The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Velame XXXII. AM SEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18h street.— Fine Roy. Broadway.—Teoppex Down. posite New York Hotel.— BROADWAY THEATRI NEW YORK THEATR! Foun Pay. NIBLO'S GARDEN.—Bause Buaor. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Dopaixa ror 4 WiFk— ap GNOME AND WHITE Warton. OLYMPIC THEATRE. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Buildiog, Mth street,—KTHIOPIAN MIN#TERLSY, 40. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSK 21 Bowery. Couto Vooarinm, NEGRO MINSTRELST, ec. i INTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenus.-PoruL as RN CONOERT. HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSB, Minsrar!.s—Suur. -Homery Domerr. Brooklyn.—Hoourr's NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BorwNoK aNv Aut. 14, 1868. New York, Friday, August 2 THER NEWS. EUROPE. report by the Atlantic cable is dated vening, August 13, h ship Brian Boroitme, from Dublin for Quebec, has been lost at sea, A disastrous fire, originating in a newly arrived cargo of cotton, oc- curred iu Lisbon, Portugal. France is again 1n difficulty with Tunis. Armed rebels hove appeared in the provinces of Spain, The Duke de Brabant is seriously ili. Consols, 93% & 987;, Money. Five-twenties, 715% in London and 75% in Frankfort. Paris Bourse ‘firmer. Cotton advanced, closing with middling uplands atten peace. Breadstufls without marked change, Provisions upward, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘Our Panama letter is dated August 5. Chiriqui was the only department that remained in rebellion against General Ponce, and it only awaited his arrival with his forces to tender its submission. During Ponce’s absence Colonel Correoso was appointed to act as Military governor in his stead, and having secured all the war munitions and the command of the militia, he is expected soon to commence a counter- revolution against Ponce for the purpose of obtain- ing the Presidency himself. Mosquera is expected to come hack from Peru soon and declare himself dictator, when Correoso, who is probably working ‘under his orders, will be ready to agsist him. Peace prevailed in Guatemala, The report that yellw fever had broken out in San Salvador had been contra- dicteq. { had greatly diminished in Rivas, Nica- Fagua The treaty between Nicaragua and the United States had been approved and exchanged. 4 Our letter from Lima, Peru, is dated July 28. The President elect, Colonel Balta, iad expressed himn- self as opposed to retaining any officers who have mo service to perform, and in consequence those omecers were believed to be preparing for a move- ment against him. The foreitn relations of the State continued discouraging. Marshal Castilla was buried with imposing ceremonies, permission being Blven on the occasion for the presence of opera wingers in the church choir. . ‘The remains of Thaddeus Stevens were conveyed to the national capital yesierday and placed in State, where they will be until thix morning, They ‘were escorted by @ colored zounve company, who Mounted guard over them. Patrick H. Jones, late C f the Court of Appeals, has been appointed Register'of the city of New York in place of General Halpine, with the understanding that the fees until the 1st of January are to be passed ‘over to Mrs. Halpine. Vigorous efforts are heiug mate in Washinton to Procure the pardon of Caillicot, Enright and Alien, who are serving ont terms for alleged revenue swindling. The President, it is said, las given the petitioners no encouragement up to the preseni. ‘The Attoruey General will render an opmion on the Subject tn a day or two. ‘The New York Democratic state Centrai Committee Met in Utica yesterday. Mr. William Cassidy was ehosen to fill the place of Mr. Cagger. Resolutions Of respect to the memory of the latter were adopted, ‘The State Convention for the nomination of a gube natorial ticket Wax called fur the 2d of September, at Albany. In the Lonistana aie yesterday @ resolution calling upon Governor Wormoth for information in regard to the numerous murders and outrages refer- red to in his ictier to the President was favorably re- ported by a committee, with au amendment provid- ang for an investigation of the riows of 1866, In the South Carolina Legislature yesterday the Homestead bil] was passed. ‘Ihe bill reducing the bonds of State officers was vetoed, aud the Senate Fefused Lo pass it again. ‘The North Carolina Democratic State Convention met at Raleigh yesterday and nominated electors for the State at large. Among those preseut were a Bumber of democratic negroes, who excited the ire Of their radical brethren, and a demonstration which bid fair to culminate in 9 riot took place. The Military were called out, however, and peace pre. wailed. The yacht squadron remained quietly at Newport yeserday with their fags half masted in respect to the memory of ex-Compiodore BE. A. Stevens, who @ivd recent\y tu Paria, Vo-day the great ocean race ) Sing Sing yclosed yesterday with a great jove feast and a final grand march @round the ground at midnight, During the services Ssubscriplion amounting to $200 was taken up to defray tie legal expense® necessary to obtain the release of » young girl who is sald to be confined in 8 Cathone sution becwuse of