The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1867, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, JR.) STREET. BROADWAY AND ANN Ail business or news letters and telegraphic despatches mobs! be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should bo properly sealed, d communications will pot be returned. LD, published every day in the year. Four THE WEEKLY I Annual subscription price $14, at FIVE Cuvis per copy. sion price:— One Copy Three Cop be nent to every club dress, one year, $25, An extra copy ex v ame price, These ublication in the country, Will bo sent t 1 twenty rates make the ‘or three months, XXX -No. Volume JIBS [PLE SHEET, Tan waw 3s. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day, October 2, at noon fialy, Rom Paris re ously a an revolutionary excite- ment. 4 rents of the General made a serious outbreak at Viterbo. It is said that a revolt had occurred in Rome, and a rumor red London do the effect that the Pope had left the Eternal City. The Nazions, of Florence, a semi-official paper, says that Italy will soon acquire Rome without a “broken treaty.’ The newa from Italy produced deep distruat in Paris, and two French Ministers of State, zccompanied by she Italian Ambassador to France, left the city on a special mission to Napoleon at Biarritz, Tho Emperor of Austria will visit Paris on tho 20th of October. The North German Parliament bas adjusted the salt tax, Admiral Farragut arrived in London, An- other Giasgow firm, in the American trade, has failed, Cousols were at 94% for money in London at noon. wenties were at 72 in London yesterday noon, and 75% in Frankfort on the Ist inst, in the eveaing. In the Liverpool cotton market middling upland was wi 84d, at noos, Breudstufls and provisions without marked change. ain deeply and danger- THE CiTY. ' A banquet was given to Sefior Romero, the late Mexican Minister to thig country, at Delmonico’s, last @veniug, on the occasion of his passage trough this city. Peter Cooper, William ©. Bryant and other Prominent gentlemen were present, and a iarge num- invited guests who ber of lelters were read trem oth were absent, A lengthy .s, Romery in answer to the toast 0 g, in which he partiatly reviewed affairs in Mexico and bis own course as a diplomatist in Washington during the late war of (ho :ntervention. Roimarks were also made by some of tho other gentlemen present, The Citizens’ Association have addressed a long let- ter to Comptroller Connolly, ws publish elsewhero this morning, recommending, ae a true remedy for the meagre ‘evenue produced by the markets, the sale of tho entire market property of the city and the eubstitu- tion in their stead of markets owned by private incor. porated compan At the meeting of the Boar! of Hdueation last night & resolution was adopted to inquire into the sanitary con- dition and regulation of the poiviec schools, and if any Jegisiation will be necessary to regulate them in this particular The part of Audit mot 5 in the claims of t City Taspector’s I 7 claims ts $20,0¢ hundred ar rday and were engaged © unpaid employés of the The amount of these or of them one hford yesterday neccasioued & re of this city and of cled that Captain cussion between elpbia, should Brown, who has much r asiody of (he prison authorities of the tatier city The United States District Court, Eastern District, opened yesterday for the October term, Judge Benedict presiding. A grand jury was empanelied, ‘The twenty- found at the Atlantic on, condemned, United one barrels of distilled White Lead Works were, on uo Mates District Attorney Ke of New Jersey, wil conduct the Callie 0, Mi scev and his assstants round tha! they are to testify as spirit Deing excused on witnesses during amination In the United States Comm‘ssioner’s Court, Brookiyn, yesterday, the cate of the United States against Charles Matioson, George Rice and others came up before Com- miseioner Newton, when Mr. Rice was discharged, on the ground that there was no evidence against him show ing guilty Invent. Tn the case of the other defend- ants the hearing wae adjourned The North German Lioyd’s steamship Bremen, Cap- tain Noynaber, will leave Hoboken as noon today (Thursday) for Bremen via Southampton, The mails Tor the United Kingdom end the Continent will close at tho Post Office at balf-past ten o'clock this morning. Tho stock market was strong yesterday morning, but mfiorwards reacted and closed weak. Government se- @urities were dull, Gold closed at 143% a 144, Domestic produce was moderately active, and in @oany cases higher, while merchandise, though quiet, yas steady and firm. Coffee was steady. Cotton was @n good demand and steady. Ou 'Change flour gener- ally advanced 10c. to 2c. per bbi.; wheat Sc, a10c., and porn lo. a 2c, Oate were steady ai the close. Pork closed ull aod lower, while beef was sieady and lard more @otive and higher, Freights a whiskey were un- change’. Naval stores were a trifle more active, Pex frolevm was dull, but closed steady and firm MISCELLANEOUS Our advices from Honolula, Sandwich Islands, aro dated September 11, and como by special telegram from an Francisco. The