The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1866, Page 6

B NI EW YORK “HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR FULTON AND NASSAU STS. OFFIOB N. W. CORNER THE DAILY HERALD, published every day im the year, Foor cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five Five Copies. Ten Copies... ‘Any larger number addressed to namos of subscribers $1.50 cach. Anextra copy will be sent toevery club often. Twenty copies to one address, one year, $95, andany larger number at same price, An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty, These rates make the Wrex.y Heraxp the cheapest publication in the coun'ry. Postage five cents per copy for three months. TERMS cash inadvance, Money sent by mail will be at the risk ofthe sender. None but bank bills current in New York taken. 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NEW, Hotel. ‘ORK THEATRE, Broxaway opposite New York ‘ink OLp ENGuisn Gentiemas—Rum-Tr-Foo-Zix, GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadway.— Eine Pautuus Figoet—Du Erensucanicen—Lisr ND PHLRGMA. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery. — Dee Koxmia’s Licoranant. TERRACE GARDEN, eighth and Fifty-ninth str> @anven Concunts, comm avenue, betwern Fifty ‘avo. Trowas’ OncuxsTRAL iz wt 8 o'clock. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Prorgsson Hants witt Peevorm mia Minacuxs. Mutinee at 2 o'clock. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, opvosite the Metropolitan Hotel—Iy tacin Ermortan Exrxnrarn- =e Sivcina, Dancing axp Buauxesques—Tux Back ‘00K. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOU: Twenty.fourth strent,—Renworrrn’s Muvsruaisy, BaLLaps, BURLESQU! Nos. 2 and 4 West TRELS, — ITMIOPLAN ‘Vinaixia Curip. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Cowro Vocarusm—Neoro Minstaxisy, Batiet Divertisseuent, &c.—Younc Amunica ut imxianp. Matinee at 23, o'clock. CHARLEY, WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE. at Mechanica! | Hall, 4 way—ix 4 Vanrery ov Light }CHABLE tALINMENTS, Conrs DB Bacurt, &c. Cat-Vor- Pim. "Matinee at 23 o'clock. MRS. ¥. B. CONWAY" 8 PARK THEATRE, Brookyla.— Tunes HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermortas Min- sreasy, Bactaps, Buatesques ano Paxtomimus. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Lectures with tar Oxy-Hrprogen Micnoscorg twice ot. ae i Rigut Aax or Prosst. Open from 8 TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, September 29, 1866. EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable we have a European pews re- port dated at noon on Monday, tho 24th instant, the transmission of the later and more ample despatches being interrupted on this side by the condition of the Newfoundiand telegraph lines, which were damaged considerably during the late storm. Tho Italian insurrectionary brigands at Palermo have been dispersed by the military. There was to be a grand reform demonstration in Man- chester on Monday, the 24th inst, Our advices by mail, in the pape of special corres- pondence and despatches and newspaper files, contain vory interesting and important details of the cable news to the 16th inst, ur Paris correspondent says the condition of Maxt- milian's throne is regarded as hopeless by Napoleon, and perhaps also by the Emperor of Austria and the King of Bolctum. The Anancial convention concluded between tho two emperors, relative to the payment of Mexican cus- toms duties to French agents, is spoken of as the ‘‘ingt will and testament”’ of Maximilian in his royal capacity, and as likely to prove a troublesome bequest to France. It is thought that General Castelnaa, the special en- voy of Napoleon to Mexico City, will arrange for tne return of Maximilian to Europe. Tho Christian insurgents in Candia publish an affecting appeal to Prosident Johnson, in which they submit the merits of their case to the American people. @BOur Dublin correspondent furnishes very interesting statements regarding the extent, weight, and vaiue of the Fenian organization on tho soil of Ireland. A very spirited report of the race for the groat St. Loger stake at Dancaster appears in our columns. Consols were quoted at 89, for money, im London, ab ‘boon on Monday, the 24th instant. United States five- twenties wore at T14¢ at the same time, Cotton experienced @ material deciine in Liverpool on ‘londay, September 24, At noon the market was active ith middling uplands at twolve three-fourths pence, rondstuffs were quiet and generally unchanged. THE CITY. Four cases of cholera were reported in this city yes. vertay, and three burial permits were granted. In Brook- lyn two deaths were reported. The Protestant Episcopal Convention adjourned rine die yesterday, after transacting some additional bus'ness in Felation lo the prop»sed division of the diocese, and also adopting a resolution to increase the Missionary Fund. On Wednesday evening James Cullen, two brothers named Loonie, and another individual whose name in unknown, made an assault on Mrs. Elizabeth Russe, at hor lager boer saloon at 121 Third avenue, from the effeota of which she is in a critical