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BRYANTS' OPERA IIOt'SK, Tammany Building, MtU iroot Ethiopian Minstbilst, Ac. ' TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.-Cotlto VoOAI.lSR. NlOI'j MlNBTBBLST. Ac. DOOWORTn HALL, 806 Broadway.?ALF bcttnktt, TUI iicmokist. CENTRAL PARK oar den, Serentb arenue.?Popdl a? qauukn CoNOBirr. KAFF'S LION TARE, East UOtli street?Scmmfb NlUU'l'S FKbTlVAL. HOOLEY'R OPERA IIOI BE, Rrooklyn.-Hooi.lT's M 1N8TBK1.H?I'MiEII T11E LAMPLIOHT. NEW YORK Mt'StLM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadwsy.SoiBNOK AM" ART. New York, Thursday, It, 1 SON. CIXH NEW3. EUBOPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable It daied yesterday evening, August 5. Portugal shelters the Spanish political exiles. The United States Minister In Constantinople dissents from the Sultan's plan for the acquirement of real estate by foreigners in Turkey. The London Times blames Captain Brydge, it. N? for his action at Mazatlun, but includes Mexico in the category of "insolent" and "brutal States." Consols ?4V money. Five-twenties 71 'J in London and 7.1 In Frankfort. Cotton declined, closing with middling uplands at 9t, a pence. Breadstuflto firm without marked change. Provisions hiendy. Produce almost unchanged. MISCELLAN EOU ?. By the arrival of the I'ulted Htates ship (inward at San Francisco we have a special despatch from Yokohama, Japan, dated July t. The Siotsbashi family wore defeating the Southern confederationtstg at every point. Yeddo and Yokohama were again under MotsliasUi's control. The Mikado was a prisoner at Kioto. Stota'iashi had refused the Tycoonate 'flic rice crop was seriously duuiaged by the heavy nuns. Sandwich Island dates to the uth of July are received. The Fourth was celebrated hy the Americans in Hono'ulu with great enthusiasm. At the meeting of the Board of Councllinen yesterday the clerk read the names of tlvc members w ho have hitherto been excluded, as he had been served with a mandamus from the Supreme Court compelling turn to do so. A sharp discussion ensued and the clerk tendered bis resignation, which was Immediately accepted, and William ll. Moloney was appointed In his place. The five claimants were Inside the bar, and ihe doorkeeper, probably for admitting them, was removed from ofllee. The mandamus was then referred to the Corporation SVninuol fur liw rmimnn Rottnliifinn* in r0<4iiOi*t ti\ the memory of General 11 alpine were then adopted gud the Hoard adjourued. An Inquest was held yesterday in the ease of John fcploer, o( No. 7i East Eleventh street, who, after taking what was apparently a seidlit/. powder on the 80th of July, dtcd In great agony. The evidence went to show that strychnine had been taken by the decerned in the powder, but the Jury could not sav by whom it had been introduced, aud declared that It was not a rase of suicide. The druggist and his elerk are fully exonerated. The powder before nelng administered was handled by Mrs. Splcer, wife of the deceased, and the servant, neither of whom can account for the presence of the poison. The politicians continue their discussions and dippings at l*ong Branch. Chamberlain Sweeny, exSenator Henry R. Low, John J. Bradley, Senator Creamer, Judge Sutherland, Judge.Bosworth, and Burner Nelson, Secretary of state, are all on the grounds. It is now probable that the democratic majority m Kentucky will reach 70,000. The opi>ositlon to confederation still prevails in Nova Scotia. The local government of Halifax have refused to have Interviews wit n the members of the Privy Council of the Dominion. The Alabama Senate yesterday passed a bill removing all political disabilities from cltlrens simply on their hllug an application, no oath tieltig required. In the fieorgia House of Heprcseniaiives yesterday a bill removing all military appointees to civil office in the state and reinstating those formerly displaced was offered, but not acted upon. The Tennessee Legislature had under discussion yesterday a bill for the removal of political disabilities, a petition for which was submitted by Governor Brownlow. The House decided against it. a bill to suppress the Ku Klux Klan and to empower the calling out of the militia will probably puss. The Missouri Democratic state t -on vent lob met in ! At. Louis yesterday. The Chinese Embassy are creating gr> at excite, meat among the cituen*of Auburn. They visited the prisou yesterday. Highwaymen recently rohhedtlie Boise City (Idaho) stags and obtained |io,ouo from registered letters of Weils, Fargo a Co. The English war steamer spaj.r()W Haw k lia? returned to Victoria, Vancouver's Island, without havIna maile nn? Mat tui'toii aiotlnuoMit ,,r tin. troubles In the north. The steamship Constan'lne. belonging to the fur Company, Is wrecked at Plumber Pas*. about Ufiy mile* north of Victoria. Vanconvcr'e Islaud. The International Commercial Convention in Portland. Me., yesterday adopted resolutions favoring freer Intercourse with Canada, Congressional aid to the transcontinental rallroada and an enlargement of the canals and channela ot the St. Lawrence. It Is understood that Minister Johnson was Instructed to negotiate a ireat.v with creat Hritaln on the oatnrallr.atlon question and to follow his predecessor's example In regard to the Alabama claims. President