The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, WIC! W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, wer cents percopy. Annual subscription price, $14. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyp- fy and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the owrst vates, “ eat = AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING. BROADWAY + cet, —NAPOLEO! WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hatel Tit; HANLON ‘BROFUERS! VRRAATILE COMPANY OF \WMNASTS, AOROUATS, AN "ANTOMIMIST: OC ALISTS, a... ac. Matinee at 26 oolock? > Volume XXXI.. THRATER, Broadway, near Broome NSW PRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth strect, Sixtn avenue,—BaRsee OF SEVILLE. near VONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery. Yousrasm—Nrano Minsteetsy—Baluer DivkRrt &.—New Yor« 1x THe OLDEN Tore. 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King of Prussia has ratiied the Prague peace ay. istria fs to make a heavy issue of governraent bonds 1oct her war debts and the indemnity to Prussia. Joseph Miczini refuses Victor Emanuel’s amnesty. The Ttalisn army is being rapidly reduced. ‘The Spaulards havo captured a Chilean privateer. Whe Bi sham reform demonstration was an im- n political display, Mr. Bright was unusually force in bis speech, . Spain is alarmed for the safety of Cuba, in conse- qyence of the collapse of the Mexican empire, cigsed at 89%¢ for money in London. yester- ig. United States five-twentios wore at 7214 . The Liverpool cotton market was dull, with prices de lining, yesterday. The rates were par- tially one-fourth of a penny lower, middling uplands clomog at thivveen one-fourth to thirteen one-half pence, ‘The breadstutfs market waswveak and declining. Provi- Kiwis wore ceverally unchanged, THE PRESIDENT’S TOUR. The Presrlential party started from Washington on their trip ie Chicago, to attend the coremonies of the “laying of ihe coraer stone of the Douglas monument, yesterday mornimg. Accompanying tho Prestdent-are Necretativs Seward and Welles, Postmaster General Ran Ccant and’ his Chief of Staff, General John Admiral Farragut, and other army, naval cers, Iu Baltimore a grand ovation 4 ty, probably not less than one bundred being assembled in the streete'to do ye cevasion, iy hoa BO reception was tendered to the party "ler Ges, although the people turned out ea iroprovised a reception of their own which proved a ‘vd affair, The military, the firemen and coher civic ers nmations turned out in fall force, and tte stree's (hrough whieh the procession moved waplcely jammed with human beings. tat Meade and staf’ and a commit citizens received the President at where be was welcomed on behalf © by Colonel Page, im a speech of some ‘resident acknowledged the hospitality in He anid he responded cordially to the sen- ? visexpy eed, and he trusted peace had, indeed, come— perovaneni peace—and that in future we shall learn Slew worls Jarno wore, In reference to his past conduct, he said Jar al iis influence, either as chief magistrate or ie aso citizen, wonld be to restore a distracted 4 atvided — conntry. He was then escorted to othe Continen' Hotel, amit the enthn fins lomesner of the people, who cheerod vad eres Hi the way, keeping him continually eucagod in acknowledgment. General Grant ‘gut were algo saluted heartily and by fame, as well as other members of the vty, In the evening the crowd in tho © Continental became so clamorous that the vd to their calls for a speseh, After em for the public demonstration they he said that under the tnflu- nant star of pexce he trasied { return to affection and harmony, and would bo browsht about, and ail Sand together as one people and Jp of the people, God willing, pred. Later in the eveming the serenaded the party, and the Prosi- merely to return thanks and pay a * Tailors’ 'rotoctive Union, under erenade was mo, Admiral Parca el, but excused himself from waking a \© aFrangements for the reception romain ray in the Heracn, excopt that the it will take place in front streetand Fifth avenue. aded in the evening at the Pitti THE CITY. © mew cases and four deaths from esterday in the city, The disease had from the public institutions, But olera were rled in Brooklyn yes hod (Wo proved fatal, A meeting of the was held yesterday. President Schultz report on the slaughter house nulsances, spon their prompt soppression. Sundry ons were rend, and, after other busi acted, the rd adjourned, A tour of ine © slaughter houses im the city was eone Che * members of the Board of Moalth anil sovgr ven of tho prow: yesterday evening. A veport confition of the places visited will be fouud ets The Fe hin city have determined not to take part in the ovation to the President today. They will yrieane their | wwawations, and tho headquarters will de open os ¢ An addres wed yeuterday to the Ieieh w mumittos of the Fenian Sisterhood ‘or emmtribations and donations for the T ria Burope. A teport, ‘howing up the nancial affelre at (he MoTat mansion as thoy were found upon the resignation of Colonel O'Mahony hee been made public. Mr. Stephens left for Troy yeacerday The coroner held an inquest im Hrooklyn yesterday on the body of Cl Rogers, the negro man whe died from the eff of amtab received on Saturday night. Pevidence was taken, all the witnesses identifying one of the prisoners, young Keliy, a the man who was most prominent