The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1866, Page 4

NEW YORK JAMES GORDON BENNETT, DITOR AND PROPRIETOR, HERALD. Orrick N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, THRATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth otrest. new @ixtn aveuue.—Maceem BROADWAY THEATRE, Browlway, near Broome aizeet.—FaNcnon. NEW YORK THEATRE, Brosdway opposite Now York Motel. —Tua Doctot or ALCANTARA. GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadway.— Dex Cxumres AGENT. (RVING HALL, Irving piace.—Mu. ap Mes. Howanp Pace in Tamim Musicat, Comic axp Cuanacranistic Ex- TRRTALNMURNT. DODWORTH'S HALL, 806 Broadway.-—Proressor Magra witc Pxavoum mis Minacuxs, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 585 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel—Ix raat Ernrortan ENTERTAUN- uswrs, SINGING, Dasvina BURiasques—SracThaL sdapes O8 Puaxtom [iio FIFTH AVENUE 0) USE, Nos. Zand 4 West fwenty-fourth street.—Bepwortn's Minsraets. —“rarovtax Mrotzkist, BaltaDs, BuRiesgues, 0. Love axo Mmpi- oun KELLY & LEON'S (WO Broadway—Ly 1 ac. —Mr-pe-aw Ras. 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An intoresting breach of promise case was tried yestor- fay before Judge Davis, in part 3 of the Suprome Court Cirewit, The complainant was Mrs, Elizabeth Richards, s Isdy of fifty-four, aad a gentleman named Robert Maberts, aged seventy, both residents of thw city. The lady was married twice before, and now brought @ suit against the gentleman on the ground of being {also to his matrimonial engagememt, The jury brought ina verdict for the defendant, In the case of Kiley vs. Jefiries, which was an action for alieged malicious prosecution, the jnry rendered a verdict yesterday in favor of the plaintii, awarding him $3,600 damages. Frank Ferris, marderer of his wife, ie to be hung at the Tombs to-day between the hours of nine aud twelve o'clock, Viele, charged with complicity in the murder of Otero, was arraigned in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Brook- lyn, yesterday. His trial is to come off in November. Judge Barnard has finally decreed that Harriet K. ‘bristy is the lawfu! wife and rightful heiress of B. P. ‘uristy, the negro minstrel. Bugene Fergus has been remanded to jail to awuit his trial for the murder of Patrick MoGuayu. ‘The coroner's jury on the body of policeman Joho Hip- well, have found a verdict of death from wounds inficted by a platol im the hands of some person ar persons wuknown. ‘The total mumber of voiea registered in Vrooklya foots up 38,278. The city vote last year was ouly 87,200, Jeremiah Perry was yesterday held to trial (or cruclty to animals, 1 striking and killing a dog. William Haley was yesterday committed to the Tombs for abandonment of hie child under six yours of age. John Murphy, charged with selling counterfeit money ww @ government detective, was yesterday held im $2,500 19 answer, ‘The stock market was buoyant yesterday, with an ex- cited demand forthe Northwestern shares Gold was Arma, and closed at 1494;. Yesterday tn some departments of general trade a fair pusiness was in progress, and generally at full if not st watter prices; but thero waa no especial movement tn auy particular branch, while, in the main, quietude was the prevailing feature. The gold premium wes remark- ably steady, the extremes being 148 and 148%; per cent, but the uncertainty with which the future continues to ve clouded, engenders a degree of caution which fully explains the prolonged lethargy that hss existed in some departments of mercantile enterprise. The vottoa crop gives promise of largely exceeding the early eati- mates, and though we have of Inte been daily im receipt of favorable cable reporta concerning the Liverpool cotton market thors has bean no particular response here, On the contrary the market here hae boem somewhat depressed, owing mainly to the large offerings of speculatora, who have been “loading up” ever since the frst cry of “short crop.” The market veaterday closed at @ decline, with a continned down. ward tendency, In groceries there was » moderate tril. ness, On 'Change flour was Sc. a 100, better, Weat te. ® 3c, better, Corn le. better. Gate firm. Pork dull and easier. Boof steady. Lard dull and engier. Whir- wey quiet. Petroleum dull and lower, Froights dull. Dry goods qaict, MISCELLANEOUS. Op the 28th ult, a deputation from the merchants of Matamoros arrived at the capital of Mexico with the migsion to beg the government to reoccupy that erty. Fhis would not reqnire any large force, they said, and merely the presence of General Mejia would saffice, as the whole popalation was disposed to rise in favor of the empire, The explanation of this step was to be traced to the deplorable state to whict the heavy oxac- ‘lone of the diss‘dents had reduced the commerce and people of Matamoros, approaching to total ruin, so much so that General Getty, quartered on the Texan worders, had offered the protection of wn American gar- risom till the necessary aid of imperial troope should arrive. Onur special correspondent in Ottawa, Canada, states that the publication in England of the pamphict