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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18
THE MYSTERIES or FINANCE

The United States has for twenty years
owed $s00O,0 900 of six per cents. borrowed i'll
1913 to prosecute the war then being waged
against Mexico. The debt falls due on the
LIST of July, now close at hand. The Govern
ment has the coin in vault to pay this Debt,
with a good deal more. In fact it has for two
wears or more kept Fifty to One Hundred
Millions of coin on hand-tO no good end, so
far as we can see-instead of using it as fast as
it came in to pay off Debt and thus
improve its credit Had the Secretary of the
Treasury-for we may as well speak right out
seen INT thus to use his SURPRISES as fast as
they accrued, we believe he would have saved
at least ten millions of interest, while decidedly
approaching the National credit We firmly
believe that the premium on gold for the last
two years would have ranged at least five per
cent lower than it has done had no considerable
surplus of coin been allowed to accumulate in
the Treasury.
All this we have urged till our readers must
be weary of its repetition. We rather like Mr..
McCulloch on the whole, and heartily wish he
would let us like him better still. We pretend
to no skill in the intricacies and subteties of
Finance. We have no "scheme" for paying
OIL the NdJODdl DcDJ OtUtINfS6 JHdl ny Udl-
footed taxation. We believe it must be paid
by honest sweat, and that the process, so
happily begun, should never have been
arrested, nor even slackened. We be-
lieve that, had the People evinced a
stern resolve to pay at least $1OO,OOO,OOO per
annum of the principal till the last bond was
Cancelled and burned, we might now be fund
ing our Five-Twenties in Territories so fast
as the option natures, and thus saving
S20.000O00 per annum of coin interest. In
short, while We repOse as nueh faith III Nc
Culloch as he will permit we admire his Fort
Wayne Speech and Annual Reports a great
deal more than we do bis everyday doings.
He talks like book we only wish he would
act as well.
- We are moved so to speak by a cat-like
purring suggestion in certain quarters that the
Government need not pay off the Mexican War
Loan aforesaid at maturity-tbat the holders
are perfectly willing to let it stand awhile and
draw interest as it has done since it was nego-
tated. We havn't shadow of doubt of IT,
But what possible reasOn-we mean, what
honest, allowable reasOn-can the Treasury have
for paying interest longer on this matured loan 2
Why shouldn t it be paid off and Cancelled the
very day it falls due? Why should there be
thought, hint, of any other course
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

The bill amendatOry of the National Cur
rency act occupied most of the time of the
Senate yesterday. The first section was stricken
out by vote of Yeas 20, Nays II. Amend
ments of Messrs. Morrill,, Ramsey, and Davis
were rejected; those of Messrs. Sherman and
Fessenden accepted. The bill then passed
Yeas 25 Nays Il. 1t will be found in another
column in the shape in which it passed During
the discussion of the bill an interruption Oc-
CURED by the official reception of the Chinese
Embassy. In the House, a report of the Com
mittee on Elections in favor Of Col. Mckee
contestant of the seat of John ID. Young of the
IXth District of Kentucky, was received. The
bill of Mr.. Eliot, amending the Tariff laws so
as to give greater protection to American ship
builders, was then taken up, and after long
discussion it was tabled-Yeas 50, Nays 40.
Resolutions instructing the President to de
mand reparaton for political injuries inflicted
upon American citizens in Great Britain were
introduced by Mr.. Van Wyck of New-GoIk,
and went over under the rules
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

The bill introduced by Mr.. Sholabargcr to
alter the laws of Ohio as to the manner of
"electing Representatives in Congress" is we
believe, the first proposal ever made to exercise
the sovereign power vested in Congress by the
Constitution, lat any time by law to make or
"alter the regulations of any State as TO the
time, place. and manner of holding elections
for Representatives in Congress" 1t recites
that by the Constitution Of Ohio persons of
African descent, but having a preponderance
of white blood, are authorized to vote tina an
act of the recent Legislature attempts to dives
them of that right and that act has been
pronounced unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court of Ohio and then proceeds 10 enact that
such act of the Legislature Of Ohio is void
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18
A UNITED STATES MARSHAL ASSASSINATED
BY KENTUCKY REBELS.

