The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1869, Page 4

. papers together y 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON SENNETT, Letters and ges should be properly sealed. -No. 184 Volumo XXXIV... ON AND KVENING. JE THRATRE, Fifth avenne and Twenty 2A—BLAO’ EYE SUBAN. Matinee at 2 WALLACK’S THEATRS. Sroadway ant ish street.— CORALLINE. BOWERY TAHFATRE, Bowery. Ture Rep Men—THe Lasr Days oF Powerit. Matinee até YD OPERA HOt yi Righth avenue and £8 sirect.—Leai, 18 Fo Mauinee at 2 Woon's MU a street and Broadway. s BRYANTS' OPERA A)\S fanmany Building, Mtb atreet.-Erntorras dlins THEATRE COMIQTE, S14 Broadwoy.—DoRUESQUR, Comio Barney aNd PANTOMIE. Matin WAVERLFY THEATR + Matine NIBLO'S GARDEN, Br EXTRAVAGANZA UF SINGA 2 Broadway.—PorcLan EN- Jway.—TUR SPROTACULAR THE BALLON. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Bronaway.—Riovoar Diocory Doox. Matines at 1s. BOOTH'S THEATRE. 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In the city of Vittoria Cariist revoin- tionists lave made their appearance in fo and much blood has been shed Troubles have also occurred in € a and Va- lencla, The republicans of Castile have issued a manifesto against the reactionary policy of 2 portton of the minisiry. No changes for the pre- sent Will be made in the Spanish ministry. The relations of England with America and France were diseussea yesterday in Times, The ngitsh Peers met on Thur y to arrange the composition of the new Irish Church vody. The Viceroy of Egypt has arrivea in Brussels, Cuba. General Rodas called the editors of the Havana sterday and expressed his disap- probation at their manner of treating the condition of agairs in the island. He said that they were striving to excite the passions of the people and to prevent pacification, while their conduct towards Genet repor ,, * the Cataionian volunteers guarding the Nuevi ~ilroad had revolted, and upon General Letona’, esting their colonel the volunteers lib- erated him and in turn imprisoned Letona, and even intended to snoot bim. Both Spanish and Cuban forces near Cinca Villas have been largely rein- forced, ana @ decisive battie is daily ex Eighty-five yolutlonists were captured nes Villas, Amo. ¢ them were a number of Ame: who were at ouce shot by order of General Lesca. Miscellaneous, Very few of the 200 Cuban expeditionists aboard the steamer Chase were captured with that boat. A}! except abont ten or twelve, including Colonel Ryan, had taken refuge on Gardiner’s Island, at the head of Lond Island Sound, where they still r ID. The French corvette Curieux, from Martinique, is in quarantine near Fortress Monroe, Va., with eigh- teen cases of vomit on board. ¥ ases hail terminated fatally within three days, and among those buried at sea were the captain, first oficer and surgeon, Work will be resumed in about } of Pennsylvania next week. 1 make any concessions, and the c been obliged to accede to the half the cc e miners re 1 companies have erms dict 1 mines ise to hem, At the meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Southern Educational Fund at Newport, +5 ON ‘Thursday last, a letter was read from Mr. Peabody donating an additional million dollars for educa- sional purposes in the Southern States, Mayor Bowen, of Washington, created a sensation at Gettysburg during the monumental celebration by is intimacy with a negro ex-waiter from Wash. ington, seating himself by his side and showiog him every courtesy ana attention. A chain bridge connecting Vauxhali Island with Richmond, Va., gave way yesterday, carrying down about sixty persons, Colonel James R. Branch, can- Aidate for State Senate, and a policeman, were in- stantly killed, ahd several other persons fatally in- sured, The Cliy. In the Supreme Conrt yesterday the case of Ba- ward B. Ketchum was finally disposed of, Mr. Ketchum acknowledging his sentence to be just and repudiating the effort of his friends to procure his Pelease upon a writ of ha Judy ‘ nard accordingly dismissed the suit and remanded the prisoner. The counsel for Mr. Veany applied to Judge Bar- nard yesterday for a writ of mandamus to compel the Boara of Assiatant Aldermen to admit him to the seat now held by Mr. Culkin. The Judge refused the writ, but granted an order to show cause why such awrit showld not be allowed, at the same time ex- messing the opinion that such a writ could not issue, the Common Councl! being the only judges of the qualifications of their mempers. The steamship City of Antwerp, Capta Mire house, of the Inman line, will leave pier No. 45 North river at twelve o'clock noon to-day for Gneenstown and Liverpool The European mails wil) close at the Post Oifice at ten A. M. The National line steamship Helvetia, Ca nm Thomson, will sai) from pier 47 North river at twelve M, to-day for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown. The Anohor line steamship India, Captain Mauro. wiil leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-day for Glasgow, touching at Londonderry. ‘The Merchants’ line steamship Crescent Cty, Cap- beas corpus. tain Hildreth, will sail from pier 12 North river at | three o'clock this afternoon for New Orleans direct, ‘The stock market yesterday opened buoyantly, but fell off, recovered and then closed sirong and steady, Gold