The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1869, Page 4

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DEN, Broadway.—AgRam WA POGUE; 08, Weppine, CE beth TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 901 Bowery.—Couta VooaLtoM, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &0, HOOLRY'S OPERA HOw! Brooklyn.—Hooiet's MixeTRELS—ARRam You Roevs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BCIENCE AND ART. LADIES' NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 69 Broadway,—FRMALBs ONLY (N ATTENDANOR, ae New York, Thureday, August 19, 1869. SS THE NEWS. Europe. The cable despatches are dated August 18. The London Times denounces the severity of the treatment of the Carlists by the Spanish govern- ment. as ‘The Harvard crew was out yesterday with the Ox- ford men, and the latter made the best time. The dds are five to two on the Oxford crew. 4. The Emperor of the French has improved in health. Prince Napoleon will be present at the (opening of the Suez Canal. An understanding has been arrived at on the points of the Senatus Con. sultum, The yacht race for the Empero’s Cup was ‘won yeaterday by the Guinivere, ‘The Spanish government ts using strong measures fgainstthe Carlists. The Bishop of Jaen disputes the jurisdiction of the present government, and ap- Ppeals to Rome. The Cortes ts summoned to meet on September 15. The Austrian government has resolved to with- draw the military forces on the frontiers. The Viceroy of Pyypt has repiled satisfactorily to the Sultan’s letter, Cuba. Letters receivéd in Washington represent Quesada ‘8 confident of soon capturing Nuevitas. The slaves are demanding their freedom of the Spanish govern- ment, and, if denied it, usually join the Cubans, General Jordan ts positive in his belief ot the success of the Cuban arms, and has an effective force under him, Valmaseda remains inactive. Hayti. Intelligence from Port au Prince to the 7th inst, is to the effect that Salnave was atill encamped around Aux Cayes. His troops bad taken Jacmei without resistance. Tne steamship Port au Prince had been driven away from Gonaives by the steamers Quaker City and Florida, both of which are fying) the Hay- tien rebel flag. She was not even allowed to take of the American Consul, St. Thomas. Our St. Thomas letter ts dated July 29. The Steamer Telegrafo, an alleged pirate, hgd been sold for account of the crew, but the sale was declared ulegal by Sir Benjamin Pine, Governor of the Wind- ward Islands, who seized her, puta prize crew on board and took her to Tortola, The United States steamer Seminole arrived on the 25th and proceeded to Tortola to claim the Telegrafo, but returned to Key West on the 14th instant, where she reporta the Telegrafo still in English bands, Colombia, Rev. Mr. Rowbotham, a Wesleyan missionary, for- merly of New York, is reported to have died at As- piowall, where he was trying to establish an inde- Pendent church, Venezuela. Caracas dates to July 24 state that tne President ‘was-about to proceed against the revolutioniste at Maracaibo in person, He wants to buy & man-ot- war, but hag not the money. Miscellaneous. ‘The President and his party are among the Penn- sylvania coai aud tron regions. They visited Potts- ‘Ville, and will start on the return trip to New York to-day. It is stated that General Canby has decided that members of the Virginia Legisiature cannot qualify unless they have been citizens of the State for twelve months, In the Susquehanna Railroad litigation at Albany yesterday Messrs, Gould, Fisk and Rucker were called ag witnesses, but failed to appear. Courter, the receiver on the Erie side, testified, and the mat- ter was adjourned to the 20th inst., when Gould, Fisk and Rucker will appear. The directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Com- pany have discovered a conspiracy among some disaffected men formerly employed on the road to burn all the bridges and stock of fuei east of the Sierra Nevada mountains in one night. The com- pany have taken measures to frustrate their de- sighs, The Western Pacific Railroad Company expect to complete their road from Sacramento to Oakland, Opposite San Francisco, by the 6th of September, Callahan, the radical police captain of Richmond, who killed Kelly, a democratic politician, just be- fore the election in Virginia, has been discharged from ¢ustoay, by order of General Canby, on the report of » military commission that the killing was @ necessary act, done in the performance of bis duty as police captain. Several large collieries at Pottavilie, Pi ceased opefations sg9 want of orders, No si im minent as yet. A Woman was arrested in St. Louis yesterday for fobbing a jewelry store of $8,000 worth of diamonds, Ig tho Texas railroad litigation Justice Swayne, at Washingtoh, yesterday, decreed that the old com- pany be held subject to the mortgages, and that the ¢laim for the property of the successor company be Both parties have appealed, The ue supervisors from the Eastern and Western parts of the country are assembling at ‘Washington to consult with Commissioner Delano, The Association for the Advancement of Science ts in session at Salem, Mass. A report on the recent eclipse will probably be made during the session. The City, ‘The Citizens’ Reform Association of Kings county Organized in Brooklyn last evening, A constitution Was adopted and the meeting adjourned for one ‘Week. Joun V. Berry was committed to jail by Judge Kelly yosterday on the charge of stealing a $100 Watch. He pleaded in extenwation that he was about to join a counterfeiting gamg, and stole the ‘Watch to prove