The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK HERA BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXIII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Humpry Dumpty. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1b street.< Fine Fir. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Four Pray. NIBLO'S GARDEN.—Barne Biever. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Fout Pray. BRYANTS'’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth street.—ETHIOPIAN MINS’ ao, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOU! 201 Bowery.—Couic Vooaiom, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 ropeway. ~Erniortan Eo- 0. OENTRIOITIES, COMIO VOCATISM, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh ayenue,—PorvLa® @aupaen Concert. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THFATRE, Brooklyn.— KELLY & Leon's ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, &C. Brooklyn.—HOoLry's PEOVATORE. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOU’ MINSTRELS—OPERA Bourre, [1 NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 615 Broadway. — SOINOR AND ALT. TRIPLE SHEET. 25, 1868. New York, Tuesday, August BEB NEWS. EUROPE. The news reported by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday evening, August 24. Count Bismarck: sustained a painful bruise by heing thrown from his ho Peaceful assurances, executive and financial, are repeated from France. The reported Fenian conspirator against the life of Queen Victoria was an insane Englishman, who into her apartments at Lucerne. General ly ex led from Spain, 1s dead. The ish Cabinet promises reforins. ‘The Tobacco Trade Convention has been approved by the Itatian S The coming internation: much interest in Great Britain. torm raged on the British voast, and some serious murine disasters are reported. One of the Russian Grand Dukes has sailed for the United states, The total eclipse of the sun wus observed in A much satisfactory manner by the English savans sent to India to report the phenomenon, Consols 94, money. Five-twentles, 7194 in London A severe and 75% a in Frankfort. Paris Bourse firm Cotton easier and lower, with middling uplands at 1o%4d. Breadstuffs dull. Provisions slightly ad- vanced. By steamship, at this port, we bave our special European correspondence in detail of our ¢: grams to the 15th of August. ‘The letter of our special correspondent in Vienna reporting the progress of the great German Schuet- wenfest in that city, with the names of the American riflemen present, and the attendance of the Austrian Emperor, wili command the attention of our readers, MISCELLANEOUS. Indian atrocities are still reported from Colorado and New Mexico. The reports are not so frequent from Kansas. idan has issued an order directing the forcible removal of the Indians to their vations, and compelling them to deliver up the perpetrators of the guilty acts. All commercial or friendly intercourse with thera is forbidden, Gene- ral Snertan reports to the War Departinent that he has ordered General Sheridan to kill if necessary, aud the President has again stgnitied his approval. A suggestion is made by oid trappers to raise a regi- ment or two of friendly Indians to fight the enemy in their own method. The draraa Broadway and the Some tit tele was performed at the | theatres lust night. | tion has grown out of the recent trouble | he proprietorship of tue pl nd last | Six constables forced their way into the | Hroadway the Tor the pui New Yo ¢ through the stage entrance for | H. i yse Of arresting D, lea who was at forming character of Bi Considerable disturbance ensied on the Harkins, the time per: | Renfold, nd the scenes 1 comers, and they | + Seriousiy wound. | Very dangerously. | audience knew no- | © it Was proceeding | ring the pistol shots and the screams. | ofthe constables were arrested by | joman tox the part of who had disappeared, and the play pro- | ceeded to the end, | Colly ards fought on Traver's taland, | iuty, Virginia, ve ¥inorniny. | ‘sted one hour a_d fourteen minutes and was declared whipped in the forty-seventh | veing § rack @ terrific blow on the jugular which rendered him senseless for fifteen minutes. On the return trip of the steamer a row occurred among (ue roughs on board in which one man waa hot through the right breast, another lost a tinger ant a Curd Was stabbed in the head, We tive advices from Vera Cruz tothe goth, and Meateo cily to the 16th, by the Gulf cable, A slignt *hock of earthquake was felt at the capital on the 14th, No Aiaerican minister has vet been appotated, General Alatorre had demanded five thousand more men to gput down the rebellion in the State of Vera ern. our Mazatlan, Mexico, letter is dated July 23, was enjoying @ state of profound tranquillity, usial oumber of murders, robberies, && ex- cepted, Martinez and Vega are absent, and Palacio ranutot and Toledo are in prison, They were the principsl revolutionisi# in (he State, and their forced quiescence is the cause of the general tran- vent of these unexp ed firing ind:serimin 1 a