The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1863, Page 6

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ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisemer ed in be’ore ten « v the Wererzy Hana: n must be had. Me ck every Wednestay evening facturers and ge jomen thronghont tha 1 the enterprising mechanics, farmers, | ton is certain, but thet ovent “‘will not aeoure what the North requires,” ~ y The London Times condemas the practice of neutrads furnishing war vessels for belligerents , on the ground that the example may be turned against England in case of a future war witha Strong naval power. The writer eays that the federal government supplies itaclf with arms and munitions of war from neutrals as far as practi- cable or necessary, aud that the Union ‘‘politi- cians will disregard every point of their own con atitution on a phase of exigency." The British hip Havelock, at St. Helona, had been boarded by the Alabama off the Cape of Goqd Hope. The privateer reported that the | Georgia was in company with her, The Alabama had, it was said, tweaty-two Uvion prisoners, in cluding two American consuls, on board, Ske had captured a bark (the name net given) cast | ward of the Cape, aud Atted ber out as a priva- teer, . A despatch from Queeas'owa of the 24th ult states that the American ships Express and Annie | F. Schmidt bad been destroyed by the Alabama olf Rio Janeiro. > The Kerope of Frankfort asserts positively that the Archduky Maximilian bad accepted the throno | of Mexico. He takes the crown at “all, hazards," and reaounces his collateral prospects of becom- | ing euler of the Austrian empire, as regent for his | nephew, ia the event of the death of Francis Foseph. An article ia the Londoa 7¥mes of the 24th. ult. leads to the conclusion that tho Archduke had accepted. ‘Che Landon 7'imes says that the British | government wilt support him, and shat he will have a loan of twenty-four millions of pounds | sterling. The Zimes oasaila the character of the | Mexican people with great vehemence, and denies ; that they are at all fit for self-government. The Opinion Netionale of Paria, Prince Napo- | leon’s organ, says that the Archduke had de- | spatched a secret mission to England in order to ascertain how the goverament of that country regarded the prospective throne in Mexico, and “that be had an assurance of its full and cordial support previous to his deciding ou taking the crown. { The Archduke Louis of Austria—brother of Maximilian—is to be married to the daughter, the only child of the Emperor of Brazil The London country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- | Post regards the event of very high importance, ported in the Weex:y Heap wi'l thus be seen by a large | 88 two thrones on this side of the Atlantic—that of portion of tke active and energetic peopte of the United | Mexico and Brazil—may soon be filled by members Pees of the house of Hapsburg, who will mutually sup- port each other. The London J’ost speaks of such THE SITU AVION. a royal accomplishment with faver. All the reports which we are enabled to pub- he Paris correspondent of. the London Pobt Ish to-day from the Richmond papers relative to | cleave te nema roe ncroet Gnteus | about to address the Powers of Europe, in order the state of otairs in Chattanooga are of the most | that they may aceredit, if they think proper, min- favorable character. admits that General Rosecrans’ position is imprez- nable; that Geveral Burnside has joined him, and that the attempt of the rebel General Imboden to out off the communication between Rosecrans and his reinforcements on the Baltimore and Ojiio Rail- road had proved a failure. At last accounts both armies were confronting each other, and General Rosecrans had established three lines of defence in front of the town, while Genera! Bragg was at the same time fortifying Missionary Ridge. The Riohmond Dispatch warns the “over-sanguine multitude’ that the capture of General Rosecrans’ army by Bragg is no easy job. The rebel attack on McMinnville, which we reported yesterday, Meee a flank movement on the army of General Rosecrans, which cannot be successful, owing to the precautions taken by the General to prepare for such an attempt. We learn by a despatch from Nashville yester- day that General Forrest, with a force of four thousand cavalry, mde a raid on the railroad line between Nashville and Bridgeport, with what result has not been telegraphed. Despatches trom Louisville yesterday state that Colonel E. McCook attacked the rebel General Wheeler’s force, four thousand strong, at Ander- son's Cross Roads, and beat them badly, killing and wounding one bundred and twenty and taking eighty-seven prisoners, together with all the government property recently captured by the rebels. By the arrival of the steamer Haze at this port yesterday from Port Royal we have news from Charleston to the 1st inst. Our forces were pro- greasing