The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. Ae Rov. Father Desmet, who accompanied Genoral Sully to the Indian tribes on the Missouri river, says tho Com- missioners met with a cordial reception from the varl- ous tribes as far north aa the Yellowstone river, and that the chiefs expressed the ir willingness to accept the JAMES GORDON BENNETT Ez posi an. Proposition of the government to go OD (uo reservations: And mainta‘n a strict neutrality, JAMES CORDON BENNETT, JR, ee pone con “gE ee MAN AGER,. in ortor to suppress the rule of gamblers and desperse does infosting that locality, >> . A full report of the decision delivered by Sir J, P. Wilde in tho Probate Court, London, {a gh@ famous Thwaytes will case, involving the possession of ptoperty estimated at over haif a million of pounds sterling, , Lotters and packages should be properly sealed, appoars in the Herato to-day, The elaborate analysis | Rejected communications will not be returnod. mado by the judge of the mental condition of the aa — | testatrix previous to and at the time of making ° XXXII. tho wiil is only equalled by the extraordinary state of mind to which she was brought by spiritualistic advisers and epirituslism, Imagining that she had ex- pertenced a physical regeneration and was born to a new body, she indulged in the monomania that she was the spouse of the Creator, and superior to all the men and women on earth, with tho exception of a Doctor Smith—who was to have had the most of tho property under the will—who was co-oqual with her, both of them ruling the destinies of the world and its inhabitants toa great extent. Judgo Wilde's treatment of the sub- Jeot of mental delusions, fanaticism, religious haze and va—StasneR AND | TonoMania will no doubt be read with deop interest by Physiologists, humanitarian of overy claga, and in the churches. The will was aot aside, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. At buainoss or news letters and telegraphic despatches Bat be addressed New Yorx Herarp. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. i nanan wax THEATRE, Broadway, coraer of Broome WORRELL SISTERS' NEW YORK TITEATRE, oppo- @ie New York Hotol.—Unpes rae Gascicur, RENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- @.—-Euimaaeri, Quen or Exaiano. * OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Domary xo Son. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery Onssarn. BANYA) EW YORK M Broadway and Novopr’s Davcures, of Tue Bantap a. Financlal Troubles and Mysteries. A radical contemporary beglus to be alarmed at the gathering cloud of financial tioubles, He is appalled at tho accumulation of the public debt, He stands aghast at the enormous aggregate of taxes paid by the people of the United States, and which, he says, x. although considerably reduced from tho maxi- mum thoy attained in 1865-6, must probably exceed $500,000,000 per annum. In passing we must say that our impression is that they never reached a higher annual figure than $500,000,000. Startled out of the proprieties of consistency, our radical neighbor even echoes the popular outcry for such a readjust- ment and simplifying of our taxation “as may render it considerably less irksome.” Hye is bewildered, moreover, by “the seeming paradox” of an immense and stvalily increas- ing migration from countries that owe little and tax lightly, in comparison to this overbur- dened republic, He @eolares it is a puzzle to political economists “chat the volume of imml- gration should be not merely maintained but largely augmented under the pressure of gigantio debt, a high tariff, heavy internal taxes and an inflated, irredeomable currency.” Partially recovering his senses, he next blunders upon a solution of the puzzle. “Tmmigrants are still pouring in at the rate of a thousand per day, and all of them who know how to do anything, and will do it, find em- ployment and remuneration. Labor is as well pald in the average, and‘as comfortably sub- sisted, a3 it was when we had next to no debt, light taxca, and a currency convertible into specie at par. The real estate of the country could be sold to-day for more monoy (reduced to specie) than it was worth ten years ago. Most of our people are prospering ; many are amassing weaith. Houses are being built on every hand ; lands are being improved; new farms are being hewn out of the forest and carved from tho wild prairie; our rail- roads are being extended at the rate of a thou- sand miles perannum ; and the product of our national industry in 1867 will be larger than that of any formor year.’ We need pot mul- tiply words to prove that this isa solution of the mysterious puzzle, The American people are rioh, notwithstanding their burdensome taxation, because ther country is inexhausii- | PERRAC rifly-menth atreny ON ORRTS, Comme ¢, Pifly-eighth and 3) Poru.ag Garvan 20 Broadway, oppo+ in Soncs, “Dances, DAFRIQUE~ pera House, Nos. 2 and 4 We fourth sirect.—IN Tem Neano Ko ano Bowuxsgoes—Taw Coprisit Anise TONY PASTOR'S OP! Vooauisa, Necro Museri ORUPIN & OF way and Twenty Davowd, Burcesg SRA HOUSE, Wart é Troupe,—Siwcine, DaxowG, BUxLE Bomrnoor's Daveurxn. 