The New York Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New .YorK Herap. Letters and packages should be properly { sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. No. 178 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—A Frasn OF Ligstxino. THEATRE FRANCAISE.—Matinee at 1—Exizapera, QuEEN OF ENGLAND, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tue Rouan Diamonp— Manco, THR MUTE—JOLLY COBLLEB. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— ‘Tux GRanp Docuzss. : k OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Humerr Domprr : NEW STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.— or VENIcR—BILL BOARD GRABBER—WALLAG! ERCHANT B. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tae WHITE Fawn. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Tue Lorrenry or Lirs. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETH10- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS; SINGING, DANCING, &c. Tammany Building, Mth , ECORNTRIOITIES, £0. BRYANTS' OPERA HOU Street. ETHIOPIAN MINST a THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Bauer, FaRor, 0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comto VOOALISM, NkGKO MINSTRELSY, &c. LA BELLE HELENE. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoruLag GarpEN Concent. TERRACE GARDEN—Poro.ar GARDEN CONCERT. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— MORNING CALL—PEARL OF SAVOY. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn,—BURLESQUE OveRA—ALADDIN—CAMILLE—PADDY MILES’ Boy. SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, 82 Fifth avenue.—KavL- Baon's GRAND CakTOON, ERA GF REFORMATION, EUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— EET. NEW YORK MU SCIENCE AND TRIPLE SH New York, Friday, June 26, 1868. SHE NOWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday, June 25, at midnight. The Irish Reform bill and Regum Donum Continu- ance bill were voted on in the House of Commons. | ‘The second reading of the Irish Church Suspensory dill produced a very exciting debate in the House of Lords, which was adjourned this morning. Prince Napoleon was in Bucharest. Luther's Statue was unveiled in Worms in presence of a vast concourse of people. Mr. Rassam, lately British Consul in Abbyssinia and a liberated captive, ar- rived in England. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the Legislative Appropria- | tion bill was taken up, the question being onan | amendment by Mr. Sherman appropriating $150,000 | for temporary clerks in the Treasury Department, to be classified by the Secretary of the Treasury. It | was agreed to by 27 yeas to 14 nays. A message Trom the President vetoing the Southern Restoration ‘bill was received from the House, and after an eulo- zium on the President from Mr. Davis the bill | was passed over the veto by a vote of 2 to 8 The Legislative Appropriation bill ‘was then resumed and an additional section was of- | NEW JUNE 26, 1868.—TRLPLE SHERT. battery—the jury awarded plaintiff a verdict yester.. day for $1,000. Charles Sagory sued the administrator of Frederic Wisman, deceased, in the United States Court, on a surety for judgment recovered against the deceased in a Virginia State court. Wisman was @ consul, and claimed as a consular privilege that he was not amenable to the jurisdiction of a State court. The Court overruled the proposition, aud the jury gave a verdict for plaintiff for $28,879 99, The steamship City of Paris, Oaptain Kennedy, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river at one o'clock P, M, to-morrow (Saturday) for Queenstown and Liveryool. The European mails by this steamer will close at the Post Office at twelve M. 27th inst, The General Transatlantic Company's steamship Ville de Paris, Captain Larmont, will sail from pier No. 60 North river at half-past eleven o'clock to- morrow morning for Brest and Havre. The mails for France will close at half-past nine A. M. The National line steamship Erin, Captain Webster, will sail to-morrow morning, at ten o'clock, from pler No. 47 North river for Liverpool, caliing at Queenstown to land passengers. The, Anchor line steamship Caledonia, Captain McDonald, will leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. on Saturday for Glasgow and Liverpool, calling at Londonderry to-land passengers, &c. The steamship Atlanta, Captain Dixon, will sail from pier No, 3 North river at noon on Saturday for London direct. f The steamship General Meade, Captain Sampson, of the Merchants’ line, will leave pier No. 12 North river at three P, M. to-morrow for New Orleans di- rect. ‘The Cromwell line steamship Cortes, Captain Nel- son, will sail from pier No. 9 North river at three P. M. to-morrow for New Orleans direct, The sidewheel steamship San Jacinto, Captain At- kins, Will sail at three P. M. on Saturday from pier No. 8 North river for Savannah, Ga, The Black Star line steamship Virginia, Captain Kennedy, will leave pier 13 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, for Savannah, Ga. The steamship Moneka, Captain Marshman, will sail at four P.M. to-day (Friday), from pier No. 4 North river, for