The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1868, Page 6

6 MEW VORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR gsipubembsinet. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorkE Hrratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be ro- turned. Volume XXXII. seee-Noe 240 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Fout Par. NIBLO’S GARDEN.—BARBE BLEUE. NEW YORK THEATRE, dway.—FouL PLaY. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humpry DUMPTY, ‘3? OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth (LOPIAN MINSTRELBY, &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comio Vouatisn, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c, COMIQUE, 514 Brondway.—ETHIOPIAN Eo- , COMIO VOCALIBM, &0, ARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoruL an Concer. RTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—MUSsIOAL ENTER- 8. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— 2208'S ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, £0. BROOKI. N ATHENAUM, corner of Atlantic and Clin- , DOUKLE COURTSHIP—RINGING THR CHANGES, ton sts. OPERA HOUSE, | Brooklyn.—HOoLEY’s OvERA BouFFE, ILL TROVATORE. WoL Mines NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SormNor ANb ART, . New York, Thursday, August 27, 1568. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic gable is dated yesterday evening, August 26, Marshal Vaillant repeats Napoleon's assurances of peace. A Paris semi-oficial journal intimates that France will make war if Prussia refuses to disarm. Minister Reverdy Johnson had an audience with Premier Disraeli. Queen Isabella of Spain requested, it is sald, an interview with Napoleon, but the Emperor declined. The report of General Dulce’s death is denied, The Prussian government is taking active measures for the protection of emigrants to America, ‘The details of the international yacht race show that the Sappho was making excelent time when she expericneed a series of accidents, and had to be towed into port almost a wreck. By way of London we have advices from China announcing a signal defeat of the rebel army, marching southward, by the imperialists, Consols 944s, money. Five-twenties, 71% in Lon- don, and 75! in Franktort. Cotton advanced, closing with middling uplands at lid. Breadstuffs upward. Provisions without marked change. By steamsuip at this port we have gpectal corre- spondence with our English mail report in detail of our cabie tefegrams to the 15th of August, embrac- ing matter of much interest, MISCELLANEOUS. General Grant has issued instructions to the South- ern commanders relative to the military aid to be rendered to the civli authorities. He directs that the officer directly commanding the troops called for should exercise his own discretion as to whether the service required is legal and ngcessary, and must limit his action to assisting a marshal or sheriff in executing a lawful process. The obligation of the military to obey such civil summons must be held subordinate to their duty as members of a military body. In support of his instructions General Grant also furnishes to the Southern com- manders a copy of a letier of Attorney Geueral Evarts on the same subject to United States Marshal Magruder in Florida. The Attorney General holds that the Marshal has no right to call on the military to suppress disorder, preserve the peace or protect the States from domestic violence. Such calls, where he has the right, are permitted only in extraordinary emergencies, Telegraphic advices from St. Domingo are to the goth, Baez was organizing a large force, but they were in such # miserable condition that many of them were deserting. A rumor prevailed that Cabral and twenty leading Dominicans had been captured and shot, but it was not belitved. A fire in Azua had destroyed forty buildings. General Ulysses Espaiilot was an independent candidate for President, Our letter from Alexandria, Egypt, is dated August 1. The Viceroy was about returning from the Levant, where he had almost impoverished him- * scif in making magnificent gifts to the Sultan and his Ministers at Stamboul, ‘The ten weeks’ tour has cost him about twelve mililon dollars, Mehemet ‘Tuofx Pacha bad been installed as Field Marshal with great military and civic pomp, Our Rio Janeiro letter is dated July 20. The cause of the overthrow of the liberal Ministry was due to the action of the Empéror, who is strongly inclined towards conservatism, in select- ing a conservative as Senator for Rio Grande do Norte. On the appointment of the new conservative Ministry a vote of want of confidence was passed by ue liberal Chamber of Deputies, during great ex- . in which insulting remarks were used Emperor. On the next day the session Was dissolved by the Emperor, to meet in May. General Webb had received instructions to demand his passports tf the steamer Wasp is not permitted to ascend the river to Asuncion. Gur correspondent on the line of the Pacific