The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1867, Page 4

bd SS ee © re oe NEW YORK HERALD. | seer ts 2.2mm set mere ot at rors Pont presented some points of law in the case on JAMES: GORDON BENNETT, ‘which the jury should be obarged. The alleged attempt to obtain money from the counsel for the prosecution tm the case ia reafirmed by our correspondent ot Wash- FROFSIATOR, ington, who states that the bogus witnosses were pri- 5 vately examined by Judge Piorrepont, who, suspecting “er pacer ya ied their character, declined to accept of their profiered testimony. The negroes in Now Orleans yesterday commemorated the anniversary of the riote of last July by celebrating high mass in the Mechanics’ Institute for the repose of the souls of the victims. General Sneridan bas published an order removing Governor Throokmorton, of Texas, rd appointing BE. M. Pease in his place. The ex-Governor has been making bimself officious in arguing against @ convention, and is therefore deemed an impediment to early reconstruction. Dexter won the matoh against Brown George and ruoniog mate at Boston yesterday im three straight heats, making the second in 2:19, whioh is said to be the best ever made on a half-mile track. lesale grain house of Moore & Covoll, ia Troy, suspended yesterday. The liabilitios aco estimated at $130,000, A series of gas explosions took place in Gloucester, Maas., on Monday eveniog, by which from fifteen to twenty Qremen woro badly burned, aad oue of them is not expected to live. The ladies of the White House, the family of Secro- tary Welles and Mr. Faxon arrived ia Boston yostorday on the gunboat Asoutney. A court martial has convened at Buffalo for the trial of seventeen soldiers of the Fourth artiltery for parading with Fenian organization in Fenian uniforms. A wharf in Philadelphia filled with bogsbeads of mo- Inggos and sugar gave way yeaterday, upsotting tho sugar and molasses into tho water aud causing the death of three mon by drowning, ROADWAY AND ANN STREET. avusiness or news letters and telegraphic despatches my ° addressed New Yor Hamat. tore and packages should be properly scaled. gjected Communteations will not be returned. ” (HE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, war cents por copy. Annual subscription price, $14. JOB PRINTING o& every description, also Stereo- wring and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at Dre lowest rates. . Volume XXXII... ———s == AMUSEMENTS THi> AFTERNOON AND BYBNING. @ORRELL SISTERS’ NEW YORK THBATRE, oppo. ete New York Hotel —Nosopr’s Davonren, on Tum Bat ‘Lap Sinagr or Warring. gururic THEATRE, Broadway.—Covvxsvs Recon: 15 Last Leas. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery —Axroxr axD Ceo Parna—GRann TouRnamenr. BANVARD'S NEW YORK MUSEUM, Broadway and ‘street. —Tine TkikS ALL—STAGE STRUOK TAILOR, Mativee atd o'Clock. TERRAOK GARDEN, Third Avenue, Fifty-eighth and fty-ninth strocts.—Tagopomm Tuouas' Porvias Con- ounte, at 8 o'Clock P. M. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Drasatic axp Musioan Ewrentainax xt. The Next Presidency-Tho Canvases Com- monced. The campaign for the next Presidency has opened ; half a dozen candidates are already before the public, paced and lauded by their respective adhoronts and admirers, and the canvass is active, for and against, on all the names. The most significant point developed thus far is the shy fighting against Grant from all the factions. Representative journals of all the republican cliques discuss the Presi- dency with gusto so long as they are per- mitted to merely laud their little favorites—to mention the virtues and claims of Chase, Stanton, Colfax and Old Ben Wade; but no sooner is the name of Grant heard than thore is a sudden change in their manners. Itis amusing in such circumstances to hear them deprecate the discussion of the Presidoncy. They say it is too soon. They urge, then, that the Presi- dency should be untouched for some time yet, and argue that there are a great many other topics that naturally precede it and ought to be settled first. They run hurriedly over the list of national troubles—reconsiruction and the ten torn up States, tho national debt, the Indian war, and so on. This shallow dodge to escape from what they fear to face will avail but little; for the people have already seen and determined that all these national evils are to be settled by settling the great question of the Presidency. The settlement of the Presidency is the necessary preliminary to all other settle- ments in matters of national policy. It is at the root of all; it underlies and involves all; it is the great first fact for the next period in the life of the country; and if it is settled right all other points will settle themselves in har- monious accordance with it; while any attempt to patch up an arrangement of great national toptcs In advance of this settlement and with- out reference to it must inevitably ond in failure. One of the more advanced of the republi- can organs puts its opposition to Grant on a rather broader basis. It is afraid that, may be, he is not a good enough republican. It does not know enough of