The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR: All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addreased New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. pseseohsnassee teereceere Noe 193, AMUSEMENTS THI8 BVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.A FLASH OF Lightning, Matinee at 1 BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.Jaok SHEPPARD— Forty THIEVES—Fast WOMEN. NEW YORK THEATRE. opposite New York Hotel.— TuE Granp Ducusss, Matinee at 2. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrrr Dumpty. Matinee at 134, i NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taa Waite Fawn, Matinee at 1—ONoR Too OFTEN, £0. | WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Tux Lorrery or Lirs. : BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth street,—ETHIOPian MINS: ‘40. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. wenth avenue.—POPULAR GarpRn CoNogRT, Matinee at 4. JONES' WOOD.—Granp Concent. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Ma, A, BURNETT, Tur HUMORIST. HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSK, Brooklyn.—BLACK-EYED SvsaN—JonEs’ Baby—Maato Sure. ART GALLERY, 85 Broadway.—GRRatT NATIONAL PAINTINGS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOMRNOE AND ABT. - New York, Saturday, July 11, 1868. THH NEWS. EUROPE. By special telegram through the Atlantic cable, dated in London yesterday, we learn that Prince Alfred paid a complimentary naval visit to Farragut’s flagship, the Franklin, at Southampton. The news report of the Atlantic cable is dated mid- night. The Irish Reform bill passed the House of Lords, Admiral Farragut declined the honor of a civic entertainment in Southampton. He was present at an an American festive reunion in London, The Church wil! be separated from the State in France. Mins r ancroft’s naturalization negotiations are actively continued in Germany. I ch reports from China state that the rebels had been defeated on the Peto, but still threatened Tient- Consols 94% money. Five-twenties, 734 in Lon- don and 7749 in Frankfort. Cotton quiet, with middling uplands at llid.a 114 4. Breadstutfs and provisions without marked ge. r special correspondence from Vienna and Con- stantinople, published to-day, is in very interesting detail of our cable telegrams from both cities to the date of the letters respectively. CONGRESS. In the Senate, yesterday, a letter was received Reverdy Johnson, of Mary.and, resigning his as United States Senator. The bili appropriat- ing one million dollars for building a bridge over the Mississippi river was passed, after con- siderable opposition, Senator Trumbull intro- duced & substitute for Senator Cattell’s bill for the issuance of a temporary loan for the purpose of redeeming and retiring out- ding compound interest notes. Senator Trum- 8 bill provides that the Secretary of the Treasury 1 sell on the first Monday of every month $10,000,000 in gold until the amount of gold in the Treasury be reduced to $40,000,000, the amount d by these sales to be appropriated to the re- ption and cancelling of compound tnterest notes and other interest-bearing government securities, The bill excluding from the Electoral College the votes of h States lately in rebellion as shal! not have been reorganized was again called up, and after aiengthy and animated political debate was passed b party vote, except that Mr. Henderson the democrats. In the House a joint resolution to extend to the January, 1869, the time for collection of the tax in the South was passed. The bill dis the rewards for the capture of Jeff Davis A bill establishing the postal tele- stem and incorporating @ company for the was introduced and referred. Mr, Logan ted a bill from the Ways and Means Cominittee viding that no commission shall be allowed on the sale of United S securities, and that ali rority to tasue Un States bonds shall cease passage of i sidered, amendment providing for tn creased compensation to civil employes was rejected, Among the items appropriated in the bill are $520,898 for reconstruction purposes. considered in Committee of the Whole. so passed, e bill, In dla cussing the Senate biil for the reilef of certain iron-clad contractors, Mr, Butler said that Mr. Gris- wold, of New York, had paid out of his own pocket the expense necessary to build the Monitor which The Deficiency bill was | Private bills were then | Generai Meade tn a letter to Governor Bullock, of | Georgia, declares that the State Legislature is not legatly organized until the members disqualified by the reconstruction acts of Congress are excluded, A Committee of Investigation into the ellgtbility of mem- bers has consequently been appointed in the Lower House, which has a democratic majority. Ex-Governor Orr, of South Carolina, has published an address to the people of the State urging them to accept Governor Scott's administration in a just spirit. It would have been wise for them, he says, to have accepted Congressional reconstruction at first, and at present itis folly to expect any relief from the democratic party on the subject of suffrage, ( The Louisiana Legislature yesterday ratified the fourteenth article and passed the new Metropolitan Police bill for New Orleans, The Texas Reconstruction Convention is