The New York Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1867, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. . JAMES CORDON BENNETT, JR. MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. OOO, a Alt business or news letters and telegraphic despatches TWwust be addroased New Yoru Hgrap, Lettors and packages should be properly sealed. R jona will not be returned, Volume XXXII. New York, Thursday, September faa NXUW SG. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable {s dated yesterday evening, September 4. The London Times trea's the international correspon- dence in the Alabama claims, in an editorial in which it is asserted that Secretary Seward’s despatches on the Bubject, betray his desire to prolong the controversy Without fairly meeting the question of a plan of settle ment, Lord Stanloy, the writer says, Is determined” not to afford “capital to a circle of American politicians,” The Spanish fleet im the Pacific is ordered home im- mediately. Baron Boust is maturing a plan for the gale of the church property in Austria, to pay off the debt of theempire with the proceeds, The leading revolutionary democrats of Kurope, including Garibaldi and Louis Biauc, are to assemble ip a peace Congress, in Geneva, on the 9tu Instant A franchise roform league meeting was hold in Dublin, at which much sympathy ‘was ovinced for the Femian convicts, Tne English captives in Abyssinia have, it is said, obtained theif freedom. At the Warwick (England) races Vauban won the Warwick cup. A grand interns- tional turf contest took place on the German course at Iffezneim, near Baden. The French herso Trocadero ‘won the event of the day, the International Saint Leger. Consols closed at 94 13-16 for money in London, Five- twenties were at 73%; in London and 7734 in Frankfort, The Liverpool cotton market ciosed steady with mtd- dling uplands at 10% pence, Broadstufls without marked change. The provisions market was irregular at the close, By the stoamship Persia at this port yesterday we Dave interesting mail details of our cable despatches to the 24th of August, THE CITY. President Acton, of the Board of Police Commission- ers, yesterday received @ letter from George Clarke, Mayor of Newburg, in which that gentleman requested the presence of a few Metropolitan policemen at New- burg during the race between Hamill and Brown, ‘which Is to como off om Friday next. The request bas boon granted. ‘ ‘The store of Salomon Fischer, dealer in furs, No, 233 Broadway, was robbod of $2,000 worth of furs on Sun- Gay night. Detective Farley yesterday recovered twen- ty-five pieces of the stolen goods, and the alleged thieves ‘wore arrested. The Police Commissioners held their regular weekly trial meeting yesterday, One hundred officers were tried for neglect of duty, The citizen cases were but few @nd unimportant. A negro man, named Crepau Cardena, killed his wife Yesterday, in the tenement house No. 15 East Elevonth street, whore they were living. Jealousy was said to Rave been the cause by numerous ‘itnesses who, attracted by a quarrel, bad seen the whole affair. Car- fiona made no attempt to escape, but insiste that the woman killed herseif, Mies Catherine Lyons, the young girl who was shot in Abe head on the 26th of August, made an ante mortem Btatement yesterday, saying that she did not know when ‘Or where she was shot. Other testimony tended to im- “plicate Hammer, the prisoner, who, it is alleged, bad een quarreling violently with his Gred the pistol off accidentally. Judge Leonard yeatorday on & writ of cortioran, when Dall was fixed at $1,000. * The North German Lioyd’s steamship Union, Captain ‘Von Santen, will leave the Bremen pier, Hoboken, at oon fo-day (Thursday), for Bremen via Southampton, ‘The mails for the United Kingdom and the Continont ‘will close at the Post Office at half-past ten o'clock this teamship Morro Castle, Captain M. R. Greene, will gat! from pier No. 4 North river, at three P. M, fo-day, for Havana, The mails for Cuba will close at the Post Office at two o'clock. The stock market was etrong yesterday. Government securities were steady. Gold closed at 142 a 14. MISCELLANEOUS. The amnesty proclamation was again under considera- ion yesterday in the Cabinet. Secretary Soward does mot exactly concur with the President, but, it is stated, General Grant and all other members of the Cabinet aro 4n perfect accord with him. In regard to Grant's accept- fence of the War Office it is now stated as a significant fact that Stanton himeeif urged its acceptance upon him. The September statement of the public debt shows a Qotal debt of $2,653,792,189, with a cash total in the ‘Treasury of $148,336,094. Compared with the statement Of a corresponding time last year, this shows a docrease in the debt of $54,367,202, aud an increase in casheon Band of $15,704,427. Reports in Washington state that the Attorney Gen- ral is ready to issue an opinion arguing that Sickles is individually liable for his interference with the property Jaws in the Carolinas. The California election came off yesterday, but there ‘were 80 many candidates in the field and the tickets ‘were scattered so much that no safe estimate can be Formed of the probable result. Thero were two or three ‘ivisions in the republican party in the Stato, and five Political organizations of varied numbers were in the fold, offering principles and mon of various denomi: Qions to the suffrage of the people. There was a Probability, with this division in the camp, of the ma- Jority being slightly democratic, Our Havana lettor of the Sist ult, says that Manzano Bad deprocaied the recent military executions as too gid an onforcement of the code. Some of the col- jectors of the now taxes had been violently treated in the interior, Tho sugar market was active and firm. ‘Exchange on tho United States (in currency) sold for 24K Percent discount. A telegram from our special cable cor- Fespondent had been received at Havana as follo “T arrived this afternoon (30h) within ten miles of Key ‘West, The cable is working splendidly, I think we will have suffictent amount