The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. . JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXIML......-.--::-e00 srseee- NO, 206 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Humery Dumery. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th sirest.— Tue Lorreay oF Lirs. BROADWAY THEATRE, Ligutntne, NIBLO'S GARDEN.. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Goop Nigut’s Rast— MILLER AND His MEN—SCHOOLMASTER. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Mth Greet.—ETuIOPIAN iunoveaeae. ‘0. oane, Broadway.—A PLasH oF TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 901 Sowery.—Comio Vooattou. Nz@no MINSTRELSY, £0. DODWORTH HALL, 006 Broadway.—ALy BUBNETY, tux Homouist. sit m CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.-ROPOLAR Ganpen Concent. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUS! MUNeTRELs—Tux WILD Fawn. NEW YORK MUSBUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. GOlRNOE AND ART. Brooklyo.—HooLEr’s New Yerk, Friday, Jaly 24, 1868. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated at midnight yesterday, July 23. The United States tariff duties on tmportations from France attracted attention in the Legislative Body, but the Minister of Commerce said the im- perial government was not disposed “to retaliate,” A military convention is likely to be held to consider the Russian plan for the disuse of explosive bullets. The harvest in Rus- sla will be deficient. The harvest report from Eng- land ts favorable. The bill authorizing the purchase of all the telegraph lines in Britain by government passed in the House of Commons. Consola, 9436 a 945%, money. Five-twentles, 723% in London and 76% 8 76% in Frankfort. Paris Bourse dull. Cotton heavy, with middling uplands at 10344. Breadstutls heavy and provisions without marked change. CONGRESS. In the Senate Mr. Wilson introduced a bill for ® more efficient provisional government in Missis- sippl, providing for the installation of all officers Chosen at the recent election who can take the oath Prescribed by Congress, the duties of the office in (Case of political disability to devolve on the ope re- ceiving the he@xt highest numberof votes. Mr. Howe introduced a bill making It the duty of the President Yo call forth militia or employ the land and naval forces at tne demand of the Legislatures or Governors of the reconstructed Southern States to snppreag local insurrectiona, It was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The House bill for the payment of the jeff Davis reward was passed, The bil} to facilitate he establishment of a line of steamers to Europe ‘was amendgd and passed. The bill for the pro- fection of American citizens abroad was then taken up and amended by striking ont the re- prisal section and accepting Mr. Williams’ sub. stitute for the third section. Five o’clock having arrived several Senators refused to vote on the final Passage on the ground that the Senate was not legally in session, which the Chair refused to enter- tain. The dissenting Senators then left the chamber and the Senate took the recess. In the evening ses- sion a number of pension bills wee passed, and the Senate after a short executive session adjourned. In the House Mr. Garfield made a personal expla- nation in answer to Mr. Stevens’ remarks on Wed- nesday. The concurrent resolution of the Senate for ®@ reccas from Monday until the third Monday in September was agreed to by a vote of 85 to 69. The Speaker stated that the Tax bill had been signed by the President and filed in the State Department. The Missour! contested election case was settled by re- taining Mr. Pile in his seat. In the Utah case a speech was made by Mr. McGrorty, the contestant, after which the seat was given to his opponent, the presen! delegate, Mr. Hooper, by a unanimous vote. ‘The House then adjourned. , MISCELLANEOUS. "By special telegram from China, dated at Shang- hae, Jane 6, forwarded by way of London, we have @ report to the effect that it has been ascertained that the Coreans beheaded the crew of the American ves- Bel General Sherman. We have telegraphic advices from Mazatian, Mexico, to July 14. The campaign against Martinez had ended, and he is reported to have left the coun- try for San Francisco, Governor Galan has been released under $100,000 bonds. The English man-of- war Chanticleer was beating out of the harbor. The American Consni bad made charges of misconduct against Commander Bradford, of the Resaca. The ainship Panama had not yet been accepted by the authorities. Mr. McKenna and four of the crew of the steamer Ajax were drowned at Cape St. Lucas. ‘The Senate has confirmed Edward T. Wood as Col- Yector of internal Revenue for the Taird district of New York and rejected Mr. Wells as Assistant Secre- tary of the Treasury. The Board of Health intends to make use of disin- fectauts in many of the filthy streets of the city. It 1s estimated that about twenty-four tons of copperas ‘and three thousand nine hundred gallons of carbonic acid will be required. The cost of these Mngredients is set down at $2,500, ‘The Louisiana Legislature yesterday passed a bill making a appropriation for the expenses of the Legislature over the Governor's veto. A resolution Calling on General Grant