The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— a8 LoTrery oF LiFe. BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway.—A FLasm oF Lieu TNine. BOWERY THEATRI Bowery —RERTANSS BY LRGAGT = CLUBS ABE Hoare vowsee ENT—OTHRLLO. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. Tax Geanp DuocuRss. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homrty Dumpty. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth atrect,—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, 40. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 301 Bowery.—Comio VocarisM, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Mz. A. BURNETT, rae Homonrist. CENTRAL FARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoPULAR GaRpEN ConorEt. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— GorewoR AND Aart. New York, Friday, July 17, 1868. Bp special telegram through the Atlantic cable, daied in London yesterday, we learn that the Prince of Wales visited Farragut’s fleet with Prince Alfred. Admira! Farragut returned Prince Alfred’s visit on the Galatea, and subsequently, by royal request, visited Queen Victoria at Osborne. Admiral Far- ragut will sail to the East soon. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cabie is dated yesterday evening, July 16, The Paris ov ‘teur announces that France extends her sympathy to the reform movements in Austria and Turkey, and forbears all intervention in German affairs, Cabinet changes were made in Portugal. ‘The harvest proSpects continue favorable in England. Enlistments have been made in Italy for the insur- rectionary movement in Spain. \ Consols 944, a 949%, money. Five-twenties 723, a 724 in London, and 76% in Frankfort. Cotton hea with middling uplands at 114¢ pence. Breadstufls dull. Provisions quiet. CONGRESS. ° In the Senote yesterday a bill to extend the laws of the United States over Alaska and to establish a collection district therein was passed, and also a joint resolution, reported from the Finance Commit- tee, to amend the act for the collection of the direct tax in the late insurrectionary States. Bills were reported to authorize the construction of bridges across the Ohio River, relative to the transportion of merchandise in bond and for the comfort and pro- tection of emigrants on shipboard, The Indian Appropriation bill was then taken up and considered until the recess and again resumed in the evening session, when it was passed. In the House the Missouri contested election case was taken up and referred back to the committee, The Senate Funding bill was reported back from the Committee of Ways and Means with thirteen amend- ments, which were redd and, with the bill, were or- dered to be printed, The evening session was de- voted to a political discussion, in which the rival platforms were freely ventilated. MISCELLANEOU:. Advices fi ito Janeiro by the Atlantic cable re- port that allies were confident of an early fall of Humaita, owing to the weakness of the Paraguayan garrison, which is said to number 6,000 men. Telegraphic advices from Vera Cruz, Mexico; to the 13th and from the capital to the 10th inst, state Uiat the governinent had instracted General Corona, in the case of the British blockade of Mazattian, that retaliation must be resorted to if the British captain as been in the wrong and continues the blockade, 6 Custom tiouse oflictals are to be examined as to their culpability in the affair and punished if neces- sary, and any naval attack from the Chanticleer is to be repelled by force, Ortega had been removed to tne jail at Monterey. General Alatorre had been unable to come to an amicabie arrangement with the Puebla rebels, Our Mazatian, Mexico, correspondence is dated June 15. A full review of the action of the authorities to- wards Governor ¢ , of Lower California, is given. he was arrested for giving an certain privileges in the harbor of aken to Mazatlan, where, up to the date of our letter, he remains in prison, He is an American cittven and claims to have never abrogated his citizenship. Our correspondent at Pottsville, Pa., give; a full account of the miners’ strike in that vicinity, its origin and progress, The operators of the mines are determined not to yield and the strikers are them- selves becoming disgusted. It was considered highly probable that a spilt would occur in their ranks and their arms be turued on one another, The strikers the collieries in Dauphin county, but effected nothing. ‘The United States steamer reported in a San Fran- cisco despatd as lost on the Pacific coast, must have been the Suwanee, and not the Wyoming, as the lat- ter is now lying in ordinary at the Chariestown Navy Yard. Fifty persons died in this city yesterday from the e‘fects of the heat, and a large list of casualties not fatal are reported. Six persons died from the same cause in Brooklyn, three In Jersey City and eight in Newark. The highest range of the thermometer in this city was ud in Philadelphia 98. ‘The firemen in the Philadelphia gas works scruck for higher wages yesterday, and as no arrangement was made (the city last night was left in darkness. The municipa! diMcuity in Raleigh, N. C., still re- mains unsetticd. General Canby hae declined to interfere. Both houses of the Georgia Legislature have com- mittees investigating the eligibility of members under the Reconstruction acta. It is doubt.ul if any members will be expetied. The Texas Reconstruction Convention lave re- fused to consiter further the proposition to divide the State unless by direct authority of Congress, The South Carolina Legislature yesterday elected Frederick A. Sawyer, of Charleston, United States Senator for (ae jong term. There are now 1,263 Mormons at Castle Garden awaiting transportation to