The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1868, Page 4

4 W YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. = = Volume XXXII. AMUSBMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—SiEGE OF TROY—GRAND MELANOE—La 57aTUB BLANCHE, ‘OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humpry Dumpty. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broad 1th - = Ey way and street. RRY OF LiFR. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—A FLASH OF Ligatntna, NIBLO'S GARDEN.—BARBE BLEUE. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth street —ETHI0riaN MINBTRELGY, £0. . TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—COMIO Vooaism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. Matinco at 2). CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avonue.—PoruLa® GaRpEN Conoxrt, HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, MINeTRELS—TuR WILD Fawn. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. SOrmNOR AND AxT. Brooklyn. —HOoLky’s New York, Wednesday, July 22, 1868. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, July 21, Lord Napier, oi Magdala, was presented with the freedom of the city of London and a sword and entertained a grand municipal banquet. Ducal Hesse acioyis the American naturalization treaty. Prince Nayoicon was at Malta, for Paris, Tue Cretan exiles at . presented hima with an address, to which he recurned a non-committal reply. Consois, 44 4 944, Money. Five-twenties, 72% a 72% in Lowsou and 767 a77in Frankfort. Paris Bourse tir Cotton euvy, with middling uplands 104d. a W%d. Bre iscuds lower, Provisions duil. Our special Buropean correspondence and mati report, dai.) Co the 1ith of July, embrace interesting details of oy cable telegrams. On the . of Ja cond anniversary of the battle of Sadow » Roman Revolutions Committee preseniod vn wiciress to the King of Prussia through Baron Aru tac Minister of Prussia and of the North Geran ¢ ation in ihe Eternal City, In coneliiyi ey say:—“We hope that great Ger- many Wili uot sorget the sympathies of the Romans and the pra, ors (hey constantly pul up for her pros- perity, {that the seittiemeat aud growth of her Power wii, be iertile 0! happy results lo us. Cora Pears arrived in Constantinopic from Paris, CONGRESS. In the senete yesterday a concurrent resolution deciarin. (ie sourteenth artic! Litled was adopted, A resolution was offered to pay the new members from the souls from the commencement of the Fortieth Congress, but objection was made and the resolution was laid over, The bill for the protection of American cilizens abroad was taken up asthe special order, but immediately postponed. The reports of tie conference imitiees on the Indian Appropriation and the Judiciary — bills were agreed to. A resolution to adjourn sine die on Friday was offered, bat as several mem- it Was not acted upon. in the evening lution appealing to the Turkish gov- ernment in favor of the Cretans was offered by the Committee on Foreign Affairs and adopted. Some discussion ensued on the bill for the erection of bridges across the Ohio river, which was passed, and the Senate adjourned, In the House the Judiciary Committee reported that the new Southern Representatives were entitled to pay only from the date of their elections, aud the report was adopted. The Alabama members were about to be sworn in when Mr. Brooks objected, but after some heartless Dadgering on the part of the democrats they finally had the oath administered, The conference report on the bill to supply ancies in the Executive De- partment was agreed to. T nate resolution de- claring the fourteenth article a part of the constitu- tion was adopted. The Funding bill was then taken up, and discussion upon it was continued during the afternoon and evening sessions, When it was finally passed. MISCELLANEOUS. The news from Venezuela by the Gulf cable is to the effect that Caracas had been taken by assault on the 23d of June. Brazual, the national commander, had fled, and Monagas, the leader of the revolu- tionary forces, had proclaimed a new government which had been recognized by the foreign represen- tatives. Telegraphic advices from Haytt state that sixty of the refugees in the American consulate had sought the protection of the British representative. The indignation against the American Minister Hollister was great, and it was believed that he was operating in the interests of Sainave. Aid for Sainave had ar- rived from Si, Domingo, a body of troops having crossed the border and destroyed the town of Sal tion, it was zenerally understood between the tending partic: no prisoners would taken in future. Another revolution had broken out in St. Domingo. The President is reported to have told a Seymourite from New York recently that he owed nothing to the New York democracy, and had nodesre to be found fying at the tail of Seymour's kite. General Frank P. Blair has written his letter ac- cepting the democratic nomination for the Vice Presidency. Reverdy Johnson was banqgueted in Annapoiis, his native t evening. The Georgia Legislature yesterday ratified the Fourteenth article of amendment. Governor Bul- Jock, who has been in office for nearly a month, will be inaugurated to-day. General Gillem’s oMcial report of the election in Mississippi has been received at Washington. The Majority against the constitution is 7,629, and the General remarks that the election was perfectly fair and free of any intimidation of voters, The Indians who were threatening Colonel Wyn- Koop at Fort Larned because he would not distribute arms to them have been pacified by the arrival of General Sully and the outbreak is probably stayed for the present. ‘The Alabama Legislature yesterday elected General George E. Spencer, the Bankruptcy Register at Montgomery, to be United States Senator for the long term. The other Senator will probably be elected to- day, The House has passed a bill fixing the pay of members at eight dollars a day