fell to 1 closing finaily at 16 \. Prominent Arrivals in the City. £x-fovernor RM. Patton and W. RK. Alabama, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Peabody, of London, England, and General Ward, of New York, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General G. Cadwaiiader, of Philadelphia; M. Liv. ingaton, of San Francisco, and ©, V, Culver, of Pennsylvania, are at (he Hoffman House J. H, Allen, of Bremen; M. Perkins, of St, John, Sinith, of N. B, and J, M, Howard, of Peoma, are at tue Cole- man House, Captain J. Macaulay, of steamship Samaria, and T. R. Lapuerto, of Varona, Spain, are at the New York Note). . Abbey, of New York, Dr. Conover, of jajov L. D, Morse, of Boston, and Gen- sulce deserved the severest censure. It is | eral ©. W. Chambertin, of Chicago, are at the Metro- politan Hotel, Captain Watking, of the United States Army; Dr. R. Wilson, of Buffalo, and Sedor Rodriques, of Cuba, ave at the St, Julien Hote Joun Sweet, of San Francisco; A. 8. Pennoyer and John Walison, of Philadelpita, are at the St, Charles Hotel. ryt Prominent Departures. Judge A. N. Blockledge for Erle, Pa.; Colonel George Hil for Saratoga, and EK, Melmbold for Philadelphia, The Su Pacha and the Press~The New Golden Age. In September next it is expected the opening he Suez ship canal, connecting the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean with the Mediterra- nean and the Atlantic, will be celebrated with a royal gathering and regal splendors never surpassed, nay, never approached in the grandest celebrations of ancient or modern ~ Canal—Iemail of times, All the accessible potentates and Pow- ers of Europe, Asia, Africa, and doubtless of of America, too, are to be represented on the great occasion, We presume, too, that many distinguished ladies from various nations will be present, inasmuch as the Empress Eugénie, in the name of France and this great Franco-Egyptian work, is to assist in the cere- Through her influence some one or more of the princes and princesses of the royal family of England will, in all probability, be among the constellation of notabilities. Last, though not least, it is given out that the enlightened Egyptian Viceroy, Ismail Pacha, has resolved to set apart a million of francs in behalf of the representatives of the news- paper press; that cards are to be sent out over Europe alone to two hundred different journals inviting a delegate from each to the grand round of jsétes and excursions, including a steamboat trip up the to the cataracts; and that, in short, the liberal and progressive Viceroy intends that this celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal, like the great work itself, shall be one of the wonders of the modern world. We live in an age of wonders, The printing press, the steam engine and the electric tele- graph, in their amazing transformations in human affairs, moral and material, are eclips- ing the miraculous powers of the magic lamp of Aladdin. Through the public press, steam and the telegraph ali the nations of the earth and the isles of the sea are coming into imme- diate rapport. Hence Austria, which but yes- terday was dozing and dreaming among the effete institutions of the Middle Ages, stands to-day in the front rank of modera progress, and distant China, which but yesterday was closed on all sides as by a Chinese wall gainst ‘outside barbarians,” and especially “the red-headed and sandy-haired barbarians of the West,” is throwing wide open her gates to the world-subduing Caucasian, Her civ zation, which was gray when Europe was but a wilderness of savages, yields to the pressure of the newspaper press, steam and the tele- graph. And now, it appears, the Viceroy of Sgypt, from bis contact*with these potential agents of modern progress, is so far advanced as to eclipse even the observing and sagacious Bismarck in his recognition of the pervading influences of modern journalism. The Viceroy learned something of this, we dare say, from the late Abyssinian expedition. Snch cre among the marvels of the age we live in. It is the new golden age. It is re- markable, too, that as the way was opened for monies, the golden age of Rome by the decisive vic- tories of Octavius in Egypt, so now in one of the greatest events towards the consummation of the new golden age Egypt is to be the scene, The idea of a ship canal across the desert Isth- between sixty and seventy miles, is older than the Pyramids; but like the mys- y of the inundations and the sources of the it has passed down nth century for its practi solu- tion. An English explorer, Sir Samuel Baker, having completely solved the unfailing stream and has been commissioned mus of Sue: to our sources, its its annual overflow, by the E, yptian Pacha, on a large and liberal scale, to head an expedition to the great Nile lak of the equator, in view of making the length of Egypt the length of the river, which flows through some thirty-five degrees of lati- * On the other hand, some French en- rs, haying shown the feasibility of the Canal, acha engages the French to excavate it, and draws upon the wild Arabs for their workmen, thus bringing the influence, the foremost minds and the best appliances of the two greatest European Powers into hig service with the children of the desert, The | Sultan of Turkey, then, who owes the preser- | vation of his empire to Eagland and France, | has reason to be prond of his progressive and sagacious Egyptian Viceroy. We have had our celebration of the opening of the Pacific Railroad, which, in some mea- sure, taps the industrious, swarming millions and exhaustless trade of astern Asia; but this road, after all, is rather a local thana cosmopolitan work. The Portuguese dis- covery of the shipway to the Indies around the southern end of Africa in the fiftecath cen- tury was hailed by the Western Powers of Europe as the most important discovery of many centuries, It was in searching for a western passage to the Indies that Columbus stumbled upon America, and hence the name of the Indies given to the islands of the Gulf of Mexico, The trade of her East Indies is to-day to England what Cuba has been to Spain, a great source of her gupplies, This Snez Canal, in dispensing with the circuit of Afvica, brings this boundless trafle of the In- dies, including allthe islands of the Indian Ocean, by way of Egypt into and through the Mediterranean, and thus promises to revive something of the old commercial prosperity of all the States bordering that sea from Egypt | around by Palestine, Turkey and Greece to Spain. Hence the pervading Southern Eu ropean interest in this Suez Canal. again, by this canal will pass the trade of the Kast Indies with the Atlantic coast of the United States, until we shall have provided a shipway across the isthmus, say, of Darien, This work properly devolves upon the United States, and we know not why it shonld be de- Sayed. <A million of cheap and efficient Chi- nese workmen months’ notice, and the canal may be made in ayear, [tis the only thing that will give us the commercial balance of power in Asia, and to complete a convenient ship circuit round the globe we must cut off the doubling of Cape Horn-as the French are cutting off the Cape of (ood Hope, NEW Tho Alujama Claims—Roverdy Johnson's Defence. Wo publish to-day « letter from Mr. Reverdy Johnson to Mr. Seward which formed part of the correspondence on the Alwbama claims and which has not heretofora been published. {t consists of a long, elaborate legal argument in defence of the Johnson-Stanley treaty, which hus been rejected by the people as well as by tho Senate of the United States. It appears that the letter was confidentially communicated to the Senate, but it failed to alter their deci- sion in the case. Nor is it any more likely to change public opinion, The average Ameri- can takes a thoroughly practical common sense view of the eatire subject and, utterly elimi- nating all considerations which mere Jegal quibbling may suggest, looks steadily at the broad fact that Eagland took advantage of our hour of weakness to inflict upon us immense injuries, for which it finds that in our day of strength we are able and not indisposed to retaliate whenever a fitting occasion shall arise, Americans simply know and feel that the policy of England, as illustrated in the case of the Alabama, made our war last twice as long « d our burden of taxation twice as heavy, Perhaps if arbitration had been agreed upon it might, after all, have been better for us than to leave the Alabama claims an open question for an indefinite period. For if the arbitra- tion had resulted in our favor we should have received at least a certain amount of compen- sation for the direct pecuniary loases suffered by our commerce; and then, as well as if it had been decided against us, we should have been fully justified, on the earliest oppor- tunity, in following England’s example and acting according to her construction of the neutrality laws. However much opinions may ditfer on this question of referring the Ala- bama claims to arbitration—and the summary rejection of Reverdy Johnson's treaty as well as the popular favor which has endorsed that rejection show that opinions do not differ much about it~—the New York correspondent of the London Spectator, in a letter dated May 7, hit the nail on the head when he said:—‘The question is not one of law, but of comity. “Lhe very edge of this grievance that cuts so deep into the quick is the dealing with us on the assumption that we were en- titled to just as much legal protection as could be extorted from a British court, bnt not to the comity of nations.” Mr, Reverdy John- son is an able lawyer, and has made the best of bis case in the special plea which we pub- lish merely as part of the history of his mis- sion, but which will have as little effect in shaping the policy of our government as the sumptuous dinners which he ate and the nice Mr. Boutwell’s Financial Movements. The Secretary of the Treasury announces that to-day he will purchase three millions of bonds, additional to the usual half million a week anthorized by Congress for the reduc- tion of the debt. These bonds will be re- tained unmutilated in the Treasury, subject to the disposition of Congress when it meets in December next. In making this purchase Mr. Boutwell shows good sense and ability to ad- minister bis portion of the government, The purchase of these bonds will liberate an equal amount of currency from our plethoric Trea- sury and give relief to the mercantile and moneyed Interests that were