his good faith, A London Aetective arrivea yesterday to take oharge of the alleged forgors Clement and Harwood, He and the complainant in the case, who accom: panied him, express themuecives isfod at the prompt manner in which Superintendent Ken: had revurged the prisoners Prominent Arrivals in the Clty, Count D'Aerschot, of tho Beigian Legation, ts at the Brevoort House, Ex-Mayor R. M. Bishop, of Cincinnati; Juage w. Aohiey, Of Savanna; ox-Congromman Pomeroy, of NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1869. Auburn, and General E. W. Leavenworth, of Syra- fre at the St, Nicholas Hotel. “Captain Juduina, of steamer Scotia; B. H. Hill, Jr., Of Georgia, and Irving Smith, of the United States Navy, are at the New York Hotel. General #, H. Hill, of the United States Army, ts at the Albemarle Hotel. B. Danzas, of the Russian Legation, is at the Clar- endon Hotel. Captain Anderson, of the Toronto Rifles; Captain W. J. Dawson, of Quebec, Canada; Professor Rob- bins, Buffalo, and Major Steele, of the United States army, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Charles G. King, of Providence, ©. W. Adams, of Boston, are at the Westminster Hotei. Prominent Departures. General Frank P. Blair for Saratoga; General J. 0. Robinson for Gettysburg; General H. B. Titns for Washington, and Governor Hoffman left yesterday for West Point. The Geueral Muddie Among the Politl- clans—The New Chase Movement. Tt will not be surprising if from the present general muddle among the politicians, parties and factions of the day wo sball have 4 scrub race, anda very amusing scrub race, too, for the Presidential succession. The democracy of the North are all adrift, the Northern repub- licans are wrangling over the split in the party down South, while the Southern democracy on masse, leaders and followers, from Virginia to Texas, have joined the IMberal Southern republicans in a new party organization on universal suffrage (negroes and all) and a general political amnesty, Atthe same time in the North, from Massachusetts to Kansas, the temperance people are organizing for inde- pendent action in behalf of the suppression of whiskey, while the women’s rights women are moving heaven and earth in the cause of woman suffrage, and the labor leagues, numbering their members by hundreds of thousands, are inevitably tending to a new political movement as a balance of power between the two great parties of the day, in national and local affairs. It appears, furthermore, that while General Grant may be considered as a candidate for another term, there is at least one member of his, Cabinet—the Secretary of the Treasury— who aspires to the regular republican nomina- tion in 1872. Judge Lewis Dent, a candidate for the new Southern liberal party for Gover- nor of Mississippi, in a pungent letter on the subject, flatly says to Mr. Boutwell, ‘You aim to be the next President; in the pursuit ot your ambition you are ungrateful and unscru- pulous; you have denounced the Southern conservative republicans who are for Grant, that you may obtain the proscriptive republi- cans who are for Boutwell, and by some strange, dexterous management and occult political strategy you have so worked upon the confi- dence of the President as to cause him to flourish the club with which you intend to break his head, by inducing him to join you in denunciation of the conservative republicans, created by his magnanimity and triumphant through his encouragement.” In other words, in cutting this new Southern party, Grant, ac- cording to Dent, has been taken in and done for by Boutwell. It will be remembered, however, that Chase, as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, played a much bolder game for the succession than anything that has yet appeared from Boutwell, but that in the nominating convention Lincoln walked over the course and Chase was no- where, Just as easily may President Grant, if Dow a candidate, supplant his Secretary of the Treasury. It was done without an effort on the part of Lincoln, and can be done without an effort on the part of Grant, even after giving his Secretary all the rope he may desire. This intermeddling of Mr. Boutwell, however, in Southern politics, has been bad in every way, and in any event is no longer wanted; and he will have quite enough to do hereafter in at- tending to the business of his department, According to Judge Dent the Southern con- servatives of Virginia and Tennessee are much indebted to Boutwell for their decisive vic- tories. If so, the Chief Justice is no doubt thankful; for, as it appears, he is looking to this new party to lift him a step higher. It is given out that Mr. Chase, soon after the Vir- ginia election, wrote a letter (they always begin by writing letters) to a prominent poll- tician of Tennessee, an old friend of his, wherein he expressed much gratification at the defeat of the bitter-enders in Virginia and re- joiced over the success of the conservatives; that he was hopeful of similar results in Ten- nessee, Mississippi and Texas, and strongly hinted that in his opinion the republican party had served its day, and that the time was at hand when a new conservative party should be formed, embracing the moderate men of all existing parties. This was a very good idea a year or two ago, but now the question of the reshaping of our political parties for the suc- cession is in the hands of General Grant. His first six months in office signify nothing towards the settlement of this question, On all the great issues of the day he has the whole field still befgre him, and upon the measures and results of