of cab + Late advices from St. Domingo state that Cabral bad peen offered the Prosidency of Hayt: by various towns which had risen against Salnave, The oifice bad not Deon certainly accepted, but Cabral is said to be on the Haytien frontiors, It was currentiy reported that Sal- Maye was a fugitive, and the object of the proposition @eomed to be a union of Hayt! and St. Domingo. In the Constitutional Convention yesterday, the con- sideration of the article on canals and Gnances was re- g@umed in Committee of the Whole, and after speeches Dy Messrs. Alvord, Opdyke, Brooks and others, progress ‘was reported and the Convention adjourned. Several of the great men of the vation have spoken ‘and expressed their views of the political situation. Bumoer thinks Grant as President would be uncertain, And © more irreversible guarantee is required. Wilson Bhinks ho is try do good in the War Office, and General Butler sa: dislikes the man so much he won't form an opinion about him. All three of gentiomen think that Johnson will be and ought be impeached. General Sheridan 1s reported to have that he loves the army too well to accept the Presi- 4 The public schools of New Orleans aro likely to suffer from @ difference among the authorities, Two boards of directors claim prefereace—ono of the boards, a new one, being backed by the Common Coancil, but tied up $n a writ of que warranto, The schools should, ander ‘the law, open next Monday; bat the City Council, who have nothing to do with it, have directed that be furtnor until October, on account of phe yellow fever; while the old board of directors, who Dave the right of possession, claim that they shall open pe usual. { ‘The Antictam Cometery will be dedicated on the 17th. President Johnson, the Cabinet, Chief Justice, Governors of loyal States and other distinguished visitors are ox- Poctod to be present 1 Toe Fenian Congress in Cleveland sat with closed NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1867, guard. Outsiders state that @ Fonian army is again Feady armed, equipped and organized to march on aad conquer Canada, Nine persons in a pleasure party of fourteen who were ‘Sailing on Lake Ontario were drowned on Tuesday by the capsizing of their boat, Six of them were girls and three were boys. ‘The stories that General Pope had suppressed & news- Paper in Albany, Ga, and that the Registration Board had prohibited negroes from runing for the Convention are both denied. ‘The North Carolina State Republican Convention met at Raleigh yesterday, and was harmonious, The yellow fever has been declared epidemic in New Orleans by tho Board of Health tm that clty, There were twenty-eight deaths yesterday, Madness of the Republican Party Leaders. The radical journals and party leaders are beginning a new revolutionary programme and endeavoring, by their violent appeals, to lead the country on in a whirl of excitement to anarchy and ruin. They are repeating the policy pursued by the ultra pro-slavery poli- tici:ns of the Southern States for a year or two before the rebellion, and are seeking to raiso a storm of passion and prejudice violent enough to carry reason and common sense before it. Cool judgment and firm action are more than ever needed at the present time in the admin- istration of our public affairs, The South is undergoing a military process of reconstruction which will result in giving the contro! of tho local governments of ten or eleven States o! the Union into the hands of the negroes, This will oblige us to establish a permanent military police in all the reconstructed ter- ritory, and to maintain a standing army large enough to hold possession of the Southern States and enforce the authority of their civil governments by the power of the bayonet. To give up the South to the political rule of the negroes, and then to withdraw the pro- tection of the United States army,.would be simply preparing the way for a war of races and 6 general massacre. Weare in as much confusion and trouble financially as politically. The Treasury Department is assailed by tbe most damaging rumors and charges, and the general impression is that our whole flaancial system ia rotten to ths core. The national cred:t is suffering, and nolbing will remove the feeling of apprehension and insecurity that prevails except a thorough change in tho Treasury Department and exhaustive investigations into all its transactions for the past four or five years, In such a condition of affairs, as we have said, we require broad statesmansbip and calm judgment to guide us safely through our diffi- culties. And yet we find the executive and legislative branches of the government, all re publicans togetuer, striving which can increase in the most violent degree the m dness of the hour. The radical faction, in their family quarrel with their own President, appear to be getting perfectly wild and recklesa. Some of them seem to desire the Governors of the seve- ral loyal States to lead the Grand Army ot the Republic down to Washington and seize pos session of the government. Their org:ns and party leaders brand the President of the Unitei States asa drunken loafer ; but the fact is, they are all drunk t@zether. Greeley’s article in the Tribune yesterday, like Wade's spzech in Ohio a few days since, must have been incited by the fumes of whiskey, and very bad whiskey et that, The accounts from Washington every day show that all the affairs of government are in a terrible state ot demoralization, and offi- cials, high and low, civil and military, appear to forget that we live under a written constitu- tion, which assigns to each department of the government its legitimate functions and au- thority. Is it not time for the rank and file of the republican party to withdraw their counte- nance from the violence and recklessness which mark the conduct of their leaders? The steadfastness of the republican masses carried to a successful issue the great objects of the war, but they can have neither part nor sympa- thy with the men who are tearing at each other like savage beasts in their struggle for the spoils of