The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, JAMES CORDON LNeTT PROPRIETOR. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, JR. MANAGER. BROADWAY AND A) STREET. Al! business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Herato, Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications wi Bot be reture ¢. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy, Annual subscription price $14, THE WEEKLY HEF ADVERTISEMENTS, to @ limited LD, every Saturday, at Five will be inserted inthe Westy Heratp, European and the California Editions, JOB PR: and Pngravi 3 of every description, atvo S typing 'y and prompily executed 2 rates. Volume XXXIUL AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEA —Louis XI, &c. ray.—Biack CRroox. NIBLO’S GARDEN, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Rie Vax Wixxie, WALLACK’S THEA RE, Broadway and 18th st.—Mxo' Diverston—B1.4ck-Evap = v t.—Maa's BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Metamons. 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EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlautic cable ig dated yester- day evening, October 7, The advices from Italy are of a very important charac. ter, Sunday last a body of Papal troops marched from Rome and engaged the Garibaldian revolutionists in Frosinone, southeast of the city, The Pope's soldiers were again defested. Reports reached Florence hourly ting thot the Roman territory was bemg invaded on from Itably, Prussia, it is said, favors Victor Kmanuel’s plan of an appeal to the great Powors on the Roman question and will support the Italian demand for top, who represents England at the Court of 1, be appointed British Minister to Derby is expected to r the ziand at an oarly day. M. Achille t French statesman, is de The pio: mers of the Anglo-African war expe- dituon ha it lied from Aden for Abyssinia, A tive typhi ed much damage on the mercantile marine ip & ris of China. The Rar hip Company has placed tivo ¢ in a now service, from Hamburg to New Orleans, by way of Southampton. The Bavaria bas eailed for Now Orleans onan experi- mental trip, if the trafic prove remunerative re- will be made, 94516 for money in London; five- 16 in London, and were quoted at 2000. The Liverpool! cotton market closed with middling up- lands fat S%j pence. Breadstus quiet and slightly ad- vanced, Provisious without any marked change. The French mail steamship Periere arrived at this port yesterday in the extraordinary quick time of eight days and twenty-one hours from Brest to Sandy Hook. By the Poricre we bave our continental files to the 29th ot Septemd to as the mails of the Cuba at Halifax—co: g interesting details of our cabie des- patches. THE CITY. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday and received an oplaion from the Corporation Counsel, which virtually stated that the State has pot the power to deprive the city of the power of granting licenses which the ancient charter accords to it, Tho siock market was strong and excited yosterday, Government securities were siroug, Gold was strong and closed at 145. The market for beef cattle yesterday was depressed by the large offerings, and prices receded fully le. per 1), with a slow demand, Sales of extras wero made at 160. a 17c.; prime, 16c. a 164¢c.; first quality, 160, a 15ij¢.; fair to good, 190, @ 14c.; ordinary, lla « 12);¢., and iuferior, $c. a 100, The number on sale was about 2,600 head. Miich cows were quiet, but Grm at $50 a $1 o quality, Veal calves were steady and firm at 120, a for extra; Lc, a 11!{6. for prime, and 8. a 104 for inferior to common, sheep and lambs we: lower, and heavy at the reduction; the demoud was light, Sheep ranged at from 430, to 6c. and lambs from 6c. to7}ge The hog market was fairly active, but prices were generally 34¢. por Ib. lower, heavy prime being quoted 7)j¢. a 7; tairto good 6Yo. a7 and common to rough 5Xc. aé\e, ‘At these prices the offerings at the Fortietb street yarda wore disposed of, The total receipts were 8,255 beever, 50 miich cows, 1,621 veal calves, 24,416 sheep and lamos aad 25,602 swine. MISCELLANEOUS. Tho State elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and lowa take place to-day, Tbe democrats in Obio are in high glee and greater harmony than has beon known tn their ranks for many years and speak confidently of reduc- ing the repubilcan majority by at least twenty thousand votes, The mulattoes in the State are reported to be arming with tho intention of asserting their rights to the franchise at the polla, on tho strength of being more white than black. A movement has been inaugurated by prominent re- publican members of Congress, it is eaid, which is im tended to secure harmony between the President and tho Legisiative bodies on the peading question of South: ern reconsiruction, On learning the President's own plans, these republicans propose to concede their own opinions as much as they can in order to meet his pur. poses, and thus secure representation for the Southere States by the time the next Presidential election takes piace. Minister Van Valkenburg writes to the Secretary of State from Japan that he has investivated reports con- corning the arrests of Christians on account of their re- Jigion by the authorities, and although Christians pad beon arrested the government had denied that it was on account of their religion, but on regular criminal charges, The reports of suob prisoners being tortured wes alsodonted. The Minister bad taken prompt mnossures for inyicg Vapaukjoct before the Tyooon's goverament, gular voyag NEW YORK HERALD, TURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 1867—TRIPLE SHEET. An American sailor named Bunker had been found mar- dered in Nagasaki, but by whom was unknown, The site for a foreign settlement at Yeddo had been deter Mined upon, The Chosin war had ended. Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, wil! deliver his message to the Legislature to-day. He will recommend Arepea! of the laws prohibiting negroes from holding office and serving on juries. It is thougbt probable that Brownlow will be elected United States Senator by the Legislature, General Sheridan received the most enthusiastic ovation of his tour at Boston yesterday. He arrived there after warm receptions in Fall River, Taunton and other places, and was welcomed to the State by Governor Ballock, He was then escorted by the militia through the principal streets, and was honored with a torchlight procession at night. He visita Lowell to-day, and Albany to-morrow, Jef Davis, {t is now settled, is to be arraigned for trial on the fourth Monday in November. No objection will be made by the government, and the trial will pro- coed. The charge of levying war against the United States will be admitted, and the dofence against the charge of treason will be that his first allegiance was du to his State, Our Havana letter ts dated October 1. The yellow fever had almost entirely disappeared. A railway from Caibarien to Cayo Frances was projected. A sure remedy for the yellow fever and black yomit had been discov- ered in the juice of the female verbena leaf. ‘Treasurer Spinner, in his report to the Secretary of the Treasury, says that the reports relative to abstrac- tions or over-issues of coupons, bonds and other securi- ties are without foundation in fact. We have received the official report of Judge J. F. Kinney, of the commission appointed some time since to confer with the disaffected Indian tribes, but are com- pelled to defer its publication in consequence of the press of advertisements and important news. , The facts contained in the report have, however, already appeared in the Hzratp in the letters and telegrams of our special correspondents who accompanied the commission. According to the report, the Indians in many instances professed peace for the purpose of obtaining powder with which to wage war, The telegram from Fort Ellsworth on Friday last Stating that General Butterfield had been taken prisoner by the Indians was a fabrication, Major General But- terfield 18 at present at his post of duty in this city, A letter of Secretary McCulloch is published, in which he expresses the opinion that the five-twenty bonds must be paid ia coin, A new extension line of telegraph, similar to that used in London and Pans, is being constructed in the city, The wires are to extend up and down town, and to Brooklyn, Jersey City and other poinis. The jury investigating the double tragedy at Wil- liamsburg returned a verdict yesterday implicating the prisoner, Lawrence Ebrhardt, in tho murder of Her- mann Gross on the evening of October 2. A severe gale visited the Gulf of Mexico on the 24 inst., which caused considerable damage to shipping about the passes at the mouth of the Mississippi and’ along tho Texas coast, The tide rose so high at Galves- ton that the city cemetery was covered with water a foot deep and railroad travel was obstracted, The New Orleans city railroad companies have in their possession $1,900 in counterfeit nickel coins received as fares, ‘The yellow fever 1s decreasing slowly in New Orleans, There were one hundred and nine interments during Saturday and Sunday, In Mobile there were nine during Sunday and Monday, Our Revolution Still Progressing—Does it Indicate Peace or War? We publish elsewhere in our columns the remarks of the Louisville Journal and the New York Times on tho political situation. Both of these journals, given over to partisan spirit, are feeling their way along in the dark, each with its eyes upon a false beacon. The former paper, urged by the same impotent madness that animated the earlier days of the rebellion, runs into empty and unmeaning threats that, were they not so seriously made, might appear ridiculous. The Times, a little fright- ened at the cloud which its party has raised upon the horizon, calls attention to it as some- thing to be dreaded. It fears that the acknowledged unconstitutional measures of Congress are to be checked in their operations, and that the country, in its revulsion of feeling against bad management, may upset some cherished rty plans. The whole article, though containing many good arguments, bos that tinge h indicates a trembling over coming political change. That this change is gradually making its way into all the political elements of the country is indisputable. Great revolutions, born of such forces as brought themselves into action in 1861, need, per-| haps, the force of fanaticism to bring them to afocus. That fanaticism has, however, reached its summit, and the nation, now surieited