The New-York Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1866, Page 4

Amusements. I A Cusax URaD WALLACK'S TIF 3 at8-3HAMU S O « wnre rew't of » Bottls of r e rown, Niss Coxamsn Warea e | s broskfaed. WINTER GAEDEN, I Coxompes VW aTER 8=POCA-HON-TAS=)EXNY TIND. Breoosys b Brouglem, Miss Eail o 3. C, Danm, V. & & | Coums yrrn g | Curans van Heao | Suamesy ta Azpsrinn MORA TO0MECH | ¥or Gavaaaz Damicirz axo DIerartih Miv Lefingiwed wsd | § = ! Exrizs Vo aren. 'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. | B LNING—JACK AND Q11 M. G L. Fox 1 Sowp Ary Droas INE HUNDRED THOUSAND CURIOSTHES. § - WINS. | 74 \i h Dailn Crib he 3 | oy T - New-Dork DailnCridune, ENING, st B=THE ICE WiTC ) | < s v ers, ' Fowler Sisters and full . mieny. @ra i et [T L Chor A gorgeous ¥inale, THE N DRL I('INI‘AY, AUGUST 7. 1866. 70 RRACE_GARDES, Third ave = qies VVENING st 8=THEG THOMASS ORCHESTRAT Te Corrcsponden e i ¥ | Mo motice exn betaken of Anonymous Commanteations ntended fos insertion minet be autheiticated by tle nanie and od Uy f0: publication. but as weuar, Wi oftees L ou g oo addressed (o Ve “Trie Tilis LVENIN REAS LIV ING e Wordar of the e A ————— | Unsimess Nolices. : s | I Pk TrisesE AT 8ara10GA ~Thornton, new - man ‘ A% the TRIBONE (o five o 1d bks bos L ou v in front of the proue pal kotels st ¢ Tagn Tivi 67 THE FORELOCK. epidensic f VEWS OF THE DAY, WAL IN EUROPE, Jiv Wi arvivalof (e Gormania and the City of Bostou at t) e wissm which generates tho d day ¢ e the blezing @ 1 e fise w6 “ | port, we have files of European papers to the 26th of J We reecive by these arrivals a fuller ace St o P le matter, e | of the pre: » organiz tio ol | 1ies of peace proposed by Prussia Prorire upoa every vi o orzac i £ 50 e e South German Confederatic embrace tho b!:ltrnfmx'h of tinied ovoathe of Suasmer, aud commion sevise 1 ot Giste . | the Mai is etated to be op Aunstrinisto jiuthe ! 8 | Cexfederation, on account of provinees, Tasvaria 1 SUD SRS b ot & | was unable to obfain an arwistice, and Prussian trovps veie ; We hold our lives w0 to sk, on s repais fo advence into Wurtembarg and I The princes | Besuan when the pr dilay #t 1o bud beon dispossessed of tholr doraiaions were to he : L 4 The eore, Luill ap, prop @ steporen of | Congress to gnard their righls. The people of the minor N, { o 1t migity vezctable recoperent G tates were, in the maaawhile, hecoming more urgent | sire for aunexatic Hosrrorew's Broveas .(-H Y. —-— NEW-YOR! Sunday, in addition to those al wee of (e habitable plo S, and 1 i th odall's Istand doring & v report for the weck ending shows the puwber of deatiss in which 2 were from chol over last week, and of cOliesiom S d Sundny, The wort ¥. August 4, at 3 p. ¢ city to bave been 9i% s exhidits au increase of Teve then wee with Hostarrens Birrens @i ae ot wod malaris | { orresponding week in 1867 | s wfitay cccurred in Myriio-ave., vear Fiiceest, Drook wout ¢ o clock Saturday night, i the conrse of which two - - o | d Rufus Farosworth weie stabbed, oneso | s recovery is considercd dou Th ! juries we A while attempting to rescae a sawed Wood from th of a party of rowdies, who assalled beat Lim in o ! manuer. ‘wtional Drove Yards” wore opened yesterdsy, For . ® B to 8. P ™ e Lambs seli Hops are e weze all Tho * Lidiocks the price ranged from 12 « ey ure Dyspep “Fhey core Liver oo AxEs PLANTATION . &t 123 1% roy was flned 62 for insisting w Lrown over tLe b March, 165, Draxt & Co enora! Term of the A able to pu the fiae be Board of Hoslth, | w briefly review. | al'y ea't attention to exmy factared by us, e d cx . | dangers, jus | them to the hell of EW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1865 titation of the law, we agree with the opinion The Wertd intendod to express, and chalienge it to show that the authoritics of New Orleans in broaking up | thua fuirly before the country, w by violence, and the President in ap- | To Mr. Sumne ms in the Senate the pass ut- | of the bill this n is due, and bis clear exposition of the system may be quoted. The unit of length we have given is the foundation of the systew, and from it all measures of weight and capacity arc derived. These are stated thus by Mr, Sumners The it of measures of anface ot land measures fs the are, from the Latiu ares, wnd 14 the square of ten mefor, or. i Fo of whicl each side fs ten meters ia partially accommwodated to the new system, It is the Conv proving their acts, have not committed the ve rage on free speech it denonnces. EANS MUBDERS - ©“MYV roLicy.” The Lcening Post is at liberty to * turn, aud tarn, and still go on;" but it shall not misrepresent us with impunity, For the last few days, it has seen fit to condemn the latest fruits borne by Mr, Johnson's policy in the New-Orleans massacre. 