with the erection of batteries on Morris Island. The troops were in fine health and spirits. Official reports from Admiral Dahlgren have been received at the Navy Department to the effect that ‘the land and naval forces are not idle in their ope- tations. Our gons were making terrible havoc on Forts Sumter, Johnson and Simpkins on Wednes- day and Thursday. The enemy's batteries on Fort Moultrie replied briskly. Affairs remain unchanged in Gen. Meade’s army, and witifthe exception of some skirmishing between the pickets on either side of the Rapidan, and the Gring of the rebel batteries occasionally on our foraging parties, there is nothing to disturb the repose which both Union and are enjoying in the delicious weather which pre- rebel soldiers vails in the vioinity of the Rapidan. ‘The United States steamer Tioga captured the rebel steamer Herald onthe 28th ult., with two handred and fifty-two bales of cotton on board, and browglit her into Key Wost. The Herald had also on board the ageuts of a company formed in the South, with @ capital of $2,000,000, to eniry on the business of blockade running. This was their firat attempt and proved a most signal failure. EVROPEAN NEWS. The Steamships Glasgow, Sidon and City of London—from Queenstown on the 2ist, 224 and WUAth of September respectively—arrived ut this port yesterday. The news by the City of London fs one day Inter thau the telegraphic report of the Saxonia, off Cape Race, published in the Hammary last Saturday morning. Uur European files are tree days later than the papers received by the Europa. Mr. Mason's removal from the position of rebel envoy in London is confirmed. Tho English jour- mals deny that he ever enjoyed a Giplomatic character. The writers say that the door of Earl Russell's offic amber was invariably closed against him in polite’? manner, and that the Davia monwuvre of caling him from London can- not alter the neutral course of the govermment, or entrap the Cabinet into a recognition, even by a “side wind.” Some sympathy is at the same time expressed for the rebel cause on account of the generol war policy of its leaders. The Paris Patric of the 234 ultimo says that the reason for Mr, Mason leaving London is the difficulty raised by Ea:} Rassell upon the subject of the ships buflding {n English ports for the Con foderates. A very crowded meeting, in support of negro emancipation in America, was held to Leeds, England. Tho rebel cotton loan had relapsed its recent advanco to thity and twer y-cight per cent dis. count, | The Loqdon Timep oaye shat tap fall of Chagles- ‘ The Richmond Erammer | isters to the government of the Ausivian Arch- duke. A magnificent mission is to leave Rome for Mexico.”” Russia had replied to the French note on the Polish question. The State paper reiterates the determination of the Czar to deal with the subject himself, Prince Cortschakoff adds that the Em- peror of Ruesia cannot ‘permit’ the affairs of his provinces, to which no international relations apply, being ever alluded to by the other Powers, even “ incidentally” or in a “ friendly” manner. Twenty thousand Russian troops had been sta- tioned in Finland, and the preparations for war were very active all over the Russian empire. A powerful iron fleet would be ready in spring. Denmark was placing her army ona war footing. Forty improved twelve-pounder Armstrong guns had been shipped from England for Canada. A considerable number of troops had sailed from Cork for the same destination. Consols closed in London, on the 24th of Septem- ber, at 9334 8 93% for money. The Liverpool cot- ton market was easier, and prices weak on the 24th ultimo. Breadstuffs were dull, with steady prices. Provisions were quiet, with a steady mar ket. It was the steamer City of Limerick, and not the | Glasgow, which arrived out on the 23d. MISCELLANEOYS NEWS. By the arrival at this port yesterday of the steamship Roanoke, from Havana on the 30th ult., we have later advices in reference to the pro- gress of the struggle in St. Domingo between the natives and the Spaniards. The rebellion appears to be spreading, and the guerilla style of fighting pursued by the Dominicgns gives no rest to the Spanish troops. The report of the burning of the town of Santiago de los Caballeros by the natives is confirmed. General Gaudars had assumed com- mand of the Spanish forces and transferred his base of operations from Puerto Plata to Monte Christi. By the Roanoke we have also advices from Ve- nezuela to the 7th of September, General Falcon was preparing to besiege Porto Cabello, and had given notice that he would treat as mutineers such of the troops in that city as might be made prisoners. Falcon had refused to recognize the contract entered into by the Venezuelan Consul in this city for a line of steamers to run between this port and Laguayra. The government transport steamship Coamopo- litan, from Hilton Head, S. C., on the morning of Saturday