for military ald has passed both houses, The Printing, bill which recently passed, appears to be an enormous job for some- body. Among the distinguished individuals at Saratoga are Du Chatilu, John Minor Botts, General Garey, of youth Carolina, and Charles O'Conor. The race vse Kentucky is stabied there, waiting for the ‘ust races, ¢ fifth day's session of the Israelitish Convention held in this city ended with placing the whole er of governing the Order of B'nai B’rith with * people’’—that is, in the members composing ‘ocal lodges. Vigorous but unsuccessful was the ssiLion to this change in the constituvion of the . ‘the delegates then visited the synagogue Fifth avenue ana Forty-third street, and also the ebrew Orphan Asylam on Seventy-seventh street, sear Third avenue, and at the latter place the cere- ‘Monies were very impressive. In the evening a pic- Dic was held at Belvidere Park, and speeches were made by prominent members of the convention in both English and German. To-morrow the whole Convention wiil attend divine service at the synagogue Of Dr. Einhorn, on Thirty-ninth street, near Eighth s@venue, after attempting to-day to finish the business for which the members came here. Last evening a democratic mass meeting was held fim the Brooklyn Academy of Music. There wasa Barge attendance. Mr. H. ©. Murphy presided and Golivered @ brief address. Resolutions endorsing Qe platform and nominations of the National Demo- @mtio Convention were unanimously adopted. The was subsequently addressed by Mr. S. S, Cox, Richard O'Gorman, Mr. Rogers and others. An immense crowd congregated outside the building, ‘where several speeches were delivered. The miners in Pennsylvania on a strike stopped Milis at Kingston yesterday. The Sheriff has ed his proclamation warning them to disperse or ‘will call on the Governor for military aid. # General Meade has issued an order restoring civil daw in Georgia. A democratic mass meeting was held in Atlanta, @a., yesterday, at which speeches were made by @oombs, Cobb and Benjamin Hiil. ») The boilier of the steam coaster Almendares ex yesterday |in the harbor of Havana, ki!!ing persons and wounding about fifty. Willard Warner, formerly of Ohio and at one time > Gegegal Sormsn's Hat, waa Cecied Uuied NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1868. States Senator by the Alabama Legislature yesterday for the short term. Charles Francis Adams, the returned Minister to England, was received with a hearty welcome in Horticultural Hall, Boston, yesterday. Speech-mak- ing, hand-shaking and dinner were the rule. + The coroner’s inquest on the body of young Creamer, who was killed near the concert saloon, 47 Bowery, on Wednesday morning, was commenced yesterday. The evidence of Creamer’s companion, Smith, the proprietor of the saloon and one of the walter girls corroborated the report that he was a3- saulted for purposes of robbery, and the investiga- tion was postponed until Saturday. Omer John Snedick, of the Twenty-first precinct, was shot gpd instantly killed on the corner of Firat avenue and Thirty-second street last night by one John Reed, who was arrested. He does not deny the killing, and gives as a reason for it his desire to (revenge himself on Snedick for being arrested by him. Ann Carry was shot accidentally by oficer John McNamara while he was shooting at a mark in his rear yard in Monroe street on Wednesday, the ball passing through the board fence and inflicting a wound upon her, of which she died yesterday. Governor McCormick has been elected Congres- sional delegate from Airgona by 620 majority over both his opponents, Two young ladies were drowned at Atlantic City yesterday. The Inman line steamship City of Antwerp, Oap- tain Mirehouse, will leave pier 45 North river at eleven o'clock to-morrow (Saturday) morning for Liverpool via Queenstown. She mails by her will close at the Post OfMice about nine o'clock in the morning. The National fine steamship Virginia, Captain Thomas, will leave pier 47 North river at nine A. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. ‘The steamship General Meade, Captain Sampson, of the Merchants’ line, will sail from pier 12 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, 26th inst., for New Orleans direct. . OR Le * The stock market was steady yesterday. Govern- Ment securities were dull. Gold closed at 143%. ‘Tho Isthmus of Panama—Ite Present and Future. Our special correspondence from Panama gives interesting yet melancholy details of the progress of the revolution lately inaugu- rated on the Isthmus by the installation of a provisional government and the concession of the chief power to General Ponce after the seizure of the Executive by the Battalion San- tander. The movement has effected nothing of consequence, and we hear that symptoms of areaction are already apparent. When we say nothing of consequence, we mean that nothing has been effected for the public good, but must add that a great deal has been accomplished by the fact of a recurrent revolution to bring the confederation of Colombia still nearer to that complete anarchy which seems to be the destiny of all the Spanish American peoples, and which invariably results from their intestine brofls and political corruptions. General Ponce