The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1867, Page 4

4 “THE SOUTH. oe Reports of the Special Correspond- ents of the Herald. ee THE LABOR QUESTION IN VIRGINIA. Affairs in South Carolina and Alabama. SCENES IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXA VIRGINIA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD, The Labor Element of Virginin—Vatue of the Negro—The Importance of Retnining Aim tm the State—Disproportion of Laborers to the Extent of Soil-The White Cavaliers at the Plow—A Love of Labor Being Gradually DI de siccaaie Ricawoxn, Va., Sept, 7, 1867, Among other Interesting subjocts outside of politics, of which, indeed, there has beon more of patient watcbful- nessthan any a’tempt at active participation in by the people of this State, the question of agricultaral labor en- grosses considerable attention from the farmers and planters in Virginia, The sudden revulsion from forced or slave to that of voluntary and unfettered labor was well calculated to bewilder the two racee whom'it affected, and in fact, when a little reflection is bestowed upon the natury of tne chance, 80 abrupt and unprovided for as it was, {t seems astounding how woll nd peaceably the result was accomplished. The negro has done better than his best weil wishers might have anticipated, and his former white master has treated him with as mtich consideration as it was proper to expect. But ts negro Jabor the only kind Virginia can ever hope to secure, and if that be afirmativoly settled, to what extent do we find this labor didused and how long ia it Ukely to last? These questions, and others that suggest themselves in the same conacction, are given considera. tion to by many thinking men of the State, It may be eafely assutoed that, for yeass to come, Virginia will have to depend upon the negro to perform field labor. European emigration cannot be diverted this way from the well worn channels that direct it to the Wast; and 4f for po other reason, the one simple fact is enough, that the negroes are so numerous hore that white men cannot be induced to come among them. Farmers are conscious of this, and however much the project may b» fostered of importing foreigners as mere laborers, those of any experience know well that the negro is, aud must remain, the chief resource, unless the theory be realized that be is bound in the lapse of time to disappear from the arena of eocial tndustry and trouble the oratory of ambitious politicians no more. However, one thing is generally conceded, that a black man makes 2 most vaiuabie field band; he bas an apti- tude for everything por'a ning to sgricultaral operations, and being docile, tractable and affectionate, is managed easily bY a trifling use of kindness, Farmers and plant- ers appreciate the worth of tho negro, aud with them it become a serious question ‘How shall we act sv as to retain in our midst this vaiuable element of labor?” By conciliation and liberality, and by making ft an ob- fect to cducato and elevate tho negroes, draw them nearer on a friendly level, and by mouiding them into an intelligent and devoted peasantry the whites will do more towards neutralizing the noxivus influence of ical demaegues, whose ouly skill seems to con- in dissemivating incendiary teachings. To show at disproportion of laborera to the ex- tent ‘of soil in Virginia, and the loss that would result from any further d minution of the number, a few statistics Wil) suffice, Theara of improved land in the State ts 9.690.000 acres, and of unimproved 11,259.00, The number of mie laborers between twelve and sixty ¥Yoara of age is 105 000, which Jeavos an apportionment ‘Of one laborer to every ninety acres of improved, or to ‘every one Hundred and nine y-seven of both improved and un mproved land, [bia clearly shows that Virginia ds to tilt ber #ol!, and cag ill sflord to one o’ what she tas Bat that many are still leaving, for more remunerative Wag’s in Ohio and Pennsylvania, there is no doubt. Movey was nover 40 much needed in Virginta to carry 1 agricultural operations, wiile ander the altered sia'e of things the labor of the freedinan must be paid for, and white men wih certainly stay away from where no money is in circ: 'stion, In some coun- ‘ties farmers find it more convenient, if not economical, to give the negroes a share in the crope; but this plan is gee to by many, who say it filis their ds with fanciful ideas of extravagant profiia that are never real- ized, and when those undue expectations are disappoint- ed the nogro is demoralized for work. However, where Shere is no money some such resource as this has to be adopted; and it is doubtful if it be not the most satisfac. Wory under the circumstances, Many of the large tohacco planters hare brought the matter of employing labor .o @ methodical business aystem, Board and lodsing are furnished on the plantation to the bands, and at certain Stated times thoy rec their wages, from which the cost of subsisience is regularly deducted. The larve lantere “seo ine mecessity Of not aloue dealing jastiy aod liberaity with the necro, but also of within bis reach the means of edu. ana I doubt not the theory will hoid good. 8 well with sthe biack as wlth the white maa that education will m ims more efficient and relia- bie member of society. As iabor bas b-cowe the com. 4 Tees of this Stat have at last ‘ceived reoug- its people, the young meu of Virginia whose (ho War were spent in ease and idleness, are applying themselves to the task of repairing their Wasted estates aud dereloping tho riches of the soll, Many a gallaot cavaiier with bands unused to toi! may Row be sovn at the plow handle or the boe, and the ex- @mple thus set i being extensively imitated. Virginians are fast becoming @ practical poopie. Polltics are left aside for the discussion of mipiug or agricuitare, and fhe classe lore of colieea is discarded for the telence Of husbandry. In thie way it is thoaght tho youth of the State will work out the mater iny of Virginie nd place Ler foremost among the prosperous and pro- @res0\ve otates of tuo Union. SOUTH CAROLINA, SPECIAL COARESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. ‘The Removal of of Oplatons a eral Sickles=Diver: the Polloy=Vavorable I pression Mide by General Canby—Kegi ton—A Daily Undical Paper to be Eatab- ed=The Crops Better than were Kx. pected. Citantestoy, 8, C., Sept. 7, 1867. General Sickles took his departure for New York on hoard the steamship Manhattan to-day. A large crowd, Composed mostly of negroesy assembled on the wharf to ive him @ parting salnte, aud, as the steamer moved OT, gave the retiring commander three times three eheers, A banquet was given to the General, by his former staf officers, at the Mills House, Friday night. The mass of o\.zens have exhibited the utmost indifer- fnce to the change of commandera In fact, no military commander, whatever his disposition, can expect popu- larity under present circumstances The majority Whroughout the State were grateful to the Generai for his issue of Order No, 19, afording relief from the grasp- ing creditor; but in the city thie wae more than cowa- terbalanced by the la'red of Order No, 52, closiag row taurante and barroom, depriving # lerge body of citi. sens of their only means of living ana the City Treasury Of ite chief source of income in the issue of tavern ti- eensen The Sisters of Mercy, tally, by the removal of 4 the poor of the city gene eral Sickles lose ove of their warmosi and bost friends, The general was especially kind to t phane under the charge of the mer. Bis parting intersiow with the Sistors and the orphan ehildren is sand to bave