The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1867, Page 6

6 a 4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1667.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR. MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatcles foust be addressed New Yorx Hera.v, Letters and packages should bo properly sealed Rejected communications wil! not be returned. eS = Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, corner of Broome sireet.—Ricnecizv. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave hue, —Eiisasery, Queen oF GLAND. WORRES.L SISTERS’ NE ORK THEATRE, oppo tte New York Hotel —U * tae Gasiigur. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Rur Vax Wingta, ‘os. 2 and 4 West Twenty. UE THEA ear Moca rox Goop Natori HAVEN! fourth strect.—FRa Diavou BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery, near Canal street—Timm axp Tie—My FELLOW CLERK. RRACE GARDEN, Thirt Avenug, Fifty-eighth and y-pinth streets.—Turopors Tuomas’ Poruak Garpex Boxvunrs, commencing at 8 o'ciock. 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IN THE Dar oF EIGHTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, corner Thirty-tourth et and Kighth avenue.—Hart & Kerns’ Combination upe.—SiNGiNG, Dancing, RURLESQUa AND PANTOMIME, ise OF ONATHAM SrkERT, BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— ULeT, Farce, Pantomime, Bortesques, Eruoriay, 0 AND SENTIMENTAL Vocatisus, 4c,—Cousin Scunzt- OADWAY OPERA HOUSE, 600 Broadway.—Tae Oniginat Georgia MinstReLs, THE Gagat Sisve Troure. ROOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erarorian — Bavtaps aND BowLesques.—ILt Racio ArRi- ANO. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, Scizxce anp Ant, Cazver or Narvrat History ann Pourtecuxte Ix- girrore, 618 Broadway.—Lectunss Dairy. Open from 8 A. BM. Ul 10 o'clock P.M. TRIPLE eptember 10, 1867. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cablo is dated yester- day evening, September 9, BsThe public mind 1s again fevered towards wars by tho ‘Oxpressed rocommondation of the Grand Duke of Badon ‘of an alliance of his people with the North German Con- federation. The “complications,” it is feared, will be “renewed."’ The ‘Reds’? are organizing their “leace Congress’ in Geneva, Garibaldi reached the city and Announced that his determination to “move on Rome" ‘Was unalterable, The Sultan’s govornment reports that foreign intervention in the affairs of Caudia will not be Admitted. The British captives in Abyssinia are till heid by the King Consols closed at 94 9-16, for money, in Londo jn Avetwenties were at 73){ in Loudon, aud 70% in Frankfort. The Liverpool cotton market closed dull and down- ward, with middling uplands at 9/4. Breadsvuffs firm. Provisions aud produce without any marked Obange. The steamship Austrian, from Liverpool, ther Point, en rouleto Quebec, at an carly bo: day morning, od Fa. + Sun- THE CITY. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday, a resolution from tho Board of Councilmen prohibiting the Hudson River Railroad Company from allowing cattle cars to staud on Cheir track below Fifty-ninth street, was indeduitely postponed. | The Board of Audit met yesterday, and bad a number $2 trifling cases before them, which they disposed of, Aad then adjourned until to day, A aorious disaster occurred yesterday evening in Twonty-eighih street, A boiler suddenly burst on the promises No. 253 Twonty-ely t, resulting in the Joss of four lives, and eerious to six other per- ons. There wero.five hundred and city last week and two b Brooklyn. Goneral Sickles has arrived in the city. The stogk market was unsettiod yesterday, but closed firmly. Government securities wore dull, At 14355 @ 1495, The markets wore generally strengthened by the ad- ance in gold, but the business consummated was mod- erate, Coffee was quiet, but steady, Cotton was dull and heavy. On ‘Change four was active, and in some eases 10. a 250. bi Wheat advanced 2c, a Sc., forn So. and oats lo, Pork was in falr demand and xty-two deaths in this and sixty-turee in Goid closed higher. Boef was steady, while lard was active and firmer. Fre'ghts and whiskey were unchang Naval Btores were irmer, Potroloum was less act and ye. @ lo. lower. MISCELLANEOUS. The Maine olections came off yesterday and resulted ip a victory for the republicans by a very slight majority, f@ecording to returns already in, The ale and cider law $a supposed to have caused this heavy reduction in the usual repud! can mvjorities in that State, Despatches from Havana by the Cubs cable are to the afternoon of September 8 Santa Ana's son was con- templating an expedition into Mexico. Two hundred of the cigar makors engaged in the sirike bave been thrown into prison, The payment of taxes is very slow. Later advices from Rio Janeiro again report the Presence of the Spanish fleet at that port, According to the despatch, they wore soon to sail for tho river Plata £ Our letter from Panama is dated September 1, The prin- Clpal adhorents of Mosquera in Bogota had resolved to popport Acosta and the now administration. It was re- reported tbat Lopez had aleo submitted. Mosquera wal still a prisoner in the Observatory. Herrera had been Gofeated at Kio Hache and captured, and the