The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1868, Page 4

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JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- | Of the people. typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rales, Volume XXXII... RELIGIOU SERVICES TO-DAY. BOWERY, No, 229.—Rir noon, CHURCH QF THE STRANGERS.—Rev. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE BI Morning and evening. CHARLES B. Swycu, After- Dr. Drems. EMETION.—Rey. W. Seorr. EVANGE. Keore., Morning and ev ETL ROOMS.—SriritvaLisis. Mx. Ho: ug and evening. EVE OND STREET PRESBY vit, D. D. Morning and ¢ FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIG! BURN BENJAMIN. Morning and evening. IT.—Rev. East- FORTY-SECOND STREET PRE BYTERIAN CHURCH.- Rxy. De. W. A. Scorr. Morning and evening. UNIVERSITY —Washington square on, Bisuor Snow. Af- tera New York, Suuday, July 19, 1868. at t THE NEWS. EUROPE. ‘Tho news report by the Atlautic cable is dated yes- terday evening, July 18, Consvis 4%, & 9443, money, Five-twenties, 72%, a 72% in London, and 78% a 76% in Frankfort, Cotton heavy, with middling uplands at ild. Breadstuits and provisions without marked change. Ry steamship at this port we haye mail details of our cable telegrams to the 7th of July, The death is announced of the French African traveller, Lieutenant Le Saint, while engaged in exploring the country about the White Nile. He had overcome many difficulties and reached Abon-Kouka, within some sixty leagues north of Gondokoro, when he fell a victim, at the age of thirty-five, to the insalubrity of the climate. Miniater Burlingame last evening gave a dinner to the representatives of the press of the conntry in Washington. CONGRESS. Tn the senate yesterday the resolutions of the Con- stivutional Conventions of Georgia and Mississippi, asking \uans from the government, were indefnite! postponed. The bill authorizing the transfer from State to United States courts suits against corpora- tious created by acts of Congress was passed. The bill for the protection of the rights of American citi- zvens abroad was taken up and gave rise to an in- teresting debate between Senators Sumner and Conness; but before the vote was taken the Senate adjourned. In the Hou from ¢ ea resolution requiring au explanation ‘retary of the Interior relative to certain printing contracts alleged to be trragalar was passed, Five Louisiana and two South Carolina members were sworn in. Mr. Moorhead stated that the Tariff bill would not be further pressed this session. The Funding bill was considered in Committee of the wile ‘The additional section réported by the Com- mittee Bp Wars 82d Means, providing for taxing the interest SN bouds Was agreed to, a substi- tute, Offered by Mr. Pike, including the income on ‘ponds held by foreigners, being rejected by a vote of $8 to 7% «An amendment to subject bonds to State and maiicipal taxation was rejected by a vote of 25 to &. Mr, Tputwell’s substitute providing for two classes of bonds Was rejec ted. The bill and amend- menta were then reparted to the House and ordered to be printed, with the wWerstanding that the vote tail be taken to-morrow, from the President recommend:2g amendments to the constitution in relation to the ¢lection of the President and Senators. It will be found full else- where tn our columns this morning. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Mazatlan (Mexico) correspondent furnishes in full this morning the correspondence between Cap- tain Bridges, of the English man-of-war Chanticleer, and General Corona in relation to the presumed in- sult to the former and his intention to bombard the port in consequence, It appears that General Corona persistently replied to the captain that if he should apply to the proper civil authorities for redress he would obtain it, but that he (General Corona) was simply a military officer accidentally stationed tn the town. Captain Bridges, however, declined to apply elsewhere and prepared for the bombardment, as heretofore reported by telegraph. Great excitement existed in Mazatian, and the Mexi- can soldiers appeared rather anxious for a fight. The State Prison at Trenton, N. J., took fire yes- terday, and was burning furiously at last accounts. Many of the convicts were partially suffocated. + ‘The temperature was quite endurable yesterday, and although fourteen cases of prostration from the heat occurred no fatal cases are reported. Of 246 deaths reported during last week at the Coroners’ office 203 were produced by the excessive heat. Our watering place letters are dated Saratoga, Schooley’s Mountain and Cape May. The hotels at Saratoga are full of the fashionables andg grand sea- son was in prospect, and the same may be said of Cape May. . Hon, W. P. Howland, C. B., has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Hon. L. A. Wilmot Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. A large ratification meeting of the democracy was held in Washington last evening, at which Senator Doolittle, General Ewing, Thomas B. Florence and others made speeches. A similar meeting was held in New Orleans, and resolutions supporting the party nominees were adopted. The Georgia House of Representatives have de- cided that all its sitting members are eligible. It has # democratic majority. ‘The nomination of Collector Henry A. Smythe to ‘pe Minister to Austria was rejected by the Senate yesterday. The Philadelphia Gas Company have yielded to the demand of the strikers and they have resumed work. Telegraphic advices from Jamaica state that the mall pox