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4 NEW YORK HERALD. NEES JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N, W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. jo. 201 , New York, Friday, July 20, 1866. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Fea 4 THEATRE. Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Barre. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—Iy a Vanterr or Ligur np Lavcaasie Entertainments, Corrs pe Batter, &c. Tum SiaMEsK TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty. eighth ond Fifty-ninta treets.—Tneo. Tuomas’ ORCMRSTRAL Gaxpen Concerts, commencing at 8 o'Clock, HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erurorian Mi ermELsY—BalLaps, BuaLESQuRs AND Pantomimas NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — Lecrunes wrrn rue Oxy-Hyoroan MicKoscors twice daily. Openfrom 8 A. M. till 10P. M. LOWE'S ARRONAUTIC AMPHITHEATRE, Fifty-ninth street and Sixth avenue.—BaLLooxing, Tigut Rore anp Finzworxs. money ead (our prissuem, The material akon amounts in value to Atty thousand dollars. Judge MoCuan, of the Superior Court, has decided that the city ia Mable for corporation advertising to the fall amount of work done by each newspaper, and that, notwithstanding the action of the Legislature cutting down the appropriation in the Tax levy for this purpose, each newspaper proprietor to whom the city was in- debted was entitled to judgment, Emanuel Estoba and Paulino Goasucohi, the Cuban slaves who made their escape to this country and soon after their arrival here were arreated for stealing two thousand doUars’ worth of jewelry from their former master, were brought before Judge McOunn yesterday on a writ of babeas corpus. Thg argumept in the case was Postponed natil ong@’olook to-day at the request of the Bi INDERELLA—-KAaTHLgen O'Ne1L—SkasiNG—MRs, # District Attorney. The fat boiling injunction case was argued yesterday before Judge Brady, in the Court of Common Pleas, The Judge took the papers and promised a dooision at an Te este ammerionn Lioyds steamship Atlantic, Cap- tain Hoyer, will sail at noon to-day (Friday), for Bromen, via Cowes, from pier No. 46 North river. ‘The stock market was firm yesterday. Governments were steady, but dull. Gold was firm, and closed at 1503¢ bid. Business was general'y cal yoaterday, and commercial transactions were few and far between; especially was this the case in impo-ted morchandise. In domestic Produce trade was very tregular. Cotton was firmer, with a better demand, Groceries were also in soliors’ favor. Dry goods were quiet. On 'Change flour was Gall, and inforior and choice grades wore 260., while medium and common grades wore 10c. a 1b. lower. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, Wiaitmhcd cei ioce: Ont eeeas, All advertisements handed in until half past nine | While oe wa dult and heavy. Pork was dull and o'clock in the evening will be classified undor appro- eaiggani po 0 giag aol gg sate pra priate headings ; but proper classification cannot be | steady. Petroleum was firmer. sured after that hour. THA NEWS. CONGREss. MISCELLANEOUS. Our city of Mexico letter by (ine eteamer Morro Castle, from Havana on the 14th instant, saya that the Empress Carlotta was about to embark for Europe. The Emperor had allowed the pension to the widow of General Zara- In Congress yesterday a telegraphic despatch was re- | goza, who fell at Puebla fighting against the French im <cived from Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, stating that the Legislature of that State had ratifled the con- stitutional amendment, In the Senate a joint resolution was immediately offered by Mr, Tenmbull recognizing 186, The American Bible Society is flourishing finely in Mexico and other cities, notwithstanding » deter- mined opposition from the priesthood, who recently raked up an old law and confiscated the stock in several the government of the State of Tennessee inaugurated | places. The Emperor came to the ald of the Bible by the Convention of 1865 as the legitimate government of that State, and entitled to all the rights of a State agents, however, and they are free from persecution for the present. Various reports of email skirmishes and government under the constitution, which was ordered | outrages by both parties make up the main facts of the to be printed. motion to reconsider the joint resolution concerning the State of Tennessee, by which it was recommitted to the Committee on Reconstruction on March 5, intending to Jn the House Mr. Bingham called up the | news. ‘the liberal cavalry had given a wholesome scare to the residents of Vora Cruz, and had made one or two small but successful raids on the Puebla Railroad. Tho Inman steamship Edinburg, from Queenstown, provide for the immediate admission of the State. | July 5, reached this port yesterday evening. Her nows Mr. Stevens moved to lay the motion to recon- sider on the table, which being lost, he moved to adjourn, This also wns lost. The democratic members took active sides Mr. Bingham in the effort to admit the State, and the and newspaper files have been fully anticipated. The steamer San Salvador, which left New York on Saturday last, arrived at the Savannah, (Ga.) Quarantine with | on Wednesday, with twenty-cight cases of cholera, there having been three deaths