The New York Herald Newspaper, September 1, 1868, Page 6

6 —— ane NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. @ JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXIII. "AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—ELizabe1n, QUEEN oF ENGLAND. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18h street. Fine Fry. NIBLO'S GARDEN.—Barbe BLEUE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—LIFB IN THE STREBTS— FALse Co1oRs. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Fou. Piay. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humprr Domprr. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—DUEE ALoRECHT, . BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th strect, ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, £0. MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.--ETiHi0- ELLY & LE! ae BURLESQUE, &0.—BARBEK Biv. TIAN MINSTRELS’ INSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—PTHI0- SINGING, DANCING, dc. SAN FRANCISCO PIAN ENTERTAUNM TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comio. VOOALISM, NEGRO MINKTRELSY, 4c. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broatway.—THP GReat ORI ONAL LINGARD AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY, UM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and 's soe aMternoon and evening Performance, Broadway. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Soventh avenue.—PorvuLaR GanpEn Concent. OPERA HOU! HooLry’s C1nou! , Brooklyn.—Hooey's New York, Tuesday, September 1, HSB NBWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes terday evening, August 31, The Queen of Spam asks Napoleon's ald to sup- port her dynasty if assailed in a European war, Spain protecting the Pope. Farragut’s sailors cheered for the * United States and Russia” lately, on board the Franklin, off Constantinople, and the demonstra- tion attracts diplomatic attention. Prince Napoleon is yachting on the German coast. The Spanish Min- ister in Rome resigned. The election excitement was quite animated in Ireland, Mr. Mason Jones being peremptorily rejected as a liberal candidate on ac- count of his Garibaldian sympathies, The yacht Sappho challenges the English yacht Aline. The fight for the championship of England is ‘oft vy arrest of Allen, Cnsols 93%, money, Five-twenties, 72 in London and 7544 a 75% in Frankfort. Cotton firm, with middling uplands at 1144. Breadstuf’s upward. Provisions quiet. MISCELLANEOUS. We have special correspondence from China, dated at Shanghae and Hong Kong on the Mth of Juiy, and Tieatsin, on the Peiho, June 28, Complaints are being made of irregularity in the trips of the Pacific Maii Company's steamers. Gold and silver mines have been discovered in the neighborhood of the open port of Chefoo. Some excitement had been occasioned thereby, and about ten thousand China- men had gone to work them, The new coal mines in the north are still closed to foreigners, and J. Ross Browne's arrival was anxiously looked for in tne hope that he would prevail upon the authorities to have them opened. The steamship Benares was wrecked and lost on the 23d of May. Three Ameri- cans had been appointed in the civil service, The British steamship Algerine recently engaged ten jurks, supposed to be manned by pirates, and after a severe raking they were run into shoal water and beached. It was ulimately proven that they were not pirates but legitimate merchant vessels. Our letiers from Japan are dated at Yokahama, July 25, and Hioga Bay June 26, Hostilities bad been resumed with vigor. The Mikado’s adherents, afer capturing Jeddo, had burned nearly a third of it. Three large armies opposing them were in the field, one at Osaca, another at Kioto and the third daily expected at Jeddo. The fuctuations in the money market were seriously affecting business, and government had decreed that a dollar should have the value. of three boos. This arrangement, however, Was not working satisfactorily. A rowiag match took Place between a crew of the United States steamer Oneida and a crew of the British steamer Zebra, off Hioga, iu which the Americans won the race of two miles by one hundred yards, winning alsoa trophy in the shape of a‘champion chicken cock. ‘The race was repeated afterwards with the same result. Our Mexico city letter is dated Angnst 15. It was reported that Mr. Altimirano will be appointed Min- ter to the United States. Five new bishops of the Catholic Church and one new archbishop had been appointed by the Pope for Mexico. Charez, the famous robber, bad disbanded his gang and applied for pardon and absolution. Some alarm existed in Monterey at a report that Quiroga was over the Rio Grande with an organization of filibusterera, armed with Lienry General Ampudia is dead. Senator Fessenden was warmly welcomed in Port- land, Me., last evening. He made a speech to a large mass meeting, in which he touched upon his action in the impeachment trial and also upon his experience in the Treasury Department. He said that he had issued the seven-thirties redeemable in paper, with the