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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. CBN, W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. USEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. Woop" E, Broadway, tm the St. Nicholas oo Muu rox Goon Natums, Matinee at 1}g 0'Clock. *. CHARLEY at Mechanics’ Hi np LavcmasLe Tus Sisuase Twins. ' ‘“TERRACR GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty. Bight and Fifty-ninth streols.—Tago, Tuoxas! OMCHRSTHAL ‘Ginpen Concerts, commencing at 8 o'Clock, iy ee IN A —r ainmants, Conrs ps Bauust, dc. Y's ‘RA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Eratoriax Mim ei be Beauusaens ano Pisvouiuns, ;NEW YORK MUSEUM oF. ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ng with THE Oxy. AyD! Microscora twice Open from 6A. M. till 10. M. RONAUTIC AMPHITHEATRE, Fifty-ninth REWORKS. [New YVerk, Wednesday, July 18, 1866. THH NEWS. EUROPE. . By the French steamship Pereire, at this port yester- Way, we have news from Europe to the 7th of July. ¥ Tho advices are only one day later, but of very great importance, as will be seen by reference to our news and ‘@ditorial columns. j! Prussia and Italy havo refused the Franco-Austrian ar- istico. ‘The Italians have crossed the Po, and the Aus- rians have completely evacuated Lombardy. {, Ven ce has been completeiy and unconditionally ceded Ro France and declared French territory by order of Na- leon. + The Emperor of Austria will contioue the war in Ger- dmany to the bitter end. j. Lord Derby bas beon fully installed as Premier of Eng- mm the morning of July 7. Tho markets had not opened; nsequently the quotations are not changed from the lreport of the Nova Scotian. ; United States five-twenties are quoted at 67 a 675;; consuls at 86% a 8634. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the bill to revive the grade of ‘General was amended and passed. The joint resolution . ®elieving tho China Mail Steamship Company from ‘topping at Honolulu was passed. As amended the bill frequires thirteen instead of twelve trips a year, and @ives fifty thousand dollars for the establishment of a mail line to the Sandwich Islands. Tho report of the nfereace Committee on the Legislative Appropriation Will was agreed to, Tho Northern Pacific Railroad bill bwras recommittod to the Pacific Railroad Committee. p In the House a resolution was passed giving all soldiers ‘erho were in rebsl prisons commutation of rations at the price, The caning case of Messrs. Rousseau and innell was taken up and Mr, Raymond addressed the House in favor of the minority resolution of the Com- benitteo of Investigation. The majority resolution ex- @oelling Rousseau and rvprimanding Grinnell was rejected, wand the minority resolution recommending a reprimand ‘0 Rousseau at the bar of the House was adopted by 89 ‘to 80. THE CITY. ‘Yosterday was the hottest ever known in this city, (tie thermometer stood at one hundred and two in tho atthree P, M. Qut of forty-three cases of sun- 6 twenty-three proved fatal. Nine cases out of six. seen in Brooklyn were attended with fatal results, + There were were five cases reported to be cholera in \@he city yesterday. Four of tho patients died, and tho . It seems, was only afflicted with the cholera mor- Pes "Nine coos wore reported in Brooklyn, The mor- wuary report for the pest week shows the sumberof Geaths by cholera in New York to have been eleven. ¥ The Board of Sapervisors met yesterday, the Presideat Min the chair. 4 communication was ved from the Peputy Comptroller, in Albany, relative to the sale of \pon-resident lande and placed om dle. Reports were re- ‘Relved from the Committees on Annual Taxes and on County Offices recommending appropriations for the pey- ‘ment of officers’ salanes in those departments. + The annual commencement of St. Joseph's Ursuline i took place yesterday on the grounds atteched it, in East Morrisania, The result exhibited high pro- “Botency and excellent training on the part of the young ‘\ Phe total of subscriptions in aid of the sufferers by the ‘Portland conflagration in this city te $109,563. " { Seven counterfeiters of national currency were arrested presterday, and & large amount of bogus money, plates, \dies, presses, &c., was captured, The parties arrested believed to be the leaders of a gang of counterfeiters this city, and their arrangements for prosecuting their mefarious work were admirable, They were all commit- to jail. iE om Cardoza yosterday granted a motion to continue ‘the injunction restraining the Board of Excise from in- Werfering with Jeremiah Driscoll in the sale of intoxicat. fing liquors. This is. case where the liquor dealer has spo license to sell. The