The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD ee verees BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. anne JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. —Houery Domprr THEATRE, 4 Bowery.—Gas- rao -pasue' STRUCK—TOBN Fue a Suse raron GBB. OLYMPIC THEATRE. woudwal NIBLO'S GARDEN, Bros¢way.—Tas Waits Fawn. WALLACK'S SHRATER, Broadway and 18h strest.— Tar Lorresr or Li BROADWAY THEATRE, LigaT ning, BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Fiytna DUTOHMAN— Ierianp As It Was—Pirgs IN A Fix. Broadway.—& PLase OF Tum Granp Ducurss. LYRIC HALL, Sixth a1 BRYANTS' OPERA HO! strest.—Etui0rian MINeT: TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO! jd ‘1 Bowery.—Comio Vooa.ion, NEGRO MINSTRELS) ae. NEW YORK ‘THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— D Tom. many Building, 1th | , KOcRNTRIOITIRG, &0. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 80 ith ayenue.—POPULAR GaxvEn ConoERt. DODWORTH HALL, ‘08 Broadway.—Mx. A, BUMNETT, ras Humonist. sMRS. F. B. OONWAY'S Pane THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tax STREETS OF NEW YORK. NEW YORE ret ala oF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. York, Thursday, THS N Fs) w 8. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated Wednesday evening, July 1. Major General Napier was in Paris, the guest of Lord Lyons, where he had been received with great enthusiasm. Americans in Bavaria object, to some extent, to Minister Bancroft’s reading of his naturalization treaty. The United States naval suit against Messrs. Armand, of Bordeaux was again in court in Paris. Mr. Cyrus W. Field was entertained at a grand banquet in Lon- don. Consols 945; a 94%, money. Five-twenties 78 in London, and 775; a 77% in Frankfort. Cotton dull, with middling uplands at 11s a 11\% pence. Breadstuffs and provisions without marked change. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the joint resolution to ex- clude from the electoral college the votes of those Southern States which have not been organized was called up, and after some debate went over with the morning hour. The Civil Appropriation bill was then taken up, and Mr. Sherman withdrew his Funding bill amendment. An additional item of $6,000 for expenses of the impeachment trial was agreed to. In the evening session several private bills were dispased of, and the Senate adjourned. In the House Mr. Hamilton of Florida, was sworn in. Several bills reported from the Judiciary Com- mittee were acted upon. The Alaska appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and ‘Thursday, July 9, was set as the day for taking the final vote on the passage of the bill. In the evening session Mr. Moorhead, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported back the Tariff bill, which was ordered ‘0 be printed, THE CITY. The delegates to the Nattonal Demacratic Conven- tion are rapidly assembling in this city. The South- ern delegations are many of them on hand, and among the members present are many whose faces have for a long time beep strangers in New York. It is hardly possible to obtain a satisfactory insight into the tendencies of the convention as a whole, but | from conversations with the delegates It is shrewdly estimated that Pendleton stock is on the decline and Chase shares are rising proportionately. The case of certain butchers against the Metro- politan Board of Health has been decided by the Court of Appeals in favor of the Board, the court averring that she Legislature has entire control over the streets of New York and may delegate its au- thority'in the matter to any local organization, and that its orders cannot be reversed by a jury trial or interfered with by injunctions, This decision puts a@ stop to slaughtering and catue driving in the city. The new Board of City Councilmen met yesterday and transacted considerable business in very good order. President Monaghan presided. The Board of Fire Commissioners yesterday dropped Patrick W. Hand from the roll of engineers for his mismanagement of the fire engine No. 9, in the Bowery, by which the late disastrous explosion was caused. A targe Grant meeting was held last night at Cooper Institute, at which apeeches were made by Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, and Rep- resentative Van Wyck, of New York. At the Jerome races yesterday the brown filly In- ‘verugiaas won the first race, James A. Connolly the seoond, the bay gelding Biraque the thind and Red ‘Wing the fourth and last. The third race, known as the Welter Cup, was for horses used as hacks, to be ridden by members of the club. In the fourth, Jubal, ‘who was the favorite against Redwing, bolted, run- ning off on the road leading to his stable and thereby losing the race. The Schuetzenfest is progresaing. With the ex- ception of some slight accidents everything com- bines to insure a4 favorabie result to this national festival. The shooting was very good in general. The receipts yesterday were nearly seven thousand dollars. To-day is the grand gala