The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1866, Page 4

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TARDEN, Third Avenne, between Fifty- inth streets.—Taxo, THomas’ OncuxsrkaL, ckkTS, commenclog at $ o'Clock. HOOLEY’S OPERA ‘SE, Brooklyn.—Eraroriay Mise erustsy—Baiiaps, BULLYSQUES AND PANTomiMes. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Tecrvexs wire tux Oxy-fHyprogxs Microscore twice daily. Open from 8 A. M. till 10 P. M. LOWE'S AERONAUTIC AMPHITHEATRE, Fifty-ninth Bireet ond Sixth avenue. —Batiooxine, Tigur Rore axp Pingworks. PAUL FALK'S LION BREWERY, 10th street and Fighth aven' GRAND SUMMER NiouT’ Somex. New York, Tuesday, July 17, 1866. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. All advertisements handed in until half past nine o'clock in the evening will be classified under appro- priate headings ; but proper ciassification cannot be fasured after that hour. THE NEW Ss. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the Northern Pacific Railroad bill was taken up as unfinished business. Mr. Howard and Mr. McDougal) spoke in favor of the ,bill, when fur- ther action on the matter was dispensed with to take up tbe veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Dill. Some attempts were made to postpone the consideration, bul they were unavailing, and the bill was pared over the President's veto, by a vote of thirty-three ogainst twelve, three members being bsont. The bil! was then declarei a law, notwith- standing the objoctions of the President, 1a the Hons» a bill exempting pensions from the ir- Qeroal revenue tax was passed. Toe consideration of the K uweau-Grinnell caning affair was then re- sumed. Mr. Hale, of New York, spoke against the expulsion of Mr, Rousseau, and the further con Id-ration of the matter «as postponed to allow of the reading of the President's veto mensage accompany- fog the Freedmen’s Bureau bill. The vote was taken on ‘the passage of the bill notwithstanding the President’s objections, and resulted 104 for the passage to 33 against it, Mr. Raymond, of New York, voted in the negative. ‘The Rousseau case was again resumed, and Mr. Hale's amendment that it ts 1nexpédient to take any further action in the matter wag rejected. The cave then went ‘over until to-day. THE CITY. Yesterday was the warmest day for the last ten years, or al three P. M. indicated 99 degrees in There were twenty-five cases of sunstroke in ¥, thirteen of them proving fatal. In Brooklyn & cases are reported, two of them Deing fatal. In A’bany, Boston an‘ Aartford the thermometer marked 100 degrees, an‘ in Philadelphia tt reached 104. Seven additional cases of cholera were reported yeator- day, two of which proved fatal. Four cases were also reported in Brooklyn, two of thom proving fatal. Tho mortuary record of this city for the past week shows eight hundred and twenty-seven deaths, forty-four of which were from sunstroke and affects of tho heat, and two guadred and forty eight from diarrheal causes, The Street Cleaniug Commission met yesterday, and © report from the contractors was read. They state that the city has never been in such a cleanly condition. Ihe Board of Aldermen met yesterday, President Brice iu the chair, A number of ordinances changing the election districts in various parts of the city were taken from the table and adopted. The Committee on Streets reported in favor of paving and grading # num- Der of streets in the uppor part of the city v report of the commities was adopted. A communication was received from the Board of Super vivors stating that in accordance with an act of the Tagistature they had increased the number of Assembly districts to twenty-one, and asking the Board of Alder iven to make the el-ction districts conform to the new Acsembly district, Communication received and place ‘ie. The Board then adjourned until Thursday avternoon, af tWo o'clork. The Hoard of Councimen held a brie’ session yester- day A potion waa received a number pf the residents of the Nincte@W@h wa: have aferry run from the foot of Forty-aixth street, East river, to Long island h was referred to the Committer on Ferries. A allon was receivod from the Comptroller, giv men of biind petsons who applied to him { velie A gumber of reports froin the Health Committee directiog the fencing and filing ia cant lots; and reports from the Committee on Belgiaa pavement, in favor of paving a number of streets with that pavement wore presented and laid over. While the Board were discussing a number of general orders, a motion to ad yurn tilt Thursday prevailed, (ty yeing #0 intense as to disqualify the members officials from proceeding with the publi business In the eases of John H. Ketebum ant James De Van cous, who were arrested for selling | contrary to the now Excise law, and whose discharge from custody was Jed on the grounds that tho lao was uncoustitn 4 void, in the Kings County supreme Court yo. Judges Lott and Gilbert rendered decis effect that the Iaw was constitational and it punishable, Both prisoners were remanded, and all far thor proceedings in the case dropped Mr Wm, Cauldwell, one of the proprietors of the Son day Mereury, Wee arrested yesterday H fitack in his paper upon Judges Lott and Gilbert trict Attorney Mortle and others, for their expected de Cision in the Exotse casea, He gave