Reciprocity treaty with the United Ptates had been passed by the Hawa.ian Locisiature and gmgned by the King. The whaling catch ts reported to De the jafgest ever known. The whaling ship Congress ‘was lost on the 14th of May ip the Anatyr sea. The convention election in Alabama was continued yesterday. In Montgomery, Selma, Opelika and We. sompka there were 10,339 votes cast, ail of for aconvention. Im Mobile yesterday ther ‘Votes oast, of which only twenty-four were w: fod nearly ai) favored the convents Gevoral Sheridan yesterday at ‘Teoos. Ie the eveniog he was received by the Mayor and Aldermen at the wigwam ip that city, He was escorted Trom (be gontieman’s house at which be was a guest by 4be voterans, bearing torches, to the wigwam. A large Dumber of persone were present, and the enthusiasm fand excitement were grea Geweral Canby ssued an order limiting the powers s in the Second distrirt, and has sig- i@ intention of mod.fying Geueral Sickles’ order elosing ap all barrooms. It is pOW siated that although Chief Justice Chase pray open the court at Richmond, in which Jeff Davis bs to be tried, he cannot preside for any length of time, Supreme Court opens oom sfier (a Washington. 8 deeire is evineed to postpone the trial, Davis’ Counsel! will enter a nolle prosequt. Indge Duplantior, of Now Orieaus, bas decided that the new board of school direciors ‘or that city, which bas been contesting the right of meoaging edueational Matters agaiust the old board, is not qoalifed, and was Appointed when Ho vacancy existed. It 1s therefore for. biaden to perform apy of the duties appertaining to such © board Dr. Thomas J Gardner was placed dpon trial at Bing- Darvon yesterday for alleged complicity in the buraing Of the Now Vorw Sate trehriate Aewinm in 20A4. L Filion Wengen collars ane swine Ry wacelece trom , PM APLANY LY pully DULW UID Ald HAM @ Bvdnee 2 MUN Wo Yoniky oo mocronery U1 Hac LTWMMUCT 101 DES WA DS WOU Dub BD AG YASUARIBOND I Haw 4 CrAiu ramen saad flabiher MUM OmOUL the OLf } Br a rercics NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY fan oxpreas safe at Brownarille, Nebrasks, on Tuesday | sary part of the nation’s future. It is useless night. One thousand pounds of gold bullion was recently shipped from Nevada ‘Tho Crow Indians have refused to consult with the Peace Commissioners, Toe democratic delegates to the State Convention which convenes at Albany to-day assembled in force yesterday. Indications pointed to the probable election of ox-Governor Seymour a8 permanent President. and the adoption of resolutions denouncing the Excise law and touching upon negro Suffrage asan acceptable proba- bility in the future. A delegation of Germans in the in- terest of the anti-excisemen are on the grounds, and the vanguard of the Mogart democracy had arrived with loud protestations of @ determination to obtain admis- sion, It was supposed to be the intention of a majority ta op Morrissey and mildly snub Hoffman. The municipal troubles in Nashville, it appeare, aro hardly over yet. A company of militia, commanded by «colonel, yesterday deposed the qld Mayor, who, it ap- pears, had retained possession of the office and archives after the instaliation of the new one, He submitted to force, and the new Mayor was formally installed by the troops. A cheer greeted the old Mayor as he withdrew, and a large crowd was assembled on the square, but no disturbances are reported yet. The State Temperance Convention met in Albany yos- terday. Dr. Albert Day was chosen permanent Presi- dent. Resolutions were adopted favoring the extension of the Excise law to the whole State, the submission of @ separate provibitory article of the State constitution tothe people, and insisting upon the insertion of tem- perance principles in party piatforms. A commtittee waited upon Governor Fenton and tendered him an tovi- tation to preside at the evening session, but be declined on the plea of previous engagements, McGee and Devlin had @ personal rencontre in Mon- {real yesterday, Devlin spatin sf{cGee’s face and was caned for it Further returns of the Convention election in Louiai- ana leave but little doubt thats sufficient majority of votes has boen cast to insure a convention. Ovations to Grant and Sheridan—Grant and Sheridan for the Future. General Sheridan, on bis way from Louisiana to Washington, was the subject of a splendid demonstration at every important point on the route; and now again on his way to the West he is receiving in all our great cities ovations of the most brilliant, positive, flattering and incomprehensible character. In all affairs of this kind of course the prime movers aro the political hueksters—the keen fellows who gaiher around rising men in the hope that they will be remembered by and by when offices are to be given out. But in this case the poli- ticians have been crowded out of sight by the masses thronging to de honor to a man who has done the State substantial service ; and the mean voices of those who bid for office are lost in the grand roar of enthusiasm, paying the People’s tribute of admiration to one justly accepted as a type of all