The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1867, Page 4

ba NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, FROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR., MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorn Henao. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned. Ne. 221 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, corner of Broome hroot.—Castz. WORRELL SISTERS’ site New York Hotel.—Nosovr's Davcutsr, ox Tax Lap Sineme ov Warring. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosdway.—Davio CorrearigiD— Pooauowras. NEW YORK THBATRE, oppo- aL BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Kixg Laan—Camitia— Boreas. ANVARD'S NEW YORK MUSEUM. Broadway and minctins streets.—Tas Bean anv Tux Maioxs—Day Arter tue Weoving, TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, Fifty-eighth and ‘Fifty-ointh streets,—Trixopors Taouas’ Porucag Con- ners, commencing at 8 o'c.ock. KELLY & LEON'S MIN LL, 720 Broadway, oppo- mite the New York Hotel Tue Sonus, Dances, oy gaan BuBLEsquss, &C,.—MipNiGetT—PictuRes oF tum Past. GRIFFIN & CHRISTY’S MINSTRELS, corner of Broad- way and Twenty third street.—Ermortan Soncs, BaLiaps, Danoina, Burtesques, &0.—Lo! Tux Poor Inpian. BKN COTTON AND SAM SHARPLEY'S MINSTRELS, Opera House, Nos. 2 and 4 West Tweuty- —In Tuxin Nagno Eccesraicirixs, BAatiwrs aso Buauesqozs—Tur Civ Riots Brut, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Cowic Vooasisy, Negro Minstretsy, Burvesques, Batter Divan. msscuenT, &c.—A Tour Anounn THE WorLD. BUTLER'S AMERICAN, THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Baccer, Faxcr, Pantowme, Buaies@ves, Erntorian, Como anp SENTIMENTAL CALISMS, 40.—THk ZANFRETTA ‘Taours—Mxpina. EIGHTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, corner Thirtieth t and Eighth avenue.—Harr & Keune’ Combination upe,—SINGING, DANc! RLESQUE AND PANTOMIME. BROADWAY OPERA HOUSE, 600 Broadway Tue Origiwac Guoncia Mivsraeis, THE Great Stave ‘ROUPE. HOOLFY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ernioriay Manstee:sy, Batiaps axp Buncasques.—Tur PRoGRess or NRW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Himad ano Ricur Aru or Pronst—Tue Wasuinarox Twors—Wowpers in Naturac Histoey, Screxce anp ART. | Laorvens Day, Open from § A. M. till 10 P.M. LEEDS ART GALLERIES, 817 and 819 Broadway.— Bxuwarmey oF Om Paintinus, New York, Friday, August 9, 1867. TER NWEBW 8s. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated in London at one o'clock this morning, August 9. Tho city of Hamburg will sign a military convention ‘with Prussia, The Prussian Minister of Finance expects te make a very satisfactory exhibit when proposing the mext budgot, The Danes positively deny that their gov- @rameat wishes to sell the Isiand of St. Thomas to the United States, The Russian loan is moré successful in Paris, The French war vessels on-the coast of Candia have taken off some hundreds of hapless refugees, The ‘amendments made by the House of Lords to the English Reform’ bill are being discussed by the House of Com- mons, and on most of them have been rejected. Consois closed at 94; for money in London. Five- ‘twenties were at 73% in Londom and 77% in Frank- fort. ‘The Liverpool cotton market closed firm at an advance, with middling uplands at 104¢4. Breadstuffs unchanged. Provisions dull, THE. CITY. A difficulty occurred in the Metropolitan Revenue Board sometime ago relative te the appointment of Mr. J. B. Ehrhardt as Supervising Inspector, which was @ettied yesterday by the resignation of that gentleman, Tho Board of Excise yesterday revoked fourteen liquor Aicoasee. Four additional cases of cholera were reported to the Board of Hoalth yesterday. The execution of Jerry O'Brien will take place this morning at nine o'clock. The gallows is being erected, and the preparations are almost complete. O’Brien Professes to be ready and well prepared to meet his doom ‘The Pioneer Grant Club met in Brooklyn last evening, Dut a small crowd only being present an adjournment for a month was ordered. The General Transatlantic Company’s steamship St. Laurent, Captain Bocande, will leave pier No, 50 North river st twelve M, to-morrow (Saturday) for Brest and Havre, The mails for France will close at the Post Office at balf-past ten o'clock in the morning. ‘The Auchor Line steamship Caledonia, Captain Mac- Donald, will leave pier No. 20 North river, at noom to- morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool and Giasgow, touch- fog at Londonderry to Innd passengers and mails, ‘The Hamburg American Packet Company's steamship Cimbria, Captain N, Trautmann, will leave Hoboken at noon to-morrow (Saturday) fer Hamburg, calling at Southampton, The mails tor the German States will clove at the Post Office at balf-past tea o'clock A. M. ‘The Cromwell Line steam: George Washington, Captain Gager, will leave pier No, 9 North river to- morrow (Saturday) for New Orleans direct. ‘The Empire Line sidewheei steamship San Salvador, Qaptain Nickerson, belonging to Messra. Garrison & Allon’s line, will sail from pier No, 13 North river at