RussELLvHLE. KY. June 1O.-Majer Lawrence, u.
s. Marshal of this District assassnated in this
place this morning by returned Rebel soldier He
is the fifth Union man that has been murdered here
within the past few months. During the war no
was Major of the 18th (Hyl Cavalry, and proved to
be a very gallant officer. lie has brother residing
in Buffalo. New-YOrk.
BowLING GREEN, Ky, June 1.-THE assassination
of Major Lawrence at Russellville, yesterday. was
the result of deliberate determination on the part
of the Rebels to kill or drive out every Union man
in their midst He had been repeatedly threatened
by tho Ku-Klux Klan. week ago he received no.
tice that he was to be killed in less than ten days
He paid no attention to the warning, and as lie was
going out of town yesterday afternoon to serve
summons, the assassin stole upon him and literally
butchered him in broad daylight. Capt. McClery Of
the army, who went down TO investigate the case.
pronounced it cool, premeditated murder. Union
citizens are arming. and the utmost excitement pre-
walls A detachment OF the I'd Regulars reached
there last night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

The Democratic party are unfortunate III
trying to make n show OF generals. VI
eighteen generals and coloncls who signed the
call for the Conservative Soldiers and Sailors
Convention, 1t turns out that but four are en-
titled to wear the rank they assume. The rest
were either of lower rank when they left the
service early in the war, or had been dis
charged for the public good, or had never been
in the service at all. Yet in this Convention"
says The World, eve shall see, not the pros
porous suffers and schemers of the National
Army, but the battle-scaTed, warwOm cam
"paigners of the East and West &c. We
would be glad TO know more of these Con-
sentative Generals DOnahue, Lane, McQuade
Knpe, Maulsby, Parkhurst GOrman, Bragg
Lawrence, Zatick, Allback, Dickey, and McFar-
land. Are these the war-wOrn veterans, COM
pared with whom the supporters of Grant like
Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, SchOteld, Howard,
Meade, Candy, Hooker Burnside, Logan, Palm
er, Cox, lGeary, Terry, Ord Rawlings, Wilson,
Fairchd, Sckles and so many. Others, are car
pet knights, prosperous suffers, or schemers of
the National Army If the Democratic party
would summon its "veterans TO the 'front.' let
it not coniine itself to those officers who, in
Jne Union Ialhs dlucu VIC hcocl Cdusc' Hot NC
squeamish in uttering the names of the real
generals who fought for Democratic principles.
They are Lee, Beauregard Johnston, Braxton
Bragg and the like. For years the platform
of the Democratic party declared that, in any
conflict between Federal and State authority,
it was the right of the State to judge for
itself both of the merits of the conflict and
the means and measures of redress. This was
Democratic doctrine For this these men
fought Ifsthe Democratic party wants to
bring its VETERANS to the front" there they
are. Why rake up from their obscurity the
discarded failures who pretended TO be fighting
in the cause of RepublranSm, Union, and
Emancipation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18
THE DRAIy or COR AND THE TlETFF

THE DEAN or GOLD AND THE T1RifF
The published statements of our imports and
exports for the eleven months ending May 81,
1868. show of imports $223 Az, against
about 2js,OOOOOO for 1867, and about S2s3,OOO-
900 for 1866. Our receipts of revenue on these
imports are $lO2JO3,Si9 against about Sll2,-
100000 for the same period in 1867, and Sl23,-
OOOOOO i'm 1866. Of these imports, $4,000 900 in
gold values were dry goods. Our exports, eX-
elusive of specie COR the same period, were
Sl63.2i9.52O rs against about SlGj,0OOOOO for
the same period in 1867, and S2Oj,OOOOOO IN
1866 The balance of trade against us was
paid for by an export of gold amounting to
81 970,30S in the eleven months ending with
May. 1866, S3i, Gi2, $50 in the same period end
ing with May 1867, and the enormous sum OF
SG4 4sG, 2jS for the like period ending with May,
1868, nearly S2O,0000O0 more than our export
of gold has ever reached before in the same
period. Mr.. j. Ross Browne, in his report of
our production of the precious metals, cst-
mated, our total annual product of both gold
and silver at S'5y0OO0O0. Taking into account
the amount of specie leaving directly for
Europe from San Francisco, it is evident we
are draining every dollar of gold we are pro-
ducing TO pay for these imports. Nothing
would conduce so much to check this outflow
of gold, and accumulate supply here that
would compel us to resume specie payments,
as the passage of the amendments to the
Tariff act reported by Mr.. Moorhead OF
Pennsylvania. All theories and distractions
apart, the adoption of measures which enable
us rs a nation to live on the proceeds of our
own industry, and so to diversity our industry
as to find abundant employment and good pay
for all labor, male and female, old and young
and for all our capital, are the only methods
by which as q nation we can save money
accumulate gold, get out of debt, and return to
specie payments. Notwithstanding the back
wardness of some Republicans on these points
they are also the means without which the
Republican party cannot and ought not to re-
main in power. So long as we are bleeding ut
every pore TO pay for the fabrics of European
industry, nine -tenths of which we should pro-
duce at home, our export of gold, instead of
produce, will continue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