that is noble, gallant and pure in a patriotic soldier. Sheridan’s public services are such as to give him a full claim to the nation’s warmest gratitude. He has served with a bold heartand ready hand, with clear eye and upright soul, in fields where death was everywhere, and in fields that might have had still greater terrors to one leas ready to repeat the course of Alexander in disposing of the Gordian knot of political difficulties. It is a pleasant sight, therefore, to see the people so broadly and warmly acknowledging the nation’s debt to her heroic son. But, looked at closely, it will be seen that there is a still deeper significance in all these cheers, receptions and other motes of express- ing the popular sentiment, Taken as n whole, all the ovations from St. Louis to Union square by way of Washington ore one tremendous and magnificent endorsement of Grant. They are the general declaration of the country that Grant was right They are the common re- cognition of Grant’s siatesmanship, bis admin- istrative ability, his genius to rule, as illns- trated in that rare talent of great rulers—the perception of men’s true powers and the sagacity to put in every place the man most fit to fill it. Napoleon Bonaparte permitted Dessaix to win a battle that he had lost, ac- cepted sirategy from Moreau, made Murat com- mander of the cavalry, Talleyrand Minister of Foreign Affairs and Fouché Minister of Police. From facts like these arose his most wonderful success, and the success of every great ruler is in proportion to his ability to put men in their proper places. It is the ability to organ- ize. Itis statesmanship, and that traly practical part of it where it comes in contact with facts, Sheridan’s position to-day is the evidence of the degree ia which Grant possesses this high quality. When Sheridan first fell under the eyo of the great leader he was a commissary in Missouri. He might have been a commis- sary still, with all his rare qualities, if the War Office bad bad its will. What manner of man had Stanton in the sort of post to which Grant eventually advanced Sheridan? Stanton’s man for Sheridan’s places was Siegel! In the face of such a fact is it strange that the war dragged its bloody length through so many years? But Grant insisted that the Siegels and Butlers should go to the rear, and he kept the Sheridans in front. His persistency in pushing Sheridan gave us Winchester, Cedar Creek, Five Forks, and finally gave us Sheridan at New Orleans ; and the people, in cheoring the hero for his achievements at all those places, record their judgment of the great abilities of him who, in his own modest words, “gave Sheridan an opportunity.” Another point in these demonstrations is that Sheridan has made himself conspicuous and dear to the popular heart in the unex- pected character of a great logical interpreter of the constitution, who, out of bis own simple honesty, has said and done more for the vindication of that instrument than all the lawyers together. He showed the necessity of adherence to the constitution as all the legalists and hairsplitters in Christendom could not have done between this and dooms- day. He went to New Orleans, and in down- right earnestness enforced the late recon- struction laws of Congress. He proved in that way, as it never could have been proved in any other, the enormity of those laws. He executed them to the literal extremity of their provisions. He did not bear lightly on their offensive points to make them seem other than they were, and so commend them to favor, His simple enforcement of those laws was the most complete possible vindication of the constitution they defied. He did not prate of the laws; he executed them, and their effect was seen. Ho did not apos trophize the constitution; he showed what it was to govern a part of the country without it. In this way he stands up to-day as the foremost friend of the constitution and the man who has done more than any other to show the people the danger of departure from its prin- atnlaa, Grant and Sheridan, therefore—our two greatest practical stateemen—have exhibited to muddle over the special phases of present party strife. One broad fact only is distinct and beyond doubt; it is that a reaction against the republican party is felt throwghout the land, because that party has abused its power. But aside from the emphasis they give to this reaction, the elections now forth- coming mean but little, and it is of compara- tively small moment which way they go, either in this State or Pennsylvania. What republi- cans lose copperheads expect to gain, and that isall there is of the result to the people. But the reaction against the republicans is begun, and it is for the people, by their own movement and utterance, to strengthen that, to give it the depth and force and impulse that will carry all before it, To do this with effect the people, so soon as these fall elections are over, must organize the grand cam- paign of the next Presidency with Grant and Sheridan—the chosen dials and practical statesmen, types of the best qualities of a great people. This is the way that the people