privilege of taking the bonds, and as ‘Secretary of the Treasury he had promised the people the principal should be paid in gold. The Tammany Democratic County Convention was heid at Tammany Hall yesterday and chose delegates to the State Convention, which meets in Albany to- morrow. The delegates were instructed to vote solidly for John T. Hoffman as the candidate for Governor. The Mozart Committee met in their hall last evening and appointed a committee of seven to present an address to the State Convention. The reports of rebellion among the Paragnayan troops are denied by letters from parties in that country. The South Carolina Legislature talk of adjourn- ment, The Governor has issued a circular disap. proving of atmed organizations aud of the introduc- tion of arms into the State, The village of Sunnidale, on the Northern Ratl- way, in Canada, caught fire from a burning forest on Saturday and was entirely destroyed, Other vil- jages are threatened, as the dres in the woods are still burning. Lord Monck is to be retained for some months longer as Governor General of Canada. & The Saengerfest commenced tn Pittsburg last even- jog by ® grand procession and a reception by the Mayor, at which Governor Geary made aspeech. It promises to be the greatest musical festival ever held in the State, The rolling stock of the Virginia and Tennessce Ratiroad has been levied upon in execution of debts amounting to $8,000. In the Loulsiana Senate yesterday Jewell, a white democratic member, was ousied to make room for Pinchbeck, @ radical mulatto. The individual on whose aMdavit Jewell was ousted swore to frauds in his election, but afterwards took it all back and said he had been bribed. The Georgia Senate lias passed resolutions author- izing the Governor to disband armed associations throughout the State. The debate on the proposi- tion to turn out the negro inembers Was continued, Mr. Sims, free man of color, intimating that the question if pressed would precipitate war. The Captain General of Cuba, at the solicitation of Secretary Seward, has pardoned two American sail ors charged with murder at Nuevitas. A railroad train in Lowell yeaterday came rushing round a curve inte a crowd of boys on a bridge, kill ing two of them tn: tly. A lock on the Brie canal, eight miles from Albany, gave way on Sunday night, and a boat and her cargo were aerlously damaged. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET, ———. 4 gas explosion occurred in the Mint at Philadel- Phia yesterday, by which three persons were se- riously injured, one of them, it is thought, fatally. Henry Ward Beecher has declared himself for Grant, and says that to vote for him is an honor that Will not happen twice in a lifetime, and young men cannot well afford to throw away the chance. The inquest in the fatal blasting casualty, which resulted in the death of Patrick Ronan on the 25th of July, was concluded yesterday, The jury censure the contractors for carelessness and deprecate the use of the patent safety powder. The remaining three Deputy Sheriffs who were concerned in the Broadway theatre affray were released on bail yesterday in the amount of $15,000 each, A number of whiskey distilleries in this city, which have suspended operations by order of the revenue ofMcers for the last few months, recom- menced business yesterday under the new law. ° The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Hammonia, Captain Meier, will leave Hoboken ttwo P.M. to-day forSouthampton and Hamburg. Phe mails for Europe will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The stock market was dull and heavy yesterday, and Erie declined to 4534. Government securities were quiet. Gold closed at 144% a 144%. Beef cattle were quiet freely sought after and com- manded an advance of 1c. a 1c. per lb, The num- ber on gale was only moderate, being 2,169 head, of which* the average quahty was fair. Prime and extra steers were sold at 16},c.a 17}¢., the latter an outside price; fair to good, 16c. a 1634c.; ordinary, 1éc, & 15¢., and inferior, lic. a13c. Milch cows were slow of sale, but unchanged in value. We quote extra $100 @ $110; prime, $90 @ $95; fair to good, $75c. a $85; common, $60 a $70, and inferlor, $40 a $55. Veal calves were in steady demand at 111sc. a 12c. for extra, 10%c. a lic. for prime, 9c. a 10c. for com- mon to good, and 71;c, a 8%sc. for inferior. Sheep were in demand and quite steady at 6%c. a 7c. for extra, 6c. a 63¢c. for prime, 4\c. a 5c. for common to good, and 8c. a 4}sc. for inferior. Lambs were in fair demand at 734¢. a 8%4c, Swine were in good re- qnest and higher, prime selling at 114c. a 11 15-16; fair to good, 10),¢. @ 11¢., and common and inferior, 9c. A 10%, The total receipts for the week were 4,967 beeves, 148 milch cows, 1,447 veal calves, 31,458 sheep and lambs, and 15,242 swine. Governor Church on the SituationA States« manlike Speech. By far the ablest speech of the present cam- paign was listened to by the democracy of Schuyler county on Wednesday last and was delivered by Sanford E. Church, of Orleans, the candidate