The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, Reports frem tho Plains state that Spotted Taul's band had eptit, @ portion of them taking (ho war path with the Cheyennes A fight took place at Ruos Altos, Now Moxice, receatly betwoen citizens and todians, ( whieh eleven of tho tater wore killed, and « white to the shape of wisdom or patriotism in the White House after the death of Lincoln, or with anything in the Congress of the ensuing Dé- comber rising- above the baso calculations of BROTATETOS. girk.was rewoued from captivity. The ‘hostile | party, the restoration of those rebol States JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR,, tribes in Arizona are roported worse than ever. | @Ould have been simple and easy. But while aiot Our correspondence from Fort Riley, Kaname, comtales | Tinooln’s suocessor from the outsot proved a MANAGER. - “ vain, conceited, ignorant, obstinate, self-willed and aspiring backwoods demagogue, be came into collision with equally conceited, self-willed and stupid demagogues in both Houses of Con- gress and in both parties. The ignorance, the Qoisy violénce, the vulgarity, the presumption and the trickerics which for the last two years have thus marked the conflict between President and Congress and between republicans and democrats have been disgraceful, expensive and demoralizing to all concerned, and contin- ually tending from bad to worse. They have been on the scale of the petty plots and coun- terplots of the rings of spoilsmon and grog- shop political managers of our New York Cor- poration elections. Where can we look fora rescue? The re- maining Northern rump of the old democratic party, from its odious record of the war, has given a free rein to the radicals, and they are marching on without resistance. President Johnson has become more an object of deri- sion and contempt with both parties than was John Tyler in bis worst estate. In this condi- tion of things a Southern pegro political balance of power, covering ten States, is loom- ing up before us in bold reticf Is this to be tho setilement? It will be anless that con- trolling public sentiment of the North which carried President and Congress through the ordeal of the rebellion shall interpose in this work of reconstruction. We believe that public opinion can be 60 expressed in our coming fall elections as to be felt in Congress, and we believe that a general popular movement, re- gardless of existing parties or party managers, inthe name of General Grant, will meot the case. Grant for the succession, and a new Congress undor Grant to settle this work of re- construction, is the programme upon which a counter revolution against radical excesses in the South may be carried through to a decisive victory. It will bo better to wait two years or ten years longar for Southern restoration than to push it through on the basis of a controlling Southern negro balance of power. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. recovering from a diseaso which looked like cholera. ‘The nogro troops are said to “ght mobly” on the Plains. Indian fighting and life on the Piains appear to suit them well, much better thea white men, end a natural haired bas always been felt betwees the red man and the biack, which gives an additional zest to their war making. ‘The Surratt jury are still deliberating. A bailiff was sent for Judge Fisher yesterday, and the latter was hoard to make a casual remark which immediately tnid the foundation fora number of ramors. The conjecture is that the jury is hug and the majority have determined to worry out the minority, The sounds of vooal music were heard procesding from the jury room at intervals. Wo have news from Mexioo, via Havana and New Or- toans, stating that Samta Ana had been taken to Vera Cruz to be tried for conspiracy against the goverament. A reward of $10,000 had been offered for the capture of Marquez. Everything was quiet at the capital, and ordor was being rapidly restored by tho Juares govera- ment. Darcy MoGee, it is siated, has heon threaienod with as- sassination if he makes his proniised disclosures con- cerning the Fenian organization in Canada. Secretary Stanton, it is said, has received lottors from numerous Congressmen endorsing bis refasal (o resign, Mr. Johnson, on the other hand, appears as determined as ever in his purpose of gotting rid of his dellant Secre- tary. Fourteon negroca fwere yeslorday appointed by the Mayor of Mobile on the police force of that city ‘The steamer Narva left Havana on Tuesday last, paying out the Cuban end of the Gulf cable, She bad Previously laid two mites and a half of the Key Wost end, paying out at the rate of four miles an bour with- out difficulty ‘Tax Collectors in North Carolina have moro than the troublo usuatly experienced even by. that uathanked class of government officials. Poople refuse to pay their State taxes becaus® tho State government has no prac- tical existence, and take refugo againat the threat of distraint behind a formor ordor of Gonoral Sicktos. Martinez, ex-Preaident of Nicaragua, who recently left for England to represent bis country at the Court of Si James, ia especially charged with (he delivery of the Mosquito Territory to Nicaragua, Tho Nicaraguan Papers seem to have 00 doubi that the mattor will bo adjusted amicably, and claim that tue United States will domand ihe restoration of the territory if Martines fails to obtain it, Ten buildings were