The New York Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or pews letier and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Nuw Yor Hera. Volume XXXVI AMUSEMERTS THis AFTEANQIN AND EVENING. WALLACK'S TIIEATRE, Broadway and 13th street, — Tur Lone Sraixy. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broatway.-Tut Daawa or Trt COLLEEN Bawn. Matinee at i. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Doth ct, Perform: ‘ances alternoon and even'ug—PHROUGH BY DaYLigHY, BOWERY THEATRE, Po —NICK OF THE Woops — THE GUNMAKERK OF Mosoo: 0. GLOBE THEATRE, 72 Broadway. Tue Ti. , LEAVE Man. Matinee at 2. ae aie im cra FIFTA AVENUK TURATRE, Twenty-fourth street. — DELMONIOO'S. Matinee at 1 OLYMPIC THEATRE. Krowtway.—UNDEX TWO FLAGS; on, Troppgn Down, Matinee utd, aiuioray: TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Tuk FLYING DuTCAMAN—SaaNDY MAGUIRE, Matince. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOTSK, 831 at, berweon eth ane 7th avs.—ILi-TREATRD IL TROVATORE. Matinee at 2, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN,—Tugonors Thomas’ Suman Nicats’ Coxosnrs. TERRACE GARDEN, 58th streot, between Lextngton and 8d ava.—Afternoon and kvening—JULIEN'S CONORETS. _DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SCLENCE a: RT. New York, mturday, Jay S, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. PAGE. SRA 1—Advertisements, 2— Advertisements. 3— Advertisements. 4—Edtioriais: Leading Article, “France—The Hour- bons and the Republic’—News frum Wash- ington—Music and the Drama—Amusement Aunouncements, 5—The Bourbon vrogramme: Count de Chambourg Calling on the People to Rally to His Standard — The Situation im France—News trom England, Spain, Germany, Central and South Ameri Cuba and the \.est Indies—Lafia’s Trounie Fortncoming Trial of the Naval Odlcer for Jeged Perjury—ihe Army and Navy of the Gulf: Gathering of Sheriaan's and Farragut’s Men at New port—te ak Intelligence—Yache Use, 7 Business Notices, 6—The Birmingham torgia: Excitement in the Vil- lage of the “uty bam"—A Forest Tabernacie: Saunterinzs in the Round Lake Camp Meet- jug—ocking Mormonism—The Crops—Uister Couniy Horrors: A Young Mother Poisons Her Child; A Man’s Head Crushed In by a Club abd Stones—Large Fire in Tairty-fourth ‘opular Educat.on—Corporation Con- Horse Plazue—P1 ly Another Colambia County Cowa'd—Found Accident to Congressman Morreil, jombs Poltce Courc—Buekhout’s 3 Results—Finaucial and Com- ris—Marriages and Deaths—Ad- ch Races—The Indian Report — sitscellancous — Telear News —shippiug —_ Intelligence — Adyer ments. A Porvrar InsvirvtiIon—The evening for music appointed in each of our little city parks. Thanks to the good sense and taste of our popular Park Commissioners. Gerwerat Hancock appears to be the favor- ite among the Southern democratic journals for the next Presidency ; but Chase and Han- cock are the ticket for the democracy North and South. Tnz Famver or me New Loan.—The failure of the new loan has taken no one by eurprise. Tho whole scheme was ill-digested, and was forced through Congress last winter by ihe herdest work oa the part of Mr, Boutwell. Tue New Disease among the horses seema to be spre venue Railroad Company j—sen fatal. Where is Let the horse railway companies jointiy offer a high premii for a, sremedy, and doubtless the specific will soon be found. Gunerat. NEWTON iS Preparine a “stunner” of an explosion at Heil Gate. He intends to charge all Halicit's Rock with nitro-glycerine and giant powder, and tuen by electricity set it off. The resalt wiil be a bigger firecracker than any Fourth of July has ever scen. Hal- lett’s Rock will bo scattered all about Hast River, the bars and bolts of Heil Gate will bo shattered and a new route to the sea will be opened, What the result of the explosion may be in the far future is a question already bewildering New York. Work Upon vue New Piers in Brooklyn has been commenced simultaneously with work upon our own, Any improvement about East River must necessarily include improve- ments for both New York and Brooklyv, and it is a good sign of the energy of our pleasant suburb that it tukes steps at once to keep pace with us In tho great and important matter of new piers. Sailing vessels comprise all the shipping of Brooklya at present, but sbe com- prehends fully that except for pleasure yachts the days ot\the sailing craft have nearly gone by, and is preparing her piers for steamers, our European cable despatches that the Pope has written to M. Thiers stating that he will remain in Rome. This is sensible. Rome is the proper place for his Holiness. He will learn in time that it is useless kicking against modern progress and the political changes of the age. In time, too, he will see that the temporal power of the Papacy is not neces- sary to maintain bis epiritual influence over the Christian world. He will be relieved of worldly cares by giving up civil government, * and will become more useful in consequence. ” Let bim stick to the Eternal City as o epiritual } obief, and St. Peter, St. Paul and all the © other old apostolic saints will smile upon him ] from their heavenly abode for hia wise deci- p sion. SEEMS Tue Saexman Murper Terar in Connec- Yj ticut has been postponed until Monday. The — evidence given yesterday contained some fur- Vther damaging statements against the prisoner, $iand at least one fact very damaging to the ==Sheriff who arrested her. It seems that acute individual attempted a cross-examination of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1871 France=The SBourdens and the Republic. The situation in France becomes every day more interesting, It begins to appear that France, stupefied by Sedan, disgraced by the surrender of Paris, maddened by the wicked- ness of the Commune, is recovering self-pos- session. If not yet exactly herself again, she is doing so well in the circumstances that we are inspired with hope, if not with confideace. The success of the loan and the result of the supplementary elections, viewed in connection with the cautions advice of M. Guizot, the cunning speeches of M. Thiers, the inac‘ion of the imperialists and the submission to the will of France of the princes of the House of Ox- loans, juatify the verdict that. France has reached a fresh crisis and found a possible new departure. The evidence is not yet com- plete; but, so fur as it goes, it does seem to favor the cause of the republic. The latest news of any consequence is fur- nished in a special cable despatch io the Hrratp of this morning. The Count de Chambord, we are told, now at Chateau Cham- bord, in France, is at cross purposes with the Orleans princes and refuses to see them until he has found out the sentiments of the French people. It is added that in imitation of the Strasbourg programme of Louis Napoleon he intends to issue a proclamation calling upon France to rally around the throne—Bour- bonism and divine rigit. The only thing which the Count deo Chambord dreads is the interferenco of the authorities. It is evident from this that the Count and his friends are not quite satisied with things as they are, We had been taught to believe that there was a fasion of the interests of the two families, and that, in consideration of certain concessions made by the legitimist chief, the Coun: de Paris, with the consent of his uncles and cousins, had waived his immediate claims, conseating to the succession of the Count de Chambord, on the ground that, a3 the legitimist chief was childless, he himself or his heirs would suc- ceed to all the claims of all the Bourbons, younger and older. This compact, for some reason or other, seems to be broken. The Prince de Joinville has declared his adherence to the republic, and now we learn that De Chambord, sick of the tricks of his cousins, dissatisfied with the policy of M. Thiers and the Assembly, and impatient of delay, has resolved to test at once the sentiment of France. Another despatch gives a somewhat different version of the matter. According to it the Bourbon Pretender has already issued a proclamation announcing that he was about to leave France, and would bide his time until Frenchmen, actuated by a desire for liberty and universal suffrage, would call him to the throne of France. The Prince de Joinville a member of the National Assembly, the Count do Chambord as Henry the Fifth, King of France by right divine, appealing directly to France ; Napoleon, by the urgent advice of his friends, in Geneva; M. Thiers opposed to the restora- tion of the empire, but pronouncing in favor neither of the monarchy nor of the republic and only encouraging delay—behold a situation complicated, embarrassing, unpromising in the extreme! In ordinary corcumstances this state of things might be tolerable and even interesting to the French people, who always keenly enjoy political excitement. But France is in a peculiar condition, She bas jast found peace after most ruiious war | with a foreign foe, and after a most dangerous and destructive civil insurrection. Part of her territory has been permanently lost. The invader, living at her expense, is still upon her soil, Hor trade is crippled; her industry is paralyzed. While ber.territory has been narrowed and he: resources immediately and prospectively dimiuished, her debt has reached @ point which it is absolutely frightful to con- template; and to Germany alone she has to pay before March, 1874, the sum of two hun- dred million pounds sterling, or ten hundred million dollars. In such circumstances France certainly cannot afford to be torn asunder by political parties—to be distracted by dynastic and republican qnarrels. If ever any country for the mero sake of self-preserva- tion needed peace, that nation is France. War, foreign or civil, must reduce her to the condition of a eecond Poland and make her the prey of her neigh bors. It is a most interesting question, bat one which it is most difficult to answer: In what shape and under what form of government is France to settle down to such peaceful and economical habits as shall give her prosperity and pave the way for her restoration to her once proud posiiion among the nations ofthe world? For the present the chances of the Bonapartes and the empire are so small that we can afford to set the Bonapartes and the empire entirely aside. The question is whether France is about to lapse back into monarchy—-a monarchy, let it be added, which has learned nothing, which has sbandoned no- thing since the Middle Ages. The