The New-York Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1866, Page 4

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The responsibility ot your sufferiug rests npon yours »dlay, or will shake 1o mortow Hosrrren's CELEBRATED SToM \CTt BITTERS wit guish Lbe disease under which you libor. Hsd you taken s geuial tonic as 8 preveative, you would Lav: o veed of it fo fevers. fwpervious to <l m 1e precaution, rid yo lers the syster s without delay Break (he g TTER'S BirTERs f thousands, Fhair carative aetion o ot ouly entirels bacin o f y never can gail in suy case of Fever and however iuveterate in its character. To be without Hosterrei's PITToms, they wever hare failed, and it is coufi Ago J with Intarmittent or Remittent ¥ever fs sinply Tt disease 10 16y oot eafoty aud co A Crgar Hgap FOR BUSINESH ia the sare result of @ Bottle of Conaness Watra before breskiset Conornse WaTeR Conss Bruiovs: Creave Tee Heap, SHARPENS THE APPETITA. ERAL DEBILITY AXD DYePEPsiA take, Expian Waran. S0iD BY ALt DRUGOISTS. They purify, atrengthen and invigorate. They create s b 2 ind ( They cure Liver Compisint Headache. LAN/ATION DITTRRS have cnred more ceases of o tia pro private st doaler bas ot got it, report to Our INPANT HAS BEEN Brovi Through the critical period cfteothing by the We wows 800TuING Stave vise o1 parents to procure it.—[Mis sderippl Batist 1t corrects weidity of tha stomach, relieves wind colic, e Dowsls, aud, by giving rest and Bealth to the child, couforte the JUMPERS.—A new invention. DPrice $3 a circular to Lewrs P. Tinpavs. N r " Also, Carrisges, Hobby Homes, every sty Swings and Toys 'RICKLAND'S AGUE REMEDY is a cert « sto0d the test of yers in the Valless of Misise'ppl and and is the sovereiga femedy in all these infected disiricts. Sold by all Druggists. SrooND-HAND SAPES in large numbers, of our own wnd othery' make, taken 1‘..“. Tor our new petent ALUN and Dy Prastes Sares Fo o MaRVIX & Co , 265 Brosdway, and 721 Chestout st., Phiis. " than the “Tta seam Lock-stitch. " * @ the " Iiand Park Trial. Send for the Work costaining ek kinde of pies of . atitchos 0u the ssme piece o. 408 Brosdway. Tar ArM AND LEG, by B. FRaNK PALMER, LL. D.— " free to soldi nd low to officers and civiliape. 1, Y.; 19 Ureen st, Boston. Avoid Fhe * boat Chestoutst. Phils.; Avor 5 fraudulent imitations of Lis velevis Chronic Dispepsia, be pormanent'y cared b oxracted (rom plaots stamp. Wx R P nstipation and Piles can onl{ ewly discovered Positive Remediale ;mnol_y Circalar on all disesses. One ushing, N. Y. Tuosses, ELasTio S8TOCKINGS, SUSPENSORY Baxo- ‘aans, Supponrens, kc.-Manan & Co.'s Kedieal Cure Trum Office only 8t No. 2 Vesey-st. Lady attendant. FLORENCE LOCK-STITCH SEWING-MACHINES—Best i the world. FLousnce sswive Macaies Cours~ No. ay. ImpROVED LOCK-STITCH MACHINES for Tailors and Mangfactarers. Grovar & BaKEm Sxwixe MAcKiNe CoMPAXT, No. 4% Brosdway. Tug ZT¥A NOISELESS L(vcx-SAnn'n SEWING- Macmurs —Masufsctured by Yraxen, BRAvNspor? & Co., No. 4 Bowery, N. Y. Ar EverpeLv's, No. 302 Bmulny—}l: Y., Wfi; DixG CanDs—The New sad Elegaot Fuil Style of CAnps just out. Morr's CuEMicAL PoMADE Restores Gray Hair, " and from faling out; removes dandruff . the Suest dress- AonB B %3 Koumron: No. 10 Astor Hovse. aud drugeiets. Grovee & Baxer's HigEesT PREMIUM EvasTIC Srivou Sewive Macuixss. for family use. No. 455 Brosdway. Hows Sgwixe MACHINE COMPANY.—ELIAS Hows, Jr., Prosideat, No. 699 Brosdway. Ageuts wanted. Draeresia TaBLET, 8. G. WrLLINGS, for ind\ge;- Hon and beactburn. Soid by ail Druggists. ‘WazkLgr & WiLson's Lock-STiTca Siwine SMaouure end BrrrovmoLs Maowins, No. 625 Brosdway. i 3+ Duplicates, $2. axDichtn Vigootts, 83 per doneny Duplicstes 9% Fingus & Lox's New Family flcwinfi-luhme. Agoats wanted. One machine free of chasge. No. 361 Ercadway. # The State Consus, The State census, taken in June of last year, is already fn pross, and will b ready for distribution before the close of the year. It will make & volume of 800 pages, 200 more thaa the census of 1855. This increase is due to the ex- haustive inquiry concerning returped soldiers, the more wninute agricultural statistics, and & more extended presen- tation of the age of the population. Details are also given ot the deafsnd dumb, the blind and the idiotie, which have never been given before, and which will throw much Jight on predisposing causes. ‘The grest work of collativg ‘the roturns of the enumerstors—some idea of which may _ begained from the statomont that five days labor are re- quirad to acrive at one line, a8 prioted, of agricultural abatistics—has been done chiefly by forty or fifty young ‘women, who have, 88 may be imegined, gained wonderful facility in assembling statistics. By this economy Dr. * Hough expoects to be sble to perfect his work for $40,000, 10,000 loss than the appropristion. ——————— Steamer Sank. Catno, Wodnesday, August 15, 1566 steamer from Cincinnati for New- Mossenger, suok at Island No. 26 reoise. on the Mississippi River, oz Th Fire in Tolede, Ohio. » ToLEDO, 0., Wednesday, Ang. 15, 1806, The Phanix block, corner of Summit and Oak-sts., ore partially destroyed by fire Iwst night. Loss on Lulldiog d oontente, s Onds aonl kall covers Ly insurance v - < rwe [NewDork Builn»@ffibufi?. | PHURSDAY, AUGUST 16, To Ceorrespondents. No moties ean betaken of Auonymous Communications. Whatever | intended for insertion must be sutheaticats] by the neme snd ad dress of the writer—not necessurily for publication. but &4 8 zusr, anty for his good fuith. Al bustness letters for thls oftice shoula be sddresed to uxe” New-York. We caunot utdertake to return rejected Communicatias. —_— The Tribune In London. STEVENS BROTHERS, (Amencan Agents for s Covent Garden, W. C Axente for the & Toey will also receive Sei Plibiatas “The Tare | brartes. 