The New-York Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1866, Page 4

R WALLACK'S THEATER, | Ja0I8 EVENINO ot 3-SHANUS g g4 WEDNESDAY, Al T 1, 1868, L Wil + Brows, Mise e —— — ,ro Job b " WINTER GARDEN. Te Correspomdent TIUS EVENING OLUMBUS RECONSTRTCT) U= | Neo notice can betaken of Anonymous Communications. Whatereri NNY LinD. Me Miss Eaiy N Jele | jntended for insertion must be suthenticated Ly the nune and ad Quna, W, 8 e ehsigi st | dres of the writer—not necessarily o publicstion. but as seusr, ¥ WOOD S THEATER. oty for bis £00d fuiths, TH1S EVENING—FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLI CKS | Ali business leties for tiis othce shoula be addressed to *Tlis Tr1n MAID WI ¥ MILKING PAIL. The Wore Mr. onn.” Now-York. p Letagwell, aad full ¢ g ufd-.v sl We cannot undertake 0 retarn reincted Communi BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM — BAY AND ¥ NG-SACK AND OILL. N: C. T. Fox 3 — agd full cor oy UNDRED THOUSAND CU t10SITIES The Tribune in London. v L | STEVENS BROTIIELS, (Amencan Ageate for Librartes. 171140 icits aveat arden, W. € urc Agents for the saleof Ti1%. TRIBUNE LIS EVENIN ot | They will als receive Soancarssions e Webly St ns, Grand Ger wren Opers € T 3 g . - | Tug TRIBONE AT SARATOGA.—Thoraton, ne ACE GARDEN, Third-ave., Sariopa, ael's the T THIS EVENING & THEQ., THOMASS ‘ORCHESTRAL | be sidewalks in frout of the prucipal hotels at the same price, GARDEN CUNCERT. Froasaune varied every evenug, LARINI'S CIRCUS, Mt the Ble AGGYD | EEY AGGED ~HOTLDERS 11AMS 1IN TIGNT TIXRCLs &A1 Naw MACK = RL AXD FINK MERSF. N Momaysh I+ WoRks T0 PRRPECTION, M, Wonvow's Sootn Synup. for children teething, s per Bty barmlos. Bt produce natural, quiet slecp by relfviug the Wikl fcom pua. a:) o herob swakes a8 **bright s e battou.” 16 ores wit stes the bowels—gives rest to (ke mother end ealtt, to the NOTICE 0 SEA- 'HERS, ¢ H At neutrslzes el be? effects of st wee of this invalusble a soft and waslel in water, Sold by y. N. Y., where niformation r s Lo Laie will be feely g @ 1to 3p. Saman A, CuivaLiER, M. D, s only of DALLEY'S MAGICAL PAIN A fow Frmaacton 140 cure the worst c B wnd ! €kin Diseaos, F Sealda it is wellknowa to be the wo 8 Sold by ruggists, and C depot. No. 49 Cedar b ———— wounders wrought by DUTCHER'S o8, sud Its tremendous sale sl over the country, ks to muke imitations. Every Drugeist + be lmposed upom. Buy Drremen's snd A CAvrion.—~Th w6 Fuyd art~d Rhows thia to be wave o v Dy Purne, the eelebrated Dermatologist £ the Hair. Scalp sud Fuce, has made i leave this city Seturdsy, August 4, to be abeent utll Qstober 1; 0. 49 Bond st, COSTIVENRS:, T Piies, Heads » Low Spirits, £ . LozeNoLs warix e all these, snd ethor blaedh 2 ot o ieiw old by Dewas wak & Co. Caswas . Mac il Drugsi ETENIA. ¥ ke teeth, giving firon 10 the bresth, and of i For sle cveryw No. 32 Platt-st. ss and tone Lo the Ting o Lelightfaly Try it once; N . » PLATE Sargs. Highly omace e ssortmert of Lan 265 B dway, and 721 Chestuntst., Phila, LOCHSTITCH SEWING-MACHINE, with +and w orte; TXCOMPARABLY THE . Ewupnc 8. M. Co., Ne. 543 Brosdway, 100X & GIBRS SEWING MAC b: "HINE. 3¢ Broad: THe ARM A Tha hew” i - s dobent i .58 A% Wai Bay Watcnes. —Bexenier Bros. 0. 171 Brosdway, corner of d Silver Ware, .26, by B. FRANK PaLMER, T low to officers and civilisns. 1,60 N.Y.; 19 Green st., Boston. Avold di-st. | e W atches. Jowelry AMERICAN I'OPULAR LIPE INSURANCE COMPANY, Precents ten pew fear A.ciy. comer Comalst Callor send for ove. TRUssES, h1ASTIC BTOCKING Auuy, Serponcae Ac—~Maksw & Co.’s Kacical Care Trum Office ety 4 No. 4 V¢ Lady wrtendunt. Nos. 419 end 42: Ve ures i ite el “Mort's CminiCAL POMAVE Restores Gray Hair, Qeopatt loesy a0 fl I'h\tnt:n-on-dumlru wgused. Sold vy Brsuros. No. 10 Astor Hon dragasts, 4 PLORTNCi LOCK-STITCH SEWIN i, o word 1oc5-STrren Macmixes for Tailors and “hiroy ¥’ ~aste A& BAKTE SEwixo MACKISE CONPANT, | Jo TAYLOY'S SaLOON, - wudness will be coutinecd v's New Prexiva Trrss cures | T ineopvericuce 0. 504 Broadwa ros with o0t rais widers HELNEO D ~ Nerrous Hcadaches are instantly cared by one dose Clon atope of Viricaunr's Guaat R vmine xixn:. Sdd by Sk it Rt A Ll’x.i'xua f.vox's New Family Sewing-Machine. Agests wasted. One machine free of charee. No. 501 Brosdway TUROVIR & DansRS HIGHEST PresivM ELASTIC Srivem Spwne M vs for fumiry uee.No. 4 Broadway. ~ HowE Sewixe MACHINE COMPANY.—ELIAs HOWE, jr. Presidors. No w9 brosdway. Agents wastod b4 ks Dyseersia Tapier, 8. G, WELLINGS, for ind fion wad heast. azn. Soid by all Druggists. : Lock-STITCH SEWIN . No, 625 Brosdway. Worst cases solicited. Ca'l | mette, &3 per dozen: Duplica! A negatives recwtered. Ho A, Lewis. No. 160 Chsil A Cara from My, Barney, Ao the Fditer of The 5. Y. Tridune. P “s1m: Please do justiee to former Collectors as well as to M. Smythe by denying any statement to the effect that it Las been their practice to sell warehouse privileges. During my term, neither these nor any other patronage Newo- Dotk Dailp Tribnne, v PATENT ALUM AND DRY PLASTER | | chul paper little doing : be NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, WY { NEWS OF THE DAY, | Ti{E WAR IN EUROPE. Oar eproial dispatch from Paris, published (his wmor foreshadows tha peacs which, according to the ‘lates gence by the Atlnntic Telegraph, was about (o be co France, it appears, 1« Prassia in her conditions of peace, 50, FORLIGN NEWS, From Panama wo have irtelligence of an attempt (o - sinato Moreno, (he ex-Prosident of Ecuador. In Chili Peres had been re: Pern was still 1o an tled state, Tho pio: from New-Zesland had areive at Panama. NEW-YORK CITY. Mr. Martinar, proprietor of the * Matson Dorée” in Fourteouth-at. dicd yesterday morniug of apoplexy, The Bo: RLdermen mei yestorday. A resolution was adoptod #7000 to the Volunteer Fire Departmert { A report