The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1869, Page 4

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LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 | Brondway.—FRMALES ONLY IN ATEENDANCE. Now York, Wednesday, July 28, 1569. MONTHLY The DAILY HERALD Will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month, The ‘postage being only quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the HBkALD at the same price it is furnished tn the city, | SUBSCRIPTIONS. thi y-five cents a} Europe. The cable despatches are dated July 27. Mr. Gladstone 1s repryted unwell and unadle to attend to his duties, Frarliament will be prorogued on December 10, A fault has been discovered in the Atlantic cable of 1866. The Harvard crew were out yesterday and their style of rowing caused @ favora- bie impression, altnough their pace was considered rather slow. ‘The Carlists have again been defeated at Tarascon, and General Espartero has added his name to the public offers of assistance to the government of Spain, Baron von Beust, at the reception of the Hunga- rian delegation of the Budget Committee, made a not met his endeavors to establish more cordial re- lations between the two countries. Cuva. The Governor of Trinidad has ordered ali Spaniards between the ages of fifteen and sixty to do military duty. Tho press favor extending the sysiem to the ‘whole isiand, The Tuscarora ts off Havana, Miscellaneous. \ It is rumored tn Washington that Generai Canby is to be sent to Mississippi to superintend the elec- fiona, and that General McDowell ts to succeed | bim in Virginia. ‘The British steamer Lord Loveli, for Havana from Baltimore, was overhauled and searched by the re- venue cutter Northerner, off Cape Henry, on Satur- day, on suspicion of carrying arms to the insurgents in Cuba, but nothing being found she was released. ~ & the trial of a negro recently in Washington for larceny, the Judge of the Criminal Court discharged him because he was arrested without @ warrant, The Superintendent of Police consequently has issued anorder that no arrests are to be made hereafter without warrants unless the officer sees the offence committed. A suit has been instituted against one John A. Sims tu Syracuse for larcenies alleged to have been committed while he was a convict in Auburn Prison. It ia claimed that he and other couvicts and a clerk of the prison sent out goods, manufactured by the convicts and the property of Howland & Co., to their confederates, All the parties have been arrested and held in $5,000 bail. Tom Allen is training near St. Louis for his fignt with McCoole, and the latter will go into training i» / afew days. Gallagher ts also training for his fight with Tom Allen on the iff or August, O' Baldwin is In St, Lods. A negro man and woman were taken from jail in Appling, Columbia county, Ga,, recently by a dis- | gulsed party and killed for having nad a diMicany | with a white family. Judge Cochrane, in his court at Redford, West- | chester county, on Monday, vharged the Grand Jury | to look into the mutinies and escapes of prisoners at Sing Sing. | | { | The City. | A German committed suicide in the ark on Mon- | day night by shooting himse | The Vreeland abandonment cas* was to bave come | ap before Justice Mansfield at the Essex Market | Police Court yesterday, but a writ had previously been served on the Justice, returnable on Mon- day before Judge Cardozo, to show cause why the examination in his court shonld not be barred | on the ground of want of jurisdiction, An aMdayit | was submitted from Delia Gill, the servant, showing that she had been kidnapped and locked up ina room outside the city to prevent ler giving evidence for Mrs. Vreeland, and that she was released only on | 8 promise not to testify any more. Tho trial of policeman Campbell for the marder of Maurice Long was continued yesterday, the detence | peing opened, A further adjonrument then took | place until this morning. ‘The Cunard steamship Cuba, Captain Moodie, will fail about nine o'clock this morning for Liverpool | via Queenstown. } The steamship Paraguay, Captain Pixon, willieave } pier No. 2 North river at eight A. M. to-morrow | (Thureday) morning, for London direct. The steamer Saragossa, Captain Ryder, wil) sail from pier No. 8 North river, at three’, M. to-day, | for Charleston, 8. 0. The stock market yesterday was irreguiar, but | generally heavy. fog finatly at 167. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor G. C. Walker, of Virginia: General 7. Gold fell from 17% to 198)4, Clos GQ, Catlin, of Binghamton; General J. R. Anderson, of Richmond, and John D. Perry, of St. Louts, are at the St. Nicholas Fotei. Colonel F. S. Stevens, of Massachusetts; G. P. Jessop and T, R. Church, of San Francisco; H. J. Richardson, of Washington; EB. L. Andrews, of Texas, and J. W. Madden, of Nevaia, are at the Me- | tropolitan Horel. Judge Cattell, of Binghamton; ¢ Norwich, and D, Marsh, of Bo Hoase, Workives of rae Proursitive & IN MassacHusETts.