The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1866, Page 4

4 ——$——————— NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFion M. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 878, —— AMUSBMENTS THIS EVENING. WOOD'S THEATRE. Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Poise t Diavoro— Loup ‘Boxoasany, or Sans Aw mival—Karutess O' Nai. - CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanica’ Hall, 473 Broadway—in a V. or Lion? axp Lavonasus Ewraaraixuanrs, Conrs bs Batter, £0. ‘Tus Srasers or Naw Yous. TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty- th and Fifty ninth streets.—Tuszo. Tuomas’ OucussTeaL Concaars, commencing at 8 o'Clock. LEY’S OPERA HOU! —Ermorias Mim rae nos oe Elsen NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— wira tum Oxr-Hyprogxx Microscors twice . Open from § A. M. tit! 10 P.M. RONAUTIC AMPHITHEATRE, Fifty-ninth LOWE'S street and avenue.—BaLlooxina, Tigut Rora xp Finswoass. New York, Thursday, Saly 12, 1866. EUROPE. ‘Tho steamship St, David, from Londonderry Juno 20, passed Father Point last night on her voyage to Quebec. Her news is one day later than the advices of the City of London. The fighting between the Austrians and Prussians at Gkalitz, in Bohemia, on June 27, is reported as ‘‘des- perate."’ The accounts from the field are conflicting; both parties claiming the victory. The Prussian de- spatches allege pésitively that the Austrians wore ro- pulsod, with the loss of three flags and many prisoners; atte the Vieona dospatches assert that tho Prussians lost eighteen guns and many prisoners, and that Marshal Benodek had refused to grant an armistico asked by a Prussian major general under a flag of truce. £ A Cracow (Austrian) despatch says that the Prussians Attacked Osweinten, June 28, and were repulsed with boavy loss. The Austrians acknowledge that the Cracow and Vionna Railroad has been destroyed at many points by tho Prussians; and the Austrian communication with Galicia “‘seriously interrupted.” The Italians claim that the Austrian losses in the battlo of Custozza were much moro serious than their own. King Victor Emanuel wrote a very hopeful and en- couraging despatch after the fight. Austria soomed to bo approaching toward national con- cessions to Hungary. AFrench squadron of observation will, It 13 sald, be despatched to the Adriatic and North Sea, England had officially proclaimed her neutrality mm the Continental war. The German Zollverien being dissolved, tho com- mervial duties are lovied on furoiga goods by the different governments in power where they aro landed. | Tho ministerial crisis continuod in England. Earl Derby found it difficult to form a atrictly conservative . Cabinet. It was thought, at the latest moment, that he Would organize a coalision ministry, including the whigs “Gnd some of Bari 11's tate colleagues, Consois closed in Lbndon, June 29, at 865; a 86% for fmoney. Tue rate of discount remained atten per cent. , ‘United States five-twentias rated at 64}; a 64%. ‘The Liverpoo! cotfjon market closed quiet and steady en the 2b of Jung the prices being « litle downward from the afivance experienced during tho first day of the week. Breadsjelfs were dull and downward. Pro- visions ruled steady. - CONGRESS. ‘The Sonate yesterday passed by a vote of yeas 25 40 Bays 11, the dill regulating the timo and manner of @lecting United States Senators, The bill does away with ‘Voting by ballot, and requires an open or vive voce voto in Qil cases. A resolution vesting the right and privileges end exclusive use of the Atlantic telograph cable in the American Atlantic Company of New York passed the Genste. The House bill establishing uniformity in the Dankrupt laws of the various States was takon up in the Bonate yesterday and ordered to be printed. Proceedings in the House were unimportant. The bill to ald ip the construction of telegraph lines and to se- ure to the government the use thereof was passed. ‘The President has transmitted to Congress a statement showing that upwards of $26,000,000 were expended on public works from 1860 to 1806, and fifteen million ores of land graated to the several States. . THE CITY. ‘Two additional cases of cholera were reported at the Boerd of Health yesterday. One of the sick persons was visited by an inspector of the Board on Tuesday even- ages at eleven o'clock yenterday morning. «< The now Mate Emigrant Hospital on Ward's Island ‘was formally opened yestorday by the Comruissioners of Emigration. The Commissioners and invitod guests, to the number of one hundred and forty persons, dined Mr. A A Low and other ‘The case of J. M. Ketchum, of the Montauk Hotel, was ‘ep in the Supreme Court yestorday. The argument Dased upon the case, as to the constiutionality of the Baole> law, is published tn fall in this morning's Hexavo, ‘The decision will be rendered on Saturday or Monday moxt, , Mrs. Kleanor Willard, charged by Mre, Brohan with @tealing a thousand dollars from her, the money being found on ber person, was honorably acquitted yesierday. ‘The bad reputation given the complainant, and the good oharacter established bY the dofondaat, produced the Another meeting of (he Chamber of Commerce Com- mreste, whie im discharge of his duty. Oificer Colton to bis arsistance, when tho negrocs attacked both, fnjaring them. Soveral of the rioters were of the Great American Toa Company ta was destroyed by Gro last night. Loss about $5,000; fatly