The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1866, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. ae JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFION WN. W. CORNER UF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. THE DAILY HERALD, pr dlished every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. JOB PRINTING of every description, aleo Stereotyp- fing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exeouted at the AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, YOOD'3 THEATRE, Broadway, oppoalte the St. Nicholas el Tam Samo Buornxas\, Ventarii® Couranr oF TMG ASTS, ACROBAT, ANCERS, PaxtOMIMUSTS, ‘OOALISTS, Matinee ab 13g 0'Clock. YONY PAS/OR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Rowery.—Couro a—=Nugno MINTRELSY—BaLier DIVERTISSEMEN?, 20.—Tuu New Yor Mucuan. Matinee at 236 0'Clock, SEARURY WAITR'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at > Lacguane Serentasetrs, Cours oe Davia ber oe Wasgveness Bat. Matinee ai 33, o°O100K. " ‘Third Avenue, between Fifty. ~-Taxo. Tomas’ OncumstnaL enalog at 8 0’Clock. S@OOLEY'S OPBRA AOR Brooklyn.—Erarortan le MERELST—BatLios, BORLEQUed qxp Pixrowiwas. me SEAVER’S OPBRA HOUSE, Dauwxamp. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 breqiway.— Lecroras wire Tue Oxx-HypRocgN NioKosoors uice bay 3 Hixap axp Kigut Anm or Prosst. Open from 4 A.M. til 10-P. M. ——— = = Now Yerk, Saturvay, August 18, 1866. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Wiltiamsborg.—Tim All advertisements handed in until balf past nine o'clock im the evening will be classified under appro- Priate headings ; but propor classification cannot be insured after that hour. TH NuWwSs. THE CTY. F the reports of yeatorday showed a decrease of oue caro of cholera and of two deaths in New York, from the, re- poris of the previous day. Ten new casos and eight Moaths wore reported. There was a meeting of the com- mittee to revise the estimates of the exponditures of the joard of Health yesterday, but no quorum being presont 2 committee adjourned, Reports from Brook.yn hbowed no material change in the epidemic. At the pholera hospital there are twenty-one pationts under ‘roatmont, All the cholera patients in the Pentientiary wore convalesco!, Froin the islanda the reports were Whe samo as on Thuraday, No new cases had occurred on the Norwegian bark which srrived at this port with holera a fow da sago, There is not a case of cholera at the L. wer Quarantine. Bernard Frlery waa executed at the Tombs yesterday for the murder of Harry Lazarns on the 4th of January, + addross and corplimontary resolutions. 4805. ‘Lhe culprit bore himself with the greatest forti- tude. On arriving at the scaffold he knelt with his wptritual advisers fora few moments and offerod up a brief prayer, after which he ki-sed them and the cruci- fis, The black cap was then immediately drawn over his faco aud the weights being lowered he was swuug olf at forty-seven minutes past ten, three minutes after he arrived at the scaffold. After hanging twenty-eight minutes life was pronounced extinct and the body taken down and detivored to his friends for burl, Me died vory easily. The officers of the Internal Revenue Dopariment in this city bave been instructed to collect a tax of Ave cents from the Dry Dock and East Broadway Railroad Sompany on each batch of twenty tickets, such being de- nd to be the agreements according to law, vsterday im the Supreme Court Judge Barnard .tod am injunction to Mr. A. T. Stewart, for the pur- powe of restraining the Mayor and Commonalty of this olty from giving their consent to the erection of an elevated railroad in Broadway, Greenwich and other stroots, Counsel for Joha Percy, who was imprisoned by Judge Barnard for contempt of court, succeoded in obtaining a weit of babeas corpus from Judge Robertson, which wes made returnable yesterday at the Rocordor's Chambers, Recorder Hackett was not officially notified vf the fact, and declined having anything to do with tho matter. H. C. MoAllister, a government detective, was charged bofore Commissionor Osborn yesterday with passing counterfoit money. The evidence went to show that the prisonor had counterfeit stamps in his possession but had not attompted to pass them. The Chiof of the Secret. Service Department deposed that a detective hed a right to have counterfeit money about bim provided ho made ao attempt to pase it. The prisoner was discbarged. An inquest was held yosterday on the body of Thomas €. Wright, of West Twenty-seventh street, who was Killed by John J. Skeshan on Wednesday night in Fighth avenue. The Jury returned a verdict in accord- ‘noe with the above facts, and atated that they believe the prisunor delivered the blow whilo undor the impres- ion that be was in danger of bodily harm. A destructive fire occurred in the building No, 73 Ful- toa and Gold strest, known as “Wilson's Buildings,” ‘eat ovoning about fiftcea minutes after ten o'clock, and at the hour of going to press the fire was still burning although nearly subdued. The los: on the butidings