The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD] BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXIII. AMUSEMENTS EVENING. .-Tas Wars Fawn. NIBLO’'S GARDEN, Bi WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th gtreet— Tue Lorresy oF Lire. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—A PLASH oF | LIGHTNING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tuk Fast WOMEN OF MopeRN TINES—MAT OF TUR ( NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— THE GRAND Ducuess. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrrr Dompry. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUS Street, -EruioPtas MINSTRE! ‘ammany Building, 14th ko. | CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Soventh avenue.—PoroLaR Ganpen Concert. TERRACE GARDEN—Por! DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Mr. A. BURNETT, Tae Humouist, .An GARDEN CONCERT, ART GALLERY, &5 Broadway.—GReat NATIONAL PAINTINGS. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—BLACK-ExyRD SusAN—JongS’ BabY—MaGio Surry, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SorrNor AND ABT. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, July 7, 1868. TH NEWS. EUROPE. By special telegrams, forwarded through the At- antic cable, we have most interesting reports of the universal! celebration of the Fourth of July in the Old World cities, ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday ning, July 6. The N Scotia secession question was before the English House of Lords. Sir Morton Peto was dis- charged in the bankrapt court, London. Minister Bancroft was negotiating on German-American naturalization In Stutgart. Consols 947, a 95 for money. London and 77} in Frankfort. Cotton firm, with middling uplands at 144. a 114d. Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions steady. Many of the powerful nobles of Japan are in com- bination against the Mikado, The brother-in-law of Prince R. Eagewich has been executed in Belgrade. CONGRESS. In the Senate, yesterday, the bill in aid of the Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association was called up, and pending @ discussion on the secession proclivities of the leading ladies in it the bill went over. The Tax bill was then considered, an evening session being held for the purpose, Several amendments were offered and the Senate adjourned. In the House namerons bills were introduced un- | der the Monday call of States, one by Mr. Butler authorizing a reciprocity treaty with Prince Ed- | Five-twenties 7334 in ward's Island. Mr. Donnelly imtrodaced a bill tax- | ing the interest on the government bonds ten per | cent in the same money in which the | interest ts paid, The bill went over, Mr. Géfeld rismy to debate it. A bill relative to bridges across the Ohio river, requiring the | span over the main channel to be five hundred feet, | was passed. The credentiats of five members from North Carolina were refer Credentials and they were « bill to provide for the gradual resimption of specte payments was reported from Commiltce on Banking and Currency and maids a special order for December 8. After some further business the House adjourned. THE CONVENTIONS. The Democratic National Convention moet again to the Committee on after admitted, A yesterday morning at ten o'clock. The first busi- ness in order was the report of the Com- mittee on Organization. This body reported Horatio Seymour as permanent Chairman, with a Vice President and Secretary from each State. Mr. Seymour subsequently took his seat and addressed the Convention in a pretty lengthy speech. A committee from the Union Soldiers and Sailors’ Convention was admitted to the privileges of the Convention, an address from the body being also read. An address from the Woman's Suffrage Association was also presenteg and = read. A good deal of the usual business of political conventions was transacted, bat the question of balloting tor candidates for President and Vico President was not reached. Thts will be the first in order of business this morning. The delegates to the Soldiers and Soldiers’ Conven- tion assembled yesterday morning at the Moffat Mansion, and were escorted to the Cooper Institute by about two thousand New York and New Jersey veterans of the army and navy. During the session resolutions were introduced endorsing General Hancock for President, and Hendricks, of Indiana, for Vice President, calling for the protection of naturalized citizens abroad for the payment of the interest on government bonds in greenbacks, &c, An address was aiso presented to be Inid before the National Convention, and a com- mittee was appointed to convey it to that body. The Convention will reassemble this morning at ten o'clock. President Johnson, in answer to an inquiry of cer- tain friends in New York, has written a letter expres- sing @ willingness to accept the democratic nomina- Gon provided (the call is 30 general and unequivocal as to serve as an enorsement of his course. MISCELLANEOUS. Telegraphic advices from Vera Cruz to July 2 state