The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1867, Page 4

W YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, aus FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth atreet—Marre An. TOLNBTTE. WORRELL SISTER: ’ YORK THEATRE, oppo- site New York Hotel.—Tux NCH SPY. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sraing or Peanis— Deap Suor. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Buack Czoor, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Rie Van Wises, WALLACK'S THEATRE Runt Day—loury ann Firt Broadway and 1th st,—Tax GERMAN STADT TE and 47 Bowery.—Das Aurfinpes Den Swexoe BiLDeTER HauskygcuT, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC,—Graxp Ducuass. BANVARD'S OF MUSEUM, Broad. way und Thirtieth E NEW YORK CIRC Equasraian| . Fourteenth street.—Grunasrics, FIFTH AVENUE Avappim, Tuk Woxo RE. Zand 4 West 24th streat.— amr, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Wuttz, Corroy 4 Suarriey's Minsteecs, SAN FRANCISCO MINST rian ENTERTAINMENTS, 5 . 585 Broadway,—Ermio- ANCING AND BURLESQUES, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway,—Sonas, Dances, Eccentnicitizs, Hontesgues, Se. TONY PASTOR'S OF 'SE, 201 Bowery.—Couro Vocauism, NeGro Mixsti 5 BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Baxter, Fancy, Paxtomitr, Ac. BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth stroet.—Tax Porm. EIGHTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, corner Thirty-fourth street.—Yincinc, Dancinxe, &c. IRVING HALL, Irving Place.—Taz Apvestures oF Mars, Brown. HOOLEY'S OPERA+HOUSE, Brooklyo.—E tH10rian ‘Munsreisy, BaLtaps axp Boruesgues. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, tus Gasticur. AMERICAN INSTITUTE.—Exaisition or Nationat In- pusTRiAL PRovucts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science anv Aut, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Orena—Tuk Huccrsors. Williamsburg.—Usoaa Fourteenth street.—Itatian 'New York, Monday, October 14, 1867. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yestor- day, October 13, ‘The advices from Florence report that the Garibaldian invaders of tho Papal territory have boen driven over the frontier by the Pontifical forces and disarmed by the Ttalian troops, Garibaldi names his son Menotti bis successor in command. ‘The appointment of Mr. Thornton, British Envoy in Brazil, to the post of Minister of the Queen in Washing- tn is represented as not being popular in England. The Fenian alarm is subsiding in Ireland, and the British aval guard force on the coast will be reduced toa couple of iron clads, Five-twenties closed at 741 in Frankfort. The steamship China, for Boston, was detained at Liverpool by a sovere storm which prevailed to midnight | | last Saturday. The German mai! steamship New York, at thia port yesterday, delivered our European files, containing very interesting and somewhat importaut details of our cable despatches to the Ist of October. MISCELLANEOUS. Thad Stevens has intimated bis intimation to urge upon Congress, as s00n as it moots in November, to pass @ general impeachment law, detining ofences uge> which an officer may bo imwro~gtqand declaring that Lg.” contiuz to exercise the functions of his re his trial; and also tho passage of a law Providing that no Siate shall have power to prohibit citizens of the United States, whatever their race, color or religion, from voting for President and (ongrese- men. Our Washington despatches state that at the last meet- ing of the Cabinet the question of appointing a perma- nent Secrotary of War was discussed, aud the President bas since bad the subject under serious consideratioa, General Grant strongly urces Major General Rawlins, his Chief of Staff, for tho position, aud it 1s quite proba- Die he will receive the appotatment. General Hillyer has had several interviews with the President and Socretary McCulloch in regard to internal revenue matters in New York city, The result is stated by our Washington despatch to be that the Metropolitan Internal Revenue Board will immediately be abolished, and tho collection of revenue and deiection of frauds will be loft to the oificors desiguatoed by law for thoso duties. A republican meeting is to bo held at Savannab Ga,, this afternoon. A torchlight procession was in contemplation after the adjournment of the meeting, bat the Mayor yesterday issued a proclamation forbid. ding any such processions or assemblage alter nightfall in the city, Four Massachosctts constables made a descent on a gaming establishment in Westfield, 1m that State, on Saturday night, and, after arresting tho inmates, the officers wero assaulted by a mob of some five hundred Persons, who hurled stones and other missiles at them, when offices jin fired into the crowd and killed ono of the rioters named Brooks. The officers then beat a hasty retreat to Springtield, twelve miles distant, upon reaching which place they were arrested, at the instiga- tion of a portion of the mob, who bad pursued them, and lodged in jail on = charge of murder, Galveston, Texas, bas recently been visited by the ‘most destructive storm and overflow that have occurred ‘on that island since 1857. The city was submerged to Church sirect, the lower floors on the Strand being from two to four foot under water, The damage to goods and property is estimated at half a million dol- Jara, The roof of the Mason'c Halt was blown off and one man killed. Mechanicsville was also submeried, and great damage was done to property in that vicinity, A dosperate