The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE XN. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 81S. \ viber dr cade “Ponage enee en’ vilcleed us ececription ¥ HERALD troo emis por copy, $7 per arwrnn- THE WEERLY HREAUD. coos Racsrtas od "iz cont” Seo & in Edition 7: ‘oabnes cents per copy, ; the Buropee We 4 ys Hh cae cow pare” Great Brivsin oF $5 to UAE Continent, boar’ fo. include postage; Gabipornte Baton the 8h a fa obs cents and th of each w PEaE rAuiey AERALD on Wednesday, at four cents per copy, ‘per annum. J AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. | WIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Itauax Orena—La Traviata, i WINTER GARDEN, Gai—Inuse Liow BOWNRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Satax ov Kanru~Mr Bow Diana WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Roraust— Freseurran. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 6% Broadway.—Tus | Mowxzr Bor, | NEW BOWERY, Bowery.—Awtoxy xp Cimoratsa— | ‘Tux Cartats’s Nor 4 Muss BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brosd¢way.—Day and josera ax> Us Bearugea—iaving Ovmiosi- | Broadway ~Rory O’Monz—Oon ‘rims, Ac. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall. 473 Brondway.— Bunresques, Soncs, Dances, &c.—Wuire Wasa Austr. NTHLO’S SALOON, Broadway. —Hootzy & Cawreate’'s Masstaeis m Ernortax SoxGs, Uoutasauns, Daxoxs, £0.— Inavevnstion Baie. NATIONAL THKATRE, Chatham sreet.—UGoLrno~ Baor—Ioror Wieser OANTERBURY MUSIC TALI, 663 Broadway.—Soxas, Davow, Kovcascres Ao. TRIPLE SHEE Tuesday, September 18, 1860, R iF Malls FOR EUROPE, @he New York Herald---Kittion fur Europe. The Cunard mail steamship America, Capt. Moodie, will Jeave Boston, on Wednesday, for Liverpool. The mails for Burope will close tn this elty this ‘afternoon at a quarter past one o'clock to go by railroad, | fand at a quarter to four o'clock to go by steamboat. ‘The Evnorgay Eprmion or rut Hexatp wili be published A tee o'clock to the morning. Single copies, in wrap- pers, six cents. | ‘The contents of the Evzoraay Eprrion or rms Arzirn ‘will combine the news received by mail and telegi»pd at Bhs office during tho previous week, and up to the bour ‘of publication. The News. By the artival of the Teutonia at this port, and the Jura at Quebec, we have details of European news to the 4th inst., aud telegraphic advices to the evening of the 7th. The dates by the Jura are two days later than those received by the Melitia- Affairs in Naples Lad reached a crisis. On the 6th inst. Garibaldi and his forces appeared at Sale- rano, only thirty miles from the capital, which he probably entered on the same day, or the day fol- Jowing. Toe king had placed his baggage and other effects on board a vessel, and one account States that he would leave for Gaeta on the 6th, while another authority reports that he would remain till the last extremity. The Bour- bons, however, have ever been discreet when their personal safety was endangered, and there is little doubt but that he ran away in good season. The revolution was spreading in all directions. There are reports of a renewal of the distar- Dances in Syria, and of massacres of Christians at Balbec and other places. The political compli on the Continent had fomewhat uusettled fin al affairs in London and Paris, but this was ina megsure counteracted by the improved crop prospect, which had imparted a buoyant feeling to the funds and cotton market, while breadstails were correspondingly depressed. By ph from New Orleans we have advices from Tr », Honduras, tothe 7th inst. General Walker and seventy of his men had been captured at Rio Negro by boats from the British war steam- er Icarns, and were delivered up to the Honduras authorities. Some of Walker's men, who were sick and in a destitute condition, were to be permitted to return to the United States, but General Walker himself and Col, Kndder were to be shot. By the arrival of the overland pony express we have advices from San Francisco to the 6th inst., and from Hong Kong, China, to the 24th of Jaly. ‘The news from California is not of special import- ance. The Douglas and Bell-Rverett State Con- ventions met at Sacramento on the uth, and at last accounts they were endeavoring to arrange a fusion electoral ticket. Business had slightly re vived at San Francisco. A very full summary of the uews from China is given in our telegraphic despatch. ‘The grand Union demonstration at the Cooper Institute last evening was an overflowing and en- thusiastic affair. Such 2 united aad popular move- ment has, perhaps, never taken place in this city, The utmost harmony pervated the proceedings, and the proposition to appoint a committee to nominate one straight out Union ticket for the defeat of the black republicaus was re- ceived with such applause and heartiness of enthu- plasm as are seldom witnessed. The meeting was Bddressed by gentlemen from different States of the Wnion, and the proceedings were, on the whole, very interesting. A grand torchlight procession of the Union leagues and minute men took place in connection with