The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1866, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, ponlt 5 You Tae Fak One Wir Far’ Gotoey” Locus Tan Maro With Tae Minkine Pai. PB. sit TAOS OPERA Bouse. 21 Bowerv.—Come ts INSPRELST—| 1 secaetesNmaRo, Mosrenisr—Batian Divxnrisonnest, CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—tx 4 Vansery ov Licnt ap Laveuasie Enrertaisugnts, Cours pe BALLET, &c. ‘Sceunzs on rax Mississirri. BLEECKER STREET CIRCUS, between 7 and Charles streets.—Ripina, Vauitine, &¢. gem { TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty- eighth and Fifty-ninth streets.—Tweo. Tuowas’ Oncuest”* ‘Ganven Concunts, commencing ut 8 o'Clock. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Rr’ wrnsisy—Baitavs, Buruesques anp Panto NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATO" MOTURKS WITH Tuk Oxy-Hyrpue daily. Open from 8 A. M. till 10' oy Mle roadway. cxocors twice New Yerk, Si Norv” All ad nents handed in until half past nine o’clor ihe evening will be classified under appro- pee eadings ; but proper classification cannot be «( after that hour. CONGRESS. Both houses of Congress remained in session through- out Friday night, the Senate adjourning that day’s ses- sion at seven o'clock and the House at eight o'clock A. M. yesterday, In addition to the business reported up to two o'clock A. M. yesterday, the Senate agreed to the report of the Conference Committee on the Civil Appro- priation bill, increasing the pay of Congress and rejecting the equalization of bounties. The vote stood 26 to 18. Soon attor a message was received from the House to the offect that the report of the committee had been rejected there, and another was appointed. The resolution declaring Mr. Patterson entitled to his seat was adopted by 21 yeasto 11 nays. The report of the Conference Committee on the Army bill was agreed to. The *port of the second conforence on the question of bounties was agreed to in executive session, The bill provides that thoso who served three years or enlisted for three years and were discharged for disability before the expiration of their term, shall recoive one hundred dollars, Those who enlisted for two years, and served that period or were discharged for disability, shall receive fifty dollars, It has since been signed by the President. A recess was taken at seven A. M. until nine, when the Senate reassembled, the President pro tem. and two members only being present. A recoss was again taken until ten A. M,, whon Saturday’s seasion began. Tho bill to increase the daty on imported wool was laid on the table. The bill for the distribution of ‘the awards to the captors of the assassination conspira- tora was passed, the portion relating to the capture of Jef Davis being stricken out, Mr. Patterson was, on motion, sworn into office, A resolution was passed ex- empting officers and soldiers of the United States Army from the income tax; and another was passed granting " tae use of a building on Pennsylvania avenue to the Fenians. A committee was appointed to wait upon the President, which being cone, they informed the Senate that the President hed no further communications to offer, A resolution was then adopted unanimously thanking Mr. Foster, the President of the Senate, for the (mpartial manner in which he has presided during the seesion. Mr. Foster briofly returned thanks for the soptiraents expressed, and declared the Senate adjourned ame die, ‘the summary of proceedings in the House begins with the conclusion of the proceedings published in yesterday morning's Hematp, At three o'clock A, M. yesterday the Conference report on the Appropriation bill was re- jected. The report on the Army Bill Conference was agreed to. The resolutions reported by Mr. Boutwell relative to Jeff Davis’ complicity im the Presi- dent's assassination were adopted. The report of the Conference Committee on the Civil Appro- priation bill, after considerable shifting and ma- novuvering of members that they might vote on the side of the majority, was agreed to, so that the Civil Appropriation bill, paying five thousand dollars to mombers of Congress, and allowing a modified bounty to the soldiers is now a law, having been signed by the President. The vote in the Howse was 51 yeas to 50 nays. The House mot for its Saturday session at cloven o'clock. A resolution of thanks to Speaker Colfax was adopted. The Senate amendments to the Honse bill for the distribution of awards for the capture of the assassi- nation conspirators was concurred in. The House at noon took a recese until three P. M., when, being again assembled, another recess waa taken until four P. M. the bill to erect the Territory of Montana jato a survey district was returned by the President with his disapproval, The message was ordered to be printed. At half-past four the Speaker de- livered his farewell speech, thanking the members of tbe House warmly for the resolution of thanks to him- seif that they had placed on the journal, and then for- mally declared the firet session of the House of Repre- aontatives of the Thirty-ninth Congress adjourned