corner OF the Park, just published, is, we hone.
the last manifestation of "red tape" necessary
before the actual commencement of the wort
lhey nave duly reported, what everybody a-
ready knew, that the present Post Office bund-
ing 49, in substance, public nuisance, danger
GUS to the health of its occupants, dsgracefus
TO the city, and that its too limited sDacs
greatly impedes the POst-0fice business not
merely for the City of NewYork but for the
entire country. The site selected for the new
building is the very best in New-Ydrk it ia
presented by the City to the Government for q
fourth or fifth of its actual value, suitable
editico has been proposed, an adequate appre-
priation made, fair and trustworthy commits
sion to supcrntend its erection appointed, and
now we hope to see the much-needed work go
forward
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18
OBITUAR \.

Henry John Chetwynd Talbot, 18th Earl Of
Shrewsbury, and Sd Earl Talbot, died on June5 Tho
deceased was 1903, entered the Royal Navy Ia
1917 took part in the battle Of Nayarino IN 1895 was made
Captain in 1884, and at the time Of his death an Ad
mral the reserved list. As member OF the House OF
Commons from 1890 TO 1882, aud again from 1887 TO 84e,
he was strong supporter Of the Conservative party but
never won any distinction. On his fathers death IN s4).
he succeeded the EarldOm OF Talbot In 1851, the
death OF Bertram 18th Earl of Shrewsbury Earl Talbot
laid claim to tho EardOm of Shrewsbury. aud
i'm 1858 this caim recognized by the
House of Lords. As Earl Shrewsbury he was
Premier Earl Of England. The common ancestor
whom tho new Earl claimed for himself and the l1th
Earl was John second Earl Of Shrewsbury who fell fight
ing the Of the Red Rose OF on the bloody
field OF Northampton in 1860 Thus TO justify his claim
necessary 70 back 10 period OF nearly 400 years
another respect the or Earl Talbot 10 tho
EarldOm Of shrewsburylwas noteworthy. The Earis OF
Shrewsbury prominent in the history OF England az
Jealous members and patrons of the Roman Cathoho
Church while the Ears Talbot have always been adneE
ents of the Established Church Thus the Roman Catho
lie Church lost OF the most important peera9es OF the
United Kingdom. The oldest son and successor OF tne
late Earl Charles John VscOun Inglestre vas recently
elected a member OF Parliament for stamford
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18
THE S4NGERfEST.
TORCHIIGHr PRoCEsSIoN-sPEBCH By MAYOR
RICE-SUPERB DISPLAY.

TORCHLIGHT PRoCESSION-SPEBCH BY MAYOR
RICE-SUPERB DISPLAY.
CHICAGO, June 1.-THE city presents gala
appearance today the decorations being in honor of the
saugerfes Societies from abroad have been arriving
since $50 this morning and other large delegations from
the East will arrive tonight and tomorrow Delegates
from the old country who expected at $50 this morn
ing will until tomorrow at o'clock. This
evening grand procession formed at Uhliehs Hall.
and marched TO WabasE-ave. Rink II one hour and
a half passing given point, contained several
bands, and profusely lnterspersed with flags.
etc. The streets through which it passed were
crowded At the Rink the singers were welcomed BY
Mayor Rioe in brief speech, after which the formal re-
cepton and concert took place. The chorus consisted
OF 500 voices composed OF Chicago societies and an
orchestra OF 70 pieces After the concert grand torch
light procession with flags, transparences. etc. formed
on wabash-aye. and marched through the principal
headquarters The evening closes with social
gatherings at headquarters OF local societies
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

