The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1870, Page 6

The Tax Bil and Finauclal Before Congress. At last Congress has begun to work earnestly at the different measures relating to taxation, funding the na‘ional debt, the currency and other money questions, One or the other of these questions is up every day and pretty fully discussed. Still they are in auch a state of chaos, there is such a wide difference of opinion about them, and the two Houses have for the most part such separate and conflicting bills, that we cannot yet see what shape legis- lation will ultimately take. A great part of the session has been wasted on these measures. There is not time now for any such compre- hensive legislation on them as the country needs, and there does not appear to be the statesmanlike ability in Congress for that. We must be contented, therefore, with the best that we can get. The Funding bill reported by General Schenck from the Committee of Ways and Means dif- fers from the Senate bill and has been a good deal modified since it was first introduced and went to the committee, It provides for funding # thousand millions of the debt at the uniform rate of four per cent interest. The new bonds or consols will have thirty years to run, and it is believed by Mr. Schenck that the holders of the five-tweaties and capitalists will be willing to exchange their securities or to purchase the new ones at par. Itis thought that the difference in interest between the ex- piring or short time six per cents and the new four per cents will find a compensation in the increased value of the thirty year bonds, Then, with a view to bring them to par value, it is proposed to exempt the new securities from all taxation, and to cease paying interest on the old securities as they become due unless the holders surrender them to the government at their par value. It has to be seen how far the holders of the five-twenties will voluntarily change them for the thirty year bonds. The reduction of one-third the interest makes a great difference. Butas the five-twenties fall due the holders of them will be compelled either to take the new four per cents or pay- ment in money for their bonds at par value. This is perfectly fair on the part of the government, and, indeed, liberal, consider- ing that the bonds, which did not cost over fifty or sixty per cent in currency, are to be redeemed in gold. It is question- able, however, as was said before, if the bondholders will take the four per cents at par, and in that case there is reason to fear the government will not be able to find the gold to redeem such a vast amount of securi- ties. Would it not have been better, as the Committee of Ways and Means have gone so far in proposing to reduce the interest, to have adopted the more simple plan of chang- ing the whole debt into’ consols bearing 3.65 per cent interest, and to have made them convertible into money and reconvertible at the option of the holder? Some of the other features of the Funding bill are good enough. Authorizing the Secre- tary of the Treasury to use the gold in his vaults to buy up and cancel the six per cent debt, and providing for the cancellation of the debt already purchased are proper provisions. It is doubtful, however, if the clause consti- tuting the Treasury a sort of gigantic bank of deposit is either sound in theory or can be practically carried out. This would make the Treasury Department what it was never in- tended to be, would complicate ita busi- ness very much and would be a doubtful and dangerous experiment. Then, how is it that nothing is said about the national banks being required to take the new four per cent securities in this bill? It was proposed that these institutions should be be compelled to take the new bonds to deposit as security for their circulation. This would absorb three hundred millions of them, at least. Why are the banks thus favored? Have the national bank interests and lobby proved more powerful than the Committee of Ways and Means or than Con- gress? The whole interest on the securities deposited by the banks is clear profit and a clear gift from the government; for they get the profits on the currency supplied by the government, and surely they ought to assist in funding the debt at a lower rate of interest. The bill reducing taxation, which was fought so desperately by the high tariff men, is one of the best measures of the seesion. But it has yet to run the gauntlet of the Senate. The reduction is on many articles of prime necessity and to the estimated amount of about fifty millions a year. There might have been a greater reduction of taxes; for the revenue of the country would have borne that, and a large surplus income only leads to extrava- Questions BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly scaled. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. : ——— Volume KXXV.......ssssereeeessescsseee No, 159 AMUSEMENTS ‘THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OLYMPIC = BOLYMFIC THEATRE, n Broscwas. ‘Tue Faiz ONE. WiTe ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, » ‘er Thirtieth st.—Matinee daily. Performance every evening. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, yt Eighth a] 384 Tax Twaive TeuPrations, "tt svenue an NIBLO'S GARDEN, dway—1xi0N-~ Mai Duiua on foe an: aon way—IXi0N--THE MILITARY BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Lost 1x LONDON—ToM 8. 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SRATONT, (9 Beengwrar.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, June 8, 1870. CONTENTS 4 Advertisements. 2—Advertisemenis. 3—The Jockey Club Jubilee: Ladies’ Day at Jerome Park; Four Magnificent Races; a More Dashing Company and Finer Display than Ever; People, Scenes and Incidents of the Occasion—Trotung at Beacon Park, Mass.—What America Wants—The Michael Norton Association : Reported Fight in the Club Koom—The Prin- cess Editha : A Singular Blending of Romance and Reality—Murder in New Jersey—Fighting for the Bonds—Rallroad S!aughter—Alleged Four Thousand Dotlar Diamond Robpery. 4=Cong.ess: More Railroad Land Jobs Proposed: Sc:eme to Dispossess the Osage Indians of their Reservation in Kansas: the Democrat ¢ Platform for 1872—The Fourth Ward Tragedy: Tontinuance of the Inqu.si—The New lézime: ‘The Departments at Work—Cuba: The Upton Expedition All Right; Another American Re- a Killed by the Spanish Soidiers—The ist of the King of Grecce to the Ionian OF TO-DAY’3 HERALD. Asiands—Personal Intelligerce—International Semen Loren Anatole Eerie radol—Truckin Virginia—The ‘ster of Two Children, . - oun S—The Indians: Great Counc of Chiefs with Secretary Cox; What the Governinent Proposes and Whatthe Indiaus Want—West Point : “The Law and Ethics Examination; the Boat Race; the President to be Present—rhe New Railroad War: Prince Erle and the Commodore with Drawn Swords and a Big Fight in Prospect— The Masonic Jubilee: Opening of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York—Bloody Work in Williams- burg—Litigation Extraordinary—Quarantine Affairs—Rural Barn Burners—Aitempved Rob- bery. @—Editorials: Leading Article on the Tax Bill and Financial Questions Before Congress—The Morris and x Ratlroal Passenger War— Amusement Announcements. ‘'¥—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Spanish Legislation on sorely nd Railroads; American Opposition to Papal Infallibility; Ita- Han Revolutionism and Political Agitation; Fire in the Forest of Fontainebieau; Washington: Remarkable Operations of the Cuban Lobby; Attempt to Bribe President Grant’s Brother; A Con; man’s ec @ Cuban Inter- viewer; St. Domingo aty Negotiation In- vestigation; The tification o! Assured. 8—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Coui Yhess Matters—Tne New Steamsnp Hannover—New York Baptist Association— senator Revels and His Stster—The Industrial Exhibition—The Beanty of Memory—A Lin- gering Death—Financial and Commercial Ke- ris—Marriages, Birth and Deaths. eat Indies: Another Revolution in Haytl; Exe- cution of a Negro at Kingston, Jamaica—The Sisters of the Stranger—Advertisements, 10—New York City epee: the Jersey City ‘Taxypers—The Cigar Makers’ Strike—The Ger- man Republicans Rebellious—Amusements — Shipping Intelligence—Aavertisements, 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. the Treaty = A Pace For Rusty RapicaL NexpLes— Washington Emory. Nor Yet Conrirmep—The original A. P. A. re port of the Roumania massacres, and we dare say it never will be. Monti “THe Bripau An exchange | gance and corruption; but this is a thinks the month of June is called the bridal | step in the right direction. There month, because bridal wreaths can be pro-| jg no time now to remodel at the cured without being obliged to indulge in the expensive exotic luxuries of the hothouses. But a lady at Jerome Park yesterday thought it was so called because it was the month in which the summer races commenced ! present session our tax and revenue system, and we may be thankful for the best we can get. Still the whole system is compli- cated and far too costly. We ought to raise a sufficient income from a few articles of luxury and general consumption, as England does, and this would reduce the army of office- holders and the cost of collection. One of the best propositions that has been made in Con- gress on financial and currency matters was that of Mr. Randall