The New York Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1869, Page 6

ERALD i STREET. NEV YORK BECADWAY A Volume XXNIV. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—iltooory Drecory Docs. BOWERY THEATER Dick Tunvin's RIDE rRom LoNDvON ro YO) 6 Doom. GRAND OPH HOUSE, corner ot Highth avenue and street. —PATREE, ay.—Tar Broad Burvesque Ex- Fou 1v Lisiiohaane WAVERLEY THEATRE, 120 Broadway.~BURLESQUE OF Ixr0n, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Th Broadway.—Afiernoon and eveuing Perfor: a TAMMANY, Fourteenth street,—CLoRiNDA—PETER MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— Mucn Avo Auour A MERCHANT OF VENICE. THEATRE COMIQUE, S14 Broadway. Comte SkRTONES AND Living SraTvEs—P1. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th ay., between 58th and 69th sts,—POPULAR GARDEN ConcERT, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 586 Broadway.—Ermro- PAN ENTERTAINMENTS—THE UNBLEACHED BLONDES. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Marna Buildiog, Mtb sirect,—Eri0rian MINSTRELSY, 40, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 901 Bowery.—Comro Vooa11sM, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. EMPIRE CITY RINK, corner 8d ay., 634 anc 64th ste, — GRanp Concent, &c, OPERA HOUSE, L-AV-VENT. Brookiyn.—Hoouer's NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOIRNOK AND ART. LADIES' NEW YORK MU MALES ONLY LN AT SEUM OF ANATOMY.—Fa- NOR. SHEET. TRI PLE "New Yorks Thursday, May 27, 1869. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN Notice to Carriers aa Newsdenlers: BroosiyN CarRieRs and Newsman will in future receive their papers at the Branca Orrice or rue New York Heraup, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. s and Svascrrerions and all Heraip will be t New Yorke teceived as above. THA wuwe. Eavenes ‘The cable despatches are dated May 26. The Derby Day, the great event of the racing world, came off yesterday. The race for the Derby Was ran for on the usual ground and was won by Pretender. ‘Time, 2:52, Twenty-two ran. At Liverpool the Chamber of Commerce held a Meeting last evening to vote an address of welcome to Mr. Motley. Reference of a conciliatory nature ‘Was made to the Alabama difficulty. Up to last evening a correct return of the elections in France could not be obtained. in fifty-nine dis- tricts the result is so close that a ballot is necessary, So far tne opposition has gained three members, The Cuban question was brought before the Cortes last evening, when Mr. Castellar stated that the revolt could have been prevented by granting the required liberties in time, Marshal Serrano replied shat General Dulce haa the power so to act, but had encountered much difficulty in party spirit, although ‘at present the moral disorder was fast disappearing. An investigation of the attempt to assassinate Colonel Grenviile in Leghorn has led to the arrest of fourteen persons, and the act appears to refer to the Colonel's conduct at Rome in 1849. Cuba. General Lesca had been appointed Governor of Puerto Principe in place of General Letona removed. Paraguay. It is stated in Washington that the letters of Min. ister McMahon have been intercepted by Brazilian spies, in order that our government may have no evidence refuting the stories of Lopez‘s inhumanity. Miscellaneous. Minister 7) on informed Secretary Fish yester- day that the steamer Quaker City was the property of a Britisn s t, was destined for Jamaica and not Cuba, and there was no reason why her clear- ance should not be granted. The Secretary con- ferred with Secretary Boutwell and the two agreed that it would be best to let her sail, but in the mean- time tafor was received that she had been belied by the Spanish Consul and seizea. It was then deciied to let the matter be jurlicially settled by the courts. A new Board of Directors for the Union Pacific Railroad Company was cted at Boston yesterday. Of the fifteen members eleven residents of Massa- chusets were chosen and twoof New York. This was accounted for by the statement that the company would thus be freed from Judge Barnard’s tnjunc- tions in the Fisk suit. The resignations of Thos, ©. Durant, vicefpresident; John J. Cisco, treasurer, and William Hf. Macy, a director, all of New York, were rece! At the Naval my yesterday General Grant and Admiral rier witnessed the midshipmen’s practice on the school stip Dale. Previously the President sud Admiral took a drive over Strawberry Hill, the government farm attached to the Academy grounds. On Tuesday night the exercises were closed for tne day with @ grand gymnastic display, anda bali, in which Mra, Admiral Porter and Com- mander Gilictt led oif, The President returned to Washington yesterday afternoon. Attorney Genera! Hoar has pubiished an opinion miverse to merging national canks into State bank- ing