her conversion (0 Methodisin. ‘The Board of Health met yesterday, but adjourned Without transacting any wore important business than taking cognizance of numerous reported nut ances and entering orders thereon. ‘The apphcation to admit “al Cole to ball was Pefused by Judye Hogevoom, at Hideon City, reater day. Alpeoria Bradiey (colored) was yesterday declared ineligible as State Senator in Georgia, and he hae expressed his intention of running for Congress. ‘The fourth hoor of a paper box manufactory, Nos. 268 and 270 Canal street, fel) yesterday in.consequence of being overweighted. ‘There were abont forty Girls empioved in the building at thy and their consternation was great, but only two of them were injured, bowl seriousiy. ‘The two, strangely enough, Bad only commenced Work at the establishment vee terday, “vile the rest of them had been engaged there f yme time, «ea-MeCoole dificulty was settled yeater- @ay. Coburn appeared and claimed the stakes in de- fault of Mocooie’s appearance, Mr. Queen, the Stakeholder. however, declared the fight off, and Co- parn withdrew his money. A foung girl named Kate Connor. Atteen years of age, Who Was arrested on suspicion of stealing a ‘Watch, died in the station house on Wednesday Bight, it is presumed from shame and grief, * The Inman line steamship City of Baltimore, Uap- tain Leiton, will leave pier 45 North river at 1 P.M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Queensiown and Liverpoo! ‘The European maiis will clove ai the Post Omice at 19 M, on the 16th inst. ‘The National line steamship Erin, Captain Wob- Stor, will sail from pier 47 North river at a P.M. on Saturday, 16th inst., caling at Queeustown to lead ‘The Anchor line steamship Britannia, Captain Laird, wit! leave pier 90 North river at 12 M. to-mor- @ow (@-surday) for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry land passengers, Sc. ‘The steamship Generel Grant, Captain Quick, of the Merchants’ line, will be despatched at 3 P.M. on Saturday, 16th inst., trom pier 19 North river, for New Orleans direct. The Cromwell line steamship Yazoo, Captain Hodges, will leave pier No. 9 North river for New Orleans at 8 P, M. to-morrow, 15th tust. The Black Star Independent line steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, will sail from pier 13 North river at $ P. M. to-morrow (Saturday), for Savannah, Ga. The stock market, inclading government securities, Was extremely dull and barely steady yesterday. Gold was strong and buoyant and closed at 147% a 147%, with a strong upward tendency. The Presidency=Tho Prebabilities ef the Canvass. Kentucky has doubled her democratic ma- jority in one year, and that is a revolutionary fact. Majorities do not vary at such a rate ordinarily. Hitherto the home of Henry Clay has given democratic majorities, but not such as are given this year. Other parties have had a very respectable hearing in that State. She was one of the two Southern States that gave Lincoln a vote in 1860, and in the same year only Virginia and Tennessee of the Southern States outvoted her on the Bell and Everett ticket. Even in 1864 McClellan's ma- jority was only thirty-six thousand. Nothing like so intensely democratic in the past as Southern States generally, she gives the demo- cratic candidate this year a majority of ninety thousand—a vote that indicates a movement of the people scarcely less than a stampede. Negro suffrage is held responsible for this change by the local chroniclers, and the chroni- clers are in all probability right. Negro suffrage, so avowedly the policy of the re- publican party that its orators can no longer make any denial, has applied a tremendous process of ‘‘attrition” to the republican vote in Kentucky and worked it down to a worth- less quantity. It will do the same elsewhere. Through- out the South we shall see this one definite result of negro suffrage—that there will no longer be any practicable division of the white vote, but the people that have hitherto given a respectable vote to each of two parties will now all go together by instinctive agglomera- tion against the negro suffrage party. In Kentucky the result is clearly seen, because there is no negro vote to give respecta- ble proportions to the other side; but the democratic majority is so great that even the natural negro vote of that State— which would be about twenty-five thousand— could not have changed the result if cast. In those States, therefore, in which negro suffrage is in force the vote of the negro will not come as a balance of power between parties, it will not swell the weaker side as that side appeared in the former political divisions of the people ; but if cast for the radicals it will stand alone against the whole white vote. Human nature can never be reduced to mathematics exactly ; but if there is a point in its history very nearly capable of positive demonstration it is the force with which the various otherwise hostile ele- ments of a people combine in presence of a common danger. There is no point of differ- ence between the people that will not dwindle to insignificance by comparison with the differ- ence between black and white. The conse- quence in the South will be that the democrats will carry every Southern State except South Carolina. Regarding the statistics of elections up to 1860 as