The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERA 4) LD BEGADWAY AND ANN ST JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, sseeNoe 273 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1869.—TR that foreign dealers are in the habtt of stupping steel to their agents tn this country at much lower prices: than they receive for it at home, In this way they claim the revenus 18 defrauded and they asked that the matter will bo looked into, which was promised by both the President and Secretary. Secretary Boulwell has been requested to contri- bute to the Society for the Suppression of Gambling, in order that the government may have the benetit of the society’s espionage over its employs, Measra, A. 7. Stewart aud Claitin & Co, éach pay the society $2,509 per year, Tho Seeretary, however, found no authority for the appropriation. Commisslouer Delano has decided that druggists who sei liqaors in small quantities must pay a rela liconse A store in Meadville, Pa., was robbed by burglars wuday of $510,000 in bonds and stock, ali of it woliable oxcept by the owner. wv Pile, of New Mexico, ts organizing com- 93 Of Monitod mililia to suppress Indian depre- (hav he will have the Territory in © aefence soon, if the Quaker sys- ith the Indians docs not ute=fere | wo cannot lose sight of the fact that in the confusion and uncertainty that still surround the origin of tho movoment in gold it seems probable there may have been a purpose be- yond that of ‘‘catching the shorts” in tho minds of the conapirators—aa if an ulterior effect on stocks were part of the plan. Doubt- leas there are fortunes to be made even by a genoral crasb, and pleaty’ of financiers who would @3 lief make them in that way as in any other; though, when we consider the re- sults to the nation ofa prostrate commerce and a paralyzed industry, it seems hard to credit thatany number of human creatures should deliberately set about driving half the business community into bankruptey and forcing wide- spread distress upon the masses, man-of-war Alhatrosa has arrived at + hat has come pass, Wi at is Hal.fax from Bermuda, with yollow fever on board. In all thathas come to,pass;, with: whiny, i 1s to be selected at Gaspe bay, Canada, for Ng of & new Atlantic cable, The City. uation tn Wall street ia sti critical, atthough also imminent, we trust there is a very instruct- ive spectacle for Mr. Boutweil. Not many days since that gentleman, with a superfluous parade & better aied at the close of business | of purity and superior virtue, as well as last, night, sly enougi, this improvement | pening, declared that he would not heed tho rollowed the fauiure of four houses, ono of thom the . : lang? banking firm of Lockwood & Co, but the | gold gamblora, and that what was done in paradox is explained by the relief which ts given Wall strect waa “none of his business.” He to the stree! by che removal of this firm y who were ‘aut and heavy borrowers at any rate | Can observe now in the state of tho money of interest, ir Nabilities are not thought to be market and the indication given by the price iy tn excess of their assets, Tac Gold Exchange ore tA 2 as jone into the hands of a@receiver. The ¢ {3 still laboring over the work of ‘The stock market underwent cline, but recovered and became he day. Tne prices early tn the day 3 ached. The prices at the close provemeat upon them of from two to of stocks that the whole country trembles on the verge of a precipice, and none can say that we shall not go down, of his busine whether the finances of the government, strictly, Is this, too, none 33? Perhaps it is his business Volume SS NEVe eee ANUSEMLATS THIS BOOTHS TUL AYR, Ld ate, boiwoea Hib and 6th ava Drain. wun TE » and Wweaty- Losi x v Pas woop ¢ ne Thirtiot st. ede V ATLAS : = PRogins nowt ov Partu—! 4 BTEINWA? HALL, Fowtecnm strect--Gravn Patee Conorer. 1 ” vs and NEW YORK STADE THEATRE, 45 20 187 Bowery. MAS: ANTE Ls xP rownwar. Cu Drawn oF wit -A GGAND k tx on, ADEMY OF MOSIC.-MacTua—Pra we've AMT Bkating | som? its street % HOO v as Wovens NEW rt 2 gerry ¢ AWAD! x, 60 Brow a mp rom rEN TRIPLE § is he New Yok, Viwesduy, Septer 3a, mm mr 4 ay z£ Europe. wns are dated S ter irom arm aud If they wish t . able reply, be puision.” ‘The Duke of Genoa candidate for t hrone of nybed by radical reeStican ed in of cain M4 Spain will give General The sun of Engiand draws mm gold is a is Cub: 4 from 2 ia th stowa on the 19tn \. A a UL impe- ously co! vatisth : papers. Turkey and Evypt. The mes) ‘eat Powers ot & the matt and the Paraguay. of a later date by the regular steauier a, and ¢ pe by the cable crest. Lopes, itis repo: on tne 18th of August at © to 1,090 kilied an en fled to Ignacton, 1 acieated, losing ¢ au and tBu is id Lopez tlaw by Lue provisional gov- ernment Cuba. Five Cubans arrived at 22a trom Quesada’ arms and othe: m Havana des) pects tn the Several a don, ily r Sh onght to occ reiuy of his @bilities than | Bolidated dels following (uk paign. mated at sy ru 1 yor th mocrath ale cam- We su) ucket noml- Compr Attorn: aaah jucges of ‘of Avie '. with the y of the epublt- 1 be wae Senator v President recon’ administration to removing con oan vllice holders in as, a8 divide the republ.can pariy, when eifurts show made to cuie!'ia sand harmonize Fepublican wings. In regard to the election of Senators by the Vir- ginia Legisiature, Attorney General Hoar decides that such election ¥ ary to compiete the recon- struction of tho State, and {s therefore in order when the fogisiaiure passee upou the new amend. ments to the constitnsion. President Grant Las dec.ined to visit Allentown, Pa.,aa urged by Jolin Covode, in order to more effectually secure ® republican victory in that State. He says the press of pubiio business wil! not admit of Lis absence from Washington, The Mississippi Republican Convention (radical) met in Jackson yesterday and nomtnuted General Aloorn for Governor and @ colored man for Sccre- | tary of Stato. A band of Sioux Indians recently atiempted to take possession of the Shoshone Reservation in Wy- ming Territory. A company of the Second cavairy ‘was sent to drive them off, when a fight ensued, in which five Indians were killed and twelvo were Wounded, Several white citizens and one soldior ‘were killed by the Indians during the raid, and tle Soldiers at Laramie Peak were attacked. Commission nas adjourned , MOF because any further Congres- is necessary in regard to its pro ir that claimants may bave time to prepare their cialis. : A Gelegation of steel manufacturers, accompanted by Collector Grinnell, waited upon the President and Becrotary Boutwell yesterday and represented n, inw converastt ented irom 2 all e between the yachts Alice and Eva fora 2,000, from Sands’ Point to Stratford 9 and return, took place on T day, and ina victory forthe Eva, That vessel car- ried anout twenty-fve per cent more canvas than the Ailce, but the latter obtained astart on the ‘go’ minutes, ‘Tho owner of the Alice has alleng 2 Eva to repeat the race, Mr. Henry W. Johason, counsel for tho Health OMecer of this port, writes to the Shipowners’ Asso- ciation to say that the collection of the Heatth iees Is sanctioned both by the Supreme and Congress. are crippled or prosperous. Since the national revenue depends in so great a degree upon the financial activity of the people, how can it be good if this activity collapses, When the mill stands still and the furnace is cold the taxgatherer has a poor harvest, and it is the business of the Secretary who would havo a great revenue to see tothe general thrift of With money held as it is now in Wall street, because many doubt exactly how the peopie. C 0 arrestea a citizen ona mah- clous charge ia Brooklya, was sentenced yesterday to one year’s hard labor in the Kiags county Peul- tentiary. The North German Lloyd's steamshtp Weser, Cap- tain Wenke, will leave Hoboken at two P, M. today ror Bremen via Southampton. The European mails will at the Post Ofiice at twelve M. The steamship Columbia, Captain Van Sice, will sail from pier No. 4 North river, at three P. M. to-day for Havana. The steamship Cleopatra, Captain Phillips wil) leave pier 17 Mast river, at twolve M. to-day for Havana, Sisal and Vera Cruz. The steamship Minnetonka, Captatn Carpenter, will sail o P. M. to-day from pier No. 8 North Fiver, for ¢ ston. thoy are to come out—because, in fact, there is an incipient loss of confidence—stocks and similar values must go to a minimum, and some houses must go the wall. With the interpendence of financial complication one house never goes alone. Others must follow. Manafacturors, suddenly deprived of an accus- tomed support, are unable to meet their obligations, and they go down also, and, of And all this, we are to understand, is regarded by the Secretary of the Treasury as none of his busi- ness. Just now the country needs a Secretary with very diferent views of duty. course, pay nather taxes nor wages. ar The Slare-Up in Wali Street—What is to Come? Four failures occurred in Wall street yes- terday, of which three wore of very respect- able but not very large houses, and he fourth— Lockwood & Co.—was a magnate of six mil- lions. This evidence of the inability of even avery strong firm to get through the difficul- ties caused by the hurly-burly of Friday last must excite a natural alarm, as indicating the direction the storm is likely to take. It would seem as if a grand financial crash must come— as if these failures were but “‘the firstlings of the thunder shower.” It may, perhaps, be taken as among the vagaries of financial human nature that after the announcement of the fall of several firms the feeling in Wall street was betier, and stocks improved con- siderably from their point of greatest depres- sion. Was this the movement of relief that the most despairing feel when they come to know exactly what is before them, even at its