Charleston. The sidewheel steamship Oharleston, Captain J. Berry, will leave pier No, 5 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, for Charleston, 3. C. ‘The stock market was strong yesterday, especially for Reading, which advanced to 10444. Government securities were heavy during the morning, but in the afternoon they were strong. Gold closed at 140%. MISCELLANEOUS. Advices from Nicaragua state that great dissatis- faction existed at the refusal of the government to Tulfil their contract with the Transit Company, and the consequent withdrawal of the company’s steam- ers, The President of Nicaragua, in deference to this public opinion, has dismissed the minister who was the originator of the rupture, and it is considered highly probable that the matter will be settled to the satisfaction of the company. By the Cuba cable we have advices from Vera Cruz, Mexico, to the 20th inst. De Castro, the Minister of Justice, had insisted on resigning. Marescal, formerly Secretary of Legation at Wash- ington, had been installed as Judge of the Supreme Court. Rivera had foiled the forces sent against him by the government. Senator Henderson, of Missouri, was married at the National Hotel, in Washington, yesterday, to Miss Mary E. Foote. The President, General Grant, Chief Justice Chase, numerous members of Congress, two Cabinet officers, several army officers and three of the Chinese Embassy were present. ‘The “Secretary of the Treasury has published 8 cir- cular to the effect that only collectors and their deputies in the Internal Revenue and Customs De- partments are authorized to collect moneys in those departments in the name of the government. Dis- trict Attorneys, Inspectors, special agents and others are not authorized to make such collections, The President yesterday nominated Henry A. Smythe, Collector of the port of New York, to be Minister to Austria. The Georgia Legislature, in consequence of the passage of the wholesale restoration bill in Con- gress, has been called to meet on the 4th ult. at Atlanta. The Mississippi election has resulted, according to the reports, in a democratic majority of 8,000. Base frauds are claimed to have been perpetrated on the part of the democrats. A wet dock, which has recently been constructed at Port de France Martinique, was opened on the 16th Tered by Mr. Sherman providing for a discontinuance | of the Globe contract, which was adopted. Several | ‘other amendments from the Finance Committee | were also adopted, one relative to. the government advertising in the Washington papers and another | increasing the salaries of the Comptroller of the | Treasury and other oMicers. The Dill for the erection | @f a Post Oitice in New York city was introduced and referred and the Senate adjourned. In the House, after acting upon several minor bills, | ‘the Tax bill was again taken up. Mr. Schenck said | if members would attend to their duties the bill | would be finished this week and probably to-day. ‘The amendment that the tax on spirits shal! be paid before they leave the distillery was adopted. The message vetoing the Southern restoration bill was received at this point and the bill was was immedi- ately passed over the veto by a vote of 105 to 30. An amendment extending the | time for paying taxes on whiskey in bonded warehouses to six months and providing for their withdrawal within that time was agreed to, and also an amendment providing that a tax of four dollars a barrel shall be paid on the withdrawal of such spirits, After some discussion on the tobacco tax the House adjourned, leaving only two sections of the bill unfinished, THE CITY. Last evening ex-Governor Horatio Seymour made an elaborate speech in the Cooper Institute under the auspices of the Jackson Democratic Club. The burden of the Governor's address was the disordered | Btate of the public finances caused by the reckless- | ness of the republican organization. He avoided expressing any personal preferences as to who the e@‘andard bearer of the democracy shall be in the approaching Presidential contest. In the Board of Councilmen yesterday steps were taken toward celebrating the Fourth. The eleventh annual regatta of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, including a list of entries from all clabs wish- ing to compete, took place yesterday, and was at- tended with great success despite a light wind. The course was from Gowanus Bay to the Southwest pit and return, The winners were the schooner Alice and the sloops Agnes, Qui Vive, the Mattie, ‘Musquodeed apd the Apolio. | Black Bess’ the bay mare Atlanta trotted a ‘match for $1,000 at the Fashion Course yesterday, Black Bess winning the first, second and fourth Deats and the race. Her best mile was in 2:35. The Chinese Embasey visited Jerome Park yester- of May with imposing ceremonies. The Governor, Vice Admira! and Vicar General oMciated, Mr. William Faxon, the Assistant Secretary of the | Navy, has written a letter to a Hartford paper in re- lation to the alleged fraudulent sale of the iron-clads wba and Oneota, It appears that after a vain endeavor to get bona fide bids