associations under the laws of New York. The Sheriff of Prince George county, Maryland, ‘was resisted by the captain of a schooner yesterday near Fort Wastington, in tnat State, while attempt- ing to arresttwo men. An affray ensued, in which the captain fred a revolver at the Sheri, and re- ceived the contents of a double barrelled gun in re- turn, He was severely wounded and a negro sailor near him slightly, and the two men about whomg the trouble arose were captured. General R. E. Lee is among the lay delegates in Virginia Episcopal Council whicn assembled in Fredericksburg. The Labor Reform Convention in Boston was given over in a measure yesteraay to the women, ‘who discussed their rights. Female suffrage was in- pisted upon, and one lady favored the reconstruction of society from the bosom of the masses. A tele- graphic despatch was received from Senator Sprague, in Aiken, 8. C., urging boldness and vigor. A grand public meeting in favor of woman suffrage held in Boston yesterday, at which Julia presided, and addresses were delivered Phillips, Raiph Waldo Emerson, Lilie @ young lawyeress, and Phebe Hansford, a divine. Indian Commission to decide on the best of civilizing the savages assembied in Wash- yesterday. Among the propositions to be laid it is one by an old Indian agent for placing childrea in Industrial schoo's on all the [: ih fib : ‘# Ore in Mobile, Alabama, on Tuesday night, Woodruff, President of the Mobiie Board of The Canadians, who have been emigrating from the British provinces in great numbers recently, are ‘apparently tending toward Kansas, where (eneral ‘Wyndem, the General-in-Obief of the british troops Brown, of Homer, N. Francisco, are at the St. Charles Hotel. in the provinces, and the agents of the Grand Trunk Rallway and a Liverpool steamship company are purchasing lands. ‘The Rhode Island Legislature yesterday went ont of its way unanimousiy to endorse ex-Governor Burnside, and, by inference, to rebuke Senator ‘Sprague. ‘The Moral decoration of the soldiers’ graves tn this State has been postponed until Monday, the Sist, by order of General Sickles. * The City. The Board of Excise yesterday by a unanimous vote reduced the fees paid for licenses to sell liquor as follows:—First class license, $125 (except hotels and restaurants); second class license, $50 to $100, Judge Cardozo yesterday ordered that Anna Pear- sall and Joanna O'Connor be discharged from the arraignment for contempt and be released on $1,000 bail each, to answer the charge of keeping a bawdy house. James Knolke gave a bond which the Judge did not consider very satisfactory, but which he nev- ertheless accepted on conditions. He addressed a note to Mr. Townsend, stating that he did not intend to interrupt him on Tuesday, and that he would give him an opportunity at any time to reply to the de- nunciations of the Court's counsel. James Dorey shot John Mullady on Butler street, in Brooklyn, yesterday, while the latter was assault - ing him with a pitchfork, Mullady is dangerously wounded; Dorey gave himself up. The affair grew out of aaificulty the night previous. Kate Fisher, the actress, was in court yesterday on a charge of grand larceny preferred by Mrs. Bevins, of Long I-land, in having, it is alleged, stolen a watch worth $200, She denied the act, and the case was postponed until Friday. An examination in the case of Theodore Allen, charged witn rescuing an escaped burglar from a private detective, was had at Jefferson Market yester- day, Some interesting facta were elicited, including the particulars of the manner in which Allen secured the commitment to the Tombs of the present com- Plainant some time ago. The North German Lioyd’s steamship Deutschland, Captain H. A. 'l. Neynaber, will leave Hoboken at two P, M, to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The European mails will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. The stock, government and gold markets yester- day were heavy and declined. The fali in stocks was quite general and averaged about two per cent for the leading speculative railway shares. dropped to 13914, but closed finally at 1393;. Gold Prominent Arrivals in the City. Ex-Secretary of State W. H. Seward, of Auburn; Ex-Postmaster Randall, of Washington; Congresa- man Poland, of Vermont; Judge A. Packer, of Penn- sylvania; General Benham, of the United States Army; James E. Brand, United States Consul to Nuremberg; Paymaster Robert Pettit, of the United States Navy, and H. B. Plant, of Georgia, are at the Astor House. Comptroller Wm. F. Allen, of Albany ; Charles A. Washburne, of California ; Hiram Bliss, of Maine ; Captain H. Perry, of England ; Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, and ex-Congressman T, M. Pomeroy, of Auburn, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General G. B, Kiddo, of the United