The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK I TERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatshes must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14, THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five ‘Cans per copy. Annual subscription price OME Copy... css esecececeererereeee $2 ‘Three Copies... 6 Five Copies. 8 Tea Copies. . =~ Db JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyping and Engraving, neatly and prompily executed at the lowest + Ne. 302 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth atreet.—Italian Opera—Nonma. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—So.ow Sainctz—Tares Wast Mes or New Youx—Laar ror Lies, &c. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Buack Croox, NEW YORK THTATRE, opposite New York Hotel. Fanouon, tux Caicert, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Niaut's Dasa, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th streot.— Hanay Dunnan. Broadway.-A Mipsumaxr GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery,— Dim ScuwaetzeR VON SaKagossa, &C. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Insuavocus— ‘Tuscon Mannixp. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street—Lrs Amours pe Cuxorarae—UN Carnice. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. way and Thirtieth street.—Devit's Auction, NEW YORK CIRCUS. Fourteenth street.—Grumastics, Equxstnianism, &c. FIFTH A JE THEATRE, 2and 4 West 2th street.— SurLock—Cinpereura. THEATRE COMIQUE, &Swanrcer’s Minstixcs. 4 Brosdway.—Wuirs, Corronx SAN FRANCISCO MINS1 PUAN ENTERTAINMENTS, Si $85 Rroadway.—Ermto- CING AND BURLESQUKS. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway,—Sonas, Danoxs, ECcRNTRICITINS, HURLESQUES, &O. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Cow1o ‘Vocauism, Necko Minstrensy, £0, EIGHTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, corner Thirty-fourth atreet.—Minstnetsy, Parcs, £0, HEATRE, 472 Broadway.— BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street. —Tae Pueam. eC} Matinee at 2 0'Cl DODWORTH'S HALL.—Apvayrures or Mrs. Brown. BROOKLYN ATITK tou streets. —Granp ‘M, corner of Atlantic and Clin- RT. HOOLEY'S OPERA MOUSE. voklya.—Ermioriay Minsrngisy, BALLADS AND B FINE ART GALLE‘ 845 Broadway,—Exuiaition or Pauninas. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Be AND Aut, SHEET. tis HNEWws. EUROPE. By epectal telezram through the Atlantic cable dated in Rome on the 26th of October (Saturday), we learn that the police in searching & house for “suspects” wore re- sisted, They attacked the place with bayonets, when fifteen Garidaldians were killed and thirty-six made prisoners. The police found a quantity of arms and bombs in the house. The Pope appeals to the Catholic world, through the Bishops, to offer up prayers for the Holy Seo, From Florence, under date of Saturday night, we aro told that the I alinn soldiers refused to fight against the Garibaidians, Victor Emanuel’s Ministers were be- coming more radical, aod will soon make the acquisition of Rome a cabinot question. The French expeditionary force for Rome and Italy was compleiely embarked at Toulon awaiting orders to sal American securities closed firm in London on Satur- day with five-twenties at 69%. French rentes were stronger. Five-twenties closed at 74, in Frankfort on Saturday By the steamship City of Paris, at this port yestor- terday, we bave interesting and important mail details of our cable despatcies to the 17th of October, including our special correspondence from Rome and special mail telegrams from Fiorencs, reporting the rise and pro- atess of the Italian tosurrectionary movement for the acquisition of the Evernal City to the kingdom. The historical résumé furnished by ovr correspondent in Rome proves beyood cavil that the undertaking is completely national in its charactor and was matured with fall consideration of its diMcultics, hazards and almost certain success. Garibvidi'* manifestoes to the Italians and Romans, with the indictments of Italy and the lib- ‘orators addressed by the Pope to the monarchs, will be read with interest. Mr. Chares Dickens will leave Liverpool for New York November 2. ‘The Grand Vizier of Turkey had arrived at Crete and Prociaimed an amnesty He invited four deputies from ‘each district to come to Canea to confer with him, The insurgent chicts protested against the amnesty and de- manded gn international commission of inquiry and universal suffrage. The German mai! steamship Hansa, from Southampton on the 15th of October, reached this pors soon after mid- ‘night this morning THE CITY. A Frenchman, cailing bimself Joseph Bonaparte and claiming to be a son of the ex King of Spain and justly entitled to the throne now occupied by leabella, was arrested im this city on Sunday night. Bonjamin F. Oukey was yesterday morning put upon his trial io tho United states Cirouit Court, before Judge Bonedict, on a charge of having, on the 16th day of April last, being then a Post Office clerk, ombezzied a Jettor and abstracted therefrom $450. The penalty on conviction of an olfence of this mature is State Prison for not less than ten years and not more than twonty- one. the bearing of the case w.l! be resumed this mora- ing. The case of Frank