worst, and when the agony of suspense is It is worthy of observation that there was such a feeling of improve- ment, in a matter where 80 much depertls upon tho state of the public however faint, of a better issue from the present trou- bles than that we fear. Perhaps, however, the public mind is quite as clearly shown in the sales of stocks as in the vagary we have referred to, and itis certain that the condition of the public pocket is there very evident, Transac- tions in stocks yesterday reached at loast fifteen million dollars, and the depression in prices was accordingly very great. That the very great depression may be seen at a glance we present a list of prices yosterdsy compared with prices for the first days of the Croton Water—A Wiso Precaution. While we have beon commiserating our nefghbors in Philadelphia upon their water famine it appears that we are now threatenod to be placed: in the same predicament our- selves. Croton is getting scarce, in fact; but with so competent a Board as we havo there is not much likelihood that such » miof1tuno as befell Philadelphia will come upon us, if the public only heed the notice of the Croton Aqueduct Commissioners and avoid wasteful- ness. The Board have served a request upon the Police Commissioners to issue an order to prevent the use of water in certain cases. This is a very wise precaution, because it appears that, notwithstanding the late rains, the reservoirs are getting low. There is no doubt that our citizens have been very extra- vagant in the use of water. They have relied with too much faith upon the inexhaustible supply of the Croton river, and thus were reckless in the waste of water. The useless consumption on the docks and piers is particu- larly remarkable. Ship captains do not hesi- tate to use Croton water to wash the decks, whilo it is notorious that all the steamboats leaving our docks constantly fill their boilers from the same source, instead of pumping it from the rivers. This is certainly an unjusti- fiable waste of the fluid which the people stand so much in need of for all domestic purposes. The Commissioners should strictly prohibit these practices when there is any appearance of a scarcity, but at the same time, in including among the uses to which the Croton water must not bo applied wetind “sprinkling the streets,” we think that they make a mistake. The dust upon all our streets, Broadway especially, for the last few days has beon intolerable. It has permeated stores to tho ruin of goods, and has forced its way into dwelling houses to the defilement of furniture. It is an excellent thing to keep down the dust and wash the streets clean, but it is quite another affair to squander our precious stock of water in washing carriages and ships and over? since, mind, it might afford a hope, current moath :— Sept. 1. Sept. 20, Decline, 145 $014 New York Cente Be R i” 3 filling ateamboat boilers. People must exer- a yy cise some discretion fora little while in the 62 24% | use of Croton water, and thus assist the Board he ue in removing the danger of a famine, j WM BX New Seeeay conical BBs 0 ah” Covope Rampant.—John Covode's address Pacific Mail oes 55 25% to the people of Pennsylvania, a3 Chairman of the Republican State Committee, is like the rearing and tearing of Samson among the Philistines, He shows no mercy to the ‘‘cof- fee-pot democracy,” and yet he betrays his fears that with Packer and hia greenbacks they will be too strong for Geary. Worst of all, Covode has beenrunning again to Washing- ton ‘for aidand comfort.” What could these poor republicans do without General Grant? Echosays nothing. Here we see the result of sales forced by astringent money market, men acting under the imperative necessity of the sailor who throws overboard half his property in the Although such conduct begins in resolute purpose it rung into panic, and the panic will be all the nearer when men find by half a dozen heavy failures that no sacrifice is sufficient to insure, safety, The signs are that the unsettling of all the values upon which financial operations are based is imminent; and if it comes, if the real trade of the couktiry is involved in thy trouble that began with the gold dealors, tle conse- quences must be, in the higheat degree, dis- astrous to the prosperity of the whole people. It is not easy to see how any branoh of busi- ness can escape. Already the trouble is felt in the Chicago grain market, where prices are greatly upset by the troubles here, In the same way, from this financial centre, the endeavor to save the reat. Heapina Orr tae Gentites.—It appears that Brigham Young’s Mormon co-operative system has completely headed off for the present all Gentile merchants and speculative adventurers in Great Salt Lake City, Their stocks of goods remain untouched at half price, for the prophet has tabooed them; but this cannot lagi long. If the Gentiles cannot oust Brigham in trade thoy will flank him on polygamy. The worst, wo fear, for Mormon- dom ia yet to come. Hertz Gats.