The New York Herald Newspaper, August 15, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES ‘GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be ro- turned. ‘THE DAILY HERALD, pubdlished every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FIvE Cents per copy. Annual subscription price:. One Copy... Three Copies Five Copies. Ten Copies. Any larger number addressed to names of sub- seribers $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten. Twenty copies to one address one year, @25, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. T hes rates make the WEEXLY HERALD te cheapest pub- dcation in the country. 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CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— KELLY & Lion's ETHIOPIAN MINUTRELBY, &C. NOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, MINSTRELS—SuRr. NEW Sor Brooklyn.—Hoorry's YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— OR AND ART. New York, Saturday, August 15, 1868. LAB NEWas. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday eveniug, August 14, The London journals comment on the death of Thad Stevens, for the most part adversely to his political and fina y as to the sincerity of his con’ wed fifty- ‘two battalions of t uard of France, amid as eof great enthusiasm, at Paris, Lord Napier, of Jala, was preseni, The editor of the Paris Lanterne was sentenced to flue and im- prisonment. Specie continues to fow into the Bank of France. Consois, 941¢ money. Five-twenties, 7134 in Lon- don and 75'¢ in Frankfort. Cotton active, with middiing uplands at 10 pence. Breadsta: sy and upwards, Provistous without marked change. Produce steady. MISCELLANEOUS. Advices from St. Domingo to the 26th ult. repo, that Orgando, the revolutionary leader, was wiih! three miles of Azua. General Cabral was with him, Jt was stated that Baez was to guarantee the Alta Vela guano and the Samana coal for an English loan, He continued to open and examine ail the maila, and is said to have forced the Britisn Consul to open his mall in order to search for revolutionary documents. News from Rio Janeiro to the 12th of July ts re- master masons yesterday afternoon and of the brick- layers last mght, The attempt at compromise has failed, and both sides are determined to remain firm. In view of this the bricklayers resolved to form a Co-operative Buliding Company, with a capl- tal of $20,000, A fire destroyed the butlding Nos. 42 and 44, on Greene street, partly occupied by D, Appleton & Co., book publishers; the Metallic Keg Com- pany and other firms, early yesterday morning. ‘The loss is estimated at $123,000, ‘The building No, 13 Fulton street, Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, involving a Joss of $40,000, The government laborers at Rock Island, Tll., have struck for higher wages, in opposition to the de- cision of Secretary Schofield in reference to the eight hour law. In the Supreme Court yesterday Judge Barnard, sitting in Chambers, administered to Mr. Patrick H. Jones the oath of office on his appointment to the post of Register, left vacant by the death of General Charles G, Halpine, The new incumbent will fill the ofice, to which he has been appointed by Gover- nor Fenton, till January 1, 1869, The steamship Fiag, Captain Baxter, will leave leave pier 29 North river, at three P. M. to-day, for Mobile via Fernandina and Florida Rallroad, The sidewheel steamship James Adger, Captain Lockwood, will sail from pler No. 5 North river, at three P, M. to-day, for Charleston. The steamer Cleopatra, Captain Phillips, will leave Pier 16 East river, at three P. M. to-day, for Savan- nah. The stock market, including governments, was weak and unsetiled yesterday, Gold closed at 146% a 146%. The Trade with China—The Passnge. Our commercial relations with China are already of great importance. Engaged in the domestic trade of that country, plying between its queer ports, up and down its strange rivers and through the fairyland of nooks on the coast, there are now at least a hundred foreign steamers, and two-thirds of these are from the United States. This is an indication of the enterprise and intelligence with which our countrymen have pressed forward in the struggle for supremacy in all the channels of Chinese trade. From this spirit the recently made treaty grew, and by that treaty, drawn in honorable equality on both sides, we enter into a quasi commercial alliance that will give us the start of the world in trading on the wealth of the East. In the days when the cir- cumnavigation of continents was necessary in order to reach Oriental countries by the sea some other nations had peculiar advantages over us in the prosecution of this trade. Holland and Portugal, by their colonial system, had the monopoly in one age, and England, by her position and maritime power, distanced all competitors in another. But we have changed all that. Our expansion, our great political and