destroyed by fire in Bangor, Me., yesterday, involving a tons of 635,000. A Mrs, Frost jumped from her carriago in frout of a railway traia in full motion noar Now Gloucester, Me., on Thursday, while in an uncontrollable fright at its ap- Proach, and was instantly kitted. A coliision occurred in Chesapeake Bay, of Poplar Island on Thuraday night, between the steamers Wil- gon Smal! and Mary Augusta, by which the former ves- sol was sunk, and the latter was soriowsly damaged. ‘Throo lives are reported lost. All business or news lettors and telegraphic despatches Roust be addressed New Yore Henarn, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned. = Volume XXXII.... AMUSEMENTS THLS afFTERNOON AND EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, f Broom streot. Caste, Matinee at Ls o'clock. yaaa OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Davin CorreavisLo— “Pooauontas. BOWERY THEAT! Bor .—Mazerra—Jack SHEP. Pawo—Bonsas, we Unica WORRELL SISTERS’ NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo te New York Hotel.—Nosopy's Daocuten, or Tux Bac- » Singue or Warring. Matinee at 2 o'Clock, BANVARD'S NEW YORK MUSEUM, Broadway and irtieth strects.—Tne Bear ano Tux Matoen—Day Arre® ‘wae Wevvwe. Matince at lock. N, Third Avenue, Fifty-eighth and Dikee or THk Auton Vouar lock, { TFRR Y RELS, corner of Broad- —Eritioria’ SONGS, BALLADS, 0! rax Pook Lxptan,, Matinee ORFFIN & CHRISTY way aud Twenty-third stree Danoive, Buetxsques, & ‘at 2% 0 Clock. {' KBLLY & LEQN'S M its the New York H Meooenriorries, BUGLE (afte Past. { BEN COTTON AND (its A ue Opera Hor fourth streot.—IN Tui so Butuxsgums—Tae LLS, 720 Broadway, oppo- Twetk Sonus, Dancns, —Mipsigut—Picrunrs or HARPLEY’S MINSTRELS, Nos. 2 and 4 Wost Twenty: RO EOceNTRICITIES, Bat.tets vi. Ricuts Bine, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 301 Bowery.—Cowic PWoostism, Nearo Mivstreisy, Burvesquis, Batier Diver pieorcinck &v.—A Tour Anounp tas Woucv. Matinee at o'Clool BOTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 B! Loet, Fagox, Pantowair, Buxcesquas, OMe AND SeNtimeytar Vocarisms, &c.—Tas OURK—Mevina. Matinee at 2% o'Clock, ‘ EIGHTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, corner Thirticth t and Wighth avenue,—Harr & Keans’ Combination pe.—SiNGina, Danctnd, BURLESQUE 4ND PANTOMIME, atines at 334 0'Glock. BROADWAY OPERA HOUSE, 60) Broadway. Tax MOaGinat. Grorcia Minsrrxts, THe Great Suave Troure. Matines at 2% o'Clock. BOOLFY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Fraortan Moermeisr, Bavtavs ano Bunixsques.—Tite Paocaess oF 1 Nation. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Rroadway.— wad ann Kigup Aga or Pronyr— Wasnincton wins—WONDERS IN Narorat History, Screyce ANp ART. ruKes Daity, Open from 8 A.M. till ly P.M Hanging fn the Convention. The Albany Convention, in pursuance of its great mission of leaving undone those things it ought to have done and doing everything it ought not to do, has taken up the question of abolishing the death penalty in this State.’ In view of the alarming prevalence of crimes of violence this’ motion is about as fll-timed as ft could well be, and is equally absurd and inju- LEED'S ART GALLERIES, 817 and $19 Broadway.— Bxuiorroy or Ov Partin Now York, Saturday. A ws. EUROPE. ‘The news report by tho Atlantic cable is dated yoster- @ay ovening, August 9. The British government is to despatch a large body of &roops to Canada immediately. The Houso of Lords ro- Jected the Engitah Chureh Rates Abolition bill passed Dy tho Commons. , A rnitroad express traia got off the track at Bray ‘Hoad, ireiand, when in transit from Dublin to Wickiow, and eight passenger carringes ran down the side of a ‘high btuff into tho sea, thirty persons being immodiately Xilied. ‘Tho ex-Queen of Naples ts dead. ‘Tho amonded Referm bill is again before the House of ‘Lords, and will be considered on the 12th inat. The now Anglo-American postal treaty has been sub- Mitted to the House of Commons, Freach advices from tho East report the occupation of Mhree provinces of Cochin China by Napoteon’s troops. Consols closed at 941{ for money in London. Five- Awentios were at 737% in London. ‘The Liverpoot cotton market was firmer, but with the quotations uachanged. Breadstuls quiet and steady, Provisions and produce qiet. THE CITY. Jercy O'Brien was executed at the Tombs yosterday, for the murder of Kate Smith on the 21st of June, 1866. Ho met his fate calmly and quietly, being attonded by his spiritual advisers upto the last momont. He had Just attained his twonty-tifth yoartho day before his execution. Two moa namod Jon Hoyt and Theodore Schuitz ‘wore arrested recently Cor the alleged robbery of $10,000 fin gold certificates in January last from Messrs. Maas & @o,, 48 Exchange place. Hoyt sold one of the certifi- @ates for $5,000 in open market, and on being examined f@tthe Sub-Treasury it was pronounced correct. Both the prisoners were committed for trial in default of 65,000 bail Some time on Thursday night, Charles F. Ulrich and Adrian Hvarcg, who were confined in the Kings county Penitentiary, awaiting trial, succeeded im escaping from that institation, and are atill at large. Two boys of this city, both about eighteen years of Qgo, held a regular prize fight carnival in Jersey yester- day morning, fighting thirty-two rounds in forty min- ‘utes. Tastoad of the usual time-honored stake of a tow dollars, the incentive to action in this case was an existing