The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1869, Page 7

THLBGRAPHIG NWS ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD ‘Civil War Apprehended in Spain. ‘THE CORTES FAVOR A REGENCY. Farewell Dinner to Minister Johnson in England. General MeMahon’s Whereabouts Still Unknown. THE CREVASSE NEAR NEW ORLEANS. ENGLAND. ‘Barewoll Banquet to Mr. Reverdy Johnson. SOUTHAMPTON, May 17, 1869, The corporate authorities of this city have united ia ap invitation to Reverdy Joluson to attend a | grand banquet previous to lis departure for Ame- rica. Mr. Johnson sails in the steamship Ohio, which leaves this port in a few days, for Balumore. The Londoa Press on dir. Reverdy Johnson's Mission. LONDON, May 17, 1869, The Paria correspondent of the London Zelegraph says that tne opinion 1s general tn Paris that Rev- erdy Johnson was induced to make certain declara- tions to the British government, and then thrown overboard by the Grant administration. * The London Press on Affairs in Paris. LONDON, May 17, 1869. The critical state of affairs in Paris is variously commented on by the press here. It seems to be the general impression, however, that the French government has fomented this discontent and adopt- d repressive measures to siay the disorders arising, ‘with a view to some ulterior design. FRANCE. Tranquillity of Paris. Panis, May 17, 1869. ‘The city has been tranquil throughout the day. SPAIN. The Cortes in Favor of a Regency. Maprip, May 17—Evening. The majority of the Cortes, fearing that civil war is tmminent, are ready to accept the proposition for @ regency. Monarchical Discussions in the Cortes. MADRID, May 17, 1869, ‘The Cortes have agreed to article thirty-two of the constitution, declaring that “the sovereignty is cs- sentially in the nation, from which all power ema- nutes.” Amendments requiring that the King bea | native of Spain, and that he be elected by a pledes- citum, were rejected. SWITZERLAND. Restrictions Placed on Mazzins Residence. Berne, May 17, 1869. The Swiss goverhment has prohibited Mazzini from taking up his residence tn any of the cantons bordering on France or Italy. PARAGUAY. Minister McMahon Not at Asuncion—Reports that Lopez Detain Him by Force. Lonpon, May 17, 1899. Later advices from Rio Janeiro have been received. Nothing had been heard there of the arrival of Genbral McMahon, the United States Minister at Asunsion; on the contrary it was reported that President Lopez retained him in the interior by force. LOUISIANA. Veseoln from Central American Ports to be Quarantined=Precarious Condition of the | Mississippi Levees. New ORLEANS, May 17, 1869, Governor Warmoth has jost issued a prociama- | tion tnatituting ten days i quarantine aguinst | Nicaraguan and Central American ports and Vera Crum Jo the Seventh District Court on Saturday a mo- tuon fora new trial was refused in the case of the | old Drainage Commissioners against the board es- tablished by the late Legislature and appointed by Governor Warmoth,’ confirming the previous de- cision establishing the legality of the new Commis- sioner's (Bloomfeld claim) cf the control of the drain- age of the districts. ‘The orevasse is becoming worse. Jt is stated that @ channel washed througl the levee to the depth of a feet and several hundred feet wide, The new work is washed out as fast as itis made, The distance at this point from river to lake ts but eight or ten miles, and it 1s a that a large aumber of canals and bayous will carry off water en to t it spreading over the width of more 2 or four miles, Several of the finest planta- tions tn St. Bernard parish are submerged. ave been recetved of to the levees above the city. The river has only receded a couple of inches from ita highest point, and the levees at several points near the city were in @ precarious condition. VIRGINIA. Decision by Chief Justice Chase=Notes Issued in Ald of the Rebollion Cannot be Ke. deemed. RicuMOND, May 17, 1869, In a suit against the city of Richmond to make her redvem her small notes to the ainount of $100,000, issued during the war, Chief Justice Chase has de- cided that, having been issued to aid the rebeiiion, they cannot be redeemed. The Legislature which authorized their issue was de/ucfo a legisiature, and nad power to t such authority, and had the notes a for any legal purpose, and not for the subversion of the government, they would be Htable to redemption. missouri. Payment of Railroad Subsidier—Suicide. St. Lovrs, May 17, 1869. The South Pacific Ratlroad Company received to- day the State treasurer's checks for $100,000 on the construction fund of the company, making $1,000,000 the com have applied to the construction of th ry ot consiruction: ie road Jevees, dollar wy tee ae ea Oh res Uhi ay carpenter nam a himann died in the City Hospital yesterday from wounds imficted vy Mase body ot & young man, with a mh of Wi a bal through nis head and a broken jeg, was tound in tee river, several miles below the city, yesterday, OHIO. Sad Accident at Cleveland—Three Children Smothered=Velocipede Race. CLEVELAND, May 17, 1869. On Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock, Emma, aged Ove, aud John, aged four years, children of Heorge Graf, and Peter Pigeon‘ aged three years, aon of William Pigeon, wet # yried by the sliding of a sandbank to the depth je several feet, The children had been missed and #7\rch had been made throughout the city, but it was suspected until Sunday eventng that they ha the nae, The Cotes ree ared ‘ater Deine buried