The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1866, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. socnipeitnannanet= JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR rs THIS BYENING. AMUSEME BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome wtreet.—Msossts. BW YORK THEATSE, Broadway, opposite New York ane -Gaurecen GavyT, OB JEALOUSY. FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, near Sixth ARATE, Cae 7! Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— per Mea Diener in Canam opm ami Wasexs OND ORRMAN [HALIA THEA’ Bigunsiny—pawansen Peree—8" WOR/H'S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Proresson Haars Fe ip Ab wis Minacuzs.—Tus M: AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2.and 4 West fourth street.—Bupwortn’s MiNstae.s.—-BeHtoPiay poe Batava, Bumvesaves, ao. A Tair No. Si4 Broadway. ARSERL. Broadway, opposite fruioriaX ENTERTAIN URLESQU! 0. KBLLY (INSTBELS, 790 Broadway, ite the NeWLEON'S MINSTRELS, TO, Dances, ‘nobia.: ns Poon Toon sus ‘Worup. A Taovauy TONY P; RS: WOFY. OUTS Parte ey Tas Fates oF TAG upsox. CHARLEY WHITE'S CO: TRO’ at ‘Mechaates’ ale a Brosdwayete TUN anon Liat P Rey ENTERTAINMENTS “opr Da Batiste, £0 UB CLERKS IN WASHINGTON, R . F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— og hl on, THs Knave or Huants. HOOLFY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brookiyn.—Ermiormn Mine grants, BaLcaps, BURLESQUES AND Paxsomiens, SEAVBR'S OPERA HOUSE, Willlamsburg.—Ern: Polar Brtgn rey on, Bers IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Dze Conpova’s SxconD Hlumonovs Lecruss, “Tuat Gantieman rnom EnGianp.” PLYMOUTH CHUROH, Brooklyn.—Granp Concart or eux Cuottan Cnor, NRW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — aes WITH THE x¥-HyDRoGEN 10RO80OPE oe iy. Hap ‘Anu OF PRoser. Open from SUE: wile AD Mut Ame oF FRoner, 4 TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, November 20, 1866. THE NAW S. EUROPE. By the cable we have a news report dated Monday evening, November 19, Tho Candian revolution Is said to have been renewed. The Italian Cabinet “discourages” agitation on the Roman question, as the nation can await the “triumph of ber rights.” France and England are to mediate a settlement of the Spanish-American war difficulties. Extensive inundations have caused a great loss of property and of many lives in some of the counties of England. Count Bismarck will soon resume his duties in Berlin. ‘The Princess Dagmar, just married to the heir appa- rent to the Prussian throne, is seriously il] in St. Peters- burg. Spain ts still threatened with a revolutionary outbreak, ‘Large numbers of Fenians are arriving in Ireland and Bogiand is making preparations to meet an outbreak, Console closed at 90%¢ for money in London yeaterday. United States five-twenties were at 703<. In the Liverpool cotton market middling uplands was fourteen pence at noon yesterday. Breadstuffs firm, with prices unchanged. Our special correspondence, by mail, from France, Prussia, Austria, Italy, Bohemia, Bavaria.and Spain, ‘with the compilation from our European files published ‘his morning, embrace very important and most inter- eating details of the cable reports to the 17th of No- ‘vember. ‘The written despatches show that the cause of the peoples 1a steadily advancing, notwithstanding the daily attempts of the more powerful monarchs to aggregate territory and solidify imperialism by diplomacy after war. Venetia cheering around the ballot boxes through which her citizens completed the unification of Italy, gives hope and courage to the Hungarians, ‘who, wo are told, are “‘ripe for revolution,” steadies the arms in the hands of the Candian insurgents and ani- mates them to a renewal of the strife which will reopen the dreaded Eastern question, and, at the same moment, ‘enables the population of Rome and the millions of Ire- land to bear their burdens patiently, “biding their time.” Napoleon sees and feels his difficulties in Rome, ‘Mexico and the East. Weare assured that M. Drouyn @e Lhuys will be recalled to the head of the Foreign Department of France, the Emperor acknowledging by the act that the Marquis de Moustier has neither schooled Gor disciplined himself in the art of statecraft to that de- gree which is necessary for the imperial service at this peculiar crisis, Baron Boust's appointment in the Austrian Cabinet alarms Prussia and, consequently, inclines both the King and Count Bismarck more and more in favor of perfect- ing a Russo-German alliance. The Emperor of Austria employs himself in visiting the battle flelds, the scenes of his late