The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1866, Page 6

o NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. “No, 282 ea AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THBATRE, broadway, street. —PRARL oF Savor. ——. 2 TRE, Broaway opposite Now York NEY XoRMoar Oren Tus Docron OF ALCANTABA. near Broome GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadway.— Mooa Apo Asour Norsino. GERMAN STAD? THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Faust. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Mapaue Ristort as Evisapera, Quemn or Enotanp, IRVING HALL, Irvin, Pavi is THEIa MOsIOAL, ‘TMA TALNMIENT. place.—Mr. axp Mas. Howarp jomic aD Cuaracrgaistio En- \ The steamship Evening Star, of the New York Mail Steamship Company, which left this port on the 20} The Pusure Goeveraing Party of the Coun- ult, with an assorted cargo and two hundred end Afty try. t cabin and steerage passengers, and a crew of seventy men, foundered at sea, one hundred and eighty miles east of Tybee (Savannah) Light, on the night of the 1st inst. The news was conveyed to this city via Savannah, Georgia, and was obtained from two of the rescued pas- sengers who had arrived at Savannah, Another boat had arrived at Fernandina, Florida, having op board the purser and chief engineer of the ship. Captain Knapp, commanding the veasel, was drowned. The schooner 8. J. Waring, which has arrived at Fernandina, Florida, has somo of the rescued crew and passengers om board, but how many is not stated. The rest are supposed to have been lost, ‘The brig Eliza Ano, of New York for Boston, was sunk by collision with a achooner off Minot’s Ledge on Sunday evening. Terry, of Nantucket, sprang a leak and sunk near the same place on Saturday night, and the bark Venus, for Philadelphia from Londoa, had on board fourteen of the officers and crew of the wrecked ship Shooting Star, from Liverpool for Eastport, The crew were saved. The schooner A. B. Our correspondent at Fortress Monroe gives details of the severe storm encountered by the bark Laura, bound DODWORTH?S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Pxorsssoz Hanrz | from Bremen to Baltimoye, on the 224 of September. /RACLES. wot Perrone gis Mn SAN FRANOISCO MINSTRELS. 585 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel—In rave Eratortay Ewrentain- marti, Sunaina, Danocino axp Buriesques—Tux Buack CooK, AND AWRIOAN ‘Trours. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth atreet.—Bupwoxra’s MiNsTRELS.—\THIOPIAN MinsTReLSY, BattaDs, BuRuEsques, 40.—Hancem Lanx, on 4 Quist RestEnce, KELLY & LEON'S GREAT WESTERN MINSTRELS, 72) Broadway—In taxir Songs, Dances, Eccenrnicties, &o.—Doctor or ALL-Can-Tean-Hxr. NY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Coxto Voom -Neawo Minstruisy, Batur DiverrisseMent, &o.—Tux Rosser Kina. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPB, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Browiway—in 4 Variety or Ligue Seven men were washed overboard and fifty were wounded, as reported in the Hernacvof Thursday, The Laura had arrived at Fortress Monroe 50 seriously dam- aged that it would require a.tong time to repair her sufficiently to undertake another voyage. ‘The President, in a proclamation published this morn- ing, Tecommends that Thursday, the 29th proximo, be observed ‘throughout the United States as a day of Thankgsgiving and Praise for another year of National life vouchsafed us asa people. . Secretary Seward was so far improved io health as to be able to visit the President at the White House yester- day. Our Charleston corres-ondence says that the South Carvlina Legislature sdjourned after a stormy session. anp Lavomaie ENTERTAINMENTS, Coxrs DE Batume, & | ‘The black code was virtually repoaled, and all the etvil Taw Suapow Pantomime. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookylo,— Tux Cou.zen Bawn. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSS, Brooklyn,—Brmortax Min- oraxisy, BALLADS, BoxLEsques AND PANTOMIMES NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Rrondway.— Lecrores wrra tue Oxy-HypRogeN MuicRoscore | twice daily. Hxap axo Ricur AkM OF PRossr, Open from 9 A.M cal 10. M TRIPLE SHEET. w York, Tuesday, October 9, 1866. wo have very tnterest.ng and important telegraphic dotails of our cablo despatches, dated to the 28th of sep- tomber. * ‘Tho progress of the Candian revolution attracted the most serious attention of the diplomatic world as tending to reopen the Eastern question in a shape which will place it before tne great Powers for final arbitrament, Active confereaces were being hold on the subject in Paris, particularly between tho representatives of Russia and England and the Foreign Minister of France, The London Times says that the difficulty will lead toa “graye genoral European catastrophe” which ‘admits of no pacific or diplomatic solution, but will have to be referred to the ultima ratio,”” the sword. A Paris letter in the London Tim:s leaves it to be in- Torted that a “great convulsion’’ is at hand in Europe, and when tages coms Queen Isabella of Spain, ‘the last Bourbon 80¥¢+-~q 1 will be dethroned. Royal honors are to be ~_,, Plespidesess aioe teint Boyian tees. o%), m0. 