Johnson and his Tamil; are to vlatt some rustic retrost In a few days, but which one is not yet decided upon. Oeneral Grant has recommended the release of all prisoners confined by sentence of military commissions in the Slates Just reconstructed. The Ciar. it seems, instead of congratulating 'he 1 President on hut acquittal merely uotlfled tilui tUat he had recently become a fresh father. There are several cases of yellow fever in the hospital ships at Quarantine. Captain lleed. from Cienluegos, uud one of UU boatiaeu died of the black vomit yesterday. The funeral or General Ilalpine will take place at his late residence on Saturday next. John T. Hoffman, General Hunter, noraee Greeley, Richard O'Gorniau and other citizens of high standing are to lie the pallbearers. The Saratoga races commenced yesterday. The first race, the Travers stakes, of one and three-fourth miles, was won by John M. Clay's bay Ally Banshee, in a:io>?, and the second, two mile heats, by Stonewall Jackson. A man named Hiram Pittsinger and his housemaid were tarred ami feathered and ridden on a rail at Chesterfield, Mass., a few nights ago, for alleged oriminal intimacy and narsh treatment of Pittsinger's wife. The coroner's jury In the West Hoboken murder case yesterday found that the deceased came to his death at the hands of Michael Roche, whom they found guilty of manslaughter. Roche was then committed without ball. The North German Lloyds steamship Wcser, Captain Wenke, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The malls will close ul inn i'ubi urine at iweive M. The steamship Missouri, Captain Palmer, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three P. M. to-ilay for Havana. The Dangerous State of the Country?The Prospect Ahead. We are going the way of other democracies, empires and republics, and the historical perspective is picturesque with the ruins of one more grand attempt to govern justly failing through human passion. Seeming in the very heyday of life and the blaze of glory, we are treading irrecoverable steps toward calamity. Our great political contest assumes a character that identities it with the political contests that blacken a hundred years of Roman history. Should the democracy win we porceive by its declarations and by the spirit in which it receives every encouragement, such as the Ken tacky triumph, whither its victory must too certainly drive us. But a little while ago it assumed a certain more or less gracious humility. Now it threatens, and every indication that the peopla listen patiently or that they seem to sympathize gives it countenance and reacts in the boldnoss of its utterances. And it is possiblo that it may win. Kentucky goes for the democracy, it is true, by a larger majority than in the last election, but we doubt if it is sufe to draw from a Kentucky election on such a fact any augury in favor of the election of Seymour. If the ideas that have given Kentucky to the democrats bv seventy thousand majority have hold of the minds of the whole Southern people, as there is all reason to suppose they may, and if the craft that lately put Wade Hampton on tin* democratic stump between two niggers shall continue to temper chivalry, the South may go very largely for the Blair ticket, and the election would be the closest possible contest. It might be so close, indeed, as to make the result practically indecisive before the people, and from a very close struggle, from a doubtful result, or from a democratic triumph, would flow new turmoil for the nation, new danger, perhaps absolute anarchy. Excitement rises in view of such possibili lien, an<l the passions of partisans rise with it; and we hear public men refer to their opponents in terms that point to the growing fury, whose full height we contemplate in Marius, Sylla and Cinna. What reason have we to congratulate ourselves that we are beyond the possibility of repeating those bloody pages of political story? The greater hurnauity of the nineteenth century, perhaps. But before we trust ourselves to that show us something from antiquity worse than Libby Prison or Andersonville, and wipe out the fact that Paris less than a century since repeated the horrors of Rome with multiplied barbarity. The Roman republic had its rebellion, as we have hud ours, and thought, as we did, that it was put down, when the politicians of the dominant party settled the great land question in their own way and established the State on a new constitution. Alas! that end was only the beginning of Roman troubles, and that rebellion was only the llrst event in a series of civil wnrs and revolutions, which the men who ived a hundred years later saw still in progress, as Ciesar and Pompey hunted one another through the known world. France also began in 1781) a revolution that is not closed yet?that has had Its phases of democracy, monarchy and military empire, and now only halts in a despotism standing on universal sunrage, a great army una an euormous debt. Great political throes, such as our rebellion and war, seem to leave nations cum, because they leave them exhausted, an<I ia the truce of that quiet the elements only gather strength to renew the tight. Our rebelliou also will appear in history as only the first of a series of political revolutions, anil the end may be anywhere. Mexico