The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1868, Page 4

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The Pacha of Egypt recalled his army contingent from Abyssinia at the request of England, Famine prevails in Moroceo, Fivo-twentica were at 764 im Frankfort. clined in Paris on Saturday, MISCELLANEOUS. Our advices from Valparaiso are to January 3. The success of Canseco’s revolt in Peru was generally re- garded as the end of the Chileno-Peravian alliance, As Veru is considerably imdebted to Chile on naval aecount, aad Canseco stands on the record as friendly to Spain, not a lide uneasiness pervades society in Chile as to the futare relations of (be two republics. The Arapcanian @avages bad commenced hostilities in the south of Chile. On December 26 a tremendous fire broke out in Val- paraiso, destroying tbe government arsenal and a long line of temporary buildings erected near the site of the Custom houses burned by the Spanish fleet in 1866, The Joss was estimated at $126,000. Melipulli has been made ‘® port of entry, Advices from Honolulu ure received to the 20th of January, The delay of the United States in ratifying the treaty with the rslands had caused a great depression in trade, Captain Long publishes in a Honolulu paper au socount of bie newly discoverea Polar continent. He claims to have been within tem miles of where Wrangtt discovered the Polar Sea, aud recommends that ® government vessel be sont to const along the vicinity. ‘The trial of General George W. Cole on indictment for the murder of L. Harris Hiscock wiil positively take place at Albany about the Ist of March. No further de- jay on the part of the defeuce will be acceded to under the decision of Jadge Peckham, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer on Saturday, directing the trial to be had at an adjourned torm of the present Oyer and Terminer. ‘The United States Navy Register for 1868 shows that there are six squadrons on foreign service, comprising fifty-oue vexsels with ap aggregate of four hundred and thirty-eight guns and im especial service seven vessels with an aggregate of sixty-rix guns. Thirty-nine vessels have been sold or lost since the publication of the last Register in 1866, and fifty-three iron clads are laid up at various naval stations at bome, There have peen thirty- DIDe deat bs among the officers during 1867, including four rear admuitais and one commodore. At the Naval Aca- demy, Annapolis, there are sta\ioned nine vessels not included in the above lists. in Trinity church yerterday there was @ full choral service in honor of the festival of the Purification of the Blossed Virgin Mary, Rev. Dra Ogilvy and Vinton conducted the usual services. Rov. Henry Blanchard, « Universalist clergyman, delivered a lecture at Dod. worth Halion “Rome and Reason.” in which he de- olared that Catholicism wae preferable to Protestantism, and Rawonallem was preferabie to Catholicism. Father Uecker delivered s discourse in the Churoh of Mary, Mrooklya, om “Respect to Relics aud Images ia the « hohe Worship.” ‘ertain docu:nentes which we publish elsowbere this » ening disclose the complicity of Sante Anna wie tho empire Maximilian in Mexico, and also @ desire expressed on the part of Otter. bourg, the lai ‘nited States Consul at Mexico city, to further the recognition of the empire by the United Stats government through bis political influenee in New York and Woshington, in which it appoate he cites Forney, the Secretary of the Senate, as bis friend, in consideration of a railroad concession to ve offored on the New York market. The United States Consul at Tunis writes to the Secre- tory of State asking some relief for the starving popu- iation of that country. The daily average of deaths by hunger is over one Bundred, and unburied corpses meet ‘whe eye on every a Ab attack was made om Major Linton, a United States revenue agent, at a hotel im Pittebarg om Saturday morning by two persons who are unknown, but beiloved Keates de- & witness in the case, from appearing against them, Our Southern leiters couisin details of the proceed. struction Bill. The debate in Congress on the Supplemental Reconstruction bill takes a wide range—as wide almost as the debates in Committee of the Whole ‘on the-state of the Union. It ts a pollti- cal debate extending tar beyond the particular features of the bill, and embraces all the points which make up the great issue of the time be- tween radicalism and conservatism, between the President and Congress, and between the constitutional party and the party which is revolutionizing the government, Members are anxiously defining their position and the posi- tion of the parties to which they belong, not