still in session, <A resolution was recently introduced requiring a residence of five years as a necessary qualification for election to the Legislature and seven years to Congress, A desperate attempt was made toroban Adams Express car on the Ohio and Mississippi Rallroad,near Brownstowp, Ind., yesterday morning. Five men seized the engine at Brownstown, detached it and the express car from the rest of the train and ran them away about eight miles. On attempting to en- ter the express car, however, they were driven off by the pistols of the guard, one of their number being wounded and captured, The miners’ strike in Pottsville, Pa., threatens to become serious, if not violent, The workmen in several mills have been compelled to stop and the laboring men on railroads have been driven off. A torpedo factory in Reno, Pa., was blown up yesterday, one man at work in it being blown five hundred feet in the alr and coming down a shape- less mass, Michael J. Canty and Charles Burke were sen- tenced in the court at White Plains yesterday to be hanged August 28 for the murder of Ellen Hicks, in Westchester, in August, 1866, The case of Ernestine Oaks against Wiliam Stein- way, in which the plaintiff, who was the wife of Henry Steinway, deceased, seeks to recover custody of her children who were left by defendant in charge of a person in Germany, was closed yesterday in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn. Judge Gilbert reserved his decision. The Mary Ann Smith habeas corpus case was de- cided yesterday in the Supreme Court by Jud Sutherland discharging the writ and removing the girl to the custody of the Convent of the Good Shepherd. Mary Ann isa minor, and the writ avers that she is kept by the convent authorities because she has been converted to the Methodist religion. The other parties claim that such 18 not the case, but that she is lax of morals and is detained there to keep her out of bad company. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday James D. Cook and Frank Farrell, convicted of attempted burglary, were sentenced to five years State Srison; Charies Russell and Daniel Bradley pleaded guilty to @ similar offence, and were each sent up for two years and six months, William Gray, ona plea of | petty larceny, was sent to the Penitentiary for six months, Augustus Levinson, a young man whose thirst for acquirement induced him to forge an order on a book firm for two dictionaries, was sent to the State Prigon for two years on aplea of guilty. Bridget Murray, a girl sixteen years of age, pleaded guilty of an attempt at arson and was sent to the House of Refuge. John Weber, on a plea of guilty of petty larceny, was sent to the State Prison for five years. Frederick Kanyes pleaded guilty of felonious assault and was sent to the State Prison for three years. William King, on a plea of guilty of attempted grand larceny, was sent to State Prison for two years and six months., and Robert A. Green, jointly indicted with King, was sent to the House of Refuge. Jacob Fuerth, on a plea of guilty of petty larceny, was sent to the Penitentiary for six months. The Grand Jury was discharged from further attendance and the court then adjourned for the term, The Inman line steamship City of Baltimore will +) gail from pier 45 North river at 10 A, M. to-day, for Queenstown and Liverpool. The stock market was firm yesterday. Govern- ment securities were dull. Gold closed at 140%. The Counter-Reaction. We are on the eve of a heated and excited political campaign. The nomination of Horatio Seymour, the embodiment of copperheadism, for President of the United States by the Democratic Convention is an avowal of the determination of the democracy to renounce none of their old heresies and prejudices, but to fight out the battle of the next election upon the issues embraced in the contests of the past six or seven years. The popular demand for an obliteration of all the old politi- | cal lines and a hearty union of the conserva- | tive elements against radical misrule have been disgarded; the democratic party has withdrawn itself within {ts own lines, and nothing is left to the people but to choose | between the old sympathizers with secession and the men who have stood true to the Union and fought out the war against rebellion to a | successful termination. Under these circum- | stances there can be no question that the reac- | tion which manifested itself last year in several of the Northern States, and especially in New York, against the revolutionary policy of Congress, will receive a serious check, and that, despite the heated appeals of party or- | gans, the people of the Union will unite in | electing to the chief office of the republic the defeated the Merrimac. In the evening ses i sion the Committee on Miiiiry Affairs re- general who Ses | yeeee nae lod thelr ss ported a bill for the appoituent of a com. | to vietory over the Confederate forces, rather mission to examine into certain miscellaneous | than the man who in the darkest hour of the cams in vate pci 4 was saleeee tan, The | country’s peril denounced the war for the same committee reported a bil. re ative to the status i? of retired officers, which was pas: A billto re. | Union as a failure. duce the military to a peace estaviishment was