not with Webb's consent, we shall know all about it in due time. William A. Howard, of Michigan, for China, we believe is a brother of Senator Howard. J. Ross Browne, one of our bookmaking American travellers, is thus recalled; but he will have been long enough in China when notifled’to pack up to give us a very interesting illustrated book on the Central Flowery Kingdom and its peculiar people. Among the numerous other nominations made yesterday we find the name of Thomas Fitnam for Consul at St. Helena. He was many years ago one of the Washington cor- respondents of the Heratp and a great admirer of the first Napoleon. We presume his object in seeking this consulate of St. Helena is to gather upon the spot all that can be learned of the life, death, grave and souvenirs of Napo- leon on ‘‘that desolate isle in the midst of the sea” and to make a book of it, But still, in all the lengthy schedule of the nominations sent up yesterday wo see nothing of Greeley, Raymond or Dana, Does General Grant read their newspapers? has no power to go out of the Union by its own action or will, and only by successful revolution or the consent of its fellow States, according to the reasoning of the Chief Justice, yet it may be held to be in a quasi state of exclusion or union agreeable to the will and convenience of the supreme government of the United States, If the State or its constituted author- ities does something while ‘in a condition of rebellion, or even after rebellion ceases and before fully restored by Congress to political equality with the other States, which is agree- able and convenient to the government of the United States, that is declared legal and is sustained by the Supreme Court. But if any of the acts of such a State or its authorities are inconvenient and likely to prove embar- rassing they are declared illegal and void. This is really the sum and substance of Chief Justice Chase’s argument, though not sub- mitted in such @ point of view. The decision, therefore, rules out all action of the rebel authorities in such cases as this of the Texas bonds, and makes it null and void. In fact, the federal courts are at liberty to annul every- thing the rebel authorities did, though the Supreme Court seems to make an exception as to those acts necessary to peace and good order among citizens, such, for example, as acts sanctioning and protecting marriage and the domestic relations, regulating property, providing remedies for injury to pergon or property, and so forth. Such acts are held to be valid, though emanating from an unlawful government. This decision will have an im- portant effect in settling a thousand questions and claims arising out of the rebellion, and, as far as the action of the Supreme Court goes, fixes the status of the Southern States while in rebellion and unrestored to the Union. The American Jockey Club. Considerable discussion has taken place at the meetings of the American Jockey Club of late in relation to the privileges that should be given to the pyplic during the race meetings on their grounds. The discussion thus far has been without a satisfactory result. Some of the members are in favor of throwing the gates of the course open free to the public and charging only for entrance to the stands, while others are of the opinion that the present rules are quite liberal enough for all purposes. The complaints about exclusiveness made by many who are not members, and are, conse- quently, ignorant of the duties and responsi- bilities ot the club, urge that they should give up all their privileges on the grand stand to the public and keep themselves within the club houses, on the opposite- side of the course. This is asking too much, as the. public could then monopolize all the space allotted to the fifteen hundred members and their families and deprive them of all the pleasures that the club contemplated in their organization—that of giving their members and their families a place of security from any other influence than respectability. ; To settle the mooted point would it not be well for the club to allow any of its members the privilege of inviting to the club portion of the stand any gentleman with ladies whom he is acquainted with, which will be a sufficient voucher for their respectability, on the pay- ment of an extra fee by the party who enjoys this privilege? This, we think, would bea con- servative view to take of the matter and stop any further discussion. We know it would be a popular movement and should satisfy all parties. The racing this season will be very attractive, and the stands no doubt filled during every day of the meoting, and eligible places will be at a premium daily. Smucotine.—Are the members of the Legis- lature aware that the schoonor called the Grapeshot, which is attached to the quaran- tine service ostensibly for the removal of dead bodies from vessels, is really a smuggler? That cigars, coffee, sugar and other dutiable merchandise are transshipped from inward bound vessels to the Grapeshot, and by the latter landed at Keyport on dark nights, or in some little cove on the Long Island shore? Tae Broapway Raitroap.—Mr. A. T. StewSrt’s letter offering two million dol- lars for the privilege that the Legislature seems disposed to give away indicates a new course against the jobbers, and we eup- pose fairly outbids them. Hitherto it has been the fashion to deprecate buying and selling in Albany, but we fancy the new plan may be more effective. Offering a higher price is always in order, and as the market is open some one may outbid Mr. Stewart. We have no doubt that Mr. Stewart can have the fran- chise for the sum he offers. He may not have it from the Legislature, but he can have it, — The only question is shall the money paid for it go to the State or the jobbers? Toe Branon Heratp Orriog.