of the New York delegation in the National Democratic Convention for Presi- dent of the United States. Its earnest, cour- teous tone and comprehensive views stamp its author as one of the first statesmen of the North, and it stands out in bolder relief at this time by reason of the background of violence, vulgarity and stupidity with which the canvass had previously been disfigured. The recent speech of Senator Wilson was good in its way, and a decided improvement upon the efforts of the other stump orators on both sides who have thus far made themselves prominent in the campaign; but it-was after all nothing more nor less than a partisan argument, spe- ciously and shrewdly managed, but designed rather to confuse the intellect and blind the eyes of its hearers than to present to them a fair, clear statement of facts and to enlist their judgment in favor of its conclusions. It is correct to say that Senator Wilson made an able special plea for the radical party. It would be incorrect to say that Governor Church delivered a good democratic speech. Tie reviews in a statesmanlike manner the events which preceded and which have fol- lowed the great rebellion, and shows by facts and figures the evils of radical misrule since the final victory of Grant over Lee; but he refuses to pervert facts for party purposes, and wisely refrains from any of those fulsome laudations of the democratic candidate for the Presidency in which the stump orators of his party so indiscreetly indulge. In fact, it is clear from the whole tone of his argument that Governor Church thoroughly understands the sentiment of the country, and is aware that if the democratic cause is to triumph in this election it must triumph through the errors and crimes of radicalism and in spite of a weak, inexpedient and unfortunate nomina- tion. He testifies to Seymour's pure and spot- less private life, as he testifies to Grant's ser- vices to his country and fitness for the position he at present occupies at the head of the army of the United States. But he suffers Seymour's political record during the war to offset Grant's intrigue with radicalism since the peace, and dismisses both with a paragraph, while devot- ing the body of his long address to a close analysis of the political situation and an appeal founded upon reason rather than rhetoric for a change in the policy of the nation. If anything could have checked the tide of reaction which last year set in 60 strongly against the radical policy of Congress it would have been the nomination of Horatio Seymour and the outbreak of pent-up rebel sentiment North and South for which it was the signal note, when Wade Hampton, Vance, Forrest, Brick Pomeroy, Vallandigham and the rest of the active and passive secessionists first gave utterance to their boasts of a revival of the chivalry under the lead of Seymour. The people well understood that they spoke their honest sentiments, and they know now that all their subsequent humbleness and submission are only masks worn for the sake of expediency, No man understands this better than Governor Church, who was one of the first among the democratic leaders to recognize the wisdom of enlisting his party in the war for the restora- tion of the Union, and who united with the republicans in the western part of the State in making the war effective. He is, therefore, just the man to remedy the evil done by the obstinacy and stubbornness of the Democratic National Convention and by the foolish speeches of the copperhead leaders, and to bring back the minds of the people to the real issues and the living principles in- volved in the pending campaign. He performs his task well. Hedoes not hesitate to show that the assumption and violence of the South- ern politicians under the weak administrations of poor Pierce and Bnehanan destroyed the democratic party and plunged the nation into civil war, He admits the virtue and intelli- gence of the great republican party, and justi- fies its crusade against the extension of slave- ry—a crusade in which he proudly avows his sympathy as a follower of the free soil Van \ Buren party of 1848. He doos justice to Grant | as the great soldier of the Union, and declares that his views of restoration at the close of the safety of the nation may demand, and hence he indulges in none of the ordinary balderdash about arbitrary arrests, military despotism and the like. But he shows the evils that have re- sulted from the radical violence, bitterness and hate that have been suffered to run riot over the republican party from the day that Con- gress commenced its low abuse of the Presi- dent of the United States down to the time of the brutal assaults of the House of Represen- tatives upon the Senate after the failure of im- peachment, Those evils can be seen and felt by every man in the country. They show themselves at the South in a paralyzed pro- ductive industry, in a starving population, in the supremacy of the degraded and ignorant black race over the educated whites; in a form of government in conflict with the idea of free