The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1866, Page 8

4 NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXXI ———— AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. trteeeeeeeescee Ns B10 Votel.—Tas Fain Ore Wren bat rd WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St, Maio With THe MILKING Patt. af yee raeeowe OPERA Royse. 21 Bowerv.—Cowe ocaits: INSERKLST—| . eee e TSN RONG, Minsrmator—BaLian Divssriseunxyt, CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—{y 4 Vanrery or Liane anp Lavemasue Entertaivuxnts, Corrs pe Bauer, &c. ‘Sounes on tax Mississirri. BLEECKER STREET CIRCUS, between Pei and Charles streets.—Riping, VAavuLting, &¢. “ ii { besser TERRACE GARDEN, Third Aven bet Fifty. eighth and Fifty-ninth street Tueo. Tuomas’ OncieT ‘ Ganven Concunts, commencing at 8 o'Clock. HOOLEY'8 OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. Rr: die wrnstsy—Baitavs, Burxsques ann Paste NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATO" Groadway.— x Oxy-Hypee ~ woscors twice wirk 7 daily, Open from 8 A. M. till 10" . July 29, 1866, New York, S:° NoT™’ . 10 ADVERTISERS. ments handed in until half past nine ihe evening will be classified under appro- cadings ; but proper classification cannot be «(after that hour. All ad o'clor pre 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. yesteflay. 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 25 to 18. Soon aftor 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 soat was adopted by 21 yeas to 11 nays. The report of the Conference Committee on the Army bill was agreed to. The port of the second conference on the question of bounties was agreed to in executive session, The bill provides that those who served three years or enlisted for three years and were discharged for disability before the expiration of their term, shall rocoive 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 recess 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- tors was passed, the portion relating to the capture of Jo 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 ‘ the use of a building on Pennsylvania avenue to the Fenians. A committee was appointed to wait upon the President, which being done, thoy informed tho 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 impartial manner in which he has presided during the seesion. Mr. Foster briofly returned thanks for the soptiroents expressed, and declared the Senate adjourned sine die, ‘The summary of proceedings in the House begins with the conclusion of the proceedings published in yesterday morning's Hemap, 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 in 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 mombera of Congress, aud allowing a modified bounty to the soldiers is now a law, having been signed by the President. The vote in the House was 51 yoas to 50 nays. The House moi for its Saturday session at cloven o'clock. A resolution of thanks to Speaker Colfax was adopted. The Senate amendments to the House bill for the distribution of awards for the capture of the assassi- uation conspirators was concurred in, The House at noon took a recess until three P. M., when, being again assembled, another recess was tuken until four P. M. The bill to erect the Territory of Montana into a survey district was returned by the Presidont with his disapproval, The message was ordered to be printed. At half-past four the Speaker de. livered lis farewell speech, thanking the members of tbe House warmly for the resolution of thanks to him- weif that they had placed on the journal, and then for- mally declared the firet session of the House of Repre- sentatives of the Thirty-ninth Congress adjourned rine die. The hall and galleries were crowded with specta- tors, The valedictory of the Sponker was listened4o 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 resolutions passed by the Thirty-ninth Congress and the date of their approval. ‘Tho Senate yesterday confirmed the Hon. 0. H. Brown- ing as Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Browning will not assume the duties until the Ist day of September, at which time Mr. Harlan’s resignation takes offect. Gene- ral John A. Dix was also confirmed as Resident Minister to the Hague. EUROPE. ‘The steamship Peruvian, from Londonderry July 20, passod Father Point yesterday on her voyage to Quebec, Her news is four days later. . ‘the Prussian and Austrian armies were conc in forco near Vienna and a great battle impending, Prussia tendered the bases of peace negotiations to Aus- tria, and active hostilities appear to have been suspended during ‘ive days to permit time for their consideration. ‘The latest despaidhes announce that Austria had “ de- cided!y refused to accept’ the terme proposed, ‘The Monitewr du Soir, saia to be an officially inspired French military organ, denies that Napoleon had “any intention’ of becoming an armed mediator in “the dif Geulty.’ ‘The Prussians oocupied Darmetadt Tho Prossiang bad laid siege to the Fortress of Monts (*) in regalar order, and boats on the Rhine wero not permitted to pass the fort. Railroad communication with the town was suspended The German Foderal troops lately defeated by the Prnssians were effecting a junction with the Bavariana ‘The Bavarian army rejected the terms of « truce pro- posed by the Prussian commander, An Italian squadron, including eight iron-clads, made 8 successful operation on the coast of Dalmatia, but the intended disembarkation of a force was prevented by the appearance of Austrian vessels of war. An engage. ment between the two squadrons was imminent. Gariboldi had been congratuiated on recent successes by the King’s government. United States fve-twentios bad adveneed in London, the prices of July 20 being 69% & 70. Console, for money, were at 88)¢ a 85 \¢. Cotton declined one-fourth of a penny in Liverpool, during the week (five days). The market clowed stoudy on the 20th of July, Breadstuifs very dail, Provisions datt THE CITY. Ut will be eeen from the reports to be found in the Sanitary column, that the epidemic in this city yester- day did not indicate an increase ia the number of cholera cance officially reported, there being but nine during the twonty-four hours. In Brooklyn there were eight cases oflolally najed, and one, which reeultod fatally, reported by the Coroner, ‘The diacage has greatly subsided, there ‘boing but few serious and no new cases within the past twenty-four hours. The reports from Hart’s and David's pendasee also more favorable, From the comparative table which we publish this morning, it will be seen how shghs 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- fiicted the wounds. 3 Yesterday Commissioner Osborn sat for the purpose of proceeding with the investigation of the counterteit- ing cases, but they were postponed until Tuesday next on the application of Mr. 8, @. 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 ‘is case also, it was postponed with the other? v Commissioner said he would take bail for Bro’. ut it were offered, to the amount of $10,000. ue Court of Special Sessions yesterday, before Jus- ce 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 160. ‘The markets wore generally quiet yesterday. There ‘was a general 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 dail 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 wero scarcely so firm, and lesa 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. Oar special fashions correspondent in Paris, dating on the 13th of July, furnishes a very clever and useful let- tor, ombracing 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 8 Princess, however, our correspondent was forced to inake 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 desoription of the dress and adornments displayed by the Princess on the occasion. The Fenian excitement is again raging Im 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. Tho rolling stock of the Grand Trunk Railroad was removed from tho vicinity of the threatened point. At Montreal the most efficient military measures were 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 new Militia bill passed the House of Assembly, in Ottawa, Canada, yesterday. It is said that in case of the success of the Confederation scheme, the Capitol will be, removed from Ottawa to Montreal or Quebec, Alexander H. Stephens and Herschel V. Jobnson are among the delegates at large for the Btate of Georgia to the Philadelphia Convention. The Convention of 1864, which made a free State con- stitution for Louisiana, 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 mihtary. 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 was won by Moore’s Lightning cult in 3:40, The second waz 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 Ruthless, in 1.2L The fourth race, » match of one mile for $1,000, was won by Hampden Court against Flora Mclvor, im 1:523;. AN attempt at 8 riot was made hy » large. party of wo groes in Now Orleans on Friday night, Thoy had been attending « mevting of their own color, and after having adjourned they paraded the strects, insisting upon a fight with somebody. Three of them were killed and three police officers seriously injured. Fifteen negroes were arrested, and General Sheridan was addressed on the 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 disoase. There wero also five cases reported in Galveston, Toxas. Acolored woman, who weighed seven hundred and ninety-eight pounds, was five foet eight inches high and five feet broad across the chest, died in this city on Fri- day last, The First Session of the Thirty-Ninth Con- arene. 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 campaign, on the part of Congress, ugainst the administra- tion and “ the constitution as it is” without anything approaching a parallol in the history of the country. In the ouiset, 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 apprehensions 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 expediont to yield to him im 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 throngh 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 rash to business in Congress and this hurrying to an adjourn- ment. The radicals, expecially 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 mensures, 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 of the 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, as 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 ofthese 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 pay 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 this 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 = | 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. Tn 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 fonght 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 weutral Powers have produced an effect in Paris, anda government organ, in the confidence of Napo- leon, announces in very positive language that Franoe 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 Earope are to fight the matter out, the neu- tral Powers standing ready and prepared to prevent cither becoming dangerously powerful, Tax Rxsicnation or Sxcreranr Hantidx.