The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1866, Page 4

4 N EW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, f NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR ‘The case of Leonard va Brofield, before Judge Brady, tn the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, developed some interesting faots in relation to the way ia which some of our banks do business, In the Marine Court the action against Henry Bergh, for malicious prosecution in the turtle case, was dis- OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND Nassay ers. | missed. nnn Wolmgne BXXD.. ce ceeseseesreees sreaeee NO, 198 = AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, WOOD'S THEATRE Broadway, opposite the St, Nicholas Hotel.—Fxa Disvoro—Loap Dowpreany, or Sau’s AB Bivat—karuaman O'Naeu. Matinee at 13¢ o'clock. CTARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—in a Vaniery or Licnt AND LAUGHASLE ENTERTAUWMANTS, CORPS DE BaLuar, &0. Tus Sraxets or New Yours. TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty. GRh_and Fie ninth streets —Tazo, Tudxas' Oncmnerear Concerats, commencing at 8 o’Clook. ‘The inquest on the body of William Sander, found floating tp the East river last week, was concluded last ‘evening before Coroner Smith, at Firemon's Hall, Wil- Mamaburg. The only witnesses examined were the boat men, Thomas Shay and Charles Brown, who found the body, The jury brought in the verdict: “Death by drowning.” ‘Tne new Commissioners of Excise recelved the sum of $250 yesterday, in payment for one frst class license. Only one injunction was served on them, and no applica tions for licenses were recetved. 4 ‘The Commencement exercises by the first graduating class of the College of the City of New York took place yesterday afternoon, The exercises were interesting. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yes- =e torday to consider the methods of obtaining ald for the RrToran Mim | orers by the Portland’ fire, & B. Chittenden pre- sided. There was a general debate, and an appeal to the public, issued by the committees, wis approved. The total contributions made in this city up to the present LOWR'S AERONAUTIO AMPHITHRATRE, Pifty-ninth | sme amount to $33,317, The cities of Buffalo, Hudson, street and Sixth avenue.—BaLLoowina, Tigkt Rore axp | New Haven and Lawrence are also moving in this Fraeworxs. mathe A fire broke out early yestertny morning at No. 401 Greenwich street. damacing the butiding and stock to the amount of $3.000; fully inanred. Another fire oc- curred, about three o’olock A. M., on the second floor of the premises No. 8 Doy street, occasioning slight damage; covered by insurance, An honr later fire was discovered at No. 9 Pine street, by which a loss of about $2,600 was oceastoned, mostly covered by Inaurance. The ateannship Lhdona, Captain HR. Hovey, will sill to-morrow, Thursday, at three o’o'ock P. M., for Gal- venton, Toxas, from pier No. 20 East river, Burling slip. The stock market was strong yesterday, including government securities. Gold closed at 149 a . The deprossion in gold had the effect of unsettling commerc'al values again, and prices yosterday wero almost nominal. But littie business was done in import- graphic news report is one day later, ed m rehandise, and trade in domestic produce was very Tho Genera! Telegram Company of Great Britain pub- | Irreglar, Some improvem=nt was noticeable in the de- Nahos a detail of the battle of Custozza, which embraces | mand for groceries and cotton, but prices were nominal'y some interesting particulars of tho fight, with thead- | unchango’, Drvgoods were quiet but steady. On dition of the very important statemont, alleged to bea | "Change flour declined unaer a light demand. Wheat fact, that after the defeat of the Itahan troops in the | and corn were also lower, Oats wore dull. Pork dull Quadrilateral the Anstrians pursued them from Val- | and lower. Beefateady, Lard ashadeloway, Whiskey leggio across the Mincio, taking up a position on the soil | duil and nominal, and petroloum was dull, ruling lower BHOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSR, Brooklyn. srRRLaY—Baliavs, BUKLsques AND Pantoulucs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. cil 10. M. —————————————————————————— New York, Wednesday, July 11, 1866. SS a NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. All advertisements handed in unt2 half past nine o'clock in the evening will be classified under appro- priate hoadings ; but proper classltication cannot be Ingurod after that hour. THS NEWS. EUROPE. Tho steamship City of London, from Queenstown June 28, arrived at this port yesterday morning. Her tele- of Italy, and that both armies stood at the latest date | for refined. face to faco—the Austrians at Volta and the Ita'lans some The markot for beef cattle was firm for choico steers, four milos to the northwest of Solferino, and another | but dull and heavy for all other kinds, with prices tend- engagement was jooked for, Twolvo Austrian war vessels appeared off the port of Ancona ov June 27. The Italian fleet went in pursuit, and a naval battle was expected. A despatch, purporting to be dated In Florenes, says that Victor Emanuel has requested assistance from Napoleon against Austria, and offers to cede tho island of Sardinia to France in ex-hango, besides arranging the al temporalities question, wich from Queenstown says the Prus- ‘ed in Bohemia, There was considerable cen tho Austrian and Prussian outposts atdifferent points, It appeared as if the Austrian com. ing strongly in buyors’ favor, The whole ranco of prices was from 120. a 18c, for ecallawags, to 14%, a 17o. for common to choice corn-fed steors. The bulk of the offerings sol at from 150, to 17c.. Milch cows were dull at $20 to $95 as to quality. Veals were steady at 90, to 