The New York Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1865, Page 4

4 Y NEW YORK HERALD, [esse to's se ieat style. ‘Tho Admirat danced wil greabsp th aMESs ‘GORDON BENNETT, honor to the wins and catables, Dr. Olver Wencelt : sais inane Holines read a poou in bonor of the “Old + wlamnander EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, republic, as A significant ovation in honor of the Mex represented in the Un: Stales by General Ortega took place laat evening at Delmonico's, ia Fifth avenue. At ten o'clock @ largo assemblage gathered at that point, where Grafulla's Seventh Regiment Band seronaded tho distinguished Mexican, who was accompanied by two membersof his staif, and surrounded by a large number of American and Mexican citizoms, Speeches and toasts were mingled with other festivities, and the occasion was replete with interest and enthusiasm. An extract from a pointed letter written by Major General Phil Sheridan, United States Army, will attract goneral atten. tion. A full report will be found elsewhere in these columns. ; ‘A lecture was delivered in Hope Chapel last evening by Rev. 8. M. Landis, intended as a defonce of a pam phlet written and sold by him through agents, entitled “The Key to Heaven.” The itinerant agent of this pampblet was arrested and the book seixed as obacone; and it was to prove that the book was, on the contrary, & moral book, and the principles laid down in it such as were needed to develop a higher standard of morality among the people, that the lecture was advortised. ‘About forty peopie composed the audience. At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yester- day a communication was received from the Calcutta Chamber of Commorcs, expressing sympathy in the death of Abraham Lincoin in graceful terms. No othor business of much public interest came up. Not only is there a muddle among the rebels in Cana- da, but also in the Canadian Cabinet. Death in the latter and a desired doath in the former case is at the bottom of the trouble. The late Promier is likely to be suecood- ed by a Mr. George Brown, who ia very objectionable to the Fronch Canadians, and the opposition to him will probably break up the coalition existing. Jake Thomp. son isthe source of tho trouble between the rebels in Canada. He has lately abandoned the adventurers mare OFvIOE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. votume XXX... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW ROW SRY THEATEL, Gowery.—Rieaaeo WT — Laxsoann Vox NIBLO tux Wien JARDEN, Broadway.—ARrKau Na Pogue; o7, a4 WEDDING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Jxatous Wurx— Aror Bake. roadway.—-Barwus's Museum x—Roawer ano BaxtcanD— and Evening WINTER GARDEN Comvany. Beauty oF N001o Buoritses. Ope WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Cotiany Bawn. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 51¢ Broadway.—Eraroriay Boas, Dancrs, 40.—-Hanpy ANDY—RUNNING tHe BLOOKADS. S HALL, 585 Broadway.—Saw Fraxcisco Mus. HELLER LorlaN SINGING, Dancin, &0.—AnKaH NA remes—4) Pouuk. 1, 201 Bowery.—Sia TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO: uid AnD Bown. wa, Danoinc, Burixsques, £0. —Guonge Cuaisre’s Mix- w Yeau's Cans. FEW yore MUSEUM OF Open trom) ALM, ni O P.M TF RSS Coke Walnar hacen 6 ARS ” NEWSPAPER. CIRCULATION. Receipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. + Name of Paper. pag bed needy than himself, taking all that remained of the rebel bit " : $1,095,000 | *Pells, and his fellow adventurers are avenging them- BRALD.... 1095, selves by wishing that the United States government may catch and hang Thompson. Our Montreal corres- pondence gives a graphic picture of the manner in which the rebels oxist and have their being at the expense of the sympathizers in that city. A convention of the German Worlsagmen’s Union was held last evening in the Bowery, for the purpose of making various alterations in the constitution aod laws of their Union, and to complete arrangements for eatmb- lishing societies for the distribution of goods at whole- sale prices to ita members. The Convention was largely attended by delegates from (the various sacieties com- prising the Uni00, _pm-emmgmagithngrey, BES EEE ‘Tho Nova Scotia gold case came up yesterday again before Justice Dowling, at the Tombs Police Court. The evidence of I, J. Brigys, the broker, waa continued for some time, and somo totereating points about stock job- bing olicited, after which the case was adjourned to the 4th of September. The members of the Fenian Brothorhood in New Jor- sey had a picnic yesterday in Merselies' Grovo, New Jersey, whero they listened to spoeches from Colonel John O'Mahoney, John Keegan, John Eagan, J. P. Hod. nett and Mrs. Dr. Donovan, and enjoyed themselves In dancing until late in the afternoon, when an unexpected shower put an end to the amusement. A Cuban, named De Oliver, was charged before one of the police Justices yesterday with robbing Loutsa Jack- son, at No. 40 East Houston street, of a gold watch and chain worth four hundred and fifty dollars, and also was charged ‘by Kathorina Dean with stealing from her another watch worth one hundred and Afty dollars. William Doty was committed for stealing three hundred dollars from a returned soldier, named Joseph Martin. Abotber returned soldier, namod John Riley, complained of being robbed of oue hundred dollars by Mary Race. The ‘Sadtoga Temperande Convention yesterday a4- Journed sine die, after adopting several resolutions look. ing to the advancement of the oause of total abstinence. The Monitor Dictator left Boston for Portland yeater- day morning, accompanied by the Vanderbilt. The First Rhode Island cavalry and Seventh New York acunory arrived in tho city en route