The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, ¢AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heraxy. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four conts per copy. Annual subscription price $14, THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five Cuns per copy. Annua! subscription price:— One Copy... Three Copics.. 3 of évery description, abso Stereotyping and bagruving, neatly and promptly executed at the lowest rales. No. 318 Volumo XXXII. AMUSBMBNTS THIS EVENING. ene FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street—Tax Gaaxp Dvcaes BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Batte or ms Fav- soreg—Bonnm: Lesa Wire, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broaq) —Bisox Caoox, NEW ‘YORK THEATRE, opposite New York iotel.— Norwoon. OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—A = Mipsumaxn Nigut’s Duras, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and tn street,— SELLe's STRATAGEM. GERMAN STADI THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— TANNHAKUSER. yBROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Ticxst or Lrave AN, BANVAKD'S OPERA way und thirtieth stree AND MUSEUM, Broad. Avoriox, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Foucteonth street.—Grievasrics Feqvestrianis, &c. FIFTH AVENUE THEA’ Zand 4 West 2th street.— Atapptin—Foo Mven For Goop Narurs. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Wurre, Corton 2 Seanrcer’s Mixsvumis, SAN FRANCTSCO M ion Exrrarainnx: RELS, 585 Broadway.+-Ernto- DaNcina axp BUULESQUKs. RELLY & 720 Broadway.—Soxas, Tasers, Ecexs us, Ac. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Comic Vocasise, NzGno MiNsTRELAT, 0. RIQUTH AVENUE 0} MOUSE, corner Thirty-fourth street.—Minsrncisy, F ac. BUTLER'S AMERICAN ZBBATRE. 472 Broadway.— BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth stroet.—Tax Piverin. STEINWAY TALL.—Gaaxp Coxcarr sr tux Axor Vocas Sevisrr. NOOLEY'S OPERA MOU3E, Brooklya.—Kraioriuy Minsreeisy, Datcaps anh Buecesquas. BROOKLYN OPE: D nl PS ‘BA HOUSR, Williamsburg. —Nosopr's FINE ART GALLERIES, 345 Bi 1 Pong roadway,—Exminitioy or NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— AND Any, No, 812, BROADWAY.—Bat's Staroz or Epwix For- exsr as ConoLanus. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street. mR. SHEET. TRIPLE New Vork, Thursda: EUROPE. ‘the mews ropors by the Atlantic Cable is dated yester- fay evening, November 13. General Menabrea’s note on the Roman question pro- fnced a soothing effect in Iialy, but the national press remains unanimous in the expression that there can be no adjustment of the difficulty with the Pope. Napoleon proposes a conference on the Italo-Roman question, but toes not suggest a pian or basis of deliberation. The colony of Porto Kico is to be ruled from Cuba in the future, English rovorta say that« number of politi. tal arrests have been made in Paris, and that Napoleon's foverament has been made aware of the existence of a (Q0W secret po itical society for political objects, Consols closed at 94%, for money, in London. Five. Swonties wore at 70 3-11 ia London and 763-16 in Frankfort. ‘The Liverpool cotton market closed doll, with mia- dling uplands at 8!¢ pence, Breadstails lower aad dowaward. Provisions slightly lower. THE CITY. Mr, Fernando Wood accepted the nomination for the Mayoralty ata largo mars meeting held at the Cooper Kastitute last night. In his speech be vigorously at lacked the expensive honesty and respectab'e incompe- tency of Mayor Hoffman, and developed a comprenen- tive scheme of municipal reform, putting bimseif tor- ward as the man to carry it through, ' The Board of Audit met yesterday, when an opinion Of the Corporation Counsel was sibmitied to tho effect that he deemed it his duty to withbold his consent to the Corporation appearing a5 8 defendant before the Bonrd. He urged several points in support of his dect+ sion, averring (hat the Board was not competent ac- cording to the constitution to try such cases as have Deon daily brough: before it, The Episcopal D.ocesan Convention met yesterday at 8t, John's chapel, in Varick street, Bishop Potter pre- sided, No businers of importance was transacted, and the convention adjourned uniil to-day. r The Young Men's Coristian Convention met yesterday at Dr. Rogers’ cburch, on Fifth avenue, A permanent organization was effected, with W. K. Dodge, Jr,, as President, fovoral addresses wore delivered and the Convention adjoarned. At the Repubiican Convention held iast aizht Hon, Willem A. Darling was, on the first formal bailot, nomi. nated for the Mayoralty. The vote was ninety-iwo to Afty-siz, Me, Darling's competitor being Hon. Abrabam Lat, State Senator. The meteoric showers did not appear in much foree deat night. Five or six little aquibs of metoors were Aigcornible to those on the lookout for them, but mothing alarming appeared. To-night positively 19 their Gast appearance. The ease of John C. Braine, the alleged Chesapeake Pirate, was brought up im the United States Circuit ‘Court, Brooklyn, yesterday, the prisoner belug preseat. ‘Ho wtated that he desired a trial, but his counsel was in Washington. The Court set the trial tor Monday. 