The New York Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1870, Page 6

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR, All business or news leiter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed, New York Hera. Volume XXXV......cssceesesseeee overs NO. 166 ——_ AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Fer- NANDB, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Geanp VARIETY ENVERTALINNENT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—THk DANcIna Ban BER—DAUGHIER OF THR ReGiMENT. Matinee at 2. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Iroadway, cor. ner Thirtieth s}.—Matineo daily. Performance every evening. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eizhth avenue and ‘938d st.—THE TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Ixion.-THE MiLiTARY Drama oF Nor Guitty. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Yd st., between Sth and 6th avs.— Tus Hoavexots. a THEATRE, Bowery.-AMOxY—Tur Lost ie WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— ‘Tuer Bev Lignt. Matin Ue. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S Muvnre's Loox. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.--Comtc Vocal 48M, NEGRO ACr6, 4c, Matinee at 2/4. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammagy Building, 14th ae AULEN APETTINGILI'S MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, VooaLiem, NEGRO MINGTRELBY, &Q, COLLISSIUM BUILDING, Bisty-thira st wea Afternoon and poktitbe ALI sg tiratad ie: THEATRS, Brookiyn.— Rowervy.—Com 10 atince al 334. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 68th and 9th Ms,—TnxOpoRE Thomas’ PoruLan Concerts. NEW YORK MISEUM OF ANATOMY, t18 Broadway,— ScIRNOE AND Ant. TRI Now Yorks Wednesday, June 15, 18) —— Seater CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. PAGE. A—Advertisements. i Q—Advertisenents. or 3= Washington wtrréat Speech of General Banks on the Conflict; iresident Grant's Message ~~Bevercly Criticised; Spanish Insolence, Minis- ter roberts Acoused of Falsehood; Spanish Outrages Upon American Citizens to be Inves- Ugated; More Disclosures Concerning the Dominican Negotiations; The Currency Bill Under Consideration in the House—Singular Case of Insanity—The National Ratiroal. 4—Europe: The American Colony ani America Triages in North Germany; Prim as the Pet - sonation of Spanish Revolution and Ry 3 ‘Traditions and Rural Scenes in Ire’ land—The Coolie Shoemakers in Massagha- chusctts—Caba: Spanish Account of the Cap- ture of the Vargo of the Upton—Aquatic— Oriticisms of New Books—The Stable Gang— The New Régime: The Department of Docks Ae oO ane of Inspection and Observation— ards, S—West Point : The Last prill of the Graduates ; ‘The Awarding of Diplomas To-Day—Mai Dogs Stil at Large—Trying to Take the Census— Great Sale of Firat Class Trotting stock at West - Roxbury, Mass.—Land Grabbing—Death in Chnreii—The English Stage: Charles Reade’s New Play; ‘trades Unionism in Character— Personal Intethigence—The National Game— Music in the Parks—Ingenious Robyery by a You'h—Burglary in Westchester—Sunstrack in Hoboken--The Prince of Wale: an Irish Landlord—New York City News—The Mullen Homicide—A New Trick for Highwaymen, G—Editoriais: Leading Article.on the President's essage and Congre*s on Cuban Affaira— Amusements—Ainerican Geographical Soci- ety—The Scheutzenfest—Obituary—Curling— Amusement Announcements. ‘Y=Telographic News.From All Partg of the World: Charies Dickens’ Funeral and Grave in West- minster Abbey; Papal Infallibility Almost As- sured in Rome; General Prim on Spanish Fmance and Cuban Revenue; Napoleon’s Gout ‘and the French Funds; The Royal Thames Yacht Club. Channel Race; Wreck of a British Gunhost and Loss of Forgr three Lives—Arrival of Red Cloud and His Warriors in ‘This Cliy—Second “eof of the Beethoven Mustcal Jubilee—Pool Selling for Jerome Park Races—Tommy Hadden’s Fate Undecided—A_ vesperate Counterfeiter—The Prospect Park Com- mission—Murderous Assault in Williamsburg— The Roughs of the Nineteenth Ward—Ariny Intelligence — Brooklyn City News—Long Island Baptist Assoclation—Business Notices. S—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Financial and Commercial Reports— Afiray. at the Hoboken Ferry—Keal Estate Sales—Marriages and Deaths. 9—Quarantine Aifairs—Political Notes and Com- ments—Another Enemy to the Market Gar- dener—Advertisements, 10—Yachting: Annual Regatta of the New York Yaeht Club; Brilliant Assembiavze, Interesting Exciting .Conie: pe. Victors of the Honors of 1870—Heartiess Case Abandonment—shipping — Inielli- gwence—Acivertisements, J —Adyeriisements. 12—Advertisements, Prince Artucr has left Montreal for home. Having won distinction by being roused from a ball to attend a battle (such as it was), he is probably anxious to go home and enjoy it. Tue Spanish GOVERNMENT assures the ex- Queen Isabella that it will return to her all the jewels which she purchased with her private funds. We hope so, for the Queen’s sake. Re-Exgcrep—United States Senators Cragin, of New Hampshire, and Anthony, of Rhode Island, each for another term of six years. Though classed as extreme radicals they have each made a good record in the Senate as men of work and punctual atten- dance to duty; and punctuality to duty is getting to be a very important matter in Con- gress. Freer CoAt.