The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1869, Page 4

| \ 4 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heratp. ve so eh ae THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the ear. Your cents per copy. Annual subscription price G12. HE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five CNTs per copy. Annual subscription p lume XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tu® SPECTACULAR EXTRAVAGANZA OF SINBAD THE SAILOR. pOLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hiccor’ Dicoory DooK between 6th and 6th ams, wie ATRE, 234 si E yALLACK'S THE Broadway and sth atreet.— Doua—BLAck-EYED BOWFRY . THEATRE, Bowery.—Hesnew's CvRsE— Prrex GRAND OPERA HOUS Sod a -OLIVex TW THEATE 514 Rroadway.—BURLES@ UB, Comic Ba TOMIME. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Atiernoon and eveaiag Performance. BRYANTS’ OPERA AO''SE, Tanmany Building, Mth street. —ETHtoPIAN MINSTRELSY, £0. 7th av., between S8th and NCRET, OPERA iO SK, Brooklyn.—Hooisy's INMAD, THE SAILOR, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ScImNcE AND Aut. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Broadway.—FRMALES ONLY IN ATTENDANGE. New York, THE NB ws. ‘ope. ‘The cable telegrams are The action of the H lated July 8. ise Of Lords on the Irish Church t has caused considerable excitement in political circles. The Reform League may , 0 active play again, to judge sent position of affairs, Letters of trouble are passing between of both parties on the subject. ud News yesterday contamea x editorials on the present aspect of the situa- tion, The Trade Unions bill is also the subject of an article im the Ties. Lord Catrington was brougit t e a London police court yesterday on sault and provoking 3 . Grenville ay to fight a duel. tica! atmosphere in France is cloudy. The however, bas decided to give way to the the people in calling for changes in the nistration of affairs of government. The Paris of yesterday published an extract from a letter No date is given, and the commani- ed with some degree of doubt as to cha The troubles in the Spanish Ministry are on the increase. The resignation of the whole Cabinet would create no surprise. Cuba. Captain General De Rodas has issued a proclama- tion closing certain ports on the east end of the island, and declaring all armed vessels transporting filibusters to be pirates. Spanish cruisers, however, are directed to observe the usual restrictions as to the right of search in boarding vessels. The tron-clad Centaur has been sent to Santiago by the Nayy Department to aid the investigation in the case of Speekman, who was recently executed by the volunteers, The Seminole and te Dictator will foilow immediately and several of the heaviest iron-clads jater, The oMciais at the Navy Depart- ment have no fault to find with Admiral Hoff and he will not be relieved except at his own request. Minscellancoas, Judge Lewis Dent, a brother-in-law of Prosidont Grant, has been tendered the republican noinination for Governor of Mississippi by the prominent repub- licans of that State, and has notified them that he would accept. The convention mects on the 1th inst. Hon. John Rose, Finance Minister of Canada, is in Washington and is to have an interview to-day with Secretary Fish on the subject of a new reciprocity treaty. Colonel Joun Warren, the Fenian prisoner recently released from au English jail, had an interview with President Grant yesterday and recetved a letter from him to Secretary Pish, directing an investigation into ail the cases of imprisonment specified by War- ren. Frederick Grant, the Prestdent’s eldest son, jumpec into the Patuxent river, near Laurel, Md., on Wednesday, and saved the life of a young lad n ed Sharpe, a cousin of young Grant, who got beyond his depth and found himself sinking. A double wire land line of telegraph is peing erected between Boston and Duxbury to meet the requirements of the new French cable when It has been landed. It thus be connected with N York by the Fran’ ne. The Boys in Blue are now aemanding office of the President The McGarrahan claim case, which was discussea at great length in Congress last winter, has been brought to a conciusion in the Supreme Court, where a mandamus was issued yesterday and served on Secretary Cox to compel him to issue a patent to McGarraan for the jands in California, on payment @f $1 25 per acre. The complaint made against the Sheriff of Oneida county for his blundering in the execution of Cars- weil has been dismissed with a reprimand by Gov- ernor Hoffman. Owners of piers damaged by the late freshets in Albany intend to prosecute that city, laying their aggregate damages at nearly $200,000, ‘The French man-of-war Semiramis 1s at Fortress Monroe looking after the Curieux, which has the yeliow fever on board. It is definitely ascertained that no person by the name of Risdon was a member of the Powell expe- dition, It ts generally believed that the party are safe, The City. William H. Sanford, cashier of the Central tional Bank of this city, disappeared on Thursday of last week, and has not since been heard trom. His boeks show a deficit of $100,000 in his accounts, and & note left behind by himself leaves no doubt that ne 3s a heavy defaulter. Ruinous speculations are said to have caused him