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was dull and heavy. Corn closed 34¢. higher, with, how ever, but little doing. Oats advanced 1c. Pork was & shade firmer. Beef was steady, while lard was dull and heavy. reights wore dull. Whiskey was steady. MISCELLANEOUS. The telegram published in the Philadelphia Ledger, on Wednesday, saying that the President had required the opinion of the Attorney General regarding the con- stitutionality of Congress, is, on high authority in Wash- ington, declared to be a canard, and the Ledger of yos- terday says that its correspondent was deceived. A re- port is current that it was sent for the purpose of ope- rating on the gold market by persons interested. Our city of Mexico correspondence is dated September 29, Maximilian’s new ministry was very active and in- dustrious, but had done nothing to restore public conf- dence. Tho compact between the Emperor and the churob party is virtually to turn over the power into their hands on the receipt of twenty-five million dollars, Maximilian to be merely @m @xeoutive. Orders were issued on the 20th ult. ¢o send two thousand troops to move towards Durango and San Lajs Potosl, in order to repossess the northern departments, The church party have commenced operations by do- claring that “the abuses of the press should be sup- pressed.’’ Maximilian remarked in conversation that the hisses received by President Johnson on his tour might be considered as good news for his empire. Mr. Otter- bury, the United States Consul, had left for New York en a leave of absence, A banquet was given him by Ameri- cansin the city, at which the Confederate exiles made speeches expressing strong love for the Union. Unim- portant and desultory skirmishing were going on all through the interior. Marshal Bazaine had issued orders deferring the departure of the Freneh troops for the pre- sent, and Maximilian was impressed with the idea that another revolution was imminent in the ,United States which would secure him upon his throne. Our dates from Panama are to the 3dinstant. The news is unimportant, nothing of interest having trans- pired in the Central American States. The dates from Peru are to September 22, and from Chile to September 10. By a recent law foreigners in Peru are required to pay sixteen dollars poll tax. A rival candidate for the Peruvian Presidency had appeared. Our correspondent furnishes an interesting account of the pearl fisheries near Papama. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXXI.... aeceessrsersageeesN@, 285 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue.—Puxpua. BROADWAY THEATRE, near Broome atreet.—Pxart or Savor. 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"3 COMBINATION TROUPE, at wecnauion” Hall ric ‘Broadway—In 4 Varixty or Licat ABD LavawasLe AINMENTS, CORPS DE Balter, £0, ‘Tus SH4vow Pantomine. ‘MRS. F. B. CONWav’s PARK THEATRE, Brookylo.— Scuoo. ror Scawpat. ILEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brookiyn.—Etmrorian Min- Be Batans, BURLESQUES inp PaNnTOMimEs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANAUMY. 618 Broadway.— ROTORES Oxy-HypRoai 0SCO! ay Mixthrane Richt ARM OF Pian” ‘Open. nee Our correspondence from Havana is dated October 6. Ge Gr. we ‘There were few cases of yellow fever in the city, but the small pox bad reappeared. Revolts among the Chinese coolies were very frequent, and on the 29th a foreman of @factory was killed by the workmen. Tho quarantine regulations remain unchanged. Adyi-ne trom Japan are to the 4th ultimo, General Vau Valkenbutys and Anson Burlingame, our Ministers to Japan and China, bad arrived at Yokohams Our correspondent in San Francisco o'+%8 an interest. ing account of an evening ar-~* #mong the Chinese merchants, who wore in -vnsultation on business topics, Bfforts are boing made to induce emigration from China, and the Chinese merchants of San Franoisco have issued a circular favoring the project, which is intended for cir- culation in China. All apprehension of Fenian raids has been dispelled in the minds of the Canadians, and the home govern- ment bas been notified that no more troops are needed. The Toronto city authorities state that the English gov- ernment intends demanding a suppression of the Fenian organization by the administration, or they threaven to aid the copperheads in dividing the Union with a few Armstrong guns. A member of the Canadian Cabinet stated that the troops sent there from England were intended for more serious contingencies than those presented by Fenian raids. The Grand Jury adjourned yesterday until Saturday without finding true bills against the Fenian prisoners. From Northwestern Texas reports come of further and more horrible Indian outrages. A woman and hir three daughters, named Doye, were captured by the Kiowas. ‘Thetr father was burned to death, and they were kept in the Indian camp as prisoners, being knocked down and ravished four or five times every day. They were finally ransomed. The Governor of Now Mexico writes of new outrages and imminent danger of a bloody war. He ad- vines