throo P. M to-morrow, 10th inst, for Savannah, Ga., connecting at that place with steamer for Florida porta, kc, The stock market was unsettled yesterday. Govern- ments were firm. Gold closed at 1401. Commercial matters were pretty quiet as a general thing, yesterday, and, save in » few isolated cases, busl- ‘aees was very moderate, This was particularty the case ‘with imported merchandise, Cotton was in moderate request and scarcely 20 firm. Petroleum was moder. ately active, and ic. a 1c, lower for futare delivery. Groceries were quiet, but prices were unchanged. On *Change, flour and wheat were generally active and Digher—the former 15c. a 25¢. per bbl. on some grades, ‘end the latter from Se. to 10c. per bushel. Cora was 20. a 30, lower, Other commodities were without de. cided obange, though pork was more active and firmer. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Surratt jary are still undecided ons verdict. The ‘sual number of conjectares are aftoat as to what it will probably be, and how the jurors stand om the question, Dut they are, of course, unfounded. The prisoner's counsel remain patiently in court, but Judge Pierrepont Las been absent ever since the case was given to the * the Constitutional Convention yesterday, on motioa, all proceedings against members in contempt, held on Monday, were expunged from the journal. Mr. Senell ‘moved for an inquiry into the expediency of providing fe the constitution for (he payment in coin of all debts contracted by the State before January, 1862, and which shall be contracted hereafter. His resolution was re- ferred, Debate was resumed in Committee of the Whole om the organization of the Legislature, and the article was Gaally adopted ‘The offects of the iate severe gale are becoming appa reat. The bark Oak Ridge was on the 24 inst. on her trip from Philadelphia to Boston, and all on board, nise fe number, were lost, except the captain. He remained on a raft until August 6, when he was pickea up by the Jharco Polo and brought to this city, The schooner Dasher was partially disabled at sea; two men wore lost overboard from the General McClellan, another was erippied by «fall trom aloft during gale, and the schooner Waterloo was run ssboreat Chatham Bar. The geamabip Emily B. Souder went ashore yesterday on the West Bank, ané numerous smaller vessels have been reported as disabled. ‘The annual cruise of the New York Vaebt Club at New London bids fair this year to be even more than usually fntoresting, ‘The squadron lef Huntington om Satur. day, and arrived at New London om Sunday, and were received with the usual joyous welcome, On Monday a gig rece took place in the harbor, and also # pig raco—a whieh consisted in the chaalay of a greated pig tbrough the water by the expert swimmers of the clad. ‘Forgey discharges from the army wore offered to (he ever made on this continent. Muggins won the Saratoga Cup, and the black colt Virgil won the short dash, cars at the Central depot im that city, yesterday, and killed, The body of a man named Morris was found on the railroad track mear Atlantic City, yosterday, with the head severed, and aa unknown man was also killed oa the Erie Railroad. Railroad yesterday, by which a fireman was killed, a ud “| brakeman was injured and a locomotive and two freight cars were demolished. to meet them in council at the “full moon”’ in Septem: ber, and also for tribes more remote at the same time ta October. commanding officers on the Plains will be directed to suspend operations and hold a partial truce for the present. to-day. Several whitg men are now known to bo in command of some of the dopredating bands, probably for purposes of plunder. in Washington, and was received with quite a demon- stration, the buil’s oye three times in euccession. money in the South Carolina banks which was originally a fund for the purchase of horses for the confederacy, and fe, therefore, the property of the government. of Police and appointed a former officer of » New York regiment to the position. Ho has also removed the Judge of the Twelfth Judicial district of Toxas for obstructing and refusing to obey tho laws, Bureau clerks and officials had formed themselves into & political club and nominated General Howard, their chiel, for President of the United States, but the report is now denied. between Mr. Stanton and the President are afoast,dut they are mainly untrae, No communication has passed between the gentlemen since their terse correspondence of Monday, Attorney General yesterday gave it as his opinion that the President bas the right to dismiss the Secrotary, notwithstanding his peraistency in retaining his office. The Presideat stated that he would lose no time in doing so. now living in Richmond propose calling a convention of all those in the State who haye served in the eame jk: "in the Haytion constitution, recently adopted, the punishmeat of death for political offences has been abolished. be © A Nquor prohibition clause has been adopted by the Michigan Constitutional Convention. ‘ Ina who are not disfranchised to register. The Johason-Stantoa Imi