condition. Tne par. tios were arrested and released on bail on Thursday, but the two brothors were rearrested yesterday, Cullen hav- ing secreted bimeelf eo that ho has not been found. An ante Mortem examination woe held yesterday, when the Jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the facts, and the partion were beid to awau the result of Mra, Russe’s injuries. An ante-mortem examination was Beld yesterday morning at the City Hospital, Brooklyn, over Joseph Gorman, who was alioged to bave been «bot at the as signation house No, 81 Carli street, Brooklyn, by Celeste Carbart, The jury rendered » docision to the effect that Gorman recetved bis wound at the place and in the manner stated. The body of MeKoover, tho owner of the horee Geno. ral Butler, who was killed on the race track at Chiraro on last Satarday, was brought to this city on Thursday and an inquest was held on ft yesterday by Coroner Wildey. The Inman lino steamehip City of London, Captain Mirebouse, will sail at noon to-day from pler 4% North river, for Queenstown aud Liverpool, The matle will close at the Post office at baif-past ten. The steamship Caledona, Captain Ferrier, of the Avchor line, sails at twelve M. to-day, from pier 44 North rivor, for Liverpool and Glasgow, The new and fine steamship Victor, Captain Gates, of the Cromwell line, will sailat three P. M. to-day from pier No, 9 North river for New Orleans, The steamebip San Salvador, Captain Atkins, of the Empire line, will sail for Savannat direct a three P.M. so day Crom pier 18 North river. Tha steagdsbip Saragossa, of the Leary line, saus for NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1866. —TKIPLE SHEKT. Charleston, 8 C., from foot of Wall street, at three P. M. to-day. Arrangements bave been made between the above and the People’s line to inérease the facilities for shipment of merchandize South, and a steamer for Charleston wil! be despatched every other day. ‘The stock market was buoyant and excited yesterday. Gold was steady and closed at 1457. Governments were dull. A fair business was consummated in nearly all tne leading articles of merchandise yesterday, and the mar- kets were generally buoyant and frm. In cotton there continued a good degree of activity and buoyancy, with- out decided advance in prices, Coffee was steady, with moderate demand. Sugar ruled much more active without changing prices. On 'Change there was a firmer feeling, which was almost general, and flour, with wheat ‘and oats, ruled in seller’s favor. Corn, however, was the turn lower, but a fair business was transacted at the concession, Pork was firmer, Beef very steady. Lard quiet, Whiskey in improved demand at unchanged prices. Petroleam steady and freights quiet. MISCELLANEOUS. Letters dated the lst instant have been received in San Francisco, giving details of the fight near Mazatlan which wag reported in yesterday morning's Heraup. The utmost bravery was displayed en both sides, and an American was commissioned on the field in the im- perial army. The revolution in Lower California had ended peacefully in favor of Governor Redrin. The United States steamer Snwanee§was soon to be stationed at Mazatian to look after Amorican interests. Our cor- respondent, writing from Brownaville on the 12th, gives an account of his tour through the States in which Mon- torey and Matamoros are situated. Escobedo was pre- paring vigorously for an offensive campaign against San Luis Potosi. The people on the rouve of our correspond- ent’s tour were bitter in their hatred of the French, and although they believed that anarchy would ensue on the withdrawal of Maximilian, they preferred that State of affairs to French rule. The men had nearly all been impressed into the army and the women and children were collected together in the towns and villages, Stock was running wild among the ranches, One of the last official acts of Secretary Harlan, per- formed the day before his resignation took effect, was to execute a contract by which tho reserve lands of the Cherokee Indians, in Kansas, consisting of eight hun- dred thousand acres, ceded by the Indians to the govern- ment, were sold to the Connecticut Emigrant Society, for ono dollar per acre. General Santa Anna has located his headquarters on Staten Island, and has opened a regular businces bureaa for the transaction of matters looking to the delivery of Mexico from French authority. He is occupied, so report goes, constantly with various peoplo on that sub- ject, and bas enlisted the sympathies of the Fenian Brotherhood. Colonel Roberts, General Sweeny and other Fenian chiefs are zealous in their attachment to his cause, and are educating the Insh to that beltef. ‘Three targe sea going steamers have been purchased for their use, it is believed, in transportation to Mexico. It is further reported that the old General is soon to return to St, Thomas, On Monday evening a meeting was held in Montreal to lay before the Canadian public the temporal wants of Pope Pius IX. Our correspondent in Ottawa recently made an excursion up the Ottawa river. A banquet was given by the party um honor of the New