of the lon. Joseph Howe against confederation has caused ® great commotion among government men and party faacks im the Province, and that the issue of the pamphiet is likely to prove a heavy blow to the scheme. Party division and a lack of sterling patriotism render the shances of tho perfection of the measuro moro slight every day, but many causes tond strongly towards an- aeration to the United States. A public meoting of citizens of Quebec has denounced she city authorities for criminal neglect and folly ae jeading to loss of life and property. General Lersundi, Governor General of Cuba, has been recalled. The President has proclaimed the commercial treaty with Japan and that botweon Japan, England, France, Holland and this country. The Police Commissioners’ quarrel croates great ex- vement in Baltimore, and an actual contest of arms is (hreatoned, The expedition of the Knights of Arabia is said to save met with delay consequent on a discovery of its arms and loss of one of its leaders on the Erening Star. The efforta of Assistant Secretary Fox to induce Rus- Man authorities to contract with Americans to build iron- Gade have failed. ‘There is considerable trouble in the management of the New York Central Railroad. Western parties are endeavoring to get control of the line. A. M. Flint bas written a letter to the various news papers of this city, in which he acknowledges that he framed and wrote the questions said to have been ad- dressed to the Attorney General by Andrew Johnson, and which were publinhed in the Ledger. The propeller Empire went ashore on the night of the Ufth, opposite station howe No. 1, sandy Hook, Her “argo ie 8 total loss. ‘The Amorican vessels Wilson and Castor were lost at Porto Rico, on September 7, loaded with eugar, Woudell Phillips yesterday made a speech in Tremont Temple on the issues of the day, in which he strongly erged the adoption of the constitutional amendment. The Fontan trials began at Toronto, Canade, yester day. Indictments were found against John McMahon bud five others, The inquest on tnd ooay of an unknown man found in Welgron's Woods, Newtown, Long Island, on the 10h ™ hae been postponed watil the 26h insinat, The fucurabie NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1866, ‘Their Fully, The king’s evil or hereditary gout can be easier cured than the impracticable theorles and heresies of an old Southern politician of the secession school. To use an often re- peated but perfectly applicable simile, they are like the old Bourbons—they never forget or learn anything. We have had several striking examples of this lately. Wade Hampton delivered 2 speech in South Carolina a few days ago which is very much the same in tone and sentiment as those uttered just previous to the war. He still holds to the right of secession and makes martyrs of those who plunged the country into the moat terrible civil waron record. We might not notice these exploded fallacies if the evil results of holding them did not extend beyond Mr. Hampton. But he is a prominent man and bis language is calculated to do a great deal of mischief to the South. It will tend to keep alive sectional hatred, to inculcate pee Wire-Ratere and | of the present stage lines and city railroads, just as the agents of » certain railway company used to go to Washington and agitate tor an alr line railroad every year, in order to keep enterprising citizens off the track. If our eus- Picions be incorrect, why do not these cab companies begin practical operations? Hew te Dispese of Tammany. When the great house of Dombey & Son went down the world could scarcely credit the news. Long before its name appeared at the head of the list of bankrupts in the Gazette it was trad- ing on false capital; it was keeping on foot enormous ventures with desperate recklese- ness, and its principal, in his pride and solf- glorification, refused to believe that corruption, long working within itself, had undermined all its stability and power, until total ruin fell upon his head and crushed him. Tammany has some features of the Dombey & Son cast. She has been overbearing and insolent in her prosperity, and although rotten to the very core, is rushing on to final ruin erroneous views among the Southern people as to their condition and rights, to irritate the North and to give the radicals a powerful argument to refuse them political restoration, Wade Hampton and those like him are prac- tically the worst enemies of the South. Another of this old State rights secession school, Mr. Humphreys, ihe Governor of Mis- sissippi, in a message to the Legislature takes very decided ground against the North with regard to the constitutional amendment. He tells the Legislature that he presumes the mere reading of that amendment will be sufficient to cause its rejection. This attempt to forestall and influence the actton of that body deserves the severcet condemnation. It is a wicked attempt to array the people of Mississippi against the sentiment of the North— against those who have absolute power over the destiny of the South. Such conduct is reckless and suicidal in the extreme. The same