his administration during the next three years the question of the succession will be determined. Mr, Chase, therefgre, is too early in the field with his new party. Inthe progress of events it may wield the balance of power between the two older parties of the country, or it may be absorbed between them. Rejected by the Northern democracy and repudiated by the administration, the chances of this third party are somewhat dubious, and so are the chances of Mr. Chase, He has been unfortu- nate asa pilgrim for the White House. Ho had reagon to be hopeful from his first experi- ment as a republican in 1860; but he showed his hand too soon in 1864, and too soon for the Tammany Democratic Convention of 1868, Those old copperheads could not understand his brilliant transformation, though Greeley seemed to understand it and admire it, It may be that Greeley is still an admirer of Mr. Chase. He certainly displays a remarkable leaning to this new Southern party. At all events, we apprehend that Mr. Chase is too early in the fleld with hie third party, and that, dove for with the republican party, his asso- ciation with this new movement will only serve to finish him among the Northern demoo- racy, It was a shrewd remark of old Colonel Dick Johnson, that the Presidency is neither to be sought nor declined and he who is too hot upon the trail is sure to be thrown off, There may be a chance for the Chief Justice in a scrub race, and if General Grant perseveres in doing nothing wemay havo o scrub race for the succession open to all comers, The whole question is in the hands of General Grant. ‘The Prohibitionists im Council, Satan once called a special meeting of his head centres in Pandemonium. The subject before the congregation was the consideration of an alleged attempt on the part of a terres- trial State constable to expel a company of choice spirits, who were enjoying themselves over a jorum of thunderbolt punch at a cosy little summer retreat on the confines of Hades. The constable insisted that he:had law on his side, inasmuch as, while the statute winked at the spirits imbibing liquid damnation within the cellars and dungeons of the infernal re- gions, it did not allow them to do soin the light of day, and particularly in so conspicuous and fashionable a locality as the summer re- treat referred to. He argued that such enjoy- ment was youchsafed only to divines and authors of religious and temperance tracts and poetry, who had passes stamped with the sign manual (a curiously shaped hoof) of the presiding officer, The defence offered a pré- cedent ip justifggtion of thelr conduct, They cited the ¢486 of & well known bon vivant, who, on @ Certain occasion, had been com- pelled to leave a city called Boston—typical of Hades—and go to another city called New York, on the road to Paradise, to enjoy his favorite beverage without molestation from State constables. Satan reviewed the testimony and decided that rum had become a dangerous commodity in his dominions. It was liable to serious explosions, besides being calculated to corrupt the morals of a number of his head devils, many of whom were pious people from New England, to which country he was obliged to look for a continual supply of fresh beef for his refrigerator. The sentence was that the delinquents should be confined in some gubterranean cavern in & locality similar to North street inthe Hub, and stuffed with Malden rum until the spirit of St. John Augustus should come from above and bail them ont. Seriously, the council of prohibitionista, now orrecently in session in Boston, reminds one of a convocation that might be convened by the arch fiend for the purpose of passing judg- ment upon the virtue, morality and probity of mankind, It sits there wrapped in its ‘holier than thou” robe, and passes edicts as glibly as a Cape Ann fisherman would rip open a cod- fish. It stamps with its full endorsement a law that pays no respect to other people's property, or rights, or inclinations, or appe- tites; that breaks up without warn- ing a business upon which taxes have been paid into both the national and State cof- fens; that takes away the support of families, and separates the members thereof, some to become burthens upon their friends, others, perhaps, to become the recipients of public charities, This council and its sympathizers compose a hideous oligarchy of hypocrisy, cant and grovelling puritanism—puritanism of the stripe that hung witches and stole negroes from Africa—stole negroes, sold them into bondage, and afterwards again stole them from their masters and emancipated them. The whole thing is dishonest, disgraceful, atro- cious, unworthy of any civilized state or na- tion, Take the average of the members of, this prohibitive council and compare them with the same number of prominent merchants, whose traffic they would utterly destroy and whose fortunes they would, if they have not already, ruin—and the advantages for respecta- bility, character, integrity and the possession of Christian-like virtues, would be found in favor of the latter. Drankenness is a sin and should be driven from the land; but it cannot be extirpated by the tyrannical and abomina- ble measures adopted by the temperance fanatios of New England, many of whom might be compared to a certain original teeto- taller referred to in the annexed couplet, to wit :— The devil got drunk, The devil 4 monk Would be; The devil got sover, The devil a monk was he. The Crops—The Speculators, The effort made by speculators to create the idea that the crops are short, and thus give some sanction to their purpose to advance the