The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1866, Page 4

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The Prussian Legisiature had the Royal indemnity bill under debate. By the steamship Hibernian at Father Point, yester- day, we have te.egraphic details of the news, anticipated in its main points by the cable, to the 24th of August. ‘The steamship New York, from Liverpool on tho 224 ‘and Queonstown on the 23d ult., arrived at this port at two o'clock this morning. THE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR. The Sabbath was spent by the Presidential party in eeeing the Falls. They declined crossing into Canada, although a kind offer to furnish a special train to the Bridge was made. Afterwards a delegation of Cana dians paid their regards to tho President, and @ pleasant and affable interview was granted them. In the afternoon a delegation from Louisiana paid their respects to the President and a St. Louis delo- gation also arrived, intending to insist on the extension of the tour to their city, General George H. Thomas ‘and ex-President Fillmore joined the party, temporarily, at the Falls. Delegates were still arriving yesterday to the Conven- tion which commences its labors in Philadelphia to-day. ‘The question of admitting the woolly heads to full brotherhood in the Convention is met with serious op position by the pale-faced delegates, and it is quite likely that the freedmen will be warepre- sented after all, oxcept by ‘poor white trash.’ Tennes- see, Louisiana, Virginia, Missouri and Maryland present quite a long list of delegates, and several radical mem- bers of Congress aro also on hand. MISCELLANEOUS. The special correspondent of the Hxaatp at Heart's Content telegraphs the important intelligence that the Atlantic cable of 1865 was picked up by the fleot with ‘the Great Eastern yesterday (Sunday) morning at forty minutes after four o'clock, in latitude 51 52, longitude 26 03, The splice was made and the cable lowered at seven A. M. The Great Eastern was yesterday seven hundred miles from Heart's Con- tent, paying out. Everything was going on well, and they expected to reach Heart's Content on Saturday next. Soon after which day it is coni- dently expected that wo will have communication with Europe by two submarine telegraph lines. The dotaiis of the work, as reported in Mr. Bean's diary of the ex- edition, are given in another column of this morning's Hepavo. Our special fashions correspondent in Paris, writing on the 17th of August, says that the rule of the goddess, ‘usually 80 arbitrary, seemed to be completely set at naught by the people in the streets and at the theatres on the Emperor's féte day. All Paris was out and dressed, neat and clean, but there were so many people and 90 many different styles of costume that it may be said there was no fashion. The writer describes the acene in the Churoh of the Madoieine during the mar- riage of a foreign princess, and describes the dresses ‘worn by the bride and her friends on the occasivn. Six new cases of cholera were reported in this city yesterday. In Brooklyn the discase remained about tuo samo as the day previous. Twelve deaths from cholera occurred in Cincinatti on Saturday and Sunday. Several cases had occurred among the troops at Camp Grant, near Richmond. There ‘were sixty deaths from the disease in St. Louis on Saturday, ‘The trial of Elisha Ruckman, a wealthy land owner of Borgen county, N. J., and an extensive dealer of Now York city, was commenced in the Bergen County Court on Friday, at Hackensack. The defendant is charged ‘with maliciously poisoning a number of bead of cattle at the Palisades, in 1865, The trial will be resumed to-day. ‘We publish in another column the letter on bebalf of the foreign consulates of New York, respecting the al- ‘Voged indifference with which that importaut and respects able confraternity were treated by the municipal authori ‘ties of this city on the recent visit of President Johnson. ‘It is well that the President should understand that the paucity of foreign diplomats in the ovation tendered to ‘Dim originated ia local ignorance and not from any ‘want of diplomatic courtesy. News from the island of Tahiti waa received in San. Francisco on Saturday to the Tth of July. The Spanish Geet was expected to sail soon for a rendezvous on the South American coast, A fire occurred yesterday morning at Watertown, in Ahree store houses connected with the United States arsenal at that point. The fire reached some explosive ‘material in ita course, and an explosion took place which two buildings to pieces and was heard at Boston. men in the noighborhood at the time were slightly ‘tayared. The loss is estimated at $130,000. ‘A Gre ocurred in St. Louis on Saturdey night, destroy. property to the amoant of $40,000. pt oo nephew, who is in business in New Orleans, him a visit at Fortress Monroe on Friday. Peat roms Cian 1 Jt 48 baTe begn regres NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 186¢. imperial troops had boon defeated near Manking by tbe | The Circulating Medium—Paper Money and rebels, Five Chinamon had been sentenced to desth for the murder of the crew of the Danish bark Cat. From Japan it was reported that a collision had occurred be- tween the Russians and Japanese, Bad temper prevails in Canada at present, owing to the escape on Saturday night of Mike Murphy and five of his comrades, all Fenian prisoners, from the jail at Cornwall. Governor Meagher has ordered an