during the voyage. Thore party led by Mr. Stevens made strenuous efforts to | were five hundred recruits for the regular army on board. dofeat them. The motion to recommit was recon- | There was no sickness among the cabin passengers, Tho sidered, and Mr. Bingham offered a resolution that as | Quarantine officers had made every arrangement for the Tennessee has shown to the satisfaction of Congress a Proper spirit of obedience in her people, she is hereby convenience of both sick and well on Tybee Island. On Tuesday last three brothers named Mead, living at declared to be resiured to her former practical relations | Lewisborough, Westchestertounty, were suffocated by the fin the Union, and is again entitled to Representatives and Senators upon the floor of Congress. On this the previous question was moved, which will bring it to a vote to-day. In tho Senate the bill for the relief of the Portland foul air of an old weil on the farm of one of them. One of the brothers ia attempting to draw water from it, had occasion to descend and was suffocated. Another brother attempted to rescue him and was also suffocated, and a third brother, in the game attempt, met his death in the - sufferers was passed. It was the subject of much dis- | same manner. cussion, Messrs, Trumbull, Johnson, Davis, Fessenden Mrs. Mary Ranney, a German lady living at Morrisania, and others taking part. The now Tariff bill, which | was takon illon Monday and soon after became apparent- passed the House on Wednesday, was referred to the ly lifeless, Two.physicians declared that she was not Finance Committee, The House amendment to the bill | dead, but-the burial was proceeded with next afternoon, reviving the grade of Goneral was agreed to, and the | when thecefiln boing opened at the grave by. her brother, Dill now goes to the Prosident, Mr. Sherman's bill for funding the public debt and reducing the he declared that she was not dead, and he refused to allow the buriai to proceed. The lady was not buried as interest thereon was taken up and passed. An amend- | late as last evening, but she had not revived. ment was offered prohibiting national banks from being The severest storm remembered by the inhabitants designated as public depositories in the District of Co- | visited Galveston and the Gulf coast of Texas on tho lumbia, or in cities where there is a Sub Treasurer of 13th, lasting three days. Six vessels wore wrecked, the United States, but after being accepted in the Com- | the crews of three of them, it is supposed, having mittee of the Whole, it was rejected in the Senate. The porished. Dill as passed is published in full in our Congressional General G. G. Meade is at Long Branch. Ho will re- proceedings this morning. The consideration of | view the New Jersey Stato troops on the 24th inst. at NW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JOLY 20, 1866. movement, and struggling te hide their past ‘The Season at the Watering Places aote by ectraordinary energy in this convention. | Tuesday was the hottest day of the season. No political movement was ever started under | More than this, it was the hottest that has ever more favorable auspices or had more avail- | been experienced in this city. The shermome- able material to forms popular platform than | ter stood at over one hundred in the ¢bade. has the proposed conservative convention. | Business was almost suspended, except in Wall The demoralizing, factious and jobbing course | street, where the bulls and bears were unusually of Congress has farnishod all the capital neces- | active in spite of the weather. Cases of sum sary for the inauguration of a powerful and suo- | stroke were exceedingly frequent, The maor- Cessful party. All that is necessary is for the: tality among the car horses was excossive. Public to sce that the movement is in the hands | Towards evening the exodus from the city was of cafe and judicious men, such as have not by | immense. People rushed into the country in their past course disgusted the people, | the vain hope of getting a cool night’s sleep, and then for tho convention to skilfully | The heated term seldom lasts more than three Appropriate the material at its disposal, and a | days; but since Merriam, the sage of Brooklyn party can be inaugurated which will secure the | Heights, who seemed to have charge of this prise in the next Presidential contest and revo- | matter, has deceased, the clerk of the weather lutionise Congress at the approaching Congres- has indulged in all sorts of irregularities. Not sional elections. Let them recall the jobs of only do we have tropical heat in this temperate the present radical Congress, the schemes to | sone, but the heated term bas now lasted for rob the Treasury, from the millions thrown | ten days and bids fair to continue unabated. away on the Freedmen’s Bureau down, and | The oldest inhabitant, who is always consulted recount the numerous misdeeds with the per- upon such occasions; has never suffered from sistent efforts to prevent a restoration of the | such intense heat before, The weather-wise Union, and the delegates composing that body | people sre totally perplexed end can will have all the oapital that they can de- | only utter the Bunsbyan prediction that if it sire for @ successful issue with the radicals | rains it will be cooler, and if