Yor« Heratp, in tho progress of which the President, the Queen, the memory of Lincoln, the Union of the States, and the prosperity and success of the Heranp were toasted. ‘The United States Circuit Court at Richmond opens on Monday next, when it is believed Jeff Davis will be tried. Ho has unlimited faith in his acquittal, but as to his ‘tral taking place nothing positively is known. A fvarful storm visited the eastern coast of Newfound. land on Saturday last, A French frigate and numerous coasters were lost, and one hundred and fifty dead bodies were picked up at St. Piorre on Sunday. An accident occurred on the Pennsylvan'a Railroad, fifteen miles from Philadelphia, yesterday; but no one was injured. ‘The cholera is again on the increase in St, Louis, Eight cases were reported yesterday, several of which Proved fatal. In Momphis forty-six new cases and thirty-four deaths wer reported for the twenty-four hours ending last night, and in Nashville there were twenty-one deaths. The directors of the New York Central Railroad opened their sessions at Albany yesterday. Their ob- ject is to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Dean Richmond, until the regular election in December. The question is very complicated, R. M. Blatchford, James H. Barker and William G. Fargo being among the ‘most prominent candidates of the various interests. Nine hundred and forty applications havo been re- ceived from negroes in Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia, by the American Colonization Society, for transportation to Liberia, They will depart November 1. Mr. Lindsoy, the preacher, who whipped his daughter 80 severely that she died from the effects of it, has been indicted for the murder in Albion, Orleans county. He Plead not guilty. Eggleston, the murderer of Captain Menter, wis hanged ‘at Newport, Kentucky, yesterday. President Johnsen on the Constitutional Amendment. We are sorry to hear from Washington that the President has authorized “an emphatic denial” of the statement that he was about, to modify his policy to the extent of recommend- ing the constitational amendment of Congress sto the adoption of the unrepresented Southern States. A rare opportunity is now offered for a flank movement on the part of Mr. Johnson, which, if promptly seized and followed up, will be as decisive against the Northern radi- cals as wore General Grant’s flanking opera- tions against the rebel army of Petersburg and Richmond. We are sorry, therefore, to hear that Mr. Johnson declines to avail himself of this golden. opportunity, because he thus leaves us to the conclusion that he compre- hends neither the advantages nor the dangers of his present situation. ‘We understand that he is opposed to the constitutional amendment now before the States, first, because he holds it to be in vio- lation of the fifth article of the constitution. which says that “no State shall be deprived without its consent of ite equal suffrage in the Senate,” When this amendment was under consideration in Congress eleven excluded States were begging for admission, which was refused. They were, therefore, (as we are in- formed the President puts the case), deprived, without their consent, of this “equal suffrage,” which he contends invalidates the whole pro- ceeding. In reply, we have to say that if Presi- dent Johnson has no better argument than this in the premises be has not an inch of ground to stand upon. Holding him rigidly to the constitution, we might remind him that there is no binding force in his conditions of restoration exacted of the late rebel States until approved by Congress, the law making power. What he did, how- ever, in the absence of Congress and in the exercise of the diser#tionary war power con- ferred by Congress, we hold was entitled to respect; but at the same time the powers of Congress over the general subject remained unimpaired. Moreover, in this plea from the constitution, whereby the President, it scems, would make it appear that this Thirty-ninth Congress is invalid, he condemns himself, for he stands committed to the validity of this Congress in every bill and joint resolution passed by it, and which bears hls signature making it « law of the land. If his signature under the circumstances goes for nothing, then the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, with all the legislation of this Congress upon every subject, goes for nothing. We hold that if » State, or say e number of States, joining in » rebellious conspiracy can choose their own time when to go out of Com «ress, the constitutional quorum remaining of Congress may presctibe the conditions of their restoration, as involved, for example, in this constitutional ameadment, The President bim- self is committed to this judgment in the sub- mission of this amendment to the “several States. His official act overrides any’ legal arguments he may now advance againstit, He cannot go behind the contract to which he is a party signed and sealed. He cannot now plead the invalidity of this Congress, because it is too late. Another objection of the President to this amendment, as we are