The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1866, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDYLOR AND PROPRIETOR Orr =e RIPLE SHEET. Volume XXXI..... AMUSBMENTS THIS EVE! WOOD'S THEATRE. Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Pore ta Fan One Ween Zan Uoubex Locus Tus Wire rox Minkixg Pat. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ROUSE, 201 Bowery.—Como Voostism—-Nearo = MINstR¥Ls¥—Batiar DivuRtisseMant, Ao. -O'TooLw'? Casrie. OHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE. at out Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—In 4 Variety or ano Lavowasie Enrxarainments, Conrs ve Batinr, &c. Soxves OM vam Missrssiret. EOKER STREET CIRCUS, between “Perry and treets.—Kipina, VAULTING, &C. 8 Oba TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty. eighth and Fifty-ninth streots.—Taxo. Tuomas’ ORCHESTRAL ‘Gaxpun Concusrs, commencing at 8 o’Clock. BOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermorian Mow srenisr—Haicane, BURLESOURS AND PANTOMIMEs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Qecronm ween tur Oxy-firprogen Microscore twice daily. Open from § A. M. till 10 P.M. New York, Tacsda:; NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. A)l advertisements handed in until half past nino o'clock im the evening will be classified under appro- but proper classification cannot be sured after that hour. THO NEw s. EUROPE. By the arrival yesterday of the steamships China, at Halifax, and the City of New York and Ville de Paris, al this port, we received advices from Europe dated to Sanday, the 22d of July This ligence is two days later than the report of , of Father Point, which was published in priste headings ; rday, but five days anterior to the news By the Atlantic telegraph, announcing the conclusion of a peace treaty between Austria and Prussla, ‘ho telegraphic report of the China goes to show that lations for an armistice in Germany had pro y satifactorily; even to its acceptance by the giving of her consent to treat a peace ‘he main basis of which was to be her own on from the German Confederation. ng the armistice issue Austria had concentrated an immense force—four hundred and thirty thousand mon and six hundred guns—in front of and around Vienna, and felt almost confident of fighting a successful battle. Her generals pointed out that the Prussians hed advanced hastily five hundred miles into an enemys country, leaving hostile fortresses and other impodi- ments in thelr rear, ' The Italian iron-clad Re d'Italia, built in New York for King Victor Emanvel, was run down by the Austrians during the great naval battle off the island of Lissa. The Mtalians were clearly defeated altor the display of much gallantry. Garibaldi clatms another success over tho Austrians. The new Prusso-German Parliament is to be based on universal manhood suffrage. Prince Napoleon pointe out that France should at once wide faithfully with Italy and Prassia, aud aid in crash ing out Austria the mary Catholicism. France must defend the revolution and aid the religion centre of of the g ber,” Oor special deapatel: Tievlin, Venetia, Florence, Paris, Londen aud Que with the mewspaper accounts published to review uf the situation of atain &@ very important 3 to the Iatest mail dates, besides much tuteres'ing cows of a more general and miseeltan cous character. The Liverpool cotion market was buoyant July 21, at an advence ranging from one-fourth to one-half of a povoy. Rreadstui!. inecttve. Provisions flat. Consols closed In London at 883 @ 68% for money. United States dve-twentiwes wore at 10% aT. By telegraph frow London. reported at 8535 fo twenties 0934. The I middling Orleans being q dated July 28, Consols are and United States, five- ool cotton market was firm; ted at 14444. per pound. THE CITY. It is stated that the cholera Is assuming an epidemic form in the city, but not to an alarming extent, Ata meeting of the Health Board, to be held this evening, sxtruordinary measures will be proposed for improving the sanitary condition of the city. In consequence of negiect of physicians to report cholera cases, orders have been issued inststing upon their so doing, The number o{ deaths iu she city for tho past week was seven hun- fired and seventy-ono, being a decrease of five hun fred and ninety-two trom the previous week, Sixteen persons dicd of cholora at the workhouse on Blackwell's Island from the 27th to the 29th of July, There were thirteen cases and four deaths oMoially reported in this city yesterday, A comparative lable of three years of the cholera epidemic shows a ‘er number of deaths yesterday than on the - day in 1849 and 1854 At the Battery Barracks Hospital matters appeared rather favorable. An injuuc- tion will be applied for to compel its removal. In Brooklyn the number of deaths for the past week as three hundred and four, The cholera bas not inereased, but no decrease is observable, There w re forty-two deaths from cholera during tho Pas! week. The official reports of yesterday show ton u@w cases and four deaths, Of these six cases were in the County Penitentiary. The unofficial ist shows two new cases, At Governor's Island the epidemit was on ‘hy decrease, The cause of the epidemic appears to be * mystery, a tho strictest sanitary precautions had ‘ways beon observed, At present extra vigilance is exer lac tho men being fed with wholesome rations, sort (he barracks being kept In @ thorough state of clean- ‘ness, On Hart's Island