The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 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 HeErarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Fout PLay—Mati- ‘Bee at 2. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—HUMPTY Dumpty. Matince at 135. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Brofiway and Ih street — RE FLY. NIBLO'S GARDEN.—BAsuk BLECE. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th street, Evurorian MIN! . 201 Rowery.—Comro ASTOR'S OPE S TONY PA INSTRELSY, &c, Matinee at 2g. Vooa Lisa, NEGRO MIN! THEATRE COMIQUE. 514 Broadway.—Tur GREAT Ont GINAL LINGARD AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. Matinee. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoruLan GaupsEn Convent. te MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S KELLy & Leon's Erut ARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,— N MINSIRELSY, £0. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, _ Brooklyn.—Hoo1ny's MinsvKkLS—OPERA Bourve, Iu TROVATORE, UN OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— NEW YORK MU! SOIENOR AND Ant, 29, 1888. New York, Saturday, August THE NEWS. EUROPE. ‘rhe news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday evening, August 2s. The King of Prussia reached Berlin from Potsdam. “specie still flows into the Bank of France. Victor Hugo's wile is dead. The London cabmen are on a ‘sirike. The North German Consul General in New York will arrange for the better protection of emi- grants at sea. The Suitan of Turkey visited Farragut’s flag ship. The Bokharians accepted the Russian terms of peace and the troops of the Czar evacuated Samar- cand. : Japan remains disturbed. The Mikado was suc- cessful in the deld. Yokohama city was held by foreign troops. Consols 94, money. Five-twenties 71% in London and 754¢ in Frankfort. Cotton firm, with middling uplands at 11 pence. Breadstuifs advanced. Provisions aad produce with- out marked change. “MISCELLANEOUS. Our Mexico City correspondence is dated August 10. Most of the revolutionary disturbances had been quicted, the affairs in Puebla and Vera Cruz alone remaining unquelled. The cotton factories in Mexico have ceased running, the operatives refusing to work under a reduction of wages. The Diario states that Romero had cancelled two millions of the Sanches Ochoa bonds while in the United States, President Juarez denies that the States of Sonora and Sinaloa are to be sold to the United States, The bands of State troops in Chihuahua had engaged in a fight and. the victorious party shot all the prisoners captured—ten in number, General Schenck has been nominated for Congress against Vallandigham, in the Third Ohio district. The democrats in the district who do not prefer Vallan- digham for their candidate have published a pro- nunciamiento denouncing him for his conduct at the New York Convention in deserting Pendieton and for working secret wires to sccure his own nomination at the District Convention, The Chinese Embassy at Boston yesterday cele- brated the birthday of the Empress Dowager of China by kneeling in a row and bowing nine times tothe north, Afterwards they paid a visit tothe Po Tagen (Mr. Burlingame), who exchanged the usual compliments with them in honor of the occasion, We learn from Key West that no sickness has oc- curred m the town this year. A case or two of yellow fever were reported recently, but it turned out to have been on board of a vessel anchored a mile beyond the quarantine. The medal awarded to California at the Paris Exht- bition for her display of cereals has been received by Governor Haight. Accounts of Indian outrages in Colorado are still _ Tecelved. The Smoky Hill route and the Platte Stage road appear to be the scenes of the late depre- dations, The Indians chased the Smoky Hill coach several miles, without doing any damage, however. Several murders are reported, twelve having been committed in two days. Harrison Young, a negro, was hanged at Warwick Court House, Va., on Wednesday, for the murder of a Mr. Wooten, committed two years ago. He pro- tested his innocence to the last. When swung off the rope broke and it was necessary to obtain an- other and swing him off again before life was extin- guished, The New England Fatr, which holds forth at New Tlaven next week, is likely to be a grand affair. All the factories in Connecticut will probably cease operations one day of its continuance in order that the operatives may attend, v - At the Fashion Course, yesterday, a trot came off between the brown mare Mary Sayres, the chestnut gelding Charley, the gray gelding Prescott and the brown stallion Naugataugh, The latter sold highest in the pools and came out last, being distanced in the third heat. The race was won by the mare, her dest mile being in 2:51. A grand masquerade ball took place at White Sulphur Springs, Va., on Thursday night, at which the prominent Southerners, including Lee and Beau- regard, who have been visiting that resort were present. At ameeting of colored citizens last evening at No. 103 Bleecker street arrangements were perfected for a mass meeting at an early day at the Cooper Insti- tute tributary to the memory of Thaddeus Stevens, An executive committee of fifteen was appointed to carry