—Professor Maillefort, it appears, is getting on handsomely with his , waron Hell Gate. A few months more of Lento oh ranilly th eveey, oBaneel: OF cum such reaults from hia labors as those of the mercial and industrial fife till the whole | jast fow weeks will open Hell Gate to the trade of U% nation is prostrate, Moreover, | Great Eastern, | ae The Republicnu Stato Convention. The republicans of New York, in State Con- vention at Syracuse yesterday, proclaimed their State ticket and platform for our Novem- ber election. For the details of their proceed- ings we refer the reader to our reporters’ report, The ticket is very fair, and the unity of the party was 60 manifestly the first essential to give the republicans a chance of recovering the State, that they appear by general consent to have suspended all their little factious quarrels and defections till after the election. The republican platform, ecomnpared with the wishy washy clap-trap of tho democratic Syracuse resolutions, is a mbdoel of positive and emphatic alfirmations, It goes emphati- cally, for instance, for the fifieonth amend- ment to the national constitution; for the rati- fication out and out of the new Slate constitu- tion, and for the paymen! of the national debt according to the doctvine of General Grant's inaugural, Upon the debt and tae general policy of Grant's administration, including negro suffrage, this November battle is to be fought; and as the republicans will thus have the hearty support of the national administra- tion and all its oftive-holders throughout the State for the first time since the defection of Andy Johnson, the general result upoa a full vote would probably astonish the democracy. Thore is, however, no prospect for a full vote in this coming election—a purely focal contest, after all—and in a short vote the deficiency will be the heavier on tho republican side. Their voters are mainly in the raral districts, and only on great occasions can their reserves be relied upon to spoil a day’s work to attend the polls, The democrats, on the other hand, whose strength is in the cities and villages, having their voting places next door or only round the corner, poll a larger proporiion of their whole vote at low tide than the republi- vans. Hence the prospect in this approaching election is still in favor of the democratic State ticket, whatever tho issue on tho Logisiature. The War in Paroguay. ‘The latest advices from Paraguay, by way of Lisbon and London, inform us of the victorious achievements of the allied army operating against President Lopez, Previous despatches through the same source spoke of the annihila- tion of the Paraguayan army at Ascurra, and from these reports we were led to believe that Lopez and his followers were completely used up. Recent developments, however, prove otherwise. The latest news announces that the allied army, commanded by Count d’Eu, attacked the forces-of Lopez in their iatrench- ments surrounding the town of Curuguaty and cntirely"defeated them, The loss of the Para- guayans is set down at one thousand killed and three hundred prisoners. Lopez, with the renminder of his army, is said to have fled to Ignacion, closely pursued by the victorious army. ‘The provisional government at Asun- cion has also declared Lopez an outlaw. Reports reovived here in relation to the pro- gress of tho war in Paraguay smack very much like tho news. from Cuba about the conduct of the war there. The victory is always for the Spaniards, no matter who wins; thousands of Cubans are killed; loss on the Spanish side trifing. So in Paraguay. Lopez’s army has been beaten. acattored, aull- hilated, dispersed and disbanded so many times that it is almost impossible to keep track of him or his followers, The news published in another column is in many reapects similar to previous information from that part of the world, and whether it is false or true remaina to be seen, Commissioner Delano on tho 4 Finances. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Mr. Delano, bas made a flattering exhibit of tho revenue and national finances in a speech he delivered at Harrisburg. Although figures on alarge scale can be made often to represent whatever those who work them un want—and this is a common practice of politicians— there can be no doubt that Mr. Delano’s state- ment is a fair one. The facts are no less astonishing than gratifying. He shows that within little less than four years the govern- ment has paid off cight hundred millions of floating debt. We suppose, however, that a large portion of this was paid by the proceeds of loans previously authorized. But, besides this, about three hundred millions of tho recorded debt has beenpaid. That is, accord- ing to Mr. Delano, the audited debt has been reduced from twenty-seven hundred millions, as it stood in the spring of 1865, to twenty- four