been truly affecting. hy the treme wing of the radicals here he was denounced for Fielding too moch to Governor Orr and bia “vo party by others for vo mneb leaning to siteotin and by the envious for driving his dashing ing Dia head too hig effet, and hopes f Feovnt action of the President an ‘opportunity will now Offor of fririy tecting the co: @iruction meas res . Aitatiovality of the reen ss Ov the other bande citizens are thoroughiy dis. © preseni © of affairs and President His interference at this inte day they Fogard as a6 aMiction wich will ouly embitier the party is power end originate confiscation or worse, his arrival in Sew York General Sickles nd a court of luquiry to setle Whar appears to ‘of veracity beeen him aad Preeident f denies \hat be bey e in the chef of plain soldier like mpreseion, He to and from the Citadel (o the Mills House in the ‘Btreet cars, and is extremely aifabic and fociavie in bis omeanor and intercourse witu ine cit.zens, Ror quietly, (ue biscks in the ietration is progressing iglty waving kept up this fare majority of @ litle over Avo ' The radials aro making strennous efforts to estadlieh ‘@ daily paper in the interests of their party. They have 4 ted 8 commtion of Aileen mares the Sule appeal to party Mosattcsnading the roveger 6 caterpillar on somo phe fen Inland plantations, the coum crop throucb- £. a ‘out the State promises to be much larger than was gon- erally expected. LABAmA SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NERALO. ~ Party-Sketchee of Ite Leader Mowrcouxry, Ala, Sept. 4, 1867, Conversing to-day with a former large slayeowner, who opposes recoustruction under the military biils, he contended that the white minority of the South should esicom ittheir duty to give the most unquestionsbdie proof of their submission to the new order of things by eiviog their humble votes to the embodiment of Union principles and of the revolution which is now going on at tho South and must yet reach the North aiso—tne biack man, He contended that thore are enough of this class—natives of Alabama or of contiguous Staves—m-p of unquestioned Aérican descent, some of them wel! eda- cated, inteHigent and shrewd men, who, whether they be radicals or republicans, or not, have a life interest in the bappiness and prosperity of Alabama, who will not be apt, after their pockets are Olled, to glide away to build their homes among the rocks of New Engiand. Even the natives of New England, he said, are not always ‘loyal;"’ but by supporting loyal bluck men for office we will not only be on the safe side as to “obstruc- tion,” but will keep all the power, official patronage and the profits made from our heavy taxation. Tho republicans do not favor the election of biacks to offices which they are incompetent to Mil on account of lack of edacation and acquaintance with pubilc affairs, and as a general thing the blacks are not prosaing their claims tor such positions; but a number of conserra- tives declare that if they must choose between white and black radicals, they infinitely prefer the latter. Consequently they advocate the election of blacks as members of Oongress, !a order that the radicals may reap the reward of their humiliation of the South by the enactment of negro suffrage, In Perry county, whore the blacks outnumber the whites four to one, an old and respectable colored man, named Lonnox Calhoun, is a candidate for the Reconstruction State Convention, on the bass of impartial suffrage and universal amnesty and the restoration of harmonious relations between the white aad biack races, The conservative papors in the county oppose a convention, but say if there must be ono they greatly prefer Lennox Calhoun as a delegate to any of the republican nominees, The republicana charge that Calh.un has been brought up by the anti- recoustruc 10ais'8. The number of United States bondholders is estimated ‘at lesa than half a million. This is somowhero about the number of slaveowuers bofore the war. Eventually the negro vote will be added to the labor vote ia other sections of tho Unton. The same appeal that has boen successfully made against the fow who hold property in javes will probably be made against the few who bold property in the public debt, There is not a dispositioa im the majority to coufscate the property of ihe minority; but the tax laid om labor to pay capital will organize the former interest to protect itself by a rend- justmont of tho public burdens. It ie in this sense that the colored power will make itself manifest. A short tue will satisfy that power of the extent-to which i political and social rigbts are to be established, Tnose issues will then pass away, and will be succeeded vy olners in which the interests of the negro laborers will be involved. These tnterests are tdontical in a great measnre with thoge of the whites among whom he re- sides The two races can harmonize on tuis sub- ject, The negro nominoe may be a radical, but he will vote to reduce the tax on cotton and other articles of home production, Ho will favor the pay- meant of tho public debt and interest in groevbacks, and ‘will prefer to impose the federal tax on vested vapital. Tve end of this revolution in suffrage is not yet. Before the war the negro representative power was in the bands of the capitalist, his master, Thea it was directed for the proservation of the capital interest, and 20 practicatly sided with the capital interast ole where. Now that power is nearly doubled in ita suffrage ratio, and is di- rected by itscif—tnat is, by the labor intorest,. It isa newiy doveloped power, and when the philanthropist has done witn it practical men will assign it a perma- nent place in the politics of the nation. What that will be I nave indicated. With the identity of interest be- tween the white and onlored voters, tt is highly possible that the iirst proposal to remove the disabilities of fran- cbise will come from thoxe who need the whi uu frage of the South to ald in reheving the labor interest of a taxation equaily oppressive to black and white. As tho biacks become acquainted with tho subject, they oppose taxation of all kinds, They oppose the cotton tax becauwo at last [t all comen out of tue sweat of their brow aud the labor of therr bands. hey oppose the revenue tax on spirits and many other articles, of winch they are large consumers, They aerlare iu favor of the repeal of State poll tax, and “establishing, as a rule, that the tax paid by every wan shail be exactly om to the value of his property, and no ir it is very mucn to be doubted whether the #can be bribed by the promiso of forty acres of confiscated broom straw to renoune® their right to re- view the federal tax laws, so obnoxious to the Inboring interest, It is contended, therefore, that as soon as the bincks cleary understand the aubject of national taxa- tion, the exormous bonded debi, the boaus paid to tue national banks, &e., they will advocate the repudiation of the bonda in the bans of capitalists im order to get rid of the onerous burden of federal taxatica on iheir productive iodusiry. The following calculation hows how the cotton tax operates against tho loteresis of the freedinen. A tarmer | has @ plantation op which, with fifty bands, he makes two hundred bales of cotton of ove dred pounds each, equal to one hundred thousand pounds coiton, and give his bands one-fourth of the crop after payin: penses Te tax on the crop at two and oue-tiaif cents @ pound would be $2,500, to meet which requires ten thousand pounds of cotion at tweaty-five cenis a pound, But the fifty baods doing the labor, aud of course paying the entire tax, each pay