The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1866, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES ;ORDON BE! NeEr?, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOF. OFe\cE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volume XXXI 296 NING, eenth street. near Sixta De JEANOTTE. BROADWAY Broalway, near Broome sires: —VANcHON, YORK THEATRE, Brovaway opposite —Tue Cui or THe KenesnT—! New York NEW H UM-T1-POO-2L¥ ERMAN STADT THEAT I fmanD Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No, 514 Broadway.— Dor Worves tN BERLIN—DeR Copist—Ein KLKLER, IRVING HALL, Levin I place.—Mr. axp Mns. Howanp VauL Os THEIR AMUSING (NTERTAIN MENT. OODWORTH’S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Pnoresson Harta wick PeRrore 113 Muaccxs. SAN 'RANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, opposlie tue Metropoliian Hotel—In raem Ermorian ENTERTAIN- ments, SINGING, DANCING AND BURLESQUES—SPECTRAL Suaprs On Puantom ILLusions. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA Hi Twenty-fourth stroet.—Bupwori MINSTRELS, BALLADS, BURLESQ’ Dragos E, Nos. 2 and 4 West INSTRELS. —STuoPtan &c. GroxGE AND THE ESTERN MINSTRELS, » oer CHARLEY WHITE'S COM Mechanics’ “Hall, 472 Broadw anp LavGiasiy ENTERTAIN ‘Tux Treroraratnon. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookylo.— yo Were HOO! HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Ermiorias Min- stkeLsy, Ba vm QUES AND PANTOMIMES. SRAVER’S OPERA HOUSE, Willlameburg.—Granp Pier, Exromtanaoger Hater Lesiix, que Hao. oF AGAKA PALMS, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Lucrorrs Witt THe Oxy-fiyprocen Microscorr | twice ally, Heap axp Ricur Aum or Proust. Open from 8 A.M, til 10. Mi es STUDIO BUILDING, 61 West Tenth street. —Exmtsrtioy or Marour Statvany. TRIPLE SHEET. THE NEWS. , EUROPE. ty the Atlantic cable we bayea European news roport, wiih finanelal and commérc'al advices and macine intelli- gence, dated to yesterday evening, October 22 he Emperor of ‘Austria expressly orders a steamer to sai from Trieste for Mexico forthwith. Tho vessels of the American’ squadron, aro at Hamburg. ‘The Senate of Venetia bas unanimously declared in or of the unity of ftaly. from Russia, ‘Tho Prusgo-Saxon treaty was ratilied yestorday. . Spain is to ‘uphold’ the temporal power of the Pope aftor the French troops quit Rome. Consois Closed at 893g, for money, in London. United States five-twenties were a! 69. The Liverpool cotton market was sicady. uplands fifteen and one fourth pence. The ship-Daviel Webster, from Liverpool, had put into Queenstown diemasted, By the arrival of the steamship China at Halifax, yesterday, we received telegraphic details of our cable despatches to the 14th of Octobor. The Catholic priests in council at Baltimore saluted the Pope by telegraph, expressing thelr wish for the maintenance of the ancient rights of the Holy See. Our correspondent in Paris reports, in résum?, many of the causes of the diffcult'cs aud perplexities which attend the United States Minister in Paris in the dis- charge of his duties. Some of them are quite amusing, alihougb, no doubt, tendiag to official disquietuds, aly us in complete possession of the famous fortresses of the Venetian quadrilateral. Our special corrospondent with the Uniled States squadroa, from Russia, dating at Kiel on the 3d of Ooto- ber, reports the voyage ot the Mianionomah and Augusta from Copenhagen to the first named port, and the friondly yet quiet reception given to our officers by the Prassian naval authorities. Prince Adalber!, High Ad- miral of the Prussian navy, visited th? ve:sels and ox- pressed great pleasare both at the manner of his reeep- tion and the result of his inspection. THE CITY. ‘The Tammany Hat! County Convention met last even- d nominated John K. Hackett for Recor: Gideon + for Surrogate; Gresham N. Herman for Super. Dr. William Schirmer for coroner; and Jobn McCool for Registrar. A row was anticipated, and a large force of policemen were present in and outside the hall. ‘Their presence had a wholesome effect on the crowds of roughs and rowdies who were auxious to Lear the result of the proceedings. Ove of the supporting columns of a house in course of erection on Brogdway, near Grand street, gave way yesterday, about one o'clock, causing a portion of the flour to fall, and creating great consternation for a time. Broadway was barricaded until it was ascertained tua’ the building was safe, It was found that tho foun. dation of the fallen colamn had been undermined by a constant ow of Croton, and this had caused the building to give way, It is belteved that the damage -can be easily repaired without farther lors or danger. The yacht race between the Vesia and Halcyon, from Sanda Voint to the light ship off New London and back, two hundred miles, takes place to-day. Major General 0. 