in the crowd that assanited the decea:ed Purthor teetimony will be taken this moraing. ‘The case of Montgomery ogainst Santa Anna was up before Judes Barnard yesterday, on motion of the Gen era\'s counse! to vacate tho order of arrest ierued against Bim on the soit of Montgomery. Tho case was Snally pt down for saturday, Colonel Dario Mazuere, Santa one’s former private seoretary, publishes this morning Sn card the powers conferred upon him by the General Jofore leaving St. Thomas. Tho areument in Che cattle driving cage, before Jadge of the Court of Common Ph weg ogncluded The Judge will render bie decision in tho © of « few dave, Thx © sidowheel steamship Cotambia, Captain ay. Barton, will sail from pier No. 4 North river at three o'clock this afternoon, for Havana direct. The stock market was generally firm but dull, closing strong yesterday, Governments wore firm. Gold was ‘strong, and after golling at 149% closed at 148%. ‘Thorb was but lintle change in the gonoral aspect of commercial affairs yesterday, though the markets were generally firmer, and in some cases higher prices were Tealized, Both foreign and domestic merchandise is firmly held, and prices have an advancing tendency, Coffee was firm, with a fair demand. Cotton ruled dull and heavy. On 'Change sound grades of flour were firmer, while inferior qualities were scarcely so firm. Wheat was heavy for low grades, but firm for prime qualitics, Corn was firmer, Oats were dall and declining. Pork and beef wore steady. Lard was quiet but firm, Whiskey was unchanged, Freights were very quiet. Petroleum was steady and firm. The market for beef cattle was firmer for strictly prime offerings, which were scarce, but heavy for all other kinds, which were in superabundant supply. Prices varied all the way from 930, to 18%c., both extreme prices, most of the cattle selling at 15c. a 17<c., and prime 18¢. Milch eows were irregular, varying from $30 to $100, with mow and then a sale at an ox- treme figure. Veale were steady at Tc. to 10c. a lic. Sheep and lambs were steady, with the bulk of the sales at $3.8 $650, Hoge were firmer; sales at llc, a 113¢c. for corn-fed. The total reeeipts were:—6,290 beeves, 84 cows, 1,267.veals, 26,640 sheep and lambs and 11,262 swine. MISCELLANEOUS. By way of Lisbon and London we have later commor- cial reports from South America, The advices read:— Rio de Janeiro, July .26,—Exchange on London, 22% a 24. Coffee, 6,400 to 6,600 rois. Stock, 90,000 bags, Bahia, July 20.—Exchange on London, 24 to 243g. Sugars—whites, 2,200 to 2,300 reis: browns, 1,800 to 2,000 reis, Cotton, 15,500. Pernambuco, August 1.— Exchange on London, 243 to25. Sugar, 3,300 to 8,800 Tels; browns, 8,200 to 2,600. Cotton, 14,000 to 15,000 reis. The Navy Department has received official advices of the arrival of the Miantonomoh and Augusta at Copen- hagen. A detailed report of their arrival there and the ovations accorded to the officers in command was pub- lished in the Heraup on Monday, the 20th inst, The State Senate met yesterday at Albany as a High Court of Impeachment for the trial of Judge Smith, of Oneida county. The charges were read, but the wit- nesses not being on hand an adjournment was ordered, and on reassembling in tho afternoon no quorum was Present. In the morning session a resolution was adopted welcoming the President to the Stats and ap- pointing a committee of arrangements for his reception in Albany, The dotails of the late oil explosion and loss of life and Property at Narrowsburg, N. J., which was reported briefly in the Hxraup on Monday, are given in our cor- respondence from that point this morning. Mr. Williams, who Was reported as mortally injured, has since died. The burning oil spread all through the streets of the town, destroying property to the amount of $100,000, A man named Nelson Little, employed tn the service of the Hoboken Ferry Company, was murdered yester- day morning at the ferry. An altercatton took place between Little and a harper named Michael Courcy, in which two other men joined, and Little was stabbed in the abdomen which produced olmost instant death. The Teal perpetrator could not be ascertained, but suspicion fell on M.chael Courcy in whose possession a largo pocket ‘knife was found. The coroner's jury bad not returned a Verdict up to miduight, A prize Aight took place yesterday morning, about nino o'clock, near Jamaica, “I. I., between Teddy McAuliffe and William Kelly, two devotees of the prize ring. After fighting twenty-six rounds, in which both parties wore severely punished, a row oveurre! betweon the referee and McAutiff's second, which brake up the ring, aad tho fight wa= pronounced a“ draw."’ : _ Dernilsof the attompt to break jail at Sing Sing on the part of a number of the convicts, onjMonday, state that there were thirty of them engaged ih it, ‘the Jewder, Edward stafford, wan tilled, thres ethers ‘ke- verely or mortally injured, and two others slightly wounded), One of the guards was hurt by a slone.and Gnopher one died from disease of the heart after the fight Was oer, uceasioned by the excitemont he lod sader- gone, A Coroner's jury ow all the bodies returned vor- dicts ju accordance, Tweniy-five deaths from cholera occurred in Cinein- nati yesterday. Soventeen deaths occurred at Savannah during the past week from the same disoase,* In the three dsys ending Monday evening, two hundred and Ofty-flye deaths occurred in St. Louiv, all from cholera. Tn New Orleans there were fourteen deaths yesterday. In Louisville the numbor of deaths for the week was twenty-two from cholera, and In Memphis seven deaths occurred. 