must determine the future of the nation, These elections will determine nothing, though they may exhibit still more clearly the tendency already indicated elsewhere; but by rallying a d constitutional party around the two great 8 the people will determine all. Re- struction will thus begin directly with the people and in the demolition of parties. Such a@ reconstruction, guaranteeing that the great resulis of the war shall not be lost, but that the nation shall not be destroyed by the fac- tious—a guarantee that would lie in the very fact of the success of Grant and Sheridan— such a reconstruction will be complete and natural and will establish national peace and safety on sure bases. Up with the standard, then, for Grant and Sheridan ! A Radical Chief and a Radical Organ ou Our National Finances. We publish in another part of the Herarp a letter from General B. F. Butler defending himself from the assaulis of the Tribune for the views he expressed with regard to the national finances, together with the rejoinder of that radical organ, Whatever may be thought of the military capacity of the Gene- ral, there can be no doubt of his ability with the pen. The Tribune philosophers are no match for him. He is clear and logical; they are confused and us muddy as the waters of the Mississippi. In fact, he has demolished their misrepresentations and absurd theorics. The Tribune is greatly distressed to see one of the most prominent men of its party take such bold and broad ground against the finan- cial policy of Mr. Chase, its candidate for the Presidency. Hence its efforts to whip in the refractory General. But Butler is not such a short-sighted and superficial theorist as those are who assail him. He has more comprehensiv« views, and eses the future. He sees that this subject of our national finances is going to be a most important one, and that the mass of the people will not submit to he robbed and burdened beyond measure by the Chase politicians, by Jay Cooke and that set of Treasury vultures, and by the national banks and bondholders. More far-sighted than they are, he is casting an anchor to windward. The main question at issue just now between these radicals is as to the liability and policy of the government to pay the principal of that larger portion of the debt known as five-twen- ties in gold, although General Butler took bolder ground previously against the ruinous theories in general of the Tribune, Chase, McCulloch and Jay Cooke financiers. General Butler shows clearly there is no obligation on the part of the government to pay the principal of the five-twenties in specie, and he argues rightly that they should be paid in currency as soon as possible in order to relieve the people of their heavy burdens. We need not recapitulate his arguments here, as they may be seen in another part of the paper; the Tribune, being defeated in its argument, and being compelled to give up virtually its poiat aa to the legal obligation of the government to pay the principal of the five-twenty bonds in gold. takes another tack and argnes that there is a moral obligation to pay them in gold Shylock must bave his pound of flesh ; whether in the bond or out of the bond, he will have it. Yes, these Chase radicals and national bank cormo- rants will squeeze the lifeblood out of the people, though there be no such agreoment in the bond, and that, forsooth, upon the plea of moral obligation. Let us see what is meant by this moral obli- gation. Is it an obligation based upon equiva- lonts ’—the law of justice strictly? In most civilized countries there are laws bearing upon transactions between individuals to prevent usury, extortion and oppression. Besides, the moral sense of mankind revolts at the usarer who takes advantage of the distress of his victims to extort forty, fifty or more per cent for the accommodation he affords. Shall the overburdened people of this country pay a hun- dred dollars in gold for every fifty or sixty they received without any legal obligation to do so? Are they to payin specie that which they received in paper, and double or so the amount, when noither law nor justice calls for it? Justice is rep’ ited ae holding the scales evenly balanced, but this would be queer sort of justice—all on one side. The Tribune writer talks about paying a bushel of oats when we agreed to pay a bushel of wheat as being a breach of contraet—meaning, of course, that the government agreed to pay in gold. There was no such agreement or under- standing, as General Butler shows, in the case of the five-twenties. Mr. Stevens, the chairman on the Committee on Appropriations, who re- ported the bill, expressly said so ; and the fact that it is not stated so on this class of bonds, while it is on others, shows it was the intention to pay in currency if the government should think proper to do so. Suppose we take the standard of prices of wheat, bacon and other provisions and articles of consumption at the time this debt was contracted and pay upon that basis. Would that suii the Shylockst? No; they would not agree to such a settlement, for they would not get more than the