and stocks is estimated at about $60,000. Two ‘dromon, Thomas Sweony and James Gilfeather, were noarly suffocated by smoke while engaged inside the Duilding, but were soon restored, ‘Twenty-three despatches for Europe were forwarded for transmission by the cable yesterday, for which the sum of $2,619 77 in gold was paid. The steamship Etna, Captain Tibbetie, of the Dale ine, will sail at twelve o'clock to-day from pier No. 45 North river, for Liverpool, touching at Queenstown, ‘Tho malls wiil close at the Post office at half past ten. The steamship Bavaria, Uaptain Taube, snils from Ho- boken ai twelve o'clock to-day for Cowos aud Hamburg. ‘Pho mails also close at the Post office at half-pnrt ton. Tho steamship George Cromwell, Captain Vaill, will fail for New Orleans direct (rom pier No. 9 North river @ three o'clock thie aftornoon. Tho steamship San Salvador, Captain Atkins, of the Empire line, wit! feave pier No, 13 North river at three | but o'clock to-day for Savannah. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, leaves for NEW YORK HERALD,’ SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, - 1866. ‘the! same feoling provailed, ‘The Binletry in Bio Janeiro had been defeaied on a woie, and e- manded o fusion, Loule Napoleon, it was rumored, was suspiciously interesting bimself abous the situa- tion of affairs in that region. A captaim of the French army had arrived with orders to note minutely the progress of events and report. A financial panic bad Seized tho business people at Montevideo, and a mavy Tun upon the banks was the result. The government had issued a decree authorising their euspens on for six months. On June 14 the Paraguayans made an artillery atiack upon the allied camp and damaged it considerably, Baron Porto Allegre ia still at Itapu with ten thousand men, and the alliod fleet is anchored below Fort Oura- paiti, debarred trom any furtber advance by the obstruc- tions in the river. The sanitary state of the allied army is unsatisfactory, intermittent fever being epidemic among them. The Newfoundland telograph lines were preatrated by @ Leary gale yesterday, We have consequently no news by the Atlantic cable, It is hoped that the lines will be repa'red aad in order to-day. Despatches from Galveston stato that a revolution-took place in Matamoros, Mexico, on the 12th, which resulted in the overthrow of Caravajal's government and his flight to Brownsville, Texas. Tho move was a purly political one, and thero was no bloodshed or destruction of proporty attendant upon it, Official advices frem the East India eq iadon, Admiral Boll commanding, states that quiet and order had been restored at Newchong. The Hartford was at Swatow, China, and the Wyoming at Hong Kong on the 31st of May. Tho storeship Relief had beon ordered home. ‘The heaith of everybody was good, A Kingston, Jamaica, commercial report of the 6th of August says: The season 1s favorable for the growing crops. that ef pimento ts renorted to be large. Bust- ness dull; breadatufls scarce; flour 60s, ; butter 18, 44. per Pound, augar 10 a 18s, por 100 pounds; coffee 44 0 648. A proclamation has boou lasued by Governor Fletcher Of Missouri, called forth by the present condition of affairs in that Stato, in which ho eays that the national and-Sta‘e authorities will combino to enforce obedience to the prosont laws, Tho rogistration law is to be en- foroed and the enrolment of militia will be continued until completed. No armed or organized bodies except the police or militia aro to appear at any poaceful as-om- Dlage,and when the constituted authorities require ass st- ‘ance in preserving order they will ask it of the Depart- ment Commander. Tho Now Hampshire dolegation to the Philadelphia Convention waited upon the President yosterday with an The President eaid he could not but be mindtul of these manifestations of confidence in him, and on an intimation froa tho dotegation that they would like to take home some declaration that only those who supported the princ ples of theadministration should reoe ve the public patronage, he said that the power and offices of tho government would be glvou only to thoso who support the govern- ment and the wise declaration of principles set forth by the great Convention just adjourned, nm Gov. Fenton has requested Senators Morgan and Harris to attend the Southern radioal loyalist's meeting at Philadelphia next month, and assure those assembled. of the goodwill of the republicans of New York. Albert L. Starkweather, convicted of the murder of his mother aad sister at Manchester, Conn., last year, was executed yestorday at Hartford, Conn, Wo publish to- day the history of the murder and tho jail life of the prisoner, with many other intoresting particulars in ad- dition to the account of the execution, The schooner Harriet Neal, from Baltimore, was wrecked on Thursday on Deal beach, about a mite aud a half from Long Branch, Tho crew wore saved Tho New York Yacht squadron, on their annual crutse, were at New Londvm on Tuesday. The mombera of the club were entortalned by