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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Foor cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $146 NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not return rejected communications. Volume XXXI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WOOD'S THEATRE. Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel.—Cinpgegeita—Mus. Sarre. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—Iy 4 Vaniery ov Licut 4xp Lavcean.e Ewnrewtainments, Corrs pe Bauwer, £c. Tax Joviat ContRABANDS. TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty- ‘eighth and Fifty-ninth streets.—Tugo. Tomas’ ORCHESTRAL G@anvux Concerts, commencing at 8 o’Clock. SOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Eraioriay Mix eTAWLsy—BAiLads, BURLESQUES AND PaNTOMIMES. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF AD Lecroxes wirn tar Oxy-ffyp! daily. Openfrom8 A. M, till 10 LOWE'S AERONAUTIC AMPHITHEATRE, Fifty-ninth atreet and Sixth avenue.—Bantoomina, Tigut Rope axp Fiaxwons MY, 618 Broadway.— x Microscore twice New York, Monday, Jaly 23, 1866. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. All adverlisements handed in until half past nine o'clock in the evening will be classified undor appro- priate headings; bat proper classification cannot be sured after that hour. THE NEWS. The letters of our special correspondents in Paris, Vienna, Venice, Prague and London, dated to the latest moment previous to the gailing of the City of Paris, on the 12th of July, from Queenstown, contain matter of great interest relative to the progress of the war on the continent of Europe, and the inception of the armistice and peace negotiations, according to Napoleon’s plan, before and after the cession of Venetia to France. These despatches command the attention of our readers, en abling them, as they do, to more thoroughly comprehend the vast importance of the European news published in the Huaxp yesterday morning. Our special correspondence from Constantinople with the newspaper report from St. Petersburg, which appears in our columns to-day, advises us of the war movement which is in progress in the East, the troops of the Sul- tan, under Omar Pasha, having commenced to advance to the ube, while the soldiers of the Czar have won a bloody triumph at Irdjad, in Bokbara, in the course of their victorious march in Central Asia.. Genera! Diaz, commanding the Eastern Military Di- vision of the Mexican republic, under date of Jochi, Oaxaca, June 24, states that General Irgueroa defeated the Austrian column which attacked him at Loyaltepec, and followed the enemy up to the walls of Tehuacan, causing the Austrians great loss in killed, wounded, prisoners and missing. The Austrians returned to Tehuacan with only one-balf the number of troops they took to Loyaltepec, Hacotalpam was on the eve of being evacuated by the French. Our correspondent in ‘San Francisco, writing on the 29th ult., states that the steamer Continental arrived there on the 24th, from Mazatlan on the 19th, bringing a large number of im- Pperialists, who are flying from the wreck of the empire and seeking protection under the Stars and Stripes, which they find the demoralized forces under Maxi- milian unable to afford. These refugees give a gloomy account of the situation of affairs in the west- ern part of the empire. In Sonora all is con- fusion and violence, and disorder reigns supreme. Sina- toa is completely invested by the liberals under Corona, who has a large and well armed force under his com- mand. At evory place south of Sinaloa where the im- perialists were in the ascendent the liberals are in arms and making headway, The Americans in Mazatian com- plain bitterly of the want of protection afforded thom, ‘There is not a government vessel either at Mazatlan or Guaymas, The Fourth of July was duly celebrated in the city of Mexico by the citizens of the United States residing there. General J, B. Magruder, of the rebel army, and Prince Salm Salm, formerly of the United States army, paid their respects to the American Consul during the day, besides quite a crowd of less distinguished individuals. ‘The Declaration of Independence was read by the Con- sui, the memory of Washington was eulogized by ex- Governor Reynolds, of Missouri, and Magruder responded to the toast of the army and navy of the United States, “The memory of our martyred President’’ was received with distinguished honor by all, the ex-rebels joining with marked respect in its observance. In a conversation lately President Johnson expressed his belief that the next House of Representatives would contain a majority of conservative men disposed to sup- port hia policy toward the South. He also gave expres- sion to bis well known views regarding the blacks, taxa- tion, the currency, and the question of the basis of re- construction, which he denounced as a mere bugbear. The President addressed a colored delegation from Louisiana on Saturday, in which he told them that no one endorsed thew efforts for education more cordially than himself. He said that he was the true friend of the black man. The delegation retired convinced that the President was a better friend than the radicalf, who are 80 blatant about their right of suffrage. Our Washington despatches state that some of the Tennessee delegation intend to claim their seata in the House of Representatives to-day, under the resolution adopted by that body on Friday, and thus teat the ain- cority of the late professions of the radicals. ‘The pleasant weather of the past