The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. IAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, | THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Apnual subscription price, $14. { JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyp- )ng and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the Rowest rates, Volume XX XI New York, Friday, August 10, 1866. THB NEWS. wee EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable we have news from Europe dated in London and Liverpool on Wednesday, August 8. The rolations between Austria and Italy were again dirreatening. ‘Theship Danube, from Bristol, England, for New York, ‘was burned at sea. Her passengers and crew were saved, and landed at Liverpool by the ship Compeer, from Mobile. Our special correspondence from Berlin, with the résumé from our foreign files, published to-day, contain ‘matter of considerabl» tmportanoe. Count Bismarck has presented a plan of German fedoral reform to the King, by which he proposes that the policy of Prussia shall direct, indeed dominate over, the interests of all the ginor States, not excepting those which have preserved their independence, ~ L' Opinion Natimale of Paris, the organ of Prince Na- poleon, prints a remarkable article setting forth the Bo- maparte programme for the Peace Congress, and pro- claiming the Fronch radical idea of the rights and in- terests of the flve Powers mére directly intorested in its doliberations, The writer thinks that the points include 4n alteration in the map of Europe, a complete chanvein the political bases, the establishment of a new balance pf power, the liberation of Germany from Russian in- Muence and the remuneration of France, France is said to have conferred the greatest benefits on Germany from Ine days of Charlemagne down to the time of Napoleon ‘ne First, who was “the greatest benefactor’? of that puntry. The London @bde ridicules the claim of some of the \iris newspapers to the effect that the Emperor has ar- dated the war operations and effected territorial changes } Germany. THE CITY. Reports from all quarters yesterday Indicated a steady abatement of the cholera, Eleven new cases and nine deaths were reported in this city, Dr, Harris addressed a letter to the Sanitary Superintendent, in which he #lated that within the past twenty-four hours there had been no admissions of cholera patients in the hospitals on Blackwell's Island and Randall's Island. In Brook- yo a marked decrease was also noticed, there being but thirteen cases and two deaths on yesterday. On Gover- nor's Island but two new cages were reported. A meet- ing of the Metropolitan Board of Health was hold yester- Gay evening. Dr. Crane reported that the prisoners in the Brooklyn jall were now being well fed. Dr. Thayer, iu charge of the cholera hospital, reported the epidemic as decreasing in the Twelfth ward, and that all of tho now cases were of a mild type of the disease, Admiral Charles H. Bell, United States Navy, in charge of the New York Navy Yard, addressed a letter to Mr. Schultz, protesting against a cholera hospital being erected near the Navy Yard. ‘Thore were twenty seven deaths from cholera tm Cin- cinnati on Wednerday. ‘The Board of Councilmen held no mesting yesterday, ‘| quorum of members not being present at the call of ‘the roll. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction met yesterday. No more visitora are to bo allowed to the islands during the prevalence of the cholera’ Four amembers were added to the Board of Health No leave of absence to be given to officers from the islands, and ‘any Officer absenting himself without leave to be con- @idered as having resigned his situstion, The Sisters of Charity having volunteered their services as nurses in the cholera hospitals on the islands, in response to a re- quest of the Commissioners, owing to the abatement of the epidemic their offer of assistance was not availed of. A very complimentary letter has been written to the Rev. Wm. Starrs by the Commissioners in acknow- Jodgment of their kind proffer, Queen Emma, of tho Hawalian islands, visited St. Luke's Hospital yesterday in company with Rev. Dre. Dix and Vinton and tho Consul of Hawaii. To-day sho will visit the Navy Yard, and probably tho islands and fnstitutions around New York. In the cass of James Hughes, who had been accused of defrauding James Riley out of $760 bounty money, Vommissioner Osborn yesterday rendered a decision dis- vharging the defendant William Gurney was charged with passing a $50 counterfelt legal tender note. The pase is still at hoartng. The steamship Helvetia, Captain Ogilvie, of the National Steam Navigation Company's line, will leave this port on atarday next, at twelve o'clock, from pier No. 47 North river, for Liverpool, calling at Queens town. The stock market was stoady yesterday. Govern- moats wore strong. Gold opened at 147% “and closed at ATK. ‘There was not much business done yesterday in com- mercial circles; but the markets were, as a goneral thing, more steady. Foreign goods were generally quiet, bat in prices there wore comparatively few changes. Do- mestic produce was more steady, and generally firm. Cotton was ensior, Coffee was steady but quiet. Sugar was dull, On @ floar ruled steady. Wheat was firm for good grades, but dull and heavy for low quatitios, Corn advanced 1c, while oats wore 2c, a dc, higher, and active. Pork opencd firmer, but closed heavy. Beef was steady. Lard was a shade firmer. Whiskey dufl aod nomual, Fre ghts were dull