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New York, Saturday, June 10, 1871. [Pacr. (1—Advertisements, 2— Advertisements, 3—Advertisemenis, }@—Editorials: Leading Article, “France and the Movements in Europe—Thiers can Make Him- self the First Man of the Times”—News from Washington—Personal Intelligence—Amuse- ment Announcements. G—The Situation in France—News from England, Roumania and Russia— American Jockey Club — Amusements — New Hamp:hbire Legislature — Georgia Politics—Omo Politics — The Telegraph Testimonial—League of St. Sebastian—Fires— “Black | Short’? Sbortened—Naval _ Intelli- gence —Miscellaneous Telegrams--West Point-- Business Notices, \6—Prospect Park Fair Grounds: Close of the Spring Trotting Meet: ‘Yachting Notes—The Deluge in New Orleans—The Courts—Views of the Past—Marriages and Deaths. —Financtal and Commercial Reports—The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons—Avotding Explosions: The Fire Commissioners Taking Steps to Protect the City from Damage by Fire works—Advertisements, B- Murders on the Sea: A Scene of Death in Mid- Ocean; The Tragedy on Board the Bark J. L. Bow ‘ne Murphy Murder—Bankrupt Real Estate Matiers—The Americus Club: Opening of the New Club House at Green- wich—Murderers Hanged—Shipping Intelli- gence—Advertisements. A PrestDENTIAL Propiem.—If the demo- trats have a chance of carrying the Presi- dential election in 1872, and Pennsylvania should be the Keystone State on which the election should hinge, who would be the man to carry that State? Our reporter who inter- wiewed Jadge Packer reports that Packer aid Judge Thompson, of the Supreme Court, “is a strong man in every sense of the word; that his record is above reproach, and that he is a most excellent man to meet all the require- ments of a Presidential candidate.” Are we to go from war heroes to the heroes of the bench for a President ? Anotner GovERNMENT Deravutter.—The atmosphere of Washington city is particularly trying to an office-holder’s morals, and if he has a weak point it is sure to be discovered. F. A. McCartney, Superintendent and Dis- bursing Officer of the Post Office Department, a gentleman of culture and high social posi- tion, and in the enjoyment of a handsome salary, had a weakness for speculation. He invested in stone quarries, water powers and other unproductive property. His specula- tions failed; and hoping to retrieve his fall- ing fortune McCartney misappropriated thirty- five thousand dollars of government funds. The sequel is soon told. The fraud was dis- covered, McCartney's reason gave way under bis accumulated misfortunes, and yesterday the culprit was sent to the madhouse. Rossz, axp CourBet, we are informed, are in the hands of the French authorities. They were arrested in Paris. In spite of the gnnouncement that all offenders against the government are to be treated as military, not as political prisoners, it is not our opinion that the Versailles government can dare to shoot Rossel. Of Courbet wedo not know much. Rossel, however, is a young man of first rate military capacity and training. Gam- Netta found him out and honored him. He fell into the hands of the Communal authori- ‘ties as much by accident as from choice, A few days, however, were enough to make him wick of them. His hands were tied. He had the name buthe had not the power of the commander-in-chief of the forces. He, there- fore, asked to be relieved, and politely re- quested a cell in the Mazas prison. He is ‘the one man of the Commune agaiost whom ‘wo can say nothing unkind. Paris AND VERSAILLES.—The supplemen- tary clection for members to the National As- sembly will take place in France on the 9th of Jaly. Some well known names are an- nounced already in connection with the mat- ter. Prince Napoleon, Baron Haussmann, MM. Rouber, Guérronitre and Forcade are person- ages not unknown during the empire. The Orleans princes, according to the Gazette de France, are not to take their seats during the existence of the present Assembly, and, more- over, they will not allow their sons to become candidates for any of the vacant seats. The Minister of Finance has revived the subject of the immediate paying off of the war indebted- mess to Germany in order to free France of the Germans. He proposes in this connection to raise a loan of one bundred million sterling outside of France, relying on the energy of the nation and the practice of severe economy on the part of the government to enable France to meet all her obligations. Avrnovcn Ben Wapg bas been in public Wife for more than a quarter of a century, and bad enough offices to surfeit any ordinary mortal, he is still unsatisfied, and is again a candidate for public favors. The sturdy old Buckeye gave the republicans of Ohio notice that if they want