The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1867, Page 6

Ni&W YORK HERALD. | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. All Lusiness or news leiters and telegraphic despaiches must be addressed New York Herao. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. . Ne. 295 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. | M1BLO'S GARDEN, Broad Brack Crooe OLYMPIC THEATRE, 5: n—Rie Vax Woseeee. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and lia street. | Tas Rasy Day—loarr ayn Furry. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Desonan. THEATRE, Fourtecnth stree(.—Rowance or, sa Mas. - FRENC 4 Poor ¥ ee GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Der Moxy in pew Kourmmssoncassa, &c, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Kir Van Wintr— | Gonwaxrn or Moscow BANYARD'S OPERA HOL way and Thirtieth atreet.— AND MUSEUM, Broad. | ‘Averron, NEW YORK CIRCUS, F Kqursruianism, £c. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 2aad 4 West 244 Cunparstia—Fra Diavoro. rteonth street. —Gruxavriis, | THRATRE COMIQUE, 51¢ Broadway.—Warre, Corton @Seaurcar's MinsteEis. | BAN FRANCISCO MI ram Bereetaimuxnts, 3i RELS, 58 Broadway.—Krmo- 10, DANCING an” BUGi urges, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS 20 Broad way.—Sonue, Wanoes, Eccurraicirixs, KURLESQUES, 40. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Hi ‘Vooaumm, Negro MinsTemisy, & DL Bowery.—Conic BUTLER’S AMERICAN BATRE, 678 Broadway.— | Bacar, Fanca, Paxtow BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth stree.—Tns DODWORTH'S HALL.—Anvesxtuges or Mas. Brows. CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, 82 Fifth avenue. —Crasst. Cat Somes. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—-Tax Graxp Dvqaass. BROOKLYN ATHEN#UM.—A Tour is Inetann. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Eraiorian MinsTeetsy, BALLADS axD BuRLESQUES. eeoonnte OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.—Tas Parsom Srv. FINE ART GALLERIES, 645 Broadway,—Exaisition oF Paurtines. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bowrce ann Ant. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Opera—It. Trovatore. Fourteenth stree!.—Italian TRIPLE SHEET. day, October 22, 1867. THA. NEWS. EUROPE. Our special tolegrams through the Atiautic cable from Rome, Fiorence, Paris, Touton and London, with the general pews report, dated to midnight yesterday, October 21, embrace matters of the vory highest im- portanos. Napoloon, through his minister in Rome, assures the Pope of the protection of France. Under pressure of a French ultimatum King Victor Emanuel pledged him- | self to observe the September conve! This action | of the King of Italy caused the ( ldians to retire | (rom the Papal territory aod induce abinet crisis in neral Cial- | lutionary | Viorence; xignor Ratazzi resign ng | dint aasumed tho premiership wit Italian Cabinet, Florence was deop Signor | Rateasi pleaded in defence of the King to the people, | while Garibaldi inflamed them by the iesue of a revola- tionary manifesto, Napoleon has ordered the debarka- | tion of the force just sailing from Touton for tue Roman | coast, and 4 Transalpine army, which had beoa fornied tu France, is dissolved. Tne aspect was much improved, | and it was hoped that war beiween France and laly had | been averted. ‘The Russian-American cession treaty ha been ratified fa &. Petersburg. treiand is again disturbed by the | Fenians. The North German Parliament is making as [ useful legisiative progress. Consols closed ai 937; for movey ia London, with a firm market. Five-twentics were at 69 1-16 in London, In Frankfort United Statez five-twouties were advancing, ‘with a buoyant market in the afternoon. The Paris Bourse was firmer and rentes wore ad ing under the fofiuence of the news from Italy. The Liverpool cotton market closed firm, with mid- Gling uplands at 85pd. Breadstufs quiet. Provisions | umebanged. By the steamehip City of London, at this port, we have mail reports in detail of our cable despatches to the LOth of October. THE CITY. A dangerous conspiracy to break out of jail was dis- covered among the inmates of the Tombs yerterday. One of their number, bowever, betrayed them, and the prigcipal parties to the design were searc ied, aud veve- fal @angerons weapoas and implements were found ‘upon their persons, Conspirators outside the prison ‘were to have co-operated with thew. ‘The clergy of Trinity chapel assemiied in (hat edifice yesterday to welcome Bishop Potter on his return from Kagland, The reverend contleman gave sa ‘interesting ‘nocount of the proceedings of the Pan-Augiican Synod The Repubdlican G-neral Committee are said to have niveady received $2,120 from various companies of the paid Fire Department for eloctioncering purposes. ‘Toree moe of the department have refused to comply with the demand on their slim salaries. ‘Thomas Mullane, # desperate chervoter in Willian Darg, who has been convicted twice and had just served outa term of five daye imprisonment jas! Friday, fin- ished his career