that the anniversary of Maximilian's execution was celebrated at the capital by solemn requiem masses. Colonel Incian, who executed General Komero during the French intervention, has been condemned to death. Gutienez, an imperialist who had remained concealed in Mexico city since the fall of the empire, was discovered on the 19th of June, and has been sentenced to imprisonment. Colonel Chavez, in Jalisco, had pronounced for Santa Anna. The Church party was threatening revolution in Querétaro. A famine was apprehended owing to the failure of the crops. Our City of Mexico letters are dated June 15, Rivera is reported to have been deserted by many of his followers, and several of the officers whose names were signed to his pro- nunciamiento have denied the authenticity of their signatures and disclaimed all sympathy with the atair, He himself nas disappeared and ts reported fecing towards the North. Canales, Caravajal and others are aad to be in Texas preparing for @ raid on the Rio Grande States, Havana despatches of yesterday state that the frigate Narva is still at the mouth of the harbor, no efforta as yet having been made to splice the new cable, The cholera is disappearing. Violent shocks of earthquake are again becoming frequent in St. Thomas. Jacmel, Hayti, was recently plundered by the peasantry in the neighborhood, and the American Consul there detmands the presence of an American man-of-war, Telegraphic advices from Caracas are to June 22. The revels had met with some reverses. Monagas was the most popular candidate for President. Fal- con is reported to be a defaulter to a large amount. An awful calamity occurred on the evening of the 4th ingtant at Oakland, Cal., opposite San Francisco, by the giving way of the drawbridge of a ferryboat. Sixty persons were precipitated into the water, of whom alarge number were drowned, Ten bodies have been recovered. ‘The Georgia Legislature completed its organiza- tion yesterday. The Senate is republican, but the lowet house has @ democratic majority. One Mc- ‘Wharton was elected Speaker of the Senate by two majority, he having voted for himself, while his op- ponent voted for him also, under the impression that ghe compliment would be returned. The Louisiana Senate yesterday passed to @ second NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. rretink the House resolution ratifying the fourteenth article, ‘The South Carolina Legislatdre organized yester- day. Inthe House one negro nominated another for Speaker and backed bis nomination vy demand- ing that the republicans should deny the black man office no longer. General Augur on the 4th inst. concluded a treaty with the Eastern Shoshones and Barrock Indians by which they go upon a reservation. They have been peacable for years. Governor McCormick, of Arizona, has been elected delegate to Congress from that Territory. The people of Richmond are intensely anxious for the nomination of Chief Justice Chase, as they be- leve he alone will be able to avert a calamity threat- ened them by the expected passage of a bill in Con- gress to arm all loyalists in the Southern States. The Scheutzenfest closed yesterday with a grand distribution of prizes. John Becker, of Guttenberg, N. J., was crowned Scheutzenkonig, and received as prizes five gold and eleven silver medals, a Panama hai worth $80, a meerschaum pipe worth $100 and other prizes and donations aggregating in money | Value to over $1,000. The Board of Supervisora met yesterday at noon and adopted a number of resolutions remitting taxes: | erroneously assessed, and received from the Tax Commissioners the tax lists for 1868, showing the totai amount of taxable property in the county for 1868 to be $903,436,327, being an increase over 1867 of $71,766,514. The list of standing and special com- mittees for the year was presented by the President, but during a discussion which arose on the accept- ance of the list the Board adjourned to mect again at the call of the Chair, An interesting trot took place yesterday on Fashion Course between the stallion Spider and the bay mare Nancy Fat. It required five heats to settle it, the stallion winning the first, fourth and fifth heats and the race. ‘The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Cimbria, Captain Bardua, will leave Hoboken at two P, M, to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. The European mails close at the Post Oilce at twelve M, The stock market was firm yesterday. Govern- ment securities were steady. Gold was strong and closed at 149%. The beef cattle market yesterday was tolerably active, but in gonsequence of the large suppiy prices for all grades continued to rule low. The number on sale amounted to about 3,000 head, the bulk of which was fair in quality. Prime and eXtra steers were disposed of at 16c. a 1614¢, fair to good, 1c, @ 15\e., and inferior to ordinary, 12¢. a 1444. Miich cows were slow of sale and heavy. We quote:—Extras, $100; prime, $90 a $95; fair to | good, $75 a $85, and inferior to common, $40 a $70, Veal calves were