The New York Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD| BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ’ PROPRIETOR No. 218 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENI: Bowery.—WAIRLIGIG—COUSIN BOWERY THEATRE, GRIMES. Jon's Visit—OLp DAME OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humptr DUMPTY. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street= Tar Lorrery oF Lire. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—TroppEN Down. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Foun Puay. NIBLO'S GARDEN.—BaRBE BLEUE. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th sireet.—ETHI0PIAN MINSTRELBY, &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.«Comio Vooa.ioM, NrGRO MINSTRELSY, &. Matinee at 239, DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—ALY BURNETT, THe Homonisr. CENTRAL PARK GARDE! GanvEn Concent. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoo.ny's MINSTRELS—UNDEX THE LAMPLIGHT. Se renth avenue.—POPULAR NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— GOIRNOE AND Ant. New York, Wednesday, August 5, 1868. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, August 4. The Stant Commission appointed to inquire into the condition of the Irish Church reported in favor of sweeping changes for the reduction of the establishment, The German democrats subject to Austria argue strongly against the separation from Fatherland and demand @reunton, In North Ger- many there was a grand student and citizen demon- stration at t!.c celebration of the centennia! anniver- sary of the foundation of the University of Bonn. Consols, 04; a 94%, Money. Five-twenties, 715; a 714% in London and 753g a 754 in Frankfort. Paris Bourse dull, Cotton fat, with middling uplands at 97/4. stuffs and provisions without marked change. By steamship at this port we have a mall report in detail of our cuble telegrams to the 25th of July, one day later. In the yacht race from Havre to ¢ back, July 22. the following started at twenty min- utes to one P. M.:—The Panthére, 40%; tons; Croissy, 28; Julia, 122; Condor, 133; Cambria, 199, a Aline, 216. The vessels, after making the dou course, came into liavre as follows the next morning -Cam- bria at 9:3; Julia, 9:43; Croissy, 10:48; Condor, 11:45; and Panthere, 1:50 P. M. MISCELLANEOUS. Telegraphic advices from St. Domingo state that the revolution was spreading and the speedy fall of Baez was anticipated. The revolutionists in Hayti have defeated Salnave and are preasing the siege of Port au Prince. Dominican troops have crossed the border. Venezuela despatches state that Marstal Falcon, the deposed President, is again in arms before Coro, bent on wresting the executive chair from Monagas, the revolutionary leader. Baron Stoeckl, the Russian Minister, yesterday Presented President Johnson with an address from the Czar congratulating him on his acquittal. It is understood that this is in return for the congratula- Bread- bourg and tions extended to the Czar by Congress on his escape |* from assassination. Mr. is. T. Carson, formerly United States Depost- tary at Cincinnati, has written a letter to Secretary McCulloch in relation to the secret service fund placed in his depository by Andrew Johnson while Governor of Tennessee. Of the $193,009 30 deposited, for the expenditure of which Mr. Jonson had carte blanche, and no questions asked, only $16,000 was used, An inquest on the body of General Halpine was commenced yesterday, but after the statement of Dr. Swann, who attended bim in his last mome: It was postponed until Thursday. Mrs. Haipine is completely prostrated by grief, and no arrangements for the funeral have yet been made. Resolutions of respect forthe memory of the deceasea were adopted in the Board of Aldermen and similar resolutions by Typographical Union No. 6. Among the speakers at a democratic ratification meeting in Aiken, yesterday, were Wade Hamp- ton and two colored men. The International Commercial Convention met in Portland, Me., the delegates being numerous and re- presenting all parts of the United States and the Provinces. Pending the usual routine business of organization oue legate made aspeech, in which he said that when ship canals shail open the st. Lawrence tothe inland lakes New York city wiil be compelled to afford the privilege of transporta- tion to the West without transhipment on the route. The bay gelding Billy Boyee made what is said to be the best pacing time on record at the Butfalo Driving Park on Saturday, being a mile in 2:14, three seconds quicker than the time made by Poca- hontas many years ago. The Chinese Embassy have arrived at Auburn, and are sojourning at the house of Secretary Seward. Jon Brown & Son’s cotton mill in Philadelphia Was burned yesterday. 038 $115,000, The Western express robbers, driven out by the vigilance committees, are congregating in Canada, Henry Renaud, the New York forger in Canada, has been discharged by the courts, he agreeing to return tothe States if the criminal charge against him ts abantoned, ‘The annual Sing Sing camp meeting of New York Methodists is in progress, In the Board of Health yesterday it waa officially stated that the schooner Benjamin Reed was quar- Qntined tn the lower bay, yellow fever cases having occurred on board daring her passage from Clen- fwezos, Thore were 790 deaths from various diseases in New York last kK and 223 in Brooklyn, ‘The atock subscription books of the New York Cen- tral Underground Railroad Company were opeued yesterday. William B. Astor has commenced two suite to en- join the laying of Nicolson pavement in Nineteenth and Thirty-third streets, The steamship Australasian, Captain McMickan, ‘will sail to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, The Matis will close at the Post Office at twelve M. Tho steamship Rapidan, Captain Cheeseman, will leave pier 36 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, There was a further decline ia Erie yesterday to 67, and it closed weak at 674% @ 67%. Gold was trong and closed at 146%. Soctan Errervescence—Tuk Necro Exe- MENT AT THE SovTH.