— 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 truly 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 continued to retain his portfolio in defiance of the ordinary rules ofhonor and of custom. A weak man, with 20 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 Measra. Dennison and Speed, he set an exam- ple of adbering 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 cbecurity 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 in 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 iseues 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 beiter, Tae Saranres or Mewpmns or Concanes,— 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 Messrs. 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 two strong to make one more haul on the public treasury before adjournment. A conference committee wae appointed to consider the question; but it could not agree to sanction the Senate amendment, when # 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 511650. This is » fair example of the way jobs of this kind are rushed throb during the expiring moments of Con- arese. Mr. Boutwell’s Report on 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, said to have been found among the rebel archives, is incorporated in the re- port, from which the committee draw the in- ference that it menor 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 meantime 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 commission of the deed, but the investigations have not re- sulted in placing the government in possession ofall the facts in the case.” It is then stated that “it is probable that the further prosecu- 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 thia time overhauled all of these papers and ascertained whether there was any positive testimony on this point or not. The first teati- 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 ap by the committee is the evidence in regard to the plots and con- spiracies organize 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 daia 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 ou the frontier, the burn- ing of cities, destruction of steamboats, liberation of prisoners and the prime Movers in the attempt at an insurrection in 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 fofo, 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 copperheads tarn 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 bad 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, Thompeon 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 committee give several letters, written by different parties to Jeff Davie, proposing to organize s party or parties to assassinate or otherwise dispose of promi- nent men in the North. These letters, it seeme, were all referred by Davis to the Secretary of War, with directions for*that official to see the partics making the proposition. Ii seems, too, that the interviews were bad 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 ..1nec- 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 tang were made by periies who professed to — have been in the service of the rebel govera- | LOUISVILLE MUSICAL CONVENTION. 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 ecraps of evidence found in the letters and documents among the rebel archives. They do not claim to present data and facts that would convict Davis on the assassination charge in a court of justice, but to have obtained suff- 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, in a 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 Spanisn Fiasco mm Sovrn 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 hor 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 @ policy that makes her name more odious than ever to all South America, The attempt of Spain to carry on a naval warfare sixteen thousand miles from home taust have been the inspiration of a mad 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, Vatparaiso 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 WEWS. Curcixxatt.—The most lucrative office in Cincinnati is that of Jadge of the Probate Court. It has been known to yield $40,000 in one year. Colonel E. ¥. Noyes will receive the republican nomination for the position this year. Sixru Isxom Disrrict.—Governor Wiliam Birney a son 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. Dazcars yrou CoLonapo.—The republican Convention for nominating a candidate for delegate to Congress from Colorado meets August 24. A. A. Bradford will probably be nominated. . Micmicay.