13¢e, Sheep and lambs were in good demand and firmor, Tho rales were at $4, $8 to $0. Hogs were active and higher, 10%c, to 11140, The total rece'pts wrre 5,754 beeves, 63 cows, 1,162 -voals, 14,710 sheep and lambs, and 12,517 hogs. MISCELLANEOUS. Ramors were current in Washington yesterday that an attempt to obtain tho wnantmous endorsement of the manders wero moro active in the German war since the dofeat of the Italians, A list, probable, of the members of the now Cabinet of England gives Earl Derby Premier, Mr. Disraeli Chan- collor of the Exchequer, and Lord Stanley Foreign Sec- retary. Our Madrid correspondent, writing on the 25th of Jane, details all the serivus cireumstancos attending the Jato military insurrections against the crown and govern- ment of Spain sa they occurred in Madrid and at Gerona, Catalonia, on the 22d and 234 ultime, In Madrid the Insurgent troops were joined by a large body of Peasants, to whom the soldiers Qistrivuted arms, whe aided them in throwing up formidable barricades in front of and around the military quarters. Tho regiments of tho Queen wero hotly engnged during five hours in recovering the position, and were vietorions only after @ cannonade and bayonet charges, Over one thousand of the {insurgents were kiiled and wounded, and tho royal troops experienced heavy losses, Iwo generals died ef their wounds soon afterwards, and the moderado leader General Narvacz was wounded. Martial law was tm full force, Two thousand persons, Spaniards and foreigners, were arrested and somo of them shot in Madrid. ‘Long lve Prim!” “Long live the republic!” were the cries of the revolutionists in the capital. Therian unity, or the fusion of Spain and Portugal, ts the exciting idea of the advanced liberals of Spain. Trado was vory injuriously affected by tho disturbances It Cabinet to the call for the Philadelphia Convention was not successfirl, and that the two Johnson clubs at the capital are to bs consolidated. Our Washington correspondent makes an astonishing exposure of the plottings of the rad'cals for the purpose of proving Jeff Davis ncorssory to the murder of Prest- dent Lincoln. holdays through the effects of Congressional spree- taking, and the disclosures made, although very wonder- ful and atrocious, bear the mark of trath upon them. He states that it was divulged during the Advices from New Orleans state that the Austrians captured at Camargo havo been set free.and scattered in Texas, They will not rejoin the imperial forces, General Sickles, acting under instructions of the Sex. rotary off War, s'fll refuses to obey the writ of habeas corpus, use force in resisting force The Socretary’s instructions authorize him to Goorge Peabody arrived at Quebec yesterday, and was enthusiastically rece'ved. He left for a three days’ fish- ing excursion up the St. Marguerite river, & Our dezpatches from Ottawa indicate an exciting res- sion of the Canadian Parliament yesterday. The opposi- tion assailed the government with great force and effect, and the project of annexation to the United States seems to gain favor, : Chief Organizer Stephens made a warlike speoch tn Boston yesterday, denying that tho Fen'an spirit was dying out, and promising war on Irish oil agalnst Eng- land within a year. The officers of the Toxas provisional government have was thonght the Spaniards would order another naval) yoen omeially instrveted to continue their duties until domonstration In the Pacific, Consuls rated in London, on the 28th of June, at 867% a 87 for money. On'ted States five-twenties were at 44 64%. The Liverpool cotton market was more quiet on tho 28th of Juno, Broadstuffs and provisions quiet, CONGRESS. In the Sonate yesterday Mr. Stewart offerod a concur Tent rosolution reqvesting tho President to interpose the g00d offices of the United States in behalf of the Fenian prisoners in Canada. Mr, Trumbull called up the Houso mont which was agreed to, reducing the number of associate. judges to six. Mr. Harris offered a farther amendment, euthorizng the Chief Justice with the ap- proval of the Court, to appoint a Marshal, This amend- contrary orders are received from the President. The schooner James Zellers, sailing under British colors, has been scized at Smithvilic, N. C., for emug- ghing. ‘The United States practico ship Savannah arrived at Boston yesterday with midshipmen from the Naval Academy at Anuapolis on thoir summer craise. The office of George H. Gooding, a Boston banker, was robbed on the night of the Oth inst, of soven thousand dollars in gold and ten thousand Gol:ars in government bill Axing (the number of Judges of the Supreme Court | *euritios, and obanging tho judicial disiricts, and moved an amond- | poser grom Paro The It jan Con- filet. he German Question—The Kings and the Peoples, The news from Enrope which we publish this mont was acreed to, and the bill then passed. Mr, | Morning changes tha field of active hostilities Trumbull called wp the bill for enlarging the Capitol grounds, and it was passed. A summary of the bill will from Italy to Bohemin, from the southern to the northern border of the Austrian empire. Tem- be found in the despatches, At half-past four o'clock porarily, at least, relieved of the Italians, the the Senate wont into executive aecssion and soon after Kaiser had turned his attention to some ac- ‘adjourned. In the Hone the Tariff bit came up as unfinished | tive demonstrations against the Prussians, thus busin eas, Mr. Wentworth spoke for an hour in favor'ot | giving abundant employment to the Prassian achang® in the tariff, but not strongly in favor of the | advanced detacbments on the Bohemian fron- present bill, Mn Morrill, of Vermont, then addressed the House in a general defence of tho bill, stating that the domand for a higher tariff did not come chiefly from Now England. The debate was