and that of the pre- siding officers of the two houses at twelve. A celebration in honor of the first battle of Bull ‘Run was held at Manassas, Va., yesterday by the un- reconstructed. A bloodless tournament was one of the features of the occasion. Three of the Adams Express robbers were hanged by @ mob near Seymour, Ind., on Monday night. The ringleaders of the mob are unknown. The bodies ‘were found next morning hanging to the trees in the vicinity. The robbers are supposed to have been connected with a desperate gang who have long in- fested that country. Onarles Francis Adams will receive a public recep- tion from the citizens of Boston at noon to-morrow at Horticultural Hall. ‘The Board of Health yesterday directed that nine fat-botling establishments on Kast river be ordered to cease the business. There were, according to Dr. Harris’ report, 1,142 deaths in New York last week and 412 in Brooklyn. A case of cholera was reported ig Brooklyn yesterday. A Meeting was held at the Produce Exchange yes- terday to consider @ proposition from St. Louis in re- ference to the shipment of grain to the Kast by way of the Gulf of Mexico. Speeches were made on the subject by a representative of St. Louis and resolu- tions were adopted encouraging the proposition. ‘The case of James Fisk, Jr., against the Union Pacific Railway Company, tne Crédit Mobilier of America and others came up yesterday before Judge Barnard, in Supreme Court, Chambers, on a motion to set aside an order of reference obtained by the plaintiff for the parpose of taking Use testimony of three defendants in the case. The motion was denied and the examination of the defendants will be proceeded with this morning in court, ‘The Cunard steamship Cubs, Captain Moodie, will sail this ‘nogn for Quoenstown and Liverpool. The Cunard steamship Aleppo sails to-morrow (Thursday) for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown, Passengers to be on board at the Cunard whart, Jer- sey City, by eleven A. M. The steamship Monterey, Captain Ryder, of Leary’s lige, will leave pier 14 East river at three P. M, to- day for Charleston, 8. O. The stock market was firm yesterday. Govern- ment securities were strong. Gold closed at 143 a 14334. Our Diplomatic ServiceMr. Johnson’s Last Batch of Appointments. President Johnson sent up to the Senate on Monday last a considerable batch of diplomatic appointments, good, bad and indifferent—such a batch that the conscript fathers were some- what taken by surprise with the number and some of the names proposed. First in point of rank in the list we find for the mission to Russia John L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania, democrat and ex-Congressman, proposed. We are not aware of any peculiar qualifications of Mr. Dawson for this important post, and so we presume that his appointment may be set down rather as a friendly compli- ment, and as being given, too, with but a very small expectation that it would be confirmed. Tn the same light may be considered the nomi- nation of Henry M. Watts, of Philadelphia, for the Austrian mission, of whom outside of Phil- adelphia very little is known. It is said that Mr. Senator Sumner has resolved that, in considera- tion of the facts and circumstances (McCrack- en’s reports) connected with the forced with- drawal of Mr. Motley from this mission, no other man shall take his place if he (Mr. Sum- ner) can head him off. Mr. Watts, therefore, will probably have to be added to the Austrian catalogue of ‘* rejected addresses,” which in- cludes Sunset Cox, Henry J. Raymond, Col- lector Smythe and some others. .Horace Greeley is not in this category, for he was con- firmed, but flatly declined the honor—some say because it came from Andy Johnson, and others because of the perplexing question of diplomatic coats and breeches, swords and shoebuckles. Mr, Watts, on the other hand, whether republican or democrat, millionnaire or hungry place hunter, will hardly be allowed the privilege, we guess, of declining a con- firmation, Next we find the nomination of General Rosecrans as Minister to Spain in place of John P, Hale. General Rosecrans is a good appointment. His record as a Union soldier isfirst rate. He is also a scholar, and another and not the least advantage which he pos- sesses for this mission to ‘her Most Catholic Majesty” lies’ in the fact that he is a good Catholic himself. The country, we are satis- fied, would be pleased with the confirmation of General Rosecrans to Spain as a reward of merit to a good soldier of the Union, and as an appointment in every respect acceptable. General McClernand, of Mlinois, for Mexico is not exactly the thing. General McClernand, a subordinate, had a misunderstanding with General Grant during the investment of Vicks- burg which has made McClernand an im- placable enemy of Grant. So well understood is this fact that McClernand’s nomination is considered a backhanded blow at Grant from the President, and hence the rejection of this nominee is inevitable. We know nothing of the qualifications of General McClernand for Mexico; but whatever they may be, his publica- tions against General Grant's conduct of the Vicksburg campaign, and the high relations in which he stood on this account in the late Democratic National Convention, will settle him among the radicals of the Senate. In this batch of diplomatic appointments General Rosecrans, in fact, is the only one which fully comes up to the mark, so far as the public knowledge of these individuals can be applied. In Reverdy Johnson we have a satisfactory Minister to England, in General Dix we have a satisfactory representative in France, and the time has come when all our Ministers abroad should approximate this class of nen in their accomplishments, in their gen- eral reputation and experience in public affairs, President Johnson does not appear properly to estimate this consideration in making it secondary to his personal predilections. It is perfectly