charactor named Hoffman, who had re contly beon discharged from the Ohio Penitentiary, yos- | terday eutered a church in Canton, mm that State, while ‘she congregation was assembliog, and stabbed a young ‘woman, from whom he had been divorced, eleven tines witha butcher's knife, inflicting wounds which it is | feared will prove fatal, The desporado was pursued and captared and lodged in jail Payment has been made upon the jadgments of Abe Wuieéd States Court of Claims, amounting to $100,000, in favor of loyal owners of cotton which was captured by the United States forces in the Southern Bintes. Twenty-seven casos were tried, only fourteen of which were decided in favor of the claimants, do- cision on the others being reserved. The successful claimants are residents of Charleston, Mobilo and At. Janta, ‘The Secretary of War bas been prevented from selling Sea covernment property at Harper's Ferry, tho boira of those who soid the property to the government claiming that the deed exprossiy provides that the lands con- veyod to the United States should be used by the government only. A democratic candidate for State Senator in Ohio bas signified bis intention to contest the election, on the ground that he was defeated by a majority of one hua dred colored votes. The rear car of afreight train which started from Al bany on Saturday night broke its coupling as the train was ascending the hoavy grado west of the city ahd ruched down the track atthe rate of fifty miles sn hur, coming in collision wiih a passenger train wh b Broadway.—Tas Woman ix | had just started from the city, badly smashing the en- gine and two cars and killing ono passonger. The government commissioners have comploted their examination of the section of the Contral Paciflo Rail- Toad west of Cisco, and unanimously recommend the government to accept the road. The yellow fever has boon declared epidemic in Me: pbis, Tenn. Forty-seven cases were reported for tho twenty-four hours ending at noon yesterday. Levi Silliman Ives, D.D., LL.D., formerly Bishop of | the Protestant Episcopal Church of North Carolina, and | well known for his religious writiogs, philanthropic works and conversion to the Catholic faith, died at his residence in Manhattanville yesterday afternoon, | The United States gunboat Marblehead, which has been lately overhauled at the Norfolk Navy Yard, sailed | on the 11th inst, for a long cruise among the West India | Islands. The annual sermon of the Society for the Increase of the Ministry was preached last evening by the Rev. Dr. Morgan, in Christ church, Fifth avenue. Mra. Martha Webster died in Brooklyn on Saturday morning from the effects of an overdose of morphine, which bad been inadvertently prepared by a druggist’s assistant in a store on Third avenue, in that city. The clerk was arrested and held to await the result of the coroner's investigation. General Canby is to leave Charleston to-day for Colum- bia to consult with Governor Orr, of South Carolina, and Governor Worth, of North Caroiina, on queatious re- lating to reconstruction in the District, Senor Romero and his family were in Charleston yes- terday, awaiting the arrival of the United States steamer Wilderness, which 13 to convey them to Mexico. A train of cars on the South Carolina Railroad, near Columbia, 8. C., was thrown from the track and the cars robbed on Saturday night, It is supposed that a gang of negroes tore up the track and committed the robbery. Mike McCoole, the pugilist, has forwarded to a gen- tleman in this city one thousand dollars forteit money and a challenge to fight any man in America. Interoceanic Routes—The Commerce of the World and Its Demands. With the quieting down of the political ele- ments in Mexico and Central America the wants of commerce, heretofore held in the background, again come prominently into notice and demand the earnest attention of our people. We cannot be too much alive to the importance of at once opening every avenuo possible between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. We already have one commercial treasure in the Panama Railroad, We require, however, other interoceanic lines, and the enormous development of trade resulting from the construction of the Panama road demon- strates that the trade will alone be limited by the carrying capacity of the different routes which may connect the two oceans. Prominent among the projected railroad lines are the Tehuantepec, Honduras, Nicara- gua and Costa Rica. The latter, in energetic hands, has a fair prospect of being pushed rapidly to completion, and will form one of the most valuablo as well as one of the most accessible of all the connecting links of ocean trade. The Tehuantepeo line, so prominent po- litically and financially, is so loaded with contracts, concessions and political schemes, confederate and imperial, that it is doubtful if it struggles into existence for some years to come. Its history is one of continued misfortune, and is an example of the difficulties which environ almost every great enterprise. In 1843 the Garay grant wes conceded by the Mexican government. The company did nothing with it, and in 1853 the Sloo, or “Mixed Company,” obtained a charter to construct a Tehuantepec road. Failing to comply with the terms, their charter was revoked by Comonfort on February 5, 1857. Upon its ruins arose the Louisiana Te- huantepec Company, under a concession dated September 7, 1857. This caused the filing of a claim by the Sloo Company in March, 1861, in our State Department, of ten millions