The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1864, Page 4

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Cuniosries asp Lecronss, from 9 a, M, tll WP. amt OPERA HOUSS, Brookiyn.—Eruorse Buriaseuss, bs rs Bones, Danoms, New York, Friday, October 14, 1864. * THE SITUATION. ; There is just at preseot an apparent lull in military @perations, which will n0 doubt soon give place to move. ments of @ grand, moet important and stirring character, tment of our forces from the strong positions they Bow ‘bold on the orth side of the James since suffering the severe repulse infiictea by the ‘Tenth corps on Inst Friday. Large numbers of de Sorters from the enemy still come tnto our Ines. General Birney bas been compelied by a severe attack of fo- ‘ver to relinquish temporarily the command of his gatlant corps, which will be beld in bis absence by Genera! “Terry. Politics bas been recently quite av element in She army, owing to the efforts of the two parties to se- ure the votes of the Pennsytvanis, Ohio and Indiana sol- Giers. Firing between the opposing pickets on the right ‘Wing has entirely ceased lately, and oflicers can now ride @long the front tn perfect safety. Rebe! veterans have Gupplanted the raw troops at one time manning tbe works to front of the Tenth and fighteenth corps. From the Shenandoah valley there is no new movement to report this morning. One of our correspoudents with Sberiieu's army furnishes additional detaiis of fast Sua Gay’s work, when the Union cavairy made such a mag BiGoent Anish of the rebels under Rosser. campaign {p the Shecandoah valley, Sheridan's army bas captured thirty-eix pieces of artillery and inflicted on Early’s army a loss in killed, wounded and prisoners es Hmated at twelve thousand men. Though we baveno fresh despatches from Genera! Shermau's beadquarters to give this morning, matiers ‘Will doubtless soop assutme ap {nteresting and decisive phase ip that region From Missouri we bave nothing additional retative to the raid of the rebel General Price. General Rosecraas Yoh St Aoyie on Wedeeaday night for the front of the Bel6 operations in bie department. Natchez, Miss., advices of the 4th inst, etate that Col. MoCable, who, with a ema! force of Union troops. tet Vidalia on the 26th wit., on an expedition, bad returaed, having captured the rebel Colone! Witk:ne, four captains, povera| guerilias, fifty borses, one bandred and fifty mules, four bundred cattle, large quantities of cotton and woollen cloths, arms and ammunition and several reve) eoorateay ‘ Bee » Admiral David D. Porter took command of the North Atisotic squadron on Wedmesday of this week, as succes Gor of Admiral Lee The event was sigualized at Fortress Monroe by « salute from the steam sloop-of war Brookiya. . OOLE! a {| Affairs remain quiet before Richmond and Petersburg, Che rebels showing ve disposttion to attempt a distodg. ! Io the recent MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The all absorbing question is the Peonsylvania election. Poth parties stili ciaim it on the home vote, by from three fo five thousaed majority. Tho returns come in slowly. ve are without any returos from several countien, and fo neu tr of others only ® email portion have beon beard trot, ‘The later and mor compleje returns tn ~ ‘¢ gaine in vine cases out ef ten. if Grease the democree. — - trom show anywhere i'ke the Chess sneions ome HS bO%, 0 the returns ; already ro Gemooratio gate ta proportion - 1c on the home rote. beive! the State bas gone democry. Fe indications are that we shall 7 Shela! returns to determing ® ining hae been recolvou be rbow any change © 3 «a the Niet of Congressmen given yes. Uerday, The“ ctoeath district is in doubt. — to Nebraska resulted in the success of the ibilcam delegate to Congress, . The vote on the new anti-slavery constitution ia Mary. Jand is vioae, with « prospect that the soldiers’ vote will devermive it The death of Coiol Justice Taney was fittingly noticed yesterday In the Cifferent inw courts of this city, which SAjourned as A mark of respect to bis memory. In the * gemeral and special terms of tbe Supreme Court, Judges (alien, Roberteon, Bonney and others referred to the ead Seourrenes, jo the first braveb of ibe Superior Court ap. propriate remarks were made by Judge McCune, and io the secood branch of the same court Judge Barbour and ‘Wiliam M. B¥arte, Heq., made driet addresses on the polemh event, In the Court Of General Sessions it was properly alluded to by Recorder fotman ac% Assistant Distriot Attorney Stewart. ‘We are informed that the position of Chief Justine of the United States Supreme Court, made vacant by the Goeth of Judas Tener, bas boom Wondered by sue i'rest ol Neat vo wail for the Broadway,—To Tacwn—Two | causing more damage to veasels than evor before occurred there at & corresponding period of tho year; but in all be disasters no loss of Jife is roported. NEW YORK HERALD) FRIDAY; OCTOBER 