—The Boston 77 dilettante republican, of Monday last says :— “More drunken people were seen in our streets yesterday than on any other Sabbath within the memory of the oldest inhabitant,’ worketh the great temperance dodge in the city of St. Hub, imscript, Jovee Desi w M arprt.—The radicals, iheluding the colored folks of Mississippi, are working vigorously to rule Judge Dent off the | track as the liberal and independent republi- oan candidate for Governor of Mississippi. Indeed, his case is reduced to this proposition: Is he or is he not the candidate of General Grant? The liberals say he is; tho radicals say he is not; and so it devolves upon Ceneral Grant to speak and soitle the anestion. , | and to Jidda, on the Red Sea. | fal sympathizer. | much for the commercial advancement and | glory of Egypt, Thus | ti rare The Sultan and the Wicerer~The Sues Canal a Bene ef Contention. ‘The French Oable. We are quite of opinion with the Journal The Commander of the Faithful and his | Oficiel of Paris regarding this new Franco- royal vassal, the Viceroy of Egypt, are not | American cable—as reported in yesterday's upon the mostagreeable terms, In fact, those amenities which should characterize relations telegram—that it may servo “to draw closer the bonds of friendship between the two between a benevolent sovereign and an obe- | countries.” It is true we are at present on dient prince, for some reason, have been so far disregarded by Abdul Aziz and Ismail Pacha that 4 rupture is reported which may assume a very hostile character and perhaps compromise the peace of the Continent. This is one of the early fruits of the Suez Canal, and forebodes serious complications in the future, deatined to affect the political condition of Turkey and Eyypt, and it may be the whole of Europe. It is not our province here to speak of the great advantages to commerce and civilization which will inevitably result from the opening and operation of the canal across the Isthmus of Suez, We recognize in it a work which will rank as one of the greatest achievements of the nineteenth century; but it may involve a struggle for mastery such as has not ocon- vulsed Europe since the wars of Napoleon I. The Ottoman Porte realizes in the important event shortly to take place the starting point of a new civilization, which may eventuate in the partition of his dominions and the estab- lishment of an independent royalty over which he can no longer exercise control, For some time past he has jealously watched the movements of the Viceroy of Egypt, and has regarded with unqualified dis- pleasure his visits and invitations at the Chris- tian courts of Europe. He has been sorely exercised by the reported conversations of his | stubborn vassal regarding the future political position of the canal, and took occasion to have a despatch addressed to diplomatic agents abroad setting forth the rights of the Porte over Egypt and pointing out the inconsisten- cies of the Prince charged with the goveru- ment of that province, Whether or not the Viceroy has deigned to make any satisfactory explanation to his suzerain respecting the pur- port of his visits and his declarations we are not prepared to say; but the report is that he hur- riedly left for Alexandria, and it is supposed that a rupture with the Sultan was the cause of his departure. The ‘‘Sick Man of Turkey” sees in Iamail’s ambition and the great results which the Suez Canal will operate on the future of Egypt more serious and immediate dangers of en- croachment upon hereditary rights and power than are likely to arise from Cretan insurrec- tions or Russian aggrandizement, Hence his great concern, and hence we may expect vigorous measures to teach the Grand Pacha of Egypt a lesson of humility and obedience. The Viceroy is a thorough man of progress and a willing promoter of all undertakings tending tothe benefit and prosperity of his country. He is gifted with a high order of in- telligence, and has by intercourse with Christian nations acquired considerable knowledge of the world, Regardless of the traditions of Is- lamism he has become a frequent visitor to the courts of Europe, and from his desire to cul- tivate intimate and friendly relations with certain potentates it is very reasonable to infer that he may be possessed with some ul- terior design, such as securing sympathy and material aid in case he should throw off the Turkish yoke and attempt independent roy- alty. Unless he could enlist material aid in his behalf from some one or more of the great Powers interested in the successful and unin- terrupted operation of the Egyptian canal he would stand a slim chance against the for- midable forces of the Porte, Abdul Aziz has at his command an army of eight hundred thousand men and a considerable navy, The vast Ottsaan empire, subject to hia rale, is nearly two thousand miles long and nine hun- dred wide, and stretches from the borders of the Adriatic to the shores of the Black Sea, of which it embraces more than half the cir- cuit, and from Trebisond to the Persian Gulf Its population is twenty millions, and