also reported. The sections retain.og ‘he General and Lieutenant General and an amendment providing foy only three major genera.s w greed to, and pending discussion on the secttou providing for eight brigadiers the House adjourned, MISCELLANEOUS In the Board of Health yester e attorney was | So far as the State of New York is con- cerned we have no doubt that her fifty thou- sand majority cast last year for the democratic ticket will be entirely wiped out next Novem- ber, and that the State will go about the same number the other way. It is possible that in the several Congressional districts where sound conservative men are nominated the vote may directed ty commence suit against the Manhattan | Gas Company to compe! them * macutactar- | be cast against the radicals; but there can be ing reap retarin business is cow 'vcted so ‘hat M0 | no question that the people will show at the odors detrimental to health e+ p with the air, Tammany Hall was crowed it by the | ballot, box hat hey Bave not forgotten friends of the democratic no nour and | “e lessons of the war, and that they are not Blair. The letters containing te nowinations were | Prepared to stultify themselves by refusing formally tendered them by Genera man of the committee, and inter both the nominees in short sper held outside, at which A. J. Ko of New Jersey Colone) Yerger, of Mivsissippi a ok Arkansas, made speeches. The Executive Committee of soldiers and sailors met yest: of organization. There was « and tn caswal conversation amony satisfaction was expreser| at Seymour, The register of thes in this city showed the names of ¢ dred delegates present, of whois over iad been officers in the ye A syrup rectifying es shmen: Crow & Co,, at the corner of Van Brant and Sa #reets, Brooklyn, waa biown up ait terday afternoon by the explos: inka, Mr. Grow and two of h James Carney and Dwight Woil atten ee o'clock yes ‘en to the hospital. The master masons met again yesterday afternoon and again resolved to stand { hour system. The reports re sources as to how far some of e bosses have con- Morgan, chatr- uly accepted by A mecting was lowes, of the conservative r the purpose ce, hem great dis- | omination of 4 Convention nty-three hun- aix hundred owned by W. H. ett 1 of one of the large workmen, named were seriously Injured, They were extricated (rom the ruins and | : against the eight | ved from various civic honors to the general who led their armies to victory, and bestowing them upon the peace politician who rendered himself no- torious above all his confréres by the ingenuity and consistency with which he denounced the war as a failure, Indeed, it is more than probable that the nomination of Seymour, forced upon New York by the disappointed and defeated democracy of the Western States, | may prove the means of bringing about an entire political revolution in our local as well as in our State politics. The large majority by which General Grant will carry the State next November will be likely to take with it nearly all the Assembly districts, thus giving the Legislature fn both branches, as well as the State Executive, to the republicans. In this event we inay anticipate a general wiping out of the municipal departments now in the hands | of the Tammany leaders, and a chavge of wily overgome for s the enormous ma- | patronage that may e the next twenty-five yes ciuded to accede to the demanus of the men were | jorities recently enst for the democritic ring declared to be satisfactory. Iu the evening a com | candidates, whoever they may be, in (he great mitite of the master masons me! from aii master mechanics coi imiar committees State: oa with hedle motropolis of the United States. building, voted to pubiish an address and debated a Proposition to unite ali the thas mechanics {nto one puivn toe some as the workingmen hare united, Too Mech of a Jrur.—From Pendleton to Chase. The age of miracles is gone, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY ll, 1868. Andy Johnson—Democratic Ingratitude. Andrew Johnson has been treated very shabbily by the democracy—a great deal worse than John Tyler or Fillmore or anybody else that we can remember. Whether true or not that from the moment he was sworn into the White House Mr. Johnson became a candidate for another term on the democratic tack, it is certain that he has done more to keep the party in the field and to supply it with arms, ammunition, rations and clothing than any ten orten thousand men who were stranded with McClellan and Pendleton on the Chicago peace platform, Since the beginning of his conflict with Congress in December, 1865, Mr. John- son's policy, itis charged, has been directed to three results—first, the reconstruction and restoration of the rebel States on the Johnson platform; second, the demoralization and re- duction toa minority of the republican party in the Northern States; and thirdly, the em- ployment of the Johnson States of the South as the balance of power with which to control the democratic President-making convention. Mr. Johnson says he has been all this time simply fighting for the constitution. It is enough to know, however, that since December, 1865, he has kept the democratic party on ite legs and made himself the recognized official embodiment of democratic