0, Howard, Chief of the Freedmen's Middling Bureau, lectured last evening at tne Brooklyn Academy of Music toa rather small audicnce, on “Our Christian duty toward the South,” advocating as not inconsistent with a Christian spirit toward the Southern people the requirement of such guarantees for the future as will be granted by an adoption on their part of the constitu. tional amendment. The suit between the Sixth and Eigith Avenne Rail road Companies, regarding the use of ee hb other's tracks. will begin in the Supreme Court to do The distribution of medals to the veteran soldiers of Kings county takes place on Thuretey next ot Fort Greene, Brooklyn, when Governor Fenton will review the troops of the Second division, National Gord, anda Jarge number of veteran regiments both of jnfentry and cavalry. Dr. Storrs the prayers. A banqust to the Governor fol- Jows in the evening at the Arsenal in Portland avenue. Mayor Hoffman yesterday made the presentation of a flag to the Fourth regiment, National Guard, in front of the City EMM. The inspection of the First Cavalry Brigade, N. @, an- nounced for the 25th instant has been postponed to the sot , A volunteer night police has been found necessary and organized at Jamaica, Long Ialand. The mortuary report of this city for the week ending on Saturday last, foots up 476 deaths, O¥e of which were from cholera, A case concerning the mutaal obligation of contracts came before Judge Garvin dF the Superior Court yester- day. The plaintiff were the New Haven and North- ampton Company avd tho defendants, EB. A Qaintard and another. According to the complaint the defend- ants failed to #hip® largo amount of coal to plaintiffs according to contract. Defendants represented that they wore morely agents of the Hampshire and Baltimore Goal Compahy and oe such not liable, and that thelr mines wore at the time in the bands of the soldiers of the Southern confederacy, thus preventing the discharge ot orders. On the trial the complaint was dismissed by Jvdge Garvin because the contract wae not rigned by both partios Tho examination in the shooting case in the eetablish. ment of Madame Boll resulted in the commitment of John W, Blair to await the result of the wound inficted on Louis Lambert, who is in a very critical condition, Mary Cownolly was yesterday committed to the Pent. tentlary for ei months for an attempt to kidnap a chia, Charles Teave yesterday stabbed and dangerouniy | Boatewala Jerry Foley, of the ship Ann Eliza, fam, od was committed to answer for the Mayor Booth is to make the pre cutation and | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. Oup of tho two men suspected of robbing the Greon- wich Insurance Company in July last of $20,000 in bond® was brought to thia city yostorday, having been arrested i Florida, whither be and bis companion bad fled and Joined the army, His companion deserted when he foared arrest, and died from disease contracted from ex- posure and fatigue. The steamship General Meade, of the Cromwelt line, will leave for New Orioans on Saturday next, 27th inat, This éteamer came through the recent gales without sus- taining the slightest injury. She is one of the most ca- pable and seaworthy steamers leaving this port, Two hack drivers some time ago recovered $200 from the owner of the Twenty-third Street Ferry Company for the loss of a horse which ran Overboard from one of the boats of the defendant sowing to alleged inse- curely arranged chain on tho horse deck. The caso was appealed to the General Term of the Court of Ap- peals and argued yesterday, Decision reserved. ‘The Bishop divorce suit’Came up yesterday in Cham- vers of the Supreme Court, before yudge Barnard, on a motion of the lady's counsel foralimony. After hear. ing the argument of counsel on both sides) Judge Bar- nard took the papers and reserved his decision. The case of James Wright, charged with stealing furs from Fredorick{Booss, was continued in the Court of General Sessions yesterday. The case will doubtless be closed to-day. Henry Posey was sentenced to two years and six months in the State Prison yesterday by Recorder Hackett for a felonious assault. George Gutschafter was sont to the Penitentiary by Recorder Haskett for an attempt at larcony. The stock market was steady yosterday and prices advanged, particularly for the Northwestern shares, common and preferred. Gold was dull and closed at 146%. Business opened with considerable activity in the markets for domestic produce, and prices tended in favor of the seller, cotton, flour, grain, &c., all selling higher. In imported merchandise the recession of gold exerted a depressing influence. Groceries were not very active, but prices were steady. Provisions gencrally were firm, without decided change. * Petroleum ruled easier. Freights were dull. Dry goods firm and mod. eratoly activo. Undor continued heavy receipts, and the dicinelination of buyers to operate, the market for beef cattlo at Bull’s Head was decidedly “blue,” prices for the best grades having fallon off fully %c, a 1c. per Ib, while those of common were Lic. alc, lower, and in some casesa further eoncession was granted. The offerings were large, amounting in the aggregate to 8,000 head, of which quite a number were left unsold. Extra cattle sold as low ag 17c., while fair to good steers brought 15c. a 16c, com- mon cattle selling as low as 83zc. a10c, Milch cows ruled steady .aud firm at prices ranging from $40 to $130. Veal calves were in moderate request, though at rather easier prices, 133<c. being the top price, and 8c, a 10c. for inferior, and common at12c. a 180, Tho market for both sheop and lambs was completely over- stocked, and a concession of 340. a ic. per Ib, was con- ceded without leading to any great activity, the market closing extremoly dull at Se. a 6c. for fair to good sheep and 5%c. for lambs. Hogs were 2c. lower under heavy receipts anda limited domand. The market opened dull, with forty car loads on sale, with moderate transac. tions at 100. 