The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1866, Page 4

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The steamship tty of Paris, from Quoenstown on the Tth of June, reached this port ata very early hour yea terday morn.ng, Her nows is four days later, « War between the Ger.nan Powers and between Austria end Italy was rezurded as mevitable, From Pars wo have the announceneut, whieh is confirmed by an official statomont of the Brit.sh Cabinet to Pariiament, that the prospect of a European “ongress of settlement must be abandoned, in cousequence of tho conditions which Austria stip lat-s as absulutely essential to secure her wlhesion to its organization, The main and tolling polut of her roq iromont 1s to the effect that no ‘ territorial aggrandizemen.’ or “incroase of power’ should be #ought by ‘any one’ of the Powers taking part in the oliberations, It was consequently thought that Aus tria, russia and Italy would, at least for the present, be loft to arbitrate lucie quarrel by force of arms, without modiation. During the debate on the English Reform b lls ta the Blouse of Commons Mr. Disraeli took occasion to doliver @ fierce assault on Lord Clarendou’s conduct as dipio- matic roprosentative of the country im national con- forences or cougressea, charging the noble Minister with having showu hinseif as a “conspirator’’ against the free newspaper press of Europe in the Parla Coufereucs of 1858. Lord Clarendon, speaking to a question of priv- lege in the House of Lords, denied the scansation warmly, aud wenton to show that it was unfounded, assorting, in otuer words, that Mr, Disrac did pot Know what he was talking about, At n session of the Danubian Principalities Conference in Paris, tae Russ an representative, in argument on #ome technical puiut, -aia that if Turkey seut an arned force iuto Rouwaaia the Czar would also seud one. Tho news of the bombardinent of Callao by the Spaniards called forth tho most severe censure of the English prose A Paris lever says the police have discovered thy ramitications of a Bourbon-Neapolitan plot in Paris aud solzod letters tend.og to impiicate the “panish govern mont Messrs. Agra & Masterman's Bank of Lonion had sus- pended payment with “heavy and widespread: liabili Ges." Tt was thoagut that Messrs, (Sir Morton) Peto & Bolts would resuine business in w few days. Thy London Stock Exchange was vill very nervous; but the London hat the “story” of the condi- National Bank in Washington ny of the events which occurred durmgghe ad. sols raced .n London, June 7, at 8575 a 86, United ve-twenties were at 64 @ 643%. The Liverpool market was very dull, with prices one-half of a States cote Penny lower on tho 7th instant, Breadstafs firm, with a duil market, Provisions inactive, CONGRESS. The Senate was not tn session yestertay, having on Friday adjourned over until Monday, To the House no b si hs trananctod, it having pre- viously been vrdered that the session should be devoted to apeech-making. Mr. Morrill stated that ho belicved this would be the last day of tho session for membors to indulge In general discussion, and he hoped they woald make the most of it Mr. Garfield gave notice that he would on Monday offer a resolution directing the Com- mittee on Mileage to examine and report what d.screpan- cy thore was Uetwoen the amont of mileage received by mombors of the lant Congress and the amount ciaimed by thom, and for the commiitee to allow no moro mntlo- ago to ® meniber than is claimed by him. Ho siated that im several instances the mileage of mombers had beon set down as considurably greater than the sum claimed. Mr, Stevens gave notice of his intention to Offer a resolution requiring the Committce on Foreign Affairs to inquire into the propriety of loaning the tepublc of Mexico twenty million dollars to enable said rpanlic to prevent the overthrow of the government Ant the establishment of a monarchy on the continent of America Mr. Stevens poke tn strong terms against the policy of France, and declared that the Monroe doc- {rine must be maintained, Speeches wore made by Several memoers on various subjects, when the announce 4 bet the death of James Humphrey, Rep- fr sional district of New ¥ ’ of respect, adjourned. * LU ANEONS, 19 Correspondent, t + ia a most ‘ively and piquant Pe 1! with Interesting accuracy, a deseription of the loot mode io ladies’ Cressea, bonnets, hate, jackets, Crigolines, and other necessary etcwteras of the toilet, With ali the cats and colors, as seen displayed at the rieem for the great French Derby. The Hoalth Registrar yesterday reported three addi. Hoon! cholera cases aa having ocourted in the city, Two Foauited in death, one at No, 161 Waverley place, and the other At No. 86 Oak street Tho third case is located fn Oak street, but at last accounts the pavient was sill Blive, and hopes Were entertained of ultimate recovery. ‘The now building fo be used at Soguine’s Point hhoapital for weil persons has been completed, Steam t 4o be Introduced as a disinfectant, Three deaths are roported by Dr. Dissell as baving ocourred since his last Biatement, but no new cases had beon re-eived. A fow days ago a plot was brought to light on board the United States receiving ship