him to run against General McCook for Governor he is ready for the con- test on the stump. Bluff Ben is more than a matob for General McCook, and the latter's brilliant military record is fairly eclipsed by the ex-Vice President's services in the national councila daging the eventful war of the rebel- Mea, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1871. Gramee ana the Movements mm Europe— Thiers Can Make Himself the First Man ef the Times. Looking at the condition of France and of Europe generally, and at the movements and exigencies of the times, it is evident that M. Thiers, the President of the French republic, is in a position to become the foremost man of the age. More than that, the present situation of France and the extraordinary development of political and social ideas in the world are such that he must become either the most prominent man or lose what reputa- tion he has acquired as a statesman. If he can realize the importance of the position he occupies and grasp the mighty political pro- blems of the times that call urgently for a solution he may be to France, and, perhaps, to Europe, what Washington was to America— the great liberator, the founder of a new epoch in the history of the world and destiny of the people, and the benefactor of mankind in the nineteenth century. Should he fail to do this, and attempt to govern by the ideas of the past instead of by those of the present and the opening future, he may turn France over to the same old political experiments and suc- cessive revolutions which have occurred periodically in that country, and history will condemn him for his incapacity. A republic is what France needs, if the French people be prepared for it and the present government, which is only provisional, honestly and earnestly endeavors to establish republican institutions. There is some reason to believe, too, that M. Thiers entertains this opinion; at least he will make an effort to give France a republic, if we may judge from his repeated assertions to that effect. By the telegrapbic news from Paris which we pub- lished yesterday we learn that ‘‘it is authori- tatively announced that M. Thiers favors the republic for the future government of the country.” This accords with what he has said publicly and officially before, and, therefore, we should give him credit for sincerity. He has taken the right view of the situation and necessities of France. It remains to be seen whether he has the ability or not to accom- plish his object. No doubt the difficulties in the way of giv- ing a permanent republican government to France are great, but they are not insur- mountable. The Bonapartes and _ their adherents, the numerous imperialists and those military chiefs who rose to high posi- ‘tions under the empire, with a portion, per- haps, of what remains of the old army, would be ready to squelch the republic if they could get an opportunity. It is the same with all the royalists of the diffe- rent Bourbon aspirants and factions. These people care little for France and nothing for the liberty of the nation, except to destroy it whenever they can getachance. They regard the French people as their property, to be used for their aggrandizement and glory, just as the slaveholders of the South did the negroes, as the old feudal barons did their serfs and as monarchs everywhere do their subjects. Many, even in this kdvanced period of the world, claim the divine right of govern- ment and look upon the masses of mankind as a landed proprietor regards bis herds of cat- tle. The Bonapartes and Bourbon and Or- leanist royalists will consequently do all they can to break down the republic. They will show their hostility in every conceivable way, and when they dare not do this openly will secretly plot against the republican govern- ment, knowing that in the establishment of the republic all their pretensions will be buried and they be reduced to the level of other ordinary mortals. Here will be one of the greatest difficulties M. Theirs will have to meet. He will have to watch the royalist and imperialist conspirators, and while not giving them importance or exciting sympathy for them by proscription, he ought to be careful not to place them in commanding positions. Another difficulty of the Thiers government may be in the socialist and communist theorists, who, while they are ultra republi- cans, endanger the experiment of republican institutions by advocating what is imprac- ticable. These agitating dogmatists find a too ready ear to their theories among the poor classes, and, at the same time, alarm conser- vative people and those who have property. A great many who are republican at heart, or who wish to see the republic established, fly to monarchy or imperialism from fear of the agitating