Utah, and 2,100 more are expected from Ear on. The sentence of Mra. Vietor, who was to be hanged in August for the murder of her brother, has been suspended for three months by Governor Hays, of Obio, and she has been sent to the insane asylum. Margaret \\ elsh, who Was sentenced to imprison- ment for \ife for the murder of policeman McChes- ney, in October last, was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $2,000, On an appeal to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in June last, the judg- ment against her was reversed and a new trial or- dered, pending which she was returned from Sing Sing Prison and confined in the Tomba, The Inman line steamship City of Boston, Captain Roskell, wili leave pier 45 North river to-morrow (Saturday), at one P. M., for Queenstown and Liver. pool, The maiis for Europe will close at the Post Office at twelve M., 18th inst. The National line steamship France, Captain Grace, ‘will sail at two P. M. Saturaay, 18th inst., from pier 47 Nerth river, for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown The Merchants’ line steamship General Grant, Cap- tain Quick, will sail from pier 12 North river at three P, M. to-morrow (Saturday), fur New Orleans direct. The Black Star Independent line steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, will leave pier No. 13 North river, at three P. M. on Saturday, 18th inst,, for Savannah, Ga. ‘The steamship Manhattan, Captain Woodhull, will Jeave pier No. 6 North river, at three P. M. on Satur- Gay, for Charleston, 8. C. ‘The stock market was strong yesterday. Govern- ment securities were also strong. Gold closed at The Campaign in New York—Grant and Griswold—Free Liquor and Free Lager. The State of New York is to be the great battle ground in the approaching Presidential struggle, and will be hotly contested, inasmuch as without the electoral vote of New York it would be utterly impossible to elect the demo- cratic candidates any way. As the Irish and Germans hold the balance of power in New York it may happen, singularly enough, that our adopted fellow citizens may be called upon ee NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDST, JULY 17, 1868. anarchy, is torn by civil dissension, and is in every respect as hopeless to-day as she has ever been during these forty years. Com- parisons are not always odious, but they often are. We humbly give it as our opinion that Mr. Romero's comparison is odious beyond endurance. We can hold no fraternal rela- tions with murderers and banditti. The Fejeo Islands. The King of the Fejee Islands, finding him- to decide who shall be the next President of | Self unable to pay the indemnity claimed by the United States, It was their vote that turned | the United States government for the murder the State last fall over to the democracy by a and the cannibalistic “‘eating” of the crews of majority of fifty thousand, the whole of which | two American whalers, proposes, through his was secured in the cities of New York and | Prime Minister, Mr. O. 8. Hare, to sell to our Brooklyn; and the principal incentive to | sovernment the three islands which were mort- the solid movement of the foreign ele- ment at that time was the offensive fanatical legislation of the: republican party in regard to liquor, lager and the Sabbath. gaged for the payment of the indemnity, de- ducting the forty-five thousand dollars due. On the 10th of last April King Thakombau con- trived to raise and pay to the American But the democrats who were elected last year | Consul, Mr. Pritchard, twelve hundred and by the Irish and German votes cheated their friends and proved false to all the pledges they fifty dollars towards the first instalment of fifteen thousand dollars. He avers his inability made before they got into power. The radi- | t Pay any more at present, in consequence cals originally passed the Metropolitan Excise | both of the poverty of his people and the law, it is true; but the democrats, by refusing necessary expenses of the war which, as a last year to amend it or in any manner to change | Converted Christian, he has undertaken against its odious features, became its parent by adoption ; and its unjust and exorbitant fees, its detestable spy system, its blue light Sunday regulations, which they failed to alter when they had the power to do so, are now to be laid at the doors of the Tammany democracy. The liquor question is not the sole induce- ment with citizens of Irish birth or parentage to support the republican ticket this fall in preference to that of the democratic party. Two years ago the Irish Fenian vote beat Hoff- man for Governor and elected Fenton, on the ground that the republican State government, by refusing to interfere with the raids upon the Canada border, had done more to practically help the hereditary enemies of Great Britain than had ever been done by the democrats, with all their professions of sympathy with the the man-eating pagans of the interior, in order to avenge the massacre of Missionary Baker and his twelve assistants. The Prime Minister, Hare, who is an English- man, testifies in the strongest style to the pre- sent inability of King Thakombau to discharge his debt to the United States, and “ prays God that the American government may yet be induced to grant the Vuna Valu (King Thakombau) a remission of these claims, or at least a greatly extended time for payment.” The King, by his failure to pay the forty-five thousand dollars which he owes, forfeits his three most fertile islands—the best of which, Javinna, is his oil-producing island, and the two others are his yam grounds, Mr. Hare says that if the United States government takes these islands King Thakombau “ will be reduced to and he will no Insh. It