98. Tp Ae “THE FENIANS. General Santa Anna delivered an address at the Fen. pionic on Staten Isiand yesterday. He said, among other things, that ‘when Mexico was invaded by that noble enemy on whose hospitable soil Iam now living, when I had afrayed against me the powerful armies of tho United States under that immortal hero, General seott— | where he was req chases er weuural Scott and for Santa Anna)—the Sear of my army then were two companies composed of men from the Green Isle, with the image of their. pat- ron saint on their flag ’’ Colonel Wm. R, Roberts also | yr~4% which {s published this morning, in which he spoke at consideravie length on the wrongs of Ireland. asserts that General Grant, when he arranged the terms upon which Lee's army surrendored at Appomattox, “went as far as he could towards compounding the Colonel Roberts made an address in the e~“'0g to the | highest crime known to tho law of nations.” He says St. Patrick's Circle, in which be was v-/ “enunciatory | further that the generous torma thore offered were not ees cae glorious results which woald follow a 0-~*" ‘mined attempt to secure her liberation. of the government. The Toronto assizes opened Chief Justice’Wilson del ~ wolf sessions yesterday. the charge to the Grand fights except suffrage, office holding and being a juror are now extended to the negro. Governor Orr will roé»mmend the adoption of the con- atitutional amendment. and also a new election of Repro- sentatives who can take the oath, It is reported that Colonel Bingham, ore of the delegation of Southern Northerners, who arecharged with the canvassing of the country in tho interes of the radicals, and who was in- terrupted at Cairo or Friday night by » mob, says that the disturbing elomeat was armed with bowie knives and made a desperate effurt to inaugurate a bloody tragody. The train which was supposed to contain Parson Brown- jow and A. J. Hamilton was thrown from the track about eighty miles avove Cairo, by the displacement of two rails, Tho enginer was killed and five persons wero wounded, The whoe delegation had arrived in St. Louis safely. The proceedings o’ the Catholic Council, in Baltimore, were continued in prvate yesterday. Governor Fenton \as declived to commute the sen- tence of Frank Foris, the wife murderer, who was respited until the ‘0th matant by the executive some time ago. His letter to Ferris’ counsel on the subject is published in the Hsatp this morning, in which he takes the ground that a ommutation would establish a prece- dent unwarranted ty law or public policy. Charles D. Fuller the teller of the Hartford Bank who is suspected of alstracting bonds to the amount of $20,000, was brousit before the court on Saturday and bound over to the Superior Court for trial in $10,000, ‘The bonds were gven by his father. he is innocent, alboug his mode of living has been so fast as to elicit mspicion that ho was obtaining money fraudulently. Among other little picces of extrava- gance, he bouglt forty dolls at a dollar apiece, which he presented to tte Orphan Asylum. The Corono’s inquest on the body of Archibald Sio- phens, of Albiny county, who was killed at Coeyman’s Hollow by Judson Palmer, who had eloped with Stephens’ dajghter, has resulted ina veltict charging Palmer with the killing. He was marriot to Miss Stephens befire meeting with her father. He tg under erst named Searels ons covered over $7 transactions of an alleged Bwinter, Waly come to light. His oper. ernor Fentop a writ of #0084 Corpus. approved by tho volunteer army. companions were recently killed by Indians while en Jury, in which he »~vFfed to the Fenian prisoners. Ho | owe to Montana. Paid a tribuge +9 the devotion of the Irish people to their nativ- sand, and reviewed the origin and progress | night, of the #enian Brotherhood in America. Ho said mapy of «0 prisoners wore rockless, wild young men of the Class 40 frequent in the cities of the United States, and donsuneet sojitein etapa eh. ina.Uaned tates gee day, in which two of the negroes were ki led and threo ernment in not quelling the c nspiracy when its existence Was 30 widely published through the public press. The trial of other cases was then proceeded with, and it is Supposed the trial of the Fen‘ans will commence ob | washed overboard. Her passengers and crow were picked ‘Thursday, THE CITY. yesterday afternoon. They passeda concurrent resolu- tion congratulating Cyrus W. Field on the successful laying of the Atlantic cable, The naval officers on duty at this station met yester- day and passed resolutions of respect for the memory of Admiral Gregory, Vie* Admiral Farragut presided, and Addressed the moeting in a few remarks eulogistic of the deceased, with whom ho had served in the West In- dia squadron as oarly as 1815. A amall meeting of the colored citizena was held last wounded, One white man was slightly