The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. Volume XXXI... t= AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENINO. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Holtel.—Baoruex Sau—Invisinte (om. near Sixth 13, Fourteat THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fi mt peer, Sixth aveaue.—Encusa Comic Orens—Tus ‘taga—A Nigar x Rome SAN SCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite ae eee ioe —irmorlas, BINGING. DANCING, €0>— Yau Nugana Lear ov ram Busy Famiy. GE CHRISTY’'S—Oup Scwoou or MiNi a eee e oscat nus, 20, Fifth avenue, Odere House, ‘Nos. 2 and ¢ Wes Twenty-fourta siree.—Scasunes- aons’s Bor. STOR'S OPERA ROUSE, 201 Bowery.—fax eee finsruay AND COMBINATION TROGFE—Vou aU Vanr. ITE’S COMBINATION TROUPE, at ELEY ead Broadway it 4 Vaniary or Lior np Lavawasie Enraxtainuants, Coxrs pe Baier, £0. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— ‘Yum Manscx Haan. ACR GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty- ine Fitty-ninth streots—Txo. THoM4s’ ORCHESTRAL Ganven Conceets, com! ing at 8 o'Clock. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, maxisr—Batiaps, BURLESQUES street, Docrom Brooklyn. —Erwror:aw Mise AND Pa: met NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P. M. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Commer of Twenty- third street and Fourth avenue.—ExmiBiTi0n oF ORiGiNaL Wouks uy Living Anvists. SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, 845 Broadway.—"Fan- maur TRIUMPHANT.” New York, Friday, Ju: ~ NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. All advertisements handed in until half past nine o'clock in the evening will be classified under appro- priate headings ; but proper classification cannot be insured after that hour. THES NEWS. CONGRESS. In tho Senate yesterday a resolution was adopted in- structing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the ex- pediency of reorganizing the civil service so as to pre- clude the Post Office, Treasury and Interior De- * partments from being used for party purposes. A Joint resolution was referred to the Committee on Finan~ that interest sha'l be paid to each State on all its ~#tms for money expended by such Siate for *>~ use and beneft of the United States ‘= ~«© public military def nce, wh. - —woration of the Distriet of Columbia Suffrage bill was postponed. An animated discussion ensued on the Niagara Ship Canal bill, but pending the consider. ation of the subject the Tax bill was received from the House, and the Senate soon after adjourned. In the House the Senate amendments to the bills to continue in force and to amend the act to eatablish the Freedmen’s Bureaa were non-concurred in, and a con- ference committee was asked. The House then pro- ceeded to the consideration of the Tariff bill, and Mr. Morrill made quite a lengthy speech in explanation aud support of ft. Tho first section of the bill was fully considered, and an adjournment took place. THE CITY. At ten o'clock yesterday morning a man named John Slaven died at No, 224 First avenue. The case was im- mediately reported to the Board of Health, and Dr. Paine made an examination, but was unable to say whether death had resulted from Asiatic cholera or a sovere at- tack of cholera morbus, The police last evening reported that Timothy Che seman, residing at No. 91 Lewis street, had boon attacked with cholera, and tbat his physician had given up all hopes of his recovery. The report comes from the Lower Quarantine that the cholera trou- bio ts nearly over there. No more deaths or admissions on board the hosipta! ship have occurred. The garrison at Seguine’s Point remain undisturbed. ‘The siandholders of Washington and West Washington Markets assembied yesterday at 100 Vesey street and adopted preliminary measures for defending themselves egainst an alleged unwarrantable exercise of authority on the part of the Board of Health in requirimg them to obtain permits to continue their business, Amotion was yesterday made in the Supreme Court, Chambers, before Judge Ingraham, to dissolve the in- function restraining the Board of Health from interfer- ing with the stands in Washington Market. After hearing the argument of counsel, Judge Ingraham re- ‘served his decision. Several applications for licenses were recelved yester. ay by the Comwmissioners of Excise, and upwards of fifty additional injunctions were issued by Judge Car- dozo, Tho batch of injunctions issued against the Ex- cise Commissioners by Judge Cardozo aro returnable to- day. It is expected that there will be some lively times in the Court of Common Pleas in consequence, ‘The argument upon the unconstitutionality of the Excise law was resumed yesterday in the General Ses. sions. Mr. Brady made an elaborate argument, which virtually closes tho case, counsel for the prosecution stating that written points would be submitted to his Honor. Recorder Hackott will render an early decision. ‘The Gormun lager beer dealers of Kinga county heid a public meeting on Inst Wednesday afternoon at the Brooklyn Garden, when resolutions were unanimously adopted to resist the provision of the new Excis» law relating to keeping open ou Sunday, A committee was appointed to wait on one of the Judges of the Supreme ‘Court and to apply for a general injunction against arrests by the police force until the constitutionality of the law shall have been passed upon by the Court of Appeals. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections yesterday the lowest bid for the erect on of tho Inebriat» Asylum was accepted. A presentment was received from the Grand Jury recommending the on largoment of the prion accommodation at the Tombs. District Attorney Hall submitted his opinion that any awnall boats hovering about Blackwell's Island, suspected on good grounds of being intended to favor the escape of prisoners, might be seized. Pleasure parties are not to be allowed to land on Randall's Island for the future, The fire at No 17 Beekman street on Wednesiay night was oxtinguished by the prompt action on the part of the firemen before it reached the second floor, The Joss is about forty-seven thousand dollars, ‘The alleged swindle in the case of L. M. Montgomery nd AH. Cauedo, who, it is said, represented them- selves as agents of Sa in the purclinse of a stoamer, was again ap before the Supreme Court yeaver day on motion te release the two defendants from ar- rest. Decision was reserved. The stock market was firm yesterday. Gold opensd At 154, declined to 161% and quickly reacted, closing strong at The markets wore without essential change yesterday, though in some departments there was more disposition to do business. The geuerally unfavorable tenor of the rom Europe was without marked effect, al- \ governed the actions of buyers and soliers In cotton only avery moderate bual- ‘Ness Was transacted, and that at prices generally favor. t to some extont, ing the buyer, Groceries wows quiet, but ancbanged. On why th s Wheat dail and nominal, 8 Corn wae in large 6 and lower, Pork ' i frm, Whiskey dull and MISCELLANEOUS. te arrival of Ge steamship North America, from Pio Janeiro on the 34 inst, We are placed in possession of our correspondence from that port of the same date, ‘The Paraguayans, instead of falling back from Hamaité, us the allies contd expected, awaited the approach ‘of the latter, and by a bold and sudden dash gave a pe- ‘vere biow to them ; but reinforcements arriving, the Bra- villians finally retrieved the day, not however without ihe loss of a battery of artillery captured by the Para. qiayans early in the ght. The fight was a very severe cone, More than a thousand wounded allies bad arrived at Corrientes from the field. The Paraguayans still reso jutely held their fort aod a severe battle was antic! pated, All thotr war vessels had been converted into Soating batteries, with the exception of five, which are Lept as transports and despatch boata, Tho Hrazilian ‘eet had left the Parana aud taken up ite poution above the Tres Bocas, in the Paraguay river. Some of the newapapers report the water in the latter river as fall @y Ff anagial matters la Braail were unimproved, The United States Ayres for St. Helona, with the Admiral on board. The Juniata was ordered from Motevideo to relieve the Brooklyn, and the Shawmut to relieve the Shamokin. The Kansas was at Montevideo, Our correspondent at Key West reports the health of the city as good on the 22d of June. We have nows from the Cape of Good Hope dated at Cape Town on the 14th of May. ‘The weather continued remarkably fine, and 8 quiet reaction towards the return of better times progressed. Farming operations were being carried on favorably in every direction, but heavy Joasea still occurred in isolated districte from diseases among cattle and sheep. The settlement of a treaty of peace between the Basutos and the Free State was pro- gressing satisfactorily, The gold discoveries in ‘Trans. vaal were confirmed. Several expeditions had left Natal on their way to the diggings. News from El Paso, Mexico, dated the Ist instant, has been received at Washington by Senor Romero, the Mexican Minister, Tho defeat of tho Freach at Hermo- sillo by the liberals is confirmed. Juares has reor- ganized the army of Western Mexico and appointed Corona Commander-in-Chief, General Escabodo sends the Minister some tmportant French correspondence, which he captured, and which exposes their situation and plans very completely. The imperialist Consul at San Francisco has official despatches dated the 12th inst., that the imperialists were driving the liberals rapidly through the State of Sonora towards the Ameri- can line, ‘We have files from Turk’s Island dated on the 9th of June. The demand for salt continued very moderate, notwithstanding advices from New York reported very [ttle in the market, A good supply was on hand, the price being eight cents. Our pleasure-taking correspondent at Saratoga Springs gives a giowing account of the warm weather, and tho consequent increase among tho visitors seoking for cool places at that famous watering place, Twenty-eight bridal parties are domiciled among the various hotels already, anda grand wedding was to have taken place on Wednesday. The races will commence on the 234 of July next, and continue six days. Three steam fire engines have been provided for the village, and one of them is already there, and the others will soon be ready. ‘The storm which prevailed at Poughkeepsie on Wed- neaday was also prevalent along the Hudson above that city, The north tower of St. Joseph's church at Albany was itfjured severely by lighning, and a steersman ona canal boat was killed by the same agency. At Troy the storm was the severest that has visited that locality for many years. An embankment on the Troy and Boston Railroad was washod away, anda freight train was pre- cipitated down the steep. No lives were lost, Vigilant Engine Company, of Philadelphia, arrived yraterday evening in Jersey City, where they were made the recipionts Of a grand ovation. The Fire Department turned et to moet them, a procession took place and thew were afterwards made the guests of the Jersey City sire Department at Taylor's hotel. The Fenian prisoners in the hands of the Canadlah& Wi'l bo triod, it is now confidently asserted, by a high official of the government, before civil courts. The trial will not come off until the popular excitement is allayed, The commencement exercises of Lonz Island College were held at the Athonoum, Brooklyn, last evening. The number of graduates is thirty-cight. The commencement exercises at Dartmouth College ‘will begin on the L5uh of July. 4 convention of the