The New York Herald Newspaper, June 3, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. nnn JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters and packages should be properly eealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERA. Ff Rejected communications will not be re- turned. No, 154 NIBLO'S GARDEN, .—-TUk SPROTACULAR EXTBAVAGANZA OF SINBAD THR SAILOR. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave aue.—CHILPERIC, WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and 18h street. Stunt Wartes Run Deer. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Bi Doox, way.—Hicoory Diocosy Soares BOOTH'’S THEATRE, 23dst,, between 6th and 6th ara— Tre Lavy oF Lyons. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 120 Broadway.—Bunt.nsqc oF {xton—Takr Two GreconrEs, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mike MAuTIN—MY POLL AND My PartNex Jor. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon aud eveaing Performance. THE TAMMANY, Folirteonth stree!.—Rommo JAFPIRE SENKING. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Noo. 45 and 47 Bowery— BERMAN Orkka—F aust. 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Brookiys Carriers 4ND Newsuen will in future receive their papers at the Brancu Orrice or THe New Yors Henan, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklya. ADVERTISEMENTS -Aetters for the New York Henaup received as above Europe. The cable despatches are dated June 2. The publication by the Britwh government of the correspondence that took place im reference to the Alabama treaty discloses some curious episodes and diplomatic strategy. Tne London Times, in com- menting on the same, mentions that, although they knew the good feeling that was evinced by two suc- cessive British governments, they were not aware that the Americans would repudiate their own pro- positions and thelr own acts through their Senate. On the evening of June 1 some interesting debates took piace in the British Parliament on the Canadian question, the Ocean postage and the imprisonment of Irish politica! prisoners. The yacht Cambria has been docked in Southamp- ton in order to undergo some repairs. The new constitution has finally been adopted by the Spanish Cortes by a majority of 159. A proposal to reduce ihe standing army was rejected, and 600 Cuban prisoners are to be removed from Fernando Po, to the Canaries. and Svsscrirrions and all will be Cuba. A heavy engagement ts reported to have taken place between the Spaniards and revolutionists be- tween the bays of Nipe and Banos, in which the Spaniarda claim to nave captured four cannon and all the other munitions recently landed by the fili- busters. Great excitement prevatis in Havana, and serious riots are apprehended. Seventy thousand dollars worth of property has been confiscated be- tween the 19th of Apri! and the Ist of June, Miscellancous, President Grant, it is now stated on what is said to be good authority, does not support Mr. Sumuer tm bis views on the Alabama claims expressed in his lave speech in the Senate. He calls the speech good rhetoric, but bad logic, and professes to believe that Sumner himself was not sincere, but was actuated by @ desire to overreach Banka and the annexation- iste by putting Engiand against all notion of ceding her North American possessions to this country. He holds that if we would not go to war with England we must conduct the negotiations with courteous diplomacy. The public debt statement, just issued by Secre- tary Boutwell, in which no account is taken of the acerued interest on bonds, shows a decrease of the total debt during the month of May of $13,384,778, $6,000,000 gold were sold during the montn for $7,000,000 currency, and $5,070,000 In bonds were redeemed at a premium of about $700,000 in cur- rency. A party of 250 Cheyenne Indians attacked aa an protected settlement about 160 miles west of Topeka, Kansas, on Sunday morning, and mas- sacred thirteen men, women and children, The women were outraged and their bodies horribly mutilated. On the Saline river small parties of Stoux and Cheyennes recently murdered four men and carried off eight prisoners, three of whom are ‘women. Troops have been despatched from Forts Riley and Hays, with orders to pursue vigorously and punish severely any roving bands of Indians that may be encountered. ‘The trial of Dennis Reen for the murder of his brother-n-law Denuis Cronin, took place in Cam- bridge, Mass., yesterday, and resulted tn a verdict of “guilty,” afier which the convict was sentenced to death, Reen confessed in court that he commit- ted the murder, anda says it was done in a quarrel, 40 Which the victim gave him the le, He was very rude and blasphemous in court, abusing the District attorney, and declaring that unaer