The New York Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1866, Page 4

4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD. has beon again undertaken. The programme agreed upon by the directors and officers in charge of the work will appear in the Henan to-day, The great fire in Portland, Me., which commenced on the Fourth, is still burning. One-half of the city is de- stroyed, nearly all the business portion being included. All the banks, newspaper offices, jewelry establish. ments, dry goods stores and telegraph offlces, eight churches, and other public buildings, and the majority of the business houses have been destroyed by this terrible visitation, The fire commenced below the foot of High street, in a boot store, and as the wind was blowing a gale the sheet of flame was swept forward, aud the utmost exertions we unable to check it, Over fifty buildings were blown up in the hope of making a Space between the fire and the other buildings, but the effort was useless. It is estimated that about two thou- sapd buildings were destroyed, involving a loss of ten million dollars, Two thousand families were rendered hougeless, losing nearly every valuable they had pos- sessed, and are now dependent on the generosity of those who were fortunate enough to escape the swoop} ing disaster. Two thousand tents for shelter to the houseless were forwarded by the United States authori- ties from Boston, and the people of that city are for- warding supplies of provisions and clothing. The Canadian finance budget has not yet passed through the Provincial Parliament, and the government does not feel disposed to press the question. The con- sideration of the resolutions providing for the local gov- ernment of the Provinces of Canada will be discussed to-day, and @ brisk opposition is expected. The new Tariff bill went into offect yesterday, Generals Sherman and Logan, Governor Oglesby and others addreased the largest meeting ever assembled in the State of Illinois on the Fourth of July. The meet- ing was at Cairo, and was gotten up by the returned sol- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU sTs, F — = Volume XXX1 , AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadw: Hovel.—BsoTaik Sam—Fea D) . opposite the St. Nicholas O10. SAN FRANCISCO M Metropolitan Hotel. —k Sax Niagara Lear or 585 Broudway, oppoalte ANON, de TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sam Snaxrcer's Mixstkxt axp Comsinarion TRoure—P'Liasant 1GUDORS. EY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, ‘s’ Hall, 472 Broadway-—Iw a Vanirry or 1 wasLe ENTeRTainMEnrs, Cours Dr BALLET, at De “ = Rs. ¥, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,— cer, RRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty- hand Fifty ninth streets, KO. THOMAS’ ORCHESTRAL wueN CONCERTS, Commenci 8 o'Clock. © x ® OOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Prooklyn.—Ermoriay Mim Y cotsy—Baciads, BURLESQUES AND PaNtoMiuEs. WASHINGTON HALL, Williamsburg. —Groxcs Curisty’s vrRRLS, a WwW YORK MUSEUM sill 10 OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — nfrom 104. M. sill 10 P.M. © SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, 845 Broadway.—'"'Fan- Racer Tri LOW HRONAUTIC AMPHITHEATRE, Fifty-ninth | qiorg. Birect and Sixth avenue. —BaLwoonine, Tiga Rore axp Fineworks. In Baltimore John Minor Botts addressed a gathoring at Patterson Park on ‘he Fourth. Picnics, excursions and memorial tributes at the cemeteries were the pecu- liar features of the day in Richmond. The negroes had a procession and festival, and took entire possession of the Capitol square. A parade of freedmen was the principal demonstration in Augusta, Georgia. Secretaries Seward and Welles, Commodore Radford and Senator Doolittle made an excursion to Fortress Monroe ov the Fourth, General Swoeny publishes an addreas to tho Fonian Brotherhood in Ameriga, in which he defends his course in the recent raid on Canada. He recommends the re- organization of circles and thé formation of military companies by the members under their chosen leaders, He datos the address at St. Albans, Vt., July 4 DEMY OF D iN, Corner of Twenty- NATIONAL AC d HIBITION OF ORIGINAL hird xt ORKS BY LIVING ARTISTS. New York, Friday, July 6, 1866. THS NEWS. CONGRESS. In tho Senate, yesteriay, the Conference Committee on the Army Appropriation bill made a report, which dto, The bill as amended is substantially the it was passed by the Senate. ‘The bill to pay the jzens of Southern States for stores taken for the was taken up and discussed, but noth complished before the adjournment. Political Reconstruction—The Organiza- House, the Pacific Railroad bill came up in tion of New Parties—A New Epoch. Order, and after an amendment providing that nothing in it shall give the company mineral lands or United States bonds over the number of miles actually built, Dead elephants, enormous monsters, covered with hair, have been found among the icebergs was laid on the table. ‘The Conference report on the | Which fringe the outlets of the great rivers of SArmy Appropriation bill was agreed to, The bill now | Siberia. Skeletons of the extinct mastodon oes fo the Presidont, ‘The Tariff bill was taken up and | have been dug out of the swamps of New tiireo pages were disposed of. No alterations or amend- | Sorsey, and in the lower end of the State they pents of ance e made, — Sonate ae have their dealers in the well seasoned lum- f ae wae whee ber of a subterranean forest at this day. The The regular meeting of the Chamber of Commerco | s.