of dollars agaiust the Mexican government for revoking their charter after they had already expended five hun- dred thousand dollars in the work. The Louis- isna Tehuantepec Company, being unable to meet the demands made by the conces- sion, had their grant twice extended by Juarez—the first extension March 28, 1859, the second October 25, 1860. In this com- pany the Mexican empire and the Southern confederacy joined hands, supposing the Te- huantepec Railway to be a valuable adjunct to their political schemes. Benjamin, Slidell and other leading confederates handled the reins. | The company, however, still failed to carry ; out the project; and in 1866 tho Mexican | government virtually ignored the existence of the grant by refusing some small concessions to | the company on the groand that their franchise | had lapsed. The company had not, as stipu- | lated, commenced the work by April 1, 1862. | They, however, really committed suicide Octo- | ber 12, 1866, when they got their charter ex- | tended by Maximilian-—tius ignoring the re- | public and giving a moral support to its mor- | tal enemy, the empire. A Washington com- {| pany next entered the lists, and a new organi- | zation was born ander a decree of Juarez, at | Chihuahua, October 15, 1866. Its first article revoked the Loulsiana Tehuantepec enterprise, | and the new organization was baptized tho | Tehuantepec Transit Company. Again a fail- | ure on the part of the concessionaires to comply with the charter has, according to our Mexican news, caused a revocation of tho grant. This now leaves the Tehuantepec route open to new and, it is hoped, more suc- cessful commercial effort. The advantages of this transit are in many points inferior to those of other projected lines, for the harbors at the road | termini are difficult of access and too shallow | for heavy ships. They givo at best but twelve | feet of water. The land transit of one hun- | 1 and sixty-nine miles presents no en- neering difficulties of magnitude. route the distance from New York to San Fran- cisco is four thousand two handred miles—one thousand miles sherter than by Panama, | One of the finest of all the lines thus far ex- amined is across Honduras | spacious, deep and easy of access, The transit from ocean to ocean is one hundred and sixty miles, and grades not exceeding fifty-five fect per mile tell how easily the road may be con- etructed. It is one of the first of the inter- oceanic enterprises which #hould receive the attention of our capitalists. The distance from New York to San Francisco via Honduras is four thousand three hundred and sixty miles. By the Nicaragua route we have four thou- sand eight hundred and eighty-four miles to San Francisco, including one hundred and eighty miles of land transit, the latter being very | dificult in point of heavy grades and curvatures, | Heretofore, in the projection of interoceanio | enterprises, every company has made its esti- mates of distances relative to San Francisco, as if that were the great objective point for all commercial campaigns, This, however, {s a great error, Tho commercial problem is far | bordering the: Pagiflo at $100,294,687, while focus the trade currents of the entire world are fast flowing. In proof of this the San Francisco trade is but a small item towards the support ot the Panama Railroad. Tho whole west coast of Spanish America is its present life. This Spanish American trade our government has heretofore blindly refused to foster, while it has almost been ignored by our commercial men. It might easily be developed to an extent sufficient to support two or three transits like the Panama road. When will our government open {ts eyes to this truth? This Spanish American trade will bave an immense growth; but as it grows so we must be prepared to turn it towards the United States, where, for geo- graphical and topographical reasons, it may easily be made to flow. and South Amerioa. It mean® Asia on the right of us, and Europe on the left. Their whole commerce, counting annual- ly hundreds of millions of dollars, must pass the narrow isthmus that connects the two halves of the Western continent. From New York to Calcutta we save, via Panama, four thousand one hundred miles over the Cape of Good Hope route. In the same manner eight thousand nine hundred miles are saved in thepassage to Canton and nine thou- sand six hundred to Shanghae. Considering the Cape Hora route for all this trade, there is a still greater distance saved via Panama. Official data, carefully compiled, gave, in 1857, the value of our trade with the countries the value of the tonnage we were employing in that trade was $92,874,250. If, now, we consider the risks attending the Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope transits, the time con- sumed, the loss on merchandiss, excra in- surance and interest on values, we might save cnough every year from the United States trade alone to build an interoceanic railroad or cutacanal. Letusadd to the trade of the United States the English and French trade that would pass the isthmus if commercial lines were opened by railroad and canal. This English trade is computed at $139,184,834 annually ; the value of the ships, $51,464,750. Tho French commerce that would seck this route is $67,210,609 ; the value of the French ships, $8,136,750. The total value, therefore, of the commerce of the world that demands an opening to pass the isthmus 1s $467,831,130. The total yearly saving to the world’s com- merce would be, according to a very reliable