its soldiers, though not skilled in all the modern appli- | ances of war, would make a stubborn and perhaps successful fight for the chief of Islam against an army four times as large as any the Grand Pacha could muster, notwithstand- ing all the extraordinary levies of troops and naval armaments that might be resorted to, The Viceroy is well aware of the strength of the Sultan, and if he intends a rupture, and feels prepared to attempt the experiment of independent royalty, we may be assured that his late travela have not been in valn, and that he is not acting without the secretly pledged or implied assistance of some power- He is fully aroused to a sense of his importance by the great enter- prise soon to be completed, which promises so That he is aspiring to abso- lute independence, as well as absolute power, from his sazerain ruler there is every reason to believe, and it remains to be seen whether he now considers himself strong enough to | throw off the yoke. } The Suez Canal, vastly important as tt is to the commerce of the world, and with all its | civilizing and humanizing tendencies, promises | | to prove a bone of contention which will not be laid aside until the blood of the Turk and | the Christian shall mingle in a final struggle | for its ruastery. | | Tue Prorosep Evrorgan Loan 10 THE | Usirep Srares.—The proposition of al | Frankfort banking firm, to lend the United } States three hundred millions of dollars | | at five per cent interest, is a flattering | siga the oredit our government, | | despite the incubus of «a great national , | debt. Secretary Boutwell, according to the | Washington correspondent who makes the fact public, saw fit to decline the offer, on the | ground that he expects to be able. to funda | portion of the five-twenties at four and a half, | | or even four per cent, A new loan, contracted for the purpose of redeeming the five-twenties | of 1862 and 1864, could easily be negotiated } at four per cent, if the provision were added | that the principal is definitely payable in gold. | In England such a loan would prove a formid- able rival to the consols, which draw only | three per cent interest, The steady reduction | of the national debt which haa been going on since the 10th of May gives a gnarantee that | | every cent of indebtedness will be paid. The subject is one which must receive enlightened consideration at the hands of the next Con- gress, of of the most friendly terms with France, but such a bond as this upon our interests will not fail to strengthen the chances of our remaining so. We are glad that our Secretary of State, although with more delay than was at all ne- cessary, has at last given the assurance that the government will offer no further opposition to the new company, and we even expect to hear in a few days that business communica- tions by this new cable have commenced, thus forming an additional link to bind us to the Old World. As far as France is concerned this must certainly prove a year forever memor- able in her annals, The opening of the Suez Canal and this new Atlantic cable must surely stir within her the spirit of commerce, and may possibly turn her attention less to the glory to be found in war than to the arts and tri- umphs of peace. Indeed, when we look to the highway to the East by the Suez Canal, which she has just completed, thereby abolishing the old route to India, and in all probability making the shores of the Mediterranean once again the busy seat of Eastern commerce, we see before her a splendid future, rich with the treasures of ‘‘Ormus and of Ind," and we are sure that our merchants will not fail to appre- ciate the advantages that this new route of communication opens up to them. But, leaving the gorgeous future out of con- sideration and confining ourselves to what is more practical in the present, we find that this new Atlantic cable gives rise to another con- sideration, The old Atlantic cable line was and is, beyond all question, most exorbitant in its charges, the consequence belng that the general public has made little use of it. Com- petition, we are certain, Is the only remedy for this, and for this remedy we must—at least for the present—look to the new French Friedman, of the Superior Court, in special term, relative to the Sheriff's charges and fees, in which our city lawyers take great interest, and which, in its bearings, is of impor- tance to the public. It is on alleged over- charges by tho Sheriff in attachment suits. Wooster was the plaintiff against Weld and others. Mr. Edwin James appeared for the plaintiff. The Sheriff claimed the sum of one handred and thirty-eight dollars as his costs for issuing writs and keeping possession. The plaintiff objected to this as illegal and exces- sive, anda motion was made by counsel for the taxation of charges. Itis said that the legal and proper charges should not amount to twenty dollars, Mr. James asked to ex- amine the Sheriff's officers to ascertain what they had received from other parties who had attachments in force at