Vermont, lying of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, jn which (he ailors on board Phat vousel wore about maturing & conspiracy to murder boos vDioors ang (hen proceed ou shore ou 8 raid to mur- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1866, | dor apd pillage, The ringleaders tm the affair were ar- ] Highty Important from Europe—The restod aad put in iroms, Colonal Roberts, Président of the Fenian Brothorhood, aad James ptophens, C. 0. L R, aro in Washington, Roberts has had overal interviews with prominent mem- bers of Congress on the subject of the repeal of the neu- trulity laws, aud it iseaid that they have expressed warm sympathy for the cause he represents. Stephens, oD the other hand, is working for the good of the cause in Iroland, and many of the Sweeny Fenians have visited him since the fallure of the Canadian invasion, and aro now advocating diroct assistance to the mou in the old country. ‘There was little excitement among the Fenians im the city yesterday, Messrs. Cary, Scanlan, Meehan and Fitzgerald, Senators of the Fenian Brotherhood, arrived from the front and stated that Major Gibson, of the Third United States artillory, and United Statea District Attor- ney Dennison, of Vermont, were the informere who awore the depositions under which Generals Sweeny and Spear and Colonel Maban wore arrested. A public indignation meeting is proposed for Wednesday evening next, at Union square, when certain matters relative to the action of government officials in the matter of the lato Canadian invasion will be discussed. There was quite @ rush for licenses at the Excise Board yesterday, which kept the Inspector busily em- ployed throughout the day. The amount received by the Treasurer of the Board up to last night was close upon one million dollars, In the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday, before ‘ Judge Cardozo, the case of Paul Falk against the Com- missioners of Excise came on for hearing. Tho ques- tion at issue ia whether the plaintiff has a right to sell lager beer on Sundays, The defendants dony that ho has, and set up the recent Sunday liquor act as probibit- ing Lim from doing so, Mr, Houry L. Clinton made a long argument on behalf of the plaintiff. ‘The matter will be again taken up by the court on Friday next. Inthe United States Circuit Court yesterday, Judge Smalley presiding, J. Nelson Luckey, a banker and broker of this city, waa arraigned on the charge of mak.ng and issuing false papers to obtain money from the United States. The defendant pleaded not guilty, afier which the case was set down for hearing on Thurs- day next. The court thon adjourned to eleven o'clock to-morrow. In the United States Commissioners’ office yesterday, before Commissioner Betta, the case of Marcus Cicero Stanley, who had been notified to appear in connection with th: charge of alleged bounty frauds in Hobokea, was again called on, A motion bad been made to dischargo Mr. Stanley on the ground that the affidavit on which he was held was pst Sufficient to justify his detention. The case was ad- Jjourned to Wednesday next, when, it is understood, Gen- eral Fry will be examined. The Commissioner said Mr. Stanley was not under arrest. A motion was also made to discharge other parties who had bee: notified in re- gard to the saine case, The matter, it is expected, will be deposed uf next week. A gentleman named Warner, of Newark, having missed the iasi train from Jersey City on Friday evening, was pro ced np, to walk by the railroad track, whep he foll through a bridge and became insensible, While in this siate Le was robbed of a gold watch and ono hundred dollars, It turned out that a trap had been iaid tor him in this city by some robbers, who secured the plunder. He received eerious wounds in the head. Henry F. W. Stucher was arrested yesterday on a charge of bigamy and committed for trial by Jusiuce Hogan, Mayor Cleveland, of Jersey City, who is extonsively engaged in the manufacture of stove polish, yesterday mad» complaint aganct two men named Daniel Moore and Charles W. Seabury, wuom he accused of manufac. turing a bogus article and placing thereon counterfeit labels. The defendanis were cach required by Justice ‘Hogan to give five hundred dollars bail to answer beforo the Court of Sessions. A miliiner named Sallie Forrest, living in East Broad- way, Was arrested yesterday on a charge of forgery, pre-. ferred against herby str. Garrett Smith, jeweller, No, 170 Bruadway. Mr, Smith made affidavit that in April last the accused and one Henry Mason gave him, in payment for a watch and.chain valued at two hundred dollars, a check on the Hudson City National Bank, purportiag to have been drawn by Sylvester Keeney, but which subse- quently proved to beatorgery. ‘The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was held to bail in the sun of two thousund doliars to auswer before the Court of Sessions, A balioon excursion, an oxtended description of which will be found eleewhero, took place yesterday from Now. ark under the auspices of Professor Wood. Dr. Solomon Andrews and Professor Wise were also present, General Dulce, late Captain-Geners! of Cuba, arrived in Washington on the 12th instant Ho was