the epidemic remains about the sause a8 at last report, Se en new cases of cholera appeared in Philadel. obia on Sanday and Monday, and five deaths from that Iveaso-ocoarted there during the same time. Head Centra Stephens has addressed a document from de» headquarters to this city to the Fenian Brotherhood, Py b be says that the Fenians in this country are of rant wubordinate to the organization in Ireland, and that they will do mischief instead of good unless they work solely to give aid to the orvanization im Ireland, He reiterates the statement that the fight for freedom on Irish soti Will come off this very year, He has also addressed a ir to the Brotherhood in New Jerroy, Brooklyn, nsburg and this city to meet him in consultation ou the 6th of August. A fro broke out in the establichmont of Charles Worms & Co., necktie manufacturers, on the coruer of College place and Robinson street yesterday aferucon, javolving a loss of $26,000 or more. }| Judge McCunn, sitting in Chambers of the Superior Court yesterday, postponed the cases of Kiener and | Westhermor (applications for permanent injunctions made | by fat melting establishments) unth today at twelve } o'clock. ' | ’ An important case under the new Excise law was | before Justice Cornwell, at the City Hall, Brooklyn, yer terday afternoon. It was the case of the unlicensed | Liquor dealer who was arrested for violating the law and | subsequently discharged on account of holding an tn. fu on issued by Judge McCann. Ho wac rearrested by | | Hamill, the champion oarsman, who wae recently jefoated in England ina soulling match against Harry Kelly, arrived in the city yesterday, and way warmly re poived by his professional friends. ® constable and brought into court. Counsel for de. fendaat moved to dismiss the case Argument was ord on both sides, when Justice Cornwall decided that njanction did not enjoin shorits of constables, herofore did not operate in this case He therefore held the prisoner to ball to answor the charge when pallod For SR dan. -° aap } he case of Noone against thy Board of Exetse, being An application fora paiasnt injunction restraining de. te to from interfering with the plaintiff! io bie busi- one asa liquor dealer, came before Jadge McOunn yes- fe Liy in the Superior Comet ater hearing # oartia) -~ . W. OORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU SPS, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1866,—TRIPL# SHEET, argament of covnsel, the case was adjourned until Murs- day next, A number of important will cases are now pending in the Surrogate’s Court, which has adjourned urmil the 18th of August, Among them is the will of Edvard M. Robinson, involving nearly two millions of dollars The executors in the Butlor cage have been ordered tofile an accounting. A colored man named Lioyd Browne was brought be- fore Commissioner Osborn yesterday, charged with the murder of James Dempsey, second mate of the American bark Jomathan Godfrey, on the 2th of February last, while the vessel lay at anchor in the Bay of Palermo, Sicily, The accused had been employed as cook, and it is alleged that, while engaged in a row with Dempsey. the former drew a knife and inflicted a stab in the oreast of deceased, which bad the effect of killmg sim. The matter was adjourned for further ¢: ‘The stock market was strong and active yesterday. Governments were in demand. Gol closed at 147%. + The Atlantic cable and she mews which was flashed over it exerted ® controlling influence in» business circles yesterday, especially in the grain trade; the active export demand for corn having been checked, and prices ruled 1c. a 2c, lower. Prices were generally unsettled by the fall of gold, and currency values were lower. Cotton was more active and firmer. Coffee was in moderate demand and firm. On ’Change flour was dull and nominally lower, Wheat was dull and nominal, Oats were lo. lower, Pork opened dull and heavy, but closed firm, with @ moderate demand, Beef was unchanged. Lard was quict, but firmer, Whiskey was dull and nominal. Freights were inactive, and rates were lower. Petroloum was decidedly firmer. MISCELLANEOUS. Our dates from Mexico are to the 13th inst, The Em- press Carlotta was a passenger by the steamer Empress Eugenio for her home in Europe. Her departure was sudden, and it was currently reported that French officers had proposed to prevent her leaving at all. Current re- Port says that she is gone upon a diplomatic mission, and another says that her departure is for the purpose of taking care of her property fu Austria, ‘The exit of the Emperor from the stago of Mexico is sanguincly ex- pocted by the Juarez party, it being decided to every- body's satisfaction that Maximilian will made a cup @élat and disappear before the departuré of the French. No demonstration was given to the Empress on her ar- rival at Vera Cruz. The military officers and civil officials alone received her, and the usual salutes were fired; but id that nothing enthusiastic was ventured upon. Ii fights were taking place in every portion of the republic. Tampico was being closely besieged by the liberals, and was expected to capitulate soon, Inquiries at tho Collector of the Port's office, United States Mar- sbal’s office, and other official quarters, prove that the sensation article published in an obscuro sbeot in this city, yesterday, under the head of Mexico, was a canard, net having a scintilla of truth for its foundation, ‘Tho troubles arising out of