Mr. Griswold, and a ball was given thom by the gussts of the Poqu ¢ House. On Wed. nesday morning tho fleet sailod for Newport. In the township of Oshtemo, Mich., on Sunday night, the 12th inst., Mra, Alexander Rickard cut the thront of’ two of her children, wrote touching letters to her hus- band and two survivihg children, aud then cut her own throat, lying down and dying on the same bed with the two children she had murdered. Isis now probable that Genoral Grant, Admiral Far- Tagut and moat of the members of the Cabinot will ac- company the Progident on his visit to Chicago. Sixty seven deaths from cholera occurred in Cinctn- nati yoriorday, and one hundred and forty-on> cases were reported in St, Touls One case has appoared at Baltimore, and it is rapidiy absting in Chicago, Tho number of d-aths occ rring from tho disease in Now Or- loans for the twenty-four hours onding yesterday morn. ing was twenty-sev Bismarck and Napoloon The Game of Euros pean Recoosiruction, The game of diplomacy now going on be- tween Bismarck and Napoleon for the rectifi- cation of their respective frontiers is exceed- ingly interesting. It is diamond cut diamond ; it is Greek meeting Greek; it is Mephistopheles against Beelzobub; it is the game of the two master gamesters of Europe in kingdoms and principalities for the European balance of power ; itis a game of lite or death to Napo- leon and his empire, and he is playing it with the ekill and coolness of an old campaigner who‘sees his danger and knows his way of safety. Let ussee. On the 15th day of August the Emperor Napoleon received the Prussian am- bassadors at an audience in the Tuileries. The minister delivored to his Majesty the reply of the King of Prussia (which means Bismarck) to the French note, demanding the extension of France to the Rhine, in view, no doubt, of the undersianding entered into between the parties at Biarritz some twelve months ago, when and where this late Prussian rupture with Austria was arranged. But as matters now stand, Prus- sia (which is Bismarck) declares this demand of Napoleon inadmisaible—yea, entirely out of the question. Napoleon replies, “ Very good. You will understand that I made the applica- tion in order to satisty the public opinion of France on the subject of the rectification of her frontier. It is a just demand, you know ; then the argiffhent of Prussia in refusing is algo just and reasonable. In any case the Charleston this afternoon at three o'clock precisely from | Present relations between France and Prussia pior No. 14 East river, Tho stock market was firm yesterday. were strong. Gold cloned at 160%. There was more activity and buoyancy in business Places yesterday, stimulated by the con(inued frmnens Wm tho gold market, and prices were quite generally Goverumenta are too agreeable to be broken off, provided always that Prussia will not extend her pro- jects of annexation to the German States south of the river Main. France desires peace far more than territorial acquisition. ‘The Em- Righer. Both imported merchandise and domestic pro- | pire is Peace’ as for as consistent with the will duce sold more freely, but the improvement was more serogran latter. Coffee wae quiet but steady. ton was active and firm. On ‘Change flour was in demand and 100. a 200. higher. Wheat was 30. 0 higher, while corn was active and firm. Oals sold frooly at an advance of lc. per bushel. Pork and beet wore steady. Lard was firmer. Whiskey was dull and * nominal. Freighte and petroteum were firmer MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The President has issued « proclamation deci aring the Geores of Maximilian blockading the port of Matamoros, Moxico, agaiast foreign and coasting vesrels to be in vio. lation of the neutral rights of the United States, as de- Hood by the law of nations and treaties existing He therefore proclaims that the decree will be held null and woid, and any attempt made to enforoe ii against the Governmont of eltizons of the United States will be dis. allowed. and ammunitios coming into the province has bees re- moved for on@ month, drills are constantly practised by the roliitia, (reope are being moved to important points, Aud it is even reported thet some shipped from Boglaad, The British feos consiats at present of seven gunbeate, armamont of eight Armetrong @une pieces. The proposed Fenian pleale which si taloe 0h Be Gl ae cee a mile bolow Fort Erie, and on the American: and ey Quite A [rows at Otlawa yesterday morning. ere wan a Our correspond@iiee from the seat of war tn the Pinte Valioy is dated Anenes Ayres, June26. The Al Were vow vininw coved Of the Wat, Ta Mitnanar and } of the French people.” ‘This is substantially the answer of to Bismarck, in which the former yields bis pretensions to the Rhine boundary, with the amiable uational weakness that the uncle be- came the master and the idol of France, and the nephew is enlarging upon this Napoleonic sulphur, On the very day of this warning from Napoleon, a Connor of State was sitting in Berlin, deliberating upon the question of the