fifty doers towards the support of the national government aud the factoring of New Engiand cotton manufactories, Among the strongest advocates on the stamp of the anti-reconstruction policy ia Mr, Michael J, Bulger, of Tallapoosa county. Previous ta the Inte war, Mr. ii igor wes a member of tho State Legisiature for a considerabie ; and strongly advo- idenoy in 1860, ® co-operative Union delegaco 10 the Simo Convention of 1861, and in that body op tho passage of ihe ordinance of rece-- sion, and reused to sigo it. se, however, declared, on ite pasenge, “that if an attempt was mato to invade the State, aithough he was advanced beyond the ontinary ‘ace of a soldier, be would seek some humble posiion im tar army of defence, where he could render comme sor of the ri 1862 Mr. Alaban col feo in sucport na, interests and honor of hix country. In Boiuer raised giment (ihe Furty-saventh ) for the Confederate army, and was mado ita nel, He wae distinguished for courage aud eodur- a articipated in soins of the severost stracgles of the war, Was several times dangerously woucdod. shot through toe body as Gettysburg and ieft on tne feid, remained in federsl prisons for sime time aut re- covered, Ho was & Senator of the last Stato Legislature, to Which position be was elected without opposition, and voted ust the constitutional amnecdment. He ware candidaie for Govercor of the Staio in 1865 agaiast Governor Patton and Mr, Wiliam RB. Smith (form member of the Umited States House of Represeniatives), and received about 13,900 votes, Mr. Patton beating boil his opponents over four thousand votes, alr, Bulger i men of considerable forve of charact ee combutive A if large white vollng counuss, He arded as one of the most influen ial and Prowsinent opponent of reconstruction in the State, bav- ioy mixed moro with and veing better Known to the peoplo in those eections of the Siato where the anti-re~ Const: vetiva vole will be greater than exther Genet anton or Mr. Jolo Fo: General Ciauton, who, it will be remembered, replied to Sevaior Wicon in this city, wave brigadier geacral of roy F his zeal in ies lawyer by pro vecating tl and distnguished cause of his clients, emancipation lever, Mr. Clanton advucaied ihe electi m of Bell and Everett in 1860, and was opporad to mcrasion, He is the acknowledged leader of tie antl-roeonsteucs tion me Ferwon\, Aud aN orator of cons doravie abilily. Mr. Jown Forsyih, editor of the Moo te Tegist dvertiser and sone Of the ablest offpournis of reconstruc tate, and%is tore witely knowm thea the omen Who are prominently coneected with . the an.i-cecomstruction movem war he was a member of + Legielature for sey Tio was Mioteter to Mexico under * that po with the President, be came home aad eniisted earnestly in the advocacy Of Mr, Dougias’ claims to the Presidtacy, and fi in bis Fupport of that gentieman, pari of the war onthe etal of General Bragg, aud paper endered more service in upholding the Southern cause than any other jouroal ouisile of Richmond. He wields @ trenchant pon, ie woll bo ‘ay wae hi Ls ay pd One oF two excep. ions are tw: ; 1 Said to Posaens “brass” of the ant! reconstruction party, medians: The ablest orator in the conservative in thie Stave is Mr, Wiliam EH. Bern ra county. Mr. Barnes was an old line Uaion whig, and a Bell ¢ ec- tor io 1800. He Was a secession mewber of the Recension conveation of 1861. He was a memver of the Lagisiae ture during the period embraced by the war, and during tho sessions of 1865 end 1866 was eh: Ate Judiciary Committee, and acknowledged as the frst debater in the Assembly. Ilia oratory is very much after the style of that of the lowe Willam L. coy men can be found In the State or in the Souta who eq al the same amount of wold logic of words, He reidom calls to via nd ye eclurontory fighis of fancy, As @ stump ormor, bis = compact logic and aptness for keen reparice Previous to the ions, aition, In coneequen wavered He served el a is ved In poliical bh rman of the Ser bim 1m compresein thi iven our! one of the most formidsbie moo in the Of Gegraia, forty-two years of age, Ho was au old lino whig of ie Q Hoary Ciay school, and endorsed Mr. Ciay's celobiated | has a more massive Woebsterian head and imposing physique than any prom nen: politician im the State, TEXAS. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Sights and Scenes Sau Antonio—Mexican Cock Fighting on Sunday—Visit to the 0 Catholic Missi jan Antonio Valley Description of Them—Mente Banks Colts Revolver Trumps—A Spanish Fan- Re Glory—Sources of the Sau Pedre and San Antonio Kiversa—The Original Buriul Piuce of General Worth—Moonlight Picnic’ Tooth and Other Bones ef a Mastodon Found Near San Antonlo—Club Rooms of the City= Anticipated Rebel Indian Depredations and Trouble io the FuturemA Blatant Yielding to the Moral Suasi Shoater=—The Kemoval of Get Ujehazy, Ex-Goveruor of Buda. San ANTONIO, August 23, 1867. My recent letter from this place, though I intended it as Qual at the timo, and for that reason extended it to the jength I did, was by no moans exhaustive of the town and its surroundings. As amid tho statues and pictures and ruins of Romo the artist feels a deep and absorbing interest growing up within him, as its narrow and crooked streets and ancient churehes and the grand old stractures of the old days of the Repubtic aud its palaces and hovels open daily new fields of wonder, as tue Flavius Tiborius,the river of classic story, and tue Appian Way, a3 widely famed in legendary fore, take now aud s.ronger bold on his heart and imagination, so thia quaint old city and its mongrel popuiation and queer atreeis, and queor houses, aud queer bridges, and cock fights, and mountebaaks, and fandangos, present a field tor observation aud study that, if not exciting the entire homage of the soul, at least for a time dispels weariness aud lassitude im the exploration of their deeply marked and.otrious phases, Two circumstances have combined to prolong my stay longer than I in- tended, and I ain taxing advantage of this deiay to wriie this latter doseription of some of the scenes and places where, as a true aud faiibful ‘‘chiel,"" I bave been ‘tak- ing notes’ meanwhile, Firat, I booked myself in the stage for Austin just a week ago, but as I went to take my seat, found five seats occupied by this number of stout, very biack, very oleagtnous and very suiuy look- ing negro soldiers and one of like s:alwart build, obooy hue and greasy, opidera:ic sheon, seated by the driver. I did pot go in that siaga, Next thore came a rain storm, swelling the Colorado soveral reot abore its usual height interrupting stage travel, and I bave not been able to take the stago since. And now to my no‘es of in- termediate sight seeing, which I should not have taken or had occasion to write out bad it not been for the two circumstances des:ribed. Not @ graud moral spectacle, and particularly ov Sunday, is a cock fight, but to visis tho cock Szbt Amphithoatre just beyoud what is called Mexico, the name given to that pari of the city lying across the San Pedro from its being inabited exclustvely by Mexica: was set down inthe programme of jast Sunday altor- noon, Two carriage loads went from the hotel. It was an {ntensely bot day. Too hot glare of tho sun aud tho Plqza fronting the Lote! the walls of the timestone houses did notinvite to the excursion and the very quiciude of the air proclaimed against such sacrilezious infriagement of the day. But it will be rememberod this cock fighting is a Suoday institution, and ag eight secing was our object, if we did not see it now, we mizhi not eee it ail, Aud again the fignting would go on