The New York Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BL OADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. eee nnn AnD nego THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year, Four cents per copy.’ Annual subscription price $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FIVE Annual subscription price: CENTS per copy. One Copy 92 ‘Three Copies 5 Vive Copies. 8 Ten Copies. The CaLivonNta EpITion, on the Ist, 9th, 16th and 24th of each month, at Six CENTS per copy, or $3. per annom, Volume XXXII -No. 215 BROADWAY TABERNACLE CHURCH.—Rev. Truo- vay Dwicur, D. D. Morning. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—Rrv. STEPHEN H. Tra, JR. Morning. CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Rrv. Davin MircurL.. Morning and evening. "ROH OF THE REDEMPTION.—Rev, Urtau Scorr. nd evening, + Y SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— W. A. 8co7, D. D, Morning and evening. EVERETY CHASE, ROOMS.—SPIRiTUALISTS. Morning and evening. Hon. WARREN WILL BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev. J. D. Davis. , No, 229.—Rev. Cuaries B. Suyta. Morn- ng. VENUE M. E, CHURCH.—Morning—Rrv. LEXINGTON A 1 Fr: Tvening—RRv. Dr. MORAN. W. H. Frsess. OF THE REFORMATION.—Services P. FE. CHURC morning and eveni ST CHURCH.—Rev. A. P. GRaves. BA souTH Mornin, KSITY—Washington square.—Brsnor SNow, Af- New York, Sunday, August 2, 1868. THD NOWS. EUROPE. news report by the Atlantic cable is dated 1y evening, August 1, ‘, Money. Five-twenties 72 in inkfort. y, with middling uplands at 9% pence. d provisions quiet. t ip, at this port, we have our special « , nee and mail re in detail of our sus, to the 21st of duly. MISCELLANEOUS. rom Venezuela state that the fi late deposed President, to the thousand five hundred, and sup- jlilla of five small vessels, concen- » Cabello. The new President, Mona- 1 upon Porto Cabello, determined to t vestige of opposition to his adminis. prt of Laguayra ts blockaded by a schooner, part of the squadron tn od President Falcon. Prest- yefiected many important vernment, aod his administration tistaction to the business eqmmunity, » oingo we learn that a body of Presi- numbering oue thousand five hun- na recent eagagement with the revolu- barliy beaten, and their commander, am, Killed, The reported English loan amyth, The story was put afloat by coy to mislead bis people. is ner Rollins and his deputies are busily en- ' imgng the twenty-five internal Kevenne vurdance with the recent act of Congress. applicants for created in these o @reat as to seriously Tiere with the f (oe Commissioner, asd that officer has 1 to deny himself to all visitors in time for his ordinary duties, It is said ient will appoint a commissioner ad ou Monday. The project of choosing j iol electors in the South by the i yerely denownced by all par- i of War, at the request « r, has a the Judge Aa are ¢ for General to pre b i upon offenc 1 against him by the on Ordnat ‘Vhe amount of frac- received from (le printing division © +¥ Department the last week was ow of the Caited States war steamer Ss ked ou Vancouver's island, arrived t 1 co yesterday, They report the Su- La : avlvices say the Indians attacked the ween camps Reno and McDowell, and x r tiers belonging to the Eighth cavalry. , s are full of savages, who continue jul ions, ' ©) dosuson, Minister to Great Britain, sailed steamer Baltimore, from Balti- outhampton, Mrs. Lincoln, who was to wicd him, was suddenly taken Ml be- sien of the steamer, and was obliged to voyage. joy on tn 38 meeting held in Angusta, from Hon. Joshua Hill-one Senators—was read, saying he a siuutp the State for Grant and Colfax. General Sheridan was arrested yesterday at Lea- venworti, Kanzas, for assault att battery, He forcibly ejected the Fort Leavenworth Postmaster trom off the military reservation a few days ago. Hence the action for assault. ‘The report that the yellow fever prevails Orleans ts emphatically denied, the city never was healthier. ‘The Montgomery Guard was enthusiasticaliy re- ceived on their return home yesterday, Captain Egan, the referce who made the award at the com- petitive drill in this city on Thursday, publishes a card containing his reasons for his decision, and thinks the Montgomery Guard were fairly defeated. Henry Bergh, President of the Seciety for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals, thinks @ large share of the moral and physical diseases which affect man- Kind is caused by the use of meat, and advises the Abolition of the use of the fesh of animals as food. Mr. Bergh eats meat from force of abit, not natural inclination. During the past week the Brooklyn police made 891 arrests. In the month of July they picked up 127 lost children about the streets and restored them o their parents. ww It ts claimed that A very marked improvement is apparent tn the Health of the city, the deaths during the last week weing fifty-one less than the week previous. Over eighty miles of streets have been sprinkled with dis- finfectants, and the good result from this experi- ment