had become epidemic in the interior. ‘The stock market was strong yesterday. Govern- ‘ment securities were strong, Gold was also strong and closed at 143% 0 143%. « . The markets, with but few exceptions, were ex- tremely quiet yesterday. Cotton was in light de- F eae ‘but steady, at S1%¢c. for middling uplands. roceries were generally dull and heavy. on sOhange flour was but littie sought after and irregn- Jar and a trifie lower. being dail and heavy and winter in fair demand and firm, Corn was moderately active ai! easier. Oats were fairly active and higher. Poi! ym more active, batat lower prices, new mess clo: fog at about $28 12%, Beef and lard were quiet bi aveady. Naval stores—Spirits turpentine was active ey Wy re conta way a eA) ka © 0. ‘Q01 office by the death, resignation or removal of ICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH.—Rzv. Dx. G. F. | years, ng. of the undemocratic character of the present electoral system were, however, furnished hy the two last Presidential electio: ham Lincoln was chosen President. Breckenridge and Bell combined, in a poll ofonly four-and a half millions of votes. elected President under the existing system, although he received only three hundred thou- sand votes above one-third of the whole num ber cast; and his election involved the most of about four million votes he ri four hundred thousand majority over McClellan, although the latter in the Electoral College got only the support of three States—Kentucky, 4 message was received | New Jersey and Delaware. eat was irregular, spring NEW YORK HERALD, firmly held, Petroleum—Crude was quiet but ar Satan Among the Fashionable Churches. at 17%c, a 18c. in bulk add 2c, tn bbis., while Fashionable piety and the ‘heated term” bonded was active and firm at 35c. on the spot moe do not, as chemists say, combine freely. There 3544c. a 86c, for August. Whiskey was dull 4nd | is about the same natural ani ve nominal, Freights were quiet but drmer, Wille ME} 10 then and recherché cele chartering business was fair, ste ' 8 own to exist between oil and water. When : cold weather, balls, routs, Germans and cham- ents to the Cone! nagne suppers are in the ascendant fashion- able conventicles, with fashionably paid and In conformity with that section of the consti- | gotten up parsons to gracefully ‘go through tution of the United States which requires that | the motions” in fashionably upholstered pul- the President ‘‘shall from time to time give to | pits and altars, piety, like an exotic in a green- An Interesting Message from the Presi- dent—Proposed Amen stitution. Union and recommend to their consideration | son” it is daintily disseminated in the daintiest such measures as he shall judge necessary and | language to dainty audiences, who ‘‘go to expedient,” President Johnson yesterday sent | church because it is the thing,” languid in a message to the Senate and House of Repre- | mind and exhausted in body from the excesses sentatives embodying certain amendments to | of the week; for even ‘‘fashionable piety” is desirable to be adopted and submitted to the people for their judgment. The first and most important of these amendments abolishes the it then becomes a “‘bore” to everybody except dowagers, who are accustomed to roughing it. Fashionable religion during the winter sol- President of the United States through the instrumentality of electors or under certain contingencies of the House of Representatives, and provides for an election by a direct vote The second distinctly defines by a constitutional provision the persons who shall discharge the duties of President of the but when, in the procession of the seasons, the grass appears, it gradually begins to retire from the public mind; and on Sirius mounting the zenith and epidemics becoming possible, it, with the parson’s surplice and the elegantly appointed pews, is done up in brown linen and put, away, while the ‘worshippers” close UNDAY, JULY 19, 1868. sri eeetieeassiee et a ee eeprom ee the party organs and oratora throughout the country to beware of making the payment of the principal of the five-twenties in gold a teat of party faith. They had better not try it. Greeley, who has boldly attacked Pendleton and Butler, especially Butler, on this subject as little better than repudiators and public rob- bers, shrinks from the terrible warning of Stevens. He is not to be trifled with by these millionaire bondholders and speculators and “bloated aristocrats.” He lays down the law, and says it is greenbacks, and greenbacks it will be. There is no mistaking the language of ‘Old Thad,” and Greeley is struck dumb, And this is but the beginning of the approach- ing settlement of the money question. The veteran leader of the House is a sagacious man; for he evidently comprehends the im- portant fact that the public mind of this coun- try is fixed, not upon an indefinite prolonga- tion, but upon an early extinguishment of the national debt, in order to be relieved of its oppressive weight of never ending but still expanding taxations, corruptions and spolia- tions. ‘‘Bloated speculators,” do ye hear? Hayti—Another Negro Emperor. Our advices from Port au Prince are to the effect that President Salnave has proclaimed himself Emperor. The revolution is not put United States in the event of a vacancy in that | and effectually clasp their prayer and hymn books, don their travelling dresses, take French both the President and Vice President. The | leave of the metropolis, and for the sins of the third provides for the election of Senators to | winter, in which