had marched to the interior at the head of a division of soldiers in order to put down his enemies, and severe fighting was antici- pated, ~ The peculiar position of the Isthmus and its intimate relationship with the commerce of the United States, Great Britain and France de- mand that one or all of these governments should take prompt and efficient steps to pre- vent the repetition of these political disturb- ances, Aside from what benefits have been forced upon it by foreigners—such as the open- ing of the transit from ocean to ocean, the building of the railroad, the establishing of steamship lines on both oceans, the’ introduc- tion of commerce with foreign ports and the improvement of property by foreign capital— the Isthmus is virtually, in all that pertains to its internal prosperity or welfare, the same that it was half a century ago. The people or the government have profited nothing by the great boons that foreign enterprise has con- ferred upon them ; the former remain as igno- rant and indolent and the latter as poverty- stricken and helpless as ever, the great am- bition of the one being to get into politics and of the other to boast of a miserable band of music and a horde of badly drilled and worse fed barefooted soldiers. Socially the people of the Isthmus are not a bad race. On the contrary, they have ever been kind and hospitable to strangers, and there certainly is no country in the world where foreigners are allowed such perfect free- dom in every respect. Itis only a pity they are so helplessly unable to take care of themselves and so unfit to do anything to advance the prosperity of their country. Some conception of their position may be formed from the following facts:—Foreigners pay nine-tenths of the commercial taxes, and consequently do nine-tenths of the business ; foreigners own the best property in Panama and Aspinwall; foreigners live in the best houses; foreigners own the railroad, there not being more than two or three, if one, among the natives who possess a single share in it; foreigners own all the steamship lines; foreigners do nearly all the coasting trade; foreigners buy all their cattle and produce not needed for their own immediate consumption ; foreigaers im; al) their merchandise ; feetgnars cathy thet Is fkee from port to port; their newspapers are owned and con- ducted by foreigners; their rivers are navi- gated by foreigners and foreign built vessels ; their schools are foreign; their hospitals are foreign; their hotels are foreign; in fact, everything except their government is foreign, and it would soon beif the foreigners thought it worth having. Isolated as Panama is from the capital of the republic, from which it is distant nearly three weeks’ travel and with which it keeps up only a monthly communication, at all times subject to interruption from revolution in intervening States, it is not strange that little sympathy should exist between that State and the gen- eral government—that the former should be left entirely to its own management or that the latter should have no control over it. In fact, the only interest that Bogoté feels in Panama consists in the subsidy it derives from the Panama Railroad; beyond this it might as well be in the interior of China, In fact, the cen- tral government would willingly part with the Isthmus if it were not for this subsidy, and the State would willingly part from the central government to obtain the subsidy if it only had the power. Such is the position of the Isthmus, at the present moment one of the most im- portant points of transit on the globe, What its future may be depends entirely upon the changes that must sooner or later take place in its government. If it is to remain under the control of the present | inhabitants there is little hope of its ad- | vancement; but if, as should and nata- rally must be the case before very tong, ® foreign element should take oharae of it there will then be a hope of seeing the Isthmus assume a most important position and its im- mense resources become rapidly developed. What nation will first come to its aid remains to be seen; but the United States appears its natural protector, and the government at Washington -should lose no time in coming to its aid and freeing it from the miserable state of degradation and neglect in which it at pre- sent exista, It is somewhat strange that Mr. Seward, in casting about in every quarter of the globe for investments in real estate, has failed to discover the commanding importance of the Isthmus of Panama in reference to the future commercial exchanges between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and especially in reference to our prospective trade with China, Japan and Australia. Andrew Johnsen Again im Danger—Im- peachment from a New Quarter. The newly admitted radical representatives fn Congress, known as the “carpet-baggers,” from the reconstructed States, are, like all new converts and beginners, zealous to prove their professions of loyalty to their new church. They held a meeting the other evening in Washington, at which, after being warmed up by an encouraging speech from General Fre- mont, they resolved among other things that ‘4n the threatening attitude assumed by Presi- dent Johnson in his recent message