defeata. Hie tour appears to be a melancholy one, both in intent and the receptions accorded to him. ‘The Russian newspaper organs accuse France and Eng. land with ongaging in an active intrigue for the exclu- sion of the Czar from the final settlement of the Eastern Question, and assert in plain terms that it cannot be adjusted “ without Russia;”’ but if such an event were Possible and occured the subject would be reopened ina ‘Manner most distasteful to the arbitrators. Our special fashions correspondence from Paris, dated on the 24 of November, contains a statement Felative to the imperial patronage about to be extended to rich brocade, figured silk damasks and brocatels, in Preference to plain silks, with a view of improving the Condition of the distressed operatives of Lyons. The mow patterns ordered to be woven, with the latest out and styles of trimming of winter dresses for ladies, are described. THE CITY. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. The order conveying a portion of the City Hall Park to the United States for a Post Office site, for $500,000, was amended #0 28 to read $1,000,000. The Board then adjourned. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday, and after transacting but little business of importance, adjourned. A mocting of the Tammany Hall Genoral Committee took place last evening, at whioh the places for holding Primary elections, previous to the charter election, were Gosignated, as woll as the time for holding such elec. tions, and inspectors were appointed. Comptroller Brennan expresses his willingness to waive the right of requiring eight days’ notice previous to standing his trial on the charges preferred against him, and he 1s desirous of having the investigation Pushed forward at once. The only notice he has yet reocived is the one from the Governor. The obsequies of the late Inspector Carpenter took Place yesterday. After appropriate religious services in tho Thirty-fourth street Reformed Dutch church, the Femains were removed to Marble Cemetery, Second street, nd there interred, in accordance with Masonic rites, Foor battalions of police and a number of the personal friends of the deceased followed the body to ite last Foating place, ‘There were one hundred and fifty-five deaths in Breok- Tyo daring the woek ending Saturday the 17th. Ta the Marine Court, yesterday, before Judge Alker, and ~eMrenad Beneville, an attorney and counsellor Bt law, sued Augustin J. Daly to recover compensation for work and lsbor done in translating into oglsh from German several plays, including « Leah,” so well known In connection with the professional career of Mise Bateman, After a considerable amount of testimony, in- Ctuding that of Mr. Batoman, had been taken the case On both sides closed, and the further hearing of the case ‘was adjourned till this morning. Francisco Viele Saggard was yosteriay morning ar- faigned at the Kings county Court of Oyer ana Terminer Andicted for the murder of Jove Garcia Otero, on the 224 Of November, 1866. The prisoner pleaded not guiity, ‘The cases of John Develin and T. B. Tilton, who are §A come Magner alleged to be connected with the dis. ‘NEW YORK. HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1866.~TRIPLE SHEET. Ullery frauds recently exposed in Brooklyn, wore before United States Commissioner Newton, in that city yes terday. Judge Jones and a jury yesterday rendered @ verdict in the case of Kimball versus the Corporation of New York, awarding $3,000 damages to the plaintiff against detendants for injuries sustained in falling over a pros- fact the tenor of all the affecting elements, were deci- Sc. 050, Oorn was dull, irregular and s trife Oata were lc. lower and less active, Pork waa ective and a shade firmer. Beef was-unchanged. was dull'and lower. Freights wore quiet. Whiskey was ‘Despite tha continued heavy receipts, though consider- Hi } ably teas those of lagt week, the market for beef prices were obtained.. Sales of extra cattle were effected as high:as 1630. 0 1%0., closing at the latter price, and good medium at lc. a 16c., while commoa commanded 100, a 11c., with an eale at a still lower figure, Miloh.cows, although less active than last week, have not exsentially changed in value, in view of the limited offer- ings, eales being made as high as $125 for fancy, and Kod at $75 a $100 to $110. Veal calves continued steady and firm under o fair demand and moderate recetpta, Extra sold as high as 13}¢0. a 14c., and common and good a6 100, 2120. The market for sheep and lambs, notwith- standing the continued large receipts, has ruled more activeanda shade firmer, though not quotably higher. Sheep drought 6. 