The New York Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. SN a ee NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed NeW York HeEracp. ’ AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—ELIZaBETH, QUEEN oF ENGLAND. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street. LittT_e NELL AND THE MAERCHIONESS, | NIBLO'S GARDEN.—BARsE Bieve. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—TIME AND TIDE—SNOW uD. NEW YORE THEATRE, Broadway.—Fou Pray. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homerr Dower. ‘ PIKE'S MUSIC HAL! fvenue.—McEvor's His) \_ BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth strest.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, 40. 23d street, coraer of Eighth Lo RELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Er110- RIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE, £0.—Baubes BLU. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Eru10- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, KC. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Hi Vooariom, NEGRO MinsTRRL 5 E COMIQ: Broadway.—THe GRRat OnI- OME TROAMD AXD VAUDEVILLE COMPASY. R 201 Bowery.—Comio &c, ‘ woon's MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirticth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. IRVING HALL.—Granp MOVING DIORAMA OF LIN- ©OLN'6 FUNERAL CEEEMONIES, DODWORTH HALL, 606 ay.—S1GNOR BLITZ. CENTRAL PARK GARI oventh avenue,—THEO. Tuomas’ POPULAR GARDEN ConceRt, ‘ HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoo.ry's MINSTRELS—MASSA-NIZLLO, OR ‘THE BLACK FOREST, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BormNor AND ART. peterson aac ‘TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, September 8, 1868. 2a WN EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated pesterday evening, September 7. ' The London press indicates a disposition on the part of England to settle the Alabama claims. The London Times thinks the period has not arrived for the healthy absorption of Mexico by the United States. Reverend Doctor Bellows advises England ‘to disendow and disestablish the Irish Church as a ‘means of averting war with America through Irish political influence in the United States. Election riots, originating in a ‘no Popery’’ agitation, have gilready occurred in Manchester, England, and the city was alarmingly excited. The Italian Treasury ‘has been aided by deposit from the tobacco conven tion contractors. ' Consols 94, money. Five-twenties 71% in London and 75}, in Frankfort. Paris Bourse dull. Cotton easier, with middling uplands at 10%d. Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions firm and steady. By steamship at this port we have very interesting details of our cable telegrams to the 26th of August, among them an interesting account of the inter- national yacht race in which the American yacht Sappho was beaten. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The two boards of the City Council met yesterday, In the Board of Aldermen the Committee on Markets ‘was directed to investigate the condition of the mar- kets with a view to their improvenient and exten- gion, No quorum was present in the Board of Coun- cilmen. Our Rio Janeiro letter is dated July 31. It contains in detail an account of the heavy battles at Humaité and in the Gran Chaco on the 16th July, which our cable telegrams have already furnished in substance. The news in Rio had had a damaging effect on the money market and gold had risen, though not so high as would seem probable, owing to the belief that peace would immediately ensue. A full council of State had been held to decide upon General Webb's ultimatum, but the result was not known. The new conservative Ministry had dismissed nu- merous State Governors, Chiefs of Police and other omcers and had cancelled a Senatorial election in Pernambuco, A Havana despatch says a conflagration has oc- curred among the Casilda warehouses, and Sefior Zulueta’s losses alone are estimated at $850,000, . A grand informal reception was given to Governor Fenton and General Meade at the Stetson House, Long Branch, on Saturday evening, after which oc- curred probably the last hop of the season. Another meeting of the First Manhattan Grocery and Provision Co-operative Association was held Jast night, the President stating that the affair ao far ‘was a failure, $2,500 having been sunk in it, and he Wanted to know what the stockholders and members proposed to do—to wind up its affairs or go on with it. After an exhaustive discussion it was agreed to venture more money and try the thing for another ‘week, acommittee to be engaged in the meantime canvassing among the members as to their individual opinions. General Butier’s party arrived at Boston yesterday from Prince Edward’s Island. They were cordially entertained by the citizens in the island, and a pub- lic dinner was given to them on Wednesday last at Charlovtestown. The result of their visit has not yet been made public. The September statement of the public debt shows the total to be $2,643,256,285, with coin and currency in the Treasury to the amount of $107,641,971. This develops an increase in the debt slace August 1 of 612,079,813. The Chamber of Commerce of this city has