insured. ‘Phe stock market was buoyant yosterday. Govern- ments continued steady. Gold closed at 14014, after tolling up to 180%. ‘Thore was no especial change to note in tho general Mmorchandise market yesterday. But little businass was one in forcign merchandise, and not mnch !n domestic produce, which continued irregular, On ‘Change flour was Gull and heavy. Wheat drooping. Corn firmer, Oats dul! and heavy. Pork lower. eof steady. Lard Reavy. Petroleum dull and lower. Whiskey nominal. In the cotton market there fas no especial change. Sagar ruled a shade easier, Coffee was more inquired oy MISCELLANEOUS. - Arecret caucus of the radical Members of Congress was held in Washington yesterday, It ts stated that it ‘was docided that though tho House might adjourn, the Benate could not, but must remain in sossion to take care that tho present oMecholders throughout the country be fetained by the Prosideat. Various echomes for man- @cling the Prosident were submitio!. In the coure of some remarks made by one of tho speakers {t was declared that the Cabinet of Prosident Johnson ‘was broken up, that Postmaster Goneral Donnison had Posignod, and that several other resignations of Cabinet Officers wou'd take place before @ woek had passed. ‘Thad, Stovens introduced a resolution to the effect that it qqas the duty of every man to oppore the Philadelphia Convention by every means possible, Finally acommittec was appointed to consider all the questions involved aud feport at another trae, ‘The call of the Southern radicals fora (onvention to beheld in Philadelphia on feptember 3 is published in fall in our Washington news, The call is signed by radical members elect to Congress from Tennessee, Georgia, Missouri and other States, and by such ex- Gromists a Governor A, J. Hamilton, of Texas, and Jobo ©. Undorwood, of Virginia. Qur Mexican dates are highly interesting and im- portant. They embrace vorrnspondence from Matamoros fo Jane 90, giving @rtalis of ihe occupation of that city by the liberals; cily Of Mexico to Sune 29, relat volta and defections among the impe Vora Cruz to July 2, oxplaining the late movement of Marsha! Bazaine in San Tis Potost. Tho forces ot Mejia I ‘rne cnangee maae m we : NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1866. reached Vera Cruz on tho Ist of July in a bad condition for supplies and clothing. The liberal troops which had Cecupied Matamoros behaved handsomely, and Carvajal ‘and the several partiznns of Ortega and Juaroz had for the time forgotten their differences and united against the common foe, The movement of Marshal Bazaino into San Luis Potosi had been ~ made in order to succor the troops which were surrounded then by the liberals, and not for offensive operations, as had been supposed. At Tampico the liberals had pre- vented the entry of provisions into the besieged city. Only river water was available for drinking purposes, and provisions of all kinds extremely dear. The impe- rial expedition for the recovery of Chihuahua had been abandoned, owing to obstacles in the way of its success, Maximilian had ordered a sum of $600,000, as one-half dividend in the English debt, to be sont to England by the steamer ef the 1st of July. To raise the sum the Custom House at Vera Cruz had to discount the paper of the merchants which it held at ruinous rates. ‘The reported revolt at Puerto Principe is treated lightly by the Spanish autborities at Havana. It is officially ex- plained by the government paper as a joke. The paper says that it bas been the custom in that place to play practical jokes on St. Jobn’s Day, and several sergeants and soldiers of the garrison fecling aggrieved and in- sulted by several jokes of which they were the victims, had an affray with the townspeople, but were ordered into their barracks by the Governor, which prevented more serious trouble, ‘The quarrel over the tariff continues in the Canadian Parliament. The goverument members confine their arguments to abuse of Mr. Brown and the opposition leaders, and otherwise display the weakness of the min- istry. Tho feoling against the tariff and against confede- ration ia growing more intense daily. Chief Organizer Stephens met with an enthusiastic re- ception in Boston yesterday, but tho crowd was small. Mr. Stephens was arrested the same day on a- suit for debt by P. R. Sinott, one of the Senators of the Roberts wing of the Fenians, Five deaths from cholera morbus have occurred on the frigate Chattanooga at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, The democrats of Louisiana held a convention at New Orleans on the 10th inst. and elected delegates to the Philadelphia National Convention. Among the delegatos are such sterling men and Unionists as Randall Hunt General Frank J. Herron and others, Prominent citizens of Saratoga are taking steps to re- build Congress Hall, Over $40,000 has been subscribed for that purpose. The loss of the Portland Mutual Insurance Company was fully $400,000 instead of $100,000 by tho great fire. Senator Lane, it is reported, died at Leavenworth yes- terday. Captain William Grant, of the “Young Mechanic,” has been admitted to bail jn $30,000 on the charge of burn- ing his ship at sea, His trial is to take place in Septem- ber. Governor Brownlow has at last got together a quorum. of hia Legislature, Ten thousand dollars were atolen from Paymaster Remington’s office, at Nashville, on the 9th instant. Tho body of a woman, the clothing