the reassembling of the Free State Convention of 1564 in New Orleans have chod a climax. The convention met according to the call of its President, yesterday, and about the same time ‘A negro procession, with flags flying and drums beating, d the streets, A party of whites met them and oll’sion took place, in which pistols and brickbats were freely used. The whites retired and a large crowd gathered menacingly around the building where the convention was being held. A cordon of po- licomon encircled the building, but the mob becoming infuriate commenced besioging the house and firing in- discriminately at the windows, A flag of truce was dis played, bat on the entrance of the police into the building tho firing was resumed, and several members of the cor- vention were wounded. Quiet finally prevailed after nearly ail the members of the convention had been ar- rested. Five negroes were killed, and several of the police were severely wounded, Martial law was subso- quently deciared by General Baird, and at ten P.M. all was quiet, ‘Tho end of the cable was dragged ashore at Heart's Content yesterday, and spliced to the land telegraph in the Cable House. Congratulatory messages were re- ceived from the Queen to the President, and an answer was returned. The confirmatory intelligence of the sue cess of the cable was received throughout the city with- out any unvsnal excitement, The Chamber of Com- merce meets Thursday, when, probably, some action will be taken in the matter, The sixth day's races at Saratova came off yesterday. The first was a hurdie race of two miles, and was won by Zigzag against Citadel and General Williams, in 4:14 The second was dash of four miles, for all ages, Kon- tucky, after aloe struggle with Julius, came in winner, making the distance in 7:313g. The third race, a dash of one mile aud a half, was won by Millcreek in 2:4334. The hegira of colored people from Fortress Monroe to Boston still continues, A number made a start for the promised land yesterday from Hampton Roads. The old United States ship Pennsylvania is about being ralsed. The bark La Belle was lost on the 4th of Marcb, of Wake Island, an uninbabited reef in the Pacific Ocean. Th» passengers finding no water on the island left, in the ship's Jong boat and the captain's gig. The long boat's crew were saved, seven of the gig’s crew having been lost, Madam Anna Bishop, the prima donna, was one o| the ship's passengers, The cargo was valued at 2500,000, Advices from the Pacific coast state that the Indian outrages in Idaho Territory still continue. Newe from Hong Kong reports the successful raid of some Englieh gunboats against the pirates on the Wert coast. The coolie ship Yeddo was burned off Java whilo & mutiny was in progress, and one hundred and forty- two persons wore lost. A large fire occurred in Buffalo on Sunday, destroying the steamer City of Boffalo, on which the fire originated, and Sturges’ elovator, at which the boat was unloading. The lows is estimated at $346,000 Tur Erercr or a Wei. Discreuivep Aruy.— The success of the Prussians in the present contest with Austria is evidence of what can be accomplished by a nation with a well ap- portioned and thoroughly disciplined army. They have prided themselves on the perfection of their military system, and for years have taken great pains in the organization and discipline of their military force. The result is now seen. The moment that war was de clared the cntire army was ready to march, andso thoroughly were they prepared that not a minute was lost by delay in recruiting or in obtaining arms to equip them. This has given her great advantage over her opponents, and secured the victory before Austria could fully get ready for the struggle. The same result would have taken place in this country had we, like Prussia, been ready for the emergency. As it was we had an army to create and an army to equip. The rebellion found us without war material to equip twenty thousand men. Nearly all that the government did own was taken by the South. The result was that we had to commence at the very bottom of the ladder. inns had to be manufactured and the men drilled and disciplined. To a nation unaccus- tomed to war this was slow work, and it was not until after the severe trials of McClellan's campaign that our army was prepared for the fierce work of battle. The army of the Poto- mac went through the drill and received under McClellan, Burnside and Hooker the discipline that fitted it for subsequent deeds. When the battle of Gettysburg took place it had reached that point in discipline which the Prussian army had attained at the commencement of the late struggle with Austria; the difference being that we sacrificed tens of thousands of lives in bringing our army up to that effective cond tion, while they accomplished all this without loss of life, and were able to enter into the first battle with that confidence in their own skill that insured success, Had the United States government been as weil’ prepared, our late wer | ve ended in as many months as it took y ‘while the loss of life and the ox- pétise Would have been a mere bagatelle com- The Coming Elect! for Congress—Will They Bring a Revolution? With the adjournment of the present Con- gress the issues which it has raised with the administration are carried directly before the people. The constitutional term of this Con- gress does not expire till the 4th of March next, but the popular judgment upon its sins of omissivn