like circum. stances he would kill any man. ‘Tho petition of Seflor Casanova, of Cuba, to have the United States demand the retarn of lis property, ‘which has been sequestrated by the Spanish govern. ment, isa subject of much cautious consideration at the State Department, as many other claims ex- actly like it are being presented, ‘The Now York State Temperance Convention at Byracuse concluded its labors yesterday, and ad- “Journed sine die, Resolutions were adopted con demning the traMe in spirituous liquors, and de- manding its suppression by stringent laws. It was algo determined to place in nomination at the next olection candidates for office pledged to prohibi-ion. Second Lieutenant Willlam McGee, of the Twen- thth United States infantry, has been found guilty ay & court mariial of riotous and disordeiy con- duct bhA béniorced £0 He aisiniased hed sepia And coudued in the Louisiana Peustentay fr two years, The Woway'’s cudrage bill, which ¥38 favorably NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1869,—TRIP a t LE SHEET. pee icninsillle — a A ae ——— reported by the committee, was defeated in the | a gentleman of culture and experience, and is | “Old Ben Wade” and General Grant ‘The Late Presbyterian Assomblice=Unien | Tho New Style is Theatrical Criticism. ‘Massachusetts Senate yesterday by @ vole Of 9 yens Wo 22 nays. The City. ‘There was racing at Jerome Park and trotting at the Union Course, L. L, yesterday. Four matches were run at Jerome Park, which afforded great delight to those who visited these picturesque grounds, At the Union Course American Girl, Lucy and Goldsmith Maid trotted for a $2,500 purse, in presence of an immense crowd of spectators. Ameri- can Girl won in three straight heats, in 2:224¢, 2:23 and 2:25, which was extraordinary time on a heavy track. ‘The Solicitor of Internal Revenue ia in this city, on business connected, it is said, with the claims of certain banks to exception from taxation, on the ground that the largest portion of their capital is used by them as brokers in carrying thelr stocks, and they are not, therefore, liable to taxation as bankers. Henry Bergh has addreased a letter to the Board of Health, energetically protesting against the bleeding of calves preparatory to slaughtering them, as prac- fused by the butchers of inis city. This practice, he contends, is no% only a cruelty to animals, but is dangerous ts the health of the community, by cor- rupting tiie flesh of the animals so treated, and reu- ders it untit for human food. ‘The franchise of the Twenty-third street Railroad was sold at auction by Mayor Hall yesterday, for $150,000, Sydney A, Yeoman, of 301 West Fourteenth street, becoming the purchaser, His sureties dre George Law and John Kerr. Of thirty-two flres which occurred in Brooklyn during the past month four were the result of in- cendiarism, three of spontaneous combustion and five of kerosene expiosions. The North German Lioyd’s steamship America, Captain Hargesheimer, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. The steamship Eagle, Captain M. R. Greene, will sail at three P. M. to-day from pier No. 3 North river for Havana, The stock market yesterday was weak, trregular and declined, except for New York Central, Hudson River and Harlem. Gold declined to 1384. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge J. D. Carter, of Iilinow; ex-Governor A. G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania; D. P. Morton, of Minnesota, ex-Governor Church, of Rochester; General J. M. Brannan, United States “Army, and Colonel Wil- liam Painter, of Philadeiphia, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor Thorne, of St, Louis, and Professor Stan- wick, of Salem, Mass., are at the St. Julien Hotel. Mr. Wyatt and B. Bey, of Constantinople; Senator Sprague and Major General Burnside, of Rhode Island, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ” Commodore Caihoun, United States Navy, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Surgeon &. Mackey and 8. A. McCarty, United States Navy, are at the Astor House, More About the Alabama Claims— The Statesmen and the Press. The Alabama claims treaty, its rejection by the Senate of the United States, the arrival of Minister Motley, his instructions, the prob- able result of his mission, the attitude of the New York Heratp towards the whole ques- tion—these, according to our latest advices by cable, still constitute the themes of the lead- ing English statesmen and monopolize the editorial columns of the leading English jour nals, On Tuesday the Times, the News, the Telegraph, the Star, the Pall Malt Gazette had each editorials on the general question with immediate reference to Mr. Motley. With the exception of the Pall Mall Gazette, which is as usual snobbishly