rivalry in the affections of a young lady. Fivo passing meteors were observed over the city last Bight, and @ general display is predicted for this e ag. ‘The fine steamship City of Baltimore, Captain Ros- ‘kell, of tho Inman line, will sail at noon to-day from pier No, 45 North river for Queenstown and Liverpool. ‘The mails will close atthe Post Office at half-past ton o'clock. The Nationa! Steam Navigation Company's steamship Bogiand, Captain Cutting, leaves pier 47 North river at moon to-day for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to Band passengers, &c. Tho matte for France by the steamship St. Laurent ‘Will close at the Post Office at ten o'clock this morning. ‘The steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of Leary's Ano, will sali from pier 14 Kasi river at three P. M. to- @ay for Chariestoa. ‘The stock market was unsettled yesterday. Govern- pont securities were steady. Gold closed at 1404. There was no perceptible change in the commercial Bituation yesterday as compared with the previous day. Business was om & moderate scale, on the wh ole, though pome few commodities sold freely. Petroleum was in Timited domand, and prices were sc. to Ic. lower. Cotton was quict and rather heavy. Groceries wore @teady. On 'Ohange four was irregular, fresh old being higher, while new was lower. Wheat was 3c. a 5c. Rrigher. Corn was le. a 20, lower. Other kinds of grain aad all kinds of provisions were without especial change, Freighta were dull and heavy. Whiskey was quiet, bat steady. Wool was more active, but at still lower prices. MISCELLANEOUS. Some moet extraordinary docements connected with Mho petition of Charles A. Ousham, alias Sanford Con over, to the President for pardon are published this morn ag in a communication to the Executive from the sttomney General's office. Judge Holt, Congressman a@bley and e@x-Congressman A. G. Riddle endorse the SHommendation fer pardon, and the prisoner himself Brompanics the regular petition with a long state. "mit of an alleged conspiracy on the part of Wer and Ashley, into which be, Conorer, was fo po admitted for tho purpose of suborning als: witnesses—the inten! of the conspiracy being to ‘Dont President Johnson with tho assassination con+ mpirad by linking bim intimately with Booth, and provin him to have been in correspondence with Jeff Davis a the subject. Conover stoutly asserts that he Thas withgses to prove what he cays, and forwards let. fers purprting to bave come from Ashley to him, aps parently » reference to the matter. In the opinion of the actingastomey General, Mr. Brinckley, the hand. ‘writiag of he letters is strikingly Liko taps of Mg, 4pb- Uoy's recomtendation for pardon. . fa the Consjtationsl Convention yelerday @ proposi- Bion to Ane meabers for absence without leave was laid 0 the table, the report of the comtnived Ga the elec. Bion and term 61 office of the Governor and Lieutenant A Negro Political Balance of Power—The Counter Revolution Approaching. From the developments of the rogistrations of voters in the five Southern military districts we see that under the rebel restriction and negro suffrage conditions of Congress the blacks, in each and all of the ten Southern States concerned, hold tho issues of recon- struction in their hands. From the results of the late Tenneasee election and other revela- tions on the subject, it is manifest that these Southern blacks, from Virginia to Texas, led and managed by Northera radicals, are already, en masse, banded together under the flag of the republican party. From all these facts, and from the general drift of the reconstruc- tion. movements of the day, it is morally cer- tain that the negroes, with the restoration of these ten Southern States to Congress, will hold the political balanoe of power therein, which, befora the late rebellion, was held and exercised by their white masters in the con- trol of the general government. (in view of this startling transfer of our national balance of power we are called upon to pause and consider the probable conse- quences. After a terrible civil war of four years, involving the bloody sacrifice of ovor half a million of able bodied men and putting upon the country the heavy burden of three thousand millions of debt, we were released from the political domination of three hundred thousand Southern slaveholders. Heavy as were the costs of this liberation from a tyran- nical and insolent oligarchy, the end achieved was still regarded with proud exultation, as amply rewarding us for all our contributions in men and money. But if the power wielded in their day by those three hundred thousand domineering white slaveholders is to bo trans- ferred to their four millions of ignorant, de- based and credulous negro slaves, wo may well inquire what have we gained or where are to be our compensations for all these stupendous efforts and sacrifices required to put down the slaveholders’ rebellion? Are we drifting from the “excessea of liberty, equality and fraternity” to a French reign of terror, or to the bloody reprisals of St. Domingo, or to that fusion and confusion of races which culminated in Mexican anarchy? We have been making history at a rapid rate since 1850. In that year it was thought that we had compassed an enduring adjustment on slavery and the negro question in the great compromise measures of Henry Clay. But, un- tortunately, inflated with false notions of power from the Presidential