last, arrived at this port about two o'clock this morning, bringing two hundred and twenty sick and wounded soldiers from Morris Island and Beaufort, She brings no -news from Charleston later than that previously received. At the session of the Bdfd of Aldermen yee- terday the ordinance granting a lease for a ferry from the foot of Thirty-second strect, New York, to Brooklyu was passed over the veto of Mayor Opdyke by a vote of thirteen to three. A reso- Intion was adopted imposing a tax of $50 on each of the dummy engines used within the ¢ ty limits by the Hudson River Railroad. A resolution ap- propriating $10,000 to defray the expenses of the municipal welcome to the Russians was discussed, and afterwards referred to the Finance Commit- tee. The Corporation Counsel, in a communica- tion to the Board, stated that he had not been served with any notice of injunction in the matter of the $3,000,000 appropriation for dratt exemp- tions, The Board, after transacting considerable routine business, adjourned to Thursday. At the meeting of the Board of Councilmen last evening the proceedings opened with a little amusement, furnished by the presentation of ,& petition purporting to be from the Rev. J, W. McKay, calling upon the Common Council to adopt meagures to prevent the desecration of the Sabbath, and also to remove every house of ill fame out of the limits of the Corporation, The petition was sprinkled with Scriptural quotations, by which the members were reminded of their ultimate fate if they failed to put a stop to what the writer called the sin of Sodom and Gomorrab, which, he thought, could be done in about ten minutes, by calling onthe fremen to wash out all the inmates of the honses of ji] fame. The mem- bers having neglected to endorse the petition it wae rejected as informal. A bill of $111, from the Fifth regiment, for furvishing twenty-five mu- sicians for the recent reception of the Russian offers, was referred to the special committee having charge of the matter. Mr, O'Brien offered reward nsion of the murderers of Jobn Fitzgerald, who was murdered on the 11th of Angost last, in avenue A, between Fourteenth aod Fifteenth streets. Laid over. After trana- ‘acting some routine business the Board adjourned anti evening next at four o'clock. The October torm of the Court of General Bes- stone Hp ae even o'clock yesterday > Becor hofnse op the bench. The Grand Jerors diacharged for two weeks, in Gonsequence @ one panel being then in session in the Court of Oyer and Terminor. Dr. Edward M. Brown, the alleged abortionist, was placed at the bar on an indictment for murder, when the panel Of petit jurors was challenged, and but cight of them sworn to try the case. A panel of one hundred additional jurors was ordered to be sum- moned for to-day, and the case was adjourned un- til this morning at cleven o'clock Tho stock market was atroug yosterday, and prived wore ail better, the advance being from 1 to 3 per cent ‘Thero was a better fooling in the market than we have Botwed (or some days, Gold ruse (0 46, closing at that . Exchange sold io the morning at 168 a i, in jothing was dove Money waa 64 7 por . The bank atalement shows a decroase u doposits, aud an inoreaso of $1,040,800 in Yoans and $56,048 iv apocie, Cotton wae again firmer yostorday, with a (au inquiry. ‘Thoro was tons doing in flour, wheat and oats, thougt prices favored buyers, Aa active apeoulative business was Uracaacted in coro, w inquiry {or provisions and wivleki ucyaut. Wool, tallow and tabacoo were aoiting realy ak rising craton, Petroleum waa tieavy and Wocliding Cue ranis and rosin were firmer, with an improved fnquiry. Mog was advancing gradually, the foceipts baying been inadequate to the wants of bavefs Hides apd leather were held with more Armacss, but wore tosa adtive, Tho Croight market was tame. } The War of the Cabinet—Conservative Manifesto Issucd Through the Pest- master General. | Some months ago Wendell Phillipa an- nounced that he had made the discovery that Mr. Lincoln aad his Cabinet had resolved themselves into a committee to manage the next Presidential election, and he at the same time dealt moat unmercifully with the bland _ burst out a fullblown Garrisonian. but not brilliant Postmaster General, who wes | engaged just then in stumping one of the New England States in support of the conservative policy of, the administration. The silver- tongued abolitionist was not mistaken, as the course of events since then abundantly proves. The war against the armies of Lee, or Bragg, or Magruder may relax; the Anglo-rebel pirate vessels may with impunity make the sea their heritage; our financial system may be sinking us into more irretrievable ruin, and our foreign affairs may be getting more and more muddled; but not for all or any of these causes can there be, or has there been, any slackening of efforts, any mitigation of antago- nism on the part of Mr. Lincoln’s Secretaries against each other and all others on the sub- ject of the next Presidency. The other day the Zribune published the pro- gramme of Chase, Stanton and the unmanage- ables of the abolition party, and we gave to it, asa political document, the benefit of our cir- culation, so that all might know what the ultras are driving at. To-day we publish the re- sponsive manifesto of the conservative ele- ments of the Cabinet, comprising Lincoln, Seward, Bates and Blair, issued in the shape of a speech delivered by the last named gentle- man at a political meeting held in Rockville, Md., on the 3d inst.