Rail- road writes from Fort Saunders, Wyoming Terri- tory, six hundred miles west of the Mfssouri river, under date of August 21. ‘he actual western termi- nus of the road is Benton City, one hundred miles further west, a town thirty days old, with a popula- tion of four thousand, Fifty miles beyond Benton City, however, the track-laying process is rapidly going forward at the rate of from two to five miles a day. General Blair and Speaker Colfax met on the line some days ago and had a pleasant chat. Gen- eral Blair seemed confident of his success In the clection, and our correspondent says he is the first man he has met who feels that way. A sult was instituted in the Westchester Court of Oyer and ‘Terminer yesterday to test the right of Mechanics to prevent non-members of their unions froiu pursuing their avocation, Eight bricklayers Were indicted for conspiracy in refusing to allow the defendant, William Dawson, to work at the trade, he not being @ member of their club, After Considerable evidence and a legal exposition of the Statutes affecting the case, the jury returned @ ver- dict of guilty. Sentence was deferred, The Manhattan Co-operative Association held a meeting last evening, when the President stated that the grocery store conducted by the association ‘was losing money fast. A motion to close it up was offered, but a substitute providing for its continu. ance anda payment of the unpaid shares by the members was agreed to, This is the pioneer co- operative society in the city, Baton Charies Von Lederer, the new Anatrion Minister to this country, arrived in this city yester. day from Liverpool. During the performance of “Foul Piny” at the Broadway theatre last evening, while Mr. Harkins Was upon the stage, @man in the audience passeq from the auditoriam to the stage and served upon him an injunction issued by Judge Barnard against the perfoymance of the play at that theatre. Great excitement ensued, and the audience, Apparentiy suing with Harkins, was only restrained by bail each yesterday by Justice Shandley. The other Drigoners were not examined, as the wounded men are still in danger. During the day Justice Shand- ley was served witha writ jof certiorari, issued by Judge Barnard, and @ writ of habeas corpus was served at the same time on the jailer. The prisoners will be produced in the Supreme Court this morning at ten. An alleged counterfeit seven-thirty bond for $1,000 was presented at the Treasury Department in Wash- ington on Monday and readily exchanged for a five- twenty bond. The same bond had been presented last fall and thrown out as a counterfeit. Three prisoners, charged with robbing Mr. R. J. Walker of $16,000 in gold certificates, were arrested in Buffalo recently and arrived in this city yesterday. Eleven thousand dollars of the property was found in their possession, and they were brought before Justice Dodge, but subsequently discharged, Mr. Walker, it is said, declining to prosecute. In the Georgia Legislature yesterday a minority re- Port of the Committee on Electfons was made, declar- ing ineligible negroes and members not residents of thecounty they represent. A decision of the Speaker that members Whose eligibility is under considera- tion could not vote on the eligibility of others under the report was sustained by a vote of 90 to 20. The Chinese Embassy was formally received yes- terday at the State House in Boston by Governor Bullock. Hon. James Mann, of Louisiana, died in New Orleans yesterday. He was the only democratic member of Congress chosen at the recent election in that State, Afire in St, Louis yesterday destroyed property to the amount of $80,000 or more. ‘The existence of secret democratic organizations in Missouri is denied by the St. Louis democratic papers. A national convention of spiritualists assembled at Rochester yesterday. After considerable routine business a prayer through a medium was offered anda poem read. A resolution for the organization of a secret society was voted down, and Sojourner Truth delivered an address. The Arapahoes are depredating in Southern Colo- rado. Governor Hall has called on General Sheridan for assistance, and intends to go himself to the threatened settlements. A young Boston clerk obtained sixteen or eighteen thousand dollars from the Market Bank in that city yesterday by checks forged with his employer's name and absconded. The hearing in the Councilmanic contempt case was again yesterday postponed for a day on the unavoidable absence of the Corporation Counsel, who is counsel for the defendants. The case will come on this morning. The North German Lloyd's steamer New York, Cap- tain Dreyer, will sail from her pier, foot of Third street, Hoboken, at one o’clock this afternoon, for Bremen, calling at Southampton. The mails by this steamer will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The steamship Lodona, Captain Hovey, will leave pier 20 East river at three o'clock to-day for New Orleans direct. The