hundred millions. As a test of tho efficient collection of the revenue and manage- ment of the finances by General Grant’s administration, he shows that tho total receipts from the interaal revenue, for the first quarter of the present fiscal year, amount to more than ten millions over the receipts of the same period last year. This he attributes to a better administration of the laws under Gene- ral Grant's government. He thinks the inter- nal revenue will yield the current fiscal year a hundred and seventy-five millions or more without increasing the taxes, and that at the rate the income of the government is swelling over the expenditures a hundred millions a year of the debt can be liquidated. With such an exhibit and such a prospect the Commis- sioner argues that the national debt will be paid, and that after ail it is not a very for- midable burden to this rich and prosperous country, National Vicror Hvao wants peace also; but not any sort of peace. Ho wants a peace that suits him, and is willing that there shall bo one more war to obtain it—‘‘a war which wiil be the last.” Therefore no one that comes later than Hugo shall have any choice. There is not so much difference betwoen the world and the peace men, since peace is tho object of all wars. InpEFINITELY Postrongp.—At the recent Minnesota Democratic State Convention a reso- lution was offered declaring that the suffrage queation rightfully belongs to each Stato, ‘‘and therefore we are opposed to the ratification of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States,” A motion was made that the subject be indefinitely postponed, and it was—yeas seventy, nays thirty-four, Those Nor’western democrats are really beginning to Aiscover that the democratic principles of Buchanan went dowa with the rebellion, aud that the nigger is a fixed fact, IPLE SHEET. The Appointment of a Miniater to Chiva, The President has done wisely in not por- mitting tho Chinese Mission to remain long vacant, It appears from the Washington news that Mr. Froderick F', Low, of California, has beep appolated Minister. ‘This gentleman was formerly Governor of California and bas beon a member of Congress from that State. He has not a brilliant record in public life, but has tho reputation of being a practical and an efficient man in whatever he undertakes. Ile {s not likely to repeat the errora of J. Ross Browne in sustaining the British enemies of China against the policy and interests of his own country, In view of our relations with China and the prospect of increased in‘ercourse and a large future trade with that country it is Important to have a man of ability and thor- oughly American as our representative at Pekin, We hope Mr. Low will prove to be just the Minister for that position. In connec- tion with this subject we may notice that Mr. Robert Hart, the Inspector General of Mavri- | ness, tact, and with a proper consideration for the delicate state of things in China, ! Mr. Low will prove to bo the right man in the time Customs in China, and a gent!eman of comprehensive knowledge of Chinese affairs as well of great influence in the empire, has written a letter explanatory of the object and meaning of the Burlingame mission. He says the press of the Wostorn nations has claimed and expects too much from that mis- sion and from Chinese progress. The great object, he maintains, is to let China work out her own destiny by a friendly policy of non- intervention and by not puiting too great a pressure upon the government or people. He admits, however, that the Chinese must and will enter upon a career of improvement. “{ feel,” he says, “I can safoly assert that China has commenced to improve, and that progress, though slow at the start, is certain to roll onward with a daily increasing momen- tum and in a daily increasing ratio.” It will be seen, then, that the mission to China is a highly important one just now. The duties of the American Minister can be well performed only by a man of comprehensive views, firm- We hope right place. The Ruglisk Cotton Dimewlty. The British pross continues to be much ex- ercised about the cotton supply and the com- parative decline of its cotton manufactures. The war in this country played havoe with the manufacturers and cotton interests of Eng- land,.and for some time the press attributed all the evil suffered to the supply being cut off. To remedy this cotton cultivation was stimu- lated at great cost in India, Egypt and else- where, Still a sufficient remedy was not found.. Now the British begin to discover that there are other causes for the decline of their manufactures, One journal says, “‘it is use- less to:ery for more and cheaper cotton, the evil arising only from the loss of the mo- nopoly.”’ In other words, the manufacturers of America, France and other countries are com- petitors with those of England, both: for the raw material to work up and for the: trade in manufactured articles. ‘‘Competitors,” it is admitted by this British organ, ‘diminish our share of the manufacture.” After all, then, England is opening her eyes to the fact that the monopoly or cotton manufactures: Is puso- ing from her, and that there are other causes at work besides the short supply of the raw material for her lamentations. It will not be long before this country will become a formid- able rival of England in manufacturing. We have the cotton on tho spot, and in the South whore it is grown—yes, by the side of tho plantations—thero is an abundance of water power, cheap food forthe work people, a genial climate, and other advantages which can- not be found elsewhere. Cotton manufacturing has been tried successfully in: the South, and with more labor there it can be developed to an almost unlimited extent. This country has been the best customer for English cotton manufacturers; but the time is coming when we shall not only be independent of Eng- land but shall be a great rival in foreign mar- kets as well. The best advice we can give the British is to transfer their capital to the United States and to send all their surplus population with it, for there is room enough for both their enterprise and people, and this is destined to be the greatest manufacturing as well as agri- cultural country in the world. Massachusetts Lubor Ieform, Tho workingmen of Massachusetts have entered the political arena, They have determined to fight their own fight under their own banner. With this object in view they resolved upon holding a con- vention, and on Tuesday last delegates from all parts of the State assembled in Wor- cester. The first day’s session was not re- markable for harmony. Difference of opinion, freely expressed, was noticeable all through. The resolutions adopted present some peculiar foatures, Tho first resolution asserts ‘that all laws creating distinction in favor of color, condition, nationality or pursuit are a clear violation of the fundamental principles of democratic government.” Well, so far as this goes, allright; but afler running over a num- ber of other resolutions, in which workingmen and workingwomen, moral interests and mate- rial progress, charter rights and political pledges, the eight-hour question and the ten- hour law, together with taxes, revenues, sol- diers, sailors, platforms, principles, bond- holders, hard cash, debts and repudiation are all enumerated, and then approved, condemned or measures proposed for their rectification, they come to a resolution which opposes ‘‘the introduction into this country of a servile race to degrade and cheapen labor.” This little objection to the ‘servile race” coming to this “home of the brave and the land of the free” calls to mind the objections made by a certain Boston Know Nothing, who, on being invited to be present at a ban- quet given in honor of the arrival of tho Pilgrims who came over in the Mayflower, replied, ‘‘No, sir; you are not going to catch me sitting down and eating and drinking with a darned lot of emigrants.” That the results of this convention will occasion the slightest dis- turbance in the political field there is no rea- gon to fear. Tar Harry Man—Commodore Vanderbilt, notwithstanding the shock among his stocks in Wall street. What carga he when, aghinst all shocks in stooks, he has, ina late invest- ment, made ‘assurance double aura” and taken “@ bond of fate?” the mountains of Lombardy, and thence to the shores of the of Illyria and Albania. on her way to Turkey, and the King will be able to add a few intermediary hints to these points of instruction which may have been delivered to her at St. Cloud on the ‘* Easterm question ;” its vast importance and how it may be diplomatized to an issue pleasing and bene- ficial both to Vance and Italy. an accomplished courtier and traveller, and, having in domestic matters and dissolved the harem, siderable concern by the ‘fone woman” power, as exer- cised in Christian Europe. He is also indebted to Bugénio for the arrangement, and, pretty much, the management, of his brilliant recep- tion in Paris, and will, consequently, be vastly influenced by her requests Venice is, therefore, in all respects, @ very suitable place for the meeting of the King.of Italy with the Enapress. tion of the Austro-Italian war the Emperor of Austria handed Venice over to France, and that the imperial eagle of the Bonaparte was displayed for some days on its walls. The Emperor Napoleon presented it to Italy, but the exact provisions of the title deed given leon wants to have it returned to France. turies, and it may be that the Empress and cial consequences, j on the subject of this approaching royal inter- f view in Venice. day of the State election in Pennsylvania, and by getting rid of (he principal democratic ora- The Klug of Italy tm Homage to the Empress of FraucomThe Fvouck Visit to Venice and the Kast. By telegram from Florence . through the Atlantic cable we