The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1869, Page 4

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Notice to Carriers and Newadealers. Brooxtyn CARRIERS AND NewsMEN will in fuiure receive their papers at the Branca OFrice ore New York Heraxp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ApvertiseMenTs and Svsscrrptions and all Jetters for tho New York Heraup will be Yeceived ag above. Europe. ‘Tho cable telegrams are dated August 19. The Harvard and Oxford boat crews were out hgain yesterday for practice. The city of Bruges, in Belgium, was yesterday visited by a very severe storm. The crops in the adjacent country were much Injured, Arrests of Carlista continue in Spain, Several bands of Carlist insurgents bave been defeated Within the past few days. Baron Beust has written an answer in reply to the note of Herr Thiele, acting Prussian MNin- ter of Foreign Affairs. Persia. A conspiracy has been discovered in Teheran to assassinate the Shah. The Persian troops have de- feated tue Turcomans In a pitched battie. Cuba. Letters received in Washington state that General Quesafa attacked the Remedios garrison, which was moving to reinforce Nuevitas, and defeated them, capturing the whole force. A fight also occurred near Trinidad, in which the Spaniards were de- feated, 150 of them deserting to the Cubans during the fight. Eighty Cuban prisoners were shot on the plaaa at Puerto Principe, Dliacellancous, An effort to induce Secretary Boutwell to allow Sao Francisco merchants to use the coin in the Sub- Treasury im that city is still being made and is backed up by Vice President Colfax and Senator Stewart. Itis said, however, that oaly one firm has 80 far been permitied the privilege, and a heavy job fa discovered in the matter. The Secretary is se- verely denounced, Mr. Covode, of Pennsylvania, bad & conversation with Commusstoner Delano recently, and urgea him to modify bis administration of the revenue laws 80 ag to harmonize the wulskey meu with the republi- can party tn the political campaign in Pennsylvania. Mr, Delano found it impossible to change his system in the matter. President Grant is anxtous for a vic- tory in the State, and Mr. Covode is confident of one, though he says it will be a big job. Mr. Pendleton has written his letter accepting the candidacy for Governor of Olto, He proposes to discuss the questions of the day on the stamp. Another trouble has arisen on the line of the Sus- quehanna Railroad. The Erte officials at Bingham- ton have refused to forward any through freight until the back charges are paid. Tho Herrick interest re- fused to pay the laborers, but Superintendent Banks will probably see them paid, In the meantime freights are accumulating. Mr. Ramsey voluntarily appeared before Judge Barnard, in this city, yester- day and gave bail in $1,000 to appear. In the inquest on the body of Mrs. Nickergon, at laverstraw, Rockland county, on Wednesday, the Jury rendered a verdict exonerating Mr. Nickerson from the charge of having poisoned her, and de- olaring that the complaint was brought by Dr. Jonn Hengler through malice. It {a reported on good authority that $26,000 of the money stolen from the American Merchants’ Union Express Company, near Albany, a few days since, were found on Monday last secreted tn abara by the Bedford avenue. The doy confessed to the pot. tone ut sald they had frequently 11) treated him, and he only wanted to put them asleep #0 that he could rob them of enough money to leave OD. He was locked up to answer. A saaaen from the Stock Exchange in this city visited Commissioner Velano yesterday and asked him to reconsider his decision taxing stockbrokers as bankers. He declined to reopen the subject. ‘An emigrant, who conceals his name, was arrested on his arrival here recently on suspicion of being 5 pany charged in England with counterfelting. He waskept moving about from station to station to prevent his being released on a writ of habeas cor- pus, and then it turned out that he was not the man. He keeps his name concealed because he 1s honest and greadsthe fate of Bob Brierly. mse a nus steamship City of Boston, Captain to-morroy cea"? Diet, $F Qisenstown and Liver- pool. xe matis for Great Britain and the Continent ‘Will close at the Post Oiice at tweive M. on the 2st instant. The steamship Pennsylvania, Captain Hall, of the National line, will sail at two P. M. on Saturday, 2ist inatent, from pier 47 North river for Queenstown and Liverpool. The Anchor line steamship Cambria, Captain Craig, will leave pier No. 20 North river at twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday) , for “Londonderry and Glasgow. The steamship General Meade, Captain Sampson, of the Merchants’ line, will leave pier No. 12 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, 2ist instant, for New Orleans direct, The stock market yesterday was strong, and for the leading Western ratiway shares active and higner, Gold again fell to 132%, but closed at 133, Prominent Arrivals in the City. 4. 