well as the recent registration we should have excepted Mississippi also, but the recent vote on the constitution indicates that the democracy rrle there also. In 1860 eleven Southern States gave five hundred and eighty-three thousand votes for the demo- eratic candidate and four hundred and ven thousand for the Bell and Everett ticket. , sibreit the Bell and Everett vote represents the proportion of Southern sentiment that might have favored the policy of a reconstruct- ing party of patriotic purposes and holding ra- tional views of politics and of human nature; but against a party to whose policy negro suf- frage is only the preface the whole white South- ern vote of 1860 is sure to go together, and will make a total sufficient to neutralize the negro vote. and, in addition, balance the republican majority of 1864 on the popular vote of the whole country. In the North the vote against the republicans will be very heavy. Men know how far demo- cratic misrule would go, and what direction it would take, and they do not know the limit of radical madness, Judging it by the past, they find it dificult to conceive that the republican fury has any definite limit. Hitherto it has hesitated at nothing, has pushed recklessly on wherever hounded by ambitious leaders, and rather than be dragged where such a party would go the people will take the chance of revolution with the democrats. Republicaniam, in fact, is driven to a point at which it is des- perate. For two years it has stood upon the defensive before the people. Had the popular jealousy of its tendencies been less clearly shown it would have pushed on to the ex- tremity of confiscation and proscription; for its leaders felt that these were necessary parts of its policy, that these alone could give it safe possession of what it had already won. Without confiscation the results of negro suffrage will slip through its fingers. Without proscription the Southern States cannot be kept from the natural leaders of the Southern people. The republican party of the future, therefore, will be ready for any desperation, convinced from its past that the greatest dange in standing still. There is, then, greater reason than ever why it should be kept from power, and this the people evidently feel. Last year the gains against the republican party on Congressional votes had wiped out its former majorities and established an equality, and, constantly increasing, the gains will now make the balance on the other side. Such a change as we have seen in Oregon, and half such majorities as Keatucky has given, will present » total to astonish and confound political philosophers. Brovent Up Wirt a Rounp Tury.—The owner of a line of coasting vessels recently informed the Health Officer that if he quaran- tined any of his craft, after ascertaining that all on board were healthy, he would order all his vessels to an Eastern port. The merchant referred to has had no difficulty since that time, while transient vessels coming from the seme places are worried by the doctor for eight or ten days in the Lower Bay, and forced to discharge their cargoes into his lighters at an extra cost of one dollar a hogshead and thirty cents for cooperage whethor a hoop is weated or aot. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1868. Mystery and Crime tm New York. A great metropolis must necessarily offer from time to time cases of mystery and crime. New York is no excep- tion to the general rule, On the contrary, its Position as a central point of transit from Europe to every part of America, and to the islands of the Pacific, and to China and Japan and other Asiatic countries makes it the focus of all the wickedness of the world. Our own dangerous classes may at any time receive sccessions from the cracksmen of London and the thugs of India. The daily arrival and departure of thousands of strangers renders the vigilance of the most efficient police com- paratively useless. It is impossible for the police to ‘‘spot” every suspicious character who seeks in New York a fresh field of opera- tions. A full record of the larcenies and bur- glaries and murders of the past six months in this city would be almost incredible. A long list of unexplained disappearances during that period might be made out from the daily papers. The daylight robberies in Wall street alone would furnish a thrilling chapter in the history of crime. Hotels and fashionable boarding houses, if the secretsof their inner life were exposed, would reveal pictures of iniquity no less startling than the more dis- gusting scenes of which crowded tenement houses are sometimes the theatre., Many a “skeleton in the house” might be discovered in the recesses of the brown stone front man- sions occupied by the families belonging pre- eminently to our ‘comfortable classes.” The sudden death of Mr. Spicer, of Eleventh street, is still a mystery as profound and apparently as insoluble as that of the Burdell murder, in Bond street. The strange and unsatisfactory verdict of the coroner's inquest in the Spicer case ex- onerated the druggist and the servant sent for the seidlitz powder, and perhaps strained a point to exonerate Mr. Spicer himself from the suspicion that he had committed suicide. But if there were a murder in the case the coroner's inquest failed to discover it, or at