not, why, then it before the will not. This may not be perfectly satisfan- A feeling, however, is already being mani- | tory, but it exhausts the subject and the pro- fested, and that, too, by those who wish the | phets. movement to succeed, that no such wisdom| Fortunately everybody who can efford the will be exhibited in the resolves of that gather- | means and the time is supposed to be out ing. But we apprehend that it will in the end | of town at this season, and the sufforers belong acoomplish just about the same result as the | to that class of people who cannot get away Tyler Convention and the contests between | and who expect martyrdom during July and the politicians under the administration of Fill- | August. This summer, however, people have more. The whig party in Congress got up a | been much more sensible than usual. All ao- quarrel with Tyler, calling him an accidental | counts agree that the eo-called fashionable President, and denounced him, just as the radi- | watering places are by no means overcrowded cals denounce President Johnson at the present | this year, and that taey are frequented by s time. A movement was started similar to that | very different sort of society from that which now proposed, in which the politicians endeav- | used to render them so lively and enjoyable. ored to glorify themselves. It resulted in the | The letter from our Cape May correspondent, defeat of the whig party; but those identified | which we publish this morning, gives a graphic with the movement, including Tyler himself, | idea of the routine at these resorts. The com- went down in the orash. Then, again, when | fort of visitors is the last thing thought of by Fillmore became President by the death of | the landlords. At the hotels the guests are Taylor the whigs in Congress atirred up a | furnished with one pigeon-hole for their keys quarrel with him. He made an effort to sus- | and another for themselves, The accommoda- tain himself, and conventions were held in | tions for bathers are of the rudest possible de- various parts of the country for this purpose, | scription. The cuisine is inferior and the wines But, like Tyler, he failed to receive sufficient | soarcely deserve the name. From Newport, strength to renominate himself or build up a | Saratoga, Long Branch and other places we successful party, and in his fail he carried the | hear the same story, with a few local varia- whig party with him, its candidates receiving | tions. The landlords have been making so guch a disastrous defeat in 1852 that the party | much money during the war that they naturally could never again rally. It was its finishing | expected the same flourish of shoddy this sum- blow. Such will now no doubt be the result | mer; but the reign of shoddy is over, and of the present quarrel betweeen the President | Americans are again beginning to realize the and Congress. The Philadelphia Convention | value of money. While the war lasted and may contribute largely to the result. But as it | war prices and war contracts were in vogue, is quite evident that it is tobe manipulated by | the paper dollars wore scattered about with the politicians for their own glorification, and in | perfect recklessness, and the aewly rich people the same. way that all such conventions have | were content to pay dearly for any fare and been in the past, there is but little prospect that | any kind of accommodations, ‘provided the those who participate in. it will receive any | locality at which they sojourned: was called material benefit politically. While they may | feshionable. -Now, however, we notice the wesist in the overthrow of the radicals, they | signs of returning common sense. This sum- too will be-obliged to sink with them. But if | mer the wast majority of those who leave town the defeat of the radicals can be accomplished | go to quiet little villages among the mountains, by it those connected with the movement may | or to secluded villas in the suburbs. Hot as consider the result worth the personal sacrifice, | the city undoubtedly is, it is far more comforta- and content themsclves with the consolation | ble here than at most of the watering places. of having served their country ; for our only | In » fe@ weeks the summer resorts will gain salvation is in the retirement of the extreme | a new interest, however, from the politicians a a A EE ES RS EEE eS ERE. SEL A Serna eee ey oc en eee the work ts Completed at the present rate of | @ commission for tho purp.we of i Progress. What ® contrast is scen when the | the many frauds committed in the rapidity of constrasting the new Hasa.o build- | of our city affairs, and, if posable, puting & ing—an edifice equatiy as rand as the new | stop to thom. How bes he used t,\at authority? Court House—is compared with the delay in | When the Legislature passed an act taxing finishing the latter! But one isyione by cor-| excessively the commission busine. of the rupt city jobbing politicians and gontractors | State, which was calculated to dam. ye that and the other by honest and competent private | important interest, and the commerce of New contractors. York generally, which depends in a ,'rest measure upon it, the Governor approved aia rages mS earch Great) bin. Is this what he means by promoting nows wich we published yesterday contained | Uo msir sien of da «oath i a synopsis of a circular despatch from Prince RO EMITS: cain Gortschakoff to the Russian diplomatic agents. Tas New Post Orvice ann Tas Common The Prince states that Russia had determined | Councn.