foolish and‘ destructive course 1s pursued by other prominent Southerners of. that class and by the remains of the stupid fire-eating press. We see the old leaven at work in the Richmond papers and now and then in those of Nashville and Memphis, Ten- neasee; of New Orleans, Mobile, and of other sec- tions of the South. South Carolina, which was the most extreme secession Siate, is now more moderate than any of the others, notwithstand- ing the inflammatory harangues of a few such men as Wade Hampion. with all sail set. Here, however, the likeness ceases; for while Dombey & Son when the last crash came gave up all its assets and acted as honorably as'a bankrupt house could act towards its creditors, Tammany will pocket the last dollar herself and not leave the fraction of acent for any one who may have been so foolish as to trust her. Tammany has long been on the decline, but has managed by various resorts to keep some show of life in her. Since the defeat of Boole for Mayor her decay has been rapid. Her influence and strength in the city can be seen from a glance at the prin- cipal elective officers now in place. The present Sheriff, holding one ofgthe most important offices in the city, with large pat- ronage and emolumenis, has long been known as an opponent of the modern pygmies of the Wigwam, and was as obnoxious to the “ring” @s any man in the city. He is a Tammany man, it is trae, but of the good old Tammany stamp, and previous to his election as Sheriff had repudiated the corrupt clique who now control the organization. Tammany would rather have elected any oiher man to the office of Sheriff than the present incumbent: but she was compelled for her own safety to endorse the McKeon nomination. The County Clerk’s office, the next best office in the city, is held by an anti-Tammany man, who was elected over the regular Tammany nominee, Mr. Henry W. Genet, ina fair stand up fight He These old politicians and editors seem to for- get that there has heen a tremendous revole- tion and that they are a conquered people, entirely at the mercy of their conquerors. Hair splitting quibbles and arguments about politi- cal rights are all out of place. The right of the strongest is the only right that governs in their case. Nomivally they are in the Union, but practically Congress has excluded from being united politically with the and-it has the power to exclude them indefi- nitely if the people sustain its action. It is no use to appeal. to the constitution, to the law, to thé terms of surrender, to the pardoning power of the resident, to their reconstruction under the action of the Executive or to any- thing else against this fact. They cannot be fully restored till Congress thinks proper to reatore them. Why, then, resist? Why destroy themselves by a hopeless conflict with « bedy that has their destiny in iis hands? ‘There was but oue other power left to which they could appeal on the question of imme- diate restoration without further conditions or restoration with the conditions of Congress, and that was the people of the North. The appeal has been made, and the olections show beyond all doubt that public sentiment has decided that they can only come back to their original Political status through one condition, the con- situtional amendment, ss laid down by Con- greas. That is the sum and end of the whole argument. But some may say, let us wail; there may be @ change of public opinion, and a Con- gress may be elected more favorable to us. This is very dangerous ground to stand upon. The longer they are kept out the more chronic their case becomes and the more difficult to treat, The politicians of the North, or even the people, might find out that they could govern and keep the South in subjection and hold all the political power of the republic without admitting that section at all or tor a long time to come. We do not think that this or any future Congress is likely to offer the Southerners more favorable terms than are now offered in the constitutional amendment, and the chances are that if these be rejected more disagreeable ones will be required. Certain short-sighted and impracticable men ray, “Well, let us remain out if we cannot get in without accepting these conditions.” What, we ask, will-you sacrifice your interests, keep yourselves in # siate of political slavery, and perhaps ruin your magnificent country through false pride and holding to an untena- ble theory of right which does not practically exist? We cannot believe the mass of the Southera people will take such a ruinons posi- tion, They had better throw overboard the Jonahs—their old political leaders, who bave done.them so much mischief already, and save themselves and their couniry. This is the question of the ‘ime for the South. If we mistake pot it is going to create great agitation and new pertics there. The old leaders of the secession stamp, such as Wade Hampton and Humphreys, who are ex- cluded, for « time at least, from political privi- leges by the constitutional amendment, will oppose its adoption with all their might. A large portion of the sensible and conservative people will see that their interests do not lie in such a course. The coming conflict in the South will be between these partios, and it may become a very sharp one. In that case politi- cal excitement on the question will be trans- ferred from the North to the South. But whatever the extreme Southern States may do, the constitutional amendment will surely be accepted by a sufficient number of all the States. They cannot prevent i We advise them, therefore, if even the conditions the amendment imposes be unpalatable, to make « virtue of vecessity and accept it at once. Get restored by all means and without delay. All other difficulties can be adjusted afterwards, Toe Cap Comrantes.