The New York Herald Newspaper, June 3, 1871, Page 4

& NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. YAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages shon!d be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, prptished every day tn the year, Four cents per copy, Annnal subscription price S12. THE WE IRLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five CENTS per copy. Annual subseripiion price:— ‘One Copy. Three Copies 3} Pive Copies. s Ten Copies Any larger vumber addressed to names of sub- seribers $1 50 cach. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten, Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twei These ratesmake (he WEEKLY HERALD ihe cheapest pubs Ueation tn the country. 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La Tour pr Nesue— FIFTH AVEN' Gouprn Fierce THEATRE, Tw! -CooL as a Crocus fourth street. — ‘The New Departure of the Okie Demo- cracy and the Various Political Move- ments ef the Day. From all the signs of the times our ap- proaching Presidential campaign of 1872 will be one of the most complicated, one of the most exciting and one of the most fiercely con- tested in the history of the country. The late election in New Hampshire and the more recent election in Connecticut have brought about a change of front by the Northern democracy, and certain developments in the South from Jeff Davis and others, which, in connection with General Grant's adminis- tration and the malcontents of the republi- can party, have given a new shape to the general contest widely different from the outlook of three months ago. First, the republican defeat in New Hamp- shire, resulting from the violent quarrel between Senator Sumner and the administra- tion on the St. Domingo annexation scheme, was hailed by tie democracy as the first guo of a great political revolution. They were in eestacies over their wonderful victory. It was the beginning of a general break-up of the radical camp, and the national course was clear for the democratic ticket, The revolu- tion had set in and would roll on from State to State, so that before the close of 1871 General Grant himself would be sblo to read the hand- writing on the wall. But the unreconstracted Southern fire-eaters heard the good news and they, too, rejoiced in the glorious prospect beforeihom. In the revolution that was coming they saw the overthrow of negro civil and po- litical equality and the restoration of Southern tights and State sovereignty, and they joyfully proclaimed the glad tidings to the South. Jeff Davis, too, was roused from his long slumber, and looking into the future through the tele- scope of this New Hampshire election, he foresaw the coming triumph of the ‘“‘lost cause,” and at Selma, Alabama, he declared this conviction to a delighted meetiag of South- ern sympathizers. Meantime, the Connecticut election was coming on, and, startled by the war-trumpet of Davis and the shouts of his Southern confederates, the Connecticut repub- licans dropped their petty wranglings,. buckled up to their work and recovered their State, thus completely upsetting the great demo- cratic revolution commenced in New Hamp- shire. From this sudden reaction on the issues of the war the democratic poli ans began to discover that what we had been telling them, over and over again, since 1861, was trne— OLYMPIC TAPATRE, Broatway.—Nrw Jack Sur i. Matinee at 2. Verstox or GLOBE THEATR I Harr, RiMANn & Bauyey's Minsin 728 Broadway. Matinee at 2 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague street— Rayk. 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A—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements, 3—Advertiscuents, 4—Editorials: Leading Arucle, ‘The New Departure of the Ohio Democracy and the Various Po- litical Movements of the Day”—Washington News—Atmusement Announcements. 5—France: Press Nearly Unanimous for a Re- public: The Law Exiling the Bourbons to be Abrogated—Versaliles KReports—Miscelianeous: ‘Telegrams—The Wisdom of Ulysses: President on the Great Questious of the Hour— ore Races—The National Game—The Coburn Prize Fight—The Pittston Dis- aster—Busipess Notices. 6—West Point: The Fate of the Plebes Still Hanging in the Balance—Yachting Notes—Brooklyn Brother-in-Law—Fires—The Insurance Con- gress—Devine’s Death—Street Car Casn: Ues—Public Works—Fresh Herrings—Obio Democratic Nominations—Pelham sridge— Army of the James—Financial and Commer- cial Reports. 7—The Courts—Naval Intelligence—Army Orders— Cubans Adrift—Marriages and Deaths—Adver- tsements. 2 ie 8—The Ku Kinx—Literary Chit-Chat—Shipping In- telligence—Advertisements. Tar Geearest AssvRance DremMeR oF ar Ace—Jof Davis. Kerxorgs or DEMOoRATIO Vicrory—The platforms of the Key8ione and the Buckeye State democracy. Rats DeseertinG a Sixxine Smiv.—A Cuban brigadier general and his aide-de-camp were picked up adrift by a schooner arriving at Massav. They escaped from Cuba in a canoe made out of a cotton wood tree. Are they on a mission to urge recognition, or did they see the garrote in the distance? Tue Pirrston Rexigr Funp.—The treasurer of the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the late mining disaster in Pittston, Pa., yesterday received contributions tothe amount of $1,830. Of this sum only $247 were received from this city. Nota flattering commentary, this, upon New York benevolence. A Horrrvt Sicx.