—The negro element Cannot be overlooked in the social effervescence which the delay of reconstruction has occa- sioned in the South, Admirably as the eman- cipated slaves have, on the whole, conducted themselves since the conclusion of the war, it ia not, perhaps, to be wondered at that the dis- turbing foreign influence of ‘‘carpet-baggers” and others of that ilk has provoked them to oc- onsional ill-advised demonstrations. Thus, on Friday last, at a school exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia, the selling of whiskey by some negroes led, unfortunately, to an affray in which four negroes were seriously and one was fatally wounded, In New Orleans, alao, on Saturday, a riotous attempt was made to take the life of Will Robbins, a negro, who was stumping the city in the interest of the democrats. It is most ear- nostly to be hoped that during the ensuing Presidential election the negro element at the South will not be unduly ‘‘provoked to wrath” by injudiciousness on the part of either the democeatic or the revublican party. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1868. eee The Presidency and the Candidates, The political parties before the country have varied their differences with a singular simi- larity in one respect. Each presents for popu- lar favor one national man and one nullity, Suppression of the Herald in France. We have had repeated complaints in letters from various parts of Europe that copies of the HeRatp have been stopped somewhere in transitu, and no doubt the interruption has so that of the four candidates there are | occurred in the French mail and might there- two men of vigorous character—good heart | fore naturally be attributed to the direction and brain—and two nobodies, whose histories of the French government. We never could are simply contemptible in view of the offices | see any reason why this journal should be for which they are proposed. In the republi- suppressed in France, although that it has can ticket the efficient quantity stands in its | been from time to time shut off from our proper place—the figure is before the cipher, the man leads, the nonentity comes after. the democratic ticket it is the other way. readers there is unquestionably true. No one In | will dispute the right of the French govern- ment to suppress the papers of its own country There the cipher comes first and the number | when it happens to be its will or its interest to stands behind it, so that the democracy begin | be despotic in the matter of freedom of speech ; their campaigning with a start in inverse | but we question the right of any government order and are likely to go on as if it wore a | to interfere with the postal transit of a foreign sum in fractions—the more figures you get on newspaper any more than with a Yoreign the paper the less is the represented value. In this respective distribution of the material of their tickets we see something of the ten- dency and disposition of the parties, Grant, letter. They are equally the property of the individuals to whom they are addressed, and to obstruct the delivery of a newspaper or a letter is a violation of the private the republicans saw, was the people’s man, and | rights, privileges and comforts of Ameri- Colfax they knew was their party man. But the people’s man got the first place. They recognized the propriety of giving way in party inclinations in obedience to popular impulse. They saw the folly of daring the peoplo, and they put up a man they did not like because he was the people’s man. They never thought of putting their party peg in the first place. But the democrats, in the very breath in which they claim to be the people’s party, refuse to receive an impulse from the people or to con- form to popular thought. democratic voters, desiring to make this elec- can citizens resident or travelling abroad. It is just as essential to an American in Paris, for example, to receive the HERALD regularly as to the citizens of New York. It is the only American paper that circulates largely in Europe, although other journals have made frequent but fruitless efforts to obtain recogni- tion and acquire a representative character there. It must be regarded as a grievance, therefore, to Americans all over the Continent of Europe to have this journal cut off through The whole mass of | mere caprice ora fancied danger either of the French government or its agents. In Paris tion a practical fight, and one in which they | alone there is, in fact, a large American colony, would have some chance to win, wanted to see a national man at the head of the ticket; but the party plan prevailed, and they have instead a figure something worse than poor Pierce, while the only recognition the ticket makes of the claim of national services isin the second place, Grant is an able man, a man of distinct con- victions and of firm and positive quality. Such ® man cannot be dishonest, cannot be an in- triguer and cannot readily be made any man’s tool. If he have any vagaries of conduct they will be outright violent ones, but such as_ will afford opportunity to indicate his strength of character in overcoming them if occasion re- quire. Honest, clear-headed, resolute, of un- conquerable will—such is the very man we want in the President's chair to give its ancient dignity and force to that sadly gompromised office. Andrew Johnson is small in his ani- mosities anda politician. He lowered