The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1866, Page 4

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Our special correspondence from Frankfort-on the- Yain, Borlin, Paris, Venice and Matrid, with the compi- tion from our European files, to the 4th of August Jublished to-day, contains matter of deep interest re- Apecting (Le present condition of the crowns and peo- Dles of the Oid World, and the probable executive and political future of beth as affected and in a great mea- sure directed by the effects of the late sudden and ex- traordinary war revulsion on the Continont. The miniature ship Red, White and Blue entered Deal (England) on the 17th instant, Corsols were quoted at 88, for money, in London at the close of business on Friday. United States five- twenties were at 684g. Tho Liverpool cotton market closed quiet, with prices unchanged from an advance ex- perienced during the week, on Friday, the 17th instant, Breadatufls were firmor, American flour advanced three pence por barrel during Friday. Provisions re- mained unchanged. MISCELLANEOUS. The committee appointed by the Philadelphia Conven- tion to present President Johnson with an official copy of its procoedings waited upon him yestorday, headed by the Hon. Roverdy Johnson and Senator Doolittle. They were shown into the East Room, and tho President soon after appeared, with four members of his Cabinet, when he was greeted with prolonged cheers, the apart- ment, with its hatle aud passages, being crowded with Spectators. Soon after Senator Johnson commenced his Te- marks General Grant and General Rawlings appeared, and » ranged themselves alongside the Presidential party. This was the signal for another outburst. Semator Johnson's Temarks wore few, merely reviewing the proceedings of the Convention and expressing its views and hopes. The President in reply said that in listening to the address ‘which the eloquent and distinguished chairman had just @elivered the proceedings of the Convention as they (tranapired recurred to his mind. We may justly conclude, maid he, that the finger of an overruling Providence ie in this matter. On the subject of Congress he eald:— “We have witnessed in one department of the govern- Mont every effort, as it were, to prevent the restoration of peace and harmony in the Union. We bave seen hanging upon the vorge of the government, as it wore, a body called, or which assumed to be, the Congress of tho United States, but in fact a Congress of only part of. the States. We have seen this Congress assume and pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion and make a disruption of the States inevitable.” Ho said that he considered the late Convention as more important than any other that ever assembled tm tho United States. Tho de- o) Ly of principles was a second Declaration ‘ dence. He hoped and trusted that his future conduct would be such that go member of the Convention might regret the ggenfance of confidence in him. At the conclusion bearty cheers were given for the President and Genoral Grant, and after bearty hand shaking all parties withdrew. Secretary Stanton, it is now reported in Washington, is to be accorded the mission to Madrid, and General Steedman is to be appointed in his place, as Secretary of War. A meeting of the officers of the army favorable to the Prosident’s reconstruction policy was held in Washington on Friday evening, when it was resolved to hold a grand convention in Chicago on the 17th of Septomber next, and a committee was appointed to issue a call to the sol- diors and sailors of the Union for that object. Our South American despatches are dated Bogota, July 18, and Panama, August 11, The rgil steamsbip New York remained clevon days at Aspinwall after her usual time for starting, to wait the arrival of the Golden Age, which had broken a shaft. This explains the reason why our despatches are of an old date. The Colombian Con- gress adjourned on the 4th of July. The bill hypothe. eating tho Panama Railroad reserves was pasted, Pro- parations for war had begun pending the settlement of nn old question of boundaries with Venezuela, the wealthy Staio of Maracaibo, at presont tacitly owned by Venezuela being claimed by both countries. The movement of Colombian troops was active and tne Yenate had been holding secret sessions, The appoint- mont of Tucker, a former rebel commander, to the rank of Admiral in the Peruvian pavy has diseniiafied the native officers to such an extent that there is quite a fetermined opporition against Prado, A destructive Tre had occurred in Monte Christi, Eevador, burning Prenty-five houses and destroying half a mi!lion dollars’ worth of property, The Chilians were expecting « re. newal of the war on the part of Spain. Tho allied fleet Was at Valparaiso, Affairs arc dull and no peace nogo- tintions aro pending with Spain, The Spanish feet was partiy at Talitl, bound for Manilo, and the rest was at Montevideo or Rio Janetro, The wounds of Admiral Nunez wore said to be so bad that no hope t# entertained of his reco: ory, Our special fashions correspondent in Paris, writinw on 34 of Angust, announces the near completion of a decided revolution in the matter of ie shape of tho skirte of Indies’ drevsee, but, differing completely from the surrounding political changes, the fashions’ altora. tion tends {0 TFirici coutrnction, not expansion, We are informed that béfore next avtamn Indies “will move about in skirts mad) as tight as they can conveniently walk in,’ This starting fact was announced in anticipa- tion in @ lotter from the same writer published lately in the Henatp, Tho latest prevailing colors, atylos and techutcal namos of the world of {aahion are reported. Our dent with the Yacht Squadron gives an interesting letter from Newport this morning. A reeep. tion waa given to the club by Mrs Stevens on Thurs @ay evening. Agrand yacht race took place on Thureday In the harbor betwoen the Vesta and Widgoon, both of New York. The race of forty-four miles was won by je Widgeon tn three hours and thirty-one minutes The reports of yesterday showed ao increase in the number of Cholora casor, Thore were seventeen new casox and oight deaths reported. The, sudden change io the weather was sipposed to be the cause, The re. ports from the public institutions showed a continued abatomeut of the epidemic. In Brooklyn the disease appeared to find about the same number of victims, Ove of thé cholera nurses in the Brooklyn Penitentiary diod yesterday, Sho had volunteered her services, aod had served well and faithfully in the hospital attached. ‘Twenty-six deaths from cholera occurred in the twenty-four hours ending yesterday morping at New Orleans, It is fatally prevalent among the freedmnen in the ‘Thirty-five death? occured in St. Lovis, and sixty-four in Cincinnati. The trotting at Bualo yesterday was the fastest ever NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1866. Platte war is not unlikely to ocour before long, | this cong matter, that the modern Italians’ are“|*negroes-know’ what is “meant bythe” word — made, Doxter and General Biter trotted the best three | Extraerdinary Fermentation of Political heats in five for eighty per cent of the money taken st the gates, and Dexter won the race in throe straight heats, making the Jast mile in two minutes and eighteen seconds, which is the fifth of a second faster than any other time on record, ‘The anchor of a collier hooked the Atlantic cable near Heart’s Content on the 6th instant, giving the tele- graphic rope an ugly twist. The electric communica- tion was not interrupted, and the accident was soon remedied by adiver, Masters of vessels will be more cautious in future when running off shore in the neigh- borhood. It is stated in Washington, on the authority of advices from Spain, that there is every prospect of an early peace between Spain and the South American republics. The question is to be referred te a friendly Power for arbitration, so as to avoid the appearance of oliher party imposing terms, The Fenian scare is not abated in the least in Canada, and active preparations for defence against raids across the border are still going on. A fire at Ellicott’s Mills, in Maryland, yesterday des- troyed a joint stock company’s granite cotton factory. Tho loss is estimated at $200,000, The sudden and unexpected fall in gold unsettled the markets for most kinds of merchandise yesterday, and Prices were quite gencrally lower, especially for domestic Produce, Groceries were quiet but steady. Cotton was dull and drooping. On ’Chanze the chief feature was the reaction in flour, which ruled ten to fifteen cents lower. Wheat was in moderate demand at rather casier prices. Corn opened heavy but closed firm. Oats wore one cent higher. Pork opened firm but closed heavy. Beef was unchanged. Lari was quiet but firm. Whis- key was dull and nominal. Freights though quiet were firm. Petroloum was steady. President Johnson’s Proclamation Against the Matamoros Blockade. : We are gratified to announce that Mr. Secre- tary Seward’s temporizing milk-and-water policy in relation to Mexico has come to an end, and that President Johnson has taken this business into his own hands, in a manner which promises a speedy and decisive settle- ment. We rofer to his proclamation declaring Maximilian’s blockade of the port of Mata- moros “absolutely null and yoid;” that it will 80 be held “as against the government and citizens of the United States, and that any attempt which shal! be made to enfurce the same against the government or citizens of the United States will be disallowed.” The reason given for this preclamation is that the decree announcing the blockade issued by “the Prince Maximilian, who asserts him- self (o be Emperor of Mexico,” being “unsup- ported by a competent military or naval force, is in violation of the neutral rights of the United States as defined by the law of nations, as well as of the treaties existing between the United States of America and the aforesaid United States of Mexico ’—meaning the Mexi- can republic. The President repudiates the government of Maximilian, but recognizes him as a “belligerent,” and hence our neutrality in regard to the war which “ thus afflicts the republic of Mexico.” It is simply the right of @ neutral to disregard a mere paper blockade that is here asserted ; but at this juncture the effect will be the same as active armed inter- vention in behalf of the republic and the Monroe doctrine. We shall now very soon come to a definite understanding with Maximilian. At present, in the face of the positive engagement of his master, Napoleon, to