The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1868, Page 6

6 rg ni NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke Herarp. Volume XXXIII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WERY THEATRE, Bowe: peo Gnome AND WHITE Wa —DODGING FoR A WiFrE— RIOR. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hompry Dompry. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Fine Fry. roadway and 18th street.— BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Taroppen Down. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Fout Pray. NIBLO'S GARDEN.—BARBE BLEUE. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th street.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comio Vooatism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. Matinee at 234. CENFRAL PARK GARDEN, Sovanth avenue.—PorcL am GanpEN Concent. HOOLEY’S OPERA MINGTBELS—Scrr. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— 01 HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hooury’s New York, Wednesday, August 12, 1868. THB NEWS. EUROPE. Thg news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday, August 11. The students made a tumult in Paris but were dis- persed by the police. Adah Menken is dead. Austria is actively reorganizing the Hungarian army under pn ‘e commanders, The foreign sol- diers in the @ervice of the Pope desert in large hum- bera. The Sultan's troops repressed the disturbance in Prince Charles, of Roumanta, ts charged with secretiy inciting the revolt. Consols 9i, money, Five-twent é in London and 75% in Frankfort. Paris Bourse quiet. Cotton steady, with middling uplands 97;d. Bread- stuffs and provisions advanced. By mail from Europe we have very interesting special detai's of our cable telegrams to the ist of August. Mr. Disracii's speech on the home situation and foreign relations of England will be read with In- terest. MISCELLANEOUS. We fave correspondence on our triple sheet this morning from South America, dated at Buenos Ayres, June 28, and Rio Janeiro, July 9. It was known almost beyond a doubt that Don Domingo F. Sar- miento pad been elected President and Governor Adolfo Alsina Vice President of the Argentine Re- public. Sarmiento was recently Minister to the United States. The financial trouble: at Montevideo were increasing. Business is entirely suspended and government laborers are paid by due bills, The Brazilian Legislative Assembly were in session, but no business of importance was transacted. Consider- able vexation is fe't about the payment of the Caro- line claim of sixty thousand dollars to the United States, and General Webb has published an account of his negotiations in the matter. The news from the seat of war in Paraguay is unimportant. The allies are unable todo anything and the war ts con- sidered very near a close. Minister Washburn was still at Asuncion, as the United States steamer Wasp was not allowed to pass up. It is believed that Gen- eral Webb has telegraphed to Secretary Seward ask- ing the privilege of demanding unimpeded passage for the Wasp or his passports, On our triple sheet this morning will be found in addition to our South American correspondence, our letter from St. Domingo detailing the progress of the latest revolution in that country and an account of an interview with Brigham Young, the President of the Mormon Church. It appears from Brigham’s re- marks that all the influence of his Church has been used to have the Pacific Railroad pass through Sa.t Lake City. From Shanghae, China, by way of London and the Atlantic cable, we learn that the line of the Amoor river is again peaceful and trade reviving. We have telegraphic reports from La Paz, Mexico, to July 28, Mazatlan to August 1 and Vera Cruz to August 5. Don Pablo Castro has been elected Gover- nor of Lower California. General Davoios, the mill- tary commander in the territory, expresses his will- ingness to accept Castro provided all his orders are issued from the military headquarters. Mrs, Bur- deli Cunningham had been in La Paz fixing up her title to some mining property. The whole State of Vera Cruz was in rebellion, the leaders being men of influence. The rebellion was rapidiy extending and it was thought the castle of San Juan D'Ulloa would be attacked. Alatorre had been defeated by Negrete. Captain Bridge, of the Chanticleer, had raised the blockade at Mazatlan. Hon. Thatdeus Stevens died in Washington at midnight. The President has made several appointments of subordinate officers in the Revenue Department and one of acoilector in Alabama. The opinion of At torney General Evarts, which was submitted in sub- stance at the Cabinet meeting yesterday, is supposed to cover those cases as well as the Commissioner's case, Alpeoria Bradley, a colored Senator in the Georgia Legislature, who some time ago had charges of fel- ony brought against him. after a long speech in vin- dication of his acts, resigned a few days ago, and yesterday the Senate conciuded the his case was no longer under their jurisdiction. The new Militia bill has passed in both branches of the Louisiana Legislature. It empowers the Governor to dispose of the militia as he pleases. In the