election of 1852, poor Pierce, Marcy, Buchanan and other narrow- sighted and flexible democratic leaders of the North, bowed to the yoke prepared for them by Jo Davis, Mason, Slidell and other democratic pro-slavery potentates of tho Sonth, in the re- peal of the groundwork of Clay’s adjustment, the Missouri compromise of 1820. Then came the border rufflan war in Kansas, the overture of the rebellion; then the infamous Dred Scott decision, and next that tremendous Northern popular reaction which elected Abraham Lincola ; and then the bold revolt of those three hundred thousand audacious and despotic Southern slaveholders, with all its bloody and decisive consequences. That insolent and ip- sufferable oligarchy was demolished, the debas- ing institution of negro slavery, upon which its masters assumed first to rule, and, in the last resort, to ruin the country, was ewept from existence, and, with the rebe! Leo's surrender, the reigo -of the kingdom of Belshazzar passed away. "Soa ha The poople of tho loyurs ia, throngh thet servants tn Congress, the Execative Depart- ment, the army and the navy, after many blun- ders aod Gisasters, Gaally, with Grant end his able Subordinate goherals, shattered the tebel cohfedétacy into a mass of cults, in that terrific which opened the gates of Richmond t Abraham Llocota. Thas the for (he gallows in cases of murder would prac- tically defeat the ends of justice. Nobody’s life would be safe except the murderer’s; and for him the ward politicians, the straw bail mongers, the rowdios and the local lobbyers would never cease to work until they had obtained a remission of his sentence the instant the horror excited by his crime had died out of public recollection. Depend upon it whon Bill Sykes, in the exercise of his sportive fancy, murders his Nancy, the best thing socioty can do to Bill Sykes is to hang him out of the way as quietly and as quickly as possible. The man Jerry O’Brien, whose execution is reported in to-day’s Herato, unquestionably merited his fate. There are two other men now under sen- tence in Pennsylvania, also for the murder of women, who should be served in the same way. Tho evil is notin the ddath penalty, but in fits accompaniments—in the crowd of pitying parsons and philanthropic old women, whose conduct practically teaches that the hangman’s rope is a sort of Jacob’s ladder leading straight up to Heaven, and in the false glamour of heroism which the advocacy of humanitarians, like the mover of this resolution in the State Convention, throws around the prisoner. Jerry O’Brien, in honest poverty, might have lived and died or hanged himself, and no one would have troubled much about his spiritual welfare; but Jerry O’Brien, the woman murderer, be- comes an object of interest to all the philan- thropists of the country, from Horaco Greeley down and upwards—a somo one to be dis- oussel in State Conventions and prayed over and pampered. The pernicious sympa- thy thus excited is increased by the mode of conducting executions at present in vogue—‘that is, by the melo-dramatic and unnecessary pro- cess of building a scaffold in the hearing of the condemned, and by the inefficient mechanical appliances now in use for putting an end to the culprit’s life. The English drop system, which seldom fails to dislocate the neck of the crimi- nal and cause instant death, would be an immense improvement on the present plan of hoisting a man into eternity as gradually as a bale of goods is hoisted into a warehouse. Such prolonged struggles as those witnessed at the execution of O’Brien yesterday are only calculated to drown detestation for the crime in sympathy for the criminal. Let the authori- ties shorten the interval between sentence and execution, improve upon the existing mode of hanging, and shut out the maudlin bumanita- tian sympathizers who surround every scaffold, and we shall hear of fewer murders and fewer executions. There will be no need thon for the Conveation to abandon the vital and all engrossing question of canals in order to dis- cuss topics of criminal jurisprudence. The New Dominion in Danger. Apparently the new Dominion of Canada is a good deal like the hero of Tom Hood’s nautical ballad—its doath is going to happen in its birth. The scheme never had much show of stability, and it is rapidly losing what little force it at first possessed. Lower Canada is Jealous of Upper Canada, and the maritime provinces are warmly hostile to both, The chiefs are quarrelling over the spoils; the people are dissstisfied with the nominations. By the cable we learn to-day that large bodies of troops are to be sent to Canada from Eng: land to repel @ threatened Fenian invasion. This pretext is, of course, all bosh, The resi mission of the military will doubtless be to suppress the internal disorders which are ex- pected to arise after the coming clection, and to bolster up a8 far as possible the dominion scheme, It is @ hopeless case, Popular dis affection is go great that despite all the efforts of the old country the present election will probably be the last as well as the first, and aster nyt of she who's. | rebel Statee and theit people fell completely | whon itis comfortably over the people will bo per) ths term to three pdr Neat Subject to the diséretion of the government | ready for annqgation, naturalization or any other “atiog,” rather thap the perpetuation of ww which they tind ao Geacely rejected, denied, de- wore lost, The