'S AMERICAN Til fancy, Pantomime, HOOLEY'S OPERA Ho! phinecaniae, Bautaps axp B: DoT CMMAN, Ertortay Persxcure ATOMY, Sctexcr AND AND POLY rECuNIC Ine aity, Open from8 A, Now York, Monday, August 19, 1867, fHS NBWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yos- torday morning, Angust 18. Napoicon and the Empross of France, Francis Joseph @ud tho Empress of Austria, tho King of Bavaria, with Bomo of tho statosmen of the couris, assembled at falrburg in council } The official organ of the Austrian government says thatan alliance between Franco and Austria is “pos- provided Prassia concludes au ailiance with Five-twonties closed at 77); in Frankfort. Our European files by the City of Paris, dated to the @th of August, furnish very interesting details of our cablo despatches, additional to the mai! report published fu tho Huaatn yesterday, The question of peace or war botween France and Germany agitated the Continent, Napoleon, replying to wo addross (rom the foreign commissioners to the Paris Exuibition, again dociared his wish for the “peace of the wortd;’? Dut the effect of the assurance appsared to bo noutralized in tho minds of the surrounding peoples by the vast standing army maintained in France and the umber aad the officioncy of its reserves. English correspondents in New York and New Orleans report to the London pross their ideas of tho progress of America reconstruction aud tho position of the political | y1y yich, Qursiaa new country, with daily Parvies atthe South, as well as their opinion of the ealneiuis Penoisbana 4b gidaliakast : chances of Genoral Grant for t oney. developing resour ces of ineal wulable wealth, The scenes which took pl { Kossuth’s election to | Our cheap and fertile and voundiless lands have tho Hwogarian Parliament ar ‘bod in a letter from | three times the produciive capacity of the old Pastis, European countries, Our agricultural idven- tions surpass any in the world, and unite with steamboats, railways and the telegraph in mar- vellously quickening and fachlitating the pro- gress of American industry wad trade. The na- tional wealth is so rapidly acoumulating that tho public debt, even if it wero to remain undi- minished, would become less and less burden- some in proportion to the development of gigantic strength to sustain it. At present, inleed, many of the taxes (as, for instance, the cotion tax) to which the people submitted as war measures are almost MISCELLANEOUS. Ove Washington despatchos this morning state that an condor will be issued from the War Dopartinent early this wook assigning General Goorgo H. Thomas to the com- mand of the Fitth Military district in place of Gonoral Bhoridan, who has been assigned to the Department of the Missouri, from which General Raucock bas been transferred to tho command of the Department of the Camberland, in place of General Thomas. General Grant has already mado several changes in the War Oftics by assiguing a number of Secretary Stanton’s favorites to active duty. Considerable uneasiness is manifested among other subordinates of the depart. mont, it being supposed that their tura will come next During the time tho § upon a verdict not a vo rratt Jury were doliborating was changed from one side to tho other after the first bailol, when they stood eight for not guilty and four for guilty, Those jarors who favored the acquittal of the ner admitted that he waa guilty of part mn in the conspiracy, but did not believe he was presen’ in Washington on the day of the asanssi nation A cable h from Lisbon says the steamer from Rio Janciro bad arrived, bringing the intelligence that the alhed army had Commenced the long expected dank movemont on way by the upper Parana. The top of pilot house and other portions of the ateamtug Adelia were picked up yesterday morning, of Coney Island Point, by the steamtug ©. 7 Smith, itis feared, from the appoarance of ihe fragments found, that the vessel has been biowa up, and that all bands ‘aro lost, as nothing has been heard of tho veseo! or crow Aa explosion and fire occurred on the steamboat Palisade yesterday morning as sho was about leaving her dock for Fort Lee, wih a large number of excur- aionists on board, among whom considerable alarm was created. Several wore somewhat scalded, but nowe dan- gerously. Tho fire was speedily extinguished. A young man, suppoted, from papera found upon him, to be named John Salone, was accidentally killed yes- torday afternoon by being run over by one of the Coney Island horse cara, The body was taken to the Pushing Vout howe to await id ton, Several voszels with sicknoss on boerd arrived at Quar- antine yesterday, and are detained at the lower bay. So far as is known, however, nouo of the sick have any ontagious disease, lect ile dues, without being exposed in the col- D'Arcy McGeo has published tho Grst instalment of | 1.1145 of onsioms and of internal revenue to his oxposures of the attempt to establish Fenianism in ) A s Mootreal, He states that he only uses information in | Such frightful losses as have been disclosed by his own possession, and not documents obtaiued (rom | the imperfect invostigation of recent frauds the Canadian government, upon the Treasury of the United States, Such Thore were one hundred and no hie deaths from frauds as bave been lately perpetrated on a ollow fover in Galveston last weok. ‘ - 7 jramaeaasd Toorne Waslon wee drowned as Chartes | COWess soale In the articles of whiskey, potey- Island, in Lovg Island Sound, on Saturday, whiloen- | leum