the refractory and defiant Secretary of War, considered in connection with recent events and developments bearing upon Southern re- construction, brings forward the now issue of Southern negro supremacy into bold relief. It is morally certain that under the stringent anti-rebel and universal negro suffrage policy of reconstruction now pursued in the South the ten excluded States will be reorganized and reinstated in Congress by the predominant negro vote. drift of this business, as now progressing, from the facts and figures befbre us. Louisiana the blacks have a recorded ma- jority of over forty thousand, and as none but registered voters are to be admitted to the elec- tions for the State reorganization, the blacks, counting all the registered whites against them, will have the State by forty thousand majority; for we may safely assume that they will all come up to the polls. Butas they will be supported and managed by @ considerable number, say from fifteen to twenty thousand radical whites, they will probably carry through the recon- struction elections of Louisiana by fifty, sixty or seventy-five thoasand majorily. This, if Sheridan’s registration is to be adheréd to, is a simple matter of arithmetic; for the Ten- neasee electiog establishes the essential fact republican party and with its extremest radi- West Virginia, there ts, perhaps, allowing tor population of eight hundred and fifty thonsand, of which the whites have a majority of perhaps one hundred and fifty thousand. But under the rebel disfranchisements of the reconstruction laws of Congress, and universal negro suffrage, and the disgust of many of the whites, the radi- cals boast that they are sure of the State, ac- cording to thé books of registration, by some thirty thousand majority. We dare say, too; that they are not very wide of the mark in their NEW YORK HERALD. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1887. Know, too, that those Northern white radical stumpers in the South who have most broadly Suggested the possible application from Con- grees of “Old Thad Stevens’” panacea of con- fiscation have excited the liveliest enthusiasm among the blacks. Is it any wonder, then, that ex-Govornor Perry, of South Carolina, and other leading Southern men counsel the policy of quiet submission to their present military government indefinitely as preferable to this reconstruction and restoration scheme, which will place the State absolutely under the con- trol of the blacks? Do we not also perceive that in this matter there is an opening for o decisive political divergion on the part of President Johnson in bis execution of these re- construction laws in the interval to the next meeting of Congress? Granting that the Northern States are pre- pared for the recognition and acceptance of equal euffrage to the blacks, is New York, or is Pennsylvania, or is Ohio prepared for the full- blown experiment of negro supremacy in ten Southern States, as contemplated by the re- publican radicals in Southern reconstruction ? Assuming that if, with a conservative acting Seoretary of War in tho place of Stanton, and with five military commanders of Mr. Johnion’s | way of thinking in the places of the five com- manders who think aad act according to the gospel of Mr. Stanton—astuming that the result wAl be to dolay the work of Southern restora- tion for even two or three years—will this not be wiser than to rush headlong into this danger of Southern negro supremacy? Will not the inevitable tendency of negro supremacy in South Carolina, for example, be to drive out the white population or to precipitate that war of races which, if commenced, will be apt speedily to ripen into a war on both sides of indiscriminate extermination? Will social har- mony or poace, or financial confidence or active and systematic industry ever be restored to the South under the threatening danger of negro supremacy t We cannot answer these questions truly with- out recognizing the sagacity and wisdom of President Johnson’s policy of giving to the Southern whites as faras possible under the terms of Congress a chance to recover their lost ground, and to take the lead in Southern reconstruction. We are, indeed, eo far im- pressed with the idea that in this view of the question be stands in a strong position that we feel bound to adviso him to make the moat of his opportunity in bringing the issue before the peopte of the Northern States for their “sober second thought” upon it in the coming fall elections. There is no security, and there are a thousand dangers, in the radical programme, which now distiactly foreshadows the placing of the late governing whites of the South under the political control and subject to the caprices and revenges of the black race, relieved but yesterday from the moral darkness, oppies- sions, wrongs and disabilities of Atrican slavery. These dangers are so menacin, that they must be appreciated by thinking North- ern men. We hold, accordingly, that the time at last has come for a Northern reaction, and the time, therefore, for decisive measures on the part of President