stock market was strong and moderately ac- tive yesterday. Government securities were very strong and exgited. Gold closed at 1445 a 1444. The Prospect in Maine. The canvass in Maine is becoming very ener- getic.. The visit of Mr. Pendleton to that State has excited the democracy, and his speeches have apparently not been without a very considerable effect upon the republicans themselves as well as upon the middle quan- tity of votes—that balancing weight of all political contests, that ‘stands upon the full swell of the tide, and neither way inclines,” until good and sufficient reason is shown. One of the good points in the conduct of the can- vass in Maine is that the democratic orators discuss things that Maine can feel rather than things she can only think about. They bring the contest home to her; they talk about ships. As the tanner in the story was well satisfied that for building good forts there was nothing like leather, so men in Maine can un- derstand that ships are the most astonishing source of wealth, greatness and glory to a nation, especially ships built in Maine, and on which the carpenters, caulkers, riggers and other hard fisted fellows get first rate wages. Therefore, when democratic orators point to the fact that all the ships that ought to be built in Maine are now built across the border in the neighboring British colonies, and point out that the cause lies in radical legislation ; when, moreover, the people reflect that they have in their communities now one shipowner where they had forty before the years of radi- cal domination, they find uncomfortable facts in their way, and begin to see reason for the reconsideration of all the arguments that in- cline them to the radical side of our divisions. Such has been the effect of this sort of demo- cratic campaigning that it seems quite possible Maine may change her vote, and not only put her republican majorities out of sight, but give a very respectable figure in favor of the de- mocracy. Thatshe will do this is the more credible because the canvass makes evident such clear reasons for it. Maine feels that the contest between parties is no longer one of abstract political principles. So long as politi- cal division was merely the inclination of opinion, this way or that, Maine naturally in- clined to the party that did the loudest shout- ing in favor of freedom, even though it was only freedom for niggers. Republicanism has a way of talking about spelling books and newspapers, and claiming for itself all the virtue there is in the world, that catches the fancy of the Down East people; and with their sympathies thus wrought upon through a tender point they do not always examine whether the qlaims are just or whether re- publicans are fonder of spelling books than the men of other parties. It was because she was caught up in this canting clamor of the republi- can party, because she had a large faith that the principles of that party were identical with her peculiar prejudices, that Maine went with the radicals with an intensity scarcely less than that of Massachusetts. But she has felt the burden of it, and now that she knows the tangible results of radical trinmph ; now that her attention is called in her own case to what radicalism has done, and she feels the result of radical rule rather than listens to the utter- ances of radical doctrine; now, in short, that she finds radical laws bearing heavy on some others than “brutal slaveholders,” she turns a favoring face toward the democracy. It was in just this serles of facts that the re- action against radicalism began. People felt the thing coming home; they felt that they were burning down the house to roast chest- nuts for the radical fanatics. So long as it was a broad, distinct fight on legitimate points between the North and South the people would not let the North go down; but when it ceased to be that, when the politicians wanted to wage against the South a second war, in which the people had no interest, and when, in order to carry on that war, they crushed | the North itself with taxation, people rose and gave majorities on the other side. And the revolt of the people at the polls against repub- lican rule is 80 much a clear purpose that it will not lose impetus while its cause remains in action, We see how effective in Maine are now the same ideas that in the past year have given so many States to the democracy. And these ideas are of constant application and force. There is no community in the country that does not equally denounce as intolerable the burdens that radical fury, folly, blundering and corruption have put upon the people. Upon what can the radicals count if Maine goes against them? They may get Massachu- setts and South Carolina. . Europe in America—Our Foreign Correspond- ence. The Atlantic telegraph supplies us with the skeleton of the news from Europe, and as far as it goes it does well enough, especially on points dealing immediately with commercial