and tobacco should henceforth Ye ren- deavoring to rescue his litle son, who was bathing | dered impossible. and got beyond his depth, The child was enved. As to the influx of immigrants in. epite of our A large number of arrests were made by the police own grievous taxation, it shawl be remem: yesterday at Conoy Island for alleged violations of the ieeed Wat’ thera halt a4 “ men Excise law in selling liquor on Sunday, The partios | Cred the J are glad to escape from the apprehondod were principally barkeepera, and were tyranny of taxation withou, representation. taken to the Forty- precinct station house. As to the evil of an inflated currency, that General Halbert . Paine ee - interesting | matters less than sight seem to be the onee; fotter to Governor Fairchild, of Wisconsin, respecting saa : dhe extra bounties dao to the soldiers of that State under and our contemporary might not be so much tho act of Juiy 23, 1896, The General gives the rather alarmed it L@ would reflect that it is frequent startling information thet 90,000 unanswered applica | and sudden fiuctuations of the money market tions of the Postmaster General for information on the | that play the mischiof, rather than the noml- gubject had accumulated in the office of the Second nally high figures which the price of gold may happen to reach. Let almost any figure but re- main steadily the same for a long period, and Auditor at Washington, and that there were also 150,000 casos in which applications had not been forwarded to all transactions are gurely and exfely accom- modated to it, economy, recognizing and adapted to this state of fac's?” We most certainly do need a politi- eal economy adapted to the actual siate of things; but nota new one, and by nc means such a high tariff economy as our ‘avighbor advocates in his fundamental idea tata tariff is something good in ilsel/—a meajare which it would be wise fora community to adopt, even if they had no need of revenas, We are inclined to agree with political economisis of quite 9 different school, who teash that “tariff” is another namo for “tax,” a‘sd that a tax of any kind can only be more or/less of a burden upon the people who pay %, and cannot in the nature of things be a benefit to them. At the same time we recognize the practical advantages, and, in a certain sense, the practl- cal nocessity, of moderate taxes on articles of utility, and of high tacos on articles of luxury, including commodides the consumption of which is voluniarg, and the deprivation of which does not irapele production. And, ospe- cially, we insisy upon it that our government should have sad should use full powers to col- tho Second Auditor in the Paymaster General's ofice, Under tho present system of examination th: soea no early prospeet of relief for the sold, their additional bounties, Our apocial correspondents ia Yizgigia, South Carolina fend [oxas give interesting accounts of the political and foie! condition of alfaira in those States, Avho colored camp fitting at Flushiug was yesterday Uironged with vistors aad members, It was oponed (eet Thuryiay, god will contiquo for a fortaiguh More Inrormation Wantep.—Can any one inform us what amount of money Chief Justice Salmon P. Clase has invested in Europe? The sum is variously estimated at from five to eight uillious, | intolerable, because no longer mecessary, and cs in some cases palpably unjust. Our contem- | SSP! and rufaous financial policy. porary asks, “Do we not necd & new political they be ablo to force a contraction of the cur- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, "1867, Views of the West on National Finance and the Currensy, That mighty portion of the country, the West, which will soon control the destinies of the republic, is liftin> {ip its voice against che ruinous fin3”.vial policy of Mr. MeCulloch and the Srgans of the Eastera capitalists, We have hefore us an article from the Chicago Tribune Pitching into fla fellow radical and namesake of this city for its “wretched contraction poli- oy, itg mischievous quackery, and its shameful ignorance of the fundamén.l principles of finance.” It is evere, too, on Mr, McCulloch for his inconsistency and imbecllity, and qhow® that while the Secretary is abused by the New York radical organ for not hurrying on faster to specie payments, he has actually, within one year an‘ nine months, contracted the currency over two hundred and nine millions, In fact, while Mr, McCulloch has found it impossible to carry out his absurd theory of “on to spocie payments,” because rain stared him in the face, he isas muchin favor of coniraction as Gresley and tho Eastern bondholders, and he never loses an opportunity in his management of the finances and currency io plaz insidiously into the hands of the capitalists, the bond- holders and the national banks. [is wholo policy and conduct tond ty favor this smali but powerful clas3 and to opp tess and ruin the in- dustrious classes. The deniweiatory languoge of the Westorn press on the vwadical organs of the East and on Mr, McCuNoch for their wreiched vagarics and rainons ,volicy is not at all too savore. The Chicago Tribune roprosents the Westera republicans on these questions of Lance and the curceney. But the democrats of dhe West are equally hostile to the financial j\olley of the Secretary of the Treasury and the iYasiern capitalists. We published yesterday extracts from a speech of a prominent represenéative man of the democratic party— Mr. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio—in which s{milar viows aro expressed to those of the Chicago radienl paper. Both agree that it is dangerous to tre country, and particularly to the West, to conr tract the currency now; that contras' ion would “result in a financial panic, and fore the far- mers of tho West to sacrifice their products.” “Tt would swindle them,” they say, “out of two hundred millions of dollars for the benefit of tho East and its speculators.” Tho proposition to withdraw the greonbacks from ciremlation, and (hus to convert these greenbacks, which pay no intorest, into bonds which pay interest in gold, is denounced as increasing the num- ber of those who. do not py taxes, and inoreas- ing tho burden of those who do. Mr. Pendle- ton shows, what the Heratp has said all along, that the national bank circula‘ion is a swindio on the country ; that this circulation shoulgl be withdrawn and the governmont issue Negal tender in its place, and thus save upwards of twenty millions a year without increasing the volume of the currency. While the two par- ties in the West may differ in some resyiects regarding the amount of currency needed for the business and development of the country, the character of the currency, or the best ‘way of meeting and paying the national debt, they agree that contraction would bo most disas- trous, both to industry aad the rovenue of the government. Hero we seo, thon, a mighty issue looming up betwecn the great West, embracing all parties of that section, and the capitalists, the bondholders, tho manufacturers and the pro- teclionis's of all shades in the East. It will not be long before party polilics cmd mere political questions will sink into insiygnificance before this important issue, for tha material interests of a people govern their conduct. New parties will be formed on the absorbing questions of finance, currency, tha banks, the debt, protection and revenue. The West will be united on these, independent of old party affilistions, The seat of empire and of politi- eal power will bo there. The West alone would be able to coutrol the policy of the government ; but, united with the agricultural South, the interests of which will be identical with those of the West, the political power of ue republic must pass forever from the Eastern Atlantic States. In view of these faets it will be wise on the part of the moneyed and manu- cturing oligarchy of the East to peuse in their Should rency to increase their own wealth, and there- by to plunge the West into bankruptey, and should they incroase the burdens, already very heavy, of the industrial classes, and at the same time embarrass the Treasury through their selfish measures, their securities and wealil may be endangered. Thore is no dis- position in this country to repudiate; but it should be remembered that the people govern, and that if they should be burdened too heavily politicians may find repudiation popular and the way to power. We warn the contrac. tion theorists and monopolists of the Greeley and McCulloch school that they are treating on dangerous ground. In this country tho interests of the productive and industrial classes must be first cousidered. The republic cannot be governed entirely in the interest of a few capitalists, manntactarers, bondholders and the natiou) banks. The Emperor Thesdore in Difficulty. No monarch in modern times has given more annoyance in asmeil way to England than the ebony Emperor Theodore, of Abyssinia. Having cultivated a liking for the widowed Qveen of England, and having professed him- zelf not unwilling to solace her in her sorrows, he seriously offered her his band, retaining, meanwhile, in order to make his purpose good, certain English residents as sureties. His suit not succeeding—Victoria having no desire to supply the place of her lamented Albert by a royal “nigger’—the wrath of his Majesty has fallen upon the unfortunate captives. Recom- mendations, advices, proposals, warnings, threats have been had recourse to by the British government, but all have been equally in vain. War had at last become a necessity, and we believe was seriously resolved upon. But what English troops were equal to ® cam- paign in those regions of the sun? Egyptian troops were thought of, and the Viceroy was not unwilling to furnish them; bat there were many who could only eee in the plan an insult to the British army. Sepoys might be tried ; but this plan was objectionable on the same grounds. Meantime the insurrection which for some time has been going on in the heart of Abyssinia has assumed such proportions and has won euch succesres that the prisoners have fatlon into the hands of the rebels, who are likely to give them their liberty. If this rumor prove (0 be correct, Baglish valor will not need tobe teated beneath the burning sun of (he tropics, and England’s Queen will be no more troubled with the importunities of ‘Theodore, reduce the cost and increase the consumption pripen a oetiovntpst scat ach MUSIC AND TH. DRAM 2) The Appronching Senson—The Adghta of the Stage Without the Footlights© Mae. aacrs and tholr Programmon—Kiscert, Operas Comedy, Oratorio, Burlesquc. ‘ ‘The