principles, and that the party were thus placed under obligations to him, for which the democratic nomination would have been the only proper equivalent they could offer. Instead of this they pass him an empty vote of thanks (‘fine words butter no parsnips”) and they whistle him down the wind. He has thus learned at last the selfishness, greediness, impudence, hypo- crisy, ingratitude and treachery of party poli- ticians. But he is at last a free man. He can now take his own course. He is thrown out of the Presidential fight of 1868, and that of 1872 is too far off for any calculation of the present day. He is at liberty to brush away the hungry flies that have been buzzing their flatteries into his ears for some time past, and free to consider the policy of a quiet time dur- ing the remnant of his official term. He ought to have known from the first that the democratic politicians wanted a Presidential candidate upon whom they look as their ser- vant and not as their master.” Repudiation and the National Honor, We learn from an Atlantic cable telegram that the London 7%imes in its comments on the platform of the Democratic Convention says that the financial plank amounts to partial re- pudiation, The Times does not understand the platform nor the sentiment of the Ameri- can people with regard to the payment of the public debt. If one thing be more apparent than another in the platforms of both the dem- ocrats and republicans it is that of a declared and an earnest purpose to pay the debt. In fact there is little difference in the phraseology of both platforms in this respect, and there is no difference in the purpose. There was not more unanimity in prosecuting the war for the Union than there isin the determination to maintain the national honor. This great re- public will be as remarkable for discharging its obligations faithfully, whatever party may be in power, as it was for the magnitude and wonderful achievements of the war. There may be a few erratic individu- als of some political prominence who hold extreme views upon, financial ques- tions, as Butler, Thad Stevens, or Pen- dleton, but neither the controlling men of the two great political parties nor the mass of the people are in favor of repudiation, partial or otherwise. All mean to pay the debt honestly. We are not in the situation the people of Eng- land and other countries of Europe are. They have not the resources with which to pay their enormous debts, and there is no prospect that those debts ever will be paid. We have the resources, and our debt, though large, can easily be paid within the lifetime of the present generation. The mistake the Jimes makes is with re- gard to taxing the bonds or reducing the interest. We may do that, and onght to do it; but that is not even partial repudiation, Why should not the bondholders pay for the support of government as well as all other property holders? Why should they not bear a por- tion of the public burdens? Why, indeed, should not the foreign holders of this property pay for the protection it receives? England has reduced the interest on her debt from six or seven per cent to three and a half, and taxes this description of property in one way or another. The other governments in Europe do the same. At this very time Austrla and Italy propose to tax the interest of their securities much higher than we do. Are the people of the United States to be the only ones to be burdened and fi a bondholding moneyed oligarchy? It is just and proper to tax the bonds or the interest on them as all other property is taxed. There is no repudiation in that. All we want is to relieve the people of their burdens as much as possible in order that we may liquidate the debt and not keep it, as in England and other countries of Europe, a perpetual incubus upon the industry of the republic. When this is properly understood abroad, when the intent and meaning of the platforms of our parties are comprehended, our credit will rise intend of falling. Indeed, we should not be sur- prised if our bonds were to rise from five to ten per cent within a few weeks, The debt of the United States is the most secure and best paying one of any in the world. Tie Prisce or Wares anv tre Usirep Srares oy Ameica.—In yesterday's HERALD we published a short speech delivered by the Prince of Wales upon Fenianism, Canada and the United States of America, We do not pretend at present to go into the merits of the young man’s speech. We cannot, however, refrain from saying that ft is one of the smart- est and most sensible things he has yet done, Such a speech shows that he has become an accurate observer of the events of the day, and, while it will give him popalarity with all considerate people in America, it cannot fall to make him @ greater favorite than he has ever yet been among his own people, Hap Saaxine.