to commut the crime. Commissioner Betts yesterd.y (.smissed the case against General Goicouria, charged with intending to aid the Cuban insur on the plea that there ‘was not sufficient ey, to prove that he had gone beyond that » and co-operation with Cuba which by law he can (ee! and express. ‘The stock market y i} strong and buoy- ant. Gold rose t 196)4, fell to isd and closed finally at 135%. Prominent Arrivals fn the Clty, General Clingman, of North Carolina, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. : General J. Newton, of the United States Army; General J. M. Ellison, of Phiiadelphia, and Cvionet Thomas W. Coughlan, of New York, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge P. H, Morgan, of New Orleans, and Mr, ice | some excellent advi Esterhazey, of Washington, are at the New York | except it coincide with their rule of fanatic | The Coming Elect Hotel. * Prominent Departures. Ex-Goveraor Patton, for Atabama; General N. P. Banks, for Europe; Geperal Zulick, Samuel Randel and Colonel J. Sykes, for Philadelphia; Dwight Townsend, Mrs, E. Vanderbilt and T. Steinway, for Europe; F. de Conto, for Havana, The Ohio Democracy—General Rosecrans— A New Departure. The Ohio democracy have made a discovery. They have been a long time about it, but they have hit it at last. They have found out that their copperhead leaders lead them only to defeat, and so the party, in solemn State Convention assembled, have taken a new departure. They have dropped Vallandigham and all his tribe and have drawn upon the Union army of the war for their standard bearer, and General Rosecrans is their man for next Governor of Ohio. It seems that this foreward movement was not made without a stubborn resistance, but that even the power- ful name of Pendleton was vainly brought into Murfreesboro, This is very remarkable, in view of the fact that during the war, as a} rebel sympathizer, Vallandigham, from Burn- side’s military court in Ohio, was sent under guard to Rosecrans in Tennessee, and by him | passed over to the Southern confederacy, where it was thought said Vallandigham pro- perly belonged; but the change of front in question is not so remarkable, in view of anothe: fact, that on returning from the South Vallandigham was made the democratic candi- date for Governor of Ohio, only to be beaten by a hundred thousand majority. We incline to the opinion, however, that Mr. Vallandigham and his followers will cheer- fully support this new movement of the Ohio democracy. With all his copperhead crotchets he is a democrat of progressive ideas; and we think he has mastered this difficult problem to the Bourbon, that there has been a deluge which has changed the face of the whole polit- ical world, At all events, General Rosecrans is a strong candidate and will be hard to beat. His military record, down to his disas- trous day at Chickamauga, is one of the most brilliant of the half dozen leading Union gene- rals of the war. That day at Chickamauga, however, ended his military career. But still his great services in the field were not forgot- ten, for when nominated for the Mexican mis- sion by President Johnson he was promptly confirmed by the Senate as a recognition of the deserving soldier, patriot, gentleman and scholar. From this point we may date the political | flowering out of General Rosecrans, in his volunteer diplomatic mission to the famous constellation of generals of the Inte Southern confederacy, assembled last summer at the His con- | ciliatory negotiations with those generals | placed him by common consent en rapport | Virginia White Sulphur Springs. with the grand national democratic reunion in Tammany Hall. His recall from Mexico by President Grant, we presume, has, from the political laws of gravitation, landed General Rosecrans a full fledged democrat once more in Ohio. His nomination, we say, is a hit as a new departure for the Ohio democ- racy. It relieves them of the stigma of cop- perheadism, and in spiking that radical gun they gain, perhaps, not less than thirty thou- sand votes. In the new democratic platform set up for General Rosecrans there is not much of gene- ral importance that is new. The party in Ohio adhere to these doctrines—that the gov- ernment bonds ought to be taxed; that the bondhalders in their redemption ought to be satisfied with greenbacks ; that a high protec- tive tariff serves only to enrich New England manufacturers ; that each State should regu- late the elective franchise for itself, and that the fifteenth amendment is subversive of the principles of the federal constitution, as if an amendment, good or bad, could have any other purpose than to change the constitution. The Convention further declares that the radical policy is tending to a consolidated despotism ; that our national banking system (Mr. Chase’s) is one of the worst outgrowths of the bonded debt, and that the doings of the military com- missions in Texas, under President Grant, “‘are violations of the most sacred rights of Ameri- can citizens,” &c. The issue, then, in Ohio is sharply drawn against the administration; but, strangely enough, Cuba, Mexico and the Alabama claims are left out. But to sum up’:—The nomination of General Rosecrans, of itself, is a great step forward by the Ohio democracy. It falls far behind the forward movement of the Virginia conservatives, but it is still a movement in the same direction; and in the same direction, it will doubtless soon appear, all the opposition forces of the country are drifting. In short, the elements of a new political revolution are forming, and while the administration is rest- ing upon its oars the wide-awake democracy, instructed by many defeats, may shape their tactics to some purpose, in view of the ap- proaching fall elections, not only in Ohio, but throughout the North. Judicial Independence and Dignity. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday City Judge Bedford sentenced John Howard, a sailor, who was jointly indicted with Thomas Brennan and William Varley, alias ‘Reddy the Blacksmith,” for participation in the rob- bery perpetrated in the liquor saloon of Var- ley, in Chatham square, some time since, Brennan has been sent to the State Prison for « term of fifteen years, but Varley, as is known, has not been made amenable to the law. Strict but discriminating in his administration of justice Judge Bed- ford drew a carefully marked line of distinction between the case of Howard and that of Brennan—the one a seaman in a drink- ing frolic, and the other an ex-convict, and, as described by the District Attorney, ‘‘a notori- ous thief and the associate of cutthroats”—and in consequence ordered Howard to the State prison for a term of five years, the lowest known to the statute in’ such a case, at the same time reviewing his case fully, giving him and announcing that he would himself intercede with the Gove ernor his pardon, ‘The Assistant District Attorney supported the Court, For such action the radical press of New York assails Judge Bedford with its usual bray- mouthed violence, attributing political motives and considerations, and criticising his decision like party hacks who acknowledge no law, for NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1869. © organization. Like the tyrant Procrustes the radicals would fit every man to their bed of | torture, innocent or guilty, tall or short, and thus again assail the constitution by striking at its grand safeguard, the indepen: dence of the judiciary. Their rebuke is to be found in English history, in the case of Chief Justice Gascoigne in committing ‘‘Prince Hal” to jail, and the words of Lord Chancellor Denman to the partisans of the Irish bench :— “If such practices are continued the trial by jury will become a delusion, a mockery aad a snare’—‘‘Prince Hal’ reformed. So may the radicals under the lessons of the fearless Judge Bedford. The Crisis in France=The Emperor Yield- ing to Popular Demand, The cable despatches which we print this morning, taken in connection with those which we gave yesterday, show that the recent elec- tions are already bringing forth fruit. The | Emperor has made up his mind to grant con- the convention to head off the Union hero of | stitutional reforms. The reforms point in the direction of a government by responsible Ministers, The Emperor has given up the idea of continuing the system which has lasted since the coup a@’état—a system which has vested all the governing power in himself, and made what seemed a parliament only a meck- ery anda sham. It appears from our latest despatches that since the decision of the Em- peror became known very considerable excite- ment has prevailed in political circles, and great anxiety has been manifested to know what class of men should be called upon to act with the Emperor in organizing the new gov- ernment. Rumor has it that great difficulties are being experienced; but the presump- tion is that the Ministry will be a kind of compromise, composed of men selected from the ranks of the radical miuority and from a certain section of the adherents of the empire. seems, insists upon the adoption of the Parlia- mentary system of England. From the outlines thus furnished it is mani- fest that a great point has been gained. The Emperor has a better and surer means of ascertaining the sentiments of the French people than are possessed by any other. He knows exactly what France wants and what it is safe to grant. The popular sentiment is stronger and more imperious than it has been at any former time during the history of the empire. But the Emperor knows his strength ; and in yielding he acts not as one who is help- lessly driven, but as one who is thorough master of the situation. Concessions, it is certain, will now be made, but we may rest assured the concessions will be of such a kind that the reins will still be left in the Em- peror’s own strong and skilful hand. If Par- liamentary government and a responsible Ministry are found to work well the Emperor will not be sorry; for a pop- ular government with a Bonaparte at its head is the. climax of the Emperor's ambi- tion. As matters now are we know that his death would be ruinous to his family. With a Ministry responsible to the Parliament rather than to himself, and the government machine working well, he would have less reason to dread trouble on the occasion of his son’s suc- cession. It is not to be denied, however, that if the rumored changes are made in the French gov- ernment the empire has entered upon a new career. There must be more freedom of speech in the Legislative Chamber, and it re- mains