aod cosolubion, which were adopred, were reeeived from the Counctim.n granilug permission for the erect an experimen‘ai lire of clevated railways in Greenvich s s of extending such railways upon v and County of New-York. Adjourne September, Tho Board of Cor The report and resolution relat o3 by the Aldermen, . adopted, and eent to th Adjourned to Thursday. wv teceived a dispateh from the 10 the effoct that the new tarifl law the 10th of August next. It was importers that dutics under the now 2 he Ist of August, Goods in bond will € old tariff rates, man who was £o fearfu orthest,, by the boiler ex nery of Harris & Co,, Nos, 20 and 29 Leonard st ded at the New-York Hospital on Mo w1 death from the explosion. som, the Maiden-lane counterfeiter, came up before Commissioner Oshorn yesterday. A request was made by his counsel that the bail mighe be reduced, but the matter was finally put off wntil the arrival of Col. Ward, Chief of the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, who i the prineipal witacss against the accused. Judge Baroard yesterday granted a temporary injo: restrainiog the City of New-York aud the Street Cowms sioner from proces, under the resolution of the Commor Council of aly 10, rerardivg the gaslighting contract The defendants are suwmoncd to show cause why the injune. tion should not bs made perpetual on the firet Mouday in August. 1L Westueimer, Lsase Lavterbeck ard Honry Eisner have od for injes against tho Board of Health to the latter r'ug in their business of fat bo The cases diffor [ others of o similar character, as the plaiotifls sot up that ilioy uso the covers patented by onme Sarah E. Saul for the purpose of burning the vapors, and that this cover and planu huve bocn approved by an inspector of the Healia Boas at their plaeos has eince beon visited ad in spected, and sodo of condueting their business and the cleguliness of tieir place has met with the approval of the oa of also met yoaords mrial railroad. the Committ ace will go generally u law would be on Vifthave. yesterday, there were 1 were sold at le. advanoe from last . to 1%, per . Sheep sell quickl; at i0a11je. Hogs bare advanced » pow worth 11@11 lera are reported since our last Is 5 wh sue, and 13 & Tu the case United States agaisst Henry Holmes, the connter r. anotier postponement of a week was yeo terday grasted oa account of the absence of Mr, Jorda importaut witucss. A boy named William Ilackes, whose parents resi Avente A, near Tifth-+f. was arrested yesterday on th plaiot of William 5. Williaws, of the firm of Janssen, Schm!dt & Ruperti, imp at No. 68 Broad-st. On the i9th of June last, Wiiiaw H. Losacum, the messenger boy of th Sirm, stolo a letter containing 81,490 worth of United S:atcs 5-20 conpous, and gave a portion of the proceeds to some com :;OM. Of this amouat it is ciaimed that Backus received Mrs, Angusta Wirchner, a German, while laboring under temporary aberration ¢f mind, committed sui it ber late residence, No, @2 East Houston-st., on Sunday, by swaliow | ing a mixtare of floar, molasses, aud Paris Green, inteuded | for poisosing rats. d was Ligher yealerday, o teie g at 1495, after r0ling at 143 and ud advancing. ness 10 them more widey dise {way sisies here was & good Gomand. Alter the (&1 prices were iower under sales to realize profits, but & firmer fasl ing ws shown before the mecting of the Second Board A:the Second Board the masket vas strovg. After the coll the market was lower, and there vas 1o disporition to sell, and the market cloved dull. Money s ofterod iu grest wbundaueo, wnd leading houses ars borrowig at 54 per cent. Kte rate in 3&9 per cent. In commer es wre wanted ot low rates. Fxclunge is dull and lower. GENERAL SUMMARY. The Democratic Rhole Island State Convention met at Providenes yesterday, sud nominated eight delegatos to the Philadelphta Copvention. Resolutions praising the President aod denouncing Congress wero adopted. Official retarns of the census, taken by the City Assessor.” make (he white population of St. Loals 204,527, The uation. alities are given as follows: Irish, 26,190; German French, 1.053; English, 4,909; American, 118,3:6; other pa tions, 4,153, Ouly one in 48 of the total population is over 60 years of age; nearly one-belf are under 21 The oldest person found was a Bobemian vwowan 103 years old. ‘The Democratie State Central Commitice of Towa, met at Des Moines on the 27th iost., and elected Congressional del- egates, and delogates ut Lirgo to the Philadelphia Convention. ‘Within the past ten woeks there have been six deatbs from Asiatic cuolera in Cincionati ou Sprague, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Pror- idence, R. L. formerly of the house of A, & W, Spragne, dicd suddenly in that city on Monday night, “The boiler of the ennal mer Henry L. Gaw exploded yesterday morning at Philadelpbia while the vessel was lying o the oflice weze subjeets of bargain or sule; and Ilave good reason to believe that no predecessor of -ine was ver guilty of such a missuse of his powers. Respectfully yours, HreaM DARSTY, Mo York, July 91, 1856 . e — g ¢ (Natiomal Liabor Congress, o the Workingmiea of the Owhted Siers Y At a conference (primary in character)neld iu New- Works eity on the 99tk day of Mareb, 1666, the following pre . wable and resolations were nnauimoualy adopted: — ‘The agitation of the question of Eight Tours s a - Wherecs, day" assuwed an requiring concerted hi' — “flnumem-(mwc igaue &Mi?‘mfl X essential that & National Congress stovld be N:ufi,n l’;nll upon which we may harmoniouely aud cons in recommend that a National Con- at ber dock. Eliza Glles, the cook, was kilied, and two others wounded. The following are the losses by the fire in Buffalo on Mon- day: Western Insurance Company, £10,400; Phen’ 5,000, Firemen's, 82,000; Lafavette, §1,50; Sun, #5,000; Security, $5,000; Manhattan, &5000; Hanover, 83,000; Security (2d). 