and lower. MISCELLANEOUS. Our latest dates from Mexico are to the 28th of July. The Austrian man-of-war Dandalon had come to an an chorage at Vora Cruz, and was taking on board a largo quantdy of provisions, It was regarded asa fixod fact that Maximilian and @ larze body guard of Austrian troops would soon embark on her for Europe. On the ether hand it is said that Marshal Bazaine will order his fetention by force if necessary. Several lettors from Yanta Anna to parties in the city of Moxico and Vora Fraz bad been intercepted by Maximilian, and numerous jrests bad taken place, Santa Anna's estates near ‘biapa were coutisenied, several milllons of dotiars being 4 turned into the imperial treasury. the Freedmen’s Bureaa inepections re- Cenerals Steedman and FoWorton, is tof Pnily male by Jdlished io toe Henan (his morning, Bosides a ré- siomé of the fact erly stated by our correspondent who accompanies the commission, figures are given showing the ou 6) of persons supported by the Bureas, fend the amoun! of ino. ries. Inthe er ey horetoore expended in sain the report the officers state that there was consi adie diMeulty ia reporting mpon the Bottled modo of a1 « among thoagents, There fa an entire abser In the whole organization, ‘The contract «y cy @ the labor of one State, While the labor I< sot contr general government fico fod taxation of the pla ed at the vos tho funda in one district, ant the negroes furnish them in another, T ally clove their report by say- fing that the sys.om tracts enforced by the Bureaa is simply slavery in a modified form. Tho detailed report of the speech of Mr. Chambers on Aue Fort Eric ca.npaign, in the Canadian Parliament on Tharsday, when such @ disgraceful and disorderly com- motion was brought to bear to drown his volce, is pub- Yished in this moraing’s Hnnann, He said ‘bat the Ame- Yioan people wore as conversant with Canadian history, politics, military movements and defensive copabdilitios faa the Canadians themeolves. In the evening Mr. D'Arcy MoGeo answered Mr. Chambers in an asddross at an Orange meeting. He spoke of the repeal of the neu. trality laws by Congress at sign of the times full of Pignificance. It waa strong encouragement to the Fe. Pians, but Canada, since the laying of the Atiantic cable, ‘Nias practicaliy at her back all the resources of tho United Kingdom to ald her in any just defensive war. Governor Wells tms issued an address to the loyal peo- ple of Louisiana on the subject of the riots in Now Or. Jeans, Ho says that the Convention of 1864 did not at. Joarn sina die, but was subject to (he call of ite President for any cause. Flo bimacl/ waa a refugee from rebel per- recation when elected Governor, and on the return of the Purrendered oxorted his mfluence to «aly pardons of (hem and restare to them the olective Ge csv, HOCK Iudivigava 1 iy Fights, overy all in anorher; confolorites, election has been carried by them, and used to have loyal men proscribed. The riot he says was a preconcerted Plan, the regult of the letter of Mayor Monroe to Gen- .| eral Baird. He winds up by saying that in case of the withdrawal of the troops the lives of conspicuous Union men will not be safe. The letter tothe President pub- Mshed im Thursday's HeraLp was signed by Attorney General Horron, a former officer in the rebel army, and not in the federal, as we inadvertently stated. Governor Fenton has issued a proclamation convening the Supreme Court in an extraordinary General Term, for the purpose of deciding spon the constitutionality of the Excise law. The court is to meet on the 29th inst, General Baird has been relieved from the command of the Department of Louisiana, and will be succeeded by General Stoneman. Rumor in Washington assigns General Slocum+o the vacant New York naval office, The new State constitution has probably been adopted in the recent election in North Carolina, Tho Saratoga Convention of conservative democrats met at the Springs yesterday to appoint delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, The various districts through- out the State were very fully represented. While waiting for the Committee on Credentials to prepare their report Senator Doolittle of Wisconsin, made a brief speech. He claimed that Andrew Johnson was faithfully following the instructions of Abraham Lincoln. In the organization of the Convention Robert H. Pruyn was made President, John A. Dix, Henry J. Raymond, Charles G. Myers, #. fi. Comstock, Samuel J. Tilden, William Kelly, Hiram Denio and Sanfurd E. Church Were appointed delegates at large. R, King Cutler and others of the New Orleans Conven- tionisis, have made affidavits charging Mayor Monroe, of thatcity, and the Sheriff, with complicity in the homicides occurring during the recent riots, General G. A, Custer and General C. 0. Loomis have beon appointed delegates to the Philadelphia Convention by the Michigan State Convention at Detroit. Tho Toxas Legislature met at Austin on the 6th, when the House was fully organized. General John A. Logan, who was nominated for Con- greas from the State of Illinois at large by the Republi- can State Convention recently at Springfield, delivered a very lengthy speech on the occasion. He called the President all sorts of names, and laid down a new plan of restoration policy. He oppose the repeal of the “iron-clad test oath’’ and favored the disfranchisement of all rebel officials, and a representation basis on the actual voting population. Despatches from Memphis state that’a regiment of colored troops in