withdraw his troops with- ina given time, it would appear that poor Max, in some way or other, through the assist- ance of France, expects to maintain his gov- ernment. For example, in this aforcenid decree he says that “the port of Matamoros and all those of the northern fronticr which have withdrawn from their obedience to the government (of the empire) are closed to for- eign and domestic traffic during such time as the law of the empire shall not be therein rein- stated,” and that any merchandise proceeding from said ports to the ports or places where the imperial duties are collected shall be subject to those duties, “and on satisfactory proof of contravention shall be irremissibly con- fiscated.” It thus appears that Maximilian con- sidered his expulsion from Northern Mexico as only a temporary misfortune, and that in the absence of the troops and ships necessary to hold such places as Matamoros on the Atlantic side, and Mazatlan on the Pacific, he has presumed upon Mr. Seward’s indulgent neu- trality to recognize the validity of a paper blockade, until what he calls the “law of the empire” sball be reinstated. This presumption would be properly met only by @ counter proclamation denouncing this paper blockade os “absolutely null and void.” Butin taking this step President Johnson broadly hints to poor Max that there has been enough of this imperial tomfoolery in Mexico, and that the best thing he can do is to pack up and follow in the wake of the Empress Carlot'a as fast as possible; that our government accepts the withdrawal of the French as the abandon- ment of the empire, and that no double-dealing tricks of diplomacy looking to its maintenance can any longer be tolerated. Napoleon, with the information of this proclamation, which has probably reached him already through the Atlantic gable, will renlize the necessity of hurrying up hfs protégé to the duty of a speedy settlement with the republic and with the United States, in view of his return to Ewrope. The material difficulties with Napoleon are his Mexican claims and the debts he has incurred in this wild goose adventure. These difficulties, however, through the mediation of the United States, may be satisfactorily provided for. At all events, President Johnson has given the master and* his man in Mexico a notice to quit, which we guess will considerably ehorten the period fixed by Napoleon for the with- drawal of Maximilian with the last tnstalment of his army. Tae Presipent anp tie Parapeiraia Coy- VENTION.—The commitiee appointed at the recent Convention at Philadelphia to wait upon the President performed that duty yes- terday. Hon. Reverdy Johnson, as chairman of the committee, presenied the Executive with a copy of the proceedings, and took the occasion to describe the scenes which took place at that great gathering. To this the President replied in his usual spirited and terse style, defending himself against the charges that have been made by the radicals, and dwelling with considerable severity npon the usurpations and revolutionary courte of Con- gress. He explained the issues between bim- self and Congress, and declared that from that body he appealed to the people, confident that their decision would fully sustain the principles for which he had been contending, and that their verdict would be in favor of the consti- tution and against centralism and despotism. T's spedth was enthusiastically received, and forms an important pari of the events of the week. Elsewhere will be found «# fall report of the address of the chairman of the com- mittee, together with the response of the Pres- | ident, which are well worthy of careful perusal. | praised the Fenians and denounced the Prosi- Elements. The great conservative Convention at Phila- delphia seems to act like a powerful lever upon all the political elements of the country, for they are in an extraordinary state of fermenta- tion. The radicals are moving heaven and earth to save themselves from sinking, and, as the saying goes, they catch even at straws. They struggle in vain, however; for the fearful amount of obloquy they have justly to bear must sink them eternally beyond recovery. On Wednesday night a few of them held a dismal meeting at the Cooper Institute in this city, ostensibly to ventilate the affair of the New Orleans riot for party purposes and to sustain Jack Hamilton’s proposed nigger voting convention. There was an appropriate mingling of black, white and doubtful specimens of humanity, but in limited numbers, and very few of the strong- minded sisterhood. Ben Butler and other shining radical lights who were announced to be there did not appear. There was a gloomy prospect that the meeting might be closed for the want of speakers of the desired stamp, when Greeley was sent for to help it out. Altogether it was a very flat affair. There was no enthusiaem except when the negroes were auded as “loyal patriots,” and when Presi- dent Johnson was denounced in the foulest language. It is quite evident from the temper and conduct of this meeting that the radicals are not only conscious of losing ground, but they have become mad with disappointment and vexation. * On the same day, Wednosday lust, tho radi- cals of the West held a meeting, or rather a pienic, near Chicago. Governor Oglesby, Schuyler Colfax, General