re- ceived a communication from the Chamber of Com- merce at Nantes, France, containing directions and instructions for vesseis navigating the Loire. A trotting match came off at the Fashion Course yesterday between the brown mare Lady Wells and the chestnut stallion Hickoty Jack, for $500, mile Heats, best three in five. Lady Wells won in three sthaight heats, her best mile being in 2:35%. A sculling match took place off the Elysian Fields yesterday between William H. Hayes, of Greenpoint, L. L, and John A. Bigien, of New York, for $2608 side and a distance of about three miles, The race was won easily by Bigieon in twenty-three miputes and forty-nine seconds. A match game of base ball took place at the grounds in Brooklyn yesterdayg between the At- Jantics and Athletics, resulting in the defeat of the former by a score of 13 to 37, Twenty thousand spectators are said to have been present, ‘The trial of Whalen for the murder of Darcy McGee commenced in Ottawa yesterday. One La Croix tes- tified that he saw the prisoner shoot McGee, and other damaging evidence was given for the prose- cution. Ex-Senator Bradiey (colored), of Georgta, ina epeech to @ republican meeting in Savannah last night said the expulsion of the colored members from the lower house of the Legislature would in- crease the majority in the State for Grant; but ‘whichever way the election went it would result in bloodshed. Attorney General Wilkins, of Nova Scotia, in reply to a letter from the Lieutenant Governor asking him to explain his recent disloyal sentiments in Parila- ment, disclaims uttering any disloyal sentimenta, and says that he dreads annexation with the United States above all things, but believes that the con. federation of the colonies tends that way. ‘The deadlock in the Internal Revenue Bureau con- tinues, Commissioner Rollins has not yet left Wash- ington and continaes to make appointments that McCulloch refuses to confirm. Robert Hopson, who is charged with killing Henry C. Lyon on Friday night, was yesterday released on $10,000 bail, It ts not yet known whether thore will be a Sep- ws. tember session of Congress, bat Senators and Rep- resentatives are slowly arriving at the capital. The republican members are generally opposed to the session. Another instance of brutal rowdyiam is reported. On Saturday night a gang of young men visited the oyster saloon of Levy Hardt, corner of Third avenue and Fifty-third street, and after a short, free Oght among themselves turned upon the proprietor for interfering to stop the fight and beat and cut him with knives go severely that he had to be removed to St. Luke’s Hospital with only slight hopes of his re- covery. Two of the gang were arrested and yester- day committed by Judge Kelly to await the result of Mr. Hardt’s injuries. An affray occurred in a Broadway stage yesterday. Two men ciaimed each to be the husband of a lady Present, and in discussing the question somewhat angrily pistols were drawn. The men were both ar- rested before they could fire, however, and on being taken before Justice Ledwith were bound over to keep the peace. The two, with the fair casus belli between them, then departed together in the same carriage. Acolored man named John Williams was beaten to death by a party of rowdies near East New Yorkon Sunday evaning. Two brothers named Clancy have been arrested on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder, A family in Union township, near Elizabeth, N. J., were poisoned by eating meat a few days ago. They are now reported out of danger. Tne physicians state that the meat had been poisoned, Two contestants for pugilistic superiority, Frank Masterson and Hugh Riley, had a set-to yesterday amid a circle of admiring friends ina vacant lot in Fifty-eighth street. After the eighth round the police made a descent on the party and arrested Riley and Mat Donohue, his second, all the rest escaping. As no evidence could be brought against them, all the witnesses having escaped, Judge Kelly, before whom they were taken, had to release them from custody. The investigation in the case of the United States vs. Internal Revenue Commissioner Rollins, Deputy Commissioner Harlan and ex-Coliectors Smith, Mur- ray and Haggerty was resumed yesterday afternoon before United States Commissioner Guttman. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to defraud the government of the tax on distilled spirits, In the course of the examination J. D, McHenry, for- merly of the internal revenue service, testified to having seen S. N, Pike hand to Deputy Commissioner Harlan, in his private oMce in Cedar street, a check either for $10,000 or $10,500, saying it was “a note from a friend.” The examination will be continued on Wednesday. ‘The examination of Jose Ferrer De Conto, charged with assaulting Sefior Gomez, Minister from Hon- duras to the United States, was concluded yesterday before United States Commissioner Osborn, and Mr. De Conto was held to ballin the sum of $1,000 to await the action of the Grand Jury. Beveriy Clark, who is charged, in connection with other parties, with conspiracy to defraud the United States Post OMce Department, by having audited and paid bills for goods never delivered, was held by Commissioner