with war and its attendant moral and political cor- ruption, is disposed to return to that healthy point where it may make its material and political progress the most valuable to the national development. That the President will be impeached is not probable under any phase of our progressive revolution. Stumbling block though he be to the wishes of a faction, still that taction may roll him aside whenever they desire to do so. Congress may be in open but peaceable con- flict with the Executive; but it is for the Supreme Court to decide between them. Con- gresa, representing the people, has the power to shape laws in any form, even of the most ultra revolutionary class, As an Executive, according to the political rule laid down for his guidance, the President may op- pose those laws. If, now, the Supreme Court decide that Congress is right and the President wrong, the Executive must bow to the decision; for the action of the court is merely that of an arbiter in a dispute between two parties. It, therefore, the people’s Congress choose to tear the constitution in shreds, and the Supreme Court uphold the effort, then it is folly, it is revolution by force, on tlre part of the Presi- dent, to oppose it; for, by such action, he opposes a peaceable overturning of the gov- ernment which the people have deemed neces- sary and have effected for what they deem to be their good. Much as we reverence the con- stitution, and much as we desire to see it held sacred and intact, we can but recognize that the great mainspring of our republic, and tho power that underlies all constitutions and laws, is the will of the people. If, in the case above mentioned, the people support the action of the two branches of the government against the third, the country must bow to it. There is nothing that can offer effective opposition ; and by and through the people is made a revo- lution by force of braius which, in any other country, could alone be effected by forco of arms, The election following such a revolu- tion will determine if the people endorse the action of the rulors whom they have placed over themselves to effect it, Should they not endorse their rulers, then the revolution is ehecked and we return to any position in which we may choose to place ourselves. Let it be understood that such is our politi- cal rale and such the method by which we choose to effect peaceable change. Thus far our revolution has been progressive. From our initial point in 1861 we have made change after change,until a distant and neutral observer could soarcely recognize any elements in com- mon to our political condition then and now. We have changed three millions of negroes from a condition of serfdom to higher leyel aan that which their former masters now occupy. We have formed five military dictatorships and Romanized ten States. We have thrown the burden of government and its financial support upon the Norihera half of the republic. We have made a Tenure of Office bill, that one element in power may control all the others. We have centralized until the centripetal forces give the mass an impenetrable solidity. In fact, the republic of 1861 is not to be recognized in the republic of 1867. Many of these measures have been the result of those forces which, created by the demands of war, had to spend themselves in after political action. They have had their full sweep. They have forced ele- ments into play which now threaten to produce areaction to that healthy point upon which the nation must finally balance itself. In this reaction the common sense of the country is showing itself, It has calmly weighed the merits and demerits of the political forces, and will now decide upon the future changes to be desired. Congress must listen to the people and watch their will. Failing to do this, they will go down and give place to representative men. Ohio and Pennsylvania. are to speak through their elections to-day. It will be but the prelude to the great Presidential contest approaching. If the people in these elections decide that the radical wave must still roll on- ward, there will be no power to resist it. Should they decide that laws are wisest when made by two nearly balanced parties, we must also acknowledg the great principle that their will is law. Thus our revolution, still progressing, will, as its results are weighed by the people, be urged onward if it be needed, or checked in its course. To suppose that we think of war again is to underrate the common sense of the country. The rumble which we hear is nothing but the march of the intelligence of the land to its political rescue. Exciting Reports from Mexico. If the intelligence furnished by a city of Mexico correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune can be relied upon, we may con- clude that another reign of terror has been in- augurated in the wretched Mexican republic, which will eclipse in bloodthirstiness the dark- est period in the history of the late empire. A large number of liberal officers, it is said, have been imprisoned and others executed for in- subordination, and the work of blood and the dungeon is only stopped for the present on account of popular disgust and indignation. The army itself is reported to be “split into factions and ripe for revolt.’ We hardly know what credit to place upon these reports; but the Picayune seems to give credence to them, and editorially declares that “the empire is not dead.” In the murdered Maximilian it yet lives, and in Marquez and Olvera it has its fu- ture champions.” The same journal predicts that in “five years from to-day (October 2) a portrait of Maximilian will hang in the most prominent place in the grand sala of the Na- tional Palace.” This may all come to pass; but five years is a long time, and the fate of Mexico will, no doubt, be definitely decided one way or the other before that period is passed. Tho Park Bank Raid Upon Our Chief Public Highway. We publish in another part of to-Jay’s Herawp a report of the vote in the Common Council allowing the Park Bank to encroach upon the sidewatk in one of the most crowded paris of Broadway. In other words, showing how the bank corporation has been permitjed to advance its columns, or to make a raid into one of the ciiy’s street lines which should have been protected by all the power of the munici- pal government. By this Common Council ukase the Bank can advance its right and left pillars eighteen {nches, and its central or porch pillars no less than four feet into the crowded thoroughfare. This is an inroad upon the pedestrian rights of our citizens which should not and must not be tolerated. For the present we will simply call the attention of our citi- zens to the pernicious precedent which this invasion of their “eminent domain” will establish in all parts of the city where wealthy bank or other corporations desire to take advantage of it, Itis authority for any rich landholder to advance his building upon a sidewalk to almost any extent. We have seen how the grant has worked in the case of this Park Bank. That corporation commenced with an encroachment of eighteen inches and ended with four feet ; and it will not be re- markable if some morning the pedestrians on Broadway shall find that their right of way has been obstructed even to the curbsione. How is it that the Mayor interposed no veto upon this gross violation of a plain provision of the city charter, which prohibits the public pro- perty from being used for private purposes? And how is it that we find Mr. Jackson S. Schultz, President of the Metropolitan Board of Health, whose duty it is to prevent obstruc- tions of the public highway, and to abate nuisances, should, as one of the directors of the Park Bank, be found engineering this fraud upon the public through the Common Council? Mr. Schultz has interposed his po- tential authority to prevent the erection of booths at certain points on the sidewalks, with the consent of property holders, to enable vete- ran and armless soldiers to transact the business of city messengers, vendors of newspapers, &., to avoid their becoming public paupers, yet he not only does not object to this stupendous Park Bank nuisance, but gives it his counte- nance and support. We are pleased to learn that a public spirited citizen has caused an in- junction to be laid upon the further prosecu- tion of the work, and that there is reason to hope oar citizens will not finally be subjected to the evils consequent upon this Park Bank raid upon their chief public thoroughfare. A Great Fuss About Nothing. Tho newspapers are making a great fuss, and the Treasury Department pretends to be con- cerned, because a certain class of American securities have declined a little in the London market. Tho five-twenties were quoted on the 6th at 715%. This is buta slight decline on former quotations, and, in fact, the fluctuations have been not over a few fractions, up or down, for some time past, There is not the least cause for alarm; our credit is good enough and will remain so. If securities are down, it is aygood opportunity for the Secre- tary of the Treasury to buy them up with his surplus cash. While they are lower why docs he not use the greenback currency to cancel them, instead of retiring the greenbacks at the rate of four millions a month? The would-be financiers and the spocnlators are making a areal fuss about aothing. Mr. Washburne’s Speech. ’ Mr. Washburne, of Ilinois, has undertaken to tell usa good deal about General Grant ; but his speech at Galena is very much like the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out. He does not say whether General Grant is willing to be a candidate for the Presidency, which is just the point that people want to know. What be thinks about the acts and policy of Congress, according to Washburne, amounts to about this—that General Grant endorses the constitutional amendment ; and this we knew long ago. In fact, he bore testimony to the faith that wasin him in his evidence before the Reconstruction Committee, when he said that “he stood firmly by the Congressional plan, and he was anxious now, as he had been ever since the end of the war, for the early restoration of the rebel States to the privilege of representation in Congress.” This is just what the country as well as General Grant desired ; but it is not what Mr. Washburne and his radical colleagues wanted to see. Hence the attempt just now to make it appear that Grant and the radicals are in full harmony. General Grant is a man to be judged by his acts and nct by speech. What little he does say he says for