to be seen whether this freedom of speech can be tolerated. If the opposition conducts itself reasonably and well it may yet be Napoleon’s privilege to crown the edi- fice by combining a strong executive with a free and unfettered Parliament. If the oppo- sition abuses its power the alternatives are anarchy or absolutism. The Tebuantepec Railroad. The growth of the commercial interests on our Pacific shore, stimulated as it is by the opening of the Pacific Railroad, is awakening attention everywhere to the need of increased facilities for transit and the carriage of goods across the isthmus, Besides the canal project across the Darien route French capitalists are pushing the Nicaragua Canal question, English interests are stimulating the construction of the Honduras Railroad, and American capital- ists have turned their attention to the Tehuan- tepec route, Valuable concessions have re- cently been added by the Mexican Congress to the original grant for the Tehuantepec Rail- road, and we learn that the operations of the company will soon be pushed with activity. This route is the nearest of all the isthmus routes to our own territory, and, therefore, merits attentive consideration at our hands, The eastern terminus lies in the Gulf of Mex- ico, within easy sail of our shores, and there is no reason why goods from New York should not be placed, by the Tehuantepec route, in seven days on the shore of the Pacific. All that we need to enable our city to attain its due share in the rising commerce of that great ocean is an increase of the facilities of access. Let the Tehuantepec Railroad be built at once. It cannot be opened a day too soon. Proposep ASSASSINATION oF THE CUBAN MrnisTER.—One of the city morning ‘papers has a special from Washington to the effect that the Spanish volunteers in Havana pro- pose to open a subscription to pay for the assassination of Sefior Morales Lemus, the envoy of President Cespedes in the United States. The idea is a good one on the part of the volunteers if it is their wish to help Ces- pedes and the Cuban cause; but we hardly think that was their intention. We suggest to thom that they can do a great deal better with their money by offering a reward for the cap- ture of the Cuban envoy’s papers, Some of oursmart detectives could soon put up such & job and make a good showing for the Spanish gold. Ir Wut Nor Do.—It is given out that, according to the interpretation of General Canby of the reconstruction test oath of Con- gress, less than a quorum of the members just elected to the Virginia Legislature will be qualified to take their seats; and that if Attor- ney General Hoar shall give an opinion sus- taining General Canby there will probably have to be anew election. This dodge will notdo; for we have no doubt that General Grant will consider the late Virginia election suficiently conclusive to let it stand, Legisla- ture and all, The centre of the opposition, it, » in This State and Confident and. De- City-Tammany Hall dant. The sun is hot. The fields are green. The seaside is luxurions, But as fierce as are the rays of the sun, as beautiful as are the lawns of the country and as soothing as are the solemn surges at the seaside, the politicians keep at their Sisypheian labors. Many of them have gone from town, but even at Long Branch, at Saratoga, at Newport, at the lovely Highlands of Navesink, amid the wholesome atmosphere of the pleasure resorts of the interior, coteries are busily engaged in arranging the schedules for the coming fall elections in this State. Crossing the Atlantic, possibly you might find at Baden-Baden, at Wiesbaden, at Brighton, at Bath, at the crack summer centres of the royal households of Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria and wherever else the golden eagles of America, carrying upon their precious wings the fame of prominent American statesmen and mil- lionnaires, are recognized as the pioneers of American wealth, American talent, American position and American genias, even there, if you look closely and carefully, you will dis- cover some American political Bismarck ar- ranging his slate for the coming fall election in the Empire State of America, It may seem strange that the dispensation of the official pap of this State has such extensive ramifications ; but it is nevertheless true; for it is by that pap, that pabulum, many of the most dis- tinguished Americans abroad are enabled to enjoy those costly Inxuries indulged in by few except the crowned headg of the Old World and their innumerable satellites. King Tam- many, whose lodgings are in this city, sways the sceptre in this grand kingdom of official plunder and pabulum, Whatever he wills is won. Whenever he deigns to sneeze no politi- cal aspirant dares to snooze. Let King Tam- many frown, and the victim is down. Let him smile, and he lives. Great is King Tammany, and his profits are reckoned from mills to millions, all paid by that easy-going but sometimes obstinate insti- tution called the taxpayer. The sums annu- ally appropriated and expended for the gov- ernment of the city of New York alone are equal to the revenue of many a kingdom and principality. It is no wonder, then, that there should be so mapy rapacious office-seckers among us. Unfortunately it is not always the honest man