the dig- nity of his position to the prosecution of politi- cal quarrels. IIe had an opportunity at the close of the war, when, by taking up the Mexi- can difficulty and making it, with the army then in hand, the occasion of a grand assertion of the Monroe doctrine he could have kept the national mind busy on a great subject, and, thus diverting it from our internecine strife, have directly secured the return to domestic peace. But he could not see that great occa- sion. He could see only the small strife of small politicians, and engaging in this gave reason for the assaults of his opponents, and even for those assaults that, not stopping with him, aimed at his office. It is throngh the oc- cupancy of a man of mean calibre that the Ex- ecutive has lost the respect of the people and iseven crippled in the laws, and we need a man like Grant in the place to remove the re- proach and the cobweb impediments with which the foolish Congress, with Colfax at its head, tied down the pigmy Johnson, We want Grant, but not Colfax. Colfax might go with Seymour. Both are mere poli- ticians—men of no weight or value beyond their acuteness in the management of caucuses ; but Grant and Blair will do admirably. That would be a ticket to command the respect and suffrages of the whole people, and the people, disregarding the nonsensical machinery of the should make that | will may tin this manne: serateh and Popular itself fi conventions, ticket for readily enough mak themselves. and thus the people may uke the imp: dence of the politicians who count on the blind obedience of the masses. Such a ticket as we | indicate would be one to unite the people and | make the country great—not one to enrich | politicians with the plunder of office; and ; a to each and all of the members whereof the New York Herarp is a necessity. Then there are hundreds of Americans travelling through Switzerland and Italy who look eagerly for this paper on their journey. They want it to provide them with reminiscences of home as they pause for rest at the base of Mont Blanc or toil through the railroad passes of Mount Cenis. They want to read it asa relish with their breakfast bacon at the chalets in the morning. Hence it is not fair of our citizens of this luxury. We have ascertained, however, that the Heratpv mailed for France is stopped by the authority of a routine fanctionary at the Consul’s office in this city. It is red tape and stupidity that thus infringe upon the rights and comforts of our citizens abroad. We may have said some things not very palatable to the French. goveriment oceasionally—for in- stance, when we urged the point that the French had no business in Mexico and ought to leave, during the unfortunate days of the more unfortunate Maximilian, and they ought to have packed up their baggage and gone home. That was our opinion, and it was in consonance with the views of the American people, as they interpret and mean to enforce the Monroe doctrine; and we hold to our right to express that opinion; but that is no reason why Americans in Europe should be deprived of the Heratp. We hope, therefore, that the orders atthe French Consulate here, if such orders there be, will be revoked or that the officions official in that establishment may be restrained from proscribing the leading Ameri- can journal. It is to be hoped, also, that this issue of the Heratp may be permitted to reach its destination in Europe at all the points to which it isdirected. Some patriotic American can stow it away in his trunk with his clean shirts, protected by that sacred privacy which 1, with native delicacy, would ading. a French officia shrink trom Death of General Haltpine=The Regis- ters Ottce, We hope that in the universal regret excited by the untimely death of General Halpine the in regard to the office he lately held may have some thought, and that the impressions of the event may not wear | y before such substantial recognition of his | services is made, In this land of energy and endeavor, fair field and constant struggle, where inherited fortunes are comparatively few. legitimate head for the means of support, and | this dependence is the natural stimulus to | stion mad every man’s family depends upon its with a government headed by such men we might go back in our national record and start | again where the close of the war left us, uniting the people of all sections in the | struggle incident to the assertion of our posi- | tion as the arbitrator—the dictator, if need be— | of the peace of the Continent, even against | Mexico herself, now that there is no disturber from beyond the Atlantic. It was Grant's idea three years ago that our civil war was'to be ended in Mexico, and it is not too late to end it | there yet. re Justice to freland by Peaceful Revolution. The Royal Commission appointed by Queen Victoria to inquire into the condition, resources and episcopal labor of the Irish Church estab- blishment has reported to Parliament over the signature of its president, Earl Stanhope. The commissioners recommend the abolition of all the episcopal sees and cathedral establish- ments in the island, with the exception of eight—they numbered twenty-eight in 1800—to be maintained at reduced in- comes; that tenants on Church lands be encouraged to purchase their farms as real estate in perpetuity, and that landholders taxed with tithes and Church rent charges may, by certain payments, be enabled to regain full control of their lands, As this commission was appointed previous to the introduction of the Gladstone Churck bill in the House of Commons Earl Stanhope’s report will come in powerful and opportune support of the policy of the opposition leader, The recommenda- tions as to the acquirement of the estate of the Church by