boy, the latte and the ence at the th cone ing a r" round vices from Hayti state that Salnave had been again defeated and was acting now solely on the defensive. He had forced a loan of $200,000, and NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, Sulphur Sp “1gs, West Virginia, ta not yet ended. General Rosecrans and Alexander H. Stephens were m close consultation on Sunday evening, and the programme has probably been agreed upoa. Among the new political arrivals at Long Branch are C. L, Vallandigham, John Morrissey and several local celebrities. Morrissey strongly backs Grant, and is going to back Griswold over Hoffman, if the latter is nominated- Vallandigham quietly insists that his own election over Schenck for Congress is certain, Mrs, Jordan, charged with the murder of James Nicholson, at a tenement house in Brooklyn, was dis- charged yesterday, the coroner's jury rendering @ verdict that deceased came to his death from over- exertion and undue excitement. The Chinese Embassy were in Cambridge yester- day, the home of Mr. Burlingame, and received a very grand ovation, The evening before they saw and heard the big organ at Musio Hall. ‘The cattle disease has broken out among the Ohio milk dairies in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Forty cows have died since Saturday. Dr. Peters, of Hamilton College, at Clinton, N, Y., discovered a new planet on Saturday night. The journeymen tailors of this city and vicinity perfected their organization at a large mass meeting held at the Turn Halle at Williamsburg, last night. The object is to demand an increased rate of pay from their employers, ‘The Hamburg American Packet Company's steamer Saxonia, Captain Kier, will sail from her pier at Hoboken, at two o'clock thus afternoon for Hamburg, touching at Southampton, The mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. ‘The steamship Etna, Captain Bridgman. of the In- man line, will leave pier No, 45 North river at one o'clock to-day tor Halifax, Queenstown and Liver- pool, The mails by this steamer will close at the | Post OMice at twelve M. The stock market was variable, but on the whole } ste: yesterday. Gover: securities were | weak. Gold closed at 145% a 4, with @ strong | Upward tendeney, ‘Trade in bee! tle yesterday was slow and prices favored the purchaser, prime and extra steers sell- ing at 154.¢. a. 16'sc. per pound, fair to good tic. a and inferior to ordinary 10c, aide, About 00 head comprised the oifevings. Milch cows— Common were slow of sale and heavy, while good were in moderate demand and steady, We quote:— tras, $100 a $110; prime, $90 a $95; fair to good, common, $60 & $70, and inferior, $400 rep were in large supply, and being in light nd were ti y at Te. & Vgc, for extra, 6e. a for prime, 5e. for common to good and a 4c. for inferior, Lambs, being only in moder- ate supply and quick demand, were higher, closing at The. a 9¢., according to quality. Swine were quite ly sought after and a shade firmer, the market closing at 10%. a Ie. for prime, 10%. a for fair $0 good and 9c, a10ec, for inferior and ninon. The total receipts for the week were 4,683 113 milch cows, 2,152 veal calves, 40.665 nd lambs and 18, swine, | The English Registrations Under the Reform Bili—Universal Suffrage in Prospect, The character and extent of the political and social revolution which will be accomplished in Great Britain by the working of the new Reform bill cannot, as we have heretofore inti- mated in the Heratp, be estimated with any degree of accuracy before the completion of the electoral registrations provided for in ihe enactment itself, and the official pub’ ion of the revised franchise lists setiing forth the additions which have been made to the respec- tive constituencies of the kingdom. Halting short of a concession of universal suffrage, the English Reform bill maintains points of quali- fication for the right of voting. It insists, in the spirit of ancient British toryism, that the man who has paid something to the State or municipality, possesses property or vested right, enjoys a professional edu is a good rent paying tenant, or r quietly in @ certain domicile for a year or two, is a better judge of the advantages of a gov- ernmental system which affords him such coim- and enjoyment than is the pauper who ys no taxes, because he has no money to the man who has no property to use, who is uneducated even in letters, and vagrant for want of a home, of the demerits of a plan of rule some | under which he has been beggar born and will rer mendicant and itinerant to the end of his d The English Registration Courts are now in session, the judges being guided by the fine line of demarcation which we have sketched in their duty as to the enfranchising or rejec- tion of applicants, Citizens possess no right to ina vote, the penal duty, or onus proban- di, being placed upon each of showing by com- petent testimony that he is of full age and not subject to legal incapacity; that he has during the whole of the past twelve months been an inhabitant, as owner or tenant of any dwelling