vetoing the bill declaring which of the Southern States are not entitled to vote in the Electoral Col- lege,” and in his declaration that ‘Congress has no more power to reject the votes of the Southern States that have not yet been reorgan- ized than to reject the votes of States that have never been in rebellion,” shows that he is “still the enemy of law and order and threatens the peace and safety of every Union man in the South, rendering imminent another civil war,” and that, therefore, he ought to be at once impeached, and that ‘the representa- tives and delegates from the Southern States, in conference assembled,” &c., ‘pledge our- selves to use our utmost endeavors to prevent the adjournment of Congress before his con- viction and removal from office,” and to pre- vent ‘‘a recess even till articles of impeach- ment are presented and a court of impeach- ment convened.” This movement is somewhat startling, coming as it does close upon the heels of our assu- rances from Washington that ‘‘Old Thad” had concluded to let his new impeachment articles go to the tomb of the Capulets. But these Southern “‘carpet-baggers” have new matter to work upon. The President has flatly given it as his opinion that they are unconstitutional interlopers, and that the State governments which they represent, set up under the Recon- struction laws of Congress, are bogus, null and void. No wonder, then, that these men should flaunt in his face the penalty of impeachment. Their case, too, is quite as good if not decidedly better than the case made out against said Johnson on Stanton’s peremptory removal from office. Nor, if this threatened new im- peachment were brought before the Senate, would there be any apparent chance for John- son’s escape with the addition to the High Court of fourteen Southern radical and intensely anti-Johnson Senators. The always ready and universal lopby man, Thurlow Weed, with his Astor House consultations, could do nothing against this formidable reinforcement of “* carpet-baggers,” and Johnson would have to walk the plank. But we guess that the im- peachers of the House of Representatives have had enough of these impeachment trials to last them to the end of Johnson's term of office, and that they will be satisfied in providing the ways and means and in adopting the necessary pre- cautions to hold him in check till after the Presidential election. Then there is no telling or calculating what may happen. The impeach- ers now have ‘‘the man at the other end of the avenue” completely in their power, but they have other matters now to be looked after nearer home in connection with the coming October and November elections for the next Congress, The Three Outside States. Virginia, Mississippi and Texas are alone in their glory. They are lying out in the cold for the following reasons:—Virginia has held her Constitutional Convention and adopted an instrument called a State constitution; which now awaits the ratification of the people. But no election has been called; or, more properly speaking, one was called, but postponed in- definitely on account of the want of funds, Congress having made no appropriation for holding the election, which is an expensive luxury in any State, especially in one covering 80 large an area as Virginia. Why this ap- propriation has been withheld is not thoroughly understood, although it is generally ascribed to the fact that the republican majority in Congress fear the election of a negro to that body, which would certainly have been the case had the election been held at the time proposed. As time elapses the republicans probably imagine that the negro preponde- rance jo certain Congressional districts may be induced to be wo in favor of white radi- cal candidates, And that jhe rival negro aspi- rants may be induced to take thema of the way for the present. This is the only way we can explain why Virginia is not now enjoying the blessings of the Union in common with most of her late wayward Southern sisters. Mississippi is still out because she has re- jected the proposed new constitution, But why cannot Congress admit her as it did Ala- bama, whose constitution failed of adoption because of an insufficient number of votes in the aggregate being polled? The cases are nearly similar, but the Congressional majority may think that there will be some difference in the character of the electoral votes in the two States, one being republican and the other likely to be democratic ; hence its desire and intention to keep Mississippi out until after the Presidential election. It will be seen that @ bill has already been introduced in Con- gress, which, without referring to the rejection of the new constitution by Missis- sippi, recognizes the late election ag valid, and suthorizes the inauguration of those candidates who have received the highest number of votes, provided they can take the test oath, otherwise those having the next highest number, thereby constituting a provisional State government under authority of Congress. Under the pro- visions of this act Governor Humphreys, democrat, although elected by upwards of eieht thousand majority, will provabiy have to yield the office to the republican minority can- | he Proneerd Subsidy tor didate, Eggleston. The