the tenants inclines towards an alteration of the law entail in property and is thus pregnant of the coming of a most important exertion that has made our people the active, earnest race they are. American society is on avery general level in this respect, the vast majority of its members having the same reason for effort and the same pride in success. “The | boy Miles” had done bis honest share of labor in various spheres, He was a hardworking journalist for many years and a gallant soldier in the nation’s necessities, and a general recog- | nition of the qualities displayed in his labor, as well as of its good results, had given him a lucrative office, and in the possession of that office he had fair reason to suppose that he had secured the competency of his family against the contingeucies of the future. He had wona moderate success in an honest struggle for fortune, but now an untimely death threatens to deprive those dependent upon him of the fruits of his victory. If, however, the fees of | the office can continue to be drawn in Hal- pine's name for the remainder of his term ; one pang that every friend will feel in his loss will be somewhat softened. Not less than this is due to the man—to his services as soldier and as one who has cheered our lives and enriched intellectual delight with so many genuine expressions of noble impulse and ex- perience. Soclety has always recognized the duty of having a tender regard for those more im- mediately bereaved by the loss of men who die in its service ; and there are cases in which we should extend this view of duty, not re- stricting it to the soldier who perishes on the fleld, but Covering all those from whose labors society derives more benefit than do the laborers themselves. Such a man was the author of the Miles O'Reilly lyrics, so happy in their social revolution in Great Britain, Earl Stan- hope’s plan smacks of complete ‘‘justice to Ireland.” influence through the war, and the author of those later odes on such occasions as the Gettysburg commemoration and the recent Tae Kentucky Erectiox—A Stan or tax | @athering of the Sixty-ninth regiment—odes, Tims.—The election held in Kentucky on | specially the latter, as well deserving and as Monday last resulted in a victory for the likely to attain immortality as any ever penned. democrats, vote for Stevenson as candidate for Governor It Is presumed that the majority We know the pressure that may be brought in this case and the temptation there will be to will probably reach fifty or sixty thousand. | fill the office now from a party that seldom has This result is noteworthy as an indication of | ® chance at it; but we cannot contemplate that the swinging majorities upon which the demo- | Governor Fenton will give way to such pres- cratic party is countiay in the approaching | S4re whdh there is @ duty to be done involving Presidential contest throughout all the so-called | @bstract justice, moral obligation and a high ” ‘Southern’ makvied sense of humanity, The Assumption of the Caucus Politicians. The assumption or presumption of a few politicians through caucuses and conventions to make Presidents, to say who the free citi- zens of this country shall vote for, and to con- trol the destiny of the republic, is an astound- ing anomaly under our institutions. By means of party machinery, controlled by an insignifi- cant number of self-chosen and irresponsible men called leaders, nominations are made and the people have nothing to say in the matter. So thoroughly organized and arbitrary is this party machinery of caucuses and conventions that the mass of the people are literally cheated out of their suffrages. It may be said, per- haps, that the people can vote as they choose; but that is not true in practice; they must either vote for the men nominated by the caucus politicians or their votes will be thrown away. Let us look, for example, at the late Demo- cratic Convention held in this city, and at former conventions of that party. We notice the democratic conventions because they are the most despotic and pay less regard to the wishes of the people or the progress of the times. The republicans, while equally exacting in demand- ing party allegiance, study more the current of popular sentiment in nominating candidates for office and adapt themselves to changing events and public opinion. The democrats have rightly been called the old Bourbons in Ameri- can politics. They learn nothing by experi- ence. They follow the same course and adhere to the same dogmas under all circum- stances. They do not seem to know that the world moves. Originally it was the poison of the hidebound democratic leaders of the South that operated. In 1861 they threw away Douglas, a popular and grand man, upon hair- splitting quibbles and from personal prejudice. They consequently divided the party, lost the election and brought on the war. At the July Convention in this city the Northern democrats, who had the control there, acted in the same narrow-minded and stupid manner. They per- mitted themselves to be humbugged and over- reached by a ring of New York politicians and ; nominated Seymour, who is a repetition of the French authorities to deprive so many of | Frank Pierce in want of capacity, and who would, if elected, bring upon the country as much trouble. He is nothing more than a scheming local politician and a pretty phrase maker. Blair is the only one of the two on the ticket with brains and character. There are heroism, intellect, firmness and some states- manship in him, but Seymour is purely nega- tive. Blair might have done as first on the ticket, but as second he and the cause are lost. If the democrats had been wise they would have taken up Grant long ago. He would have been more at home in