three days has had the effect of preventing any further increase of the cholera in this city. The number of confirmed cases yesterday was fourteen, one of them was ® man who was discovered dead on Chambers stroct. The epidemic is increasing on Governor's Intand, There were two deaths yesterday and more than the usual number of casen, It appears that of twenty four cases on the island, all were boys from sixtoon to twenty. Prompt measures have been adopted for the supproesion of the epidemic, and arrangements are being made to supply the troops with better water than they now drink. On Hart's Island the cholera is severe, the average being from twenty to thirty daily, with a pro- tion of from ten to fifieen per cent of deaths, Diar prevails among the officers and men to some ex tem, and the greeiost care is required to prevent & from Mmorging into the cholera, There wero five new casos in Brooklyn yesterday, which were removed to the new cholera hospital, corner of Van Brunt street and Hamil- ton avenue. Our correspondent at Savannah confirma tho tele: graphic t concerning the arrival of cholera in that he recrnits sent from New York on board «hip San Salvador, A list of the northern passen,.rs is algo given, No communication is permit. ted with tne boat, and the sick and well are both being carefully attended on Tybee Island. A despatch from Savannali dated yesterday, states that seven new cases occurred on the Island on Saturday i two deaths, one of whom was Lieutenant J. T. Mayers. Twelve deaths have taken place since the troops left New York. The doxpatcl states that there is no cholera in Savannah, An inieresting Jetter from our Charleston, 8. C., cor- respondent appears to-day. The city government has bad a conference with Major General Sickles relating to the management of the colored popniation. A plot to assault the police force of the city, which might have caused a serious riot, was revenied by two colored men in time for mengures to frustrate it, Dr. Mackey, Col- loctor of the Port, ie not, a8 bas boon reported, in sym pathy with the radicals, Several other interosting items aro given in Contributions were taken ap im all the principal catholi¢ churches yesterday in aid of the fund now being raised for the relief of the Portland sufferers, Bishop Bacon, of Portland, delivered @ sermon at St. Joseph's church, Sixth avenue, in the course of which he dwolt at gome longth. upon the subject of the noble charity, and a heap of greenbacks was the result, The total of sub- scriptions will probably be made known to-day. ‘The great organ recently completed for Beecher's Ply- mouth church, Brooklyn, will be opened for trial in the course of a fow days, Itia said to bo the largest and most perfect instrument ever built in America A tech- no cs deseription of its various uovel eatures appears in t iing’s Hamano Aa pussuance of orders from the police hendawartors sovoral arrests were made in Brooklyn ata late hour on Saturday night for violations of the third section of the Excise law, which probibits the selling of liquor without license. The effenders, some sixty in unmber, were nearly all released on bail yesterday morning. Matters at Coney Island were remarkably quiet yester- day. The Excise law being in force the prime cause of disordor was wanting, though occasionally a glass oF 80 of the exhilarating fluid was furtively disposed of. Policy, however, prompted both vender and imbiber to keep the matter sud ros@. The number of visitors was greatly below the average. Custom House officer James §. Chalker, of Jersey City, made a large and important seizure of smuggled cigars on Saturday, at Morrisania, Westchester county, We give thie morning a tabular statement of the principal banks of this city, showing their net gains and dividends, and the internal revenue tax on their divi- dends, for the past year, The same table also gives a list of the rai'road and canal companies by whom returns are made to the Thirty second district. A break has occurred in the Erie canal four miles above Little Falls. A cattle disease, from which cattle are suddenly dying is reported in San Joaquin county, California. Much excitement was created in Ruby City, Idaho, recently by reported Indian outrages. Tney besieged a party of whites in a fort two days, the besged party having no food; but the Indians were finally defeated. Our Washington letter gives a list of the pay due officers below the rank of brigadier general under the recent act giving those who remained to the end of the war three months’ extra pay, Our correspondent on board the United States steamer Kansas dates his letter at Stanley, Falkland Islands, April 3. The steamer arrived there from Moatevideo on the 21st of March. The population of the town is about five hundred and the climate is cool, the thermometer averaging forty-five degrees, and sickness is almost un known. The captain of the forecastle, John H. Peters, died of consumption while lying there, and was buried onshore. The Kansas was to have left on the 4th of April, returning to Montevideo, ‘ The Admission of Tennessee—President John- son Master of the Situation. The adoption by the Senate of the House joint resolution, slightly amended, recognizing the State of Tennessee as restored to tbe Union, and consequently entitled to representation in Congress, practically settles the question in regard to the South. No matter from what point of view it may be considered, it amounts to a surrender by the radicals of the points for which they have been contending so long against the unanimous sentiment of the