steamship Eagle, Captain M. R. Greene, will aail ft threo P.M. to-day for Havana direct, from pler No. 4 Worth river, The mails will closo at the Post Office at ‘halt-past one P. M. 4 The stock market, Erie excepted, was strong yester- fay. Governments were quiet, Gold rose to 161%, and Closed at 15034. | ‘Tuere was comparatively little done in commercial Circles yesterday. Prices were irreguiar, owing to the Mluctuations in gold, and in most cases buyers and sellers led to agree upon a mutually satisfactory valuation. closed dull anda shade easier. Groceries were eC. moderately active. On ‘Chango flour was dull nd lower, Wheat lower. Corn firmer. Oats lower. "Pork closed firm. Beef steady. Larda shade lower. Wotroloum steady. Whiskey dull and nominal, and i@reights dull and lower. » The market for beef cattle ruled dalt and heavy this week, owing exclusively to the extreme sultriness of the atmosphere, which was moro sultry, if possibie, at WBull’s Head than anywhoro else. Thoro was but « ‘gimited demand for cattle, and, though the supply was Pmederate, last week's prices were being sustained, The oe range was from 12e. to 173¢c., but nearly all the Ee Our commercial despatches from Liverpoot are dated tle sold at 14sgc. a 16i¢c. Milch cows were dull and lar, ranging from $30 to $90. Sheop and lambs Wrore rather lower, varying from $3 50 to $7 a $8. FHogs were a trifle off, selling at 10%c. a 11Ke. The tal roovipta were 4,775 beoves, 125 cows, 1,662 veals, ‘49,247, sheep and lambs and 6,976 hogs. MISCELLANEOUS. We have advices from British Guiana dated at Domarara, on the 234 of June. Tho weather had ‘boon oxcoedingly wot during a fortnight. A number of ‘Coolie immigrants had peon received. There were no fmow cases of yellow fever. Owing to the unsettled state f tho money market in England the local banks have in raised their rates, The following are the day's notations :—Exohange on London, drawing ninety days’ ght at $486; sight $505. Purchasing ninety days’ ight at $475, The 5 for 1865 of residents of the ifdh Con th State are published im turns of not so, Prince Edward Island, on Bunday (norning burned over one hundred buildings. he lose is two hundred thousand dollara, = Sheriff Fitch, of Albany, while attempting to execute writ of ejectmont by removing the furniture from the jouse of one Peter Warner, in that county, for non-pay- nent of rent, was severely beaten and be and his pose pompoiled to beat a retreat, A force of the National NG uard is to leave Albany to-day to quiet the melée * Tho Tennessee House of Representatives continues Soveral members were arrested a tglegraphed to General Grant that ho was re sf by Governor Brownlow to furnish him with oops cucugh to force the presence of a quorum and advice, Sooretary Stanton telegraphed back not igifero in the matter. Aynstrokés occurred in Ottawa, Canada, yoster- ibe the first that have occurred there this season. jtish gunboats, for service on the upper lakes, , on the St. Lawrence, Canadian Parliament yesterday Mr. Galt an- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1866, nounced material modifications mm bis new Tariff bill Mr, Holton, im opposing the schome, made use of very severe language towards Mr. Rose, in which he accused the latter of selling his vote on the Finange bill lately passed by the Ministerial party, and which Mr. Rose strenuously opposed but afterwards voted for. The modifications are a great concession to the anti-govern- ment party and @ confession of weakness on the part of the Ministry. The Tariff bill will doubtless be voted upon to-day. 7 Another revolution broke out in Hayti on the Sth inst,, and bas caused a suspension of all business, Important News from Europe—The Ital- fans Across the Po—The Prassians Ad- vancing in Germany. We have important news from Europe to July 7. The armistice proposed by Austria through Louis Napoleon to Italy was de- clined by the latter Power, and military operations had been resumed in Bohemia and at other points between the Austrians and Prussians. The Austrian army had aban- doned its advanced positions west of the Minoio. The surrender of Venetia to France by the Emperor Francis Joseph is complete and unconditional, and was acoepted by the French Emperor, after deliberate negotiation with Prince Motternich at the Tuilerlos, Venice has beon proclaimed free, and a French equad- ron is ordered to immediately proceed to hoist the French flag at all points of the coast. The Austrian army stores are to be removed from the fortresses of the Quadrilateral, which will be garrisoned by Frepch troops. There was a joyous excitement in Paris, and Napoleon con- gratulated Eugenie in the words :—“You and I have done