—We have received several communications in response to our article upon the deficiency of cabs in this city, and among the rest one or two inform us that cab companies authorized by the Legislature are already in existence. We are afraid that these companies are sterted under the auspices was backed by the men who now form the Demoeratic Union organization. Register is notorious for his open and severe denunciation of the Tammany rump, and was endorsed by her as a necessity. tion Counsel was no more acceptable to Tam- many than was the Register;* but here also rhe ‘was compelled to yield her own inclinations and interests and submit to the choice of ontside’ organizations. The Comptroller, who is the only genuine Temmany office holder, was elected by bargains with outside organizations, and it is well known that the nomination of Mr. Hoft- man for Mayor was a necessity forced upon Tammany. Tho whole strength of Tammany for some years past haw been found in her talent to trade and cheat, in every election and will repeat the experi- ment this fall. Last year Mr. Freeman and other Senatorial candidates were shameleasly traded off by Tammany aftor they had secured her nomination. This year she will be power Tess to elect a single candidate who is 9 bona Jide Tammany nominee, and any one who is put up for office by her will only be used as# mcana of trading with other parties. The only hope for Tammany and the ring is to endorse the nominations of outside organizations, and thus cover up as far as possible their own weakness, The present The Corpora- She has done this For a few years past Tammany has bor rowed a fictitions strengih from the endorse- ment of democratic State conventions as the “regular” democratic organization, Every person cenversant with State conventions koows that she received this endorsement in re‘arn for a blind adhesion to the forties of the regency. “New York casts seventeon votes for” the slate candidate of Peter Cagger & Co. was a sound as familiar io the ear as the voice of Peter Cagger himself calling the conventions to order. But even this strength has passed from Tammany now, with the breaking up of the old democratic party and the formation of « mixed Staie Com- mittee. There is every prospect that the Noyorber election will finally dispose of the Tammany tummp, and that there will he nothing left of it to make even # show in the December contest. This will assuredly be the result of Baron Hoft- man’s defeat, He was nominated by Tam- many, with ihe aid of Mr. John Morrissey, over the head of General Dix, who was the choice of a large majority of the conservatives of the State. If he should he clected, which is not probable, he would be the representative and guardian of the Corporation ring at Albany. It would he bis especial busincss to take care that no reforms should be made in the city government. Charges against corrupt city offi- cials would be made to bim in vain. His suc- ceas is the only thing that could temporarily impart come galvanic motion resembling life to the corpse of Tammany. Every citizen, therefore, who desires to see Tammany finally disposed of, the Corporation ring broken up, corrupt officials removed and honest and eco- nomical government restored, should settle the matter in November. To wait till December is only to afford new opportunities for corrupt bargains and trades. It is useless to scotch the serpent ; ite head must be crushed. Let the ring candidate for Governor be disposed of, and the Tammany rump will never be heard of again. Derexceiass Coxprrion or New Yorx.— Some years ago, when the French Emperor started to build monster troop ships ‘for Al- geria,” as be said, England became tly seared, and volunteer rifle corps were formed all over the country to repel the in- vasion. The British government are nov them- selves building large transport vessels pstensi- bly for the purpose of sending troops ® their Kast Indian possessions. But these transporte, both English and French, would be equally available in case of a war with this tountry. There are no signs of any such war at nt; bat if we intend to discard Mr. ‘ard’s shilly-shallying foreign policy and tike up a bolder and more dignified position in he coun- cils of the world, we ought to be red for every emergency. New York harboy a9 was recently demonstrated in the Herais, is left virtually defenceless. We have fortifications, it te trues but they are moet of them of the | wrong kind and in the