his principles to feel sure of his fidelity or to be satisfied that he is such a true representative of the power and great- ness of the nation—so in sympathy with the mass of the people as to make him their proper Executive. It is one of tho astonishing things of the ago that there are pygmy people—men who bave never done anything better in the world than write trashy politics and try ex- periments on their own precious digestion with bran bread—who have yet the ineffable im- pudence to stand ap and question the fidelity and the genius of a man with General Grant's history. ‘It is the strangest of contradictions that in the United States, whose whole people are entitled to honor for what they have done more than for what they have said, whose greatness is in their achievements, not in their speeches—in the ideas they have wrought into tremendous facts rather than framed in fine sentences—it is a strange contradiction that in such a country, in the midst of such a people, that man should be decried and questioned who has given the most direct evidence that he isa real type of the people, in baving done more than any other man and eaid less. To this Wendell Phillips argument—this phrase- monger’s notion—that the man who has led the American people to the most wonderful achievements of the age bas no ideas and no principles, because he has not written and will not write political letters to two or three men in Massachusetts, we will make no serious answer. Yet we are happy to be able to state that General Grant bas « platform, and one that will bear comparison with the platform of any professed politician in the country, His first plank relates to what the American people should do. He believes they should cultivate the soil. He holds that it ought to be the ambition of every American citizen to be a good farmer, and acknowledges and declares that that is his own “groatest ambition.” His reduction of Vicksburg, his capture of Chattanooga and final destruction of all the rebel armies were only incidents in his career, and each success welcome as bring- ing nearer the happy day when he should go home and smell the fresh earth and take a pride in the ripened grain of his farm. From this natural occupation ® man may turn for one Paramount reason—his duty to his country. To mind that duty is the first great thing a man has to do in life, This is another plank in the platform, and this will disgust the radi- cals, who believe that a man’s first duty is not to his country, but to his party. Grant also holds that when 4 man has performed this duty he ought to retire to private life. This point in the candidate's principles is expected to secure him the opposition of all the offite bolders, including Seward, Welles, and Stanton, who will never fetire to private life if they can belp it Grant believes that he has done bis duty, and feels, at all events, that he has earnestly tried to do it; nevertheless, if the country still calls, he ts roady. If the people wish to give him the Presidency be will take it} bo Will defer bis retirement at the national bidding, though when he has dono by duty in Wat Une fr fou, eght goa UNION PARK, Sixty-third street, East river.—(/nano Scumen Nigut Fesrivav. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, oppo. (the New York Motol.—In rumin Soxas, Daxvas, Eco an fuiocrmes, Buaiesques, &¢.—Exnani—(xovucaunt Parents. 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The news roport by tho Atlantic cable is dated yes terday evening, July 30. The Berlin journais claim that Napoleon addressed ®@ note to the Prussian government on the subject of North Sobloswig, but that King Wikiam replied in a “defant tone,’ and hence the ‘false’ assertions of the Paris Monitewr tn denial of the note, Lord Stanley in- formed the English House of Commons that the French Emperor had forwarded a note to the King of Prussia, Dat that it would be “improper to disclose its contents” Just now, The Emporor of Franco is to visit Vienna on the Tth of August, Franois Joseph meeting him on the frontier in the Tyrol. The new flag of the North Ger- man confederation will come in use in October. The Austrian Prime Minister and Minister of Turkey, whu focompanies tho Sultan, have hada conference on the affairs of Candia in Vionna, The members of fhe English House of Lords have advanced the Btandard of proporty qualification for some classes of voters undor the new Reform bill, and seek thus to contract the franchise, The oropa in France are injured by drought, It is sald that American implementa have carried off tho prizes at the grand in ternational contest of reaping and mowing machinos. The vessels of the United States squadron arrived at Cowes, Gonoral Fariola, of the Fenian organization, 19 ‘under examination ia Dublin, The Goodwood races Commenced yesterday. The Stewards’ cup was won by Sibthorpe. Consuls closed at 04 for money in London, Five-twon- tes wore at 72 9-16 in London, ‘The Liverpool cotton market closed dull, with mid- Gling uplands at 103¢4. In the breadstuffs market corn Fecovered from a decline, Provisions were without any marked change. THE CITY. Tho Board of Aldermen