yesterday by cntti from car to ear and then cat tion whatever liwed together very harmoniously since bie retura from | imprisonment, and at the moment of committing the | deed he was quictly engaged svaving timeelf. On the approach of a policeman after the deed he attempted to escape, but finding it useloss he killed himself, A woman named Roso Hogan was found dead at No. | 82 Mulberry street, last night, under circammstances which Tend to the bellof that she died from beatings inflicted by ber husband, John Hogan, who was arrosted and locked | ‘up to await the coroner's inquest, The elegant sidewhee! steamship North America, Cap- tain Timmerman, for St, Thomas and Rio Janerio, via Para, Peroambuco and Pabia, will sail to-morrow (Wednesday) at three P, M., from pier 43 Nortn river, tho agonts of the line, Messrs, Garrison & Alien, having detained her over to-day so that merchants can answer their lovers which o last evening by the Bouth America, The mails for the Brazilian close at the Post Office 0 o'clock to-morrow. ‘The stock market was strong yesterday, Government securities wore dull. closed at 143%, a 14375. AS ® gonoral thing, [the markets ruled quiet yester- dey, and prices of many commoditios wore materially ehanged. Coffee was dull and heavy, Cotion was in good demand, Jee. higher. Linseed oil wae dull, ‘and 90, per galion lower. On ‘Change, flour wan irregu- Jar, and in most cases 25¢. # S00. per bbI. lower. Wheat was also irregular, opening frm but dower, Corn closed firm at an advance of } ’ while oats were steady at a reduction of lo, a 1)ge, Pork was more active but at lower prices, while beet was steady, and lard dull and beary. Freights were firmer, Naval stores were moderately active, and | petroleum steady but quiet, MISCELLANEOUS. Our Rio Janeiro correspondence is dated Sepiom ver 2, The alives still occupied Teoubays, A now Cabinet had been formed in the Argentine Republic, Catod-a modification of the policy of the war end opposi- tion to the triplo alliance, This was considered of im- portance in connection with any movements on the P.atte, Reinforcements were loudly called for, and the army seemed to have no intention of attacking Mumaita a | the Presidential succession. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. twas bombarding the fortress , in Uruguay, was preparing, so of insurgents, (o overthrow Flores ‘ance, The Brazilian General Assembly 29d vitimo, with an address from the Em- ver Amazon was formally opened im Para . A diamond bed bad been discovered at es, and many men were at work, { ar Buenos Ayres correspondence is dated | 44. Cordova had experienced another revolution, but it was promptly quelled afters short fight, The Minister of Foreign Relations for the ine Republic had re- signed on account, it was rumored, of the impossibility of defeating the Paraguayans, General Asboth, the | United States Minister, was still very low, The Presi- dential election takes place in January, aud the most in- without daily, | with a heavy f } and resiet the | guential paper in the country has nominated Don Do- | mingo Sarmiento, the present Minister at Washington, | for the position, The election om the question of a convention com- mences in Virginia to-day and continues through two days, The changes for both parties are considered about equal, Active canvassing is going on om both sides. EM- clent measures bave been taken by the military author!- ties to prevent any disturbance, While Hunvicutt was speaking im Capitol square at Richmond tast evening be denounesd Northorn men wlio favored conservative politics and was called a ‘‘liar’’ by a Northefm man iD the crowd, The nogroes immediately made for the indi. ‘vidual, but mistook another person for him, and were about exeouting summary vengeance whou the police interfered, Numorous ward meetings in favor of the Grant move- ment were held in Philadelphia last night. At one of them Judge Kelioy made » apeech fully endorsing the proposed nomination,and asserting that Grant politioally was io full accord with Congress, Goneral Mower, commanding in Loulsiana, hes issued his ordor declaring the result of the late election to bave been in favor of the convention by 70,992 votea, The order also designates the 234 of Novomber as the time and the Mechanica’ Institute Hall aa the place for the assoinbling of the delegates. This hail is the one where the riots of July, 1866, originated. The law requiring the wearing of a diatinguishing uni- | form by all employés on the railroads of the State of New York coos into effect to-day, There will be a gene. ral compliance therewith, Tho Cinciunati Enquirer nominates George HL Pen- dieton ag the choice of Ohio democrats tor the Presi- devey in 1868, In its remarks endorsing his claims to the nomination the editorial closes with the asvertion that the democracy will sweep the country with Pon- dicton in 1868 as it did with Piorce in 1852, when Gene- ral Scott, the conqueror of Mexico, headed the oppo ith ‘e During the last two days the number of yellow fever interments in New Orleans was only sixty-six. The