coun- try. When we recall their former position in iwrelation to restoration, we see at once the com- pleteness of their defeat. They formerly held, with Mr. Thad Stevens, that the South was mere conquered territory; that the Southern Legislatures were illegal; that the State gov- ernments of the Sonth were not republican in form, and that negro suffrage must be adopted as a sine qua non. Now they admit that Ten- nessee is in the Union; that she is entitled to her rights as a State; that the action of her Legislature is legitimate; that her State gov- ernment is republican, and that her refusal to adopt negro suffrage is no bar to her restora- tion. A few of the more honest and consistent radicals voted against the resolution, both in the Senate and-the House; but Wade and Stevens led--the majority and hauled down their colors.. The defeat of the Austrians at Sadowa was not more decisive. The pretence put forward by the radicals to cover up. their abandonment of what they called itheir principles, is that the Legislature of Tennessee has ratified the constitutional amendment proposed by this Congress. That amendment simply provides that representa- tives shall be apportioned to the several States according to the number of male citizens allowed to vote in each State ; that federal or State officials who violated their official oaths by joining the rebellion shall not be eligible for office, and that the rebel debt shall not be paid. This ground has been covered before by the Southern Legislatures, under the advice of President Johnson; and, as Mr. Sumner ex- plained in the Senate, and Mr. Boutwell in the House, it does not touch the negro suffrage igsue, once so vital to the radicals. Neither Sumner nor Boutwell, however, could muster even a corporal’s guard to preserve the con- sistency of their party. The season for re- nominations and elections is approaching too nearly for the radicals to continue to defy the opinions of their constituents any longer upon the restoration question, and their panic was general and their rout disastrous. Probably they hope that by restoring Tennessee as a sop to the popular Cerberus they may keep the other seceded States out a little longer; but the people are too intelligent to be deceived by so transparent a scheme. They know that the admission of Tennessee concedes the whole subject of restoration; but they will not be any more disposed to favor the re-election of those radicals who have by their own votes confessed themselves wrong. The idea of a party retaining place and power by repudiating itself is perfectly absurd; but itis precisely what the radicals have now attempted. Great stress was laidyboth in the Senate and the House, upon the “whereas” which preceded the joint resolution. It was altered and tinkered in every possible way, and some con- servative members declined to vote for it. Unquestionably the radicals hope to get the “whereas” into a shape that will present some appearance of consistency with their former utterances and record; but we advise them to waste no more time and trouble upon so pue- rile an undertaking. Nobody cares what may be said in the “whereas.” The resolution, which has been adopted, is the only thing that will have any practical effect, and that resolu- tion makes President Johnson master of the situation. After all these weary months of bitter animosity Congress has adopted the President’s policy. The manner of doing so has been most ungracious, but the fact is none the less apparent. The President did not ap- prove of the constitutional amendment which Tennessee has endorsed ; but his disapproval only led the radicals into a trap, for the Presi- dent does approve of the principles of the amendment, although he thinks their repetition in this form unnecessary. The first article of the amendment provides that all persons born in the United States or naturalized here are citizens thereof. This everybody admits as a logical consequence of the abolition of slavery, and President Johnson has repeatedly asserted it, The second section provides for the apportionment of representatives according to the number of actual voters; but this President Johnson himself suggested. The third section excludes rebels from office, as President Johnson has done, The fourth section prohibits the payment of the rebel debt; but President Johnson has already se- cured this prohibition. Thus Congress has only done the President’s work over again. The amendment will never become part of the constitution, because it is unnecessary; but the other Southern States have only to endorse it, like Tennessee, and they are at once re- , stored to the Union. Congress thus adovte the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1806, President’s policy in substance, and only dif- fers with him about the form, We heartily congratulate the President and the people upon their triumph over the radi- cals. It isa victory that leaves the fanatical factionists in a more demoralized condition than ever. The abandonment of their plat- form will gain them no popularity, but it will deprive them of all their really honest though misguided supporters, like Mr. Wendell Phil- lips, They bave contended that no Southern Legislature is legal; but they now illogically accept the action of the Tennessee Legislature as the basis of Congressional restoration. They have insisted that no Southern State was truly republican unless it admitted negroes to the ballot-box and official stations; but now they recognise Tennessee as in the Union, al- though she has decided against negro suffrage. They