the same time the Sheriff had possession under those of his clients. The case was put off till Thursday next for the purpose of making the necessary examinations, The lawyers generally are greatly interested in this case, though hardly any of them would have ventured to beard the great mogul of the Sheriff's department and his formidable political backers and posse of officers, Whatever may be the merits of this particular case, and these have to be seen, there is no doubt that the Sheriff holds almost irresponsible power through his political sup- porters, the fear of the judges, the little army of roughs around him and the looseness of the law. Heavy amounts are levied upon the unfortunate people who get under the clutches of the law, and it Is not to be wondered at that the Sheriff's income is enormous and that there is no lack of greenbacks among his officers. This department and the whole system of its management need overhauling, and wo hope the present case will throw light upon the matter and lead to reforms, Importation of Coolies=A Letter from the Secretary of tho Troasury. cable, It is not long since we were told that the old company paid its share- holders a dividend of ight per cent; but when the new company compels them to lower their scale of charges we firmly believe that they may look for some- thing better than this, The general public, as we have said, have not contributed to the profits of the undertaking, The press, and merchants to whom early intelligence was of vital importance and to be paid for at any price, have hitherto been the main reliance of the company. Let them admit the general public, by a reduced tariff of charges, and their wires will never be idle. Now that the monopoly is ended, merchants may, according to their own wise rule, look elsewhere for the cheapest market, and as to the press, it may prove no disadvantage to the reading public to learn the political changes of Europe as they are viewed through a French medium. While expressing, therefore, our confidence that this new cable will prove a prosperous undertaking, we trust that American enterprise will give us at least ‘‘one cable more,” were it only to support the honor of publio spirit in this conn- try when contrasted with what we see of it j in this respect in France and England. | Napoleon and His Reforms. In the HERatp of yesterday we printed ‘tie text of the Emperor's messsgc, with the com- ments of the Frezvh and English press on the same, We have already given our opinion on this French crisis, The faller news received by mail has not at all affected the judgment which we felt was justified by the cable intel- ligence. The late elections gave full proof of the fact that France was no longer contented with imperialism, The result of the elections condemned the one-man government, Napo- leon has shown that he knows when and how to yield. He has stooped, but in stooping he hag not left the world in doubt whether he means to conquer, As we have said more than once already, Napoleon has made large concessions, but he has taken good care not to allow the reins to slip from his fingers. He is still master of the situation, and he means to remain master. The proroguing of the Corps Législatif was a most skilful move, We muat walt until the Chambers meet before we com- mit ourselves to any opinion as to the result of the reforms, It is safe, however, to say that Napoleonism is now fairly in the balances, A little while only and we shall know whether it is found wanting. Avotaen ANTI-RENT War Laingyt.— Murderous work has again commenced in Rensselaer county, the scene of many anti- rent broils years ago, It appearsthat a sheriff and posse were fired upon by a farmer on whose goods the officer attempted to levy for non-payment of rent, The sheriff was mortally and three of his posse seriously wounded, This is bloody work, at a time when the cry of ‘‘Let us have peace” prevails over the land, especially in the North, But the laws must be vindicated, and the Governor will, no doubt, take prompt measures to see that they are in the case of this violent and murderous resistance to the Sheriff of the county of Rensselaer while in the performance of his official duty, Tim = =ViroistA = Raptoats—A = SHREWD Dopek.—It is given out that the Wells | radicals of Virginia are meditating a fusion with the Walker liberals. Let the Walker men look sharp, or in such a compact they will get the shells and the radicals will get the oysters, Tue HemrsTeAD PLAtns Puronass,—If the people of Hempstead Plains understand their own interests they will see to it that the adml- rable improvements contemplated by Mr. Stewart in his purchase are not embarrassed or delayed by petty technicalities and for- | malities put in by other parties, Crncomstancns Auter Cases.