warm weather has prevented a very rapid decrease of the epidemic. Ashipload of emigrants from Europe was refused permission to land owing to the epidemic, and the passengers wore sent North in another vessel. ‘There were only six imterments in Moblie during the Inst two days, ‘The Indians who murdered the Ahorn and Allen party in Idaho some time ago were recently surrendered to the whites by their tribe, and two of them were exe- cated, The remainder were placed under guard. ‘The schooner Winona was capsized at sea October 12, and fourteen lives were lost, An affray took place at Little Lake, Cai, on election day, in which six persons were killed and (our wounded, It was occasioned by an old family feud. On the Rw n—Important Manifesto of Mr. Chase. The crisis approaches which is to determine Indeed, it may be said that the issue has already bean reduced to the crossing of the Rubicon. The standard of General Grant has been advanced to the bank of the river, while from the opposite sido comes the warning voice from Mr. Chase, like that of the Roman Senate to Cresar, that our great soldicr must advance no further—that it will be war if he shall presume to enter tho sacred district and to defy the governing politi- cians of the capital. This manifesto from Mr. Chase, for the information of all concerned, we publish this morning. It is a direct challenge, which brings home to the friends of General Grant the momentous question, Shall we bear | him across the forbidden stream and “fight it out on this line?” In this manifesto it will be seen that Mr. Chase pleads not guilty to the verdict of the late Ohio election. It was not his work. O, no! He is not touched and does not intend to be influenced by it. He in- tends to try his cause in the Republi- can National Convention. He has confidence | in the powerful inside machinery which he has been for seven long years contriving and get- ting into working order. He believes negro suffrage necessary. in the South, but for the present, at least, he would ignore it in the North, We know, however, what all this means—that Mr. Chase is, in fact, the cham- pion of universal negro suffrage and of the universal paper money monopoly of his national banks. We know, too, that the man- aging radicals of the republican onmp are de- termined and obstinate in the prosecution of { their designs ; that they are devoted to Chase and are afraid of Grant; that they are anscru- pulous as to the means employed to gain their ends, and that they have control of the machinery: It is, therefore, quite likely that they may secure the control of the republi- can nominating convention. We are inclined to believe, in the next place, that should Chase be thus nominated Grant will decline to ran—that he will only consent to run as ® harmonizing candidate, or as the spontaneous and undisputed nomina- tion of the republican party. Assuming, from these views, that Cnase will become the republican candidate, what course will the managers of the democratic party pursue? The claims of the army being set aside by the republicans, the democracy will unques- tionably, we think, bring out also @ civilian, and their best representative man—the man best calculated to stand as the embodi- ment of democratic principlez, dogmas and measures against the universal negro suffrage | and national bank paper money monopoly programme of Mr. Chase. Horatio Seymour would be most apt to be chosen on this ground; and between Chase and Seymour the contest would bo sharply contested, if not exceedingly doubtful down to the election, and worse than profitless in its consequences, There is, however, one little difficulty jn the way of Mr. Chase, which he may not be able to overcome with all his cunning arrange- ments. He may get the convention; but the convention may slip through bis fingers. We know, for instance, that Martin Van Buren held the majority in the democratic conven- tion of 1844, but falled to get the nomination. We know that Henry Clay was the favorite of the whig convention of 1848, but that the con- vention yielded, although with many groans and tears, (o the outside pressare in favor of Old Zack Taylor. From similar causes and necessities Mr. Chase may find bis convention “slaughter house” in 1868. This result, how- ever, will not be gained unless the masses of the people, Union soldiers and civilians, who believe in General Grant as the man of all | men to complete the work of Southern recon- | struction and restoration, proceed in season to head off and bring to a sarreader the minig- ing radical Chaso politicians, How is thiyto be doae? How ix CG -aeral Grant to be made the master of a convention Mf it be packed for Mr. Chase? Just as Jack- on, Harrison and Taylor were made the mas- ters of the political rings and conventions organized against them, which was by indepen- dent popular meotings all over the country in their favor. After our New York November election the field will be open for these popu- lar movements ; and we are convinced that the rank and file of the great Union cause of the war, whose favorite