met yesterday and transacted @ largo ammount of business, but none of any special im- portance. The Board of Supervisors mot yesterday and passed $5,000 for clerical help in the Sarrogate’s Court, and $45,864 27 for work and material on the new Court House. Tho Board of Health met yesterday, when Dr. Harris’ ‘wookly lotter was received. It shows that there were 677 deaths in New York and 277 in Brooklyn, includ- fing the public institutions, during the week. Loave ‘was given to the commitvee charged with suggesting a wattorm rule of action between the Quarantine Inspec- tors and Heaith Board Lospectors ta the lower bay, to Foport next woek. 4n injanotion has been issucd restraining the Quaran- ‘tine Commissioners from acquiring a title to the ground oa Coney Island selected as site for a landing and Doarding station. ‘The Inman line steamship Edinburgh, Captain Bridge- man, Will sal! from, pier 45 Nerth river, ai noon to-day (Wodnesday) for Liverpool, touching at Queenstown to to land passengers, Ac. ‘Tho stock market was unsettled yesterday, but closed firm. Governments wore dull but firm. Gold closed at 10K. The markots wore generally dull yestorday, dospite the Grmer tone of the gold market, though values were Dut little changed, Cotton was fiemer. Oo ‘Change our was in good demand at full prices Wheat was irregular, Cora was lower, Osis closed heavy. Pork ‘Was more active, but = shade lower. Beef was un- @hangea, Lard was steady. Froights were dull. Whis. Key was o shade easier, Naval stores were quist, though generally steady. Petroleum was very frm and active, Wool remained dull and heavy; MISCELLANEOUS. The present condition of Tennessee appeers to be that Of a volcano just previous to an eruption. Riots and disturbances of all kinds ate seriously apprehended on the day of election, although the united efforts of the federal dna State officers, military and civil are being ‘used to prevent them. Etheridge and Williams, the uber. Batorial and Congressional candidates of the conser. watives, were driven out of Jackson in East Tenneseso ‘Dy the citizens, who would nos permit thom to speak! A gueritja party charged into Purdy, MoNara county, on Friday ight but were driven oat after slight skirmish. tng by & Company of State militia Disturbances are Poported all over the State, The plan of the conserva- tives, it ig said, is to split up the radicals as much as Possible, and obtain & Legisiature of their own, when (hey will snd Andrew Johuson to the United States Benate In the Constitutional Convention, yesterday, the pend- {ng question was on © motion to strike out the section folating to registry faws, That portion of it making the fegistryfaws uniform throughout the Stave was stricken out by a vote of Ti to 48. During debate apon the ques. ton Mg, Alvord called upon the members of the republi- ean party to assume the responsibility that belonged to them, a2 the opposition had shown a disposition to take & partisan advantage in every instance Numerous Diner amendments were proposed and acied apon, and ‘the Convention adjourned uat!! this morning. . | The President yesterday issued @ cirewar instructing Attorneys and United States Marshals to be vigi. fot the prevention of a violation of the geutrality 1n@p by Giibustoring parties, oe It ts now stated that President Johnson will not re- quire to Consult with hie Cabinet on the gubject of re. Ynoring Genera! Sheridan, and will probably remove bim {8 & day oF two, Se will expect to be allowed to go home, giving ‘Up politics and every possible public office. This is tho best platform ever laid down since the first invention of that dangerous piece of political machinery. We are aware, how- ever, that it does not tell what the party men want to know, and will not ailenco their clamor; for it gives no indication how they may get at the candidats with their bargains, When a pariisan journal declares that it does not know a public man’s principles, it means that it does not know his price; it means that the clique it represents has not yet had a chance to sve the candidate and find out how be stands with respect to their little games— whether he will concede this post office or that ministry in consideration of the support of the faction ; and exactly this is what is moant by those republican journals who say that they do not know the principles of the man whose principles are tneffaceably written in the his- tory of the war. They say to mention his name for the Presidency is premature. It will always be premature UH they have made their bar- gains, and thus they wi.l be telling their read- ors it is premature when the people with unani- mous decision have declared by ballot that Grant is the man, Probable Results of the Eaglish Reform Bill. A few daya more and we shall be informed that the Reform agitation, which has been maintained with great spirit for the greater portion of the last two years, has peacefully come to an end. The admission of upwards of halfa million additional voters directly from the ranks of the people cannot fail to immensely popularize the government of the mother country, and to assimilate it in certain