democratic members of Congress elect will not of course be permit- ted to take their seats, according to this pro- gramme. ere In the case of Texas, she has been so lag- gard in her operations, or her military mas- ters have been purposely and by advices from Washington so dilatory in calling and holding the Convention, that there is but little probability of her being able to complete the undertak- ing of manufacturing a new constitution before next November. At last advices the Oonven- tion was amusing itself in a humorous discus- sion on female suffrage and preparing for an apprehended general negro revolt. Therefore Texas may be counted out until after the next Presidential race. But the restoration of each of these States rests upon the discretion of Congress, and, judging from previous examples, it can whirl them all into the line of the Union in a jiffy if it shall be considered the right radical policy sotodo, Itistrue it isa rather delicate job, but Congress will get out of it some way or other, as the radical majority have heretofore shown themselves equal to any emergency and entirely unscrupulous in the employment of means to carry out party purposes. A Recess Determined Upon by Congress. The carpet-baggers who got up the im- promptu convention of so-called Southern delegates, held in Washington on Wednesday, have succeeded so far in their manipulations of the House of Representatives as to induce that long-winded body to endorse the action of the Senate and substitute for a final adjournment, which the country so universally desire, a recess from the 27th inst. to the third Monday in Septem- ber. The carpet-baggers, having a wholesome dread of the President, were fearful, should Congress definitely adjourn and thus leave them to their own resources, he would send them up in a fire balloon that would return to earth all their deep-laid schemes to ride rough- shod over the South, and, thus backed by the too confiding Sambo, obtain that political alti- tude which elsewhere they could never reach, besides quietly, and of course patriotically, feathering their nests. Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, who is ever ready to uphold those who befriend him, yesterday asked the House to concur in the resolution of the Senate, re- marking, as he did so, that he was personally, but not politically, averse to any action that looked towards a recess. Much opposition was apparently manifested by Messrs. Upson, Schenck, Paine, Butler and others to the con- sideration of the resolution, but the ‘‘Fathet of the House,” notwithstanding his expressed obnoxiousness, applied the whip freely, and finally, on the previous question being second- ed, carried the resolution for a recess through by a vote of eighty-five yeas against sixty-nine nays. Great were the rejoicings of ,the car- pet-baggers on the vote being made known. Thad Stevens’ Personal Explanation. The pretty little discussion between the head and front of the republican party in Congress and the head and front of the republican press loses none of its interest as it goes on. The point in dispute is as to what the financial policy of the republican party really is, and two great authorities differ as widely as possi- ble. Stevens says that the five-twenties are not payable in gold, and that only ‘‘bloated speculators” claim that they are. Hereupon Greeley says substantially that Stevens is a rogue, and that ‘‘no swindler that the world has known ever perpetrated a fraud so gigantic as that he meditates.” Tonched by these terms, quite in his own style, Stevens next makes an explanation on the floor of the House. He alludes to the references to his conduct by papers “half secession” and ‘‘in the pay of the bondholders.” This will touch Greeley on the raw. That ‘‘half secession” is an unkind reference to his record and remem- bers the time when he was not so much in favor of the Union as he has been and wanted to let the Southern States go. It also glimpses a little at his relations with Jeff Davis, not well covered by the pretext at philanthropy. Perhaps the charge that he is ‘in the pay of the bondholders” is worse yet; for it is the fashion in the republican party to make believe that they all consider the philosopher honest, and Oid Thad, in refusing to be bound by such sentimentality, may originate a new fashion. He is pretty sharp all through, and closes up by declaring the great radical of the city press a fool, because he has quoted the words of Thad to prove that he was in favor of paying the five-twenties in gold, and Thad says the words thus quoted were spoken in regard to another bill altogether. Now, which of these widely disagreeing doctors is right on the main point? Which has the best right to declare the doctrine of the republican party— Old Thad, the consistent, savage radical, who has shaped the party to what it is and origi- nated many of its financial bills, and who has never been on any side but the Union side, or the ‘half secession” editor ‘in the pay of the bondholders,” who has been on all sides? —_—— Our City Public Schoole=The Summer Vas cation. The eummer vacation of our city public achools begins to-day. At one o'clock a hundred thousand children and their teachers will be set free, for seven weeks, from