The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1866, Page 4

¢ YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR )FFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. a KEK... ceecereceeeeeeee sees NOs 190 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WOOD'S THEATRE, erg opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—Fra Diavoro—Loap Dunpreany, or Sam's AR- mIVAL—KaTuLeen O'NaiL. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUYT, at Mechunics’ Hall, 412 Broadway—in a Vaninry or Licat anp Lavauasis Ententainments, Cours pz Bauer, £c. TERRACE GARDEN, ‘Third A\ re! ~ eighth aud Fifty ninth stvects Tuae, Tuomas? Oncusstis Ganoxy Concuars, commencing at 8 0'Clock. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermorian Mow ermatsr—Baiaps, Boutesques ano Pantomimus. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 — Open from 0 A. M. till 10 P.M. Pentre LOWE'S AERONAUTIC AMPHITHEATRE, Fifty-ninth Mtreet and Sixth avenue.—BaLiooninG, Tight Rorz axp Fiasworxs. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, Corn ind street and Fourth aveuue.—ExuiBITION Wonks by Living Annis: er of Twenty- or OnicmwaL New York, Monday, July 9, 1866. EUROPE. ‘The steamship Saxonia, from Southampton on the 27th of June, arrived at this port 1ate last night, bringing three days lator news. Our special correspondence from Paris, with the news- paper history of the events which transpired at.the seat of war on the continent, which we publish to-day, con- tains matter of the highest interest and most serious im- portance, The Italian army, commanded by King Victor Eman- uel, met the Austrians in the very heart of the Quadri lateral and was severely defeated after fighting two Dloody engagements, After crossing the Mincio (June f in three divisions, the first detachment of Italian res advanced rapidly towards Somacompagna, tending to strike the railroad between Ve- na and Peschiera, ‘The other two divisions owed in force in support. When in the very core of a Quadrilateral Austrians debouched from erona, and attacking the first division almost overwhelmed it by superior numbers, The Italians fought bravely, and fell back to Custozza, north of Villa franca. Here thy Austrians assaulted the army and | Positions of the Italians with the bayonet, and carried the place after a desperate struggle. Goneral Villery, of the Italian army, was killed; Vrince Amadeus, of Savoy, wounded, and a great number of prisoners and guns sur- rendered to the Austrians, King Victor Emanuel re treated across the Mincio, Some accounts say that he took his whole army with him, while others assert that & good portion of his troops remained on the left bank of the Mincio. Garibaldi was successful against the Austrians near Brescia, and his volunteers held excelient positions in the Alpine passes. The General looked to Munich as his objective point. The Italian fleet sailed from tho galf of Tarantown on the 234 of June, but its destination was unknown. The Austrian gunboats on the lake di Garda bombarded the Italian positions on the Lombard shore. A fooling prevailed in Paris and London to the effect that the war, eo far as Italy was concerned, was almost ended ; but the Florence despaiches state their people are determined to conquer. The London Ties indicates very plainly that Austria could now afford to treat for the cession of Venetia to Italy, and thus detach her from the alliance with Pras- gia, The writer calls indirectly on Napoleon as @ peace- maker to “ bend ” Italy to this course.” that the Czar of Russia inciines towards Napoleon’s plan Of a powerful armed peuiraliiy, rogrots the non-assem- and awaits eventuatities, {in Germany, but no battle of moment had been fought. Several skirmishes, end- ing in favor of Prussia, are reported. It was sald that tho Hanoverian army had offered to capitulate to the Prugelana, but (he statement was again denied, Earl Russel! had resigned the position of Premier.of England, and his cabinet was dissolved. The new minisg $ry had noi been formed, The statements made to both houses of parliament by Karl Russeli, Earl Derby, Earl Brey and Mr. Gladstone, co to show that Great Britain (was enduring a constitutional revolution at the moment the greater portion of the European continent was wrapt in war. In this point of view the speeches are of sig- mificant import. { There was another military insurrection in Spain, and B very excited condition of affairs prevailed in Madrid. Consois closed in Loudon, June 26, at 86% a 86% for money. United States five-twenties were at 64a 64%. ‘The Liverpool cotton market was buoyant on the 26th of June, with an advance of jd. a ssd. per Ib. Bread- stuffs were firm. Provisions were firm, with an upward tendency. THE CITY. Nearly all ihe barrooms were opon yesterday, a suffi. cient license for such procecding being the orders issued by Superintendent Kennedy to the police force to make no more arrests for violation of the new Excise Law. This order acted as asweeping injunction against the Excise Board, and tho rnm sellers, not caring for the ominous eyes the police cast upon them, or their myste- rious jottings in notebooks, “made hay while the sun Shono.”” When the constitutiouatity of the new law is affirmed in the Court of Appeals, the saloons that are now keoping open will bay » an explanation or pay for the privilege. York, Brooklyn Carl Brown, a