wrong places. As things now are, ten or twenty of these Fronch and English transports might steam through the Race, where they would have a splendid harbor and land thirty thousand troops at half ® dozen points, whence they could march at once upon New York city. There is nothing but Fort Schuyler to prevent them, and Fort Schuyler, like our other defences, is only a masonry fort. To render New York city secure against the possibility of foreign invasion we need earthworks and a much better system of coast defences than now prevails. It is at the Rave we require fortifications, The New York Yacht Club—An Ocean Sweep- stakes in Prospect. We are informed that: the Secretary of the New York Yacht Club has been instructed to inquire when and where the ocean regetta, in connection with the Paris Exposition next year, will be held. An official answer to this inquiry may be expected in the course of one or two months, and then the Club will doubt- less take some definite action upon the sub- ject. We hope that a squadron of at least a dozen first class yachts. will cross the Atlantic to compete dor the prizes that the Emperor Napoleon intends to offer, and we feel certain that these prizes, like the champion cup won by the America, will remain in our possession, There is some talk about the Seventh regi- ment going to Paris; but it will be much more characteristic of the country for us to send over our handsomest and fastest yachts. Besides this, the owners of the yachts will pay their own expenses and will not be dependent upon our merchants or capitalists for subscriptions. They will appear at the Exposition legitimately, as contestants for the prizes offered, and will not require any special invitations. For these reasons, and for many others which will be apparent upon the slight- est reflection, we greatly prefer to see the United States represented at the Exposition by its yachis rather than by its militia, and we advise our yachtmen not to neglect this golden opportunity of distinguishing themselves and their country. Let us suggest, however, that a sweepstakes be arranged across the Atlantic, so as to add still more d¢clut to the affair. An ocean race between # dozen large yachts, for a thonsand dollars entrance fee, would be intensely exciting. Englishmen have complained that all our yachting was done upon smooth water and that the rough weather of the English channel would he too much for the American yachts. Only the other day a couple of our New York yachts disproved these assertions by starting for a race of two hundred miles at sea in a heavy gale, during which large steamers were con- tent to lay snugly at anchor. These yachts not only sailed the distance agreed upon, but returned to this city without any material damage, beating back against the wind. This experiment has demonstrated that centre- board vessels are as safe as those with keels, if property managed. The recent trip of an American yacht across the ocean shows that there are no difficulties in the way of an international race which our yachtsmen cannot easily overcome, Already we hold the America’s enp, for which it seems that no English yacht is willing to com- pete, and there’ is no reason why we should Not ad@ to this trophy the reward offered by the French Emperor. We are certain that the inquiries of the Secretary of the New York Yacht Club will be satisfactorily answered and that a squadron of American yachts will go to Cherbourg to contend for the prizes with the best'vessels that England and France can produee. An ocean sweepstakes, however, will double the interest of the occa- sion, and we recommend it to the considera- tion of those having charge of this matter, and especially to the active members of the Cluh. Tue Parsoxs axp THE Press.—The letter which we published yesterday from Mr. Wil- liam H. Lee to the Rev. Charles 1. Smyth typifies so amusingly the old fogy and uon- progressive element in the Church that we cannot refrain from reverting to it. The writer has so evidently been put forward to fight the cause of the drones in the ecclesiastical hive that it induces us to bestow upon it a notice that his position would not otherwise have provoked. We can well understand the anger which the statements to which it is inlended asa reply have elicited. [1 is nothing new to us. The Herat» bas become hateful to the class of reverend noodles whose sentiments Mr. Lee professes to speak, becnuse ibey dread the ex- posure which it makes of their dulness. Our journal is like the fabled mirror in which pre- tentious people cannot escape seeing reflected their own defects. Ti is no joke for small wits to have their sayings chronicled for the eriti- cism and amusement of some four or five hun- dred thousand readers. The men who are oracles merely in club rooms and conventi- cles cannot stand such an ordeal. When some five-and-twenty years ago we began following up the stump speakers and reporting their platitudes. we raised just such astorm. Politicians who had been travelling round the country and making a reputation on the merits of a single speoch found that all their points had travelled