dail in $1,600. A number of important decisions were rendered yester Way by Judges Clerke and Davies, of the Supreme Court "a The motion to set aside an inquoat takem in the Allaire wl caae waa granted Divorces were granted in the | cree of Satan Traver againet Joba Traver, William Bevusudt aeainst Petra Moreno Bevrendt, Heulde Eugene Chave against Cecilia Uhave. John Lynch, a pawnbroker, doing buriness at No, 78 Grand street, and Dennis Ferguson, his former clerk, were arrested recently on suspicion of being concerned in the great bond robbery last March at the house of Mr, Rufus L, Lord, the wealthy banker of No. 88 Ex- change place, by which $1,700,000 in government secu- rities and railroad bonds were abstracted. One of the bonds for $5,000 was found on the person of Ferguson, and two of them for the same amount each were disposed of by Lynch toa gentleman in De- troit, who makes affidavit to having purchased them and others of the pawnbroker, Lynch pleads not guilty, and both parties were admitted to bail to await an examina- tion. A meeting of billiard players was held yesterday after- . 15 | noon at the Metropolitan Hotel, when arrangements were perfected fora grand tournament, to be held in this clty during the ensuing month of September. ‘The stock market opened buoyant, and after great ex citement closed firm. Government securities were strong. Gold was dull, and closed at 143%. There was but little change in commercial affairs yes- terday. But little business was done, the recession in gold putting a stop to the demand for goods as a goneral thing, and rendering prices more than ever nominal. The defeat of the Tariff bill affords general satisfaction, but the fluctuations in gold tend to render prices nominal. Cotton was more active at an advance. Sugar and molasses were quiet but steady. Coffee was in active demand at full prices. On ’Change flour was dull, unsettled, and choice and in- ferior grades were 30c. per bbl. lower, while medium and good qualities were 10c. a 15c. off. Wheat was nom- inally 3c, a 4c, lower. Corn declined 2c, and oats 1c., with a moderate demand. Pork was less active and lower. Beof was unchanged. Lard continued duil and heavy. Whiskey was steady. Freights were dull and heavy. Petroleum—Crude was lower, while bonded was steady, MISCELLANEOUS. The large American emigrant ship, “Monarch of the Seas,” which sailed from Liverpool on the 19th of March last for New York, has been four months at sea, and fears are entertained that some direful disaster has over- taken hor, and that she has gone to the bottom with all on board. She had six hundred and seventy-four pas- sengers and a crew of fifty-four men, including officers. The vessel was valued at $125,000, and is fully insured. The clipper ship Hornet, which left this port on the 12th of January for San Francisco, was burned (in Ixti- tude 2 degrees north, longitude 135 degrees 5 minutes west) on the 8d of may, The captain and part of the crew wero forty-three days in a longboat before reaching land, Two boats, containing the remainder of the erew, are still missing. The vessel was owned in this city, and was \valued at $60,000, for which amount she” is insured, ‘The schooner Cinderella was wrecked on Squan beach, New Jersey, on Sunday morning. Cargb and crew were saved. The ships Bedfordshire and Cyclops, from Bombay for Liverpool, are both very much overdue, and it is thought that they are lost, as nothing has been heard of them. Freeman Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency, sent in his resignation yesterday, to take effect on the 24th inst. Tho President has proclaimed the treaty between the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. ‘The latter are granted general amnesty and restored to all the civil rights they enjoyed before the rebellion. The members of the Virginia Stato Executive Com- mittees of the Bell and Breckinridge parties assembled in Richmond yesterday to appoint delegates to the Phila- delphia Convention. Mr. Tyler, formerly editor of the Enquirer, offered a resolution instructing the delegates to act a8 a unit, and to insist on the admission of Vir- ginia and the repudiation of proscriptive test oaths. The meeting apjourned, without appointing delegates, until ‘Wednesday next. Mr. Speed, the late Attorney General, recently sent a caustic reply to Mr. Doolittle in answer to a note from ‘the latter asking bis views on the spproaching Phila- delpbia Convention, He does not recognize the gentle- men who make the call as the acknowledged organs of the great Union party of this country. The national Union party is the one that saved the country in the late terrific struggle, and is the aame to-day that it was when it elected Lincola and Johnson, and as he acted with it then, he will remain and act with it now. (Te report of the Committee on Banking and Cur- rency was handed into the House yesterday. It is some- what lengthy. After making a detailed report of the late Merchants’ National Bank of Washington it enters into a general statement of the condition of national banks throughout the country. A list of the prisoners confined in the Richmond Peni- tentiary by courts martial for crimes of a lesser grade than rape and murder bas veen forwarded to President Johnson at his request. Some forty or fifty prisoners will by