twenty-eight hours. ‘The best time ever on 8 wae ac. complished at in this ‘Bat ‘af. fernoony Fred moking ye SS fonrtoon ‘and thirty! ie aren or Sa matte Bink In verse ens eecrnce time ff one secenas. ee | NEW YURK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. MEXICO. Mevemonts of Minister Rosecrane—Preceed- iugs of the Mexican Congrese—Vonal Judgee— The Political Volcanos Threatening Another Eruption—Opposition to Free Bibles. Havana, May 17, 1860. A telogram from the city of Mexioo dated the 13th, inst, reports that Minister Rosecrans will proceed to San Erancisco, via Acapulco, upon being relieved. ‘The bill granting the right of way, land, &c., in favor of Masson and Hyatt for railroad purposes, has passed the Orst reading in the Mexican Con- gress. Minister Romero's proposition to Issue $18,000,000 of paper currency 1@ likely to be adopted. More subversions for telegraph lines have been granted. ‘The secret service fund, tncluding that to be used abroad, has been voted. feven judges of the Supreme Court have been accused before Congress of various otfences. Political affairs in Tamaulipas are unfavorable. Losada has been significantly quiet for some time past. Queretaro is threatening revolution, and 000 of all arms have there to support the ture against the Governor, Troops have also been sent to Iquala and Guerre- ro. ‘The outbreak in Sinaloa has been subdued. ‘The aecree issued in favor of removing the tax on Bibles has been generally attacked by the press. Riva Palacio is spoken ot as likely to be inted Minister to the Uni States, though the inet 18 opposed to sending an Ambassador to Washington at present, Romero 1s axious, but unable to obtain the position again. AN insurrection has broken out in the State of Queretaro, General Alvarez is reported to be at the head of the movement. ‘The report that Losada bad risen against the gov- ernment is untrue, The Commercial Treaty With the North Ger man Confederation to be Celebrated—Death of Palacios—Reduced Rates of Freigit— Plenty of Crime as Usual. HAVANA, May 17, 1869. Extensive arrangements were in progress for the celebration of the conclusion of the commercial treaty between Mexico and the North German Con- federation, Mr, Schlosser, who has charge of the treaty, has been received and officially recogaized by the Mexican government. The dfth anniversary of the defence of Puebla was celebrated with unusual display and enthusiasm. News of the death of Adolfo Palacios was received at the capital, and the report has been confirmed by subsequent accounts. ‘This event has put an end to the revolutions in the States of Guerrero and Sinaloa. The rates of sigh on the City of Mexico and the Vera Cruz Railroad have been reduced, ane Mexican journals are filled with reports of crime. Grave Prospect of Jalisco Being Depopulated— A Vigorous Campaign Against the Brigunds Being Carried Oa=The Revelution in Sinaloa —Depredatious by Indians. SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 1869. Later advices from Mexico report that a vigorous campaign is bemg carried on against robbers and kidnappers in the States of Jalisco and Michoacan. Numerous engagements had taken place, in which the robbers were worsted and many were kilied. ‘The revolutiva in Sinaloa ts assuming a serious aspect. Palacio has captured the town of El Fuerte and established lus headquarters there. The gov- ernment troops offered but slight resistence. Three hundred trovps from Sonora have joined Palacto at £1 Fuerte. The Apache Indtans, having been driven from Arizona, arc aking terribie turoads apon Sonora, devastating the whole tronticr. Reports from Chi- haubua and Nuevo Leon are equally alarming with regard to iudian depredations, Lt is estimat that these froutier States have ulready lost one-third of the population by incursions of savages, and unless the matter is attended to they will soon be de- populated. THE PACIFIC COAST. The Crew of a British Ship Murdered by th Indians—Railroad Surveys in California. SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 1869, ‘The English guaboat Sparrowhawk has arrived at Victoria, from Barclay Sound, with six Indian prisoners, who are supposed to be the murderers of the crew of the wrecked bark Jonn Bright. Investi- gations established the fact that the unfortunate men were massacred by the savages. An Indian acknowiedgea that the captain and his wife were shoi through the head gg tiey ianded on the beach. ‘Lhe pupers of the shtp-were recovered, A petition is im circulation along the lune of the Southern Pacific Railroad, asking Congress to nullify the land subsidy to the road, and open the land to preemption. A corps of engineers of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, have’ surveyed the line of the road from stockton turough the Tulare Valley to Visaila, ana report favorably upon the route, NEW YORK. Bills Signed by the Gevernor.—Another Veto. ALBANY, May 17, 1869, Governor Hoffman to-day signed nine acts, mak- Ing the whole number sigaed by him to date 898. Among the acts approved to-day was the New York City Tax Commissioners’ bill. Governor Hoffman tuts eventug vetoed the bul for the annexation of Lansingburg to Troy. MASSACHUSETTS. Sale of Tickets for the Monster Peace Fes- tival. Boston, May 17, 1869, : sale of tickets to the great Peace Festival com- ic Hall this morning. The announce- mient was that the office wouid be opened at nine o'clock, ul the ticket Windows were ratsed an hour earier and thea the purchases commenced and were continued until five o'clock without intermis- ston, ‘There was a force of poilce present to prevent nuvecessary crowding, and, as a general thing, the patrons wao feii Into line were served in such a prompt mauner as to prevent any fault-finding. One music fitm at the West seat an order for 1,200 tickets. ‘The sates of the day amounted to $40,000 and a large number of the $100 season tickets were ammoug Uivse disposed of, EUROPEAN MARKETS. Lonpon, May 17—Evening.