natural that he should seek to reward his friends and punish his enemies; but this is a rule which it is sometimes wise to forget. In his veto messages and in his nominations for office, however, he seems resolved to fight it out to the bitter end with his enemies, real and imaginary, and with the enemies of his policy, as if his battle with Congress, instead of being decided, had but just commenced. It is to be hoped that he will still in season find it is true policy for the remnant of his term to make his appointments from the best men he can find, especially for our foreign service, in view of the new epoch which is upon us of power and prestige among the great nations of the earth, and in view of some substantial and enduring credit to his administration. As for the Austrian mission, if the difficulty between Seward and Sumner concerning Mot- ley and McCracken will admit of no solution in the Senate but the reappointment of Motley, and if Seward will have nothing more to do with Motley, the only thing, perhaps, that can be done is to send an apology to Baron von Beust, with an, explanation of the difficulty which leaves us without a representative at Vienna, Over New Istanps IN THR Pacirio,.— We grow. We can't help growing. In the West Indies islands come to us. In the north immense territories, with islands innumerable, have just come under our sway. The Midway Islands, regarding which the Secretary of the Navy sent a communication to the Senate day before yesterday, are one of our latest, as they may prove one of our most important acquisi- tions. It is a virgin conquest—a species of gift from nature. The islands were not known until they were discovered by Captain Brooks in July, 1859. They were not occupied until they were taken possession of by Captain Reynolds on the 13th of September last, The principal harbor is said to be equal to that of Honolulu, the soil is good and fish are abun- dant in the bays. This is only one of the many indications of our future power in the Pacific. INcREASE OF THE Nationa Dest.—From Sune to July the national debt rose from $2,007,827,842 to $2,060,883,392, being an increase of more than fifty-three millions of dollars in one month. NEW YORK HURALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY %, 1868. Mandarin B Proposed Dinner Congress and the Chinese Embassy. Mr. Burlingame, it is reported, is to give a grand dinner to Congress, and we hope the report is true. Having dined the gentlemen and merchants of this city, and the representa- tives of the press and Washington, Congress comes next, and the success that has attended the Mandarin’s efforts in appealing to our good will through our stomachs in the former in- stance will not fail on another trial. But he is on delicate ground and must have a care to his pantry. eames On an occasion when certain English diplomats were treating with the Chinese in their own country, and providing refreshments on a liberal scale, one of the astute Celestials expressed in a lucid moment a fear that the treaty they were making would taste of ham and champagne. We hope Mr. Burlingame will be particular as to the flavor he gives to the international relations between this country and China, Whiskey is a good preservative, but a treaty that tastes of it will be less acceptable to the people than one that tastes of the best tea grown, at half the pres- ent price. In one of the Chinese classics it is written: — “The ancients who wished to illustrate virtue throughout the empire first ordered well their own States. Wishing to order well their States they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families they first cultivated their persons, Wishing to cultivate their persons they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.” Here is a political philosophy in which the welfare of the nation is presented as depending upon the cultivation of science, and this ax exercising its influence upon the State through the development of the people— through enlarging the intellect and exalting the character of the men, the individual units of which the State is made up—in other words a State professedly resting upon the people and expecting all progress and perfection to come by the education of the people. Now we hope that in the speech the Mandarin makes to Congressmen at that dinner he will touch on this political philoso- phy, and tell what he has seen of it in the land of those “barbarians” who hold such fancies. This might have a good effect in its way, es- pecially if the representatives heard it early in the evening. im Wave Hampron in Bavtimore.—General Hampton delivered a speech in Baltimore a few days since, in which, while he recom- mended the cultivation of peace and harmony between the North and South, he still rang a strain to the same old secesh tune, This is to be regretted. Wade Hampton was quite a lion in the Tammany Convention, and was wel- comed asa Southerner who entertained the most conservative and enlightened views. This spirit he exhibited in speeches delivered in South Carolina months ago, and he has since been regarded as a sagacious and pru- dent man. He seems, however, on his return homeward to have broken out of the traces and given rein to his old ante-war ideas. This is not the way to direct or reconstruct Southem sentiment, language of every Southern man who sincerely desires a speedy and amicable restoration of social and commercial relations between the two sections should be measured by good temper and fraternal regard. Otherwise the benefits of restoration will prove illusive and the seedsof internal disorder be sown again broadcast. Tue Crops.—Our reports so for of the crops of the present year, especially of breadstuffs, in the United States, are very encouraging, East, West, North and South. There is a fair prospect that our surplus products of the soil, in the aggregate, in wheat, corn and cotton, will create a margin to our credit in foreign exchanges which will materially contribute to reduce the premium on gold and the prices of living. The seasons so far have been auspi- cious and the promise of bounteous rewards to our farmers and planters is good, and indeed it is to a great extent already fulfilled. Tak Austrian Mission.