fighting the radicals than in being their candidate, But these old hidebound Bourbons lost the opportunity. The radicals, more sensible and progressive and looking to the main chance, seized it and made Grant their standard bearer. Again, the democrats had a splendid opportunity had they nominated Chief Justice Chase. There would have been hardly a doubt about the election of Mr. Chase. In the present condi- tion of the country and actual state of politi- cal affairs and parties he would have been the most thoroughly representative as well as most capable mau for the Presidency. The demo- cratic party would have become reorganized on the actual living issues of the time, leaving behind the dead issues of the past, and would have obtained a lease of power for twenty years to come. But they seem devoid of com- mon sense a3 well as political sagacity. They learn nothing by experience. They do not realize the social and political revolu- tion through which the country has passed during the last few years. Had they racked their brains to find a candidate more negative every way and less likely to awaken enthusi- asin than Seymour, they could not have found There is little hope for them unless they at once undo the work of the trading and scheming July Convention and nominate Mr. Chase, which they are not likely to do. If the people could be brought to throw overboard the party nominations and vote for Grant and Blair, and at the saine time to elect a conservative Congress, we should have the best men and the best sort of government. one, The Fall Campaign. The excitements of the political campaign next fall will be agreeably varied by those of the musical and theatrical campaign, for which our friends, the managers, are making the most extensive and expensive preparations. As the attractions of the Park have already dis- tanced those of Hyde Park in London, so those of our New York theatres promise to distance the attractions of the London stage. Thus it is announced that Mapleson will appear in New York in the fall with Miss Kellogg, an Ameri- can prima donna, under one arm, and Mile. Neillson, a Swedish prima donna, under the other. ‘You pay your money and you take your choice,” Mapleson will say to the Ameri- can public, offering at the same time, like Dickens’ Dr. Marigold, ‘‘the whole lot.” The public can but imperfectly understand the tremendous excitement which rages in lager beer saloons and cheap Italian restau- rants in consequence of this announcement of the project of Mapleson to emulate, in the operatic world, the victorious march of Sher- man from Atlanta to the Atlantic. All who are familiar with the mysteries of plover shoot- ing know that when the rest of the birds have taken their flight there always remain what are called the ‘‘scatterings,” a few more or less disabled ones, who hop about discon- solately. What a fluttering is now apparent among the ‘‘scatterings” of our operatic flock! Engagements in villages, in the rural districts, or even in metropolitan camera-obscura, will not satisfy them; and they are all spread- ing their wings for a bold flight next fall before the eyes of the most fashionable New York audiences. Mapleson’s Napoleonic schemes have aroused the emulation of Grau, who has been quietly superintending the repairs of his Théatre Francais, and of Bateman, in the midst of his successes at Niblo's Garden. Who knows but that these redoubtable and enterprising man- agers may yet form a formidable coalition against the sanguine Maplesonic Mapleson which may be fatal to his most ardent ex- pectations? And who can tell whether Max Maretzek himself, whose nose has long been unfortunately put out of joint, may not hurry from his prudent retreat at Staten Island, after all his misfortunes, in the hope of rehabili- tating himself and restoring his fallen fortunes in competition or in alliance with the hopeful Mapleson? An additional disturbing element in the approaching musical and dramatic cam- paign is the rumored engagement by Pike of the famous Schneider, who could not fail, by at least a success of curiosity, to restore popu- larity to his superb opera house at the corner of Twenty-third street and Eighth avenue. We can only impatiently await with the pub- lic the results of the musical and dramatic campaign of next fall. TROUBLE ON THE DanuBE.—It has been re- ported that a fight has taken place on the fron- tier of Roumania_ between the insurgents and the Turkish regulars. We are in doubt whether such a circumstance was worthy of being tele- graphed across the ocean. S' ‘ishes of such sort are not uncommon in the East; but as little rows are put down in the United States, are put down in Great Britain, are put down in France, are put down in Italy, are put down in Spain, and never mean very much when pro- perly understood, so we must not make too much of this fracas near Ructschuck. It does not mean that the doom of Turkey has been pronounced or that its end is near. Erm Gove Down Hii.