Evangelical churches of the city of Brooklyn was held in the Reformod Dutch church in Pierrepont streot last night, for the purpose of providing means for extending the work of evangelization. The United States steamer Vanderbilt, Commodore Rodgers, and the monitor Monadnock arrived at San Francisco on Friday morning. A fight occurred about tho 16th inst. betwoon friendly Indians and the Apaches in Arizona, in which the latter lost sixty killed and twenty prisoners, Fight hundred ‘White Mountain Apaches of both sexes were receiving government rations. A Portland, Oregon, despatch of June 22 says that off- cial returns from most of the counties give Wood, the Union candidate for Govornor, a large majority. ‘The rest of the Union State ticket is elected, The lawyers of Charleston, 5. €., are practising in United =tates courts without taking the test oath, the constitutionality of which is undor consideration by the Judge of the United States District Court at that place. The New Hampshire House of Ropresentatives passed the constitutional amendment yesterday. The recont fre in Virginia City, Nevada, destroyed Property to the amount of $200,000 and rendered four hundred families homeless, The Call for a National Union Conven- tiom at Philadelphia. A few days ago we published o call for s National Convention, to be held at Philadel- phia on the 14th of August. This call is signed by Senators Doolittle, Cowan, Dixon, Hen- dricks, Nesmith and Norton; by Assistant Postmaster General Randail, and by ex-Senator Browning, of Mlinois. These names give it a certain significance and importance. The plan proposed is to assemble delegates from all the thirty-six States and nine-Territories. The ob- ject 1s to hold counsel together, as friends and brothers, upon the present condition of our na- tional affairs, and to take measures to avert poss'ble dangers from the country. The principles which the delegates are to in- dorse are explicitly stated. They affirm the perpetuity of the Union, the equality of the States and the abolition of slavery, and insist upon the constitutional right of the South td immediate representation in Congress, As the delegates are to subscribe to this platform, and to be chosen by electors of the same faith, there is no danger that the con- vention will fall into the hands of Southern fire-eaters. They, as well as the radicals, are distinctly excluded. Obvi- ously, the intention of the framers of the call is not to rebuild the theories shattered by the cannon of Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, but to cffeet a union between the conservative re- publicans and the more advanced and patriotic wing of the democracy in support of President Jobns n and against the radicals, That such a union is a consummation devoutly to be wished cannot be denied. Congress at the opening of the session the radicals, as we have previously shown, would have been comparatively powerless and harm- less. It failed of accomplishment there because of th@incompetency of the leaders on both sides, and especially of Messrs. Brooks and Raymond, in the House; and this move- ment for a national convention secms to be an effort on the part of democratic and con- servative republican Senators to retrieve the lost ground. They appear to be in earnest; there are indications that they are very strongly backed by at least a part of the administration; and that something practical may result from the movement is evident from the irritation and opposition of the radicals and their organs. In fact, under this call for a consultation is a scheme for the organization of a new national union party, embracing all conservative men, North and South. Without attempting to discuss in a single article all the chances for and against such an enterprise, we may briefly refer to a few lead ing points of the matter. We would have pre- ferred to see this movement practically inans gurated in Congress, and thence extended nat urally to the people at the full elections. But our advite was not followed by the leaders of the Congressional factions, and at this late day, having by their dissensions and divisions surrendered to the radicals every important reconstruction measure, it is with mingled amusement and interest that we see them en- deavoring to atone for the errors of the past and the present by planning great combina- tions for the fature. A union in Congress wag Pa Brooklyn was coaling at Bueace | easy and If it had been secured in | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1866, party is a diffloult, tedious and wearisome un- dertaking. It is a question, also, whether the democrats are now as ready for » union of forces as they once were. The local leaders are already restive under this call and pro- test against it, although their opposition may not greatly affect the rank and file and may be overcome by events. Still there is always s risk in neglecting the golden opportunity and undertaking to do something upon » grander scale when the opportunity to accom- plish it easily has passed. But,on the other hand, repentance is decidedly a virtue, and we are glad to see that even the politicians can sometimes exercise it, Messrs. Brooks and Raymond, and other gentlemen of their calibre, may still hope to win national reputations and defeat the radicals, and in spite of their past follies we shall say nothing at present to dis- courage them. If the movement for a new party does not come too late; if it is not upon too grand a acale to be successful in less than half « dozen years; if Seward’s Presidential aspirations are not involved in it; if the demo- orats can be induced to join it, and if the loyal men of the South will send delegates to the con- vention, then it only needs a strong popular im- pulse to become a power in the coming State elections, and, perhaps, in the next