The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1865, Page 4

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General Fisk, Assistant Commissioner of the Freed- mon's and Re. igee’s Bureau for Kentucky, Tennessee and Northern Alabama, in an official communication to General Howard, calls Lis attention to the extonsive and slarming manner in which the government is being swindiod all through the South by the white inhabitants who are in good circumstances regularly drawing rations of food a the military posts. Ho says that many of the ebivalry acom to have no conscience in the matter, and that large numbers of those who are in really an affluent @ondition wake their regular demands on the army com- tMissaries and receive their suppligs. Major General Palmer, commanding the Department of Kentucky, bas addressed a communication to Presi- dent Johnayn in which he explains the difficulties he has to contend with in the regulation of negro affairs in that State. In consequence of the excitement there regard- meres the misrepresontations made to the ne- wgroes by pro-slavery orators, the General says that the blacks have flocked to Louisville and other points, and to Tid these placer of the extraor x ‘inary aceum: Class'of poprlation be has passes to wich of t Aho Stato anc et He vonsidors it top tion-of adnirs, to enforce the state laws in reference to ‘invory. He estimates that there aro now not more than about fifty thousand slaves remaining in the State of the two hundred and thirty thousand at the com- moncoment of tho war, and suys that slavery has no actual existonce in the State, and that if the con stitutional amendment for its abolition fails to receive a ratification thé whole colored population will feo. It is represented in our Virginia dispatches that there is much oppression of tho freedmen in the southeastern portion of that Stato by tho planters. Tho negroes are promised wages of only five to ten dollars per month, and re told that they are not yot free, and will not be until a specinl decree giving them their liberty is issued by the government. Thero is also said to be much opposition ‘among tho old Virginia aristocracy to Northern emigra- ton to their State teamed it proy ple as will leave | colored peo; of the Obie ** KGa for 0 national convention, to be composed of t throo delegates from cach Congressional district in the ‘Pountry, to.doviso menus for wsSiring the voting privi- ogo to the colored pooplo, is being extensively circulated and signod in Norfolk, Portsmouth and other parts of Bouthoastorn Virginia. ‘The Aimbrionn GafoR Oommission bas recently sub- mitted a slatomont of its operations to Major General « Howard, Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees aud | Freedmet in tho War Pepartmnept This commision ‘was organized in Jane, 1864, for the pur. poso of supplying relief to white inhabitants of the South, yho, wo a starvation, Tebol consorip. Lion sina othor calamlites, fod to the Nortu. Extensive homos for thom, where they were supplied with shelter, Pood and clothing, wore established im various Northern witios, Noarly Ls these homey are now closed, the of tho WAS rendaring ihour gaaigteuace Mo longer necessary; but the Commission Ande other work in supplying the Southern people ab thelr owa homes with many Kinds of articles of which they stand im much need, It is also engaged in promoting emigra- tion to that region from the North and in supplying the Southern schools with teachers. Tho Commission osti- mates the total value of ts receipts for the year ending June 18, 1866, at over one hundred and fifty-four thou- sand dollars. " A very interesting description 1s given by one of our Correspondents in Augusta, Georgia, of that city and the rich cotton region in the midst of which it is situated, the people, soil, appearance of the country and climate, together with important facts regarding the workings in that latitude of the new free labor system and the Freed- men’s Bureau. General Carl Schurz has been for some time past engaged in an inspection of these matters in Georgia and other Southern States, Jeff. Davia’ health is said to be still rapidly improving, in consequence of the daily open air walks in which he is now indulged. ‘The Post Office Department continues the work of ox- tending mail communication in the Southern States with all practicable rapidity. It hds just ordered the renewal of mail service on the Mobileand Ohio Railroad from Mo- bile to Columbus, Kentucky, tnoluding all important Points on the line. There are few additional revaens of the Iate oloction for members of Congress in Tennessee. What few there are do not materially alter the statements given in yestorday morning's Herain, THE CABLE. Our advices from Valentia, Ireland, by the steamship Germania announce the succossful splicing of the shore end of the Atlantic tolegraphic cable at that place with the ocean coil deposited on board the Great Eastern, and the departure thenoe of the monster vessel westward in the work of “pay- ing out.’ The Great Eastern was stopped ten miles from shore, on the 24th ult., in consequence of in- sulatory defects occurring; but these were soon rectified, and she proceeded on her voyage for Heart’s Content, Nowfoundland, at which place her arrtval is now hourly looked for. ‘A despatch from Aspy Bay, Newfoundiand, states that the party which left this city on board the steam yacht Clara Clarita for the purpose of repairing the telegraphic cable across the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Ond, after under- running it for some distance, that there is little hope of success in their enterprise. It is, therefore, probable that a new cable will have to be laid. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Germania, from Southampton on tho ‘26th ult., passed Cape Race, on her way to this port, on ‘Wednesday last. Our telegraphic summary of nows gives nothing ad- ditional of importance rogarding the English elections. The elections throughout France had resulted favorably for the government, Acommittee of workingmen has been established in Berlin for the purpose of organizing a series of masa meotings to assert the right of their class to hold public assemblages. Meotings of the workingmen had beon suppressed by the military in different German towns. The Italian government has received the official des- patch containing its recognition by that of Spain, ex- pressed fn the most friendly terms. A turtber subsidence of the cholers in the Levant is Feported. * Ia the London market on the 25th ult. United States five-twonty years bonds wero quoted’at 70a 70%. Con- Sols were at 89% a 90 for money. There was no ehange of consequence in the cotton and other markets of Liver- Pool, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Tieutenant General Grant and party arrived in Quobec last evening. The General was mot at the railroad sta- tion by na aid-de-camp of the Governor Goneral of Can- ada, and escorted to his quarters, Captain Percival Drayton, of tho navy, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, diod in Washington on Friday night, after an illness of only two days. Captain Drayton was a native of South Carolina, but throughout tho rebellion remained faithful to tho national government, and did much valuable sor- vice, including his participation in the recapture of Port Royal and the adjacent points in his own State, His funeral will take place in Washington to-morrow. In this morning's Huratp will be found some addi- tional very interesting correspondence from the oil regions, showing the wonderfully rapid style in which business is conducted there; the progress and improve- ment within a few months of the towns and their inhab- itante in the useful and ornamental arta, morals and tasto; the celtrity with which oil flows and money is made, and indications of another approaching crash. As an instance of the mercantile operations of the town of Titusville, it is stated that one house there makes cash sales to the amount of thirty thousand dollars por weck, ia addition to an extensive credit trade. An additional instalment of entertaining reading from the rural summer resorts is given in our columns this morning, including letters from the White Mountains, the Catakill Mountains, and Rose Hill, Connocticut, de- scriptive of the attractions and enjoyments of these dif- ferent localities, The street cleaning contractors have at present em- ployed in their work a force of seven hundred men and two hundred and eighty carts, and the streets of our city generally are in a tolerably fair condition. The violent interference of the strikers with the operations of the laborers Lins ceased, at loast for the present, Surrogate Tucker yesterday admitted to probate the will of the late Melvin 8. Whitney. This will, when executed, had named two persons as executors, and these names the testator had subsequently erased, and inserted two others, in his own hadwriting, but without ropub lishing the will before witnesses. The Surrogate held the first appointment to have been reyoked, and that no executors were appointed by the will, and granted lettors of administration, with the wil! annexed, to Poleg T. the tostator's brother, the t r's wife hay d upon her own c p work of putting the six tz © stoara boilers, 2 thelr propor places on val ram Dundorborg, at the foot ast river, was completed yesterday. The work was going on during ail of last week, and has been finally accomplished in the most satisfactory man- nor. The largest of these boilers weighs over sixty tons, fis height is seventeen and a half feot