streota and hotels of Gotham at this form a sort of dramatic photograph gallery, in all the shining lights and rushlights of the atago eppuer after their summer loiterings in the country, Every and every train bring them from Bath and Belting S\aits (if any havo visited Wairuasia this som:ner) b pe their homes before the footiighta; from surf and quafilag miueral waters te double sword bats and imaginary poisoned goblets; trom dishing an@ Ploasant drives to secret trapdoors and suiphereoss tableaux of virtue triumphant and villany defeated. Let us take @ look atthem. King Lear is engaged im angry dispute with an obstinate hackman, insinuating fa no gentle tone that “sharper than a serpent’s tooth’? {a an exorbitant cabby; Leah is adminiatering a severe rebuke to the inoffensive Bill Sykes as thoy ascend the stairs of the hotel; Shylock, Dombey and Lord Dua- droary are still hilarious over inst night's carouse; Camille courtesies deeply to Tony Lump kins’ polite ealatetion; Nancy Sykes," in @ moire antique rob? and a double-decked chignon, sweeps through the parlor while Topsey aud Hamlet make If- natured remarks on hor “thinking herself above every- body ;’’ tho fast young man and broken hearted grand- father, cigar in mouth, saunter up Broadway; the Ethi- opian delineator and groat specialty man stand ‘at the corner ogling the pretty apeciwmens of crinollnedom with uncorked countenances; the “love of atenor” attuneshis voice to the accents of undignified abuse of @ small bey who wishes, nolens volens, to black his boots; tho romantie heroine of dark and gloomy Woltenstein bas @ paper par- co! of fruit and vegetables under her arm, anda Telegram, umbrella, bandbox, portemonnate & , &c., in her hand; the heavy villain, ruthloas unole or blood-thirsty pirate te mildly expostulating with an appio woman on the impro- All sorts of people are rushing into print— the great, the exalted ahd the notorious—and why should not Philosopher Grecley? Every one is anxious to tell the secrete of his or her life, to make a confession after the manner of Rousseau, and why should not Grecley on- lighten ‘the world about bis bran bread exist- ence, bis humanitarian experimonts, his Steive- gammon schemes, and his political dodges? Napoleon has written a life of C.esar to repre- sent himself, and Queen Victoria a book to show her love life. Why should not H. G. publish his “recollections?” Illnatured people might suppoae that Greoley’s vanity has led him to write this history of bimself; others that he has done It to turn an honest penny, as the balance sheet of his radical business concern shows a poor income ; but we are inclined to think that, from the milk of human kindness, he wihed to expose the errors and weaknesses of his life as @ warning to others. But what- ever the motive, we hops he will make a clean breast of it, Let there be no montal reverva- tion, Let us know what women and what politicians he has coquetted with and jilted, and of whom he has been tho victim. The love serapos of Horace must be very rich and his political flirtations highly interesting. We ceo by the first chapters of hia work thet Tho Plots and Plans of Clty Politiclans-The Oomivg Explosion. Tho weekly papers are beginning to beatir themseives about our local politics, and as the greater number of thom have, oF desire to have, fingers in the political pie, they afford a fair insight into the bargainings ond tradings, the intrigues and wire pullings, the combinations, coquettings and coy flirtations just now going on — the cliques, rings and place hunters of the olty. It is amusing to sec how, year after year, the same old hacks are trotted out, or trot themselves out, for office, and how the several political organizations .parcel out the nominations, without any regard to the senti- ments or wishes of the people. We are told how one ward bully is on the Tammany alate for Sheriff, and anothor ward bully is down for County Glerk ; how this bruiser, with half a dozen aliases, is to be nominated for Senator, and that one for the Assembly. We are let into the secrets of this gang in tho “Bloody Sixth,” and tue other gang in the equally san- guinery “First,” and we find officials now in place insisting upon renominations and ex- office holders putting up their “ men” with as mush coolness and impudence as if they owned every voter in the city, and as if the people’s ballols were their individual property, to bo disposed of in ahy manner they may see fit he bags opened upon a rich fi He com- | Priety of the worda ‘‘curse of Crummit”’ as plied tohims In the midss of all this plotting and plan-] monces with the history of Ireland aud By oad Fe pry ai srg ees ning, however, it is very evidont that a mine is | Scotland, and the wars belwean the Proteat- | aia che managors What a fourfal state of exeitemont ants and Catholics. Ho dweils also upon the wars for the succession to the British throne, and enters into details of the battles, as if they wore as fresh in his memory as th> battle of Bull Ran. Persons disposed to be hypereriti- cal might ask what oll this had to do with H. Gs life or “recollections ;” but we shall not go into any such searching inquiry. He will come by and by, doubtless, to the germ of the matter, when the intro- ductory portion of the book will be completo and nicely rounded