17 Honriety ale of THE TKIBUNE Tur TRIBUNE AT SARATOGA.—Thornton, newsman at Saratoga. sells the TRIBUNE for five ceote, and bis boys sell it on Yo sidew alke in frout of the principal hotels st the same prica. plaad s s NEWS OF THE DAY e THE WAR IN EUROPE The most importaot itom of news received yesterday through the Atlantic Cuble, is the report that France has receded from her demand for an extension of hor frontier to the Kbine. Tho Prussisn Government bas under consideration the ques- tion of the re-aucexation of the Southern German States to the Germau Confederation. FOREIGN NEWS. Our letter from Mexico, published this moraing, contains intelligence of much intorest. Tho Emperor had dismissed his Liberal Cabinot, replucing the members with French officials. Everythiug indioates an early collapse of the Em- pire. The Canadian Parliamont was prorogued yesterday, the Governor-General cougratulating the members on the | prospect of aa early consummation of the Confederation 1‘ schewe, Tho British Goversment Las anuounced that the | sohiome is definitely arranged. NEW YORK CITY. | A large and enthusiastio meeting was held in tho large ball | of the Cooper Iuatitute, last cvening, (o consider the condition of affairs in Louisisiana, which was addreased by the Rev. J. | P. Newman, the Rev. I H. Garnett of Washington, D, C., | the Lev. P. W. Conway, Dr. P. B. Randolph sand Horace ! Greele lations expressing indigoation at recent events 1 the Crescent City, and devouncing the course ot the Presi- t in reference thereto were adopted. examination of Llogd Browne, Joseph Fritz, and Frank who are charged with the muder of Jawes Dempsey | %econd mate of American ship Jonathan G took place | vefore Commissionor Osborn, yesterday. Llody Drowne was held to await the action of the Grand Jury. ‘Lhe cases of the othera were reserved for further considoration. Base Ball match between tho Active and took piaco yesterday at Hobokeo, resulted former. Nine deaths from oholora wore roported yestasiay at the Board of Health A Foian Pic-nio is to take placoat Believue Ga:dea on the 24th Anew Atlastic Telograph Company is 1o be atarted; the route will be from New-York to Bermuda via Caps Charles, thouce tothe Azores and Lishoy, in Portogal All the Catholic churohes of this city were open yesterday, 1n oommemeration of the deatis aud assumption of the Virgln Mary. Judge Barnard yosterday exproased Nis opinion tuat the Excise Law was Constitutional, aud must be entoroad. od at 1514, afte bad fallen in London to 6 s Government atocky are sl Lig At the Second Boacd the market wa sit at 8 oligut fmprovement ia prices. Moaey is 475 per cont on call, and sbundant, n GENERAL NEW> “The Johnson Conventdon Leld ita sscond maeting yesterday Senator Doolittle waa eleoted President of the Convention. Upon taking his seat Le addressal the dol egates assemblod, and was loudly chesred. There wasa gen- eral disposition on the part of the Domocratio members to make spesches, but these oratorioal offorts wers squelched. A Committes o aud Aldress was ap poiated, the Hon. Edga The Committee report to the Convention Vatsod.gbam's letter, withdra ed to being read @ read, which strong that in the wigwam. to . was pressuted, but o tevendy Johnson offered a resolution that morrow. was paseed by a two-thirds vote, Symy a the whole affair will break up in 4 row A grand ball was given by the guosta of the Stetson House, Loug Braach, last evening , & grand Trish Republican excursion | and pic-nic was held, Spoechos wore made by Gov. Oglesby, Hov. Schusler Colfax, and Gen, Jobn A. Logan. James W. Lincolu, editor of The Back Sentinel, died st Farmington, Me., on Tuesday last. East Saginaw, Mich.,, was visited on Taesday afterncon with & violent tornado. A whole brick block was blown down and several porsons were injured, one fatuly. ‘The State Consns, taken in June of last yoa press, and will be roady for distribation befor year. it will coutain two buadred mor pages tha tie volume of 1855, Tho fifteenth meetivg of tis American Amsocia- tion for the Advaacement of Soisnce, commenced yesterdsy morning io St. Jawes's Hall, Buflala, Prof. Boraard was ap pointed President. A Convention of Western iasarauos men is now being held at Freeport, Iil. Accounts from the North- West stat> that the crops through out the whole coantry are in exoellent oondition. The military have arrested o planter ear Vicksburg, Miss., for beating three colored women to deathi in one day; hie also shot the husband of one of them, who int 1o save ber life. On our inside pages will be found somo interesting Mexican and European correspondence, and our usual commercial matters and market reports A meeting to hear a true statement of the sitnation in Louisiana from some of its loyal natives and resi- dents, and to express the indignant sympathy of the North with the sufferers by the riot in New-Orlcaus, was held last evening at the Cooper Iustitute, As matters look, there may be a quarrel over the resolves, of which Mr, Cowan is ostensibly chief brewer, but which, hear, have boen made in Washington. They will not be unmade in Philadel- phia if the Convention is resolved ou swallowing the worst, —_— The constitutionality of the Excise Law has grown in respectability under Judge Barvard's reiterated opinion that it is & valid law. Yesterday the Judge refused to grant a mandamus against the Board of Health in the case of an unlicensed liquor Jealer. The outery of the grog-shops against the law is growing weaker: let its enforcoment be all the stronger, There are apprehensions of the sanity of Mr. Val landingham, who says that the Almighty has awarded him ‘& mission, the object of which is to break up the tendency to centralization which is cursing the coun- try and debauching the Administration.” Since Mr, V. is supposed to have withdrawn