election for mem- bors of the Legislature to be held to-day. ‘The clock manufactory of Hubbard & Co,, in Meriden, Conp., was destroyed by fire last night. The loss was ot ascertained. The young man reported killed at the recent camp meeting riot near Baltimore is in a fair way of recovery. A negro has been arrested by the Anne Arundel county authorities, who are trying the case, charged with being concerned in the riot and threatening to shoot a white man. The residence of Mr. Holiister, at Buffalo, was ontered yesterday while the family were at church, and $23,800 stolen, mostly in government bonds. A prize fight took place yesterday between Ted Rom- ley, of Brooklyn, and John Cody, of Redhook, near Sheepshead Bay, below Brookiyn, Thirty-nine rounds were fought, the fight lasting an hour and ten minutes, and Romley was declared the winner. No arrests were made. Popular Condemnation of the Destructive Pelicy of the Radicals—Enthusiastic En- dorsement of President Johnson. The impression is becoming general and widespread throughout the country that the doom of the radical republicans as a political power is sealed. We think that that impres- sion is well founled. We will certainly have no regret for its complete accomplishment, and there ‘are few, if any, thoughtful, patriotic men who will have. The continuance of such a malign power in the land means simply the continuance of distraction, disunion, discord. its desiruction will be a national blessing, an event to be rejoiced over hardly less than the fall ot Richmond and the surrender of the rebel armies. In fact those great initiatory events have been to a great extent neutralized by the ruinous policy pursued by Congress. It was in vain that Grant and Sherman scattered the rebel bosis, if Stevens and Sumner can con- tinue, as they have done, to prevent the nation from enjoying the fruits of victory in a restored Union and a reunited, prosperous people. It is perhaps to be regretted that the dis- bandment of the rebel armies and the cessa- tion of «il hostility against the federal gov- ernment was not instantly followed by a Pres!- dential proclamation announcing the reinte- gration of the Union and a complete amnesty for all political offences, and convening a spe- cial sexsion of Congress, at which every State recently in rebellion should be represented. The amendment of the several State constitu- tions to conform to the altered state of things might lave proceeded at the same time. The exaction of conditions precedent was rather a doubtful, and has turned out to be a dangerous, policy. It was of little consequence whether one or all of the rebel States recog- nized the abolition of slavery, so long as that abolition was an accomplished fact and had national authority for it; and as to the repudi- ation of the rebel debt, that was a relief instead of a puoishment. It would have served the rebel States right if they had been made to pay the last cent of the debt which they had inenrred in their atrocious war against the government; or at least, the disposi- tion of the subject might have been safely left to themselves. The exaction of such conditions established, as it were, a pre- cedeut for the uction of Congress in im- posing other conditions which could not be so readily assented to, and which were, in fact, entirely inadmissible. Such were the condi- tions, to distranchise all who aided the rebel- lion—meaning the whele white population— and to deliver over the political control of the States to negroes, Thus it has happened that, altbough a year and a half has elapsed since Lee capitulated at Appomatiox Court House, the real practical Teiategration of the Union has not yet been accomplished. Ali the valuable results of the national success have been for so far lost. Tostead of the anbounded fivid for enterprise which the States of the South, relieved from slavery, should have offered to Northern capital and industry, they have been virtually closed against us, owing to the tll-teeling which naturally grew out of the policy adopted by Congress. The testimony taken befor the Reconstruction Committee was unvarying in regard to that point; it all going to show that the disposition of the Southern people was growing daily more embittered «against the North, whereas, at the close of hostilities, they were inciined “to let by-gones be by-gones,” to accept the altered condition of things in good faith, to prove themselves earnestly loyal citizens, to welcome Northern capital and enter- prise, and in all things to prove themselves deserving of confidence and respect. Some of the radical members of the committee sought to prove that the altered state of sentiment at the South was the result of President Johnson’s mild and conciliatory policy, and bad actually the audacity to put forward that view, which, however, was too absurdly ridiculous to impose on any man of ordinary intelligence. But the real question which the people must now ask themselves, and which they have been asking themselves, is, what is to be done? Is the country to be kept in its present unsettled condition much longer? Are we to see the gulf be.ween the North and South widening more and more until it finally becomes impassable ? Is the success of the national arms to go for naught in order to gratify the raving malice of Thad Stevens and the ridiculous self-conceit of Charles Sumner? The popular voice of the nation is thundering out a negative to these questions. The unexampled enthusiasm which