14, ) 1864 | devt to ex Secretary of the Treasury SiimonP, Chase, | Tae October State Elections and Row avd that it ts likely be will aceupt the appolutmens, | Oar next advices from Europe wilt inform us of the J result of the great priz fight between Joe Coburn ad | Jem Mace in Ireland, provided the battle took place on | the day first Oxed, the 4ib of October, Four steamsbips Jolt Great Britain fur American ports immediately after {hat day, in the following order, viz: let. w York Londonderry .. .t. 1. Quebec ‘Telegraphic reports from one of these. vosscis may resch ws (rom Cape Race or Father Point ataay m)- ment, A communication was reeeired in the Board of Aldor. men yesterday from City inspeetot Boole, ip answer to the recent message from Mayor Gunther rolative 10 tbe fat boiting nuisance, and his determémation not toconvene the Board of Health, ‘The con.munication calls the Mayor to account for eudeavoring to make a streat cleaning oou- tract for $200,000 which would wot include tho removal i of ashos and garbage, the most expensive item of tie | whole work, and concludes by,critictsing the conduct of his Honor, saying that he had used every means to dam- | age his official character. Tue Committee ou Railroads were instructed to ascertain by what authority, if auy, | the various railroad compauies bad increased their fare. j Acommunication was received from the Mayor relative to the murder of the unknown man recently found float- jog in the East river, recommending that weasures be { taken to unite with the Brooklyn authorities in efforts to discover the murderer, and that a reward of one thou sand dollars bo offered for bis appreuension. The Foard of Councilmen held a bricf sesston yester day. The Committee on Fire Department repéried in favor of furnishing suitable silver ba to the Fire Commissioners; but the paper was sent back to the com- mittee. After adopting g few routine resolutions the Board adjourned. Ap important arrest was mado in this city yesterday Of alleged counterteiiers of the national fifty cent trac Sional notes. Four detectives, under the direction of Mr. Kennedy , Superinteudent of our Metropolitan Police, have Docn engaged for the past six weeks in track. ing the accused, who had an extensive estad ishment in this eity and a subsidiary Place in Newark, N.J. The officers seized $30,000 of the half printed bills, largo piles of paper prepared for recetwing® tho impressions, n printing press, finely executed steel Plates, dies, iuks, &. The fifty cont notes said to be issued by these men are well calculated to deceive the public; for, though the faces of them aro somowhat blurrea and dim, the backs are most elegantly engraved and printed, and are said to be perfect imitations of the genuine tssues of the Treasury Department. The pri- soners are to be given up to Untied States Marshal Mur- ray to day. A young man named Charles Hisi.er, proprictor of a shooting gallery at 157 Chatham strect, while attending @ wadding party at 201 Elm street yesterday, suddenly | crew a pistol and fie! two shots Into bis own breast, from the effects of which it is thought be canaot recover. Tnrequited tove ts said to be the eaui The dicmombered fragments of the body of the men supp’sed to have deen recently murdered iu Brooklyn are being gradually discovered. Yesterday a pair of legs ‘and the fect were found floating in the bay off Yellow Hook, Loug Island. These constitute the fourth package of parts of these remains which bave been picked up in the water at diferent times during the past two weeks ‘Only the head and arms are yet unrecovercd. The Evening Express caso was on ‘again yesterday, The case for the plaintiff was closed, and the defence opened. James Brooks took the stand, and denies posi- tively ever having sold one-sixth of the whole of the paver, as alleged by Mr. Clark; bul sald that be sold one- sixth of his sharo of two-thirds, He was under examina- tion when the Court adjourned for the day. But jittie business was iratisacted in the Court of Gene Tal Sessions yesterday, an early adjournment taking Place out of respect to the memory of Judge Taney. The Grapd Jury brought ina batch of indictments, and re- sumed the discharge of their duties, Stephen Reynolds, indicted for grand larceny in stealing a gold watch worth $200 from George A. Provost, 167 Maiden’ lane, on the ‘28th of September, pleaded guilty, He confersed to hay- tog pawned it ab the offiec of Wm. Adoiphus, in New Chambers street. Sentence was postponed. ‘The McClellan Legion held their bi-woekly meeting last evening at headquarters, No. 90 Fast Thirteonth street. The speakers were Mr. Gilbert Dean and ex.Governor Bigler, of California, The attendants was very slim. The naval transport steamer Apbrodite, woich went ashore pear Capo Lookout, on the North Carolina coast, last, bas, as was anticipated, proved a total thousand dollars worth of her stores were gotten off