estimate, $49,530,203. Thia estimate relates to the normal time when our commerce was flour- ishing. Tho increase now on the part of Europe balances the decrease on the part of the United States; and, as regards the whole world, the estimate is reliable for to-day. Ono fact is evident—it is that we must break down the barciers that stand in the way of the development of the world’s commerce. American energy must do it if Americans would reap the great advantages that are certain to accrue. No petty, jealous ideas respecting any one enterprise should hamper the progress of another. The Panama, the Honduras, the Nicaraugua, the Costa Rica, the But the trade grasp is greater ihan North | NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, UUTOBER 14, 1867. with Bet aaibiey nh a | running the republican party to the oppasite extremes of universal negro suffrage Southern negro supremacy, bave, in their turn, been rebukei and rejected by the people. They must stand aside with the copperheads, and the conservative Union element of the country must now come forward and take the helm. This is the meaning of these late elec- tions, and Grant is the man. Rumors tn Washington About Finaactal Matters. ‘ We learn that a number of republicans in Washington who are prominently connected with the financial institutions of the country have been consulting together about our na- tional finances, and have agreed upon a pro- | position to relieve the government and country of existing and future troubles, It is said, also, that these financial philosophers are about to lay their plan betore Mr. McCulloch. Surely | the people should be thankful for the wisdom, benevolenca and disinterested conduct of such patriots of the republican faith. Soeing it has been the republican party, led by Salmon P. Chase, Jay Cooke, McCulloch and the rest of that Treasury ring, which bas crushed us down with burdens and involved us in almost inex- tricable financial troubles, it is certainly some relief to learn that an enlightened few of that party have found the panacea for the evils we endure, By the republicans “ prominent in financial institulions of the country” we suppose the | | | i} | bondholders and the Wall strect gold and stock operators connected with the Chase- McCulloch Treasury ring, though he was too modest to say so. Well, what do these finan- cial patriots propose to do? Simply to roturn to specie payments about eight months from this time—thatis tosay,on the 30th of June next, And this is to be done by redeeming in gold the bonds these patriots hold. That is, the government shall pay for the bonds about thirty per cent more than they are now worth in the market. The government can now enter the market, just the same as Mr. Smith, Jones or Brown can, and-buy these bonds at little over seventy in gold. Yet it must not do so, according to these philosophers ; it must give a hundred in gold, though all the rest of the world can buy at seventy, or it must not buy atall till the market price is forced up to par. This would be a nice little arrangement for the bondholders, if practicable. But we are not told where the gold is to como from to pay for two thousand millions of bonds. Mr. McCulloch has got a hundred millions in the Treasury, but that is only a twentioth part of the amount needed. Should be part with his hundred mil- lions in buying bonds at par, where would he find gold to take up tho other nineteen bhun- dred millions? Nearly all the specie coming into the Treasury is required for current de- mands, and be would be left with but little of the precious metal. How, then, could spocie payments be brought about by this plan? Nineteen-twentieths of the bonds would remain unredeemed and Mr. McCulloch would be left Tehuantepec, and the great route which should run from Vera Cruz across Mexico, will all be loaded to their fullest capacity as fast as they can be completed. New lines will bring new By this | Its harbors are | trade to the existing ones; and a broad view of commercial wants will show that, to confine our ideas to a single line, is to give but a petty limit to our. brains. Not only the railroads, but the canals should now receive a forward_ impulse, for it is a water transit betweep’the two oceans which in great part eas royal yield to commer, ich we have es.i- mated. Wheze can our government find a better field for its legislation? Where can our men of enterprise find a better field for their energies ? Nigger Rights and Nigger Wrongs. The account we gave yesterday of the elec- tion in Alabama on the convention question has o peculiar interest at the present moment as showing the practical result of the theories of the party of great moral ideas as to nigger equality, nigger rights,&c. “Equal rights” in Alabama evidently means that there is to be no room in that State for white men if tho niggers can keep it. For this election the niggers were organized by Loyal Leaguo machinery. They came to tie polls im military array, every particular voter being subject to punishment at the order of his captain if he should be guilty of any delinquency. His ticket was placed in his band by the captain, and, of course, the greatest delinquency would have been to have voted any other. And in this manner tho newly made citizens availed themselves of “a free- man’s proudest privilege.” The voter got tho tcket from his captain, the captain had it from the colonel, and he trom the general, and the general in his turn, of course, had it from the owners and managers in Washington