The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1867, Page 6

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TRE CITY. The Cit sociation met yesterday for the pur- pose of t ures fot @ proper system of wharves a An address was deliverod Uy Mr, Tracy skevching the object of the mocting, 204 @ resolutd adopted stating that the wharve ommer is port and in @ condition dis 1 appointing a committee of ove vers to examine the whole sub- ject and also the feasiniliiy of widening the entrance to > coming to uraceiul to the cits bondrod and alne m the barbor, aud rey rt, Another exposition of grand revenue frauds among rtios {n thie city may be expected ina tow days. Archbishop Mo loskey administered the sacrament ot sulirmation yesterday io over nive hundred children belonging 60 the schovls attached to Ss, Stephen's ohurch Miss Holen Evans, a teacher, Iately residing in Fast Twenty-sixth street, yesterday morning took a dose of NEW YORK December, Four applicants for the place are already in the field, to one of whom, Colonel Wiliam Thorpe, of St, Louis, it is said, the President bas already promised it, The Washington correspondent of the Boston Post eays General Grant expresses bi If as disgusted at E. B. Washburne’s patronizing He never knew Washberne before the war, be #aid, and could mot under- stand why be was constantly annoyed with bis presence after his many efforts to get rid of him, General Grant has issued a circular to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioners in the South, directing them to take possession of al! property which was abandoned by the owners during the war, and which, although still | borne on the returns a8 abandoned, is now in the owners’ possession, Time is given the old proprietors until the Let of !.nuary to make formal application for their pro- | pert, and in case they do pot make such application wy will then be ejected, Iu the Alabama Reconstruction Convention yesterday, resolutions were offered eudatituiing a property tax for | the poll tax, and giving laborers’ wages the first lien on | the crops after rent and supplies, | ve | An ordinance was offered and referted, and will probably be adopted, pro- viding for the organtzation of a provisional government holding office will be required to take the ironclad oath Tbe White Conservative Convention in Colum! a, South Carolina, closed its session yesterday, Au ad- | dress to the people of the country was prepored and adopted, protesting against negro supremacy, General *chofield haz ordered a now election on the subscription in Virginia tothe Chesapeake and Ohio Raitroad, and in order that there shall be 20 doubt o° its legasity, all qualified voters heretofore disfranchised will be allowed to vote, Only 6,500 persons in the State are disfranchised. General Mower, commaniling in Louisiana, was recently charged by an ex-federal general with having received money to influence an appointment to tha office of sheriff. The accuser bas, however, retracted his state. ment, but it it is believed General Mower will demand a Court of Inquiry in the matter. Slips of doggorel verse ridiculing Mower are in general citculation in New Orleans, A boilor explosion occurred in Pittsburg yesterday, in an extensive rolling mill, by which twelve men wore killed aud thirty other persons were seriously injured. The forge of the mill was blown literally to atoma, The logs in property does not exceed $10,000. Inthe Canadian House of Commons yesterday Mr, Galt made known his reasons for resigning his ‘ition as Minister of Finance. T! was a foeling of distrust folt toward him, he said, in Ontario, Mr. Tillery will euceeed him. Mir, we, of Nova Scotia, made a telling speech avalnst confederation, Seven hundred dollars of the monoy stolen at Poor Farm, N. H., during tho fire there on Sunday, has been recovered from the wife of the keeper. She confessed to the theft, but denied the arson, She was getting ready, it is said, to run away to California, Under the law of Congress donating money to relieve suffering in the South, $440,650 were distribused in ten ‘States during the five months of its operation. Georgia received the largest amount, $125,100; South Carolina the next, $104,000 ; and Florida the least, only $1,000. In the Presbyterian Convention at Phildelphia, yester- day, rules of government on the basis of Union, were adopted. A deputation of the Episcopal Convention, consisting of Bishops McIivaine and Lee, and Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., and others, was received, with interesting ceremonies. Pathetic addresses were delivered, and the Apostles’ Creed and Lord’s Prayer were recited in common. eyanite of potastiuu in mistake for ncture of rhubarb, ug ber error she screamed for help, but before she exp red an, of East Twenty-second street, while sitting Up on Thureday night with the body of her dead child, dropped ao ot! lamp, in her agitation, and was terribly burned by the ignived duid which was thrown ‘al over her clothing, ‘ The Wood-Newcomb detective case wan again under examination yesterday before Commissioner Osborn Mrs. Urockaway gave testimony corroborative of that given by Dow, the principal witness, The case stands farther adjourned to Monday roxt, Yesterday, in the Uni.ed States Cireuit Court, Brook- iyo, Judge Benedic: presiding, Colonel Richard ©, En- right