marked ‘*N. M.,'? was found near Fort Hamilton yesterday. General Joho M. Thayer and F. W. Tipton, of Nebras- ka, were yesterday elected to the United States Senate, Extraordinary Financial Legislation of Congress. The legislation of Congress on financial matters is most stupid and reckless. We did nat expect that the majority of members, who are mere local politicians or plain uneducated cofintrymen, would be able to grasp the im- portant and complicated question of national finance in all its bearings; but we did hope there was sufficient intelligence and influence Congress to save the country from such dis- legislation as we are witnessing. It appears, however, we are disappointed ; there are no statesmen in that body, at least none with sufficient influence to be heard. Bad as the present state of things is with regard to our finances, the revenue laws and the tariff, we have settled down to that, and would rather endure the evils we have, until we can elect an abler and a better Congress, than suffer the consequences of the ignorant and corrupt legislation to which we are subject. Thore are two measures upon which Congress has been spending » great deal of time, and which, under the circumstances, had better not have been touched. We allude to the Internal Revenue bill and the Tariff bill. The first passed both houses of Congress, and has been before the President several days waiting his action; the second passed the House of Repre- sontatives on Tucsday last, by a vote of ninety- four yeas to fifty-three nays, and now awaits the action of the Senate. ord Revenue and Tat bills, or the améendmenis as they are called, undef the form oF new bills, are pro- fessedly with a view of reducing the income of the government and lessening the burdens of the people, but they wil have no such effect. On the contrary, we are persuaded that these burdens will be increased. By carefully look- ing over the changes made, we see that what is taken off or reduced on some things, is put on or added to others; and generally this is done 80 as to make it more oppressive to the prodne- ing clasecs—to the working people, to the great agricultural interests of the country, and in favor of certain sections and manufacturers, For example, there are certain reductions or changes in the Internal Revenue bill that may reduce the income a trifling amount, but in such a manner that hardly any one will feel the benefit; while on the other hand, the direct taxes, which are most felt, are retained, and other taxes are added which will be more than equivalent to those taken off. The new tax on cotton alone, with anything like a full crop, will yleld fifty millions of dollars year; but with only two millions of bales it will yield from twenty-five to thirty millions. This is what our legislators call reducing the internal revenue. We do not propose to enlarge here upon this infamous cotton tax—this tax on agricultural production—on a people unrepre- sented and bowed to the earth with poverty and difficulties, nor on its expensive and cum- brous machinery, which places the planter at the mercy of capitalists, speculators and in- ternal revenue officers. We only mention it to show that the internal revenue is being in creased rather than reduced. It is the same with regard to the Tariff bill, as may be seen by referring to a table in another part of the paper showing the increase of tariff over the old law in many articles that come into common use. On ladies’ dress goods, woollens, bunting, shawls, worsted and cotton damasks, tapestry and Brussels carpets, linen goods, burlaps, canvas padding, brown hol- land, Ac., there is an average of about forty to fifty per cent increased duty. This is what our legislators call « reduction of taxation and burdens. By analyzing the whole bill it will be seen that the increased duty will exceed the reduction, taking one thing with another, But our sxpient Congressmen and interested pro- tectionists say this will act asa prohibition to imports, and thus reduce the revenue and keep our gold athome. This is a most ridiculous assumption. Every one knows that while the American people have money—and looking at the amount of eurrency afloat and the resources of the country, there is no fear they will want it—they will buy foreign goods. It the imports should be reduced somewhat by this high tariff the increased duty will swell the revenue | to it preseut or toe larger amount. Instead ing the capittfation of Matamoros. In San Luis Poiosi the French were surrounded, cut off from the capital and so seriously imperilled that Marshal Bazaine had been compelled to of reducing the revenue from imports, it is | TRe more likely to increase it, The questions arise, then, who pay for this, and who profit by it? There is no neceasity for such a revenue; we have more now than we need. Indeed it is a fruitful source of oor- ruption. The working people, the Western farmers, the Southern planters, and all the in- dustrial classes of the country are taxed—not to support the government, for the government does not need it, as we have shown—but to in- crease the profits of a few manufacturers and iron and coal capitalists in New England and Pennsylvania. It is the most invidious, par- tial and infamous legislation ever known in the history of this country. What-can be done to arrest euch ruinous measures? The President may be able to do it. He may do it in the first instance by veto- ing these bills; and he may make this the im- portant issue before the country in the coming elections. Should he make a bold stand against the present system of legislation, and lay be- fore the country cluarly and forcibly the whole financial legislation of this corrupt and weak Congress, he will produce a revolution in the public mind. Now is the time to do this, and it is the very question on which he can touch the popular heart. The financial question must become the paramount one. Let Mr. Johnson make the issue at once, ‘and save himself and the country at the same time. Tae Mrrrary Sirvation in Mexico.