herself may be a respectable Power beside what the United States wsll appear when political anarchy has done its worst. It is for the people to determine whether the storm of war shall reopen next year in the accession of Seymour to the Presidency, or whether an immense majority tor Grant shall lengthen the truce lor four years. Nothing less than the moral effect of an immense majority for Grant will quiet the nation, and this, as we say. will only lengthen the.truce: for whatever the result our future is simply a series of strifes between these embittered parties made savage by the blood of the war. With all her internal struggles breaking her down Home was still great abroad?extending her arms, her political system, her civilization over the world. She ntitieared tn lie nn I.mm urosneroiis than irront. and even when the struggle wai over the people thought they were still living in the glories of the old republic, governed by the Senate, with only an executive in the Kmperor. It was a rude awakening from such a dream, but it had to come, and we also will awaken some day to perceive ourselves in the same position. This or that party?whichever may happen to be in powerwill divert attention from its schemes by the same splendid pursuit of foreign wars, by the same system of subduing its neighbors, until our dominion shall be nominally supreme over the whole Continent, and our civilisation, laws and enlightenment shall penetrate to every country, laying the foundation of States to be carved from the ruins of the great republic, as modern Furope was carved from the-Roman empire. We have entered upon a career in which no nation of tho past was ever able to stop midway. SEW YORK HERALD, THU Tht W >rc?at?r Disturbance?Yule and Harvard. We notice that certain New England and some New York journals are still much exercised about the late exhibition of rowdyism at Worcester on the part of the "hopefuls" of Yale and Harvard. The riotous demonstration on this last occasion, bad as it was, would be less entitled to notice were it not for the fact that these disturbances are annual in their occurrence and seem to form a necessary part of the regatta programme. Year after year they follow the oontest on the lake, and each successive year they increase in lawlessness. It was bad last year; it has been infinitely worse this year. It is within the mark to say that more disgraceful conduct, even in circumstances of provocation, could not have been expected at the hands of any congregation of rowdies hailing from the Five Points. But the scamps who let themselves loose on the unoffending city of Worcester were students of Yale and Harvard, young men who had for two or fonr years sat at the feet of New England Gamaliels in two of the oldest and proudest of American seats of learning. The caso is all the more serious when we bear in mind that theBe Yale and Harvard rioters are to be the teachers of the coming generation. Bright lights and pure they certainly promise to become. - ... Manv thin era have been nn.id an to what, should be done in*the circumstances. The good people of Worcester have been lectured as to their duty in the premises. The College authorities of Yule and Harvard have been lectured as to their duty in the matter. There can be no doubt that the authorities at Worcester have been blatnefully indulgent, and there can be as little doubt that the heads of the colleges have been remiss in their superintendence. All this, however, fails to touch the root of the evil. The law as administered at Worcester might be nevor so severe; Yale and Harvard might expel or rusticate every offender ; but the disease would remain and would revoal itself as violently as before when occasion offered. The real cause of such disorderly conduct is to be found in the demoralization which has come over the whole of New England teaching. The colleges, like the churches, have dropped away from their ancient moorings, and the professors care for Christianity even less than the preachers. Central, fixed principle in morals and religion there is none among the class who now represent the intellect and culture of New England. Like the pagans of former times they have their gods many and their lords many, and on the summit of their Olympus Theodore Parker occupies a place of equal prominence with Jesus Christ. From teachers of tiiis sort what healthful moral influence can emanate ? To the impurity of the fountain in this case must be traced the impurity of tho stream. To make the students what they ought to be it will be necessary to begin with the professors. Current of Political Sentiment nud the Presidential Election in the South. An extraordinary and quite unexpected revolution is taking place in tiie political prospocts of parties in the South. The radical leaders spread themselves over the Southern States, after reconstructing those States on the negro basis, to secure tho votes of tho new-boru citizens of African descent. The first orators in Congress, both Senators and Representatives, left their seats and homes to Btump the South and to control the negro vote. A vast exodus of radical carpet-baggers left the North, and principally the Eastern States, spreading themselves over the whole South like locusts, to secure the suffrages of the blacks, as well as the offices