institutions. They show themselves at the North in a ruinous and increasing public debt, and in an enormous taxation that exceeds “the whole net productive industry of the country,” and is felt by the poor in ‘‘every cup of tea and coffee, every pound of sugar, every yard of cotton cloth, every pin, every needle, every match, everything they use, eat or wear.” Upon these facts Governor Church bases his appeal to the masses of the people, republican as well as democratic, to overlook the blunders and follies of party cohventions, the ravings of excited politicians, the objec- tionable character of candidates, and to unite in securing a reversal of the radical policy that has kept the nation in a state of turmoil and disruption during four years of peace; that has recklessly, for party purposes, placed political power in the hands of nearly a million of negroes just released from slavery, and that has nearly broken down the country under the burden of debt and taxation. The Democratic Convention which meets in Albany to-morrow will do well to study Goy- ernor Church’s speech, which was doubtless intended for their enlightenment, before they makg choice of their leader in the State cam- il It is essential at this time that the Governor of New York should be a statesman of broad and enlightened views and a strict econo- mist of the public money. Governor Church's address proves that he possesses the first qualifi- cation in an eminent dggree, while his course in the late Constitutional Convention estab- lishes the fact that he is a firm opponent of all schemes for depleting the State treasury under the guise of ‘Internal Improvements.” The friends of Senator Murphy, who is out of the field for the Governorship, should cast their votes and influence for Church and secure for themselves the second place on the ticket. Sanford E. Church and Henry C. Murphy— Orleans and Kings—would make a strong combination. More Southern Oratorical Violence. The redoubtable General Robert Toombs has been delivering a speech at a democratic bar- becue in Poik county, Georgia, which is ex- tolled in unmeasured terms by the sympathiz- ing democratic press of Georgia. The ad- dress, it seems, produced so profound an im- pression that o full report of it has been re- served for printing and circulation in pamphlet form asa campaign document. As soon as it appears the Northern radicals could not select more useful document for circulation in the North to make republican votes—that is, if the full report will bear any comparison with the brief abstract of the speech we have observed in the Atlanta Jntelligencer, democratic organ. We here find that, according to Brigadier Toombs, General Grant ‘‘has been proven a liar”"—that he was ‘‘a confessed traitor”"—that he ‘‘was guilty of lie the second to get out of lie the first,” &c. This language is but another evidence of the dangerous influences exerted upon Southern fire-eaters by the toadyism and flankeyism of Northern democrats in the Tammany Conven- tion. They were flattered until they were elevated to the seventh heaven of conceited bliss, and in the belief that they were nothing short of demi-gods, with an invincible army of Northern copperheads to back them, they returned South filled with ineffable ideas of their own intrinsic importance. It is no won- der, then, that among the return thunder we should hear the reverberations of their vaunt- ing the rebel flag, of their swearing by it, of their cherishing it in their heart of hearts, of their inciting the people of the South to the commission of fresh acts of violence toward Northern men resident among them, of a further persecution of the negroes, of a general jubilee in the belief that radi- calism was dead and done for, and the reign of the copperheads and.Southern fire- eaters sure to be restored. Among the first acts of Wade Hampton on his return was to utter @ panegyric upon a rebel flag which would have honored the orator amid a band of devoted followers in the palmiest days of the confederacy, We published a report of those remarks just as we found them in one of the Southern orator's own organs; and because we did so—and their effect in firing the North- ern heart was Instantancous, as if a lighted match had touched a magazine of powder, or as if Sumter had been again fired on—Hamp- ton ugdertook to take the back track, deny thelr authenticity and to charge the Heranp with falsehood. We reassert that we believe the report of his remarks to have been correct, and, furthermore, that he intended to follow them up. We had considered Wade Hampton one of the lights of the Southern chivalry—in fact the preux chevalier par excellence of the Simon Pure high-toned Southern arte! tie element. Alas! we find he is littic better than one of our common ward politicians, and entitled to but little more respect or con- sideration. ‘ The fact is, the people of the North and West and all sensible people in the South are dis- gusted with this violent ond revolutionary spirit of partisanship. It is true there are those in the North who may Jaugh at