greets President Johnson on his way from Washington to Chicago has its real source in approval of his wise, patriotic, humane, fatherly policy, and in condemnation of the de- structive principles of the radicals. The late Convention at Philadelphia has done much towards giving direction to the popular mind. The coming convention of soldiers and sailors at Cleveland will help on the good work, The practical common sense speeches of President Johnson, day after day, which are eagerly listened to by those whom he ad- dresses, and carefully read by the people of the whole country, will have an unbounded influence on public opinion. We confidently look forward, as the result of all those move- menia, to the extinguishment of the radical Tepublicans as a political power, and to the election to the next Congress of men who are Opposed to all destructive principles and in favor of the immediate, complete and uncondi- tional return of our Southern brethren into the Great national family. Then, and not before, will the nation resume its onward course to Specie Paymenta. Mr. McCulloch, in a recent spread-eagle letter on the public finances, to which we have al- ready called attention, remarked that our pres- ent prosperity was rather apparent than real, and intimated that nothing but a resumption of specie payments could rescue the country from its present troubles and so avert the calamities which threaten it in consequence of the almighty dollar circulating in paper with no present hope of redemption in gold. He seemed in that letter, as indeed he also did in his previ- ously delivered financial stump speeches, to consider the United States in a deplorable condition, and sorely in need of the benefit of some of that mature experi- ence which he gained in Indiana as a banker, from observing the beginning, the climax and the end of the career of a few of those “wild cat” banks which are, un- fortunately for the West, so intimately asso- ciated with its history. It seems to us that Mr. McCulloch under- rates the credit of the United States govern- ment as it stands in the estimation of the people, and that as he sita in the Treasury chair he imagines himself the manager of a new bank, differing trom the other only in the fact of its having a larger circulation. With the memory of the panics, such as they were, of 1837 and 1857 fresh in bis mind, he looks upon a period of suspension as indicating an unsound state of affairs, nationally, financially and commercially, and thinks his chief aim ought to be to accomplish what he did in Indiana. He looks with Shakspere upon paper money, even when issued by the United States, as trash, and clamors for specie pay- menta, as if he thought that should be the ultima thule of our national efforts, In view, therefore, of this peculiar condition of mind on the part of Mr. McCulloch, which we may politely term specie mania, we advise him to visit the commercial and manufacturing centres of the country, and observe for himself how fast the country is drifting to ruin and how fictitious all our prosperity is. Although we have about twelve hundred millions of currency in circulation, including two hun- dred and ninety millions of national bank notes, and at the same time only about six mil- lion eight hundred thousand dollars in gold in the banks of this city, and nearly the whole of that lent out, he will find that our prosperity was never greater and that public confidence in “greenbacks” is all that could be desired. Why, then, should he volunteer his services as the advocate of the national banking and the fundholding interest by saying, in fact, we must transmute this filthy lucre—these dirty rags—into gold or we are lost in asea of bank- uptcy? There is nothing that the fundholders and national banks would like better than a restoration of specie: payments. It would appreciate their securities one- third in value, say to the extent of eight hundred millions; but it would at the same time depreciate the property of the people at large in an equal ratio, say to the ex- tent of five thousand millions of dollars, The national banks would in particular be bene- fited, as the stocks which they have deposited as a basis of circulation with the Treasury Department would be appreciated simulta- neously with their notes, which are in a great degree under their own control. It is fortu- nate that the fundholders and national banks do not possess the influence which the holders of the national debt did in Great Britain fifty years ago, or we might have occasion to fear equally disastrous results therefrom. The history of England, from the ter mination of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to 1830, is one long chronicle of the sacri- fices of the many for the benefit of the few; and when specie payments were resumed by act of Parliament, in 1821, there was a chuckle*of triumph among the fundholders heard amid the sighs and groans which ascended from the vast multitude of non-fundholders who were prostrated by the shock. It is this delightful carnival, apparently, which Mr. McCulloch wishes ns to enjoy. Bu; we can hardly believe that he understands his subject when he advocates a speedy return t¢ specie payments. He has probably never read the financial history of England, but he wil find abundant references to it in Alison’s Hir tory ot Europe and every contemporary hi+ tory. We mention that of England becaup it is the only one which presents to us nm example of the gradual appreciation of