sa‘ely, The seamen and marinos on board Of ber wero transferred to the stéamship Mercedita, which is to proceed with them to Aepinwall. At the resent examination at the Naval Academy at Newport, Mf. I., one huodred and thirty of the students ‘wore passed and admitted as midshipmen. The Monitor Dictator was yesterday towed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard from the Delameser Iron Works. She can, if {t is deomed necessary, be made ready for sea in a few days. d ‘The convention of delegates from the various British provifices of North America, designed to effect a con. federation of all these colonies, is holding datly secret Sessions in Quebec. An accident occurred to the through Montreal passea- ger train on the Hudson River Railroad yesterdsy moro- ing, near Manbattauville, in this city, caused by ® rock failing om to the track from the precipice on one side. None of the passengers were injured, bowever, the principal damage beiug the smashing of the locomotive, ‘The la’e siorm was very severe on our northern takes, Counterfeit ten and twenty dollar bills of the Maver. hilt Bank of Massachusetts wero put afloat last night ail over this city. The people should therefore look ovt for them. ‘Tho stock market was buoyant yesterday morning, and & general advance io prices todk place, Iv the afternoon a forther improvement took place. The gold market was excited and specalation favored a rise, The opening quotation was 203%, from which tt advanced te 209%, closing at 208. Governments were firm. ‘The high price of gold caused # Grmer {jing in com- mercial circies yesterday, and in Most 4rricies there was some improvement fp prices. Bo~ipees was very mode. Fate, however, confidence br‘ing at rather too low a mark to admit of many 8” culative transactions, Groceries were firm, thor", quiet. Cotton was unchanged. To troleom as mixed, crude and refined tn bond being and free active and higher. On Change the tour ket. was 10c, 2 lic. bigher, with » fair demand Wheat advanced 1c, s 2c., withagood demand. Corn and cats were more active, and decidedly firmer, The Pork market opened active aud Arm, but closed dull and boavy. Beof and lard wore quiet, but steady. Whiskey wos dull and drooping. Freights were very dull. A Monenn Jererizs.—We see that Albert Pike, poet, lawyer, soldier, scalper of wounded men, and now rebel fudge of the Supreme Court in Arkansas, is exercising bis new powers with the. bloodthirstiness of » Jeffries. He bas just declared it treason, and punisbable with death, to take the oath of alle- giance to the United States government. This red code is already in operation in Arkanens. Looking at the extraordinary career of this man, charity would suggest that he is insane, Born in Massachusetts, bred a lawyer, gifted with a liberal education and possessing no mean qualities as a pert, he took up a kind of rovidg Wie in the West, Spd. ppon the breaking out of the rebelffon he turned up in Arkansas, where he -""4ed goldier, avd joined the rebel cause, His brutality [% thts gapacity, at the head of his Indian troops, will 08 be to; rotten. He instituted the savage system of scalping the wounded men on the battle fold, a every way gave evidence of a wantonly o nature. And yet be actually made application to the government authorities in Misseuri, subse- quently, to permit bim to return to bis allegi- ance and claim parole fer his oMcers. Wo are not aware of the course the government pnr- sued; but we presume that the atrocity of his conduct forbade all chance of the application boing favorably received, and it fs probable that the natural ferocity of his cbaracter Is now developing Itself in the exercise of the jodicial functions which Mr. Jefferann Davis bas bestowed upen him, They lave Woresuadowea the Bresi- dential t.eac. The yeveral results of the October elections, ~preced’ng the Pres.deotial contest, bave in variably been considered as clear indieations of the result in the national political eampaign. Tn this view they have always created a‘food deal of excitement in the public mind, and tue returns have been looked for with the- most intense interest. In support of this opinion a brief recurrence to the figures of the State elections in Obio, Indiana and Pennsylvania in 1840, 1844, 1848, 1852, 1856 and 1860 we commend to the careful consideration of the reader. In 1840 thus stood Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana in their State e!ections:— Democratic, wr ion. Pennsylvania +138,460 rasp ASE, Obio.... 1127, 084 144,054 = Iudiana..... . $4297 _ Here it will be seen that while Pennsylvabia was carried by the democrats by nearly 4,590 majority, Ohio and Indiana, by very decided majorities, were enrried by the whigs. And what were the results of the Presidential battle of that year? A regular political tornado, in which the whig candidate, General Harrison, carried all the Northern States of that day against Van