the vaporings of blathering old Bob Toombs, but that there are many in the South who regard him as an oracle is seen in the fact that they will use his late ill-bred and ill-tempered remarks about General Grant as an instra- ment to enlist votes for the democratic candi- dates, Therefore he can make trouble with- out knowing how to get himself or his friends war, as shown in the liberal terms he was anx- | out of it, We do not believe the candidates ious to accord to the South, were sound, atates- | on either side endorse or encourage this dis- , manlike and patriotic. He makes no pretence | that the constitution is not broad enough to protect the government from the arin of trea- son or to deal with conauered rebels ag the | creditable vituperation. We are sure they do not sanction violence on the part of their friends and champions. But whichever way the election mav vo. whichever party may be successful, we trust and believe there is good | Goneral sense enough among the people to give the incoming administration a thorough and united support, and that they will do this despite the revolutionary teachings of such spirits as Toombs, Wise, Hampton, Forrest, Semmes, on one side, or Wilson, Boutwell, Butler, Wendell Phillips and the rest on the other, New Financial Mission from England. The Scotia, now on her way to this country, was to bring Mr. James McHenry, who is well known here for his connection with the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad; Mr. Laing, amem- ber of Parliament and great financier and rail- road man; Sir William Russell and other gentle- men distinguished in the financial world and for their connection with grand enterprises. The object of this visit to America, it is said, is to revive the great enterprise with which Mr. McHenry, Sir Morton Peto and other British capitalists and railroad men were connected. They may, probably, have other objects in view as well, in which the redundantand unemployed capital of England may find profitable invest- ment. It will be remembered that in the financial storm that broke over England in 1866 Sir Mor- ton Peto, Mr. McHenry and others connected with the Atlantic and Great Western were overwhelmed by the disaster, and the rail- road had to be put in the hands of areceiver. About sixty millions of dollars were involved, and the bondholders and stock- holders became dreadfully alarmed for their capital. Mr. McHenry, who had the largest controlin the affairs of the road, was blamed at first by some of the bondholders, and a very lively discussion ensued. But time has shown that the collapse of the enterprise was caused by the circumstances of the period and that it was beyond the power of Mr. McHenry to pre- vent it. Upon reflection the bondholders have finally come to the conclusion that Mr. McHenry was not only blameless for the dis- aster, but that he actually by his ability saved the Atlantic and Great Western from utter wreck. The consequence is that he has been again sent out to the United States with the full confidence of those interested and with power to resuscitate the enterprise. The dis- tinguished gentlemen in his company are asso- ciated with him, probably, to carry out this object. The time for making this effort is far more favorable now than was the time for the enter- prise originally. The financial condition of England, as well as of this country, was un- sound and shaky then. Our war, begin- ning in 1861, had deranged the com- merce, channels of trade and finan- cial affairs of both countries, and even further, Everything was in an abnormal condition. Enterprises and financial dpera- tions rested upon no secure foundation, An unhealthy stimulus was given in one direction and a lack of confidence was found in another, The effect of this abnormal state of things continued till 1866, when over-speculation and a financial revulsion broke down the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad and many other enterprises, and with them Mr. McHenry, Sir Morton Peto and other capitalists. But that time has passed. The effects of the war are closing up; we are returning to a normat con- dition, and there is now a vast and safe field for the employment of foreign and home capi- tal. Some of our own prominent financial men of New York seeing this went to England and represented the facts to Mr. McHenry and others interested in the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. They comprehended the ar- guments made and the situation of affairs, and hence the new financial mission from England to which we have referred. Without entering into the difficulties con- nected with the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, or the plans of the British capital- ists and their agents who are coming here, we may safely say that there is no field or opportunity more favorable for enterprise or the investment of capital. The resources, natural wealth and development of the country are stupendous, All the capital of Great Britain could be employed here with a certainty of the largest returns. Every dol- lar