out the detailsin respect to time, place and so- Jection of the day. » José Ferrer de Conto, editor of a Spanish paper in this city, was$ arrested yesterday on an affidavit charging him with assaulting Ignacio Gomez, Min- ister Plenipotentiary to this country for Nicaragua and Honduras, and challenging him to fight a duel. De Conto was heid in $1,000 bail to appear on Tues day. The “Foul Play” injunction case was before Judge Barnard yesterday, @ motion belug made by the counsel of the manager of the New York theatre for an order of attachment against the manager of the Broadway theatre and Mr. Harkins for contempt In performing the play after tho service of the in- junction. In the argument counsel for defendants claimed that the two piays were widely diferent. ‘The Court reserved its decision, The Broadway thea- tre is closed in consequence of the injunction, b An inquest was commenced in Brooklyn yester- day on the body of Thomas Cunningham, who was killed by one Constantine Baudendistel, on Atiantic treet, on Monday. After the usual medical testi mony the inquest was adjourned until Tuesday. » A post mortem examination was held yesterday, ot No. 6 Amity street, on the body of a young girl named Susan Latten, who had died from the effects of childbirth, The house is a lying-in asylum, The father of the girl testified that she had disappeared from her home, near Farmingdale, L. 1, in April last, and he had not seen her alive since, The case is in the hands of the authorities. The rang in Georgia wre da deg acing the edttcn NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1868. Mr. Charles Peck, one of the wealthiest merchants in Waukegan, Wis., has been held in $25,000 bonds for an attempt to murder his wife by poison. The Spiritualists’ Convention at Rochester ad- | journed last evening afier a spiritualistic love feast. A new constitution was adopted. The Executive Committee of the Constitational Convention of Virginia haye concinded not to call that body together again. ‘ The steamship Europa, Captain Craig, of the Anchor line, will Sail from pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-day for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land Passengers, &c. 2 The steamship Cleopatra, Captain Phillipa, will sail from pler 16 East river at three o'clock this afternoon for Savannah. The steamship James Adger, Captain Lockwood, will be despatched for Charleston to-day at three P, M., sailing from pier No. 5 North river, The Democratic State Convention—The Tammany Ring and the Candidates. The New York Democratic State Convention assembles in Albany next Wednesday, the 2d of September. It is called for the purpose of nominating candidates for Governor, Lieuten- ant Governor, Canal Commissioner, Inspector of State Prisons, Clerk of the Court of Appeals and Presidential electors. The republican can- didates are already in the field. On Wednes- day the democratic party brings out its candi- dates, and the question is, Whom will they nominate? Who will be their candidate for Governor, leaving the minor candidates to take care of themselves? Four candidates for the Gubernatorial nomination have been named, to wit:—Sanford E, Church, Henry C. Murphy, William Cassidy and John T. Hoffman, Hoffman is the candidate of the ‘Tammany ring, Cassidy of the Albany Regency, Murphy of the opposition to Hoffman, and Church of the great democratic power in the western part of the State. The Tammany ring showed its best strength last year in the election of Hoffman Mayor of the city by sixty thousand majority. Upon this they usurp to themselves the authority to dictate to the balance of the emocracy of the State who shall be nomi- nated and who not. They expect to carry everything. But the result will demonstrate whether the Tammany power is omnipotent and whether the strength of the New York Western democracy will be exhausted in an effort to make great of so much native little- ness as exists in the leaders of the Tammany or city democracy. The Tammany ring has had the control of the patronage and the credit, and enjoyed an absolute despotism over the municipal affairs of the city a number of years. They have augmented the taxes of our citizens from eight millions a year to twenty- five millions. They have jobbed and ‘bar tered away the rights of citizens to thorough- fares by helping through corrupt Legislatures franchises that would gridiron the city with horse railroads without recompense to abutters or consultation with taxpayers. They have seen the people's money squandered in such operations as the building of the Harlem bridge, in the construction of what was a number of years ago called the “new” Court House, and it is not yet finished; in giving large salaries to worthless men who fill sinecures in the Department for Surveying and Laying Out New Streets, Avenues and Squares; in grant- ing favors to monopolists for ferry, wharf and dock privileges; and in a hundred other ways has the Tammany ring in the City Council, with its aflilialive branch, the Board of Supervisors, managed to extort unnecessary, unlawful and prodigious taxes from the citizens of New York. Hoffman, the candidate of this Tammany ring, is the head of that ring. He is the Chief Sachem of Tammany, and his war whoop is