is well known that General Grant, beggary, a asan American soldier, would have no objec- | longer be able’ to feed his people, tion to a war with England during his term of | °° * take his warriors into the office, and would, at all events, evince no dis- position to allow the British government to trifle with us upon any of the important inter- national questions arising out of the war of the rebellion. General Grant, who fought that war through to a successful termination, would not be very likely to mince matters with age permitted them in aid of the Confederate cause, These considerations, joined with the fact that Grant is a firm believer in free liquor, good liquor, and plenty of it, and that Griswold is a perfect King Gambrinus in regard to lager, which he deals out with a liberal hand to his army of employés, will be very likely to turn the Irish and German vote over to the republicans as solidly as last year it was cast for the demo- crata, and to give the State to Grant and Gris- wold by fifty thousand majority. Seymour and Hoffman, the Tammany candidate for Gover- nor, are both Puritanical in their notions and live upon cold water and weak tea. Hoffman, we believe, did attempt a glass of lager ata German meeting during the campaign of 1866, but was compelled after drinking it to go home to bed and send for his family physician. Grant, on the other hand, would scorn to drink water without something in it, and when Griswold built the monitor for the government, in the early part of the war, he succeeded in pushing forward the work to a speedy conclusion by distributing free lager in unlimited quantities amonghis men. The Irish and Germans natu- rally sympathize with the men who fought out the war for the Union, and as the republi- cans have now presented to them a liberal liquor and lager ticket for their support, free from all the offensive characteristics of straightlaced, New England radicalism, it is very likely that the entire naturalized vote in New York will turn over to that side, and by electing Grant and Griswold will forever wipe out of the republican party Fourierism, free love and fanaticism of every sort and descrip- tion. Minister Romero—Mexico and the United States. Minister Romero, who has for some time past represented the Mexican government in the United States, has been recalled. The reason of his recall is not particularly our affair. In presenting his letters of recall to the Presi- dent Minister Romero made a speech which requires a little passing notice. We have no objection that Ministers come and go from Mexico every week. We have as little objec- tion that Ministers from Mexico, as often as they come and go, should make speeches. We are not willing, however, that any Mexican Minis- | ter should, in the presence of the President of the United States, and therefore in the pre- sence of the world, misread, misstate and mis- represent our history. Minister Romero claims that the Mexican government was modelled on that of the United States, and that it is still true and always has been true to the original model. theory. It is simply not correct. We cannot see tn the Mexican constitution or inthe doings of the Mexican people anything which warrants the inference that the constitutions of the | United States and of Mexico sustain to each other the relation of parent and child. It is not impossible that the Mexican republic may have | been supposed to be modelled upon our repub- lic; but if this mach must be admitted this also must be said, that the found- ers of the Mexican republic followed false lights—the lights of Jefferson, Calhoun, and the rest of them—and that these lights are no longer of any value. The State rights question brought on our civil war. In crush- ing out the elements of rebellion we killed State rights. Mexico, by adopting a false reading of our constitution, has fallen into the trouble from which we now have happily escaped. In settling our difficulty we showed that we understood our position, knew how to justify it, and could afford to be humane. Our chief rebel, the author of our civil war, is still at large, and his life, every hair of his head, is safe, How different is it with Mexico. She has murdered Maximilian; she has stained the nation that sympathized with the rebels from first to last, and went as far as their cour- We cannot accept Minister Romero's | field to repel (as he is now doing) the foulest heathenism that the world has ever known.” Mr. Hare is therefore authorized to offer the ¢| Whole group to the American government for areasonable price, deducting the amount due to it. The value of these islands is attested by the fact that a company has already been formed in Melbourne to supply the King with the means of paying off his American debt. Perhaps, under the circumstances, Mr. Seward could make no better investment as a pur- chaser of real estate on behalf of the United States government. The exports of the Fejee Islands have increased since 1865 from ‘twenty-four thousand one hundred and seventy-flve pounds to thirty-nine thou- sand nine hundred and sixty pounds. The white population already amounts to about six hundred, of whom thirty-eight are Ameri- cans, four hundred and eleven’ are British, and forty-three represent other nationalities. There are also about three hundred half castes. The native population is estimated at one hundred thousand, but they are said to be rapidly decreasing in numbers. A larger in- fusion of the American element would surely tend to develop the great resources of the Fejee islands. And the possession of the group offered to our government by King Thakombau would be but an additional step towards the inevitable extension of American | influence and power