they did those things they Congress by the direct vote of the people of | ought not to have done and left undone the the several States instead of by the State | things they ought to have done, make peni- Legislatures. The fourth abolishes the life | tential pilgrimages to Saratoga, Newport, the tenure of the United States Judiciary and sub- | lakes and other resorts, where they ideally stitutes appointment for a definite term of | array their persons in sackcloth (of satin and linen) and ashes (of roses) and meekly purge themselves and thus recuperate for another season of naughtiness and piety in the sinful city. Of course the parsons follow their flocks. Tt is their profession to be pious, and they must need make journeys, like Bunyan’s Christian, through many temptations, that their ‘‘charges” may be saved from the wrath to come. And here it is where the great enemy of mankind steps in and makes captive of souls. Some of the demi-fashionable conventicles do not en- tirely close their doors in the summer months. The demis, we must do them the credit of saying, keep church during the fifty-two Sun- days in the year; but while the regulars are in lurope, in the mountains fishing for trout, or at Saratoga drinking water (of course), a sort The first of these propositions has often received the consideration of the press and of thinking men in the United States. As Mr. Johnson says, Andrew Jackson, in his first message to Congress, strongly urged an amend- ment to the constitution that should secure the election of a President by the direct votes of the people; and not long since Ashley, of Ohio, proposed an alteration of the fundamental law, not only making a similar provision, but abolish- ing the office of Vice President. It is true that Jackson, a man of strong feelings and unfor- giving disposition, was smarting under his defeat by an alleged bargain in the House of Representatives four years | previously, when Adams was chosen President, and that Ashley's — proposi- tion, as he stated in his speech last May, was of Bohemian substitute, with very loose ortho- mainly induced bya desire to get rid of an | ox notions, is installed in the place of each. office which had subjected the nation to S‘the These pious Bohemians, like those who hang to perfidy of Tyler, the betrayal of Fillmore and | the skirts of the press, are all tempted of the baseness and infamy of Johnson,” Neyer- | Satan to lead the remnants of the fold—com- theless it has been by many considered incon- | pelled either by poverty or business to remain sistent with true democratic principle that a | in town—astray by teaching false doctrines, by Chief Magistrate should be chosen to rule over ! introducing ideas not in consonance with the the whole of the States who had received the | regularly laid down articles under which every votes of only a minority of the people, as has | Well appointed church starts on its voyage for frequently been the case. In 1844, when Polk | the bourn of Jordan. was elected, the popular vote gave Clay and Some of these Bohemian clergymen, being Birney twenty-three thousand majority over | Out of regular situations, and of course him. In 1848 Taylor received a majority of | anxious to “fill acceptably” the desks of the electoral votes, but the popular vote left | paying congregations, are exceedingly ear- him over one hundred and fifty thousand be- | nest in their convictions, and if cholera, hind Cass and Van Buren, In 1856 Fre- | yellow fever or other contagious disease rages, mont and Fillmore had uniiedly four hun- | labor faithfully among the stricken, and so get dred thousand majoriiy over Buchanan, who | their names in the papers. But the chief error was elected. The most striking illustrations | which afflicts the Bohemian of the press cir- cumvenia the Bohemian of the pulpit. They will both steal ideas—the one from the English lay classics, the other from the works of the fine old sermonizers of the sixteenth and pre- ceding centuries. Thus, without originality (how can a poor parson be original He was thus | and have no regular charge?), our reverend | Bohemian of a Sunday morning, with the ther- | mometer at eighty-six in the shade, presents a | discourse which, lingnally speaking, is a ! splendid specimen of literary patchwork, and | on listening to which the congregation begin In 1864 Lincoln was again chosen; yetina poll | to draw ugly comparisons between the sub- ived only | stitute and the regular pastor, and always to | the disadvantage of the latter, who has grown | too lazy to plagiarize. These get wicked ideas , in their heads. They desire a change of shep- herds. A row is the result, followed by a pos- sible split in the congregation, at all of which Satan grins significantly; for well he knows that unless these watch and pray without ces- sation he will get his finger, and eventually his scheming brain, into the seething mess of ha- “tred and all uncharitableness which of neces- | sity follows, tothe certain downfall of fashiona- | ble piety, to the personal profit of his own and { | . When Abra- In 1860 Lincoln was nearly one million behind Douglas, important events the world has ever known. President Johnson's strictures upon the cau- cus and party convention mode of forcing eandi- dates into nomination, thus compelling the people at large to vote for men selected by a few selfish and corrupt leaders from purposes of bad ambition or to throw away their ballots, will touch the popular heart at the present time, and will lose none of its force from the impression that it may have been