a papir currency from a discount as heavy at one tine as forty per cent to par. France repudiaud her assignats and afterwards her mandas. The old Continental States had no fisal system worthy of the name, and allowed their paper money to become worthless. So did the Confederate States. We were ex; to the same dangers, but our resources ere greater and we conquered. We shall therfore have to restore specie payments by an ajpre- ciation and not a repudiation of the curracy; and if we are to escape the disasters thich fell to the lot of England, Ireland and Scgland in the ordeal, we shall have to exercia the greatest caution, and our financial mirsters will have to abate that ardent desire forgold which Mr. McCulloch never wearies of ehibit- ing. We are prosperous, and why then dmor for an undue return to specie payments! Let us trust to natural laws and leave gold ad the currency to their operation, and we shallhave specie payments soon enough for the witare of the nation. Meanwhile Mr. McCullod will do well to carefully familiarize himsel with the historical example to which we hae re- ferred. Corron Srecctation Durie tas Wi—A Tuorovon Investigation Neepep.—It is fetty well known to our readers that cotton sprula- tions and operations on a grand scale, at of a rather suspicious character, were ca: during the rebellion, more particularl, the opening of the Mississippi river. Fi for carrying on that semi-contraband bi were only to be obtained from some highest officials of the government. Fo were the lucky ones who managed, by ever influence they could bring to bear, incur the risk themselves they could get a rich bonus for the transfer of the lege. There are many parties in this cij and in other parts of the country who handsome fortunes in this way. But al a whitewashing Congressional committd was appointed to look into this whole mat and did actually obtain a little informationia the <qnlnanla) Rowe and unezamaled rpotngen | culled the puplie hag boon renlly leffa the | dark as to how these golden opportunities of making sure and rapid fortunes were obtained— whether by the- use of political, personal, or other influence, as to what distribution of pro- fits was made, and as to how, generally, the whole buisness was managed. The inside his- tory of it would most assuredly prove of great interest to the public, and we suggest that some proper means of getting at it be adopted. It is very desirable that light should be shed on some of the dark and secret doings con- nected with cotton operations in the lately rebel States, and we hope that that light will scon be supplied through the instrumentality of a thorough investigation of the whole matter. It is time that the mystery should be cleared up. Let us have light. ’ bers and waiters in the metropolis, General Dix the Man for Governor. The Cable of 1865—Mismanngement of the Associated Press. Our despatch from Heart’s Content, received at noon yesterday, announces the success of the expedition sent out to reclaim the Atlantic cable of 1865. The Great Eastern had been on this mission twenty-four days, and nearly all parties had abandoned their hope of the success of the expedition; but it has been complete nevertheless. The cable of 1865 has been recovered in eighteen hundred fathoms of water in latitude 51 52 and longitude 36 03, or about seven hundred miles from Heart’s Content. The cable was found to be in as good condition a8 it was when first payed out. Com- munication was immediately had between the big ship and Valentia, the signal being sent through with perfect accuracy. The intelli- gence of this success was received at Valentia at forty minutes past five yesterday (Sun- day) morning, and was communicated through the new cable to Heart’s Content, reaching the latter place at forty-five minutes past six o’clock the same morning. A splice was made with the cable in the tank of the Great Eastern, and that vessel thereupon commenced lowering the wire into the sea, and is now on her jour- ney towards Heart’s Content. A constant com- munication is kept up from Heart’s Content with the Great Eastern through the cable via Valentia, showing that the circuit through the ocean is complete and perfect. This success is of as much importance as that of the laying of the recent cable. It is a triumph of science beyond anything that has yet transpired, and proves that this cable enterprise is now complete almost beyond any cen- tingency of failure. In one week more we shall have two wires in successful opera- tion through the Atlantic. This will have a tendency not only to facilitate the transmis- sion of the news, but also to reduce the rates to the public and the press, This success will encourage all such enterprises, and we shall no doubt soon have additional lines connect- ing the American continent with Europe ; and in a short time everything worth communi- cating between the two hemispheres will be sent by telegraph, and the opinions of the leading journals throughout the Old World on the events transpiring there will be published here the following morning. Nothing but the gross mismanagement of the Associated Press can now prevent the public from deriving great advantages by this success ot science. But we shall have the facility for detecting the blunders and the manipulation of the cable news by those who are controlling the Associated Press portion this side of Heart’s Content. For some reason, whether by blundering or design on the part of the agents of the