continued by Messrs. Delano , Boutwell, Dawes, Hooper, Dodge and Garfield, in favor of the bill, and Mesers, Kasson and Wilon m opposition to it ‘The tax on cotton wns fixed ‘at three conts por pound, The amendments reported from Com- mittes of the Whole were separately diepored of, Varl- ous motions to reeommit and lay cn the table were then | OMfice of Vienna, tint the talinns have been rendered harmless made, all of whieh were lost, when the bill was passed, yens 04, nays 68. Tho contested elec jon case of Fuller va. Dawedn comes np to day. Tho caucus of republican tier. Thus, too, between Italy and Prussia, the Austrian, having the a@vantage of interior lines, can within a few days by rail, as the op- portunity may invite, conecntrate his movable armies against his adversary on the North “or the South, It ia probable, in this view, that the war acting upon the presumption for some time, may bring up heavy reinforce- ments from the Quadrilateral to Bepedek, and Bena\ors called for mat evening wes posipoud 1 this | i i144 wtrengthoned, the old Field Marshal, morning. THE CITY. ‘Tho bullotia tnened by the Board of flea'th yesterday stated that laborer named McAlear, reeitmg In the basement of 216 Bilzabeth street, was in a state of col- japso from cholera at ten o'clock yesterday morning. Dr. Harris, Superintendent of the Bureau of Vital Sta- two hundred thousand strong, may take up bie line of march for Berlin, leaving, meantime, all secondary places on the right end the left to take care of themselves. We think it proba ble, indeed, that those lively Iittle skirmishes tistiog, states that a large proportion of the deaths durag | reported on the Bohemilan border mark the inst week was in the cases of children under six years | general will ef ago. Mosara Brown, Devon and Knapp, tho stroet cleaning contraetors, have reosived a communication from Me, Schult, President of the Board of Health, in advance of the “Austrians, which soon explain their “Inte apparent inactivity. On the other hand the des» rola tion to the aceamulation of garbage on the streets, | Patch from Ancona of the 27th June, which and its deleverions effect on the public health. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, A comma nication from the Comptroller stating the necessity of immediate measeres to Nquidate the outwanding Jada. menta against the elty, amounting to $117,486 85, was eeferred to the Committee on Anntal Taxes. An opinion of tho Corporation Counsel, that revenue bands could be logally sated tn payment of theso judgments, was ro- eoived. The Comptrotier tranem'tted an estimate mate by the Metropolitan Police Board of the amount reqmired for the payment of the increased salaries of the meinbern of the force, and stated that ap additional appropriation of four hundred and eigity thonsand dollar: wonld be anys that twelve men-of-war, comprising the Austrian fleet, had appeared in sight that morn- ing, but had left, and that the Italian squadron was preparing to follow them, indicates « coun- tor movement which may change the whole face of affairs. The Italian fleet, in ships—par- tienlarly iron-clads—motal and seamen, is'un- derstood to be far superior to the Anstrinn. A’ coliiston, therefore, may result in the de- struction of the Austrian squadron ; and in this event, in securing the absolute command of the reqnirod for the purpose. A report of tho Committers on | Adriatic, the Italians can hardty be prevented Taxon, raising the calary of Assistant Dietrict Attorney Gunning & Bodfort to five thousand doliars per ennum, and ® report from the Commities on Drtil Roome, pro- viding armorios for the Firs', Sevegty-eeventh and Nine- ty-Nfth rogimenté New York State National Guard, were adopted. ‘Tho Board of Aldermen met yesterday and adopted an ordinance dividing certain portions of the city into more eonvonient clection district, A message was received from the Mayor vetoing tho resolution of the Board of Counctimon authorizing tho Street Commissioner to enter into a coritract for lighting the streets and publio build. fags of the tity for » period of twenty yrarm The reso. lution wan passed over the Mayor's voto by & two-thirds gots, After transacting some unimportant business Roard adjourned untill Monday nex at (wo o’olock, from turning the Quadrilateral, and so turning the Austrians out of Venice. The report from Florence that the King of Italy bad just requested the assistance of France against Austria, offering the Emperor in com- pensation the island of Sardinia, &o., is doub} leas a canard; but that the cession of Sardinia to Napoleon for his good offices in regard to | Vonetia hns for some time been agreed upon between the high contracting parties, there are many reasons for believing. The absurd des patch in question, we suspect, as a good sensa- tonal idea, was manufsctared from this gene. ral impression. Victor Emanuel may be con- vinced of his inability to cope with Austria with- out some assistance in addition to that given by Prussia; but he knows his man and his price, and the folly of proclaiming either to the world after the first defeat of the Italians in the field. When the Austrians cross the Mincio they will be apt to hear from Napoleon, and Victor Emanuel’s march into the Quadri- lateral may have been intended to decoy them over, and forno other purpose. But Austria understands this condition of the treaty of Villa- franca, and has too many recollections of the danger of trifling with a Napoleonic contract to defy “the nephew of his uncle.” From the latest debates in the French Cham- bers it would appear that the people of France are not yet ready to give up their blessings of peace, This, however, is an unnatural attitude for France, when her neighbors are rejoicing in the “glory” of war; and the voice of her Corps Législatif will be changed