—The Commissioners appointed by to remain neutral during the present war, but | Congress to select a site for a new Post Office nevertheless found it necessary to form corps | and accommodations for other departments of observation upon the frontiers of both Aus- | of the federal government in this city having trian and Prussia. The reasons why a Russian | attended to that duty, and the Commissioners army is concentrated upon the Pruth are also | of the Sinking Fund having agreed to the given, but in remarkably torse language. They | terms of purchase, as well as the location, el? amount to this:—That in view of the armaments } that remains now to be done to secure the of the Porte and the movements of troops to- | commencement of the work is for the Common wards the Danube Russia feels justified in pre- | Council to ratify the bargain. This that body paring to resist the entry of these forces into | neglects to do, although Congress stands ready/ the principalities. to make an appropriation of a million of dpl- The ominous silence of Russia, to which we | lars to begin the construction of the much have before alluded, is rather deepened than | required building. Why is this? Is the Com- broken by this despatch. Like most diplomatic | mon Council at one of its ol@ tricks, and wait- explanationsit explains nothing. It simply no- | ing for a fee before it gives its consent to so tifles all the other Powers that Russia is ready | desirable a public improvement at no expense for eventualities. More than this: it was written | to the city? The Commissioners bave agreed when Austria and Prussia were still upon | to give the city halt a million for the ste, and equal terms, and before the decisive battle | although it may be worth more for other pur- of Sadowa had beon fought. The Prussian | poses, yet to no better public use could the victory, the cession of Venetia to Franee and | property be put for the benefit of the city than the proposals for an armistice have changed | the one proposed. The work should, therefore, the whole aspect of affairs and materially | be allowed to proceed without any stumbling- modified Bussia’s position. Should a conference | blocks being cast in the way by municipal be held between the representatives of Prussia, | authorities, Without waiting to lay themselves Italy, France and Austria, it could result | open to a positive accusation of bribery, only in a peace which would greatly alter the present map of Europe, or in a continuance of the war, with France as an active combatant which is beginning to be privately made, members of the Council should promptly coa- form to the proposition of the Commissioners, the Civil Appropriation Dill was then continued, | that place. and several amendments being agreed to, the bill was The Unton Congressional Convention for New Albany, postponed until to-day. A provision repoaling so much | Ind., met at that place on Wednesday. Governor Mor- of the law of March, 1863, as authorizes the payment of Joyal men for slaves enlisted was stricken out. In the House the bill granting land in aid of a railroad line from the Central Pacific Reilroad, in Cali- fornia, to Portland, Oregon, was passed. ton was present, and delivered an address, which was vociferously applauded. Tho bay golding Dexter won the purse at the trotting match, under the saddle, at the Fashion Course, L. I., ‘A | Yesterday, beating General Butler aud Toronw Ontor, resolution offered, that Congress take a recess | When he made the best time fon record, Flora Temple's until December 1, was postponed after some discussion, The report of the committee for the inves- tigation ot the Fry-Covkling difficulty presented a re- port, which was read at length. A synopsis of the prin- cipal points of the report are published in our report of the proceedings in the House this morning. They fully exonerate Mr. Conkling and censure General Fry. The resolutions were adopted by yeas 96, nays 4. THE CITY. famous three heats being beaten. The second mile heat was made in 2:10, which time was nover beaten, except by Dexter himself in his trot against time, when he made it in 2:18 15. ‘The Johnson National Union Convention of Indiana met in Indianapolis yesterday, being very slimly at- tended. Delogates to the Philadelphia Convention were appointed. General Rousseau has tendered his resignation asa member of the House of Representatives to Governor Eleven additional cases of cholera and six deaths were | Bramlette, of Kentucky. reported yesterday in New York, and four cases, three of which were fatal, in Brooklyn. A respectable for- eigner, named Henrie P. David, was interred in the “stranger's Burial Ground” at the private expense of the President and Registrar of the Board of Health. Ac- tive measures to prevent the cholera becoming epidemic have been adopted. ‘The hot weather just vanishing has been the longest ‘and severest known in this vicinity during an ordinary Matters are quict in the neighborhood of the anti-rent troubles in Albany county. The expeditionary force picket the grounds about Warner's house, and trespass- ing {s strictly prevented. They