least to dis- close it. The responsibilities of a coroner's jury are, indeed, limited; but it really seems that in the Spicer case the jury confined itself so strictly within its legal limitations as to have left the public mind in a painful state of un- certainty respecting it. The famfly of the deceased should demand a full and searching investigation, if it be only to relieve certain of its members from the cloud of suspicion which now, justly or unjustly, rests upon them. We might easily multiply instances of un- ravelled mystery afforded by the experience of the past few days in New York. But it will suffice to refer to only two other cases—the assault upon Mr. Edward Seaman, a merchant, who resides in West Thirty-seventh street, and who was found insensible at about one o'clock the other morning at the corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-fifth street, having been attacked and severely beaten by several un- known rowdies, without apparent motive ; and the probable murder of Mr. Charles Ellet, another merchant, who left after dinner on last Friday the hotel on Broadway where he boarded, having mentioned that he was going up town to receive a sum of four thousand dollars, and whose body was found on Satur- day floating in the Kast river, bearing marks of robbery and violence. These two recent instances must be added to the many which show that crime is fearfully on the increase in our midst, whether this lamentable fact be due to the defective education of the youth, who, as they grow up, swell our own vicious and dangerous classes, or to an unusual influx of ‘*ticket-of-leave men,” escaped convicts and professional villains from Great Britain and the European continent. Rollin’ Case—Opinion of Mr. Evarts. The opinion of Attorney General Evarts on the resignation of Commissioner Rollins, which was published in the Hxratp yesterday, is terse, clear and sound. It shows that accord- ing to the Tenure of Office act the pretended resignation of Mr. Rollins was in fact no resignation at all, and that the endorsement upon the letter of Mr. Rollins made by the President accepting the resignation does not make the office vacant, and gives no power to the President over the office till the Senate choose to confirm a successor to Mr. Rollins. In other words, the Commissioner holds on in spite of the President tilla successor be ap- pointed and confirmed. This is simply the law of the case, and all that Mr. Evarts, as he says, was called upon to decide; but, as he adds, this decision is giveu ‘‘without any dis- cussion of the larger topics touching the con- formity or repugnance of this legislation with the constitution.” There is, then, a question as to the constitutionality of the act. But how can it be reached? The President tried to bring this very question before the Supreme Court—the only tribunal that could decide it— in the case of Stanton, but found himself pow- erless to do so and was impeached for the attempt. Thus we see to what a disorganized state the government has been brought by the revo- lutionary proceedings of a radical Congress. Mr. Evarts justly remarks that ‘“‘the purpose of the Tenure of Office bill was to change the doctrine and practice of the government by which removal from office at the mere discre- tion of the Prosident had been established as @ proper and, as was thought, a necessary at- tendant of the executive duty and responsi- bility under the consideration to maintain the efficiency and fidelity of the public service in fulGlling the manifold and incessant obligations of administration and in execution of the laws.” The fact is the purpose was to destroy the con- stitutional and woll established power of the Executive for mere temporary party objects. Worse even than that, for the radicals were actuated as much by personal animosity and spite to the President, as from a desire to usurp the executive authority. They did not hesi- tate to make a great revolution in the govern- ment and disorganize and demoralize it from the meanest motive and most contemptible feelings. The Tenure of Office bill was a trap to catch the President, and Mr. Rollins, after impeachment failed in the case of Stanton, ap- pears to have acted as the stool pigeon of the radicals to getup another case of impeach- ment, or to embarrass the President and bring odium upon his administration. Such is the disgraceful spectacle presented of a great party im Congress and the high officials of the gov- ernment combining to break down the Exeou- tive, t@ domoralise the administration aad country, and to destroy all responsibility in the exeoution of the laws. Surely the people will remember who these revolutionary disorgan- izers were when the Congressional elections take place. The Sitaation ia Mexico. The special telegraphic news from Mexico published in Wednesday's Hzgatp shows that the political and social disorders of that unhappy country are fast changing from bad to worse, The insurrections in the States of Yucatan, Sinalon and Guerrero which followed almost immediately the restoration of the republic showed olearly that anarchy is the only constitutional form of government known to the Mexican people. But the impeachment and deposition of Governor Antonio Gomes Cuervo, of the State of Jalisco, by the federal Congress, for having