for the vessels they were finally sold at their appraised value. Ina reply to radical questioners in Norfolk, Va., Senator Sumner says, referring to the eligibility of Dr. Bayne, the negro candidate for Congress, that he knows no reason for excluding him from a seat and | that his election will be hailed asa final triumph for the cause of equal rights, The steamer Selma was sunk at the mouth of the Brazos river, Texas, on Wednesday, five lives being lost, A boiler explosion occurred in Stuyvesant, N. Y., yesterday, by which three men were seriously in- jured, The Protest Against Arkansas—Brooks and | the Democrats. The crime of the radical party has been that it kept the Southern States out of Congress—out of the Union—and so pre- vented the restoration of the country to a nor- mal condition. With great pretence of patri- otic purpose it constantly cheated the nation of the one thing that should have been first done by any truly patriotic party, and still put further and further away the time when | the States should stand side by side as equal | sovereign powers. The position of the demo- cratic party was that it opposed this disunion policy of the radicals and urged constantly | the giving all their rights to the Southern peo- | ple. This gave the democrats strength before the country ; for the nation has already for- given the Southern States their great error, and earnestly wishes to see all the uncer- tainties of our future cleared up in the re-es- everywhere. But now, suddenly, the demo- crate turn up as the opponents of an immediate return of the Southern States, and formally deliver in Congress their protest against the | admission of Representatives from Arkansas. day afternoon and in the evening visited the Academy of Music. Several meetings of workingmen were held last evening. The clothing cutters are preparing to demand $24 per week instead of $20, which they how receive; and the piano makers propose, if their members (yet to be consulted) are willing, to assist, 4f possible, the bricklayers in their strike. ‘The Schuetzenfest promises to be the largest affair that ever occurred in this city. Alderman Hardy, presented the prize voted by the Common Council, and his presentation speech was responded to by General Sigel. The New York Schuetzen corps was the recipient of a valuable picture, and the only copy that will be made of it is to be a prize at the Schuetgenfest. Henry Willis, formerly a prison keeper in theJef- ferson Market jail, and two other men were arrested yesterday, charged with stealing $400 in money and $2,475 worth of jewelry from the house of Mrs. Price, in Clinton place. They were al) committed. James Kain sued the Grand Street and Forty. second Street Railroad Company, in the Supreme Court yesterday, for the recovery of $10,000 damages for injuries sustained by his infant child in July, 1965. Case not yet concluded. ‘The motion to continue the preliminary injunction Jn the case of Howell et al. against the Chicago « ‘Northwestern Railroad Company was argued y «lay at Supreme Court, The injunction enjolt fave of preferred stock as a dividend, ‘The Court Seserved its decision, in the case of Collins against Richards—an action Me ths Couiuon Peas for damages for assault ayd dliahienaanetente eatin. | | They protest against what the whole nation desires—protest against the fact of prime ne- | cessity to the national welfare simply be- cause they do not like the manner of its ac- complishment, and because it is done by the party that it is their especial business to oppose. Small partisans to the last, they cannot see a great principle. They will not have done even the thing they want if it is to be done in any other way than that they may define. They oppose the bad acts of the radicals with some persistency, but they seem to reserve their greater force for the occasion when the radi- cals propose to do what must certainly benefit the whole country, and are determined that their opponents shall not do a good thing if they can help it—shall not do that which abounds in the greatest promise of any re- cent act of legislation because there goes with it a pitiful little threat of possible evil. | The democrats can see nothing but the possi- ble evil, and in this pessimist temper, in pur- suing this policy of pouting children, they once "re appear as the very men who voted with ‘Thad Stevens on the first negro suffrage bill— the poor, impractical, silly, inconsistent pyguics of politics, who make awful caer OEE tablishment of the authority of civil law | YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, against an abuse, and at the critical moment vote to sustain and perpetuate it, and in one act belie all their great phrases. Brooks’ document is a good enough protest. Limping somewhat here and there, it is, taken asa whole, tolerably well written and correct in its statement of political principles. But there is an omission that materially affects its relation to the case it is intended to cover. It omits from its schedule of political causes and results that important camse of many recent events—the war which raged in