from the Philadel- phia Convention, we presume he has resigned his mis- sion and allowed the centralizers to go to work, Mr. Doolittle has been finally chosen President of the people atthe Wigwam in Philadelphia, and has attained the highest summit that can be reached by & public man who forsakes his duty to the logel to go Beuth for s constituency. The Conven- tion has so far progressed as to have Leard a telegram from the President, and to have made an organization sccording to the Executive programme. The Com- mittee on Resolutions are mostly of the President's body-guard, and have but one Southern name among them of prominence. —— Gen. Joo. A. Logan, one of the chief heroes of Sherman's march to the #ea, was, before the outbreak of the war, a Douglas Democrat, and we suppose no man in the West has represented more vigorously, in the hall and in the field, what is known as War Democracy. Gen. Logan, one year ago, stood upon the same platform of hostility to unrepentant and un- requited treason as Andrew Johnson, Now, when Togan declares, as bo did in his speech of the 15th at Chicago, that the Presidont is ‘A Judas that has kissed the cheeks of loyalty to bLetray it in the arms of treason,” we expect that his ianguage, however strong, will find thousands lo’.ng:d it i tho&lrtufwlgich bo wnsw!o ular 5 — QUTH R R S . ¢ P EW-.YORR DAILY TRIBUNE, B i 4 THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, — . e o 1 leader, and an the brawe ranks in which he fought. Who doul that Mr John condemned by the Union soldiers of the country, & the measures of Congress are keartily and even velic. mently indorsed? No one is 1 arnest than G Logan that Congress shall iniist inexorably on ultimatum of adiwission, and we believe that tenths of the people and nearly every soldier in the army agree with him intelligently. THE REAL ISsUES, The Evening Post, in a half-aud-half article on the Randall Convention now sitting at Philadelphia, sayR! “ Mere party journals of course look at this matter wilh prejudiced eyes.” THE TRIBUNE can see 1o good in tho Con Yeution; The World sces good in it ovly for the Democratio Toth are slike wrong and misteken. The C D composed 8o largely of Northern aud Bouthern Seoe how for the first time recoguizing the supremacy and manence of the Union, will be of great beuefit fo the courtry fur the resson we have given mbove—because this public recantation of error removes two disturbing questious, Slavery and Secossion, from our party politics But itmay be of not the slightest use to the Democratic party. That parfy, if it wishes to rule the conutry, must not depend npon Philadeiphia Co ventions; it must depend npon the evunciation and defense ot sound and libersl princivies. If it permits & handful of old fo- Kies to commit it againat universal liberty and oqkufl rights. and in favor of proseription, and of privilege to the few and exclusion of tte many, it will surely be defeatod; but if it plants itself upon the good old Demoeratic grourd of equal rights to )l within the Union and Conatitution; if it defends the right of every man freely to speak, o Labor, and to trade, everywhere, it will compel victory, because it will deserve ite —The Post knows perfectly well that the entire significance and interest of the Philadelphia Conv tiou inheres in the deadly antagonism to * Univel Liberty and Equal Rights" thercin embodied, organ- ized, ond rendered formidable. The one common sontiment which animates tho fossll remains there col- locted of all the parties which our country has out- grown is batred of Human Equality aud attachment to antiquated Privilege. But for this, there would have been no Philadelphia Convention—at least, no such menageric as is there assembled to-day. Itis idle—nay, it is culpable—to dally with this mattor and affect not to understand the most obvious and vital facts. “The South,” so called—that is, the faction lately in revolt and fighting to overthrow the Union—is lip-loyal to-day for the single purpose of getting the loyal Blacks delivered helpless into het hands. Mr. Johnson's policy of * restoration” makes the Rebels supreme over the lives, liberty and prop- orty of the Blacks. Even in States where the Blacks are a clear majority and were unanimously logal, not one of them is allowed any voice whatever in making or enforcing the laws. And, thus defenseloss, they are being persecuted and murdered by hundreds for having stood up and fonght for the Union, It is a damage and a peril to a uegro almost anywhere in what was the Confederacy to have served in the Union armies, Men fresh 1 the Rebel service, who boast their logalty and shout the praises of Andrew John- son are killing Blacks on sight for no other of- fonse than that. The Civil Rights act is openly defied and pullified by Southern judges and juries. At least Ten Thousand Blacks bave been killed ! Rebels sinco Peace was proctaimed, and not the assassing has heen brought to justice by the authorities. The late wholesale butchery in New- Orleans was bnt & more congpicuons exhibition of a wpirit everywhere present and active in the South— a spirit to which Joln A. Dix, Thurlow Weed and Montgomery Blair are now deliberately betraying the loyal, liberty-loving Blacks of the South. When the Froedmen's Bureau is abolished or nullified—as it probably soon will be—the work of outrage and mur- der will procecd with redonbled celerity, amd the hapless §Blacks, and thoss Whites who sympathi with them, will be made to realize what was meant b those who predicted that Freedom would pr curse to the Blacks, and would result in their exter- mination. The Democratic party of to-day will mot ** plant it self on the good old democratic ground of Equal Rights to all,” as The Post well knows. Itisnot in favor of any such doctrine as that. It is expecting