immediatoly waited upon by che Spanish Minister, who oxtended to him the hospitalitics of lta house, Soerctary Soward in the afternoon accompanied the guests on a visit to the President and members of the Cabinet, after which they valted the public buildinga, Ata dinner given in the evening to General Dulce, by the Spanish Minister, at which many distinguished persone were presont, Secre- tary Seward, in the courso of conversation, displayed con-iderable witticiam and classical lore. Mr. George Lbrowa, who withdrew from the Canadian Cabinet last winter, slated in the Provincit Perliamont on Friday, as the reson for his ret{rement, that ho was in favor of submittiag conditions on the part of Canada to the United States fora renewal of the Re treaty, while Mr. Galt aud a majority of the C: favored the optmoa What the United States should sav mit the terms, A fire occurred in Carysville, Genesee cons York, on Friday night, which destroye’ the portion of the business section of the vill: is estimated at over one handred thoars: Major Genoral Monde was present ai au of the day. In the evoning ho { afriend, Ho was to leave for Niagara Falls this morning, and thence return ty his home in Philadelphia Yesterday being the anniversary of tl tile of Se ceasionville, 8. C., the citizens of Char! ene! the duy by showing respect to the tmemory of the Con federate dead. Tho ladies decorated the nolia Cemetery, appropriate relis\ vu hat, the bells were (tolled, and busines+ was generally sus- pended. The officers of the Petroleum Bank of Titusville and the Bank of Franklin, Pennsylvania, are about to insti tute a suit against an ex-Auditor General of that Stato for the recovery of @ million and a quarter of United State bonds deposited with that official as security for circulating medium by these banka. The present Auditor General has appointed a commision to Investigate the affaires of tho Bank of Franklin, in which evidence of fraud appoars to exist, We publish the particulars else- where, The stock market was dutl yesterday. Gold was ox- cited and buoyant, closing at 1604. The markets were still unsettled, and commercial values were nominal, Tolders were In most cases free sellers, or would deen but for the backwardness of buyers, who generally hold off awaiting a reection in gold, Hat prices have hot gonerally advanced in ropor- tion to the advance in gold. Cotton was extremely dall, with @ declining tendency. Sugar was held at decidedly higher pricea Coffee was unsalable, On ‘Change broad- tufts advanced materially, closing firm at the improve. ment Provisions were generally firmer, Poiroloum was dull and irregular, Whiskey steady. ty, New greater serviced were Tas Cocrt Hovse Norsance.—For nearly three years the new court house has stood in an unsecmly and perfectly disgusting condition of incompleteness; a shameful monument of peculation and political jobbing. Many frauds of a public character are done in secret and hidden away from tho public, but this gigantic frand {s thrast boldly before the popular gaze as if to show how defiantly the treasury can be plundered and the public can be offended by an unsightly nuisance, Some time ago an “Investigation” was got up ostensibly to discover where the charges of fraud lay, but really no doubt only to divert a more serious inquiry into the fhets connected with the court house job and to cover up the clingnenctes of the parties implicated. It was © mere rose and had ho honest intention about it It is time that the question should be pro- porly looked into and the building finished in some shape or other. The nnfinished structare, with its ropes and derricks and seaffoldings, has stood too long as an eyesore to the passers by. In no city in the world wonld such a nal- sauce be permitted to remain for half the tlme, | look for actual war £1 any moment; craves of Max. | Proposed Peace Comgress Snuffed Out by Austria. The four days later news by the steamship City of Paris, the details of which we submit to our readers this morning, will be found in one particular at least, of the highest moment, We refer to the snuffing out by Anstria of the Proposed Peace Congress, Invited to join this Congress by Napoleon, and in the courteous style of the spider’s invitation to the fly, Austria proves too old a @y to be caught én the web of the gay deceiver. She will not go into the proposed congress to bo victimized. She requires before hand am assurance from all the Powors concerned that they each renounce any special or particular interest calculated to disturb the general tranquillity; or in other words that they respectively disclaim in ad- vance any purpose of a territorial augmenta- tion or increase of power, in becoming parties to this"Congress, This sine gud non of Austria quashed the proceedings at once. The three neutral Powers, England, France and Russia, coincided in the opinion that in view of this Austrian ultimatum the proposed congress would be without any useful result, and that it may therefore be considered as Indoffnitely postponed. Mr. Gladstone had communicated this intelligence to the British House of Com- mons, and the impression produced in England, a8 on the continent, was that a widespread con- tinental