3 A fire In Chicago, yoxterday, on West Lake street, de- Stroyed eivhteon baildings. Loss, $60,000. History Repeating Itselt—Political Campaigns of 1862 and 1866. Nations, as well as political partivs, like in- dividuals, are frequently placed in a position wher: they are obliged to contend against the same influences that confronted them on a former occasion. There are epochs in which evenis compel them to consider the sume facta and where the same combination of circum- stances is placed .in the scale against them. Never was this trath exhibited with a greater force than at the present time in regard to the aspect of political affairs in this country. The p#rallel between the position of the republican party of to-day and that of 1862 is as perfect as human affairs can make it. That the same results will follow us the sequel of the present campaign seems as certain as anything can be in the perplexed question of politics, The action of the radicals during the first two years of the war is fresh in the memory of all. The fact that Congress, under the lead of Stevens, Sumner, Wade, Chandler and Wilson, ob- structed the prosecution of the war and nearly ruined the Union cause, has become a too plain record of history to need any argument to sustain it at this time. They, with their assoc ates and organs, were constantly howl- ing “On to Richmond,” and yet doing every- thing in their power to embarrass the Presi- dent and the officers in command of the army. ‘They carried their intrigues and schemes so far that President Lincoln, under their pressure, was obliged to issue an order for the advance ot albthe armies on a given day, thus giving the enemy notice in advance of the move- menis contemplated. Nor did their machina- tions stop here. While publicly howling for an ailvance of the armics they did all in their power to embarrass those who were trying to secuce the success of our arms. This double ing so disgusted the people that it aroused the conservative element of the country, which brought about the defeat of the republican party in the Central States in 1862. This de- foat revealed to that party the danger which threatened it, and the result was that the Stevenses, the Wades, the Sumners and Chand- lers were compelled to take back seate and permit others to shape the policy of that or- goniz:tion. The Stevenses and the Wades were forced, under the verdict of the people in 1862, to leave the management of the war in the hands of the President and the generals in charge of our armies. No fact is better established in the history of the past than that it was not until after the election in 1862 that the malcontents in Con- gress permitied even President Lincoln to follow the dictates of his own judgment, much less the generals in command of our armies for the prosecution of the war; nor was ft until after the repulse administered to these radical disorganizers in Congress by these elections that the Union army became successful at all principal, points. Tho result of those clec- tions placed these men in the background and compelled them to leave the conduct*of the war in the hands of men who did not attempt to subvert everything to their own selfish pur- poses. Disaster met almost every effort of our armies, and even the successes which were ob- tained on the battle field were turned into defeats by these malcontents, until after the expiration of the term of Congress elected in 1860, in which its Wades, Wilsons and Stevenses were the controlling spirits. The term of that Congress expired in March, 1863, and from that time the power and influence departed. The new element brought into existence by the political campaign of 1862 then became effective, and, strange as it may seem, it was not until the campaign which fol- lowed that our armies met with that perma- nent success which produced apparent favora- ble results upon the rebellion. In other words, it was not uniil these malcontents were forced to subside and allow others to manage the war that our armies were crowned with success. As long as they attempted to control the con- duct of the war defeat and disaster met us at every step. They so hampered MoClellan that he was obliged to contend with an open foe in front and a secret enemy in his rear. They forced upon the country the disasters of Pope, of Burnside and of Hooker. But with the as- sembling of the new Congress these radical malcontents were compelled by public senti- ment to subside and leave the management of the war in other hands. Had it not been for the fact that the Seymours, the Weods and the Vallandighams, who were thrown to the sur- face by the elections of 1862, betrayed their trusts and misinterpreted tho verdict of those elections, the republican party would never have recovered that shock, As it was it kept the Stevenses and the Wades under until after the Presidential election of 1864. Every pro- ject brought forward by Stevens in the Coa- vention which nominated Lincoln at Baltimore was voted down by an overwhelming major- ity, while the scheme of Wade for the over- throw of Lincoln met with no response from the people. It was not until afier the election of that fall