Alabama Legislature yesterday a breeze sprung up owing to the veto by the Governor of the bill providing that the Legislature shall cast the electoral vote of the State. Senators Jones and Coon (the former a white native and the latter a member from lowa), both republicens, had a severe time over it, threatening war and revolution in either event of passing the bill or not passing tt. No action was taken upon it, and as the Legisiature adjourns soon, twany of the members have already left the capital. ‘The first race of the cruise of the New York Yacht squadron came off at New London yesterday, the Halcyon proving the winner. In the evening a grand hop was given at the Pequot House. ‘The Saratoga meeting closed yesterday with four races inthe rain. The first, a hurdie race, was won by Lobelia, the two miles over eight hurdies being made by her in 3:50. The second race was a dash of four miles and was won by James A. Connolly in 7:38, The third, a dash of a mile anda half, was won by Sleety aud the fourth, a dash of a half mite, was won by Jubal. p Ata Seymour ratification meeting in Alexandria, Va., yesterday, Montgomery Biair and Green Clay Smith made speeches. The latter recommended that the electoral vote of Virginia should be sent up to be counted by Congress. Sir John A. McDonald and his party of Dominion Commissioners left Halifax yesterday, their attempts to reconcile the people there to the confederation having proved a failure. The feeling for repeal in the Legislature and among the people is as strong as ever. General Melancthon 8. Wade, son of David Wade, one of the first scttiers of Cincinnati, died suddenty at Avondale, Ohio, yesterday. The Chinese Embassy are still at Niagara Falls and will be treated to a grand hop to-night. John Fiteh died in the village of Westchester on Friday of cholera. ‘The British brig Eunice was seized in Philadelphia yesterday by the Collector of the port for traqing with te island of Sombrero, which ta denlared by the NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. Secretary of the Treasury to be a port appertaining to the United States. The penaity ia forfeiture of vessel and cargo. The Board of Health had again under considera- tion yesterday measures for the cure and prevention of the cattle disease. A report from the sanitary squad showed that in the drove yards of the city there was ne disease apparent as yet. Dr. Harris submitted a report in reference to the disease. He expresses the opinion that it ts one of the most in- tense forms of the malignant typhus, Telegrams from Pittsburg state that the disease has disappeared mong the cattle in transit on the Pennsylvania rall- roads, Dr. Harris states in his report of vital statistics that there were 751 deaths in this city last week and 267 in Brooklyn. The Grand Jury in Memphis, Tenn., yesterday found a bill against T. A. Hamilton, @ State Sen- ator, for perjury in having taken the test oath. He was an officer of the Confederate States. McCoole and Coburn are having their fight out in the papers. An epistolary bout has taken place be- tween them, in which Coburn reiterates the asser- tion that McCoole had him arrested, and says he (McCoole) refused to fight in the Lawrenceburg jail. Coburn is to be in New York to-morrow, when he will claim the stakes it McCoole does not appear. An old man named Hugh Cunningham was found dead in the basement hallway of a house in Jay street, Brooklyn, yesterday. He was lying with his back against the door and his face appeared to have been eaten by rats. He was a widower and lived alone, and had been missing since Saturday. General Giliem, commanding the Fourth District, has issued his order transferring Arkansas to the Department of Louisiana and assuming the com- mand of the Department of Mississippi. OMcer Davis, of the Seventeenth police precinct, was locked up by Justice Mansfield yesterday for hav- ing caned a woman in Tompkins square. His only defence against the charge was that the woman was a prostitute, In an affray with robbers in Crawford county, Tl., on Friday last, one of a poase of constables was killed, whereupon the remainder of the posse rushed upon the robbers and killed all of them, four in number, The Cunard steamship Scotia, Captain Judkins, will leave Jersey City about twelve M. to-day for Liverpool via Queenstown. The mails will close at the Post office at eleven A. M. The steamship Perit, Captain Delanoy, wil! sail at three P. M. to-day from pier No. 4 North river for Gal- veston direct. The steamship General Barnes, Captain Morton, will sail for Savannah to-day, leaving pier 36 North river at three P. M. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of Leary’s line, will leave pier 14 East river, foot of Wall street, at three P. M. to-day for Charleston, S. C. The stock market was unsettled yesierday. Gov- ernment securities closed firm. Gold closed at 14614. The Approaching Elections in England. The British Parliament, which was elected three years since, after experiencing very con- siderable changes in its personnel, has been prorogued, previous to its dissolution, by order of the Queen. When its legislative existence ceases completely, which will be within a very brief period of time, Great Britain will enter on a new political era, which will be either progressive in healthy reform and the gradual elevation of the people to an educated enjoy- ment of citizen rights, or marked by sudden and sweeping revolutionary changes, con- ducted and effected within the constitution. Our special correspondence from London, with the ‘mail reports from the United Kingdom generally, published in the Heraxp within the past couple of weeks and to-day, show forth the fact that the leading men of England are fully convinced of the near approach of a serious and marked crisis in public affairs, and that they have already entered on a most active election canvass with the view of ob- taining, or retaining, as much influence as possible both in the shaping of its course and for their own exaltation and profit. Disraeli, Gladstone, Bright, the Manchester radicals, Birmingham mechanics, Leeds manu- facturers, peers, clergy, bankers, Irish re- pealers, small money changers, the East India interest, West India abolitionists, railroad men, army men, navy men, Jews and Gentiles are all at work speech-making, rearranging their forces, pledging and toasting; but so far we have really heard of nothing decidedly pre- monitory of actual change in the existing situa- tion of affairs. Mr. Horsman, a very respect- able liberal, who at one time held the im- portant position of Secretary for Ireland, speaks of vote by ballot, life peerages and the complete disendowment of all the churches; but Mr. Horsman does not enjoy either the public “following” or personal calibre necessary to impress the nation toward such radical engraft- ments at so early a date in the scarcely adher- ent clauses of the new reform bill. Working- men's associations talk of members of the House of Commons to be selected from the artisan class, and paid by joint stock subscrip- tion from the ‘‘strong boxes” of the mechanics for their services; but the experience of British extra Parliamentary life is to the effect that the most clever speechifiers or “‘spouters” of the Trades Unions are invariably shy in debate with actual legislators, and that the moment the bar of the House of Commons shuts down after the admission of a member who has been a first rate ‘‘talker” in the clubs, he becomes impressed with a new sense of feeling, which renders him solemn, silent and positively nervous, so that he rarely utters a word within the walls of St. Stephen's. In all our ‘reports of this British election movement we hear almost nothing of the English, people, and it is useless to speculate too closely as to how the election tide may drift until the franchise registrations provided for in the Reform bill have been, completed. Should it be found that the working of the measure in the registration courts clothes eight or nine hundred thousand men (men and women, perhaps, ) with the right of voting, then, indeed, will come up @ great struggle for the attainment of the control of the majority of such a huge motive power, and it may be that, as with ourselves previous to the civil war, John Bright, with the Manchester ‘‘men,” will come forth as a sort of “‘negro worship- per,” while Disracli, with the Cabinet whip in his band-and his aristocratic and anointed allies at his back, may stand out in the charao- ter of a “negro driver.” The Premier holds a most powerful posi- tion—official and political—and, with the he- reditary tenacity of his race, is likely to retain it. Refusing to bow to the will of the House of Commons on the Church bill, he took the wind almost completely from the sail of Glad- stone. He retains all the patronage of the crown in his hands by which he can affect the vote of the towns, naval and commercial, to a very considerable ex- tent, while he has the Hanaper Office under his control and thus can fix the day of election. His experience in the art of demagogy is more varied than that of Glad- stone and more subtle than that of Bright, 60 that ha can come ta tha neoole and ask them what they require, on the one hand ; while his memories of the glories of his line—of Abra- ham, of Isaac, of Joseph and of David—ele- vate him in sentiment far above the descend- ants of the Conqueror, who follow him, and leave him the only suitable dynastic com- panion for the sovereign. Disraeli champions the Church against “foreign and domestic conspirators” just now ; but should he find that a million of new voters, most of whom do.not care for or know of a Church, and feel no interest in its sustentation, he is really the only man in Britain who can afford to ‘let it go” without experiencing religious melancholy and at the same time stand proof against the anathemas of the clergy. The Premier indeed intimates in his speech at the Mansion House, published in our columns, that the British constitution can and will be adapted to the popular will. The House of Commons, which is now mori- bund, had one hundred and thirty-eight changes of members—eighty-eight new and fifty re- elected. Yet we have’ seen that the infusion produced no perceptible alteration in its tone, anda general election ‘“‘pipelaid” very