a good day’s work for France.” Reports from Brest (July 7) say the Italians have crossed the Po. This is doubtless the fore- shadowed movoment of Cialdini trom Ferrara upon Rovigo and Padua, but what value it may be of, under altered circumstances, it is difficult to foresee. Liberated from the care of Venice, Austria has detached another large army to operate against the Prussians. The German war is to be continued to the bitter end. Marshal Benedek has been superseded in his command, and is to be replaced by one of the Austrian princes, The fortifications of Vienna are being strengthened, and the Emperor has resolved if his capital should be endangered to remove the seat of government and call “all his peo- ples” to arms. We may, therefore, look for the continuance of a fierce and exhaustive struggle between the great Powers of Ge. many. The Prussian corpain Hanover which osp- tured the Hanoverian army had moved through Electoral Hesse and advanced into Bavaria, fighting a battle at Meiningen on the 4th inst. The Prussians in Bohemia are reported as advancing and fighting. Our Paris correspondent ventures to ex- press the very sorious speculation that the @dvent of Lord Derby to power in London will lead to a strong anti-Napoleon combina- tion between England, Russia and Austria, and that the Emperor of France is well aware of the danger, and prepared to meet it with the sword when it presents itself. Formation of the Republican Party in 1066 amd the Proposed Conservative Party of 1866. ‘The passage of the Kansas and Nebraska bill during the Presidential term of poor Pierce brought on the political agitation which gave origin to the republican party. A few politi- clans gathered at Pittsburg, Pa., on the 22d day of February, 1856, and there adopted a series of resolutions and called their organiza- tion the republican party. An executive com- mittee was appointed, and s convention called to meet in Philadelphia on the 17th of June following, for the purpose of nominating candl- dates tor President and Vice President. From this small assemblage and insignificant gather- ing at Pittsburg, as it was then sup- posed, dates the commencement of the party which now has control of Congress. Very few persons wero sanguine enough to- imagine when the Pittsburg Convention assom- bled that the movement would amount to any- thing in the campaign of that year. The most that was anticipated was the division of the anti-democratic element and s diversion from the Fillmore party sufficient to secure the suc- cess of the democracy and give them a now lease of power. But the Philadelphia Con- vention met aud nominated General Fremont as its candidate for President. Au exciting campaign followed, which resulted, not in a small diversion from Fillmore, but in Fremont receiving a larger number of votes in the Northern or free States than did Mr. Buchanan, the successful candidate in the race. This success was wholly unprecedented. Here was a party springing into existence, arraying itself in opposition to all the other political organizations, and in eight months from the time of its first convention securing withia a fow thousand a majority of the popular vote in the then free States, In two years more it revolutionized the popular branch of Congress, and in four years obtained possession of every branch of the national government, It has now been in power for nearly six years, and hae reached a period in {ts history in which it will be called to a test of its deeds instead of its promises. The distracted condition of our country and the severe struggle with the rebellion so over- shadowed everything else that the party es caped this test until the present time, But the close of the war has brought up new questions ‘and new issues, and the factious, demoralizing and revolutionary ection of the present Con- gross has created a necessity for a reorganiza- tion of parties greater than that which existed at the inaugaration of the republican party. The corruption exhibited by Congress and its propensity for all manner of jobs, as well as the lamentable want of statesmanship exhib- ited by the party in Congress in its treatment of the great question of restoration, have pre- pared the way for the success of a new party movement and made it necessary to the coun- try. In this emergency a call is issued for a conservative convention, to be held in Phila- delphia, for the purpose of inaugurating movement that will drive the present revola- tionary sadical faction from vowel. sesuré the fiscal year, in order to avoid suspicion and apprehension in business circles, The Disruption of the German Confede- ration. Among the most important facts already ac- complished