that these men could obtain any prominence in the party that gave them the least pretext of being its leaders. Under the change which was brought about as the result of the elections of 1862 the war was brought to a successful issue. The result which could have been obtained during the first two years of the war, had it not been for the obstacles thrown in the way by these malignant spirits controlling Con- gress, was finally, after four years’ struggle, secured to the couniry. If the clections in the Central States in 1862 had sustained the action of the radicals in Congress, we doubt if the war would have been concluded to-day. But the rebellion was finally crashed, and the radi- cals, encouraged by the results of the last Presidential election, resorted to their old pro- gramme, and the republican party has again become a mere tool in the hands of the Thad _Stevenses, the Wades and the Chandlers, re- ‘péating its own course duriug the first two years of the war. These men are again per ‘mitted to shape the party policy and dictate iia princtples and aetion. Upon the death of Mr. Lincoln Andrew Johnson -assumed. the duties of Président and adopted the policy of restora- tion marked out by his predecessor. But these radical malcontents, having beeu emboldened by the elections, commenced their opposition, and, strange as it may seem, nearly all the re- publicans in Congress disregarded the verdict of past events and permitted themselves to be again made the willing tools and to be placed Detore the country as the supporiers of the very men who brought defeat upon the party in 1862. They have™thus committed the party against the restoration of the Union the samc as they placed it in the light of obstructing the prosecution of the war by their double dealing in its early stage. The same result has fol- lowed. The same delay and postponement in the adjustment ct affairs has been forced upon the people. As might be expected, we again find the conservative element of the country aroused and preparing to once more administer @ rebuke to the party leaders who have brought us to this position. It is a move- mont like that of 1862, only more formidable and determined. The fact of the matter ix, the people realize thai the only hope for the restora- tion of the country is in the repudiation of the radical usurpers who, under the lead of Stevens, Wade, Wileon and Company, have prevented the restoration of the country, and thus prolonged our troubles, just as they ob- siructed the prosecution of the war until they were rebaked by the people. The only way to end this strife, to secure peace and pros perity, and prevent anarchy and another civil war, is by the people in the Central States re- pudiating these radical disorganizers in 1866 as they did in 1862. If thix is done restera- tion of the Union will be browght about with- out delay, just as the war was made succossful by the result of the elections of 1862, and that too ina manner that will secure permanent peace and prosperity. This, we believe, will he the result of the present campaign, and that it will be brought about without placing those men who attempied to mixdirect the decision of the people in the elections of 1862, Nothing will prevent the repudiation of the radic@ leaders except the lukewarmness of the con- servative element of the country: and the signs of the times inditate that there is no danger on this point. Kine Croixna Deraroxen anv Bantsuxp.— We, have the satisfaction of announcing that King Cholera has been dethroned and ban- ished from the metropolis, if he ever has had a foothold here. The health of the city is re- markably good for this time of year, and the sanitary reports from adjacent places are equally favorable. This is owing to the ad- mirable management of the Board of Health, the business of which, like that of the Board of Park Commissioners, is conducted by intelli- gent, disinterested and worthy citizens, reso- lute in sheir determination to purify the city and improve in every possible way its soni- tary condition, It is unquestionably owing to their carly and vigorous action that the city is not at this moment at the mercy of the scourge. How different is it now from what it was when the epidemic prevailed here in 1832 and 1849. Then the city was in a filthy and miserably unhealthy state, ripe for disease and well prepared for inoculation by pestilence. From the expe- rience of former days and the incidents mote recently attending the career of the cholera in Europe our Board of Health learned wisdom, and that they made practical nse of it is to be seen in the comparatively bealthful condition NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1866. of the city at this time. The case, unfortu- | The Old « nately, is different in some of the Western cities—St. Louis and Cincinnati, for example. In the former city the telegraph informs us that the number of deaths by cholera has reached as high as thirteen hundred per week. This is a degree of mortality the disease has not attained in New York for many years, and is illustrative of the danger in not taking the grim scourge by the forelock, and by s tho- rough system of sanitary purification preparing for his advent. Had the city authorities of St. Louis taken the timely precautions of the New York Board of Health thelr city would have Deen relatively as free from the epidemic as ours