Associated Press, the news by the cable has in too many instances been made subservient to private instead of public uses. A few days since the statement was sent over the cable that the State bonds of those States which were recently in rebellion had advanced in price in London, as one of the results of the late Philadelphia Convention. The despatch was here given out with the decla- ration that the rebel bonds had advanced in price. As a matter of course the radical press were delighted with this change and at once attempted to make political capital out of it. The bonds referred to have no connec- tion with the so-called Confederate debt, and are as different in their character as the bonds ot the State of New York are from United States five-twenties. This is only one instance of the mismanagement, the blundering or the designed manipulation of the cable news by those who control it this side of Heart’s Con- tent. It is time that this abuse was corrected, and we hail the success of the expedition to recover the cable of 1865 as one of the means that will enable us to bring about a reform. and among the cliques of politicians in their ject. State to oppose his election by all the means present as to the radicals, to perform the duties of the office. overwhelming vote. be forced to give way. ral Dix personally, we demand his nomination. It would be hard to find a gentleman or public was a masterpiece of statesman like eloquence, tion at issue before the country; he has been an for a long time the choice of a large party for the United States; he has been a Cabinet officer, and has served the country most efficiently as a military man. Such, briefly, is the character and record of this gentleman. He has, how- ever, higher claims, if possible, to the nomi- He has been all through the stanchest sup- secution of the war to preserve it. Now, when another faction is laboring to keep the country dismembered and in a state of anarchy, he is found among the foremost patriots to sustain qualifications and recommendations he could not fail to obtain a large majority of the pop- ular vote. No other man has a better, if so good, a record. None but a few pro-rebel copperheads, who are of little account, could object to him. Jack Hawtow’s Buack anv Ware Conven- TIoN.—The managers of the mulatto party which is to meet in convention at Philadelphia to-day appear to have a great deal of trouble to obtain delegates. Nearly everybody ap- pointed from the South has declined to attend, leaving Jack Hamilton and Parson Brownlow almost alone as the white representatives from that section. To make up for this slim attend- ance Massachusetts school teachers and hotel barbers are enrolled as delegates to represent the Southern States. The convention was called for the “Southern loyalists” only; none but representatives from the South were to take part in the deliberations. This was the nature of the call, and had it been confined to that the convention would present a beggarly appearance indeed, even including the hotel barbers and all grades of blacks who are to appear there. The niggerheads ot the North, seeing that such would be the result, commenced appoint- ing delegates from every section to go to Phila- delpbia and beg an admittance to the conven- tion with them. They go to implore and plead with those blacks who raised the food to feed the rebel armies for the privilege of being considered their equals in convention. It seems that all who are selected tor that posi- tion do not appreciate this kind of elevation and are opposed to a mixture of the elements in this manner. Every day letters are pub- lished announcing the declination of those selected for this purpose, many of them mani- festing great indignation that anybody should suppose they had reached such a position in society as to be considered fit representatives to such a convention. Ex-Governor Smith of Rhode Island, and numerous others, have refused to attend, and announce themselves in unequivocal terms in favor of the restoration policy of the President, A few members of the United States Senate were, however, so far drawn into the echeme of Thad Stevens, Wade and Sumner, during the late session of Con- Gress, that they have found themselves in a po- sition that will only command the respect and lnfivence of the pulatto party, and they will former times, and may feel sore at his suppres- sion of one or two pro-rebel newspapers during we are all freesoilers now, and that this old sults of the war, while every patriot will ad- mire him for his dauntless hostility to those who opposed the war to preserve the Union. Those who may oppose his nomination on these grounds are persons who would just as soon vote fora radical as for a conservative candidate. As we said before, old issues are dead. There is but one issue before the country—the restoration of the Union as laid down in the policy of President Johnson as against the de- structive course of our radical Jacovin Con- gress, General Dix is the man of all others to carry the conservative elements of the State, including a large portion of the moderate re- publicans, on this issue. We call upon Hoff- man, Murphy, Barnard, and all others who may have been mentioned as candidates, to sacrifice their personal ambition for the general good in favor of Dix. We warn the rival cliques of politicians who may be scheming to set him aside that we shall wage unceasing war upon them and their projects. Success of the con- servative cause, and not the ambition of men or factions, is our only object, and that we intend to pursue against all opposition. Tas Geverais or THe War anv THE Presi pext.