and the property of the whites. In fact, the Northern radicals had it pretty much all their own way. ine houtn was their political elysium. They had no doubt about controlling the votes of the negroes, not only for their own elevation, but in the Presidential election also. All the trouble between Congress and the President arose from the struggle to gain the negro vote as a balance of political power, and the Reconstruction acts of Congress were framed expressly for this purpose. In truth, nothing was left undone that could be done by all the means that an all-powerful party could use, and scarcely a radical in or out of Congress had any doubt of the result. But what do we see now ? Precisely what the Hkrai.d said long ago and all through would be the case?that in the end the negroes would go with their masters and the democrats. From every quarter of the Southern States the fact comes to us that this is the case. A most thorough reaction is taking place. The press and almost all the correspondence from the South show this. Our private and most reliable correspondents inform us that "every one of the cxrebel States will be carried by the democrats; that the negroes are leaving the radical party by hundreds : that they are organizing colored conservative clubs, and that they are attending democratic, barbecues by thousands." Never was there a more striking example of the old saying that the best laid plans may be defeated. And why are the negroes abandoning the radicals and going with their old masters and the democrats? Became they believe their interests lie that way. and because the Southern whites know how to treat an^control them better than the Northerners. In their brief experience with Northern adventurers?protierlv called cariiet-bnirarers tmrn>i?e the Greater part of them wore needy ipeonlitori without any property but the carpet bag* they carried iu their hands? the negroes have neon that these men hud really no sympathy with them, and only wanted to use them for their own selfish purposes. They see that their best friends are their old masters and the white people among whom they were born and with whom their interests are identified. The Northern carpet-baggers and orators have cheated and deceived them under the pretence of sympathizing with them and being their friends, and, as a natural consequence, they turn to the people who employ them and with whom their destiny is cast. What more natural ? All this only "shows how short-sighted the radicals in Congress and the radicals generally have been, Independent of party considerations and the immediate effect this reaction may have on the Presidential election, it must be regarded as a happy circumstance ; for if the negroes and whites of the South aot together all fear of a war of races hereafter will he at an end. The employer and the employed will work together for U?olr mutual l^ereeM %o4 the iAtereftl of KSDAV, AUGUST S, 1868. ? their common section of country. One thing is certain, and that is that the radicals mnst change their taotics, cease their efforts to array one portion of the Southern population against the other, and consider the interests of the whites and blacks of the South as identical, or they will have the whole of that section combined against them, both now and for all time to come. They have deceived themselves up to this time. We shall see whether they can retrace their steps or comprehend this most interesting political problem of the day. The Theatres. Neither the monitions of the thermometer nor the attractions of the summer resorts appear to have much effect upon the attendance at the theatres, for they are pretty well crowded every night. Jt is true that the habitues who make up the audiences during the winter season are not to be found in our places of amusement just now in any numbers, but we notice that the houses are full nevertheless. The country evidently supplies the material which fills the managers' eoffers. This is a dull time in provincial towns, and as a consequence our country cousins take the opportunity of making their harvest of metropolitan pleasure when there is no business to be done at home. In this respect, as in many others, New York resembles Paris. All Paris may go to the country, but the country comes in to fill up Paris. The faces, the forms and the fashions so familiar every day may be missing, but the numbers are still there. And so it is with this metropolis, and there is no better indication of the fact than can be found in our crowded theatres. The "pottery of Life," John Brougham's keen satire upon the habits and follies of society, draws immensely at Wullack's, and the fact suggests tho idea that, under the usual management of this house, tho public should have inoro of such plays, hitting forcibly, yet not unkindly, the weaknesses of American life, presenting to us a mirror wherein the frivolities of our time and society are reflected with a good-natured fidelity to truth, more than the distorted images of human nature offered to us in the too common sensational drama. Plays like this, while they do not excel the good old standard comedies of Sheridan or Goldsmith and the other authors of their times, are far more acceptable than the thousand decoctions of sensation stories produced in -dramatic form, nauseous