injured. up by the brig Pomfret. It ts reported from San Antonio, Texas, that Santa Both Boards of the City Council held stated meotings | Anna's agents are very’ biiay on the sha ae the Rio Grande, They receive but little sympathy, however, as Santa Anna's objects are considered jaimical to the Iib- eral interests. The town of Durango was still in poasos- ‘sion of the French as late as September 16. The liberal troops aro being well supplied with everything by ship- ments over the frontier, and are sanguine of succoss, low fever. evening in the Abyssinie Baptist church, in this city, for Philadelphia up to noon yesterday. the purpose of electing delegates to the approaching State Convention at Albany. Twelve delegates were selected, Addresses were mais by Wm. Howard Day, Charles B. Ray and others, and a finance commit tee ap- Painted to defray expenses. The steamabip San Francisco will take the passengers who were on the Santiagy de Coha, and sail at four P. M to-day (Tuesday) for San Juan, Nicararua, The stock market was irregular and excited yesterday, but closed strong. Gold was likewise strong and ex- Cited, and closed at 149% a Jy, Business was steady in nearly every department yes- torday, and prices were generally firm for all kinds of merchandise, Cotton was unchanged. Coffee was active and firm, and groceries gonerally quiet. On ‘Change flour was duli and lower, while wheat was Quiet but firm. Corn was unchanged, Oats deciined lo, ®%. Pork wasaehade easier, while beef was steady, Lard was quite active and firm, Whiskey was moder- ately active, Freights were very quiet. Beef cattle have ruled quiet and prices have declined Somewhat, except for extra grades, which brought pre- vious prices. A few sold at 180, but prime cattio seldom brought over 1%. @ 17}0, while the common grades old at trom 120. a 140, Milch cows were a shade firmer and in improved demand at prices ranging from $45 0 $126. ax to quality. Veal calves were in fair request, and with a moderate supply pr’ vious prices were well sustained, extra being wold at 19340,, the range being from Oc. to 134%. Sheep and lambs were lower and less Qoctive, the heavy receipts tending to depress the market, Bheop brought Se. a 7o,, and lambs 6c. a 80, to 80. Hogs wero in limited demand and fully Xo. per pound lower, under heavy arrivals, the market closing dull at Ale allo. for prime, 10K%e. a lic. for fair to good, and common and rough lOc. a 10%c. per pound. The total receipts were 6,318 beeves, 90 cows, 1,004 veal Calves, 27,241 sheep and lambs and 15,127 hogs. MISCELLANEOUS. Tiere ave to be elections for Congressmen and State ‘OMoors im Pennsytvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa to-day. Repahiican majorities were given in cach of those States last your except tm Indiana, where there was mo gen- ora cloction at that time. In Pennsylvania the major- ity was 22,660, in Obio 29,996, and in Towa 16,042 In Todsana, at the last general election, which was for the Presidency in 1864, Lincoln receive 20,189 majority, the soldiers absent from the State at the time not voting, Tatense excitement was prevailing in Philadelphia you. tordig over the election which takes plack to-day, an@ Duaicoss was almost totally suspended. The political excitement Is incroasing in Baltimore, A disturbance occurred yesterday, but it was slight ‘The judgos of elections have decided to be governed by the opiaton of the State Avtorney General Randall, sue- telus tha Restore fame Rayteva Baw Bortzr.—Bethe! Fisher Butler, ever since ha backed out of fighting when the clash of arms resounded throughout the coun- try and there was somo hot work to be done in the fleld, has been advocating war to the knife (on the stump) with somebody; ho does not seem particularly to care with whom. Having shirked fighting against the South in his own person, he now wants somebody else to fight in the North; probably, as of old, “snuffing the war with cotton bales and silver Spoons” from afar. In his late speech at Cin- cinnati he demanded the impeachment of the President, and, assuming that “If” such should be the case, and “if” the army and navy of the United States should be called upon by Mr. Johnson to protect him—a pleasant fiction which existe in the brain of ranting Ben But- ler, but which no sensible man believes in— ranting Ben proposes that West Point shafl be wiped out, and the regular army shall be swept from the face of the country, like « cobweb in the morning sun—a proposition which he puts with many such grandiloquent, metaphorical, allegorical and other specimens of buncombe. Poor fellow! He will never get beyond that eloquent argu- ment on the floor of Congress when he at- tempted to prove that Fort Fisher never could be taken by our armies, at the very moment that news arrived of its capture by « genuine, not a bogus soldier, who adorned the shoulder straps he wore. Butler exhausted his argu. mentative powers on thet occasion. All the intellect he possessed seems to have abandoned him with that great effort. The best thing his