1! Jeromih Hardigan, who was committed on tha charge of Killing Daniel Priel im this city on election day, was edmitted to dail in $5,000. (orill Clee a8 the Post Ofioe, for Crest Briain and tne WWerman States, at half-pest ten this morning. 1 The eteamehip Lodona, Captain Hovey, belonging to ©. B, Mallory & Ca.’s Southern line, will leave pier 20 Fast river, Burling slip, ab 3 P. M to-day (Thureday) for ) The stock market was strong yesterday. Government Decurities were firm. Gold was strong and ricited, and at 140% 0 140%. Business ia commercial circles yesterday was mode. commodities were . Cotfee eed firm, while cotton was im fair demand (pce. lower, On ‘Change flowr advaacod 100 0 15¢., wheat and corn were firmer, the latter, (aut and sominal, Oats wore bi | ~oobeynney and beef and lard were unchanged. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. rally heavy, and petroleam was in moderate request, ‘Dut at lower prices, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The counsel for the prosecution ia the case of Jof. Davis bad a loog interview with Auorney General Stan- bery yesterday, at which it was determined to proceed with the trial op (he 26th inetant, oa the original indict- ment. Chief Justice Chase presided in the court’at Richmend yestorday. Goneral Grant hes issued several orders relative to economizing inthe army, Im one he lays down rules | for the government of commanding officers in contrac:- ing for supplies, and in another for the employment of civiliens in the army. Thad Stevens arrived at West Phitadelphia yesterday ina special cor on bis way to Washington, He was sit- ting up and his inp bad not fatigued him. Wendelt Phillipa claims that when the President is 1 impeached and convicted, ail his past ects should be declared tilegal and his pardons revoked. Official returns of the Kansas eleotion show the majority against negro euffrage im the most populous counties to have been 7,668, and against female suffrage 8,455, In the State Constitutional Convention yesterday Mr. James Brooks raised the point of order that the Conven- tion no longer had a legal existenco, because the act by which it was convened sot forth that te amendments must de submitted to the people at tho next genoral election, which had already taken place, The Attorney Gerera! had given it as bis opinion that there was no authority for making disbursements 40 meet expenses incurred by a continuation of the Convention, The point of order was overruled. The Convention Onally went into Committee of the Waole om Finance and Canals. After discussion the Committee of the Whole was discharged {som further consideration of the subject. In the Alabama Convention yesterday the report of the Committee on Finance was adopted. The session was mainly devoted to discussion on the franchise quas- tion, ‘The cost of the military establishment in Virginia for the last ten months was $5,000,000. The citizens of Botetourt county, Virginia, have ad; dressed a petition to General Schofield praying for the suppression of armed negro leaguos by the military. The heirs of Anneke Jans, who claim the Trinity church property, met im convention at Poughkeopsio yesterday, There were two hundred mea and women present. ‘The firm of Senecal & Mergs, in Montreal, has faited to tho amount of $400,000, Toey were largely iaterest- ed m the United otates lumbor trate, Weston passed through Rochester yesterday in good condition, although the roads were bad, Ho says he is not ip league with any one to raise the bets on his hundred mile feat, and that he will make tue feat in tho stipplated time goon after be leaves Buffalo, Sylvester Quilier, a negro, is to be executed at Bliza- beth, N, J., to-day, for the murder of Georso Firmer in June last, A woman 1s algo to be executed in clearfiold, Pa, for the murder of her husband. A white marcged woman iw Charlestoa, S. C., recently eloped with a Massachusetts darky. Congress and Our National Finances. In a tew days Congress will meet again, and will meet under peculiar circumstances, None of its predecessors evor met under such an ex- traordinary state of affiirs, both politically and financially, particularly as regards our national finances, It is not a new Congress, but since its last session terminated a