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

6 NEW YORK HERALD, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Heyravp. 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 ‘Cuvts per copy. Annual subscription price: ~ One Copy... Three Copies Five Copies. Ton Copies. . JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyping and Kngraving, neatly and prompily executed at the lowest rates, Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth street.—Dow Cantos, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Nicur's Daxam, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13tn street.— Hanur Dunsan GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Dis ScuwauTZeR VON DARAGOSSA. Broadway.—-A Mipsvuuer BROADWAY THEAT&E, Taxice Mannixp. Broadway.—Insuavocua— FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth etreet.—Tus Gran Docuxss. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—Jack Suzr- Pano. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Biace Croox. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Fanouon, rae Cxicner. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSR AND MUSEUM. Broad- way und Thirticth street.—Deviu's Avoriox, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteonth street.—Grunastios Bavuesraranism, &c. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 2and 4 West 24th street.— BSurLock—CiNDeRELLA, THEATRE COMIQUE, 51¢ Broadway.—Warts, Corton & Saanrier's MinstRe.s. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 685 Broadway.—Eraro- ean ENteeTAlxMEnts, Singinc, Dancing anD BuRumsquas, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonaa, Danoxs, EcomNtRIcITIRS, KURLESQUES, 40. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio Vooa.ism, Nxako MINSTRELSY, £0. EIGHTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSER, corner Thirty-fourth atreot.—MiNnsTRxLSY, FaRces, £0. BUTLER'S AMERICAN TUBATRE, 472 Broadway.— Batist, Faacm, Pantomime, &c. BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth stpeet.—Tux Puasa, DODWORTH'S HALL.—Apvastonss or Mrs. Brown. BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, cornor of Atlantic and Clin- ton streets.—Brixp Tom, HOOLEY'S OPERA AOUSE, Brooklya.—Erarorian Muvsregisy, Bariaps any Burcesques. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.—Sraeers or New Yors—Tux [nish Dragoon, FINE ART GALLERIES, 845 Broadway,—Exmusition or Paurings. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SHEET. mber S, 1867. TRIPLE THE NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- ay evening, Novemver 7. Revolutionary riots, inetigated by the party of action, have broken out in different parts of Italy. In Milan sovoral of the rioters were killed by the military. It is again asserted that a large body of Frouch troops aided the Papal soldiers to defeat Gari- baldi at a critical moment in the Iate battle Napoleon advises the Pope not to prosecute the Persoas who voted the union with Italy. The London Times thinks that i: the Emperor of France fails to ob- tain a genoral con ‘erence be will again abandon the Pope to Italy. No more French troops will leave Toulon for Bome. The German party of progress carried tho elections tn Berlin. Most of the towns of Schleswig have joined the German Zoliverein. The English food riots are ex- tonding. Exoter city has been quicted. The Fenlan rescue riot prosecutions are being moderated in Man- ebester The specie in the Bank of France increased largely during the week. king active preparations for war, offen- 94 7-16 for money in London. Fivo twenties were at 70% in London and 76 im Frankfort. The Liverpool cotton marker was firm, with middiing aplands at 854. Breadstuifs lower. Provisions with- out marked change. By special mail telegrams, special writton correspond- ence and files from E.rop» dated to the 261h of October, wo have importamt aod interesting details of our cable depatches, embracing reports of Garibaldi’s action in Florence on his way to make war on the Pope, and a very comprehcasive resvmé of the Eastera question, its 4iMeultes, dangers and impeiling causes, furnished by our correspondeat in Constantinople, THE CITY. In the Chamber of Commerce yesterday resolutions wore adopied favoring the abolition of the cotton tax and appointing a committee to memorializ> Congress to that effect, A comm ttee was also appointed to consider tho subject of a return to specie payments. The coroner's investigation in the political murder in tho Fourth ward was concluded yesterday, Hardigan, Hayesand McCabe were found guilty and committed, Gallagher was discharged. ‘Tho Peterson case, ia which awoman named Catha- rine Peterson claimed the defendant, Christopber Peter. son, as her husband, while be denied ali knowledge of ber, came up in the city courts again yesterday. The prest who performed the marriage ceremony was sworn ‘and identified both parties as having been joined ia wodlock by bim in 1857, Tho steamship City of Antwerp, Captain Mirchouse, of the Inman