6340. to 7c., and even 8o, was obtained for a fat lot, Lambs sold’at 6c. a 8c., as in quality. Hoge have declined fully 3<0. per Ib., the market ruling very irregular, though at the close somewhat steady at 73¢c. a ‘Ti¢c. for best quality, 630. a 7c. for fair to good, and 63¢c. a 6X0. for common and rough. The total receipts were—6,106 beeves, 66 milch cows, 1,107 veal calves, 20,329 sheep and lambs, and 19,867 swine, MISCELLANEOUS. Information has been received in Washington that an expeditionary force under Mejia was about to leave Ban Luts Potosi for the recapture of Tampico. Our oorres- pondent at Washington says General Sherman has been sent to the Mexican coast merely to watch and not to direct matters. News from Vera Cruz has been received to the 1$th instant. Maximilian’s ministers had deter- mined to retain their offices for the present. The Empe- Tor was still at Orizaba. Ortega was still at Brazos, bat intended returning to New Orleans, Tapia’s forces at- tacked Matamoros on the 9th inst., but were repulsed. Tapia died on the night of the 10th of cholera, and Esco- bedo was reported as having arrived at the scene of action. The official reports of Bacon Port Allegre, command- ing the allied army in the Paraguayan war, in regard to the assault on Fort Curupaity on September 22, anda report from Admiral Tamandare, commanding the navy in the same affair, have been received, The fight wasa very severe one, and a defeat is confessed by the com- manders of the allied army and navy. The attacking force was composed of cighteen thousand men—Brazil- fans and Argentines. ‘The reply of the Argentine government to the protest of Bolivia against the allied waron Paraguay ws pub- lished tm our columns this morning. In its protest the Fepublic of Bolivia appealed to the treaty between the Argentine Republic, Brazil and Uruguay in support of its belief that those allied governments were engaged in plotting to despoil its territory under the plea of a war with Paraguay. In reply the Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs says that the Bolivian government can- ‘not appeal to that treaty, as it is a secret one, but cites other treaties and actions to prove that the sentiments entertained on the part of the allies are of a decidedly friendly character. ; Our Fortress Monroe correspondent says that numerous wrecks are being reported along the South Atlantic Coast. The steamer Vixen, from New York for Brazos, had her machinery disabled on Friday; and the steamer Mingetonka, from New Orleans, lost a portion of her salle. The dates from the Sandwich Islands are to Novem- ber 2. Queen Emma reached Honolulu on the 224 ult. ‘The great gale had been felt at sea, and several vessels ‘were over due at Honolulu. The iron ship Belisarius ‘was lost near Palmerston’s Island about Maron 26, and all hands perished. The question of annexation to the United States is being warmly discussed and advocated in Victoria, Van. couver’s Island. It is said the colonies evince much discontent at the manner in which they are treated by the home government. John Slidell recently applied through Minister Bigelow for a pardon, but the answer was returned that nocom- munication could be held with him. The Committee on Retrenchment appointed by the last Congress will meet in Washington to-day to prepare their report, which, it is said, will be very severe on some of the chiefs of Departments. The bill providing for impartial suffrage and universal amnesty was tabled in the Tennessoe House of Repre- sentatives yesterday by a vote of 89 to 29. Mra. Elizabeth Dunbam, a young widow of Troy, died in that city on Sunday from the effects of an attempt at abortion on her person bya doctress, who has been ar- rested. Edward Martindale, who is alleged to have been hor seducor, has fled the country. A large number of Fenians were released at Toronto yesterday morning and sent under guard to Suspension Bridge, They arrived in Buffalo last night. The Queen’s Own regiment was very much dissatisfied with the expected action in regard to the condemned prison- ers, and they say they will refuse to do duty if the prisoners are not hanged. The Court of Queen's Bench opened yesterday. No appeal for a new trial for Lynch and the others will be entertained until Thursday. In Missouri Frank Blair has been declared beaten in the recent election, the votes cast after sundown having been decided legal. This decision elects Ridgely, a radi- eal, to the State Senate, ‘The corner stone of the new Masonic Temple in Balti- more will be laid to-day, and it is expected that the President and his Cabinet will be present. Mrs, George Clogg, of Baltimore, while in a fit of in- sanity, cut the throat of one of her sister's children, and severely wounded one of her own. She attacked another child; but it escaped. Mra. Clogg was immo- diately removed to an insane asylum. Tas Heratp anp THe Government Commis- SIONERS TO Mext00.