their daily taske. The teachers will be able, if is hoped, to recuperate, at the seashore or in the mountains, their étrength for the duties of the coming fall, winter and spring. Comparatively few of the children will be able to leave town, but at least those who live not too far off from the Park can enjoy its incomparable advantages 48 4 summer resort, The boys who live too far off to enjoy daily the attrac- tione of the Park will frequent, ag usual, the shipyards and lacerate their bare feet with shingle nails, or, in eome unlucky cases, be drowned in their swimming ventures, Why, then, would it not be well to facilitate the ac- cess of the children of the most remote wards in the city to our unrivalled Park, and especially to provide for their amusement and health, as well as for the amusement and health of “children of larger growth,” the most com- pletely appointed baths and swimming schools on both the North and East rivers? During the summer vacation the achoolhouses should be thoroughly cleansed and repaired, and par ticular attention should be given to securing * improved modes of ventilation, sfeamstlp Ljner wie Yesterday the sate passed the bill ft to aaa of tne steamships between New S ports of Europe,” by agreeing to pay wr the service of such vessels tn ¢ the States mails $600,000 per Leen is liberal and ought to place ons it footing a line of vessels which for elegance of appointment and swiftness would surpass the fastest ships that now ply on the Atlantic, We certainly, for the credit of the country, ought to have permanently established under the American flag a fleet of ocean mail steamers equal in capacity and speed to the Adriatic and other ships of the Collins Company, which at one time were the competitors of the Cunard line, and had Congress continued its subsidy of $400,000 for a few years beyond the term originally agreed upon American steam vessels would to-day have as complete control of the Atlantic as they have of the North Paci- fic. The liberal action of the House in endors- ing the bill of the Senate would at this par- ticular time do much towards re-establishing American influence and commerce both on this Continent and in Europe, and besides revive the many mechanical interests, which are now merely lingering, that are intimately connected with and wholly dependent upon what before and during the rebellion was « leading interest of the country—shipbuilding. The Funding Bill. The general impression at Washington that the Funding bill will not be passed is probably correct. Even if it were to be passed it would prove but a dead letter; for, non-compulsory as it is, it would prove practically ineffectual, On the whole it will be well if it be defeated. We have had enough financial tinkering on the part of Congress during its present session. What Congress has done has been productive only of harm, and, together with what it has left undone, has betrayed its utter ignorance of the financial questions of the day. There is nothing left for it to do but to devote its atten- tion to the improvement of the revenue and the reduction of the public expenditure, Thus by the gradual approximation of the currency to gold the question of the payment of the prin- cipal of the national debt in gold or in green- backs will be satisfactorily solved. The most indispensable requisite is to build up the pub- lic credit and strengthen confidence in our se- curities both at home and abroad. There is no good reason why United States bonds should not be selling ten or twenty per cent higher than they are. Ultimately they must command a much higher price in gold than they are now selling for in currency. * Toe Tax Bui.—All question as to the future of the act regulating the revenues of the general government has been finally set- tled by the President affixing to it his signature. It is now the law of the land, and it is to be hoped-that under it fewer whiskey and tobacco rings will be formed and the returns to the Treasury made with greater regularity. We notice in the telegraphic despatch to the HeERavp, published in another column, it is stated that the bill, accompanied by a protest, was signed on Monday last. This we question, as, if it were the case, the President would not have intimated to the Senate on Tuesday his desire for more time to deliberate on its provisions, However this may be, the signa- ture having been officially made known, the amended act is now beyond further discussion in the present session of Congress. What its political effects on the country will be remains to be seen. Rospery oN THE High Logw Bripes.— All have noticed what a favorite resort the high Logw bridge is, especially for visitors from the rural districts, as a point of observa- tion both up and down Broadway. But a poor young German experienced painfully the other day how well aware the New York pickpockets have become that euch is the fact. He was robbed, while standing on the bridge, of his watch and eight thousand dollars, and he has no clne that can enable him to discover the rob- bers, This unfortunate case supplies a new argument for the demolition of this ungainly bridge, or, at least, for its removal to the Ful- ton street ferry or the Barclay street ferry, or to some other ferry, where the view from it would be less temptingly attractive, and where the passers-by would, in their hurry to reach the ferryboats, have less time to stop to be robbed. Miitary RerorM 1s Evrorpe.