German, died suddenly yesterday, and ® coroner's jury pronounced the case to be one of cholera, A laboring map, vowed William Armstrong, was taken sick in the morning, and died at five o'clock in the afternoon, lis case was supposed to be cholera morbus, The action taken by the Quarantine Commissioners in providing an efficient ond protective quarantine during the summer season, is ably stated and defended in a let- ter from them published in the columns of this morn- Jog’s Hexarn. At eleven o'clock yesterday the thermometer stood a Rinety-throe degrees im the chade, and about balf-past foree it reached ninety-eight. A violent gale in the }fternoon and a copious shower in (he evening served Miectually to coul for the time being the sun parched parth. Thirty-nine sudden deaths which occurred in the tity yesterday are supposed Lo Lave been caused by sun- Broke. Caucuses of the democratic factions, in this city, will be hold during the present week (or the purpose of de- ciding whether they will send delegates to the Phila. @eiphia Convention. 1 ative republicans are unable to decide with win ty tney will fuse in tho Tammany or Mozart. om the body of James y evening in his place tlton street, aud died on Saturday, deuce was taken to the effect nover the neck and shoulders vmed Freeman, when the case hp Convention, wh was held yester shot on ty Hos ‘that the decew with a crowbar by « ‘was adjourned until to The inquest on the body of William Sander, which was found floating in the Past river, was resumed yesterday. Evidence was adduced to the efiect that the appearance Of the corpse indicated deaili by drowning. The prinei- pal witness, who found the corpse, was missing, and the {inquest was further postponed until Tuesday, 1 Accollection was taken up yesterday morning In Ply- mouth church, Brgoklyn, to ad the suflerers from the great fire in Portland. Mr, Reocher preached a charac. teristic discourse upon the present heated term, i MISCELLANEOUS. Our correspondent with Genersls Stedman and Pul- forton furnishes us with jutorest ng devils of the m- Quiries made at Vicksburg, Mise., into the operations of ‘the Froedmen's Bureau and the condition of Southern labor. As this inquiry proceeds \t grows more interest. Jing. Tho Bureau is found to be in Missiasippla part and parcel of the military system, and is found to {Partake somewhat of the red tapeism of ite military ru. lors. The system of contracts a# reguiated in the State As very oppressive to the negrow 1 demands repeal. Our city of Mexico correspondence is dated May 19, ‘Tho Americans seized by the liberals sometime ago have been released. Their misfortunes were brought upon them by themselves in toving am active part in the poll- tics of tno country, Amorican coiwnization is for the present viechually stamped. and the Carlota eettioment ia entirely broken up. The liberals are evincing unusua’ activity. The imperial garrisons at five stations bad re- volted and declared for Juarez, In Jalisco an extensive plot against the Emperor had been discovered, and a number of leading imperialists arrested. A great many southerners have reported to Maximilian for duty in his American corps to rank as captains or higher. He has not, however, accepted any yet, none of them preferring carrying a musket. The old resident foreigners in Mexico are united in the opinion that after Maximilian’s abdication the United States should regulate the government of the Mexican republic. Our Porto Rico letter is dated Mayaguez, May 24. The Slave population is rapidly diminishing in this little colony, by manumission, and the few colored population is consequently on the increase. The sugar and coffee crops will not amount to more than half the average this year From St. Domingo we axve 40 Vivw oem ms 96S had sailed for St, Thomas, The government is now in the hands of Pimentel, Cunced and Luperon, The heads of the several dupartments are the same that served under Baez. The discussion of Mr. Galt’s budget of finance and banking oxpense is agitating Canada from one end to thoother. The hopes of the government party regard- ing the speedy confederation of ali the, British North American provinces are, it is believed, dashed to earth, Mr. Brown, @ strong confederationist hitherto, has split with the government party on the question of Mr. Galt’s banking and financial schemes, and insists on the over- throw of the party in power. By discussion of Mr. Galt’s budget he proposes to save time, which is all that is wanted to complete the overthrow of the confedera- tion scheme. Mr. George Peabody arrived in Montreal on Saturday. ‘Ho was warmly welcomed, although, at his own request, & public reception was waived, He will remain in the Provinces about ten days. The brig Yazoo, Captain Michel, caught fire on the 6th instant, while on hor way from Baltimore to Rich- mond, Maine, The captain, mato and crew took to the boats and were picked up next day. No lives were lost. The Joss is estimated at $24,000. British Honduras letters say that the Indians are still committing depredations andjseizing persons, for whose release they demand large sums. A negro man was killed in Fortress Monroe on the Fourth by the explosion of a Parrott shell, and a white man was seriously injured. The first vessel of tho codfish fleet arrived at San Francisco on the 7th inst., from the Ochotsk Sea, with 31,000 fish. Judge