for the enlightenment of each other so much as to make an impression upon the people pre- paratory to the approaching elections in the States snd to the Presidential election. The motive that inspires the debate and the object in view are unmistakable. Little side issucs or other questions of public policy amount to nothing just now; the all-absorbing great issue is the one mentioned; is that which occupies the public mind and on which the elections will turn. The political leaders in Congress could not ignore it if they would, and therefore the dis- cussion has been continued with deep feeling, and with an earnestness and ability rarely wit- nessed. This political debate has been carried on, chiefly in the Senate, during a week or more, but it breaks out in the House frequently when other bills are up. Soon little else will be heard in both ‘bodies. The most remarkable thing in the debate is that the dominant party is all the time on the defensive. The conservative opposition have but a corporal’s guard in either, house. The radicals have a compact, powerfal army. We say the radicals, and include all the republi- cans, because even those members of the party who are more moderate and disposed ‘to be more conservative go solidly and blindly with the radical leaders in the most revolutionary measures for the sake of keeping their party | united. In both the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives their numbers are overwhelming. They can, as we have seen, easily carry any measure by a two-thirds vote over tho Pre-t- dent’s veto, Yet this powerful party in Con- gress are fighting on the defensive all through, notwithstanding the insignificant number of its opponents. The speeches of Morton, Howe, Trumbull and the rest of tho ablest radical Senators, as well as ofthe declaiming politicians of the Wilson stamp, are of the same defensive character. It is 80, too, with the speeches of the radical leaders in the House of Represent- atives, They have no ground to stand upon ; they have nothing on which to make a square, direct and upright fight; thoy have no prin- ciples, and nothing but the negro theories, which are condemned by the people every- where, for an issue. A party, like an army, that has no principle, cause, or ground to stand upon must become demoralized and defeated. It is clear that the radical leaders feel their weakness, for they are excessively sensitive. Such a speech as that of Mr. Doolittle, though temperate in tone and argumentative, makes them furious. They lose their temper and reply with abusive declamation. They are trying hard to draw out a platform tor the approaching elections; but they begin to sce that they have pretty well used up all the old material and have nothing left. In analyzing their speeches in Congress we sce that there is no point in them, and that they are utterly negative, They are made up of abuse of the President, of claptrap phrases about rebellion, when the rebellion was killed and buried, never to rise again, several years ago; of a great deal of senseless trash about disloyal white people, and of a great amount of humbug about loyal negroes. All this, together with an effort to explain away their wicked measures and to cover up their atrocious object in giving the barbarous ne- groes the balance of power in the republic, constitute the burden of their speeches. In fact, there is nothing else in them. On the radical side we bear nothing of the constitu- tion, except from some bold, outspoken mem- ber like Thad Stevens, who speaks of it only to repudiate it, We hear nothing of the white people except to denounce them. It is the ne- gro first, the negro last and the negro all the time. The South may be turned into a wilder- ness, a war of races may be inangurated, the business of the whole country may be para- lyzed and the North alone may have to pay the national debt, maintain the government and support the negroes in idleness, if the radicals can keep themselves in power. To secure this object they would sacrifice the South, the white people and the republic itself. But will the people of the North be deluded by the false pretences of these reckless par- tisans? Will they be humbugged by the clap- trap speeches in Congress about rebels, rebellious States, disloyal whites, loyal negroes and all such played out trash? Will they not see the cloven foot of the Jacobin revolution- lats who would destroy the constitution and government under the cloak of reconstruction and negro fraternity and equality? We think they will. We think, too, our radical members of Congress perceive the coming storm of popular indignation which threatens to sweep them from power. It i« the apprehension