ths means doubtless receive the Executive par- don. A letter from Major General John A. Dix was received yesterday by Senator Doolittle, the chairman of the Philadelphia Convention Committes in Washington, ao- cepting his invitation to be present. ‘The town of Lower Canning, Nova Scotia, was destroyed by fro on Saturday, over fifty buildings being burned. Our correspondence from San Francisco is dated Jane 23. The Vanderbilt and Monadsock, the latter a monitor, having lately arrived from Acapulco, created considerable excitement among both the foreigners and natives. ‘Thousands of the citizens visited them. he flagship of the Russian Telegraph squadron was to have sailed on the 234. Sixty-two ex-officers of the United States army had gone to Mexico with Mexican commissions for service under Juarez. Judge Bryan, of the United States Court at Charleston, has decided that the President's Peace Proclamation en- titles every citizen to the benefits of the writ of babeas corpus, Tae Faeepaen’s Borzat Bri. Verorp ann Passe Over tae Veto.—The Freedmen’s Bu- reau bill, extending the jurisdiction of the law for two years longer, was vetoed by the Presi- dent yesterday, and upon the same grounds that he objected to the original law of last February, adding, however, as an additional reason for vetoing the present law, the testi- mony furnished by the reports of Generals Steedman and Fullerton, that the freedmen were grossly abused by the agents of the Bureau, and that the operations of the law generally proved a failure. Under these cir cumstances President Johnson decided to veto the bill; but, as might be expected, the radical Congress almost instantly, with indecent haste, | passed it again over his veto. The bill having | come originally from the House, the veto mes- | sage was sent to that body by the President, | and was there overridden by a vote of one | hundred and four to thirty-three. It was then sent to the Senate without a moment's delay, a to the fon | and the veto was there set aside by a vote of thirty-three to twelve—three Senators not vot- | ing. The Freedmen’s Burean, therefore, with all its extravagant expenditure, its wholesale | jobbing and cruelty to the unhappy negro, is to remain in operation, despite the honest pro- test of the President and the general condem- nation of the people. | Anrest or tar Newsnors.—The captain of ; the police in the Fifteenth precinct, it seems, arrested six newsboys on Sunday for selling | extras in the streets, This is a piece of out- rage upon that class which we do not intend to let pass without fully testing the authority of | the officer for his act We have directed « suit to be brought against the police captain, and shall got only test the act in the courts in | behalf of the newsboys, but also demand of | the Commissioners the removal of the guilty officer. We are determined to carry this to the full extremity of the law and see whether such | acts are to be countenanced in this commanity. , The newsboys should also hold a public meet ing and get up petitions both to the Police Commissioners and also to the Legislature, #0 | as to be ready at the commencement of the | next session to obtain the passage of a law that will provent the regetition of such arbi- | trary ache NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1866. Poneschneider against Carl F. A. Yoneschaecider, and | Important from Washington—Changes | against Austria stopped short amidst the flush im the Cabinet. Attorney General Speed sent in his resigna- tion to the President yesterday. It is said that Mr. Stansbury, an able lawyer of Ohio, and formerly Attorney General of that State, or Mr. Browning, formerly United Btates Senator from Ohio, will take Mr. Speed’s place. Both these gentlemen were whigs in former times, have no affiliation with the copperheads, and are talented and conservative men. The following is Mr. Speed’s letter of resig- nation, which may be called short and sweet:— ‘ ‘Wasuincror, Taly 10, 1880, } To his Excellency Awprew Jouxson, President of the United states :— Sm—I hereby resign to you the office of Attorney Gonoral of the United States. Bo good enough, sir, to accept my thanks for the kindness, consideration and confidence you have ever shown to me. I have the honor to be, most respectfully, JAMES SPEED. Itis positively stated that Mr. Seward will also tender his resignation, but that he may be requested to remain, Thus we see the tide of revolution in the government at Washington has fairly set in. Stanton is rather slow to re- sign, clinging to office like a leech, but he must go. The issue between the President ang the radical opposition is sharply defined. There is no half way or vacillating me- dium course now. Mr. Johnson has been long embarrassed by his Cabinet, but will now be relieved. Perhaps it would be better if there were an entirely now Cabinet, although Mr. Seward has in his letter fully endorsed the policy of the President. Mr. Johnson, how- ever, knows best what to do in the matter. It is certain the Cabinet hereafter will be a unit as to the course of the administration. The issue of the President’s policy of restoration or dis- union is now before the people. Deception is no longer possible. The approaching Con- gressional elections will decide whether we are to have peace and harmony