—The great Powers of Europe are about to organize a military convention charged to consider the plan of the Emperor of Russia to alleviate the horrors of war by the disuse of explosive bul- lets, We beg to recommend an enlargement of the idea by the adoption and issue of @ uni- versal general order for the removal of the locks from all the needle guns, Chassepots, Enfields and Snyders now in use in the Old World, and the placing of the millions of men who are taught to handle these weapons at some useful employment. It does not mi much to a dead man whether the bnilet which ended his life exploded or did its work ailently. Tas Usios Leacte Conornse 1x Haxy.—The Union League Club will bold a special meeting this eveping in order to act upon certain instructions proposed to be given to Congress against a hasty adjournment of the session and in favor of some action on the grant- ing of naturalization papers. The Union League, you know, must be doing something. Is It to Br 1866 Over Acatn?—We per- ceive that some of the copperhead journals propose to fight this fight against article four- teen of the amendments of the constitution. That article, in the State elections of 1866, as their platform, gave the republicans their heavy two-thirds vote in both houses of the present Congress, Are we to have that bat- tle repeated? That ig the important question for the democracy. TTA FESTIVITIES, THE WORGESTER Wonrcestan, July 23, 1868. ‘The base ball match between the Freshman nines of Yale and Harvard University clube resulted, this afternoon, tn @ victory for the Harvards by ascore of 801019, The Harvards played loosely in the first innings, bat ii ‘Whose flelding waa below par. The grand and ball was 9 splendid ‘affair. i number of friends and mirers of the Yale from thousands who are drawn to Wi to witness the festivities and were the graceful = im the Governor Bullock and he most prominent citizens of Worcester were also Present. It that over twenty th stra gre ia the city waiting for tye great events i » te third agd [set A Welcome Home by his Fellow Citizens ta a jommnus ‘Ademenh ‘Peving, Gravatt por BosrOw, July 23, 1368. Gharies Praticls Adams, of Quincy, Mass., the lately retarned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pieni- prema to. the Oourt of St. James, from -the ited States, had @ public and formal reception in olty to-day, The idea of expressing to Mr. Adams their appreciation of his services abroad was concelved about a week aince by the leading citizens of Boston, both of the professional and mercantile circles, and the correspondence which passed between them and the ex-Minister has already appeared in the Heraup, The reception Was announced at twelve o'clock, but long before that hour Horticultural Hall was crowded to ite full capacity with distinguished representatives of the army, navy, State and city governments, judges of the courts, manufacturers, merchants, professors, students and oitizens generally. Mr. William Gray, chairman of the Reception Com- mittee, entered the hall shortly after twelve o'clock, in company with Mr. Adams. There was at once the wildest enthusiasm, and almost involuntarily there ‘was a round of three hearty cheers for Charles Fran- cis Adams. These having been repeated two or three times, Mr. Gray called the body to order, and then proceeded to welcome Mr. Adams in their be- half. In his speech of welcome Mr. Gray said:— Mr. ADAMs—In pehslf of the Committee of Ar- rangements I ask leave to present to you their beat wishes, and speaking for those who are now present and justified by the sentiments which I know they entertain, I ask leave to bid you a cordial welcome on your return to your home in Massachusetts, We have assembled this morning, in the sim- ple customs of our fathers, to recelve you on your return from the important mission pO. which you have so honorably filled. (Applause.) The post of a foreign Minister, beyond the immediate reach of the government for which he acts and with- out the presence or immediate support of the peopie quiring greut goretion and. good. acquaintsace q retion and @ good acqu: SO law; and when in times of i emergency ve questions arise rogeie the action an individual so far from home, it is a trial which tests the ability and charac- ter of any who occupies such a post. (Applause.) It is quite common, sir, for those beyond middle life to look back upon the past as more worthy of contem- plation than the present. They feel more for the memory of what 1s gone than for the memories of the present or the hopes of the future. We have been accustomed to look back with the highest venera- tion to the founders of our republic, and it ts well that it should always be so. We. have seen in the events of the last seven years a spirit in the women and in the men of the country worthy of any and of all time. (Applause.) We recall with great pride the services of John Adams in the ter oye of foreign service where he represented he government—applause)—from the time he firat went abroad in 1778 as one of our com- missioners to France; during