in tho pages of novels and extra nauseous when put on the stage. These latter productions do not comprise the quality of drama suitable to the taste of the enlightened portion of our people, and yet unhuppily it is just this kind of stuff which the munagers supply, because the bill of Cure is most easily filled up by a second or third rate stock company, and the prbfits are. more readily realized from a public that have become habituated to theatrical amusement nnd are entirely too lenient with their managerial caterers. As a chance from the sensational novel we Imve the Penian drama, which is a change for the worse. The manager of the Broadway theatre ought to know that Fenian burlesque? and the so-called Irish drumu was never anything else?is out of the market. It may do very well at the approaching election ; but it is about time that it was withdrawn from the stage. In a short time the summer heats will be gone, and the regular theatrical season will open. We look for a brilliant campaign from the managers of the various distinguished song birds, native and foreign, who are threatening to come over from Europe in a flock to dazzle us with their plumage and enthrall us with their strains; but we hope that the theatrical managers will take a new departure, repent of their many grievous sins against the presiding deities of Tragedy and Comedy, and give us a season of wholesome, legitimate drama that may rival the opera fioujf'r and throw into the shade blue lights, gaslights, shillalahn. gauze, tinsel and legs. The Ilea radatlon ot llie Partisan Press. We recently alluded to the shameless indulgence of the partisan press in scurrilous assaults upon the motives and character of political opponents. But we are constrained to recur to this disagreeable topic by the increasing vulgarity and blackguardism exhibited in the wordy warfare of the Presidential campaign liv two londitKr nnrtv nrtriuiri Onn of thoso "J o I / o?? ? journals in the organ of copperheadism and the other that of radicalism. The former denounces General Grant as a^sot, a peculator, a scoundrel, a military butcher and a wearer of an assumed name oj alia*. The latter denounces Mr. Seymour as a disguised rebel, a hypocrite and a lunatic, and detines his friends as "a mob hanging negroes to lampposts." P9th daily pour forth floods of such dirty political billingsgate, and both are published, not in some ohacure frontier village away out West or away down in Te*a*. where the habitual use of bad whiskey, bowie knives and pistols is apt to be accompanied by a correspi/nding coarseness aud violence of language, but here in New York, the metropolitan centre of American civilization The stylo of American Journalism has offered within the few past years many encouraging signs of Improvement. Misrepresentation and falsehood have been discovered and admitted to be unlawful weapons. Scolding and calling ill names, spitting in the face of as antagonist, flinging rotten eggs at hiui or slyly stabbing him in the back were becoming unfashionable practices. Argument had been found more effectual in debate than vitupera tion and abuse. It had boon ascertained that, like ether men. a journalist might huve blood and not Ink in his veins. He might wield the heaviest logic or hurl the aharpest invective without violating the amenities of society or the rules of honorable controversy or without disgracing himself by foul-mouthed personal abuse of his adversary while engaged in a fair light in behalf of his own convictions. Even the most abandoned party organs could not wholly withstand the influence of the example of high-toned independent journals. All this was encouraging. Rut no sooner was the signal sounded for a new Presidential campaign than the leading party organs fell back to their old tricks. Like pussy transformed into a young lady In ths fairy story, they could "behave" no longer when their rude and disgusting instincts were again excited. They have relapsed into their former habits of wallowing In the mire, and they bespatter each Ottier ?n4 tvery passer by. Pot cells kettle ' bjudfc, And folks that live in glass houses tkrow stoned reaJdessly. Such choice epithets as liar, thie* oo>T.ard are freely interchanged. The private liib of 5*ery prominent candidate for office is indeed1/ unveiled, and no conspicuous services whicn *>e ma7 have rendered to his country can exempt froul being the object of treacherous insinuatiC^8 cruel, direct attack. Each of the two lea*^n? pw*/ organs in this city is trying to bark ipore loudly and bite more venomously than thi? . other, and they are imitated by the whole yelping crew of party organs throughout the land. Surely this degradation of the partisan press is a national disgrace. It involves, moreover, evils that must aggravate the present un happy state of affairs, tearing open old wounds, inflicting 'fresh wounds, rekindling the worst passions, and perhaps exposing the country to the violence and woes of a prolonged civil war. The Political Reaction. The efection of last year, which gave the State of New York to the democrats by fifty thousand majority, was generally regarded as due entirely to the strong reaction observable all over the country against the violent and dangerous policy of the radical Congress. This was a popular error. While