The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XEXT..........eeleeeeereee sere NOs 18E AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND BYENING, ite the St. Nicholas Gdbp ron Normine. Mall ‘WOOD'S THEATRE. Hotel. —| ee nee at 136 0° Fourteenth near Sixth K FR. arepnts"Exaciow Come Orta Matinee at two 8 Cloak 4 Nigar in Roxx—Tum Doctor or Avciutans. Broadway, jam, THE SAN FRANCISCO MINST! $85 Broadway, opposite tan Hotel. —Kraioriay ima, Daxoine, &0.— jtagana Lear ov tum Bosy Famity, GEORGE CHRISTY’S—O.p Sonoon or Mii ELS, Guns, Bo. Fifth Avenue’ Opere House, aan ‘Twens ‘street. —SCHERMER- M Reet 2 ‘and 4 Wess y-fourtea moan's Bor. Matinee at Two o'Clock, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, S01 — Sam « M L cj man SE nrne oie, Cousimation Trours—Vou a1 CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hail, 472 Broadway—Im a Vamierr or Licht anp Lavanasre Ewrenr, Comrs pz Bautsr, Matinee at 235 0’ Clock. MRS. ¥. B. CONWAY'S PARK PHEATRE, Brooklyn. — Romo anv Jucier—Riowarp IIT, TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty. cighth and Fitty-ninth streets.—Tnxo. Tnowas’ OncumstaaL Gaxpex Concerts, Afternoon at ¢ o'Clock; Bvening at 6 loc! BELVIDFRE PARK, Eighth avenue and 110th street.— Cans Bencuan’s Suwiex Coxoxeta, commencing at 6 o'Cloo! AOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erarorcay Mie ereuist—BaLLans, BuRLesques AND Paytowiers. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. ull 10 P.M NATIONAT, ACADEMY OF third streat and Fourth avenag. Worss ay Living ARrists. GN, Corner of Twenty- AUIBIION OF OnigIxaL SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, 845 Broadway.—"Fan- racut Trivmpnant.” ERONAUTIC AMPHITHEATRE, Pifty-ninth Sixth avenue.—Bartoonina, Tigut Rore axp Lov sireet an PiRKWORKS, turday, June 30, 1866. New York, "NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Ail advertisements handed in until half past nine o'clock in the evening will be classified under appro- priate headings ; but proper classification cannot be esured after that hour. THE NEWS. MGRESS. In tho Senate yesterday the further consideration of tho N Ship Canal b ll was posyoned until Monday. Mr nm introduced a bill to ma and Ux the military peace establishment of the United Statos, which was referred to the Military Committee, It provides, awony other things, for three regiments of veteran reserves and five regimenis of colored troops. Tho National Telegraph bill was passed. In the House the adverse report mae by the Commit- tee on Invatid Pensions on the bill granting pensions to the sollier of the war of 1812 was recommitted with in- Sricton. to roport a bil. The instructions apply to av lok of 1812 a8 well as soldiers, The bill was re- p ried, but ou account of the oxpiration of the morning hour wont ovor until next Friday, Tho House then took ap the Tariff bill, The epeciflc duty on crash was struck out, and the duty was fixed at thirty-five por cent ad va- lorem. A paragraph taxing yarns, flax and homp was naorted. ‘Tho portion of the bill as amended yesterday iven in the columns of the Heeatp thia morning. Soon or the disevesion of the tariif he House adjourned. EUROPE. Yur special correspondence from Paris, Vienna ast rlim, dated to the 16th of June, contains map of ‘at Importanco as enabling onr readers to fuX¥ com- hend the scriows gravily of the situation etisting on continent of Europe just previons tohe sailing of Java, as well as the momentous comequencea Hkely enzue to the countries of the Old ¥Orld from the dia- tion of the German Confederst0n, the inauguration f war between Austria and “russia—the last named Power being aided by Italy “ * grand effort to complete her unity and freo Veneti« during the difficuity of Austria Tt ts casy to see from ¢ communications that the weight of public opinion #28 decidedly against Prussia for her hasty and abrv't acilon fn retiring from the Federal Diet because gh" Was Outvuted. both in numbers and miltary powes UY the States which sided with Austria In the ex. ewise of their independent legislative action. A curious contradiction existed, however, tn the fact that t’russin had obtained the sole control of Schleswig and Holstein, the exciting cause of the war, before a blow was strack, Berlin reports represent the condition of affairs existing “in Vionna @# very bad, while, on the other hand, tho accounts from Vienna assert dhat Prassia is more ‘ide- tested”? than ever, and Liat the the ‘Tyrol to the gutee o enthasiasm for (he strugy! ated with the most loyal feelings. The Angtrian army, under Benedek, bad tte right wing resting on Crscow, with its left on the trian peoplefrom —are fall of Saxon frontior, north of the Tt te again int mated that Russia will ald Austria If necora leon holding © ready for event culties which lie in the march of Itw tin are roferred to, ‘The financial sivioments of the bellicerent countries: go to show that the war must, from want of means, be @ short one, Sixteen Italion war ehips were ot anchor in the Galt of Taranto, on the 140) of Jane. Admiral Pereano wae tm command, with his fing on the Re d'Italia THE CITY. Tho regular weekly meetin of the Board of