interests, for a morning's reading; but the gist and substance of affairs as they occur in the Old World can only be supplied *by the detailed accounts which our correspondents send to ‘us by every mail. The telegraph is very useful in its way, but it only supplies the outline of the news. Itis the correspondence which fills in the picture, which gives color, form and the realization of events as they occur and brings the social and political life of Europe home to us as if presented with the fidelity ofa photograph. The Atlantic telegraph news may be regarded as the introduction to thestory. The correspondence fills up the suc- ceeding chapters and makes the history com- plete. Take, for example, the letters of our correspondents from various points in Europe published in the last two issues of the Heratp. Here our readers are told how the shooting festival in Vienna brought forth the rival am- bitions of the different parts of Germany ; how the skill of the Tyrolese had to succumb to the superior weapon of the Swiss republicans in rifle shooting, the contest lying by conces- sion of all parties between the two nations; how our American sharpshooters from Illinois and Ohio demeaned themselves, and how one of them from Highland, Ill, a resident in fhe United States for twenty years, won a goblet for good shooting; how a few ladies from Cincinnati were’ electrified and sprung from their seats on the stand when the Stars and Stripes passed in the grand procession, ‘carried by a young giant born on the banks of the Ohio ;” how Francis Joseph, the Emperor, joined in the sports, and, setting aside his dig- nity, took a shot or two at the targets, drank a ‘glass of lager and sipped a schoppen of Rhine wine to the health of the,Empress and to the prosperity of the Schuetzenfest; how the Queen of England is making pleasant excur- sions in thé gorges and over the lakes in the vicinity of Lucerne, regardless of Cabinet com- plications at home or imaginary “Fenian” assassinations abroad, making sketches of the charming scenery of the Rougloch, as she has done in the Highlands of Scotland many a time; how our Minister, George Bancroft, rested from his diplomatic labors for a while to taste the pleasant and refreshing waters of Homburg-es-Montes; how Garibaldi is hob- bling on his crutches, the victim of confirmed rheumatism, at Caprera; how his sons, Menotti and Ricciottj, are visiting, with the rapidity of a flight of wild birds, all the cities of Italy, intent upon organizing another attack upon the Papacy, while the Pope is calmly awaiting the protection of Providence and the organization of foreign brigades. All this, as well as the doings of aspiring impresarti, who have an eye upon the patronage of the American public during the coming season, our readers are made acquainted with in our European correspondence. Maple- son, it appears, has miscalculated in his ar- rangements with the Swedish songstress, Nilsson, She will not come here just now. The European engagements entered into by Madame Van Zandt, we also learn from our correspondents, compel her to decline the flattering offer of Mapleson to visit this country ; but there is no reason to complain of the musical carte de visite which the London man- ager offers for our acceptance. Constantinople, it seems, has been recently a great centre of attraction. The princes of Europe have been making an incur- sion upon the hospitality of the Sultan, and his Ottoman Majesty has not dis- honored the reputation of Oriental princes in the freedom of their gifts or the dis- play of their magnificence. Although the treasury of the Sublime Porte is reported to be somewhat embarrassed, yet we learn that the Prince of Denmark and Prince Napoleon and an ex-Lord Mayor of London and many other transient visitors were the recipients of costly jewels from the hand of the Sultan. Then we are told how our own Minister, in obedience to the resolution of Congress, appeared at one of the Sultan's grand audiences in the plain even- ing dress of an American citizen, and how cordial the Sultan was when receiving him, and how the Turkish Minister, Fuad Pacha, made the significant remark to Mr. Morris, “You represent a nation that requires no tinsel.” . This pleasant picture of social life in Europe, as furnished by the Hrratp correspondents, almost brings Europe home to our households in America. We see what people are doing there, and we get, in a familiar shape, the his- tory of events as they transpire, without de- pending upon the rigid formalities of court journals or the meagre outline of telegraphic announcements. Tre First Guy rrom tae Norrn.—Ver- mont, in her State election on Tuesday next, fires the first gun from the North since the nomination of Seymour and Blair. Vermont will go republican, of course, but the weight of the shot will be a matter of some importance and a sign, to some extent, of what is yet to come, Goop News From Crina.