impor- tant particulars to that of ber daughter on this side of the Atlantic. The stride which Eng- land has just made towards popular govern- ment is unexpectedly large. It will do much to settle the question of Reform for at least an- other generation. It would be absurd, how- ever, toimagine that the goal has been reached; that domands, on the one hand, and concessions, on the other, were equally to cease. The present Roform bill has not been more necessary to complete what was granted in 1832 than, in forty or fifty years hence, another Reform bill will be necessary to complete what is granted now. Lord Cranborne and Mr. Lowe were undoubt- edly right when they spoke of Mr, Disraeli’s bill as pointing unmistakably towards democratic institutions. England Is yet far from universal suffrage ; but universal suffrage is not on that account less certain to be a fact of the future. The tendency Is clear and decided, though the progress may be slow. It is not our opinion that any portion of the English people, from the occupant of the throne downwards, have reason to apprehend evil as the reault of this measure, The House of Commons fave passed a Reform bill greatly more liberal than either whig or tory intended it should be. It is not, however, a whit either too large or too liberal. It has grown irre- slstibly in the hands of its framers ; its excel- lence, too, has increased with its bulk, and the people of England are indebted for what they are receiving rather to the force of circum- stances than to the wisdom or foresight of any of their statesmen. Nota few there are who stand beholding with wonderment and fear this offspring of the genius and the daring of Disraeli, They can see it only in the light of @ national misfortune. It is to be the fruitful parent of inconceivable ills. The tide of de- mocracy, with its up-swelling and on-sweeping billows, is to overwhelm the Church, the no- bility and the monarchy in one general ruin. Such feara are totally groundless, though to excite them may serve the temporary purpose of scheming or angry politicians. So sweop- ing a revolution would be to the advantage of no one, and there are at stake moral and ma- terial interests sufficiently powerful to prevent it, That the large infusion of popular energy into the constitution for which the bill pro- vides will work changes in the social and political system of the country, it would be ab- surd to refuse to admit. The pulse of the na- tion will have at once a firmer and a quicker beat. Government will come more immedi- ately under the control of the national will; absurd privileges and obsolete rights will suffer; the immense revenues of the Church will be utilized and turned to some practical account, and the nobility and the crown will be compelled to identify their interests with those of the people. But these will be blessings rather than misfortunes; and they are to be considered prospective rather than immediate results. Republicanism, as exemplified in the United States, rather than Cesarism, as exem- plified in France, is the model alter which England is shaping herself; but the transforma- tion will be slow and deliberate, and may not be found to be incompatible with the consecra- tion of most that is truly noble in @ constita- tion which is at once ancient and honored; which has already weathered many a storm, and which, notwithstanding its faults, has itself furnished the model of {ree institutions all over the world. Condition and Manage: Revenue. Mr. McCulloch imagines, probably, that he has bridged over the difficulties and blame at- tached to the gross Internal Revenue frauds lately discovered, and most likely he has relapsed into his former state of inactivity. But from what we hear there is reason to be- lieve the enormous frauds in whiskey were not the only ones, and, notwithstanding the appa- rent spasmodic vigilance aroused in the Depart- ment, we doubt if all these have been reached. Besides the whiskey frauds there are frauds of an extensive character in tobacco, petroleum and other things. Nor are they confined to this city alone; they are general throughout the country. As to the appointment of the Metro- politan Revenue Board, that is all very well ag far as it goes, but is it sufficient to meet the evil? It is not only this city that requires such a board, if that be the remedy ; every im- portant place or district inthe country must need one as well. This may become oum- brous and expensive, though temporarily use- ful. The truth is the whole machinery of the Internal Revenue system needs to be reorgan- {zed and simplified, 90 that the head of the Department himself may have a vigilant eye over all its workings. The government has lost uring the last yoar from seventy to a hundred millions of dollars through the mismanagement of the Internal Revepue Department, and un- loss Mr. MoOulloch shows more vigilance and skill he will soon find a deficiency in the in- come of the government and a bankrupt Troseury. it of the Luternal . WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 186 Mexice and Peace. From our Mexican advices it is apparent that Mexico is setiling into