informed, is this, That if ratified, the amendment will carry with it, anyhow, the enforcement of universal negro suffrage, under that clause of the constitution which decrees that “the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and im- munities of citizens in the several States.” If there were any force in this objection it would apply to the States at this time in regard to suffrage, and might have been applied at any time since the adoption of the federal consti- tution. But the power of regulating the elec- tive franchise was left to the States by the constitution from the beginning, and it is still left to them in this amendment. It only re- quires that representation in Congress shall be based upon suffrage, one of the President’s re- commendations, and a propositie: so fair and reasonable that it will unquestionably be ratified by all the Northern States that remain to ratify it. Accepting, therefore, our information of the President’s objections as authentic, we would respectfully advise him that they do not meet the case, but react against himself. We would farther admonish him that if he can advance no better arguments than these against the constitutional amendment, silence on the sub- ject will, for bim, be the part of wisdom. The plea of the invalidity of this Congress is a dangerous fallacy, It has already startled the North as if it were the echoes of Fort Sumter and with the fear that it covers a revolutionary danger. With every wish to see the adminis- tration of President Johnson a glorious and enduring success, and desirous to aid him in the achievement of a decisive victory over Northern and Southern radicals, we would appeal to him, if he cannot conscientiously give this restoration amendment of Congress his active support, to let it quietly take its course. We recommend this alternative because the administration can do no good and may do much mischief to itself in any further attempts to stem the heavy current of Northern public opinion. The amendment is before the States, Let them act upon it, then, without further ob- structions from the Executive, since it is evi- dent that further resistance will avail him nothing. He has still “ ample scope and verge enough ” for a brilliant administration in the rectification of our unsettled foreign affairs and financial system. Let him turn bis attention to these great questions, and we doubt not that while still actively engaged in theit practical solation, the results of the Northern elections soon to come off will convince him of the wis- dom of a speedy ratification of the aforesaid constitutional amendment by all the excluded Southern States. Mayor Hoffman Opens the Campaign at El- mira. We publish this morning the stump speech of Mayor Hoffman, who opened the guberna- torial campaign at Elmira last Tuesday. From this speech we regret, but are not aston- ished, to learn that Mr. Hoffman is by no means a statesman. The introduction is about himself; the body of the speech deals with Sumner, Stevens and Butler; the changes aro rang upon Greeley and the Tribune and the Tribune and Greeley, and finally Mr. Hofman hits upon a genuine idea and begins to talk of the constitutional amendment. Unfortunately, however, his idea upon this subject is a very wrong. one, and perhaps, after all, he might better have stuck to Butler and Greeley and Stevens and Phillips, instead of wading into such deep water, where mere politicians are in great danger of drowning. Mr, Hoffman recklessly follows the bad ex- ample of other recent democratic leaders. Like Seymour, the Woods, Vallandigham and Brooks, he plays into the hands of the very radicals whom he denounces. In Congress, whenever Thad Stevens was too weak to carry or defeat any measure against the wishes of the conservative republicans, he called upon the democrats to assist him, and they always responded. During the war, whenever Butler and Greeley and Phillips wanted any assist- ance, they stirred up the Woods or Seymour or Vallandigham, and received all the aid and comfort necessary to carry their point. The radicals and Mr. Hoffman are ocoupy!ng the same relations now in regard to the constitu- tional amendment. If Mayor Hoffman were a statesman, instead of a local politician, be would declare for the constitutional amend- ment at once, and urge the South to accept ft, so as to get into Congress and form an alliance with the Northern conservatives to put down the Jacobins. But as it is we find Mr. Hoffman arguing against the amendment and procuring his arguments from the exploded arsenals of the radicals. Having deliberately chosen the same réle as Vallandigham he must take the consequences. Our readers will see for themselves that Mr. Hoffman’s speech is ® very weak one, and yet he might easily have made it very strong. His opponent for the Governorship is Mr. Fenton, who is a poor, imbecile sort of of man, not at all satisfactory to the people in © personal point of view. But with all his faults Mr. Fenton has had the good sense to get upon the right side of the constitutional amendment, and that will carry bim along with it. The vital