Sullivan, who is charged with the murder of E. L, Foot, first «mate of the British bark Maria, on the bigh seas, on the 271h of September last, while on the voyage from Now South Wales to York, Game up yesterday for before Commissioner Osborn, The British governm nat jomanded the extradition of the prisoner. After the examination of the British Consul aad the second mate, the further ox- amination was adjourned to this morning. The stock market was dull and barety steady yester. day. Government securities reacted from the advance of Saturday, Gold closed at 142%. ‘The amount of business consummated in commercial circles yesterday was extremely light, and the tendency of prices of aimost all commodities was down b Coffee was moderately active and steady. Cotton was dull and heavy. On 'Ohange flour was active and 100, a 250. higher, Wheat was quiet, heavy and generally 2o, a 30, tower, while corn was dul! and 2c. a Se, off, and oats frm, Pork and iard closed Armor and beef was unchanged. Naval stores wore dull. Petroleum was dosidediy lower and quiet, Freights were toss active, but steady, Tho markst for beof cattle was quiet yesterday and | noble in human aspiration. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘ the (supply was large, sbout 2,600 head being on sale. Extras realized 1640, a 170; prime, 15340. a 16c,; Orst quahty, 143¢¢, a 15o. ; ordinary to good, Ile. a 13%¢0., and inferior 9c. a 10c. Milch cows were duil and nominal at prices ranging at from $55 to $120. Veal calves were in moderate demand and steady at 120, a 12%¢, for first quality, lc. a 11%e. for prime, 100, a | 103¢e for ordinary and common aad Sc, @ 9c. for inferior, Sheep and lambs were quiet, but rather more steady. We quote extra sheep 6c., prime 5c, a Sige, and inferior to common 4c. ad\c. Extra lambs 7}¢.0, fair to good | 62sec. a 7c. and inferior to common 4c, a6c, The hog | market, thovgh active, was %4¢. @ 4c, perib. lower. 47 carloads, which comprised the offerings at the Fortieth street yards, were d sposed of at 6c. a 63¢c, for common, 6\c. a To, for fair to good and Tigc, a 7i¢0, for heavy prime corn ted, The total receipts were 7,053 beeves, 54 mulch cows, 1,295 veal calves, 25,473 shoep and lambs and 32,789 swine, MISCELLANEOUS. The late storm on the Texas coast and the Rio Grande was a most destructive one, In one night fifteen hun- dred houses in Matamoros, a large portion of Browns- ville, all the houses but two in Clarksville and the whole town of Bagdad were blown down. Twenty-six lives were lost in Matamoros, ten in Brownsville, twelve in Clarksville and all but ninety of the population in Bagdad, The negro soldiers on Brazos Island, instead of rendering assistance to the inhabitants, robbed the wrecks, One of them was shot in the act by a citizen. General Schofield bas replied to the protest of Mr, Gilmer to the effect that Colonel Rose will be court mar- tiated when Mr. Gilmer files specifications to the charges already presented. The question of the legality of the election will be referred to the Convention, it is ru- mored that the solution of General Schofield’s action in the late election is to be found in the fact that he isa candidate for United States Senator from Virginia. Several more citizens have been ordered to leave Richmond by the negro vigilance committees for speak- ing disreepectfully of Hunnicust and his party, Armed negroes have been kept on guard in front of his office by Hunnicutt, who prevent any one from passing on the sidewalk, The report of the Paymaster General for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1867, shows thatthe disburse- ments to the volunteers, the regular army and the mili- tary academy for that time were $42,758,457, The total number of claims for additional bounty received was 407,857, of which 96606 were paid and 9,372 were disallowed, leaving $302,479 on hand unsettled. For reconstruction purposes $943,852 have been disbursed by the district paymasters, leaving a balance in their hands of $510,876, The convention election in Georgia commences to-day and will continue three days. The conservatives appear to ba perfectly indifferent to the result, having no can- didate in the field; but the radicals, white and black, are hard at work, The Grant movement in Philadelphia continues with unabated vigor, an enthusiastic meeting was held last evening in the Eighth ward, at which Henry Cary and Congressman O'Neil! made speeches, A radical German paper in St. Louis concludes that since slavery is abolished there are no fongor apy iden- tical interests between the Germans and the radical party, and it proposes a general transfer to the demo- cratic party. General Sheridan arrived in Portsmouth, N. H., yes- terday morning, and after the customary ovation pro- ceeded to Portland, Me., where he is at present A decision has been made by the revenue assessor at Memphis that shippers must pay the tax on cotton in- stead of the setlers, There were twenty-six deaths from yellow fover in New Orleans and twelve in Mobile during the last two days. There has been no frost yet, and absentees are cautioned to remain away for a short time longer. Thore were eight intermenuts in Memphis on Sunday and seven yesterday. The mail which lett New York on Friday