Health was held yesteriay. The Treasurer's and Sanitary In epector’a reports were received, together with interest ing papers in relation tothe fat-boiling nuisance and the removal of ofa! from the bay. A report from Dr. R. Percy stated that the production of swill-fed milk in Now York was at an end, and stops were being taken to bring about the same result in Rrooklyn. . Several othor Papers of an interesting nature were acted on, and the Board adjourned for one werk. A case of cholera was Toported as having occnrred yesterday afternedn at the corner of Twenty-third strect and Broadway, the de- ceased being a negro, The Health Inspector was duly notified and an inquiry commenced. The arzumont on the motion to dissolve the temporary: injunction restrainivg the Board of Health from remov- ing the stalls at Washing‘on market was continued yes- terday in the Supreme Court, Chambers, before Judge Ingraham. Ex-Judee Allen, in bebalf of the Mayor and others, contended that many of the provisions of the act @uthorizing the Board of Health were unconstitutional, and ma ntained that the injunction should be coutinued After hearing Mr. Tracy's reply the Judge took the Papers and reserved his decision. Anotber inrve hatch of Injunctions were tamed against the now Excise Commirsioners yerterday. Mr. Manierre, the Treasurer, received about two thousaud dollars for fieonaes grant-d. ‘fhe usual weekly meeting of the Commissioners of Rxcien was held yostentay. During the week fifty-five epotications for licenses have beon reported on favor- obly, and fn all six thousand three hundred and eighty. nine Hoonnes granted by the Board. Two complaints for ge /0@ liquor om Sumday were disposed of, and a motion Adopt authorizing the Prosident of the Board to com- munien:» with the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas fn reference to holding @ special term of the court on some day in next month, when Judge Cardozo’s decision in the Holt case will be appealed from. The re‘urn to the injunctions teeued against the Excise Commissioners by J dge Cardozo was not mete yester. day, in consequence of the chor ness of time allow 4 the counsel for the Commissionora One of the cases win argue! on Monday, and the balance on the 18th of = injanctions to remain in force in the mean. The Joint committee of the Common Council to select & site for the new Post Oilce and the Comptroller and Shamboriain of the city, on the part of the Comm's gioners of the Sinking Fund, met yesterday in the Comptroller's office, A resolution adopted by the Com: Mmissioners of the Sinking Fund on the 26th inst. was Prowented; but Councilman Mackay, on the part of the <omm tee of the Council, submitting as an amendment that the sum to be demanded of the government for the Proposed site be increased from $600,000 to $750,000, 8 re ed ba HID ves order that the commissioners appointed by the govern- mont may be notified to be present. Central Organizer James Stephens is receiving indorsc- ments from Fenian circles tn all partsof the country, and on Thursday next wilt leave this city for Boston, where ho has beén promised an enthusiastlo reception. ‘The case of Carl Noeite, the alleged fugitive from jus- tice, who ts demanded under the Extradition treaty by Prussia, has been removed to Cooperstown, before Judge Nelson, on an important point as to the power of the United States Marshal to refuse to execute the warrant of the Commissioner, The case will be argued om the 11th of July, A firm of pyrotechnists bave proposed to furnish the necessary foworks for the Fourth of July to the city and ran the chance of being paid by the Legislature, and ‘Mayor Hoffman has acoopted the offer. So it is probable there will be a tolerable celebration in the city, notwith- ‘Standing the objections of the Common Council. A beantiful silk fiag was presented yesterday afternoon by Mr. Wm. H. GriMith, of this city, to Vigilant Fire Company No, 8, of Philadelphia, The presentation was made by Mr, Harry Wilson, on behalf of the donor, and the flag was received by Mr. Charles Ridgway on behalf of the company, The new ocean steamer Western Metropolis proceeded yesterday upon a trial trip, for the purpose of testing her machinery, This vessel is supped with the Manley foathering wheel, the first of the kind ever usod in this country. At abont six o’clock, after returning from her excursion, the steamer sailed for Bremen upon her first Voyage across the Atlantic, A fire ocourred in the four story building No, 9 South William street yesterday morning, by which a consider. able amount of cotton was consumed or damaged. The Joss in estimated at about thirty thousand dollars. Albert Unterholts, a German, aged twenty-five, was arrested yesterday on the charge of forgery. It is alleged that he gave ordors to Messrs. Hoppenheimer & Co., printers, to print one thousand checks on the Amori- can Exchange National Bank, The prisoner is bolloved to be implicated in several extensive forgericn, ‘Tho Inman lino steamship City of New York, Captain Teitoh, wit! sa'l at noon to-day for Liverpool via Queens- town, from pier No. 44 North river. The mails will close at tho Post Office at half-past