rine die. The hall and galleries were crowded with specta- tors, The valedictory of the Sponker was listencdo in deop silence, and on its conclusion was responded to with hearty cheers. In our columns this morning will be found a list of the bills and joint resotations passed by the Thirty-ninth Congress and the date of their approval. ‘The Senate yesterday confirmed the Hon. 0. H. Brown- ing as Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Browning will not asgumo the duties uutil the Ist day of September, at which time Mr. Harlan’s resignation takes effect. Gene- rat John A. Dix was also confirmed as Resident Minister to the Hague. EUROPE. ‘The steamship Peruvian, from Londonderry Jaly 20, passed Father Point yesterday on her voyage to Quebec. Her news is four days later. . ‘vho Prussian and Austrian armies were concentrated in force near Vienna and a great battlo impending, Prussia tendered the bases of peace negotiations to Aus- tna, and active hostilities appear to have been suspended during five days to permit time for their consideration. ‘The Intest despatches announce that Austria had “‘ de- cldedly refused to accept" the (erie proposed, ‘The Mowiteur du Soir, saia to be an officially inspired French military organ, denier that Napoleon had “any intention’? of becoming an armed imediator in “the dif. teulty.”” ‘Tho Prussians oocupied Darmetadt ‘Tho Progsians had laid siege to the Fortress of Monts (°) in regalar order, and boats on the Rhine were not permitted to pass the fort. Railroad communication with the town was saspended ‘The German Foderal troops lately defeated by the Prussians were effecting a junction with the Bavariana The Bavarian army rejected the terms of a truce pro- posed by the Prussian commander, Av [talian squadron, including eight iron-clads, made ‘a auccossfal operation on the coast of Dalmatia, but the intended disembarkation of a force was prevented by the appearance of Austrian veesels of war, An ongage. ment between the two squadrons was imminent. Garibaldi had been congratulated on recent successes by the King’s government. United States five-twentios had advanced in London, the prices of July 20 berg 69% a 70. Console, for money, Were at 884 0 85 \¢. Cotton declined one-fourth of a penny in Liverpool, doring the week (five days). The market clowed steady on the 20th of July, Breadstuifs very dull. Provisions datt THE CITY. It will be seen from the reports to be found in the Sanitary column, that the epidemic in this city yester- day did not indicate an increase in the number of cholers canes officially reported, there being bat nine during the twonty-four hours, In Brooklyn there were eight cases officially nated, and one, which resulted fatally, reported by the Coroner, The disoase has greatly subsided, there ‘Doing but few serious and no new cases within the past twenty-four hours, The reports from Hart's and David's goesdasge also more favorable, From the comparative table which we publish this morning, it will be seen bow shght the mortality is whon compared with that of 1849 and 1854, when the cholela epidemic raged. Coroner Gover yesterday issued a warrant for the ar- rest of John Kelly, Jr., for assault on Matthew McLough- lin, on West street. McLoughlin made an ante-mortem statement, from which the jury found that Kelly had in- flicted the wounds. ‘Yesterday Commissioner Osborn sat for the purpose of proceeding with the investigation of the countertert- ing cases, but they were postponed until Tuesday next on the application of Mr. 8, G, Courtney, United States District Attorney, who stated that Mr. Wood, Chief of the Secret Service Department, who was an important witness, had been summoned to Washington. Applica- tion was made to the court by counsel to go into the ex- amination of an engraver named Breem, who carried on business at 43 Maiden lane, and who has been arrested on a charge of having permitted counterfeiters to use’a transfer press in his establishment, As Mr. Wood ts a witness in ‘’.s case also, it was postponed with the other= v Commissioner said he would take bail for Bre ul it were offered, to the amount of $10,000. ne Court of Special Sessions yesterday, before Jus- ve Kelly, a large number of larceny and assault and battery cases were disposed of, the most of them of an unimportant character, The stock market was quite active yesterday, and there was a heavy demand for government securities. Gold closed at 150, The markets wore generally quiet yesterday. There ‘was a genoral stampede of the merchan‘s countryward, and the attendance on ’Change was slim. But little was done either in foreign or domestic goods, Groceries were quiet, but very firm. Cotton was dull and heavy, On ’Change low grades of flour ruled firm, while other kinds ruled in favor of the buyer. Wheat was steady, while corn was quiet, but firm. Oats were scarcely #0 firm, and less active, Pork was dull and heavy. Beef was without decided change. Lard was dull and nominally unchanged. Whiskey and froights were very quiet, and entirely nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. Onr special fashions