beginning to be embarrassed by the official locking up of money, The action, too, is a practical show- ing of the strength of our political system and the wealth of our resources, In the fiseal year just expired we paid off forty-two mil- lions of our indebtedness, and this year, from present indications, we shall pay a hundred millions. In a few years the debt will be re- duced to a mere bagatelle, and we shall be free to go into new speculations, foreign wars, do- mestic broils or an abolishing of stamp and excise duties, just as we may think best. The difference in resulis between our system and those of Europe is shown in the fact that while every monarchy is troubled with a de- ficiency in its financial budget, we are troubled with an excess which we have no lawful pro- vision for. Mr, Boutwell has taken the proper course in the emergency. Revorvtionary Reyo.ution,—Old Spain is likely to suffer materially from the effects of the home revolution. By special telegram from Madrid, forwarded by way of London and through the Atlantic cable, we learn that revolutionary risings have taken place in Vit- toria, Cartagena and Valencia, the streets of. the first named city being filled with an excited people hastily armed. The movement is in support of Don Carlos, at least ostensibly 80; but it looks at this distance as if the Spaniards do not know what form of government they require, or who they really want to rule over them, Any ordinarily honest person would be preferable to anarchy. A SvsMariwe Capre has been Jaid from Scotland to the const of Norway. Does this suit Bonaparte’s Scandinavian union ¢ * of a Scppnession ov Newa,—We received from private sources yesterday the following im- portant addition to the Associated Press report of the proceedings of the Siate Democratic Convention in California :—~ The Convention nnanimousiy adopted a resolu- tion denouncing the unjust system of charges made may be engaged on a two | by the Western Union Telegraph tmonopol. a strongly favoring the postal telegraph pet ll me We find that no other paper has published this item of news, and would inquire why the agents of the Associated Press suppress a mat- ter so interesting to the whole country? The ylry is the more pertinent as the chief agent of the Associated Press is s pposed to be now iu San Francisco, A Lirtir Too Moon.—The tate speech of Andy Johnson on the present administration, upon the heel of the publication of his full and free conversation with a H#naLy correspond- ent on the same subject, Sprague ia very interesting in broken doses, but we have had enough of Sprague; Johnson is very amusing, jut we have bad a@ little too much Jobnsoo. Let him stop stumping and write his book, Decwnr Burtat.—General Meade, at the dedication of the battle monument at Gettys- burg, called attention to the neglected remains of the rebéls alain on the field, and suggested their decent burial as a proper disposition of the dead, d Even #0; friend or foe, let the tbe decently buried YORK HERALD SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1869. The News from Cuba. Our special telegram from Havana to-day gives Information of a remarkable sllocution by General Rodas to the press of Havana. He tells them that their teachings are in opposi- tion to the policy of the government, which desires to pacify the country with the least possible bloodshed, while they are.stirring up the passions of the people and inculcating ha- tred and war. He disclaims the character of a sanguinary soldier which has been attributed to him, and plainly tells the journalists in Ha- vana that they treated Goneral Dulce harshly, and that he expects them to comprehend the spirit of these instructions and to act accord- ingly. We are willing to give General Rodas full credit for the words he has uttered and the spirit (hey proclaim; but unless they are sim- ply a prelude to a bloody energy soon to be developed we doubt if he fully realizes the sit- uation of his government and the temper of the antagonistic populationsin Cuba, It is true that no man could come out of a contest, as he has, in behalf of constitutional and popu- lar government, with other sentiments than those he proclaims; but the day of pacifica- tion has passed in Cuba, and it has passed because tho bitter and exclusive spirit of the Spanish volunteers in Havana would not permit General Dulce to carry out the intentions of the home government in the same spirit which General Rodas professes to entertain. He will now find no disposition on the part of either Cubans or Spaniards to accept his paci- fication policy, and he must meet events as they develop, The contest is for supremacy, and the sword is its only arbiter. We wait to see how General Rodas will rally to his standard the twenty or thirty thousand Spanish volun- teers remaining in Cuba; for without them, and in view of the tardy and limited succor to he expected from Spain, his task will simply be one of failure, The Hitch in the French Cable. Althongh no communication has been had at Brest with the Great Eastern since the morn- ing of June 80, and it therefore seems probable that, in accordance with a despatch of that date, the French cable has been eut and buoyed, there need be no apprehensions of the ultimate failure of the