commercial development, the acuteness, the thrift, energy, courage and broad capacity of our people, have together nullified all odds against us, placed us before all others in the East, and promise to estab- lish our trade there on a better basis than was found in either Dutch colonies or British bottoms, and through that establishment to change the direction of the great lines of trade that are drawn around our maps of the world. San Francisco, our commercial capital on the Pacific, conducts our maritime Asiatic re- lations with enterprising spirit; but when the Pacific Railroad is finished and San Francisco has direct railroad connection with this city—with the whole country—the Oriental trade will receive through this association a vastly increased impulse. Then the railroad across the Continent and the line of magnifi- cent steamers across the Pacific will drive from existence all other means of communica- tion with Eastern Asia; for the tea, the silk and other products brought by this rapid and constant transit will undersell in the markets f the world those brought by all other routes. jargoes carried around the Cape of Good lope in slow British sailers, doubling the price in interest and insurance, cannot com- pete, and to steam communication by that direction there is a practical difficulty of which the Great Eastern is an abortive monu- ment. Ordinary steamers are only large Northwest ceived by the Atlantic cable. Another Paraguayan attack in small boats on the iron-clad fleet o: the ailies had been beaten off. A new Brazilian Cabinet has been appointed, Mr. Seward, although as non-committal as a diplo- matist in political questions at present, was recently induced, according to our Auburn correspondent, to Bay that he could not consistently support Seymour, aud it is belleved from the drift of his conversation that he will support the republicans, An inquest in the case of Join Gordon, who was drowned while in a rowboat on the North river by collision with @ Hoboken ferryboat on the 10th inst., was held yesterday, when the jury returned a ver- dict ol idental drowning, exonerating the oficers of the ferrybout from all blame, Measures are still being taken by the authorities in all directions to prevent the spread of the cattle dis- ease. The lourd of Health have published sugges- tions in the matter. Inspections are ordered on the trains in New Jersey, and the Canadian Council has prohibited the importation of beef cattle into the Dominion. Prof. Gamgee, of Chicago, and @ com- mittee have reported that the disease is brought di- reet from The funeral services over the body of Thaddeus Stevens took place in Wash.ngton yesterday, and the body was sent to Lancaster. A party of men and women were arrested in Toronto yester‘ay on susplcton of being concerned in the M ants’ Union Express robbery on the Hudson River Nallroad last May. The Adams Bx- press Company in St. Louis was robbed of about $7,000 by a new dodge, the messenger having carried package to its direction and being there set upon and overpowered. One of the Seymour, Ind., rot bers has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonm A negro youave company from Georgetown while passing in Wasuiugton yesterday to the Capitol to relieve another company in guarding the remains | wf That ng was stoned by some persons nnknown and fred tuto the crowd, ‘They then joarched on, No one was hurt in the crowd except one negro, No arrests were made. ‘The tur 4 Baker, James Tho- mas and nteneed to be hanged at Halifax » yesterday, for the murder of Wade Diicuer, a negro, on the 234 of May last, have been granted an appeat to the Supreme Court on som shuicatity of the law, A des; irom Charleston, 8. € ernor’s veto of certain radical me | @ break between the radical and republi- cans and create! intense feeling among the negroes, who are reported to be arming and organizing. ‘Threats are made and serious troubie is anticipated. The Yacht squadron is still at Newport. The ocean race from opposite Fort Adams to the stakeboat o:f Biock Island and return was won by the Whitewing, sloop, and the Eva, schooner. ‘The North Carolina Democratic State Couvention adjourned yesterday, after expressing iis endorse. ment of the Presidential nominations at New York. Encke’s comet was observed from the Washington Naval Observatoy at three o'clock yesterday morning. A harricane passed over Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, on Tharsday, capsizing a boat, drowning the captain, carrying off a picuic tent and scattering the | dancers and musicians, to the personal injury of | some of them, and dispersing a base ball crowd. The strike of the bricklayers continues unabated, enough to carry the coal necessary to steam the voyage from England, and thus have no room left for cargo; but if ships are made large enough to carry the necessary coal and a cargo too, they are so large as to be nauti- cal elephants on