Johnson. paymaster in Leavenworth, Kansas, yesterday, and evidence was obtained showing that an organized band at Washington have already swindled the government by similar documents to the amount of nearly half « miltion doilars. Mexican advices state that the foreign Ministers im Mexico city were still unmolested, awaiting orders from thoir respective governments. Santa Ava continued a prigoner in Campeachy. Diplomatic correspondence between Secretary Seward and Minister Romero ts pub- ished, in which Mr. Soward acknowledges the receipt of @ letter signed by Santa Ana stating that he went ashore at Sisal voluntarily in answer to the Governor's invitation. The Austrian sloop.of-war Elizabeth arrived at New Orleans yesterday from Vera Cruz, Thore were three races at Saratoga yesterday—the Saratoga Cup, jurdie and a three quarterdash, Black- bird won the hurdle, Red Dick unseating his rider at the Inst jump. The last mile was made in 1:553¢ by Black- bird, which, with welter weights up, is the fastest mile A prominent citizen of Buffalo was rum over by the A collision occurred om the Northern New Jersey The Indian Commission at St. Lonis on Wednesday agreod to have the Indian tribes notified of their wish In the meantime, General Hancock and the Tho Commission will start for Leavenworth We have files from Bermuda to July 23, The news items are quite animportant, The Prosidont yesterday visited the Schoutzen Verein He tried his hand with the rifle and spotted Genera! Sickios has appointed a receiver for certain General Sheridan has removed the New Orleans Chief It was reported some time ago that the Freedmen's Several rumors regarding the existing state of affairs It is reliably reported, however, that the The discharged soldiers of the Union army who are Governor Worth urges all the citizens of North Caro- ie—The New Isque of Southern Negro Supremacy. ‘The rupture between President Johnson and ‘Pho Constitutional Convention. — The further the State Convention goes the more evidence it furmishes that it either not know that what’ is roquired of it is » draft of a constitution, or that it does not know what ao constitution is. Wednesday was con- sumed in reading long-winded majority and minority reports, the result, perhaps, of week# of labor and inquiry on subjects'that properly belong to a Legislature, and not to a constitu- tional convention. Here wo see a promising prospect. In the frst place, the subject dis- cussed is not at all in the realm of constitu- tional law ; next, the committee that discusses it cannot agree on a report, but presents three for the Convention to choose, and the Conven- tion will have other weeks of deliberation and argument before it can determine between the varying judgments thus put before it. Mr. Church, of the Committee on Finance, pre- sented some sections that he would like to see embodied in the constitution as the financial policy of the State, and also an explanation of these sections. It might very well be argued that our financial policy has no business in our constitution, since an organic law ought to be at least a little more permanent than that varying condition of the world’s prosperity that must necessarily affect our finances from year to year; but if, following our own former bad examples, we do put these things into the law, we ought not to put them in ina shape that needs explanation. Mr. Church says that the purpose of his sections is “to simplify the State finances so that every citizen of ordinary ‘understanding will be able to comprehend from the article ileclf the financial condi- tion of the State, and the arrangement made to pay the debts, regulate the expenses and dispose of the revenues.” This is convinc- ing evidence that intelligent members do not know what the Convention is assembled for. It the above explains the whole purpose of the suggested sections, then those sections ‘would be good in a country newspaper and excellent in a political almanac side by side with the returns of last year’s elections, the compari- son of taxation and other bits of knowledge of interest to the rural masses, but ridiculous in the place for which they are proposed, since it is } to their almanacs and blue books and county that people go for information and sta- of public debt, and not to the constitu- tion. Constitutions are intended to designate the frame and form of the political society that ‘a people have set up. It is in going too far, in attempting to settle too much, that they fail. All that is put in them beyond the most abso- lutely general principles is lumber and nui- sance ; for in trying by a general Inw to arrange and guide the details of @ passing policy—in patting the accidents of our history into our vital law—we cause the law io be involved in the fate of those accidents—an event that lessens the sacred regard that people should have for it, and must sooner or later end in evil. The Convention is just now doing the work of the Legislatures of the future, for fear, perhaps, thdse Legislatures may be cor- rapt. Bat it must give up that plan. Let it ro- constitute the