The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, DFFICE N. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ENTS THIS EVENING. 5 THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St, Nicholas CNDKARLLA—MET-a-MORA—TOo Mucu FOR Gooo ASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowerv.—Come a.134— 0 MUNSTRELST: Ler DiveRvlsseMent Ao Howe TRON THe Wan oH LY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanies’ Hall, 472 Hoa: —In a Variery or Ligut ano LavcuasLe Enrenta: its, Conrs Ds Bauiet, dc. Your Tous Nex, GARDEN, winth st ‘Thirt Avenne, between Fifty Taro. THOMAS’ ORCHRSTRAL ag at 8 o'Clock. ‘OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erarorias Mow 120s, BURLESQURS oNo PawroMiMes, eodway.— s wien tHe Oxy-HypnogEN Microscors twice from 8 A. M, till 10 P.M. Yew York, Tuesday, August 7, 1866. T2a2B WEWS. EUROPE. Jy the ore wat al this port yesterday of the steamships ania aud City of Boston we received our special deace from Engiand and the Continent of tu files of foreign newspapers dated to Thurs. . oniaining very important details of the fur ady.ces to that day, with other matter reported brough the Auntie cable, Lord Stanley, on the part of the Derby Cabinet, stated b the House of Commons that the American claims for Hlamages done by the Alavaina aud other losses sustained uring the war at English hand had not yet been “pre. | ferred’? to Earl Derby's goveruinent, in'imating that they woald be considered by the Cabinet when received. Wo referred to the friendly fee! gg existing between the by the United ales Yarl Derby will ad ga\ and amend, if u Ins A Paris journal says the French troops will be with- drawn dom Blexico, Maximbian organizing a native army fifty <ousand strong, to be ollicered by Europe. ans—Freve!inon preferred—and bolding the ‘strategic line” from Vorecran to Mexico city. Communicatious feom Moscow show that the political Circies of Russia are considerably exeited as to whether (he Czar sioud Yermit Ausiru to be too deeply hu- | uiliated or Prise ® the much aggrandized, or whether | ul commission to investi- y, the Britis Neutratity he suouid noi leave Getmany to her tuture, and advance | on the East durmg the digerganizativa existing on the | continent, The German peice negotiations were progressing. Prussia still treating Bavaria, Frunktert and the greacer portion of the Federal German army as in a state of war. Busmarck's cry of German unity was becom'ng popular, the people, particularly in Sonth Germany, fearng to bo swailowed down by Napoleon for France. This idea ex- tenued rapidly after the receipt of the report of Earl Dery's remarks on the war in the House of Lords, A Paris paper publishes & short yot sharp arti le to show that the Anglo-French aljianco is almost valueless to France, The London Times says that Italy will enter the Peace Congress “empty handed” and defeated, depending on Pruseia und Napolein, Earl Russeil appeared at the annual dinner of the Cobden Club, and delivered a somewhat lengthy speech. Abandontaz, apparently, his famous ‘finality’ doc- trince, he advocated the right of tue Italians to rule in Veneta; indeed, the right of all people to choose their own form of government. He rolated th» substance of a conversation which ho had with Napoleon L., im which the great captain expressed his opinion of the treaty of Vienna, and foretold how its operation would eventnaty, Our special despatch on the subject of the Roform riots in London, with the news;aper reports of the movement which we print to-day, goes to show that the peoplo of Engiand have drawn the lino between popular rights and aristocratic class privileges «in a sharp, decisive and alarming manner, aod that a most rerious political crisis has been inaugurated in Great Britain. The scenes enactet at and after the meeting in Hyde Park were of avery tumultuo 8 cha- racter, and it is evident, from the speoches of Karl Derby and M. Disraeli and the actionof Mr, Walpole, that the tory Cabinet cannot, or is afraid to deal with the leaders of the agitation. John Bright's tctter, coupled “with the pointing by the hand to had of the unfortanate Chartes the First, om the statue of the unfortanate King, are very signiQ ant both in expression and a:t. TRE City. Only nineteen cases of cholera, including four deaths, were reported ia this city yosterday, The decrease was thought to have occurred from the change of tho wea- ther, although it was supposed that a number of cases were not reported The mortality report gives the total number of deaths for the past week 8 949, of which 239 ‘were from chotera. In Brooklyn but fow cases are re- Ported, and the accounts from tho Islands are more on- couraging. Thero was a meeting of the Board of Health yesterday evening. Another cholera hospital was or- dered to be opened up town. Dr. Harris submitted a letter