The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 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 YorE Heap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. WOM eds ket THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FIvE CENTS per copy. Annual subscription price:— One Copy.... ‘Three Copies. Five Copies... NEW YORK THFATRE, Broadway.—Last NIGUTS OF FOUL PLax. Matinee at 2 OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homery DoMPrY, wir New FEATURES. Matinee at 13. BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway—E.izavetn, QUEEN oF ENGLAND. Matinee at 1}. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th stret- Lirtie NELL AND THE MARCHIONESS. Matince at 1}4. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—FRrencn Comic OrERA— Barbe BLEUE. Matinee at 1. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—BLv® Dwarr—Can- RENTER OF ROUEN. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.--Matinee at 1— BaubeE BLUE. 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EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, September 11. Minister Johnson will be presented to Qnecn Victoria on Monday. Prussia is to send a war ship to Parandé, Hungary confiscated the estates of Prince Karageorgewich to Servia. The bullion in the Bank of France decreased. An American vessel from New York was damaged by fire in the harbor at Marseilles, Cretan deputies visited the United Btates ship Franklin, circulating revolutionary ad- dresses, which were returned by order of Admiral Farragut. The Prussian army 1s to be largely re- duced. ‘The Emir of Bokhara is dead. Consols 94 money. Five-twenties 72 in London, and 75% in Frankfort. Paris Bourse heavy. Cotton declined, closing with middling uplands at 104d. Breadstufs lower and heavy. Provisions improved. s MISCELLANEOUS. “ Two scouts have arrived at Fort Wallace, Kansas, from Denver City, and report hostile bands of In- dians prowling about every settlement they had passed, Southeast of Denver twenty settlers had recently been killed and the rest were in a starving condition in consequence of the loss of their stock. A band of Cheyennes dashed into the towns of Sheri- dan and Butler, Kansas, on Thursday morning, killed three men and drove off the cattle and horses. A fight occurred within two miles of Fort Lyon on Tuesday, in which two Indians and two soldiers were killed. + In the trial of Whalen yesterday the counsel for the defence asked an adjournment in order to secure an Important witness who is now on his way from Cin- cinnati. The case was then adjourned until to-day. Whelan is despondent and is writing his address to the Court, It is believed that an attempt to rescue him while in the dock will be made, and the detec- tives are on the alert. Later advices from Hayti state that the insurgents, on abandoning the siege of Port au Prince, left ail their guns and camp equipage in the hands of Sal- nave, who had proclaimed amnesty to all the rebels except the leaders. Many rebels were surrendering under this proclamation, and Salnave’s prospects, in gonsegnénce, looked quite promising. “A report was current in Halifax yesterday that a general in ‘the United States Army had offered to send fifteen thousapd troops to assist Nova Scotla in breaking away fom the New Dominion. The prospect now bids fair for a September meet- ing of Congress, although it is probable it will be only for the purpose of further extending the recess to some time in October. A Washington correspondent states that the bill authorizing a contract with the New York Naviga- tion Company to transport all the foreign mails, re- cently passed by Congress, was a bold scheme for plundering the Treasury of about $3,000,000, and that Postmaster General Randall has exposed and defeated it by refusing to make the contract. The diMculties pending between Secretary McCul- loch and Commissioner Rollins in the matter of nominating and appointing revenue ofMcials have been so far bridged over as to admit of the confr- mation by the Secretary of one Supervisor out of twenty-five nominated by the Commissioner. The lucky man is Colonel James Moore, for the district of Missouri. The radical delegation of the Tennessee Legisia- ture yesterday had an audience with the President, and presented him an address detailing @ shocking condition of affairs in that State brought about by the Ku Kinx Klan. Reporters were excluded, and the answer of the President is not yet recorded, The Georgia Senate are preparing to oust the negro Members. The question of eligibility was discussed yesterday, speeches on the subject being limited to one hour to each colored man and half an hour for ‘whites, A correspondent, who has had a familiar conver- sation With General and Mrs. Grant at the!r home in Galena, says that Mrs. Grant is fully qualified as a lady, wife and mother for the position of mistress at the White House and its afairs under her superintend- ence will be ordered in & way to gratify