was arraigned on an jodictment charging bim with preparing amd executing fraudulent whiskey bonds, The caso grows out Of the Caliioott affair, Cglonei En- right ploaded not guilty and gave bonds to answer fa the wam of $20,000. ‘The five seamen belonging to the ship Ida Lilly, who have beon under examination before United States Commiseioner on acharge of mutiny on the gh ere yesterday discharged from custody, the evidence for the prosecution completely failing to sus- tain the char ‘he National Steam Navigation Company's steamship Vieginia, Captain Prowse, will leave pier 47 North river at noon to-day for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to lrod parsongors and mails, The Cromwell live eteamship George Washington, « n Gagor, will leave pier No. 9 North river, at throe PM, w-day for New Orleans direct, The Empire line sidewhes! steamship San Jacinto, (aptatn Atkins, will sail from pier 18 North river punc- tually at theee P. M. to-day for Savanaab, connecting with steamer for the Florida ports, The atock market was firm yestorday. evcarities ware dull,” Gold closed at 139, MISCELLANEOUS, ‘The news report of yesterday by the Atlantic cable tad pot roackied us when the Haraxo went to press this snoraing On excellent aathority it is understood in Washington that changes in the cabinet will soon be made, Collector Smytue, of Now York, has, it is said, been offered the povition of Post Master General or Secretary of Treasury, and Reverdy Jobnson that of Secretary of Stato. Governmveny General Howard, the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, lett Washington last night on an extensive tour of imspection through the Soath. He will also visit Kansas to sec what chance there ts in that State for employment for idle freedmen. % The Commissioner of the General Land Office has re- ceived a letter of inquiry from England relative to the setitement of fifty thousand emigrants, whom it is coa- templated to send to the United states, He referred the writer to our Westera plains, In North Carolina official returns of the registration show the white voters to be in # majority of 31,403 over the blacks, The United States steamer Susquehanna arrived at Havana yesterday from Nassau,” Our correspondent on board the Oneida at St. Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, writes under date of Septomber 13, The Prince Duke of Edinburg, Captain Alfred, of the Galatea, with his veasel, was in port, The usual visits of ceremony were paid between him and the officers of the Oneida. A portion of the Duke's suite were to appear on the boards of the Theatre Ro the 17th of September, Typhus fever was prevailing at Cape Town: Our correspondent at Port of Spain, Trinidad, gives an interesting description of that town and island. Tho Colombian war steamer Colombia arrived at Key West yesterday to go upon dry dock. She is com- manded by Lieutenant Reed, late of the rebel navy, who was the leader in the raid on Portland harbor dur- ing the war. A tire occurred in Princeton, Ill., on Thursday night, bygwhich the ratiroad depot wus burned, invoiriug a loss of $250,000. Mr. Chase and His Plans and Prospects for the Presidency. As the shocking disaster of the first Bull Run fell upon the loyal States, so have the astound- ing results of the New York election fallen upon the radical Chase faction. Mr. Chase himself, alarmed at this fearful catastrophe, has with the clearing away of the smoke from the battle field deemed it expedient to come at once to this cily for the purpose of consider- HERALD, SATU Convention. Assuming that, secure it, and be nominated man as Fenton, Morgan, Stan! Vice President, and that decline to run in opposition what will be the course of elements? They have only General Sherman, or some su: servative Union soldier, in ord all, be will some such Geary for Grant will this ticket, opposition nominate excepting Massachusetts and perhaps, Kansas, and thus business. He made a despera’ fight against Abraham Lincoln fi can Convention of 1864; it is jt to be sup- posed that he will give up th¢prizo of his | ambition or slacken his efforts {gain it with for the State by the Convention, in which ali persons | the machinery whieh he has sejred to work up the Convention of 1868. Wig a man gets the little buzzing bee of the Pr{dency in his ear be can dance to no other mie till the in- sect is extracted. The two Inses of the Fortieth Congress meet againon the 21st instant, and then we guess that # many days will pass before we shall see th) the radicals contemplate no retreat from jgro suffrage and Southern negro supremacy.|At all events, if the friends of General Gran¥ould make a decisive impression upon Congrp or upon the National Republican Conventi} in favor of their champion against Chase, ow is the time for action. The Late Elections—Negre Suffrage. The result of the clection ifOhio, with its fifty thousand majority againstegro suffrage, has astonished Ben Wade. 4 result of the Kansas election, piling up an imense majority against woman’s rights, has pfoundly aston- ished, amazed and utterly fazed all the woman’s rights people. ion of Mrs. Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anny and Lucy Stone has brought forth no and the long- haired and short-petticoated plks are bewil- dered, if not altogether de: result. Negro suffrage was South by the presence of had nothing of that kind ¢ back it up in Kansas ; neither had the w the soldiers on their side. Chivalry took 4 other direction, if it was employed at all; sohat the ambition of those who contested for 0 suffrage and woman suffrage was nippedjke a bud in the frost, and the ladies who advojted the measures are in ® very bad conditioj It is now pro- posed to get up a public suscription to pre- sent Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Staton a needle, a spool of thread, a thimble an@ pair of scissors, in order that she may mq@i her husband’s shirts, darn his socks andkeep his unmen- tionables in good order. er subscription, we understand, is being jd to supply George Francis Train, thjedvocate’ of the rampant women who have {tely been trying to bring woman’s right} to a point in Kansas, with a Balmoral kirt of the most modern form and dimenpns, as ho has premeditatedly discarded |s lower habili- ments and come out in pettipat costume.. It is a matter of public justice; well as public decency that Train should [etentenea with a modest skirt, and he must fave it. As for the result of te election in New York, it has astounded /tle “copperheads ” and fairly dazed the Manbitan Club. They id Woman ing the extent of the dumages he has suffered and the ways and means of repairing them. He has been here for several days in active: consultation with his radical friends, and we think the opinion may be safely ventured that so far from giving wayin favor of General Grant, Mr. Chase is resolved henceforth to use all the organized forces and resources at his command to rule ont Grant and to secure for himself the nomination of the Republican Na- tional Convention. To this end he has bis hundreds of national banks and other financial ageacies to back him, in addition to that numerous faction of fanatics whose ultimatum, sink or swim, is univer- sal negro suffrage. He has, too, a powerful body of retainers in both houses of Congress, who will be very apt to shape the legislative measures of the coming session in accordance with his wishes. We may thus expect, among other things in the interest of Mr. Chase, that Southern reconsiruction, under the existing laws, will be so actively pushed forward that all the ten outside rebel States will be reor- ganized and restored as negro radical States— some, if not all, in season for the Republican Convention, but all in time to give their elec- toral votes to Mr. Chase, Against these formidable appliances of the republican party machinery the friends of General Grant have nothing but his popularity to depend upon. His popularity is great; it covers all the land; but unless his zealous friends can bring this power to bear upon the Republican Convention it will avail them nothing; for we tive no doubt that General Grant is so well satisfied with his position as General-in-Chief of the armies of the United States that he will not consent to any Presiden- tial nomination but that of the regular Republi- can Convention, and will refuse to run against Mr. Chase if thus regularly nominated, The political friends of Geveral Grant, then, being & sort of unorganized militia, have no other course left them but « vigorous agitation of his claims and popularity, in public meetings all over the country, such as have already been commenced in Pennsylvania, with every indi cation of complete success in an out and out At the cabinet meeting yestorday, it is understood, , | Grant delegation to the Republican Conven- majority, including the President, decided net to send in | tion from that State. tu anaual meneage and reports to Congress wall the) As ine contest now ular session of that body in December. St ia protty weil known that Asststaut Secretary of the stands, however, within the republican lines, Mr, Chase has the odds Jisnoucy Chandler wii joave his oppition om the giss.e¢ | heavily on bis side for Whe manipplation of the do not know where they at. They have got an elephant in the shape ofs majority against radical republicanism of nerly fifty thousand, and they do not know wht to do with it. Aad there is another embanssment. The re- ports of increased majoritieare coming in a0 fast that they don’t know wat to make of it. They hoped for a moderat democratic ma- jority. They are astoundedo find that a ma- jority ia pouring in which*inot 0 much for the democratic party as aginst the corrup- tion and rottenness of radislism. However, there is comfort to be foundn the result, and the people can afford teskre it with any party that claims the meritf accomplishing it, whether they deserve it omot. General Grant’s Ginious. Outraged at the unpatriob, partisan, tanat- ical course of the republican prty and its efforts to prevent the restoration pf national, bar- mony, the people have utterd their indigna- tion in substantial majoribs against that organization wherever its pmciples came be- fore them; but they have notyet entirely cast that party aside. It is eviden, howover, that it now ohly stands on sufferano, It can count upon no favor except as it ma}deserve it from its future course; while if it persists in the attempt to force its exploded gstem of recon- struction—its nigger and corrption policy—it will by such a course make the revolution complete and sweeping; it wll compel tho people to take from it the tast vestige of power. There are some indicaions