evening for the West was accidentally burned at Xenia, Ohio, on | Saturday night. War in Europe. The latest news from Europe proves that the situation of affairs in Italy hourly becomes more serious. The insurgents under Garibaldi are probably now in Rome. The Italian gov- ernment is still inactive, no further measures having been taken to check the progress of the revolutionists, Meanwhile, the French Em- peror has put his threat into execution, and the French fleet so long in readiness at Toulon has sailed, with the expeditionary forco on board, for Civita Vecchia, It is manifest that Victor Emanuel and his advisers are at their wits’ end, They know not what to do. With the Septem- ber Convention on the one hand, and the national will on the other, they stand like the philosoph :r’s ass between the two bundles of straw. Their position, we admit, is difficult, | but great statesmen are equal to great emer- gencies, and the “inactivity” in this case can scarcely be said to be “masterly.” In a few hours, however, French troops will be in collision with the Garibaldians, and it will be difficult for the Italian government longer to hesitate. The Garibaldians alone are not a match for the troops of imperial France. But will the Garibaldians be lett alone? Rather will not the Garibaldians mul- tiply until they cover the peninsula and until no sounds are heard in any part of Italy but “Garibaldi” and “Rome?’ Even now, 80 thoroughly at one are the Italian people in regard to this Roman question, that in an anti- Garibaldi movement the troops cannot be trusted. It requires but the presence of French soldiers on Italian soil to fan the spirit, already wild, into incontrollable fury, and to precipitate upon the invader the entire strength of the peninsula. In such a case Victor Emanuel and his Cabinet must advance with the popular torrent or perish Deneath it. It is a belief which is enteriained by many that Italy will not under any provocation allow herself to come into collision with France, We do not share this belief. Italy, we admil, is not in present circumstances a match for France. We do not say this because 26,000,000 are not a match for 37,000,000, but because the Italian kingdom is too young, too poor, too imperfectly consolidated, even though its population were larger, to meet on equal terms with one of the best organized and most power- ful military monarchies in the world. But the blood of the nation is up; it feels itself bin- dered from ob:aining its own, and insulted before the world; and nations in such cir- cumstances are but little in the habit of caleu- lating possibilities. Nor, in the event of war breaking out between the two Powers, would the cause of Italy be altogether desperate. Italy is not now what she has long been. Since the breaking up of the Roman em- pire almost to the present time she has been so weak as to be at the mercy of every powerful neighbor ; but this weakness was the result of disunion. Disunion is now no more. The peninsula is no longer cut up into number- less petty principalities or dominated by neighboring monarchies. For the first time during many centuries Italy is a unit and the Ttalians have a national existence. It is to complete and periect this unity, to round off into a perfect whole this national life, that they demand Rome. It is to hinder this unity, to stunt this national life, that France now invades the Roman territory. In » contest with France, Italians, whatever might be their drawbacks, would have the incalculable advantage of fighting on their own soil for the integrity of their territory, for the unity of their national life, for the realization of everything, in fact, which is most righteous and most Not a soldier | but would feel encouraged by the thought that he was backed up by the sympathy of bis entire people, and that wherever in any part of the world liberal sentiment had found a | home prayers were breathed for his success. The French might feel that they were grap- pling not with the weak arms which their fathers despised in the wars of the revolution, but with somewhat of the sinewy strength of the ancient Romans. The Italians might not be able to drive Frenchmen from their soil, but they might be able, as long at least as was necessary, to hold them at bay. The success of the Italian cause, in truth, is largely dependent on the influences which may be brought to bear upon it from without. The civilized world is watching this movement, and watching it most intently. Public opinion is already excited, and if war break out will be excited more and more. It is not for a moment to be doubted that jsympathy will go with Italy and against France. The effects will be manifold. Prussia may or may not join actively with her former ally against France, but Prussia will not fail to prosecute her designs, meanwhile, upon South Germany, and ere France is aware of it the German nation may be a unit on her northern border and the triumph of Prussia complete. Austria can do nothing, even if she were willing, and she is but little likely to make the attempt. Russia, however, will not lose this oppor- tunity. She has long been waiting for it It will have come at last, and we may rest assured she will turn it to her own advantage. Turkey will