con- siderably by Mr. Disraeli may actually turn the vote of the new House in his favor; cer- tainly will if he make his ‘bid” on the ‘‘neces- sity” of Church disendowment both in Ireland and England. Should Mr. Disraeli attempt to sustain the Church Ireland will roll up a very heavy anti- Ministerial majority. On such a platform he would scarcely secure twenty votes of the one hundred and five sent to the House of Com- mons from the island. As a close ecclesiasti- cal corporation, and as if in avengement of many persecutions for conscience sake, sus- tained by the Irish during three hundred years, the Catholic hierarchy and clergy of Ire- land will go to the “polls” determined to “win,” and eighty-five members from the Green Isle, acting in solid phalanx and in sympathy with their programme, may really constitute the ‘balance of power” party in the British Par- liament. It would be an extraordinary phase in British politics if this renovated Irish Par- liamentary legion treated the Church question in such form as that their co-legislators from Britain would vote a repeal of the Act of Union, if only to get rid of them, their Church, their speeches and their applications for place. A Trying Time for Tammany—The Poilti- cal Ring and the Prize Ring. Tammany is in trouble. Following the bent of the people of all countries in the present day, its wild Indians are ripe for revolution and ready fora change. They have got into their new quarters in an aristocratic neigh- borhood, surrounded by music halls, a grand operatic catacomb, a circus, a new hotel and any number of first class shoddy boarding houses, and they miss the old Pewter Mug and the back slum lager beer saloons of Franklin and North William streets. With their change of location has come a corresponding disturb- ance in their sentiments towards their old leaders. Seven or eight months ago, in the general and charter elections, the Tammany machine was all powerful, bore down every opposition and carried its candidates into office by unprecedented majorities. It obtained con- trol of the judiciary, the Legislature, the several elective city departments, the Boards of Supervisors, Aldermen and Councilmen, and succeeded in placing one of its principal workers on the Police Commission. It wiped out Mozart, swallowed up the Union democ- racy, and laid the ghost of the Citizens’ Asso- ciation. One might have supposed that Tam- many, from the sweeping character of its vic- tories last fall, was booked for a long career of absolute power over the affairs of the city of New York. But it begins to show symptoms thus early of a decline more sudden than its recent rise. Miles O'Reilly has departed, and the friendship which with true Irish generosity he had tendered to his old enemy after giving him a tremendous whipping is lost forever. Comptroller Connolly, who heads the Finance Department, while smooth and easy with his associate leaders, is, as usual, prepared to take care of himself before any other organization. McLeap, the gallant Street Commissioner, giyes neither force nor weakness to any party, being a sort of negative political quantity, with excellent social qualifications. Fernando Wood, having pocketed his leases and aban- doned his outside opposition, is more to be feared than ever. In the midst of all this the unsettled, dis- satisfied element inside the Tammany organiza- tion is working and working, and boding mischief. It will concentrate in opposition to the nomination of Hoffman for Governor, to which the leaders are pledged, and will accept any candidate, from Buffalo to Brooklyn, in order to defeat him. This inside revolution will be headed by Sheriff James O’Brien, one of the pluckiest, most influential and efficient of the Tammany braves, and will count in its ranks such democrats as Alderman Mike Norton, Coroner Flynn, and any number of active poli- ticians from the First ward to Mackerelville. The worst of the business is that the prize ring has separated from the political ring at the very moment when shoulder hitters are in demand and bruisers are beyond price. John Morrissey, who two years ago forced the nomination of Hoffman and demanded and received for himself the position of Congress- man, now deserts the Tammany lenders and the democratic candidates, bets his money heavily on Grant, the great General, and Col- fax, the great Know Nothing, and avows his determination to beat Hoffman in the State Convention. Under these circumstances there is only one course for the Tammany leaders to pursue. They must at once look round for some young prize fighter from the other side of the water, with good muscle and lots of pluck, enlist him in their cause and pit him against Morrissey. It is important that they should have the prize ring on their side. Jem Ward would do if he were younger and an Irishman instead of an Englishman. But as that champion is ineligible, and as such bogus fighters as Heenan and Coburn are out of the question, they must take O’Baldwin, the Irish giant, or some other Hibernian bruiser into their pay. They can soon fit him for office, for Morrissey himself was only naturalized o few weeks before his election