ton A. M. ‘The General Transatlantic Company's steamship Ta- fayotto, Capta'n Lemaire, will ail at nine o'clock this morning, from pier No. 60 North river, for Brest end Havre, Mails will close at tho Post Office at seven A. M. ‘The National Steag® Navigation Company's steamship The Queen, Captain Grogan, will sail at noon to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, from pier No, 47 North nme steamships Germanta, Captain Ehlers, for South- ampton and Hamburg, and tho Now York, Captain Frnst, for Southampton and Bremen, wilt gail from Ho- bokon at twolve M. to-day. Mails will close at the Post Office at half-past ten A. M. The steamship General Grant, Captain Holmes, of the Cromwell line, will sail at three P. M. to-day from pier No. 9 North river, for Now Urleans dircot. The steamehip San Salvador, Captain Atkina, of the Empire tine, will sail from pier No, 13 North river, at throa P. M. to-day for Savannah, The fine steamship Quaker City, Captain William H. West, will sail for Charleston to day at three P. M. from pior No, 14 Fast river, foot of Wall atract. Tho stock market was firm yosterday, stronger, and closed at 15476. ‘There was no especial change in commercial affairs yesterday. Business was gonerally quiet, and prices, thoagh nom‘nal, were without marked change. On ‘Change the chief feature was the active movement in corn, which sold at 2c, a $e, dectine, Flour was very steady, Prime wheat scarce and firm. Oats lower Pork closed hoary. Boof steady. Lard firm. Whistey dull. In groceries, cotton, &o., but little business was transacted, and prices were more or less nonwata!, MISCELLANEOUS. It is tated on good sathority thee the prominent radl- cals at Wasiingtes Dave, in a series of caucuses, deter- mined to ca’ & Convention of the States pow represented, which °all determine upon a platform antagonistic to [% vresident, The name of Lieutenant General Grant Gola was jsto be put in nomination for snecession to President Jovnson. In the same connection an address fully endorsing the call fora democratic convention in Au- gust, prepared by the conservatives in Congress, is ready for pablication, Despatches have been received at the Navy Depart- ment from. Rear Admiral Bell, commanding the East India squadron, dated Hong Kong, China, April 28, and ‘also from Rear Admiral Godon, commanding the aquad- ron on the coast of Brazil, dated May 18. The most cor- dial foeling is mapifested towards Admiral Bell and his squadron by the Chincse. The Wachunett had been dis- patebed to Nienehwang to inquire intoaroported rapture between the United States Consal and the authorities there. There was no other troubie reported. Tho crews of the squadron wore all woll. Nothing new is report» by Admiral Godon. The President has approved the bills to provide for the revision of the Ptatntes of the United Staten; to establish an armory and arsenal on Rock Island, Iilnots, and a Jand office in the Territory of Idaho. The Vermont democrats assembled in convention at Montpelier yesterday and nominated candidates for the State offices at the ensaing clection. Resolutions were adopted favoring the policy of the Preaident concerning reconstruction and nentenlity, the taxation of United States bonds and the appointment of soldiers to offica. In another column will be found an article on the Roman loun. It gives a statistical sketch of the Roman States provious to and since their dismemberment, and s the reason of the present Amorican issue of election im Texas has reauited in the complete triamph of the conservative Union party. Throckmor- ton has been elected by a large majority. The Grand Jury at Canandaigaa has presented indict- ments ogainst the Femtan prisoners arrested at Buffalo and Malone, ‘The cases will be postponed to the noxt torm, and the prisoners released on bail. Our Saratepa correspondent gives an account of the recont diamond wedding of tho son of one of the railroad kings and the orphan daughter of a distinguished mill- tary officer, which all Saratoga turned out to 800, “Tne Sick Man” op Canapa.—The tone of Canadian legislators and journalists shows a very unhealthy condition of mind. It is snap- pish, ft is querulous, it is void of self-reliance. -It sees nothing pleasant in the future; it has no pleasant memories of the past. It alter- nately scolds and whines, menaces and suppli- cates, The truth is that Canada is very sick— sicker, perhaps, than was Turkey in the time of Nicholas. The Turkish mind is indolent and fatalistic; the Canadian quick, unsteady and im- pressionable. Therefore it is that while the one {is content to let matters go as chance di- recta, the other kicks against events without making any attempt to control them. “The sick man of Canada” is a very undignified spectacle indeed. He no sooner gets a spasm than he thinks himself lost and turns piteously for aid first to one and then to the other. He has no notion of helping himself or of even providing against a return of his malady. He has thus brought himself into general con- tempt, even his own blood relations turning the cold shoulder upon him. He is not with- out ® consciousness that a cure stands within his reach, but be