Whaiber we were there or nut, 60 these whisperiogs of opposing conscience availed not, and if a remorseful thon ht did cross any mind, it was quickiy banisued by 4 preiiminary round of drinks, replenishing our puckot flasks of whiskey, laying ne good s»pply of segars and the excitement of Le ride as wo went wh main bridge crosetug the San Antonio, an: through Nain strect, mad) our way across the main aud military plazas, and after that going over tue San Pedro and through Mexice, took a deiour to the let for haf a mile to our piace of deetioation, Tie toorsugofere through which we made Our Way Was lined with people bound to the same local- ily—tawny Mesicans, wearing immen-e sumbreros aod swoking corn busk cigarettes, and broad shouldered Mexican women aud young Mexican giris, wewrioy tbe iting ‘Many of these senoriins ave quite pretty, their fea roguiar, and spleudidiy durk, tnog: absence of hoops showed off to ad: chacminuy Hihe anc yet iaviting robustness mess of O.ure Ail were dreseod in their Sunday clothes, re propecly speaking, thelr cioihes were clean. of the young Mexicans wore cioth s, gurgeousiv ecorated wish gil. buttons, extending dows ibe vutsice seams, and ueariy all, thouga on foot, wore Mexican spurs, wich kept up a lively, cwnking jingle ay Urey walked. The shawis of some of the Women were nist elaborately embruidered, sho ving most skiilal taste in this branch of femiume industry. The road was all alive with their laughter and conversation, tho lauier carr od ov wholly ia the Spanish patos prevaiting here, At ine tervals wo aw ancng the crowd ganiwcocks, ranning Sign boards that we wore on ihe rigut road, the ch pions aud victims of the coming contests, "As we de scouded from our carriages aud advanced to the anphi- theatre, scata were most obligingly Vacated fur our a0- cCommodation Spaciousness or elegance forvs no feature of this cockpit. It has this extent aud no more— a circular area some — twenty-fi few in diam ‘ier, eaclosed by aro gh board fence iwo foot high, and outside of this rude wooden benches, wittiout Lacks, for seata, ‘The enciveare le sacred to the cocks, pitt. take Lolders and umpires. Over all, a8 a proisction Agavnst the dlazing sun, is a booth of mezqoiia brancass, Adjacent are two Mexican buts, having booths in iront, sod underneath them tables and benches, Bere are furoisned Mexican dishes and dria! done up io the most apvroved style, to thoee who like them. T migint wriié a column and mors of the cork fights hiok short. ty began and tas ed Sindown, but wna giv inevitable shaw! over their heads despits the bi sun. cock, their pedigree aud figiiting qualities, and nearly PUL Up Stakes on their favorites, varying from (ep Conk to an many dollars, To keep aa @ye ow the varying pro- gross Of the Hgut, the iarge crowd of those standing up Keptrashing back aud forth in frantic segments of eircles soekiag by cnroureging words and sighs to cheer on to Victory their favorites, [twas a Ravel conivsien on & email goals, and far moro exciting. Whva victory was declared the excitement knew no s Next io fight, the bi the luxury of socing m cock t luxury to & Mexican is to win his bet. I have seldou BeO More excitable crowd thee during Progress of one of thoes fights, and I certainly bave seu far tamer pictares then their casy attiicdos aad p.cturesqu: groupings in the intervals of the Ayiiine, Some of tho Cocks Wers fouglit with slashes, a rcyine-like biade, two sand abalf incbes long and sharp as @ razor, and bome ith their own spurs. ‘ihese siashes ave a monetrosiiy of cruey, A good hit with ove in a vito! part is sure death, In the secoad fight the tao cocks made ovo mutual dash, gave a mua thrust with their slashes and boih fell dead, This of course, was adraw, Que Hight with svurs insted one hour and thirty-five minutes, and at tho last final blow each killed the other, making this likewise a daw, Seventeen fights were fouyut altogether, and of the contestants twenty-one died on the deid, bathed in glory and biood, I never seen cock fyhting betore, aad I do pot care to see ® repouition of Luis Sauday's scoue. As s00n xbould one visit the British metropolis with- out seeing the Tower of Lyndow or Westminster Abbey, or go to Stratford-on-Avon without looking at tue tomb of Shakepear’, or make a month's sojourn ia the gay French capital without @ siroll along the Moulevards or on the Champs Eiyed n Antonio and Dot visit the oid Missio may last letter, there are tweive of these old churches in the Sam An- tonio valley, sore of thom are two huudred years old, and all but three at present are merost piles of irremed able ruing, Were two carriage loads, besides one of Uncle Samuel's four horse ambulances making uy the party of visitrs. Tho excursion was gotion ap for the benefit of several army officers just ordered bere aud Bowly arrived, and though J eay it, who periaps snouid bot, tor wy graiiucation as well, Tue oflicors to Whom Ire er wre:—Major Burbank, the new post paymaster; Capiam Porter, the new depot quartermaster neuteaant Garretison, of Gen Gnilia’s Major Simith, Lieutenant Woit far foo, Major Me not now of bat who will Tembered a8 the adju General of to on from Third corps during the w to buy the Confed the party, The rest ade wp of oflcers have long buen On duty here,+ Cone! Lee, Posi ermuanier, Was ti. pioneer and caterer of Lhe expe » and Lis talents, that soine soexceltenily well io his epecial tne of duty, gave outa very brillant lustre on this oceasion, Our tip embraced a visit to throe wis- y the Concoption, San Jose and San Juan, making a er of Sore twenty miles, and Will ius cvol and dehGous breee with whch we were fortunsiely vored and the lively sparkle of wit and gayety tnt p perty. oO ray nothing of mbermod'!ate chan bute o tongue sandwiches, and all that, w Ob® ALL quverans in search OF advanced daton, to woom crumbling archways, Inurt-coverd fs and the whirring of bate and scans pering of mores are rich tood for thouglt wll fad in these mis# 008 & Choice variety of that pecu iar pabulum A composite order of archi-~ xio@ more like the old Moorish castics Of Spain than auything cise, ie their predominant characierisiic, ‘They were | pretentious edifices im thotr time, aad even yet, with their massive walla, grained coiings, tofiy arches and turreted towers, look imposingly grand anc tie more, Vary but little uilding aud cornfory, @nuren, altho beep taken to put of preservation, and with fair to inat @ century or two longer. ‘Aphernaiia of modern warvolie churches—statuettes of Christ om the cross, the Virgin Mary and the saints, scriptural paint! (mere daube, though, and noue ortgioals from the old masters), vases of flowers, candlesticks with wax candies, @ Cvevniod pulp't, a confessioval in one coreer, # baptiamal font place for depus.ting con :\butions—are t0 be seen, oid priest of very monk is eas and look, but with Denovolence beaming broadcast from every lineament of bis ruddy countenance, acied as our guide and showed us about with great rerming chverfuiness—s cheerful- inteusified Ly the liberal deposiia cast ou Dor. San Jose is put handred aud Gfty.four years old, Connecting with the man church edifice sre ine foundation walls of & Joauitical college laid long yore ago, A Mexican end and who tecture, low, whieh 1 od, Crom the p it io reper, iain his family ccoupy ® wing of the establishment, The paler fam lias our ves Lod at bis feet, 8 spy; Surccuesfa iaceesatin ates ¢ this place y Dosarted rooms of I state cuca bad Hiahty furnished With picturestcabinets dute, ures, of aucient And carvings gilt aad burnished, Over tue altar are three old paintings, that as far as