by the war between Prussia and Austria is the total and éffectual disruption of the German federal union. It is also among the most deplorable of the events attendant upon that war, since it must for a time at least affect the spread of that liberal opinion and revolutionary sentiment which, if not more prevalent, was certainly more practical in Ger- many than in any other part of Europe, The Italians and French were idealists in their senti- ments of liberty, while the Germans have ever been more quiet and more earnest reformers. In some measure and in one sense Prussia and Austria, while at war for » boundary, are allies in their desire and purpose to break up the German confederation, and thus, as they hoped, doatroy every vestige of organisation which the republican element of Europe possessed. This purpose has now been fully accomplished. After a brief and preoarlous existence of fifty- one years, the confederation is at an end, its several rulers in prison or exile, its armies éaptured or isolated and helpless, its constitu- tion a dead letter and its Diet violently dis- solved, It wasa weak concern, without vital elements, and existed thus long only because of the outside pressure which kept it compact. The question now. comes. up as to the dis- position which the conquerors monn to make of the congucr4 provinces. What will be the Sffect upon tho late lamented confederacy of the patched up poace between Prussia and Austria which now appears probable if Bis- marck, like Barkis, is willing? We imagine it will be something of the fate of Schleswig- Molstein on a former occasion. It will be re- membered that in 1850 Prussia declared war with Austria in consequence of the Schleswig complications, feigned great fury, made grand preparations and grandiloquent threats, marched a great army into Schleswig and another towards Hesse-Cassel, apparently de- termined to settle the difficulty by force of arms, and then suddenly veered around and patched up a peace with Austria. In the end it was found that only the people of Holstein had suffered. They were deprived of their free constitution, their natural bill of rights was abolished, and the navy which had been built by free contributions of the republicans of Germany was sold by Prussia and Austria. A patched up peace between the same Powers at this time would leave the German republi- cans in the same deplorable condition, The confederation could be amicably divided up between the two in such a manner as to make the Elbe and Rhine the boundary lines of the two Powers, and to tho utter obliteration of all formerState lines and subdivisions. To this division of the spoils Napoleon would offer no objection if permitted to appropriate all the confederacy west of the Rhine, and thus possess himself of this long coveted frontier. The only dignitaries who would, in such an event, have good reason to object would be the deposed monarchs and petty princes of the disrupted States ; the only sufferers would be the people thus robbed of their rights, The former could find consolation in England, where they have a great affection for poor Gor- man princes. The latter would be compelled to seek liberty and security in America, where we have o iblic strong enough to repel foreign ion and subdue internal trea- son, and where we have a habit of lending a helping hand to the oppressed of all nations, Rorranwess or Tam Nationat Bawes Ovri- cutty Exrosep—Restanation or THE CompP- TROLLER OF THE Cunrency.—Coincident with the report of the Committee on Banks and Currency, presented to the House of Represen- tatives on the 15th instant, in which an expo- sure of the rottenness of the national bank system is made, comes the announcement of the resignation of Freeman Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency. The report of the committee shows how the business of the national banks is managed, as Illustrated in the case of the Merchants’ National Bank in Washington, by the failure of which the government loses hun- dreds of thousands of dollars. Among the wisest suggestions in the report of the commit- tee is a recommendation that legal proceedings should be had for the punishment of those of the managers of the Merchants’ National Bank who are responsible for the loss of the funds of the government, a matter that is white- washed under the moderate phrase of a “breach of trast.” The decision: of the com- mittee is all right and proper. But why did not the committee go « little further, and im- plicate in these illegal transactions officers higher in authority than an humble srmy Paymaster? Why did they not have some- thing to say about such an official as the Comp- troller of the Currency, who has