The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. :No. 159 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street. MoTHER HUBBARD. JARDEN, Broadway.—Ta® SPgOTACULAS NZA OF SINDAD THE SAILOR. FIFTH fourth s VENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Tweaty- —La PERICHOLE. WoOoD's MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Afvernoon and evening Performance. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hrocozy Dicoony Dock. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d st., betwoen 5th and 6th ave.— NAKoissE. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Rom BO Jarrien JENKINS. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. LOYD. ., between Seth and TRAL PARK GARD x eR YOPULAB GARDEN C: RANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Ermro- TEUIALINMENTS#—THE UNBLEACHED BLONDES. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth atreet.—Erm10riaN MINSTRELSY, £0. SB, 201 Bowery.—Couto ac. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HG Vocaiisa, NEGRO MINSTRELS’ EMPIRE CITY RINK, corner 3d av., 634 and 64th sts.— GuAND ConoERT, 0, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoourr's MINSTRELS—THB GREGORY FAMILY, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— GOlENCE AND Ant. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Beery —FRMALES ONLY IN ATTENDANCE. SHEET. New York, Tuesday, June 8, 1569. TRIPLE HE NoWws. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated June 7. ‘The Loudon journals of yesterday take up the Irish Church question anti discuss the action of the House of Lords on the subject pretty freely. The Stan- ng Post, Star, News, Telegraph and ong editorials on the measure. ressure will be brought in France to mt undecided elections. The balloting ceeded in the several departments yes- terday. Emperor has no relish for parliamen- tary government. The ultimate result of the elec- tions is looked forward to with anxiety. The Paris races came off on yesterday. The great feature of the day was the contest for the grand prize of Paris, the gift of the Emperor, and the gift of 100,000f., haif by the city and half by the five great ratiway companies of France. The race was won by Glaneur. The Emperor, Empress and Prince Im- perial, the ex-Queen of Spain aad Queen Sophia of Holland attended the races. The Spanish government ts much perplexed the position of affairs m Cuba, Uniavi grams are not made public. Bisnop Lenz was arrested in Vienna ye the police because he refused to obey a si 8 secular Cuba. The United States ship vana yesterday for Key W board, The surgeon, Quinn, dic Sunday. Pelaez, who escaped from the mob, did not go to Key West in the Contoocook as reported, Mexico. Congress adjourned on the 3ist. Mariscal was confirmed Min at Washington, and Gomez Pa- lacios one of the Commissioners for the settlement of claims between the United States and Mexico. Minister Rosecrans aud Minister Tejada both again deny the rumors concerning the proposed sale of Sonora. Cauto, the alleged murderer of General Patoni, tt is said, will be acquitted and the murder will probably pe charged on persons higher in authority. Minister Nelson's arrival ts anxiously awaited. Miscellaneons, The municipal election took place in Washinton yesterday. A serious riot occurred during the day, owing to an attempt on the part of a body Of radical negroes to prevent conservative negroes trom voting. Pistols, bludgeons and stones were frecly used by the rioters and by the police, and sev- @ral persons on both sides were injured; but nobody is yet known to have been killed. The radicals, it is charged, imported huge colonies of outside negroes for voting purposes. A grand radical rejoicing was eid in the evening over the result of the election. A delegation of Georgia republicans waited upon President Grant yesterday and again urged the re- moval of Turner, the negro postmaster of Macon, They said that Turner was 80 ¢ ve to the people there that decent white republic could not re- ess was being driven from it, Besides, there has been no outsages or disorders in that district, and if the appointment was made as a rebuke it w spot. The President stated that Turner would removed ana bad already been informed that he needsearch no farther for bonds, It seems that nobody in Macon would go his security. The National Typo; cal Union as an organi: of New York Albany yesterday delegation fro: 4 consisting of Misses 1 nd lioward, wer lowed seats in the body of the Convention, but rights to full representation have not yet been de- cided upon. The United States Deposttory at Santa’ Fé, New and € VERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ixion—TaR ABTFUL 2. Mexico, was broken open and robbed on Sunday night. L. J. Collins, a depositor, was found dead, shot through the heart. The amount stolen cannot yet be ascertained, but recently there were $470,000 in the butiding, of which large amounts had been drawn just previous to the r Commissioner