—Owing to the holidays the Exchange, Produce and other markets have been closed, The following are street quotations:— Linseed oii, £21. Tallow, 428, 6d. Panis BouRsK.—Pakis, May 17.—Bourse buoyant; rentes 721. 15c. ° FRANKFORT BOURSR.—FRANKFORT, May 17—Even- tng.-United States bonds closed at 405 for the issue o LiverPooL PRODUCE MARKET—LIvRRPOOL, = i a aaron 67s. per cwt, Tallow, 438, 3d. per cwt. PETROLEUM MARKRT.—ANTWERP, May 17.—Petro- lenm easier; standard white, 40\4f. TELEGRAPHIC WEWS ITEMS, ‘The New York State Sportsmen's Convention wilt meet in Syracuse on Monday, the Sist inst. J. & D. McBurney, large produce merchants of Montreal have suspended. Liabilities, $125,000, ‘The first turough passenger train from Sacra- Mento, with about 500 passengers, arrived at Omaha on Sunday. The travel west from Omaha is very ‘The new town hall in Gloucester, Mass., which had just been completed at an expense of $100,000, was totally destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning. Insured for $40,000. William Chapin, of Warehouse Point, Conn., com- ae ee 3 og J by Mh g ont brains a gun, pu muzzle m his mouth and firing with the foot A magazine containing forty-two kegs of powder explode yesterday morning at Koh Let Whitehall, a few miles from Alientow: Four men engaged in freeing a jam of logs in the old St. Francts river, near Drummondville, Can- ada, were carried over 4 rapid fall of fifteen or twenty feet. The boat which they were in was upset ‘and all were drowned. Pent ‘ker & Sibby’s barrel ory on Willow street, Philadelphia, was destroyed by yesterday morning. Loss $20,000. Dobson's woollen mills, at the faite of the ‘Schuyikill, Philadelphia, were also burned yesterday. Loss $60,000; insurance $20,000. ‘The city of Springfield, Mass, voted take $501,000 worth of st00K in "the to id and in the jon. The body ofa young woman about twenty-fi bod old was found towing in the Susquenanin, at irk wood, N. Satu posed i. Yo, On y. It is sup) to be the body of the wife of Andrew J. Hudson, of syra- cuse, And that she committed suicide at Great Bend, by drowning, about two weeks ago. ‘The steamboat 1 loaded with govern- ment freight, aii dock, ‘ark, to New Or. Jeans, struck @ oy Me feal’s landing, on the Afcon feet water. and cargo are taal loess Loas on boat $12,000; insurance. Reports from fowa my that the wheat crop never looked #0 Weil as now, extent of the ing crop is very large, varying from twenty-five to one hundred per cent proader than last season, and many farmers will even harvest ten acres where they did one inst year, Corn planting bas aiso been very goaacal . Rat teh aS i lena | | l AMUSEMENTS. Woop’s MussuM.—A well filled house witnessed the performance last night at this theatre of the burlesque pantomime, “Robinson Crusoe.” The ran along vel the audi amused, OF Gin pomermonce on a whale wa Mar aay that the spre 8 cepenyen ot ee “Bi Crook” and the pantomime of “Humpty Dumpty,” without the facial which gr latter its The novelty in introduction of the burnt cork with a barbaric show and pomp, of masks and,figures, which was very well re- ved. We think ballet and the acting can both be improved, as Bo doubt they will be as the piece runs on. ‘rhe performance last night was a great improvement on the first representation. PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN.—The first of John Brougham’s nights at this theatre was a great suc- cess, a8 it ought to have been. In Brooklyn, as in New York, and wherever the genial actor, author, humorist and social gentleman is Known, popular favor fohows him, His admirable play, “Playing with Fire,” drew an overcrowded house at Mrs. Con- He was fortunate in the sup- rded him by the standara company, who ad ullar Mr. Brougham— (we mean Doctor Savage)—a very substantial amount of backbone, an important addition to the efforts of the author and the star of the occasion, The plot of the is too well known to require any comments at this time. Everybody knows that it is a sparkling and well conceived, comedy in ythe best style of the author, who has contributed so much of the same class of works to our modern stage. Mr. Brougham ison his way to California, but he has decided to spend the first two weeks on his route in Brooklyn a3 4 halting place, where, no doubt, be wit! be hospitably entertained by the way. THe Empire Crry MUSICAL PALACKE.