yesterday to issue legal tender notes in place of the national bank currency, This would save eighteen millions in gold a year to the Treasury and give the country a uni- form and perfectly reliable circulating medium. But whatever Congress is going to do with regard to these various measures relative to the taxation, finances and currency of the country should be done atonce. While they are pend- ing business is suspended to a great extent. People are unwilling to do anything while the future is uncertain, Let us have some decision soon, so that trade, commerce and business generally may follow their usual course, and that the people may know what lies before them. tien, af A Foxy Fsast—The redskin strawberry feast in Washington, TE Masonic CELEBRATION.—We are to have a grand turnout of the benevolent Order of Free and Accepted Masons to-day, to aasist in the imposing ceremonials of the laying of the corner stone of their new temple, at the corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue. The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and several other lodges from Philadelphia will also assist in this work of brotherly love. We hope the brethren will have a pleasant time; for we hold them io be a body of good men, and, judg- ing their tree by its fruits, it is one of the most beautiful and beneficent graftings of charity from ‘‘the tree of life,” with all allow- ances for the objections of Mother Church, Peter B. Sweexy Gove To Evrope,— The President of the Department of Parks, Mr. Peter B. (sometimes called Bismarck) Sweeny, will sail to-day for Europe. He pro- poses, at his own expense, to visit the parks of London and of the principal continental cities, in order to pick up whatever he may discover of an ornamental nature to decorate the parks in this city. His trip will not extend over two months, which will afford him ample time to visit Louis Napoleon and to give him a lesson or two in the management of the young democracy of Paris, and also afford him an opportunity to call upon the Sultan and tell him how to manage the young demo- cracy of Egypt. Perbaps Mr. Sweeny will bring back a couple of ancient pyramids to adorn the | Park. Who knows? ptosis Tne St. Dominco Treaty.—In the execu- tive session of the Senate yesterday a loated debate ensued on the St. Domingo treaty, but a resolution calling for a long and tedious investigation into the history of the whole transaction was defeated by a close vote. The treaty itself will undoubtedly gain strength by a full ventilation of everything connected with it, but we are glad to see that a majority of the { Senate are opposed to further delay. The Upton Expedition=Reported Successful Landing. Were we to believe the numerous reports of Spanish successes in the island of Cuba which are forwarded from Havana almost every day we should have little hesitation in regarding the revolution of the Cubans against Spanish oppression at an end. Though the accom- plishments of the revolutionista in the fleld have not been remarkably brilliant it is impos- sible to lose sight of the fact that they have all along aimed at harassing their opponents in small bodies rather than depending on the chances of regular engagements. It is true that the Cubans have been unsuccessful in many of their armed expeditions, and that the attempts of the Cuban sympathizers to furnish the men battling for independence on Cuban soil with arms and ammunition have been fre- quently frustated; yet, notwithstanding the glowing telegram of Captain General de Rodas “that the filibustering expedition which sailed from New York on the George B. Upton” has proved a failure, and that the men, arms and ammunition intended for the Cubans were cap- tured by a Spanish force of one hundred strong, we are inclined to the belief that the expedition of the Upton was as success- ful as the truest well wishers of the Cuban cause might desire. In fact, the Spaniards knew nothing of the landing of the expedition until five days after it had taken place. Advices received in this city from Nuevitas and Havana confirm this view of the matter. Five days after the landing had occurred the fact was known in Nuevitas, and that space of time elapsed before the troops or the gunboats were placed in readi- ness to move. It is only natural, from these facts, to infer that the relief which the Upton brought was in the interior before the Span- iards arrived. Besides, the Cubans in and around Porto Brava are in considerable force, and the Captain General's ‘‘one hundred men arrested by two gunboats” would not have so easy a task to perform as the reading of his Excellency’s despatch would lead us to sup- pose. Coming close on the