day; the whole First division of the National Guard will be on the ground; the official test of breechloaders will be had; the effectiveness of the Gatling gun will be tried; a grand concert, with artillery accompaniment, will be directed by Carl Anschutz, and many other out- door and indvor sports are on the programme. The coroner's jury in the Rivington street homi- cide case returned a verdict yesterday of justifiable homicide, and the prisoner, Emil Swinzman, was committed again to the Tombs on a charge of carry- ing concealed weapons. In the case of the United States against Vernon K. Stephenson, a case involving an immense cotton claim, and in which, if the defendant fails, an in- former who gave information will be entitled toa share amounting to about half a million dollars, was up before the United States District Court yesterday on a motion to vacate the attachment against the defendant's property, The Court reserved its de- cision. The alleged Pacific Mail perjury case, Moser against Jackson and Polhamus, was continued before the Supreme Court, Special Term, yesterday. It will be resumed this morning. The North German Lloyd's steamship Union, Cap- tain Von Santen, will leave Hoboken about two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office at 12 M. ‘The steamship Eagle, Captain M. R. Greene, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three P.M. to-day for Havana. The Cuban malis will close at the Post Office at two P. M. ‘The stock market was strong yesterday, Govern- mont securities were weak. Gold closed with a etromg upward tendency at 140. MISCELLANEOUS. General McDowell has been relieved of the com- mand of the Fourth Military District and General A. ©. Gillem assigned to duty in his stead. The order is isssued by direction of the President and Gigned by General Grant. In the Louisiana Legisiature yesterday the com- mittee reported that a regard for the wishes of Gene- ral Grant urged them to recommend the adoption of his suggestion suspending the test oath. It was ac cordingly suspended, and most of the democratt members qualified by taking the vath prescribed by the new constitution, During the morning the mili NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 2%, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. ; tary forces with artillery planted were posted in La- fayette square, just in front of Mechanica’ Hall, where the Legislature is sitting. The amendment to the constitution known as the fourteenth article was adopted in the House by Ofty-seven yeas to three nays. General Stoneman, commanding in Virginta, has, it 18 said, determined, for the purpose of preserving the State credit, to require of all corporate compa- nies in which the State has an tnterest to pay their dues forthwith, and then to have the State govern- ment negotiate a loan, to be officially endorsed by him as District Commander, with New York capital- ists, which, with the amount already in the treasury, will suffice to pay the interest of the State debt due in July. Governor Reed, of Florida, assumed his office yes- terday by order of General Meade, who has also issued a general order directing al! military rule io the State to cease, and the sub-commanders not to interfere with the civil law under any pretext what- ever. The election returns in Mississippi show conciu- sively that the constitution has been defeated by & targe majority. Forty-seven out of sixty-one coun- ties return a majority of 18,066 against the constitu- tion. The election was conducted with the utmost order and quiet, and no case of violence has yet been reported from any part of the State. In the Freedmen’s village opposite Washington a | few days ago quite a riotous demonstration was made by the negroes against the white superinten- dents of ‘the village because they had ordered the removal of the numerous hogs which the negroes had collected about them.. Razors were freely used. One or two white persons were gashed and a mill- tary force was sent over to maintain order, but the hogs were removed. The president of the Hide and Leather National Bank of Boston has published a statement relative to the recent defalcation by the cashier. He says the bank has lost nothing by loans and the shareholders have not sold a single share since suspicion first fell upon the cashier. The Vermont Republican State Convention assem- bled in Burlington yesterday and renominated the present State officials for re-election in September. At the Michigan Republican State Convention, held in Detroit on yesterday, H. P. Baldwin, of Detroit, was nominated for Governor; Morgan Bates, Lieutenant Governor, and Dwight May, Attorney General. All the other old State officers were renominated. General Grant passed through Columbus, Ohio, yesterday en route for the West. He was enthusiasti- cally received at the depot. The Atlantic Base Ball Club, of Brooklyn, defeated the Actives, of Indianapolis, yesterday, the score standing 103 to 8. Universal Nigger Suffrage—Tho Great xamme of the Campaten. Many