or disunion and continued trouble pnder the Jacobin rule of the radicals. Europe in @ Political Point of View— Napoleon and Bismarck. The news from Europe is full of importance, not only as to military events and operations, but especially with regard to the political situ- ation and prospect of affairs there. It is evi- dent—to use an often repeated expression— that the map of Europe is to be changed. The work of the allies during the war against the first Napoleon, and of the Congress of Vienna, which finished that work, is to be demolished. In fact the balance of power established then, and which has been threatened and a good deal modified since, is now finally broken up. Another Europe, another distribution of power must come out of the present war. What shape this will take we are unable to say at present, and, indeed, the statesmen of Europe them- selves have not yet decided the question. The events of the war up to this time foreshadow certain permanent changes, but future occur- rences alone oan decide what these are to be. All the Powers are watching one another with profound concern, and will doubtless endeavor to prevent the undue aggrandizement of any in the general breaking up and rearrangement. There are two men in Europe who are the master spirits that brought on the present state of affairs, and who will exercise the greatest influence in final settlement. These are the Emperor Napoleon and the Prussian Minister, Count Bismarck. Since the death of Lord Palmerston there has not been, and is not now, any European atatesman who would match these astute men or check- mate their designs. England occupies a negative position, and has little weight. The power or influence of Russia lies, not in any eminent statesman, and only in her military power when thrown into the scale of one side or the other. Austria is struggling for her existence, and, as is shown by the cession of Venetia to Napoleon, will be compelled to accept the conditions others may make for her. It is clear, then, that the future destiny of Europe lies with France and Prussia, or rather with Napoleon and Bismarck. That these men brought on the war, each for the purpose of carrying out his ambitious schemes, there is now no doubt, Bismarck, a very able man, bold and unscrupulous, and imbued with the old Prussian-German spirit of Frederick the Great, resolved to make Prussia the first or only Power of Germany. German unity has been the cry raised during the late movements; but while it meant all that, it meant, also, Prussian ascendency, the transfer of the imperial power of Germany from the south to the north, and finally the absorption of the German States by Prussia. The struggle is not altogether a new one; but it never before assumed such magnitude, and never had such @ proapect of success. The German popu- lation in Europe is not less, perhaps, than fifty millions. Considering the intelligence and character of this population, and the geogra- phical position of the country, Germany, united under one government, would be the first Power of Europe. That it is Bismarck’s ambi- tion t makg it so there can be no doubt; and to accomplish this object he has been using all his diplomatic skill with Napoleon. The questions naturally arise here, Did, ihe Emperor of the French understand the extent of the Prussian Miniater’s ambition? Did Bis- marck avow or conceal it? Was not the eaga- cious Napoleon aware of it, though it might be disguised? It seems likely that the Emperor winked at the Prussian’s grand scheme, be- lieying he could profit by it and could check it Whenever necessary to prevent an undue preponderance of Prussia in European affairs. Austria and Prussia were allied in despoiling Denmark of Schleswig-Holstein, and then quar- relled afterwards over the spoils; and it is quite probable Napoleon and Bismarck, who plotted together to bring on the present war, may now separate over the results. A consolidated German empire of filty millions of people could not be contemplated with favor by Na- poleon. The Emperor wants no great over- shadowing Power on bis border. It is clear he has been and is still opposed to Italy becomming too powerful, notwithstanding be assisted to make a respectable kingdom in thai country. Under all think the cession of Venetin by Austria to Napoleon tignificantly pointy out a new line of Freach policy. Nanoleo% in the Italien wry the circumstances we | of victory. He will not see it to his interest, probably, that Austria should be crushed to the earth, and that two powerful empires, the Prussian-German and Italian, should be erected on the ruins. Reasoning from these premises it seems likely that the common object and interests of Bismarck and Napo- leon have terminated, and that henceforth there will be a French policy rather in favor of Austria than Prussia. Flushed with victory and fall of ambition, Prussia may continue the war. This would lead to further and wide- spread complications and difficulties. Still the weight of France is immense in these Euro- pean questions, and Prussia may be compelled to make terms that do not suit her ambition. While these events and probable occurrences are of no direct importance to us as anation, they may become go indirectly. An Austrian- French alliance might materially change the aspect of the