restoration of the grandson of Charles the Tenth means the restoration of divine right, the govera- ment of the people by soldiers and priests, the wiping out of everything which indicates pro- gress, and a war against Italy for ihe restora- tion of the temporal power of the Pope. Back to the days of Louls the Fourteenth, of Mi- varin and Richelieu, or, rather, back to the times of Hildebrand—behold what means the restora- tion of Henry the Fifth! We do not conceal from ourselves the possibility of the restora- tion of monarchy in a milder form. Henry the Fifth may refuse to compromise his dig- nity and France may refuse to concede the claims of divine right, A more supple and obedient sovereign may be found in the person of the Count de Paris or some other member of the House of Orleans, But in any case monarchy means reaction—the abandonment by the people of their own cause or thoir be- trayal by too mach trusted leaders. The his- tory of monarchy, all the world over, has been the history of ignorance duped, of his usurped, of successful filibustering, of might mercilessly put forth for selfish pur- the accused on his own hook as soon ay he Pw her in custody, and made misrepresenta- “tions enough to her to confuse the most inno- Assent or guilty prisoner in the world, and yea- vomerday he put forward these admissions as ‘vidence. We believe it is considered allow- P Sem in law to entrap prisoners into admissions | een this way, but certainly if the woman is guilty here are enough meana of proving it'wilhout Suarizhtening her by the terror of ber position od of his authority into condemning herself slore she can obtain the aid of counsel, | posea. The Israclites desired a king, anda | king was given them; but with the king came | the seeds of national decay and the frown of | Heaven, The Athenian democracy was long | the hope of Greece; but ihe hope of Greece was destroyed by Philip of Macedon, and Greece herseit woe ruined by the conquesis of | the Great Alexander. The history of Rome is repetition of the eame gad etory. Suc- cessful Cusarism desiroyed the Roman repub- | lic: but grand ws was the namo of the Roman empire, it was at best buta 1ong-protracted decline, Tho great Powers of the Middle Ages cannot be considered as cases in point. But the old story was repeated, and repeated most emphatically in the career of France from 1789 to the fall of Napoleoa in 1814, In our own day it has been repeated with the same people and in conncction with the same name from 1848 to 1870. Republican institu- tions have done mighty thinzs for us; but directly the Cwsar is accepted by this people that moment will mark the commencement of our national decay. With a fall knowledge of the great lessons of the past, with her own sad national experience, with our bright example before us, why should France go back? Why should she stifle her owa nobler instincts and again, as in 1806, in 1830, in 1848, abandon what she has nobly won? As we have said already, it {s difficult to speak with confidence of the immediate future of France, What ought to be we know—what will be we can only guess. At the present moment France is virtually s republic; but the present government is only provisional. Sooneror later the Assembly must consider and decide whether France is io become a monarchy or to assume the charactor of a re- public, If the Assembly decides in favor of the resteration of monarchy, as it is evident M. Guizot thinks it ought to do, and as M. Thiers evidently fears it may do, France, as we bave sald, will go back—ack upon herself and back to all the follies of Medievalism. If the Assembly decides in favor of the perpetu- ation of the republic France will find herself at once fairly in the current of modern pro- gress; and we hesitate not to say that within fen years she will have regained not only much of what she has lost, but will have be- come the envy of the nations, France, happy and prosperous under the republican banner, Italy, Spain and Portugal, would all rally around her; Austria would find herself impo- tent to resist the popular tide; Berlin Jonker- ism would tremble in its boots, and even the Rassian Czar might find it convenient to per- manently quit the banks of the Neva. Weare sorry that M. Thiers, who has so much power in his hands, is not a little more pronounced. It is only a few days since he reminded the Assembly of what he had said many years ago:—‘Tf you will not cross the channel with us you must cross the Atlantic.” We advise him to abandon all ideas of monarchy, to look across the Atlantic, and to imitate the great réle of George Washington. By so doing be, too, will become the father of his country, The Reorgunization othe French Army. As an evidence of the recuperative powers of France we learn by telegraph to-day the reorganization of the army iscompleted. The effective strength is three hundred and twenty thousand men. This is a good exhibit for the young republic to be able to make. From the débris of the shattered forces of the empire republican France has collected the fragments and moulded them into a force of no mean power. Before the empire passed away the military force of France needed reorganiza- tion. Had the advice of Generals Trochu, Faidherbe, Chanzy and