and commission will determine, in the approaching Congressional elections, the important questions, whether the policy of the radicals is to be continued or overthrown; whether the present demoralizing reign of radicalism is to be perpetuated or superseded by a great reaction of public opinion resulting in a wholesome political revolution, Let the tree be judged by its fruits. This thirty-ninth Congress, in its long session of eight months, has fully developed the character and quality of its leading men and measures, its plans and purposes, its merits and demerits; and by its fraits let it stand or fall. It has had @ splendid opportunity for doing great things for the country and for winning golden opin- ions from all classes, parties and sections; but what has it done? What have these eight months of Congressional legislation produced for the relief of the Treasury or the people? Nothing—literally nothing. There: was a fine opening and an urgent necessity for a general bankrupt law, but after dilly-dallying from time to time with this important mat ter, it was at length laid on the table, to be taken up for action at a more convenient season. Then, again, we had expected something in the way of a healthy re- vision of our national bank and paper money systems from top to bottom, whereby the pub- lic credit would be fixed upon a more solid foundation, and from which twenty, thirty, forty or fifty millions of money now parcelled out among the national banks and brokers, shavers and jobbers, would be secured to the Trens- ury ; but between the jobbers of Congress and the brokers of the Treasury Department nothing in the way’of reform or relief upon this momentous business has been done. Men of codl reflection and experience, before the meeting of this Congress, had entertained the idea that we were on the high road to low prices, easy taxes and specie payments; but from the first Monday in December last down to this day these delusions have faded away, till nothing of them remains, On the other hand, cool, experienced, patriotic and dispas- sionate men are beginning to doubt very seri- ously the stability and security of our financial system, with the government divided and clash- ing upon all the great issues of the day, like a house divided against itself, and with a radi- cal majority in Congress resolved upon its ro- construction party policy of rule or ruin. The return of peace suggested to Congress a" lightening of our war burdens of taxation, great retrenchments in all the departments of the government, and large savings of money in this way towards the extinguishment of our three thousand millions of national debt. But what has Congress done in this direction? No- thing. Our Internal Revenue Tax bill has been revised, but its taxes remain substantially the same, with the addition of one cent a pound upon home grown cotton, towards the encouragement of the cotton culture in other countries, as if Congress desired to cast away the commercial balance of power ‘which we hold in this great Southern staple. Instead of retrenchm<nt, in the next place, this “ historic Congress,” as it is called, in a Buncombe elec- tioneering amendment to an Appropriation bill, in the shape of soldiers’ bounties (which the poor soldiers will be cheated out of by claim agents and other sharpors) has made a draft upon the Treasury for two or three hun- dred millions of dollars; and upon this Bun- combe amendment another has been fastened raising the pay of the members of Congress themselves from three to five thousand dollars ayear. This is Congressional retrenchment, as illustrated in this wasteful and extravagant Congress. And what has been done in the way of Southern reconstruction by this radical and revolutionary Congress? The most of tho ses- sion has been expended in committees and in- vestigations, in resolutions, reports and de- bates, never ending and still beginning, but practically the two houses have done nothing upon this subject except the re-enactment of what the President had done before. In their war upon the administration, in their efforts for the indefinite exclusion of the excluded States, the radical Stevens and his followers have only made confusion worse confounded, and created embarrassments and dissensions where harmony otherwise might have prevailed; so that from first to last this late long session of Congress has been product- ive of nothing but « new crop of political discords, disordered and dangerous agitations. Shall such a Congress with such a record be endorsed by the people in the coming fall elec- tions? Thid is the great question now before the country. Are the people prepared to ratify & Congressional system of reconstruction which politically and financially is manifestly carry- ing us, people, treasury and government, head- long in the downward road to revolution, bankruptcy and anarchy. This is the question which the people are now called upon to con- sider in view of the elections for the next Con- gress. Is this government, resting upon the constitution, to be maintained, or is it to be superseded by a consolidated despotism in Congress? This is the problem involved in these approaching elections. Believing that the crisis requires it, and that the people un- derstand it, we believe that we are approaching the inauguration of a great political revolu- tion, and that it will be broadly developed in these coming elections for the Fortieth Con- gress. TRanamission or THR News sy THE CanLE.