in the Eastern world. The Fourteenth Amendment. In answer to an inquiry from the Senate Mr. Seward informs that body that the fourteenth amendment to the constitution has been officially ratified by twenty-three States repre- sented in Congress and by three of the recently reconstructed ones. They are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Con- necticut and Rhode Island, all the New Eng- land States ; New York, New Jersey and Penn- sylvania, the Middle States; and in the West, Northwest and Southwest, the States of Ohio, Indiana, Ilinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Oregon, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Ne- braska, Nevada, West Virginia and Tennessee. The three recently reconstructed States whose ratifications are on record at the State Depart- ment are Arkansas, North Carolina and | Florida. In addition to these, however, Louisiana and South Carolina are coming in on the amendment, and thus there will pre- sently be a total of twenty-eight States. It is desirable that there should be twenty-nine, for although, as the number of States is thirty- six, only twenty-seven are necessary, there is } @ question in regard to the present validity of two of the votes. Ohio and New Jersey have withdrawn their votes, and though | competent jurists hold that as this is a matter of constitutional law one Legislature of a State cannot withdraw the assent given by a former Legislature, as it might repeal an ordi- nary statute, yet the country would be better | satisfied to see this important point settled by & count that would leave out those States if | Necessary, There will be votes enough. | Doubtless the call of the Senate for this record is preliminary toa bill declaring the amend- | ment adopted and part of the law. Hitherto | all such declarations have been made through | the State Department; but as the State Depart- ment is committed to the view that the | Southern Legislatures, as at present made up, are not competent to commit those States, it | will not declare the amendment adopted | while it depends on their votes. The declara- | tion must, therefore, be made by a law of Con- gress, for, as the usual mode is in accordance with a law of Congress, this body can do itself acts that it can empower others to do. Con- | gress will, therefore, no doubt soon pass this law, and as it settles the whole political status of the South on the vital negro suffrage issue, we shall then be in a fair way to see the substantial fruits of reconstruction. The British Imbroglio at Mazatlan. In the special Cuba cable despatch published in this morning's Hrraxp will be found a sum- mary of the instructions given by President Juarez's government to General Corona, in command of the military district having for headquarters the port of Mazatlan. The en- ergy and determination of Captain Bridge, of her hands with blood; she has not been, | her British Majesty's naval service, in exact because it was not in her, to be humane. | ing reparation for an alleged insult to his What is the comparative result? We area | fiag and to one of his officers, cannot unit, a8 no republic on the face of the earth | be too highly commended nor too urgently over was 8 unit before. Mexico ise prey to pressed upon our own lukewarm authorities in just such cases. What will be the result of the investigation ordered by President Juarez to take place before the civil courts remains for time to tell, and it is to be hoped that time will not have it all his own way. Meanwhile we commend this novel episode ‘to the atten- tion of our own government, and hope that it will have the same energy in pressing home on John Bull the argument of his daring, energetic and faithful captain of the Chanticleer. Hot Weather at Our Summer Resorts. If it will be any satisfactton for those con- fined to our sweltering city, we can assure them that the early visitors to almost all our summer resorts complain of even more ardent heat than that which has been afflicting us. The “heated term” has extended over the whole country, and from Montreal to New Orleans the dog star has been in the ascendant. Even the evening east winds of Boston have proved an ineffectual relief for the scorching rays of the daily sun. In the mountains, on the lakes, at the seashore, and even in the shadiest rural districts the thermometer has marked a higher degree of heat than it has marked in New York, where so many unfortu- nate persons have been fatally sunstruck. At one place ‘“‘up in the country” the mercury rose on Wednesday to one hundred and two, while at Hudnut’s pharmacy, on Broadway, on the same day it went no higher than ninety- two, and ninety-seven is the highest figure which it has reached during the whole heated term. It is not surprising, therefore, that while all the citizens of New York who can conveniently get away are hastening to the country, their country cousins, on the contrary, fix upon the summer season for their- annual visit to New York. From the prairies of the West, from the plantations of the South and from the hills of New England, as well as from Cuba, Porto Rico and other West India islands, the number of summer visitors to New York is yearly increasing. If the days are hot, the evenings and nights, with rare exceptions, are comparatively cool, thanks to the breezes which are sent through the city from the bay below and the rivers on each side. The New York hotels’ are therefore thronged with strangers who are contented to remain here all summer, varying their enjoyments by drives in our unrivalled Park and occasional excursions up the Hudson and down the bay. For these strangers and for those of us whom business compels to remain in town New York city is acknowledged to be