invested creates new wants and carries an active and industrious population over fresh productive regions and further West. England has seen“almost the limit of produc- tion, and her superabundant capital either remains unemployed at home or brings only a low rate of interest. Here it would realize safely more than double or treble what it does there. The English have a positive plethora of capital and can only get about two or three per cent for it, while in the United States there is a demand for it in the safest and most legitimate enterprises at six, eight or more per cent. Yet we are only beginning to open the vast resources of the country. Our gold and cotton crops are a perennial surplus of two to three hundred millions of dollars a year for exportation, to say nothing of our surplus cereals, tobacco and other things, all independent of our own wants for home consumption. Very soon the Pacific Railroad will be completed, and this great artery of commerce from the Pacific to the Atlantic, together with the enormous trade opening with China, Japan and Asia generally, will develop wonderfully the interior railroad system and make the United States the centre and greatest commercial nation on the globe. Who, then, can doubt the wisdom of investing capital here? The coming of Mr. McHenry, Mr. Laing, Sir William Russell and their as- sociates at this particular and favorable time will, if we mistake not, be the means of en- lightening British capitalists on these extraor- dinary advantages and open the way for em- ploying the superabundant money of England. Tae Evecrion 1x Vermont To-Day.—The State election in Vermont occurs to-day. It is the opening gun of the campaign: but it is so heavily charged with republican powder that unless there be an unusual gain in the vote on either side the result will scarcely be felt in the succeeding elections, the first of which will be that in Maine on the 14th inst. The Vermont republicans expect to gain from 8,000 to 10,000 on their vote of last year, when their ticket received 51,694 against 11,510 for the democratic ticket. The repub- lican vote in Vermont ranges from 31,000 to 43,000, and the democratic from 11,000 to between 13,000 and 14,000, It will, there- fore, not require much figuring to decide by to-morrow which party in the Green Mountain Stuie is on the winning or the losing side, Question. The nine days’ wonder of the political mis- ston of General Rosecrans to the Virginia White Sulphur Springs has nearly run its course. It has already, in fact, ceased to be any wonder at all. The brilliant idea seized General Rosecrans of sounding the leading spirits of the late Southern confederacy in a White Sulphur conference (supposing that they had had enough of yellow sulphur), he thought the matter over, and, concluding to try the experiment, he went to the Greenbrier Springs, held the conference guggested and came away delighted with the’ results. He found Generals Lee, Beauregard and Echols, Alexander H. Stephens and company in an admirable frame of mind for peace -and har- mony in the Union as it is, provided the blacks of the South are removed to back seats in the political church; and ‘‘to this complexion it must come at last.” But a White Sulphur correspondent of Chicago paper says that General Rosecrans had a personal object in this adventure; that it was “‘to ‘interest the rebel officers in the Mexican schemes of his own backers ;” that “St is well known that-Rosecrans, as a profes- sional mining and military engineer, was con- firmed in the Mexican mission through the so- licitations of Marshall O. Roberts, George Wilkes, Henry J. Raymond, S. L. M. Barlow and other Mexican speculators in mines and territory” (including their territorial purchase, we presume, of Lower California and certain mines and railway privileges in Sonora and Chi- huahua); that, ‘denials notwithstanding, his mission to Mexico will probably be signalized by a more active interference in the affairs of that republic than we have taken since 1848,” when by that treaty of peace a piece of terri- tory was acquired which is now cut up into the States of California and Nevada and the Terri- tories of Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, with a considerable slice handed over to Texas, This Chicago philosopher further says that ‘‘the old dream of the South was extension southward”—which is true—and that ‘‘Rose- crans (in this view) means to grind an axe for Seymour and one for his employers at the same time,” and that with the Southern leaders in favor of Southern extension ‘‘the idea of the great party of empire conceived in the restless brain of W. H. Seward will then begin its second chapter and reach for a softer Alaska.” We have had various surmises, hints and conjectures from Washington that the instruc- tlons to General Rosecrans on his Mexican mission (on which, he has intimated, he will not set out before October) will embrace the programme above suggested—a partial cession of Mexican territory to the United States for favors received and favors to be promised