office. They should repudiate them and their doings altogether, and take the power they abuse out of their hands. The country is getting heartily sick and tired of such disgraceful brawls, and a well timed movemeft on the part of the rspectable por- tion of the republican party, will easily oarry the next election and sweep away the entire breed of agitators, including Johnson, Greeley, Wade, Stanton, and the whole radical Congress, who are all drunk, revolutionary and mad together. Negro Suffrage. It is certainly the purpose of the more ad- vanced and most active leaders of the radical party to force negro suffrage upon the loyal States as well as upon the Souch. Gumner, Wendell Phillips and some others do not hesi- tate to avow that As soon asthe strong arm of central power shall have finished the work of Africanizing the South, then thee revolu- tionista will insist that the same power be applied to force negro suffrage upon the loyal States, whether the people wish it or not. It remains to be seen how far these crazy de- structives can go. It may be that the repub- lican party will go with them to any length in overriding the constitution, common sense and everything else; but there are some indica- tions of a split in the party. The views of Senator Trumbull, as published in a Chicago paper, show that he does not endorse tho Sumner negro programme with regard to the loyal States, Mr. Trambull is one of the most powerful men of his party, and very radical in many respects, but be cannot swallow quite such a large revolutionary dose. We are in- clined to believe, from the views of this leading Senator, which are ably expressed, that « reaction and @ split will take place in the republican party on the negro question. The more sensible and conservative begin to think that nigger fanaticism bas been carried quite far enough, or too far. The sooner this reaction comes the better for the peace and welfaro of the country, North and South. W. H. Seward, Real Estate Broker. Since the acquisition of Walrussia we have had constant rumors of the intention of the government to acquire » harbor or an island in the West Indies—s house and lot or two and an anchorage. We are ins constant agi- tation about the increase of our territorial limits. Canada on the north, British America on the northwest, Mezico.on the southwest, the West Indies to the southeast, all hang like so much frait ripening for the barvost. If our teal estate broker will leave them for a little tims they will drop, by the force of gravita- tion, Into our hands. To pay out cash for thom doors yesterday, with sontingle ip grgen upttegm op , Je 1 equander gar tcoapure, Politics tn the Army. Tt appears that General Grant has requested to be excused from all Cabinet meetings except where military affairs are to be discussed. Under this simple request we see much that means good to the country, and a lesson to the crazy politicians, who, in their race for power, forget all the principles of statesmanship, and bequeath, as an inheritance to the future, the eloments of a dozon military despotisms and countless internal wars. Since the close of the rebellion wo have virtually set up a political school for the education of our army officers. Bofore the rebellion, and even during the war, politics in the army were ignored by all true soldiers, and especially was this the case with the regular army. The officer who tarnished his epaulettes by descending from the lofty position of # soldier of the republic to the petty bickerings, jealousies and revenges of party feeling, lost caste with his fellows, The subject was degrading, and while the republic went purely on the officer was a true soldier and pure. Now all is cuanged. Oar first sol- dier is a Cabinet offcer and a forced partisun in a hot poliical contest between tha execu- tive and Congressional power of the nation. Five of our principal generals are placed in political control of five pro-consulsips, wth the right to use the miitiry power of the nation to support them In their civil rule. Thee generils and all their subordinate officers, with the task imposed upon them by Congress, are made administrators of civil law through military pow-r, and are rapidly learning the force of tue combination placed in their hands, We are marching to tho system of the Roman republic, where every soldier was a politician, where all goverameat hal its birth in the miliary elemsn’, and whore the military, finally learning that it hid acquired all power, over'urned the republic and estab- lished the empire upon its rains. We advanc? more rapidly even than the French repulic to the moment when tie military politic.an must becoms the man of the hour, and where politica, engraftd upon the army, become ® powerful weapom for any military man who has the brain and will to handle the forces thus unwit- tingly placed in his control. The French R-vo- lution, in its progrss3, forced the army to be- come a politic 1 michins, and noth'ng but the empire restored it to a s'a'us where it no longer became @ weapon in t.9 hands of military political commanders, Tho English sold er to- day is: entirely aloof from a ‘political contact which gives him any power to siape the des- tintes of England ; and bis feeling in that direc- tion goes no further than a tranuent interest ina change of min'stry. The waole of Span- ish America may be held up as a warning of the effoct of m king politicians of sol tivrs ; for there evory officer is the exponent of some political principle or faction, and the soldier is virtually ths government, We commenced our reconstruction on a bud basis. C vil governors should hive been ap- pointed over each of the five disricts of tho South, with power to oll for aid upon the United States troops whenever aid mi! :ht be required to enforce the civil \aw. No officer in the army should have been appointed to even the most inferior civil office. In fact, the army sbould be held in its pos.tion and su ject to the purposes for which it was organized— an armed unit of power to enforo» civil low where the ordinary process fails after