—Telegrams from China dated on the 15th of July announce that the rebel army marching southward from ite fruitless sioge of Tientsin Was overtaken by the imperial forces and signally defeated after a bloody battle. Pekin was rejoicing over the victory—a pleasing result, which, it is to be hoped, will enable the government to steadily pursue the grand policy of world-wide utility inaugurated by the Burlingame mission, A Harp Nor ror Gresiry—Senator Sher- man’s ideas on bondholders and noteholders. College Commencements. At this season of the year most of our col- lege ‘‘commencements” occur, and the news- Papers are giving many detailed accounts of these academic festivities, which are particu- larly interesting to collegians themselves and $0 their relatives and friends. Nor have these festivities entirely lost their claims on the in- terest of the general public, although the time has gone by when Commencement Day at Har- vard suspended ordinary business in Boston and all its adjacent villages, and when the so- called educated class in the community de- pended almost entirely for its recruits upon college graduates. At present not a few of the active and influential minds in that class have been disciplined and stored elsewhere than within college walls. It is true that our systems of collegiate edu- cation have been greatly improved during the last quarter of a century. It is beginning to be recognized that the multiplication of little “one-horse colleges” is an evil rather than an advantage, and there now existsa growing tendency to consolidate into fewer and more richly endowed institutions, more nearly ap- proximating the character of a real university, the forces that used to be weakened by being scattered. Especially it is now acknowledged that the spirit and the necessities of the age require an extension of the old-fashioned curri- culum. While the study of the Greek and Latin languages and literature may now be pursued with all the appliances afforded by the latest improvements in European scholarship, the modern languages and literatures are no longer neglected, and comparative -philology has at once sup- plemented and stimulated the study of Greek and Latin. What is still more important, it has been found indispensable to make increased provision for supplying the demand for instruction in the applications of mathematical and natural science to the useful arts. Nearly all our principal colleges now embrace scientific schools as well as academic departments and schools of law, medicine and theology. The Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard, the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, the School of Mines at Columbia, and many similar foundations, attest a growing sense of the necessity of developing more fully than ever the department of philosophy and the arts in our American colleges. In several of these colleges certain features of the enlightened and practical plan of educa- tion devised by Mr. Jefferson for the Univer- sity of Virginia have been adopted. Dr. Mal- let, in his recent inaugural lecture on ‘“‘Chem- istry Applied to the Arts” (delivered when he took his chair as Professor of Analytical and Applied Chemistry at the University of Vir- ginia), eloquently refuted the objections which are sometimes urged against the modern ten- dency to embody the study ef natural science in the system of universlty education, and con- clusively proved how desirable it is that ap- plied science should constitute a branch of public education of the higher grads. In the United States and in England the value of ap- plied science and of scientific training for those who are to engage in industrial pursuits begins to be recognized, as itlong has been recog- nized in France, in Prussia, in Austria, in Holland, Belgium, Saxony and Switzerland and in Russia. By gielding still more to the modern tendency towards a development of the scientific department in our institutions of learning our colleges will become worthier of their claim to be luminous centres of education and intelligence. But all the intellectual reforms which. we might suggest as desirable in our colleges are less urgent than the radical reform which is needed in them to secure such moral discipline and culture as shall prevent the recurrence of scenes so disgraceful as those that accom- panied the recent regatta at Worcester. On that deplorable occasion the students of Har- vard and Yale unconsciously bore witness to the plentiful lack of wholesome influences over their morals and their manners, The gradu- ates and undergraduates of the Five Points in New York could not have displayed more finished specimens of rowdyism, The fact is that the mediwval custom of shutting up a community of hot-headed youths in college cloisters and thus segregating them from civil- ized social and family life is highly unfavor- able. The barbarous instances of “hazing” younger students which were lately published, as well as the acts of rowdyism annually in- dulged in