be compelled to cede Crete to Greece, and it is even doubtful whether such a sacrifice will satisfy Russian demands. The Christian provinces of Turkey are ripe for revolt. If Russia but applies the match the explosion will take place, and Turkey in Europe will be shattered to pieces. England, meanwhile, will look on anxiously, no doubt, but with calmness and dignity, sympathizing heartily with progress and liberalism wherever they manifest themselves, but refusing to un- sheathe the sword except in defence of her in- terests in the Mediterranean and the East. Egypt must not be touchel, and will not. Worse than all this, France herself may yield to the influence of universal public opinion, and Napoleon, when too late, may find that, by the war he has very unnecessarily com- menced, he has sapped the foundation of his throne and ruined the hopes of his dynasty. Rome, too, in the long run, will become the capital of Italy, whether he will or whether he will not. Address of the Radical Congressional Ex. ecutive Committee. We publish elsewhere to-day the Address of the Radical Congressional Executive Commit- tee to the people of the States thut are to vote in November. It is an intemperate document, substituting broad assertion tor argument, vio- lent in its abuse, appealing to passion in place of reason, and seeking to revive and intensify sectional strife. It abounds in all the hack- neyed blackguardism that has been heaped upon the President of the United States by radi- cal politicians for the past year and a half, alluding to him as the “perfidious Executive,” the “apostate in the Presidential chair,” and “the accidental President ;” and pretends that the committee are in receipt of intelligence of “new outrages upon the Union men of the South, white and black,” since the recent Northern reaction against radicalism, which intelligence, singularly enongh, is confined to the committee and unknown to everybody else. Under the specious cry of protection for the “Unionists” of the South it justifies the disfranchisement of the white race and the elevation of the Southern negroes, who were rebels during the war, to political suoremacy. In short, it is an unfortunate documens ‘or the party in whose interest it is writ!en, and shows that it has no better weapons than violence and slang with which to fight its battle. The address ought to be printed by the con- servatives and scattered all over the country. It is the best electioneering document they can desire. Under Schenck’s powerful eloquence on the wrong side we should not be surprised if the radical ticket were defeated by thirty thousand in the State of New York. His threats of repudiation and insurrection are all balderdash, and will frighten no sensible man. The “violent, revolutionary and desperate men” who he says are ready lo “adventure another rebellion” to fight their way into the Union, will be quiet and peaceable enough, and the North will see to it that they are re- stored to their proper position in the govern- ment without the curse of negro supremacy. The only “violent, revolutionary and desper- ate men” who are to be feared and guarded against are those who would bring about a war of races, and who are now, by their policy, inciting the semi-savage negroes of the South to take up arms against the whites and drive them out of the Southern States, Thig is the real danger that threatens the poace of the country, and to the national credit, and against this, the people of New York will record their verdict next month, as the people of California, Ohio and Pennsylvania have already done. The free circulation of Schenck’s address is all thatis needed to secure a radical defeat in this State by at least thirty thousand majority. The Fenian Campaign in Ireland Aban-s doned, We have authentic information that the Fe- nian campaign against England is entirely abandoned, and that all the forces, with ammu- nition, baggage trains, commissary stores, artil- lery trains, camp equipages, ambulances and bummers have been transferred to New York, and instead of capturing Ireland they are going to capture all the county offices at the polls next month. The first instalment of the grand army is already in the field, and the following is the muster roll of all the companies combined. We give them without distinction of rank, but may classify them in their appropriate divi- sions at some future time :— Jemmy O'Brien, Joe O'Seully, Mike O'Connolly, Mike O'Craio, Jomuy O'Hacgerty, Mike O'Cassidy, By O'Con Aleck O' Muthigaa, Bity O' Walsh, ‘O’Murphy, Johnny O'Brice, Burns, Pat MeAleer, Owen (’Keensa, Bart O'Purdy, Pat O'Keenan, Mike O'Halpia, Joe O'marp ¥, Corny O'Fiyon, Dat Reilly, Jobnay O' Widey, Fooy | Folaa, Tommy ©’ Ledwith, Pat O'Donough, Jobony 0 Brady, Billy MeCartay, Tommy ©’ Murpay, ¥. 