induced by personal disap- pointment at the rejection of his claims by the democracy. The people are getting heartily sick and tired of nominating conventions, ruled and manipulated as they are by the self- constituted managers of political organizations, and would heartily rejoice at any reform that | could rid them of a machinery that works for the subversion of their will. The amendment as framed by President Johnson may be found to need revision, but the country would be very likely to approve a constitutional pro- vision that would remove all intermediate | five-twenties as substantially the views of Mr. agency in the choice of their Chief Magistrate | Pendleton, but the emphatic declarations of and submit his election directly to the popular | the radical leader of the House in the debate in that body on Friday last on the Funding bill are entitled to some special notice. They his servant, the Bohemian parson. Now, the moral of all this is, stay at home, goto prayers regularly, remember the poor with meekness of spirit, patronize the Park and its concerts, and so live, winter and sum- mer, that even Satan himself will be tempted to return to his allegiance and drink the mineral waters as a beverage more agreeable to his palate than brimstone champagne. “Old Thad” on “iloated Speculaters”’— Greeley Struck Dumb. We referred yesterday to the opinions of “Old Thad Stevens” on the redemption of the vote. There are many considerations in favor of such a provision, in regard to filling | are declarations which, we think, settle the vacancies. in the office of President | question in favor of the payment of the prin- under certain contingencies, as is sug- | cipal of the five-twenties in legal tenders. This, said Mr. Stevens, is the law ‘‘as all understood it when the law was enacted; just as it was explained on the floor a dozen times by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means.” Is not this conclusive testimony ? Furthermore, said the radical leader of the House, “‘if I knew that any party in the country would go for paying in coin that which is payable in money, thus enhancing the debt one half—if I knew there was such a platform and such a determination on the part of my own party, I would, with Frank Blair and all, vote with the other party.” The proposition to redeem these five-twenties in gold Mr. Stevens flatly paononnced ‘‘a swindle on the taxpayers of the cxuntry” in favor of ‘large bondholders and millionaires.” He repeated that “if Frank Blair stood on the platform of the contract, and if the republican candi- date stood on the platform of paying bloated speculators (‘bloated speculators’ is good) twice the amount agreed to be paid them and of taxing his constituents to death, he would vote for Frank Blair, even if a worse man than Seymour was on the ticket.” This may he considered an edict from the loader of the sepublican pasty in Copgreas jo gested in th@ message, although it will only be regarded by Congress as & sly parting hit at Ben Wade before he leaves for his Western home. The proposition to give the election of United States Senators to the people of the | States directly instead of to the State Legisla- | tures will find many supporters, particularly in States where the popular will has been. dis- regarded and the choice of the Legislature has been controlled by money. President Johnson may have had Pennsylvania and Connecticut in his mind when he wrote his message, and his dislike of Cameron and his friendship for Dixon may both have influenced his judgment. But certainly the State of New York would not he misrepresented as grossly as she now is in the Senate of the United States if the choice of her Senators had rested with her people in- stead of with her Legislature. The proposi- tion to abolish the life tenure of the United States Judiciary is as unwise as it would be unpopular, As, however, the whole message, its recommendations, arguments, logic and @mendments, are likely to be thrown on the table, or under it, by Congress, it is unprofit- able to discuss them in any other light (yan pp peng incideuts of ths hour, down; the foreigners are as little satisfied and as much in danger as ever; but Salnave, what- ever the final result of the present struggle is to be, has made up his mind that his will must be supreme in Hayti. It is further reported that the Picos of the South were arming; that the lazzaroni were threatening the foreigners in the sireets of Port au Prince, and that Minister Hollister was indignant with the goy- ernment of Salnave because of the manner in which Americans and other foreigners were treated. Salnave, therefore, is not yet killed out, nor has the world seen the last of black- faced emperors. We heara great deal about the questions of the hour; but really it does appear as if the great question of the hour was the place to be assigned to the “nigger” and the mixed races. The British have, it is true, killed off Theodorus; but, on the other hand, the Mexicans have killed off Maximilian, the Uniled States have proclaimed the “nigger” the equal of the white man, and now Hayti, indignant that, since the fall of Theo- dorus, no woolly head was adorned with an imperial crown, has revived the empire and raised Salnave to the purple. It may be taken for granted that Salnave will revive the hono- rary titles which gave a ridiculous prominence to the reign of Soulouque, alias Faustin the First. Our hopes of Salnave as Emperor are not greater than were our hopes of Salnave as President. Hayti ia hopelessly a prey to the worst kind of