annexation of the States-of Southern Ger- many to the now confederation under Prussia. Now, in the armistice entered upon between Austria and Prussia, it was agreed that Ger- many south of the Main, should form an inde- pendent comedcracy, while the States, Duohies, &c., north of that river, should be blemded in the Prussian confederation. From this council of State in Bertin, it would appear that Bis- marok has becn reconsidering this matter, and seriously entertains the idea of absorbing the whole of the Germ family from the North Sea to the Alps. It is against this sweeping absorption that Napoleon protests, and in this protest there may be-the nest egg of a eonti- nental war. Bismirok will probably prove intractable. Napoleon will be apt then to threaten more emphatically. England and Rossia may next be called upon to join in a general Congress of rectification or reconstruction. Broughi to this solution, we may look for a reconstruction which will establish Prussia as a balance of power against France in the:west, and which will compensate Austria for lossce by coding to her the Danubian Prinocipalities and the Turkish Territories to the Balkan mountains, as a barrier against Russia in the east of Europe. A continental war can, we appre- hend, be avoided only by a European Congress, and in the event of such a Congross, we look for the rectification of the European equili- brium as herein suggest:d. Thus France will cease to be the disturber of the poace on the one band, and Russia will be held in chock on the other, and the new central confederation of Prussia, looking east or west, will hold the balance of power. Tho New Fenian Mavement. There appears to be some apprehension of another Fenian attack on Canada. A despe- rate soare exisis in the British Provinces in con- sequence of the announcem *nt tha’ a picnic of Fenians is about to take place at Olinton forest, near Fort Eric, and within convenient dis- tance of ber Britannic Majesty’s possessions. All Canada is therefore in a state of the utmost alarm. The military and civio officials at Ot- tawa aro exercising sleepless vigilance; tele- graphite couriers are flying all over Canada from sunrise to sunrise, paying no regard at all to the comfort or want of rest of the govergment officials. The gunboats recently brought from England have, as we are informed, been moved up in the vicinity of the hostilities which, it is said, fifteen thousand Fenians are about to wage upon a monster chowder, the ingredients whereof may include the whole British Amor- ican Provinces, from Canada West to New- foundland, The volun‘eers aro also called out and some three thousand of them will encamp within sight of the smoke of the Fenian kitohen in the forest, where the cooking for the pic- nic isto be done. The Canadian Cabinet, it appears, waa in session all day Sunday, and the telegraph offices throughout the county were kept opén, 40 that the “earliest intelligence” of the inauguration of the picnic might be for- warded to the alarmed government and people, volunteers, regulars and factotums of the dif- ferent towns and villages all over the Pro- vinces. Assuming that this new Fenian movement may mean something serious, we are justified also in agsuining that the Fenians will not be vory much disturbed in their pians thls time if they really intend to throw fifteen thousand armed picnicians into Canada. The present political condition of this country, including the action of the con- seryative element at the National Convention in Philadelphia, and the desperate appeals which the radicals are making to obtain the Fenian vote at the coming elections, will be very likely to prevent any vigorous interfer- ence with whatever the Fenians may ploase to do in the vicinity of Clinton forest. The opinion prevails among all partios that our government has done enough to prove its spirit of fair play in the recent suppression of the Fenian attack at Fort Erie,on the Canadian frontier, the seizure of munitions, arms and ra- tions and the arrest of the leaders, Generals Sweeny, Spear, O'Neil end Murphy; and we doubt whether Seward would now dare, in the present aspect of political affairs, to play the same game over again. Even if ho was dis- posed to do so, President Johnson would pro- bably have something to say in contravention of such a policy. Canada and England have had all the protection from our government that we can afford to give them. They must now take care of themselves, The Fenian vote ia at present a bone of contention between the radicals and the conservatives, and it is not at all ikely that the movements of that body upon Canada will be obstructed just now. Besides, Mexico, which stands on our other frontier, is falling to pieces, and we want our army and our generals in that quarter. Now 14 the fa- vorable time, therefore, for the Fenians to go in and win, and we hope they will take the op- portnnity, Gnow. or ras Lorrery Onoay.