—An over- wheilming audience assembled last evening at the Empire City Rink, Third avenue and Sixty-third street, the occasion being the inauguration of this immense salle as a “grand musical palace” and promendde musicale, The appearance of the great concert room was of the most animating de- scription, the long wreaths, bandeaus and arches of flaming gas jets, the drapery of flags, and the gigantic moving concourse of fashionable Jadies and gentiemen combining to make tie scene magnificent. The concerts are to be given nightly, under the personal direction of Harvey B. Dodworth, whose orchestra, comprising about forty performers, has been engaged for the season. Last night the programme embraced some of the choicest selections {rom ‘Semiramide,” “Oberon,” “Arline,” “Genevieve” and other favorite operas, together with some exquisite morceaux from the portfolios of Strauss, Sanderson, Reich- ardt, Dodworth and various popular maestru. ‘the establishment 1s under the direction of the master!; caterer to the New York pubiic, Lafayette F. Harri- sop, and promises to be an immense success, ‘The entire programme was rendered in Dodworth’s most masterly style, and tne largest roofed building inthe United States gave ample scope for the cuaplay, of the qualities of the superb orchestra. Not less than seven thousand persons were present during the evening, A novel featur of the entertainment consists in the fact that certain invervals during the evening are set apart for velo- cipede exercises, and @ series of important contests will take place during the present week between Harding, Meisinger and other experts. McMillan, ‘Taxter and Kelly sttli retam their connection with the concern, and as a whole it will present probably one of the most varied and agreeable entertainments of the approaching season. Musical and Theatrical Notes. “The Forty Thieves” have reached the last week of their wicked but successful career at Nibio’s. On Monday the spectacular pantomimic extrava- ganza of “Sinbad the Sailor’ will be produced in the usual gorgeous style of Messrs, Palmer & Jarrett. The Lydia Thompson troupe, assisted by the Clodoche troupe, {rom Paris, will appearin the piece, Artists, artistes and carpenters are busily engaged at Wallack’s for the torthcoming pantomime. The stage has been cut up into numerous traps, and affairs behind the scenes, to oue unfamiliar with the intricacies of stage business, appear to be in a most delightful state of con- fusion and aisorder; but Manager Moss, who knows all about such things, says that everything is even now ready for the proper and immediate production ofthe gorgeous and extravagant pantomime that bas been for months in active preparation at the es- tablishment, and that he is only waiting for the withdrawal of “Caste,” which event will happen in less than two weeks, before delighting New York with something more extravagant and funny in the way of pantomime than it has enjoyed for some time. Mr. Edwin Booth closes his engagement in this city at the end of next week. Mr. James Hackett will probably be the next sensation at Mr. Booth's theatre, where he is engaged to play a round of his FalstaMan characters, Miss Bateman iil appear at the same theatre on the 10th of September. Mile. Tostée appears as the hoydenish Banlotte, the sixth wile of that too much married scamp, “Barbe Bleue,” on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings, at the Fifth avenue theatre, The alternate nights will be made vocal with “Les Dragons de Villars,” with Irma in the principal réve. Lingard, “Pluvo” and the bleached biondes migrate from the Theatre Comique to the Hub on the 7th of June. ag Mage present week George C. Boniface wil delight the patrons of the Comique with his great impersonution of the Viscount de Ligny in the “Captain of the Watch.” “Gentieman George" ts a great favorite at this popular establishment, and since he has assumed the management of its stage affairs a marked tmprovement hae been noticeabie in the performances and consequently in the audiences. Tony Pastor has another new comic drama on the boards at his Opera House this week, entitled “Stage Struck, or the Six Escapes of John Jounson.” The constituents of the great Pastor cannot complain of hot being properly catered to in the matter of dra- matic sensations, for their amiabie manager presents them with a new and original drama regularly once a week, and sometimes oftener. Frank Wood is one of the attractions this week at this establish- ment. A change in the prices of admission is a noticeable feature at Wood’s Museum since the production of “Robinson Crusoe.” One dollar is now the charge to the orc! and balcony chairs instead of one dollar and a half, as heretofore, and which still re- mains the stand class theatres. ir Wood has certainly done a = thing m taking the initiative in the reduction ink Pastor—a brother of the Maggie Tony— it known as “the American somersault equestrian, iertan pant ary from ey where he has been ears, an the “Great European Circus, opened last might with ” at Mott Haven. Mr, tempted by the most expert gymnasts. Mr. Fox, the business agent of the Tammany, has under- taken the mangement of the troupe, and will bring them out next week at the Empire Rink im conjunc- tion with Mr, L. F, Harrison. Mr. Barton Hul took @ farewell benefit last night po the Arch Street thi ent to ‘ood, who has taken a twenty-one years’ of the St, James theatre in that city. “Lxton” has reached Chicago, where he 1s being done to the death by a troupe of burlesquers knowu as “The Chicago Exiles." LefMingweil, with his imimitable under Mrs, John lease rsonations of Clarinda, Romeo-JaMer Jenkins, po, Ac., Will be the attraction at one of our city theatres next week. This gentieman is an American burlesque actor of no mean abiiity, and since his last appearance in this oi as played iu all the principal cities from the “Hub to the Kio Grande, and everywhere created quite a furor. Miss Dora Harris, the new prima donna, who makes her début in concert at Stetnway Hall, is en- by the Witterwell Brothers to accompany hem on their concert tour, bag sat) = eae eri jays an engagement of four nights at awe Bowery eatre, commencing on Wednesday evening. “Humpty Dumpty,” lately succeeded by “IHiccory Diceory k” at the Olympic, wili transfer nis tricks to the Boston eee ext week, He is repre- Serna iw the. last, week OF “Robinao a week of “Ro! in Crusoe” an the Rizarell_ Brothers at the Tammany. They will be followed by something in the comic line, which will from present indications prove wn tu- mense attraction and @ success, They open the season REDUCTION OF ATLANTIC CABLE TOLLS. The reduction tm Atiantic cable tolls will take place on and after June 1, proximo, and are as fol- lows:—1, Short messages can be sent, minimum Price $10, instead of $16 85. 