and its front twenty-one and a haif feet. A select party yesterday embarked on board the stoamer Relief, belonging to the Now York Coast Wrepk ing Company, and proceeded down the bay to Long Braneh, N. J., for the purpose of experimenting with the now life preserving raft Nonpareil. Off this place, aftor inflating the raft, some interesting and highly satisfactory experiments were made with it, It has three air-tight gutta percha chambera, capable of holding two tmndred and sov@® cuble feet of air and of sustaining a weight of eight thousand pounds. About three o'clock yesterday morning the ory of mur- dor wag hoard at No. 34 East Broadway. On procooding thither the police found lying im the doorway the dead body of Thomas Tristram, with blood flowing from a pistol shot wound in the broast. Three brothers, Jobn, Richard and Thomas Tristram, with their mother and othor members of the family, re. sided bere, and on the previous night it seemed the mon were intoxicated, and got ongagedin a quarre! with each other, A coronor's investigation of the affair was held yesterday afternoon at the Seventh precinct station house, when considerghle testimony was taken. Tho Jury rendered a verdict thot deceased was killed by his brother Richarl, who was committed to await the Grand Jary action, The other brother and his wife and the mother tho Rad Soqaired to give bail appoar &t the trial, MasiaP every yt mre ‘The magistrate’s examination of the circumstances connected with the murder at Manchester, Connecticut, of Mra, Starkweather and her daughter, took place on Friday last, Young Starkwbathor, Who stands charged | with the horrible atrocity of killing his mother and sister, maintained tyrqughont the proceedings a demeanor of coolness ahd hardened indifference. On the ooncla ston of the investigation he was committed for trial. The remains of Mrw. and Miss Starkwoathor wero interrod at Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, on Thnraday Jast. Tho Cuperal wag ayYNerousiy attended, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1865. row, plying between this city and Sing Sing, left this port for the latter destination, and a short time thereafter, when going along under an easy head of steam, burst one of the flues of ber boiler, scalding the freman to death. The engineer was also badly scalded, but not fatally. The passengers wore badly frightened, but wore not injured. On last Thuraday night the etore No, 365% Bowery was burglariously entered, and from the gafe in it about three thousand dollars worth of watches was taken. Early yesterday morning @ policeman discovered tho door of the same store slightly ajar, and on giving it a push a.man rushed out and endeavored toescape. He was captured, however, and, after a desperate fight with the officer, whom he repeatedly endeavored to stab, ho was conveyed to the station house. He is a Spaniard, about twenty-six years of age, and gave his name as Philip Eschberry. He is supposed to be the person who committed the burglary on Thursday night, and was locked up for examination. Simon Wolff, a German, doing business at No. 60 Codar streot, was yesterday arraigned in the Tombe Police Court and required to give two thousand dollars bail to answer the complaint of larceny, preferred by David I. Kooker, of Huntington, Pennsylvania, who oharges Wolff with having bought of him two thousand dollars worth of cigars and refused either payment or a return of the goods. Mile. Josephine De Vanior, ao French Canadian girl, yesterday astonished and delighted an assemblage of about four thousand persons at Elm Park, Staten Island, on tho Kill von Kull shore, by performing the rope walk- ing wonders which have given such notorioty to Blondin and Leslie at Niagara Falls, The rope on which Milo, Vanier yesterday walked was about one hundred and fifty feot in length, stretched at 8 hoight of over eighty fect, and sho not only passed successfully and with groat grace and case from end to end of it, but performed en route various diffeult feats, which called forth repeated rounds of applause from tho spectators. ‘The State Department at Washington has received off- cial information of the recent discovery of valuable guano deposits on the West India island of Rednida. ‘The stock markot was feverish yesterday, but it closed firm. Governments wero strong. Gold was steady, and otosed frm at 14334 a 14355. ‘Thore was but little chango in the commercial situation on Saturday, as compared with Friday, except that there was leas activity in foreign merchandise. The lower price of gold checked the movement in most articles, and the volume of business was small. Domestic produce was again irregular; but, on the whole, prices wer lower. Cotton was dull, and prices again deolined, as a natural result of the recent free