news of the Upton’s expedition we have the news of the sailing of the armed vessel Chieftain from London, England, for Cuba and in aid of the Cubans. What will De Rodas say to this? If he would be on the safe side this time he had better order his cruisers to sea in anticipa- tion of the arrival of the Chieftain, capture her within five days’ sail of the island, and thus make good the loss occasioned by being five days too late for the capture of the Upton. The Drought in Europe. We have the news of the,prevalence of a disas- trous drought in Europe, extending from France eastwardly an indefinite distance, perhaps even to the confines of Asia, or beyond them, for have they not been suffering terribly from drought in the Holy Land? The unusual con- sequences of a drought in Europe—destructive fires in the woods—are reported in many dis- tricts, the beautiful forest of Fontainbleau hay- ing suffered from an extensive burning yeater- day, notwithstanding the activity of the dense population around it in the good work of ex- tinguishing the flames. We have had this side the Atlantic, on Long Island and in the central and northern parts of this State, and in various districts in Canada East and West, and as far West as the Winnipeg country, very destructive fires in the woods this season, and the most destructive of all among those splen- did forests of gigantic pines and cedars on the Pacific side, in Washington Territory and British Columbia—facts which go to show that the dry spring season of this year has probably extended over the same degrees of north lati- tude entirely round the globe. If such has been and is the case, and if this general drought should continue even a month or so longer, it will entail a vast amount of suffering upon the people of France and Cen- tral Europe, and cut short our exportations of breadstuffs from this year’s productions. We still expect, however, over all this dry northern belt a supply of rains sufficient to save the year’s growing crops; for we think these life-giving and life-saving rains are even now coming on. Since the gen- eral introduction of the electric telegraphs by land and sea this subject of the rain supply in all the populous parts of the earth is be- coming exceedingly interesting and {mpor- tant. We are satisfied, too, that although science cannot control the weather, it can do an immense amount of good in disclosing the laws and movements of storms, and in provid- ing toa great extent against the disasters of floods and droughts. We therefore repeat our opinion, that the government at Washing- ton, in providing for the establishment of an extensive telegraphic system of weather re- ports by land and sea will be doing a good work for the country and forthe world at large. A DirreReENce.—There is a slight difference between the modes in which students in prac- tical anatomy in New York and Chicago dispose of the bones and other debris of their subjects. In New York they are hermetically walled up, 30 that no offensive odor from de- composition reaches outsiders; in Chicago they are placed in open garrets, to be used as disinfectants against the ordinarily morally offensive atmosphere of the Western metropo- lis. That is what the Western students facetiously term ‘‘attic salt.” “Unpur this altered state of affairs” (the restoration of self-government to this city), a radical organ declares ‘‘the republican party is materially strengthened.” It is a queer way of strengthening any political system to with- draw millions of pap from it. Tue Cusas Lossy INvestication,—The upshot of the investigation into the alleged attempt to bribe Congress by Cuban lobbyists seems to be that such attempts were made by prominent members of the Cuban Junta through well known Washington lobbyists, but that any succeeded is doubtful. In at least two cases the impudent lobbyists met with rather rough treatment. Mr. Grant, a brother of the President, told one of these shameless fellows ‘‘to go to hell,” and Gen- eral Shanks kicked his would-be briber down stairs. Drake De Kay has been confirmed by the Senate as Consul at Magdalen, Mexico. When the Mexican authorities once see De Kay’s startling signature to an official pronuncia- mento they will at once ery peccavi, without resort to diplomacy or subterfuge of any kind. interpreter. after hearing complaints from chiefs, and the whole matter is to be re- ported to the President. Ice Cream at Washington and Scalps on the Plains. The renowned uncivilized chiefs of the Sioux Indians, Spotted Tail and Red Cloud— the former of whom, for some reason known to the etiquette of the savage tribes, has had precedence on all public occasions during their visit to