States Army ; L, 8. Hayden, of Washington ; Colonel G. R. Gaither, of Baltimore ; Dr, Samuel Gatz, and Dr. Fitler, of ‘St. Louis, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Count B, Kiralfy, of England; Colonel H. H. Y., and M. G. Harris of San Colonel J, M. Thompson, of Springfield ; Thomas Ewing, of London, England, and Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, are at the Hoffman House. Colonel O. Wellechline, of Paris, is at the West- minster Hotel. Colonet M. Freyse, of Lima; Captain Windham, and Scott-Siddons and wife, of Engiand, are at the Westminster Hotel. Baron Ratsmski, of the French Navy; Captain Vin- cent, of Montreal; Captain W. J. Hunter, of the Sixty-ninth regiment, British Army; Colonel S. A. Hatch and H. T. Blow, of St. Louis, and E. Corning, Jr., of Albany, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Prominent Departures. Lieutenant Commander Johnson, for Albany; Lieutenant Livermore, for Washington; Paymaster Browne, for New London; Colonel Thomas Lang- don, for New Brunswick; Dr. May, for Washington; Mr. Ringold and Mrs. Samuel Colt and party, for Philadelphia. England and the United States. What is the meaning of the excitement in England over the Alabama dispute? Why does our statement of the case give rise to so much irritation there? Is it not something quite out of the ordinary channel that a whole nation of respectable beef eaters and beery shopmen—a rotund and jocund people, from his worship on the bench to cabby at the cor- ner—should thus fall into paroxysms of out- raged virtue and startled decency because we, their dear friend on this side the water, have ventured to tell them how we look at the mat- ter in dispute between us? Surely this ought not to bea very great offence. Especially it ought not to be an offence in a friend; and we know that England regards us as her warmest and dearest friend; for she has just told us this in spasms of reproachful utterance that quite remind us of what the chambermaids say on the stage when they declare their devo- tion to that mistress who is sending them away for robbery. Have not the Times, the Star, the Pall Mall Garette, and the uni- versal et cefera of the British press dinned in our ears for many days the whole story of how Britain loved and loves us—how she refused to pick our pocket in the row, and would not join with France to cut ourinnocent throat? Could the force of affection go farther than this, that it should induce England to refrain from mur- der and robbery when a safe opportunity was before her? And yet with all this fondness— this excessive tenderness and partiality for us, her dear cousins—she will not hear with com- mon patience what we have to say on our side of a story that has been tremendously stated and restated on her side. What is the reason of this? Whence this unaccountable loss of temper—this tipsy stra- tegy that slips out of an argument by accusing somebody of wanting to fight? England per- celves, for the first time, that she stands face to face with the Power that bears to her the same relation that Rome bore to Carthage. This idea has had such an effect upon her as is usually due to the contact of a cart rung with one’s mazzard. It has awakened her to the fact that she bears quite different relations to the world at large from what she thought, and in important semi-bewilderment she vents 4 fame that is half maudlin hypocrisy and half rage at the one that has disturbed her self-complacent sense .ot ber own dignity and might. There is a peculiar irritation that proud old gentlemen seem to feel when suddenly compelled to contemplate again, despite all self-respect, some half for- gotten villany of other days—some act of tur- pitude that their own partial reasoning had almost brought them to look upon asa piece of special virtue. There is disappointment that congests the liver and utterly destroys the temper of your avaricious old trader doomed to witness the success of energetic younger rivals in the same line, and there is a bilions bitterness of spirit that makes a hang- dog rogue of the champion prize fighter ruled out of the ring for a trick of striking foul, Eng- land's present wrath has something of all these qualities in it, and it dogs not answer what wo ance to her appreciation of her present place among nations, Disraeli was more than half right in the say- ing that England was rather an Asiatic than a European Power. England's best hold for em- pire is in India and in her trade with: China. She is at the end of her tether with regard to development even in that direction, and now begins to fear that she cannot hold what she has. She has for a long time seen the growing power of the United States in that quarter, but did not fear it; for she measured our foreign policy by the expressions given to it by such secretaries as