4 10%, for good to prime Western, and 9%6. a 10340, for State. MISCELLANEOUS, Our Washington despatches detail the alleged discovery of the plans of the radicals to impeach and depose the President. A Inrge force of “Boys in Blue” were to be sont to Washington to protect and aid Congress in its schemes, | A general distribution of arms throughout the West had boon mado by the radical Governors, Their designs as indicated are of a highly dangorous and revo- lutionary tendoncy. The story is startting if true. It is reported that Secretary Stanton will resign as soon as he has completed his report, upon which he is now engaged, Gontal Sherman will succeed him tem- porarily, ” Tho Maryland troubica are assuming’a dangerous ax pect. Governor Swann has been compelled to proclaim his intention to exlaust the whole power of the State in resisting tho anticipated invasion from other States, and has warned the rotors that their revolutionary designs will be punished. The announcement that he intended to proceed in his purpose of relieving the Commission- ers, as requested by the citizens of Baltimore, produced a street fight, which only the timely arrest of tho leaders prevented from becoming a riot. The “ Boys in Blao’’ and other radical organizations were becoming danger- ously domonst . Fears of an invasion by “Boys in Blue’ from Pennsylvania and elsewhere were entertained, and as indicating the extent of this political orgauization our cerpespondent quotes the language of a despatch seut to General John A. Logan, to the effect that assist- ance woul@not be asked till absolutely needed. The ex- amination of the Commissioners began yesterday at An- napoli, but was postponed until Friday next, in order to give the Commissioners time to produce their witnesses, Hon. Reverdy Johnson had expressed h's opinion that the Governor had an unquestionabie right to relieve the Commissioners from duty on charges of official miscon- duet. All rcmaiued quief ai Battimore at midnight, The Cohoes failure, as announced in yesterday's Henao, involves a loss of half a million of dollars, with only about $300,000 secured by assignment. The heaviest losers are John S. Thompson & Sons, $100,000; Manu- facturers’ Bank, of Troy, $30,000; Hugh Rankin, of Troy, $36,000; Gould Rockwell, of Troy, $19,000, and the Cohoes Bank. Six weeks’ wages, due the factory hands, has been assumed by Thompson & Sons. One of the heaviest woollen firms of Troy ig said to be involved for about $60,000, and it is thought will suspend. Our Washington correspondence asserts positively that the late Ledger canard was concocted im Wall street and circulated throughout the country through the conni- vance of the agents of the New York Associated Press. By a copy of a letter enclosed in our correspondence from the city,of Mexico it appears that Maximilian of Mexico keeps a bank account in New York city. Govornor Fenton bas issued bis proclamation calling upon the people of this State to observe Thursday, the 20th of November, asa day of thanksgiving. The day ig the same as that appointed by President Johnson. General Ortega and party are sald to have left for Moxico, . The radical majority in Indiana foots up over fourteen thousand. A violent hurricane which passed over a portion of Iilinois, Missouri and Indiana, did much damage at St. Louir, Indianapolis and Chicago, A number of houses were blown down Yn each place, and five porsons killed at Chicago, while nutabers were injured. The gale was also felt on the St. Lawrence river. Two pegroes at Rome, Ga, recently brutally murdered Arthur Williams, wife and Tot dakgheeees They wore arrested and committed for trial. To the base ball game at Philadelphia yesterday, the Athletic Club of that etty defeated the Atlantics of Brooklyn. Score, 81 to 12 A fire at Of City, Pa, yesterday, destroyed a large port of the ety, The loss ts estimated at $50,000. Two ! © drowned, ridgeport, Conn., furnitare company's factory od yesterday, Loss $75,000, A Sreamer Seyt ror Maxiunaan.—The cable despatches contain the significant announce- ment that express orders had been forwarded by the Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, to Trieste despatching a steamer forthwith to Mexico. The despaich is dated yesterday, at Vienna. Coming to us on the heels of the ahnouncement of the sad illness of Carlotte, the Empress, the inference is natural that Maximilian bas been sent for; but the reader will naturally wonder why the Archduke was not telegraphed for. The mission of Castel. neau, the illness of Carlotta, the present action of Francis Joseph and the active measures pro- posed by ‘President Johnson serve only to complicate the Mexican muddle. Ax Ocean Yacut Race.