bumptious, the journals are calm and peaceful in their tone and ten- dency. It is evidently the wish and hope of the British people that Mr. Motley’s instruc- tions wi!l enable him to open fresh negotia- tions, by which a final and satisfactory set- tlement of the question may be reached. In spite of what Mr. Forster said some days ago to his constituents at Bradford, when re- viewing Mr. Sumner's speech, we can and do heartily echo the same wish and hope. In the course of his speech Mr. Forster, in alluding to the attitude and influence of the press on both sides of the Atlantic, made the following statement :—‘‘There is a great newspaper in England, the Times, and there is a great newspaper in America, the New York Heratp. There was a time in which the Times seemed as if it would fan animosity between England and the North. There was and there is a time in which the New York Herarp seems to do the same. But we have this advantage, at any_rate. Our great paper has seen the error of its ways. Their great paper has not.” In spite of this charge, we repeat, we have no desire to see the two greatest nations of modern times rushing into the arms of horrid war, and by a mutual crippling of each other retarding for some generations the onward and triumphant march of modern civilization. Our desire is to see the world advance. We know that the hope of the world is centred in the great Anglo-Saxon family ; and we are wishful that the two branches of that family should go hand in hand, at the head of the nations, pre- senting to all the world and through all time the sublime spectacle of perpetual rivalry and perpetual friendship. But friendship, to be lasting, must be under the influence of righteous motives and characterized by fair dealing. There must be harmony of mind and heart— unity of purpose and desire, Two cannot walk together unless they are agreed. Much, therefore, as we admire the Anglo- Saxon family, much as we desire to be on terms of friendship with England, we can never afford to be indifferent to the terms on which the friendship is maintained, Perish the hopes of the world—perish all the advan- tages of peace, rather than that these should be purchased at the cost of national humilia- tion and disgrace. It is our desire at all times to identify ourselves with the great American people, and to give expression to the senti- ments which fill the national mind and heart, That we have said severe things of England we admit. But we have done so because we felt it to be our duty. During a great crisis, when our national existence was at stake, when we struggled, so to speak, for sweet life, she did not act the partof a friend. She did | not only not help us—we did not want her help—but she gave both sympathy and suecor to the foe. We said so. We say so still, We said so strongly, and we cannot retract. But now that England is coming to her senses— now that she begins to see that she might have done better, both by herself and usnow that confession trembles on her lip, we are willing to actin a spirit of magnanimity, and we can with quite as good grace as the London Times express our preference of peace, al- though we cannot admit, even to gratify the honorable member for Bradford, that we have seen the error of our ways. What Mr, Motley’s instructions are we know not, I is not our opinion, however, that he has gone to London for the purpose of beard- ' ing ‘he British lion in his den, Mr, Motley is known to have a proper sense of the dignity of the nation he represents, aa well as of the important interests immediately confided to his care. We shall rejoice if he succeed in settling this vexed question. If, however, he should not succeed, if the temper of the British government and people is such that negotiations for the present cannot be resumed, we can well afford to wait. There is no neces- sity for being in haste. Time, which is a loss to England, is a gain to us, We grow mightier and mightior every day. Our voice will be more authoritative, more imperious, ten years hence than it fs to-day. If war with us would be dangerous to England now it will be infinitely more dan- gerous then. There is no call, therefore, for haste. There {a no occasion for anxiety. It , would be absurd for us to precipitate war. We make larger victories by peace than we could by the conquest of Great Britain or the forcible annexation of the New Dominion. Let us strive to develop our resources. The Pacific Railroad has brought within our reach untold treasures, Let us stretch out our hands and claim them. While we are thos waiting for England to come to her senses the rich resonroos of our enormous territory will be astonishing ourselves and the world ; our broad acrés, where now is the waste wilderness, will be ylolding their increase ; our mines will be vomiting forth their silver and their gold ; our hillsides—North, South, East and West—will be made musical with the rattle of the mill and beautiful by the hand of industry and thrift, and our population will be multiplying ata rate unexampled in all history. If need be we shall be able in a brief space of time to defy the world in’ arms, Time, therefore, we repeat it, will be gain to us, We can wal It is for England to say whether she will make terms now, when terms are possible, or whether she will defer until no terms can bo had. This isher affaii ours, The News from Nassaa. Our correspondence from Nassau, published to-day in another column, gives an interesting account of the return of the steamer Salvador and of the landing of her expedition in Cuba. The seizure of the steamer on her return was made by the British officers on the ground of a violatign of the Passenger act, in baying taken out more passenger’ thih the law allows ; but it was supposed that thg claim of the Receiver General would fall through for want of proof. Itis hinted in our correspond ent’s letter that Captain Carlin of the Salvador will soon be in command of a Cuban man-of- war and searching for the Spanish ships in- stead of being searched for by them. The enthusiasm of the Cubans on landing is described as intense, and they expected soon to give a good account of themselves, It was stated by the crew of the Salvador that the deportment of the Spanish recruits and volun- teers is not quite so valorous as the official statements of the Havana press would make it appear. Instead of rushing to the oharge after firing the first few shots they quite as often rush in the other, direction. According to the reports brought by the Salvador the new troops are getting quite disheartened. We suspect that the extravagant heroism of the Spaniards is confined mostly to the Havana volunteers, who find themselves always safe behind their shop counters. From the account of the voyage it is plain that the Salvador saw noth- ing of the Arago, and the whole story of an expedition having sailed from this port on the Arago was an invention got up by a so-called newspaper in want of a sensation. A New Democratio Poxroy is proposed in Indiana. It is to welcome into full democratic communion men who have heretofore acted with the repablican party, exacting no test but that of agreement with the democracy on the issues of the day. This policy receives the endorsement of representative democratic papers in the West, the Cincinnati Hnaguirer, the Waverly (Ohio) Watchman and others being among the number. But what will it all amount to? The democrats may call upon the republicans to join them, But will they come? That's the question. It is something like Glendower calling spirits from the vasty deep. They failed to put in an appearance. Tar War is Cura.~Our advices from Havana, of June 2, tend to realize the antici- pation ofa general dissolution of society in the island should the Spaniards pérsevere in their attempt to retain it by force. Dulce has given up the post of Captain General, sot awaiting the arrival of his successor, General de Rodas. General Espanao has been left in locum tenens by the retiring ruler, who had become quite disgusted with the con- duct of the volunteers, Confiscations of property, the arming of volunteers, city riots, a general alarm, another battle, with the reported capture of filibuster guns, go far to show that the colony is not ‘“‘peace.” When will it be quieted? Who has the reversionary interest, or can the Cubans manage their own affairs ? Hostaces.—We have another Indian war on hand, and California sends us « hint how to conduct it and even make it a merciful contest on the part of the savages, The whole plan isin the one word hostages. We are not with- out instances to show that this plan has had reasonable success in the hands of government officers; such success as ought to encourage us in ite use. We would urge the most ex- tended application of it. Indian communities are controlled by just that class of ideas that enables them to understand such a system, and it would be cheaper to hold in durance half the Indians of the Plains than to fight them as we have done hitherto, One live In- dian in our hands is a reason for peace to all his brothers; one dead Indian, grinning at the moon, is aa incitement to further hos- tilities. Aquatic.—Adiniral Porter's letter on boat races has called out the secretary of one of our rowing clubs, whose letter we give else- where, and who asks for information in regard to the bants the middies use, with a view, perhaps, to a challenge, This will be a pretty piece of sport. Danowina.