to Congress. Then if they can pacify Sheriff O'Brien and will pay their honest debts, which at present they neglect to do, they may yet bridge over the next election and extend thoir term of nawer another year. The Greatest Taxed Country in the World. If the temper of a people is to be judged by their patient endurance of enormous taxation the people of the United States are the best tempered in the world, for they certainly are taxed more heavily than any other people and make less noise about it. We have estimated that taxation by the federal government alone, independent of State, county and municipal taxes, amounts to fully fourteen dollars a head—man, woman and child—for the whole population, Take the case of a laboring man with a family of five or six children, and it will be seen that he pays about a hundred dollars a year, which, on an average, would be about a seventh or eighth of his earnings, Yes, the whole working population pay in one way or another this enormous and proportionate amount of their hard earned money. Nearly one day's labor out of the week the year round goes to the support of the federal goverment. The local taxes imposed by the States, coun- ties and municipalities amount probably to nearly as much, for in the end, directly or in- directly, all taxation comes out of labor. Why, in the city of New York we are taxed over twenty-three millions a year—as much as was raised and expended by the United States government thirty years ago. But it is the federal government we speak of particularly now. The income of the general government last year, reckoning from June 30, 1867, to June 30, 1868, was over four hundred and sixty millions. This, too, in time of peace and three years after the war was closed. If we take the British government, the most expen- sive of any in the world, and which has a much larger debt than any other, by way of com- parison, we shall see that our national revenue and taxes exceed those of Great Britain. The total revenue of England from all sources rarely reaches eighty millions sterling, or four hundred millions of dollars. This is sixty millions less than ours, notwithstanding the debt is about double the amount of the interest- bearing debt of the United States, and the English have besides to support a costly royal establishment, an expensive army and navy and the vast machinery of government over colonies and territories covering a fifth of the habitable globe. We might make a compari- son with the other great nations and empires of the world and show a still greater difference in the cost of governthent between them and this country ; but England is the most costly and more to the point. Yes, our republican government taxes the people sixty millions a year more in time of peace than the monarchi- cal and expensive government of Great Britain does the British. Congress made a pretence of taking off some of these taxes during the last session.‘ It was estimated they would be reduced a hun- dred millions or 80; but in fact the reduction was made to favor a few manufacturers and to increase still more their profits and wealth. The people will scarcely feel the change, if at all. Their burdens will remain as heavy as ever, or nearly so, Shifting the weight of taxation from a few rather increases it upon the many. The trouble lies in the enormous expenditures of the government and in the extravagant appropriations of Congress. These are fast eating up the surplus money Mr. McCulloch had in the Treasury, and at the end of the fiscal year we may look for a de- ficiency. Nothing can be done to relieve the country of the overwhelming taxation that bears upon it till we return to something like the economy of former years. There is no hope of this till a wiser, a more honest and an economical Congress shall be elected, and till the administration of the national finances be placed in abler hands. To this the people should turn their attention and see that in the coming elections these old, corrupt and inca- pable Congressmen be left at home and a bet- ter and more competent set of men be returned in their place. Gi The Difficulty in Louisiana. The application of Governor Warmoth for a reinforcement of federal troops to suppress the reported violence and murders in Louisiana has been responded to by the War Department in a very prompt and efficient manner. The Governor is informed through an official order to General Buchanan of the constitutional powers vested in the President in case that any insurrection or domestic violence should place the State government in peril. The constitu- tion is very clear upon this point that the United States shall guarantee to every State a republican form of government and protect all the States against invasion or insurrection if called on by the Legislature, or, if that body is not in session, by the Governor, to summon the militia to protect that State, and it is furthey provided by acts of Congress that the President may use the land and naval forces of the United States for this purpose. General Buchanan being so instructed by an order from General Grant can have no difficulty in de- ciding what his duty is in