arrivals. Groceries were rather quict, but stoady. Petroleum was dull and heavy. On ‘Change flour was 10c. a 16c. lowor, spring wheat was 20, a 3c. lowcr, and Michigan lo. a 2c. higher. Corn was 2c. lower, and oats were firmer. Pork opened dull and lower, but closed slightly Ormer. Lard was a shado off. Whiskey was steady. The Atiantic Cabic~-News from the Great Bastern. The Groat Eastern is on her way to Heart’s Content, if she has not already arrived there. She loft the shore ond of the cable off Valentia on the 24th ult, and, after some delay in re- pairing a flaw, had proceeded on her important expedition. On the 25th, when one day at sea, evorything was progressing successfully, and the signals received at Valentia from the Eastern were reported to have been perfect. his inveligenr, 60 far | ae it goes, ig very good and encouraging, It ist rue that the Great Eastern had been out only one day; but it should be borne in mind that in all enter- prises the startis half the race. With tolerably good weather the steamer ought to make the run, paying out the cable, in twelve to fourteen days. Ifehe left the shore end on the 24th ult. she is now in her thirteenth day, and news of her arrival may be hourly expected. Our communication with Heart’s Content, unfortunately, is interrupted by a recent disas- ter to the cable across the Bay of Fundy, and our telegrams from Newfoundland are conse- quently delayed twelve hours. This delay in awaiting news should be kept in view. There is but one discouraging point in the news brought by the Germania. That is the flaw reported to have been cut out on the first day. If the defective part proves a kink only, ora break from overstraining, there need be no apprehension ; but if the cable has flaws similar to the old one, there may be some fears entertained. Bnt the announcement--which we hope to make to-day—of the safe arrival of the Great Eastern, and the successful laying of the cable, will dispel all doubts and fears and apprehensions. Genoral Sheridan and the Monroe Doo- trine. The organ of the State Department in this city assaila Gonoral idanin a remarkable way for the exercise of the commonest right of citizenship—a right conceded to every frothy politician—the simple right to have opinions of his own and to express them. This assault is apropos to an extract trom a letter written by Goneral Sheridan, which was read a few days since at a dinner given to a Mexican gentleman in this city. The extract is as fol- lows:— ‘There is no use to beat about the bush in this Mexican matter. We should give a permanent government to that repyblic. Our work in cru: 3 the rebellion will not be done till this takes place, Tho advent of Maxi- tilian was a portion of the rebellion, and his fat should belong to its history, Most of the Mexican soldiers of Maximilian’s army would throw down their arma the moment we cross the Rio Grande. Tho French influence governed by sheer impudenos, (Cheers) This extract was read by Colonel Hillyer, a gent}eman formerly on the staff of Lieutenant General Grant. The organ of the State Department makes use ‘of this extract to strike at General: Sheridan over the shoulders of the person who read the letter, “to throw doubts upon General Sheri- dan’s discretion, and cast a blot upon his name as a disciplined soldier.” It says:—“ Genera} Sheridan is on the Texan frontier, nae 16 Aevige ® national policy, but to execute prescribed mites Haw fafounly Ts frGs at it suppdids to be the prerogative of the Siats Department, How coolly it tells one of the giindest heroes of the war what his duty fs, This organ considers that this extract, so full of the true national spirit, must dq Goneral Sheridan “the gravest injustice.” It does not openly declare that General Sheri- dan is indiscreet, or a violator of discipline, or that he goos beyond: his duty to meddlo in tho affairs of the State Department. It does not oclare this, since it assumes that he was igno- rant of the use to be made of his letter; but it leaves the implication of sll those charges against him in case it shall prove that he had no objection to the reading of his letter in pub- lic. To let people know what he thought on a great public question is his crime. If this organ truly reflects the opinions of the head of the State Department, it is quite time that department hada new head. It is evident that Mr, Seward is not the man for the present occasion if these are his views; and his place should be supplied by a man whose thoughts are more in unison with the thoughts of the people of the country on this great question. Gen. Dix, or some equally bold exponent of our national rights, is wanted there now that we have to discuss a great question on which tho welfare of two continents may depend and in which our national honor and dignity are