—Governor Hoffman,a fter refus- ing to respite Messner, the Rochester mur- derer, has finally concluded to do #0, and the culprit is therefore left dangling between earth and alr, tine and eternity, for the apace of two weeks. If this be mercy isn't it a little Abrained ? Tho Cigur in the White House. The report which we published yesterday of the little familiar conversation the day before | between “Old Ben Wade” and General Grant | is very interesting. ‘‘Old Ben,” as a bold and fearless pioneer abolitionist, as a leading republican politician, and as a reformer on negro’s rights, women’s rights and the rights of labor, has the record of a stout and aggres- sive old Puritan of the school of Cromwell's “Tronsides;” but as a philosopher on the retired list of politicians he is, in his rough way, really charming. Having come within | one vote of the White House before the nomi- nation of Grant, and having no politicians or place-hunters to fear and no favors to ask, he can afford to speak his mind freely to the General, as he did. We find, too, in the con- fidences exchanged between these two extra- | ordinary men some facts from the one and ! soms hints from the other worth remembering. | General Grant, for instance, says that the White House ‘‘is not what it is cracked up to be ;” that “it is hard work, hard work, and small thanks;” that “it is a hopeless task to try to please everybody ; that friends are exorbitant in their demands, and that private life fs the best after all.” - “That's been the complaint,” said Wade, “‘of every President; and yet every _ politician in the gountry is crazy for the Presi- dency.” He might have added that not- withstanding the galley slave's life of the President since the time of Jackson, who began the mischief of a wholesale distribution of the spoils to his party politicians, we have not had more than one or two Presidents who have not moved heaven and earth and turned the country upside down to geta second term; and that the only one since Jackson elected to 4 second term (Lincoln), was the only one of the lot who made no efforts to get it. But while the President and Mr. Wade, his confidegtial adviser, smoked their pipe of peace together, or their friendly cigar, which is the same thing, ‘‘Old Ben” got off a good hiot or two In the way of advice, especially in these remarks—that he would be his own mas- ter, anyhow, and that “When I was in the Senate [never allowed any of those fellows to boss me;” and fo this, “I would do as well as toould for my friends and let the other fellows growl and go to tho devil, They would make a noise, anyhow.” We think that General Grant may advantageously ponder upon these things through the smoking of many a quiet cigar, when there is no scheming or begging politician near to disturb his reflec- tions. In the next place i¢ is curious to relate that on the same day of this historical visit of Mr. Wade the President was honored with another visit from “the man of Rosa,” or rather from Ross himself, the man of Kansas, who could have made Wade President, but preferred Andy Jobnson. The same Ross who, not long ago, in high dudgeon about some petty office, told the President to go to hell, and that he, the indig- nant Ross, would never trouble him with another call, This next visit was short and polite on both sides; but there was no ex- change of cigars, as in the meeting with Waile. Hore, then, we see the important dis- tinction between cigar and no cigar in the White House. When the President passes over his cigar case to a visitor, or vice versa, it means confidence and business, as between friends; when there is no introduction of the cigar it is simply a visit of ceremony or official routine. We think, however, if Ross had offered the President a first rate cigar it would have been a fine stroke of diplomacy. It would have signified, ‘I ask pardon, Mr. President. Itake it all back and wish it to end in smoke.” But Ross evidently does not understand these nice expedients of diplo- macy, andso he atill appears as only the place- hunting politician, Finally, we think it ad- visable to say that it will be in bad taste for the politicians generally, in visiting the Presi- dent, to expect or try the example of Mr, Wade with bis confidential cigar. As in the calls of ladies upon each other it is only the favored few who are invited to lunch, so inthe calls upon the President it is only a few who are invited to smoke with him or who may judiciously pass him the confidential cigar, unless you have something to say about Cuba. Rau.way Consoniparion.