muddle-headed newspapers argue that the present quasi settlement of the Southern States under military rule determines and closes the great point of nigger suffrage, and that this is not an open issue of the present campaign. We pronounce this a fallacy, an impudent pretence, a big lie and a snare. There is no other issue but this, and the whole canvass turns purely and simply upon this point of the political status of the nigger in the Southern States and the right of the States themselves to regulate that status. Universal nigger suffrage and the correlative oppression of the white man are the points that divide the parties and the people. All democrats—by which we mean all men who are in sympathy with those democratic principles that are the basis of our government—are on the one side, and all who in their hearts hate democracy and popular liberty, who instinctively oppose the supremacy of the people in the government, are on the other; and these count upon exer- cising a control against the people, keeping the people down and themselves in office by the manufacture of a bogus vote to be made from the brutal masses of niggers that were slaves but a short time since, Just at the close of the war the Congress of | the United States laid down a basis of settle- ment for this great issue—a basis that received the immediate assent of nearly the whole loyal people. This was the fourteenth con- stitutional amendment, which recognized that States alone have the right to regulate | suffrage, and conceded that right to States, affixing the penalty that if any State ruled out any class or race it should lose a proportionate representation in Congress. This was a settle- ment of the point in accordance with the history and law of the division of power be- tween the States and the general government, in accordance with the will of the Northern people and satisfactory to the South. But another Congress, unwilling to see our diffi- culties so easily put out of the way—unwilling to lose the pretext for rearranging the elements of political power so as to give them continued domination—made a reconstruction law utterly subverting that amendment, violat- ing that sacred guarantee of the nation—a law barbarous and tyrannical in its principle and purpose, and not more in conflict with the con- stitutional amendment than it isin violation of the whole spirit of our laws, of the laws of society and the laws of God Almighty. This brutal statute is now the code by which uni- formed despots gavern the South, It is the rod which General Grant, who consents to be the prime tool of despotic power, holds over a vast division of the American people, at the bid- ding of some wretches who aim at aristocratic power and expect to secure it through skilful manipulation of their half human animals of | African origin. General Grant is now carry- ing out this law, and with it driving from the polls white men of the States to admit niggers ; he is enforcing that law in derogation of the President's authority and in defiance of the amendment to the constitution that bas been accepted by the whole people as the true law. The issue before the American people in the present campaign is simply as to who is right in this difference and which is truly the law— that amendment which is part of the constitu tion and leaves nigger suffrage to the States or that reconstruction statute which subverts the amendment and establishes suffrage by | military force in defiance of evory law, human and divine. That is the issue, and if Mr. Chase becomes the candidate of the democratic party he will recognize it as the issue and sustain the constitution and the legitimate right of the States as the truelaw. Wo can announce from the best authority that he will do this. Asa citizen, as a philosopher or a theorist, Mr. Chase or any other gentleman may have his views of the possibilities of government more or less visionary, and may hold that every creature should vote, just as he might believe in atonement and election with Calvin, or in transubstantiation with the Church of Rome ; a government carried on under a written con stitution he will strictly accept the declara tions of that constitution as the ultimate right, and, giving way to no visic higher authority, will carr principles of the y notions of any out positively the aid the amendment prin ciples that result from a recognition of the vitality of all the States as sovereign powers. This, then, {s the issue, and this the position of the candidate who will sustain the rights of the people; and the question for voters is, shall we be governed by law or arms? Shall we accept as an emblem of the authority we will submit to the ermine or the epaulet? The New York Delegation in Favor of Mr. Chase, At a private caucus of the New York State delegation to the Democratic National Con- vention, held on Tuesday evening last, the general tenor of the debate developed the fact that the delegates of the first State in the Union are disposed to act in a most patriotic spirit