in moderate demand and steady at lic. a 124¢c. for prime and extra, 8c. a 10c. for common to good and 7c. a 71sc. for inferior, Sheep were in fair supply, and being in light demand were lower, prime and extra selling at 6c. a 6'yc., common to good, 5c, ® 53gc. and inferior 3c. a 4}gc, Lambs were lower, selling at 7c.a 10igc. Swine were in brisk demand and higher. We quote heavy prime at 10c, a 103s¢.; fair to good, 95%c. a 97%c. and inferior to common 9c. a 9c. ‘The Convention in a Fog—A Grand Oppor- tunity Lost. The country has for some months past looked forward with interest and anxiety to the assem- bling of the Democratic National Convention. | It has been universally regarded as an event of no ordinary importance. The people, weary of radical misrule, have besought the organized democracy to cast aside all dead issues, to ac- | cept the lessons of the war, and with a broad | and comprehensive platform and a fitting can- didate to unite all the elements of opposition | and reseue the country from the hands of the Jacobins and jobbers of Congress who have run riot in Washington for the past two years, | Never did a party enjoy a more favorable op- | portunity to recover its lost ground and to secure political supremacy for the next quarter of a century, and never was good fortune in | greater danger of being recklessly thrown j away. The Convention bas now been in ses- sion in this city for two days, and enough is known of its action to render it almost certain that its strength will be frittered away through the foily and blunders of its leaders, and that instead of coming up to the standard of pub- lic expectation it is doomed to take rank with the worst of those narrow-minded copper- head gatherings that during the war left the democracy in a helpless minority in every State of the Union. Let us look for a moment at the facts. Two years ago Congress perfected what is known as the fourteenth amendment to the constitu- tion, leaving to the States the right to control the question of suffrage, but providing that where any portion of the people shall be de- barred from voting on account of race or color the persons thus disfranchised shall be excluded from enumeration in calculating the basis of representation. The Heratp predicted for such a policy the universal approval of the people, and upon the issue of the amendment as a full and final set- tlement of the question of reconstruction the republicans swept the country from Maine to California, electing every Governor and nearly every Congressman throughout the loyal States. Hoffman and his Tammany backers in this State set themselves up in opposition to this reconstruction policy and suffered a disas- trous defeat. But the Jacobin leaders, as soon as they had secured power, disregarded the emphatic popular verdict and inaugurated ap entirely new and revolutionary policy, usurping the functions of the Executive, raising the General of the Army into a military despot, ruling the Southern States by the bayonet, forcing upon them unqualified negro suffrage, | disfranchising white citizens, and finally de- | stroying the authority of the Supreme Court, in | order that the judicial arm might not be stretched over the constitution to shield it from these revolutionary assaults. The coun- try grew disgusted and alarmed at this bad faith and violence on the part of the radical down of the large majorities of 1866 in State after State, the redemption of Connecticut, overwhelming flood in New York which swept the radicals from power and buried them under fifty thousand democratic majority. This powerful conservative reaction turned hopefully to the organized democracy as the tial struggle that should complete the work commenced last fall and give peace to the nation. form—a final settlement of all the vexed ques- tions of copperheadism and niggerheadism, and @ complete reorganization of the opposi- tion on the basis of a recognition of the war and of the great changes it had brought in its train. Especially in New York did the aplen- did conservative majority of fifty thousand claim consideration; and from the fact that the democratic leaders and their organs gave coun- tenance and support to the Chase movement it was believed that they were aroused to the importance of the occasion. But it seems that the popular cry was only echood by them as a means of killing off Pendleton, and that while Congress, and the result was the breaking | Pennsylvania and California, and finally the | nucleus of & movement in the great Presiden- | But it demanded a substantial re- | shouting for Chase they were, as usual, pre- paring the way for the success of their own selfish intrigues. It is acknowledged that New York, with her commanding influence, her large electoral vote, her great wealth and her magnificent revolution of 1867, had only to declare boldly in favor of this Chase movement from the start to control the action of the Convention and carry the conservative banner to victory. Her delegates, actuated by personal views and quarreling