The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1869, Page 4

_ adjourned. ‘i PR ets NEW YORK BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23dat., between Sih and Gib a Enocw ADEN. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avonie and Twenty- fourth streot,—DoRa—BLAOK EvEp Susan. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ani Uh CORALLINE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. Lire 1x THR STREETS — La Tous ve Nese. aGiBAND OPERA HOUSE. corner of Eighth avenue and street. LEAH, THE FORSAKEN. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thiriieth strect and Broadway.—Afteraoon aud eveniut Performance. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Butlding, Mth etreet,—B1Orian MINS TRELST, 40. THEATRE COMIQU Broadway. ~ BURLESQUE, Comio BALLET AND PaNvOMiME, WAVERLEY THEATRE, 780 Broadway.—Porvvan EN- TRATAINMENT. NIBLO'S GARDEN, EXrRavaGanza oF SIND Broadway.—Tue SPROTACCLAR THE Sat.on. LYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—tt ars CENTRAL PARK (¢ S9tb st, POPULAR GAR yay Diceoay , between 6%h and CLINTON HALL, Astor place and Kighth street. —Wo- WERS FROM ALASKA, HOOLEW'S OPF MINSTRELS —THE NEW YORK ROIRNOE AND Arr. OF ANATOMY, 620 ENDANOE. Friday, July 2, 1868. Europe. ‘The cable despatches are dated July 1. ‘The London journals publish that something is wrong with the new French cable, and that it has been cut and buoyed. The Great Fastern is return- lag probably to discover the fault that was noticed on the 25th ult. ‘The Lord Mayor of London entertained the Minis- fers at the Mansion House last evening at a banquet, during which Mr. Gladstone spoke on the Irish Church question. A feartul nitro-glycerine explosion has occurred in Wates, killing four men. ‘The bullion in the Bank of Engiand las increased £185,000 since last week. ‘The Burlingame mission is about to ieave Paris for Stockholm. In the Cortes yesterday General Prim denied any intention to attempt a coup aerer. Cuba, An American engineer, recently from Puerto Prin- Cipe, says te condition of the garrison in that town is dreadful, there being ten deaths a day in the hos- pitais, The insurgents were conducting the siege with great activity. An American named Speek- man, one of crew of the Grapeshot, tad been executed at Santiago. South America. We have dates and letters from 4, Lima, Peru, to the 13th and Valparaiso to the 2d of June. The new cana! projects have been re- jected by ihe Colombian Congress, reiary Borie’s apology for the landing of marines’ on Colombian territory in order to capture deserters is published. President Baita, of Pera, in reply to a request of a mass meeting that the monitors be tendered the Cuban insurgents, replied that he would do what tended most to ihe honor of Peru, A fire had oc- curred at Santiago, Chile, involving a loss of $400,000. Panama to the West Indies. Advices from St. Thomas to the 16th ult. announce that Sir Arthur Rumboldl, Bart., Governor of the Vir- win Islands, died suddenly there on the 12th ult. An immense crowd of peopie of all ranks and positions attended the funeral. It is the general opinion that slow potson was administered to Sir Arthur by some Of its political enemies in Tortola, We learn from St. Domingo that General Cabral had succeeded in landing with a strong force at Azaa, General Luperon sailed from St. Mare in the sieamer Telegrafo for St. Domingo to biockade that Port, and Cabral proposes to invest the city by land and so cut off all communication, The Telegrafo had been in to Puerto Plata and attempted to bombard the town, but her guns would not reach. She was driven off by the guns of the fort. The Senate has declared her a pirate. A correspondent slates that Baez had left his capital aud gone to Monte Christo. Advices from Porto Rico state that the Captain | General had ordered four Of the ringleaders of the recent military ¢/eute to be tried by court martial and immediately shot; but the oMcers composing the court disagreeing as to the punishment proper to be inflicted, the affair remains unsettled. In Ponce and Mayaguez the feeling against the Spaniards is becoming more bitter daily, The people have received the news of the recognition of the Cubans as belligerenia by Peru and Onile with great rejoicing. Miscellaneous. The public debt statement just issued shows wa de- crease in the debt during June of $16,410,132. President Grant delivered the dipiomas to the graduates at Georgetown College yesterday. A seat next hisown was reserved for ex-President John- son, but he did not arrive until the exercises were closing. The Democratic State Convention in California has It passed resolutions favoring the fil- teenth amendment and the adoption of the postal telegraph system. The Richmond (Va.} police force 18 to be increased on election day and armed with muskets and bayonets. The foods have been very destructive in the neigh- borhood of Junction City, Kan. Thirteen lives are known to have been lost and more probably were. The City. General Butterfield was regularly instalied in the Sub-Treasury yesterday. The yacht Dauntless wag geen on the 20th, 230 molles east of Sandy Hook. Hastings, who killed Frank Bunker, it is reported, has been arrested in Boston. There are still $200,000 or more of the Ocean Pank money in the hands of the thieves. The bank oM- Ctals have offered $25,000 for the arrest of the thieves, although they claim that the bank did not lose over that amount. The stock market yesterday was irregular, open- ing strong and buoyant and then undergoing a Speculative shares, sharp decline on the leadi Gold advanced to 137}4 but