Helena, Ark., had engaged in a general riot at the latter place on Tuesday, firing on tho white citizens, and swearing they would take possession of the town. Nows from Fort Laramie, dated August 1, is to the effect that the Indian war has commenced. Several white mon had been killed, and it was reported three forts on Powder river had been burned. A heavy storm prevailed on Lake Ontario yesterday. ‘The schooner Elmira was sunk while entering Goneseo harbor. All the crew wore saved. The Ohio river steamer Bostona was burned near Maysville, Kentucky, on Wednesday night, and proved @ total loss, One man was missing and two were wounded. Situation of Affairs in Europe—The Speech of the King of Prassia. The news received from Europe and pub- lished yesterday in the Herauy up to the 7th, through our special despatches by the Atlantic cable, is of the highest importance. The strik- ing features of this news are the addresses of the King of Prussia to the Legislative Cham- bers and to the muntctpatity of Berlin, the con- ferences for the establishment of peace and the attitude of the other Powers of Europe with regard to Prussia, and the general ques- tion of the distribution or balance of power. It is impossible to foresee precisely what will be the ond of the extraordinary events occurring in the Old World. One phase is presented to our view to-day and another to- morrow, 80 rapidly and so surprising are the changes and developments. Still we have ar- rived at a point, through the present wondertul facility of communication, where we may safely draw conglusions as to the actual state of affairs and thé*probable future. Prussia is the central point to which all eyes are directed.. By her superior statesmanship and military power she has broken up the old Europe, and evidently the character and des- tiny of the new Europe will depend greatly on the course she may pursue hereafter. This little kingdom, not as large as the British Isles, half as large as France or Austria, having not a fifth of the area of Russia in Europe, without colonies, with a very limited commerce and navy, with a population not excecding twenty miliions, and hemmed in on all sides by an- tagonis ic States, has suddenly become one of the first, if not the first, European nation. She has made the old empire of the Cwsars sue for mercy and reduced it to a second rate Power, she has dared to reject the mediatorial offers of colossal Russia, she has outwitted the sphinx of tho Tuileries and effectually destroyed the overshadowing prestigs of France under the restored Napoleon dynasty. Wonderfal achieve- ments! And all within a few weeks. What a history is this for the study of the statesman or philosopher! We have not the space here, nor is it neces- sary, to go into a detail of the progressive events which have led to these results. No doubt Prussia had been long preparing for them by busbanding her resources, by cultivating the ambition of her people for national expansion and German unity, by a system of secret and able diplomacy, and by giving extraordinary efficiency to her army. The world at large, and even the other States of Europe, prob- ably did not know what ambitious views the government and people of Prussia entertained, nor were they aware of the preparation that was made to carry them ont, ‘That famous and historical interview between the Prussian Minister Bismarck and Napoleon was evidently a master stroke of policy on the part of the former to deceive the liiter. Doubt- less Napoleon, having confidence in his sup- posed superior sagacity, thought he could in- crease bis own power and aggrandize France by using Bismarck to break up the then exist- ing order of things in Europe. We now se» the superior sagaci y of the Prussian to that of the Frenchman. The events which followed in the Schleswig-Holstein affair, in th adroit manage- ment of Austria in that business and in the sub- sequent alliance between Prussia and Italy, as well as the war with Austria, show how skil- fully Bismarck accomplished his purpose. With all this history every revder of the Herat mast be familiar. Let us look st the actual situation of affairs. The substance of this may be found in the shrewd address ot the King of Prussia to the municipality of Berlin. “ Prussia,” hesaid, “had drawn her sword, not only for her independence, but for the reorgonization of Germany. The first has been secured; the second may, with the help of God, also be obtained.” It is not meant by this that the independence of Prussia in its actual autonomy was threatened. No Power or Powors threataned to oxtinguish that kingdom or to destroy its indopendeds, The King meant by this diplomatic phrase that Prussia claimed to be the great German Power and to represent the views and interests of the Germanic people. Theindependonce of Pras sia meant the consolidation of the German pedgle ware, bes ~ they bs lag esd, teas Ces “many should become Prussian and Prussia German, “The reorganization of Germany,” which the King also hopes to obtain, is, in reality, the same idea—the same thing. Pras- aia, by the war and by her diplomacy, has made herself a great Power, and therefore se- cured her independence beyond all contingen- cies; but her chief object—the reorganization of Germany—is not yet complete, The work is still going on. His Majesty said in his ad- dress to the Prussian Chambers that bills would be submitted for the convocation of popular re- Presentatives to meet in the Diet ofa new fede- ral State. One by one the States