—the first appearance of the’ Postmaster General, we believe, since the ruthless assault made upon him by Wendell Phillips. We are delighted to be assured. in: the very opening of this address that ‘‘there is good rea- son for believing that peace will soon be re- storéd to our country.” In that assurance we recognize the mind and thoug! our pro- phetic Premier, and we swallow it with as mauch faith as zealot ever embraced a dogma, Soon! Certainly; but is it to bein sixty days, Mr. Seward? Or must'we contain our souls in patience until after the far mwve important question of the succession is decided? We very much fear so. In the next sentence we are told by this most conservative but most illogical’ of: Cabinet officers. that peace is to be ‘fol by the early suppression from our systens: the institution of domestic slavery.” And heré. ‘we pause, lost in wonder and amage, and,we ask ourselves, can it be possible that the ant!- abolitionist and anti-amalgamationist Postmas- ter General can Bave uttered this rather deci- dedly abolitionist doctrine? Well, perbaps Mr. Seward’s finger was in the pie to that extent, and so we pase on to its more delicious ingre- dients. We soon come upon them. In the very next paragraph we find that “Richard’s himself again;”’ and, as we read on, we realize that the whole abolition cobort is routed, horse, foot and dragoon, before the trenchant cimetar of the apostolic knight of conserva- tism. Hark! how heavily fall his blows upon the strongholds “of amalgamation, equality and fraternity’ —heavily as did the battle axe of Cour de Lion on the heavily knobbed castle gate of Torquilstone. The Washington Chro- nicle, led on by the truckling Forney, and dis- playing the banners of Chase and Stanton—the man of money and the man of war—goes down before him; the Missouri Democrat, represent- ing the Fremont graft of abolitionism, and backed by the whdle Teutonic clement of the Southwest, is songht out as a personal enemy in the melee of opposing forces and crushed to earth, though perhaps to rise again; and, finally, that heaviest of the heavies, the Ajlantic Monthly, 1s encountered by this young David, and, like Goliath of old, is soon writhing under the well directed missile from his sling. Thus on the fleld of Rockville have the triple factions that are arrayed against President Lincoln and his conservative poli- cy—the factions of Chase and Stanton, of Fre- mont and sei lager, of Sumner and abolition New England—been encountered and dis- comfited by the postal paladin sent out from Washington and commiesioned by Mr. Lincoln to charge the abolitionists, as David was com: missioned by King Soul to overthrow the Phil- istines. And yet, amid the hosannale of victory and the shouts of triuinph over @ routed enemy, we ‘are haunted with the dread ruspicion that after all there wes very little principle involved in the contest. The batile ory of the abolition hordes was ‘negro emancipation and the wiping out of rebel State organizations.” Against these destructive dovtvlnee Mr. Bisir was sent to do battle, and did it well. But at the going down of the sun, ae be is returning the vietor from this well fought field, what strange song does be sing? In it possible that in overtbrow- ing the abolitionists be has adopted their worat heresies? Forefend it heaven aud ali the saints martyrs! And yet bearken unto the word# of his mouth:—“Slavery in the Territories ie unconstitutional; but if the rebel territory falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the national government, then slavery will be impossible there. In legal and constitutional sense it will die at once. The oir will be too pure for o slave. I cannot doubt but that this great triumph has been already wen.” Is it Mr. Montgomery Blair who uses this lan- guage? of te it Wendell Phillips, or Charies Sumner, or Chase, or Stanton? In vain we re- fer to the mapuscsipt of the speech for an lak- lng of light. Not «ra there, The context out of the labyrinth. There ere quotation marks covering a preceding sentence, which reads:—‘Slavory, says the programme, is im- possible within the exclusive jurisdiction of the national government.” But the quotation marks end with that seatence, and it t+ fol- lowed by something which can have reference to none but the apeaker bimectt; a8, for in- stance:—“"For many yours