Buren, except New Hampshire and Mlinoijs, and all the Southern States, except Virginia, South Carolina, Alnbama; Arkansas and Missouri. In that contest the State elec: tion of Pennsylvania was borne dowy and swallowed up in the popular whirlwind fairly set in full motion in the West by Ohio and Indiana. We next come to the Presidential year 1844, in which Polk was elected over Clay by the loss to the latter of New York, in consequence of some fifteen thousand abolition whigs—half of them could have elected Clay—throwing their votes away on Birney. This was the first manifestation of an abolition balance of power in our national affairs. In their local elections, just preceding the Presidential struggle of that year, thus stood the three States under consid- eration:— Whig. Abolition. Pennsylvania 161,293 3,126 Onio. 185,087 8,050 Indiana + 50 48,403 = Here Pennsy]vania and Indiana, for the demo- crats, foreshadow the Presidential result, while Ohio is on the losing side. ‘In the year 1848 the Presidential contest was again determined by ‘an abolition balance of power, developed into large proportions and drawing off a heavy vote from the old democ- racy of New York, in support of the inde- pendent free soil Buffalo Van Buren ticket. Of the October elections of that year we find the following recorded results:— Democratic, Whi Abovition. 168,221 108,523 9,025 143 321 144,606 = 14,086 70,504 = Here wo find the résilt in Pennsylvania and Ohio, by the small plurality in each of somo three Lundred votes, in favor of the whigs, while Indiana, by four thougand majority, was carried by the democrats. But it was two against one of these three States and “Old Zick” was elected President in November. In 1852, on the basis of the great compromise measures of Mr. Clay of 1850 on the slavery qnes- tion, the masses of the conservative elements of the North and South rallied, at a venture, upon “poor Pierce.” The first result was the cutting down of the whig candidate, General Scott (suspected of having Seward and the abolitionists bebind him), to fodr States—two North (Maesachusetis and Vermont), and two South (Kentucky and Tennessee). The next result was the dissolution of the old whig party. In the October elections of that year Pennsylvania, Obio aad Indiana voted as fol- lows:— Whig. Abelition, 153.089 3,911 330,507 22,44 13,965 = ree democratic by a decisive majority or plurality in each—a very suggestive warning of the Presidential result that followed in November. The momentous contest of 1856 comes next* before us. Among the figures of the October elections of that year we find the following. It will be remembered that the old whig party had been broken up, root and branch, and that from ite ruins the Know Nothing monstrosity had arisen, and the anti-slavery republican patty. Operating together, their combined vote in 1856 was called ‘usion, to avoid confu- sion. But to our October figures of that + aabica Democratic. Fusion. Repub i " ; 210,172 a0 604 23.825 K.N. 175,892 112}089 fasion. Twe of these three States are bere again on the side of tho democracy in October, and Buchanan, the democratic candidate, is elected President in November. There were three parties and three candidates fn the field, divid- ing the popular and_the electoral vote of this election—Buchanan, democrat, on 9 conserva- tive pro-slavery platform; Fremont, repubdli- can, on a platform erected against any further extension of slavery; and Fillmore, Know Nothing, on his anti-Catholic, avti-Irish, dark lantern platform—conservative on slavery, with o Southern inclination. Fremont, first heat, carried, against both Buchanan and Fill- more, all the Northern States excepting .New Jersey, Pennsylvania, ‘Indiana, Ilinois and California, while Bucbapan carried every Southera State except Maryland, which was the solitary State that voted for Fillmore, Yet Fillmore in the North carried off the balance of power, which otherwise would have eieciea Fremont, this playing, on the opposite tack, Van Buren’s game of 1848. Coming down to 1860 we find that in the Ootober elections of that year Pennsylvania, Obio-and Indiana were all carried by such de- cisive republican majorities as pretty clearly indicated that Lincoln, in November, would make a clean sweep of the free States, ‘from Maiue to Cajifornia, which he did, excepting part of the elec yote of New Jersey. ht oi , Jncineing the remarkable elections of that momofabld yo" bagi perceived from the election rosulis sce given that while neither Pennsylvania, nor Odio, nor Indiana by horself, in the October tions; Senify anything, the party which has carried In thy aa ae i any two of them in October had alwa}é Abonred the Pre- sident;, and that where all three of them have gone the same way the Presidency bas beon carried by. a solid phalanx of States, as in 1862 and in 1860. These curious results bave held good in reference to the throe great States in- dicated, in spite of all the interposing changes, revolutions and vicissitudes of the political parties of the country from 1840 to the present day. The conclusion inevitably foHows that the 1 peaults of the State elections of Pennsylvania, ee cnn aadpoarane eet ean a ae ee ED SEE BEET ~ Ovio and Indiana of Tuesday last have deter- mined the issue of the Presidential contest of 1s64 Tne Caxapian Coxreperartox.