Mr. Seward and by the general unformed character it had before the war. Now, for the first time, in view of such a style toward her as appears in Mr, Sumner's speech, she discov- ers that there is another great Power in the world; that the people on this side the Atlan- tic are disposed to assume and to hold that place among nations to which their strength and vigor justly entitle them; that there must be a change in the relative power of the nations of the earth, and that this change must most especially be made to her disadvantage. England's irritation at Mr. Sumner’s speech is excited, not because it states a case against her on this old, old argument, but because it is the first practical fulmination against her traditional policy and power of the great people of the future—because it announces what she feels must be her doom. The French Elections. For the fourth time Napoleon has appealed to the French people, and from the returns which have reached us it may be considered an established fact that for the fourth time the French people have proclaimed him their chief. Opposition papers in France, anti- Napoleonic journals in Europe and America, have been doing their best to convince us that France is sick of Napoleonism. -France her- self has spoken out, and we have no choice but to admit that the French people have not said, ‘We will not have this man to rule over us.” The French people have once more said the very reverse. So far as we know the result of the elections the opposition has com- pletely failed. In the new Corps Leégislatif Napoleon will have his own way more than he had it with its predecessor. It is impossible, however, to refuse to admit that the government machinery has had much to do with the government victory. A less perfect machinery would have been made manifest by a less complete success. Napoleon has done much to reconcile the French people to the Bonaparte dynasty ; but there are many who doubt whether, if the strong hand of the Em- peror were removed, it would be possible to hold in check the opposition spirit which un- questionably does exist. France is virtually arepublic. It has for the fourth time elected its present chief. This, however, is no reason why France should remain contented with his son. The welfare of the Bonaparte dynasty is very tightly bound up with the life of the present Emperor. A Loud Call for the Removal of Health Officer. Governor Hoffman, like most honest men who hold important positions, is always anx- ious to perform deeds that are likely to elicit the public favor and command applause, A chance now presents itself before the Execu- tive to do a popular act. The removal of John Swinburne from the position of Health Officer of the port of New York is called for by every interest that contributes to the growth and greatness of this city. There is not a party or class of individuals—we might almost say not a man, woman or child in or around this great commercial emporium, save, per- haps, the few leeches who hang and hunger around the Quarantine establishment—who would not rejoice to see Dr. Swinburne turned out of his present position. In this connection we call the attention of the Governor to the following extract from an article in the Brooklyn Hugle of Tuesday: — If we want to secure Coney Island against the future covetousness of the Quarantine omcer the way todo it is to press Governor Hoffman to re- move Pr. Swinburne. The H special reasous of its @wn. simply in order to protect Coney Island from the grasping propensities of thts official cormorant. Mr. Hoffman has no right to disregard ap- peals like the above, coming a3 tty do from his warmest friends and most powerful sup- porters; and if a response is not speedily forthcoming in the shape which the extract calls for we shall believe that the character for independence and prompt action which has heretofore marked our Executive has most singularly departed. the t Lrverroot! Promises. —Liverpo ol merchants have given a sort of promise to Mr. Motley, that the Alabama claims bill will be paid. The Lairds did not speak. Spain 10 Ov BA.—The Spanish Cortes is engaged in debate on the Cuban question, the rebellion, colonial slavery and the slave trade. Marshal Serrano claims that the Cubans have had all required liberties, even as the Cana- diana, but that party spirit blinds many of the people to the good intentions of the govern- ment in Madrid, General Dulce reported the suppression of the armed insurrection, but stated that a ‘‘moral disorder” still remains, When peace is restored in the island the Span- ish government will anppress slavery and punish slave traders, An old story and many times repeated, No promise of local reform. Cuba and Canada gravitate towards the centre of freedom and self-government. Compinine BostNess With Preasurn—The Legislature