war must inevitably and speedily fol- low. Austria, in this treacherous business of a congress, has shown a remarkable degree of sagacity and pluck. Without the conditions she interposed in regard to that congress her position therein would have been that of the sheep to be sacrificed by the council of wolves. Through the influence of Napoleon and his sup- porters she would have been required to sur- render to Prussia those Danish Duchies, the spoils of a joint robbery in the north, and to give up Vonotia to Italy in the south, and all for the sake of peace. Of course Napoleon would have had his compensations from Prus- sia (say to the left bank of the Rhine), and trom Italy (say in the island of Sardinia), and everything would have been beautifully settled at the expense and humiliation of Austria for the present and greatly to her prejudioe in viow of fuiure Ewropean complications, At all the hazards of a war, therefore, with two or three Powers and on two or three sides at once, Aus- tria politely says to Napoleon, if peaco can be secured to Europe only by territorial epolia- tions from our empire, including Venetia, let there be war. The drama, as wo anticipate it, will be opened in Venetia first, in some overt act by the Ital- ians, and then in 2 regular invasion of Italy by a well appointed Austrian army, exceeding, pevhaps, one hun ‘red end fifty thousand fight- ing men. Then we my look for the movement of another French army over the Alps to res- oue young Italy und to reduce Austria to terms. In the meantimo there may or there may not be a war between Anstria and Prussia, but if those two important characters in the play avoid a collision there will be a slight hitch in Louis Napoleon’s scheme of European recon- struction. Yor his imperial purposes, however, he can honestly say, with Sir Lucius O’Trigger, that this German imbroglio is “a mighty pretty quarrel as it stands” and that “it would be a pity to spoil it.” France desires war and a regular Napoleonic imperial campaign agerinst the old dynasties and those detested treaties cf the Holy Alliance of 1815. Russia is ready and eager for war, with a hungry eye upon that doomed “sick man of Turkey.” England, however, is bound to keep the peace, and is the only one of the three neutrals really anxious for peace. This is why the projected conference was so easily snuffed out. Had France and Russia really desired peace thoy could, with England, have dictated their own torms to Austria, Prussia and Lialy, and compelled them to accept those terms and io come into a conference with this understanding. As the matter stands we may andl if orce commenced there is no telling what shape it will assume, what e’ements will rise to con- ivol it or y Nt oscape it, as between the divine re ings and the inherent and inelienable ry bts of the people. We apprehend thet the repnblican revolu- tionary elements of the Germanic States, in- cluding Limgary, will soon take a command- ing position in the foreground and give a new direction to the chapter of eventa; and we ap- | prehend thet England, in spite of herself, will be drawn afer a while into another Holy Alli- an If +o, then the hour will be at hand for x rising of the Fenians of Ireland, for Fronce will be there to help them. In any event, from all the 80 of the times, as it is apparent that the old feudal system of England will not ea- capo the general shaking up of the kings and aristocracies of Europe by the people, Ireland's opportunity, with England’s difficulty, may not be far off. The war which Austria has accepted as preferable to Napoleon's Peace Conference will involve larger questions and greater con- sequences than Schleswig-Holstein and Venetia. Tue Presipext’s Vato or 4 Minto Sreccia- Tion Bui.—Some speculators, called the New York and Montana Iron Mining Company,adroit- ly engineered through Congress a bill giving them the exclusive right to take a large and valuable body of mineral lands in Montana Territory at one-sixteenth minimum goverr ment price required from other pre-emptora. ‘This is one of the many schemes for robbing the government and the people which our radi- cal Congressmen and legislaiors are in the habit of favoring. The present Congress is rivalling the corrupt Legislature of New York In such jobs. The principol engineer In the Senate of this Montana job, it is reported, was Ben Wade, one of the chiefs of the radical party and a man who is most bitter in his de- nunciation of President Johnson and every other conservative man in the country. The loud-mouthed and violent radical Puritans are always the first in such schemes, It is always thus in revolutionary times when extreme factions attain the ascendancy In public affairs. The lenders talk loudly of humanity, virtue and the public good, while at the same time they are guilty of the grossest conduot. Such demoralization ecems to be Incident to periods of great domestic convulsions and revolutions, and unbappily we do not escape from it The President will intensify the hostility of the corrupt faction controlling Congress by his veto of the bill; but he will have the satisfaction of knowing that he has done bis duty to the country. This bill, as land distribution to a