election for President. Who can give it that popular impulse? No other person than President Johnson. How can he do it? By changing his Cabinet and demanding an immediate settlement of the Ala- bama claims against England. We do not know whether President Johnson is interezied in this acheme. The fact that it is started by his political and personal friends convinces us, how- ever, that he cannot decidedly disapprove of it, But as it stands it has no genuine vitality. When the platform ia summed up its total is Southern representation in Congress. That is the only practical feature. All the rest are patriotic generalities, But in regard to repre- sentation the radicals can outbid the new party, and they will do so whenever it be- comes at all dangerous. There is plenty of time for a flank movement before the elections. While the convention is resolving the radicals can unbar the Congressional gates and end all controversy. It is useless to go before the pedple upon an issue which the radicals can sweep away before the elections are held. The President must make new issues, and to do this he must remove his present Cabinet, throw down the gauntlet to England and make a bold appeal to the masses, including the Fenians, by insisting upon Canada or indemnities for the Alabama outrages. There is no other way for President Johnson to save himself or build up a party that will save him. Let him adopt this course and the people will rally to his standard, whether it be displayed at Phil- adelpbia or elsewhere, and his friends may either form a new party for him or regain the control of the republican party. But if no such action be taken by the President, this National Convention will hardly influence even a State election. The spectacle of delegates from the North and South once more sitting together in council at the old In- dependence Hall may elicit a little sentimen- tal admiration ; but beyond this it will amount to nothing. Tae Finaxciat Depression wy Evrors.—The financial advices from all parts of Europe, England alone excepted, received by the last steamer were decidedly gloomy ; and even the Bank of England was sufficiently under appre- hension with regard to the future of public affairs to maintain its rate of discount at ten per cent, for to lower it would involve the surrender of the privileges indirectly con- ferred by the letter of Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone, written during the recent panic. We are informed that every bourse in Europe is extremely depressed, and the suspense with which the outbreak of hostilities is awaited is evidently favorable to further depression. It is therefore probable that on the continent quotations for all kinds of securities will con- tinue to decline until after the first saock of actual warfire is experienced. In England the case 1§ somewhat different, as Great Britain, being removed from the complications of the pending contest, is likely to attract capilal from the Continent, just as this coun- try is and as England did during our war. The outbreak of hostilities in Ger- many would consequently be likely to produce a feeling of relief on the London Stock Ex- change favorable to a recovery of the prices of such securities as were not largely held, and further depressed in that country by the fact of the war, Dut after war has really entered upon its desolating march, although we look for a better rather than a worse market abroad for our se- curities, and a decided increase in the demand for our breadstuffs, there is reason for some feeling of anxiety as to what may occur mean- while. We have in all, national and other- wise, about three hundred and fifty millions of securities held abroad and we have only about eight millions of coin in the banks of this city. There are, perhaps, thirty millions more in the Treasury, nine millions of which are payable upon the July coupons of the public debt, but besides this there is very little in the country on this side of California. While, therefore, our ultimate financial tutare promises well—and faith in the puble credit never stood higher— we are exposed to serious dangers so far as the gold question is concerned. We have the satisfaction of knowing, nevertheless, that how- ever high the premium may rise it cannot im- pair faith in our national credit at home, while our money market is entirely independent of the freaks of gold. And although the aspect of monetary affairs in Europe is at present so discouraging, it will probably not be long before a more hopeful prospect presents itself, when, notwithstanding that the securities of Austria and Italy may be almost worthless, five-twenties will improve in price and popu- larity. Tut New Post Orrice Grouxvs.—The south- ern half of the City Hall park has been selected for the site of the new Post Office, and pro- posals are to be sent to the department at Washington looking to its transfer from the city to the general government. By all means the city should cede the ground necessary for tho building and then make the rest of the park en open, paved plaza, with regular roads for vehicles and sidewalks for pedestrians, in order to relieve the blockaded thoroughfares of Broadway and Fulton street, This would greatly Improve the appearance and relieve the overcrowded gtate of the lower part of the citty practical ; the organization of a new ‘The Critical Situation of Burepe—War Acteally Commenced. We have given our readers the important intelligence by the Java of the actual com- mencement of war in Europe. The German Diet, in adopting the proposal of Austria by @ vote of nine to six of the States and prinei- palities represented, for the mobilization of the army of the confederacy, and in sdopting a resolution expressing the adherence of the Diet to the Austrian proposition of the indimseluble character of