will leave pier 45 North river at noon to-morrow (Satu ), for Queenstown and Liverpool. ‘The mais for Ireland and Great Britain will close at the Post Office at baif-past ten in the morning. The steamship Cimbria, Captain Trautmann, of the Hamburg line, will sali from Hoboken at twelve M. to- morrow (Saturday), for Southampton aud Hamburg. Tho matis for the German States will close at the Post Office at haif-past ten o'clock. ‘Tne Anchor line steamship Caledonia, Captain Mac- donald, will leave pier No. 6 North river, at noon to morrow (Saturday), for Liverpooi and Glasgow, cailing ‘at Londonderry to land passengers and mais. The sidewhes! sieamsbip Manhattan, Captain Wood. hull, will leave pier No, 3 North river, at three P.M. to. morrow (Saturday), for Charieston. Tho stook market was firm yesterday, and closed strong aad excited, especially for Erie. Government securities wore dull but steady, Gold closed at 123% @ 138%. Business in almost all Gepartments of trade was re- markably quiet, and the tendency of prices of most articles was downward. Cotton was in fair demand and Ko. © 0. per Ib, highor, Coffee was dull but firmly eld at former pricos On 'Change almost all the markets wero dull and heary, Flour was 100, @ 150. lower in some cases, while corn was dull and lower and oats quist. Pork closed « trifle firmer, Boot was steady and lard a shade oasior, Frights wore gous- wally yaobanged, Naval stores were quite steady, vo - NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 1807.~TRIPLE SHEST. while petroleum was quite firm at the close, with « fer demand. Us. The President's reasons for suppressing the spilitis Organizations in Washington are, that they aro danger- ous im thelr character and contrary to law, an old Con- grees:onal enac:ment placing all voluateer organizations tm the District directly under the control of the Pregi- dent, from whom the officers receive their commisajons, ‘These organizations bave been operating without aay authority from the President or any one else. ‘The regular force in the Department of Washington, pow commanded by General Emory, ts considered in- Adequate for the protection of the public stores, and will be increased so that they may be ready for any emer- gency growing out of Congressional usurpation or negro disaffection, as the President, it is eaid, etill believes that the radicals intend his deposition and impeachment, General Sherman on his arrival will probably take the command, By special telegrams over. the Cuba cable we have news from Mexico to the Sist ultimo, Juarez had been re-elected. A commissioner had been sent on to Wash- ington to negotiate @ loan of $12,000,000. The troops remained ucpald, Later intelligence from Hayti by the Cuba cabie re- ports a mob at Port au Prince had assaulted the min- istry, demanding the release of Leon Montes, The mob cheered for Salnave, and at his instigation threat- oned to rausack the capital. Santa Anna is at present in Havana, trying to buy a farm. ‘The Alabama Convention was again in session yester- day. A resolution memorializing Congress to remove political disabilities from those who were aiding recon- struction was laid on the table, and another asking the removal of the cotton tax was adopted. General Popo addressed the Convention and advised them to observé moderation in counsel and temperance in action, Our correspondence from Acapulco, Mexico, dated October 17, contains an interesting description of that town and the state of Guerrero, the political situation thei and other matters not generally known, The letter of General Prim to President Juarez, congratu- lating him on the success of the republican over the imperial arms, is published among our Mexican items. The colored schools in the hands of the Freedmen's Bureau at New Orleans have boen turned over to the City Board of School Directors. General Grant's report, which Is in course of prepara- tion, will contain dotails of the operations of the Recon- struction commanders in the South, Gonora! Rawlings presented E. B, Washburne, on Wednesday, with a cane from the tree under which Vicksburg was surrendered. Ben Wade somewhat profanoly says that he won't back a da: d inch on the negro suffrage question, and that hell's full of such radicals as feel weak kneed about it, Reports of Thad Stevens’ health again failing bim fre incorrect, Hoe will leave Lancaster on Wednosday next for Washington, his bealth being at present as good as it bas been for several months past, Lord Monck, Governor Generat of Canada, delivered tho speech from the Throne at the opening of the Cana- dian Parliament yesterday. A full report of the speech will be found elsewhere in the columns of tho Heratp this morning. Returns from tho Kansas elections indicate heavy democratic gains, althongh the republicans have pro- bably carried the State. Tho negro and fomale suffrage amendments to the State constitution were defeated by a large majority. The yeliow fever has been declared no longer epidemic in Memphis and