Delano has be cide whether the authorities of tbe V led upon to de- ern Peniten- tiary of Pennsylvania can manuf » lasue and use their own revenue stamps, in semblance of the genuine ones, to place upon cigars factured by the convicts. He very emphatically decided that they could not. Rev. Mr. Cramer, a brother-in-law of the President, bas returnea trom Leipsic, where he was consul ander President Johnson. On bis return from W Point the President will stop in New York at the r dence of Mr. Corbin, also brother-in-law. Seward’s cable telegram bill of $60,000, tt 1a stated, has not yet been paid, although money was appro- priated by Congress for the purpose. ‘The Department of State notifies applicants for Office that it will reply to their written applications only when it grants them office. The brakemen on the Eastern division of the Erie Raliroad struck for higher wages on Sunday and quit work. The Superintendent failed to secure Other flands, and last evening their demands—an in- Crease of twenty-five cents a day—were acceded to. The strike has ended, and matters are now going on a8 usual. ‘The City. ‘Mayor Hati sent tn his first annual message to the Common Council yesterday. He says that the city Guthorities are not responsible for the tax budgets— as the estimates prepared by them were manipu- Inted and altered by the Legisiature. The present Condition of the wharves and piers is not due to the omissions of the municipal authorities. The revenue from the city markets shows 4 satisfactory increase. ‘Tao street and rapid transportation questions are @iscussed, He says that the sireets cannot be kept Clean unless the corftractor Is paid better. There Ought to be three improved lines of railway running the length of the city. He recommends a wholesale Widening, extension and opening of the streets be- nth, the arrangement of the Broadway Gidewalks inside the stores” that the carriage rowd low Pour NEW YORK HERALD, TUKSDAY, JUNE 8, shall be increased by the present width of the side- walks, and the conversion of City Hall Park into a | plaza for vehicle transit in order to relieve Park row. In the matter of bonding the steamship Quaker City; District Attorney Pierrepont yesterday stated that he would not resist the motion, but would leave the matter to the discretion of the court, only re- quiring that it be a good bond and the papers be filed. He had received no directions from the gov- ernment or the Spanish officials relative to the mat- ter but he had no doubt personally that the vessel was intended for some warlike purpose. The court took the papers and reserved decision. The steamer Tybee was detained by Collector Grinnell yesterday on the complatnt of the Spanish Consul that she was intended to carry men and arms to the Cubans. An investigation, however, proved the contrary, and she was allowed to clear. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday be- fore Judge Blatchford the case of the United States vs. William Fullerton and others was further post- poned to the September term of the court in conse- quence of the illness of Judge Nelson. An examination was had yesterday by Judge Dowling at the Tombs in the case of the alleged in- cendiary burning of the Briggs Brothers’ stables in West Twenty-third street. The two brothers, John U. Briggs and Robert L. Briggs, and Henry ©. Ross, their late foreman, were each held im $50,000 bail to await the action of the Grand Jury, before whom the papers were sent, they having waived an exam- ination, John P. Sheldon, the remaining arrested party, was remanded to prison, not being able to furnish the required sureties, In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Judge Bedford sentenced Henry 8. Allen, convicted of forgery, to ihe State Prison for three years, The steamstip Holsatia, Captain Ehlers, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Hamburg, calling at Plymouth, England, and Cherbourg, France. The mails by her will close at the Post Ofice at twelve M. The steamship Manhattan, Captain Forsyth, will leave pier 46 North river at tree P. M. to-morrow, 9th inst,, for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, The stock market yesterday was heavy and under- Went a sharp decline. Gold was irregular, closing finally at 13334. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General James McQuade, of Uti Judge T. Mul- lin, of Waterloo; General L. E. Webb, of Wisconsin; Genera! Morton C. Hunter, of Indiana; Thomas Dick- son, of Scranton; Colonel Volobrano, of Washington, and G. L. Foote, of Boston, are at the St. Nicholas Alotel. Count M. Esterhazy, Secretary of the Austrian Le- gation, and Colonel W. F. Moiler, of New York, are at the Clarendon Hotel. W. D. Farand, United States Consul to Callao, Peru, and Dr. Palmer, of Philadelphia, are at the Westmoreland Hotel. E. H. de la Grange, of New Orleans; R. M. Field, and G, Walker Dennett, of Boston, are at the West- minster Hotel. George W. Armstrong, Consul elect to Rome; R. S. Noyes, of Sharon, Conn.; E. Baker, Jr., and D. T. Mills, of Boston, are at the St. Denis Hotel, Judge Cochrane and Colonel W. C. Hoyt, of New York; Hiram J. Hale, of Kansas; Samuel Laird, of Long Branch; . Lewis, of Geneva, N. Y.; D. Mono- ghan, of the United States Army, and J. B, Pomeroy, of Rhode Island, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Genera! A. B. Garfield, of Ohio, is at the St. Charles Hotel. Dr. Parkes, of Nashville; A. C. Collier, of Mur- freesboro aries J. Jones, of North Carolina, and W. E, iu, , Of Louisville, Ky., are at the Maltby House. Professor Thorpe, of St. Louis; Dr. Charles Roth, of Quebec, and J. H. Demoidy, of Dubuque, Lowa, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Ex-Senator James W. Wall, of New Jersey; J. M. Lawton, of Havana, and R. A. Van Wyck, of South Carolina, are at the New York Hotet. Robt. H. Pruyn, of Albany; Chas. B, McMichael, of Philadelphia, and Hy. Sandford, of Connecticut, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. P. G. Carey, of Cambridge; F. S. Pinckney, of Leavenworth, and W, Pettit, of Philadelphia, are at the Hofman House. Prominent Departures. Charles E. McLean, for Baltimore; E. Eldridge, for Sharon Springs; R, 8. Hale, for Elizabethtown: N. Ses G, Riebe, G. Verdier, and W. Dousdelet, tor Niagara Falis. The Lrish Church Bill—The Determination of the Lords—Intense Excitement in Enge land. In another place in this day's Heratp we print the sentiments of the London press on the attitude assumed by the Lords in relation to the Irish Church bill, All our readers now know that the bill by overwhelming majorities on every reading, as well as on every detail in committee, has been carried through the Commons. Yesterday we announced the fact that the conservative Peers had held a caucus on Saturday, and by a ma- jority vote had decided to oppose the bill on the occasion of the second reading. The bill, itought to be remembered, has been intro- duced into the House of Lords and read a first time. At the caucus to which we have alluded two Peers were loud 1n their remon- strances against the course which it seemed to be the intention to pursue. Lord Salisbury and Lord Carnarvon, both of them com- paratively young men, and having the reputation of ranking among the ablest, most accomplished and scholarly of their order, warned their brethren of the dan- ger of resisting the Commons on a ques- tion on which the Commons were so much at one with the great body of the people. The value of these remonstrances is not the less that in the opinion of both those noblemen, the House of Lords and the tory party, to which by inheritance they belong, are rather old-fashioned and scarcely up to the high re- quirements of the times. In spite of these warnings, however, the conservative Peers have come to the conclusion that it is their duty to oppose the second reading of the Mimis- terial bill, and they have decided to act accord- ingly. This decision, as will be seen from the extracts which we give in this day's Hxeraip, has aroused the British people and made the journalists for the time forgetful of the United States and the Alabama claims, All the lead- ing journals are loud and alarming in their tone. The Standard, which is tory to the backbone, justifies the action of the Lords, and urges them forward in the name of the Crown, the Church and the constitution, Mr. Gladstone, who ought to be im- peached, has placed all things in peril, and the conservative Peers who have now come tothe resone are entitled to all the en- couragement and support. The Standard, however, seems to be alone in its advocacy of this reactionary policy. The Times, the Post, the News, the Star, the Tdegraph, seem all to be more or less of opinion that the Lords have voluntarily hung a millstone around their own neck. Not one of these journals doubts the result. If the conservative Peers act as a unit they may command the majority in the upper House and defeat the bill, but they will do so at the risk of their privileges, It is the general opinion that if the opposition to the almost unanimously expressed will of the people is pushed by the Lords, it will lead to Such a conflict between the two branches of 1869.—TRIPLE | the Legislature as can only result in the weakening of the influence of the aristocracy, their humiliation and probable early destruc- tion, Already the British people are reminded of the Bristol and Nottingham riots and the other excitements and terrors of the first Reform bill period; and the Lords are warned that sucha collision as then took place be- tween them and the Commons may not be so easily and with so little injury got over. Itis thus manifest that if this decision on the part of the conservative Peers is persisted in Great Britain is on the eve of a great crisis, We must not, however, be rash in our conclu- sions. It is believed that if the conservatives in the Upper House go asa unit the Irish Church bill, on the second reading, will be defeated