is seen in the great sanitary improvement in those districts previously noted as being the most unhealthful. | Pett, has been committed by the coroner to await | the action of the Grand Jury. The total amount of sales of real estate at auction | in this clty during the last week was $42,155. Nearly H the whole of this was for ‘property outside of the city, $27,500 being for lots in Montclair, N. J. Inac- tivity in real estate is usual at this season. About six o'clock yesterday afternoon the main- | Toyal-mast of Grinnell, Minturn & Co.’s ship York- town, lying at plier 20 East river, was struck by lightning and shivered to atoms. The ship received no other injury. The Fernando Wood lease case has been finally de- cided, judgment having been given against the city for $13,500, In the case of Jones & Raymond vs. the Comp- troller of the city of New York, for peremptory man- damus against the Comptroller to compel him to pay Plaintiffs’ claim against the city of $25,000 for ad- vertising done, Judge Cardozo rendered a decision directing him to adjust the claim. Yesterday morning a schooner while passing up the North river ran down @ small boat in which were Mr. Humphrey and his son, of. Jersey City. Mr. Humphrey clung to the overturned boat until re- scued, but his son was drowned. The schooner kept on its way, without making the slightest effort to aid those whose lives had been imperilled. About half-past eight o’clock last night @ fire was discovered in the extensive cotton oil manufactory of Oppenheim & Co., on the dock, between 117th and 18th streets, The fire was the most disastrous of any which has ever occurred on the upper end of New York, and destroyed over $300,000 worth of Property, on which there was an insurance of about $150,000, About three o'clock yesterday afternoon the brick building Nos, 70 and 72 Schermerhorn street, Brook- lyn, used as a turning mil) and sash ana blind factory, and owned by Mr. Henry Werner, was destroyed by fre. Three small wooden buildings were also con- sumed. Loss about $35,000, The stock market, including governments, was dull but closed firm yesterday. Gold closed at 145; @ 14534. Business in commercial circles yesterday ‘Was light, a8 it is usually on Saturday, though in som@departments of trade there was a fair degree of activity. Coffee was in batter demand, but prices were heavy. Cotton was in passably active demand and firm, closing, at 303¢c. for middling uplands, On Change flour was in fair request* and firmer. Wheat was dull, but held higher. Corn opened firm and active, but closed dull and heavy at $112 for prime new Western mixed. Oats were quiet and lower, closing at 82c. afloat. Pork was quiet, but firm. Beef was dull and unchanged, while lard was in fair request and a shade firmer. Naval stores— Spirits turpentine was active and xc. higher, closing at 45c. a 46c., while rosin was dull but steady. Petroleum was firm at 17%c. for crude (in bulk) and 34}4c. for refined in bond. Whiskey was quite freely sought, and firm, at 60c.,in bond. Freights were dull and unchanged. The National Debt and the Funding Bill. The radical republicans are endeavoring to make a good deal of political capital out of the Funding bill. They claim it as their mea- sure. Thad Stevens endorses it and boasts that nearly every republican in Congress voted for it, Mr. Sherman, who reported and en- gineered the bill through, regards his offspring with great pride and affection. One would suppose from all this that itis the perfection of financial legislation. Still it is not received with favor by either the capitalists at home or the bondholders abroad. Neither the news- papers here which assume to speak for the moneyed and commercial interests nor the press of Europe look upon it as a wise or practical measure. This, it must be remembered, how- ever, is the bondholders’ view of the matter. They will not be satisfied with less than six per cent interest in gold and” payment of the bonds in gold. Yet as business men they are right, probably, as to the impracticable charac- ter of the bill. It hardly seems reasonable that any considerable number of bondholders will voluntarily change their six per cent bonds for four per cent ones, although they may get long forty year bonds for their five-twenties and gold payments be guaranteed. If they should not the Funding bill will become practi- cally a dead letter. Strange to say, too, most of these advocates of Mr. Sherman’s bill are clamorous for imme- diate specie payments. If they believe we should return immediately or within a short time to a specie basis, and think that we shall do so, how is it possible to fund the debt by voluntary action at such a reduced interest ? A bondholder who is drawing six per cent in- terest in gold, and believes that within a few years at furthest specie payments will be resumed, and as a consequence that his bonds will be paid in gold, is not likely to change them for four per cent interest securities. The difference of time the bonds may have to run will not make so much difference in