—The decision of the Ways and Means Committee to report at once a measure for relieving coal from ali taxation is in the right spirit. It is in the natural order of things just now to lessen taxation and re- lieve the burdens of the people, and in no way could this be more effectually done than in cheapening the fuel that is so large-a part of the comfort of every family. Mowrressizr Remains ox Guvarp.—Some few days ago it was announced that Montpen- sier was about to leave Spain for England. A despatch which we print this morning contra- dicts said report and states that the Duke means to spend the summer with his family at his seat near Seville, Perhups after all he is wise to remain on guard, althongh we cannot see that he has any great chance to win the Spanish Crown. Watt Street FLat.—Down among the bro- kers “flat” is the technical expression for ‘with- out interest,” the term being applied when curreney or gold is lent without « considera- tion. In the general sense of the word Wall street is very ‘‘flat” just now, for il is totally “without interest.” The uncertainty as to what Congress may do with the financial bills and the fear that some Quixotish measure may be suddenly agreed upon in the interval to ad- | : journment keep the speculative community | * very quiet. Yesterday the yacht race drew off the crowd of operators and brokers, ‘T'o-mor- | row the Jerome Park races will absorb the speculative mind. The street wears a deserted, summery, look which is inimical to eommis- sions. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD |™ "re" wr" ™ Everybod, taken by surprise on soeing the wane he Brealdest @ Gabah atin published on the very morning of the day when the whole question relating to Cuba was coming up in Congress. It appears that- this message was sent to Con- gress rather late in the afternoon of Monday, and it is said the President hesitated to sign it until two o'clock, one hour before it was despatched to the Capitol. The motive for sending she message at that particular. time is apparent to every one. General Banks was to make his report and there was to be a discussion on Cuban affairs the following day (yesterday), and the President was anxious, no doubt, to place his policy and position relative to Cuba in the most favorable light, It was a sort of coup d'état to head off any possible action of Congress that might prove inconvenient or em- barrassing to the administration. The real point of the President’s argument in his message is that the Cubans have not established such a position in the war as to entitle them to recognition by: this government as belligerents, and that to aecord to them such recoguition would lead to embarrass- ments between the United States and Spain, and possibly to war. Genera! Grant has ap- prehension of trouble and wants peace. His language on this subject is directly to the point. He says in the message: “If it be war between Spain and Cuba, and be recognized, it is our duty to provide for the consequences which may easue in the embarrassment of our cop. imeree and interference with our revenrie, If belligerency be recognized thg ships of the commercial marine of the Uniled States be- come liable to search and to seizure by the | commissioned cruisers of both parties, “and they become subject to the adjudication of _prizecourts. Our large coastwise trade be- tween the Atlantic and the é f Siates, and between both and the Isthmus of Panama and the States of South America, engaging the larger part of our commercial marine, passes, of necessity, almost in sight of Cuba. Under the treaty with Spain of 1795, as well as by the laws of nations, our vessels will be liable to visits on the high seas. In the case of bel- ligerency the carrying of contraband, which now is lawful, becomes liable to the risks of seizure and condemnation.” The President says nothing about an American policy ia this hemisphere, the Monroe doctrine, the diffusion of republican ideas and institutions, the rights of a colonial people struggling for indepen- dence, or of the sympathies and interests of the American people in the struggle of the Cubans, except in general terms in the com- mencement of his message he refers to the ‘feelings and sympathies of the people and government of the United States for the people of Cuba as for all peoples struggling for liberty and self-goverament.” He confines himself strictly to his view of the condition of the war and the dangers that beset the United States in case of favoring the Cuban cause. “Let us have peace” is the motto of the President, and in this the American people will say amen, so long as the dignity, honor and cherished policy of the country are not in question. Some may doubt if Spain would venture to make an issue or go to war with the United States, should our government re- cognize the belligerency of the Cubans or otherwise fuvor the cause of Cuban indepen- dence; but the President ought to know beat, and he being the Executive his opinion should have due respect. No one can doubt the valor of General Grant, but it must be remembered that ‘prudence is