—Mueb ado is made in the democratic papers about Geners| Wade Hamp- ton and General McClernand’s!sking hands in the Democratic Convention. There was a heartlor shake when Goneral Grant and Gene ral Too shook bands under Wy \yporatton apple tree, The Southern States atid the Presidential Election. Yesterday, after a somewhat lengthy de- bate, the Senate passed the bill defining the conditions on which the votes of the Southern States shall be received in the Electoral Col- ege. It provides that the States lately in re- bellion shall not be recognized in the Presi- dential election unless they shall have, since the 4th of March, 1867, adopted a State con- stitution and been admitted to representa- tion in Congress. The bill is the same as that introduced by Senator Edmunds except that no names of States are mentioned. According to its provisions the States of Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina and Arkansas will be entitled to take part in the coming election, they either having been already admitted to representation or ratified the pending constitu- tional amendment. Georgia will probably be excluded, as the lower house of her Legislature has a democratic majority, which may reject the amendment. Mississippi, in de- feating the constitution of the Reconstruction Convention, lately held in that State, has placed herself beyond the possibility of par- ticipation in the political contest. With regard to Texas and Virginia, if even they should be carried by the radicals, there is no possible chance of their being admitted to re- presentation in time to take part in the elec- tion, as Congress will adjourn before they can ratify their State constitutions and will scarcely meet again until after the conflict for the Presidency shall have been decided. Under these circumstances it may be safely assumed that there will be but six of the ex-rebel States represented in the Electoral College, unless the lower House of the Georgia Legis- lature shall be ‘‘purged” of its democratic majority, in which event there will be seven, representing forty-seven votes, Prior to the passage of the bill there was an animated political debate inthe Senate, which was participated in by Senators Davis and Buckalew, democrats, and Senators Nye and Morton, republicans, It began with an argument as to the legitimacy of the recon- structed State governments of the South, but gradually passed into a discussion about the democratic platform and General Blair's posi- tion in regard to overturning the work of Congress should the democracy be victorious in the approaching contest. Both Senators Morton and Nye might have spared themselves the trouble of arguing the question. The Philadelphia and Erie Railrond Accident. The dreadful accident on Thursday evening, by which two passenger cars on the Philadel- phia and Erie Railroad broke through the bridge near Union Mills, and five victims lost their lives and five were seriously and many more were slightly injured, should arouse the public mind to the indispensableness of Con- gressional action in order to prevent the recur- rence of accidents of this kind. On the 20th of last June the Committee on Roads and Ca- nals reported to the House of Representatives that they had been instructed to inquire if, in their opinion, Congress has the power under the constitution to provide by law for the regulation and control of railroads extending from State to State, and in that case to report bill to secure, first, the safety of passengers ; second, uniform and equitable rates of fare; third, uniform and equitable charges for freight or transportation, and, fourth, proper connections with each other as to transporta- tion of passengers and freight. The committee reported that they have not at the present time the power to report such a bill, for want of the necessary information upon which to act. Let, then, a special Congressional committee be ap- pointed to investigate the causes and circum- stances of the late appalling disaster on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. We are quite sure that they will discover sufficient Informa- tion on which to act immediately and effectually for the prevention of similar accidents. Not- withstanding all the objections of the minority report of the Committee on Roads and Canals the alleged unconstitutionality of Congressional legislation in order to guard against the pe- riodical sacrifice of life on the part of soulless railway corporations should not avail to hinder the enactment and the enforcement of laws to secure “‘the safety of passengers.” Baron Von Beust and the Pope. The fulminations directed by Pio Nono for a time against Louis Napoleon, then against Victor Emanuel, are now turned against Francis Joseph and his government. Louis Napoleon, who is always his own Prime Minister, was found by his Holiness to be rather a hard customer to deal with and some- what painfully indifferent to Papal fulmina- tions. It has been somewhat similar with Victor Emanuel, who, ifnot particularly brave or brilliant himself, has always had the benefit of stubborn counsel, The anti-Papal schemes of France and Italy were as nothing compared to the bold and dashing reforms of Austria. In the person of Von Beust Austria has found a man who threatens to do for Austria and the South of Germany what Luther did for the North. According to one of our latest cable despatches he has snubbed the Pope as no man has done since the days of Luther. He must have some of Luther's blood in his veins. It is no small thing to beard the lion of the Vatican. Von Beust has done it; and it will not surprise us if another religious revolution alionate Austria from Rome, as the religious revolution of the sixteenth century alienated the Germany of the North. Papal bulls have always a certain effect. ee Sometnixo Goon From Arrica.