the demonstration, and at a late hour the immense gathering, inside and | Aldermanic Committee declined hvariug outside of the Institute, broke up with loud cheers for the constitution and one straight out Union ticket. Among the organizations on | band, during the night, was the Union League, No. | 1, of South Brooklyn, which was formed previous | to the fusion at Syracuse, by Thomas Shankland. | Tt waa the first league organized by the friends of | the Cnion, during the preseut campaign, to defeat the black republicans. We give (a full report of | the proceedings elsewhere. The Pusionists were at work all day yesterday at | the St. Nicholas Hotel, and ended the day in con- | fusion. The Volunteers made two or three new Propositions, which were rejected. Richmond, however, informed them that he was willing to in- sert the names of Wm. B. Duncan, A. T. Stewart, J.J, Heory, Moses Taylor, W. F. Parks and Go- vernor Rembie in the electoral ticket. This was | rejected by the Volunteers. James 7. Brady was nowhere to be found. The Simon pure Tammany General Committee assembled last night in the Old Wigwam, to make arrangements for the November election. Elijah F. Purdy presided, and a very full attendance of members was noticed. The session was long, bat not stormy, the most landable harmony | and good feeling being exhibited throughout | the proceedings. Complete arrangements for the | election of delegates to the Nominating conventions | Were made, inspectors appointed and ail the little | tinutie fully provided for. The programme agreed Bpon this year varies considerably from that of pre vious years, There is to be only one convention, composed of seven delegates from each ward, for the nomination of the city and county oflcers. For farther particulars we refer our readers to onr ad- vertising columns. A special meeting’ of the Board of Sapervis ors took place yesterday to appoint Inspectors of Ro- gisters. The special committee appointed for the selection of named not being prepared with thoir feport, the Board, on motion of Supervisor Tweed, took # recess until Tuesday, the 25th inst., at three O'clock, when they w Il proceed to batlot. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. application was received from the Reoond Avenue Raflroad Company, asking for permission to lay several cross tracks and branch roads. Referred. | A petition from a number of citizens was preaent- ed by Alderman Henry, asking for the establish- ment ofa ferry in the North river, in the neighbor- hood of Canal street, to some point in New Jer- sey. Also referred. Alderman Brady presented an ordinance, enacting that there shall be an officer in the Croton Aqueduct Board who shall be called “The Inspector of City Railroads of the city of New York, whose duty it will be to see that the railroads are kept in good repair; and also to see that the ordinances of the Common Council relating to gas companies are fully com- plied with. The salary of the Inspector to be $5,000 per annum. The paper was laid oven On motion of Alderman Tuomey a communica- tion from the Croton Aqueduct Department, asking for the award of contract to J. Hackley for the Fourth avenue mains, was called up, and rejected by a vote of 13 to 3, The Board adjourned to five | o'clock on Thursday. The Board of Councilmen held a short session last evening. The only business of importance was the presentation of a resolution by Mr. Bhaw, directing the Finance Committee, of which he is chairman, to report what steps are necessary to be taken for the purpose of recovering the revenue accruing from auction daties to the State govern- ment to aid in constructing the Erie canal. It ap- pears that in the year 1617 this city ceded the above revenue with the understanding that these duties should revert back to the Corporation, A resolution was offered in favor of establishing a ferry between Harlem and Westchester county. The epecial Committee onfVgarancy, appointed | by the Board of Aldermen, which was to meet yesterday to take into consideration the subject of vagrancy, had to postpone the meeting in conse- quence of all the members not being present. Al- derman Barry, the chairman of the committee, ad- journed the investigation uatil next Wednesday, at one P.M. Parties interesied in the recent action of the Board of Police Commissioners, in causing the arrest of all persons found unemployed in the streets, are requested to be present. The Tappen and Craven investigation was tinned yesterday afternoon in the City Hall. con- ‘The new charges from Mr. Wadsworth or any other citi- zens, on the ground that such proceedings would egular. The Mayor did not appear, end they wrned till Thursday next for the purpose of The motion for an attachment against Taylor and Brennan for contempt in continuing to receive the rents of the West Washington Market after the de- cision of the Supreme Court prohibiting them from doing so, was to have been heard yesterday, but ‘was postponed until this day. Don Juan Bello, Minister from Chili to the United States, died on Sunday night Jast at the Clarendon hotel in this city. He was about returning to Washington, and his death was quite unexpected. The members of the Diplomatic Corps and his friends are invited to attend his funeral this morn- ing at half past ten o'clock, church of St. Franc: Xavier, Sixteenth street. The settlement of the order in the New Haven Railroad case (the Schuyler frauds) was also post- poned until to-day. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 474 deaths in the city during the past week, a decrease of 40 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 7 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 2 deaths of diseases of the bones, jointe, &c, 85 of the brain and nerves, 3 of the generative organs, 14 of the heart and blood vessels, 112 of the lungs, throat, &c., 13 of old age, 30 of diseases of the skin and cruptive fevers, 159 of diseases of the stomach, bowcisand other diges- tive organs, 4S\of general fovers,5 premature births, 2 of disease of the urinary organs, 1 unknown, and 28 from violent causes. The nativity table gives 332 natives of the United States, $2, of Ireland, 29 of Germany, 7 of England, 8 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘The cotton’ market yesterday was Grmer, under the in- fluence of the foreign new?, but without quotable chanze in prices, The sales embricod about 1,500 bales. Large receipts, with the unfavorable intelligence from Europe, produced almost a stampede ia the market for breadatuils yesterday. The whole decline in some grades of flour reached from 10c, a 20. per WdI., while sales were mod. erate, Wheat foll off Sc. ado per bushel, though it was active at the decline, Corn was beavy, at 6c. a 670. for Wentern mixed, with « fair amonnt of sales. Pork was dull, with sales of new mese at $19 25 «$19 373;, and at $14 12 o $14 25 for new prime. Sugars were steady and in good demand, with sales reported of 1,300 01,400 bbbds., at about the current rates of yesterday. Freights wore active and firmer, with free engagements at raice given in another columa, The Union Mee! York for the Un tion. Never before has New York poured out her tens of thousands as she did last evening, at the call of patriotiem, to ratify the union of all the conservative elements for the sake of the Union. The crisis is a great one, the interests at stake are the highest that a nation of freemen were ever called upon to sustain, and the voice which New York, the material and intellectual centre of the confederacy, last night sent forth to all the sister States, in behalf of the frater. nity and equality of all, will find a heartfelt echo in every one of them. It is nota merely commercial question that is now submitted to the people. It is not an abstract question ax to the founding of new empires. It is not a strug- gle of to recover rights usurped. It is far greater than cither of these, for it is the question whether a nation of freemen, fully endowed with the right of self-govera- ment, can and will exercise that right in a spi- ritof justice and equity, or whether, in the pride of opinion, they will follow the example of the inquisitors that once desolated the fair est countries of Burope; of the Puritans who drove the protesting Quakers from the bleak hospitality of Massachusetts bay, and say to their non-conforming brethren of the South in social policy, think and act as I do, or your fields sball be given over to sorvile war, your homes to the flames and your necks to the bloody sword. It is the great question whether freemen can exercise the right of self govern- ment without playing the tyrant, and in its so lution stands the very existence of free insti- tutione. If the eentiment of justice and of respect for the rights of States which are our peers in all things does not prevail in tbe present political contest, a deadly blow wilt be struck at theory of self-government by those who claim to be {ts most devoted sup- porters. Representative institutions will have lost the vitality that we claim for them, by demonstrating the sad truth that fanatic majorities need a powerful hand to con- Last Night—New and the Constita- trol them, and weak minorities one to protect their rights. If we to-day strike a blow at the rights of the Southern States, because we be- lieve to be a moral and social evil what they sustain as the echeme of society beat adapted to the happiness and welfare of all, the next step will be to apply the same pride of opinion Tue Board of Aldermen met last evening, An! to some among oureclres and, by "Insieuing upon subjecting them to the rule of some other dogma, consummate forever the ruin of the io- stitutions our fathers establisbed ia the spirit of fraternity, and which we shall have cvu- verted into instruments of tyranny. [1 is the ~akness wad the misfortune of bumauity that no tyrant is go terrible as the one that is con- vinced that he fs acting from motives of the highest morality, and for the spiritual a8 well asthe temporal good of those endject to his sway. This truth holds good iu relation to parties as well as to men, and bency the greater Ganger of black republican