The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 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 addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly dealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, pubdtishea every day in the Four cents per copy. Annual subscription AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—BooTvLAck OF THB HOreL—VO1-AU-VENT—MAZEPPA. SW YORK THEATRE, opposite Now York Hotel.— TaR Gaanp DucuEss. ait foLYMPIC THEATRE. Brosdway.—Huurry Doarrr. WALLAOCK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13:h street.— ‘tas Lorn ERY oF Lirz. BROADWAY Diegrnina. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth @reet.—ErHioriaAN MINSTRELBY, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comio VYooaLism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &o. THEATRE, Broadway.—A PLASH OF DODWORTH TIALL, 806 Broadway.—MR. A. BURNETT, THE Homonisi. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoruLaR GARDEN Concent, NEW YORK SCIRNOR AND ee OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— New Yorl, Tuesday, July 14, 1868. & Naw s. EUROPE. The news revort by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, July 13. The prospects of the English harvest remained favorable. Consols, 91>, 9 9445, money. Five-twenties, 7234 a 72% in London and 77 in Frankfort. Cotton with middling uplands at 1144. Breadstu!t provisions without marked altera- tion. By steamship at thls port we have our special cor- respondence ti detail of our cable telegrams to the 3d of Juiy. CONGRESS. To th » yesterday a bill was passed anthor- tuing the of @ portion of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. udiciary Committee reported several important | , among others a bill relative to find- lng indicis in the United States courts in the Jate rebel states, and a bill authorizing the tem- porary supplying of vacancies in the Executive de- partmenis. The consideration of the Fanding bill nd elicited a warm discussion, Mr. a, in a prepared speech, advocated the payin of bonds in greenbacks, greatly to the surprise of his party. Mr. Fessenden moved an amendment, which was not agreed to, making the bonds redeemable in ten years, and payable after twenty, thirty or forty years, Mr. Fessenden con- tending that the resources of the government are such that the (ntted States will be prepared to re- deem a portion of the bonds in ten years, and should in justice to the people retain that privilege. In the House « large number of miscellaneous bills and joint resolutions were introduced under the Monday call of States. The Senate blll providing for the discontinuance of the Freedmen’s Bureau was taken up. Ou motion of Mr. Allison, of iowa, the bill was amended by making the discontinuance of the Bureau absolute on the Ist of January uext, and the bill, as amended, was passed and returned to the Senate for concurrence. The credentials of two of the meiabers elect from the State of North Caro- lina were presented; these gentlemen couid not take the test oath, but as thelr political disabilities had been removed by act of Congress the House ordered the usual oui tt to be administered to them, and they were sworn in accordingly. MISCELLANEOUS. The heat vestorday was sald to be the most intense that has been felt in New York for fourteen years. A very large number of persons fel! in the street in- sensible from the heat, two of whom died during the day. Thirty-seven persons were taken to Bellevue Hospital, three of whom died. At three o'clock yes- terday morning the thermometer stood at 82 degrees, at four P. 1 OT and at midnight at 88, ic news from Hayt is to the effect tha ven defeated by the insurgents at Port Rouge. Several other rebel suctesses ure reported, All foreig. had been notified by the American Minister t« the consulate, The s 1 race between the yachts Martha and Mattie came off yesterday, but the ciose both veawels were becaimed and the Mattie gave up the race. The Union gue Clad, of this cit ecently ten- dered b tanton a banquet * he has re- turned au an. tining the honor, ‘The master juasons held another moeting yester- day, when |i was stated that the owners of buildings in the city ied many of them agreed to walt for the end of the sirtke. It was also stated that the Ger man strike become dissatisfied, had broken ap their oid ¢ aon and were rewurning to labor under the hour rule, ‘The ely of members of the Ccorgla Legisia- * snvestigated in that body by a com- no Senators have been excluded. oes were shot and killed for various cophie daring Sunday night and yes Y 1 to have her voters registered again be- fore the August lection, General Couly as issued his order for the restora- tion of civii law in South Carolina. it (akes effect when the President proclaims the fourteenth article ratitied ‘The provisional officers of Alabama were installed yesterday aud the Legisiature assembled. The four- teenth articie was immediately ratified, The Mexican Minister Romero presented iis letter of recall to the President yesterday, when the usual speeches were delivered upon the occasion, William Pinckney White has been appoiated United States Senator in piace of Reverdy Jounson, of Mary- land. Professor Wilson, of Ann Arbor, Mich., has discov. ered another planet, In the United States