quiet after her fearful revolutionary storm. The liberal party, now fally established in power, are inclining to mercy towards the remainder of their imperial prisoners, Many of the generals among these are to be sont to their respective States, where they will doubtless receive proper trial ; but thore is little fear that we shall see repeated the executions that attended the first days of the liberal success. Whatever there may have been of justice in the shooting of these political prisoners, it is clear that the Mexicans did not live up to the example which we set them at the close of our rebellion, and which the world has characterized as one of unparalleled magnanimity, worthy the emulation of every nation and of the civilization of theage. Now, however, the people appear to be returning to reason and coolness, and it is possible that the liberal party may regain their reputation for that high-toned dealing with their political opponents which bas ever characterized their former history. Our policy is peace and the closest anion of the political bonds of good will between the two countries. It is necessary te correct these abuses which have orept into prominence and whieh have a tendency to stir up turbulent eloments that do muoh damage to both nations and postpone the harmonious relationship which our geographical contact requires. Fore- most among these is the filibustering spirit, which, we are pleased to notice, is about to be crushed by an order from President Johnson. At the same time an order should be issued suspending tho issue of that journal on the Rio Grande which is the medium of all the ultra rebel sentiment of Texas, the filibustering weapon of aggressive warfare against our neighbor, and the worat element of disturbance and misunderstanding that exists between Mexico and the United States. Very little reliable Mexican news has ever roached us from the Rio Grande except from our special correspondence. Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico must now give the most trustworthy data. Wholesale slaughters of imperial generals and specches from liberal leaders, tending to on- rage the publio against our neighbor, have been fabricated in quantities. The late bloodthirsty document attributed to Escobedo bears evi- dences of a Rio Grande authorship. This gen- eral, owing to his known opposition to foreign- ers, ia the unwitting mouthpiece of every sen- sational fabrication on that subject. He repre- sents a emall class in Mexico who, with worse than Japanese exclusiveness, would make us believe that their country has no common bond with other nations, and that Mexico belongs entirely to the firet squatters and their de- scendants, , It is fortanate that this class is limited and is the relic of that old Spanish teaching which, up to their war of independence, shut Mexico and South America out from the rest of Chris- tendom. The great mass of the leading liberals, with Juarez at their head, are disposed to throw the country open to the world, as is proven by the principles of the constitution which they have been fighting to establish. There are now no two great elements in Moxioo which can force two equally powerful parties into position. It is therefore probable that, with a few minor turmoils incident to a fifty years’ revolution, which the central gov- ernment can readily control, the country will have peace, providing we do not, by organized efforts in the United States, furnish the ele- ments for new strife. We therefere deem it our duty to give Mexico every chance; to main- tain towards her a dignified position as an up- holder of the same lofty principles which are viotorious on her territory after such long and bloody strife. She is levelling the fortifications which the empire built to dominate hor cities with small garrisons, We approve of this; for it means peace. She is aboui to remove Esco- bedo, that exponent of hatred against foreigners. It is a good sign—means progress and is an invitation to the world to assist in the develop- ment of Mexican wealth. They are about to re-elect Juarez. It is well; for it will show Europe that he is upheld by the people, that they are determined to elect their own rulers and that they endorse his acts. They are now putting in force, as the organic law of the land, a constitution whose liberalism and wis- dom are not surpassed by our own, and more liberal by far than the code which the empire tried toimpose. They have fought hard for it; let them try it. Mexico hopes for peace—had won peace when the empire overthrow it. With peace Mexico has @ brilliant future. She is a sister republio ; let us help her ! Trouble Among the Mormons. There is trouble among the saints of Sait Lake City. A schism has broken out in their ranks and is daily widening. Young Joe Smith, son of the original founder of Mor- monism, has “pronounced” against the Church as presided over by Brigham Young, and with- drawn to the other side of the Rocky Moun- tains, where he is said to have gathered to- gether some forty or fifty thousand adherents. People in Salt Lake City have latterly devel- oped an awkward habit of thinking for