of this, doubtless, that makes them so sensitive, violent and anxious to defend themselves. They may fill volumes of the Congressional Globe with speeches and spread them broad- cast over the land, but these will not save their party from defeat if their present policy be pursued, and if they cannot find anything else but a negative, fraudulent and wornout platform to stand upon. Balance ef Power. For many years the Russians have enjoyed the reputation of being successful adepts in sll the arts and moves of diplomacy, and véry justly so. No other nation possesses such & thorough, intelligent, active diplomatic corps as is im the service of Russia dey. Her steady, if gradual and persistent, onward strides towards China, Persia and Hindostan are evidences sufficient to prove this without recalling recent examples in Europe. But she is now playing a game more comprehensive and dangerous than has yet occupied her attention, - Results only can tell whoiher in this instance also’ she will support her great repatadon. For ten’ years or more, indeed since the end of the Crimean war, vague rumors and dubious reports have reachod England ond France that Russian agents were tampering with the populations of several provinces on her southern frontier. First, one heard of Russian merchants with no ostensible object traversing Wallachia and sounding the inhabitants. Then military officers of the same Power were observed in Bulgaria, Bosnia and even in Illyria. Next, news came of supplics ‘of Russian arms finding their way to Servia, money to Croatia, monks and missionaries to Russia, in Austrian Poland, agents and spies all along the Danube and self-dubbed profes- sors in Bohemia. These rumors arising at various times croated an uneasy foeling, which quieted down after o short respite, but then cropped up again and have, many « time during the last seven or eight years, given rise to paragraphs of temporary interest only. Later these rumors have grown into solid facts, ‘and within little less thana year it has be- come well known that not only were Russian spies and agents variously employed-at many points along the Danube, but that Russian money, Russian ordnance and Russian ammu- nition were being freely passed into Servis, and that a corps of Russian officers, specially detailed for that purpose, were drilling the Servian army to the use of a now improved artillery and otherwise assisting in the organ- ization of that belligerent little province. It is also well known that since the cession by Turkey of the fortresses in the Principalities these doings increased to an alarming extent and spread elsewhere. All these facts may by sceptics be taken as further proofs of Russia’s diplomacy, which weakens her enemies by spreading needless alarms in their camps. Matters havo, however, come to such a pass that it is impossible to blind oneself to such @ belief; the operations have been too general and on too great a scale to allow one to harbor such a notion any longer. Austria, at all events, has taken the alarm, and very justly 60. She has not forgotten the great Pan-Slavonic moeting in Moscow last enmmer, or the concluding paragraph of the Russian Emperor's speech bidding his Sla- vonic brethren good cheer and expressing a hope to see the whole tamily united under one head. Nor has Austria forgotten the noisy rotyen moeting in Prague, nor the expressed desire of the Russians in Austrian Gallicia to re-establish their own language in schools and public documents. Many and manifold are the means employed at St. Petersburg for fomenting the Pan-Slavonic agitation. To the peasants they speak of land ; to the more edu- cated classes the consanguinily of race and affinity of idioms are held up as motives. Ap- peals to the vanity of whole tribes are varied by bencfits conferred on individuals, and the Emperor allows himself to be pubiicly me- morialized on the necessity of uniting the whole Slavonic family under one head. In deed, so numerous and striking have been Ruasia’s underhand diplomatic doings of this nature that they can no longer escape the notice of the blindest. What is most remarkable in them is that they have all been directed with the single object of creating agitation in Slavic countries under foreign rule. Russia has always considered herself as the head of the Slavic family, and through her energies the Pan-Slavonic agitation bas made such ad- vances that it may be compared to Fenianism on a large scale, disturbing half a dozen coun- tries and all Southeastern Europe. Wallachia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, all Turkish dependencies, are Slavonic and have been overrun by Russian spies, plying money in profusion. Servia, where