surpris- ing change bas taken place in public senti- ment, The voice of the people, from one end of the country to the other, proclaim: loudly the condemnation of its measures and weak- The blatant and violent radica's who was able at all tim-s not only to silence oppo- silion, but even to carry its measures over the veto of the Presideat by the constitutional two-thirds vote. I: had no excuse whatever for bad legislation or ior not doing its duty to the country. Looking at this fact and at the popular judg- ment pronounced against this weak and reck- less Congress, we are curious to see what will be its conduct on reassembling. In its pride and moriification it may become more reckless still and defy public opinion. Tuere are ex- amples in history where such violent and revo- lutionary Jacobins have set themselves up above the people. But if they should dare to act so they will only intensify the odium with which they are now regarded. There may be, however, a suffi:ient number of m»mbers in both houses conservative and patriotic enough to respect the will of the pzople as expressed at the late clections. We may see men of sa- gacity, prudenco and foresighi—such men, per- haps, as Senators Sherman, Trumbull, or Fes- senden—put themselves in the breach to stem the torrent of radicalism and save the couatey from the evils thelr party has brought upon us. The conduct of Congress will be watched with intense interest, und the people will surely mark those members who may persist in their radical and destructive course. With regard to mere political matters or to the question of reconstruction, Congress has done a8 much mischief as it well could do. Much of this mischief is irreparable, at least for the present. The South, that magnificen: aad richly productive portion of our country, has been turned over to negro domisiation—to the govervment of semi-barbarians. Lit le can be done now to arrest the disaster. It must run its course for a while. The reaction in time will sweep away the obnoxious features of reconstruction. The day is not far off when the people of the whole North—this proud Caucasian while race—wiil demand the emancipation of their white brethren in the South from the barbarous rule of the ne- groesa. In the meantime there are other ques tions of the highest importance looming up and requiring skilful management. Laying aside the question of reconstruction, the one which overshadows all others is that ot our national finances. The expenditure of the federal government is something like five bundred miliions of dollarsa year, with the prospect that, under the disorganized state of the South and a costly military despotism Yhere, it will soon exceed that This, together with the burden of State, county and municipal debts and extravagant local expenditures, swells the aggregate amount of taxation to thousand millions. The local government of the city of New York alone costs over twenty millions of dol- lars, Reckless extravagance is tne curso of all parties, for here we are under democratic rile; bat it is just to say that the stupendous debt and frightful taxation of the federal gov- ernment are the rosult of radical republican misrule. A thousand millions of taxation! What people ever bore such « weight? How can we continue to bear it? We must remom- ber, too, that nearly all thie barden falls upon the North. Under the destructive legislation of Congress the South will be less and les able to aid in carrying thie burden. Twenty- five millions of people have to bear o thousand millions of taxation! Forty dollars a head for t ness. have wasted the time oi Congress in spouting about and clamoring for impeachment of the President are themselves impeached by a higher powor. They have beon tried betore the bar of public opinion, and a scathing ver- dict bas been pronounced against them. This dominant party was all-powerful; there was but the shadow of opposition; it wore also wagbaaged, Navel gioree wore goae: | @vory man, woman sad child! Or for ovory Pat o wf head of a tam:ly from two to three hundred dollars a year! How are the working classes to endure such taxation? At least a third of all they earn goes directly or indirectly to governmen'. No people in the worid are taxed anything like this, Even in Great Britain, where they are more heavily taxed than anywhere else, except in this republic, taxes do not amount to half what we bave 0 bear. Our people bore this patiently until the war was finished and the Union made secure, but they will certainly mot bear it long in time of peace, Yet we sve a certain class of politicians and journals, allied with the bondholders and the national bank oligarchy, which would increase the weight of the debt and make it a perpetual