1t <, Lo President bas made a blander; Le has done au nct irectly contrary to !l Lis written and_spoken policy. We Shall 2pone i Tale step, aud pont out ts. Megality aud its « faithfully as we denouncod Congress for te- rosoutatives who wore giclis TnE length, Tho unit of solid measure is the stere, from the Greek, and is tlie eabe of & meter, or, iu other words, & solid mass oue neter re is the birer from the Greek, aud is The nult of ligusd m the enbe of the tenth part of the weter, which is the decis or, inother words, it fs 0 vossel Wlhere, by interior Btasure ‘o1, each side and the bottom are sqare decimeters. Le of welght 1s the &7 alio derived from the Gr and is the one thotsandth par he wolght of a cabic | istillod wator—thie beig Just above the freezing pols Sugh are the mafn eloments of the wat i Il of these hus its multip Aecimally upward apd divided moltiples are derived from the G hundred; kilo, thousand; and myrie. ten thousand, pro uify ten meters, one huzdred moters, onc thousatd meters, nd ten thonsand meters. The subdivisions are do vived from the Latin, ‘Thus deci, centi, mildi, prefixed to meter, signify one teath, oo bun «dth and one thousandth of A this will appesr in tie follawing table: Meatsic denominations aud lents In denominations a foeing 10 admit (hose Southern fied and could take the oath, If Tk TRIBUSE and somo ofler Republican Jourusls had with us demauded the admis<ion of loyal and qualificd Southiern members to Congress, they would now b in a better position to oppose the President’s Dlegal assumption of powe ““Mr. Je n sooner e reince better it will be for bim aud for the country. “In_thia present urfortunate condition of things in 1 ian, thonghiful men may see how aupremely import that the connty shall be brought back s qui strict constitutional forms and proceed o pat encl misstep, and confe barwonious working of al the parts of our valies in uses | Governmont. Had Cougress, by the aduissio) Myrinmeter, 10,000 meter - 62197 miles. either body of evers member who was duly qu Kilwmeter, 1,000 meters. 2157 mile, or 3,260 fat and take the proseribed oathe, thus restablished coustitutional 10 fnches. order, and set ali parts of the Government, State and Feder-1 to Hectometer, 100 meteta, 225 foot and 1 ingh, Workiog, each in its proper orbit, the Fresident of the United | Decaneter, 10 meters inches. MeTek, ! moter, inches. States would not have dared to commit sach an act as the dis Deeimeter, 1-10 of a meter placing of w regularly elected Govornor, aud the substitution | 1) in hig place and authority of gent of bis own. 1tisthe | Contimeter, 1:100 of u metcr, babit of some Republic Tke Tus Trawse, to aa- | Millimeter, 11000 of & meter. K These same prefixes may ba applied in ascending and de. scending seales to the are, the liter and the gram. ‘Ihos, for acample, we have in the sceuding senle, decagram, Aecrogram, Kilogram, sud myriagran; aud in the desconding scale, deci gram, centigram, milligran. To this brief apace you_behold the whole metric system of weights and nieasures. What a contrast to the auterior con- fusion! A boy at setiool can waster the metric in afternoon. Months, if vol years, nre required to store & the perplexities, incongruitios aud ineonsistencies of the ex- isting weights and measures; aed then mewory iust oftcs £ail in reprodueing thew, The mystery of compouud arivhme: tie is casontial 1n tho ealoulations which tley require. Al this in done nn{ by the dechmal progression, so that the first four rulos of arithmetic are s ph pupil. cribe to Mr. Johison many nd i desire to favor defiant Rebels t the expense and to the isjury of Union men, Similar sentiments and aims were impote? to Mr. Johmson by leading Republic ongress. It ought to have w0 persous that, if the President were really sueh i« they believe, or preto , it was tho more portunt, for the mafety of the wid crv, by bringing the Gover ) 1ly detived, well-known wnd wel-itried ¢ Pemarks by The Tribune. forms " are very we ased on eternnl aud impartic] jus- they may prove but a snare, ** Con- the where tice; The presont system bas but one advantage—it is stit s " Dave set hundreds of beautiful snd Llished, To the me rstem there is but one delicute girls on the anction-blocks of New-Orleans, to | ohjection in use. But it is not an experi- be sold to lecherons human biates for the most hor- In France it pular, and in the markots rible wes: ¢ Constitutional forms™ have dragged | and stores meat and ¢ are sold by the meter and hundreds of Chiristian men, women and children, from | Kilogeam, Once understood, it be everywhere ! tho light and liberty of tho Free States to reconsign { used; and its adoption by Austrin, Spain, Portugel, Secure ns essential Belginm, and many otker countries, i< another rea- £ protection in relations with Eng- i1 Jand would alone re that this conntry should at illwill of | onee join with her in the reform. Mr, Sumner well fon canse. | <1 we ook elosely at the metric system, we not fmplicity aud s Like every Master abandon ity commer is perfect, anfai ul property, to those poop! o incurred the in bonor to life, liberty Tately in rebellion who ha yuling caste by de anxions to punish Rebe! « of the Sta says: we are unfailing | must confoss it and never w ¢ only want com 1 of nee, it s aceo prote for the loyal. Not to insist en this wonld, | the rule aad you master the system. On this account, i onr view, be Mack perfidy and burning shou | it may be acquired by the young with comparative fa- Now we canuot find this protect | eility, and when ouce acquired it may be used with son's policy, nor even in The Post « | pateh. Thu g