this country between the years'1860 and 1865, In considering the present position of the Southern States and their relation to the other States and to Congress, and more particularly in con- sidering a law proposing to modify such rela- tion, a writer is very apt to fumble in gloom if he forgets thot there was a war, or if he has some reasons of his own for wishing to leave the war out of his argument. Itis easy to assent to Brooks’ statements in regard to the rights of the States in the government as they existed before the war; but we must remem- ber that the Southern States claimed the power to repudiate those rights and exercised it. Rights and duties go together, and the Southern States failed in their duties and so forfeited their rights by necessary implication. Not only so, but they relinquished them expressly, spurned them as trash, and figuratively tram- pled under their feet that constitution which was the sole guarantee of those rights. Nay, they claimed to take their stand on that higher ultimate right of every people—the right of revolution—and this claim extinguishes and waives all other claims and resorts to the decision of force. As a consequence of this and of the failure of those States to justify themselves by success in battle, they stood before the nation when peace came denuded of all rights and holding everything at the conqueror’s will and mercy. As this is the fundamental fact in their position it is foolish ahd worthy only the Congressional democrats to forget it; for even the Southerners them- selves keep it in mind. We have always urged that a resentful and vindictive policy against communities thus at our mercy was the worst of all stupidity, and that the radicals who made such a policy the first postulate of reconstruction were the worst foes the country ever had to fear. Still, we claimed then and claim now that it was to the magnanimity of the North that the conquered States must owe all, and not that they had any right or claim that could be advanced without shameless impudence. Nothing whatever can jugtify the establishment of military power in the Southern States and the ruling by despot- ism and a plundering oligarchy, nor any of the other atrocious measures of the republican party; but all these are crimes against the na- tion and the North, not violations of any rights of the South. . Negro suffrage we look upon as dangerous; but we do not assent that Southern men have any rights that can be in- vaded by it. The simplest review of these facts must show how inconsequent and silly is the democratic protest which regards the Southern communities: as standing in face of the law just where they did before they thrust away the law and refused to acknowledge it. These Congressional democrats are ridiculous cheats and humbugs. Southern men under- stand their position very well and accept it fully. Even negro suffrage they boldly declare they would rather have than lose the repre- sentation they would be deprived of if they deny it. Yet their self-constituted champions in the House can hardly express their abhor- rence of voting niggers; and rather than have such an abomination would keep the South out forever, as they indicate by their protest against Arkansas. If the ideas that are the staple of this protest are to be worked into the platform of the Fourth of July Convention—if the democracy is to reason thus in its appeal to the people on the Presidency—it will imme- diately array against it the whole common sense of the country. If it cannot find capital enough in the blunders and atrocities of the radicals, but must go to the assertion of things that the nation has so often and emphatically declared against, it will justly be voted down by the uprising of the whole Northern people. Tue Irisa Cavron Bit in rae Hovse or Lorvs.—The Irish.Church Appointments Sus- pensory bill was called to a second reading in the English House of Lords last night. Lord Granville moved the measure, repeating the arguments used by Mr. Gladstone and his supporters in the House of Commons, and an animated, exciting debate ensued. The High Church and spiritual peers, with a few of the Grey reform whigs, opposed the bill as anti-English, ill-timed and unnecessary. The debate was adjourned at an early hour this morning. Our cable report of the first night's arguments renders it quite evi- | dent that the great battle which will decide the fate of the Irish Establishment, and mayhap that of the Disraeli Cabinet, will really be fought in the aristocratic branch of the British legislature—a very bold undertaking for the | peers, particularly in the present tone of the political temper of the English people. | No TINKERING OF THE FINaNces Tus Ses- sion.