rule. Tt ie against this danger that all phases of conservative opinion united last night at the Cooper Institute, and passed the patriotic rero- lutiops which will be found in another column. They breathe the true spirit of our in stitutions. And the meeting did something more than to pass resolutions. It took the path of action by cansing a com- wittee of fifteen to be appointed, with full powers to adopt such an electoral ticket as the crisis and the country now demand. It now re- mains for that committee to present at once euch a ticket as will command the full coufi dence and support of the people, and this can be done by ignoring the selfiah claims of all the wirepulling cliques and old rotten politi cal orgapizetions. For the support of such a ticket let the merchants of New York contri- bute liberally, and the people unite heartily. By so doing we shall give increased strength to the united conservative elements of Pean sylvavia and New Jersey, and save New York from the shame of cus\ung her vote for a fac tious and sectional candidate for the Presi dency. The Poets and the Presidency. The apborism generally accredited to Be- reager, but undoubtedly much older, “ Let me write the songs for a nation, and I cure not who makes its laws,”’ cannot, we fear, be pleaded io mitigation of punishment by the ballad mongers who concocted the forty or fifty poetical effusions which we printed the other day, and of which another instalment is given elsewhere. A great deal of just censure has been written in relation to our civil and criminal code; but it must be apparent to the meanest conception that faulty ag our laws may be, our songs are even worse We cannot admit, for a moment, that the coun_ try could be safely governed by either the dis ciples of Themis or Apollo, as they are here ex- ponnded. The political Pegasus has assumed, how- ever, a vast deal of importance during this cam. paign, and he has been mounted by so many aspirants that his health bas been materially in- jured. He no longer gallops, canters or trots smoothly. He rears up before, and he kicks out bebind. He interferes, he limps, he halts, and goes upon three legs. He i: like Petru- chio’s Rosinante, “ possessed with the glanders, and like to mose in the chine, troubled with the lempas, infected with the fashions, full of windgalls, sped with epavins, and stark spoiled with the etaggere.” If the poor old fellow can not do better, he ought to be turned ont in Mil- tonian pastures and permitted to die comforta- bly among his ancient friends. Such, however, is not the charitable intention of the bards who sing the praises of the several candidates for the Presidency. They have none of the quality of mercy in their composRion. They do not sweep the lyre with the gentle touch of the heavenly Nine; they pitch into it with what the muscular Christians would ¢al) a sockdolager. They, in point of fact, punch the beavenly lyre in its classic head; they blacken its eye, they bung its nose, knock its teeth down its throat, jump and stamp upon it, and are even base enough to kick it when in & recumbent position. They bave knocked up Pegasus, hopelessly un- strung the heavenly lyre, and created the most irreparable discords among the tuneful Nine. Look, for example, at the laureates of Mr. Douglas. They are, we believe, the more numerous of the bardlings. One of them sings of an imaginary conversation between Uncle Abe and Long John Wentworth, in which we have the most delighiful quatrains, such as ane aid O14 Long Joba to Abraham, looking v * “quit tte Line Guat = —which we submit as one of the morceaux of the collection. There is a song for Breckinridge and Lane, to the air, “ Don't you wish you may get it,” which is ratber an unfortunate selection. In another delightful lyric, the republic is, by a happy figure of speech, likened to a wagon, “a noble vehicle, built in seventy-six, and driven by George Washington through stormy politics.” Then we are informed that upon this wagon box, in sweet commune, sat the late lamented Messrs. Webster and Calboun; that Henry Clay drove the concern at that blissful period; that Mr. Case was “at his side,” and “never did the Union take a safer Union ride.” A Douglas song, to the same favorite air, bas assumed that 8. A. D.is the genuine, only original democratic candidate, because “democratic usage has spoken out anew, and nominated Stephen A., to every section true.” which ought to settle the question of regularity #0 far as the poetical as pect of the affair is concerned. A rhymster, who affects the “ Star Spangled Banner” metre, earnestly inquires for “that band ever glorious and true, when danger besets, and high courage is needed, to the good ship of State both com- mander and crew,” and desires to have it dis- tinctly understood that the “ watchWord has been given.” The question that next presents itself is, whether the sald “watchword” shall “pass unbeeded.” We trust not; for, indepen- dently of the danger to the Union, we might, in the threatened contingency, be obliged to suf- fer another poem, in addition to the horrors