correspondent in Paris, dating on the 13th of July, furnishes a very clever and useful let- tor, embracing thé views of the writer on the effects pro- duced in the female circles of high society in that city by the observance of the custom of morning, as they are termed, ‘‘calls,’’ That they aro pernicious to the morals of young ladies is openly asserted. Caught by & Princess, however, our correspondent was forced to make a “‘call”’ at her apartments, from which we have reported a keen discussion by most fashionable ladies of the latest prevailing style of dress, with a description of the dress and adornments displayed by the Princess on the occasion, The Fenian excitement is again raging In Canada. The report in Toronto ou Friday evening was that five thou- sand Fenians were landing at Fort Erie. On the strongth of this, the gunboat Rescue was ordered in that direc- tion, and General Napier spent a sleepless night. The rolling stock of the Grand Trunk Railroad was removed from tho vicinity of the threatened point At Montreal the most efficient military measures wore taken to crush the movement, It turned out that a large number of persons had crossed over trom this side to witness a prize fight without interference from the police. The now Militia bill passed the House of Assembly, in Ottawa, Canada, yesterday. It is said that in caso of the success of the Confederation schome, the Capitol will be, removed from Ottawa to Montreal or Quebec, Alexander H. Stephens and Herschel V. Johnson are among the delegates at large for the State of Georgia to the Philadelphia Convention. ‘The Convention of 1864, which made a free State con- stitution for Louiziana, 1s to assemble at New Orleans on the 30th. Mayor Monroe, of that city, addressed a letter to General Baird, in temporary command of the depart- ment, saying that he intended to disperse the convention. and arrest the members unless they were protected by the miltary. General Baird answored that the military ‘would preserve order and prevent violence. ‘The racing at Saratoga yesterday was fully as interest- ing as on any day previous. The first race of two miles for three year olds waa won by Moore's Lightning cult in 3:40, The second was a walk over for Luther, and the third, a dash of three-quarters of a mile for two year olds, was won by the bay filly Ruthlesr, in 1.2L The fourth race, a match of one mile for $1,000, was won by Hampden Court against Flora Mclyor, in 1:523;. An attempt at @ riot was mado hy o large. party of mo groes in Now Orleans on Friday night. They had been attending a mevting of their own color, and after having adjourned they paraded the streets, insisting upon a fight with somebody. Three of thom were killed and three police officers seriously injured. Fifteen negroes were arrested, and General Sheridan was addressed on tho subject of having the apeakers at the negro moeting served the same way, as they are charged with inciting the blacks to violence. There were five cases of cholera reported in Philadel- phia yesterday, three of them proving fatal, Eighteen deaths bad occurred during the week from that disease. There were also five cases reported in Galveston, Texas. Acolored woman, who weighed seven hundred and ninety-eight pounds, was five feet eight inches high and five feet broad acroes the chest, died in this city on Fri- day last. The First Session of the Thirty-Ninth Con- aren, The country will feel a sensation of great relief with the news that Congress has ad- journed sine die, and that, unless the President may think fit, under some unexpected circum- stance, to call an extra session, we shall be troubled no more with the doings of this cor- rupt, profligate and expensive Congress until the first Monday in December next. From the first Monday in December last down to the adjournment of the 28th of July, a period of eight months, we have had a campsaign, on the part of Congress, against the administra- tion and “the constitution as it is” without anything approaching 4 parallel in the history of the country. In the outset, from the heavy majority of the radicals in each house, and from their bold radical and revolutionary policy and purposes then avowed, there were good reasons for serious apprebopsions as to the continuance of our popular institutions, But President Johnson, against even a radical Congress of two-thirds in each house, has proved himself a tower of strength in behalf of the constitution, so that after this “ irrepressi- ble conflict ” of eight months of active fighting he stands the master of the situation as the champion of the people and the Union. “The cohesive power of the public plunder” has been tried to its utmost tension by the radicals of the two houses, and it has failed to serve their purposes. Their system of South- ern reconstruction, originally designed for the indefinite exclusion of the lately rebellious States from the goverment, has been defeated by the President. Compelled first to adopt his policy in their propositions for an amendment of the constitution, they have next found it expedient to yield to him in the matter of the dispensation