f bave had this conviction, and have coustautty maintained it, Lam glad to beliove that it is impossible, if not expressed im the Chicago platform.” The exact meaning of this latter sentence is not very palpable. Tn fact it ia rather's mud- die; but we cannot possibly act it right: Thea need tea The , comes thins—“ Mr. Chase among our public was good, andthe | men is known to accept it sincerely. tendooey of prices was decidedly upward. Sugar was the | slavery inthe Territories is unconstitutional.” only active article im the grecery fine: ptices were | any go on to the end of ove Aret extract ‘Thus Ttie personat ‘pronoun “E” has ao. reference, from anything se can Gnd in the context, to anybody bitt Mr. Blair himself; and we mast, therefore, in equal gacptise ‘and saddess, con- fess that the Postmaster Geueral, who starts out the most cautious of conservatives, winds: up the most absurd enthusiast of abolitionism. We can only account for this on the ‘theory that Mr. Blair, bas: belonged to.¢0 many parties, has so thoroughly imitated St. Pau! 1a being “all things to all men,” that before he came to the end of his long speech he became be- wildered and “flustrified,” and, not knowing exactly which aide of the question he was on, So much for the frailty of poor human nature, even when moulded into the person of a, Cabinet officer. Thin only proves that Mr. Lincola should not have. entrusted the championship of the conservative cause to such a frail vessel as Mootgemery Blair, but should have rather selected the wily, able, artful and passably consistent Secretary of State for that daty. Even Mr. Usher would have been a much bet- ter selection. But for all that, and bating this remarkable incongruity near the close of the speech, which may be, after all, only a blunder on the part of the speaker, the reporter or ‘the- copyist, we commend this conservative manifesto to pub- lic attention; and we demand of the Tribune that, as it has published the pronunciamiento of the radicals on the Presidential election, it will have the fairness also to publish the response of the conservatives. The war of the Cabinet is intensely interesting, and the public is on- titled to full accounts of all the battles, sieges and skirmishes. Impottant from Europe—Alleged Ale Mance Betweem France and the South. In another part of this journal we publish letter from our Paris. correspondent giving the details of a reported alliance between France and the Davis government. It will be seen that the rebels in Paris assert that Prince Maxi- milian makes it a condition of his accepting the Mexican throne that the Southern govern- ment shall, renounce the Monroe doctrine and recognize the new Mexican empire, according to it the old boundaries of Mexico, including New Mexico, California and Arizona; also that the government shall guarantee the new Mexican empire against all American in-" terference. The rebels in Paris sasert that Slidell agreed to these conditions, and that, as & consequence, France entered into an alliance with Davis, and that after'a certain delay she will lend him armed force, march an army of Mexicans one hundred thousand strong to the Rio Grande, break all our blockades, and French troops im New Orleans and Balti- more. “\tis quite unnecessary for us to add that me’place no reliance upon the fullilment of any of these promises said to have been made by “Napoleon. On the. contrary, we deem it much more than likely that these assertions are made by the rebels in Europe with the intention of stirring up bad feelings between the people of our loyal States and France, and with the hope of entangling Napoleon in some way in his relations with .this government, so that he will be forced to turn to the South. That Prince Maximilian should have made any such conditions as regards his acceptance of the new throne offered to him we do not believe, as we cannot for one moment sup- pose that he or any man io bis senses would place any reliance upon the assistange of a re- bellious government now so near its end. It must be apparent to all Europe that the North will ere long compel the seceded States to a reconstruction of the Union, and that the next step to be taken by the government of the United States will be the complete vindication of the Monroe doctrine. The ambitious, overweening schemes attri- buted to the Emperor of the French by his would-be allies are too absurd to gain credence with us.” We are aware that his position on this continent is difficult in the extreme, and that, as be undertook his invasion of Mexico against the feelings of his people, he must en- deavor to get out of it with as little loss as pos- sible; but we cannot imagine for a moment | that he would agree to anch measures as are attributed to him by the rebels in. Paris. France, as well as all other European Powers, muet know that complications nearer home de- mand ber attention. “Russia has boldly thrown down