—The organ of Fernando and Ben Wood's lottery party in this city is grumbling because the Southern delegates were admitted to the Philadelphia Convention and they left out in the cold. How could they expect to be admitted, when Jake Thompeon was not there with bis twenty-five thousand dollar check ? Tas New Revoworion—Tas Dorr or tur New Yorn Mrncuawts.—The National Union Convention, which has just completed its work at Philadelphia, has inaugurated a new revolu- tion in the political and commercial ¢ondition of the entire country. It ie the duty of the merchants, traders, shippers, and business men generally of New York, to assemble in public meeting and ia the most emphatic terms ratify the declarations of that Convention, uttered as they were by the representatives of all classes, sections and parties, exeept the bloody radi- cal faction, in favor of a reconstruction of the Union on constitutional grounds, and » return to commercial prosperity. The business interest of the country fs perhaps more deeply in- volved in the measures proposed by this thoroughly national than any other. It therefore becomes the of the business men of the metropolis te set the example to the other business centres throughout the country by calling a grand mass meeting, at which ahearty endorsement of the policy for reconstruction, the admission of loyal representatives to Cen- grees from the Southern States and a general fasion of interests without regard to sectional Aivicions—whioh all vanished wi'a the eboll- tion of slavery—shall be adopted. We hope to see such a gathering assembled in this city at the earliest moment. Our commercial in- terests demand it, The full fruition of the na- tional movement at Philadelphia can only be obtained by the joint action: of the people at large, and the commeroial men of New York are the proper persons to commencs it The Political Campaign of 1866—-Tho Resalt of the Philadelphia Convention. The political campaign for this year may now be considered as fally inaugurated. The complete success of the great gathering at Philadelphia has given it an impetus beyond the expectations of the most sanguine advo- cates ot that movement. It shows that the people are ready for the contest and that a general uprising in behalf of the restoration of the Union is taking place. It has already had the effect of creating a regular panic in the ranks of the radicals, and we should’ not be surprised if a stampede soon took place ex- ceeding that which followed the radical ory of “on to Richmond” at Bull Run. That they anticipate it is very evident from the howl of tho'r organe and the venom exhibited fu their comments, both im their writings and speeches, There is: no other way of accounting for the abusive language which they use, of wkich the apeech of the Dead Duck in Philadelphia, try- ing incite riot when the Convention was in session; is a fair sample. The Convention having closed ita deliberations, the time has now come for the people to hold mass meetings in every Congressional district throughout tho North and endorse the proceedings of that body. The work should not stop here, but the friends of tho Union and the constitution should or- ganize at once, nominate their candidates for Congress and enter the canvass in opposition to the radical usurpers. This uprising of the people, aa shown by the results of tho Philadel- phia Convention, takes in all who are opposed to the policy of forcing universal negro suffrage upon the States, by Congress, and also all who are opposed to the jobs and financial reckless- ness of tho radicals as exhibited in their increase of taxation and failure to provide for the adjustment of our national, debt. These are now the questions for the people to choose between. They are so plain and direct that ail can understand them. The speeches, the resolves and the address of the Convention, togethor with the unparal- leled harmony of its deliberations, have luft no alternative for the radioals but to plant themselves fairly and squarely upon tho platform of universal negro suffrage. They can no longer find a plausible pretext for exoluding the Southern States from representa- tion in Congross, unless it may be by inciting riots in all the principal cities of the South, But tho latter game of the radicals has now become so thoroughly undurstood that they can hardly make any capital in that way. Io regard to the platform of the Oonvention which has just closed its session at Philadelphia, there cannot possibly bo but one opinion in the minds of all those whose views are not dis- torted by partisanship, It is thoroughly loyal in every word and line, from beginning to end. It repudiates secession, condemns rebellion, approves the abolition of slavery, declares that It shall nover b+, ro-ostablished within the jurisdiction of tho United States, pledges pro- tectie’a to the freedmen in their rights of per- sons and property, disclaims the rebel debt and inaists that the national debt shall be held sacred and inviolable, and last, though not least, rejoices over the results of the war and proclaims that the Union cannot be dissolved. All those declarations are in harmony with the proceedings