Legislature if it will; for it has the power to do that, and that is the only way it pssst |B general current of legislation, on which ft is now fooling away ite time. When does it propose to begin the constitu- tion? It yesterday got hold of the subject of the Legislature, which is a sign of some promise; though we will not anticipate any great advance, for fear of fresh disappoint agate Let us see what is the inevitable From the registration of voters completed in that the Southern blacks are en masse with the cals. In Virginia, shorn of the new State of the losses of the war, an aggregaie calculations. They are equally sanguine of securing North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas, with the solid negro vote. As for South Caro- lina, with its aggregate population of seven hundred thousand, made up. of four hundred thousand blacks against three handred thousand whites, the case is clear that, as reconstrugtion is now going on, the blacks will assume com- plete and absolute possession of the State, and will have the power, if they choose to exercise it, of making a Legislature of black men exclu- sively, and of electing an unmixed negro dele- gation to and House. Thus it appears, from the developments and all the evidence before us touching the recon- struction programme of Congress, that if car- ried out according to the laws as applied by Secretary Stanton and the present commanders of the five military districts, the whole ten of the States involved in this ordeal will be at the mercy of the blacks. We are called, then, to meet the question of the probable conse- quences of this negro supremacy. The return of twenty, thirty or forty negro Senators and Representatives to Congress is but an item among the resulte which may be reasonably anticipated. The consequences of negro ascendancy in the Legislature of this or that State are most to be feared when we consider the unsettled balances as slaves which these Southern blacks will be apt to enforce against their late white masters, Some very signifi- cant hints in this direction have already been thrown out in the resolutions of the fegro re- construction meotings of South Carlin We ist of prisoners of war whose sentences have been elightly modified by the President con- tains the name of none of the prominent officers captured at Querdtaro, What has become of those fovr hundred and thirty unfortunates? Where are Generals Castillo, Arrellano, Valdgz, Reyes, and Prince Salm Salm, with his American ‘papers? Have they shared the fate of Maxi- milian, Miramon, Mejia and Vidaurri? If so, ‘Misa strange beginning to that “new era of ‘peace and prosperity” which Minister Romero, writing to Seoretary Seward, says “the late political events have inaugurated for my country.” will exert its influence in favor of elevating the Bishop of Orleans to the Papal throne after the death of Pius the Ninth. Perhaps no Prelate would prove a more capable successor than Bishop Dupanloup of the greatest Popes who have illustrated the annals of the Catholic Ghurch. To piety and profound learning he Ads a genius for edministration and a thorough knowledge of the mon, events and tendencies of this revolutionary age. A Savoyard by birth, but naturalized in 1838, lhe was educated at Paris, and is now sixty-five years of age. Friend and confessor of Talley- rand daring the last illness of that master of diplomacy, : prigees, popular pulpit orator, Superior of the Paris Seminary, Vicar General of Paris, Professor of Sacred Eloquence at the Sorbonne, Titulary Canon of Notre Dame, Bishop of Or- leans, Knight of the Legion of Honor and member of the French Academy, Dupanloup has been specially distinguished for his seal in behalf of public education, and his writings on that subject, together with the activity and euergy displayed by him in his diocese, have made him famous and influential throughout Mexican Facts aud Forgerics. General Berriozabal, the liberal Gévernor of Matamoros, asserts positively that the blood- thirsty letter attributed to Escobedo, the Mexi- oan Commander-in-Chief, is aforgery. General Berriogabal has proved himself a soldier and a gentleman, and his word is entitled to respect We take it, therefore, that the letter is a fabri- cation—an ingenious one—since the forger seoms to have caught most accurately the senti- ments by which Escobedo is inspired, but still ® fabrication, Words, after all, are of little value ina case like this. Deeds speak more potently than language, end more unmis- takably. What does General Berriozabal say to the executions at Querétaro, or the later and in some respects more atrocious shooting of brave old Vidaurri in the streets of Moxicot Are they forgeries? What explanation has been given of the massacre of San Jacinto, where a hundred foreign soldiers were butch- ered by fifteens with every refinement of bar- barity, each successive squad as it marched to death mooting the mangled bodies of the pre- vious fifteen? The man who presided over that sickening slaughter pon has no right to find fauit with the sentiments which ‘tho forgor of his letter