giving an account of the prozreas of the cholera. During the debate on Brooklym President Schultz pro- pored to organtze a corps of nurses to attend the cholera Pat.ents at thelr own residences. . Fourteen new cages of cholera appeared in Philadetphia during Saturday and sunday, three of them proving fatal. Forty-seven deaths from that disease occurred there during the week. Twelve cases of Asiatic choicra resulted fatally in Cin- cinuatt during the month of July, The Health Officer of thas city reports fifty-two deaths from the disease during the Arst five days of August. Oue caso of cholera proved fatat in Providence, R. L, yesterday The patient was a nogro, just arrived from Washington. Eleven deaths from cholera have taken place in the Charity Hospital in New Oricans since the Ist inst. The disease is anid to be of a malignant type. ‘Tho Board of Councilmen met yesterday, and, after disposing of @ few routine papers, adjourned till ‘Thursday. Car tickets ate very generally sold now by the city railroad compa:.‘az, but at points not convenient to the travelling public, The tickets are printed ona slip of Paper, tn quantities of twenty to each stip, aud are not transferable, James Stephens, the Head Centre of Fenianiem, ts to start on a Western tour during the present week. An unusual degree of activity has provailed among his wing of the brotherhood lately, but nothing will be fura:shed for publication. George Andrews, formerly a merchant of Williams burg, was arrested yesterday, charged with several forgeries on down-town merchants, He was committed by Justice Hogan, and will be examined this morning. The coroner's jury investigating the deaths cansed by the recent explosion of Harris & Co.'s sugar refinery, on tdicts yesterday—three of the jurors deciding that tho engineer, Philip Ryan, ‘was responsible for the explosion, and three of them do- ciding that the firm of Harris & Co. were to blame for employing 6 people im the establishment About eight o'clock last night a fire occurred in the Chrystal Oil Works, at the corner of Sullivan and For Fis streets, in Brooklyn, occasioned by the burstin: of a still, Tho flames were prompily extinguished. The Jows ts about $1,000. The demand of the joarneymen carpenters ay! joiners of Broowlyn for the privilege of quitting work at four o'clock on Satarday afternoon has met with the acquies- cence of nearly all the employers, The movement is couridered a decided success, Two young men, named Feargos and McGuan, on- gaged in on alteroation in Brooklyn yesterday, when Feargvs shot bb antagonist through the head, inficting f@ wound whict was pronounced fatal by the physiovns, Feargus was arrested. ‘The August term of the Geweral Sessions commenced yesterday, Recorder Ha. kett presiding. As there was not @ quoram of ertber grend of petty jorors present, those pnewertng to their neucy were discharged till Usis (Taes- 4o)) morning, Wan Hho ces qwnlting thelr setion will 1th igh ao indictments were tried, Dis wiunved the calendar ag to Baye about tea prisoners, against whom the testimony was slight, discharged. A lawyer named John Porcy was committed for con- tempt of coart yesterday by Judge Barnard for not com- ing to order and taking bis seat when requested to do 80 by the Court. The affair created considerable excitement in legal cireles, The stock market was dull yesterday. Governments wore steady, Gold was firm, and closed at 147%. Commercial affairs were very quiet yesterday, but values were without easeutial change, save in a fow in- stances. Foreign merebandise was quist but steady, at about Saturday's quotations, Cotton was dull and drooping; coftee was quict; sugar was unchanged. On ‘Change flour was quiet, and 100, a 25c. lower. Wheat declined 20. a Sc. ; corn was scarcely 80 firm; oats were dull and beavy, Pork opened firmer, but closed heavy. Beef and lard were unchanged, while whiskey was dull and nominal. Freights were quiet bu firm. Petroleum was less active and lower. MISCELLANEOUS. Tt is confidently expected in Canada that another Fenian invasion will soon take place. The militia are kept drilling, and an attempt ts being mado to have Par- liament prorogued in the latter part of this week, to avoid an investigation of tho Fort Erie affair, Mr, Jones complained yesterday in Parliament that the Crown lands were badly managed, that a great revenue was fost, and settlers wore driven to the United States where mor’ encouragement was given thom. ‘The convention of dentists, which has been hoiding for a week past in Boston, adjourned sine die yesterday. Major General Rutter ‘ered an address before them, and resolution? w Jexpressing the wish that he Dad been in nd of Now Orleans a week ago. Two | gentlemen from the South, membors of the Convention, { quietly withdrew when tho arrival of Geoeral Butler was: announced News from Port au