the premises, be- cause he is admonished that he must use his own judgment in ascertaining whether there is really any necessity for the exercise of mili- tary authority in the State of Louisiana and communicate the facts by telegraph to the President, and then act in accordance with in- structions from the War Department. The difficulty complained of in Louisiana, which would seem to be greatly exaggerated by the radical Governor, can be easily disposed of in a legal and proper fashion. If there be indeed any danger to the stability of the State govern- ment it can be obviated by obeying the instruc- tions from the War Department, and no doubt the commanding general at New Orleans will see that his orders from headquarters are faith- fully fulfilled. Mr. Conkine on Reorgant Reevsricans.— Mr. Conkling was particularly savage in his speech, delivered at Dodworth Hall, Monday night, on the “‘recreant republicans” in Con- gress, meaning particularly Thad Stevens, Ben Butler and others, who were in favor of paying the bondholders in greenbacks. He chewed over with a great deal of gusto old Thad’s remarks about the “bloated specula- tors,” grasping bondholders, and so forth, all of which shows the radicals are anything but a happy and harmonious family. Well, this is avery good state of things for the country. The more these radicals pitch into and venti- late each other the more the truth will come out, and the people be able to judge of the unfitness of such incompetent reyresentatives ta ramata in Congress. Ne Danger of a Fight. Wall street speoulators may make the most of the illusion that another Southern rebellion is imminent, It is their nature to make the most of all illusions that may overcloud the public mind. The radicals may do all that they can to provoke ‘a war of races,” and even a renewal of the vain attempt on the part of the Southern secessionists to overturn the federal government. But there is no imme- diate danger of another fight. The Southern people, exhausted by our late civil contest, now ask with more earnestness than ever only to be “‘let alone.” They would gladly surren- der to political parties in the North the agita- tion of all the questions involved in the ap- proaching Presidential election. Their first desire is to restore their fallen fortunes, and to this end they are ready to sacrifice, in the changed condition of things, their old preju- dices against immigration from Europe and even from the North. Nor are their former recognized leaders less averse to a revival of the hostilities which during four years deso- lated the entire South. Wade Hampton, for instance, strenuously denies both the expres- sions which he was reported to have lately made and the interpretation which was put upon them by the Northern journals, In one of his recent speeches Wade Hampton says that in a conversation with General Robert E. Lee in his retirement the Confederate chief- tain said to him, talking about the war, “I did only what I thought was right, and nothing else. Now that we have peace, I favor obe- dience to the law and desire peace throughout the land.” Lee and Johnston and all the other prominent officers of the late Confederate army have concurred, in words and in conduct, in his policy of peace ever since the conclusion of the war. Mr. Campbell, in his letter to the Southern negroes, which was read at the con- vention at Aiken, in Georgia, on the 4th inst., expressed the universal sentiment of the South- ern whites :—Our people fought the blue coats for four years, and we had enough of it. You may try it if you choose. I shall not fight them or you for my right to vote.” Who, then, is to renew the fight? Not the Northern “copperheads,” surely, although some of their organs are “‘full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Not the ‘‘war democrats,” who now profess, at least, to be anxiously eager for re- conciliation and peace. And finally, not the radicals, who are fighting only for office and plunder. There is ‘‘no danger of a fight" and gold must fall. Egyptian Difficulties—The Keal Cure. Our special correspondent in Egypt, as our readers have observed, has given us full and detailed accounts of the difficulties which the Viceroy seeks to remove from his present relations with foreigners. It has long been notorious that Egypt was an omnium gatherum from all the nations, the United States in- cluded, and that the manner in which the difficulties constantly arising among the various nationalities and between foreigners and natives were settled was roundabout and clumsy in the last degree. The present Viceroy has made an attempt to grapple with the difficulty, and in order, if possible, to have the difficulty removed, and the dignity of his government more completely reorganized, has made a proposal to all the great Powers. His pro- posal has many points which entitle it to respectful consideration. A common central court, such as the Viceroy recommends, in which all questions as between foreigners and all questions as between foreigners and natives should be finally settled, feasible enough from the Viceroy's own point of view, would, unless all we know of that