— The important news which comes over the new Atlantic cable is now entrusted to the preca- tious keeping of what is called by the Asso- ciated Press a “news yacht,” but which is nothing more nor less than an old fishing smack with rotten rigging. By this unreliable con- veyance the despatches have to find their way from Port au Basque to Aspy Bay across the neck of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, a distance of nearly one hundred miles, In place of this old vessel there should be at least two fleet stanch-sea-going steamers that could make the trip with the degree of speed and certainty, which the importance of the news demapds, ° Sraret Cusantvo Contractors % ien that the contractors, 4 br cleaning th offer to sell out usir job to any party pared with ‘what they were. ig adden gpl ie rg stipulations of Important lessons in the vresont Furopean, their - contract. ‘Phare are two mood. and plausible reasons why these contractors should desire to sell out:—One is that they have already filled their wallets and are surfeited with cash, and the other that the Board of Health keeps them sharply at work according to the letter of their contract. If they are seri- ous in their offer to sell we have no doubt some patriotic party will be found ready to accept their proposal. Peace in Europe—The Rapidity of the Cam- tpaign. We must accept as crediblé the intelligence brought by the Atlantic cable that peace has been concluded between Austria and Prussia, although we await with some impatience the details of this important news. The peace probably leaves three powers in Germany, viz: Austria, restricted to her hereditary territories ; Prussia, with the acquisitiuns which she has gained by the war, and a new German Union, which is to supersede the old and wesk con- federation. It leaves, also, a united Italy, with the rich province of Venetia, which France will scarcely refuse to surrender. The gainers by the war have been Prussia and Italy. The losers have been poor Austria and the poor Pope, who has now no guarantee against the demands of the Italians upon Rome. We’ do not yet know whether to class Napo- leon among the winners or the losers by this peace. According to the accounts which have reached us he was not consulted during the negotiations. The report is that France was completely isolated. So sad a termination to the grand schemes which Napoleon announced with such a flourish of trumpets cannoi but impair his diplomatic prestige. Still, his game is not yet entirely played out, and we have not the data to predict how it will result We can only see that both Prussia and Italy have refused his diplomatic intervention, and that he was prevented from undertaking an armed mediation by the threatening attitude of Russia. Thus far, at least, he has failed, and to find France between a powerful Prussian empire on the one hand and a powerful Italian empire on the other, cannot be at all agreeable to his ambitious designs. This state of affairs will suit Russia, however, and will not displease England. Austria, although excluded from the German Union, atill remains an empire, to maintain the equilibrium of Europe, and Prussia’s increased power will act as a check upon France. We must not for- get, however, that the peace in Furope will allow Napoleon to pursue his plans in re- gard to Maximilian ; and the empire in Mexico, now in a very bad way, may yet be established by French and Austrian troops, while the lib- erals are quarrelling among themselves and Secretary Seward is diplomatizing with the shrewder and bolder Napoleon. From the rapidity with which the Prassian campaign has been pressed to a successful issue we may learn the changes which modern inventions have brought about in the art of war. On the 14th of June war was practically. declared, and on the 28th of July the terms of peace were arranged. The chronology of the campaign is exceedingly interesting. On the 14th of June the German Diet decided in favor of Austria. On the 16th the Prussians occupied Leipsic, Giessen, Cassel and Lobau, and on the 17th they entered the Hanoverian capital. The 18th found them in possession of Dresden and of various points in Bohemia. Their ad- vances continued, with slight cavalry en- counters, until the 24th, when an armistice was declared between the Prussian and Hanoverian armies, On the 25th came the battle at Jungbunsiau; on the 26th the engagement near Turnau; on the 27th the fights at Nachod, Oswiecin and Langensalza— the latter between the Prussians and Hano- verians, The Austrians were driven back upon Josephstadt the same day. On tho 28th there was an action near Trautenau, and the troops under Prince Frederick Charles were engaged near Minchengriitz. The Hanoverian army surrendered en the 29th, and the Prussians captured Gitschin. On the 30th there were battles at Kort and at Chwalkowitz, and the Austrians under Clam-Gallas were pushed back to Kniggritz, July opened with a fight at Gitschin. The next day the two armies of Prussia effected a junction, and on the 3d inst. occurred the decisive battle of Sadowa. On the 7th the Elbe was crossed. On the 16th there was a battle before Olmiitz. On the 22d the Prussians, still pursuing their advantages, forced a grand battle before Vienna. On the 23d an armistice of five days was offered and accepted, and on the 28th peace was declared. A war that might have lasted for thirty years in the olden time is thus ended within six woeks by the aid of railroads, the telegraph and the breech-loaders. Diplomacy is out- stripped by the celerity of these military miove- ments, and while Napoleon is considering what to do a peace is arranged without his assistance. Next to our own great civil war this German war must take rank in history as one of the wonders of the age. Tas Iupeciurry or Govannor Fextox.