0. Bancroft Davis, Assistant Secretary of State, 1s at the Breevort House. Chief Justice Chase and Senator Sprague are at the Metropolitan Hotel. ‘y. O. Durant, of New York; Colonel Bennett, of the United States Army, and Seior Gago, of Cuba, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, and General J. G. Kane, of Pennsylvania, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Admiral Hoff and Lieutenant Commander Hof, of tne United States Navy; General H. J. Hunt, of the United States Army; J. H. Ramsay, Hy, Smith, James A. Hendricks, W. A. Rice, Israel Lawton and R. W. Peckham, Jr., of Albany; A. B, Mullett and General O’Beirne, of Washington, are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. Judge A. Field, for Philadelphia; Judge A. Drake and H, Whitney, Boaton; Colonel 8. Murdock, Mon- treal, and 8. 8. L’Hommedieu, Oincinnatt. Napoleon’s Reforme—The New Frevch Cone stitution. A cable despatch which we printed in the Heratp of yesterday informs us that the Sen- atorial committee and the Council of Ministers have come to an understanding on all the points of the Senatus Consultum, It will be remembered by all our readers that when the Emperor promulgated tho new constitution a committee of the Senate was appointed to act with the Council of Ministers in discussing the same. It appears that the joint meeting has taken place, and that a report has been given in to the effect that the jofnt body has agreed on allthe points of the new constitution. We have thus gained something. We can- not tell how far the committee of the Senate and the Council of Ministers have differed or how far they have modifled the orignal articles; but we do know that they have come to some common understanding. This, as we have said, isa point gained. Pressure has been bronght to bear upon Napoleon and Napoleon has yielded. But how far has he yielded? He has yielded so far, but no farther than necessity demands. It was no longer possible to maintain the one man government, France was tired of it, and at the last elections France emphatically, and in language not to be mistaken, said so, Na- poleon has had the pleasure and the honor of manufacturing a new constitution, the twelfth or tho thirteenth, we forget which, in the memory of men aitill living, This new constitution, which proclaims the constitution established in 1852 purely and unmistakeably bad, has been hailed by a large section of the French people as a gigantic stride in an onward and upward direction. It is worth observing, however, that though it has generally been well received, and though we are now told it has obtained the sanction of the Senate and the Council of Ministers, it is a constitution which has emanated from the Emperor, and not from the people or their rep- resentatives, The Sonate and the Council of Ministers have gone over all the articles of the new constitution, aad they have come to some common agreement; but as the Corps Légis- latif has not been consulted in these reforms, and as the Corps Législatif meets in October, it is a fair question to put: how will the people’s house deal with those reforms? We have already in these columns printed the text of the Senatus Consultum. We have no space to go over the articles in detail, We have no hesita- tion, however, in saying that the Emperor has yielded so cunningly that he has retained all the power of the State in his own hands, If the Corps Législatif goes with him, good; but {f it does not it will be the easiest thing possible for the Emperor to dis- solve the popular assembly and so appeal to the people as to make his position seemingly strongerthan ever. Let us look at facts. The Corps Législatif has by the new constitution, so far as we know it, the ‘‘right of the initia- tive.” It can reject government proposals, It can propose substitutes, or, in other words, make amendments. It can withhold money grants, It can introduce an “order of the day,” and thus tie the hands of Ministers, who are bound to obey both the Emperor and the Corps Législatif, and who may be dis- missed by either, although they can be im- | peached only by the Senate. In addi- tion to all this {t may be said that | the People’s house is free to say railroad track, near Newark, Wayne county, A detective is in Buffalo Jooking for parties said to have perpetrated a stupendous patent right swindic. The farmers on the line of the frontier and a few in the interior counties are said to have been swindled Out of over $260,000, A warrant was issued and search made for a broker tn this city who ta sald to be an accessory to the swindie and has negotiated forged notes to a large amount, } A suit In a Buffalo court to remove Jay Gould from Dis position as recetver of the Allantic and Great Western Railroad was decided aaversely yesterday. The Union Pacific Railroad authorities are ia sea- sion in Boston. Ben Wade, Hiram Price and James &M. Nelson are among them as government directors. Admiral Hott teft the Guif squadron in charge of Commander W, W. Queen, of the Tuscarora. Toe Revenue Commissioner warns the people against bogus revenue officials, Numbers of greenbacks are being sent to the Trea sury Department by partica Who want to know if they are genuine. The City. Theodore Bve, @ boy of fifteen, was arrested yes. terday in Brookiya on a charge of attempting to poison his employers, Messrs. Whitney & Vosberry } what it thinks, These are unquestionably important