The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIPLOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NaSSAU STs. THE DAILY HERALD, published enery doy in the year, uts per copy. Annual subseription price, $14. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Steveotyp- ing and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the lowest rales, Your Volume XXXI. AMUSEM: TS THIS EVEN Y THEATRE, eLIeU. UEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas HANLON Brorwers’ Vensarie COMPANY OF sve, AcRomaTs, Dancers, Pawrowmists, VOcatists, Broadway, nee Broome NEW Sixt Hani, FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near enue.—Imi0N; OR, THR Man at tHe WHKKL—AKEA ASTOR'S OPERA HOUSR, 201 Bowery.—Comre ‘Nramo MinstRetsy—Batter Diventisseart, e IRisMm Commer. m V yr 14M ‘HARLEY, WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Brondway—Dx 4 Varuery or Licur Lavcwanix Enraatainwanrs, CORPS DE BALUET, AC. Suavow Pantomime, Third Avenue, between Fifty. i Fifty-ninth stre ‘HzO. Tuomas’ OxcimsteaL 2s CONCERES, comm 8 0 Clock, ACADEMY OF MINSTRELS, 72 Miaatrels).-SINGING, DANors SEAVER'S | OPERA Fresco sey—Toopurs. DOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSR, Brooklyn. —Ermoriax Mix. PPRELSY—A LADS BURLYSQUES AND PaNtowines, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway. = Lacteaes wit tue Oxy-HypRoGen Muickoscorr twice daily. Heap agp Higur Aus or Toast. “Open from 8 RACE GARDEN, Broadway, (California THIOPIAN BUGLESQUES Williamsburg.—Trx New Vork,Priduy, August 24, 1866. THE NEw Ss. EUROPE. Our special telograms from Europe by the Atlantic cable elabrace news from Prussia, Bohemia, Italy, Hun- gary, England and Greece. They are dated in Berlin and Jondon to the evening of the 22d instant, while the financial, commere al and marine intelligence, also pub- lished in (he Hxratp to-day, comprises the reports and transactions of yesterday. ‘The ratification of a peace treaty between Austria and Pruss'a is expected within a week. It was thought that the signatures would be attached to the document in Prague last Wednesday, Prussia has ooncluded a peace with Bavaria and Hesse Darmstadt. She obtains important territorial gains from each and fixes their future status. The Prussian troops have commenced to evacuate Bo- hemi. A Paris newspaper gays Napoleon wil! cede Venetia direct to Italy, : Hungary expects to obtain a constitutional form of government from Austria, Ex-Governor Eyro, of Jamaica, has beon fited by his friends in Southampton, England. The opponents of his policy also met and condemned it in decided terms. Twenty-tive thousand Christians are in arms against the Turks in Candia, They hold important points The United States Consutate building has been mach dam- aged by the Turks King William of Prussia attended the opera in Ber and had a most enthusiastic rec ption. 1 al “Emperor of Germany.” The receipts of the evening exceeded nine hundred pounds sterling. ‘Tho American yachtmen tn the sloop Alive enjc very complimentary reception at the regatta of the Roya Yacht squadron in England. Au English offic al estimate of revenue and expen die ture of the Empire of Mexico for the year 1866 shows that Maximillan will have a deticit amounting to over on tnillions of dollars at or about New Year, and it of the French vention has been to ) Mexican territory, ition, wilh a debt to ch foots up ten millions of pounds sterling, heaving interest at the rate of three per cont The Bank of En:land reduced the rate of discount from eight tosoven per cent yesterday, Cousols wero as lanl quoted at 884, for money, ia London st noon yester- day. United states five-twenties were at 70 at the same The Liverpool cotton market wgs more frm at ye-terday. Breadstufts wero flat al the same hour, THE CITY. authority for stating that Jeff Davis will bo reloased on bail or parole soon, holding himself amenable to the procéss of the court which is expected to dispose of his case in October noxt, This stato of affairs has been mainly brought about by the recent exposures made in the Hxraup of the conspiracy among the Reconstruction Committee having for its object the conviction of Davis ‘on the charge of complicity in the assassination of Pre- sident Lincoln. In this connection a further exposure 18 made which deeply implicates Judge Advocate General Rolt, Secretary Stanton and Representatives Wilson and Boutwell. The President will make his proposed trip to Chicago in the car built especially for President Lincoln. He wili arrive in this city at noon on Wednesday, and will re- view the First Division of the National Guard in the afternoon. The freedom of the city will be tendered him by the City Council, and action is being taken by the merchants of the city to participate in the ceremonies of his reception. He will be accompanied by all the mem- bers of the Cabinet and their families, The excitement regarding the anticipated Fenian in- vasion is subsiding, but the preparations for defence are still continued. The government is orzanizing camps of instruction and observation all along the border, and Canadian spies are numerous in the United States and Probably are engaged only in forwarding atartiing and Sensational reports of the