enterprise. All such apprehensions might be dispelled by a perusal of Rev. Dr. Field's interesting “History of the Atlantic Telegraph.” What long years and how many obstacles intervened between the inception and the successful termi- nation of the enterprise with which the name of Cyrus W. Field is inseparably connected! It was in 1854 that the idea first occurred to Mr. Field that a telegraph might be made to span the Atlantic Ocean. ‘The first attempt, in 1855, to lay a cable across the Gulf of St. Lawrence waé a failure; the cable had to be cut in order to save the little bark which bronght it from England. A second attempt, in 1856, was successful, and the new cable re- mained in perfect working order for nine years. The expedition of 1857 was attended by mysterious interruptions and equally mys- terious returns of electrical continuity, but finally resulted in the breaking of the cable, During the second expedition, in 1858, the cable was lost three times. One more trial ended in a triumph, which was celebrated by the most extraordinary rejoicings on both sides ofthe Atlantic, But strangely, and at first even suspiciously, on the very day of the celebra- tion the cable suddenly ceased to work, The subsequent failure of the Red Sea telegraph helped still further to impair public confidence in all long submarine telegraphs. Five weary years of delay elapsed before the Atlantic cable enterprise was fairly renewed in 1865. But after the new cable, which was far superior to the old one, had safely withstood interrup- tions of electrical continuity, imperfect insula- tion, the disturbances caused by magnetic storms, injuries by accident or by malicious design—in fine, all sorts of thwarting and perils, it at last broke, without a moment's warning, and plunged into the sea, Four inef- fectual attempts were made to raise the cable, which had to be left buried two and a half miles deep in mid ocean, In 1866, however, the buoy which marked its temporary grave was sought and found, the cable was hauled up and lashed to the stern of the Great Eastern, and—to make a long story short—~ the enterprise was successfully completed, the shores of Europe and America were reunited, and messages of peace, like those which had first boen transmitted eight years before, were repeated, The success of the Anglo-American cable, after years of disappointment and delay, is an earnest of the success of the French cable and of as many other transatlantic cables as the interests of commercial and social intercourse between the Old World and the New may hereafter require. “A Horrible and Pestiferous Stench.” ‘There was a large and very earnest meeting of the people of Jersey City, including many of the most prominent citizens, the other even- ing, ‘protesting against the horrible and pes- tiferous stench emitted from the garbage brought from New York and dumped on the grounds alongside the company's railroad track iu Jersey City.” The testimony of the physicians present was that these deposits of garbage are detrimental to the public health and promotive of pestilence ; and by the meet- ing a resolution was adopted appointing a committee of nine to wait on the offending rail- way company and explain to them that the citizens concerned are determined that not another cartload of garbage shall be damped on the prohibited ground. As this is a sort of vigilance proceeding we presume that the railway company will take the hint, The citizens of Jersey City have cerlainly a good case for a speedy abate- ment of the nuisance indicated ; but it is to be hoped that on the loss of this dumping ground some other place not affecting the health of our neighbors on any side will be found at once for our New York garbage. After all that is carted off to the piers and boated over the rivers we have enough of this garbage left in various sections of this city to generate disease, and the officials responsible for its re- moval, (if they can no longer be accommodated by the Jersey Central Railroad with this stuff for making town lota out of marshes, ) ought at once to find some other place of deposit. An- other artificial island on some one of the bars in the lower bay would perhaps be a good ex - periment Tho Progress of tho Irish Church BIN ta the House of Lords, As we stated yosterday, and as is mado manifest by the news of to-day, tha Irish Church bill makes satisfactory progress. On Thursday evening an additional number of clauses was agreed to, makiag in all some seventeen clauses which have now received the sanction of the Lords. So far three amendments have been carried—one that the properly of the Church shall not pass into the bands of the commissioners until January 1, 1872, thus giving a year longer for the pre- liminary arrangements; another that compen- sation be paid without deduction of the income tax, end another fixing the commutation of life interest at fourteen years’ purchase. In addition to this the government has so far yielded as to promise to frame an additional clause providing that the Irish bishops may retain their seats in the Lords. This means that the Irish bishops who have seats in the Upper House will not be displaced during life, but that the places of the present incumbents will not again be filled. This isa kind and