himself, and not by deputy, and we think we know as much about General Grani’s opinions as Mr. Washburne. The Italian Situation—Napoleon’s Difficulty. The state of affairs in Italy daily becomes more alarming. Large portions of the Papal territory are already in the hands of the insur- gents. Italy, from one end to the other, and by the mouths of all ranks and classes of the people, cheers the party of action forward. “Onward to Rome” is on every lip, and if Napoleon do not interfere we may expect at any moment to learn that the aspirations of the Italian people, and, indeed, of the lovers of liberty and right and justice and progress everywhere, have been realized, and that Rome is the capital of Italy. The cable news which we print to-day shows that the case is hourly becoming more serious, that the defenderg of the Papacy are helpless ; and, what is more serious still, that Prussia is not unwilling to throw her weight into the scale in favor of Italy. Napoleon seems to be at his wii’s end. The Pope, by some means or other, he is bound to protect. How is the great question which he finds it difficult to answer. According to a late telegram he has informed the Italian gov- ernment that it may occupy with its troops the Papal territory, but that it must not allow them to enter the city of Rome. The meaning of this message we take to be that in the interests of peace, and in order to hold the insurgents in check, Victor Emanuel may station troops if he chooses in any part of the Papal States with the exception of Rome itself. The object is manifest--Italian soldiers cannot be trusted in the Holy City; the national feel- ing is too strong. In spite of any commander it would break out into the wildest enthusiasm, and the protectors would become the captors of Rome. We have yet to learn that the Italian govern- ment has sent any troops beyond the Italian frontier. It is questionable whether they will send any. Even if they do send them, it is doubtful whether they can trust them. We can hardly believe--such and so general is the fecling in tavor of the movement on Rome--that Italian troops within the limits of the Papal States would have any other effect than that of swelling the body of insurrectionists. Rome, so far as we can see, is only to be saved by a French army ; but a French army on Italian ov Roman soil will light up the flames of war which will rage from the Baltic to the Medi- terranean and from the Bosphorus to the Atlantic. Opening of the Religious Season. One by one the fashionable churches are being reopened for the fall season of preach- ing, as the managers and their congregations return from the watering places. Madame Fashion is a potent deity, for she controls many of our churches, as well as bonnets and dresses. At her beck places of worship are closed, and during the summer months their babitués are not permitted to continue their devotions in them. After the milliners and theatrical managers hold their openings then it is fashionable to go to church. Of course none of the belles of a church of this descrip- tion will venture into the cushioned pews and subject themselves to the cynosure of their neighbors until they have donned the latest fall style in bonnets, cloaks and dresses. Such being the case, what can the poor parson do, who only gets a few thousand a year and de- pends on these fair worshippers for his em- broidered slippers, but comply with the com- mands of Dame Fashion and close up his church until the other amusement openings have taken place ? The programmes of the churches for the fall season promise many novelties in the way of star preachers and spicy sermons. Some con- gregations imitate’ the example of the man- agers and send to Europe for stara, Church property, however, is fast passing into the hands of theatrical people, and danseuses, transformation scenes and sensational dramas, replace eccentric old preachers or exquisite young debutants and their political or sen- sational discourses. In one church a pano- rama with gorgeous scenery, choruses and other stage effects, is exhibited every night, while the pastor is wandering about like the dove from the ark, in search of a resting place. Another fashionable preacher abandons politics for the present and speaks to young men on their matrimontal prospects. While many of our leading and wealthy churches are thus given up to fashion, it is a matter worthy of attention to see what an clevating and wide- spread influence New York life has on people from the country. It softens down all their rugged, narrow-minded ideas, and gives them wide, expanded views on every subject. It humanizes them, and enables them to mingle with the olla podrida of metropolitan life with- out making themselves offensive or singular. Perhaps one of the causes may be the mysteri- ous influence of the Henao, reflecting every phase of life throughout the world and fear- leasly and earnestly inculcating broad and lib- eral ideas, Besides, we have opéra comique to keep us in perpetual good humor, the Black Crook and Devil’s Auction to warn us against the gentleman in black, and the police depart- ment to make us walk in the path of rectitude. ‘The churches have little influeuce in shaping and enlarging the minds of the public, bat in the press and other enginos,of