2 Long messages will cost $1 per word, While now the average is $1 67. % Presa can send general and political news at 0 centa per word. These rates (nclude address, date and siguature, a WASHINGTON. The Instructions to Minister Motley. Senator Sumner’s Speech Their Basis. General Sickles Appointed Minister to Spain. RETURN OF CASANOVA. Government Expenditures for the Last Quarter Exceeding the Receipts. WASHINGTON, May 17, 1869. Instructions of Minister Motley—A Firm Policy Toward Great Britain to be Pur- eued, Secretary Fish spent some time at the White House to-day in consultation witn the President over the instructions of Minister Motley. The question as to whether Mr. Motley should have written instruc- tions, or whether he would be sent out with asort of general understanding to do as he pleased, 1s at last settled. The Secretary of State read the in- structions carefully to the President and received his assent to them prior to their being sent to Mr. Motley at New York. What the precise nature of them is cannot be made public. That part of them which relates to the Alabama claims is un- derstood to be founded, substantially, on the speech of Senator Sumner so far as material indemnity is concerned, Mr. Fish does not agree with the sentiments of Mr. Sumner with regard to a de- mand upon Great Britain for @ national apol- ogy in addition to payment in full for dam- ages to our commerce. He considers this would be treated by Great Britain as equivalent to a declaration of war, and, therefore, would not be entertained if presented by Minister Motley. Mr, Fish was scarcely in favor of going so far as Mr. Sumner in other matters connected with the Ala- bama claims, but the President was of the opinion that the people demanded a firm policy towards Great Britain on this question, and, therefore, over- Tuled the Secretary. A special messenger from the State Department left here this evening for New York with the instructions for Mr. Motley. The Spanish Mission—General Sickles’ Com- ntission Issued. _ The commission of Daniel E. Sickles as Minister to Spain, which was prepared at the State Department on Saturday, was signed by President Grant to-day. Alleged Outrage in Cuba Denied. Mr. Hall, acting Vice Consul General at Havana, has called the attention of the Department of State toa notice published on the 29th of April, stating that James Morton, an American citizen (an en- gineer), had been murdered by the volunteers, and says:—“From all the information that 1 have been able to obtain there is no truth whatever in the re- the United States Government Demanded. Innocencio Casanova, who was imprisoned vy the Spanish authorities in Cuba, arrived here to-day. He is suffering very much from the effects of h% harsh treatment while a prisoner. His two sons called to-day upon the Secretary ot State, and represented to him that the Spanish authori- ties had contiscatea some of their property in Cuba, and Were about to sequester the remainder of it. They asked that protection be extended them as American citizens, and requested the Sec- retary of State to enter a protest against the action of the Spanish authorities to the Spanish Minister, Mr. Fish promised to look into the matter Receipts and Expenditures of the Govern- ment. The following is a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States during the quar- ter ending March 31, 1869:— Customa..... mreceury nowas oct of F itry notes, net of Penrua Frectiowal currency, act of March ie Certiticates, gold coin deposits, March 8, 1 Six per cent tive-twenty boude, act March 3, Three per cent certificates, act March 3, 1 Total receipt#........... ‘EX! Civil, foreign intercourse and Interior, peumons and Indian ar, Navy. Interest on the public devi Total expenditures, exclusive of He debt... .. ‘Treasury notes issued prior to July 22, 1846. Roedempiion Texas intemnity stock, act ber 9, 1880. . Payment of Treasury, act December i, 1801 Redemption of loan of 1847. tion of loan of ‘Treasury notes, net July Tiree year coupon vonds, net July 17, 1881. omporary Joan. acts Feb. 25 and March Ti, i ‘do Treasury notes, act Febronty 25, 19 Five per cent ury notes, Fractional currency, net March iy IBA. six per cent compound tnt arch %, 1868... Gold oertiticates, act March 3, i863. Three per cent certificates, act March 2, (80 Lx Seveu-thirty three year coupon Treasury notes, act June 30, 1964. . Total expenditur French Naval Officers Recei A large crowa of visitors thronged the ante-room of the Executive Mansion this morning. Among those who paid their respects to the President were the captain and other officers of the French school- ship Jean Bart, Affairs at the State Department. ‘The British Minister had a long interview with the Secretary of State. It is not true, as stated, that a number of the new consuls have resigned. One