Howell, of New Orleans, has issued a proclama- tion calling together the Louisiana State Convention of 1864, It was this Convention which declared the State free and clected Han Senator and Wells Governor, un- der the influence of federal occupation, The War in Italy—The Opening Battle Fought in the Heart of the Quadri- lateral, The war in Italy has been begun by an important engagement, fought on the anni- versary of the battle of Solferino, by the centre of the Italian army against the con- centrated forces of Austria, in the very heart of the quadrilateral. The vigor of Frederick Charles in Saxony has been equalled by Victor Emanuel in Venetia; and we now have the two wars in Europe fairly inaugurated. Former news from Italy brought us intelli- gence of the declaration of war by Victor Emanuel and the issuance of three days’ notice that he should commence hostilities on June 28. At that time; Victor Emanuel was with the centre of his army on the Mincio facing “the historic square,” his headquarters being at ornear Solferino. General Cialdini, com- manding the right wing, was on the river Po, with quarters at Ferrara, and so disposed as to threaten Padua and the rear of the fortresses of Verona, Legnago, Peschiera and Mantua, which form the quadrilateral. Garibaldi, com- manding the volunteers which form the left wing of the Italian army, was at Como, with orders to move to the left of the defences of the quadrilateral. The navy, under Admiral Persano, left the Gulf of Taranto for the Adriatic on the 28d of June, and is doubtless now ready to co-operate in the movements of Cialdini. No sooner had the three days’ notice expired than Victor Emanuel began his operations, and with his “army of the Mincio” crossed that stream between Mantua and Peschiera, and ad- vanced upon Villa Franca and Verona. Be- fore reaching either point, however, he met the Austrian forces hurrying from Verona to the defence of the line of the Mincio, and at once gave them battle near the village of Custozza. The engagement lasted the whole day. It is characterized by both parties as very spirited and bloody, and a defeat is admitted by the Italians. Their last position at Custozza was carried by assault at five o’clock in the after- noon. The losses on both sides were severe. During the night of the 24th ult. and on the following day Victor Emanuel retreated to the Mincio, and, recrossing that stream, re-es- tablished himself in his former position. This battle was evidently fought for an ad- vantage of a strategic character in another quarter. Victor Emanuel must have known that in invading the quadrilateral he was moving against the concentrated and superior numbers of the enemy; and it was doubtless his plan and purpose in fighting them to keep them thus concentrated. If this result was attained. Gen- eral Cialdini was doubtless enabled with the principal wing of the army to cross the Po at Ferrara unmolested, and to move rapidly upon Rovigo and Padua. The success of such @ movement would be at once encouraging and hazardous. It would place the Italians at Padua, directly between the quadrilateral and Venice. Com- munication between these two points is of such vital importance to the Austrians that a battle would be immediately fought to recover it and the ground thus lost or threatened. Unless Cialdini should be prepared in the numbers and the quality of his men to withstand, un- aided, the assault of the Austrians, the move- ment is full of hazard, for it entirely disconnects him from the other parts of the army. This operation—if such an one has been made—is of the most dangerous of divergent marches, though the probable co-operation of the fleet with the right wing robs it of some of its terrors. For the details of this engagement and the results of these strategic movements we must, however, await the development of further pews. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 9 1866. The Next Congressional Elections—A Po. AMitical Delage in Prospect. The importance of the next Congressional elections cannot be over-estimated. The repub- lican party, originating under specious pre- tences of reform, has violated its pledges in the most outrageous manner, and has wholly for- feited the confidence of the people. The old democratic party, now disbanded by an official manifesto from its Congressional representa- tives, was so imbecile and corrupt that nobody could regret to see it superseded by the repub- lican organization ; but in every respect the change has been for the worse, with the single exception of the fact that the republican poli- ticians were shrewd enough to adapt themselves to the loyal sentiment of the North during the recent rebellion. While the war lasted the people were fully engrossed with its incidents and its necesaities, and the enormities practised by the republicans almost escaped attention. Congressmen robbed the public treasury and aided corrupt contractors in their extortions ; but when the elections came round the people voted for these dishonest representatives be- cause they were thought to be more loyal to the Union than those democrats who declared our righteous and triumphant war a failure. Thus it happened that at the last Congres- sional elections we had only the war issue. All the candidates professed the warmest attachment and devotion to the ad- ministration. No political or financial ques- tion