at Worcester by the students of Harvard and Yale, reflect no credit on these college-bred, or rather ill-bred, men or on their respective colleges. Let us hope that the unqualified sentence of condemnation passed upon them by the public may lead them to mend both their morals and ‘their manners. Doings in Wall Street. The great feature in Wall street yesterday was the sharp recovery from the recent specu- lative decline in government securities, which are undoubtedly the cheapest and safest in the country, and the probability is that the present reaction will carry them higher than they were before the fall. The feature of the general stock market was its increased firmness, ex- cept for Erie, which is still drooping ; but it is fair to say that the heavy decline of the last few weeks in the stock is wholly unconnected with the present management, and attributable to speculators who have been actuated in part by their hostility to the company. The steady demand for the stock of the Pacific Mail Com- pany, which has been felt for some weeks past, resulted yesterday in an advance in its price to 1034; and as a number of wealthy stock- holders have combined with a view to termi- nating the opposition on terms mutually advan- tageous to both companies, it is probable that their efforts will be successful by the time of the next annual election in October. As it is, both companies are doing a losing business, and the sooner they accept the proposed arrangement the better fof their stockholders. Queen Isaprita To Narorrox.—The Queen of Spain has, it is said, requested the Emperor of France to meet her in royal inter- view at Biarritz, where her Majesty would no doubt submit to her imperial brother a per- sonal statement of tho difficulties which sur- round her throne. The Emperor refused to accede to the wish of the Queen, This course appears to us at @ distance somewhat ungal- lant. It is, however, prudent, and conse- quently Napoleonic. The Spanish gear is scarcely ripe. When it is it will fall NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, . AUGUST | 27, 1868.—TRIPLE ’ SHEET. Government Postal ‘Telography tm Eng- | Colonel Brown land—Why Net Here? We learn froni our London correspondence that the British government is preparing, #¢- cording to the purpose announced by Mr. Dis- raeli some time ago, to carry out a comprehen- sive system of postal telegraphy, The object is to purchase all the local telegraph lines in the kingdom, and to make every post office, letter box and pillar post a telegraph office or receptacle for receiving and distributing mes- sages, just as they now are for letters. It is Proposed to issue one shilling stamps, which will fully prepay messages anywhere in the British islands. This will be the only charge. Nothing extra will have to be paid for the de- livery of messages where there is a post office. There is no doubt that this admirable scheme will be successful, and ifthe government choose it can be made a source of considerable reve- nue. " We have referred to the Purpose and action ofthe British government before and urged upon our own the adoption of a similar scheme. The time has come when the mag- netic telegraph, that great agent of civilization and diffusion of knowledge, should no longer ‘be in the hands of private companies and monopolists. All the arguments in favor of the government doing the postal business for the people apply with tenfold force to tele- graphing. The use of the telegraph is becom- ing as general and necessary as that of the Post office. This vast business, in which all Classes and almost every family are concerned, has become a great and dangerous monopoly in the hands of a few in- dividuals. If Congress will pass an act to pur- chase all the telegraph lines, or, if that cannot be done, to construct new lines and charge a low rate for messages, as is proposed in Eng- land, there is no doubt the expenses would be easily paid from the receipts, and at the same time the people would have cheap and prompt communication with each other the whole ‘length and breadth of the land. Such a postal telegraph system might be a part of or under the Post Office Department, with Professor Morse or some other capable man at its head. It would be a very popular measure, and we hope Congress will have sense and patriotism enough to take it up immediately on reas- sembling, Sheriff O’Brien’s Letter. Sheriff O'Brien's letter to Justice Shandley, defending the scandalous outrage committed by the deputies in their attempt to arrest Mr. Harkins at the Broadway theatre last Monday ‘evening, betrays an inexcusable ignorance of the limitations of responsibility. The Sheriff says:—‘“I consider myself the responsible per- son in the premises, and am prepared to stand the blame, if any, of the whole transaction.” Now it is for the District Attorney, not for the Sheriff, to decide who is “responsible” in this case. It is manifestly a work of supereroga- tion, to say the