by a majority of eighty. Too much, however, must not be taken for granted. Two of the most prominent of the rising hopes of the Lords, and of course of the tory party, have warned their friends of the danger of opposing the Commons. We have no idea that Lords Salisbury and Carnarvon will fall back from the position they have taken, If they remain firm their example may prove contagious. A conclusion come to in a party caucus is not to be regarded as the conclusion of the House of Lords. It is our opinion that the Lords will think better of it, and that by gracefully yielding they will seek to avoid a conflict which cannot fail to imperil interests greatly more important than any which are involved in the disestablish- ment and disendowment of the Irish Church. Tf, however, the Lords should reject the bill they will immediately find themselves in colli- sion with the Commons, with the Commons backed up by the entire body of the people. What will then happen? There will happen that which was witnessed in 1831, when the House of Lords would not give their sanction to reform. The bill will be thrown out or so seriously modified as to be no longer itself and then sent back to the Commons, In its original shape it will be sent back to the Lords. If the Lords shall still prove intract- able Mr. Gladstone will, it is understood, prorogue the present session of Parliament and inaugurate a new one; he will do what Earl Grey in 1831 only threatened to do— he will create as many new Peers as shall be necessary to carry the bill through the Lords. In spite of the Upper House the bill will thus pass into law. Its final success is a certainty. In his right to create Peers up to the measure of his wants Mr. Gladstone holds in his hands the instrument which makes success certain, If matters are pushed to this extremity woe be to the proud aristocracy of England. The House of Lords will no longer be the bulwark of the throne, the conserver of the dignity of the nation. Led by the most popular and powerful Minister whom Great Britain has known for some generations, the democracy will become supreme, and to the sovereign people the throne, the Church, the oligarchy will have no choice but bow the knee. The Administration and the Trades Unions— Another “Irrepressible Conflict.” The negro question is coming up in a new shape. It will not stay down. It threatens another “irrepressible conflict,” involving new political elements which have only to combine in politics to sweep the country. Fred Doug- lass, as an American citizen of African descent, has, through his son, a printer by trade, raised an issue with the Printers’ Union at Washington which may result in arraying all the Trades Unions of the United States against the administration. The issue is clearly stated, ex parte, in a letter given elsewhere in these columns from a member of the printers’ union of Washington. Of the order of the Trades Unions generally, they are close cor- porations for the protection of the members of the various trades concerned, and such is already their power that it is generally a losing game for the employer or emplof§‘ who under- takes to resist them. The young Douglass has tried in several places for admission into membership with the working printers’ society, but has been refused on account of his color. Superintendent Clapp, of the national office, regarding this exclusion an unjust thing, has given Douglass employment without the con- sent of the printers’ union directly concerned, and hence the new issue raised or about to bo raised between the printers and Trades Unions generally and the administration on ‘‘the ever- lasting nigger.” Our volunteer correspondent on the subject says that an article was recently published in the Cincinnati Gazette, the evident intention of which ‘‘is to carry this matter into the halls of Congress,” and ‘to array the dominant political party against all trades organiza- tions.” If this be true a single campaign will be apt to demolish the dominant party; for in such a contest these Trades Unions can proba- bly bring, in response to the first long roll of the drum, half a million of voters to the polls, ignoring all other political distinctions, The general objection advanced to the admission of negroes into these Trades Unions is that the introduction of the black man will demoralize the societies and break them up. Into the philosophy of this proposition we care not here to enter. Itis sufficient for our present pur- pose that the prejudice of color, if you please, which has operated against young Douglass in the printers’ unions pervades all the Trades Unions of the land, hardly excepting Boston. How, then, is the administration to bridge over this difficulty? General Grant, in his appointments of colored men as ambassadors to foreign governments, as assessors of the internal revenue, as postmasters, &c., has fully committed his administration to the doc- trine of “equal rights” to white men and black men in the