the signal for all the lesser savages who covert in the swamps of the Wigwam to be ready for their prey. With the history of the ravages upon the taxpayers of the city of New York winked at and encouraged by Hoffman, can the democrats of Western and Central New York regard him as a proper leader in the Gubernatorial canvass of the State? Can the friends of Church, Murphy and Cassidy submit to such an atrocious usurpation of their plain prerogative as the representatives of reforms long demanded ? These questions, however, are answered almost before the ink dries that places them upon paper. There exists a decided opposition to Hoffman in this city and throughout the State. The Western and Central democracy of New York do not like expensive and extravagant administrations. They see that the enormous taxation in the city, under the administration of the Tammany ring, with Hoffman as its re- presentative, is increasing from year to year. They do not desire to have a similar system of extravagance carried into the State govern- ment. Hence it is no matter of surprise that there should be a smashing up of the old grasp- ing Tammany democracy and a reconstruction of the real New York democracy upon a broad, liberal, economical and safe basis. The democratic organs here are already divided and afford evidence how the disruption is spreading among the party. Belmont, Barlow and the rest of that clique represent the World or Hoffman-Tammany wing. Brick Pomeroy and his friends represent the red-hot, indepen- dent wing. Dana and others represent the neutral squad, and it is probable they will hold the strings of the purse that will furnish the cash ammunition to carry on the campaign. In this dilemma the Convention at Albany on Wed- nesday will have an interesting and important sinesa to perform. Selecting between the candidates named, the delegates will have to choose either Mr. Church, a first rate man from the interior, one of the good old Silas Wright school and uncontaminated by the cor- ruptions of the Tammany ring; Mr. Murphy, a good man, who has the strength of Kings county with the city of Brooklyn at his back; Mr. Cassidy, of Albany, who is a very good man and would make a fair candidate were it not for some few impediments, and Mr. Hofl- man, the tool and personification of the Tam- Many ring, reeking as it is with its foulness, corruption, extravagance and perfidy. Here is alist from which the delegates have to choose, But 60 faras we ourselves are con- cerned we assert that we shall cheerfully sup- port Church if nominated, Murphy if nominat- ed, Cassidy if nominated; but in no case nor under any circumstances, whether nominated or not,. whether elected if nominated or not, shall we support Hoffman, The Albany Convention have the opportunity to increase the democratic majority in the | State from fifty to one hundred thousand if | they adopt the proper policy. Let us see | whether they have or have not the sense to | 1 do ad Theatrical and Musical Glimpses. Mr. Mapleson has leased the Academy of Music, and we are to see the great experiment | of Italian opera tried once more. Some names have been given, by authority, Perhaps, as in- dicating the character of the company. {t sometimes happens that the mere mention of the names of the artists assures the success of & proposed season; but the names we hear in | connection with Mr. Mapleson’s adventure are not the ones from which we expect that mira- cle. Tietjens, for instance, is an artist well past her prime, and she takes an important placo in the list. Opera, to succeed here, must stand on its merits—not on the fashionable fact that it is opera, nor yet on the tradition of names. We have very little of the society that will go to the opera simply because every one else goes. Our people go for the music and will go con- stantly if the voices are of the first class; but if these are indifferent they will stay away very handsomely after one or two nights, With voices of indifferent quality Mr. Maple- son cannot surmount the difficulties he will find inhis way. The first and greatest of his difficulties will be the same old trouble with the stockholders that has proved so ruinous to many former attempts to make opera pay in the Academy. By the system of securing to themselves all the best places in the house the stockholders from the first step put the man- ager and the company in a false posi- tion before the public; for they om through this arrangement to deprecate the very presence of the people by putting them in out of the way corners and never giv- ng them a chance for a front seat on any terms. This system originated in the vanity and folly of people who wanted to make them- selves exclusive centres of fashionable society. People who want to be supreme in the pitiful rivalries of fashionable life are very apt to fancy there can be no better way of proving superiority than by looking down on their neighbors from the best places at the theatre. It was to secure this triumph, so inexpensive of brains and so cheap even in a money point of yiew, that there was set up an aristocracy of the front seats. In London the opera ia the scene of aristocratic display, so it is in Paris, so it is in St. Petersburg; therefore, says your fumbler of shoddy, if