—The Vesta and the Haleyon start tony for a race around the New London lightship and return. They may have rough weather and will have a chance to display their seaworthiness. The juency with which these ocean matches are now made shows the marked improvement in American yeohting. Formerly our yachtsmen were eatis- Ged to sail down to the Southwest spit; but now they prefer the open sea and a long con- test. By next year we hope to record yacht Faced gopose the ggaamy The New Forcign Policy of the Administra- tion, The administration, which has been for some time under a cloud, we have reason to believe will soon emerge into the full blaze of the, noonday sun. Experience is an exacting teacher, but he is wise who accepts her lessons at any cost. President Johnson is evidently of this opinion; for we think it may be pro- claimed as 9 result of the late elections that he has resolved upon a new departure that will bring his administration again into the fore- ground and into a happy accord with Congress and public opinion oo the leading national questions of the day. Leaving the constitu- tional amendment for the present to take its course, we understand that Mr. ‘Johnson has decided without further delay to turn over a new leaf and open a new chapter in reference to our unsetiled accounts against England and Indeed, it would appear, from the Dumerons reports set afloat from Washington on the subject, that not only has this new departure been resolved upon, but that the initial steps towards its execution have already been taken. Thus it is given out that in relation to our Claims against England on account of the late piratical depredations upon. our commerce by such Anglo-rebel buccaneers as the Alabama and Shenandoah, a positive requisition has been sent out to our minister, Mr. Adams, at Lon- don, to be by him laid before Lord Stanley, her Majesty’s present Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. From a recent speech of Lord Stanley and the latest views of the London Times on this matter there is ground for the opinion that to this alleged demand from our government there will be a satisfactory re- sponse. In any event, coupled with the alter- native of the seizure of the Canadas and the adjoining provinces, the demand is a sure card for the administration. With the recognition and settlement of the claims, our government will be vindicated and placed in its proper attitude before the American people and the world, so far as England and the controversy of belligerent, neutral and insurrectionary rights on the high seas are concerned. With a flat rejection of our demand, a eall for volun- teers for a descent upon the Canadas would tally within a fortnight a bundred thousand fighting Fenians along the border, and, ac- cording to General Sherman, six weeks by this process would settle the Canadian question. With England it is the concession of some thirty millions of dollars, more or less, and the maritime rights involved in the dispute or the loss of an empire; while to our administration there will be the honors and the glory of a great triumph upon either alternative. In regard to France and the Mexican im- broglio the programme of setilement which, as reported, the administration has agreed upon, is, first, the retirement of the French usurpa- tion—treops, Emperor, bag and baggage, and the recognition by France of the republic as recognized by the United States. Secondly, the assumption by the United States of the debt due to France from the Mexican republic; and thirdly, an ¢quivelentto our government from said republic in the shape of a cession of territory embracing the Northern frontier States of Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and the peninsula of Lower Calitornia, with the great gulf seven bundred miles long which separates that peninsula from the mainland. According to this plan France will be permit. | ted to retire gracefully and without serious loss, the Monrge doctrine will be vindicated, the Mexican republic will be consolidated in being divestéd of the revolutionary States named; While the acquisition of said States, with their inexhaustible mines of silver and gold and their great agricultural and com- mercial advantages, whether we look to a cheap and ghort continental railroad or. to the command of the Pacific Ocean, will be worth to us a hundred times over the legitimate claims of France which we shall assum>. This line of policy in regard to Mexico will be as satisfactory to the country as the ultima- tum suggested in reference to England. In both cases, if carried out, there will be glory enough for President Johnson’s administration; provided, always, that he stands no more in the way of the constitutional amendment. But, in behalf of the Monroe doctrine, he may still profitably extend his new policy to the removal of Spain from South American affairs and even to the reorganization of Brazil as a Tepublic through a common alliance secured among the republics surrounding her. Thus, with popular governments established through- out this continent, and all combined as in a common cause against European interven- tions or intrigue, the United States, as the head of this grand American coalition, would indeed be first among the nations