—France, it is said, has paid down eizht millions of francs to the Ger- mans for the maintenance of their army in France. In a few days more France will have to pay her first instalment of the indemnifica- tion money. The nonpayment on the ap- pointed day of the first instalment will be a calamity to France. Wishing France well, and hoping soon to see her ont of her trouble, we regard the payment of thie eight fitions asa hopeful sign. The clouds are breaking. Let us hope that France will soon be hersetf again. Tue BONAPARTES AND THE PLepiscrre.— {t must, we think, be taken for granted that Prince Napoleon knows what he is doing when be demands of the existing authorities a plébiscite tor the determination of the future government of France. A pilébiscite would to a dead certainty restore the empire and the Bonaparies, of course. The vote of the Assembly—if the determination of the future government of France is left to the Assembly— will resiore the Bourbons. The masses in France are for the Bonapartes—hence their love for the plébiscite, The intelligence of France isin favor of restoring the House of Orleans—hence the dread of the Assembly hy the imperia The question of the hour in France is—shall the Assembly or the people Gecide « viz., that so long as they continued to fight the issues fought for in the war by the Union ar- mies, and settled by the war, so long would they take the field to be defeated, ‘‘horse, foot and dragoons.” Then came forth Mr. John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, in a trench- ant letter, urging the democratic party to accept the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments; then came Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, ang his Montgomery county democracy, accepting those amendments; 7 7 Pe ~~ wer Os ar? sal i +508 ye AD NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1871. Andy Johnson urges an acceptance of these new amendments, not as finalities, but as things to be removed after a while in a new amendment, and this is fair advice to the South. But the hope of this new amendment is so faint that your Southern fire-eater will at once reject it. We are inclined strongly to the opinion that this new departure of the democracy North will have a two-fold operation South. First, the cotton State democrats of the con- federacy sciool, who have been hoping and working for the overthrow of these new amendments in 1872, in conjunction with the Northern democracy, will now become indif- ferent as between the two great parties. Next, from this indifference, these Ku Klux proceed- ings against the negroes and the carpet-bag- gers as radicals will cease, for the overthrow of negro suffrage, their great impelling object of carrying the South for the democracy, the Kn Klux will see is gone in this new Northern democratic movement. Thus, in the cotton States, the administration party, with its negro voters, will be allowed quicily to go their own way, and the opposition, if they do not form a third party, indifferent as to the results, will be apt to let most of the cotton States go for General Grant by default. He goes for these amendments and the democratic candidate will go for them; and so the unreconstructed fire-eater will retire.in disgust. This, no doubt, will be the course and the advice of Jeff Davis. The Northern democracy have cut loose from the Southern fire-eaters, and those fire- eaters having their own fish to fry will cease to care much about the Northern democracy. Hence we think that Mr. Vallandigham has done more with his new democratic platform to quiet the Ku Klnx than Congress would do with forty Ku Klux bills. We apprehend, too, that there are some intractable Bourbons North, known as copperheads, who will be likely to create some local troubles on this new party platform—those fellows of the red hot school of Brick Pomeroy, The democratic rank and file will require some little time to erystallilze on this new platform, while be- tween Pennsylvania and Ohio on the financial questions of the day they are as wide apart as Secretary Boutwell and Andy Johnson. On the other hand, the Philosopher Greeley will return from Texas to find that, looking to a one horse republican candidate, his cake is all dough—that General Grant is consolidating his party around him, and that the one term principle, in his case, is a humbng. The Northern democratic ‘‘right about face” on negro civil equality and negro suffrage turns over the Southern balance of power to General Grant, and itis yet too soon to say what will be the effect inthe North. The democrats, in accepting at last the issues settled by the war, place themselves so far side by side with the republicans. The field is thus opened to them for all the advantages offered on the new issues of the day; and yet, looking to the South and the North, the ad- then came the Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention, accepting them, and now comes the Ohio State Conven~ tion of the party, under the lead of the convinced Vallandigham, declaring that “‘while we denounce the extraordinary means by which