of his patronage and to abandon the design of the intractable Stevens of hold- ing one or both houses on guard through all the recess till December, The movement for the Johnson National Union Convention of August, in Philadelphia, unquestionably had much to do with this sudden rush to business in Congress and this burrying to an adjourn- ment. The radicals, especially of the House of Representatives, in view of this convention, speedily began to realize the necessity of an early return homeward for the purpose of bolding their ground among their constituents, if possible, against the reacting tide of public opinion. in October and November, upon the issues between this Congress and the administration, the bulk of a new House of Representatives Is to be elected. The practical Union policy of the administration has been amply defined in President Jobnson’s Southern restoration meesures, and in his vetoes of the obnoxious NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1866. measures of Congress. The disunion policy of this radical Congress has been broadly de- veloped in its negro suffrage experiments, its Freedmen’s Bureau bills, its extravagant squanderings of the public money in all sorts of jobs and party speculations, and in its shameful disregard of the substantial interests ofthe country—financial, commercial, manu- facturing and agricultural, all of which are mainly dependent on a sound and self-adjust- ing financial system. A general bankrupt law, a general revision of the impracticable and costly paper currency system inherited from Secretary Chase, a gen- eral retrenchment in expenditures, a lessening of the burdens of the taxes of the internal revenue system, a revenue tariff bill and some special efforts for the speedy reduction of the national debt from the savings by retrenchment, were among the measures most urgently demanded of this Congress; but instead o@these things we have the perpetuation of Mr. Chase’s pet bank system at the expense of millions to the Trea- sury, @ buncombe bill of soldiers’ bounties of many millions of dollars, which will be mostly absorbed by claim agents, the raising of the psy of the members of the two houses from three to five thousand dollars a year, protec- tive tariff experiments—defeated because the several favored classes could not agree among themselves on the division of the spoils—and jobs and schemes without end of wasteful ap- propriations of the public money. This is the Congress and thjs is the record for which it is now to be tried before the peo- ple upon the important question of the election of a new Congress in the coming fall elections, The contest is transferred from Washington to every district represented in Congress, and every member concerned will be held to his responsibilities. We anticipate a popular revo- lution and a new Congress, which, after the fourth of March next, will be prepared to act in accord with the Union policy of the admin- istration ang the wishes of the people. Important War News from Europe. The war news by the Peruvian to July 20 is incompletely reported by the telegraph. From it we are enabled to gather the important facts that Prussia, at the very gates of Vienna, had offered terms to Austria; had granted her an armistice of five days to consider the proposi- tions, and that Austria had positively declined to accept the proposals. The details of this news will be looked for with intense interest. In all probability the war is to continue with increased vigor. Large armies are being rapidly concentrated before Vienna, and the battle which is yet to be fought for the capital and the empire promises to be tho bloodiest of the campaign. } In the meantime the late declarations of Russia as to the proper conduct of seutral Powers have produced an effect in Paris, and a government organ, in the confidence of Napo- leon, announces in very positive language that France has no intention of becoming an armed mediator in the conflict. With a wholesome dread of each other, France and Russia cry to each other, “Hands off,” and the central Powers of Europe are to fight the matter out, the neu- tral Powers standing ready and prepared to prevent cither becoming dangerously powerful, Tax Resignation ov Skcxetany Harfax.— Mr. Harlan, Secretary of the Interior, has at last resigned his position in the Cabinet, and the President has appointed ex-Senator Brown- ing, of Illinois, as his successor. It may be traly said of Mr. Harlan that nothing in his official career so becomes him as the leaving of it. Although known to be politically op- posed to the President, he continuvd to retain his portfolio in defiance of the ordinary rules of honor and of custom. A weak man, with no influence in or out of his party, he was used by the radicals as their tool, and served them ‘to the extent of his small ability; but even they will scarcely regret his withdrawal. With Mensra. Dennison and Speed, he eet an exam- ple of adhering to office in spite of every con- sideration of principle and consistency which all other public men will do well not to fol- low. He goes into the Senate next