present currency value of their bonds, if as much, They want the pound of flesb, though their victim may bleed to death. They want exor- bitant usury, even when not legal. The very men, the very party, who brought this enormous debt upon us, now clamor for more and beavier burdens upon the people. Had Mr. Chase, who !s the head and front of tham all, acted with judgment and patriotism, he would have savéd ns from out present Shan- cial troubles. In the early part of the war, , OCTOBER 3, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. Now York and got one hundred and fifty mil- | Hemarp to which no answers would be re- lions from our banks, it was understood he was | ceived. He advertised for a wife, destitute of to raise money on bonds whenever he needed it by selling them through the banks for what they would bring. Had he adhered to this plan, and raised at the same time as much reve- nue as possible, the debt would have been much less than It is and we should have had no inflation cf the currency and no suspension of specie payments. But he had a host of friends in Ohio and elsewhere to favor at the expense of the Treasury and people. Jay Cooke and his other satellites and friends were to be made rich. The Presidency was to be reached through the wealth thus created— through a moneyed oligarchy and the national banks, He abandoned the New York bankers, created new financial agents among his friends and partisans, flooded the country with paper money, suspended specie payments, increased the debt enormously and unnecessarily and brought us into our present coniition of high prices and heavy taxes, And now it is he and these very friends and partisans who would force the people to pay cent per cent or more for the loans received. Such has been and is the ruinous financial policy of the radical fac- tion, of which Mr, Chase is the head and the Tribune the organ, and which General Butler has had the good sense to condemn. The World Moving—The Herald the Great Business Medium of the Country. This is the age of progress and improvement. The whole world is undergoing revolution in every direction. Art and science, only just out of their swaddling clothes, are striding on with the tread of a giant, sweeping out of our memo- ries the things of yesterday. Moun'ains are no longer barriers in the path of progress ; oceans no longer keep continents apart; disiance is nothing. Human skill tunnels the first, cables ‘the second, and annihilates the third. Elec- tricity draws all the countries of the earth together in instantaneous communication, and enables us to whisper in the ears of our neigh- bors thousands of miles away. People forget how they used to travel only a few years ago, as they are rushed along by steam at the rate of forty or fifty miles an hour; and before long the iron horse in its turn may be driven out of their memory, as they find themselves tearing over the couvtry at four times that speed on a pneumatic railroad. We no longer recall the satisfaction with which we were accustomed tu receive news from Europe, by way of the Hali- fax lines, in the short space of six or seven days, while we read every morning in the columns of the Heratp intelligence from all parts of the world only a few hours old; and we may soon forget the days of open telegrams, as we receive long sealed communications sent flying through air-tight tubes quicker than the elec- tric hammer could spell out half the words on the magnet. With these changes and improvements has come an entire revolution in the manner of doing business all over the world. A few years ago the Imporier on this side of the Atlantic would send his order to Europe by a steamship, which took twelve or fourteen days to reach its destination, and stand the risk of the market when he received back his goods. Now, he telegraphs his agent on the other side two or three times a day, if necessury, and con- forms his prrchases to the demand of the hour or the daily fluctuations of the market. For- merly, a person travelling abroad was com- pelled to hamper bimself with letters of credit, and sometimes driven out of his way or put to other inconvenience in obtaining his funds. He can now transact all his cash operations by telegraph, and receive money whenever he pleases or wherever he may be, provided he enjoys the necessary credit at home. The most important of these business changes is the substitution of newspaper advertising for the employment of agents in all business transactions, Some time since, if a person desired to sell or buy property of any deserip- tion, he was driven to the necessity of engag- ing the services of middlemen, or agents, to whom a material per centage on the price re- ceived or paid bad to be allowed. Now, he advertises bis want in the columns of the Heracp, is brought iato direct contact with the principal himself, without the interven. tion of any third party, and receives in a day a dozen times as many offers and proposals as the most energetic agent could procure him ina month, Taking the article of real estate alone: if a person desires to purchase a house he no longer has any