—A lively canvas for State nominations is im progress, Governor Crapo and Hon. H. P. Baldwin, of Detroit, are the leading names mentioned 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. Thoro will undoubtedly be changes in other State officers, Congressmen Beamen, Upson and Driggs will probably berenominated, but there is developing an opposition to Motera. Ferry, Trowbridge and Longyear. Tus Paapeupmis Coxverrion.—Arrangements for sending delegates to the Philadelphia Convention of August are in ptogress in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampebire, Pounsy!vania, Vermont, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabame, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Miseouri, Mlinois, In- diana, Ohio, Wistonsin and Iowa, and the other States ‘will no doubt berepresented. From Louisiana there will De two (comtesting) deiegations. ‘Tmav Onw Dernict.—A German democratic paper in Hamilton, Ohio, comes out editorially in favor of ex- Governor Charles Anderson to run against General Schenk for Congress. Delegates from Georgia. Avoavrra, Ga, July 28, 1866. ‘The followng delegates to the National Union Convea- tion to asvemble in Philadelphia have been elected from the Virst, Fourth and Fifth districts respectively :—Gen- eral J. B. Gordon, Wm. B. “awn Hardeman, P. W. Alexander, General A. R. Wi and Linton A. Stevens. Alexander H. stephens lerechel V. John- son will be two of the delegates for the State at larve. Delegates from Phi NAVY BULLETIN. Deracnan, Jort 21.—Commodore Henry Eagle, from the Light- houre Mobile, and piace on sick leave; Acting Ensign Wm. , from the Horeaa of Navigation Office of Detail, ‘ae secretary of the Joint Army and Navy Board of Harbor Defence, aud granted leave of ab- sence. fol THR RAR. SquAnROR, ing versels of the Brazil squadron of were at Rio Janeiro on June 16 :—sloo} Brook}; pL Lg | tran: On . amb : ne the Emperor of Brazil paid a visit yo. dees Fore a ‘druggious. FOURTH DAY. Dietribution of Prizes—List of the Prizes Picnic at the Fair Ground. Lovsvuza, July 27, 1866, ‘The only business befor® the Saengerbuad to-day was the distribution of prizes, a picnic on the Fair ground, anda ball atthe Fest Hall. The prizes were awarded in the following manner:— First Prize—Arion, of St. Louis, First Class—First, Cincipnati Maennerchor; second, New 2 totneogoiia i third, Columbus Meennerchor; fourth, is Maennerchor; fifth, Chicago Con’ Second Class—First, West Cleveland Maennercher; second, Evansville Liederkranz ; third, Clucinnati Kinder; fourth, Cincinnati Saenger; fifth, Cincinnati Maenner® Third Class—First, Whecling Maennerchor; second, Wh Harmonia;” third, Sidney, Ohio, Lledorkransy font, Cineinnetl round fifth, Ciocinnati Ver- moni; joderkranz; seve ‘Naah- Ville furmerthon eigheh, thule Brothertion’, ne” The first was given to the Arions of St. Louis, out of compliment to Fest Director. The j who ar were Messrs. Sobolewski, lotta, Helfrich, Carl Woltsobn and Theodore Hagen, ntatives of the Eastern Rot being New Liederkranz declined the prize Offered them. In point of real morit the three most suc- of voices to give effect to the acene, The societies will return on Sunday night and start for their respective * FIFTH DAY. Grand Conscert To-morrow im the Mammetts Cave, &c. Lovsviis, 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 small ‘tion will represent them at the concert to~ morrow. Tho concert will come off in Echo Hall, and will be one of the grandest musical events that ever took place in America, Evory society that took part in thie great musival convention will be represented. MUSIC AT THE PARK. Notwithstanding the unpropitious state of the weather quite @ 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, tho Park was almost deserted, but at half-past three the cloudz began to break away, and with the first appearance of the sun the people begam to gather together through every gateway and along every avenue until at four P. M. several hundred persone were present. The pieces executed on the occasion were evidently selected with taste, and comprised amoag others some of the finest morceaux from the most eminent Seem: vale z . com| . ban programme contain welv ject ut ow! to a ronewal of the storm hy eight were Polo Ot these, tt would be difficult to say which was the best received. The march entitled Der Nebormann, lively aud 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. Its tender cadences, as well as its suddem 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 pom were the following: A polka entitled the — 5 te; = medley on ular all ley. ries overtare rad ar by Yoh Webet, 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 rein continued to fall bg lgeatan bmn fully closed the exercises for the day. numerous showers of the oe ee favorable effect upon the which bad in many places com- Mra. William Cullen Bryant. Mrs. Frances Fairchild Bryant, wife of the distia- guished poet, and editor of the New York Post, died ot Roslyn, L. L, on the 27th inst. in her seventieth year. pacha of 1 Brtreots for cooking purposes. —fome Journal. 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