Mexican question. It might even be @ question in such an alliance of making @ combined effort to maintain Maxi- millan in Mexico. These, however, are events of the future, and amidst the great revolution that is taking place in Europe there is no telling what may occur. We can only give the latest phase of the political situation. The Jacobin Club im Caucus at Wash- ton. I The question a8 to what was said and not said at the republican caucus at Washington seems to be set at rest by an authorized re- port of the proceedings. The report is by no means full and complete. No mention is made in it of the negro who was discovered seated quietly in the gallery, and who was assailed by Thad Stevens in the following energetic language:—“Damn him! Bring him down here! He’s a newspaper reporter, or an agent of the Freedmen’s Bureau!” Yet this poor negro seemed to have more sense than any of the other republicans present; for when interro- gated as to how he came in he replied, “I come in fru the doah;” and when asked if he knew where he was he answered that he “frought he he was in de Congress.” The darky was quite right; for Congress is gow nothing but a radical caucus of Jacobins.| How the news- papers obtained their accounts of the caucus proceedings is also not satisfactorily explained in this official report. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, stated that reporters had followed certain members and overheard their conversation in the cars, after they had pledged themselves to secrecy. Several other members exclaimed that a Heraup reporter had been concealed under the benches while the caucus was in progress. These statements, however, are only mere guesses. That the Heratp had a correct account of the debate in the caucus is acknowledged by everybody ex- cept, perhaps, the Hon. Henry J. Raymond ; but as to the manner in which we obtained it the radicals must remain as completely in the dark as the committee appointed to inspect the ventilator in the ceiling of the Senate Chamber at Albany, where our correspondent was sup- posed to be concealed during the executive sessions. But, taking the authorized version of the doings in caucus, what was the character of this secret assemblage’? It was most violent and revolutionary. The report reads like « history of the proceedings of the infamous Jacobin Club at Paris, Mr. Hotchkiss, of New York, stated that the meeting was called to prevent the President from removing radicals from office during the Congressional recess, and that, in his own State,a “head butcher” stood ready to strike. Mr. Farnsworth, of {linois, wanted Congress to remain in session until December, so as to support its friends in office. He denounced the President as a trai- tor, and believed that he was ready for any measure, however desperate, which would put the government into the hands of the rebels, His lips blistering with this slander, Mr. Farns- worth gave way to Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, who announced the resignation of Postmaster Gen- eral Dennison, and urged the radicals to strip to the waist and fight the battle out. Mr. Bout- well, of Massachusetts, asserted that a conspi- racy was on foot to put the government into the hands of the rebels, and that the President was a party to it. He had no doubt that they i | contemplated a resort to force. He believed Andrew Johnson to be just as thoroughly » traitor as Jeff Davis. Mr. Boutwell’s remarks were heartily applauded. Mr. Ingersoll, of Illinois, called the President a traitor and s madman in league with rebelr. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, said “Amen” to Mr. Boutwell. He termed the Philadelphia Convention s con- spiracy of traitors, got up by the President for the purpose of putting rebels inte power. After a brief debate concerning Mr. Raymond, Thad Stevens rose and endorsed what had been said by Mr. Ingersoll,as he was unable to invent any stronger terms of denunciation. Mr. Lane, of Indiana, who was heartily applauded, an- nounced that a million of soldiers were ready to rush to Washington to sustain Congress against tbe tyranny of the President, although he could not exactly say in what that tyranny consisted. These examples will give the peo- ple some idea of the spirit in which Congress is now conducted. They are hy n® means ex- aggerations, for they are quoted from the an- thorized official report. If the whole truth were known, it woul pear that in brutel and revolutionary the radicale at this ‘caucus passed far beyond the boundary which divides loyalty from, treason. But although the radical Congressmen talk like Jacobins, we do not anticipate imme- diate effort to erect the guillotine. |The radi- cals are as cowardly as they areabasive. Thad Stevens ie almost the only one among them who has any moral courage, and even he jumped out of the windoyat Harrisburg and hid bimeelf in the bushes during an excited debate some yearragd™ | They talked about re- sorting to force and summoning a million of soldiers to the capital, bat when brought to a vole at another cavens last Saturday they voted to adjourn Gon- gress on the ‘Sad inet. by sixty-four yeas to forty nays. Mr. Raymond would have we be- lieve that he stood among these violent, raving radials like « moderate Girondist among the Jacohine. Having carefully