intended to keep all the Southern States from participation in the next Presidential election ; but new they have opened the door so widely that it cannot be again closed. They have accused the President of usurpations of power; but now they endorse his whole policy. Their fear of the popular vote has proved stronger than their dislike to the Presi- dent, and they have inadvertently paid him a high compliment by admitting his own State first of all. But, at the same time, their conces- sions will gain them no advantage at the elec- tions. Even if all the Southern States were restored to-day, the people would not be any better satisfied with this Congress and the re- publican party. They would ask why all this had not been done long ago, without so much delay? They would argue that as Congress had officially acknowledged the President’s policy to be correct, Congress must have been all this whilo in the wrong. The people also have other issues to settle with the radicals. They do not see why Congress should escape censure for its jobs, its extravagance, its cor- ruption, its public swindles, and its private peculations, because it bas at last confesaed its imbecility regarding restoration. These abuses alone demand a thorough reconstruction of par- ties, The admission of Tennessee has rendered President Johnson stronger than ever; but it will not enable the radicals to escape from the political deluge of the fall elections, One great issue may be removed from the canvass; but the other great issues, touching the pockels of the people, through taxation, the tariff and high prices, will remain in full force and damag- ing effect. Tae GRATITUDE OF THE British GOVERNMENT.— Earl Derby, the English Premier, and Earl Rus- sell, the late Premier, were exceedingly com- plimentary to President Johnson in their re- marks in the House of Lords when thanking him for the interference of our government in the Fenian attack on Canada. The language used on this oceasion, flattering as it was, is no more than the President of the United States deserves at the hands of England for his signal services in saving a colony which Lord Russell designates as the brightest jewel in the British crown. But the compliments of these right honorable statesmen are only empty words. ‘There is a more substantial recompense for the kind interference of out government in the Fenian affair which might be offered, and that is the payment of the claims for damage done by the Shenandoah and other pirates. The former Ministry of England considered the ar- guments upon that question exhausted. Per- haps the new Cabinet, in its profuse expres- sions of gratitude, would consider the question entitled to a speedy settlement. The best way to show how deeply Earl Derby fecls the good services of the United States is to pay off the debt which the British government owes us for the destruction of our marine by the pirate ships fitted out in English ports and manned by English sailors. ‘Tae Jupromary Commrrres anv THE Jerr Davis Testimony.—The republican members of the Ju- diciary Committee of the House of Representa- tives have pursued a very extraordinary course in regard to the testimony taken in reference to the connection of Jeff Davis with the assas- sination conspiracy. They have made up their minds what report they will make, and then turn around and peremptorily refuse to allow the minority of the committee to read its evidence or obtain even a synopsis of it. This is certainly very remarkable. It is the first time in the history of legislative bodies in this country that the theory has been established that any one member of an investigating com- mittee should be excluded from examining the testimony taken on the questions submitied for the committce’s examination. It is a violation of all usages and parliamentary rules, and is an insult to the House. Can it be that they realize that the evidence will upset their report, and have taken this course to prevent the people from knowing this fact? Such will be the inference drawn from their action, and it will be far more damaging to them than it would have been if they had permitted Jack Rogers to examine the teetimony sand make an elaborate report, showing the erro- neous conclusions of the majority. Many who would have never read @ report from Rogers nor believed one word that he said in it, will believe that this is the real state of the ease. It seems to us that the committee have taken the very course above all others to kill off and destroy the effect of their report upon this subject. Mr. Boutwell pretended that the committee had adopted this course because some of the testimony had been communicated to and published in the New Yorx Hanato, and they were afraid that the balance would also be made public. According to this admission, the remarkable statement that we published is true, and the theory of the committee is already shown to be false by the evidence. We pre- sume that the balance of the testimony will show this fact in still stronger light. Hence the determination to preverft it from being made public, Tar Artawtic Canta.