they were brought about, we recognize as accomplished facts the three amendments tothe constitution (the thirteenth, abolisbing and prohibiting slavery; the fourteeath, establishing equal civil rights regardless of race or color, affirming the sacred obligations of the national debt and repudiating all rebel debts, and fixing certain disabilities upon leading rebels, subject to absolution by a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress, &c., and the fifteenth, establishing negro suffrage under the protec- tion of Congress) recently declared adopted, and consider the same as no longer political issues before the country.” This is indeed a revolution, and it liftsa mountain of dead weight from the ba¢k of the democratic party of the North. But how is it inthe South? Kentucky, though somewhat feebly, responds to Ojio, and Tennessee esponds to Kentucky; but the democracy of the cotfon States, from South Carolina around the seaboard to Louisiana are, we fear, with Jeff Davis. He has been making a sort of triumphal tour in Alabama and Geor- gia, and his receptions from place to place, as the champion of Southern rights against what he calls a tyranny to which he submits only while he cannot resist it, are the receptions of a hero among his people, who speaks their sen- timents in speaking his own. In truth, the democracy of the cotton States, through all their newspapers and all their leaders, have constantly repudiated these new amendments to the constitution as frauds and outrages which Southern men de- voted to their constitutional rights will never recognize. Alexander H. Stephens, Linton Stephens, Toombs, Wade Hampton and all the recognized leaders of the democracy of the cottgn States have repeatedly expressed, and very lately, too, the precise opinions of Davis on the situation. They do not accept it, they will not consent to the validity of these new amendments, and they have been counting upon the Northern democracy to hold fasi to their Tammany national platform of 1868, in still declaring the whole reconstruction system of Congress ‘‘nnconstitutional, revolutionary, null and void.” Will the democrats of the cotton States, then, go with Davis or Vallandigham? The fourteenth amendment, third section, declares substantially that no man, who, after having in any official capacity, local or national, taken an oath to support the constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in re- bellion against the same, or shall have given aid and comfort to the enemy, shall be eligible to any public trust, State or national, until his disabilities are removed by Congress. Are the Southern leaders, thus disabled, likely to accept this amendment? Or are their fol- lowers likely to support it, while these leaders denounce it? No. Is it likely they will ac- cept the fifieenth amendment, establishing negro suffrage, while these white leaders them- selves are cut off from the public service ? No, This new departure, then, of the North- ern democracy will not be accepted by the party in the Southern cotton States. They will probably stand aloof, or take the form of an independent movement, after the fashion of South Carolina and some other Southern States in 1886, against both Van Buren and Harrison, the regular party nominees in that campaign. vantages of this new departure and its moral weight are still with General Grant in the endorsement of his reconstruction policy. The Tehuantepec and Nicaragua Routes. Captain Shufeldt, who recently returned from a survey of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in order to determine the practicability of con- structing a ship canal, has reported the great- est elevation found to be eight kundred feet, which will require seventy locks on either side. The length of the canal will be about one hundred miles and the cost about one hundred millions of dollars. We think this information quite sufficient to establish the fact that the Isthmus of Tehuantepec will not answer for a ship canal, and we shall now have to try Nicaragua. There, it is said, the chances are better, the elevation not being over three hundred feet, with all the advantages of river and lake to aid in construction and as feeders. Onur government will, of course, take measures to ascertain if the reports and previous sur- veys are correct, dnd if they are then Nica- ragua will present the only feasible route for the great enterprise. A canal we must have, sooner or later. It has become a commercial necessity, There will be no want of capital to construct it; but we do not care to have to surmount an elevation of eight hundred feet if one of three hundred can be found. The ex- ploring and surveying expeditions must be kept up until the right place is discovered. The project must not be allowed to sleep, There is no such word as failure when the whole world is to be benefited by success. It has become our duty to do in the West what has been done in the East. Hence we canonly say let it be quickly determined if Nicaragua is practicable for a ship canal or not. Canal Tue Latest Events IN Paris AND VER- SAILLES.