thence declined to 136%. i Prominent Arrivals in the City. Sir Joun Barrington, of Dublin, Ireland, and Gen- eral Parker, of Washington, are at the Brevoort House. General Craig W. Wadswortii, of New York, and Generali W. Dwight, of Boston, are at the Aibemarie Hotel. Eara Corneil is at the Coleman House. Colonel H. C. Whitely, of Washington, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Thomas Coffin and P. Power, members of Pariia mont for Nova Scotia, are at Sweeny’s Hotel, &x-Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General W. Q. Gresham, of [odiaua, ts at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Prominent Departures. Count Zwikywiski, Secretary to the Russ gation at Washington, and Nathaniel McKay, for Boston; Major General Heiztzelman for Englewood. Captain Abner Mellen, of General Varian’s stat, start to-day on an equestrian tour and party, through the White Mountains. Generai Sickles, Minister to Spain, and his family, and George Wilkes, Editor of Te Spirti of (he Tunes, guiled yesterday for Kurope in the steamship Union. place by the Chinese government, and in the next place by the absurd and cruel legislation of California—this immigration is daily increas- ing. An intelligent writer in the July number of the Galury says that, with an emigration from China standing in the same ratio to the home population that the drain from Germany holds to the population of that country, we should have an influx of more than one million Chinese yearly. place upon our soil a preponderance of male adults of Mongolian blood over those of all the other families of man among us.” surely an astounding prospect. it, Chinese immigration is manifestly inaugu- rating a new labor movement of immense importance. Railroad has been built by Asiatic labor is pregnant with significance. Chinese have earned their title to recognition the South, Progress is the watchword of tho grand movements which are now spreading through- out all the ramifications of society in the Old World and the New. In peace and war, in sunshine and storm, in the midst of physical, political and religious convulsions, progress is the irresistible law of civilization, It is at once the motive and the object of the strange restlessness which is agitating vast populations in Europe and in Asia and driving them to seek in the two Americas, that now form the new centre of the world, incalculable resources of sustenance, wealth and power for at least thirty-six hundred million inhabitants, We seem to have reached a period in many respects similar to those diverse epochs in the history of the distribution of human races over the surface of the globe when great migrations have taken place and the inhabitants of one climate have been visited, if not overwhelmed, by a mysterious “influx of inhabitants of some other climate. As at the creation the spirit of God moved over the face of the waters, 80 at these epochs the spirit of man bas moved over the face of the earth, [t has impelled numerous tribes and whole nations across plains, mountains, rivers and even oceans, and deposited them in regions far remote from their original birth place. We lately referred to the extraordinary statistics of European immigration to the United States during the past fifty years, and particularly to the recent startling increase of Swedish emi- gration to this couatry, as forcibly illustrating this point. It islikely to be illustrated still more forcibly and ona grander scale by Chinese immigra- tion, which within a very few years has brought to our shores at least two hundred thousand Mongolians, Notwithstanding the restraints to which it has been subjected—in the first “Ten years of this rate would This is Aside from all other problems suggested by The single fact that the Pacific By this’ fact the as a necessary element for the development of the resources of the far West. Califoraia is beginning to repent of her suicidal policy towards them. As this policy is gradually modified her material prosperity is advanced, The Chinese, we are informed, are found now in woollen, paper and powder mills; in the borax wi in the hop plantations, fruit orchards and vineyards ; following the reaping machines on farms and working the salt pits on the coast; doing almost universally the cooking, and engaged in hundreds of branches of industry that would be impossible without their cheap labor. But even if California should persistently enforce her inhuman laws against the Chinese, what would be her inevitable loss might prove a great gain to the rest of the country. Asiatic labor might extend more rapidly along the line of the Pacific Railroad until by its unsurpassed perseverance, ingenuity and thrift it should irrigate and fertilize even our great American desert, make our mountain wilder. nesses blossom like the rose, drain malarious districts, build up such dykes to prevent the overflow of the Mississippi as their earliest ancestors built to control their own more unmanageable Yellow river; develop to a degree now undreamed of the productiveness of the entire valley of the Mississippi; find their way into every branch of industry and trade, even in our Middle and Northern States ; and especially solve the problem of elevating the Southern States to higher prosperity than was ever attained before the war. The Chinese alone retain their innate en- ergy beneath tropical suns. Their ultimate destiny may be'to reclaim all the vast areas of tropical lands, insular and continental, which have hitherto been, comparatively speaking, a closed world. Meanwhile plenty of land and plenty of work can be found for