con- siderate concession on tho part of the govern- ment; for some of the Irish bishops are second to none in ability on the Episcopal bonch, and they might, had they been able to read the future, been among the more fortunate occupants of English chairs, The preamble of the bill, to which Earl Grey has taken exception, has been reserved for future discus- sion. The ultimate fate of the bill may be gathered from the words of the Prime Minis- ter, spoken at the Lord Mayor's banquet on Thursday evening :—‘‘We shall be grateful for every improvement, and all changes shall be respectfully considered, subject to the position in which we stand—to words spoken and pledges given and to the commission we have received, We tendered the terms of the cove- nant when in opposition, and shall not forget them when in power.” Tnose Reset Bonps Once More,—The English holders of the bonds of the famous rebel ten million coiton loan have had another meeting, and have resolved that those bonds ought to be good and ought to be paid, and claim to be backed by a decision of the Lord Chancellor. Very good. Now let them call on Jeff Davis or Erlanger for their money. It" is the best we can do for them, Excursion Arounp Tits Wortp,—Within three months tickets for an excursion around the world will be sold in New York. In six months further tickets will bo eold for the ex- cursion starting from New York, go around the world—and return, This is a noble idea, PROSPECT PARK FAIR GROUNDS, The race meeting at Prospect Park Fair Grounds, under the auspices of the American Jockey Club, will close to-day with five contests. The sports of the day will open with a hurdle race of two miles over eight hurdles, There will be four starters—Lobelia, Harry Booth, Bohannon and Mitchell, This will be foliowed by @ handicap two-mile dash race, in which five or more will start—Hotspur, Sleety, Gao, General Yorke, General Duke, and probably others, ‘The third race will be for the Sequel Stakes—a two mile dash for three year olds, The fourth race will be @ dash of three-quarters of a mile for two year olds, for which there will be three or more starters; and the fifth race will be for the Consolation Premium, the entries for which are satisfactory. Shouid the weather prove favorable we anticipate a large at- tendance of gay and fashionable people at the grounds, as they have been deterred from attending the two previous days of the meeting by threaten. ing rain. There 18 no doubt that this will be the great day at Prospect Park Fair Grounds, ‘The following are a few of the pools sola last night, showing the estimate In which the capabilities of each horse is held by the betting fraternity, and it will be a guide fo the uninitiated who wish to in- dulge in that part of the sport:— THE MULE AND A HALF Dash. Lancaster.....ceees . $85 85 80 7h 8% Duke. 46 40 85 Unele Vic... 36 36 25 80 Field... 12 10 10 47 THE TWO MILE DA General Duke. Geueral Yorke. Field ; Lobelia, Field... RACING AT THE FASHION COURSE. During the first week in September there will be a race meeting at the Fashion Course, L. L There will be three days’ running, and all the races, except one for two year olds, will be heat races, A great feature at this: meeting will be a four mile heat race between Privateer, Aldebaran, Climax, Biddy Malone and Flora Mclvor, This race will take place on the first Monday of the month. A four mile heat race in this neighborhood will be a great novelty, and there will not be one of the old school turfites with- in hundreds of miles of New York that will not be there to gee it, It ts a purely American race, and one that has always been popular with the people, ‘The entries for this race closed on Thursday with the above names, There may be others, however, on their way here by post; but asthe Geld stands now, without any additional entries, a good race may be anticipated, RENSSELEAR PARK RACES, TROY, July 2, 1869, To-day was the fourth and iast day of the June meeting of the Rensselear Park Association, The race for all horses that have never trotted better than 2:25, for a purae of $1,500, $00 to the first, $400 to the second and $200 to the third horse, was won by Mace’s Gray Mack in three straight heats. Time, 2:29)4, 2:29 and 2:29 5%, Pfifer's Myron Perry took the and Owen Tellers Billy Bare the third ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL OF OUR LADY OF MERCY. ‘The first annual commencement of this school, which is held at 128 East Fitty-fourth street, was had yesterday afternoon in the exhibition hail of St, ‘Joseph's Industrial Home, Kighty-tirst street and Madison avenue, Two o'clock was the hour fixed for the beginning of the exercises, but long before that time the ball was crowded to repletion by the lady and gentieman friends of the institution, who were ail cared for in the kindes’ manner possible by Aldermen Farley and Cunningham, who acted a8 high ushers for te occasion. The pupils of the school, all girls, most of them of quite a tender age, were seated in seats raised one above the other at the extreme end of the stage, which was gayly decorated with national flags, and were all a in white <iresses tastefully wet off by bine and red silk#ashes. The exercises consisted of music, yocat and umental, an operetta, waich Was very sweetly