will move soon upon an- other point, as yet unknown to the public. The parties arrested wore all admitted to bail, The report of the special trade commission which re- cently visited the West Indies and South America to open a trade between those countries and the British Aifetime. Yesterday a northerly breeze visited the sity | North American possossions was submitted to the Cana- ‘and revived the depressed spirits of those sentenced for | dian Parliamont yesterday. Another lively acene oc- ‘the heated term.” Twelve deaths from sunstroke curred between two of the members, one of whom were reported yesterday in the city. The storm on | charged the governmont with bribery and corruption. ‘Wednesday committed considerable damage in Brooklyn. A boiler was strack by lightning in Bushwick avenue, and, exploding, killed a man named William Boyle. A building was blown down in Putnam avenue and a frame The Twin Philadelphia Conventions. The dissatisfaction and the disgust which exist over the factious course of the present house in Sumptor street. A barn on Broadway anda tan- | radical Congress have already resulted in the nery were also blown down. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday; but, beyond ‘the passage of aresolution authorizing the Committee on Artsand Sciences to have oil portraits of Governor Yenton, ex-Mayors Opdyke and Gunther and Mayor ‘Hoffman placed in the Governor's Room, nothing of in- terest transpired. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and concar- fod with the Aldermen in amending ordinances dividing @he Sixth, Seventh, Tweifth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Sightoenth and Nineteenth wards into convenient elec- tion districts. A list of blind persons, to whom the Pomptrotler is authorized to make a donation of fifty dollars cach, was confirmed. After adopting a number of unimportant routine papers the Board adjourned till Monday. A mocting of the National Board of Underwriters was hoid in the hall om Broadway yesterday, at which the presidents of leading insurance companies throughout he country were present, The meeting was held for ‘the parpose of establishing uniform rates of insurance and detecting and punishing incendiaries. Resolutions ‘were adopted advocating a general advance of rates, and making an advance of ten per cent on participating poli cies over {if rates, Other resolutions, recommend ing a uniform fire policy and relating to other matters, were also adopted. A statistical table of the amount of business transacted Dy the city insurance companies during the last twelve ‘months is published in our colamns this morning. In * view of the many destractive fires in the city during tho past year this table will be interesting and service. avle to business men. ‘The buildings owned and occupied by the New York Ol! Company om Nineteenth street, between avenue a and First avenue, were entirely destroyed by Gre yeater- day morning. Primary school No 29, and the macaroni manufactory of Edmund Belling, adjoining the oi! works, @ustained serious damage. Twelve thourand gallons of the oil, besides forty barrelaof it ready for delivery, ‘and also all the machinery and one hundred tons of oil eake, wore consumed. The proprietors of the oi! factory have reason to believe the burning was the work of an snoendiary, Tho loss it estimated at $40,000, ‘The | afd obtain for it a prestige that will assist | under Sheridsn, Kilpatrick, Pleasonton and | length of time consumed call for two national conventions to be held at Philadelphia within the next sixty days. One ofthese gatherings is to be under the control of those who approve of the restoration policy of President Johnson, while the other is to consoli- date the friends and advocates of universal negro suffrage. One is to unite the conserva- tive elements of the country; the other to inau- gurate a movement in which the extreme negro worshippets can unite and make their efforts for the elevation of the blacks to civil and political equality with the whiteg all the more effective. Upon these platforms and that basis the delegates will assemble, and, as usual at such gatherings, they will be manipulated by the politicians who have their own interests to serve and their own selfish points to carry out. Itis, therefore, a question of some doubt whether the proceedings of the conventions and the general results of their action will advance the cause Isid down in the calls or merely glorify certain party leaders and cliques, and furnish them capital to be used in the elections in their respective localities. The latter is evidently the motive that con- trols many of those who are preparing to attend these conventions. Cm Among the first in this locality to respond to the call of the proposed conservative or anti- radical convention is the peace and copper- head element under the auspices of the Woods and Morart Hall, Those conversant with the history of the managers of that fection cannot possibly doubt for a moment that they hope to infuse new life into that local orgasisation men who are now spreading demoralization by who will gather there to settle the details of or an open sympathizer with one of the con- | and ratify the sale and transfer to the general testants, In either case Russia would have to | covernment of the property in question. be