Washington—were most cordially received at the White House on Monday even- ing by the Great Father and Great Mother, President and Mrs. Grant. Grand was the ceremonial indeed. The elegance and the fop- pery of the foreign legations combined most appropriately with the gravity of our Cabinet Ministers to make the occasion astonishing for the red men, and, taken in connection with the multitudes of gas jets in the chandeliors— which probably reminded the braves of the stars by which they guide their ponies when they are tracking a white settlement at night— must have impressed them with the idea that it is good to be at peace with the white man while they are in Washington, whatever atti- tude they may assume when they reach the free air of the prairies. But of all the beau- ties of this feative scene there was nothing which so captivated the savages as the ice cream and strawberries. Silent before, they became absolutely gossipy—a wonderful thing for an Indian—when their palates, accus- tomed to rough buffalo meat, with an occa- sional tender fox or slice of white wolf or lank Indian dog, were tickled with the luscious berries and the cooling cream. Just at this juncture, no doubt, they could have been per- suaded to sign any treaty presented to them. It was precisely upon this soothing occasion that the sweet, persuasive tones of Secretary Cox would have worked like a charm, and would have made all these dangerous crea- tures be good boys in future. But the occasion was allowed to go by, and it was not until yesterday that Red Cloud and his chiefs met Secretary Cox and the members of the Peace Commission in solemn council at the Interior Department. The Secretary told them that their Great Father wanted them to live on their reservations and be peaceable, and clothing and provisions would be given them; but he would not give them guns and bullets until they showed that they were willing to live in peace. To this Red Cloud made a speech worthy of Red Jacket. He said he did not want to fight, but that he must have Fort Fetterman removed and no more roads made in his country. As for the reservation on the Missouri, he did not want it, His land was north of the Platte. He had two big mountains there; and white men had driven stakes in them which he wanted removed. As to the Great Father being good and kind he couldn’t see it. He (Red Cloud) was good and kind to white people. The soldiers who were sent to him by the President had no sense and no heart. He had not received so much as a brass ring for the land occupied by the Pacific Rail- road. This speech was warmly applauded by the Indian braves present. At the con- clusion of the council both Red Cloud and Spotted Tail with consistent impudence asked for the pardon of John Richard, the half- breed, who killed a soldier in Fort Fetter- man, and who, with exaggerated assurance, was present at the council as Red Cloud's The council adjourned finally the other Meantime, while the strawberries and cream were being enjoyed at the White House in the presence of General Grant and all the notables of the capital, and Red Cloud and his braves were thus bullying the peacemakers, came along the wires from the West the tidings there that our soldiers and settlers were being slaughtered by the Indians at Bear Creek station, only forty miles from Fort Dodge, one of our garrisoned posts on the Arkansas river. The despatch reads :— Thirty-five Indians came to the station, which was uarded by Sergeant Murray and four men of tne Third infantry, Who represented themselves as Ara- pahoes. After cooking and eating some time in a friendly manner all but seven left. Those remain- ing then shot two of Ieee men and severel, wounded the sergeant himself, after which they fed. Sixty males belonging to Mr. Trainy, a trader at Camp Supply, were ran off and one herder was killed. Two or three other men were also killed at different piaces. Unhappily these are just the kind of reports which reach us from tle Plains almost every day—soldiers shot down by detail in their de- fences, the cattle of the farmers run off by the savages, herdsmen murdered, teamsters cut down and scalped beside their teams, women and children massacred or carried off to the filthy lodges of their captors. These are the everyday stories from the Plains, from which we are disposed to think that a dose of Phil Sheridan would be more wholesome medicine for the savages than ice cream and straw- berries. Tue New Rawroap War.