—The Hgratn’s correspond- ent sent to the republic of Mexico, with more energy and enterprise than the government representative, has succeeded in opening com- munication with President Juarez, and fur- nishes us a highly interesting statement of the plans and hopes of the liberal chieftain and his government. His valuable letter, pub- lished a day or two since, represents Juarez as ® man of decision and firmness, and quotes him as saying that the laws of the republic are to be vigorously enforced to the au; of all the unruly chieftains of the liberal party who are dividing its counsels and wasting its energies. A positive man in the present emergency is what Mexico needs most; and it will be all the better if the President now in power appears in this character. We shall have further information at an early date from Juarez’s headquarters upon various interesting topics, as also from Maximilian’s capital, and direct from our correspondent with the Commis. sionors, Campbell and Sherman, now en route to Vera Cruz. Of the insttuctions to and pur- poses of the latter Commissioners we publish this morning an important letter from one of our Washington correspondents, by which it appears that they go to watoh, not direct, Mexican offeirs. get Greeley, the difficulty of the two Senators of this State from the samte city oan only be removed by the resignation of Senator Morgan, and for the sake of an active man in the Senate from this metropolis, ‘who knows the ropes,” Mr. Morgan, by resigning, would do the handsome thing. Tho Alabama Olalme—Canads and the Fealans. Tt ts time now that the Alabama claims against England should be finally settled by the prompt payment of the money, without aay further negotiations, commissions or teoh- nicalities of any kind, Our government, or rather the State Department, has been fooling too long over the matter, and the British gov- ernment has, of course, taken advantage of the fact. But there are indications now, both in the language of members of the British Cabi- net and the flutterings of the English press, that the question is ripe for settlement. And why should it not be settled? Weare ina position to exact from Great Britain the pay- | ment of these claims to the uttermost farthing. eat in thedbadition of the countey.to hesltate fora single day in, insistfiig upon the eatistso- tion: of these just claims. With an army of fifty thousand men, which would instantly be increased toa hundred thousand by Fenian recognized the end of the rebellion, and in the. prevailing spirit, opinions, acts and declarations of the State authorities and leading politicians, from Virginia to Texas, there is abundant evidence that over all that region the rebellion, though disarmed, still exists, and that the oath of Hennibal of “eternal hatred to the Romans” is the oath of the ruling classes of the South against the “detested Yankees.” The same men who preached the constitution in their conspiracy to destroy the government accept the pardons of President Johnson only to return to the old claptrap of their constitutional rights, and are impudently urging the President to try a coup @’4at for their deliverance from what they call an unconstitutional Have we not had enough ofthis? Is not the fact established that confidence and indul- gences are thrown away ypon the intractable rebellious elements of the excluded States? Is it not apparent that if left to their own discre- tion in the matter of this amendment they will only use it to inflame their people to riots, in- surrections and anarchy? What, then, is the remedy demanded? In view of the great ends of law and order, the restoration of the Union, solid and strong, security and confidence, jus- tice and generosity, we think the time is at hand when Congress should interpose its au- thority, beginning de novo in a pian of récon- struction, which will be at once comprehensive, “short, sharp and decisive.’ We want no delenda est Carthago—no destruction of Car- thage—but we want no more tinkering or temporizing with this Southern difficulty. Un- der the constitutional war powers of Congress, by which the armed forces of the rebellion were put down and dispersed, its disarmed forees may be compelled to accept and ratify the terms of a fair, just and generous ultima- tum of restoration. We would accordingly submit to the Con- gress which is to reassemble in Washington on the first Monday in December a new constitu- tional amendment, or a modification of that before the States, so as to embrace, not the cheating proposition of impartial suffrage, but universal suffrage and @ universal amnesty as the basis of Southern restoration. The univer- sal suffrage we mean is the admission to the ballot box of all males of all races and colors of twenty-one years of age, except criminals and lunatics and “Indians not taxed ;” and the amnesty we mean is one which will reach from the rebel bushwhacker to Jeff Davis and his Cabinet, beginning with the release of Davis. We would further propose the enforcement of this settlement upon the rebellious South, as President Johnson en- forced the amendment abolishing slavery. To this end an act of Congress requiring the Pres- ident to place an army of one hundred thou- sand or a hundred and fifty thousand men un- der General Grant for the purpose of hurrying up the good work in the excluded States would be agood thing. Somothing of this sort is required to convince those States and their people that an unsuccessful rebellion brings ite pains and penalties, and that it is the victor and not the vanquished that dictates the treaty of peace. President Johnson’s efforts at restoration have turned out to be “love's labor lost.’”’ Let the rightfal authority of Congress, then, be interposed, and in a manner which will admit of no more trifling and no more delay. Let this new plan be placed in the hands of General Grant for its enforcement, and the thing will soon be done. Peace, restoration and harmony will speedily follow; for while the universal amnesty will throw the veil over the offences and offenders of the rebellion, uni- versal suffrage, blacks and all, will hold the recovered States firmly in the Union and with the cause of the Union. Moreover, by this plan, there will be the additional positive advantage to the South of a gain of some twenty odd members of Congress over the plan of negro exclusion from the suffrage. The authority and the power are in the hands of Congress, and this is our plan, as matters now stand, for a short, comprehensive, complete and speedy settlement. Axorage § Swinpte ATrsMPTED BY THE “Riwa.”—The “ruling passion of the ‘ring’ is strong in its death,” and it refuses to die without a final effort at a “job.” It was some time ago arranged by authorised parties that the lower end of the City Hall park was to be sold to the United States government at the nominal price of five hundred thousand dol- lars as the site for the new Post Office to be erected here; but the Board of Aldermen yee terday voted to change the terms, and the price has been doubled, on the gound that the property is really worth a million dollars. It is evident that there is a swindle at the bottom of this movement; for if the Board was holding out for the actual money value of the site why did it not demand two and a half or three millions for the property? It is worth all of that, and there are numerous parties in the city who would gladly give that sum for it Is the extra half million charged to pay the commissions to the members of the “ring t” Horace Gremusy ros tas Sanats.—Having been asked for his views upon the subject, the faithful Greeley says that he would like to go to the United States Senate. It appears, too, that the firm of Seward, Weed and Reymond, whipped out of thelr boots, are in favor of Gresley. So far po agod. Bul we ere to on the part of the British Cabinet; or we can seize British property wherever we find it, as a fair reprisal for the injuries done to our com- merce under the shelter of British connivance during the war. The subjopt of raising an army of one hundred and fifty thousand mon by Congress for the purpose of firmly carrying out a policy forthe reconstruction of the ooun- try, if such a measure should become neces- sary, is already broached. A very small por- tion of this force only would be required to overrun Canada and sweep the flag of England from every point of her American colo- nies within six weeks. This is’ the preciso period allotted for that work by General Sher- man, and it may take less time to do it with the aid of the already organized force of Fenians. This body, it is well known, has not aban- doned its designs on Canada. On the contrary, its military resources are daily receiving addi- tional strength in money, arms and munitions of war, and the circles all over the country are being formed into regiments