of Rhode Island, in holding its May session every year at Newport. It looks like forcing the season; but this year the sea- son for several days has been as good as July. The next thing, we fear, will be a July session of the New York Legislature at Saratoga; and then look out for the tax levy, Suppex Deatu has been thought the best by many great men; but it has new reasons against it ina mercantile age when it causes men’s accounts to be left in ench a state that the word “fraud” necessarily comes up. Here wasa gentleman of high standing in Brooklyn suddenly killed by a railroad accident—a man as honest as any one apparently; but he proves to have been guilty of tho shortcoming 80 common with some clerks, He was making his own ventures on other people’s money— tho risk to be theirs, the advantage, any, lis. Tt appears that it is not definitely decided yet where the President will go this summer, beyond his contemplated trip to West Point early in June. He has just been attending an examination at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and next week will be there again on the occasion of a parting ball to Mra, Admiral Porter, with the Admiral’s retire- ment from the concern, Thence the General will go to West Point, where one of his boys is studying the art of war; but what will be the next point honored by the Commander-in- Chief we cannot tell, The Bostonians will do all they can to induce him to honor their great Peace Jubilee with his presence, and as there would be (“Let us have peace”) a certain fit- ness of things in his attendance, they may prevail. There was a report that General Grant had hired a cottage at Long Branch for a week or two in July or August, but this hint was doubtless only a flyer thrown out by the hotels, It is well known, however, that his visit to ‘the Branch” in 1867 was a huge enjoyment, from the splendid drives of that locality and the fast trotters behind which and his cigar he daily scoured the country for a cirouit of twenty, thirty, or forty miles, He did not patronize the surf, except as a looker- on, and it is a peculiarity of Western men that they do not readily take to salt water. Nightly he was the lion of a grand ball; but this to him, after a long drive, was rather in the line of duty than the line of enjoyment, true as itis that None but the brave deserve the fair. It was expected that the President would assist in laying the last rail and in driving the connecting golden spike of the Pacific Rail- road, Failing in that, the hope has not been entirely abandoned of sitill per- suading him to make the trip to Sacramento during the summer, though we believe he has expressly stated that such an extensive holiday excursion among his Indian and Quaker friends this year will be entirely out of his power. The Grand Army of the Republic would like to take him on a tour of inspection of the Southern cemeteries of the Union soldiers slain in the late war; but this, though it might bea useful expe- dition, would be rather too much for relaxation and recreation in consequence of the enthu- siasm of the rejoicing Africans. Sometime ago it was rumored that a splendid steam yacht, neatly equipped and lavishly supplied with pipes and cigars, was lying in the stream at Washington, awaiting the President's com- pany, for a pleasure trip to the West Indies, on the track of the late Secretary Seward. We presume, however, that the present Secretary of State has made such representations to his chief of the mixed up and unpleasant con- dition of things in several of those islands just now as to lead to the indefinite postponement of this adventure. Again, we have heard something of a scheme to decoy General Grant to the fishing banks of Newfoundland, and even to The pitiless coast of Labrador, aga delightfully cooling excursion in the heats of the dogdays, when Pennsylvania avenue glares and flames in the sun like the desert of Nubia; but we believe that the General has his Western ideas of the New Dominion, and is not partial to codfish, salt or fresh. Nor do we think that he will take a run for a few days of quiet tothe Virginia White Sulphur, for there he may be seized and appropriated by all the goncrals uf the late confederacy after the manner of the confiscation of General Rosecrans. He ought to have a summer fur- lough somewhere ; for if it be only an excur- sion to Galena, around by the Iakes and Chicago, and back by the Ohio river and across the Alleghanies to Harper's Ferry, it will do him good. It may be objected to this trip that it covers the route by which Andy Johnson went swing- ing round the circle in September, 1866, In August and September the White House, from the malaria of the steaming flats of the neighboring Potomac, is not a salubrious habi- tation. This indicates the time when it should be abandoned; but