them in our Southern States. We hail, therefore, with sat- isfaction the welcome which the Southern planters are about to offer to Chinese immi- grants. Aconvention has been called, to meet at Meniphis on the 13th of July, for the special encouragement of Chinese immigration, It will be composed of delegates from all parts of the South, particularly trom Georgia, Ala- bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee. It is expected, moreover, that ‘Koopmanshaaf, one of the principal Chinese contractors at San Francisco, who has already brought fifty thousand of his countrymen to America, will be present at the convention, and will unfold his plans for organizing a mighty scheme of direct immigration to the South. We shall look upon the presence of Koopmanshaaf at such a convention as an event of historical moment. If Sambo will in- sist on turning office-seeker, and will not work, the sooner John Chinaman takes hig place the better. “Peace Harn Her Vicrorizs No Less Re- NOWNED THAN Wan.” —New cantata by Jubilee Gilmore, His benefit concert realized over twenty thousand doliars, which, with bis twenty-five thousand dollar gift house, will do pretty well. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF & CoMMON Miavor. TUNE.—The grain’ dealers in Chicago and other Western grain marts have taken advan- tage of the recent deluge in some of the West- ern States and the supposed prospective injury to the wheat crop to send up the price of grain, and, of course, the price of flour must be en- hanced in a still greater ratio, The rise, how- ever, must only be temporary, for the Southern wheat crop is not. only beyond danger, but a good deal of it is already in market, The bulls in the grain markets are straining every nerve to appreciate prices in view of the extraordi- Son yield of wheat and corn betokened in every part of the country, Movemeat—To Chinene in NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1869. Quostica. We publish to-day very interesting advices from Cuba by letter and telegram. The course of the revolution runs on without any remark- able event to hasten the result, and diseaso among the troops and volunteers is beginning to play the same part with the Spanish forces in the field which it did a few years since during the Spanish iavasion of St. Domingo, when thirty thousand men were sacrificed for an idea that, after all, was never vindicated, Oar letters from Havana bear date previous to the recent arrival’of General Rodas, and be- sides bearing witness to the taming of the re- bellions spirit of the volunteers they make mention of two very important points—the admitted need at every point under insurrec- tion of large reinforcements to the troops, and the approach of an insurgent body to Colon, the centre of the great slave district of the island, and distant but little over one hundred miles from Havana, Our telegraphic advices give the report of an American engineer from Puerto Principe, near which place General Quesada is operat- ing. He reports that the operations of both sides are trivial in results, but the patriots are becoming bolder and more active—a fact which the Spaniards attribute to the presence of Americans among them. Disease is doing its work among the Spanish troops in garrisons there, while the feeling of terror among the people was inducing many to flee the island, According to this report the Spanish officers in the field state that reinforcements to the extent of forty thousand men are required to put down the revolution. This number Spain is ill able to send, with her exhausted ex- chequer and her own troubles at home with the democratic pact of Tortosa, the Carlists and the numerous opponents of the new régime. At Santiago an American sailor named Speek- man, who had formed one of the crew of the schooner Grapeshot, had been captured and shot. The matter has been represented to the government at Washington. Thus we see that the Cuban question grows in complication and importance, while the ad- ministration is likely to have its hands full with the proceedings against the Cuban Junta and the filibusters here. In view of the trouble these are giving the government, and the fizzle of their late attempt to circumvent the law, probably the best thing they can do is to take a new departure with fresh men at the lead. Sefior Morales Lemus, with Goicouria, Ryan & Co,, are likely to keep the officers of Spain and our own pretty busy, and a new organization here, leading off quietly in an- other direction, would be able to do much good to their cause. At the same time they could assist the new negotiations which it is whispered Spain is willing to enter upon. The progress that Cespedes and Quesada are mak- ing in Cuba, with disease as their ally against Spain, and a few hundred experienced Ameri- cans to inspire their movgments, indicate that the Cuban repwolic will soon need new men here for diplomatic purposes. Tue Nationa, Desr.