to the homes of the members. Tho Convention of the Grand Lodgo, I. 0. of 0. F., of the Southern district of New York, yosterday olected ita officers for the ensuing year. A largo well on the United States farm on Pithole creek, Pennsylvania, caught fire yesterday while flowing about two hundred barrels. At latest dates it was still flowing and burning. The stock markot was firmer yesterday, and it closed strong. Governments were steady. Gold was frm, and closed on the street at 144% a 144%, after selling up to 144%. In broadstuffs and provisions yoaterday businoss was quite active, at Ormer pricos early in the day; but to- wards the close the market became genorally dull and heavy. In groceries there was more doing at full rates. Cotton was steady, with a fair demand. Whiskey was heavy, and rather cheaper. Tho changes in other branches of trade were not important. 368,150 252,000 169,427 100,000 151,079 90,548 $1,095,000 871,229 Times... * ‘Tribune. . Evening Post. World Sun..... Expreas: New Yors Heaanp, ¢, World and Sun combined., Times, Tribus Notice TO THE PUBLIC. Our city subscribers will confor a favor by reporting any of our city carriers who overcharge for the Heraup. Country subscribers tothe New Yorm Heratp are re- ‘quested to remit their subscriptions, whenever practi- cable, by Post Ofice Orders, It is the safest mode of transmitting money by mail. Advortisements should be sent to the office before nine o'clock in the evening. THE SITUATION. President Johnson ia still so much indisposed that he ‘is to make a trip to Cape May in the River Queen, now permanently detailed as his excursion-steamer. The department of Louisiana and Texas has been di- ‘vided by Gcveral Camby in five districts, and placed un- Wr the command of Generals T. W. Sherman, J. Bawkina, Jox A. Mower, D. S. Stanley and F. Steele. Secretary McCulloch has decided that all bonds, ‘Treasury notes and other obligations of the government ‘aro froe from State or municipal taxation. ‘Tho roturns from the Tennessee elections «00w the dofeat in the Nashville district of Sam«0! J. Carter, the Voion cauuidate, by ex-Governor W. B, Campbell. Horace Maynard in the Knoxville, Cooper in the Shelby- ville, and Stoker in the Chattanooga district, all Union eandidates, and all Unionists during the rebellion, havo Probably been returned. A fuller official report of the national debt than that which we published yesterday is given in this morning's Herat. It is stated in our Washington intelligence that less than twenty-five pardons have been granted to prominent rebels by President Johnson. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The steamship Glasgow, of the Inman line, was burned @t aoa on the 31st ultimo, but by the good management of Captain Henry Manning, under divine Providence, no lives wore lost. The vessel took fire at noon on the Sist. Whea discovered by the passengers great oxcitement en- sed, and a rush was made for the railings in front of the life boats. By the personal exertions of the captain and hia subordinates this momentary panic was suppressed, and as if inspired by his cool mannor, with full confi- dence in the gallant captain, the passengers wera re- strained from swamping the boats by hastily endeavor- ing to escape from the burning wreck. The boats wore carefully lowered and filled, the women and childron going first, under an order from Captain Manning to soot any man who endeavored to enter the boats before the wemen and children were saved. Signals wore displayed and minute guns fired, with a Cootness remarkable under the circumstances; and the attention of the bark Rosamond attracted. On the ap: proach of this vessel the lowerod boats of the Glasgow, filled with the crow and passengers, all of whom were eventually saved, put off from the burning steamer and were received with every display of kindness and con- Gideration on board the Rosamond by Captain Walter. Not a single life was lost. Even the baggage of the pas- Sengors was saved. The Rosamond and the steamer Erin, which subsequently came in sight, returned the Passengers to this port last evening. ‘The steamship Bellona, from Havre, arrived at this Port yesterday, bringing some of the passengers of the Ml-fated ship William Nelson, burned at sea. These pas- Sengers were rescued at sea by the French steamship Europe. The Bellona saw a large quantity of wrecked gtufl in the Gulf stream. ‘The stoamship Asia brings no later news regarding the Progress of the Atlantic cable. Our Valentia correspond. ence is to the 19th ult., giving details of the arrival of the Great Eastern at the mouth of the bay, and the ap- pearance on the 19th of the Caroline, with the shore end of the cable on board. Arrangements were to have been immediately made to proceed with the laying of the Va- lentia end. It is hoped that the next steamer—due on Saturday next—will bring full details of the successful Geparture westward of the Great Eastern. The work of repairing the Newfoundland submarine cable is being rapidly advanced. Our Heart's Content correspondence gives some details of the preparations making there to meet the Great Fastern. ‘The news from Buenos Ayres to June 15 is interesting. ‘he war between the three provinces—Uruguay, Para- may and Buenos Ayres—was increased in proportion. additional particulars of the battle of Corrientes, fought Ot May 15, aro given in our correspondence from Buenos Ayres, together with particulars of the triple alliance ‘betworn Brazil, Uruguay and the Aagentine republe, and the movements of Professor Agassiz. Tho rows from the Rio Grande is to the effect that 9 Wattle lad been fought between the imperialists under ‘Lopes ind the liberals under Cortina, in which the latter ‘was doftated. The battle took place