—Collector Smythe, who has been for a few days in the quiet en- joyment of a release from business and politics, out of the reach of newspapers and telegraphs, learned only yesterday, on his return to the city, of his rejection by the Senate as Minister to Austria. The Collector appears to be en- tirely indifferent and resigned to his fate. The only comment he seems disposed to make upon the action of the Senate is, such is political life, and such the gratitude eventually evinced by politicians who are ready enough to ask favors and to avail themselves for two years of any means that may offer to relieve themselves of the burden of poor relations. Witt AN Iv.—The Secretary of State, in his proclamation of the new constitutional amend- ment, says that “‘if the resolutions of the Legis- tures of Ohio and New Jersey ratifying the aforesaid amendment are to be deemed of full force and effect, notwithstanding the subse- quent resolutions of said Legislatures which purport to withdraw the consent of said States,” &c., ‘then the aforesaid amendment has been ratified, &c., and has so become valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the constitution of the United States,” What means this “if?” A loophole for a judicial contest, perhaps. At all events, to end all doubts on the subject, we want a more emphatic proclamation. Wasts Parer—The chop logic of Mr. John- son in his late veto message touching the recon- structed Southern States. In some points he has never given us anything so perfectly absurd. Why did he not consult his new At- torney General in the preparation of this veto message ? ARREST OF AN ALLEGED MURDERER. On Sunday morning, on the arrival of the Euro- pean steamer via Queenstown, detectives Eustace and Irving, of the Ventral Police office, boarded her and took into custody an Irish passonger from Queenstown named Maloony, who is supposed to have committed | a murder arrest was made by cable, but aa tte ioe "0 refused to My the facts until they cate with Irish oMcials, it is probable that tho ac- cused ts innocent. He represents that friends in this country but a sister, whose residence is unknown. He is locked up at Police Headquarters, and takes the arrest very coolly, aa he in ——— that he is not the party wanted iy jand. u THE PRESIDENCY. Letter of General Frank P. Binir Accepting the Nomination fpr Vice President. Wasainoton, July 21, 1868. ‘The following is @ copy of General Blair's letter of pst anaghed the democratic nomination for Vice President ,which has just been received here:— General Gzorncg W. Moran, Chairman of the Com- mittee of the National Democratic Convention:— GBNERAL—I take the earliest opportunity of re- ply to your letter notifying me of my nomination for V! ident of the United States by the Na- tonal Democratic Convention recently held in the 7 oe thot it hesitation the nomination ter ut mn ten- dered in a manner s0 gratify! and give you and the committee my thanks for warnk and which - of the Convention, rise The upon which clear and cannot be obscured or distorted by the sophis- tries of our adversaries. They all resolve themselves into the old and ever recurring sieugaie ofa few men to absorb the political power o! nation. This effort, under every conceivable name and disguise, has always characterized the opponents of the democratic party, but at no time has the at- tempt assumed a shape so open and daring as in this contest. The adversaries of free and constitutional goveramens in defiance of the express language of ‘he constitution, have erected @ military despotism in ten of the States of the Union; have taken from the President the power vested in him by the supreme iaw, aud have deprived the Supreme Court of its jurisdiction; the right of trial by jury and the great writ of right, the hal corpus—sbields of safety for every citizen, and which have descended to us from the earliest tradi- tions of our ancestors, and which our Revolutionary fathers sought (o secur» to their posterity forever in the fundamental charter of our liberties, have been ruthlessly trampled under foot by the fragment of a Congress; whole states aud communities of people of our race have been attainted, convicted, condemned d deprived of their rights as citizens without preseaunent or trial or witnesses, but by Congressional enactments oi ex post facto laws and in deflance of the constituuonal prohibition deny- ing even to a full-and loyal Congress the authority to pass any bill of attainder or ex post facto law. ‘The same usurping authority has substituted as elec- tors im place of tue imen of our own race, thus illegally attainted and distranchised, a host of igno- rat negroes Who are supported in idleness with the public money, and combined together to strip the white race of Liaei biribright through the uanayement of freedmen’s bureaus and emissuries of conspirators in otner States, and, to complete the oppression, the mulitary power of the nation has been placed at their disposal un or omake tls barbarism supreine. Tue mit under WhOst prestige (lus usurp jug Congre has takea refuge since the condeumua- tion of their schemes by the free people of the North in f tie last year, and wiiom they have udidate to shield themselves from own wickedness and crime, has tance of the nomination, and his willingness to ain their usurpations over eigit milous of while peopie al the South, fixed to the earth With his bayonets. Le exciarus:—"Let us have ‘ ns ia Warsaw’? was ie an- raided che doom of the liberties re is peace,” exclaimed Bo- ud iis deienders expired un- of his sword. fhe peace to which Grant i us 18 te peace of despotism and death. ‘Puose kK to restore the coustitution by © cuting (ie will of the people, condemning the Ki struction acts atready — pronounced in elections of last year (and which will, I ain convinced, be still more @imphatically ex- pressed by the jou of the democrauc candidate as President of the Uni as revoiutiousts by the parti Congress. Negro suitrage (which the popular vote of New ork, New Jersey, Penusytvania, vhio, Michi- gan, Conueeticut and viher States has coudemned as expressly against the letter of the constitution) must stand, because their Senators and Kepresenta- tives have willed it, If the peopie shail again con- demn these atrocious measures by the election of a democratic candidate for President, they must not be disturbed, Although decided to be unconstitu- tional by the Supreme Couri, and although the Presi- dent is sworn to maintain and support the constitution, the will of a traction of a Congress, reiniorced With is partisan emissaries sent to the yported there by the soldiery, must he will of the people and the decision me Court and the solemn oath of the aintain and support the constitution. is revolutionary to execute the will of the people; it is revolutionary to execute the judgment o} tates), are denounced ns Of this vindictive the Supreme Court; it is revolutionary im the President to keep | inviolate his oath to sus- tain the constitution, ‘This faise const of the vital principle of — our ni is the last resort of those who would have their al trary reconstraction sway and supersede our time- honored institution ‘The nation will say the con stitution must be restored and the will of the peopie again prevail. The uppeal to the peaceful baliot to attain this is not War, t8 not revolution. ‘They make War and revolution who attempt to arrest this quiet mode of putting aside ary despotism and the usurpations of a fragment of a Congress, assert ing absoiute power over that benign system of regu- lated liberty ieft us by our fathers. This must be allowed tu take its course. Tis is the only 1 to peace, It will come with the ¢ of the democratic candidate, and not with th 4iou of that mailed warrior whose bay- onets are now at the throats of eight millions of people in the South to compel them to support him a8 a candidate for the Presidency, and to submit to the domination of an alien race of semi-barbarous men. No berversion of truth or audacity of misrep- resentation can exceed that which nails this candi- date in arms as an angel of peace. I am, very respectiully, your most obedient ser- vant, FRANK P. BLAIR. THE PROPOSED GRAIN ROUTE, Shortly after one o'clock yesterday a meeting was heid in the Produce Exchange to take into conside- ration the question of the grain produce of the West and to listen to an address from Mr. Myron Coloney, of St. Louis, upon the subject, Mr. ward Hincken presided. Mr. Cotonky, after some preliminary remarks, referred to Chicago as one of the greatest grain re- ceivers in the world, and while tt was 80 recognized he did not hesitate to observe that St. Louis was rapidly advancing in that respect. These were pro- Fields that never before laughed to ah now lwughed to-day ali over the resources of which were rapidly being develo; He drew a comparison be- tween the factities afforded by Chicago and St. Louts for the reception and shipment of Fr , and contended those of the latter were gradually becom- ing more superior, It took twenty-eight days for Chicago to send her grain to this city, while St. Louis could forward it in sixteen days, at a much leas cost a bushel on the delivery. Having adverted to the rapid increase and progres- sion of agriculcure in the W Mr. Coloney went on to describe the geographical position of St, Louis, its facilities for transportation and its general advantages as grain depot. It was now receiving a large amount of wheat from Kansas. Three years ago Nebraska was taking flour from that country, but last year she expo ho leas than one million and @ half bushels herself. He alluded to the great railroad extensions which were opening up the vast country, and showed that the communication to all parts would soon be productive of the most benef- cial results, St. Louis was anxtous that the m chants of New York would assist her in the ende: ors to more thoroughly develop the grain trade, St, Louis had traded with Liverpool, but the old system there of charging for the most trivial matters, cut down all the profits of the shipping masters so that New York was bound to the great centre of her future trade in fra produce. ir rome the ES strides that ‘iculture was now making in itherto barren estern districts, he alluded to the factlities which St. Louis aiforded for the sate and rapid transmission of grain by the adjoining rivers, showing that conveyance by the barges now being employed and constructed ex- pressly for the pur of cemrying grain.was mach wore Pognomical t by rail. He said that there ré tw clevators in St. Louls at present, one of seven hundred thousand bushels capacity, and the other of two hundred thousand bushels acity, and that the merchants were building new that would hold fifty thousand bushels of wheat and forty barrels of flour each, and that a single would take four of these barges to New Orleans, ai from there it could be shipped to New York. The steamship lines between the two cities would make favorable arrangements with shippers if New York merchants would take their grain. He said that to bring this much grain and flour from Chi: to New York would require six handred cars, thirty-two engines, thirty-two furnaces and forty men, while on the other hand three or four men at best a | transport that quantity to New Orleans, hat he desired to request was that erchants of New York would the m turn their faces towards St. Lou! irely towards Chi for the former was fast rising into excellence in the di ent to which he adverted. No doubt St. Louis had never it the sui ‘under consideration until recen: the war she had supplied the ‘She never cared