price of breadstuffs, is a transparent humbug, The Associated Press has lent itself to this nefa- rious scheme by circulating despatches all over the country to the effect that the corn crop has suffered severely from the drought all over the Southern States, we have seldom known an instance when it was tried that the facts did not give the lie to the rumor by showing a better corn crop than This isan old dodge, and ever. These canards are always cases of smoke without fire. It {s well known that the harvest of wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and hay was never better than it is this year. These products are all safely secured on the farms all over the country, and in abundance, too, The barns are loaded with grain. The cattle are luxuriously provided with fodder for the coming winter, If the farmers have any reason to complain it Is because the abundant harvest which Providence allotted to them may reduce the market prices of their produce and disappoint the narrow-minded, the lazy and the greedy among them. The people who The National Labor Congress. The delegates to the National Labor Con- gress, in session in Philadelphia, rejected the proposition to receive the credentials of Miss Susan B. Anthony yesterday by a vote of six- ty-three to twenty-eight. The opposition to her claim was headed by the members of Typo- graphical Union, No. 6, of New York ; the rep- resentation belng directed by telegraph to retire from the meeting should Miss Anthony be received. The question of her rejection or admission induced a very ani- mated debate, Miss Anthony was present and displayed her mental grit by a placid endur- ance of the discussion which terminated in her present defeat. She was consoled by Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, Miss Anthony can- not be looked upon as “‘humiliated” in any sense of the word, and will no doubt find abundant capital for a further agitation of the oman's ti question in the action of the lon Fey it is very propable that she will claim @ triumph in the matter of her first reception and the vote given on her side, We shall watch with interest the practical results that are to follow from this con- vention, There is no denying the fact that such a meeting as this is of national import- ance. A convention that through ita delegates represents over three hundred thousand vot- ing, and, for the most part, thoughtful and in- telligent citizens cannot but be deserving of public attention, even if viewed only as an exponent of the views they take of the great political questions of the day. A glance at the resolutions proposed at thie Congress shows us that the workingmen themselves are aware of the power in this way, and prepar- ing, if not prepared, to use it, These reso- lujions take a wide survey of our political position, though some of them do not bear directly on the workingman, unless in as far as they respect the general prosperity of the country ; although in that view they interest every one of us. One resolution, for instance, comes out strongly in favor of greenback cur- rency ; another looks with abhorrence upon free trade; @ third comes heavily down upon the bondholders, and wants to see them paid in greenbacks; a fourth proposes an agrarian law, and a fifth protests against our capitalists being allowed to import Asiatics into this country for the purpose of cheapening labor. There is also a resolution endorsing the eight A Railroad Man’s Confession. The secret of the terrible Erie Railway calamity at Carr's Rock, near Port Jervis, in April last, has been revealed by the unhappy wretoh who was the author of it. His name {s Bowen. He was-formerly in the employ of the company, and is now in jail on charges of perjury and obstructing the railroad, The unfortunate creature, by his own confession, seems to have had a wanton and morbid passion for committing destruction on the railroad. It appears that on the occasion in question, which was attended by such severe loss of life, he dislodged and bent a rail, putting « spike under it in such a manner that any train coming from the west would inevi- tably be thrown off the track. The doomed train did come from the west, and we already know the bloody consequences, The prisoner states that he did not know from which direc- tion the next train was coming, but was agsured from his knowledge of railroad matters that the eastward bound train would be cer- tainly thrown off by his flendish modg of taking vengeance upon iié company by whom he had been previously discharged for mis- conduct. This revelation, coming from a guilty and heavily-oppressed conscience, suggests the disagreeable idea that we are always subject in railroad travelling to the eatastrophe which may arise from the viciousness of a ruffian like this, It might suggest also to railroad companies the propriety of not leaving the tracks exposed to contingencies of this character, THE COAL STRIKE. Situation of the Principal Companies. The consequence of the continued dimculties in the coai regions between the miners and their em- ployers, and the suspension of shipments of coal to New York by some of the leading companies, the regular monthly auction sales of coal have been dis- continued, with little prospect of being resumed im- mediately. The three companies princtpally inter- ested in the coal difficulties are the Pennsylvania Company, Delaware and Hudson Company, and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company, The trouble first originated with the men of the Delawere and Hudson Company, who demanded that the company should pay them accord- ing to a aliding scale in proportion to the market price of coal. The miners of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company par- tlally united in this movement, but both companies refused to accede to the demand, holding that to comply would be estanlishing a dangerous prece- hours’ movement—one that deserves to be.