we are always seen in the best seats at the opera we shall be the best people. The very attempt in this direc- iion has been an incubus on the Academy from the commencement. It is the mass that pays. Managers must count upon the people in a country where aristocratic distinctions are simply laughable nonsense. Mr. Mapleson might get some hints on this subject from .an unfortunate manager who labored strenuously in the Academy, but is now, thanks to the stockholders, endeavoring to establish Black Hawk opera somewhere out West—in Omaha, perhaps. Maretzek was the best manager they ever had in the Academy. He understood the people’ here reasonably well—certainly better than Mapleson can; but the stockholders brought him to prairie opera and other horrors that we scarcely dare dwell upon, the least of which may be a Sioux prima donna. He will be equal to such facts as a Sioux prima donna anda tenor of the Chey- ennes, but he was not equal to the glorious company of the stockholders, every one holding up the tickets for his little list of front seats. We only hint that this former manager may tell Mapleson how real and great is this first difficulty. Another important point in the case is the lively opposition of other entertainments, Mapleson will have to take the field against great odds in managers experienced in the ways and whimsof the metropolitan public. Grau is the greatest of these, and Bateman is scarcely less active and sagacious. Pike looms behind all, a manof indomitable energy, but as yet without a history indicating other quali- ties. It is not to be supposed that these man- egers, having the field and understanding it, will leave many lapses for Mapleson. They will keep the public eye filled and the public fancy busy. Men who gave us last year such attractive entertainments as the Ristori series and the opéra bouffe have other pleasures in store, and Mapleson will be a wonder indeed if he can revivify Italian opera in the city. Scientific Conventions, Some few of the scientific men of this country and a good many peddlers in science have been holding conventions of late at various points with the avowed intention of enlightening somebody on grave matters of science. There has been a convention at Northampton, Mass., where the master mind of the country in this branch, Professor Agassiz, was to have been present but was not. Here they discussed such subjects as the de- rivations of uric acid, the vegetation of the Rocky Mountains, alphabetic systems as a test of races, a general method of developing the real roots of equation, human bones found at Antelope station on the Pacific Railroad, and other subjects equally abstruse; but we do not notice that these wise conventionists, who do not seem to rise above the low level of a Loomis, have touched upon the various phe- nomena which have occupied public attention for the past year or two. They do not tell us anything about the different meteors which have from time to time illumined the heavens and created vague speculations as to their origin and course. Nothing about Encke’s famous comet occupied their attention. The earth- quakes which have visited the West India islands and the islands of the Pacific; the tidal phenomenon in Sonthern California, which caused the waves to rise sixty-four feet above high water mark every thirty minutes for sev- eral hours, to the great alarm of the inhabit- ants; the eclipse of the sun, which left a large portion of Asia and Africa in utter darkness-—none of these events appear to have claimed the attention of these learned scien- tific conventions either at Northampton or Chi- cago, although these are the very questions about which the world is most interested and for the solution of which people look to the wisdom of science as it is supposed to be rep- resented in conventions of this kind, For one man who cares about the constitution of uric acid there are twenty thousand who would like to know something about the cause of the slate earthquakes, meteoric displays and tidal phenomena. , The subjects discussed at these scientific conventions may bs very entertaining to the muddleheads collected there, but they are of yery little gervigg 49 the public, The eouven- | tendered his resignation, till he can obtain a tion in Chicago reached the absurdity of | making every inhabitant of the city, from the barkeeper to the collegian, a member of that august body, no matter whether the new member's capacity lay in mixing fancy drinks or developing some new idea in astronomy or some novel thesis in physics. We do not know whether the | object of this liberality in disbursing mem- | bership was to render more people liable to | assessment in order to pay the expenses of the convention, but it seems entirely outside of the routine and beneath the dignity of a grave scientific body. If people claiming to be men of sciagce can do no better for the progress of | sociéty and the advance of popv’1r knowledge than is accomplished in these conventions we have little to hope from their experience, They might all as well be as stupidly dogmatic, or as dogmatically stupid, as the unhappy Loomis. A scientific convention is supposed to be and ought to be composed of men of mind, thoroughly acquainted with the subjects