house within a borough; that he has within such time been rated as an ordinary occu- pier of the premises to ‘‘all rates” made for the relief of the poor, and has within a certain period paid such rates, Then there is the lodger franchise, the first being the borough occupier qualification, the obtainment of which appears to us to have been rendered very diffi- cult. The Reform bill says that every man who for twelve months previous to the 31st of July has occupied as sole tenant the same lodgings which, if unfurnished, would let at the rate of ten pounds a year, is entitled to claim to be placed on the list. The value is a quesiton of fact to be decided by the revising barrister on evidence. Every person paying four shillings a week rent for unfurnished lodg- ings will de entitled to claim. - Occasional ab- two weaitly merchants liad been sent to Europe to negotiate for more mouey. The rebel war ship Liberté was blockading Gonat Salnave had | purchased the Albert Emerson, which ts to be altered | mito a wer vessel, The Ministry had been reorgan- ived antl a reconciliation between Salnave and the British Minister had taken piace, By special telegrams from Constantinople and Hotmbay, forwarded by way of London and through the AUantic cable, we learn that the Sultan of Tur- key paid a marked imperial compliment to the United Stutes personally through Admiral Farragut, and that Shere All has been proclaimed Ameer of Afghanistan, The British Minister in Constantin. ople eutcrtained Admiral Farragut at @ grand dinner, The report of tie Nova Scotia delegates to Eng- | Jand to ask for the repeal of the Confederation scheme aas been brought before tie Nova Scotia Hous: Assembly. Im answer to the various de- mands of the delegation the Crown anawered that there is ny litnit to the powers of imperial legislation over a colony itke Nova Scotia, and that such im- perial legislation does not depend on the conseut of the colony, but that the Union act was apparently accepted freely by Nova Scotia, and did not assume sence during the twelve months will not dis- qualify, provided no other person occupies in the interval, and provided the rent continues to be paid by the claimant. The claims having been published after the bh of August may be objected to at the revision court, though no notice of objection has been given | either to claimants or overseers. Next comes | the joint ratepayer—at first the compound | Householder franchise, the County franchise, the Universities franchise, with many other subdivisions of the points of qualification ap- plicable to cities, boroughs and colleges in , England. Then there are special Reform | bills, with clanses different from those required in England, applicable to Ireland and Scotland. The County franchise valuation is, in all three, unequal, and likely to prove very einbarrassing in England. The mischief lies in a variable percentage plan, which | throws vast influence into the hands of the to extinguish its constitution or impose upon it w new form of government without its consent, rhe members of the South Carolina Senate have agreed to take their per diem in State bill-, | roviding they are paid at the rate the bills may be wort) in greenbacks, In the Georgia Legislature yesterday a resolution wos introduced calling on the Governor to discoun- tenance all political organizations and assembiaves that may threaten violence to the public peace, The g@uccessor of Bradley in the Senate is a democrat. The peopie of Charleston, 8. C., in view of the Snabtlity of the civil authorities and the probability of riotous conduct on the part of disaffected inhabit. anta, have petitioned the President to provide for (ne | protection of the city. Tue cogference among Southern leaders at White assessment committee men, Instead of a free admission to certain rights | under the Reform bill it appears to us, there- fore, as if honest old John Bull has been ac- | cused, by legislative implication in the framing | of that measure, as liable to perpetuate certain citizen and tenant wrongs, and is enjoined to prove that he has not accomplished such | lapses or been in’ municipal fogrante within & specified time before With such difficulties in the not surprised to hear the statement, | given in our European mail report on | Sunday morning, that the rotuen of new his registration, way we are AUGUST 25, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. voters has already fallen short of the estimated number in some places. The city of Glasgow would, it was thought, have an addition of seventy thousand to its constituency, but it is found that the number will not reach forty-seven thousand, owing to the poverty of the working classes and default in the payment of rates. Five thousand per- sons have been struck off the roll as being actual paupers themselves, and eighteen thou- sand others said they could not pay within the time. In Liverpool the rates of the working classes were being paid, to a great extent, from the funds of political clubs; but in the radical quarters of the city there were