Prince, Hayti, of July 13, states that the insurrections at Gonaives had been compictely suppressed and free pardon was to be oxtended to all the insurgents bot three. Our consuls in Spa‘n write that a strict qnarantine at Port Mahon or Vigo, has beon ordered on all American panich ports, clerk of the Courtof Appeals in oo yesterday, Duvall, the can- is reported to have carried y 1,600 majority, and the Stato by 10,000. ro meeting ip Boston last night for the purpore of reising (un Senator Henry Wilson was tho principal orator. Ho bit- torly denounced President Johnson and lis policy of re- construction and declared the Phiadeiphia Convention to be made up.of copperheads, rebels and flunkeys of the old whig party. He wound up by an exhortation in favor of universal suffrage, and said that the rebels would be complied to-adopt the constitutional amend- ment Twenty operatives were injured by the recent burning of Hain’s milla, Woonsocket, Bhode Island, six of them baving legs or arms broken, Despatches received by the Mexican Consul in San Francisco give glowing accounts of the reception of Pres- ident Juarez In Chitimalua, ‘The steamboat General Lytle, running between Cincin- | Rati and Lonisville, exploded yesterday while racng with the St. Charles, another steamer in the same trade. Fifteen or eighteen lives were lost, and the boat is a total wreok. The +teamor Santiago de Guba, Captain J. W. Smith, Nicaragua, July 81, arrived at this port A New Unropean Scttlement—France Neutral. ized aud Russin to be Held in Cheek. When Louis Napolcon, at Biarri'z last au- tumn, ‘entered into his confidential arrange- ments with Bismarck for the reconstruction of the map of Europe, he little dreamed that the then comparatively unknown Prime Minister of Prussia would prove to be the master of the situation. Napoleon doubtless had calculated that in coming to blows Austria and her Ger- man contederates would be at least a match for Prussia and Italy, and that the intervention of France would be necessary to bring the war to a conclusion. He would then, for his ser- vices as mediutor,or as the balance of power in the war, secure his compensation from Pras- sia of the left bank of the Rhine, and from Italy, of the island of Sardinia, or something botter, as a little viceroyalty for his amiable conain, the Prince Napoleon, the son-in-law of King Victor Emanuel. This was a neat Napoleonic arrangement; but it has been com- pietely upsct by Bismarck and the wonderful skill, activity and military superiority in every way developed by the Prussians over Austria in the late remarkable campaiga from Dresden to the Danube. In this compaign the astonishing successes of Prussia have so thoroughly broken up poor Ausiria and her German confederates as wo piace Bismarck in a condition to dictate his terms of a settlement, both in respect tp Germany and Italy, regardless of, the programme Of Napoleon. Thus it appears that in the peace preliminaries agreed upon Austria isto withdraw from the Germanic Confederation, and is to lose Venetia and her interest in Schleswig-Holstein; that she is to pay ten millions to her adversaries as expenses of the wat, and that the German States north of the Main are to form an inde- pendent union, while those south of that river are to form another. A settlement upon this basis, which we expect will be made with or without the consent of Napoleon, will make Prussia at least a match for France as one of the great Powers of Europe. The Northern Germanic Confederation indicated, in one word, for all purposes of war or peace, will be Prus- sia, Then, too, trom the fact that it will be a compact Protestant confederation, and trom its tamily alliances with the royal family of Wind- tor Castle, Prussia hereafter, as against France, will become the natural and efficient ally ot England. Thus it will be seen that while leading British statesmen and journals have been blindly sympatbizing with the cause of Austria, Bismarck has been doing more for the maintenance of the power of England in Buro- pean affairs than all that has been accomplished by her Cabinets, fleets and armies since the battle of Waterloo. Tn the new settlement foreshadowed in the armistice aforesaid, Napoleon ceases to be the arbiter of Western Europe, for France is neu- tralized by Prussia, This is not the equilibrium anticipated by Napoleon ; but if Prussia and Italy can secure their own terms without his assistance, he will be apt to find it expedient to let them do so. In 1859, when he had pushed his victorious army into the Austrian Quadrilateral, he paused and made a half way treaty of peace for Italy, because the war at that point threatened to assume larger propor- tions than he was prepared to meet. So now, if victorious Prussia and Italy shall agree between themselves that his horse-jockey claims upon the province of