privileged olass, and be has had the patriotiam and courage to veto it in spite of the hostility be may provoke. It is fortunate there is a breakwater comewhere to | stem the torrent of corruption that now tareotvas the countey. The Summer Season at the Watering Places. From present appearances this will be the most brilliant season that our watering places have ever seen. The war is over; there is no danger of a financial crisis; everybody has plenty of money and all the world is going out of town. The warm weather of the past fow days has inangurated the exodus. City residences are being shut up and the adver- tisoments of country board are the best read articles in the papers. At Saratoga the season has already opened and its glories will culmi- nate during the excitementof the race week. Unlike Nowport, with its beautiful cottages; Long Branch and Cape May, with thelr ocean bathing, and all of our other watering places, Saratoga isa transient resort. Nearly every- body goes there; but it is only to stay a week or two while travelling tp or from other summer haunts, This and the burn- ing of one hotel » year and the drinking of medicinal waters are the peculiarities of the place, which is the Bath of this coun- try, as Newport is the Brighton, Within a fortnight at latest Saratoga and all the other retreats will be in full blast. The waiters, now 80 very polite, will then do nothing if not bribed. The landlords, now cordially welcoming their guests, will then be engrossed in the manufac- ture of long bills, We presume that there will be the same tad cookery and bad wines, the same impoliteness and inattention, the same flirtation and dissipation and a greater rush and crowd than ever. There are so many watering places in tho United States, and they are all so naturally or artificially attractive, that we cannot be mis- taken in anticipating the time when Europeans will come over hero to spond their fashionable recess or vacation, instead of yoing to theirown old resorts, of which they are getting pretty thoroughly tired. In a few years, when half a dozen English lines are running trom Liverpool to New York, half a dozen French lines from various ports to this city, and helt a dozen German lines trom the free cities of Europe to the freer cities of the United states, there will be a tremendous influx of visitors every year, who will patronize our wateriag places during the summer and return when the weather grows cool. Just as crowds of Americans rush over to Europe now #0 crowds of Europeans will rush over to America then, We have grander and more beautiful scevery than Europe; the recent war has given us that historical interest which we previously lacked, and as the number of lines of steamers is increased the expense of a trip to this country will be proportionately diminished. We hoped at one time that Amori- can steamers would take the lead in this matter and reap the benefits of the increasing travel; but it is now evident that Congress cures nothing for our ovean lines, and that, by the general consent of our officials, our repre- sentatives and our merchants, England and Frauce are to be left to rule the soas between them. But no matter who owns the steamers, the Europeans will certainly come: There is so much. to sce here; our white, red, blue and hot sulphur springs have such medicinal virtues; our mineral waters are so varied and so efficacious, and life at our watering places ia so delighttul, in spite of many litile hotel annoyances—which will soon be reformed, now tha’ such landlords as Stetson, of the Astor, who has opened a hotel at Long Branch, are taking the fleld— that before very long Bath, Brighton, Vichy, Baden Baden and all the Kuropean resorts will be comparatively deserted in our favor, While the landlords look forward to this golden future there is quite onough to make them complacent in the grcenbacked present. Nover betore were there s0 many wealthy peo- ple in this country, and never before were 80 many persons desirous to be considered fash- ionable. The mon who made money during the war have now learned how to apend it liberally, and their wives and daughters count upon the watering place season as a grand field+iay for the display of their charms, their dresses and their nowly acquired gentility. Besides this, the Southerners, who used to be the best patrons of the sum- mer hotels, are beginning to reappear among us. The despotism of the rebel- lion did not deprive them of all ‘their gold, nor was all their cotton burned by Con- federate soldiers. They come with a great deal of the oid style and the new paper currency. The poorest of them are able to live at first clasa houses, and before the season is over they will be found as extravagant as of yore. They have very much to learn in the way of fashion. There are mysteries of crinoline, of hair and of trimming which did not not run the blockade, and can only be acquired by association with Northern belles and milliners, When this is accomplished we may expect a friendly rivalry between the beauties of the two sections which will give an unusual piquancy to the season, and the restoration of the national Union will doubtless be prefigured by numerous maitri- monial alliances, With the universal exodus of the city population, the advent of thousands of sojourners from the South and the prospect | of an immense Europoan immigration, we-can- not be wrong in predicting that this season will be the most splendid in the annals of our watering places. Tus Financia Errect or ras News rnom Evnrors.