—The report of the Treasury Department for the month of June exhibits a still further decrease of the debt of the nation, the reduction during the thirty days amounting to $16,410,182; making the aggregate decrease since the Ist of March, three months inclusive, foot up $36,610,799. This is very gratifying. Tae Frenow Transattantio Caste,—Com- munication by signal through the French At- lantic cable from on board the Great Eastern to the shore end station at Minon, near Brest, and »ce versa, was interrupted about nine o'clock Wednesday morning, and has not, so far as we have heard to the present hour, been restored. The electricians in charge of the wire report that there is no reason for alarm, the delay in signalling being, as supposed, caused merely by the occur- rence of one of those ‘kinks” or rope snarls which produced so many alternations of feeling between hope and dread of failure during the progress of the work of submerging the cable now in use. The French cable has been, it is thought, cut and buoyed in shoal water, 80 a8 to effect the removal of the faulty part, if there be any, or to straighten it ont if necessary, Sir Wm. Thomson telegraphs from France that the exact reason of the interrup- tion was not known. We sincerely hope that it may prove to be only trivial and temporary, and that the great undertaking will proceed to a successful completion, ‘Ts NUIsANORS OF THE GLoRtous Fourta.— On every side our ears ate saluted with the preliminary poppings of the glorious Fourth of July. We do not know that any amend- ment has been made to the constitution by which these nuisances have been extended over the preceding week, and we think they should be stopped. If the police cannot con- trol the boys they can control the innumerable itinerant sellers on the streets, who not @nly supply the boys with torpedoes, Chinese crackers and other appliances to make the community uncomfortable and delight the sneak thieves with hopes of fire, but who also keep up a continual noise by way of announcing their dangerous wares. They should be stopped, and we look to the police to com- press the Fourth of July into that portion of the almanac that legitimately belongs to it, ‘A Neat Bit oF Diriomacy.—General Sicklea, at his public reception on Wednesday evening, in the course of “‘a few remarks,” said in refers ence to his mission to Spain :~‘'l shall try to do my duty. That duty will be to obey the orders of my government and to faithfully represent its policy in Spain, our oldest ally, our earliest friend, who has honored herself by her noble efforts during the past year to place her govern- ment upon the sure and safe foundations of constitutional liberty.” Surely after this Mar- shal Serrano will dismiss all apprehensions touching the mission of General Sickles, for even in this little speech he doubtless spoke by authority. PostaL TELEGRAPH. —The California De- mocratic State Convention, in session in Sacramento, adopted a resolution condemna- tory of the present tariff charge rates for tele- graphing made by one of the large corpora- tions, as well as of monopolies in general in such direction, They advocate a reform by the legalizing of a postal telegraph system. California is on the right track. She bas the Pacific Railroad, and wants an efficient, well regulated telegraph. ‘The News from Cuba end the Cuban pak eo TAA Tho Now Irish-American Movement. Tae NEW ASSISTANT UNITED STATES The president of the Irish Republican Asso- ciation of Pennsylvania (Mr. Moriarty) is out with a card cautioning the members against an apprehended packing of their general con- vention, which is to assemble at Chicago on the 4th inst., with Irish democrats, and says that the objects of the convention are universal suffrage, protection to American industry, attachment to the Union and the social and political elevation of the Irish race, This is » republican movement for the Irish vote; but why is it feared that the democrats will attempt to pack the convention? It is because of this protection of American industry, The demo- cratic party is coming out for free trade ; and free trade will open our markets to English manufacturers at cheaper rates than our own factories can produce the same articles, “Very well,” says the democrat, ’‘‘shall the masses of the people be forever taxed to keep up our home manufactures and to enrich these monopolies?” But what will be the retort of the republican to the Irish-American? ‘Will you, Irishmen, go for free trade, when its sure effects will be at the expense of American industry, to enrich the manufacturers of Eng- land, and so from this country to strengthen the British despotism over Ireland?” This Irish republican movement, then, on protection to American industry, is » shrewd device, and will be apt to make a sensation in the general reorganization of our political issues and par- ties for 1872. Tho Close of the Fiscnl Year—Tho Goverue mout Finances. . Yesterday was the government New Year's, the previous day, June 80, being the close of the fiscal year. The vast array of clerks at the various departments at Washington are busily at work closing~ up accounts and strik- ing the balances of the business of the govern- ment for the past twelve months. Some of the results are already arrived at. The total receipts from revenue and customs were over three hundred and forty million dollars—a sum much larger than predicted—showing the success which has attended the reforming of the odious features of the tax laws. The ex- penses of the government during the same period will not be known for a few days, as the arithmetical labor connected with their preparation enforces delay ; but they are esti- mated at three hundred and twenty-five mil- lion dollars, so that Secretary Boutwell will have a large surplus with which to carry out the Sinking Fund law. With this flattering intelligence comes the monthly statement of the national debt, showing a reduction of over sixteen million dollars for the month of June. The following table shows the receipts of the government in each of the following fiscal years, ending on the 30th of June:— Internal Revenue, — Customs, Total, 3 26,813 $179, 046,601 $483, 176,417,810 442,44) 164,464,599 355, 88 182,000,000 340,287,176 1866. Geverat Prim assures the Spaniards that the government will ‘‘never attempt a coup @etat.” Why mention such a contingency ? ‘Tux Corron Crorp.