between Matamoros end Camargo. General Grant has arrived at Augusta, Maine, His Progress from Boston, via Portiand, was one continued vation A special train, handsomely decorated, con- ‘veyed him and his party from Boston through to Port- land. At the principal intermodiate points ho was wel- Comed with great enthusiasm. At the manufacturing town of Lawrence the operatives, to the number of Pevoral thousand, gathered in their working costume to wolcome him. The General visited the Pacific mills, and Was apparently much interested in their examination. ‘The reception scene at Portland was also impressive, and ibtlons gratifying to the hero, He loft that city at ine o'clock yepterday, and rested last evening at admirers of Admiral Farragut at Ryo Boach have (0 bim e brilliant ovation, A reception was civen Our Financial Condition and Prospects. The Treasury Department has just published 8 statement of the national debt, dated July 31, which shows the total amount registered at that date to have been $2,757,253,275. This is an increase of only $122,047,522 since the pub- lication of the previous statement, on May 31; but some allowance must be made for the un- usually large “amount in the Treasury” of $116,739,632, which is deducted from the to- tal of the debt, which would otherwise be $2,873,992,907. The non-publication of this statement last month led to apprehen- sions that the condition of the Treasury was more unfavorable than it is now shown to be. It must not, however, be sup- posed that the maximum of the public indebted- ness has been already reached. On the con- trary, a large amount has yet to be added to the acknowledged total before us. A multi- tude of claims have to be adjusted, and mean- while the current expenditures will continue far in excess of the receipts from revenue. Wesee a8 yet no prospect, or even the possibility, of a contraction of our paper money system; but, on the contrary, a steady inflation is going forward. The present debt statement shows an increase in the currency of about twenty-seven millions of dollars during the lasttwo months, exclu- sive of the national bank issues, which have at ‘the same time been adding to the volume afloat at the rate of three millions per week. The condition of our monetary affairs is indeed becoming with each succeeding day more and more complicated, and the denser the clouds, which are gathering over our financial system, become, the less attention the subject seems to receive from those whose duty it is to endeavor to lighten the burden under which we are now laboring, and to strive to avert the difficulties that are impending. The reconstruction of the Southern States and the amelioration of the condition of the unhappy negroes, that consti- tute so large a proportion of the population of that section, are of course desirable objects which engender hopes for speedy consumma- tion. But there are other questions which just now are of equal importance to the welfare of the country, by far the most momentons of which is our financial condition and prospects. Financiers and commercial men are becom- ing alarmed at the course which the leading politicians are pursuing. While the country is standing upon the brink of a financial collapse, we find our representative men entirely ab- sorbed in the negro question, part clamoring for universal suffrage and others combating tho iad, without heeding for a moment the danger- ous fiscal situation into which we have already drifted. It is the duty of the members elect to Congress, and we feel inclined to press it upon them, to leave the restoration of the South and NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1865. The Political Course of Jefferson and | and the obscuration is merely temporary. Be the negro question for the present in the bands of President Johnson, who no doubt, in bis own quiet way, will settle those matters satisfactorily to the people, and at once apply their attention to the condition of our financial affairs, in ordor that they may go into the halls of Congress in December next prepared to legislate upon so vital a ques- tion, and fully competent to afford all neces- sary relief to our struggling country. They should take some of their lessons from history, in order that they may avoid the difficulties which other nations encountered in times past in endeavoring to restore their dilapidated monetary systems toa sound basis. It took the British government ten years after the close of the Napoleonic war to place herselfin a healthy financial condition, and to bring her curreney to the specie standard, during which time she brought ruin upon thousands of her most enter- prising citizens and endangered her national existence. This young giant of a republic, with its countless wealth and numberless resources, under proper guidance, can accompish the task in one quarter of the time, without crippling its commercial interest to any alarming extent, and without more than barely producing a ripple upon the surface of our great and growing trade. But our leading men must take hold of the matter with a proper understanding and with disinterested motives. If they continue to deal with minor questions, or permit the negro to engroas their attention, in order to make politi- cal capital for themselves or their party, there will be no hope for the country, and we must prepare for a collapse which will be far greater in its direful consequences than that which wrought such widespread ruin and bloodshed in England in 1819, and produced such com- mercial distress in 1825. In such an event the negroes of the South would necessarily be de- prived of government aid, and all the efforts of the Chase radicals to elevate that class to the standard of white mén