before them and that they bad nothing new to say to their atull- ences, The annoyance of such a state of things can readily be conceived. Those who were unable to extemporize were compelled either to face the ridicule of their auditors or to retire from the political stage. We need not say which alternative they chose. The result was to improve the style of po- litical oratory and to introduce into public lite © superior class of intellects, We next tried our hand with the parsons, Every one recollects the intense disgust and annoyance which the reports that we gave of their ser- mons occasioned them. Reverend plagisrists who had been living and flourishing on the brains of others, suddenly found their staple supply shut down upon. They could neither steal from published sermons nor even borrow from those they had heard. The fear of do- tection rose constantly before their eyes, and 48 & consequence they hated and abused the journal which had brought them into this em- barrassment. We survived their indignation and had the satisfaction of seeing the eiforia that we had made to improve the character of church oratory crowned with success. Of the many eloquent men who now fill our meiro- politan pulpits has one ever been heard to abuse us for our labors in this direction? On the contrary, we know that they have been deeply grateful to us for the extension which en me: the publicity we afforded them gave to their influence, In the presence of such facts and of such a frank recognition of them as we have just had from the Rev. Mr. Smyth, it would have been hardly worth our while to notice the letter of Mr. Lee, did we not regard it as useful landmark of the intellectual advancement we have, made as a community. Between the ideas that pervade that curious document and those that at pre- sent sway the public mind there is at least a century of progress. That wéhave contributed inno small degree to the improvement may fairly be inferred from Mr. Lee’s own declara- tions. Our Financial Condit Prospects. A portion of the annual official report of the Secretary of the Treasury with regard to the finencial condition of the country has been published, and it shows a very prosperous and flattering state of things. From this we learn that the income of the government from all sources, exclusive of loans-—that is to say, from customs, public lands, direct tax, internal reyenue and miscellaneous sources—for the year ending June 30, 1866, was over five hua- dred and fifty-six millions. The expenditures for the same period for every department of government—that is, for civil, foreign and mis- cellaneous service, for Indians and pensions, for the War Department, for the navy and for interest on the public debt—amounted to more than five hundred and eighteen millions. There was cash on hand to the amount of over one hundred and thirty millions. But if the gold in the Treasury were expressed in currency figures the amount would be one hundred and sixty millions, The excess of receipts over expenditures was nearly thirty-eight millions, This may not be considered a large excess; but it must be remembered that there were large expenses 80 soon after the war, which will not be the case hereafter. This excess has accrued, also, with- in the last few months of the fiscal year, show- ing that the income is becoming much greater than the expenditures as we settle down to the ordinary peace expenses of government. We shull see the extraordinary progress made in relieving the country of the burdens of the war if we compare this statement with that of the previous fiscal year. The year end- ing December 31, 1865, there was a deficiency of six hundred and ten millions; six months after that time, June 30, 1866, there was an ex- cess of nearly thirty-seven millions. This is something astonishing in the financial history of a country. No nation before, smd no other nation now, could show such wonderful re- sources and recuperative power. Mr. Seeretary McCulloch must be in a com- plete fog with these surprising results, for he had not the least conception of them when he. made otit his estimates, He was able to “hit, upon the amount of revenue.to be received somewhere ‘within a hundred millions or so, This might thaye heen a pretty good guess for acountry banker, to whom great questions of national finance are as incomprehensible as the intricacies of diplomacy, are to a hod car- rier, but we expect something more from the Secretary of the Treasury. The Finance Min- ister of a great nation ought to be a statesman. A man whose knowledge of the subject of finance is limited to a counting house or to local banking is not fit to ‘the finances of this great republic, especially'at wach a time as this, when so much is to be done and the highest order of intellect is required. Mr. McCulloch has blunderedeatrangely in his es timates and in his financial eperations, but the country is so full of resources and is so prosperous that we get over his blunders without much trouble. Still it is necessary that our financial affairs should be managed with more ability. They ought to be Placed.upon a sound basis so as