ingloriously resigned at this crisis. The report of this House Committee and the proceedings in our State courts in relation to these national banks unfold a degree of unsoundness and utter want of responsibility without o parallel in the financial history of this country. Now that Congress has taken a hand in this work, we hope it will not be withdrawn until the people become possessed of such information as will satisfy them that the national bank system, while it exacts from the government a heavy outlay in the payment of interest upon the bonds on which their circulstion is based, ex- torts from the taxpaying people, all consumers, including all our working people, the heaviest burden of all, that which enables these banks and their friends to use their currency in buying up and speculating in the necessaries of life all over the country. The exposures in the case of this Washington National Bank mast have been particularly pointed and severe, or they would hardly have been coincident to the re- tirement from his lucrative post of such an officer as the Comptroller of the Currency. Tas Repopuican Party's Paraiorisu.—Attor- ney General Speed in declining to attend the National Union Convention at Philadelphia takes occasion to allude to the republican party a8 the patriotic one which “saved the govern- ment,” &. Mr. Speed should give the credit where it is due. The people—not any party— saved the country. He should have sald that the government was saved in spite of the re- publican purty. It blandered through the four years of war; blundered in its military prepara- tions and organizations; blundered in ite politi- cal provisions and poligy, and blundered in ite Snancial aystem antl it loaded the country with fn unnecessarily heavy debt, During the war, in spite of all this blundering, the ving patriotically slsen to nut down fion, sua- restoration of the country and enable the nation to appropriate to itself the practical benefits of the war. This move has its origin in fully as responsible and influential sources as did the republican party, and, like the latter, is op- posed by the party in power. It has created greater consternation with the leading politi- cians of both parties and starts off with ten times the prestige, with broader issues and a better opportunity to enlist the sympathies and support of the people than any party has heretofore bad in this country. The republican party started out to oppose the extension of slavery and Mormonism and in opposition to the extravagance at Washing- ton Slavery is now abolished, and in its stead we have the paramount question of restoration of the Union, and a united country in the place of our present distracted condition, with Con- gress closing the door against the representatives from nearly one-half of the States. In regard to the corruption and financial shortcomings, the abuses under the rule of the radicals have ip- creased a thousand fold, and the schemoq 4 in- orease the burdens of the people covered up in the Tariff bill, Freedmen’s Bureau bill, national bank legislation, Montana and other jobs present a record without parallel. All these things furnish material for this Philadelphia Convention to prosent tp the pédple an array of facts sq dvérwhelming against the radical faction that it cannot fail to arouse the whole country. The Philadelphia Convention, rightly managed, can so direct the contest that the party in power witl be forced into ob- sourity far more rapidly thap it rose at its oommencement, There ere yet over two Years before the next Presidential clection, and with the capital which tho managers of this new movement have at their disposal their complete success in that campaign is much easier than was the triumph of the re- publican party after four years’ contest. There is also sufficient time, backed as they are with the momentous questions of the day, to change the result of the approaching Congressional election in a sufficient number of the Northern States to secure control of the next Congress and the defeat of the present revolutionary faction, which is now usurping power and hastening the destruction of the country. To this point the Philadelphia Convention should direct its efforts by exhibiting a scathing analysis of the corruptions, shortcomings and deception of the party now holding control of both branches of Congress. Ifthe proceedings of that gathering are well-timed and properly conducted, there is no reason why its success may not be more remarkable than was that of the republican party. Ithas a better oppor- tunity. All that is necessary is to properly improve it, and success is certain. Tue Baxxers’ anv Broxans’ Tax—Daciston or Jupce Newson.