The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-07-06

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CONGRESS.
IN tho Senate, yesterday, the Conference Committee
on the Army Appropriation bill made a report which
was agreed TO- Tho bl amended is substantially the
1t passed by the Senate The bill to pay the
loyal citizens of southern States for stores taken for the
nse Of the army was taken up and discussed but moth
ing Gna was accomplished before the adjournment.
In the House. the Pacific Railroad bill came up in
order and after amendment providing that nothing
in IL shall give the company mineral lands United
States bonds the number of miles actually built
was laid the table The Conference report on the
hrmy Appropriation bill agreed to. The bill now
goes 70 The President The Tariff bill taken up and
three pages disposed Of No alterations amend.
Ients Of importance made.
THE CITY.
rhe regular meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
WA held yesterday, and very strong resolution was
adopted condemnatory OF the Tariff bill now before
Congress
Seven hundred and njunctions have already been
served on the Commissioners Of Excise During
thc last fortyeight hours they have received few
applications for licenses and their receipts from that
Bource have fallen OF 10 the small sum of four hundred
snd dfty dollars
The pyrotechnic displays which were postponed until
sho first favorable evening given in City Hall Park
Bud elsewhere in the city last evening to immense
crowds On East broadway and Grand stree. q serious
accident occurred. wooden shed which was taken
possession OF by crowd Of boys gave way beneath their
weight and ten persons injured of them very
severely, and some or them, II Is feared, fatally
James Hayward an English merchant, forty years or
age, and residing at No Jas Bowcry reported to have
died Of cholera yesterday after nlness Of only five
hours. There we're no fresh developments on Staten
Island, and no deaths reported Tho sick in hospital
there are all progressing nvorabiy and viii DO removed
in short time
Miss Ella Van We advertised to give "mauifes.a.
tons last evening" at s broadway whom about ninsteen
persons attended. The sesnce fascc, the medium
Was thoroughly exposed In . piano trick, and aftcr
row, during which Colonel Goodwin produced a pistol
o police intsrorcd and the money returned 70 the
4idcnce.
The exercises Of the sixteenth annual commencement
ST. Francis xavsr's College took paco last evening
He hall Of the college. on sixteenth street
On Wednesday last . policeman named John Fuchs
~as shot, at Morrsania BY Richard D. Cook, during a
ecnfe for the possession OF gun with which Cook had
ermed himself to keep trespasscrs Of bis garden An
inquest held the yesterday before Coroner
action Of the Grand Jury.
Smaicy Mr. s. q. Courtney, District Attorney, yester-
DAY moTed that on the indictment found some years ago
against Isaac Fowler with regard certain alleged
deiacaions in the Post Once OF this city, no prossqui
should be entered Jcdsc Sinalcy consented, aud a
nspe proso7si accordingly entered.
The Iamraude extradi,ion case 30 often reported in
che Hn,nD, was called again for hearing yesterday
before Commissioner Belts, when information was i'm
parted the Court that the accused had escaped
one of the Deputy Marshais The particulars OF tho
escape arc published in another column.
destructive fire occurred the New Haven piers on
ahc East river early yesterday morning The steamer
Baltimore caught FIRE from the burning depot and
aoai loss The damage cannot AS yet be estimated; but
tbo property the pier and under tho sheds Is reported
et s250ooo. negro man severely injured and the
captain OF coal barge with bis wife and brother were
burned about the face and hands The damags to the
pier IL about $40, 600.
1 Commercial affairs generally quiet, and but a
emal business done in imported merchandise and
not much in domestic produce outside Of Change On
tChangc the chief feature grea. activity in corn
which went up lc. &c. per bushol under large de-
and for export though the arrivals amounted within
D fraction OF hundred thousand bushels Flour was
lul and dropping. Wheat nominally lower Oats armer
Pork icss active and dropping. Lard dahl Cotton dull
md nominal Groceries nominally unchanged
MISCELLANEOUS
our special correspondence from Vienna Berlin and
lars dated TO the previous the depar
ture OF the Cuba from Queenstown June 23 published
In the HERALD to-day with compilation from the latest
European FLEA The matter will be found OF much in
sercst relative the actual progress made in the great
GcrnanoItas, var and tho probable consequences OF
bic struggle The morarchs and peoples evidently
nsoushcd at tho rapid and successful OF the
Prussian armies In Hanover and saxony The report OF
L. ~ Lair
krable astonishment among tho citizens Of Vienna but
nothing like CONSERVATION excitement The utmost
Ind most perfect secrecy maintained relative TO the
asrIan plan OF campaign II alleged In Paris that the
the Prussans and the policy OF Prussia
- lille on the other hand informed from Berlin
hst the Emperor OF France in hearty accord with Bis
r,arck and King Frederick William. II appears AZ II
NAPOLEON was simply confused The Italian volunteers
bn the right bank OF the Po in sight Of the Crcaan
ntnels doing duty for Austria on the other side The
uke do Chatres Louis Phlppes grandson rendered his
pcrvces oicer to Victor Emmanuel but the oner
N ~ declined by tho Italian Cabinet
The Atlantic Telegraph feet consisting OF the steam
~a,ps rea, Eastern william Cory, Albany and Midway,
accompanied Ivy tho British ship Terrible was TO sail
Prom England on the 3oth OF June for rendezvous OF e
hrsh coast, preparatory to starting on the vastly yapor
hnt work Of making nfth attempt 10 conp,ct Europ,
had America by a submarine telegraph The new cable
as completed and the last coDe OF placed on board
kGe Grea, Eastern on De 23d OF June, the date o.
k6t latest advice from England rigid scicn
No. examination OF the electric rope Is said 4
~ satisfactorily demonstrated It's superiority over The
ASfjbes and the preparations for laying u from Ire
&l6kfo Newfoundland represented "a being Of I
tkrscter regarded as perfect The work Of attaching
1he shore end line at valentla TO be commenced
bbDu the lat OF July 50 we may expect to hear shortly
bal As interesting AMI important work o. laying the