September, looking at Johnson's unlucky example, would be a hazardous month for a Presidential tour, touching either Pennsylvania, Ohio or Indi- ana, in view of their coming October elections. Indeed, in this view of the subject, includ- ing the troublesome politicians, there are so many drawbacks toa Presidential excursion in any direction, unless undertaken sub rosa and made in the night, that it may be argued that beyond a little raid here or there Gene- ral Grant will spend this summer at the White House or at the Soldiers’ Home (among the breezy hills north of Washington), the retreat of Lincoln in that season ‘‘when the dog star rages” and the uawelcome ague steals with the soft south wind through the honey-suckles into the Executive Mansion. But this view will hardly apply to General Grant. He has distributed the spoils ; he has established the doctrine of equal rights to all colors; he has arranged the business of the government with the several departments ; and he may, and we think he will, enjoy him- self till the return of Congress, Having no favors to ask, no explanations to make, no questions to answer and no politicians to fear, he may go where he pleases, and stay or leave at his own convenience. Accordingly, we incline to the opinion that during the next six months he will be frequently found taking his morning drive and smoking his afternoon cigars hundreds of miles from Washington, Axornern Leak in the Associated Press. All hands to the pumps. How long oan the old craft stand this? A Cuaxce at Last ror Genera, Jony Coonraxt.—A letter of recall sent down sometime ago to General McMahon, President Johnson’s last appointment as Minister to Paraguay, has not yet been answered. The State Department does not know what has be- come of General McMahon, and is waiting to hear from him, and as soon as heard from General John Cochrane will go down and take his place. He is supposed to be with Lopez, among the mountains of Paraguay; butif the Brazilians have cut off all outside communica- tions with Lopez when shall we hear from MoMahon, and how long will General Coch- rane have to wait? Wo think the department ought to send down somebody to hunt up McMahon, Otherwise Cochrane may be kept waiting all summer, For weeks and months past there has been & steady rise in stocks, especially railway stocks, and they are still flourishing, while merchan- dising has been gotting heavier and heavier, till now it is remarkably flat. How is this? The stupendous experiments lately adopted of watering railway stocks, and of expanding capitals, and the extensive railway rings and combinations formed and forming, and the large discounts of all concerned made upon the Pasific Railroad, have operated to make these flush times to the stock gamblers; but there are many gilded bubbles in ail this business, and when they collapse, what then ? “Stand from under.” As for our mercantile interests, we have been and we are importing too many European goods. The supply ex- ceeds the demand, and the fluctuations in the Gold Room, from the tricks of the gold gam- blers, have deranged the trading interests of city and country. These derangements can only be righted by the laws of trade; but the Secretary of the Treasury may do much to put these laws right and foremost. There never has been « time when the substantial business interests depended more than they depend at this time upon a broad and compre- hensive administration of the national Trea- sury, and never since_the war has the Secre- tary held within his grasp a more potential balance of power for good or evil. Reduetion of Liquor Licenses. The Board of Excise, at a meeting yester- day, had undpr consideration the important subject of a redtiction in the rates of licenses as charged at present to liquor dealers, hotel keepers and others engaged in the sale of spirits, wines and other taxable intoxicating fluids, The question came up in the shape of areport from the Committee of Applications, in which it is stated that the members, having given the matter due consideration, had come to the conclusion to recommend a reduction from the present scale ranging from two hun- dred and fifty to fifty dollars, according to the class to which the dealer belongs as laid down in the Excise law.. The report appears in our columns to-day. We are told that the liquor traders are jubilant, but whether the public at large, wives, husbands and children have good cause to join in the rejoicing remains to be seen. The Board took action of great public benefit in donating the sum of $229,158 from the Excise fund, under the provisions of the new Charity bill, to various public institutions in New York and Brooklyn, This constitutes a slight reparation for the social evils which have resulted from the hitherto indiscriminate sale and use of liquors. Loommva Up—Andy Johnson's chances to be the next Governor of Tennessee. Tur CurrgNoy Qvestioy.