Logan and others made speeches in the same spirit. But bere they did not think it prudent to bring the nogro so prominently forward. They took another tack. They were afier the Ivish vote then, and they dent with equal energy, These old Know Nothings and Puriten'cal fanatics think thoy can come “the rich Irish brogue” over our Trish fellow-citizons, The idoa of these negro- worshipping politicians of the Puritan New Engtand school pretending to have any love for Irishmen is supremely farcical. This only stows to what humbug and deception the Jacobin faction will resort in their desperate efforts to save their party. Some little excite- thent was adroitly worked up at this gathering for Ireland and the Irish, but none for the ne- groes ur radicals. On Wednesday, too, the so-called “ Uncondi- | tional Union State Convention of Maryland” commenced its session. Delegates to Jack Hamilton’s convention of “Southern loyalists” were appointed and the radicals of Con- gress were endorsed. Everybody must be aware that the number of people in Maryland who favor the negro-voting programme of the Jacobins is very limited, A few vindictive agitators like Hamilton him- sel@ may be found in Baltimore, but the mass of the people thronghout the State are con- servative. This Convention was another des- perate effort made to drag portions of tho South into a radical movement, so as to give it something of an appearance of being national. Thus we sce how the political elements of the country begin to work all round. The approaching Congressional elec- tions will keep them intensely active for some time, Judging from the signs of the times there can be but one result, and that is the utter defeat of the radicals. Exrotvre or THe Freepmen’s Burrau Acaix.— Our Washington correspondence in another part of the paper gives additional evidence of the corrupt practices and radical partisan character of the Freedme:’s Bureau. The President, with his characteristic sagacity, saw that this infamous establishment was only a corrupt political machine. We have repeated the same opinion over aud over again, both before and after the President’s veto of the Frecdmen’s Bureau bill, Every day some- thing occurs to confirm the views we cx- pressed. The reports of Generals Sieedman and Fullerton and the communications of our correspondent who accompanied these com- missioners exposed in part the baso character of this institution snd the vile practices of its agents, Corroborative and addiiional proofs are now furnished in the correspondence pub- lished to-day. Time will produce, undoubt- edly, farther evidence of the same character. This is one of the themes which the conser- vative men of the country can use with the beat effect in the political campaign just inaw- gurated by the Philadelphia Convention. The President has already begun to neutralize, as far as his executive autborit#will permit, some of the bad features of the Burean; but he ean- not ignore the law passed over his veto by a radical negro-worshipping Congress, We suap- pose, too, he will remove those infamous puriten preachers and other hypocritical agents who have been oppressing the negroes and making money out of their labor and their Southern employers as the evidence against them be- comes developed. In the meantime the conser- vative people of thé Tithiry should ponder over the facts we publish and repudiate at the ap- proaching elections those radical members of Congress who are the authors and perpetrators of such an infamous system. Tag War w Sovra Amenica.—The latest news from Sonth America, with dates up to July 3, represents the Paraguayans as gaining gtound considerably, and the aliics geting tired of a warin which they find theinselves more than matched in the power and valor of the enemy. There is much talk of peace in the Argentine republic, and it appears to find an echo In Brazil and Uruguay. At Rio Janeiro, Montevideo and Buenos Ayres there were strong symptoms of a financial panic, and threatenings of a positive ministerial crisis ex- isted in Rio on the question of continuing the war. It was reported that Napoleon was poking hie finger into the pie on the side of mediation. It ia said thata French emissary of military rank has arrived at Buenos Ayres and put bin- evlf in communication with the Commander-in- Chief at his headquarters. The Paraguayan had effectually bombarded the allied camp near the Esten on the 14th of June, doing fear- ful destruction with their long range guns, while the allied fleet lay inactive three leagnes distant, with a desert of brushwood and thorn between them and the troops. Great dissalis- faction prevails at the inefficiency of the Brazil- lan ships, and the incompetency of the Admiral is loudly denounced by the press. From the general tone of this news a termination of the but affairs in South America are of such an un- | just as braveand redoubtable as the old Ro- | loyalty. It is:an'insult to the intelligent citi- certain character that it is very hard to tell { man legions, the only difference being that | zens of the country to reiterate such nonsense, they have poorer generals and admiralg now | It would be just as sensible to talk of the what may happen next. Poor Max. No sooner did Carlotta leave the bed and board—temporarily, we mean—of her husband, Maximilian, than