to achieve power by the aid of th who tried to break up the Usion in order to found & g ernment on A tirely novel principle of the rightful, natural, eter- nal subordination of one race of men to snother. The attempt failed; but the doctrine Is still cherished as heartily as over—and as heartily by Democrats in New-York by in South Carolina, It is to give effect and ascend- ency to this doctrine that **the South” now pro loyalty, and South Carolina locks arms with the bandful of Massachusetts Copperheads, The mur- dorers of Dostie and his compatriots are fully repre- sented in the Randall and Niblack Convention; they are thero on purpose to secure impunity for further operations in that line, It is for this, and this only, that they now pretend to abjure Secession and Slavery, while the spirit of Slavery still animates the code of every Southern State, Why will The Post seek to blind its readers to theso momentous truths? RECONSTRUCTING BY FALSEHOOD. Some of Mr. Beward's omissions in his report on the laws affecting freedmen in the States in reconstruc- been reénacted and declared in full force agaiust freedmen in Mississippi, and the rovised penal code makes death the punishment for the commission by a negro of murder, rape, arson, robbery, or the attempt to commit such crimes, A white man is hung only for the crime of murder. Twenty lashes are pre- scribed for every freedman who is found away from his place of employment, and the vagrant law reénacts that articles that freedmen may be secking to sell may be appropriated by ** civil officers and others,” It is punishable for negroes to congregate ot night, or hold school, and both ears may be cut off for false witness, These hideous provisions Lave never been stricken out of the statute by most of them have been deliberately reénacted in the vagrant laws; and though the Secretary of State credits Mississippi with acts conferring civil rights on freedmen, and amend- atory of the vagrant laws, there these shameful features of blind and cruel barbarism remain, as Mr. Seward well knowe, What Becretary of State is general slave-driver now, and who is carrying out the Dred Bcott decision? We are aware that Mr. Seward has made the same omissions in bis present- ment of the codes of other ‘‘late insurgent States,” and at another time we shall endeavor to supply more of his omissione. LEGISLATION STATES. Hitherto, the titles to public lands known to contain mineral lodes have remained with the General Gov- ernment, and miners working the lodes could not obtain ownership of the soil. But Congress, during its late seseion, provided for the sale and survey of these lands throughout the mining regions of the United Statee. The act permits any individual or company having possession, or a title recognized by the local courts or local customs, to buy at $5 per acre. It does not compel a purchase, and without it the party in pos- session may still work the mines, as now. But no miner will refrain from procuring an absolute title, | in place of his present uncertain temure. The act does mot interfere with placer or gulch diggings. These are the poor man's patrimony, not to be sold— always open to all. But to the great lodes, invariably requiring heavy investments before yielding profits, capitalists can now secure an unguestionable title. Another_act was passed “*To quiet laud titles in California.” Years ago, the Legislature of that State anthorized the selection of public lands, under the 8ohool Grant, before these lands had been surveyed by the United Statos, This was contrary to all pre- cedent, if not contrary to law; and many of the se- lections made ho State authorities - .,.,..;.._bi-p bt what A. H. Stephens justly vauuted as the en- | ex-Rebels | | more rejected by the Commissioner of the Unitod States Geperal Land Office. As all theso lands had been old by the State and purchased by individuals, dis- putes and litigations frequently arose touching the titles which the State hud given, The act now passed by Congress sustains the con- struction of the law regulating State selections of school lands, upon which the California authorities based their action, and decides that tho Commis- sioner of the General Land Office was wrong. The prime object of the bill is to protect the plighted faith of the State and confirm its titles given to settlers, Tt does this in all instances where no con- flicting right had grown up under other laws of the United States at the date of the passage of the bill. The act also reqnires all parsons claiming Mexican grants to have them surveyed immediately upon the decree of confirmation, that the surrounding lands way be open to scttlement by predmption. It further provides that,when settlers have bought farms of Mexican grantees, and improved and occupied them, and the United States Supreme Court has afterward declured the grants invalid, the settlers may re- purchase their farms of the United States Government at the minimum price of $1 25 por acre. If the law is fairly administered, it is likely to set- tle definitely the conflicting land titles of California. The State Legislature regarded its adoption as im- portant, and sent Mr. J. F. Houghton, Surveyor- General of the State, to Washington, to aid the Con- gressional delegation in securing its passage. Doth these acts are in the right direction, fostering and strengthening our great mining intorests, which, stimulated by the rapid bnilding of the Pacific Rail- road, are constantly expanding in extent and value. —_— CANADA AND ANNEXATION. The Canadian Parliament has just been prorogued by the Governor-General with a speech in which he alludes to the * nationality” doctrine on which con- federation is professedly based. Lord Monck ev dently anticipates great things for Canada from the practical application of this doctrine in the new politi- cal relations the British Provinces of North Ameri- ca are to sustain toward each other upon the consum- mation of the confederation scheme. He thinks that the local Parliament has done a great work in perfecting the arrangements for giving effoct to the projoct, and he offers his congratulations accordingly. But it is just possible his Lordship may be a triflo too sanguine; for our Ottawa correspondent sends us an extract from a French-Canadian newspaper, from which we learn that the Lower Province there is quite a wide-spread feeling in favor either of annexa- tion to the United States, or the independence of Low- 1a under the protectorate of the United The Canadians, then, are by no means unanimous in favor of Confederation; and it is vet to be seen what effect the contemplated union of ing in question. 