of the old Germanic Confederation, and even those here- tofore opposed to Prussia, are yielding to Prussian power and the sentiment of German unity. The work will undoubtedly be hurried up before the sword is sheathed. How far the southern States, which have been most attached to Austria, may be brought under Prussian rule, has yet to be seen. It is certain, however, that Prussia will not give up the ad- vantages of her present position. She will ob- tain all she desires; and the probability is that the forty millions of Germans in Europe will henceforth be under her control. This is the extraordinary spectacle which several of the first nations of Europe are now contemplating with alarm. There is great irritation in Paris, The press of that city {s perplexed and shows a great deal of ill temper. The oracles of Napoleon are befogged and give out dissatisfied mutterings. The overreached and disappointed Emperor himself is sullen. A mighty German Power looms up to destroy his visions of extended empire and Euro- pean dictatorship. Even the card which Austria put in his bands by the cession of Venetia to him he may not be able to play with success, Italy, backed by Prussia, may render it value- less. Altogether a state of things has arisen that he never dreamed of. Russia, too, is greatly annoyed at such a mighty Power loom- ing up on her border. The Moscow Gazette and other organs of Russian sentiment sound the alarm. Prussia, which is likely to be another name for all Germany, the Gazette thinks will be threatening to Russia, and will be “master of the only sea which secures its commerce with the world.” It fears that a po- litical State may be established “whose power may be directed against the most vital and dearest interests of Russia.” England is rather glad to see such an overshadowing Protestant NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1866, from the State Convention of New Jersey, and various others of minor importance. Thus it will be seen that, with the success of the Atlantic cable, our design of supplying nearly all the news by telegraph is likely soon to be carried out, and the time is not far distant when our correspondents all over the world will become telegraph agents, and our post offices will be replaced by telegraph offloes. The Freedmen’s Bureau Another Revolutionary Machine. ‘The startling facts which are coming to light daily in New Orleans, in Texas, in Virginia and in other parts of the South as to the dan- gerous revolutionary inflaence the Freedmen’s Bureau is exercising over the negroes ought to arouse the whole country against the system and the wicked founders of it. We have long foreseen what was coming, and have repeatedly sounded the alarm. The President saw the evils and exposed them in his message vetoing the Freedmen’s Burean bill. But nothing could stay the madness of the radical party in Con- gress, which had the power to do whatever it willed. We knew that the dominant party meant to make the Burean a political machine with which to continue its power, and we felt assured it would inaugurate a bloody war of races rather than give ap its purpose. There can be no mistake about the object of the radi- cals now; the people can no longer be blinded. The war has commenced. The riots at Mem- phis and New Orleans are among the first serious consequences. Tho flame is spreading everywhere. In Texas people feel as if they were standing on a volcano. Our cor- respondence from Richmond and the news from other parts of Virginia show the same state of thingsthere. In fact, all over the South, where great numbers of negroes are massed together, as in the cities named, and where, con- sequently, the Freedmen’s Bureau has the most power, people are living all the time on the verge of anarchy and fearful scenes of blood. Go into the districts where there are no Freedmen’s Bureau agents, or where there are but few, and no radical firebrand agitators of the white race, and the two races are found living peaceably together. A few white men live in the midst of thousands of negroes and direct their labor as employers or overseers, without the least apprehension of danger or trouble. Woe speak of Louisiana west of the Miss‘ssippi, and other portions of the South, where large Jacobin Power arise on the continent, with which it is intimately allied, as a checkmate to France and Russia. Well may some of these Powers be alarmed, for a united Germany in the heart of Europe, with a highly civilized, intelligent and brave population of forty millions, can defy any of them and check the ambition of all. The end, however, has not yet been reached. It is probable there will be peace, with the supremacy of Prussia in Germany, as we Lave indicated, and the establishment of a pow- erful kingdom in Italy; but there are many ad- verse interests actively at work, and we must wait for further developments before we can arrive ata correct judgment. Our Ceorrespendent and an Agent of the Freedmew’s Bureaa. We publish in another part of the paper a letter from Mr. Thomas W. Conway, an officer of the Freedmen’s Bureau, in reply to the remarks of our correspondent, who accom- panied Generals Steedman and Fullerton on their mission of investigation into the workings of the Bureau. In accordance with our rule of action, to give each side a fair hear- ing and to do justice to all, we lay Mr. Con- way’s letter before the public. It is possible there may have been @ mistake in this gentle- man’s case, and there may be some other indi- vidual