is too vain and persistent in his prejudices to stretch out his band for it He will try a dozen nostrums first, although they tend to still further enfecble him. Even to be told the truth about bis case puts him in ® fury, a9 was recently seen in his abuso of that honest physician and counsellor, Mr. Chambers, Such invalids are not to be ad- vised. They must ran the rig of their own va- garies. Just now our Canadian “sick man” is bent upon the confederation elixir, thinking it will strengthen his constitution ; but the dis- appointment which will follow will soon ren- der him eager to try another remedy. To the annexation pill be must come at last, let him squirm and make as many wry faces as he choosea, The sooner he swallows the dose the betior it will be for him. The doctors will tell him that the easiest medicine to take is that which goes directly to the root of the ;ue NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1866, The National Convention and the Issuc at the Next Elections, The call for a National Convention, to meet at Philadelphia in August, has already done some good, no matter what may be the fate of the Convention itself, The demoralization of the republican party is now so evident that no- body can affect ignorance of thefact. Thiscall has torn away the veil of sophistry by which the republican politicians have sought to con- ceal their dissensions fromthe people, and everybody can now see whats rotten, disor- ganized and moribund body the once powerful republican party really is. It will be impossi- ble to go before the people at the next clec- tions with any of the old pretences of harmony after this remarkable revelation of discord and antagonism. The republican party, like a huge monopoly, is falling to pieces from its own cor- ruption. It has no strength outside of Con- gress, In no State election since the war has it dared to meet the questions at issue boldly and sincerely. During the war it dodged all responsibility and palliated all offences by pleading the military necessity for its continu- ance in power. Since the war it has still talked wildly of “copperheads,” “loyalty,” “trattors” and other catohwords to deceive and delude the voters, But at last it has been broken up by its own mombers, and the coming elections will probably seal its fate. When we look at the present Congress we behold the republican party as it exists in its moral and political degeneracy. A more corrupt body than this Con- gress never disgraced any country. It is one immense, concentrated, detestable Job from beginning to end. It is composed of men who made dishonest fortunes during the war; of bogus generals, who killed only their own men ; of knavish contractors, who pur ohased their seats in order to continuo their robberies of the Troasnry ; of raving fanatics, who onght to be in Bodlam; of small politi- cians, whose only ambition is to steal enonch money to build a house; of foolish philoso- phers, who love to air their theories, but who have not a single practical idea; and of woak- minded members, who are entirely under the control of the jobbers in the lobby and are paid accordingly. The very few good men in it are but the exceptions that prove the rnie, and their purity mikes the immorality of tho ma- jority all the blacker by tho contrast. Lezis- Jation in this Congress is 9 erent game of grab. Woe seck in vain for anv mocanrs bised upan true principles of public policy; they are all instigated by private cl'qnos from the moancst motives of political or personal aggrandize- ment, The Jay Cooke scheme, the Montana bill, the educat'onal job, the Freedmon’s Bu- reau swindle, the Mexican loans, the tromen- dous frauds of the National Bank system, and the extortions of « tariff designed to impover- ish the rest of the country for the benefit of New England and Pennsylvania, are instances of this kind of legislation. Over two hundred millions of dollars are intended to be sqnan- dered in these measures alone, and the suffor- ing taxpayers are compelled to endure such enormous expenditures, which are of no pos- sible service to the nation. Thus the national debt is constan‘ly increased, in spite of the representations of the Secretary of the Treas- ury, and before long it will become, not a “national blessing,” but a national curse, Yet this Congress, such as it fs, comprises the republican party of the present day. With the members we have described, with legisla- tion completely controlled by jobbing or po- litical schemers, with debates that seldom rise above blackguardism, and with a policy which simply consists in the cowardly and unconsti- tutional exclusion of the Southern States for partisan objects, it continues to defy public sentiment and is only anxtons to prolong its existence: as much as possible, It has fow apologists and no frienda. Evon the radical officeholders distrust its power to protect thom and are ready to turn upon it at any mo- ment. The people are disgusted with it. The tax collectors are presenting the very stronz- est arguments against it. When it dies the re- publican party, which has become ident'fied with it, must die also, This party, organized upon a platform