government service. The employment of the printer Douglass in the government office is perfectly con- sistent with these other appointments. He could not be denied under the gen- eral rule adopted. Here we are reminded of the sagacious views of Abraham Lincoln touching the impending conflict. He thought that the only way to avoid it after the abolition of slavery was to provide for the removal of our black population to some locality by themselves, in the West Indies, Central or South Amerioa, and, asa last resort, in Liberia. He undertook the initiation of a new coloniza- tion experiment, but 80 signally failed in it that wo have heard nothing since upon the sub- ject. The idea seems to have been dropped as by general consent. Here our African element is to stay and take its chances in the struggle for existence, What, then, can General Grant do? He stands committed to the law of equality in the right of labor as in the right of suffrage. In admitting the one right how can he deny the other? He cannot safely retreat; but how is he to advance against these Trades Unions? Here lies the new danger to his administration and the republican party. The humanitarian may recoil from the diabolical thought of exclud- ing a man because he is black or yellow from the privilege of an equal chance with the white man in the various callings of skilled labor; but if the skilled whites, who hold the field, combine politically to exclude the black, the party supporting him will go to the wall. It is an ugly question, Independent colored organizations in the different trades will not settle it, The conflict will only be changed from white unions against individual blacks to opposing combinations of the two races and in this, that and the other building, factory or workshop the employés will have to be all whites or all blacks, with constant dangers of bloody collisions. We hear that some of the republican leaders, snuffing this new negro agitation in the air, propose as a counter-irritant an active agita- tion of Senator Sumner’s suggested ultimatum on the Alabama claims. It is calculated that in this movement the acquisition of the solid Irish vote for a war with England will amply compensate for the loss of all the white re- publican mechanics who refuse to fraternize in their workshops with black men. Herein, too, may lie one of those urgent political ne- cessities which frequently drive our political parties to the most desperate expedients for the popular balance of power. Moreover, in this view, after all, the sin of African slavery in this country may bring its condign punish- ments upon England, the founder of the per- nicious institution. In truth, such is the transition state of American politics just now that it must soon bring about some extraor- dinary movements. But what a field is here upon this conflict between our Trades Unions and the black man! What a theme for the thunders of Wendell Phillips! So long as women are women this thing of equal political rights for women will be a Chinese puzzle. Moreover, it will be useless to agitate women’s rights in the matter of voting until we shall have settled this negro question of the negro’s rights in the matter of labor. The administration is committed to the doctrine of equal rights. The logic of events may be pleaded, but so it is. The ad- ministration has set and is enforcing the ex- ample of equal rights in labor as in suffrage, and unless some bold and commanding diver- sion shall soon be undertaken there will be an opposing combination in the political field of the Trades Unions of the country that will astonish the administration and all concerned, even in the approaching fall elections. Negro Suffrage in Washington—Tumult and Riot in the City. The scenes which were enacted in Washing- ton yesterday during the progress of the municipal elections—around the polling places and in the streets—attest the difficulty which has ever attended, and will perhaps ever attend, a first attempt to suddenly incorporate a newand powerful, yet generally uneducated, class with the members of an already enfran- chised citizen family. A City Council and charter officers were to be chosen by general vote, negroes having the right of balloting. Trained, apparently, in the tactics of voting ‘“‘early*’ if not ‘‘often,” as well as in the system of ‘“‘pipe-laying” or ‘‘colonizing” votes from abroad, colored men of the radical stripe entered the city or turned out from their several domiciles within the corporate limits in large numbers at the earliest hours of the morning, commencing to arrive at the different ward centres as carly as four o'clock. They were well prepared for an election cam- paign, having their ballots in their pockets, bludgeons in their hands, and their over- coats on their shoulders. They appeared determined to vote as the freedom of political decision dictated, as demo- crats or radicals, Free expression was not permitted, however, for, as appears from our telegraph report, a