labor-saving and time-saving, Suppose, for example, Con .1 The st copied from the bar Jobnson has proposed: he ve precluded | platinum presery the French archives as the the wholesale murder of U at Memphi ,p“uml tandard, will soon be dep A with every How the me ent carnival of masacre at - | Bt We nrge upon the Direct of the Public ans? How would it have gaved + | Bchools the importance of having the metrie sy honses from ar on. White f teach | expln to the children. Let it u children from rape, male toa: from | p Hnon i " wrean officers from murdes, by rooon- | impe upon no but hereafler | struoted Rebels all over the South? While the {jts v e from the fact nch, they behuwved tolerahl \'! very fow pec rstand the pre. that th prebiend little, they net abominahls | rang d pennyweights. are they likely to behave when t hall have | A universal system of weights and mensurcs s, at ible; reason to look to the 1o fear at all? As Lo allowing unch Canie o N ¥acof the Awerloa | Ly t ETess any one who ean “ take the oath,” it s i s, Thissmmple fo mate ogor the trie priaciple L Deer Sen | e Tt effectoad (v | 0% & wretehied juggle: if they ae to be repre | aud the confusion of Buhel s be s d aud worked & f ast the pestilence kere as weld as in Europe. at all, let the cnd their free el ! it codperstion of nstions. next Honee, we can- | —_— ndrews was arrested ard Lrought up af the dny afwrnoon, charged with | ounts on the Fullon B The acs o5 approved by ' e i forged clee d tendered them in | ! Le exsmived th sum to mennfacture tiis Cu cavs it, 10 be laid from New-Vork to Bermu 100 Arss and to England, France or Spein, Yo waks aad warrant any lsugth required for that § Tpose Tolegreph Couparics, vl othera i 0essarples, b ., ut our office &z | worzivg. Quecu Eua of Haw Fava, frow Liverpoo), on Wedncsday, The Que to Euglavd, aud (s now o her woy ho: we will pdertake i, 15 expected lere by the stemmer and will probably arive today oF | Kuown, on & visit ’ | 4t this city yostar Tuw Diswor Ot | may simee Ben, Wood is | not see why Toombs or ionld b t | CONGRESN AND 31Is PAy What we require of the Sonth is that she plice 1 Cougress did a very nnwi: Afi<h, cowardly, hearty Unionists ou an equal footing with her r)- neipled act, in increasing its own pay at the bat not subdued Rebels, In other | Lae ioma We soy unwise; because there words, wo ask for the Sonthern Unionists *the right | it five men in the tvo Houres who would bave of seif-protection by the ballot.” With that s } A, when candidates for their present positions, to is a loyal State, the Freodmen's Bureiii"} dec Tare that, §f eleeted, they wonld seck and vote to every St e n, and the fse thelr own pay from 86,000 {0 %10,000 cach per ] ¢ ongere I iehied, our troops withdr iy S day, and «ix or seven de ere W k A b :'_m";' & Satws Aoy 45 capes and seven deatbs, aud on Sauday ¥ cuies | Slate lately in revolt he allowed to send whomsoc ver was selfio) wembers must Laye s Lo e ght 10 bo sbating. they will to Congress. So long as this right is with- | known that, in o aetine B s L S . e ) 4 | tas e : ouwasitted for trisl yesterday { i e disloyal, unquie! nd | Lar v and dam e hisk e { A Cirar COMPLEXION AND A Hriiiny & "b; :.If.a- o+t v”mr'rrn ‘ j beld, the howill 1 dislogal, unquict 1| barrassing and damaging ¢ cause which they & ved e obtained while the pores of thie skis ere - e of May la a land of violence and erime. A full year's expericiee | to have at heart in their gre t of privat Masd v in a8 impure condition. Dr. Jaxe's Avvamarive vil, | r ra were reported | s proved that the Blucks will never bo trvd o justly | gain. It wis o neipled; for fu ™ v, vestote, ths pacliy of the. skin, snd ill (herogiy canse tho | " the Timite of the | till they are enabled to command Justice by their | with pover over their owa recompense should th Biosd, it willalso temove the cbe pores, aud | votes. 1) to-day in this City, where | st an example of moderation, i onder that they may istion from el fmp: sities woAt { gt peh A mstuess | 4 few of the enfranchised. | be in position to n er and efliciently the i 63 effcacy. Sold by el Drvag resprsidrs g Sttt Fhere is 1o <cenrity, no true peace, becanse 1o 2hso- | rapacity of other wonld-he k o the body politie s S 3 0 4 b s ahrifdid st | 5 i h 1 1 Becnr a W > 10t ventiur AN EXCELLENT ARTiCLL. morn! Her news bad bean antiolp { late ) 1y policy whichi does po ire AN | It was cowardly; for they did not venture to enact e s P | The Poritand Reltef Commitice acknontedge the receipt of | Right this inerense of pay in a distinet bill, and let tho Yeas Puonasnof lildron. 1t rolieves e ) §aAitionsl, waking A grand (ofal of $10 and 1o taken and reconded thereon, but sneaked s oo o sogy o i ] vg Al 145 snd M8 voy " o wed ot 1473, ofter e kg ot 1474 wd 148 ANE METRIC AVNTRN. | it into the tail end of an app tion bitl, and juggled #swach and bowels, and, by givinz Leals “ ol L stocks ot | festa tho mother, foe. . The emal ¢ | o 4 way share ma sulsc. After n it ol B wud 1 Boazd ih - " t Uetle disp T . ¢ Mori Axv FRECKLLS, R e ip o § 114134 84t with disoolor MR PAtcHes, | 42 433 por ceuton ea ¥ 4k & forine » FRRCRLK Lo e Post # | X vl ; GENERAL NEWS, Much snrprise in expreseed in Nes-O:loans at fhe puldon ‘nlqhn . = | tion oi & #0 1 dispatel from Gev, Slosidas to Gen. Graut York paper. 