cases ofan exceptional character among the agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau; but that does not destroy the overwhelming facts as to the general character of this infamous radical institution or as to the corrupt and tyrannical conduct of the agents generally. : Mr. Conway uses strong language, charac- terizing the statements of our correspondent and ot the distinguished gentlemen who are the commissioners of the government as false, and he calla upon the commissioners to pro- duce certificates from his radical friends of the Bureau as to hia character. This intemperate style and this strange way of seeking evidence to sustain himself rather show the weakness of Mr. Conway’s case. We place gieat confidence in the statements of our correspondent, and the official report of Generals Steedmin and Fullerton confirm these statements, Whatever trifling errors may have been made in some in- dividual cases by the commissioners, no im- partial person can doubt the truth of their re- ports in general. All must see that they have rendered the country a great service in ex- posing the corruptions and infamies connected with this most infamous Freedmen’s Bureau system. News sy Teieorara.—The columns of the Heratp yesterday presented an appearance which foreshadows the perfecting of that idea of a leading newspaper which we have long desired to carry out, and which we predicted five or six years ago that we would one day be able toaccomplish. On the first page were two columns of news sent by telegraph from Lon- don through the Atlantic cable, containing the speech of the King of Prussia in the German Diet, and a general summary of the state of affairs in Europe; despatch from St. Peters- burg, explaining the feeling there upon the phase which events have assumed in Central Europe, the movements of the Amorican fleet at Helsingfors, and the progress of railroad matters in Russia; a despatch from Pesth, announcing several political arrests in Hungary, and a despatch from London, containing the result of the prize fight between Mace and Goss. These despatches were dated on Monday and Tuesaday, and all arrived here on Wednesday evoning. The specch of the King of Prussia was delivered in Berlin on Monday, was telegraphed ver batim to London, thence to Valentia, thence to Newfoundland over the cable, thence to New York, and was in the Hernan office on Wednes- day night at ten o'clock. Had the line been completed across the Gulf of St. Lawrence we would have received these despatches within twenty-four hours. Looking now to our inside pages we have special despatches to the Hunan from Ottawa, detailing the extraordinary scenes in the Cana- | dian Faz}iament ; another from Spzingfield, Il. giving exclusively the proceedings of the Republican State Contention ; another special from the Boston National Uaion Convention ; another from Baltimore, describing thé MaTy- fond Sathnat f 23S NaLoaA, Llc Guaya.as Ro plantations are still worked. The negroes are well paid, treated kindly, and are contented. With them there is no fear of trouble as long as the agents of the Bureau keep away or do not in- terfore. The Bureau is the source of the riots and all the trouble between the whites and negroes of the South. Yea, the people of the North are taxed millions a year to support an estab- lishment that is plunging the country into the bloody horrors of San Domingo; and all for what? To keep a wicked, revolutionary and despotic faction in power. Thero is as striking parrallel between the Jacobins of France—the Robespierres, Cou- thons, Marats and others, who inaugurated the terriblo war of races in San Domingo, causing blood to flow as freely as water—and the Jaco- bins of our Congress, such as Stevens, Wade, Chandler, Sumner, and their confréres, The character, ideas, theories, and mode of action are the same. Ours call their unreasonable dogmas principles, as the French Jacobins did, and endeavor to force them down the throats of everybody. They wonld use the guillotine, doubtless, as well as their prototypes did if they should have the power. Such radically extreme men never stop at anything. The sight of blood stimulates their unholy zeal in anarchy and revolution. Our radicals rode into power on s wave of blood which they had caused to flow; beginning with “bleeding Kansas,” and going on till they brought about, in connection with the extreme men of the Sonth, the late terrible rebellion. Following still their savage instincts and implacable natures they are nowindustriously stimulating a war of races in the South. Was not the brutal Marat the Ami des Noirs? Did he not vociferate in the name of humanity and fraternity for the equal- ity of whites and blacks—for equal suffrage and all taat, which our less honest radical poli- ticians and editors clamor for? The often re- iterated saying that history repeats itself is being verified in the bloody war which the radicals have just inaugurated between the whites and the negroes of the South. The question now is, are the eulightened peopl of this country going to permit a repe- tition of the horrors of San Domingo, or some- thing worse, among us? Will they allow the Jacotin radicals, who have now gono home from Congress, to sow broadcast incendiary dogmns to deceive and misrepresent them any longa? We think not. If any are disposed to beieve these really dangerous men, we ad- vise uch persons to study the higtory of the first French revolution of the society called Amisdes Noirs, and of the fearfal