consulted. Her diplomatists are the abiest aa aca as aN in the world, and they would insist that her CANADA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. jaterests must be regarded in the reconstruc- tion of the German empire or of the bounda- ‘ties of France. Should war ensue and become | Proceedings tm Parlinament—Report of Special @ mere struggle of dynasties, Russia would be foreed to side with one or the other party and lend it her martial or her moral aid. No Power in Europe could afford to be passive if France became Austria's ally. the Government Party, &c. Ortawa, July 19, 1868, REPORT OF THE WAST INDIA TRADE COMMISSION. ‘The report of the Trade Commission who visited the During our recent civil war the United States | wost Indies, Brazil and other countries, to open trade and Russia were made fast and firm friends. | with Canada to replace that lost by the tormination of Russia remembered that our sympathies were | ‘he Reciprocity treaty, has been submitted to Parlia- 7 ment, {t is rather doleful in its general tone, The Com- with her daring the Crimean struggle; and of mission give & voluminous and melancholy account of all the nations in Europe she alone was avow- | inoir aaventures abroad, and wind up with recommend. edly friendly to us in our life and death grap-| ing the establishmont of a fortnightly steamship line ple with rebellion. The emancipation of her | from Halifax to St. Thomas, touching at Portland ; thas serfs by the Ozar preceded and afforded us an ‘contract be mado with the United States to carry the example for our abolition of negro slavery, bray ped oye lles - f eanine, xico, the West Indies or South America from Amert- Besides this, Russian heartity appreciated cur can porte, and the mails of those countries back te enterprise and inventions, American meohan- | Canada by the revurning steamer; that a woekly line of ios were welcomed there and employed upon | steamers be established between Montreal and Halifax ; the public works. She has had war vessels that the Inter-Colonial Railroad be constructed as soea as possible ; ypc seth oe rend) — = Of the duties placed on Canadian products in the coum- tcloe visied § that an assimilation be obtained of the — and adopted by the Russian offt- | {aril in the Sriuah Wont Ladies on Cansdian staple Dro ciats, To the telegraph which is shortly their action in Congress. When we turn to | the fall campaign. The radicals in Congress the other convention called at Philadelphia | now have no choice but to adjourn. This we see nothing but an effort of politicians | weather is making Washington too hot for long since antiquated to force themselves into | them. They are not patriotic enough to die at notice through an attempt to glorify the blacks | their posts for what they profess to consider a Bud plave thom on political equality with the | qacd conan and in anita af the «whastotians af whites, The final result to the managers of | Thad Stevens they will break ranks and rush off both of these conventions will undoubtedly be | to the watering places. Already the gamblers the same, whatever changes they may bring | and pickpookets are awaiting the arrival of about in regard to the present parties. these Congressmen. Saratoga has become worse than Baden Baden in this respect, and at War in Former Times and at the Present Day. | 43) the other resorts gamblers and blacklogs Inventions in the improvement of firearms | are mentioned as the principal features. The and cannon, together with railroads, have } pxcitemontabout the racés has served fo attract revolutionized the art of war. In former times | these fellows; but when the racing is over the armies fired at each other ins very random | politicians will come, and our politicians are manner with imperfect firearms and at a dis- the natural game of the gamblers. It is not tance of two or three hundred yards. They | ancommon to sce the leading wire-pullers of had to approach within a distance of @ few | the State betting heavily at the faro board, or hundred yards even before they could use can- | indulging in poker, or in “forty-fives,” or in non effectively. Now the rifled or even the | cripbage. Money is also staked upon political improved smooth bore cannon will make terri- | syents, and the success of the Philadelphia ble havoc miles from the object, while the | Convention, which is now the leading breech-loaders and other rifles of modern | topic in all circles, will involve s large pecu- make prove most deadly at great distance. | nisry loss to several noted individuals. What We see by accounts from the war in Europe | with the gambling, the drinking and the dissi- that the needle gun or rifle, as it is called, in | pation at our watering places thie year, they the hands of the Prussians proves to be a ter-| have become perfect pandemoniums and are rible weapon. All this tends to make war | therefore much warmer than New York. The shorter, because battles are more decisive. | fortunate folk who are enjoying their ofium Those who have the most improved arms neces- | cum dignitate in suburban villas or in distant sarily have a great advantage. Hence we see | rural retreats may congratalate themselves every nation anxious to avail iteelf of any as- | upon their double escape from the heated term certained improvement as soon as possible. in the city and the vicious society of the But the rapid transportation of armies and | former fashionable resorts. Unless there is » the materials of war in modern times by rail- thorough reform next year the watering places road has produced the greatest revolution in | will be abandoned by ell respectable persons. warfare. The greatest generals in former | Even those perspiring people who are obliged times—and we may mention the first Napoleon | to pass the summer in the city are not without especially—sucoeeded principally by celerity | reason for thankfulnes. It is certainly much of movement, and this efore the time | petter to stay at home and be moral, with the of railroads. In the laié war !