about the for she could then make more money from lanters of South in one month than she could otherwise in a year. But such times had passed away and the or- Gere from the South were now limited in. the ex. treme. Therefore he strenuously Ma the claims of St. Louis and again called the attention of New York produce dealers to the advai which wero held out, He advocated the tran: ‘ation of em! to the West in order to assist in peas ten it of ita fertile soil, and gave some interesting details in relation to the progress of agriculture of the vast valley of the Missourl now being traversed by'the railroad. After some further observations on trading with St. Louie, for he felt confident, he said, that it would result in mutual advantages. ‘The following resolutions were then adi Reso! That we view with pleasure the en now being shown by St. Louls merchants in their efforts for shipping rain in the Mi d Missouri rivers. esolveds That wer heartily coincide wit them tn thelr vi in relation to the grain trade between New York and St. Lo “Resolved, That the Bt, Louls grain tmarker hereafter be tele- Regolyed, That the Bb, Keo ry grantees and panied 98 py yulletins of the Produce Ex- a Reso! ‘That a vote of thanks be tendered to Colonel Cotoney for the interest he has taken in the ein trade of the Sweciies and thecnergy be bas displayed In bringing it 40 ‘The meeting then adjourned. _—$———— BANQUET TO REVERDY JOHNSON. Complimentary Dinner to Our Minister to England at Annapolis, Md.—Speech of Mr. Johnson. ANNAPOLIS, July 21, 1868. The banquet to Reverdy Johnson this evening at the City Hotel of Annapolis was a most select and successful affair. The caterer was Colonel A. Morse, who provided an entertainment which afforded com- plete satisfaction to the assembled company. The banqueting all was beautifully decorated with American flags, and at the head of the room behind the chair of the presiding officer a large British fag was appropriately displayed, flanked at either side by the Stara and Stripes. The room was brilliantly illuminated, and music was supplied in abundance, At the appropriate period of the festivities Colonel Joseph H. Nicholson opened the speaking by a lengthy address, during the course of which he al- luded in the most complimentary terms to the guest of the evening. Mr. Johnson responded as fol- \OWs:— SPEECH OF REVERDY JOHNSON, Mr. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—1 am gratified to believe from this warm and pd eoting that youestcem me a brother, and my feei- tell me that Iam. A native of Annapolis, where all my youthfal days were passed, every face and name that you bear reminds me of the happy days that Ihave had in this city, {n memory I recur to the joyous hours spent here, There is not a nook or corner of the city that is not as familiar to me as the alphabet. How often have I sirolled with school- mates through its streets in search of amusement. And, alas! how few, if any, remaiu of that number. The refection is a melancholy one, but it is con- soling to know that I felt for each the strongest attachment and had in each a friend. Here, too, | obtained iny education, St. John’s was my first and only school, How gladly do I remember the many hours passed upon its beautiful green, the earnest rivalry with which the boys enaged in the oes that give youth delight and serve to impart vigor to the body and strength to the mind, to fit both for the iaborious hours of study, i seem to have now before me the venerable form o. President McDowell, when, with measured and stately steps, he was’ seen ‘coming from his dweiling, at the fvot of State touse hill, to the col- lege, and the scattering of tho boys, run- ning to their respective rooms within the ionored pile, that they might be in their proper places on lis arrival. I cannot, however, reinember (how sad is the thought!) that any one of the hundreds of youths then iu fulland joyous heaith, or of the profe: s, who daily mstructed us in’science and incui- cated upon us the happiness and duty of a virtuous life, are now among the lisiag. [i was here, oo, that I first became devoted to tie page of the law. When I reached the age of twelve or thirteen years every hour that { could sn from the duties of the college I gave to an atiend- ance upon the several courts, My who Wished me to adopt the profession (in whica you will not, 1am sure, think it mdelicate in me to say he occupied a conspicuous and honored place), advised me to this course. And to that and his other advice am I mainly indebted for whatever success in the rofession | may have attained. At that period the yenerai Court and Court of Appeals were located here. The drst, having a jurisdiction coexteusive with our I , brought to this city ail the legal talent of the State. Every Marylander knows how reat that taient was. The bench and the bar were then, as siuce, adorned by the learning and integrity which give to both their best claim to respectaad confidence. Well do [ recollect, as some of you must also, the venera- ble form of Chief Justice Townley Chase, who pre- sided for so many years over both irtbunats. His long, flowing locks—white as unspotted snow—his mild and intelligent countenance and winning man- ner, allserve to give additional power to the clear but unambitious language in which his judgments were pronounced. And how vivid in nearly allour memories must be the name and character of his successor in the Court of Appeals, John Bucuanan, the courteous | me the profound jurist and constant friend! 