—Our advices from the capital indicate | that the Ways and Means Committee have de- | cided that it is inexpedient for Congress to take any action this session upon the numerous | financial propositions which have been pre- sented for their consideration. This is a wise determination, and will afford some relief to | the country at large. As our present Congress appears utterly incompetent, as we have re- peatedly asserted, to grapple with the great financial question of the day, itie much better to leave it as it now stands than by ® process of tinkering involve the country in greater financial disorder than now exists, All of the schemes now before the committee are projects, | we are assured, for the enrichment of national banks and certain individual bankers, The public have been sufficiently imposed upon by both classes of leeches upon the national Trea- sury and have no desire to undergo another | process of bloodletting. The best thing that | this Congress can do with our finances is to | “Jet them alone severely,” and by so doing | give the people a chance to elect a body of | men to the Forty-first Congress who can compe- | tently and successfully treat the subject. Mr. Cras AND THR Paciric RatLroap.— | We give elsewhere a letter from Chief Justice | Bas to General Dix in regard to the Pacific Bpllsoad tha} ip of pegullor lnteregs igs now, as showing the relation of the tormer with that great undertaking. Railroad connection with the Pacific was of course the natural product of our national growth, and would have come, because the time was ripe for it, whatever men were ready to carry out the detail; but it is an honorable addition to Mr. Chase's history that men can now say he had the sagacity to perceive the movement of the age and to assist the great enterprise where many were found to oppose it. Heratio Seymour at the Cooper Institute— A Strong Argument for Chase Against Pendleton. We submit to our readers this morning in full the speech of ex-Governor Seymour at the Cooper Institute last night on the political situation, - It is the speech of a student, a phi- losopher and a statesman. It is very long, but it is very strong. Devoted to the money ques- tion, though incidentally involving the negro suffrage question, it is addressed to two great objects—to show, first, that the whole financial policy of the radicals in power is wasteful, in- congruous, oppressive and ruinous; and, sec- ondly, that the policy which he foreshadows for the democratic party is the policy of safety, economy, low taxes, solvency and redemption— the only policy for a smooth and graceful ex- trication of government and people from our present burdens of taxes and debts. In mak- ing this broad distinction between the practice of the republican party and his theory for the democratic party Mr. Seymour's grouping of facts, figures and deductions will, to the gen- eral reader, be found very instructive, and to the democrat who wishes to be fully posted on the money question very useful. But there is another aspect in which we re- gard this speech as of the highest political im- portance. It lies in placing this financial theory of Seymour side by side with the theory of Pendleton. The great distinguishing feature of Pendleton’s theory is this: that the five- twenties (fourteen hundred millions) shall be redeemed in paper and that with this paper the bondholders shall take their chances with the rest of us. Mr. Seymour's theory is to do nothing to depreciate the value of the govern- ment bonds. He estimates that the deposits in the savings banks of the United States amount to five hundred million dollars, that the amount of life insurances throughout the country is about twelve hundred and fifty mil- lion dollars, involving large investments of government bonds—an aggregate amount which would ruin or seriously cripple savings banks, life insurance companies and all concerned ‘“‘if the bonds are not paid orif they are paid in de- based paper.” Furthermore, says Mr. Seymour, “if we add the trusts for widows and or- phans we find that fully two million five hundred thousand persons are interested in government bonds who are not capitalists and who are compulsory bondowners at present prices under the operations of our laws.” Then fol- lows the argument, with its exhaustive statis- tics, to show that the laborer, taxpayer, pen- sioner and bondholder are all interested in the government faith and may all be relieved by a democratic policy directed to the curtailment of our expenses and the appreciation of our paper currency. This whole argument, we say, is dead set against Pendleton anda powerful appeal in behalf of Chase for the democratic nomination. To be sure, Mr. Seymour mentions the name of neither Chase nor Pendleton, but still the argument presented amounts to an earnest pro- test against Pendleton and a masterly exposition of what may be reasonably expected from Chase as our next President. Ina democratic con- sultation at Albany the other day Mr. Sey- mour earnestly contended that Chase was the man for the democracy at this crisis. In this magnanimous abnegation of his own high claims Mr. Seymour commands our highest respect. He sinks the politician in the patriot and statesman. Having first declared himself out of the field he was properly qualified to name his Presidential favorite, and in naming Mr. Chase for the democracy Mr. Seymour hit uponthe very man. This was at Albany. If he said nothing directly by name in behalf of Chase at the Cooper Institute