Comrensep then adjquraed 1p new Gompinigas Mager ara, fied 00d toajoteg, With apy thing pi dicious. The substitution of the State Prison | NSW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1867. Stanton and Gramt—The Radi “*! Game It is for “his virtues” that is in‘ #°USH! to drive Mr. Stanton out’ of the Cabins. + 97° high radical authority ; and'It is for bis \ tee, of course, that the radicals desire be a 10uld hotd ou. It would be safe to go more into de tail and say that it is for one particular virkle that he is supposed to possess that the radicals desire that he should retain his placo—the virtue, namely, of having that kind of left- handed wisdom and tact that by any and every means disposes of obnoxious candidates to public favor. Stanton is, in his present position, relied upon by his radical associates for the great duty of killing off General Grant, as in other days he killed off General McClellan. As the head of the War Department it is sup- posed he may do great service in that direc- tion. He may invoive Grant in afl sorte of politico-military complications, and put him in such false positions as to sadly compromise the great soldier in the eyes of the masses, and thus give the radical orators and writers some material to work on against that hitherto unas- sailable name, Grant’s record is 60 clear, so plain, so direct a story of unselfish patriotism, that radicatism foels it has no chance against such a candidate, and it assigns to Stanton the especial duty to change all this and involve the man of the people in the toils of intrigue. In the Cabinet, associated so directly with Grant in the work of reconstruction, Stanton, it is held, may accomplish this. Outside the Cabinet he, of course, could not. Hence it is a vital part of the radical programme that he should hold his place; hence even bitter personal hates are for the timo laid ‘aside, and radicals who love Slanion as little as they love Grant are willing to risk the Secretary’s gaining great position in his party for the mere hope that he will cripple the man who otherwise is beyond their reach. This is no now bus incas to Stanton. Corrupt intrigue, covered always by skilful simulation of bold and honest purpose, has been the com- mon vein of his political life. Before he was in the Cabinet, Chase and his associates, desir- ing to manage matters in their own peculiar style, found Cameron in their way—a man who did not believe that to make Chase President should be the final object of all human endea- vor. Cameron’s place was important, as it had all the contracts; and the combination was made to drive Cameron out and put Stanton in, not forgetting to heap at tho same time all possible odium on the retiring Secretary. Stan- ton once in, the vast patronage of the War Departinent was in the hands of the combina- tion, and the case seemed clear. But a new danger arose. Generals began to fill a largo place in the popular thougit ; successful sol- diers attracted to themselves what was thought to be an undue proportion of attention, and Secretaries were in danger of dwindling out of sight. The problem for the conspirators then was how to carry on the war without letting any one genoral achieve such splendid tri- umphs as would make him the especial glory and favorite of the nation. Tho soldier who then loomed up with greatest promise was General McClellan. For the right kind of action in West Virginia he had been promoted to the command of the nation’s best army, he had organized it with great success, and had taken it skilfully and with little loss to the immediate neighborhood of the enemy's capi- tal. He was looked upon by the whole country as the man destined to close the war in a blaze of glory, and the case becamo desperate for tho political conspirators in the Cabinet. To this soldier, therefore, Stanton resolutely applied his murderous memorable policy, deter- mined to kill the soldier even though ho killed the country. He broke that army into detachments and paralyzed it by hampering the commander with all pitiful con- ditions, He succeeded in forcing the failure of that campaign, and there and elsewhere de- stroying the soldier, though by pushing away the success then within our grasp he caused the war to reach the proportions it did and piled up the great debt that now weighs upon us. He succeeded against McClellan; he de- atroyed Buell in the West ; he broke down suc- cessively every man that rose into promi- nence; he became the nightmare of the nation. But Grant roze from battle to battle in spite of his hindering policy—triumphing over Stanton almost without knowing it, by plain honesty of purpose, as he did over the enemy by his straightiorward fighting. Stanton found that he could not destroy Grant by the means that had been successful against others, and resorted to the characteristic plan of put ting a spy in camp under tho dosignation of an Assistant Secretary ot War. It was the busi- ness of this pitiful follow to fotet himself upon the soldier at all times, to be prosent whenever there was company, to push his way in at meals, to listen at corners, and report all that might make capital against Grant. All in vain! Grant beat the enemy still, put down the rebellion and became the foremost man of the nation. But even then the game was not given up,. and we have recently laid before the public facts in regard to another spy on Grant, a detective, employed, as stated, by a