other generals been taken at the time they were offered the crush- ing defeats which have since overtaken the nation when brought into conflict with Ger- many won'd not have befallen it. In the end, however, it may prove all for the best. If the imperial defeats are indirectly the means by which France 1s {o secure a wise, liberal and democratic form of government, then all the in juries the country has sustained by the loss of valuable lives, the destruction of property, and the surrender of a portion of territory will not have been without good effect. But after all there is something more needed than mili- tary reorganization. The French people have inthe matter of the French loan shown their determination and ability toraise their country from the humbler position to which she has fallen to a condition of prosperity. The culti- vation of friendly relations with other nations, the development of internal resources, the encouragement of usefal arts, the promotion of industry and the general improvement of the people—these, rather than the reorganiza- tion of her armies, will secure to France the peace she needs and the prosperity she de- sires. This now is the duty to which French statesmen should bend their thoughts, in order that republican France under such 9 policy would not only equal but eclipse the most briiliant and prosperous days of the past, when the nation was under monarchical or imperial sway. Tur Trtan oy Navar Orricer Lariiy is to commence at Herkimer, N. Y., on a charge of perjury, which appears to have no betier foundation than a very natural confusion of statement about a matter of which it is hardly probable any man would feel interested enough to retain a very clear memory of details, The Naval Oflicer appears to haye stated that a certain bond had not left his possession during a certain period, when, on the other hand, another gentleman claims to have had the bond in his own possession at least for a time during that period. As the Naval Officer, however, certainly had ‘the bond back again as good as ever, and nobody is the worse for its temporary change of hands, the whole prosecution looks like a case of tweedledoum and tweedledee. It would have looked less like trifling if the thrifty gentlemen of Herkimer had prosecuted Mr, Laflin for his unparalleled oversight in mailing the bond in mistake for a campaign docu- ment, Heavy Tuuxpge Storms and destructive freshets are reported In England, involving serious losses on the flooded rivers, and it is said that many churches were set on fire by the lightning and destroyed, and that a num- ber of lives were lost. From the violent storms in Great Britain of the last two or three years, winter and summer, it would appear that the climate of that island is undergoing a geeat change, and that the island, from yoar to year, is becoming more and more subject to severe droughts and deatractive storms than it has ever known heretofore; but what it all means our Sigal Service Bureau can perhaps inform us, We think it is apparent that the same goneral influences which mark the sea. sons in our Norihern Siaies exteud io the British islands, aud we dare say the same in- fluences extend around the northern temper- ate zone of the globe; but what is the mean- ing of these great changes in our seasons is What we should like to know. The West Point Academy and the Board of Visitors. The question as to what ought to be done and what ought not to bo done to make West Point what it ought to be bas given many people a great deal of needless trouble of late. There is no denying the fact that there are some defecis in the system of edu- cation and discipline of the Academy which could by proper care and tact on the part of the authorities ba corrected ; but we are of the opinion that the institution is still sound at the core, and stands in no need whatever of what some affeot to call a ‘social revolution.” West Point must naturally be in some respects an unpopular institution. The people of this country look with little favor upon any system which, at first blush, seems to foster an exclu- sive aristocracy based on the military idea, and it is not to be wondered at, therefore, that among the ignorant classes of the community, who move in no direction but when impelled by prejudice, there should exist a constantly growing opposition to tho Military Academy, Bat West Point has made a brilliant record for itself, and the people who support it are quite willing, we believe, to put up with its little weaknesses for the sake of the great good It has done the nation in times past and the great good which it is yet capa- ble of doing. Still there is a very decided opposition, even among old army officers, as to the way the Academy should be conducted and its discipline maintained, The Board of Visitors, who did so much prowling about the post last month, we know were fully alive to the necessities of the hour, and they, too, have had their fling and say about how this, that and the other thing should be cor- rected, modified or abolished altogether, and this in their report, which has been scat- tered all over the country for the edification of the general public. Now, we happen to know that the reports of boards of visitors in former