it was because after what he had said at Albany the drift of his argument would be understood without mentioning names. We are gratified, there- fore, to aid in circulating this great speech of our distinguished expounder of New York democracy in behalf of the Chief Justice for the democratic nomination. In demolishing Pendleton, after withdrawing himself, Mr. Seymour leaves the Chief Justice in full pos- session of the field, at least so far as New York is concerned, and New York with her fifty thousand democratic majority has the right to the controlling voice in the Conven- tion. The New Commissioner of Internal Revenue, President Johnson has sent into the Senate the name of Perry Fuller, of Kansas, as Com- missioner of Internal Revenue, in place of Mr. Rollins, resigned. Perry Fuller is the brother- in-law of Miss Vinnie Ream. If for no other reason the Senate should immediately confirm him, as a slight recompense for the indignities heaped upon his sister-in-law by the Jacobin impeachers of the House. Mr. Fuller is said to have been originally a Massachusetts demo- crat. The Massachusetts democrats are re- puted to be an obstinate, strong-headed set of politicians. Yet it seems singular to be obliged to go so far a8 Kansas for a Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue ; but in view of the fact that Kansas saved the nation from the the whiskey rings, it is not inappropriate that Kansas should be called in to settle the business of the whiskey rings. The studio of Mise Vinnie Ream was invaded by Butler and his committee, who ruthlessly cracked the head of Lincoln and scattered all his stale jokes to the wind. Now let the Senate con- firm Fuller and he will in his turn break up the whiskey rings and spoil the merry jokes in which they have indulged during the last two years. To be sure, it has been said that Miss Ream managed Senator Ross and thus de- feated impeachment. But this is all balder- dash. Grant was the last man with Ross at | twelve o'clock on the night before the final action of the Senate on impeachment. No doubt Grant and Ross settled amicably together | over a glass of brandy and water and a box of | owners and a more extensive display of yacht- | | cigars the way Ross's vote was to be cast. | ing material. Indeed, the bay has ne ir wit- | Why, then, should Miss Vinnie Ream, with all | nessed so large a gathering of the craft since her potential chpabilities of rivalling a Praxi- | the inauguration of the sport in| American | teles or a Canova, be victimized ? waters. Thirty-five vessels competed, repro- folly and disgrace of impeachment, in spite of Weaponed Loyalty ia Council. The Convention meeting in Cooper Lastitute next Fourth of July: promises to be one of the most remarkable developments of the political contest upon which we are now entering. The loyal soldiers and sailors of our late civil war appear moving upon New York from all quar- ters of the Union for the purpose of reassert- ing and maintaining in peace that government which their valor so recently upheld and res- cued from the fell grip of rebellion. They are coming here in battalions, regiments and by brigades to protest that it was for “the Union, the constitution and the laws” that they per- illed their lives and so many of them shed their blood; and that their sacrifices were not in- curred and so many thousands of their companions given over to death in order that a cabal of revolutionary Jacobins might perpetuate themselves in usurped control of our country by a standing army, the supremacy of four million blacks over five millions of practically disfranchised whites, and by the unholy profits of the whiskey “ring,” the tobacco “ring,” the Treasury “‘ring,” the national bank “ring,” and all the other agencies of fraud, force, illegality and terror with which our syatem of free government is now threatened by the truculent sans culottes and other political desperadoes who form the sworn and secret cabal of radicals now domi- nant in Congress. Against the men who will assemble at Cooper Institute no charge of ‘‘disloyalty,” no mad-dog cry of ‘‘copperheadism,” can avail. We shall sce bronzed and scarred veterans, with the corps badges of service on their breasts, assembling from every loyal State to arraign the present rulers of Congress and to demand that the objects of the war, as avowed at the time of their enlistment and to which their triumph entitled them, shall not any longer be held in abeyance. They will assert in unmis- takable tones that it was for the supremacy of the constitution and laws, and not for negro supremacy that they enlisted and so many of them laid down their lives; that it was to have the States of the South brought back to their true relations with the government, and not that their position as States should be forever cancelled and their highest right of representa- tion be handed over to cowardly and thievish “carpet-baggars,” acting as the tools and profligate corrupters of ignorant and savage negroes, that they quitted homes and firesides and shed their blood on many a stricken field. It was not that canting