value in this country, where the interest of money is | always high, and where there is such a large field for profitable investment. The only in- | ducement to fund the six per cent debt in four | per cents will be in the belief that specie pay- ments cannot be resumed for a long time to come, and that the five-twenties may in the meantime be paid in legal tenders. Any one believing this might voluntarily give up his six per cent interest bonds for the four per cent ones, as the latter are to be paid in gold at the end of forty years, but those believing in an early resumption would certainly not. These on-to-specie-payment theorists, there- fore, are either utterly ignorant of the nature and practicability of this Funding bill or are playing the game of demagogues for political effect. The reduction of the interest from six to four per cent makes just about the difference in value as between currency and gold to-day. The five-twenties are worth about a hundred and eight in currency, interest off, while in gold hey are worth in this and other markets from seventy-two to seventy-six. The inter- est reduced one-third reduces the value one- third, and that\ejngs the bonds to just about the present markt value in gold. Thad Stevens may well be Pagsed with the Funding bill, for it answers the same yurpose of paying the debt in greenbacks, and, ayo says, it puts that question at rest. Mr. Peticton could desire nothing more. Yet these radiou repnp- licans in Congress, who almost unanitnysly voted for the bill, have the hardihood to pra. about the national honor and hurrying to specie payments, and to abuse those who pro- pose to pay the five-twenties in greenbacks as repudiators. What is the difference between reducing the interest a. third and paying the | debt in greenbacks at the present rate of gold? It amounts to the same thing. We are only condemning the inconsistency and chicanery, ‘The long pending controversy betweer. the Board or the stupidity—we do not know which—of Of Menith and the butchers has finally resulted ina compromise—the Board of Health giving the butch re until the first of January next to remove their Giaughter houses from the city, the butchers agree ing to this decision and acquiescing in the enforce: tment of any regulation or ordinance which the . burden removed from the industrious classes, these politicians and would-be financiers. It would be @ good thing if the interest of the debt could be reduced and a portion of the and better atill if the debt could be put Board may doom necessary for the public healtu and through a rapid process of liquidation. We wasety. Mary Kearney, native of Ireland, died yesterday enue from being run over by 8 car of the Secon are foe any funding bill or any financial mea- sure that will bring about such a desirable (ae on ihe tech wit ‘Pee driver of the oar, Thomas resull; but there must be more practical ’ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1868. , logislation than Mr’ Sherman's bill shows. The present Congress is not capable of grasping ihe subject of our national finances, and the less it attempts to do the better. Let our overbur- | dened taxpayers canvass well the merits and financial abilities of the candidates for the next Congress. It matters but very little to which party they belong so that they possess the requisite knowledge on the financial ques- tions which are to form the issues, and the Power to legislate upon such matters as must come before the next Congress to relieve us from our present burthens and to place the finances of the country upon a healthy basis. The Summer Exedus from New York. We have often adverted to the claims of New York itself as a summer resort. Wo might fill a column in recapitulating these claims. But the strangers from every part of the Union, from Cuba and the other West India islands, and, we may now add, from far off China, do not need to be reminded of them. All these visitors contrive to keep cool here, thanks to fans and ices, and iced drinks and fruits of every description, and drives in the Park and sails down the bay and up the Hud- son, and delicious night breezes from the bay and from river to river. The concerts of Thomas’ admirable band at the Central Park Garden, ‘‘Humpty Dumpty” at the ‘“‘coolest theatrical resort in town,” and, to mention no other of our many summer dramatic attrac- tions, the crown of them all, the ‘‘ Barbe Bleue” at Niblo’s, afford ample amusement for the crowds of strangers who now fill our hotels. But while the city is thronged with visitors, including, of course, all whom the competition between the splendid steamboats of the Sound, bring here from the remotest points in New England, the exodus from New York is im- mense. All who can afford to escape fora longer or a shorter period from the cares and dust of our daily city life have already fled to the mountains and the lakes, to the seaside or secluded shady nooks in the rural districts, or have swollen the lists of passengers by the various lines of steamers from this port to Europe. Almost