March, but will hardly escape his merited cbscurity even there. The Cabinet is now a half-and-half affair, composed partly of new men and parily of the old material. Messrs. Seward, Welles. and McCulloch are not expected to resign. About Mr. Stanton doubts are expressed on all sides. One day the radicals claim him, and the next day he is said to be writing a letter in favor of the Philadelphia Convention. If he be opposed to the President he ought certainly to resign, and if he be friendly to* the President he ought to resign also, as the greatest service he could do Mr. Johnson. Whether a half-and- half Cabinet like this will be as strong and as efficient as an entirely new one, drawn directly from the people and based upon the great issues of the day, is a question which we shall not at present discuss. But at any rate Secre- tary Harlan’s resignation is a good thing, and Secretary Stanton’s would be even heiter. Tue Saranms or Meuprrs or Conaness.— The members of both houses of Congress have agreed to raise their salaries from three thousand dollars to five thousand dollars per annum—sixty per cent; thus adding one more job to the many which have occupied their time since the opening of the session. When we learned by the proceedings of Friday that the Senate amendment to the Civil Appropria- tion bill, increasing the salaries of Senators and members, had been defeated in the House by the remarkable vote of 125 nays to 3 yeas—the voters in the affirmative being Mesers. Cooper, of Tennessee; Jenckes, of Rhode Island, and Randall, of Pennsylvania—we thought that the members of the House, having to go directly before the people for re-election, could only find among their number three bold enough to lay this additional sin on their consciences when presenting themselves to their constitu- ents; but it appears that the temptation was too strong to make one more haul on the public treasury before adjournment. A conference committee was appointed io consider the question; but it could not agree to sanction the Senate amendment, when a second compittee was appointed, and finding that the amendment equalizing the soldiers’ bounties depended upon that of raising the salaries, they recommended its passage, and it went through, towards daylight yesterday morning, by the close vote of 511050. This is o fair example of the way jobs of this kind are rnshed through during the expiring moments of Con- ares. Mr. Boutwell’s Report om Jefferson Davis, The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, to whom was referred the reso- lution, with instructions to ascertain whether there is any evidence implicating Jeff Davis in the assassination conspiracy, have finally made a lengthy report. A large amount of private correspondence, aid to have been found among the rebel archives, is incorporated in the re- port, from which the committee draw the in- ference that it ig probable that Davis may have been guilty of all that has been charged against, him, and therefore consider it necessary that the investigation shall be continued. In the mesntime the committee start out with the assertion that Davis is guilty of the crime of treason, and that there is no obstacle in the way of his trial. But they fail to state whether this trial should be by military commission or in @ regularly constituted court, evidently making this omission for the purpose of giving the public the impression that some other party besides Congress is responsible for the delay of the trial. Having settled the point that Davis is guilty of treason, ‘and that there is no obstacle in the way of a speedy trial, the committee then take up the evidence in regard to his connection with the assassination of President Lincoln. The committee believe that Davis was “privy to the measures which led to the commiasion of the deed, but the investigations have not re- sulted in placing the government in possession of all the facta in the case.” It is then stated that “it is probable that the further proseou- tion of the investigation will result in a full development of the whole transaction.” This investigation, it appears, they wish to make by the examination of the documents and papers captured with the rebel archives. The com- mittee have been at work examining these documents for three months, and it would seem that if they were only anxious to have an imme- diate trial, as they pretend, they could have in this time overhauled all of these papers and ascertained whether there was any positive testimony on this point or not. The first testi- mony and evidence presented as the result of their investigation is a series of papers in reference to the general policy of the rebel government, more especially in re- gard to negroes bearing arms, rebel prisons, and the treatment of prisoners of war. The facts bearing upon the first point were all given to the public by the press at the time of their occurrence, and therefore present noth- ing new. The evidence in regard to the prisons is simply a corroboration of the facts already given, while the treatment of the Union prisoners is shown by the official docu- ments