Venetia, arising from the cession of it by Austria, shall be dis regarded, and that the temporalities of the Pope must fall into the kingdom of Italy, it is probable that Napoleon will discover that the time bas at last come for the withdrawal of his troops from Rome. The reconstruction of Western Europe, in this general view, will settle the Roman question by reducing, or rather by exalling, the Holy Father to the unmixed control of the spiritual affairs of bie Church, and will make the young kingdom of Ttaly sufficiently powerful to stand without the psvistence of Napoleon, while in the North, the for the education of the colored raco, | NEW YUKK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1866. power of France will be neutralised by the new power of Prussia and her Anglo- German Protestant confederation, Austria meantime, though shorn of her late prestige and ousted from the councils of Ger many, will not, from the loss of terrilory, be materially weakened. On the contrary, we shall not be surprised if, through a general European conference, she sball be given the Danubian principalities, It will certainly be the true policy of England, Prussia, Italy and France to join in effecting this arrangement, in order that Austria may stand along the whole line of the Danube a barrier against Russia and her unrelinquished designs upon Constan- tinople, the Bosphorus, the Dardanelles, Turkey in Asia and the eastern end of the Medicer ranean, Such are the rectifications of the map of Europe, east and west, north and south, sug- gested by the late wonderful triumphs of Prussia against Austria, and by the still more astonish- ing successes of Bismarck over Napoleon in the delicate, difficult and dangerous game of diplomacy which they have been playing, each for himself, though apparently as partners, for a division of the stakes on the table, Bismarck, almost unknown beyond Germany afew montas ago, stands now the foremost man in Europe. In diplomacy he has eclipsed the astute Napo- leon the Third, and in war the victories identi- fied with his policy are only paralleled by those of Napoleon the First. Out of the paltry Schleswig-Holstein squabble he has succeeded in playing the most daring and dangerous game of national aggrandiz-ment known in history. He has proved himself a man of such rare sagacity, abilities, energy and heroism, that he will surely go down to history as one of the most brilliant lights of the nineteenth century, and as the leading mind in the establishment of tho equilibrium of Europe ona eolid founda- tion of checks and balances, Revenue of the Government—Paying the Na- tonal Debt. The official statement that the national debt had been reduced during the year ending the firet of this month a hundred and twenty-four millions of dollars is as gratifying as extraor- dinary. Looking at the large expenditures of the government in paying the debts and claims arising out of the war just closed, as well as the largely increased current expenses of the government, we may exclaim with pride, what other nation could show euch a financial state- ment under similar circumstances? None at the present day could, and we do not remem- ber anything in history to be compared with such resources and prosperity. A debt that would sink almost any other nation coming upon it suddenly, as this has upon us, we can liquidate easily and within a short time. Our debt nominally is three-fourths the amount of the debt of Great Britain, but really if we cal- calate the amount of interest to be paid it is a much heavier debt—we paying six per cent, and even more, while that country only pays threo and a half and three per cont, Yot we could with proper management liquidate our debt in fifteen yéars or less, and it will take England, with its five millions annual sink- ing fund, nearly a century.to pay its debt. There would be this difference in the result under the present condition and circumstances of the two countries, But when we look at our ‘boundless and increasing means, especially at our mineral resources, and compare those with the declining resources of the same character in Eogland, our debt is but a trifle. The above fs one side of the picture which we may contemplate with pleasure, but there is another side also which we ought to look at. The finances of even such a great and rich country as the United States may be 60 mis- managed, and there may be so much corruption and political trouble, that our burdens may be- come intolerable and the debt a perpetual incubus upon our industry. People may bear the heavy pressure of the internal reyonue end other taxes as long as they avo the lerge income of the Treasury properly applied in an economical administration of the government and to the payment of the debt; but no longer, without resistance. It will be well, then, to notice how the