with the first whiff of gunpowder from Napoleon. There are some thirty or more of those little quasi-kingdoms, princtpalities, grand duchies, little duchies, &c., of the German Bund, which this war will dis- pose of ultimately between Austria and Pros- sa, unless France shall in season intervene for her share of the spoils. Napoleon and Bis- marck have no doubt agreed upon a plan of apportionments—so much to Prussia, so much to a nominally independent German confede- ration on # new basis, and so much to France, This arrangement may embrace even the king- dom of Belgium ; but in all this we hear no- thing of what Korsuth calls “the solidarity of the peoples.” There are mutterings of revolu- tion in Hungary; there are many expressions of disaffections among the “peoples” subject to Prussia or falling within the grasp of her armies, The Germon cities are so many republics, from which republican ideas have for generations been diffused among al! the German fomily. But the progress, prosperity, strength and elasticity of the great American republic, and the powerful German element of its people, have been most effective in repub- lican‘zing the German Fatherland and its ap- pendages of the various races and tribes of Anstria, “The peoples,” therefore, capecially of the German Bund, in the reconstruction of the map and political systems of Enrone, mav, possibly, in the sequel, upset all the calenla- tions of kings and knisers concerned in this war of crowns and dynasties, Congress Legistating Against the People. Like a great field of ice at the appronch of spring, the onco powerfd republican party is now splitting and dividing in every direction. The present corrupt and disnnion Congress has demoralized and destroyed the party. The conservative members have abandoned it. Wendell Phillips has led away his small but noisy faction of fanatics. The war demorrats have long since withdrawn. The Unionists from the border States have left it in rirhteous disgust. All honest men disapprove of its cor- rnptions. Itsscheme to exclude the Southern States from the next Presidential election is everywhere indignantly denounced. The effort to passa protective or prohibitory tariff has been the signal for another break and bolt. The radical organs of the West violently abuse those of this city, and receive such adjectives as “rattl-pated” and “disgraceful” in return, One of our evening contemporn ies, a pions and poetical radical, generally moderate in its tone and mpothematically accurate in its epithets, stigmatizes Mr. Horace Greeley as “the swin- dler’s organ” and *“the smuggler’s friend,” and talks of “knavery,” “purchased journal- ists” and “ paltry pettifoggers” in the same con- nection. To this Mr. Greeley retorts by term- ing our pious and poetical contemporary a “ thrice-proven false prophet,” accusing it of Yindecent blackguardism,” “false charges” and “scurrility.” This ts all on account of the new Tariff bill, and announces another destruc- tive division in the republican ranks. There can be no doubt that the new tariff is brought forward in the interest of swindling speculators ; that it will give decided encour- agement to emuggling, and that it is designed to rob the Western farmers in order to enrich the Eastern manufacturers; but there are other facts in regard to it quite as damaging as these. It mnst be remembered that the revenue .of the government last year was six hundred and twenty millions of dollars in cur- rency, and that this revenue was largely in excess of the official estimates and of the actual requirements of the country. Two hundred and fifty millions of this money was wasted in extravagant jobs by the radicals in Congress, and it is fair to presume that when they now endeavor to still farther increase the public revenue at the expense of the tax-ridden peo- ple it is because they desire to have more funds from which to steal. The new tariff is ‘unnecessary. The customs and the internal revenue tax ought to be reduced, instead of being increased. But, as the radicals shame- lessly acknowledge, part of the money which is expected from the new tariff is to be devoted to purchasing votes in Pennsylvania ; and, as is equally apparent, many provisions are put into the Tariff bill in order to increase the yaloa of the goods whicl certain speculators now have on hand. Thus Congress legislates against the people and in favor of swindlers, amugglera, speculators, robber#, jobbers, poll- fielans and dishonest officials, It does this without arly excuse and in the face of the tact, that the government revenne ie now larger than the Secretary of the Treasury expected. History may be searched In vain for a preco- dent for such enormous criminality. Tho dutica imposed by the now tariff, al- though collected at the Custom Houses from our merchants, are not borne by foreigners or by importers, but come trom the pockets of the working people, A high tariff makes bigh Prices. The merchant adds his taxes to the prices of the goods he sells, and those who purchase really pay the tariff duties, The masses of this country are now more burdened with taxation than the masses of Europe, although the revenue of the government is greator than i# peedod. Stdney Smith's do- scription of the extortions practised upon the English is more than exoceded by the state of affairs here, We are taxed in every possible way and upon every possible pretence, Many of us pey tater for the privilege of pursuing our business, and are again taxed upon the incomes we ear. We pay exorbitant rents beeausé our landlords are taxed so heavily for their houses and lands. We pay tho taxes of the gas companics which supply us with light, wnd of the railroad, ferry and stage companies fn whose conveyances wo ride, We read a newsnaper that each by a> Mob deh eos Satake ok Sat oe Be PE ee