* ‘Italy | thermometer at one hutdred in the shade, than we saw how rapidly Louis Napoleon con- | jo g3 fo the springs or the seaside and dwell contrated an immense army to fight the bat-| in tho tenis of wickedirss. tles of Solferino and Magenta. The present war shows the samé results. In our own war,| A Prorosat, Anour ia! New Covrr Hovsr.— over a territory nearly as large as all Europe, | It will be remembered bat ‘he Cathedral in wo experienced the importance of railroads. | Cologne has been for mes in course of con- The transportation of troops and materials that | struction, and is still unfinshed. A representa- used to take months now only requires a few | tion of the wonderful stricture, in its incom- days. ‘ plete state, is printed upa the labels on Co- In connection with these changes in the art | logne bottles, and, of couse, finds » place in of war we must not forget the importance of | every well regulated toileté, We have a work cavalry. For some time at the carly part of | going on in this city wortly of being equally our war the impression was that infantry was | commemorated. We referto the new Court the only branch of the service of any value; | House, which has been 60 low in course of con- but as the war progressed, and particularly | struction asto have become hitorical. It would near the close of it, the cavalry was seen to be | not bea bad idea to alter th seal of the city ® most important branch of the service. Why? | so as give an illustration ofthe new Court Simply because it is specially adapted to co- | House in its half finished stati with members operate with the celerity of motion required | of the city goyernment suppéting each side by the modern conduct of war. Should a gene | of the shield, with bags of pluner in the hands eral war in Europe occur, amd Russia enter | of each. There would be no ifMficulty in ob- into it, we shall see, doubtless, the immense | taining suitable legends for the yew city arms. value of her Cossacks. We know what great | Festina lente—“Make haste slowy”—would do influence the cavalry arm of our service | very well as » motto the great the build- A in damage to the primary school will amount to about | them in the coming contest in our city clec- | others exercised in the war agsinst the rebels, | ing. Latet anguis in herbd—“Thed’s a enake in $1,000, and to the maccaron! manufactory about $300. Tho Citizens’ Committee im aid of the Portland suf- forers hold their usual meeting at the Chamber of Com- merce at balf.past twelve P. M. yesterday. No business ‘was transacted, except the reading of the subscriptions tions, It ie the effort of a bankrupt to obtain new capital to set up in business again. The success of the restoration policy of the Presi- dent or the reconstruction of the country bas and we feel assured any generel war in Burope | the grass”—would answer the ptpose of de- must show the same results. There are, in | monstrating the character of the mny corrupt fact, 90 many new developments in the art of | jobs that are being carried on bymembers of war that we can not reason from what has | the city government. Ab eny rte the new received since the preceding day, which amounted to | nothing te do with it, except oo far ae that can | taken place in former times, Many lessons | building is becoming #0 ancient itite present have been learned by the war im the United | unfinished condition that ® refesentation Staten; but {t fs important thet our military | should be preserved of ft for th benefs of men and the government watch with interest { future ages and contractors; for thee is danger that the marble wil! crumble to olves before 192,213, The total amount received by this commities to this date is $72,987. Another raid made upon the counterfeiters yesterday resulted in the capture of a large number of finely exo. futed stool olates. two vresves, dios, roller, paper, borus be made subservient to and assist in the accom- plishment of other points. We may expect to tee the same clase in other States trying to renew their volitical life under the cloak of this the eveate that are oooarring in Burope. republic have a more lively Interest in this project than in the English cable now being laid across the Atlantic. In her vast extent of territory and her innumerable Kussia also resembles te United sewer] our wisest statesmen have long since concluded that in the future Russia will be the command- ing Power of the Old World, as the United States will be of the New. Like two Giants, these two nations will divide the world between them. The past belongs to England ; the present seems to be monopolized by