trial, Had this mo.hod been pursucd tiere would have been no necessity on the part of Ge eral Sickles to make the people in his district feel the sting of a milita:y dictatorssip, when he ordered the Americin flig to be saluted by those who failed to pay it homage ; no neces sity for Generai Schotield to suppress news- paper publica‘ions which were not exactly in harmony with the radical sentment of the country ; no necessity of smothering an expres- sion of opinion on the part of any man who felt that he was liviog in a country which pro- fessed to give him free speech ; no necessity of boldly threatening the stability of the repub- lic, by merg.ng military and civ.l power into the same hands and treading immediately upon the border of a military despotism. Congress, by the folly of its legislation, has almost wrecked the nation, and muny of its most radical members are beginning to see the effect of the strokes waich they have struck at its fundamental principles. They have set two great powers at work in the South to con'rol that section—the negro and the sollier. To the negro they give the vote, and to the army they give military oon- trol of the country, while the negro rides into political power. The result is clear to impartial eyes It means elther a war of races, the extinction of white or black, or both, in the South, or else a strong military power to stand in the breach and hold the two clashing forces at bay. It moans, then, ten years of mili- tary dictatorship over the five districts; ten years of political education for the army; ten years of marching towards a military despot- ism; and, as a resultant, the overthrow of the republic by the imposing of the same rule over the North that now oxists in the South. Tho politicians have gono mad. The country must rise, through the votes of the people, and hurl back this wave that threatens to engulf evory- thing—must place statesmen in our Congress, a clear headed and firm man at the helm, and, above all, keep politics out of military hands. ST. DOMINGO AND HAYTI. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. a ae Pree. of Hasti-Salnave Reported Flown. Havana, August 31, 1867, According to a late correspondence received from St. Domingo, we are assured that President Cabral was on the Raytien where vi to ine Barnave goveroment and proclaimed Cabra aa free dent of Hayti, “Up to moment," says the writer, Pp “Cabral has not thoug! i to accept the. call OF ths whose object seems to be the union of jneurrect at te 8t. Dom! under the Presidency of General Cabral It te-eurrently reported thos Baluave ia 6 fugy tive.” YE the above proves true, asT have little doubt, we cam only exclaim, ‘wonders will never cease in Hayti,”’ Disrrxovamep Derantcres—Mr. Cave, M. P., Mr, James McHenry, of the Atiantic and Great Western Rail. road, and that acoomplished and irrepressible dipic- matist, the Chevalier Wikof, left for Burope by the Scotia yesterday. Mr, Cave, as we have informed our readers from time to time, has gone over the country thoroughly, takem ® good view of our institutions and esources, studied our national tendencies and character, doubtless, and goes home with new ideas of the Ameri. can people and of this Continent asa Geld for the em- ployment of capital. In common with the other gentle. men, who, of course, know the country and people weil, be will be likely to give astonishing ideas of us to think. ing men in Europe, and will doubdticss point out to the Owners of all that superfluous gold that is iying Idle in bi Y esting | London how muobh Does aan we v Py ent eos thi if feet American Sat ea bl po oak CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tas Wearaen Yuermnpay.—The temperature of the at- mosphere in this city yesterday was as follows :—Eleven A. M,, 83 degrees; noon, 8334 degrees; two P. M., 8434 degrees; five P. ML, 843% pivbe« 7 , Boarp or Epucatiox.—The Board of Education met last evening, Mr. McLean presiding. Nominations for teachers in the evening schools were received trom several wards for’ the coming winter. They were re ferred to the Committee on Evening schools, with er, A communication was received from Rie’ Trustees of Seventeenth ward, com- plaining that tbe contractors had failed to complete their contracts on several school buildings in time to open the schools next Monday. Referred to Committee on Buildings A commanication was received from the Trustees of the Nineteenth ward nominating Miss Purdy for principal of Grammar Schoo! No, 63. ‘The appointment was confirmed. The appropriation of $703 was made to complete the painting of Grammar School No. 33, in the Eighth ward, and another of $1,175, for water closets in Grammar School No. 35, tn the Fif- teenth ward. The Board then adjourned, Commissioners or ExrGration —The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday afternoon at 46 University place, but no important business came before them. Tne number of emigrants landed during the past month past week 2,892, making a 20, Ths balance of the total si commutation fur Merrorotitay Firs ComMissiongr3.—The regular meet- ing of the Board took place yesterday, the President, Genera! Shaler, in tho chair. A resolution was adopted ordoring the Post Office boil to be rung, between tho bours of six o'clock in the morning and six in the even! ing, for all fires south of Seventy-ninth street on and aftor the 10th of October. Fire Marshal Bakor reports that several incendiary fires have occurred in the First ward daring the past month, notwithstanding police vigilance; that stores have boom entered by means of false kovs and fires kindled therein, and in two instances it was manifest tnat robbery had been committed prior to the incend:arism. A resolution was adopted offering an addiional reward of $1,000 for the conviction of any person gulity of arson. Fata Case oy Caorera,—Catharine J, Rahmer, aged eight years, rosiding at 265 West Thirty-ninth street, died yesterday morning of cholera, A health inspector was sent to collec: facts in regard to the case. QuaRantins —Tue steamship Mississippi, Captain Gordon, from