Mobile, A foot race for a distance of fifteen miles took place in Washington yesterday, between a secre- tary of the Russian legation and a clerk in the Navy De- partment, The latter won the race and the former lost a dinnor. Running horse cars on Sunday has been decided to be a work of necessity in Yennsyivania by tho Supreme Court of that Stato. In Ware, Mass., on Wodnesday night, the Unitarian Church and Town Hail were burned down, Our Municipal Election—The Opportunity for City Reform. Now that the State contest is over and radicalism put to the route, the attention of the citizens of New York is turned to their charter election which takes place on the first Tuesday of December, and at which a Mayor of the city is to be chosen. Republican legislation has left our people but little authority over their local affsirs, and the Mayor has now such limited power that it has generally been con- sidered immaterial who might be made the fizurebead of the municipal government. The office has consequently been suffered for years to pass into the hands of third rate ward poli- ticians and members of the different corpora- tion rings, uatil men of character and standing are unwilling to become candidates for the position. But at this time it is essential that this indifference on the part of the respectable portion of the community be laid aside, and that the property owners and taxpayers make an earnest effort to secure the services of a good business man as the chief executive off- cer of the city for the next two years, The radical commissions and the ring politicians together have increased our local taxation to twenty-four million dollars a year, and, while professing piety and honesty, have unitedly robbed the city treasury of hundreds of thou- sands of dollars in all manner of corrupt jobs. There is now a hope of-routing them, horse, foot and dragoons, and sending them to follow negro supremacy and Chase’s financial policy into retirement. The two houses of the State Legislature are polilically divided. The Senate, if not tied, bas only one or two republican majority, and the democrats have carried the Assembly. If the next Mayor of New York sball possess the confidence of the best men of both parties we may hope for the passage of bills by the State Legislature abolishing some of the ob- jectionable city commissions, limiting the expenditures of those that remain,’ making thom responsible to the Mayor of the city, and generaily increasing that officer’s powers. By such measures the enormous local taxation of New York can be cut down nearly ten millions of dollars a year ; and a strong combiaation of all the respectable citizens of both parties in the charter election next month would lay tho foundation of this movement for municipal re- form in the State Legislature, and insure the passage of a series of measures tending to that result over the veto of Governor Fenton. The principal portion of the power left by the radicals to the city is nowin the hands of three members of tho democratic party, who are more or less independent of Tammany, and who have thus far evinced a disposition to pro- tect the interests of the taxpayers and to work a thorough revolution in our municipal affairs, Comptroller Connolly has already initiated reforms that will bring in largely increased revenues from tho city resources and mate- rially decrease the expenditures, Street Com- missioner McLean has cleansed his office of its impurities, and is now conducting the depart- ment over which he presides as he would his own private business. Peter Bismarck Sweeny has voluntarily renounced the enormous pro- fits pertaining to the City Chamberlainship, and has shown ano elevation of character that should be s model for tho emulation of all public men, Connolly and McLean have long been independent of the inside ring of Tam- many, and Sweeny, wo understand, is dis- posed to follow up the good work he has already done by reforming the managemont of the Wigwam. We do not know what arc the sentiments of these three infucatiel city off- cors in relation to the Mayoralty; bat they | Jeurnaliem—The Pelitical and Gecial have now an opportunity to take the lead in the great movement we have fereshadowed, and to place themselves at the head of the city democracy for the next ten year, They know that a large majority of the people of the city, while respecting the regularity of the Tammany organization, are opposed to its inside rings and its close corporation. Let them at once strike out independent of the old cliques and com- binations, and lead the revolution in the city government that is certain to follow the recent political uprising by declaring in favor of An- drew H. Green, John Kelly, John Anderson or any other good business citizen for the Mayor- alty nomination. Jobn Kelly and John Ander- son are both well known, and Andrew H. Green, the Treasurer of the Central Park Com- mission, has proved himself one of the ablest executive men in thecity, All three are demo- cratic