large additions to the voters’ roll by voluntary and prompt payments. What between the time and trouble required for attendance in the registration courts, and the many technicalities to be observed in fur- nishing proof, it is very likely that the British democratic element will not be so largely rein- » forced under the Reform bill at the first regis- tration as was imagined—a matter of great present consequence to Mr. Disraeli. It is as- serted that the newly registered voters cannot vote at the next general election should it take place in November. The former Registration acts enabled persons whose names were on the annnally revised lists to vote at any elections which were held after the last day of Novem- ber, but one of the sections of the recent Re- form act provides that the register shall hence- forth take effect from the Ist of January in each year—a ground of much prospective hope to the Premier, In the meantime Mr. Disraeli, powerful as David in prayer and dignified as Solomon, will analyze the social condition of the kingdom with the keen eye of a political economist. Beneath the line of enfranchisement he will see nine hundred and sixty thousand paupers seething in the workhouses without vote or | hope, who, like Dickens’ Mr. Plornish, will assure him they only ‘know’d that it wasn’t put right by them that undertook that line of business and thatit didn’t come right of itself.” He will find two millions more being gradually dragged down to pauperism and disfranchise- ment by the pressure of the poor tax and other drafts on their scanty revennes; he will see men stand away from the registration courts fearing to say they have an income lest they be taxed, and will also behold thousands of voters so near to pauperism that, as in the case of the forty shilling freeholder in Ireland, if'a donkey owned by one of them died he would lose his qualification for want of in- come or non-payment of rent or rates, and find out, ‘*by gorra, the poor baste had the vote, and not me.” After such review Pre- Disraeli will be likely to arrive at the ion that it is not “put right” and hasten to head off his opponents by granting univer- sal suffrage and inviting the British nation at large to deliver a free opinion as to the destiny of the country. The Fall Trade. From all the facts which we can gather there is every promise of a pretty brisk trade this full. The excitement of a Presidential elec- tion, which always gives an impetus to politi- cal life, sometimes has a depreciating effect upon commercial affairs. We must expect, therefore, that during the coming fall season its influence will be felt in a greater or less degree in business, but the influence will be comparatively small if we can judge by pre- sent indications, Everything appears to be looking bright and hopeful for the trade which is to open next month, now but a few days off. In dry goods, clothing, woollen goods and boots and shoes there is an excellent prospect of large sales. fn hardware and agricultural implements considerable preparations are be- ing made for a large custom from = the South- western States of Missouri, Kansas and Missis- sippi. We find an unfailing index of the in- crease of business inthe advertising columns of the Heranp, The inerease of advertisements has been so great that for some weeks past we have been compelled to issue a triple sheet two or three times each week, something which we never found necessary before in what is proverbially the dull business season of midswnmer, According to present appear- ances we may have to publish quadruple sheets occasionally, as we did last spring, in order to fill the demand of our advertisers, This looks like good times for the merchants and business men generally. It would be sur- prising, after all, if the political contest upon which the country is on the eve did not affect the briskness of trade to any considerable ex- tent. Some people may think that we shall have no market for cereals in Europe this year: but thatis not so. There is a scarcity in Great Britain, and there is not a superabundant, although a fair crop, in the continental coun- tries, Our crops are unusually large and they are now past all chances of damage from any vicissitudes of weather. It is but a few days ago since two immense shipments of grain were made from San Francisco to European markets, and no doubt the vast granaries of the West will be drawn upon for a similar market, California is rapidly becoming as much of a cereal as a gold producing country. ‘The vast prairies of Western Llinois, Missouri and Kansas, with their present rich harvesta, will pour their products towards the Pacific to supply any deficiency which may occur in Texas and New Mexico and fill up the vacuum caused by foreign shipment from California. The return trade from the West will come here to the East in the purchase of all such ma- terials as the Western and frontier States re- quire--dry goods, hardware, agricultural im- plements, machinery, boots and shoes and a thousand other things. Looking, then, to the approaching