anarchy; and, so far as we can see, the best thing that cam befall her is to come under the tender mercies of England or France—that is, if the United States do not immediately take her in charge. The Strike of the Sricklayers—Suspension of the Building Trade. From the reports published in the Heratp from day to day of the proceedings of the master masons on the one hand and the brick- layers om the other, it is apparent that the differences between these two cognate branches of the building trade are assuming wider pro- portions than either of them thought of at the beginning of the strike, It is no longer the eight hour movement of the journeymen which the boss masons oppose; they seem now de- termined to fight against the whole system of trades unions, and claim to do so in order that the employer, and not the employed, may regu- late and control his own business. They com- plain bitterly of the assumptions of their men by means of their combination in the society to limit the number of apprentices, prescribe their quali- fications, and forbid the master to employ any without the sanction of the society, so that, in fact, the person apprenticed is subject only to the commands of the union and not of his employer. They also complain of the in- justice of the level rate of wages exacted by the society, ‘‘dwarfing the ambition of the enterprising.” while it insures a premium to lazin and equal pay with the best to the laggard and incompetent. Hence the stand now taken by the master masons is not against the eight hour move alone, but against the whole system of the workingmen’s unions. The journeymen, on the other hand, know this change in the position of affairs fully and appreciate its bearings. They are making the most strenuous efforts to enlist all their fellow workingmen of all trades and throughout the country in their behalf, claiming that while fighting their own battle against the master masons they are really battling for the prin- ciple of the trades unions and for the rights of the workingman and the enhancement of his welfare, What the result of the strife may be it is impossible as yet to foretell ; but it is safe to assume that the loss to the country at large may already be estimated by the million. Not only have more than three-fourths of all the brick work contracted for in this city been stopped in the midst of the best building season of the year, but everything connected with it— carpenter work, stone work, iron work, the lumber trade in the city and country (embrac- ing, as has been stated, some thirty thousand persons)—are more or less injured. It is to be hoped, in view of these deplorable facts, that these conflicting parties will speedily come to some jnst and reasonable compromise satis- factory to both sides. Tur Warerina Praces.—The season has been backward, but the late prolonged Egyp- tian weather has induced a forward movement, and yesterday, it appears, there was some- thing like an old-fashioned summer exodus of men, women and children, bound for ‘‘the Branch” and all along the Jersey shore and Staten and Long Islands, and up the Hudson and up the Sound, and West, North and East for the lakes and springs and mountains, so that, during the coming week the watering places will begin to fill up, and by the first of August they will be at high water mark, The general impression is that their business will be comparatively light this year from the pressure of the money question; but much will depend upon the weather. Rvrrianism Rawpant.—The ruffiane of the city and the suburbs, instead of being subdued into quietness by the terrible heat of the last week or two, seem to have been inspired by it to greater activity in their outrages. Jt will not do for the police to relax their vigilance on account of the heat. ‘When the ca Sho migo will play. THE PENNSYLVANIA COAL TUNZRS’ STRIKE, Companion Pictures Taken from Life—Oppo- sition, Views and Purposes of Operators and StrikersFull Details of the Strike in Potts- villeRumors of Reaction Elsewhere. POTTSVILLE, July 18, 1363. Modelled after the capital of the State, the streets wide, well paved and running at right angles, the houses built mostly of brick and neat and compact in appearance, and in the suburbs many very fine dwellings of the tasteful villa style of architecture, abounding in large stores with showy fronts and showy displays of brilliant fabrics, a comfortable “complement of hotels, banks, insurance offices, Schools and churches, the beautiful Schuyl- kill river sweeping by with its gracefully meandering curves and encompassed within the shel- tering embrace of glorious mountain heights, the city of Pottaville, with its immense machine shops and rolling mills and colileries adjacent, the chief sources of its enterprise, industry, prosperity and wealth, is certainly one of the most thriving as well as one of the most beautiful inland cities in the State, A tem- porary pall, however, now overshadows the town— the result of the present strike movement. All the cotiieries in the neighborhood and those at Wasles- ville and St. Ciair are clos in knots at the street cornera may at ail hou’ be seen the strikers- and those who through their —_instramen- tality have been thrown 0} of work. In ler groups on the shaded icos of the hoteia the mizing operators. 