the most scrupulous lover of What is ft and appropriate for the place. The General ls auxious to win and hag no doubt of his suecess. Thefcaptain of the propelier Hippocampus, which was lost on Lake Michigan in @ squall on Tuesday, has arrived with fourteen other survivors at st. Joseph, Mich. He reports eighteen persons lost or missing. * ‘The case of alleged robbery in the Navy Yard, in which the defendants are charged with stealing two thousand dollars’ worth of composition metal, was resumed before Commissioner Newton yesterday, but, after hearing the testimony of one witness, was adjourned. Asailor named John Hartwick, belonging to the schoouer —— Smith, was found sick of yeliow fever NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1868. ~ ata tenement house im Greenwich street last even- ing. He was at once taken to Bellevue Hospital, Two new Jewish temples, one on Twelfth street and the other on Forty-third street and Fifth ave- nue, were dedicated with imposing ceremonies yesterday. » % eat Tommy Hadden, alias ‘“‘Shanghae,” Hadden, who Keeps a sailors’ boarding house in Water street, has been converted by Jonny Alien’s missionaries, and yesterday @ prayer meeting was held in his bar room. Several hardened ginners besides Tommy asked to be prayed for at the meeting. * O’Baldwin, the Irish giant, and Wormald are pre- Paring for their fight. The second deposit was put Upon Tuesday. The fight will take place on the 13th of October on the Isle of Shoals, of the harbor of Portland, Me. Two men quarrelied in Cincinnati yesterday, and one of them killed the other by running him through the body with a red hot iron rod six feet long. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, before Judge Russel, after @ few unimportant cases were disposed of, the case of a Mr. Luddington, of Uhica- go, wastaken up. The defendant's counsel stated that Mr. Luddington was forced into bankruptcy by New York creditors, and then kidnapped in Chicago and brought to New York in trons without being allowed the privilege of communicating with hia family. His counsel asked that he be surrendered to the Illinois authorities, and Judge Russel reserved his decision, The steamehip Fah Kee, Captain Liesegang, will sail from pier 12 East river at three P. M. to-day for Bermuda. The steamer Flag, Captain Baxter’, will leave pier No, 20 North river at three o'clock P.M. to-day for Fernandina, Fla. The steamship San Salvador, Captain Nickerson, will sail from pier No. 8 North river at three o'clock P. M. to-day for Savannah, The steamship Manhattan, Captain Woodhull, will leave pier No. 5 North river at three o'clock P. M. to-day for Charleston. The stock market was dull and drooping yesterday. Government securities were strong and active and closed with an upward tendency. Gold closed at 144g a 144 3g, The Municipal Government of New York— Anarchy and Corruption. During the great July riots in New York, while Horatio Seymour was Governor of the State, the thieves and cutthroats who held control of portions of the city for three or four days resorted to the expedient of setting fire to dwelling houses and stores in order the more easily to rob them and escape with their plunder. This was in war time, and we were told by Governor Seymour and other apolo- gists for the rioters that the triumph of rufflan- ism was owing to the fact that the federal government had taken away all the troops from the fortifications to defend Washington. We are now at peace, have a large police force in the city and pay an enormous amount of money for our local government, and yet ruf- fianism is growing so bold and making such rapid strides in our midst that it bids fair, un- less speedily checked, to equal those glorious days of July when the unterrified held sway at the capital of the State and made bonfires of colored orphan asylums in the city. For the past few weeks there appears to have been an organized movement among the thieves and murderers of the metropolis to go back to the ald plan and to set fire to dwelling houses in the outskirts of the city for the purpose of robbery. So alarming have grown the indica- tions of intended raids by these cutthroats into the suburbs that residents on the Bloom- ingdale road, Carmansville, Washington Heights and away into Westchester county have been compelled for their own protection to keep special watchmen about their pre- mises, and the patrol force in those localities has been doubled, The principal cause of this carnival of crime and of the boldness of the robbers is to be traced to the politicians, and especially to the action of the police justices of the city. Our whole criminal judicial system is corrupt and vicious, and until it is thoroughly reformed we can éxpect no abatement of ruffianism, rob- bery and arson. Asa general thing the men who officiate in our criminal courts are the worst description of ward politicians, and seek their political capital among the vicious and degraded. The desperadoes who