—There was a fur- ther break in Erie to 57 yesterday, and the talk of Wall street is that it is going to 40, while the signs of the times are certainly all in that direction. CITY POLITICS, Republican Ratification Meeting. The Ninth Assembly district Grant and Colfax Boys in Blue held a ratification meeting last evening at Lebanon Hall, in Abingdon square. Those politi- cal provocatives of large gatherings, a band of music, firing of cannon and transparencies, were brought into play. Dr. James Norval presided. Colonel CuakLEs S. SPAULDING was the first speaker. He said he firmly believed that the soldiers and sailors would save the country in the present political campaign as they saved it in the past war, They fought victorious then against rebel’; they would fight victorious now against copperheads. He spoke of the opposing candidates, comparing their respective fitness for the high offices to which they had been nominated, branched off into the republi- can idea of the proper mode of paying the interest on government bonds and closed with a quotation from Longfellow eulogistic of sailors. Mr. JAMES HAGGERTY denounced the afiltation of democrats with Southern traitors. These traitors, walking over the graves of Union soldi came here in their rebel uniforms, went to Tammany Hall and there nominated Horatio Seymour for the Presi- dency. He insisted that the proper way to have treated these men would have been for a detachment of Union loving men to have walked in after them and stamped the life out of them. They had nomi- nated a fitting representative—a Tepreeneaye who would bring defeat to them as surely as their leaders in the rebellion brought defeat to them. Dr. J. J. MooRE made 4 brief speech, after which some resolutions were aioniae iene | the Chicago nominations and the meeting adjourned. The German Republican Organization. Forty-five republicans of German birth met last night at the Pulverthurm, corner of Fifty-fourth street and Third avenue, to organize a German Grant and Colfax ciub of the Nineteenth ward, Mr. Philipp Koch was selected as temporary Chairman and Mr. Rau, Secretary. After much conversation Mr. Louis Reis was at last declared permanent President of the club. The election of a vice president and of secre- taries cteated a lively difficulty, an ex-Contederate army officer being named for the first office at one time with others, But at last Mr. John Schneider was elected by acclamation as Vice President, and Messrs. Hermann Vossuack and Menz as Secreiarics. Several Germans, republicans from principie, left the hail in disgust at the delay and the results of the organization. Grant and Colfux Meeting. The regular meeting of the Ninth Assembly dis- trict Grant and Colfax Boys in Blue was iueid last evening in Armenia Hall, on Bank street, W. Hi. Corsa, President, in the chair. The’committce on by laws reported a constitution and code of by laws for the government of the club, ‘The report was ac- cepted and adopted amid much enthusiasm. They declare the membership open to ail Union soldiors and sailors now in this city and who endorse the hominatiou of Graut and Coliax. The exeeutive a sub-committees were then or zed and arrange- ments made for a grand public held in the Ninth ward next w made by Major Nelson, Colonel Cr: liams and others, andthe weeting next Tuesday evening, Arrangements are being made to uniform all the Grant and Colfax clubs throughout the state, Nineteenth Ward Democratic Campaign Club, A meeting of this organization was hell tast even- ing at their headquarters, Cremorne Gardens, Seventy-second street and Third avenue, the Presi- dent, James C, Madden, inthe chair, Upon being called to order Mr. Blumenthal, in a few appropriate 5 he club the portraits of & neatly framed, for which a vote Qi ks was tendered by the club to the donor. Several new members were enrolled and a resolution to the effect that this club will raise a banner at Seventy-second street across Third avenue was A committee was appointed to make ary arrangements, and the further con- ration of the matter was adjourned until the hext niceting. if EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION, The Union Emancipation celebration, under the auspices of the Morning Star L&ige, No. 19, 0f Wil- liamsburg, took place yesterday at Myrtle avenue Park, Postponement of the event was the first thing that naturally suggested itself, for a more gloomy or oppressive morning has not dawned this summer, and while it had the effect of deterring thousands from being present thousands did attend and thor- oughly enjoyed themselves. Be it therefore dis- tinctly understood that the sable folks of Williams- burg and vicinity are courageous and merit praise for venturing forth to do honor to an historical event under circumstances that undoubtedly would have debarred others from gracing the grounds with their fair presence, At two o'clock the beautiful park was the scene of the grandest revelry. An ex- cellent band was in attendance and throughout the day discoursed the most eloquent music, to the de- lighvful strains of wnich loving couples revolved in graceful motion, while dark eyes twinkied with en- Joyment. Others wandered about the grounds to eaceful aolitude, Bui look at the gay and brill hrong. Enjoyment was the order of the day, 9 the regulations in that respect were carried out to the letter, At four o'clock the assemblage num- bered over four thousand, and the scene when the festival was at its height was one to be remembered by every one who participated in the ngymerous amusements provided. Gaudily dressed bellés floated about decked with all the minor appurtenances which fashion commands her votaries to don, while crowds of admirers were ever in attendance on thoir fair companions, The spacious and well arranged eons of the park afforded ever; Copcecaney to he assemblage to enjoy the passing time. Some danced, some rambled through the groves, while crowds witnessed with pleasure the daring perform. ances of india rubber men, knife swallowers and other ventursome gentry whose feats evoked much approbation. In the conrse of the day Mr. Bowen delivered a brief address, in which he adverted to harmontously being the great festival which was celebrated, and alluded to several topics, includin negro suffrage, which he warmly supported amt the approbation of his audience. The arrange. ments were under the direction of the Master of the Lodge, Mr. R. H. Lonner, and were well carried an | occurring to mar the order and good Leg 2 which