—Some of our | exchanges are making a great fuss because a rich heiress at one of our watering places has run off with her father’s coachman, What of that? There is scarcely a young nobleman in England but boasts of his driving four-in- hand on the driver's seat, like any other coach- man, So far as respectability is concerned, therefore, there can be no dishonor in acting the part of@ Jehu, But in one case the party driving does {t for wages and in the other for fun—the fun of breaking their noble necks sometimes, Here's where circumstances decidedly alter gases. The letter of the Secretary of the Treasury to the Collector of the Customs at New Or- leans, relative to the importation of coolies into this country, declares that the act of Feb- ruary, 1862, prohibiting American citizens from engaging in the coolie trade has not been abrogated. It also refers to a resolution which was unanimously passed on the 16th of January, 1867, by both houses of Congress, expressing the abhorrence of the people of the United States for the coolie trade, and to the additional article (fifth) of the treaty between the United States and the Chinese empire, con- cluded on the 28th of last July and now await- ing the action of theEmperor. This articlere- probates any other than voluntary emigration, and agrees to make it a penal offence to take Chinese subjects from China without their free and voluntary consent. A circular from the Department of State, addressed to the Minis- ters and Consuls of the United States, on the 17th January, 1867, directs that the Consul at every port where coolies may embark be required to certify, after full examination, that such em- barkation is not forced or procured by fraud, and that such Ministers and Consuls shall use all their authority and infinence toward preventing and discouraging the carrying on of the traffic referred to inany way, The Col- ieotor at New Orleans is, therefore, authorized and directed to use all vigilance in suppress- ing what the Secretary calls ‘‘this new modi- fication of the slave trade.” It is manifest that the Secretary of the Treasury overlooks or ignores the fact that the prohibitory law to which he alludes makes mention only of persons and vessels transport- ing Chinese coolies from a Chinese port to some port foreign to the United States; so that it may be questioned whether it interdicts the importation of this class of immigrants to this country. At all events, there is nothing to hinder the sons of the Celestial empire any more than the sons of Erin from being wel- comed here in hundreds and thousands as voluntary immigrants. Nor can there be any more objection to their belng brought here through the agency of companies organized for the purpose than to the importation of Germans through similar instrumentalities, Moreover, in the changed conditions of Ameri- can labor, resulting from the destruction of African slavery by the late war, Chinese im- migrants, specially those of a hardier build and superior qualities from the interior dis- tricts, will be heartily welcomed here, and it should be remembered that however they may have been induced to leave their native country, and even to whatever hardships they may have been subjected on their passage to our coasts, as soon as they arrive they will be freemen, and no longer ‘‘coolies.” Mr. Bout- well, therefore, we may hope will revise some of his opinions on the introduction of Chinese labor into the United States, and withdraw his opposition to its inevitable ultimate success, In this connection we may refer our readers to the very full account of the history and present condition of the Chinese labor question, which filled four columns of yesterday's Heratp. Tne Last oF Tat Ira Cavroa Br. Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria has signed the bill, which has passed both houses of Parliament and which disestablishes and disendows the Irish Protestant Church establishment. The terrible bill is now law. We must now wait to see whether orno the Trish people will be satisfied. We much fear that Queen Victoria or her heirs will have to sign many more such bills before onr friends of the green isle will say ‘“‘enough,” Gladstone, Bright and Lowe have, however, done well, They have work atill before them; but they have given proof that they know how to do it, If Pat keeps at it Johnny Bull will do more for him. He can’t help it. Tas SuNpAY Law is to be rigidly enforced in Hartford, Conn. Jt was hardly to be sup- posed there would be any necessity for en- habits.” But all is not gold that glitters, and the garb of morality and humility frequently covers an unrighteous and covetous soul, A Demooratio Dirriounry 1x New York — In this question, Shall we run our old State ticket this year again or put up a new one? The ins say let us stick to the old ticket, the outs demand a new one, and there will be trouble about this matter unless Peter B, Sweeny comes home in seasgn to sat it right, for boys, the children’s cottage, near the dairy ; the children’s shelter, a small playhouse for girls, near the children’s gate; the presenta- tion of the admirable statue in bronze, heroic size, of the ‘Indian Hunter,” by J. Q. A. Ward, an earnest of other contributions to the future artistic ornaments of the Park—and the important