Boston friends can do for him now is to pro- vide a comfortable and congenial home for him in some lunatic asylum in Massachusetts. He is doing immense damage to the radical cause While he is permitted to go at large. A whole- some restraint, therefore, might be good both for himself and ble colaborers. Have not the solid men of Boston sative enongh to know how to take care of ranting, raving Ben Butlert Fuller insists that’ in Bobuken and imlly lodged im Hurtwomtiaarge me? qosined to await a requisition from truv- out was released yesterday afternoon on «1 Rush ©. Hawkins writes a letter to the Nathan Floyd, of Leavenworth, Kansas, and seven Commodore Stockton died at Princeton on Sunday The whites and blacks on Cat Island, about twenty- five milos below Momphis, Tenn., hada fight on Satur- The British steamer Victoria foundered at soa on the ‘4th instant, in the recent storm. Two lives were lost, the engineer dying from exposure and the mato being Thore were seventeen deaths from cholera during the forty-eight hours ending yesterday and eight from yel- Four cases of chélera wero reported in Nor- fotk, Va., on Friday. Thirty-one cases were reported in NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET Sener Bum is.defined as the sum of all as slay was the sum of all vil- lanies. The Bible~is appealed to with great enthusiasm, although the Bible recognizes slavery, and Christ himself performed s mira- ele rather than permit his friends to do with- out wine at a wedding feast, Evidently prepa- rations are being made for another great agi- tation in the well known style of Wendell Phillips & Co. Nothing but a medicine quite assevere as that administered to the South will ever cure these New England fanatics. ‘The Real Issue Before the American People— | Crudities of Financial and Currency Quacks. A moneyed oligarchy which has grown up since the war and the establishment of the na-’ tional banks is continually urging through the press in its interest a forced resumption of specie payments and a depletion of the gold In the excitement and confusion of ideas pro- duced by the political and party contests car- ried on all over the country, the great under- lying question ishardly realized or recognized. Men are apt to think that the poins-om, which’ | teserve in the bands of pes ~ the elections turn is whether the President or | °Piect of the fallacious argum pee Congress is to be sustained, whether the purpose cannot mislead any but ve igno- restoration of the seceded States is to be ac- | Anton the bocce re blow moe is complished by Executive will or in accordance | ™USb — ses puro pre.» mn pr ayesha ge a ria have a few ue to say upon it. pele: ls peep sp chy cena y sig xt it is a that we ought to the power which it abused and lost or the gov- | , First of all, maget Gat we ont © ernment is to remain in the hands of that party force specie payments by a ot “4 which representa the ideas and policy that pre- | ‘acting the igen wie oy euiies vailed in the terrible contest out of which the vw hands ps re splat fe me en a a a} all af ‘ood if this should extent these questions are involved in the elec- | *F ss 8 ee ae tions that are at hand, but only as collateral | P@ done, but, unfortunately for a e A ie ae Sone ee am iar bay and how this is to les deeper than those of the present contest, ts OF wi icon a-rscttal and which is to take shape and prominency in | ¢ secomplished. They pon . the next session of Congress and in the elec- unsupported by reason or the ri won tions of two years hence, is, “What party shall | ©” the other hand, we nim * casual mid have the governing power in this country for | °f history, the actual pros - ex pe y the next half century or more?” The un- and the soundest mate Ww - y wi seemly and undignified personal squabbles be- | Cvght not to attempt to immediat “s tween President Johnson and the members of | Payments and to deplete the Treasury o Id. We have over and over again shown the the present Congress are but disgraceful inci- | 8° dents in the politics of the times, and cannot | ‘sastrous consequences in England of a forced affect, one way or the other, the solution of resumption after the great European wars were grea . | ended in 1815, and that our condition is some- jor stanaeramnnaindicme tae se. what similar to the condition of that country What, then, is to be the future governing | then. The same disarrangement of values, the party of the United States? We know what | same general bankruptcy and something like party has governed it, with but few intermis- | the same widespread distress must be the con- sions, for eighty years and more, up to the | sequence here of suddenly reducing the means commencement of the rebellion; but that party | thirty-three per cent of every debtor in the can govern it no more. We know that the | country. The bondholders and the very rich ideas of the leading politicians of Eastern Vir- | alone would be benefited. They would be ginia and South Carolina controlled the’ gov- | made richer and the poor poorer. The