burden. They would reduce the currency and thereby reduce the means of the people and the revenues of the government, ao as to adi torty per cont to the wealth of the bondhoid- ers, If the insane demands of these people for apecie paym:nts could be complied with we could neither pay the debt nor bear the tax- ation to meet the interest We should be bound down as socurely and perpetually under a stupondous debt as the people of Eng- land are. Tho first thing Congress ‘should do, then, is to reduce the expenditures of government ‘o the utmost and to make a corresponding re- duction in taxation. The system of revenue should be simplified and tho expensive ma- chinery now us-d to col'cot it abolished. All burdens upon productive industry, as that of the cotton tax, should be removed. Mr. McCulloch should be stopped from curtailing the cu-rency any more; and, if necessary to stimulate production, to reduce the debt, to make money abundint and easy, and, thereby to secure a large revenue, an additional amount of legal tenlers might be gradually and pru lently issued. But by all means the nation.l bank notes should be withdrawn and greenbacks issued in thoir place. By doing this the government could liquidate at once three buniret millions of interest bearing bonis and save twenty-five millions a year: As much of tho debt as possible should be paid at once, and continued to be paid, while the currency is deprecia'ed. By cancelling three hundred millions of the inieres. bearing debt by sub- st.tuting legal tenders for nation! bank notes, and by using the surplus moaey in the Trea- sury, five hundred millions of the debt would be paid at once. Then, by following the course we have suggested, another five hun- dred mill.ons might be liquidated im the course of a few yeare, Thus, in less than five years @ thousan J millions, or one-half of the interest bearing debt, could be paid. All this might be done, too, with reduced taxation, if the Gnanoes be properly managed and th» govern- meat administered economically. This is the important work for Congress to set about doing. It cannot be ignored or delayed long without plunging tho country into inex ricable difficulties. Lt that body, then, drop the negro and att:nd to the national finances as s00a a3 it reassembles, Tho Mayoralty Biection—Woed and Hofl- maa, Mr. Fernando Wood addressed a largs num- ber of his political adherents at Cooper Institute last night, and “a:cepied” a nomination for Mayor, the peculiar value of which was, as he declared, that it did not compromise his inde- pemdence. Hoe seizsd the occasion to assure his auditors, with that noble pride in personal bonor that is so beautiful » part of a politi- @ian’s character, that he would “never, no, tuever” consent to be Mayor it he had to accept the nomiaation and election to that office from “a convention of hirelings,” and had to go into his place bound to prosecute mere party sobemes. He addressed the public pariicularly on the great advantage in point of economy that there would be in making him Mayor instead of Hoffman. He lid great strass on the fact that he was so much the cheaper of the two, In working this point to the utmost he was right’ A ocortain wise saw expresses an intelligible preference for the devil we do know as compared with the devil we don’t know ; and in this expression is enun- ciated the only principle that the most diligent observer can find in the contest ‘now opening, and of which Wood’s spocch, that appears in another column, is part. Rascality must be assumed as the universal postulate in politics. Do what we can, say what we may, argue, de- nounce, combine, reform agitations—or any other sort of azitations—when all is dono that is possible, we cannot help having a rascal at the head of our municipal government. This is history and reason. It is the necessity of the situation, and flows from our system as naturally and inevitably as taough determined by « mathematical law. Rascality assumed, th-refore, the only question to determine is, Which rascal shall we have? So far, the con- test seems to have sharpened down to an issue between Hoffman and Fernando Wood. Wood we know. His terms are nine million dollars. Under his administration the legiti- mate city expenditure and the stealings lumped together had tha! limit’ But under Hoffman nino millions was a bagatelle, Expenditure under this Mayor ran up to twenty-four hun- dred millions, and wien last heard from was increasing ata magnificent rate ; so that neither prophet nor politician can say what it may not reach. Here, then, is certainty on the one band and uncertainty on the other, in the only poiut of im, ortance, the expenditure, including stealings, Under Fernando Wood we shall have cheap