sanctioned the summary execution of a party of Notorious bandits, proves that the governing class in that country regard the life, liberty and happiness of the citizen as of little or no value in comparison with their own petty political ambitions. We would suggest to the federal authorities to compare the action of Governor Cuervo in Jalisco with their own in Querétaro, and to examine their consciences as to their brutal murder of the brave, chival- rous and honest young prince, Maximilian, in contrast with the just and legal execution of the Jalisco bandits, from whose terrors the people of that State were relieved by the prompt action of Governor Cuervo in February last. The consequence of this action on the part of the government is that the bandits of the whole country have concluded to exercise their villanous profession with im- punity, sure of protection from the general government. They have formed themselves into secret societies, and are operating ona more enlarged scale than ever before. Thus all confidence being lost on the part of the citizens, fresh insurrections are breaking out of a most formidable character. General Alatorre, the pacifier of Yucatan, is reported to have been defeated by General Negrete be- tween the capital and Vera Cruz, and the latter city is threatened. General Alatorre asked for a reinforcement of one thousand troops, but received only two hundred. General Escobedo had also requested reinforcements to aid in putting down the Querétaro rebellion, but got none. This shows conclusively that the eyes of the federal government are intent upon the rebels, who threaten to cut off the capital from its chief port and main point of communication with the world. These two rebellions, in the very heart of the country, are enough to destroy the trade and commerce of Mexico and seriously interfere with the interests of all foreign nations who have rela- tions with the republic. How long will the United States tolerate this state of things almost on our borders? When General Grant, after having put down our own gigantic rebellion, proposed to send General Phil Sheridan, then stationed on the Rio Grande border, into that distracted country and put an end to the petty rebellions there he showed his fur-sightedness, statesmanship and military ability, while the management of our Foreign Office set forth Mr. Secretary Seward in his true light as a short-sighted, trimming diplomat. He wastes our money and interferes with our destiny by pur- chasing far-off real estate in Alaska and the shaky island of St. Thomas, while here on our borders is one of the richest and most prolific countries in the world that General Grant would have obtained for the mere coat of keeping our troops during a six months’ campaign. This splendid idea of General Grant would have been fought out by his dashing lieutenant on that line without taking even a whole summer. And European governments would have rejoiced to see that plague spot of the New World at length cleaned out. Their commercial interests, as well as our own, require it; but Mr. Secretary Seward’s eccentric tastes in- terfered. If he wanted earthquakes and volcanic eruptions he needed not to have sought St. Thomas; General Grant would have secured an abundance of them in Mexico. And as regards European jealousy of the Mon- toe doctrine, he must see as well as Europe does that Providence has destined this whole Continent to be under Uncle Sam's control, and he should have allowed General Grant to extend our dominion and influence just as General Sir Robert Napier has done for Eng- land in Abyssinia and as Napoleon means to do for France on the Spanish peninsula. Neither England nor France is any more disposed to interfere with the United States in carrying out our destiny on this Continent in the manner so opportunely proposed by General Grant than we are to hamper them in their respective Kast Indian and Continental schemes. Moreover, with our armies under such men as Ulysses S. Grant and Phil Sheridan, they know better than to interfere with our following it up on that line as long as we see fit, Sexvia.—Prince Karageorgewich, a direct descendant of the black George who in the early part of this century gave Servia liberty, has been arrested in Hungary on suspicion of his being concerned in the conspiracy which resulted in the assassination of the late Prince Michel, of Servia. Successive telegrams have informed us that his Servian estates have been confiscated, and that the presumption is that he will be condemned by the legal tribunal before which he is to be tried forthwith. The only lesson to be drawn from these continuous telegrams is that the whole of that portion of Europe requires to be brought under a new system of government. The Danubian pro- vinces have ceased to be governed by the Sul- tan, but they have not yet begun to be governed by themselves. The best means of putting an end to the unhappy state of things which exists in those regions is to annex them at once to Austria. Roumania, Bulgaria, Servia will not find peace till then. Movement To AMEND THR QUARANTINE Laws.