all the fashionable churches are closed. Pastors and flocks have deserted brown stone fronts and heated sidewalks for green meadows and still rivers and distant mountains. Men and women and children of all the so-called comfortable classes have gone out of town, even the risk of being bitten by mosquitoes, of being rendered dyspeptic by unaccustomed and ill-cooked food, and of being suffocated in crowded hotels, the diminutive attic rooms of which offer a very disagreeable contrast to their own spacious and well-aired bedchambers at home. Not that we underrate the real advantages of a change of air, of a change of scene, of elegant leisure in the place of exacting and wearisome toil in the pursuit of wealth. We duly appreciate all these and the other advan- tages of ‘‘a summer vacation.” Wherever our summer excursionists have gone—whether to Saratoga, where more than a thousandeguests now daily dine at a single hotel, and nota mosquito nor scarcely a fly is to be dreaded ; or to Long Branch, with its manifold seaside attractions ; or to the Highlands of Neversink ; or to Newport, with its delightful atmosphere ; or to the White Mountains, or to West Point, or to the Catskills, or to the Adirondacks, or to the Connecticut valley, or to the picturesque coast of Maine or its scarcely less picturesque interior, or to the numerous fishing points on Long Island, or to the Sulphur Springs of Virginia (which are happily recovering from the interruption which the late war inflicted on their former prosperity), or to Lake Su- perior, or ‘‘across the Continent”—wherever they have gone we feel sure that. they will be invigorated in body and mind. Nor will the yachtmen and their guests who pass the sum- mer in cruising along our coast from Old Point Comfort, in Virginia, to Eastport, in Maine— “the uttermost point of the Atlantic coast under protection of the Stars and Stripes"—fail to derive health and enjoyment from the exhilarating pleasures which yachting alone can afford. The extent to which our citizens are begin- ning to indulge their passion for summer excur- sions is attested by the increasing number of useful and entertaining guide books for Ameri- can travellers on their own Continent—such, for instance, as Appleton’s ‘‘Guide Books” and Sweetser's ‘‘Book of Summer Resorts,” and Lossing’s ‘‘Hudson” and the late Star King’s “White Hills,” and many others of a similar class. The American, and especially the American who has travelled in Europe and in the East, is rapidly learning to appreciate the incomparable scenery which is offered by our own seashores and lakes and prairies and mountains. And if the summer tourists who leave New York to visit every accessible point on our Continent will study not only our American scenery, but also the grand spec- tacle which American life, with its thrift and ite educational advantages and its amazing material prosperity everywhere presents, in villages and inland cities and in the most rural districts, they will retura to city activities with fresh determination te do all in their power to make New York the vorthy metropolis of #0 great a country, Sparn Comino To Hex Senaxs.—Queen Isa- bella has at last found cut that it will not do to govern Spain on the Brevo principle. It is not difficult to banish muirshals, generals and princes of the blood royal so long as the power to do so remains; but the danger is that this power may not last. The liberal party may have become too bold and rash in their schemes. It may have been a necessity on the rart of the government to put down the in- Cipant revolution and to put it down with vigor. It is now manifest, however, that the sovernment has gone too far, that the spirit of the Peov and of the army is roused, and that the Queen t+ retrace her steps. If it prove true that the vat Espartero has been asked “Tan is @ proof that the liberals to form a Cabinet, . are again in the asce. If the Duke euo- the present diffi- ceeds in forming a Cabu. eulty may be saved off; but w toubt whethor the position of Queen Isabella cw. over again be made comfortable. Tak Riowr Prarrorm—That of Gen , Grant: —‘‘Let as have peace ;" and it is all th | better from the goaeral conviction that be moans veave, at. {The Religious Question tm Europe —Our Paris Letter. In another place in this day's Hgraxo will | be found a long, able and exhaustive letter | from the pen of our special correspondent in | Paris on the state of religion in Europe, The | subject is suggestive and full of interest. It is ‘ not our intention to enlarge on the question at present. Thore are many things to be said, but some of these matters are so well treated by our correspondent that we advise our readers to peruse tho letter and judge for them- selves. Itisa fact not without significance that the monument to Martin Luther and an Eoumenical Council should divide the attention of the religious world in the summer of 1868. It does not much alter the case when we re- mind ourselves that the Luther monument at Worms is a fact, and that the Ecumenical Council at