the movement has taken the strongest root, is still nominally tributary to Turkey, but actively assisted with men and money from Russia. Croatia, Illyria, Bohemia and Galli- cia, all proviacea forming part of the Austrian empire, but with Slavonic populations, have been “worked” by Russian agents in the great cause, and are now evincing very de- cided sympathics with the movement, Natu- rally enough these facts are very galling to Austria and Turkey, and the cause of a fierce exchange of recriminations. Itean bardly be supposed that by this Russia merely intends keeping her neighbors in hot water. It would appear more rational to imagine that she is preparing for a great strife, in which she hopes to be assisted by those disaffected provinces. Every new report leads one to think the intter view the more likely one of the two. Should the Pan-Slavonic movement have reached meh a point as to detach ftom their present allegiance all the affected provinces, neither England nor France combined with Aus- tria and Turkey may succeed in making way against it; Russian diplomacy in the East may at Inst be triumphant and Gortechakoff’s dream of @ Slavonic empire be realized. Napoloon’s little idea of nationalities will be used against himself, and German Austria wil suffer for twenty years’ oppression of a de- spised race. From Germany Russia need ex- pect no opposition, seeing that Germans are themselves engaged in a similar movement, and lovers of united Italy will scarcely object to united Slavonia. ‘The © © Strugale Renewed. In the Harato of yesterday we printed cable despatch to the effect that the struggle for a time suspended between the Christian inhabitants of Crete and their Torkish masters had been renewed. The intelligence comes to us by way of Athens, and, except that it may be colored somewhat to the advantage of the Greeks, we have no reason to doubt that it iv substantially correct. The battle seema to have been protracted and severe, lasting & whole day and atiended with very cousiders- ble loss of life. The Crotans, secording to report, were victors at the close, If the news prove correct, the immediate result will be the reinforcement of the Turkish troops in the island and a more effectual crushing out of the epirit of opposition. This, however, will have the certain effect of calling forth the aoctive sympathy of the Grocks of the kingdom; and the voice of Russia will be heard protesting more than ever. It is impossible to refuse to admit that the spirit of insurrection in Crete is kept alive by Greek and Russian influence, and that the real object of Russia, of which Greece is the tool in this matter, is 80 to complicate the affairs of Turkey as to force a settlement of the Eastern question. It remains to be seen what open action Russia will now take, and what shall be the response of the Western Powers. The pear Russia thinks is sufficiently ripe, and she ts impatient to pluck it Will the Western Powers permit her? That is becoming more and more the question of the hour, The Revolution la Japan. A telegraphio letter recently received from Japan informed us that the Tycoon (or, as it appears he ought to be called, Shagoon) had resigned bis powers into the hands of the Mi- ‘Kado. At the time this letter was réceived we gave it as our opinion that the revolation of which this resignation was the result was reactionary. The letter which we | published from the pen of our special correspondent in Japan; confirms our opinion. The Shagoon was in favor of advancing In the pathway of medern pro- gress. Arrangements bad been made, with his sanction and approval, to open up certain ports to foreigners at the beginning of the present year. Such arrangements were made in opposition to the Mikado and the greater Daimios, who, it appears, are utterly opposed to all foreign influences, regarding as they do what we call Christian civilization as an un- mitizated evil. Our latest letter bears date December 2, and consequently we have no means of knowing whether or not the ports of Hiogo and Osaka were thrown open at the time agreed upon. Our correspondent’s letter creates doubt in our mind on this subject. Prior to the abdication of the Shagoon the foreign minie- ters who had an interview with the Gorogio, or council of the smaller Daimios, of which the Shagoon is chief, were informed that the only port which was ta be opened was that of Nengata, and that it could not be opened antil the first of April, This is proof sufficient that the Shagoon, before his abdication, was in dif- ficulty and entirely at the mercy of his council of advisers. It remains now to be seen what course will be followed. If the ports which it was arranged