civilization the secret may be founa, The Tammany Party aud tho Mayoralty. Tammany, or the spirit that presides over the traditionary Wigwam, has resolved, from present appearances, to play a losing game at the next December election for Mayor. Hari kari is to be substituted for the time-honored scalping process of immolation in the person of its chief. “?Tis true, ’tis pity, and pity ’tis ’tis true.” Hoffman, the last of the reigning dynasty of sachems, bas willed it, and the blind spirits who aid him, Sweeny and Tweed, are bent on joining in the sacrifice which is to deprive the city of its preseni Mayor. “Tis rule or ruin with them; the first is denied them, and the latter they cannot but accept. Hoffman claims to rule the roast, and from his throne in the kitchen of the Lunch Club, away down in the caverns of the City Hall, issues his ukase which brings on the inevitable doom. The first and last of the Hoffmanites would fain make a big thing of it, and, like another Sar- danapalus, involve the whole party in his ruin. But some of the former spirits of the ring don’t see it in that light, and they positively decline to go to the Hades of played-out politicians, even in the company of Mynheer Von Hoffman himself. McLean, Street Commissioner, and Connolly, City Comp- troller, erst two potent genii of the ring, read- ing the political horoscope aright, see that the reign of corruption is fast drawing to a close, and, like prudent men, are casting about for 9 means of escape. They know that with all the influence of the party they scarcely secured for Hoffman courteous recognition at the late State convention at Albany, and further, from the shadows of coming events, they foresee that he has not a ghost of a chance for re- election in December. In this, the true state of affairs, it needs but a coalition among such leaders as O’Brien, Fox and Shannon, with McLean and Connolly, to dispose of Hoffman, Sweeny and Tweed by consigning them to oblivion, and by this timely remedy save them- selves and the party from utter annihilation. Let the leaders of the Tammany organization oin the “people’s party,” whose standard bearer will be Mr. John Anderson, and in De- cember next rally en masse at the polls, with the watchword, “Anderson and City Reform.” The Associated Press and Newspaper Enter- prise. The Associated Press recently passed a reso- lution suspending one of the rules that regulate the relations of the members of that body. The rule suspended was the obnoxious one in relation to special despatches, which reads as follows :—“No member of the Association, and no party receiving news from the Association, will be permitted to receive regular telegraphic despatches from his own private correspon- dents, nor can he make arrangements to re- ceive any special news by telegraph, without first informing the other members of the As:o- ciation, and tendering a participancy in it to them.” Upon the vote six members declared themselves in favor of suspending this rule, and only one opposed it; and, as a simple majority is sufficient, the vole, of course, suspends the rule, Bat we might fairly question the right to vole of the one member who stood alone. This was the proprietor of the World, who was formally expelled trom ibe Ass»ciation some | months since, and is now not reinstated except by courtesy, and must stand on the same foot- ing as the proprietor of the Commercial Adver- tiser, who receives the news of the Association butis not entitled to a voice in its management. The suspension of this rule concedes a great point tor which we have struggled. It con- cedes the principle that newspaper enterprise is free. Hitherto the rules of the Association, of which the above is a sample, have been such as to repress entirely all that energetic spirit that has made the newspaper press of the country what it is to-day. Those rules attached a penalty to individual effort and repressed those attempts to excel that are the life of any business which appeals to public judgment as the ultimate measure of success. In suspending this rule the Association has begun in the right way to put itself in better relation with the spirit of the age. We shall, while members of the Association, avail our- selves of all the freedom that the suspension of this rule gives especially in regard to European despatches, using the ocean cable liberally, as the progress of great events in Europe shall require. . Sherman’s Visit to Washington. There appears to be a good deal of per- turbation in Washington about Gener 1 Sher- man’s visit and his conversations with the President, which are interpreted by the gossips to mean a change in the Cabinet. Mr. Johnson is taking a long time to decide as to what he shall do in this matter of Cabinet reconstruc- tion. If he is going to make a change, why not do it at once, without calling his Generals to Washington from all parts of the country, over mountains and through valleys, at great expense and loss of time, and then doing nothing after all? If the thing were well done, it were well it were done quickly. The Eastern Question. The Eastern question, which continues to overhang and darken the European horizon like a thunder cloud, is perpetually assuming new shapes. Its latest phase is presented by the alleged conversation