1 we persist in our ke is the ccaseleas topic of discussion among the rikers, Shall we persist in our refusal to comply with the demands of the strikers the operators are as busily discussing among themaeives. A marked dl ference shows itself in these apprvximate groupings, Stern and rough-visaged, with coarse woollen shirts, dilapidated felt hata, worn with a Laedpen gh reckiess air upon their shaggy heads, the broadest of brogans on their feet, and great broad hands, the most smok- ing short clay pipes, and very many odious with the fumes of villanous — whiskey, and abounding in fine oaths and finer ges ticulations—such are the strikers. Sleek and evidently well fed, and wearing good clothes and smoking good cigars are the operators. But there ls clean, honest, tatelligible look about the: k of sharp business men, but such as are ¢ posed to be just and not mean—men who know their own business and interest best and are not given to submitting to dictation, and withal men who know how to jox¢ and be jolly among themselves, what- ever pres:ing outer cares may weigh upon them, Among these operators are some of very large weait Whose net incomes are to be counted by tens of tho: sands. “How are you operators regarding this strike?’ I asked one of them, with a view to draw him out on the subject, and with no view on his part that in lei- ting his opinions be known to me he was paving the way for their wider utterance in type. “We have got used to this sort of thing and don’t regard it much,” he quietiy answered, knocking the ashes off the end of his cigar. “Strikes are chronic with the miners, only the disease asstunes a virulent type at times. It is now in one of its virulent stages. ‘The eight hour labor 1 sed by the Legislature, like the presence of ozone in the ait, which develops cholera, has induced a renewed development of the disease. “Knowing what would be the effect upon the tn- dustrial interests of the State, and particularly upon you coal men, Why were not measures t ‘nto pre- vent the passage of such a law,” I ventured mildly to suggest, “It would have done no good," he answered; “a democratic member proposed the lav, and. though tue Legisiature hada repuolican majority, they all voted. It was simply a vote to get yotes--so many bids for re-election.” “is the law constitutional #”" asked. “T don't think the Leg! had any right pass any such law,” he replied; “though I very much the possibility of proving is unc tutfonality.” “On what basis, then, can you asgume to contest the law?" “On the broad basis of justice to ourselves and equity to those we employ,” he responded, “tt will not do to have such a law become universal through- out the State, Large manyfacturing establishments, employing extensive machinery, cannot work ad- vantageously under the eight hour system, All furnaces would have their labor expenses increased one-third, as the men now work tweyve hours and twelve hours off. It is only about one-fourth of our men, the outside laborers, that work ten hours; but we cannot aiford to have them work less, and with coal at its present prices wi certainly cannot aiford to raise the wages of the’ laborers twenty per cent.” “If coal goes up in price so that you can afford to give theadditional pay demanded, it is possibie you may comply thea with the terms of the strikers?" { tuterrupted. “The general disposition now i “not to secede to their demands to i * he eontinued, ler any circun stances, tor we consider the law as unjust and unwarrantable interference With our rights and busi- ness,” “But suppose you find you are going tabe heavy hour losera by persisting in keeping the old ten systent at the old wages?” “Well, that’s a subject of after cot its and particularly. wf t don’t strike, to remain idle for a p might be making money and give them all the coa | trade.” The above is a fair sample of the general views entertained by the operators and their mode of: ex- pressing then, It will be seen that if the Scranton | region strikes, thus shutting off any supplies of cc to the market, the strike may continue for an in- definite pertod, like a former strike that lasted nine but oon the other hand, if Scranton — region — does it is likely to be of short duration. panion picture fo die above L will give you a b dialogue with one of the leading strikers, boys getting tired of your strike?" was my preliininary interrogator “Not ad—n bit of it,” he quickly answered: law of the land is ou our side, and by the holy § we'll have justice or die. It says eight hours is a day's work and b are they ng to get over it.” “But the opera is unjus.,”” Lreplicd. “OF coorse tht 7 he conunued; “they want to rule, they want to be aristocrats and ride tn their carriages and alll that, and they don’t want to | give the poor man lis ‘onest earnings, but they'll have to come to it and they can’t help themsety “So you are bound to sth k 7? Stick | We'll stick till we dies; we dics of old age fost afore we gives un.” “The operators say they'll stick, too —" “They stick and be d—d! “We can stick the ; longest. “So you'll starve before you give up?