should be opened at the com- mencement of this year wero not opened according to treaty arrangements, troublo is all but cortain ; and if pressure is brought to bear upon tho Japanese government foreign influences may force the Shagoon back into power. The fall of the Shagoon was the triumph of tho reactionary party, with the Mikado at their head. It is too late now tor Japan to remain absolutely exclusive ; and if the government now in powor persist in a re- eotionary policy foreign influence is certain to become dominant and the restoration of the Shagoon may safely be countod upon. It was Commodore Perry who, in 1853, made Japan known to the modern world ; and since then, in all negotiations with that people, the American Minister haa by all the Powers been courteously yiolded there a superior place. In the events which are now tran- spiring and which may yot transpire we aro deeply and necessarily concerned. Future letters from our correspondent will therefore be anxiously awaited. The Italian Kxpedition to the Parana. By telegrams from Florence and Naples, through the Atlantic cable, wo are told that the Italian squadron lying in the Bay of Naples has been ordered on foreign service, and that its destination is the Parana river, South Amorica. Tho despatches indicate that considerable official secrecy is attached to the movement, and that Premier Menabrea, when questioned respecting it, refused to oxplain the object of the expedition, and it was reported at Naples that the officers of the fleet were to leave the home waters under what are gon- erally known as sealed orders, . This intelligence is at this distance rather difficult of feasible interpretation. What busi- ness has an Italian floct in the waters of La Plata, and why should such an expedition be moved just now, considering the condition of the royal treasury and the troubled aspect of the political situation in the cities of the kingdom and Rome? There are, as is known, a great many Italians, say fifty thousand, settled in Brazil, Paraguay and the surrounding terri- tory; but we have not heard that any of them have been engaged in the present war, or that apy have been offended or suffered loss at the hands of the contending parties. The Italian emigrants in South America appear indeed to be a humble, inoffensive and industrious class of persons, and we should think that their material interests were not of sufficient impor- tance to invite the interference of their govern- ment in any shape, either in their behalf or as armed mediators between Brazil and Para- guay in the Parana. A couple of Italian war vewsels were off Rio Janeiro at the commence- ment of the hostilities between Brazil and the allies, but, if we are not mistaken, they were withdrawn soon afterwards. Should the Italian fleet be made ready for active duty off Naples its services may be re- quired much nearer home, and we incline to the opinion that the South American ex- peditionary rumor is morely a red tape canard set afloat to cover the work of arming and coaling. The vessels may be wanted off Civita Vecebia, they may be required fn the North Sea, or, seeing the reactionary agitation which prevails within the walls of Naples itself, per haps King Victor Emanuel may be preparing to repeat the very unpopular prescription of the late King Bomba towards the inhabitants of that city. As to the expedition to the Parant we must await further developments, Arrames Nn Perv.—By our letters from Pern, given yesterday, it will be seen that the government of another Spanich American republic bas tumbled to ruin through the chronic cause of trouble that under one pretext or another afflicts all the mongrel communities of Indisn and Latin race—the struggle for power of rival chiefs. The moral of all this is the same for Peru as for Mexico—that a people who are morally and tntellectually in the conditions peculiar to the feudal ages cannot sustain a government that ia the pecoliar growth of more enlightened times, and which they have striven to adopt, fot through an innate perception of its fitness, Wut through imitation. Where thero is no NEW YORK. HERALD MONDAY, FEBRUARY | 3, “1868, : lags a the Virginia, North Osrotina end Georgia Becon- Ressla on tho Danube and the Herepean moral acknowledgment of power law cannot be supreme, and where law cannot reign the strong hand must. Some one of these quarrel- some chiefs must put down the rest and rule, and through the order of a monarchy 80 estab- lished the people may grow to the higher level of republicanism, Sritioh North America. The news details which for some time past we have been giving in the columns of the Hara enable us to form an opinion of the prospects of