08, the provinces will have upon th For the French Canadiaus nationality ™ pring ple cannot, in the nature of things, have any attrac- 8 in this case, Political affinities and self-interest and controlling considerations with are them, and in a national connection of some kind with paramont they sce their surest hopes for sture. Confederation, they know, must remit them n of comparative political insignificance, the United States the to 8 positi | while it offers nothing for their acceptance as a yerity. Anuexation, on them the prospect of political importance, and promises participation in the bstantial benefits of a revivified industry and an extended comme We doubt whether confed- eration, with its bypothetical advantages, will suffice ling in favor guarautee of mal the other band, ope pre to counterbalance the existing closer relationship with the United States. ———— TEACHERS CONVENTIONS. The school teachers follow the goneral example of the seademie, scieatific and literary people, in holding Conventions in Midsummer—why in Mi summer, unless because then no work is done or can be done, it would be hard to tell. We have full re- ports of two of these Conventions—that of the New- York State Teachers' Association, held at Geneva on the 1st of August, and that of the Pennsylvauia State Teachers' Association, beld at Gettysburg at the same time. Both the assemblies were large, and were in ession during the better part of three days, The time was not too long, even if it had been devoted en- tirely to the very important husiness that might be expected to come before such bodies, The gravest problems in American Education are still awaiting golution. Fundamental guestions remain, even to this time, unanswered save by theorists. Indeed, the whole matter of education in America is but begin- ning to exercise the ablest minds, as they think upon it in connection with the advance of democratic prin- ciples and practices. From the nature the persons who will first be looked to f gestious are the teachers, who, from daily familiarity [ the case, wise sug- with the present system, must be presumed to be | acquainted with its defects, to have reflected on the tion, aro more important than any he thought prudent | possible or available remedies for the defects, and to to commit to Congress. The old anti-negro laws have | have formed some opinions on the science, philosophy, and art of the subject that are entitled to public con- sideration, Expericnce, aided by professional study, and compared with the accuwmulated experience of a | large body of men and women, should have reached a few definite conclusions in regard, for instance, to the wisdom of educating boys and girls together, the adaptation of the male and female minds to certain special pursuits, and the expediency or inexpediency of passing both through the same academic conrs the relative importance of classical and of scientific instruction in common schools, mormal schools, bigh schools, or academies; the place that should be as- signed to the languages, to accomplishments, to mathematics, to physiology; the true function of nor- mal schools, and the best method of administering them; the proportion which normal schools should hold to common schools, and the circumstances that modify the systems of education in the different Btates, Noue of these points have been settled or exhaust- ively discussed. Every year should bring its contri- bution toward their satisfactory decision, and we read with interest and care the reports presented, hoping to obtain light on some of the dark places in our edu- cational condition, We caunot advise readers to do the same, for we would, if possi- ble, make our disappointment a substitute for theirs. No doubt, in all those hours formally devoted to business, in which addresses were read, reports made, and discussions held by trained men practiced in their calling, some pertinent and admirable things weresaid; but of professional earnestuess there seems to have been little or none; of mental codperation and #ympathy the smallest proportion; of concentrated purpose absolutely none. The occasion was regarded a8 festival; the assembly was gatbered for enter- tainment. * Considerable music was interspersed by various performers, both amateur and professional.” At Geneva the evening hall ** was packed to suffoca- tion by the members of the Association, their frionds, and the public,” the chief attraction being Miss Pot- tor's poetical reading. Prof. Watson sung an oper- atio air, Miss Potter recited ** High Tide,” Dr. Cruik- shank read & poem by somebody else, and Mrs. Randall contested palms with Miss Potter. The pro- ceedings of the third day began with & drive about the country, and ** the admirably conducted labers of the local committee were concluded by a trip to the celebrated Glen at Walking. The teachers reassem- bled at 9 o’clock. First business in order, listening to some choice songs and anthems from