socialists and proletaires. Tho republic of 1848 was destroyed by those theo- rists. Still there is more reason to hope that these dangerous people are less an obstruc- tion to the republic now than then. The socialists and communists are fewer and not so rampant. The people of France and of Paris have, we believe, become more enlight- tened with regard to those rights of property and individual rights which are and must be the foundation of organized and civilized society. Even the Commune of Paris, with all its acts of Vandalism, seemed to have eschewed the theories of the socialists of 1848. Though the Commune was wrong in making war on the Versailles government, in not yielding to the will of France as far as it was expressed through that, and in not giving ita fair trial, these Paris leaders contended for a sound republican principle— that of local self-government. There was no socialism in that. We think, therefore, that if M. Thiers was sincere when he said, “Before God and man I will remain true to the republic,” and goes to work honestly to establish it on the basis of municipal privileges, he can bring over to his support the very men that fought against him ; for though they took wrong course they and he seem to have the same object in view as to establishing republi- can government. Still another difficulty may exist in the Church or Catholic hierarchy of France. Though the Catholic Church has the facility of accommodating itself to the different institu- tions of the various countries where it exists, whether they be republican or monarchical, there is no doubt that in Europe it favors more monarchy and absolutism than democracy. There, at least, it is the natural ally of mon- archy, imperialism and the privileged orders of society. The Pope is or was a monarch, and both he and the hierarchy of the Church in the Old World cling to the old order of things. The ordinary priests, in France, at least, may incline more to democracy, and might not offer serious resistance to the republic; but this could hardly be expected or the chiefs of the Church, who, with the Pope, dread the progress of democratic ideas, and regard the restoration of the temporal power of the Papacy as dependent mainly upon monarchical suprem- acy. It was no doubt the impression on the minds of the Commune that the heads of the Church were an obstacle to the establishment of the republic which led to the murder of the excellent Archbishop of Paris and the other priests, But should M. Thiers succeed in showing that republican liberty is compatible with order and progress the hierarchy of the Church in France may see the futility of opposition. Of course the crowned heads and aristocra- cies of Europe cannot regard the French republic with any favor, and will use all the moral influence of which they are capable to damage it; but if France maintains peace at home and abroad none will interfere with her internal political arrangements, There will be no more Holy Alliances to check democratic progress. The people everywhere would rejoice to see republican freedom with order in France, and it would not be long before they would demand similar institutions. The French republic would become to Europe what the American republic has been and is to the world—the example for and instructor of nations in the way of liberty and progress. It would be a political electric bat- tery vibrating from one end of Europe to the other to change the old order of society. Our republic has been doing this work effectively, though silently. All eyes are turned to watch the working of our institutions, and the people abroad are desirous of following the example we have given. The republican aspirations of France spring from this cause, as well as most of the liberal movements in other countries of Europe. Should not we Americans, then, say God speed to the French republic, and hail with pleasure such a powerful ally in the way of progress? And why should not M. Thiers, the histo- rian of the consulate and empire, who knows so well the many struggles and changes that France has gone through, earnestly desire a republic? He is aware that monarchy and imperialism under almost every phase have been tried and have only had a flickering ex- istence. Why try any of them again? Why subject the nation to more and inevitable revo- lutions? Why not have the republic? There is more vigor and more material and intellec- tual development under republican institutions. Our own history and the history of all repub- lies show this. The French, with their indus- try, taste, inventiveness, economy, activity and splendid country would soon recover from their disasters and become, a mighty people again under such a government. Then why should not the Church become the friend and ally of