one of the most desirable summer resorts. It is not improbable that the fiercest heats of the torrid term are nearly at an end, and if the city authorities attend faith- fully to their duty of adopting requisite sani- tary measures we may hope not only to escape the danger of epidemics, but also to enjoy as much of the pleasures peculiar to the season as any of the visitors to our other fashionable summer resorts. The Perils of the Port. The recent and almost miraculous escape from destruction of the ferryboat Sylvan Grove, which, while crowded with passen- gers, was nearly cut in twain on Tuesday evening by the large steamer Providence, of he Bristol line, is fraught with startling im- port to the entire community as a warning whose significance should be at once practi- cably heeded. The Sound steamers are all vessels superior in dimensions and moiive power to any of the steamboats plying regu- larly in the harbor of New York, and when under headway are, as compared to the latter class of boats, steam rams. The piers of the Stonington, the Fall River, the Bristol and Providence, the Neptune and the Norwich lines of steamers are located on the North river, between Barclay and Canal streets. All these boats ply between this port and the New Eng- land seaports, passing through Hell Gate, and as a consequence have to navigate the waters of the North and East rivers. From these piers to Hell Gate is a distance of about six miles, and in traversing this route all those large steamers cross directly the routes of the Pavonia, Hoboken, Jersey City, Communipaw, Coney Island, Staten Island, Hamilton avenue, Atlantic avenue, Wall street, Fulton, Harlem, James slip, Roosevelt street, Catharine street, Jackson street, Grand street, Hunter's Point and Astoria ferryboats, and usually not more than one or two hundred yards distant from the ferry slips. The Sound boats leave their wharves between five and seven o'clock in the evening and arrive at about six o'clock in the morning—hours at which all the ferryboats are freighted with thousands of passengers. The fearful risk thus incurred from the probabilities of collision is beyond comprehension, and certainly, in view of the recent collision, demands a prompt and posi- tive remedy. We have repeatedly called at- tention to this hourly impending danger and suggested the removal—compulsorily if neces- sary—of the Sound steamers to piers on the East river at some point above Catharine street. By this means thirteen of the nineteen ferries named may be relieved of the, danger of running this terrible gauntlet, while the Sound steamers will be two or three miles nearer Hell Gate (their point of exit from the harbor) and not in any manner inconveniently located relatively to the business portion of the city. A Reign of Violence in the South, We are beginning to receive accounts of deeds of violence in some parts of the South, which, we fear, are but the precursors of a more general and serious reign of turbulence. In the midst of the turmoil and confusion, the fury and fierceness of an unparalleled Presi- dential campaign, there is no knowing to what extent the spirit of disorder may be carried. It is to no particular party that these threaten- ing disturbances may be ascribed. Each party is equally zealous and obstinate, cruel and im- placable. Secret political societies are estab- lished on both sides upon principles calculated to inflame the passions of partisans and to pre- cipitate some portions of the unorganized Southern country into a’ condition of anarchy. In such times the innocent are likely to suffer with the guilty, and it behooves the govern- ment to be prepared to protect the defenceless in any contingency that may arise. Congress will soon adjourn, and the duty of preserving order in the South will be left in the hands of General Grant, under the authority of the laws of Con- gress. We hope, therefore, that the General will soon return from the Rocky Mountains, or | ebandon his trip to that region altogether, in order that he may bo on hand to suppress promptly any serious outbreak that may occur in the disorganized districts and to defend the unprotected, let them be assailed from what- ever quarter they may be. From THe Ramwe to THE Danvps.—The Paris Moniteur reiterates the assurances of the pacific policy of the French government. The writer avows that Napoleon will ‘carefully abstain from intervention in German ques- tions,” but will extend the sympathy of the empire to ‘the internal reforms inaugurated in Austria and Turkey.” A very sensible reso- lution, and one which, if carried into exact practice, will effect the object intended by its publication—to “quiet the public mind.” Too Many SraTzsMEN.—Portugal has ex- perienced another Cabinet crisis—the third or fourth within 9 short period—and they have almost a new ministry in Lisbon. The Portu- guese are afflicted with too many statesmen, just as the Spaniards are with too many sol- diers, PENDLETON. The State Convention of West Virginia—Pen- dleton on the Situation. GraFTon, July 16, 1868. ‘The democrats of West Virginia held their State Convention to-day, More than ten thousand persons were in attendance, excursion trains being run over the various branches of the adjoining railroads. Mr. George H. Pendleton and Senator Thurman, of Ohio, and others addressed the assemblage. Mr. Johnson, of Conover county, presided. The following nomi- nations were made:— For Governor, G. D, Camden, of Wood county. For Auditor of State, Daniel Mayer. For Attorney General, Captain Willey. For Judge of the Supreme Court, E. M. Edmerst. Resolutions endorsing the nomiations and plat- form of the New York Convention and demanding the repeal of the Registry law in force in this State were unanimously and enthusiastically adopted. Mr. Pendleton on coming forward was received with great cheering. He said:— MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN—The Chairman of your State Executive Committee when he invited me to attend your meeting to-day told me that Thad no truer friends in the Union than I would meet here in West Virginia. You have proven his statement to be true. I came obedient to your bidding. 