The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND “4&NN STREET. President on his acquittal mereiy notified bim that he had recently become a fresh father. ‘There are several cases of yellow fever in the hos- pital ships at Quarantine, Captain Reed, from Cien- fuegos, and one of his boatmen died of the black vomit yesterday, The funeral of General Halpine will take place at hia late residence on Saturday next, John T. Hoff man, General Hunter, Horace Greeley, Richard O'Gorman and other citizens of high standing are to be the pallbearers, The Saratoga races commenced yesterday. The first race, the Travers stakes, of one and three-fourth miles, was won by John M, Clay's bay filly Banshee, in 3:10%, and the second, two mile heats, by Stone- wall Jackson, A man named Hiram Pittsinger and his housemaid were tarred and feathered and ridden on a rail at Chesterfield, Mass., @ few nights ago, for alleged crimimal intimacy and narsh treatment of Pitt- singer's wife. The coroger's jury in the West Hoboken murder case yesterday found that the deceased came to his death at the hands of Michael Roche, whom they found guilty of manslaughter. Roche was then committed without bail, ‘rhe North German Lloyds steamship Weser, Cap- tain Wenke, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails will close at the Post Omice at twelve M. The steamship Missouri, Captain Palmer, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three P. M. to-day for Havana, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in 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.. Three Copk Five Copies. . Ten Copies.. JOB PRINT typing ana Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. G of every description, also Stereo- The Dangerous State of the Country=—The Prospect Ahead. We are going the way of other democracies, empires and republics, and the historical per- spective is picturesque with the ruins of one more grand attempt to govern justly failing through human passion, Seeming in the very heyday of life and the blaze of glory, we are treading irrecoverable steps toward calamity, Our great political contest assumes a character that identifies it with the political contests that blacken a hundred years of Roman history. Should the democracy win we perceive by its declarations and by the spirit in which it re- ceives every encouragement, such as the Ken- tucky triumph, whither its victory must too certainly drive us. Buta little while ago it assumed a certain more or less gracious humility. Now it threatens, and every indica- tion that the people listen patiently or that they seem to sympathize gives it countenance and reacts in the boldness of its utterances. And it is possible that it may win. Kentucky goes for the democracy, it is true, by a larger majority than in the last election, but we doubt if it is safe to draw from a Ken- tucky election on such a fact any augury in favor of the election of Seymour. If the ideas that have given Kentucky to the democrats by seventy thousand majority have hold of the minds of the whole Southern people, as there is all reason to suppose they may, and if the craft that lately put Wade Hampton on the democratic stump between two niggers shall continue to temper chivalry, the South may go very largely for the Blair ticket, and the elec- tion would be the closest possible contest. It might be so close, indeed, as to make the result practically indecisive before the people, and from a very close struggle, from a doubt- ful result, or from a democratic triumph, would flow new turmoil for the nation, new danger, perhaps absolute anarchy. Excitement rises in view of such possibili- ties, and the passions of partisans rise with it; and we hear public men refer to their oppo- nentsin terms that point to the growing fury, whose full height we contemplate in Marius, Sylla and Cinna, What reason have we to con- gratulate ourselves that we are beyond the possibility of repeating those bloody pages of sterseeseeesesNOs 21D Volume XX. ae AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humetr Dompry. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18h street.— Tus Lorreny oF Lirs. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—TroppRN Down. Poul? YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— OUL PLAY. NIBLO'S GARDEN.—BaRbe BLEUE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wuint1G1G—Covsin Jon's VisitT—OLD Daue GRimEs. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth Stroet.—E7N10PiaN MINSTRELSY, 40. . TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comro VooaLism, NEGRO MINSTRELBY, &c. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—ALF Bogner, ‘THE Homonist. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PorcL aR QauvEn Concenr, KAFF'S LION PARK, Nigur's Fesiivan. East 110th street.—SUMMER HOOLEY'S OPFRA HOUSE, Brookiyn.—Hoo.ry's MINSTRELG—UNDER THE Lawriicar, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOIRNOE AND ART. New York, Thursday, August 6, 1868. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, August 5, Portugal shelters the Spanish political exiles. The United States Minister in Constantinople dissents from the Sultan's plan for the acquirement of real estate by foreigners in Turkey. The London Times blames Captain Brydge, R. N., for his action at Mazatlan, but includes Mexico in the category of “insolent” and “brutal State Consols 941, money. Five-twenties 71! in London and 75% in Frankfort. Cotton declined, closing with middling uplands at 9% A9% pence, Breadstutfs firm without mark visions steady. Produce almost u MISCELLANEOU By the arrival of the United States ship Onward at San Francisco we have a special despatch from Yokohama, Jay dated July 4. The Stotsbashi family were defeating the Southern confederation- ists at every point. Yeddo and Yokohama were again under Stotsbhashi's control. The Mikado was a@ prisoner at Kioto, Stotsbashi had refused the ed change, hanged. Pro- Tycoonate. The rice crop was seriously damaged by the heavy rains. political story? The greater humanity of the Sandwich Island dates to the 12th of July are re- | nineteenth century, perhaps. But before we ceived. The Fourth was celebrated by the Ameri- trust ourselves to that show us something from antiquity worse than Libby Prison or Andersonville, and wipe out the fact that Paris less than a century since repeated the horrors of Rome with multiplied barbarity. The Roman republic had its rebellion, as we have had ours, and thought, as we did, that it was put down, when the politicians of the dominant party settled the great land question in their own way and established the State on a new constitution, Alas! that end was only the beginning of Roman troubles, and that rebellion was only the first event in a series of civil wars and revolutions, which the men who ived a hundred years later saw still in progress, as Cesar and Pompey hunted one another through the known world. France also began in 1789 a revolution that is not closed yet—that has had its phases of democracy, monarchy and military empire, and now only halts in a despotism standing on universal suffrage, a great army and an enor- mous debt. Great political throes, such as ovr rebellion and war, seem to leave nations cxim, because they leave them exhausted, and in the truce of that quiet the elements only gather strength to renew the fight. Our rebellion also willappear in history as only the first of a series of political revolutions, and the end may be anywhere. Mexico herself may be a reapect- able Power beside what the United States will appear when political anarchy has done its worst, It is for the people to determine whether the storm of war shall reopen next year in the accession of Seymour to the Presi- dency, or whether an immense majority for Grant shall lengthen the truce for four years, Nothing less than the moral effect of an immense majority for Grant will quiet the nation, and this, as we say, will only lengthen thetruce; for whatever the result our future is simply a series of strifes between these embittered parties made savage by the blood of the war. With all her internal struggles breaking her down Rome was still great abroad—extending her arms, her political cans in Hono'ulu with great enthusiasm, At the meeting of the Board of Councilmen yes- terday the clerk read the names of five members who have hitherto been excluded, as he nad been served with a mandamus from the Supreme Court compelling him to do so, A sharp discussion ensued and the clerk tendered his resignation, which was immediately accepted, and William H. Moloney was appointed in his place, The five claimants were in- aide the bar, and the doorkeeper, probably for ad- mitting them, was removed from office. The mandamus was then referred to the Corporation Counsel for his opinion. Resolutions in reapect to of General. Halpine were then adopted adjourned, An inquest was held yesterday in the case of John Spicer, of No, 75 East Eleventh street, who, after taking what was apparently a seidlitz powder on the 20th of July, died in great agony. The evidence went to show that strychnine had been taken by the de- ceased in the powder, but the jury could not say by whom it had been introduced, aud declared that it ‘was not a case of suicide. The druggist and his clerk are fully exonerated. The powder before neing ada- ministered was handled by Mra. Spicer, wife of the deceased, and the servant, neither of whom can ac- count for the presence of the poison. ‘The politicians continue their discussions and dip- pings at Long Branch, Chamberlain Sweeny, ex- Senator Henry R. Low, Jolin J. Bradley, Senator Creamer, Judge Sutherland, Judge_Bosaworth, and Homer Nelson, Secretary of State, are all on the grounds. It is now probable that the democratic majority in Kentucky will reach 70,000. The opposition to confederation still prevails in Nova Scotia, The local government of Halifax have refused to have imterviews with the members of the Privy Council of the Dominion. The Alabama Senate yesterday passed a bill re- Moving all political disabliities from citizens simply om their filing an application, no oath being re- quired. In the Georgia House of Representatives yeater- day a bill removing all military appointees to etvil Office in the State and reinstating those formerly displaced was offered, but not «t upon. The Tennessee Legislature had uniler discussion yesterday a bill for the removal of political disanili- ties, a petition for which was subimiited by Governor Brownlow. The House decided against it. A bill to suppress the Ku Klux Klan and to empower the Calling out of the militia will probably pass, ° The Missouri Democratic State Convention met in Bt. Louis yesterd, The Chinese Embassy are