insurrection- ary proceedings of the French Jacobins in San Domigo. We said the parallel would be found a striting one, and it will be seen that under the mme cry of equality, philanthropy and hummity the greatest atrocities were com- mittel—atrocities that make one’s blood run cold vhen contemplating them. Similar scenes will nost certainly be witnessed here if the men vho compose the present Vongress should be reelected to power. The Freedmen’s Bu- Teau was established for this purpose. Its sepante sub-bureaus and agencies scattered throwhout the country are nothing more than 60 miny Jacobin clubs, in filiation with and acting under the control of the central Direc- tory +f radicals at Washington. Let not the peopl suppose that the riots which have oc- curre(, and which are intended as only the Precayors of a more dreadful state of things, are nt the work of the Bureau and the radi- cals. The evidence of that is too plain to be ignored. The Southern people naturally want to live in peace with the negroes. They do live in peace with them wherever the Bureau has mt intertered to prevent, as we have abundint proofs to show. We hope and believe the people will no longer be deceived by the hypociitical pretences and humbug of these Congrsamen, who would sscrifice blacks and whites and the country itself to retain their presert power, Levity Toes iy ram Canaptan Panurewent.— | The sene in the Canadian Parliament on Wed- nesda, was aout the most disreputable affair that ba ever characterized a legistative body, even a the most revolutionary times, Mr. Chambrs, who is one of the leading advocates o bo bldeencs M6 ths Caliod States, endeasered to obtain an investigation into the campaign of the Fenians at Fort Erie, and took the opportu- nity while upon that subject to touch upon the question of annexation, declaring that the des- tiny of the American British Provinces was de- cided, and that that destiny involved annexation. He was hooted down and his speech silenced by songs and choruses and his person finally assailed by a harmless assault of paper bullets. So much indecorum was never witnessed in a public body. Mr. Chambers stated boldly, de- spite the interruption, that the Parliament was afraid to have his words made public in the New Yorx Hearst; but for all that the Ameri- can people were masters of the continent and could get possession of Canada at any time they pleased. Mr. Chambers is quite right. ‘When we want Canada we can have it, but we do not care to take any trouble about the ques- tion. All the events at present tranepiring there show that Canada in self-defence will annex herself to this country, and this violent scene in the Canadian Parliament, taken in con- nection with the recent defoat of the ministry on the confederation scheme—under the pre- text of the school question—only hastens the end. Whenever Canada chooses to come she is welcome. She can do better as a portion of the great American Union than as a mere de- pendency of England. The most sagacious minds within her borders evidently see that popular opinion runs in that direction, and the logic of events is proving it every day. Politi- ca) affairs in Canada and the British Provinces generally are lapsing into chaos. There isa harbor of safety on this side of the line, and the sooner they steer for it the better. The annex- ation of Canada is a matter of indifference to us, but it may be a question of vital importance to the Canadians.: Governor Wells, of Lonist Orleans Riots, The Governor cf Louisiana, who reached his present position by being elected Lieutenant Governor under the military administration of General Bonks in that State, has issued an ad- dress which has bighly elated tho radicals. Having been elected on the ticket with Mr. Hahn to the position of Lieutenant Governor, he succeeled to the position of Governor in Maroh, 1865, by the resignation of the former, who had in the meantime been elected to the United States Senste. Thus, obteining his po- silion through the Convention movment of 1864, he now comes forward with a long ad- dress In its defence, in order that the radicals throughout the North may have another eleoc- tioneering document to circulate during the tall campaign. He commences with a brief sketch of the election in 1864, and then describes some of the events that have taken place there since the close of the war, But he fails io throw any light upon -his own serious mis- management in 1866, which he found it neces- sary to come to Washington and explain to prevent his removal. Nor does he inform the public bow it was that he came very near plunging the city of New Oricans into a riot at that time. He may have forgotten that he hung around the Executive Mansion at Wash- ington in 1865 for weeks, seeking an opporta- nity fo explain away the odium which his course had thrown aronnd the Union cause in that State, but the public have not. Ail this he evades for the purpose of trying to show that the late riot was a preconcerted plot on the part of the late rebels. a We agree with Governor Wells that the late riot was a preconcerted plot, but the plot orig- inated with the parties whom he tries to de- fend, and was instigated by the radicals in Con- gress, as the speeches of more than one mem- ber of Congress fully test:fy. It was concocted in the rooms of one of the principal hoteis in Washington, occupied during a portion of last winter by members of the radical Convention which Governor Wells now comes forward and endorses, It is no secret that while