doings of the Fenians, Among the Brotherhood in this city a move was made yesterday by General Sweeny which looked apparently toa fusion with the Stephens faction, but on its appearing that the General was without inflnence in the Roberts wine, Mr. Stephens declined having any‘hing to do with elther of its leaders. An orzanization calling itself an “ Anneva- tion Teague,” and comnozed of Irishmen, was in secret council in Boston on Monday evening. Its purpose is said to favor the annexation of Canada and the other British provinces to the United States, The President claims to have no connection with Colonel Roberts, and says that ho would issne his proclamations when he wi He, as weil az the mili- in New Branswick asa rebol, tary director of the tho late Canadian invasion, By the arrival at Philadelphia of the Hendrick Had son, from Havana on the 18th, we have nows from to that date. The <Iave trate ix on the inerease in a startling degree Seven hundred Africans were tandod at one time, and ramor savs it was done by means of a consideration presented to some ene high in office. Rumor algo save that the vessels carrying criminals to with cargoes The stec of health, certifie! to by the Spanish Consnl, and hav- ing, also, a nephew of the Captain General on board, was nermitted to transfer her cargo and passengers and Proceed to Vera Crnz, without the usual twenty days quarantine. Lamirande, the Frene bankor, who was in custody in this city on a chars of ab:conding from France with large aum$ of money belonging to the Bank of Poictiors, | and who escaned and was again arrested near Montreal, | has been committed hy the Canadian aithorities to await the warrant of the Governor General for his extradition, A writ of habeas corons will be applied for by his con. sel to obtain his release, Tho Lavor Convention was atill in session at Balti- re yesterday, Permanant officers were alerted. J. C. Whalley, of the District of Columbia, being made | Prosident. The committee to wait upon President Jonne son will be received on Saturday, The news from Veneznola is to the 24th of July. General Arana, the Prosident of Aragua, had been de posed by action o: revolutionists and General Rojas had been installed in his place. In Traxtilo a similar revotn- tion had occurred, but was quetied after considerahio blood letting and hoase burning. Gencrat Carvallo was | made President, and General Vasquez, the former Presi- ident, was imprisoned. General Sheridan Was revoked the order ostablishin* martial jaw at New Orleans, ‘Twenty-2 deaths from cholera were reported on Thursday in Now Orleans, thirty-nine in Cincinnat! and one in Philadelphia, The vurinls of victims of the cholera in St, Louis on Monday and Tnesday in the six | principal cometeries were two handred and sixty, there | | of Afrieons. Bnginess was dull. | being twenty cemeteries : the iramediate neighborhood of the city. now uridergoiny a term of one year’s imprisonment for attempting to exete a riot among nocroes by urviny Tarceny, They were fined five hundred dollars and son. tenced to imprisonment, but Governor Pierpoint remitted the latter portion of the punishment, They were, how- | ever, compelled to serve the term in default of paying the fine. The Now York Yacht Club. now on its annual ernisy, loft New Bedford on Tuexday morning for Newpor', eroports of yestorday exhibited a morked abate- ntof he cholera. But six new cases and five deatie reported. In Brooklyn the decreave also continues. AU (ae reguiar meeting of the Board of Heaith yesterday ion was given for the steamship Bavaria and her sengers to come up to the city, A communica. ‘rom the Iuspector of Siaten Island, requesting the ttoard to improve the drainage of Stapleton, was referrod tothe engineor, A long letter from England, giving an sant of the ravages of the cholora in Europe, was sub- and ordered on file. The Board adjourned to meet iree P. M. next Tues ‘ar meeting of the Commissioners of Charities amt Corrections was held yesterday, The business was oof Che ordinary routine character, and nothing of public wvorest transpired. From this date visitors a owed a» nana! to visit the Isiands, A motion was yesterday made before Judce Daly Chambers of the Court of Common Pleas to vie: injunction restraining the Board of Health from inter forma with the business of Char'es Cooper and another who are batehers doing business in this eit: Vlaintifts chym that their basiness of slaughtering and driving hronel the stroets is not in any wey injurtons to nic health or safety, and that the Board have no » interfere with them. After hearing affidavits on sides and the argument of counsel for defendants, Daly adjourned the case to Monday er inysterions disappesrance of gold bonds and siiway securities came to Nght in thir eity yesterday amount of loss involved is reported at near $90,000, years that Messrs. Crocker, Wood & Co. had tin the vault of the Marine Bank a box containing money and the s dit wae carried off by perso’ wn The vith a faint Nope of porte in} or p poliee are en aved in making % the offend 1 stock mar Nog at 11 rally dull ye vr business waa exeeedin et! transactions od by the Tait ever, owlug to tt ‘ and nominal, Cotlee was dull aud heavy; Koner. Cot- Wh