in politics, but enjoy the public conf- dence and respect, and would insure the united support of the best men of all organizations. The bulk of the Tammany party would favor such a movement and rejoice at the oppor- tunity to purify their own organization and the city government at the same time, It is true that the old corrupt cliques of Tam- many, some at present inside and others out- side the organization, desire to run two of their representative men for the Mayoralty. The inside rings are resolved to nominate Hoffman, and the outside rings have already put Fer- nando Wood into the fleld. But we have had enough of such men, and, while we do not wish to hurt their feolings in their old age, we tell thom that the people are sick of them, and in common decency they should stand aside and not insist upon thrusting themselves before the public. The election of either of them would defeat all hope of reform from the State Legis- lature, and destroy all prospect of decreasing our present enormous taxation by abolishing some and restricting others of the radical po- litical city commissions. Not one respectable rep-esentative in the Senate or Assembly would agree to entrust either Wood or Hoffman with increased power. To elect one or the other would be to insure a continuance of a city tax amounting to twenty-four million dollars a year. Self-protection urges the people of New York to combine upon Andrew H. Green, or some equally good citizen, against these cor- rupt rings and- their representatives. Will Connolly, McLean and Bismarck Sweeny put themselves at the head of Tammany.and lead the van? Shall the East River Cu 1 Be Cleared? It is a matter of considerable moment to almost every interest in the community that this great metropolis, the first port in the United States, and not inferior to many ports ail the world over, in the amount of shipping harbored here, should have a commodious and safe mode of entrance. At presont New York is unfortunately confined to the entrance by what is known as New York hatbor—that is to say, by way of the Narrows, with its intricate channels and vexatious sandbar. But there is mode of reaching New York from the ocean that is unavailable only because there is not enterprise enough to clear away a fow rocks in Hell Gate. Why not clear them away? It would pay a company to blow up these rocks and impose a toll upon all vessels passing through Hell Gate until the expenses were re- imbursed. There would be very little diff- culty in obtaining a charter from the Legisla- ture for this purpose ; for the Legislature is proverbially amenable in cases whero money is concerned. Or the property owners of Astoria and Westchester county, for instance, might raise a subscription to pay the expenses of clearing this channe!. It would certainly be a profitable investment, for property in that region would be enhanced fifty per cent by the improvement. We know by the experience of the Great Eastern that vessels of the largest tonnage can enter the harbor by the Long Island Sound at Montauk Point, and thus save nearly a hun- dred and thirty miles of coasting, if they coyld only reach their docks by passing through the cbannel at Hell Gate. Telegraphic communi- cation from the Point would also put us in pos- s-ssion of the nows of the arrival of steamers from Europe, the list of pasesngers and other de- tails, several hours before we can receive them from Sandy Hook. There are many reasons why this second entrance to the harbor should be made available, and there is really no rea- son at all why it should not. It is a reproach to the enterprise of New York that a few rocks which choke up one of our fluest channels should bo permitted to remain while a few thousand dollars would suffice to open a new navigable road to the ocean. The Theatres—Duties of Managers. The necessity for novelties on the stage is becoming more apparent every day. The amusement public of this city refuse to sup- por: those establishments that cling to the old, fossilized plays and management of former times. Some of the managers, understanding this, have brought out new pieces, or at least revivals, which, in point of mounting, scenery and accessories, may be called noveities, and in every case thoy have met with due appre- ciation on the pert of the public. The French theatre, Niblo’s and other houses have bene- fited by this courso of their managers, and wherever a want of enterprise or business tact has been shown, there empty benches have greeted the eyes of the managomont, Man- agers had better at present keop before their minds the old yet all-imporiant advice, that euterprise, due appreciation of the wants of patrons and gentlemanly courtesy are neces- sary for the snoces; of any theatre, and that arrogance, niggardiiness and selfish disregard of the principles of politeness and honor will, in the end, ruin the most favorably circum: stanced establishment. Let every drama, comedy, burlesque, or opera, or even farce, be placed on the stage