of this grand plan to secure political supremacy. No plan over before devised for securing ma- jorities can compare with this in simplicity and certainty. But all this was in Alabama, where tho niggers are yet subject to con- trol, and where they used the arms, with which they were plentifully supplied, quite harmlessly, because it was not the gamo of the white managers that they should use them otherwise. In Virginia there ave somo indica- tions that the niggers have got beyond this. Their leader, Hunnicutt, bas taught them that their weapon is “the torch,” and the thoughts that this has started have made them impatient of the coatiol of even the “imported radicals” that Northern managers send down. Thoy are ready to cut away from all affiliation with whites, and have refusod a radical con- vention the use of their temple, the African church, in Richmond; while near Norfolk the squatters on farms have expressed their readi- ness to fight rather than leave, at the bidding of the courts, the land they have seized. When all niggers have thus thrown off control, and act on their own impulses with the views they now have, and the torches that Hunnicutt proposes, we shall seo the full effect of the humanitarian theories of the great radical leaders. Democratic Rejoicinags. From Missouri to Kentucky—yea, from Maine to California—the rejoicing democracy without gold in bis chest. Would not gold go correspondent means national bankers, large | up again, and, perhaps, higher than it is now, under such a state of things? The truth is, there is no way of reaching specie payments, without o fearful revulsion and a bankrupt Treasury, but by letting things take their natural course and by ceasing to tamper with the currency. The countrywo ~ _./ up’ the course of afew yeurs to that point when thrwresent volume of curroncy would be not at all too much for its necessities, and then we should reach specie payments. This conference of financial patriots at Washington holds out a sop to the people, however, for the purpose of having their bonds increased in value over thirty per cent. They will consent to have the outstanding bonds taxed or the debt funded at a less rate of in- terest. This issimply a dodge to get the specie-paying plan forced upon the country. If we had a Secretary of the Treasury who un- derstood the subject of national finance and would take advantage of his opportunities to reduce the debt, he would use all his resources in buying up and cancelling the debt as fast as possible and at the lowest rate. He would bein no hurry to return to specie payments till alarge portion of the debt were liquidated and the weight removed from the people. We should come to specie payments much sooner by constantly reducing the debt than by in- creasing its burden through forcing it to par value. But we must wait till some abler man is put at the head of the Treasury before wo can hope for any improvement in the present ruinous financial policy of the government. The Cabinet. Our latest information oa the subject from Washington leaves the Cubinet question still in dofibt. We are advised that two, and per- haps throe, of the members (meaning, no doubt, Messrs. Seward, McCulloch and Grant) will re- tire at no distant day; but that nothing definite has been determined upon. Mr. Johnson has, perhaps, concluded to await the result of the New York November election in order the more intelligently to supply Mr. Seward’s place. Asa politician would consider it, this may be an important view of the matter; but ag a statesman would consider it, Mr. Johnson’s true course, it seems to us, is to act at once, and so broadly and comprehensively as to make a decisive impression upon Congress. More Whiskey Seizures. Among the latest reported whiskey seizures in this city and Brooklyn are an illicit dis- tillery in Tremont, near Van Brunt asireet, Brooklyn; one hundred barrels of whiskey at pier No. 1, North river; twenty barrels at the Duane street pier; twenty-five barrels of spirits at the Albany street pier ; twenty five barrels of whiskey at pier No. 21; an illicit distillery in Kent avenue, Brooklyn, which had been ranning for a year ; two hundred barrels of whiskey on the bark Harvest Home, East river, These casos will serve to suggest the range, extent and variety of theso whiskey frauds in the manufacture, shipments and consignments of the article. , They also indicate some degree of activity among tho revenue officials in ferreting out these abuses; but we apprehend they do not reach one-half the sum total of the whiskey which, by some ingenious trickery from the still to the consumer, evades the government are burning gunpowder over the results of the lato Pennsylvania and Obio elections. We hid just such results, however, in 1862, from New York to Illinois; but what became of them in 1863? They were swept away by tho blunders of the domocracy in following their stupid broater, and towards Central Amorica as a copperhead loaders. Tho radical Jacobins, ia it is roported that Secretary McCulloch, not- withstanding the activity of the Metropolitan Revenue Board, 1s satisfied that it needs some reconstruction to render it as effective as it ought to be, and that probably some reorganiza- tion will stortly be male, Meantime, with — the meeting of the Board tmorrow we may expect some furthor disclosures of tho extent and ramifications, seizures and coNfiscations of these contraband factories, shipments and depots of whiskey, involving, perhaps, ® few more of the weak-kneod ministers