—There is a movement among the mer- chants of this city which has for ite object the bringing of our Quarantine laws before the next Legislature in order that they may be so amended as to curtail the power of the Health Officer to exact tribute from every vessel that arrives at the port. Tho “striking” process that Dr. Swinburne has inaugureted has forced the shipowners to seok roliof. WHI the People Bear the Huermens Taxation ® There is probably -no greater anomaly in modern times than is seen in this country: that s people under 9 popular republican gov- ernment—a govertiment chosen by themselves and ohanged every few years—should submit to @ burden of taxation without parallel in the world. That they submitted to this cheerfully in time of a great civil war for the sake of pre- serving the life and unity of the republic showed their patriotism. They were willing, too, to give the government a reasonable time to adjust the finances and to discharge the floating obligations arising from the war. But is it likely they will continue to bear war taxes and expenditures years after peace has been established? Over three years have elapsed since the war ended, and the taxes amount to more than four hundred and sixty millions of dollars a year—a larger sum than that raised and expended by the most costly monarchical government in the world. It is monstrous. The people are becoming restless and dis- gusted, and will certainly seek a remedy either in-a change of their public servants or in repudiation of the debt. Unless abler and more honest men be elected to Congress—men who will see the necessity of economy, and have the courage to cut down all unnecessary expenditures and bring them to something like what they were before the war—it will not be long before we shall hear significant and deep mutterings of repudiation from one end of the country to the other. The present Congress is without ability to grasp the subject of national finance and tax- ation, and is withal recklessly extravagant in making appropriations for all sorts of things and jobs. Even when it took off about a hun- dred millions of taxation this was done for the benefit of manufacturers, and for the manu- fecturers of New England especially, who are but a small part of the community. The people generally will not feel the reduction. The effect will be merely to increase the profits of the manufacturers. Had the tax on tea, coffee, sugar and other articles of prime necessity and general use among the laboring classes been greatly reduced or abolished the people everywhere would have been benefited. That would have been lessening the burden of taxa- ation in a way to be felt by every working man’s family. But the late acts of Congress reducing taxes will be of advantage only to a few manufacturers. Congress began at the wrong end. It is of no use, however, to re- duce the taxes while the expenditures are so enormous, for that will only bring a depleted Treasury and bankrupt government. The first thing to be done is to reduce the expenditures two hundred millions or more. The whole cost of the government in all departments and expenses, independent of the interest on the national debt, ought not to be over a hundred millions a year. Indeed, it ought to be less, Two hundred and fifty millions revenue is ample, Yet we see it was over four hundred and sixty millions last year. This is the great question for the American people now to con- sider. And in the coming Congressional! elec- tions they should take care that the incapable, reckless and extravagant members of the present Congress be left at home to cultivate potatoes, which they may understand better, and that fresh and more capable men be sent to Washington, Harvest Prospectn. The telegraphic reports from all parts of the United States, printed in the Hxratp of yes- terday, regarding the condition of the crops are full of encouragement. As compared with last year the fruit crops are, on the whole, in- ferior. In some districts, however, the fruit crop is at once large and excellent. With very few exceptions the cereals are abundant. Since 1864 we have had no such crop of wheat. The presumption now is that it will be one of the largest ever produced in this country. The yield of oats promises to be good, but not quite up to the standard of last year. Cotton, sugar and tobacco have not been so extensively grown as in years gone.by, but, considering the surface covered, the yield is encouraging. The hay crop of this year is almost without parallel in former times. Considering the extreme drought which has prevailed all over Europe, almost everywhere diminishing quantity, and bearing in mind that the supplies from the Black Sea will be less than they have been for years past, the presumption is that our exporte this coming season will be unprecedently large. Nature is lavish of her favors. In spite of the blunders and selfishness of the politicians we have before us bright and prosperous times, Tux Heatran Orricek anp THE MeEr- cuants.—If Dr. Swinburne is anxious to know the precise position he occupies in the estima- mation of the merchants of this city, or if our contemporaries, who have so suddenly become his champion, are at all curious in the matter, let him or them examine the books of the Ship- owners’ Association. We intend one of these days to look over those pages and to give the public the benefit of our research. Insvrisa tue Port or New York.