which promised economy, has been more extravagant and corrupt than tho party which it superseded. Once loyal to the Union, it has originated a new broed of dis- unfonists, led by Messrs. Stevens and Sumner. The so called party of reform, it now needs a thorongh reformation. It professed to be im- bud with moral ideas, but has become noto- tious for disreputable practices, Daring tho war it cloaked its crimes with loyalty; but now that the war is over it stands exposed in all its depravity to the eyes of the people. In a word, its mission is accomplished and it must give place to another and better party. Whether the party of the fatare is to be built up under the auspices of the Phila- delphia National Convention is, however, a different question. That Convention seems to be rather an attempt to frighten the radicals by making @ formidable diversion than s genuine and spontaneous popular movement. The poli- ticians concerned may at any time back out of it, as Wade and Greeley gave up their ides of 8 Cleveland Convention against Lincoln. Still, ft is too soon to predict precisely what will happen.. The republican party itself started from a much more insignificant beginning. If all conservative men, irrespective of party, will unite at the Congressional elections, make opposition to the present Congress the sole igsue, and elect candidates pledged to « thor- ough reform, something may be done in the way of a new party before the Presidential canvass, especially if President Johnson plays his trump cards of a dismissal of his Cabinet and « demand for Canada or the Alabama claims, Under this Congress, or another like it, we should be forced to general repudiation to gave ourselves from ® moneyed oligarchy. ‘This is the danger to be feared and the issue for the Congressional elections, But the pro- posed convention, whatever may be the sequel, has done the country a service by removing all pretences of concord in the republican ranks. Deratcations tx Taz Revewve Derartuent.— Trouble is brewing in the Revenue Department of the government. Revenue officers aro fail. ing to pay over their receipts to the proper officers, as we have witnessed in the cascs of officers in Washington, in Memphis, Tenn. in tho oil regions and elsewhere. Those defaloa- tions are but the beginning of troubles in the and they will incroase. They aro simply the chippings from the huge block of corruption the present Congress has set up. During the administration of Martin Van Buren millions, Under the legislation of the present rotten Congress the defalcations will amount to hundreds of millions, Now is the time for President Johnson to set his face firmly against the enormous schemes of public plunder which Congress has already and is still attempting to push through. In hid next message vetoing some gigantio attempt upon the public treas- ury or some crusade upon the public domain, the President should give his views fully, positively, peremptorily. Otherwise, and unless these wholesale defalcations and plundering schemes be checked, the country before long will be involved ina chaos of financial repudiation and ruin. ‘The Impending War in Europe. War in Europe now appears to be inevitable. ‘The efforts, or pretended efforts, of diplomacy to prevent it were nipped in the bud, The conference of the great Powers which was called for this purpose con!d not do anything, because the basis of conditions laid down was inadmissible to one of the Belligerents at least. In faot, it must have been evident to the prime mover, Napoleon, in proposing the conference that it never could accomplish anything under such conditions, The movement was ® mere pretext in order to make a show of moderation and to cover up the deep political schome at the bottom. In the letter of the Emperor Napoleon to the French Legislature we have some indications of what wore the motives and objects of his Majesty. If Austria would cede Venetia to Italy, if Prussia could be made stronger at the North—that is, if she could appropriate Hol- stein without resistance from Austria—and if other concessions should be made to strengthen Prussia and Italy directly, and France indi- rectly, at the expense of Austria, there might be no war. In a word, if Austria would give up all she has been contending for, and much more, and would consent to be made the second Power in Germany and a second rato Power in Europe, peace might be preserved. That is the substance of Napoleon’s proposition. Did the French Emperor believe this possible? No; he is too sagacious for that. The proposed conference was a sham. Looking at all the circumstances, we cannot resist the natural conclusion that Napoleon has been an active and secret agent in fomenting the difi- culties that exist in Europe, He detesis the treaties of 1815, and consequently favors a war that may destroy them and rearrange the map of Europe. What more natural? What more logical. Austria, confident in her own strength, or at least being convinced that she can lose no more by war than she is required to do in the interests of peac», accep's the altornative of the sword. The whole element arrayed against her is revolutionary—a desire