additions to the geological, zoolo- gical and botanical treasures. It is a sufficient compensation for all the sums of money already expended on this Park to know that the school children of New York may find there air and space for healthful enjoyment. No less than seven millions eighty-nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-cight visitors have enjoyed the pleasures offered by the Park during the past yoar, and among them must be counted more than twenty thousand school children. Daring the present school vacations it is to be hoped that the children will more fully than ever avail themselves of the privileges ox- tended to them at the Park. It is algo to be hoped that the alatue of the ‘Tudian Hunter” by Ward is but a first instal- ment of the contributions which our artiste will make to the ornamentation of our un- rivalled Park, What more suitable place could be chosen by American sculptors and architects for a permanent exhibition of their best productions? That its advantages as a means of popular intellectual improvement have not been overlooked is shown by the en- couragement to so scientific a man as Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins to devote himself to the organization of a Zoological Department, and partioularly to the restoration of such fossils illustrating ancient life on the North Ameri- can Continent as the Hydrosaurous Howkii, Tn reapect to the applications of modern landscape gardening at the Park we have no complaint to make, unless it may be that certain trees and shrubs, seem to have been planted too closely together. But this, if an error, can be easily remedied, On the whole, we must oon- gratulate the Park Commissioners on their success in having provided the city of New York with a resort which promises yearly to become more and more attractive for all classes. If they will now arrange for gratify- ing the popular taste for music by supplying the thousands of Sunday visitors to the Park with the pleasure of listening to such fine strains as have been heard on twenty-one secu- lar days of the past year, we shall be all the more disposed to commend their efforts to make the Park a place of attractive and ele- gant recreation, full of salutary influences for the entire community. Boatwell Rapped Kauckles. The Albany Hvening Journal, republican organ, raps Secretary Boutwell over the knuckles for his interference in the matter of the election in Tennessee, as follows :—‘‘Has not the Secretary made a mistake? What is there to warrant his interference with a quar- rel purely local? So far as republicanism is concerned both of the candidates for Governor in Tennessee have equal claims to recognition. Each was a rebel when he supposed that re- bellion was likely to succeed and to ally the State with the Confederates, Each became converted under the pressure of self-interest, And each has since acted with the party, sup- porting all its measures, including emancipa- tion, investiture of the negroes with citizen- ship and establishment of equal rights as a constitutional principle.” We can hardly imagine what bond of sympathy there exists between Secretary Boutwell and Colonel Stokes. Their ideas in regard to the social status of Sambo being so widely different— the former believing him to be an image fit to worship and the other to possess a soul not fit to be damned, Politics, however, make strange bedfellows. We repeat our convic- tion that Boutwell is doing well enough with the national money bags; but, in the words of one of the most respectable organs of his party, ‘‘What is there to warrant his inter- ference with a quarrel purely local ?” Secretary Over the Reported Triple AlinucemA Fogsy spatch, Whenever political news waxes dull, which is often the case at this season of the year, the newsmongers abroad invariably start some thrilling report. The last one which we have received atates that a rumor js afloat that an alliance has been concluded between France, Austria and Italy; and from the fact that Italy is to ocoupy Viterbo it infers that the evacuation of Rome by the French troops is included in the arrangement, Italy has recently been paying many little attentions to Austria, probably with a view of bringing about some such operation; but so far we have no information tending to prove that any progress has been made. Considering the friendly ties at present existing between the Court of Aus- tria and the members of the family of the ex-King of Naples, and the territorial conoes- sions but recently made by Austria to Italy, it hardly appears probable that such an arrange- ment can have been favorably entertained. Napoleon, however, is a mighty mediator, and in proof of his maxim that “L’Empire c'est la paix,” he perhaps requires the assistance of Dee forcing such a law in the ‘and of steady | Austria and Italy in order to maintain it, At \ all events, there is something very foggy about | the despatch that reqnires considerable eluct- | dation, Another despatch, equally improba- | ble, reports that Prussia has offered 12,000 | men to the Pope if the French troops now in | garrison in Rome are withdrawn, Gayerat GRAN? IN THE BaLiRoom.