has been. Our citizens have therefore reason to congratulate themselves upon having such faithful public officers as the Board of Health Commissioners; and we expect that time will show that they have an equally valuable, energetic and honest agent in the gentleman who has lately accepted the contract to clean our streets, Judge Whiting. Thus we are approaching, step by etep, toward those im- portant municipal reforms so long demanded and which Governor Fenton, with singular per- versity and imbecility, persists in denying our citizens. Although King Cholera is dethroned and banished there is nothing to be thankful for to his Excellency in that much coveted con- summation. The New Orleans Riot—Report of the Mili- tary Commission. Our intelligence from New Orleans enah les us to anticipate to some extent the report of the Military Commission, of which Major Gen- eral Mower is the presiding officer, on the riot in that city. A vast amount of evidence was taken from all sides, and from both white and colored people. The Commission appear to have worked hard and conscientiously to get at all the facts. It is understood they will re- port pretty much as General Sheridan reported to. the President as to the cause of the riot and the conduct of these who participated in it. The immediate cause, then, according to these military authorities, was the assembling of the so-called convention under the lead of King Cutler, Hahn and others, those “ politi- cal agitators and bad men,” as General Sheri- dan designates them. There was no necessity for the convention to be called together at that time. In fact there was a great necessity, for the sake of the public peace and welfare, that it should not be reassembled, even if it had becn called together in a legal and proper manner. But it was an illegal body, assuming to meet for the purpose of changing or superseding the existing State government of Louisiana—a government which was in suc- cessful operation and recognized by the federal government. It was neither more nor lees than a revolutionary junta of radicals. We are astonished that General Baird or any other person in authority there could regard this assembly in the same light as a public meeting, claiming that it had a right to meet the same as citizens have in ordinary public meetings. It assumed anthority to take action for changing. the organic laws of the State, without having « legal existence, and therefore was'an unlawful and dangerous.assembly. The Governor of the State himself could not invest it with legality. It was the duty of the local authorities to prevent a violation of the laws and public peace. More than that, it is the duty of 2 local government to prevent any public meeting being held, when it is known that such meeting will cause a riot. The in- flammatory language of Dr. Dostie and othere, the arming of the negroes, and the whole pro- ceedings of the radical fircbrands, could hardly result in “a piece of harmless pleasantry,” to use the language of General Baird. The Mayor and white people of New Orleans might well dread the consequences and take mea- suros to avert them. There is probably a larger colored than white population in the cily. What horrible deeds might not these ignorant blacks do if not restrained? We may imagine the peril to the rest of the community from excited crowds of negroes, just emanci- pated from slavery, with arms in their hands, and led on by devilish white mer. We can know nothing of this in New York, but the people of New Orleans can realize the peril. The horrors of St. Domingo are appalling and constant warnings to them. We underatand that the military commission will designate the killing at the riot as a mas- sacre, and atiribute it to the city authorities and the police, and that they will go further than General Sheridan even in characterizing the killing as murder, We must wait for the full official report betore we can give a decided opinion upon it. It is proper to remark, how- ever, that the tenor of the information received leads us to suspect that the report will have a atrong radical bias, It has been called Gene- ral Baird’s commission, and if it has been or- ganized by him, or under his inflnence, its re- port might be looked upon ‘with some doubt, Army officers, even in these exciting times, are influenced hy political bias and affiliations, We will not attempt to justify the miscon- duct of the Mayor of New Orleans and the po- lice of the clty if they be guilty. We admit, too, that there may be an intractable and bit- ter feeling existing in some of these old rebels, That may he expected for a time and {ill restoration and renewed harmony shell obliterate the memories of the war. There are had men in the community of New Orleans, as everywhere else. But it is absurd tu suppose that the mass of the people there, and particularly the more intelligent class, do not desire peace, They know nothing can be gained by disturbance, but much be lost. The only parties interested in agitation are the white radical politicians, who are insignificant in number, and who wish to attain power by arraying the Southern whites and blacks against each other, This is the only dangerous clase in New Orleans and throughout the South, because the negroes will behave well enough if not led astray by them. The South- erners generally are kindly disposed toward the negroes, and mach more so than Northern- ers, This must be the’case from the former and present relation of thé two races in the South, ‘They are mutually dependent upon each other for their existence end prosperity, and tran- quillity is necessary for the well being of the whites as well as blacks. It is clear, then, that there is but onc explanation of the troubles in New Orleans, and that is, that they bave been fomented by parties not interested in the wel- fare of either—by a wicked set of political agitators acting in concert with our Northern radicals for mere partisan purposes. This, too, must be the verdict of the country when all the facts become known cul Didpensations— Gambling Hells Superseding the Grog- shops. 