—We have heretofore mentioned the fact, and it can- not be repeated too often, that the last Legis- lature of this State entrusted to the hands of Governor Fenton the important duty of ap- pointing ® commission to examine into and report upon the mode of managing various departments in our municipal government, and to expose the manifold corruptions that ore known to exist This duty has been cntirely neglected by the Gover- nor. He has paid no attention whatever to the request of the Legislature ; has, in fact, treated that body with contempt, and corrup- tion and fraud are permitted to stalk uninter- ruptedly through nearly every branch of the city government. Take the infamous gas con- tract of twenty years, an unprecedented piece of corporation rascality, by which our citizens are to be taxed to the amount of millions for the benefit of an onerous and exacting mo- nopoly, Look at’ the bare-faced job of pur- chasing twenty-five thousand patent gas burners at a cost of one dollar each, when they can be manufactured for five cents a piece. Take the bigger job of leasing from Fernando Wogs apartments for corporation offices [fF sAum amounting in the aggregate to <wo b“indred thousand dollars, when the ass, ‘and actual valuation of the whole BeSpephy ts not over sixty thousand dollar, ‘agorirding to Horace Gy Greeley and My, O'PSilly, who ought to know. Teke “ \gaxitic Conrt House swindle, 1s of thousands already expended in cx; 64 of offginal contracts and appropryy.. by But It is idle to enumerate all the y/iun- dering jobs, fraud and corruption that ave al- “feady prevailed and continue to orvail in our city corporation. It is a gross scandal that these things are allowed to go on. The Comptroller and the Corporation Attor- ney should interpose their authority in some manner to prevent these frauds, if the weak end imbecile Governor fails to do his duty by appointing an examining commission. The corporation robbers seem to be determined to seize everything they can lay their hands on between this time and the period of the meeting of the next Legislature, and find in the Governor a convenient and easy tool to answer their purposes. The chief magis- trate of no State in the Union has had such important powers entrusted to him as have been given to Governor Fenton in this especial matter of the government of the city; and yet he shamefully neglects to exercise them. The corruptions here are greater in proportion than the jobs of the late session of Congress, with Thad Stevens and Ben Wade at their head; for Congress had Uncle Sam’s long purse to operate upon, while our corporation jobbers have only the treasury of the city. The people are already taxed almost to a famine point, and the negligence of the Governor helps to aug- ment the burden. Unless he speedily attends to his duties, so plainly indicated by the Legis- lature, we hope he will be the republican nominee for re-election, for the satisfaction of seeing how overwhelmingly he will be defeated. Is the Atlantic Cable a Success? The Ailantic cable has undoubtedly proved 8o far a great success. From the time that the paying out commenced at the Irish coast of Valentia until the present the continuity has been perfect, and messages have been regularly transmitted. Since Sunday morning we may say that America has been in direct telegraphic communication with Europe. Intelligence of vast: importance to the interests of the latter continent—the peace between Austria and Prussia—has reached us on the submarine wire. We are promised that in a few days regular business communication will be opened to the public, and the work so long antici- pated will be fairly commenced. The weather appears to have been highly favorable to the entergrise; for there has not been for many years so fair a trip made across the Atlantic at this season as that of the Great Eastern and her consorts; and we judge by the very moder- ate length of cable paid oat—only 1,866 miles from point to point—that the vessel must have kept a very steady course. Altogether the matter has been well managed, and may be regarded throughout aa a very fine achieve- ment of science, skill and enterprise. So far, then, all is well; but will the success of the cable be permanent? Will the tole- graphic current from continent to continent vemain unimpeded by the accidents of waves and currents and the irregularities of the ocean bed? We think this is doubtful. The surveys so carefully made show that the bottom of the sea for some five or six hundred miles from the coast of Ireland is interrupted by rocky ridges and chasms, in the midst of which thero is much danger of the cable get- ting chafed, by the bearing down of its own weight Into the hollows, and the scraping of its surface upon the ragged edges of the rocks. Again, towards the coast of Newfoundland there are rapid and changing under-currents, which may materially affect the safety of the wire. All these probabilities must be tested before we can pronounce success perma- nent, There may be a radical error in the p'an of running the cable directly westward from the Irish coast over these rocks