on the Monroe doctrine—and that the schemes of certain speculators in Washington, New York and elsewhere in Mexican railways, expresses, telegraphs and other things are to be looked after in the reconstruction of our relations with Juarez as the head of the Mexican re- public, It is also probable that Mr. Seward, who seems never to have thoroughly under- stood the meaning, as applied to Mexico, of “manifest destiny,” is inclined to some such tinkering and patchwork as that charged upon Rosecrans. It is to be hoped, however, that President Johnson will strike out into a bolder line of action. We have had enough of Mexi- can patchwork treaties, and Mexico has had enough of Mexican revolutions and revolutionary factions. That unhappy country will never be quieted and her immense mineral and agri- cultural resources will never be developed until the “‘manifest destiny” of Mexico shall be accomplished with her absorption by the United States. General Scott in 1847-8 had a splendid opportunity for this absorption in the offer made him by a powerful committee of leading Mexican generals and politicians, but. he shrunk from the difficulty of fusing the negroes and mixed breeds of Mexico, on the basis of civil and political equality, with our Southern institution of negro slavery and the negro’s constitutional disabilities in the United States. That difficulty now is out of the way, and the mixed breeds of Mexico, with the annexation of the country, will become citizens on a foot- ing of equality without any further trouble. The Mexican States, too, once in the Union, would naturally in politics join our present Southern States; for their sectional interests would be the same. Here, then, in some- thing like a restoration of a sectional equi- librium in the government, we should have a new bond of sectional harmony. In every point of view, in fact, the true policy for President Johnson and the country is the ab- sorption of Mexico. The Right Candidate for Tammany. * If Tammany really desires to take posses- sion of the office of the State Executive she should put forth a real representative man. Hoffman is simply an ornamental Indian—a sort of made up, fancy article, which, like the work baskets, fans and satchels at Niagara and Saratoga, only take their Indian charac- ter from the aborigines who manufacture them and keep them for’ sale. Peter Bismarck Sweeny would be the most proper candidate for the nomination of Governor on the part of the Old Wigwam. He is the head and front of the organization and holds the reins of the city government in his hands, touching up his off leader “Dick,” his near leader ‘‘Bill” or his wheel horses ‘‘Mat" and ‘‘George” as his judgment as an old and experienced driver dictates. Besides, Peter Bismarck Sweeny, by voluntarily giving up to the city the per- quisites of the Chamberlain's office, alréady amounting to over one hundred thousand dollars, and eventually to form a fand of mil- lions, has proved himself to be a marvel among politicians and officeholders. His wonderful liberality was one of the principal causes of the fifty thousand democratic ma- jority last fall, and his name at the head of the ticket would be as strong as that of a bogus Indian would be weak. Bio Mike ar THR ConrrsstoxaL.—We publish to-day blathering Mike Connolly's confession of his past sina against St. Tam- many, has granted him absolution; and it aow only remains for the repentant sinner ta be admit- ted into the heaven of the City Registership, with ite fat fees of forty or f@ty thousand dot larsa vear, Amen eel We understand that Father Sweeny | Rosecrans and the Moxican France .aud the Peace of Europe. The great question which now agitates the public mind of Europe is whether the condi- tion of France and the spirit and conduct of the French government are compatible with the continued peace of that Continent, All French officials, from the Emperor downwards—not even excepting the reluctant and bellicose Marshal Niel—are crying out “peace.” Some of the journals follow the example of the gov- ernment and cry out with equal vehemence. Others of the journals, more cautious, taking their text from the Emperor's peace speech at Troyes, discover no casus belli in the present state of things, but restrain themselves from giving an opinion as to what may happen in the immediate future. * It is undeniable, looking at the entire situ- ation both within and without France, that a pretext for going to war might as easily ha been found by Napoleon any time since 1866 as at the present moment. No special provo- cation has been offered him since Bismarck snubbed him on the Rhine boundary question. He has been allowed to have his own way with Italy. If any one has questioned, at least no one has interfered with his policy. From a variety of causes the proud position of France among the nations of Europe—a _posi- tion from which it was supposed by many Sadowa had dethroned her—is being recog- nized more and more. All this is unques- tionably true; but it is at the same time a fact patent to all the world that the