of infantry and squadrons of cavalry and batteries of ar- tillery, regularly officered and uniformed. At @ hint from the government they would be ready to join any force of the regular or volun- teer army detailed for the subjection of the British provinces. We have thus the speedy settlement of the Alabama claims in our own hands, and it would be well for the British government to take the matter into serious consideration. ‘The spirit of this country will brook no delay now. We have the will, the power and the intention to bring this matter to an end with- out farther quibbling; and it is well that Lord Derby should understand that we regard all “arguments” upon the:point as exhausted by his predecessors, Lords Russell and Clarendon; that we want no commissions, nor any other forms of diplomacy, but simply the payment of the money down. Breaking Up of the Theatrical “Ring” of Ansoctated Managers. As the waters of the St. Lawrence at the Thousand Islands run hither and thither, up streafa and down stream, whirling, tumbling and distracted, so theatrical affairs in this city are now confused, turbulent, perplexed and variable. But under all the turbulence of the river a powerful current still pushes and drives the waters past the islands and onward towards the broad ocean; and so, under all the present strange theatrical confusion, we find the irre- sistible artistic influence of Ristori, Dawison and Dillon forcing the drama slong, in spite of obstacles and obstructions, towards that new and splendid era of the American stage which has been so long and eagerly anticipated. An observant philosopher may amuse himself by watching the carlous eddies, twistings and whirlings of the stream; but he cannot help perceiving that there is a constant and posi- tive progress beneath all these fantastic con- tortions and methodless meanderings. The theatrical “ring” of associated man- agers, under Wheatley and Barnum, like the Corporation “ring” of swindlera and jobbers, under Cornell and Tweed, is being broken up. Manager Wheatley is making his for- tune, but all his associates are suffering from his success, The fifty model artistes, im- ported from Paris, have completely eclipsed poor Barnum’s single Feejee mermaid, which is only half woman; and consequently the old showman will soon close his museum and re- tire from business, deserted by the public, of whom he was once the favorite, and strangled by the very “ring” which he assisted to contrive. One of the Bowery theatres, having literally gone to the dogs, is to be sold at auction. Poor Wallack has drifted: ont of sight and mind, after vainly attempting to offeet the exhibition of Manager Wheatley by reviving licentious comedies and hawking about the latest London sensational plays like @ theatrical agent. Worst of all, the jovial Stuart has discovered that the “ring” has failed to give his associates, Clarke and Booth, that monopoly of the tragedy and comedy of the metropolis upon which they confidently counted. Crowded out of the city by Owens and other good comedians, Clarke has found management anything but a profit- able investment, while Booth is compelled to Tely upon the engagement of Dawison as an advertisement and to give up half his nights to the moribund remains of squeaky Italian opera, and the once genial Stuart has now become morose in view of the fact that his honse has not been blessed with a large paying audience for nearly a year. Out of the losses can well afford to become @ candidate for Con- gress, like John Morrissey, and play the réle volunteers, we can aeize upon Canadas as a | material guarantee in case of refussi or delay | it public. The management of the New York theatre, boldly refusing tobe seduced into. the immo- rality of the “ring,” have cut out of their adap- ' tetion of @ populsr ‘novel ‘everything that savored, of prurienoy in the original work, and Jar sontiment'is not in the direction of Wheat- | ! naked trath.” ‘There ig muddy whirlpool that will fill manager Wheatley’s pockets full enough to enable him.to deal generously with the ballet girls, whose card we publish elae- where ; but the main stream is still pure, and flows only through pure channels. The asso- ciated managers are now in the minority, and only one of them is making money, while the independent managers, are the majority and are all successful. Oneswallow does not make aspring, and one remunerative piece of immo- rality does not entitle New York to rank as the modern Sodom and Gomorrah. Let our country censors bear these facts in mind when they again review the theatricals of this metropolis. Tho Pope’s