—The establishment of Maximilian in Mexico is fast getting in a bad way. The full correspond- ence which we publish this morning from Mata- moros, Vera Cruzand the capital show thatthe imperialists have lately suffered repeated re- pulses, have been beaten not only at Matamoros and Bagdad, but in San Luis Potosi, while re- volts and defections among the troops and genern's of the empire are frequent and seri- ous. In the battle of Bagdad the liberals ronted the troops of Mejia at the point of the bayonet, captured numbers of prisoners, a thousand amall arms and all the artillery, thereby foro- move with a large force to their succor. This explains the late movements, which, it was argued, presaged an active offensive campaign in the northeast. Tampico was also closely shut up, and there were rumors that it was to be evacuated. Maximilian now really holds, and that insecurely, only the cities of Mexico and Vera Cruz, and the several fortresses which guard the road between these two points. So numerous and so active were the guerillas depredating on this route that communication may be said to be cut off between the two places, since only large armed parties are ena- bled to muke the trip. The French empire in Mexico may, thercfore, really be sald to be only an imaginary line from Vera Cruz through ‘Puebla to the capital. Tae Crowninc Act or Mouwtorrar Ras- catiTy.—The Common Council has passed over the Mayor’s veto the ordinance granting to a gas monopoly the privilege of supplying the public streets, avenues, parks, city buildings, &c., with light from coal gas for the period of twenty years. This enormous case of fraud upon our taxpayers, who are groaning under the infliction of taxes from all quarters, should not be allowed to pass without a searching in- vestigation. That there is bribery at the bot- tom of it there can be no question, and there must be some method under the city charter for meeting and exposing the crime and prop- erly punishing the criminals, New illuminat- ing articles are being discovered every few days, and it is not improbable that within a year something may be presented which will, while it legsena the cost, infinitely ‘~~ Lalit: ne'er ee _«.ushed in our strect tamp*. Therefore to bind the city for the long period of twenty years to a gas monopoly, and stipulating that only a certain kind of gas can be used--that manufactured from coal—are outrages which we confess we were unprepared to witness, even at the hands of our notoriously corrupt and wretched city corporation. These things must be reformed, even if it be neces- sary to abolish the Common Council alto- gether. Representatives should be sent to the next Legislature who will seize the subject of gas extortionists and handle it in a manner that will insure a radical reform. In the mean- time, let steps be taken to prosecute an inves- tigation into the reasons which actuate the Cowmon Council {n making this infamous con- tract, quality of the Sxorerary Stanton sm Drericersztes.—We have always been a friend in need to Secretary Stanton and have often given him friendly advice. If he had followed it, he would not now be surrounded with so many difficulties. The disclosures concerning the Bureau of Mili- tary Justice, the Baker case, the Paulding trial and the Fry-Conkling investigation are making the Secretary's office altogether too warm for Mr. Stanton. He has probably done more wrong, violent and despotic deeds than any other American official, and all these things are coming home to him at present, like the Arab’s curses. We therefore advise him to consult prudence, maintain his personal dig- nity, and save appearances by « prompt resig- nation. Ifhe does not resign, he may soon be turned out; and how will that Iook in history? Ton Covservative Capinet Is Exouaxp— | At our last advices from England a coneerva- tive Cabinet was being organized, with Derby as Premier. The list of members which we published yesterday is probably correct, although there may be a few changes in the minor offices, so as to make room, for instance, for Mr. Lowe, whose brilliant speeches did #0 much to defeat the Reform bill. Derby will hold the confidence of the English people dur- ing the European war, because it is understood that he is by no means « sympathizer with Napoleon’s schemes; and ft is consequently possible that there will not be another change in the Cabinet until the war is over, one way or the other. The financial troubles of Eng- land, which prevented a dissolution of Parlia- ment and an appeal to the voters, will also bave a decided influence towards keeping the conservatives in power fora time. For the present, then, England will side with Austria #0 far as diplomacy goes. But sooner or later the reform question must be met, and the liberal party again control the government or force