learn that King Victor Emanuel, attended by the Court of Italy and accompanied by the members of the diplomatic body serving in Florence, will proceed from the capital and journey to Venice to meet the Empress of France on her way to the Hast. In this the Re G@alantuomo will do honor to his name and be really consistent with his reputation. Taere is no more gallant gentle- man in Italy than the King, and Europe pre- sents no more noble, elegant or interesting asbrine for his devoir tan the presence of the Empress. He is to do homage in tho ancient city of Venice; 8o that tho occasion of the meeting of the royal personages will be ono of much interest and poetical in the exireme. Eugenie, anxious with respect to the condition of the health of Napoleon and the dynastic chances of her son, and fervently solicitous as to the issue of the Ecumenical Council and the future of the Popedom, will no doubt find a melancholy consolation in standing on the Bridge of Sighs and ruminating on tho glories 4 and power of the Doges, and Hildebrandt and 4 other warrior pontiffs, as well as their efface- ment and decay—a state of mind very likely to engender a condition of morbidly nervous depression if indulged overmuch. To prevent such unpleasant consequences by agreeable conversation no man is better qualified than Victor Emanuel, «king of pleasant memory and light hearted at all times and under every circumstance. His Majesty wiil, no doubt, remind the Empress of the progress of his own house from avoy to the broad lands of Adriatic and to Veniée and along the coasts The Empress will be The Sultan és discarded the Turk very * much to a matters controlled extent in is very con- of State and counsel. We must remember that at the termina- with it were not published. Perhaps Napo- Tho Eastern question is looming up in very i throatoning prupurtions, and the Power which i commands the Adriatic will hold almost the } very key of the situation. History tells us also t how the Venetians monopolized the trade of x India by the route: of Egypt during two cen- King will speak of the Suez Canal and its revolutionary current in the matter of commer- We shall remain anxious A Goop Joxe by Geary.—That was & capital joke of Governor Geary, of Pennsylva- nia, in appointing several prominent democrats to attend the National Commercial Conven- tion to be holden in Louisville, Ky., on the 12th of October next. This happens to be the tors Geary got rid of just so many influences hoatile to his. re-election. This. is almost as 7 good a joke as the capture during the war of i that big gun at Bolivar Heights—a gun that happened to have been left by the rebels be- cause its mate had exploded upon a test trial. Mitrrary Pursuit or Wniskey Contra- BANDIS13.—The military in Virginia are after the illicit distillers, A squad of cavalry have just been making a raid among them with con- siderablo effect. Inone week they shut up | thirteen illicit stills and arrested twelve of the | proprietors, Here we do not accomplish one- | tenth of the work with our detective system. Soldiers are the boys to deal with whiskey in all its phases, ¥ rere Sim. Unsetrtep—Whether Fisk, junior, from the bull ring, has been buried under a shower of gold or has gone up in a balloon, Notion To GREENTORNS FRoM TH CouN- try.—In doing up Wall siroet ‘beware of mock auctions.” | A Sunszor ror Dors—The spectacle in ané around the Gold Room yesterday. It would make a good supplemental picture to the Inferno, NOTES ABOUT TOWN. | ‘The Croton Aqueduct Board succeeded in ratsing quite a dust by their proclamation yesterday against using the Croton water for watering the streets. If the streets cannot be watered by the Croton, why not bring up the water from tho rivers for the purs OSC. yt ‘The dust yesterday was intolerable, and thousands of dollars were lost to our Broadway merchants tn consequence of the ladies being both unable to prome- nade our great thoroughfare aod to make their usual purchases, ‘The annual session of the artist branch of the Cooper Institute commences to-day after tho ugual vacation. ‘The coming session promises to be like alt the preceding. The little bouquet girls aro becoming quite a favorite institution in all the most frequented and respectable quarters of tho city. But that was @ cruel joke on a bouquet bearer whe attempted to onter @ certain banking nouse tm Broad strect yesterday, and on being repulsed by a _ very gontiemanly shoriff's oMcer was told by a bystander, “No use taking flowers in there, anicas you are going to attend a funeral.” Up town business did not seem to be tench dis- turbed by the maelstrom whirling in Wali streat yea- terday, Tho dust did more damage than the panic. ‘The temperance organizations in this city Are not anxious to moasure votes at the bg clection with thelr opponents on the license question, Their astonishing show in Maine haa Bil tue atid a. tng out of thelr backbones, ‘ ‘ \ ys et F