New Orleans, arrived in the Lower Quarantine yestordi che has fifty-nine passon- gers, incinding twenty-one of the Austrian Istgion. There wore four deaths on the passage, the fast one 0 Bix are now sick, who will be sont to tho hospital sbip ttinols, Tuo st amship Colurabla, aptain Barton, from Havana, also arrived yosterday, wit twenty-one passongers, all’ well, Tae Forson Rerresentatives Prom Mexic»,—Yester- day the foreizn representatives now staying at the New York Hotel had their passage taken for Saturday next by the General Transatiantic Company's steamship Ville de Paria, They are M. Dano, Minister of France, from Mexico; M. Forest, Consul of France; M. Hoorick: Chargé d’Affares de Belgique; M. Cutopassin, Cuarg @’affeires d'Italy, the following attachés ot the French L gation:—Conte de Bearn, Conte de ‘ouchar, Dr. Bintot, Captain Madelor, M. Collear, Chancellor of Lega'ion, M. Rounard and ‘others. The total number whoarrived by the Phlegeton and Bouvet, vessels of war, was two hundred and thirty; and of these, includ- ine Maximilian’s body cuard, one hundred aod thirty have left since Saturday ; but abo t one hundred civilians and soldiers remain behind in the city, and tt 18 aid to bo their intention to settle ia this country instead of proceeding to France, although the government gives tvem the option of 6o dolag free of expense. Tas Sovtners Fawve Retigy Comwitren—A final meeting of the Exooutive Committes of this commission was hold yesterday at No. 61 Broadway, Mr. Archibald Russell, the Rev. Dr. Bright, Mr. Howard Potter, Mr. Elliot C, Cowdia and John Bowne being present. The total cash receipts have been $250,566, all of which has beon expended The number of bushels of eorn pur- chased .as"been 175,316, The contributions mad» in eid of the South have been very nearly $3,000,000. This includes $573, expended by order of Congress through the Freedmen’s Biresu under General Howard. Th papers of the Committes were referred to the Record: Secr-tary, Mr. Fred. Law Oimstead, with instructions Prepare a report to be submitted to the comm sion sub- Ject (0 the call of the President, Tus Rorat Insurances Boxp Rosary —The examin- ation of Dan Noble, charged with the larceny of bonds, the property of the Roval Insurance Company, is dragging wearily atthe Tombs Police Court All t! tos imony has been given, and the case down to a grand legal sparring tilt between counsel Buratazy on Broapwar —The establishment of Solo- mon Fischer, furrier, No. 233 Broadway, was burgiari- ously catered on 8 mday night, and robbed of furs to the value of $2000. Whon intelligence of the robbery was communicated to the Superniendent of Police, Detective Philip Farley was entrusted with the working up of the case. After much diffiealty in endeavoring to odtain aciue either to the perpetrators of the robbery or tothe piace where the goods tad been taken afier the burgiary had been committed, Mr Farley succeeded yosterday in recovering twenty-five fur coliars, part of tne goods stolen, which te found tn the loan office of Robert J Resonthal, 87 (Christie street, where they had beon left tor thirty days for a consideration of $34, by a man wno caliod himself Finder. Officers Lyons and Kin, of the f nth ward, later in ‘he day, arrested Frank Howard alias Haley an kk Slater, the alleged per- petrators of the robbery, and through, them it 1s believed that the remainder of the stolen gods will be re overed, Svurrosep Fatat StapBing Arrray —Coroner Schirmer was yesterday notified to proceed to Bellevue Hospital, for the purpose of taking the an‘e- mortem examination of Jacob Frederko, then lying in a dang rous condition from the effects of a stab wound in the head, received shortly before two o'ciock in the morning, at the bands of a man with whom he was quarreiliag, corasr of Thirteenth sireot and avenue ©. After the occurrence Captain Ulimaa, of the Eleventh precinct, and some of the officers of his command arrested two men on 61 — of being concerned in the stabbing of Froderk: ‘he persons were committed to await the result of Coroner's Investigation. ‘Tue Mcrosr or Conpuctor Ccrtix.—Yesterday morn- ing Deputy Coroners Leo and Wooster Beach, Jr., made & post-mortem oxamination on the body of Clement Cur- tin, the conductor whose death is alleged to have been the result of violence received at the hands of a gang of TuMans on the nizht of the 2ist altimo,, as reporced in yesterday's Heratp. On opening the head the phyai- Ciaos found extravasation of blood on the brain, and ia their opinion the extravasation was the result of vio- lence, This was sufficient to and did cause death. No other se’ marks of violence discovered on the body. As yet none of the parties engaged in the m dorous assault have been arrested,fout Roundsman Mc- Kelvey is endeavoring to discover their wi No time hasbeen fixed upon for hold tion, MEETING OF TENEMENT HOUSE OWNERS. Protest Agninst Recent Albany Legislation. A mass mooting of tenement house owners and others Interested was held last evening at the Germania As sembly Rooms, for the purposd ot organizing a Real Estate Owners’ Mutual Protective Association, Accord- ing to @ recent law of the Legislature all owners of tenement houses are compelled to make the receptacles for fuel in all such houses fireproof, t! aterials to be exclusively of brick, stone and iron. This, it is stated, will entail in some instances very heavy expenses; and as, when the houses were built, they wore built in com- Pliance with the existing laws, the owners think they have grounds of plaint. The penalty for non- compliance with the law, after a notice of the violation of it has been served, is $50 for the first ton da; sequent to that, if then complied wi r fine of $250 and six months’ imprisonment, four thousand notices in connection with this law already been issued by the Superintendent of qT : Costrmes, Mr. Joseph Haight, in calling th ai Ir. al calling the Mooting to order, briefly explained the objects of the organisation. He sald he did not object to the law in any respect as it affected tevement nouses hereafter to de