was involved in the canvass. The people, therefore, had practically no choice but to give their votes to the Union candidates and against the peace-tainted, shent-pershent democracy. Now that the war is over, however, that one vital, absorbing isgie has passed away. There are no copperheads and no war men any more. Consequently at the next elections new issues will be developed, and a new party must be formed to meet these issues. The old democratic party is dead. The re- publican party only wa'ts for the popular ver- dict to be also annihilated. As represented by the radicals in the present Congress its policy is a complete contradiction of its platforms and pledges. Staried as a Union party, it has now become the party of disunion. Originally opposed to slavery, it now attempts to impose Northern slave drivers upon the negroes, who were freed, not by proclamations or politicians, but by the armies of General Grant. More than this, it maintains that anomalous institu- tion, the Freedmen’s Bureau, for the benefit of agents and officials at a vast expense to the government, and connives at cruelties which, according to the reports of Generals Steedman and Fallerton, exceed any ever practised by Southern slaveowners. Promising financial reforms and an economical administration of the government, it is more corrupt than any other party that ever gained power. Where democratic politicians stole thousands of dollars the republicans have stolen millions. Under their gross mismanage- ment during the war five dollars were wasied for every dollar necessarily expended. ‘fhe people could have endured this with patience, however; for no price is too great to pay ‘or the Union. But not only does the public piun- dering continue, now that the war is over, but the Union, for which we have paid so dearly in blood and treasure, is not restored. On the contrary, the President, whom the republicans elected and whom the republican Congress- men vowed before the pvople to sustain, is now denounced as a traitor and persecuted with the utmost melignancy for persisting in the work of restoration and for vetoing the Congressional jobs. During the present scy- sion alone Congress has engaged in traunspa- rent swindles amounting to over two hundred and fifty millions of dollars. The infamous Freedmen’s Bureau bill, which the Presidont vetoed, would have disposed of fifty millions, and another bill of the sume character, appro- priaiing six millions, is‘now preeented. Ben Wade’s Montana job, also vetoed, gave twenty- five millions to a party of grasping specula- tors. The national banks are presented with a bonus of thirty millions, drawn from the pockets of the laboring men. Jay Cooke’s consolidation scheme involved a job ot forty millions. Twenty millions are to be bestowed upon the contractors for building Mississippi levées, if the urgent appeals of the radical organs are heeded. Jobs in regard to Mexico, footing up from twenty to fifty millions, are already proposed—one of them by Mr. Thad. Stevens himself. The Internal Revenue bill, just passed, is crowded with private jobs. The ‘Tariff bill, now under debate, takes from thirty to forty millions from poor laboring men to make manufacturers more wealthy, Some of its provisions are obviously intended to increase the prices of stocks of goods of hand, and others are openly acknowledged to be designed for political effect in Pennsylvania. Such corruption is unparalleled, and will be followed by an. unprecedented revulsion in politics, « We have given the indictment against the republican party somewhat in detail ; but the issues of the next election may be generally expressed in two pbrases: the reconstruction of the Union and financial reform. A party that excludes eleven States from the Union when we have sacrificed so much to bring them back into the Union; that legislates for mo- nopolies and against the working classes ; that augments the taxes and spends the revenue in jobs, and that increases the tariff in the face of an income of six hundred and twenty millions of dollars, cannot retain power in this country. Conservative republicans oppose it for its dis- unionism ; the democrats denounce it for ite corruption, and even such ultraists as Wendell Phillips indignantly repudiate it, because it is turning its pseudo philanthropy to the basest partisan and pecuniary aggrandizement. The death of the democratic party has removed the only chance of life which the republican party possessed, Much as the people distrusted the radicals, it is impossible to deny that they had learned to distrust the democrats still more. The new national Union party which is to be organized at Philadelphia in August will ab- sorb the democratic rank and file, but will not inherit any of the democratic enpopularity, Besides this, it will be strengthened by all that is good in the republican organization and by the Union clement from the Southern States. If properly conducted it will sweep over the land like a deluge at the Congressional elections, drowning out all that are vile and preserving the administration and its adherents in the con- servative ark. We anticipate « popular up- rising equal to that which followed the attack upon Fort Sumter, and far exceeding that politics) revolution which swamped the cor- tuptionisis in the Harrison campaign. The war has wonderfully increased the military and material power of the nation; but an equally overwhelming advance in politics is necessary to conclude the work of our armies, restore the Union under the constitution, re- form the government in all its departments, and justify our proud title of the Great Repub- CE A SL. Tae Conaressionat. Poticy.