—Commodore Vanderbilt and Colonel Fisk are again at war, and from indications it would seem that these doughty commanders intend to wage the con- test to the bitter end. The rumpus grows out of a refusal on the part of the Commodore to accept ticket coupons, according to previous arrangement, from the Erie Railway Company on his New York Central. Outside of the merits of the case on either side the moral is that all the inconveniences resulting from the contest will fall on the travelling public and not on the grand railway despotisms of the country, which will doubtless keep it up with- out regard to anything but incomes and stocks. Tux New Dock Bonps of the city of New York for a quarter of a million were taken yesterday by one house at a premium of 104.75 to 110. This is a signal evidence that the proposed improve- ments in our public docks receive the hearty approval of our capitalists. Now, let the Board of the Department of Public Docks, with Wilson G. Hunt at its head, proceed to work upon the capitel they have placed before them. Restoration OF GEORGIA,—The prosperity of the State of Georgia and its consequent ad- vantages to the whole Union demand that immediate action should be taken by Congress upon the restoration of the State. Why does General Butler delay in making his report in this matter? Tae Latest MaNia—The news from Rou- mania, The whole thing seems to be a bung- lingly put up job to raise subscriptions for the use of needy adventurers. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JONE 6, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Now Freuch Minister to Washington. By a cable despatch we learn that M. Prd- vost-Paradol has been appointed French Min- ister to Washington. We are glad to learn that In this particular case rumor has taken the shape of fact. Among all living French statesmen there {s no more respectable name than that of M. Prévost-Paradol. Paradol is yet a young man, having been born in 1829. In 1851 his ‘‘Eloge de Bernardin Saint Pierre” won the prize of the French Academy. Dur- ing all the years that have intervened from that time until now he bas been reaping honors. His books have been coming out every year; and each successive book has more and more commanded respect. During the time that Louis Napoleon has governed France he has sometimes won favor and sometimes suf- fered. On one occasion he suffered one month's imprisonment and paid besides one thousand francs. But all through he has been one of those men who, not overmuch bound to party, saw good in all great public movements. He has never, in consequence, been a violent party man. Frenchman every inch of him, he loves progress; and forcefully as he bounds forward, he never despises steady and consistent advancement. It is only two win- ters since M. Prévost-Paradol delivered a course of lectures on France before the Philosophic Institute of Edinburg. On that occasion, though a Frenchman, he spoke good English, and his sentiments as well as his language commanded general respect. M. Prévost-Paradol is one of the best thinkers and writers that the second empire can boast of. In addition to his many excellencies be speaks good English. This last is a good recommendation for Washington. On the whole we welcome M. Prévost-Paradol as the best man possible for Washington. Our new French Minister is a scholar, a philosopher and a gentleman. What more do we want? One Frenchman, De Tocqueville, has photo- graphed the United States as he saw them, His picture is the best that we know. Much, however, as we admire De Tocqueville, we shall not be sorry if M. Prévost-Paradol im- proves upon his predecessor and establishes the opinion that scholarly Frenchmen are the best commentators on American institutions. Aside from all our remarks we rejoice to know that a highly educated and politically mode- rate Frenchman, who fluently speaks the Eng- lish language, has been sent to Washington. M. Prévost-Paradol has our good wishes. Tae CvuBAN LapIgS AND THE CUBAN Lovneers,—The dark-eyed daughters of Cuba resident in this city are indignant with the dark-skinned gentlemen of the same national- ity who, they assert, ‘talk Cuba” around the hotels and street corners, but refuse to fight Spain on the sacred soil of the no longer ‘faithful isle.” So, it appears, the ladies are going to take the matter into their own hands. They protest that, if the male ‘‘patriots” now lounging about the city and worrying the news- papers do not go to Cuba to fight, they will form an Amazonian band and throw themselves into the breach. The Spirit of the Maid of Saragossa speaks in this determination. But the Cuban ladies, while they reserve thia war- like measure as a dernier ressort, have under- taken the more womanly movement of estab- lishing a fair and getting up a dramatic enter- tainment for the purpose of raising funds to help their unfortunate country. We wish the fair and the theatrical performance every suc- cess. A Wasuineton Riot—Aut Asour Notu- 1NG.