sometimes the better part of valor.” We are a great nation, doubtless, and in American affairs we ought to be and can be supreme; but we have had enough of war lately. The President wants peace, and under that to pay the enormous debt of the nation. This is his policy. The Spanish gov- ernment, we suppose, has spoken very plainly. and decidedly to ours, and we, who are not behind the scenes, mustgive due credit to the administration for its apprehensions. We are told by the President, however, that ener- getic remonstrances have been made to the government at Madrid against the atrocities of the war in Ouba, the murder of American citizens and the gross insults to the American flag. We know, too, that the Secretary of State many months ago officially described all these in his despatches to our Minister at Madrid. But the administration has, no doubt, some assurances, or, at least, some hope, that Spain will act more like a civilized nation in the war, and will give ample satisfaction for the murder of American citizens and insults to the flag. Atany rate the policy is to attend to our own affairs at home and to let Cuba work out her destiny as she best can, with the full expectation that in time, by some means or other, that island and all the rest of the Antilles will fall into the lap of the United States. The subject in Congress on General Banks’ Cubat resolutions, and particularly the ardent speech of the General himself, has aroused a great deal of feeling. The-Secretary of State. “was severely attacked, and through him the President indirectly. The message of the President even was said to have been pre- pared by a well known agent of the Spanish government, who happens to occupy a distinguished position at Washington as 9 lawyet and former Cabinet Minister. General Banks and other prominent men in the repub- lican party have come to a direct issue with the adminisiration on this Cuban question, and there is no saying what may be the conse- quences, Party considerations and necessity are strong, and, Congress being overwhelm- ingly republican, the administration may carry through its policy. However, the fight is not over in Cuba nor the question in this country. The Cuban cause has received a heavy blow, the Spanish government has reason to be thankful and grateful, and the prospect is that General Grant's cherished peace policy will not be endangered. : Sensitive at Bora Points.—Napoleon ex- perienced a twinge of the gout yesterday. Toe Paris Bourse closed flat, with a decline in The Emperor has not only induced to “toe the mark,” but mppears also to have his.groat toe in the breeches pocket of the nation. Qt iceland N TS\BELLA’s ABDICATION of the throne of Spain bas, it is said, just been received in | Madrid in the shape of an official or State paper. Quite aa unnecessary document. | A Good Lesson for the Ludians. Io the year 1858 the Kiowa Indians in Texag made an attack upon a settlement of white people at a place in Denton county. They butchered most mercilessly men, women and children, leaving nothing living in that peaceful and happy district but two little girls; whom they spared and carried off into captivity, - These little waifs are now known as Helen and Heloise Lincoln, their real name no doubt being Filzpatrick, which their murdered father and mother bore. By a good deal of ingenuity and much risk the Indian agent, Colonel Leavenworth, obtained tho release of these poor orphan girls, and placed them in charge of a good-hearted squaw. Twice the Indians recaptured them, and again Colonel Leavenworth got possession of them. They are now in safe keoping within the lines of civilization. But the point in the story is this: Congress has just passed an act voting these poor orphans five thousand dollars for their maintenance, the same to be deducted from the annuities of the Indians, This is re- tributive but strict justice. It is collecting a ransom the other way. It is curious, how- ever, that the President seemed to have no knowledge of the bill, although he was all this time talking sweet and pleasant things with Red Cloud and Spotted Tail. Tho bill became a law without his signature, the allotied ten days having expired before the President's name was attached. : This will be @ good lesson for the Indians, The ecent Voleunic and Revolutionary Ereptions in Moxice. Nothing surprising transpires in Mexico. Excitement is the rule in this strange and in- explicable land. Whether we regard the people or the country itis all the same. Rest there is nowhere. Action everywhere. If not an eruption among the discordant spirits that find a local habitation within the confines of the republic, then it is an eruption in the shape ofa volcano or, what is still more terrible, an earthquake, which deals death and destruction allround. Year in and year outit is the same thing, Scarce had the recollection of the May festivities, which -this year were celebrated with great éclat throughout the republic, passed from the minds of those who participated in them than the dreadful shocks of an earthquake were experienced in many parts throughout the country, In the State of Oaxaca the shock was really terrible. Tho city of Oaxaca suf- fered most and