in- volved. The notion that General Sheridan has not tho full right to express to a friend his views on @ public question, regardless of whether or not the friend may publish those views, is abaolutely 0 General Sheridan has’ pretty well shown that he will obey his orders what- ever they may be, and it is not less than a gratuitous ingult to assume that he will trans cend them under the influence of his opinions. : To make the fear that he will ao transcond them the basis on which he is to be deprived of the right of speech—a right dear to every citizon— is to outrage the respect that every one feels for the hero who has served the country so well, General Sheridan’s words, as quoted above, are the briefest and best, the most com- prehensive and most distinct, assertion of our national position in the Mexican question yet given to the country. They set the question so strongly in the popular view that eight hun- dred octavo pages of Seward’s correspondence on the subject could not destroy their effeot. And the giving this expression to the public is not the least of the services that this glorious soldier has rendered his country. Let every one remember tho very words, “The advent of Maximilian was a portion of the rebellion, and his fall should belong to its history.” We want the European Powers to ponder well these very words, and to regard them as 8 political axiom accepted by the whole Amer- ican people, without stint, qualification or reserve. It is the literal, simple truth of every man’s faith in this country that the imperial government in Mexico is part of the rebellion, and we shall never feel that we have entirely gotten through with the rebellion until we have driven that government out. We extend much of the samo fecling to Canada, Cuba and the Bermuda islands. Those territories, by the connivance of their governments, were 80 un- scrupulously used against us in the late war that we also regard them as part of the robel- lion, and we shall never rest satisfied sill they have changed hands, and until the last véstige of EvropSan power is driven from this conti- nent. That is the extent to which the Monroe doc- trine must go, and to which we are fully able to carry it. England and France must rocog- nize this as our political position on the ques- tion. They propose now another European congress, and the sooner they have it the better, and the more distinctly it is put before that congress as our final will and purpose not to tolerate any European Power on this continent the sooner the world will have a guaranteo against a great war. We donot propose to at _onoe into war, We can put a million men in the field in thirty days; but we do not care to do it. We have a navy of five hundred ships and a hundred and fitty thousand seamen; but we are not over-eager to use them in this way. But we want the European Powers to look at and consider all this force, and then to acknowledge that we are, and must necessarily be, the sole arbiter in this hemisphere, and to understand that their pigmy pretences here are simply impertinent. Let them see this and act accordingly; but they must do all that in good time, or the war will inevitably come. Municipal Corruption and the New York Press. The city authorities not only continue their profligacy in the management of our city gov- ernment, but succeed in subsidizing a majo- rity of the newspapers, through the distribu- tion of Corpotation advertising, or in taking them into their combinations, as in the case of the Tribune. They thus find in the managers of a largo portion of the New York press will- ing assistance in covering up their shori-com- ings, and in preventing exposure of their mis decds. In dealing out to each of the several journals from ten to fifty thousand dollars ad- vertising patronage they make it the interest of those papers not to expose the corruption which exists in almost every branch of the city government. Some of those newspapers would not be able to exist were ii not for this city advertising, and to them it is “hnsh money.’ They are only too happy to receive it and remain silent in reference to the deeds of those who confer the f o them. Our taxpayers can thus sce bow the money which they are compelled to pay over to tho tax gatherer is used to their own injury and to in- orease their burdens. The Tribune, which seoms to have taken upon ’ itself the special duty of defending the heads of departments, not only receives the full benefit of the Corporation advertising, but has other favors as a reward for its silence on the one hand and defence on the other. Since the ma- nagement of that concern has fallen into the hands of Sinclair, Gay and associates, Greeley has been forced into the background, and the Tribune used for the purpose of securing the passage of fat jobs at Albany. During tho last term of the Legislature the banditti who now control the Tribune ooncern secured the passage of the only really big thing which he- came a law during the sossion. This was a measure to secure a grand monopoly of the piers and whatves in city, of which Sin. clair is one of the Driiclpal incorporators, and it Jasald {5 woFth to tho parties intorosted in the nelghherb6od of two bundred millions of dol- Aig, Additional legislation is found to be neces- sary to make it successful; and, as a matter of course, it is the interost of the Tribune to re- ain silent in revarg to municipal and legisia- Soe soe : re SS. aa itsies until that ig eoogmplinhed. 