—The late election riot in Washington shows that the national capital can make itself as famous in this line as New York was accus- tomed to be in the days of its unsophisticated and untutored youth. We conduct our elections here now without any trouble. The fifteenth amendment goes smilingly to the polls and returns unharmed. Although there are always candidates of different parties on the tickets people can vote for their choice without get- ting broken heads or joining in a row. The election riot in Washington, however, which was rather a serious affair—shooting and club- bing and bloodshed being in the programme— was all about nothing, for both candidates for Mayor were republicans. It was, therefore, more of a faction than a respectable party fight, and, upon the whole, was a very silly proceeding indeed. Herp ror THe DzparrMEnr oF Pusuic Worxs—The Masonic celebration to-day, A Cuexsk Trape Satz.—We have book trade sales, picture trade sales, coal trade sales, &c., and they have just had at Utica a meeting of cheese makers and cheese buyers for the purpose of establishing a weekly market for the buying and selling of cheese. Good, and we say good because good cheese will be the result of such a market, and good cheese is a good thing. But why not include the butter? What say the producers and deal- ers in chickens and eggs? What say the sausage men? This idea of special trade sales may be extended to everything, and, properly managed, with advantages to producers and consumers of everything. How Loxe?—Yes, gentlemen of the Board of Public Works, we want to know how long are those public nuisances, Washing- ton and Fulton markets, to be continued, with their annoyances to the public and their extortions practised upon sellers and buyers? How long, Mr. Tweed, how long? ConeRratuLatory.—The hardy adventurers who are occupying eligible sites on the west aide of Eighth avenue, opposite the Park, are congratulating themselves, as the late venera- ble General Cass once did in the United States Senate, upon the triumph of ‘‘squatter sove- reignty” in the local government of this city. Fietp, of Massachusetts, the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, is reported to have retired from his official posi- tion, It is somewhat unusual that there should be a ‘‘Hoar frost” upon a pleasant Northern Field in the sunny month of June. Bexts In THE Lumper Trapg.—A South- western exchange gives a report that ‘‘twenty- eight millions of hogs in one drove have been hung up on Pollywog river, in Maine, on ac- count of the drought.” For ‘‘hogs” read “logs,” for ‘‘drove” read “drive.” It is, how- ever, only a lumbering blunder of the printer, and a fit accompaniment of the lumber opera- tora’ effort to “bull” the lumber market, Cougrese—Tho Previous Question tn evidence. the Senate and Contested Elections ia the House. ‘ Among the important discussions going on in the Senate is one on a proposed amendment of the rules so as to allow the calling of the pre- vious question. To an unpariiamentary reades the importance of this measure may not be patent at first; butit in effect will, if carried, puta stop to the long and useless discussions that have heretofore been characteristic of the Senate. In the House, where the previous question is in operation, a vote can be ordered at almost any moment during debate, but in the vote can be taken bas had his say or each member is thoroughly indifferent to the subject. The question as to which method is preferable is not easily solved. previous question many infamous bills are smuggled undebated through the House, and without it much valuable time is wasted in senseless discussion in the Senate. difference, therefore, is merely that between tweedle dum and tweedle dee in regard of honesty and economy ; are sometimes inclined to smuggle through infamous bills, with or without debate, we rather incline to favor the previous question as @ means, small as itis, of saving time and, therefore, money. The Indian Appropriation bill was again discussed without final action. seldom that a until everybody Senate it is Under the spur of the The and as both houses The bill in the House relative to paying compensation to members in contested election cases was further considered, and laid on the table, by a vote of 90 to 80. This defeats the bill and delays for the presenta much needed reform. probably be decided as before, by a prejudiced jury, in favor of radical contestants against The contested election cases will most democratic, contrary to the will of constituen- cies and in most cases contrary to the sworn Any jury composed of men outside of Congress would find itself severely repri- manded by the Judge if it rendered a single verdict one half so partial and corrupt as the decision in some of the Louisiana cases. Mr. Garfield's bill for increased banking facilities was taken up, and Mr. Garfield made a speects in explanation of it. He said, among other things, that it was not more currency that was needed, but more banks. General debate en- sued on the bill, but no important action was taken. First Arriva or Coontgs Dirgor FROM Hone Kone.