Commissioners’ Court yester- day, before Commissioner Osborn, the case of the United States against Collector Joshua F. Bailey, of the Fourth district, was on for examination. The only witness examined was Harrison Shaw, who de- posed that the aMidavit sworn to by him against Mr. Bailey, charging the latter with bribery and cor- ruption! was false in every prticular. The testimony @isciosed a vile conspiracy, the principal parties to which are all in jail, The charge against Mr. Batley was dismissed, and the witness, one of those who for @ consideration aided the con- et prime and extra; $70 a $89 for fair to good, and $40 & $6).for ipfefior to common, For veal calves the demand was moderate at the following prices:— 11sgc. @ 12c. for extra, 10},c. a Me. for prime, 8c. a 10c. for common to good and 7c. a 740. for tn- ferior, Sheep were in fair request, but at very low prices, extra selling at 6c. a 64c., prime 5}40. 85% common to good 4c. a 5c. and inferior Se, a 4c, Lambs were also lower, selling at 7c. a 9c. The mar- ket for swine was active, but heavy, at 10c. a 10s¢c, preciation of the currency, it should heavily all these pretended sales of gold. The legitimate transactions for commerce might be exempted upon proof, but the gamblers should be madeto pay high. A sliding scale might be | established and such lawa framed as to catch for prime, 9%. 0 97%c. for fair to good and 9%0.a | all the bogus operators and let the legitimate 996. for common. and honest merchants escape. This would tend to break up the Wall street den and Trea- The Secretary of tho Treasury and the Gold | gury ring, At least the government might Ring. A great many people wonder why gold re- mains at such a high premium, and why every- thing the people buy is high accordingly. They reason naturally enough that the govern- ment and the business of the country are in a solvent condition; that the war ended three years ago and peace has been firmly estab- lished; that the income of the government is greater than the current expenditure ; that the gold receipts from customs exceed the demand for coin to pay the interest of the debt; that we produce eighty,to a hundred millions a year of the precious metals from our own mines, and that the Treasury has in its vaults nearly all the time a hundred millions or upwards of specie—as much as the Bank of England ordi- narily holds to represent the whole paper cir- culation of that national establishment. They reason thus, and then ask with surprise why we have not specie payments, or, at least, why gold is not at a much lower premium. There are two causes chiefly for this anoma- lous and unnecessary state of things. First, the stupidity and mismanagement of the Secre- tary of the Treasury, and next the operations of the gold gamblers of Wall street. Mr. McCulloch and the pettifogging financiers in Congress are continually talking about a super- abundance of currency and the necessity of contraction {n order to bring about specie pay- ments. Of course specie payments could be forced if the greater part of the paper money in circulation were withdrawn; but the people would be left without a sufficient circulating medium, and the whole country, except a few capitalists and bondholders, would be thrown into bankruptcy and ruin. Amputation might be successfully accomplished, but the patient would be killed. The precious metals cannot answer all the purposes of trade. They do not in England or any other great commercial country. They are merely representative in part, and that a small part, of paper values and of business transactions. It is impossible to define the precise proportion one should bear to the other. That must depend upon the circumstances, nature of trade, geographical extent and other things of each nation. The Bank of England is allowed to issue double the amount of notes to its specie reserve, independent of the circulating notes of all the other banks. We require in this country a greater proportion and a larger circulation of paper than they have in England. Business is carried on there in a more strictly commercial manner, upon extensive individual credits; here trade is more from hand to hand and requires the use of a more abundant currency. It is a question whether we have now more currency than the country needs, especially if it were more evenly and generally distributed. It is certain there is not more than will be needed within a few years. Nor is there much more actually in circulation than before the war, if we take into account the legal tenders required to be held in reserve by the banks and the amount lying always in the Treasury, and if we cal- culate the whole amount of bank issues throughout the country at the time the war commenced. No, it is not the superabuadance of paper currency nor the want of precious metals that prevents us returning to specie payments, but the mismanagement of Mr. McCulloch, the Treasury ring and the gold gamblers of Wall street. ; During the war and since the gold transac- tions in this city—buying and selling gold, so called—amounted to several hundred millions a day, and now, in the slack times, the average transactions probably amount to little less than a hundred millions a day. This is all fictitious, nothing but gambling. No gold is used, or at most a very