—For the convenience of advertisers in that great neighbor of the metropolis, the city of Brook- lyn, we have esfablished a branch Herat office over among the churches. Advertisers will doubtless keep the fact in mind, Fisny.—Oh, flesh, flesh, how art thou fishi- fied! Truly, our hearts are the hearts of trouts and the marrow of our bones is not fit for bait. Fish will not let us recognize Cuba lest England and France should come down onus, Our advice would be to let them come if they want to; but since they did not come when we had the war on our hands is it so very likely that they will come now? Verily, our fish isa light weight, though weighed in his own scales, which are golden. Heap Boy.—Fish, the Premier, was gradu- ated at the head of his class from old Colum- bia. He is, we believe, the first head boy that was ever heard of after school was out; but his Cuban policy proves that he is no excep- tion to the rule that head boys are stupid fel- lows, They are pretty creatures on the rigma- role of rules that are taught in school, but take them outside the rules and they are gone. The only hope for Fish is in the rank of bis col- lege. Columbia ranks rather low in the land, and to be head boy only in her classes may not be so bad. Harp on Geretey.—The leading man among the ‘narrow-minded blockheads” goes @ first class mission, and the friond of hu- manity stays at home, Wnt. Nor Turse Surrick?—Two diplo- matic darkies have been accorded to the clamorous demands of Sumner by the ready complaisance of Grant, and it cannot be sup- posed that these are all, Whose nigger comes next? Anorngr Detective Dirrioutry.—Madame Byron is a detective too, but not exactly like Young. She is a clairvoyant—that is, she can gee throngh everything, including a fool. One of these went to her to be told who stole her watch. Madame Byron knew the person who had the watch intimately and would secure it for twelve dollars. Fool paid the twelve dol- lars and Madame Byron's fee of six dollars, and-has not got her watch yet. Since it is so easy as this to get money by roguery we are not astonished that so many deem it not worth while to be honest. Wuat Brrcuer Berizves.—‘“‘I believe,” says the Brooklyn parson, ‘‘that there are men who cannot be bought, but I do not think that they march in regiments.’"’ Does he mean that they are not soldiers? and, if so, to what par- ticular gift does he refer? CLowns.—We are continually pestered by the seeking for notoriety of a parcel of merry Andrews—George Francis Train, Colorado Jewett and the like. We give these fellows notice that they must stand aside for a time, because they are small fry. We will encour- age the public to langh at them when there is no better fun. Just now there is grander game up. The big fools must be laughed at first. With Andy Johnson willing to fool it so handsomely why should we descend to Train? Have we not half the men in Washington on the fooling list just now? Jvupaia ny witat we see of the doings of the Mayor's Marshal, it begins to look as if it were really dangerous to be a swindler in this town. Let us be grateful for the Mayor’s Mar- shal, Te The Vacancy in the Police Commission. Mr. Acton (known as ‘Clear the Decks” Acton, for his energetic measures during the riots in 1863) has resigned his position as President of the Board of Police Commission- ers, and retires to private life. This Board has been moulded and manipulated so as to constitute a perfect political machine, in which the republican magnates at Albany, who man- age tokeep control of either the executive or the legislative branch of the State government, havo always contrived to have a commanding influence. The Board has been a convenient base ball to be tossed and batted about by politicians to suit their own purposes, in defi- ance of compromises and bargains; and as the ropublicans have a mojority in the Logis- latare it has no doubt been perfectly under- stood that one of their own political complex- fon shall fill the vacancy occasioned by Mr. Acton’s resignation. In case the Legislature shall fail to select a Commissioner the choice will fall upon a majority in the Board itsolf, whereof Messrs, Bosworth and Brennan, demo- crats, aod Manierre, republican, are the mem= bers, In this ovent, of courso @ doemo- orat will be selected, even if Mr. Manierre shall absent himself from the meet- ings of the Board for the purpose of prevent. Coxpoxgp.—On dit that Moran, the deputy sheriff, in consideration of his pleading guilty and not standing a trial that would expose the secrets of the Sheriff's office, is to be let off lightly. We hope the judge is not a party to this, Feetisa Grant's Lives.—On Monday the enemy made a reconnoissance in force, evi- dently determined to develop Grant's position and ascertain his purposes, Ross, of Kan- sas, was in advance and was apparently in- structed to penetrate the woods in front of Grant and push on until he encountered real resistance. Grant received him very quietly at first, but was eventually misled by Ross’ persistency, mistook the reconnoissance for a general advance, turned out his whole force and opened a tremendous fire. It proved to be a complete Chinese battle, Ross was annihilated, to be sure, but Grant lost a great deal of ammunition and his temper, and showed the enemy what kind of tactics were liberty without the right of free exchange, said Mr. Perry in a freo trade speech the other night. This is a wholesome truth well put. So soon as the government begins to interfore with the right of one man to trade his com- modity for something else, unless this is done an oppressive invasion of private rights,