would not unlikely end in insurrection and tho probable extermination of the race, We call upon the President and upon those men who are about to assume the control of the affairs of the nation to give this not improbable picture due consideration. — Let us now look at our situation. Our na- tional indebtedness has already reached the enormous proportions of nearly three thousand millions of dollars, and before the war claims are all settled we will have two thousand five hundred millions of debt, upon which the credi- tors will demand an annual interest at the pre- sent rate of one hundred and fifty-five millions, and a volume of currency looking to the gov- ernment for redemption, aggregating seven hundred millions more. What then will be our annual expenses? We will estimate them for the present fiscal year, compared with the actual outlay for the year immediately preced- ing the war :— ~ Civil service. ae CED Ee he $68,064,087 307,000,000 No one, we think, will pretend that the coun- try can flourish under this “ national blessing ” of three hundred millions of annual expénse, and the only way to divest ourselves of such a pressing load, is, first, to consolidate the debt ; second to reduce the interest to three or four per cent, and then establish a permanent sink- ing fund similar to that recommended by Wil- liam Pitt, who was Chancellor of the Exche- quer, to the British Parliament in 1792. Under such a policy we could reduce our debt in ten or twelve years to little more than eight hundred millions, a large portion of which would necessarily be reserved ag a basis for the issues of the national banks, and the balance would naturally float apon the market or be se- curely held as a safe investment. Something of this kind must be done to reduce the national expenditures, and if the efforts of our present Secretary of the Treasury to avert catastrophe and to reatore our finances to @ sound condition are properly seconded by Congress, we have no fears but all will go well; otherwise the great “ national blessing ”’ which has beon forced upon ua will be likely, in the end, to produce national bankruptcy, finan- cial disorder and commercial ruin. Tas Borne or THR Giascow—Tae Apmi- BABLS Management or Caprain Manwino IN Rescurna tae Passenogrs.—The steamship Glasgow was destroyed by fire on the 3lst ultimo, when two days at sea. This makes the twenty-ninth steamship destroyed by fire during the twenty-seven years which have elapsed since the arrival, in 1838, at this port of the Sirius, the first steamship which ever crossed the Atlantic. When we reflect that since that time the ocean has been covered by steamers of various lines, which ply across it with all the regularity of our river ferries, as many as four and five often arriving herein a single day, this average of a little over one per year, though an enormous loss in the aggregate, will not appear very heavy. In all these cases there is no more remark- able instance of admirable management and presence of mind, under terrible danger and great responsibility, than the conduct on this occasion of Captain Henry Manning, the officer in charge of the burning vessel. The positive and determined manner in which he issued his orders gave him complete control over the passengers, and the great danger in such emor- gencies, a panic, was averted by his personal exertions. The cool, systematic manner in which everything was managed, as detailed in our account published this morning, shows Captain Manning to be a commander of the very rarest and highest ability; and his example is one worthy of close study and imitation by every seaman. Tas Dory or Tax State to Tae MetRopotis.— The interests of every portion of this State are involved in the question of reform in the gov- ernment of the city of New York. When the metropolis suffers from the evils of extravagant government, the whole State must be affected, for the metropolis is¢he centre of life to the State. It paysa majority of the taxes. It is the great market for the products of all the counties. It supplies the interior with labor, and provides it with consumers. There is there- fore so close a connection between the city and country districts, from New York bay to Lake Erie, that it is manifestly the interest of the en- tire State to rally around the metropolis in its efforts to put a stop to official corruption in the municipal government; and that can best be done by electing honest members to the next Legislature, and sustaining Governor Featon if be is only earnest in his endeavor to afford us relieg Adame—Ignorance of the Shent-per Shent Organ. The organ of the shent-per-shent democracy in this city bas been for several days past in- dulging in all manner of wild assertions in re- ference to the early history of the country. The ignorance manifested by the editors of that sheet is somewhat remarkable, and it is quite evident that they obtain their version of the early political events in this country from. the same unreliable source from which their party leaders obtained the facts which caused them to proclaim at the Chicago Convention that the war had been a failure. The rigmarole about the policy of Jefferson and the doctrines of Adams are all trash. Neither their facts nor deductions are correct in regard to either of these great men. It is no wonder that the de- mocratic party has been in the wrong and has lost its power when it bas for its organs such ignorant writers in regard to plain facts of history as haa been exhibited in the World for the last three or four days. All who have carefully studied the events of the early history of this country, and read the writings of the unbiassed historians of those days, understand that there were certain ele- ments