insignificant amount. Hundreds of millions are bought and sold when the parties have none and never see the color of the metal. Strange to say, too, these bogus gold transactions on such a magnitude are car- ried on chiefly by afew persons, a dozen or so, and they for the most part foreigners. All the gold actually needed for commercial pur- poses by our merchants for paying duties and balances of trade abroad is not over halfa million to a million a day all the year round. This would rarely have any effect upon the price. There is an abundance for this purpose. The amount required would have no influence in depreciating the currency, in keeping up the price of gold or in retarding specie payments, It is the fictitions gambling business of Wall street, and not the legitimate business of trade, that keeps up the price of gold and the price of everything we buy or use. Mr. McCulloch plays into the hands of these bogus capitalists and gold gamblers. The Treasury ring is not a myth, but a lamentable reality, The members of it in New York are favored by the Secretary. They get informa- tion directly, or indirectly, from him which enables them to put gold up or down as they please and to make large fortunes. They have their agents in Wash- ington, who are made acquainted with the secrets of the Treasury Department and exer- cise an extraordinary influence over it. Butler, when he got hold of the Sam Ward despatch in his impeachment investigations, supposed he was on the right scent for the information he wanted, but he was om the wrong track. Had he been investigating the gold operations of the Treasury ring he might have made useful discoveries. We look with astonishment at the enormous whiskey frands and other frauds on the government, and with reason; but we doubt if all of them together amount to as much as the losses to the government and people through the operations of the Treasury ring and the mismanagement of Mr. McCulloch. The Secretary has the power to prevent these evils, but he neither has the ability nor incli- nation. Some remedy is imperatively demanded. The administration of the departments, and particularly of the Treasury Department, is disorganized, corrupt and inefficient. The country must look to Qongress, It should ; Holiness. derive a handsome income from such a tax. We hope Congress will do something to remedy this monstrous evil before it adjourns. Austria and the Modern World Versus the Holy See. In the Heratp of to-day we publish in er- tense the allocution delivered by the Pope in secret consistory on June 22 against the recent reform movements of the Austrian government. We have already published and commented upon the main points of this allocution. As, however, it is now for the first time before us in its complete form, the subject is rendered fresh and demands fresh consideration. The allocution speaks for itself. We advise our readers to read it, The Z’riduwm allocu- tion delivered some months ago impelled us to doubt whether the Pope was not under the influence of some evil advisers. We had long known that the Jesuits were more powerful than they ought tobe in the councils of his We also knew that Pius IX. was a man of caution and sound common sense, and we had good reason for believing that he would not yield himself up implicitly to the guidance of a class of men who have not done the world much good. The 7’iduwm allocution and this anti-Austrian allocution but too plainly betray their origin. Jesuit influence is in the ascend- ant, and we have not much reason to hope. Pity it is for Pio Nono; pity, too, for the Catholic Church ; for in spite of Papal bulls and all the thunders of the Vatican the world is marching on, and marching on every day with increasing rapidity. In prospect of a general council, which the Pope has resolved to convene in December of next year, we had entertained the hope that from the eyes of the Papacy mediwval mists had been dispelled, and that Pio Nono and his advisers had made up their minds to confront with energy, of course, but with intelligence also, the anti-religious tendencies of the nine- teenth century. If we are to judge from facts we must confess ourselves mistaken, The Papacy seems as blind, as stupid, as reac- tionary as it was in the sixteenth century, when, to raise the wind, it sent Tetzel, with his money box, to revolutionize Germany. This anti-Austrian outburst, coupled with the recent 7’riduum privileges, is not less, but if anything a little more absurd. The Papacy is not wiser than it was some three hundred odd years ago. Let any sensible American look at this allo- cution. Let him suppose it was directed against his own country, and what would be his feelings regarding it? The best Catholic in America would rise in indignation. He would not submit to it. We have no patience to go into details. We have already expressed our opinion and given our approbation of the various reforms which have been carried out in Austria under the ministry of Von Beust. Von Beust we have already spoken of as a man after our own heart and a genuine descendant of Luther. We have seen no cause to change our opinion; we have found much cause to confirm it. The Papacy has had no such chance in three hundred years as it has now. If it knew how to use its opportunity it might