years have never amounted to much, and while we are pleased to find that the late Board has been so original as to suggest and advise changes in certain things which they deemed not beneficial to the institu- tion, we are uot quite ready to believe that they have not, in their over-z:al to make a “new departure” from the beaten paths of their predecessors, advised changes that ought not to be made. Some time ago certain old fogy rules, prescribing whea a cadet should look pious and when he was at liberty to look quite otherwise (in the dark), how many eggs he was entitled to on Easter Sunday and how he should look upon the smoko ofa cigarin acadei’s mouth as the quintes- sence of all that leads to ruin and loss of repu- tation, were abrogated. Since that time cigars have had a ready sale in the corps, and yet, pre- dictions to the contrary notwithstanding, no horrible murder or aught that could be con- sidered a crime has been the consequence. This suroke business the Board of Visitors had intended this year to smother by their report, but they evidently for some good reason or other changed their minds before they had made themselves completely ridiculous. The freedom with which the cadets are now allowed to visit the hotels and walk about the “plains” with their friends seems to have been a perfect nightmare to the Board. Had they made up their minds to it, the official visitors could have given Congress a great many valu- able suggestions, which they have not given, and we did hope that they would have had better sense than to atvocate, as they do, a return to the old fogy ideas of twenty-five years ago, which made West Point an actual penitentiary for the students who had ill- starred influence enough to get sent there, The idea of making a solitary hermit of 9 cadet has been tried too often to be tried again. It is impracticable in the first place, and even if practicable would be an absurdity in these days of common sense, when even a military student is supposed to be as much of human being as the majority of men. What the Board should have done was to have taken into consideration the absolute wants of the Academy solely. First and foremost they should have recommended that the standard of admis- sion for a new cadet should be raised, for it is now ridiculously low. Then tho colored cadet question might have received a little attention, for it deserves it, If they saw any way by which a recurrence of the present troubles on this point could be done away with in the future they should not have hesitated to give their opinion frankly as to what waa best to be done. Congress will doubtless in due time give the subject all tie consideration it deserves, particularly if it finds that the efficiency of the corps is impaired by the new innovation. Colored cadets have certainly the right to go to West Point; but how far the white boys can be compelled to associate with them is a question which ought to have given the Board matter for serious thought, It might also have mado an_ interesting chapter about the way politics have been allowed to creep into the institu. tion, The fact 1s that since the war poli- tics and the influence of politicians have done much, very much, to injure the morale of the cadets by their unwarranted interfer- ence in the affairs of the Academy. Why not, then, have suggested that the cliqnes who have songht during past years to rule the roast on the Point, to the utter exclusion of even the proper authorities, should hereafter be discountenanced, their wirepullings frowned down and their open manceuvring declared a danger to the welfare of the institution ? Everybody interested in West Point may not know it, but it is a fact, nevertheless, that New York fs not the only place where ‘‘rings” are powerful, and West Point of late has felt it to her sorrow. We think the Board could have done a great deal of good to the Academy by calling the attention of Congress to the really serious abuses which exist either in the system itself or the way it is carried out, To have made their suggestions of weight it would not have been necessary to go into details about trivial grievances which affect but a few soreheads. However, taken all in all, the report of the late Board shows that the mombers meant well while they were at West Point looking into the working of the institu- tion, and as it is a very great improvement on previous reports of the kind, inasmuch as it dares to criticise what looks faulty, people who expected more from it must needs bo thankful, A Gay Time at Lone Brancu,—The Amer- cus Club have gone down, and their coat of arma is the roval strived Rengal tiger, Demoralization on Broadway. Our great city thoroughfare, although archi- tecturally improving daily, and still a marvel and beauty to the wondering eyes of our visit- ors from the country, is rapidly sinking in point of gentility to the level of some of the most disreputable byways of the city. We do not refer to the display of gaudily-dressed statues or bejewelled dames of pleasure upon the promenade of afternoons, for then the glare of daylight and, perhaps, some ever-pre- sent vestiges of modesty throw a slight re- straint over their conduct, and Broadway in daylight is frequented by a