against all comers is Gen- eral Grant, have only to get up their city, town and crosé-road meetings, from Maine to California, in order to show a front which will bring the Republican National Convention to an unconditional surrender. Aud we want to gee this done because we believe that in Gen- eral Grant's election the country and all its great interests will be perfectly safe against all extremists, radicals or copperheads ; while there are many reasons to fear that a contest between Chase an] Seymour, or anything in that shape, whatever the result, would only make the existing confusion worse confounded for at least four years, and perhaps for twenty. Settled for the Present. Important special cable despatches whieh we print in this day’s Heratp show that the Roman question has assumed a new and poaceful char- acter. Napoleon has been imperious, and Victor Emanuel and his ministers have yielded. The French Emperor, through his Ambassador in Rome, assured the Pope that France will not, under any circumstances, “ fail” the Holy Se, and will protect the Papal governmect. King Victor Emanuel has positively pledged himself to a faithful enforcement of the Sep- tember Convention, and in consequence of this “anlooked for” attitude of the King of Italy the Garibaldian invading force has evacu- ated the Pontifical territory, and, if our despatches faithfully represent the situation, the insurrection has died out. Some ebips and troops had meaawhile left Toulon, but their mission has been otherwise accomplished. A telegram received at a late hour informs us that no more troops will leave Toulon, and that all war preparations are countermanded. Ratazzi, wo are also told, has given place as chief of the Italian ministry to Cialdini. It would be absurd, however, to imagine that this Roman difficulty is over. Italy has @ right to Rome, Italy needs Rome, Italy demands Rome, and if for the @resent the demands of Italy cease, it is only because she is too weak to make her demands good. Napoleon has won the honor which attaches to the name of bully, but he has not by this last move extended or mnt his influence among the nations. It is still possible for him, however, to come well out of the difficulty, If by means of a European congress or otherwise he places this question on another and more righteous basis—a basis on which an early and 4 final settlement will be possible—he may show that, while con- serving peace and certain existing interests, he has not been uniriendly to the cause of liberty and justice. But if he does not initiate some measures which shall tend: to the improvement of this September Convention, the worst charges preferred against him at the commencement of his reign will be justified by this last outrage on popular right. Tho Obstructions at Hell Giate=The Daty of Congress, Yesterday morning, in calm and compara- tively clear weather, a dozen vessels out of a large fleet passing through the Hell Gate chan- nel ran upon the rocks and suffered more or less detention and injury before they could be released by the aid of tugs or were floated off at high water. None of them were totally wreoked and only two seriously damaged, but the fact that they were subjected to such risk and danger anywhere within the harbor of New York is sufficient to attract general atten- tion to the parsimony or folly of a government that will suffer an important channel in her principal port to remain in so unsafe a condi- tion. The account of the ocourrence is pub- lished elsewhere, The work of removing the obstructions at Hell Gate and widening and straightening the channel is one of national importance, and has frequently been urged upon the attention of Congress. It is for the benefit of commerco in general, in which the whole country ts con- cerned, and not for the ralp of New York alone. Its cost would be trifling, compered with the oafety, the saving of time and the many other gteatadvantages which the whole shipping and commercial interests would derive from it; and no representative with broad statesman- like views could consistently offer any oppo- sition to an appropriation for # much larger sum than would be required for the work, when its importance and national char- acter are borne in mind. It is a disgrace to a young, vigorous and wealthy country to hesitate for a moment in improving to the greatest possible extent and at any outlay its largest and most important harbor ; and yet these obstructions to a valuable chan- nel have been suffered to remain for years unmoved, or have been tinkered with in a manner that renders the work that has been done of scarcely any value. It is to be hoped that Congress will take the matter in hand at an early day, and will make such an appro- priation to carry through the improvement that we shall no longer hear of a dozen vessels at one time running on to the rocks, at the immi- nent risk of life and property, at the very gates of the Empire City of the United States. Jay Cooke’s Last Pronunciamiento, Jay Cooke fulminates a flashy pronuncia- miento to prove that the national banks ought to be kept up at whatever cost. It isa new case of the tanner’s argument that there is nothing like leather. Jay Cooke’s best mani- festo was his first, in which he proved, to bis own satisfaction, that a national debt is a national blessing. It is sald that that great piece of financial glitter was written by Sam Wilkeson. If Sam was the anthor Jay Cooke ought to make him « present of a hundred thousand dollars, But we do not believe the story. Wilkeson is not consecutive enough for the job—too crack-brained to write on finance—a statement that hg is invited to deny with Mlustration. There is only one subject on which Sam Wilkeson can see clearly and write finely, and that is Thurlow Weed. Tat Park Bask Nursaxcu.