—There is but little to write about dif- ferent from that of the last few days regarding the situation of affairs in Paris and Versailles, The search for concealed arms continues in Paris, and it is conducted in the strictest man- ner. Rochefort will be arraigned before a military commission, and there is very little chance that he will escape conviction and sentence of death. The insurgents taken by the Versailles troops in Paris are arriving in Rouen, previous to being taken to their desig- nated places of imprisonment. Two thousand of them will spend a long term of confinement, if not the remainder of their days, on the hulks at Cherbourg. The French press are now actively engaged in canvassing the chances of the return of the Bourbons, Pro- ceedings in the National Assembly are sig- nificant, and may be taken as the shadows of coming events. Tut German Army.—General Von Moltke, the greatest captain of the age, is now en- gaged in the reorganization of the German army. Itis to be reduced to a peace footing of seven hundred thousand men. With such a powerful force as this the German empire will possess the largest army in Europe, Re- cent events have already testified to its effi- ciency in the trying reality of war, and there is no reason to doubt that the same watch- fulness and admirable discipline which proved so uniformly successful in the past will be con- tinued, now that it has accomplished such grand results. The triumphal progress of the Germans through France united the German people under the banner of the German em- wire. Tho Hepublican Squabbies tm the City. The republicans of this city are the most industrious set of disorganizers that have ever afflicted any political party in the United States. Jeff Davis is not a greater incubus upon the democracy than men like Sinclair Tousey or Horace Greeley on the one hand and Tom Murphy on the other are upon the radicals. They agree in nothing, and cannot even agree to disagree. What they are fight- ing about nobody knows, but it is certain that neither side has much sympathy from the masses of the party. The contest seems to be mainly with the “Custom House brethren.” As the head of this delightful band of brothers, the Hon. Thomas Murphy is arraigned by the pure- minded and gentle General Cochrane for such little offences as affiliating with democrats and filling up the rolls ef republican associations with democratic names. Murphy would not be guilty of such offences any more than Cochrane would be guilty of them. As well might we accuse Hank Smith of Tammany affiliations or charge the Hon, Rufus K. Andrews with political in- fidelity. And then it must not be forgotten that all of the republican band of brothers cannot belong to the Custom House brethren. Murphy opens the doors of that institution wide enough now; but few as the republicans are in this city it is not to be expected that the Custom House can hold them all. If he could give each of the brethren not already provided with sinecures a place in his marble palace the efforts to purify the party would cease and the republican squabbles would be ended. Failing to do it, the work of reorganizing the party will go on till there is no party left to be reorganized. The work committed to Jackson 8, Schultz and William Orton by the Republican State Commitiee can scarcely be said to prosper. Mr. Thomas E. Stewart does not believe it will be done in a fair and impartial spirit, and consequently he is ready to get up a reorgani- zation on his own account. How farhe will carry his operations it is impossible as yet to tell; but for the next few weeks his time will be taken up in preparing for the great Greeley serenade. It is understood that Greeley, on his return from the South, is to be met at Jer- sey Cily by a bootblack and a barber, and that the music is to be of the simple kind best fitted to the philosopher's musical education; but forther than this nothing has been agreed upon. It is to be hoped, however, that in the meantime the work of reorganiza- tion will not cease. The Custom House breth- ren might grow listless and General John Cochrane chafe because the important duty of destroying the republican party was forgotten. But we do not think any danger is to be feared in this direction. The reorganizing powers will continue in their noble work. Schultz and Orton are not the men to turn aside when they have a ‘‘plan” to be developed, and neither Cochrane nor Tousey can be swerved from the line of duty while there is a chance for the display of muddy rhetoric. The good work may go on forever, if these excellent men should happen to be immortal. We can only pray for their immortality, and for the immortality of Murphy and Winterbottom. We confess we see some danger in these re- publican squabbles. It is doubtful whether Murphy could get up a body guard for Grant should the President pass through this city on his way to West Point. Unless the reorganiz- ing business stops Greeley may find himself as badly off. The party is becoming so depleted by the phlebotomizing process of the reorgan- izers that the Greeley serenade even is in danger. It would be a sad disappointment to this new candidate for the Presidency after the ovations he has received at the South to find himself welcomed heme only by the bootblack and the barber already in commission. More marvellous things than this have happened, and this is the immediate danger unless the republican-squabbles in the city cease and an era of good will is immefiately inaugurated. Tar New Domtsto: On THE WASHINGTON TrEaTY.