carry the incendiary's torch and rob and mur- der fora living are the “‘repeaters” at the polls, and their patronage on election day is of great value. There are rings of burglars and rings of thieves of every degree, as well as munici- pal rings and Tammany rings, and the whole are as curiously mixed up and strung together as are the famous rings of the Chinese juggler. It will not do for the politician to offend the pickpocket or for the pickpocket to ignore the politician ; so when a burglar or thief is taken before a police justice he is released on nomi- nal bail or straw bail, or no bail at all, and votes early and often for his friend the judge whenever the latter happens to be before the people for re-election. At the root of all this evil lies the system of an elective judiciary. So long as our Judges owe to the votes of the people of their districts their elevation to the bench, just so long will their judicial conduct be controlled by the character of their constituents. It follows that in the city of New York, where bruisers and repeaters are the great power at the polls, bruisers and repeaters will be the favored of the courts; and this condition of affairs will continue to grow worse and worse until the people resolve to submit to it no longer. When the State Constitutional Convention was in session the popular voice demanded a thorough reform in the judiciary system; but the men who composed that body were narrow- minded politicians who feared to meet the issue boldly, and so patched up a sort of compro- mise which, with the rest of their work, has already gone to the dogs. The bench, to be pure and fearless, must be made independent of party, and the Judges must hold office dur- ing life or good behavior, The fabric of dema- gogism reared by the hard-headed country democrats who controlled the Convention that formed the State constitution of 1846 needs to be wholly demolished, and the responsibility brought down directly to one power, responsible itself directly to the peo- ple, before we can hope to have an honest and efficient discharge of duties in the judicial or any other branch of the govern- ment. The short terms on the bench are quite as demoralizing as the elective system. They incite a greed of gain inconsistent with the judicial character and offer an irresistible temptation to the incumbent to use his power in such a manner as to insure a re-clection. It is notorious that one Judge in New York, after obtaining by good fortune a position on the bench to which his party would never have elevated him, managed by shrewd lobbying to monopolize a branch of the business that had formerly been divided among other courts, and used it a8 the means of realizing ao enormous income, the temptation of which led him afterwards to show undue favor to every ruffian and thief brought before him who happened to possess political influence in any of the city wards. This case is only one of a thousand similar fllustrations of the evils of 8 short-termed elective judiciary, The citizens of New York are wealthy, en- terprising and liberal. They care very little how much it costs to govern their elty or how heavy their taxes may be. They have seen their local taxation mount up in eight years from four or five million dollars to twenty-five millions. They find to-day that the local taxa- tion of New York city, with its one million of people, is twenty-five dollars for each resident, while the national taxation amounts only to about twelve dollars per head on the popula- tion of the United States. In other words, they find that their municipal rulers rob them just twice as much as they are plun- dered by the radicals, whose corrupt and reckless government forms the theme of 50 much democratic indignation. Yet the electors and property owners of the city go on, year after year, voting into power the men who steal on the most magnificent scale. It re- mains to be seen whether this indifference will continue now that the easy dispensation of criminal justice encourages a different class of robbers to band together to burn down and plunder citizens’ dwellings, or whether the people will carry the frightful condition of the metropolis into the general election here and all over the State, and elect a Governor and a Legislature possessing the power and the will to abolish the present municipal government altogether, and put New York into the hands of acommission such as now manages the Park. There is no present hope of city reform except in this direction. The Coming October Elections. It is generally conceded that the coming October elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, In- diana and Iowa will virtually determine the result of the Presidential election. | The hope of the democratic party is in a movement of the people of the Western and Middle States for a change in the policy of the government extensive enough to sweep away all past re- publican majorities and turn the great States over to the democrats