that volunteers be armed for home protection. Our North Carolina correspondent, writing from Portis, Franklin county, gives an resting history of the Portis gold mines, their history and yield. He says that it is undoubtedly the richest surface mine in the world. A woalthy company, chartered by the State and invest- ing a capital of $500,000, has been organized to work them. A heavy rain storm has been prevailing in Baltimore and Washington since Weduesday afternoon. The quan- tity of rain which has iallen is extraordinary, and the damage occasioned thereby is very great. Several dams on the Patapsco were destroyed, and the dam at Elys- ville being swept away tore down the turnpike bridge at Elicott’s Mills, These wrecks, floating down and accu- mulating as they went, lodged against the heavy stone bridge on the Baltimore and Obio Railroad at Iichester and swept it way. It was considered the strongest bridge on the read. Several honses were swept away, and two families of nine persons in all were drowned. Washington and a great portion of the adjoining country was completely flooded. The schooner Constitution was towed into Hatteras In- let on Sunday in a leaky condition, with the captain, mate and one man sick of typhoid fever, the rest of the crew having died on the voyage. She was bound from ‘Wilmington for Now York. The session of the Roman Catholic Council at Baltimore yesterday was public. A requiem mass for the repose of the souls of deceased prelates was colebrated and a eulogy on their lives and services was delivered. Tho United States Circuit Court met yestorday at Tren- ton, N. J., but adjourned tor the term, in accordance with the opinion of Chief Justice Chase, that circuit courts cannot be held uatil anew assignment of circuits is made at Washington. A public meeting for the moral and educational im- provement of the colored race was held in Baltimore last night, at which Chief Justice Chaso presided. Judge Russell, of Boston, Heary Ward Beecher and General 0. ©. Howard made speeches on the occasion. The cholera 1s on tho increase in Chicago, Inthe twenty-four hours ending at midnight on Wednesday sixty-six cases were reported, seventeen of which proved fatal The Vermont Legislature assembled at Montpelier yes- terday. Both houses organized and adjourned to await the receipt of Governor Dillingham’s message, which will be sent in to-day. Benjamin F. Butler was nominated for Congress in tho Sixth district of Massachusetts by the republicans yes- terday. ‘The Paterson races for the fall moeting closed yester- day. The weather was gloomy and the sport was not exciting. Zigzag won the’ hurdie raca, Enchantress the sequel stakes, and Richmond the consolation premium. The father of General Grant mado a speech at a re- publican meeting in Cincinnati the night previous to the recent election. He took a decidedly republican stand, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, Octoh-« 1 ~ 79 2 VERTISERS. We p- “2d ontreat of our advertisers to send in their -~ertisements as early in the afternoon as possible, in order to enable us to classify them prope felieve us in some measure from the increas ressure on our columns. For a long time past the circulation of the Heratp in the metropolis and the surrounding cities has exceeded that of all the other papers put together. Being the vehicle of communication with the public upon all subjects relating to their social, political and com- mercial interests, no one can well go to business in the morning without reading the Herat, from which he can ascertain the state of the markets, what is to be sold. and where he can buy what he requires, &c. Our advertisers, therefore, will seo the advantage to us and to themselves of sending in their advertisements at an early hour, so that we can insert them in such place and in such regular form as will render them most available for the public benefit and sécure the greatest good for the advertisers, THE NEWS. EUROPE. ‘ ‘The mails of the Hibernian: arrived in this city yester- day, from Quebec, bringing our special correspondence and European files, dated to the 27th of September—one day later—and from these sources wo have very interest- ing details of our despatches by cable and steamship. The Opinion Nationale, of Paris—Prince Napoleon's organ—has an article urging the necessity of & confederation on the part of England, Austria, Prossia, Italy and Spain, so as to form a power capable of “driving Russia back into Asig,” and at the same time conviucing the United States of the propriety of attending to the matter of colonizing @ continent at home. Austria is sorely troubied in her foreign relations; the Russo-American alliance, the Candian revolution, the ‘Mexican question and news from Mexico, with the re- reports from Germany, all tending to the disquiet of her rulers and people. It ts said that Napoleon has a perfect understanding ‘with the Italian leaders to the effect that tho Pope and ‘the people will get along very pleasantly in Rome after the removal of the French trovps. It is asserted on the other hand