the hands of their owners. But our American line, with its swift run to and fro between Hong Kong and San Fran- cisco, touching at the Sandwich islands, has solved the problem of steam communication with China, and places the products of that empire within easy reach of the Western World at San Francisco. It only remains for the Pacific Railroad to put them in this city for us to have accomplished the greatest revolution in commercial history—a revolu- tion which will pass through our hands all the commodities with which Asia supplies Europe, and all the manufactures with which Europe supplies Asia, and to supply our own wants by collecting a toll on the wants of others. For ages all the Western nations have sought the trade of the East and the way to the East, and we have found the one and thereby se- cured the other. Columbus, feeling for the East in the early gloom, stumbled on this Con- tinent. Hudson was but one of the many navigators who in exploring our coast sought for a northwest passage by which European commerce could have a more feasible route to the East than round the Cape; that was his errand when he came into the broad river that now bears his name, and it seems a strange, prophetic vagary of the winds that they should have borne him so accurately to the eastern terminus of that shorter route to the Indies that allimen sought. Columbus therefore did not fail in any segse, He did not even blun- der in his search, seither did Hudson nor the others. They came by correct lines, and in discovering Am made possible all the rest, and our railroads to San Francisco and steamers thence to Asia constitute the practical form of their northwest passage. Tre Prxsipeyr anv toe Parties.—It is intimated in the radical papers that the Presi- dent's wrath against the democracy for not giving him their nomination is not to be ap- peased, and that it will result in bis actively assisting the election of Grant. Morally it would matter little enough which side Mr. Johnson might take; but if there should be a close contest—if the vote should run anywhere near a tieitis yet possible that this thrust | aside functionary, with none so poor to do him reverence, may yet be able, with shrewd use of the patronage ia his hands, to determine 08 Will oppuwr from the reports of the meeting of the who shall be his successor. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 145, 1868. The Quarantine Smugglers. When we announced on Thursday last our conviction that the notorious jobs of the Quar- sntine sharks were getting to be worse now than at any former period, and charged that the interference of the Health Officer, Dr. Swinburne, with the business of the marino reporters for the New York press was induced by improper motives, we did not anticipate that the hand of justice would so soon lay its grasp upon the offenders and publicly justify our. assertions. The exposé of the wholesale system of smuggling going on under the cloak of the business of Quarantine, made in yester- day’s Henratp, furnishes a clue to the recent action of the Health Officer in regard to our steam yachts and fully establishes all the statements we have made, It appears the Custom House authorities have long had reason to believe that smuggling on an extensive scale was going on at this port, but they natu- rally looked in every other direction than that of a public department like Quarantine for the frauds, They took the precaution to notify the Quarantine Commissioners and the Health Officer of the fact, more in the belief that they could aid the government officials in de- tecting the smugglers than with any idea that the actual offenders were to be found with- in their own ranks. There was no diminution, however, in the extent of the frauds on the revenue, and Collector Smythe and Surveyor Wakeman set themselves to work with com- mendable energy to discover their source. Mr. Wakeman managed the affair with consummate ability and with an ingenuity worthy the fame of the most skilful detective who ever made his mark in police history. The result was that on Thursday night and Friday morning last the Custom House authorities succeeded in effecting the startling disclosure that the smuggling was done under the aus- pices of persons connected with Quarantine, and that the steamers and sloops belong- ing to the Health Officer were used to convey the smuggled property ashore. One sloop was seized with a large number of cigars of great value concesled on board, and a suspected Quarantine steamer was also searched, but was found prepared for the visit. We do not know how far Dr. Swinburne may be implieated personally in this matter, but we do know that in lending himself to the schemes and intrigues of those who have en- deavored to put a stop to the system of collect- ing marine news by steam yachts he has played into the hands, wilfully or foolishly, of the men who have been engaged in those frauds upon the