appearances go may bave been painted as far back aa Ferdioand and Isabella's time. The carvings and papel- lungs of the doors are delicately ‘nad fo are the cappings, Pilasters aad arches, You exa- mine them as you would antique retica, while the life #ze statues on elther side and also the main entrance carry. ol to tue medisoval ages. time lasdestroyed has beea replaced for yeare. joss and flowers grow on the roof, Only haif ery bell remains, Ruin and decay stare one in the face on evry side most forcibly at Sen Juan, Here scorpions, tizarda, sole coou; We did not Wh keen Enya for a lunch th was no time for moralia ‘@ had been enjoying the bare aud ansatisfactory loterest of living iu {he past. We pow came down to the taugiblo present with a satis- factory bound, Long in tho recollection of all of us vail ive the imemory of our Junch on the mossy banks of the blue San Autonio, and the spoechesand toasts aod songs that kept us lingering, lota to part, until tue last rays of the setting suu were touching with golden beauty the aolitary spire of the San Juan. Mont és and faudangos, the sources of the San Antonio and San lodro rivera, and a moontight picaic, may Not seem to have much counection, but for all thet T shall affitiate them in one paragraph. Playing at monte used to bo much more of an institution ners than it is now, but to one uot inordivately curious on tho sub~ Ject there ts enough of itat present. Tnere aro several ‘of these places in the city and they are all catled monte banks, thouga fare, rowletie aad olber games of cards ‘and comuce are played in them. I visited two and found both well pa‘ronized and doubloons and Mexican dotlars changing bands with marked activity, Tuat hardened, cast iron, grasping group of faces ty be reen ‘at all gambiiog is 10 be geen here, with Lbe same inter- minghig of sutles aud frowns accordiog as fortune is favorabie or adverse, For the players there are free drinks, aod that ecrious difficuities are 0: common oc- curronce is not to be wondered at, A little scene ‘at the second piace I visited convinced me that I had carried my sight-seeing in this specialty far enough. A dispute arose between the dealer and one of the beiters as to tne tura of a card, one ciaiming that it was far and the other that 1t was not, when the latter suddenly out with making a clean boie through his body. confeas that I did mot tarry tor results, foarned that the man shot is to die, and that the onoshootng him is g0 uowhipped of justice, be Le Mig itegommpaee made his escape and mot having beon seen since. As usdal, thete was no policeman in the nelghborhood, 4nd uo ove else darod undertake to detain him, as it was known be was a case, and would doubtless kill any one attemptiog it, Women deal at some of these games, and are alsoheavy bowers, Faudangoes are no: very frequent now on account of the bot weather, bus I had the good fortune to strike on one. So dimly lighted #as the room, so dusky hued the ‘ican mon and women, and 80 jndgscribably villainous the driak dispensed from the thai it seemed to mea base im:tation of Pete Wiltiaros’ old place in the Sixth ward. But the musio was good and tho dancing tively and ani- mated, and after the usual siylo of this class of trpsi- chorean enteriainmems My awbitious parsuis for iuior- mation was periectiy satiefled, nowever, ia nail an hour. Mexican lungs may breathe with impuulty such closo air, aud the bie: na’ power of endurance cope success fully with the heat of the room aud exercise, but I had too much regard for my breathing apparatns and droad of svucop) to put myself any farthor to whe test. ‘The Mexicana, notwithstanding thelr natural indotence, go mad when a dance 15 on the tapis -at least, so my halt hour looking on convidced me; but bow they cau staud 1 to dance several consecutive morta! hourz, with the thermometer at nincty degrees Fahrenheit, is above my comprenecsion, I lad moch rather hereafter be va lo kr oa In Yonioe,”? Tae sources of the San Pedro and san Anionio rivers, #& is well are near thd city—that of the former belng abort a mile and a@ balf from town, the Javer three miles distant. The uead waters of iho San Pedro are uuder abugs rock, and come bubbling trom the fountain head as cléa: as crystal. A very aubs.antial German has duilla summer resort hore, with a good dancing room and tabies for beer. Here the German population are very much given to sponding their Sun- days, there being no Sanday aw bero to restrain thom vm keeping up the od babii of apeading this day con- vedio Faderland. Tuere is a large aud beautiful grove near, which great!y adisto the attrac ths place, ' A great curiosity to me was a’ ceutury piant whiva was in bloom a few months ago. Tas main siem grew fourteon feet in six weeks, and when tn toll bloom bad on it tuirteen hundred aud twen y-ix flowers, I wild not undertake to <teacrive the beautiful cove + the San Avion takes its rise, and the perieot charms of the waier gusuing fort from its cavernous depts into a flowsa: and .mperuous river, It is ia a precipitous bank, and directly uoder a troe shooting out from tue hank, #0 that one can etand on the tree aad look into the cave boneath. Tho sides of the cave glisten witt silver, am ber, parjle, topaz turquois aud every jtuaginable coir of the precions stones—the pa'ace bower, 23 one would fancy 1, of nyinphs, patads and soa goddesses, Had a ening sea Dymph—and who ever Kaew them to otherwise than sui.¢ on mortal ?—comoe forth with golden jvoks and bearing iu her hand a golden goblet, sad to ma “driuk, mortal, of this fountain of youth and beau y,”” Tkuos should have drank ft in full faitn, and, #4 than Narcissus, madse siraghtway for a looking anda tailor. On tue bank and ony a tow steps disiant, und tthe shadow of a p-can tree, pa efally roposes, in that “el-ep that knows no waking,” the infant daogh. rol Geserat Worth. Oily the name “Minnie? avd dite o bith and death appear on the monoment placed over tho remains—a broken prramidal shaft, w.tiarecumbont tumb on top, beautsully embieratic 0. childimod and innocence, The rematis of Genera Worth, who, it will oe remembered, died here in 1619, white in command of the military post at this place, ailor resting bere for years, were removed to New York and over them erected the splendid monn. ment at the junction of Fifth avenue and Broa way. Caretn he litle for that monument, and conid hn care to the dia and turmoil, and pride and wreicheduess, nnd grasp ng seitisnuess and avarice of a great city, he would, I know, bave preferred to have been left here, his oaly monument tuess grand troes and the over- arched sky, and wis perpetual requiem the carol of birds, the morwarimgs of the breeze and tho music of these waters, As I have roforred to the moonlight pis proloug the reference by a few tines. It was * adalr, ot up by the army officers and largely par iciy in by their wives and lady a quaimt- Abces, and by other geniiemen and thelr wives aud lady acquaintances vf the city. Tae scene of the picnic wis riiiaut moonlight, such caager of cold or cu! dance of champagne, and auch @ pood if ne generaily, are not among ihe desuribatie thinga When youth ‘and beaaty meet—oud $0 ov to tlie oud of any RMOunt of quoted poetry. Cutting one’s ¢yetecth isan infants physical oceart rence quite general, and an adoie.cant eincational expe- Fence NOt UB) requent, but seeing the veritable took of & mastodon ig motan every day eveut, I tad this last ploasnre 08 Vielling the uospital of Lr. Sbarp, post sur- geon. Te was focnd » few mies out of town, embodied severe! feet in tie earth. Some otuer boner, iveliding partof arid, were found im the