the Geneva select choir. After respectable pause, during which Dr. Craikshank read o paper on *The Establish- ment of an Educational Exchange,” Prof. Miles were afterwapd | delighted tho Agsgointion gud o quiugauy with gu our | 1866 readings were continued, &e. livered, deseriptive of the battle. The Gettysburg Memorial Associati visit of the 200 teachers. It was, it. scientific improvement of our school system? We re- peat that fine things were said. There were ad- dresses—we presume able ones—on phy, on the Importance of Studying the Natural Sei- ences, on the English Language and Literature, on the Functions of Normal Schools, on the Past, Present, and Future of the State, and on other matters more or less germain to the legitimato purposes of the Convention. These were deferentially listened to as o necessary partof the business, to be got through with the least possible detriment by tho aid of sack- but and psaltery. The reports indicate that some men, at any rate, had thonght their way very far into the heart of the matter, and were not timid in saying all they thought; but that they Leld the attention of the assembled teachers cannot be averred. The dis- cussions, even on questions of vital moment, were less general, powerful, and valuable than might have been expected. The opinions thrown out in debate were marked less by reflection than by personal prejudice and passion. There seemed to be mo approach to unity of sentiment on any grand point. The disenssions ware prettiost where the topics were greatest. The nor- mal school question, which was made chiefly prom- inent at Gettysburg, elicited speeches from which the most that we can gather is that it is quite doubt- ful whether Pennsylvania meeds twelve normal schools or less—whether those she has are filled by the proper class of students—whether the students, such as they are, are properly instructed—whether the principles on which they should be taught, or the object which their teaching contemplates, has been definitely stated—in a word, whether they are of much use; and if not, whether they can be made pro- ductiveof more. The interchange of words on the subject of the common education of the sexes in the same institation betraged the shallowness of the pro- fossional mind on that problem of problems in popu- lar education in a way that the unprofessional mind finds somew mortifying. It must be remembered that we write after reading these reports—newspaper reports—carefully prepared by a special correspond- ent, but brief and imperfect as such reports must be. Wo may do the assemblies injustice. If 8o, westand prepared to correct our words when the proceed- ings shall be laid fully before us. As it looks now, the Conventions seem to have aimed at combining the maximum of entortainment with the minimum of il B admirable performauce on tho harp. Miss Potter’s ready bogun ¢ work—in short, to have made the grand occasion of their annual meeting a holiday, when the cause of education might be dismissed from their minds. We do not mean to be severe. Teachers' conven- tions are no more idle and aimless than other conven- tions are apt to be that are met for no specific ends. We will cheerfully concede that they are less so, on the strength of tho number and character of several of the papers read at Geneva and Gettysburg. But the interests of edncation are so paramount in our com- munities, the claims of the public on the teachers are o peculiar, the need of wisdom is so imminent, the wealth of experience so great, that there is call for more stringency here than elsewhere. All conven- tions are privileged to be stupid except teachers’ con- ventions, It is & sad thing that the people who should be most able to rise above the routine of their trade should be the very peopte who are most in bond- ago to it. How singular it is, said a distinguished publicist the other day, that whenever people come together in masses their brilliancy vavishes, their ex- perience counts for nothing, and they simply increase each others doltishness. DBut so it appears to be. Teachers may be the last persons to tell us anything about education in its hizhest aspects. Yet who will tell us if teachers do not? And yet again, who can blame the teachers for enjoying their Midsummer holi- day when the public are content with the system as it is! When we call for something better we shall get it. Our system of popular education is in a crude, miscellaneous condition, part English, part French, part American, and a large part nondescript. We shall have nothing better till a close study of young people, in school and out of school, is made by those competent to make it. FRANCE AND THE FRONTIER QUES. TION. If the rumor, intelligence which we received by | the cable last night, be correct, that the Emperor Na- poleon has abandoned the idea of urging his demand for an extension of the frontiers of France, then we have in the fact a tacit confession on the part of the Emperor that the position of Prussia is at present too strong, ber power too formidable, to allow of a hostile collision being provoked between the Prussiaus | and the French with impunity to France. It is not for a moment to be imagined that Napoleon, after having formally made the demand, would abandon it, unless Le was conviuced that by pressing it he would inenr danger, to the extent of defeat from Prussia in a conflict of arms. The demand was treated ins | spirit of defiance by the Prussian Government. It was pronounced ** absurd” by the semi-official organ of that Government, and Prussia, feeling her strength, was evidently determined to resist it to the utmost. That the Emperor Napoleon, in the face of sucha demonstration, should recede from the position he had taken up, is & humiliation for bim, and cannot but have the effect of greatly