@, was liold yesterday, and a very strong resolution was | ‘ifferent strata which form the crusts of our condemnatory of the Tarif bill now before | Planets mark each some geological period dis- tinguished from the rest by a different climate, races of animals and orders of vogetation in Bho last forty-eight hours they have received but few oe ee lecnity, nee we teyoues cecmun Applications for licenses, and their receipts trom that | Of the wonderful convulsions, changes and re- Pource have fallen of (o the small sum of four hundred | VOlutions which the earth has undergone in its wud Afty dollars. progressive developments of vegetable and The pyrotechnic displays which were postponed until | animal life. Next, from the pyramids of Egypt o sce ee een wero given in City Hall Park | tg the ancient temples of Yucatan, we have id elsewhere in the city Iast evening to i catego st Rrvadway and Grand street a nerioun | ® S¢8€8 of lessons in tho relics of kingdoms Acoldont occurred, A wooden shed which was taken | “Md empires, equally instructive as to the Jorsonsion of by a crowd of boys gave way beneath their | vicissitudes and changgs to which all created pub and ge Lasso ee piers en very | things are subject. Still contracting the circle pene Se 1» " g of our observations, we learn from the rise, BS gs sigan Apollos eee eta a odial development and decay of the politica parties died of cholera yesterday after an illneas of only five | Of every age and every people, that under Dours. There were no fresh developments on Staten | different modifications we have been and are ‘Asland, and no deaths reported. The sick in hospital | going through the same processes of rovolu- sae a ice progressing favorably, and will be removed tion and reconstruction. Mee Bila Van Woe was advertised to give ‘manifesta. | ‘Thus in the political parties and factions ‘tions’ Inst evening, at $14 Broadway, when about ninsteon | that we road of in the histories of tlie ancient persons attended, The séance was a flases, the medium | Israclites, and of every intervening country ms ioral Beg cerath in si Leoma ae a pint 7 thence to the British islands, we may find 7 +d oa something resembling our originsl federal bran sop banmatnencsam bar im dinuerrocer mony pl republican parties, our old whig, demo- 3 cratic and abolition parties, and the republi- can, radical and conservative factions, and the war and copperhead peace factions of the democratic party, and the ultra Massachusetts negro equality faction of the present day. Great convulsions in the natural or political world bring about great changes from the old order of things. Against these changes old parties, and factions that have fulfilled their time may struggle, but they will struggle in vain. Change, for instance, a field of tobacco into a fleld of Indian corn, and the tobacco worm will be superseded by another insect. So with the abolition of Southern slavery; the old pro-slavery and no-slavery parties must take a new shape, as did the old National Bank and anti-baok parties with the death of Biddle’s monster. The present republican pariy, being admirably adapted for the pur- pose, was appointed by the people of the North to put down a great Southern rebellion. In doing this work this party has fulfilled its mission, It is not adapted to meet the new conditions of a restoration of peace, Nor is the peace party of the war. New issues call for new ideas, new platforms, new organiza- ailopied Seven hundred and one injunctions have already been @erved on the new Commissioners of Excise. During # The crercises of the sixteenth annual commencement ‘St. Francis Xavier's College took placo last evening at he hall of the college, on Sixteenth street, On Wedoesday last a policeman named John Fuchs ‘Wns shot, at Morrisania, by Richard D. Cook, doring « scuttle for the possession of a gun with which Cook had @rmed himself to keep trespassers out of bis garden. An Anquest was held on the case yesterday, before Coroner Piiver, when the prisoner was committed to await the ection of the Grand Jury. In the United States Circuit Court, before Judge #malley, Mr. S$, G. Courtney, District Attorney, yester- @ay moved that on the indictment found some years ago wzatnst Isase V. Fowler, with regard to certain alloged Gecalcations in the Post OMce of this city, « nolle prosequt ah be entered. Judge Stnalley consented, and a mille prosequi was accordingly entered. ‘Tho Lamirande extradition caso, 80 often reported in he Hina, was called on again for hearing yesterday Ddefore Commissionef Betts, when information was im. Parted to the Court thal the accnsed had escaped from One of the Deputy Marsbais, The particulars of the escape aro published in another column, A destructive fire occurred at the New Haven piers on ho Kast river carly yesterday morning. The steamer Baltimore caught fire from the burning aépit and is a otal loss, The damage cannot as yet be estimated; but Sho property on the pice and under the sheds is reported @t $250,000, A nogro man was severely injured, and the ‘oaptain of a coal barge, with bis wife and brother, were Purned about the face and hands. The damag> to the Pior is about $10,000. tions and new leaders. The radical republi- | ieoynee sx: — tng bs pecan 4 tae hag can leaders cannot be made to believe that nail business was done in imported morchandise an rg 2 . fot much in domestic produce outside of ‘Change. On the war is over; the old hide-bound, shent-per- Jonango the chicf feature was the great activity incor, | Shemt democratic leaders still believe that the ‘which went up lo, # 2c. per bushel under a large de- | war was a failure. They are the Bourbons mand for export, though the arrivals amounted to within | who never learn anything and never forget A fmotion of six hundred thousand bushels Flour *as | anything; they are the old English Jacobites, fpell.aad drooping, Wheat nomisally tower. Oats trawe. | who have but one ides, the tion of their leas active and drooping. Lard dull. Cotton dull d nominal Groceries nominally unchanged worthless King James, who has been cast out, MISCELLANEOUS. never to return, nice Wold Vicwnk BirttS ane Macaulay saya that under William of Orange test moment previous to the depar | “England’s great and glorious revolution was complote;” but ander the good and lamented Abraham of Illinois we have accomplished a much greater revolution. We must have, Perost relative to the actual progress made in the great jermano-lialiaa war, aot the probable consequences of therefore, » more marked reorganization of fi. straggle. The monarchs and peoples wero evidently | parties, The tenacity of the republican party Bstonishod at the rapid and successful movements of the and its discipline are great, but fate is against sian armies in Hanover and Saxony. The report of | ii, From ite very excess of strength it is full- ee at cans tra Vacs ba | IM woe ke the old democratic paty of le astonish m ns of er , Bul saning Tike consternation or excitement. The utmost | 1852 and the old whig party of 180. ‘The most perfect secrooy was maintained rolative to the | Doolittle and Dixon call for a conservative astrian plan ot campaizn It was alleged in Parts thatthe | national convention at: Philedelphia marks s ‘artsians detested the Prarsians, and the policy of Prussia positive disintegration of the republican party. a a er crea, ; The manifesto of the democratic members of pat the Bi fof France is in hearty accord with Bis. a aoe et ming. Frodcrick Wiliam, Tt appears aa ir | Congress (the authoritative high priests of thetr spoloon was simply confused. The Italian volunteers | church), in urging a fasion of the democrats in this Philadelphia movement, proclaims the democratic party disbanded in view of a new Our special corres “Paria, dated to the ro of the Cuba from Queenstown (June 23), is published the Henacp to-day, with a compilation from the latest ropean files. The matter will be found of much in- Nad Amorica by a sabmarine telegraph The new cable as completed, and the last col® of it placed on board Eastern on (bd 23d of June, the date of latest adyio”%s from England. A rigid scien- n the right bank of the Po were in sight of the Croatinn ontinels doing duty for Austria on the other side. The Duke do Chartres, Louis Philippe’s grandson, tendered his Bac ts an officer to Victor Emmanuel, but the ofr | 4 ® broader and stronger and more Lam fr ws declined by the Ttalian Cabinet, national party. The most powerful parties, ‘Tho Atlantic Telegraph fleet, consisting of the steam. | like the most powerful nations, are made up of Baips Great Eastern, William Corry, Albany and Medway, appatently the most incongruous elements. one resect diye axe bays ~- davon eoshutnaed oo Look at the British monarchy and our great England on the 30th o! ors pn "prepennjory to starting op the vastly Inpor. | American republic, and the materials which sot work of making a fifth attempt to conp%ct Europe | have made them. Why, then, may not this conservative Philadel- phia movement result in the dominant party of the future, in absorbing en masse the demo- @xAmiRation of the electric rope is said to | Ctatic party end the best materials of the repub- satisfactorily domonstrated {te superiority over the | lican camp? There appears to be every rea- and the proparations for laying tt from Ire | son for thd prediction that this thing will come Newfoundland are reprosented a4 Fam te "| from the experience of ‘ gone by and pareeeenns perros, The wore OS eee | treme all the signs of change and reconstruction he shore ond line at Valentia was to be commenced a vsti yout the Ist of July, 80 we may oxpect to hear shortiy | 1 Which we have referred. We mus' ths inboresting and (mportant work of “laying tho | bor, too, that disintegration has sot in at both NEW YOKK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1866. ends of ibe republican party; that while the conservatives are filing off with Doolittle the ultra negro equality radicals are following the bragen trumpet of Wendell Phillips; A candle burning at both ends is soon consumed. We know how it was with the little abolition party of 1844. In robbing Henry Clay of the vote of New York it elected Polk and opened the way for the whole chapter of events that have ,re- sulted from that election. Slavery might have been flourishing in full feather this day but for those fifteen thousand abolition whig votes cast haphazard for Birney in New York in that election. So now in this Wendell Phillips’ de- fection from the radical party