-—lt is | given out by an admiring radical critic that | “General Grant is certainly no dancer, but fs | far from being awkward or ungraceful.” A few more lessons and we shall hear that if he eb not known to be an American soldier from Illinois he would be taken in the ball- | room for a French dancing master from the | Palais Royal, Let him persevere. | A Panvinest Qoestiox.—Is there any political undercurrent in the recent revival of anti-rent outrages in Rensselaer county ? The weather is hot, but it ia nev4r too much #0 for the operations of unscrupulous politicians, even if blood be shed & carry out their ends, WAsainaron, July 37, 1669, Rotara of the President. ‘The Fresident ta expected to rewurn to Washing: ton next Taursday. Chango ef Commanders ta Virginia, ‘There is a rumor from Richmond to tho effect thas the administration has in contemplation the order- ing of General Canby to Missiasippi to auperintena the elections there, and tkat McDoweil is to be or- dered to the command in Viryinia, Purchase of Bonds by Secretary Boutwoll. The recently puolished statement that the Seore- tary of the Treasury would sell no more gold gud buy no more bonds was without authority, A Romarkable Decision—Discrimination te the Criminal Court on Account of Color~ Advantage of a Black Skin. In case brought before the Criminal Court here, Where @ negro was accused of larceny and of reaiat- ing an officer who undertook to arrest him, the Judge instructed the jury that the officer had no right to arrest the negro except he had a warrant for him, and the jury, half negro and half white, ac- quitted the man. A decision directly opposite to this was given by the Courc in Bano some six months Ago, and on this the police force has been uoting. In view of the last decision the Superintendeas of Police has issued the following order:— DEPARTMENT OF METROPOLITAN POLICE, Orrice OF MAJOR AND Schaurrendinee, | daly 27, 1809, GENERAL ORDER NO, 210, LiguTENANT—Owing to the conflict exiating be- tween the opinion of the Court in Banc, as delivered November 12, 1868, and the recent instructions of the Judge of the Criminal Court in the trial of James Burnett for larceny and resisting a police officer tn discharge of his duties, you will instruct the mem. bers of your command, until further orders, to make ‘no more arrests for aby cause Whatever, without & warrant, unless they shal! themselves see the offen0e for which they make an arrest, A. ©, RICHARDS, Major and Superintendent. It ts fearea that the action of the Judge of the Criminal Court will have the effect to encourage Jawlessness and crime among the negroes, Cousolidation of Washington and George o town, A momorial has been prepared and will sogh be circulated throughout Washington and Georgetown for signatures and presonted to Congress, asking that the two cities be consolidated under oue munt- cipal government, to be called the city of Wash- ington. Death of an Internal Revenue Collector. Horatio S. Flint, Coliector of Internal Revenue for ‘the District of Columbia, died here this morning of consumption. Assessors of Income Taxes in New York. Alfved Appol and George P. Heywood have becn nominated by Assistant Treasurer Cleveland, of the Thirty-second Collection district of New York, aa assistant assessors, to be designated under section sixty of the act of Marcl 2, 1367, to make assous- Mments of income tax in the city of New York, Revenue Receipts (or July, ‘The receipts from interaal revenue from July t date were $17,860,000. The Laboratory at Macon, Ga. Dr. Culver, of Georgia, left Washington to-night with authority to take possession of the Confederate Lanoratory at Macon, for the use of the State Agriout- tural Fatr, After the ist of January itis probabie the building will be converted tnto a hospital for ageu and infirm negroes. The Washington Schuetzentest. The Washington Schuetzenvereia is making ex- tensive arrangements for the Schaetzenfest which commences next Monday. It will be preceded by @ grand procession, tucluaing all the District Germaa associations and members of those of other clues Six prizes for shooting will be in gold coin, ranging from $125 to $30, aud Afteen tn silver coi, ranging from $100 to $5; also prizes for bowling and gold medals for the best marksmen, A Singular Blunder About the Income Tax. {Washington (July 26) bee etic of the Boston ‘The attention of the government has beon catled to an evident blaoder in the system of collecting Income taxes from government employes, votit un the civil and military service, by ich the latter have undoubtedly paid into the Treasury at least $20,000,000 since the passage of the Income Tax ac’ more than they are‘legally required toao by the in- come laws. It is explained that the blunder w occasioned by deducting the income tax from army and navy officers and civil employés at the time of the payment of their monthly salaries, without giving them the