issue is the thing which de- cides all elections, and the vital issne of the coming elections is this amendment. Local matters are of comparatively insignifi- cant importance, and candidates are of but little consequence when weighed againat a principle. Mr. Hoffman, making the first speech of the canvass, might have forestalled Mr. Fenton; but instead of this he has decided to give his opponent every advantage by declar- ing himself opposed to the only means by which immediate reunion can be accomplished. He occupies the same ground as the radicals, and how is he any better than they? We con- fess that we desired to eee a strong, statesman- like candidate nominated and elected by the conservatives of this State; but Mr. Hoffman is clearly not such a candidate and bas no chance of an election as matters stand, The people wanted a man of broad, comprehensive views, able to cast aside partisan considerations and think and act for the good of the country. What have they vresepted to them in Mr. Hoffman? A narrow, hidebound partisan, be- | The Radical Orators—A Break in the Ranks. longing to a little clique, ina little ring, in a little corner of this city. How, then, can they vote for him? Resuscitation of the Drama. It is a fact not very soothing to our self-pride to admit, but it is nevertheless true, that while this country has been advancing in all the ele- ments which distinguish a great, civilized and intellectual people, we have been treading a retrograde path within the past few years in dramatic art. It is only necessary to look at the class of performances, the quality of talont employed and the utter disregard for the re- sponsibility which their position involves that the managers generally have exhibited. Rely- ing upon the good nature and overtaxed suf- ferance of the public, the managers have grad- ually reduced the drama to the lowest standard, until, with the exception of Ristori’s magnif! cent performances at the French theatre and those of the German tragedian Dawison at the Stadt theatre, there is absolutely nothing left for the New York public in the dramatic stage but insipidity, degradation of a glorious ar, and demoralization of public sentiment. As far as American dramatic art or the elevating influences which are inseparable from @ con” scientious application of the drama is con. cerned, the community has fallen into the hands of the Philistines, and receives nomercy from their masters, the managers’ combination. It is curious to notice how, while for the last half century the theatrical profession has in a measure kept pace in the march of civilization in other countries, while the Kembles and Taimas, the Keans and Garricks, the Siddonses and O’Neils, the Rachels and Ristoris arose in succession to illuminate the dramatic eky of Eu- rope, we who in war and peace, in the enlight- enment of our statesmen, the energy of our peo- ple, the boundless liberality of our patronage, should be beggars at the door of every artist and every dramatic writer in Europe to give ornament to the American stage and vindi cate the claims of art in an American com- munity. But this anomaly is easily accounted for when we remember the class of men to whose hands the drama has been unfortu- nately intrusted in this city, upon which, of course, the whole country relies for its artista, as it is here that their reputations are made or their deficiencies are damned. Tho history of theatrical management in New York for the last quarter of a century, and the malignant influence which it exer- cised, dates from the time when a young man, with all the ambition to become a successful showman, but possessing none of the qualifi- cations necessary to fill a higher posi- tion, applied to old Mr. Niblo for a cor- ner in his garden on Broadway to ox- hibit a negro woman said to be a hundred years old*and represented as having a hie- torical record in connection with the Father of his Country. The request was good na- turedly granted, and from that day to this the exhibitor of Jovce Heth, with his taste for shéws and humbugs and indomitable pas- sion for all the monstrosities of nature, has been exercising a demoralizing influence upon the theatrical profession. About the same time another young man obtained the privilege from Mr. Niblo of exhibiting a fat ox in another cor ner of his garden. That young man is now the proprietor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He, however, is not responsible for any portion of the evils which his contemporary exhibitor of the old negress has brought upon an honorable and useful calling. For some years past the legitimate drams has been gradually declining towards the show business, being Barnumized, in fact, until our theatres, and necessarily, by force of circamstances, our actors also, have be- come demoralized. We no longer find in the general run of our theatres a resort of refined enjoyment and a school of instruction. Sensations of the woolly horse, Joyce Heth and bogus mermaid style, supplanted the-regu- lar drama. At one theatre we have repre- sented the weakest phases of human folly. At another the darkest