—The failure of the projected Peace Conference in Europe, in combination with the continued monetary depression there, had the effect, with the assistance of tho speculators, of putting up the price of gold yesterday to 16034; an advance of thirteen per cont since Friday evening. Ia our opinion, however, the alarm and distrust which this would under ordinary ciroumstances seem to indicate, is without warrant. There is nothing to be feared from the threatened war more than wo have already felt in the drain of gold to Europe, which is probably nearly over, as very soon there ‘s likely to be an export demand for our securities, which offer a more secure as well ag 8 botter paying investment than those of any other nation in the world. Moreover, war in Germany and Italy would stimulate the demand for our breadstuffs without impairing our mar- ket for cotton, and this country would thrive upon the national calamities of the belligerents, Tho tide of immigration towards our shores would at the samo time be quickened and he says, tas but tho procursor of a system of | an impulse glyon to domestic indastey, i if { ae il Premium is that it may give rise to a fever speculation, based upon the old idea of cur- & from this aide; and while war seems to in any case this country is Likely to gain moro than it can lose by such a war as now threatens the Old World. ‘The Blockade ia Uur Streets, The complete jam which has existed in Broadway and the principal streew in the lower part of the city during the last three or four days furnishes conclusive proof of the neces- sity of providing additional facility for travel, by widening some of the streets. Broadway, from Chambers street down, has been constant- ly packed with vehicles of all classes, often maklng it necessary for a cart and omnibus to remain at a standstill for halfan hour at a time, As to erossing that streot, it has been almost an impostivility during many hours of the day. Nor hms this jam and crush of vehicles been con- fined alone to Broadway. The adjacent streets on both sides have been almost as bad, while several of the cross streets have, if anything, been worse blockaded than Broadway. ‘ihe loss to the business interest of this city by this delay and detention will in a short time be suf- ficient to cover the entire expense of providing sufficient room by widening some of the princi- pal streets to the extent necessary to obviate the whole difficulty. It is high time that steps were taken to pro- vide against this evil, which is daily increas- ing. ‘he entire business community are in- terested in it. It something 1s not done the time is not far distant when the blockade in all the principal streets down town will become a serious impediment to the business of the ine- tropolis, Lower Broadway or some of the streets parallel to it should be widened and. also two or three of the cross streets running toward the ferries, We care not which of the cross streets are taken, whether it is Fulton or some other; but that additional room tor vehi- cles is demanded must be admitted by every one. The only thing required is that those streets should be widened which by their loca- tion wi!) furnish the greatest relief with the least expense to the city. The sooner the work is done the bettor it will be and the leas will be the cost, The absurd project of cutting off the stoops of the fiouses in Fiith avenue bas now, no doubt, served its purpose, and our clty suthorities should tura their attention to the urgent de- mand of the city in the business portion. Asto the Fifth avenue scheme, we doubt very much if there ever was any very serious intention to pass it, The City Hall plotters saw that there were several very highly respectable and elderly gentl>men on that avenue who could ho easily frightened, aud the scheme was pro- posed in the beliefthat by working upon their fears they could be, to use the phrase of the lobby, made to “come;down.” The scheme was nursed, several public meetings held to give the parties a hearing, and this kept up until the respectable geatlemen of Fifth avenue were worked up to the right pitch. This accom- plished, o private meeting was heid, at which were several of these clderly and respectable residents of Fifth avenue. The stoop question was no doubt amicably settled for this year, or until this Common Council expires and a new one is elected, when they too will look around for somebody to “come down.” Taking the expe- rience of their predecessors as thoir guide, they too will be anxious to remove the stoops in Fifth avenue. We are aurprised that a certain Mayor of this city should bite at this bait so readily. Having been a Mayor of the city and rubbed up against the politicians around the City Hali for two years, we should have supposed that he would have known enough to have seen through these tricks, But, as to the other highly respectable elderly gentlemen who have taken part in this business and were closeted with the committee, we are not at all surprised at their course. They belong to the Citizens’ Association, and it is only ona par with all the proceedings of that singular association. Nothing else could be expected of men connect- ed with it. These respectable gentlomen having been attended to, now let us have something done that will bring practical relief to the over- crowded streets in the lower part of the city. Ovr Toavyiva Forgron Pouicy.