that events must go to that result. Distiguished radical men and journals declare that he nigger shall still not be given up. The cly organ of the radicals says that the nigger reconstruction laws now in operation are of tclaas with the laws of the Medes and Persims—not to be changed ; a Western organ says that the radi- cals must “fortify where they are,” and Ben Wade says that he for one wil not retire an inch. All this is likely enough 19 be only the blather and bravado of noiay fellows whis- tling to keep their courage up; but if it shall prove to be a party policy it is clear that the warning is not yet sufficient. In view of this position it now becomes ne- cessary that the people should know the opinions of any man likely to become a candi- date for the Presidency, in order to know that he is positively with them against the ex- tremists they repudiate. It is especially neces- sary that we should know the opinions of General Grant more clearly than we do, He is now the most prominent candidate before the nation for the highest office in it. His patriotism and honest purposes are well known ; his judgment ond ability in certain affairs are unquestioned, and he has shown a disposition to national economy of the happi- est promise; yet it would be well if we had from himself positivo, affirmative knowledge of his views on the political condition of the country. In the absence of such knowledge of the opinions of tho Generai, Lieutenant General Sherman stands forward as the most distin- soldier whose sentiments are known, and known to be in harmony with the preseat ideas of the people. 1: is time, therefore, that General Grant came out, Lot him dovelop bis Unas, phat people maz know where he I AY, NOVEMBER 9, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. Thaddeus Stevens on Our National Finances, We publish in another part of the paper & remarkable and characteristio letter of Thad Stevens on the subject of our national finances, natioual debt and national banks. { Mr. Stevons has sometimes been called the “great com- moner” of this country at the present time, and, apart from his bitter partisan feeling and negro fanaticism, he has, unquestionably, many of the elements of a etatesman. His partisan political letter published a few weeks ago was very weak, because bis naturally strong mind was cramped by party prejudices and bad no broad field for its exorcise. It was commented upon severely by the indo- pendent press ag being unworthy of the author and as indicating a decaying intel- loc. These comments touched the old chief in a tender spot; for he refers to them with evident sensitiveness and bitterness. But this letter is of another character. Though evidently well considered and carefully prepared, it has all the characteristic vigor, directness and pungency of style of Mr. Stevens’ best efforts, Not being on a sub- ject of party politics or on the negro, the writer’s mind was free, and his views aro broad, comprehensive and statesmaniilke. Though a thorough radical in politica, he han: dles some of his radical friends without gloves on this subject of the national finances. Ho pitches into’ Greeley and Jay Cooke, and, of course, into Chief Justice Chase by inference, with withering sarcasm, for their oarrow- minded and ruinous theories. Mr. Stevens’ letter is a reply to one from a neighbor and friend on the question of paying the national debt in legal tenders, and on the mapagement of our national finances gen- erally, which, probably, was prepared pur- posely to give him an opportunity to lay his views before the country. These views the readers of the Heratp will find are the same, mainly, which we have published over and over again. They cannot fail to produce an effect upon the public mind, now they have been adopted by and come from the able leader of the republican party in Congreas. Mr. Stevens commences with the assertion that, “so far as the financial condition of the republic is concerned, it is not, and never can be, in doubt or peril. With the products which wo can readily dispose of to supply the demand of every kind, there never can be a time when, with honest dealings, this republic will be unable to pay all her just liabilities.” Supposing he means by “honest dealings” an honest and a fair treatment of the taxpaying people by government, and by “just liabili- ties” the reasonable and fair demands of the public creditors and nothing more, we agree with him that there is no “doubt or peril” in the financial condition of the republic. But the question is, shall we have a government that will sustain the public credit and prevent the people from being burdened beyond for- bearance ? ; Ho says, “have not approved, and do.not now approve, of the financial policy pursued by our government for the last six years, I think we have thrown away our billions, and are still throwing away miliions by misman- agement.” Then, addressing his correspond- ent, who is a national banker, directly and personally, he says, “ you are a banker, and a sound one, but you are making more off the United States through the national banking system, as is every olher man who has adopted it (connected with it), than you ought to make.” All this is no less true than it is frank and ex- plicit, and shows clearly what Mr. Stevens thinks of the national banks and the financial policy