und in perfect accord with the two great speeches of the occasion—those of Genoral Dix in behalf of the North and of Governor Orr for the South. These two specches are the key notes of the whole pro- ceedings, and are masterly efforts and without parallel in modern oratory. They furnish in themselves a proud record for any party, people or nation. They deprive the radicals of their last chance of opposition to the move- mont except the demand that Congress shall force universal negro suffrage upon the people of the South a a condition of restoration. Such are the great resalte of the first Na- tional Convention that has been held for six years. It furnishes a starting point for a material change in our national politics and once more revives national and ignores sectional parties, and that, too, under more favorable suspices for the future of the country than ever before. The deolara- tion of principles is broad enough for all parties to stand upon, absorbs the whole question of restoration in all its phases, and is terse and to the point. The address om- bodies the same ideas as those contained in the resolves, which are altogether too elabo- rate and too much diluted for general use. The financial shortcomings of Congress, its schemes and jobs, taxation and tariff, are, un- fortunately, entirely omitted. This, no doubt, arises from the fact that Raymond prepared that document, and could not include a denun- ciation of Congress on those points without condemning himself. But this omission can easily be made op in the State and Congres sional meetings which it is now necessary to hold at once to carry out the campaign #0 suc- cessfully inaugurated. We call attention to this point for this purpose. There is nothing farther to be said than has been in the Phila- delphia platform on the question of restora- tion. Let the mass meetings which are to be held in support of it incorporate a condemna- fon of the financial feature of the radical Congress, and the issue is made complete. No power can then arrest fs progress or prevent ite complete and overwhelming triumph at the polls. Never did a campaign have s more harmonious and brilliant opening, and never did » movement promise a more certain snocees, This aprising of the people has already worked ‘® revolution in public sentiment, and promises to be as effectual in putting down the Nos th- ern radicals as the great uprising of the peg,ple im 1861 did the Southern radicals, the only difference being that it will be scoompl ished {nae many months as that ook year, vad by peaceful means instead of war. The ?enefite will be none the less to the «country, and will be felt in all time to come. Ruse 1 Govanwwant Seouarrima—Sfhe public te Wal seo by the price of every Iurostancy ov Tum Canis 1 Y8SP.tomms.—Tho transition state of the continen * of Europe at present, the daily changes a” Policy and even‘s which are occurring there, ©xbibit in a remarkable manner the value of 6 ‘¢ Atlantic cable to this country. We have new ‘from the Old World almost by the hour. We sre in constant communication with the {nm ‘ortant centres of intelligence. Thasystem whi ‘ht the Heratp has adopted of furnishing the 1\ows has developed the usefulness of the Afiaa tic cable almost immediately upon the establish - ment of telographic connection between the two countries, and it is to this system that the pab- lio:are indebted for tae news. As for the As- sociated Press it has no arrangements for the pesfect transmission of news, and is in facta worthless institution. The executive business is managed by Nincompoop No. One—Me, Mar- ble—and Nincompoop No. Two—Mr. Sinclair— who understand nothing about the business; and lience if the public were dependemt upon the Assoviated Press for nows they: would be behind the age in knowledge. ‘The agency in this.eity is equally badly managed, and should be either remodelled or the whole concern abolished. There have been frequent com- plaints in Wall street that the news has been held. back and otherwise used for purposes of speculation. Be this as it may, we know that despatches Lave been held over for seven or eight hours by the Associated Press agents to the great detrimont of public interest—a fact which’is in itaelf sufficient to prove that the agency of the Assoolated Press ought to be entirely remodelled or the present agent dis- missed. ‘4 We have succocded in placing before the public the earliest nows from Europo bearing upon important topics at considerable ex- pense; but we are quite willing to incur the cost as long as the communily are benefiied. Some of the other journals are dis- posed to bear a fair ratio of the expense, ac- Cording to agreement. The mean man of the World, however, continues to take our des- patches; and, while he publishes them from time to time, is silly enough to abuse them and attempt to lessen their value as matters of news. While Europe is in fts present transi- tory state, with wars and revolutions imminent, and every day’s intelligouce by the cable rep- reson\ing new phases in political affairs, it is of the,utmost moment that we should have the means of immediate communication; and, having that means at our command, it would be a dereliction of duly in a great leading journal oot to employ it, and therefore we moun to use tt to its utmost capacity for the public good. Tax Issus or ta» Campaton.