France; but Russia and the United States possess the glorious and not very distant ‘THA MINISTRY CHARGED WITH NON-FULFILMEST OF TaEGt PROMISES. ' The ition tried to spur up the coalition to-day, and ¥r. jon made a m4 4 fiat i emo Finance promises in \, and he pete vag ey bo made, but the House is now in tte on r ‘Up every topic, and there a Soga pe ial gree yy, coal a ey ture. Foppery and fogyism rule the roost here. CHARGES OF BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION. Ld J. oc8Re future. Peng tater a tag instance was The United Slaton have a direct intoreat in | sauaen.est me ebonni mid tal he parca of the present European war which is too gene- | ber for rally forgotten. Should peace be at once oe declared Napoleon will be at liberty to resume his Mexican projects, and we may rest assured that no promises which he may have made to ‘Mr. Holton called for time and place of befog Secretary Seward vill restrain him from | Shiv noe tite bet thor ho Bet pee ie it wae improving t the utmo:t his golden oppor- | to gentleman since he bad been lathe woremeak tanity. Austria, humbled in the contest with | The member Prussia, will eagerly listen to Napoleon’s pro- that posals to build up a new empire in Mexico, | and if all otler appeals should fail the bese plerlbone ie ae re ror ap) contrast be 4 between hererhausted treasury and the bound- on which Mr teDonald em eal contradicted a less riches of the Mexican mines will be quite p Tenge Fy 8 A effectual. With the Austrian and the French | ‘ue least and they arom one afer the oiber, and po: armies it is beyond question that the govern- | round. Mr. MeKensie tnd other tpeakere spoke of tee ment of Maximilian could be established in | {jsfmceu crmmanay ot the scene, and called upon the spite of every effort of the Mexican liberals, ors said be asi witaceaing» uch scence tm the unlees the Unitel States engaged in the war. | titvwa Sinaia tay meagan, coseaasy Pr” For this weare by no means prepared, with the South still excluded from the Union and SUPREME COURT, BROOKLYN the President tnd the radicals denouncing | The Appointment of Trustees of the Village each other as tnitors. What a few regiments | of New Brighton Declared Unconstitutional— of our trosps cruld have accomplished a few | "ection of "peice Flck nen — months ago, wil require many thousands of | Daniel Daley, who was imprisoned in Richmond men and & loiy and severe campaign to | county jail by Police Justice Vermilys, of New Brghton, achieve ifs spealy pesce 'p Europe shall leave ten re nrc Jadge Gilbert on a writ of q corpus, lischarge claimed on the ground rn. oar cory MY porrig adrer that Mr. Vermllye is not a police justice, he having beew ico ected under the authority of iesern Prentice, ’. therefore, and t¢ those of our snster republics | § imonton and Bodine, claiming to act as trustees of said village. The Judge decided that the appointment the in the south, we have everything to ssim by « tional, ‘na the election 2 een S Suroes bow contiauane of te European contest; fdr then | held under their Maximilian will se ejected before either Na- | mel poleon or Austris can assist him, and we shall THEBCONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. be spared the tecessity of « Mexican war. { iry Ratincation by the Tennessee Leqvem- But looking berond our own interests, and | twre—Parson Brownlow’s Announcement to taking thove of Russia] into consideration, we | ‘eeretary Stanton, should notet all »bject to see the Danubian Princtpalites fal into the hands of the Czar and the my opened for the conquest of Turkey. “hese cbjects, we may be certain, have not been cverlooked by Russian states- men, and Nepoleon, who is so shrewd, so cun- ning, andso successful when dealing with in- ferior mitis, may yet find himself beaten in diplomac; as his uncle was in war, by the Czar of Hissia, backed by the immense hosts and unlisted resources of the great empire of the faturi Goveria Fawrox axp His Orricut Durms.— Governofenton is reported to have said in his speet at Baffalo on Wednesday evening direction is void. The prisouer was Naauvins, July 19, 1968, In te House this morning the constitutional amead- ment wa fatified by a vote of 43 yeas against 13 nays, two memb Yfs refusing to answer to their names. Gov- ernor Brow: Vow sent the following telegraphic despatch to Washingto@i— 5 envnite, Tenn., July 1812 M. To Hon, BE. M. \Sratyor, Secretary of War, Washing- , t. We have carried ughe House, Voto—48 Mgovervwor of Teaneasee, Jadgo Frazier, of the Criminal Cour: before whoa the case of P. Williams, representative’ from Carter county, who applied for a toll; woot to 11, two. vw. a a that he tisted few would question the sincerity of his sitin the discharge of his official duties to fail Promote the interest of the Com- mon If this wae meant as challenge of publi¢pinion, it may be answered that the sincerity’ the intentions of » publie official ia best tted by his acts. Governor Fenton was eutkiged by the Legislature to aevoiat WONORS TO GENERAL SHERMAN. ‘ Basoven, N. A, July 19, 190m At the Dartmouth College commencement to-day the honorary dexres of Doctor of Laws was conferred om Major General AETURA OF GOVERNOR FENTON TO ALBANY. anor Fenton retaracd to the a stir, after Gor " an aheowes of two or three wooks, ot home in Cheng Can@ne couger. 4 )