such concessions from the aristocracy 6 will amonnt to a peaceable revolution. Circum- stances may postpone reform in Bngland, but nothing can finaily prevent th. Wa De a The European dates which we publish thia morning are one day later than those previ- ously received ; and the military situation in Germany is not materially changed. The forces of General Von Beyer which had occupied Electoral Hesse had evacuated that province, doubtless moving east to cut off the retreat of the Hanoverian army of King George V., which had been driven out of Hanover by Lientenant General Von Manteuffel. The sur- render of the King of Hanover, to whom Prus- sia had offered an alliance, guaranteeing him possession of his- throne, is still unnounced though highly probable. The forward movement of Prince Frederick Charles, which placed the Prussian army in the immediate front of that of the Austrians at Prague, Olmiitz and Cracow, was naturally fol- lowed by a temporary lull and quiet This truce, according to the news published yeater- day and this morning, had not been seriously interrupted. Cavalry and other: raiding par- ties of the Prussian army had, in endeavoring to destroy the several railroads, met with re- pulses at Skalits and Nachod, And had suc- ceeded at Turnau and at Altenberg, where they had destroyed tmportant bridged. The engagements reported were mere skirmishes with the exception of that at Skalitz and Turnau, which appear to have been serious affuirs. The battle at Skalitz was not, it appears, the result of an advance move- ment of ,the Austrians, but a demonstra- tion of the Prussians againat a railroad at that'point. The fight at Skalitz,on June 27, led to another at Osweinten, but not to a gen- eral engagement or pitched battle. Prince Frederick Charles, having by his first masterly movement gained in Saxony and Hanover ther territory virtually in dispute, doubtless has no intention of advancing upon Viena, but will be content with covering Berlin, act ng on the defensive and holding what he has got. ‘The battles in Bohemia have grown out of his efforts to destcoy the railroads, by which Marshal Benedek could advance from Prague and Olmiitz upon bis positions at Leipsic, Pirna, Dresden and Gir- litz ; and at present “js would seem that we must await the advance of the Austrians before hearing of a great battle. The Prussians have a strong position in Saxony, and have mate- rially strengthened it by their destructive raids upon Altenberg and Turnau and into Bohemia, though they may have failed in one or two attacks. Tas FreepMen’s Borzav Agents In Texi3.— Our advices from Texas are to the effect that the outrages upon the negroes and the corrup- tions of the agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau have exceeded anything that has been dis- covered in any other locality. The inveeti- gation there bids fair to unearth transac- tions which will throw the operations of the agents in North Carolina ell in the shade and make the. latter appear honcst by way of contrast. Texas isso tar sway from the national capital that it seems that the mon in charge there imagined that they could do just as they pleased without being found out, But the investigations of the special commis- sioners reveal most oxtensive frauds, even ta the extent of kidnapping negroes and other transactions of an equally corrupt charactor. The public may very scon look for far more extraordinary developments from that quarter than anything which has yet appeared in con- nection with the operations of this Bureau. It is this kind of work that the radicals in Con- gress are trying to defend and continue for three or four years more, and to such men as those who are engaged in this business that they desire to give increased power and additional facilities to abuse <ne negrd and speculat~ | cum mocessitiet ‘The Preminns a eanke short work of the bill before him and veto it without delay. There is no telling the extent of the abuse and corruption that will flourish among thé agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau, it the bill becomes a law. In the developments which have already taken place we have seen sufficient to condemn the whole system, and we are promised additional evidence from Texas which wiil no doubt remove even the last chance for their friends to defend the action of the agents of the Bureau. A Nationat Museom Wantep.—The museam at the Park, which is located in tho old arse- nal, is beginning to present many of those fea- tures which are most desirable in a national zoological collection. We hope to see at no distant period an institution there which will combine all the elements of a public maseum, the property of the people, aud open to all. London has its Zoological Garden in Regeut’s Park, its Kew Gardens and Crystal Palace. Paris has its magnificent Jardin des Plantes. Every leading city in Europe possesses some such place, combining amusement and éduca- tion for the masses. Just now New York is only in its Incipiency in this respect. Stilt we are gratified to observe that many interesting animals have been grouped at the Park Mu- seum, forming a nucleus for something com- mensurate with the wealth and tastes of the city. Private individuals may get up a show, but a museum, to be of any sterling value, must be a public institution. We have had some expertence in this city in museum mongers for some years past, one of them the charlatan general of