abolition stay-at-homes might continually revel in the diamonds and gorgeous equipages, the fast horses, fast women and fast yachts of our infernal revenue system, that our faithful soldiers and sailors went forth to fight. It was for the Union as our fathers knew it and as we knew it ten years ago that they took the oath of service when the long roll was first beaten along the banks of the Potomac. The miserable and dishonest ‘‘carpet-bag- gers”—five-eighths of them the foulest scum of hypocritical New England—who now claim to represent the Southern States in Congress the Convention of Cooper Institute will utterly re. pudiate, denouncing their names as a moral emetic to the consciences of all decent men. They are not the representatives of States— not representatives of anything but theft and tyranny, ignorance, brutality and violence. They were elected by constituents not much more intelligent and far less virtuous than go- rillas ; while the true citizens of our own blood and race lay pinned to eafth under the bayo- nets of a soldiery no longer discharging its proper function, but now compelled to act as jailers, torturers and tyrants over a people who fought us gallantly and who surrendered in good faith, confiding in the promised cle- mency of their conquerors. It is thus the soldiers and sailors will speak, and their words will ring throughout all corners of the land, rearousing every generous impulse. They are not coming here to for- ward the interests of any individual candidate. They only demand of the regular Democratic Convention that it shall give them a nominee of stainless record on the score of loyalty, and if satisfied as to this they will gladly accept the judgment of the regular Conven- tion of civilians as to his possessing the other requisite civil qualifications for the office of our national Chief Magistrate. Any stories from Washington or elsewhere that the Cooper Institute Convention may be considered as pledged in advance to this candidate, that can- didate or the other may be thrust aside as so many roorbacks. The men composing it only seek the good of the country and will be only too glad to act in harmony with the National Democratic Convention, if not driven away by the nomination of some ‘‘copperhead’—an event most unlikely to happen. | Another Veto—Quick Work. The President sent in his veto yester- day against. the so-called Omnibus bill, providing for the restoration to Congress of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana. The bill was at once passed over his objec- tions—in the House 105 to 30, in the Sen- ate 35 to 8. Thus, including Tennessee and Arkansas, eight of the late eleven rebel States are reconstructed and restored. The two last named are fully represented in both houses, and the other three probably will be before the Fourth of July or shortly thereafter. With the admission of their members will come the proclamation from Congress, if necessary, of the ratification of the amendment making ar- ticle fourteen of the amendments of the con- stitution, which will give the question of suf- frage to the States, with the condition that suffrage and representation shall go together. Accordingly the suffrage question and the re- construction question may be considered settled ; for doubtless Virginia, Mississippi and Texas will yet be brought in under this Con- gress, and that will finish the work so far as Congress is concerned. This is an important matter for the Democratic Convention. | A feature new to yachting in this country was introduced yesterday at the annual regatta of the Brooklyn Yacht Club. The race was | thrown open to all comers, and hence there Tue Brooxiyn Yacut Crus Reearra.— | was a more general competition of yacht | > » a senting the BrooXlyn, Atlantic, Hoboken, Jersey City and Bayonne Yacht Clubs. Despite the light wind the race was a very spirited one, and its success goes to show not only the enterprise with which our yachtmen are im- bued, but their deep and earnest interest in all that pertains to what they have made as much @ profession as a pleasurable pursuit. Indeed, the example of yesterday might be improved and a national regatta organized to include entries from all parts of the Union. Let There Be Light! Longinus and all other critics have attri- buted the highest sublimity to the verse in Genesis which describes the creation of light: — “And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.” When the Almighty issued this mandate chemistry teaches us that the ele- ments must have commenced their combina- tions, and from our knowledge of the structure of one of the planets floating around the cen- tral throne, oxygen must have been the element which first exhibited its affinities. The various metallic oxides which form the earth must have evolved light and its associated forces when these unions occurred. The essential harmony between the revelations of Scrip- ture and science is finely illustrated by the fact that this diffused light existed even before the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars also were setin the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth. Light