on the 4th inst., or on such day as the nomination for President shall be made. Although no formal action on the subject was taken the general feeling among a large majority was to cast their first vote in favor of Horatio Seymour. Before the second ballot is taken it is suggested that Mr. Seymour rise in his place and formally decline being considered a candidate for the nomination, and end this declination by expressing the hope and suggesting that the solid vote of the New York delegation be cast for Chief Justice Chase. To this proposed pro- gramme a few of the delegates demurred, but it was ovident that the proposition wag favored by a very decided majority—so large a one, in fact, that the minority will probably have the good sense to acquiesce in the decision when it is made. The caucus adjourned without taking any final action in the matter; but it is understood that another meeting will be held prior to Saturday next, when the proposition will be brought up formally and decided upon. The source from whence we obtained the foregoing information is a trustworthy and re- liable one, and if the proposed line of conduct be affirmatively agreed upon it cannot fail to have a marked influence upon the Convention. If New York with her immense conservative majority declares, through her delegates, unanimously in favor of Chase, she will be the means of bringing about the nomination of a candidate who will almost certainly be elected, and who will rescue the country from radical anarchy and military despotism and restore to the republic and her citizens the blessings of civil supremacy and constitutional law. The Scheutzenfost—Dangers to Life and Persons. There 1s evidently something wrong about the arrangements wifich have been made by the Target Committee of the Schuetzenfest now being held at Jones’ Wood. Yesterday ® spent bullet struck an infant on the head, inflicting what may prove to be a fatal wound. In addition, the houses on the streets adjacent | but as President of the United States | he will act on the laws, as the chief officer of | to the targets have been struck and in some cases penetrated by bullets, some of which passed entirely through the bulwarks erected in the rear of the targets for the especial pur- pose of preventing their passage. The fact is that the thickness of eight inches is insufficient to arrest the progress of a rifle bullet impelled through improved weapons made designedly for great distance of range and superiority of pene- tration. We trust that the police authorities will take prompt measures to remove the dangers which threaten the lives of citizens, and thus prevent a recurrence of the sad injury which has been inflicted upon the infant alluded to. It is to be hoped also that the managers of the Schuetzenfest will have the bulwarks to their targets so rectified that no riissiles will be able to pass through them. Bullets have been shown to us which struck the houses of citizens living on Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth streets, and from the appear- ance of some of them it is evident that they never struck the targets at all, but went entirely over. This species of wild shooting is of a most dangerous character, as where the missiles have not had to encounter any resist- ance in their flight they retain their full force until spent by the exhaustion of the propelling power. Rioxovs Coxpvor or Nearogs.—The re- port which we publish this morning of the riot at Freedman’s Village, a negro settlement in Virginia, near Washington, is quite sug- gestive. Because the numerous hogs in the village were prejudicial to health and their removal had been ordered the half barbarous negroes indulged in a riotous demonstration which resulted in the persons of two white men being cut and slashed by that favorite weapon of our African fellow citizens, the razor. This is certainly a nice state of affairs and rather a significant event at the present time, when a Presidential election is near at hand. Why was this negro village established atall? What benefit is it to the State of Vir- ginia, to the industrial resources of the country and to society in general? And why is it that the negroes arc allowed to congregate there, living upon the bounty of the govern- ment, instead of being set to work upon the numerous plantations throughout the State? It may be, though, that from their contiguity to Washington these negro savages are neces- sary to the radicals when an election takes place at the capital. Tre Lovistana Mupp1 e—Tne Largest Prase or Reconsrrvotion.