country is to go for nothing, be the ruin of Egypt. It could only have the effect of exposing the iniquities of Egyptian rule to the eyes of the civilized world. Directly such a court is established Egypt will become another Mexico, only infinitely worse. There 1s but one cure for Egypt, and that is for Eng- land to take her in charge, Viceroy, Pachas, harems and all that belongs to her. This will give Egypt peace, Egyptians justice and the valley of the Nile its proper place in the esti- mation of the nations. To this plan France gannot consent unless England consents to allow her to annex Spain to Portugal. The question becomes sharp, but it has only one proper solution, and that is ‘he solution we propose, It is for England and France to come to an arrangement. We tell them what they ought to do. If they do it not the blame will be all their own. Festivity and Politics at Saratoga. It is doubtful whether the horses.on the turf at Saratoga, the belles on the course or the politicians at the hotels are the smartest. The politicians, who have the largest game to play, appear to be combining the tricks of their profession with the festivities of the hour. The friends of the rival candidates for the guber- natorial democratic nomination—Hoffman and Murphy—are vieing with each other in the splendor and extravagance of their game and fish dinners at the lake. Who can furnish tho most costly delicacies and let fly the largest quantity of champagne appears to regard the chances of the man he backs as the best in the field. John Morrissey, who is Henry C. Murphy's backer and is ready to bet on him, entertained the Senator from Brooklyn sumptu- ously at Moon's rustic and expensive retreat on the lake shore on Sunday, There was a choice company present, and the occasion afforded Hon. John Morrissey an opportunity of declaring in a neat speech that, although he was a friend of Hoffman the Mayor, be was decidedly opposed to Hoffman for Governor, and that he would relieve him from the incubus of his patronage, which some people aid was a drag upon the last democratic candidate for Governor, by going it strong for his other friend, Murphy. There seems to be an under current of revolution in the metro- politan democratic ranks. Whether it is the result of the limpid waters of Saratoga, or the excitement of the race course, or the effect of game dinners at Moon’s it is hard to say; but several quondam friends are evidently at loggerheads, and we suppose we must wait till the hot season ends before things settle down. Campatos HaraNnavrs.—We have charac- terized according to its deserts the narrow- minded twaddling of the Tildens and Butlers of the North, but we are almost at a lose for expressions sufficiently strong to do justice to the ineffable inappropriateness and absurdity | of the troops tp t 7 ae r Toombes of the South. The speeches of Howell Cobb- and Robert Toombs at the late Seymour and Blair ratification meeting at At- lanta, Ga., which were fully reported in yes- terday morning's Hzrap, must convince the most unprejudiced that these ‘blind leaders of the blind” have not yet opened their eyes to the real situation. They are like the Bour- bons, who “‘never forget and never learn.” Animated by the same old virulence with which they have already “‘fired the Southern heart,” they would fain perpetuate, notwith- standing all their fine professions to the contrary, the sectional animosities which enkindled our late civil war. Surely it is not in the multitude of such coun- sellors as these that safety is to be found. It behooves the Northern leaders of the democratic party to do all that in them lies to neutralize the baleful influence of such cam- paign harangues as those which have been applauded to the echo in recent democratic ratification meetings at the South. ‘ Poor Pierce and Silly Seymour. The South seems likely to go with a rush for Seymour, and the reason is that the repub- lican policy has been made so clear by Congress and the reconstructors that it is impossible to disguise it, especially in that most offensive point, negro suffrage. On the other hand there is everything to hope from the democrats, and the Southern people readily ‘believe that they will have the sympathy of the leaders of that party. In all the Southern States we shall see very nearly what we have just seen in Kentucky, and as the democrats will certainly divide the North there is the highest probability that a sweeping success in the South will give them the country. It may therefore be as it was in 1852, when the South elected poor Pierce—elected him to do its little political chores and completely used him up before they were done. In the election of poor Pierce the democracy gave itself an evil blow. It abandoned the policy of standing by principles or men, and gave the shadow of office to a poor tool merely that it might abuse the power of that office to contemptible pur- poses. From Pierce it went down to Buchanan, and from Buchanan to the dogs. Now we are to see nearly the same fact with silly Seymour in the place of poor Pierce. The South will elect him and use him up, and with him use up again the chance of the democracy. Sey- mour’s administration will be a mere pander- ing to the Southern radicals, and this will develop in the North again a new hostility, and the event will be that on Seymour’s heels there will come in an administration that will intensify all the bitterness of the Northern re- construction of Southern States. So dema- goguery paves the way for tyranny. Tue Fruition or New ENGLAND Powioy.