by overwhelming votes. Such a thing as a close contest is improbable, and hence it is clear that if this tremendous revolution is to come at all it must show itself in the State elections we have named. In view of these facts a glance at the results in 1862, when a similar reaction to that now predicted set in against the republican party, on account of their mismanagement of the war and alleged official extravagance and cor- ruption, will be of interest at this time. We find, then, that Vermont, which led off in the election of 1862, gave twenty-six thou- sand republican majority, being an increase over its majority for Lincoln in 1860. Maine followed with thirteen or fourteen thousand republican majority. But when the October elections came Pennsylvania, which had given Lincoln sixty thousand majority two years be~ fore, turned over to the democracy by nearly four thousand majority; Ohio changed its twenty thousand for Lincoln into six thousand for the democratic ticket, and Indiana, which had given Lincoln twenty-four thousand over Douglas, elected domocyatic officers by ten thousand majority. This was the beginning of the revolution, and it was followed by simi- lar results in other great States, so that had a President been elected in 1862 the democrats would have been successful by the following electoral vote, based on the elections of that year:— Democratic, Republican, Massachusetts. Missouri. Michi chigan Wisconsii Maine Connecti New Hampshire California. . Vermont. Rhode Is! Minnesot: Delaware Oregon... Kansas... Total... In that election Missouri was carried by the emancipationists, and Delaware, although elect- ing a republican Governor, cast a Congres- sional majority for the democrats. It will be seen that neither Vermont nor Maine afforded any indication of the great change about to take place in the political sentiment of the country, but that the revolution commenced with the October elections. It will be the same this year. Vermont amounts to nothing. Maine is important only in so far as the demo- crates have made a hot contest there and may be discouraged by a bad defeat. But on the 18th of October, when the voices of the men of iron, the Hoosiers and the Buckeyes make themselves heard, we shall know whether the radicals are to be hurled from power or whether the stupidity and stubbornness of the democratic managers are to check the revolu- tion foreshadowed last fall and occasion the re-enaction of the election of 1864. Bl scomanncas22e The City Markets. We are glad to hear that the Common Coun- cil have instructed a joint committee to inquire into the condition of our city markets and to report at an early day what measures are necessary to increase their efficiency and en- large their facilities for business. We say we are glad to hear this, although we suspect the design of this inquiry is only to cut out another big job of spoils and plunder to ou pora- tion rings. We are glad, however, iuat the attention of the Board has been called to this subject in this definite shape, because some- thing good may come out of it. Our city markets are fifty years behind the age, includ- ing buildings and conveniences and the laws and rules by which they are conducted. Washington Market, especially, instead of being an object ‘of pride and an ornament to the metropolis, is a public disgrace, little better than a public nuisance, unsightly, cramped, unfit and bad in every way and the most in- convenient and dirty in its approaches and difficult of ingress or egress of all the markets in the United States. We are gratified, there- fore, that a reform in our city markets has beea officially broached, for, big job or small job, the community in this matter will welcome almost anything for a change, provided always that it shall not be a Court House job in regard of time, but a chango promptly pushed forward and speedily finished, like the Heratp bullding or the new Jewish temple. The Chine Mission and Policy in a New Shape. The London 7imes in its issue yesterday discussed the China question in an editorial review of the foreign policy and treaty rela- tions of the empire extending to three columns of the publication—a very solid assurance that the near approach of the day of arrival of the Burlingame mission excites the liveliest interest in Great Britain and elicits the most serious attention of her statesmen as to the permanence of her present hold and future interest, political and commercial, in Asia. The writer sets out with a reiteration of the assurance that the policy of England in China has been one of peace, and the course of the Chinese authorities towards Eng- land one of ‘‘aggression”—a line of argu- ment which has been used to soothe the conscience and inflame the prejudices of John Bull at one and the same moment with respect to his “conquests” in the East ever since the time of Warren Hastings’ first operations in Hindostan to the period of the Chinese opium and other wars, and thence again to the