1t is stated o2 good wutbority that fie was an altered wod wutiisted copy ylreing the Gen ¢ attitade of indorsing w!l 1L bue heen done by the A trne copy will probably see t sbortly, CGraut telegraphs to the Gov nsas that be Las oxdered & regiment of colored tre [§ g fiom other quarters are en 16 of cavalry scouts Las been ord Fdward Harris's Woolen Mill & fire in the earding room rery day we hear of thce wor Lers Oavaxio Homss Savve i offe R v worat cases of Gal, Scratehis, (Vd Soe ~wel oz € uly marvelpas. Ouo trial slways o o 844 by dioggists. end st depot, No. 49 Cede. CHOLERA HAS Low1 11~ Diron Mawanns's AstaTio Cronema Cony Los o sass. ‘Costimonials of ita effcacy ere dlly e No pearson who values thelr 1 bt shc Prise #1. Depot No. 687 Broadss of that State, Troops A company 2 10 the Salomon, to the Wty ovided wit . 1 in Weonsooket. K I, oruivg. So Tap rethver were g ter Sroonwn-HAND SAPEs in Jarge nu SR ks i 1 Tabuge e bar miewe pelent Arvwend | ¥ 15 18 ‘Wpre of the flames th r' © ULAATER For anie low. i | pelied to s by jumplog fre o windews, and y° Marvin & Co., 265 Brosdwey, and 721 Crent i 0 Pl | goony were hurt, The losees wili be Leays, . e el ipr o h e « 5 ey enils { AgUB—STRICKLAND'S AGUE ReyEny ic o certain | ¢ f " t fustant, there baic | etca deaths by atood the test of yoots in tho Ve s of A | clolera in {he Chasity Hospitsl ot Now Odleans, Ewnent s the soveroig: remedy 1n | cinna prouounce 1he disense of o walignant tpe. There aser now in the Clarily Hospit % i bt ey | pected to 1ecover. { Cavmon! FORRTHOUGHT ' 1—Hate vour Mediciiis { up lu SoRExLS * Petent* Uradusted Bt en thciebs cota =g | Wil n jarty of negroes at Forticos Mouroe wore 1 fheaet h""'”‘fi"““"“""‘"”'“'fi.’,}.".fi";’gm Mgt N, v, | of breaking up e loaded shell on the bonch for R parpose of -y I, ST + - § ug it for old iron, it sad: expleded aud weriousdy | 'The agency of WARREN, ACKERMAN & Co., for the © wosnled two of them, P e goods ol ke e Lt R ot toeis wcs. { There were 330 doaths in Civcinuati duricy the. moath of —u.lc.g;:rl A July, 12 of which were fiom Asistic cholern. On August it o p g ¢ were 4 deaths from that O tbe U, 3, on the 3, i WiLLooX & Gisns SEWING Ma % on the gab, 11, und ou the T _l—,:g:,f‘-,‘-::',::"y,‘wy. veas 0 U0 | Guys, Yullerton and Steedman are bot' i Wuskivgion. | g tor the g aaT sapies of Werk cczt nlog heckvivdecf | They have wade tholr final 1epoit. asd Uiis misviou tu the 1 now 90 (5 same piecs of goods. oe Brosdwey. | ot cr ended. Tlere were & cases of cLolera Ly Tuiladelp Saturday, aud £ deaths. Rear Admiral Thatcher, who succeads Commodere K srrived in San Francisco on Saturdny. “Lhe oflices of the American Velegrapi aud Natious! }'rjreen es, With several buildicgs, were burped ai Atlanis, Sunday p! “Tux ARM AND LRa, by B.l-‘n.;x l';Lli;, oL D= beai” froe to soldiers, and low 10 officers and civiliezs 1509 b st mh.:mw.. Y., 18 Grees ah, Pesion. [ e great cbarm of METCALYE'S GRiA T RILC MARIC emany Hes in the small quantity necessary to vffuct o care. Oue hq {orty dropa™) I-—:nucl.m{ thiice reprated. scldom o 1oatore the suflerer to perfuct bealth. { . Dr. LANGWORTHY'S | e Tiwcasbie: No. b Brosdmey. ¥ Tagyns, ELastio , SUBPEXSORY BaAxy- ' ) 1l Aveud s New PaEMivn Thuss cures b E s . . " Woret caven soiciied. Call he Republican Association of the Ninth District have unanimonsly repudiated i< representative in Congress, Mr. Heury J. Raymond. This is only the hegiuning of (he end. i 1 u-lm.g-'l Redicw Care Tiua Qe Fuorknos LOOE-STITCR BEWING-MA¢ RINFS—Best prroms . Luansnca B e sy 1 ImprovEp Look-Srirem Macuses for Tailors aud | Morr's CHgMiOAL PoMADE Restores Gray Huir R T L [ G &g o ot o | Ou the second page of to-doy’s issue we juint Fu- | ropean News, tters from Milan, Berlin, Florence, Paris; on the third page o Letter from Tarkey, Fail- ure of a Cheese Merchant, The Arrival of Hamill st Pittsburgh, a Letter from West Virginia, and Com- mercial Matters; on the sixth page New Pablications; and on the seventh page Treasury Regulations under ibe New Internal Revenue Law, Law Intelligence, Shipping Intelligonce, Forgeries Committed by an Ex-Merchaut, an Obituary Notice of Charles Eld- ! redge, Monday's Bull's Hoad Market, and vasious City Ttems., i Gmoves & Baxwws HiGmEsT PREMIVM ELASTIC Fuwivg Macwines for family use. No. 455 Broadirsr e ows Sewing Macnixe Company.