—A_ through rall- way corporation between the oities of New York avd Chicago seems an accomplished fact, now that Commodore Vanderbilt has en- larged the field of his operations from the line of the Hudson river to the great northern boundary of the country. Were not the undertaking so regal in its character we would compare Mr. Vanderbilt to General Grant in the distribution of bis places. The former is the President of the New York Central Rail- road, He has given his son, W. H. Vander- bilt, the Presidency of the Hudson river, while bis son-in-law is the candidate for the Presidency of the Michigan Southern and Lake Shore line between Buffalo and Chicago. The era of great railway combinations is at hand, now that we have a through route to the Pacific. The public will have to endure the increased burden which the watering of stock and the extra dividends will put upon travel and freight. Waar 1s tHe Law?—Is it trud or not true that there is no warrant in the law for the ex- istence of the very expensive machinery of special Treasury agents? This system be- came « notorious abuse under Johnson, and now apparently Mr. Boutwell is extending and confirming it, These agents are something like our detectives. Thoy cultivate crime because they live upon it, If such agents are necessary Congress should give them existence by law. Until it does so Mr. Boutwell should not use such dangerous tools, Jveriok ON tHE Cuveon Street WipeNtwe Viax—Lessees having to pay rent after the city demolishes their buildings, destroys their | business, sells the material of the old edifices and pockets the proceeds, and finally assesses the lessees for the benefits supposed to accrue from the widening of the street. This is rent, assessment, taxation and justice on the Church Want Conrrssns.—Wade says that every man‘in the Senate wants to be President, and that this was always true. He must certainly know about so much of this ag relates to Wore. and the Prospect. Tuesday was the eleventh and last day of the Old School Assembly. The New School Assembly had already adjourned, and its members had departed for their respective homes, well satisfied, on the whole, that union must now be regarded as un fait accompli—a fixed fact. But at the eleventh hour or day the Old School Assembly, which had also as- sented te union with apparently hearty good will, hatches a lot of eggs out of which a full brood of future discords may be expected. After an interesting and gratifying report from the ‘‘Chairman of the Committee on the Nar- rative of the State of Religion,” the announce- ment of the estimates (eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars) of the moneys required by the several boards to carry-on the work of the Church during the ensuing year, and the report of the Committee on Theological Seminaries, @ minister from Kentucky brought to the notice of the Assembly an important’ memorial relative to matters of difference be- tween the Old School Presbyterian Church in Kentucky and the civil courts of that State, involving the rights of property in Kentucky of the Northern Church as against the claims of the Southern Presbyterian Church. This is a revival of the question of the North against the South in a new shape. It is a fresh exemplification of the usually unper- ceived extent to which the question of filthy luore is mixed up with the so-called religious questions of the day, Here is betrayed the cloven hoof of the devil, who would fain kick vigorously against any such co-operation on the part of his Christian foes as inight possibly result from carrying 6ut the spirit of union manifested by the two General Assemblies which have recently met in New York, The action of certain courts {n Kentucky was de- nounced by one speaker as the first attempt to subject religious bodies to the civil courts on religious matters, The attempt, he added, should be orushed under foot. Another speaker believed the question of civil liberty involved; because, if civil courts can over- ride the decision of ecclesiastical courts in matters purely ecclesiastical, religious liberty, he said, is gone. But however this may be, the question at issue involyes so vast an amount of property in the shape of church edifices and church funds that to outsiders, at least, it seems mainly to be a money question rather than a question of religious liberty. Provision was made to sustain the expenses of an appeal to the Supreme Court. If the Pres- byterians have to go to law so soon after hav- ing solemnly resolved upon union the prospect for lasting union is not so encouraging as we had hoped. If, however, all divisions of the doughtiost disputants and most belligerent sec- tarians in the Christian world should harmo- niously combine their forces in a perfect and permanent union, we shall believe that the age of miracles is not past. News from London. The insufferable impertinence of the cox- comb who writes letters from London to the Tribune of this city tends to make that sheet a nuisance. Every representative abroad of this country is apparently called