—The Lonisiana recon- | structed Legislature has graciously consented to permit the conservative delegates to take | their seats without first subscribing to the test | oath. This was done merely as a mark of re- | spect for the opinion and suggestion of the radical candidate for the Presidency. But the | most remarkable circumstance in connection with the proceedings of the Legislature was the military arrangements which preceded the session. Infantry, cavalry and artillery drawn up in full battle array, backing up a large force of policemen, were to be seen on Lafayette square in the morning. This gorgeous display must have been decidedly entertaining and a striking evidence of an improvement on former republican simplicity. All that was needed in New Orleans yesterday was a pronunciamento ending with the words ‘‘God and Liberty.” Ifad that only appeared there would have been no necessity to cross the Rio Grande for the purpose of witnessing the beauties of Mexi- can republicanism. StvauLar Preprorion.—Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, when speaking on the question of the adjournment of Congress, said ‘‘he desired | an adjournment at the earliest possible mo- ment, for if they went on at the rate they were going the government would have neither money nor credit left.” Another leading radi- cal, Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, added ‘‘that the government lost its credit yesterday (Monday) by the vote for taxing the interest on United States bonds, and lost its money to-day (Tues- day) by the passage of the River and Harbor Appropriation bill.” This is a singular pre- diction and confession, and has more truth in it than poetry, from the leaders of the party which has absolute power over the legislation and finances of the country. The Proposition to Tax the Interest on United States Bends. By the resolution of Mr. Cobb, of Wisconsin, on the subject of taxing the interest on United States bonds, which passed the House of Rep- resentatives on Monday bya vote of ninety- two to fifty-five, the Committee of Ways and Means was instructed to report a bill without delay imposing a tax of ten per cent on the interest of the bonds. This prompt and de- cisive action on the part of the House looked like business, and we hope it will not permit the matter to slumber or be smothered in the committee, Of course this remarkable vote has raised a hue and cry among the organs of the bondholders in this city and elsewhere, both radical and democratic; but the mass of the people, and particularly those of the great West and South, will be glad at the prospect of such sensible legislation. Allthe talk about Mig el of the goverpment to the bondholders jh; no class of the community are better able to bear the burdens of the government, none derive so much benefit from it, and there is no reason why they should not be taxed. Those who oppose taxation of the interest on bonds do everything in favor of the rich and against the poor. They are the supporters of @ moneyed oligarchy, and if they had their way would soon reduce the industrial classes of this country to the pauperized condition of the people of England. About eighty millions of taxation a year was lately taken off the rich manufacturers by Con- gress, and of course a corresponding amount has to be imposed upon the industrial classes. The burden of the debt has been increased through the mismanagement of the Treastity Department, which, however, has been all in the interest of the rich, the bondholders, and the national banks. The tax on spirits, which could and should contribute the largest amount of revenue—on those articles which are in- jurious luxuries—has been reduced to one- fourth what it was for the benefit of corrupt rings and wealthy manufacturers. Yet when it is proposed to make the bondholders pay a trifle toward the support of the government from the bonds for which they gave about fifty cents in the dollar, and from which they draw over eight per cent interest in currency, we hear a howl of affected indignation all around. Like Shylock, they cry aloud for the pound of flesh, though their victim may bleed to death. Looking, then, to the system of legislation in favor of the rich and against the poor which has been followed by Congress all along, it is gratifying to notice some evidence of returning serge and patriotism. A tax of fifteen per cent on the interest of the bonds would have been better than ten, but as it has been fixed atten we call upon the Committee of Ways and Means to report the bill at once and upon Congress to pass it without delay. The following classification of the vote on the resolution adverted to will show the republi- cans and democrats who voted yea and nay, and the States from which they come:— —— Fea, 9. Nay», 56. Dem. —4. tapub.—58. Adams, Ry. Benjamin, Mo. Allison Towa. Gollady, Gravely, Mo. Price, fowa. Bock, McClurg, Mo. Ames, Mass. Trimble, i Ba Net Baldwh Mass, Jones, Ky. Bankes, Grover, Ky. outwall, Maes. Archer, Md. Hot, Maes Phelps: Md. Slevena NH. “Hooper, Mi Stone, Md. Bing Odio.