to relieve us of some of the most burdensome taxes, to place the debt in a process of steady liquida- tion and to raise the national credit. The exhibit of our prosperity, as shown by the Secretary's report, will have the happiest effect upon the country and abrosd. The croakers and the bears are effectually silenced. Our national debt is a small affair compared with our meaus of paying it. As to specie payments, which some clamor for continually, we shall reach that period as soon as it will be healthful and safe to do so, provided the currency quacks will let the matter alone and allow the country to grow up to a specie basis. On the whole awe are in a moat prosperous con’ dition. As soon as our political difficulties are settled we shall bound forward in a ‘still greater prosperity, Heal up our sectional troubles, let well enough alone, aw regaris the currency, and improve upon the manage- ment of our financial affairs, snd we shall have a future of which no one-has yet dreamed. St. Joun’s Park axp THB PHILANTHROrI=TS.— It has been a current rumor for some days that Mr. A. T. Stewart, the millionaire, after build- ing his magnificent marble palace on the Fifth avenue for himself, has resolved that he will do his share towards providing comfortable bomes for those less favored individuals who are only able to pay yery small rents. Mr. Stewart has imbibed the notions of Mr. Pea- body, that » man should not be condemned to live in filth and degradation, subject to dan- gers from pestilence and fire, simply because he cannot afford to pay for a brown pone front, and has signified bis intention to put up a row of buildings for poor tenonts, wiere they shall enjoy light, air, cleanliness and decency, provided some person will furnish the ground in the city whercon to build. I is also rn- mored that Coramodore Vanderbilt has pur- chased St. John’s Park for $1,000,000, or there- abouts, Probably the Commodore is the anonymous correspondent of one of the city journals who offers {o dosate ceriain ground for the purpose desired by Mr. Stewart, and that St. Jobn’s Park is t be devoted to this philanthropic object. If ao, it will be a very de- sirable change for the overcrowded and uafor- funate residents of Cow Bay and its vicinity, and St. John’s Park, after baving so long afforded a home to upper-tendom, will hence- forth be enjoyed by lower-tendom, Thus We go. Tur Tamaany Rewp.—The confidence poli- ticians who form the Tammany rump sppear to reailze the necessity of seeking some fleld of action away from the old Wigwam. Their ocenpation is evidently gone, so far an this city Is concerned. They conld not poll fifteen thousand votes, all told, for any distinctive candidate of thelr own. One of their copper colored chivts, appregtating those facts, before the Democratic State Convention was held, pat on his paint and started on the war path te Albany, accompanied by “Big Indian” Joha Morrissey, to carry the election for delegated in that city. He wae badly beaten, his candi date carrying only one ward out of six, The fact is the pygmy politicians of Tommany are used up, at home and abroad. They had bet. ter sell thelr tomahawks and scalps, wash off their war paint, and, if their associations aad habits incapacitate them from going ito aay reputable business, confine themselves to operations on the gold exchange or in the Albany lobby. AMUSEMENTS. Opera Comique—Theatre Francais. 4a Maxtre de Chapelle, tor the second time, and Le Toreador, & comic opera in two acts, by Adolphe Adan, for the first time, were given at the French thontre last. evening. There is one gratifying feature about the audt- ‘once at the Opéra Comique—if it is not as large ua it should be, considering the number of eubsoribors, it is in every” sense of the word critical and fashionable; conse- quently the applause which greets some of the principal artists every wight, for their excellent act- ing and singing, is of more real value then the boisterous uproar of a swarm of cluqueurt, We know not any little operatic irtite that fairly bubbles over with more mirth, uumor and light onjoyablo musie than Le Mai re de Chapelle. [ts secoud representation Jast evening was an entire success. Mile. Lanrentis hag established herself a favorite with the public as res mischievous, coquettish avd winning Goctrude, and Wilhelm was as successful as beforo im the rédie of the old Kappelmeister. After this operetta followed Adam's Uttle work, brimful of fun and the brilliant music for which the French school’ is 30 celebrated. The subject of Le Toreador is an ugly old husband and a young, pretty wite, with, of course, a good looking lover aod &@ sweet sounding flute to get up » Spanish intrigue, here sre some novel an@ amusing effects in it. Tho Carnival of Venice, with va- riations (Mile. Naddie), and a trio, in which’ Tracolin, the young lover (M. Anthelmo) expresses his love for the Torcador’s wife by playing on the flute, while she answers him by einging and the guitar, and Don Belfor, her hus- band, gives a laughable imitation of the counter bass a& the same time, were novoities seldom to be met with evem in the