the Germanio Union, had driven Prassia to the extremity of secession—much like our Southern secession—and the imaugure- tion of war. These proceedings in the general Diet at Frankfort-on-the-Main occurred on the 14th of June, and Prussia, on the 25th, declar- ing the confederation dissolved, marched a hostile force into each of the States of Hanover and Saxony, as sllies of Austria, being two of the eight supporters of Austria in the Diet. The other six, unless strictly neutral, will be subject to the same treatment from Prussia. It appears that the eight votes supporting Austria represent @ population of nearly four teen millions and a military contingent of nearly one hundred and seventy-five thousand men; while the votes supporting Prussia rep- resent a population of hardly three millions and a military force of some thirty-three thou- sand five hundred men. It will thus be seen that by a very suggestive division of the Germanic Confederation Austria stands ap- proved and Prussia is rebuked. We presume teat it is because the Germans are mostly inclined to look with abhorrence and alarm upon the “happy accord” that has all this time marked the relations between Bismarck and Louis Napoleon, and between these two and the King of Italy. How, then, are we to account for the boldness of Prussia in resort- ing to actual war against the overwhelming vote and military strength of the German Bund? Why fs ahe po quick to seek # col- lision between her six hundred thousand troops and the opposing thirteen hundred thousand of the German family? It is because Napoleon stands behind Bismarck and is ready to ad- vance to his support when the grand drama shall have been fairly opened. With a degree of frankness which in the chief of European diplomats is perfectly re- freshing, Napoleon says, in his famous letter to his Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, that had the late proposed Euro- pean Congress been entered into by all the parties concerned, “we (Napoleon) should have desired for the secondary States of the confederation (German) a more intimate union, a more powerful organization and a more important position,” (the First Napo- leon’s confederation of the Rhine, perhaps), and “for Prassia more homogeneity and force in the North” (those Danish Duchies, and pro- bably one or two others most convenient), “and for Austria the maintenance of her great place in Germany.” Here we have a little buncombe, and especially may it be so, con- sidered when Napoleon goes on to say “we should have wished besides that in considera- tion of a reasonable compensation Austria should have resolved to cede Venetia to Italy.” “But mark the coolness of his closing declara- tion—“In the war which is upon the point ot breaking out we (Napoleon and France) have only two interests—the preservation of the European equilibrium and the maintenance of the work which we have contributed to build up in Italy.” Is not that clear enough? A free transla- tion of this imperial speech simply means that this European war is the work of Louis Napo- leon; that Bismarck, of Prussia, has played the part of his convenient instrument in view of a reward too tempting to be resisted, and that the armies of Italy are set in motion with the fall understanding that France in due time will again descend from the Alps and resume the good work of Italian unity and independ- ence, where it was suspended at Villa Franca. This war, in short, is the work of Louis Napo- leon, and his purposes are to upset those de- tested treaties of 1825, and to reconstruct the map of Europe according to the imperial pro- gramme of Napoleon the First. But in the armies of Russia moving down upon the Austrian frontier there is the same danger threatened to the nephew that over- threw the uncle. Russia stands ready to join Austria when the fray begins, and from the meument that Russia shill be tous committed against France as the empire, we may look for the revival of the old Holy Alliance, and the prosecution of the war to the restoration of the Bourbons or the French republic. Napo- leon thus far has been splendidly successful in his projects of a European war beginning with @ rupture among the Germans ; but in the very opening of the conflict the legions of Russia moving down towards the Danube threaten to spoil all the calculations of the game so far as any profits to Italy, to Prussia, to Louis Napoleon or to France may be concerned. Tax Dirverence Between Caxapa ann Ena- Lanp.--While the Canadians are boiling over with rage and demanding indemnities of the United States for the late Fenian raid the press and people of England are thanking us in the most cordial manner for arresting the progress of Fenianism. They see and realize that had it not been tor the interference of our government Canada would long ere this have been wrested from them. “The American government,” says the London Times, “has acted in a manner which even exceeds anything that could reasonably have been expected from the most friendly nation.” There are two very important admissions in this eulogium on this country—that the action of the British government towards us daring the war has placed that government outside of the claims of being a friendly nation to the United States, and also that the special inter. ference and protection of the British provinces by our present administration exceeded what it would have been if England had been our ally during our last troubles. It is gratifying to see that this action of our authorities is ap- preciated in that country, even if they are not in Canada, It may be that our Canadian neighbors look upon it ina different light and are indignant that the United States so uncere- moniously prevented their breaking loose from the reign of John Bull. Neither the people of Canada nor of this country appear satisfied with this result, It is, therefore, a sort of relief to know that the course of the Washington government is approved in one country, even if we do have to go across the Atlantic to find it, The London Times pretends that “those energetic and genuine acts of friendship will be long qnd cordially romembered.’ These ‘ance of this work. Within the last few days there beve been a great nomber of applicants for admiasion organized and uniformed Guard from rolled in the unum fa ere very good words and read well om paper, but we imagine that our people will place more reliance upon them if the English gov~ ernment will promptly come forward. and psy the Alabama damages. We shall then have some substantial evidence that the action of our authorities “will be cordially remem- dered.” Taxation on Woras or Ant.—We understand that a remonstrance has been forwarded to Congress by the artists of Rome and Florence against the tax of thirty per cent imposed by :the tariff en the statuary imported into this country. They contend that such a tax is not only impolitic, but that it is an ungenerous return for the advantages derived by American sculptors from the facilities afforded them in Italy. To the last of these arguments we may object that American art students obtain no greater priviloges than those of other countries, and that what they get they pay for. The Money spent by them in the acquirement of a knowledge of their profession goes to enrich and benefit the centres of Italian art, whose interest it is to encourage the aggre- gation of foreign students within their limite. This, however, isa petty view ta take of the matter. The real question is whether the benefit the revenue derives from the tax com- | pensates for the injury which it inflicts on the interests of American art: We are bound to say that it does not. Like many other imposts in the present tariff, it is, in a pecuniary sense, of no account whatever. Its effect is simply to prevent the importation of works which would be of vast benefit to the progress of art in this country, and which, if encouraged, would do away with the necessity of our young sculptors going abroad. The fact that we have no national collections of sculpture or paint- ing, and are not likely to have any, renders it all the more necessary that no obstacles should bg thrown in the way of the introduction of foreign works. On these gfditnds, and these alone, we advocate a remission of the duties. They are not only impolitic but unproductive ; and this latter fact, if there were no other to urge in favor of the measure, would be suffi- cient to justify their abolition, “Scorcuen Bur Nor Kuuep.”—It appears from the siatemont of the Minister of Finance to the Canadian Parliament that the Fenian raids cost the government one million one hun- dred thousand dollars, and that the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, heretofore asked for militia purposes, has been increased to the heavy sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars, In presenting his budget the Finance Minister stated that the Fenian snake had been “gootched, but not killed,’ and hence it was necessary to prepare for future warlike action on the part of the Brotherhood. This shows that the Canadian apprebensions about the Fenians have not yet entirely subsided. But we think the Canada people can calm their fears for the present. W» do not believe the bold Fenians will undertake to fight both the Americen and the British governments, That, of course, would be folly. Their business will, in all probability, for some time to come, be directed more to the value of polls than pikes in ald of the cause; and under the familiar cry of “repeal” they will make the neutrality laws a test question in the coming Con- gressional elections. Then our Canadian friends may prepare for a “scare” in earnest. A Practica Mops or Snowie Barre Appreciation oF American Nevrratrry—Pay up for the ravages committed on American commerce by the anglo-rebel pirates Alabama, Shenandoah, Tallahassee, Florida, &c, Political News. Tutrvom.—In the last apportionment of represeuta- tives there was an addition of one to the Hlinots quota Instead of re-districting the State it was dotermined to elect a representative from the State at large, to be voted for on the samo ticket with State officers. Major Genera: S. A. Bulburt ts talked of as the candidate of the repub- lican party this fall (or the place. Mixsxsora,—In the Socund Congressional district W. P. Murray, W. W. Phoips, J. B. Brisbin, Colonel Robertson, General W. A. Gorman and Captain Nash are atruggling for ihe democratic nomination Mave Potrtica.—The Hon. Sidney Perham was re- nominated as Representative to Congross from the Second district by the republicans, at a convention held at Auburn yesterday. Krew P thes. ‘ANY, Ind., Jane 28, 1866. The Democratic Congressional Convention met to-any, Major Shorrad presiding. It waa large and enthusiastic. Resolutions were passed acknowledging the justice of the late war for the preservat‘on of the Union; declaring uncompromising hostility to sulfrage for negroes; en- dorsing the Pro«ident's vetoes of the Freedmen's Buread and Civil Rights bill; opposing an tnerease of the rates of duties on imports; warmly approving the restoration policy of the President, opposing any amend. ments to the constitution at present ; declaring that none of the States were ever out of the Union during the late rebellion ; ing the exemption of three thousand millions of the wealth of the country from taxation; de- nouncing the legisiation of the radical Con and demanding of the next national Legisiature that every ‘spectes of wealth shail bear its equal share of taxation M. C. Kerr was renominated for Congress by acciama- tion. In Pol jos. Haxniasure, June 28, 1966, An informal meeting of soldiers favorable