—ELiAs Howy, 5 No. 099 Brosdway. Ageite . ; Dysrersia TABLET, 8. G. WRLLINGS, for indig wnd bsartburn. Boid by sll Drigsists Winkier & WiL8ox's LOCK-STIICR Siwine ;Afl'lln"ml&l Macu:xe, No. 020 Breadwa To deprive any citizen of the right of froe spoech | “hy civil or military power, or by private vic i, i the opinion of The World, * to override and to wuakiiubk lagy " Thomal privgte viekoncs & el ¢ rl-:aVi ette, $3 per dozon; V]);ljlin.h;\, va&ut .L'A.Lnu N, 100 Clatba '3 4 1 dinlects see the Tower of Babel was threwn it throngh by the machinery of a Conference Com- ind prinished for its presumption by confusion | yoieae after the Howse had voted it down by 125 to of roces and tongaes, soatlered human | three. Tt wasn'y mean porformance, and we hope sciously but eteadily striven to reunite, | to see it repealed at the next o s i h other, and | nd have been absorbed into coulesced into lingnages, though nearly four thou dialeets still exist, The English langu wh few hundred years ago scarcely existed in a little now of the it of wer in Land and ask the only take the m | every candidate for the next Congress, vote to put the pay of Member: hack to & aunwm, and have all Mileage charged by the most | dircet mail route 1" wple wi s 000 per island, is world. Even it an increase of pay had heen jost—as it is not—the Bill shoudd have provided that every Membor sent from his tshould forfeit al loast S5 per y and $10 for every time the Yeas and Nays ar taken and his name not recorded, Absentecism s o crying and growing evil, Halt the Members absent half the time, When sneli abzence is totally without exeuse, they pretend to deduct 224 per day for it (which is abont one-fourth what they ha ¢t voted a day's service to be worth): but th L i< rarely exacted. The absentce pretends to have sickuessin Lis family, or makes (to himselt) some other exeuse for taking from the Treasury money which he has never earned, and Lo which he is not entitied by Taw. 16 Members choose to vote themselyes a full 1,000 per month or %40 per working day) for their services. they ought to abolish the Franking Privi- lege, dismis three-forurths of the aid satellites, and reduce the mileage to ten o il hy the shortest mail route, Bat they make no show of deal- ing honestly with the public. Some of them will rue this before they get reilecte 1. —The N. V. Tunes tries to of this matter, as follow “In wll (hat concorns retrens of the Administration and sl saving bas been wecomplished Administration, For reslst eoedings which entail heavy u! Jebt, tho country fs indoht pntrast 0 damiging of any single tongue, Of the ori- trope, few are now kaown to the Iy ginal languages worll=the very name of the Jazygian is « out of Libnrnia, Steadily, centory after to speak alike; and, thongh there may never be s unive wal Junguage, 1 principles are destined to de- .aning Babel of tomgucs which has In every way, the retarded the civilization of the earth. civilization tends to establish uuiversal customs, priv- ilege: and laws. Modern scicnce, comprehending (his ;. endeavors to a-sist it. The metric syetem uny tenden is one of the latest attempts to create A pernancit standard for al) nations; and, as it is destined to be adopted in the United States, we shall explain it to our readers, { | The present system of weights and measires |~| | | | hased vpon no principle. 1t is empirieal aud tradi- tionary. snd therefore confused and uncertain, FEvery child bas tronble to master it, and few men under- stand any part of it, except that they may use in busi- ness, The English foot it s measure founded on the average length of the human foot, and so with the wpan, the hand, and the nail. Three barleycorn make an inch, these barleycorns being supposed to 1 healthy grains taken from the middle of the ear. T unit of weight is in like manner & grain of wheat. Different kinds of weight, Troy weight and avoirdu- pois weight, add to the difieulty of mastering these ke Jolicon capital ont the faots are in f: ress, For w clusively to Congross. wgvstive will attraet the Aleady e Presiden tion uextios, t; w, wouy will b found distrusting the canviss becom accidentsl standards, In short, this system of | and opposivg the ceuse of Congross With almost exclusive nf B0 ie f retrouchment weights aud mieasures is unknown in other comn- § “eH¢ ek b bl damigbaini tries, and is sily nnderstood in our own. It —The Times ignores the fuet that the inerease of pay 10 Cougrass was moved in the House by Mr. Niblack, docs not corre pond with our civilization; and the : e, Riddle=hoth vehement Prench system, the universal system, should re- and in the Scnate by place it. The metrie system was proposed at Paris, | Copperheads and supporters of the President’s policy. in 1790, and She idea was to measare an are of the | If one single Copperhead or Johuson wan easnestly opposed the increase, the fuct escaped s, The aditor earth's meridian, and gubdivide it till a new nnit was reachied. This work was done; and—thongh the measurement is said to Lave been incorrect, by some hundreds of yards—the result is sufficient for all prac- tical purposes. ‘The meter, which is (he univer-al unit, is one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equater to the poles, or 39.37 inches in length. ‘The application of the decimal scale to this stand- ard results ip a eystem of nuprecedented regularity aud clearness, Tt i now nsed in all bhusi- ness transactions in France, and has been adopted by of The Times i+ an aetive member of the Houses bat we have not obeerved that he tried to defeat the increase of pay, by resisling it on the floor throngh the columns of his journal 1w does it become him to throw stones? : does Le forget that he was, at the preceding | Soesion, the prime mover in creating a new Judicial [ Qistriet in order to make a uear friend a distriet judge for life, at a cost to the Treasury of at least 50,000 Aund does he not know that many thou per