for change; and she expects the conservative sentiment of Eu- rope will support her. How far this consorva- tism can be made available to give ber moral or material aid has yet to be seen. We do not now enter into the question whether con- servatism or revolution is best ‘for the Old World; we simply refer to the facts of the case. On the side of Austria we find the Papacy, the temporal power of which would be de- atroyed by the success of tho Italian-Prussian alliance and the dynastic consorvatism of all Europe, embracing, probably, Russia, most of the German States, Sweden, Norway and Den- mark, as well as England. We mean on the side of Austria in a moral sense; but in the event of a gencral European war these Powers, or most ofthem, would naturally take the ficld with her. On the side of Italy and Prussia would be the mighty military power of France, if, indeed, in such a general war as is possible Prussia dare separate hersclf from the declared sentiment of the middle German States, The whole question as presented just now is full of complications, and no one can see the ultimate result’ It is possible the intrigues of Napoleon may end in bis own ruin and in the success of the old dynastic power of Europe, as the ambition of the first Napoleon ended; but it is more likely that the democratic element may seize the opportunity for a general revo- fution and extort those concessions of liberty which the masses anxiously dealre, Wo shall watch with the greatest care events as they transpire and present them to our readers; for the people of this country will necessarily feel the deepest interest in these groat movements on the other side of the Atlantic, The Tariff and Other Jobs tn Con- Gress. The present Congress bids fair to secure for itself the name of the great jobbing Congress of the nineteenth century. It has thus tar been without parallel in our history and is daily growing worse instead of better. Some of the jobs have been vetoed and disposed of, but there are plenty more that will be pushed through at all hazards. The session com- menced with a gigantic scheme to expend the public funds under the plea of protecting the negro, but, as events have since shown, to en- slave the blacks and earich a few New England parsons and sanctimonious Freedmen’s agonts. Tf this scheme had been succesaful, fifty millions of dollars at least would have been absorbed, all of which would have been taken out of the pockets of the taxpayers. It failed, however, through the veto of the President, but in its place Congress has adopted another measure extending the Freedmon’s Bureau for two years, and it is now proposed to appropriate from seven to twetve millions to cover the ex- pense of ite administration. There is another scheme to create a Department of Education for the blacks, and still another to apply solely to the negroes in the District of Columbia. These would absorb several millions more. This much the present Congress has proposed to expend upon the blacks of the South and the agents controlling them. Nothing short of seventy-five millions would be absorbed in these projects, should they become laws, Tho foregoing is only one branch of the jobs already broached or acted upon. Ii only incladea what has been proposed for the negro and the New England parsons. We presume that if the records of Congress were carofully examined other jobs of « similar nataro would be found covered up where least ex- pected. There are other jobs fully equal in importance, and, if anything, more expensive to the public. There is the Jay Cooke project for consolidating the debt, introduced by Sena-_ tor Sherman, which provided for the outlay of forty millions in the shape of couimissions to Jay Cooke and the national banks. Then there is the Montana gold and silver mining job, | which proposed to give to a few specu » the revenue Jofalcations smounted to but a few © Inter s Jarcs teach of vwubly miceyallwls | ages Judes Beat only of thirty millions paid them by the inclination in Congress to increase it by ex- tending the offer of this bonus to other parties. In addition to this there is a proposed loan to Mexico of from twenty to fifty millions, when atreaty upon a commercial basis with the legal authorities of that country would accom- plish the result looked for much better than by ‘& loan. e We have here enumerated jobs which amount in the aggregate to two hundred and forty mil- Mons of dollars, and of what benefit is any one of thom to the country at large? They will simply increase the taxes of the people, without any corresponding benefit in the way of developing the country and increasing its prosperity. But, as if this was not saffcient, the Committee of Ways and Means now come forward with a crude bill for a protective tariff, which will take other thirty or forty millions out of the pockets of the people; not to meet the expenses incurred by the other jobs, but to enrich a few manufacturers, capitalists and merchants who have large stocks of goods on hand. The radi- cal fournais and tho organs of Congress at once setup the cry that a protective or pro- hibitory tariff is necessary to the resumption of ' specie