of civil war and other disagreeable things. We come now to n Bell and Everett lay, also to the tune of the S.S.B. In this we are re quested to “ Hark to the swell of sweet voices that well from harmonious throats in accord with our Bell” (pun), and are farther informed thet “they are the voicne of peace, tor the whole nation knows, that woman is with us where Everett goes.” A Lincoln song likens Honest Old Abe to Robin Hood, who was @ common and notorious thief. The seems rather an unfortunate one. In another of the Lincoln songs there is an clegant refe- rence to Mr. Hamlin; it is declared that the re- publicans will give them (the democrats) “ Ham enough this fall,” that it will be served up “Peat and plain,” and “ just imported from old Maine.” A nautical friend of Mr. Douglas Wishes all the friends of that eminent states. man “ that's scattered o'er the land,” to give ear, for be is going “ to build a Douglas ship,” & miraculons specimen of naval architecture, * to sail upon the la The pilot of thie aia. | gular craft is to be selected from the popula- tion of Dtinois, because the last syllable in the name of the Sucker State makes a prime rbyme for “one of the boys.” The comman- der is Douglas, of course, “ with a compass ia bis band;” and quite in contradiction to » pre vious stanza, in which it is stated that the sbip will “stop at every port and take ou Dougtas men,” we are told that it is not the intention to cast “apchor until we are safe iu Washiag- ton.” Probably this wonderful vessel will lay to, or make fast to one of the poet's rhymes. “ The brave out spoken republicans of the slave States” come in for iffy lines, which sound more like prose than poetry. Mr. C. M. Clay is requested to raise his voice like a “rilver trumpet, calm and clear,” avd at the same time to take a re- trospective glance at “old Thermopylae.” Ip case ©. M. CO. and bie friends should meet the fate of the Spartans at that celebrated pass, they are comforted with the assurance that their pames will “shine on glory’s scroll, beside the name of Washington,” which must be account- ed amopg the most flagrant instances of the abuse of poetical license on record. We buve thus picked a few plums out of this charming collection in order to show the de- moratizing i: fuence of the politicians, who, not satisfied with their wickedness in plain prove, have turned the clear Castalian rill iato a mad- dy brook, poisoned the crystal fount of Heli- con, and transformed the bees of Hybla into uo- seemly wasps. The only thing now required to make the work complete is to wed the im- mortal numbers of the political bards to that heavenly maid, Music. We would respectfully enggest the name of Mr. William Henry Fry as the compceser for the collection. He can use bis “Stabat Mater’ music in the Lincoln songs, and eo get Old Abe by the ears, It is related ot the warrior poet, Morris, at once a Cwxsar and a Horace, that be received a large slice of fat for writing a Taylor campaign song. At thet rate of compensation, Signor Fry would be entitled to a foreign mission at least. Tae twelve labors of Hercules would be mere child’s play to bis tusk. However, fortune fa vors the brave. So let Orpheus take off his coat, rol) up bis sleeves, and go to work. H.R. i. ayy THe Lavins—A Great Qces- TION ON THE TouxTTe Tame—We bear that the several sub-committees having in charge the arrangements for the ball to the Baron Ren- frew are progressing finely with their work, apd tbat no Jabor or expense will be spared to make the ball wortby of the city and its dis- bye ress guest. ‘bile all this is going on smoothly enough, there is just a little cloud or two rising in the crinoline horizon. The ladies of the McFilim- #ey family are much exercised io their minds upon two subjects—that of dress (which will settle itself in due time), and also on the grand question as to who will have the honor to dance with the Prince. There will be, say a thousand candidates for the Prince's haod, and of these nine hundred and eighty must be disappointed. The lucky ones wil! have something to talk about for the rest of their lives. They will change the fasbionable formula of commencing conversation from “When I was in Paris,” or “The last time I was in Rome, to “When I @anced with the Prince of Wales.” It will be & grand epoch in the fair one’s life, as impor- tant asthe Bridge of Lodi or the field of Wa- gram to the First Napoleon. Asa natural consequence of the magnitude and importance of this vexed question, as well as the mystery in which its solution seems to be shrouded, it bas become for the moment the all absorbing topic in the most extended crinoline circles. For the ladies the question comes at an opportune time. There is just now a dearth of subjects suited to drawing room discussious, and even the stereotyped “man with fine con- versational powers” is occasionally obliged to incontinently dry up. The ladies will not have politics, at any price; some of the old ones dab- ble in stocks, but are completely in the fog as to the meaning of the brokers’ slang; there is nothing new at the