off, Oats wer mor, but t with the tm Beef was unchas Lard wae ta! and heavy. Whiskey unehanged, Freight: were yet and hoawy MISCELLANEOUS. thy everexpondonce from Vora Craz, Mes a iets thre haudred un lett steamer La France on that day sives additional and imp. ¢ of Tampico. ”v " Gur correspond. part mo) tare of the th on garrison tston liber, body on the surre Mexican © anxiously awaiting may see if the United niter Napoleo: professions, A gonetal removal of & made in Imperial office filed by Frenchmen, A ‘ Maximilian, reorganizing the for the better security of Mazatlaa, on the 6th of Jaly, w hy the liberals, Marshal Basu capital oa the 12th from San Luis ! The liberals wero {very strong in Talay —- Desultory and indecie on throughout every portion of the ountry Nowpatches from the nelghh yrhont ¢ New (ricama, aro dated on the i8th, A! () miliary officers had given tn their adhesion tha new commander, General Taw Wallace bat re cotved an order to deliver up the arm and tranitiow war which he had reentiy shipped to Mrowar Caravein, the recent commandant, who wae ovate! hy th rontats, oak on Whe Aimer! An side. ve crospondent at Washingion hae wil anit to Canale where they arrived early in the afternoon. They were to have sailed on Thursday for Now London, where it was probable that the cruise would end and the yachts be dismissed One Day “Later from Earepe—France and Pruasin, We publish this morning one day later European intelligence by the Atlantic cable. suc, wore prominent leaders in | Fernando Po are, by a similar arrangemont, to return | per Manhattan, frony New York, having a clean bill ; them to resist the punishment of stripes awarded for | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1866, tically that historical and somewhat imporlané little monarchy of the German family bas ceased to exist. Germany, north of the river Main, is turned |, over into a confederation under Prussia, and Germany south of the Main into an independ- ent confederacy subject by agreement with Austria to absorption by Prussia as soon as she can conveniently settle upon the terms with the States concerned. In view of this formidable expansion of Prussia, Napoleon demands of Bismarck the enlargement of France to the Rhine. The demand is emphatically re- jected, and Napoleon answers, “Very well, all right,” and says that his demand was only made in deference to the expectations of the French people. England next desires to know if he has made a requisition for certain fortresses in Belgium. He answers no, and that he has no idea of any such demand. He hopes, however, that Prussia will not undertake to appropriate any of the German territories south of the Main; and thus, baffled and defeated on every | side, stands the late arbiter of Europe. But there may be in this hint in regard to Southern Germany and in the reported de- | mand of Napoleon for a fortress or two in that | quarter, wrested from France by those detested treaties of 1815, the germ of another conflict, which will decide whether France or Prussia is master of the situation in Central Eu- | Tope. From present appearances Bismarck | would not shrink from this conflict; but it | would really seem that he rather desires it than fears it, THe evidently feels that Prussia has | no longer any favors to ask of France, and | perhaps he may think, foo, that.a brush with her would consolidate all Germany undcr the | government of Prussia and make the whole | German family as much a national unit as the | people of France. | The prestige which Napoleon haa lost in bis Mexican adventure affords something of an vantage to his political adversaries in Vranco; but this drawback is a mere bagatelle compared with the result of his late game of diplomacy and war in Germany. Herein the supporters of his empire and dynasty are seri- ously disappointed, and, to recover his ground among them, he may, sooner than is generally expected, be compelled to advance bis army to the Rhine. Hence the importance which we attach to every changing phase of the European situation from day to day. The | work of peace and Prussian consolidation in Germany goes prosperously on; but until Na- poleon shall have secured something in the general rectification to the advantage of France, peace in Europe may be regarded as exceedingly doubtful. From his present pro- fessions and concessions the empire is a model of peace ; but looking at the interests of his people and their restless character, all these professions and concessions are only for the passing day. Exrraorpinany ReveLations Concerning THE Potce Derartment.