the antiradical and anti-impeachment sentiment had, no doubt, a great effect in New York, as in Pennsylvania, California, Connecticut, Ohio and other States, the immense revolution in New York politics was principally occasioned by the concentration of all the liquor and lager beer interests upon the democratic caudidates. This is evident from the fact that the great increase in the vote of the democracy was made in the southern portion of the State, where the absurd, unequal and odious Metropolitan Excise law is in existence. After the election, however, the democrats abandoned their best friends, aud instead of repealing the worst and most oppressive features of fc'rfian In ur whinti fliav could easilv hiVW done, they intrigued, plotted and voted to prevent any alteration of its provisions, and thus made themselves, in fact, responsible for the measure. The license foe could have been reduced to fifty dollars, the Sunday restriction probably removed and the spy and informer nuisance entirely swept away if the democrats had not purposely obstructed such amendments. The Irish and German liquor and lager beer dealers, who paid their money as well as cast their v.>tes to secure these alterations in the law, are perfectly conversant with these facts. This year they are going to try a different course. The republican ticket has upon it two liberal-minded men, Grant and Griswold; the former the friend of good liquor, and the latter the very King Gambrinus of lager. The Irish and Germans will therefore vote for the republican candidates for President and Governor, and by this means put down forever all the radical fanatics, beginning with Greeley, and banish cold water and bran bread from the' republican creed. This reaction among the liquor dealers and lager beer sellers will turn the State fifty thousand against the democrats* next fall, will secure the repeal of the Metropolitan Kxcise law and put a stop to all such narrow-minded legislation in the future. Tiie War in Sr. Domingo.?Late advices from St. Domingo report that President Baez is in a very bad way and may at any moment be driven out by the revolutionists. Things are so mixed up in that unfortunate island that we aro uncertain which side mav vet be vie torious, nor have we time to attend to that ftintter just now. When our election is over we will have leisure to look after St. Domingo, Mexico and the South American States. Then will be tho time to take them all in hand and see that the long neglected Monroe doctrine is carried out effectually. CITY POLITICS. Tlie (Terman Democrats of the Nineteenth Ward. The meeting of the Herman republicans o{ this wanl on Tuesday seems to have aroused the Seymourlios among the Teutons to activity; for they appeared in large numbers last evening at Mechanics' Hull, No. 701 Third avenue. Mr. Francis Koeliler, the President of the club, was in the chair, and Mr. Julius Hnneett officiated as secretary. It was reported that the club numbered 374 memiiers, to which were added the names of tlfty-nine citizens of the ward who joined last evening. When it was stated that measures should be provided to procure a transparency for the headquarters of the club, Mr. August Han offered to contribute the entire cost of it, which was accepted with cheers. Several speeches wero made and a committee was appointed to meet similar committees from the Twenty-second and Twelfth wards, to ntHke arrangements for the organization of the Congressional district WBOMd Of thee wards (the Ninth), utid then the meeting adjourned. Democratic Flag liaising. The Kmplre Club, of the Twenty-first Assembly district, had a flag raising and enthusiastic outdoor meeting last evening In Harlem. Messrs. Kugene J. Sullivan. Algernon S. Sullivan. A. J. Rogers, Adjutant tieneral Knapp. of tieneral Blair's staff, and Captain Rynders were the speakers at the meeting. lirant and Colfax nova In (line Clubs. I.ast evening an organization as above was effected in tba Thirteenth ward by the election of the following named officers:?Lieutenant (Jreen, Commander: Moses R. Allen. First Lieutenant: (leorge?Arnutrong, Second Lieutenant. Kxocuttve Committee?Major J. P. Short, Dr. N. H'. I.cightou and Captain Charles small. In the Fourteenth wards similar meeting was convened. i orporal Henry W. Hughes called the meeting to order and was subsequently elected chairman. W. W. Priestly was elected orderly sergeant, and the election of other penuaucnt officers was postponed until I he isth lust. Resolution* of eulogy upon (leant and Colfax were then passed by acclamation, and the meeting adjourned uuttl Tuesday evening next. - ? i toother (Irani link. The executive committee of a new (Irani club. ?o i?! called the "tintnt Roys in Rltie." held a meeting at the Astor House yesterday ami perfected thctr arrangements for a vigorous support of ttieir favorite candidate. tieneral Pleatsuton was selected as chairman of tit" Finance Committee. THE LATE GENERAL HALRINE. The Knight* of St. Patrick intend holding a meeting at the Astor House at lialf-past three this afternoon to pass resolutions expressive of their deep sorrow at the death of (ienorul Charles 0. Halpine, who ww one of (lis moat distinguished members of this society, and also for tna purpose of making arrangement* lo attend the funeral In a body. At a meeting of printer* held at Masonic (tall on Tuoxdav evening resolution* enloglatlc of the lute Ceneral Halplne were unanimously adopted. A number or too let tea and organisations, including many military bodies. Intend holding meeting* ror the purpose of giving putdlr expression to the high esteem In which thev held the lamented deceased, and extensive preparation* are being made for attending the funeral. 