among themselves, have sacrificed all their power, and whatever the result may be the responsi- bility lies at their doors. The truth is, the New York democracy have broken faith with the conservative masses, and have shown themselves to be without intelligence to grasp the situation or courage to vindicate their own position. Beginning with Hoffman, and continuing on through Sey- mour and Belmont down to poor Church, they are all ignorant of the great lessons of the past eight years, butting their copper heads against the idea that the war was unconstitu- tional, that Lincoln was unconstitutional, that Congress is unconstitutional, and that there is nothing in strict conformity with the constitu- tion except Jeff Davis, General Lee,’ poor Pierce and the old democratic organization, embracing Tammany Hall and the Albany Regency. These men, after playing fast and loose with Seymour, have now hit upon the expedient of nominating a country lawyer and Albany accountant as New York’s choice for the Presidency, in place of Chief Justice Chase, Their platform, carried in the pocket of one of their numerous candidates for Governor, is as weak and wishy-washy as their candidate. They do not recognize the fourteenth amendment, as the people de- manded they should, nor do they properly denounce the barbarism, brutality and degrada- tion of negro political and social equality in the Southern States. They are bold only in cheating and rascality and timid where cour- age isa virtue. The result will be that after exposing their own weakness and cowardice they will become parties to a platform as un- meaning as that of the mongrel Chicago Con: vention and to a nomination that will be miserably beaten in every Stgte in the Union. Not a candidate they have named stands a chance of success, and the probability is that whatever their action may be Judge Chase will still be in the field, with a complete conserva- tive ticket in every State. They will thus not only be compelled to submit to the rule of Grant and the radicals for four years to come, but will lose the State spoils, for which alone some of them are playing. In fact, unless they nominate Chase they may as well aban- don politics as a profession, break up their organization and make up their minds to go to work and earn an honest living during the rest of their days. The Hebrew Millennium Coming. From the Old World, as in the New, we have abundant evidence that the Israelite people, after enduring humiliations unknown to good old Job for their variety of shape and acuteness of point, are about to assert the in- destructibility of their race by the assumption of the most shining rewards of the persistency | and purpose of its sons. In England Mr. Benjamin Disraeli, wielding in his youth but the pen of a scrivener’s clerk, has mastered the most powerful of the Norman nobility in poli- tics, foiled the Parliamentary thrusts of the Talbots, the Howards and the Russells of Bedford; refuted the polished university ideas and arguments of Gladstone, placed the “red box” of the Treasury in his breeches pocket, seized the sword of State, championed the New Testament and is very likely to prescribe to the archbishops the component parts of the sacred chrysm with which the Prince of Wales will, in the natural order of events, be anointed as head of the Church. In France we have seen another with a degree of exactitude, precision and com- prehensiveness of idea equalled only by the method and vigor with which his imperial master discharges the functions of chief of the State. Here in the United States we cannot forget that Carl Schurz, a German Jew, contributed the most valuable plank, of costly wood and elaborate finish, which forms the binding joint of the great republican Presidential platform adopted at Chicago. In the Democratic National Convention now in session in New York we find Mr. August Belmont, another Jew, the central power on the day of organization in Tammany Hall and really controlling the brains of the assemblage since—that is, con- trolling ‘der monish” and “‘shent per shent” of the Convention, which is more than equiva- lent to any second hand speech in the direc- tion of the brain of a meeting. After such examples is it too much to say that the Hebrew millennium is at hand, and that the descendants of Father Abraham are likely to revive the glory and the songs of David on both sides of the Atlantic? West INDIAN News.—The lack of volcanic disturbances in the West Indies is supplied by very destructive floods in Jamaica; by procla- mations of outlawry on the part of President Baez, in St. Domingo, against all persons who have left since his arrival; by the increased | boldness of the leaders of Porto Plata and the | return from their hiding places of the refugee adherents of Cabral, and finally, in Hayti, by the continued siege of Port an Princo, the | failure of Salnave's attempt to dislodge General Hector from his position at Petionville and the | swelling of the force pf the revolutionists to six thousand, while the force of Salnave has been | reduced to five hundred, and famine has already commenced in the city. Floods and revolution are no less dreadful than earth- | quakes and volcanic eruptions, and the West | Indians seem to be exposed to all these evils a8 | well as to the scorching blaze of a tropical sun and the deteriorating influences of their mix- ture of races. Honor oF te New York Poxrticiays.