0 3 Mike O'Norton, Jor O' Donovaa, Jemmy O'Bagioy, Pat O'Hayos, Mike ('Tuomey, Tommy ©’ Brogan, Dan O'Briea, Terry O' Reiuy, Ki ae Mike O'Fay, en, Terence O' Farley, Jemmy MoCarthy. Reconstruction—The Coming Terrible Revo- lution in the North and West. There is no longer a necessity for theories in giving an analysis of the political condition of the country. We now have the clear mathe- matical facts to prove that the one great card of the social destructionists is the negro. It matters not how fearful a condition of affairs may be inaugurated by the radicals; they have but one aim, and that the preservation of their power at any cost. They ery, “Up with the negro!” “Down with the white man!” “Long live barbarism!” “Death to civilization!” They open a war of caste—the bloodiest, most dreaded and most unrelenting of all wars. Already the whites at the South are forced to opposition against the negro in the contest that stares them in the face. Now their last hope is that the intelligent conservative ele- ment of the North will come to their rescue. How much this is needed let the figures show. The late election returns, showing the immense negro element in power, are as follows :— Conserv’, Tolal. 80 4 100 43 37 105 66 2 98 170 43 30s The returns from the last two States are not yet quite exact, but the above table is very approximate. It will be seen by this that the black power is becoming @ fearful one in the hands of fanatical politicians. This, how- ever, is but the first cloud that precedes the hurricane, Georgia has her election to-day, and bas a registered majority of only one thousand eight hundred and @ighty- six whites. The Florida election of forty-six black delegates to a State Convention will give thirty-six blacks. Nine-tenths of the delegates to the Mississippi Convention, on the 5th of November, will be radicals. In the States of Alabama, Virginia and Louisiana, as we have shown, the blacks carry over one-fourth of all the representation at the State Conventions, while one hundred and seventy-nine white radicals—nearly two-thirds of the whole number of delegates—hound on the barbarians. Four millions of negroes, in all, now assail the stability of the government. They are armed with the vote— the weapon that Congress, by unwise legisla- tion, has put into their hands. This vote will give them such a power as will yet make the nation reel. In common with ignorance, wherever found in the world’s history, the negro will seek a division of property; for he has as yet no idea how property is acquired. New and fanciful ideas of his rights will find place in a brain already gone mad in too rapid an clevation. Let his ignorance force a mea- sure to the surface, despite the common sense of the country in opposition, and what can pre- vent its becoming alaw? That these are no idle speculations the late election returns too well show. Strange anomaly! We were never willing that the Southern white should legis- late for the North, but are willing that the late Southern slave, representing the most concen- trated element of barbaric ignorance on the whole Western Continent, should shape our future. There are two courses to choose— European civilization and Afcican barbarism. The radicals have apparently chosen the latter, and by their action they now absolutely force the white civilized element of the South to appeal to that first law of nature, seli-preservation. How well the whole South appreciates this is best shown by the numerous extracts which we are constantly publishing from the conservative Sou'hern p.pers, which calmly calculate the force of the coming black invasion. .. They ses the approach of a war of caste in which, after an exuaus ive and terrific struggle, the black will disappear and the white be left nothing but a remnant of its pre- sent number. Says the Richmond Whig of October 26, speaking of the late election :—“Aguinst these things we made what resistance we could, and made it in the spirit of men who are contending for life, for liberty, tor property and whatever else is valuable.” The Lynchburg Virginian siys :—* Let it be developed at once wha: negro suffrage me ns, The farther the r-volution goes the more vio- lent will be the recoil. The North will not be- lieve until they see; and they will see when the Southern elections are fluished.” This is undoubtedly true, and the disgust which al- ready gives evidence of its presence in the North will be in a short time irresistible. Negroes will, under the radical programm:, soon take their seats in Congress and shape the laws. Negroes, by voting ‘or any measure in amass, immediately draw a distinction in race that forces the whites, for the own protection, to also band asa anit. This is the point of revo- lution to which we are rapidly marching. It ia shown mathematically by the elections, and indicates a war of caste, unless it is wisely checked by the North. The North, then, to the rescue! We saved the nationality once from the attack of the master, but we have to save it now from the more dreaded atiack of the former slave. The Trial of Jeff Davis. As the time draws on for the trial of Jeff Davis, that possible event begins to nttracta due share of attention, and certain sheets dis- cuss it with wast parade of the learned lumber of the law. But the truth is that the only correct view of this case is to be taken from Thad Stevens’ standpoint—that it is all outside the constitution. The war was outside the constitution, and all the conse- quences of it must be outside the constitution, whether they be reconstruction or punishment. As itis outside the constitution, as the case assumed proportions that place it beyond the category of those for the trial of which the Supreme