and chasms, which sooner or later will wear it away, and it will probably part, it may be in a few days or a few months, Why not make a curve southward and meet the Gulf Stream, which we know makes a smooth bed for itself, and which does not flow so far north as the coast of Ireland. By following this curve of the Gulf Stream the uneven bottom of the oc2an would be avoided. This course might insure perfect safety for the cable, although it would involve the necessity of laying afew more miles. In its present position we cannot regard its permanency as at all certain. But fortunately we will not be dependent solely upon this Atlantic line for our future telegraphic connection with Europe. There are other lines in contemplation which appear to .have less dfficulties to con- tend with. For instance, the line across Bebring’s Straits to Siberia and Russia we look upon as one certain to be es- tablished ; but even should it fail we have still two other routes in view from our south- ern seaboard—one via Bermuda, and another to the Azores, and thence to the coast of Spain. These cables would have the double advantage of lying at the bottom of a comparatively calm part of the sea and of having « resting place, as it were, in mid ocean, rendering the vast stretch across the whole Atlantic unnecesstry. Therefore should the recently laid cable hold good, and the Russian line be succesefully completed and the Great Eastern succeed in raising and connecting the old cable, we shall have five modes of snbmarine communication with the Old World by and by; and if they should happen to fail, it is pretty certain that the Southern routes will be tried, and they will no doubt succeed. So that we do not despair im the least of seeing the two continents con- nected by telegraph even should the buoyant hopes entertained of the continued success of the great Atlantic cable not be realized. It has not been fully tested yet. Time alone can prove whether it ean be considered a fait ac compli. Maximilian’s Empire Crambling. ‘The Empress Carlotta left the city of Mexico on the 9th and passed Havana on the 17th inst., en roue to Europe, It is stated Pat she has gone to see Napoleon, to preapht to that Emperor the ultimatum of Yeatepaw in Mexico ; and to declare that i€iot torther eus- tained with French trogps ind French money Maximilian wi) abondon the joint speculation it is furthe» stated by our correspondent that the Bach troops seriously talked of jprevent- ‘304 the Empress’ departure by forgo, and it is intimated that Maximilian wouKl leave if it were not for Marshal Bazaine, ‘The Emperor is determined at to make his exit before | the last of MG Frofich troops leave. Every- thing indisagle that the firm is bankropt and about to be’ violently dissolved. It ig *htimated that in case of the refusal tf | Npvoleon to further assist Maximilian, 7th 'G | 9 favorite, and who, notwithetar ‘oung Empress, who is said to be a very business-like young lady and « thorough Wpjo- matist, will visit Washington city, Sucb~s visit can only be with the design of arvinging for the quiet exft of her husband; ‘or she cannot | pn nnn nnn nc ce cc cc ee EnnEnEI EIR HRSSRIEEnEmeeemeeee===eeneeee ee hope to gain assistance or recognition in oppo- sition to our Monroe doctrine. If Napoleon, freed from European complica tions, resumes courage and sends both men and money to Maximilian, thus breaking his promise to evacuate the State, we shall have to leave diplomacy to the little man on the Rio Grande. We learn that General Sheridan, who has kept & watchful eye on Mexico, very suddenly lefl New Orleans on the 19th inst. for Matamoroa, He told as gentleman just before his departure that his information led him to believe that the dissolution of the Maximilian government was near at hand, and that he was going to Mata- moros to “be in at the death.” He requested the gentleman, who was coming North, to urge upon the President and General Grant to per- mit him to finish up the late rebellion by driv ing the French out of Mexico, He asked, he said, for only six thousand cavalry and permis sion to ship arms to the liberals, who would join him, and promised to drive the last one te their ships before France could even think ef reinforcing them. But, to all appearance, @ push of this kind from Sheridan is unnecesary; the concern is falling of its own weight, and will be pushed close enough by the liberals themselves, Smasnive Taxation.—The advertisement re- turns of the Heratp for the three months end- ing June, 1865, were $179,306, and the goverm ment tax thereupon was $5,379. For the three months ending with June of this year, 1868, the advertisement returns were $196,366, and the government tax $5,890—an increase in our receipts of nearly $20,000. At that time last year the Barnumized theatres were advertising with us, and now they are not; so that the loss of their advertisements has greatly increased the business of “this establishment.” Why de they not continue to advertise us in their bills t The Heraxp will pay to the government thia year a tax of nearly sixty thousand dollars, which we call smashing taxation. WASHINGTON. ‘Wasutycton, July 30, 1866. General Grant and the Freedmen’s Bureau, A report was made to the Freedmen’s Bureau a short . time ago by an agent at Annapolis, Md, of interferense with the operations of the Bureau at that place by the white citizens. General Howard presented the repert to General Augur, commanding this military depart ment, and