brought before them; but the assemblages which have recently been got together here under that name are mere pretensions and are entitled to no regard at all. Senator Wilson on the Stump—A Sledge- Hammer Speech. Senator Wilson, asa stump speaker, is a mighty man in Israel. His late effort at Ban- gor, Maine, was a sledge-hammer speech. It is the condensed milk of Greeley’s two ponderous volumes on ‘‘The Amerigan Conflict.” It gives us a graphic picture of the decline and fall of the pro-slavery democratic party and of the causes and consequences of the slaveholders’ rebellion, appropriately beginning with poor Pierce. The speaker reminds us that in his first message to Congress Pierce gave his pledge that the repose of the country should receive no shock during his official term, and the orator then enlarges upon the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as the fatal shock to the domineering, slavery-propagating democratic party. He dwells upon the ominous border ruffian conflict in Kansas, which may be called the bloody overture of the great rebellion, and he reproduces the Southern and democratic threats of disunion, secession and civil war in the event of Fremont’s election in 1856. He reproduces the promises of Northern democrats to Southern revolutionists in 1860 and 1861, the political events which marked the begin- ning of the war and its progress to the end, including the various forms and shapes of Northern democratic opposition to Congress, the administration, the army and the loyal masses of the North while engaged in the work of suppressing the Southern rebellion, and in all this to the close of the war the his- torical sketch of the political issues, parties and conflicts involved is not only exceedingly like the flattening of a piece of red-hot iron with a sledge-hammer by rapid blows well laid on, but it is substantially true. But upon the issues and conflicts which havo arisen since the war, and especially upon the great underlying and overshadowing issues of this Prefidential contest, Mr. Wilson ceases in a great degree to give us the truth of history and deals too largely in the assumptions and conclusions of the mere party politician for a clear exhibit of the political situation. \He tells us that the Southern rebel elements were predominant in the late Democratic National Convention, and he undertakes to prove from Northern and Southern democratic stump speeches that the whole party, rank and file, | under the sway again of their old Southern leaders, are in this campaign simply fighting to revive and establish ‘‘the lost cause” of the Southern confederacy. In this presentation of his case Mr. Wilson makes the most of the abundant capital furnished by such intractable and hopeless fire-eaters as the rebel Generals Forrest, Albert Pike, Henry A. Wise and Wade Hampton, and the unlucky rebel Admiral Semmes; but still the great Massachusetts stumper in Maine does not meet the great issues of this canvass. x What are they? They are the great issues arising from the measures and the policy de- veloped by Congress since the war. The people have the heavy burden to bear of an enormous national debt; they are taxed by the national government to the extent of four or five hundred millions year to meet current expenses and the interest on the debt, the principal, of which remains, and promises to remain, an undiminished burden for years to come under the powers that be. Corrup- tions, spoliations and revenue frauds by mil- lions alarm the country and excite the wrath of the taxpayers, and they are casting about for a change. So with the reconstruction of the rebel States. White disfranchisements and universal negro suffrage have brought about such confusion in the States concerned that there is no prospect that those govern- ments can be maintained as restored by Con- gress except by a standing army. Nor can the republican party justly demand that the white people of Georgia shall submit with- out complaint to this policy of universal negro suffrage which Congress dare not attempt to enforce in New York, Pennsylvania or Ohio. Then, again, in addition to high taxes, are the high prices of living, the com- parative stagnation of business and the general distrust on all sides of the party in power. Admitting that Seymour is a poor stick for President and that Blair, in returning to the democratic camp, has become a fire-eater, has not Mr. Wilson heard once or twice before this in his experience the significant popular cry of “anything for a change?” and has he not seen something of the consequences? We would admonish him that the questions of the war are not the questions which wil determine the general result of this canvass, but that it will turn upon the great questions which have arisen since the war, and which directly affect every man’s interests and every man’s pocket, North and South. Deapiock IN Tie INrernaL Revexce Dr- PARTMENT.