Treasury Department and Con- grees are aoting with regard to the public money. We have noticed with gratification the im- mense revenue of the government and the redno- tion of the national debt, All this has occurred independently of Treasury management or any recent action of Congress. The revenue laws made for war expenditures and in time of war, with the vast resources of the country, have produced this result. The Secretary of the Treasury and Congress have, on the contrary, Rot used these resources as they ought to have used them. In fact they have been recklessly squandered. Instead of reducing the debt $125,000,000 it ought to have been reduced $200,000,000. The Sccretary has in the Treas- ury over $130,000,000. It ought not to lie there ; it is not needed there, Tha current income of the government from month to month is more than sufficient, as has been shown, for all demands. Why, then, not apply that fund of $130,000,000 to the payment of the debt, and thereby save the interest, amount- ing to $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 a yeart This isa simple proposition that every business man will understand. But, stranger still, the Sec- retary is borrowing moncy to the amount of over $100,000,000 and paying six per cent for it while he has such an immense surplus on hand. What should we say of » man who bor- rowed money at interest while he had coffers full lying idle? Such man, probably, would be putin an insane asylum. Yet that is pre- cisely the case with Mr. McCulloch. Such financial mismanagement seems incredible, but it is nevertheless true. There are numbers of individuals who are drawing six per cent on money loaned to the government, called tem- porary loans; at the same time the Treasury has the enormous surplus referred to lying idle. While the Secretary is thus losing the money of the people on one hand, Congress is squander- ing it away upon every conceivable job on the other. Hundreds of millions of dollars proba- bly would not cover the jobs of our radical Con- gress since it met last December. We might notice among them the bill to support negroes in idlences and @ host of officeholders, called the Freedmen’s Bureau bill; the enormous rail- road and land grants, the so-called Soldiers’ Bounty bill, which will only benefit # host of cormorant agents, and a number of other such infamous measures; but we havo noticed them Defore and.the people can not but remember them. ‘The country cannot stand such corrupt and rulsous legislation, The time has come when « thorough change is demanded and an entirely new Congress should be elected. The finances and financial legislation of the nation should be the absorbing topic of the day. President Johnson bas an opportunity to immortalize himself and to take a stronger position betore the country than any of his predecessors ever had, if he will make himself thoroughly ac- quainted with the subject and lay the facts be- fore the people. The Philadelphia Convention should direct its attention especially to this matter, for it is the vulnerable point at which to attack the radicals; the stump orators all over the country should use it vigorously in the ap- proaching elections, and the President should make such @ plain slatesmanlike exposition of it that all may understand and be led to elect a different and better class of men to Congress. TheAtiantic Cable aud the London Des- patchen. Agood deal of conjecture and speculation and no little doubt surround the tuture use- fulness of the Atlantic cable. It has, however,’ beon the means of furnishing somes importent news from Europe, for which the public are in- debted entirely to the Henarp., We published, the first special despatch from our correspond- ent in London which contained any Important news relating to the critical situation of affairs’ in Europe—the announcement of a four weeks’ armist:ce between the hostile Powers, This was the first newspaper despatch that came over the cable. An attempt was made by some of the small journals to prove that it was not genuine. We need hardly say that subsequent news has confirmed ‘it boyond a doubt.. We rec-ivedon Sunday aflernoon, and published , yes‘erday, another despatch from our London correspondent, dated from the Queen’s Hotel on Sa'urday, containing news of still graver, importance—namely, the conclusion ot peace betweon Prussia, Anstria and Italy, with all the details upoa which the negotiations were based. This information was obtained by our corre- spondent from various points in Europe at our expense. It was sentspecially to us, and yet it’ was published simultaneously in the other papers as an Associated Press despatch, Tho ' agent of the Associated Press had that despatch seven hours before it was sent to us, and he kept it back all that time, The public were thus deprived of this most important