Opera, and the dry goods question, although occupying its usual position as first in the female orders of the day, will not last forever, and belongs to ladies alone. Everybody, however, can take a hand in this discussion about the Prince, and we as well as other people. So we will give the ladies a little light on the subject. In Europe, except on great state occasions, where an ex- act programme of everything that is to be done is made out by the Grand Chamberlain, it is customary for the King, Prince, Grand Duke or what not to open the ball with some lady holding an official position, and afterwards tu select his partners for himself from among the crowd. We have often seen this very sensible idea carried into execution in the European court balls. In the special matter under re view, the niece of the President, the ludy who presides with eo much dignity and grace over the executive mansion, has been selected as the proper partner for the guest of the nation, and therefore the ball will be opened by Miw Harriet Lane and the Baron Renfrew. Subse. quently, we presume, the European rule will be carried ont, and the Prince will be at liberty to select any lady who happens to catch his eye. So thai the question, like all other~ great political and social problems, will be left entirely open, and the affyir takes the form of a lottery, wherein “. proportion of prizes to the oianks fe at the rate of O98 fa Uiy—a rawer wide margia, and one which will keep the la dies on the gui vive. A new member ot Con- gress endeavoring to distract the attention of Mr. Speaker, who is intently gazing at the ceil- ing, is rather an entertainiag object; but the bevy of aoxions fair ones who will surround the Prince will be a much more interesting stady for the philanthropist and social philosopher. However, the ladies need not mind what the men, in their ab- surd envy and jealousy, may say. The grand thing is who will bave the Prince; and we say: as in the late muscular demonstration abroad, “may the prettiest women qin.” We shall leave the delicate task of ascertaining who they are to the Chevalier Jenkins, Broxpts and Tue Prince or Wates.—The Prince of Wales, we learn, ig alightly dingusted with Biondia and bis dancing and stilt waiking on the tight rope over the fearfal chasm at Ni- agua. The Prince is an of the Terp- sichorean art, but he likes to see it and participate in it on ferra frma—witness hie precaution to have the ball room Propped up at Cobonrg the other day— and being & representative of the great Britiab nation, of courre he has vo aversion to walking on tilts occasionally. However, it appears that he was not much emitten with Blondin’s performance, for when the frightful chasm was passed in safety be is eaid to have thanked as all over. ba Pry tee that so many people in this country are seized with an ambition to distin. guish themselves in the very jaws of death. Here we have our Blondins, Farinis and De- Juves, tempting Providence upon a tight rope; our wonderful balloon fanciers, like Wise and La Mountain, and the others who aspire to a transatlantic voysge in the air; or like Coppia, who seems determined tomake an ascent in a paper balloon, witbout a valve or any other ap- pliance for guidance or safety, but trusting to the winds, the Almighty and a few sheets of pa- per, where and bow he shall come down again. Then we bad Van Amburgh, the menagerie man, who loved to sojourn, like another Daniel, in a den of lions, varying his amusement now apd egain by tantalizing one of the monsters with a tidbit in the shape of his head; and Herr Driesbach, who used to go about with a fero- cious tiger in bis arms, as though it were a pet lamb. It ia told of Van Amburgh that an Eng- lisbman, who was certain that some time or another the great lion tamer would get his head bitten off by one of bis favorites, accom- panied bim all over Europe, so that when the interesting event took place he might be there to vee. But Van Amburgh carries his bead on bis shoulders still, and we suppose pops it into the lion’s mouth with as much nonchalance as he lays it down on bis pillow. Really, it is very curious that foreigners, no matter whether they be Frenchmen, or Dutch- meu, or Lrishmea, when they come to this coun- try, seem to get a strong infusion of the dare- devilism of the Yankees into them. Whether it is that they imbibe it from the atmosphere, with its big thunder and splendid lightning, its somets, meteors, tornadoes and so forth, or that they want to realize the saying of the Kentucky man, that a Yankee can dive deeper, come ‘up dryer, swim farther, jump higher, drink more and eat faster, and do everything better, than any otber man in creation. Certainly they perform more extraordinary feats under extraordinary circumstances, and with apparently as little object, than any etherpcople in the world, and, of this the Prince of Wales has had one example on the very borders of the country. Unrversai, Surrrace ror NeGrors mx Tis Srate.