—The shore end of the Atlantic cable was Isid on the Irish coast on the 6th inst, and by this time we presume the Great Eastern is well on her way across the Atlantic, While there exists » general feeling here that the perseverance of the Atlantic Cable Company deserves success, it is remark- able how little interest is taken in the present enterprise compared with that with which the former attempts were regarded. The Ameri- can people appear to be vastly more interested in the telegraphic connection with Rassia, fo doubt because of the strong sympathies exist- ing between that country and ours, and the more friendly spirit exhibited and the honest neutrality observed by Russia during the re- bellion, It cannot be long before we have reliable news upon which to predicate the suc cess of the Atlantic cable, if success is indeed in store for the present attempt to span the ocean with the magic wire. Financial Legislation and Administration at Washington. Taking a careful review of the financial legis- lation of the country and the administration of our financial affairs during the last few years, we are astonished at the extravagance, reck- lesmess and ignorance exhibited by Congress and the Treasury Department. To such an extent has wastefulness, combined with corrup- tion, been carried that it is surprising how the country bas borne it Certainly no other country but this, which has almost unlimited resources, could have preserved ils credit or avoided bankruptcy under such circumstances. Out of the three thousand millions of debt with which we are burdened at least one-third of that—a thousand millions—has been recklessly squandered through the ignorance and corrup- tion of men in power. How much more has gone the same way out of the current revenue raised and expended during the same period, which is not calculated in the debt, it is impos- sible to eay—probably five hundred millions more. Such has been the cost of radical repub- lican legislation and management of the na- tional finances in the short period of a few years. Fearful as this is to contemplate, the same ruinous system of mismanagement is still pursued. The same men or class of men con- trol the finances of the country. We shall be very fortunate if we escape the most terrible disasters and distress, in spite of our immense resources. If any one supposes that we exaggerate in this astounding but nevertheless correct statement, let him examine the facts con- nected with our financial history within the last few years. First of all loans were invited and obtained at an unneces- sarily extravagant rate in the early part of the war, when a revenue could and ought to have been raised that would have met the ex- penditures, We had more available means in the country then than we have now, and yet we raise at present a revenue of over six hun- dred millions. Less than this amount would have been sufficient, with proper economy, to have carried on the war upon the grandest scale. In fact, we need not have had any debt, or at most a very small floating one, which could have been paid in a few years. Does not our present experience prove this to be true? This appears to us so plain that we think every one must see the truth. Yet the men at the helm of affairs during that eventful time were too igno- rant to percetve it, We say ignorant, but that does not express all; for there was undoubtedly @ vast amount of corruption at the bottom. The thousands of colossal fortunes made and the new shoddy aristocracy all over the country show how the government and the people have been fleeced. For every bundred dollars loaned to the government, most of which was in greatly depreciated money, the country: will have to pay two hundred or more. We are pay- ing interest at that rate now. Wesay nothing of the immense sums of which the government was defrauded by contractors, agents and the friends of the party in power. We refer here only to the infamous system of managing the finances. In addition to these ruinous loans the coun- try was flooded with paper money, thus raising the value of specie and driving it out of the country, increasing the burdens upon the people, limiting the resources of the govern- ment and raising the price of provisions and commodities enormously. All this could have been avoided, had there been statesmen and honest men in Congress and in the administra- tion. To Mr. Chase, in a great measure, and to him and his radical friends entirely, we owe all the evils of our enormous debt, of paper money, of a deprecinted currency, of burden- some taxation and of the corrupt legislation which we witness. It is worthy of remark that nearly all the friends and connections of Mr. Chase and other prominent radicals have be- come rich since the war commenced. The next step in the way of ruinous legisla- tion, under Mr. Chase and his radical confréres, was the abominable National Bank bill. This gave toa privileged class the profits of the currency or circulating medium of the country without a cent of cost, besides unnecessarily inflating the paper money currency. In reality Congress made a positive gift of twenty mil- lions. or more a year to private corporations, which might have been saved by the govern- ment and deposited in the Treasury. We have exposed this infamous national bank system so often that it is unnecessary to go into the argu- ment again in this article. We regard this bill as the extreme of stupid and corrupt legislation. Now we have s proposition before Congress for funding the national debt upon equally as loose principles as those which have governed our radical Congress heretofore. As to the principle of funding, if it be connected with legislation to liquidate the debt and to reduce the interest in an equitable manner, according to what the debt was purchased at, and agree- able to the laws of all countries relative to exceesive usury or interest, we can have no objection. But we protest, first of all, against the job which appears to bein the belly of Mr. Sherman’s bill, which will enable the