annum ! most of the Earopean conntrios. In 1864, Great Brit- | sands of doilars are annnally squandered in cupporting win passed au act anthorizing the use of the sy<tem; | Miscions and Copsulates where none are needed, and and Congress, Jnly 27, passed a bill which, theug where they may be discontivued by the President does not make the system compulsory, establishes it | his diser Witness the Musion to Rome e logal Thg standasd walhts and meastres arg 1@ | Lhis wholy mattgy of Publiy Expeudiue ueeds o ‘ be furnished to each State, and our postal systemis ‘ will you | thorotgh overhauting; ond this it will get whenever | that he bad tarnished Lis famo, We now challonge %1 (he Pec ole, withont distinction of party, shall resolye i authenticity, and pronounce it (obe cither forged or gur. [ on it. At least, 20,000,000 per aunum might be | bed, We demy that it is the dispatch whick Gen. Graz! saved by rigorous economy in every departmente=by | is said to have received on Augustl We demona abolishing useloss places and redacing every salary that the real dispatch be published, and allowance to the lowest point, But, €0 long as | If the reader will carefully study the above = rotrenshment is made o mere party-cry, it will be cast | tracts he must accept this conclusion. The cory:. l aside and forgotten so soon as it sball have served its | spondeuts of The World, Times and Herald are favoyes Lend. Letusall, of every party, resolve to nominate | at the White House, and they possibly speak Ly the T and eleet to Congress npright, frugal men, pledged by ' cards The World states that Sheridan wrote threc'dis- | tieir Tivos s well as taeix lips to Rotrenchment and ! patehies, One of these three appeared in The Times, aod Reforns, 1 was no doubt given to its Washington correspondexc - o by & member of the President’s staff. It roprosentos REFORM DEMONSTRA | Sheridan as virtually sywpathizing with the rioters. TION, | The other was seut to Mr, Stanton end its substahes | When the Moravian left with the mails of the 25th | printed in Tine TRIBUNE. Its authonticity is adgitted ult., the all-absorbing topic of public discussion in | gbove by The Times, The World and The Hereld. ingland was the Reform demoustration which took | *'The police,” General Sheridan says, ** made & mest place in London on the 23d of the month, and the de- | cruel and unnecessary slaughter of the blacks " l:lwr,-hl.: ocenrrences eonnected (herewith, resultng | < Magor Monroe is a bad man, and ought net to b from the unwarrantable interference of the Go reinstated; ™ and he thinks the measures taken by g THE LuNDON -l"rmucu' with the propose Hyde | Mayor uunecessarily harsh, cruel aud scvere, T ark. 10 proof was wenting that & Tory Gov- | sounds like Phil. Sheridan, No one doubts he sent ermment s an asachrouism iu Euglish polities at | Yet hecause it is printed wo are told that the authp-i- the present period, it would be eupplicd by the events in question. The very fir=r act of the Derby Miniitry on succeeding to office is to make an attac k ou popular rights=is to provoke o collision between the crown and the people. It is by no meaus ditfieult to understand the wmotives which prompted that » tack. During the lat bates in the House of Commons on the Reform question the Tories insisted that the people of Eugland were per- and that it was **cot .- } ties * greatly annoyec | dential,” —Maving shown the substantial truthfulnoss off dispatch printed in Tug TRIBUNE on Saturday, w [ mow return to the dispstch in The Times of Friday | We all know that Gen. Sheridan would not write oy hing to Mr. John-on and another to Mr. Stanton; | he m;uhl ot tell the President that the Radicals be- an the ri Secretary 1 ol fl‘:‘lnly indifferent abont an i:\'t-hniu?l of the ; f\.-". the ::,:‘::l‘:::.e N;;: ffi:}u::'ewsl;:fl;;ht‘.n;:d: suffrage, and that the agita tial matter | soldier and a gentloman, and we therefore resent vhis was purely the work of s and demag 2 800 garbling of bis dispateh. We have the evidence, of np to subserve unworthy party purpe Wl people, | The Times, Herald and World in support of TrE TRiB- well cont things as | vxe's dispateh; but who indorses that of The Timbe" nd, 4 an unpre- it stands now it looks like a forgery. We make ul prosperity. Bread i | guch charge; bat at the same time we insist upon ti o cheap; there is plenty | prodaction of the original dispateh, The Times cluir ing classes, and 1o end of | to have its inspiration from high sources, Tt boasts What more | its exclusive privileges at the White House, Let 1 tion of it was contended, they are. England, it was o cedented measure of mate atmndant; tea and sugar 4 loyment for the lubor s for the diversion of the 15) Iasses, | it was aeked, ean the people want? Tu | say to the President, then, that the American peog comparison with substantial comforts, political | do not wish to see the reputation of & soldier as des. rights are a cli and the pe ed of this, | to them as Phil. Sheridan misrepresented to screu cire nothing about Parlismentary Reform. Holding | from popnlar wrath his appalling policy, and thad such views, it must have greatly surprized and cha- they demand (Lat the General be penuitted * | ery. Y, . : lscase will Busl its peiscucc sbafieimvain | There were 97 donths from cholera at tho W e on | 51 tice, aud we are not particular as to forms, o 05 Sk Afotion 1A - Lhs VUtials flitoes . Wh | & 1ed the now Administration to discover, upon their | speak for himself, and relieved from the smepicic grest medical fuct, atiesied by | Biackwells Isdnd doring the 46 hours previous o 10F pum. on | Thyg) W50 T bt the loyal States honud ; 1 P Mot WO giaplacement of the Liberal ) o that the people | shich The Times hos thrown upon him. ady reporiad; alwo i What we ask, what we hold the loyal States honw nuot cling to the old confudon, while other nations really do care about the franchise, and are in good : | i hd - earncst in their determination (o bave all the rights | that are secured to them by the coustitution wuler | which they live. Bat it would never auswer for the Torios to be found in grievous error. The eloguent ! sophistries which had heen so ingenionsly employed against Mr. Gladsto Reform bill must not be laid f-doors, The agitators allowed to bave ther The correspondence between Gen. Bairde w Mayor Monroe tends to set at rost the question of i} mediate responsibilivy for the riot in Now-Orlear The letters are dated to the 26th, foar days before the riot. Monroe declared his intention to disper-e the Convention unless restrained by the military. Geér Buird replied that if the Convention was legal it W ! he right to remodel the State Goverument, and bare by popular action ont- and demagogues must vot be And so a determined staud must at once ORI WY, s be taken against tho R 1ont—a bold stroke | 2% **its labors should bo looked wpom. ss '8 el fta prowoters. Ih-mc.hmul'“ pleasantty te which none showld objeet.” The question of legality would the refusal to allow Hyde Pask for the wmeetin the spocions plea that the object of | smobthe fair and temperate discus- but imidation of | indue time be settled by the judicial b of the United States Government, Al this is clear to rights thinking men, who see a dozen ways by y'b‘tb ut bhase been avoided. But, vithont f or decision that the Conventionisty violating law, the Mayor of New.Oc- t himself against the Governor of the State sapreme arbitration of the land, and, armed ogram from Washington, did the woik of hence slon of a public question Parlizment however, so ¢ violence mi) of phy force, it with Tory prine omple ¢ o disy podicy. 1 predilections, hns proved o from the als show that, in the conflict provoked by journ. Lord Derh, t popular canze ha : gained o signel trinmph. The temper aud § 2 dor accordingly. deration of the Ncformers of London un- | : the provo v they reeeived at the | vtant Edacational Coavention- Lave jist | Lands of the Government weve admiable, for the fow | adjonrned—the State Teachers' Association of New- | York, which held its annual meeting at Geneva, and | 1L State Teachers' Association of Pennsylvania, cop- ued at Gettysharg, From the published reports of the proceedings of these Conventions it appears that, { in the opiuion of the schoolmen, the public schools fn | New-York bave fuiled to keep pace with the progress of the stitutionsof learning; iu Penusylvamis the reverse i< trne. The academies and colleges have not advanced in proportion to the progress of the common schools, By a proper combination of fhe sful elements in the New-York and Peunsyle 4 laws, there shou'd be organized & system thas wonld secrire to both common schools aud higher in- stitutions # harmonious and symmetrical develop- 1 grenl citie of periads of pensity 24th are t ahoundin outrages committed o of those disor ra ready to take advant ment to gratify their p and plunder. No thauks to the Hom Richard Mayne t Dblood w shed ion--—that life v t sacrificed to an apalling | extent on Monday, the Jaly. Bat thanks to | the working classes, who, ‘despite the slanders that have beemwbraped upon them by men whe can sce ko 4 excellence, but thing that is evil and re- volting, in th ey, bad that confidence in the justiee of their ca and that « aith in its to restrain thei under rly ilw for mise not in prof N | eventual trinmph, | cireumstavces calealatad to excite theni to open re- t | volt p—— | We lage said that the T o out of the . Toshow what the ex-Rebel populativs ticmsolves ! place in the Governmont. They are eviden _ | think of he legalit> of State Conventions in general, * l"""' the nge. T are blind to the signs of the | W¢ quote from one of the apologists of the rioters | times. Thoy have d fuith i haman | ""’1?"'