creating great excite- Ment among the citizens of Aubura. ‘They visited | System, her civilization over the world. She bgt et yeaterday, ‘ appeared to be no leas prosperous than great, Waymen recently robbed the Boise City (Idaho) ev: stage and obtained $10,000 from registered letters of and even when the struggle was over the Wells, Fargo & Co. people thought they were still living in the The lish war steamer Sparrow Hawk has re. | glories of the old republic, governed by the tarned to Victoria, Vancouver's Island, withont hav. ing made any satisfactory settlement of the Indian troubles in the north, The steamship Constantine, belonging to the Fur Company, is wrecked at Plumber Pass, about fifiy miles north of Victoria, Vanconver's Island. ‘The International Commercial Convention in Port. jJand, Me., yesterday adopted resolutions favoring freer intercourse with Canada, Congressional aid to the transcontinental railroads and an culargement of the canals and channels of the St. Lawrence. It i# understood that Minister Johnson was tn- structed to negotiate a treaty with (Great Britain on the gataralization question and to follow his prede- cessor’s exampi¢ in regard to the Alabama claims, President Johnson aud his famtiy are to visit some rustic retreat in a few days, but which one is not yet decided upon. General Grant has recommended the release of all Prisoners confined by sentence of military commis- sions in the States just reconstructed. The Ozar, it seems, instoad of congratulating the Senate, with only an executive in the Emperor. [t was a rude awakening from such a dream, but it had to come, and we also will awaken some day to perceive ourselves in the same position. This or that party—whichever may happen to be in power— will divert attention from its schemes by the same splendid pursuit of foreign wars, by the same system of subduing its neighbors, until our dominion shall be nominally supreme over the whole Continent, and our civilization, laws and ¢hlightenment shall penetrate to every country, laying the foundation of States to be carved from the ruins of the great republic, as modern Europe was carved from the Roman empire. We have entered upon & career in which no nation of the past was ever able to stop midway, The Worcester Disturbance—Yale ana Hare vard, ™ We notice that certain New England an some New York journals are still much exercised about the late exhibition of rowdyism at Worcester on the part of the “hopefuls” of Yaleand Harvard. The riotous demonstration on this last occasion, bad as it was, would be leas entitled to notice were it not for the fact that these disturbances are annual in their occurrence and seem to form a necessary part of the regatta programme. Year after year they follow the contest on the lake, and each successive year they increase in lawlessness. It was bad last year; it has been infinitely worse this year. It is within the mark to say that more disgraceful conduct, even in circum- stances of provocation, could not have been expected at the hands of any congregation of rowdies hailing from the Five Points. But the scamps who let themselves loose on the unoffending city of Worcester were students of Yale and Harvard, young men who had for two or four years sat at the feet of New England Gamaliels in two of the oldest and proudest of American seats of learning. The caso is all the more serious when we bear in mind that these Yale and Harvard rioters are to be the teachers of the coming generation, Bright lights and pure they certainly promise to become, * Many things have been said as to what should be done inthe circumstances, The good peo- ple of Worcester have been lectured as to their duty in the premises. The College authorities of Yale and Harvard have been lectured as to their duty in the matter. There can be no doubt that the authorities at Worcester havo been blamefully indulgent, and there can be as little doubt that the heads of the colleges have been remiss in their superintendence. All this, however, fails to touch the root of the evil. The law as administered at Wor- cester might be never so severe; Yale and Harvard might expel or rusticate every offend- er; but the disease would remain and would reveal itself as violently as before when occa- sion offered. The real cause of such disorderly conduct is to be found in the demoralization which has come over the whole of New Eng- landteaching. The colleges, like the churches, have dropped away from their ancient moorings, and the professors care for Christianity even less than the preachers. Central, fixed princi- ple in morals and religion there is none among the class who now represent the intellect and culture of New England. Like the pagans of former times they have their gods many and their lords many, and en the summit of their Olympus Theodore Parker occupies a place of equal prominence with Jesus Christ. From teachers of this sort what healthful moral influ- ence can emanate? To the impurity of the fountain in this case must be traced the im- purity of the tream. To make the students what they ought to be it will be necessary to begin with the professors. Current of Political Sentiment Presidential Election in the South, An extraordinary and quite unexpected revolution is taking place in the political pros- pects of parties in the South. The radical leaders spread themselves over the