that, in the event of the evacuation of Rome by the French troops, the Pope will igsue an address to the Catholic world, denouncing the policy of the Emperor Napoleon and Victer Emanuel, and will publish letters of the Emperor, which are of a com promising nature. ’ Turkey is on the point of breaking off diplomatic rela tions with Greece. The Sultan has addressed a memo- Tandum to the great Powers, promising to perfect meas- ‘ures of “just reform’ for the Cretan people, but stating his determination to resist all attempts for complete separation. England and Franco are to mediate between Spain and ue belligerent republics of Chile and Pera. THE CITY. Two cases of cholera wore reported yesterday in the city. Two new cases were admitted to the hospital ship Falcou from the steavnship Helvetia, and six deaths occurred. The Board of Health was in session yoster- day, and decided that as the cholera had disappeared no more daily bulletins will be issued. An exciting ocean yacht race took place on the 9th Snst, between the yachts Vesta and Henrietta, of this city, The race was for one thourand dollars, around the Cape May lightand return, The Vesta came off tho victor, beating her antagonist fifty-six minutes, An inquest was held yosterday on the body of Bruno Effrig, a river thief, who was shot while stealing cottor from pier No. 13 North river by William A. Potter on Wodnosday evening. The jury rendored a verdict that the shooting was perfectly justifiable, and Potter, who bad surrendered himself, was immodiately discharged, The body of a murdered man was found in the woods near Newtown, L. 1, yesterday, his head being crushed in. Articles on his person were marked ‘James Maher Au action was brought before the special term of tho Superior Court yesteraay, to recover $12,000, the value and to of jewolry consigned to J, W. Seymour, defendant, in 1860, in Now Orleans, to sell on commission. The case Unstapte Sreamers anp Tae Late Drsas- ‘srathor complicated tn its charactor aud will be found | pprg.—Several more wrecks, in addition to reported in another colamn. The main point involved is those of the Evening Star, Daniel Webster and Santiago de Cuba, were reported in yester- day’s Heratp. The brigs Redwood, Louisa and Bradshaw, the barks Mazatlan and Avola, and the schooner Lucy Voorhies have been injured or lost in the heavy gales in which the Evening Star foundered at sea. The opinions which we have before expressed of the great number of unseaworthy vessels which are allowed to go to sea are confirmed by these statements. The neglect of shipowners and builders in this regard is highly criminal, and the State or general government should estab- lish and enforce strict regulations on the sub- ject. Inspectors who are not only competent but trustworthy should be appointed by law, and builders and owners forced to construct and maintain stronger and more seaworthy vessels. aa to whether Seymour was robbed of the jewelry in Mexico, and whether he acted instructions of Rosswog, reserved The case of Leonard Appleby and others against the Firemen’s Fund Insurance Company was concluded yes. terday in Part 3 of the Supreme Court, before Judgo Daniela. A detail of the controversy was published in yesterday's Hamat, Plaintiffs claim $10,000 as the amount of thelr insurance on stock snuff in the basement of No. 60 Poarl street, which was destroyed by fire in May, 1863 The insurance company seeks to dostroy the policy, on the ground that the upper portion of the premises insured was used fora business denominaied as hazardous in Cortain clauses of the policy. After tho summing up of tho counsel and a charge by Judge Davis, the jury re- tired and will bring in a sealed v: edict this morning. Patrick Shifelin, who was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of officer Hipwell, in Williamsburg, has been discharged for want of evidence to warrant his detention. Nothing new has been elicited conmtorning the assarsination. Gonzalez and Pellicior, the murderers of Otero, will bo executed to-day at the Raymond street jail, in Brooklyn. between the hours of ten and twelve. It is reported that they have made a confession, in which the prisoner Veile is accused of being the principal instigator of the murder The stock market was firm yesterday. Goid wns ox. cited, and after rising to 16355 closed at 1514, Business on the whole was moderato yesterday, and tho prices generally obtained for both domestic and foreign produce indicated no improvement, despite the @vance im gold. Cotton was moderately active and acccordance with the the consignor. Decision of tobacco and Tre Corporation Rixo mm Daxorn—From the way the elections are going there is very little doubt that a republican Legislature for this State will be elected next month. In this event the first thing the members will do at Albany will be to take measures to abolish the Corporation and ite rings at once. This will bring our corrupt municipal legislators to grief; but for the public there is some good Prospect in view, upon this point at least, —— TT i NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1%, 1806—TRIPLE SHERT, ; ‘The Late Elections—Our National Finances. | that the business ‘The elections that have just taken place have | and restoration will be so-far settled that But- made the issue with regard to Southern resto- | ler’s occupation as & revolutionary radical ration a simple one. The conditions laid down | agitator will be gone. by Congress have been approved by the popular voice—by the people of the Northern The Era of Amusements and Good Hamor. States, who have the sole power over the | The October elepiions are over and those of question in their hands, When we say the | November practically decided. Swinging all Northern States, we take it for granted that the | sround the circle we find nothing but republi- rest will go as Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania, | can majorities. The people of the North have Ohio, Indians and Iowa have gone. The elec- | expressed. themselves unequivocally in favor tions in these States are sufficient to show the (of the constitutional amendment, and it only ourrent and force of popular sentiment through- | remains for the President and the Southern out the whole North. The verdict is decisive. | States to yield to the popular decision and end The action of Congress next session in the | #ll controversy. We believe that the President matter of restoring the Southern States will be | is sensible enough to do this. undoubtedly in secordance with this verdict. | “Instoad of resisting the verdict of the recent The conservative republicans, having obtained | elections, we expect to see President Johnson the victory ‘and secured the lease of power |end his followers bow gracefully to the vor they wanted, can now afford to actwith more | popu and inaugurate that era of good humor promptness and generosity in restoring the | Which Secretary Seward promised us many South than under other circumstances, They | months ago. There is nothing now to dispute have nothing to fear with regard to their | @bout, and the people, relieved of political political future by admitting the Southern | cares, may enter with mew sest upon the States immediately those States ratify the | winter's amusements, Let us hear ao more of constitutional amendment. They will even | the criminations and recriminations which strengthen their position by doing so. They | have disgraced both Congress and the Chief are powerful enough in Congress to carry ont| Executive. Let us have no more stumping this policy in spite of the radical destructives, | tours.and no more tirades from Parson Brown- The President, too, it is to be hoped, will see] low, bellowing Butler and the travelling mis- the necessity of the.present situation, and will] cegenators. Speaker Colfax has been re- act in concert with the conservative majority] elected, and ought to maintain better order in bringing about an early restoration under hereafter ‘in the lower House. Wade, the Congressional plan. This, it seems to us,| Chandler, Nye and Garrett Davis ought to is the only practicable plan left and the only|| be more decent in the Senate. Tricky copper- safe course to pursue, || heads ought to be kicked out of the White We need a speedy settlement of the poli! House, and no more mass meetings should be difficulty, not only because there is danger in | Allowed on the White House grounds. The keeping it open till it becomes chronic, buj | President may drink his coffee and write his because there are other important. questions | message in peace and quiet ; and if the message demanding attention. ‘The most important o! | be composed in the proper temper the radical these is that relating to our national finances| | bluster about impeaching him will soon be We present the extraordinary spectacle at thy | forgotten. The American people work very present time of being the richest and most | hard when there is work to be done, as may be prosperous country in the world, raiging nearly | seen in the extraordinary vote last Tuesday ; a hundred and fifty millions s year surplg | but now that their labors are over they want revenue, paying off the national debt rapidly | Attusements, Ieee: will not permit either fire- and showing beyond dispute our ability t | eaters or radicals to disturb their equanimity. extinguish the whole debt in fifteen or twenty | Tke President is @ man of the peopix; and years, and yet, at the same time, our must follow their good example. are not worth in the markets of the world baf | Prominent among the fall amusemients is the their real value compared with the securitig | election in this State. This will be a farce of other countries. British three per cent con | worth laughing at. The Baron Von Hoffman sols are quoted at ninety, while our six pet | may a8 well stop making speeches, shave off cent gold bearing interest bonds are selling ¢ | his big mustache and return to the routine seventy. A comparison with the stocks @ | duties of the Mayor’s office. That is the only other nations will show a similar result, if n@ | Office of which he will hold possession