concessions, but they are nicely balanced by the power which the Emperor has | reserved for himself’ If a Minister disobeys him he does so at the penalty of dismissal, The Senate isthe Emperor's own creation, At any moment he can appeal to it, and he can multiply its numbers at will, He can also, without a moment's warning, dismiss any Pre- fect in any part of France. Besides, the Min- isters, who have the anomalous right to appear either in the upper or lower house, as occa- sion may require, are the choice of the Empe- ror, not of the people or of the people's house, Look at the new constitution as we may wo cannot get over the fact that the French people | henceforward, by the mouths of their chosen sion to their thoughts and feelings, and to give a reason for the faith thatisin them. This really is the only point in which the outside representatives, will be allowed to give expres- | world ig at all interested. Oan Napoleonism, or can it not, endorse freedom of speech In the people's house? Freedom of speech has been Granted. In October the Corps Législatif will meet, and for the first time since 1848 there will be heard in the French Chambers the undisguised thoughts of the mass of the French people. What will be the result? Who can answer the question? Napoleon may find himself strong enough to humor all parties, and thus make constitutional goverament a possibility in France, He may; but he may not. The government party is well united and the forces at tha At-a --ot awe alnsent Serooiativle, But the opposition, though not united, is numerous, and there are sections of the opposition whose hatreds are intense beyond all calculation, The ‘‘Reds” are now rejoicing in their oppor- tunity, Under the new constitution France must hearthem. How will France act under theirrattling sentences—the rousing inspiration of their language? We, like Napoleon, with some anxiety wait to see. The New Cotton Crop—Fiuo Prospect the South, A few bales, and te first, of the new cotton crop have come to the New York market. That from Georgia, classed as low middling, was sold at auction for thirty-six cents a pound, and that from Alabama, classed ag strict middling, brought forty-eight and a half cents. These, it is true, may be termed rather fancy prices, as the first bale or two of the new cotton crop always bring more than those that come after. But it {s an indication of what the price will be hereafter. We may conclude, therefore, that the crop of 1869 will realize an immense sum of money. This crop is variously esti- mated—between two millions and a half bales to three millions—probably it may reach two millions seven hundred or two millions eight hundred thousand bales. If the average price throughout the season of sales should not exceed twenty-five cents a pound—though from present appearances it will be higher than that— the crop will be worth over two hundred mil- lions of dollars. From all the light before us there is reason to believe it will bring nearly that sum in gold. This production, too, is in addition to the tobacco, sagar and other valu- able crops of the South for exportation. Besides, that section of the country since the war hag pald moro attention to the raising of grain, corn and other articles of food, and is now, perhaps, independent, or nearly so, of outside supplies. In short, the South this year will have a surplus production to be sold for cash over and above the production of necessities worth, at least, two hundred millions of dol- lars. Who will not say the South is becoming tich again? We must admire the wonderful recuperative power of the people there and congratulate them on the splendid prospect they have of material prosperity, With more labor and capital to dovelop their resources the Southern States will become very soon the richest country on the globe, for Will Governor Walker Resign ¢ A New York correspondent of a Washington paper predicts that if General Canby insists upon forcing the iron-clad oath upon conserva- tive members elect to the Virginia Legislature, andin case of failure to comply to fill the va- cancies by the selection of those radicals who may stand next on the tickets, Governor Walker will urge the resignation of those con- servatives who may not be able to take the re- quired oath, and then resign himself—thus throwing the whole question of the election of Governor and Legislature back to the people, We do not think this will be a very wise course. Governor Walker had better hold on to what he has. It may be difficult to get a better hand immediately it he throws up the cards he now holds. Besides there is nothing wrong about his record; and whatever may attach to that of his conservative friends with whom he has been elevated to power by the voice of the people must become obliterated as light and reason begin to pervade republican counclls, The republican party in the North and West can never stand before the masses upon the showing that the decided expression of the will of the people has been so outrage- ously disregarded as is proposed to be done by General Canby in the case of the Virginia con- servative legislators elect. Tug Priviteces ov «4 Motner-in-Law.