3 For many years past it has been a subject of complaint and reproach that the politics of this country, and especially of this city, have been under the control of the keepers and frequent. ers of low grogehops. The landlord of every corner grocery or groggery had his little clique of bummers and bruisers, who could always be relied upon to pack a primary meeting and insure or defeat certain nominations. To these grogshops the ward politicians rosorted, and there the political meetings were held during the canvass, The landlords supplied, cheap for cash, the voters who marched in partisan pro- cessions, carrying ;banners whose insoriptions they could not read. For so much a head either political party could be furnished with any number of intelligent and loud-voiced citi- zens to make a great show at mass meetings and cheer heartily whenever the gentleman who hired them waved his hat or his handker- chief, From these groggeries, too, came the swarms of illegal voters, and the swindling bal- lo¢ box stuffers, and the shoulder hitters to keep decent people away from the polls, and the rowdies to smash the boxes when all other means of managing an election failed. All of these classes of persons could be as regularly employed as any other sort of workmen, and through them the grogshops controlled the elections, from the first caucus for candidates down to the closing of the polis. During this reign of rum it was not necessary for a person to be popular, or even to be known to the people, in order to be chosen to office. He had only to pay a certain sum of money to the political leaders, or promise to vote in their interest upon certain Incrative jobs, and the business was done. Primary meetings would be held at the grogshops and a list of delegates would be selected, of whom the majority of the citizens never heard. At the convention these delegates, for value re- ceived, would unanimously nominate a candi- date, of whose person, characier, position and antecedents they were as completely ignorant as Ben Butler is of the art of war, or Thad Stevens of the decencies of language. Having been regularly nominated, this unknown candi- date was, of course, supported by all who belonged to the party and voted tho regular ticket. Butif there were any attempts to scratch him, then the grogshops again sent forth their recruits; the ticket-booths of the opposition were overturned; the repeaters, who vote early and often, wero brought into play ; a few heads were broken and eyes blacked to induce men to vote correctly ; and if the regular can- didate were still behind, after all these elec- tioneering devices, then some shrewd poll clerk or inspector, who had been’ well fed in advance, coolly ascertained how many more votes were needed and put them into the ballot-box. There are hundreds of politicians in this city who can vouch for the accuracy of these statements. We bave in our mind’s cye an individual who has filled several of the highest offices in this city, but was never legilimately chosen to one of them. The whole syatem of gtogshop politics. was as carefully arranged and regulated as any other business; and such was the accuracy of its operations that it became known as the political machine. Of late, however, the grogshops have begun to lose their power. The changes in the police of this city, the adoption of « registry law, the closing of ali liquor stores on election days, aad the increasing intelligence of our people, have administered very severe blows to our party machinery. In the good old times the landlords of the groggeries filled most of our minor offices, either in person or by depu- ties, taking their pay in that way for their services in clecting other politicians to the higher positions, Now they have lost their usefulness and are being crowded into the background. With the new order of things a new class of political managers has sprung up. ‘The gambling hells have succeeded the grog- shops as the headquarters of political cam- paigns, Voters can no longer be procured for ® glass of whiskey or a few three cent cigars, The strikers and repeaters have struck for higher wages, and it requires a heavier purso to deal with them ; consequently the gamblers, who are notoriously the richest men in the community, now have the upper hand and pull the political wires, They live elegantly; they dreas well: they give better suppers gratis than can he obtained else- where for money; they drive fasi horses; they can supply introductions to handsome women; they are by no means stingy with the fund« they acquire so easily, and ai a pinch they will help #poor politician or editor oat of his dim- culties most