—We again ask Mr. Secretary Seward or Mr. Secretary Wolles, whichever of these gentlemen has the document in his keeping, to produce the official statement of Captain Walker, of the De Soto, concerning the outrage committed by the Brit- ish gunboat Bulldog at Cape Haytien. The public want to know the nature of the offence and all the circumstances relating to it. Cap- tain Walker undoubtedly forwarded a state- ment of the affair to the Navy Department, as in duty bound, and unless Mr. Welles has fallen asleep and forgotten where he laid it, it must be available somewhere in the public archives. The whole spirit of our foreign policy appears to be diverging very rapidly into toadyism, Mr. Seward seems only to think of keeping on good terms with all foreign nations and taking care of thuir interests ali over the world, re- gardless of what is due to the dignity of this great nation. England, it would appenr, is his special ward, over whom he has established himself as a fuithful old “guardy.” Although the United States havo arisen from the fire of the late civil war the greatest coun- try on the globe, our foreign policy is weaker, more contemptible, and more vacillating to-day than it ever was before. Even England, which, under the management of old and weak- minded statesmen has fallen from the position of a leading power to that of « second or third tate power, can afford to laugh at the toadyism that rules in our State Department, and does Not hositate to use it for her own purposes. We remombor that when Mr. Seward was on bis Inte tour through the Aniilles and that Seriously, the policy of the State Depart ment is entirely unworthy the dignity of a great nation like ours, which should lead end not follow the diplomacy of the world. Itise poor figure to present, that of playing the part of police guard over a British colony, tempos- tion of American commerce on the high seas and permitting Spein to bombard unarmed ports in South America. Upon all these points Mr. Seward may be assured that the people re- quire a more firm action and are: becoming clamorous for an entire change in our foreign policy. To begin with, let us have the documents concerning the Bulldog outrage, without delag, Obituary. HON. JAMES HUMPHREY, Member of Congress from the Third Congressional dis- trict of this State, which is formed by a portion of Kéage county, died yestorday morning at his residence ta Brooklyn, Mr, Humpbroy was vative of Conneotiont, be having been born in Fairfield in 1812, and was there. fore in tho tifty-fifth_yoar of his ge. Ho was tho con ot Rev, Herman Humphrey, Presiaczs Of Auhorst Got- logo, at which institution he graduated whon only nine- teon yonra old. After porfooting himsclf in the study of law at Yaio Coilege, he took up his residence tn Lowia- ville, Ky., where be practiced bis profession for two per In 1888 he left that city and removed to New ‘ork, aod bas since reaided ia this vicinity. In politics Mr. Humpbrey was an old line whigy and as such made his entrée in p bdlic life as Alderman of tho Firat ward of the city of Brookiyn, to which jon he was c.owen by his party frieuds. was subsequently sent to the Me ‘lature, and finally was selected for the post Corpotatiod Attorney of Brook- 1 From the whiz party propor he drifted into freesoliiem, and in 1856 he touk his stand with the re- publicans and battled fur Fremont for the Presidenoy, in the fall of 1868 be was nominated for Congress, im what was then the Second district, on the republican Hicket; und, although the district was largely demo- cratic, he was elected owing to a split in the ranks of bia Opponents and the running of two candidates In the Congress to which he was chosen—the Thirty-sixth—be was a momber of the Commit eo on Foreiga Affairs, and also served on tho special comuittes of Untrly-three on the rebelflous Sater, Ho was ne candidate in 186@, but was dofeated by Hou, Moses F. Odell, just deceased. Two years afier the same candidates were put tp nomé- nation by their rospective partes, and a similar reautt followed. Undaunted by defeat, in 1964, he, for the fourth time, came upon the pottticat track for Congress sional bonors, and gained & comparatively cag victory over his antt-war democratic bore and took his geat at the opening of tho present C asthe reprosentative of the ‘Third district. He was a member of the House Committee on Commerce aad Chairman of the Committee on Naval Approprations. Mr. Humphrey was by no means briiliant in debate, and never caused “much sensation by Lis movements, but was what is styled @ working member. Boctally be mach respect d, and njoyed a larzo c.rcle of friends acquaintances. COLONEL W. W. SRATON. The telegraph announces that