Ee Ee ed eh Sie ee cae Bas. Bee S es SOs. TE DOR, LOT Oe eR IIL Se tne MES SESS EOL ec aA Se a area a he Sea Na EI Es Ee EE EE Se a, AS tisements, its paper, fits ink and its income. If we are. ill, there is a stamp upon every bottle of medicine we use. The lover presents his betrothed with a photograph which is stamped upon the back ; the wedding ceremony becomes excessively costly through the multiplicity of taxes; the happy father furnishes his child wiih toys which have paid an increased duty. At home we peruse books that are taxed, or play a social gamo with taxed cards, or listen to the music-of a piano that is taxed every year. If we go to a place of amusement we find the prices nearly doubled on account of taxation. We wear boots or shoes that have paid five per cent tax, and clothing that has paid five per cent, We drink beer that is taxed a dollar a barrel, of coffee that has paid ten per cent, sweetened with sugar that has paid three per cent, or we indulge in wines that are taxed sixty cents a gallon. Ourservants use brooms taxed at three per cent. We pay three per cent tax for our pins and nails, The physician who attends us is taxed ten dollars a year,and the watch with which he times our pulse is taxed two dollars, Our furniture pays stx per cent tax, and so does the fonce in front of our house or the railing upon the stoop. The very strings in our shoes are taxed two per cent, and the soap with which we cleanse our hands prys three per cent. Thus in every dotail of life the extravagance and corruption of Congress are brourht home to us and our purses, and the people are compelled to suffer eo that radi- cal politicians may be enriched. Excrriva News From Cosa—We published yesterday intelligence from the island of Ouba of a very interesting and exciting nature. It is reported that a revolt has broken out in one of the interior cities, among the blacks and others, and, at latest accounts, the insarrec- tion was spreading, About the 29th of Juno information was sent by the civil and military authorities of Puerto Principe, to the Captain General at Havana that in that place, a3 well asin the neichborhood, a spirit cf revolt had been observed for some time past, and treason- able language was used ovenly in public places. The authorities at Havana, however, paid no heed to the warning until news came that a portion of the population had broken out in open revolt and declared for the “in- dependence of Cuba” and a “separation from the Spanish government.” On the Ist instant the military force, consisting of five companies, stationed at Puerto Principe, was sent against the insurgents to bring them to order. A fight ensued, in which the colonel was killed and two other officors mortally wounded, while three companies of the Spanish soldiers went over to the insurgents. The latter thus rein- forced, and numbering now seven thousand men, proceeded to the mountain region. When this news was known in Havana, three steamers were despatched on the 3d of July with troops to the place of revolt; but before they were fairly on thoir way the intelligence arrived that four steamers, with two thousand troops, had made their appearance noar Nuevitas, bearing the Chilean flag, and effscted a land’ng in th» vicinity. It cannot reasonably be supposed that although these troops moved under the Cinlean flag they wore all natives of the Pacific coastofAmerioa, Yet there is ample evidence upon which to base the supposition that this invasion of the island of Cuba was not a repetition of the fil.bustering expedition of Lopez, composed of Anglo-Americans and other adventurers, and which came to so un- fortunate an end ; but that it was undertaken under the authority of the Chilean govern- ment as an act of retaliation upon Spain for the barbarous bombardment of the city of Valparaiso. Santa Maria de Puerto Principe, where this rising occurred, is an inland city of Cuba, capital of the department of the same name, situated between two small rivers, near the centre of the island, three hundred and twenty-five miles south by east from Havana, and forty-five miles west southwest from Los Neuvitas, its port of entry, with which it is con- nected by railroad. It has a population of about thirty thousand. Puerto Principe is a place of considerable trade, the exports being chiefly sugar and tobacco. At an early day it waa the seat of the Supreme Court for all the Spanish colonies in Amorica. Situated as it is, it affords an excellent central . posi‘ion, for the operation of revolutionary or other hostile forces on the island; and if the move- ment already reported to have commenced be conducted with celerity and vigor, we may be- fore long expect to hear that the gem of the Antilles is wrested from the grasp of Spain and Chilean indemnities demanded and ceded. 6 Tre Sumaen Preasurn Praces.—The peason at the watering places and other sammér resorts fs now fairly commenced. Tt fs quite likely, however, that there will be a very material change this yer in the locations sélected by fashionable people generally in» which to spend the hot period of the summer months, Time was when Newport, Long Branch, Sara- toga, the Catskills, Cupe May, and othersimilar places were the favorite resorta, From al wo can learn this class.will seck rest, pure air, and ‘that quictude which is so essential after a term of winter enjoyment in thé city, in some wequestered firm houses and cottages in the vicinity of the metropolis, ; ‘The fact is tat what were known some yoars past as fashionable watering places. have of late become the resort of the sporting frater- nily, of gambbrs and blacklegs, and sll of that ilk, to euch an extent that respectable people have lost all interest in them ss places of dmusement. Horse racing, gaming houses, and 86 forth, have become ina great measure, the leading