Rome is only a probability of the future. One important part of the coincidence is that three hundred years have elapsed since Luther, with more bravery than was com- mon at the time, confronted the Diet of Worms, and since the period when the last Ecumenical Council, which was convened to destroy the influence of Luther assembled in session, Luther has had no such pub- lic honor done to his memory as this Worms monument implies during all these three hun- dred years, and during the same period the Church and the world have been allowed to get along as best they could without the benefit of an Ecumenical Council. Lutheran- ism was a stunning and damaging blow to the Papacy, and was certain, as some thought, to work its destruction. The Council of Trent, on the otherhand, was intended to prove the ruin of Lutheranism, and it was the confident hope of many that its purpose would not be defeated. Lutheranism, or whatever we choose to name the Reformation principle, still lives and prospers, and it has a great deal to do not only with the actual present, but also with the hopeful future. Protestantism is not dead. Far from that, itis a large and growing reality. It is not otherwise with the Papacy. It has not lost, but rather gained since the Reforma- tion, The dividing lines are now very much what they were in Luther's own time or shortly afterwards, and there is no immediate prospect that these lines will be moved to the advantage of either section of Christendom. He would be a bold man who would venture to predict when oither would destroy the other. It would be wrong, however, to imagine that because the one class of principles has not been destructive of the other, and because the boundary lines relatively have changed but little, if they have changed at all, neither has made progress. The antagonism, while it has had a most healthful effect on the material interests of mankind, has largely extended the confines of Christendom. Relatively Protes- tantism and Catholicism are much what they were three hundred years ago; but the world is better for the existence of both, and Chris- tianity is at once a more healthful thing in itself and covers a larger portion of the sur- face of the globe than would have been the case if the Reformation had never taken place. The Late Militia Outrages in Tompkins Square. The conduct of the Twelfth regiment, Na- tional Guard, on Thursday last, at the competi- tive drill between a company of that organi- zation and their guests, the Montgomery Guard, of Boston, is a matter of deep concern to the National Guard of the State of New York and to the entire community, when con- sidered in the light of its effect upon the militia and the people generally of our sister States. The citizen soldiery of this State has, ever since its formation, maintained a reputa- tion second to that of no other State in the Union for efficiency, discipline and those qual- ities which add so much to the éclat of the soldier when he bears himself with the dig- nity and courtesy of the gentleman. Its record in the field needs no commendation or qualifi- cation; it was at once honorable and merito- rious. The system of visiting and receiving as guests the militia otganizations of other States has been in vogue since the earliest organization of the uniformed militia of this State, and has been the medium of many ex- changes of inter-State comity and good fellow- ship among the volunteers and citizens gene- rally of the various Commonwealths. There are, indeed, many highly commendable features in and gratifying and beneficial results likely to flow from the custom. But when these occasions are made the means of such wanton displays of ruffianly conduct and shameless discourtesy as were exhibited by the Twelfth regiment at the Tompkins equare drill and parade, the good that has resulted from all previous inter- changes of amity and hospitality is at once materially tarnished and in some instances irrevocably crushed. We are glad to be able to state that the event of Thursday was with- out a precedent, and it is highly probable that the example will never be followed by any other regiment than that with which it origi- nated. But the matter does not drop there merely; for it has b’en the means to some extent of sullying the record of the entire militia force of at least New York city, and under these circumstances requires more than & passing notice. When « volunteer regiment at one of its fétes undertakes to physically abuse the citizens assembled thereat, and to treat with browbreating sneers and groans its guests, who have come from a neighboring city to engage ina contest of friendly emula- tion, it is high time that such a command should be openly rebuked by the voice of the people whom they dishonor and the central organization of which they form a part. The war record of the Twelfth will not cover any outrages of this description. ‘Harper's Ferry” and ‘‘Tompkins square” will not en- hance their reputation, even though inscribed in burnished gold on the beautiful national flag they so