vicinity, ‘his tov Weighs (en pounds and is thirteen Inches long with w base seven inches tm length by fovr wide, Tue euamel w io a fue gate of preservation, The size of tbe tooth and its peculiar construction are certain evidence of tte having beionged to @ mastodon, The doctor bas the thirteomsh weil authoniicated skull of David Crockeit, killed at the Alamo, Duriog my stay I have visited chy, ‘Tbere a of whieh are made up almos: e: as the Commercial Club. The ry theatrical enteriainmects at their pince, dances every Saturday evening, and concinual bullards, bogatelle and lager deer, Colouel Stockton, @ graduate of West Poiat aud twelve yearr in the Uniied Satesarmy before the war, but during the war in the Confederais service, 10. troduced me to the latter club, He said I would fod tho members Confederates still, bus gentlemen for all that, Their political learnings were net developed in tmetr converration, but l certainly fuand them gentiemea, Taoy bave a billiard table bere, taciiities for drinkin and on the tables are to be found neariy all tuo leading newspapers and magazinos ip the country. Every day or eo brings in accouate of Indian dopreda- tiong Some Tedians are reported as having been seen within seven miter of the city. Colowel McLenu, who was educated at West Pojat, but lacked @ week of gradua- Hon on account of being expelied for some misdemeanor, is said to ne at the head of them, aud It is also rumor that Quantre!! and Dick Taslor are with thom on the war pach, ‘Lhe rumor ot dicaster to the troops at Buffalo Springs is now authoritatively denied by late positive vives from th It_ta the copfiaent expectation and beuer that there will bea good deal of trouble witt) next few months along the Toxan froutier, unless tue garrisons at the ditferont posts are materiaily strengthesed and the number of posts increased. ‘A very sumuary and judicious way of treating with rebels caine under my observation to-day. Stepping Jato a driaking ssloon with Major Smith, on duty at Fort Segain, but temporarliy here on official business, one of three men, who were drinking, seeing the Major, and dovbtiess knowing him, offered * to the Unwed States flag—may she trail 1 here’s to atl Yaukeos serving under it—may they bie the dus.” Do you know mos and who yon are {nswiting?” asked the Majo 1 ” Well, who ’ sth mom i ngly the Li beo whe » said the Major, polling out bis revolver and giving the maa oppor tunity te look into the muzze of it, "Hand over that #ix-sbvoter of yours aad go with me.'’ 79 man Was compictely cowed down, and with Jamb like subinission, bu companions making no show of coming to bia rescue, landed over hie pistol and was takon to the eee where he is now, doubtless v prisa, It baw beow an event too lo: course, While fome rogret bis freallf Jubilant. On» of jaded 19 article on th Rem The sppointment of Ge oonmand of the District is eminently gratifying to the radical element, for jt is. believed he will essentially carry ont the tine of policy bay oy by General Sberiden, aad bine it he — not do this folly, Tagulty, tho utmost contidence in hie comprehension, bh : broad and impartial Jodgment a pigh abilities and ae to administer justly the trust reposed in bim. hus tar T have heard but litte expression of opinion from the rebel side, It te well known they have long hated General Sveridan with an intensity too deep for utterance, their view any change of commanders Could noc be otherwies than for the best, Asit is, thay regarding General Thomas the reins of ‘to his bands eee oer reir pleasing Vg ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD, BU to Provide for Vacaucy in the Presidency of Caxins’ Strategy—No Batt! Bosnos Ayass, July 14, 1867, At the fast mail from the ci:y the Vice President Doc tor Don Marcos Paz had just resigned and the Republic was in trouble as to his successor, Various statesmen were named and it seemed impoasibie to avoid trouble in the future, with any chance er, The two houses of Congress in jotn ression refused to acospt the resigna- tion, and Doctor Paz was urged to withdraw it, This he did greatly to the relief of many. A Dit has since passed both houses making the President of the Senate and speaker of the house in their order, ox officio, Vice President and if need be President, This will prevent any sudden election from diaiurbing affairs as wel nigh happened last week. A project is now before Conress for the removal of the na‘ional capital from this city to Rosario. This ae city onthe river Parand, about ninoty leagues above Buenos Ayres, and contains now about 15,000 inhabi- tauts, It 4s mot insended to romove for two yoars, From tho seat of war we have dates up to the Sth of Juiy, The preparations were all mado for a removal or an advance. Ammunition was given out to each soldier, sutiers bad their goods packed up, draught oxen were taken to the camp and every sign of progress, or at least of change, could be seen, All the wounded and sick have been removed and now beds provided at the front, The floet will proceed at ali hazard to bombard the fort of Homaité so as to divert attention, Balloons are used to reconuo.tre, and they reveal a battery very near tie alles ai aa Leer ne endangoring oven tue tent of the commander in. . Areziment of wild Indiaus from the Cnaco has just been added to the allies, ba ing received arma, clothing aod borses; but what they will do with these things remains to be seen. The combined pian of Marshal Caxias is the fol ing :—The Argentines cross into the Grag Chaco and march round titl tuey get above Humuité. The iron-clads, without tring @ shot, push up to Humatd, cut the cbaing across the river, and ferry ovor the Argeniipes from the Chaco to Paraguayan jorritory, Tha Brazilians march off-to the rignt Of tae Tuyaty lines in the Giredtioh taken by Flores on the day of Curupalty; aod the Third imperial army corps uoder Osorno will cross the Parand at Ltapira and overtake Caxias, Tho only forces left to defend the camp af Tuyuty will be @ body of fivo thousaud Brazilians and one thousand Argentinea, whose flank wili be protected by the wood. on gimboats, In thin wav we shall take Lopoz in flank, divide bis forces and certainly anothilate his army. Toe Argentines have already begun crossiag into the Gran Chaco, ‘The real news of the splitting up of the allied armv, the march of the Argentines into the Chaco and t advance o° Caxias on the Paran4 bas caused a profound impression and much apprehension, There was a report orday that @ great battle had been fouybt and tho allies were victorious. papers going by this mail may so report, It is not true. A battle is imminent, but to occur, Quiet is not yet fatty restored in the provinces: Tao expulsion of Dr. O'Campo, a member of Congress from ths Province of Entre Rios, bas produced a pow. erful excitement in Parwud. his residence, It adds another to the complications of the present state of lags, Tue rl a2 may give rou a report of a revolution {a Cordoba, It Wad not a revotution, but an effort to 1¢6- jeass a large nun ber of political prissners by violence, Sowe eight or ten were kitlod and some prisoners es- oaped, but the ringleaders frova within were shot in the fray, ‘aud the chief man trum without was arrested, There is areportthat the two chief leaders of revo.u- tiocs in tne interior are in Ubile, aud bave {alien out so as to benefit the world by matual destraction, Says the Standard of Suty 13:—Somo traveilers from Chile have brougnt tne news of rrible duel foa.bt or about to be fougut between Saa and Videla, Ii both parcies fall in tho encounter, the Argentine Republic have litle cause to bewall the