finan- ernment from the days when the constitution | cial history of England shows this very fully. was formed down to those gloomy days when But why, in the name of common sense, Buchanan, inspired by them, declared to Con- | should we disturb the present state of things? gress that there was no power under the con- | Is not the country prosperous beyond all pre- stitution to coerce rebellious States into sub- | cedents? It is not an artificial prosperity. Ag- mission. With the election of Mr. Lincoln to | riculture, manufactures, legitimate enterprises the Presidency in 1860 the death Knell of that | of every kind are stimulated; work for the power was tolled. The Southern politicians | laborer is abundant and well paid ; the reve- heard it with prophetic ear and knew | nue of the government is something extraordi- too well what it foreboded. They recognized | nary; the national debt is being paid off at the in it the doom of their old pro-slavery, | rate of twenty millions a month, and scarcely State rights ideas, and the growth of a | any one feels the taxes onerous. The constant better and stronger and ‘truer system of accumalation of gold in the Treasury and the republican government. Pro-slavery, State | large surplus fand there of eighty millions, rights democracy fell in 1860, never to rise | taken in connection with the general prosperi- again. Driven to desperation, the leaders | ty, ought to satisfy every one of the ability of and adherents of the decayed polftical faith | the country both to pay Its debt and to return took up arms, and, with a resolye to govern | to specie payments within a reasonable time, either in or out of the Union, made a tremen- | and as soon as it may be safe to doso. Why dous effort to destroy the life of the nation. | then, we repeat, shall we disturb this state of Foiled in that attempt, and doubly defoated on | things? the political field snd on the battle field, they With our immense resources and the rapid gave up the struggle, and have abandoned, | development of tre country we shall grow up completely and forever we believe, those | to specio basis within a comparatively short dogmas of government which they“have been | time. In fact we doubt whether the present foroed to recognize as unfitied for the present | volume of currency would be too much for the age. The democratic party, therefore, as the | necessities of the country seven or ten years representative of those political dogmas, his | hence. ceased to exist; and the organization which As to selling the gold in the Treasury for the now assumes that name has hardly anything in | benefit of speculators, we havo had sufficient common with that party which so long ruled ; experience about that. Mr. McCulloch sold a the conniry. | large amount some time ago, and the conse- contel’ therefore, that there is a political | quence was that it produced extraordinaty anes: ooratid’ on between the republican and the | gambling in Wall street for o time, and finally A ‘te erthrow!*s—* these were known up to | it went to,Europe. Gold, instead of going a misapplication of we. rebellion—would be | down, as the speculators predicted, went up fight cig the dead But The living cannot | soon after. That was the natural o wep, teat going on bebiieen the. e is a great con- | of depleting the reserve, which Mr. McCulloc! } yh aii antatives of | did not see at the time, but about which, per- opponieg aot ip Congress gud am 4a pea- | haps, he has learned better gin e reserve ple. side represents the principle FS al ut ent -¢ Heakny phates ike the ra- victis—wo to the vanquished—in its extremesy.| serve in the Bank of England; it inspires con- and most ruthless form, and advocates general | idence in the ability of the government to confiscation throughout the late rebel States, bring about spocte payments at the proper the distribution of their lands amoag the [time a deficiency, on the other hand, de- colored population, the enfranchisement of the | stroys confidence. Let the government, then, blacks, and the disfranchisement of al who | hold its specta, however urged to pitt wiht took part in the rebellion, meaning all thewhite. | by the speculatore and moneyed oligarchy. citizens of the South. Itschampionsare the re- | But, as we have Tepeatedly urged, one of morseless Stevens, the conceited Summr and | the most effectual methods to return to specie the loud-mouthed, bellowing Butler, the mock payments and to reduce the national debt is to hero of Bethel and Fort Fisher ané pro- | break up the national banks uader their pre- Jector of the famous Dutch Gap canal. The | sent organization. Instead of the circulation other side, supported by the moderate aen of | of three hundred millions ef their notes let the all political parties, and finding adherens even | government substitute legal tenders—a much in the Southern States, insists on nothing more | better currency—and with that three hundred than those guarantees for the future wlich the | millions of legal tenders buy up the interest- acts of