1 might also mention in = terms of high raise the names of Ar- cher, Dorsey and the other great men, now no more, who afterwards succeeded to that high place, and 80 ably maintained ita long established reputation; but time does not permit. And then of the bar of the day. What cause have we to be proud of it! How often, after obtaining some knowledge of the law, have I listened with wonder to Martin, pouring out his exhaustiess local learning! He was as familiar with the principles which are to be found only in the profound depts of the science as with those which float on its surf: And then there was Pinckney, our native townsm Of him eulogy cannot be pushed to extravagat To the lega! erudition of Martin he added the accom- plishments of the schoiar, the high qualities of the statesinan, a logic rarely equaiied and an eioquence ever attractive, and at times startling and over- whelming. And then there was Shaal, remarkable for the accuracy of his technical knowledge and the kKeenness of his argumeutation, The Keys, whose charming speech I think leven now hear, were there ‘aiso—one 0! pm cannot be forgotten so long (and may that be forever) as our banner, glittering with stars, shall “wave oler the land of the free and the home of the brave.” And, not to mention a score of others, was Taney, a r of them ali. Never did a lawyer possess a m attractive manner, ex- press himself with a more faultless rhetoric or a more seductive power. And when he was after- wards transferred as its Chief to the Supreme Court of the United States, these qualities were displayed in opinions which will ever be esteemed the best models of jucictal style. Im addition to all these recollections, which it is so pleasant to recali, there are other circumstances con- nected with the history of our city which will not only keep it fresh in our memory, but in the memory of the American people. Here it was that a scene was witnessed of unsurpassed interest—a scene display- ing greater patriotic virtue than before or since is recorded in the annais of mankind. A soldier who had led his armies to victory and achieved for hia country freedom and independence, his work being done, in that Senate Chamber, datly in your view, surrendered to his country the sword with which he had accomplished it and at once retired to private hfe. Great as is our admiration for his skill and valor in the fetd it is as nothing compared with that which we entertain for this crowning act of patriotic virtue, and it is for this especially that the world, as weil as our- selves, will forever hold in love and reverence the character of Washington as the purest and brightest exhibited in the tide of time, It was here, too, that 4he first body of patriots assembled to save our country from the perilous condition in which it was laced, because of the unbecility of the then na- nal government, if government it could be called. ee weakness we were rapidly progressing to destruction. This first effort at rescue was unsuc- cessful, but on its renewal in Philadelphia its triumph became complete, in the recommendation (happily yielded to by the people) of a form of gov- ernment adequate in peace and in war to protect itself, without violating the rights which it guaran- tees to the citizen or Ron mn | upon the legitt- nd necessary domain of the States. Mr. Chairman, the Navat At in which you take so lively an interest, aud. which is of such inestimabie value to our country, I have ([ hope to be excused tn Saying 80) some pride tn remembering, owes its in- fant existence to a small appropriation, which, at the instance of the then Secretary of the Navy—t our representative to the Court of obtained in part through my exertions, as your Senator, during first term of service in that capacity, And I have even still ter pride in remembering of the in- stitution was developed and the adaptation of this city to such an establishment was demon- < ir. me again to recur "1 alma mater, 1 ex- 5 tao grant’ pr cation which all her mast feel in the be in the CITY PoLitics. + GRANT AND CoLpax Campaign CLUB.—Last even- ing &@ meeting took place at 21 avenue D of a Grant and Colfax club, Mr. John L. Smith presided and Mr. W. E. comet Acted as secretary. The stend- ance was rather slim, but twenty-flve new mmbera the Executive Gommities inmeased were enrolled and from fourteen to twenty-five mem! = ner and transparenee i gt a we been bi yy queer walls, but no naite teas Tanifestatioy of a ugiasia Was percept the proceeaings, Ta UNION REPUBLICAN GENERAL Comvrrse.— The Committee on Public Meetings appointd by this committee met last night at headquarters, orner of Broadway end Twenty-second street. The ommittee organized by the election of John Cochranas chair- man and Isaac 0. Hunt as secretary. A solution ifying the nomination of John A. Griwold unanimo) jopted, or- anize the committee into various sub-cmmittees make preparations for a ratification Rey w be held at an early day, such sub-committeeto 8B pointed by the chairon next Tuesday e*ning, which time, at the same place, the meetingnereupon adjourned, SixrH AssEMBLY District MBETING.—ie Union Republican Association of the Sixth Assnbly dia- trict held their regular monthly meeting bt night. The attendance was good, ana quite a tmber of new members were enrolled. Speeches wre made by several gentlemen eulogistic of the tate and national nominations, and the utmost ghusiaso was manifested respecting both tickets. DISTRICT UNION REPUBLICAN ASSOC }DN.—The Union Republican Association of the "wnty-first Assembly district held last evening thi regular monthly meeting at Masonic Ha Highty- sixth street. There was quite a lxe attend- ance of regular members present, besit: a goodly number anxious to be enrolled under threpublican banner in the coming campaign. W. | De Camp, President of the Association, occupiedhe chair. ‘The first business in order after the reting of ‘he minutes was the reading of the report ofic Execa- tive Committee, to whom the applications! parties for enrolment liad been referred. The comiitee re- ported favorably on about fifty app!icions, the regular members cheering Lustily a8 (ie Rues were called. Other routine business was tracted and the ineeting adjourned, well pleased wif he grow- ing strength of the organization. TWENTY-FIRST ASSEMBLY DisTRICt ‘e Republi- can Union Association, of the Twe! Assembly district, met last evening, under the pretency of J. B. Wakeman, at Muller's Hall, corner ofi9th street and Third avenue. There was but a sill atteud- ance present. ‘The principal object of 6 cailers of the meeting was to perfect their organizion. Some informal business was done, and aaoth cal! of the association being left to the option of \ president, the meeting adjourned, NONETEENTH ASSEMBLY DisrRict UNS RePusit- CAN CLUB.