of the lew. Franceand Prassia—Improved Metations. The relations subsisting between Fraace and Prussia are gradually assuming a more friendly character. The North German Gazette, which is supposed to be in the confidence of Count Bismarck, admits that the French Emperor is sincere in his desire for peace. On an early day Napoleon and King William are expected to meet in friendly conference. It will be well if this other war cloud blow past, leaving the nations in peace. Napoleon, we feel assured, begins to see that a war with Prussia, though it might bring him a little addi- tional military renown, would not per- manently check the progress of Ger- man unity. In such o caso he knows the renown would be dearly bought The Emperor wisely begins to think that if Germany must be united it is betier for France and for him to have united Germany for a friend than a foe. The habit of dictation has not yet left the chief of the French people— how can it all at once?—but the fighting propensity is less violent than formerly. If he only keeps his finger out of this Italian pie there is good reason for believing that existing difficulties will be quietly got over, and that the peace of Europe will remain ae ck Amnesty and Registration—A Test Caso, John D. Imboden is a citizen of Virginia, has been a member of the Legislature of that State, served as a brigadier general in the Confederate army, and cannot take the oath given in the Congressional Reconstruction law, and which, according to that law, must be taken before any man can be registered as a voter. Ho applies to be registered, and the officers, acting under the law of Congress, deny his right. He claims, however, that he has the right under the President’s amnesty proclama- tion, all the conditions of which he is ready to meet, and, therefore, will apply to the District Court of the United States, when it convenes at Richmond, for » mandamus compelling the officer to register his name. Such a manda- mus the judge of that district will certainly not issue, law or no law, and the applicant will then appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Thus we are in a fair way to have de- termined by the proper legal tribunal the exact limit of the President’s power to par- don. As this is no longer a question that will involve one way or the other party balance, the probabilities are that it will be weighed on its real merits as an important point of con- stitutional law. State Rights in the New Dominion. As it was with the United States, so it appears to be with the new dominion of Can- ada—it ia hardly under way when the question of State rights, tho constitution and constitu- tional reservations, begins to be ag:tated. The Blue Noses of Nova Scotia are at it, hammer and tongs. Nova Scotia is evidently destined to be the South Carolina of the new confed- eracy.. Her loesl'gathorities :hreaten to with- hold their quota. tion over again ; otia newspapers, in talking about “imposing a semi-dezpotism upon the people of this country,” are only heading for South Carolina secession, Fort Sumter and independence. In due course of time we may expect a rebellion in the new dominion; and what then? What else but another reconstruc- tion law from Washington ? POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. New York State—County Nominations. Autsonany County,.—The republicans of Aileghany county have nominated for Sheriff, Colonel W. Davis, Angelica; County Judge, Woolcott Hatch, Belmont; Clerk, W. H. H. Russoll, Andover; Superintendent of the Poor, Charies G. lagraham, Hume; Sessions, Anson Tall. Gaxeszn Courtr.—H. F. Tarbox, member of Assem- bly from Genesee county last winter, has been re- nominated. The other nominations are as foliows:— For County Judge, Charles Heushaw; County Cierk, Carlos A. Hull; County Treasurer, A. D. Tryon. Monnog Covusty.—Tbe republicans of Monroe count) have nominated Lowis H. Morgan for Souator, Cal Moore for county Clerk, Jerome Fuller for Count Judge, George W. Rawson for Special County Judge, W. Dean Shuart for Surrogate, Henry FE. Richmond for Juatice of Bessions, and A: 1, Wood for member of | Assembly ia the Third district, Eni County,—The democrats of Erie county have nominated tho following tickot:--State Senator, Asber aries Darcy; County Clerk, John Horatio Seymour; Superia- es Kuriz; Jusiico of Sessions, Ones Copyty.—John Strykor is tho democratic can- didate for Congress in the Oneida district. Jonn French, ot New Hartford, is tho repubiican nominee for Assom- biy in the first Oneida district. Oraxao County.—Davis W. Batos, of Chorry Valley, a republican, has been nominated tor member of Assembly ia the firat Otsego district, Wrowinc Countr.—-The Wyoming republicans have made the following nomisaiious:—Yor member of Assembly, Wiiliam Bristol ; Judge aud surrogate, Byron Healy; County Clerk, Joba P. Rovinson; ‘Sherif, Witham W. Davis; Justice of Sessions, Harvey Stone. Franxuw County.