Southern States, after reconstructing those States on the negro basis, to secure the votes of the new-born citizens of African descent. The first orators in Congress, both Senators and Repre- sentatives, left their seats and homes to stump the South and to control the negro vote, A vast exodus of radical carpet-baggers left the North, and principally the Eastern States, spreading themselves over the whole South like locusts, to secure the suffrages of the blacks, as well as the offices and the property of the whites, In fact, the Northern radicals had it pretty much all their own way. The South was their political elysium. They had no doubt about controlling the votes of the negroes, not only for their own elevation, but in the Presidential election also. All the trouble between Con- gress and the President arose from the struggle to gain the negro vote as a balance of political power, and the Refonstruction acts of Congress were framed expressly for this purpose. In truth, nothing was left undone that could be done by all the means that an all-powerful party could use, and scarcely a radical in or out of Congress had any doubt of the result. But what do we see now? Precisely what the Heratp said long ago and all throngh would be the case—that in the end the negroes would go with their masters and the democrats. From every quarter of the Southern States the fact comes to us that this is the case. .A most thorough reaction is taking place. The press and almost all the correspondence from the South show this, Our private and most reliable corres- pondents inform us that “every one of the ex- rebel States will be carried by the demacrats ; that the negroes are leaving the radical party by hundreds ; that they are organizing colored conservative clubs, and that they are attending democratic barbecues by thousands,” Never was there a more striking example of the old saying that the best laid plans may be defeated. And why are the negroes abandoning the radicals and going with their old masters and the democrats? Because they believe their interests lie that way, and because the South- ern whites know how to treat andcontrol them better than the Northerners. In their brief experience with Northern adventurers—pro- perly called carpet-haggers, because the greater and the part of them were needy speculators without any property but the car- pet bags they carried in their hands— the negroes have seen that these men had really no sympathy with them, and only wanted to use them for their own selfish purposes. They see that their best friends are their old masters and the white people among whom they were born and with whom their interests are identitied. The Northern carpet-baggers and orators have cheated and deceived them under the pretence of sympathizing with them and@ being their friends, and, as @ natural con- sequence, they turn to the people who employ them and with whom their destiny is cast. What more natural? All this only’shows how short-sizhted the radicals in Congress and the radicals generally have been, Independent of party considerations and the immediate effect this reaction may have on the Presidential election, it must be regarded as @ happy cir- cumstance; for if the negroes and whites of the South act together all fear of a war of races hereafter will be at an end. The employer and the employed will work together NEW YORK HERALD, THURSVAY, AUGUST & 1868. their common section of country. One thing ! pjadk, ond folks that live in glass houses throw is certain, and that is that the radicals must change their tactics, cease their efforts to array one portion of the Southern population against the other, and consider the interests of, the whites and blacks of the South as identi- cal, or they will have the whole of that section combined against them, both now and for all time to come. ,They have deceived themselves up to this time. We shall see whether they can retrace their steps or comprehend this most interesting political problem of the day. The Theatres. Neither the monitions of the thermometer nor the attractions of the summer resorts ap- pear to have much effect upon the attendance at the theatres, for they are pretty well crowded every night. Jt is true that the habitués who make up the audiences during the winter sea- son are not to be found in our places of amuse- ment just now in any numbers, but we notice that the houses are full nevertheless. The country evidently supplies the material which fills the managers’ coffers, This is 9 dull time in provincial towns, and as @ consequence our country cousins take the opportunity of making their harvest of metropolitan pleasure when there is no business to be done at home, In this respect, as in many others, New York re- sembles Parig, All Paris may go to the coun- try, but the country comes in to fill up Paris. The faces, the forms and the fashions so fami- liar every day may be missing, but the numbers are still there, And so it is with this metropo- lis, and there ig no better indication of the fact than can be found in our crowded theatres. The ‘@ottery of Life,” John Brougham’s keen satire upon the habits and follies of society, draws immensely at Wallack’s, and the fact suggests the idea that, under the usual management of this house, the public should have more of such plays, hitting forci- bly, yet not unkindly, the weaknesses of