for a quite so great @ difference. To the mass cf | long while to come. The defeat of Clymer was people this, anomalous state of things mujt | Hoffman’s defeat. The success of Geary seem almost incomprehensible. It is really | insures Fenton’s election, in spite of the imbe- humiliating spectacle for us, and it calls fer | cility he has too often exhibited. The charges some action to place our credit on a proper | against our Street Commissioner give the Gov- footing. The credit of am individual is ma@- | ernor”another opportunity to break up our sured by his ability to pay, always sup Corporation ring, however, and we hope that he is honest and willing to pay. Itshould be he will not let the chance slip. So far as this same with nations, Taking it for granted thit | city is concerned, we shall have a democratic no one has any doubt about this great republic | majority, of course; but, fortunately, Tam- keeping its faith with the national creditomw, | many Hall has pinned its fortunes to the State the only question ,that would be raised to | ticket, and must fall with it. There will be a keep our stocks depreciated is as to our means {| grand political funeral in the Old Wigwam ; of paying. Well, the exhibit we have male | but even that will be amusing. Instead of a and are making of our wonderful resources is | solemn procession and high mass we shall see 8 sufficient answer to that. While the richfst | ® genuine Irish wake, with illustrations of the nations of Europe have great difficulty Greek art of self-defence by Mr. John Morris- making both ends meet. and have neamy | sey and his clan,and plenty of whiskey, clay reached the limit of their produc- | pipesand solace tobacco, at the expense of tive power, we, with a debt as large | sympathizing friends and the city trea- as the largest, reckoning by the interest | sury. There will be local candidates it bears, have an immense surplus revenne | enough to split up any party, and we and are able to pay off the principal of | should not be surprised if the republicans our debt at tha rate of nearly a hundred and | gained a Congressman or two in the melée. fifty millions a year. That is our present con- | Mr. James Brooks is to be opposed, in the dition; but when we look at the incalculable | Eighth district, by Mrs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, resources of this vast continent, at the surpris- | and is sure to be beaten. Besides the fact that ing productive power of thirty-five millionsof | an intelligent, handsome and educated Isdy active and enlightened freemen, and at the | like Mrs. Stanton isa tar better representative increase of population, which doubles intwea- | of this metropolis than an old woman like ty-five years—when we look at these facs, | Mr. Brooks, we have yet to see an American upparalleled in the history of nations, who | who would be ungallant enough to vote against can doubt our ability to pay not only the | the fair sex, and we consequently consider the interest, but the principal of the debt also | Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, M.C., a fu- within a few years. In fact a debt that would | ture certainty. If she cannot teach our other weigh down any other country is comparativdy | members of Congress to talk less, she can at a trifle to us. least show them how to talk better. We call upon the administration and Con-| But aside from the political farce in this city gress, then, to beal up our political troubles at | we shall have numerous other amusements. once and to turn their attention to this most | Evidently the Fordham races have nearly ex- important matter.» Let our @nances and finan- | tinguished those at Paterson; but when the cial system be placed upon such a basis as to | racing furor once fairly sets in all the good make our credit stand as high or higher than | tracks will be well patronized. Next week that of any nation; for that is where it ought to | there will bea meeting at the Hoboken course, be. Let the debt be consolidated ani simpli- | and carly in November we are promised another fied in one form, and a sinking fund established | gala day at Jerome Park. Yachting is over for at the same time, with the fixed objett of ex- | the season; but the great base ball match for the tinguishing the whole within a reasonable time. | championship is soon to be played. At the Let non-interest-bearing legal tenders be sub- | theatres Ristori is still the transcendent attrac- stituted for the national bank notes, apd the | tion on the west side of town and Dawison on interest-bearing bonds, upon which thes¢ notes | the east. Instead of spending money uselesaly aré based, be cancelled to the same amount, | for mass meetings, torchlight processions, The interest which the government wonli thus | campaign documents and _electioneering agents, save—say some twenty millions a year—might | the politicians will acquiesce in the settlement be made the sinking fand, or a part of it.. By | of the October elections and buy boxes at the skilfiil, statesmanlike management in making | theatres and