between the Czar of Russia and Fuad Pasha, on the occasion of the mission of the latter to Liva. This conversa- tion, which was published on the 23d of Sep- tember in the New Free Press of Vienna, has been reproduced, but with “great reserve” as to its authenticity, by the Paris journals. It ap- peared in the Henan yesterday, and, although we cannot vouch for its authenticity, yet infor- mation already received from other sources justifies the assumption that it offers a correct view of the Czar’s opinion of the situation, and of the advice which he either has or would fain tender to the Sultan. The Czar professes that he is an entirely disinterested friend to the Sultan and the Porte. He declares that the object of his policy has always been to pre- aprve the integrity of the Ottoman empire, and to reconcile the interests of the Christian population (“of which,” says the Czar, “I am the natural protector”); with those of the Otto+ man government. He advises the Sultan gen- erously to give up Candia to Greece, asserting that the Ottoman empire is vast enough not to fool such @ sacrifice, and that in offering this advice he is prompted solely by friendship to the Sultan and his own interest in the main- tenance of the Ottoman rule in Burope ; “ for,” he is reported to have anid, “I am, of course, conservative on principle.” The Ozar's views on tho rectification of tho Servian (rontior and Pp eS the Bulgarian question are also, without doubt, correctly indicated in the summary of his alleged conversation with Fuad Pasha. Tho Czar, in conclusion, reminds Fuad Pasha that it is better to have a disinterested friend at hand than doub‘ful friends at a distance, Finally, be warns him that, though conservative and friendly, his friendship may be turned into enmity, and then Turkey would find opposed té her all the forces at his disposition. It is manifest that Russia is still watching aud wait ing for her opportunity. CITY INTELLIGENCE. @ur Nicat Scuoows—Oreninc or THe New Yorx Evex- ING Hicu Scuooh.—The evening schools of this city, under tho control of the Board of Education, were opened last evening and will continue so for six months. Only males over twelve and females over ten years of age, and whose vocations prevent them from attending elsewhere, are aamitted to share the benefits of these institutions. Throughout the city generally the attendance of pupils last evening was very large, and the indices are that the wise provision made by the Board for giving an opportunity for mental tin- provement to those whose daily labor shuts them out from tbe advantages of the day schools will be profited by to an extent that muse rejoice the hearts of alt friends of education. The most importaut matter ta connection with this night school system is the openin, of the New York Eveni: High School, which place at seven and a balf P. yesterday, in school- house No, 35, in Thirteeuth street, uear Sixth avenue. A very large and intelligent auditory was presnt on the occasion, and many of our most prominent citizens hon- ored the occasion with their presence. The object of this echool is to afford to mechanics apd others who may have compleied the course of instruction consequent on attending the public day or nigut schools an opportu- nity of studying the higher educational branches, For the past three weeks the teachers in this insti- tution have been examining into tho qualifica- tions of applicants, avd when the books. were closed last evening eight hundred and one pupils had been registered. It 18 expected that about five hundred more wi!l be admitted during the. coming week, The vast audicnce last eveang was ad- dressed by Mayor Hoffman, Rey. Dr. Osgood, Professor Doremus, Rev. Dr. Burchard, School Commissioner Miller, James W. Gerard, Sheriff John Kelly, School Commissioner Vance, Thos. Boese, Clerk of the Board of Education, and thos. Hunter, Principal of the scnooi. The addresses were ali to the same purport, showing tho mental profit to be derived from a faithful attendance at the High School, and urging those for whose bancit it was established to take advantage of the inducements it held out to them, ‘without money and without price,” of attsining an excellent education. The most decided interest was manifested in these addresses and their authors were loudly applauded. The exercisva wero inters~ersed with vocal music, The studies to be pursued are mensuration, trigonometry, geometry, al- gebra, arithmetic, drawiug, chemistry, natural, philoso- phy, grammar, rhetoric, bookkeeping, Fronch, Ger- man, Spanish and political science. Besides these two hours on Wednesday aud one on Friday evenings aro set apart for debates, in order to give the pupils an ap- ditude for public speaking. Two hours of instruction ‘will be given five evenings in the week (from Monday to Friday inclugive), makin; ten lessons in all for each pupil, Seventeen teachers are to be employed in the various branches, all under the direction of Mr. Thomas Bunter, Principal, and Mr. John D, Robinson, his as- sistant, Mepicat Society or Taz Couxty or New Yors.