and heat are the means employed by the Creator at the present day in developing and sustaining life upon the earth, The mar- vellous changes in the plant are accomplished by the sunlight leaping the chasm of one hun- dred millions of miles. The ‘‘cattle upon the thousand hills” depend upon the vegetable world. And men, in their turn, depend upon , both animal and vegetable life. We are, there- fore, born of the sunbeam—‘‘children of light and not of darkness.” Man is distinguished from the lower animals by his godlike audacity in handling fire. There is no tradition of any Prometheus of the Simian tribe. The rapid human advancement of the last hundred yoars is the result of in- creased knowledge in producing and regulating heat and light. The very latest discovery in this direction is due to certain French chemists, of whose pro- cesses for accomplishing the long desired re- sult of producing pure oxygen abundantly and at a price which will enable us to employ it for heating and illuminating purposes we publish to-day a full and interesting report by Professor Doremus. We also publish a report of recent experiments by Professor Doremus in the pho- tometric room of the New York College with a view of testing those processes, To these re- ports we refer for details of this cheap and speedy method of producing oxygen. Dr. Doremus shows how we are indebted to the chemical affinities of oxygen for the artificial production of power and the imponderable forces of heat, light, galvanism and electro- megnetism. He indicates the manifold uses of oxygen in union with fuel, applied to machinery in factories, vessels for freight or travel, to gunpowder, gun cotton, the fulminates, nitro- glycerine, in furnaces, laboratories and all culinary operations. He sets forth the facts on which the processes for obtaining the new light depend, and gives his reasons for endorsing the claims of Messrs. Tessie du Motay and Maré- chal to this important discovery, which he pro- nounces to be gne of the most brilliant revela- tions of the age. He predicts that it will work an entire revolution in our system of lighting streets as well as public and private buildings, and that, in a great variety of ways, it will prove an inestimable benefit to the civilized world. Dr. Doremus enumerates the peculiar ad- vantages of the new light. By repeating him- self the photometric experiments made at Paria, he finds that it is many times more brilliant than the standard gaslight with the consump- tion of coal gas. According to the French reports it exceeds sixteen and ao half times that produced in Paris, and it exceeds. to the same and sometimes to a still greater ex- tent the light of our Manhattan Gas Company, consumed in the English standard argand burner, with fifteen holes and with a glass chim- ney seven inches in height. For brilliancy, and also economy and health, this new light surpasses all other lights usually employed. More purely white than any of the latter, its blending of the various colors in quantity and proportion more nearly approaches the sun- beam. It reveals all the more delicate shades of every hue almost as if they were illu- minated by daylight. It is steady and unflickering, and thus guarantees against the frequent diseases of the eye, to which stu- dents, printers and the artisans of many trades obliged to work at night or in the daytime by artificial light are liable. Flames must flicker, but this light emanates steadily from a solid pencil of compressed magnesia fixed in a solid support and rendered incandescent by jets of carburetted hydrogen (or hydrogen), burning with pure oxygen. It is admirably adapted for outdoor illuminations, not only by its: in- tense brilliancy, but also because it cannot be blown out in the stormiest weather. It throws out much less heat tham any of the gas or petroleum flames, although it excels them all in brilliancy. Thus it will enable us to get rid of the oppressive heat which in summer ren- ders churches, theatres and concert rooms so uncomfortable and unhealthy. No such smoke as usually darkens the ceilings and walls, in- juring pictures, books and furniture, escapes from this new light. It does not vitiate but on the contrary tends to purify the air. Even the making of this oxygen is attended by no ill odor, and by its universal substitution for our present gaslight we should be freed from the nauseating and unwholesome gases that have made the gas houses in Paris, London and New York such intolerable nuisances. The economy of the use of oxygen and carburetted hydrogen combined is clearly exhibited by Dr. Doremus. With the same amount of light the public may save by itfrom thirty to forty per | cent in money, allowing large profits to the manufacturers; or for the same prite they, may enjoy a light more brillinat, perfect and wholesome .than any which is offered at present. Dr. Doremus intends shortly to invite the’ officers of our New York gas companies to witness the superiority of this mode of ills mination, and a company of infuential capi- | talists has already been formed for erecting