occasion to visit a score of agents and to travel tor weeks over the city to hunt up such a dwelling as he may require ; but he looks over the columns of the Henao, where, classified under the appropriate bead, and arranged in such a form as to evable him at a glance to see in what part of the city they are located, he finds scores of houses adver- tised, and probably meets with the very pro- perty he needs. If not, then he inserts his own advertisement in the Herap, and in a day or two he is enabled to make his choice among three or four hundred offers from all parts of the city. The admirable classification of the Heraun’s real estate advertisements also saves the property owners and the property seekers a great deal of unnecessary trouble and annoyance, as it affords the opportunity to all to discover ata glance the character, location and style of property required or offered for sale, and pre- vents needless applications, The real estate business is only « small item, however, in the great system of the Henatp. Every conceivable want can be sup- plied through ite columns, from a marble man- sion to a poodle dog. In Europe there are @ number of journals baring a distinctive char- acter in their advertising columns. Thus, in some are to be found houses; in others, horses; in others, domestics; in others, dogs, and so on throngh tho list. The Henao is dif- ferent from all these, It is the general adver- tising medium of the United States. Railroads, ships, expresses, auctions, houses, lands, horses, carriages, business, partnerships, law, physic, machinery, millinery, dry goods, do- mestics, clerks, clothing—all things, in fact, that go to make up the life, business and bustle of @ great country are to be met with in iis columns, each under its appropriate head. Tho post office department of the Hrrarp advertising room is of itself # stupendous affair and keeps three or four clerks constantly employed sorting and delivering leiters. When it is remembered that a single advertise- ment frequently brings two or three hundred anewers in © day, some idea of the Inbor of this branch of tho business may be formed. A short time ince a sporting gentleman made a all personal charms and of bad temper, and on the following morning received seventy-eight replies, Another remarkable feature in advertising is developing itself, We have recently ro- ceived quite a number of advertisements by telegraph for wants elsewhbre, and thia will, no doubt, soon grow into a daily practice. As New York city is fast becoming the central point for all the news of the world, so the HERaLp is getting to be the great advertising medium and centre for all the business that is transacted in the country as well as in the metropolis itself. Cheever—His Occupation Gone. The Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, the father of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, onee predicted that all the theatres would be converted in a few years into churches, Ifnot this prediction, precisely the reverse of it seems likely to prove correct. His daughter’s novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” has been dramatized and represented on the stage in almost every country. His son’s novel, “Norwood,” is, it is reporled, about to be dramatized. The Rey. Henry Ward Beecher long ago changed his Plymouth church into a fashionable lecture room, and still gives weekly entertainments there no less attractive than the readings of Dickens are expected to be, The Rey. Dr. O»good’s church, on Broad- way, has become the New York Theatre, and without enumerating all the instances In which churches have been converied into theatres, the latest conversion of this kind is that of Rev. Dr. Cheever, the Church of the Puritans, With the emancipation of slavery the negro escaped from Dr. Cheever’s embrace, and the reverend Doctor himself mysterionsly disappeared. His church was first closed for some time, then it was sold, and now it bas been reopened with a grand theatrical display of the scenes of John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim's Progress.” Tho final trans- formation scene has been compared to that of the Black Crook at Niblo’s. The first artists in the country have been induced to turn scene painters on this occasion; and the Young Men’s Christian Association, we understand, are shareholders, or at least active patrons, of this formidable rival of tbe Black Crook, the Devil’s Auction and the Grand Duchess of Gerolstein. Meanwhile, the late pastor of the Church of the Puritans, it is conjectured, has quietly’ returned to his early studies of Greek literature, or is revising his edition of the American Poets or his eulogies on John Bun- yan’s wonderful allegory, or the sermons in which, like Wordsworth in certain sonnets, he defended capital punishment, or, perhaps, his once famous song of “Deacon Giles’ Distillery,” which caused him to be confined thirty days in Essex county jail. At ali events, his occupa- tion as an abolitionist parson is gone, and his church has been converted, if not into a thea- tre, into what is very like a theatre. Revival of the