with a view to completeness in every departineat. Then the manager should not think that he has done all that is required, and treat his patrons a3 a sot of impostors or the canaille of the metropolis. He must prove himself « gentleman in all matters connected with his theatre ; otherwise the verdict of the public will quickly remind him of his derelic- tion of duty. It is an imperative rule in every business to unite enterprise with courtesy, and the violation of it never fails, especially in theatrical cases, to injure an ostablishment. The public of this city want novelties that merit and are well represented. This may explain tho reason why some theatres are crowded this season and why others aro se vorely lof alope Power ef the Press. We give in another column an article from one of our city weeklies on journalism and its relation to society as an element of power— an article which, recognizing the truth idio- matically put by Wendell Phillips, that “in the long run brains rule,” argues that this in- tellectual function is, in the future, to be mainly exercised through the press. It is not for journalists tq indulge any vain-glory over such a fact or to assert their mission with that offensive pride which readily runs to boasting ; yet they must recognize the growth and spirit of the time; and it is a truth that the ten- dency of events is distinctly and strongly towards the installation of the press as the great controlling and directing force in the machinery of: modern government and society. With us particularly it promises to be a balance in our political system—a co-ordinate remedy for many evils that, as the progress of time has shown, are likely to result from the ill operation of some of the institutions founded by the fathers of the republic, who looked upon society as governed by quite different influences from those that prevail now, and who never imagined such changes in material things as this century has seen. Freedom stands on 8 good basis when it stands on popu- lar intelligence—on general, widespread dis- cussion and knowledge among the people of its principles and of the nature of all events or proposed laws that are likely to af- fect it; and it is the ephere of the press to carry to the home of every man this discussion and knowledge, to give this enlightened alarm in the hour of danger. We need this the more because our republic has gone so much nearer in spirit to the ahcient democracies than it was ever thought it would go. Thoss demo- cracies fell through carrying so-called freedom too far; for the abuse of freedom is tyranny, and communities prefer to the tyranny of the mob the heavy hand of centralized power. “That way madness lies,” and in that direction would be our danger but that the press fur nishes the ready form, means and manner by and through which the intellect of the nation curbs and rules the crude powers, the pas- sions and appetites, the rough will of the maases tending naturally towards evil. Brain rules even where the argument would seem ‘to be taken purely in the way of brute force. Man faces the lion, the tiger and the gorilla without fear. His brain has given him an implement that, inflicting death at a dis- tance, makes him the better, spite of their greater strength. Wild men—mere maggots to the elephant in physical power, and only a little above’ him in inte- lect—make him their slave in virtye of that little, Alexander with a handful of Greeks traversed Asia as a con- queror only because of better brain, and through Alexander the thoughts of Aristotle ruled the ancient world. It is the concurrent testimony of monumen's and tradition that order and civil society originated with theocra- cies—that is, that tho first rulers were priests, who imposed their power upon the multitude, by pretending it was the will of God. Here wasa purely intellectual result, and innumur- able nations were thus governed through faith and fear—devotion and chimera. Armies availed not against the thinker who burned incense in the groves and prostrsted the world through bis appeal to men’s imaginations. From Buddha to Mahomet this holds. In all this priesthood was the form in which intellect was felt. Through the oracle of some god the brain of the age solved men’s doubts, and 60 long as this intellectual power was true to its function and was employed for the good of all, it remained potent. It only failed when it bo- came a cheat, and all the changes in religious form, all the reformations, are only the protests of the world against the abuses of the priests. It was comparatively late in the world’s his- tory before the governing brain worked through any other organ than the Church, This began in Greece, but frst appears on a broad and bold scale in the history of Rome. Intellectual statesman- ship, quite apart from priestcraft, there estab- lished and operated magnificent examples of government, suoh as have been the models of the world ever since. From one city the concentrated intellect of the earth governed