chapters in human viciousness, unredeemed by a single trait of virtue to point ever so poor a moral. At another jugglers, tumblers and acrobats defile the stage with distortions that keep the audience in a fever of terror. At another French dancing girls present s fraudulent dis- guise of nudity in scant drapery and ape the poses and attitudes of nymphs and goddesses in amorous delirium. This, in plain language, is the climax which the theatres bave reached under the masterly control of the showman who manages the Managers’ Association. In splendid contrast, fortunately, we have the classic representations of Ristori at the ThéAtre Frangais. Her advent has shed a new refulgence upon the metropolitan stage. The public welcome her as a relief and appre- ciate her as the representative of a lost art The actors and actresses of the other ostab-, lishments, depressed by the incubus of mana- gerlal demoralization, gladly avail themselves of the opportunity to study under her, and from this fact we live in hope that « better era is about to dawn upon dramatic art. Ristori, when she leaves this city, will carry her influence and her ¢clat throughout the West, and will, no doubt, leave a most propi- tious impression on public taste all over the country, which will affect alike people, actors and managers. Newspaper Crrcvtation.—There is a set of political blowers who spend their time during every exciting political canvass circulating stories about the great increase of the circula- tion of this paper and the decrease of some other on account of its course in regard to the pending issues. They are just now exhibiting more than their usual activity. The radicals are making a great noise about a pretended rapid increase of the circulation of the Tribune, all of which is pure fabrication for political purposes, They also claim that the circnlation of the Times is decreasing with the same aston- ishing rapidity. This is also pure fabrication, The World every now and then blows about ils enormons citculation. This is another falvrica- tion. The idea that the circulation of the lead- ing papers in this city is effected to any great extent by the views that they may advance in regard to the questions at issue is all nonsense, They stand on an altogether different basis from that, People take these papers for their news, and as long as the managers furnish thoir readers with that, those who withdraw their support on account of opinions expressed in the editorials amount to a mere bagatelle- ‘Those who are trying to prove to the contrary have bat little idea of the position of pews papers In this metropolis The speeches’ of the leading men in the republican’ and ‘radical party exhibit a wide difference in sentiment in regard to the con- stitutional amendment and the restoration of the South. Their utterances on the stump in different localities reveal the fact that they are pulling in opposite directions ond laboring to bring about contraryresults. This has already been developed in this canvass toa sufficient extent to show that a breach must sooner or later take place which will separate the mode- rate portion from the more radical element in the party. Whenever this takes place the radical Jacobins must go under and sink into obscurity, where they should have long since been forced to go. The time when this rupture will be effectual depends upon the action of the South in accepting the constitutional amendment and the course of the anti-radicals in the North. The recent speeches of Thad Stevens and Bethel Fisher Butler, for instance, foreshadow @ new crusade against the South, They inti- mate that the adoption of the constitutional amendment by the Southern States will not be sufficient, but that still further concessions must be made by that people and other guar- antees secured. On the other hand, such rep- resentative men as Senator Wilson and Repre- sentative Conkling, in their speeches on the stump, repudiate this idea of Stevens, Butler and Company, and declare that the faith of Congress is pledged to admit the Southern representatives upon their States ratifying the constitutional amendment. Upon this point there is as wide a difference between the party leaders as that which exists between the two political parties of the day. The success of the republican party in this contest will be the signal for bitter controversy between these two elements on the assembling of Congress. Stevens will then unques- tionably lead off in his efforts to compel the adoption of his theories, which he was unable to incorporate in the amendment at the last session, while those who secured the adoption of this amendment by the last Congress stand pledged before the country to ingist that that, and that alone, shall be the condition of admitting the Southern represen- tatives. On this point the issue will be made, and on this rook the party must sooner or later split. There is no mistaking the fact that the sympathies of the great mass of the people on this question will be in favor of those who adhere to the present constitutional amend- ment and are opposed to the extreme Jacobin