the new Dominion. It was manl- fest to many, ourselves among the number, that though the confederation scheme was grand and in many respects praiseworthy, it bad to deal with interests which were too essentially antagonistic to be permamently re- united or made compatible with a peaceful sad prosperous union. The hasty and some- what arbitrary manner in which the union was at last effected did not encourage us to alter our opinion. It left too many burning hearts and too many bleeding sores to warrant us to conclude that the new Dominion -would not soon reveal symptoms of disease. Unhealthy symptoms sre already making themselves manifest, From the outsct 9 nu- morous and influential party in Lower Canada, in New Brunswick and in Nova Scotia were openly opposed to the union. The opposition spirit, if we may judge from recent events, is gaining rather than losing in intensity. During the course of the last month meetings were held in Nova Scotia which, from the numbers who attended, from the influence which they represented, as woll as from the speeches which were delivered, leave no room for doubt that Nova Scotians are bitterly opposed to the confederation. It would, of course, be absurd to expect that the Ottawa Parliament should devote itself entirely to the interests of a single province, and it is quite possible that the people of Nova Scotia are unreasonably senei- tive because of the subordinate place they occupy in the confederation. Whether they have just grounds for dissatisfaction is no busi- ness of ours. We merely note the fact that dissatisfaction exists. The Halifax mocting, at which the Hon. James Howe, a well known Nova Sootian politician, took » prominent part, has, as appears from the despatch of Satur day from Montreal, croated quite a commotion in Lower Canada and elsewhere throughout the confederation. It wili not surprise us to learn that meetings similar to that at Halifax are being held wherever local interests are suffering. Nova Sootia openly potitions to be separated from tho confederation. If Now Brunswick and Lower Oanada adopt 2 similar course the new Dominion will not have trouble to aoek. Whether there is viiality enough in our young brother to rise suporior to all these dif- ficulties we know not We.wish him no evil. Ui, however, it be discovered that he has ander- taken @ mission to which he is not equal, we shall not be unwilling to open our arms to re- ceive him and to allow him to sharo the benofits resulting from our superior wisdom and strength, The time must come—as well soon as late—when from the Guif to the Arotic Ocean and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ‘but one banner will float It is written in the book of fate and it must come to pass. It is well for British North Americans to look des. tiny in the face, Tho Queen's Now Beok. Queen Victoria is fairly letting the English apeaking world into the confidences of her domestic circle. Her latest publication— “Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands”—presents her to the reader divested of all the acceasorios, all the dazzling paraphernalia of royalty, and in a character of feminine ease and dignity that tho simplest minded woman, as well as the most affoc- tionate wifo in her realms, might envy, It is, to be sure, no great praise to say that a queen is also a good woman, or it is certainly a left- handed praise towards royalty ; yet whon we see & woman holding in all respects so exalted @ place as that heid by the Queen of Great Britain, and see that hor head has been so little turned or her heari filled with a cold pride by it—whon we see by the daily record of her life the simplicity of fentiment and thought, the pure, earnest gen- tleness of nfture that {sso above all other characteristics womanly—we are forced to concede that this Queen must have been searcely less than a miracle of honest, homely virtues. The influence of this book must be very great upon the British people. It will go di- rectly to the heart of the nation, showing as it does how warmly and earnestly the Queen is in sympathy with all that the country feels. Her reception of the news from Sebastopol, of the tidings of Wellington’s death, her appre- ciation of the glories of the Highland scenery and her constant record of the movements of “Albert”—all these indicating that the Queen is in reality only the first of English women In all good qualities—will put to shame and silence forever the vile whispers that have floated up from the noxious slums of London. Indeed, a8 a royal book this will take higher rank for its effect than the “Idées ”, of Napo- leon, or than his Julius Cesar; for it is, finally, a better thing that a sovereign should