read the speeches ‘which he asserts that he delivered, we are nox willing to accept him in this heroic réle. fie nay# in effect that be is in favor of the Pigijs7 .). phia Convention if it be confined to tyr, Tpion | | party, and opposed to it if it in % break up the Union pariy. Here Mr. Rar mond cither | quibbles upon the word “Uri \ arrant nonsense. | jon or talks The r@ablican party hae orroveted (o itelf the We of the Union party, bat it is in fact the party of disunion, since ft excludes eleven States from representation in Congress. The Philadelphia Convention, if successful, may break up this republican party, and is designed to supersede it by a new national party, really devoted to the Union. Mr. Raymond knows this very well, and if he is not prepared to go into the con- vention with this understanding he must re- main out of it altogether. He is accus- tomed to being on the fence, but he must comprehend the impossibility of being on both sides at the same time. All the circumstances considered, we hold that the original report of Mr. Raymond’s remarks was correct. If the reporter was hidden under s bench he must have heard what Mr. Raymond said ; and if the report was made up from the conversation of radicals who were at the caucus, then they must have understood Mr. Raymond just as we reported him. In the origina] versions Mr. Raymond was made to promise that he would not sustain the conven- tion any longer in his paper, which had pre- viously been lauding it to the skies. Since then not a single article has appeared in Mr. Raymond’s organ favoring the convention. Upon circumstantial evidence like this many a man has been hung, and it is certainly suffi- cient to determine the accuracy of a newspaper report and hang a politician. Mr. Raymond is like several other so-called conservative Con- gressmen. He may not talk like the radicals, but he always votes with them upon vital issues, except when his vote is unnecessary. For this reason he must share their ignominy; and we hope that none of them will be spared at the coming elections. Governor Fenton NeGLectina Hig Dury.— At the last session of the Legislature special authority was given Governor Fenton to ap- point a commission to examine into the official conduct of certain members of our city gov- ernment and report the result of their investi- gations at the next legislative assembly at Albany. A quarter of the interval between the two sessions has elapsed and yet no such commission, nor any board, committee, agent or any other power resembling it, has been ap- pointed. Here is a clear case of neglect of duty on the part of Governor Fenton. Mean- while official corruption gallops rampant through nearly every avenue and department of the city government. Contractors consider the faithful performance of their contracts a misdemeanor and their violation a subject for commendation. The Common Council, with a degree of assurance as shameless as it is vil- lanous, grants privileges to monopolies that are notoriously preying upon the public, as we have witnessed in that astounding job giving twenty years’ grant to gas corporation for supplying the streets of the city with gaslight of a certain and a positively bad description at its own rate or at a rate secretly established, to the satisfaction of the monopoly, between it and some Common Council jobbing commit- tee. The Fifth avenue black mail extortion is another job that demands official investiga- tion, The new Court House job is still another flagrant outrage upon the taxpay- ers of the city. No two departments in the city government work harmoniously together unless it be upon some mutual scheme for plundering the people. There is clash- ing between the Board of Health and the Quarantine authorities, whereby the door is opened wide to the invasion of the city by the cholera, the yellow fever, or some other frighful epidemic. But it would occupy too much space to enumerate all the cases which tend to establish the fact that a thorough investigation into the management of our municipal affairs is required, and that rad- ical reform is imperatively demanded. Not only the citizens of the metropolis, but the people of the entire State of New York are in- terested in this matter. Why is it, then, that Governor Fenton fails to perform so clear an act of public duty as the appointment of this examining commission? In thus neglecting or hesitating to carry out the design of the Legis- lature, he exhibits a degree of imbecility utterly unbefitting a magistrate who holds ,so high and responsible a position as that of Governor of a great State like New York. This is not the opinion entertained of him in the city alone, but we learn that prominent republicans in other parts of the State entertain similar views. If nominated by the republicans, with his p: »- sent record, he will certainly be deteated. But even his nomination is problematical, for it isre- ported that Marshal 0. Roberts, of this city, has been written to by tepublicans in the interior to ascertain whether he will stand as their can- didate for Governor. Mr. Roberts is well posted in the affairs of the city, and, so far as the me- tropolis is concerned, would make a much better Governor than the present imbecile in- cumbent of the office. A Nicogr Svrrnace Oonveytion.