of Congress we may have another ultra abolition faction, des- tined to draw off the balance of power and to wield it against the republican party in the ap- proaching Presidential contest. Why not? It is the same balance of power which broke up the great old whig party and the proud and domineering old democratic party. There is time enough yet, and there are floating ma- terlals enough from which 6 build up a new party competent to carry the next Presiden¢y; and to this end this Philadelphia movement for the practical restoration of the Union takes: hold of the right end of the main question. tives issued their manifesto of adhesion. Now, while the shent-per-shent faction still hesitates and wavers, the lottery faction, under the Woods, hauls down its peace flag and announces that it will send delegates. Whether this is a legitimate alliance, or whether the peace men are acting, as usual, with the radicals, and de- sign to cast an odium upon the Philadelphia Convention, we shall see in good time; but whatever may be the motive of the peace and lottery leaders, the result is to leave the shent- per-shent clique out in the cold. Everybody else has taken tickets for Philadelphia, and they are still lingering upon the rotten Chicago platform and grinding unpopular tunes upon their broken hand organs. What is to be done? Dean Richmond may gather up the old deeds, scalps and tomahawks of the democratic wigwam, take a special train over the Central Railroad and get to the Convention by the Philadelphia and Erle branch; but unless Bel- mont makes up his mind very soon, carries Marble pivk-a-back, and hobbles over the ground at a pretty fast pace, he will be too late to take part in the performances and the pickingy Wendell P! pe On Congress and the Pres: t—The Old Liberty Party to be Revived. The usual convention of the anti-dlavery society took place at Framingham, Massachu- setts, on the 4th instant, no doubt for the spe- cial purpose of giving Wendell Phillips an op- portunity to have his say on the political questions of the day. As might have been ex- pected, this high priest of the old abolition party exposed the duplicity of the party lead- ers in Congress, and denounced both the Presi- dent and the radicals, Phillips, having fought his way inio prominence in the ranks of the old liberty party and in the anti-slavery so- ciety, and lived to see the adoption of his ideas of abolition of slavery, now insists that it shall be made perfect by the adoption of universal negro suffrage. On that point he will accept no compromises or half-way measure, but in- sists upon having universal suffrage or noth- ing. He finds that neither the President nor Congress is ready to grant it in the shape that he wants it; and, as matter of course, his speech at Framingham is filled with denunciations. The President, however, is let off very easy, compared with the accusations against the radicals in Congress. His indict- ment against the latter, if anything, exceeds Mr. Phillips’ usual vigorous style. This prophet and leader of the old abolition faction informed his followers gathered around him, that “the President has no policy, simply a plot,” while Congress “has betrayed us, and is demoralizing the popular heart.” The great point made against the President is that he is the leader of the South, their gencral- in-chief, encamped in the White Honse, sssist- ing that section in rallying the broken lines in an effort to restore, as closely.as possible, the Union as it was, But with all this he believes that Mr. Johnson is anxious to be elected President in 1868, and would be willing to give negro suffrage to secure that point. But while the President, according to high priest Phillips’ view of the matter, is ready to go that far, he holds that Congress has surrendered the point at issue, and that the only purpose of the radicals is to bridge over the fall elections, in the hope of saving the party. They have proposed in the amendments to the constitu- tion to compromise the question of suffrage by a change of basis of representation. Asa mat- ter of course Mr. Phillips opposes these amend- ments, declares that they will never be ratified, and what is more, that the republican leaders in Congress know that they will not be and do not want them adopted. “I do not,” says Phillips, “disgrace the whole proceedings when Tsay that it isa party trick. It is got up to serve a purpose, to kill time until after the election and get rid of a pressing emergency.” But if it should by chance succeed, “then the negro will be given defenceless into the hands of his former master.” Suoh is the view given of the action of Congress, which he character- izes as statesmanship of compromise and hy- pocrisy, in which he and his friends can take no part or lot in its consummation. Since neither the President nor Congress comes up to the standard of the old anti-slavery faction, and neither of the old parties of the day in- tend to adopt the idea that thnt class are la- boring for, it has become necessary to look to other means and other sources for the accom- plishment of their purposes. The plan for all this has been hit upon. Wendell Phillips finds, by looking over history, that two great elements con- |! trol governments—land and the ballot box. The class which owns land will be able to mould the government. This, in his view, is