to the elec- trou of Clymer for Governor, consisting of del from various parts of the State, was held hore to-day. They resolved to issue ® call for a mass Btate convention of soldiers in this city on the Ist of August, Resolutions wore adopted favoring the Umon policy of President Johnson, eulogizing the soldiers and sailors, and express. ing a firm determination to use all honorable efforts to secure the election of Heister (lymer. New Hampshire and Constitutional Amendment. Concoro, N. H., June 28, 196, ‘The House of Representatives this afternoon passed the Reconstruction amendment by a vote of yeas 203. nays 107, Storm at Pertiand, Maine. PortLaxp, Me., June 28, 1966, A severe thunder storm passed over this vicinity yes« terday afternoon. At Wiudham alady, thirty years old, was instantly killed; a girl of twolve fatally, and an old lady slightly injured, by o thunderbolt, while sitting together. A barn in Livingston, belonging to % G Nowell, was struck by | ine @ stroyed, with iis contents—seven tons of house and a stable, be to Marshall A. Howe, in Standish, were barned y morning. Owing to Governor Fonton’s absence at his home in the western part of the State he wil! not review, with hia staff, the Firat division on the 4th of July proximo in this city, a8 Major General Sandford anticipated. THE MILITIA ENROLMENT {a being conducted with precision and energy under the supervision of Colonel 8. C. Pinckney. une hundred and fifty canvassers have been actively engaged in the work of enrolment since Monday iast, and between forty-five and fifty of the two hundred and fifty mili. tary districts of this city have already been com- pleted. ‘Tho canvassers frequently compiain of the interference of citizens with them upon whom they have had occasion to call in the discharge of their daty. Many ignorant persons bave become much incensed at the visit of the enrolling officer, and have threatened to take summary measures for the ejectment of the obnoxious official. Tt is unnecessary to repeat that thers is really no.cause for alarm on this Subject, as this enrolment is simply in accordance with the State law which provides for the annual perform- imonts of THE BOARD OF HEALTH. & Case of Cholera Morbus—Complaints, and How They Are Disposed O01—Meet- ing of Market Mon—Motiom im the Su- Preme Court te Dissolve an Imjume- tlom—Argument to Be Concluded To- Day—A Case of Cholera Heported Last Night. On Wednesday evening a man named John Slaven, re- aiding at No. 22% First avenue, was seized with vomit, ing, purging and other symptoms of cholera No phg- sician was called im, and about tem o'clock yesteufay morning he died. Notice wag then sent to the Board of ‘Health, when Dr. Paine proceeded. to the premises with disinfectants, and, from his report to Dr, Dalton, it te very doubtful whether death resulted from Asiatic chol- era or a severe attack of cholera morbus. ‘No other cases. ‘were reported to Dr. Daltom yesterday, COMPLAINTS, Upwards of eighty complaints ere received at Major Bosworth’s office yesterday. ll of thom were in refer. ence tosunken lot, damp bvsements, offensive privies, ‘and places of a similar naYure, These complaints are all forwarded to the sanitary inspectors of the different din tricts, who notify the property owners to have the ne- cossary: operations performed within five Ieit ia petepr | bat mia np pla Healt St tho expense of the proporty owners. YERTING OF WASHINGTON MARKET STANDHOLDERS. A meeting of standholders of Washington and West Washington Markets was held yesterday morning at Ne. 100 Vesey street, to adopt such measures as are advisa- ble against the recent action of the Board of Health in requiring additional permits of them to continue their business. R. G. Cornell presided, and H. W. Knapp acted as secreiary pro tem. On call the meeting to order, Mr. Conve, remarked that he could find no authority for the Board of Health wo he aa the permits, and that their authority extended simply to seeing that the stalls were well ventilated, cleanly, and that no improper meats were sold. He be- Hevod it was another effort to abolish Washington Market, and that as soon as the peta are Saeep ied. they would be revoked and an order issued to close the market. Mr, Tuoxwg had had a conversation with Mayor Hoff- man, who said the standholders had nothing to do with the Board of Health, and that the'r original permits were sufficient, Hoe doomed it advisable to prepare for an emergency by securing the services of counsel. ‘On motion. of Mr. -Kxarr-a committee, conste ot Mossra. Knapp, Thorne and Kay, was ap” tid by the Chair to select's hall and appoint ar, 9¢4 the marketmen of Washington and“ West Washientom —*~ Markets should assemble for the parpose of elfective 01 yore ea motion of iF. Kwavr it was decided that no persom prewenh antif after the general meeting, shall apply f & permit to the Board of Health to continue businesa. Mr. Karp also moved that if any of the marketmen are dist by the Board of Health before the general Meeting {fs held that the association defend that persou’s interosts. Tho Prespext romarked that undor such circumstances ho would feel it his duty to use the funds of the associa- tion to employ counsel for any of its members. The meoting then adjourned, A CASE Ov CHOLERA REPORTED. Tho police of the Eleventh precinct last evening re- ported that Timothy Cheoseman, of No. 91 Lewis street, bad beon taken with cholera, and that his physiciana had given up all hope of saving him, THE BOARD AND WASHINGTON MARKET—MOTION TO DISSOLVE THE INJUNCTION POWERS OF THE BOARD IN THE PREMISES, ETC. SUPREME COURT—CHAMEERS, Before Judgo Ingraham. Jum 23.—John T, Hoffman and Others va. Jackson Schulte and Others.