to have been unprecedented in the civil- ized world. This we knew before the investi- gation of this committee; but they furnish us @ vast amount of correspondence and official data, which show that the rebel Congress and the rebel officials were perfectly aware of the inhumanity that was practised towards those unfortunate men who fell into their hands as prisoners of war. Still we find nothing in the facts presented showing the guilt of Jeff Davis in this matter, or placing the responsibility upon his shoulders, further than the inference that may be drawn from his messages to the rebel Congress and the absence of positive orders correcting the evil when it became known te him. The point taken up by the comm{ttee is the evidence in regard to the plots and con- apiracies organized -in Canada by the famous peace commissioners, Thompson, Clay, Hol- combe and Sanders. The documentary evi- dence furnished on this point is of the most extraordinary character, and presents a chap- ter of intrigue and crime equal to anything recorded in the “Arabian Nights” of the deeds of the evil genii. It was claimed by these men, when they were conducting their peace negotiations with Greeley, that they were clothed with powers, as agents of the con- federacy, such as the ambassadors of a govern- ment were.never before clothed with; that while their duties were not defined in their instruc- tions they yet had power to make peace or do anything that they might consider for the bene- fit of the South. From the dain given to the public by the Judiciary Committee we can readily see what they considered would benefit the rebel cause. These facts leave no doubt that they were the organizers of the numerous raids oo the frontier, the burn- ing of cities, destruction of steamboats, liberation of prixoners and the prime movers in the attempt at an insurrection fn the Western States, under the auspices of the Knights of the Golden Circle. Their connec- tion with all these conspiracies is traced'in this documentary evidence so effectually as to leave no doubt of their guilt, unless we reject the letters in folo, notwithstanding the denials and pretended innocence at the time. It is some. what curious to see how the names of Ben Wood, Singleton, Vallandigham and other noto- rious copperbeads turn up in this correspond- ence and to trace the extent of their ramifica- tions in the Northern States. Whatever may be thought sbont the connection of Jeff Davis with these conspiracies, if these letters are true, there can be no room for doubt in regard to the guilt of his agents in Canada in all these transactions. The correspondence gives us some idea of the condition that the North would have been in had they succeeded in carrying out their schemes, The fact that all these communications were sent to Richmond and found among tbe archives of the rebel government is considered by the committee strong presumptive evidence that Jeff Davis and his whole Cabinet endorsed the proceed- ings, and that Clay, Thompson and Company were carrying out private instructions from that quarter. This brings usdirectly to the point of the facts obtained in regard to the implication of Jeff Davis in the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. Under this head the committeé give several letters, written by different parties to Jeff Davie, proposing to organize a party or parties to assassinate or otherwise dispose of promi- nent men in the North. These letters, it seome, were all referred by Davie to the Secretary of War, with directions for*that official to see the parties making the proposition. It seems, too, that the interviews were had in almost every ease, which shows that propositions of this kind were entertained at Richmond, even if they were never approved. The affidavits of different parties in the possession of the Bureau of Military Justice, showing the direct .anes- tion of Davis with this great crime, are all re- jected by the committee. This is the evidence that has been exposed by our Washington correspondence. The committee state that ! \eay were made by pertics who professed to . have been in the service of the rebel govern- ment, and were taken by Judge Holt, but that “several of the witnesses, upon being breught before the committee, retracted entire- ly the statements which they had made in their affidavits, and stated that their testimony, as given originally, was false in every particular.” The committee have, therefore, relied upon scraps of evidence found in the letters and documents among the rebel archives. They do not claim to present dats and facts that would convict Davis on the assassination charge in a court of justice, but to have obtained suffi- cient to justify them in their opinion in coming to the conclusion that the investigation should be continued. The committee were evidently anxious to convict Davis as a confederate of Booth; and, failing, they propose that the Executive take up the search for the evidence required. Mr. Boutwell’s report is a rehash of old testimony, ina convenient shape for radi- cal electioneering purposes; but as to the how, when and where Davis is or ought to be tried, this report leaves us exactly where we were before. It is a long story practically amount- ing to nothing. Tue Spanish Fiasco mv Sovra America.