rascality. Under Hoffman we shall have the same article enormously dear ; dear not only beyond precedent and calcula tion, but beyond conjecture ; and indeed there is no knowing but wo may have common sense insulted in having this high-priced, extortion- ate, unscrupuious, plundering rascality ehoved at us in tho name of economy and reform. Since rascality is inevitable is it not some ad- vantage to have it as cleap as possible? ‘The President's Speech Last Night. The President was serenaded last mght, and in reponse made a speech commiondably short and common place. He declared that the con- sotvative victories in the recent elections were an indication of the readincss of the people to rally and rebuke the encroachments of power, and that, as the result, “the rod of despotism will be broken, the armed heel of power lifted from the meoks of the people, and the prin- ciples Of @ Violated constitution preserved ;” in which there is ® proportion of sound and fury, but which, wo take it, means about as little as the most earnest friond of the Presi- dont ngd the gountry could desire, The Pope’s Encyclical. In ycsterday’s Heratp we printed the latest Eneyc'ical of Pope Pius the Ninth. The docu- ment is lengthy and full of great sorrow. The Pope begins, as is the cnstom, with thanks to God, and ends by bestowing blessings upon all the faithful ; but it is evident from the inter- vening space that the thanks are given with a kind of grudge and that the blessings are not bestowed in the spirit of Him who gave the command, “Love your enemies.” The juilg- ments of God are proverbially bard to bear. In the present instance the Pope finds them “impenetrable,” and the days of the yeurs of his reign he oan only speak of as “ sorrowful.” We do not say that his Holiness does not bow to the atern decrees of the Unseen, but no one can read the Encyclical before us without feel- ing that he bows not willingly. The Ency- clical, in fact, i @ long and a» dreary lamenta- tion, The stats of affairs in Italy, which ho persistently refuses to dignify with the name of kingdom, and the atate of affairs in Russia and the kingdom of Poland, he wailingly deplores. It is evident at a glance that the old man is in high duigeon. His vocabulary of abusive epithets seems well nigh exhausted in characterizing the directors of public affairs in Italy. They are mon “walking in iniquity and serving under the banner of Satan ;” men “upon whose forehead is written falsohood; robels turning their mouths against Heaven, sullying and con- tomning every sacred thing, treading under foot all diyins and human right and breathing carnaze like rapacious wolves.” Such is a specimen of the language through which the Holy Father fluds vent to his feelings. Russa, who has for some time past, particularly since the suppression of the last Polish insurrection,” been proselytizing in Poland and the other Roman Catholic districts with rathor a vigorous hand, is dealt with scarcely more lenieatly. Vain thunder! What does ltuly—what does Russia care for the Pops’s abus2? Italy will go on to her destiny in spite of him, and Russia will bo as deaf to his anathemas as ever. We cannot, however, refuse to admit that the document is interesting. To us it is particularly ao. It shows us how much wrath miy be lodged in a human heart, although that heart should beatin the breast of the Vicar of Christ It shows us how completely the world has eman- cipated itself from clerical tyranny, and how wide is the gulf which separates the world of the nineteenth from the world of the sixteenth century. It is altogether an interesting relic of 9 dead and buried past. In consideration of the heavy calamities which have befallen the Church, and in order that these calamities be removed, his Holiness ordains throughout the Catholic world a triduum of prayers, to take place within » ftar from the present time. To all who shall taith- fully take part in these devotions, indulgences are to be granted. These indulgences are skilfully graduated according to merit. Pl.nary indulgence—an indulgence? covering all the acts of this life, and implying, we believe, immediate admission to the ragions of the blest—is to be the portion of all thoée of either sex who shall ass‘st personally in the public prayers of the entire three days. An indulgence of seven years and of seven separate periods of forty days each is to be the portion of those of either sex who shall personally adsist in the public prayers on any one of the three days. Indulgences similarly graduated are to be granted, on proper application, to the spirits ot departed friends who may now be in pur- gatory. How the sevon years are to be ap- plied in this Inst case we are not told. It would, we presums, be