cosmopolitan throng, in which good and bad, virtuous and evil, aro so promiscuously mixed that the baser quality is not prominently or inde- corously displayed. In the light of day sin seeks usually to hide itself behind even the thinnest veil of virtue or obscurity, and the sin on Broadway is not anomalous in this re- spect. But quite recently the great thoroughfare has become the resort, after nightfall, of the abandoned classes of the geutier and frailer sex, and from the firat hours of darkness until early dawa its sidewalks are lined with ‘‘scar- let” women plying their vocation, From Twenty-seventh street dowa to Canal tho casual promenader mects these women, some in groups of two or three, others alone, repre- senting all the grades of their vicious calling, from the bedecked queens of the pave, in their silks and jewelry, down to the wretched, thin- faced hangers-on of guilt, all as gaudily and suggestively dressed as their means will permit, leisurely threading their way, unmindful of the garish gaslights or the droning policemen, eye- ing the men as they go along and saluting them as boldly as if they were in their own special domain of Greene strect. The side streets emply these throngs into the main channel of Broadway at every block, and the mass never diminishes until the early hours of the new day. Then, at about two o'clock, the basement dens called concert saloous pour forth their floods of incarnate vice upon the almost quiet street and the miserable caraival begins again. It is an exceedingly unpleasant thing for a gentleman and lady to venture along the thoroughfare during these hours, They see and hear things that are enough to make the gentleman blush before his com- panion, and to make her sink to the earth in very shame for the shameless of her own sex. Indeed, it is seldom tiat respectable knowing ones venture upon euch an experi- ment. The pleasant promenadeyrs, the little family parties that used to delight to look at Broadway in the evening, have been frightened off, The indecency of the ‘‘Mabille” and the coarseness of the ‘‘Alhambra” have been transferred to it, and our own great thorough- fare seems likely to become an open air brothel, excelling in infamy the Boulevards or the Haymarket. The remedy for all this isin the hands of the police. If the sociul ulcer cannot be eradicated let it at least be filmed over, so that its offensiveness may not be brought any more prominently than possible beforo the moral senses of the community. Only a few months ago it was the custom of the policemen to turn these unfortunates back into the side streets whence they emerged to invade Broad- way, and thus in some degree their offensive trade was confined to regions of ill repute just out of Broadway. But the police do not faterfere with them now. Indeed, in many instances they seem rather to affiliate with them. Qoly the other evening an officer was seen strolling along by the side of two of these gaudy dames, chatting glecfully with them and passing playful badinage of the kind pecoliar to such people, helping them over the boarded portion of the sidewalk and occa- sionally leaving their side for a moment to “try” the closed doors on his beat. Steps should be immediately taken by Superintendent Kelso to clear Broadway of the ill repute that threatens to attach to it by these unseemly displays. Nothinz will ruin the reputation of our city 80 mut as flaring vice upon our principal thoroughfare, and nothing will so surely drive the honest and decorous portion of our people to discredit the honesty and decency of the city or the city government as to have the most revolting phase of sin thus flaunted in their faces in tho very presence of the city guardians and in the glaring lights of the city’s main promenade, Tom Murpny is credited with having had the President suppress the pardon of Bowen, which had been promised to the devoted wife of the unlucky carpet-bagger, and for which the poor woman has waited with a gradually sinking heart at the State Department in Washington for more than a week, Tom is said to have remarked to another gentleman relative tothe matter:—‘‘We have decided not to pardon Bowen. It would not be expe- dient.” IfTom has become a power behiad the throne at last we warn him that he is not serv- ing the power upon the throne very kindly or well when he makes him ridiculous by with- drawing one day what he has done the day before. It is better and more expedient that Bowen be pardoned than that the President’s word, once given, should be departed from. Tax Repvsri1oan Conaresstonat Comit- TEE, it appears, aro actively engaged in the distribution of electioneering documents, in- cluding certain Senatorial speeches in favor of the annexation of St. Domingo, It is proba- ble, therefore, that St. Domingo will come up again in full feather in the Presidential canvass on another ‘new departure,” MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Matinée performances will be given to-day at tho following theatres:—Wallack’s, “Long Strike;’’ Fifth Avenue, “Delmonico’s;’ Olympic, “Under Two Flags;’ Niblo’s, “Golleen Bawn;” Bryant's, Hall Burlesque Troupe; Tony Pastor's, Fanny Herring; Wooa's, “Through by Daylight.” Mr. W. He Pope. the celebrated