— A correspondent, in commenting upon an article published in our columns the other day with reference to insecure buildings, informs us that one of the most dangerous rear tene- ment houses in the city is now being put up in East Thirty-fifth street, in violation of the building laws, but that the reason why this trap is not interfered with by the authorities is that “the owner of the property is the mother- in-law of a prominent member of the late Assembly.” Well, we do not know that any- body's mother-in-law enjoys the particular privilege of endangoring the lives of the public, and we presume that Superintendent McGregor is of the same opinion, When the late Artemus Ward acknowledged tho right of one’s wife's relatives to go to the war, be drafted, or do other unpleasant things, he did not include the right to bulld ricketty houses warranted to kill people at short notice. The Superintendent of Buildings will, no doubt, seo to It, in the strict discharge of his duty, that no one's mother-in-law {5 permitted to erect a dangerous tenement houge, Tae Cartists ws Srain.—The strife be- tween Carlists and Serranisis—botween the old form of things and the new—is still draw- ing the lifeblood and prosperity of Spain. In this emergency the Cortes have been sum- moned to an early session on the 15th of Sep- tember, to proceed at once to the election of & King. Whoever may prove their choice the decision will scatocly affect the action of the Carlists, who are turbulent, restless and reac- tionary as ever. They are clinging with the persistency of the Jacobites to a fallen causo, and one that the Cortes can never approve of, and are only bringing fresh misery upon their unfortunate country. A few short months | must completely dispel every shadow of hope | they may etill cherish. ! Gone Beryonp Repemprion—-Greeley, in his opposition to women’s rights. Of all the budget of his inconsistent kinks and crotchets this is the most inexplicable, except on the score of retrenchment and reform, He scems also to be getting a little woak in the back concerning the niggers; but so goes the world, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1869, Lerd acd Lady Byron—Mrs. Stowe’s Re- Velations. Bonner himself, with all his experience la advertising, has been distanced by the pub- lishera of a Boston transcendentalist magazine, The same shrewd Yankees who induced Dickens to make a second voyage to America and peram- bulate the country as a living advertisement of their miniature edition of his works, have in- veigled several journals into gratuitously copy- ing from advance sheets of their waguslue the 1atest seuNeUUN svory by the author of “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” It isa story that contains but a single addition to the {nnumerable tales which Lord Macaulay stigmatized as “‘loath- some slanders” on Lord Byron's character, This addition consists in the horrible state- ment that the mysterlous separation of Lord and Lady Byron was caused by the discovery on the part of the poet's wife that he began be- fore marriage and continued under her own roof “a secret adulterous intrigue” with bis own aister, and that the fruit of their incestu- ous intercourse was ‘“‘an unfortunate child of sin, born with the ourse upon her, over whose wayward nature Lady Byron watched with a mother’s tenderness, although her task was a difficult one from the strange, abnormal pro- pensities to evil in the object of her care.” Now, Lord Byron had noown sister, Little is publicly known of the Hon. Mrs. Leigh, his half sister, whom he never saw atter he left England, save that her constant sympathy with him in bis exile offered a striking and agreeable contrast to the malignity with which “his marble hearted, insensible wife” (these words are applied by Mrs. Stowe to Countess Guiccioli’s portrait of _Lady Byron) always sought to injure his reputation. In tolling her strange story Mrs. Stowe betrays the usual inaccuracy as to dates which proverbially characterizes works of fiction by women writers, Thus, she says that Lady Byron lived with her husband and his aister for two years after the discovery of their guilty secret, whereas the marriage took place on January 8, 1815, and the separation on January 15, 1816. Mrs, Stowe draws upon her {magination or upon that of Lady Byron for an altogether apocryphal anecdote of the farewell scene between Lord Byron, his wife and “‘the partner of his sins.” If Lady Byron, after a lapse of forty yeara and with ‘‘almost the dolemnity of a death bed avowal,” actually told a stranger from New England this mon- strous story, which she had previously dis- closed to none of her intimate friends, supply- ing this stranger with ‘“‘memoranda of the whole, with dates affixed,” why does not Mrs, Stowe produce some authorization to publish the particulars with corroboratory proof? The frightful charges rest solely on Lady Byron's assertion, which may have been made under a hallucination due to jealously, anger and a memory weakened by age and disease. Lady Byron is represented by Mrs, Stowe as a monomaniac on the subject of mental pathology. She believed that Lord Byron had been one of those unfortunately constituted persons in whom the balance of nature is so critically hung that it Ys