—Judge Nelson has at last rendered his decision in the case of the bankers and brokers who were trying to evade the payment of their revenue tax. It is very evident from the text of the decision as pub- lished that he has strained = point to assist the evasion of the law by that class of tax- payers, He has sustained the on some points and dissolved it on others; but, in so doing, he has very adroitly pointed out ®@ way whereby both bankers and brokers can evade the tax by putting in a plea that they advanced money on the stocks of their cus- tomers and sold them out to reimburse them- selves. There is, however, one point gained by this decision, and that is the declaration in posi- tive terms “that a person doing business under @ banker's license as a broker is liable to pay the broker’s tax on all such transac- tions, and that purchasing stocks and selling the same in his own name without disclosing the name of his customer, and paying his own money for the stocks so purchased, render him Hable to the brokers’ tax.” This settles one of the most troublesome points upon which the bankers and brokers have been try- ing to evade the revenue tax. This quibble will no longer serve their purpose, and we trust that the government will seo that they are not allowed to adopt a substitute for it. During the time that this question has been pending before Judge Nelson the Revenue Commissioner has stopped the enforcement of the law in Wall street. The consequence is that the bankers and brokers have been al- lowed to escape the payment of the tax during that period. Now that the decision has been rendered we trust that the department will bo a6 prompt in ordering the enforcement of tho law as it was to direct its suspension when these suits were commenced. Unless the Com- missioner is prepared to do this and direct the collection of the back tax on the brokers and bankers for which they are liable under this decision, the government had better order ® suspension of the collection of all taxes. The public are not going to submit much longer to this conniving with Wall street and the speculators in the evasion of their share of the Public burden. The disgust that exists with the action of Congress in not reducing the in- come tax will ensure greater attention to the mode of enforcing the law hereafter than in the past. If the same partiality is shown for the monopolies and Wall street and those in- tereste which can fee lawyers, as has been the case, then the Treasury Department will find that there is trouble springing up where it is least expected. As long as the radical Congress robs the people of one hundred and fifty mil- lions of dollars annually, they will insist that the Wall street speculators shall pay their sharo as designated by the revenue laws. A Catt vor tam Amount or tae Nationat Dest.—The old financial year ends on the 30th of June, and the new financial year commences on the Ist of July. It is usual for the Treasury Department to present monthly, quarterly and yearly a statement of the condition of the national debt, the receipts by the government through ite interior and custems taxes, and show a balance sheet that will demonstrate the state of our national finances, three weeks have elapsed since the end of the fiscal year, and yet we are without an official state- ment from the Secretary of the Treasury. How is this? Is the Secretary afraid to exhibit the amount of specie In she national treasury? Is bullion running short? Wall street brokers, who have an interest in inflating the price of gold, are taking advantage of this reticence on the part of the government in regard to its financial condition, and are pulling gold at the expense of the bonds apd credit of the government, Such a procedure in England would produce a monetary pani, It is incum- bent apon Congress to cal! !mmediately for the Gnancial oxhibls wo tb thy close of the nat tained the republican party in all its mistakes, in order to save the country. Now the repub- lican party is endeavoring to revolutionize the country by the exclusion of the Southern States. To oppose this treason a great party is spring- ing up to the assistance of President Johnson, who declares that this treason must be subdued as the other was, but proposes to do it at the ballot box. The people were the patriots then, and are the patriots now. The republican party were the blunderers then, and have blundered on to their own ruin. The true patriots are de- termined that their blunders shall not rain the country also. Income ‘Returns—Where Obtained to Spend on Jobs. Elsewhere will be found a list of the income returns for the Fifth Internal Revenue district of this city for the year 1865. This