of jealousy which operated upon the minds of the people, and to a greater or leas extent controlled political events. Those elements were sympathy with France and England and hostility to the lat- ter. The war of the Revolution left aatrong feeling of friendship for France, and, in tact, a warm sympathy for that nation in her contest with England, which continued for yearsafter we had gained our independence. The policy of the elder Adams gradually tended against the popular sentiment, and, under the New England sentiment, began to adopt a course which was characterized as English in ita features, The Alien and Sedition laws were unquestionably English in their character. Jeffer6n, on the other hand, visited France, and came home strongly impressed with that nation, even to friendship for the Jacobins, He found here, on his return, @ strong sympathy in the same di- rection among the people, and a bitter hostility against England, which had existed_ ever since the war for our independence. He took advan- tage of this circumstance, appealed to the preju- dices of the people, and opposed the English tendency of the policy of Adams, and on that was successful. The denunciation of the alien and sedition schemes, and the cry of federalism, was only used as evidence that Adams was in sympathy with England. This was the turning point and the key note of the contest. It is further shown by the course of the Adams party in New England at a later period, when, in the second war with England, they held their Hartford Convention, and opposed the adminis- tration of that dey. _.... If the ignorant chaps of the World will care- yore tinue fully read the early history of this country,” they will see that the doctrines of State rights had no power at that time, nor any more to do with the defeat of Adams and the success of Jefferson, than t!:e abolition party had upon the politica of the country when Arthur Tappan or- ganized his first anti-slavery society. The State rights resolutions were passed in Ken- tucky and for the purpose of mere buncombe. They did not rise to the importance of an issue, even in that State. They were hardly thought of until years after, when the sectional agita- tion began to take form, and then they were unearthed by some of our latter-day demo- gogues, and were made an issue, as against the negro agitation of the North. State rights doc- trine is of a more modern platform than the period when Jefferson upset the Adams dynasty, and the attempt of the World editors to prove to the contrary only reveals their ignorance of the plainest facts of history. The theories and dogmas of the extreme State sovereignty school of politicians, of which Calhoun was the master spirit, has been exploded by this war, and the indications are that federalism and centralization will receive their final quietus through the administration of President John- son. And thus our war for the preservation of the nation will settle all those heresies and put an end to their agitation, we trust, finally and forever. The Condition of the Southorn States— Better Times Coming. The South is now under a cloud. Devastated by the civil war into which ber leading men plunged the country, she finds upon the return of peace that her social system is disorgan- ized; her institution of slavery abolished; the best of her young men either killed or crip- pled; her agriculture abandoned, and her trade, commerce and manufactures totally demoral- ized. These are the resulta of the attempt to dissolve the Union, and they carry their own lesson with them. It will be well for the men of the South if they learn this lesson thoroughly. Bad as their situation now is, they may con- gratulate themselves that the war has ended by the restoration of the Union. The Union means reorganization, and reorganization means renewed prosperity. Better the present cloud, with the sure prospect of a bright and happy future, than that kind of Southern independ- ence which is in reality submission to foreign dictation. It is not, perhaps, to be wondered at that the politicians and disappointed leaders of the re- bellion at the South do not take kindly to the new order of things. They are the men who suffered least trom the war which they pro- voked. While the rebellion lasted, they had a certain sort of power, and now that they are suddenly turned out of power by the re-estab- lishment of the Union, they are discontented and they grumble. It is these men, rather than the masses of the Southern people, who are making all the trouble in the South, and who are dili- gently obstructing the work of reorganization. They have control of the Southern newspapers, both the old and the new, and of course we are favored with their opinions upon all the questions at issue, But for their opin- fons we care nothing. They are no longer representative Southern men. Still, they are assisted—aa they always were, before and during the rebellion—by certain portion of the Northern press, which is continually groaning and croaking about the condition of the negro, and which would have us believe that the South is a pandemonium into which no Northern man, and especially no Union man, can safely venture. We know, however, that such representations are utterly false. We give no credence either to the grumblings of disappointed rebel leaders or to the croakings of their allies, the Northern abolitionists, The South is under 9 cloud, it is true; but that cloud is by no mosas 60 black ag thew oaint it, fore long we expect to age it dispersed and succeeded by the most hopeful sunshine. Already we perceive in the Southern States | y agg DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. the unmistakable evidences of returning prosperity. The railroads are