—The platform and address of the Philadelphia Convention have left no material for the radical platform but universal negro suffrage and approval of the jobs and financ%al shortcomings of Con- gress. The issue will now be the Philadelphia platform on the one side and universal negro suffrage on the other. Which do the people- profert Extraonpmary Brrrurs Oo? tHE ATLANTIO TXL%Gaapn.—'The general news agent of the ‘Timratp stationed in London sent on Thurs- day, the 16th, the following telegram, which was received on the evening of the same day; To Bronrr, Hwratp:— No moro tolegrams—without funds—they are costly— ausiver—bank rate just reduced to gght, As soon as business could be transacted at the bank the noxt morsiag (yesterday), we deposited ten thousand dollars in gold for our general news agent in London, and then tele- graphed simply:—“Cash deposit in Duncan, Sherman & Co.'s bank of ten thousand dollars in gold.” This he probably received yester- day. Thus the whole business transaction was accomplished in little more than twenty-four hours. We begin to experience some of the extraordinary effects of the Atlantic cable, but we have not yet imagined what these will be. All important business between the two conti- nents will be transacted by telegrams, and the system of exchange between America and Europe will be broken up. A new era in commercial and financial business has com- menced. On tap Stoot or Rerzwrance.—One of the results of the popular movement in Philadel- phia has been to place the Hon. Cornell W. Jewett, Esq., of Colorado, the Hon. George Francis Train, Esq., of Nebraska, Hon. Fer- nando Wood and Hon. Ben Wood, of New York, and Hon. Clement C, pags of Ohio, on probation. In the course of four or five years, according to the workings of the heart and the exhibitions of sincere repentance, they may be admitted into decent society. Our Stare Sxnators.—The success of the Philadelphia movement is so complete that anlees Senators Morgan and Harris jump on and approve it they will soon be compelled to go by the board. If Raymond now bebaves himself we should not be surprised if he took Senator Harris’ place on the 4th of next March. POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN THE WEST. ann SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Candidates for Congress in Minots and Ohie— Complimentary Dinner te Hen. Joba Kas- Jekneon at Chicago, &e. Cmicago, August 17, 1866. It ts now understood that N. B. Judd, late Minister to Berlin, in spite of hts recont declination, will take the stomp against John Wentworth. A bitter personal en- mity existe between these two men, and the contest for the nomination will be an exceedingly acrirmonions one. ‘The Germans lave also a candidate in Mr. Brentano, one Garfield for Congress in the Nineteenth district, and T. A. Plante tn the Fifteenth district, A complimentary supper was given to Hon. Jno. A. Kasson last night at Des Moines, lowa In response to the first reguiar toast, Mr. my CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tau Pane Comcuat.—The Park Commissionors aa- ounce that if the weather is fine there will be musie em thé Mall at the Park (his afternoon, at heer o'clock, by the Park band, under the leadership of H. 8. Dodworth. The following is the programme:— PART riner, ; Grand it Satanella it SOn'he Baur ued oboe huh Galop -.Boppter. Tam Mongua —The body of an unknown colored ‘Was Oonveyed to the Morgue on the evening of the 1606 ‘ostant, from pier 13 East river, and owing to ite aa vanced state of decomposition was interred in the yesterday morning. Coroner Naumann an imquest on the remains, when a verdict of found Grownmpd was rendered. Tho body had not been idea. Awasp ov Conpozation OonTracts.—Acoording to céa- tract there was declaration made of contracts yester- day, at the Cromm Aqueduct Department, for paviag |. with stone and regxtlating the-streets mentioned belew, also for the constauction of sewers:—Eighth avenue, from Forty.second ta: Fifty-eighth street, Robert Jardin, $50,871; Second avemme, from Houston to Fourteentis atrect, Johu W, Pottigeow, $45,04% 00; Thirteouth street, from University place éo First avenue, Thos. K. Dowa- ing, $5,622 80; Duane: streot, from’ Hudson to West trom kighth to Niach ara, Goorge Kidasyr 87,008 1 rom lo avenue, ° ra et reat from Mavard street, Thad ke Downe tt ; Spring ‘eo y Weet sireot, Thomas K ‘Downing, $33,900 10; Bleecker street, from Broadway to Bowery, Thomas iver, oO . x A Bu from ‘Broadway to Eighth avenue, iW sone son, 838; Rievonth avenuo, from Fourteenth te George Kidney, $1155 OL For’ bollding ower, the following were the contzactoras—Ih Bleecker street, fro Charles to Perry, Patrick Harley, $703; in street, between Elizabeth and Bowery, Janes