off. It may take him a good while {o reach that point, a3, after the history of Ireland and Scotland and tho wars we alluded to, he enlarges with muck gusto upon the carly Puritan settlers of New England, He evidently admires tho character and habits of these people, and is very proud of being descended from them. Hero he shows some vanity. Yet we fear he has degeneiated from the original stock in somo respects, for, though ho may be as fanatical, ho is not so cruel, They would havo burned or hanged Jeff Davis, bul he was mainly instrumental in liberating the arch traitor. But whenever Greeley reaches the gist of his story—his own “recollections’—we hope he will givo usin detail tho history of bis own precocious mind, the history of his physical de- velopment, the growth of his taste in matters of dress, art and manners, what he eat and how and when Le cat, what time he got up in the morning and went to bed, whether he said his prayers, and everything else about himself at that interesting period, as well as abgut his father, mother, relatives and neighbors, Let us have, by all means, the history of that gray or white horse he rode without a saddle; the history of that pig which was made fat and cut up inlo bacon for the nourishment of the in- fant philosopher, and the history of that cow from the milk ot which he became so kind, sleck and smooth. All this mizht be tedious to the reading public if related of any one else, but not so in the case of such a remark- able person. Unless he enters miuuiely into all these dotails, and thus makes a perfect pic- ture, with a full confession of his weaknesses, as Jean Jacques Rousseau did, wo fear his work will boas flat, stale and unprodtable as is Beecher’s new book. When aman aims at immortality he should not stick at trifles. Any- thing not done thoroughly had better be left undone. preparing which will go down deeper than all the politital organizations, cliques and rings, and when exploded will blow the wholo crow of corporation leeches and piunderers into the air. The people are heartily sick and tired of tho rule of radieal negro supremacy commis- sions and dishonest Tammany politicians. They are disgusted with the oppressive and absurd lows which have been fastened upon them by tbo joint offorts of republican legislators and the Tammany corporation, and are doterminod to sweep them all out of official existence. The liquor dealers end their friends, ail the whiskey Irish demo- erats and all the lager beer Gorman demo- evats aro raliying on teir natural and only reliable ‘champion—that magnificent rascal, Fernando Wood. They will trust no longer to paitty nominations, for they have been regularly sol out by Tammany, and they know that a Tammany Mayor and other Tammany corpora- tion officials, if elected, will go up to Albany next winter with thetr pockets filled with the publio money, and will bargain away yet more of the municipal rights of the citizens, in order to be allowed to hold on to their own places, The people will, therefore, refuse to be led any longer by wire-working, greedy politicians of any organization, but will choose their own candidates in thelr own way. They want no milk-and-water loaders now, for this is the day for bold mon. A resolute, impudent, deter- mined rascal can carry the masses with him, no matter what may be the color of his mus- tache. Fernando Weod lacks neither impu- douce, determination nor boldness, and is shrewd enough to understand the bearing of things and to turn them to his own advantage. He will march on with his great Irish party and his swarming German legions at his back, and bid defiance to the little Sweeney and Brennan and ‘Tweed politicians, as he did in 1859. The game se:ms now to be entirely in his own hands, and there is no doubt that he is preparing a bombshell that will be‘ore long explode among these small fry ploticrs, and destroy all their nicely laid schemes for parti- tioning up the city offices among their own disreputable cliques. they are in at present, planniag ovt their campaign ead studying the woak points of tho pablic—“enomy"— against whom they are banded. One ison tuo stage endeavoring to aupproas a revolt of his batlet girls; am other 18 the centro of acircie of excited ‘“supes,”” who are oxplaining how Ike Smith got drunk, and there was ne water inthe metre and therefore the gas in the audi- toriam wouldn't work; a third is floundoring amid a sen of letters from all quartors of tio Thespian globe, like an obose alderman in the sarf on Comey Isiand; a fourth rushes about tearing bis hair because while be was away one day at Long Brauch the carpeaters wout on a spree; anda theatraless ftth is smokiag a cigar, waiting, like Wilkins Micawber, “for somothing to tara up.” Again, there ia oxoltement among stage stritek © amateurs, aad each dramatic sun haga half dozen such satellites in hivor her wake, One pale faced youth may bo heard in his room atthe witching hour of midnight reciting the balcony scone from Romeo with the voice of a consumptive vontriloquist, white the yellow moon peeps indignantly at him through the balf drawa shutters, a feline orchestra seronades him on the roof, and mosquitoes, with cannibalistic tendencies, bum around his noge, A vocal quartet is at thoir rehearsal, the soprano ondeavoring to giva an exact description of the manner in which the cradled deapot of the family ab home demands food; tho tenor undérgoing the pre- liminary horrors of strangulation fa trying to sustaim that B flat, and the basso uttoring at intervals sounds which would make a full grown gorilla die with eavy. But now for tho bill of fare for 1367-68. Mra, Lander, n6e Miss Joan Daveaport, a tragodienne who brings with her the most flattering opinions of the Provincial public and press, will open to-night the pretty little Fronch theatro in ita bran now dress, Her first character will be Elizabeth, ta an English adaptation of Giacometti's great play. Noone should miss tho op- portunity of comparing the Italian and Eng- ish concoptions of this heterogeneous char- acter, which the wonderful gonius of Rislort has invested with such uncommon interest, Tho latter queen of the stage will appear as Marie Antoinette about Soptember 17, and there is hardly any doubt that this will be her groatest triumph, Giacometti places this play above all his othor works, and Mr. Grau te making every arrangement to bring it out on agrand wale, Bateman’s opéra comique company is already caged in Paris ready for transmission to New York. The ‘© Grand Duchess, Bluebeard, Fair Helen, Orpheus, and tho other members of Mr. Offenbach’s famity are coming ovor with them. Niblo’s will have to look ont for ite laurels ; for there's another, Richmond in the fleid called Bavvard’s Museum. When Nobody’s Daughter and Misa Reignolds leave the boards on which they have been so eminently successful, an army of carpenters, gas fitters, &c., will be let loose on ths establishment by the new managers, De Pal and Tamaro, and after due preparation a grand spoctacle with bewildering scenes and bewltching ballet will be unfolded. (N. B.—Tho grand spectacie ia not the panorama of the Mississippi.) But then the Black Orook has taken @ new lease of life and Miles. Bonfanta, Sangalli, Pagani, Sartori, Coribolli, Setti and Invermi have new dances, The result of rivalry in ballet be- tweon mauagers in this country may be that the South Sea Island costume—cotton in the cars and a fishboae through the nose—will be considercd suporiluous, “When tho brazen tongue of clamorous time’ @n- nounces eight P. M. on Christmas nigut tho Black Crook will give place to tho now spectacio—-a marvel ia ita way. Forrest succeeds the Florences at the Broad- way, uext month, with a strong company to support him. At Steinway Hall the work of preparation and improvement goes bravely on, Harrizon is marshalling his sweet voiced and harmonious forces, making them practise the scald with him, and distributing among them a plontifut supply of gum drop end troche cartridges. He has Mme. Rosa aud likely Miss Jenny Kempton among his ranks, In the hall and rooms the tuning of many planos speak the advent of the musi- cal fray, and pianists nearly disjoint their fingers by a! a double trill with one hand, and variations and obligato = accome Paniment with the other. A six days festival in aid of the American Dramatic Fund will! be hold in the Academy early in December, and will be undoubtedly a most brilliant affatr, to judge from the immonse propara~ tions, Such a landabls object should command publie patronage. Lotta is too charming alittle Neil and tee provoking @ little Marchioness to need auy change ef bill at Wallack’s while Teodoro Moss holds the reime. Flies ia the Web, and Joba Brovgham nightly Plagieg with Fire, or Captain Cuttle with bis ‘ook, may be seem at the Olympic until that house passes into the hands of Movers. Dull, Hayes & Fox. Then Joseph Jefferson wilt appear, Since Nobody's Daughter loft Under the Gas light at the Now York, the Misses Worrell are proparing to dance, sing, play the banjo, liep prouy-like jokes aad look captivatingly in their cosoy theatre, Miss Leo The Formosa Piratos. Rear Admiral Bell sends a long account to the Navy Department of his operations on the coast of China. We have published also an account of the shelling of a part of the island by our naval vessels in those waters. The latier was in retaliation for tho murder of the crow of the ship Rover, wrecked there not Jong since. This shelling of the coast must have given intense amusoment to the natives, who probably retired out of range, and accepted the fiying as a salute from the outside barbarians. The landing there of any force which we now have in our China squadron would be simply to sacrifice them if they advanced into the country. The idea of Admiral Bell, that the Chinese can take the matter in hand and chastise tho islanders, is quite as ridiculous. China has, since 1683, been gradually advancing to the conquest of the island, and as yet rules only a small part of its tercitory, and a still smaller portion of iis two millions of people. It cost the Chinese government an immense expendilure of men and money to suppress the insurrection there in 1788. We cannot hope, therefore, that any representa- tions to the Court of Pekin will induce the Celestials to open an endless war with the bold islanders by seizing and holding over seven hundred miles of island coast line. These piracies of the China seas Lave, how- Government and the Famine. The story of the Indian fumino of last year, which the English journals are now raking up, is about as horriblo as anyihing in history. Onc million five hundred thousand unhappy wretches perished of starvation. Living skele- tons crawled to the water’s edge to drink, and fell in from sheer exhaustion. Cannibalism prevailed in every variety. An idiot was dis- covered dining off a dead man’s body. An- other famine-strickea native picked the corpse ofa child out of the river, took it home and boiled it for tiffin. Mother and son were dis- covered feasting together on the body of a dead infant. Children, in fact, scem to have been the staple article of diet. “Ihave known no instance (writes a missionary from Bala- sore) of the Hindoos eating dogs or cats or cows; but they did cat their own children when thoy were dead.” The effects of this hoirible famine are even yet felt. Orphanage and destitution prevail over seventy-seven thousand square miles of territory, and some millions of dollars musi be expended to give even temporary relief. In the face of these facts Sir Stafford Northcote, the Indian Seore- tary of State, recently diverted at least seventy The British Indian * - Hudson will “bring forth the ferry untamed pts sim mig gf rome agers thousand pounds of the Indian revenue to en- | steca” in Mazeppa at the Bowory to-night (ie a Ad the cotmetein) nations of the world tertain the Sultan. Hindoos may starve and | !# the same animal that braved the porte bigs = rot, but the Sultan must be feasted. So,as the | % the Loow Bridge this summer). Butler’ to suppress them. At least the number of the ships which are from time to tims wrecked on the coast might be greatly reduced by giving to commerce the means to prevent shipwreck. This can be done by a thorough coast survey of the numerous islands of the Western Pacifio and Indian Oceans; and, as it is a matter that interests the entire commercial world, it should be an international enterprise for common welfare. Ten years might find it completed. Its cost would be nothing in comparison to the vast openings it would give to commercial de- velopment, while the contributions to science would be immense. The progress of modern times demands that no corner of the world remain unmapped, and with the same accu- racy, too, that has distinguished the French, English and American surveys at home. Especially does commerce now call for good charts of the coast of Eastern Asin and its adjacent islands; for those nations have faced about and are turning their eyes eastward. The trade which flows through the dangerous American theatre, Tony Pastor's, Charley White's andthe Eighth Avenue Opera House are all arrayed im variety and extravaganza armor, and will contest this fall ia a friendly tournament. Kelly & Leon's, Hooley’s,s the San Francisco, the Gcorgia, Griffin & Christy's aa@ Sam Sharpley’s minstrels have a!l started in the gran@ steeple chaso for popular faver, It is hard to tell what the chances are now in the vace, for wt the jockeys? colors are black, Across the river the Park theatre, undor Mire Conway's mauagement, will astonish the Brooklynites this winter. ’ All the managers bog to tnform the pabiic, in the lama guage of Sam Gerridge, in Caste, “shat they hope by a constant attention to business to secure the patronage of the public #0 liberally bestowed on other managerial Binks of former days.’ Littie Nel, Caste, Nobody's Daughter, Under the Gasiigitt, &o the novelties of the season. Dut the overture ie Sateyod; now ring the bell, Messra, Managers, up wiih the ourtain, and let am soe what gou havo behind |t this “cjucor, Ministry were unwilling to risk any of their scanty popularity by asking Parliament for a special grant, the banquet to the Sultan was paid for out of the Indian revenue, and a sum of money was thus squandered that would have carried plenty into the famine-stricken homes of Orissa, Hindoos perished, bat the Sultan dined. Our Fleet in Russian Waters. Admiral Farragut and the ships under his command, having paid a visit to France, have now found an anchorage in Russian waters, Such naval visits used to be made by England only. The sight of our ships in the great naval gentres of the O'd World will be helpful in preparing the mind of Europe to recognize in the great republic the mistress of the sens that is to be. THE EXCISE LAW AT, “GONEY ISLAND. yhotesale Arrests Yesterday. . The police yesterlay wsto a raid upon the hotels and barrooms at Cousy I*\and of those parties alleged ta) have been violating “ho Macise law by selling on Same day. and succeeded jn making thiteen arrests, From, Inrormation Requrnen.—Will somebody tell us about what amount of mouey is on depos! with « banking house in this city intened to nevigaton of hw. Westora Pare given an |®° A903 to scare the nomination af Golwn |Rat tah, eS Belly annual figure of many millions—the next de- P. Chase for the Presidency? = m. eure varkee = 3, The, (ollowing | are | thelt games), cade promises to double it, ally our yrs pomed | Will the weer. owners bacveapers oo iota [wate os mul n. Our 1 ‘ ay already opening tho way to it. Let our gov- AEGISTRATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA, iain rar, he caleba au, te, the ernment, with @ policy that spans the world, Coarse Tomsmber that to mak this trado snip is to, agee rma fo 18, 1897, teenth street and Fourth were iti, 4 (etae ineiant, Nosy. el ye ksuletzeh sete. eaieal 6804, -* | Dunne this morning,