reader, takes a benefit at Irving Hallon Monday, on which occasion pe Will be asststea by Mr. Gus Philligfs (Qoity Gooft), Miss Proudtoot, Miss Ritzmer, Miss Adelaide Mau- zocchi and Meadra, Ritzmer and Thompson, ‘We ave informed that Mr. ergfeld, formerly with Bateman’s musical troupes, has been engaged by Mr. Rullman as business manager of the Vienua Lady Orchestra, “Ootty Goolt? (Mr. Philips) will make his début on the dramatic stage this fallin a play specially written for him, NAVAL iENCE, The United States or Rausis arrived at Portsmoath, N. H., yesterday morning, and will re- main in qnarantine. Lieutenant Fietcher ts detached from the Idano and placed on wailing orders, First stant Enginesr Lant and Second rrnanta ant Engineer Schober are detached from the Resac Aud idved OD Wutuad Yidoriy WASHINGTON. A New Fenture in the Bowen Casc—Tom Murphy Running the Administratioa, Annoyances of the Passport Sys- fem in Franee, The New Loan—Mr. Richardson's Se~ ported Success Disoredited. WASHINGTON, July 7, 1871. The Presidenvs Wovements. The President ts expected to reach Washingtom on Monday evening next and return to Long Branch on Tuesday night, Hewill soon thereafter visit Ohio and other parts of the West, and on the 15th of August proceed to California, Dr. Norris, o€ the army, will, wilh otiers, accompany him, A New Panse in the Bowen Case—Tho Prestdeat Prowl a Pardou~Tom itiurphy Decides Such a Course Inexpedient. Mra. Peitigru King Bowen visited the State Department to-day, expecting to receive through the mails the pardonof her husband, which had been promised to her by President Grant, but it bad not been received, Her statement rogarding the promise of the President 13 brief ant positive. She visited him at his Long Branch cottage, and, alter ® brief interview, received assurances that tae pardon would be issued, Tho President, with sympaciietio tears in his eyes, toid her that he would telegraph to Washington to baye it prepared ana sent te him for nis signaturs. She subsequently met Mra, Grant, who congratulated her on the ceriain release of her husband, and remarked that ; one of the greatest pleasures incident to exalted oMmctal position was the power to grant such favors. With these assurances ot the success of her missiom Mrs, Lowen returned to Washington, The pardom not arriving in due time she telegraphed to Generas Porter, the President's private secretary, for infor- mation, and rece:ved a reply that “The papers were mailed yesterday.” A day or two after her visit to Long Branch a Soutnern Senator, a friend of Bowen's, called on the President and asked ii the pardon had beon desided upon. Grant replied that 1t had not. Col!ector Murphy was prea- ont at this interview, and after leaving the Prest- dent's hous? remarked to the Sehator as forlows:— “T heard your question just now about Bowen, We have deciled that his pardon is not expedient; he won't be pardoned at atl’? The senator, believing that Collector Murphy has influence w:th this ad- ministration at Long Branch, does not think thas Bowen's prospects for release are very ood. Annvyances of European vravei~Tio Passe port System Nisidly Enforced, The United States Minister at Brussels on tho 23@ ulf. reported to the Venartment of State that muck inconvenience is just now being experienced bY Americans entering France and Belgium. Pass Ports with the visé of a Belgium Consul are re quired of all persous entering Belzium ‘rom France or England, though none are required of those ou- tering from the Wast, All American passports, except tho-e tssited at tie United States Legation at Brussels, are required to have tie Americam Conswl’s visé betere the French Consul will vis them. Ladies traveiling alone without a passport are sent back from the Frene’ frontier, and the wife accompanying her husvaad is not allowed to pass unless she is Named tn the passport or has some Meaus of satisfylug the oficer that she is the wife fhe New Lonn, The cost of advertising the new loan up to the Present time amounts to upwards of elght hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the comunissious. Added to tus ts the cost of Genera! Spinner’s and Assistant Secretary Richardgon’s parties in Europe, which will not be less than $59,000, Judge Richard- son alone took $25,000 to defray the expenses of ia part of the cost of agvertising and entertaining she European dnancters, The despatch trom London to the effect that Mr. Richardson had been successmi in nezotiating the new loan is not credited at the Treasury Depart- ment, Nothing has been heard from him since ne departure, eX ept a teiegram anaouncing lis sale arrival. There were no subscriptions to the new loam to-day. New York Custem House Appoin The appointment of HU. W. Howell a: rk and Joho Stewart as night inspector im the New Yo.k Custom House has beea approved at the Interior Department. ‘reasury Department Decisi: The Secretary of the Treasury has recently made the following decisions:— All boats or vessels of five tons burden or upwards ene gaged tn the transzortation of merchandise between the dif- ferent places in the same district, wuether in tue sume State. or otherwise, if lees than twenty tons burden to be .tcensed, aud if of tweaty tons oF rolled and iiceused