Amer- ican life, presenting to us a mirror wherein the frivolities of our time and society are re- flected with a good-natured fidelity to truth, more than the distorted images of human nature offered to us in the too common sensa- tional drama. Plays like this, while they do not excel the good old standard comedies of Sheridan or Goldsmith and the other authors of their times, are far more acceptable than the thousand decoctions of sensation stories produced in .dramatic form, nauseous in tho pages of novels and extra nauseous when put on the stage. These latter productions do not comprise the quality of drama suitable to the taste of the enlightened portion of our people, and yet unhappily it is just this kind of stuff which the managers supply, becausé the bill of fare is most easily filled up by a second or third rate stock company, and the profits are more readily realized from a public that have become habituated to theatrical amusement and are entirely too lenient with their mana- gerlal caterers. Asa change from the sensational novel we have the Fenian drama, which is a change for the worse. The manager of the Broadway theatre ought to know that Fenian burlesque— and the so-called Irish drama was never any- thing else—is out of the market. It may do very well at the approaching election ; but it is about time that it was withdrawn from the stage. Ina short time the summer heats will be gone, and the regular theatrical season will open. We look for a brilliant campaign from the managers of the various distinguished song birds, native and foreign, who are threatening to come over from Europe in a flock to dazzle us with their plumage and enthrall us with their strains; but we hope that the theatrical managers will take a new departure, repent of their many grievous sins against the presiding deities of Tragedy and Comedy, and give us a season of wholesome, legitimate drama that may rival the opéra boujfe and throw into the shade blue lights, gaslights, shillalahs, gauze, tinsel and legs. The Degradation of the Partisan Press. We recently alluded to the shameless indul- gence of the partisan press in scurrilous as- saults upon the motives and character of politi- cal opponents. But we are constrained to recur to this disagreeable topic by the increas- ing vulgarity and blackguardism exhibited in the wordy warfare of the Presidential campaign by two leading party organs, One of these journals is the organ of copperheadism and the other that of radicalism. The former de- nounces General Grant as a sot, a peculator, a scoundrel, o military butcher and a wearer of an assumed name or alias. The latter de- nounces Mr. Seymour as a disguised rebel, a hypocrite and a Innatic, and defines his friends as ‘a mob hanging negroes to lampposts.” Both daily pour forth floods of such dirty po- litical billingsgate, and both are published, not in some obscure frontier village away out West or away down in Texas, where the habit- nal use of bad whiskey, bowie knives and pis- tols is apt to be accompanied by a correspond- ing coarseness snd violence of language, but here in New York, the metropolitan centre of American civilization The style of American journalisin has offered within the few past years many en- couraging signs of improvement. Misrepre- sentation and falsehood have been discovered and admitted to be unlawful weapons, Scold- ing and calling ill names, spitting in the face of a antagonist, flinging rotten eggs at him or slyly stabbing him in the back were becoming unfashionable practices. Argument had been found more effectual in debate than vitupera- tion and abuse, It had been ascertained that, like other men, a journalist might have blood and not ink in his veins. He might wield the heaviest logic or hurl the sharpest invective without violating the amenities of society or the rules of honorable controversy or without disgracing himself by foul-mouthed personal abuse of his adversary while engaged in a fair fight in bebalf of his own convictions, Even the most abandoned party organs could not wholly withstand the influence of the example of high-toned independent journals. All this was encouraging. But no sooner was the signal sounded for # new Presiden- tial campaign than the leading party organs fell back to their old tricks, Like pussy trans- formed into a young lady in the fairy story, they could ‘‘behave” no tonger when their rude and disguating instincts were again excited. They have relapsed into their former habits of wallowing in the mire, and they bespatter cach for tholr mutunl iggoroete qnq the interests of: other wud every passer by. Pot calls kottie ~ stones revkessly, Such choice epithets a8 liar, thie’ coward are freely interchanged. The private lit of every prominent candidate for office is indecuntly unveiled, and no con- spicuous services whicis be may have rendered to his country can exempt “Un from being the object of treacherous insinuatica® nd cruel, direct attack. Each of the two lesling party organs in this city is trying to bark “ore loudly and bite more venomously than this other, and they are imitated by the whole yelping crew of party organs throughout the land. Surely this degradation of the partisan press is a national disgrace. It involves, more- over, evils that must aggravate the present un- happy atate of affairs, tearing open old wounds, inflicting “fresh