the masses to instruct and guide them? Father Hyacinthe said the nineteenth century belongs to the working classes. He sees that the great move- ment of the age is from below and upward, and is irresistible. Ifthe priests would com- prehend this and march with democratic pro- gress, what evils, what convulsions might be avoided! This one thing they and the rulers of nations may be sure of: that with the enlightenment of the age and daily increasing knowledge diffused through the press and by means of the other modern agents of civiliza- tion the world cannot go back or stand still. It must advance, and the people everywhere will never be satisfied till they have repre- sentative self-government, and this, if we mis- take not, can only mean the republic. Napoleon’s Adherents in the Field. The adherents of Napoleon in France have opened their political campaign for the resto- ration of the empire, and it is evident that they intend to stand or fall by the principles which formed the groundwork of the late govern- ment. Thus far the imperialists announced as candidates for the National Assembly, to be returned at the supplementary elections, are all, with a single exception, prominent advo- cates of the one man power. Forcade Laro- quette, who, the cable despatch says, will be elected withont opposition, was a Senator of the empire, at one time Minister of Finance, and subsequently Minister of the Interior. Le Vicomte La Gué¢ronnitre was also a Senator, the literary ‘‘collaboraieur” of Napoleon III, a devoted Bonapartist and an intense hater of the Bourbons. Of Rouher, formerly Prime Minister, and Baron Haussmann, late Prefect of the Seine, it is un- necessary to speak, as they are too well known as exponents of “personal” government. Prince Napoleon is the only one of those mentioned in the despatch who advocates the establishment of a parliamentary, constitu- tional empire ; but he is a Bonaparte, and will, of course, favor the restoration of the empire in any form. It is clear that the imperialists do not intend to fight under false colors, Either Napoleon understands the French peo- ple better than anybody else or he is laboring under a frightful delusion. Certainly the put- ting forward of candidates in his interest, who represent ‘‘Cesarism” in its most decided form, implies the one or the other. It is impossible, however, not to admire the bold- ness of the imperialists. The political contest next month promises to be most exciting, and we shall await the result with anxious interest. It promises to be a square fight between the empire and the kingdom, and the supple- mentary elections will foreshadow the future government of France. Ggorata Poxttics seem destined to a ‘“‘new departure” from the old, well-worn party ruts, Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, recently made a raid into Georgia and obtained control of the railroad interests of that State, which he is believed to be preparing to use for political effect. In conjunction with several prominent railroad men of the cotton States the shrewd Pennsylvanian proposes a union of moderate republicans with “‘accept the situation” demo- crate, and the formation of a new party wholly ,iguoring both carpet-baggers and fire-eaters. Their object is to restore the era of friendship and good feeling throughout Georgia, because, under the existing state of affairs, every industrial interest is depressed, railroad stock pays no dividends and the com- munity is drifting toward anarchy and ruin, A revolution in politics and the election of honest and capable men to office will place Georgia once more on the high road to pros- perity, as well as make Senator Cameron's railroad venture @ aplendidly paying invost- ment, The Morse Statue in Central Park. About twenty-eight years ago the Congress of the United States had before it a petition of an unknown man of science, praying that thirty thousand dollars be appropriated to enable him to erect a line of wire from Wash- ington to Baltimore—a distance of thirty-eight miles—upon which he and Congress and the world might fully test the practicability of his new invention, the electric telegraph. Con- gress submitted his petition to Cave Johnson, of Tennessee, then Postmaster General, and he returned an elaborate report upon the sub- ject, ridiculing the idea and intimating that it was the freak of a madman. “It is fully as practicable,” said the sagacious Cave, ‘‘to run @ telegraph line to the moon as to Baltimore.” In those days, however, we had Congresses that appreciated science and had more leisure time, owing, probably, to a lack of political business, to apply to scientific matters brought before them. So the appropriation was made, only after long delay, however, and just in the last hours of the