—Some n despatches which we print this morning si@w that our neighbors of the New Dominion ‘are not quite satisfied with the work of thé Joint High Commission. They don’t like to séaim to be at the mercy of Great Britain, They think, or pretend to think, that we have got the best of them. It is all right, however; they cannot go back upon what has been done, Sir John A. Mac- donald behaves well. When the proper time comes, he says, he will make explanations. The New Dominion Parliament is to have all manner of liberty of discussion in the matter, Of course Sir John will explain. Of course the Parliament will have a little talk. But for all that the treaty will be endorsed in London as at Washington, and in Ottawa as in London. Personal Intelligence. General. Gari Scnurz, United States Senator from Missouri, is domiciled at the Fifth Avenue, Ex-Governor Powell Clayton, United States Sen- ator from Arkansas, {s stopping at the St. Nicholas. C.C. Gilman, President of the lowa Central Rail- road, is staying at the Brevoort House. Joseph W. Bingham, of the Indianapolis Sentine?, is sojourning at the Everett House John E. Owens, who tn character has so @ften in- formed New York audiences that his “fathégait into the Revolution,” 19 at the St. Nicholas. Rey. D. H. Macuréy, of Philadelphia, ts pesiding at the Albemarle Hotel. ! ; John D. Willard, of Boston, is domicied at thi Grand Centra. 7 t Colonel I. C. Hodges, of the United States Army, is quartered athe Brevoort House. General George 8. Hartauff is at the St. James Hotel. United States Senator %. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue, N, Kingsley, of Philadelphia, Is a gucst at the Grand Central, Genera} Robinson, of Binghamton, N. ¥., is quar- tered at she St. Nicholas. Cc. A. Barnesi, of the United States Army, is at the Astor House, General James A, Cunninghats, of Boston, is stop. ping at the St. Nicholas. W. Bieroft, of Omaha, 1s stopping at the Grand Central. General J. T. Wilder, of Chattanooga, 18 quarterea At the St, Nicholas, Colonel Weed, of Virginia, arrived yesterday at the Astor House. 4. Hobart Warren, of Troy, ts staying at the Fifth Avenue, Geveral H. T. Reta, of Keokuk, is residing at the St, Nicholas. Captain Cunningham, of Scotland, is among yes- terday’s arrivals at the Fifth Aven R. W. Brown, Superintennent of the Buffalo and Erie Bailroad, is domiciled at the St. James, WASHINGTON.| Another Cabinet Shown Up. No Changes Under Grant’s Ad- ministration. ‘ The War of Races—Colored Laborers Strike Against Their White Brethren. WasHinaton, June 2, 1871, Rumored Cabinet Change Authoritatively De- nied=Secretary Fish Desires a Foreign Em- bassy. Some of the New York papers to-day give promi- hence 10 @ revival of rumors of impending Cabinet «hanges. No sooner had the President left for Long Branch than several of your contemporaries simul- taneously announced that Secretary Fish had re- signed his portfolio of the State Department. It was asserted, also, that his resignation had been ac- cepted, and that his successor would probably be Judge Edwards Pierrepont, who, in accordance with an intended ‘new departure” on the part of tie President, would immediately inaugurate a policy in favor of Cuban independence, preparatory to which ®& menacing message nad been telegraphed to General Sickles, the American Minister at Madrid, instructing him to notify the Spanish government that the question of restoring the sequestered es- tates of American citizens in Cuba and of paying the damages of their sequestration must be settled Within the present week, else a belligerent attitude towards Spain would be assumed by our government. While {!t is universaily acknowledged that a compicte reorganization of the Cabmet would be desirable, there is no prospect that any changes wiil be made at present, President Grant has repeatedly as:erted that he is perfectiy satisfed with his Cabinet as tt is now constituted, and that no change in its personnel would be made, unless in accordance with the express desire of any member or members of it who determined voluntarily to retire from ofice. As no such determination has been expressed by any of the present Cabinet officers, there 1s no foundation for any of the current rumors. With refer- ence to the head of the State Department, it 1s well Known that Mr. Fish originally accepted the post- | tion only after the repeated solicitations of the President, who has continued to repose the same confidence in him that he evinced at the commence- ment. It 13 equally well known that Mr. Fisu has remained in his position of Secretary of State in ac- cordance with the wishes of the President, and whatever the Secretary’s private inclinations may be his sense of public duty does not point to his iminediate retirement trom the conduct of the Staté Department. The authority of Mr. | Fish, himself, is sufficient contradiction of the stories that have so recently been revived and circulated. He said this evening, *! did not present my resignation on Saturday. It was not accepted on Monday, and I have not resigned at