—The Tribune of yesterday came out with a strong editorial in favor of universal negro suffrage in this State, and says the ques- tion io be voted on in the November election is not whether negroes should vote, for they are already voters, but whether those of the black race who have not “$250 worth of dirt’” should be deprived of the suffrage. By “dirt” the reader is to understand real estate, which Greeley used to call “robbery.” The philosopher of the Tribune cannot see any good reason for the property qualification in the case of negroes, and contends there ought tobe no distinction between them and white men. This argument proceeds upon the assumption of the black race being equal to the white, which is contrary to notorious fact. The negro never was, and never will be, equgl to the white man; and the qualification of $250 is therefore a very proper provision, and is in- tended as a stretch of liberality to meet the case of negroes (probably with white blood in their veins) who rise above the average level! of their race, and prove their superiority by the industry and temperate habits and intelligence which enabled them to accumulate so much property. Very tew of them In the ,free States ever get beyond the profession of waiters or boot- blacks, or barbers or whitewashers, or steve- dores or servants, In the slave States, where the negro is in his normal condition, he does much better. In the free States the compe- tution of white men, who excel them in skilled labor and intelligence, keeps the general mass of them in an abject condition, greatly inferior to their status in that modified servitude under Christian masters which prevails at the South. Giving them permission to vote would not im- prove their condition, but, considering their general want of education and their vices in large cities, it would prove a source of corrup- tion to them, and an injury to the community at large. By the last census the negro in this State was not quite 50,000. It probably does not exceed that figure now, for Northern freedom is fatal to fifa growth. By the pro posed change their votes would number, in- stead of three or four bundred, from nine to ten thousand, made up of the inhabitants of the Five Points and all the purlieus of vice and crime in the city; and this festering mess the republican chiefs calculate they can sway by prejudice or purchase with money, so as to be- come @ balance of power in their hands to carry their elections. The Tridune boasts that even the pretent number of negro votes bas turned the scale in an election for Governor. What might it not do when swelled to ten thousand’ The Tribune contends that there is an incon- sistency in not allowing all negroes to vote or in not preventing all. Very well. The best way to cure the inconsistency, If it exists, is to amend the constitution by taking away the suffrage from every negro. It must either come to that at last, or to fraternity, equality and amalgamation, which is the grand object the republican party is seeking to accomplish by a reign of terror. A Sraresmayiixs Sreecu gn THR Ceres — Among the speeches dolivered at the Union pre-eminent for {tg gomprehensive and states. manlike views. It is no nartow, sectional or partisan effusion. It rises to the height of the | occasion, with a masterly analysis of the trne | pature of the issue in the Presidential election, and a clear insight into the fature, deducing by | & most cogent logic the effect from the cause, | and showing, with almost prophetic vision, the | disastrous consequences which must result from the triumph of the republican party. We refer to the speech of Mayor Wood, which is worthy of the intelligence of the chief magis- { politician. It does not enter into questions about conventions, or tickets, or rival cand!- dates, or personal matters, but it takes high na- tional ground, and a broad view of which bas risen to grandeur, and long main- tained its status in the scale of nations, owes its power to commerce, which is also the source tnd the safegnard of political 'berty. Without Commerce what would the United States be at this day? It would rank ase fourth or Afth rate Power, or, perbaps, be no Power st all, instead of being, as it is, second to no other Power in the world, on sea or land. 7 Mayor Wood shows that the assault upon the social relations of one-half the Union must, if successful, break up the government; that the success of the republican party must result im the destruction of our commerce, and reduce & great nation to a number of petty, powerless ” States, with jarring interests, each of as little importance in the world as a German duchy or principality. All classes, from the highest te the lowest, would be injuriously affected and degraded. To prevent this result is the aim of the Mayor’s speech, and he does not come for- ward as a partisan of any candidate, but in ad- vocacy of the defeat of the party who meditate revolution. This is evidently the right view of the question, and amidst the barren mass of po- litical verbiage, without meaning, which meets the eye, the speech of Fernando Wood is like @ refreshing oasis in the desert. The path which it points ont is the only one to victory. Party Maou...2y—Tue Merrorouray Pe- wick Lypressep NTO THE Service or LincoLn.