paci- fication of and fraternization with the Sikhs and Sepoys by tinging the Sutlej river with blood, and summary executions from the guns of General Rose. It has ever been “‘civiliza- tion” and ‘‘peace” on the side of England. The London Times asserts that the Chinese have been “‘aggressive” towards Britain, and exhibited a ‘‘disregard of treaties,” “fraud,” “ll faith” and ‘‘evasion,” until the authorities in Pekin had come to attribute the ‘eniency” of England towards them to fear, and now give her the ‘‘go-by as the prin- cipal leading Power in foreign policy.” The word “‘go-by” is very expressive, but in our opinion England should be greatly rejoiced to receive the ‘‘go-by” from a government so faithless and ungrateful as the Chinese has proved towards her, as set forth in the edito- rial indictment, and we think that Queen Vic- toria and Lord Stanley should be very much obliged to Mr. Burlingame for his successful effort to aid them in dealing with a nation which is evidently inclined to interpret mat- ters affecting its own peculiar interests in a sense different from theirs. The main clauses of the treaty of Tient-sin are to be placed, we are told, in abeyance ‘‘indefinitely” by the Chinese; but England cannot be injured by this, as Mr. Burlingame will, no doubt, pre- sent to the Cabinet in London a clean copy of his simple China-American treaty, which Mr. Disraeli may adopt in its stead, with suit- able modifications, if he so choose. The cable summary of the London Zimes’ article leads one to infer that this will not be done, for init we have a one-sided allusion to war in the words ‘‘China will not be the theatre of war between foreign Powers unless by a result of American policy.” American policy will not originate foreign war; it has never tended in such direction. Our policy towards China is a policy of railroads, tele- graphs, steamboats and steamships, miners and crowbars, trade and travel by San Fran- cisco, the Pacific Railroad, New York, and vice versa, an honest barter and exchange, missionaries, and the free acceptance of China into the family of nations as an independent Power. Mr. Burlingame will assure the Queen of England of all this and more. The London Times, however, hints that Great Britain may prove obstructive to some extent. It is charged that the rulers of China are ‘“‘exclu~ sive,” but it is the ‘‘people’ who want “free intercourse,” and “‘it is the duty of Eng- land to sustain the people against the rulers.” The first part of this accusation is disproved by the fact of the Chinese government having confided such an important and civilizing mis- sion to Mr. Burlingame; while the intimation of an English remedy for these difficulties by exciting rebellion in the empire sets forth the desperate strait to which her diplomacy in Asia is likely to be reduced. When before did Great Britain ever talk of sustaining a ‘‘peo- ple against their rulers,” with the exception of an interested and left-handed aid to Greece ? An official endorsement of the spirit of the London Times by English action in China would be very likely to lead to war somewhat to the eastward. The Emperor Napoleon in the Camp at Chalons. The great sensation of the hour in France is the camp at Chalons. The Emperor has been there for some days. One of the cable despatches of yesterday informs us that the Emperor had reviewed the troops in circumstances of great ex- citement and amid the wildest demonstrations of enthusiastic loyalty. From the meagre de- spatch we can easily see that if was a grand affair and that the Emperor had a fine oppor- tunity of forming an opinion of the strength and efficiency of his army. Taking other things into account, it is ex- ceedingly difficult to disconnect this demon- stration from some warlike intent on the part of Napoleon. Considering the excited condi- tion of Europe and the peace assurances which for some months past the Emperor has found it necessary so laboriously to repeat, this Chalons affair, if it does not mean war, muss be considered very ill-advised. To thoee who have never been deceived by the peace as- surances of the Emperor and his hirelings the demonstration at Chalons appears of all things the most natural, It is certainly desirable be- fore entering upon a great campaign that the chief of the State and the real head of the army should, by personal inspection, satisfy himself of the strength and efficiency of the forces at his disposal. Now that every branch of the army is equipped on the most approved principle, and that the Emperor has seen with his own eyes what artillery, cavalry, infantry, engineers, sappers and miners can accomplish, we may confidently expect some startling speech on the occasion of his leaving the camp. A speech he will make; and it is not too much to say that on this speech the peace of Europe now depends. No one can deny that the aspect of affairs is warlike. The rumor that Queen Isabella of Spain is to he privileged with an interview with the