of the government. He has never doubted, he says, that the government has the constitutional power to make money of whatever material it chooses, whether metal or paper, “ leather, tin or green- backs,” and to regulate its value; and, there- fore, legal tenders are, to all intents and pur- poses, the lawful money of the country—money in which all debts, public or private, may be legally and justly paid. “Money is just what the law makes it” He refers to'the fact that the government has at different times reduced the price of silver, and that when so reduced it was made to pasa to every creditor as well as debtor at the original price, and argues that there is che same power to issue and regulate the value of any other kind of money. He maintains, consequently, that it is just and proper for the government to pay the national debt in greenback lawiul money. Referring to the debt, he says, “now let us come to the government loan, and for a single moment consider it, which, even without the monstrous doctrine of Greeley and Cooke, is the most profitable investment ever made by money lenders, and is a monstrous-swindle on Americans on the pari of European capital- ists.” However, he would pay in full the “rich capitalists and speculators” who have made princely fortunes “through the folly of the government ;” but he does not think there is any obligation to force specie payments in order to pay two or three times over what they are only and justly entitled to. He shows beyond contradiction that in creating the loans there was no intention on the part of Congress to commit the govern- ment to @ payment of the principal in coin, except where this was expressly menti This matter was well considered and welt understood at the timo, and the bondholders have no reason to complain if paid in legal tenders. Speaking of this money, Mr. Stevens says:—“For two years the greenbacks were the most popular currency ever used in the United States, and, had there been no other, would not have failed to buy every necessary commodity for every use, public aiid private, without complaint; and if it swelled the currency of the country it also swelled business of every kind, foreign and domestic, ,eericaltural and manufacturing; so also i ‘swelled the income of business mon, thereby vastly increased the revenue of the government.” It ts unnecessary to follow Mr. Stevens through all his argument, as our readers bave it before them; but we cannot resist the desire to call attention to his ex; of the enormous profits the bondholders have made and are making out of the government and people; nor shall wo now discuss his views, with which woe do not agree, relative to pro- tection and the cotton tax. The great question at issue is the right of the government to pay, and the policy of paying. the debt in greenback lawful money. Upon this he remarks :—“V; methods are sug- gested to redeem the ta oarrency. Ons very oble welleg eumgonta # loan ig green: backs to their amount, so that af.erwards the greenbacks may be redeemed with the others. If we are satisfied that there is not more than a snfficient currency to do the business of the country, together with its probable increase, then that woald be the proper method, without inflating prices as » counterbalance to the saving. But if it is believed that the present and prospective business of the country would fairly absorb an amount large enough to redeem those bonds as they become due, and not injuriously increase business, then the true way would be for the government to issue legal tenders equal to the amount to be redeemed, and thus save the interest both of ‘the old and a new loan.” Of course, with these views, he deems the contraction of the currency of four mi lions & month, as now authorized, highly impolitic. Finally,jbo belioves the true way, if not the only one, to reach specie payments is to reduce the debt as proposed b fore any attempt be made to contract tho currency.{ Such are the views with regard to our natio finances that are spreading not only among the mass of the people, but among statesmen of the highest position as well. Renssombling of the Constitutional State September over the elections, will reassemble in Albany on Tuesday next, November 12. The dreary dulness which marked its proceedings up to the period of its temporary adjournment will be remembered even after tho excitement of the late heated political canvass. It will be curious and interesting to notice, on its reas- sembling, what effect the late emphatic popular verdicts on radical polioy and radical politi- cians will have upon the radical majority in the Convention. What will they do about negro suffrage, now that the radic.l-ridden State of Ohio, poor bleeding Kansas and their own im- mediate constituents have set the seal of con- demnation upon that mischievous measure? Wiil they dare to introduce it in the new con- stitution and thus insure the overwhelming defeat of all their procious and brain-torturing labors? Or will they dare risk the contempt of their unpltying radical frieads by not show- ing backbone enough to “fortify themselves where they stand ”’—that is, on the ramparts of niggersupremacy? They cannot fail to have seen, too, that the Congressional plan of recon- struction has been signally rebuked. How will this affect their sapient deliberations? There are also some