all’? Fur- thermore, Mr. Fish observed that he had no inten- tion now of retiring from the State Department. ‘The statement that General Sickles had been in- structed to make demands of Spain, such as have been represented, 1s characterized by him as equally fallacious. There seems to be little doubt, however, that Mr. Fish would willingly change his place as Secretary of State for that of Minister to England, and.there ts good ground forthe prophecy that the return of General Schenck belore the present year is ended will afford Mr. Fish tne opportunity he desires so much to mingle in diplomatic and social intercourse with the aristocracy of England. Mr. Fish left here this evening for New York and will be absent apout a week. The Colored Laborers’ Strike. The strike among the colored laborers on the public and private work continues. The sirikers forcibly prevented men in various places from resuming employment to-day, while others, on being approached by gangs of strikers, threw down thelr tools and joined them. ‘the strikers attempted to take the tools from anocher party on the street, when a lieutenant of police, with his squad, appeared and ordered the strikers away, under pain of arrest. The crowd by this time had increased to 500 men. Subsequently Major Richards ordered out the mounted force, and this had the effect of intimidating the strikers in another locality from executing their threats agaist the working laborers. A brick was tnrown and struck @ colored man. This might have led to sanguinary results had not the police been im such force as to overawe those disposed Ww be riotous. Laborers at several places resumed work In the course of the day, under the promise that they should receive whatever prices shall be agreed on by the committee appointed at the mass meeting last night, The police force, mounted and foot, were held in reserve at headquarters this aiter- noon, ready to move to any point which might de- mand their attention, The Bowen Bigamy Trial. Argument was commenced to-day in the Bowen bigamy case, but not concluded. Counsel for the government asked to submit prayers for iustruc- tions—if the jury believe the paper purporting to be the record of the divorce in New York was ob- tatned by fraud, or not copied irom the original papers, they cannot regard it as a decree of divorce. If it was a tre copy I ts void if the jury further belleve that Bowen and Frances Bowen, or either of them, were ai the time residents of the Confederate States; and if they find that Bowen was a solaier of the Confederate States in 1864 he cannot beregarded ag having been a citizen of New York at the time the alleged divorce in New York was obtained. Expenditures of Government During May. The expenditures of the government by warrants from the Treasury Department during May were as follows:— , Civil and miscellaneous and foreign inter- War Department. N Nav; interior, Pensions 6,024,196. ‘Total. 5 cane o ncce » o$1% 790,049 The above expenditures do not include payments. on account of the principal or interest of the public debt. American Built Vessels Owned Abroad. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has decided that ‘Vossels. built in the United States for foreigners are not required to be inspected under the United States Inspection laws. rs Redemption of Three Per Cent Certificates. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury directs the Asatst- ami Treasurer at New York to notify the holders of Shree per cent certificates issuea under the acts of March 2, 1867, and July 25, 1868, bearing date Decem- ber 16, 1867, to March 16, 1868, of the denomination of $5,000 each, Nos. 1,374 to 1,710 mclusive, and of the denomination of $10,000 each, Nos. 1,685 to 1,738 in- ciusive, will be paid on presentation at bia office, and that from and after July 31, 1871, such certiti- cates will Oegme to bear interest and will be no longer Avaliable as & Pugtion of the lawful money reserve in the possession ©f any national banking associa- tion, The amount of certificates described ts $1,750,000, Financial Agents of the Government. ‘The Second National Bank of New York and the Planters’ National Bank of Richmond have been designated as depositories and financial agents of the United States, JUDGE NELSON.—The Cooperstown (N. Y.) Jour. nal says:—Judge Samuel Nelson returned to his home im this village from Washington on Saturday last, He 1s still suffering from the effects of a severe cold, which settied in the back, taken at the last protracted session of tne Joint High Commission; otherwise he is very well, having stood the extras ordinary labors of the past winter and spring—part of the time officiating as acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, pare of the time as one of the © AMUSEMENTS. AVENUE THxaTRE.