wounds, rekindling the worst passions, and perhaps exposing the country to the violence and woes of a prolonged civil war. The Political Reaction. The election of last year, which gave the State of New York to the democrats by fifty thousand majority, was generally regarded as due entirely to the strong reaction observable allover the country against the violent and dangerous policy of the radical Congress. This was a popular error. While the anti- radical and anti-impeachment sentiment had, no doubt, a great effect in New York, as in Pennsylvania, California, Connecticut, Ohio and other States, the imménse revolution in New York polftica was principally occasioned by the concentration of all the liquor and lager beer interests upon the democratic cav- didates. Thisis evident from the fact that the great increase in the vote of the demo- cracy was made in the southern portion of the State, where the absurd, unequal and odious Metropolitan Excise law is in existence. After the election, however, the democrats aban- doned their best friends, and instead of repeal- ing the worst and most oppressive features of the Excise law, which they could easily bave done, they intrigued, plotted and voted to prevent any alteration of its provisions, and thus made themselves, in fact, responsible for the measure. The y license fee could have been reduced to fifty dollars, the Sunday restriction probably removed and the spy and informer nuisance entirely swept away if the democrats had not purposely obstructed such amendments, The Irish and German liquor and lager beer dealers, who paid their money as well as cast their voies to secure these alterations in the law, are perfectly conversant with these facts. This year they are going to try a different course. The republican ticket has upon it two liberal-minded men, Grant and Griswold; the former the friend of good liquor, and the latter the very King Gambrinus of lager. The Irish and Germans will there- fore vote for the republican candidates for President and Governor, and by this means put down forever all the radical fanatics, beginning with Greeley, and banish cold water and bran bread from the‘ republican creed. This reaction among the liquor dealers and lager beer sellers will turn the State fifty thou- sand against the democrats next fall, will secure the repeal of the Metropolitan Excise law and put a stop to all such narrow-minded legislation in tho future. Tae War In Sr. Dominco,—Late advices from St. Domingo report that President Baez is in a very bad way and may at any moment be driven out by the revolutionists. Things are so mixed up in that unfortunate island that we are uncertain which side may yet be vic- torious, nor have we time to attend to that ihatter just now. When our election is over we will have leisure to look after St. Domingo, Mexico and the South American States. Then will be the time to take them all in hand and see that the long neglected Monroe doctrine is carried out effectually, CITY POLITICS. The German Democrats of the Nineteonth Ward. The meeting of the German republicans of this ward on Tuesday seems to have aroused the Seymour- ites among the Teutons to activity; for they ap- peared in large numbers last evening at Mechanics’ Hall, No. 701 Third avenue, Mr. Francis Koehler, the President of the club, was in the chair, and Mr. Julius Hnneett officiated as secretary. It was re- ported that the club numbered 374 members, to which were added the names of fifty-nine citizens of the ward who joined last evening. When it was stated that measures should be provided to procure a trans- — for the headquarters of the club, Mr. August an offered to contribute the entire cost of it, which was accepted with cheers, Several speeches were made and a committee was appointed to meet simt- lar committees from the Twenty-second and Twelfth wards, to make arrangements for the organization of the Con ional district composed of there wards (the Ninth), and then the meeting adjourned, Democratic Flag Raising. The Empire Club, of the Twenty-first Assembly district, had a flag raising and enthusiastic outdoor meeting last evening in Harlem. Messrs. Eugene J. Sullivan, Algernon 8. Sullivan, A. J. Rogers, Adju- tant General Knapp, of General Blair's stat, and Captain Rynders were the speakers at the meeting. Grant and Colfax Boys in Bine Clubs. Last evening an organization as above was effected in the Thirteenth ward by the election of the follow. ing named officers:—Lieutenant Green, Commander; Moses R. Allen, First Lieutenant; GeorgegArmstrong, Second Lieutenant. Executive Committee—Major 4. P. Short, Dr. N. W. Leighton and Captain Charies Smail. In the Fourteenth ward a similar meeting was con- vened. Corporal Henry W, Hughes called the meet- ing to order and was subsequently elected chairman, W. W. Priestly was elected orderiv sergeant, and the election of other permanent oMicers was postponed ntil the 18th inst, Resolutions of eulogy upon Grant and Colfax were then passed by acclam: a, and the meeting adjourned until Tuesday evening next. Another Grant Club. ‘The executive committee of a new Grant club, to be called the “Grant Boys in Blue,” held a meeting at the Astor House yesterday and perfected thetr ar- rangements for a vigorous support of their fa- vorite candidate. General Pleaganton was selected as chairman of the Finance Committee. THE LATE GENERAL HALPINE. ‘The Knights of St. Patrick intend hoiding a weet- ing at the Astor House at half-past three this after- hoon to pass resolutions expressive of their deep sorrow at the death of Genoral Charles G. Halpine, who was one of the most distinguished members of this society, and also for the pur of making ar- rangements (o attend the in a body. Ata meeting of printe at Masonte Hall on h Tuesday evening resolutions eulogistic of the late General Halpine were unanimously adopted. ‘A humber of societies and organizations, tncinding Many military bodies, ag holding Ste ie the purpose of giving ic expression to the high erfeotn in whicl they held the lamented deceased, and extensive preparations are being made for at- tonding the funeral. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL. Mra, Halpine being still too much distracted at ber terrible loss to allow of her being consulted on the subject, the friends of the family have arran, that the funet ‘remonies over the illustrious departe spall be performed at the residence, N 8 West ‘orty-seventh street, at ten o'clock on the morning of Saturday next. Responding to Invitations forwarded nee) the following gentlemen at once signified Thetr willingness to act t as Sastr banier fon John ‘T. Hoffman, Major General David Hunter, James T. Brady, Robert James G. 1d Horace Greeley, Ly . B. ily, William M. Tw: Richae : O'Gorman and William G, Mas Sweeny, Richard B. CUBA, ery Tho steamship Kagiv, Captain Greene, from Havana on the 1at inst,, arrived at this port yeatero* Purser Huertas will please accept our thai’ fF the prompt delivery of our files and despatches, ~~», ‘There was considerable agitation in Havana mer: cantile circles over @ royal decree which discriml- nates very unfavorably against foreign flour as well as ap rer usly to the revenues. The enforce- ment ot @ law prohibiting -the im) ion of Spanish books printed in foreign ep bees postponed out of regard for contracts already made by the trade, An tron bridge 1s to be built over the Yunturi by an American, There had been copious rains on the island, and but comparatively ute cholera or vomito, Great Fire at Oasilda, Near Trinidad de Cuba, TRINIDAD DB CuBA, July 28, 1668, We have had a great fire in Casilda, and the loss te about $80,000, It broke out at about half-past three o’clock this morning. We were all routed out of our beds by the alarm of fire, and, I must say, the largest fire Ihave seen in the place yet, as it is a thing we very seldom have here, and those of us who live here are unprovided for such affairs, I must say it is iB dingeace 60 @ place so large to engines for such cases. There is one engine in a town, but it belongs to one of the merchant of the place. The rnolnal losers by the fire are:—Mr. William Paine, no insurance; Messrs. Schmidt & Co., no insurance; Measrs, Tritze & Co., no insurance; Miguel Pastell, no insuranee, and two hermes aa aud your humble correspondent a sinall trite, THE CHINESE EMBASSY. The First Night of the Embassy at Mr. Sew- ard’s—A Select Party Pay Their Respecte— The Tajens Entertuin tho Visitors—Suddon Disappearance of Sun. Auburn, N. Y., August 5, 1368. Last night the commodious mansion of the Secretary of State was the rendezvous of a solect party of immediate friends and relatives, having gathered to meet personally the members of the Chinese Embassy. Mr. Burlingame was besieged oa all sides by everybody, while Mr. Brown took speolal charge of the ladies and Mr. DeChamps entertained a knot of admirers by acting as the medium of con- versation between the interesting Tajens and their newly made friends, In a very short time after the ceremony of receiving the few persons who were permitted to participate in this prelimmmary gather- ing was suspended, the Chinese students broke up into small parties, and, under the direction of the delighted individuals having them in charge, visited some of the families living near by. These persona seemed to participate in the feeling of hospitality 4d liberally displayed by Mr. Seward, and the students a3 a@ consequence Were much pleased with these little excursions about the neighborhood. Wherever they visited the citizens seemed to be holding open house, and considerabie parties of friends were also added to the household, giving that portion of the city surrounding Mr. Seward’s residence the appearance of a general festivity, Messrs. Fung and Teh, having the advantage of their associates in the fact of their speaking English, were in demand and received the special attentions of the ladies. ‘The others had to rely upon the inconvenient and uncertain method of nobly, considering the fatig particular pleasure in entertain'ng every one »; returning compliments and receiving the same with of the day, and took all the polish of a Western courtier. Sun, how- ever, jess given to the arts of social intercourse, particularly on the laborious principle of Western society, very soon wearied of this sort of amusement and quietly slipped out of tho way. More than an hour elapsed before he was missed, When it was discovered that he was not present a number of reconnoitring parties set out scouring every hole and corner in the grounds sur- rounding the mansion. The search, however, was ineffectual, and the report from each expedition was that the ae ‘Tajen was not to be f-und, The so- licitude evinced was no compliment