session, when the poor inventor had almost given up hope. The appropriation being made, the inventor worked with a will, and the line between Baltimore and Washington was completed early in 1844. The first trembling message that vibrated along the wiry route, and brought back life and hope and joy to the heart of the struggling inventor, was couched in these words:—‘‘What hath God wrought?” It seems to us that Professor Morse, when he is present to-day at the unveiling of his own statue’ by the loving and grateful hands of his own countrymen, ought to feel the same thrill of joy pass through his heart that passed through it when those words first clicked upon his ear in the electric accents of his new creation. He was younger then, and the wild dream of his life was just upon the point of realization; he is an old man now, and that life dream is about to be fitly rounded off by an honor that is paid to living men only once in many centuries. “What hath God wrought?” indeed. It is seldom that he Has wrought so much through one human instrument as he has wrought through Morse. The little instrament that tremblingly clicked its message forty miles while the heart of its master sickened and fainted within him for fear it should fail has knit together with its tiny metal bands all the peoples of the globe in a more enduring bond of mutual knowledge and closer sympathies. It has brought all the civilized cities and countries of the earth within a few hours’ speaking distance of each other, and has pene- trated, proselytizing as it goes, into the bar- barous wilds of India and the Orient. That “Smpracticable idea of a madman,” in its sub- sequent improvements and its rapid and far- reaching ramifications, has proven the greatest wonder of the nineteenth century, marvellous age of wonders as it is. There will be a most imposing programme of arrangements for the ceremonies to-day. The statue will be unveiled by Governor Claflin, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Orton. Governor Hoffman will deliver the introduc- tory address, William Cullen Bryant the in- augural address, Mayor Halj will receive the statue for the city, and Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, of St. George’s, will make the invocatory prayer. These will be the proceedings during the afternoon, beginning at four o'clock. Of course there will be music. In the evening there will be a public reception given to the Professor himself at the Academy of Music, whence, after various speeches by eminent orators, he will send a telegraphic message to all the cities of the Union, and to ail the cities of Europe, and to parts of Asia and Africa, announ¢ing his farewell to telegraphy, and responses will be received by him from those points within ten minutes, Governor Hoffman will deliver a congratulatory address to the Professor and the latter will reply in person, he thousands upon thousands that will throng Central Park and the Academy to view these proceedings will have an oppor- tunity of witnessing an event the like of which they may never see again. It is the highest ideal of human honors—this erection of a statue to aliving man. It is a grand compli- ment that should only be paid to such men as Morse and Washington, Fulton, Franklin— men who have won the great victories, not of war alone, but of peace. The American Jockey Club Spring Meet. ing. To-day the spring meeting of the American Jockey Ciub will open at Jerome Park. The number of horses to run is larger than ever before, so that we may expect a series of races which will make the meeting unusually bril- liant and exciting. Jerome Park has become so popular with all respectable classes who take interest in the turf that itis certain the attend- ance will be numerous and that the fashion of the metropolis will throng to the scene of racing. Four races will be run to-day, one of which—the Belmont Stakes—will be contested for by a field of three-year-olds, the equals of which have scarcely been brought together on the American turf before. This race wiil greatly resemble some of the contests of the English Derby. It has excited considerable interest throughout the country, the competing colts representing all sections of the republic; hence its result, upon which a large amount of money has been staked, will be awaited to-day with much anxiety. Another notable and popular feature of the day's meeting will be the steeple chase—a kind of race which within the past few years has become a favorite with our people. There are two other races in addition to those specially referred to, and the four, taken altogether, will comprise a day's entertainment for the public which promises tobe memorable in the annals of American racing. Homiowe at Sea.