French govern- ment is uneasy, that a pretext for war is eagerly desired, and that the attitude of France towards at least one of her neighbors is an atti- tude which may without much impropriety be pronounced menacing. French officials and French journalists may disguise things as they please; English jour- nalists, honestly and earnestly desirous of peace, may remove the painful probability as far as they can into the indefinite future ; but the fact still remains that France is in that peculiar condition which justifies the conclusion that the peace of Europe is not secured. We are not disposed to pin our faith to the adage which is so flattering to Frenchmen—that when France is contented the nations have peace ; but we cannot in present circumstances resist the conviction that the French government, if not the French people, is so thoroughly discontented that pro- longed peace in Europe is impossible. We are not deceived by these cries of ‘‘peace.” They remind us only of the deceptive policy which is characteristic of the house of Bonaparte—a policy with which the first Na-’ poleon made the world familiar and in the use of which the present head of that house cannot be said to be unskilful. In spite of all that is said the great fact stares us in the face that France is prepared for war as she never was pre- pared before. Atno previous period, not even in the palmy days of the first empire, when the army was recruited from Italy, from the Tyrol, from Belgium, from Holland, from the Hanse Towns, as well as from France proper, was the army more numerous than now. When the first Napoleon set out on his disastrous expedi- tion to Moscow the army of France was esti- mated rather under than over one mil- lion two hundred thousand men. Europé had never before seen anything so mag- nificent. The armies of Charles the Fifth and of Charlemagne dwindled into insignifl- cance in comparison. It is a curious and not altogether insignificant fact that the third Na- poleon fs at the present moment at the head of one million two hundred thousand drilled persons, The standing army is little short of nine hundred thousand men ; and, according to the testimony of Marshal Niel, never was an army in better condition, more perfect at drill, more thoroughly equipped. What does this huge armament mean if it does not mean war? This state of things would be the less alarm- ing were it not known that the rebuff which Napoleon, and France through Napoleon, re- ceived at the hands of Count Bismarck at the close of the German war in 1866 is still pain- fully remembered. Nothing but the unpre- paredness of France to encounter victorious Prussia prevented war at that time. Now, therefore, that France is armed to the teeth and pronounced ready for action, what more natural than to conclude that the trial of strength which ought to have taken place ia 1866 should take place in 1868? That war is contemplated by the French government is an opinion justified by the recent loan, and alsd by the amount of specie which lies in the Bank of France. It is the want of confidence in the peace policy of the government that explains the amount of unemployed capital. France is altogether ill at ease. A thousand signs are visible that the empire is less popu- lar than it once was. Nothing would eo effectually revive the avaning prestige of the Emperor as a brief, brilliant and successful campaign. Now that he has given up his crotchets about the Latin races, and has re- solved to allow the Yankee to settle his own affairs, we are not unwilling that some mea- sure of success should attend him. If he in- tends to make war on Prussia at all the present time is as favorable as any other. He has little to fear from outside combina- tions. There is small chance at present of a holy alliance. Great Britain was the soul of all the alliances against Ms uncle; but Great Britain has ceased to be a European Power. Her interests are cosmopolitan rather than European. There is, but small chance of English gold or of English soldiers again crossing the channel. Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Austria—all would be neutral, Russia would be little likely to in- terfere. It is desirable that this baneful sus- pense should end. Success would establish on firm foundations the dynasty of Napoleon, and failnre, in present circumstances, is scarce- ly conceivable, Ovrrack IN THE Park.—A very serious outrage is said to have been committed upom a lady by two ruffians while riding in @ hired carriage in the Park on Sunday, the par- ticulars of which we published yesterday. Heretofore, the reputation of the Park police for vigilance and activity was above reproach, and it seems strange that such an occurrence should have taken place in open day withont their cognizance. It appears that the ladies assaulted had to apply to the Metropolitan, | police officers stationed outside the Park cam Fifty-ninth street for protection, The man- agement of the Park has always been anex- ceptionable, and we believe That this ia the tirat case of misconduct which m,ght imply