increase its power, revive, in fact, much of its ancient glory and benefit mankind. It is manifest, however, that it lacks wisdom and is altogether on the wrong track. What does Austrta—what does the world now care for the Pope's anathemas? What does either the one or the other care for his benediction ? As matters now are both are despised. A little more wisdom in council might make the one an object of dread and the other an object of desire. Austria as against the Papacy must win, and the world, which is now in sympathy with Austria, will rejoice in Austria's success. Having failed with France, having failed with Italy, and failing now with Austria, we advise the Pope to try his hand on England, or rather on the United States of America, The United States, in particular, would be a big shot. It might do good to the Papacy; it could do no tax | N@W YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1808, —+++ St —+ tlt + mt eH sury ring and to prevent the gold gamblers Collector Batley’s Case—The Keveaue Ser from keeping up the price of gold with the de- vice. The United States Treasury Department is the queerest muddle in the world, as every one must appreciate who has read the state- ment of Internal Revenue Collector J. F. Bailey. | Bailey, it seems, collected the tax in pursu- ance of his duty, and thus became obnoxious to men who make money by defrauding the revenue. It was necessary to their purposes that he should be put out of the way, and charges were prepared against him. He was to be shown up to the Secretary, by a care- fully prepared case, as a collector who did business in the Callicott style. What a com- pliment the thieves pay the government when they take it for granted that they can geta man out of his place by proving that he cheats! Well, the plan was to prove that the Collector was dishonest. Now the Treasury Depart- ment has a legion of creatures spying around called ‘‘special agents,” whose peculiar duty it is to nose out every man’s dishonesty and show him up. Eager for the prey, these agents were pointed to it by the fellows who were making the case against Bailey. They bit immediately. Inducted into all the details of the matter, they saw the man’s guilt and made the case their own; and thus it comes that a United States officer is called upon to defend himself from assaults made on him because he performs his duty, and is compelled to see the government itself in the ‘number of his assailants represented by the ‘‘special agents.” On both sides of the suit the govern- ment pays, and Mr. McCulloch does the work of the men whose prime object is to rob the government. Is this muddle of cross purpose—this inver- sion of the Secretary's office—a necessary con- sequence of the magnitude of the department? Not at all. There is nothing in the manage- ment of the Treasury Department that would be too much for the abilities of any sterling business man, and if this department only had the attention from its nominal head that every good manufacturing or mercantile establish- ment in the country gets it would thrive as they do. All the trouble results from the way business is done, or not done, at the national capital. Demagoguery is the only thing worth any man’s attention there, and the hours that a functionary should devote earnestly to the discharge of his duties are wasted in receiving some distinguished man from this or that sec- tion, discussing with Senators the claims of various persons to fat places, going through the whole round of political gossip and barroom blather, while his duties are delegated to some subordinate. Thisis the case with all, from the President down, and the consequence is the inextricable entanglement and confusion of business. We need a change, a thorough over- hauling of the whole government service, and the appointment of administrative committees to see that the duties of heads of departments are discharged by some one if not by those purely ornamental officials. The Elevated Railway. The half mile of elevated railway on Green- wich street, from the Battery to Cortlandt street, has been tried and pronounced a decided success by the special commissioners and all the officials who have examined it in operation. The plan is to carry this road as far as Yonkers, and the calculation is that when finished to that point passengers will be transferred from the Battery to Yonkers, or vice versa, in twenty minutes. The steam engines employed will be stationary, one at every half mile, we gnderstand, and the cars will be drawn by an endless rope, so that all dangers of fire or acci- dents along the line from the engines will be avoided. It is estimated that it will take two years to finish the road. But why not in one year or six months if the system is established asa perfect success? Meantime what progress are the company making with the Centre street underground road? They would do well to hurry up their work, or before they get fairly under way with it the underground may be superseded by the cheaper and more expedi- tiously constructed overground or elevated system. Let this Greenwich street experiment be thoroughly proved a success for long or short distances, and perfectly unobjectionable to the horses in the street below, as it is so far said to be, and we shall soon have elevated