democratic mulatto named Stuart, having attempted to vindicate his principle in the legal manner, was set upon by the colored radicals, abused, driven from his position and compelled to seek shelter in a store, where he was protected from the negroes by the proprietor at much risk both to his person and property. Stuart proved a plucky fellow. A squadron of mounted police having arrived at his place of retreat, he came forth, went towards the ballot box, but was hunted from place to place by his infuriated brethren. The police were compelled in self- defence to fire on the mob. This goaded them on to act with a fury which is described as almost demoniac in intensity, the officers being assailed and the Superintendent wounded in the affray. Policemen and citizens were seen running in every direction, shots re- sounded on all sides, the alarm became general, and wonder is expressed that a num- ber of persons were not killed during the melée, The Mayor was insulted by the triumphant darkies, who lighted bonfires as an evidence of their triumph, howling around them in a most exciting manner. The dis- turbances subsided at a late hour in the evening. The police ran Stuart off and started him for Baltimore. Negro equality is almost completed and the “‘underground” railroad again in operation. Isptas = AFFAIns.—President Grant has issued @ series of rules for the regulation of Indian affairs and the general conduct of that department. These rules are binding for tho present, both on the Bureau and the members of the commission appointed by the Execu- tive, under the authority of the new law, to co-operate with it. The President is specific and minute in his detail of duty. It is to be hoped the Indians will experience benefit from his solicitude. Ropas comes to govern Cuba, and with him brings a timely reinforcement of five thousand soldiers. Since the trouble became active the Spanish forces have had disabled more than this number with killed, wounded and pros- trated by diseases incident to the country and the climate. Five thousand will not supply the loss, and the next loss to be supplied will be greater. How long will Spain stand the drain? SHEET. The Mayor's Message to the Common Council. Mayor Hall yesterday delivered the cus- tomary annual address to the Common Council of this city. Although he starts off with the modest acknowledgment that the importance of these communications has been almost destroyed by the ‘‘intelligent industry of the public press,” the Mayor, in the document now before us, has furnished a budget of fresh information of vital interest to all classes of our citizens, and afforded evidence that in the person of his Honor they have a wise, prudent and energetic Chief Magistrate. A most important branch of the message is very properly devoted to the consideration of tax levies—a matter in which every taxpayer and property holder has an absorbing interest. He takes the ground that the city government is not at all responsible for the city and tax budgets of the year. The Mayor and other city officers had prepared upon their local responsibility and properly presented to the Legislature tax levies they considered just; but they were rejected, and the task of con- cocting them assumed by the opponents of the local administration. Therefore they must now accept the entire responsibility of the result, These tax levies and the reckless partisan influences brought against the city authorities by ‘rural legislators” suggest themselves for discussion, but the Mayor dis- misses them for a more opportune period. The amount of taxes to be raised for city purposes amounts to only $4,153,000; for county purposes, $1,302,498 ; total, $5,455,498. This is, of course, exclusive of the sums ex- pended by the various State commissions which are scattered throughout the city, and which have all their disbursements—amount- ing to several millions—adjusted and settled here without invoking legislative aid. His Honor here passes a word upon the injustice of their discrimination, which is imposed upon no other municipality except New York, and gives evidence that all the virtue does not rest in these Albany commissions, by stating that within a fortnight one of these State commis- sioners has been morally convicted of taking a bribe. The sinking fund for the redemption of the local debt is in a highly satisfactory condition, nearly five millions having been added to it during the past two years. The assessed valuation of the real and personal estate in the city for the current year will be about one thousand million dollars, an in- crease of nearly ninety millions over 1868, which will be mostly levied upon property situated inthe upper part of the city. Last year the percentage was 2.69; this year about 1.96—a reduction which the Citizens’ Associa- tion lays claim to. The Mayor refers to the annual report of the Comptroller for answers to every practical question concerning city finances that may be put, and avers that