the reason why the South desires to keep the lands out of the hands of the negroes. If they can only succeed in accomplishing that, the people who have heretofore held the supremacy in that section will be able to resist all efforts at their overthrow by revolution in their midst. Lands and the ballot box for the negro are, therefore, indispensable to the suc- cess of Wendell Phillips’ great idea. Unable to prevail upon the republican party to engraft this upon its creed, he proposes to organize a party with that as its platform, and go before the people battling for that great principle. In other words, to revive the old liberty or abolition party of twenty years ago and carry on the same system of tactics, adopting the cry of “Land and ballot tor the negrocs,” in the place of abolition of slavery. Mr. Phillips admits that it may take them ten or fifteen years to secure their final sue- cess, but he is certain that they will triumph in the end: This will bring a new party in the field, and will take from the present republican organization all that class of men who, like Wendell Phillips, fare honest in their eonvictions, and prefer principles to party and official position. It will probably make a di- version in this way in the Northern States of upwards of two hundred thousand votes, and thus control a sufficient number of votes to more than hold the balance of power between the other two parties. Thus, at the very time when the conservative portion of the repub- lican party is preparing to hold a convention and cut loose from the radical wing, the honest portion of the balance, or the old anti- slavery element, has become so disgusted with the policy of the party in Congress that it is inaugurating a new movement in which the watchword shall be land and ballot for the megro, and opposition to all com- promise/of that principle. This is the result of the efferts of the radicals in Congress to save | bo party aod bridge over the coming elec- TA The Disbandment of the Democratic Party. After having been divided and subdivided by the free-soilers, the Southern secessionists and the peace faction at the North, the demo- cratic party is at length officially disbanded by ® manifesto from its representatives in Con- gress. The organization, which lost the confi- dence of the people by its course in regard to slavery and the rebellion, will now, in all Probability, be merged in the new party which is to be started at the National Union Convention called to meet at Philadelphia in August. Since the conservative repub- licans could not come into the democratic ranks nor the democratic army place it- self under the command of conservative republican leaders, a compromise has been effected by which both parties may unite in forming # new organization and fight together under 8 new name and a new ban- ner. The Southern men are expected to join this novel coalition and to re- cruit it to formidable numbers. If the plans already made public can be successfully carried out, and if the democrats, conservative republicans and repentant Southerners can be fused into one harmonious mass, the result may indeed be a National Union party that will have a working majority at the North and be absolutely unopposed and supreme at the South. The new movement did not at first preaent any very threatening proportions, That the Johnson Club at Washington should call a national conventivn was by no means surprising. Political clubs occasionally indulge in that sort of thing, and yet nothing serious happens. Neither was it so very strange that such Senators as Dixon and Doolittle should endorse the call; for it was naturally expected that they would take part in any demonstration intended to support President Johnson and oppose the radicals. The organs of the destruciives, therefore, affected to ridiculo the movement for a while, and outsiders regarded it with philosophical indifference. But since then it has gained strength every day, and from a cloud no larger than 8 man’s hand it bas grad- ually increased until it now almost obscures the political sky. The radicals have begun to abuse it in the most extravagant manner, but their wrath seems to assist it, and it is now generally recognized as extremely dan- gerous, not only to the party of Sum- ner, Greeley and Thad Stevens, but also to the old democratic organization, whose leaders and organs have been endeavor- ing to aid the radicals by arguing feebly against it from its first inception. There is evidently a general bolt on the part of the conservative republicans in favor of the Philadelphia Con- vention. The idea is well recelved by the | South, and delegates are promised from every seceded State. And now, wheeling into line at precisely the proper moment, the demo- cratic representatives disregard the orders of their leaders and the appeals of the corrupt democratic organs, and urge their constituents to go with them Into the National Union camp. The manifesto of the democratic Congress- on is very similar in tone and spirit to that issued hy the conservative republicans, lt warns the people that dangers threaten the constitution and the country, and urges them to send wise, moderative and couservative del- egates to the Philadelphia Convention to con- sult with their fellow citizens from all parts of the Union and decide upon the means by which the constitution