lines enough to enable our business men of the city to leave their offices, shops and stores in the evening for their homes, ten, twenty or thirty miles in the country, and return in the morning harm to the United States, while it might be of | as conveniently as they can now go by the some benefit to mankind in general, The Late Bowery Explosion. We published a card from Mr. J. M. Clarisse, who has worked as a machinist in the repair | yard of the Metropolitan Fire Department, and who declares that he is able to prove that En- gine No. 1 was bulged two years ago between the staybolts, and that on account of the “bulge” the staybolts had to be lengthened. The statement, therefore, of Mr. Bean, the superintendent of the Amoskeag Works, that the bulging must lieve been done at the time of the explosion, must certainly be taken cum grano sais. Moreover, we have been in- formed that Mr. Patrick Hand, who, as wellas Mr. Clarisse, has been discharged by the Com- missioners, and who was censured altogether against evidence, was told that he might take his choice between Engines No. 38 or No. 1, took No. 1, under protest, as we have pre- viously stated, when he was assured that he must take that or none, It is, perhaps, natu- ral enough that Mr. Bean should render testi- mony favorable to his own work. But it cer- tainly seems hard that an experienced engi- neer like Mr. Hand and an experienced ma- chinist like Mr. Clarrisse should be discharged for honestly testifying te the truth. Seymovr Dowx Sovrn.—Ex-Governor Wise, of Virginia, as it appears, is in ecstacies over the democratic Presidential ticket and the new prospect which it opens for secession. The rebel ex-General seems to forget that in 1864 all the Northern States except one (New Jersey) voted that the war for the Union was not a failure, and that upon this very issue Seymour, in New York, fell behind McClellan and Pendleton. MARRIAGE OF THR Vicgroy or EorPt.—A late cable telegram informs us that the Viceroy of Egypt has taken to himself « wife while in Constantinople. The cable ought to have horse cars to the Park or Harlem. wae ee Our Correspondence. The letters which we published yesterday from our correspondents at Shanghae (May 25) and Hong Kong (May 26) are full of in- terest. The first details all that Commander J. C. Febiger, of the American man-of-war Shenandoah, has been able to learn of the fate of the American schooner General Sherman, which was burned in the Pin-Yang river, Corea, more than two years ago. The second alludes particularly to the unrensonable jealousies of the different foreign legations in China—particularly the British Legation— excited by the appointinent of Mr. Burlingame, late United States Minister to the Emperor of China, as Imperial Envoy to the great Treaty Powers. Time alone can reveal the folly of these jealousies and the unquestionable benefits which the mission of Mr. Burlingame will secure to all the foreign Powers which repre- sent modern civilization in China. Our cor- respondent at Hong Kong adverts correctly to at least one inevitable result of this mission— such a revision of the treaty as shall insure the freedom of inland navigation throughout China, which alone would amply compensate for all the expense which the mission must necessarily involve. Conergss aNd THE SouTHEeRN States.—It is rumored from Washington that the members ofthe two houses of Congress will shortly be dispersed among their, constituents, that the democrats are anxious to take the stump to do what they can for + and that the re- publicans think they have admitted enough of the Southern States te full communion in Con- grees for the present. The bill relating to the Presidential vote in those States which has just been passed provides substantially that in the case where a rebel State shall not have passed through all the required degrees of re- informed us whether it was his sixth or | construction and restoration it shall have no seventh, eighth or ninth, The Visasoy is | vote in this Presidential election, and this Con- begin with Wall street, To break up the Troa- | already woll euppliod. gress, which will have the counting and re- porting of the electoral votes, is to be the judge iu the matter, It isprobable, therefore, that of the rebel States recently declared recon- structed and qualified for admission by act of Congress, only some two or three of them will be admitted to a voice in this Presidential con- test. The late election in Mississippi appears to have awakened some suspicions in Congress | that the Southern negro vote is not to be trusted, and we expect some curious proceed- ings in consequence before the end of this session, Mormon Recruite—The Flourishing State ef the Twin Relic. Ten thousand women are the crop that the Mormon proselytes have gathered in Europe this year, and the first shipment of five hun- dred is in our city on the way to Utah, on this 14th of July, 1868. While in all the nations throughout Christendom there is a movement for the enfranchisement of woman and a dispo- sition to concede a fuller recognition of her Personality in regard to all rights guaranteed by law, here in the progressive front of the nineteenth century we suffer the development of a society founded on a worse than Oriental view of the nullity of woman before