— Some of the copperhead newspapers say we | assail the honor of the New York politivians. | This is a new and refreshing idea, We never knew these politiciang had any honor to assail. | No one could be #0 credulous as to believe they bad. Search the world through and no such scheming, trading, cheating and dis- honest set of politicians can be found any- where. They must laugh in their sleeves at the shallow mockery of these silly organs in at- tempting to defend their honor. child of Israel manage the imperial finances | | out and Seymour was to be trotted in. Seymour and the Chase Movement—Trickery of the New York Democratic Managers. A copperhead journal, in a fit of virtuous indignation, complains of ‘‘an elaborate and scandalous attack” from the Hratp ‘‘upon the honesty and sincerity” of the New York delegation in the Democratic Convention, and says that we are “‘laboring for the demoraliza- tion of the democratic party” in order to secure the triumph of General Grant. It further appears that we have ‘‘insulted Gov- ernor Seymour and the New York delegation ” in suggesting that their game in this Conven- tion is the game of the “‘little joker,” and that the Convention sliould not listen to such scandalous accusations touching the ‘‘honeaty and sincerity ” of these immaculate New York politicians. Now, as one ounce of facts is worth a ton of empty declamation, let us see how the *thon- esty and sincerity” of Governor Seymour and his clique will stand the test of a few historical facts in reference to their game with this Democratic Convention. Some weeks ago, after the ventilation of Chief Justice Chase in several Western newspapers as an available candidate for the democracy at this crisis, his name was taken up and the advantages of his nomination by the democracy were earnestly discussed from day to day for a week or two by a little political guerilla journal of this city. About the same time it began to be understood in Washington that Mr. Chase was not engaged, and would be pleased to open a courtship with the democratic party. The movement, however, made but little headway until the Heratp took up the cause of the democracy and presented the record of the Chief Justice as the very thing for the crisis, and then the proposition to put him in the field as the very man and the only man who could turn the tables upon General Grant began to run like wildfire among the democratic masses, eclipsing the splendid run of our famous in- dependent nomination of ‘‘Live Oak George.” Ah! that was a great time we had with ‘Live Oak George.” The democratic managers and_pipelayers in different sections were somewhat startled by this Chase furor, this unexpected interruption of their plans. They were hard up, however, and East and West they undertook to humor this Chase movement as a happy diversion against some other candidate. In this view Mr. Seymour and some of his friends of the Regency held a little confidential meeting at Albany, at which.the ex-Governor made a neat little speech in behalf of Mr. Chase as a democratic availability. That speech was sent down to New York, but as they had not been informed whether it was a_ trick or a bona fide move on the part of Seymour the democratic journals here gave it the cold shoulder. Getting on the trail, however, we finally secured a report of that patriotic little speech, and in publishing it gave Mr. Seymour full credit for his wisdom and magnanimity in sinking his own preten- sions in the superior qualifications of Mr. Chase. The special organ of the Belmont and Barlow interest of this city meantime under- took to clear the track for Mr. Chase in the removal of certain old time democratic rub- bish ; but then came the reaction. A regular democratic hue and cry against this proposed abandonment of democratic principles came up from the South and the West, whereupon Messrs. Belmont and Barlow apologized, re- tracted and retreated under cover, with the pitiful confession that they had only been humoring this Chase movement as a joke. But the joke had been carried a little too far. In the plea that it was a joke the deception of Seymour and his friends was disclosed. It became apparent that they had been playing their cards with Chase only to cut out Pendle- ton, and that, after having used Chase to swamp Pendleton, Chase was to be trotted It would now appear that Seymour, satisfied that he has circumvented himself in this game, has generously withdrawn in favor of Church. We do not propose to enlarge upon the magna- nimity of this movement, but we suspect the cat is still hid in the meal. As for the “hon- esty” of our New York politicians of both parties, it is the honesty of our Wall street rings, our Corporation rings, our Albany lobby rings and the whiskey rings. Itis that sort of honesty which broke up the political firm of Seward, Weed and Greeley, and the honesty which has half a dozen times broken up the New York democracy and through them defeated more than once the na- tional democratic party. There may be such athing as honor among thieves, but there is no such thing as honesty among our New York politicians, Sparx Comtne to Her Senses.