—The jealousy existing between the detectives of the federal govern- ment and the detectives of the Metropolitan police, which has led to charges and counter charges among these worthics, puts the public in possession of some very curions | facts, which confirm the opinion generally Two discharged soldiers in Richmond, Virginia, are | entortomed for a long time past, that many of | our police force were the agents of crime rather | than the conservators of public safety. The affidavits sworn to before the Recorder on Welnesday show the modus operandi adopted by the police in levying black mail, under shelter cf their official position, to be as inge- nious as it is bold and infamous, It is alleged, on the oath of several witnesses, that certain officers of the ‘police force, assisted by accomplices, wearing the shields of the Police Department—whether mem- bers of the force or not remsins to be proved—caused certain goods to be sold to dealers, and almost immediately upon the gale being effected, entered the stores of the pur- The leading fentures of this news are that France will Austrian province of Venetia, with its citics and fortresses, including the Adriatic, to King Victor Emanvel, chasers, declared that the goods were stolen, probably turn over the Inte | and compelled the parties who bought them, by threats of arrest and other fearful conse- the Queen of | quences in case they were brought before Judge Dowling, to compromise the matter by and that Bavaria, shorn of a alice of her | paying the officers sums of money varying territories, has concluded a treaty of peace | from one to tive hundred dollars. Fortunately, with Prussia, the solution made was inevitable from the be- So far as Venetia is concerned | the policemen implicated in these nefarious proceedings have been fully identified by the ginning; but the interesting question, what is | victims in two instances, and, as their cases to be the compensation of Napoleon, still | are in the hands of Recorder Hackett, it is not remains unanswered, Bavaria has had a lucky likely that they will be whitewashed after the escape, and ought to be thankfal for the mag- | mild and paternal fashion of the Police Com- kingdom. naries entered into with Austria Europe .is for the rectifiation of the European equilibrium. ‘The German States, &e., holding each the posi- tion, more or lessyof an independent govern- sive or defensive purposes, Hence Napoleon's | manipulations of Bismarck at Biarritz last sum- | mer. The French Emperor hoped from the | petly jealousies and divisions of this incon- gruous German Bund, as betw Prussia and | Austria, to overthrow those detested treaties skilfully fomented. Now, the game of the | | unanimity of Prussia in being satisfied with so | missioners, We may expect a thorough ven- | little when she might have swallowed up the tilation of the whole system of corruption which it is said prevails in the Police Depart- The work of Bismarck in consolidating the | ment, and the public will look to the Recorder States and principalities of Germany under the | for proteciion. They have long since ceased Prussian government goes bravely on. In his | to hope for anything from the Commissioners, practical interpretation of the peace prelimi- | for those gentlemen evinced no desire to bring to justice, or even to reecive evidence against, beginning to recognize the wonderful success | members of the police force charged with of his game of diplomacy with Louis Napoleon | offences against the law. We have se 1 good deal of apparent vigilance in hauling up pa- trolmen for being absent from their beats fora few moments when the ronndsmen or sergeants ment, have heretofore formed « loose, inhar- | prowled around to catch a delingnent; but it monious and feeble confederation for aggres- | seems questionable, in the face of recent de- velopments, whether this was nota cloak to hide the looseness permitted in other ways, We have observed also extraordinary activity in using the elu and otherwise exhibit ing unnecessary violence npon intoxicated wretches and unoffending citizens, for which 1815, and to re-establish the old French im- | policemen were never held responsible, The vial boundary of the Rhine, in the winding } question now suggests itself whether all this np of the late German war which he had so | superficial show of energy was not a blind to cover the evil deeds of which the police force needle-gun having been played ont between | now stands accused. We think that the public Prussia and Austria, we see in the settling up | will be very apt to regard it in this light, and of Bismarck the extent of Napoleon's miscaleu- lations. it may require a good deal of ingenuity on the part of the Police Commissioners to convince First, the Prussian Cabinet asserts that the | them tht the most dangerous parties to the | hostile attitnde maintained towards it by the kingdom of Hanover, the people of the terri. tory of Electoral Iesse, Nassau and the Inte free city of Frankfort has determined the Prussian executive to destroy at once their in. dependence and annex them completely to | people thus absorbed would of themselves form a very respectable kingdom, In the next place, Bavaria, alter having wormed resistance on her own account to Prus- safety of the community are not to be found among those very individuals who arc em- ployed to protect us. We are gratified to know that these charges against the police have been entrusted to the courts of law, where a jury of citizens will | the kingdom of Prussia, The territories and | probably have an opportunity of passing upon them. If the facts atated in the afidavits made before the Recorder can be sustained, we shall ntemplated an | have a elue to the whole vicious police system under which we have been liviag and suffering, sian authority, expecting probably a helping | We