—Why has not the } District Attorney brought this case up in some | shape? Our friead Oakey Hall must remember that ha is pow nominated and a eanditite vi -oleotion, hefove the tor The Three County Tickets. The political organizations in New York have made their several nominations for the valu- able county offices to be filled on the Sth of November, and three tickets are in the field, representing the republicans, the regular democracy and the irregular democracy. In this triangular contest the republicans have shown a more patriotic spirit than either of thelr antagonists, and bave made choice of very fair candidates throughout. Their ju- diciary ticket, headed by Francis J, Fithian for Judge of the Supreme Court, is well selected, and they have put forward for the principal county offices—Sheriff, Clerk and District Attor- ney—three soldiers who fought and bled in the field; while on both the opposing tickets the men of the Union army bave been totally ig- nored. That the claims of those who risked their lives in such @ crisis as the late war should be repudiated or neglected in this metropolis ie a disgrace to a» city that had a larger stake than any other in the preservation of the government; and yet- it is well known that the; republican candidates stand no-chance of auc- cess, their strength being only about one-fourth of the full vote of the city, and the unfortunate position of thelr party, as the advocates of nogro supremacy and the supporters of the present arbitrary Excise and Sunday laws, ren- dering it impossible for them to secure any support outside of their own immediate po- litical circle. The contest lies, therefore, between the regu- lar democracy, headed by James O’Brien, and the irregular, or bolting democracy, headed by Michael Connolly. One or other of these tickets will probably be elected throughout, with the exception of Connty Clerk, the Tam- many nominee for this office, Loew, being as great an obstruction on the list as his hideous iron bridge nuisance is on Broadway, and standing very little chance of success any way. Amixed dish of nominees, it is true, has been cooked up by tho deserving inde- pendent organization known as the Union democracy; but as the members of that body seem unable to harmonize among themselves, even in relation to the claims of Michael Con- nolly, who has been in former battles one of their most valuable allies, it is not likely that they will attempt to show any distinctive strength in the November struggle. The fight, being thus narrowed down between two tickets, will present some curious and interesting features, prominent among which will be the issue raised by the recent revela- tions regarding the building up of a large moneyed interest centralizing in three or four radical national banks, and designed fo control the political affairs of the city of New York. The late correspondence between Peter Cooper, on behalf of the Citiz2ns’ Association, and Cham- berlain Peter B. Sweeny, has disclosed the fact that a sum amounting to nearly two bun- dred thousand dollars is annually placed by the Tammany ring in the hands of two or three banks, the principal one being the New York Broadway Bank, whose president is one of the largest subscribers to tho new radical organ about to make its appearance in this city. This sum is supposed to form a sort of sivking fund for the use of the inside Tammany ring, and to be set apart by them as a means of perpetuating their own political power. The people are determined to rebuke this outrageous attempt to control the politics of the city through an improper use of the public money and with the aid of a ring of radical banking institutions, The bolting democrats, with Mike Connolly as their big chief, are known to be the mortal enemies of Hoffman, who is the head and front of the political sinking fund clique; and this fact gives them nearly all the strength they have. If the Tammany nominees, led by the energetic, young, regular democrat, James O’Brien, desire to win, they also must disown all connection with this Hoffman and Sweeny radical bank sinking fund conspiracy, and let it be known that they are prepared to oppose its concoctors in the charter election next month. If they do this their success is certain. With the excep- tion of the clumsy and unavailable County Clerk their ticket is a very good one, from