—Our Vienna correspondent’s résumé of the history of Aus- trian currency suggests many points for our guidance and instruction. The idea of a taxa- tion currency is an ingenious one. It would be useful, perhaps, if we were to remain always subject to the present very extensive and diverse system of taxation. The danger and folly of contraction are also made clearly manifest, even if we had not the experiments of England in the same line. We need a homogeneous currency, moreover, and Mr, Boutwell would signalize his term of office should he recommend to and prevail upon the next session of Congress the abolition of the national bank notes and the substitution of greenbacks, giving the country a uniform currency, By tng Casie.—We had the news yester- day by the cable that it was the horse Cer- dagne and not Sardaigne that was second in the French Derby. For fear that we may next have the pedigree of Cerdagne sent over by the cable we hereby enter our protest against the proceeding. Freptxa.—Dr. MoCosh | says that the in- junction ‘Feed my lambs” does not mean that the lambs should be taught arithmetic, It de- pends upon what the lambs need. Feeding on one article is fatal. Some French experi- menters fed ducks on ree till they starved to death. Tus Two Te Senter. S Cartyte has added one more to his list of humbngs and shams. It is Napoleon, of whom erewhile the same Carlyle was a worshipper. He has only one step further to go in this sat- isfactory experience. He must get disgusted with one more of his idols and denounce one more humbug. This {dol and humbug are one the same, and are Thomas Carlyle. SSE Dxomtos—Stokes and Tur EXcruient Presnyreriass.—No one is so good as the Presbyterians, and ‘‘the Sab- bath” was made for them. Everything is a desecration of it but their sermons, This is the spirit ia which the schools have come together, Viratity.—A_ metropolitan company that cans oil has just been burned out to the extent of half a million, but announces while the fire ia still unsubdued that it is ‘“‘in fall opera- tion” and “‘all orders will be promptly filled,” Tne Discretion or THe Covrt.—There is one point in the Pearsall-O’Connor case worthy of more discussion than has been given it, Did not the Judge venture 4 little too far with his discretion at the first step In the case? Instead of giving the custody of the child to the father when the mother’s character became known the mother was permitted to keep thechild in the hope that this might in- duce her to reform. She perhaps did not re- form, but did leave the jurisdiction of the court, and now the court seems to be without aremedy, Much harm to the child is likely to come from that mistaken clemency. Axsotner Raitroap Moxorory.—Is every- thing on wheels that rans in the streets to give way for the accommodation of the city railroad cars? It appears that the Common Council think so by their decision that horse cars have not only the prior right of way, but enjoy also the privilege of detaining carriages, wagons and trucks, according to their pleasure, at street crossings, It is very well that the city railroads, which are a great accommoda- tion to the mass of the people, should receive a due amount of consideration from the authorities ; but we submit that they have not an exclusive right to the use of the streets, Other conveyances have some rights tao, We have received the following communica- tion from an excellent, worthy, active and at- tentive agent of the Associated Press, of which we think it proper to take some notloe, Therefore we give it all the space that it is en- titled to. It reads as follows: — OFFICE OF THR N. Y. ASSOCIATED PRESS, New York, May 26, 1869, George H. Stout's news agency is actu ating with jlasson’s “o] position” concel mo with va, oe mn “A letter Presa our Wi that ‘this “opposition” omoes tn this city ori ne pha I not yet or in Philadel am J fact that there Ea but the pe ter eawton ‘ted Press 0! Dares. Very rnp and Stout, who are in rivairy (ONTON, General Agent. Well, there may be wleak somewhere. We take it for granted, upon this reliable au- thority, that there are several leaks and loose screws in the management of the Associated Press; but as far as we are concerned we are not disposed to repair them, In fact, we care nothing about them. We know that there are no leaks with us, and that is sufficient to keep our mind at ease. We take care to cover all the requisites in the communication of tele+ graphic news to the public after our own fashion, and if there are any “leaks” in other papers it concerns us not at all. We recom- mend that the author of the above communica- tion should apply to Mr. Dana for information on the subject. He keeps: scrutinizing eye upon all purloiners of telegraph despatches