Colonol W. W. Seates died yesterday in Washington, iu the cigtity-first year of hia age. Mr. Seaton was ono of the oldest editors In this country, he having beea connected for nearly half a centary with that staid old journal, the National Intelli- a necr, of Waxhington, which wes carried on poi greater part of its oxi-tence under the firm of et Beaton, Daring the oxciling Presidential carn; Jackson, Adamowand Clay, down to that of Van Buren, the Nutimal snelligercer and the ora, which was published by Blair & Rives, were the only two oily ey published at the national peat they each lod for the success of th ir parties ond gauicalen with o zeal which is equalled by the partisan papers of the preseut day. Death of Senator Sumner's Mother. Boston, June 16, 1866. Tho mother of Benator Sumner diod nt her residence in this city ean at iho age of cighty-one years: The Saldicrs’ apd Saliors’ Employment Agency. ANNUAL MEETING—TuPORT OF THE MANAGEE— INTERESTING STATISTICS, ETC. At @ meoting of tho Committee of the Soldiers’ and Savors’ Employment and Reliof Agency, held at No. 186 Canal strect, ou Saturday last, the following wore the annual returns as exhibited by the books of the Agency :— Nuinber of applicants for situations from June, 1865, te Jane, 1866, 2,872. maber of situations procured, ign, of charge, tow apy md ng weil as fc ployers, 1,653. tho wages paid | mon who lave been procured employm ‘ut vary from $1 50, tue luwest figure for fa- borers generally, to $3 60 per diem. For clerks, work- ing nea, mechan nor, &c., over cight humd: men have procured employment in the country sbroad. A large number of men bave been sonk work on raiiroads at $1.75 per diem. At the last driv strike in this city tho Ageney eet, in a single morning, on application from severg) railroad companies, than three hundred pg to take the places of the strikers; only one hundred and eighty of these men were ‘The balance of the applicants found employment tm the various branehes of public and private industry. ‘The number of disabled solders and sailors applyt for light work induced the society to disirbute relief ones & month and alao among a certain number widows and orphens of the war. Four distritutions of rebef have taken pleos at thig buresn. The fvilowing are the oliicial returas:— Number of appilea Humber of rations distrivuted oa Febraary (each ration being one week's pry {ng Of tae coffee, suuar, flour, hread tohacco, and In nore canes morme jor and cloth Kumber of rations diatet Namber of rations distributed Muy St a Number of children depanding On those S41 applicants, MR, BROWN’S REASONS FOR HIS B THR CABINET, Ovsawa, June U5, 1808, The Provincial Parliament has adjourned antil Moa~ day, Mr. George Browa, previous to the adjournment, announced the reason of bis retirement from the Cabh net, It was because be was ia favor of sabmitting com- ditions on the part of Canada to the United States fora renewal of the Reoiprocity treaty, while Mr Gals end @ majonty of tho Cabinet favored the opinion wiich prevailed that the United States should dictate the terms. Those who pretend to understand matters thoronghiy affirm that Mr Browm was in favor of annexation, and even wont 90 far as te broach the subject in the Cabldet; bat, Mudiny that he was premature with the moasare, he fuund it expedient to adopt the apparently opposite policy indicated fa his explanation made befure the House yestentay, in onder to retain some portion of his former political power ia the government. ik Affairs in the Ol) Regions. BE BROUGHT FoR THR RECOVERY OF & MILLION AND A QUARTRR OF UNITED STATE SROUMITIBS FROM THE STATE OF TENNSYLV ANtA— ALLEGKD FRAUD, ETO. Hinntenvra, Pa, Juno 16, 1968 The officers of the Petroioum Bank, ueville, Craw. ford county, and the Venango Bank, of Franklin, Ve- nango county, have emp!oyed counsel in this city, fow the purpose of bringing suit agninst ex-Auditor General Isaac Slonker, and through bin against the State of Pennsylvania, for the recovery of @ million and a quarter of United States securitios, deposited with tho Aufitor General ag security for circulating medium by thoee banka Tho facta, as they 4 in oficial cireles, are aa The firm of Culver, Penn & Co, werg ia the habia ng motor of the Venango Petroleum Sets. for circulation at the Auditor office, where they received # ike amount jp bonds for that which they presented in notes. It i ‘that the parece ins —/ redeeming these bonds were Prd ‘of those bunks, and that the Reet Sead of being 1 rent to the oflours of ead banks, ‘were ore lakes to New York and hypothecatod by Culvery, Penn & Co. Senator Hoge, frory, the Venaag district, who lontitm sng thie suit, alleges tbat this was done without the mrrmy ity of the banks, wud that it was embezriement, for'ab ol tive Auditor Gosnaval of Btate ia responsible Warrants !a%o been issued and officers are ‘now im General's Venango Cound —— ba ee Gonoral Hartrantt has appointed T Clay Aly man, FE, ©. Willams and T. J. Jordan & commission to Venango count) a maratng In'/ the affnirs of Couut ‘sith which, as tq to arrest the partion implicated in (he tho o&-Auditor General bas givendounds im Pa ibe fll pape ating th ey of frand existe. ie thet lone referred to thie a an)