—The policy ot the radicals seems to be to legislate in favor of monopolies and against the people. The new Tax bill relieves railroad and gas companies from taxation by authorizing them to add their taxes to their rates, thus making the people pay them. Of itself, this feature of the Tax bill would justify a Presidential veto. Correspondence—The Cor- jova Rebel Colony. among the most interesting contributions to our news columns this morning is a letter from our correspondent stationed in the city of Mex- ice. His views of the condition of things in that quarter, of the “manifest destiny” of Maximilian, the prospects of the liberals, and the duty of the government of the United States in behalf of the Mexican republic, are those of a careful observer of passing events and of the international obligations connected with the Monroe doctrine. The release of wose repel co1onises of Cor dova marks, in all probability, the last of their misfortunes as an American settlement, in the United States acceptation of the term. It will be remembered that in the beautiful district of Cordova, near the great snow-capped mountain of Orizaba, which rises to an altitude of over 17,000 feet above the sea, some of the most dis- tinguished rebel leaders from Missouri, Ken- tucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisi- ana and Texas undertook some time ago the experiment of a colony under the protection of Maximilian, The famous rebel General Price, of Missouri, the active rebel Governor Isham G. Harris, ot Tennessee, and the learned rebel Judge Perkins, of Louisiana, were among the chiefs of this enterprise, under the especial aus- pices of Professor Maury, Meximilian’s chief agent of immigration, and the late talented and romantic rebel Governor Allen, of Louisiana, with his newspaper organ in the city of Mexico. Ii wil be remembered that as a compliment to the charming, highly accomplished and uni- vergally esteemed wife of Maximilitn, these set- lors laid out a little city, to which they gave the pretty name of Carlotta, and that, from Maury’s degeription of the district of Cordova, in its climate and productions it far surpasses the beauties and delights of the old Grenada oi the Moors, the vineyards of the Arno, the rivers of Damascos or the Happy Valley of Raeselas. All accounts agree in giving to this Mexican Cordova the romantic charms of a country of the Arabian Nighte—a country wiih all the products of the temperate and torrid zones, and with the soft and balmy climate of perpetual spring, under which buds and blossoms matar- ing and ripened fruits on every side are ever visible on (ue hills and in the valleys. Such is the lovely district in which these rsbel colonists set up their tabernacles and procesd- ed to build their houses and plant their fields of corn, cotton, coffee, sugar, figs, oranges, olives, bananas and potatoes, But their adhe- sion to Maximilian brought down upon them the wrath of the liberals and a guerilla raid which laid waste in an hour the labors of months and the hopes of the colonists. They were despoiled and taken captive; but from their release we infer that even under the liber- als they will be permitted, as non-combatants, to resume their efforts to lay the foundation of an Anglo-Saxon community in the fairy land of Cordova. Granting that these men have been guilty of treason to their own government, and that they have deserved the severest penalties of treason, we still hold that, in their present undertaking, as Americans self-exiled in a distant country, they should cease to be the objects of American vengeance, and may, with a good result, be given o measure of loyal American sympathy and encouragement. With o little assistance from the liberals a few such Anglo-Saxon colo- nies in Mexico, of active, intelligent and enter- prising men,even from our late rebel armies, may leaven the whole lump of the Mexican people into a self-sustaining republic. In this way, too, we shall be relieved of some disturb- ing political forces ; so that in every view hu- manity and staiesmanship suggest the encour- agement of all such colonies in Mexico as that of Cordova. Tae Tax on Incomes.—Although the revenue of tho government amounted to six hundred and twenty millions of dollars last year, thus largely exceeding the official estimates, Con- gress has not relieved the people of any por- tion of their income tax. Those who make more than six hundred dollars a year must still pay five per cent tax upon the excess, Even in tax-ridden England the income tax is re- duced when the revenue is larger than the estimates. HEALTH OF THE CITY. A Fatal Case of Cholera in Delancey Street—Inquest Upon the Body—San- day at Staten Island—Sudden Death from Cholera Morbus ia Brooklyn, From all appearances the city is not yet entirely safe from the danger so long threatening it in the shape of tho Asiatic cholera, Still, there is no panic, nor does there seem to be any cause for the creation of one, al- though there occur occasional cases of the contagion in our midst. An inquest was yesterday hold at No. 204 Delancey street, by