who succeeds in obtaining official position, The temptation is so great and the examples of official peculation so illustrious that even the most righteous and conscientions are led to err and be gathered in the fold of the knavish and unscrupulous, Now is the time, then, for the true men of the gity and the State to prepare themselves for the State election in November and the municipal election in De- cember next. An entirely new Legislature is to be chosen, Senate and House, through- out. Most of the judges of the different courts are to be elected—either a roin- statement of the present incumbents or the substitution of other, and, it is to be expected, better men. The State will not elect a Governor in place of Governor Hoff- man, who has proved himself to be a good and worthy executive, but a majority of the other State offices are to be chosen. It is a mooted question whether there will be an election for Mayor of the city at the coming charter election, the impression becoming gen- eral that Mayor Hall, who was elccted to fill the unexpired term of Governor Hoffman, is entitled to his full two years’ tenure of office. But this is a mere technical point about which judges may disagree and lawyers squabble; for Mayor Hall, if the necessity arises, would not only be renominated by the democracy, but re-elected by an overwhelming majority. The county will have to elect three supervisors, two by the expiration of their terms of office and one to fill a vacancy. Of the score or so of district judges to be elected the republicans think they can carry about four. A surrogate is also to be elected in place of Mr. Tucker, who has filled the office acceptably for six years. A bright and popular young man named Hutchings, Assistant District -Attorney, is named as Tucker's successor. The City Judgeship will rest in the hands of the able young gen- tleman who now discharges the duties of the office with so much honor to himself and ser- vice to the community, Judge Bedford. The great effort among the politicians is to secure the nomination of their favorite candidates for the Legislature, and to that end wire-pulling, private bargains, ‘“‘tickle me and I'll tickle you” operations are going on, not only in the wards and districts, but, as we have intimated, at the watering places at home and abroad. {The temperance men and the liquor dealers will have a contest of unusual vigor and inte- rest, as the tcetotalers are organizing all over the State and are determined to be not only prohibitory, but proscriptive. All we have to ask is that King Tammany will exercise his tremendous influence to send honest men to Albany and to see that the judi- cial ermine remains untainted and unsullied. Then the next year we may again rejoice ina benign sun gladdening emerald fields and pas- tures new. ‘ Our Three Ex-Presidents on Matters and Things Political. Through a Heratp commissioner, in each case, the opinions at the present day on our political affairs of ex-President Fillmore, ex- President Pierce and ex-President Johnson have been made known to the world. Mr. Fillmore, almost unknown to the public, has quietly passed from the glittering generalities of Know Nothingism to the thirty-nine articles ot the democratic creed, and he may probably turn up next time as the most available demo- cratic candidate for Governor of New York, We can’t tell. We don’t know what may hap- pen in these days from one day to another in the ups and downs and ins and outs of our fluctuating politicians and shifting politica parties, We are sorry to learn, however, that Mr, Fillmore thinks there is ‘‘danger that the government will become an oligarchy of politi- cians.” Anything but that, if you love us; anything but an oligarchy of politicians, though we are not sure that the government has ever been anything else. Ex-President Pierce has become a demo- cratic philosopher, Having nothing any longer to do in the business of party politics he has but little to sav. He haa settled down into a the quict life of absolute retirement from the fights of our political gladiators, though still no doubt a strong believer in the Ken- tucky resolutions of '98 and '99. And one is & hundred, or @ thousand, or anything you please with him in the petty party squabbles of the hour, We aro glad to report that he does not despair of the republic, and has nothing to say against either of his successors in the White House—Buchanan, Lincoln, John- son or Grant, A philosopher and a courteous and amiable gentleman is ex-President Pierce. Ex-President Johnson is a sorrel horse of another color. He likes to be in hot water, and he has not yet had his satisfaction out of the radicals, or Congress or General Grant. And so he has given us his opinion of General Grant without mincing or wincing. We say, as a Tennessee doctor once said to a patient, “You have been very sick, my friend; but now, with all that villanous bile off your stomach, you are sure to feel better.” We regret none the less the opinion of Mr. John- son that we are drifting to an imperial despot- ism, which, though not quite so contemptible, is almost as bad as Mr. Fillmore’s ‘“‘oligarchy of politicians,” Our ex-Presidents who still live are three, thank God—Fillmore, Pierce and Johnson, We have a certain liking for Fillmore; we