country Was in consequence once more pes le, Tho Legisia- five Assembly of the State had met at Panama, and it was believed that Olarte would be impeached, Bixty Armed mon are reported to have attacked Barranquilla, Killed the Governor and pat the government employ ces fo fight; but who they were or what their purpose is as yet unknown, The Colombia Congress, it is stated, ex- fended the Panama Railroad Company franchise for Binety-nine yoars, for the consideration of one million Gollars cash, gold, and annual payments of a quarter of 8 million dollars from date, Our Callao, Peru, correspondence is dated August 91, ‘Tho diMfeulty with Brazil threatens to assume alarming The army of Bolivia, with whom Pera is also at odds, was encamped near La Paz, tho President, Molgaryo, being personally in command, The Wateree, with General Hovey on board, bad revurned from Valpa- ‘pals, Our Valparaiso letter is dated August 10, The allied pauadron had taken separate stations, tho Peruvian feet to Coquimbo, Brevet Brigadier Generai Cooxe, of Legation under Kilpatrick, bed died from @ffects of disease incurred in rebel prisons during War, His funeral was one of the most imposing ot in Nicaragua, amd it was rapidly gubsidiag. Mr, HL Rousseau, the United States Minister to Hon- waa doovermiyly ‘Tho great sculling match between Brown and Hamill finally camo off at Newburg yesterday. While rounding the stakeboat, Hamili being abead was, it is claimed, fouled by Brown, who cut bis hte shell so fearfully that its occupant was compelled to seck safety in the ac- ecompanying outrigger. Brown continued to steer for home, and reached the end of the course in forty-one minutes and fifty-six seconds, Hamill entered aciaim of foul, wh.ch, after long discussion, was allowed by the judges and referee, and he was declared the winner of the race. All p correspondent, who bad a long conversation with Wendell Phillips at Sterling, Mass, details the re- sult in a letter which 4s published this morning. Mr. Phillips firmly believes that impeachment will follow immediately on the reassembling of Congress, and that President Johason would not 8o persistently court such 2. course if he were not prepared and determined to re- sist i, Ho believes that McClellan's reported recall has something to do with it, The late amnesty he considers treasonabie and an offort to build up another rebellion. He favors neither Chase nor Sheridan for President, but Thad Stevens is his choice, The inquest in the Roslyn homicide was concluded yesterday, the jury rendering @ verdict that William O’Brien came to his death at the hands of some person unknown, supposed to be Edward Coughlin, The ac- cused is still at large, and a reward of $500 is offered for his arrest, In the Constitational Convention last evening & reso Jution was offered inquiring into the expediency of limit- Ang the tolis upon canals to amounts only sufficient for ropairs and improvements, The committees’ reports on finances and canais was again resumed in Committee of the Whole, and the Convention adjourned, General Sheridan arrived iu St. Louis last night and was the recipient of a grand reception at the hands of the radicals, To their sore disappointment, however, be declined to make a speech, Hoe asserted privately that he had no taste for politics nor ambition for political preforment. ‘In the evening a torchlight procession passed the hotel where the General was staying, and speeches were mado by Carl Schurz and Lieutenant Gov- ernor Smith, Sheridan merely returned thanks to the people for the demonstration, asserting again bis in- ability to make a speech. From twenty to thirty thou- sand persons assisted in the domonstration, He leaves for Leavenworth this afternoon. Deputy Collector Joha §, Allen, of the Third Revenue district, Brooklyn, with three other persons, was ar- rested yesterday morning, on charge of fraud in the removal of two hundred and eleven barrels of whiskey- stored in a bonded warehouse, Mr. T. ©, Callicott, the collector for the same district, was also believed to bo implicated, and a warrant for his arrest was issued at the samo time, but he had on Saturday morning disap- peared from his hotel with all his papera, Roxbury was yesterday declared annexed to Boston by the voles of the citizens of both places, a decided major- ity In a very light vote favoring the proposition. By this accession Boston gains thirty thougand more of popula- tion, and becomes the fourth city in the Union instead of the sixth as formerly, She is now next in population to our suburb, Brooklyn, A trot came off yesterday at the Fashion Course, be- tween Mr. John Hazlett’s gray gelding and owner’s sor- rel mare Jessie; heats, best three in five, in harness, for $200 cach. The first heat was won by Jessio, and the second and third by the gray golding. The driver of tho tare was then changed and she won the two final heats, The establishment of @ line of propellers botwoen St. Louis and New York is being again agitated by New York parties in the former city, Eight persons in a wagon were backed down an em- bankment forty-five feet bigh, near Cincinnati, yester- dey. Two of them were killed, ono was mortally wounded and the rest are badly hurt, Private intelligence from Porto Rico states that another revolution had broken out, that the Captain General bad d the revolutionists have rent lo New York to telegraph General Prim to place bimsolf at thoir head. The British brig Cuba, from Matanzas, was recently wrecked near Hattoras Light, proving a total loss, Only two of the crew were saved, the rest, six in all, being Jost. There were one hundred deaths from yellow fever in New Orloans during yesterday and tho day before. A full history of the proceedings of the Spiritualist Convention at Cleveland will be found elsewhere in our colurans this morning. The reported general insolvency among the merchants in Richmond is denied by the bank presidents of that city. : Tho majority for Haight in California hag been in- creased to eight thousand. The Counter Revolation Coming at Last, It is an old axiom that “revolutions never go backward ;” but it is none ‘the less true that when a revolutionary movement is pushed be- yond its legitimate ends the party concerned in it is demolished by ® popular reaction. It was so when the great French Revolution of 1789 fell into the hands of the Jacobins, and when they attempted to shape it according to their monstrous notions of “liberty, equality and fraternity.” An equally decisive reaction fol- lowed the Puritanical excesses of the Crom- wellian Commonwealth of England in the restoration of the monarchy and the Stuarts. How the great American revolution, marked by the most gigantic and the bloodiest civil war in the history of mankind, and resuliing ia the extinction of the late Southern slavcholding oligarchy, with the abolition of slavery, is to be finally shaped, is a question for time to deter- mine. We think, however, from recent events and all the signs of the times, that it may be safely assumed that this great revolution has reached its culminating point, and that a coun- ter revolution of public opinion against the destructive schemes of the ruling radical faction has fairly set in. : The remarkable results of the late California election are but a larger and a ripening devel- opment of the same underlying causes which began to find expression at the Connecticut election of last spring. The concurrent voice from the recent Territorial clection of Montana indicates the widening influence of the same general causes, and yesterday’s election in Maine substantially tells the same story. Tho overwhelming success of the republicans of Maine last year, on the largest popular vote ever polled in the State, on the plat- form of the pending constitutional amend- ment as the policy of Congress against the reconstruction theory of President Johnson, we accepted as an infallible indication of the voice of all the Northern States in favor of Congress; and so it turned out to be, from New York to the far West, by results analo- gous to the result in Maine, But what is thie constitutional amendment, upon which the popular judgment of the great North was so emphatically given last year in favor of Congress and the republican party? It is an amendment which provides, among other things, for the disfranchisement of certain lead- ing rebels, subject to a two-thirds vote of Con- gress, and which provides that each of the States iteelf may elect whether it will have, and how far it will have, negro representation with negro suffrage, or how far, in counting Its people for representation in Congress, it will sacrifice its blacks in excluding them from the right of suffrage. Upon this platform, leaving the question of negro suffrpge to the several States, the republicans last year gained their greatest victories—greater than the victories of Lincola, But with the rejection of the amend- ment by the rebel States Congress took the bold ground of prescribing for them new con- Ajtions of reconstruction, embracing, under a Supervising military dictatorship, universal nogto suffrage and white rebel disfranchise. ments which inevitably polai to negro suprem- acy In the reorganization of the rebel States. This unssproted and dagerous revelation: ary experiment has given the definite voice to the California election, whatever may be the superficial explanations of the defeated party Public opinion is crystallizing against that ultra revolutionary joint committee of safely which has undertaken, not only to reconstruct the South, but the general government itself, on @ system which proposes to abolish the Executive Department and the essential reserved legislative powers of tho several States. There is also beginning to be a strong active public sentiment against that federal Political machiue organized and put in opera- tion by Mr. Chase in his national bank system, and fully maintained by McCulloch, under which these banks receive bounties or per- quisites amounting to twenty-five or thirty mil- lions a year, extracted from the pockets of the people, and under which we are threatened with a moneyed oligarchy more powerful and corrupt, and more grasping and insolent, than ever was the slaveholding oligarchy of the South in the height of its demoralizing reign. However patriotic Mr. McCulloch and his chief engineers of the Treasury may be, however pure may be those beautiful nymphs of the in- dustrious band of feminine operatives in the Department, the system under which the Treasury and our financial affairs is managed needs retrenchment and reform, and the people begin to feel it. From the causes we have re- cited a counter revolution has set in against the radical excesses and experiments and de- structive schemes of the republican party; and the movement will now go on. We should not be surprised if it were soon to assume the rush- ing force of the Niagara rapids, and swiltly bear the party in power into the abyss of the Horseshoe fall. If revolutions never go back- ward, this counter revolution against our ultra revolutionary radicals must run its courss to the organization of a new national party, main- taining together the great issues settled by the late war and the form of government ¢* ab- lished in the federal constitution. The President’s Amnesty Proclamation=-To Resign His Only Effective Move. The President has issued a proclamation ex- tending amnesty for offences against the gov- ernment so widely that the persons left in the class of delinquents amenable to the laws may almost be numbered on the fingers. Thus a very humane progress will have been made in the settlement of one division of the trouble left by the war, if it shall finally be held that this proclamation is legally good. Not to enter, however, into a discussion of the nature of the pardoning power, or an examination of pardon by proclamation, we will only hint here the probability that this proclamation will be practically inoperative—that so many distinctions will be made and so many points raised that the amnesty given will be without effect. This movement in the political game, therefore, might ag well not have been made. Mr. Johnson cannot make any capital for his case before the people in this way. There is one way, however, in which he can reach and move the public mind. One course is left open that may not only rotrieva his character and save his name in the history of the remarkable events of this period, but that may give him a present victory over his oppo- nents. This is his resignation and retirement from office. It may seem silly—abaurd, even— to counsel him to such a step; but it is more likely to seem so to the small reasoners of party cliques than to those whose thoughts take a wider range, If Mr. Johnson will rise above the political acci- dents~ and excitements that now follow their daily round in his life, he has the mind to understand that this act would be a piece of deep political sagacity and manly dignity, as far as it touched his own personality, and a piece of civic heroism as it might affect the position of the Southern States, Suppose even that he became a sacrifice--what thon? Can he hope todo anything nobler in office, though he remained a century, than he would in going out with the fame of another Curtius elosing up with his person the gulf that endangered the State? Who cannot see that the stern father Virginius, though he lost some years of delight in what he loved, saved his daughter forever in the fame of a great act done in the cause of virtue? And did not Regulus, thinking more of his country than of his own easo or pleasure, and counselling against the course that would have set him free, provide infinitely better for his own honor than he would have done by heeding the small advice of friends who could not see beyond the morrow? It is no exaggeration of the case to illustrate it with such names and such instances of great conduct. It isa case that some elevation of thought in the right place may lift from the vulgar atmosphere of a political squabble. Mr. Johnson, as the case stands, is the scapegoat of the coalition that would ruin the country. His blunders have furnished an easy cry against him to # dangerous party,and he is made to seem the obstacle to the pacification of the South. He thus shields them; for the clamor ralsed against him diverts public attention from the real evil of the hour. By retiring from office and giving the radical game full sway he would show that he was not the real obstruction, and would put the responsibility for the country’s danger where it belongs. By thus showing who are the real enemies of peace he would do all that lies in bis power to save the country, and so far from sacrificing himself in the matter, he would gains bigher position in the eyes of the people than he can otherwise ever hope for, More of National Bank Unsoundness and Rascality. In addition to tho disclosures we have been publishing every day or two, showing the rot- tenness and evil of the national banks, we un- derstand that two more of these institutions have been discovered in a very shaky con- dition, Ome of them is in Connecticut and the other in New York, We are informed that they are in the market for enle, and that partios of bad repute ia this city are about to purchase them for the purpose of using their names to on a sort of confidence game and fn the end to cheat the public, These institutions having the names of national banks, the parties teferred to expect to establish af first some credit, and then to flood the country with drafte and smash op. It is thought that ope of the banks has already been purchased by these confidence operators, We shall have, ip @ day or two, probably, further developments oe In tho meantime we cautfo people and government against the growing corruption of these migealled na- bonal banks, $$$ The Tammany Demecracy—The Bintherskite _ aud Blackleg Coalition. The politics of New York city and State are just now in # curious and complicated condi- tion, presenting as many distinct ingredients as are used in any of the most intricate and wonderful combinations in chemistry, and as liable to end in @ general explosion, We pub- lish in this day’s edition of the Heratp a very remarkable exposition ef the intrigues, de- signs, squabbles and troubles of the Tammany Hall party alone, having already disposed of the doings of the outside organizations. It will be seen from this inside view of the Tammany position that Hoffman, the Grand Sachem and head ring master of the whole organization, is playing the part of a political Mephistopheles, and is endeavoring to form, out of the compo- nent parts of the old ring, two separate rival rings, which he can play against each other— one under the leadership of Connolly and McLean, and the other controlled by Sweeny and Tweed ; the one with the present patronage of the Comptroller’s office and the prospective emoluments of the Street Commissioner's De- partment as its capital, the other with the quar- ter of a million dollars a year of the City Cham- berlain’s office and the “in” interests of the Street Commissioner’s to trade upon. With these two apparently rival rings in the field the Mephistopheles of the black mustache hopes to be able to twist and turn from side to side, and to dispose quietly of this candidate for Sheriff, laying the blame on the Connolly ring, and of that candidate for County Clerk, shifting the responstbility on to the Sweony ring, and to ride between the two himself in an easy, milk-and-water manner, humbugging the people, as usual, with the olly words of a Jeremy Diddler. But there is a broader and more beautiful view to take of the condition of Tammany politics all over the State as well as in the city. About a year ago a magnificent coalition was perfected between the blatherskite and the blackleg, which it was supposed would sweep everything before it. The blatherskite was to go through the State in a genteel suit of black broadcloth, wearing a Sabbath school appear- ance, drinking nothing but cold water, and making silly speeches about the constitutional amendment, which turned out to be the blun- der of the campaign. The blackleg was to take charge of the hard drinking and the anti- liquor law element ; and the coalition carried the city.and lost the State. This result was attributable to the superiority of the blackleg, who is one of the most distinguished characters that ever attained to the leadership of the pugi- listic and faro banking circles of the metropo- lis; a man of the highest integrity in all money and business transactions, of generous im- pulses and noble physique. In short, the blackleg would have been one of tho finest citizens ever discovered if he-had only been a member of a church, when he first entered pub- lic life, instead of a member of the prize ring. But as between the two parties to the coalition there can be no comparison, the blackleg being noble in his instincts and above all petiy transactions, while the blatherskite has done some of the meanest things ever attempted by a third class ring politician. Now, the real meaning of the Tammany in- trigues and mancenvrings is that the coalition between the blatherskite and the blackleg still holds good, and itis only as a moans of in- creasing its power that the secondary work ts undertaken of manipulating Tammany under two “rings,” so as to hoodwink the outsiders and take in all the discontented insiders, bundle them all up together and sell them out, when the elections come off, to the highest bid- der. Let uscee if the independent organiza- tions, and the disaffected members of Tam- many herself, will consent to be made the tools of a coalition which is equal in influence and superior in morals to the famous radical coali- tion between the Puritan and the negro. The Situation in Europe. In another piace in this day’s Heraty we publish a letter from the pen of our special correspondent in Florence. The letter will be found to be both interesting and instructive. It puts clearly and intelligibly a number of points in the character and condition of the Italian kingdom which, to say the least, have hitherto on this continent been but impericctly understood. Considering the present troubled condition of European affairs, and the attention which of late they have been receiving, interest, with large numbers of our readers, will naturajly centre in that portion of the letter in which is put with singular clearness the ques- tion ag between the Italian kingdom and the Holy See, It will be seen from our correspondent’s letter that though neither Mazzini nor Gari- baldi, nor any chief of any filibustering party, will be allowed to take possession of Rome, it is a question already decided that Rome must be the capital of the new kingdom. Under the present state of things Italian unity is felt to be incomplete, and time and opportunity alone are requisite to make the national purpose good. Had war, as at one time seemed likely, broken out between France and Prussis—Aus- tria either remaining neutral or taking the side of the former Power—it is scarcely to be doubted that the Italian government would have made themselves masters of Rome and compelled some dofinite and permanent ar rangement with the Holy Father, That war cloud for the present has blown past, Franco and Austria are less likely than ever to offer resistance to Prussia in her work of German consolidation, Europe is promised peace, Whether the peace shall or shall not be Iast- ing, it is manifest that questions are pending which, in the course of their solution, will give Italy, at no distant day, the opportunity of making good her purpose. The Eastern ques- tion is as far from being settled as ever; and among the many complications which that question involves is one important element which commands the sympathy of ang which may yet give unity to the different Catholic countries of Europe. In those border ooun- tries which touch on Russia, on Turkey and on Austria there,are several million’ of members of the Latin Ohurch, In the event of the dis memberment of the Turkish empire, if Rasta be allowed to have her way, these millions will inevitably be brought under the influence of Greek Christianity, if not forcibly end at once Se ee SCE Sh San Sn SL SSA SRR nen re | EO aS eR ae ae ne Ea See drafted {nto the Greeg Oburoh, But will France permit this! Avstele? Will Italy? Is tv not mach more therg on nae irala} + France, Austele, , not at least presumable 1 te srt of bec adbentor, Gnd with he cenata ef Austria and France, may be allowed to trans- fer her headquarters from Florence to Rome? Where so much is uncertain, this result, to say no more, may be permitted to rank among the probabilities of the early future. Radical Legislatioa—The American Marine. The foolishness of radical legislation ie per- haps more strikingly manifest in the condition of the American shipping interest at the present time, as contrasted withe few years ago, than in almost anything else. Scarocly a decade has elapsed since American steam navigation was rendered famous by the advent of the world renowned Collins steamers in the Atlantic carrying trade; and barely half that time since the United States were among the very first maritime nations on the globe. And now, owing to the little “ brief authority” of a handful of radical legislators, what 6 humiliating contrast to this do we present! In the first instance, Congress stultified itself by virtually repudiating its obligation to fulfl its contract with the Collins line of steamers, in refusing to pay for the carrying of the mails, by means of which this American line, com- prising the Atlantic, the Baltic, the Pacific, the Adriatio, &., had been enabled to compete with the subsidized ateamers flying the British flag. This repudiation of its plighted faith by Congress resulted in the destruction of the finest line of steamers ever built, and was a virtual abandonment of the Atlantic ocean and the carrying trade between two continents to British steamers, And later, at the close of the rebellion, by the most iniquitous system of legislation that ever disgraced the statute books of any country, whea American shipping, which had been driven by the rebel privateers to seek that protection under a foreign flag which our own government failed to secure, and after the immense carrying trade between Europe and America had been forced from American to foreign bottoms, Congress pro- hibited the retransfer of American built ships to the American flag, and at the same time, by means of enormous tariffs on all kinds of materials that enter into the construction of ships, virtually prohibited the récuperation of the American shipping interest by the building of new vessels! Could tho imbecility of radicalism be more strikingly manifest? Could radicalism further go? In the name of this noble interest, which now lies prostrate before aon indignant people, let the demand be made that Congress shall recede from the ridiculous stand which it has taken in regard to the taxing of all shipbuilding materials, If an American Congress will not foster and encourage this most important branch of American industry, let it at least removesome of the many obstactes which it has foolishly placed in the way of its development. But a few years ago about seventy per cent of the foreign commerce was carried in Ameri- can bottoms, whereas now scarcely twenty per cent falls to the lot of American vessels; while Great Britain, because of her ‘greater pre- science in fostering her mercantile marine, monopolizes a large proportion of the carrying trade of the two hemispheres; and otber na- tions which but a short time ago were away behind, now lead us, and are rapidly follow- ing the lead of Great Britain, and increas- ing their mercantile flects, while ours is actually diminishing. It is high time that our leading shipping merohants, shipbuilders, ship owners and others awake from the lethargy into which they have fallen, and unite in an earnest re- monstrance against the further adhesion by Congress to the suicidal policy which has been pursued, and demand the abrogation of all enactments which are in any way calculated to restrict the construction of American vessels. Under existing laws not only are our mor- chants prohibited from building vessels, but they are absolutely driven to send their vessels elsewhere for repairs; so that not only the vast shipyards in and around this cily, but serted. First, let all laws which militate against the recuperation of tho shipbuilding interest be repealed, and then let our enter- prising merchants and sip owners turn their attention to the construction of screw steamers, The era of sailing craft has gone by, and what- ever nation would now compete for the carry- ing trade must have a large fleet of scrow pro- peliers. Time and experience have fully de- monstrated their superiority over every class of vessels, both as to time and economy, and if the United States ever regain what they have lost, or secure even a fair share of tho world’s commerce, it must be by means of this class of vessels. To this end it is indispensable that Congress first wipe out the iniquitous duties on all shipbuilding materials, and, if necessary to secure this result, let the handfal of high tariff radicals be wiped out first and made to give place to a more enlightened and progressive class. The Whites Preparing to Leave the South. If the negro supremacy doctrines. of the radicals are not checked by the people of the North at the coming fall elections, it is quite evident that before long the whites of the South will emigrate to the loyal States or to foreign countries, A letter from a prominent and distinguished South|Carolinian contains this paragraph:—“There is utter paralysis in the South at the near and apparently inevitable prospect of negro supremacy. The white peo- ple of the country will not be able to live here; it will be simply intolerable. Therefore, those of us who can get away are preparing to leave, although at present not many are able todo so, You may expect negro representa- tives in Congress from the South. The loyal league associations have welded the nogrocs into solid political organizations which defy the address and influence of their old masters. The white people will vote generally against a convention; the negroes are a unit for it.” This extract shows the feeling in the South, and it assumes a more serious aspect from an- other part of the letter referred to, which states that as soon as the crops are gathered and sold large numbers of whites will leave South Carolina for other States, where the people are not ruled by negroes, This, then, is to be the result of radical policy, South Carolina and all of the Southern States wherein the biacks have majorities are to be deserted by el} of their wealthy and intelligent popuale- App ine vernment of ag immense extent ph ni nly be left in of the very lac! dered ey Ve of the Tolle bor wliart racouatenne also those of the New England Stales, are do-- tion under the negro policy of the radicdls The questions now at issue are being fast nar rowed down to these: whether we shall haye ten exclusively negro: States in this Union, of whether the whites shall be the ruling race throughont the country. The Man Who W! Up the Sun. Once upon a time there lived a man who was impressed with the belief that he wound the sun every day, and tbat but for him the whole solar system would come tons! still, that the planeta would run wild and against each other, and that there would be an end to the world. There is a used-up lobby politician in this city—an importation from the State capital—who labors under a delu- sion somewhat similar in its character, He insists that he regulates and works all the political machinery of the country, and talks about the men he appoints aud nominates, and elects and defeats, as if the constitution conferred upon him the supervision of all the governmental departments, and the people could only cast their ballots in accordance with his will. In his singular hallucination he actually supposes that he has controlled State and national politics for years, and that men who would laugh at his imbecile pretensions are nothing more than his puppets. Poor old Thurlow Weed is the man who winds up the sun, The Chambcrmatids Stopping the Suppites, The chambermaids of Troy have recently displayed a great deal of sound common sense. If they could be transferred in a bedy to Washington and installed in the Treasury Department in place of the females who have been hitherto employed there, we might expect great practical benefit to the country to result from the change. They have passed a resolu- tion declaring that they will not subscribe another cent of money for any Fenian object or purpose whatsoever until they have received a satisfactory explanation from the proper party ties as to what has been done with the fands they have already contributed. A meeting of the chambermaids of New York, who have been plundered out of two hundred thousand dollars by the Fenian swindle, should imme- diately be called to imitate the sensible example of their Trojan sisters. SHERIDAN AT 8T. LOUI- SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALS. A Radical Disappointment—Little Phil Ded clines to Make n Radical Speech—He Pers versely Disclaims all Taste for Politics or Anxiety About Making Radical Capital. Br. Lov, Mo., Sept. 9, 1867, 9 @'Clock P, M. i ‘The radicaia here havo given Sheridan a grand recep¢ tion and ovation to-day. Large crowds of prominent ol and several hundred loyal ladies called upom him ai ihe Southern Hotel; but ali radical efforts to draw from lim any expression of politicalsympathy have utterly failed, Sheridan says privately be is an officer of the government under General Grant’s orders, and has ao political ambition, He has simply done what he cous coised to be his duty under very trying circumstances; is glad to have been relieved from New Orleans; as @ citizon, wiahes the Union restored quietly and effectually decitnes to allow himself to be used to furnish radical electioneering capital, and says he has no taste for polities. s A grand toreblight demonstration threatens at dark to be equelched by # rain storm. The radicals are sorely disappointed by Sheridan's perverseness in refuslug to make @ speech, THE: PRESS TELEGRAM. Torchlight Procession in the Evening—From 20,000 to 30,000 Persons in the Crowd=Ret marks from General Sheridan. Sr. Lovis, Mo., September 9, 1867. The demonstration to-night in honor of General Sher. idan was the largest outpouring of people ever witnessed n St. Louis, The torchlight procession was nearly two miles long and conslated of over twenty posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, a large number of colored organizations, representatives of the various wi dd of tho city, the fire department and aa {ott mense throng of citizens, The procession wag nearly an hour filing past the Southern Hotel, on tho east balcony of which General Sheridan, bis staff officers, members of the various committess and jnvited guests were stationed. The crowd at and ig the vicinity of the hotel after the procession had 4 must have numbered 10,000 persons, and the number that thronged the streets on the line of march could not have been less than from 20,000 to 30,000 persons, After the enthusiasm of the crowd had somewbat subsided, Lieutenant Governor Smith delivered @ short but very cordial welcome to the General on behalf of the people of the State, which was followed by avery eloquent address by General Carl Schurz, ip which he referred to sheridan as the model Ainerican soldier, the hero of many hard fought fields, the representative of American chivairy, the statesman as weil as soidier, to whom the people of Louisiana and Texas will look with gratitade and esteem as tho man who opened the way to permavent peace and prosperity. General sheridan thon stepped forward and replied as follow ‘I presume you all know I never make speeches. Iregret exceedingly that Iam unable to make one to-nigt, but this very kind welcome has been unexpected by me entirely, and I can only return sincere thanks for your enthusiastic aud kind welcome. A few remarks wore afterwards made by General Pile, and the crowd gradoally dispersed, In point of numbers, enthusiasm and general warm and hearty sympathy, many of the oldest citizens say the demonstration bas nev. r been led ta St. Louis, From eleven to one o'clock to-day the General received visitors at tho botel, and the crowd of callers was almost incessant. Tho Genoral will leave for Leavenworth to- morrow afternoon. OLYMPIC THEATRE, The Olympic opened its fall season Inst evening under excerdingly favorable auspices, both as regards (he audl- ence, which was large and critical, and the eathi with Mr, Jefferson's impersonation of Rip Van Winkle, the same with him in Washiogton Irving's legend, wrought into piquant dramatic form by the voluminous Boucicault, Mr. Jefferson as the jolly hero, in whose lite comedy and pathos get strangely efficiently supported by Mr. Davidge Derrick Beekman, the impersonation of disagreeability, manuers and morals, and Mrs. Edmonas as the wife Rip, & good natured Teuton, re, far too to hi cups and boon companions. The play, which bas saliencies, both in dramatic wit and situation, seoms t@ been reduced to taree acts in reality, though (easing four, in the first of which one is put in sion of the general circumstances, and tip ta forth by his virago wife for a night Im the Catel whore, a8 @ second act, he fails in the way of mous, whe drink with him, dose him with whiskey that he had boon accustomed to get ween ¢ for at Nick Vedder's, aud leave him to his period of twenty years is suppos e — rises for the third bod waking up—in what muat durable suit of clothes, having borne the beating of ral hail and snow for twonty years with very dation. The third act narrates dramatically the re. appearance of the sleeper, now gray of hair aud grim of Deard, in his native vil As 4 bit of subtie actin in which the comic and the are 80 mingled the role can searcely be said to be comedy or tragedy, the New York st has seldom seen an impers to equal this of Mr. Jefferson—guiet, Porfeotly at ‘et magneticall an uncommon = arity may be predicted for the Olympic while Rip Vam Winkle is kept upon the boards. THE REPORTED INSOLVENCY IN RICHMOND. Ricnwonn, Va, September 9, 1967. ‘The apecial telegram sent from this city relative to the Jowing card, which appcars in to-morrow's papers:— mercial fail ported by special telegram ibe Nor var Tale Note have occurred,