—It is a remarkable fact that although the radicals denounce President Johnson as a traitor and his policy as surrender to the rebels, all of our fighting generals endorse him. The radicals are left with such military heroes to support them as Generals Hiram Walbridge, Bethel Fisher Batler, Vienna Schenck and Red River Banks, General Grant and Admiral Farragut are accompanying President Johnson on his tour, and, as Seward says, are the real orators of the day. We now have the announce- mont of the endarsement of tho same policy by therefore be in attendance at Philadelphia. The vacancies occasioned by the numeraus resignations will no doubt be filled by picking” up the blacks in all the Northern cities and placing them in the list of great men at this gathering. The result will no doubt be similar to that of the late Fenian raid on Canada. When that was in progress the Irish nearly ail disappeared from our hotels and streets, and but few could be seen about town. We shall now witness a like absence of the blacks of our population ; especially may we expect during the coming week an entire disap- pearance of the whitewashers, colored bar- It is evident there is a great deal of political wire-pulling and many tricky proceedings among the different candidates for Governor interest, The nominating conventions are ap- proaching, and it is time that the managers of these bodies should know what the wishes of the people of this great State are on the sub- As to the nominee of the radical party we have little to say. Fenton will be the man, probably ; but if any other should be nomi- nated he will be a candidate on the same nigger-voting destructive platform. Whoever he may be it will be the duty of the conser- vative and Union-loving people of the Empire in their power. That is all we have to say at With regard to a candidate on the other side we have something more to say. Any re- spectable and honest man might do for Gov- ernor, and if it were simply a question in the approaching contest of electing a man to administer the affairs of this State, we might accept any nominee with a good and honest record who would have ability enough But the all-absorbing question now 18 to defeat the radicals. The Empire State ought to give em- phatic expression of its approval of the resto- ration policy of President Johnson. It ought in the election of Governor to swell the tide of reaction that has now set in against the dis- union and destructive radical party by an This would decide the fate of that infamous party and restore peace and harmony to the country. To this, then, all our efforts should be directed. To attain this most desirable object the tricks and schemes of rival cliques and ambitious politicians must The only question therefore is, who would be the best man—who would be the strongest man to ran for Governor, in order to accom- plish that object? And who should that man be? General Dix, by all means. There is no other candidate that can be named that could approach him in the popular point of view, and none would exceed him in fitness. He is head and shoulders above any one else in the State in this respect. For the sake of the cause, therefore, and not on account of the in- dividual, however much we may respect Gene- Let us glance at his character and record. man more universally respected. He is irre- proachable and universally admired in the social relations of life; his political character is above suspicion; he is a fine scholar and a statesman of broad views and great experi- ence; his speech at the Philadelphia Conven- tion, of which he was temporary chairman, embracing in a few sentences the whole ques- honored and able Governor of this State; he was President of the United States; he has repre- sented the State of New York in the Senate of nation for Governor at this momentous crisis. porter of the Union and for the vigorous pro- the policy of President Johnson in restoring the Union to peace and harmony. With these They may talk of his freesoil proclivities of the war; but every intelligent citizen knows that issue has been buried fathoms deep by the re- Generals Stoneman, Wool and host of other during the late war. The Close of the Summer and Opening of i the Fall Seasons. With the advent of September the summer season practically closes. As the weather seems likely to be as sultry as that of August for several days to come,a few guests may still linger at the watering places and rural retreats, but the large majority are coming home at once, On the whole the season has not been very lucrative to the summer landlords. The extortions and inattentions which have distinguished them for the past few years have been amply revenged by the gen- eral public, Many of the springs which used to be quite crowded have scarcely been heard of this season. Saratoga and Cape May have been noted only for the number of fast men and women collected there. The fashionables of New York have deserted the former, as the fashionables of Philadelphia have abandoned the latter. New resorts like Rocky Point have been opened and have done pretty well; but the average attendance at the watering places has been just about one-half that of last year. Long Branch has had an excellent busi- ness, on account of its proximity to this metropolis, and certainly leads all competitors, so far