equivocally won on Thursday, and which, it is to be hoped, they will not have the audacity to display as a trophy in public. A fitting rebuke to such conduct would be the presentation of a handsome flag by the New York National Guard to the Montgomery Guard, of Boston. Goop Naws—That President Johnson has found tq his satisfaction a legal adviser in his new Attorney General (Evarts), that Evarts has promised to keep Johnson out of mischief, and Anat Johnson has agreed to be guided by | etgaa the sure way to esoape another im- Pew oat. Is the millonaiun coming? SA A Live Subject. Culex pipiens is the worst of them all, for he is the fellow who keeps you awake with that monotonous tune that has induced the French to call him cousin. It is too aftection- ate a designation to satisfy the American mind, and we seem to take some satisfaction in the energy with which we denounce him as & mosquito. We ought not, however, to say him—it is her. Yea, verily, that impercepti- ble mite of animosity which haunts the pillow, fills the air with the frightfulness of quiet din and the skin with unendurable itching—that is a female. Your manly male mosquito has quite other manners. He would scorn to strike the sleeper. He enjoys the sunlight and the air, goes from the cool pool in the woods to the flowers in the garden, sips fragrant juices, makes love and dies; but his wife, his sisters, his daughters and his mother, and all his poor female relations, they are the blood- thirsty wretches. Just now there isa visita- tion of this family in the city and the suburbs. We say advisedly, a visitation; for though there are some specimens of the domestic article about, these that now mostly plague us are foreigners. Generally our foreign mosqui- toes come with the west wind from New Jersey, with all a Jerseyman’s disposition to bleed the citizens of this wealthy metropolis. But the east winds bring fellows of the same temper from the other end of Long Island. There are two kinds of mosquitoes—what we may call the domestic wretch and the wild one. Bred about the premises, the domestic wretch haunts the house; bred in the woods and fields, the wild one lives out of doors. Thus our citizens may note in the present assem- blage there is a much smaller proportion in the house than in the garden or the street; and this proves where they come from. Another fact in proof is their habit of biting. Some kinds of mosquitoes bite only by day, others by night. This latter is your domestic animal—a true citizen, who sleeps away the morning and goes for his rations as the day wanes. He dines from six till twelve and then makes a night of it. The countryman bites keenly all day, but, like other countrymen, is glad to stow himself away as the daylight fails. Heis a great plague; but there is no place on the surface of the earth that has not some equivatent trouble. If the King of Italy is trying to take things easy in Florence the Fair just now, in the beautiful apartments of Pitti Palace, he is eaten up with fleas. Tak TROUBLE witH THE DEMooRAcY.— The democracy have thrown themselves with as much energy as if it were their delibe- rate act into that very pitfall against which we warned them from the first day the Fourth of July Convention was announced. They have given the lead in the fight to the worst, the hopelessly impossible section of their party—the Southern men. The old fire-eating style is now the true tone of democratic oratory, and the men whom the nation had to put down by force now pop up their heads to dictate what shall be done in the future. These Southern men when they were democrats before assumed such a tone that they forced the whole Northern people into an attitude of hostility to them. They indeed forced the Northern people into the republican party, though the people knew the evil of that pariy. Now that these men are democrats again they are doing the same thing over, and again they force the North to act with the republicans. They will not permit the Northern people to act in harmony with them for the benefit of the nation. PARLIAMENTS AT LarGce.—Just now the law makers of the world are trying to appreciate the delights of freedom from restraint and are happy in the opportunity to give law the go-by. None of the great deliberative bodies of nations are in session. The United States Congress, the British Parliament, the French Corps Législatif, the North German Parlia- ment, the Italian Chamber, the Hungarian Congress—all are en vacance, and the world goes around pretty much as it might if all the petand fume these bodies get up were still fermenting. If it were only twenty years now, this vacation—if Colfax could only put his previous question to the buffaloes and all the other functions indulge their greatness to the same effect, how much worse would the world be when the twenty years were gone? Tar Forok or Exampte.