them- selves and criticising the ections of their spiritual leaders. They begin to doubt whether it is essential to the faith that the head of the Church should have quite so many wives as he has, or levy quite such extortionate tithings ashe does. A heretical newspaper bas been started among them and professes to disorim- inate between Mormonism and Brighamism, very much to the disadvantage of the letter creed. The faithful are said to be growing “tired and disgusted with the continual petty tyrannies exercised over both body and mind, and the perpetual drain upon the resources of their industry to keep ups legion of presidents, apostles, bishops, elders, teachers and triple the number of wives, to say nothing of chil- dren.” So deep is the goneral dissatisfaction that only e bold leader is wanted to bring about a revolution in the camp aad a change of Presidency or # complete break up. All this is very sad, and may be even more deplorable tn its results. When old Joe Smith quarrelled with his wife he immediately had revelation in favor of polygamy. Now that the whole Church has fullen out, we may oz pect not one revelation, but many. We look for the immediate issue of at least two bulky appendices to the Book of Mormon, and pos sibly some revelation that will upset the whole téigious world and drive Fourlerites, spir- {tualists and free lovers to distraction. These Mormons ought to be looked to. Could not Greeley undertake another peace mission, o¢ go ball fox Brigham, or do gomothing? It world be much more in his line than the Austrian mission, and he need not leave the country, Greeley’s Objections. Greeley objects to the agitation at this time of the next Presidency, and especially in con- nection with the name of General Grant, because it is too soon; because a few poli- ticians by trade have taken him up; because the Tribune philosopher does not know exactly where to place General Graut; because “the people are not in the mood for trying the grab- bag experimeni;” because “they will insist on having a President who fally knows his own mind,” and “who has not essentially another mind from theirs ;” because they have burot their fingers too often in taking candidates on trust; because they find “General Grant’s name the shibboleth of discreditable camp followers and shoddy patriots of the late war,” and because, while the personal qualities and popularity of the candidate are important, “his fearless and explicit devotion to republi- can ideas is a primary and essential requisite.” “Devotion to republican ideas,” is good, coming from Greeley, who, from advocating secession, and then the payment of four hun- dred millions of dollars to the rebels for their negro slaves,.and then peace at any price, and then @ general jail delivery of the rebels, negro suffrage or no negro suffrage, finally hur- ries off to Richmond to go bail for Jeff Davis, Where can we find @ candidate whose “devo- tion to republican ideas will meet the demands of Greeley?” All bosh! “The republican ideas” which Greeley is after are the same as those for which all the other politicians are pipe-laying—they are the spoils and plunder, and every. politician has bis price. Fruits of the Now Excise Law. The attempt to reform the morals of our people by paltry and meddling legislation is already producing its natural fruit. We do not mean to insinuate that legislation and mo- rality have no necessary connection. But we do mean that when legislation condescends, for the ends of morality, to interfere with matters not necessarily immoral in (heir tendency, thus robbing the individual of the right of private judgment, it not only defeats the ends which it had in view, but becomes the parent of other and greater evils than those from which it pur- posed to deliver. It was so in Puritan Old Eng- land; it has been so in Puritan New England. In the former country the severe legislation of the Commonwealth begot the excesses of the Restoration, In the latter the immoral prac-_ tices which prevailed and which have obtained a worldwide notoriety, found their natural sources in the principles of a protracted Puri- tan domination. The present Excise regula- tions are to be traced to the same narrow and meddling spirit, and we are already por- mitted to taste their bitter and nauseous fruit. We only state the simple truth when we say that that desperate affray which took place last Sunday on the Hudson, which oonveried the William Titamar and the two attendant barges into doating hulls, and which resulted in the death of one maa and in the wounding and mutilation of several others, would not havo happened but for this stupid Excise law. The liberty which is not to be had within the clty bounds will be taken beyond thom, and what law does not permit violence will secure. We have no sympathy with the rowdyism and bru- tality which were manifested on the occasion referred to, and it is our earnest hope that the guilty will be brought to justice ; but for the benefit of our would-be social reformers we have taken the liberty of pointing to the real root of the evil. Our State Our State Constitutional Convention on Monday last adjourned