always in danger of dipping towards insanity. She also thought ‘“‘that the Calvinistic theology, as heard in Scotland, had proved in his case, as it often does in certain minds, a subtle poison.” In fine, she deemed him mad, She once tried to have him inoar- cerated in a madhouse. It Is by no means unlikely that Lord and Lady Byron were both lunatics, She imagined that she was “an incarnated consolence,” and was therefore “hated.” If she believed the shocking story which Mrs. Stowe has repeated she must have been as mad as she deemed ‘her husband. They were a crazy pair. The history of their wedded life was as sad as that of many another couple, unequally yoked, whose incom- patibility of temper and consequent miseries have never attracted so much public attention. Lord Byron was no better than countless other bad husbands, But Mrs, Stowe's story that he was so dreadfully worse does not gain credibility from the circumstance that it now first startles the world—although, somewhat inconsistently, she says it is well known in England—long after all the parties directly interested in it are dead, and long after the public mind has settled down to a pretty fair balancing of the case between Lord and Lady Byron. Mrs. Stowe ckes out her sensational maga- zine article by quotations and misquotations from Byron's incomparable verse, the influence of which over the popular mind It was, she intimates, ono object of her friend, Lady By- ron, and herself to diminish and destroy by making these awful disclosures, Whether this object will be attained remaios to be seen, But when Mrs. Stowe tries to prove by the language of certain characters in the drama, “Cain,” that Byron was guilty of incest her logic is equal to that of the Boston publishe who firmly believed tnat ‘“‘Ned Buntlixe,” a contributor to his weekly paper, was gui ty of all the crimes aitributed to the piratical heroes who figured in its columns, From Shakspeare and Byron to ‘‘Ned Buntline” no dramatist can safely be exposed to being thus condemned out of the mouth of his charactors, Not even the author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” nor any other romancing member of the Beechor fami- ly, could stand such fire, A lame excuse is made by Mrs, Stowe fur divulging the secrets confided to her by Lady Byron. She would fain prevent the revival of an Interest in Lord Byron and his poems through the instrumentality of the recently published Memoirs by tho Countess Guiccioli, and refute what she calls the ‘“alanders” of Lady Byron in that book, But she admits that “the heaviest accusation of Lord Byron’s mistress and and of Lord Byron’ against Lady Byron is ‘‘that she bad not spoken at all; her story has never been told.” It ia not Mra, Stowe’s fault if it has not at length been told with a vengeance. Howevor amiable and even extravagant the culogies may be which Countess Guiccioli has bestowed on her iliustrious lover, they were naturally to be expected from her pen, But itis probable that they would have been comparatively un- known in this country if Mrs, Stowe’s astound- ing revelations had not lifted them into a noto- riety of which the publishers of the memoirs and of fresh editions of Byron will be apt to avail themselves, They could not ask for a better advertisement for these works and for their magazine. Mrs. Stowe has succeeded in advertising herself also by this pitiful effort to | connect her name with the names of Lady | Byron, Countaes Guniccioli, Mme, de Stail, Lady Blessington and indirogtly, if unenvia- bly, with that of Lord Byron. For her owo sake it is to be regretted that a woman in whom George Sand and Helurich Heine bave recognized genius, and whose writings aro universally circulated, can find nothing better to do than to vilify the dead. Pauper Emigrante—The Rights ef Shipping Agents. A curious case occurred at the last meet of the Commisslouers of Emigration, ry which must arise gome definite understandigg as to whether ship-owners are entitled @ receive In the capacity of consigneos ship+ loads of disabled, deformed, deaf and dumb and pauper emigrants, and then transfer them to the care of the Commissioners to be pro- vided for by public charity. The case in ques- tion was that of a deaf and dumb child, who was “consigned” to a well known shipping house, and her passage paid by the consignors, whoever they were, As the ohild is, of course, helpless, the consignees ask that she shall be taken care of by tho Emigration Commission- ers. Mr, O'Gorman very properly made a motion that the shipping agents should be requested to take care of the child themselves, It Is to be hoped that they shall be, not simply requested, but compelled to provide for this poor young creature, whose condition they ought to have known, if they did not, before they brought her to this country to become a burden upon our public charities. We fear that this {s only one instance out of hundreds where helpless and pauper emigrants are brought over here by shipping agents, with a reckless disregard for anything except the payment of the passage money. Under the beat of ciroumstances, and circumstances, too, which are unavoidable, we have paupers enough to support without importing them, There should