a conspiracy to abduct him was discovered. The particulars of this plot, so far as they are known, with an account of the arrests made by the Maximilian govern- ment, we have published in our Mexican correspondence, The affair has an smusing and serious phase at the same time. Only think of his Imperial Majesty, a descendant of the Cosars, the friend and protégé of the mighty Napoleon, being made the sport and victim of such a set of rapscallions! We sympathize with him, because we think he is a very re- spectable gentleman and out of place where he is, He had no right to go to Mexico; but then he did not understand, per- haps, the state of affairs there or the Mexican people, and he was humbugged by Napoleon. He ought to suffer a little, how- ever, for his folly. Still we advise him, out of kindness, not to trust himself too far away from Marshal Bazaine and the French troops, and by no means to carry too much money about with him when he rides out alone. The guerillas make bard bargains sometimes. We do not think the Mexicans would shoot himshould they succeed in abducting him, though that is not certain, considering that many of their people have been shot under his government; but they might take him up into the Sierras, fur away from his Carlotta, and keep him there a discon- solate prisoner. Maximilian has changed his Cabinet and his policy toward the Mexicans. He began by trusting them and putting them in authority ; he is now suspicions, and seems disposed to rely only on the Europeans at- tached to him. He puls as good a face on matters ag possible, but evidently places no confidence in his snbjects. The sooner he ieavés Mexico to her destiny the better for himself. The liberals, or the Mexicans under Juarez, are certainly gaining ground. ~ Unreliable as the news from Mexico sometimes is, there can bo no doubt that the national cause in Mexico has made great progress lately. But if successful, and if Maximilian should abandon the country—as he ought to abandon it very soon, for his own good— no one can tell what would follow. The Mexican chiofs or leaders are eternally in- triguing against and fighting each other. Great credit is due to the patriotic tenacity wiih which Juarez has maintained the integrity of the Mexican government under the most trying circumstances. Yet we see all sorts of intrigues to upsot him at a very crilical period. Ho may not be the constitutional Presi- dent now. Of that we do not offer an opinion. But what is constitutional or reg- ular in the government of Mexico? The only thing that seemed possible for Juarez to do was to save the life of the nation, and that he has done. By our correspondence referred to before we notice that both Ortega’s and Santa Anna’s names are mentioned in connection with the conspiracy to abduct Maximilian. Are these chiefs working with each other or se- cretly against each other? Both appear to be against Juarez. Mexican affairs altogether are in a great muddle, It is the old story again of rival chiefs and factions intriguing and warring against one another, That seems to be the normal condition of the country, and it will be its destiny until the United States takes poseession of it or exercises a protectorate over it, It is now clear that Napoleon has given up Mexico and that he only keeps Maximilian and the French troops there.till he can make an arrangement with some succeeding govern- ment for the payment of the French debt. It is said Marshal Bazaine keeps a sharp eye on M:ximilian, fearing he might ran away, for the French government and the Marshal know they can do nothing with Mexico, and do not want such an elephant left on their bands, All Napo- leon wants now is to get as much as he can out ofthat country in payment of the old debt and the expenses of the war. Te would be glad to make a satisiactory arrangement of this eort and to take away his troops, with Maximilian and all the imperial establishment, if he could find a reliable pariy to treat with. He cannot wait long, however, and he may be under the necessity of treating with Juareg or some other chief that may etart up. Or it may be that the difficuliies between the rival chiefs and fac- tions may be so great that Mr. Seward will have to take the business in hand. The United States may be compelled to solve the difficulty by regulating the affairs of Mexico or exer- cising & protectorate over that couniry. At all events Nogoleon gives up his quixotic enter- prise, and Maximilian will leave as soon as the French debi is arranged and Marshal Bazaine will lot him go. Awertcan Nafoxacaty 1s §0NG.