Osbornj yesterday in $10,000 bail to awalt examination on Wednesday next, In the Court of General Sessions yosterday a quorum of the Grand Jury could not be obtained, and only nineteen petty jurors out of a panel of ono hundred and fifty were present. Benjamin F. Bar- ker, charged with burglary, was discharged on mo- tion of the District Attorney, there being no evi- dence against him Henry St. Clair, on a plea of guilty of grand larceny, was sent to the State Prison for two years and six months. The steamer Dacotah, Captain Merry, from Aspin- wall August 24, arrived at this port yesterday. She brings a full list of passengers and $715,000 in treasure, The steamship City of Washington, Captain Tib- bitts, of the Inman line, will leave plier 45 North river at noon to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, touching at Halifax, N. 8., to land and receive mails and passengers, The Hamburg-American Packet Company's steam- ship Germania, Captain Schwensen, will leave Hoboken about two P. M. to-day for Hamburg via Southampton, The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The number of beef cattle on sale yesterday was about 2,500 head. Trade was slow and prices were generally gC» er 1b, lower, the market closing heavy at the reduction, Prime and extra steers were disposed of at 163{¢. a 17c., while fair to good sold at 15%sc. @ 160.3 ordinary, 140. a 16c., and inferior llc. a 180, Milch cows were in light demand and prices favored the buyer. We quote:—Prime and extra, $90 a $110; fair to good, $75 a $85; common, $60 a $70; and in- fertor, $40 a $50. Veal calves were in tolerably active demand and steady at 113¢c. a 12c. for extra, 9c. @ 11¢c. for common to prime, and 7}4c. a 8c. for inferior, Sheep and lambs—Good stock was in fair demand and steady, while common, which com- posed the bulk of the offerings, was dull and heavy. We quote extra sheep 6c. a 7c.; prime, 6c. a6; com mon to good, 4%c, a 5X0.; inferior, 33gc. a 4340, Lambs, 7c. @ 8%. a 9c, Swine were in moderate re- quest, but at prices fully Xo. per Ib. below those cur- rent last Monday, heavy prime selling at 10%0. a lic.; fair to good, 10c. a 105c.; and common, 8c. a 97%. The Presidential Campaign—Its Issues, Political Curiosities and the Probable Result. Every Presidential campaign in the United States, beginning with the first election of Jef- ferson, in 1800, has been contested between two or more parties or candidates upon some broad and general principles and some special issues, and has been marked more or less by its political curiosities, The campaign of 1800 was a sharp and embittered party contest be- tween the old federalists and republicans, which resulted in 9 decisive victory of the latter and the State rights theories of Jeffer- son against the centralization policy of Adams, Hamilton and Washington, for Washington was a federalist, We say a decisive republi- can victory, because the federal party from its defeat of 1800 never again came into power, but gradually declined down to 1820, when it was disbanded and dispersed. So, in 1824, whon the people and politiclans were “all re- publicans and all fedefaliste,” we had the serub race between Jackson, Adama, Crawford and Clay and the election of Adams by the House of Representatives. Out of this election sprung up a new organi- zation of parties in 1828 in the first election of Jackson. He came in on his victory of New Orleans and on the cry of a bargain and sale between Adams and Clay. His war with that old financial monopoly of the United States Bank secured his re-election and made his will the law of the democratic party, so that in gaining the special favor of ‘Old Hickory” Martin Van Buren in 1836 became his successor in office, In 1840, how- ever, the man in running for a second term fell a victim to the financial pet bank and in- flation blunders of his master, and the cam- paign of '40, the funniest and liveliest political carnival in American history, resulted in a political revolution, As a victory to the whigs, however, it was spoiled by the defection of President Tyler, and so on tho plat- form ‘‘of Texas and Oregon,” ‘‘fifty- four forty” and the “Tariff of 1842” the democrats under Polk came in again, Beaten again in 1848 by Taylor, they in 1852 not only recovered their lost ground, but in taking up the whig platform they swept the whig party out of existence. Here was another political revolution, which promised under good management a: now loase of twenty years of power to the democracy. But we know how poor Pierce and Buchanan, ‘under the whip and spur of the slave power,” turned the tables against their party and brought about the terrible smash-up of 1860 in the Charles- ton Convention, and the stupendous sectional war and political revolution and the work of political reconstruction which have filled up the interval to 1868. Here, then, we stand under a new order of things so novel, eo unique and so momentous in the issues at stake for good or evil to the country that we have no Presidential prece- dent to compare with this contest for the suc- cession, We may say that in its party bitter- ness on State rights and State wrongs it re- sembles somewhat the Jefferson campaign of 1800; that the personal