all. Concentration was the tendency, and Cesar put it all into one brain. Then it be came subject to common weakness and fell. In our ago the equivalent of the ancient altar and high controHing statesmanship bas been found through the art of printing, and nations will be governad by their intellect just in proportion as there is.freedom to circulate printed matier to convince mon against what is wrong and encourage what is right To a certain extent the press is freo all over Europe. It is permitted to print facts, and if the people of Italy should beat their oppressors to-day, all France, all Germany, all Britain would know it to-morrow, and the cause of freedom would receive an impulse wherever the news was epread. But here ,there is no restraint. We ore permitted to print facts and to point their lesson, to argue what they mean, to make any possible appeal to popular reason; and there is no danger in this want of restraint, since the toaching will lose effect so soon as it is false or selfish; for the press is competitive. So many insiructors are ready to come forth that in the contact of brain with brain the spark of truth is given out The people soon learn who teaches them truly and who selfishly. No one accepts the opinions of the party press on party questions. Recent political events have shown so distinctly the power of the press on popular opinion that the example serves better than a thousand argu- ments. Buta short time since tho republican party with one distinct set of ideas controlled the nation. It had majorities at will, and such was the popular faith that it was given power without limit. It abused this power, and went on from step to step of evil like a spendthrift squandering a noblo inheritance. It culmi- nated its defiance of all decency when it nominated in the State of Connecticut a humbug theatrical manager for Con- Then wo raised the voice of protest this all powerful party. We were alone in tho battle, but we fought it out and turned the course of evonts on that pro- test in behalf of political decency, The party was beaten in Connecticut, and we followed up the fight against its terrible corruptions. It has since been beaten in nearly every great State of the Union; and this casting from power of such a groat party by such means on such an issue should sorve as a lasting evi- dence thas with such» maghine as the press to work on the nations! intellect, parties can exist and hold power only during good be- havior, Thanks to this great intellectual power, the age of mere party domination has passed away. The Late Blections East and West-Grant vee Chase. East and West, in every State where it bas been made the test, this unpalatable, impracti- cable and dangerous proposition of universal negro suffrage has resulted in a revolt in tho republican ranks, and in » formal notice to the radical managers of the republican party that their reign has ended, that wiser leaders and better counsels must take their places, that the conservative Union elements of the country are in motion for a new organization and a new departure for the Presidential election, and that General Grant is their man. Beginning with the October elections, we find that in Pennsylvania, where the republi- cans avoided this direct test of universal negro suffrage, and avoided, too, any ag‘tation of the Presidential claims of Mr. Chase, they lost the State, on o light vote, by less than a thousand majority. Buton the same day in Ohio, and on the largest popular vote ever polled in the State, and where the claims of Mr. Chase asa Presidential candidate and universal negro suffrage were distinctly before the people, they lost the State Legislature, and thereby a radical United States Senator—“Old Ben Wade’—and had their negro suffrage amendment to the State constitution voted down by fifty thousand majority against it. This was o stunner from the same people who had rejected Vallandigham and his copperhead heresies by one hundred thousand m jority. But the leading organs of Mr. Chase, East and West, immediately put in the plea that Le was not responsible for these results in Ohio, although personally superintending the battle on the republican side. It was arranged, ac- cordingly, by his radical managers in New York, to give him a fair trial in our November election. They took the matter in hand at Syracuse, they set up their candidate in plat- form, including universal negro suffrage, and behold the resuit! It is astounding, over- whelming, and beyond all question is decisive against Mr. Chase and his negro suffrage and financial policy and his pretensions as a Presi- dential candidate. It was everywhero under- stood that if the republicans carried this State it would be considered as the voice of New York in favor of Mr. Chase, and it was gene- rally believed that his success in New York would make sure his nomina'ion for the Presidency by the Republican National Con- vention. It was even broadly hinted, in ad- vance of the election, that the success