Court is erected, it can only be treated under the law of nations. It is acase in which Congress alone has authority, aa the war and treaty-making power. It is # farce. to put Jeff Davis on his trial before any mere judiciary in our government; for be has already been tried by a higher tribunal. His case has been fully heard in the court of last resort that determines points of national right. He has been tried and found guilty on the field of batile, and the only duty left is to mote and inflict his punishments. His crime was an attempt to subvert our government, and the right to punish rests wherever the power does; foritis arbitrary. Itrests with the legislative branch of the government that holds the prisoner. We know, from the examples of history, what it would have been in any other age. In what is called the good old times this culprit would have been summarily executed Sa i EN NE Pk RE SR os mm aS RN tame SE eae ees on capture; be would have had the short shrift and long rope of so many civil wars, In countries whose backward civilization is that of a hundred years ago he would to-day be ruthlessly shot, as Maximi- lian was in Mexico. But we are another, sort of people. We believe in the supremacy of reason and in moral and intellectual results, It is the theory of the age that blood is only to be shed by the hand of law when it is necessary to deepen or enforce some rule of rig ht—never in any mere revenge, In this view the aze rightly holds that the exe- cution of Davis is notnecessary. It would not make any more terrible or memorable the warning of his great failure, But the formal decree of some punishment by Congress is necessary. This punishment should be banish ment for any term the lawmakers choose—five, ten or fifteen years, By deciding the case in this way Congress would relieve the nation from a dilemma as disagreeable as it is ridicu- lous. It would at once decide that the author of so much evil should not go scot free, while it would not, by the solemn farce of a judicial trial, imply that the question of this man’s guilt—a question decided years eince by the nation—was still open. Davis’ case’ is cer- tainly one to be decided in no other way but by the arbitrary declarations of the repre- sentatives of the people. Let them send him out of the country; and it will be all the better if they send with him his great bondsman and sympathizer, Greeley. self from the Leucadian rock, Mrs. Yelverton, like a sensible Englishwoman, has taken a longer but a safer leap across the Atlantic. She presents herself before the American peo- ple as a living protest against the traditional absurdities and contradictions of the British marriage laws. Perhaps in addition to pas- sages from her own exceptional experience she may favor the public by reciting the mythical tragedies of Hero and Leander, the ill-starred fates of Dante and Beatrice, and the sad and passionate story of Abelard and Heloise. At all events, the competition between Mrs. Yel- verton and Mr. Dickens will be unique. It will take the place of all the outside amuse- ments of the day, and theatricil managers may well be jealous of its attractions. We have been visited in this country by Ristori, by Grisi, by Malibran, by a large number of illus- trious ornaments of the stage and the opera, but Theresa Yelverton and Charles Dickens are about to offer us something quite unprece- dented. The best of the joke is that each of them proposes, after traversing the country, to write a book on America, And even outside ot sporting circles the question already is, “On whom will you bet?” Nota few of Mrs. Yelverton’s friends are eager to bet that here, as in England, in 1866,when both this lady and Mr. Dickens were engaged by the same house to make a lecturing tour, “the gray mare will prove the better horse.” Now, as then, Theresa Yelverton may distance Charles Dickens; her lectures and her book msy win the day. Banishment of White Men from Virginta. _ The first active exercise of sovereignty by the blacks of the South bas oceurred in Vir- ginia, the proudest of the Southern States and the “ mother of Presidents” in the days of old. The negroes, having carried the city of Rich- mond in the constitutional election, have fol- lowed up their victory by the organization of a “vigilance committee,” and have ordered two white citizens who opposed their ticket te leave the State within forty-eight hours. They will doubtless obey the command, as a refusad would cost them their lives. A black mob is not likely to stop short in a career of violence. We suggest that the vanished whites be in- vited to visit New York and that a grand pub- lic reception be tendered to them. They wilt excite more enthusiasm than the martyred Stanton, and, as the pioneer victims of negre rule, deserve a demonstration. GENERAL GRANT IN TOWN. General Grant, accompavied by Mrs. Grant, arrived in this city yesterday afieruoon from West Point, en route to Washington, The General had been ona visit to tne academy at West Point to leave bis son there, preparatory to bis military education, During his stay in the city yesterday General Grant was a guest at the Metropolitan Hotel. He teft by the half-past sever o’clovk train last night for Washington. THE NEW STEAMSHIP