is nots locality where our most wealthy citizens reside, and the amounts given after each name do not run into the fifty and one hundred thousands, as in other localities, They are mostly mode- rate sums, and the names represent that class by whom {he tax is more severely felt than it is by the more wealthy. It will be seen, however, that the amount of income tax paid by the residents of that distriot for the years 1862, 1863 and 1864, inclusive, amounted to about halfa million of dollare. This is a heaty drain upon their enterprise and energy, and now that the war is over, there is no reason why the tex should not be reduced. That it has not only proves the Incompetency and retklessness of the present radical Congress. They are the party that is to blame, and they alone are reapopalble for retaining the income tax at the war rates, According to the official reports, the revenue receipts of the government from all sources during the past year were six hundred and twenty millions in currency. This is shown by the statement of the Séeratary of the Treasury to be fully one hundred and fifty millions in excess of the amount required for the current expenses of the governmont and for the payment of the interest on tho debt. Yet, in the face of this fact, we find no reduction of the national debt, and Congress still insists upon retaining the income tax the same as it was during the war and votes down the proposition to exempt all incomes under one thousand dollars. The law as it passed Congress this year is the same as the old law in that respeot, requiring a tax on all incomes in excess of six hundred dollars. This small difference is not sufficient to demand the attention of our princely merchants ; but when itis applied to the modmum class—men with one, two and three thousand dollars income— it is no minor item in addition to all their other expenses and increased price of living. The men who are called upon to psy this tax of one bundred and fifty millions in excess of the amount required by the government are all voters; and now is the time for them to con- sider who is guilty of this robbery. We can teil them that it is the present radical Congress, which has refused to reduce the income tax or increase the amount of exemption. The radicals in Congress have retained the inoome tax at the old rate in order that they may have more funds to spend on jobs of all kinds. They persist in exacting one hundred and fifty millions from the people in excess of the amount required, in Orier that they may out their speculations in the South. They rob the taxpayers to this extent for the purpose of paying « bonus of thirty millions annuslly to the national banks, and to pay Jay Cooke & Co, thirty or forty millions by way of fees for manipulating government securities. They continue to demand an extra tax to assist them in their Montana jobs and numorous other echemes which the radicals are dividing the profits of between themselves. This is the reason why the income tax is not reduced, and the people are required to pay one hundred and fifty millions in excess of the amount needed for the legitimate expenses of the gov- ernment. The fact of the matter is, the people of this country have been robbed by the present radical Congress out of one bundred and fifty millions of dollars. The amount stolen during ® year by all the thieves and plunderers in the State Prisons in this country does not equal that enormous sum, yet the radicals con- tinue their robbery of the people in the most shameful manner. This they expend in their private jobs under the ples of patriotism, while they are at the same time preventing the resto- ration of the country. We are fast approsch- ing the Congressional elections, and the only way that this robbery can be prevented in the future is by the repudiation at the ballot box of the Thad Stevens’, the Morrills, the Kelleys, the Washburnes, the Boutwells, the Wilsons and Wades, who, with their radical associates in Congress, voted against the reduction of the income tax. Unless men of this class can be defeated this fall, this wholesale robbery of the people will not only continue, but increase. This is the only way that the jobbing in Con- gress can be stopped and the taxes reduced to anything like a reasonable sum. Tur Unviosirmp Coxpuct or Conoress.