generously. Thus they have se- enred the same sort of influence ovor the poli- tical leaders that the grogshop keepers used to exercise, and the time has come when they can demand some public recognition of their power. Liquor sellers have been elected to office, and why should gamblers be too modest to ask for the same reward’ They have ihe political leaders more thoroughly under their thambs than the grog dealers ever hed. Some owe them money, and some are bound by even more stringent ties. If the political machine be in good order it can insure their nomina- tions and elections as easily as anybody's else, and if it be not in good order they alone have sufficient funds to put it in repair. These are the arguments which they employ to justify themselves in their aspirations for office, and #0 long as a parcel of political leaders-are left to manage the elections we do not see how these arguments can be answered. The lead- ers must yield to their new masters, the gam- blers, but whether ihe people will conseat to this novel regime remains to be decided. Coaxce ty THH Programme.—Ai a caneus of the conservative republicans held at the Astor Houre on Saturday it was agreed that call should be issued for auother State Convention. In canvassing the subject over it has been found that no person has authority to call this convention, The Philadelphia commitiee dis- banded after endorsing the call of the. demo- cratic committee at Albany, and is no longer in existence. The conservative republicans, therefore, have no alternative but to abide by the call for a joint convention iawned at Al- bany, and to this conclusion they have at last come, We dare say that the death-bed con- fession of Dean Richmond has bad something to do with this change of progiamme on the part of the conservative republicans since Saturday. It is said (hat on Sunday Mr. Rich- mond made a full statement of his trouble and the influences which he had to contend \ with. both in political matters and railroads, to several parties present. Among thdse wi® listened to this narrative of facts was Thurlow: Weed; and this no doubt had gome bearing upon his immediate abandonment’of his pro- jeot for a separate State Convention, The related by Richmond threw a flood of upon the political wire-palling in this State and will affect the coming State Convention. They are such as to secure the defeat of the Tammany Hall candidate for Governor, unless the managers of that concern pursue a different line of tactics from that now adopted by them. WASHINGTON. Wasuimerton, August 28, 1868. General Sickles and the Clevelaud Convene tion. ‘Thore is authority for stating that Major General D. Sickles, commanding the Department of the South, has not authorized the use of his name in connection wits the Cleveland Canvention, and declines while on duty ig his present command to take part im political move ments, The Pittsburg Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Conven- tion. Ata medting of the National Executive Committee of the Soldiors’ and Sailors’ Union, held this evening, the following gentlemen were appointed a committee, rest- dent at Pitteburg, Pa., with power toadd to their num- ber, viz. :—Major General J. S. Negley, Major General &, 1. Pearson, Brigadier General Charles Barnes, Brigadier General F, H. Collier, Colonel Thomas M. Bayne, Colonel J. D. Copeland, Captain Samuel Kilgore, Sergeant J. H. Gray. They will make all necessary arrangemonks et that place for the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Na tional Convention to be held in that city Sap- tember 25. A sub executive committee was also appointed, consisting of Captain A. J. Bennett, Chairman; Major William S. Morse, Major H. A. Hall, W. A. Short, Ashbel Ingerson, W. C. Carter, Captain J. F, Smith, and Captain William Hunt, to carry ont the details and take charge of the financial matters pertaining to said con- vention, Headquarters have been esiablished at the office of Colonel Bramhall, 234 Pennsylvanis avenue, where all officers, soldiers and sailors who endorse the call cag affix their signatures, The Stoppage of Rations to Freedmen and Retfuaces. War Deragruest, Bure or RervGees, Frcepaen anv Ananponep Lanps, Wasurxcrox, Augu 1866. To Tm Eprror ov tar Nationa INreL1ic - ° Deak Sm—Sundry comments upon the iate order of the Bureau reducing the issue of rations having appeared. in various journals, some of which reflect upon the Pre- sident, I would be gtad to have you publish the onciosed letter. Having recommended the course announced fi the order above alluded to, whether wisely or unw! Tam willing to ussume the responsibility attaching to Respectfully, 0. 0. HOWARD, Major General and Commissioner. The following is the lotter referred to in Major Goue- tal Howard’s note:— War Deranruent, Bureav or Reruters, Frempwex anv Avanponep Laxps, Wasitincron, August 17, 1866, Hon. F. M. Stantos, Secretary of War:— Sim—In view of tne fact that charges sro constantiy: mado by a larce number of promincnt citizens in the South and elsewhere, that persons aro fed by the Ba- Featt in idleness, and in considoration of the siatemonts made by the inspectors, Gens. Stecdman and Fullerton, implying that the people who labor for support are ren- dered idlo by the mise or hope of rations from the government; and further considering that the crops are sufficiently matured already to prevent actual starva- tion, I recommend that on and after the Ist diy of September next the issue of rations be merree except to the sick in regularly organized hospitals a to the Orphan Asyium for Refugees and F already oxisting, und that tho Stato officials who be responsible for the poor bo carefully notitied of thie order, a0 that they may assume the charge of such ime dicent refugees and frecdmen as may not be embraced in the. above exceptions, Very. a, your obe- dient servant, 0, 0. HOWARD, Major General and Commissioner. Sabo pesete effect on the first of October, oe sc cnt E, M.STANTON, Secretary of Was Officiat: Jauas Enprivar, A. A. A. , Orders Relative to Officers of the Trenenry Department. It has been the practico of collectors and agents of the customs, and asgessors and collectors of internat re- venue, to absont themecives from their official duties whenever they dcemed it necessary, without sooking the sanction of any higher authority. This bas been pre- ductive of some injury to the govornmont service, ema has induced the Secretary of the Treasury to address @ circalar letter to the officers of the Treasury Department, directing (hat io tuture they must not absent themselves: from their posts without first obtaining the permimsten of the head of th: department. Designation of Piaces for the Weighing and Marking of Cetten. Tho Commissioner of Intornal Revenue has receatiy designated the following towns and cities for the weigh- ing aud marking of cotton:—State of Arkanse—Little Rock, Monday, Wednesday aud Friday; Pine Blatt, Tuesday, Thursday and saturday; Helena, Monday, Wednesday and Friday; Madison, Tuesday, Thursday ond Saturday; Lewis, Camden and Falton, Monday, Wednesday and Friday; Napoleon continuously ; Osceola, Chcot and Jacksonport, Tnesday, Thursday and fater- day; Maric, Saline and Champagnole, Monday, Wednes. day and Friday. First district of Loumiann—New Or- leans continuously. An Error Corrected, Joha J. Fly was yesterday reported to have heow ap- pointed Collector of Internal Kovenue for the Fourty District of Michigan, Tho announcement was an errer of the Executive Department. The position has bem conferred upon Colone! Rovert 1. Sinclair, one of the veterans of the lave war. Internal Revenue Receipts. The receipts from intornal revenue yesterday were $2,250,907. To-day the roceipts from the sate source were $1,180,806. A nal Commissions Signed. The following comm!ssions were signed yesterday, im addition to thone previourly anuguaced :— Cornelius Wendell, Superintendont of Public Printing, vice Hon, J. D. Defrees; Colonel C. M. Zulich, Assemor iu the Fifth district of New Jorsey, vice Halsey, re- moved; Lieutenant Coloncl John ock, Assessor im the Fourth District of Pennsylvania, and Mr, Stiles, Collector of the same; Major General Thomas im 2, Collector of the Ninth district of New York; _ Saliady, Postmaster of Williamsport, Pa, and My. Campbell, Collector of the Fighwenth district of Ponn- sylvauia; Matthow f. Stickler io bo Collector of Interaal Revenge for the Ninth district of Pennsyivania; Robert V, Sinclair Jo be Collector of Internal Reveaue (or tha Fourth district of Michigan; John W, Stok o be Ate secsor for the Fourth district of Pennsytvania, William ©, Hinney to be Assessor for the Fifth district’of Mawm- chusetts, The Sarveyor of Customs at Albany. John Hastings has been appointed Surveyor of Cas- toms at Albany, N. Y.. vic eT. W. “tovons romoved. Castom House Seizures at New Orteans. The Treagury officials bavo been informed of the seta. ‘ure by the Collector of Customs at Now Orleans, a fow days ago, of nmoty domijohns of Havana cortial an@ Majorca cordial. A few day# previons to thie seizare the Collector at the same port olso cofzed a large and vatua- bie lot of wines and cigare Decision Rega’ the Extra Pay of Army » Officers. Acting Second Comptroller Smith has decided that am oMcer, whose discharge is datel prior to April 9; 1865, Dat was not received until after that time, ts not entities to the throe months’ pay proper’;ranted by act of Com- gfosa, approved March %, 1865, and amended July 18, 1868, - Limbs Farnished to Disabled Soldiers. From the beginning of the war up to May 11, 1966, the Surgeon General has furnished to soldiers, embrac- ing Peguiars and volunteers, both colored and white, the folloWing artificial limbe:—Arme, 2,194; lege, 3,706; hands, 44; feet, 9, and apparatus, 104, making « total of 6,075, at a cost to the government of $367,728, Stoppage of Pay. The Paymaster General bas ordered the pay of wearty one hundred officers of the volunteer force to be stopped wnul they reader suck accounts as are required by the law and regulatio CONDITION OF ERASTUS CORNING. Aguin Reported Dangerously i, Though Slightly Improve Abnasy, August 28, 1868, ‘The health of Erastus Corning is slightly improved to-day, but be is not out of danger. A weakening ope- ration was performed on him yesterday. Doctors Cray, of New York; Payne, of Albany, and Bates, of Lebanon, have been in constant attendance. THE OBSEQUIES TO DEAN RICHMOND. The funeral of the tate Dean Richmond wil! take place at Batavia, Thursday, the 50th (net, at two o'clock PL W. Berravo, August 28, 1866, The Board of Trade today passed appropriate rein tons on the death of Dean Richmond, and yoted to clore the rooms on the day of hie funeral, xt Batavia, which takes place at to (. Mo ao Thursday (be corm jostaws,