11 is well known that the reform measures presente ed by the Citizens’ Association, and urged upon the consideration of the law makers, were all traded @f by Sinclair and associates for the passage of the piers and wharves monopoly. Tts success was based upon the defont of the ro- form billa, tn all this matinuviing the bon WGI of tho Tribune traded ypon Groolgy’a vit- ! sworn to against all the heads of departments. We announced this fact, and stated that they were to be immediately presented to the Gov- | ernor for bis consideration, and urged upon him prompt and vigorous action. A few weeks elapsed, when the Governor was forced to take ® short vacation on account of his health, and the heads of departments began to boast that arrangements had been made through the radi- cals and the Tribune concern to quash all the charges. This dodge we «iso exposed, which resulted, partially at least, in breaking up the bargain. The noxt dodge was in the Tribune announcing that charges had been filed against two of the heads of departments and-none other. This was followed by another article.in the same paper reiterating that charges had been made against but two officials, and then proceeding to argue that the Governor had no right to touch the others. The inference to be drawn from all this special advocacy by that paper, is, that finding it impossible to stand up against public opinion in the bargains to suppreas the specifications against all the heads of departments, the whole question has been compromised by an understanding to pro- tect all the departments but two, in considera- tion of agsistance in placing the piers and wharves job into practical operation on the part of those departments thus favored. This se- cures the real point which the Tribune concern has been driving at; hence the wrath of the mana) whenever we allude to it. One very bad feature in all this arrangement for the Tribune is tho fact that those depart- ments which are protected by this course are those which have beon tinotured the strongest with secession sentiments during our late war. The officials who boldly and openly supported the war are arraigned, while they are no more, and we doubt if they are in fagt on as guilty a9 pee nog if Governor’ Fenton will see by these facts the position which he will’ place himself in if he permita the Tri- bune managers, or any other set of men, to trade away his official action to benefit themselves. He had better let the whole thing olone than to be used as @ tool by designing mon in that man- ner. His action must be open and above board, free from “any taint of bargains or suspicion of bargains on the part of his party associates or party organs, The ring, or combination, which Sho Went ooaea te trying to cancy out for their own benefit with the Street Departaiént will furnish the Governor a pretty good idea how the corrupt schemes are put through, and the mode adopted to floece and plunder the city. It is the schemes and operations of that kind which our citizens desire broken up. If the Governor is wise he will not be led astray by the newspapers which have been subsidized by Corporation pap or legislative jobs, but pro- ceed to a thorough investigation, and remove, wherever he can find a just cause, without fear or favor. Buspixs 1n Patrowa.—There are ups and downs in petroleum, as well as in everything else, and since the brokers have taken hold of petroleum stocks we have had some very queer exposures of swindling operations. But the most laughable development of all was the sale, at the Petroleum Exchange, last week, of one thousand shares in a certain company for five dollars and fifty cents—about balf a cent per share! At this rate the nowsboys and boot blacks would soon be buying up all the stock were they not too shrewd to invest their sav- ings in any such concerns. Wo advise our pe- troleum millionaires, who aro now dashing about at the watering places, to come home and examine their securities: Half cent a share for petroleum stocks is the latest bubble afloat Fine Arts, ‘The first casos of antique marbles discovered at Tassos by M sve arrived at tue Louvre Mr, ieiy O'Neil, AR, A, of * ard Hol"? co- lobrity, i< )..