— We have had various opportunities to comment upon the want of decorum in the present Con- gress. Neither the high official station of the President nor the courtesy due to members from their colleagues on the floor of the House have had any weight in the regulation of the conduct of those parties who, from thelr post- tions, are supposed to be gentlemen. We have been compelled to record abusive language in the halls of Congress and violent conduct out side following harsh words used in debate, as in the recent case of Rousseau and Grinnell. The President has been spoken of in language which would be held as degrading to the low- est assembly of barroom politicians, but the manner in which the veto of the Froedmen’s Bureau bill was received on Monday exceeded anythipg which Congress bas yet done in vio- lation of all etiquette and decency. We need not recall the facts as published in our columns yesterday. It is enough that we condemn the whole proceedings as undignified and dis graceful. THE TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE. ’ No Quorum in the HousemArrest Ro fractory y Gtimtes - Ordors Non.Interference by the Military. § Nazuvns, July 16, 1868. ‘There was no quorum in the House again to-day. Fifty members were present. R. Williams, from Carter county, was arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms, brought to the House, and held in close custody, Judge Frasier has issued » writ of habeas cerpus in favor of Mr. Williams A resolution was passed to arrest seven other refractory members. ‘Wasurxatoy, July 17, 1866. ‘The following despatch was received to-day from } Thomed— sasuviis, Tenn, July 16, 1808, ‘Lieutenant General Grawr, Washii ) D. O:— Some of the members of the House of Represents. tives of the Tennessee Genera! Assembly conduct them- selves in a very manner, absenting themselves to prevent @ quorum, thus obstructing business The Governor cannot manage them with the means at his Py oor applied to me for military assistance, GEORGE H. THOMAS, Major General Commanding. ‘The following answer was immediately given:— ‘Wasuinorom, July 17, 1866. General Grant will instract General Thomas the facta stated in his telegram do not warrant the inter: ference of the military authority. The admin! ville boloog pro eri io the Sai elncte, ‘and e we one Bed forces is not te interfore ta - any way in the conlaveme Netmeon the political au- thorities of the State; and — bee will gtriotly an; jerence between satan (Com OY AO OrTANTON, weorolary of War. ANOTHER REYGLUTION IN HAYTI. Breaking Uut of Another Revolution im Gonaives on the Sth of July—Ail Com- munication Suspended between the North and the Capital, &o. Boston, July 17, 1866 A revolution broke out at Gonaives, Hayti, July 5, and spread through the adjoining territory. All communica- tion was suspended between the north tnd the caphal. Business was also suspended. EXTENSIVE HAUL OF GOUNTERFEITERS. Capture of a Press, Several Steel Plates, Sixty Thousand Doliarsin Fractional Ourreneyasovem of the Partics Com- ted to Jail. One of the most extonsive raids ever made by thé gov- ernment in this district upon the counterfeiters of the na- tional securities was brought to a successful conclusion yesterday, resulting inthe arrest of s2ven of the most noted manufacturers of counterfeit United States notes and fractional currency in the country. In addition to this a large amount of bogus money (about sixty thou- sand dollars) was captured, togothor with plates, presses, dies, &c. HOW THR JOB WAS WORKED UP. For some feeks past Mr. W. P. Wood, Chief of the Se- cret Service Division of the Treasury Department, Wash- ington, has been operating in this city, in connection with United States Marshal Murray, with a viow to sup- alarming extent. The reach the manufacturers; men who had grown rich im crime, and for whose misdeeds many an innocent mam is now doing a term of service for the State at Sing Sing. Parties suspected of being thus concerned were shad- owed by the secret service by inated everywhere, until finally an extensive tor 5 0 well by the gover i 5 F y evening the very room i ; i is f i ! g i i uu TH Bl ih i A i e | a i] Hi ' 4 iY i E E | i! 4 i i ik é i i F i iN ei ce i a i | HE | En i i | vi tf i bei i i i ES EGE i i Fs titi d i i i i g Py i | § ef & gerecaas ettty : i=: tI Ht 2? eribess ii re & At Wood's theatre, Broadway, matinée entertainmente ‘will take place at the usual hour this afternoon. The Worrell Sisters will appear in the Elves, or the Statee Bride, with new songs and dances, Too Much for Good Nature will also be performed, Mr. Leffingwell persom- ating Remeo Jenkins. Fire at Maysville, Ky. ° Corcexnay, Jeiy 17, 1908, Pore’ Exovestow.—Now York is divided into two lasnes, viz—Those who leave the steaming city during,J these days of terrible heat, amd those who stay in it ‘Tho latter class is of course largely in the majerity, 8 may be very creditable to broil im Broadway {ram asense of duty; one might from similar motives poluntecr to occupy astake at an auto da fe, bat it is rt comforta- yooks ‘lum from the ty a aa ae