Massachusetts Congressman. But the Massa- chusetts Congressman in question is hand and glove with Stanton, and the game of one is the game of the other; both are lost if a case can- not be made against the great soldier before the time when the people will choose another President. And in this desperate position It is the last hope of the radicals, whether in the interest of Ohase, Stanton, or some other, that Grant shall be killed off and ruined in popular esteem. Stanton is relied upon to do it Honce he must hold on to bis place by tooth and nail if need be, through thick and thin, in spite of all indignity and opprobrium, A Now Hastion Constitution. Wo published yesterday the main features of the new Haytien constitution. We should be ali the more disposed to applaud its demo- cratic and liberal terms {f we were not pain- fully award that in Hayti,es in France, the most elaborate constitution, being only # skil- ful device and not the outgrowth of national another and then another, as tell how s0on the republic overthrown by asother Soulouque, who shall exhibit to the World a second Fronefi empire in miniature? The presidency for life is abolished by the present constitation, but it is not impossible that enothor bleck omperor, with a retinue of dukes end ducbestes rojoicing in a4 odoriferous and polysyliebic bition ea thong, org bE We eummtians of Gen: louque, may again sweep across the -stage of Haytien history. One feature in the aew con- stitution—the abolishment of the death penalty for political offences—we cag heartily recom- mond, although with a vory feeble hope that our recommendation will be heeded, to the Juarez government in Mexico. But thus far we have @en much in the experiment of self- Ovemment by the negroes of Hayti to en- courage the antic‘oations of our American radicals that surrendering the balance of political power to the negroes of the Seuth will date a millennial cra in the history of the United States. The Tenure of Office Bill~Abolition of the Executive. The people of the United States are just beginning to understand the intent and possi- ble effects of certain bills, particularly of the Tenure of Office bill, passed by Congress over the veto of the President. Until very lately the President was supposed to be master, at least of the choice of those constitutional advisers who form his Cabinet. Not only was this supposition favored by a special clanse of the constitution, which, by inference, left the nomination of those superior officers in his hands, but bythe traditional custom which bas hitherto never been violated, evea amidst the most violent excitements of partisanship. No Senate has ever withheld its confirmation from the choice made by a President of the members of his Cabinet. that the Tenure of Office bill was expressly de- signed to interfere with authority, which we see openly defied by Sian- ton, the Secretary of War, who counts upon being sustained by Congress in the discour- tqous and unprecedented attitude which he has assumed towards the Executive. bill, with others, must have been specially con- trived for the purpose of virtually abolishing the Executive authority. It cannot be defended as constitutional; for the constitution definitely recognizes the Executive, which it is the whole drift and ultimate purpose of these bills to abolish. The radicals, indeed, do not pretend to defend them as constitutional, but are satis- fied with claiming that they aro a necessary part of the revolutionary movements of this revolutionary period. Assuch it is expected that the people will accept them and their con- sequencos, even if it should appear that there is no longer any constitution or any law, and that the vast majority of white free bora citi- zens of the United States are henceforth to be governed by four millions of emancipated nogroes, whd, notwithstanding their ignorance and degradation, aro to be intrasied with the balance of power. army that fought four years in defence of the Union may well ask, “Ts it for this result that we fought and sacrificed the lives of our fallen comrades ?”” complexion that we must come at last ?” But now it is obvious the Presidential In fact, that The survivors of the brave And all may ask, “Is it to this A Theatrical Negro. The radical organs are all beginning to make a fuss about a theatrical negro, whose portrait is displayed in the print saop windows on Broadway, and who is shortly expected to arrive in New York for @ professional. tour throughout the country. Ira Aldridge is the name of this modern Othello. It is said that twenty-five or thirty years ago he crossed the Atlantic as a servant of the elder Wallack, and he has been starring it ever sinte in Europe quite successfully. ablaze with decorations received from royal patrons of the stage. But to whatever degree he may have carried the unquestioned imita- tive faculties of his race, he cannot have made a greater sensation in Europe than many another, negro. In Europe folks always go wild over @ nogro. sensation was created at every hotel where we stopped, while once travelling abroad, by a coal black African who served as our courier. He had .been carefally trained asa courier, could speak glibly half a dozen languages, and was an excellent, faithful servant. But Tra Aldridge himself could. not have been an object of greater curiosity and admiration than our courier wherever he appeared. He con- verted all the chambermaids Into