of the republican State ticket would be equivalent to the nomination of Chase and Fenton, and this is the scheme which has been so signally over- thrown. Mr. Chase and his negro suffiage and financial platform are cast out, anl the voice of the Eupire State inaugurates a roconstruc- tion of the solid, genuine Union elements of the country under the standard of General Grant. An European Congrese—Another Rumor. It is authoritatively stated in one of our late oable despatches thata “call for an European congress will soon be issued by the French government,” alias Louis Napoleon We do not much wonder at the rumor, nor shall we be at all surprised if some such proposal is ac- tually made by the Emperor to the other great Powers. Itisno secret, but a fact patent to the world, that a general congress is one of the primary objects on which for yeara past the Emperor's heart bas been set. It is not at all improbable that a congress will be brought to- gether; but, unless we greatly mistake the pre- sent character and oundition of the different European governments, a congress is possible only on one condition. Its purpose must first of all be distinctly and definitely s'ated. That purpose must not be general, but particular. If Napoleon asks an European congress to aid him in answering the ques:ion— what ft is best to do with Rome? we seo no reason why his request should not be complied with, nor do we think it at all un ‘ikely that it will. Such a congress was got together for the purpose of settling the Luxem- burg question. Such, however, is not the kind of congress which Napoleon wants. His object is to rearrange, according to a favorite plan of his own, the nationalities of Europe. He wishes to reconstruct the bovndary lines, and we have little doubt that if a congress would pratify Napoleon’s ambition ia certain direc- tions he would not be unwilling to abandon his protectorate of Rome. No congress, how- ever, could do this but one which was convened for the most general and indefinite purpose. Such a congress, we hesitate not to say, is in present circumstances impossible, We are not unwilling, however, to be generous. If Napo- leon submits to the decision of an European congress the final and unqualified decision of the Roman question, he will give proof of a desire to do justice and of a willingness to preserve the pao of tie nation for which we havo not been able hitherto to give him credit. The Late Tornado at St. Thomas. It would require the genius of Bornardin de ‘Saint Pierre to recount the terrible effects of the late tornado at St.Thomas, Many of the de- tails were given in the special telegram to the Heraty which was published yesterday, an- nouncing that the town of St. Thomas was in rains, that nearly five hundred lives wore lost, and that five steamers, with sixty other vessels, were wrecked. This dreadful calamity strengthens the ar- guments which wo have often already adduced in favor of tho establishment of such a system of telegraphic signals all along the coast, from the Rio Grande upwards, as has proved immensely serviceable on the const of England in trans- mitting news of an approaching storm, and preventing tho loss of life and property. The system adopted in England was highly and justly eulogized by the nobleman who presided over the recent moocting of the British Asso- elation. But we cauld easily improve on this system in this country, inasmuca as both the Gulf Stream and the Appalachian and Alle- ghany mountain ranges, by modifying the course of the storms that sweep along our long, continuons const, render it less dificult to calculate that course with certainty than it would be to predict the course of storms along the English coast, with its circular con- formation. Why should England, or any other foreign country, go ahoad of us in this or any other respoott There should bo a telegraphic station at gnoh of our lighthouses, and each ighthouse should be thoroughly furnlsbod wilh, tem and the establishment of a coast line tele- grapb, in connection with s Storm Bureau, which, as we recently suggested, should have its headquarters in New York, the fearful num- ber of annual wrecks and the risks of the underwriters would soon be materially les- sened. The advantages of such a system, net only to commerce and to science in time ef peace, but also to government in time of war, would be incalculable. The storm that has just visited St. Thomas reminds us that before a Congressional appro- priation is made of the snug little sum of fourteen million dollars, with which Mr. Seward proposes to buy the island, it might not be amiss to inquire what security be can promise that it will not be blown away entirely ia some future gale of wind. Speech of the Governor General of the Dominion of Canada. A special telegram to the Henao has brought us the speech delivered yesterday by the Governor General of the Dominion of Canada at the opening of the first session of the United Parliament. Of céurse this speech gave ® rose-colored