abuse levelled at General Grant in 1868 by the democratic cop- perhead press is very much the same as that of the whigs against General Jackson in 1828 ; that we havea parallel for the defection of Andy Johnson in the defection of Captain Tyler, impeachment and all; that the demo- cratic war against the financial system of Con- gress is only an enlargement of the fight between Old Hickory and Nick Biddle; that the same corruptions and wastages which characterized Van Buren’s administration have been practised in a tenfold degree by the party now in power, and that the same war cry of “anything for a change” may be as aptly raised now as it was in 1840. But atill we may say that from the shape which it has assumed this Presidential conflict more nearly resembles that of 1864 than any other. The Democratic National Convention, the democratic copperhead press and the demo- cratic rebel fire-eaters of the South have made it so. Under Chief Justice Chase and his platform they might have secured another victory as decisive as that of 1852; under Seymour and the Pendleton-Hampton platform, from all the signs of the times, they are threatened with another defeat like that of McClellan. They might have thrown the radi- cals completely upon tho defensive on their financial and taxation blunders and burdens by accepting the constitutional amendment, article fourteen, as a final settle- ment of the questions of State rights, African rights and negro suffrage. Instead of this, However, by denouncing or suppressing that amendment and by declaring all the recon- struction doings of Congross ‘‘unconstitu- tional, revolutionary, null and void,” the demo- cratic managers of this campaign take us back to the contests of 1866 upon said amendment and to the old issue of 1864—whether the war for the Union was or was nota failure. This is the very shaping of the contest which the repub- licans desired, including especially the scandal- ous attempts of certain democratic organs to blacken the personal and public character and to belittle the military services of General Grant. Some of these personal assaults are among the most remarkable of the stupidities and curi- osities of this canvass. For instance, a cer- tain scribbler for party purposes undertakes to show that General Grant's grand and crushing campaign against the rebellion deserved a drumhead court martial instead of promotion of any kind; and another scribbler of the same school, while portraying Grant as the greatest of buytcherg and blunderers, presents Lee as the finest living model of a great soldier. This is the height of democratic folly, In various other ways, including the Rosecrans White Sulphur mission, they aro doing mischief to their cause in bringing into the foreground the active leaders and politi- clans of the rebellion as the supporters of the cause of Seymour and Blair. Then, again, while in Mississippi the white democracy at their campaign barbecues are feasting their fellow citizens of African descent on a footing of equal rights, the democrats of the Georgia Legislature are spoiling this work of concill- ating and gaining the black vote by expelling the negro members of the House as ineligible on account of their race and color, All these things, we say, have wiped out the political popular reaction which was inaugu- ated in the elections of 1867, just as the cop- perhead leaders spoiled their successes of 1862 by their follies of 1863. This contest is thus thrown back substantially to the great issue of 1864, on the war, and the result is promised from all the lights before us to be the same, —_——_.. OMcial Report of the Cattle Disease. We published yesterday the official report of the State commissioners appointed to investi- gate the causes, consequences and modes of remedy of the cattle disease, It appears from this report—which, be it observed, comes from laymen, ‘scientific associates,” as the com- missioners say, not having yet furnished any description of the disease, although from the technical phraseology of the report one would think that it came from a highly scientific “source—that the plague originated with Texas cattle, and though it was in thousands of cases communicated fo “‘native” cattle the infection seemed to stop there; that is to say, that no native animal took it from his brother or als. ter “native.” The cause of the disease appenis (g bave originated in the want of proper food and saline water for the cattle in transit over the Plaing from Texas, Any one who has been on the loug and wearisome prairie journey from Texas into Kansas, where these cattle are shipped for the East, must know that the vegetation is not always nutritious, and that the water partakes strongly ofulkali, The fact stated by the commissioners, that the free use of salt bas done much to check the disease, ia a proof that the vixali water, and the soil impregnated with the same substance, which may be seen covering thou- sands of acres with its snowy coat on the track traversed by the Texas herds, is one of the causes of the cattle plague, If the animals were permitted to recuperate sufficiently on healthy grazing lands before they were hurried into the railroad cars for the Eastern market there would