to Governor'Gomes places in his moutd. is i¢ not true thai at the recent capture of Puebla Porfirio Diaz, one of the best of the Mexican generals, shot sixty-three helpless prisoners? Is it denied that at Pelaya a bun- dred Frenchmen were murdered ina body? While these deeds remain on record, and while President Juarez’s decree against foreign retail traders stands unrepealed, every one must believe that the wish to drive the last foreigner out of the country, which has been ascribed to Escobedo, prevails very largely in the country, and is the guidirg idea of the administration. General Vidaurri’s execution was almosta more impolitic step than the shooting of Maxi- milian. Vidaurri, by his personal character and great abilities, commanded the respect of the best men in Mexico. He was nearly related to Trevilio, one of Juarez’s ablest generals, ani many of the leading liberals were his intimate friends, Personal dislike to Juarez and deteatation of the robbers and cutthroats he found in the ranks of the constitutional army drove Vidaurri into the imperial camp. He asserted that a cause which numbered among its generals men like Caravajal, Cor- tina and Canales could not bring good to Mexico. utmost to prevent the excesses of Marquez in the capital, and lost no opportunity of fostering the liberal proclivities of the illfated Emperor. ‘The assassination of this mar will raise him to the rank of a martyr in the eyes of the educated, thinking portion of his countrymen. Vidaurri living and at the head of an army would bea less formidable adversary to the Juarez gov- ernment tham Vidaurridead. The manner of his death, the fact that even Dias hesitated to resort to extreme measures, and left the cowardly task to Escobedo, suggests that Vidaurri fell a victim to the personal revenge of President Juarez, and will be looked upon as justifying the step he took in severing his connection with the party that now hold the reins of power in Mexico. When is this oar- nival of blood to end? There have been rumors of the intention of the government to He discountenanced and tried his om amnesty, but there are no signs of intention being carried into effect. The ‘The Pope’s Successor. It is rumored that the French government catechist of the young Orleans ‘and the rest of Europe. sthe rumor that points to him as the probable successor of Pius the Ninth is very le. There has been no Pope of since Adrian the Sixth, who was foreign a of Utrecht. For nearly three hundred and years it bas been a well understood condition that the Pope should be an Italian, as temporal and ecclesiastical powers are united in his person. It is customary, moreover, that he should bea Cardinal. He is elected by the Cardinals, a two-thirds vote being requisite. It is not likely that the Car- dinale will deviate from their line of prece- dents in opder to gratify any European Power. Besides, Italian people, who reluctantly engugh 1¢ Pio Nono hold both the keys and the would tumultuously protest ageinst transte; those emblems of authority to foreign prelate. It is the last feather that breake the ‘Ttall tranefer, all in Roi Popet” Whatevet intrigues the French Emperor may embrace itv his Italian policy, it is hardly pro- bable-that the Italians would thank him for foreing them to accept a French bishop as the successor of St. Peter and Pio Nono. Shortly after the Prince President of the French tepublic had himself elected Emperor, one of his cousins, » son of the Prince de might fairly give way at such & ir ory might be :—“ No Pope at rather than have « foreigner for Camino, wag induced to jakg holy orders, and Cardinal as well as a native of Italy, he might be considered by the Italians eligible as ef gone conclusion in the Surratt case. No ver- dict for thirty-six hours gives ominous indi- cations. If jurors cannot decide on a common verdict in thirty-six hours there are very positive objections somewhere, no doubt, and it is hardly probable that in the present case the objectors will be of the kind to give way. It would be atrange if the jary could hold any definite line of reason with Judge Fisher's charge, the last thing committed to their memo- ries, That charge would be difficult to charac- terize. It began with a harangue on the pro- priety of capital punishment—which seemed to assume that it was not the prisoner’s guilt that ‘was in question, but only whether he should be banged or whether the “sentimentalism ” that opposes. capital punishment should have its way and save his life. the glaring impropriety of mooting such a point to the jury that had yet to determine the man’s status before the law. Following this haranguo on capital punishment came another ia equally bad taste on the wickedness of the rebellion, the Judge evidently desiring to fortify the Unionism as well as the hanging purposes of the jury before taking up the prisoner’s case. Tho charge then discussed the Supreme Court decision on the Milligan court martial, in con- nection with which it took up the general principles of the constitution of the United States, and having gone into some detail closed