si @ little plece with ‘a very good moral, entitled “Flowers for the Altar,” it which Miss Mary Fargis, Mary Somerdyke, Mary Begg, Agnes Barry, Annie Farley and Mary L. Par- Jey took part; and another, entitled “Le Marché aux Roses." The jatter Was inthe French language, and Miss Mary 4. Kelly, Honora Farley, Mary A. Maton, Nellie Fargis, Loulse Toumey, Hdith Yelland, Julia Turner and Myra Garrison performed the various roles in @ manner that elicited the hearty applause of ‘the audience. Miss Garrison wax especially excellent asthe Gouguetiore, During the proceedings severai of the pupils were crowned for thetr ood behavior, ke, during the past year, and alter the diatripution of the prizes Archbishop McCloskey addressed the chti- dren, telling them how he had come to the commencement feeling certain that he would be pleased at what he would see and hear, aud how ue tad not only been Pere} but very much delighted with the exercises, ‘the paator of the chureh, the Rev, Father Mem: also made a few appropriate remarks conc the progress the Thidrer had made undor.the guid: ance and teachings of the good Sisters, Tt may be said tn conciusion that this sehool was founded two years ago, Alderman Farley having procured tho Site for {i in Fifty-fourth street. It frst opened with very few pupils, but how numbers one hundred and Uurty, The industrial Home, in which bunding the commencement was held, is how nearly completed, It (4 intended #4 a general home for the danghters of deceased soldiers, regardless of their region, tt whl cost, when completed, $180,090. “OWN. July 2, 1869, Trouble Aw ne declunsThe Resalt of the Election in Donbt. ‘The Pennsylvania politicians are importuping the Prosident for asd in the approaching canvass In that State, and de not hesitate to say thatif itis not forthcoming Geary will be defeated. What the politicians want is to have Grant turn Attorney General Hoar adrift and give his place in the Cabinet to some Pennsylyvaman, Grant bas promised to do all he can for the party in Pennsylvania, but accord- ing to the reports of those who have talked to bit recently on the subject: he has not made up his tind to give Hoar’s place to a Peunsylvauia politician. No Jnterferenco With Appointments ia y Georgin, President Grant, tn an interview to-day with Rep- resentatives Clift and Edwards, Dr. Culver and other Georgians, remarked that having appointed Post masters for Augusta and Macoa, he was not disposed to change them, uniess incumbents should prove in- competent. During the interview Grant gave no indication that he was considering the political status of Georgia, The Irrepressible African at Gettysbura— Mayor Bowen and a Washington Uolored Oficial Create a Sensation. Jimmy Bowen, the extremely radical Mayor of this city, went ¢o Gettysburg wilh certain members of the Muntcipat Council, and made himself famous. Of course there was a nigger at the bottom of tt, Ae Iget the story, to suppress which a great effort is being made, the African was a member of the City Councti here. Not satisfied with the honer of ac- companying Bowen, the blest and Immaculate, this African mantcipal father took It into bis head that he had a mght to go to the public hotel at Gettysburg and be treated there on am equality with the white trash, Senator Morton, of Iimhana, was consulted about the matter, and requested to take the African under his wing. In other woras, he was invited to assume the responsibility of introducing the Airtcan at the (able w@’6te, and thus by his tiustrious example crushing out the last vestige of mequality, Oliver P., how- ever, couldn’t see it in that light, precisely. He declined the intended honor with @ liste bit of crustiness, and the Aftican had to fall back om Bowen, Sayles J. felt himself equal to the task, and did it, When the breakfast time came about yeater- day morning, or the day before, Bowen marched into the refectory with the African, and both sas down to the table. Of course there was a sceuc—a very big one, The taaiés and gentiemen stared at each other, then uttered gome expressions of disgust, , and finally got up from the table and quitted the room. ‘The landlord came along, and there was another scene, He was indignant and wroc:hy, but Bowea and his African were cool and determined, and what was more ttoportant had their breakfast, So Bowen made himself famous, At the time the scene occur- red, it is said, some ladies who had accompanied Senator Morton to Gettysburg were taking their breakfast, and were among those who quitted tha room in disgust. Senator Morton himself was not present. Igive you tho story rather more priety than it comes to me, stating at the same time that it is denied here by some of the republicans, white it is vouched tor by ladies who were present at the time, Mayor Bowen, it appears, not only sat down with the African but placed his daughter by his side, The African was formerly the head waiter here at the National Hotel, Post Office Appoiatrents. The commissions of the following Postinasters were signed by the President to-aay:— James McKean, Mercer, Pa.; W. B. Griswold, Maa- kato, Minn.; Henry E. Wells, Moline, fil.; Wiliacs P. Gust, Fentonville, Mich.; Albert 'G. McDaniel Hannibal, Mo.; W. H. Sturges, Greenpoint, N. Y, Edwin