on the land and the séa,at home and abroad, in trade, wealth, power and prosperity; infinitely beyond the Roman empire under Augustus, Such is the magnificent prospect which is invitingly opened before us with this new foreign policy of the administration. Honor, power dnd glory await our government in this direction, and lucky will Mr. Johnson ig boldly following the path thus marked out. If some of the organs of the extreme radical faction and the extreme copperhead faction do not like it, the reason is apparent, It is a policy which threatens the overthrow ofall their factious schemes and the organization of the great party of the future around the adminis- tration with the settlement of this constitu- tional amendment. This must go through, and then the field will be under the control of this new foreign programme of the Exeutive. Give us this policy and the present Cabinet will suffice. We care nothing for the men s0 that we get the measures which the country re- quires. Cabinet changes have ceased to be matters of pudlic interest, and the all absorbing inquiries of the public mind are being directed to the present intentions and futare policy of President Johnson. Let him boldly pursue this new foreign policy and yield the road to this constitutional amendment, and the party and the issnes of the succession are in bis hands. How Is Taig ?—We notice that the police are making descents upon negro gambling places and upon concert saloons where disturbances occur; but they make no descents upon Niblo’s theatre, where an indecent exhibition, more immoral than gambling ot concert saloons, is given nightly. Tae Piocs Hanpsns axp Monger Orviiiae- Tiox.—The last number of Harper’s Weekly Journal of Civilization bas disgraced itselt by ridiculing the President of the United States 8 MANNE Worthy only the lowest possible spirit—putting that paper even further down in the scale of journalism than Matsell’s Police Gazette ; for Matsell hardly abuses his murderers and thieves as these pious Harpers do the Chief Magistrate of the land. The Rump Organ and the Corporation Ring— The Ann Street Improvement, The rump organ—not of the democracy, whose real principles its schoolmasters and Mantilini politicians never comprehended, but of the tail end of the copperhead faction and the Corporation ring—insinuates that the cause of the Heraty’s “ opposition to the democratic candidate for Governor” is the fact that Mayor Hoffman vetoed the “Ann street job.” We do not intend to resort to the use of the vocabu- lary of the rump organ in our reply to this statement; but we assert that this is not the reason why we oppose the election of the “ring” representative. At thé same time we affirm that it would be a good reason for oppo- sition to that gentleman’s promotion to the office of Governor of the State. And on this ground:—The Ann street improvement was a public work, demanded by the best interests of the city. It sought to make a new outlet to the great stream of travel that flows through the lower part of Broadway. It proposed to create @ new terminus to that great thoroughfare that would have accommodated half a miltion of people, to the relief of the present terminus at Bowling Green, where not one hundred thousand persons are accommodated. It would have been a benefit to every man doing busi- ness in this city, from the Buttery to Spuyten Duyvil creek; for it would have ensed off the crowd of traffic below Fulton street, which forms at present one of the main embarrass- ments of trade in the city, by making two out- lets instead of one from the mouth of Broad- way and the Park. to the docks. With all these considerations in its favor it was vetoed by Mayor Hoffman. His pretended justifica- tion for the veto was that the expense of the improvement was to be charged to the taxpayers of the city, and not to the property holders along the line. Now we hold, first, that the improvement was so eminently for the public. ‘benefit that if the expense had. been assessed upon the people of the whole State, instead of the people of the city alone, it would have been a justifiable act. But so manifest was the advantage to the com- merce of the whole city, at least, that it would have been unjust and a good cause for a veto, had the expense been saddled upon the local property holders alone. We therefore maintain that Mayor Hoff- man displayed a narrow-minded projudice and an ignorance of broad, enlightened policy that unfit him for the office of Governor, if: the motives that appeared upon the surface in reajity influenced his veto of that work. And for that reason alone we should consider that we had good cause for objecting to his eleva- tion to the position he now seeks. But subse- quent to the veto of this so-called “job,” in which we were only interested in common with the whole of the biusiness community, we re- ceived indications that it might yet be carried through if a purse of fifty or sixty thousand dollars could be raised in its favor. This pro- postiion we indignantly rejected. We despise all such legislation, and had we been ten times as much interested in this great public work as we really are we would rather have seep it crushed out of