the gauntlet, | and France must look to it that she does not lose ber prestige in Europe. The Rassian | squadrons now in our port will be considered by Napoleon as a menace to him more directly than to the other great Powers. He will seein this move on the part of the Czar an announee- ment of his entire readiness to enter into an alliance®with the American government; and Mapoleon must understand that were be to Make common cause against ns with our rebellious subjects we should secure the alliance of the Czar and give and take ald against mutual enemies. Je Fyance pre pared for such a result? We believe not, while that Russia is ready to asenme the con- sequences we fully appreciate. She has ecat- The Approaching State Elections. \ Tlie @leotions in Pennsylvania and Ohio take place next week. The canvass in the former Bia‘e is in such # muddle that but a vague idea can be formed of the result. Noone here ap- pears to know anything positive about it The |-tepublicans say they hoy io carry the State, and the democrats deciare that their chanced are good. Ttie State was carried last year by the democracy by a majority of about three thousiad; but im consideration of the impor- tanee >: the position of Governor the re- publics «may make @ desperate effort and vecome that amalt majority and re- elect t.overnor Curtia, In Obio the jumble is atiil worse, and is likely to increase from day to day untit the election. New York is the only one of the Middte States where this peculiar condition of affairs does uot exist. Tn one of the most exciting canvasses known in this State one year ago, withan aggregate vote of a fraction over six hundred thousaad, the democrats elected their Governor by about, tem thousand majority. ‘This majority, although -ematt when thé aggregate vote is considered, in. ordinary times might be looked upon as carrying with it a prestige that would decide the resuit this year. But im times: like the present it amounts to nothing in regard to the, euccess or failure of either side. ‘The result in this State will be decided by different causes from that of any other State. In the first place, both sides have placed ther candidates on a conservative war platform; but éach party bas a faction in it laboring for the defeat of their ticket. The Seward-Weed gec- tion of the republican party were successful at the Btate Convention, and the ether side consider that the success of the ticket in November will be interproted as the triumph of Seward, and thus be an important spoke in the wheel for the nomlnation of Seward or Lincola for Presi- dent next year, and thus defeat all the plans of Chase and his radical fac- tion. The course of Jim Lane and the ether extreme niggerheads Kast and West shows the recklessness and the rule or ruin determi- nation of that faction thronghout the country; while the insane copperkead clique in this State are equally determined upon the de- struction of their party. In short, then, Hore. Greeley and fhe Hon. Ben. Wood have more to do in deciding the result in the Empire State than any one else. It all depends upon which of these two men can do the most mischief to his party. We are inclined to think that Greeley can damage the republicans more than the Hon. Ben. Wood can the democracy. We are inclined to believe that Greeley has the advantage of | Ben, Wood. Greeley has taken the very Devil for his god, whilst Ben. Wood makes Moloch his king. Greeley, being the embodiment of Satan, has the advantage of Ben, Wood. Although Moloch is one of the greatest evil geniuses, it is not as bad as the real Devil himself, Greeley’s ally is therefore the strongest. Already Greeley has commenced denouncing a portion of the ticket-— Judge Selden, one of the ablest men in the State—and is, like Lane ana others, unbottling his wrath and letting loose his demoniac spirit upen his party. Hon. Ben. Wood, on the other band, bas the advantage of Greeley in bis Georgia, Kentucky and Delaware lotteries, and far outstrips Greeley in his strawberry, gold pen and other lottery schemes; yet all the lesser devils have to give way to Satan himself, and we therefore believe that Greeley will come out ahead of Ben. Wood in the end. ‘This extraordinary condition of affairs places a different phase on the issues in this State than that of any other. It narrows the conteat and the excitement of the canvass down:to the point as to which of two men can do the most mischief, Greeley, with Satan to back him, is just now ahead; Wut the Hon. Ben. Wood, with his devil, Moloch, may, before the canvass is ended, make such a turn and twist with his lotteries and copperhead insanity as will ruin “the entire party and out- Herod Greeley. Both are bound on mischief. Let all watch their movements, and they may soon be able to ascertain whether Greeley and Satan or Ben. Wood and Moloch are the most powerful. It is au amusing contest, and will no doubt soon be far more interesting