and violators of the rules of the Associated Press. He knows all about it. As for us, we are satisfied of two things: First, that itis ridiculous to suppose that the Associated Press can keep its news secret—the fact being patent that it runs off through a thousand channels, like water through a sieve, and no discipline which the association has under its control can prevent it from flying abroad as wildly as the winds of heaven. Next, that the Associated Press is rapidly going to pieces from the force—or the weakness—of circum- stances, and must soon give way for some better general system, whether it be by the exercise of a certain control of telegraph news by the government, which will not inter- fere with individual enterprise, or the adoption of some other plan. For our part we care little whether there are leaks in the present system of the Associated Press or not, or whether our government, like that of Eng- land—as recently decided in Parliament~ should take the telegraph into its own hands. We are determined to continue to furnish the public with telegraph news as full and complete as money and enterprise can accom- plish that object, and to do it after our owa fashion, as heretofore. ‘ven Spanish Law, Peruars.—Suit is brought for the condemnation of the Quaker City for violation of the neutrality laws. As the boat has not left this harbor how can she have committed such offence? Is the intention without the fact punishable? And can any court know of intention except by the fact? Are we not becoming astonishingly good in our endeavors to set a virtuous example to the national rogues of Europe? Qurrz Ricnr.—General McClellan will not come out for the ‘decoration day.” He declines to appear in public ceremonials so persistently that we must suppose he does so from a well considered resolution; and as he has boon so much the target of pitiful” criticism this course cannot be misunderstood. It is at once wise and praiseworthy. National gratitude may be trusted finally to do sufficient honor to the soldier of Antietam, Ove Detgctive Pouice SysteM.—Is it wise to maintain a system for the cultivation of roguery under the guise of a police detective force? Is it well to maintain a body upon which the charge of encouraging crime for the purpose of detecting it is openly made, and in many judicial cases has been established? We think not, and we suggest that a radical change in the whole detective system in this city is absolutely needed. It is a question worth considering—if we had less detectives should we not have fewer thieves? As the de- tective force is now managed it is evident that it does not operate for the prevention of crime, while there are a thousand reasons in the form of greenbacks, diamond rings, magnificent shirt studs, comfortable bank accounts and other potent considerations which tend to encourage crime in order that it may be ‘“‘de- tected” when b liberal reward is offered. Lrg as Empgeror.—The Paducah (Ky.) Kone tuckian says if the radicals are determined to have an emperor in this country let them take Bob Lee. An imperial kite with that bob will never fly, nor will the bob fly with it. Brrrisn Goip.—They who make the groatest parade of their wish to enlighten the people are not above appealing to the worst and meanest prejudices for the furthering of favorite purposes, This is seen in the course of the organ of protection in opposing free trade, It holds it to be an argument against free trade that it is supported by houses inter- ested in foreign trade. It is, then, an argument in favor of protection that its main support ta from manufacturing monopolies. And ts this an argument that will touch the people: Quarantine. There are a number of offices that the law declares must be filled by doctors, because a proper discharge of the’ duties requires special education. Not one of these places is filled by a man whom the profession here would accept as its representative in any sense; and the majority of these appointments are disgracetnl, as they were obtained by disgraceful means. None, however, is so bad as that at Quarans tine, It is an outrage that 9 man like this Swinburne should be brought here and given absolute sanitary authority in the port of the city that has njore medical ability than ang other city of (this country, He should be hustled out foethwith and his place given to some practitioner\or professional man resident in the city; some {man of ability and urbanity like Carnochan, ora progressive in science like Doremus, who 1 make quarantine a teal teacher of its sanitary necossitios y or some well freighte@ professional veteran of the metropolis lik 720 Clark, whose know- ledge of the o:afrantfine history of the city would bo® groat mpublic benefit; or, if pro~ fessional oh and position aro not held” at Albany, then put into thie