existence forever than have lent oitselves to such outrageous cor ruption. No; we oppose Mr. Hoffman on no such single fssu8 &% this Ann street improvement. We denounce him as one of the most da; erous tools of the Corporation “ring. ie 08 vetord a little job here and there, knowing that they can bé run through secretly without his nid, and has by that means endeavored to impose upon the people. But the skin of the lamb is too short to bide the form of the wolf. Tf Mr. Hoffman was in reality against the “ring,” the “ring” would not be found among his warmest and firmest supporters. The lenders of the “ring” would not-have labored, abroad and at home, to secure his nomination |,at Albany; and the rump organ of the “ring” would not now be wriggling and squirming and trying to prove that the candidate who depends upon the power of the “ring” for his election is in fact ita natural opponent. Tue Croron Aquepuct.Boarp anp Comprrot- LER Brexnan.—We invite the attention of our citizens to the statement of the Croton Aque- duet Board, which we publish to-day, in rela- tion to the controversy in which that Board is involved with Mr. Brennan, the City Comptrol- ler. The law which obliges the Croton Board to advertise for the letting of all work done under that department provides that the Comptroller shall be present at the opening of the bids. A large amount of work ready, and most of it necessary to be done, was advertised to be given out on the 26th of last September. At that time, and subsequéntly, Mr. Brennan has refused to be present at the opetiing of the bids, and has thus effectually put a stop to all the improvements contemplated by the With ut going Into the teh, it is clear that this action of the Comptroller is induced by political considerations alone. His objec- tions to certain work contemplated wy the Board are the baldest pretences, While he puts on a false show of honesty and ecomomy in relation to the Croton Aqueduct Depart- ment he would sanction any work undertaken between this and the December election by the Street Commissioner's Department, which now lies under grave charges of fraud and corrup- tion, or any other department, the patronage of which he would make subservient to the elec- tion of the ring candidate for Governor and the ring candidate for Comptroller. A portion of the work that is thus inter- rupted by the Comptrolley is the building of sewers in a neighborhood where some eighty or « bundred mew houses are suffering for the want of sewerage, and where the health and cgmfort of thousands of citizens are at stake. The reason for bis action is, in reality, that he cannot control the work done under direction of the Croton Aqueduct Board. That Board is non-partisan in ite character, and the reputa- tion of Mr. Alfred W. Craven, its engineer, is sufficient guarantee that it will remain so. If its contracts could be made to subserve the interests of the “ ring” in’ genoral, and ite most valuable jewel, the Comptroller, im particular, we should hear no objections urged by Mr. Brennan against the letting of the work. The taxpayers fully understand this matter. Some of them may object to « portion of the work advertised by theOroton Board, but all of them know full wail that the affeated hon- and thax 4s arbitrary course in blocking the wheels of ai; improvements contemplated by. the Croton Aque-twet Department is dictated solely by aelfsh ana partisan considerations. He will not consent tha: @ny contracts sball be let or any laborers emplo,¢d where the jobs cannot be turned to the account of the ring candidate for Governor in November and the ring candidate for Comptroller in December. The Coming Revolution iu England. It does not require much sagacity to enable one to appreciate the fact that England is on the eve of @ great political convulsion. There isno mistaking the gravity of such speeches as those delivered by John Bright at Manches- ter and Leeds. The first was a warning, the second is a declaration of war, From thé day of the delivery of the latter dates the. com- mencement of a struggle whidh bas had no parallel in English history since that in which Charles the First expiated his crimes against his people on the scaffold. cee When we look at the character of the men who commenced this conflict, and the direct influence of their teachings on the massés, we cannot doubt its seriousness. It originated in no motives of political selfishness,-and has found no support from party influences. It is &@ movement purely of the masses, conducted by leaderé whose characters and conduct are above suspicion. Cobden was the first to give impulse to it by the enunciation and partial demonstration of the principles which consti- tute sound .popular government. He died. in the effort to perfect the great work to which he had devoted himself, but it did not the less progress, ‘His colaborer, John Bright, took up the task where he left it, and is conducting it to a noble consummation. Cobden and Bright may be styled the Gracchi of modern English history. What Tiberius Gracchus ac- complished in the improvement of the condi- tion of the lower orders and in the renewal of the Agrarian law Cobden equally aimed at. The shortening