Ebnard, $832 80; in Broadway, between Thirtieth and Thirty-fiest strestm, Patrick MeConnoll, $1,250; In Righth avenua, betweoa Fourteenth and F.fteenth streets, Arthur Abmuty, $6905 in Eighth avenue, between Eighth and Ninth, Elevonth. And Twelfth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth atretia, Patrok: Farley, $2,411 50; In Essex street, between Gtanton an@ Fourth and Fifth avesues, Mighas Ga 5,685: rth and Fifth avonuee, ae in First avenue, botween ‘Granta toute eae dere ninth streets, with branches In Seventy. sixth, Seventy-seventh and Seventy-ei m Second av-nue, BR. & J. Cunningham, $18,130; Forty-fifth street, between Fifth and avenuen, with branches in Fifth and Madison avenues, to Fourth avonue, R. & J. Cunningham, $13,271. Tar Post Orriox.—Postmaster James Kelly appeared before Justice Barnard of the Supremo Court, yesterday, bad his bond approved. His sureties aro Abraham oman and Thurlow Weed. “Luan” Tuans Ur AGAI.—Sonie months since a dra- matic editor sued Miss Bateman for services in transiat- tag her celebrated play Leah, The Forsaken, Shortly afterwards another dramatic gentleman brought a salt against the first dramatut, alleging that he was ind>bte@ to him for the very translation he claimed to be-the author of. This was in the MarineCourt, Subsequeatig” Daly, the dramatist No. 1, obtained avwrit from the Gu- mo Court prohibiting the Mariue Court from proceed. Thg with the action on the ground that it was a cag of partnership over which it bad no juri A lated earing has been had before Judge Barnard. The writ was quached and the Marine Court directed to with the cause. fo thero will be additional ¢} added to the “trals of a dramatist and adapter; or and Beavilte va, Loab, the Foreaken.'’ Crrr Musrany.—The now parade ground at Tompkiag square, which has been newly graded, repaired and Geer rated, is to be inaugurated by the Seventh regiment” iy an exhibition drili in the course of a few days, | pay Bey it ANA CONAN 4 roviow, of the e Second divin is 1860 on nt wéent mont, of which Prosidens, ute 204 probably a witness, as he te expeot, day, en rowe for Chicago. A Bae 0m eee Mautma or Tun Worxinouey'’s Uge ib wasill a wus uN. —A meeting of lindig cS fe ueld last evening at the ning . «1 Bowery, for the purpose of ecm ~wother the local organizations desired t@ ior .ogates to the convention of workingmen, to be wold in Baltimore on the 20th imstant. The chair wag occupied by the president, Mr. P, 3 Owing to the limited Tshmper 6¢ Stieovaragee ta fourtoon representatives from thirty-one societiee—he busincas transacted was almost exclusively confined te the original question at iasuo, After considerable dig- cussion facident to the preference of sending two or that tro delegates row euch soclaty proceed the Seer rom a vontion to represent the common iatoreate of ° ing men. The mecting then adjourned. Fatal Accipant. —Yosterday afternoon an aged French women named Mary Bodorn met with an accident which rogulted in her death. While gathering chips ia the street, at the corner of Broome and Greene streets, @ street car approached very near, but unobserved, and as she was inthe act of raising Soeccfhmihomimcenre | ition the iron step of the Son’ ctreck, her on the ), knocking her back insensible. The unfortunate woman was |i conveyed to the ith police Srociees, bat on arriving there she was found to be quite and the remains were taken to the Dead House on Bond strect, Mrs, Bodorn was seventy six years of age, and deaf. Sho had latterly been ae ‘nurse at No. 102 Greene street. About a mont she was run over by a wagon and taken to Bolievue Hroapte from wi she was discharged two wooks since, a fatality seemed to follow, and bas at last over- taken her, Conimox,— Yesterday about five P. M., as the stoam- Doat Newport, of the Fall Rivor line, was entering the East river, she collided with the tug Quickstep, having in tow the canal a The and canal boat both sunk soon a crews of boats were rescued by the boate from the steamer and other ves- the work. tesued a etrcular which was read at the different churches im the diocese on Sunday ed. to of flesh meat pa np me pron flew Tong permission Tan Lost Fouxn,—Cases of misplaced confidence are common. Instances of misplaced bonds aro not 20 com- because the people do pot all to have the bonds to misplace. On Thers- day a gentleman near the Post office had some 0 THR BDITOR OF THR HRW YORE S I Gnd in your paper of to-day an imperfect report some remarks of mine in the Convention yesterday. ‘The reporter says thet I was heard quite indistinctly, which, 1 suppose, to the reason why the essential part of my remarke is omitted, and I am made to appeer in @ & directed to report in print, and to suppty each member Of the Convention with » copy of the resolutions at the time of their presentation, The same resolution bad been previously sanctioned Wy ie woasimous vote of State, I was intended to pro~ tmots the eusos sof te! Cra mon ua partner os Jeot was to CA | Sas estos we f'n plastorm fee trom ob Jection. SNe rye aneaTen mnmoen OF A omens WFR