—While the cotton spin- ners of England are holding meetings and passing resolutions to the effect that the cotton fields of America cannot fully supply the demand for the raw material, and in conse- quence are urging the encouragement of the growth of the staple in the East Indies, our Southern planters are indulging the hope that the present season will prove the most remark- able one as regards cotton production that-has ever occurred in this country, The Southern States are capable of raising cotton enough to supply the markets of the world, and as soon as the labor problem is definitely settled, either by the blacks going voluntarily and vigorously to work or by the substitution of European and Asiatic labor, this will be demonstrated to the satisfaction of every cotton spinner in Europe or America. Briant anp Fosrer,—What is the matter? John Bright is a Quaker. So is W. E. Foster. In spite of their Quakerism they have both forced themselves into prominent positions in connection with the Gladstone administration. They were both members of the Reform Club. They have retired from that club, says the cable, because the club refuses to elect as honorary member a gentleman whose name they had proposed. Was this gentleman a Quaker? Weare not told, If our suspicions are well grounded Quakerism has had nothing to do with tfis matter. Bright and Foster are advanced liberals—a little too far ad- vanced for the Reform Club. The Reform Club is a whiggish concern, and the whigs are nearly as conservative as the tories. If lib- eralism be the source and cause of this trouble we may rest assured John Bright will have his revenge. It is not wise of the land- owners to provoke the wrath of the great tri- bune of the people. This little affair is inte- resting from its probable results. Tax Lorps AND THE Iris Civroa Brt.— After all this Irish Church bill seems safe in the House of Lords, The amendments offered by Lord Lifford, Earl Russell, Lord Redesdale and Baron Westbury, taken in con- nection with the previous feeling on the sub- ject, seemed to indicate a terrific storm and very stubborn resistance. The storm does not appear to have been so alarming nor the resistance so stubborn after all. An insignifi- cant amendment was carried on Wednesday night—an amendment which in no way affects the character of the bill; but the clauses from number two to twelve were afterwards agreed to without discussion. The preamble of the pill has been reserved for future discussion ; but unless something quite unforeseen trans- pires the bili will be read a third time and passed before the present session comes to a close. K such proves to be the fact Mr. Glad- stone will have gained a victory which will be without precedent in the annals of parliamen- tary government. It is the first time that so grand and sweeping a reform has been achieved without revolution. Nirro-Giyogring AGAtn.—An explosion of nitro-glycerine occurred in Wales yesterday. It was produced by concussion incident to the cartagé of the material towards quarries near Carnarvon, Four men, with the horses em- ployed, were blown to atoms, a railway station building was torn down and a village distant one-fourth of a mile much shaken, Is such an agent worth the risks inourred by its use? TREASURER. Lnstaliation ef Goneral Butterie!d—Valedic- tery ef Mr, Van Dyck—Remarks of His Successer. Ata little after nine o'clock yesterday morning tho force of employés in the Sub-Treasury to the num- ber of sixty-seven, including heads and assistant heads of division, assembled in the rotunda of the building on Pine street to hear the valedictory re- marks of the retiring Assistant Treasurer, Mr. Van Dyck, and to open acquaintance with tis successor, General Butterfleld, e Mr. Van Dyck said:—Gentiemen, | have come to bid you farewell and to express how grateful I feel } to all of you hore present for the faithful and gener- ous ald you bave invariably rendered to my adininis- tration of the affairs of this department. My coa- nection with you has been of some constderable jength, bus marked throughout by recoliections of a leasant and satisfactory nature. Your duties in many tances were of an arditous and important charac: . ter, but I fail to remember that I ever had occasion to remark a cage of negi¢ct or inattention to duty. 1a taking my final leave, however, the emotion of re- ‘et al parting with so many familtar faces is pleas- nat qualified by che thought that { hand over the atfairs of this departinent to one in whom you will find ait those qualities of mind and heart chat Combine w secure an honorable nope aud an affection- ate esteem among men. I have now the very great Dleasure of introducing to you General Butterdeld, whose services in the field in the cause of the Union neither history nor his countrymen will soon forget. In the duties upon which he now enters | have no doubt whatever that the same high ability which marked his military career will be as fully illustrated tn tins more peaceful scene of labor, General Butterficld here came forward and sald:— I feel highly complimented by the remarks of m, worthy and respected friend and predecessor, and truat that you will have no reason to find that I fall very ghd below the standard he has erected for me. The complimeatary remarks he has made tu reference to yourselves is suieient guarantee and encouragement for me that the same fidelity and generous assistance that have characterized your connection with him wiil enable me to discharge to the best of my humble ability the duties of this posi- tion, Mutual aid, freely and ungrudgingly rendered, makes the relatiéns between those Who have a com: mon business to perform agreeable and happy. My aim shall be, while zealously performing the duty [have been assigned to discharge, to cultivate none but feelings of courtesy and kindness with those who are here united with me in the Sub-Trea- sury of the United States. 