the past seem to render neessary. | bearing bonds which are now the basis of the Those guarantees are embodied in ihe imend- | circulation of the banks. In that way we ments to the constitution proposed by Cngress | should save twenty millions or upwards a year at ita last session and submitted to theStates | to the country, which would be applied asa for ratification. When those amendmeits are | sinking fund to liquidate the national debt. engrafted on the constitution, as they nédloubt- | This, and this only, is the sound system of edly will be, then will commence the rule of | finance and currency which we hope Congress that party which will be the governing party | at the next session will have the good sense to of the future, and under which the strdes of | adopt. this country to greatness and power wil oni- Te tea strip in the last third of this century its wonder- Tan New Evouaxp Ravicars on Axorumn ful progress in the first two-thirds of it. Hoony.—New England is inhabited by.a set of We have seen how the political part} which people who are never happy except when in- embodied tho views of the extreme menof the | ‘fering in other people’s affairs. Directly or South has been extinguished. We are row to | lirectly they have caused all the troubles in see how the embodiment of the views sf the | “bich this country has been involved. When opposite extreme is to share a lik: fate, | ‘2¢ South becomes sufficiently repentant and New England ideas of goveramont are to more | “Ueated to accept the constitutional amend- to prevail in this reconstructed republe than | ™°Bt and comes back into the Union de facto, are the ideas of Bastern Virginia an{ South the people of ‘he Middle States intend to take Carolina. The practical common sens‘ of tho |“? these New Englanders and cure them as American people realises the trath ofthe old | ‘totoughly as we have cured the South. We Latin maxim. in medias res tulisstmus iis—that | “*"* the constitutional amendment adopted safety lies in the middle’ course—in nodera- | 'ecause we are anxious to get at this mis- tion, 14 was neither to extinguish the political | !om"ry work. In the meantime it is well life of Southern communities, nor, onthe other | ‘° Keep the ran of the Yankee agitators and hand, to restore them to their power in see what new hobbies they are mounting. the control of the government, that he people In another column our Boston correspondent of the great Middle States, extonding from the | 1°#ribes the proceedings at the New England Atlantic to the Pacific, put out ther strength Temperance Convention recently held at that to crush the rebellion. The peopbe of those city. The old sholitionists,men and women, Middle States are well aware that ijwas their | Vere On hand, ready for a fresh tussle with armies that won the victory, and! they are | *Verybody who does not agree with them. equally determined’ that thelr poftical doo- | Ove might have imagined that with the abolt- trines shall rule the country. Thé¢ question, tion of slavery their occupation was gone; but as we have said, does not develop iiself in the they take quite a different view of the subject. elections now athand ; but it will form | They are now about to begin a crusade against and dimensions and greatness in tle next ses- | temperance in all ite forms. They are going tion of Congress, and particularly in the ses- | © “Polish liquors; they are going to abolish sions of the Fortieth Congress, and will come | ‘bacco; they are going to abolish wine at up for final decision in the electi¢ns of 1868, the communion table; they advise all liquor dealers to commit suicide, and they declare What the result will be no observast man can Q themselves to be the only good and virtuous doubt. The extreme political doctrines of New England will be trodden under foot and people in the world and wish all who differ crushed out of existence jast as thoroughity as | ‘0m them to leave it. Mississippi, has bad iis day. Old things have It is amusing to hear all the old arguments bave been those of the South, and the party ‘bad pet which adopts the mojlern and moderate views | Std sophisms once used against slavery now revived and with eqnal earnestness 0 of policy will be the governing power of the) 4 the Ot is call vegress of High Art inthe New Werld, It is evident that the American people are destined to surpass all the rest of mankind in high art as in everything elee. This country will become, before many years have passed, the centre of civilization. We have already produced admirable painters, sculptors and singers, and equally great authors and actors will yet be developed. In appreciation of art and artistes we excel any other nation. At her second performance in Brooklyn Ristori drew the unequalled sum of three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars, which exceeds by forty dollars the largest amount that she has ever received for a single performance in Europe. Her greatest house in the Old World was at Moscow, where the receipts were three thousand