87.500; Lorillard Resolnte, 5500; Yonkers, ; Western, $11,000; o' wnn'. 83.000; North American, 85,000 The total numbe: of dentls frow cholera, at Tybee, Ga, to Sunday, was 95. Ou Monday, there were two moro deaths and ono mew case. Ale latest accounts report the cholera subsidiog. The arrival of the Silas Greenman at San Francisco, the first sbip that ever reacied there from Siam, caused difficulties st the Custom House, the officials claiming ten per cent addi- tional duties on the cargo, because there is no reciprocity treaty between tuis country and Siam. be beld in on Monday, August 20, 1966, and |y march gamo of base ball botween the Charter Oaks and F"l dosernestty oul "‘"!:"',.',‘.‘.2‘{"%“\‘.‘.". Waterbury Clabs, at Hartford, on Satarday, zesulted i the z:“-n“-. —-M'{\' vital | success of the Charter Oaks—25 to 21, - : The local editors of the State of Connecticat met ia Covven- e, T e e eise A e v | tion st New-Haven yostarday. A press club wes formed aud u‘,,ma_fl-n- ey 'made for an anoual gathering, - ~ That the Trades Um.‘." mwn tasued an order forbidding all srraugements 0 ‘military for the purpose of drill other than those of .J.-u--'fh'-uu- HaRDINO, , CATHER, - Jomx IS JAl?lmm .c:q e.-':zz-"' Adoduwe, ey o o i worce arrived in Portland on Friday, tion of over $100,000 fu the bauds of the Mayor avd tb Pusiibuing Comuities, would earsanly requost ull BEWSDE | o pouatien i inopersiive, in cOmseqUECN of aeious defoc s;l m‘& ‘m in IO!-.Yuh to W. " Q——— Ahe Committes of the New-York Chamber of Come and placed the contriba. authorized by the Governor, ‘This order will preveat tho mili- meofilm Qdistingnished client, Jef. Davit, Monroe. The recent, Teport of the Judi- clary to Congress is supposed to be iu some way conpestes the lnterview. The geseral court-martial sitting o Raleigh, X. C., to try vestigationa into the cases of Gen. E. Wittlesey, Major ¥, H. Zealy, and Capt. J. A. Roskiany. The Court will probably conclude its labors within ten days. The Second Controller of the Treasury ia said to Le of the opinion that the bill passed by Congress for the equalization organizstions Wroughout the Ww-: :‘- :{ tue officers of the Freedmen's Burean, has concluded its in- carTying resclutions relative FJ beroin takou, WiLLan w. in the wording of the first section. The sixth annual meeting of the American Denfal Asso- clstion was held at Boston yesterday. About 15 members were presont, Dr. C. P. Fiteh of N. Y., was chosea Presi- dont, and J. Taft of Ciscinnati. Secretary, Twenty-six now cases of cholers wero reporied in Brooklyn but four of which proved fatal. o | yesterday, ascertalned that 1t jas (ke cholera tuat 1t fs now defiuisely broke out some time since on board the Chattanooza at Poila. delohia, The officers have been detached and the yessel ordered to quarantine at Newcastle, Delaware, —_— Cov, Walker, having taken Florida unto himself, has accordingly picke the out a handful of delegat Philadelphia ( ntion, That is Mr, W of representation. It is well said that the rnor of Massachusetts has as much a right to send a party of his own. The President might takea hint and send delegates for the country at large, H for "8 ove Tt was fitting that the judge who decided Civil Rights bill should have inspired the riot in New- Orleans. Hereis how Judge Abell is of the same mind with the President, both as regards the riot and the law: ““The Cisil Rights bill has bnnJ»nml upon by a grest con- stitational Iawyer, statesman, and patriot, Andrew Johason, He spoaks like the others; be decided it unconstitutional, nad vetoed it, ns President of the United States, I am of the same mind, and believe it to be uncoustitutional—not binding on this court,” On the second page of this issue may be found a brief notice of Dr. Letterman’s ** Recollections of the Army of the Potoma ou the sixth, our Speci War Correspondence; Letters from Baden-Baden, Berlin, Milan, Florence and Paris; News from Can- ada, Texas and North Carolina, with an article on Rebel Brutality in Kentucky, and an account of a re- cent Tornado in Connecticut; and on the seventh, a Poem on the Atlantic Telegraph, the Saratoga Races, James Stepheus’s advice to Fenians; Law Intelli- gence, another decision upon the Excise Law in Prooklyn and other miscellancous matters of interest pportance. : —_—— and PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S RESPONSI- BILYTY, If any doubt existed as to President Johnson's con- nection with the massaerc in New-Orleans, it will be removed by reading bis dispatch to Attorney-G al Herron of Louisiana. This dispateh, written with the knowledge. that loyal citizens of the United States were dying from wounds received by a Rebel mob, assumes the full responsibility of the deed. The policy that prompted Mayor Monroc and bis followers found its inspiration in Washington. This conclusion fills us with inexpressible sadness, but we cannot resist the facts, It is a dreadful thing to arraign the President of the United States as being in any possible sympathy with thé unlasful of blood, but when & plain fact is to be stated the plainest words are the best, In the first place the President recoguizes a usurped power to communicate his wishes. ps M. Wells is the Governor of Loui- Jau siana, and the offi representative of the State, To him the President should have spoken. But Gov. Wells, a duly elected governor by Rebel votes, | had called this Convention together and the | Presilent steps over the theory of State Rights, and sends his commands to an officer of his Cabinet—his Attorney-General—one Andrew | S. Herron conspicuous Rebel in the days of treason, *resident directs hitn to call upon Gen, | Sheridan for * sufficient force to sustain the ci | thorities in suppressing