bouquets for the performers. We these changes, a considerable portion of the | advise Mr. Greeley and Thurlow Weed to cease debt might be swept away in the process No- | calling each other villains and attend Ristori’s thing would bring us sooner to speci pay- | soirce to-night, when they can compare her ments, and it would effectually destrcy the | Phedra with that of Rachel, or to promenade, moneyed oligarchy whieh is fastening itself | like gentlemen, at the Ristori matinée to-mor- upon the country and the labor of the poor. | row, and weep with all the beautiful ladies that our political difficulties will | and future Congress women of New York over be , this remains the paramount mbject | the: sorrows and sufferings of the Queen of for our statesmen and the government © take | Scots. Ristori might continue to perform here up. What statesman will immortali# him. | indefinitely did not positive engagements at self—what party will establish itelf—by | Boston and other villages forbid ; but she will solving this the greatest of all our domestic | return to us after a brief absence and continue questions ? to educate our actors and reform our drama. tions. In Ohio the republican majority it over fifty thousand ; Pennsylvania is carried ty the republicans by some twenty thousand ; Inliana gives the republicans fifteen thousand mijor- ity, and Iowa goes republican all over, tom stem to stern. So the World cries, “God lighted, forgetting all sbout the decayed Italian opera, which the Opéra Comique bas completely superseded. With these splendid dramatic and operatic attractions, and with excellent English opera and drama at the | the old d ratic 1 and “Now for few | imdependent theatres, the winter will be a» York!” Turning to the election return in| ™¢rtY 8nd happy one, and the era of amuse. the paper, we discover the source of ihe ments and good humor will follow in regular ui hme lation in the following pars- saceession the exciting military and political spartan to the It in the State of eras through which we have just passed. toe “tone, roth yrarlgary eA Broapway ARcurractune.—Skeleton houses arerising on both sides of Broadway. At the Ei han Ay | some te aa a merely an estimate, mainly based upon informa- | Et ere being put up which are ghostly shed. tion received before the election.” ows of what they ought to be. A moderate Weight on the upper stoties wonld bring them Bex Betuse ror Concress.—Geners’ Ben | down with 0 ren, like a child’s house of cards. Batlor bas been nominated for Congres in the | In other parte of Broadway wood is being used Sixth Congressional Massachusetts distiet, and | for building purposes to a most reprehensible will of eourse be elected. In the fegular | extent. Fire-proof buildings, of marble, iron course of events, however, he will no take bis | and stone, are the only kind that should be sont till the first Monday in Decedber, 1867, Broadway. All others are out of end ta the injerval there le regaqy to belleve | giate, There is Me, Knox, who makes puch ‘excellent hats and sells them so cheaply, con- | effected, and that was all sidering the inflation of the currency—if he will | intended. The mileage. ewindle still. survives, only pull down the red shell semblance of s | and the members of the Fortieth Congress will building he has run up at the corner of Fulton | coneiler themselves as much entitled to the street, and erect an edifice more in character | forty cents a mile as to the five thousand a with the new Heraxp office and the Park Bank | year. that is to be, bo will. a9ll more hete and look Tae Srare ConstrrvTionaL ConveNtion.—At re ty tag 1% Our “public | the November election’ the people will be subst like ‘our ships, must be made more asked to vote yea or nay for # convention to iat ibd lens peetentious, revise the constitution of this State. The pro- Tum Presipenr axp Conaness—Tue Pura- | bability is that the vote will be in favor of the DELPHIA GoLp Gameuiva Cananp.—Wall street | Measure, and we hope it may be. The consti- was considerably excited and exercised yes- | tution requires many amendments, and if the terday over the gold gambling canard in the | Proposed convention should assemble fed shape of a Washington despatch to a Philadel- | @Fe one or two very important points to whic! phia journal, in which the President was made | its attention should be particularly directed. to ask the Attorney {General of the United | The first is our judiciary system, which is now States certain questions as to the constitution- altogether wrong and with few exceptions ality of the present Congress, broadly convey- weak and subject to corruption. The amended ing the idea of s meditated Executive coup should, provide for the sppoint- d@’dat at Washington and a new civil war ment of all our judges by the Governor, with between the supporters of Congress and the 8 provision that the Senate shall ratify his believers in the President’s ‘policy of restora- nominations. The constitution might also pro- tion, As soon as this bubble was touched at | vide for retaining in office auch