O'Brien down, and we shall be glad to support it and to see it elected, provided that the nomi- nees will avow themselves in favor of a re- spectable and straightforward citizen for the next Mayor of New York, such as Joba Kelly, or John Anderson, or any other John except John Hoffman, not even excepting John Mor- rissey, who has this advantage over Hoffman— that you know where to find him, can rely upon his word, and are certain that his bank is not used as @ political sinking fund depository for the benefit of radical organs and wornont ; Tammany rings. Mra. Lincoln and the Partisan Press. The partisan press is exhibiting such con- temptible meanness and baseness in the case of Mrs. Lincoln that evory right-thinking person must feel disgusted. She is abused for doing what any other person might do without a word of comment—for selling dresses and jew- elry that she no longer needs, to relieve her necessities, Her taste Is severely criticised and her supposed foibles are condemned as crimes. Her assailants go back and rake up every little mistake or error they can find against her and magnify it into a grave offence. What if Mrs. Lincoln did not dress with as much taste as the Empress Eug¢nie? What if she was not as courtly as the unfortunate queen of Louis the Sixteenth? What if she was not as highly educated or as elegant as some of her predecessors in the White House? She is still a very respectable woman, is kind-hearted and was too ready to serve the fawning, hypocritl- cal politicians who now abuse her. She was # good wile and mother and performed her ardu- ous duties creditably. She was suddenly trans ferred from ® comparstively humble position, though @ very respectable one, in the West to the glitter and fashion of Washington—to be, as the wife of the President, the first lady of the land. It was» new life ontirely ; she had not been educated for the society and scenes into which she was suddenly thrown, Mr. Lin- coln himself was a plain, unpolished man, in the worldly and fashionable sense of being polished ; yet who now makes that « serious charge against him? Ist » mattor of surprise, then, if Mrs. Lincoln did not always show as much taste in dress or otherwise as those whose situation in life had been more favor- able? Bat thero aro trifling matters, and none but the basest and meanest of people would now speak of them for the purpose of annoy- ing or injuring this Indy. Nono but the lowest men or women or the voriest scavengers of the | peers would acaail thig helpless woman, the | widow of their murdered and venerated Chief Magistrate. The conduct of the partisan press with regard to her is infamous as well as dis- graceful to the country. We hope these scay- enger scribblers may have shame enough left to let Mrs. Lincoln alone hereafter, and allow her to sell or buy what she may please with- out their impertinent interference. The Great Cosmepelitan City, New York. To culminate in full glory everything seeks the Western World. Whatever there is of value in different nations finds its sturdiest growth when engrafted upon our republican tree. England rushes to our shores to find vent for her surplus capital, and Englishmen, with a contented growl, give us backbone. French- men find here » Western Paris, and outside of their capital New York is the only place where they are happy. Germany makes an exodus toward the setting sun and finds here the true German Paradise—the land of song and lager beer. Italy and the Mediterranean shores flock to the great cosmopolitan carnival, and with organs and ‘images’ lend variety to the motley grouping of races, Old Turkey, gobbling along with the hope of catching-a Western in- spirati8n, sends us @ minister who suddenly discovers a wonderful similarity in our Institu- tions to those of the old empire of Constantine. Even the Jews here find a resting-place. So much noise has been made by Europe over the discovery of the glories and advantages which our cosmopolitan nature presents that the echoes have even reached and awakened Asia, which, rousing from its lethargy, rushes east ward to see what isthe matter, and, in com- mon with the whole world, discovers that it is humanity working to create a people which shall unite all the advantages which every other people possess, while they shake off all the superstitions, traditions and ruin- ous retrograde ideas which hamper other nations. Naturally there is a race between two or three of the great foci of population in North America to see which shall be the centre of the great cosmopolitan system. Boston, Phila- delphia and other cities claim the glory ; but they all sink into insignificance before New York. Boston may be the “Hub of the Universe;” this we are porfectly willing to grant, for Yan- kee energy has even stolen geographical honors where nature did ‘not concede them; but what shall we do for an axle to this great universe unless we find it in Now York? Therefore, we hereby docrae that Boston, as the hub, revolve around us. In New York we are holding « grand world’s congress. We are exchanging ideas and