‘ Twitehell, Mass eet Boel and, Ohio. Washi Barnes, N. Y. ny Ohio. Humphrey, N. ¥. ation yn, N. Welker, Onto. Robinton N.Y. ‘tison, Obto, N.Y." Boles, Ark. Boye er, Hinds, Ark. Gelz, Pa. Root, Ark. Randall, Pa. Buticr, Mass. Butler, Tenn. Van Auken, Pa. Hawkins, Tenn Woodward, Pa, Mullins, Teno. Cary, Ohio. Stokes, Tenn. Mungen, Ohio. Clarke, Kansas. Van poe Cobb, Wis. Eldrt is, Washburn, Wis, Haight, N. J. Cobura, Ind. Holman, Ind. Julian, Ind. Kerr, Ind. Orth, Tad, ibiack, Ind. Shanks, Ind. jotchkiss, Conn. Washburn, Ind. Marabail, Lil. Wittams faa. Ross, Ul. wode, Mo. Lawrence, Pena. Axtel, Cal. Morcur, Poon. Jobuson, Oat, Sconeld, Pena. Taylor, ¥ Wison, Pena. Farneworthy, Ul. Inj Keten, Washburn, tu. Baker, Doaneliy, Minn. an, 7 Mich. Hu . Va. Poisley, W. Va. Loughri Towa. Stari y Me! 7: Trowbridge, Mich. Pike, Ne. Driggs, Mich. Taife, Neb. Upson, Mich. Tuomas, Ma. Cornell, NY Y, Van Horn, N. ¥. Ashley, Nevada. Two Democrats—Mesara, Sitgreaves, of N.J., and Fernandy Wood, of N. Y.—voted nay. It will be seen that the majority of the republicans voting yea are from the West, and that the leading radicals of that party from all sections voted the same way. Among them are Butler, of Massachusetts; Bingham, of Ohio; the Washburns, of Wisconsin and Indiana; Farnsworth, of Illinois; Covode, of Pennsylvania, and others, The radical car- pet-bag delegation from the newly recon- structed State of Arkansas went solidly against the bondholders, which we consider isa sig- nificant indication of the way the South will go on financial measures. All the democrats except two voted for the resolution. In one sense, therefore, it was a democratic measure, though Introduced by Cobb and engineered through by Butler, who are both radicals, and though carried by a majority of the republi- cans. As far as the radicals are concerned it knocks the financial plank out of the Chicago platform and shows that they dare not face their constituencies and the country as tho supporters ofthe bondholders and » moneyed oligarchy. After this we are curious to know what the financial platform of the Demooratic Convention will be. These financial questions are going to create a great muddle between the political parties, and there will be an intense rivalry to get on the popular side and to outstrip each other. Bap For Sitver.—Bullion bas become a nuisance in Canada, and the merchants and shopkeepers have decided to take silver coin only at a discount of ten per cent. Let them depreciate it thirty per cent, and then, being on a par with greenbacks, it will flow back into the States, and if the brokers will keep their hands off of it we may again have it in circulation, + In the Heraxp of yesterday we published s cable despatch giving an outline of the closing debate in the House of Lords on Monday night on the Irish Church Appointment Sus- pensory bill, the division that followed and the result. A majority of ninety-five against the bill justifies Mr, Disraeli in pushing this struggle to its bitter end. So powerful a ma- jority in the House of Lords against Mr. Glud- stone's policy is the best argument which Mr. Disraeli has yet found in justification of the course he has pursued. In the same issue we gave a full account of the dinner at Merchant Taylors’ Hall on June 27, including the re- markable speech which the Premier delivered on theoccasion. With this speech and the re- sult of Tuesday night’s debate before us it is not difficult to form an estimate of the struggle which will begin in real earnest when the new constituencies proceed to elect representatives for the new Parliament. The presumption is that the Scotch and Irish bills will be completed in time enough to allow members to take their usual autumn holidays. At all events, it is all but. certain that Parlia- ment will be dissolved in October, that the registration lists will be completed and revised in time to allow the election to take place in November, and that by the 9th of December the reformed House of Commons will be in ses- sion. The question then will be settled whether the tories or the liberals, Mr. Disraeli or Mr. Gladstone, shall rule Great Britain, From the present time till then it will be our privi- lege to witness an election struggle such as the United Kingdom has not experienced for the last quarter of a century. As the reform question has been settled it is now an absolute. certainty that the testing question at the polls will be the Irish Church. The cry will be, ‘Gladstone or Disraeli,” ‘Vested rights in danger.” It is not to be de- nied that Mr. Gladstone has been backed up by the House of Commons and by the country with a singular unanimity of feeling. It is believed by the present House of Commons, and it is believed by the great bulk of the people, that something must be done to con- ciliate the Irish people, and the sentiment seems to be general that as the Established Church in Ireland is a standing practical grievance the best thing to be done in the cir- cumstances is to disestablish, disendow and remove it out of the way. Adl the world, how- ever, sees that the destruction of the Irish Church logically leads to the destruction of the Church in Scotland and to the destruction of the Church in England. Though the neces- sity is not equally great the question is in reality one and the same in each ofthe three kingdoms, It is nota question of logic at all— the logic is plain to the meanest observer—it is simply a