* Starve withont a cent In out pockets or a cent to bury us with;” a..d he looked very determined when he gaid this, and his gesticulations were suiciently convincing proof that he meant every word he said—at least while he was saying it. Reaching this climax I concluded that | had pursued the conversation far enough and elicited about as much light as was possible on this side of the ques- tion. Subsequently [ was told that the man with whom I had been conversing was one of the leading spirits here in resisting the draft during the war, and who when the Lehigh valley was placed under martial law was with some three hundred others ar- rested by the Tenth New Jersey regiment, Col- onel Ryerson, sent down here by Generai Sigel, ingoommand of the Army of the Cumberland, and after arrest taken to Forts Mimin and Dela- ware, This man, however, escaped from durance as he expects now to escape from ten hours? labor, A large number of the strikers belong to the same three hundred. It remains to be seen whether they will show the same persistence in standing their ground as the famed three hundred at Thermopyle. It has already been mentioned that all the collier- jes about here are stopped. My account of the strike by some of the workmen in the machine shops, given in a previous letter and based on rumor, I now find ‘was somewhat imperfect as well as incomplete. A gang of about fifty colliers, with fife and drum and a banner inscribed “Eight hours’ labor and no red tion of wages,” entered on a tour of the workshops, but they soon got disgusted, for the resuit was not a8 brilliantly successful as they antici. aied, They first visited the machine shop of eorge N. Snyder, who now has employed only some thirty men instead of the one hundred and fifty employed in brisk times. Mr. Snyder told the men it was immaterial to him whether the men stopped or not. The men considered that it was material to themselves and «id not stop. They next went toJohn Derr’s foundry. He shat the door on them, told them they had no business interfering with his business or that of his men and ordered them away. They obeyed the order, as likewise they did a similar order given them by Simon Derr, a brother of the latter, having # foundry near by, which place they next visited. From here they went to Pomeroy & Sons’, machinists, and the men refused to stop work. At Wren’s machine shop the machin- ists joined them, but the mouiders remained. At Pott & Vostine’s inachine shop, Mr. Po:t undertook to put them out the front door, but some of them got in a back way and rung the bell, when all the men, a8 by understanding, droppea their tools and work. They started for the Palo Alto roll! across the Schuylkill, but met the men, who given up work on account of the heat,and thereupon they returned to town. This hap- pened three days ago and comprises the whoie iis- tory of the strike among the machine shops and Tolling mills, It is betteved that the attempt to induce others to strike will not be renewed, and the proba- bility is that the few who have foolishly allowed themseives to be drawn into the movement wili soon to work again. No late news of special interest has reached here from other quarters of the coal regio The party oing to Dauphin county, where tley are reported as faving been wholly unsuccessful in their efforts to get the laborers there to join them in the strike, are said to be on their return with @ big disgust om the whole party. Other gangs, particularly those headed for the Scranton region, are also said to have about-faced with a like feeling of disgust. At Packerton, where the machinists lately stopped hey have gone to work in, and all the repair men have also resui labor, It is thought to be likely that in otner machine shops, furnaces and rolling mils throughout the coal re- gion where work has been stopped the men will speedily resume employment, They allowed them. selves to be made the too willing tools of the gangs ot visiting their places, It is very comfort ‘able not to have any work to do, but not very com- fortable to be out of money, The reaction ts show. ing itself. TELSGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS DF THE WORLD. JAMAICA. Pope er ee eee oo Coolie Labor Wanted on the Island—Trade Quite Lively—The Barbados Races, HAVaNA, July 18, 1868, ‘The British steam sloop-of-war Royalst has ar- rived at this port from Kingston, Jamaica, with ad- vices to July 12. An agent had gone to Iudla for the purpore of se- curing more coolies, the demand for that kind of labor on the island having considerably increased. The coffee, ginger and rum trade, a3 well as the tramic in anise, was very active. ° ‘The smalipox had become epidemic in the Anterior. At the races in Barbados Ironwood had yon the $20,000 prize. NEW JERSEY. ‘TRENTON, July 16—3:30 7 Mf. The State Prison at Trenton On Fire—Av fim meuse’ Conflagration—Suffocation of Con victs. A dreadful confagration is now raging in tre State Prison. The fire originated in the chair shop, which is entirely consumed. One of the wings is now an immense sheet of flame, The prisoners had® to be removed. ‘The howling of the suffocating con- victs is appalling, and the utmost confusion and ex- citement prevail. At this writing there is no likelt- hood of a subsidence of the flames, DOMINION OF CANADA. Mr. Howlaud and Mr. Wilmot Appointed Lieutenant Governors of Ontario and New Branswick—Prociamation by the Queen. Orrawa, July 18, 1868, The oficial Gaze/te to-day announces the appoint- ; ment of Hon. W. P. Howland, ©. B., as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Hon. L. A. Wilmot as Lieute- nant Governor of New Brunswick, A prociamation from the Queen also appears ia the Gazette imposing punishment by fine and imprison- ment upon any of her Majesty’s suijeous who may take part in hostiities against Japan. LOUISIANA. Democratic Katification Meeting in Now Orieans. New ORLEANS, July 18, 1868. A inass meeting for the ratification of the demo- cratic Presidentia! nominations was held this even- ing and was probably tue largest ever assembled im Louisiana. Lafayette square and the streets in the vicitlity were densely packed. The vice presidents numbered three hundred of the most substantial and respectable citizens of the city. Resolutions eminently patriotic and conservative endorsing the piatform