being rapidly rebuilt. A day or two ago we published « list of these roads and a statement of the progress made upon them. Mail communications are being re-established, and this is, of itself, « most important agency of restoration. Adver- tisementa sent from the South again appear in our columns and show that business is reviv- ing. Every day we receive letters from former subseribers to this journal asking for their newspaper again. There could be no surer sign of life than this anxiety for the news, this interest in what is going on in the world. Neither do men destitute of means and of good business prospects pay cash in advance for a daily journal. Besides all this, we are informed | The Convention assombled at the usual bour After that the Southern crops are well sown and that | prayer and tho reading of the minutes the coming harvest will be abundant. Large quantities of cotton are awaiting transporta- tion government steamers will supply this de- mand. Numbers of Northern men—moatly discharged soldiers—are emigrating preparing to emigrate to the Southern States: Quite a number of companies have organized or are organizing to develop the mineral re- sources of that section of the country. When such gentlemen as Major General Dix are in- terested in these companies we cannot doubt that they will add greatly to the wealth of the South, and increase her value to the Union. All tnese things, we submit, are the signs of a true progress and the promise of a magnificent future. Under the cloud is @ sure prosperity w Resolved, ‘That the education of the young in the prin. which cannot be long delayed. Instead of lis- tening to the complaints and the growls of dis- appointed rebels and abolitionists, we prefer ta look gt the tion of dl able. Those meh who are reconstructing the South, commercially and financially, are too busy to make speeches or write for the newspapers. We donot hear from festrictions, and the speedy and etlectual them; but we see that they are hard at work. + the strongest prohibitory statutes. Revolved, Tha! asa means o thix education, bealder By and by, when their labors are accomplished, they will tell us that the bitterest opposition feom the very soreheads, North and South, who are now complaining that nothing has been done, or that everything bas been done wrongly. on CITY INTELLIGENCE. Raruroap Casuatry at WILLIAMEBRIDGS. —A man, name unknown, who was standing upon the railroad track at Williamsbridge, yesterday, aa the down Boston oxpreas train was passing, was struck by the locomotive and in- stantly killed train which was approaching lim from another direction, ‘and did not hear or notice the alarm sixnals of the Boston jf, imin summoned a jury and held an in- quest.” A vordict Oks rendered ot “accidentally killed while walking upon the railroad traok.’* quite hot, the Haratp thermometer standing at 80 d9- degrees, and still it grew warmer, until three P.M, when the same instrumont indicated 88 degrees in the shade. But at this juncture, and as numerous over calcinized individuals were about to depart for the icy regions of the Catakill and White Mountains, and other individuals were thinking where they should fice from the sun and completely shut off his brilliancy as one would turn off a gaa light with a twist of the elbow, and the consequences were, a boavy shower of rain, which fell at intervals during the evening, accompanied by sheot ligh*ning of the most approved cuaracter, and thunder \ “ich far excelled that nightly produced from sheet-iron at Wailacks. The air was purified. The heat had departed. But it will doubtless come back again after a very brief starring season in some other portion of the homisphore. naval officers, who have been wounded and otherwise disabled from following their old trades or professions, and who come out of the servico with good records, are the.most proper persons, other things being equal, for filling positions in the various departmenta of the gov- eramont. But, from the statement of a young man who brought with him the very highest recommenda. tions, and who evidently posseases qualities which ta themselves would appear to be suificient to oblain the employment desired, it appears that the management of the Custom House in New York do uot always act upon this aupposition. This person says that he called upon Mr. Draper early in June last, taking with him 4 number of documents, upon one of which was the name of General Hooker, with whom ho served at Chancsilors ville. Mr. Draper at first favorably entertained his proposition for a situation, but subsequently turned bim over to a subordinate who appeared to have no intention of doing anvthing for him He patiently waited for something to “turn a but it will not turn up. Finally, he was bluotly ‘informed by an employe of the Custom House, that unloas he could get some .a- fluential politician to go personally and urge his case with Mr. Draper, he might give up his case as a hopeless one. The young man thinks there was something said about “‘buttering’’ the officials, a term the meaning of which he says he ts entirely ignorant, He also states that more than one applicant fora in the Custom Houso, who applied later than himself, has boen duly 10- stalled, They are mon who never say sorvico and who aro not, in his opinion, aswell quatifl for the position aa he id The young man in question served two. years in the army and navy, not aa a drafted man or a subati- tute, but asa voluntesr, and rendered duty to his country which gold could not supply or repay. He also returns with shattered hoalth and thinks it that men hoid- ing oflice under his ment cannot do something for him toward ‘capporting | ts wife and cea Tun Geawan Sootstr during the present month ox- pended $332 50 among destitue German immigrants. From the reports submitted st the last meeting of the directors, it appeared, that of the 23,903 immigrants landod at this port during the month of July, 7,484 were Germans, who in thirty-eight vessels arrived from the following ports:—From Bremen, in nine vessels, 3,649; from mai five vessels, 2,471; from Havre, in two vessels, ; from London, in three vessels, 197; from Liverpool, in seventeen vessels, 569, and from Rot. terdam, in two v 105. During the corresponding of last yoar 5,581 Gorman immigrants were landed at this port. ‘The expenses of the German So- ciety during the month amounted to $633 93. For the Relief Committee $300 were appropriated to be distei- buted among destitute German immi ite during the ensuing month, and several new moulbers were cloned, On motion of Mr. Westermann, a committee, composed of Mésers. Marcuse, ‘and Noyer, was ap- Pointed to take measures for the relief of the Germans who were on board of the William Nelson, and to see to it that the survivers are indemnified for their loss. interests may require, Collector Draper, after advising with the Secretary of th» Treasury, will order no further sales of government cotton. Meantime the cotton stored on Staten Island will be put in perfect order to await the upward turn of the market. Counranraits—Arasst oF ALLeGED ConxmoricoT Coonranvsrrers.—Our citizens must be aware New York is flooded with bad money, and we must have good offi- cers to stem the torrent of the spurious influx. Aman was arrested in Ninth stroet by L. ve Pe ve assisted Conn. We have seen the ipson Bank, remarkably well executed, and merchants radors should be on thelr guard. Fins m 4 Tateaaara Orrics.—A fire was discovered about half-past ten BR M., in the auditor's office of the United States Telegtaph Company, 117 Rroadway; but owing tothe prompé action and ‘assistance ‘of Mossra Hollahan and Wilkinson, members of No. 20 Engine, the flames were ly extinguished, with ut alight Vermnane ov tas Nuvta State Mirra —The second meoting of the Ninth regiment State Militia will be held this evening, at 386! Fourth avenue, Captain J. I. Van Alst 1 chair, forthe of permanent! \. ting tao vorored Pon bd set p Renfree Picaete Destruction by Fire of an O11 Well. Prrotm, Pa, August 3, 1865. Well No. 19, United States farm, on Pithole crook, ‘was destroyed by fire about soven o'clock this evening. ‘The well was finished yesterday and was flowing about two hundred barrels, and no tanks being up tho oil was allowed to flow on the ground. Some twenty persons were standing in and around the derrick, some of whom it is feared were unable to escape, for the ground for forty feet around was ofe sheet of fame ina mo. ment. Three menare known to be seriously burned, and only saved their lives by jumping into (hq crock. ‘The woll ia still Qowing and burning, to a market, and the sales of | on motion it was dogided to paas upod the resvtutious OF | temperance reformation, and should oxrt its offrta with materi | evidences of the regenera- | may become @ more permat ae 4 mat Hon apd erature, - cues which they have had to encounter has come | well Tt appeara that decoaséd was looking at a | were requisite as wel! aia tn time to make his scape. ‘The Coroner, T: Mason | absolute ideas of duty. Tas Weataen Ywsrsavay.—Yesterday commenced * grees at nino A. M., and it kept on “getting no cooler very faat,’’ until past noov, when the mercury indicated 86 | own defeat the heat to come, a great black cloud covered the face of Comptatrt ov 4 Vararan —It has boen generally con! judicial or executive offices unlass thoy are committed ib ceded that the voteran soldiers and officers, seamen and | favor of tho stringent probibitory laws. wee Tho Convention Resolve to Sustain No Candidates for Public Office Other Than Total Abstinence Men. ae Gerrit Smith as a Temperance Agitator. A SLIGHTLY INTEMPERATE DISCUSSION, 0, &., be. Saratoca Sramas, Auguat 8, 1805, Dr. Cincxmmuna, on behalf of the Committee of rao lutions, presented their report. ‘Tua resolutiona baving beon read the report of the opmmiltiee was accepted, aad seriatim, They fre as follows: — Resolved, ‘That, as a convention, we gratefully acsnow- ledge the good band of God in the past history of the aconstant dependence om the Divine Spirit and Prove dence. Adopted. j Resolved, That in tts inception and early provregs tt was largely'a religious movement, and that in subsequeab stages it has been greatly promoted by the Christian min. istry and the Christian Church. Adoptod. Resolved, That we invoke the cont nued increase of the services of ministera and professed Chirinty a especially the example of total abstinence from intoxt cating drinks, and tho thorough inoulcation of temper ance principles from the pulpit and in tho Sumday schools, x - Resolved, That we rejoice in the large ni stances in’ which pure wine baa been tse mental purposes, and that we invite all who spre Lord's table to consider whether they ahould not do Wey ciplea and practice of total abstinence is of permanout importance, ‘and that we appoint a cainmittes to bring the autyeot ‘of juvenile temperance associations and put fications to the special notica of the managors of the Sunday school cause and hoa that these Resolved, Tha the entire community sb cated nol only into the principles ‘and prac abst nence for the p-rsonal safety and the good but up to such ac tection a3 shall secure the pulpit, the Sabbath school and tae press, local or ganization’ sbali exist in towns and parialios on a perma nent basis, for mutual ion avd quicl for union and strengthening in th nenee. tot d, That homemade winds, and beer are a too cousMOf dana of educating children and others nto a taste for strong alcoholic