fall trade, we do so with consider- able confidence that, apart from the effect of the political campaign, there ix no reason to anticipate a dull season. Payment oF THE ReneL Deni. Some of the radical papers and stump speakers are en deavoring to create the impression that the politicians, might assume the payinent of the rebel debt if they get into pow gain. This down a shower of gold coins. This sort of talk and these speculations are all partisan po- litical claptrap. The constitutional amend- ment has settled this question, and if it had not the Southerners themselves would never be fools enough to add so much unnecessarily to their present burdena, democrats, under the influence of Southern | is about as likely as that the clouds will pour | The French Empire and the People—An | The Democratic State Convontion—Breakers Extraordinary Incident. Ahead. The scene which occurred in the hall of the There is going to be a severe struggle in the Sorbonne, Paris, a few days since—during | Democratic State Convention on Wednesday of which the Prince Imperial of France and the | next week over the nomination for Governor, son of the late General Cavaignac, the favorite | and from present indications it seems highly candidate for the presidency of the republic | probable that the prize will fall to the share of | which was destroyed by the coup d'état, were | the rural democracy, as represented by the brought into personal opposition, as related in | heirs, executors and assigns of the old our European mail report yesterday—forms an | Albany Regency. The outside impression has affecting, yet exceedingly significant incident | been that the fight lay between New York and in the passing history of France. During the | Kings, and that the democracy on the two sides distribution of the collegiate prizes by the | of the East river were prepared to tear cach Minister of Education young Cavaignac was | other in pieces over the rival claims of the called forward to be crowned as the successful | Baron Von Hoffman and Misther Murphy, of student in Greek, but observing the Prince | Brooklyn. But the fact is that the contest Imperial standing by the Minister the young | has a much widér significance. Henry C. republican, amid the applause of his fellow | Murphy has been an aspirant in the Senate for students, sturdily refused to leave his place or | Governor on the democratic side for the past | toreceive any reward tendered under Bonaparte | seven or eight years, as Charles J, Folger has auspices. been on the republican side, and with no better The students supported the democratic re- | success, This year he has been encouraged to eusant with exciting animation; and although,| make a bold effort to attain the goal of his am- it may be asserted that his refined | bition; but the leading democratic politicians classic Greco study tended to render him | of the rural districts who have given him their somewhat visionary in his patriotism, there | countenance have only been using him as they remains little doubt but that he threw down a | were accustomed a few years ago to use Fer- gage worthy of a Thermopylw and very in- | nando Wood—to break the strength and influ- sulting to the Elysée, on the occasion. ence of the democracy of the southern portion The antagonisms of French politics are | of the State, and, after having rendered him becoming more vehement daily. If the system | instrumental in pulling their own chestauts of government by which France is ruled | out of the fire, will let him go his way with permitted, as in England and the United | burned claws. The real struggle is between States, a wide range for the exercise of party | Tammany and the Albany Regency—hetween manceuyre, many skilful public leaders would | the democracy of New York, with its immense detine distinct points of popular agitation, | majority packed into one locality and the and excite the masses of the country peri- | democracy of the State scattered about in oiically on and within defined lines of | spots, but scarcely anywhere powerful enough what they would call platforms of prin- | to secure local triumphs. The office of Gov- ciples, Fortunately, or unfortunately, as | ernor in itself is of very little importance. it may be, for the country, imperialism Since the adoption of the present constitution, cannot tolerate opposition beyond a certain | stripping the executive of a large portion of point, Should the surging voice of the multi- | the power he formerly possessed and giving tude exceed this point it proclaims a revolution, | the election of judges and all important Complete acquiescence in the existing system | officers to the people direct, the patronage has or revolt against it is, therefore, the only | barely been enough to rid an incumbent of his alternative for the French. A distinguished | own poor relations, The salary, about equal name must symbol and lead each. In the hall | to the pay of an ordinary bookkeeper in a of the Sorbonne a youthful Bonaparte, mildly | respectable commercial house, is insufficient and not of