a few more years of such prudent administration of the revenues must discharge the entire out- standing indebtedness of the city. It is men- tioned as a satisfactory evidence of the city’s credit that a recentloan was taken at two per cent premium. In regard to the important matter of mar- kets the Mayor recommends the sale of the Gouverneur and Franklin markets and the sur- rounding of Washington, Fulton and Clinton markets with sectional iron frameworks. Our citizens will be glad to learn that the Fish- mongers’ Association are about to make some improvements in their line of business in the neighborhood of Fulton Market. Attention is invited to the interesting report of General Viele in regard to the city markets. In relation to the wharves and piers the Mayor thinks some of them should be rebuilt and others extended to the prescribed limits. A proposition to increase the rates of wharf- age was defeated by a conjoined lobby of pecuniarily interested persons and political harbor masters. The Mayor recommends that claims against the city should be adjusted without litigation. A codification of the ordinances is being made, and the Superintendent of Police is commended for his ‘“‘tact, calmness, courtesy, prudence, amiability,” and so on. Our citizens will no doubt learn with sur- prise that, in the opinion of the Mayor, the affairs of the Croton Aqueduct Board have been conducted in a manner the reverse of “economical, efficient, scientific and service- able.” He makes some observations in this connection which will prove new and interest- ing. The Mayor takes this occasion, also, to rap Albany legislation and State commission- ers over the knuckles. The subject of asséssments as connected with city improvements commands a word in favor of the recent law, which provides that where the commissioners agree that the pro- posed improvement benefits the city at large half the expense shall be borne by general taxation. Inrelation to sewerage the Mayor thinks that where a projected work will last fifty years the expense should be spread over that period. That is a very just and reasonable suggestion. The Department of Public Charities and Correction comes in for a complimentary word from the Mayor. As evidence that our city is progressing in more than one respect it is recommended that a new city prison be im- mediately constructed, as the present one is a disgrace to the city, Tho Mayor states that thereare two hundred and twelve miles of streots in the city, of which eighty-one miles are in block and five miles in wooden pavement. The Nicolson pavement has not been found reliable except in side streets. The Stowe pavement (wooden) and the Fisk concrete pavement are commended— the former having been tried with success in San Francisco and the latter in Paris and other Continental cities, The miserable quality of street light is re- ferred to, with a recommendation that the city become independent of the gas companies by adopting other modes of obtaining light. An interesting experiment in regard to artificial light is mentioned as having occurred in the Tuileries in the presence of the French Em- peror. The Mayor thinks the streets could be kept in better condition if the taxpayers would con- sent to pay a proper sum for it, This is an open question. The great subject of city improvements at- tracts a large amount of the Mayor's attention. He goes over the whole ground, paying parti- cular attention to two main points, namely— How to prevent in the daytime the chokings of eng thoroughfares, and how, fowards nightfall, easy and rapid access may be had by two hundred thousand péople to their homes from their places of business. The various topics upon this important branch of our mar- vellously growing city, including the opening of new and the extension of old streets, the underground and overground railways, &c., are handled with judgment, accompanied by sagacious recommendations. All that the Mayor thinks necessary to be done in order to accomplish necessary improvements is, to use the language of President Lincoln on a former occasion, for the city government to “peg away.” That is a good peg upon which to hang tho growth of the city, provided our City Fathers adopt it. ‘ Forrien TELEGRAPHS AND TELEGRAPH Lanpinas.—Mr. Peter Cooper, of this city, in his capacity as President of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Com- pany, has, in a correspondence with Attorney General Hoar on the subject of the landing of toreign telegraph cables on our shores, elicited matter of very great importance with respect to future international communication by this agency to and from the United States, The letter of Mr. Cooper, with the reply of the Attorney General, appear in our columns to- day. The gist of Mr. Cooper’s case may be summed up in the query, Has a foreign tele- graph company the right to land cables on the soil of the United States? To this Mr. Hoar replies, in affirmation, perhaps, of the old federal doctrine, that they have not. Thus have we opened before us a matter of the first importance, tending to re-revolutionize our relations, diplomatic and commercial, with the Old World. Toe Spanish Avriuoritizs Crosine Our Port.