drinks, and always the occasion for the fall of partially reformed men, and ¢hould be discountenanced by ail {leads of temperance. Geaait Sarit, in spoaking to the sixth rogolution, sata that ia his opinion the Convention, aftor all in this mns- tor, wan dodging their duty. re Judge Hatmaway rose to a point of order, viz:—Thas Mr Smith waa making remarks insulting to the conven tion, Tho point was not sustained, and Mr. Sarr resuming, explained that resolutions to wer not to the purpose, nor what was wanted; d [9 was sorry to see that the pro-\ hibition of the liquor traffic and the contemplated re forms of the temperance movement did not spring from Judge Hataaway a bo ruins 6 pies i uments of the previous gvnticman, who was een us the greatest rengaeiona atform of tha.times, apd bad been an unsuccesstal candidate for the wernorship a iuw vears.since on the temperance ticket, Ste Smith yesterday had atijgstizedtbe movement age failure, but he should not view it from” t>Malit. of bis Governor Bockromam took the floor and spoke at come length in refuting Mr. Smith’s theory of absolute duty and the unreasonable restraints it would impose on the actions of the citizen. 2 Governor Buckingham welcomed the foreign del present, viz :—Measrs, Dugal, McDonoagh, Morrill McKilliken, of Canada; Mr. Griffiths, of Wales, and gentleman from Siam. ‘Mr. Dvaat, of Montreal, presented, through the Secretary, a reaolution urging the advocates of temperance not to overlook the colored men iu their efforta, The following additional resulutions wore theo read:— Resolved, it we should do all in our power to seoure the nomination and election to officx of men known es thorough and consistent advocates of total abstinenge from all intoxicating drinks, Adopted. The following amendment was dobated at great length and rejected, viz:— That we will not vote for candidates for Aresolution which was presented, commending the@up- port of reformatory asylums for inebriates to the suppers of humanity, was laid on the table i Th» fourth rosoi ition was reconsidered and the follow- ing adoptod in ita at ad — Whereas, thare is no longer, in the estimation of eminent ministers and Christians, a plea for the use intoxicating wines in Christian ordinances, aaa fruit tho vine uatermented can so easily be obtained, giving full satisfaction, Resolved, Tuat, should all Christian churches confine themselves to that at the table of the Lord, it would re- move one of the strongest pleas for the necessity an@ immorality of the :ntoxicating wine traffics, one of the chief supports of the pretended innocence and Divine ‘sanction of intoxicating drinks. ‘Tho following report of th» Committee on Resolutiona, to whom was referred the medical phase of the question, was presented :— Rew |, That in view of the recent developmonts of and in this countey, ical men on both conti- nenta, and espocially in view of tho evil effects which are often known to follow the use of alcoholic medicines, this Convention respectfully but earnestly request all ea. gaged in this honor’ and influential fession to aubeti- \ | tute other articles in the place of alcohol, so far asta their judgment it can be wisely done Resolved, That Prof. A. P. Paimer, N. S. Davis and Worthington Hooker be a committee to convey our re- quest to the men of their profeasion, and uso such other meaus a3 they may deem wise and to sedure the co-operation of all medical men in the great cause we seek to advance, Resolved, That we commend the paper read before thie Convention by Dr. Jewott to the candid consideration of the public, and that it be printed and circulated for this end. The resolutions were adopted. Resolved, That this Convention do with the most heartielt gratitude to Almighty for the tunity given to the friends of temperance to selentific investivation in Leth tho published opinions of m: tance of our enterprise, and resolved to persevere and labor for the extension of our principles throughout our country and the world. ) On motion thanks were returned to Governor 7 ham and the other officers of the Convention, also to Mr. Wm. Anderson for the faithful report of the proceedings of the Convention, published in tho New Yous Huaasa. A report was prosented in favor of establishing a tem- Perance publication concern, and a resolution was adopt- ed recommending the coll of one hundred thoussaé dollars to circulate temperance literature. On motion the Convention iroed sine die. In the evening & public jubilee meeting waa _ which was addressed by a large number of gentlemen: the subject of temperance. The Odd Fellows’ Convention. ing to adjournment, at their hall, corner of Grand and Centre streets, at ten o'clock yesterday morning. Is consequence of the session of tho night provious baving * been protracted to two o'clock in the morning, n0 quo- rum was prosent, and the Convention adjourned te eight P, M. election, the polls were opened at two P. M., and ballets Whiner bustaee baring ‘bwn taponed tion adjourned, to meot to-day for the instalistion oifcora elect abd the completion of the general work. ‘ Conemat at Guan Covs.—Concorts at the watering places are quite in vogue this summer, We perosive that the Barili Brothers, Antonio and Ettore, are to give Sympathy and Ata. TO THE BDITOR OF THE HERALD. 4 New Yora, August 3, 1866, A poor blind woman, @ widow, sont her son, the sole support of horself and daughter, to the war. Hewas discharged just before bis two yoars were up on account. K ‘and 80 could not get the bounty, ee died, and the yout wane and her ay who live at 28 Norfolk street, are now entirely: Will some of Beige mi Ups fund for this ddonased patriots ing and sistor All amounts contributed will be qa knowledagd B. HURST, 960 Sroaduag, t9om Wa. tay