—The call for » convention of the loyal Southerners is in itself @ curious affair. But where will intellt- gent loyal Southerners of an original type be found in sufficient numbers to fill any respect- ably sized hall in either of our large cities? The negroes, who are the real, true, Simon Pure loyalists of the South, will have to be called in to fill up the benches. Here is a good ebance for Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Garrison, Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, the Rev. Mr. Cheever, and other pure and unadul- terated worshippers of the negro, to establish a new party on the platform of negro suffrage. Lacy Stone, Antoinette L. Brown, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other strong-minded women iy who advocate women’s rights, might also takr, 9 hand. Jt will be a queer congregation, arg ps, doubt as beautifully speckled as 8r.¢ “anti- slavery convention ever held in New, Eogland. Bean Centre Srermess sy Tecypye.—Hoad Centre Stephens has been ®reyted in Boston for debt; released on bail; gyrrendered by his bondeman ; put in jail a, bailed out again. Where are the army ‘ang navy of the Irish republic while the ‘Agy.g Centre is being sub- jected to such ‘aignities? Where are the Fenian bond, with which the Head Centre could pay hi debis if he bad them? And why is 4e Boston jail so much more dificult to ¢¥zape trom than that at Dublin? Mead Centre Stephens in Massachusetts. { Worcesrmn, July 16, 1866, Chief Organizer Stephene arrived here this evening and | addressed hie countrymen at Mechanics’ Hall. He urged union of the discordant forces for direct aid to Ireland marke wore loudly applauded. He was followed | by General Halpine A serenade was given him subse quently at the hotel Eteeution Re “18, 1866, The nagro Chony, convleved BY inlUery OF artianon of | the murder of a white family in fotki idge county ia October Intl ‘was bane to-dee.. i AssOCLATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT of SCIUNCE 4mm Ant.—This really meritoriots association was last evems jag affticted with the reading of a paper by Mr. Wm Mabe upon @ new thoory of gravitation and its offects upon the solar system. The meeting was commenced by Dr. J. H. Griorson being called to the chairand Mr. Disturoure acting as secretary, The lecturer commenced his oration to a very sparse audience—a few ladies being preseni—in a ky, halting, si monotonous tone, which was absolutely excrutiating to bis hearers. His style was peculiar, im the first place he « ”’ his ‘haltohes” to such a de- | mi they insisted upon coming out, notwithstand- 8 his efforts to suppress them. small piece of spell out the ground 3 that ito couldn't help it; that ‘gravitation ute limited to v' —not @ general principle, ag by Newton.” ‘As near as could be made out the lecturer ought that a brick thrown into a vacuum would come shale person presto, derstood prciany what a le it who uw Pp wi the gentleman was talking about. A Guanine Ovrgaca—On Saturday last a party, whe had been evidently counteracting the effect of the heat upon his cuticle by applying hot or intoxicating drinks to his diaphragm, emerged from the classic grounds of the City Hall—to be particular, near the famous Halt of Records—and made an ineffectual attempt to get on a Third avenue car. Having failed, ho fell, and as a conse- quence pounced upon by some Hers in walt, whe know by custom where no Metropolitan ‘‘marks the guarded Ct a and was relieved of a watch and some money. Will Superintendent Kennedy say whet! he has sent the boys to the seaside after the belles of - way crossings or not ? Founp Froatma m 4 Doox.—Last evening at about seven o’clock the body of an unknown man was dis- covered doating in the dock at the foot of Dover street, Fast river. It was the corpse of a man apparently thirty-five years of age, about five feet six inches im height, and was dressed as a ‘longshoreman. There were a few small marks on the face and neck, but not of @ character to indicate that violence had been done the deceased, The body remained iu the water last night at nine o'clock awaiting tho arrival of the Coroner for dis- position. Tas Ganman Cauivermakers.—About ten thousand porsons were yesterday assembled in Jones’ Wood to celebrate the annual picnic of the German Cabinet- makers’ Association, which numbers about two thousand two hundred members. There was a large crowd at the festival, who enjoyed themselves in excellent mannor, notwithstanding the excesssive heat. Both plat- forms were crowded with dancers, and the greatest hilarity provailod until the close of the festivities at the Wood.” At seven o'clock yeater- day morning a procession was formed under the marshal- ship of Mr. Heinrichs, which, from the Social Reform Hall in Grand street, proceeded through the principal thoroughfares to the foot of Eighth street, where the excursionists embarked for the festivi grounds, Dancing was continued during the whole of the day until the departure of the excursionists from Jones’ Wood, aud was then continued at the Social Reform Hall in Grand street until an early hour this morning. Fatisna or 4 Winpow,—Mr, William Volkstadt, living in Allen street, while trying to put up a blind toa win- dow hung on hinges, in the premises at No, 120 Nassau street, had three of his fingers so badly out by the win- dow, inconsequence of the fastenings giving way and letting it fall, that it is not probable that he will ever re- cover the use of them again. He was taken to Hege- man’s drug store, where his wounds were dressed. No Pace ror It.