all illegal or unlawful as call out troops is a usurpation. What wo! been said it Congress had requested Attorne Speed to call out the troops and perform the highest executive functy Yot Mr. Bpeed had as much | right to call out the troops of the United States as Mr. Herron has to take command of the troops in Louisiana, This is a small point in our argument, but it shows ! the tendency of the President. Hic dispateh recognizes | blie If the President really believes that States have rights, and Governors of St privileges, “ then his course in recogn an officer of Gov. Wells's Cabinet as the proper ! irpation, aud proceeds to 1 the massacre. Al “ unlawful assemblies " must be suppressed. Well, this particular assembly was suppressed—and very effectually—for its leaders were murdered, and those who escaped murder are either lyine in the prison or the hospital. According to the P ention had not ** obtained the cousent of the 1f it at all entered into our ask what right bad the President to ermine this fact? or. Wells thought the Convention was logal aud as he is Governor, what business has President Johnson with it? Who gives the President of the United | States the power to traverse the decision of & Ktate Executive, or to decide upon the competency of a | State Convention? Would he ing a dipatch to ( al Barlow declarin, York Legislature to be unlawful, aud calling upon Gen. Hooker to disperse its members? According to the Presilent’suwn theory—the theory that Loui<iana is a sovercign State and her officers competent to go ern it—=Ne s guilty of & most flagrant assumption of ( people of the State.” argument might we him be autho: executive poy We pase 2 this theory, or indeed any theory of Presidential prerogative. The facts are that cer- tain Union men—conspicuons for their loyalty during years of war—have been murdered by Rebels, who were conspicnons for treason in years of war. The men who did the deed are enabled to show warrant for their crime from the President of the United States. When Gov. Brownlow asked for troops to compel the obedience of Exeentive commands, and to protect the Legislature in its legislative power, he was petulantly refused. In Tennessce the majority was loyal, and | the President threw influence with the In Youisiana the majority was Rebel, and his - s £ z ds the army of the United States, If it was right to refuse nid to Brownlow in seeing that * thelaw and | the Constitution were sustained, and thereby peace | and order,” then it was wrong to refuse aid to Gov. Welle and his Convention, If that Convention wus unlawful, there were remedies in the Supreme Court. ! We Lave had a dozen Fenian Conventions in the last year—all unlawful—as organizing war upon a friendly power. The President permitted them to assemble, and gent no troops to disperse them. Why make an exception of leyal men in Lonisiana, who at the very worst, and accepting as truth the charg s of the President, were no more illegal than the Senate of the Fenian Brotherhood. 1t is folly to use soft phrases i &peaking of this appalling crime. The policy of Andrew Johnson engendered the demon fury which has shed blood | in the streets of the Crescent City. His statesman- ship has once more raised Rebel flags @ New- Orleans. His construction of Presidential duty bas led him to commit an act of direct usurpation in Louisiana, His oath to protect and defend the nation finds expression in the unavenged assassina- tion of men whose loyalty was as conspicuons and self-denying and sorely tried as his own. All that we have gained by the war comes to this: that in Louis- iana an illustrious General of the Union army is com- pelled to accept the orders of a motorious punished Rebel, The time has come for the people to speak— and let it bo in tones so distinct and unmistakable that even Andrew Johnson will not dare to disobey he warniug. e —— Christopher Pollma, the member of the Board of Councilmen,who with Messes, White, Tyng and Roberts voted against the Gas Contract swindle, has entered along complaint against it in the Supreme Cout, where the legal hattle will soon be fought with the paid professional plunderers of the City. It will soon be known where the Conrts as well as the people’s representatives are willing to abandon tho money and property of the City ‘to the 20 years' mouopolized robbery of the Gas Contracte Mr, Pullman has taken the right step in time, and will bave tho aid of our worthiest citizens, aud the n‘pl‘ proval of every burdened tax-payer. 1f the Board of | Councilmon and their noterious agent, Street Com- | EDNES miss foner Cornell, are allowed to consummato the shamy ‘falswindle involved in the award of the Gas Con- | tract, t,he City will only be the moro fatally ziven over | to thiemes 745 was the amount appropriated | in April 1,7 lighting the city; §1,200,000 is the sum | which Come. Mssioner Cornell proposes to spend anuu- | ally for 20 y ears! $500,000 would be wore flan | jent, Th' extravaganee, illegality and wrong filching th® money of the City, held | in trust beyond even the authorized amount of | approprintion, and esy ablishing this system of robhery for twenty years, will be vigorously contested. The city is in the condition of the man plundered by thieves, and it will be, we have not a doubt, the hounden duty of the court to act fearlgssly the part of justice and the Good Samaritan. — THAE INFL Ne OF THE CARLE. Not till the ocean telegraph has been in succe: operation for weeks can the present cable be consid- ered acertain success. By the cablo of 1833 con- gratulations were exchanged by the Qucen and the President, and a few items of news reported; then guddenly all communication ceased; a few blind, unmeaning marks were made by the delicate instru- ments, and at last even these faint reasons for hope