payments and to restore the losses of the war. In this way they hope to delude the people into favoring tho tariff schoms, little thinking that the whole dodge is easily seen through, A few importers manage to get o large stock of a particular quality of goods on hand, and forthwith a deputation is sent to Congress to incrense the duties on that class of goods. Tho committee recommend the increase, and these goods are immediately marked up in price corresponding with the incresse of the tariff, without one cent of additional duties being paid to the govern- ment, The manufacturers find themselves with alarge stock of their goods on hand, with the market price gradnally falling, and they also send @ deputation, who unite with other dele- gations in pleading for an increase of tariff to cat off competition and enable them to secnre a higher price for their goods on hand. A few capitalists in Pennsylvania, anxious to increase thefr profits on their iron mines, also join in the cry for a prohibitory tariff that will enable them to charge just what they please for the products of their furnaces and mills, Out of all this comes the new tariff, which wo are told is to secure immediate specie payments and make up for the losses of (he war, Tn reality it is like all the other jobs of Congress—a scheme tO enrich & few atthe exponse of the many. Thus it isthat the present Conzress has become one of the most corrupt and jobbing bodies that have ever assembled at Washington. Monopolies and capitalists receive special favors from their hands, and any project, how- ever unjust, that furnishes a good margin for distribution is pushed throngh in hot haste. From this record the issue must be made at the coming elections, and a Congress elected which will pay more attention to the interests of the publiq and less to special jobs, or ruin and repudiation will soon be forced upon us. The Coming Fourth and Its Celebration in this City. ‘The Messrs. Edge, pvrotechnists, have addressed acom- munication to Mayor Hoffman, expressing their readiness to come to the reliof of the City Fathers, who say they have not funds from which to spare tho little cost of the usual pyrotechme celebration of the anniversary of American Independence, eo dear to young Gotham, The following is the Mayor's reply thereto:— Maron's Orricz, New Yore, ii June 29, 1866. in receipt of your favor of this dering mach a auplay 0” Meeeocal te the pathic parte eb eee ciey on the Fou uly na may be approved By the Comp. ler and myself, upon the ni stantling that $0 wall our influence with'the noxt Legislature to seotire an al tion for the payment of the same. I. regret hat in consequence of the smallness of the appropriat for ei carting cto, the I ohibition against in- favitities In excess of ft, the city authorities neceasary an proper arrangements for (he merican Independence. It country that ft has hiap- pened and I hope it will be the last. While, theretore, wo cannot incur any obligations In bebalf of the olty to pay you for the fireworks which you propose to exhibit T give you my FO Be Fon can be paid. ‘The Comptroller avaures tae that he the maine, and we will arrange wilh you in regard to the emount to which yon wilt be limited. Very respectfully, I coneur in the above. ie er 9 MATTHEW T. BRENNAN, Comptrotier. PREPARATIONS FOR THR FOURTH IN BROOKLYN. Tho Fourth of July wit! be celebrated tn Brooklyn in the usual patriotic manner. The Common Coancil have /propriated three thorand dollars for pyrotechnic dis- a, music, &c. There is to be a military parade; sa- jutes will be fired at sunrise, noon and sunset, and there is to be & presentation of medals to the heroic Fourteenth regiment of Veteran Volun' Commencement of the Academy of the Visitation, Villa de Sales. INTERESTING RXARCIARI—DISTHIBUTION OF PRE- MIUMS—ADPRESS OF BISHOP LOUVOMLIN, OF BROOKLYN, ETO. The commencement exercises at the Acadomy of the Visliation, Néw [tfocht, Long Island, took place yester- day afternoon on thé grounds attached to this magnif- cont inetitation. A temporafy canopy was erected, under which a 5 Since el ee A those were Brooklyn: Rev. Wainer. Daly, Rev.” De Head Contre James * > toimt committee of the Aldermen and *~* new Post Omice, consisting ‘* and Councilmen * of tnose ‘ vita, a A Commis... advising that the w. demgnated on a certain may , be sold and conveyed to the United mu... asite on which toerects United States Pos .. Court House, to be used by the United States governmem: for said purpose exclusively, for the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, the conveyance to contain a provision that {¢ it should evor cease to be used for the purposes specified the title should revert to and be reinvested im taining the Post ject to any further building desirous that the lay Office should be farther up towa—- & thorities, In Boston apd Philadelphia ground for a post office had bern ted to the government ! Tespective cities, But itwas not claimed New York shonld do likewise, because the Post Office here was in & measure a ceneral distributing office for the whole conn- try. It could not, then, be expected to provide accom modation for 0 extensive an object any