other matters which these radical constitution tinkerera may do well to take cognizance of. Among these are the ar- bitrary Excise law and the rotten and corrupt patchwork they desire toestablish as a govern- ment for the metropolis. These schemes have been sent to the Tomb of the Capulets and buried there, with the weight of sixty-one thousand democratic majority upon the tomb- stone. ‘This is tho voice of the people of the city and of the State. Woe will see how far, in their official capacity, the majority in tie Con- vention will be governed by or respect it, telegraphic intelligence and lott-rs from our special correspondents which prove almost to @ domonstration that the Lialian difficulty is not yet settled. Garibaldi is set aside in the most effectual manner possible. But Gari- baldi, it is now manifest, was set aside by a Power against which, rightly or unrightly, he thought he had no right to calculate. It was not the Papal troops, but the soldiers of France, that routed the Liberator. Right was over- powered by might. not unnatural that Victor Emanuel should re- call his troops from the Roman territory. Italy was no match for France, and since France had landed in foree on her shores what could the Italian government do but yield? The yielding of tho Italian govern- ment did not convince us that the spirit which gave life and soul to this recent move- ment had died out. It only convinced us that Italy had yielded to a force which she could not control—nothing more. did not, therefore, surprise us. We feel only that the difficulty has been shoved asido, not settled. Insurrec ions, we are told, have taken place in different parts of Italy, the towns, in particular, being rebellions. This is most natural It is only what we had expecied. Our surprise will rather be that this fresh attempt to crush out popular liberty has not been met by a hearty rejoinder from all the centres of liberalism in Europe. Napoleon has unmis takably roveated the despot, and if liberal Europe cannot or will not see it the fault is not ours, but theirs. Meanwhile, we are not unwilling to believe that this victory of des potism will mark the commencement of a fresh popular effort. Lot us hope it may result in a popular triumph. what the President will do in view of the result of the elections and the assembling of Congress, and there are stories of arming and disarming pf militia and mustering of troops, and other acts of pitiful magnificence on the part of the Chief Magistrate. But this is not the case for discussion. what the President will do. once just what he ought to—stand still. Or 4f he commits any offence against public pro- priety it will only be in s message making some ridiculous interprotation of the recent elections as an expression in support of his policy. It is of far more importance to the country to know what will be the course of the national Legislature. What will Congress do? Will Congress bear in good faith and be Our Charter Electlone—The Majortey Agatuse ‘Tammany. 2 If the respectable democrats of the city of New York were allowed an oppormnity to-day to make choice of a candidate for Mayor, they would not be likely to name either Fernando Wood or John T. Hoffman. Yet it is a foregone conclusion that both these wornout politicians are to be forced into nomination; Wood, by the old seceding manipulators of Tammany, and Hoffman by ‘the secret caucus, close corporation, family money making ring at present control- ling the inside affairs of the Wigwam. In neither case have the people any voice in the matter, the machinery being worked by a hand- ful of men who run it to suit themselves, and the whole thing being cut and dried without any reference whatever to the sentiments or wishes of the voting public. It is about time that all this selfish clannish- neas and secret manipulation should be broken up, and that the men of the city who do the ‘voting, but have no share in tho spoils, should assert their independence ani refuse to be used any longer as the puppets of a few greedy politicians. Let them unite upon any good candidate of their own for Mayor, and they have the power to elect him. Tammany is in & large minority in the city, as the vote of last Tuesday, as well as the elections of other years, will show. In 1865, when Hoffman was elected Mayor, eighty-three thousand votes were cast, of which he received only thirty-three thousand, leaving s ms- jority of seventeen thousand on the popular vote against him. He was successful only be- cause the opposition was divided between three other candidates, and his plurality over the highest of these was only a few hundred votes. In 1866, seventy-one thousand votes were cast for City Comptroller, of which the Tammany candidate received only nineteen thousand, leaving again a majority of seventeen thousand in the popular vote against that or- ganization. The opposition was divided, as im 1865, between three candidates, yet the Tam- many plurality over the highest was only twe thousand. On Tuesday last the majority cast’ against the Tammany nominees was yet more decisive. Qutof one hundred and eleven thou sand votes for Sheriff the Tammany nominee received forty-two thousand only, leaving the large majority of twenty-seven thousand against that organization. At the same time everybody knows that James O’Brien, the popular Tammany