expired. Tt is too soon to assume that the unknown ses which ruined the cable of 1858 may not be ent now, For hundreds of miles west of Ireland vast chasms and rugged rocks break up the ocean bed, Unlike land telegraphs, which are interrupted by frequent stations at which messages are repeated, the cable conveys signals at one flash for nearly 1,900 miles. To interpret the indications of this indecisive current, instruments of extreme delicacy are required; the land telegraph stamps the lettors of the alphabet, in ink, distinetly upon paper; the signals of the cable are faintly reflected upon a galvanic mirror. These are facts which must prevent perfect confidence in the ocean telegraph; it is still an experiment, and the tests are incomplete, But there is reason for much hope that the commu- on will be permanent, Noue of the previous cables equal this in strength and, we are told, clear- ness aud foree of signals, The instruments used are greatly improved, and the men who planned the con- struction of the eable, the mechanics who prepared it, the operators, have all profited by experic Even f it fails, no one can now despair of ultimat Bat, accepting now, and le of it as a succes ving | these doubts for the future todecide, who can measure the influence of this new wonder of the world 7 Mr, Seward's declaration, that if the cable of 1553 bud not failed, ** European States would not have L led, in 1861, into the great error of supposing that civil war in Ameriea could cither perpetuate Slavery or divide this blie," is, of course, but the comp! ment of a politician to a wire, A mere extenzion of the telegraph system, a gain of a few days in commu- nication, will not bave much effect upon | nataral rivalrice or the policy of Cabinets. Thus far the provements of ¢ e have not changed the pas-ions of men, The telegraph has re- de-de-camp on the battle-field; ars by saving the Jaced the mounted o railroad has shortened grea weary marehes of immense armies, and the poet who prophecied of the atilization of balloon d them ng in the blue air, and These triumphs | | | in his vigion as navies grappl rainiog down blood upou the of peace usmally provide new instruments of war, and science, thus far, instead of removing the causcs of contention, bus merely substituted the needl gan for the bow and arr and the monitor for the ancient galley. Mr. Beward's euthusiasm will hardly bear the test of reason. The telegraph is surely not the great tranquilizer be supposes, for even the Fre ide nt th warder of Union moen in a pence But to the business world the cabie will be an i strument of great value, Commeree with Europe wil be conducted on a new system. t's telegram to New-Orlean The gain of eight or | nine days will be fully appareut when American journ- alism bos perfected the arrangements of obtsining der will soon pa et snt When aper at breakia news of t 1 into ¢ ader of | jon with the usefnlness. t Triprse takes up his the o and day | e wper. Sul- | reads e day dag the soon become accnstomed to the change. 1in Hu will be reported almost as speedil The Liverpool ¢ ws, and the cannon which auno will o longer seud the reporters at bay. Tue Trisuse will become o ance when through its columns the 1 will be da American pecple. Even with the high prices of mesages & + eable will be unable to satisfy the wa of blic, and newspapers must still give to b ticiang, men of the world, and ALl ome new thing, the bulk ¢ mation, RUM AND RUEANON, We have been listening of late to v scet ists who attempt to argue that if destroy himself, he has not only o pe 50, but that society, on its own Slies to t to de the peace and well-doing of the con in gen- | eral and the individual in partienlar, is bound to | furnish him with the weapons. Rociety, in order to | preserve itself, very prudently declines this sort sophistication, It holds that althongh individuals | may find at all times sudden methods to with themselses, the pablic need not off their itioners. It does not 1 warr setting its trade-mark on w s peculiarly for crime, and nothing else, or getting up patent and public ways of exit for dissatisfied mortals, or fur- | nishing a general abattoir for self-slanghtere Con- | ke way | heeome ited in | igned | trariwise, its duty is to keep out of temptations to mischief, and to protect miserable even from themselves. Accordipgly, arsenic and stryehnine are not sold at the drug stores without the prescilption of o dootor. The muking and sale of cor- tain villainons tools and weapons is forbidden, and the carrying of fire-arms is restricted. Lunatic asy- Tumis, almshouses and jails are protective aud preven- tive institations: and, if society does not enter into collusion with eriminals and liquor-dealers, it is prob- ably becanse it wants to keep the highways safe, and the poor-house, the jail, and the morgue, from being overcrowded, ‘We observe, therefore, that the principle of social defense s radical and simple. The law moderates excessive and extravagant rumselling for areason correlative with that for which it checks the thief and takes care of the lunatic, The liquor- dealers really do not suffer more than the drug- gists, Take off the wholesome restraints upon the sale of poison, and there is no knowing how populdr even strychuine and arsenic may become, if | we undertake, at the same time, to recruit o larger army of whisky-dealers, saloon -keepers and drunkards, each regiment of them supplied with their com- plement of vivaudieses from the concert-saloons, Arsenic-cating, it has been ascertained, is a habit of some people, and opinm-cating can be wade as popu- lar as rum-drinking. So much for possibilities (such possibilities as we instinctively shudder at) in the way of excess, Wo might, perhaps, make opium-eating more general if we gave it the same advertisement