is to-day nearly a heap of ruins, and hundreds of lives bear evidence to the severity ot the visitation, According to re- porta published by the Minister of the Interior the earthquake was felt in Orizava, Cordoba, Paso del Macho, Vera Cruz, Sav Andres, La Canada, Acateingo, Huammittty~Tampico and other places, In the city of Mexico the aque- duct was injured, andin Jalapa and Orizava several buildings were ruined, It will be seen, therefore, that this convulsion of nature, like the revolutionary convulsions that too fre- quently seize the Mexican people, was con- It will teach them that we havo the power of | fined to no particular section of the country. reprisal in our own hands, Tho Indian tg ex- cecdingly avaricious, with all his pretensions to simplicity, and there is no softer spot in which@you can touch him than in his ex- cheqitér, Savage and impossible of civiliza- tion as he is, threat to cut off his supplies brings him to submission, even though Ttbe but a temporary submission. In our dealings with the red men all sentimental nonsense must be set aside. They are rude and remorse- less savages, nothing more. They stand in our road to progress over our vast Western domains, and in this view we must treat them. A Parse for the Pope. One of our latest items of news from Rome is that the infallibility Fathers are contributing heavily to make up a purse for the Pope. The anti-infallibilists, it is said, decline to sub- scribe. We have no doubt that a well filled purse would at the present moment be very acceptable to.the Holy Father. There are a very large number of poor bishops, all of whom of course are infallibilists, who are maintained in Rome at the Pope's expense. His desiré to be infallible is costing him much. Apart from the necessity of the thing in certain cireum- stances, a well filled purse and a large is al- ways a consoler. The opposition to the Holy Father is daily becoming niore and more bit- ter. Dupanioup, the most powerful bishop in France and the leader of the opposition, is taking a decided stand against the dogma. Some seventy bishops, of whom fifteen are French, have signified their intention to*speak against infallibility. This, however, is not all. Reports are daily reaching Rome of secessions in consequence of the attitude taken by the Council. These secessions have become com- mon in England. Among these we notice the name of Mr, Edward Ffoulkes, Mr, Froulkes has for some years been known aa ote of the ablest laymen in England attached to Rome. This Ecumenical Council has pained him from the outset. His work entitled ‘Yhe Church’s Creed and the Church’s Crown” brought down upon him the wrath of Archbishop Manning. He himself was denied communion and his work was placed in the Index Lxpurgatorius. Mr. Froulkes appealed to Rome, but in vain, It is now confidently stated that on Whitsunday last he was received back into the Church of England by the Bishop of Winchester. The “Schema de Keclesia’” and the ‘Schema de Romano Pontifice’ were too much for him. In such circumstances, notwithstanding the growing success of his plan, the Pope must have sorrow. We shall not be sorry if a purse is presented to him. We shall be the less sorry, and so no doubt will he, if the purse is large and well filled. Hamier Lerr Our.—The amended Natu- ralization bill which has passed the House of Representatives, in failing to give the United States couris exclusive®*jurisdiction over the naturalization business, amounts to nothing. It has been discovered, however, that the loose naturalization system upon which the demo- erats roll up such wonderful majorities from our Celtic immigrants in New York works just as well for the republicans among the new comers of the Teutonic race in the Northwest. Hence this hedging on the main question. A two-edged sword requires skilful handling in a mixed crowd of friends and enemies; but still we want a uniform and honest naturaliza- tion system. we Brooktyn Justic#.—An old and hardened burglar, who recently escaped from Sing Sing, was brought up before Judge Troy in Brooklyn yesterday for a new burglary, for the perpe- tration of which he expressly escaped from prison, where he was serving a term of ten years. Judge Troy very appropriately gave him ten years more for his new exploit, which will make the term he has yet to serve just Miheteon years. This would seem calculated to discourage him and all other burglars from trying to escape any more. It is not con- soling for him to know that he would have been ten years nearer bis freedom if he had set himself down contentedly in his prison quarters at first. Dickens’ FuNeRat.