question of time. The Dissenters of Scotland and the Nonconformists of Eng- land gee in the fall of the Irish Church their own triumph in the not distant future, and are jubilant at the prospect. It is this general feeling which constitutes Mr. Gladstone's strength. it is this same feeling that, strange as it may seem, gives Mr. Disraeli hope. The Established Church is the Church of nearly one-half of the Scottish people; the Established Church is the Church of an unquestioned ma- jority in England; and the rights of patronage in the two kingdoms range on Mr. Disraeli’s side almost the entire strength of the landed interest. On this interest, in fact, he may count with safety in Ireland as well. Ulterior intentions against the Church Establishment in Scotland and in England Mr. Gladstone and his friends openly, and perhaps honestly, disavow; but principles are stronger than men, and Mr. Disraeli, with his usual cleverness, points out the danger. General disestablishment would be general revolution. The Church, as established by law, is an in- tegral part of the British constitution. It is the Church which secures to the Lords some of their more important privileges, It'is the Church which secures to the bishops not merely their splendid incomes but their seats {n the House of Lords. It is the Church which secures to her Majesty and her heirs their right.to the throne. The destruction of the Church of England would of necessity dismiss the bishops from the House of Lords and make an end of the Protestant succession. These are the broad Issues which Mr. Disraeli raises ; and on the ground thus taken he intends to fight Mr. Gladstone before the country. The Lords have, perhaps, determined the fate of the Irish Church Suspensory bill during the present Parliament. The bill will, accord- ing to rule, be sent back to the Commons. The Commons are in no mood to modify it, and as there is no reason to presume that the Lords will change their minds, it is likely to be thrown out as often as itis sent up. The deadlock {s all but certain to remain till the Lords find themselves face to face with the now power which they have holped to call into existence. Meanwhile the attitude of the Lords gives interest to the situation, and it is not possible to doubt that it will give intensity to the coming conflict at the polls. Asotigr Minittary ComMaNpgr Removep. — In obedience to an order of the President General Irwin McDowell was yesterday re- moved from command of the Fourth Military District of the South, and General Gillem appointed in his stead. The District referred to comprises the States of Arkansas and Mississippi, and it is evident that the present action of the President is caused by Genera McDowell's summary removal of the Governor and Attorney General of Mississippi. This conduct on the part of the General was wholly unexpected, as the two officials mentioned had retained their offices under previous oom- manders without any difficulty ocourring, and no charges wore ever brought against them of being obstructions to the execution of the reconstruction laws. Hawame om Norra Carotina.—The letter which we yesterday published from our cor- respondent at Salisbury, North Carolina, gave a detailed account of the murder by Rufus Ludwig of his wife in May, 1867, eleven days after his marriage, and also of bis trial and conviction, his vain appeal to the Supreme Court, his final sentence and the extraordinary scene and incidents of his execution on the 26th ult. Nothing could have been more hor- rible than the struggle to which the despairing | wretch was impelled by the animal instinct of self-presorvation after he had been forced upon the platform, He literally fought tor life with the eight or ten men who at lqngth mastered and pinioned him before the Sheriff could pat the moose over his head. This barbarous scene should lead to the abolition of public executions throughout the land. Justice can be amply satisfled by the private execution of the vilest murderer, Festive Reunion by Electricity. The banquet given in London yesterday in honor of Mr. Cyrus W. Field, under presidency of the Duke of Argyle, in which over three hundred personages, the great majority of them of distinguished name and reputation, participated, must be regarded as an event of a much higher order of im- portance than that of a mere ordinary festive compliment to the recipient. it gives personal testimony of the yearning of the civilized peoples of the earth for instantaneous or dally intercommunion by means of elec- tricity, ag well as of their wish to employ the subtle but now subordinated agent as 9 means of enlightenment, education and commercial extension in Asia, Africa and the most remote and now insignificant spots of the earth. It was this feeling which congregated the bril- Mant assemblage in Willis’ Rooms, brought English noblemen and gentlemen together despite the difficulties and distractions of the Church question, reform and party and place agitations, and made the banquet hall resound with