picture of the formation of the Confedoration, of its actual condition and of iis’ future prospects. The Governor General, with all the authority of the official position which he felicitated himself on having occu- pied, and which at once enabled and obliged him to assist at every step taken in the creation of the “Great Confederation,” alluded to the considerate regard on the part of her Majoaty’s Ministers for the privileges and wishes of the “free and self-governed people” represented by the provincial delegates, Ho laid outa grand plan of parliamentary work in the way of cementing and consolidating the new union and extending its bounds “from the Ailantie to the Pacific Ocean,” assimilating the laws of the different provinces as to currency, eus- toms, excise and revenue generally, adopting o uniform postal currency and a well-con- sidered scheme of mili'ia examination and de- fence, administering Indian affairs, introducing naturalization laws, assimilating the criminal and the bankruptcy laws, constructing the inter- | colonial railways as an additional practical and physical bond of union, and, im fine, doing all that can be done towards establishing the dominion on a permanent basis for the benefit of posterity, The Governor General ox- presses his gratitude to the imperial gov- ernment for liberally supplying the whole volunteer force of Ontario and Quebec with breech-loaders, and to Providence for bless ing the Confederation with abundant harvests and general prosperity. What ho calls “the great work of Union which has beem achieved” will, he hopes, prove to be “a freah starting point in the moral, political and ma- terial advancement of the people of Canada.’’,, Notwithstanding, bowever, the rose-colored pictare which the Governor General presents of the rise, progress and future prospects of the “ Great Confederation,” not a few within and nearly all beyond its borders cannot help regarding itas a “great humbug,” of almost exclusively transatlantic origin, and contain- ing in itself the seeds of discord and prema- ture dissolution. The grand scheme of pariia- mentary work laid out by the Governer General looks admirably neat on paper ; but it may yet prove no exception to Burns’ de- claration that ‘The best laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft a-gley. The Rev. Newman Hall’s Lecture. The Rev. Newman Hall, in his lecture af Steinway Hall on Wednesday, seemed uncon- scious of the great events of the time or of the character of a New York audieace. The lecture would have suited Boston, when the fever of its negro fanaticism was highest, bet- ter than this city at the present time. It is the old abolition stuff, which we have hoard a thoa- sand times and which has produced so mach evil, rebashed. British symp:thy for the negro and the abolitionists is something that we may well remember, but not as Mr. Hall would’ have us remember it. The rivers of blood that bave been spilt, a debt of thousands of millions, and a fearfully disorganized country are the consequences of Old England and New England abolition fanaticism. The countey begins to wake up to this fact; but the rever end lecturer does not know what is passing before him. Ho should study the country more before he reads us lectares. Our Piers and Wharves. A number of respectable fogies, older and more dilapidated than our piers and wharves themselves, are to hold # mecting to-day to talk over the deplorable condition of the city docks, and to give, ‘an opinion as is am opinion,” after the stylo of Bunsby, as to what we should do with them. There can be no objection to these gentlemen meeting as oftery and talking as much as they please, since they cannot compel any unwilling per son to meot with them or to listen to their twaddle. But the movement into which they have been humbugged in fact originates with a band of lobby sharks and speculators, some of whom made a desperate attempt to get into the State Legislature, and whose object is to obtain control of that valuable city property, in order to make a few million dollars out of the commerce of the port. This lobby combination, backed by the’ patriotic Citizens’ Association, endeavored last winter to get a law passed at Albany: which would have created ono of the most ras cally and valuable monopolies in the country. It was currently reported that some jobbing newspapers had interests in the ‘‘ big thing,” and it was only defeated by the determined opposition of two or three honest representa- tives. It would have robbed the city of all the piers and wharves and placed thom in the bands of @ private corporation that would have cleared probably o million dollars « year out of the job. Comptroller Connolly has already com- menced the work of rendering the piers and, wharves of the city remunerative, and a com mittee has been for soma time examining; into the subject, and will soon be prepared to report upon the condi- tion and value of the dock property and of tho work necogsary to be done thereon,’