least, for Sheriff O’Brien to assume responsibility and to endeavor to stay the proceedings against his subordinates. In due time he may with propriety be called upon to render his testimony, but he cannot be justi- fied in forestalling public opinion by such an indecent interruption of the due course of law as his letter to Justice Shandley must have been intended to make. The Justice himself deemed it premature to proceed with the ex- amination of the case until the result of the injuries sustained by the wounded persons had been ascertained. He evidently agreed with the public sentiment that the offence of the officérs in overstepping their duty and imperil- ling the lives of innocent persons is more serious than it seems to be in the eyes of the Sheriff. The evidence which will be adduced will enable the public to understand better than at present the full merits of the case; but there can be but one opinion as to the imperti- nent and inopportune interference of Sheriff O'Brien's letter. The Rocky MountainsA Trip for Mr. Seymour. General Grant has had a run since his nomi- nation among the Indians, miners and fresh air of the Rocky Mountains. Speaker Colfax, Grant’s associate on the republican ticket, is off, or will soon leave, for the cooling streams of Colorado, and thence, perhaps, through to California. General Blair, the democratic candidate for Vice President, at the latest re- ports was very near the end of the Pacific Railway, as faras laid, inthe Rocky Moun- tains; and so of the two Presidential tickets only Mr. Seymour remains behind. This is somewhat remarkable, considering that Sey- mour is a hunter and a fisherman, considering the health-giving air of the Plains and Rocky Mountains, and considering the rare hunting and fishing (including buffaloes and Indians) to be had on such an excursion. The skins of a bull buffalo or two, a Utah wolf, a grizzly bear anda Rocky Mountain big horn of his own shooting would be valuable trophis alongside those of the red deer and big moos hanging in our ex-Governor’s hall, and the scalps of a few hostile Cheyenne warriors would make him indeed chief of the big In- dians of the Tammany Wigwam. Why not, as he is equipped for the warpath ? Peace Prorsssions iy Franoe.—Marshal Vailliant, Minister of the Household to Napo- leon, reiterates the peace assurances lately given by the Emperor and some of the mem- bers of the Cabinet at Troyes and elsewhere. The Paris Pays, a semi-official organ of the government, says editorially that ‘France will accept the possibility of war if Prussia refuses to disarm.” People in Europe may please themselves as to the probability either way. Bul Tux Campaiay.—The Presidential canvass on both sides, all over the country, North, South, East and West, is beginning to be very lively. Mass meetings, torchlight processions, the raising of party poles and banners are rapidly multiplying in every direction. So far, too, we are gratified to say, lawless outbreaks and violent collisions between the opposing parties have been comparatively few. The prevailing spirit seems to be the spirit of law and order everywhere. Wo hope and think it likely that the campaign to the end will be con- ducted int this spirit, and that the peace and order of the grand election day in Novem- ber will be as universal as in the election of | 1864 in the midst of the war. Why not? Tae Main Question Arter ALL—The re- laxation of our taxation, en the Collapses of the ‘Chase Movement. isan intimate friend of Judge Chase, that he had the inside track here among the Chase men, and no doubt there is much truth in his disclosures. But the main points were ives in the HeRratp prior to the assembling of the Convention, particularly those Portions in which the treachery of the New York ¢ tion towards the Chief Justice was Predicted and the final nomination of Seymour under the pressure and dictation of Southern fire-eating leaders was pronounced a foregone conclu- sion. Colonel Brown's views about the Chase men wheeling. into the Grant line are probably correct. We have already said they would to the number of five hundred thousand men, If the democrats can get along without the aid of that number of votes they are a very strong party, and may have been justified in throwing overboard Judge Chase—but not in the under- hand, shabby and perfidious manner they did. The campaign is now opening briskly all over the country. The enthusiasm is about equally divided, and it remains to be seen which party shall make the first false movement to deter- mine with almost positive certainty upon whose banners victory will finally perch. The English Yacht Race. The yacht race around the Isle of Wight be- tween the American yacht Sappho and the fine English yachts, the Cambria, Aline, Oimara and Condor, which responded to her challenge, took place on Tuesday. The Cam- bria was the winner, and the Sappho was dis- tanced by all of her competitors. The result was such as might, perhaps, have