of tlie hours of labor among factory oporatives and the repeal of the corn laws were among the principal fruits of his labors. Like the younger Gracchus, John Bright has struggled to carry out and enlarge upqn the work of his brother reformer. The extension of the franchise to all capable of exercising it has been, as with the Roman tribune, one of the grand objects of his exer- tions, und in his efforts to accomplish it he bids fair to excite against himself the same degree of personal animosity that cost the younger Gracchus his life. No English reformer before Bright has ever ventured to proceed to the lengths that he did in his recent: speech at Leeds, He goes back eight hundred years to assail the foundation of English aristacracy, and satirically asks what the English nobles have ever done to entitle them to distinction, except indeed it be “their coming in with William the queror.” He then preceeds to demand why a class like this should be allowed to‘deny-to the people their natural rights—rights confirmed by the consti- tution, and which have popular representation ag their basis. There is no mistaking the effect of such language. It speaks trumpet tongued to the hearts of a population ground down by taxation and reduced to . condition bordering on pauperism. It was words of such import, spoken by demagogues like Mirabeau and that drove the French into the vortex, of the first revolutign. Uttered in our own day, by a Jai whose antecedents are unsul- Hed and whose patriotism is beyond question, it is not the less pregnant with a terrible sig- nificance. . We have been among the few who have long foreseen this culmination of the political diffi- culties of England. We have constantly warned the British aristocracy that the selfish- ness and arrogance of their foreign policy would s0 weakeq them at home that it would one day or other place them ‘at the mercy of the popular leaders. The time bas arrived when this prediction seems about io be veri- fied. The patience of the masses has become exhausted, and there is no Jonger any faith in the palliations which whigs and tories alike relied upon to stay political agitatfoy. The ruling classes in England will now have to meet fairly and squarely the demands of the masses. All side issues, whether of church re- form, Fenianism or colonial defence, will be absorbed in this one great question of manhood suffrage. Let them struggle against it as they will, they cannot conceal from them. selves the conviction that events are precipi- tating them fato a great revolution. Whether it is to be « peaceftil or a dangulnary one will depend on their good sense and not on their power of resistance, Governor Seymour aXp Tas, Democracy. ~ ex-Governor Seymour, of this State, bas been travelling in the West lately, and during hie journey it appears be was not reticent In the expfessio# of Bis opinions with re- gard to the New York democracy and their chances io the State election. It is re- forled tint he pronounced the success of the republican party certain by a large majori- ty. He also declared himself in favor of the constitutional amendment and its acceptance by the Southern States, stating that leading Southern mon held similar views « Ie was in- vited to make a speech in St. Paul, Minnesota ; but, while thus freely expressing his opinions in private, he declined to appear at a public meeting. At the little town of Winona, how- ever, he addressed an assemblage in language which would imply that be has completely de- serted the New York copperhead faction. Sey- mour has a lurge phalanx of friends in the Western part of this State, and his abandonment of the copper democracy and its Tammany standard bearer will no dowbt hi¥e a very im- portant effect upon the election. It is well known that the ex-Governor attributes hia last defeat to the machinations of the Tammany ring. He is now abont to pay off that Institution in’ its own coin. It is net likely that Seyrfour’s friends in the Western counties will vote the Tammany ticket in any numbers, and upon this fact Mr. Seymour's prognostications of a repub- liean enecess were probably based. Shrewd republican polfticians who have can- vassed the State report that Fenton will have ® majority of eighty thousand in the country ; and if this be eo, then, under this majority the democratic majority of thirty-five thousand at this side of Spuyten Duyvil creek will of course be completely buried. The probabilitics, wo take it, are in favor of the republican ticket by @ majority of thirty-five and forty-five thousand. to be a detérmination Seben Gv doe anktatnen seal edt enty of the Comptroller is a bogus exhibition, | to shake off this nightmare of copperhead! demooracy, as represented by the paryy which brought on the war and commenced a carder of danger in the times of poor Pierce. The young generation exhibits a fixed resolution to set aside both the democratic and the radical! parties and take up a new issue. This issue must be based upon the vigorous foreign polley of the admigistration and a new and thoroughly reformed financial policy on the part of Con- gress. The result, therefore, will be that the niggerheads and the copperheads will both be