—Our radical Congress has brought the departments of the government, and par- ticularly the Treasury Department, into a pretty state of confusion, dificulty and irresponsibility. Tho deadlock between Mr. Rollins, the Com- missioner of Internal Revenue, and Mr. McCul- | loch shows the demoralization of the govern- ment under radical legislation. Mr. Rollins will not give up his place, though he has successor of a thorough radical stripe like him- | self, and neither Mr, McCulloch nor the Presi- | deat can rem Tuere is no head to the o hin, government and no one upon whom responsi- bility can be fixed. The consequence is shame- ful insubordination and disorganization, and | in all probability there will result from this | Rollins and McCulloch difficulty enormous frauds and losses in the revenue. The radical |, party in thus destroying the legitimate powers of the Executive and demoralizing the govern- ment shows itself utterly unfit to govern the country, The New Treaty with Canada. Mr. Secretary Seward and Minister Thorn- ton, Ambassador of Queen Victoria to the United States, have, as we are informed from Washington, opened an official correspondence preliminary and with the view to the negotia- tion and perfection of a new reciprocity treaty between the American people on the one part and the British Crown, on behalf of the confederated colonists, on the other. General Butler, in his capacity of chairman of a Congressional committee, was embarked the other day on board a revenue cutter at one of the New England village ports—where the event produced quite a sensation—and steamed off for Prince Edward Island, charged to endeavor to arrange for a more friendly haul and ready barter of codfish and herrings be- tween the Gloucester fishermen, the Boston shopkeepers and the liege subjects of her Majesty. From such intelligence and fact we infer that the United States government is, at a most serious and difficult moment in the history of our home politics and internal affairs, aboutto tack the dead weight of a con- sideration of the Anglo-Canadian secession entanglements, with the annoyances of a Cabi- net treatment of the petty jealousies and make- shift policy of the North American Dominion, to its own peculiar executive embarrassments— an official undertaking which must be regarded as unnecessary, unwise and likely to be profit- less as it is certain to be thankless in result. In England the Crown has become convinced that the menacing situation which exists in Nova Scotia, as well as the independent atti- tude which the majority of the inhabitants of that province maintain towards the parent authority, is due to the fact that there exists no treaty of, reciprocity in trade between them- selves and the United States, and that the nakedness and poverty of the colonial position per se become more and more apparent each day from the want of the profits—all on one side—which accrued under the instrument which lapsed lately by expiry of limitation. To Mr. Disraeli and the English Cabinet this view presents matter for serious consideration, and there is no doubt but that the Premier instructed Mr. Thornton to apply to Secretary Seward to lend him a hand in his endeavor to ‘‘pull through” the crisis, and that Mr. Seward has responded favorably. This we regard as a misdirection of feeling, ifnot a grave error of judgment, on the part of the American Secretary. With respect to the condition of affairs in Canada we have no sym- pathy with Mr. Seward in any attempt to re- lieve England from her colonial troubles. We do not want to get her out of the repeal agita- tion in Nova Scotia. We do notrequirean Anglo- imperial dominion on our border. Twelve years ago aleading London journal, controlled at the time by the late Lord Palmerston, sent forth an editorial prophecy, supposed to be from the pen of that eminent statesman, to the effect that the day was not distant when Canada, so far from being absorbed by the United States, would become the centre of rule for the whole American Continent. As an offset to this hope and in dissipation of a long cherished British idea we say, let the principle of colonial disintegration just evolved in Nova Scotia extend and progress to its legitimate conclusion, and permit the free annexation of all or any one of the provinces to the Union to result from,the solution. Mr. Seward permits his official opportunities to pass. He has accomplished nothing in re- gard tothe Alabama claims payment, but is, on the contrary, likely to play into the hands of Britain in an attempt to help her out of her dominion troubles by treaty negotiations, sup- ported, it may be, by Congressional resolu- tions. Did Great Britain afford comfort or aid to the American Union in the dark days of its difficulty? The ‘‘belligerent” recognition of Lord Russell, the Alabama, the Bahamas blockade runner station, guns, food and ammunition for the Southern armies, make the reply. Did England ever confeder- ate peoples or territory but with an eye to the future aggregation of new dominion to the more solid centre? Never. Why, then, should we encourage her policy at our own doors? There remains one certain cure for the Cana- dian situation, one remedy for Anglo-Canadian border smuggling, one anodyne for Nova Scotian discontent. It is annexation to the United States. The colonists will take the remedy if Doctor Seward will only stand aside and permit them. The Muddle in the South. The Southern States are in a terrible muddle about the status of the negroes and their present and futyre political condition. There are, in fact, in these questions the germs