—There are many who come into the world for whom it seems as if there were no place. Not long ago a child was born—of whom it is not known— whose parents were of the opinion that it was a mistake that it should have been born. at alland a misfortane that it should live. Thinking to mend the ways of for- tune, they put tt into a carpet bag and threw it into the Kast river. Yesterday it was found by officer Crumley, near pier No. 30, at the foot of Roosevelt street. Fires in New York. IN EAST FORTY-FIPTH STREET. top floor of the tenement house No. 134 East Forty-Ofth street, The furniture was damaged about $200; no in- surance. The building is damaged about $600, and insured in the North American Insurance Com; IN WEST THIRTY-NINTH STREET. Shortly after the alarm for the above fire, smoke was seen issuing from a frame stable in the yard of No. 366 ‘West Thirty-ninth street. Owing to the combustible character of the shed the flames soon communicated te a ptle of tumber and thence to the three story brick building, om the rear of the lot, occupied as carpenter shop. From here the fre tothe three story brick tenement house in the of No, 344 and algo to the four story front i Fes a rl Dee teins. ee Ceee-0n bet Nos. 346, 348 and were nearly destroyed. The oocu- however, removed all their furniture, A large building /n the rear of Nos. 348 and 860, occupied ry was destroyed. Loss $800; no insurance. Buildings Nos. 348 and were owned by Joba Schreiner. Loss $1,500; no insurance. Mr. Charles Fessler occupied the carpentor shop and owned the buila- ings on Nos. 344 and 346. His loss in stock will be sbous 000 ; irance. on the rear wil about $2,000; insured for in the In- rance » and on tools and machinery. will be about $2,000; Mani Insurance Company. to the front bullding will be about $1,000; Ineured for $8,600 in the Continental and Greenwich Tnsurance companies. Mr. Feasler has also sustained about household effects; insured for $1,200 in the a Traleden exhausted and had to be conveyod into the nel ter considerable exertion and a ap. pileation of ice they recovered sufficiently to be sent home. The ie sup} to have been caused by ome children at play in the yard with matchos, IN WEST STREET. tinguished the buildings Nos. 72, 18 and 74 were dam- aged to the extent of $1,000, said to be Insured. No. 72 is occupied by Charles Palmer as a restaurant; he also resided on the second ficor; loss about $300; no inauraace, No. 72is, porter house, kept by Chories Bergner; stock and fixtures Insurance Company. No. 73, porter house, key x Cooney,” Stock monily removed by the inecrance patrol watch. about $150 to stock and fixtures No. well covered up with tarpaulins. about $500; insured for $3,000 in the Paci! another company. No. 7444, lunch room. Water $100. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. ‘ Fire in Troy. Tror, Gardner Howtand & Sons’ Ban Ps fine sebiaeriie, carly Bour this’ morning. Lose welesen $14 908" ana $16,000. No ‘saraon —— Large Fire at Lower Canni Afty stores ans wer Canning, N. S. FAX, N. S., July 16, 1866. was Dorned on Saturday night. Over Wel)’.ngs were destroyed Fire at Chicago. Cmicago, July 16, 1866. Aire to-day destroyed all the frame buildings on State 4 hot, south of Polk street, for half a block, and south Peck court the same distance, Thirty fame build thea, occupied as storoe and saloons below and tenements above, wore consumed. Fifty families wore rendered homeloss, Loss $100,000. Theatrieca Woon's rmrarnn. The fascinating and mirth-provoking Worrell Bisters Appeared last night in the Elves, or Statue Bride, « trifling sort of burlesque, in which, however, there are many good hits at the prosent times, and many laughable Positions. They were as acceptable to the audience as At their first appearance in the same piece some weeks ago. Of the rest of the characters, Mr. Leffingwell was excellent as Count Coldstream. The burlesque would be much improved if the miasic was omitted init, The eapital comodietta, “Too Much for Good Nature” p ceded the burlesque It was well played, Miss Sop Worrell's first benefit comer off on Friday next, wh she will appear in Cinderetia, and @ new play, written specially for her, entitled Mrv. Smith WOOD'S THEATRE LRASKD FOR 4 GERMAN DRA- MATIC COMPANY ‘ Mr. George Wood, the enterprising and successul mada. | ager of the Broadway and Wood's theatre (not conneered, with the “Manager's Association’ and not diclay, ow of controlled as to what paper he advertises im) an leaved | Wood theatre to Mr. Edward Harting, for the especial Uusgef a Gorman company, which ~1P oocupy it about Vie tat of September. Mr. Wosil Tage induced to make ) this arrangement, aot fro 7% Inok of patronage (lor | hia management of Wo "$42 Hoon n mccess), but from | the increseed caro which Wye entailed upon him with ihe ing of the Rroadw? » thoutre, eutirely reconstracted | at great expense $y”, with an enlarged and usefal com. pany. Mr. Wood 7711) cose hie summer season at Wood's theatre in 10 iy part of at, about which time he will reopen Wy Broadway, weitgames Stack the traces dian a are stan,