upon to pay this fellow a tribute of notice and civility or take a chance to be vilified and slandered. Our Consul at London has just called upon him to be set right in regard to charges made against him on no better authority than the scribbler’s spleen, and the scribbler makes haste to chronicle the fact. The Consul might have been in better business. Some time ago our Consul at Southampton, Mr. Thompson, was requested by a member of the United States Legation in London to get a free passage for afriend of his, and the Consul, fan- cying that the United States had sent him out for quite different purposes, failed to do it. Hence he incurred the ire of the attaché, and the ready correspondent of the Tribune was easily induced to lend a hand in writing him down, Letters that so handle men’s names on rumor and even worse authority ought to be more closely scrutinized before they are given to the public; for we know that the 7ribune, so caretul of the reputation and feelings even of enemies, does not sympathize with this in- discriminate assault. Dowsine.—They who press upon General Grant the recognition of the claims of our colored citizens are urging that Downing, the greatest man on oysters that the world ever saw, be made Collector of Newport, That is a good idea, Newport would be au ad- mirable place for Downing, and of all places at Newport, or any other port, none could be more fit than the Custom House. Down- ing has a more accurate knowledge of the internal organization of custom houses than any other man can possibly have. He has fed the machinery for years. He has furnished collectors, deputy collectors and all sorts of clerks with brains and business on the half-shell—the real, raw material— time out of mind. He knows exactly what is necessary, and can feed himself up to any given point. His presence at Newport would assure the travelling public of first rate bivalvular refreshment. The claims of the colored citizen cannot be better presented than in this shape. — eae Tue Woot Istersst is exercising the Ohio radicals, They don’t want ex-Governor Hayes renominated, because he voted in Congress for the reduction of the tariff on wool to such an extent as to forbid its being grown in Ohio. Ohio has been in the wool business a very long time. She was the head scenter of the under- ground railroad when it was the practice to run off the ebony and enslaved population of the South to some point where they could en- joy the glorious atmosphere of the free North, The Obio radicals should never go back on their wool, Tus Posie Dest.—The statement of the public debt, a4 officially published on the Ist of June, is gratifying inasmuch as the Secre- tary of the Treasury sets forth « continuous reduction of the money burden of the nation, The decrease of the debt during the month of May footed up $19,384,777 97, and the aggregate reduction since the Ist of March $20,050,646 89, Encouraging. Stx Monras is the time allotted to # man for trying to hit Kennedy's head with « club, As Kennedy's head is not better than any other man’s, we hope this period will be in- sisted upon in future casos where heads and clubs are in question. Criticism keeps pace with the theatre, and the theatre has very emphatically gone whither Macbeth proposed to throw physic—‘‘ to the dogs.” Our stage has gone the downward road and would be s reproach to the city if our people were to any degree involved in its fame. But they are not; for since the intro- duction here of the leg drama there has not been a metropolitan audience in the especial temple of that style of “art.” Our people have abandoned the theatres, or have reatcict- ed their favors to the two or three establiah- ments that have kept themselves free from the common contamination. In all the rest Lon- don concert troupes have played trash, and sometimes very filthy trash, too, to the gobe- mouches crowd of countrymen free for a day ia town and eager to see the elephant or any other animal that might be on view. In this there is nothing of our metropolis but the accident of place; and we conceive that the Herat was never more happily in sympathy with the true sentiment and the correct and judicious taste of city people than when, at the very outset, it raised its voice against this theatri- calindecency. But we were not prepared to see the press, or any portion of it, or any per- sons affiliated with it, adopt a style in its way equally discreditable. It is true that critics must, to a certain degree, have sympathetic natures, The older drama filled with its spirit~ and its dainty taste the men who wrote upop it, and left us Addison, Charles Lamb, Hazlitt, Talfourd and the reat, and the time just passing away gave us in the harmless and genial school of oyster house critics nothing worse and nothing better than the drama of tho time had called for. But now that the drama has gone down, now that it has ceased to be a harmless stupidity and become a public nuisance, the oritic should cease to sympathize with the de- bauchery of theatrical managers, or he in his turn becomes a public nuisance also. Criticism should not essay the style of the prize ring nor the knock down and drag out of the Water street dance house. Give us salt, gentlemen, but do not put it roughly; and above all do not make it the ruffianly assault of a robust critic on a poor little sinner of the theatre, A Russtay Remepy FoR Rarway Aoot- DENTS.