their cheers as toasts were sent off to distant countries by” telegraph, and cordial greetings in reply received by despatch mo- mentarily during the evening. Science enabled the Duke of Argyle to toaat President Johnson, and Peter Cooper; the Gov- ernor General of Cuba, the Governors of British Columbia, California and Oregon, with many other persons, were, by science, spirit- ually and at the same time temperately present in London. Secretary Seward’s reply on behalf of the President brought out this pleasing feature of the plan of ‘hobnobbing” by submarine cable and land telegraph in a very agreeable light. The Duke of Argyle's toast was sent from the dinner hall in London just after the cloth was removed, but time— like many other matters—being in favor of the President and Secretary, it was received in Washington a couple of hours before its date. As the President could not think of tasting a drop of anything stronger than water before dinner Mr. Seward informed the savans that at that hour, after sunset, his Excellency would honor them with & bumper. This constitutes a very beautiful illustration of how electricity works for the general good of mankind; for if President Johnson or Secretary Seward had been cor- poreally in London it may be that the noble Highlander. would have forced them to % ” a few hours before their accustomed time, Peter Cooper remained strictly tem- perate. _He was not at the banquet, even in spirit, and makes no promises of takieg a drink at any hour during the day, having despatched an independent congratulation. The Electoral Votes of the Southern States. In the Senate yesterday the joint resolution excluding ‘from the Electoral College votes of States lately in rebellion which shall not have been organized” at the time of the Prosidential election was called up and debated until the expiration of the morning hour. The resolution in question is, in one clause, most singularly worded, and if passed may, under a possible contingency, be the cause of much trouble. After declaring that the votes of the Southern States shall not be counted in the Electoral College unless they shall have organized governments since the 4th of March, 1867, it continues with the fur- ther qualification, ‘‘and unless such elec- tion of electors shall have been hold under the authority of such constitu- tion and government.” Suppose, as is probable, that the reconstructed Southern States all give large majorities for the conser- vative candidate, and, finding this to be the case, the present radical State authorities of the South declare that the election was not ‘*held under the authority,” &c. What then? Would the vote be excluded under these cir- cumstances? Mr. Trumbull very. mildly described this clause as ‘‘improper and absurd.” He might have gone further and referred to it as one of the means whereby that other “rebellion might result” to which he alluded, and particularly if the votes thus excluded sufficed to elect a Presidential candidate, Mr. Fessenden and Impenshenent. The letter of Mr. Fessenden in reply to an invitation to accept the compliment of a public dinner in Boston {s high-toned and statesman- like. It takes the right view of the impeach- ment business and demonstrates what a man whose heart and brain are rightly placed and who is actuated by pure and patriotic motives can accomplish in a crisis like that whioh the country was passing through during the im- peachment trial. With such men as Fessen- den, Trumbull, Henderson, Grimes and the rest of the anti-impeachers in the United States Senate, and such aman as Salmon P. Chase upon the bench of the Supreme Court, unless he shall be called to a loftier position, the liberties and the integrity of the country are safo. If the democrats nominate Chase, instead of seven Senators being found honest enough to brave the radical party to defend a high principle wo will see an army of seventy per cent of the ontire force of the radicals coming forward in solid phalanx to his support. It is fortunate for the nation and for the pro- gress of liberal principles all over the world that such high-minded men as Senator Fossen- den and Chief Justice Chase live and have a voice in the public councils. They appreciated the situation. in the impeachment trouble and interposed a barrior against the revolationary and abominable projects of the Jacobins. For this they are entitled to the praise of the people ank are proper candidates. for future national honors. The Procoss of Reconstruction im tho Seuth. ‘The character of the process. of reconstruc- tion in the Sonth is beginning to manifest itself in variety of ways; bat in all of them we discover nothing that resembles statesman- ship or patriotism. The South is still ina state of anarchy under military rule, without civil law or the recognition of personal rights and liberty. The military r*gime superintends the | Process of reconstruction, which is at once | arbite ary, illegal, wnoconstilutional and out- | ragoous, We hayo jug} seou that oa military