over to Tuesday with- out doing anything, because they could not drum up a quorum. We guess they would do just as well to adjourn finally, shut up shop and go home without any more of their constitu- tion tinkering. The upshot of all their labors will probably be, except upon some small matters, to leave the constitution pretty much as itis, with the addition of an amendment providing for universal negro suffrage, wh'ch will most probably be rejected by the people, involving in toto the rejection of the new con- stitution. We expect this rejection because it is determined that this negro suffrage shall not be separately submitted. The grand result, then, will be that the republicans, with their canal spoils, and the democrats, with their cor- poration spoila, will have another lease of twenty years for their games of plundering the people. Johneon and Sheridan. It is given out, apparently by authority from the White House, that General Sheridan, com- mander of the Fifth Southern Military District, is to be displaced, and that Thomas or Hancock is to take his place. Very well. The President, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, may do this, but why stop at Sheridan? Why— ifhe wishes to make another fight with Con- greas—why not remove all five of these military commanders? That experiment would cer- tainly bring the conflict between Congress and the White House to a decisive issuc, and es Mr. Johnson seems to desire this, why not make a clean job of it at once? REMOVAL OF GOVERNOR THROCKMORTON, OF TEXAS. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. New Oncaea | Throckmorton, as Governor of Texas, headed the office holders in Texas, who are using ail their influence with the people against voting for convention, and Going all in their power to impede reconstroction Al! ‘will De removed who pursue this course. ‘THE PRESS TELEGRAM. New Onceane, July 90, 1867, ‘The following order ts io print this evening: SPECIAL ORDBR—NO. 105, Frera Mivtary Duetaict, A careful consideration of the reports of Brevet M General Charies Griffin, United States Army, shows thas 4. M. Throckmorton, Governor of Texas, ia an impedi- the reconstrustion of that State wader the law. therefore, removed from that offica EB. M. by ,oo! ted Sa ig 4 home place of jrocktmorton, retov ane will obeyed and reapectod ea 5% Ren of by P. SHERIDAN, Major General, Gronca L. Harraver, Assistant Adjutant General. The Republican saye Governor Pease was recom: mended by A. J. Hamilton, He is a native of Conmecti- cut, but has resided in Texas since 1883, Hoe isa lawyer of eminence st the Texas bar, hag served in both ranches of the Texas Legisiatare, and waa twice elected Sea eorving from 1868 w i851. ‘He was 0 cousist- Dien Man during the war, APPCINTMENT OF A COLORED REGISTER AT NEW ORLEANS, New Onnmans, July 90, 1867. Births and De was orereer Flanders, and Ser sta A. ‘Of 1812, Was appointed to the i rl Ld F. M Crozoat, joved today by ro, & colored veteran position, a TENNESSEE. “FOUL TELEGRAM TO THE HEhaLa Adnire Preceding the E'rctisn< f Troops im Nashvilic—Dis. ons Leaving Town—Exploits tad to MeNary County— ‘Miamse Driven Owe of Jacksbore—Audrew 1 "knees for (he Ualtod Staten Soonte (rom Fo Oi win, July 30, 1867, 10 w'Clock P.M. } ‘The exact rea of are whites 65,022, end blacks aie with twelve coun: tes to hear (rom. The negrocs are im the majority ‘@ pearl.’ eli the coun. tlee of Middie and Wentorm Tennesse, but the whites are im @ large majority ia East Tennessee, The registers. tion of Henry county ‘sas beem thrown out by the Stety Authorities - for alleged fraudulent aotiom on the ‘part of the Commissioners. %, The State ot . troops as are within 'gthe district, clared his intention to severely punish the any disturbance, n0 matter to what party He will station the ¢roops at the outskirts ‘away from the pol! , that there may be no wwtimidation, but y ®t near enough to be available in case of ‘eiot, Thecity will be patralied oy cavalry equads, who se duty it will be to gallop to heal- quarters with the fir, # intelligence of trouble, General ‘Thomas is expected } sere to-morrow or day after. Bization of the Youn § Men's Conservative Club has de Gided to forego its inte aded parade. The radical authoriti: ™ withdapw their application te the Mayor to appoint a ‘ertion ofghe special throe hua- dred police from radica® citizens, leaving him to take the responsibility of selec: tag an onth “oly partizan force, de mate the appointments. ata t Chose a portion of the men from the radi A now rogimoat of State callitin is rapia 'Y org snistag in the vicinity. Despite all these preparations against an on “toreak, tha public mind is very uneasy. Business wilt & ? Partaligy suspended on election day and many morch *eand citizens, especially those who are disfranchisa ¢ or ere not voters, are proparing to leave thecity to-m Tow, taking with them thoir wives aud families. Captain Cramer, au ex-toderal oillcer who bes aot ‘led in thie State and who has been assisting in the duties oF (he registration commissioner, was assaulted and knookes ‘ senseless to-day at the Chattanooga depot by a man foc whose loyalty