—tIn Indiana re- cently ‘‘an outraged community” executed by hanging two batches of express robbers, six in all. Now we hear that these examples have been followed in Tennessee in the similar exe- cution of two express robbers. With a few moré such experiments of Lynch law the ques- tion will have to be met, where is this thing to stop if not stopped at once in vindication of law and the regular authorities of the law? Ovr or tHe Way.—Jeff Davis has gone to Europe, and, it is to be hoped, may be permit- ted indefinitely to stay there. We cannot afford to condemn, still more to execute, the man who was the incarnation of the Southern spirit, with the country now ready to divide between parties as to the final result of the war. Congress has voted the money to pay his captors, and now let him go. Sounp anv Fory, Steniryine Norutra— The continued fuss of the Nova Scotians in op- position to their absorption in the New Do- miaion. It is all a waste of indignation. Let the enraged Nova Scotians cultivate a little patience and in good time ‘‘manifest destiny” will settle all their troubles, or let them con- sult Mr. Seward on the subject if they are ready to sell out at a bargain. Tur Goop OLp Way.—Under the peace pre- liminaries between Russia and Bokhara the Russian troops are to leave the country at once, the Khan paying to the Russian govern- ment halfa million of rubles for the expenses of his chastisement. The next thing, perhaps, will be a foreclosure, as of a mortgage, on the soil. It is the good old way. THE GALATEA. New Youe, Aug. 1, 190%, To Tae Eprtor oF tHe HeRaLy:— Having read im your columna this morning; that I came to New York with $20,000 in gold , pay the repairs af the Galatea (Haytion corvett® Alexandre Potion), retained in this city for the Money due on beg to state that I was sent from Port subrine deo vo the United States by tl: United States Mintater Resident in Haytt ae ini cv irter and ‘veamr of ches to the Uni States govern- it, and that L am not beaZer of any funds from i laytion government, and am in m0 way con- moctorl WINN LHe ROTO YOY: gms MURBAID, THE STORM LAST EVENING. Se eeeeenee A violent thunder storm, accompanied by rapid and brilliant Mashes of forked lightning, burst over the clty last evening between five and six o'clock, the rain falling in a perfect torrent during its entire continuance. Fortunately its duration was brief or there would have been reason to apprehend serious damage alike from the rain and the electricity. At one time the atmosphere became so darkened that at that early hour in the evening it was necessary to patronize the gas companies in stores and even pri- vate dwellings, The sewers and gatters were deluged—in fact, choked and overfowing—with the streams of water that rushed through the streeta, sweeping ash barrels and garbage along as though they were corks, Juvenile New York showed its ap- Preciation of cleanliness (?) by tucking up its trouser legs and holding up its skirts and wading knee deep in the miniature rapids and eddies that were formea by the obstructions in the drains and water chan- nels. This fact would seem to afford a very strong argument in favor of the establishment of the oft- times demanded public baths. New York youngsters will be cleanly at all hazards, and if the “city fathers” will not furnish means of ablution for the little “unwashed” the ‘“juveys” will go like ducks for the first puddle that forms. The amount of mud, dust and rubbish that was swept off the streets by this rain storm appalled the An DEHEASS, ane. a special report e good accomplis! sent to the Street Commissioner’s office or they will never know ft otherwise, for they never take the trouble to look at the public thoroughfares under ordinary cir- cumstant oron extraordinary occasions even, ur- less their attention 1s ‘dragged’? tothem. No serious damage is reported, except that considerable injury may be anticipated as likely to result to corporation shovels and scrapers in consequence of the dan; ous propin juity of the paving stones to the surface of the mud. “The hoes and shovels cannot tee going through and touching bottom if they are again this summer—an event, however, by no means certain to occur. “A Flash of Lightning.” About six o’clock, during the prevalence of the heavy thunder storm, the main royal mast of Grinnell, Minturn & Co.'s London packet ship Yorktown, Cap- tain Driver, was struck by lightning and shivered to atoms. The vessel was lying at pier 20 East river, near the Fulton ferry house, and her deck was strewn with splinters, Fortunately no further injury what ever resulted, EXCURSIONS TO-DAY. A magnificent programme of steamboat excur- sions has been provided for to-day by the various owners of river and bay travelling steamers, and should the day prove propitious a large number of Sweltered metropolitans will doubtless avail them- selves of the opportunities thus afforded of getting away, if only for a few hours, from the dust-be- grimed city and its anything but stimulating at- mosphere to enjoy the exhilarating breezes of the bay and the adjacent rivera. The steamers Wyoming, Rip Van Winkle, Wm. Fletcher, George Washington and Black Bird will leave Eighth street (East river), Peck slip, Christo- pher