prevatied. Unquesttonably the day ‘was thoroughly enjoyed by those present. Nor could @ more suitable locality have been selected for the entertainment, provided as it was with every feature that could possibly contribute to the pleasure of a ionic, ‘The affair of yesterday must in fairness be jotted down as entirely successful in ite way. It differed but little from similar event, for the enjoyment was immense, the ragularity quito cor Mendabie and the tout ensemble worthy of the cele- bration. Tobe sure there were scores of dandies and Sparkling belles, there were splendid and fine display of horse flesh handied by the fair with no mean ce, Yet withal, the event was just the same as others, with merely a shade of difference. Messrs, F, Knebel, W. Hoffman, H. Knot! ee d= man, H. Rover, F. Bover, F. H. Kayser, 0. Shomaker and others were in attendance during the day and courteously threw open the grounds and ita privi- leges to those presen! ., Tn ae Ae was a ever} whe' Point of fashion, for the sable damsels were really Rastetuliy ‘ag well as richly attired, or in point of en- tertainment, while the entire affair was character. ized by the best order, a reveiry Lad its awing, eood eoling and eniovmen' CAMP MEETING AT SING SING, Grand Gathering of Methodists at the O1d Camp—Its LocationThe Arrangements for the Season of 1868, Yesterday Sing Sing was enlivened, as it annually is, by scores of blooming lasses, rosy-cheeked as @ peach; romping youths, full of vitality and the spirit of freshness; men and women, devout and sincere Methodists—all to mingle in the opening exercises of the camp meeting of tne New York Conference, held here yearly for over a thirdof a century, They came with tents, with household furniture and all the necessary articles to live in the open air for ten days hence, Not far from the town—about a mile and a half—ts the old camp ground. It is in the midst of agrove of tall hickory trees that shade it completely, , and upon two sides of it a range of picturesquely wooded bluffs rear their heads as sentinela to the enclosure. A small brook glides sweetly through it, falling here and there little distances, forming beau- tiful miniature cascades. ‘The arrivals yesterday from New York and vicinity found to their great pleasure that many had preceded them, and that the encampment already contained some three hundred tents, their unique and perfect arrangements speak- ing forcibly for the taste of their occupants. It was @ busy day—tent raising, tent arranging aud tens beautifying. ‘No more perfect spot than this could be selected for such an object. It is peculiarly quiet, and when some distance from preaching and prayer meetings one is almost startled by its Cerin by one’s own tread as it breaks the Sabbath stiliness around. To one who wishes for a retreat whither to steal from tho busy world and its distractions and dream quietly away a time and meditate awhile, there is no more promising place than this, The ground 13 held in trust by a Board of officers whose election is provided for by a special legislative act, and this year it is composed as follows:—Prest- dent, John McLean; Vice-President, Stephen Merrit; Secretary, E. H. Brown; Treasurer, Joel Sammis; with Danel Roberts, L. OC. Styles, Charles H. Applegate, James W. Karker, Egbert Remhart, ‘Theo. Gallavher, Wm. Ryey, John Pearsall, Wm. Truslow, John Falconer and Stephen Merritt, Jr., as the remaining members, ‘These are divided during the season of encampment into five committee comprising the P linprovement, Teni, Con- and Finance Committees, upon whom de- voive the really onerous duties that datly occur. The arrangements everywhere are capital, and have been dictated by great taste. The tents are arranged on Central, Eaet and West avenues and the streets radiating east and west from them, The stand for the ministers, with several other houses of unique architecture, have been erected for years and are permanent. Around the prinelpal stand, appropriately designated the “circle,” ure seats capa- ble of accoramodating 3,000 hearers, where three umes daily, in pleasant weather, fully that number will listen to religious instruction. When storms ad open air worship services will be held in large tents erected for this purpose, Prayer meeting tents are also abundant, where ut any time ¢ the intervals of preaching such as are dispo: meet in supplicativn. Woman's landiwork is every- where visible in the tents, some, of course, being of greater dimensions, more profusely so, One with the least stretch of imaginution could fancy that he was within his own parlor, a8 Brussels carpets, sofas, rocking chairs, tables, ornaments, books and bouquets wonderiully help out this fancy, ‘The camp tn its entirety is associated in the mind with ideas of order, of quict, of sober, Well estabiished principles of jong usage and reverend custom, ‘The religious services yesterday were not of such an extended nature as* will be observed hereafter, but at three o’etock in the afternoon and again at evening Rev. Mr. Kirk, of Brooklyn; Rey. Mr. Apple- gate, of New York, and Rey. Mr. Babcock, of Man- Chester, N. H., preached to large gatherings. Be- sides this several prayer meetings were held, in one of which Mrs, ex-Governor Wright eloquently and appropriately spoke to many of all ages. Rv. Hart F, Pease is Presiding Elder in charge of the meeting, with Rev. Mr. W. H. Ferris as associate. The police regulations are eilicient, ten Metropolt- tans, under charge of Sergeant Osborn, subject to the direction of Mr. BE. H. Brown, one of the trustees of the encampment, looking out for Lima goog and wrong doers. Ina few days the force will be aug- mented, and again hereafter if necessary. ‘The late trains last evenmg brought many arrivals, who hurried