'r, Van Dyck then introduced the peming heats of division:—W. H. Ferris, E. H. Birdsall, C, H. Pat- terson, P. , Field, C. H. Cady, P. H. Bowne, D. Wilson, W. Sherer; assistant heads of division, ©. P, Gulick, A, L. Weaver, W. J. Bretten; and then the General was made acquainted with the rest of the employee, after which, in company with Mr. Van Dyck, he proceeded to his private office and entered upon the duties of the department. At ten o'clock the doors were opened to admit the crowd outside waiting to get their coupons cashed. The rush waa something like a holiday night at a theatre; but the ofMicials in the building were numer- ous and skilful enough to prevent any awkward Jams or bruises. THE OCfAN BANK ROBBERY. Fully $200,000 Still Missing. No new revelations in the Ocean Bank robbery were made yesterday calculated to fix the offence upon any particular parties, In addition to the $268,000 recovered by the police, itis known that fully $200,000 are still unaccounted for by persons who have made their losses known. A number of sufferers who had deposits tn the insti- tution have carefully abstained from reporting the amount to the bank, and consequently the exact value of the property carried of caunot be stated, out it will not likely fall short of half a niillion, In the newspapers of yesterday advertisements ap- peared offering rewards of twenty -five per cent for four different lots of securities, an.ounting in the aggregate to $135,000, It is understood that $75,000 of this sum was lost by Mr. Lilienthal, tobaccoaist ; $15,000 by Harrison Reed, and $25,000 by a gentle- man of wealth who has taken care to keep his nawe from the public in the transactions of the bank. The statement having been made that the Irviug Na. tional Bank was a heavy sufferer the officers have published a denial of any such losses, ‘The Board of Directors of the bank have offered a reward of $25,000 for the arrest of the guilty parties. As they profess to liave suffered to the extent of from $20,000 to $25,000 only, this liberal reward has excited considerable comment and ia generally looked upon as indicating that either the bank has sustained losses that the officers have feared to divulge, or, being very sure that they will never be called upon to pay the amount offered, they put forth the card to impress the public with their sympathy for depositors, ‘There are very few persons who believe (iat the Superintendent of Poiice has given to the public a faith(ul and full statement of the manner in waich the restoration was made, That the vox was sent to Captain Jourdan is certain. and that tt contained the sum named is‘equally certain; but the general impression is that but half the story las been told; that if the facts were known the box was depositea on Elizabeth street im accordance with a previous agreement entered into between the thieves and some person having sumictent influence to guarantee them brotection from punishment. Nobody connects Captain Jourdan with any such compromise; but the air ts filled with strange whispers of ugly com- lorry and the Superintendent of Police is be- jieved to be in & position to throw some light on the case if he choose #0 todo. His action tn the entire case is severely criticised. When called upon by the bank oMcials it is known that he recommended them to pad private detectives, naming a party, prom- ising them at the same time the assistance of his de- tectives. Jn this action he has seriously annoyed the Board of Pollce, who look upon 1¢ as an admis- sion by the Superintendent that his oMcers are un- equal to accomplish the arrest and conviction of the thieves, or that he does not desire their arrest. ‘The chief of detectives, Mr. Kelso, and his assist- ants, notwithstanding the singular recommendation of their Superintendent, are exerting themselves to unravel the mystery of the burglary, and for once they have been put upon their mettie, They say but little; but enough has leaked out to show that the force do not appreciate the compiimeat the Superin- tendent has paid them for energy and sagacity, and are not likely soon vo forgetit. The recommenda- tion of the Supermtendent to employ private parties lias so Scandalized the force that the Commissioners yesterday contemplated taking action to rebuke him had not one of their number been suddenly called away. THE LATE REVOLT AT SING SING PRISON. In connection with the selzure of a sloop by con- victs Wednesday morning—the particulars of which appeared in the HeRALp of yesterday—it is asserted that had the keeper who was in charge of the revolters performed his duty promptiy the vessel could not have been removed from her dock. When the preconcerted moment for action had arrived, and wnile five of the convicts were in the hold of the sloop, the apparent ringleader, a notorious fel- low named Watson, unhesitatingly proceeded, in full_ view of his keeper, to cut the hawser with a shoekuife. Tne last named party drew tis re- volver and ordered him to desist or he would blow his brains out. To this Watson replied, “You go to h—ll,” aud ia moment afterwards the rope Was severed. As an excuse for stepping ashore and ebandoning the men over whom he was placed, on wi aing