—Charles Dickens’ re- miins were buried in Westminster Abbey yesterday. The funeral was plain and un- ostentatious. The cortége consisted of three carriages bearing his children, his sister-in- law, other members of his family and a few personal friends. The coffin of the novelist was laid iu the Poet's Corner at the foot of Handel, at the head of Sheridan and with Macaulay and Cumberland on either side—a fitting and appropriate resting place. Thou- sands of people visited the spot subsequent to the burial. Tix Dook CoMMIssIONERS made another trip around the water front yesterday. They seem determined to post themselves thoroughly on the condition of our rotten piers, and the more they look at them the more rottenness they will discover. While tho forces of nature were at work de- strdying life and reduciag to ruins,the handi- work of man the turbulent spirits ofa neigh- boring republic, as if invited by the course pursued by the Mexicans themselves and in unision with Mexican pspirations, in- a -_ aed Of; vm 7 a & ih vaded the Biate, and, joining fortunes with ‘adventurers whose patriotism ever has consisted in opposition to law and order, endeavored to set up an indepéndent government of their own creation. This move- ment, rash as it may scem, may cost Mexico muci treasure before it is stamped out, And while the South has thus been busy in foment- ing revolution and addi:g to the perplexities which distract the republic affairs in the Norih have not flowed in as ca!m a channel as the best interests of the country require. Tua the State of Sonora the Apache Indians are meet- ing with rigorous treatment and the noble red men are being huated down. There is a pre- mium of two hundred doliars for every Indian scalp. This barbarous offer is made by the State Legislature, and yet we question whether the number of scalps will be great, for the Mexicans love the show of fighting better than the reality, and so long as there are treasure wagons to rob, after the novelty of Indiau war- fare wears off, this cruel war against the noble red man will possibly be discon'inued, for some time at least. From all we can learn it is evident that Mexico is making little headway in the march of civilization. She lays behind while other nations advance, Disturbed and distracted at home, her weakness aad impotence are the sub- ject of comment abroad. That climatic influ- ences may have much to do with this state of things is a belief enteriained by many. Long the prey of contending factions and parties the republic has suffered, in credit and in name. This is an evil which we have ever deplored, but when the forces of nature act, as it were, in sympathy with the unruly and discontented children of the republic, who really know not what they want, tien, indeed, does the condi- tion of Mexico appear sad. Jerome Park To-eDay. The American Jockey Club, if favored by good weather, of which there is every sign as these lines go to press, will surpass all the achievements that have heretofore distin- guished it ere this evening’s sun goes down, Reinvigorated by their rest since Thursday last and nobly inspired by the news that comes by mail of the fine equestrian sport at the Frenc Chantilly, the club will put their best feet foremost to-day. There will be at least four great races, to wit: A hurdle race, by leading favorites; the Consolation premium race, of one and three- fourths of a mile; the Hunters’ Piate, two mile race, all the rider's members of the Jockey Club, and the Jockey Club Handicap, two mile race, The first class stars Oysterman, Bohannon, Helmbold, Sanford, Edenton, Nannie Douglas, &c., &., are entered and will be dashingly run. Pool selling was very brisk last night, and all the jovial sporting men were in high spirits, looking forward to ® good track, favoring skies, a bril- liant assemblage and Olympian racing. The city is in full summer mood, and throngs of strangers are here. The fame of Jerome Park and iis surroundings bas become national. The narrative of last week's prowess has gone all over the Union, and, by letter and telegraph, the keenest interest is manifested in to-day’s good work. The ladies are on the tiptoe of expectation, and the June fashions have attained their highest perfection, The rural scene is now more enchanting, after the long, enriching rains, than ever. Wide fash the flelds; the softening air 13 balm; Ecio the mountains rouud; the tore+t smiles, Aud every sense and every heart ts joy, “Wo Suatt Rute tux § ‘ATE, White men or niggers?” This awful question is now un- dergoing a fearful discussion by the democratic journals of Delaware. The State on the white vote gives a thousand democratic majority, more or less; but the fifteenth amendment brings in about five thousand Africans to the polls, and there’s the rub. Moreover, if ‘those niggers won't vote the democratic ticket, bo cause the democrats ‘‘don’t want nigger votes no how,” it is possible that this African balance of power may upset the State of Delaware and leave the democracy thereof high and dry. This is the best, under Senator Saulsbury’s programme, ‘“‘the white men’s party,” that we can do for Delaware. Aw Ansurp Report—The report circulat- ing among the newspapers that Governor Hoffman, in the name of Tammany Hall, will probably very soon issue a proclamation calling a special session of the Legislature “to initiate war measures against the fifteenth amendment.” Such a proceeding would suit the republicans too well to be thought of by our democratic Governor for a moment. His experience has taught him that fighting against “fixed facts” Is fighting for certain defeat, Yachting—Sport at flome and Across the Seas, The regatta in the lower bay yesterday was | Second one of the finest displays that has been seen in our waters for some time either of