Senator's argument, which was neither very
close nor very new but its principal points
may be briefly stated as follows. 1. The negro
is not white man. g. The jaw, chest, arms
and bones of the negro are different from
those of Mr. DOOlittle 3. A man whose Jaw
chest. &c. differ from those of Mr. Do0lltte
is not fit to vote. T. If the negro acquires inc
right of suffrage, the next generation Oh
American born citizens will be composed en-
tirely of mulattoes. To this reasoning MI
Dooljttle adds some remarks which are so Dne
that we are tempted to quote them IN full'
He thinks that the negro ought to nave
stayed in Africa Gan opinion IN which the
door victims of the slave-traders no dOuDt
fully cOncurredD, because the climate Is MS
natural home" and declares that the AL
mighty "has given tho temperate zone to the
TEMPERATE man. Good heavens! Does he
want TO Danish President johnson and the
whole Democratic party But seriously, we
have no patience with a man who does not
know the difference between politics and
physiology. We understand how there may be
an honest diversity of opinion respecting uni
versal suffrage but party which has no
better basis than the color of mans skin or
the shape of his nose is too contemplate to be
argued with. Mr.. DOolittle is a striking ex-
ample of how easy it is to run down hill. He
began as the partisan of a renegade President
and he has got down already to the level OF
Mr. Brooks and The Express
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

The World announces that Mr.. ). n. Pike
the builder and owner of 80 many gorgeous
opera houses-is about to establish what VIII
be "emphatically democratic race-course,"
near our city. Very good But a good many
of Mr.. Pixies fellow Democrats would IKE,
even better than his race-course, to master tue
secret of his art of making unlimited WHISKY
at a cost of 40 cents per gallon, paying 81 per
gallon tax on it, selling it for 81 % cor less)
per gallon, and getting so enormously rlch
thereby as to be able TO erect opera'houseS by
the dozen and construct race-eourses that throw
all thcir predecessors INTO the shade. Could MT
Mr. Pike be induced to give ether peh'oera'S
the benefit of his secretY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

we hope the Conservatives of the Borough
OIL westminster will carry out their proposal to
run the scourge and monster of Jamaica, ex-
Gov. Eyre, as candidate for Parliament from
Westminster, against the leading thinker and
philosopher Of England, John Stuart Min.
Nothing could 50 fOrcibly illustrate the truth
of Mills own saying, that the Conservative
"party is Of necessity the stupid party, and
"must therefore of like necessity be yery
numerous party" The Conservatives would
vndicate the truth of his language moro
thoroughly by defeating him, than the Radicals
could possibly do by electing him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18
Smrsrmtnis. &C.

A1IrN.sr. NJ. z. CHURCH.-This Eyening.-Straw-
6srry and Ice Cream Festival
Art GALLERY. No Si5 Broadway-Day and Eve
Nat Painting The New Republic or hmnepuOn
Rpo.nU,Ay TIrF,TFR - This Evening at S.-"A
Pssh Of Lightning" j. h. Mortimer Miss Blanche Grey
BRYANT's NEW MINSTREL HALL-.This Evening g.-
Tsnmsny Building Foutent-st adjoining Academy OF MUSIC N'"
York Al IL and Lottery Of Life" BrsHts MnsreS
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN - This Evening at o.
Theodore Thoaass Garden Concerts
FIFTH AVE ART GALLERY corner FOuTteenth-st-
p,v and KveruF Old Otkon Bucket kaubschs Cartoon, The
Ira Of the Reformation"
FOWLER g. WEISS FREE LECTURES, NO: %S
Gr,sdwu-T Afternoon al for ladies' and genemen-Subect
Tact ssd Talent"
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DEsIGN-Day and Evening
II and Sculptures 49, -, ~,
MILO, GARDEN 900 This Evening at u" The
White Pawn" Psrseuue Ballet IrOnne
OIYMPIC THEATER-IhlS Evening at S-"Humpty
DaRpty" q !. Foz Nile. Sangsh
SAN FRANCTSCO MINSTRuS. No. 5Sj Broadway
Tbi, x, eninr Birch. Waubod. Bernard and Baskut
WAIIACK's-Ihis Evening at S.-"LOttery of Life"
John Bfoughau
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