government. ‘The object of the Quarantine rings in endeavoring to prevent the Heratp yachts from visit- ing vessels arriving in the harbor is now as clear as the noonday sun. They feared the discovery of the system of snuggling in which they have been engaged, and from which they have realized large fortunes. In view of these disgraceful developments we call upon the merchants and shippers of the city to hold a meeting at once, and to call upon the Governor to remove the Health Officer and to clear out this nest of smugglers. Men who are implicated in such frauds, or who are remiss or stupid enough to be used by others as the instruments of swindling the government and injuring honest traders, are not fit to hold offices of so much responsibility and trust as those connected with the Quarantine Depart- ment of the port of New York. Political Phases in the South—The Negro Element. Our newly erected fellow citizens of African descent appear to be turning the tables nicely on the radicals and radical carpet-baggers. At Raleigh, N. C., for example, a special train of cars from the southeastern part of the State brought up to the State Democratic Con- vention a club of democratic negroes in com- pany with a number of delegates. We hear of similar movements throughout all the South of the colored people flocking to the democratic standard, and should not be surprised to see a general stampede from the radicals and to the democrats in the Presidential and Con- gressional elections. All the signs of the times point to such a result. It is just what we have anticipated and predicted. The negroes begin to see that the radicals have cheated them. Instead of getting the lands and property of the whites by a wholesale system of confiscation and transfer to them- selves, as promised, the negroes find the radical Northern adventurers and carpet- baggers are only after their labor and votes. These radicals have shown the cloven foot, have shown they care nothing about the negroes and that all they want is to use the poor Africans to make money and get the offices. What more natural, then, fhan that these negroes should turn to their old masters and listen to the friendly voice of those among whom tiey were born and with whom their future interests and welfare are identified ? This growing and general defection of the negroes from the radicals is creating a division and a great deal of excitement among that people. At first, as we said, they were nearly all going with the radicals ; now colored demo- cratic clubs and organizations are springing up all round. Of course those who still adhere to the radicals are very bitter and hostile. At Ra- leigh they made riotous demonstrations for the purpose of mobbing the nogro democratic club ; but their object was defeated by the temperate and moderate conduct of the white people and through Governor Holden calling out the mili- tary. Amid all this excitement and riotous conduct of the radical negroes the greatest enthusiasm in favor of the Convention and the democrats prevailed. To show the wisdom and moderation of the domocrats, both white and black (who, of cour were in a large majority there at the time), we notice that | when a radical senator and carpet-bagger named Estes tore down a lithograph picture of Seymour and Blair which was posted in the Yarborough House nobody chastised him for his conduct, though many democrats witnessed it. This shows the democrats to be as mode- rate as they are earnest, carrying the election, and will not be provoked to violence by the outrages of the radicals. They are determined not to give the radical press a chance of howling at them and calling them incurable rebels. We call the atten- tion of the radical organs to this admirable ‘and forbearing conduct of the Southern white people, in contrast with that of the radical car- pet-baggers and their deluded tools among the poor negroes, This is one of the recent phases They are bent on | of the political revolution that is going on in the South. From all appearances the reaction that has set in will sweep over the Southern States, and the radicals will find themselves next November left out in the cold. Egypt and the Iberian Peninsula—The Duty of France and England. Our correspondent who did such good ser- vice in Abyssinia is now in Egypt. His letters on the Suez canal and on political and judicial reform have left little to be desired in the shape of tformation regarding Exypt—the old granary of the world, the land of the Pharaohs and the Ptolemies, the land famous for the sweet waters of the Nile, for the time-defying Pyramids, and for the immortal loves of Antony and Cleopatra. What the Suez canal actually is and what the Suez canal is meant to be all the readers of the Huraup now fully understand, What Egypt really is, what she ought to be, and what her present ruler is ambitious to make her is known and understood with equal clearness. All our