canvas, speed or weather. The day itself was lovely and the breeze was high, thus suiting the dell- cate ladies and landlubbera who enjoy those thlags on the excursion steamers, provided thera is-no sensation of sea-sickness about them, and suiting also the hardy yachtmen, who, being proof against any qualmishness, find sport mainly in the ‘‘wet sheet and the flowing sea” of the old song. The same vessels which won the race last summer were the victors in this—the Idler, of the schooners, and White Cap and Sadie, of the sloops. The report of the Channel race of the Thames Yacht Club gives a hand- some victory for the Cambria, a vic- tory worth all the more from the ap- pearance that the race was a fine and very close one. The time across the Channel to Boulogne, when four yachts came ina within four minutes’.time, sufficiently tells a story of ® course that was not won by the ‘walking over” process, We could expect no less from a boat of such erpabllity as the Cambria than that she would thus turn the scalés of fortune that have recently been against her. In our cable despatches we note a very pleasant remem- brance on the part of the Prince of Wales ofthe American yachtmen now in Eurdpe. That his Royal Highness will not give a cup for a prize unless an American yacht enters at once declares that such entry will give a race the only special interest “it can have, and sets a forcible example of attentian to the visiting yachtmen. ue Finarcial Issuce-National Banks ie Greenbacks. Mr. Garfield's Situs. ® for the Senate bill to provide a national currency of coin and notes, and lo equalize the distribution of cir- culating notes, was taken up in the House and generally discussed pletely. The substi- tute provides for an additional issue of ninety- five millions of national bank notes and a pro- portionate withdrawal of three per cent bonds and legal tenders. A number of amendments looking to a mew issue of greenbacks instead of national bank notes were offered, and Mr. Mor- gan, an Ohio democrat, proposed one repeal- ing a'l laws allowing the issue of national bank notes; but they were all rejected bylarge ma- jorities. The substitute was finally allowed to go over until to-day, owing to the Cuban busi- ness; but enough was done to show that the fight over the bill is the final one between the national banks and the greenback currency. The expansion of the currency has frequently been discountenanced heretofore by the House, and it may possibly be that the present bill is a-mere display of buncombe on the part of electioneering members from the West, where the equal distribution of tlie ‘currency is stoutly demanded. But the tendency of the currency is and always will be towards the great commercial centre, and the extra issue proposed by this bill wilt eventually find its way eastward and leave the Western sections as bare as ever. The final result will therefore be that the national bank currency will be increased and will not be distributed equally, the main point desired by the Western sections being thus lost and.the ex- pansion of the currency, which both sections deprecate per se, being perpetuated. It is evident from the disposition of the House yesterday that the national bank lobby has at) 4 made an impression by incessant hemmering, and that the incubus with which the country has saddled itself is a hard and despotic rider. Tug Brxtrnoven Festivat.—This mon- ster musical treat has, so far, turned out a great success. In the vast volume of music required to fill the ambitions pro- : gramme everything may not be in all per- fection, but the general effect is certainly superb. In an affair so hastily gotten up con- noisseurs and delicate critics may find some- thing to complain of, but that the performance is popular and gives great pleasure to the masses of the people there can be no doubt. Therefore we call ita decided success, It affords a grand attraction for our country cousins, especially as there is a performance by day as well as by night. Great affairs of this kind leave a good deal of benefit behind them, apart from the large amount of money which they bring into the city, There are expansive ideas about them, pleasant social intercourse springs from them, and art gathers friends, admirers and students out of them. Monster musical festivals, therefore, are not all noise nor all sensation. There is a great store of good at the bottom of them. We are glad that this commemoration of Beethoven has aj} the clements of success in it, plas SEI Sprcra, Lerrers From Evxore.