| dent, and that eventually the miners would be fol- passed unanimously, as we have no doubt it will be, Some of these resolutions, as we have inti- mated, may seem inappropriate to a National Labor Congress, and on this point there will probably be a considerable difference of opin- ion among the delegates themselves, but they at least show a disposition on the part of the workingmen to organize on the great political Such an organization may be destined as yet to bring forth great We find, for example, that in Massachusetts the temperance league is a formidable party for every politician that does not swear true allegiance to its principles, and the woman’s rights party would like, if possible, to make a spurt in the same direction. There is this, however, to be observed about the woman’s rights party, that in England, with at least quite as much argument, we find far more modesty, and at the same time much mote Will Miss Susan Anthony ex- questions of the day. political results. real progress. plain to us the cause of thisdifference? But, putting that question aside for the present, we shall find, in all probability, a very curious ad- mixture of political questions brought into prominence before the next Presidential elec- tion, and this National Labor Congress, repre- senting the skilled labor of the country, may, if unanimous, determine subjects of the great- est future importance to the country. “A Work or Necessity.”—While tarryin; ;. ying for a brief space of time at Corry, Pa., en route to General Kane's residence, General Grant was called upon for a speech, He re- plied briefly, thanking the people for his re- ception, and said he was sorry to have dis- turbed them at go early an hour. Upon this a voice cried, ‘' You disturbed us earlier than this one morning before Petersburg.” To which Grant Immediately responded, ‘‘Aye, but that was a work of necessity,” This is one of Grant's prettiest speeches, No doubt the country will find General Grant, as it did at Petersburg, ready whenever the occasion for another ‘‘work of necessity” arises. In the meantime let him enjoy his ‘(Connecticut particular” while luxuriating among the um- brageous shades of the Alleghanies, Breap.—The bakers seem to be cognizant of the fact that we have had a good harvest this year, and that any attempt to keep up the price of the ‘‘staff of life’ must prove a failure. Hence we observe that In many establishments bread is ‘‘marked down.” Good fat loaves that a short time ago brought from ten to twenty cents each are now ticketed at six and twelve cents, All such establishments should be patronized, and the sensible system adopted by them will soon be must eat the food will be benefited by the richness of the harvest. It is therefore absurd as well as wicked, for speculators to undertake the task of making a panic about the short crop of corn in order to enhance the price of breadstuffs, upon the same principle that the coal monopolists have entered into a conspiracy to defraud the public by bogus representations of the scarcity of that article. A Catt Upon Greetzy.—We call upon him for an answer to those lobby accusations preferred against him by the Commercial Advertiser. We don't pretend to know any- thing concerning them, but unless they be answered the party accused, it will be thought, has dealt very unfairly with Thurlow Weed. We call upon Greeley to set this matter right, and if too modest to ventilate his innocence in the Tribune our columns are at his service, These lobby affiliations alleged against him have always been to us a Grievous mystery, and he ought to give us, bona fide, a definite explanation, — A Mate ror Browstow.—A Cincinnati radical paper says itis indifferent whether Johnson, Etheridge or somebody else of like affinities is sent to mate Brownlow in the United States Senate from Tennessee, If the object really be to secure a suitable mate for the Parson he will have to be sought after in 4 hotter region than existe in Tonnessee even in dog days, followed by others, Tak Drone In Gotp.—It will be seen from the record of events in Wall street that gold within the past few days has undergone quite a decline, The highest point touched this year was 1443, Yesterday the price had yielded to 132}. In other words, when we were paying for the goods which we imported from Europe in the spring gold was dearest, Now, when we are just about to begin our cotton and grain shipments to Eu- rope, gold is cheaper. The speculators always manage to profit by these differences, while the general public are tho losers, ANomnER SrRIKf IN THE PENNSYLVANIA Coat Reaion.