showmen, whose proud- est boast was the impudence with which he imposed upon the public, and whose sole repu- tation is based upon the shameful exposure of frauds of which he is himself the chronl- cler. Museums conducted by individuals are of no possible value. We may have elephants’ heads and carcasses in mummy shape, and clephanta’ tusks, and stuffed ani- mala of classes and species whereof Baffon nevef dreamed, of which the chapters of nat- ural history contain no description, nonde- scripts manufactured out of the tall of a fish annexed to the head of a monkey and called a mermaid, and « thousand other such humbugs ; bute collection of this kind is not a museum where people can look, enjoy and learn at the same time, A museum should be a library of facts, in which the public can read in hours of recres tion and attain knowledge which they cannot afford time to acquire in years of study. This is the trae value of the public museums of the Old World, and it should be a matter of pride, as itisa matter of interest, to procure such a one for this great metropolis, The opportunity presents itself in the nucleus already estab- lished in the Pork. Located there, it would become a national as much a8 a metropolitan | institution, for people from all quarters of the Hiri Arian Lida], 2 SREP ELE LEED if 5 i g ii eqEgc3 country would vist it, There is wealth and enterprise enough in bis city to give us sucha museum, and we hope io see. the ides carried out vigorously by the public-spirited portion of our community. Private efforts for mere pur- poses of profit can never accomplish anything in the right direction. In the Park and its surroundings there is much to study both in the works of nature and of art, It only requires & good museum of curiosities—historical, z00- logical and horticultural—+to make it perfect as ® place of resort for popular instruction as well as public recreation. A Sreove Pru. ror Canapa—Some years ago there existed in New York a quack doctor whose pills operated for a period of six weeks. A similar kind of pill has just been sdministered to our sick neighbor, Canada, by General Banks in Congress. This pill will save Canada from many fevers of uneasiness and slarm. If it operates for six years so much the better. It will keep off the Fenian chills, the Confederation cramps, the Parliamentary rash, the Reciprocity itch; the monarchicel spasms, and all other political distempers which have afflicted feeble little Canada for some time past. It will no doubt most thoroughly scour, cleanse and purify her oon- stitution and improve her bodily health amaz- ingly, The Parliament at Ottawa should pass & vote of thanks to General Banks for this timely and invaluable prescription. It is rarely we find in Congressional doctoring 50 capital a specific for disordered political sys- tems. Tas Barnom Taeatricat Coiiarse.—The associated managers who foolishly followed the lead of Barnum, the showman, have all come to grief. During the last season their receipta were far below the average, and this season they do not even pay expenses. The people have grown tired of patronizing such inefficient managers, and the rapid decline and fall of the drama is the consequence. The associated theatres are now occupied with performances of the old concert saloon style. Jig dancing and gymnastic exercises have taken the place of legitimate acting. The audiences are so poor that fow of these estab- lishments will be able to keep open much longer, and unless the leadership of a mere showman is discarded, and a genuine theatri- cal reform inaugurated next fall, those theatres which remain closed will be by far the most profitable. Quarrel Among Stockholders. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—OHAMBERS, Before Judgo Brady. Pa Jory 11.—John P. Newleire vs. The Russeli Pile Com- pany and William J. Ree. —This was a motion for an in- Junction to restrain the officers of the Russell File Com pany from dectaring a dividend, on the groutid thet the money with which the dividend was to be paid was not a part of the earnings of tho concera, The complaint goes on to state that the plamtiff ts a stockholder in the commenee ree hundred shares of the stock, of which the par ple Taam apnea ‘That on ene Sada epee onteea cree ; i i The Hoboken Bounty Jamping Case. ALLRGZ? EXTENSIVE PRAUDS ON THR GOvVERN- MENT—TRSTUMONY OF GEORGE HAYTHORND ; GENERAL FRY, PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL, AND MK. W. H. SHARPE, UNITED STATES COMMIRSIONER'S OFFICE. Beforo Commussioner Osborn, The furthor examination of James Hughes, who was charged by James Reilly with fraud, was resumed at the United States Commissioner's offios on yesterday. Mr. $.