recent news, full and satisfactory as ithas been, only confirms us in the opinion which we have again and again advanced, that the cause of Egypt is hopeless unless trans- ferred from the hands of its present rulers into the hands of the English—the only modern Power that fully understands the principles of colonial government. Mr. Disraeli has said that England is now less an European than an Asiatic Power. A little more reflection would have enabled Mr. Disraeli to give England her true place by calling her a cosmopolitan Power. Her possessions are everywhere—in India, in Africa, in Australia, in the West Indies, in North and South America—where- ever, in fact, the light of heaven fadls, It is not to be denied that the Suez canal, so far as it has gone, reflects the highest credit on the enterprise of France. By means of this canal France has made Egypt her debtor to the extent of many millions of pounds ster- ling. It js, as it was intended to be, a mag- nificent offset to the great Central Railroad and the telegraph system, both of which are the result of English enterprise, and to a large extent even now under English control. The railroad and the telegraph systems have long been a success. The Suez canal is as yet only an expensive but doubtful enter- prise. It may succeed, but it may not. If it does succeed it will be a gain rather to Eng- land than to France. If it does not succeed England will be still more a gainer, and the pecuniary blunder in Egypt will be a more serious blow to the prestige of Napoleon than the pecuniary blunder in Mexico. The twenty million dollar loan for the Suez canal sanc- tioned by the French Chambers may yet prove a bigger sorrow for France than the now famous Jecker bonds, Our plan gets over all these difficulties, England is rich, She needs Egypt. It is the thing for which she has been watching and waiting for several generations. Long before the first Napoleon made the oft-quoted state- ment that the European Power which held Egypt was necessarily mistress of India English statesmen knew and appreciated the fact. The full opportunity of England has never yet come. She is rich enough to buy up the Viceroy, to buy up the Suez canal or any other property which France may have in Egypt. France ought to be willing to sell. England ought not to be unwilling to buy. We could not allow ourselves to take this view of the case did we not feel that, in permitting France quietly to take possession of the Therian peninsula, England was conferring a boon upon France which no money could parchase—a boon which would justly entitle her still to hold possession of Gibraltar. It is for England and France to come to an under- standing. The whole case is in their own ands. The other nations would not inter- ‘re. The Germanic empire would satisfy Prussia and the house of Hohenzollern. The Danubian empire which Talleyrand wished to establish in 1809 would satisfy Austria andthe house of Hapsburg. Russia, as we have all along said, has another game to play. The United States, now one of the greatest of the Powers, has a right to a voice in the matter, To the plan proposed the United States could have no possible objec- tion. As we will not permit any unnecessary interference on this Continent, so we will not unnecessarily interfere in the affairs of Europe. The opportunity is good for Mr. Disraeli. Four thousand years ago his forefathers were in bondage in that country. Time and nature have curious ways of taking revenge. In the country where Jews have been worse treated than in any other, a Jew, a genuine son of Israel, has risen to the rank of Prime Minister. It would be a revolution beautiful and striking in itself if an English Jew, and that Jew the Prime Minister of the country, should avenge the wrongs of bis countrymen perpetrated some four thousans ago. Perdon for Callicott. We learn from Washington that an applica- tion, numerously signed by very respectable names, the names of honorable men—‘‘all hon- orable mea”—has been presented to the Presi- dent in favor of the pardon of Callicott, En- right and Allen. No doubt the list of signers to this petition includes the names of Grecley and Morgan and Tilton and othor ‘eminent per- sons” who have an interest in the welfare, past, present and future, of Cullicott and his asso- ciates. We hope thatthe President will take into serious consideration this petition—nay, that he will grant it, but upon one condition; and the condition is that Callicott, as the mouthpiece of his fellow sufferers, and as well qualified by bis experience as a newspaper man to give a readable and entertaining report of the entire history of the case, shall turn, as it were, ‘‘State’s evidence” and make a clean breast of all the secret motives and transactions that led, first, to the political tergiversations resulting in hia selling out asa democratic delegate to the republican party so as to secure the election of a