--The merchants complain that the Health Officer, by his picayune practices upon vessels coming to this port, is doing great damage to the city generally by forcing vessels to seek other sea- port towns where the Quarantine laws receivo 4 more liberal construction, and where health officers are less grasping. ACCIDENT IN A PAPER BOX FACTORY. Falling in of a Floor—Twe ot the Female Operatives Injured. About hali-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon the centre of the fourth floor of the building Nos. 268 and 270 Canal street, occupied by Thomas Ryan aa a paper box factory, fell im in conseqnence of the weight of paper stored there and there not being suMcient support under it. There were about forty girls employed there at the time, of whom Mary Fallen, aged nineteen, residing at No. 225 West Twenty-sixth street, had her right leg broken, and Kate Johnson, of No. 925 Second avenue, was injured internally. They were taken to tne City Hospital, The building is owned by Jere- Walker street. The for pare euy "asoas the comtre, over which, it is said, about twenty tons of were piled up.’ The injured girls were at work ander. Neath, and the first information given to those about in one of them of the coming crash was ‘of mortar, ‘ream, sit with which fain and beam, and the immense weight of paper came ti The utmost prevailed, ts excitement of course the ava- débris which came ‘. etal ona Thon” ‘being at the middie a ine “room, were & falling rafter, which threw bo) down and ex. tended right across their bodies, thereby proba! bewg prop) sovina thaig Uvos, as 1 than i “Leve Feast’—The North and the South Embrace—Sermen by Dr. Mattisoe— SING Sixo, Angust 13, 1868. Last evening Rev. W. H. Boole, of Breokiga, preached toa vast and attentive assembiage from the words, “Thou art weighed im the balance ena found wanting.” For an hour andahalfhe kept the audience spelibound while he elucidated the sum. Ject. This, in some respects, was the most tmpres- alive discourse that has been preached during the meeting. In the morning at eight o'clock a charac- teristic service was held—a “love feast —which waa presided over by Rev. J. S. Inskip. Within the space of one hour and a haif 381 persous spoke, embracing all ages, from the pilgrim leaning on his staf to the buoyant form of youth starting on the voyage of life. The religious experience of these persons was usually expressed in @ verse of Scripture or an apt quotation from the Methodist hymn book, wnich 18 the finest compendium of sacred song in the realm of poetic literature, A woman, eighty-Lwo years of age, was “converted” during the meeting and spoke. It would be impossible to give a conception of the effect which this “hot shot’' (4s one of the speakers called it) produced as volley aft! from the lips of the inspires tain period of the mecting Re man, South Carolina, said that the people in the South en- joyed the same religion a8 théy tulked about, Ue had become so attached to ihe brethren of the ministry that he could not take himself away fro them, and was 80 atfected that ne gave vent to hi emotions in tears, Rev, Mr. Inskip turned round and embraced Dr. Bowman. This was the signal for ashout inthe camp. Wherever the eye rested mem and women could be seen weeping and shouti and some of them vociferated, “fhat’s the kind cupy a few moments by speaking im. their owe a Pastor Hedstrom, the distinguished language. Swedish missionary, interpreted the brief speeches, at the conclusion of which a gifted female struck up the hymn commencing Let every kindred, every tribo On this terrestrial bail, To Him ail majesty ascribe, and crown him Lord of ult. An inte! of a few minutes was taken. Previous to the pre ing service Rev. J. McAllister, of New York, discoursed from the twenty-iifth verse of the first chapter of James, his theme being “The Power of the Gospel.” Rev. Dr. H. Mattison made a statement of a case which has recently been before the courts, where it it ts alleged that a young Catholic girl, who was con- verted to the Methodist belief, is confined against her will in a Roman tastitution. There has been an adverse decision in the Supreme Court and ta- terested ‘ties intend to carry the question to the Courts of Appeals so as to secure her liberation. Voluntary subscriptions amounting to about to were handed to Dr. Mattison for the purpose of de- fraying the necessary legal expenses. This object may be very worthy, but it occurred to us that the gentiemen having charge of this religious festival are establishing a bad precedent in consenting te allow gentlemen to vome from afar to interrupt the special religious exercises by thrusting their pet chart- ties upon @ company met for worship. This being the closing day of the meeting an im- mense concourse of people assembled in the after- noou. The weather was extremely propitious, and thousands visited the ground forthe first time. There could not have been less than ten thousand — present. It was believed upto the hour of servi that Rev. Mr. Tyna would ised the committee that if comply with their request. fessor Mattison filled the , and proceeded to de- liver an abie discourse on Heaven, Lis text was taken from Hebrews, eleventh chapter and sixteenth verse—‘‘Kut now they desire a beiter country, end that is an heavenly," &c. There will be public service at ten o'clock, to be continued til midnight, when the graad