Lisle, Kendaliville, Ind.; Thomas B. Irwin, Paw Pi Mican.; William J, Libbeton, Northfeld, Minn.; James K. More, St. Peter, Minn.; Samue Chism, Newtown, Mass.; Joseph Hall, Oconto, Wis.; Mrs, E. B. Cuthbertson, New Brighton, Pa.; Peter Platter, Seymour, Ind. Customs and Ipternal Revenue Receipts. Customs receipts, June 21 to June 30, inclusive:— Boston, $301,615; New York, $2,752,000; Philadei- Phia, $230,628; Baltimore, $236,151; New Oricans, June 1 to 19, $202,306; San Francisco, June 6 to 19, $301,365, Total, $4,024,065, Receipts internal revenue to-day, $1,250,000, Internal Revenue OMicerw’ Perquisites, The question whether officers of internal revenne are entitled to informers’ moieties has been referred by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Attorney General. Free Importations Into Great Britain. Our Consul at Liverpool seuds the following to the State Department:— Usirep Stat¥s ConsuLare,) AveRvOOL, Tune 1s, tH," Sit—T have the honor to inform you that in with a reg of the House of Commons, the of the undern les into Great Britaln bee free on the lat of June inst.:—Wheat, barley, oats, ty cuft and bread, cassava powder, macenroni, tmanioca tour, peas, beans, maize or Indian corn, buckwheat, bere or bles wheat meal or Hour bean meal, pea meal, matze or Intuit corn meal, buckwheat méal not oiherwise eonmeraied or desoribed, arrowroot, barley, pearled manna, crude po- tato flour, hair powder, perfumed powder, powder not other- Wise enumerated or described that will nerve the same. pur- poae as starch, rice dust and meal, sao, somolina starch gum of starchy torritied or calcined taptoca, vermicellt ‘and thet from and after the same date, in Neu of the previous duties an beer and ale, th i Lege the worts ot ff ty not ox st Ing 1190 degrees, £148. OF other sorts, of which were betore fermentation of ‘a apectiic exceeding 108) degrees the barrel of 35 gallons, ib degrees the barrol of 36 i green tho barrel of 96 gallon ates are to be levied, cording 1180 degrees the barrel of ravily not ceding tia, T have the honor, &c THOMAS H, DUDLEY, Hon, HAMILTON Fiss, Secretary of State, Stamping Goods Sold Under Forfeiture. WASHINGTON, July 2, 1369. ‘The Commissioner of Internal Revenue decides as follows in regard to stamping goods sold by United States marshals under forfeit:— When it becomes necessary for Collectors of Internal Revenue or United States Mawshale to seized on distraint or forfeited to the United States sence of any provision of Inw authorizing # Collector of La ternal Revenue to part with stamps, except on sae, I deem it advisable, where the goods sell for enough, to pure! stamps to affix thereto, In addtuion to the appropriate the proceeds of the ule ta seizure and sale, v i wurplug to purchase the required stanipa, T should her: prefer that the gor be withdrawn trom’saie and stored in rome suitable and sate plage where they may be kept ti} after the aane Congress aud voit some additional legislation may be had which will enable the governinént to sei mich goods and give them currency upon the market without the dificulties apd embarrasaments which are now rienced every ime ® sale of t (ia attemptad. Discharge of Mra. Pollard. Mrs. EB. A. Pollard has returned here trom Raitt. more, having succeeded in having her sentence com- muted from imprisonment to a ine of $100, She asserts that her trial and persecution were prompted by rebels of Richmond and Baltimore, on accouns of her Union sentiments during the war. Personal, resident Johnson leaves for Tennessee in the accompanied by his son. THE CLIFFORD CASE. Deceased Not Murdered. ‘The case of Patrick Clifford, who died recently ac No.7 Gay street, as was then supposed from the effects of violence received at the hands of award Fleming, was yesterday mvestigated hefore Coroner Rollins. It appeared that deceased and Fiem- ing had no serious quarrel, a¢ has been stared, but only engaged in @ scumle and knock down, in which Clifford sprained his ancle, pyr. John Beach made @ post-mortem examination of the body, on which he found no marks of vio- jence, with the exception of the sprained ankle, On opening the body Dr, Keach found the liver and kid- neys exceedingly faity and the stomach greatiy in- flamed, indicating that deceased had been aman who drank to excess, In the doctor's opinion de- died from gastritis and fatty degeneration of the liver and kidneys, The jury accordingly ren- dered @ verdict to that effect. "Deceased was thirty three years of age and a native of trelnd. On the rendition of the verdict Fleming, who surrendered humself immediately after Clifford's death, war dis- charged, and lett with tus friends. WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Key West, duly 2, 1869, ‘The Vuiied States iron-clad monitor Centaur (for- merly (he Sangus) arrived at this port this evening, wy tow of the United Stater steamer Tallapoosa, LAUNGH OF A SPANISH GUNGOAT, Another Spanish gunboat will be launched thew afternoon, at three o'clock, trom the shipyard of Messrs, C. & RB. Poillon, foot of Bridge street, Brook lyn. This is the second of (he number completed at this yard, one having been lkunched from the same Viace last Saturday. The machinery will be putin the vessels at the Delamater fron Works fool of Laghteenth street, Nortt river,