than all the operas, theatres and negro minstrel pertormances put together. Tur Mayornatty Contestr—The politicians are now twisting and turning over the candi- dates for county officers to be elected in No- vember; but it makes but little or no difference | as to what they do if they will omly keep in view the great question of a more vigorous of the war and stand firm in favor of that issue. The question of Mayor at the December election is, however, one of great importance. Among the candidates we no- | tice, in the first place, the name of Jaines B. | Nicholson. We do not remember of having heard of him before. He may bea very good Commissioner for Charities and Correction; but we want in these times men of positive charac- ter for Mayor. It is no time to try experiments with new and unknown men. In the next | place we have John Anderson, whose name is mentioned in connection with this office. An- | derson is@ very good man, a succeasiul tobac- conist, and knows how to make money; but he is not a man of nerve, of bold and pesitive character necessary for the chief magistrate of » city like New York in these days of revolution j and riot, and is therefore unfit for the position at present. C. Godfrey Gunther is urged by | another interest. He, too, lacks the reqnisite talent for the position. He ie a successful dealer in furs and an excellent citizen; but be bas shown no quality that proves him to be the man for that position in these revolutionary The otber and most prominent candidate among the democracy is the present City In- epector, Boole. His course since he took charge of the Inspector's office is proof positive that | | he possesses executive abilities of the most | | decided and marked nature, and the very teen “_ - Ape aee., ’ — $6 Wo trust that they will mot foo! away this op: Poxsunity and place a man in the chair of chief magisgrate of the city who wil! be paralyned@ with fear when nerve, decision and ‘prompt ao tion are necdssary. Opening of the Opera Season—Tne Age . of Bhoddy. Lust evening the {rrepressible Marctusk be- gau & Dew Opera geagon at the Academy of Music. The house was of course overcrowded, and the display of costly dresses and magnif- ceat diamonds was almost unprecedented. Irving place thundered with the coll of new equipages, nad inside the Academy the favo cite artists looked around upon a sea of now faces, To add to the colat of the affair Maret- nek brought out a new opers, with new scenery, and, both ou aad off the stage, we noticed several new improyements in the house. From the indications of last evening wo sbohid de cidedly say that Macotrek is about to make bis ‘fortune at iast. Ha has wooed the Gckle jatle long and faithfully, indifferent to her Croquent frowns, encouraged by her occasional smiles, Jolly when he has been able to make both onds meet, and stil! more jolly when he bas disastrous ply foiled. During his tast season this operatic Mack Tapley had « promise of the good things to come. This season he fosts upon the food tide of prosperity. We bave no doubt that the enccess of the Opera-in New York this fall wit! far surpass anything hitherto known, either ia this country or in Burope. The same brilliant story is also true of other Places of amusement. All our theatres are open except Mrs. John Wood's, which will opes on Thureday, and they are all crowded nightly. The kind of entertainment given seome to be of little account. Provided the prices are high and the place fashionable nothing more is re quired. Al! the fotele are as crowded e@ the theatres; and it is noticeable that the most costly accommodations, in both hotels and theatres, are the fret and most eagerly takes. Our merchants report the same phenomenon im their atores : the richest silks, laces and jeweley are the soonest sold. At least five.hundred new turnouts may be seen any fine after- noon at the Park; and neither Rotten Row, London, nor the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, cas show a more splendid sight. Before the golden days of the Indian summer are over these five hundred new equipages will be, increased to a thousand. Not to keep a carriage, not to wear diamonds, not to be attired ina robe which cost a small fortune, is new equivalent to being a nobody. This war hes entirely changed the American character. The lavish profusion in which the old Southern eot- ton aristocracy used to indulge is completely eclipsed by the dash, parade and magnificenee of the new Northern shoddy aristocracy of thie period. Ideas of cheapness and economy are thrown to the’ winds. The individual whe makes the most money—no matter how—and spends the most money—-no matter -for what— is considered the greatest mau. To be ex- travagant is to be fashionable. These wrote sufficiently account for the immense and bril- liant audiences at the opera, the theatresy ‘and until the final crass comes such audiences will undoubtedly continue. The world has