republican Speaker of the | State Assembly and his own subsequent elec- tion as Speaker; and, secondly, in the whiskey stealings which brought radicalism and the Plymouth church to grief and him to the Peni- tentiary. Let him tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and we shall know just what share all his highly respectable friends have both in the responsibility and the profits attached to these operations. A full disclosure of the facts would shed. a flood of light on the intimate relations of Greeley and Morgan and the rest with their protégé Callicott and his friends. A good service would thus be rendered to the republican party as well as to the public, for there would necessarily ensue a purification and reorganization of the administration of the internal revenue system. Nor would these disclosures be less beneficial, so far as the democratic party is concerned; for Callicott was initiated in the secrets of that party as well as those of the opposite party, and he must have drawn upon both democratic and radical sources for the means which enabled him to live in one of the most elegantly far- nished houses in Brooklyn, to dress in the most fashionable style, and to make a display of diamond rings and breastpins which none but “gay gamboliers” could emulate. Doubtless he could ‘‘a tale unfold” with reference to the ‘wheels within wheels” of the machinery of both the republican and the democratic party that would supply interesting and important material for a new chapter in our political history ; and the moral of his story might suffice to check the flood of corruption which threatens to submerge all parties alike. In the hope that his revelations may effect a public and national good, we must repeat our recommendation that the President take into serious consideration the petition in his behalf and grant it on the condition which we have indicated. Violence of the Partisan Press. The political campaign is producing its usual fruits in the partisan press. Vulgarity and indelicacy are the controlling elements of such party journals as the Zridwne and the World. The characters of the respective candidates for the Presidency are dealt with in these journals without the slightest regard for the amenities of life or the dignity of journal- ism. The Z'ribune, for instance, delights in calling Mr. Seymour a liar and insinuating that he is everything that is bad and dis- honorable, except calling him a thief, and that, we may presume, from the stereotyped style of the radical organ, which is by no means dis- tinguished for the elegance of its diction, is yet to come. On the other hand we find the World stigmatizing General Grant a3 a drunk- ard, and insinuating that he never was a soldier in the true and honorable sense of the word, but simply a butcher, whose reputation was established upon the needless sacrifice of human life. It is not to be wondered at that such a tone as this, emanating from papers which are supposed to be the leading organs of the different parties, should utterly demoral- ize the small fry of the country press, who think they are serving the purposes of their party by imitating their metropolitan models. It is true that the 7'ribune may attempt to justify itself by assuming that it is necessary to meet an imaginary ‘‘Brick Pomeroy,” of whose existence we have no knowledge, with that individual’s weapons of abuse and vul- ganity. It may be true, also, that the demo- cratic organ finds it expedient to outrival the same imaginary Brick in the use of low, offensive language and the exercise of bad taste, lest its interests should be interfered with by the establishment of a paper in the metropolis that may excel it in abuse of its political opponents. But it is clear that the demoralization of these two party organs has been communicated to the party press all over the country, and hos produced a most lamentable effect upon journalism, which all respectable people must deplore, Itis just this spirit, engendered by the partisan papers here in the centre of our civilization, which brings about such disgrace- ful scenes as that reported to have occurred at Clarinsville, Ill., the other day, where General Grant is said to have been struck in the face by araffian, The statement may not be true, because party bitterness is fruitful of invention, especially during the campaign fever; but if the incident did occur, orif Mr. Seymour were to be similarly assailed by a political opponent, such acts are equally attributable to the vio- lent language of the partisan press in this city, like the Z'ribune and the World, which set a dangerous example to their country colleagues and help to inflame the public mind*by appeal- ing to its worst passions, All such denuncia- tory style of writing which assails the personal characters of public men should be condemned. It is a weak argument at the best, and must often hurt the assailant, while it invariably