with these words:—“But with this mili- tary commission, gentlemen, you have no con- cern at this time.”” Having wakened up to this fact, the Judge next entered on Surratt’s case, and charged the jury as to its duty if the evi- dence had produced on the minds of the mem- bers “a moral conviction” of the prisoner’s participation in the murder or any of the acts that led to it, instructed them as to the legal value of an alibi, &c. As if the foregoing were aot enough curiosities to furnish a single charge, some very novel citations of cases were made, such as a case from the Book of Kingsa— 8 good book, no doubt, but not often quoted as an authority on criminal jurisprudence. ‘The President and camel's back, and the patience of it may have been intended to give to that cousin, one of theze days, at least as much of a chance of becoming Pope as Napoleon the First gave to his uncle, Joseph Fesch, when he had him created a Cardinal. A Pope would be convenient to have in the family of an Empe- ror who has not yet been crowned. Lucien Bonaparte, Prince de Canino’sson, was born at Rome in 1828, and consequently, if he were the Pope’s successor. : ‘The Surratt Case. : Disagreement of the jury seems to be a fore- We need not dwell on Prose—Save Me from My Friends. The copperhead organ is of opinion that this. “fracas: with Stanton” may be a mere “makeshift to divert public attention while the President backs out of his threat to remove Sheridan.” dare not leave it alone, and he kicks up all this dust to cover a pusillanimons retreat. The democrats are dreadfully afraid that Mr. Johnson will kill the democracy radicals into prominence clad . the of opposition to his policy—a virtue so com- mendable to the people that it may make any number of Presidents. Here is confidence in cause! Worse than this—we are assured by the President’s last admirer that he “has never yet removed anybody whom it con- cerned the dignity and success of his adminis- tration that he should put out.” How dread- fully they are disgusted ! He dare not remove Sheridan, he pushing sirtue Even the little fellow whose natural post is on the fence bas had the courage to jump down and join the general clamor. The President is accused of studying the laws to find color- ing for his own views rather than the law’s true intent; he is accused of “pettifogging dex- terity,” and is said to be “as unmindful of the obligations resting upon him as of the inter- ests of the country.” Truly, this little fellow has forgotten himself; for these are very posi- tive declarations. They cannot be explained away when the wind changes. And all the time the savage radical makes no sign. Lest some syllable might be understood as a support of Stanton, it withholds entirely the rancor of its utterance. A Case for the Hamanitariann. Greeley and Gerrit Smith, when they went straw bail for Jeff Davis, did not have half so good « case for humanitarians of their school as is presented in the long letter of ex-Lieu- tenant John C, Braine, of the rebel navy, to ex- Admiral Semmes, who is at present editor of the Memphis Bulletin. Braine is still confined in the Kings county Penitentiary, awaiting trial on the charge of piracy in -seizing the steamers Chesapeake and Roanoke in the year 1863. It is not strange that he cannot under- stand why men as deeply implicated in the re- bellion as himeelf should be set tree, and pun- ishment before trial be inflicted on one who did no more than others, and who is without the means to obtain for himself a proper trial. Why not go straw bail for Braine as well as for Davis? Why should the one be taken and the other left? vin SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE WERALO. Convention of Discharged Federal Soldiers in Richmead >, August 8, 1867, 8 o'Clock P. B. A convention of ex-officers and soldiers of the federal army, now residing ia Richmond, will be beld here on Saturday, for the of taking preiiminary steps towards ‘ealting ” phon convention of all the dis- charged soldiers of the Union now im the State of Vir- dns Not to Be Issued ‘20th Inet. cnwonp, Va, August 8, 1867. General Schofield to-day issued an order that after the 20th inet. all the destitute in the State be turned by the military authorities to the overseers of the poor in the respective counties and cities. The Freedmen's Buresn rations will no be . In the United States rt to-day John Morr! aM ify, wae sentenced to $1,200 fine a x months’ imprisonment for removing whiskey from his distillery without paying the government tax, GOVERNMENT MONEY IN SOUTH CAROLINA BANKS. General Sickles Appoints a Receiver for Cer- tain Funds Alleged to be Hiegally Retained by South Carolina Banks from the General 3 ment. . ieee CrenrmsTor, August 6, 1867. General Sickles has issued der im relation to cer- tain moneys advanced by the South Carolina banks during the war for the purchase of horses for the Con- federate service, but, which not beimg expended, had been distributed since the war, under achancery decree receiver is directed ' 5 ‘repors pean ranptiy any delinquency OF Obstruction om ‘iho any doling 4 a frien f is or corporations in thy, way of th ‘Bxacabion of Bus Order, ey =] Bremen bark Marco Polo, from Lexy SHIPWRECKS. Tho Sark Oak Ridge Foundored at Sen—Niae Lives Lest. The severe storm of August 2 has doubtless provea injurious to many y.