Col. FOrney, being no longer an employee of
the Government, fortunately feels at liberty to
rally in support of the joint resolution taxing
the American people $9,OOO,OOO for the benefit
of the Washington clerks. Col. FOmey makes
some very judicious observations about the ne
cessity of being economical in small things if
we want TO save money; but he also remarks.
in the sententous style in which it is his habit
to convey wisdom, that we ought not to be
stingy. What he Indignantly exclaims; shall
the paltry sum of s2,OOO,0O0 be suffered TO out
weigh the comfort and enjoyment of the afore-
said industrious clerksl What would be
thought of business firm which should at
tempt to reduce its expenditure by refusing to
pay its clerks and bookkeepers twenty per cent
more than they agreed to work forl If You
want to economic you don't begin, do you, by
stinting the cook and the chambermaid?
Now then, if Col Forney will inform us
whether it is customary for business men in
debt to make enormous presents TO clerks who
have rendered no special service to call for
such liberalty, and whether, to bring the mat
ter home he himself means to add twenty per
cent TO the wages of his cook and chamber
maid, We shall understand each other much
better The Colonel iutimatos. moreover, that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18
CITY ELECTION DISTRICTS

The Democrats have, for all but twenty
years, had power to increase the number OF
our City's Election Districts, and have done so
whenever they chose; yet, after each woll-con-
tested election, they have complained that
many votes were lost for want of more polls.
These complaints impeach none but their own
municipal functiOnaries.
We trust they will seasonabIy make AZ many
new districts 10 are necessary so that there
will be no pretcxt for complaint after they are
beaten next Fall Let them take care to
rGarrange the districts 80 that no one shall
contain less than 800 voters, and we shall be
glad to see the large ones divided till no one
shall contain more than 500.
At our last State Election. when the full
Democratic vote was polled, several of the
Democratic strongholds were returned ~ fol-
10,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

The English House of Commons last night
had an interesting discussion on the petition
of the Nova ScOtians against their forclDle
incorporation with the Dominion of Canada
John Bright moved that q Commission be
appointed to inquire into the discomfort OF
Nova Scotia, and warmly spoke in support Of
Nova Scotia; but the Government opposed
him, declaring that that province was now
well pleased with the union, Mr. Bnghts
motion was rejected by 1873 to 81 votes. The
papers of Nova Scotia will soon inform us
whether the English Government has given .
correct statement of the present state of public
feeling in the province.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18
UNITED STATES SENATOR FOR FLORIDA.

TALLAHASSEE June IA. S. WEIGH, late o. Mlch-
gan has been elected United States Senator for tho
term ending March T. 1869. For the next term. end
ing 1873 the vote stood f. w Osborne late OF New
York Republican,, 81; o. b. Hart native known a.
a Southern Loyast), 81; Gov. Marvin Democratt
16 The Legislature adjourned before another trial.
third Senator is to be elected for the term commence
ing with March g. 1869. A. Gilbert of st. Augustine
Is prominent candidate to succeed Mr. WEIGH
MeSsrs Cheney and Walton, having been chosen
State Printers, have bought The Sentinel and VIII
publish Republican newspaper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

Our Washington correspondent reports one
of the rumors of the capital, last night, to the
effect that President johnson has told Chief
Justice Chase that if he is nominated by the
Democrats he will support him, and that the
latter said he would accept such nomination
if the Democratic platform was In accord
with the principles he held. 1t is also said
the President told the Chief-Justice that
Hancock was his second choice and Hendricks
his third. PendletOn he will not support.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

that if any electors of African blood shall DO,
excluded from voting at the same poll with
other electors under such act, they may organ
ize separate poll and the votes returned
from their poll for Representative in Congress
shall be duly counted. Any officer preventing
this class of electors from voting for Repre-
sentative shall be guilty of high crime, and
punished by fine not exceeding $4,000 or inn
prisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18

The Louisville COurier-edted by Gen Simon
b. Buckner, formerly of the Kentucky State
"Guard," afterward Of the Rebel army-suggesta
Gen. Don Carlos Buell. as the right man for
Democratic candidate for President. We consider
this an excellent chOice-for Buckner. Don Car
los was never guilty of dealing with the Rebel
forces in such an "ungenerOus' and Gun
"chivalrousr fashion as Grant dealt with Simon
s. Co. at Fort DOnelsOD