more than for the Treasury tment or Custom House, It howovor, undeniable that it is greatly for the interest ail our citizens to have an appropriate bu'lding at an ao~ cosstble place, and the property should be ceded for such 1a purpose considerably less than what conld be obtained for ii were it sold for private purposes. In 1859 the Common Couancil authorized a sale for $250,000, and no objection was prominently made either by the press or people, Tt wasa misiake to suppose that by ‘8 sale at $500,000 the city loses the difference between that and the market value, If it consisted o° lots which were at any time kely (o he sold for private purposed such an argument would have force; but no one ever imagined it won!d bo so. The alternative, then, was betwen receiving $600 000 and a fine public building, and receiving nothing. If the Park were not devoted te this purpose it would either remain tn its present con- dition or be taken possession of by the railroad com- pantea, who always managed to yet bold of these things ‘without paving anything, We are making no sacrifices we are accommodating the government, and are half @ milion dotiars betrer off than we would otherwise be, by rolling it now to the governmont. Complatats had been made of the way tn which the Common Council gave away lots to charitable institutions, and he thought #® would have been better to have sold the lots given and presented them with the money, Bat no such arga- ment would apply to this property ; for he did not think they couid sell it if they wanted to do so. Tho Comytro: Len said—If he had power to sell it to- morrow he con 70! $1,500,000 for it; but he did not exnect that he would ever have the power of Undor foture contingencies the value of the prot wonld be grently enhanced, Some time since it was pt to ron Beckman street through ft, in case tho building sites would sell at viry high prices, It _certsiniy wae imp-obable, but no one could say what would happen in the futere, Alderman McGrvsta remarked that if the property was not used for the present object the time was not far dis- tant when a portion of \t be cut of and given the ral road compantes; and he was therefore in favor giving this piece to the government at the sum joned. 3 a s Ea f r j H 4 g i 3 if iz | 2 i-! li j i s Ff Cy i a; Py lei 1 : ih 5 fe i R Washington sard that if more than wore for the site New York would loso now Post The Post Office authorities bad two millions of efi fh ge: i g t i iH OMetal Confirmation of the Capture of the Imperial Train by Escobedo. Placed tn possession of intelligence from General United States Commissioners’ Ofiee. Before Commissioner Osborn, No criminal eases camo befuro Comminsioner Osborn for investigation yesterday, but ho heard some charges against parties for doing business without It and for neglecting to pay the atuount of imorant sorenee Assonsed upon them. These Inttor cases, however, pos: sessed no featare of public intorost, elected by an immense majority. The local elections aro the same, It \# believed the majority will be six to one, Negro saffrage killed the opposing party. A very large vote was polled throughout the State, Municipal Election in Norfoit. Forrarss Deeisto Moxnom, June 27, 1968. im the Cataw issn Case. | connect the Atlantic Witarsnanna, Pa, June 29, 1968, ‘The following dectsion bas just been rendered im the (7 warranto case in the matter of tho Catawiasa case, via: That the agreement of consolidation is valid and law'vl; that tho plea of mul tien record ie good, and the doworter is overruled, with leave to the detendants to Fe oi that there is a record; ‘hen, if the original agree- Ment is produced, accompanied by proof that 1 was de- posited with the ‘of Stare on Octoder 3, judg. ‘ment will be Genes Mae = ndants; or, if it should Appear t fer, Secretary of the State of Peansyivania, should mark the paper fied, « mantem Will be granted to compe! him to do eo, mn two bills in equity ; ~) Re Done of the plaints have any right to question Spe existence of the Atlan'ic and Great Western Rail Company; second, as Andrew Scott bas no stock in the new company he has no stand- ing tn court; rhird, that ho Catawines lease is & vard and fe contract; fourth, that the October 81, 1660, remains in force and to the lew room; fifth, tat the Philadelphia and Erie road does and Great Wi ‘eatern Ratiroad with delegate to the state Legislature was held the 26th. The returns oo elected to represent the cl beating his opponent tw lected. Mayor of the elt . large majorities, The ele” An election in Norfolk for municipal_oficers and a ‘that city oa slowly. Joha Goode was ~* of The Ind’ A special deapatch to (1 Inst night, says:—The Gre against the following Fen. John O'Niel, Owen Starr, Jonu Wm. Smith, Lawrence Shields, Michael Lo. O'Leary, Philip H. Mandy, John M. Fogarty, . Geary, It James H Roche, cay W. HL Lindsley, James T. Riley and Alexander ©. Maions, Jobn MeGuire, R Fitzpatnek, PH. nw Lured at Buffalo; Michael C. Murphy, amos J. Heffornan. Terence Quinn, Bason, captured The cases will be postponed to the next term, and the the Catawiom road, notwithstanding the difference in WUsrepted, Brscwua ele ye bob +