-sengor on board the Great Kastorn on hor Transat: eal laying expedition, eo that we may look for some artistic oo of the trip. A medallion portrait of V'r Albert, which is inter: costing as the frst completed specimen of English earthen mosaics, haa been placed over the entranco to the bal- cony, whence visitors look into the north court of the South Kensington Musoum. Tho background is pro- duced in Powell's gold mosaics; the red necktie, an ex- ceptional portion of the work, is made of glass mosaic, bronght from St. Petersburg. Tho work is placed in rathor a dark situation, rendoring it difloult to speak de- cidediy of the character of its execution. It looks very well indeed at the proper distance. The full length figure of Nicola Pisano, designed by Mr, Leighton and executed by Dr. Salviati's mosaic process, which has been placod in the wall-arcade of the loan court at South Kensington, is on the whole, considering the moderate experience that has been yet obtained in works of that class, vory satisfactory. It is a little black in parts of the coloring, but wuch less 89 and tess opaque than thi mosaic from Mr. Stevops’ design, which occupies ong the Setidentives of St, Paul's One of the moat powerful and undoubtedly the most original of Belgian painters, M. Anthon Wiertz, died sud- only at Brusgels jn thg beginning of last month. Every ono who has visited the capital of Belgium, and thas taken an intorest in tts treasures of art, will remem. ber the Musée Wiertz, noar (he Zoological Gardens, and ite quaint, grotesque, but grand paintings. This musoum had ‘deen built for him at government oxpense, and was open to the public for a small entrance foe, Wiertz had tho po- culiarity never to sell any of his ploturoa, most of which wore of Coldkaal dimonsions, “Wierte wag born at Dinnnt, in 1806, and reeoived his artistic education at Ante, wader ¥ 0, influence on tho Belgian sche,ol, in color and form, has beén vory great. Ho wasa tiie samo tino an oxcelloat art critic, andGalf"a short while ago the Royal Acadomy awarded bim a prize for his Rigay oft the old Minish School, “His lant wish was tfo ig. torved in bisatalior, but its unogrtain abil Wher this will be oompliod with, ‘Tho atollof Tivol “ith the whole of the paintor's works, heoom tf {h6 ™oporty of the gov- orniment according to LréVviODAZ grooment, In the in- teront of art, it ia miss antig’etory to know (hat this fae collecuion whl ot be Osporagd by tho suotionsoring baamon THE PARK. Musie and Thunder Storm—Projected ‘Wednesday Concerts—Zovtogical Acqui- | ffl jis ne 2 a / i ; B cent acquisitions be side the arsenal, not far -from tho beaver, in a C for him and fenced round, Ho is @ Ene fellow, about ten foot 1o1 ion of countenance as the 6 diffic is how to give the public @ fairchance te get a look at him, and at the same time to avoid all of accident. At sey this desideratum is hardly tained. Though he lies very quiet, shedding crock tears over his ‘captivity, the crittor might prove awk on oocasions. A man’s log would be only mouthful him, and a good fat baby nowhore. ‘There is some talk of a speody commencement of restaurant at the Park. Some extension of the accomo- dation at present afforded in the eating and drinking line has lon; m needed. Messrs. ford & Stetaon, the enter} lessees of the Casino, do the best tm with the limited space at their disposal, but more room is @ necessity. The Park, the Road and the Track. TO THE BDITOR OF THE HERALD. Four o'clock strikes, and leaving down town cares te look after themselves, we take a horse car and procee@ up town, for the purpose of having a drive up the road, to aee how our old friends and their favorite trotters are doing this hot summer weather, Ring goed the bell ot the stable door, which being opened by Peter, our faith- ful “boy,” shows our ponies already hitched up to ene of those fairy single seats. “Well, Peter, everything all straight?” “Yes, sir; fine as a fiddle.” Putting on along duster, we take our seat behindthe | gorrel and black, and, drawing up the reins, drive out into the street. Can't say muoh for these side streets; Jolling and pounding, into holes and out again, is the rule. Don't think any of the Croton Board own trotters. They mast confine themseives to riding in an omnibus or they would havo pity on light wagons and have the up town streets made decently passable. We are glad to reach Fifth avenue, where we find a smoothet surface to drive on. Hore is the usual crowd of vehicles, barouches, brotta, buggies, dogearts and victorias, with « lively sprinkling of trotting wagons, whooe drivers. ge . we'reach tho’Park we oan proceed at a slow jog, forthe surface of the roads is smooth and very nice for wheels torua on, Byt bd oapofyl aot to drive 105 fou, Cor