orected; but he thought it hard upon real estate owners that, after buildin, ir houses in compliance law, they should be now compelled to go expense and alter their houses in obedience to the Jaw Just ood He erg they were now fully justi fied in taking all just honorable means to effect a re} of the law. He concluded by reading a notice which had been served u Mr. Brush, the secretary of the organization, he Superintendent of Public Buildings, and stating that it was proposed that the or- ganization pow being formed should defend any of its members thus threatened in the courts, A tleman proposed that the ease of Mr. Brush be made a test case, and that an assessment the Superintendent of Public Bi TO the straggle, and then to take out an inj ion ining ot er @ constitutionality of the A constitation and bylaws were then proposed and ae- jal action being deferred, however, {aitation foes of the or- owned of the organ’ ‘isher, H. Fudenbetmer and @. Fi ‘The meeting was then adjourned until next evening. tlemen were appointed the trustees tealige :-—Abrabam Teasing, T. F, Gibbous, pad. ednesday )haries THE NORTHWESTERN SAENGERFEST. it. Louis, Mo. ; all THE POLITICAL SITUATION. Views of Senaters Sumner and Wilsen and General Butler. A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser bas visited the above public men at their residences and gathered their views on the topics of the day. According to this chronicler Senator Sumuer, 10 speaking of General Grant as Secretary of War, said ‘there could be no military obligation on a general to assume a civil office, Grant might have refused, and thrilled the country to the confusion of the President and the rebela But, while at the War Department, Grant ‘s, in a certain sense, what Lord Derby called himself the other day, ‘a stop gag.’ He at least prevents a rebel from being thrust into the office,” In regard’ to General Grant aiming for the Presidency, Mr Sumner said “be did not know. ‘Things looked that way. His friond, Mr. Washburne, who has just returned from Europe, speaks of bim as a candidate. had been insisting om irreversible gu next President must be in himself an guarantee!’ Grant was uncertain In regard to Mr, Jounson Sumner said:—“Wich person of ordinary fonse and with @ heart, reconstruction would be easy. ‘Tho President is perverse, pig-headed and brutal. His talent, such as it is, comes from pugnacity. Of course he is a usurper anda tvrant, The wonder is that Con- gree did not act accordingly long aco, Congress has esitated in ite duty cowards the President, as it bas in every thing else, I bave never doubted that the President would be impeached,’ Souator Wilson said, “The great mass of the republican party believe that the President wili be impeached, and that he deserves impeachment.” In regard to Grant, Wilson stated his opinion that he had taken his office of Secretary of War for tho sole purpose of trying to do what good he can to the country, About the President, he eaid he * would go by Ots and starts in carrying out any policy, {n fact, ho acts like @ ‘leliow on a bust,’ who goes to sleep and wakes up, breaks things, and then goes to sleop again, and soon ‘till he is sober. In my idea be isa foolish man, governed by gusts of passion and temper; and he ts & disappointed man, because ho really believed be was going to succeed. Tuis has made hum vindictive.” General Butler said Jobnson lacks courage and capacity, and that tmpeachment is sure to come, Gon- eral Butler said the danger lest he should bo influ- enced in judgment by dialike to ¢'.e man, tor which he gaid be bad go much cause, precluded him trom torming . ‘an opinion about Grant. THE CALIFORNIA ELECTION. eee Ban Francisco, Sept. 4. 1867, The election is progrossing quietly throughout the State, No indications of the result are yet obtainable, though it is certain that the democratic vote will be larger than for some years past. Tt ts thought tha: Gorham, ropublican, will lose San Francisco; but the tickets are 60 various and so much eoratched that it is impossible to make a safe estimate. The Bulletin thinks thore is some probability of Gor- ham’s election by s majority far bebind the goneral ticket. At three o'clock in tho afternoon Haight, democrat, was one hundred votes ahead in Sacramento on tne democratio logisiative ticket. There are some doubts of tho election of Phelps, Union, to Congress in the First district, The success of the other Union candidates for Congress is thought to be wale, REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AT RALEIGH. Raumaa, N. 0., Sept. 4, 1867. The Republican State Convention assembled here to- day Sixty #1x counties are represented, several of them by proxy. The proceedings wore harmonious, A permanent organization was effected, and General Joseph C. Abbott was elected President. Genoral Alfred Dockery and Hon, Robert P. Dick aro among the Vice — A committee to draw upe platform was se- blicans held @ grand mass meeting at to-night A band of as in attend ance, and hymns and besannas were Several colored mon made specches, all of radical Character. ung. very THE CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION AT MONTGOMERY, ALA. Morroouser, Ala, Sent. 4, 1867. ‘The Conservative State Convention met to-day. Thir- teen out of sixty-two countios arerepresented. There is considerable enthusiasm manifested Eigtty-neven de- legates are prosent, of whom twenty are colored. A platform will be reported to-morrow. WISCONSIN REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION, Radical Resolutions Adopted—Governor Fair- child R inated. i, Wis., Sept. 4, 1867. The Republican State Convention met here to-day and organized by electing Edward P. Salomon vice-president, who made an appropriate speech on taking the chair, Resolutions were unanimously adopted, compliment- ing ex-Secretary Stanton and Genoral »Shoridan, and favoring the impeachment of the President, They reaffirm the oardival tonets of the poitticai faith of the republican party, the inelienable rigut of all men to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, ‘Bo