—Private Miles O'Reilly, formerly of the Porty-sevonth New York infantry, whose songs, speeches and banquets kept us alive and smiling during the war, bas now tarned his attention to the sub- ject of peace in general, and to the Philadel- phia Convention in particular, as offering the best means by which true nalional peace and harmony can be reattained. His views on thi« subject he has embodied ina song pub- lished in the Cilicen and copied elsewhere, and as his verses are both musical in manner and sound in matter, taking « broad, catholic view of the question of reconstruction, the Philadel. phia managers must be held responsible that they shall attain the widest circalation. They could not easily find a better campaign song. We also call upon Signor Musio, the most gifted of our Italio-American composers, to ex- haust his art in setting this patriotic strain to appropriate music. He has written exquisite melodies in bebalf of Italian unity, and here a glowing opportunity presents itself for prov. ing that his allegiance to the land of his adop- tion is not less inspired than bis original fidel- ity to the beantiful and melodious landvof his birth. Let Musio set the words of Private Miles to an air of simple and elassic grandeur harmo- nizing with the magnitude of their subject, and he will find us prepared to admil that the bat- tles of Custozza and Lissa, though apparent defeats, were strategetic victories; and that to the occupation thus furnished by Italian arms to two hundred thousand of Austria’s chosen troops the Prussians owed the victories of Turnan, Kiniggrits and Sadowa and the other “aad hours” for the Austrian Kaiser. We shall also confeas. if Musto does bis whole duty in than in the days of Julius César. Peace in Europe. loyal children who are only just learning the. alphabet or the loyal baby in its mother’s arms. Yet these radicals complain that the Our last advices by the Atlantic cable, which | South is not put under the control of the poor we lay before our readers this morning, reas- | benighted blacks. They unblusbingly claim sure us in behalf of a treaty of peace between | that half this continent, and that the richest Prussia and Austria on the one hand, and Aus- | and most important half, shall be put into tbe tria and Italy on the other. The pacification | hands of the negroes. Seven or eight millions there foreshadowed will doubtless embrace the | of whites, the intellectual people of our ows new German Confederation north of the river | blood and race, with all the vast interests and Main, indicated in our previous despatches, and afPindependent confederation south of the future of the Southern States, to be turned over to three millions of ignorant negroes who Main, leaving Austria totally detached from | scarcely know the right hand from the left! the affairs of the Northern or Southern Con- How preposterous! What an insane proposi- federacy. Such an arrangement suggests the | tion! It is too absurd for serious argument. absorption by Pruasia of Southern Germany | None but the craziest fanatics, who ought to be as soon as convenient. The remonstrance of | in lunatic asylums, or the most desperate revo- Napoleon against this proceeding may delay | jutfonary politicians would entertain such 4 its exepution for the present; but, as in the | thought. affair of Schleswig-Holstein, we doubt not that, peace or war, Bismarck will seize the first opportunity to carry out his designs, although CITY INTELLIGENCE. Runaway Accipent ann Loss or Lire at Tak Panc.— our special correspondence from the chief | 4¢ aout four o'clock yesterday afternoon, while the cities of the Continent indicates that his vast | crowd was tho greatest at tho Park, a spirited pair of annexation projects are already producing | horses attached to an open barouche, in which was some executive difficulty in Berlin. Austria, on the other hand, purchases her peace with Italy by the sacrifice of the beauti- ful province of Venetia, with its fine old cities, including the Queen of the Adriatic, and with Lake Garda, the Adige and tho fortresses of the famous Quadrilateral. It does not appear as yet that Louis Napoleon, for his invaluable services to Bismarck and Victor Emanuel in fomenting their late rupture with Austria, is to get any compensation north or south on the Rhine, or from Italy. Bismarck has emphat- ically snubbed him in regard to the Rhine, and under the advice of Bismarck, Victor Emanuel may perhaps decline to pay France for an ac- quisition secured by the victorious army of ‘éuiggriitz. Thus, in all probability, the lead- ¢ Spirit in the work of getting up this rupture with Austria, next to Austria herself, will be the loser by the gome. Governor Fenton Ory mz Tracx.--Our despatch from Albany in yesierday’s Hera announce’ that Governor Fenton had requested Senators Morgan and Harris to attend Jack Hamilton’s Convention. This is certainly a evidently considers that these men belong to his personal staff, and that they are simply his aides-de-camp. We have fora long time past been of the opinion that Governor Fenton did not comprehend his duties as Executive of the State, nor had sense enough to know what to do. Scnators Morgan and Harris are not sub- ject to his orders. They wore selected by the Legislature of the State to look after the in- terests of our people in the United States Senate, and not to travel around the country to represent the crazy notions of Governor Fenton in political conventions. The Governor, for some reason, all of a sud- den exhibits great anxiety about Jack Hamil- ton’s gathering. Has he become panic stricken, like all the other radicals, over the success of the conservative movement inaugurated at Philadelphia, and discovered that the only way that he can prevent his own defeat is by sending Morgan and Harris to attend the nig- ger convention of Jack Hamilton? Would it not be as well for the Governor to exhibit a little of this surplus vigor in executing the laws of this State before he commences to dabble in the dirty