the vessel move off from the dock, the timid keeper pleaded that the convicts drove him ashore jer penalty of death if he remained; but this did not save him from immediate discharge. This brave (!) man, Who, according to nis own state- ment, was threatened with ily harm, turned his back to the unarmed fugitives while the chambers of his revolver contained a@ bullet for every convict on board, The man Watson, who held the helm of the sloop, after directing her a few hundred yards from the dock, and while surrounded with flying bullets, defied and abused the guards and keepers, who were each endeavoring to bring him down. Drake, the convict, who was shot while trying single-handed to hoist a sail on the sloop, felt somewhat easier yesterday; but the prison physician believes that his wound is mortal. Althougn four of the convicts found in t@e hold of the vessel deny having had any partictpation tp her seizure, Drake has since staled that all were alike ginity, EXTENSIVE FIRE AT TARRYTOWN. Shortly after ten o'clock last Wednesday evening, a fire broke out in the block of three story bulidings on the corner of Main and Water streets, in this village, Which in a few hours consumed the entire block, with two houses on Water svreet, in all valued at not less than $30,000, ‘The origin of the fire is at resent unknown. Some five or six famili n the upper portion of the building, and it is thought that a kerosene lamp exploded in one of the rooms, As there is no fire engine in the litte or nothin could be done progress of the flames, wh licked up the = buildings 80 rapidi: u their Jl pe lO rk, time es- cape in their night-clothing. ‘The principal losses are as follow: mj L, Wigant, baker, 1084 on stock $1,200, red in the Putnam Insurance Company for $1,000; William Viglioni, uphoisierer, entire stock destroyed, 1088 $2,000, no Insurance; Mra, E. L. Freeland, milliner, te 10 stock $2,000, fally insured in the Cleveland insurance Company; B. Damman, cigar maker, 1048 on house and stock $4,500, insured for $3,000, principajy in the Yonkers: and New York Insurance Company; jamin Meeker, house on Water street, $3,000, no oe. Of the Main street block four houses were Owned bi Mra. J. Q. Fowler, valued at about $10, ‘on white! there was $7,000 insurance in the Yonkers and New York Insurance Company, The other hutidts owned by Mrs. A. Foster, and was vali at on which there was an insurance gf $6,000 tn the Yonkers and New York fusurance Company, It is peltoved that had the wind changed during the fire the entire lower portion of the village myst have begn destroyed, 240 and 24445. et alee WASHINGTON. Wasuinoron, July 1, 1860. Georgetown College Commencemont, The fifty-second annual commencement of the Georgetown College took place to-day. During the deilvery of an oration by S. R. Mallory, Jr., on the Subject of the Frepch Revolution, President Grant, accompanied by Lis Assistant Private Secretary, K. M. Douglas, appeared at the door and was welcomed by the President of the College, who conducted Sina toa front seat, while the band played “Hall tothe Chief” and a portion of the audience rose to do hiag honor, The President subsequently handed thelr at. plomas to the graduates and the medals, &c., to the prize students of the other classes. ‘The degree of Master in Arts, in course, wag con. ferred on Luis de Puebla, of Mexico, The honorary degreee of Master of Arts was conferred on Jonnsom Eliot, M. D., of the District of Columbia; Theodore H. Franklin, of Virginia; George A. Fitch, M. D., of West Virginia; Ernest Legarde, of Louisiana; Don J036 Antonio de Antonio, of Spain; Valentine , McNally, M. D., of Connecticut; Frank Neale, of Texas. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred:—First, Heary My Ruasell, of West Virginia; second, Walter R. Abell, of Maryland; third, Harry Walters, of Maryland; fourth, Sands W. Foreman, of California; fifth, Ste- phen R. Mallory, Jr., of Florida; sixth, James V. Coleman, of New York. After the distribution of the Prizes President Bernard A. Maguire, 8. J. 3., made @ brief address, at the conclusion of which he an- nounced that a chair of English lterature would be establisved in this coliege at the opening of the fatt term, it was expected that ex-President Johnson, one of whose sons is pupil of the preparatory school, would be present, and a seat was accordingly re- served for him next that of President Grant. Owing to a detention My. Johnson did not reach the grounds, however, until the exercises were just closing. ‘ Improved System of Mall Scyvico, To-day the mails on tWo thousand routes, directly under charge of the Contract Bureau of the Post OMce Department, were started on a new term of service. Postmaster General Creswell has intro- duced an entire new system of surveillance, which this morning, the first day of the fiscal year, went into operatien, over States by divisions and districts, embracing every post office and every mall route in the lana, and 80 connected that ina short space of time the efforts and energies of two or three divisions can be combined in the suppression of wrong doing, or in promoting the interests of the department under any emergency. Purchase of Government Bonds. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the As- sistant Treasurer at New York to receive proposals till twelve o'clock, noon, on Saturday next for the sale tothe government of not exceeding three mul- lions of United States bonds, the same to be held by the Treasury Department subject to the future action of Congress, Sixth Collection District of New York. General Cocnrane has accepted temporarily the position of Collector for the Sixth Collection district of New York, and duly qualified. Discharge of Pension Office Clerks. About thirty clerks of the Pension Ofice received notice of their discharge to-day. Many of their places will be filled by temporary clerks, suspended some time since, Who have remained in the city for that purpose. Personal. Minister Thornton and family left here to-night for Newburyport, Mass., for a summer vacation. Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minisier, returned here to-day from the Virginia White Sulphur + a brief visit. . THE YACHT DAUNTLESS AT SEA. Piiot Charies Cumisky, of pilot boat W. ff. Aspin- wali, reports having seen the yacht Dauatiess at nine A. M, on the 29th uit., 250 miles east of Sandy Hook; wind at the me moderate, about seven knot breeze, and the yacht was golag under all available canvas aod moving through tie water very (ast. MOVEMENTS OF THE VICE PRESIDENT. Yesterday afternoon Vice President Colfax and wife arrived by rail at Irvington on the Hudson, where they were met by Moses H. Grinnell, at whose residence, it 18 uuderstood, they will remain for & short time. DEPARTURE OF GENERAL SICKLES. Major General Daniel EB. Sickles, administration appointee as Minister to Spain, sailed yesterday af- ternoon in the Union, of the New York and Bremem line, and will proceed directly to Madrid. The parw en voyage consists of the distinguished Minister, Mrs, Sickles, his mother; Miss Sickles, daughter of the General; Major Raphael and Major De Pevster, and Mr. A. A. Adde, the Minister's private secretary. Colonel John Hay, regularly appointed Secretary of Legation, is not of the party, and will not sail Uutil Che 1LOth last, joining the legation at Madrid. There was no demonstration, demonsiration hav- ing been already exhausied aud having gone to bed im the,morning after 2 might of it. The party was escorted to the steamer by the members of the General's sta and a few military friends, with a select few pontical friends and a hogt of civilians, though, perhaps, it is not wort while to say that the latter cacoried the party ex- actly, They simply put im an appearance to see the ——s gentleman on board, those who were acquainted indulging in the luxury of a parting hand-shake; those wiio were not looking as if they would like to have done so. George Wilkes, Mr. Andrews (one Of the earlier in the Grant movement aga republican movement in vis city) and other prominent republicans were present, and took leave of the General on board, with the exception of Mr. Wilkes, who accompanies him to Europe, though not as one of the party. For the rest--the fol polloi, as the Greeks pang to call them; the vermin, as Monselgneur of France called them before the days of the revolution—for their beneilt a sort of informal reception was improvised on de and thus were they afforded a rting 100k at once: distinguished hero, now distinguished diplomatic appointee, PROSPECT PARK FAIR GROUNDS. The racing on Saturday promises to be good from present indications. There will be five races run, the first a handicap hurdle race, with four starters. Harry Booth will carry 160 1bs., Lobelia 148 Ibs., Bo- hannon 134)bs. and Mitchell 115 lbs. Lobelia shouta win the race. This race will be followed by the Park Handicap, a dash of two miles, and the probable starters will be Slecty with 112 Iba. up, Gao with 114 Iba., Hotspur with 109 Ibs., General Yorke with 116 Ibs. and General Duke with 11¢1bs, This race will lay, between the two Geperais. The third race wilh be for the Sequel Stakes, two miles, for three year olds, and the probable starters will be Pom; Payne aud Vespuctus, with 117 1bs. each on the! backs. Pompey ought to win. ‘Dhe extra seveo pounds are penalties for being winners. race will be a dash of three-quarters of a mile, and the probable starters will be Lady Petry, Stamps and a gray filly by imported Hares, dam Fidelity, The meeting will cl with the Consolation Premium, the entries tor which will be made this evening. RENSSELAER PARK RACES. Troy, N. Y., July 1, 1869, This Was the third day of the Rensselaer Park As- sociation races. The first race was the postponea race of yesterday, for a purse of $1,200, for all horseac that had never trotted better than 2:38; $750 to beg paid to the first horse, $300 to the second, and $150 to the third, Western New York won in thress straight heats. Time—2:33, 9343s, and 2:32. Mace’ s Captain Gill took the second money, and Borst’a ia Pat the third, bgt M, Patchen was distant In the second » i a [a or tye f: al horses that iad never trotted Detter than 2:60, '§350 to the first horse, $160 to the second, and ” to the third,gLizate Parker, of Philadelphia, wom the third, fourth and fifth heats, and the race. TY me— Odituirk’s No Name took the ¥ ;cond money, and ‘9 Joun A. Griswold the v jira, ‘The weather was fine, the track in good cow dion, ‘And the attendance very large. COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING FU A Nut for the Excise Board to Cvack, At the meeting of the Commissioners of the Sink- ing Fund held yesterday at the Compt oler’s omce @ large amount of routine business way, transacted, after which came up a Atscussion in ‘relation to the for liceuse fees the Board of short conversati discussion the following resolution was u1 aly adopted:— id coun low, Resolved, That the Treasurer of Board . fied that Comet toner of he itera’ fant investigation of @ legal approyt. ine exctep teense Youn, AL ho cone clusion that 1 oe to tho revouusa Me ig ena te, heat he ca enn re ict eaieastre a relma de be raquented to iD. ‘The Commissiongsr; then adjourned,