cannot help but admire certain things in Pierce: but a3 a never-say-die sort of man, we have a special weakness for Andy Johnson. There are nine stout men in that one chunky tailor. Tue CentraL NationaL Bank of this city has sustained a heavy loss by official defalca- tion or robbery, just as the lapsus may come to be classed in law. The President states that the loss does not ‘‘exceed” one hundred thousand dollars, which he evidently rates as a small sum after the Ocean Bank affair. Un- fortunately, however, it is the cash of the de- positors of the banks which disappears for the most part on such occasions, TROTTIVG AT THE UNiON COURSE. A trotting match for $1,000, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, came off yesterday afternoon at the Union Course between W. McMahon’s white geld- ing White Horse and R. Walter’s bay gelding New York, which was won by White Horse in four heats. ‘The winner of the race is a horse that has done a great deal of trotting around the country, and made @ good trot at Newburg a few weeks ago. He was brought to McMahon’s stable, where he was passed off as a hack, and by this dodge he was matched against New York, the latter also being what 1s generally denominated “a sleeper.” The race was made play or pay, rain or shine, and both of the conuwacting parties imagined that they had “gure things.” Before the horses were taken to the track, however, their character and antecedents were pretty well ventilated, and betting set in strong, at first at even, but afterwards largely in favor of White Horse. In the pool selling at the track, previous to the race, White Horse sold for more than two to one over New York. ‘The track was in capital condition, the weather delightful, but the attendance was rather slim, a great number of the regular visitors being at Boston to witness the trot between Lucy and Goldsmith Maid, which was to have taken place yesterday afternoon. The following are the detalis of the trot:— First Heot»-White Horse was the favorite at one hundred to twenty before the start, He had one length the best of the send-off, and the bay gelding breaking up soon after the word was given the white went around the turn half adozen lengths ahead. At the quarter poie, which was passed in Jorty-one seconds, the white horse was five lengths in front, and the bay breaking up again was cight lengths behind on the backstretch; the latter, how- ever, closed yp a littie before reaching the half-mile ole, and thé white reached that point haifa dozen lengths in front in 1:21. Going around theJower turn the bay ciosed gradually, and was about three Jengtls behind at the three-quarter pole. Coming up the homestretch the bay continued to Close up, but not enough to win, as the white won the heat by a length in 2:43. Second Heat.—There was no betting on the result between heats. The horses had a very even start, but the wimte soon wok the lead bya length, the bay making @ succession of breaks, though not losing much ground by the mishaps. At the quarter pole, in forty-three rch be he white horse was two h Jengtas in front, which he held to the half-mile pole, in 1:28, gomg very. steadily, Around the lower turn the bay closed up finely and was at the wheel of the white as the came into the homestretch. ‘The bay broke up badly soon atterwards, and he did not set- tle squarely to his work afterwards. Tae white horse won the heat by four lengtns in 2:47. Third Heat.—There were no offers to bet on the race, the impression being that the white horse could not lose it, barring accidents. ‘The horses had an even start, but ine pay broke up as the word was given, und the white took a lead of two lengths around the turg. At the quarter pole he was a length and a half in front in forty-two seconds. The bay broke up again, but when he caught and squared himself he outfooted the white horse, and carrying him to a break led to the half-mile pole two lengths in 1:22, They both broke up on the lower turn, and as they came Into the homestretch the bay relding Was three lengths in advance of the white, ‘The jat.er closed rapidly up the stretch, but at the distance stand he broke up and the bay won the neat by four lengths in 2:433¢. urth Heat.—An effort wastow made to sell poois, but the white was still so strongly the favorite that no one seemed anxious to Invest on the bay, and that business was soon abandoned. The white horse had the best of che start by a length, and, taking the pole, rather quickly ned a gap of four lengtns to the quarter pole in forty-one and a haif seconds. Gomg down the backstretch the bay made several breaks, but at the half-mile pole was not further benind than at the quarter pole. Time, 1:22, ‘Yhe gap was kept open around the lower cura and into the homestretch by the white, but, coming up to the stand, the bay closed gradually, though not enough to overtake the white, who came in a winner by two lengths, making the heat in 2:45 A claim of foul was made to the jndges after the heat by Paterson, the driver of New York, for McMahon's cutting him off so quickly on the turn; but, after deliberation, the judges decided that McMahon was tar enouga ahead at the tune he took the pole, and did not mtericre with New York. ‘The foliowing is a SUMMARY. Union Course, July 8 —Match $1,000, play or pay; mile heats, best three in five, im harness, W. MeMalion nained w. g. White Horse... 