fuai marche aroupyd tie ground will take place, . reach, he having prom- it were possible he would Not having arrived, Pre- TUE ROCKAWAY CAMP MEETING. Going to the Camp and Waat Is to be Seea ‘There—Phynical Culture vs. Christianity. Fan Rookaway, L, Lb, Angust 18, 1868, What a singular steamboat landing is that at Far Rockaway, which is almost pushed into the inlet every time the steamer swings alongside, and what a curious sight is afforded to the visitors to the camp inveting after iley have got ashore! A low, flat beach overhung by sedgy grass and reeds, a picid iniet dotted with little green patches of rushes, @ sandy road creeping down over an aimost impercep- tible rising ground to the jetty, twenty dilapidated vehicles drawn up alongside ihe highway, with aa equal number of dilapidated Jehus in attendance, bawling ‘This way for Rockaway !" Ask one of the drivers bow far it is to the vilia, nd he will tett you, “Two mies aud a half;* aod, thank ful that there is @ chaperone in attendance, one embarks in a rattling, creaky wagon and starts, whither the driver only Knows. Two hundred yards trom the shore scrubby cedar and oak woods spring up on either hand, and, shuMling over @ sandy road, through scones of this description for about ten minntes the little white spire of a church appears and in a brace of minutes more you are ata hotel stoop. Four out of Ove persons tell you they have “not of any camp meeting about hore,”” and the fiftn says it is “a short walk down the road there.”” After walking what may be fairly reckoned two short waiks, you ask a villager where the camp ground is and he telis you it is about three or four miles ont, in Abe Hewlett’s woods. Visitors have the privilege of walking this distance if they choose; or, perhaps, ay Gud some one willing to drive him out to the camp, but it certamly is not less than a four mile stretch, over roads ankle deep with sand and besieged by mosquitoes, but environed by the neat and bandsome villas of many of New York's prominent men. TRA CAMP rageous oak cedar, with a rich cushion of tarf beneath. Eight or Hi tents” are pitched and sundry fires betoken the neighborhood of the Some monotonous attracts the ear, and proceed- py hy the music # tent ts reached in which about twenty persons are seated at a table, eighteen of them being colored persons. latter Toa) at Suga, under Sue tae ( rch of nm, under whose the meoting is being weld, and thets poster, the Rev. is found the ittee, wont wo platforae 8 fou comm! & rough pine form has been erected, with s reading desk and a slight roof. Ip front of and about five paces tant from this structure are also temporary plank seats for the accommodation of worshippers, the officiating clergymen and layinen occupying seats on the platform. Alt this is in fact a camp meet- ing of colored retigionists not more than twenty per- ‘sonn of that race Rave beeu present at any one meet- ing, the attendance being mainly confined to white persons of all ages apd both sexcs. Services are con- ducted generally by Mr. Brown twice or thrice daily, and at the evening devotions ag many as 1,000 or 1,200 persons have been on several Present, though it is decidediy presamabie that ‘ majoriy of these attend merely from motives of curiosity, scandal or the iity attractions or inducements other than those of ® moral or apiritaa: natare which generally draw visitors to camp mectings. This meeting waa or- ganized on the ¢th instant and will be continued Until the 17th, Moncay next. Thus far but litte spiritual good bas been accowplished, and in his ex- hortations the pastor tn charge has on several occa- sions called atteation to this fact, deploring tly the absence of the working of tee oly Spirit inthe hearts and minds of his hearers. The fact of the matter is this—the camp m te too near a lively iittie seaside bathing place, and the Aabitucs of these abintionary resorta do not generally frequent thetr favorite haunie for the pur- of attending camp moetings in their vicinity. ‘The idea of hole camp meeting Rockaway beach is Jineoret iy) very good, aa the visitors to the seaside thus have the opportunity of acquiriug physical and iritnal vigor combined. But practically it fai, The United States, the Auantic, the Albambra and other hotels, besides the numerous boarding (houses, are full of boarders and transient guesis, and ihe season haa been probably one of the busiest that Rockaway has ever experienced. Most of these establishments run stages to the camp in the evenings for the ao- commodation of gnests, and the guests relish the idea very muca, but these guests w very welt th mo to the meeting merely aa they would go about. so visited the Sabbath large crowds are usually very frequent occurrence that th aererne pasa the day iH sniling on the inlet, diving into the surf, riding over the nany pleasant drives in this neigh. Dorhood, go to cam| meee a the evening, and thence at ten orclock. at ni to a hop st oue or other of the hotels. Heigho, 80 we ARREST OF AN ALLEGED FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE. Dotective Tiemann, of the Central Office, a day or two since arrested a man named John Fahes, whe the | of $200 in from a Yesterday afternoon an offcer arrived from Budale to take charge of the prisonor, who teft for Bufiaia leat wight bo shard is celal.