be some check put to this system. Commissioner O'Gorman’s resolution appears oaloulated to reach one case, at least, and to set an example. Death tm tho Lamp. “A thorough illumination, but no explo- sion,” conveyed the good old-fashioned caution order given on board the wooden war ships of England in daya ‘‘lang syne” to the officer having charge of the men about to remove gunpowder from the magazine, This officer held the lamp and lighted the sailors, when at work, through a plate of very thick glass. The discipline was most provident and its life saving effects most beneficial. The Board of Health return relative to the’ qualities of the different samples of kerosene oil exposed for sale in New York, which was published in the Hegratp yesterday, goes to show that the public at large really need, if chemistry and muniolpal laws can secure it, for general use some agent by which they may secure a ‘thorough illumination, but no ex- plosion,” What with the high oharges for rents, gas fixtures and gas, the mass of our working population is compelled to use kero- sene, By this they inour an alarming, but from necessity, inevitable risk to life and property, as it appears by the report that in the majority of the stores enumerated the article vended is truly dangerous, from a gravity indicating the ‘flashing point” down to the lowest at which the volatilization which generates a most inflammable gas takes place. We need not refer to the hundreds of heart- rending accidents which have occurred from the use of kerosene, Science will no doubt be on the alert, so as to afford us a means of diminishing their number, If not a complete safeguard against their reourrence, in future. The Rowdy Element at Picnics, Well-conducted picnics are the life of the summer time. To make up little parties of old and young and go away into some grove and enjoy a rustic holiday is one of the most enjoy- able of vacation pastimes, But picnics accom- panied by rowdyism are among the most dis- agreeablo of all the annoyances of the hot term. The rowdy element is too frequently permitted to infuse {tself into private as well as public parties, upon steamboat and railroad excursions, and wherever a few hours of re- creation are expected to be enjoyed by quiet and peaceable men, women and children. These rowdies are the terror of such gather- ings. They frighten the women and children half to death and exasperate the men to the fighting point, which is just what the rowdies want, The roughs then go to work, beat the men, grossly insult the women and make the children run for thelr lives, destroying ina few minutes the happiness of a large and peaceable party. This was the case on Wednesday last, when a terrible fight occurred ata picnic given by the Emmett Guard, of Jersey City, who were beset by a gang of ruffans because one of the Guard had promptly resented an insult offered by one of the gang to a lady in the party. The ex- istence of these gangs of desperadoes is one of the greatest hindrances to out of town amusements near this city, and if the authori- ties cannot afford protection it is time the citizens took care to protect themselves and those under their charge. A few examples might teach these sowardly roughs that women and children on innocent pleasure excursions cannot be insulted wi i Goop ror ALL Hanps.—A mail steamship which has reached San Francisco from China brings later news, some distinguished passengers, eight hundred and fifty Chinese laborers, with hundreds of valuable packages of tea and silk. Trade is ‘‘all round” this way and good for everybody; the newspapers, the farmers and railroad men, the old ladies. who love tea, and the young Indies who delight in silks, So we A Mysreriovs Lerrer.—A letter from Chief Justice Chase, favoring the new South- ern party and the dissolution of the republican party, is said to be flitting about in Tennes- see, One man has said that he saw & man who had seen the letter. But why should there be any mystery about it? Surely the Chief Justice does not wish to hide his light under a bushel, Harvarp aNp Oxvorv.—The betting, they say, in England stands five to two in favor of the Oxonians; but these bets are among tho English, so they signify nothing. Only tho race will settle the question, Whiskey Dearers, ArrEention.—New whiskey regulations from Commissioner Delano (very precise and stringent) will be ready for distribution after a few days, a ee eel NATIVWAL LABOR CONGRESS. Fourth Day’s Session—Platform of Orgauizas tion—Report on the Land Question—Th¢ Labor Congress and the Telegraph Mon* onelys PALADELPHIA, August 19, 1960, The Convention met at two o’clock to-day, Preal- dent Lucker tn the chafy. Mr. J. R. Walsh made @ persona! explanation tm reference to hy article signed “A Workingman” #,hica appeared in s morn ing paper. The article reflev'ted on the accemt and Wanner of Mr, Walsh, who 1s a pronounced and @MErgetic Irishman. Mr. Walsh declared the writer Bion scribbler, and said that his pame was L< Aigore, and that he was now io the convention ut being either a delegate or @ reporter. Mr. KILGorg emphatically denied being tae author Of the communication, and his denim was accepted. Mr. Hagan, of New Jersey, complauned