—There isa strike among the Irish and German democratic voters in Lu- zerne county which threatens the loss of that county, according to the Scranton Register (democratic), to Packer, the democratic candi- date, unless the rupture be healed, The loss of this county {s hardly possible, for Luzerne is usually sure for the demooracy by upwards of three thousand majority; but even such a report, coming from a democratic paper, should furnish some grounds for alarm to the democratic leaders in Pennsylvania, A strike like this among democratic voters in the ooal regions, if allowed to continue, will elect Geary, the republican candidate, by an im- mense majority, and sink Packer down a po- litical shaft eo deep that It will be difficult over to resque him therefrom, lowed in the movement by the employés of coal Wwansportation companies, until betwe@n the two Classes the EOE seta would be powerless to resist, and the public forced to pay a high price for coal. The gompant Siaune ay, @ miners could | demonstrate a ability geet at Ba tacrovsce in this instance they might naturally combine again oh @ more extensive scale, and eventually demanfing still higher prices effectually control and increase the prices to consumers to a disastrous extent, To meet the combination of the miners the Dela- ware and Hudson Company stopped work, and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company re- duced its shipments to 35,000 or 40,000 tons per day. The latter company still refuses to accede to the de- mand of its men, aud states that it may suspend shipments altogether in the course of a week. The are, however, disposed to grant any concessions of- fered by the other companies, and as the Pennsyl- vania ae ge isin fair way to effect a settie- ment with its employés, both may be running as usual by the Ist of September, The Pennsylvania Company, before learning that its men had struck, instructed their agent in the coal region to pay their men who had remained at work an increase per ton of ten cents for June, twenty for July and thirty for August, and there- after. Just after this order was despatched, the com- any learned that about three-fourths of their men had struck, and immediately countermanded the order, declining to place themseives in the light of having been forced into their compromise; but upon their agent telegraphing that over one-half nad re- sumed work and the remainder would probabl, return, the company reconsidered its refusal anc ordered the increase to be paid. The Delaware and Hudson Company state that they will not make any compromise whatever, but if the men chooseto resume work they will be paid liberally. This ig the present state of attaira. The public yesterday entertained tne belief, based on common report, that the Pittston Coal Company 13 about to contract with consumers to deliver coal next January and February at eight dollars and fifty cents per ton, with a keep Hie people Ae purchasing “canes at presen’ 3. It Was alan * ~ a al Present diMetties in tng ‘soul’ rogion were the ree sult of pre"\ous tampering with the Miners’ Union Execu‘ive Committee by the producers for specula- “Ve purposes, and that the miners are encouraged to maintain their present attitude by the discovery they then made of their power as an organized body, It ig diioult to predict how soon the trouble will terminate, although the Pennsylvania and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Westera companies are hopeful of a restoration of order and @ fal in prices in a few weeks, Tew £6 The Coal Mine Troubles—Susponsions at Pottse ville. POTTSVILLE, August 18, 1869. A few large collieries have suepended for a few Gays. In consequence of alack of ordera, There ty no atrike in this region ag yet. AQUATIC. The Columbia Boat Club Regatta. The annual regatta of the Columbia Boat Club took place yesterday afternoon orf the Elysian Fields, over the course of the Hudson Amateur Rowing Association, There were two races, in single scull seventeen feet working boats, the distance being in each case three miles from the starting place round the stakeboat and return, The first race was for the championship of the club, the winner to receive the champion badge and silver belt of the club; the second the prize badge of the club and the bhi the pictire of the Harvard Internationa: The first race brought flve competitors—Theodore Van Raden, J. ©. O'Neill, W. F. Sielken, G. M, Young and ©, Eanorcker, Van Raden was the favorite at 10 to 7, O'Neill ranking next. A good start was effected. Siclken immediately took the iead, and maintained it for about a mile, when O'Neill came up with him, but in a short time Sieiken regained his lead. Van Kaden, who had been pulling a strong, steady stroke throu, hout, came up with and gradually passed O’Nelil, and came withiu a few lengths of Van Raden before coming to the stake boat. The contestants rounded the stake boat in the pouowing order:—Sielken first, Van Raden second, O’Nelil third, Kanorcker fourth and Young last. Tnere were only a few lengths between the first three boats, but Eanorcker and Young were practically out of the race almost from the start. Soon alter rounding the stakeboat Van Raden came up with Slelker and after close struggle gradually passed him, O'Neill maintaining a good third, The a le between Van Raden and Stelker was main- tained with determination on both sides, At the coal doc! Raden was two lengths ahoad and at the oil dock four lengths. O'Neill kept within about eight lengths of them and made continued but fruitiess efforts to gain upon them, After @ finely contested race Van Raden came in the winner by about six lengths, O'Neill being a good thira, ‘The follow! js the summary of the race, Distance M, Ss. +25 10 2 . 