—Our latest advises by telegraph from Quebee are to the effect that the plan of a confederation such as we have already given to our readers, both in our Canadian corresvondence and in another article in to-day’s Hxranp, has been affirmed and consented to by the Convention of the Pro- viocial delegates now in session at Quebec, In all probability, therefore, the ennfedera- tion may be considered as a “fixed fact,” and another nationality is to appear on this conti- nent founded on representation, responsibi- lity and the popular will, This ia only @ repe- ti of our revolutionary drama with a different prologue. The British government bas very plainly confessed its inabiliiy to de- tend the Canadas, and the London 7'imes bas warned them tlint if they are attacked they must.defend themselves. Goldwin Smith and other liberal English writers have advocated the entire separation of the trans-Atlantic colonies from the Mother Country gs an actual benefit to the latter, The immediate causes of the new movement are undoubted!y the discontent in Upper Canada at the inequality of representation and taxation existing between the two provinces, and the dissatisfuction in the lower province on the part of the Protestant population with the Catholic sway, which does not respect their rights in regard to education and the public schools, With these questions the administra- tion of the day, like those preceding it, find themselves unable to carry on the government, and they have, therefore, advocated and recom- mended the confederation as the only remedy. Nevertheless the French in the lower province are very much opposed to the measure, and threaten violence rather than agree to its adop- tion. We, who can look as calmly on the political difficulties in the British provinces as they have looked on ours, see in this confederation the shadow of a great coming event. In our own revolutionary struggle we sought the friend- ship of the Canadas, and it is quite probable the day is at hand when they will seek ours. For the present they may jook to the Mother Country for further protection under the new form of government, and may seek to propitiate it by a nominal submission to a viceroy of foreign selection. But they cannot get it in any moment of real danger. The connection will be found an empty reliance. The people will very soon determine, in the ordinary tourse of events, to select not only their legislatures and local governors, but the supreme head. The solution of the whole problem appears to us to be very simple. Let the Canadas and fhe lower provinces confederate, let them choose their own chief executive in the most convenient way, and when the organization is complete, let them join the great republican family on the soitnetn side of the Bt. Lawrence and the lakes, We shall tc be a strong and Powerful nalional confederacy, “tne vost less continent” will be ours; our interests, already similar, will become one, and we may look forward to a degree of prosperity such as the world never béfore witnessed. If the British North Americans will regard this subject without prejudice, and with a proper regard for their own essential interests,~ they will listen to onr advice. We will welcome them to the Union, and let them enjoy all the advantages of members of this great nation. Mcrper sy Ratway.—The inerease in the number of accidents occurring on our railway lines is beginning to attract attention and inquiry. During the month of September there were no less than sixteen of these casnal- ties in different parts of the country, in which upwards of fifty persons Jost their lives, In most cases the disaster was to be traced either to want of propeF expenditure on the part of the companies or to carelessness on the part of their employes. A false economy in many instances prevented the adoption of simple measures of precaution which would have effec- tually guarded against it? Since the commencement of the present month there have already been three accidents of the same character in our own vicinity. On the 9th one’ took place on the Hudson River road, by which one person was killed. On the 1@th another occurred on the New York and New Haven road, by which two passengers were dangerously injured and a number of others slightly. In this case the accident was traced to the fracture of a rail at a spot where care should have been taken to sub- ject the line to daily exa:nination. Yester- day morning again an accident took place on the Hudson River road near Manhattanville by