1 desired to see you to make your personal acquaintance and to return to you my thanks for the warm and con- stant support of your delegates to the National Con- vention. I came to show you that no f menccrned disappointment lingers in my breast or dampens for an instant the ardor of my efforts for the success of your party—(cheers)—but that far above all persona! considerations 1 rate the success of the principles in which I believe, and that whoever shail bear the flag on which these prin- ciples are inscribed I shall be found close by his side in the thickest of the fight to cheer him with my voice and to aid him with my arm. I came to urge upon you, democrats and republicans alike, to tram- ple under foot every prepossession and prejudice and passion, if it were as dear as life itself, and, rising to the height of this great struggle, to remeinber that we have only a life to give and a noble and enduring government to save. (Applause.) I am a party man; I avow it, but not, I trust, in any narrow or sectarian sense, lam attached from conviction to the principles of the democratic party; I have studied its history from the foundation of the government. It would be impossible forme to make myself heard in this immense audience unless you keep quiet, and I shall ask that while lam speaking you will allow me to proceed without interruption. I thank yon, gentle- men, for the very cordial reception you have just given me. Inthe States I have found it tobe the party of liberty and progress. In the federal govern- ment I have found it to be the exponent of that fun- damental principle ef the constitution that all powers which are not granted are reserved. It has been the consistent opponent of consolidation in the one system and of excessive administration in the other. It has been at once the drm supperter of the rights of the States and o! the just powers of the federal government. Inevery vicissitude of our history it has appeared to direct us with its wisdom and to extricate us by its courage, and to-day it stands as it aid in 1798 and 1799, under the guidance of Mr. Jefferson, pouting us to the path of safety, which is now, as it was then, the path of the constitution, of fraternal my omy} and peace. The Conveniion which sat in New York was an angust assemblage, It was the true council of our party. It embraced our best and purest aud wisest men. The roli of the States was calied and not one was without @ representative. The roli of the districts was called and not one of them was missing, The doc- trine of State suicide was not recognized, the disso- lution of the Union was not acknowledged. Every State was invited to be present and every State ac- cepted the invitation. Every State selected such citizen as she chose, and thus it happened North Carolina and South Carolina, and Georgia and Vir- ginia, sat as in the days of the Kevolution, in frater- nal council with Massachusetts and New York, and Pennsylvania and New baa and that Harapton and Preston and Forrest sat side by side with Stead- man and Morgan. The Convention was the sign and the symbol and the prophecy of a restored Union and a harmonious people. It rose to the dignity of its high duty. The eyes of the world were upon its proceedings. Greater than the holy alliance which subjugated people and divided empires, its mission ‘was to enfranchise a people of our to restore the union of our States and to maintain the Institu- tion of civil liberty. For the first time in their his tory the American people realized that free govern- ment was in danger and that the fate of the republic trembied in the balance. They had been taught to helteve that freedom was indigenous in our soil, and shutting their eyes to the teachings of all history, shutting their eyes to the facts connected with our own revolution, they had hugged to themselves the delusion that in whatever storm of faction or passion or revolutionary fervor liberty at least was safe. They had awakened from the dream, and as they sent representatives to the Convention they charged them, as the dictator of old was charged, to see to it that no detriment happened to the repub- lie. By @ unanimous vote they —— a declaration of petnotuien, fidelity to the constitution, fidelity to the Union, Adelity to the rights of the States, fidelity to the rights of the citizen, fidelity wo the principles of civil liberty, fidelity to that policy in matters of finance and taxation which, by paying the public debt in legal ten- der notes, will lift from the shoulders of labor the burdens which oppress it and by lighten- ing the measure of taxation will secure to it the just rewards of @ cheerful and contented industry. (Cheers.) The speaker then referred in many eulogistic terms to the mominees ‘of the Democratic Convention, and said if any- thing more were needed to fire the heart with enthusiasm let it be drawn from the contrasts the country to-day presented. The republican wa, had been in absolute power for eight years. here was theconatitution they swore to uphold? where was the Union they swore to maintain? After briefly dilating on the course pursued by the republi- can party since the war, more mk oe ly with respect to the reconstruction of Stat he went on to state that Congress had usurped to itself all wor over the State