—The following are the Franklin county republican nominations:—Nember of Assombiy, Kdmund F, Sargent; County Clerk, William W. Pad- dock ; County Judge, Albert Hobbs. The Next Presidency. (From the Toledo ((bio) Biade (radical), Ort, 11. General Grant ia, wo bave h to bein sympathy With tho republican party, and mou, rT ‘no circumstances, accep! a nomination upon » platform that did not embody its distinctive principies, If this is the case, nothing bat his posiive refusal to accept the Presidency can prevent his nomination in 1863, His wiatus sottied, there is no man in the country upon whom tho party would so generally unite. We eve it is sottied and beyond peradrenture. {From the La Crosse | Wis.) Republican (radical), Oct. 10.] The total and direct resuit of these elections is the reduction of the numbers of candidates in both par- ties for the Presidoucy. is this tho caso im regard to bio, where’ the constita- tional amendment was defeated by over five thousand majority, Chiof Justice Chase and Ben Wado have unques ionably forfeited claims upon the re- publican nomination; and Pendieton has, duri campaign, by his vigorous work, overstadowed many of the lesser politicians in tao democratic party. If New York makes a doubifu! record in November, Pendleton will have a rival in Horatio Seymour; bat if the repub- leans carry Now York, Pendleton will be the democratic candidate. The bond or national finance controversy bas extinguished Butier’s claims for the republican nom- ination, and cut down his influence as an euemy to Genoral Grant. In the light of present political aflairs it though tho Presidential contest will be narrowod down to a choice between General Graut and George H. Pendleton, the lool California Ja jal Elections. On Wednesday, October 15, California will hold an election for the choice of a Judge of the Supreme Court, to hold office for ton years, @ partial set of district judges for four years, county judges in ali the counties for four yoars, justices of the peace for two yoars and a Suporin- fendent of Public instruction, so sorve for four years. The offices of Supreme Judge and Superintendent of Public Instraction are important ones, and the result of the election will bo awaited with great interest. The candidates for Supreme Judge are Sine Curry, republi- can, and Hoyal I. Sprague, democrat, and the candidates for Superintendent of Public Iostruction are John Seett, republican, and 0. P. Fitageraid, democrat, The repud- = candidates are the present incumbents of the offices. A Wixpuirt, Jcevor—Y is eaid that Husband, the ted t 0 r of patent tedicin: It ts thought that the windmt!l bosiness re camo: favor of owt commaydiny raph, Oct. tw jod hin jcularly to ths coral wacon (@2,) Tele. a@ToNn. Oct, 18, 1867, 11 o'clock F. M. } Probable Appointment of General Uawline as Secretary of War. At the last meeting of the Cabinet the question @®f ap- Pointing * permanens Secretary of War was unde.* dis- cussion, aud since then the subject has had the ser: Vues Consideration of the President. Notwithstanaing ¢.\e numerous guesses and conjectures as to who would re-* ceive upon his shoulders the mantle of the illustrious Stantom, none have bit upon the individual who will mont probably obiaim it, which is Major Geupral Joha A. Rawlins, Chief of Staf to General Grant. 1 have good authority for saying that General Rawitns bes been the subject of several grave deliberations at the White House withia the past two or three days, amit his appointment as Secretary of War seems to meet with less opposition than that of any man who has yet baen mentioned. It is said thet General Grant is urgs General Rawlins for the position, and it is be: Neved that although Grant would be reluctant to vacate bis position as Acting secretary of War, and to surrender it to one who would undo all that be has ac- complished, he would willingly retire and leave it in the hands of his well tried Chief of Staff, who bas, since an early period of the war, been bis counsellor and assist- ant, Goneral Rawlins isa native of Illinois, and was. one of the Douglas electors, He is now on a tour tothe Pacific coast, but is expected to return to this city ine fow days. It has been stated that General McCiernaad has been under consideration for the offio> of Secretary of War, This must have been a mistake, I am ine formed from a reliable source that General McClernand has not even been mentioned by the President in con- nection with the War Department. The Metropolitan Rev Ww. ie Board to be General W, 8. Hillyer, York, bad an inver- vit ith the President on Saturday evening, and to-day he had another long interview with the President and- Secretary McCulloch. At the audience he had with the President on Saturday General Hillyer laid before Mr, Johnson a statemont of the operations of the internal revenue business in Now York, and in consequence of this information the President appoloted another interview for to-day, at which he invited Seo- retary aicCulloch to be present. The consultation was quite protracted, and the result is that the Metropolitan Board of Internal Revenue will be immediately abol- ished. Of this there is no manner of doubt, as the matter bas been fully decided. The collection of the revenue and the detection of frauds will be left to the officers designated by law for those duties, who will be held to a strict accountability. The President is deter- mined that the patronage of the Treasury Department shall no longer be used to aid the opponents of the ad~ ministration. General William 8, Hillyer and General John D, Mac Gregor will leave here to-morrow for New York, Further Retrencha: me Goneral Grant seems to have determined that the off- cials and employés of the War Department shall have cause to remember his brief but active reign as head of the department, One decree of retrenchment follows another in such rapid succession that the usual office gossip iact- dent to change is not permitted to subside. It is said thas two orders will soon go into effect discharging clerks from the Quartermaster Genoral’s and Pay Departments, and a few days since the