laid-on the shelf, and a new party will take hold of the reins of government. John Hoffman and John Morrissey. John Hoffman and the Corporation ring appear to be greatly just now to know how to dispose of John Morrigsey and his two rings—the prize ring and the ring with the eagle on the top. John Hoffman & Co want to cfféat John Morrissey if they possibly can, and to this end they are endeavoring to delay as much as possible the final consumma- tion of their bargains. -But they cannot sac- ceed in this treacherous game. They have the wrong customer to deal with. Their pledges have been accretly made to the champion of the prize ring, in consideration of services ren- dered at Albany. John Hoffman owes his nomination mainly to John Morrissey, and he and, his friends dare not go back .on their “pardner.” If they attempt it their failure will be as signal as that of Rogue Riderhood. In the language of the P. R., the C. R. will have to “come up to time” and “toe the scratch.” They are fastened to the champion of the heavy weights as effectually as Mazeppa was attached to his steed, and they will have to go through the race if they die together at the end. And we should like to know why the Cor- poration ring should hang back and put on airs and assume to ignore their bargain with the prizering? John Morrissey is every bit as. good looking as John Hoffman. John Morris- sey has a finer moustache than John Hoffman. Jobn Morrissey has a larger account at the bank—at any bank, in fact—than John Hoff man. If John Hoffman can make a longer speech than John Morrissey, John Morrissey can fight a longer fight than John Hoffman. And this is certainly a striking point in favor of John Morrissey. x We tail to see, then, why the Corporation ring should try to cheat John Morrissey, when they have already taken his money to aid in electing their candidate. This is a meaner act on the part of the Corporation ring than even the prize ring or the ring of the roulette table would be guilty of. They should at least ‘play fair with-their friends, and the State Com- mittee, with Peter Cagger as secretary, who. have touched a good five thousand dollars of Mr. Morrissey’s money, should see that justice is done to that gentleman in bis - Congressfonal district. Otherwise, wo shall advise John Morrissey to institute an inquiry. as to how his money has beén spent. He has this advantage ovor the Corporation ring—that his word is as good as his bond, while with them neither wor@ nor bond is of any con- ceivable value. We have only one word more to say on this subject. Perhaps there are no two meaner po! cal hacks in the State of New York than Fenton, the candidate of the repu! and Hoffman, eee ee Tieve if, would bean advantage to it we gould swap off both Joba, Moftrissey— without bis two “ring®.”” many praiseworthy, honorable traits about him, and is at least a man of decision of char- acter gnd firmuess of purpose. We cannot say as mich for of the candidates now before the people for the office of Governor of the State. Ristori’s Matinee—A Curious Phenomenon, Dramatic and Social, and an Ugly Coat, Pede. op eRe Wt, We a The splondid histetonle have falriy dazzled the town, and the success of Mr. Grau’s Italian compeny is less amazing. It reached the highest figure attained at the last matings of Ristori. receipts were four thousand one, dollars, Eight hundred dollars were refused at the door. Ifthe theatre had been larg enough to admit those who were stl turned away the receipts would have exo five thousand dollare. The Brooklyn matinée also exceeded the single performance in Europe. . At the New York matinée on Saturday the French theatre was ly crowded, no standing room was left, and even the stage was invaded. The occupants of private’ boxeq and* reserved seats were compelled to defend vigilantly the right of possedsion. This right, be it said in passing, is still very little respected by some American women and girls. They too often unconsciously betray ill-breeding ang appear as impertinent and ba they ate sbowily dressed and pret 'o secure 4 nice’ seal in railway a Ghr, chiitch pew or opera box, these angels without wings would cast every- body else, of either sex, into outer darkness. What a curious phenomenon is now to be witnessed in the history of the American stage and of New York society! The French theatre is filled to ite utmost capacity with an intelligent and refined audience, by Ristori’s unrtvalled exhibition of the high- est forme of dramatic art, and the Stadt theatre is equally thronged by the admirers of Dawison’s masterly acting. Yet on the sate evening a Broadway theatre is jammed full with a mob wearing almost taflless coats or tilted hoops, and gloating ov€r the lowest and most shameless spectacle that ever appealed to the lust of the eye'in this or any othor city. Thus two extreme phases are to the philosophical observer. The one promises a revival of the drama, to radiate from New York asa centre throughout the land. The whole country is beginning to sympathise with the metropolitan enthusiasm awakened by tbe assical skill of Dawison and by the genius of Ristori. The other phase shocks all do- cenoy and shows to what « fearfal depth of