of social disorder and civil disturbances. The radicals, having an overwhelming power in Congress and over the policy of the President, have made extraordinary efforts to establish negro suprémacy in the South. This was not from any particular regard for the negroes, but to obtain the negro vote as a balance of political power and to carry the Presidential lection through that. Nothing has been left undone that could be done to accomplish this object. But the signs of the times indicate that both the Northern radicals and their allies—the radical carpet-baggers in the South—have outwitted and over-reached themselves, The conservative white peo- ple of the South have seen the neces- sity of earnest and immediate action, and are taking an unexpected control in political affairs, A large portion of the nogroes are going with them. This has aroused the fears and hostility of radical and carpet-bag men in that section, The white people of the South, though many of the most intelligent of them are disfranchised, have as- sumed the position that the mass of the negroes are incapable of understanding or exercising political privileges, and that the welfare of their country demands the controlling influence of the superior intelligence of the whites, To this many of the negroes are yielding and | Going with the whito peg le in gpite of the | wit rr ne ef patsy radicals or prejudice of race. Ia pepe i Pipa has been carried so far as . exclusion of negro representa- tives from the Legislature as ineligible. Every- where, indeed, this same conteat of race, stimulated by radical politicians, is looming up ina fearful manner, threatening the peace of the country, Under this state of things we see that the radicals of the South are appealing to their friends of the North to have an extra session of Congress in September, with a view, doubt- less, to disfranchise all the Southern States and to exclude them from voting in the Presidential election. Most of these States have been reconstructed and restored, with the belief and expectation that they would go with ” the radicals; but now, when there is a doubt of that, the Southern radicals want to deprive them of their vote. It is yet to be seen whether Congress will accede to their wish and reas- semble in September for this political object. On the other hand, we learn from the utter- ances of General Lee and other Southern chiefs that they and their people only desire harmony and national union; that the radicals of both the South and North have misrepre- sented them and their object, and that they are well aware their present and future welfare is inseparably connected with the Union and the interests of the whole republic. General Lee and the rest, however, are in favor of a white man’s government, while they would give to the negro equal protection under the law and every opportunity to rise in social and political life, On the whole there is a great muddle and the prospect of a conflict in the South between the radicals and negroes, who combine with them, and the. conservatives, who aro intent on establishing a white man’s govern- ment in the Southern States, The coming elections in the North will decide which party shall be successful; for the fate of the South rests with the North. The Presidential and Congressional elections will determine whether we are to have negro supremacy and anarchy in the South or a white man’s govern- ment and peace. AMUSEMENTS. No More “Foul Play” at the Broadway Theatre. The Broadway theatre is closed, and now but one theatre in the city monopolizes all that there is of “Foul Play.” In consequence of the refusal yester- day on the part of Judge Barnard to remove the in- junction which had been granted on Wednesday last against the drama of “Foul Play” as performed at the Broadway theatre, that establishment was com- pelled to keep its doors closed last evening, and its patrons were obliged to solace themselves by finding amusement elsewhere. It was not known until late in the afternoon that the injunction could not be re- moved; too late, in fact, to admit of another play being substituted for the one under the ban. As the company had been engaged to perform in that particular piece and coul not be brought together until about a quarter of an hour before the usual time for raising the curtain, 1t was deemed advisable by the manager not to open the house, as it would be impossible to give a first class performance, such as has always characterized this theatre, on so short a notice; therefore it was that hundreds of our amusement loving citizens last evening were doom to disap- ointment. The house would undoubtedly have been crowded to excess had it been open, for long after the customary hour had arrived for commencing the performance hundreds of people continued to flock to the theatre in carriages, in omnibuses and afoot, only to find the great lamps in, front of the house, as black as Erebus, and the tron” railing that any the entrance to the vestibule locked and bolted. ‘the theatre will remain closed until Mon- day evening, when Mrs, General, Lander, the great tragedienne will appear in the rdle of Mary Stuart, in the play of that name. Musical and Theatrical Notes. Mme. Amelie Strakosch (sister of Adelina and Car- lotta