rather disagreeable to ve released for seven years from that mysteri- ous prison house and then remorselessly thrust back. But the initiated will doubtless sce a way of getting over this difficulty, It is im- possible to refuse to admit that these offers are generous beyond all description. It is equally undeniable that no Church in the world could present to its adhercrits such magnificent en- couragements to duty. It will be strange indeed if the offers are not accopted, the encouragoments not yielded to. If Victor Emanuel and bis infidel advisers are not con- founded and put to sbamy, if the rude Musco- vite is not driven back to his native wilds, it will not, we may rest assured, be for the want of prayers. We read somewhere in the Scriptures of the “kingdom of heaven suffering violence.” Heaven, surely, was never in greater danger of suffering violence than now. It isnot merely that the whole Catholic world will be in arms; the magnificence of the re- wards held out can scarcely fail to produce desertion in the Protestant ranks and swell the great Catholic army. This last may prove to be the happiest thought which ever emanat- ed trom the brain of Pius the Ninth. If this scheme does not sottle the Roman question nothing will. In the event of this, too, proving a failure, we seriously advise his Holiness to abandon the Old World, which has proved itself 30 unworthy of bim, and to come over and take up his residence in the New. Hun- dreds of thousands would hail his arrival on our shores. Th» best homes in the States would be open to receive him. Our grand new cathedral will soon be ready for him, and we have money enough to build him another Vatican. The Winter Fashions. In another column of the Heratp we give the latest winter styles, as exhibited at the openings of some of the leading metropolitan establishments, [t will gratity the ladies to warn that they will not be tied down to any narrow rule of fashion this winter, for the styles in everything are more varied than they have beon in any previous season. The term “ latest fashions from Paris ” is fast falling into disrepute, owing to the practice of some of the American buyers selecting their goods at fourth rate houses and thereby receiving the cast-off styles and goods of the previous see- son. Where an establishment has & agency in Paris each a state of things cannot happen. There are some very elegant and bevoming designs in, winter toilets which have their origin in this city. The favor with which they are receljjed should encourage our maodistes to cut \ a8 soon’ ae possible, from the trammols of Paris demi-monde and originate styles m suitable for American ladios. Many of winter toilets are con- siderably modified ¢om the Paris standard, and few of its obnoxtops and oulré vagaries find favor here, ModeBing fashions accordiag to the rule and not exceptions of the best soolety in Burope ead adapting thom to the wants of our climate and tastes, will undoubt- edly tend to mike a modiste popular and well patronized in this city. The Rampus in Revenue Mutters—Collector Bailey om the Kawpage. The confusion in ihe whiskey business in the Metropolitan district, instead eof abating with tims, seems only to grow worse con- founded. The arrest of collectors accused of dishonesty in office, and the removal of com- missioners, the seizure of distillery after distil- lery, the shifting and changing of officials from Washington to Now Yo.k and vice versa, only serve to increase the muddle and to leave the government in a more deplorable condition than before, Mysterious weaith still flows in upon revenue officers with lamentably small salaries, and the Treasury receipts diminish month after month, Secretary MeCalloch tooks on in bewild2rment and finds in what- ever direction he may turn a maz: of forgery, fraud end floanoial rain beiore him. In the meantime Collector Bailey goes about like a roaring lion, seeking what illicit whiskey he may devour, and spreading dismay among all who have spirits, legal or illogal, rectified or unrectified, im their possession. It appears that Collecior Bullzy, finding shat experience has rendered the distillers sharp enough to hide thoir stills in all manner of undiscover- able holes ani cornors, has resorted to the expedient of seizing the raw material in the several reciifying houses, ani confiscating it as “fraudulent whiskey,” unless the clearest proof can b» produced that it has paid the government tax, If the whiskey has been pu.chased in the open mark:t at @ price less toan th» real value of the material, plus the governm:nt tax, that is prima facie evidence, says the inflexible Bailey, that no tax has been paid upon it. If the rectifier has bought one thousand barrels of spirits from a