to the ground. The sky, although not very clear, Was serene, and nature about the oid camping place wore that rich livery of summer one always associates with serenity, ‘The trees were in their fullest emerald; the leaves of some of the smatier kinds glistened as the few remaining drops of water on them caught the rays of the departing sun. “The small birds were taking their farewell banquets,” and so were the smalier children, In the fulness of their reveiry each like the other fluttered, chirped and frolicked trom tree to tree, from tent to tent and then to their beds. Soon after the song of hymns echoed about the grove, and then prayers ‘from fervent thaa others, and che frat regular meeting day of the Sing Sing Camp Meeiin of i868 Was wending tts way dowa the galery ol ty = Te-day there will be more tents erected, and daily will thousands augment the number aiready there. BOARD OF HEALTH, Report on the Manhattan Gas Company's Works—The Yellow Fever at Quarantine. The Board met yesterday at two o'clock, President George B, Lincoln in the chair. A number of communications were read and dia- cussed and the Board issued orders and instructions prohibiting the remeval of street manure and offal except at night, and decided to commence suits against 138 tenement houses reported; also against the owner or owners of the lot foot of Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighih streets, bounded on the west by Eleventh avenue, Commissioner Smith, from the Sanitary Com mittee, reported satisfactorily on the progress of the work of disintection, the labors of the com- mittee in this regard having been attended with the most beneficial results, Papers respecting the necessity of improved sewer- age in the town of Morrisania were handed in from the Sanitary Superintendent, with a recommenda- tion that the same be referred to the engineer of the Board, and they were so referred. Also a report from the Sanitary Inspector of the district upon the condition of the Manhattan Gas Works. The report states that the condition of the premises is detrimental to health m consequence of offensive odors —_ consisting of certain imparities produced by the destructive distillation of coal in (he process of gas makinz and their diffusion through the atmosphere resultin; from the method Leelee in separating said impui - ties from the gas in the process of “purifying.” It recites former action of the Board and the use of lime boxes for the reception of these impurities as a remedial agent adopted at their instances, which, however, failed of auy permanent relief because of the lime becoming impregnated with the foul odors and so rendered unfit for further use, and then when removed and exposed to the air pen removal @vaporating the Lconin sench, 1 aiso refers to la‘e improvements fhat have been introduced In the process of “purifying,” and citing the New York Gas Works a8 an example of their etlectiveness, closes as follows:—“The method adopted by this company is not in accordance with the more recent views of sctentific men and sant- tarians in this country and Europe, and for the sake of the public health aud convenience I think a change is absvintely needed.” Referred to the counsel of the Board. A petition was presented, signed by a number of citizens, asking the interference of the Board to pre- vont the construction of an oifal dock about bemg built up town. President Lincoln stated that the Board had no au- thority to preveat the construction of any dock; but ifany such was belng used for purposes iajurious wo the public health tt could then interpose its authority to abate a nuisance. Another petition was presented, exionsively signed by residents of the Seventeenth ward, setting forth Wie annoyance ant injury to their health and comfort endured by the petitioners trom tie existence of fas botling establishments and slaughter houses in their ward and the practice of driving cattle through the streets in the day time, The noxious odors and offensive and disgusting sights occasioned by the former and the danger to life cwused by tie latter are dwelt upon at length and the eitect of all these upon the value of property located iu the ward bitterly complained of. The following telegram received by Dr. Swinburne Dr. Reid, at Quarantine, was read:— “The schooner Benjamin Reed, seven days from Cienfi- gos, With a cargo of moluases anu crew of three men, arrived here July 27. One man was reported to have ded on the passage from suustroke, but I have since learned he had ail the symptoms of yellow fever. The steward was taken sick on the 20th’ with yellow fever and the captain on the sist, and removed the Hospital ship. The captain las tue black vomit; the steward is convalescent,” Dr. Harris’ weekly letter contained the following interesting facts:— In the week that ended on tne Ist of August there were 730 deaths in New York and 223 in Brooklyn. This ahows a de- crease from last week of 51 in the former and 68 | city. Tht falling of ta the otal mortality, and bopes for weeks of this excessively bot and damp nmmer. romising condition muat not be allowed to cause any roinxa Hon of tap unusual and very necessary efforts which aanitary officera and the are making to cleanse aod by ye oar place iy both cities, 306 he 64.98 8 Rymotic diseases, as & class, cal dent! Vor the mortaitiy) (n New York and. 138 oF 61.88 per The acute bowel disorders a cent) in Brookiya. caused ‘he and 18 ‘deaths in the respective cities. th rown up persons in the form ofere infantum took took 2) ¢ {on the former ai and a from the most ‘lean: it rcetaa ad fe tant wreok oneal te Woe waand in Of Brookiya was about? per thousand. ah having been ad. The above letter having been read the Hon pon actual population was we year, That