asked for a company of white troops te assist the agent in the discharge of his official duties, General Augur referred the matter te General Grant, with whom General Howard had a personal interview. General Grant declined to furnish the troops, on the ground that Maryland was not one of the lately insurrectionary States, in which thearmy isre+ quired to support the Bureau, and, morever, that he wag opposed to the intorference of the military wherever i could be avoided, such interference only tending to im crease the ovils tt attempts to allay and excites the people to increased bitterness, President Visitors. + The number of visitors at the White House to-day was greeter than on any day during the past three weoks. Most of those present were admitted to tq Executive chamber, as the greater number were Sena: tors and Representatives who had called to take leave of the President, Governor Curtin was among the civilians whogalled on Mr. Johnson to-day, Appolatment of Internal Revenue Collectes for Philadelphia. { The President to-day re-appointed Sloanaker Collecter of Internal Revenue at Philadelphia. It will be re membered that this same person was appointed s short time ago, and rejected by the Senate. Several Senaters who then opposed his confirmation have since united im 8 recommendation of him, acknowledging that they were wrongly ‘aformed on the former occasion. H Comminstoners to Examine Indian Clatme. Messrs. A. BR. Jackson and Elliott W. Rice have been appointed commissioners by the President of the United States, under articles forty-nine and fifty of the late Chee- taw and Cuickasew treaty, to examine and report upos claims of loyal Indians of those tribes for losses of pre- erty on aecount of their loyalty, and also upon claims of licensed traders among them for losses of property by reason of the rebsilion. The commissioners proceed shortly to the Indian country to make their tnvestt- The Indian Treaty Commission. Hon. D. N. Cooley, Commissioner of Indian Affaire, has just received despatches from Newton Edwards, President of the Northwest Indian Commission, dated “steamer Ben Jonson, Fort Union, July 14, 1966,” ime forming him that the Commission arrived at that places on the 7th inst, and found there the Lower Crow chiefs; the Upper Crow chiefs were expected every day, tho chiefs of the Grosventors of the Prairie and three bands of the Assinneboines. There were encamped near the fort four hundred lodges of the Onopapas. They all talked in the most pacific manner, and will doubtless treat in such a way as to give complete satisfaction, Tho Commissioner would probably not eco the Santeca, though, from all accounts, « large majority of desire to mako terms, Mr, Edmonds to finish their labors there durmg the next woek and return to Fort Berthold; where they expected to be detained threo or four days before starting fot home. Mr. Newton states that the negotiations are re garded as signally successful, and it is believed that the tribes treated with will regard their treaty stipulations for a very long time, The Cholera in Antwerp. The Secretary 0! ‘tate to-day received despatches from the United States Consul at Antwerp, Belgium, in witieh the latter states that the cholera has recently made ite ap- pearance In that city, and has already assumed the form of an epidemic, The deaths during the last ten days is June numbered forty per day, and on one or two days they reached the number of seventy five. Personal. General Sherman has been telegraphed to come to Washington, and is expected to-morrow. Postmaster General Randall has been summoned te New York by family sickness, ‘ Promotion sf General Crawfard. 8. W. Crawford, formerly division commandor in the Fifth corps, was last week brevetted Whjor General im the United States Army, from Marg% 13, 1865; but by some accident his name was omived in the published list, , The Monthly Statemeny. of the Public Debe. ‘The usual monthly statenveat of public indebtedness for July 18 likely to be om‘ttod, A press of business le the reason assigned. Destitu¥.on in the South. Nearly cight miVions of rations have been issued im the last ten mgyiths to the needy whites and biacks im the South. Tl¥ whites have received about one-fourth of the whale’amount. Upited States Securities in Europe. Recep advices from the Continent suate that Kuropean bank@rs find an increasing demand for United States gO bearing bonds, and will be obliged to supply them- elven with au additional quantity, iputend of sending ‘any back for redemption. Annrvat ov Haw, tae Cuay, ro Ganamas, —Hamill, the champion oareman, arriv/a yesterday morning the City of New York, and, was waloomed back by of bie friends, whom hy jertained at his with anecdotes of the + and arance of the, lg A lately been ¢ Northumbriang, ¢, journing. He +, that ble arrangements di Permit of lis ‘going in London on the evening of "Aare day, July 49, to witness the presentation éf the £1,000 st tog won by Harry Kelley. bis ent-gonist im | the ere Af sculling contest. Hi ene to! Aviny beat’ ‘in the first race from High | ime 4én Point, on the Tyne, a distance of ‘ iy and in the second race, from flig! y Faredice Quay and Hack, a distance of laster race Was ron in thirty-eight w ‘woonds, Hamill says he was tres Kkind:.@s by the people of Newcast! © enh paster'sa Sekt bd shown or dteagreeable fooling ‘ utmost harmony and gool “siy prevailed at Suh s wanave gua wyicanns in. tt +S aatoom in which NA Wine hot e i { ‘ i ' '