hope that the whole affair will be thorough- hand from Napoleon, has submitted to Bis- | ly sifted. If the police are really the most | marek's demands, who only asks, for the pre. | dangerous class in the community, 94 alleged-— sont, the districts of Lichtenfels and Carthot Next, from Dresden, August 21, we learn that the instigators of crime aad the accomplices ot criminals-—it is time (Qet the public slsould all the members of the Saxon Cabinet had sent | know it, If they can, Glear themselveaso! the in their resignations that day. Nominalfy the | charge, let them do%o in open court, ‘and not | kingdom will continue to be recoynined under | shirk the vy | the will of Prussia, a litte longer; but prac: | fiom quentiqa in « star-chamber, ‘investign- The Albany Mecting and Party Names, The meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee and the commitice appointed by the delegates from this State at Philadelphia in Albany on Tuesday resulted in the democrats absorbing the Philadelphis movement in this State. In other words, the democratic com- mittee made their call so broad that it took in all of the friends of the President and left the committee appointed at Philadelphia no other alternative but to endorse it or leave them open to the charge of desiring to divide the conservative strength. In doing so, however, they succeeded in adding their own name to that which has designated the democratic party. The opposition party to the radicals in this State will hereafter be knowr as the national Union democratic republican party, Thus the great event of the present time, like all those which have heretofore taken place in thie coun- try, has changed the names of the principal political parties. The controversies which were connected with and followed the adoption of the constitution were carriod on with @ great deal of spirit. The division which fook place in this diseus- sion gave the name of federalist and anti- federalist to the parties in the controveray. But before the close of Washington’s adminis- tration the republican party began to have an existence. Ui had its orisin in the bitter feel- ing which existed against England and was strengthened by the federalists leaning toward that country, It gradually gained sirength until 1800, when its candidate, Thomas Jef- ferson, was elected President, The federalists never fully recovered from this defeat, allhough they continued to be somewhat formidable nntil their opposition to the war of 1812 finally destroyed the party, and ils candidate for the Presidency in the contest in 1816, Rufus King, only received the electoral vote of three Staies. The whig party wa. the successor of the federalists, and had its birth in the election of the second Adams* by the House of Repre- sentatives, through the vote of Heary Clay, in the contest with Jackson. The Adams and Clay party, however, were not designated by the name of whigs until afier the election of Jackson. The election of the latter in 1828 was the first sucecss of the democratic party. It was in the events of that period that the democratic party proper had its origin and received the name which it has adhered to until the present time. Clay twice ran as the whig candidate and was defeated. Its only success in a national contest was by taking up outside military candidates, like Harrison and Taylor, and conducting the canvass on side issues. Their snecess in both instances was only temporary. During Polk's administration the whig party repeated the folly of its predecessors, the federalists, and opposed the Mexican war. The perty was only saved from a disastrous defeat in the next campaign in 1848 by the division in. the democratic party over the slavery ques- tion, and in the fact that Van Buren was placed in the field as the free soil candidate against the regular democratic nominee. But at the next Presidential election, or in 1852, the party received such an overwhelming defeat that it was never again able to rally. Several at- tempts were made to organize a new party in its place, hut none of these efforts were sne- cessful until 1856, whon the republican organi- zation was formed, and through the extra- ordinary agitation of the slavery question and the division of the democratic party it was successful in electing iis candidate in 1860. The rebellion followed and it then became tbe party of the war, and under the name of the Union republican party it was again enccess- ful in 1864, It now claims to be the Union party, but is known by the name of the radical party, and is by almost universal consent so called at the present time. The usurpation and revolutionary course of its leaders ia the last Congress has inaugurated a new party move- ment, started by prominent men in the republl- can party as it was first formed. The tarn which this has taken in this State, in its morg- ing with the democratic party, has given us a new party name. The political parties in this camgaigu are therefore the radical Jacobins on one side and the national Union democratic republican party on the other. A Move to Increase THE Revenue anv Improve tae Pustic Hearra.