weakening the prestige he had gained as ‘‘the arbiter of Europe.” He had evidently calculated that out of the troubles of Germany he would easily and cheaply resp profit for himsolf, and advantage for France; but he now finds hunself confronted by & power with which he is evidently unwilling, from mo- tives of self-interest, to come into collision. Bismark would seem to be master of the situation. The star of Prussia is in the ascendant. The great ability and indomitable energy of her leading statesman, the military talent of her generals, the valor and endur- ance of her soldiers, and the death-dealing power of the dreaded needle-gun, have all combined to | place her in a position of such strength that sho can defy him whose fiat has ruled Europe for many years past. The colossal figure that has thrown its shadow over the Continent since 1852 | has, by this latest event arising out of the German war, lost something of its vast proportions. A rival | i bas suddenly appeared on the sceue, and & new ers | | seems about to open for Europe. | | o | 'We have singular news from Mexico, which will be | found detailed at length in our correspondent’s inter- esting lotter. Now that the Empress bas gone to | Europe, to beg the assistance of Napoleon in propping | her and Max's falling throne—as if, leaving his own | out of the question, that inscrutable person did not have his hands full just at present—the fickle Max has thrown himself bodily into the hands of the conserva- | tive or monarchical party, sud Lopes by their support | to hold his crown a little longer. He has made aclean | sweep of his Crown officials, and filled their places with supporters of his absolute pretensions. But he has o wax hot, WIIIM if Max's hm, to Mrs. Max will be any cheerfuller than those 4 At Gettysburg the proceedings were not ulike those | the partner of bis bosom to him. She has reachel at Genova. Patriotismdemanded a visit to the famous | Europe just in time to bear tho poople of Vienn battle-field, as the sequel whereof an address was de- | shouting for her husband’s brother to abdicate, and § is like enough that Napoleon, instead of giving her the n stock profited slightly by the | help she asks for, may coolly tell her that Lo needr we are ready to | the troops he has already sent her to recruit Lis owr believe, a pleasant occasion to all who took part in | army. Between tho state of affairs in Europe and But the question will come up, How much did | his policy at home we think that the days of the cither of the Conventions effect toward the solid and | French Empire in Mexico are drawing to a close. e Now that the St. Lawrence Telegraph Cable has Physical Geogra- | been restored, people are better able to appreciate the benefits of the Atlantio Cable aud the greatness ol the achievment whereby the old and the new world are linked together. By telegraph New-York and London are within a few hour's distance of each other. For the first time, we published in our evening edition of yesterday European news dispatched from Lon. don over the wires at noon on that day, and which was received here at 2 o'clock p. m. Making allow. ance for the difference of time botween the two places —aboat four hours—the news was not more than si< hours in reaching this city. 1t is not often that we hear of & mocting of Irish Republicans, but such & meeting, large in numbars and enthusiasm, took place mear Chicago yesterday, and was addressed by Gov. Oglesby, Speaker Colfar, and Gen, Logan. The eloquence and force of Gen. Logan's speech will not be lost on that nobler clase of our fellow-citizens of foreign birth who cannot conscientiously make the causo of freedom in theis own country one with that serfdow, vassalage, and barbarism in this. The course of the Administration on the Neutral question seems to have dotermined the Irish Republicans of Chicago that the true friends of Ireland are to be found among the champions o impartial freedom in Congress, and not in tha Goy. ernment which is as servile to English tyranny as it is to that of the South. William B. Caupbell, Bailie Peyton and John Lellyett, uow conspiouous among the President’s supporters in Tennesseo, denounced Mr. Andrew Johnsou for uttering the following sentiments befora anegro assembly, after breaking up a ** conseivative meeting” with gnns and pistols “ Loyal men from this day forward, are 1o be controllers of True measee's grand and sublime destiny, and R¥BELS MUST BE DUN® —we will not listen to their counsel. Naskville is no longer e place for them o hold their meetigs. Lot them gaker their treasonable conclaves elsewkers, among their friends in th: Con- Jederacy. They shall not hold their conspiracies in Nashrille." No: their places are New-Orleans and Memphis. The Loyal Maryland Convention is a fair offsst against the President's Wigwam in Philalelphia. Hear what these men say of the Constitutional Amendment, of the freak of *‘my policy ” in New- Orleans, and the effect of auch a polioy in Maryland, and then observe what the Johnson Convention doas not say, and never will. The voice of logal Maryland is & strong echo of that of Tennossee. —_— THEODORR THOMAS'S SUMMER CONOZRTS, When Mr. Thomas announced that he would give nightly ooacerts in a public garden during the Sumuwer monthy the undertaking was deemed oxtra bazardous, and bat fow be« | lieved that it would last a month. ‘We as & people do not care to mix indiscriminately at places of publio amusement, especislly when it ia & question whetber ladies shail not go. The ides of a public garden bas long heen classei with associations of by no means a bigh-toned cbaracter, sud our sense of propriety was at once on the ulert to examite the case thoroughly. The name of Mr. Theodore Thomas was, t¢ all who kaew hiw, & guarantee of high excellence in his