—A regular meeting of the Niteenth As- seuibly district Grant and Colfax Campay Club was id yesterday evening at the headquarts, Central rk House, corner of cel, When som teenth Assembly disirt ‘ations for the ean earnest prepar BOARD OF HEALTYL The usual meeting of the Metropotitatoard of Heaith took piace yesterday, The preside, George B. Lincoln, presided. Complaints were made against nine ¢ boiling establishments situated on the shores obhe Kast river at the foot of Thirty-seventh, Thiy-cighth and Thirty-ninth streets. ‘The counsel fome Board was instructed to serve an order on the joprietors of these establishments compelling them discon- tinue the practice of fat boiling, unless ey had @ permit from the sanitary inspector. A petition was received from (he inlabants of the village of Tremont, Westchester count) in rela- tion to the erection of a gas house, the pattoners complaining of the proposed building as 4 nisance. As the buiiding 13 not far ugh advaned, the Board declined to act until such time as its repre- sented as a nuisance or its location 1s cysidered dangerous, A report was received in relation to te Kings county jail, complaining of its imperfec ventila- tion, It was decided to call the attentia of the Supervisors of Kings county to the matter, Dr. Daiton, Reta Inspector, reportsthat the sanitary company of the police returns 367 rders for the abatement of nuisances served since lat report. Returns also show 262 orders as complied with by owners and not complied with. The execution the latter has been directed by the Sanitary intendent, During the past week 136 complaints received from citizens have been referred to medical inspectors for investigation and report. Subjoined is the weekly communication of the Regisirar of Vital Statistica:— At the end of aterm of three woeks of excessive heat wo now have the painful duty to record the death of 1,142 inhat itanta who wore buried in New York durhg the closing week of this period, which ended on Saturday,the 1sth inst. The total mortality in Brooklyn in the week was 412. Bix weeks ago we recorded the lowest death rar that bas beea known in New York and Brooklyn in fiteen years. Last week it monnted up to nearly three hundred per cent greater than it was fn that early part of June. timated on cenaus of 1866 the mortality was equal to 77. perannum ia New York end 72.88 in’ Brooklyn; or, og BY resident and floating population, probably fa th woe the feath rain Pond read” ka. abot 2 and 8 por 1,00 respectively in these cities. ‘The zymoke disenses tied to ave destroyed 439 tives (or nosrly 43 per cent of total list) in New York, and 231 lives (or nearly 55 per cent) tm Brooklyn. The nimber of infants that perixned in their frat year was 519 (45.44 per cent of tetal list) in the former, at 222 (55.88 percent) in the later city. And the mor ty among children under five years of age gave 61.73 per cent deaths in New York, and 69.20 of al: in Brooklyn, Sunstroke, or insolation, Was corvified, mostly upon im ests, in 13d cases (ILM per cent) in New York, and in 28 Teathe (6.79 per cent) in Brooklyn. An abstract of the records of deaths by insolation and the effects of heat ia New York {4 herewith presenter re is an unwritten his- tory back of this sad record of the fatal effect of hent that needs to be written out in plain and popular language, for it would show that the bodiy aad the local conditions whicl ond most of these Inmentable deaths are preventable, Y. he unprecedented excess of temperature an during three and even five y built city, that has more uncieanly, unbathed and these than haif a milton of igno badly hosed poor, expored to ail the evil bff natural as well as their own personal and artilicial wants ag regards person: su gratitude that ao few of the inbabi The Creator has beneficently provide! that one of the n.turai functions of the skin—namely, the — pe provect the living body, and renting Wisdom also has ordaiaed imporiant physiological laws regarding the con: ditions of personal cleanliness, nervous live and bodily babite by whieh these means of protection will surely be enjoyed at ali times. “Unfortunately! the compulsory necestiticn of some Peraons and the indiscretions and ignorance of many oihera Tendered this long list of “sunatrokes,” so-called, inevitablo, The furnace-like te ture of the’ past threo weeks ex: conded by 23 degrecs that very remarkable “heated term” which was attended by the enormous mortality in July, 1865; and as regards the third hot week of the present period com: ec tiled by the heat. pared with (he corresponding week in 1866, the mean temper- ature last week was nearly nine higher. It was oo lens than 88 degreea Fahrenheit, with » (by night sag day seif-re, ie : Hi i i i a i 5 FE] 32 e observed. the total mortality last week fell short Jo the third week of July, 1865, to the extent of New York, and in the heated term of three entire recorde stand thus :— Total number of deaths first three weeks of ra 1886. og i Total number of deaths first three weeks of July, 1868. I ' : i : Hf oh i ie i HH : adaitional being all ier “onde mas be- tween Valentia, and rater Cove, Tove went Paar vg and camo tein will be aa Saditional 1s to take place on tnd after the tet day of om, 8 a7’s Frertval.—The members of K company, magna regiment, National Guard, State of Now York, assembled at the Lion Park, corner of Bighth avenue and 110th street, ae saig lobe ps 9 aad. tn compeszinmer Mighes Rental’ The rogt ofa Night! regi. band was tn attendance and dancing w continued until @ late hour.