these men were in Washington they were in constant collusion with the radicals, and that they also openly stated just before their departure for New Orlears that the public would soon be startled with bloody scenes in that city which would destroy all hopes for the succvss of Johnson’s policy. These statemen's were made under such circumstances and in such a manner that it left but one interence, and that was that they intended to stir up an insurrec- tion and compel the white population of New Orleans to commit some act that would assist the radical programme. These facts are still further borne out by the speeches of somo of the same men at the negro meeting on the Friday previous to the riots, Yet in the face of a!l these facts Governor Wells charges that the riot was the result of a letter of Mayor Monro» to General Baird, which he tries in vain to prove was the signal agreed upon by the rebel conspirators, In one point, however, he dsm- ages the radical account of these riots by charging that there would not have been a riot if the police had only been stationed around the hall where the Convention was sitting. Now, the radical papers have all along been asserting that the city police were the first to attack the Convention, and commenced the riot then, when the negroes rallied to the defence of the Convention. But it seems that all this is false, and that the police wore else where trying to maintain order and quell the disturbance caused by the demonstration of the negroes. This discrepancy between the effort of Governor Wells to throw the respon- sibibility of the occurrences off from the Con- vention, and the statements made by the radi- cal papers, is somewhat damaging to both. From these conflicting statements the public will be more than ever convinced that the radical conventionists are alone responsible for the deeds of violence and that through some mishap in the execution of their programme of srrangements they got more than they bar- gained for. Taking it altogether, this addross of Governor Wells, in view of the charges and misrepresentations already made by the radical press, will do the radical cause more harm than good. Governor Wells should have read the statements of his radical friends before writing his address, and thus have been able to make his story tally with theirs. As it is, they clash in the most essential point in showing | who is responsible, and confirm our former | statemonts— that the whole thing is a conspiracy » on the New sh RP eae ee NE ES ELF ED eS EOS gS See SBE teh ath Mh ee ee 5B see ee ree aaa i Se SR ie ae aa Sa Ee le Sa i ie a Pee ee a Beata fo BRO of the radicals for political offect. LARGE FIRE IM CAIRO, « CATR, August 0, 1964. The tinware store of C. Henderson, and tho queens. ware store of J. ©. Swaine, No. 1 Ohio levee, were burned this morning and their contents totally destroyed. The insured for bullding waa owned by William Barker, a $10,000 in Fastern offices, The stock was neared for, $13,000 in Eastern offices, The billiard sa'yon and restaurant Of = Winters, and clothing store of P Nett atioining were aleo coneldernbiv damage, They were } buty LeU OH, “LYM Lom Me ay emius Ur mov~eey, WASHINGTON. Changes:in the Divisions and Depart- ments ef the Army, Rumor AppointsGeneral Slocum Naval Officer at This Port. Santa Anna's Services Declined by the 50, Was arrears mena Boe } ‘agmixarox, August By direction of the President the iA fs t of De Yesadec Leeworers o eston, Major General Daniel E. Sickles command, will embrace the States of North Carolina South Carolina, Fifth—Dey it of the Tennessee, headquarters Naahvill n., Major General George H. Thomas: will embrace the States of Kentucky, Tea- comman nesvee, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. ‘Sizth—Department of the Grif, headquarters at New Orieans, La, Major General Philip H. Sheridan to com- so will embrace the States of Florida, Loulsiana and eoxas. ‘-venth—Department of the Arkansas, headquarters at Little Rock, Ark., Brigadier and Brevet Major General G ~ “ed to command, will embrace the States of Arkan- we iohehe Departement’ of the Minsourl, head "ighth—l tment of the Léaveavornty i Major General Winfield ‘nem cock to command, with the same boundaries as now con- s'itated, except such as may be detached to form a new deportment to be created, Ninth—Department of the Ptatte, narters Oma- ha, Nebraska, Brigadier General Philip St. Georze Cooke to command, with same boundaries as now tated, except such as may be detached to form anew depart ment to be created, TonvheDepartment of California, headquarters Bam Franciseo, California, Brevet Major General Irwin Me Dowel to’ ae ‘the cane aginow constituted: nl yartmen’ 18 jumbta, headquarters Portiand, Oregon, Brigadier und Brovet Major General John Pe to command, the same as now constituted. Tw 1f/h—Br'gadier and Brevet Major General Alfred Hi. Terry will report to Lieutenant General Sherman, to take command o° a department to be created out of the partment of Missouri and the Platte, according to {ua ment, subject to the approval of the Scoretary of ne. ‘Tir'eewh—Lieutenant General William T. Sherman & aseignod to the genera! command of the Departments of the Arkansas, the Missouri, the Platte, and the mew de. iment to be te of Lientenant General erman's command wil be atilitary Division. of se Missouri; uarters St. Lou yy wer Departments of California avd the Oo- Jumbia will constit:te a military division, under General Honry W, Halleck, to be called the Milit Division