the law. We permit the growth on that side of the Con- tinent that is to meet and shake hands with Asia of institutions degradingly Asiatic in character, as if we would do what we may to establish that polygamy must flourish on both borders of the Pacific. Woman has her innu- merable champions in all our lawmaking bodies ; her voice is heard in every press; her claim is acknowledged more than half right, and yet the great fact in regard to woman's position in this nation is Brigham Young, with his forty wives, more or less, We gabble and babble about woman and her right to hold property, to be protected, &.; but we look on quietly at the demoralizing growth within our limits of a government in which she stands in simple slavery, not only against our own enact- ments, but against the moral law, the con- science of Christendom and against the laws of nature. Some four years ago the republican party ap- pealed to the people to help it put a stop to this great scandal as one of the ‘‘twin relics of barbarism.” The other of these precious twins was African slavery, which by some happy accident died at such a juncture that peo- ple are at liberty to suppose, if they choose, that it was killed by the aforesaid fulmination. But we have not seen that this fulmination did any harm to Mormonism; for, though the peo- ple responded to the appeal and gave the re- publican party all the power it could need in the premises, the relic flourishes and is none the worse for the very quiet dislike of its sworn exterminators. Have the republicans forgotten all about their famous declaration, or do they mean to go at this when they have used up all the other evils? BOOK NOTICES. THE COLLECTOR, 3 on Books, &c. T. Tuckerman. New York: Scribner. ‘This is an old book worth a new name and a new face. The ‘‘Oriterion, a Collection of Essays” has long been known to American readers. Dr. Doran has had the book republished in England and has prefaced to it an admirabe essay, of which Mr. Tuck- erman has just cause to be proud. We know no more readable book for summer tourists or ramblers by the seashore in out of the way places, Inns, authors, pictures, doctors, holidays, lawyers, sepulchres, does ni stmention the Broad way suaperiatoa) Mt ol wi discussed with some skill and some humor. a Oe In THE SCHOOL Room. ters on the Philosophy we: Philade! : Eldridge & Brother, This volume, which is dedicated to the teachers of the United States, covers a wide field, and if care- fully studied it cannot fail to be useful to the teach- ing fraternity. We do not endorse ali its conclu- sions, but we heartily admit that some of its sug- aes are eminently pertinent. A little more at- ntion paid to the sul herein referred to would have @ good effect on all the professions. A POPULAR TREATISE ON THE ART OF HOUSE PAINT. ING, PLAIN AND Decorative. By John W. Ma- sury. Published by D. Appleton & Co. This neatly gotten up little volume is written with the object of “‘showing the nature, composition and mode of production of paints and painters’ colors, and their proper and harmonious combination and arrangement.” The author jappears to have care- fully studied his subject. He has written an inter- esting and instructive work, containing many new which will be found of Se at considsred, and. are worthy of study. Altogether this work is deserving of Juention fom tnter- ested in the art of house painting. YACHTING. By Henry passed her, and retaining the Passed the stake- boat at Coney Island and buoy No. 9 in such a man- ner abead of her the ing the effects of the sun, extended to her mimendation. Homeward the wind the West bank, tale le, = al the of a steam vessel to end a monotonous race. The Yachting Notes. The yacht Mallory has received a new coat of white paint. We understand that the New York Yacht squadron will rendezvous at Glen Cove, L. 1, on Saturday, the THE LABOR MOVEMENT. Meeting of the Master Masons—Reports Satin« factory—The Strike Soon to Eud—The Ger- mans Going iu for Ten Hours. * The adjourned meeting of tae master masons was called to order yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, by Johu T. Conover, the president of the association. Mr. Win. H. Jackson, the secretary, read the minutes of the previous meeting, and they were adopted nem. con, Mr. ALEXANDER Ross, on behalf of the com- mittee appointed to wait on owners of buildings, re- ported that since the last meeting they had scea several of these gentlemen and met with better sue ceas than they had cause to expect. as an um stance he detailed the fact that at naif-pasi six in the morning yesterday they had, ag @ committee, seen the owner of @ very promi- nent building now going up, and he assented toallow his contractor to stop the brickwork untit fesungly or the conduct of the German ‘Orickiaycrs uc 4 3 said, were first to understand true drift of the strike, and have in a measure ‘with- drawn from the general union. They, a8 Mr, Ross said he was told, have formed an by themselves, to work for ten hours per day at old wages, viz:—$5. He also referred fact that those among the master masons Who could speak German, had che advantage, for the Gel a firat come to them to seek employment, but that he did not care who had a full complement of labor, even if he himeeif was left to the last, so that the