governments of the South and ad, in fact, destroyed them. Adve to the military government. Mr. Pendleton continued:— It is reproducing in our country the lessons of all history. The despotiam of the legislative assembly is the worst despotism in the world. It is the most selfish, the most cruel, the most audacious and the most hort livéd. It ends in anarchy, and this ts speedily followed by ‘the caim repose of the order of the sword. Recall the history of the Roman Senate and the Emperors. Recall the history of the Long Parliament and tyranny of the commonwealth. Recall the history of the Legislative Assembly of France ant of the consulate and the empire, and read in them the ce:- tain prophecy of the fate of this government if y Pealonal usurpat Congr jon shall run its course. Have we not ah a Fy fulfilment? Congress hae despoiled the Pregident of the just powers of his office and has vested them in the General. It las despolied the States of their right of civil govern. ment and vested them, too, in the same officer. It has given him power over all the military com- manders, and to his decision it has referred every question of interoretation and execu- tion’ of the Reconstruction laws. And this same officer, wielding this enormous power, backed by the army, sustained by all the | military organizations by whatever name they may be Known, appealing to the fervor which yet re- | mains after the struggles of a terrible war, demands that he shall be elected President of the United y Which supports him declares ‘we predicted this snd’ ‘warned’ eainat ine tret step. in result and warned who are confined there. (Hear, hear.) He reviewed he expenditres of the federal goverament from July 1, 1865, to July 1, 1868, showing that the democratic. “administrations bad been much more economical. Moreover, he would ask why was it that the amount realized from taxes for 1869 would be less than the amount realized in 1868, considering that the rate of taxation Was substantially the game, itis time that this re- ay Congress had diminished in part or in whole the tax on the manufactures in New England or on whiskey; but they would not materially change the aggregate. Payment was more dificult than previously. Labor found no occupation, energy and enterprise were paralysed, and ‘all because & republican adminis‘ration the currency, a ‘out of em 3 mean- time the work of contraction is Look at every moni Sec: of the Treasury. that evi month the bears in gos. creased, You will find that every dollar that bears no interest at all or that bears interest in currency is converted as rapidly as possible bonds which pay interest in gold; and w! Is there too much currency in the country a plethora of money? Is speculat No gan, Will. Gare. storm. tf and ma work of traction goes value is coined for the bondholder out of the sweat and tears, the blood and bones and muscles of the laboring man; and when we ask the reason we are a oat tnt ho fone ant be pal tn yention of Chicago, that the bon: id, pooording te the spirit and letter of the con- I deny that it is according to elther the spirit or letter of the cdritract, undés 1 the fye-twenties bonds were sold. I pirit nor the letter of the law under which these bonds were issued, nor, nor good morals, nor exact justice to holder, require that they should be They are payable ten this opinion T am sustained by Convention of New York. (Appiause.) What the acca of fndentannens Spaesree Ci get pe an republican party wo! col A $2,600,000,000 we know it is now. Less than that it certainly will not be. The interest upon that gum will be $150,000,000 in gold, and this amount is to be drawn’ annually from the people of the country during all your lives, and the lives of your youngest children, in order to carry out the Sommnes of the republican party. On the other \d, the democratic party ‘were opposed to extension and desired the immedi- ate payment of the debt. (Hear.) [t declared that the money collected from the people should not be squandered, but applied to the payment of the debt interest. {€ declares that the five-twenty bonds shall be paid in legal tender, and until they be pala they shall be subjected to the same rate of taxation as all property. It declares there shall be one currency for the government and the people, for the laborer and the oMiceholder, the pensioner and the soldier, the producer and the bondholder. (Cheers,) And how is it practicable to pay this debt—three hundred and thirty miliions—if bonds are held in the Treasury Department as security for the national bank circulation. Redeem ther the very moment you have the option to do so with legal tender notes, and let them supply the place of the bank paper. This measure alone, with very little in- flation of the currency,and without any addition to the taxation, will redeem the debt and save the twenty millions in gold which are now paid as a bonus to national banks. He also recommended the redeimp- tion with i tender notes. of the five hundred millions of the first issue of the five-twenties payable this year at the option of the ¢ ment. He urged that such measures would siop the contraction and reverse the policy of the Tre ry Department, and give stability to the money market. He strongly advocated the expansion of the currency, and pointed out the folly and _uselessness of contraction, citing many instances in favor of his arguments for the reduction of the national debt. The accruin revenues would enable you, without ther expansion, to pay off the rest due of the five-twenties as they mature and then to diminish still further the amount of in- terest, consequently the taxes. If then the currency were found redundant gradual contraction could be effected, and as it would come when