pool of politica in the Southern States and attempts to interfere in matters down in Dixie? The last Legislature passed a law directing him to correct abuses in our city government, which he has made no effort to carry out as yet” The only thing that he has done is to use the power thus conferred upon him by giving cer- tain parties a certificate of honesty, provided they would support his renomination. This is nol what the Legislature intended when they conferred upon bim this power, and he entirely misapprehends his duty if he imagines that the public wi!l so accept it. It will sound much better and reflect greater credit upon himself if he attends to his own dnties and secs that the laws of the State are executed hefore he travels off and attempts to arrange matters for the people of the South. When it is known that he takes charge of the trusts conferred upon him in his own State his views in regard to the interests of those in other localities will perhaps have a little more weight. It looks to us aa though the Governor in his fright has been thrown off the track and is beside himsolf. His friends should procure medical aid at once. As for Morgan and Harris, their only salvation is in uniting with the movement recently inangu- rated in Philadelpbia. Unless they do they will be swamped in the flood that is about to sweep over the whole country. Pay or Crerss is THe Execetive Dr- PARTMENTS AT Wasntnatox.—We have re- ceived a communication addressed to Sena- tor Fessenden, Chairman of the Committee ments, complaining of the remarks of Mr. Fessenden in the Senate Chamber that the cool order on the part of the Governor, He | riding the family of Mr. Barthold, of No, 262 West Twenty-third street, and an acquaintance named Ulrich Graff, took fright while passing the music stand near the entrance to the Mall, and dashed madly down the road leading to the sei) Ut, Cram Tim tuiuwm esome tee lake. After proceeding a short distance tivmn even see Sattinge aud so badiy jured that he died in @ sbort une. ‘The family of Sr. Barthold were unhurt. The affair created tho intense excitement, the accident having been witness” by a large number of persons who were congrogated around the music stand. The body of the a‘priunate man was conveyed to his late residence, No, 112 Wese Eighteenth street, and a coroner notified to hold an inquest. Arrgmpren Suicrpr—Jeatovsy THe Caves. —Yesterday, morning a young girl named Jenvie Bryant, residing in Houston strect, near Greene strect, attompted to destroy herseif by taling laudanum, but the fact becoming known to her landlady before the poison had done its work, modical aid was procured, and sue wes restored by means of an emetic. The prompting motive to the ; Tush act was taid (@ have boon jealously. While walk- ing out during the duy she saw a former lover or “friend” weiking in company with another woman? This was too much for Jeunie (0 bear, and she wont to a drug store at the corner of Houston and Wooster streets, where the d adly narcotic was procured, Upon ber ar: | rival home it was discovered that she bad taken poison, She was carried 10 the Eighth police precinct, where the restorative were wpplied, and she was in a short time ia a fair way of recovery. Some friends of the girl then gouveyed Ler howe, fue Mexican Dirricoury.—Manucl M, Mera, who represents himself as being atiachcd to General Santa Anna’s suite, was arrested at five o'clock yesterday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff McGonagle, for an assault and battery alleged to have been committed on the per- son of Dario Mazuera, on tho 15th insiant. Ho was released on giving bail in the sum of $1,000 for bis ap- pearance at court, A Wasiuxarox Darectivs i Trovwit,—Detective Mebovitt, of the Washingtoa Metropolitan Police, appears to have come to this city last Monday for the purpose of arresting two mon charged with obtaining from citizens of Washington the sum of $500 or $600 under false pre- tences, cDevitt, aa stated, was unavle to effect the arrests in New York, owing to the incivility of the police officials here, thoxhi he held two warrants, After hunting the fugrtves for some time, McDevitt im procarmg she money from them, pears to have been content, and started for home: was himsetf subsequently arrested at Baltimore, on a charge preferred by uel Dorman, for obtaining money through tntimidation, The officor was brow; before Jartieo Wildey, of Baltimore, and admitied to bail ia $800 to appear on the 2st iust., at thre o’olock in the afternoon, Tus Tevronta—A grand summer night's festival has been arranged by ibe above organization, which will take place at the Lion Park, ou 110! ‘Tes German Hosrrrar.—The laying of the corner stone of the German Hospital, and picnic for the benefit of this institution, which had to be postponed on *Moa- day on account of the rain storm, has beon put off unt® Monday, tue 34 of September. Mipsumman Niout Festivat.—Tho grand picnic and sammer aight festival of the New York Mozart Verein Singing Society will be held at Kari’s Germania Park, Melroms, at two o'clock P. M. on Monday, August 20. Preac ov Tas Exvanty-muaets Recneent.