of the Pacific; headquarters San Francisco, fornia. emt Washi with ie Delaware and ~The Department of fr noi ebt hone hemi eae pevcquarters ; Brigadier Brevet. tiguoval Ravana Re 8. Canby to by order of the Pasmpant oF Tu Stamm, E. D. TOWNSEND, Aesiatant Adjutant General. Some changes have been made, or are about being made, tbat do mot appear in the above order. General Augur, lately in command of the Department of Washingtos, and by the new arrangement left with- ‘ont a department, is to be assigned to the command of the Military Academy at West Point, General Beard has boen relieved from the command of the State of Louisiana because of his inefficiency im the late riot aad bis manifest sympathy with the revole- toniets of that State. He will be succesded by Genera) Stoneman, of cavalry fame. Major Genoral Delafield, chief of the Engineer corps ef the army, ts placed on the retired list, be having served fifty-two years io the army, all Of that time in the Emgt- neor corpa. He will be succeeded by Lieutenant Colems (late Major General) A. A. Hamphreys, formeriy chief of wtaf 10 Goneral Meade, It tea potiovable circumstance that Major General D. E. Sickles ts the only volunteer officer retained in tun- portant command, The order reassigning him to the command of the Department of the South gives him his full v lunteer rank, while Hooker, Schofield, Ord, Cooke, McDowell, Pope and Terry lose their volunteer rank and ure assigned as brigadiers and brevet major generals, (he rank they hold in the regular army thus becoming infe- rior in this respect to that of Sickles, It is reported t= army circles that Sickles will soon be appointed a brign- diet general in the regular army and immediately bre vetted as major general, placing him on a footung with the other department commanders. The Object of General Slocum’s Presence at Washington a Mystery. Tho protracted stay of General Slocum in Washingtom and his frequent prolonged interviews with official per- sonages, including the President, give rise to much speculation, To-day the common report assigns him te the vacant Naval Office at New York, in filling which there seems to be so much trouble, The Philadelphia Convention, Cathbert Bullitt, United States Marshal at New Oe. leans, arrived bere to-day with a self-constituted delega- tion to the Philadelphia Convention, composed maisly of fedoral officeholders in that region. Bullitt and bie associntes are very bitter in their denunciations of those who wore conspicuous in breaking up the recent attempt at revolution in that State. Santa Anna’s Services Not Appreciated by the Mexicans. Mr. Romero, the Mexican Minister, roceived to-day official despatches from his government, dated at Chihuahua, up t the 6th wit, The Mexican govers- ment had taken in consideration the tendor of General Santa Anna's services, made to President Juarez, andcon- cluded not to accept them, asvigning the following Teasons : — Becaure ~anta Apna was one of the originators amd romoters of the plan to take foreign intervention te lexico, thereforn, his sincerity cannot be depended: upon now; the Mexican people have lost ali com fidence in nim, and cannot, there‘ore, place any rell- ance on him. presence in Mexico would only exette distrust and fears, and would only be an ot de cord and weakness, The next copy of the oficial papers of Chibushes will publish al! the papers in connection with this affair, and among them will be a very able letter from the Secretary of State of Mexico, sotting forth his reasons for declining Santa Anna's services, ‘The Paris Exposition. Governor Fairchild, of Wisconsin, has issued « procle- mation referring to the request made by Congress in ite Joint resolation of the 5th of July that the Governors ef the several States would invite their patriotic people te take part in the Exposition. The Governor says:— Lurge upon the people of the State the great advan- tage that must follow from a full exhibition of the pro- ductions of ber mines, her agriculture and ber mechast- cal skill ata time when tho wealth and industry of the whole world are to have a universal exposition. A pro- Por representation of hor resources, as yet but partially developed, cannot fai! to bring both eapital and immigra- tion, and to add greatly to her wealth. Thia in considered a wise step on the part of Governor Fairchild, and it is thought dosirable that a similar pro- clamation should be issued by the Executive of each State, His Excollency refers to J. C, Derby, 40 Park row, Now York, a8 the agent to whom applications should be addressed. cncsecaaieassnlippesmnasmsssiestit RIOT AT HELENA, ARKANSAS. A Neare Realment Mutinous-Thoy Take Poe sension of the Town und Fire Indiecrimt- natel; the Citizens. ojo Maxrnr, Anguet 0, 1566. ‘The officers of the steamer Mollie Hambleton report that as they passed Helena, Ft on the th regiment fr i ‘which rere there bate = portation to St. Louls aud thence to the aon taken Jon of the town and were firing indiscrtmt- swore they would burn the One citizea named Gal. intense, natoly upon the whites, and ery white, Brown StS tally wounded. The excitement was ‘and the citizens wore flying to placer oor STEAMER BOSTONIA BY FIRE. T LNs shall Crncrerati Anguet ®, 1808, Bostonia canglt fire last night just below Medina Kentucky, ed barned to the water's edge Mary atl the pasmengere and crew were maved; one ia miming: two were vadiy burwed. and freight ‘The joes of is heavy. The seca ore ty, a0 $100,000. Insared (or $00,000, ie i} fj Mes ie a eens