that Frank Blair's letter addressed to e delegate of the Vonven- tion was not allowed to be read, and bad uot even @ reference to a committee, M. J. R. WaLsn explained that the letter would have been read but for a reporter who seoured It to make @ copy and failed to restore it before the Oou- gress adjourned, Mr, WALI4, from the Committee on Organization, reported the following:— Resolved, That the Presidout at his earliest convenience ‘appoint an executive oficer in each State. pried Fer ane exaestive. BBOer a 12 " Gall on 8000 je after recowvin, appointment proceed call @ convention for the pi pove of forming Btate unions, and until such unioas are formed charters will be Issued direct from the National Labor Union by the Prest- dent to local unions; but as soon, as State organtration te ‘complete the charters shall come direct from the State unton, Resolved, That the President of the National Labor Union be and is hereby authorized to issue a charter to Btate organt- zations whenever the application made ls algned by delegates from at least five local trade, labor or co-operative organizer Hons which meot at the gall Of the exeoutive commitien, Resolved, iis each State Labor Union ie entitled to be He to each trsiate, Irrespective of then ssberof at irres| enrolled Ipihe Jocal ualons, and one delegate for each ( or on: a oretealved" That each Slate’ Labor” Union shall make such laws and regulations for its own guidance and may to It 9 most effective, jded such laws do beh eg rect a e 0 01 of tha delegates thereto by the nearest and most direct roule from nd to the organization they represent. Resolved, That the revenue of the National Labor Union be derived as follows:—Each State organization shall at © special time report to the President of the National Labot sca Gmatin a Serie toreartad ur Se organizations, and the, Frosident shall lovy © tax equal te member aa repor' Hd WALLS. porte THOMAS MOFFAT, W.-H. OMAR: J. B. HARVEY, wh. coguswiy W. L. MACLAUGHLIN, MARTHA WALLBRIDGE, Mr. Wrwne, of Oalifornia, proposed as an amendmont to the first resolution that the President be not required to appoint executive ofticers for such States as have State ir tions and are rep- resented in the National Labor Convention. The firat resolution Was passed over informally and age second adopted without discussion. On the Mr. Wynne objected on the same grounds as he did to the first, that there was no occasion calling for the appointment of executive officers in such States as already had organise hone Mr, CUMMINGS, Of Massachusetts, sald were three distinct iabor organizations in Massachusetts, and he would like to inquire which one of them came under the provision of the resolution, Until these distinct labor organizations were united he was opposed to the adoption of the resolution, as 18 would only create coniusion and sion. After various motions to 1ecommit and lay on the table the amendment offered by Mr. enon to th first resolution was applied to the , and som debate ensued as to the propriety of having execu tive officers appointed by the President for States that had organizations. Finally the third resolution and the pending amendment and all the rest foul JOHN H, JON CONRAD KUHN, recommitted to the committee, three addition members being added—Messrs, Wynne, Jessup Cummings. Mr. HUMB, chairman of the Committee on Land reported that after a careful survey of the fleld o! operations proposed by the National Labor Union the Commuttee declare that of all the reforms proposed by that body none fs more fundamental and important to the well-bein, of all the labor interests of the community than that which asserts that the only righteons title by which land should be held is that of successful labor thereon, for when that {tion ig established it will redace the cost of everything we éat, drink, wear or use, the prices of which are now in advance tn double and prey treble tholt real value can. sequence of fictitious money additions, placed by the arbitrary Dat of government, acting ag agenta of interested tidividuals on the land. ‘The land quea- tion also, in the pian of the committee, underites the money queation, and careful research proves that it will be dificult, if not impossible, to Ved roped establish the latter, The pare was ted, Mr. JOHN DUNN, of Pou jelphia, a member of the International ‘Ty vographi ical Untoh, offered the fol- lowing, the rulés being suspended to hear 1t;— ‘Whereas workingmen of the United States have every We et ra anh ee Aca fation of news, oreated by the alliance existing between the ‘Associated Presg acd the Westera Union 1 ph Com. any, ae intmical to their interests. Nows enterprise Priiwarted by {ts rales and rosbrictions, ‘whieh ool to pre vent all competition in the business. No daily paper can ob- tain a profitable existence unless it upplies ia readers with the news of the day from all parts of the worid, Under the present restriction system of the Associated Press no new ° enterprise can share in ita benefits at an: Pree, Now" been ‘started with the intention of obtaining the news by special effort, but their design bas frequently been rendered futile by the Western Union Telegraph Company in tnoreasing the price of the telegraph