—We suggested some time ago in the Heratp that a considera- ble addition to the revenue of the city could be made by converting the thousands of acres of now worthless swamp lands lying on the water fronts around the island into good arable ground, by reclaiming them from the flow of the tide, and thus rendering vast tracts of waste land, which do not pay a dollar of taxation into the public treasury, available for this purpose, as well as enhancing very largely the value of property now lying idle. In a sanitary point of view we also urged the necessity of draining these tracts of swampy ground, whieh breed ma- larious diseases from the miasma arising from them. We are glad to learn that our sngges- tions have directed the attention of science to this project, and that a plan has been adopted by which the million or more acres of this ma- larious ground, surrounding us on the North and East rivers, may be reclaimed. We understand that practical engineers have decided that by sinking a wall or dyke of iron plates, with water-tight joints, to low water level around the margin of the swamps, so as to stop the tidal flow, they can be completely dried in one season, and made valuable for dairy farms and other useful purposes, and will possess an alluvial soil of remurkable fertility. It is mot necessary to say that if thie idea is carried into practical opevation—-as we are informed it soon will be, aader a patented plan--the public will derive great benefit from it in many ways, especially in thnewing so much more taxable property into the hands of the city and State governmenis, thus reducing the taxes on other real estate, and ministering to the public bealth by the extermination of large pestiforons districts almost at our very doors. If science, skill and capital can achiev: these: results it will indeed be a most desival|: end to accomplish, and is well worth trying. There seems no good reason why it should noi succeed, and the undertaking must carry with it the good wishes of the community. Ovextne tax Camparas—Mass Marinos. - ‘The most essential preliminary in the cothing campaign against the destructive radical fae- tion is « full expression of public opinion in a | astill greater demand if the large force is lone | jon distivgaisied gigantic mass meting in favor of the Presi- | Kept in the field. This demand, in connection | "976. Ov iae are iy mo ™, in aa prosperity, the reduction of taxes and a full de- velopment of the resources of the whole coun- try, South and North. Let them prononnce that whieh the whole country believes, with the exception of the power-seeking and spoil-hunt- ing Jacobin’s *of Congress, that these results can only be otained by supporting the princi- ples of the Ph'ladelphia Convention, Wash- ington moves toaMorrow night in a great mass meeting. New York should follow without a day’s delay, The Spirituntists’ Couvettion ut Providence— A Test Performance Demanded. In spite of the legal difficulties of Colchester and Colonel, Godwin, and his protege, the Miss Van Wie, who claimed to be “the cbild of God,” but whose Teutonic cognomen clearly indicated her descent from some ancient Knickerbocker or Berks county family, the spiritualisis con- tinue to occasionally turn up. Unawed by the unreasonable prejndices of the public against the unseasonable summoning up of departed spirils who frequently and under all the cir- cumstances, we think, sensibly refuse to come when called, and the unaccountable tipping of the various articles of second hand furniture with which the seance chambers of the spirit ualists are invariably furnished, they continue to thrive and occasionally convene together for the evident purposes of humbugging ihem- selves into the belief that they really are a set of modern reformers who are amusing the pub- lic with their incomprehensible but doubtless spirited speeches. A convention of the brethren and sisters is now in session at Providence, and a numerous band of ‘long-haired male and shori-cropped female advocates of Four- rierism and modern table tipping have made a raid on the cheap hotels and private boarling houses of the little capital of the Jiltle State of Rhode Island. Bat as yet they have done nothing more; and this will not satisfy the public, who demand actual per- formances before admitting that these are ihe true prophels of sp'ritualism. Aq yet they have really done nothing. The convention is weak in talent—Judge Edmonds, Colchester, the juggler, and Colonel Godwin, with the “miraculous girl,” being absent. Il is exceed- | ingly weak, too, in spirit, whiskey having | been excluded, and only one spirit from the vasty deep having as yet answered the call, The spirit of Andrew Jackson has been induced to recite a few doggerel lines relative to the late war; bul. we are not inclined to receive this as authentic, as we never heard that Old Hickory was addicted to pociry or knew anything whatever about any oiher war than those with the Creck and Seminole Indians and the. British lion, The only spirited demon- strations in the convention have been those of a belligerent Irish gentleman of Fenian rather than Fourrier propensities, who appears doter- | mined to involve the American with the Cana- j-dian spirits in a2 manner which will prove a death blow to the whiskey smuggler on ihe border and a decided