Drama aad Opera. Mr. Oxenford, the well known English dramatist and critic, during his late visit to America, expressed his astonishment at the liberal patronage which the metropolitan theatres received last summer, and also at the number of places of amusement supported by the public of this city. His astonishment would be considerably increased if he were to see those establishments at the prosent time. Crowded houses, enthusiastic applause, de- lighted managers and showers of bouquets, are the features of the greater number of our theatres since the fall season opened. There is scarcely one place of amusement that does not exhibit on its treasurer’s accounts a large increase over former seasons. From the French theatre, where La Grande Duchesse and Ristori reign alternately, to the smallest minstrel hall, s fall house and a queue of patrons at the box office may be seen every night. The following list of the places of amusement will enable our readers to judge of the extent of this theatrical revival :— Steinway Hall, French Theatre, Broadway Theatre, New York Theatre, Niblo’s Garden. Wailack’s Theatre, Banvard’s Opera House. Bowery Theatre, Stadt Theatre Olympic Theatre, Thoitre Comique. Tony Pastor's Opera House. rit Runt ~ M Figbth Ave, ra tone, Kelly & Leon's Minstrel fen Frglascs wishes Bunyan Tableaux, re Besides these twen‘y establishments devoted to music and the drama, we shall have Pike’s magnificent opera house and Booth’s new thea- tre, which will be devoted entirely to the classic drama. It would be difficult to esti- mate the amount of money expended every night by the amusement goers of the metropo- lis; but considering that the average receipts of those theatres range from three hundred to fifteen hundred dollars each night, and that carriage, supper and other expenses incurred by their patrons more than treble this amount, it will be seen what vast sums are annually expended on theatres in this city. These facts are incontestable evidences of an increase in business of all kinds this fall, and may serve to cheer the drooping spirits of those who anticipated dull times. The extra- ordinary success of the opéra bouffe at the French theatre, which surpasses in singing and completeness even the Varieties in Paris, and which bas won the enthusiasm of opera habitués, shows a decided revivalin opera, The concert season at Sieiaway Hall has also opened favor- ably, and the pianist, De Meyer, has been re- ceived with unmistakable applause. Ail the managers are becoming imbued with Con- gressional aspirations, and other capitalists are looking around for sites on which they may also build theatres. The Press and the State Election, We reproduce in another column articles from two of the leading city papors, the Ties and the Sun, showing their appreciation of the issues and prospects of the State election, These journals bave adopted in a great measure the views repeatedly expressed in the Hxraip, and they prove the tendency of the public mind in the direction which we have indicated. The fact is that the extraordinary aberrations of the radical element tor the past two years have thoroughly disgusted the pub- lic, just as the furious ravings of the copper- heads did before and during the war. Both parties are organizing for the battle, And, although it is going to be @ close contest, tho issue, after all, is of little consequence. It is to be a conflict between individuals, and individuals of vory small account atthat, But the election will show the necessity for a move- tient, after it is over, whoreby the conntry can be reconstructed. It is probablo that the Making Distinguisked Mew. Senator Conkling has suddenly become one of the most distinguished men of the age. He made a speech one day and waked up the next morning to find himself famous, Having furnished material for poetical genius of a re- markable character, he stands to-day the equal of Homer and Milton, the embodiment of the Tiiad and Paradise Lost rolled into one. He can now take his place among the celebrities of the age, with Chevalier Wikoff, George Francis Train, Colorado Jewett and Horace Greeley ; and this is more than Roscoe Conkling hoped to do in his day and generation. Extraordinary Confession of Speaker Colfax. It was stated that Mr. Colfax, in a recent speech, threatened President Johnson with hanging. This was indignantly denied by his friends; but we now find, by a full report of his speech, published on his own authority, which is equivalent to a confession, that what he did say on this subject was quite as bad, if not worse, than he was originally charged with. The Speaker of the House of Representa- tives threatening in a public speech to hang the Chief Magistrate of the United States like a common malefactor, is one of the most disgrace- ful exhibitions of partisanship that even ram- pant radicalism has yet made. It was generally supposed that the Speaker of the Houseshould be a gentleman. All the traditions of Con- gress and the respectability of a constitution which created the office presuppose that fact; but that the Speaker should threaten the Chief Magistrate with the ignominious death ot a felon only shows to what a terrible state of demoralization the leading politicians of the republican party have sunk. It is but in ac~ cordance with the instincts of gentlemanly society that a man using such language would at once forfeit his status and be expelled from all association with gentlemen. We can only say that Mr. Colfax, by his own confession, has disgraced bis character and has entitled himeclf ~ to a denial of all the courtesies of respectable society henceforth. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. The Reciprocity Treaty Passed and Ap- proved—Arrival of the Whaling Fieet—The Preseat Catch Never Before Equalied. Hownovuiv, Hawai, Sept ne} Via Saw Francisco. Oct. 2, 1867, 10:40 o'Clock A. M. The reciprocity treaty between the United States and the Hawaiian Islands passed the Hawaiian Logisiature on the 2d of September, and was immediately signed and approved by the King. The passage of the treaty is considered the most popular measure recently passed by the Legislature. All classes are unagimously in favor of it, and the action of the Senate of the United States and the Prest- dent upon it is most anxiously awaited, The first arrival of the whaling fleet reports a catem that bas nover been equalled heretofore, ‘The whale sbip Congress, of New Bedford, Mass, wae lost ta Anadyr Sea on the 14th of May last. THE LOUISIANA ELECTION. ed Majority Almost Cortaiu—The il Unhenrd from Likely to Swell the Majority. New Orteans, Oct, 2, 1867. Tho Republican has returns from twelve parishes, im- cluding Orleans, giving a total vote ot 28,631 and a ma- jority of the registered voters of 1,618, In every parish beard from a majority of the persons registered voted. It is supposed that nearly every om of the remaining thirty-six parishes will swell the ma jority of votes. THE ALABAMA ELECTION. ‘The First Day’s Vote, and Montgomery, Scima and Other Towns All for the Convention. Montcomsry, Ala., Oct. 2, 1867. There has been two days’ voting. In Montgomery 4,589 votes were cast on the first day; in Selma, 3,300 on the first day; in Opelika, on the first day, 1,500; in Wetumpka, 1,000—ail for the convention. Mobile—Stight Op- invention. Mona, Ala, Oct. 2, 1867. The second day's vote stands 620 blacks and 24 whites, with very fow exceptions fora comvention, Ne disturbances whatever have taken piace. THE DEFUNCT FARMERS’ Be aa WATIONAL GANK OF It is ascortained that the mission of the friends of this bank to Washington has proved a failure, aad that its affairs will undoubtedly be wound up by the government receiver. In round numbers the assets an@ Mabilities of the bank are as follows: — 170,000 _ 32.008 ++ 285,000 LTRS, se ccseeecees ces $1,200,008 Of the assets it is believed that there are enough bad debts to wipe out the entire capital stock of the bank jg2on.c0n); but even with that amount lost the are secure, and they qill be paid @ divi January next, The amount of that dividend cannot be accurately ascertained, but it may as well it will be @ long time before depositors will receive their deposits im full, as sary litigation will ensue, DISTILLERS’ AND RECTIFIERS’ ASSOCIATION. A meeting of this association was held last evening at the republican headquarters, corner Broadway and ‘Twenty-third street, Tho attendance was vory large. A number of distiliers and rectifiers were admitted aa members, The committee appointed at the last mesting to wait on the Metropolitan Board and request of thom per- mission to allow those distillers whose places had been seized to run off the mash @n hand reported that the Hoard had acesded to thelr request, A committee was appointed to proceed to. Washingtom and confer with the Secretary of the Treasury in rela- Lon to the objects of the associntion. a eae es or a oye So tion ai CJ tan Board distilleries belonging to bers the organ were working in their respecti¢o distri opposi- + jon of the Executive Cominities (de- to the resoiuti clring that ail distilleries aboald close on aad after the 20th and take measures to bave euch establish. ments ‘The Executive Commitioe was authorized to offer a reward of $100 to any person detecting illicit distiliativn 1a, uo resident (De. Bidiasel stutad” De. Biaisdet| daring th } pan ae that the ate examination ‘of ‘die. Neries, fm company with revenue ( detatied for that pu 2 the Metropoitan "Boare, showed that the resolution of the Executive Committee was very generally complied with. There wore, how- ever, he said, some fow instances where suspicion was Sccneae ante eaptanes poet in operat jut nothing positive wae knowa in thie regard to authorize a seizure, — ‘The moeting adjourned to Monday, October 7. Pmnaeenenee Reena eatin THE RECENT FATAL STREET RAILROAD ACCIDENT An inquest was beld yesterday by Coroner Gover at Beliovuo Hospital over the body of Patrick Cullen, « fative of Ireland, and twenty-one years of age, who ‘was run over om Suuday by car No, 00 of the Bolt lina Deceased was standing on the front platform, and wae thrown off the car by @ sudden jol Death, In the Opinion of th 80 aw the result of a shook tot y st my j Be | 4 ae eee —