and encouragement that whisky has so frequently ob- tained in the public and privato life of our legislators, conncilmen and magistrates, But, we are opposed to excessive arsenic, excessive opium, excessive whisky; and if too much ram-drinking destroys individuals, we must see to it that too much rum-selling does not demoralize tho community. The publie is bound to kecp itself sober and keep down the rum-sellers. Wherefore, we regard the Excise Law as thg ot | new law will support it with all the st | barrassing, | Jighted friends that sho had been restored to perfect “ ! health by the millionth of a grain of belladonna in | | to acknowledge all the difficulties by which it is beset AY, AUGUST 1, 1866, moderato measure that the public can ask or accept, It represses the extravagance of yam-cealing; which is a positive step gained, 'We may be sure, then, that iiqnoy-dvinking will lose a portion of its popularity while we deprife it of the advertisement of so many aloons in every block of our worst neighborhoods— while we make Sunday a day of privileged rest, and shut up the lignor saleon just aswe cloge jhe junk- shop, Further than this the Jaw does not go. Its | good results wero: less arrests for drunkenness than ever before, more peaceful Sabbaths than we have had | for years, and a million of dollars in the public treas- ury. One other consequence is that it made uulicensed dealers and would-he Sabhath-breakers furipusa Let | them rave! But because we seek to remove drankenness from the highways, and staring and shocking examples of ! license and libertineage from the eyes of our women | and children; because we endeavor to keep down the ! riotous appetite that is engendered by the grog-shop poisons of the slums; because we would clear and cure the city of its notorious and licentions disease— the groggerics that oyermn with crime, and the low concert sgloons that-breed abominationsin the eyes of all men—arc we to be told that we are fanatical? The World of yesterdry devotes two columns to the blame of Seeretary Stanton for the Excise law, in which it say **Of late the right of freamen to drink what they ploase has been assailed by these same men of tho * party foundea on great woral ideas.’ They have undertaken (o give oue religion prefercce over another by evforcing upon all the observages of its boly dags.” We know of no religion which does not respect of disease, Medical nnew, "taintics, however much they mayenliven the controver des of the profession, are death and not sport to the pu'blic. Wemay not know the true pathological characte't of cholera; but it is very important to us that the fa mily doctor should not remain iu the.same ignoranoe, an 1, where he is called to grapple with the disease, that he x hould not be vibrate ing betwoen this theory and that, doubting whether to trust to the vis medicatriz nature, or whip out his lancet, now incllqlng to_castor oil, an, | avon falling back upou calomel, When an alderman has the apo- plexy, he wants a doctor who at least 1'2s made up his mind what to do i such cases, Distiii¢tions be- tween serons and sanguinous apoplexy are of very small consequence to him; if bleeding is best, he wants to be bled; if purging is proper, he wants to be parged: but if he could, he would protest with Lis iast stettorous breath agaiust being used for experis ments iu the interest of science, as Dr. Magendie slaughtered rabbits to fiud out the cause of diabetes, The City of New-York with the chol- era, would be something in position and peril like the Alderman with the apoplexy. Before the pedantic debates between theorists and empirics were over, hundreds and thousands of unfortunate patients wonld have passed to that undiscovered country in which there is meither prescribing nor swallowing of wedicine, If this pestilence were ta come oftener aud stay longer, we have no doubt that, chiefly through the observations of two or three groad medical minds, it would become almost as mun- ageable as our ordinary fevers, The physician, sobriety upon all ageasions, or which counsels man or overworked and paivfully anxious, hurriod soclety to over-indulgence in drink. So much for the | ffom one. bed ~ of “death o . euother, wom out by the gigsntic labors of the hospital, preposterous insinuation that religion is outraged be- cause a pumber of ramsellors, of no faith whaterver, are not allowed to pollute the holiday of nine-tenths of the people. ‘The chief, and, indeed, the only practical opposition | to the Escise Law comes from the liquor-dealers | themselves, One of this class confl not long ago, in a public court, that the profits of his business were one half of his receipts, "This would be only & moderate estimate in hnndreds of cases where two- thirds and even three-fourths cre the gain on worth- less liquors for which more7 i spent and health | thrown away reckles W.at do these facts signify, not too much drinking on the one side, and a fe excess of bad liguor on the oth Of co dealers are opposed to a law which puts someth the pocket which they bave robbed so long; but the ol sense which has gained everything by the ngth and in- togrity of public opinion. — “THE PLACE FO A COLORED CON- VENTION,” Tax TRIBUNE says this morning: | * The Charleston ( Leader renews ita call for a Conven- tion of Culored men, Now isthe tiae, but the place is not Neio- Wo kold, on the contrary, that New-Orleans is the place, s it bo Memphis and the only place si; —iwhers a convontion ought now to be beld. We hope taat , but slso 8 Natlonal lude delegates from th. », and of nil classes and cclors, will bo called to meet in w-0) Loans, @5 s00n 6a convenient. ‘That is the way to cure riots—by naserting and using our privileges, aud not, as TRIBUSE suggests, by biding out o the way, (Evening Post, We are in favor of a convention