—In Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines American ves- sels have for some time been snbjected to grievous inconvenience. The slightest irregu- larity was sufficient to expose American ship masters to the most unjust and cruel fines, The evil could not much longer have been endured. Weare glad to notice that by order of the Queen of Spain ‘‘port and navigation dues” are henceforward to be discontinued in all the ports of the islands above mentioned. We have no objection to see Spain becoming wise in time. WEAK IN THE Most Important PLANK oF tHe PratrormM.—The Democratic Convention shows itself very weak where it should be strongest and most emphatic. It talks mildly about the people of the States ragulating the suffrage for themselves, when it ought to de- nounce in the severest terms the atrocious policy of the radicals in forcing universal negro suffrage upon the South. This placing the government of the Southern States in the hands of negroes, and the white people, of our own flesh and blood, under the heel of such barbarians, presents the strongest issue before the people. In fact, it is upon this issue that the reaction has taken place in public senti- ment and upon which the democrats expect to win, Why is it, thea, that the Convention is so tame on the question of negro suffrage? We fear ‘i is composed of a set of old trimming fogies, incapable of comprehending the issues of the time and the part they have been called upon to perform. Tovar Fieiy.—-Judge Field, of the Supreme Court of the United States, has been men- tioned umong the democratic possibilities, Why not try Cyrus, and run him on the cable, for thut platform is bound to conquer the world? Our Mercautile Marine—A Shipbuilder’s Views. We published yesterday a communication from Mr. Donald McKay on the condition of our mercantile marine and the effect of ine- quality of taxation on the shipbuilding in- terest. His views on the system of unjust and unequal taxation are very good, and he is right about taxing the interest on government bonds, but with regard to shipbuilding and the way to build up our mercantile marine he is mis- taken and behind the times. Mr. McKay, who was an excellent builder of wooden clipper ships, seems to forget that iron steamships are superseding wooden vessels for freight as well as for passengers, and that until we can rival the iron manufacturers and steamship builders of the Clyde we cannot regain our former mari- time ascendancy. Iron, and not wood, is the material now used, and it will be hereafter used for the steam mercantile marine of all nations. They build ships on the Clyde for all countries. Not only the lines of British steamships to this country, but the splendid French and German steamships running between Europe and Amer- ica were built there also. We had an advan- tage in our vast and magnificent forests of timber when wood was used, and we had besides superior skill in the construction of wooden vessels; but our war, together with the substitution of iron steamships for mercan- tile purposes and the advantages of the Clyde manufacturers, have left us behind in the race. The question now is, how can we compete with the Clyde shipbuilders under this new condi- tion of things? They have an abundance of fine iron and coal convenient, and they have both cheap and skilled labor. We have, too, the greatest abundance of iron and coal, of the finest quality, in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, and, in fact, in most of the States of the Union. Two things are wanted here especially:—First, we need a reduction of taxation, so that living and labor would be cheaper; and next, we want to encourage the immigration of such skilled mechanics, shipbuilders, miners and iron workers as are found on the Clyde. We have all the natural resources, and with these other advantages we should soon become the first shipbuilding and first maritime country in the world. There is no other way, and if Mr. McKay wants to see again the mari- time ascendancy of the United States he will turn his attention from wood to iron and from sailing vessels to steamships. Political Revolutions—Their Ebd and Reflux. The republican party of the United States swept the country at the elections in the year 1866 on the constitutional amendment known as article fourteen, which is now accepted as a portion of the charter of government under which we live. They went into Congress strong on the result of the issue and the idea of a speedy and equitable reconstruction