—The first aa- nual picnic of Company E, Seventy-niath régiment Penrod New York State National Guard, will be eld at Broadway Park, corner of aaa, Den street a th avenue, on Iuesday, August 21, from two to in PB, ire on Third Avenue. Aboat twelve o'clock yesterday noon a fire occarred ia the roof of the two story frame attic house No. 328 Third avenue, The alarm quickly brought the @remen to the premisos; but before tue fire was extingwished the roof was burned off. The fire is supposed te have originated by sparks falling from the chimney on tho mhingie roof, setting it om fire. The first floor is occupied by Wilitam Levers asa store. damaged by water about $150; insured for $1 mock. The damage done to Mr. Lovers’ household ture amo ‘nts to about $150; Gebbard Insurance Compat Charies Ruelins aod Herma to furniture is about $150; insured for $400 ia hard Insurance Company. The building is about $1,000; insured. Tho alarm of fire at elght o'clock last evening was caused by the burning of the floor of a now buildi No. 16 Crosby street, damaging the buiiding about $28, caused by the carelessness of the plumbers in leaving @ fire pot with fire in It on the fuer. The Fire on Fulton street. Among the sufferers by the fire which destroyed J. T. Wilson's fine fivo-story building, on Friday night, Mr. Ledyard Bill, publisher of books. The tons of t! itleman was about $3,000, on which an insurance of 1,000 had been effected. Mr. Bill's place of business was on tho second story of the bvilding, which, 1 not burnt to any exteat, war so iull of emoke that were compelled to leave a few # wonds after they had entered it, si Fires in Brook” 4. IN GATES AVENE. At balf-past eleven o'clock on Friday night lames were discovered issuing from the stable in (iates avenue, near Lot's lane, owned py Benjamin Mott and occupied by Charies E. Whitman. The premises contained fifteen cows. The flames spread rapidiy, and alihough numerous attempts Were made to rescue them, they wre all burned death. The avimals were worth $1,500, and were felly insured in the Atlantic Insurance Company of Brookiyn. The stable also contained $200 worth of bay whieh was destroved aad upon which there was no in- eu ¥ . wl wr ' 1s PLYMOUTH STR *f at two o'clock on Saturday morning, fire occurred in the frame building, No. 106 Plymouth street, owned by clerks of the executive departments are now | Thomas Lynch, and occupied a# an iron rivet. manufac- getting “all the pay they are worth.” The clerk demurs to that allegation, and says that | there is scarcely an employ¢ in any of the de- partments who gets enough to live upon, and that many of them who baye been in office for years are actually in the same condition that Senator Wilson represented himself to be in— without the price of a pine coffin to be buried in. We presume that the correspondent of Mr. Fessenden is about right as to the rate of pay received by subordinate officials of the govern- ment in Washington, but these discontented | clerks should remember that they are neither negroes nor Congressmen, and therefore have no right to grumble. It they belonged to either of these classes their salaries would no The building was of frail construction, and was about $1,000, It wee tully tu. The loss on tools and stock was sivall, tory. total Fire at Elnirn. Etuma, N. Y., Augsst 18, 1866. A destructive fire occurred here last night. The Jusc- tion canal stables, a foundry and rev: houses, wero burned. In the stabies were about thirty-five horses, of which a number perished. Total loss ance $10,000, Fire at Ellicett’s Mills, Md. Bartimonn, Angost 18, 1848. A fire at Ellicott’s Mills, to-day, destroyed the Peg factory owned by a joint stock company. Messrs, B. Deford, and John 8. Hopkins, of this city, were one- half owners. The establishment was totally destroyed ; Joss estimated at $200,000; insurance only $20,000. TOO MANY OF THE SAME NAME. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. I desire it to be understood that the Joun Halloran in your issue of Wi iy Inst, in connection 20,000, Insur- doubt be raised, probably even to the Congres- yf detective countertoitia swindle iy oat myealt, sional standard of sixty-six and two-thirds per cent. It is a great misfortune for the depart ment clerks that they are white men, and do not have seats in Congress. Tur “Lorat Buacks” axp tar Warres or tas Sovra.—One cannot help smiling at the ridiculous humbug continually reiterated by radical newspapers and speakers about the “loyal blacks” of the South, in spite of | week. the infamous motives that inspire ench language and the frightful conseqpences it is calculated to produce. These radicals must laugh in their sleeves when they talk about the “loyal blacks.” They know well enoweh that ut fow of the voor on Finance, from « clerk in one of the depart- | Corner of 114th street and Third ne, Harlem. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General Granger, United States army, and J. T. Norton, of Nebraska, are stopping at the Fifth Avouue Hotel, General A. B, Wright, J. Hardeman, of Goorgia, and J. Cook, of Phi ‘are at tho St. Nicholas Hotel. beni if 18, 1868, ew uguat 18, The Military Investieating Committee Bonciart ov Starex Isnax.—The stables of Gen Stil- way wore broken into at an early hour yesterday and two seta of harness, valued at $500, stolen, Aguan was aub- arrested by Mr. Blivey, master 5 duly comm! sik street, om | on the late riot * | will close ite labors about the middie of the coming