accorduy February 13, 1753. ‘The only exception to rule is where the waters uavigated by stich boats or vessels are wholly within the lunits of & State baying no ontlet into navigable water on which commerce with forelzn nations or among States or with the Indian trives can b6 ca:tied on, , The entage 0: allowance for increase of weizht of Woo! should be uscertained by the appraisers and reported fo the same manner as estimates of da ‘ 8 one aad dressed, pay $1 50 per ton duty. pay two doLare per ton, 2 gow into oe igen ap of they m a4 the “noof and mouth disease, which {t ie represented 1s prevahing amonz the cattle of Chile and the Argent:ne Repub c, Soutn America, the ine ats ae cnt — CY on neat cattic ol catile imported from tue cu named as are bow imposed on those re required ‘ards, t0 ve en: us of tho act of ve from Europe and foreign countries. Nu such cattie or hiies are a be euteres aa inuded trom Cot'e or the Argentine Repubite until Curtnor orders, uniess thoy are aco tupanied witit an invoice having ry lar certhicate attached stating that the cattic disease, raleot fu any degree ant bas not been recently im atrict of country from which the importation comes, ont that the Consul fe satisied the importation is free from jscane. A veasel, although enrolled and licensed under the laws of the United states, may be seized for violation of local law: and forfeited. Vessels of the United States of Colombia cannot ciatm under the provisions of the treaty of December, 1548, to pare ticlpate im the carrying trade between the Isthmus of Darien and New York, as thal trae ts revarded ay substantially cone aultuiing a part of the conatiny trade of the United States, Hair cuttings not in the hair to pay ten per coat duty aa valorem. ection 25 of the act approved July 14, 1870, exer: from the payment of tonnage tax wil veasois Belonging to any clilzen of the United States trading from one or point within the Uniteu States to an vtuer port or point within the United States, anda joint resolittion of Congress approved. February 10, 18/1, also exempts irom tonnage tax eurolled, and licensed voasols fn the coasting trade, aituongh touching during the voyage a: Intermediate foreigtt ports. © Under thie law it ie the to which ® Vessel clears by which it fs detecinined whether. sho. is or ie Hot lable to pay tounage tax. The rule, thero‘ore, to be observed in the collection of this tax on all vesaola trad= ing on the Norihern, Northeawera and Nurtuwesern tron Uiers of the United States is determined hy the certificate of tue clearance ot the vestei on her manitest, reyuired by tho ace of duly 1, 1870, aud not by the destination of her cargo. It ane conte direst toa foreign vort the tonnage ax nist be collected. i Loads given on the withdrawal of salt to be used im curing ash stall mature on the ist day of January wext ene sulng. Inconnection with an appiication for the canestiation of an export bond covering merchandise lost at sen, she Depart ment will roquire the best proofs ot such loss whicu the nate and circumstances he such, for instance, tuarine protest, audy if on the loss of the venel or cargo, m certificate from tue nuderwriters to that effect under seal, together with any other documentary evidence that ean, with reasounvie diligence, bo procured bearing on the question of loas. easels of the United States, enrolled and licensed for tho foreiyn coasting trade on the lakes of th und clearing from one port (0 another in the United Statens are vot required, under a joint resolution approved Fobraary 10, 1871, 10. pay tonnage tax, athoagn during such voyage they may touch at Intermediate fore!.n poris and receive om board dutiable cargoes, and import the sane into the Uattod States, ‘Lumber imported in several barges, towed by one steamer, may be incitided tn one invoice una’ one eniry. Cedar logs and cevar round, are exempt frum duty. ‘A foreign-built veasel may be purchased by a cltizen of the United sta Nor auoject of any sorelgn State mee of WR state of war the right: Testricuons jinposed by inter of; re C1 cate proseribed. Toralations. under the Registration Laws pro- Mulyaten January ly 1869, arviole ®, to witi—A certiticate isaned by @ collector of cnatome snowing that such purchaser Inn citizen of the Uuited States-—Which fact must Lave beew entnbilaied by proof aatiatactory to sich collector—and that a bit OF 8 apparendy ty | due | forum hae been reconted In his oMce. This certilicate is endornes Upon the bill ofaale, which, alter boing recorded, iw roturaed ta the preciawor and eonstitntes jy-rme evidence of the ownership aud nationality of the verrel, entitiing ite pur Chavedintgood faith absolutely and without reserve to Lear the protection of the United Staces, Tha ign waters lng aud rece! f, Wille bearing the flag of the United State is he exercised only according to the fer vessel arrive ina port of the United States with chandine ste Is supject, with her cargo, to forfeiture, Che it forelgn mers HW she scribed by law on vi And an alion tonnage duty, and it 9 i foreign produicuon she's Hable, wi hor CarKy, jont of the lability oF AA medicines, the rts tae TOrMeD ae Hable who well e ise to queries on t ines and | whi 8 : 0. I thereby loge Weir Wentty aa or Nulrituoas