the falling of a rock upon the track, the consequence of which eould have been equally woll guarded against if the road had been pro- perly looked after. Fortunately in this in- stance no tives were lost, which certainly would not have been the case if the train bad been moving at a rapid rate, That it is in the power of railroad directors to protect the public against the recurrence of all such stoppages and disasters has been de- monstrated by the immunity which all well managed lines enjoy from them. If from inat- tention to their duties, or the desire to acoumu- late larger profits, the directors of the lines in which they are frequent continue to turn a deaf year to the Temonstrances of the passed then the latter inust take the remedy into their own bands, and by finding verdicts of wilful murder or heavy damages against them when: ever they are brought into court, endes¥or to awaken them to a sense of their responsibility. Awenttins or Tne Ban.—One of the London Reviews publishes an article on the decline in dignity and influence of tbe English bench, and attributes it to the fact of the close association by marriage connections and otherwise be- the profession between whom there was for- met}y a broad social distinctign, We presume that it is to some similar Influenee that we owe No wm, * own courts of ice. being witnessed tn vn. , awe Hardly a day passes that 99~ —. pepligil or vialent outburst of tenner does hot ocour on the part of those who are suppos- t° ‘be most interested in upholding the dignity and authority of the Court. The quarrel which took place on Wednesday last in the Hepress ase, In the Court of Common Pleas, between the two opposing counsel, Messrs, McKeon and Cram, would have reflected disgrace even on & barroom. How men of the professional posi- tion of these lawyers could so far forgot thelr tolf-respoot as to engage Ina row of this kind in open court is incomprehensible. The fact would co ta bese qui the assumption of the couciusion about its final fate. American class society, it is labile to & sudden rise, a brilliant cureer, a grand splurge, and ultimate extinction, or a falling baci into the original elements or strata from which it made either of the preceding aristocracies. twoon barristers and attorneys, two classes of “terraceful scenes that are continually = violation of Engtieh reviewer, that the ayocations of the attoruey havea tendency to lower the dignity and gentiemacly bearing of the barrister. If this be indeed so, the sooner the two jyrefessions are separated the beter. The New American Aristectacy—Phe Petrvieuns Nuwobs. We publish in tlie moraing’s HigaLp another batch of useful information from the oil region f Pennsylvania, and other oleaginous districts in that and more southerly sections of the country. From this report the reader will form some idea of the extent of the petroleum trade, the ramifications of society into which it penetrates, the arts and sciences, the com mercial and shipping interests, and the social relations involved in its cultivation and pro- ductions. "From this data one can form some: idea of the strata undertying the new American or petroleum aristocracy, and arrive at some Liké att other its exodus into the fashionable world. It was so with the codfish aristecracy of Massachusetts, which rosg from the profits of successfal voy- ages to the hanks of Newfoundland to a prohd and pretentions class, which, with aM its perfume and cosmetics, could not deprive itself of its ancient fish-like and vulgar odor. The mackerel aristocracy of Cape Cod was far less pretending, and poasessed more common sense and decency. The codfish and mackerel aristoeracies had their day, and gave place to the iron and anthracite aristocracics of Pennsylvania. The former had a solid existence for some time, but gradually languished, and finally perished of a disease called the tariff of 742. The anthracite aristocracy shot up brilliantly fora while, by the aid of monopolizing na- tional and State privileges; but faded like the expiring embers of a Lackawanna coal fire, and nothing {s now left of thom but impudence and ashes, The California aristocracy were the rage for a few fashionable seasons, be- éause they had more bullion and bfass than But they were a rough sort of aristocracy—regu- lar rough diamonds—and could not withstand the test of genius and intellectuality, the true American aristocracy. Next we had the shod- dy aristocracy—all jewels and gow-gaws, flam, flare, ignorance and pretension. They have had their day, but they will endeavor to retain their position in the realm of false fashion, now that they believe they have a further lease of political power. And now, last, but proba- bly not least, we have the petroleum aristoc- racy, who have entcred the dominions of the leviathans of the deep, and proclaimed liberty to the founders of the whale oll aristocracy of a former period, the dashing Prince Sperma- ceti and all the other Princes of Whales, and unbound the shackles of old King Humpback, the rude monarch of the Arctic dopths. The petroleum aristocracy can therefore claim the Fight or rang the most Pie hristoc- racy of Americu. pa wid rides?