36 jub judiciously an- men, and proved, fair. The race was of three miles, th ver the ourse a8 before, and brought the following contestants:—J. F, Logan, ki. R. Ketchum, H, G, Hastings and ©, Zackman. ‘rhe prizes were, for the winuer a badge of the Columbia single soulls, for thi ond & badge of the Colum. bia second prize sculls. The race was, from the start, entirely between Ketchum and Zackman, the others being dectaediy “nowhere,” Zackman ied for about half mile, when Ketchum passed him and maintained his lead to ul eb ‘hen Zackman passed him ht and well-contested lead Dp , @ very exciting one, as the distance to the winuing post was not great. Ketchum succeeded in obtain- ing a slight lead, butso close di ickman keep to Dim that @ powerful spurt on the er’a part might at any time bring the two together. After @ hard struggle and a very clorely contested race through: out Ketchum came in the winner by three lengths, his time being twenty-eight minutes and thirty seo: onds, and that of Zachman twenty-eight minutes @nd forty seconds, ‘The regatta did not attract much attention, the number of spectators on shore being smali, The steamer Virginia Seymour was crowdet with the friends of the club, The prizes were presented to the winners by Mr, Peverelly during the return trip Of the steamer Virginia Seymour tq the city, | NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION. eee Third Days Procecdings—Cenvention of the Teachers of the United Stutes. TRENTON, N. J., August 18, 1869. ‘The most imposing demonstration connected with the National Educational Convention, now in session in this city, occurred to-day. The members of the National Teachers’ Association held their ninth annual session, and in point of numerical attendance it was @ decided success. About 1,000 pedagogues of both sexes, representing all parts of the Union, assembled at ten o'clock this forenoon inthe Model Hall of the New Jersey Normal school. Viewing the assemblage from the reporters’ stand, an array of intelectual visages was presented, as diverals fed as pleasing. An unusual characteriatio of the contour of the female portion of the pedagogues Was the conjunction of intelligence and beauty not to be always found in similar congregationa, The projectors of the Convention erred seriously in an. nouncing the promised presence to-day of Governor Randolph and ex-Governor Parker to deliver ad. dresses, Both these gentlemen never signified their intention of atvending the Convention, and hence the syécified programme could not be observed. At ten o'clock the proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev, Samuel Lockwood, of New Jer- OL pea a of the Monmouth county public Dr. Hart then introduced Judgo R. 8, Field, of the United States District Court of New Jeracy, who, on resenting himself, said that on behalf of the New jersey State Board of Education and the Trustees of the New ene. State Normal School, be welcomed the mem! of the Convention. Representing as they did the great industrial interests of our coun- try, he felt an honor in Trenton being selected aa thelr piace of meeting. There seemed to be @ pros priety and a fitness in the choosing. The New Jer: sey State Normal School has a claim to make you its eats. Its Superintendent. Professor Hart, te the founder of the National Teachers’ Associaton. His Peedeoossot, Dr. Phelps, was the first prosident of he association. The latter was the first principat of the New Jersey Normal School. He 0! tt, and under his creative energy it sprang to existe ence like Minerva from the brain of Jupiter, Judge Field ria pegs eulogized Dr. Hart's administra- oan of the ‘has fe! f ee epee ad eanclided again welcoming the ladies and gentlem "he President, Mr. Van Bokkelen, of Maryland, then introduced the representative teachers of thé United States collectively to Judge Field, and ob- sorved that the teachers were dally achieving victo- ries and prostrating despotism. eir object was to lift up the lowly and add lustre to the dignity of the noble. The school houses of America were our pene moral lighthouses, and, in the 9) er’s Op! Reet the light should ‘be fet to stine, They met ow to devise practical expedients to advance their mission, “in the name of teachers Mr. Van Bokkelen returned thanks to the people of Trenton for the accommodation and 80 spontaneot offered by them. He haé the leading journals for adv: their The press of America is the firm irlend and the faithful expounder an: te of public Schools, and the teachers anol 1 {devied to thd editors of the leading jourti @ country for sending such an intelligent body of gentlemen as the cree of correspondents present to report their prox g8. Professor ks, of Pennsylvania, offered a ré- soutien as ie that a committee of five be appointed to form a temporary educational bureau for the purpose of furnishing teachers to want of them and securing situations for those who desire them. The resolution was accepted. Miss Swayze, teacher of vocal cul:ure in the New Jersey State Normal School, presented a class of her rt with whom she illustrated her principles of eveloping and Ceca toe vocal powers. Miss Swayze. Miss Johnson and Webb gave some elo- cutionary readings, which were received with much approbation, af yi Tal th, of New York, then expounded his new eory O! He expounded his views by exercising a course of instruction from the New Jersey Soldiers’ Children’s Home. Notwithstanding the little orphans bad been only under his tutesage for two weeks they manifested marvellous proficiency in his method. ‘The following were appointed officers of the Amerl- can Normal School Association for 1869 and 1870:— President, John Ogden, Nashviile, ‘renn.; Vice Presl- dents, John M. Olcott, Terre Haute, Ind.; Thomas Smyth, Little Rock, Ark.; John W. armstrong, Ot wexo, 'N. Y.; Edward Brookes, Millersville, Pa.; Secretary, A. S, Barber, Washington, D, 0.; Treas surer, Albert G, Boyden, Bridgewater, Mass. ‘The following resolution was oifered by Professor Ogden and adopted:— Whereas the elemonts of our professed scionoe exist in « somewhat chaotic state and would be materially benefited b; having