distiller wiao has pro- duced the collecior’s receipt for tho tax on the same, that is nothing to the unbelieving Bailey, who declares taat his brother officials have “laid in” with the disiiller and given nim duplicate receipts of one thousand dol- lars each five times over, covering five thou- sand barrols, while they have only collected the tax upon on? thousand. No matter if the barrels are branded an mirked with all the hieroglyphics known to that most incom- prehensible of all mysteries, the Revenue De- pariment, the incredulous Bailey heeds them not; like the money lender of the Rialto, he must have his bond. Certain special’ powers have been assigned to him by the goverament which enable him to extend his sweeping operations beyond the limits of bis own dis- trict, and his energy se2ms a3 unsccepiable to some of his fellow revenue officera as to the ditect whiskey dealing fraternity. He m snags to put them all out of spirits in more ways than one. The rectifiers are especially indig- nant at bis summary course of procedure. If we purchase our whiskey in good faith, they say, and find the barrels properly branded or see the collector’s receipt for ths tax upon the lot we buy, fi is our owa bus'ness what price werpay serit If we get it cheap that is our good fortuié, aid misuy an article fa mackei is sold for less than it costs. So they insist that they are very harsily dealt with by the obdu- rate Bailey, and some of them decide to shut up shop until his reign of power shall end—a consummation they devoutly wish—while all of them agree to make a raid upon Washing‘on to claim prot:ction from the terrible Bailey at the hands of the bewildered McCullooh or the It is very evident that no permanent stop can be put to the enormous frauds in the dis- tillation of spirits until a complete change is made in opr whole revenue system, which is now nothing but a mass of corruption from top to bottom. The disease has got so thoroughly into the bone that it will never come out of the fiesh. Collector Bailey, like a skilful and bold surgeon, may.cut and elash, removing s tumor bere aad lopping off a rotten limb there, but nothing can save the patient’ He must die and be buried, and a mew being must be born in his place. At present the honest trader cannot hope to be protected. A good law can be ad- ministered by faithful officers firmly but mod- erately, and is « protection to the upright man. But our present revenue laws are so loose and 80 unpolitic, and our whole revenue force has become so thoroughly d»moral.zed, that an official, if he desires to protect the government at all, must do many barsh and probably un- just acts, which, under other circumstances, he would be the most anxious to avoid. In this view Collector Bailey’s famous raid may be productive of good, in bringing the matter to acrisis, It seems peculiarly hard, under a government of equal rights and protection to all men, that an honest merchant should be in- jured in his business by the hand of the law; but on the other hand it is a disgrace to the country that the grossest frauds upon the rev- enue should be practised in the broad light of day, and the guilty parties be permitted to laugh at the law ond defy justice. Better abol- ish taxation upon distilled spirits altogether, and let whiskey go free, than break down honest dealers and demoralize the whole people by system concetved in fraud and born in corruption. We see no beter way out of all those difficulties than to repeal the present laws, make new ones, sond McCalloch so Indiana, and all his subordinates, big and sittle, to another place, and make Collector Bailey grand constable, general-in-chief and high cockaloram of the new Revenue Depart- ment Impeachment and Disqualification. The radical leaders in Congress have been exhausting their legal knowledge and argu- mentative powers in the attempt to prove that a public officer, when impeached, ,is debarred from exercising bis official functions pending bis trial and the final verdict. Well, the people have impeached the radical Congress, in the recent elections, for high crimes and misdemesnors against the government. We insist that che radical representatives, if they desire to be consistent, must immediately put on their hats and overcoats, vacate their seats and leave Washington. They may depend upon it that the final verdict will never put them back again. Wisdom in Massachusetts. Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, accepts the recent verdict at the polls as an informal repeal of the Excise law in that State, and directs that no more proceedings be taken to enforces it, Governor Fenton should do the eame thing and direct all his satraps and snbor- dinates (hat “ihe will of the people is the law ot the lend." The Meteors. At about twelve o'clock on Tuosday mgat « brillant meteor shot athwart the northern sky, as the precurapr of the grand celestial display announced by astronomers for the 13.h or th» ° 14th of November, 1867, As soon a8 Wo saw Tuesday night’s meteor we asked, “Where is Professor Loomis?” Echo answered that the erudite but short-sighted Professor, disgusted at having béen forced by the Hxraup and the heavens to “see stare” against his will last year, had gone to the other side of the Atlantic. Poor Loomis seems doomed to be mistaken. He was mistaken in predicting here a motoorts shower which did not. occur; he was most grievously mistaken in contradicting the Hxpatp’s telegraphic report of » moteorio shower which did occur there; and now he is again mistaken in going there to see s metoorie shower which is to occur here, and not there. For there, as well as on the Pacific, the antici- pated meteoric shower is not likely to be visible. But on the Atlantic, in Canada, im the United States and in Mexico, the astrono- mers have agreed in predicting that this Gfty- third exhibition of filling meteors eince the beginning of the Christian era, would be no jess splendid and aw‘ul than the one which illuminated our skies on the 12th of November, 1833. We need not repeat the vivid recollee- tions which we gave last year of that extraor dinary spectacle. Suffics it to say that it sioned scarcely less widespread alarm, cially among the ignorant negroes of the South, than the meteoric showers of 1106 in Judea and of 1117 in Ethiopia. By that of LUT Ethiopia “was half crazed,” and we shall not be surprised to hoar of some resolution by @ colored delegate to the Montgomery Conven- tion expressive of equally superstitious bewil- derment on the part of his sable constituents, in view of the meteoric shower of 1867. In the political firmament the November elections have opened the eyes of many an incredulous Loomis among the radicals to as dreadful a sight of falling stars as that offered by the No- vember storm of meteors. i : Cheap Theatros. We perceive that the opera prices are re- duced—a fact which, we take it, argues, or might be so supposed, that the quality of the entertainment must be reduced also, ia order to make it pay. Now, we do not want cheap talent at low rates, It will not do to import second or third class artistes from Europe at small salaries with a view simply to keep up Italian opera. The public got disgusted with having to pay reasonable prices for very poor talent, and they will not consent to accept a lesser order cf talent, even at a lower price, while they are perfsct!y willing to pay for the best artistes at an equitable figure. t The genius of the American’ people ts op- posed to cheap things. They do not recognize value in anything unless they have to pay o good price for it. Least of all will they bave cheap theatres, If ever there was a tendensy war and the exiravagant notions that grow out of it A people who can run up & vast ne- tional debt of three thousand millions, and cam receive the tax collector with a complacent smite and dismiss him with a polite bow after satisfying his demands, will never con- sent to accept a one dollar opera from This will be « splendid »uilding, and is now almost completed. Other tacatres we have, too, with respectable and attractive performances— “moral lessons,” as at the Broadway; moral warnings, like the Black Crook and Devil’s Auction, respectively at Niblo’s and Banvard’s ; the “legitimate” at Waliack’s; the pious ani patriotic, but watery, interpretation of Beeoher at the Now York theatre, and the spectacular and mythological at the Olympic; but who expects to enjoy these misceliancous luxuries for halfprice? The idea is vulgar; it un- popular ; in fact, it won’t do. People will not have anything that they do not pay for. Wuat Apovr me Lxpractuent?- wes to impeach ihe President, but in the mean- time the people, in the late elections, have impeached Congress. Who is going to be tried? Suna TURF. Baltimore. Battinone, Nov. 13, 1967. ‘The third day of the Hernng Run Course races wee Races at For the Grat rece, tur a putse of $1,000, Moustain Maid, Fanny Alien and Mary entered, end it was wou Faany Allen. Time, 2:90, 2:37, 2:37%. For second ree, a five mile dash, Bolie of Baltimore, and Langley entered. The race was wou by Belle of Baltimore in 14:383¢, It being gond time for the weather and the coudition of the track. Racing at Memphte. | ba ‘Menraw, Nov. 13, 1867, Bg For the citizens’ purse of $600, two mile heats, free for all, three entries were mate and it was won by Countorproof in two boats; time, 3:42, 3:44 ‘The second race for the Association stakes of $600 waa eon by Mary Wyong "2,