street and pier No. 4 North river between seven and nine o’clock this morning, en route to the Fishing Banks, and will be accompanied by bands of music, They further promise tnat lines and bait for hungry fish and similarly situated fishers will be on board in abundance. The steamers Chicopee and Norwalk will run to Coney Island, leaving Christopher street, Warren street, pier No. 4 and Morris street, North river, and Broome street and peck slip, East river, making six trips during the day. The Coney Island steam cars leave Greenwood, Brooklyn, every half hour during the day for the beach up to eight o'clock P. M. The steamboats Thomas Collyer and Magenta will leave Warren street and Thirty-fourth street, North river, for Newburg, on the Hudson, at half-past seven o'clock, (uta on the way at Yonkers, Hastings, Dobbs’ Ferry, irvington, Sing Sing. Haver- straw, West Point, Cold Spring and Cornwall. The steamer Antelope will ledve Harrison street at eight o’clock and Thirty-fourth street, North river, at a quarter-past eight o'clock this morning for Yon- kers, Hastings, Dobbs’ Ferry, Nyack, Sing Sing, Mii Grassy Point, Verplanck’s and Peeks- er Sea Bird will make a trip to Sandy versink Highlands, Fair Haven and Red leaving the pier foot of Chambers street, t seven o'clock this morning. The steamboat John Romer wiil leave the foot of Barclay street at nine o'clock this morning for Perth Amboy, touching on the way at Elizabethport, N. J., Union and Rossville. The steamer Arrowsmith wiil run to Whitestone, Sand Pomt, Glen Cove, Glenwood and Rosiyn, on the Sound, leaving Peck slip at a quarter past nine o'clock this morning, touching at Nineteenth street and Thirty-seventh street, East river, on the way. The Neliy White will leave Peck slip at nine ovclock, landing at Eighth street and Thirty-seventh street, for New Kochelle, touching on the way at College Point, Whitestone and City Isiand. The steamer lort Royal goes to Rockaway, Seaside and Eldert House, leaving Warren sireet, North river, at nine o'clock. The steamers Sylvan Grove, Sylvan Stream and Charics Chamberlain will ran every hour from nine o'clock A. M. until seven o'clock P.M. to Harlem, High Bridge and Karl's Park, leaving the Peck slip whart. ‘The Fort Lee boat, Thos. E. Hulse, leaves the foot of Christopher street at ten, two, a quarter past five and half-past seven o'clock, landing at Thirty-fourth street on the ten and two o'clock trips. The steamer Thos. P. Way will run to Newark, N. J., leaving the pier foot of Barclay street at half- past ten A. M. and half-past four P. M, THE MILITIA CHAMPICNSHIP, Arrival of the Montgomery Guard in Bos- tou—Enthustastic Reception. Bostox, August 1, 1868. An enthusiastic recention was tendered to the Montgomery Guard to-day on their return from the championship drill in New York. They were received at the depot by the Ninth regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia and escorted through the principal streota to the State street Armory, where a halt was ordered, and the Guard executed the manual of arme in a manner that elicited hearty applause and admi- ration. The Award of the Championship Flag—Come- munication from the Referee. The following communication is in reference to the action of the referee in awarding the prize to com- pany E, Twelfth regiment. The closing paragraph is the only portion of the letter which in any way con- flicts with the report of the contest already published in the HERALD, and if the writer did not “see” any attempt “on the part of the audience to discou either company,” he could not have helped, at hearing a large number of the Twelfth regiment men groan and hiss when the aieen rd com- mitted even a slight error, or w! asingle member of it was guilty of a trifimg inaccuracy Waar Pornt, N. Y., July 31, 1868, CoLongL—I see in some of the ay thas surprise ia ex, at the deci pRB | and 1 hasten, aithough stranger Feaceraay’ to you and your officers, to give youan account of that decision. the was an honest rence to tactics that the other a not follow. Captal "8 com excelled the one of your nent in the manual, but not enough to counter- balance its deficiencies in other res; of your oom A tain Firan’s company. He complained of it, and was cl simaration tam confident that the friends of Cap- tain, Finan’s company obstructed the drill. aT part of the audience to ciscourage company, nor was there cause for either company to be di ‘and every asser- tion to the contrary is false, -_ WY AN, Captain infantry and Brevet . BD Jom Warp, commanding "Fwelf in- ry. ee , ANNUAL CRUISE OF THE BOSTON YACHT CLUB. the Ei ‘Telegram of yesterday.| ocihetanielie Boston, August 1, 1668. ‘The Boston Yacht Club left to-day apon its annaat cruise, The following were the yachts composing the squadron:—Schooner Nettle, Commodore D. H. Follett; achooner Juniata, Vice Commodore ‘Themes Manning; sloop Pilgrim, Captain Lathrop; soap Violet, Captain Den- an; sloop Fanchon, Seat, aieieer Set rd uadron. will viel Port- tow, Capariner Fastera porte edd Wil pe eboms + ahont tera Wet