\sa0i8 from which we shal! hear, im all probability, within @ fowdaya, The most gevere dis- aster that has yet come to our kmowledge with regard to the late gale is the fou. \dering at sea of the bark Oak Ridge, Captain Ginn, boi wd from Philadelphia to Bos- ton, which went down with sll on board, nine tm oum- ber, except the captain, who was picked up from a raft and brought to this city by the inward bound Bremen Dark Mareo Polo. Captain Gin.¥ gives the following par- ticulara of the disaster :— The Oak Ridge sailed from 1hiladelphia for Boston July 27, and from Cape Honlopen on the 30th. Every. thing went well uatil August 2, w.vich commenced witn © fine steady breeze and fine weather, Al nine A.M. the sky became overcast, with squall vof wind; about this time, and while taking iu sail, am aman belonging to Aaverhit!, Mass., fet! from aloft to the yaeck and died ts en hour. At noon the vessel was soad: \ing before a fear- fal hurricane, from E, & E, with, ® very heavy MM. the carge badly stove and vast quantities of water isnt below. At four P. M. it became ovidemt the vessel wins sinking, when attention was turned to the longboat, \which wae stowed bottom up on the forward house; an whe was ready to turn over, a sea stove the house ‘and the boat fell into the water bottom up, ‘The tep planking of the forward house then presented iit: down and our place of refuce with the braces and was afterwards ee iteelf came up again. captain camo to the aurface he swam for the raft succeeded in reaching it, but was so then ‘on looking about ‘nim, be 0 when, on + him, cou! mon’s heads above water among the sunken versel, aud was too far timguish them; the crew consisted of nin told; James R, Ginn was mate and Albert of the seamen; the others had been recoatly and their names were not known. The following is diary of the succeeding adventures of the shipwrecked captain :— the raft; foggy, except at short zs sila l BeFETEs ees i & F i Avavar 3.—On vals, all day; have seen four vessels and heard the fog hora of another. be abet Ayedins ad have seon two ocean steam three sailing vessels and a New York pilot boat. Avcusr 6.—Have now been throe days without pr ohapaae Tease or fp he a joni to on my strength; a eR MS bel on. of on et br pen tase sah is tl be 01 couple o} there wi « tor the bate, no pipes aed ft cold, at nights, im consequence my scanty clothing be tly saturated Ae Bay on To-day, the sea being Ry Hoorn ag hag ee ee ee a a oi structed out of a few Pot boards that l secured from the wreck. During this afternoon { caught a small ter- tle, and drank its blood and ate some of the flesh. glimpse of ono vessel during short lifting of the fog. Except a'fecling of faintness, feel as well as I did yester- day. ‘Avaust 6, sunrise.—During last night the very calm and smooth, and I slept well, the ae ‘off quietly. Except an increased faintness fooling no worse. There aro three vessels in of which appears to be steering this way. day the vessel stecring towards me H fs rE i & iz Preule, gh Elec8a8i Oak stor, and dies. Patton, oe Blue E Pitts N.% ill, Jos. Westcott, of Portland,'and George captain. ° The Schooner Dasher Dismantied. The John D, Jones pilot boat No. 15 arrived yestorday, having been sixteen days out. mander, Mr. Theodore Kobinsop, reports the schooner Dasher, of Freeport, Me., in ‘out sees peso te os 48% 983 i 7 ir’ £ iy iH i H : He i Fexe Twe Men Lest Overboard from the Ship ral MeClellan, from New York to San Francigco, whe reported having lost overboard two seamen, and that zy é H | | pi u I. i 4 iE f ft r § i i i bil ii He on Wednecday—Councila to be Requested of the Tribes at the September and Octeder Partial Truce te be Seanded St. Loris, August 8, 1667, i gee? f HH it tH 7 - | i t accessible meet 4 and Augir to couiir their military opesations pending the action of the Commissioner® to the pro~ tection of the routes of tre en) and ivemomts. and to General Hancock re say ¢ — ‘Do not imvade the coun- ty south of the Arkags’s river. evcept in the pursuit Of parties guilty of hos'swacts. | want the delibora~ trons of this Commissio a to ve as little dsturbed by the of oUF troops as P ossivie. so th Mort dian question peaceaviy may bi ess. for Despatches say t'sat Captain Wyek’s party of en~ | ey wasattacke 4 by « jarge and of Jadians at Fort laye station, and had io cali on the fort for assistance, The Indians got between ihe eng neers mod the (ort, and heavy fighting was anieipated. Quite a number of In- dians with pair ted white men ae ini jock Spri ag, ten miles east of Fort , laee inquiries regarding the ether they were . AARVAAL OF THE AUSTRIAN SLOOP-OF=WAR ELIZABETH AT NEW ORLEANS, August 8, 1867. The Austrian sloop of.war Elzabeut arrived from Vera Cros 4 baving 2 oe od of Austrian fol- iors, reports r Meamier Bu84" ene from Vera Crus on ‘the 28th wit, destinal: unkpow>