of the Union, They took hold of the territory of the States lately in rebellion, however, stuffed with the negro, and determined to force negro equality—African supremacy, in fact—down the throats of the inhabitants at the point of the bayonet. The people saw that the repub- licans had obtained this position under a false pretence, and a powerful reaction in opposition both to their policy and practice ensued. After enduring the attempts at negro rule for some time the thinking mind of the country, influenced and to a great extent directed by the Heratp, rebelled against the republicans and manifested its oppo- sition at the elections of 1867 by a sweep- ing adverse vote thrown at all the chief points of contest. The return tide of reformed democracy has flowed steadily since, the mud- died volume of republicanism receding in its face; but its course is likely to be again changed by the action of the Democratic Na- tional Convention, influenced by copperheads and the cowardly and politically demoralized of the delegates in session in Tammany Hall. Democracy is on the point of a fatal ebb and its triumphs of 1867 may be completely oblite- rated. The Situation in Europe—Is It to Be Peace or Wart Our latest news from Europe revives a quea- tion which is almost, if not entirely, stale. The French government is of opinion that an immense standing army, maintained at vast expense, is the best pledge of peace. Minister Rouher, the mouthpiece of the Emperor Na- poleon, is in favor of peace, deprecates war, recognizes the rights of nationalities and admits that Germany is right in seeking unity; but he insists that the interests of the nation- alities and the cause of peace are best advanced by France maintaining an army large enough to dominate Europe at will, This idea is as French as it possibly can be. Austria, on the other hand, accepting her position and intelli- gently appreciating the altered condition of things in Europe, grants leave of absence to thirty-six thousand men in the standing army. We have no hesitation in saying that of the two Austria has adopted the wiser course, and that, in spite of other indications, the inference is fully justified that the peace of Europe is not for the present to be disturbed. The Servian difficulty has been got over with singular ease, Turkish reforms progress satisfactorily, Russia has ceased to be aggressive, Prussia is bent on consolida- tion; everything, in short, justifies the opinion that war in Europe is a distant probability. “Wat a Fatt Was Ture, My Covntry- MEN !"—The very notion that ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of New York, standing in a Democratic National Convention in the chief city of a State—the chief city of the Union— which has just rolled up @ majority of fifty thousand in the cause of constitutional self- government, and after the delivery of his many ornate speeches in advocacy of con- tinued exertion for further victory, should stand aside and hear Sanford E. Church spoken of asa candidate for the Presidential nomination suggests the repetition of the mournful excla- mation of Antony over the body of the slaugh- tered Cesar, Church, a village lawyer, some say a bootmaker, from a little Western village-—will certainly not be accepted by the Western and Southwestern delegates instead of Seymour. New York has a democratic majority of fifty thousand. It should not be lost. Henpricks.—Who can tell us anything about Hendricks—what he has done, what he has said and what there is in him to distin- cuish big from Tom, Digk and Harry ? ‘The Democrats and the Negro Vote in the South, The democrats by a little manipulation might hoist the radical engineers on their own petard in the South. The Georgia Legislature, it appears, is decisively democratic on joint ballot, and a bold darky in the South Carolina Legislature has inaugurated an open political warfare with the white republicans by demand- ing office for the negro. He says that the re- publicans have shown hostility to the negro holding voffice, and they must now take issue on the subject, The bona fide original article of negro in tho South is in all respects an aristocratic animal. He despises ‘poor white trash,” and, it is highly probable, considers himself somewhat degraded by his present contact with the churl- ish fellows who have risen to office by his vote. Under these circumstances a little judicious wirepulling, such as Wade Hampton used in his speech at Columbia a year or so ago, when he gracefully accepted negro suffrage as an accomplished fact, would have the effect of bringing these disgusted darkies over to the democratic doctrines of their old masters, whom they still regard with a feeling of satis- faction as better than themselves. Chaotic State ot Mexican Affairs. The letters dated June 2 and June 7, which we published yesterday from our correspon- dents in the city of Mexico, confirm our original impreasion that Mexican affairs are in a state of irretrievable confusion, and that the Mexi- cans, with their mixture of