and the rights which it guar- antees may be practically maintained. But the important point is, that just as the con- servative manifesto recognized the inadequacy of the republican party to the demands of this crisis, so the democratic manifesto tacitly ad- mits that the old democratic party is powerless for good, and must be superseded by some other agency. Reverdy Johnson, Garrett Davis, General Rousseau, James Guthrie, Thomas A. Hendricks, Andrew Jackson Rogers, F. C. Le Blond, .and all the other rep- resentatives, small and great—with the excep- tion of those from this city, who are completely befogged and at sea—unite in this view. They point out the evils to be averted, but they do not pretend that the democratic party can avert them. On the contrary they distinctly advise the’ people to look outside of that party, and of all other existing parties, for the hope ofsafety. In effect, then, the old democpagy is disbanded. Its day has passed; its prestige is lost; it is as dead as the old whig party, and nothing remains but to give it a decent burial and write its obituary and its epitaph. Whe- ther the Philadelphia party will inherit its effects and be strengthened by its rank and file is for the future to determine; but at any rate it will never figure again asa great power at the polls. A long time ago we predicted that the era of war would be followed by « political ora as ‘fall of astounding incidents and revolutions, and we also warned the democratic leaders of the decease of their organization. But, while politicians from all other sections of the coun- try gave heed to our words, and ‘the repub- licans here have been wise enoggh to build themselves an ark to be launched next August, in which to weather the “he democratic leaders in this city are still and hétp- less, At the very mome’t that their organs were denying that demoy rats would participate in this movement thy, damocratic represents- ———— CITY INTEXLIGENCE. Prorosas YOR Bupa Sx VERS, &c.—Proposals for building sewers, with the necess ¥ry receiving basins and culverts, were received at the offi of the Croton Board until yesterday, when they were wpened. The awarde will be made as follows:—For building a eower in Chrys tie street, between Delancey and Broome streets, to Mr. B. F. Brady, in the sum of $1,341 75; for building » sewer in Hudson street, between Laixht and Hubert streets, to B, F. Brady, in the sum of $1,569 60; for building a sewer in Princo streot, besween Mott streot and the Bowery, to B. F. Brady, inthe sugn of $1,648; for building a sewer in Sixth avenue, between Twenty- sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, to Mr, J. Duffy, Jr., in the sum of $1,740; for building a sewer* in Twe: fourth street, between Lexington and Third avent to Mr. R. Cunningham, at $2,236; for building’ a sewer in Clift stroct, between Fulion and Jobn street, (o Mr. B, ¥. Brady, in the sum of $1,393; for hutlding 1 sewer in Waits strect, between Hudson and Varick strevts, to B. F.Brady, in the sum of $1,683; for building a sewer in Broadway, to Redmond Joyce, in the sum of $8,960; A Rownoar Acciprext.—On Wednesday the eigl\t-oared barge Excelsior, of the Atlanta Club, and the siai-oared outrigger Atalanta, which won the race with the Mittuals of Albany, last Saturday, weht up the river as (ur as Fort Lee. On their return as the Atalanta was rounWing the Sixteenth street dock she was struck by a heavy een and instantly swamped. Such was the force of the water The War in Germany—Superior Strategy of the Prussians. However much men may differ as to whom belongs the diplomatic victory in the quarrel between Prussia and Austria, no one can doubt that the strategic advantage is with the former. The diplomacy which secured the vote and the alliance of Saxony, Hanover, Nassau, Wtirtem- berg, Electoral-Hesse and Hesse-Darmstadt to Austria undoubtedly gave to that Power a large territory and great numerical strength in population and contingents; but neverthe- less it gave to Prussia a great strategic advan- tage, since it forced Austria to so dispose her troops as to protect and hold an isolated coun- try whose inhabitants were not competent to protect themselves, The situation of the two Hesses and Hanover sre not unlike that of Maryland during the late war in this country; and they must remain in 0 great measure as isolated from Austria os Maryland was from the rebel States, and as content to be occu- pied by the Prussians, 2: Maryland was by the Uni til ? the ae that the Tea tages peoken! haven, The craw e Union forces, until the end of the cont wero cast into the water, but were rescued. by @ boat rot hi i . The Kx- The Prussian commander, Prince Frederick | csistor came slong athort time after the accident, ca | Charles, has not been slow to perceive this, and has been equally prompt in acting. No sooner was the vote of June 14 on the mobili- zation of the army of the confederated Ger- man States announced than Prussia pronounced the Federal compact dissolved, and thus de- clared war against Austria and the confeder- ated States which voted with her. No sooner was war declared on June 15 than Prince Frederick Charles began to move, and on the 16th advanced into Saxony, occupying Dres- den and Lobau. At the seme time Gereral Mantenffel occupied the isolated State of Han- over, and General von Beyer, advancing upon