probably be no disease transmitted to our abattoirs, We think it is apparent that the sickness does not originate in Texas or the Cherokee country, but is rather geno- rated on the route over tho Plains, and may, perhaps, be traced to the system of overtaxing the strength of the cattle and neglecting their proper feeding on the cattle trains, in which they are transported more than a thousand miles before they reach this market, It might be worth the consideration of the commissioners to look into this view of tho question, in order to prevent the recurrence of an evil which has been tho source of much aaxiety among the coagumers of beef and the cause of greatly reduced business for the dealers in that commodity. However, we must give to the parties who have been instru- mental in the investigation (the State commis- sioners, the Board of Health and the Execu- tives of the States of New York, Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and Illinois) all credit for their prompt and efficient action in the matter. Wo are indebted to them for the preservation of this community from a disaster which might have proved very serious to thousands of our population, but which has happily been averted by their foresight and faithful regard for the trust reposed in them. Religious Movement—The Retura of the Pastors. The religious movement in New York at the present moment is unusually lively. What with the return of the pastors, with the grow- ing success of the Fulton street prayer meet- ing, with Mr. Mitchell’s daily prayer meeting in Greene street, with the great Water street revolution, in which John Allen and Kit Burns stand out as the Danton and the Mirabeau, only slightly sanctified, and with the Episcopal Mr. Tyng in the r6le of Whitefield and the Wes- leys, we are surely justified in saying that we are on the eve of another great religious re- vival, The Fulton street meetings, which, so fur as we know, have never been discontinued since the last great revival movement, have unquestionably beon instrumental in keeping the revival spirit alive. To these unquestion- ably we must look as the parent of the meet- ings superintended respectively by the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng and the Rev. David Mitchell. Tt will not surprise us to learn that the Water street revolution is traceable in part to the same source. We wish the movement success. We shall be glad to find the example of the two reverend gentlemen above named extensively imitated, and to see the industrious Mr. Min- gins, the present chief of the City Mission, at the head of the entire clergy of New York city. No doubt they need to be kept at their work, and Mr. Mingins might prove as good a commander-in-chief as any other. He knows where the enemy has intrenched himself, and no one is better fitted to lead his forces to the attack, Never in the history of New York city was there so much wickedness. Licen- tiousness unabashed walks our streets at noon- day and shines with unapproachable splendor in our gay and festive assemblies by night. Murder isrampant, and all the bonds which give compactness to society and which create for virtue its immediate reward are loosened. Sodom and Gomorrah were bad, but Sodom and Gomorrah could scarcely be more wicked than New York and Brooklyn. But the wick- edness of New York and its growing neighbor, if not the blame of the preachers, is now at least their opportunity, Ethiopia, in a sense different from that in which the ancient prophet used the expression, is lifting up her hands untoGod. The cry ‘‘come and help us” is arising from all the dens of this city, and if the clergy do not respond to the call we shall cease to believe in the honesty of their inten- tions. Now, wesay again, is the opportunity of the authorized clergy of all churches, We are on the eve of a great religious movement ; we see now but the faint ripple of the coming religious wave; and if this wave is not to become rather a curse than a blessing, if this movement is not to be left in the hands of ignorant, swindling, unprincipled and design- ing men, the clergy of the different churches must take the matter in hand, It is not for them to be idle when one ‘“‘wickedest man” asks their assistance and advice and when another ‘‘wickedest man” has assumed the duties of a watchman on Zion. The An Interview with General Forrest. We publish to-day a very interesting account from one of our correspondents in Tennessee of aninterviow with the ex-Confederate Gene- ral N. B. Forrest. It will beobserved that he is entirely in accord with General Lee and the other leaders as to the peaceful spirit of the Southern people, their acceptance of the situa- tion as the war left it and their unwillingness ever to see slavery revived. Two points of particular significance are touched upon by General Forrest, One has reference to the election in Tennessee, with regard to which he declares his belief that there will be no fair play, as the registrars are already refusing cer- tificates to every negro who is known to have conservative proclivities, The other point is with reference to the siege of Fort Pillow. The General denies with emphasis that any “‘massa- cre” took place there after the