demoralizes public sentiment. Reorganization of the City Democracy. Ever since Tammany Hall moved from its historic democratic quarters under the shelter- ing wing of the Pewter Mug and the congenial purlieus surrounding it, where democracy maintained its throne for so many years in all the pride of its ‘‘ time-honored principles” and success—for success is, after all, the most potent principle—there has been a general dis- satisfaction brewing among the democrats in the different wards. The present ring which governs Tammany has become too aristocratic in its notions since it took up its quarters in the sumptuous regions of Fourteenth street. Under the splendid management of Tweed, Sweeny & Co. the Wigwam has become the cynosure of all eyes—imperial, indeed, in mag- niiicence—but it doos not content the hearts of the democratic rauk and file. They pine for the old associations, the old leaders and the old times, This feeling of dissatisfaction with the management of the city government under Tammany control is spreading rapidly, not only among the democrats, but among the taxpayers, who are, very naturally, getting tired of secing the expenses of the municipal government going up from seven millions to seventeen millions or more within a few years and having to put their hands in their pockets to pay the difference. The result of this dis- contented feeling is coming toa head. This appears to be a favorable time for a small revolution in the democratic party in this city, and we should not be surprised to see initiatory meetings called by the different ward politicians next week to inaugurate a change in tactics of which probably the rulers of the party are not aware, Several attempts have been previously made to dethrone King Tam- many. Fernando Wood tried it with flerce assault and Mozart thunder, but somehow his former character was so bad that he failed utterly. The most dangerous opponent Tam- many had was Miles O'Reilly, and he came nearet to smashing it up tham any one else, But poor Miles is gono; his song, his wit, his political sagacity have potency no more; —-->=s-epsnposiiineswsspnse sects TIT es the shadows of Cypress Hills have embalmed and enshrined them all. There is no head to the opposition to Tammany dictation now, but the democratic masses appear to be taking the matter into their own hands, and they will probably reorganize the party in the various wards by a succession of meetings, at which the quondam leaders will have little, if any, weight. France Delighted and Excited. Napoleon’s return from his temporary re- tirement at Plombitres to the active duties of executive life at Paris and the dispersion of the students near the Sorbonne by force, have been followed by two grand pageants, and France is again enthusiastic, delighted and excited. The Emperor reviewed the National and Im- perial Guard at Paris yesterday, when a “magnificent” military spectacle was presented. Fifty-two battalions manceuvred in presence of the Empress, the Prince Imperial, Lord Napier, of Magdala, and ‘‘vast multitudes” of people who thronged the streets of the city, which were made radiant with banners, flags — and sunshine, The army, the Emperor, Eugénie, the Imperial Prince, the first soldier of England, flags, banners, fine weather and a review, all in one day, make a glorious “opportunity” for the French people. Amid the bustle and noise they may not have heard that the government triumphed over the editor of a popular daily newspaper in Paris, who was sentenced to jail for a year and to pay a fine of ten thousand francs just as the review was being held. Is ‘the empire peace?” Is Napoleon pre- paring to round off Germany by the annexa- tion of the Iberian Peninsula, and thus “flank” the legislative opposition, or is the opposition becoming stronger and war a necessity ? A New York Politician in the Wrong Place. The New York Democratic State Central Committee, which assembled in session in Utica on Thursday, expressed its sense of the loss which the party sustained by the sudden death of Peter Cagger in words suitably expressive of their high estimate of his services, and then proceeded to fill up the position made vacant in the organization by the melancholy event by unanimously appoint- ing Mr. William Cassidy, of the Albany Argus, Secretary to the Committee. The politicians are, for the most part, the best judges of their own affairs, doing things as they will “suit,”so it is rarely we under- take to advise them ; but in this instance we must say that Mr. William Cassidy, consider- ing the work which he has performed for the democrats from early youth to the present hour, stands forth just now as a New York politician in the wrong place. The Democratic State Central Committee should at its next meeting nominate Mr. Cassidy for Governor of the State of New York. Let the members make the thing ‘‘square” immediately. Instead of being a corporal for a few