—The Czar has given proof of sound, good sense, by punishing the officials of the Koursk and Kiew Railroad in proportion to their respective responsibility in the late acci- dent. Railroad travellers should be relieved of the exposure to such acts of wilful negli- gence, and the Emperor has struck the right track. The chief engineer, a Counsellor of State, got off with a severe reprimand, but the manager was placed under arrest for two days, and the local inspector was sentenced to two month's imprisonment. Were such stepa to be adopted here, at the present rate of acci- dents, the government prisons would have to be increased merely to accommodate the of- ficials of the delinquent lines. Although Rus- sification is sadly complained of in Poland, would a slight touch of it, in the above ten- dency, not prove a boon to our travelling com- munity, and cause the officials to pay more at- tention to “that broken rail?” ENGLAND has hada notion that we wanted. to fight, and the whole press has been depre- cating the views that seemed to move thia humor in us. England has quite wrung her hands and tore her hair in the excitement of regret that we should have thought her capable of such bad conduct a Sumner de- picted. It seemed that we were the terrible blustering fellows and she the calm saint eager for peace and a good deal afraid of war. The fact is, however, that we are both afraid of war. We know that it is our evident destiny to fight her some time, sooner or later, for the antagonizing claims of two such Powers can finally be determined only by force; but wa know that the struggle is to be a terrible one, and, therefore, we are in no hurry for it, Ertoemic.—Smallpox is a contagious disease, and the word epidemic does not pro- perly apply to it either in its general or techni- cal sense. Infectious diseases are epidemic because the poison by which they are caused can be spread abroad in the air so that all the people may receive it in full virulence; but contagious diseases are communicated by more or less direct contact with a sick person, and dissemination in the general air deprives the poison of its power. Pityine Grant.—Ben Wade went to Wash- ington for nothing else in the world but to pity poor Grant, who is condemned to be President and fight the party men of all stripes for the peace of his life, and to make the President unhappy by showing him how easy and good natured man may be who is quite out of office, It wasa piece of the most coolly cal- culated cruelty our annals can show. Tue Warrers’ Sreike,—The waiters who have struck for an advance of five dollars on their monthly wages in the New York rostan- rants and hotels are for the most part, it must be conceded, both overworked and underpaid. But, with few exceptions, their employers con- tinue to resist their demands. Meanwhile the large number of people who eat in restaurants and hotels are exposed to all the annoyances occasioned by the inexperience and incivility of the billiard markers, porters and grooms who have been pressed into service as substi- tutes for the waiters. Strikes are always 60 uncomfortable and almost always so unsuc- cessful that we hope the waiters and their em- ployers will ere long agree upon some fatr compromise; otherwise we may have to return to the old days when pretty waiter girls began to. flourish. A Pertixent Ivquiry,—What has become of the few millions assessed and collected for the purpose of widening Church street ? Two Mitttons ror THE QuAKER Commrs- sion. Better give a dollar a head for Indian scalps, and the bother about the red mon would be quickly wiped out forever, THe NARRAGANSET Steamsitir COMPANY,—ThO stockholders of the Narragaaset Steamship Com- pany have made choice of the following oMcers for the ensuing year:—P'rosident, James Fisk, Jt.; Treas urer, John H, Bacon, Jr.; Recorder, John a Gordon; Direetors, James Fisk, Jr., William N, Simona, A. A. Burnside, Chariea 8. 11H), W. Coriiea, Jay Gould, Frederick Lane, —— Miller, —— Sanderson. A vote of thanks Was tendered to General Burnside, the retiring president. Everyuiing p. lof harmont- Fad and the prospects of ie pany look fat.