—Our special European correspondence, published to-day, ig dated to the 5th of June. Oar writers chronicle the steady advance of demo- cracy in Great Britain and Spain, noting the complete expression of the cause under the- constitution in the one country and the diffi- culties which it still labors under in the othor. From North Germany we have interesting reports of the American colony in Ber'in and of brilliant American marriages. Our Berlin letter narrates also a sad story of the suicide of an American youth, who appears to have committed self-destruction for the reason that he found he had not the talent to become pro- ficient ag a musician. Ireland stands forth in a pleasing and rather hopeful aspect in one of eur special letters, Just Waar Was Wanrep—The new rules adopted by the Board of Police Commissioners, under which persons known to be of good. character arrested for trivial offences, may, on tle individual’s own recognizance in the sum of one hundred dollars, be spared the too-often unjust and prejudicial incarceration of a night in the cells with hardened vil- laing and criminals, We think that the discrimination thus authorized between respectable people and incurable out+ laws may be safely trusted to the sound judg- ment of Superintendent Jourdan, It will add considerably to his labors, but we are sure he will be found equal to this important duty. A Livery Campaien is coming on in old Pennsylvania, where, it is said, there are nine- teen candidates in the field for the repnblican “nomination of Governor, to say nothing of t democratic aspirants. nn il th oe eee ee ere eel THE SCHEUTZENFEST, Day of the Grand Shooting Festival at Jones? Wood—Sncreasing Attendance and Increasing Interest In the Sporte—List of Those Taking the Second Day's Prizes, A much larger crowd assembled yésterday at Jones’ Wood than on the day previous to witness the second day’s contests in rifle shooting of the members of the New Yorker Scheutzen Corps and the various other corps entering the ists as competitors for the various prizes offe. et to the best shooters. A more beautiful day could not be desired for outdoor sports of this’ kind, and in addition to being well attended, notwithstanding the opposing attractions of the Beethoven Jubilee, and especially to our music-loving, Germans, was most thoroughly enjoyed vy all present, To describe the shooting and the other sports would be a repetition of the opening day’s festivities. Of course from eleven A.M. to six P. M., during which time the shooting was continued, the matn tn- terest centred about the shooters, whe incessant crack of whose fifles filled tho alr with their rattling clangor—a rattling that sounded to one enering the woods like lively work on a closely contested skirmish line, Tt was lively work, too, the livellest sort of Work, and the expert riflemen—for all are adepts in shooting—en- joyed the exhilarating sport wiih the keenest zest imaginable. Nearly all tried their skill in shooting at the diferent kinds of targets, and as tho doubie-headed Austrian eagle was hit m @ central port, a8 a bulseye Was penetrated or-as one or the pendants on the stir target was loosened from 1s place by an unerring builet, the scene re-echoed with cheers for the victor. Invatl the previous shooting contests at these annual festivals there has not been such spirit of emulation and Vitale izing tie given to the sport. A most pleasing characteristie was the Ake yielding to deieat, and, in fact, 1b was dlitlcult to teit which fo aamire most, the modesty of the victor ur the amlabilisy of the vanquished, The following & list of those to whom were awarded tue prizes yesterday for best shots at the Au: count continuing from the day prev.o 1. Left ring by George Werhan, 8, Right head by George W. Soholermanty % Leit head by Hermann Bachiauy 10, Borntee by John H. Brockins, 11. Reichsapfel by Philip K!*in.~ While ihe shooting W2% continued a variety of other sports, simailyt &% those described in yesterday's HERALD, fouud Goundant patrons. There was, in fact, po lack of enjoyment. In the evening dancing was again renewed in the large dancing saivon aad ee i, up with unwearied vigor til near midnight, Captain Gerdes, who commands the New Yorker Schuetzen Corps, was omnipresent and spared no efforts to make the are” aane Yaseiin ty 3 pe ese one to ceived, ME Weds Tagely abetted tu tus by ex-Alderman “ebugr, ong of tile best shots In the corps, and by Alderiian Voltman, who can draw as straight a bead wiih a rifle as tie next man, Vannemacher’s band of Sey Bietee furnished the muaic, which was of the best. A good many promi- nent citizens visiied the grounds duglag the day to witness the shooting and the other festivities, Among those were Sheriff O’Brien and ék-Street Commissioner McLean, whe seemed to relish as Keenly as any one tie shooting, the lager beer and tho exhilarating spectacie ol the ruddy- cheeked German lasses and te stalwart voung rifle- -men Whirling trough the multifarious mazes of the giddy dance, To-day, whieh closes the festival, will be the moaé excitlug and interesting of all, ‘fhe culininaung point of interest, of course, will be the announce- ment of the “king of the shooters aud his subsce quent crowning by fifty young ladies, AMUSEMENTS. 9 UG HE Boorn’s THEATRE.—The roimantic drama of “Tha Huguenot,” in five acts, was produced at this theatre last night. The piece was puc on the stage witie new scenery, new cosiumes and new properties, and. the cast of characters introduced rome new faces and some favorite familiar ones. The leading part of Rene de Pardilau, the Huguenot, was sus- taiued by Mr, Wailer, and though in some respects he was not up to. the requirement, of the character he nevertheless gave a very _ acceptable rendering of the part. Tue Puchesse wey Jarome 3, Ad, Uuitopn Moliénhatiek, Bil AGiiess Weil Know" bo al New York theatre-gvers, and wita whose name many picomint memories are associated. Miss Bolla Paty- nan, the new audition to Mr. Bogth’s company, is au actress of much vivacity, and her p!aying of the gypsy girl, Juanita last eventag shows that she i+ capable of much better things than the character which she played afforded ner an opportunity of doing. The remainder of the actresses and actors pericrmed well their parts. ‘The piece is excellently mounted, some of the scenes beiug perfect gems ia their way. . OLyMPIc THEATRE.