ten hour system was maintained. Mr. SOHARFFLER stated, in corroboration of witat Mr. Ross had sald, that the German Bricklayers’ Cnion had broken up and that a new society .ou the ten hour system was organized iast week, number- ing already one hundred and filty members, with Mr, John Bambacher, the President of the old untoa, as President, and that it was expected this new s0- ciety would soon number among its members the best men of the old unton. It was then insisted on that the names of those master masons whose em- loyés are at work at ten tours per di be read, and the secretary, amid = mu sppieuee as each doubtful name was men loned, read the following:—Josepn Schaetiler, ee yee & Welsch, ‘'reemau Bloperood, Joseph Schaefer, Thompson & Mickus, Spear Brothers, John Laimbeer, Huebner Brothers, James Wooley, ham Ackerson, Volk & Niblo, Mathias Bloodgood, Abraham J. Feiter, Jacob Vix, Mr. Ould, Disbrow & Whitfleld, Cornelius O*Reilly, Mr. Vannouten, Herd- felder & Fincke, John Weber, Mr. Pc , Mr. ‘oerschkt, Mr. Erpiitz then moved that the Master Masons’ Association will, in the future, as they have in the po) adhere to the ten hour system, and to the reso- jutions heretofore passed by them, which was unani- mousiy adopted. Mr. ALEX. Ross again took the floor and gaid that the condition of things looked more encouraging than it ever did since the commencement ot the strike. He again stated that if the strike should suc- ceed and eight hours be acknowledged as a day's labor, three-fourths of the contempiated buildings would not be begun, and then the laborers, who now side with the bricklayers, would flad that they have injured themselves. He was satisfied, however, that things looked better and more cheering for their suc- cess than they have heretofore. Mr. Scuppex thought that in response to Mr. Ross’ remarks he ought to say that he set 4 numberof moa to work tn the morning at the rate of five doilara for ten hours per day, but that the laborers, finding this out towards noon, refused to work with ten hour men, whereupon he ducharged them all aud the work was now stopped. Mr. TosTsVEN, oa behalf of his committee, re- ported that they had made arrangements with an advertising agency to have the cail. for brickiayers ublished in sixty ditferent papers in the New Bng- land and the Middle States and in five others in the principal cttica in Canada, and that the assurances were that above one thousand men will be here ve- fore the end of the week. Mr. JouN I, CONOVER, the president, stated that a friend had informed him that above five hundred bricklayers would come to this city for employinent from the i fag along the [udson in the course of the week, and Mr. TosTEVEN had notice that alike emigra- tion from Connecticut to this city would also take place. A conversation then followed between the chairman and several members as to the demands of these men coming here, that they may be assured permanent work, and it was finaily resoived to do ao. A vote of thanks was passed to the German bricklayera and the German bosses for the noble stand they have taken and for the manner in waich they have come up in support of the ten hour system. Mr. VoLK would not throw cold water on the movement of the but he would remind the master masons. Snap Sey went to be thelr own bosses, have the ry engage as many 4 rentices a8 they like and work on their own Built. g8 if they would; and hence the ten hour society of German bricklayera should be made to understand that if they persist in these oppressive rules of the old Union the master masons will have to oppose them. He then called attention to the action o1 the emg who met last week in National Conven- ton at Chicago, and in consequence of his remarks, after several other itlemen had spoken, a resolu- tion was unanimot passed, that hereafter plaster- ing shall not be given out to any boss plasterer who i now opposing the master masons or employs eight our labor. iy funds to tractor to pay the penalty of thelr contracts i exacted od ty the owners, and the meeting adjout § Meeting of Journeymen Bricklayors—They Receive Help, Are Joyful and Hope for Success. The members of the Bricklayers’ Unions Nos. 1, 2 and 4, held @ joint meeting last evening at Milli- man’s Hall, corner of Twenty-sixth street and Sev- enth avenue, Mr. P.M. McFarland presided, and Mr. John A. Banta acted as secretary. The first really interesting part of the proceedings was the report of Mr. Hanlon, on behalf of the stonemasons, announcing that they are in full sympathy with the bricklayers and hope for the complete success of the strike for the eight hour system. The substantial the sum of $1, to the zige ad tit i 2 ; : & 8 e | il : & ( 3 Ly Bh ge : E E i z g 5a Ee8 i i if i jc duty of which was to be pri such committee were appointed . Samuel Gaul, of Union No, 2; Frederick He' of No. 4, and Jacob Stump, of No. 12. ‘The next speaker was Mr. Wars, who denounced the master magons as a ‘useless portion of | Some interruption here arose, & member of the meeting not relianing the application made by the speaker of the word tal. Se White was followed by Mr. Tim. FARLEY, Who mentioned the fact that the bricklayers of the whole thot the meeting adjournes., "wPPOr™. SROFNY ener urned. 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