discrimiaations at the ballot box on acco piace, creed or color; the liberty of speech and the press; schools; ® prompt acquiesence with =the the le at the ballot box; the maintenance the national faith as plodged to its creditors; the equalization of taxes so that they shall fall equitably upon all cassos, Itwas resolved that as the chief purpose of the republican Union w during the war was to conquer the enemies the Union id assert the supremacy of the constitution and the iaws, so now ite chief object is to secure fruits of the victory won, and restore the re of civil law and ‘constitutional order throughout the lan: looking mainly to the representatives of the people in Congress, which is clothed with the power to make all laws noceseary for carrying thom into execu. tion in the goveroment of the United States or any de- Partment thereof, and we heartily endorse the system and meas res adopted Dy Congress for reconstruction. The Convention then nominated the following ticket : For Governor, Lucius Fairchitd; Lieutenant Govern: Wyman Spooner; Secretary of Sia o, Thomas &. Allon; Mad William E. Smith; Attorney General, Colonel . Hu EQUAL RIGHTS IN DELAWARE, Convention of the Advocates of Impartial Suffrage in WI m—Addresses by Messrs. Creswell and Kelley. Wruaanator, Del., Sept. 4, 1867. An Equal Rights Convention for the State of Dels- ware was held in this city to-day, and was largely at- tended by citizens from all parts of the State, The colored citizens were largely represented, and great enthusiasm was manifested. This is the first meeting orconvention of the kind that has ever been held in this State, The Convention assembled at noon, and after some prelimin: business adjourned to two o'clock, Dr, Wjliiam Davidson, of Kent county, ‘was elected temporary chairman, and Lewis Thompson, of Newcastle, permanent president, with numerous vice presidents and secretarios, including many promi- nent men, white and black. (ne hundred delogates to Baltimore jor bag ne were a) — & strong series of resolutions, favoring impart a ifrage by national law, the enforcement of the cor stitation In respect to a republican form of governm inthe and sustaining Congressional reconstruc- tion, were adopted. The Convention was addressed at length Lf ex-Senator Creswell, of Maryland, and Hon Wm. D. Kelley, of Ponnsylvania. The Convention was jvory onthusiastic, and is considered by the friends of the movement a great success, TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE. Rocusster, Sept. 4, 1867. A terrible catastrophe eccurred yesterday afternoon on Lake Ontario, about twenty rods from the iron works dock, in the town of Ontario, Wayne county. A plea- sure party of fourteen young persons were taking ® ride on the Jake in a sailboat, and, op attempting to turn the boat towards the shore, it was capsized, and nine of the party wore drowned, of whom six were girls and three boys, The bodies havo not yet beon recovered. DEDICATION OF THE ANTIETAM CEMETERY, ‘We learn from Dr. J. BE. Snodgrass, Commissioner for New York, and chairman of the Committee of Arrange- mente for the dedication of the Antietam National Cemetery, which is to take place on the 17th inst, that sponses from invited guests warrant the expectation that there will be in attendance, in addition to the Presi- dent of the United States and several baat his including Mr. Seward, Chief Justi Jebed officials at’ the national capital, a hatlog dead on ibe Seld of Antctas, Insludioy Geter 8 iy he Fenton, Bome of *' eral nor bh ay Mi Geni Burnside, of Rhode Island, and Brevet Major Fairobild, of Maine, and others—were therefore will revisit the spot while their presence public, The letter of General Je, and attractive to thi as follows:— Exscorive Banaen Wasnrctos, A wan] have received, eur lamtaton atiend tes of the dedi Ca the 17th of september, cdlons which around the place tna ‘me to accept Governor Swann, as Governor of wa we ast Sie'tataw Sai omaat ed is Governor preaiord), wil doulver the Gi core! tery, Wassixaton, Sept. 4, 1967, Investigations »Y the Hetrenchment Come mittee. Two of the members 0.’ the sub-commiltee—Messra, Van Wyck and Welker—hetetofore appointed by the Congressional Joint Committes on Retrenchments re. sumed their investigations to-day st the Treasury De. Partment,.of the alleged malfeseance in the managemens of the cotton and other property abandoned in the rebet States during the war, and other matters in that con- nection. In examining the papers, it was discovered ‘that many of those who were engaged in the largest cotton speculations with the aid of persons who had obtained Treasury permits, and army and navy officers, are dead, while others have entirely lost the advantages of their operations by subsequent ventures and the decline in the price of cotton, J. B, Lamar, it is seen by the official records, is earnestly Pressing upon the Treasury tho settlemont of claims for captured cotton, The payment of these and other simi. lar claims, however, has beep suspended for the present by the Secrotary of the Treasury at the request of the committee, Those heretofore settled by the Secretasy Were paid on the principle pursued by ex-Secreterios Chase and Fessenden, namely, involving the power to ‘supervise the acts of the Treasury agents in cases. whore proof was furnished of improper or illegal scizure. It should be stated that a large number of claims have been rejected by the Secretary throwing the claimants in the Court of Claims for redress, The sub-committee—Messrs, Van Wyck, Welker and Randall—expect to be in New York next Monday to’ examine into the mode of the collection of customs with a viow to symplifying the system, and to diminish the expenses; and also into the colléction of revenue on spirits and tobacco, in order, if possible, to devise some means by which frauds may be prevented, 1 The Frauds in the Pay Department. The Select Committee on Frauds in the Pay Depart- ment have adjourned to meet at New York on the 10th of October, to inquire into the accounts of provost marshals’ offices in that clty during the war. Appointment of