Allecution—The End of the Papacy. In a recent address to the Consistory the Pope deplores the afflictions of the Church in Ttaly and “the grave insults offered to the Holy See” by the Italian government. The worst of the affligtions is that religious houses are suppressed, and that the innumerable thou- sands of lazy vagrants who have demoralized the nation and filled the convents must either change their lives or leave the country; and the most notable of the insults is that the Ttallan government treats “ecclesiastical cen- sures” in this matter with contempt, “not paying the least regard to our most just com- plaints and those of our venerable brethren, the bishops of Italy;” so the Pope raises his voice for the “Church, its holy laws and the rights of the Chair of St..Peter,” and by “his apostolic authority abrogates and proclaims nall and void, and without force or effect,” all the, recent decrees of the Italian government on the monasterios, civil marriage, &c. Such {s-the purport of the Pope’s.allooution. It is a great while since the Emperor of Germany stood for three days bareheaded at a castle gate waiting for the Pope to pardon one of his political offences, and it is doubtful whether “apostolic authority” hag any longer much force in the world. l- though the Pope does not seem to soe it, that state of affairs which once gave his utterances their importance has passed away. It cannot be profitable to discuss what has brought about the change, but the change has taken place, and it would better become the Pope’s dignity to recognize bis real relation to his surroundings than to be merely putting forth pitiful parodies of utterances that made the world tremble. The Papacy has lived out its time. It has had the full thousand years of the life of a nation, a government or a system, and it must die. Fortunately the world is still and always was progressive, and while it con- tinues to be so no aystem of either religion or government can be founded in any age that will continue vital when the world bas grown another thousand years older and wiser. The Papacy grew in the necessities of the world, and as it refuses to grow with the world and sets itself up stubbornly against that growth, it must be left behind. This latest declaration of the Pope can only farnish the enemies of the Church with new arguments against it. It expresses anew the’ irreconcilable opposition of Rome to the revival of nationality in Italy—to what the whole enlightened world perceives with plea- sure. Can there be in the world any more atrocious inconsistency than that the only declaration against the organization for the Italian people ef justice and liberty should come from the pretended representative on earth of Him who deolared freedom for the slave and equality to all men? No, the Papacy is of another age ; the Pope must be in a false position, do what he will. His time is come, and he must render under Cesar that which belongeth to Cesar. Tas Srm Amono tas Democratic Pou- ‘ttotans.—The democratic politicians, thrown upon their beamonds, with “the time honored principles of the party,” In the late elections, are really beginning to discover that there has been a deluge, that even “the Union as it was” before the flood is gone, and that “the consti- tation as it is” justifies negro suffrage. The motion made by a prominent copperhead organ at Chicago the other day in favor of universal suffrage, negroes and all, is seconded by the old copperhead organ of the Albany Regency, endorsed, with a qualification of reading and writing, by the anclent copperhead oracle of Boston, while even an old dried up newspaper fossil of Washington, of the copperhead genus, is convinced that the civil rights of the negroes down South ought to be granted to the full extent of the civil rights bill. In short the among the drift of the late elections, are scrambling out from the ruins of their old organization and casting about for a new departure. Some of them propose to cut loose from President Johnson as the cause of all their woos, and strike out boldly for negro suffrage. On the other hand, it is rumored from Wash- ington that the President will cut loose from There is,as usual at this time of the year, considerable speculation as to what the Secre- the Treasury wil! recommend in b § ry Ss F rt ii Hh one millions per annum, and, with the exception of a few millions of ten-forty bonds at five per cent, all the securities thus deposited bear interest at the rate mentioned. This large amount annually expended, we need hardly say, is absolutely thrown away by the government to fatten a