—The two houses of the English Parliament voted a pen- sion of two thousand pounds sterling a year to Major General Sir Robert Napier yesterday, and Queen Victoria created him a peer of the realm with the title of Lord Napier of Magdala. General Napier earned the snb- stantial reward and royal honor in right gallant style, and it is to be hoped he will enjoy both during many years. They are about the only good things which fave been heard of from Africa for ages. Lord Napter did not imitate the example of the Exe- ter Hall and American abolitionists by keep- ing his ‘‘ nigger in de fence” too long. Smassy Tetarment.—President Johnson was shabbily treated by the Convention. They shook him by tho hand and then shook him off. We should not wonder if Johnson and Grant shook hands, made ap their quar- | rele and became friends. Nee EEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeT EEE enEEEeaEEE Piety and olitice—Plummer’s Pry’? Before the Democratic Convention, Plummer does not think that the demo T8¢y is past praying for; on the contrary, heh, very satisfactory opinions of that slippery party whose dignitaries Heaven has created “a little lower than the angels.” Which par- ticular angels the flummery Plummer does not tell us. He tells many other things, however, some of which we knew or had heard—as that God had made man, and man made money; in other words, sinned and went skyugling after all sorts of vanities, He tella us some other queer geographico-theological things that we did not know so well—as that our hills are covered with the shadow ofa vine. He ought to have excepted all those hills that are cov- ered with snow. He says that our country has sent out her boughs unto the sea and her branches unto the river, and that her hedges are broken down and people pluck her, and that the boar doth waste her and the wild beasts of the field devour her, &c., &c. These figures are rather too deep for us. We are sure, how- ever, that they mean something ; for the Demo- cratic Convention, which refused to listen to Woodward when he wanted to puff Packer, listened to all this, Perhaps the sending of boughs and branches into the sea and the river ‘is an occult reference tothe navy. But the navy is made of iron, Perhaps it means that fine Confederate craft the Alabama, which was made of wood. But the wood did not grow here. We are sure we understand the phrase about plucking the country. This means the whiskey stealers, whom the parson hates be- cause they are republicans. Perhaps there will be better times by and by, when the democrats get in. And what was the effect of this most ridiculous rigmarole of prayer? Did the Convention feel any? Was any man purer, more honest, more resolute to do a duty with other views than those of mere personality and interest? On the contrary, was not religion insulted by being dragged in and paraded as & mere formality at an assemblage of men utterly indifferent to its spirit and regardless of its influence? Are not good manners and decency violated when the spirit of God is invoked to grace the proceedings of a parcel of political sharpers met to arrange their game? The War and the Presidency. During the four years of our war this nation arose in the eyes of the world to be a first class Power, and we were seen to be the peo- ple of the greatest physical, intellectual and moral force known to the age. Our repute abroad grew in those years as it would not have grown in a century of peace, and the effect of that growth on the world—the effect of our example in our great revolution—has been such as to inaugurate a peaceful revolu- tion in all the nations—a revolution that, be- ginning in England, has swept to China and Japan, Shall we now abandon the principles of our war and show the world that we know not for what we fought? This we would do if we should now put the government in the hands of a party that opposed the war, that embarrassed the government by all means during the war. Shall we, then, make Presi- dent a man who was against the war, and in the same act refuse to honor the great captain who carried the nation through that great struggle ? Poroine THE Gzoreia Leaistature.—The niggers in several counties of Southwestern Georgia having voted the democratic ticket and elected conservative representatives, the result is that the lower house of the Legisla- ture has a majority of members opposed to the radical party. As the probability is that this majority will not ratify the pending constitu- tional amendment, a plan has been recom- mended to reduce it toa minority. General Meade suggests to Governor Bullock, who addressed a similar communication to the Legislature, that it would not be regarded as a loyal body until it had purged itself of certain members—vig., those who are declared ineligi- ble under the amendment to the constitution. Accordingly resolutions were passed appoint- ing committees to investigate the records of members and report thereon. We suppose that this is all right; but it does look like a movement to deprive the conservatives of their majority in the lower house. Considering that the amendment referred to has not yet been declared a part of the constitution, does it apply to any one in the South at the preseat time? Cuvrcn VotcntaryisM IN FRaNos.