Hon, Thomas N, Stillwell 1a Mintster Resident to the Republic of Venez. uela. The President to-day appointed Hon. Thomas N. Stille well, of Indiana, ex-Member of Congress from that State, Minster Resident to the republic of Venezuecia, in place of James Wilson, deceased; also L. W. Bcott, of Tennessee, Consul at Matamoros, and Oliver R. Brad ford, of Pennsylvania, as temporary Consul at Brunel, Borneo, Health of General Schofield. General Schofield 1s reported much better to-night, and is expected in Richmond on Thursday, Mall Service Between New York and Venee zuela. The Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the republic” of Venezuela has notified the Postmaster General chat tie bas made a contract with Mr. Joho L. Wright, of New York, to convey the mails between tho United States an@ Venezuela by a line of two steamers, which will leave on the 6th of each month, and will also touch at the island of San Juan, Porto Rico and St. Thomas on the voyage each way, Tho first of these packets will sail from New York on the 7th Instant, and the postmasier of that city bas been instructed to make up and despatch maila for Veneauela and for tho intermediate points mentioned above by the steamers of this line, The rate of Unued States postage between New York and either of tne above named pointe, on letters sent or received, will be ten cents, the single rate half ouace propaymeat re- quired on all letters sent from the United States, The Indian Commission, Commissioner Taylor, of the (ndian Bureau, will leave to-morrow to rejoin the Indian Commission at Omaha, Nebraska, Obituary. Mr, George C. Whiting. died here last night after a short illness, aged about Mifiy years. He had been com nected with the Department of the Interior ever since its organization, and was in its employ at the time of hie decease as chief clerk. He had of'en acted as Secretary of the Interior ad tnierim, and wee formerly Commis- stoner of Pensions, He was a prominent Mason, and at the time of his death occupied tne position of Grand Master of the District of Columbia, Captain W. H Hale, of the United States marine corps, died at Pensacola on the 28th of August last of yellow fever, The Navy Department has received tntelligence to this effect. sf ANOTHER OPINION FROM THE ATTORNEY GEWERAL—THE...- CABINET—THE PREMIUM ON GOLD. [From the Evening Telegram of yesterday.} Wasainoton, Sept. 4, 1867. It is reported here to-day that the Attorney General has been applied to for an opinion upon the subject of General Sickles’ interference with the property lawe while in command in South Carolina, and the expecta- tion is that the law officer of the government will decide that be (sickles) is individually Uable for the acts is question. Further Cabinet changes remain in abeyance, but the reports about the “pleasant relations” between the Pree- ident and General Grant should be received cum grano, The bigh premium upon gold creates surprise at the Treasury Department here, and the opinion was ex- pressed very confidently there to-day that it (the pre- mium) could not be maintained. Meanwhile, however, Mr. McCulloch is making no special efforts to reduce it, The banks are to be drawn upon closely by the Treasury for currency, and its scarcity bids fair to be as great as it already 12 im the banks of the capital, THE AMNESTY PROCLAMATION. [Washington correspondence of the Boston Post, Sept. Ss} The Cabinet meeting to-day was @ proiracted one, an: the Ampesty Proclamation was again up for considera- tion. Most of the points were settied, and it may pos- sibly be issued on Saturday morning next. Asi said before, there will be but very few exceptions made, and this ig the only point yet open for settioment. The President insists upon going one Sg Sai thap meets the views of Secretary Soward. other mem. bers of tho Cabinet entirely concur with the Executive. General Grant was not present, for he had previous! asked _ be Sap te yan to mix himself up ip politica, ever, that he approves of the Presiden: stands b the principle he adopted in eral Leo's pardon. - Another prvelametion, similar to the one insued to. day, will soon be put forth, but in mech strooger terms and taking mucb wider range, With it possibly may be published the correspondence between Generals Grant and Sickles, as showing the necessity for vigorous measures on the of the Exeoutive. The corres. spondence is withheld for the present on the score of public policy. - (Washington correspondence of the Boston Advertiser, Asignificant fact bas been made public bomen. | the acceptance by Geveral Grant of the position Secretary of War ad in'erim. When Mr, Stanton and General Grant became ceriain of Mr Johu-on's dever mination to suspend the former and of his intention of appointing the latter, and after full consul a'ion ree garding the matter, Mr Stanton urged General Grant to accept the place, basing his reasons for the siep upon the gravest considerations of public interest, not only of a general, but also of @ specific cuaracter, Yeu FEVER, The Disense Declared Epidemic jane=—Twenty-cight Denthe Y, Fe New Ontrana, Se) 1867, There were twenty-eight deaths from me) fever ory, The Board of Health last night deciared the er epidemic, but describes it as del of said tgs A communication was sent to the of yesterday announcing the reorganization of the Howard Aazeaes, Oe cicting teeth wes Canney Coe rani — streets wore flooded this morning by tremendous ns, RELIEF FOR THE YELLOW FEVER SUFFERERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the following for the benefit of sufferers by the yellow fever at Gaives. ton, Texas :— W. iB. Hi Bort SPOFFORD, TLRBTON & 00, Naw Yona, Sept. 4, 1867, 70 THR RDITOR OF THY HERALD. ‘We acknowledge the following amounts for the Gal- yo 4. 8. Barnes & Co.... $28 . T, MoCreedy & Muon, Phinney, Blake: maa & 00........., Total.. seveuwene cease aie New Yorn, Sept. 4, 1867, ORGANIZATION OF THE SAVANNAH MERCHANTS ENCHANGE, Savanvan, Ga, ihe The Merchants’ Exchange was 4 William Wadley, president of the Central hd chooen president pro tem, Total... 25 Prev'y sokno: