The New York Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1867, Page 6

6 JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, JR.’ MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heraup. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be returned, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five Canis per copy, Annual! subscription One Copy... + $2 ‘Three Copies » & Five Copies. 8 Ton Copics., 15 Any larger numbor addressed to names of subscribers $1 50 cach. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten, Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, ‘and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the Werxty Herat the cheapest publication in the country. Volume XXXL... cece ccc sereeeeeeeeee »No, 262 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, corner of Broome strect.—OrnsLLo. 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EUROPE. bs Tho prevalence of a heavy storm eastwan! intorrapted ‘the transmission of our cable news report at an early hour this morning, the land telegraph fines not work- ing beyond Portland, Me, Our despatches are dated in London and Liverpool to two o'clock yesterday after- noon, September 18. A consignment of Mexican specio (dollars) sold in London at 4s. 107% 4. per ounce, Consols were at 94 13-16 for money in London, an ad- vance of \{ since the opening. Five-twentics wore at 72% in London in the afternoon, and at 765 in Frank- fort at noon. The Liverpool cotton market was very dull, with middling uplands at 9d. Breadstuifs without marked change. Pork advanced, THE CITY. The Board of Education met last evening and adopted the important resolution of excluding all male children under twelve years of age and all females under ten from the evening schools, The Tobacco Board of Trade hold a meeting yesterday and appointed a committee to proceed to Washington and lay before tho Secretary of War a statement of the grievances which the trade now labors under by the new rogulations of the Internal Revenue Department, Tho steamship San Francisco, from Greytown, arrived at this port early this morning, The North German Lioyd’s steamship Hermann, Cap- tain Wenks, will sail from the Bromen dock, Hoboken, at noOn to-day, for Bremen, via Southampton, The mails for Groat Britain and the Continent will close at the Post Office at half-past ten o'clock this morning. ‘The stock market was steady at the commencement of Dusinoss yesterday morning, but afterwards became woak and unsettled. Govornment securities were heavy. Goid was strong and closed at 1455. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Havava letters, dated September 14, contain mainly details of the telegraphic despatches over the Cuba cable which we published several days ago. It is stated from Mexico that the residence of Baron Magnus, tho Prussian Minister, who bas been lying in seclusion near San Luis Potosi, had been broken into by order of Jaarez for the purpose of obtaining certain important documents which he was supposed to have in his posses- sion. Nothing, was found, however, Tho Baron is sup- posed to bo insame. Some anxiety is evinced ia Havana fat the delay of the Spanish government in answering the congratulatory dsspatches of the Caban authorities on opening of the cable. Our datos from San Jaan, Porto Rico, are to the 3d instant. Tho Spanish war steamer Isabel II, from Cadiz, arrived on the 1ith ultimo, with seven hundred troops for the garrison. The weather had been bad, It rained in torrents, and strong winds prevaiiod, but the snjuries sustained wore not mentioned The American ship Patmos, loaded with materials of war, originally destined for Poru, and which for some time past has Deon under the vigilance of a Spanish man-of-war at St. Thomas, baring recently made prepar- Ations to sail, the authorities of St. Thomas immedi. ately gave notice of it to the Spanish government at Porto Rico. In tho Constitutional Convention yesterday a tracted discussion of the reports on Finances an¢ was held in Committee of the Whole, M Offered a resolution favoring the sale of the St ’ Dut after alongthy discussion it was lost, only six mem- bers voting for it, The section prohibiting the Legiala- Bure from disposing of the canals was then adopted, After some further deliberation the Convention ad- Journed, at afow minutes past pine o'clock, in order to admit of a republican caucus, to take into consideration the propriety of an ad ournment until some future day. In the caucus it was devermined to make an effort to finish wp the business by October 10, But twenty-one of the members present favored a long adjournment, Acollision occurred on the Elmira and Canandaigua Railroad yesterday, by which two men killed and five wounded. A large republican meeting was hold at Nowark last evening. General Sheridan arrived in Cincinnati yosterday on his way to Washington, He was enthusiastically received ft the Merchants’ Exchange, and was serenaded in tho evening at the Burnett House, when ho Fosponied ioe few words of thanks. *. At the annual gathering of the doscendants of the fottlors of Salisbury beach yesterday, twenly thousand persons are reported to have been in attendance, Gen- Dros NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. eral Butler mado @ gepeech at the earnest solicitation of the crowd, in which he claimed that the government, before it could become perfect, must declare equality of right for all men, equality of taxation, every one bear- ing his proportion of tho debt, aud equality of punish. ment for traitors. General Schofield has issued an order altering the oys- tor laws of Virginia. Some two hundred black votes in the late railroad sub- acription election in Virginia were thrown out because those who cast them had forgotten the mames by which they registered and had voted under others, Edwin Booth has made application for the remains of his brother, J. Wilkes Booth, but the request has beep denied. ‘The election in Maryland yesterday, so far as heard from, was all-in favor of the new constitution, A negro judge presided at a Recorder's court in New Orleans yesterday. The yellow fover is spreading to the interior towns in Louisiana, Forty-six deaths occurred in New Orleans on Tuesday, Rouben Clark, who was indicted for murdering bugler McCarthy, of the Fifth United States artillery, in May last, near Fortress Monroe, was discharged yesterday by the County Court sitting in Hampton, Va., the jury ron- dering a verdict of not guilty. A telogram from Fortress Monroe statos that the United States frigate Savannah, from Portsmouth, Eng- land, arrived off the capes yesterday, en rvutefor Anna- polis. The President and Congress Disgri i the Country—Necessity for a New Constitu- onal Party. He who is always under the influence of un- reasonable prejudices and bad temper, who suffers his conduct to be guided by whimsical likes and dislikes, rather than by his judgment, and who at all times is ready to engage in the undignified strife of epithets, to contend in vile phrases and exhaust the vocabulary of personal abuse—such a man will scarcely retain the respect of his associates in any grade-of life and will be peculiarly fortunate if he is not sooner or later ruled out of all company that has any lingering sense of whatis decent. As it is with individuals and in ordinary social intercourse, so it is with men and bodies of men in higher relations. Between the President on one hand and Congress on the other there has raged too long already an unseemly, undigni- fied, altogether disgraceful contention, that is only different from the ill-natured quarrels of common life in being worse, since in the one case the parties toa vile dispute could only degrade themselves, while here the country also must take a portion of the opprobrium—the very national name must be dragged in the mire. At least, unless the people of the country shall show that they are outraged by the spec- tacle, shall protest against the disgraceful con- duct of President and Congress together as manifested in this pitiful quarrel, and shall indi- cate unmistakably the disposition to rule such parties out of the nation’s councils, this war of President and party must stand as the charze- teristic conduct of our higher political life and as the nation’s disgrace. An undue license of speech was Indulged on the floor of Congress in referring to Mr. Johnson’s course in the attempted reconstruc- tion of the Southern States ; and the peculiarly violent and virulent radical leaders assailed not only the acts but the motives of the Presi- dent, in terms more fitting a barroom brawl than a Congressional discussion. This was an un- worthy departure from the dignity of parlia- mentary usage. Words thus spoken annoyed and irritated the President, and he so far forgot the decorum of his high position as to exhibit himself to the country writhing under the smart of that irritation. His vindictive speech in reply will be memorable in our history as the first speech by which a President of the United States ever deliberately showed that he had no conception of the propricties of his office. Congressmen in both houses showed but too great readiness to descend with the President to the lowest level disputation can take, as if moved by the instinct that teaches the cur to heal‘his wounds with his tongue. So from one point of degradation to another the miserable quarrel went, and all the factions developed their games from one side to the other of this difference. The impudence and the atrocious principles of the radicals, who concealed their minority in Congress under the noise of this dispute, had full scope. By this dispute the republican majority, that was conservative and inclined to mild measures, was driven to accept the measures of the radi- cals for fear of seeming to side with the Presi- dent in what was made to appear his quarrel with the whole party. Even tho next to idiotic copperheads, who thought, with a Machiavel- ian fancy, that by voting with the radicals and helping to carry their extreme measures thoy might frighten the country, even they fell in to be the mere tools of those who started the fight, and the political sentiment and tone of that quarrel affects the way in which politics are discussed ever since. The latest speech of the Vice President of the United States outdoes the most violent of the President’s own diatribes, and not long since the same distinguished poli- tician deliberately proposed the overturning of the old established order of society. Must we go on thus from bad to worse, and follow to its last result the direction given to political events by the disgracefal quarrel of the President and the factions? Is there no stopping place short of absolute national de- gradation? There is but one way to effecta change. The moderate and eensible people, the respectable masses of the republican party— that vast indefinite body of thinking men that form the nation-and cannot become the tools of the factions—these must come out, boldly, open- ly and distinctly, and declare against the radi- cal faction, the so-called conservative faction, the copperhead faction, and the President with the rest, They must throw over all the parties to this quarrel that have disgraced the nation and turned public attention aside from the great important issues of the hour. They must form a new party around new men, or around men not committed to the perpetuation of dis- graceful strife. They must take up the men of the war, the men whom the factions in this quarrel have driven to the four winds. Let the people vote now in the coming elec- tions against the radical tickets everywhere, and pile up in Pennsylvania and New York a great majority that shall tell in no equivocal way that they have opened their eyes to the nation’s danger. And upon the strength of such majorities, upon the confidence they will give to the people in their own power, the masses may rally round some one of the coun- try’s great leaders—around Grant, Sheridan, Sickles or McClellan—and form « party that will demolish all radical or other opposition to the people’s will. A Catt Uroy Respectasts Rervaticans.— | Now ts the time for respectable republicans to cothe dut acl proclaim their opposition to the radical party that is ;wining the country. The Herald and the Asseciated Press. We have given notice to the Associated Presa that on the Ist of January next we shall separate entirely from the Association, and Place the Henatp upon an independent basis, relying solely on our own enterprise and energy for the collection of news, in the true spirit of American journalism. During the last twelve or fourteen years we have been associated with @ number of other city papers in the collection of telegraphic and shipping news. In that time we have paid out some four or five hundred thousand dollars for special domestic intelligence for the Heratn, ouiside the Association. Under the absurd and unjust rules forced upon us we have been compelled to furnish all this special news, gathered by our forethought and at our own expense, to the other papers in the Association, who have not paid for them more than five per cont of their actual cost to us. In addition to this we have paid for special Atlantic cable despatches in one year, up to the 27th of July last, ten thousand pounds sterling, as the following official statement will show :-— ABSTRACT OF MESSAGES FROM LONDON TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, FOR YEAR ENDING 27TH OF JULY, 1867. No. ae No. em A £5,437 0 0 1 8,324 4,162 0 0 2 1,514 878 10 0 106 15,275 £9,917 10 0 SOHN J. F. SMITH, Accountant, Fzart's Cowrent, 9th August, 1867, Here was an additional expenditure of ten thousand pounds sterling, or some seventy thousand dollars currency, on special cable telegrams to the Heraxp, of which all the other papers in the Association had the full benefit, and for which they paid not more than seven per cent of the actual cost tous. But the rules of the Association into which we had entered, and which were adopted after we had joined it, compelled us to give the advantage of our enterprise and expenditure to all the other members on these absurdly unjust terms, These are the reasons that have induced us to cut loose from the Associated Press, and to establish a newspaper system such as has never before been known in this country or any other. We intend to show the world what can be accomplished in this age of steam and electricity by a liboral and enter- prising’’ press, and we can well afford ~ to expend three hundred and fifty thousand dollars during the next twelve months on the experiment, “We shall publish news daily from every part of the world that is reached by the telegraphic wire ; and news, too, of a valu- able description, in place of the trash that we have been accustomed to receive through the Associated Press. Our enterprise and outlay will be our own, and we shall enjoy the fair advantage it will give us over all other jour- nals, At the same time we shall be prepared to furnish to the press of any part of the country, East, West, North or South, such portions of our valuable special despatches as they may desire to purchase, upon very reasonable, and to them advantageous terms. This, of course, relates to our own special news arrangements and to our exclusive re- ports obtained from our regular ‘resident cor- respondents at home and abroad. Outside this a new association for the collection ‘and sale to the press of general, commercial and political news has been organized under the laws of Connecticut, which will do a regular, legitimate associated press business, in a straightforward manner, selling its reports to such papers as choose to purchase them, and by a wholesome competition bringing down the expense of telegraphic news materially. This new association will gather intelligence of a general character, which all papers re- quire, but in which there can be no compe- tition. We shall purchass from it such newa as we may need in addition to our own special reports. It will thus be seen that with the coming in of the ‘next year, at the latest, a free trade in news will be establisted, there will be a lively and spirited contest among the papers, and every man will enjoy the benefit of his own capital and the fruits of his own enterprise and forethought. So far as the Heratp is con- cerned, we intend to cut off the supplies from the lean and hungry journals we have been supporting for the past ten years, and to suffer them no longer to cling to us and live upon us like a set of famished leeches or penniless paupers. Now Entertainments for the Coming Season, Amidst the bewildering variety of entertain- ments for the coming season, the trump card is likely. to be the attraction offered by the read- ings and recitations of Charles Dickens, the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton, Dumas pére and Dumas fils, George Augustus Sala, Arthur Sketchley, and we know not how many more transatlantic notabilities. The American visitors to the Paris Exposition, who are beginning to return home, will be numerous enough to secure full houses for both Dumas p?re and Damas fils, and will have picked up sufficient French during their absence abroad to understand, or at least to make bolieve that they understand, every word spoken by those lecturers, Sala can count upon a most successful tour if he will only “sign the pledge” directly he lands in New York, and then set up as a rival of the temperance lecturer, John B.Gough. We have already predicted for Dickens most brilliant and solid success; but we must say that Dickens himself will be apt to find a formidable com- petitor in the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton. The admi- ration and sympathy which the extraordinary trials and the extraordinary talent of this lady have excited among her countrymen and countrywomen are fully shared by all Americans, Her heroic defence of her honor and marital rights has made her celebrated throughout Europe, and notwithstanding the adverse decision of the House of Lords, which was due to the super- stitious reverence of the English mind for legal technicalities rathor than for abstract justice, and was a painful illustration of the conflict of laws in the three kingdoms of England, Scot land and Ireland, men will long debate over the unsoundness of that decision as for cen- turies men have debated over the character of Mary Queen of Scots, It is somewhat remarkable that both Mra. Yelverton and Mr. Dickens have made the world familiar with their experiences of conju- gal infelicity. It is unlikely that they will repeat during their visit to this country the confidences which they have already published. But if the Hon. Mrs, Yelverton would consent to recite the first and only set speech ever delivered in the House of Lords by a lady, and to read aloud that one of her love letters which Lord Westbury pronounced more truly poeti- cal than anything he remembered in the whole range of poetical literature, and which, indeed, is as full of passionate love as the song that immortalized Sappho (this, too, she might read with prodigious effect), neither Dickens nor Dumas, pére et fils, nor Sala, nor Sketchley, nor any other transatlantic lecturer, could expect to compete successfully with her. The Revolutionary Laws ot Congress—Or- of Barbarism in the Nine- The United States are running into an epoch of barbarism for which the experience of the early ages can scarcely afford a parallel. At one time in the Congress of the United States a Senator from Massachusetts presented the “barbarism of slavery” in colora that chal- lenged the resentment of the South. Personal violence ensued. Then the inflamed North, spurred on by incendiary orators, offered com- bat by the election of a candidate for the Presidency at that time most offensive to the South. That candidate was elected. The tele- gram announcing his election was the sounding of the tocsin of war. Warcame. The issue was fairly brought, and the victory was with the North. Then followed, not a period of peace, but the organization of a spirit of “bar- barism in the North” that has fairly eclipsed in intensity all the horrors of the “barbarism of slavery.” The compacts of the constitution, for the time forgotten in the exigencies of the rebellion, were ignored as far back as the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses, and it will be a miracle if the same disregard of the solemn league which made the Union should not prevail in the Fortieth Congress next win- ter. The leaders in this attack upon the foun- dations of the government, in time of peace, unblushingly avow that they fight for their cause outside the constitution, All the laws of Congress affecting the South are passed outside that bulwark of our nationality. Hence they are demoralizing, dangerous and revolutionary. These law-makers proclaim their right to enfranchise in a twelvemonth a race just born into civilization and enlightenment; and if half the stories of those who abhor the “bar- barism of slavery” are true, a most melancholy condition must that be in which the whites of the South will be, placed. The equality of rights of the negro with the white is demanded by these outside-of-the-constitution barbarians, The supremacy of the blacks is required by others. We see, in the numerous outrages committed by the blacks in the South, the spectacle of liberty run into licentiousness. In Alabama the blacks have over fifteen thou- sand majority of registered votes ; in Louis- iana they have over thirty-eight thousand ma- jority; in North Carolina they are running largely ahead of the whites ; in South Carolina they have already twenty-five thousand major- ity ; in Mississippi they have a large majority ; in Florida their majority is as two to one ; in Georgia they are four thousand ahead. The whites have a majority in Virginia, and proba- bly will have in Arkansas and Texas—only three out of the ten Southern States. Knowing that the blacks have the advantage in point of numbers in the States above named, the radicals are moving to secure their superiority by insisting upon their being appointed to or nominated for federal and local offices. Tho State Conventions, State Legislatures, other local official positions, the Congress of the United States, and even the White House at Washington, are held out to these uncivilized and untutored blacks as objects fit for their aspirations. States recon- structed upon this system will become simply waste lands, in which tho ignorant or those in an incipient or in a perfect state of barbarism, or both, will be the ruling spirits, or they will become like Jamaica—scenes of interminable disorders and outrage. Sambo will be sove- reign, The white men will be nowhere. Many of them are now excluded by the laws of Con- gress from voting, as they will hereafter be debarred from the privilege of holding office in these nogro-ridden States. That the radical power in Congress is re- volutionary we see in these political affilia- tions of tho radical whites with the ignorant blacks of the South. Send blacks as represen- tatives to Congress, and it will prove the signal for another attempt to break up the Union. It will be but an effort to organize barbarism, anarchy and revolution. It will be against the will of twenty-five mil- lions of American people, who have never been called upon to vote upon the question of the reconstruction laws nor that of negro suffrage, and is in the face of the policy that has actuated every administration since the government was formed. California sees in it the inauguration of Chinese and coolle suffrage, and has already spoken against it. The men of intelligence in Maine have also regarded it in an antagonistic light. The people of Ohio will speak upon it on the 8th of next month asa separate question; and we suppose in November the people of New York will have an opportu- nity to do the samo on the question of adopting or rejecting the new constitution. In no State, with perhaps one or two exceptions, we repeat, have the people had an opportunity to express their views at the ballot box for or against negro suffrage ; and the laws of Congress which force upon the South such a tyrannical rule are abominable, and the threat to force it upon the Northern States is atrocious. When these North- ern and Western law-makers, who openly pro- fess to make laws outside of the constitution, find popular sentiment in their sections of the country in favor of extending the olective fran- chise indiscriminately to any race or class of beings hitherto debarrod by State and national constitutions, it will be time for Congress to make wholesale laws in that respect. In the meantime, the President can do good by delay- ing tho exeoution of these infamous laws in the South. The removal of Sheridan and Sickles, and the agitation of the suffrage question arising therefrom, including the enfranchisement of the Northern negroes, was a struggle which will Open new questions in the elections next month in Pennsylvania and Obio, and no doubt will evince the disposition of the people of those States upon the question of encouraging the inauguration of a reign of anarchy and barbar- ism in the South in this the enlightened nine- teenth century. The Classic Drama and Drama. A large and fashionable audience last night welcomed Ristori’s return to our shores atthe French theatre, as the highest representative of the classic drama. Forrest, in his imper- sonations of Shakspearean characters, is nightly greeted by hundreds of admirers at the Broad- way, and Othello, Lear and Macbeth are the theme on every tongue. New York by Gaslight, the last days of the Mexican empire, and the sorrows of Mary Stuart, attract a crowd of sym- pathizers at present, and hankerchiefs are ex- tensively called into requisition to weep over the miseries portrayed in these dramas. There is, undoubtedly, an unbounded field for. the classic and legitimate drama ‘in this city. While the public taste thus runs in the direc- tion of the legitimate sphere of the stage, it is an extraordinary feature of American civiliza- tion that on the other hand the devil is as busy now as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Black Crook is not content with its centi- pedal attractions and anatomical studies, but it has evon called in the aid of new dancers and shorter dresses to lure votaries to its shrine. The result, probably, will bo that Gentleman Wheatley will not only amass an immense fortune, but will obtain a seat in Con- gress, on the same principles that Gentleman Morrissey did. But there is another Richmond in the field. Banvard’s Museum, among its curiosities, promises to exbibit handsomer women with the smallest possible amount of raiment that the law willallow. Ifa third ana- tomical exhibitor makes his appearance he will have to adopt the South Sea islands costume, “cotton in the ears and a fish bone through the nose,” in order to beat his predecessors in the development of tho naked truth. These classic and satanic movements are astonishing developments of our civilization. Nothing like them can be found in any quarter of the terres- trial globe. Even Sodom and Gomorrah were only paltry provincial villages in comparison to the American metropolis in its investigations of the naked truth. However, we have one advice to give to the dancers that exhibit their pedal attractions to the nightly audience at these establishments. They should get their money every night from the management and enjoy life while it lasts, Some fine day a shower of fire and brimstone may interfere with those anatomical dramas, and New York may be in the same quandary as the “ Cities of the Plain.” To be sure, we are surrounded by water, and the fire department may attempt to fight the brimstone, but still it is a dangerous state of things. The ladies who are curious enough to look upon the dancers, calcium lights and red fire, ought to be careful of their eyes when the brimstone shower falls; other- wise we may have a number of pillars of salt, like Lot’s wife. His infernal majesty is among you, Messrs. Managera ;s0 beware—beware! A shower of fire and brimstone is anything but beneficial to your arrangements for the season. It is not as harmless as theatrical red fire. the Devil’s An Inquiry for Documents. Can any one furnish us with a copy of the documents issued by Jay Cooke & Co., no doubt under the advice and sponsorship of Chase and McCulloch, showing that the national banks are good things, that their manna-like influence falls like dew upon the parched flow- ers of the prairies? If Sam Wilkinson will furnish these precious papers we will acknow- ledge our indebtedness; but Jay Cooke & Co. must pay all expenses. City Politics—The Man: ritan and the We have published very full and exhaustive accounts of the plots and plans, the intrigues and tricks, the bargains and barterings of our city ring politicians, and of all the several cliques, organizations and factions inside ani outside, who are just now tearing and fighting for the spoils to be distributed at the approach- ing November and December elections. Last year, it will be remembered, the great managers of the democratic party in this city were the Honorable John Morrissey, the Pu- gilist, and the Honorable Jobn Hoffman, the Puritan. They ran the machine in the State, indeed, as well as in the city, Morrissey carry- ing Hoffman through the democratic conven- tion by force of his muscle, and Hoffman giving Morrissey the nomination for Congress by the influence of his position in Tammany. It will be seen from our several interesting reports that the same management is in exist- ence this year as last, and that the democracy of the city is to be run once more by the coalition of the two Honorable Johns. Jobn Morrissey is again to manage the financial and rowdy division of the business by means of the policy shops, the grog shops and the Five Points. John Hoffman is to run the pious por- tion, embracing the churches, the Sunday schools, the temperance associations and the respectability generally. Not the least re- markable feature of this curious combination is the fact that the Blackleg is the true saint and the man of honorable principles, while the Puritan’s picty is all bogus, and his actions are notoriously too mean even for the ring poli- ticians. These two singularly assorted managers of the city democracy are trying to run Comptrol- ler Connolly and Street Commissioner McLean in one direction, and Chamberlain Sweeny and Deputy Street Commissioner Tweed in another direction, 80 as to get rid of the re- sponsibility of distributing the offices and cheating everybody, by fixing it upon one or other of these divisions, As matters now stand, it would seem that the Sweeny slate will prevail, especially as he pleads in his favor the heavy cost of the Chamberlain move- ment, which is said to have reached one hun- dred and thirty thousand dollars, including a forty thousand dollar appropriation for a three story brown stone house, of which we under- stand the Honorable John Hoffman can furnish full information. This is the correct position of affairs at the present moment, It is a curious chapter in the political history of the city. We have had some remarkable combinations in years past The Situation in Mexico. The interesting correspondence from Mexico published in yesterday’s Hsratp shows that the excitement that followed the decree calling for a general election and for a popular vote on certain amendments to the constitution had almost quieted. This was mainly due to the wise use which General Porfirio Diaz had made of his well deserved popularity. It was natural to expect that in Mexico, more so, perhaps, than anywhere else, a Pregi- dential campaign should give rise to factions, rivalries and disturbances. It appears now, however, that such troublesome occ will be prevented, as all the chances of el are unmistakably in favor of President Juarez. General Porfirio Diaz has scized every Ope portunity to show that he is in perfect accord with the actual Chief Magistrate, and that he will not lend his name to support any division in the liberal ranks ; General Escobedo has been sent into the field against such dis- turbers as Canales in the North, where he will have his hands full without meddling with the election, and General Ortega’s chances are dis- posed of by the disposal which the government has made of his case and his public indictment - in the note from the Minister of War, which we published yesterday. Indeed, that note may be looked upon as a campaign papér mote than’ - as a legal document. 3 The boldness with which President Juares put forth his proposal to amend the constita- tion, and the nature of the alterations which he suggests, show that he is bent upon establishing ~ firmly the groundwork of republican govern- ment in Mexico. If this amendment of the constitution be carried out wisely as regards details, there is every reason to believe that it will work out the problem of harmonizing the two distinct and hitherto antagonistic elements of Mexico—aristocracy and democracy. CITY INTELLIGENCE. CommisstonERS OF Esiaratioy.—The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday afternoon. The general agent reported that, in accordance with the instructions of the Board, he had excluded the agent of tho Penn- sylvania Central Railroad from the Garden on Monday last, The Boardthen adopted a resolution to exclude the agent of the Erie Railroad also. The number of emigrants landed last week was 4,505, making the num~ ber for the year thus far 181,999 against 179,234 landed. here last year to the corresponding date. ‘The commuta- tion balance at present amounts to $150,337 41, Pepzstriaxisa on Broapway.—A man named Gorden hag laid a wager of $50, to walk from the Astor House to the corner of Thirty-ninth street and Fifth avenue in fty minutes, the distance being @ little over three milen, He is to start precisely at four o’ clock, and will under. take the task this afternoon. As he is co to keep on Broadway till he reaches Fi(th avenue, and it being at a time when the street is preity well crowded, ‘he will havea rather difficult task to accomplish. Arrains aT QUARANTINE,—The steamship Raleigh, Cap- tain Marshman, from New Orleans, and the brig Costa Rica, Captain Cassidy, from Aspinwall, arrived at Quar- antine yesterday, All well, Yesterday six persons wore transferred from the steamship Minnesota to the hospi- tal sbip. The remainder of the passengers and crew aro cd - There have been no new cases since her ar- tiv ‘Visit or Tae Swepisn Ovvicers To THR ARION Society Rooms.—During the usual club hours on Tuesday night the officers of the Swedish man-of-war now in thé harbor visited the headquarters of this musical organiza- tion, and were entertained in true Arion style, The club hours are usually devoted to vocal exercises, but - om this cosssion an Impromptu concert was arranged, | honor of the guests, aotee ae direction of Mr, Bergmann, which gave full satisfaction, The following compositions were rendered :—Kinkel’s Barcarola, % solo and chorus from Lohevgrio, and v: z solos. At the close of the musical part of reception the guests were otherwise entertain id ap ra ed, and @ series of ‘Visit ov THe Cincrxwan Common Covnctt.—The Cincin- nati Common Council, of whose proposed visit to New York mention was made in yesterday’s Heraxp, arrived in the afternoon, as announced. They have taken up quarters atthe St. Nicholas and Motropolitan Hotels. Among the more prominent membors of the are 8. L. Hayden, president of the Board; Major B Blackburn, city prosecutor; E. De Camp, treasurer ; Schiotman, sheriff, and Robert McGrew, chief of pull ©. F. Wilstach, Mayor of Cincinnati, is ex \o-day; having been prevented fromcoming’ with the main party. Cricket,—A match will be playod on the St, Georgo’s Ground, at Hoboken, on Friday and Saturday, tho 20th and 2lst inst, between the first eleven of the St Georgo’s Club, of this city, and (he Young America Club, of Philadelphia. On Wednesday and Thursday, the 26tb and 26th of this month, the St. @ e’a eleven will the first eleven of the Philadelphia Club on u me ground, at Hoboken, for the benefit of tue St George’s professionals, -am Wright and F, Varley. Tam Svicrpe Case inv Cuntox Prack.—An inquest was held yesterday by Coroner Schirmer, at 91 Clinton place, om the body of Arthur Newbern, the young man who shot himself on Tuesday night, as already re- ported in tire Henatp. Mr. Albert A, Nunez, one of the boarders, stated that he bad known the deceased for over @ year, and could not give any reason for the act of ~ suicide, as Mr. Newbera was apparently careless tu dis- ‘ position and free frow trouble, Dr. Leo made a post mortem examination of the body, and ascertained that the bail through the heart. The jury founda verdict of ‘“veath from a pistol shot wound at his own hands.” Deceased was aged twenty-two years and was a native of Canada. Jovemtix Homicipe-—A boy named Peter Welch waa stabbed by an unknown boy in the Third ward aboute weok ago, and he was taken to the New York Hospital, Yesterday Welch died from the wound so received, Coroner Schirmer will boid an inquest to-day. Deatu or 4 Druxxarp.—An inquest was held yester- day by Coromer Gover on the body of William i. Demp- sey, who died on the 7th inst. from internal hemor- rhage, the result of violen The witnesses examined stated that deceased was bitual drunkard and had no home. He came into the store No, 329 Water sires on the 7th inst, and laid down to sleep. When they tried to waken him it was found that he was dead. Dr. Beach ascertained that the liver bad been ruptured by violence, 80 the jury were compelled to render an open verdict.. Deceased was a native of Long isiand and forty-four years of age. Fait THroven 4 Harcaway,—Alexander Caracotolt fell through the haichway of a building foot of Hubert stroct, belonging to the Knickerbocker ice Company, and it is feared sustained @ concussion of the brato. fe ficer O'Rourke of the apt ged had the unfortunate man conveyed to the New York Hospital. Seniovs Fatt,—Otto Van Au, residing at 113 White street, accidentally fell from the piazza to the sidewalk , and was severely bruised about the head ‘hen picked up it was found necessary to have bim re- moved wo tue New York Hospital. THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS. The Board of Fire Cominissioners held their regular weekly meeting yesterday afternoon, Commissioner Galway in tho chair. Commissioner Wilson offered a resolution that the Committee on Discipline bo directed to furnish libraries for the use of the members of this department, and to take all means practicable to improve the moral one and increase the intelligence of the department. The Commitive on Supplies reported two bids io aa- ewer to the advertisement for sealed proposals to furnish two fire alarm bells, each to be of the weight of 6,000 yahescnen tn os Sais tee 10) Board, and the contract awarded to it. The frm ia juestion propose to take in exchange the useless bells ia ay Hall tower and Essex Market, which will leave a balance in favor of the Fire yy The Board adjourned, avd Committes on Disc. pline proceeded to the trial of several. cages of alleged misdemeanor. THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. Twenty Thousand ta he Const . 18, 1967. The election op the adoption of the new comstitution took place in this State to-day, The total vote in this city was 21,016; for tho constitution, 16,240; against, 5,676—majority for the constitution, 10,604, The vote Vo-day was abeet 6,000 short of the vote Of 2ESK: aiaajorey 0 ie fer the ovnatioehion, Guam ‘will not be less than. 20,000 im whole Stara