features. Excitement, and not re creation, has become the inducement for the | visitors. When people go into the country they naturally look for the quict enjoyments of country. life. A city with its disetpations, vices, tarmoils and excitements, merely trans- planted to thé region of woods, and lakes, and nea bathing, Je not a destrable change, particn- larly when these dubions pleasures are added immense tariffs, extravagances and ex- tortions, which form the rule at all the faehion- able watering places, not so much perhaps from the hotel keepers as the hangers-on. For those who enjoy sport on the turf, @ud excite ment in all its various phased, tle watering places present considerable attraction, and ‘hey will no doubt be largely patronized by fhils ¢lass of peoplo ; but those who go into the eduntry to find repose, and a fredh stock of health, and congenial association among re- fined and cultivated society, will look for all thése things elsewhere, The time may not be fa taved for ite adver | fhe distant when it will become a -biot uoon the character of respectable people to pass the season at ao-called fashionable watering places. We think that we perceive the indications of it even now in the general tendency to select some quiet rustic retreat where all the benefits ot country life can be obiained without any of the drawbacks that very often pertain to places of public resort, Custom has heretofore drawn the fashionable public like a magnet to certain localities upon which fashion has set its seal ; but common sense now, fortunately, prevails, and the same people who once went, accord- ing to rule, to half a dozen select summer places, will now probably choose for them- selves, defying the set rules which heretofore governed their actions at the expense of their comfort—an innovation which is very much to be commended, ———$—$—<—$—$$$<——_. Evrecr or raz Evrorzay War ox Ovr Manr ‘mm =Inrerests.—When foreign government organs chuckled over the annihilation of our carrying trade during the late rebellion they little thought how soon tho tables were to be turned upon them. Their encouragement of privateerjng, their one-sided constructions of maritime laws and their bad faith generally, wore indulged in in the belief that a day of reckoning was distant. It has come sooner than they expected. Before they reach the second year of the war on which they have entered our shipping interests will not oaly have entirely recovered from the injury in- flicted upon them but will have monopolized the carrying trade of the world, It will re- quire but five yenrs’ duration of the struggle to give us'a commercial marine equal to that of all the European nations combined. Every one knows the effect which the wars of Napoleon haf upon the growth of our com- morcial navy.. To them it unqnestionably owed the extraordinary development which it as- sumed prior to 1812, and which so excited the jealousy of England as to lead to the orders in Conncil. We are entering upon a similar atate of offiirs now, with this difference, that our resources and opportunities of profiting by it are enormously multiplied, and that we bring to this fresh field of enterprise energies sharpened by a sense of unfair trea‘ment, * The'shipping interests of this country have nover, in truth, had brighter prospecta, If Congress would only remoye the foolish re- strictions which it imposed on the vessels be- longing to onr merchants which ‘were trans- ferred to the protection of foreign flags during the war they would be in a still better posi- tion, We shill want all the vessels that we can procure for some years to come. It takes time to bni'd new ones, and if facilities be afforded for the retransfer of those that have passed fom our flag they will help to supply the demand in the interval. We trust, before Congress separates, that some attention will be given to this matter. It is in its power to do much for our commercial marine by a few judicious measures of encourngement, and the sooner it is dune the better it will be for the interests of the country generally. Danasrovs Covorrion or Tun Pmrs on THE River.—The piers and wharves, which ought to be, under honest managemont, a source of prino.ly revenue to the city, have heretofore proved rather an expense than a medium of income. We have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that there were many. sources. from wh'ch the Corporation could derive large profi's that have been applied to- sub- serve corrupt purposes; and foremost among them are the piers and wharves, We have urged the necessity of constructing piers of stone or iron, which would be permanent and would demand no continual outlay to keep them in decent repair. But the system of job- bing appesrs to have control of this part of our municipal affairs. The Leg'slatare has it in its power to fix a wharfage tariff which wonld en- able the city government to keep the piers in good repair, but it has porsistently refused to do so. The shipping merchants and shipowners are cognizant of the value of good piers, and are, no doubt, willing to pay a fair price for the accommodation. That itis their interost to do 80, is proved by the disaster which occur ed at pier No. 11, on the North river, on Mon- day, when a cargo of filty tons of iron suddenly disappeared, togethor with the pier, which was so mis-rably constructed thatis caved in under the weight, sinking to the bottom and carrying one man down with it. It appears that this pier was built upon crates filled with stones a3 a fonndation, connscted by girders at a span of seventy feetr—a structure which could not have been expected to sorve tho purpose for which it was intended. We have no doubt that. many of our piers are in precisely the same dangerous condition. Several of the pliers on the East river were destroyed by ice during the past few winters, and have never been rebuilt, In ‘respect to wharfage accom- modation, New York is behind any maritime city in the world. The Legislature is to blame for this. If it would only bestow a emall pot- tion of the industry whieh it devotes to oppres sive and ineffsctivo, legislation for this city, in the shape of Excise laws and other stupid moasures, to the regulation of our wharves and piers, the elty would reap some benofit from its labora. In the selection of members for the nex! Legislature this point should not be lost sight of. Cxaxos rx Fepenas Orrick Hotpmrs.