intelli- gence until yesterday morning, when the infor- mation—for which we, and not the Associated Progs, bore the expense of gathering through- out Europe—was given in all the city papers. } ‘The Executive Committee of tie Associated Prceas do not know anything about the manage- ment of that institution, and they accordingly leave it in tho hands of their agent in this city, who knows still less about it. They pay their share of the.telegraphing, it is true, but they do not pay any part of the expense of obtain- ing the news which we have established a sys- tem of procuring all over Europe for the benefit of the public. Mr. Field or the managers of the cable are not to blame for the fact that important news is withheld from the American people. They are not collectors of news for the newspapers, but managers of cables. They know how to manage 8 cable very well, as events prove, but they do not know how to provide news for the press. That is the business which the agents of the Associated Press undertake to perform, and how imperfectly they fulfil their duty the fact to which we refer as occurring on Sunday sufficiently proves, It was of vastly more importance to the public to know that peace had been concluded in Europe than to receive incorrect quotations of the price of cotton and of stocks which have been fur- nished from day to day from Liverpool and London, while the former intensely inter- esting political intelligence is withheld for weven hours by the Associated Press agent in this city, who alone is responsible for the dereliction of duty in the matter. We fur- nished news of the utmost public interest, col- leoted at out own dost, frdm all points on the European continent, which the people should have received at the earliest moment, and which they would have had om Sunday had our despatches not been detained from early in the day until halt-past eight o’clock in the evening by the agent of the Associated Press, at which time they were furnished to all the other papers, who, of course, gave us no credit for them. We have fora long time had cause to com- plain of the manner in which the business of the Associated Press. is conducted, and it has now become endurable no longer. We will give ita little more trini, and if the system is not thoroughly reformed we will most assuredly smash the concern up and establish a system for ourselves, by which the country will not be shut off from important news through the in- competency of executive committees or agente. We bave means enough at our command to do it, and if the Associated Press do not change their method of transacting business and con- trive to do justice to the great American public we will undertake it ourselves in the public interest. We will take eare that the large newspaper reading community of the country shall not be kept in the dark as to momentous events transpiring in the Old World, with which our interests, commercial and political, are intimately connected, so long as there is a perfect telegraphic communication preserved between the two continents, and there isan influential and widely read newspaper like the Heratp to circulate it. We do not want to interfere with the Associated Press if it is Properly conducted. It is not the interest of a journal like ours—prosperous without par allel in its large circulation and ad- vertising business—to break up small pe- pers that barely get « living. The more newspapers there are ths better for the spread of intelligence and the expansion of thought, the advance of science, the stimulation of honest ambition and the general prosperity of the country; but we are determined that the public shall not be cheated out of that which they have a right to demand—the earliest in- formation upon all subjects which it is possible for an enterprising newspaper to furnish. By the employment of capital, skill and a perse verance of which there are few examples in this age the Atlantic cable has been laid, afford- ing the means of obtaining news from Europe every hour; but of what avail is this if the agents of the Associated Press put the news in their pockets until their interest permits them to deliver it at the office of the journal which has taken the trouble and undergone the ex- pense to obtain itt We repeat that if the present bungling system of conveying tele- graphic news is not altogether reformed we will take the protection of the public in this matter iato our own hands, Panic Makers—2'he Cholera. The efforts made by cerhwn journals of this city to get up a cholera panic offer about as bad an example of the abuse of the power of the press as any that has been .witnessed. For the sake of pushing a circulation which nothing but exciting influences can stimalate they un- scrapulonsly work on the fears of th ¢ timid and keep them in a state of causeless alm™™. They are aided, we