— Under the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella Spain planted the roots of a grand empire on this continent, Cortes sank his ships so there should be no retreat, advanced, conquered, and revelled in the halls of the Montezuma. De Soto, a Spanish adventurer, adopted the South- ern peninsula of America, and Spain secured Florida and all that region as an appendage of the Spanish crown. Spain was at this time a great Power on the American continent as well as in Europe. The whole of South America was in her hands, The gold and silver em- bowelled in the auriferous earth and rocks of Mexico and Peru were hers, Spain, in short, owned America, and her satraps governed it. This much for Spain in olden times, What is: her position now? . One by one Spain finds her American pos- sessions freeing themselves from her grasp. Her colonies on the Atlantic, not stopping to enumerate her possessions in Central America, with Peru and Chile on the Pacific, were all lost. At this day she does not pause to inquire why she has sacrified her prestige and power on this continent, On the contrary, she pur- sues a policy that makes her name more odious than ever to all South America, Tho attempt of Spain to carry on a naval warfare sixteen thousand miles from home must have been the inspiration of amad man or a mad woman. The Americans were inimical to the movement, and Spain’s rulers must have known it. In the hour of our weakness Spain undertook to re-establish herself in St. Do- mingo without asking our consent. Following up her failure there, the Cabinet at Madrid, already plunged to the lip in political intrigues antagonistic to American interests, urges on this insane foray upon peaceful South Ameri- can republics. Valparaiso fell, and with it all that remained of Spanish naval honor and prowess. Twenty years of peace might have made Spain again a respectable nation. Now she is nothing but a fourth rate Power. Her intemperate zeal to re-establish herself on this continent has ended in a lamentable fiasco, and her naval officers, cruising from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from Valparaiso to Rio Janeiro, bound hme, must feel as only true sailors can when convinced they have been guilty of a dishonorable transaction. Spain’s fiasco in South America will be followed by others of a similar character if European monarchies in- troduce their peculiar institutions upon Ameri- can soil against our consent, POLITICAL NEWS, Cexcixxatt.—The most lucrative office in Cincinnati is ‘that of Judge of the Probate Court. It has been known to yield $40,000 in one year. Colonel E. ¥. Noyes will recetve the republican nomination for the position this year, Sixra Insxom Disrricr.—Governor William Birney 2 som of the late James G. Birney, has been requested by the republicans to run for Congress in the district now represented by Burton C. Cook. Da.zaate ynom CoLonapo.—The republican Convention for nominating a candidate for delegate to Congres from Colorado meets August 24. A. A. Bradford will Probably be nominated, : Micurcay.—A lively canvas for State nominations is in progress. Governor Crapo and Hon. H. P, Baldwin, of Detroit, are the leading names montioned for Gov- ernor, and Colonel Stoughton, of Coldwater, and Heze- kiah G. Wells, of Kalamazoo, aro also spoken of, Colo- nel Stoughton, however, probably will receive the gom!- nation for Lieutenant Governor. Secretary of #tate Porter and Treasurer Owen will probably be renominated without opposition. There will undoubtedly be changes in other State officers, Congresemen Beamen, Upson and Driggs will probably berenominated, but there is developing an opposition to Motsra, Ferry, Trowbridgo and Longyear. ‘Tae Paapurma Coxverrion.—Arrangements for sending delegates to the Philadelphia Convention of August are in ptogress in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maseachusetts, New Haropehire, Ponnsy!vania, Vermont, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri, [linois, Ia- diana, Ohio, Wistonsin and Iowa, and the other States will no doubt berepresented. From Louisiana there will de two (contesting) delegations. ‘anv Om Dernict.—A German democratic paper in Hamilton, Ohio, comes out editorially in favor of ex- Governor Charles Anderson to run against General Schenck for Congress. THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION. Delegates from Georgia. Avovrra, Ga, July 28, 1866, ‘The following delegates to the National Union Conven- tion to asvemble in Philadelphia have been elected from the First, Fourth and Fifth districts respectively :—Gen- 3B Wm. BR. Fiem: Thos. Stevens. Alexander H. Stephens and Herechel V. John- son will be two of the delegates for the State at large. oe meat, hte, July 28, 1808 Sanpiate itovers Lowry—the two Tecmee to th effect ra 1 e Joly 31, and the tatter on August 1, M64, NAVY BULLETIN. Deracnen, Jort 21.