in the South if it is insured the protection the Government is bound to but we do not wish, in a spirit of bravade, to risk the lives of those who attend it, ‘When w» say | that New-Orleans is not the place, it is for t @ ex ¢l lent reason that the President’s orders have gy cu chat city into the econtrol of rioters who fight under the Confederate flag. Soon, if this policy is pursued, there will be no place in the South where a convention of colored men can be beld. Shonld it now be called in ts mombers would soon be hidden Southern loyalista NOVELTIES OF DISEANE. yices from China some time ago reported that “‘a new ond strange disease” had appeared in Hong Kong, and had carried off already 42 per cent of the British garrison. This is all the information which has ever beenreceived, the main fact beingthat the men are dead. In time, however, will come, perhaps, this medical gentleman’s disthesis, and that medical gen- tleman’s diagnosis, with a long pharmaceutical cata- » (in Latin) of the various drugs which have been | exhibited and found to Le good iothing, It is hard to believe that there v conditions so totally unprecedented as to give rise to absolutely distinet but if there were suspeet that they would be less em- that they would at least be more casily managed, than the u sin modification of ical disorders forwhich the race has been sweated cated, bled and Dlistered, timidly treated and | y tortured, ever since the days of Hippocrates. Ad new and diseases; h, W We know that there is no nonsense like the nonsense of medical anti fortunately we are not pro- plieti the medical schools of 1966 grinning over our prescriptions. We hold in high contempt the wiesses which the doctors of Charles IT. forced down the royal throat; but we have known vian of high standing, in tis Nineteenth of Christion enlightenment, to put not than eight different ingredients into a as big as marble. and to send it belpless woman, in the forlorn hopo squering a stomach-ache. No won- der that in this case the poor patient betook hersel peliets, and was soon able to anwounce to her de- | less L bolus down the wsophagus of a the morping, and the decillionth of a grain of toxico- : dendron in the evening. To get well as soon as pos- s the least respect which she could show to | fearfully impressive names, | 1t is but fair, how it is but common gratitude to a profession towhich we all resort upon the slightest emergency (unless we do worse, and dose ourselves) —the muititude of human temperaments, the scandals ous imprudence of the race in eating aud drinking and dressing, the ignoranee and falsehood of murses, who have always a pet remedy of their own bid away from the doctor’s eyes in a closet, tho impossi- bility of getting from a paticut cuything like an intelligent repovr o MY "E¥mptoms, the sophis- tication of drugs, and the general fact that, doctored or undoctored, a man always dies when histime has come. It is bad enough that 4 physician must-work-100 often in the dark, and cannot be sure that he is wrong until death decide against him; but he labors under a great disadvantage in the very confidence which we repose in him, He is expected to be infallible, * Lawyers may make mis- takes, but doctors arc to be omniscient, omnipotent, and by virtue o TNENEIES OMUIpEesct. Wo make uo allowance for the fallibility of human judg- ment. Wo have no patience to wait for the ataral disappearance - -of - seiAmited tissaze, Wo insist ~tbat. tho doctor shall do some- thing; and the moment we deiect his bread- pills and tinctured water, we pay his bill, dischargo him upon the spot, and seod off to. the druggist for a bottle of some concentrated nastiness with 4 long Greek name, which has already cared all tho children of all the clergymen in the State of 2l the ills to which flesh is heir-with-tho sirgle-exeoption of orig- inalsin, So Tommy gets well, and the leamed pro- prietor of the panacea receives and prints a certificate, while the poor doctor swears in the privacy of his sur- gery, and in sheer seli-dofense physics the next pa- tient within an inch of his life, v These, we are aware, would beimproper discussions | for an unprofessional journal like ours if it were not for | thepositive, material,and practicalinterest of the public in the preservation of the public health. Everybody, ex el e s | ing to override with his patrona, | Rebel Commissary Departu | Blair is pleased to act as major-doo, | where he had been invited by telegrap et stoppis naturally slips into & preseribed routine, and has the satisfaction at least of killing or euring secundum artem, Ttis not to be supposed, bowever, that these precious opportunities of obiervation iu Europe or Ameriea will be lost; and se may especially hope i that lizht will be thrown upon the obsenrer stages of | the disorder, and particalarl upon the nerrous de- pression by which it is usually preceded. Nothing, however, can compensate for the want of a popular recognition of the great natural law of cleanliness. All agree in the necessity of obedienes Lo this; and it is comforting to have o much as onc fact fixed asnd decided, The New-Bedford Mereury pute the difference bee tween the President and Congress thus: The controversy betwoen the President and the Cougres sional majority has been, whether the former has the sola power to settle the question of the restoration of the States, on Whethier the consest of the law-making power is not nees- sary. In this controversy, Cougress Las irlumphed—right has triczaphed—the Constitation has triomphed. ‘We trust it will be the last time Amcrican history will sec a Constitutional President cndeavoring te assume all the functions of Governurent and attempt- all who may ray nay. A valiaut Mobile editor, who was probably iu the nt during the war, says, in speaking of