his own personal volition, embodied | to meet the expenses of the position. But in a prudent imperialism, whilst the juvenile | the event of Seymour's election it is believed republican, Cavaignac, stood forth the per- | that the democratic Governor of New York sonification of millions of objections to the | will exercise a large influence over the federal manner of its founding. The one rests near a | appointments, and hence the anxiety of the crown, the other thinks of his dead father, | leaders of Tammany and the aspirants for the future barricades, free speech and an extension | succession in the Albany Regency to secure of the area of liberty. The youths may meet | the nomination. again. Tammany puts forward John T. Hoffman as her candidate, and demands his nomination on the ground of personal strength as shown in the large vote he polled last December in this city, and on the plea that he was counted out by the Fenton canvassers in the western part of the State two years ago. Sanford E, Church is the aspirant from the interior, and he is playing a shrewd game. He takes Murphy by the hand at Saratoga, fills him with Von Beust on Austria and Germany. In his late speech at the great banquet in Vienna Baron von Beust took a broad and comprehensive view of the question of German unity—such, indeed, as might be expected from a Minister who has done so much for Austria in the late war and is at the same time so thoroughly German in his thoughts and the President of the United States, must judge of the fitness of his successor to the Commis- sionership! Was there ever anything so dis- graceful before in the history of our govern- ment? Mr. Rollins has not yet found a suc- cessor to his taste, and therefore will not give up the office. That is where the difficulty lies and is the cause of the present internal reve- nue muddle and disorganization, General Rosecrans and the sSoutherm Generals at the Virginia Springs, Our news from Virginia indicates that the congregation of so many Southern generals at the White Sulphur Springs and their meeting General Rosecrans at that place was not a mere accident of the season. At the first glance it seemed hardly probable that this event could be more than a mere freak of chance, and people were slow to accord diplo- matic character to a meeting that might have other explanations, especially between men whose authority was not visible. But closely regarded the improbabilities are less than they seem. There is no doubt that a rightly toned address from General Lee and men of the sama class who served the confederacy in its armies would have great effect upon the minds of the Southern people, and there is quite as little doubt that it is in the minds of the Southern people that the greatest obstacle to recon- struction now exists. Therefore Lee and hia former associates are perhaps the men who can do most to set aside the difficulties that stand in the way of real peace. No man who has intelligently considered the recent history of the country doubts that the way to harmony and quiet was open and easy at the time of the close of the war. But the radicals marred all. If they attempted to make peace at all they at- tempted it in an offensive spirit—indicating more of mean readiness to degrade the con- quered than anxiety to secure the best results of the conquest. This gave root to new hates, new bitterness of resentment, so that presently peace-making was brought to a standstill. Radical meanness awakened Southern per- versity. The one could not and the other would not, and there was a deadlock. The difficulty, therefore, is not a physical one, and it will readily occur that if we could for a little return to the intellectual status that immediately followed the war we might, in the light of recent experience, take a better start from that point. Some well weighed words to the Southern people, given on the authority of men they know and respect, aa they do Lee and Longstreet, would do much to put the people in the right frame again—to soothe the irritation the radicals have excited and to drive from self-assumed leadership such men as are now giving the South dangerous counsel. Nay, inasmuch as the Southern armies were during the war the Southerm people, and as the commanders of those armies were the real leaders of the people, the com- manders are the powers with whom prac- affiliations. While speaking of recent wars he used a happy sentiment when he said that Cabinet wars are no longer made at the present day, and whoever thinks that they are may believe with equal propriety that because storms burst in the sky they are formed in the upper regions of the atmosphere and are not due to the evaporations rising from the ground. This is a very polished figure of speech, and if it is not strictly true just now in its interpreta- tion it can be made so if the people only rise to the level of their dignity and comprehend the majesty of their power. It unfortunately happens, however, that most wars have here- tofore been hatched in Cabinets, conceived in the brains of politicians