rosuit, General Goyo Suarez and Lis throe Colonels, arrested for complicity in the gunpowder piot of June 30, are at lbeny. A Montevidean paper tays:—‘'Generai Goyo Suarez and his companions, on being relsased from prison, went ina body to the Matriz churcn to return thanka,”” But it is mot addsd whether thanks were of- ferred for the nearly completed success granted them, or wuether for keeping their heads on tueir shoulders after euch a couspiracy. Exchange ts #0 inuch against this conntry that vast nantities of gold are shipped to Europe, Exchange on ngiand, forty-eight peace (or tho siiver dolar. Advantages Presented by the Argentine Re- public to Emigrants. TO THE EDITOR OF THY HERALD. Naw Youu, Avguat 16, 1861, In & Spanish journal pebtished in this city aa article has appeared, in which without other foundation thau a memonal of the Frouoh Consul in Bucnos Ayres aud a circular_of tho Prefect of the Lower P; both in- tended to sbow the disadvantageous condition of the emigranta in the Argentine republic—the Spanish people are advised of the grest risk they run of making thelr sitaation worse in going to a country where so sada future awaits them. a We perfectly understand the motive which has prompted the Coneul, the Prefect aud the editor of ti above mentioned journal to operate in the manner in- dicated, The vigor with which the French government tries to prevent the depopulation of tis dominions is well koown, and ia jnstified toa certain extent by the sad revelations of the consus A nation that requires one handred and eighty years in which to do 3 popu- lation, caunot quictiy winees the withdrawal of thou- sands of ita sons, although thay go tw enjoy in other countries the advaninges and we l-being which their own unfortunately cannot afford them, Spaetm, ip the same situation a@ France, or worse, and for analogot reasons, naturally teods to @ similar end, and {i is th: We explain the readiness witn which the editor of the said journal has patrouized the assertions of the afore- mentioned functionaries, founded upen ia.eo and absurd promises which will cause thos) to iaugs who knew the countries batned by the Rio do Ia Piata. If the eruicle which calls forth tose tines had ap- peared in a journal of the Peninsula, or anv of its pos. sessions, We sbowld not deprive the Spaniards resident on the Piata of tbe preasure of refating for Whemselves the assertions 4 coniains; but having come to liznt ja this country, whea @ Current of emigrat on is beginving to got towards tho country described ia such dark colors, we con-ider \¢ our duty bot to ssuction .by silence thas which may occasion it'so great an tujurg. Tse memorial of the French Consul referred to has not reached our bands, but we have at hand the annual report of he Directory Commities of the asylum es ab- jened ta Buenos — for the purpose of giving shelter to the emigrants who arrive without the means of pro- viding for their necessities during the time of their per- out occupation, From the sald report we tats ioe: — emigrants who arrived tm the Ar- ert republic duriug the year 1365, not even the twentieth part had to resort to the asvlam for protec- tion, nearly allof them finding immediate settiement, with the followiag Palerier :— Farmera, gold, per month, house and goods. Gardevere.. ‘ Fieid baod: Male servants. 3 20 00 17 0 bo Female servants, 17 Maie cooks, 20 00 - Female cooks, V7 00 Children. from 700 Beamstre-rea., see 16 00 Lanedresees. + 16 00 Masona, cold, per » 200 Carpenters. $2to 2 26 Blackemitt $2 to 225 ‘Tatiors . $2 225 Shoomakors $20 225 Railroad hands ve ai $160 tw 200 e360 have tound easy and lucrative oceopation in the namerous mines of the provinces ot San Juan, Mendoza, La Rioga, Cainmarca, Jujag, Cor- doba and Salts, which, are in acvual operativa, with satisfactory resulta ‘These ere the wages of thelr first contract. After three months’ residence in the country none are willing to work on those terms, aad the proprietors fad (hem elves « bliged, owing to the scarcity of hands, to increase them. ‘The Consal is right tn saytog that the great majority of the emigrants devove thomselves to fled labor; but that fact, which ia wished (0 be made to appear outside as a proof of the few opportunities offered by the conn. iry Cor intetigent tabor, ie at once expinined by all who kbow the great scarcity of hands that is fel: on the farwe aud tue bigh wages paid to laborers on sccount of that searc'ty. By the moworial of the Topographical Dopartment of Buenos Ayros for 1806 we find that from the year 1833 1865, ibciusive, 8,662 buildings cily alone. {he country the progross in th is not less, and in the other thirteen provinces of the republic the movement i# the same, How explain, then, that ooly in the country will those thirieen thou. and bh sons of O09 Of the most artistic peoples fa the world Gnd empioyment? The reason i obvious: it ts thal, hardly arrived, the ofa multivude of their fellow countrymen fortable existence secured by their labor ta Jeads them to abandon ali other inteations but cattle raising, as the surest means of accumalatiny in ® short time & modest capital with which to begin upon ther account, The statement that the work of herdsmen leads therm is é i i é : moral, Bece-sity of gens con: the lung distances esos. oon ao maad ‘cover the a, comfortable than the page tdesoe enone. has given rise to the accu.s. tion of savageneas nade by men who do not know.the pain rgd caoeips She trails of (Oe Saaeemanes ustry a.red as much steadiness, who are disgusted v that aot of res 1, 40 wow to then fae iar forma, Of the cane and gin, the alcoholic drinks principaily in the Argentine republic, there is but little: consumption ameng foreignors hud @ ‘ou jess amang the Spanineda. The eolt, mild climate docs not ask of the body of the laborer that corroborative, almost indispem- es in cold Cyd Las 18623 to Pein wes jm ported into Buenor Aves wine, priuc pally from ty the value of $397,953, white the spirious (cognac, whiskey, gin, rum, aniso, absinthe, &c.) did nes mount to more than $78.572. A moro cloquent of the sobriety of the general. mas of the population would be difficult to tind. If thas taste for aleoholie driaks realty existed among the laborers in the country, would the consumption of four hundred thousaud mem Prov.nce of Buenos Ayres there is not a tor howover snail, tuat doea not contain at least une pubes school, without excepting th.ge situated upoa the frontiers, but a stop from the wild Indiana The rame is trae with — re to churches of ail denominations; and hatres, ciubs, and other places of amusement are no: wan'ing in many of them. 4 wiil bo no fault of the country. then, if the emigrants do not keep the.nselves in tie slate of cukure in which they came, or if they do not beter it, Much might be added to what we tave already Dut we do not wish to aouse tho kindness of the edi! r do we bol that there fs any nocessi y to 19 more reagons to prove that neither the memorial of tne Consul, the circular nor the artisie wo repiy to have done ju-4ce to the Argen'ine republic in its character as a sonny hughiy advantageous to emm gration, Your humble servanis, VARIOUS PERSONS WHO KNOW THE LA PLATA, ——$<__—_____—_— BOARD OF AUDIT. The Board of Audit met yesterday at the usual hour, in 19 Chatham street, Mr. Depew presiding, ‘The case of Coristopher Johnson was the first called, ‘but there was appearance putio. This was also the case when the names of J, C, Jacobs and Edward James wore called, ; ‘The case of Warren M. Judson was then takenup, It was ata'ed to be a claim aris«ag out of work rendered te the City laspector, The amount is $360, Mr, Judsce being sworn testified that he was employed in the Oly Inspector's office from the 1st of November, 1865, to the lat of March, 1866; tuat he was not pai fecause there waa oo money, te was informed, for contingencies; hte name was on the pay roll; was emptoyed by Mr. Bowe; was in the office bofore hig time uuder Mr. Delavan; re ceived $3 ada’. Tho Sorporetion Counsel sald that untess the anit ia this case was withdrawn he thoaght tha courts were the paces (o hear this claim. ‘The Board postponed thoir de cisions, ‘Tho claims of P. H. Kingsland aud Timothy Kendrictt wero called up, but there was no appearauce in either, The ease of George W. Koliogg was mext called um This was a claim for salary, as Commt-siouer or the Sinking Fund for the year 1868. While he was a mem ber of the Board of Counciimen aud Chairuan of the Finance Committee the other two members of tho com- mies resigned, and the chairman of ths Board there upon d-ciared that there was no Finance Magee | and then the Board, to get rid of the dil ulty, resol to create a ‘committee on finauc'al affairs,” of whice the claimant was nota member, He had attended the meetings of the commission until the Mayor ceased te not.fy tim of them, and acted and voted as ono of the commission, - The Corporation Cenncel argued that no componsation was a Scie to the office by jaw, and that a resoludiom of the Commo Cotno:l could avt Jozalize wrong. case was then submitted to the Board, ‘Several names wore called, but there was DO appear ance in any of them. EL P. Bostwick's claim for $600 came upnext. Itwal for balancing tue accounts of the c'ty, and bis bill was $1,000, aod b> was paid $400 and wld that that was the jortion of the bill owed by the city and the rest shoul@ te paid by the county, He has not since been paid. The Board took tho cas» into consideration. The next ca:e wa: that of John McGowan for $76 28 for serving subpouas. it was dispased of like tho pre ceding one, Another case of no public Interest thon came up, and Deiag disposed of, tho Board adjourned, THE BJARD OF HEALTH. ‘The Board of Health beld their regular weekly meete ing yesterday afternoon; Dr, Stone, in tho absence of the president, in the chair, Tho Attorney stated that an application had been made from a certain owner of @ lime kilo in Twolfth street, to be allowed to carry on his business, as he had made such improvements in_the manner of carrying on the business which he folt certain would git tisfaction te the health-loving portion of bia populous neigubornood and to the Board Itself. ‘The subject was referred to the Sanitary Superintend- ent for his report, The Se-reary, Colonel Cuark, read a letter which bed been received by the Registrar of Vital Stotistice, im which the writer, the sexton of the Temple Emmanuel, applied fora permit to bury without aiting an ine quest the two Housman children, who ov Monday, on the groun be kept in the house a day lon sexton soya inthe communication that he had called at the ner’s offico to obtain the services of er, bub in vain, avd concludes aa soilows:—"Some of the Coroners aro ont of town, one of them is unwell aad another reported drunk.’’ Conant Masmane moved that a permit be grant The Attorney, Colone) Birss, remarked that it was not ia the powor of the Board to grant a permit for the burial of the body of any person who had not died & natural death and been attended bya physician The Board could, however, order the removal of such a body from < lace to another before an inquest was beld upon i inquest had belonged to the Board by virtue of a provi- ston io the oyiginal Health bitl, but that in the a ment to the Health law, pa at tho Inst axssion of the Lecisiature, that provision had been stricken out, at the expreased wish of the coroners, On motion, the subject was then dropped, as not being |r matier for the offictal attontion of the Commis era, ‘THE WERK’ Y MORTALITY. The foltowing commanication froin Dr. Barris, com cerning weekly moriality in this cir and Brook’ duying the wock ending Saturday, the 7.b inctant, read aud ordered on Sie:— Murnorotrran Boar oF Hesutasy Rrnean ov Vrrat Sraristics, Rept, 1, 1987, Ta the first week of September ‘here wern 56i deathe im New York, ap’ 263 in Brooklyn. This mortality is less t that of Inst year by 95 fn the former city. at In the latter of Any ql The erupt th ‘ettles, favorite haunts, such ot hold fever te reappenrin? owe ry the, eons hwrenera nartor of the ° Trent aes in and the undrained pare th the Zu@bth ward in The totsl tist of yaymotic At Pn sah or ei 7 pee cows @ senses amounted to 4 ‘New York, and to 104 or 40.30 per cent in Brook Aiseance alone oonstituted nearly two-thirds the zymotio at tn the former, and seven.tenthe tn the latier Cly. The penalty of domestic and general hyzinate neg'net among the crowded poor of New York war'pa‘d In a sacritoe of 24 infants under one and 33 under Ove years & mortaltiy equal to 80.88 and 6471 per cont respectively, the total for the week. ‘Tao the th rates In both efties are very high, ‘m com tiie and diarrboal mortality, no epideme fe. prevali'ng | Rach. ontbrenk of covers, bem je house in which 't ocourret. even In they of cxses in the Twentieth end Twente secon Warde The third tna group of four patients el tod: y fe a filthy tenement at No. Fest Thirty ninth etreet. the Centre of & prlluted nase of prclected and ments thet will tort the skill and fectine carpe for in tie) a Flare the. Arat group of cagza tm but the fetal torch fn the combustible mass, This Adatte ecours® does not vielt our great cities fn vain when ke ghastly cotlineed band points: th@ paces and thn canna efi in Di that twally destroying lire and jeensromme the soniat ve he poor. Thongs the ote cholera Infection by mane of clernaing and sanitary chem istzy is proved to be prac fend!=, there are so many for! spate fn cities that the cesusing must be universal we@ thorough to be completely protective to every truth is well ater leer, Or, John Simo: a of who writes, as the reanit of that “in the-tone chain of which the rise of « certsin f rman’ eine tout 4 eiret throug! onmes the nredestining fores for f past lones eleewhere, we a¢e at present only ene owe may strike with the errtalmy Of preventive Whetever may he the explanstion of the fact fre hearding the facts presented at the Wetnar Conserenc:| we Know that hare in Kurope (als ti only where there fi the evuses of chotera."* i ac may be the annitnry evils we find tn ny that eodanger life in towns and on + Bik aye it te alec trae, ne Mr, Simon se: mist ne by far woud) ithe that uel evi Drough not being tientified.”” banished wherever theve things @re practically anceret ind acted apon, whether it be In the crows 4 den ety or In the flih-surrounded Indian ws soldier's tent on Colorado's plaing, um ant the B, HARRIS, RECOVERY OF STOLEN e7NOS. Tt wilt be remembered that in Fetrunry Inst $100,000 of five twenty bonds were stolen from tbe banking offiee of Leopard W. Jerome, in Wall street, tn this city, 5 an Ingenious sleight-of-band rogue, dur! of business boots, who managed to esespe with bie woaty. Nocluc has been obtained of the fellow wntlt poe: Within a short time some of the coupons have reached Washington, and tuformation was direetly Lie | to Jerome by the Departmont of the fact. ‘This rerul! tm tracing reverai of the bonds to the Boston brokers fod in obtaining soch a description of the nego! ator and cloos from his signatures to check: to resuit In a recovery of ali the other bonds and (Be capture of the plunderera, STRIKE OF BOOT AAD SHOE MAKERS IN PHILADELPHIA, mir Sept. 10, 1867. ° @ power to order the burial of a body befere -