the debt haa been paid. when the necessity ior large sums of money on the part of the govern- ment had ceased, when taxes were low, It could be accomplished without the oppression and disaster whici now attend it. I have been re- presented as universal to tle bondholder, Gentle- men, you shali judge me. i am hostile to no class or interest in the country. I simply desire to be just— just to the bondholder, just to the people. I would live up with scrupulous fidelity to the terms of our contracts. I would pay the interest of the five-twenties in gold. because the government promised to do so. I would pay principal and inte- rest of the ten-forties in gold, because the govern- ment promised to do so, [would pay the principal of the five-twenties in legal tender notes, because the bond holders sqreed to receive them in payment, and as I would not repudiate an honest ba to make money for the people, 80 will 1 not repudiate an honest bargain to make money for the public cre- ditors. (Cheers.) He did not think that policy would lve us a depreciatory currency, but, on the contrary, was of opinion that just as the public debt was thus discharged will the certainty of its ultimafe redemption be more apparent, and its value be rapidly and steadily in- creased, ' These bonds operate as a mortgage upon the property and labor of the country. There are two thousand millions of them. Pay off these two thousand millions and will not the legal tenders be first in the proportion more valuable? I know the evils of a depreciated cur- rency, I would not aid in deyreciating our currency. I fought against it when it was pro- posed by the Legal Tender act, but since it was ac- complished—since the debt was contracted in I tender—since it may be lawfully and honestly paid tn legal tender—I am in favor of continuing it until we can secure the people who have already suffered all the evils, whatever good may be expected from the system. But, gentlemen, I detain you too long. I have sought to bring in sharp contrast the two par- ties and their raspective principles. Choose between them. (Cheers) Several other speakers having delivered addresses, the Convention adjourned at eight o'clock. POLITICAL WOTES. Lodi! We'll take that bridge. Who? But how about Cayuga t Williams and Robinson say Massachusetts will go for Grant. Who doubts it? “Simmer and Blaze! is the democratic rallying ‘ory out West. ‘The radical papers say Governor Swann, of Mary- land, appointed Mr. Whyte United States Senator in order to get him out of the way as a rival candidate for Congress from the district in which both reside. The radicals will, no doubt, find a very soft thing when they discover Swann down. ‘The Greenville (S. C.) Mountaineer says a few days since an accession of about one hundred names (many of them previously connected with the Union League) was made to the lists of the North Saluda Democratic Club. We have noticed already no less than forty-seven and a half puns on Seymour’s name since he be- came the democratic candidate. There are said to be three Governors in South Carolina, and it is diMecult to tell which is the real one—Canby Orr Scott. The Jews of Memphis have pronounced against Grant. It is not the first time the Jews denounced @ Saviour. ANOTHER BOND ROBBERY. Twenty-one Thousand Dollars Stolen from a Banker's Office. ‘The expert, venturesome thieves of this city pecu- arly affect the possession of United States bonds, and scarcely a week passes that some case of their mys- terious removal from banking houses or brokers’ offices Is not reported to the police. A singular fa- tality exists in connection with thei? felonious ab- straction, the thteves in but few instances being cap- tured or punished as the nature of their crime de- serves, e latest of these robbertes by .unseen hands, and one thoroughly enveloped in myhery. de that from the banking office of Mr. Thomas F. Mot No. 7 Wall street. Yesterday afternoon some cautious rogue or rogues slipped In during the busy honrs and quietly picked A A yg 4 Mpcnee | twenty-one $1,000 five-twenty bonds. ey were missed for some time thereafter, when the closest search and ‘inquiry failed to elicit the least shadow of satisfaction regarding their whereabouts, The numbers of the bonds are as follows :—65,005, 110,241, 110,242, 110,243, 110,244, 110,248, 11,772, 60,043, 2,678, 63,507, 20,861, 19,143, 110,502, 65,007, 110,604, '65,006, 61,099, 56, 096, 25,694, 56,095, LOCAL IT A Dean CutLp.—Last night an oMcer of the eventh precinct found a woman, named rinan, at the foot of Liberty street with @ child in her arms. She stated that her husband resides at Plainfield, N.J., to which point she was en route to join him. Drownxep.—A hand employed on the steamer Arrowsmith last night walked of a gang plank at Peck slip and was drowned. The body was re- covered, and the coroner notified, CouNTERFEITS.—!t has been reported to Police Headquarters that bills of the denomination of ten dollars on the First National Bank of Red Hook, A. J., are in circulation, Fire IN MERCER STREFT.—A fire occurred at No. 69 Mercer street, on the third floor, The premises were occupied by Gillie Hesbergh. The fire was caused by the explosion of a kerosene lainp. The damage was only $50, Fine in Water Staeet.—At 6 late hour last night & fire occurred in the cigar store of Solomon Rosen- berg, No. 634 Water street, caused by the explosion ofa kerosene lamp, It was put out by the neighbors after damages to the amount of had been sus- tained. The piace was fully insured in the North American Insurance Company. AW Orricen StansRD.—Officer Irving, of the Nine- teenth preci was stabbed at a late hour last nigat, on the corner of Fifty-Ofth street and Third avenue. ‘The assassin ts unknown