Secre- tary of the Treasury to employ Jay Cooke & Co., or others, to pocket millions of the people’s money. The one per cent allowed for the expenses of funding in the original bill has been strack out, and, as we understand it, the Secre- tary of the Treasury can now pay whatever he may choose. One per cent was too much, was unnecessary; but now there appears to be no limit, for the expenses will be estimated asa part of the necessary disbursements of the ‘Treasury Department. Then we protest against any plan of funding by which the fundholders are to draw from the country s hundred per cent more than they paid for the debt. While we are ready to accord to Mr. McCul- loch proper motives in his management of the Treasury and in his recommendations to Con- gress, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that he is a pupil of the Chase school of financiers, and that be is following in the same dangerous course, If Congress be too ignorant on the subject of our finances, it is his duty to en- lighten that body. But we have seen nothing from him, any more than from Congress, to give us hope. The only hope we have left is that the people at the next elections may send & more enlightened and better class of men to | Congress, who will begin with retrenchment and squelching the corrupt jobbing of the pres- ent radical Congress, and end by reforming the whole of our financial system Tas Apsovrnueyt or Conaress iv a New Fors.—The radicals seem to be afraid that the country Will have a little peace and rest from the agitation of the revolutionists in that body, if they adjourn in accordance with the usages of the past. Having failed in their schemes to ad- journ, subject to the call of the presiding officers of the two bodies, the radicals in the House have brought forward and secured in that branch of Congress the adoption of s proposi- tion to take s recess until the second day of October, and on that day, unless otherwise or- dered, to adjourn until the first day of Decem- ber. The latter day comes on Saturday, and the following Monday is the day fixed by the constitution for the assembling of Congress, All this is done in order to save a few office holders in different sections of the country, and to enable their friends to fatten at the public crib. Judging from the action of the radicals, they have become convinced that the only party they have to support them is composed of the few friends whom they have placed in office, and they are now evidently afraid that if these are removed they will have no support from any source nor even the form of a party at their back left. There ig no other inference to be drawn from their action. No other reason is assigned for this unprecedented course of taking a recess until October, and then until the first day of December, but that of preventing the Execu- tive from removing office holders. The fact that they have included both days in their resolution is proof conclusive that they do not intend to transact any business, and that they only contemplate the presence of the presiding officers of the two bodies on the second day of October to go through with the form of an adjournment until the first day of December, when it is expected all the mem- bers will arrive, to be ready for the session which commences on the following Monday. They have, however, left a loophole for them to transact business in October, in case the President insists upon applying the guillotine to the office holders, and in the evont that they are able to get a quorum present for that pur- pose. But we apprehend that they will hardly be able to secure a working majority in either House at that time, for we shall then be in the midst of the excitement in regard to the fall elections, and the radical Congressmen will find that they have made themselves so unpopular with the people that they will consider it necessary to stay at home and look after their own interests there. This necesaity will press so strong upon them that they will have no time to spend looking after the interests of the small office holders. The republican party has certainly reached a desperate condition when its repre- sentatives find themselves obliged to resort to such means to prevent its immediate dissolu- tion. No worse picture can possibly be drawn, nor can any greater commentary be made on the weakness of the party before the people than the admission by its representatives that its only hope in the future is in retaining con- trol of the federal offices throughout the coun- try. A party that has reached this point has certainly outlived its day, and we apprehend that such will be the verdie! of the people at the ballot-box. Wao Ars To BE ADMITTED TO THE PHILADEI- Pata Convention !—The issues to be determined at the Philadelphia Convention do not belong to any particular party, or any number of parties. They comprise the great popular questions involved in the terrible mismanage- ment of the government by the present Con- gress, the jobs, the unnecessary taxation, the squandering of the public money, the im- positions of tax assessors. and tdx col- lectors, the enormous accumulation of reve- nue from which the country reaps no ad- vantage, amounting to nearly a hundred and éighty-seven millions of dollars, and all the rest of the bad legislation with which the people have been afflicted. Inasmuch as these are all grievances against which the public have common cause of complaint, the best thing that the Convention can do is to admit into its deliberations the representatives of afl parties who may present themselves, and