to the Taen as capable of taking care of himself. After considera- ble search it was discovered that, growing fatigued and drowsy, he withdrew in a thoreu shly diplomat:9 way—thatis, without saying anything, and exchanged the exertions incident to the entertainment of visitors for the pleasurabie sensations of sicep. At an early hour Mr. Seward, whose age requires more repose than younger people, also retired; but the party kept up until rather late, Judging from the satisfaction already shown the Embassy are highly delighted with their good for- tune in accepting the hospitality of the Secretary of State. Chih expressed himself several times last night as feeling very happy. To-day the Embassy wul visit the Auburn penitentiary and take @ drive about the city. They will then return to Mr. Sew- ard’s and enjoy a couple of hours’ rest, after which they will attend an exhibition of the practical ap- plication of several of the most usefal of our tm- proved agricuitura! implements. Visit of the Chinese Embassy to Auburn Prison. AUBURN, August 5, 1868. The Chinese Embassy, accompanied by a number of citizens, made the tour of the city this morning tn carriages, going to the various points of interest. They were the observed of all observers as they passed through the streets, At a qnarter past cleven o'clock the Embassy visited the prison, going through the entire institution and witnessing the different enterprises carried on there with great interest. The discipline of the prison is excellent under its present management, but the convicts could not resist the temptation take a good look at the distin- ished The march of the convicts to heir = di with the lock step and perfect order, seemed to be very interesting to the Chinese, Their visit evidently gave them a favorable impression of the American mode of pun- ishing criminals. The tour — the prison occu- pied about one hour and a half, when the party again ges carriages for the residence of Secretary Seward. The city was visited at two o'clock this afternoon “py one of the heaviest rain storms that has been witnessed for Peg This prevented the mower and reaper exhibition for the benefit of the Chinese which was mentioned in yesterday's deapatch aa to come off to-day. rty. inners, NEW JERSEY. Trenton. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN THR Srara Prison, — During the afternoon of Tuesday a convict named William Windsor, while engaged in whitewashing ono of the halls, entered a cell and seizing another con- vict’s razor indicted a deep gash in his throat, from which the blood gushed so copiously that he was almost exhausted before observed. The wound is not considered mortal. Windsor is a Prussian by birth, but was convicted in Elizabeth of grand larceny ani sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment. Dur- ing his first term of incarceration, some three yeara since, he made a similar suicidal effort. The unfor- tunate fellow is of infirm mind and is generally con- fined al Five prisoners arrived at the State Prison om Hudson county on Tuesday to serve terms varying from six months to two years, Millbw FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—Pairick Houston, & man well advanced in years, while walking along the track of the Morris and Essex Railroad, near ti lace, the day before yesterday, was atruck by jocomotive of an express train and instantly killed. It seems that in getting out of the way of one train he was struck by the engine of another on the oppo- site track. His danghter, a young girl, waa with him at the time, but managed to escape uniurt THE WEST HOBOKEN HOMICIDE, The Coroner's Jury Declare Michael Roche Guilty of Manslaughter, ‘The inquest in the case of Patrick Madden waa re- sumed at four o'clock yesterday afternoon before Coroner White, Several witnesses were examined whose testimony did not difer materially from that already published, The jury retired at a quarter past eight, and after ‘a deliberation brought in the following “That Patrick Madden came to his death from a stab iuficted by a chisel in the bands of Michact Roche on the 26th day of July, 1868, at the townslip of West Hoboke: This was the verdict agreed on by the jury, and the Coronel at them back with farther instructions, A clause was then added de- = Roche guilty of manslaughter. On this verdict Roche was committed for triat Without bail at the next term. WESTCHESTER INTELLIGENCE. AS#AULT UPON A Ponice Orricee.—Justice Haupt man, of Morrisania, yesterday fined M. J. O'Rourke, painter of Mott Haven, $25 and $3 costs for aa aggravated assault and battery upon oicer Loo. nard, who is also about commencing @ Oivil sult for damages against 0’ Rourke. Lopor oF Goop Tumriars at New Rocurn.r.— On Monday evening Excelator Lodge of Good Tem- plars, No. 664, was instituted at New Rochelle, by B. D. Howland, District Deputy, assisted by E. J. Wright, State Deputy of Connect out, W. F. Davide was uy installed as Worthy Chief Templar. After the cere- monies the installing officers and guests were euter. tained by the Lodge at the Leroy House. CHotena.—Dr. Ellis, of Westchester, was called ta Attend two cholera patients last week, one of them & resident of Weatchester and the other a resident of ham. The disease yielded to the remedica in bot Pell |, Nelson J. Waterbury, ' cases, and the patleats are now considered out Barrett, 7 Aanger.