regret to say, by # porth 0 of the medical profession, who have their ox7n inte- rests to subserve by keeping up the scara: We cannot conceive anything more abominable than this playing upon the public nervousca7ss with a view to profit by it. It exhibits humaa nature in its worsl aspect, and is especially to be condemned in the members of professions which claim to be regarded as the guardians of the public. safety. “- There never was anything more senseless or ridiculous than this alarm about the Asiatic cholera, We are satisfied that up to the present time there has not been a single well authenticated case of it. The reports of the Board of Heslth prove nothing, for they confound with it in their returns all cases ofcho'era morbus, bilions diarrhea and cholera infantum. To show how unreliable they are, we may mention the fact that the day before yesterday we heard one of the doctors con- nected with the Board assert that out of twenty cases of declared Asiatic cholera which he had been sent to visit he could not recognize one which had any of the real characteristies of the disease, If the other medical men em- ployed as inspectors were as well posted on tho symptoms of the disease, there is no doubt that the returns daily given to the public would be divested of all grounds for alarm. We question very much if three-fourths of them really know what Asiatic cholera is, They are mostly young men without practice and who have had but little or no experience of this dreadfal scourge. How, then, can they be expected to distinguish between it and the cognate summer maladies which annually at this period of the year carry off so many of our city population? In determining upon the presence of Asiatic cholera there is one thing that should always be borne in mind—it spares neither age nor sex nor condition; the rich, the well fed and the cleanly are just as liable to it as the poor, half atarved and slovenly. What are the facts in regard to the disease or diseases set down in this category by the Board? In almost every instance the persons attacked belong to the very poorest clnss of our population, and there is in their habits of tife sufficient to render them subject to contagion of any description. If typhoid fever had manifested itself as the prevailing epidem'c they would just as surely have been taken down by it as by bilious diar- rhoea, which is ‘simply what the reports of the Board of Health style Asiatic cholera, but which has no more claim to be considered so ‘| than dysentery or cholera infantum. Itis true that two or three medical men are included in the list of mortality from this capse; but it is notorious that not a season passes without one or more of that portion of the medical pro- fession whose attendance is confined to the poor falling victims to the fevers prevalent among them during the summer heat. We repeat that not only is there no founda- tion whatever for the panic excited about the Asiatic cholera, but that the alarmists are per- sons who have « direct interest in creating it. We question very much whether the Board of Hoalth and its officers are not entitled to be classed among them. They have certainly done everything in their power to deserve it. Tricks uron Newsrarces.— Newspapers, like individuals, are fallible and sometimes get bad- ly sold. The curious part of the affair is that they have no mercy on each other's mishaps, though they are aware their own turn may come next, One of our morning is just now very sore on the subject of paper col- iars,a bogas article in that specialty having been passed off on itas good. We would re- commend it to grin and bear it just as we do when we get caught. Ne amount of vigilance can protect newspapers against the occasional success of malicious huaxes of this kind. We have been lees frequently victimized than our neighbors, for we are not over trustfal, and the lessons which we receive are never lost upon us. We do get caught, however, once in a Ortawa, ©. W., August 6, 1866. The Canadiaa mind is becoming much exercised over the prospects of another Fenian invasion on a more for- midable scale than that of June last. There i 0 settled conviction that is will be attempted. The volunteers are to be called ont im fall force next month, ostensibly for ‘the purpose of drilling 1m camp, but seat Ye mast emergency. Notice is given in Parfiamens of Mintia wilt be “asked notice of inquiry into Mosraeat, August 6, 1806. Lamirande, the absconding banker from Poitiers, France, has been brought up to-day om ap ioformation charging him with forgery, by altering his books, while agent at Poitiers for the Rank of France, soa: to enable him to concea | bis baving emberied the sum of seven bundred thousand Only owe witnes from Paris. The in the provines. There have been very ey fy here, m conse. enoe of these the races to have taken © at She lyacinth, to-morrow have been postponed till the follow. joe day FIRE IN WOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND. a. Provinenon, R. 1, Aag. 6, ‘The Joss by the partial burning of Harris’ No. 4 mill in Woonsocket ix estimated at $20,000 A Bcore of ope- Tatives were injured in escaping from the windows; stx had their limbs broken. FIRE AT Le ions 6: ‘The offices Of the American pane National Company, of four ‘At Atlanta on om pen ed mexico. Demonstration tz Favor of the Bupublic in the Clty of Me, <iee- 4 Wasaise, 7, August 61868. Information bas been received > vere that ats recent celebration of the Mexican Masons fade city of Mexico 8 tonst was offered amid great acclamation .