addition io the internal reyenue of the country. These demonstrations are as nothing to an ineredulons public, and we demand from the convention a test performance, @ la Fox, Hame, Colchester, Heller or Godwin, we care not which, so that it he conclusive. . Gin and | bitters have heen exeluded trom the conven | tion, doubtless as an exeuse for the failure io perform; for it is 1 notable fact ihat these new light reformers cannot, under the most favora- ble cirenmstances, get the spirits wp without | previously pouring considerable quantities of spirits down; but if they adjourn without an effort they must expect to be set down by skeptical people as impostor, We insist that the convention shall give us a (est performance at onee or go home or to the shades from which they call their congenial spirits who do not always come. After they have given a per- formance we will decide whether or not they are genuine prophets and worthy of recogni- tion. If they fail we shall not hesitate to pro- nounce them impostors; but if they succeed we shall hail them as true apostles, and they shall hereafier and forever be entitled to raive aud put down any kind of spirits which they may prefer. Iwportation of Gotv.—Our Enropean des- patches in yesterday's Heratp contained the announcement that half a million in gold had been shipped from England to New York. When we take into consideration the fuel that our importations of merchandise are nearly double those of last year, and one-third greater than in 1864, this return of goid may be con- sidered somewhat extraordinary. Bui, re- markable as it may seem, it is unquestionably only the commencement of « general move- ment of specie in the rame direct The plications on the Continent, and the aee™ tainty which existe there in reference « the permanency of investments, have indieed the capitalists to look elsew for Ue employ- meni of their surplus expital, Events have shown that no government bopds in the world e furnish as safe an investment and insnre as good a return in interest as those at the United States, The shipment of gold re- ferred to is evidence that the capitalists in Europe have come toa of this fact. From this time on we may expect to see a re- gular demand for our bonds in Europe and a constant eurgent of gold toward the United States, We have had our troubles and our period of drain of the precious metals; but this is now over, confidence hes been established, nat only in the permanency of the repubtic, but also in oar ability to mect all oar ob! tion, while the events om the other side of the Atlantic have created general distrust in the financial condition of nearly alt the nations, there. Thix change benefiis us in creating * | demand for our governmentsecurities. Our exporiations, while not equal to ov im- ports, are yet omnch larger thar Vast year, and almost equal to those @ Is64, There is just now considerable forign de- | | trad for breadstaff, whieh make wp no | | ineonsiderable portion of oxt expats The | acente of the Hatian goveenment kaye been (i our market for the — Tast six weeks | aiedly purchasing wheat and flo’ under the orders of Victor Pmanuel, It is srobable that they Wave by this time complaed their pur chases, ‘The greatest secrecy yas observed in their movements, in order thatthe market price might not rise on them. This supply will be absorbed by the Italian amy. But if that government is compelled to come here for the magerial to feed its. army row, we may expect dent's policy of reconstruction. Let the people, | with that for government bonds, bids fair to declare with thousands of tongues that they dewand ihe fruits of peace, a return to our work out important reanlts in reference to the balance of trade, ‘The shipment of gold, # Hrocpleettully THOMAS HAT dan revoking Geveral Order No. 60, 1 theaptore all the mort significant, It is re posing hes the bonds in exchange for this balf* am of gold have glrady keen sent abroad, and although selling st ihe: former prices in Europe the parties connected «with the transaction on this side hay: made a fair profit out of it. Since thoze bonds were sdld’ they have advanced in price in Europe, Hence we msy infer that this is only the commence- ment of an extensive business in this line, which will be followed by a still further rise of five-twenties in Wall street. Tar Batrtore Nationa, Lanow Conaress—- A New Poustican Parry.--There fas been ia session for the lust day or two at Baltimore a workingmen’s assemblage under the name and style of the National Labor Convention. It is 8 political organization, having for its imme- diate object the agiiation of the eight hour day’s labor question, and proposing that “so far as political actigm is concerned cach locality should be governed by its own policy, whether (in our political elections) to run an independent ticket of worsingmen, or to use political parties already existing; but at ell events to cast no vote except fer mem pledged to the interests of labor.” Another resolution of the convention proposes that that league of workingmen shall demand ihat “if convict labor cannot be entirely abolished, the samy com- pensation shall be demanded by the United States and the respective States of alf