so-called sur- render, which, he says, was no surrender at all, as the garrison never hauled down thelr flag or hoisted a flag of truce, The story, he affirms, was concocted by Ben Wade's Congressional committee, Like Wade Hampton, General For- rest complains that his speeches have been misrepresented in the newspapers, and if this be true Southern orators should look to it that they are properly reported in Southern jour- nals, for ft is from them that Northern papers mostly get their reports. Although General Forrest declares that many of the stories of violence by the Ku Kluxes are greatly exag- gerated, still itis evident that there is a great deal of trouble in Tennessee’ as well as in Louisiana and other Southern States and that it is going to continue for some time to come, Increase of Rowdyism. It is painful to be obliged to record day after day the recurrence of deeds of violence, rowdylsm and bloodshed which seem to in- croase of late in this community, The recent homicide in South street, the attack of an uproarious gang of ruffians upon a tavern in Yorkville, the frequent attacks upon the police in different wards of the city, are the latest evidences that a portion of our population is becoming more lawless and dangerous. We have already published the facts connected with all these cases, and are not disposed to repeat them here; but we naturally look for the cause of this condition of things, We have an active, a numerous and apparently efficient police, Few cases are reported in which the police officers are found delinquent in the faithful performance of their duty; but it ts manifest that they are placed ata disadvantage when they come to deal with the rowdy element which prevails in the metropolis. We can only account for this and for the boldness with which ruffianisin asaails the public peace and the peraon and property of our citizens by the loose system which prevails in tho potico courts, Immunity from the penalty of crime seome to be uarantead bv tha volige justices to the violators of the law, and this class. of persons is not slow to comprehend that fact. If even-handed justice were meted out to the men who carry deadly weapons and use them with the recklessness and cowardice of a bravo, and they were made conscious that punishment would swiftly and surely follow crime, there would be fewer of the outrages committed which have lately stained the records of our city life, The fact is that our police courts are most miserably constituted, The police justice, as general rule, is but the creature of the crimi- nal portion of society. It puts him in the bench from which mock justice is dispensed. It regulates his term of office. It courts his favors and threatens his political annihilation. And so it must be as long as judicial office is 8 gift of the voter. Political juntas stand behind the bench and absolutely direct its action, The saying that the power behind the throne is greater than the throne itself was never more forcibly exemplified than in the influence which rowdyism brings to bear upon the dispensation of law as it emanates from our police courts, and we are sorry to say that the contagion spreads sometimes to courts of higher jurisdiction, We are apt to regard the police courts as institutions of compara- tively little importance, because they are, for the most part, presided over by politicians of small calibre; but it happens that we have to look to them for protection against the most dangerous element in the community. It is in the police court that justice and law in many cases must take the initiative before grand juries or district attorneys can take cogni- zance of crime, An entire revolution, there- fore, is necessary in the system which admits of the indiscriminate “exercise of power for political purposes which prevails in our police courts and virtually hands over peaceful citizens to the mercy of rowdy despotism, La Lanterne. 74 We publish to-day a few extracts from No, 12 of La Lanterne, published in Brussels and seized on the French frontier. They will suf- fice to show at once the bitterness and the energy with which M. Henri Rochefort, the editor of Za Lanterne and the acknowledged mouthpiece of the “‘non-satisfied” in France, continues to attack imperialism, or, as he bluntly calls it, despotism. Tho flight of Rochefort from Paris in order to escape arrest, fines and imprisonment has tempted some of his foes to accuse him of cowardice—a charge which they might have hesitated to prefer against him while he was in their midst. Rochefort was well aware how vainly a single hand could resist the crushing weight and pressure of the vast and complicated ma- chinery of an empire. His only safety was in flight, and, moreover, his only chance of con- tinuing a struggle in which he has surely betrayed no lack of courage. Even in Bel- gium, however, it is doubtful whether he will be permitted to indulge in direct personal attacks on the Emperor and Empress of the French, He may yet be compelled to migrate to London, or, perhaps, to New York, He may become as nomadic in his habits as cer- tain Confederate journalists were during our late civilwar. Thus the editor of the Memphis Appeal used to migrate to Granada, to