de. partment, and gave assurance that sll elso connected with the enterprise would be in proper keeping. The first visit satis- fied ail present that the place was deligbtful. the music charm. iog in variety and good in execution, and that ladies could visit there with perfect propriety. It bas now been in opers- tion for nearly three months; the company visiting there lsof tho beat class ia the clty. (Gentlemen do not go there alone,bas a almost every iustance, accompanied by their families, On every visit we recoguize huadreds of habitues of oms opera house azd concert rooms. The musioal selections are always excellent. We have rarely heard & poor programme. Overtures, pot-pourris from favorite operss, waltzes, fantasies, marcbes solos sad obaracteristic and desoriptive polkas,fare the staples of the general programmes, bat on Tuesday and Fridar evealugs, the second act consists entirely of Classioal Music, such a3 the Midsummer Night's music, and whole symphonics by Beet- hovon. Mozart, &o. These works are fively performod, aud the deep attention of the crowded audionces prove zot ouly bow keenly the works are relished, bat the high musical {atelligence of the listoners. The solo performance, by members of the orchestra, are delightful features of the programme, aud their fine exacution shows of what material the orchestra is com- posed. We aro satlsfiod that those conoerts, besides bolng de- lightful to listen to, do inoaloulable good to the cause of masie they sustain the intersst which dies out in Summer time from the lack of means of gratifying it, and educate the teats for tas finest styles of composition. This evening & Mendelssohn programme will be performed, the second sot being exolasively devoted to the works of thad great mastar. The occasion will attract & crowd of the lovors of Mendelssoha.§ ENGLIST OPERA AT THE PRENCH THUBATER. Mr. Henry Draper, the original mover in the cause of English Opers, bat who was quietly put aside by tho mon- eyed (1) men of the concern, has organized another company for the production of some of the best English Operas, o or aboat the 234 of this month, et the New French Tueater. The vames of the artists have not yet trauspired, but we undere stand that thoy are competent, and possess young fresh voices. There is a large amount of vocal talent in our midat, and Mr. Draper will do well if he searches it out, and affords it chances of d"lln&l.ll. Mr Draper announces that the following ope- Pas will be prodaced during the season: Wallsoe's Maritana, l(hlh‘:sm.‘ Aloantara, Waliace's lovely opera, Lour- llll.ul .‘-l‘l*:.... operetta, * The Ouly Sen. ". :.: eATD ‘hope that r. M 's arraa, lents are suc "will Bo ouabled to give thess worke '1n_g00d siyie. Thore 10 roceive them, and (o crown bis ef io read, 5 be s success toruational Trades’ Union Con- vention, THIRD DAY. The Couvention met yesterday moraing, at the rooms of the Assooiation, No. 10 Stanton-st., President Cash- men presiding, and Mr. W. E. Tucker officiating as Secretary. ‘There was a full of delegates and represcntatives. ‘The buainess of the day oousisted of the various comn.itiees ing iuto . Finance Committes reported the oancial affairs of the Soclety sa in & most dition. The other committeca will report to-day. A was sent to the Philadelphia Convention oxpress- s desire that the result of their deliberations might be bes- eficial to mmnr! and assist in buildiog up an undivided uvion, The organi is composed of »ll political aud 0o dispatod indorsing the Philadel otnerwise was sent. Tbe dispatch was intended d-.%la expression of loyal sentiment, which hoped thas the 1008 il the members of the Philadelphia Convention might be sot- uated by patriotio motives. ‘The mass meeting will be bheld this evening when delogates B e T Bl ek pee aasen) t practica! good to the organizption. g s i, 75 ' = PHOTOGRAPH OF QUERN Emya.—In Genin's win- dew there is oxhibited an exoellent photograph of Her M josty the Quoen of the Sandwioh Islands. It represents ® yong aud prepossessing woman with intelligeat mobie foa iures, o dark skin, expressive gray oyes full lips, and sa air of simple dignity. Following the lead of Viotoria, Eugenie, and res! ladios everywhers, Queen Kmmejis dressed in the piainest and most aupretending siyle sad looks the very antipodes of the would-be ladies, who by their ridioulous, not t0 say indecent dress, make them so disagresably conspicooes now-adsys in our streets, oars, and steambosts. Quees Emma's olaim to the title of lady evidently liss ia ber obaras- ter, and is Dot to be estimated by the Welght of the ox-obalas on her neok, the sise of her steel buokies, the bigness of waterfall, or the skill with whiok she manages to masouline taste for oberms, that couvention bas dictated shoald be eoncealed. Is it too maoh to bope The Tailors’ retarn to the days when it was not impossiblo to dlatioguish awakened an unlooked-for opposition in the very house Frenchmen and leaving the Mexicans out in the cold. Some of the native editors, in articles written under which Max’s French cooks have made so celebrat appear to have seen the new movement in & rose- the influence of repeated invitations to those dinners | mest N. Y. 8 N. G, od, torday at the Washiogton colored light; but the wrath of those whose vision has Lafayotto place and Fgurthest, at 7 & ® of the dav a0t besn obshsugod Ly ovorased digostion 03 ol Lywste, (be ladies of our ““best socloty” from servant girl oa “® of his friends by giving the highest positions to | o o0 or from socentric members of s frailer sistorhood ¥ — R — The exhibition drill of the 12th Regi- which was aanousced to come off yes- Parade Ground, was postpoued in Tc will take place the first fair day. ed ou the armory, gorner of o PosSTPONE consequence of the raia. The regimental fiag will b Tais