1 A. Paterson named b. g. New York....... 22 ‘TIME. Quarter, Hi First heat... 4 Second heat. 43 ‘Third heat. a2 Fourth heat TROLTING AT MYSTIC RIDING PARK, MASS, Boston, July 8, 1860. ‘Thege was @ special attraction at the Mystic Riding Park this afternoon in a race between the bay mares Lucy and Goldsmith Maid, ‘The match was for $3,000, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, The attendance was not large nor the betting very spir- ited. ba § t the pole at the start, but tue Maid shot ahead almost immeaiately and won the heat by @ couple of lengths in 2:204¢, In the second ands third heats the Maid took the lead at the beginning and won them both by three lengtds in 2:21 % and 2:2244. The horses trotted finely, but the Maid was the favorite al! along, and the bets were in her favor almost two to one. be MICIPAL AFFAIRS, Bonrd of Aldermen, None of the members of the Board were present yesterday at the time for which the meeting had been called. deputy of the still more rotund clerk (Mr. Shannow), calied the rotl most vociferously, and ttten solemnly announced the fact to the assistant clerk, two re- porters and the empty chairs that the Board «oud adjourned, without date, pineeennn Board of Assistant Aldermen, The Board met yesterday afternoon, and, \n the absence of the President, Mr. Gibney wos cailet upon to preside, A resolution was adopted that when the Board ad- journs it does so tili tue first Monday in September. It was subsequently reconsidered. DELOTAN PAVEMENT, The Croton Aqueduct Department was directed to have the tollowing streets paved with Belgian pave- Ment:—Wooster street, from Canal to Fourth street; Fortieth street, from Seventh to highth aveaue, After the adoption of @ few unimportant general + Orders the Board adjourned till Monday. Mr. Twomey, the bi ‘and row States Hotel this afternoon. , Sa my Jackson gives @ reception at his residence. | Epivcopal clergymen were ates of the class of 1869 | those present was the ; win WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, July 8, 1869. Tho Lron-Clad to Reinforce our Guif Squad- ron. The Centaur is the name of the iron-clad de- spaiched to Santiago de Cuba to inquire into all the circumstances attending the execution of Speck- | man, and, if necessary, © demand prompt repara- | tion by the Spanish authorities, Several of the heaviest 1ron-clads will soon be despatched to the Cuban coast. The Dictator will be prepared in six or eight days to proceed thither, and the Seminole will be ready to-morrow. ‘Three of the vessels com- posing the present squadron have been obliged to | leave Cuban waters owing to the prevalence of yel- ' low fever on board. Within the next two weeks | twenty vessels will be available for public service tn | that direction and elsewhere. Admiral Hoff, ‘There is no reason to believe that Admiral Hom will be relieved of the command of the squadron in Cuban waters unless the request should come from himself, as was ascertained to-day at the Navy De- partment from an authentic source. The authorities deny that they fiud any Sault wiih him on account of his oMecial conduct, Gallant Action of Young Frederick Grant. Frederick Grant, eldest son of the President, while on a visit to Laurel, Md., yesterday, rescued the son of Dr. Sharpe, the Presideni’s brother-in-law, from drowning. Young Sharpe was bathing tn the Pa- tuxent river, and getting beyond his depth called for assistance, His father, who was near, com- menced to disrobe for the purpose of going to his aid, but before he could du so young Grant jumped in with his clothes on and brought his cousin safely to shore, Colonel Warren’s Interview with the Presi- dent, Colonel John Warren, who was for some time con- fined as a Fenian prisoner in England, had an inter- view with the President t»-day regarding the incar- ceration of American citizens in British bast'les. ‘The Colonel was received with marked courtesy by the President, and made full statement of the suf- ferings of American citizens imprisoned as Fenian conspirators, The President promised to give the most careful consideration to the matter, and de- clared that it was his intention to protect at all hazards the rights of American citizens in all parts of the world. At the close of the interview he gave Colonel Warren a letter to Secretary Fish, directing ‘an investigation of all the cases specitied by Colonel Warren. The McGarrahan Claims—A Patent to be Issued at Last. The application of William McGarrahan for a mandamus to compel the Secretary of the Interior to issue to him a patent for the Panocne Grand tract of land in California was today granted by the Supreme Court tor the District of Columbia. The case has been held under advisement since February last. The writ of mandamus was served on Secre* tary Cox to-day. The decree provides that Mo(ar rahan shali pay $1 25 per acre, the entire amount being $22,200, The new Indian Mining Company's claim is embraced within the tract. The Boys in Blue. A delegation of Boys in Blue called on vhe Presi- dent this morning Yor the purpose of urging the ap- pointment of members of that organization to post- tons in the executive departments. The President stated that he would give