Desdemonas. In this country, however, neither ho nor Ira could expect to be such rare birds as they proved in Europe. Seriously speaking, what with the war, and with the grand negro drama in action which threatens to be one of its results, we are all likely to see enough of the negro without seeking him on the stage. Even the radicals can care but little to sce this theatrical negro playing, and we should not be surprised if Wendell Phillips and his friends should be more eager to atilize him during the next campaign as a candidate for Vice Prosident. They are welcome to make him the man of their choice: His breast, it is added, is We remember what s The State Convention. On Thursday a member of the Convention informed that body that there was a growing disposition on the part of the people to reject any constitution it might propose. Very likely, and, if true, very proper on the part of the people; for the truth is the Convention will never propose any constitution. now going on it may submit to the people two or three codes—a code of canal laws, for in- stance, and codes of other laws in relation to our several great institutions ; but tlese are not what the people want, and it will be a robbery of the public treasury if these mon, sent to Albany to frame a constitation, are paid six dollars a day for any other labor. As it ts Bx-Senator Harris on the New Crisis. We take the liberty of publishing to-day a letter from ex-Senator Harris on “The New Crisis,” believing, as we do, that it expresses the sentiments and apprehensions entertained by avery large body of our intelligent readers, At all events, we commend it to their perusal as embodying the opinions of a clear-headed and dispassionate observer of the political developments of the day. The results of the Tennessee election are bringing this thing of negro supremacy in the South 60 prominently the public eye that it cannot fail soon SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Momeh Yi tft 8. ae THE YACHT CLUB say AaDRoN. TO THE NERALO. The Fleet in a Fog=Clambake tn Narrazanset Bay—Kace Arouud Block Island. * Newrorr, R I, Auguat 9, 1667. Tho New York Yacht Club Squadron teft New Loudoe Seatorday wording, sailing through s bank of heavy fox. Crowds of ladies end gerftiemen, notwithstanding the unpleasant aature of the leur for leaving, througsd the dock to uote ite deparwure, The dark cloug curtain that huag Like a patil over thé Sound materially retarded tha progress of several of the leading yachta, and under the directions of the Commodore they anchotod Opposite Stonington, while the rest of the feet, not ob- serving his sigual t@ “come to,” continued on thoie coarse. ‘Tho arrival of the Phantom, Palmer, Fleur de Lis and Dauntless was noted anlid the booming of caanon aad the screeches of seam whistles, creating @ arost barbaric din. To-day there will beaciambake up Narragauset bay, givem at the residence of E. A. Dodge. Tomorrew the grand race around Block Istand will take place, CITY INTELLIGENCE. ‘Tae Weatuee.—The weather during the past fow days has beon, taking into consideration ths season of the year, quite oxtraordinary, and the oldest inhabitant, whoever he may be. 18 understood to have stated that the rainfall tg the greatest that has occurred for the last cen- tury. Tho sky fas been almost porpotually overcast, and we have enjoyed every conceivable form of atmos- pharic moisture, from the feeble drizzle to the drench- iag downpour, In fact, the weather lately has been generally rocognized as natural — phenomo- non, aud of course, as i$ usual in such cason,. « largo class of persons who concern themselves with everything but ther own immediate business have beam raciting thoir brains to discover a plausible theory om popular belicf 13 that teortc shower, which was to come last night or ts , ta closely connected with this exiraordinary aqueous condition of things, but many other causes, more or lesa probable and more or less ludicrous, are asaignod for it. According to seafaring mon, the Guif tream bas recentiy beenjextremely erratic, and has do- viated considerably from its usual course, winding its way closer to the land than usual. Thuis is by mang considered to have created in some inexplicable manner the plentiful raimfali with whiok wo bave boon, aud are still, up to the present wri favored. But, whatever may be the reason for tt, undoubtedly certain that the weather during tho week has ‘been abnormally moist. An Englishman, iately arrived, says that on the other side he was [re- quently aseured that in America to sky was, a3 a culo, bright and clear, and the weather altogothor different from the incessant alvernation of ciouds and rain te which he had been acoustomed in tho “tight little tsland;”’ but, hitherto, he thiaks the weather hore haa been tore Euglish im this respect than in Kngland, and that somebody has beon tolling an unmoase “‘whypper’? about the American climate Mosic ar raz Pare To-Dav.—If the weather be Goo this aftornoon there will be music by the Park band om the Mall, uuder the leadership of H. B. Dodworth, com- moencing at four o'clock Tho following is the pro- gtamma:— : L 2 3 4 5. i ole 6 Waltz aN 7. Gran sgteotion from * Bellink CG 3, Fritach Fratach Polga. rae 9. St. Pat's Quadrilic... arent 10. Scena et Aria, trom * uC , Galop—'Wildfang”..... lo—Home Thoughts, sir Exentted Mergonto Sagwar To-Nidirt.