Coroner Gover, over the remains of Carl Brown, a German twenty-eight years of age, who died suddenly after an ijiness of twenty-four hours, The jury being satisfied from the testimony introduced that deceased died from cholera, accordingly rendered a ee ; was a dull, stale and for Staten Island. There was no i'n oan of affairs in cholera matters on — Point everything was as Ing—but warmer—the police simply moun guard on deshaiille, while those ot duty uate shade neigh. boring trees and the adjacent she: made ‘‘ switchei”’ in great demand wore taken to slake {he inc thirst, Visitors to the wland were et os nameroes ap Werstetore, as lager and the corner of Tiliary and Stanton he to his work in good bealth as usual Saturday morning last; at ten he was taken sick and ‘ng. De. Kagan, mo attended ihe deceased, pronounced ing. Dr. in, who attended the the disease to be cholera morbus. Our Mexie News from New Orleans, the grandest style, Cotton is stiffer; salee 600 bales low middli 336. ; tetay’s Feccipts 120 bales. Sterling ex changed, dull. Judge Howell has issued a proclamation calling to- gether the Convention of 1864, It is ridiculed by the people and the press, at 320, 8 go wn ew York exchange % premium. Freights The Condition of General Lane. gs WASHINGTON. Wasurxcror, July 8, 1866. THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION AT THE SOUTH. Southern papers received to-day exhibit a very general disposition on she part of the people to respond to the address for the Philadelphia Convention. State and dis- trict conventions to nominate delegates have been called in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, MAXIMILIAN’S POST OFVIOR CENSORSHIP. The Idea Litérale, of Puebla, of June 9, shows that letters from the United States are required it to be opened and read at the Post Office by the persons to whom they are addressed in the presence of Maximilian’s agents, who afterwards examine them. Matters con_ sidered objectionable are sent to the imperial commis, sary, who submitg them to the court martial for such determination as may be thought proper. INVESTIGATION OF THE GOLD SALES. ‘The inquiry into the recent sales and purchases of bonds, gold, &c., will be begun on Tuosday by the House Committee on Banking and Currency. It is thought probable that the examination will be broader and more extended than was contemplated by Mr. Wilson’s reso- lution, in which some startling facts are expected to come to light. It is confidently stated by a leading ‘Treasury official, that such an investigation would show that the public debt, instead of having been reduced during the administration of Mr, McCulloch, has been THE TARIF¥ AND THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION, John Covode, who is now here looking after the tariff, predicts that the democrats will gain seven members of Congress in Pennsylvania if the bill Is defeated, THE PHILADELPHIA FLAG PRESENTATION. It bas leaked out that the recent flag presentation at Philadelphia was part of a political device to elect Gene- ral Geary Governor of Pennsylvania. A most ridiculous feature of the politicai entertainment was the display of fireworks, with the names of Washington, Lincoln and Geary, at the Union League Club headquarters. STAFF OFFICERS MUSTERED OUT. Orders from the War Department yesierday direct the muster out of thirteen aides-de-camp, five additional aides-de-camp and thirteen assistan€ adjutant generals, THE INTERNAL REVENUE. ‘The receipts of Internal Revenue for the week ending July 7, 1866, amounts to $8,984,900 75. Commissioner Rollins estimates the recétpts from In, ternal Revenue for the next fiscal year, notwithstanding the reduction of seventy-five per cent, at two hundred millions, 2 PERSONAL. Governor Dennison returned from his visit to Ohio on Saturday evening. THE PORTLAND CALAMITY. Porthaxp, July 8, 1866, | was an alarm of fire this afternoon in Market square about four o'clock, which startied our city con- siderably, but it amounted to nothing. A thunder storm passed over the city about five o'clock, the lightning striking the Siate street church spire and setting it on fire, It was speedily extinguished, and the city is now perfectly quiet, Acowpany of marines from Portsmouth, under com- mand of Lieutenant Colonel Jamieson, is encamped in State streot. A citizen was slightly wounded by a soldier during the fire in the cherch, for attempting to break through the lines. The atiair was trifling, special reports have stated that a steam fire engine was burned in her house, ‘The engine in question was one out of repair, unfit for use, and which the city had voted to gell. ‘The old Cataract, which came trom London, and has been in the department since 1802, was aiso burned. She was preserved as a relic, but the firemen were too busy to attend to either of thei. Contributions in Washington. Vi caxaton, July 8, 1866. A purse of nearly three hundred dollars w: jo up yesteiday by the cierks of the Pay Department in aid of the Puruand suilerers, — Sitnilur coutsibutions were also made by the otuer departments. Subscriptions in Baltimore. Baraisonn, July.8, 1666. The subscriptions for the Portland suilerere will be opencd to-morrow, at the Corn Exchange and the Ame- rian newspaper office. ‘ The Providence Contributions. Provivescr, July 4, 1866. Upwards of $8,300 was subscnbed here aay for the land sufferers, Collections