—whiob was once the legend on the panes of the carriage of a celebrated wealthy London tobacconist— who knows what may be the end of Petrolia, where the seekers after-fortunes have only to touch the bosom of mother earth and riches gush forth as from a fountain of molten gold. This js no laughing matter; and yet how soon may those who laugh at these ofl* princes cry out, like the five foolish virgins unto the wise—“Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.” But the princes may answer, like the wise virgins, saying—“Not go, leat there be not enough for us and you; but go ye rather to theut that sell, and buy for yourselves.” Give the oil princes and princesses at least one fashionable season, and see what will become of them. Partisan JoursaisM.—-The recent elections have afforded one more illustration of the reck- lessness of statement and utter worthlessness as newspapers of the partisan journals of this city. Newspaper history bas nothing in it so disgraceful to the newspaper, and at the same time so laughable, as the antics of the World over the results of the election. All the par. tisan press—the Jribune, the Times and the World--exhibited on Wednesday an indecent haste in the conclusions they drew from the Penvsylvania returns. Those returns were not sufficiently definite to justify a positive con- clusion either way, and a newspaper should have said so honestly; but these mere partisans, regardless of their position as publio chroni- clers, all went to conclusions, and each tothe conclusion that pleased him beet, Conse- quently one announced most vociferously tbat the republigan party was beaten; ard two hurrahe@ quite as positively over republican victories. In the face of such a spectacle ex- hibited by two journals who claim all the re- spectability of the American press, and a third that wag organized to be pious, can we wonder that European writers sneer at tho unreliability of the statements of American nqwspapers? As was very natural, the professionally pious one of these journals was the worst of the tbree. The World absolutely refused credence to all unpleasant news; declared in three places that returns adverse to its hopes had been “gerrymandered,” and claimed that the whole result was the “Icnelt of. the republican party.” in wus ibigus statethents from Penn: sylvania it found “a magnificent democratic victory,” and “fifty thousand majority MoCiellan.” Can the force of partiash inad- noss Carry any one into greater folly than this? On the next day after this exhibition t columns of the World were funnier than any Punch that every crossed the Atlantic; funnier than Heller’s marionnette minstrels. In those columns the Trilne was gravely rebuked ‘or “false avd unfair” statements in relation to election returas, and wos told that by suob raenngt a Lon waracter and standing as a pol paper. Bi such is the partisay press. “ Queer Freang oF THE Law.—Itis proverbial that law and lawyers are full of kinks, but we have had one or two freaks reported reeently or asloguiarly curfous oharacter. One ease is that of the robbery of partially sigaed bank bills at the Astor in which the accused by i Judge, although the ma wh Keak He he pics, because the law pic'vides that, in order to make the osime complete, the Dills should have been the président snd cashier, whereas nage only signed by tho former. This ‘be 0 fal¥ interpretation of the law, if the pro againet tye prinonar was #0 loosely made ad to imply pg ae of “money,” for the pills clearly were got legally the currency of ‘ . . er the national bank; but we tale it that a of larcesy of bank bills could be sustained under the law—the evidence of the fact, Cs course, being there—or even larceny of bank Bote paper. The other case referred to occurred in Cin- cinmati a short time ago. A slave in Kentucky stole three thousand dollars in gold frour his master and deeamped to the otber side of the Ohio, where he deposited the money in his own name in one of the Cincinnati banks. He was followed Sy his master and arrested. The ab- straction of the money was proved; but, as it was urged that there isa taw in Kentucky by which a slave cannot steal from bis master, and as the Fugitive Slave law is repealed, the magis- trate could not botd bim, nor could he be taken back to Kentucky. He was thevefore discharged. Such are the extraordinaty freaks which the law plays sometimes. Cur Justice Taxey.