let them all go to work, according to the light that they are favored with, to establish a healthier order of things. There will be many candidates for admission, and it cannot be expected that each will be agreeable to the other. Objections of various kinds will be raised, and antecedents will probably be raked up as barriers to participation in the councils of the Convention. It will be wise to overlook all such objections, and give every one a chance to have his say on the vital matter to be discussed. We want new men as well as new measures to bring the country back to its original prosperity, and nullify as far as possi- ble the work of the corrupt faction in Congress. The ancient Christian Church was formed out of heathens and Jews, for the very simple reason that there were no other classes in exist- ence at that epoch from which to form a new faith—idol worshippers, and devil worship- pers, and believers in the prophets, and those who bowed down before the golden calf; and yet out of these elements we got the grand Christian dispensation, with all its blessings, which have even fallen in a greater or less degree upon the politicians, Let the Phila- delphia Convention, therefore, give all the elements—no matter how discordant—a chance, and something good may come out of the ad- mixture. Tue Rovesrav-Gaiewent, Arram i Con- orrss.—The House of Representatives has finally closed its action in regard to the Roussean-Grinnell affair, by the Spenker repri- manding General Rousseau. The radicals, no doubt, now feel that they have asserted their dignity and purged themselves of all in- decorous acts; and we trust that we have now heard the last of [the bitter personalities which have so disgraced that body. General Rousseau has resigned his seat, and will proba- bly be either re-elected or sent to the Senate, However wrong he may have been in his as- sault upon Grinnell, there is no question that his provocation was great, and that the language used by Grinnell towards him was unprecedented. The Speaker should have been reprimanded for permitting » member to | Proceed in that manner. The excuse put for- ward by Mr. Colfax, that he had no right to call a member to order, is a singular interpre- | tation of parliamentary law, and in reality no excuse at all. + More Lerrers vnom Sewarp.—We have ad- | vices from Valparaiso to the effect that Seore- tary Seward has written e long letter, or several LL LLL long letters, to Minister Kilpatrick, fully ap- proving of the action of our representatives im declining to forcibly prevent the infamous bombardment of that city. This is just like Secretary Seward. He is always ready to write letters, upon the smallest possible pre- tences; and if at the same time he can approve of any piece of folly disgraceful to the coum try, he seems doubly delighted. POPULAR IDEAS. The Ferry Companies. Aresident of Brooklyn is much pleased at the remarks of the Herat in relation to the negligence of the forry companies in not providing proper safeguards for the Protection of passengers, He says they are indeed soul- less corporations, that do not place the value of a single fare upon the life of a human being, and that they seem toact upon the idea that nothing more is required of them but to provide boats to make the transits and mem to make the change. He is very anxious that the parents of the boy who lost his life through the deter- mined obstinacy of the Union Ferry Company on Satar- day night last, should prosecute the company, and he thinks that a disinterested and intelligent jury coulé not be empannelled either in New York or Kings county, that would not readily return a verdict for the heaviest damages. A citizen desires to know whether it would be lawful for excursionists on the High Bridge boat to carry double barrelled shot guns for the purpose of blazing away ef nude bathers in the Harlem river. He thinks that bathing should not be permitted in waters where boats containing ladies are in the habit of passing. Is Filth Heqlthy? “Cleanliness” wishes to know whether the Board of Health is experimenting on the lives of people in order to ascertain whether filth is healthy. Pass down, he says, Fulton street, from Broadway to Greenwich, through Greenwich, Barclay and West, and one would arrive at the conclusion that filth must bo considered healthy, or that the Board of Health isahumbug. He says there is no way to keep tho cholera from raging excopt for the occupants of houses and owners of build- ings to clean in front of their premises themselves, for if they wait for the street contractors to do it, the plague will surely abide with ‘us and fearfully d epopulato the community. Dead Animals in the Street. A sufferor says that about a week ago he discovered @ dead cat lying in the doorway of an unoccupiod house opposite the public stores in New street. After laying @ few days it was thrown into an ash box near by, The police were notifiel, and the officer in charge said the ash boxes were emptied every day, but he had no autho- rity to remove the cat. The ash box he says still re mains unemptied, and the dead carcase laya exposed to the hot rays of the sun. The sufferer desires to know who has the power and the will to remove it. A Front street merchant furnishes the information that a horse died from the heat at pier No. 7, East river, on Tuosday, and that the carcass lay thero for two days until it had become swollen to twice its natural size; an@ the stench arising from it was intolerable. The police say they have no power to remove doad animals, and the Board of Health