— When the Metropolitan Police bill was first in- troduced in the Legislature we denounced it as @ measure concocted purely and solely for party objects, and pointed out the dangerous uses to which it would eventually be turned. We were met by arguinents the plausibility of which had weight with many well meaning persons, inas- much as they were based on the acknowledged abuses and inefficiency of the old police system, It was contended that arly change must be for the better, and that a fair trial should be given to the scheme embraced in the new bill. Not- withstanding it was shown that under the old law no such latitude of mischief existed as was furnished by this measure, it was forced through the Legislature by a tyrannical majority, ut- terly regardless of the remonstrances of the community whose interests were most affected by it. "For a time a certain.show of impartiality was kept up by the maintenance on the commission of a few democrats, care being taken, however, that the republicans should always be in the majority. The constituting the Mayors of New York and Brooklyn ex-officio members was, how- ever, merely a temporary concession, which the framers ot the scheme were compelled to make to public opinion. So sweeping and revolu- tionary a change would have at once betrayed its objects if the chief magistrates of the dis- tricts most affected by the provisions of the bill were excluded from all share in ite admin- istration. They were, therefore, put upon the Board to give to it at the outeet something of & municipal character, and to impart a coloring of fairness to its purely partisan organizatio, For a time this farce was kept up, and inno- cent people began to believe that we were at last going to have a model police. A show of severity in the regulations touching the discipline of the department helped to confirm this opinion. Those, however, who look to resulis rather than to pro- fessions, soon found out that, as far as the public service was concerned, the new system was not going to work any better than the old one. And in fact the statistics of crime in the metropolis exhibit relatively no greater im- provement to-day than that which they present- ed anterior to the reorganization of the force. But in other respects there bas been a very great change, and that for the worse. Intoxi- cated with the success of their scheme, the black republicans in the Legislature threw aside all disguise, and eliminated from the commis- sion the only elements that imparted to ita character of fairness and respectability, thus converting the department into what it was originally designed to be, a mere political en- gine. Not only are its members now compelled to do personal service for the party, contraryfto the duties which they owe the public, but every man of them is placed under contri- bution, in sums ranging from five to one hun- dred dollars, to aid the fund for carrying the election of its political nominees in November next.. Even the money paid over to the Com- missionets by the orders of the Japanese Am- bassadors has been withheld from the force, under some flimsy pretext, to be appropriated, no doubt, to the same object. Sach are the men who aim to wield the destinies of the country for the next four years. There is no injustice too barefaced, no mean- ness too petty, that they will stop short of to carry out the gigantic schemes of plunder which they have in view. They know that one Presidential term must damn them forever as a political organization; but to gain it there are no depths of infamy that they will not stoop to. Will the people of New York submit any longer to be thus trampled upon and plun- dered by this vile and unscrupulous faction? Let their conduct at the polls in the ensuing elections at least show that they know how to distinguish false democrats who further their netarious schemes from those who remain loyal to the cause of good government and the main- tenance of the federal compact. Waar 1s Tum Divrerence’—In the contest now going forward, between conservatism om one side and revolutionary black republicanism on the other, what difference does it make what proeet| elected in this State, provided Lincoln. isdefeated? I matuers n't ¥lcl section of the conservatives is triampbant, it ihe black tprb- canmotiget a fair pro- portion of electors on the fusion ticket: aad as they are numerous in New York city and Brook- lyn, the effect would be disastrous, resulting with certainty in the victory of Lincaln. Now thie would be the extreme of folly, for it would be playing the very game the Regency desire. Richmond and Co. want to see the republican ticket elected, and nothing would so annoy them as to find the Breckinsidge men voting for the Bell and Dougtss ticket. It is trne'it would be far better the Breckinridge F only voting for Breckinridge after all; for the, effect would be not to benefit Donglas, who cai not be elected either by the people or in the House of Representatives, but to defeas Lincoln,