Secretary of War ad interim bethought him of another leak through which he found the public funds wasting too speedily away, Too much advertising was done by officers of the War De- partment. £o to stop this leak the General issued another order, instructing officers and heads of bureaus to limit advertisements to not more than six ine sortions in each daily newspaper to which they may be sent, the insertions to be given on consecutive days, but the date of sales or of opening pro. poeals to be as many days after the last insers tion as may be necessary, Publications for any other pur- pose than for advertising sales or proposals will be lim- ited to one insertion. At the principal offices and depots where advertisements inviting proposals are frequently isgued, it is not necessary, the order says, to publish ia detail each time the usual conditions imposed upon bid- ders and contractors. A reference to former advertise- ments of the same conditions, or a notice that they will - be furnished on application, will be sufficient, All com- munications fa reference to advertising, h < dressed to tho Assistant Secretary of War, are directed to be addressed hereafter to the Secretary of War. ‘The Southern Cotton Claims. The judgments of the United States Court of Claims in the Southern cotton cases, awarded by the Court in Jane last to loyal Southern claimants, amounting to $100,000 (not $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 as heretefore reported), have been adjudicated aud payment made upon the face of the judgments, after a reduction of two and a haif per cent by the Secretary of the Trea- sury. Those are the first judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of loyal Southern claimants for cotton captured by the United States forces the pro- ceeds of which wore turned over to the Treasurer, Twenty-aoven cases were tried and submitted to tho Court at its session last winter, only fourteen of which were decided in favor of the claimants, the de- cision in the remaining cases boing reserved The suc- cessful claimants aro residents of Charleston, Mobile and Atlaata, The Court required of these parties the most stringent proof that they never voluntarliy did any act in furthorance of the rebellion; one such act would have dostroyed their claims apom the govera- meat. ia the War Depart. The Harper's Ferry P: At a former session of Congress ‘was authorized to sell the grounds and property of the government at Harper's Ferry, and arrangements were afterwards made by the department to bring thom into market. But there appears to be a stay of tho proceed~ ings, the heirs of those who sold the property to the government now claiming that the deed expressly pro- vides that the land conveyed to the United States should bo used only by the governmont and by no other parties, The amount purchased was about one hundred and twenty-one acres, for $7,000. The deed was exo- cuted by Goorge Washington, who acted on behalf of the government Tho Treatment of U. Rel Hon. John P, C. Shanks, chairman of, and J, D. Lar- rabeo, Clerk, to the Committeo on the Treatment of Prisoners of War and Union Citizens During tho Re bellion, left Washington to-night for Boston, where the Committee will hold its session, for the purpose of taking testimony in the New England States, Departure of General Schofield for Richmond. General Schofield loft here last night tor Richmond, Va, Itis stated ia Richmond that General Schofield was summonod here to hold a conference with the Presi- dent and General Grant on the political condition of affairs in Virginia Hi m Prisoners by the Exhausted. Intelligonce from Richmond, Va., to-night states that Major General Duncan is there looking up facts to be used in the sult of the govorumeut against Frazer, Trenholm & Co, He has been reierred to a number of persons who are supposed to be in possession of in- formation that may be useful; and also tbat no rogister- ing officer in the State will reecive bis salary until « further appropriation for this purpose is made, Only Six thousand dollars romains 1 the hands of disbursing officers for this purpose, The Split in the Republican Party in Virginin, I learn from Richmond, Va., to-day, that the split ia the ropubiican party will result in two tickots for the Constitutional Conventioa, The one proposed by the radicals is so objectionable that an independoat ticket will be nominated, It is more than probable that a domocratic ticket will also be nomiaawd, Result of the McCracken Correspondence, Lt will be recollected that Mr, Perry, our Consul at Tunis, was among the government officers abroad whom Mr. McCracken, in a letter to the Secretary of Biato, accused of hostility to the adminietrae tion and of anti-American practices. When Ma McCracken’s lettor reached Mr Perry the latter tondored bis rosignation, which was promptly accepted, as in the caso of Mr. Motley, Mr, Perry subsequently sought to withdraw his resigna~ tion, bat without success, as the President had appointed Mr. HW. Heap to OH the vacancy. Mr. Perry is on bis way home, Mr, Heap has not yet started for his post of duty, RetaasnD.—Colonel Samuel and N, A. Stewart, aftor 81x weeds and three days’ confinement under guard in ‘the burracks at Rome, were released last Saturday by ord sr of General Pope, they giving bonds of $5,000 eash '@the Governor to answer to any charges that may hereafter be broucht against thom by the militery of civil authorities of the United Ktatos or of tbh stale of Goorwia, Macon (Fa. ) Telegvaph, Oot, 10,