Chat- tanooga, to Meridian and to other points within the Confederate lines, which gradually con- tracted before the approaching federal troops. Here in New York M. Rochefort could avail himself to the utmost of the liberty, not to say the license, of the press, Indeed, he might prove useful in teaching Brick Pomeroy ana Brick Barlow how to shape with grace and feather with fancy and sharpen with wit the offensive personalities which they affect as weapons, but which in their hands are equally ugly, dull and pointless, He might show them how exquisitely French skill can cook and season even a dish of scandal, instead of serving it up disgustingly raw and bloody. He would thus improve their taste if not their tempers. While the diatribes of Rochefort against Na- poleon and Eugénie and against prominent courtiers are polished in form they are inex- cusably violent, The flashing blade which he wields is finely tempered and as bright as it is sharp, but it isa poisoned blade, He cut and slashed with it, right and left, until moderate men of all parties became alarmed. Few were surprised when the imperial government deter- mined to disarm him. He had even furnished afresh pretext to those who are in the habit of asserting that the French are unfit for self- government and that with them liberty of the press must always degenerate into dangerous license. Some students of contemporaneous political history are inclined to think that the French Emperor, dreading the reactionary storm which might follow too dead a calm, has sought to break the treacherous monotony of apparently universal submission to imperial nm by indirectly or secretly encouraging a certain convenient and easily repressible opposition. They have imagined that efort himself, as well as Prince Napoleon, might thus be made to serve, albeit unwittingly, as active instru- ments in strengthening the hold of the empire upon France, But the hostility of Rochefort to the empire is unfeignedly sincere. That he can no longer manifest it with impunity at Paris is surprising only to those who do not understand the secret of the prodigious popularity and power so speedily acquired by La Lanterne throughout France and Europe. After twenty years of enforced silence around the throne the partial modification of the laws which had so long restricted the French press gave this vigorous and brilliant writer, who was one of the prin- cipal contributors to Figaro, an opportunity to break the silence by uttering what the majority of the intellectual classes had so long thought and felt in secret, He eagerly seized the opportunity. But even the modifications which the press laws had undergone, including the change of jurisdiction from the Minister of the Interior to the tribunals, still left it as perilious for the French journalist to oppose the imperial government directly as it was in the height of our late war for a Northern Journalist to oppose the United States govern- ment. The French journalist could adopt only the Indian mode of warfare against the government. Rochefort was obliged, like the grave and reverend Academicians, to resort to “parallelism” and other ingenious means of opposition, The Emperor himself had not disdained to try to turn these same guns against his enemies, Jf they covertly attacked Se SSE SEE OE ESSA ES eLetter | the Napoleons, uncle and nephew, by abusing Cwsar, Napoleon III. retaliated by eulogizing Cwsar, prefixing as a frontispiece a portrait of the Roman Emperor, which might be readily mistaken for a portrait of Napoleon I. Such is “parallelism,” and for a long time the litera- ture of the opposition could use only this masked battery. Rochefort undertook to use it, together with all the small arms supplied by the arsenal of French wit. But at length he has been silenced, at least in Paris, As almost the only vent for the pent-up emotions of the “‘non-satisfied,” Za Lanterne excited a sensation and secured an influence which in England or in this country seems in- explicable and altogether disproportionate. But, however persistent and deep the opposi- tion of the intellectual classes in France, and particularly in Paris, may be, the French people at large have furnished the Emperor with a stunning response to the sharpest witticisms of La Lanterne by their immense subscrip- tions to the new loan. If Rochefort could boast of an extraordinary number of subscribers te - La Lanterne, the Emperor can point triumph- antly to almost a round million of sub- scribers tothe loan. When the French people offer him thirty-four times as much money as he asked for he may well congratulate himself om their confidence in what the First Napoleon called his ‘“‘star.” Rochefort may sneeringly say that the imperial government has so mono- polized everything in France that the frugal, saving French can find no other borrower for the money hoarded by them in old stockings and elsewhere. But the fact still remains that they have eagerly responded to Napoleon's appeal. The Emperor has the shining gold and silver and La Lanterne no longer shines in Paris, The Internat Revenue Difficulty. The Washington correspondents inform us that the difference between the President and Commissioner Rollins is widening, and that a greater