—-The human rancmarks of the Revolution are one by one succumbing to the inexorable law which governs all bu- manity. The veterans who participated in the revolutionary battle fields have dwindled dowa to a melancholy few, and in:two or three years more.the residue will have departed to give place to a vew generation of petriote—the veterans of the preseat war. ® The death of Chief Justice Taney hes removed another of the famous cotemporaries of the birth of American independence; who for ee many years has been the chief interpreter of the constitution which was adopted twelve years after he was born. It might alnsost be said of him what Grattan declared of the Irish nation, that be had watched beside its cradte and fo!lowed itshearde, Chief Justice Taney lived to see the constitution violated, trampled upon by treason; but he died beholding the dawn of that day when treason shall stagges before the valiant armies of the republic, and rebellion go down before the loyalty of the people. Of the political or judicial course of the late Chief Justice, we sball say nothing here. His duties were of that character which invite adverse criticiem, and it was not spared. While bis judgments were regarded by one party as models of wisdom and justice,some of them have been bitterly assailed in other quarters Of his personal honor, his integrity asa judge and his acumen asa lawyer, we believe there was? but one opinion. All the old jurists of the last century are dropping off rapidly. Is England, Lyndhurst has gone at a ripe old age within the pust year. Brougham who, in hie eighty-third year, presents almost the same vigor of fnind as characterized his prime, fj still left. It is but a short time ago that he delivered an elaborate statistical address be fore the Convention of Social Science at Bath, exhibiting a perspicuity of thought and grasp of knowledge not unworthy of his earlier efforts. The Chief Justice Sir Alexander Cook. burn, Blackburn, Erle and Pollock, though still vigorous, are advancing into the period of the sere and yellow leaf, A few yéars more and thégexton, Time, will have gathered them in, to make wry fop yuoce pornaps Whom fame bas not Ral Marked out to hig ator Tix Rare or Taxatioy.—The Receiver of Taxes has announced that he: is now ready te receive the taxes on the personal estate in the city. The books for real estate are not yet complete. The taxation this year is the hebviest we have yet had to pay. Upon the real and personal property combined {@ amounts to 2 61-100 per cent, and yet the peo ple consent to pay it with comparative cheer- fulness, complaining only of the corruptions of the municipal government, to which they attribute the necessity for this increased bur den. As far as the taxes te be raised for the waintainance of the war are concerned, there fa no unwillingness to pay them, although they are very severe. People pald three per ton their incomes Inst year, and now are assessed five per cent more on the same in- come. Thus, adding the city tax above re ferred to, we are actually paying an annual tax at a rate of 10 61-100 per-cent. Besides the direct taxes, here specified, we must remember that we are paying an indirect taxation upon everything we use, whether mana- factured or imported, and hence it is imposef- ble to tell reatly kow much the people are con- tributing to the government in this way. ‘Engiand, who has“ been croaking about our inabiiity to bear this immense Gaancial prea- sure, and is anxious to divide the republic, may well look with astonishment at these facts. We will give her a little bit of information bere, ‘and that is, that if the empire bolds together long enough, she wili have jo pay off our national debt on the exportation of cotton and tobacco alone. Let her put that in ber pipe and smoke ft along with the tobacco. There is no other country in the world could pay such taxation as thie, and it ought to bea lesson to those people in Europe who bave been crying out that we could never bear the debt of foar or five thousand millions incurred by the war. They will find that we can and that the people will cheerfully bear the weight of taxation for the honor of the country. The New Play at Wallack’s. The Compact, as the now play produced last night a8 Wallack’s before a crowded house, fe called, ie a story of Spanish intrigue and diplomacy. It possesses a most fa. tricate plot, tho central figure being a bandit of the ap- proved romantic style, and endowed with all the highér and nobler virtues of mankind, gach as laying great trees on big *bogor,/ wearlag very gorgeous and preserving the most mperturbab! fa circomat: apparently the most calamitous. The fart was performed by Lester Wallaok in his usual style. File costumes were unique and superb, tho sash be wore {0 the Grst aot was ere Re eee ot Dee: to the first ibis tiene $obq the carriage of the Archbishop of Granada, ‘who seems to ba almost a copy of the bishop in the first yolum@ of the ~, “Miserables” of Victor Hugo. This vi prelate, by bis amiability and courtesy, wins of the tober cat oat anna the we Satie m8 ate: pact io of is ious life, and om (bis resolution and (66 ‘We Wivélvés binges the interest of