—There appears to be considerable sqairming among the radical Congressmen over the discovery that the President intenda to remove the radi- cal posimasters throughont the country, The ajarm which this report baz created in the radi- cal camp would indicate that the offices are all they care anything xbont, aud that the patron- age end spoils of the government Is their plat- form and principles. It is somewhat amusing to sce what great love these radicals al! of 9 sudden have for wounded saldiers, and the anxiety that they manifest to give them a posi- tion, now that they find a change is to take place. But we imugine that the soldiers see through this dodge and understand the motive. | The alarm which the bare moation ot removal creates gives the Prosident some idea of the effect that a change will produce, But we would suggest that ho should commence this reform a little higher up and etrike the radicals at headquarters, and not confine the changes simply to the country village postmasters. ‘What is the cause of all this delay in the ap- pointment of Naval OMeer of this city? Here is an important offico which shonld be filled, not by parties coming from another seetion of the country, but bya citizen of this locality. The selection of @ resident of this city as Col- lector of the Port has proven satisfactory, and {t sooms to ws that one of one citisens should be selected for the Naval Office. A great deaf has been said about giving the position to person balling from the West, The individ referred to may be s very good man, but there {s no good reason why bé should he selected im preference to our own citizens, - In fact, those who have been put down as his endorsers now assert thatit would be bad policy to appoll him. We have plenty of men qualified to the position without going to some other State. Axornen Veto Demanpep.—The people, whe have no confidence whatever in the present corrupt Congress, expect the President to soru- tinlze most carefully the Tax bill just passed. He. may find in it « justification for another veto, and in his veto message he should review the whole of the burdensome and jobbing financial policy of the radicals, Monsy Tazown Awar.—The revenue of the government having greatly exceeded the esti. mates, the surplus ought to have been devoted to paying off the national debt, or the taxes upon individuals ought to have been reduced, as is the custom in England. But, instead of this, Congress has wasted two hundred and fifty millions of dollars in*corrapt jobs, and this year the taxes will be higher than ever. GEORGE PEABODY IN CANADA. His Arrival at Quebee and Departure , Exeurston—Ca: Great Phitan Questo, July 10, 1866. Mr. Peabody arrived here on the steamer Quebeo, at six o'clock this morning, and immediately took ap hie quarters on board the steamer Magnet, not entoring the dity, the Magnet at once drawing alongside the Quebea, During tast evening, Mr. Peabody, who is accompanina by Mr; Campbell and one othor friond from Montreal, was introduced to a large number of the passengers, among whom were Mr. Jamos Weldon, United Ftates Consul at Prescott, Canada West; Genoral W Hi. Carroll, of the late Confederate sorvico; Mr. Richard L. 8. Widam, Mr, Edw, J. Warren and Mr. J. ©. Lano, all of Now York city, In the lator portion of the evening Mr. Peabody quiotly confined his attention to his personal friends, re- tiring at about eleven o'clock to be up bright and early this morning for the purpose of sotting cut for the Saguenay river, whore his friend, Mr. Urquhart of Mony treal, has proceded him with liberal provision of alf the necessary articles wherewith to vex the lively an@ resistant salmon from his chosen and aqueous home, Mr, Peabody and his party of fishermen will arrive the Tadensac Hotel this evening. dl ‘rhe pubiie épinion of Canada in reference to Mr, body's character, which I have taken some pains dnt the past week to ascertain, is deeply mterosting. that ao wabvansalt ae thoroughly coinoltes with Stic servedly @xpreseed of him in the United States, The comparison most in their mind is with the caree¢ of Hi Tho people, the learned professions and the cabinet, all feol that tho human stand deeply indebted to ench men as Pe aod Howard. The latter showed indofatigabi exertions on 8 field then new and unexpiore!, Mr, Peabody, they believe, has shown tho came lofty gentle ment to alleviate suffering end to benefit his follow Howard was the means of changing the tono of the Iai of Kuropo in relation to suffering humanity. with & Well-considered aad eminently practical view of the case, bas, it 1s claimed, ald to improve the physt- cal and moral condition, and thereby Increase the havpla, nexs of a large and usefhl claas of the population of Brey land. One can imagine how Howard would have feli «! he had had as a friend and assistant such a man ag George Peabody, Howard, from a noble dispost follawed hig course, did the world good, and eatabl an imperistiatle name. Peabody, in hs chi aphere of action, bas shown what a practical benevos lence is capable of accom ing for the working classes, Fach doserves to be considered, and will be rex membered #0 long aa records remain in our Iancuage, As regards Mr. Poabody, tho Canadians assert