this “mon in gray’’ will give you warning if you do. What beautiful lawns stretch away to the right and let, with glimpses of water through the shrubbery? How majestically the white swans sail along upon thé bosom of the Iake, scarcely escaping the oars of the | Mle whoso merry occupants try in vain ret sweet scare them from their dign! See Sp Soaks rnp pe in the. grass of the lawns, often ‘ocome acrowaseme strange animal or bird, whose appearance and genoral ‘make loses its foreiga birts. We had a headsohe ems hd loga tat iegag oan pyetye rs m 10 wi we lost a right leg. God nation’ through to Macomb’s Dam, Sifts om the fang thet has’ boon lft fora water bu on the lan; a8 B ly will ‘Ruse some broken axletrees and pve ing before the summer is over, if not arranged dif- forently. ni ane oe tieTHoct, Pekles Sony with ity Wink, in Kin) the , Pickle; who ‘won ® cool thousand for him last woek; Hi phrys, with his stallion and mate; Billy Carr, and sor- rol maro; Voorhees, with Mac; Wilder, with his brows and black; Leadbetter, with his white footed sorrel mare. Titi gait” How it makes tho blood tingle to vee the 8) it. yw it makes 800 well care for’ beauties striving not 0 dfanonars helt owners. Here is Hoffman, with Butler and Boston Boy, taking a quiet speed by themselves; the Boy with his nice strido going so free and '. ‘And ‘now we have reached. Pete. Du track and find a goodly array of trotters the sheds, looking so neat in their fancy summor Our horses checks are let down aud well sponged out; and now we wilt £4 The barroom and piazza are now fill eS ‘rive Shor ‘eth largely. predominates, ts: heard’ oa which “horse talk’ largely predomi every side. Milk punches and sherry cobblors are boi nb e is warm and thirst cussing the morits of their horses or matohos past and te come. Every few moments out comes'a memorandum book, and a bet of some hundreds.or. t asthe cage may be, is written within, that some one will lose, and, of course, some one will win. 6 ladies’ stand, a very neat ono, too, is farther dowe the track, and plenty of fair ladies occupy it, watehi: their husbands’, brothora’ and lovers’ horses as they past, and when two or three ‘“‘brush’’ each other, they show by their animated countenances that they can ap- seen aged horse as well as we of the masouline, a. iif ili ‘ take an observation, and find Cushman and having « bout with thelr double teams, Forguson, with lig bobtailed trotter, is making tho sand fly, too. Goo. Allen, with his brown Hambiletonian colt: Dr, Moreland, and Patchen etallion; Harker, with Brunette; Brock, with bay mare; the vonerable Jolin Harper, with bis team of sorrels, and Commodore Vanderbilt, with Post Boy and Rockingham. Ab! Clear the track! tho groat dov ble toam driver, with “Gogged”” them, and now comes up ( out your watches, gentlemen.” “Go!” is a sond off they leave round the turn, and up the hill, trotting steadily and well. The white is reached in twenty-six seconds, and they di ind the hill, and, quickly reappearing, they are going that quick time wil skip or break. 6 score is crossed, moute and twenty-one and three. is ntated to be the ume lo by different watch a rate of fast to equal, if not owned a Patterson, a hilly, and the difficulty of driving wide omy Show oe , makes it some ton seconds slower. Bonner’s Peerloas is down in her shod, probably waiting for her time to be beaton; but old Lantern is ng, e rapid gait under the saddle round the track, beating au] every time. He would make a good faro banker, becanse he never breaks, Old friend Dolson is quietly watching the rotina, one thinking of the timo whon Clak- vpaviiekt to depart png! Ly 1 for home, ia 80 We wi leave rod company too, for oro is Low Martin, with Jack; Riley? it Buctuin antl an ay se, Rear isloy, with Bucksjin; Runkle an i with Brother Jonathan And Pet, and Upton, with Pearl Di vor, So we Gnd ourselves going which we keop until the Park is wi slowly jog along to give our horses a ‘wind di cool off, 80 tat we oan bring them in in good condition, ‘The stable we directions to Peter te Wo iniond to viel toe island. and oa the Quam of ihe We intent wv 1o Turf, Flora Temple, now th the hands Mr, Lop | For here comes Dun Waltor, bay team, He haa i es | I the #tqry as they como eileptly 9 ; és Convention Et Saratogs. noe bobbi PROM ABV, TH stories, wig % ‘THA HERALD, ‘ro TAM BDIT oe Brooryys, August 4, 1866. ‘Tho Henaun WAS More prompt than, finy Now York Journal in reporting tho proceodings of ee Jaleo National Tenge Qonvention a ‘ tin your report Spposed stipalal alniaminy Pot atntoodie ow mp oj 4 tho radi on tal . iow to say that T have nob ised total absti from intoxicating drinks for lifetime, but aj at defended the theory of total ft ago ” poly | basis for the temporance i Ha at ‘act OA thi hake one oa ek Wipers We Gee duo to .