and conducted in the interest of dynasties. Let us accept the assu- rance of M. von Beust that European wars are henceforth to be characterized by none of these features; that if Germany is to be again in- volved in contlict it shall be at the will of the German people rather than of the princes. the hope of support from the rural districts, and thus keeps up the fight between the demo- crats at this end of the State. When the Con- vention meets he will be found in’ the position of the sharp lawyer, who, having fostered a litigation about an oyster, is seen swallowing the fish and handing the shells to the parties to the suit. In other words, he will play over again the game of Seymour in the National Jonvention, and, after knocking the heads of New York and Brooklyn together, will carry off the nomination himself. Church is the rising man in the State. He ts stronger than Seymour, with more sound sense and greater firmness of purpose. He partakes of the character of the old Silas Wright and Marcy school of democracy, and is, moreover, full of ambition. He aspires to take control of the Albany Regency as the successor of Dean Richmond, and he had the aid of Peter Cag- ger before his death to help him into that posi- tion. Ifhe can secure the office of Governor he will so direct the federal patronage under Seymour, in the event ofa democratic national victory, as to completely wipe out all rivals in the State and to confirm him in the post of leader. He is probably more familiar with State policy than any other living democratic politician, and would make a good Governor, His reign might not be long at the head of his party, for the reason that he has political as- pirations to gratify and a fortune to make, and must necessarily raise up jealousies and com- binations against him, from which a man like Dean Richmond, possessing large wealth and rejecting political office, would be exempt. But he would make his mark,while his power lasted, and would not fail to secure the rewards due to his friends. Thus the contest at Al- bany next week promises to be sharp and per- sonal, andits effect on the election in the State may be important. At all’ events, the prospect is not very promising to Seymour, who is compelled to look on at a repetition of his own policy played by other actors, As the sinews of war come from New York Tammany is very likely to draw close the strings of her plethoric purse if Hoffman should be defeated and to allow the election to run itself. On the other hand, the Albany Regency has never placed any great trust in Seymour, and Church, who was used as a catspaw in the National Convention, cannot be expected to have much heart in the, election of the Presi- dential ticket. The Murphy movement may be regarded as out of the field; but between the democracy of the city and the democracy of the country Seymour may look for an uneasy time, Prospect of a September Session of Congress, The present aspect of things in the recon- structed Southern States is decidedly demo- cratic. The negroes are rapidly deserting the radical for the democratic camp. Democratic barbecues are bringing over the blacks by thousands, with their convincing arguments of roast pig, roast lamb, roast beef, roast ears, corn pone and corn whiskey; for these first principles are, to a great extent, irresistible with the plantation nigger. The Southern democratic whites are accordingly making a vigorous campaign of it, because they feel sure of the negro balance of power in nearly every reconstructed State. The Southern white mauaging radicals, or ‘“‘carpet baggers,” are correspondingly depressed, from the demo- cratic drift of a large balance of the negro vote. Accordingly the new radical Senators and Representatives in Congress from the re- constructed Southern States are moving heaven and earth for a September session of Congress, in view of some assistance to their radical State authorities from Washington. They say that areign of terror prevails against the poor, ignorant blacks; that the Ku Klux Klan will, ifleft unchecked, show them no mercy; that all the arms in the Southern States are in the hands of the disloyal whites, and that the State authorities will be powerless to protect the blacks at the polls unless furnished with arms by Congress. To the applications already made by Southern Governors for arms the Secretary of War has responded that under the existing laws he has no authority to fur- nish arms. It is probable, therefore, that these appeals from the Southern ‘‘carpet-bag- gers” will result in a September session of Congress, and it is probable, too, that some legislation will follow to strengthen the radi- cals in the South, which will weaken them in the North, Nous verrons. Tie Orv Quarantine Grounps.