depends upon its contractors to do {ta business, and the health of the city is therefore per- mitted to be jeopardized through their negligence. Dangerous Fruit. A William street firm desires to suggest to the Health Commissioners the prapriety of suppressing the ale of peaches, bananas, pineapples, and other unripe fruit, that are daily offered for salo along the stroets, They ay if any one would inquire into the cause of the great. increase of deaths in the city during the heated term they would find that seventy-five per cent of the increase. would be traceable to diarrhosa, which many of our phy- Aicians call cholera, superinduced by eating unripe fruit, ‘New potatoes are also placed in the category of dangerows artioles. Post Office Complaiats. An up town resident thinks the present mode of ad- vortising letters is inefficient, as persons living remote from the general Post Office have no chanee of seeing the little sheet issued from headquarters, and therefore they risk the chance of losing valuable letters. He thinks that if the Department cannot afford to advertias ag formerly some improvement at least ought to be made on the present system. An Unhealthy Pool. East Fifty-first street says the Board of Health hes acquired a reputation for vigilance in discovering and removing sundry nuisances which it is likely to lose it does not pay more attention to reasonable requests: The attention of the members has been repeatedly called to tho existence of a most offensive nuisance in the shape of a large pool of stagnant water on the east side of Lexington avenue, between Fifty-Orst and Fifty second streets; but up to this time a0 efforts have been made to abate it, Remody for Suustroke. An old resident of New Orleans says that the commen treatment for cases of sunstroke in that city ts to take junk or porter bottle, fill it with water, properly corked, and lay it where it will be exposed to the direct rays ef the sun. When the water becomes quite warm take the cork from the bottle and place it on the top of the patient’s head in an inverted position, and allow the water to gradually run out and drip over the head. One bottle full thus applied, he states, ia almest certain te restore the patient. Treatment of Sunstrokes. A writer suggests that much good would result from the pubtication of a simple course of treatment for sua- stroke, to be used on the spot, while waiting for medical aid. Hundreds of lives might be saved thereby. A Preventive. Another writer would advise people who wish to avoid the danger of being sunstruck to take an umbrella an@ wet it thoroughly with water before going out. They will find it very cool and pleasant, and by holding #6 over their heads while walking in the sun they will avoid running any risk. We have numerous complaints against the street cleaning contractors, One writer wants to know how is is possible that such honorable gentlemen as Mayor Hoff- man and Mr. O'Gorman can vote every two woeks to pay the unclean contractors for cleaning the streeta He thinks the present contract should be broken, as the contractors do not comply with the terms of their agree- ment. ‘“Thirteon hundred carts are necessary,” he says, “to remove the ashes, garbage, &c., from the Streets, and the contractors do not employ a quarter of that number.’ The Powers of Congress. A politician is very much alarmed at the assumption: by Congress of ita power to arrest private citizens on as- sault and battery cases. He would like to know what law clothes Congress with the power of exercising the functions of judge and jury. The assault of Painter by Beveridge, he says, was not dono in the halls of the aa» tional Legislature, and therefore Congress had no power to take cognizance of the outrage, but it was clearly @ matter for the courte to consider. He calls upon Chief Justice Chase to vindicate the Jaw, and.to take Beveridge ont of the hands of Congress, that his case may be sub- mitted to a proper judicial investigation. Nuisance In Vesey Street. One of the people complains that the store in Vesey Street which was recently burned has become an im- tolerable nuisance, The debris of tho fire is brought om the sidewalk, and is allowed to remain, to the great am- noyance of the people living in the neighborhood and dangor to the public health. Police at the Steck Exchange. A curbstone broker wants to know why two policomem fare dotaiied, at the expense of the taxpayers, at the Long Room at the Stock Exchange, and he thus explaing his own question:—iHoe says they are retained for the benefit of the men who hire that room and relet it to the Public at a profit of some thirty thousand dollars per annum. There is a railing that divides the room, and t= order to gain admittance inside a tax of one hundred dot- lars must be submitted to. Outside this railing the two policemen are stationed, and if a man leans against the wall the officers order him off, the object being to compet parties to pay one hundred doliars for the privilege of going inside the railing, where they are permitted to ait down of lean against the wall as they like. BREAK IN THE ERIE CANAL. Sr. Jonnevias, N. Y., July 21, 1968, A break has occurred in the Erie canal four miles cass of Little Falls, Thirty or forty feot of the tow path bank has given away five feot below the bottom. Navi«y gation ill probably be suspended four or five days im | onder to repair damages. censcoieseeenmiaateasiiataneta WIBERNIAN, spy Ay A Joly 22—10 P.M, There are no signs of the steamship Hibernia, now about due off this poimt with Loadonderry dates af tha Wha tas