4 RK A Nil KM KMT* FOR THB PL'NRRAI.. Mr*. Ilalplne lielng at ill too much distracted at her terrible to** to Allow of her being consulted on the subject, the friend* of the family have arranged that the funeraljceromonlea over the Illustrious departed shall lie per'ormed at the residence. No. its West ' Fortv-seventh street, at ten o'clock on the morning of Saturday next. Responding to Invitations forwarded yesterday, the following gentlemen at once signified their willingness to act aa pallbearers:?Hon. John T. Hoffman. Major (Jeneral Itavld Hunter, James T. Brady, James O. Bennett, Jr.; Horace Ureoley, Robert B. Roosevelt, I'eter B. Sweeny, Richard ft. Connolly, William m. Tweed, Nelaon J. Waterluiry, Hicharil O'Oorinun ami William C. Barrett. I , CUBA, i The sic amstup Kagi,V Captain (Jreetie, Havana on tbe 1st Inst., arrived at this port yestertvy* Purser Huertaa ifui please accept our Miaow!* the prompt deliver/ of our flies and despatches. " , There was considerable agitation In Havana mercantile circles over a royal decree which discriminates very unfavorably against foreign flour as well as disadvantageous)/ to the revenues. The enforoeineut of the law prohibiting the Importation of .Spanish books printed in foreign countries been postponed out of regard for contracts already made ;?y the trade. An Iron bridge Is to be built over the /unfurl by an Amerloan. There had been ooplous rains on tho island, and but comparatively Uttie cholera or vomlto. Great Fire nt Ca*llda, Near Trinidad dn Cabs. Tkinidau ui Cuba, July 29, 19M. We have had a great fire In Casllda, and the loss la about $so,ooo. It broke out at about half-past three o'clock this morning. We were all routed out of our imds by the alarm of Are, and, I must say, the largest Are I have seen in the place yet, as it la a thing wn very seldom have here, and those of us who live here are unprovided for such aifalrs. I must say IV Is a disgrace to a place so largo to have no Are i enorlneflfor such cases. There Is one enulne In tho town, but it belongs to one or the merchant* of the place. The principal losers by the Are are:?Mr. William l'alue, no Insurance; Messrs. Schmidt A Co., no insurance; Messrs. Trltze A Co., no insurance; Mtguol l'astcll, no insurance, and two Spanish houses, and jour humble correspondent a small trine. TUE CHINESE EMBASSY. The First Nlfht of the Kutbuay at Mr. Hew* awl's?A Helect Party Pay Their Reaped*? The Tajens Entertain the Visitors?Madden Disappearance of Nan. Ai'BL'ks, N. Y., August a, IMS. Last night the commodious mansion of the Secretary of State was the rendezvous of a select party of immediate friends and relatives, having gathered to meet personally the members of the Chinese Embassy. Mr. Burlingarae was besieged oo | all sides by everybody, while Mr. Brown took special charge of the ladies uud Mr. DcChamps entertained a knot of admirers by acting as the medium of conversation betwoen the interesting Tajens and their newly made friends. In a very short time after tiis ceremony of receiving the few persons who were permitted to participate in this preliminary gatliering was suspended, the Chinese students broke up Into small parties, and, under the direction of the delighted individuals having them in charge, visited some of the families living near by. These persons seemed to participate in the feeling of hospitality sd liberally displayed by Mr. Seward, and tho students as a cousequence were much pleased with those little excursions about the neighborhood. Wherever tliev visited the citizens seemed to tie holding open house, and considerable parties of friends were also added to the household, givmg that portion of the city surrounding Mr. Seward's residence the appearance of a general festivity. Messrs. Euug and Teh, having the'advantage of their associates in the fact of their special attentions of tlie ladles. The others hud to rely upon the inconvenient ami uncertain method of couuuuuiruting their views in pantomime. At Mr. Seward's the Tujens held sway In the Celestial feature oi the occasion. Chlh bore his part nobly, considering the fatigues of the day, and took mrticular pleasure in cniurtain'ng every one -by returning compliments and receiving the same with all the polish of a Western courtier. Sun. however, less given to the arts of social intercourse, particularly on (lie laborious principle of Western society, very soon wearied of this sort of amusement und quietly slipped out of the way. More than an hour elapsed before he was missed. When It was discovered tiiat he was uoc present a number of reconnoitring parties set out scouring every hole and corner in the grounds surrounding the mansion. The search, however, was ineffectual, and the report from each expedition was that the missing I'ajen was not to be f und. The solicitude evinced was no compliment to tho Ta en as capable of tuktug care of himself. After