—M. Baroche, Minister of Justice of France, de- clared in the Legislature yesterday that the separation of Church and State in the empire was merely ‘“‘a question of time.” This official assertion of the expediency of the adoption of the voluntary principle by the Gallican clergy will, by the very reflection of the sentiment, afford vast strength to the Gladstone Church reform party in Great Britain and Ireland, and deal a deathblow to the temporal power in Rome. The European nations and Turkey are “falling into line” on the American system of freedom of religion and each man paying his own parson, just as they are acquiring gradatim the essential principles of our political plan of self-government. Tue Democratic Ratirication at UNION | Squvare.—The speakers at the democratic Presidential ticket ratification meeting on Thursday evening last at Union square were General Wade Hampton, of South Carolina ; ex-Governor Vance, of North Carolina; ex- Governor Perry, of South Carolina, and Colonel Call, of Florida, all of the late South- ern confederacy, and the Hon. Jack Rogers, peace democrat, late of New Jersey. At this rate the grand campaign between General Grant and General Lee in the battle field will probably be fought over again this summer on the stump. Pawor ALrrap axp Farraout.—Prince Alfred, R. N., having enjoyed a brief ‘‘shore leave” at Windsor, ran down to Southampton yesterday and paid a professional visit—the firet since he left the Galatea—to Admiral Farragut’s flagship, the Franklin. He was received with ‘‘all the honors,” on deck and in the cabin, anda salute at parting. Reunions of thie description tend to render the inter- national lashings more ‘‘taut” and secure. Urstor Down.—The democratic ticket ie upside down, Blair should be at the head of it, for he fe @ man of decision, energy, strength; but Seymour is a man without force, unoqual to any great occasion, vacillating and { ndecisive to an extreme degree. Se Genera, Borner ror Gexeray Grayt.— During»the debate on the Army blif in the House of Representatives yesterday General Butler, for the first time since the nomination, announced himself in fayor.of General Grant. Tho “westion was upon reducing the number of army o‘icers, and during the discussion @ democratic member remarked that he would as soon leave Giant and Sherman out as any private soldier. Butler forthwith declared that one of them would go out next March. This settles a much mooted point, The hero of Fort Fisher, having been unbottled, magnani- mously supports the hero of the war and his (Butler's) bottler in his Presidential aspira- tions, . Waste Powper—The gunpowder explo- sions about the democratic ticket. BOOK NOTICES. Tae LaND oF THOR. B trated by the author. York. J. Ross Browne, Illus jarper & Brothers: New “The Land of Thor” is 4 neat volume of racy sketches on the Northern countries of Europe. The author travelled in Russia, Germany, Norway, Swer den and to Iceland for the purpose apparently of sketching, something after the manner of Dickens, characteristic traits of character and scenes ai the people of those countries. The reader does n¢ acquire a vast fund of information from this book, and there is not much in if relating to the institu- tions, statistics or politics of those parts of Northern Europe. Mr. Browne travelled too rapidly and ne- cessarily took too limited a view of things to give anything but sketches, Still, as was said, the book is racy. The pen sketches, as well as the pencil illustrations, are slight cdricatures of nature, just enough as to make them more striking and to give us amore pleasing and lasting impression of the reality. ith this writer, as with Dickens and some others, the truth is pictured more vividly through @ slight departure from reality. There is a vein of fine humor, delicate satire and a good moral tone HAGE oS through the whole work. ‘The peculiari- ties of individuals and national traits are ae | drawn. On the whole there are few books that affo: more agreeable reading for the home circle or for persons to amuse themselves with while on their summer traveis. YUSEFF; OR, THE JOURNEY OF THE FRANGI. A CRU- SADE IN THE East. By J. Ross Browne. With Illus- trations. Harper & Brothers: New York. This book, like ‘The Land of Thor,” by the same author, is made up of pleasant, genial and oiten graphic sketches, but from quite another part of the world, Here the writer gives us views of the poelic and classic countries of the East. While not wanting in imagination nor unimpressed with the beauty, for- mer grandeur and ancient history of Palestine, Asia Minor, Greece and Turkey, he demolishes much of the manufactured romance about those parts of the world, tits talent as a humorist and caricaturist found him a fine fleld in the East, and he has em- ployed it well. Yusetf, who is a real person, is one of the best drawn or sketched characters we know of in the whole range of literature. After reading this work we want to Know more, and get up with an intellectual appetite. We feel regret that the writer did not take more time in his travels, 80 as to give us a fuller description of the Orient and his ad- ventures. However, ‘‘\useff” is