of them who offered his resignation recalled it to-day. The commissions of all of them, with perhaps two exceptions, have been delivered. ‘The State Department has not within the last week received any official adyices (rom Havana relative to the Insurrection, it is ascertained from reliable sources that no one in executive or diplomatic circles appretiends any serions diMeuity with Engiand. A Persistent Office Huuter—Doctress Walker Again Unsuccessful. The irrepressivbie Mrs. Dr. Henry &. Walker ts de- termined to have au office. She has come to the conclusion that the best way to accomplish this pur- pose ts to attack the heads of departments in detail. She began with the Postmaster General, and failing to make him capitulate she next turned her attention to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue. Here her failure was as signal as at the Post Office Department, To-day she encamped around the Interior Department, with a view to iaying siege to Secretary Cox. The Secretary | was too busy to see her and she “went for” his chief clerk, Who is a one-legged soidier. She demanded to be appointed librarian of the department, a place which she sald she could fil better than the male biped who now holds tt. The chief clerk mildly told her that she could not have the place. To be mild with the doctress ts like “wasting sweetness on the desert air.” It does not affect her as it does most women. She became trate, abused the good natured Chief Clerk, and threatened to come back again and see the Secretary, whether he was busy or not, The plucky Walker announces her intention of visiting the State, War and Navy Departments, and finally, in ¢ase all else tails, she will bombard the White House and try to take the polite card receiver, General Dent, prisoner and hold him aa a hostage until the President gives her a place. Sunday School Celebration. About fifteen hundred puptis of the South Wash. ington Sabbath schools paraded this morning, and proceeding to the Bxeoutive Mansion were received ty. tua High Bap Ly We Pivdldeah The exncuseed his pleasure @¢ meeting 40 many cheerful and in- nocent faces, The scholars sang several hymns and then filed past him in taking their leave. It was in- tendea to have a parade of all the Protestant Sab- bath schools, as heretofore, but the question of in- cluding the colored organizations defeated the pur- pose. Liability of Tobacce and Cigar Manufac- turers. Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue Doug- lass has addressed a letter to Supervisor Fulton with reference to the liavilities of persons and firms who manufacture tobacco and cigars in the same building where they have a saleroom, and where they sell, mot only their own products, but also goods manufactured by other per- sons. He says both kinds of business can- not be performed under one bond anu special tax recelpt, neither is one interchangeable with the other. A manufacturer of tobacco and snuff may éell the products of his own manufacture with paying @ special tax as a dealer in tobacco; and @;manufacturer of vigars may sell the cigars of lus own manufacture at the place of manufacture with- out paying special tax as a dealer; but if a manu- facturer of tobacco or a manufacturer of cigars acl! at the same time the products of another manu- facturer ne must pay a special tax as @ dealer in manufactured tobacco. When a dealer in manufactared tobacco has his salesroom in the front part of his store and occupies his back part as a place for manufactaring tobacco, snuff or cigars, or where he uses the first floor of his building as a store or salesroom and the upper part or cellar as places for manufacturing or making tobacco or cl- gars, the goods, whether tobacco, snuff or cigars, must be packed and stamped before being removed from that part of the building where they are made to the salesroom. When to- bacco, snuff or cigars are removed from the place where they are made and placed in a store or salesroom, where the occupant does business as a dealer, and they are offered for sale, within the meaning of the revenue law, and if they are found there exposed for sale without the proper stamps aftixed they are liable to seizure; and the person so removing his goods and offering them for sale with- out previously affixing and cancelling the proper stamps denoting the payment of the tax is liabie, on conviction, to the penalties imposed by sections seventy-one and eighty-nine of the act of July 20, 1888. Where @ person manufactures and sells cigars in the same room, and at the same place selis cigars of other persons’ manufacture, he must pack and stamp his cigara before he offers or exposes his cigars for sale by placing them upon his shelves, counter, showcase or other conspicuous place. Manufactured and purchased goods cannot be stored promuscuously and offered for sale upon the same shelves and counters, and. with no stamps ixed to goods which the person thus exposing them has manufactured himself. Goods of his own manufacture which are commingled by the manufacturer with goods pur- chased without being properly stamped and can- celled are liable to seizure under sections 70 and 71, or if cigars under the provisions of section 89, act of July 20, 1868. The Brokers’ Tax Question.—A Rehearing Denied. Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue Douglass has addressed a letter to Messrs. Clarke, Dodge & Co., of New York city, denying their appli- cation for a re-hearing and re-examination of the late assessment made against them by the late Assessor of the Thirty-second district of New York, whose decision is sustained by the department. Quaker Schools in North Caroliua. A delegation from the Baltimore Association of Friends had an interview with the President in refer- ence to aiding and advising Friends in North Caro- lina in regard to the establishment of schools. Marshal for Montana. William T. Wheeler, of Minnesota, has been ap- pointed United States Marshal for Montana. THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. Meetng of Californinus—Congratulatory Re- solutions on the Completion of the Pacific Railroad. Last evening an adjourned meeting of Califor- nians and other residents on the Pacific slope was held at the Metropolitan Hotel, for the purpose of passing congratulatory resolutions on the comple- uon of the Pacific Railroad. There was a large attendance, On motion of Mr. 0. H. Pierson, the chair was taken by Mr. F. B. Clarke. A committee was appointed to draw up a series of resolutions relating to the subject of the meeting. Dr. Stoddard, in relating some of his early exploits in pioneering the Pacific coast, stated that in the year 1849 he formed @ company and proceeded to Mexico, arriving at Sacramento. At that period but few buildings had been erected in that locality. Min- ing operations were speedily commenced and build- ing on an extensive scale was subsequently under- taken. Although encountering much opposition his enterprise was comparatively successful. Tue chairman also related some reminiscences in connection with his lengthened tour through Call- forma. He adverted at considerabie length to his experience in Mexico during the time of the war, He gave an ge description of the aspect of affuirs at that time, relating principatly to the Com- wissary Department. He described tour through- out the Peninsula and slowed the vast progress which had been made. Mr. Jacob P. Lease was then requested to reiate some of his reminiscences in connection with bis California experience. He desoribed his intercourse with the Indians on the Plains, and ailuded to the nu- merous missions Which then existed on the route. He showed that the missionaries were on friend!y terms with certain tribes of the Indians because they en- deavored to keep them in an unfriendly condition to- warus each other. All the land was in the power of the missionaries, but it was subsequently limited by reducing the number of missions, Castle was the t article of commerce in the country. In 1835 he trade began to open briskly, and an tinmense trade was done in hides. An opening tn trade appeared near the Rocky Mountains, which was eagerly taken advantage of by many, Alter a very lengthened and elaborate recital of his early expe- rience the speaker relerred to uis settlement in San Francisco, and described the circumstances sur- rounding the rapid growth of that city. ‘The Chairman then read @ series of resolutions to the effect that the residents of Callformia and the States of the Pacific Coast sojourning i the city of New York believing the completion of the Pacific Railroad an event of the greatest movements tn the history of the country’s pt and @ victory of peace reflecting the highest credit og the ie Of the United States as a nation, and a mark of pro- reas and enterprise of her people unequalled fr'the. hi of the world consider its successful opening a fit opportunity of ule tion, it was resolved that thanks were due to the wisdom and practical forethought of the projectors of the iron road across the continent: to the noble and persevering pathfinder, the skilful poliucian and the sagacity of the people's representatives in Congress assembled, who projected, protected and compieted a work which naturally must recound to the credit of the intelligence, worth and wealth of the whole Union, That in the completion of the great national highway the future will see the whole and commerce country bound in ties of har- mony; that industry ofthe = Kast and West, the Atiantic and Pacific, the Missis- pi, the Columbia, the Hudson and the Mis- sourt, the great chain of lakes and ail the bighways of industry—all united in one harmonious co-operation of interest, That the opening of the Pacific road must be hatled by all true patitots as the means of concentrating in the hands of our enterprising citi- zeus not aloue the commerce of the Pactiic States, but that of Cathay, China, Japan and the Indies, to secure whose wealth Columbus traveiled an un- known ocean and discovered the continent which was now crossed by the tron horse; that the mechanical skill of the railroad engineers be con- gratulated, and laborers for having surveyed te continent and laid the iron track, the monument of their labors lett in perpetuity to mankind as the means of peopling @ glorious land redeemed trom the maranding savage and the gregarious buffalo, and bringing within treach of the Reon the vaileys and mountains of Arizona ag Rp Washington Territory and almost Alaska. resolutions further commended the labors of the oMfcers of the Central Pacific Branch, and urged that as the road became more familar to the travelling public, the host of engineering science successfully accomplished by the construction of the Pacific Railroad could not fail to add another chaplet to the laurels already attained in the engineering science of this country. The resolutions also set for 3,4 ae ex) ws oo hal joo had pionee ‘the work the public might rely its safety. speed and economy; and thaton bebalt of their fellow citizens on the Pacific coast those pre- sent heartily invited the great thinking and working public to visit their shores, to share with them the bounties which Providence had so lavishly bestowed on their home. e Chairman put the resolutions, which were | carried unanimously. | Several gentlemen expressed thetr surprise that the citizens of New York had not been more demon- strative in thetr reciation of the completion of the Pacific , and contended that such a event was a8 Worthy of ublic de. having been made’ king the pooperstor of the Metropohtan Hotel 1.°F the tous use of the meeting room, it was r solved, on the motion of Mr. Pierson, to adjourn the p, ccedings ull next Monday eventug. ARMY INTELL GENCE. WastingXoN, May 17, 1869. The President has directed the 1 Mowing board of oMlcers to aasemble in New York c% the 16th inst. for examination of Brevet Brigadier (‘eneral Adaun Badeau, First Lieutenant United States\ Army, for Temements brevet jor General McDow.¥t, Brevet D. Reeve, 8. U. NOU: Sur- ."P, Hammond, ae Brovet J. Seprasa Howard Stocktor wet Major A. N. Damrelt has been ordered: to’ relieve Brevet Cotonel ¥. E. Prime as engineer” ot peo portion of the Lighthouse district east of Prt river. WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Commaeder Jonathan Young has been assigned to duty at the Naval Observatory at Washington. The second day of Peutecost was celebrated by the Germans in rather more than their usual man- ner. At Funk’s Union Park the Northeastern Saeu- gerbund had their festival, and under the direction of Carl Anschuetz, the well known master, the fol- lowing programme was excellently rendered:—1. A March, by Schubert. 2. An Overture, by Mendets- sohn, known as “Opus 24,” written exclusively for wind instruments, and never before performed um the United States. Then followed a song by Abt, it being the expression of victory over the Romans in the Teutoburger Waid, Alter this came @ se- lection from “Robert le Diable,” then a hymn by Mohr, and the musical entertainment closed with the “Fackeltanz”’ of Meyerbeer. There were about 15,000 people upon the grounds and alt were evidently delighted: Messrs. Deyecker, Vous. Sell, Classen and Baubalin comprised the commit of arrangements, At Jones’ Wood the’ New York Turnveretn, as- sisted by twenty-one singing societies, held their annual festival, A beautiful wreath of flowers was presented to the society upon the grounds by Miss laussom, and @ very handsome young lady she un- questionably srpeeret ‘The number of those present ied. 20,000. Pre Unken Clad gesembled at Major Kruger's Pnken iub assem! 4 able display Scheutzenruh where they gave an oi their yocal and instrumental abilities. At the Terrace Garden the Teutonia Madnnerchor held forth. They performed the “Lieber-Frinling’* “Lethebrunk? and “Lebewohl mem Vaterland” with great power and expression. The Concordia met at the Elm Park, on the corner of Ninety-second street and Eighth avenue, an among the several thousands present there waa one opinion of the artistic rendition of their excel- lent programme. ‘The Bohemian singing and relief society “Hlahoe'’ consecrated a banner presented to it, and celebratea the occasion with a ball in the evening at the Germa- nia Assembly Rooms. More than one hundred different German societies celebrated the day with outdoor or indoor enter- tainments, and it is almost unnecessary to add that the iacenean was throughout most heartily eu- Joyed. DEATH OF A WEALTHY STRANGER. Strange Proceedings. A somewhat singular case was yesterday brough’_ to the notice of Coroner Flynn. A few days since Mr. George Gibson, @ wealthy grocer, fifty years of age, living at Cedar Creek, Cal., came to the city om business, and put up at Van Dyke’s Hotel, corner of Bayard street and the Bowery. On Sunday night be was taken sick, and yesterday morning was found dead in his bed. As deceased, who had heart and other orgaulc diseases, had previously been treated by an eminent physician of this city rted to him, and, be flowed, oh 6 patched Drs. # il and Beckman to as alleged, he despate! make a post-mortem examination. Information having reached the C ners’ ofiice, Coroner Fiyan proceeded to the piace designated and found the monstration as took place on the laying of the Atlantic cable or the opening of the Croton water works, inasmuch as New York lamely benedied by Whe Unusnenion was 4 eign medical genulemen named engaged in the examina- tion. On being quesiioned by the Coroner as 60 their course of Section they were much confused, and, seemed to be ignorant of doing anytitng wrong, whereupon, under the direction of Dr. ie the t-mortem Was proceeded with, Ii show that death was the resuit of ite lary bronchitis. hastened by aneurism of the aorta, In consequence of tie peculiar nature of the case the inquisition was adjouined til ayo The deceased had in bis possession bank books show! deposits of nearly $30,000 tn the savings banks this city, besides $160 in Tresaury notes, @ ry watch and chain, and valuable papers, all of wi ich. were taken in charge by the Coroner, asfdicceased had no relatives bere to clulm the property. The body of Mr. Gibson ia in the charge of an ander- taker, awaiting the result of the inquisition, It is stated that the proprietor of the hotel where Gipson did not deem the services of a coroner neces- ence his failure to give notice of the fact at MAILS FOR EUROPE. 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