tolls to such an exorbitant extent as to fi ible. A recent instance of this extortion has been extensively noticed. The San Francisco Herald, which commenced {n January last to receive its Eastern news at a cost of $900 per month in gold, was about becoming a success, when the price of the telegraph despatches was sud- denly ahd without notice incrcased to , per month—an impossible sum Cor any one newspaper ouside of New York city to pay. A number of newspaper enterprises ‘are in embryo throughout the country for the dissemination of Intelligence to the workingmen of America at low pricgs but they are held {n abeyance by this odious monopoly, whtel the power and wi Inugale the American press. As a remedy for this evil a postal telegraphic system under the auspices of the government is si, “ly by which cheap ‘and speedy communication can be had throughout the coun. try, and individual euterprise encouraged and sustained, The present high prices of telegrapnie communication are de- tmanded by the monopoiisis vec: the people bave no other ids tt whenever necessary 40 remedy. Ithas been shown that a telegraphic lino oan be supported at a charge of one cent per word for private nd five rallis per word for messages at press messages throughout the United States, But the monopolists oppose and reject all Improvements tend- {ng to facilitate business; and at present the benefits of apeedy telegraphic communication in this count enjo} comparatively few who are able or obliged to p the exorbitant tariff Coenen ges 2 it. Publio attention has been. ‘awakened to the abuses of the present aystem 4 upon a (ree press, and the laboring mon of the country, who ate directly interested In choap newspapers and cheap meaus ‘of communtoation, and their fellow printers, who aro direct faterested in tho estabitshment of now papers for the benett of the trade as well us the publi 00 of the vital quentions of the day. Resolves, Thal the Labor Convention of the United States denounce the existing felegraph wionopely in the dissemine- tion of news, orcated by the alliance existing between the Associated Press and the Western Union Telegraph Company, as iniuteal to the interests of tho pross and the people, That we favor a cheap and 4] 8 of telegraphic communt caiton between te people of this country, and that the Con gress of the United States be requested to establish @ postal telegraphic system with a view of obtaining these rewul Referred to the Committee on Platform, A resolution Was adopted to adjourn sine die ay three o’clock on Saturday, and after a resolution spend all to-morrow in session with an hour’s recess, the Congress, at five o'clock, adjourned, AQUATIC. should move upon this as Es Race Between Hamill and Coniter—An Ex. citing Stenggle=Coulter the Victor—Hard Feeling Aguinst the Loser, PirrssurG, August 19, 1869, The great aquatic struggle for a purse of $2,000 between James Hamill and Henry Coulter was brought to a successful conclusion this evening om the upper. course of the Monongahela river. Ag an. tictpated the contest proved one of the most excit- ing and tnteresting ever rowed here. To prevent the possibility of collision between tho two contestants the referee, David Carroll, and Prosident McKeo, of the Barge Olub, took seats in a six-oared shell boat which plied between the contestants, About ® quarter of an hour after five o’clock Hamill darted out from his boathouse at Glenwood Grove an& rowed to the starting point, where a few minutes, inter he was met by Coulter. Both poised their oars and the referee gave signal, and both boat shot off with lightning rapidity, Coulter took thts lead, and when, about 100 yards, the water pasgy.d | the stern. of his boat ho was Uwo Tengeh ahead of his competitor, When ¥ pO site Hazelwood he swept by, pulling Tong aweeping strokes, while Hamitli was rowing power. fully and with precision and gaining, though very slowly. In this manner they pulled until the ‘duo; boat was reached, when the desperate rowin that characterized the race from the start comune! to tell on Hamill, and he looked worried and fatigued. Coulter rounded tho stakeboat and shot ike an arrow for home, He Increased the gap betweer/ him and his adversary and reached the goal abor yy ax lengths in advance of his opponent. The betti ng ‘was extremoly heavy, and Hamil commanded o 4a before the commencement of the race. The cor te was Very fair and undoubtedly decides the que giion of superiority between the men. Great excite snent prevailed at the conclusion of the contes 4 and Hiltott, the prize Nyhter, who threatened to arown the defeated oarsman, was knocked out of pig boat into the river by John Ham, brother of th,» rower, Elliott was rescued and towed ashore bv, nig come rades, Tho Une of the winner was 37m. é1g, SMUGGLERS IN THE BAY, Tho Qnarantine authorities on W odnesday night last discovered a small boat hover'.ng about the vem. sels auchored in the lower bay, ara haying thelr ate, picions aroused gave chase. O14 nearing the boat @ package was thrown overbijard from it, which proved to be a large quantity of cigars. The package was secured by Uaptain ‘ySRourke, but the rogues escaped. The property ‘wag jurned over to (he Cus tom House authoritios,