eight hundred dollars; but Brooklyn, which is merely a faubourg of New York, beats Moscow and throws into the shade the capitals of Italy, France, England and Germany, in all of which Ristori appeared to smaller houses. This is conclusive proof— notin mere words, but in hard dollars—that we are ahead of Europe in our appreciation of the Queen of Tragedy ; and we have the testi- mony of her associates to the effect that Ame- rican audiences are quite as critical as those of Europe, and uniformly select the same points to applaud. In music the progress of our people is not less distinctly marked. We have had opera here for about thirty-five years, during which Malibran, Sontag, Grisi and other famous singers have delighted us. Recently attempts have been made to foist upon us third and fourth rate Italian artists ; but the public is too well educated to permit such an imposition. The consequence is that we have no Italian opera in the metropolis, and shall have none this winter. There is an Italian troupe—or perhaps two of them—wandering somewhere about, like the gypsies, without a local habita- tion or much of a name; but nobody knows where it is. Mazzoleni and Brignoli are the only really excellent Italian artists left to us ; but what has become of them and in what cor- ner of the country they are singing we cannot tell. But atthe French theatre to-night the Opera Comique will be inaugurated to supply the want caused by this abrogation of the Italian opera. Manager Juignet has secured a fine company of French artists, who can act as well as sing, and in the light, lively and graceful music of the French comic operas they are sure to create a decided furor. Thus, while liberally patronizing the independent theatres, where the English drama is given— such as the Broadway and the New York—our cosmopolitan citizens will also support Ristori in Italian tragedy, Dawison in German comedy and melodrama and manager Juignet’s troupe in French opéra com‘que. No other city in the world can equal New York in this variety of first class entertainments, Yet it must be remembered that the drame ond the operg ap- pour DY 10 fdAnd at their best at present, For some time past both have been under the control of an old showman, great only in stuffed elepbants and woolly horses. Now they are escaping from bis and a new era in high art is being begat, Undoubtedly before this era is completed we shall send to the Old World artists who can rival the best that have ever come across the sea to receive our appre- ciative plaudits, Tue Sovragen Stares—Stons or 4 Waoxe- some Regaction.—Our Charleston (S. C.) cor- respondent informs us that Governor Orr, in anticipation of the endorsement of the restora- tion policy of Congress in the impending Northern elections, is inclined to try the ex- periment of calling his Legislature together for the ratification of the constitutional amend - ment, and to move also in behalf of a new election for members of Congress, to the end that men may be chosen who can take the test oath which is a law of Congress. We are gratified to hear this good news as to the inclinations of Goveruor Orr. If the Northern October and November elections (the first batch of which come off in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa to-day) should result decisively in favor of the constitutional amend- Ment, we trust that this intelligent and practi- ently disposed Governor of South Carolina will put into practice bis aforesaid inclinations; for we expect that President Johnson will cor- dially support hidf in the course indicated. The initiative, too, of the ratification of the plan of Congress by the still excluded States cannot be undertaken in a better quarter than South Carolina, the State which contrived, fomented and led off in the late rebellion, and the State which hae suffered mote from her Tevolutionary folly than any other one of the States involved in it. Let South Carolina, with her mischievous record before the war, her bloody record during the war, and her credita- ble record since the war, lead off for the con- stitational amendment, and there will he no diffeulty in bringing all her late insurgent confederates into line. The example of Ten- nessee binds Congress to the equivalent of admission for the ratification by South Caro- lina, Florida, Texas or any other outlying State. It iss precedent, we say, which binds Congress, all the teachings of Stevens, Sumner ‘and such fanatical radicals to the contrary notwithstanding. We are pleased to discover that the views of Governor Orr are beginning to be ventilated in various Southern journals in North and Soath Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and else- where. After the Northern October elections we expect that such views will rapidly become the ruling public opinion of the South The ipse dizit of any such old unreconstracted South- country for the next half centary or more. In te sustain the tem; 4 » perance cause as it wre to | this day, for example, as Judge Dawson, of Freee ne eae tet cna tna | susaln the antialavery couse. Tempervince ls | Georgia, who made « long speech on Southern name of “conser announced as the great political issue, just as | rights and wrongs at a democratic which is now known by the vative” will be the controlling fotar slavery was a short Liquor dealers ae are devoribed in the terms apog fessrved for or North, He would have us believe that Com= gress has no authority over the subject of resto~ ration ‘and that the rebellion was more than a matter of State rights after all. preaches the preposterous doctrine of “the inion as it was,” or the world before the flood, and the sooner such blind leaders of the blind withdraw, North and South, the better it will be for all concerned. Mexico anp Ovr Foreign Po.icr.