—On the 18th of last month the ship Dexter, bound for this port from Leghorn, was the scene of a fearful tragedy. On the evening of that day a sea- man, named McGee, of Boston, quarrelled with a shipmate named Haywood, of Ohio, and made a murderous attack upon him with an iron belaying pin. Haywood, to defend himself, drew his sheathknife, with which he cut McGee in the bowels so severely that he died in a few minutes, The Dexter arrived at Quarantine on Thursday night, and yester- day Haywood was arrested and taken before United States Commissioner Shields, who adjourned the hearing of the case until to-day. The Approaching Presidential Contest Where ts the Man for the Democracy ¢ With the peremptory declination of General Sherman to be the Presidential candidate of either party, and his positive announcement that he would refuse to serve if unanimously elected, the question recurs, Where is the man for the democracy in 1872? Mr. Vallandig- ham, of Ohio, has advanced the party to the acceptance of the situation—to the recognition of the ‘‘fixed facts” of the war, as embodied in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments of the constitution, including the aboli- tion of slavery, equal civil rights to citizens of all races and colors and negro suffrage. This is, indeed, a new departure on a new demo- cratic platform, and it calls for a new Presi- dential candidate; or, to change the figure, it must be remembered that over eighteen hundred years ago it was laid down as a rule, in the Land of Israel, that new wine, which has to undergo the process of fermentation, must not be put into old worn out goatskin or sheepskin bottles, which will burst from the pressure of the gas, but that new wine must be put into new bottles, which will stand the strain of fermentation. Those old democratic Presidential bottles of 1864 and 1868, then, will not do for the new wine from the democratic winepress of Val- landigham ; for this new wine in any of those old bottles will generate an amount of gas that will surely result in an explosion. Among the candidates for the demo- cratic Presidential nomination of 1868, on the resolution that all the reconstruction measures of Congress ‘‘are unconstitu- tional, revolutionary, null and void,” were Chief Justice Chase, Pendleton, of Ohio; Hendricks, of Indiana, and General Hancock, of Pennsylvania. It is perhaps fair to pre- sume that if any one of these gentlemen had been nominated he would have done as Gov- ernor Seymour did—that is, after declining two or three times he would have accepted the nomination with the platform. In 1864 Gen- eral McClellan tried to separate his nomina- tion from the platform—‘‘that the war for the Union is a failure’—but he could not do it. His platform stuck to his back like the ‘‘Old Man of the Sea,” and it laid him out, as the platform of 1868 laid out Seymour. If, then, it will not do to mix up the demo- cratic principles or candidates of 1864 or ’68 with this new departure for 1872, Messrs. Chase, Pendleton and Hendricks, to a cer- tainty, must goon the retired list with Mc- Clellan, Seymour and Blair. General Han- cock may plead an alibi in reference to the Tammany convention resolutions of 1868; but still his identification with that convention is close enough to damage him. Suppose, then, the democrats were to take up some such re- publican on this new departure as General Logan or Senator Trumbull, of Illinois; or Gratz Brown, of Missouri; or ex-Governor Cox, of Ohio; or Senator Fenton, of New York—how would that do? We fear that the regular old dyed-in-the-wool Bourbons would regard such an expedient as an insult to them- selves and as an outrage upon democratic principles, and that so they would let the election go by default. No, this would not do. The republican medicine on the ‘‘nigger” question is as much as your old line, copper- bottomed democrat can take at one sitting. He will say that if with the nigger platform we must take a radical for our candidate we might as well take General Grant as any of the rest of them, and proclaim the democratic party dissolved and disband ed. What democrat, then, will serve to run on this new democratic departure? We think it brings out Governor Hoffman into pretty bold relief as the Tammany candidate. His skirts are clear of the Tammany convention resolu- tions of 1868, and he and Tammany Hall are ahead of Vallandizham, and ahead even of John Quincy Adams on this new departure. He will be a new bottle for the new wine of these new amendments, and strong enough to withstand the pressure of the gas . without much ‘danger of an explosion from the fermen- tation, Certainly, if in this new departure of Vallandigham it was his design, first, to head off his friend Pendleton, and, next, to advance the chances of Hoffman, the device was well contrived. We say well contrived, because while the call to toe the mark of these three new amendments somewhat demoralizes ‘the red-hot democracy” of the West, it brings the New York democrats and their candidate to the front, for they are all right 8n this change of base. Mr. Vallandigham, then, who more than any other man was instrumental in securing for New York the democratic standard bearer of 1868, will, perhaps, prove as effective in making a New Yorker the party candidate in 1872. Manifestly, with this change of front in the West, Tammany Hall is_ master of the democratic situation, and Hoffman is her man, Tue German Army IN France.