—A compliment which Was significant, flattering and well deserved was paid Mrs, Charles Mathews last night at thts theatre. Sensation ; The house was crowded by an audience that vre- all the characteristics of culture and refine- ment, and who, by their enthusiastic reception of this talented actress, showed that their hearts went with their plaudits, and that their demonstrative- ness had its origin in something more than the cold recognition of the intellectuality developed im her histrionic talent. The pieces selected for presenta- tion Were those that have been upon the bulis every” night this wesk~namely, Plancbe’s parody of “The Golden Fleece,” and Mr. Mathews’ “Cook as @ Cucumber.” We gave a somewhat de- tailed criticism of their presentation the first night of their performance at this! theatre, and, therefore, we need not further’ dilate upon their attractiveness. Both pieces aret admirably adapted for an age weary With-lts every- day work and the eninei consequent upon a life that; has been lived at it utmost teusion, Neither of these pieces make any aemand upon the futeilect.. They amuse, please, delight, cheer, enliven and brighten, as flowers and perfume enlivan and brighten, The pleasure 13 evanescent, but it is pleasure pure und simple, accompanied’ by & hearty laughter, which is just as good for the body as for the soul, Between the pieces Mr. Mathews ‘‘said a few: words,” and the saying of it was equivalent tos third piece in the.play, Tue audience laughed,. ap- plauded and cheered at the nappy, cheeriul pleas- antries as vigorously and a8 naturally as though the speech were part of the evening’s entertain- ment. There was no time amid so mach that was funny to reflect that Mr. Mathews was making @ farewell to a second generation of his hearty and* earnest admirers. Mr. Mathews spoke as follows:— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN--Though the last night of my engagement, J thing priate moment to address a few tarewel ML pre- vious to my departure for Boston, f ain noi going to inflict @ long complimentary set speech upon you--the weather 1s too hot for that—nor am 1 golug to make yous funny one, my juclination just now does not tend wi but Lam going to olfer you in afew words my honest and sincere thanks for ‘le extraordinary patronage you have be- stowed upon me for the last two months—two of the plea- santest, {i not the two pleasantest montis I have ever spent inthe whole of esslonal career. It ts thirteen years St not literally since I paid it to Ameriva and thirty years since made my fir rea New Yori: audience, and here ‘am suil playing the same parts before the sons and daugh- ters that I then played before their fwthers and mothers, and, if 1 may judge by my success, affording them an even ees umount of amusement than I did their parents. jow this 1s a most gratifyiny fact—gratifying because it 1s @ proof that my Jabors have nbt been expended in a wrot direction; that I have nut stadicd in -an ‘ephemeral schoo, and that notwithstanding the host of sensational pieces with which the pubifc hag been giutted tor so many years, which are supposed to be the omy acceptavle means.of ut- traction in these modern times, my simple comedies have wtood their ground aud are apparently as fresh as ever. ‘Think of the number of things that were popular forty years go, and see Low few there are that are not now voted antl- qlated twaddles, stupld and slow, having been superseded by hundreds of billilant productiouk more suited to the fase tastes of t present age. Isic nosing, then, to ind myself, ‘ording the sume amusement by the same m to present mys T originally repr. Hiege not granted to every man, and beileve me 1 am most grateful, and I only hopé that twenty years hence I may be found doing the same Uhing, and that ali those who are now present may be here to fee ino. ‘Twenty years! Good gracious! If New York progresses at the sine rate during the next twenty yours that It has done duriug the past {ts own inother wilt no. know it. While Thave been growing vider every year New \ork appears to been growing youuger, and is ceriainly ten tousand ‘Syayer, fresher and wore vigorous than ft was when L ret vinite e, the City Hail and tue Park she mw and be: vented if the city is changed, how much more go are the peopie! Educated, travelled, redned in every way; and it ts no fiaitery to say ihat New York is now (not even excepting poor old Paris) the gayest and most brilliant capital in the world, It is therefore no smail triumph to find myself atill received as one of its recognized sources of recreation, and L am proud of the pusition, 1 have been very fortunate in having been abie to appear before you at the Fifth Avenue theatre, It is a house exactly suited ror the style of pieces I play andthe style of acung [ profess, and, above all, fre- queuted by those lateliectual and retined audiences for w! amusement alone {t has always been my pride and pleasure to cater, and whose approbation it has always been my sole ambition to secure; while the great politeness and attention with which I nave been treatea by the management and the Uberal and tasteful way in which my pieces have been placed upon the stage have contributed fn ao siuall degree to the ex- traordinary sucess of my engagement. For ail ‘things Treturn may hearty thanks. And now, ladies and gentiemen, let me tell you that I have no idea of returning to Kurope for some time. T am very happy where I am aud am about to make a tour through the States and anticipate much pleasure in doing so, after which: T hope we shail meet again in New York. I would not wear Out my welcome, but I have lots of material to place before you, and ! aim