comparing notes, rubbing intellocts to- gether and brushing off the rough corners which stick out all over the surface of every nationality that, like an armadillo, rolls itself in its shell. No feature of Old World life exists which has not its counterpart here. In other nations the stranger talks of the pleasures of home and longs to return to them. Here he has no desire to re-embark, for he finds himself at home upon his arrival. This is tho great secret “of our growth and prosperity. In New York also the skilled labor of Europe finds its widest field, and, in comparing progressive ideas, works out wonderful problems in science. So great are the advantages gained in this direction that Europe now seeks for talent which has been polished in our cosmopo- litan school. What we understand here by American is the world’s brain working in a single direction to accomplish the highest civ- ilization. In saying this we are only present- ing the truths which are forced into notice by the tribute which Europe is con- stantly paying to us as ® cosmopolitan people. In New York alone we have ail the evidence that is required in the single item of amuse- ments. Italy, France and Germany vie in their efforts to present to us the drama as they un- derstand it. All the accessories of scenic effect are brought to bear with the highest artistic effect. The best artists compete with each other to prove the excellency of one nation- ality over another. What Europe fails to make a success finds favor here—as witness the Italian opera. London, Paris and Saint Peters- burg bolster it up by imperial aid, but here the people support it. Wealth flows in upon the great artists who come to our shores, and their weil filled purses are the best evidences that they are fally appreciated. Another proof of the intense cosmopolitan- ism existing here are the marked extremes of high and low which may be found in our the- atrical and operatic exhibitions. We touch the highest points of art when we listen to Ristori, Janauschek and Pencani. Descending in the scale we run through all gradations until we finally touch bottom in the Black Crook and Devil's Auction. From all this combination—the happy union of the elements of progress and pleasure—it is impossible to draw othor than the most marked advantages. In mechanics, the arts, sciences, the opera, the drama, we shall give birth to what we may designate as the cosmopolitan school in which none who may become emi- nent elsewhere will feel that they have gradu- ated until they have passed our New York ox- amination successfully. Speaker Colfax. Mr. Schuyler Colfax is announced as part of the programme of the canvass in this State, and may be expected at any time to harangue our citizens on their political duties, &c. Mr. Colfax is a man of ability and good sense, who, mainly by his own efforts, has raised himself to so high a position as to be Speaker of the House, and a prominent candidate for the Presi- dency, in his own conceit. He was successful asan editor out West, which, taken altogether, may not be much against him. But there is one notable part of bis past conduct that he should not neglect to explain in his promised harangue. He should particularly declare and make plain why, as Speaker, he abandoned all the control that he should have exercised over debate in the House, and euffered the national Legislature to become but little better than a bear garden. Why did be permit all restraint to fall away, and violent temper and pertisan instincts to rule ina body for the good order and decorum of which he was responsible before the country? He was the first man who ever held that high positionand seemed to have no thought of its true duties, Had he been @ man of force of character and gentle- manly instincts he would have kept the tone of the House as high ns it was kept in other days by men like Clay or Lowndes. Was it that he sympathized with the low tone that discussion easumed {in the Inst Congress that he did not interfere? or, If not that, what was the ronson? ee Let Mr. Colfax tell us all about thiswhen he comes here to harangue the people, for there is no other topic on which he can talk with ao much interest to all parties. Hon. Mrs. Yelverton, We publish elsewhere to-day an interesting letter from the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton, whose arrival at New York was duly announced by the Hgraxp. This lady, whose defence of her marital rights has aroused so much sympathy in this country, as well as in Great Britain, visita the United States mainly for the purpose of recruiting her health, which has been im- paired by her prolonged struggle against the difficulties and delays of British law. Mrs. Yelverton intends, we understand, to fulfl an engagement with an Elinburg publisher to write book about her American tour. Her experience as a traveller, and her extraordi- nary powers of observation, are sufficient guar- antees that a book from her practised pen will lish, Scotch and Irish journals were then full of eulogistic notices of her readings. Doubt less here, as well as at home, Mrs, Yelverton will prove, as a lectures, @ formidable rival te Mr. Dickens. A special attraction offered by Mr. Dickens is the promise that ho will read passages from his own novels, And although Mrs. Yelverton, with characteristic mod-sty, intimates her reluctance to adopt our sug- gestion that she should read extracts from her unique and charming love letters, yet we are convinced that her success would be all the greater should she consent to add to her selee- tions from the poets some of those fine apool- mens of epistolary composition which elicited from Lord Westbury the highest praise. The Republican Muddie im This State, “Tybalt dead and Romeo banished!’ is the frantic exclamation of one of Shakspoare’s heroines. The cry from the republicans fa this State is at this timo not unlike an eohe, “Hulburd declined and Thurlow Weed baa- ished ” is the wail coming up from all the radi- cal corners from Sandy Hook to Lake Erie. It fa a beautiful illustration of the old feud between the Montagues and Capulets, affording a fine field for some people’s Mercutio to come out and exclaim, “A plague on both your houses (”” and ran all the growling and corrupt politi- clans into a tomb more enduring than that which enclosed the form of the lovely Juliet. Let some honest, out-and-out Grant maa at once undertake this réle. Seriously, there is a degree of confusion, distrust and mutual re crimination exhibited in the operations of the radicals in this State which would be amusing were it not that in their fallings out the radi- cals disclose « mass of legislative corruption st once mortifying and startling. As things look now the radicals will find in reality plague inflicting both their houses on the second Tuesday in November next, — An American Viohy. We print in another column a letter from Gettysburg, giving an account of the romark- able mineral spring discovered at that place at the time of the great battle, by some wounded soldiers who had dragged themselves away, as they supposed, to die. The remark- able cures that this water has made of chroale diseases are, we believe, beyond doubt, aad the character of the water, the historic associations of the place end its beautiful scenery seem to promise that Gettysburg will soon become famous as a great American watering place. We would earnestly recom- mend Old Thad Stevens, of Pennsylvania, te take the benefit of these waters at once, He is such « sufferer from chronic diseases that he has been reported two or three times as dying, and they may give him a new lease of life. He lost his iron works through tae events that brought these waters to light, and it would be 8 fine piece of poetic justice if the waters thas found should give him years of life worth more than all his losses, And even if the waters do not make a complete cure, they wilt, perbaps, improve his digestion and so sweeten his temper. He should make the trial, Sheridan’s Last Campaigs. Sheridan’s last campaign has added eothing to hisglory. His tour tm company with sundry Politicians hes hed w very queer effect, and illustrates mothing so well as that thi med enough fore soldier to hold bis tongas; bud that he must also choose his company and give politics the go-by. Sheridan’s reception in Philadelphia was « great stirring up of all the radical elements; but the votes ia the late election there went all the other way. Even Massachusetts is in danger, with all the enthusiasm Little Phil brought out; and sale petre will hardly save the Empire State. Sheridan, it is true, cannot talk; but Slokies can, and he went along ; yet even his elegant and astute sentences had no better effeot (ham had the name and presence of his gallant fellow soldier. It would have been wiser, after all, for Little Phil to have gone straight ont West to the Plains, cutting the politicians, that he might cut at the Indians, Great Washing Day in Connecticut. The Connecticut people have a great washing day about this time over the linen of the two Barnums, We thought that the election of last spring had settled the question that the common sense of the people of Connecticat had decided as to which of the Barnums wae their choice for Congress; but it seems that the investigating committee has opened it all up again. They took » good deal of pains to got witnesses, and it has been proved by the evidence produced that there was a good deal of buying and selling going on,as woll as voting ; but It is shown that the friends of the, fron Barnum spent their money liberally and unthinkingly, The humbug Barnum only cheated those who voted for him. The test mony 60 far leaves the humbug Barnumina _ bad fix. To Re Counted Out. Collector Smythe was evidently “counted in” by the managers of the meeting that “ratified” at Cooper Institute on Wednesday last,as his name was used as one of the officera, of that meeting. Mr. Smythe was not thon, and intends to be “counted out,” as he codja notendorse certain of tho candidates for way. thing bat moan intrigue end treachsty, nor could he socopt as loyal or reapootfial the coso- utions adopted,