Frankfort-on-the-Main, cut off the retreat of the Hanoverian army upon that point. There have been no operations in European warfare for many years displaying greater vigor than these initiatury movements of Prince Frederick Charles, and they must immediately produce important results. The occupation of the mountain region of Saxony, and the holding of its numerous passes, is a triumph equal to a victory won, since it not only protects Prussia from a flank Movement, but, what is more important, it threatens communication between Vienna and Frankfort, between the Austrian army and its al- lies, the forces of Wurtemberg, Bavaria and the Hesses at Mayence and Frankfort. From these mountain passes of Saxony the troops of Prus- sia can debouch upon the lines of communica- tion of the Austrians and of retreat of the Federals, and force them to battle or retreat. One of these results must ensue from these movements—perhaps both may, and doubtless the next news will bring us the intelligence of the retirement of the Federals from Frankfort into Bavaria, and perhaps even into Bohemia, The immediate concentration of the Federals and Austrians in front of Frederiok Charles ap- pears to have become a necessity, and conse- quently the Federal abandonment of Hanover and the two Hesses, The occupation of Saxony, the seizure of the railroad communications be- tween Bavaria, Saxony and Austria, the pos- session of the fortified line of Magdeburg, Leipaic and Dresden, which so admirably covers Berlin, and the possession also of the mountain defiles which separate Saxony and Bohemia, are points gained by Prussia which will cost Aus- tria much bloodshed to recover. The vigor and strategy of Prince Frederick Charles are admira- ble, and in this instance highly effective, and equal to anything which we had illustrative of the art during our late war. We suggested yes- terday that the Prussians, while adopting our ideas of organization, might profitably employ some of the varied qualities of ou} generals, but doubtless Sheridan and Sherman will be prompt to recognize in the action of Prince Frederick Charles the spirit and afdor of the true soldier and strategist. took the wreck in tow and brought it to the Club Hi where it is being repaired, and will be ready in sufficient time for the return match with the Mutuals at Albany on the 11th inst. Messrs. jo F and Swan, re- fusing to be taken off by the schooner's boat, remained clinging to the wreck of their boat until they were rescued and the boat taken in tow by the barge. Tux Pourtu on Ranpatt’s Istaxp.—Correcrion.—We are requested to state that the freworks furnished the children on Randall's Island were presented by the Mayor and the Comptroller, and not by Alderman and Mr. Stephens, as was reported. Drownina Casuatty ar Guen Cove.—Sergeant Court- land, quartermsster at David’s Island, was accidentally drowned on the 4th, near Glen Cove. Deceased was formerly a member of the Seventh regiment, New York State Militia, . Fut. Overnoarp.—Last evening William Murphy, commanding the brig Mary, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, lying at pier 10 East river, fell overboard and was drowned. The body was subsequently recovered and taken to the First precinct station house, where an in- quest will be held to-day, FIREWORKS IN THE CITY LAST NIGHT. Displays at the City Hall, Madison Square and Thalian Square—Fall of an A ing Shed at the Latter Place— Several Persons Injared, &. CITY HALL PARK. In the City Hall Park the pyrotechnic display of inven. * j tion and design produced brilliant effects in front of and above the plazza of tho City Hall building. The devices were numerous and the derigns varied, harmonizing with the sublimity of tho national motte, “E Pluritus Unum," onumerated in the con- stellation of stars on the American fiag. All wero brilliant and attractive, but the Union Star, the Star of Independence and the Shield of. our Union far outshone them all, becauso they appealed to the heart of the nation, and were national in the real and essential meaning of the word. But the grand finale especially challenged attention, This was a re] tation of the Temple of Washington, exhibiting as it wore the mauso- Jeum of the hero and tho statesman to myriads of men, who, uncovered, beheld the evanescent memorial with solemn reverence and manly admiration of all that was great and good in man. AT MADIBON SQUARE. An immense crowd was gathered at Madison square Tast Po to fn) adage Toe a paced was rgeant Waters, ‘wenty- pre. ' ecinct, and the police under his command. Speight himself was in the shborhood to preserve order if necessary. An excellent display was matic by Mr, Edges’ pyrotechn! and the masses full Spree tho exhibition. The exhibition began by a flight of sig- nal fe id pleces, jramme. The concluding exhibiting a Temple off Liberty, was really magni! general admiration. BAST BROADWAY AND GRAND STRERT—A NUMBER OF PERSONS SRVRRELY INJURED, ‘The donizons of this crowded neighborhood assembled fm great numbers at an early hour lastevening. The ‘trees and roofs had thor ! i TL oH Fr | HE in the resides at 88 Columbia street, contagion of the spine and was severely injured. Joha Smith, aged fourteen years, resides at 340 it street, received a contusion on the left side and was severely woe in the right knee, and being unable to walk was en home by an officer. Wiliam H. Webster, a native of the United States, thirty-one years, was walk- ing under the shed wi it fell, and was severely bruised; his injuries are said to be internal; was taken to Bellevue Hospital by officer James Finley, aged fourteen, his arm broken and was taken home by his mother, Most of the injured were brought to the station house, corner of Delancey and Attorney streets, aud were cared for by Sergeant Esterbrook until Police Surgeon Armstrong arrived from Mr. Sewarp’s Lerrer to Tawmixy Hati.