—We un- derstand that a negotiation is at present going on for the gale of the old Quarantine grounds by private contract, and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars has been stated as the price to be paid by the purchasers, This is a very curious negotiation. The property has | been valued as high as a million dollars if Quarantine were entirely removed from the lo- cality. The Governor should look carefully into this matter. The consummation of such a job on the eve of his retirement from office would searcely uid bim in his future aspira- | tions. The Internal Revenue Muddle. There will be, no doubt, a serious derange- ment and complication in the collection of the revenue and management of the Internal Revenue Bureau in consequence of the diff- culty between the President, Secretary of the Treasury and Commissioner Rollins. There have been all along most stupendous frauds upon and in this department, and we may ex- pect to hear of still more and greater on ac- count of the disorganization now existing. The radicals of Congress, in their bitterness against the President and determination to take away his executive power, have left one of the most important branches of the gov- ernment disorganized and without any fixed responsibility, This will cost the country, probably, many millions of dollars, through losses in the revenue, The President's hands are tied; he cando nothing, And it is said this autocrat, Rollins, placing himself above the President, declines to resign unless he can procure such @ successor as will be acceptable A Rete of THE ANTEDILUVIAN Evocu— The veteran Amos Kendall on the Presidential | question. He was an old man inthe time of | “Old Hinkore.” | to bimseott, tically we ought to treat on topics originating in the war; and if the Southern soldiers— paroled prisoners—indicate evil tendencies their commanders are the proper persons to remind them of the terms of the parole. We see no reason why the administration might not discuss all this with the Southern generale through General Rosecrans, and we can per- ceive the probability that by a happy stroke im this direction the President might do more for reconstruction than has been done by all the laws of Congress. All this may be carried on before General Rosecrans departs from the country, and may have no necessary connec- tion with his mission; but it is evident that it would not weaken our case with the Southern leaders if we accepted with due respect their views in regard to Mexico. They have views on that subject. States carved out of Mexico would be their neighbors and their friends in the Union; and certainly, in view of the bal- ances of the future, they could but be gratified at seeing the southern part of the country keeping pace with the northern part in ite growth towards the Pacific. The Constitutional Amendment and the Demo. cratic Party—What Says Mr. Seymour ¢ Article fourteen, of the amendments of the constitution—which proclaims the equal civil rights in all the States of citizens of the United States, and that all persons of all colors born or naturalized in the United Statea are citizens; which regulates representation in Congress and the Electoral College, according to the extension or restriction of the privilege of suffrage as each State for itself may choose; which declares a certain class of rebels disabled from holding office and disfran- chised till absolved by a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress; which says that the obligations of the national war debts shall not be questioned and that all rebel debts and claims for slaves shall be held void—has be- come @ partand parcel of the constitution of the United States ‘to all intents and pur- poses,” in being so declared by Congress, by the Executive Department, and in addition to these by the Judicial, in Chief Justice Chase’e late decision upon a case in West Virginia. Following the sweeping ratifications by the people of this amendment in the elections of 1866, and by the States mainly in pursuance of those elections, these proclamations of its bind- ing force as part of the constitution from the three departments of the federal govern- ment fix it. We have here to mention the remarkable fact, however, that from no democratic con- vention, or meeting, or candidate, or member of Congress, or party leader, or stump speaker or newspaper organ have we heard or seen a recognition of this amendment, They do not openly fight it, but they do not recognize it. In their Tammany Hall platform they pro- nounce the reconstruction acts of Congress “unconstitutiopal, revolutionary, null and void,” and as the general and final ratification of this amendment is not complete without the endorsements counted by the Secretary of State from the South under said reconstruction acts, it would appear that so far as the demo- cratic party stand coromitted it is in resistance to this amendment. At all events we should like to know what they propose to do with this thing. We say that we have not as yet heard the first syllable from them of a recognition. They are stout defenders of the constitution, but what constitution? ‘The constitution as it was” or “‘the constitution as itis?” That ie what we want to know. A word from Mr. Seymour will settle all doubts upon the sub- Ho, the autecrat Rollin, and pot | ject, Does he recognize “the qonstitution axis