as mere numbers go. The fashionable people, however, have not been at Long Branch nor at any other popular summer vil- lage. They were to be found only in the cot- tages at Newport and the elegant suburban villas near all our great cities, To be sure the ubiquitous and irrepressible Jenkins has reported that the society at all the summer hotels has been most fashionable; but unfortunately Jenkins does not know who the real fashionables are, and a great many son- sible people share his ignorance. To be fash- ionable it is not enough to be rich, to be re- spectable, to live and dress well, to give par- ties and to entertain many acquaintances. All this is requisite, but something more is neces- sary. Fashionable society is organized by a clique of wealthy persons who, having nothing else to do, make it their business to give din- ners and parties. They are generally intelli- gent, reside in handsome houses, dress richly but in good taste, drive fine but not fast horses, and can trace their ancestry as far back as their grandfathers, although their great-grand- fathers are often enveloped ina dim and ro- mantic mist, through which it is impossible to determine whether they were shoemakers or noblemen. These organizers compose their society of a few hundred young ladies and gen- tlemen, divided for convenience into half a dozen cliques. Most American ladies are in a hurry to get married young; they know that time is fleeting and want a man to pay their dry goods bills. Fashionable young ladies are in no such haste. With rich parents and an assured position, they do not care to marry be- fore they are twenty-five. Having finished their education at a fashionable school they pass the interval until their marriage in danc- ing che German, attending the opera and re- ceiving the attentions of the gentlemen, with whom, however, they do not go so far as to flirt. These fashionable gentlemen are also a peculiar class; they toil not, neither do they spin, except in waltzes; but Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like unto them. The German is their sole oc- cupation. They rise late, breakfast at noon, and then come down ftown, ask the price of gold and drink a cocktail at the lower Delmon- ico’s by way of business. Fatigued with this exertion, which they perform with great solem- nity and regularity, as if the finances of the nation would be disarranged should they omit it, they then ride home and dress for dinner. After dinner they go to various parties, lead the German and retire at two o’clock A. M., to lie awake for several thoughtful hours trying to invent a new figure for their favorite dance. Their only ambition, like Von Bismarck’s, ‘is to be the German leader. If the dance goes off well no prince could be prouder. If the couples get confused, the leader is exiled, like Napoleon after his Waterloo. When they grow too old to dance they marry fashionable women, and when they die they expect to enter a fashionable heaven and dance the Ger- man throughout eternity upon floors of pure gold and to the music of angelic harps. It may be fortunate that the world is not wholly composed of such people; but they are the real fashionables, and to apply that term to any other class is a mistake. They set the fashions in dress, in amusements and in society, ands host of admirers and imitators are al- ways ready to follow them. They did not patronize the watering place hotels this sum- mer, and consequently the season was a com- parative failure. The fact is that these fashion- ables have been crowded out of many of their old haunts by the newly rich people, who have more money and spend it more extrava- gantly. The true fashionables never waste a dollar. They have the best things, but buy them at the lowest possible prices. Only the shoddy people give their carriages to their coachmen and light their cigars with greenbacks. It is as unfashionable to throw away money foolishly as it is to earn it by hard work. The newly rich may flourish at the watering-place hotels, pay enormous bills and make the for- tunes of rapacious landlords; but the fashiona- bles have quietly withdrawn to their neat cot- tages and secluded villas, where they are more comfortable at a much cheaper rate. Whether they will adopt the same exclusive policy im regard to the amusements of the fall season remains to be seen. There will be no Italian opera, and but few of the theatres are now in good repute; but we hope to see o first class comic opera company at the French theatre, and Ristori, the queen of her profession, whose departure from Brest on Saturday was an- nounced by the Atlantic cable, may reform and reconstruct the drama in this country. For the present, however, the opening of the fall season will be chiefly political. The white and black convention, which meets at Philadelphia to-day to organize a new civilization and a negro arie- tocracy, will be more interesting and amasing than any theatrical performance. The trium- phant tour of Johnson, Grant and Farragut takes precedence of all other spectacles. The ques- tion as to our next Governor already excites remarkable attention, and the Congressional nominations, soon to be made, will enlist all classes, including the professors of gambling, in the anxieties of the canvass. The fashiona- bles may arrange their dinners and parties and Germans, but more engr‘sesing and vitally im- portant matters will atjeorb the minds of the people at larca. men who occupied prominent military positions