doctrine of Stevens, Butler and Company. The public are anxious for the restoration of the country ; they are sick and tired of this constant agitation and excitement about the negro and the isms of the Jacobins. As long as it continues it interferes with the business arrangements of our mercantile and commer- cial interests. For this reason their influence will be thrown in favor of the constitutional amendment, as against the extreme faction, as the best way of agnin securing quiet, peace and prosperity. In this condition of affairs all that is necessary is for the South to come for- ward and accept the amendments adopted by the last Congress, not only without delay, but in good faith, and they will secure their early admission into Congress and so strengthen the hands of the moderate republicans that they will be able to defeat all the efforts of the radicals in requiring new guarantees. The speeches of Wilson and Conkling are pledges to the South that the Reconstruction Commit- tee, and in fact a majority of the party in Congress, intend to stand by the reconstruc- tion policy incorporated in that amendment. Now let the South come forward and strengthen their hands, and they will find their constitu- tional rights restored to them, followed by a division in the republican party that will secure the utter rout of the radical Jacobin faction before the adjournment of Congress on the 4th of next March. Wr Gewenat Dix sx Muster to France t— General Dix has accepted the post of Naval Officer, but from the fact that the mission to France was offered him after his appoint- ment to office, and from the General having been called suddenly to Washington, we infer that the President would be more pleased to have him go to France. The position of Naval Officer is the most lucrative one, but the French mission is far more important. General Dix, therefore, may yet take the most distinguished of the two positions for the reason that it will be more agreeable to his taste, as well as in obedience to the wish of the President. But the very fact of the ,mission to France being urged upon him just now has s signifi- cance which should not be lost sight of. We regard it as a very decided indication that the President is about to adopts more strongly national and vigorous foreign policy than that which Mr. Seward has been pursuing. Look- ing, indeed, at the timid, time-serving, and, we might say, toadying policy of the Secretary of State, and at the well kaown sentiments of General Dix, which are entirely different, it appears to be a very strong hint to Mr. Seward that he ought to leave the management of our foreign affairs to some one else who is in per- fect accord with the President on the subject. The tory press of England and the imperial press of France are constantly repeating their eulogiums on Mr. Seward for his extreme moderation. Well they may; for it suits their views exactly, But it is humiliating to the country and keeps our foreign relations in an unsettled condition. We cannot contemplate this mighty country being placed in the position he has placed us in without o deep sense of humiliation. The dominant power of the American continent, the most powerful nation in the world, a nation of thirty-five millions of intelligent freemen, and, as Prince Gortschakoff said in hig speech at the banquet to our naval officers, a nation “ in« vulnerable at home,” to be defled and out- witted as we have been is disgraceful, It ishigh time that we should have euch a firm and dignified policy as becomes this great republic, President Johnson, we know, is earnestly in favor of the Monroe doctrine. General Dix is the same, as bis speeches and whole public career show. The French inter- vention in Mexico, ia defiance of that cherished doctrine of the American people, is regarded a8 a standing offence by both, and both, it we mistake not, ine’#t upon putting @ speedy end to that offence. We conclade, therefore, that the President has taken up this question him- self with a determination to have it speedily se'tled in spite of the temporizing policy of Mr. Seword, ond that he has selected General Thx eogcially for this servies et the court of Napoleon. Mr. Seward is evidently set aside in the matter. Under these circumstances we cannot see how he can remain im the State De partment with any self-respect,’ General Dix should go to France by all pieags, The Em peror Napoleon witi sect the signfhcance of his eppointinent, and we shall soon have » settlement of the Mexican difficulty. Fenrastsm JN Inevanp.