— New England has no doubt done much for this country. But New England is New England no more. She has abandoned her ancient principles, and the natural tendency of New England principles is seen in the recent row at Worcester. The young men of Yale and Har- vard are the latest development of New Eng- land, and the latest manifestations of the “hopefuls” of Yale and Harvard were wit- nessed on the streets of Worcester. Tumut tN Parts.—In Paris yesterday the students assembled in large numbers near the Sorbonne and created a ‘‘tumult.” They were dispersed by the police, the officers making several arrests. Tumults in Paris are always ominous of change and the interference of the police or military with the assemblages dan- gerous at all times. ‘God protect France!” is the timely aspiration of Napoleon. THE PACKET SHIP COLUMBIA. A case came up before United States Commissioner Betts, ingthe United States Commissioners’ Court, on Monday last, which illustrates the fact that sea cap- tains, in the discharge of their diMcult and respon- sible duties, are too often held in remembrance for seeming neglect, while their heroic public services are forgotten. It seems that the mate of the packet ship Columbia was brought before the Commissioner, charged with ill treatment to a boy named Henry Gunther, on the last voyage of the ship from Liver- pool. Whatever criminality may attach to the firet omicer for his conduct in the matter the evidence brought forward does not in any way criminate the captain of the ship or show that he as- sented to the outrages alleged to have been committed by the mate. Nevertheless Oap- tain Robinson is held in his own recognizance to answer the charge as being accessory to the death of the boy. Therefore, although Captain Robinson ts guiltless of criminaiity in the matter, he ts, by his payee with the hea bo amelie mate, held 4 t ic 0} jum, suffersjin opiuion ‘of Ris em joyers and the pubic generally. Daring the terrible storm that swept the Atlantic in January and February last the packet ship Colum- bla, then, as now, commanded by bm ars) Henry Robiuson, was in mid ocean for seventy-three days in @ gallant struggle with the elements. There were & numoer of rs from Liverpool on and every one of them hastened, when the shi eventually arrived in New York, to express thi the public their high admiration of Robinson for his gallant and humane conduct to ussengers and crew during the terrible voyage from ngiaod, THE FOURTH MILITARY DISTRICT. The following order has been issued by General Giliem, commanding the Fourth Military District, ta compliance with the order recently issued from the War Department:— GENERAL ORDERS—NO. 30. Hgapqvarters Fouatn Misttary District, Vici ‘RO, Miss., August 4, 1868, I. The State of Arkansas having complied with the laws organizing military districts, said laws have be- come inoperative in that State, and in compliance with General Orders No. 55, current series, Head- quarters of the Army, the State of Arkansas is at- tacued to the Department of Louisiana, headquarters at New Orleans, La. The commanding officer t State will bye by letter to the headquarters of that department for instructions. Il. The Sub-District of Mississippi as an organiza- tion Is discontinued, and the records pertain thereto will be forwarded to Headquarters Fou Military District, lil. Brevet Colonel J. E. Tourtelotte, captain Twenty-eighth infantry, is relieved from duty ae —_ Aasiatant Inspector General at Headquarters Fourth Military District, and will at the expirauion 2 ) present leave of absence rejoin his proper station. IV. Second Lieutenant Nathaniel Wolfe, Thirty- fourth infantry, is relieved from duty as acti a- sistant Adjucant General on the staff of the Vom- nding General, and will report for duty at the station of his company. Vy. The following ofics stam of the Commanding Gener: John Tyler, First Lieutenant F Acting Assistant Adjutant Gener Pirat William Atwood, Nineteenth infantry, Acting ant Adjutant General; Brevet Major 8. C. Green Captain Twenty-fourth infantry, Acting Assistant! Inspector General; Major Heary joodfellow, Judge Advocate United States Army, J Advocate; Second Lieutenant William H. Frenc Tsvocdsay ore wet Colones s, ch onunater, Mi one ve i; Brevet Colonel J. 4 Quartermaster United states Army, Chief Quarter- master; Brevet Maot J. G. in Sud Com. Iuissary of Subsisience. Cited ‘States army, Chiet Commissary of Subsistonce; Brevet Colonel B. Swift, Surgeon United Staves Medical Direc. tor; Major Frank M, Btting, Paymaster United States Army, Disbui Reconstruction Lt tal James My nance Department Uni Army, Chief Ordnance OMicer. By command of o ALVAN ©, GILLAM, Brevet Major General. poy ea of the campaign harangues of the Cobbs and Actin Asiguent Aatuiaat