—Acoord- ing to the prediction Of M. Taverisr, 143 Aghronomor ot the -French Academy, a magaiicont fall of meteors may be expeciod to take plato to-night, which will be be visible not only om the Amoricaa Contineat but in Kurope as well. It is to be hoped that eather will bo favor. able for observing the display; if the sky should be cfoudod like last night, onr citizens will have but tide chance of sesing the stars falling. M. Leverier is very positive as to the date of: this promised exhibition, but othor astronomers calculate that the meteoric showor will not tako place untti November, and is indeed the couploment of the ono that was expected at the same time last year, Nature already seems to bave made a apasmodic oilort for carrying out the prediction of the French astronomer, for yest morning five passing uyeteors were seen, Although was cloudy, five larga mateors were counted between the hours half. it twolve and four A. M.; and were fully as Fin right to ap] a3 the planet Jupier. At three A. M. tho heavena had a most bog er looking aa if there was an Aurora Borealis in the eky. It’ ramaing to be seen what thote fugitive stars will por- tend to-night; porhaps they are only the avant couriers of the greater ehow, Crwxse Maton.—The tnterastiag match which was in progress between tho New York and Newark Clubs, and which was Lo havo been continued yesterday, had to be postponed in consequence of the deplorable state of the weather. The game will probably be played out on noxt Thursday. Both sidea aro sanguine as to the reault, the game being quite open as yet. Tur Co-orgestive Movewsyt.—The First Union Co- operatirs Land and Building Society held a mecting last night at Parmer's Lastitute, 49 Ludlow street, which was vory largely attended. The first jation was sold. at auction during the evening to Mr. Kelly at a premtum of $1,000. A second appropriation was sold to Mr. BE. A. Brown for $900. The number of members now ie good standing in tha society is four hundred and thirty- one. Tho maximum is five hundred under the plan of the wooiety. Reoxcess Daivina—Officer Crook, of the Fourtesntta ward, arrested Abraham Frankfleld and Michael O'Briem early yosterday forenoon for driving a wage through Wooster street ata Nese rate, thereby endangering the lives and persons of the pedostnana Justice Dowling fined the mon $5 each, which they quickly paid and were dlecharged. Ove More Unvortonats —Last ovening, between nine and (en o'clock, a young woman, name unkaowa, jumped from one of the Fulton Ferry boats and was drowned. ‘Sue ws described aa plain'y dressed and y. She came on the boat aineet-aswennets Mer sheen tondaaal tightly under her chin, epee agg sa rf to destroy herself. As soon as the was uoder way she let down the chain and plunged into the foaming water {nm the veasel’s wake. No one had time Or opportunity to stop her. As soon as the clumsy life- waving apparatus in vogue among ferryboats could be Drougiat into play, & boat was lowered and search made for the wretched girt, but without result. Apparentiy she had sunk at on09 Picxeocner Areastzo.—William Davis, an alleged notorions pickpocket whoso portrait adorns the Rogues” Gallery, wis arrosted yesterday detective Woolsay, of tho Dreattay squad, Wa ncneeed of umeete jag Silas Davis with felonious intent. Whon arraigned before Justica Dowling, the prisoner was looked up for trial at the Special Sessions, Corovana’ Inqoxsts.—Corenor Wildey held an inquest yosterday in the case of Mary E. Murtha, agod fouriecm yoars, who died at No, 161 East Twenty-first street (rom internal homorrbage. As the modical testimony was that homorrhage was the result of disease, the jury rendered a verdict to that effect. Coroner Gover held aa inquest yesterday over the body of Mary Jane Kloock, whose doath was the result of burns accidentally re- ceived from the explosion of a can of kerosene oil, with which sho was lighting afire, at No, 102 Columbia stroet, on Thursday afternoon. The jury rendored a verdict of aceideatal Decoasod was 8 native of G: and twenty-three years of age, An inquest was also hy Coroner Gover yesterday afternoon, at No. 200 Sixtz street, over the remains of James Faiey, thirteen, years, who was kilied by a fall from the while put tng upacioshes line om Thursday afternoon. Verdict ta accordance. Paonasty Fatat, Acomest im Hepsox Stager.—Yes- torday afternoon as James Pettit, an employs of the Hudson River Railroad Company, was in the act of pete ry homed cate in Hudson street, near Jay, ho caught between two cars and was dreadfally injured in-, ternally, besides dislocating bis shoulder and receiving bad scalp wound. He was removed by # Mr. Rillikes to the New York Hospital. Buast:x0 Accroawt,—James Tool was severely iajured yesterday about the face by the premature discharge of 8 blast, which he was in the act of igniting, at Hacken~ sack, N. J. lt is foared ho may lose bis, sight He was tony romovod to this city, and the Now ‘ork Hospital. Kickap ov 4 Horse. Samael Travers was kicked by 4 vicious horse on Thursday br og ager and sustained « fracture lo wae conveyed by a Mr. ryan, who witnessed the occurence, to the Now York Hospital for eurgical treatment, ‘at No, 180 Weat Seventeenth ae we yesterday found fipim Banker, of the Twenty-ninth KA oN Datwosn Fifvenath ands acai accidental; from carriage Pe ah ns teared, fracture of the ating Toe ‘officers had bim immodiately conveyed to Bollevue Bante Buaten,—Winate Burns, aged twenty-seven, res / Twe Stas#?.=An aged man, supposed i