—Commodore Henry Eagle, from the Light- oom avis, tne paced ent ot tame Acting Ensign Wm. R. Cooper, from the Bureau of Navigation Office of Detail, and ae secretary of the Joint Army and Navy Board of Harbor Defouce, aud granted leave of ab- sence. ‘THR BRAPTL SQUAnRON, The following voesels of the Braxil squadron of Admiral Godon were at Rio Janeiro on June 26 :—sloo; of-war meer. gunboat Shawmut, trans; 0 On the 27th june the Emperor of Brazil pai to the Brooklyn. V—_—_SASTEN TO THE STEAMER ZoDUC. Sr. N. B., July 28, 1966. u morning for half, ot her bowtom is off A portion of her | Pete Drought to this port by the steamer New ‘ork, MUSICAL CONVENTION. FOURTH DAY. Distribution of Prizes—List of the Prizes Picnic at the Fair Ground. July 27, 1866, ‘The only business before the Seengerbund to-day was the distribution of prizes, 4 picnic on the Fair ground, ands ball at the Fest Hall. The prizes were awarded in the following manner:— Firat Prize—Arion, of St. Louie, LOUISVILLE First Class—Fii Cincinnati Maennerchor; second, Now York Liedorkrans; third, Colutbus “Machnerchor? fourth, Indianapolis Maennerchor; fifth, Chicago Con Second Class—First, West Cleveland Maennercher; second, Evansville Liederkranz; third, Clacinnati Kinder; Cincinnati Saenger; Afth, Cincinnati Maenner® fourth, Third Clas—First, Whecling Maennerchor; second, Wheeling Harmonia; third, Siduey, Ohio, Liedorkrans: fourth, Cincinnati ; fifth, Ciocmnati Ver- i 5 sixth, Aki Liederkranz; seventh, Nash- ville FoR penn ‘fia Brotheriood. ‘The first was given to the Arions of St. Louis, out of compliment to the Fest Director, The yn who awarded prizes* were Messrs. Sobolewski, Balletta, Helfrich, Zalerhand, Hast, Carl Wolteobn and Theodore Hagen, ntatives of the Eastern societies not being Present, New York Liederkranz declined the prize offered them. In point of real morit tho three most suc- cessful societies wero the New York Liederkranz, the Chicago Concordia and Cincinnati Maennerchor. Noneot moony appruuded. The fet peso consisted o's spleeasd mently app! ted of a music worth six hundred dollara, To-night a ball was given at the Fest Hall. ‘The great feature of the Fest will oome off to-morrow, and on wene e entire body of singers will start for the Mammoth Cave, and in the evening give a concert im one of the inner halls. On Sunday there will be no lea than one thousand torches and nearly an equal number of voices to give effect to the scene, The societies will Fiovoed om Sunday night and start for their respective . FIFTH DAY. Grand Coscert To-morrow in the Mammetis Cave, &c. Lousviis, Ky., July 28, 1866. ‘The various singing societies started this evening for the Mammoth Cave, where they will give a concert te- morrow as a wind-up to thefSaengerfest, The majority of the New York Liederkranz left for home to-day, but a smail tion will reprecent them at the concert to- morrow, The concert will come off in Echo Hall, and will be one of the grandest musical events that ever took piace in America, Every society that took part in thie great musical convention will be represented. MUSIC AT THE PARK. Notwithatanding the unpropitious state of the weather quite a goodly number of people gathered together at the Park yesterday to listen to the sweet strains of musie discoursed by Dodworth’s band. At three o’clock, the hour appointed for the commence- ment of the exercises, the Park was almost deserted, but at half-past three the cloud: began to break away, and with the first appearance of the sun the people bogam to gather together through every gateway and along every avenue until at four P. M. several hundred persons were present. The pieces executed on the occasion were evidently selected with taste, and comprised amoag Others some of the finest morceaus from the most eminent German and Italian composers, The ramme contained twelve pieces, but owing @ renewal of the storm but eight were given. re ‘he march entitled Der Nebormann, lively and spirited as it is, was given as the introductory. The overture to Fra Diavolo was executed in a manner that elicited evidence of the highest satisfaction from the audience. Ite tender cadences, as well as its sudden trans tiuns from “‘grave to gay,’ were duly appreciated. The baliad entitled “‘Sunset’’ was executed in a most masterly style, and formed a marked contrast to the lively notes of the pieces preceding it. Among the othes ieoces were the following: A polka entitled the Great Cte, by Coote; a medley on popular airs, aoe, ley, and an overture to Oberon, by Von Weber, all of whiwh were listened to with attention, Then came the shower. ihere was one promiscuous scramble for the bridge until its ontire area of protec- ton was filled with those hopeful that the storm would soon abate, In this they were disappointed, as the rain continued to fall until night set in and fully closed exeroises for the day. ye numerous shor of eer ereeeny Tor oie epee edt look perohed “ie tn menced to lool and withe: in Took fresh and. green, and the foliage that had began take on the hue of earliest autumn again assumed wonted livery. Mrs. William Callen Bryant. 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