eon- tractors securing convict labor as that paid in the workshops outside of the prisons.” Va- rious other reforms in the interests of labor were proposed, and they'are to be agitated by a new political party formed of the Icagues of oll the working classes throughout the United States, Here, indeed, are the clements for a tre~ mendous politteal organization for good or evil, and from these proceedings at Baltimore it is an organization which seems to be already j in practical operation. A political party em- bracing all the workingmen of the country, on the platform of the interests of labor, is sug- gestive at once of a political revolution in the politics and leading political questions of the day, State and national. The movement, how- ever, is not only suggestive of immense power in our political affairs, but of immense mischief, if it should fall under the control of unscrupu- lous politicians. We have always held that labor should be fairly rewarded, but that the laws between eapital and labor, supply and demand, should be mainly left, like the general laws of trade, to regulate themselves. But if the workingmen choose to take the field asa political party, we may look—good or evil—for a political revoijution, and hence we may expect from this Laltimore Convention the beginning of a shaking up of our political parties which will soon bring abont seme very extraordinary resulis. Gray Recertion ror Prestpeyt Jouxson,-— The Empire City bas on various @casions dis- tinguished itself in doing honor to visitors of note, but we shall be much surptised if the reception that will be given to Andrew John- son next Wednesday by our citizens will not transcend everything that we have heretofore done in that line. We notice that Genera Sanford has issued an order--published in our columns this moraing—-in reference to the mili- tary part of the celebration. That com- pliment, of course, would «always be paid on such occasions to the Executive head of the nation. But it is the enthusi- asm which the great body of the people will manifest towards Mr. Johnson an his first official visit to the metropolis—-it is the cheering and heartfelt acclamations by whith he will be grected, that will assure him bow much his honest and patriotic course has endeared him fo our citizens. We expect te witness next Wednesday such a scene of popalarenthusiasm | aa has never before been witsessed, even ia New York, and as will never be forgotten. | CITY, RAILWAYS ~SALE OF TICKETS. ‘The eubjoined correspondence has passed betwen My. William Richardson, President of the Dry Dock, ust Broadway and Broadway Ruilrost Company, and the Hon. Thomas Harland, Acting (mamissioner of the ta. ternal Revenue Department: ~ Ovvice ov Dry Doce, Rast 320 4D way dee Denaeat. 2 1La0AD Comrany, FEW YORK, A Be. Trowss Hamtanno, ting Cot Interaat avenue Department: Hnu:—T have just recevet from George P. Putnam, Cot jsetor of thin district, y of your letter to hitn of the Maul See Uy dhe iste and wale of tickets: by tire Si, rat T wie te, retaore fram mud the mpm iB ‘ yb er, Mr. honesily, hat company atrempted the © the legal cents additional cach tweity tekets, nd yout decision to be that, hn its fe an agveenmut, and ux such’ is Tw Paie for the bad: eset form, the — ne stamp. WVegndie to give the puble ev matic of the fase and sale of tickets, ay Far an tt eam bes doe with safety to the ¥; but ix necessary or we SFuatd against the dangers’ forzery on the one hand. wad date other to insure that each ticki iesied shall be used nt once far the transpo f 8 Passenger. "We nrononn to change the form of the tekets o0 that thes yned owe abel ted as follows:— accommodation In the in company. off the ‘pranti e tickets Sin ie We propose shal be nuamberes ident and the er ‘ou pleas informue i tue titket woukd be Table \ tie rom the prre! ta halt per cout yur shen servant WILLIAM RUTARDSON, Prenient, eimty, as thal the ‘avidenoo fur he alleged extortion fre rage. an tas, than tine the niles of ed from sued charwe: and Hate Cree frou. diaioe. Vere LAND, Acting Conamtastoner et company. im the in ‘ould be exon aly 1m stanion alleged. we NEWS FROM FEW SUEANS. New (nua yaguat 23, 1806 A general order was issued to nightl® Ponty aa Baird, declaring marilal lav and appasntiagy Gem rab rovernor , but Continues is foree General ee General Order No. 16 decking toartial law ( the proservation of the publ ‘of Nfe and property, which wa he rit THE SUNDAY SOHOOL TEACHERS” CONVENTION, was N.Y, Augeat 23, 1868, The sessions of the Sew York > Mende y Seb agol vac ‘Assoc’ vid in tne ety this week, were dtended by ma imaewetve concourse of poole ps vena cupied ia 1M 8 Feet vite Yiertegee ttaty sunday schoo! Uwe reading oF an addvoes and the aprant we The followin) wa Vi Presflente — werg lected: —J. F Baurne JW. Beliner, Lack. sort Ty, B, Hecke, FB y, Albateyg H. sebieman, nfialo; W. 1. Lowit, Root } : The following wiitionst sorrotar oy were elected :— xo paker, Philadiplia; J. Vik, Machester; Lay, ings of thie, : ing. Maw P teachors this ev tt elected for the (naning % T Hunt i Rochester, State secrutary ; pada Sat 1 Trew With a comtrel and penn & cotmiltes of eight HIbmbber cork, ant a seerouy (@ ach of the sixty counties 1a Lee Shai