—The anticipated collapse of the empire in Mexico ference which we have frequently Mexican affairs,on the ground that posed action will cost the United States several millions of money. The government of this country has always shall have been made a republic, when Cuba shall have been freed from the dominion of Spain and Mexico from that of Maximilian and the French, and when the empire of Brazil be- comes converted into a republic, this duty will have been done, and our destiny, as far as our foreign relations are concerned, will have been completed. One of these duties now pre- sents itself and ought not to be shirked. The administration cannot too soon take such steps as will secure peace to Mexico. A word and its natural moral effect may be all that ia needed; but if actual occupation becomes necessary we should not hesitate to take such a step on account of the matter of cost. Mex- ico in the end would have to pay it: and if peace and its attendant prosperity were thereby secured to her, she could well afford the ex- pense. Besides, if she were not willing, we could take a few provinces of Lower Califor- nia and annex them to ourselves as payment. France cannot thus take her pay; the United States may; and we do not know but that it would be all the better for the people of the provinces alluded to if we did absorb them. Tax Press anp THE Potrrr.—The parsons appear at last to have formed a proper esti- mate of themselves. Some of them, at least, comprehend how, by travelling out of their legitimate track, they have lost the influence which should attach to their profession. Among the various sermons delivered on Stm@day in the different churches of all persuasions—the pith and marrow of which we lay before our readers every Monday as part of the intorest- ing history of the day—was one preached by the Rev. Dr. Smyth on the vices or defects ot the clergy, in which he shows that the pe- dantry, the political piddling and other devia- tions from the duties of the clergyman so preva- lent in the pulpit nowadays have left the clergy without any influence upon: the public mind, The powér of the Polo, me ae Clares, bgp pasged inte fhe hands of the press. He points to the superiority of the newspapers as teachers in contradis- tinction to an “imbecile and useless clergy.” “In former times,” he said, “the clergy wielded great power; but now the men who sit at the desk and wield that pen which is mightier than the sword direct the public opinion of the United States.” Dr. Smyth further adds that “one of the leading daily newspapers of this city” has to-day a greater power and more influence on the destinies and opinions of the people of this country than all the pulpits in the United States. Woe do not know what leading newspa- per he refers to, but we do know that to influ- ence the destinies and opinions of the public is the special duty of the press, while we always supposed that the daty of the clergy was to save the souls and not to govern the political opinions of men. If the independent press has muooeeded in its mission and the pulpit bas failed, it is because one has adhered strictly to its line of duty and the other has abandoned it to follow the ignis fatuus of political fanaticism, Therefore neither the Rev. Dr. Smyth nor any of his less sensible or more arrogant colleag..«1 in the pulpit need be surprised at the result. It is the most natura) thing in the world. In Taz Wroxc Suop—The half dozon gam- blers who are to be tried in Jadgo Russel’s court. They are in danger ofa ticket for Sing Sing. Why did they not play their cards so as to getinto Tammany Hall? for then they each, cheap for cash, might have got a ticket for Congress, Ratw on Sumve.—We expect a heavy vote in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa to-day, rain or shine; for the excitement of a Presi- dential contest seems to prevail along the whole line. NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC COAST. series of resolutions deciaring that the action of the House in ratifying the constitutional amendment before the admmesion of the members trom Grant county to their seate was fraudulent, and by the aid of one Union Te hes arrived from Columbta OL brings 672 bage and ae from the Ochotst Sea, brings eacks of choles wheat sold far #e port at