—Mrs. Oates entered on the fifth week of her successful engagement at ths theatre on Monday night with fair prospects of adde Ing additional laurels to those she has already won. The “Daughter of the Regiment” was the piece of the evening, and, although the fascinating Inttle sprite of an actress essayed tre part of Josephine with apirti, dash and @ pecunar vim of hee own, sul ineve ts denying that in burlesque she is mere athome. Me: nandez's imperial Japs form a most attractive tes ture in the evening’s enteriainment. These are just tue kind of performances for sumer nights. Woop's MUSEUM. ‘de programme at this estabe lishment combines drama and pantomime, in addi. ton to the regular attractions, The pantomime ts given by the Martinettt famliy, By the way, wa wouid suggest tiat the stage manager see Doré's picture of rlop o’ My ‘thumb heading the procession of his brothers, Which begins witu the smaiiest and ends with une biggest one. Acopy of tuis scene . would heighten the grotesqueness of the pantomime, Miss Alice Logan 1s the star im the a athe CONLS pany. AM CRICAN GEOGRAPHICAL $Y Geographical Distributicn of Disease. Last evening the Ame:ican Geographical and Stas tistical Society hela their regular montily meeting in their rooms at the Cooper Institute, the president, Judge Daly, inthe chair. There was an unusually large attendance. Augustus K. Gardner, M. D., read a very able and exhaustive paper upon the subject of the “Geographical Distribution of Disease.” He said that mun was the expression of the soil uport which he lived, and that geographical position develops, expands or contracts the imtellect of man, Afier citing vaisous authoritles (0 prove this fact and a great number of peculiar cases to iilustrate it, the speaker noted the difference between persons of the sane race or nationaiity in different portious of the earth. ‘Take, for instance, the persons Who first landed in New England. ‘They are to-day vastly ditfereat from the people of whom they were once a part— tne English. A Yankee who goes to the fart soon becomes very different from the people he lett behind. Inve generation he becomes tonzer, more gaunt, bis neck becomes long and siim, and even his skin undergoes & change, i In speaking of the gréat acilvity and energy exist. ing afaong the Yankees, the Doctor said it was at- tribulable more to climate—the sirong, bracing air— than to anything else. He liad been, he sald, in Paris six weeks without seeing the sun more than one day tn all that time, and at night it was so foggy that one could searcely see a gaslamp, although he were to stand immediately. under i, He contrasted this sort of climate witht the cool, bracing winter weather in our own coun- try, which fairly makes the horses prance willt spontaneous aciivity. pome peoples, the Doctor said, degenerated by emigrating to a Toreign country, ag, for instance, the Spaniards in Mexico and the French in Canada, while, on the other hand, the Scotch, Englisa and irish ‘actually tmprove mentally, if not physically, wieu they emigrate to America. ri Rev. Michael Riordan. The many friends of Father Riordan, in Uus city and elsewhere, will regret to learn that he died on Monday last at his residence in Poughkeepste, where he had been, for a nfimber of years past, pastor of St Peter’s church. He was in the fifty-third year of his age, having been born in 1917. Twenty-seven years ago he entered the ministry, and had since - labored diligently in the sacred fietd of usefulness toywhich he had been called, For some time past he had been suffering from ‘iliness, but It was not beheved that his end Was near, and the announce- ment of his death consequently shocked the com- munity, Father Riordan was weil kuown in this city ws @ pious, earnest Christian, a faithval aud zealous pastor, and a gentieman of amiable and hos- pitable character. CUALING. The Annual convention of the Grand National Curling Club was held at Paterson ye-terday aftere noon. ‘here were from tify to sixty delegates pres- ent from all parts of the country. After consilerable discussion concerning the manner of voting, tie fol- lowing officers were elected by acclamation amid the most enthusiastic cheering of the curlers assemn- bled:—President, Mr. Dalyrimple, of St. Andrews Club, New York; Mr, Stevens, of Jersey City Cinb, First Vice President; Mr. Jos. E. Tirompson, of Bui- falo Club, Second Vice President; Mr. NoNov, of Burs fato Club, Secretary and ‘Treasure! After concluding the business the convention a4 sembled to a grand dinner tn the Opera Ho: i} | Which was served in grand style, and w panied by toasts and sentiments ume To-day the grfind quoit match for ti Silver Quott will be played upoa Me, grounds, near Paterson.