Patti) is to make her début as a contralto at the Italian Opera House in Paris. Mme. Anna Bishop has arrived in Melbourne in the course of a professional tour through the Austra- lian colonies, Since the demise of the “Black Cri and “White Fawn” in Chicago the theatres of that moral (?) city have been compelled to alter their programmes every night. Another lady in London has recently become the lessee of a theatre. Miss Amy Sedgwick has taken the Marylebone; thextre, hitherto devoted to melodrama. The lady has renamed it the Royal Alfred theatre. Representations of a more iegitimate nature will, it is said, now be introduced at that establishment. ‘The début of a Mile. Rouyére is looked forward to as likely to supply another prima donna to the French stage. M. Mermet, the composer of “Roland h Rongevaux,” has selected Mile. Hisson to be Jeanne d’Arc in his new opera, now in preparation. Bryants’, the San Francisco and Keily & Leon's minstrel conipanies have one and all undergone a thorough “reconstruction” during the present sea- son, and their main object and aim now seems to be to elevate the tone and standing of minstrelsy in this city. In this we wish them ail success, for their labors here cannot otherwise than have a good effect throughout the entire country. They have of late all shown @ marked improvement in the style and quality of their entertainments and fn the manner of mounting and bringing out their laughable after- jieces, Which, by the way, are to be produced in a tter style this Season than heretofore. The National theatre, of Washington, opens on Monday next with a company whose names are in most cases familiar to New Yorkers. Among those el are Mr. Claude Hamilton, Mr. William Davidge, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Geot Stoddart, Misa Alice Gray, Str. Mordaunt, Mr. Richard Young, and there is talk alao of Mrs. James Dickson and of EiMe Germon joining the company. “Ours” will be the 0) ning play, which will be followed by the “Biack Crook," after which the Richt Opera Troupe wilt favor the Washi mians for two weeks, and will depart thence for Richmond, Reily & Leon's Minstrels will open in their “recon- structed” hail with a reconstructed com on Monday atin a with their new burlesque en- titled the “Bar-Ber-Blu.? This burlesque is said to be extravagantly funny, and is the work of Mr. Leon, Who will himself play the part of Builyette, and whose imitation Mle, Irma promises to be one of the great features of the piece. It will be given in @ style entirely new to the minstrel stage, with a soneay and orchestra numbering over sixty persons. The muste of the original “Barbe Bleue’? Will be strictly adhered to, and the dresses will be closely copied from those worn by the artiste in the opera bouffe at Niblo’s Garden. ‘The San Francisco Minstrels are likewise preparing themselves for a grand splurge on Monday evening, and have been for weeks busily employed in fitti up their neat hali, in order to receive their frien with éclat upon that occasion. Their large temple has been completely renovated from floor to ceiling, the auditorium recarpeted, new scenery placed upon the and additional talent added to the already strong troupe. ‘The new musical burietta of “Barber Brown, or the Pacific Sloper,” written expressly for this ee , Will be the principal attraction on the ope ning night Mr. jark Lemon, the editor of Punch, and ac- knowledged to be one of the most accomplished theatrical artists out of the profession, has been tn- duced to undertake a series of representations of @ novel character. Some time in Octover he will ap- pear before a London audience as the Sir John Fal- staff of the first of the Shakspearian Maire in which that personage is introduced. He will give, in ap- propriate costume, the principal scenes in which Fal- staf appears, and he will have such aid from subor- dinate performers aud stage accessories as may be necessary fo complete the picture. id Mr. Bateman’s extra troupe of opira bouge artists wil leave this city to-day for Montreal, where they open on Monday evening with tie “Grande Duclesse.” Among the principal mem! of this company are Miles. Toswe, mibelé and Rose, and Mesara, Decré, Leduc, Lagtiifoul, Du- chesne, Hamilton, Daron’and Gwidon. They Mi perform in Montreal for one Week, and the coe le ng seven days will be divided between. © ng ‘Toronto and Hamilton, | This will suffice for Catiada. and the bis will then cross over to x “4 in nd will open at the Crosby Opere t “wd a Chicago on the 14th of September, x YY tney will remain for two weeks. ee 4 visit Milwaukee and St Touts, ois Biter two weeks ‘in the latter city; hy gatives where they wiil delight and astonish the i for two weeks also, and. then will drop in at Louisville for one week, aftet winich they Will wheel apaut and . an will then return home to this ote get rand will fqaugurate join both his companl ana seenon OP opera nouge at Pike's ra a on the 7th of Oct . This evening M.,tholer wil play Popolani in of M. Duchesne; Mr. Bene. dick Will appear as Count Oscar in place of M, La. griffoul ar HP stile. Marie will play the Princess in lace of Mile. Lambel’. The chorus#in “Barbe Bleac* ai pe diminished, A full chorus aad orcheswa, ma part of tl Velling companys will not