—Some few days since, on application of plaintiffs as Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, an injunction was granted restraining the Board of Health from Tatertaing. with the stalls at Washington Market, as coniemplated by that body. To-day the case came up on & motion to dissolve the injunction. Mr. Bliss opened the motion by reading the papors on which the injunction was granted, which set forth the facts as to the appointment of the plaintiff as Commis- sioners of the Sinking Fund ; that the rents of the mar- ket go into this fund, and that the rents tho sidewalks amounted to over $13,000 a year. appeared on those paper, tate the Board of Health, have made an attempt to tear down the stalls, on magne that they are a nuisance and injurious to the public health. A notice was on the 4th of May tothe owners of these stalls move ee ee An injunction was procured. were exceedingly the public health. Two affidavits were also stated that the market wak badly ventilated, in a condition and a great nuisance to the net He Bs Mr. A. M. Lawrence, Jr., who Ld com tiff, in conjunction with ex-Judgo Allen, then read sev- oral affidavits of who o0c; stalls in Washing- ce I market for fifty years, and are fully competent Press an opinion. When the affidavits were read Mr, ounly advocating the authority of this nuisances, and quoting ample authérity in eq oe his argument. was followed by ex-Judge At who contended that the Board had o1 their in The argument will be concluded to-morrow. Affairs at Quarantine and Staten Island. NO MORE DEATHS O¥ THE CHOLERA SHIPS—BVERY- THING QUIT ALL OVER THE I8LAXD—aRALTO OFFIORKS PREPARING FOR OTHER EPIDEMICS, ‘The nows from the cholera region stil] continues of the most cheering character. There have bean no more deaths or admissions from the sbips to the hospital hulke since the lust report. Everything looks encouraging, and it is thought that the trouble is now a, the prosent. The health officers say that if they bad been permitted to land the well passengers upon arrival, 80 that they could have on er hh cleansed aud their clothing fumigated and disinfected, the mortality would not have beca near so great. The chiofs of the Heaith Department assert that if they are not sustained by the law in establishing quarters at Seguine’s Pont, and then if the Staten Islanders carry out their threat of burning the buildings, so that the emigrants cannot be kept together, they will be almost justified in turning them loose on the island and allowing them to roam wheresvever they please. Cuptain O'Rourke, the Superintendent of the hospital ships, 1s busily engaged in having them perfectly renovated and put in complete order for the ro- ception of persons sick with yellow fever, in case any come to this port the coming season. It is understood by the police of the island that there exists the citizens quite w formidable secret or- ganization, which it is supposed will attempt to operate in case the injunction should go against them. It is more than probable, however, that the people will obey the law. Captain Walling’s men sre amusing themeelyes im catching larze quantities of fish, there being nothing else so far for them to do. Since they have heen at Seguine's Potnt they have built for themselves quite & handsome skiff, which ts to be launched to-day. A bottle of water is to be broken over its prow, and abe is to be called the “Tommy Acton," in honot of the President of the Police Commissioners and of his cold water was not ao arrest on the whole island rincipies, There luring the day. Coroners’ Inque A Daycenove Pree—A Lirtix Gint Faris Treovom rr tvto mi Waren axp 1s Drowwen,—Last Sunday atter- noon Phebe Peterson, a girl fifteen years of age, whoww parents live on board the canal boat Star of Washington, lying at the foot of Delancey street, Kast river, went ashore to buy some cherries, and when returning to the boat she fell through « bole in the pier and was drowned A little girl who was with her at the time screamed for help, but before aid could reach her the girl sank to the bottom and was drowned. The father of deceased and others grappled for the body, but without suc cons tli yesterday, when the remaina were found at the foot of Jackson street. Coroner Gamble was notified and held an inquest. The testimony showed that the pior was im very dangerous condition, totally unsafe for either man or beast to go upon, and that it had been so fora year past. It further appeared thas deceased was the thd person who had been drowned within a year Past by failing through the same or other holes in that pier. The jury found “that deceased came to herdeath by being drowned by failing through a hoie in pier 68, East river, on Sunday, June 24, 1865; ana, further, the jury are of opinion thai the owner or owners, lease or lessees, are guilty of culpable neg having said pier kept in good repair, us it is for oither man or beast to go upon.’ Deceased was a aative of New York. Fata Ratinoan Casvactt.—Coroner Noumann yester-+ | day held an inquest at No. 134 Ajlen stroot on the body of Caroline Krehbiel, a little girl two yours and two months old, who died from the effects of injuries On| the afternoon of the 20th instant, car of the Second avenue line, driven by Patricc Reilly, was pase~ ing down Allen street between and Grand streets, when |, Without being observed by the driver, rushed, the wheeis, passing over ber body. The isd! wheels t e chi ‘was carried to the reandonce of her patents, where death) ensued on Wednesda~ The Jory rendered ® verdi( of accidental death, but consared the driver for pot taking proper precautions to prevent the accident. Casms ov Scxwmnoxe.—Coroner Gover yesterday held inquests in the following cases of sunstroke —Anguet Zeller, & native of Germany, aged forty-eight years. re siding at No. % Elizabeth pm ty Richard sixty-five yerrs, a native of Ireland, reekting at No. fas East Elovensh street; John Lenahan, aged twenty-three ot Ireland, residing