appear before the people, as one enjoying the same delights as themselves, feeling the same sor- rows, living humanly on the same level, rather than as one abstracted from their daily life and speculating vaguely in thoughis be- yond the reaches of their souls. SKATING AT THE PARK. ‘The Park yesterday in ita beauty and variety was al- Most indescribable, The joyous scenes of the preced- ing Sundays during the late cold weather in the pleas Bree of skating, oft repeated, wore re-enacted with in- creased vigor, while radiance and greater brilliancy were lent to the occasion by the mumberiess sleighing vehi- cles that glided over the crisp surface of the snow, their wealth of decorations in many instances belng a mys mber that gratified their propensities in f demonstrating the grace’ that is allied with skating were faity twenty: thousand, and the carnival was kept up with increasing seat from early in the morning unt closing might imterposed, when the closing, dissolving Kaleidoscopic scones were beautiful and astonishing. At the lakes in (hie favorite resort all crades and con. ditions of life mingle together in one bewildering, ever- ‘varying panorama, , and this is especialy observable on the first day of the week, when the sons of tot!, the hard- fisted, musclo-knotted hundreds of the motropolia, with- out care, commingle in the mirth and joviality of the occasion. It 1s amusing to note the contraste of many of these pleasant-faced as thoy [hw] awiftty along the clear surface, wi \d-gloved aristo- tocras wheels side by side with the humblest hard work- ing citizen, sod girls that pase the working days shut ap in some stifling room, gaining livelihood at most, gevralogiy, juss tm their tasteful dresses, down ti 08 fortunate of thelr sisters, who, hig 24 in fare and cle. gant costumes, have known but litte of the world's sorrow; while near fo them, im ail the rivagity thas {m eome oi the ‘das alley aye Yo ere unkoown, @ grand seri to swell the volume Petia, mirth wit hout allusion to wordy pag 08 yeaterday vere covered all sontene oa soa laa ra ran ey 4 dg a's th SUIT Seti the art pe ‘uneq ‘pet that determined ta aware at caly” ore audaot with the ahi at Chee this they all apparently succeeded. * POLITICAL INTELLTence, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE Tho Canvass Becomiug More Into: ana Exciting—The Demecrats Jublinut qq Con Gdeat—The Kepublicans DVeflani About Taxation—The Conservatives ® Roform—The Democrats Actively Enagoa in tho Naturalization Busines—Goeres Grant te be Dissected by Butler, &o. Conoorn, N, H., Feb. 1, 186. Throughout the fongth and breadth of Now Hany.’ hire; from Coos to the Massachusetts line, from th ocean to-tne Connecticut valiey, there is little though of of talked about except politics aud the probable re. sult of the coming State election, The careful prepara- Mons of the democrats and the oxtonsive arrangoinenta. of the republicaas which have been going om in ovory city, town and hamlet for a month and more past, @ fimally culminated in the most vigorous campaiga over witaessed in the State, and during the four or five wooke intervening between now and election day the contest will be more lively, the straggie more ferve and the canvass generally moro exciting ocvem than now, Public meetings are being held aixbtly fm all sections of the State, . campaign doou~ ments flood the mail bags end Post offices, repubit can clubs, democratic clubs, Grant elubs, comstitutional clubs, equal taxation olubs, peoples’ liberty league clubs and other clubs too nemerous to mention have eon formed or are im process of formation every where. Hore in Concord there is the utmost political aativity. It seems to be the grand cemtre where all the leading Politicians of the different parties gather for consulta- tion, The Republican State Coutral Committees has its headquarters ia a suite of rooms at the Phenix, as does also the P, L, L. branch of the republicans, The democrats assemble at the Engle, a fow deorm and the Tammany democrats have their Anson S. Marshall, who is ohsirman of the Deniccratic State Conteal Committee, The Mozart wing of the democracy, com- posed of the young and active politicians, are the most eonspiouous for display. They have secured the whole of the second floor in Whito’s new block, aad from uew ‘until election the room will be open day and evening for democratic visitors, They have a large illuminated ‘trapspareacy aad other ornamental toggery to attract ab tontion ‘outside, and after a person enters they have doouments and speeches to convert bim if he is of ante democratic faith. To-day there are no less than a hundre® leading democrats in the city from all quarters of the ‘State, their mission being to report progress and consels ‘upon the details necessary to the campaign through to a successful termination. ‘They are all very sanguine of carrying the State, and claim that every day they are walt accessions to their ranks from disaffected repairs licans. From clove observations in tins and other sec- tions of the State I must ‘confess that I am nut pared to dissent materially {rom tne confidence pl by through the P. L. L.’s will prove to bo most effeotive, and the other organizations will undoubtedly do some- ing towards swelling the democratic vote. The ro- porta received by she Democratic State Committee to-day show that have been organized ninoty-one P. L. L. councils throughout the State; and twenty. four of this number were imatituted di the presoat week. A great many republicans havo, it is ciaimed, Deen brought over through this organization. The P. L, L.'s bore differ from those in Messachugetts, There the object nip! at was falas bar} fiero wa we omy ond sought is a triumph of . soneuees ‘gained to thoir party from this and other seoret sources the democrats ciaim that they can elect Sinciair for Governor by a majority aearly equal to that by which they were defeated last year. While the re- pubiicans do not confess that defeat is in store for thom, bd manifost considerable uneasiness = the coalldeace ant husiagm of their opponents. I former letter I made brief allusion to the fact that in the ranks of both parties there is considerabie grumbling about high taxes, Asthe question is dis- cussed in public meetings the dissatisfaction is daily ia- creasing. The stump speakers of the radical party take good care to avoid the subject, but those of the democratic persuasion enlarge upon it with great em- phasia, and tne P. L, L.'s are also industrious in arous- tng the people to a realising sense of the burdeas upon them. Governor Harrn who is making iM the tate, only a- the national debi, when he charges the responsibility upon hisoppononts, Wheat tho democrats lay great stress upon is probability of law taxing bonas and the heavy taxes upon certain articles of manufacture, As before stated, there are many repablicans who listen atientively when these things are talked about; and if they are assured thas the election of a democratic Govornor in this State wut democracy promise a reform in this if are given ‘The obnoxious features of the tax are the poil tax the ies: Se temog a oper tax 3 WI K on property. Here in Concord tax levied a every vor ts between seven and eight doll age aug ft ts as high as twent It will be this = that i i H KF iit! ; He nn Fide | H HH iF Phas inst him. I learn from. aut see paadavian a penoiok Ot H g and those of Chase increased Parker Pillsbury, the old with Phillips, Garrison and Sumnor, will shortly stump the State for the democrats, and Henry Clay Deas, of lows, who arrived here yesterday, MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL INTELLIGEACK. Fred Dougt to the Colored People. * Ima recont specch in Akron, Ohio, to the colored people, Fred Douglass said slavery was destroyed not from principle, but from policy, and there was really Kittle to be grateful for except the (emergency that croated the necessity. He told the colored people that although 1 was possible that, naturally, they wore equal to whiles, they wore not practically, Ther must rise through their own exertions to & much Digher degree of intelligence before expesting to be allowed the hts aud privileges of the bite rece, He did mot blame them for being in the condition in which thoy now were, as it was caused by the degrading influence of slavery, He should, however, consure them harshly if they suffered themaelves to remain so without etriving hard for im- provement, That if fifteon years hence found thom where they mow were their destiny was sealed, ax thoy were now on probation; and if thoy failed in that time to nobly acquit themselves, it would be aimost impor. ble for them to make any advancement. ‘The editor of the Boston Traveller says he would iike to see Pred Douglass on the Grant ticket for Vice Pras. ident, Bad tor Fenton. Hon, John Covode, who lost two sons in ihe war, las just addressed a,letter to Governor Fenton, in which he saye:—"It is with grief [ write this letterto you, The ‘subject is painful tome, But there sits on my bears = gone, and there lies in my village graveyard and there broods in my heart o controlling reason why, since the appearance of your Antiotam letter, 1 should fegard your entrance into # National Republican (on. vention, a candidate for office, a8 amimtrasion to whict the survivors of the Union army aad Nadives of um dond and wounded should surely objet,”