FRANCE*-NATIONAL LINE. ‘The latest addition to the ocean fleet of the National Steamship Company, whose vessels are plying betweon the ports of New York and Liverpool, is %ue screw steamer Frauce, which arrived in our port on Sunday last and hauled into her pier, No. 47 North river, late last evening. The first glance at this vessel is suflicioat to impress one that she is of great size, while her grace- ful lines and syinmetrical proportions have been 80 skile fully wroucht that she is saved irom the appearance of immense buik and unwividiness, which often strikes the eye of the observer as inharmonious wih such architectural creations Great magaitude, with a model that would make the vessel nautical beauty, and with strength combined to resist success- fully the severest hurricanes at sea, were the points her builders had in view. Feot and inches may not conv ey ‘fan adequate idea of what the France really is, but’ when itis said that a walk trom hor stem to stern takes ou distance of one-fourteenth of a mile, an idea may be tained of her magnitude, Her dimensions are:—Ex- trome longth, 385.6 feet; breadth of beam, 42 feet 4 inches; depth of hold, 20 feet 4 inches; depth of hold to spar deck, 28 feet 7 inches; lowt draught, 22 fect 8 inches; tounage, 3,572 B. M., 5,408 0. M. ‘The France 18| one of the staunchest vossels afloat, Her plates are of wrought iron, oue aud a quarter inches in thickness, and fastened in the most superior manner by three-quarter and one inch rivets. Her floors are doubie, aod in this particuiar great and especial care was exercised, a3 upon the manner in which this work is performed much depends upon a vessel to successfully buffet wind and wave. She has three full desks and aa oriop deck, fore ana aft, extending to the engine room, and ber puil is divided into seven water. tnt compartments She is fitted with two direct acting engines, ba. ing cyiinders each fiity-four inches ia diameter, and astroke of piston of ihree fet nine inches, In their various paris they are supplied surface con- den-ers, ind»pe dent steam, fi b ige pumps, and im every respect these refi ct the Inghest credit upon those ideniifled with their construction Steam is generated and supplied to the engines by four tubular boilers, each boiler having tour furnaces, The accommodations for passengers on board the Frauce are of a Character that suggests commodious- e-s and eiegance. The staterooms are roomy, and enough to pleasantly “take im” sixty-eight first class passengers aud seven hundred and Ufty steerage passen; ‘The beds seem to be equal to those of hotels and toilet arrengements are admirable. The saloon aud sitti for ooth gentlemen and ladies, are excellent in design aud construction, while their finish is plain, but in exqusite taste Her engive room is sixty eight feet two inches ta length, her propelier emhieen feet in diameter, with twenty four feet pitch. The builders of ber bull and machinery aro Messrs. Tr, Royden & Sons, of Liverpool. The officers of the France are as follows:—Captaiu, R. W. Grace; First Officer, C. Thomas; Second Utticer, G, Lawson; Purser, W. G. Barritt; surgeon, F, T. Fry; Cuiet Eugineer, W. Wilson, THE NATIONAL GUARD. INSPECTION OF TI SIXTH REGIMENT This command assembled 1n Tompkins square in good season yesterday morning, and were ready for inspec- tion and review long before the General and staff came upon the ground, The regiment did not turn out vory s rone, having an average of fourteen files, divided into ten commands. There were sixteen drums, twenty-five band, three field, two commissioned staif and sovem non-commissioned staff. The commissioned and non- commissioned staff were out of their proper piace im colume, and the band, instead of passiag the reviewing officer and wheeling about, faced to the left and flanked before reaching him, Some of the salutes were vory General Grant's Position. Itis reported that a Southern newspaper editor has had a conversation with General Grant in reference to his position on the Presi- dential question, from which it appears that this Southern editor is inclined to believe that the General will not accept 8 nomination as 4 radical, but will consent to become a conserva- tive candidate for the White Hous:. He is represented as saying that he never belonged to any political party, altnough he voted for Buchanan, and that he probably never will belong to any political party. According to this the ultra radicals of the Massachusetts school of Sumner, Butler and Wendeil Phillips have some ground for their distrust of General Grant. His righthand man out West, the Hon, Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, a pretty good radi- cal, says, however, that be has talked it all over with the General, and that he is in perfect accord with Congress on Southern reconstruc- tion, as much so as Stanton himself. Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, and the Hon. W. D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, give the same evi- dence; but still, right and left, the radical Chase organs say that the position of Grant on the great principles ot the republican party is cloudy, undefined and unsatisfactory. With such disagreements amoag ihe republi- can dociors, who shall decide this delicate question? In General Grant’s letter to Presi- den! Johnson, giving his rexzons why General Sheridan should not be removed from the com- mand of the Fifth Military District, he says all that the most exacting radical could require in support of the policy of Congress ; but it must be remembered that, as a soldier, Sheridan isa special favorite of the General-in-Chief, and that this letter, therefore, was intended rather to serve Sheridan with the President and with the party in power than to define the position of the wriler as a Presidential candidate. But it may next be said that in his correspondence wit and instructions to General Sickies, Gen- eral Pope and the other military commanders, Gen:-ral Grant has exhibited a fidelity in the execution of the reconstruction laws of Con- gres3 which may challenge the closest exami- nation, even from Wendell Philips, and that, therefore, he must be in perfect harmony in his opinious with Congress, This, however, does not totlow from his failhtul execu'ion of the laws; for this is s mply bis official duty, what- ever may be his opinions of tue laws, Apart from his official opinions and instrac- tions, we have had nothing from General Grant defining his position on Southern reconstruc- tion, excepting tho priva.e conversations to which we have referred, and these leave the question still unsettled. We believe, however, tht if General Grant had any faith in the radi- cals and their programme as a Presidential platform, he woul. have expressed himself be- fore this in a way which would have removed ail doubts on the subject. As ke has not done so, we think the conclusion perfectly safe that his views are those, not of the radicals, but of the conservative republicans, and that he will fizht it out on this line against Mr. Chase and his radical supporters, push them out of their defences, and wind them up as he did the re- bellion under the tamous apple tree of Appo- mattox Court House. Theresa Yelverton and Charlies Dickens. Whether their starting point be Boston or New York, these two lecturers will soon enter on an exciting and remarkable race for public favor throughout the Union. The one will read passages from his novels, and the other choice extracts from her‘letiers, as well as trom the pooms of British and American authors, While Dickens will report the result of his studies of low life in London, and introduce us anew to Bill Sykes, Fagin, Squeers, Brass and his sister Sally, Quilp, and the rest of the delectable company of queer characiers that live and move and have their being in his novels, Mrs. Yelverton will lift us into the etherealized atmosphere of love. Her charm- ing letters will illustrate, the fact that truth is stranger than fiction and reality more startling than romance. That letter, for instance, which drew tears from Lord Westbury, and that one in which, inspired by Cooper and Tennyson, she delineates “a model savage” who might have delighted Rousseau, must be specified among a large number of letters, full of fire and passion, and all models of epistolary com- position. Their author, in genius and in por- good, especially those rendered by the Colonel ang Captains Miller and Fenn. ‘The staff of the brigade, consisting of General Burger, Majors Godfrey, Joachimsen and@ Frolich and Captains Dickel, Moree, O'Keeffe, Marquardt and Heyzer, were inspected afterwards, in full uniform, with “roonapten jor non-commissioned stat and ot setinnens afer afc’ sine aud x uniform: . poeer ibe Fourth brigade watt Present were Captains Kingsley, Laing and Skid- more, Having united with the of the Second bn- son, with her impetuous and truthful nature, they ite an imposing appoar- with her golden hair, her biue eyes and her | Suee'during tne Ferien. ia passing ia quick “ume we palates of Dempsey, wt ‘done; but in going by in double time we noticed he} ook side and Brennan carried their awords correctly. Adjutant Ha: make a most soldierly ce The band of regiment, under the leadership, too, oC an old soldier, made tne samo misiake as did that of the Sixth regiment. They turned out before reaching the reviewing officer.» This is wrong, The band must pass, wheel gad come to the front. Upon be, bag road spection ment was good; (on ‘h possesses such record @ nobi Teast one thoucsad fair complexion, realizes our iden of what her famous Grecian prototype, Sappho, must bave been. Catullus and Horace were proud to be admired as her imitators, and modern Ger- man commentators have exhausted their in- genuity in vindicating her against the mali- cious aspersions of the Attic comic poets. The “burning Sappho,” who “loved and sung,” lives again, as it were, not only ixty| J FIRST REGIMENT CAVALRY. This command is to be inspected a Tompkins square in the immortal verse of Byron, but in | this Tuesday) morning at ten o'clock. the person of Theresa Yelverton. Tho A SMUGGLING OPERATION DETECTED. odious major who so basely abandoned — 2, his wife may represent the heartless Phaon. tig sete ec emai ih Theresa stood, a few years Of, ON the | 2 on hark Therese, bound to Baltimore, and Hoirod Leucadian rock from which Sappho made her | ghous $500 worth of liquors, which those on board of legendary leap; but instoad of throwing her- | hor were sadeavoring to smuggle iato pork,