judges aa*have Washington it collapsed, ‘but mesntime already been ‘elected by the people wherever ft had its effect in a spasmodic rise | they are found qualified for their position ; but in gold, whereby the parties directly when their terms expire their places should he interested in the trick doubtless turned | filled by an appointment from the Governor, it to some aecount, all the fools on Change not | 904 the office should be held for life or good being dead yet. But outside of Wall street, in behavior. This is the only judiciary system connection with some of the President’s un- | Which will ever work well. fortunate speeches on his late ill-advised weat- The next point to which the attention of the ern excursion, this gold gambling canard pro- | convention’should be directed is s complete duced a painful sensation from apprehensions revision of our city government. At present that it might prove to be founded upon facts. | we have really no government at all, unless ‘The infamous cupidity which, at sucha crisis | ome eight or ten commissions, with as many as this in our public affairs, hesitates not at such attendant bureaus, responsible to bmp 4 cam diabolical experiments upon the public pulse be called a government. The duties of these as this Philadelphia fabrication cannot be too departments are so mixed up that no one, strongly condemned. The gyilty parties in knows to which any particular duty belongs, this affair we hope will be exposed and pun- | #04 consequently none of them are respon- ished as far as the law and public opin- | sible'to any authority. All we really kiow fon ean reach them. But there is only | With certainty about our city government is one way in which the game of the gold | that the expenses have unaccountably rnin and stock gambling fraternity in regard to the | from turee or four millions a few years aes President’s future relations with Congress can | 2e%/ly twenty millions a year ppaaneciowns be blocked, and thgt is by a proclamation, let- knowledge we scquire through oe! Pp ter or public speech from the ident defin- when the taxpaying day aie ee ih ia ing iis position to be infavor of the adoption ; "0 Teniédy Which We y--a> uv wee SS of the cofistitutional amena™4a of Congress is that the constitution shgwld be #0 amended hy all the excluded Southern States, and as | 8 to give the power to the Governor to ap- fastas possible. That will put an end to all | pointa Mayor, say for five years,; she Mayor distrust and all apprehensions and all gold | ‘0 appoint all his subordinate officers, gubjeot gambling inventions as to his future treatment | $0 the ratification of the Board of Alde. of Congress, and will put him at once in a po- | The Aldermen might be elected as now sition of strength and confidence before the | their power restricted to purely legislative country. duties. In this way the Mayor would be inde- B pendent of popular suffrage, uninfluenced by me m—In snothor part of party considerations, and would be responsible this day’s paper will be found a fall account to the Governor and Senate for his good con- of the different breech-loading firearms which duct, who in their tura would be nsible are now claiming the attention of military men pr the people. This would be to return’ to in all parts of the world. The unlooked for the federal aystem of direct gov t and success of the Prussian armies in the late Ger- responsibility which prevailed ago, man war having been indisputably traced t0 | nofore innovations were introduced which their possession of the needle gun, the whole have -brouetts ‘our icipal system from bad military world has directed its attention to the to Wotee oe til we oan bardly call it = syst respective merits of the different breech-load- | 5+ 911, independent of its facile mode of plunder ers which have recently, in such goodly num- ing the people. Upon this plan we might bers, made their appearance on the market.| ocyegt some unity in the city government contributed to the number of newly invented firearms of this class, these countries having furnished Prince’s, Lindner’s, Snider’s breech- loaders, the fusil Jarre and Chassepot rifle; but to the American inventors must be given the credit of having produced breech-loading firearms, which, for simplicity of construction, accuracy and rapidity of discharge, far out- distance the productions of any other coun- try. Although Prussia may claim the credit of having invented the arm, to the United States must belong the honor of having con- tution these questions should form the most prominent portion of their labors. There ia nothing which the State of New York stands more in need of than a pure and incorruptible judiciary and an effective government for the metropolis, Gaemtzy’s Two Vittams—The “old villain”? and “the little villain.” RISTORI. Ristori will appear to-night at the French theatre ag Phédre, for the first time. This creation of Racine was; vance into a reliable and effective weapon. | Rachel's great character, and there will no doubt rival tragédiemnes in a part which tried both their