days, Mr. Cassidy should be ‘commissioned full general raised from the ranks. THE CAMPAIGN IN NEW JERSEY, Democratic Ratification Meeting in Hudson City—Grand Procession, One of the most spirited and enthusiastic gather- ings witnessed in New Jersey since the opening of the campaign assembled at Rommelt & Lelcht’s, Hadson City, last evening. All the ward clubs of the city turaed out with torchlights and formed an im- posing procession. About half-past eizht o’dlock the meeting was opened by the appointment of Mayor Van Reipen as chairman. Several prominent demo- crats occupied seats on the platform, amoug whom were B. McNally, F. B. Wolbert, Leon Abbett, Captain Bryce, C. H. Wintleld and John Robinson, of Hoboken. Mayor VAN REIPEN (a3 soon as order was restored) made a few remarks before introducing the speakers of the evening. He said beens Poe assembled to give their suaport to the inen who were to redeem the country from ruin and disgrace and to prevent the nation from dritting into bankruptcy. To defeat the radical coterie and restore conddence in the govern- ment of the country they hoisted on their banners the names of Seymour and Blair—(Cheers)—and they meant to win. Union was the one tiiug necessary — union between ail men, North and South, He on not detain them further, but introduce to em Mr. WINFIELD, wi! on coming forward was re- ceived with re) cheering. He delivered & scathing: in 3 ive against Bee and irpations fre Supreme from. “Nelson, sproms Jur Court, thatthe Southeru States were entitled to re- tation at the "8 ‘48 soon as the sword was sheaihed and law had resumed ite sway. He ridiculed the meeting held by the republicans on the previous evening at Lafayette, which was, he pn i to raise the enthusiasm of tue assem: which seemed bly to the boiling point. He char; the radicals with the oppression of mi!itons of their countrymen, which hag made the country a byword among nations, The democratic party should never relax their efforts till every inch of American soil was once ever 'exas be Fo-eatabilaed) anid the fetiers imposed on thei the South shali be struck off. He peceieet them that will do her duty this fall by rolling up such a majority for Seymour and Blair as will sweep radicalism forever from their borders. (immense General Wright also delivered @ stirring speech. ‘The hail being insufficient to accommodate the |: assemblage another platform was improvised on the lower me where speeches were delivered in Ger- did not disperse til a late hour, when a vote thanks was penned to Mayor Van Reipen. A squad of police under Colonel Xovinson was posted in the vicinity of the platforin to preserve order. ARMY SULLETIN. Changes in the Quartermaster Generals De- partment. By direction of the Secretary of War, upon the recommendation of the Quartermaster General, the following changes tn the dutics and stations of officers of the Quartermaster'’s Department are made:— Brevet Brigadier General Rufus Saxton will re- port in person, without delay, to the Commanding General of the Departinent of the South for assign- ment to duty as Cuief Quartermaster of that depart. ment. ‘The following named oMcers will report by letter to the Commanding General and Chief of the Quar- terinaster'a Department of t ath for ordlers:— Brevet Major George E. Alden, Assistant Quarter= jmasier. at Savanna, and Captain A. bareett, Mill- tury Storekeeper, at Charleston, The Quartermaster’s Department at Savannah and Charlesion will be consviidated at elther point, a& the Commanding Ge | of the Department of the South may think advisable, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel C. A. Regnolda, Asst: ant Quartermaster, Will report to the Commanding: Geueral and the Chief Quariermaster of the Military Diviaion of Missourt tor assignment to duty. Brevet Brigadier General 0. H. Tompkius, Deputy Quariermaster, will report to the Comunanding Gen- partinent of Louisiana for duty as chief of that department. Brevet Colovel , Quartermaster, will vemain on du La., in charge of ihe Quartermaster 4 yep that city, aud, in addition thereto, Wiil relieve Captain Hoyt, Assistant quarterumster, of bis present duiies, ©: in Eloy’ Will report to the Commanding General of the Fillh Military Dis~ trict for assignment to duty. Brevet Brigadier General Mortis S. Miller, Deputy Quartermaster General, 18 relieved from duty in the quartermas' eral's office in this city, aud wil report in person, without delay, to the Commanding General of the Fifth Military vistrict for aasighmaent te duty as Chief Quartermaster of that district, The following ofticers will remain on duty im the Fivth Miltary pistrict:—Brevet Brigadier General J. F, Potter, Quartermaster; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel . G. OG Lee, Assistant Quartermaster; Captain D. W. Porter, Assistant Quartermaster; Captain W.” A. Wainwright, Assistant Quartermaster, and Captain V. P. Van Antwerp, Military Storekeever.