‘OF the speedy re-eatablishment of the republic and the om. plete suc- cess of Brother Benito Juares, Enthusiastic Reception ef Juarez txt Of buahua, 1 San Francisco, August 6, 1804. i ‘The Mexican liberal Consul has received despatches from President Juarez, dated Chihuahus, Jane 22, which, together with private letters from the same place, are said to teem with descriptions of the enthusiastic recep- ton which the people of Chihuahua gave to Juarez and bis Ministers, CITY INTELLIGENCE. Mone Innvmamry oF Poticemex.—A case of inhuman- ity on the part of an officer occurred in Greenwich street, near Barclay, yesterday afternoon. Aman apparently from the country, accompanied by his little son, was driving a wagon through the crowded thoroubfare, and baving stopped on the crossing was ordered to move on by policeman No, 120, which he did rather grumblingly. The crowd of citizens present did not hear the words used, but they were shocked and astonished to see the officer drag the man from his seat to the oe gh ng strike him violently over the head with club so brut that the unfortunate wretch red. about as af iy unconscious. The stout locust was broken on his skul! the force of the blow. Cries of “Shame” roge from the bystanders, among whom were several respectable citizens. To edd to the sensation the poor cried peer, to spare his father’s life, The cries. “Onl” “Oh!” and “Shame” ap) 80 to enrage the officer that he seized a club from a comrade wee grand om, the prene and Ce pgeetoe an indiscrim! onslaugl on e crowd, striking several right and left, and selecting one man especially, who fled and took shelter in a basement where a shoemaker was at work. Officer 120 followed, and almost tumbled ivto the basement head foremost alter his victim, whom he beat o bratally that the man when brought out by the police who came upto reinforce the betligerent officer ed faint and half dead He was hi off to the station hor clasping his hands and for mercy from the club bearin; that held him, tbe spectators meantime boing filled with hor- ror and indignation, but not daring to express it, Tas Mrmopwsr Camr Maxtino at Noxturort,—The camp meeting of Methodists at Northport, L. I, com- menced—so far as the erection of the tents and the arri- val of some af the company are concerned—4 Joa wilt coutmaue-ail the Week. An eligible plot ot ind, of about eight acres in extent, has been wrotne’ cie'ot the pounion of 1860, aad itt We focnd pecs f it will be bought for camp meetings im Four Soup Men or GoTnam.—Yosterday a quartetie of “heavy weights’? met near the corner of Nassau and » Falton streets. Their portly proportions attracted the attention of all who saw them. Their names and weights wore as follows:—Mr. John L. Brown, 273 pounds; Mr. John ©. Nafow, 264 pounds; Mr. Jared W. Boll, 240 founds; Mr Chas. IY Bish! 238 pounds, ‘making & grand nds. ‘meeting was PETRY a 3 tf} iytetat fl ie He il is ‘Srrice OF BRIOKLATERS AND PLasrenens’ Lazonens.— A body of workmen known as “The Laborers’ Union’’ have published ® notice, addressed to boss masons and lease Piggtorers, atau that on after yesterday 2 per day_—$18 per eck tor labor. ‘workmen are, as is known, pan erg at which is attended with danger, and the hot weather they terribly from effects of the heat. ft to be seen whether will be Soi So eth. eenbom Minted, da ip Satie have ing at seven o'clock, report s large fire on David's Island, uear thesbore Several appeared to be 5 eimoke from the very PROBABLE MURDER IN BROOKLYN. ‘The Pistel at Werk Again—A Young Man Re-~ ceives a Fatal Wound—The Assailant Ar- reated. At quarter-past seven o’clock last evening « shooting affray took place at the corner of State and Front streets, Brookiya, ip which a young man named Patrick Mc- Guan received a fatal shot through the head bya ball fired from a pistol in the bands of Charles Feargus, The residents in the neighborhood who were cognizant of the affair state that they were startied by the report of the Pistol, and on looking into the street? heard the cries of i i it va § ge, §2 | igs i ig bi § f J 3 i gs aft 7 j wat Wi ij FF Hy r the Owen 5 Ata late hour night it wast