—This society held its sixty-second annual meeting last night at the Hall of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, cor- nor of Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue, for the eiection of officers for the ensuing year, the appoint- meat of a delegate to the Medical Society of the State of New York (to fill a vacancyWBand the transaction of other busiveas of moment to the society. The following are the names of the gentlemen chosen as the officers of the association for the ensuing year:—Edward R. Pears- ler, president; James Keunedy, vice president; Ellsworth Eliot, record:ng secretary; H. Mortimer Brush, cor- responding secretary; William B, Bibbins, treasurer; Drs. Hubbard, Noyos, Smito, Blakeman and Underhill, censors. A delegate to the State Medical Society was then chosen (Dr. Noyes). ‘The society adjourned to meet on the 2ist instant, at the new Music Hail, corner of Mott and Houston streets, whoa the members with their invited guests will indulge in their sixty-second anaual collation and conversarione, TsiecRaruic Extension iv tar Crry axp Suporas,— Yesterday workmen commenced the construction of the new extension line of telegraph in connection with the Western Union Company from tho centre of tho city up town and around the suburbs. The wires are also to be extended to Brooklyn and Jersey across the river, as well as fa other directions, by another undertaking os- tablished for the parpose. New York will then have an ail roand the town system of telegraphy similar to that dou and Pars, iuratan, Vererane. Tho delegates of the German Veteran Union, composed of ten associations of German veterans, held an annual meeting at the Germania As- sembly Rooms, when a board of new officers was elected, as follows:—President, Colonel Krehbiehl; Vice Presi- dent, A. J. G. Kuntz; Recording Secretary, Theo. Feld- stein; Corresponding Secretary, G, Stein; Treasurer, J. Diehl; Trustees, Franz Ficke, W. L. Kraft and Theo. Tornow, From the annual reports it appeared that the finances and other affairs of tae Union are in a good cun- dition, The organizations of which the Union is com- posed wore formed for the purpose of preserving a rela- tionship among the veterans who during the war served au the same regiments, and for mutual ald in oases of sickness, 4c, ‘Tus SaLe oF THe Quarantine Grounns.—It fs said that Governor Fenton has given bis permission for the sale of the quarantine grounds at Tompkinsville, and that the Cunard tine is tn treaty for them for $350,000. This line is also said to be about purchasing the Stapietoa flats, Suppey Dearn mv tHe Strert.—About three o'clock yesterday afvernvon an elderly lady, whose name from Papers found in her possession is supposed to be Par- metia Hant, of Saratoga, was taken suddenly ill jo front of No, 31 Pine street, and falling to the pavement died in afew minutes afterward, Tue remains were con- veyed to the New street police station, where Coroner Wiidey will hold an inquest to-day. Fouxp ty tas Warer, —The remains of an unknown man, about forty-five years of age, were found floating in the dock at pier No, 4 East river. Deceased was-siout built, bad biack hair, and was dressed in black cloth coat and panis, black striped fancy vest, roustin shirt and woollen undersuirt, In bis pockets was found a small amount of money, black bandied knife, amall key, &c, Coroner Schirmer heid an jaquest on the body. Scvppsy Dearu.—Mr. Charlies F. Prescott, one of ihe proprietors of Lafayette Hall, Broadway, who has been suffering from consumption for some time past, yester- day morning left his apartments in the Carlton House, Broadway, near Houston street, and while descending, the stairs fell and expired soon afterwarda Coroner Wildey was notified, but, as it afterward appeared, his professional services were not needed, as the attendin, physician of deceased gave a certificate setting forth the: cause of death, Sranpwa Arrray.—Walter Black, one of the residents: of Baxter “avenue,” No, 15, became engaged in a uarrel last night, about ten o'clock, with a fellow resi- dent named Patrick Mooney, who, becoming too mach pa br asheath knife and stabbed hi the left amen inflicting a severe but not necessarily dangerous wound. 4, 11 ,44—A “dark,” belonging to the purtieus which are in the Fifth precinet, “made a bitin de policy” a. few days ago at 146 West Broadway; but as be struck rather beavily, Mr. Webb, proprietor of the concern, did not find his web strong enough to settle the dem: 80 he drew im and Mr. Dark dido’t get the prize. He assistance of Captain Petty, who .was, no Jearn that such for the were locked up at the Fifth precinct station bouse, Will be taken fo the Tomba Police Court this moritig. THE QUICKEST PASSAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Gryerat TRANSATLANTIC ComPant, 58 Sere t New Yor, Oct, 7, 1867. k ian, of which bre, wi hours, white several wero made undor nine LEGISLATIVE NOMINATIONS IN MARYLAND. Baurmors, Oot. 7, 1967. The following Legislative nom:nations were made by the Democratic Convention to-day :— Sowatore—For the First Senatorial district, Wm, Kime Second » Henry Snyder; Third district George Cot Third distr on; Samed Metitoy. Bt. Harig, WoT Marshall and Fetler $, Hebiitzelt JAMES RIVER AND KANAWHA CANAL CASE. Ricmmoxo, Va., Uct 7, In the United States Circuit on to-day th McMahon vs. the James River and Kanawha pany, to throw the company into bankraptey, missed, tbo pAruog having seltied the mater gut of 1967. e@ suit of it Lorn-