he had refused to vouch. Captain Hamilton, & company of State Cooper Pg By sd [egg a apencedhyne dashed into the town on Friday Seat — and attacked him. A desultory skirmish continued until daylight, when the troops and drove the gu: from the town on the ewig rain the Tennessee river. They suffered a loss of three wounded, the State troops cecap- ing without loas, On tho next day a flag raising by the Loyal League, in which the troops participated, led to a disturbance, ia which a sergeant was shot and the Shorift of the county mortally wounded. A from ville states that Elleridge, and jidate, Williams, the mitted to epeak to-day at Ji out of town by the crowd, who fired pis! Stone obs BS riking and injuring Wiliams They Kent oe! ® meoting at Clinton ,which was foil ‘by a silght disturbance, ip which oueoce two were slightly hurt. © It te said that the conservative in the present canvass is to gecure the election of candidates for the Logisiature with a view to retarding President Joho. — the ageing ape ext year, igre ys Contess their inabi elect Etheridge, hence have ‘matted ii radical candidates, (ostered splits in that party and put Brownlow's uame 0a many of their own tickets. . SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Tho Political Campaign—Disappearauce of the Domucratic Party—The Crops. NasaviLte, July 28, 1867. The friends of Brownlow have been figuring a mas jority all the way from fifteen to forty thousand. The unconditional Union white men of Tennessee have ail slong sumbered forty thousand. There have been, or will be By election day, about one hundred thoussad voters registered, The frionds of Ktheridge number about forty thousand voters, There will be, very probably, large accessions from among the Union mon, who will vote for htm on socoumt of the specches of Frank Blair and other Northern men who have takew the stump for him. Besides, individuals at election time are very liable to change from one side to another. Brownlow's majority and re-election, beyoud poradves- ture, will come, therefore, from the newly enfranchised black voters, who number from thirty to thou. sandy aa far as oan be eaimated ay yot frou tue ince plete returns of the Registration Commissioners, > ‘One sai result of the campaign tn Tenneaseo— and the pros; seems good for « similar result in the future electioneering cam, of whole South—1@ the utter of the democratic party. Ni was a party 80 completely forgotten or ignored. “ Ni 80 to do it reverence” mow. Its old elements gathered in groat measure under the entitled come servative—a fleeting, perishable, or at least commutable term, which will in the future give place to one harmonious with the progressive minds which party includes; for it does embrace enterprising and energetic men, who are yet to form the real live party of the South in its ab are now compelled to olemont, or ad reorganized by throwing overboard Brownlow ang like veteran political stagers, it would absorb all the life of ite apd leave it naught but the time-honere® corporal’s guard of secessionists and Gre-eaters whose opinions will never change thie side of the nape od few men bonny od one virtue. Brownlow, i" is untiring war upon rotten pert; the South, atch was the whole cause of the redotion with him ou otber matters, tag po oft the atili stalks in Tennessee politics, a latest adjuurations, Let the Southern people be #ue to produce, as they east can an abundant supply of ps visions, madufacture own timber and froa into all spin and weave all the cotto ye surplas of the Manchester, to be pai tonal Pa tut . 7" manfully meet whatever dest be ii for them, Tocute at least in the possessiog of their own eell-respect. From what is visible of tho negro here io Nashville his success in bis new condition justifies the most en- of bie radical friends in the eatate, in many new Todations number me sixty or seventy creasing sien uly semana B Present, as it probably is everywi one firm bere for the year just passed, their own statement, eresedod that of any to the rebellion. The city has also got teil, dur: that dil ion into which it a 10g if sahé connecting the mill company Atlantic coast A. costes Ooo, who are. omy pier poliuical excilement to commence improved. sod wt Knoxville, and pat Masti oe high twain ined, with o a on ing. Tennessee sre oct semaeme ‘Kovwn in ler agricultoral history. ‘most ail secvona the planting of cetton and tobacce has given way, to that of coma and wheas, and a favorable: eoawn overtowing graoariea The cotton, Shuai anit iq is not doing woll, Tho reports from diferent pada Of tue Stato are youerally unfavorable, SUSPENSION IV TROY, SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERAWD. Tnor, N. ¥., Jaly 30, Tea? 9 o'Clock P.M. The fret note of the coming Gnancial crash was hoard he £0 to-day in the suspension of the prominems whole~ fale grain house of Moore & Covell, The Mabilities are $130,000, while the assots are said to be in @ condition to realize but little. It is alleged that the fire have boom Grain elevator some days since. oneral rogret is expressed here at ine cepeeenaee 4, Fi arhre ince oe atom Od {a'Troy and sh tue Weak