@, Courtnoy, assisted by ox-Recorder Smith, prosecuted. Ex-Judge Stuart and Mr. Sharpe apprared | for the prisoner, and Mr. J. T. Brady attonded to the {n- terests of Mr. M. C. Stanloy, who was another party con- cerned. Tho particulars of the case, which have been previonsly reported in the Hwa, charge Hughes with appropriating $760 bounty money, the property of the complainant . Hs substantially that Mr. ‘was unknown to him as a member of the firm of ; the sign of theip office at 26 Chambers stract was “ iting Office ;" (witness) had an appointment to obtain from Mr. ley, by way of a loan, an accommodation for Mr. Allen; the’ govern- Tent were antious to catch the brokers as well as the bounty jumpers; Mr. Allen had told witness that he did not like to undertake the business, and did it only to oblige Colonel Baker. Thw witness was examined at length, but the testi- mony elicited seemed to bear rather main cl ‘at issue, remotely on the Gonueral Fry testified that ho held the office of Provost Marsnal Goneral since 1963; did give orders relative to the deserters; documents which he had received from the r of War incident to this rule were slways ad- mite General d ring hi ‘amination. porari| |, during hia ex: |, Was tem: i was put on the stand the certain sent tothe War mination Juage. Btaare said Sharpe am! said that Mr. the consent of bis client, coald not tell what nad become of the document, The Commissioner adjourned tho further hearing of the case til to-day. of the plaint! paryoss ot identifying & Pape! Coroners’ In: eta. Cana of Israxticipa —A lad named George Newcomb, living at 89 Porry street, at an carly hour yesterday morning, found the remains of a fully developed female child inan open jot in Perry street, between Bleecker and Fourth streets, wrapped up ina cloth. The polices, on being notified, conveyed the body to the Charles street police station, and sent information to the Coroner's office. Deputy Coroner John Beach, M. D., subsequent ly made a post-mortem examination over the remains, and found marks of violence about the neck and throat, Indicating beyond a doubt that death had been caused suffocation. As yet no information has been obtai concerning the of the chi paren: or by whose hands ite life was so inhumanely ain Sebring, of the Ninth inet, is a“ te to learn somothing et concerning the child murder, ‘and in the meantime the inquisition has beon adjourned until Friday, Fousp Drowxep at Sates Istaxp.—Coroner Henry B. Goold, of Stapleton, Staten Irland, held an inquest on Tuesday of this week, at New Brighton, on the body of an unknown man found on’ the shore. Deceased was about twenty-three years of age, of a sandy complexion, about five feet oight inches in height, and was enti pms ag ane Forther information may be obtained Coroner Goold, The same Coroner also on the same day, at fompkineville, on the body of a lad nine years of ago, named Cp ee who was acci- dentally drowned that day at the steamboat slip, Fooxp Drowsrp at Fort Hasnitos,—An inquest was held at Fort Hamilton yesterday by Corofter Bennett, woman found in the bay, De. She wore two skirts, and on i to have been drowned while et ‘applying Id an inquest on the body of a young ceased had long binck hatr. the under garments were the initials “N. M."” Verdict, “Found drowned.’ The Drowned Pi 5 Assarour, Md,, Juty 11, 1966, The body of the Pov Father Gerdomanu, one of the esta who wero drowned, was recovered this afternoon lo waa from Comberiend, Md. — The students were named Joha Kenny, of Rochester, N. Y., and Jehn Rem. f, of Pittsburg, Pa Kvery etfort is being made to fad thelr bodies | ee eee CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tur Heaven Tunu.—The weather was a little more agreeable yesterday, the thermomoter having indicated during the hottest part of the day only about eighty degrees. The following is @ comparative table of the temperature on July 11 for four years:— 64M 1M 8PM, ong 70 82 ie Sage oer in mixing some of the when it ‘exploded, breaking am earthen and ——-. the material in all directions, Where the preparation foll upon the bench holes were urned into the wood. Mr. whiskers burned off, and his face and bands were very badly in» jured, He was sent to Bellevue Hospital by the Fifteenth Precinct police, oust Muerna.—The fourteenth annual meeting of the alumni of the Free Academy—now College of the City of Now York—was held last evening in the lecture room of the college edifice, Lexington avenue, The convention was purely of a business character, referring to the particutar interests of the association, The alumol, asthe name in- dicates, are composed of the mombors of the different raduating classes {rom the Academy. Of these there avo been thirteen, a*eraging thirty members, The teading points in the business of last evening were the adoption of sundry recommendations in the report of the Executive Committee, the admission of the graduating class of 1866, tho Examining Commit- tee's r:port, and the election of officers, A sub-cominit tee from the Executive Committee, appointed for the pu orted tho collection since the meeting of last year of $73 for the Students’ Ald Fund, $111 60 for the erection of a monument to the momory of members who fell in the servico of their country, and $39 50 for the Anolversary Fund. It was determined to put the money collected for Students’ Aid and Monument Funds out on interest until after the erection of the new col- lege bulidings, A recommendation with reference to changing the name from Associate Alumni of the Free Academy, &c., to Associate Alumni of the College, &c., and also to secure necessary legislation on the subject, was adopied, An assessment of ono dollar per pull was by vote authorized to be levied on the members of the Association. The treasurer's report showed 8 balanco in the treasury of $30 97. The report of the Students’ Aid Fund showed a balance on hand of $042 The contribution to this fund by students daring the past year has cen $303 61, The Committee lous presented a pon Sl review of the mide q guggestions for im- jd operas In this res; which wag referred to the secutive Committee, with instructions to have it re- vised and