and nominations of the New York Convention and pledging the cordial support of the Louisiana democracy were adopted. ‘The fourth resolution repeats the words of the platform that secession and slavery are dead and: veces the power of any sane man anywhere to revive. The other resolutions condemn the constitution under which Louisiana is now received into the Union and the authorities now exercising power, a3 haying been imposed upon the State in violation of the federal constitution, by the exercise of absolute authority; express interest and alarm in view of the course pursued by the Legislature now silyng; expresa gratitude ‘for President Johnson's elorts in their behalf, and adress the intelligent colored people of the State, towards whom they have none but feel- ings of kindness; cite the recent election in Missis- sippi as an instance of what can be done by proper course towards the negro BO Ae ince A resolution was adopted in commendation of the course pursued by the officers and soldiers of the United States Army towards the citizens during the late administration of the military authorities in thin State,tendering them their heartfelt acknowledgment for the uniform disposition tn regard to the citizens of this State as brothers rather than subjects of vin dictive oppression. ‘The streets in the vicinity of Lafayette square and along the route of the procession were brilltantly Uluminated and thronged with people. ‘The proces sion was over halt an hour passing the telegraph ontlee. ¢ GEORGIA. | Tae LegislatureAll the Members of thu fiouse Declared Eligible. ATLANTA, July 18, 1868, In the House to-day «il the members were deciared eligible. A resolution was offered that the action of the House and all the documentary evidence in re. ference to the investigation of the cli Ibiity of ite members be transmitted to the Governor, and through him to General Meade. PENNSYLVANIA. The Strike at the Gasworks Endedé—The Com pany Yicids to the Demands of the Strikers. PHILADELPHIA, July 18, 1868. ‘The gas strikers have succeeded in accomplishing their object, the trustees of the gasworks having complied with their demands for increased compen sation. Work las been resumed, and there will be enough gas ou hand by this evening to-light the city if proper economy is observed, aud by to-morrow night the supply will be fully equal to the demand. The citizens are rejoicing at having escaped a re- petition of such darkness as was cxpericuced last { night. MISSOURI. Departure ot General Grant trom Leavon- worth. St. Lours, July 18, 1858, Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Den‘ lett Leavenworth this morning for Denver via the Kan sas Pacifle Railway. EUROPEAN MARK: ETS. 10: MONEY MARKET.—LONDON, Juiy 18—2 P. M.—Consols close at 94% & 0444 for motiog and 9445 for the account, American securities close at the following quotations:—United States fivetwenty bonds, 72% a 724; Erie Railway shares, 4%%; [li- nois Central, %\,; Atlantic and Great Western, 36's. FRANKFORT URSE.—FRANKFORT, July 18.— United States five-twenty bonds close at 76% a 76% for the issue of 1862. LIVERPOOL CoTToN MARKFT.—Lrverroor, July 18-2 P, M.—The cotton market closed heavy at the opening quotations of this morning—viz., miidling NDON bi ney) 1d.; middling Orleans, lid. The saies of the day have footed b A and bales. The total ship. ments of cotton from wy the this port up to the ‘14th inst. since the last report have been 17,' bales. LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET.—LIVARPOOL, daly 182 P. My , 34 per quarer for mew mixed Western, Wheat, 138, per cental for Galifornia white, and 11s. 64. for Na 2 red Western. Bariey, Peas, 438. 5a, id. per bushel, Oats, 98. 8d. per bushe, r quarter for Canadian. Fi vestern. Lrverroen Provisions MARKF™—Livrrroor, July 18—2 P. M.—Ewef, 197s. 6d. per tieree of 404 Ibs: for extra prime mess. Pork, 76a, per owt, for Eastern’ prime mess, |, 658, Od. per cvt. Cheese, 578. per cwt. for the best les af American fine. Bacon, bas» 6d. | gh ited for pt beciand cut. ONDON PRODUCE MAKKET.—LONDON, July 18—2 P. M.—Rosin, 5a. 9d. per cwt. for common. North Carolina. Tallow, 488 Jd. per cwt. Spirits turpen tine, 27. 6d. per ewt. Refined petroleura, 18. 5! 4. jour, 208. per bbT. for per gallon, Spirits turpent: 1s. per gallon. Clover seed, 458. 84. per cwk for A van red Sugar closed, quiet and st at ee teady at 263. per cwt. for No. 12 Dutch, standard. Ceijcutta linseed 638, 6d. — oil, £51 15s. per ton. Linseed cakes, #11 per panama an M Antawn AD (TW ERP, July 4 | gr ‘ole’ Oe ec! rm al y. r bb for wandard white. pedicle went EUROPEAN MARINE NEWS. er ee SOUTHAMPTON, July 18,—The steamship Cimbria from New York? July §, arrived at this port at ta past seven o'clock Px M. yesterday. — THE WASH/AGTON STREET COTTON FIRE. The cotton stored in the warehouse No. 602 Wash ington street was ewned by Sawyer, Wallace & Co., Dioble, Worth & Co,, George E. Biddle & Co. ana Norton, Seaghtr & Oo. Sawyer, Wallace « were ingured for $146,000, as follows:. Washingtoa, $24,000; Market, $10,000; Continentai, $15,000; American, 000; — Niagaia, $10,000" American, ‘ 12 North mi 004; Conte veut utua, $10,0007 ‘Montauk, ; Commonwealth, $10,000; Home, Kew Haven, $25,000; Storling, $5,000, Dibbis & re insured by As in the Western of Bur faly, Biddle & Co. $ in the Stuyvesant. Nor tuff, Slaughter & Co., Market $35,000 and §20,000 in ‘ashi insurance companies, There is probabiy asaivage on the cotton of about thirty per cent. ‘The building is insured for $5,000 in the Lenox ant Cotumbta Insurance Comoantes. ane