muddle in and about the Internal Revenue Bureau is the consequence. This ia what was expected. How could there be any- thing else than confusion, maladministration, frauds upon the revenue and loss of income to the government from such a state of things? The President is utterly powerless, though by virtue of his office and the constitution itis his duty to see the various departments of the government properly administered and the laws executed. But Congress has stripped him of the power to act, and Commissioner Rollins, as well as other departmental officials, can laugh at and defy him. This state of affairs is a disgrace to an enlightened and civi- lized country. Need we be surprised at enor- mous frauds upon the revenue when there is a deadlock in the government itself and no well defined authority in any one? It is said there has been a number of New Yorkers and others running to Washington about this internal revenue imbroglio, Of course there has and of course there will be, for the purpose not of settling the difficulty, but of confusing it more than ever, Many of these patriots, no doubt, are making a nice thing out of the muddle and are more interested in stirring it up than in seeing it settled, The only way to settle the matter and to place the responsibility of properly executing the revenue laws where that belongs (in the President) is for Mr. Rol- lins to resign at once and unconditionally, so that the President may appoint his succes» sor. Thatis the proper and only solution of the difficulty. An Important Decision, The Chancery Court at Toronto has just gives a decision which cannot fail to prove of the highest importance to the United States in the settleeont of those international diffi- culties which form part of the legacy of the late civil war. It apjars that in 1864 the rebel privateer Florida overhwjed a steamer on her way from New York to New Orleans and cap- tured twelve thousand dollars’ vorth of postage stamps intended for the New Crleans Post Office. The postage stamps were seni to Livers pool and there sold to a Mr. Wood. Mi Wood consigned the stamps to certain parties in Toronto, with a view to getting them soldin the United States. The stamps were ulti. mately seized by the United States authorities, Hence the suit in Toronto. The Chancery Court, having gone into the whole case, has decided that all United States property captured by the Confederates during the war, no matter where found or by whom held, is the property of the United States. We cannot refrain on this occasion from giving Canada that praise which is so justly her due. Her example deserves the attention and considera- tion both of England and France. A little more of this spirit and our international difficulties will be ended. THE LATE THOMAS H. SEYMOUR. Funeral Ceremonies at Hartford Yesterday= Procession of Civic, Military and Masontc Societies. The funeral of Thomas H. Seymour, ex-Govet- nor of Connecticut and ex-Minister to ,Russia, wok place at Hartford yesterday under circum: stances which manifested the high estimation enter- tained for him by his late fellow citizens. A vast procession of the civic, military and Masonio friend of the deceased attended the body to its last resting Place, while @ large concourse of citizens gathered in the streets and witnessed the funeral as it pro- ceeded to the cemetery. The body during the fore: noon remained at the house; in Governor street, where it was viewed by the relatives and a few of the immediate friends of the family. Mr. William EB, Seymour, brother of the deceased, was present from New Orleans, and with Mr. Daniel M. Seymour, his cousin, had charge of the remains. Judge 0. 8. Se ir, of Litchfield, Gideon J, Tucker, of New York, and Governor English, of Connecticut, were also among the mourners. Gove ernor Horatio Seymour was not in attendance, although generally expected. A despatch was ree ceived from ex-President Pierce saying that sickness kept him from being present. The coffin was covered with black velvet, fringed with silver and bearing silver Masonic emblems. The plate bore the simple inscription:—“Thomas H. Seymour, Septem- ber 3, 1868, 60." Soon after eleven o'clock the Washington Com- beset? of Knight Templars, of which the deceased was eminent commander, arrived at the house, took charge of the body and recited the burial service. 4 The coffin was then taken to Christ church an laid in state at the vestibule of the middie entrance, quarded by a detachment of Knights ‘Templars - south door was thrown open and the crowd ny _ assing across the church and out through cen- Te door, viewing the body as they came Yast look give an idea of the number who thus took ie te that at the deceased it ts only me ieee ont from noon, when the doors were thrown gee es after two’ o'clock the crowd formed a Soeur onl —_ ave or six abreast, going in one out the other. The ‘doors of the church were next closed we te 94 out the excessive throng and the comin yh the chancel, where settee allan rituals yn mab M to the 9 Fone oaneee te jon fornted and wn the midst ofa sudden and heavy ng marched through Maia pra Fy ey ny cedar Hill Cemetery, where the deceased was interred with tho couciudne Cum tomary Masonic ceremonier