the matter due delihera- tion. A Souvenir of the Rebellion. In 1865 Adjutant General Townsend deposited in the Treasury a gold bar worth $1,189, which was captured at the Dahlonega Branch Mint, Georgia, with the Confederate government stamp on it. Treasurer Spinner will now send this bar to Phila- deljhia to be coined. The President’s Brother-in-Law a Candidate for Governor of Mississippi. Major Wofford, of Mississippi, now in this city, has received a telegram from Jackson, in that State, say- ing:— The National Union republican party, backed by the popular sentiment of the State, will support Juage Lewis Dent for Governor, His election is cer- tain. Will he accept? ‘This despatch is signed by the Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals, the Secretary of State, Judge of the Criminal Court at Vicksburg, United States District Attorney, T. C. Murphy, and other promi- nent citizens, Major Wofford was to-day author- ized by Judge Dent to say he would accept the nomi- nation, The convention will meet on the 16th of this mopth. Canadian Reciprocity Treaty. Hon. John Rose, Finance Minister of Canada, is omhis way to this city, and has an appointment to- morrow with Secretary Fish in reference toa new reciprocity treaty. Postmasters Appointed. Tne following postmasters were commissioned this morning:—Williain Jones, Dallas, Texas; Curtis McGowan, Knoxville, Ill., and Rufus A, White, Charlestown, Mass, Resignation of Army Officers. First Lieutenants Zachary Taylor, of the Second cavalry, and Joseph M, Kennedy, of the Twenty-fifth infantry, have resigned. Troubles of the Indian Pe~ce Commission. (Washington (July 8) arene ‘ of Evening A quarrel has been ig be for some time between cert members of the jan Peace Commission, Commissioner Parker and Secretary Cox, which at one time assumed a very serious aspect, bat through the decision of President Grant an open rupture was averted and the affair lally . Thus far the matter has been kept secret from the pub- Mc. It appears that after the appointment of this commission by President Grant certain member including William Welch, its president, ‘maintained that the commission was pot merely an advisory body, but possessed, under the law, executive power, and that all moneys appropriated by Con- gress to be distributed among the Indians and to carry into effect the law which created the Board Ought properly to pass into their hands and not to the Indian Bureau. Secretary Cox and OCommis- sioner Parker took the opposite ground, saying that if this construction was placed upon the law they would be nothing more than mere clerks, and Con- gress certainly never intended this, Considerable feel- ing seems to be manifested by one or two members of the commission, who prepsred a confidential let- ter addressed to their associates, in which both Sec- retary Cox and Commissioner Parker were assailea in not very complimentary terms. Finally President Grant was appealed to, and hesustained the views of Secretary Cox aud Commissioner Parker, that the commission was merely an advisory body, not vested ‘With executive power, An interchange of views be- tween the members of the commission disclosed (hat ali but two members were in favor of acting tn ac- cordance with the interpretation placed upon the law by the President and his Cabinet, to whom the question was submitted, This not being satiafac- tory to Mr. Welch, the president of the commission, and Mr. Campbell, of Missouri, they tendered their resignations to the President, wao promptly ac- cepted them. It ts understood that the President ‘will not fill these two vacancies, for the present, at least, The commission leave next week for the Indian country on an extensive tour of observation, ‘The country has been cut up into three districts, and the commission #0 divided that cach district can be visited at the same time by one or more members. COLIZGE CONNENCEMENTS. Commencement Exercises of Trinity Colleges Hartford. Harrrorp, Conn., July 8, 1869. The commencement exercises of Trinity College took place in the opera house in this city to-day, Arthur McConkey, of this State, gave the salutatory, and George Otis Holbrook, of New York, the vale- dictory oration. Governor Jewell and Bishop Wil- Hams were present, The following honorary degrees ‘were :—Master of Arta. M. Garcia, of Rio Janeiro; Rev. John Eaton Smith, of eros Conn; worry. James, Salisbury, Conn. Doctor of Divinity—Kev. Francis BE. Law: ot New York; Rev. Henry cee, of Great Barrington, Mass.: Rev. W. Stevens Perry, Geneva, N. Y.; Duct r of Laws—Edward M. Gallaudet, of Washington, D. C, “The commencement dinner was served at the United wis evening President Commencement Exercises at St. College. Barryrown, N. Y., July 8, 1809. ‘The Comymencement exercises at St. Steven's Col- tore closed to-day, A large number of prominent resent. The ten gradu- have departed. Among ht Key. archoishop Potter, Stephen's Amherst College Commencement. SPRINGFIELD, Masé., July 8, 1869, At Amherst College commencement to-day the de- ree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon Judge | bo P. Lord, of Salem, and Henry Morris, of this nd that of Doctor of Divinity upon Rey. Kd- » Bliss, of Constantinople, Turkey, and Re' T. Goodwin, of Chicago. Amherst. All four are graduates of sick i ail