descriptions—single loading and repeating eas (that is, either firing one shot with the neces- |’) morrow (Saturday) Ristori will appear as sity of loading after each discharge, or firing | geuart at tno first and only matinée which will poo several shots without such reloading). Ofthese, | during the engagement. On this occasion a very notwithstanding the prejudice in favor of re- ge: episode will apron tigre : peaters, the ordinary single losder has been he sea! Sati soy it tn ede poly joo proved by experiments to be the most effective. faneral march which was played at Fotheringay The Peabody, Ballard, Henry and Berdan are | wnite the unfortunate Queon of Scots was onaducted decidedly the beat breech-loading rifles yet | the scaffold. The manuscript was eccidentally produced, and are any of them capable of dis- | ered at Oxford several years ago, and a copy of it charging several shots more per minuto than | 2°¥ bem most opportancly placed at the disposal any firearm which is being prepared for the wilt be played at the performance European governments. Experiments have ) a inlay shown that a man armed with the Berdan can | Tho following acrostic, writton vy the distinguished and Joho was ii fire no less than sixteen shots a minute, without jon peg vi cies Brougham, be Bene any more danger or fatigue than would result Brooklyn on Tuesday psi dat hes been cont to from using the ordinary muzzle-loading rifle. for plication :— In this matter America has again placed her- An Acrostic Sonnet. self in the van of mechanical invention as ap- badbvepertbe aero Plicable to implements of war, and by putting | Aen aie eae a at itt came, in the hands of her soldiers weapons which are Enkindling tatelloct's colostjal flame. Lady, wer't thou tothe *tarlit crown superior to those procurable by other nations effulgence all the world bows down; she adds materially to the respect which is now evinced by other countries for her re- sources as a military power. Imperial Genius, thus compelling Fame ae nd itself to glorify thy name, Enforcing homage thou alone could’st claim. Resist who can thy besctep ry Rog In rapt and sympathetic thral: bound, Smiling or sorrowing by turns with thee, Through every phase of passion’s varied round, On waves impulsive tossed as on a sea, Responsive to the doep heart-love that wo Instructive yield to Nature's sovervigaty. MASONIC. A Masonite Hall for New York—The Gran@ Masonic Fair to be Held in this City in Ald ot the Hall and Asylum Fand—Meeting i= Union Square. . A grand fair and festival will shortly be held in thm city in aid of the Masonic Hali and Asyium Funda, ~ Tue Pay anv Mrieace or Mempers or Con- Grxss.—We notice that one of the difficulties which republican members of Congress who are candidates for re-election have to surmount is the unpopularity of the vote by which they increased their own pay from three thousand to five thousand dollars a year. Many of them, in order that this matter might not be brought up against them in the eanvass, have cautiously declined drawing the increased amount io the auspices of the trustees of those enterprises. which they were entitled, and we see that | want of a large and suitable Masonic hall has long some of them have been publishing certificates bora agri Sek erm fae bask & talinge from the Sergeant-at-Arms that they have not purpose yet fingered a dollar of the extra bs Gastink. indigent Masons, and (tte widows and ocpnans or ss We doubt, however, whether he will be able po ge golly to give such a certificate to a single member within a month after the elections shall have closed. We notice also that General Banks, fn a speech the other evening to his consti- | It is proposed to Seotety tuents mabe hw found it necessary to go on” bine will be tld from the galleries, by ~ into a serious defence of himself and his col- | contrivance {ncluding the basements, leagues in reference to that matter, and intl byaiy in breadth, ‘The open loc at the faut pide of mated that he would either introduce or vote | Burch will be enclosed and rooted over, whieh will for a bill at next session to reduce the mileage foo“ areat preparations are to have the of members to ten cents a mile. ton ory edge fn tin ey nnd ar Wages th We think it will be found that the pretence | out the State will ake part of reduction of mileage on which the compen- A lange aangen sation was increased will prove to be nothing | {helt wives, y more than @ blind, and that the enormity of | the ortor of the paying twelve or thirteen thousand dollars a Gel chop order in places outside of New York in case Congress to members from the Pacific States Aer th paren of toe proseetingy tere were oa New York. hold the fair in the old at the corner of Grand and i j conference report on the Civil Appropriation bill the last night of the session which inti- twenty cents after the close of the Thirty-ninth Congress, but we rather incline to think it will deoeaned be found taoperative as a piece of legislation. | faa mishop Bayley, of Newark, The object of innrsesine comnengation weal yeis pins end eaprionn