seen its iron age, ite silves age, its golden age and its brazen age. This is the age of shoddy. The new brown stone palaces on Fifth avenue, the new equipages a8 the Park, the new diamohds which dassle um accustomed eyes, the new silks and sating which rustle over loudly, as if to demand attem tion, the new people who live in the palaces and ride in the carriages and wear thedismonds aad silks—all are shoddy. From devil’s dust they sprang and unto devil’s dust they shall return, They live in eboddy houses. They ride i shoddy carriages, drawn by shoddy borses, end driven by shoddy coachmen who wear liveries. They lie upon shoddy beds, have just come from the uphelsterer’s, and stilS smell of shoddy varnish. They wear shoddy clothes purchased from shoddy merehants, whe have erected mammoth stores, which appear to be marble, but are really shoddy. They set ow follow the shoddy fasbions, and fondly tm agine themselves a /a mode de Paris, when they are only ala mode de shoddy. Their profes sions and occupations are pure shoddy. They are shoddy brokers in Wall street, or shoddy manufacturers of shoddy goods, or shoddy com tractors for shoddy articles for a shoddy gow- ernment. Six days in the week they are shoddy business men, On the seventh day they ave Shoddy Christians. They ride luxuriously to a shoddy church, where a shoddy clergymen reads to them from a shoddy Bible and preaches a shoddy sermon written upon gilt-edged papers and, during the appropriate passages, this shoddy successor to the old Apostles wipes hie weak eyes witb s shoddy lace handkerchief as he mildly pleads with bie hearers, who are sleep ing soundly upon their shoddy cushions, aud begs of them to eyes th Saviour gaa, crucified with Intolera ot ie in ordee that the shoddy aristocrney might be gently wafted upon the wings of sboddy angels to » ~ ~ ehoddy heaven. Nor are olitics leas shoddy than their religion. belong tom the shoddy party, which is always loyal to shoddy, and they vote the shoddy ticket, and support. the shoddy administration which is conducting this shoddy war, not for the obso- lete idea of the restoration of the Union, but for the profit and perpetuation of a shoddy dynasty. Ob, for some shoddy Junias, with a peu ae keen as shoddy steel and words that | burn like shoddy “Greek fire,” to write the his tory of this shoddy age, and prophesy that downfall of shoddy which is tocome! Already shrewd Daniele scent a storm {fa the Babyloa- isb air; but still the days are. golden and King Shoddy marches on triumphantly. Let us, then, 4 ; enjoy the present, the Park, the theatres an@ times. | the opera, and leave the future to take care of itself, That ie the sum of shoddy wisdom, eeé we sali not question such high authority. Sows Axpenson, 4 Mayorauty Caypipa te, ow Newsrargns.— We have received the following very interesting letter from our old friend, Mr. tered her fleet that it may bé used in case of | qualities needed at this time ina Mayor of | Jom Andereon:— need. She is levying large armies, and she says with bo'd defiance to France, “We shall do as we think proper about Poland: We re- pulse your interference and are prepared to d@etend our policy.” France cannot drive Russia to extremities; stil) less can she do this to us—and hence we place no belief in the re- ported alliance between her and Davis, We are quite prepared to see Napoleon at any moment find some grand “idea” whereby he may glide out of the Mexican scheme as quickly as possible, else, we assert, as we have so often before, that it will cost him his throne and entail the ruin of his dy- pasty. | this important city. With him it will not be | | trying a donbtful experiment with an unknown | } man; for our citizens wij! be assured beforehand | that there can be ne doubt but that in bim we sball have a man who knows bis duty, and has | | the nerve to discharge that duty, let what wil) , come. As to the republicans, we presume that they have already had enough of Mayor Opdyke and his shaky condition when nerve and bold- ness are required; and we see no other name mentioned that has any chance for success with & bold and fearless man like Boole ruaning against him. Whatever the democracy may do, if they act wisely they will control the olestion. TO THE RDITOR OF THE HERALD. Tn the Jenne of your paper of (he 20th of Septeuber my vane wae mentioned ar connected hen fang SHE Menino wey pennected with that or. any otbee Bewsparer io the Cited mates cour rane | been 1 mca Youn OFF. 2.0 "JUAN ANDERSON, * We betieve that Mr. Anderson's statement ie eutirely correct so far as it goes; but it does not go quite far enough. Last sumer, just before the State election, Mr. Anderson, a4 we understand, joined with Mr. Fernando Wood, Mr. Hiram Cranston, Jndge Barnard and Alphabet Barlow and bought up the World, which the republicans had abandoned as use- loss. With the World these gentlemen intend- ed to control the whole democratic party.