candidate for Sheriff, ob- tained a large number of votes that will not be cast for Hoffman. The weakness of Tammany is evident from these figures. With a democratic majority of sixty-one thousand in the whole city last Taes- day her candidates were left in a minority of twenty-seven thousand.on the popular vote, and only obtained success because of the dis- traction of the opposition. Whenever a deter- mined fight is made against'a Tammany tool he is certain of defeat. In one Assembly dis- trict last Tuesday, James Irving, a self-nomi- nated candidate for the Legislature, beat the Tammany nominee out of sight. It only needs the combination of those opposed to the greedy, grasping, close corporation clique of the Old Wigwam to ensure the defeat of Hoff- man by ten thousand majority. It is true that Fernando Wood is in the field, but as one of the old inside manipulators of Tammany he will only draw from Hoffman's strength. The German lager beer element and the Irish whiskey element will go with him against Puritanism and professed piety, and there is little doubt that he will beat Hoffman’s vote. But if the respectable people of the city will unite upon a good citizen they cam seoure the defeat of both these hackneyed ting politicians. Such a man as Andrew H. Green, of the Central Park Commission, would command the full support of the opposition, and should be nominated and run as an inde- pendent candidate and voted for without re- gard to party. He has been the principal executive member of the Commission, and has achieved in the Park a magnificent tri- umph, unequalled in any city in the world. Many millions of dollars have passed through his hands and been honestly expended, and his ability is as unquestioned as his integrity. The Democratic Union, the republicans and all who are opposed to the selfish cliques of Tam- many, the Pecksniffian piety of Hoffman and the magnificent rascality of Fernanlo Wood, should at once put him in the field, bid de- flance to the close corporation cliques, and elect him Mayor of the city. Coavention, ‘This body, having adjourned on the 24th of The Romae Question. In the Hanatp of yesterday we printed Considering all the facts of the case, it was The telegraphic news of yesterday morning Suspeusion of the Rectifying Business. ‘The Metropolitan Board of Internal Revenue, in their zeal to suppress all frauds in their department, have adopted a rather high-handed course in seizing on all spirits bought in opem market by the rectifiers when the price does not reach the amount of the government tax. The consequence is that all the rectifying busi- ness in New York is completely suspended. The leading members of the trade have con- sulted on the matter and have made a publie statement of their grievances, They say that they buy the spirits in open market with the necessary brands on each ,» and that they should not be held responsible for the failure of the government officials to collect the tax from the proper parties. The law refers only to the producer, and not to the rectifier. The business of the latter, amounting to some millions ofdollars annually, has been effectually destroyed by the course of the revenue officers. They express a determination of having the mat- ter brought to an issue and obtaining a definite decision from the department on the question. An act of Congreas, defining the duties” of the government officials and the rights of the rec- tifors in this particular, would be the best and most measure te remedy the evil’ and restore sach en important branch of business to this city. Pollard and Parten as Historinns, Pollard wrote the First Year of the War, the Second Year of the War, and all the other years—e precious piece of history that will be. useful in the future as an example to writers: ‘what not to eay on certain subjects. He wrote also the Lost Cause, and Lee and his Lieuten- ants, and the latter has brought out the illus- trious Wise and the t Virginian, who declares that the Muse of History, as seen in Pollard’s pages, is & lying good-for-nothing. Pollerd is for the South, it would seem, just what Parton is for the North. Parton has written history, too, and in the form of biogs, raphy, in the North Review. He has presented Webster as @ drunken debauchoo,, Calhogn ase crasy man, end bea paid suck thinge What Will Congress Do? ‘There is much question and discussion as to We know very well He will do for governed by the declaration of the people that reconstruction on tho nigger supremacy basis is not to their liking? Or will it refuse to recogn'ze this voice and rush blindly forward, regardless of any result but the realization of @ fanatical idea? Congress may see, if it will, exactly what will suit the nation. It must be content to retrace the recent dreadful strides of the radical revolutionary spirit, and must clearly and squarely place itgelf on that amendment to the constitution which has been accepted by the Northern people, whose prin- ciples are sound and safe, and promise @ recon~ struction that will be natural and peaceable. This is the only course for Congress. It must wipo vut the false reconstruction of the last Congress, just as that Congress wiped out the reconstruction of the President, and, starting from the constitutional amendment 94 accepted, base all reconstruction on its prinpiples. Will Qounrons do this}.