his term of ser- vice an anxious treaty with Great Britain for which he waited four years for its completion; as @ Minister to Holland and Great Britain, for which he was honored with the gratitude and plaudits of the nation. At a later day John Quincy Adams, durmg a longer term of service—nearly fifteem yt ted the country as Minister @t the Hague, Berlin, Russia and Great Britain; “and it 1s no disparagement to the dis- ‘ti ished services oi your ancestors that the trials, the responsibilities and the opportunities of Charles Francis Adams during the last at the Court of Great Britats respect ferior to those of his ancestors. And i eee of the pecne of both nations has awarded as ‘ss of approval on your administration as the; id on that of either of them. a amare ‘our ure from this count: the spring 1861 was followed with anxious solicitude. You reached deep interest for us and forall. The public acts of the governments abroad are known to all men, but the historian will record in the future many which are not yet known to the public. You, sir,’ have known the steps which led to the occupation of. Mexico by the French and the placing of Maximilian oo eke te ans foot bare ae, the ing r active vention, amid ‘which you have so long lived. You know the active zeal ea ers ability of the emissaries of the so-called Confederate States to enlist the sympathies and secure the assistance of foreign Powers; but’ that darkness has , and you have seen the light of morning; you have seen the success of our arms and have observed the which that success caused in the minds of the people You have seen as an eye witness a his- tory which falls to the lot of few men to observes but on your return to us, your friends and neuaboms, we offer to you @ most cordial and heartfel! ing, and we ask you to present to us, in as full s manner as you feei it is proper gh i to do, a nare rative of events which you have witnessed abroad. (Applause and cheers.) r the appiause had somewhat subsided Minie- ter ApaMs stepped forward and made the following graceful response to the welcome which had beep accorded him:— Mk. PRESIDENT, MY FRISNDS AND N&IGHBORS— You have been used so long a time back to hear the voices of accomplished speakers who make to you ‘addresses upon public occasions somewhat resem- bitng this that I fear you will be very much Ce 4 jointed when I say to you that I have little 0 respond to the remarks, most friendly and complimentary, Which have been made by the chairman of the committee, beyond expressi to him and to all of you my deepest and m heartfelt thanks for the kindness you have mani- fested toward me. 1 might, indeed, perhaps, have endeavored by an elaborate effort to make an ads dress on the topics alluded to by your chairman, which wouid have been acceptable to you; but large experience has taught me thatin making such am address I might have been too much absorbed in thinking what I might be going to say, or how Lk might going, (*0 acquit myself, to be able to indulge in e reat feeling in whic! wish to indulge upon this occasion. feeling 1s @ desire to meet you, not collectively 4 ap assemblage gathered for , specific 5 se, but as individual and personal friends who e come to meet me, and with every one of whom [ would be glad to shake hands. And now, Mr. Gray, if you will give me the liberty, I will come forward, and if there ts anybody who wishes personally to press any feeling he may entertain in regard to of the scenes of the little which he may think I have done, I shall value his hearty shake of the hand mych more than fo al expression of approval, ‘a aeortance ith itr. Adams’ there then followed an ordeai of hand-shal ¥ nied by many individual congratulations—t! 1a nearly a couple of hours—after h Mr. Adame dined privately wit! few friends. THE LABOR MOVEMENT. MEBTING OF BRICKLAYERS.—The members Qf the Brickiayers’ Protective and Benevolent Union held a meeting at the Demilt Dispensary, corner of Second avenue and Twenty-third street, yesterday evening. Mr. Samte! R. Gaul, the president of the Union, o@ oupied the chair, Mr. J. Daly officiating as secretary. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and approved, a committee from tne Laborers’ Union and @ delegation from the Brown Stone Cutters’ eich had Deen’ to the effect that the joint at Moore & * from any ii committee announcem sum of $600 to the the delegation from the carpenters and join- a ade an ing speech to the brick- layers concluded b; ing them, on behalf ‘his th The ohairmen of the brass founders’ ‘and painters’ delegations then an- nounced donatioi a $100 wien as re- pects ieties, after thanks hed Deen pa to each of the above friend- President Gaui informed te ting ots orate ln oe hy OY NOs 1, $5005, King Boatol 3, $600; Washi ston, Mota, $50; Indiana, No. 1,’ $40; Pittsburg, No. $55; New Haven, No. $1 and Worcester, jass., No. 3 ‘A committee was then appointed @ advisability of joining in a —= mass meeting of all the jes ea be held in one of the principal squares of this eity. Tar CLoratye Currsrs’ UNnton held a meeting at 10 Stanton street last night that was attended by over fifty delegates. A resolution was passed informing the ae | merohants of New York hborhood that on and after ah netentartoe would ask for $4