Spanish, Indian and African blood, are as incapable of self- government as they were before their bloody execution of the late Emperor Maximilian. The first letter, indeed, chronicles the pardon of General Matias Jimenez, as an agreeable and popular offset to the shooting of so many generals immediately after the abolition of the empire. But it records also the ransacking of the hacienda of Mariano Riva Palacias, one of the advocates who defeaded Maximilian, by Julio Lopez, ‘who is now in Chalco helping himself and making forced loans;” the failure of Escobedo to accomplish anything against Zaragua, who, with his three hundred men, is in the sierra of the State of Quer¢taro, and is believed to be concentrating his forces with those of Montez; the possession of a portion of the pronounced forces of this State by Saa Pedro Toliman, in spite of General Antillon; wholesale desertions on the part of the govern- ment infantry; the total defeat of the govern- ment forces in Campeachy by the savages whom they were expected to blot out; the rumor that Romero himself had been at tached and robbed on his way down to the steamer;: the serious opposition with which General Rivera, who was just beyond Toluca with his three hundred men, was threatening the gov- ernment; a new outbreak in Tezuitlan and the impeachment of two governors by Congress— the Governor of Jalisco, who was found guilty, and the Governor of Guanajuato, who was ac- quitted. The second letter gives a full and mi- nute account of the history of the first six months of the Mexican Congress, showing who com- pose it, how they are elected—that is, that they are not elected directly by the people—how they are paid, what they have done, or rather what they have not done, together with the closing speeches of President Juarez and Mr. Zarco, the Speaker of the Congress. We must adhere to our prediction that the Mexican people will not be thoroughly reorganized until the moral suasion of General Sheridan and twenty-five thousand men, representing the vitality and force of American ideas, shall havo brought order out of the chaos of Mexican affairs. Tax or Ten Per Cent AND THE Bonp- HOLDERS.—The backwoodsmen and old fogy politicians who have come here to make a poli- tical platform and to nominate a candidate for the Presidency seem to have no idea of the great and vital issues of the time. For exam- ple, little is said about the tax on the bond- holders, yet upon this question alone we ven- ture to say the majority of the next Congress will be elected. The mass of the people every- where will insist upon the wealthy bondholders bearing a due proportion of the public burdens, and no party or candidate for Congress can succeed that is opposed to the ten per cent tax. Wuo 1s Exatisn ?—There is some talk in the Convention of falling back upon English as the democratic candidate. Whio is this English? A man of that name, we remember, was elected Governor of Connecticut by a few hundred yotes over the radical candidate, who was encuthbered with Barnum sad his woolly horse ; but if this English is that Eng- lish they might as well nominate Church or Smith, Jones or Brown. Evrorzan Honors To AMERICAN DeMoo- Racy.—The voluminous telegrams which we publish to-day, forwarded by our special cor- respondents from all the chief cities of the Old World, and transmitted to us through the Atlantic cable, in report of the observance of the ninety-second anniversary of the birthday of American Independence, will be read with mingled feelings of pride and pleasure. The great principle of man’s right to self-govern- ment, asserted in such a triumphant manner by the signers of the Declaration of Independence, is being cherished by the European peoples into hopeful animation, as proof of which we neod only mention the significant fact that in no city was the toast of the ‘Prosperity of the Repub- lic” more enthusiastically honored than in Madrid. ino Waar is Cucrcu?—Is he a great soldier? No, Is hea well known statesman? He has been Comptroller of the State of New York. Is that all? No. He is the tail of the Seymour kite, and that kite won't fly. MURDER IN THE TWENTIETH WARD. Thomas Jefferson Wild and James Canton, ocen- pants of a tenement honse, No. 223 West Twenty- ninth street, on Saturday night became engaged ina quarrel in front of their residence, From a war of words the men got to fighting, when Canton was beaten in a most brutal manner by Wild. Medical aid was called and the wounded man lingered untit ten o'clock yesterday morning, when he breathed his last, it is alleged, from the effects of the beating. Wild was promptly arrested by officers Riverson anc Steed, of the Ninth cinet, who arraigned bim before noon, when the justice a e station honse toawalt the verdict of the Coroner's nest, which will be held ey, "ihe cavay was witnessed by John Dalton, of No. 153 West Twenty-seventh street, who interfered and released the deceased from the grasp of Wild. Can- ton waa @ shoemaker, thirty-five years of age, and leaves a wife and two chudrom.