—A vessel has arrived at New Orleans direct from Hong Kong, bringing a cargo of one hundred and sixty-seven coolies. This is the first lot of this class of laborers received by the through sea route under the plan of labor importation arranged last fall by Koopmanschap. While some Southern papers are indulging in gloomy fore- bodings in regard to this class of immigrants it is a source of satisfaction to see respectable prints like the New Orleans Commercial Bul- letin referring to this arrival in terms like the following :— Let these Ohinege strangers be deait with kindly and considerately. Put away uncharitable thoughts about their being pagans. Put away supercilious notions about their being barbarians. Heaven knows their paganism, whatever its forms, can hardly be, in moral and actual fact, more hideous and porten- tous than the kind of paganism already rank in this country, and which consists in various fashions of godless life and sentiment on the one hand, and in oe modes of fetichism or voudouism on the other, It ia hoped that this pioneer voyage may prove to be one marked by agreeable and pro- fitable results to all parties. The cry of the South about the coolies should be ‘‘Let them come on.” We are getting nearer and nearer to the land of Confucius every day. A Gotpen Forure—For ‘Sunset Cox,” for his successful efforts in having the income tax reduced. THE BRooKLYN Rine.—Roughs and rowdies, pothouse politicians and strikers, repeaters and election counters, with two subsidized local journals, copperhead and radical, make up the ring that now has complete possession of the swindled sainted city on the other side of the East river. Only a few years ago Brooklyn promised to become an ornament to the State and to the country and a quiet resting place for the traders of the metropolis, It is new, however, with taxes unbearable, expenses increasing and credit destroyed, fast sinking into decay, and all for the lack of honesty in the administration of its affairs. The Mayor tells the story, and ad- monishes the citizens of their rapid retro- gradation from their former excellence, and he calls upon them to awake to a sense of their deplorable condition before it is too late. If ever there was a city incapable of governing itself Brooklyn is that place. Nor Satisrizp.—The Albany <Argus— democratic—only wants an honest election throughout the State next fall, as was had last year, for the democrats ‘‘to carry the Stato and the Congressional districts within it by even larger majorities than those of last month.” For a democratic organ in this State not to be satisfied with nearly ninety thousand majority exhibits a greediness rarely paral- leled in political voracity. A Boston demo- cratic paper is satisfied to take New York as a “fulcrum” with which to move the whole country into the democratic ranks; but it seems its Albany contemporary, not content with the present plethora, is crying for ‘full crumbs” of another sort, Tue Albany Hvening Journal (republican) says the new régime in this city isa “blessed one.” That remains to be proven. At alt events there is little probability that it will prove as bad as that with which the city has heretofore been cursed under rural radical rule. Goop ror Conyzoticut—The promise of a new law for the protection of married women in the possession of their property. Let the bill be passed, and let Connecticut try bereaf- ter to keep up with the progress of the age. New Cure For THE Cotic—A Surrogate’s attachment, to be followed witha plaster of Uncle Sam's bonds, THE MOARIS AND ESSEX RAILAUAD PASSENGER WAR. At Oraton Hail, in Newark, iast evening, a meet. ing of influential citizens was hel, for the purpose of ubtatning an expression of public opinion in re~ ard to the grievances of passengers on the Mor He and Essex Railroad. Mr. G D. G. Moore resiled and Mr. A, G. Sayre acted as secretary. Remarks were made, strovgly Condemnatory ot the hignhanded Bae aoe ad po on commuters, and others, by the irrepressltte Rowland Johnson, ¢£, Orange; Aldermen Crane, of Newark, and a number, of oiher well known buslness men of Newark. The aense of the meeting Was embodied ina series resolutions unanimously adopted ‘ 2