considerable search it was discovered that, growing fatigued a id drowsy, he withdrew in a thoroughly diplomat o way?that is, without saying any thing, and exchanged the exertions incident to tiieeuiertuiuniehlof visitors for the pleasurable sensations of sleep. At an early hour Mr. seward, whose age requires tnore repose than younger people, also retired; but tho party kept up uutii rather late. Judging from the satisfaction already shown tho Embassy are highly delighted with their good fortune in accepting the hospitality of the Secretary of Slate. Chili expressed himself several times last night as feeling very happy. To-day the Embassy will visit Hie Auburn penitentiary aud take a drive about the city. They will then return to Mr. Seward's and enjoy a couple of hours' rest, alter which tnev will attend an exhibition of the practical application of several of the most useful of our improved agricultural implements. Visit of Ike Chinese Kmbnnsy to Auburn Prison. Al'BURN, AllgUSt 5, ISlW The Chinese Embassy, accompanied by a number of citizens, made the tour of the city this morning ta carriages, going to the various points of interest. They were the observed of all observers as ther passer! through the streets. At a quarter past eleven o'clock the Embassy visited the prison, going through the entire institution and witnessing the different enterprises carried on there with great Interest.. The discipline of the prison Is excellent under its present management, but the convicts could not resist t.iio leuipiauou ium' a kuuu iuoiv at mc oisi.uigulshed party. Tlie march of the convicts to their dinners, with the lock step and perfect order, seemed to be very Interesting to the Chinese. Their visit evidently gave them a favorable Impression of the American mode of punishing criminals. The tour through ttie prison occupied about one hour and a half, when the party again took carriages for the residence of Secretary The city was visited at two o'clock this afternoon 'by one of the heuvtcst rain storms that has been witnessed for years. This prevented the mower and reaper exhibition for the heneilt of the Chluesa which was mentioned In yesterday's despatch as to come off to-day. NEW JERSEY. Trenton. AVTItM PTICb MlflCIDK IM TUX 1ST\TH PniSflN. During the afternoon of Tuesday a convict named William Windsor, while engaged In whitewashing out* of the halls, entered a cell and seising another convict's razor indicted a deep gash in Ids throat, from which the hlood gushed so copiously mat lie was almost exhausted liefore olmerved. The wound is not considered mortal. Windsor is a Prussian by birth, bill wan convicted 111 Kli/.abeth of grand larceny ami sentenced to eighteen months' Imprisonment. During his first term of incarceration, some three years since, he made a similar suicidal effort. The unfortunate fellow is of Infirm mind and is generally confined alone. Kivc prisoners arrived at the stats Prison from Hudson county on Tuesday to serve terms varying (torn six months to two years. .Hillburn. Katai. Kaii.hoao Acciuknt.?Patrick Houston, man well advanced in years, while walking along Mia I rack of the Morris and Ksse.x Railroad, neui t his place, the day before yesterday, was struck by t lie locomotive of uu express trniii and instantly killed. II seems that in getting out of the way of one train he was struck by tiie engine of another on the opposite truck. His daughter, a young girl was with him at the time, but managed to escape unhurt. THE WEST H083KEN HOMICIDE. The ( urenrr's Jury Drrlure Michael Ito, he (lullty oT .AlMnelnughler. The inquest In the case of Patrick Madden was resiuiied at four o'clock yesterday afternoon i?ef<>ra Coroner White. .Several witnesses were examined whose lesttrnony did not difler materially from that already published. The Jnrv retired at a quarter past eight, and after I an hour's deli'ieralion brought In the following verdict:?"That Patrick Madden came to Ins death from i a stab iuilicted by a chisel in the hands of Mleinvt I Roche on the jatii day of July. ls?s, at tlio township ! nf IIfilitikpn I II104 Wi??i tin* v*?riIii'f iiiriiHvl tifl by the jury, and the Coroner sent them bark with further Instructions. A clause was then added declaring Koche guilty of manslaughter. on I htw verdict Koche was corn m It ted for trial wit limit ball at the uext term. WESTCHtSTEW INTELUfUCE. Assailt 1,'pox a Poi.ice orricnn.?Justn llaupttnan. of Morrtsanla, yesterday lined VI. J. O'Kourke, painter of Mott Haven. $JA and *9 costs for aa aggravated assault and batterv upon o.tteer l,eo* nard, who la also about cotntneociug a otvll suit fur damages against o'Rourke. Lopoh op r.oon Thpi.ars at Nsw Rmttmi.k.? On Monday evening KxceUior bodge of flood Templars. No. tW4. was instituted at New Kochelle, by R. I). Howland. District Deputy, assisted by E. J. Wright, HUto Deputy of Connecticut. W. P. Davids wax duly Installed as Worthy Chief Templar. After the cere, monies the Installing officers and guesta were eater* tnined by ihe bodge at the I,eroy House. Cnoi.ha.~Dr. Ellis, of Westchester, wm raited to attend two cholera patients last week, one of theng a resident of Westchester snd the nthor a resident of I'elham. The disease yielded to the remedies In tni'll cases, an t the oaUcete are now considered out at 1 ssnirer J