—The letter of our correspondent in Dublin, which we publish in another column, presents some interesting fea- tures of Fenianism in Ireland, the despondent condition of the organization affording a strong contrast tothe assumptions of the recognized leader now in this country. One point which our correspondent alludes. to will strike our readers with the force of the coincidence that the same class of men who have withheld themselves from any prominent connection. with the movement in America have also remained outside of its ranks in Ireland at the same time that here the Irish people have bees. most devoted to the cause, “The Fenians proper are the farm laborers and peasantry,” says our correspondent, “The farmers them- selves are not connected with the movement; the landowners, shopkeepers, and, in fact, tradesmen, all keep aloof from it. There is not 4 man worth a thousand dollars in the coun- try connected with it, nor is there a man of note asa lawyer or other professional or lite- rary man connected with it.” In view of these facts, which are not stated without the author- ity of observation and experience, what con- sistency is there in the addresses and promises of Stephens made here every day? That Fenianism is an annoyance to the British gov- ernment, that it gives the police, the govern- ment officials and the spies and detectives plenty to do, there is no doubt, and that it cana be made a very important egent in carrying out the plans of reform and revolution in the whole British empire, now being matured by Mr. Bright and his colaborers, depends upon the discretion of those who have control over it. If there be any wisdom at all in the councils of the organization in Ireland, they may be directed to a good purpose, As for the leaders in this country, they have collapsed under the weight of their stupendous folly, and the few who have escaped with enough of influence to accomplish anything can best use it in furthering the ends of practical men is the amelioration of their country. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. Proceedings of the Lust Day—Division of the Diocese—The Missionary Fund, &c. Another meeting of the members of the Protestans Episcopal Convention was held yesterday morning. The proceedings as usual commenced with prayer. Right Rev. Bishop Potter presided, and after some discussion the Church of the Holy Saviour was admitted into communion with the Convention, Reports were received in reference to the Society fee Promoting Religion and Learning, and also in reference to the Fund, after which the subject of the DIVIBION OF THR DIOCESE, ‘as mentioned in yesterday's gone was referred to the gh committee :—Rev. Ds it, Chairman; Bev, Dr. — ae oD r. iv. fe Bostwick, Rev. 3. Livi Reese, ew Governor King, Lieutenant Governor Floyd Meads, H. bo Ag te 0. g Ren note in goog nit this by ae an rene Remeeeeie® thro to gr wots lecopel pees. i alba sad Broom vo, the Proposed division should tak A discussion then took ing saditional funds for the Missionary Tesolution was adopted that $20,000 be raised PeThe sonvention then adjourned sine die. THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS. / Elections occur to Peparylvania, Obio, Indiana and Towa on the 9th of next month. The State and Congressional tickets are now complete, or nearly so, aad are as follows:— Dinos om the necessity of rales Wes Pennaytvania. Heister ae ig ee General Jobn W, Geary, republican. FOR CONGRESS, Dist. Radical. 1-8 J, Trndalt,© Charles Gibboss, 2—Jobo Hulme. Chas. O'Neill. ¢ waiter. Leonard =“? 4. rE w. Le ge Oo 6—B. M. er, © Havid Thomas, 1-1 Pratt. 4 Mt. Broomall.® 8—J. ae D, J. Lincota. ad 9—8. H. Reynolds, Thad. Stovous® 10—Dr. C. D. Gloninger, BL. Cake. 11—Daciel Van Auken. Witham Lilly, 12—Chas. Denison. * James Arch! ba Goong Elwell. Ulyssus Morcar.® Bower. P. Mitter.* ira J. Glossbrenper. # R. A. Henderson. 16—J. McD. Sharpe. W. H. Koonta © 17—Robt. L. Job D. J. Morrell. 18—Theodore P. Wright, 8. T. Wilson ¢ ii tktese! Sacese Gen. io A. Finney. Pgs ms eee ’ Johu Covode. ry 22—Gen. J. 3 K. Moorhesa. Bohlin 8 Chae rite ‘Thomas Willtame® Gev. V. Ohto. STARR TICKET. Union. Radt: See. of State.... Renj. Le Fevor. Wu &. Judge Sup. Ct... Thomas M. Jonah Bia Pad. Works. Thomas Larw Jono B. Barrera, FOR Conaness, », rn Radical. 2—Theo, Look. k Eafens 3—Gen. J. D. Ward. R OC. Sebenck.« 4—J. F. McKinney. Wm. Lawrence, 6—Col. William Manges. M. B. Walker. 7 hog hag RW. Ciark.« \—Thomas , Samuel Shetlabarger.* 8—Col W. P. Reed. ©. 8 Bamitton. 9—Thomas P. Fimnefrock. R. B. Buckland* 10—Gen H. iy Commager. James M. Ashiey.© 11—Col OF. Moore. Jobn T. Wiison. Paty h—- Cotumnbun Delano. ° 14—Jobn B. ¥% a Martin Welker.* — are Tobias E. Planta. M + Jobim A. Bingham.’ pics E. RB. Reokley.* Colonel Of H Payne. RP. ndia Union, }. Rodger. Jas, C. Ryan. Atormey Sup. Tostit’as. RM. Chapman. Geo. W. Boss FOR CONGREM. Dist. Union, Radical. 1—W. E Niblack. * L. Q DeBrewier, 2—Michael &. Kerr. * W. Q Gresham, 3—B. W. 5 B.C. Hunter. 4—Willtam 8. an. Tra C. Grover. }—Major N. L. Bundy. George W. Julian.® 6—Captain Joho M. Lord. John Covurn. 7 —Solomon Ciaypoo!, Heory () Washburn. © 8—John @. Pardue. 8. Orth. * 9—David Turpie. Schayler Colfax.* 10—Robert Lowry, Willtam Williams. LU—Dr, B. B Snow, Jobo P. C, Shanka, Radical. James ¥. Wilson. * Hiram Price.* William B, Allison. William Louguriage. 6. M, Dodge Hubbard ¢ idaie is a member of the present Congress, THE EXPECTED FENIAN RAID ON CANADA. eee Colonel Starr arrived here to-day. He movement now threatened on Lower Canada as vowise, and thinks persisted ia by ¢x-Senator Sennott, of Bee ton, who commands the expedition, |t will rain the Rob ris wing. WOODLAWN RACES POSTPONED.