opportunities which other income tax payers have of making deductions for house rent, losses in business, &c., &c. It is fur- ther claimed that the system is wrong, because, as has frequent; neppenea tis year, government employes discharged before completing a year's work and before receiving the one thousand dollacs exempted by law are unable to obtain employment for the remainder of the year. They have never- theless paid a Phe vata monthly tax, when in fect they are not under the law required to pay any tax whatever, It 13 also claimed that the monthly cot lections of tuxes are not authorized by the law which provides jor reguiar assessments by duly ap pomied assessors. The New State Department. (Washington (July 26) is tinea Boston Advere y The Secretary of State has appointed a commission to select a site lor the new State Department and prepare plans for the building. The commission consists of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War, Mr. Clark, the architect of the Capitol; Mr. Mullett, the supervising architect of the ‘Treasury, and General Michicr, the superintendent of the public bulidings., The resolution under whi the appointment is made passed both houses Congress Jast April, but for want of time to enroll it failed to reach the President until the adjournment had been declared. Under the circumstances tne Secretary of State concluded to make the appoint ment and have the report contemplated by the reso [io veady to lay before Cougress upon reaaseu ving. i WOMEN'S NATIONAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, This august body of female iogisiators met yester. day afternoon at their headquarters, No. 49 Kast Twenty-third street, in good)y numbers. The young and the old, the married and the unmarried portion of the sex were there, and many fine and even ele gant toilets were noticeable in the solemn conclave of the United States female senate, Every grave and reverend senatress seemed to be armed with @ plenitude of dignity and @ devotion to her constitu- ents selaom found in her male counterpart, The pres- identess was Mrs. Phelps, who, in most CCE nee cular save parliamentary etiquette, resembles the smiling and suave Colfax, of the male Senate. Mighty questions were those that were yesters day ‘discussed. Amid mutterings low snd deep, and while significant glances shot from one distinguished senatress to another, a resolution was carried, without a singie dis- senting volce, providing that the association abait hold @ gathering at Newport on the 25th and 96ta of August, when (he momentous question of femate suttrage will receive ample consideration. pon motion tt was also enacted that Mrs, Livermore and Susan B. Anthony be delegated to set on foot go for extensive State ot izations, which are to be tributary to the national senate. it remaing to be seon if tne preaidentess of (ne female United States will veto the important measure; her Excellou the Fon. Susan B, Anthony is at Saratoga. lengthy fulmination, that sounded like @ reaurrec- tion speech by Xantippe, was then read by Senatrese Norton, who Is a reproduction of Sumner himself— haridsome, schoiastio and profound as she is. Bat the great power of this tmposing body lies in one mind—that of Senatress Charlotte B, Wilbour. She ts at once the Fessenden, the Wade and the Samner oF the Senate; besides, she is @ charming lady, of elegant wanners, and always dresses in thi height of fashion, Her tack is reaay, her powers debate intuitive, her rhetoric choice aud her eo ciation soiter than strains trom the Aoltan harp. In reform she is the feminime of Senator It was only when a scene of un} leled (ry ltamentary confusion ensued tn the chamber her authority and influence became apparent. The expenses of the xenace’s printing being under con- sideration an excited discussion occurred over the snin ol two vents, It was contended on the part of those who would prevent a wanton waate of the funds iu the treasury that every one fms (py? ot the printed memorial to the male Senate, asking for a sixteenth amendment, pack ly political ama amation of the sexes, should compelied to fie gum of two cents, Others, Tete ee reck! nce, scouted the Idea; O88 Fig vl wittioat one yet, io ‘a’ moment of exolte- ment and with a nobie outburst of enthusiasm offered to lay two cents at the shrine of female suf- frage, Which appeased to the hberality of every erous heart. Hardly had her patetotte action taken ere the rest followed sult, and the vexed quos- tion which threatened the peace of the country wae happily buried forever. A subject tn which tho sam of fifty dollars was often mentioned in common with the female ballot then underwent mioroscopia, examination; but the Prosidentess declared tt to “muddled, & conclusion which was followed by an tumodiate adjournment, } HORSE NOTES. The trots announced to como off at the ‘Union Course yooterday afternoon were again postponed on account of rain and the heavy coua{uom of the tragk. ‘The trot between Lady Thorn an4 damite Matd will come of Vale ‘ularuooas ae Ps