printed. Diplomas were, by authority of the Board of Education. presented to such as were entitled to the Degree of Master of scionces. The constitution was g0 amended as to make the future meetings occur prior to the Commencement, instead of after it, as here- fore, Mr. Smith Bloomfield, the incumbent of the chair during (he past year, was, after a warm contest, fe- elected President of the association for tho ensuing year, protracted untile late o'clock @ public execution takes place at the foot of East Twenty-fifth street—an execation of dogs, if the term exze- cation be allowable in speaking of the canine speciosa. The zzled during these “dog days’—unlucky days for thousands dogs in snd arcund Gotham. On entering. com partment {@ may be called the jail. ‘along two poles, ronning the length of the apartment, are tied in utter- most confusion the condemned whilst in one corner stands a large box in which are subi ot oe ore very quiet, =r e stranger entering quite unconcernedly, only received making any disturbance. At times jor s dismal how! arises, and is joined m the entire peck, it calli ee oe the ‘Hi Society "are des eir cries, and aftera time deal to {go the way of all flesh. ular Idens. THE CIVILIZED WORLD IN TER UNION, Avwriter over the signature of ‘‘Justice” asks if tt would not be well for Mr. Banks, Chair of the Com- mittee of Foreign Affairs in the Vouse of Bepresenta- tives tm inetn@> {2 Lin om #04 the admission of Canads vonds of the Unie, without bringing her national debe sith her of course, And he thinks also that it would be chastable to y7en the door to the nations of Europe generally. Then the r‘rictions upon trade by jealous nationalitios would cease to be c!t, and commerce end honest industry could revel in their uns *mmelled enter. prise and ingenuity. There are principlos, he ays, im- volved im this theory worthy of the study of statesmes, Pi.!anthropists aud patriots, The universal brotherhood of States must ultimately provall. SHADE TREES. A citizen who loves shade in hot weather de-iresto know whether private individuals have the right to cus down shade trees in a public thoroughfare. Ho sys that while coming down town on Monday morning, be missed a beautiful sycamore tree on Broadway, which had been for years a pleasure to look at and which affords ed shade in the heat of summer to panting thousands, On inquiry he found that tt Rad been out down bye showman; hence the inquiry whether a handsome tree can logally be destroyed in Broadway to permit a more ready view of pictures of animals as ridiculous es woolly horses and codfish mermaids. COMPLAINTS TO THR BOARD OF HEALTH. An indignant writer informs usthat on Sunday even. ing be saw the body of a drowned man m the water at the head of Peck slip; @ few feet further on floated the dead carcass of a large Newfoundland dog, and near the Fulton ferry lay a dead horse. Atten o’clock on Mom~ day morning the horse still encumbered the street, t9 @ high state of decomposition, the drowned nan had been Jaid in the street near the slip, but the dog had probably floated out with the tide and drifted into some other slip, Ho repor:ed the cases to the nearest policeman and wag informed that they bad no authority to remove dead bodics—such jobs were in the hands of contractors. CRUELTY TO HORSES. A rider in the Bloecker street and Fulton ferry care wishes ws to call the attention of the President of tne Society for the Prevention of Crucity to Animals to the Johamanity of that company in permitting their horses to be forced up the hills in Elm street with a load @ human freight that « Pennsylvania wagon team would ‘Stagger under. ‘THR MEADOWS IN THE PARK. APark pedestrian takes up a hint thrown out by the Hxnarp, and hopes that the people will insist upon the meadows in Central Park being thrown open to the pud- He, He aays it ts poor comfort for a pedestrian to walle on heated gravel when nature's cool carpet is invitingly spread out before him. A PLACE TO PLAY THE NATIONAL GaMR. A base ball player desires us to suggest to the Commis. sioners having in charge the laying out of Tompkins square as a military parade ground, the propriety of including & first class ground for thé practice of our Rational game. He thinks it would mot In the loast in- ‘verfore with the use of the square as a parade ground. suetice. Mr. “Fair Play" thinks the case of Isaac V. Fowler, the defaulting Postmaster of this city, and'that of John M. Kean, the young man who was recently sentence: to the State Prison for the term of ten years for robbing the Post Office of a fow letters containing money, whem brought eis 4 vit, pointe ® moral not ouslly misander- stood, STAGR COMPANY'S NUISANCE. A west side gentleman insists that the cleaning of the stage company’s horses on the sidewalk in Twenty-sixt®, street, between Ninth aod Tenth avenues, is a nuisance that is calculated to endanger the health of the neighbor hood. His complaint also covers the pits into which the manure ts thrown, He says he bas called the attentiom of the police to the matter, but no notice ts taken of It. g A FREE FIGHTER. An enthusiastic Fenian, who came from Ireland with the Intention of joining the Fonian army, and finding that ho landed too late to engage in the invasion of Canada, now desires to enter somo other service, and would like to join the standard of the Ifherals in Mexico under Sante Anow the privilege of permiting Ragland also to enter the.