these elements systematized and arranged 0 th: there might be uniformity fn all the normal achools, both in theory and practice. ‘Therefore, ‘Resolved, That there be appointed an educational council hi to report atour next at properly constitutes e of pplicable to normal schools aad Ing profession generally? Second, what course of ractice in the normal schools ts beat calculated to tandard of education and to reduce teaching to # uniform system or regular profession. The following were appointed a committee on Teachers and Teachers’ Piaces:— Messrs. Brookes, of Pennsy}vania; Valentine, of New York; Phipps, of Massachusetts; White, of Ilinois, and Payne, of Tennessee, Committee on Resolutions—Mesara. Ash- ley, of North Carolina; Philbrick, of Massachusetts; Alcot of Indiana; Northrap, of Connecticut, and Chase, of Florjda, Comittee on Publication Messrs, Hatt, 41 New Jersey; Ogden, of Tranossed: inkie, “ Ohio; Harrington, of Moscachusetts, an myth, o| Aikatisas, 1n the afternoon Mr. Z. Richards, Superintendent of Schools, Washington, D, C., read a paper on “Prie mary Schools Radical hrotoots and Radical Reme- dies.” “The paper embodied a vast amount of mate terand numerous suggestions, The writer mains tained that although tnere may be much to commend there ia also much to blame in our system of educa- tion, Among the defects in primary training is the sudden and unnatural change from the freedom of Pleasant home to the restraint of @ blank achool room, where the child must sit perfectly quiet with folded hands and do nothing and say nothing for houraeach day, He thougit there should be for each class of children at least two rooms—a school+ room for intellectual training, and a play room or exercise room, well provided with appliances for amusement and physical training, and childre! never should be confined to the schoolroom except when they are actually receiving instruction, whicd during the frst tive years of bis school life should be mainly oral. A discussion ensued on the merits of the paper, which was finaily laid on the table for future action. At four o'clock Judge R. S. Field, of the United States District Vourt for the District of New Jersey, came forward and read an able paper on the “Oblte gations of Christianity to Learning.” It embodied the principies enunciated by the Judge in his ora Uon delivered before the American Whig Soctety at Princeton College recently, aad pubiished in the HERALD at the time, i O, OF O. F. Second Day of the Stato Grand Lodge. Punctually at nine o’clock yesterday morning the Grand Lodge of the L 0. of 0. F. convened in Stein- way Hall, and, without transacting any business, ad Journed to participate in the picntc and excursion to which its membere had been invited to participate by Ocean Lodge, of this city. After waiting over half an hour in front of the hall word came to the Grand Lodge that the special cars which were to have come, wouldn’t come at all, to take its members to the boat, and a few of those who first heard the announcement suc» ceeded in getting on a car, while the great mass of the mentbers bravely set out on the conveyance with which nature had povined them, Arriving at Thir- ty-fourtn street and Ninth avenue, they found a band of masio tn waiting to escort them the remainder of their pil og to the dock, where the steamboat Sunny Side and a double decked barge had banners flaunting a foggy welcome. As near as it was en sible to estimate, about 38,200 persons embarked om their way to Sing Sing. Some of the Grand Lodge committees obtained private rooms on the boat and proceeded in the con- alderation of the documents entrusted to them, while on the barge as many as could find room were “bonding around” to the melodious strains of « band of music. Arriving at Sing Sing a weary march upon the rallroad track, with screaming locos motives ever and anon dashing up and down the Toad, brought the throng to the foot of @ steep as- cent. Some of the ladies almost fainted upon Took. ing up atthe number of steps to be climbed before they couid hope toreach the prison, Climb them, however, they all did. But alas for their hopes and weary efforta, Even when they bad suc- ceeded in ascending the mount of promi it few obtained entrance to the prison, and those few de clared that they had “seen nothing but machine hi i @nd scarcely had an opportunity to see Delayed nearly an hour behind the time set for start. ing, of course the arrival at the prison was late, the start therefrom was late, and the arrival im the city Was considerably later—nine o'clock P, M, the members of the Grand Lodge ha’ the labors of the session with refresh gor fully convinced that whatever failings there may have been In the arrangements and management of this affair by Ocean Lodge, they do know Bow to cet up & “big thing" on Sing Sing. THE YACHT METEOR, ‘This well known craft was to have started yeatordag ag reported in the HERALD last week—in fact an ab® tempt was made to get away, but tho wind naving been by no means favorable the captain thought 1% prudent to relinquish It till @ fair wind can be had, and #he accordingly reanchored at her moorings, oppo site be yee landing, On Monday she siarted at ix A. M, on @ tela trip and ran some fifty miles to the southeast of Sandy Hook, Everything worked well, and the speed mado v her on % rather bad ng wind fully justifies the conf dence her spirited an well known owner, Mr, George Lorillard, bas in her, The Metoor came to hor moorings on Monday, at eight. M., aud now only Watts rude qBoreas! Oem mission Fo Make & stark aching foreigners the English Janeen > class tn ee A