vain evough to think that you have not yet had enough of me. I cannot name tue precise period of my re- turn, but { trust whenever It may le that I shall meet with the same kindness and success thut has attended my present visit. In conclusion, allow me to offer the most heartfelt thanks Mra. Mathews for the kindness of the press aud the crowded attendance bere to-night, and to expreas to you the jeasure she bas experienced ut Hnuinz, thougn sue has been Uiirtcen vearsaway in Buglaad, that she las not been en- rely torgotien in her nati ty. In both our names 1 wish you ail health and. prosperity sit wo meet again. Ludles and gentlemen, farewell. . Theatrical Notes. Mr. Harleigh, the protean actor, who was adver- used to appear to-lay at the Grana Opera House, will make his first appearance on Monday night. NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. From Scribner, Weltord & Uo.:—The first volume of a new edition of “The French Revolution,” by Thomas Carlyle. From Chas. Scribner & Co. :—‘‘Madame Thérése,"® “The Blockade,” +The Conscript” and *Waterloo,’” historical novels, trauslated from the French of Erekmann-Chatrian; ‘‘Common Senge in the House- hold,” by Marton Harland. From Harper & Brothers:—‘Paine’s Institutes of Medicines,”’ “Bench and Kar: A Complete Digest of the Wit, Humor, Asperities and Amenities of the Law,” by L. J. Bigelow; “Light,” by Jacob Abbott, From G. P. Putnam & Sons:—The Young Me- chanic;” “Till the Doctor Comes, and How to Help Him." By George H. Hope, M. D. From G, W. Carleton & Co.:—“Millbank; or, Roger Irving’s Ward,” a novel, By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes. From Macmillan & Co.:—‘‘A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, ‘Tragedian.” By Julian Charles Young, A. M., rector of limington. From H. Georg, Geneva:—“The smancipation and Unity of the Serbian Nation; cr, the Regeneration of Eastern Europé by the Reconstitution of the Na- tlonalities.” By Viadimir Yovanovitch. Popa From Hurd & Hourhion:—*Casties in the Air and Other Phantasies.”” By Barry Gray. Prom Samuel R. Wells:—**Thoughts for the Young Men aud Women of America.” By L. M. Reavis, From Pott & Amery:—‘‘rhe Jurisdiction and Mis- sion of the Anglican Eptscopate.” By Rev. T. Je. Bailey, B. A. From Sampson Low, Son & Marston, Londoa:—~ “Origimal Poetry.” By Violet Fuier, ANTI“INCOME TAK LEAGUE. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I wish to make a suggestion to the League througity the medium of your infuential journal which may be of importance to all. It is that the League should make its organization permanent and extend ita. base. Its motto should be simply “just taxation,’” and its entire influence should be used to prevent, all unconstitutional, unjust and oppressive taxes, aud every member should have the right to lay his grievances before & comnutttee of the League, Whose duty it should be to examine their merits, and wherever they found 9, fair cause for complaint they should submit the case to the counsel of the and uf in bis opuuon the member were un- justly taxed it should be lus duty, In the tuame of the League, to commence legal proceedings. Such a League woula jussly command the respect of our leg.siators, and they would be obliged \o,pay some attention to its repre- sentations, and 431i might reach from Maine to Georgia and from the Alantic to the Pacific, the ex- pense to each member would be merely nominal, and still he could proit by the advice of the best of counsel, and would not be obliged, as is now often the case, to pay wsmall amount of tax which he should hot pay, merely to avotd a sult whici would cost more than (he amouut of the tax. Infact it would be a mutual protection society, and Antt-Income Tax League would start on this plaa L think 1t Would soon be joined by all the taxpayers here and elsewhere. Their supervision skouid cm-\ brace all taxes, local and general. THE NEW STATE CAPITCL AND MASOHAY. New York, June 2, 1871. To THE EprtorR OF THE HERALD:— Sin--l was very much surprised to read tn year paper an article from “Impartial” casting a tur on the Commissioners for inviting Mr. Anthon, Grand Master of the State, to jay the corner sione of the New York Stato Capitol, In the first place, “Im- partial’ writes something he or she evidentiy Knows nothing about, The New York State Capital Com~ missioners ought to be proud in obtaining such & Mason as Mr, Anthon to lay the corner stone, With regard to the Masonic form used ou suet an coca sion no creed inthe world can object when the; hear it, and any false projudices shouid be banished until people lewen and are competent to judge tn- partially. Throughout ihe state Mr, Anthon 1s weil known, Every one wil! acknowledge him aa one of our most intellecjual and best speakers—a man and @ Mason—an honor to tue fraternity, and who ever wishes ta do good to his fcllow-man; also fully com petent to lay the foundation stane of the Capitol and cd 81 ‘The Judy Considers pe & good one, and 18 evidently American High Commissioners—with remarkable wers of endurance. much pleased with the manner in which it has been § received by the country at large. All the aeTaner ere piece. mm et Creal la rematn, a4 | hope over to remain, a sincere I. GEO, W. MORGAN. :