that he is still among the living, and therefore we should the more stromely consider his mnnif.cence—not on account of the mere amount of money, for that could be raised for any ordinary purpose in a’ very short time in America of Britain, but for tho high feoling of philanthropy exhibe ted; for the oxalted sontiment characterises the courte) of vik while yot et No similar ex» ample is yet It ts his beneficsnce of dispost- tion that commands the admiration of the world. Cacona, C. B., July 10, 1866, After leaving Qnebeo this morning I learued that Peabody's party had been enlarged by the acccasion Lord Alexander Russoil, half brother to Earl Russell, laté Premier of England, and son of the Duke of Bed ford, commandant of the citadet and the Rifle brigade, and staff; Lady Russell, his lordship the right Rey, Dr. Wititams, D:D., L1.D., Bishop of Quebeo, and Captaia Maryatt, tho gon of the great novelist, of the Rife brigade; Surgeon Bowen, of the English army. Thee wore separately Introduced to Mr. ly by Dr. J. W. Campbell, of Montreal, and were recelved with thaé denovolent blandneas for which the great philanthroplet ig #0 eminently distinguished. They each tu turn expresned the greatest satisfaction at moeting Mr. Peabody, askin as to bis health, and what he expected his trip woald Fairgrove, Purser for him, wenily Cap'ain J. B. 5 J Stm) . of the Magnet. and Mr. Lewis E. Millaan@ two ladies, of Cincinnat!, Oblo, avd many other of the tourists were presented and cordially recetved at Morvay Bay, a fashionable summer resort on the St. Lat for the Canadians, Thero was an immense gathering people to see the accomp'ished and nobly charitable dise penser of his wealth, having read in the Hamaup that he was en route to Saguenay, by way of this great riven. Mr. Peabody mad) no effort to be seen, but all saw bine as he cat placidty on the steamer, and the respect showm Dim waa erent, bat earnest. At this point there ie another great crowd, all anxtoms to sce ond hear him. Tn the latter respect Mr, Pesholy persi in not make ing "@ speech, bit as he stands upon the Magnet he is plainly and most acceptably visible to all, Tho day has been a tid one, He has been joine@ in conver ation with the more prominent personages og hoe orsot Other than this nothing of interest haw ranspired, Mr. Peabody will not leave the Macnet at Tadonsac, aw © originally contemplated, bnt wifl continue on up to Ray, and returning, will land onthe banks of she St, Mariuerite river, ndjacent to the fishing claime of Me Afexandor, Urquhardt & Dr J. W. Campbell. Flo ani his party’ wilt thus be dwetlers undor a single tens / retopning to Moutreal® separation wil! be had, Mr. Pea- boty going to visit some nephews and nieces in the vieintty of the Isloa, where, jn addition te wietiy viniting nds, he hax some very linportant nancial business to transact, On the 25th of October next he will be present at the inauguration of the Peas tody Tostitution, Baltimore, remarking in this connec ton this morning, “T gu I shall fave to show mye self gomowhers hefore leaving the country. for England in April next.’ Mr. Peabody is already feel invigorating efcts from this trip. Retweon one and two o'clock on Thestay morning @ fire broke out tn tho attic of (I. bulldiag No. 491 Green- wich strest; premises ooenpied by J. B. Tedgowietty manufacturer of preserves. The roof and nttfo wore de- abe fo oe a aie of the wt OC No, 489. The mage atack of prasorves Will be about $1,600q jasar dt for $5,000 fn the North Arorican, and $1,000 im the Merchants’ Insurance Companies. The building be- longs to the estate of Thomas S ott. Tt t damaged about $1,409, and te insured, No. 489 ts orcupied Mra. Son orvilie ag a Boarding-honse; damage to fi ture be water aboat $200; insured ‘for $1,000 in the Glohe Lagurance Company. The bnildiag ts owned by Y. Kerby ; it is damaged about $200, and \s insured. % IN DRY srRner. The alarm of firo-at-throe o'clock on Tresday morning originated from No. 4 Dey street, on the second floor im Premises oecplod by Elliott, Rowden & Co:, commission merchants, Thrir damage will probably not oxece@ #100; insored for $10,000 tn the Infomnity and N Raclaod Insurance Company. The fret floor is ocew by J. B. Puller, dester in machinery. Damage by water about $500; inenred for §: in the Commonwealth Insnranco Company, The ug te owned by Taylor; It ie damaged about $100, and is insured, The fre was not discovered un’! three ocloek, althony two mon who slepton the thirt floor told the Fire Marshal, tha! they *melied smoke abou nine o'clox op the pi vious night, but could not find ont where ft came Crom, IN PINE ePRent. Shorty after four o'clock om Tuceday morning wns discovered on the frst floor of No. 9 Pine street, tw tho office of Qointard, Sawygr & Ward, From the wo» penrance of Uhe burning and the representation of Che Japitor mate to Assistant Bire Marshal 1. O Raker, the fife is snppoeed to have been canmed by mice nit jing rontches ina drawer of one of the desks, The Sames 4 by the firemen Just as they were ex ont floor, Moesors. Quintard, Ba (ied a joss on office formitam® to the inguted for $2,000) the Albany City . The offiea in Me rear of the or is nceunved by the Union Coal Cotapany, office vo darnaged to the extent of $990; no insurance, w office of Wetmore & Browne, on the second re & od to the extent of $209; no insurance, nor, auras ‘The ‘building ts owned by F. H. Nichols. Fo to domeaee to the extent of $1.000; lasured for $15,000 in the Tamer Insurance Compan: The Texas Mate Government. G\uvmeros, Texas, July 10, 1868. ‘The Seoretary of State and Acting Governor Bet! off. cially annonnesd to Chief Justice Anstin that the officers of the provisional government will continue + indhargo the duties of thelr rexpective omons tau orders are reoaived from the Prosidant to the contrary,