dangerous financial monopoly whose circulating notes constitute the weakest part of our whole financial system. They are not legal tenders, and actas.a stand- ing incubus at this and other monetary centres, and whenever we attempt to resume specie payments, in five or perhaps ten years hence, they would, if permitted to remain in exist- ence, prove the most formidable obstacle in our way toresumption. There is no compensating advantage to the government whatever in this annual payment of twenty-one millions in gold, an amount which, if placed at compound inte- rest, would be sufficient within no very long period to pay off the whole of the national debt, Most of these banks are paying enormous dividends, as for instance the First National Bank of this city, which has paid at the rate of twenty per cent per annum in cash to its stock- holders since its organization, besides carrying twenty per cent more to ita surplus fand. We theretore call upon Congress to withdraw the subsidy it is now paying these institutions, by amending the national currency act so as to substitute three hundred millions of legal tenders for the three hundred millions of national bank notes outstanding, and oaa- cél thereupon the bonds now deposited as a basis of circulation to an equivalent amount. Then we should have a uniform currency based upon the credit of the government, and with no banks of issue in the country every beak would have to do business upon legal tenders. The weak element in our currency system would be thus eradicated and the government would be saved twenty-one millions in gold annually. This is the important question we shall call upon Congress to consider and aot upon when it assembles. Collapse of the Corporation Ring—The Office ot City Comptroller. Only a few days ago the organs of the Tam- many rump were rejoicing over a demooratlc majority of forty-six thousand in this ¢ity for their leader, and the election of Messrs. Mor- rissey, Fernando Wood, Brooks and Chanler to Congress. To-day their organization is broken into pieces, their leaders are squabbling and fighting among themselves, and their whole programme for the charter election is hope- leasly upset. Emulous of the anticipated me- teoric shower, which, despite the sage predic- tions of Professor Loomis and other astronomio humbugs, was visible in England and not om this continent, the principal stars of the “ring” have shot from their places, and after emitting some sparks of literary brilliancy have gone out into darkness. Comptroller Brennan, who was never fit for the office he has filled, and who has only played second fiddle to Peter B. Sweeney, makes the most imposing exit, since he spits out his fire at everybody without dis- crimination, while Street Commissioner Corneil confines his pyrotechnic display to Governor Fenton and Judge Whiting. As we predicted, the defeat of the Baron von Hoffman has proved fatal to the “ring.” He was the linchpin of the concern, and when he was lost the whole machinery went to pieces. His large vote in this city, controlled only by the liquor and lager beer interests, amounted to nothing ; for the very men who gave him his majority here set the stamp of reprobation upon the “ring” he represented, by defeating his candidate for Register and laying the foundation for the ruin and destrac- tion that have fallen upon his friends, It now becomes the duty of those who have thus effectually destroyed the corrupt “ring,” under whose rule the city has been so long suffering, to set seriously at work at the busi- ness of reconstruction. Prompt and decisive measures are the order of the day, and we must have no temporizing or hesitating policy, either fn our local or general affairs. It is the duty of Congress, by a bold and masterly stroke, to effect the settlement of the national question of reconstruction, and it remains for the citizens of New York to set to work with similar determination © Sruearw municipal government. This is on! done by the nomination of an honest and up- right man as City Comptroller, which ts now the most office in the city, and is, in fact, the key to the whole position. The head of the Financial Department has the control of eighteen or twenty million dollars yearly, and it {s in his power to cancel every corrupt job that may be undertaken by the Common Council or vgn pera @inate departments. He be « man chosen independent of any bargains and of all cliques, and who hes suffictent self-reliance and positive character to withstand the appli- ances certain to bear upon him as soon as ho te GSvly foatelleg In the gfeo. Such © man wa ee << - S CO