—One of our despatches this morning has it that the German troops in France have begun their homeward march. Without explanation this announcement is liable to deceive. What is the actual state of the case? The final treaty pro- vides that within thirty days after the capture of Paris by the troops of the Versailles govern- ment France shall pay to Germany one hun- dred million dollars and Germany shall evacu- ate Normandy. By the Ist of May, 1872, two hundred and forty million dollars more must be paid, and Germany, if satisfied that order exists in France, will retire to Champagne. In May, 1874, the remainder of the money must bo paid, and Germany wiil evacuate the remain- der of France, Alsace and Lorraine, of course, excepted. It is manifest, therefore, that the report of this morning is to be understood in a qualified sense. Tux Czar AND THe SutTaN.—The Eastern question seems to be dead, The Sultan has sent to the Czar the Imperial Order of the Osmanlis, The Order was instituted in 1861, and is conferred only on sovereigns and diplo- mats of the first water. The Czar admits that the London Conference has removed all causes of irritation and that nothing can disturb the entente cordiale. What more can we ask to be satisfied that we have reached a new point of departure in the history of the nations of Europe? Great Britain and the United States agreed, Russia and Turkey agreed, Russia and Germany and Great Britain and the United States on the best of terms, surely we must have peace, genuine and enduring. WASHINGTON. More Dishonesty Among Gov- ernment Officials. Thirty-five Thousand Dollars Embezzled by the Post Office Disbursing Agent, Rapid Decrease of Internal Revenue. WASHINGTON, June 9, 1871. Embezzlement of Public Funde—The Disburs- ing Officer of the Post Office Department a Defaulter. It was announced this morning that F. A. Ma- cartney, who was widely known and much esteemed, had lost his reason and had been conveyed to an insane asylum for treatment. Later in the day new excitement was ereated by the report that much Confusion had been discovered in his accounts as Disbursing OfMicer of the Post Office Department. Postmaster General Creswell was first informed of this state of accounts on Friday last, and imme- diately commenced an investigation of the matter, and a:though he has hot yet ascertained the exact amount due the government, it is thought the deficit ‘Will not vary from $30,000. Macartney, on being interrogated by the Postmaster General, acknow- ledged the deficit, saying it was caused by blending public and private business and by speculations in water power and a marble quarry at and above Harper’s Ferry. Macartney told the Postmaster General that he did not know the precise amount he had invested in these enterprises, but he assigned the amount, whatever it may be, with nis other effects, to the sureties on nis bonds. 1n the Department of Justice, which 1s investigating the subject, it is the opinion that the government wilt not lose a cent. Macartney is a man of education and culture, a good writer, and successfully filled editorial positions on several Washington papers. in 1869 he was appointed disbursing officer of the Post Office Department by Mr. Creswell, who had unbounded confidence in hisintegrity. For a year or two Macartney has been in very bad health, suf fering from consumption. He has only lately realized that he must dic with that disease. His wife, also, is in bad health, and this, with his own con- tinued fllness, greatly impaired his mental faculties. The fact is recalled that E. B. Olmsted, Macart- ney’s immediate predecessor, as disbursing agent, was discovered to be a defaulter to the amount of $65,000, His lapse appeared to result from aberra- tion of the mind, produced, it was stated, by the ex- cessive use of opium, Decrease of Internal Revenue. Acomparative statement of the receipts from the several general sources of revenue taxable under existing laws for the first ten months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, shows that for 1870 the amount coliected was $135,186,619, and for 1871, $117,685,481. Protection of Inland Fisheries. Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian Institute, an- pointed by the President as Commissioner to carry into effect the law for the protection and preserva- tion of food fishes of the United States, will visit the Atlantic coast and Western lakes and rivers during the present season. He 13 to report to Con- gress at the next session as to what protecting measures shall be adopted to best secure the differ- ent fisheries in various parts of the United States. The Liquor Traffic of the United States. The returns Of the assessors throughout the coun- try to May 1, 1871, show the spirits in the United States as follows:—Foreign and domestic spirits of all kinds out of bond, 31,700,721 gallons; domestic spirits in bona, 6,649,846 gallons; foreign spirits in customs warehouses, 1,291,454 gallons; total, 39,641,720 gallons, Twenty-nine of the least im- portant districts are yet to be heard from. The amount of distilled spirits in the country November 15, 1870, was 45,637,993 gallons, from which it will be seen there was an increase of 5,996,274 gallons of spirits in the country on the Ist of May last as compared with the number of gallons in the country at the same period fa 1870. Captain Halls Arctic Expedition. Captain Hall and his officers were in consultation to-day with the Secretary of the Navy, who is pre~ paring the salling instructions, The Polarts will leave Washington to-morrow for New York, and thence, about the 25th of June, for the North Pole. Water Gauges in the Mississippi Valley. The War Department, having ‘perfected a system of weather reports, which have proved so valuable to commerce, has now under consideration the estab- lishment of a serles of water gauges on the Mississippt river and its tributaries, at which observations will be made and reported, on the same plan as the meteo- rological reports, to give information required for the protection of the alluvial lands against overflow. Gauges will be established at Louisville, on the Onto; near St. Louis, Cairo, Rock Island, Memphis, Helena, Vicksburg, Red River Landing, Baton Rouge and Carrolton, on the Mise sissippi, between the mouth of the Missourl and Gulf of Mexico; at Fort Leavenworth, on the Mis- sourl; Florence, on the Tennessee; Jacksonport, on the White river; Little Rock, on the Arkansas, and Alexandria, on the Red river. Incrense of Trade at Duluth. The increase of trade at Duluth, now a port of delivery, with a surveyor of customs, reqnires the appointment of a deputy collector. The Secretary of the Treasury has now under consideration the rules and regulations to govern the entries and ship- ments from that port, and will appoint a deputy col- lector ina few days. At the next session of Uon- gress the port of entry will be changed from Mar+ quette to Duluth. Reduction of the Mail Schedulo Time Between New York ana New Orleans. By an order of the Postmaster General, just issued, the ‘great mails between New York, Wash- ington and New Orleans, heretofore transmitted via Chattanooga, Tenn.; Grand Junction, Tenn., and Canton, Miss., are to be changed from this date to the route of the Alabama and Chattanooga Rail- road, running by an air line from Chattanooga to Meridian, Miss,; thence over the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to Mobile, and thence over the New Or{ leans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, reaching New Orleans twelve hours sooner than by the former route, Personal Intelligences. “Captain D. Michayloff, of the Russian Navy, arrived yesterday at the Astor House. General H. T. Reid, of Keokuk, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas. General Pierce M. B. Young, Congressman from Georgia, yesterday arrived at the Grand Central, Colone: 8. W. Jonnston, of Washington, ts stop- ping at the Fifth Avenue. Ex-Governor Bowle, of Maryland, is residing ,at the New York. ‘The Hon. Francis Lawley, of London, 1s domt- clled at the Clarendon Hotel. Judge T. W. Bartley, of Washington, is at the St. Nicholas. Captain Edward H. Totten, of West Point, is quar- tered at the Hoffman House. General I. Vogdes, of the United States Army, is at the Astor House, Captain Van Ness, of the United Staces Army, Is at the Hoffman House. General F. W. Callander, of the Seventy-eighth Highlanders, stationed at Halifax, has quarters at the New York. Faward Page, of New Orleans, 1s sojourning at the Fifth Avenue. Captain John Faunce, of the Unitea States Army, 1s stopping at the Astor House. Miss Nilsson yesterday returned to the Clarendon Hotel. W. K. Hickerman, of Tennessee, is registered a, the Grand Central. Coffnel J.-B. Carey, of Virginia, is at the Astor House. Colonel M, Lewis, President of Ane Littie Rock and New Orleans Railroad. ta dginicited at the Bty Atoholaa.