very amusing and iustructive aud well worth reeding. YACHTING. Match Races Between the Sloop Yachts Martha and Mattie. Great rivairy has long existed vetween the sloop yachts of the Brooklyn and Bayonne Yacht clubs, which has several times culminated in match races resulting in excellent contests. So great ts the mu- tual desire that each club should possess the supcrior yacht of this class the pet builders of each have taxed their skill to the utmost to create such model vessels that one may wrest the victory from the other. Last season witnessed two contests having this ob- ject in view between the yachta Polynesian and Apollo, each vessel winning a race, but the season passed without thetr making the third trial, After considerable discussion tt has been resolved that the saine character of racea shall be renewed this year, Harry Smedley, builder of the sloop Martha, repre- senting the Brookiyn Yacht Club, and P, McGiehan, builder of the Mattie, the Bayonne Yacht Club, Ar- ah gen have been Sootpse for three days’ sailing, and the stakes are to be $500 per race. The first triai is fixed for to-day, the course to be from a stakeboat opposite Saltersville around the Southwest Spit and return; the seconu race, Monday next, trom a stakeboat opposite the Brooklyn Yacht Club to the same destination and return; third race, Tuesday, over @ course not yet agreed upon. The natare of these contests surrounds them with unusual interest, more particulariy 30 when such @ large sum of money is depending On tue results, Yachting Notes. The Pauline should postpone her two match races with the yachts Fleur de Lys and Magic until the squadron cruise in August next. We understand that it ts the .imtention of Commodore Stebbins and several other members of the club to offer some very valuable prizes for races of this kind during the con- tinuance of the cruise, and an excelent oj legegenid would then be offered these competing yachts of kill- ing two birds with one stone, The yacht Maggie has been cruising on the Hudson for some time past. On Thursday evening last she was off West Point, with a large party of ladies and entiemen on board, and they were apparently hav- fag @ very enjoyable time, A second race came off at New Rochelle on the 4th instant between the Fiying Cloud and Locust, but owing to a ditference of opiuion as to which boat won the race was w tidrawn. In justice to the Flying Cioud it should be stated thai she sailed tte a boat much larger than herself without receiving any allowance of time as is usual, which, had it been alowed, she would probably have distanced her opponent. THE NATIONAL GUARD. The following famed omcers have been commis. sioned by the Commander-in-Chief in the National Guard during the week ending July 4:— First Regiment Infantry—Drury H. Cooper, captain, with rank from May 28, vice A. P. Webster, promoted; Daniel Catoir, second licutenant, with rank from Aprii 22, vice William Uarthman, pro- moted; Arthur Spooner, second lieutenant, with rank from June 4, vice William H. Stevens, restzoed. Fourth Regiment Infantry—George H. Mott, bom with rank from May 30, vice Leonard, re- si 5 onth Regiment Infantry—John G. Barker, second Neutenant, with rank from June 6, vice George Kraemer, resigned. Ninth Reginent Mfantry—William Seward, Jr., major, with rank from June 8, vice C. S. Strong, re- sl I. Nineteenth Regiment Infantry—OMcers rank from June 17, Wm. D. Dickey, colonel, vice E. J. Ross, removed from district; Daniel Torbush. lieutenant colonel, vice W. D, Dicke; moted; James C. Taggart, major, vice Daniel Torbush, promoted. ‘renty-third Regiment Infintry—Rodney C. Ward, colonel, with rank from June 25, vice Calvin E. Pratt, resigned. Tireniy-eighth Remment Infantry—John Eger, captain, with rank from June 26, vice H. Obman, de- ceased. Porty-0tgnth Infantry—Lawrence Robin- Regrment son, first lieutenant, with rank tm April 15, vice Daniei D. Hartigan, removed from district; Sidney A. Hulburt, second lieutenant, with rank from April i, Cy ag Ts rie daibi Regimen intry—| us » fete with rank from June 15, vice J. Dean resigned; James Randall, lieutenant colonel, k from June 15, vice EB. C. Fellows, resigned, Fifty-ffth Regiment Infa j—Albert Marrar, first lieutenant, with rank from June 12, vice Alex- ander Kaltenbach, removed from district. Seventy-first Regiment Infantry—Albert Spear, captain, with rank from June 15, vices. A. Bunce, resigned. Resignations of the following named officers in the National Guard have been accepted by the Com- mander in-Chief during the week ending July 4:— Seventh Regiment Infantry—First Licutenant Howard Waldo, July 1. Tiwenty-eighth Reciment pryaniry=adjetans Jona Hess ‘and First Lieutenant John Stranas, July 1. pe Regiment Infantry—Captatn Wiltea 8. Smii ye Fifty-frat Regiment Infantry— Adjutant Geonte Ae Ostrander, First Lieutenant Charies 0, ‘0. Remington, June Liew Second Lieutenant D, Eatein Sixtty-ninth iment Infantry —seoond tenant Cornelins Kerley, Juiy 1. pendent wineAdsten dtaienre THE SEVENTH REGIMENT EXCURSION. ‘Nonwien, July 10, 1868. The trip of the Seventh regiment pither was very agreeable, and the greatest comfort was enjoyed. The regiment arrived at five o'clock A.M. Atnine o'clock they were welcomed by the Mayor in a fiat: tering Clark.