— Mr. Seward was invited to participate in the late Fourth of July celebration ¢f Tammany Hall. Mr. Seward not having the dme to spare from his copious diplomatic correspondence to join in smoking the pipe of peace with the Tam- many sachems, sent them his regrets, coupled with some unusual compliments to Old Tam- many from Mr. Seward. Ho was highly pleased with the form of the invitation and its TP Ret Nee Ret i old Jacksonian motto, that “the Union must | "° **oPoulae Meadquariors, | ¥ and shall be preserved,” and with the vignetto | ,TB® °xbibition of fireworks woot off in the following | which illustrates it; and he liked the colors of Yew Troe. Yankee Windmill, ‘Tamuiany, the red, white and blue; and the Loy perc ba Temple of Liberty on a rock pleased him, and ee as American Whirtpool. the big eagle, and the railroad train, and the Tribute to Ceres. ‘ dates 1776 and 1866, They made ® period of | ueatarset glory ail varnserihae info oee, ninety years, which reminded him, doubtless, | der 1776. In tho centro was an eagle holding in her a shield, on either side of which were the Stars &nd Stripes sliumined in crimson, azure and emerald. The whole closed with a battery or fen de joie. The Pyrotechnic display was ably conducted by Mr. A. White, and gave universal ‘mtiafaction. Captain Heim on the ground with twenty-five men, and rendered effl- cient service when the accident occurred and during the evening. FRANKLIN STRERT AND WEST BROADWAY. A busy concourse of hu: was the liberty pole at the above vi 7, and incessant: hum of several thousand juveniles was heard on every of his ninety day prophecies of the rebellion. And he thought that, having lived ninety years, the republic would live a hundred. And alas, said he, how many republics have shorter lived! Mexico, for isstance ; but did not say Mexico, as that hes been troublesome subject to the State. He thought the fisg, the right of the ticket ought the thirteen otars, on the left is just the thing, with its And he liked the noble principles of Old rf i ! all Southern States; he could not tell why they were still kept out, but he bad unbounded con- fidence in the American people, and he is in- clined to think it is not much of & crisis after all. We presume that had Mr. Seward been pres- ent he would have been delighted with the Fe- nians of Old Tammany, and he would have been pleased to meet there Sir Frederick Bruce and Colonel Roberts hand in hand, and he wonld have’ complimented the sachems for their fine old Bourbon and their good oysters ; and we dare say he would have joined with the same pleasure in a toast to Andy Johnson, old Thad Stevens, Thurlow Weed, Dean Richmond, Horace Greeley, H. J, Raymond or Jchn Van Buren. Everything is lovely with the Secre- tary of State since the abolition of slavery. “Whatever is is right ;” and the jolly Irishman 4 against of the meen and Susquehan- resolu Mr. Rawery, President . Rajlroad, offered the, foi! réYerred to & committe g appoint te prepare Resolved, That in tse t of thie Convention revenue tax should aaa Wuke raten of railroad mont of the rales V Are established and limited by aw pre- vious (othe Wal, and whieh have not since been fnereabed, while in almost,’ of busines: trade there is 140 limit |) Which was ‘business : “ " the amount which mag be charged. in the play, who, even without a shirt to | the Taw tony Mowing the wisdom and justioe of persn his back, was always jolly, must still give way | , Mt CA's, Chief Engincer of the San Antonio (Tex. ‘fad, then read a paper on railroad tracks and foe therewith, which. was referred * Secre $ & ms Seiiaiiaastienatunmere Commatiss te meinen After which the Couven- tio's adjourned. year of jubilo has come” and he, indeed, is “the happy man,” The Tariff on Railroad Iron. Puitavenena, July 5, 1866, The Rights of Railroad and Express Com jon. xp, Va., July 6, 1866. ted an injunction in the cane of BF vickinan Beperisvendent of the National F. Ficklin, Sy A convention of railroad presidents is in session here, ia Central, Orange aud The committee appoihted yesterday to memorialise Con. Aenean a Mh Da Potorsburg and Weis, resa and remonstrate against the duty upom iron and | don Rai them from carrying 5 # cia) transportation contracts with the Adams and Foulhorn Express Companies. The motion of the defo dante for an order suspending the operation of the 19% inction wag overruled. This decision i* eonsidered ¥ ry important, ae deciding the rights of railroads A904 orpraes compa nies, and has greatiy elated all verter intorested im the National Express Company, stool rails impored by the Tariff bill, reported to-day in favor of the proposed action, which Was a Dptoed after a long debate, ee A committe of five was appointed to investigate the ew proces, invented by Louis 8 Robbing, of New Yor! for vroserving railroad and uther tne,” 5