been anticipated in view of the superior familiarity of the Eng- « lish yachtmen with every inch of the eighty miles run, with all the currents and all the winds of the narrow channel, and particularly in view of the fact that the Sappho entered on the contest in a very incomplete state of preparation, experienced some perplexing ac- cidents at most critical periods, and, as the challenger, was obliged to conform to the English regulations. According to these reg- ulations no square sails are allowed, and the less expanded side sails of American yachts leave them at a disadvantage in sucha contest with English yachts. Nevertheless, the English are entitled to exult over the re- sult, which was a pretty clean defeat of their American competitor; although it must be acknowledged that, as our cable report of to-day proves, the Sappho did very well under many difficulties, But the ultimate result yet remains to be seen in the happy consequence of this defeat in stimulating rivalry. Doubt- less American ingenuity and ambition will yet succeed in establishing our ability not only to compéte with but to surpass our English rivals in steamships, sailing vessels and yachts. ARMING FoR THE Fray IN TENNESSEE.— Late advices from Tennessee embrace the in- formation that in the House of Representatives at Nashville a bill was ordered to its third reading providing for a volunteer force of one more regiment of volunteers from each Con- gressional district, to be composed of loyal men, &c. The bill also gives the Governor (Brownlow) authority to declare martial law in any county and to quarter troops in such county, the expense to be paid by a tax upon the people of the county. From this and from the frequent reports of bloody doings by the Ku Klux Klan it is evident that Tennessee ‘as reconstructed by Andy Johnson and Brown- low, and the first to be restored of all the rebel States, is by far the most demoralized of them all. Such are the workings of wholesale white disfranchisement and universal negro suffrage in Tennessee under Parson Brownlow. Genera Roszorans AND His Rumorep Vir- ainta Misston.—General Rosecrans, recently appointed and confirmed as Minister to Mexico, in his letter of acceptance, says:—‘“‘I shall be prepared to proceed to my post as soon as the yellow fever shall have so far abated at Vera Cruz as to make it prudent for me to leave my family there, en route to the capital—say about the 1st of October proximo.” Meantime the General has been visiting the West Virginia White Sulpbur and falling in there with a bevy of the leading generals of the late Southern confederacy. The idea has got abroad that this meeting had for its object a sort of treaty of peace with General Lee and company and for the benefit of Seymour and Blair among the soldiers of the North. We presume, how- ever, that the meeting in question was purely accidental, and that General Rosecrans is satis- fled with one diplomatic mission at a time, A Demooratio Sensation—Brick Pomeroy’s speech as reported in the Herarp. THE POLITICAL POSITION OF HON. JOHN MOIR'SSEY. New York, August 26, 1868. ‘To THR EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I have noticed on one or two occasions a state~ ment made in your paper which I desire to correct. I was charged with having money bet against the election of Seymour and Blair, and that I would support Grant and Colfax. I desire to say that both statements are false in every particular.’ I have not + cent of money, property or stake of any kind bet \gainst Seymour and Blair. These stories are put in (rculation to injure me with my constituents by in- trested and mischievous parties, It is needless for ™ tosay that ama democrat, and believe in re gtar nominations, and intend to support Seymour an Blair and the democratic ticket, as I have done thtngh life, By correcting this false statement you wilknuch oblige, yours, truly, JOHN MORRISSEY. Arrivi of Baron Charles Von Lederer Ew Route to Washington. Barot Charies von Lederer, the newiy appointed Ministemienipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of Austrito the United States, arrived in this city yesterdayyy the steamship Cua, from Liverpool, en route to Wshington. Baron yon Lederer, 80 dis- the Kaiser, is a conspicuous meinber a baronetcy \nferred upon it by the Empress Maria Gonsalvo Lederer, Who occupies the ‘nant colonel in the Austrian army, is the present \ead of the family. Baron Charles, the new Minish to the United states, vas born in — 1817 and commeyed his diplomatic career inWarsaw, first as couneitit of the Austrian Legation there, and afterwards \ved in_ the more important posi- tion of Consul G\eral. He subsequently received the appointment (Minister to Hamburg, which po- sition he continue¥o fill until he was transferred to the more exal tof Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, Ye ts spoken of as being a gon tleman of rich cult, superior attainments aul aa avle and skilful dip\ hau,