prolific fleld of French opera. Mile, Naddie, am the fair Caroling, did’ not disappoint the expectations formed of her from the preceding nights. ‘Hor execu: tion in aven the moet difficult o3 if not only cor- rect and natural, but finished in the most oxqusite man= ner, Tho upper register of her voice is trained with: care, and every note, in the most rapid fiorituri or im gruppelti and other embellishments in vocal music, drops: trom her lips like a coin from the mint. The lower notes of her voice require considerable steadiness an@ development still in order to render the entire compass uniform. M. Vort, as the Zoreador, sang much better than he did in Les Mousquetuires, He ought to pay more attention to the higher notes of his voice, for they can- not at alicompare their brethren below. The o1 aid was admirable. and it gave powt to all tho fanciful and pretty concerts which are so numerous in the insira- mentation of epéra comique. The flute soios were very well played. On-aturday evening Le: Ganiches, a comedy in four acts, will be givon. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul Irving Mall was last evening well filled by » fashioas- bie audience to witness Mr. and Mrs. Paul’s clever and popular entertainment. Standing first on the programme was “Ripples op the Lake,” @ piece of considerable merit, as may be known from the fact that it kepte large house in good humor and frequent applause foe nearly an hour. The second part of the entertainment, consisting of songs and persenations, is of a very eupe- 78 & word ‘'s = vie Paul! rendition of Theresa's great French “sneezing Song. This sition requires @ voice of fs cd oF gen in fact jaunt such @ voice as Mrs. Pan! possesses, when to this is addot of afour or five act comedy or play, Wenn Franem Meena ta began was the first given, fsa oecog Sua" Soe i or what is ‘called if German, which was given one day ast week. Miscellancess Theatricale, Misa Hosmer closed a two weeks’ successful engage ment at Nashville on se 1th inst. Charles Dillom gue- coeds her as the reigsing star in that city, Mr. Dulaney, au actor connected with Opere an@ Museum of Madage English and B. 8, at Bufo, recently sued the proprietors for wages amounting to $162, and judgment was rendered in his favor, Ashrewd trvk is related of the managoment of a Naat~ ville theatre Two important characters baving beem taken sick,the pinay was started as usnal, but scone falso alarm of fire wae given and the audience speedy cleared ov Tro of the statuos—Undine and Pocslontes—now joing exbibited at tho Studio Building, Tenth street, op ‘Mr. Maier, have, we understand, beon bought by a game Homan welt known in Wail streot. Independent of the merit of the first of these pieces of sculpture, it ts nee improbable that ite ideutity of namo with that of the purchaser's yacht ipfluonced the acquisition, HUNRIC ANE WW THE WEST INDIES. ‘Terrivie Storm nt Nussau--The City Nearly Dentroynd. Havana. Oot, 13, 1866. A tomribie hurricane Cymmenced in the Babamas om tho 30th ultimo and lasied wo days, Almont half of the town of Nassau was destrop<d by the storm. Houses were biown down, mots carriet\away and trees uprooted, Trinity charch was demoliahed. iho ment house Jost part of ite roof, and the rootor marine hospital: was entirely blown off. Vesvels ye driven ashore an@ knocked to pieces, and wharves Wee demolished. The neighboring istanda suffered in degree, and large number of vescels have been & 4Y hurricane is the severest which bas erpenenced, since 1813. ‘The steamers Trade Wind and Tiberty rived “ day trom Now Oricans, and the Hendrick bine, trows Philedelphia, They were all quarantined for tae daye. Al vemels from New York are vow quarmtaed oaty three dayy. MARINE DISASTER. Voundering of the Bark Sanne! Tarbox Nye. oft Her Crew Lou, Provinence, R 1, Oct, 18, 1968. The Jitirnal bas information of the arrival at Newport to-day of Captain Tahox, of the bark Samnot Tarbox, of Bath, and nine men, who rei the foundering of the vessel in tatitude 53 30 porth, tude 73 20 west, om the 3d inst; also the lors of five of her crew. sur.) Vivors were pickéd up ya) brig J. W. Wisewell, Boston, from Pensacola Vigo, Bet, rom en ta nn pa Tee Nh the 4th ), oF oy the r~ Legh New York for New of mainmast and ai) ber topmamta The bark een Al’, vewsel of 548 tons, bnilt m Rath tn 1860. ACCIDENT ON THE MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD, Mewrers, Oct. 18, 1868 An excursion train on tho Memphis and Chariotom Railroad, returning from a toarvament, ran throsgh @ cars, mt forty persons wore iy ton The nerldeet was caused by the bemking of a truck, THE DISASTER OW THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN AAILAOAD. tn ine, see y morning, pened —/ yee removig § rail from the track, The company offer a reward of £,000 for the Apprehension of the ity firemen injured. and one pirenger, Ch Mathews, of Elmira, was killed. evrral other passengers were slightly burt, EXPLOSION ON A STEAMER, e smtaveurm 4, ih 008 « the steamer May Reyhoid ex. Sood 100m ‘while tying ry the wherfs Nowvastia, Delaware joone was killed Wut gevet@ersons were somenbat injurede