were up in the ¢ purpose. The intense heat of the three days is iompered somewhat to-night by neu Subscriptions in Worcester, Mass. Woucesage, July 8, 1868. Ata mooting of some of our prominent citizens yes- heoten comme trae ectoetinwons were raised in aid of the of Portiand. A generous subscription will un- bo made here, Yesterday morning the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, previous to the delivery of the sermon, alluded in foel- ing terms to tho disustrous calamity which befel the citi zona of Portland last week. Ho said that Portland was @ beautiful city—a place nover visited by any one who did not wish to return to it; but now it was «wouldering in ashes. The majority of its business houses were de- supposed that the fire involved a loss of ten mithions of dollars’ worth of yy. Ine casey Sent skiil might replace this loss; but half of the popul of the city Were turned out of door. For- tunately, he said, tho weather i# such that doors is not so great ao afttichion as it wou! . Nevertheless, they were without food, without (he meaps of supplying thomee! and mostly without money at heir command with which to purchase raiment. # on, womon and children, as if by a lightning stroke, were unde abeolutely destitute, It might be supposed that every great hearted city in the Jand would instantly respowd with aid. New York and Boston would send its scores of thousands. *Providence sent ten thousaud dollars, A moeting was held last evening in Brooklyn, but owing to the limited notice the attendance wus noi #0 large as it o\verwise would have been. It was resolved fo elegraph the Mayor of Port. land to draw upon the Mayor of Brooklyn for ten theu- sand dollars, two thousand of which was raised on the spot. The other eight thousand were yet to be raised, and he (Mr. Beechor) would be very lad if his congrega” tion would give one thousand dollars, The Plymouth church would give two thousand dollars if the brethren who delighted to swell the geuerous contributions of that chorch were not generally in the country, He brought this worthy object betore the attention of the congregation without previous consultation with the off- cers of the church. [He uivo announced that new clothing and provisions would be wcceplable and that it would be sent to Portland without expeuse, Therefore, said ‘ir. Beecher, pass the barkots, aud we should be very glad to take up twelve baskets full. The collection was taken, and, judging trom the plethoric state of tho baskets, the. speaker's wish was heart ly responded to by his people. Mr. Beecher then proceeded to deliver a discourse from the words “God is a euu and shield’? The moral lessons of the sun, which now created the intense heat under which the pedpic were suffering, were de- duced from the passage in the speaker's original and clo- quent style. ‘The sun was pictured as the revealer, aa ‘author of good cheer, as a sovereign, as the father of summer, as a skilful hasbandman, as a great cer, and as the protector of commerce. Each of the above symbols were beautiiully parapurased, as =. the other CITY INTELLIGENCE. Frias ty Biescker Starrr.—Shortly after twelve o'clock on Sunday morning a fre broke out in the boot and shoe store of P, Reymond, No. 75 Bleecker street. The fire- men were very quickly at the premises, and soon extin- guished the fire. Damage to stock by fire and water, about $1,200. Insured in the Pacific Insurance Co, The kitchen of the restaurant in the basement, owned by John Showler, is by water The building Is owned by J. A. Gilsey. about one hundred dollars. lasured. Fins im Huneon Stueet,—At the same time that the above fire was burning, a fire was discovered in the gro- cory, No. 518 Hudson street, owned by C. Vanzant & Son. ‘The flames were soon extinguished. to stock about $500; insured for $2,600 in the North 5 ranco Co.” The building is ‘about $100; insured. The origin of the fire is not Known at present. The premises bad not been closed more than half an hour when the fire was discovered. The origm is under investigation by the Fire Marshal, BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE. A Mav Doo Snor.—On Saturday evening a mad dog was killed in Bartlett street, near Harrison street, by officer McLaughlin. The brute had previously bitten a little girl, Unmuazzled dogs are among the most grievous nuisances which at prosent abound in this city, and the sooner they are muzzled of shot the better for the com. munity. A Hanrp-Hrarten Act. —A littletgirl, about eleven years old, who was found wandering through the streets by a Police officer, was brought to the Forty-third precinct station house about twelve o'clock on Saturday night, She gave her name as Elizabeth Purcell, and said sho had been living with ® family in Luqueer street, who had turned her ov.t of doors that night, charging her with having the whooping cough, Her father resides in Ninoty-eighth street, New York, and her mother is Yoluntesr nurse on one of the hospital ships at Quaran- tine, be wag returned to her CANADA. Arrival and Reception of George Peabody in Canada. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS 70 THE NEW YORK HERALD. Mowresat, July 7, 1866. ‘Mr. George Peabody, the American banker, arrived at the Bonaventura Station inthis city by the Vermont Cen, tral train, qx-Governor John Gregory Smith, of that State, having’ tendered Mr. Peabody and party an clegams saloon car which they accepted, and which made the long and weary journey very comfortable. On arriving at the station Mr. Peabody and his sue, consisting of J. L. Shute, Esq., of the Boston Commos Council, and Mrs. Watson, his daughter, were met by Hons Jas. Ferrier, of the Upper House of Parliament, Hon. Canfield Dorain, ex-United States Consul; C. J. were raised, followed onesie was grace! ackno. a response, as he entered the edifice uncovered. As intimated in a | pthc dispatch, the cont elaborate and: demonstration was waived in de- ference to the expressed wishes of the honored guest. On the way from the depot Mr. Peabody alluded to his iM health, occasioned by ague fits, and expressed his desire to obtain some cool and secluded apot where he could be both quiet and amused, hotel, he expressed his Soiving at the grateful satis- faction the comfortable apartments, and alluded to the morrow. He wild the jous prospects of tttead the moana service at the English Cathedral where the Metropolitan Bishop, Right Rev. Dr. Fuliford, will officiate. In the afternoon, if his health permits, Mr. Peabody will attend the Unitarian church, the Rev. John Cardner, minister. Mayor Stearns, having been suddenly and’ imperatively called away to the seat of government this morning, was unable, much to his own . Fogrot, to be present at the quict and dignified reception of Mr. iy: D) Mr. Peabody will remain in the provinces for a period of ten ae during which ho will visit the Thousand Isles and the region of the St. Lawrence generally. On Monday evening be will procced to the Saguenay, where, I am told, he will meet Mr. Alexander Urqul who, it is authoritatively stated, has had the fishing stream reserved for the especial uso of the dis- tinguished citizen and his party, Mr. Peabody looks robust and hearty, though those who saw him hero ten years ago remarked his advanced years and the dilfereuce in his step. In spirits ho is very elastic, and in conversation unusually spirited. Mowrrxat, July 8, 1866, The movements of Mr. Peabody to-day were of the most modest character, Up to eleven o’clock an annoy- ing storm prevaiied, shortly subsiding; but at that hour he proceeded, in company with Mr. Dorain and those who came with him to the city, to the English Cathedral, where he listened to the services, The sermon did not suggestively turn upon benevolence. There were float- ing intimations, however, that Mr. Peabody might possibly raise the debt, mot an oxcessive one, upon this house of worship; but at this writing I do not loarn that the philanthropist practically complimented the rumor. He may do 80 to-morrow. Several gentle- en called upon him during the day, all of whom wore N ived with frankness and courteous dignity, though it was understood that Mr. did not deft visitors on Sunday. It happened, however, yitation, the Hon. Robert Bell, member ot momeat for Ru: who is temporarily stopping in the city, mi Peabody tia ‘evening, who received the Canadian reat cord.ality and apparently exceeding & between the two dis- } rent, in the cause of humanity. duties waleh devolve a ik a i ay ih gE i | Te ie i § f i | k fe l i if ; Ba ti 1? | [ i i i t i i : i I : i i & i H ete E i i re i A 5 3 | | i i & iH ; BF a ruassatre POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Inpecent Assaut.—Catharine Hayden, a widow, re- siding in the rear basement of 186 East Thirty-fourth street, upon retiring to bed on Saturday night, opened for the purpose. of admitting fresh air. Michael Coart- ney, it was charged, took advantage of her seemii unprotected condition and entored her apartment wh: she was asieep and ecrambied into te bea. This awakened the widow, who gave the alarm, and Courtney was arrested. Justice Connolly held him to answer im $300 for indecent assault. Dierormance in THe Twentr-rimer Wann. —Notwith- standing the heat on Saturday, Margaret and Ellen Mo- Namara engaged inthe labor of moving their household pops The unusual exertion, no doubt, suggested bibu us refresiiment, Margaret aud Ellen were sii overcome by the heat. agg the Twenty first precinct, attempted to arrest when thr showed fight, Margaret striking the officer with ber fis = lien oat. him. A crowd pconcn nd Re 4 rome n the ofteer's head, and, ithe language of” the ring, went down.’ A platoon of men from the station hoo ey, 4 ‘wee 3 and Pen ay and Etlen re cy ir no evi connecting with the throwing of the paving —_ Jastice Consa committed them only on the charge of intoxicatiosay disorderly conduct. Fiawt Between Staniemex.—Jobn Fielding and Prick. Craig both work ina stable in First avenue, Onatur- day an altercation took place between them, Siding was in the eet of measui fodder with a pite! as was alleged, fret struck Craig with tte ag ak subsequently stuck the prongs ot the fork into # arm. Justice Covnoily held him in $300 to answer, Manirat Inveiicrry.—Mary McCormick, resid at No. 806 Third avenue, complained that her husban@eat her twice on the 6th of July, blackening her eye, al that he have been worn out long since. him in $300, Ina Martin, of the City Hail to arred her travel- ling companion, Mra. Ella willard,. Tt Mrs, Graham and Mra. Willard, whose ii Prosperous California Cy a © visit their frieuds in the East and > ‘note from Mrs. Vining of her dress. fer Se creed re, ‘Tue —_ of Lace ge tree knocked rostrata, But not otberwia in Ah ‘ VI