—There is a Spanish embargo on the port of New York that threatens to prove a serious embarrassment to our commerce, Spanish suspicion and fear, excited by the Bohemian press, see all sorts of dangers in évery ship ready to sail. All ships appear to them freighted with filibusters, and arms and ammunition, and everything else, and every ship must stop till the Spanish Consul knows all about her. The last vessel held is the Tybee, the first vessel of a new line for St. Domingo. Donot our authorities carry their respect for neutrality unnecessarily far in thus acting on Spanish suspicion? Wuere Dors THe Money Come From?— When the Sheriff's admirers in the Sheriff's ring and other rings give to that functionary a carriage and horses we see clearly enough where the money goes; but taxpayers’would naturally like to know wheré it comes from. If the Sheriff pays for the present it is evi- dent that he needs no law to increase his fees, If it is given to him by those he has enabled to make so much more money than they want their gratitude should be understood by a sym- pathizing public. Oxp Reverpy has got fat, is troubled with indigestion, is well satisfied with himself and the English people and hates Mr. Sumner. This is the general summary of his present physical and intellectual status. ‘Those pub- lic entertainments,” he says, ‘‘are splendid affairs.” Reverdy is not quite dead yet, as his criticisms of Sumner indicate, and the country will finally, perhaps, come to under- stand that he was the victim of events. From the moderate demand that he went charged with to the demand of Sumner there is a wide difference, but it fs only the difference between the national spirit of Johnson's administration and a new adwinistration. Tae Crnsvs.—We are distressed to see that Mr. Depew’s man is able to hold his head up in the discussion relative to the census, Shall this decimater be let loose upon the country to take the conceit out of us with arithmetical tables, by proving that we are of a great deal less account in the world than we ought tobe? Austrian VinpIcation.—A bishop in Vi- enna, having refused to obey a summons to appear before a civil court, was arrested and taken before the judges by the police. Austria is getting ahead of the English House of Lords in the line of Church reform. AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB RACES. Second Day of the Meeting—Sale of Pools. The second day of the regular meeting of the American Jockey Club races opens this morning, and will be completed on the Jerome Park Course during the afternoon and evening. The programme of the day’s racing is very rich and comprehensive, giving promise of excellent and exciting sport, Four races will pe contested. The first will be a race of mile heats for horses of all ages. This will be certain to bring out good and favor'te entries, Next in order will come the race for the Westchester Cup, the distance being two miles and a quarter. This stretch will test both the mettie and endurance of some of the “cracks.” ‘There are, notwith- standing, nineteen entries for it, and if only one half of the number should come to the starting post the race is certain to be a brilliant affair, Among the entries are to be found the namea of Local, Dickens, Lancaster, Narraganset, Austra- lia, General Duke, Pileasureville, Abdel Kader, Vauxhall and The Banshee. A fleld of such lineago and reputation affords material for an event such as has seldom, if ever, been witnessed in this country before, The third race ts classed as the “Sellin Race,” having its apportionment of weights scal according to the prices which the horses have to be sold for. It will attract much interest, and coe for it will no doubt be @ large one. The spot the day will clage with a three year old race, a dash ofa mile and ah eighth, the winner of the Belmont stake to carry ten pounds extra. THE POOLS. The sale of pools held at the subscription rooms of the club last evening opened f spiritedly, but after a little time the biddin, d off and be. = rif aie “mi ar hela Lag | as judy from the figures given below, Vaux! ras wo aro with Alta vale close after at an idea of the others may be derived “s about same proportion was carried throughou! MILB MEATS. $150 = 210200 100 = 180210 80 «G8 4 = = » 9 = 100 Total po The ned according to the = ‘eoraprised R. B. Connolly, oe and Ly WES’ Tanoaster was the favor- In the pools for this tereagh there were tineteen untne there were but ene ‘The principal pools on tte from the entries on the six named on the this race were as Lancast ‘inted fiat he was giad to @ Lexington colt, $10; vera for mee, Gan a nyX aud Colonel nan the selling race there was but one sold ihe but three horses named as ontered. aoe i were Boister, $26; Flora Molvor.