Mr. Raymond’s foolish letter: We shall soon see if the Radicals bave got the hackbone ta day out the perilons game thes have commenced. Wo shalb Lm- if Thersites can fight as well as vituperate, We of the Bouth, being voiceless in the debares wherein the wreat ques. tion is to be decided, will be norertheless deeply interested though mute spectators of the socne. ned, time deter- So fur as backbone is co mine. The Radicals showed their fighting qualities in various places. Mob instance. —But peace! Let us not talk about fighting. Has not enough blood been shed, and are there no§ orphans enough in this wide land? Ob, peace! If Mr, Raymond intended to excite and distract the Southern people by hisrecent Chinese letter, he has sue- ceeded., We find the Bouthere journals all disenssing “ war "—with his letter for o test—afwer this fashion: “Two_Presidents, two Congresses, tw) armios. and twa antagonistic parties may fan the flames of & iv ] war which would sweep from Cape (ud to ¥ y of uflairs the Southern people wo of Congress which both perties worl Did any Bobel serviog i the Arns or The Kadicals might atteapt to secure recruits amang groes, but the neroes know yery well thut Presdent Ji 15 thetr Moses. and would not fight against pum., certainl the per ohmson against their old masters, The South would be co remain quiet, and permit (he autucvistic factions to fight is out on that line if it takes until it loont. What wilf follow when the battle is onee joked, 1o ore e forgsee, but history tells us what betell the Koman Pmpire when rival fae- tious strove for the tmperial purple.” Mr. A. H. Stephens, to whom N is nothing that be more heart ration of the Union under the Coustitution, Wiat ate Mr. Stephens’s ideas of reunion and the Constitution are to be inferred by his recent useless reassertion of the right to secede, notwithsta: four years of war to put down that cruel hallucination, From con- siderations of expediency Mr. Stephens doubts the propriety of taking any part in_ the proposed Conven- tion, and declares that if the Unio: rred, sad if be is admitted as a Senator, be does ot intend to hold the position lonz, and will retive from public life. Mr. Stephens has great talent being over-per- suaded; but this prosramme will very uearly fill the remainder of his d; —e—— SON DAVIN, — HIS COMPLICITY IN TUE ASSASSINATION PLOT. A Philadelphia paper publishes tie follo received in that city in rf 2t the Jefferson Davis at Charlottesvilic 0 rece aonouncing President Lincola's assassin testimony of Mr. Bates during the 1of the swriter is a Northern man, o weae rolatlee of o officer of the Nortkera urmy, and o Federal office-holder. Heo says r JEFFER vieg “ Wao have just heard of the surpender of (ion, Tow's armm | The Methodist missiouary who first broueht the news, narrowly escaped the guard-house when he related it Soom teaded by & stooped ot the Txpreas C atter n cavalrs escort approached the G civilian, soon_recoguizod o Mr., Day house of Mr. Bates, un ageat of Ads feet of the door when Le alighted frous Lis borse ing the "ef‘ he made a sbort address. Not a word abou’ Mr. Linecln's death, for vothing of 1t was *hen known. The door of the house being locked, there was o slight delay afterward, ** As he remained in this position, un neeot of the tele by Pt iv, W1 velope was ,,..a Daris read the note with carnest and grave toncern, turning to n gentlemnn—Mi. William John. ion —standing nearest bim. he baoded it to X very extraordinary commnuic uttered by him. AS s00u a8 )t wis wau_inquired, *Sba word of replr. seemingly oecrypie thoughts, Mr. Davis moved an one < gentleman, who read aloud the dispaich aunouseing ‘the assassination of Preside: the theater i Washing- ton at 10 o'clock at nigh the life of the Secretary z “'Not another word was sul ance of exultation awon: o | inns, whose countenances I silent with surprise, astonis T did not eredit the dispateh. ‘with a friend to ses Mr. Davis. in o Tess toone of my family, *whom be Lud _permitted topass the lines to visit her brother, Mojor-Ceneral —, U. S, A, at that time stotioned below Rickuond, 1a ¥ tion T asked Mr. Davis if bo credited the.s ation of Mr. Lincoln. He replied gravely, in Lis usual man- that e could not regard It aw o mere” renort, for he had roceived the dispateh from Gen. Lreckinridg, who, be had roason to believe, was in commuuication . herman's headauarters, whenee the tuformnt.on was direcily obtained. “ He said: *He considered 1t U e, the most unfortunate oceurrence for the South, At u tiomeut wien Mr. Lincoln had expressed a disposition to accert or otfer favor-hle terms.” Ieis rally acknowledyed aud knowp here thng nothing could be more unlike aw expressive of exultation or M‘% tion than demeanor and language of Mr. Pavis on t! it fery cau bo poved Ly oversl who conversed With him, who were mie’ wore L timate Wil him than T, I write this to ¥oa as 8 ¥iaple st of justice Mr. Davis, in refereace to Lie position, without politioal o8 sectional bias of say kind, which 1 stxive to avoid. ' MR, CHARLES O'CONOR 1IN CONSULTATION WITH THR PRISONER—TIHE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION. ‘FoxTREss Moxkor, Ve., Tuesday, July 31, 1866, Charles O'Conor, esq., the principal counsel ot Jeflerson Davis, arrived bers thie worning ratbor suddenly unaccompanied by any person. outhe “enrer George Leary from Baltimore, Az an early hour he procecded into the Fortress, and bas remained there all duy 11 ¢lose consultation with bis client, The precise nature of his vieit fs uoknown, exccpt that the ocent report of the Judiciary Committee fo Congress hat 1 to make Davis rather anxious couceraing his prospect, of a release or speedy trint Mi. O'Covor in 5 at tue Uygela Hotel Tbe durafion of he siay o r cent sueculatorsin cemetery lots, desiresthe dimipution | kaows