(""”"'" ’-";""‘:‘";';""dh Fis e - g e Constitation of V' . dismemberizg that nobie | re improved by the influences of Rebgion aud | Compamamatth sh QIAVRBSAIBLSE bot peopie. Soshd havo ook | Bducation. They and tenacion | earried by the popuiar vota of any one counsy ia the State. i & was aoceptnblo to the President, and is now the oply law' | bold to the the political | the land.” The Constitations of Siates are, t tage of the aparentiy obliy | - the conanast, and_we it that whatsoeves | 88 v | State Coostitution the military antborlties may we Wil be the governing law of the South, until reinstuted in il inalicnable Tight to aiter cr refyrm its fondamental law. Moror Moutoe s recognized this great truth, He obslously reuiits to the Vederal Government to decids whet'cr the | v xisting £ oustitation shal! con:iaue in force or be abolaled™ Whatever, then, is acceptable to the President, is jor Monroe, notwithstanding the confes- nd the rest of bis confedersto: are wtain illegal powers in order to pud 4 down illegality, There is moro in this than re B th tian | pis already f the utry, the F any longer of the fact that societ moving onwa Bat the doo: the Derhy Mini With the example before ti g of free institutions in th glish poople will ot cousent to be orn seulod, law enough by rea ONE HRIGHT SPOT. Floyd County, Virginin (in the far West) ha n I'. A, Winston (Radical,) for Sheriff, by 169 | tuajority over F. Howery (Copperbead.) Winston was sent (o Castle Thunder a5 a traitor (to the Confedor- and there kept for some lime, Mowery wasan inst M. King of The New-Orleans Times tolagra after bis visit to the White Iouse, that the moeti | of the Now-Orleans Couvention wero ** pothi ; than o debating club.” So, forty men were and more than a bundred and fifty wounded in ondee | wctive, bitter Robel, ® | 3 ¢ to suppress a debating clab ! ; We do not know that another county in O Viv- | - y b l * “.mwl_ ll,“l ; “il J;Il_m\:“:m;-;-: 'Ihr . _l s Call fur & meeting to Cheose Delegate . g ot i oo st e s s Niskemumhtd i to all-Niblack Convention at Philalelpha k the plank!” is the alternative prescated ow A good miany sign | MAKING PUBLIC OP i i | We ask attention to this batch of ¢ { the Weldiman ate his leek: **1eat, and yet I swear.” spressed coveeruing the public } New.Ocleans, signed by Gen, | v g e, 3 | he matter. It | Connerr USIVERSITY i1rAcs).~The trustees lin ve cOu- |3 i i Tediarny | J. N. Greeno of Mediua, N. V., fob a1 to the city. wassent 10 (e Prest- | + first colloge buildivg. It iste Secretary Seward, and on (0 Sceretary Stan swiug bis well known policy lie Madical press. 2w here e e sitory 165 feet long, 50 broad, four storics above Lasement, entirely of stone; cost §57,425, It is de :: o afford the roquisite facilities for 100 students, and ‘o | completed by June 30, 1567, Tt is hoped that the Agfie Atural Department may thus be opened next Fal Othir States may tot their fund fall into the Lauds s 3 old-fashioned it they choose; wo in Now Vork el agitators anl 1l lonass R’ | saeun to pat the new wine futo Shoroughly new botleh o of 11he poioe, Kb sud trist that the resalt will show the wisdom of this mai, Y £ his ostimate of the usurpers aud aun, us oxpressod ch t. published In Fridayw T o the heat anthority that Gen, Steridan b atateniont with regard to t i that oflicer’s firet | e woY and w X Tim coiine, . i wud Gon Grast are gr . e Fential eorresy Tae Times. nd dispateh was 5 ceived by Gen : a0 2 AT T o w Sbieridan i regard to the Orleans 1o, in daln while vention was the eause o s consinoed Bl that the Mayor Mo of A3 black Monros i+a bad Yot 10 he veirwtated, aud that @ lorae sjority of Wha peopleare of this dispateh were forwanded by resident end 8ooretary of War From itted 1o be taken by Judging by Raymond’s mental evolutions ate. it will not surpris | (o discover that s the author of the followisy | tyken frow a leadiog article in The Times of Suadars %, eutitd Prussiu in Germany:” e Mo 1+ a8 ma's 8 puopet {n the hands of Misark a0 | v was e hande (I Richeliea, or Fraueis 1. 15 o | of Metiwraieb.” & A roferenca to istory proves that Richeliez was Lord Tickelien diod Augut £ same opininn Gen, Grant to the Ty [atter copy extructs Were peri tives of the Kadioal press w. ey, the toue of whi 1y misrep e * bew Vadete dinpansgs i 1585, and Loais XY, in 1710, Therefore, 88 e e aoriies of 1 | Dre. 1. 1640 and Louis XY, entared this world in 1710, 3t Lters tha wifompt | diffcul to understand horw the latter came foto the heods aattorired aud Ulegal, aud ho Lad ; | the great Cardiual. T'erliaps Ths Times oditor esa exlvi® ¢ A1 the satae timeeand this s the second disp s s < e . (alen by 1 New-York, b e e —e :"'H e % A Wonderful Congressman—He Reiurns ] - ovident from the Extra Pay. 1¢ 1% evident from E e il v the character of Gen. in by virtnally representing him as su accom- of Mayor Monroe. On August 3w dispatch printed in The New-York Times, arporting to Lo an attempt to destre N L B, Soinmer, Inclosed plea on the Assistant Fi parable (o my or 'eArr - @311, DU KOALLALALIIS, B3 ) A 1565, 1o A ‘awount of iy e ket 4, 1860, which 1 g by e e 8 e b resentod that | ary fom Mareh 4, come from Gen, Stieridnn, which vepresented that {5 THG oy aiury of tho United Staten, o officer a5 being wholly in sympathy with the rioters, for the Apyruprlation bill ot s eutgior soldiome ¢ & N o word of condemnation for (he sconndsels | Bt beatne 1t A0 U bt cqunl oty il o | ) who b riot, aud not a word of sympath who want luier to the 14, 805 4 QN eh may aria. the 14 the paor negmes o barbatously sla i Wi ally first o tho defenso of 1ho fa "“,:‘;‘."“‘. i, ! conture to gar that every loval man in the North read wiae legistation of (19 conntre, thevol:ze rob b | venture to say that every loyal ma : g (nina Teonwyry. Vory raspesifully, €. D, Ysmae A3 1wtk poia thay " disuateh” of il Shoridy g = i ¢