Em- peror on an early day is in perfect harmony with this view of the situation, We know how great her troubles are, We know how bit- terly she is opposed to the policy of the Italian government. We know that she has already promised to protect the Holy Father in the event of the hands of Napoleon being tied by a war in the North, as if her protection meant | anything, or a if the Holy Father needed any euch protection! Altogether the’ crisis has be- come so gerions now that the speech of the Emperor to the soldiers in the oarup at Cha- lons must be looked forward to as the one thing which is likely to determine the ques- tion whether we shall or shall not have war in Europe within the next eix months. Tho gold kings of Europe will not much longer endure the suspense for which Napoleon himself knows he is chiefly to blame. A few hours will be sufficient to set the matter at rest. The Fall Season at the Theatres, The curtain is about being lifted which is to present to us the fall season at the theatres, whether it be brilliant or dull. We have no reason to suppose that the season will not be an unusually brisk one. Neither politics nor the fever of the Presidential campaign is likely to damage its success very much, because there is such a variety presented to the public that it cannot resist the charm. The ill- fated Academy has now a chance of redemp- tion which its stockholders should not neglect. Season after season it has groaned beneath the weight of Bohemians, real and counterfeit, who clung to it as the old man of the moun- tain did around poor Sinbad’s neck. Now that the real Bohemian is out West, giving Italian and German opera among the Sioux and Cheyennes, and the counterfeit portion of the confraternity are busy in their investiga- tions of oyster stews and small beer, the stockholders should pluck up courage andgive Mapleson assistance and encouragement in his essay upon the New York public. We know not whether the London impresario has the pluck, energy and talent to carry him safe through the stormy season that Italian opera gene- rally encounters in this city; but we do know that if he gives us opera in proper form, with good artists and plenty of them, well trained chorus and orchestra, appropriate mise en scone, unmutilated operas, and above all with due regard to the convenience and free in- clinations of the public, he will have as much cause to thank us as had Dickens, who went away with a quarter of @ million of dollars in his pocket. What may be done in the way of Italian opera depends also a gread deal upon Mr. Mapleson’s judgment in the selection of the company which he is bringing over here. We have heard something of the artists he has engaged, and a few of them at least have a favorable record. He has Titiens, the first lyric artist in Europe. He has been unsuc- cessfal in securing Mlle. Nilsson, the Swedish warbler, and we are informed that he is pring- ing back Miss Kellogg, with her American popularity endorsed by European fame. Surely no one can complain of a dearth of opera of all shades and grades during the coming season. With Mapleson at the Acade- my, dispensing Italian bonbons; Grau at the beautiful ThéAtre Frangais, giving opéra bouffe of the most refined and distingué description ; Bateman at Pike’s Opera House, giving French opera on a broader scale, as far as the question- able character of the dialogue and action is concerned ; the Richings English opera troupe and perhaps some itinerant German company atthe Stadt, the returned pilgrims from the watering place shrines will have abundant op- portunities to display the latest fashions and practise the Grecian bend before-their admi- rers. The steamer St. Laurent, which leaves Brest to-day, bears, if not Grau, at least his fortunes; for to her care he has consigned those rare specimens of Parisian manufacture which will warble in his reconstructed cage this winter. Next month he will make the public acquainted with another of Offenbach’s irrepressible children, ‘Genevieve de Bra- bant,” who will make herself as popular as her audaciously funny and refined predeces- sors, ‘“‘La Grande Duchesse,” ‘La Belle Hé- lene” and “Barbe Bleue.” A word regarding the last of these operas. The fascinations of the ‘White Fawn” are tempting to our unsophisticated country friends, and they therefore flock to Niblo’s every night. “Barbe Bleue,” although it might as well be rendered in Choctaw to many of them, has a peculiar charm in the dubiousness, not to say laxity of its morals and piquant double enten- dre, which country curiosity cannot resist. There is nothing so fascinating to the moral and religious minds of country folks as that which touches the verge of immorality without going deep enough to shock the conscience. The ripple on the surface of the ‘Barbe Bleue” is as attractive as the gorgeously colored artifi- cial fly is to the foolish fish who does not see the hook. At the other regular houses of the drama the promises of the managers are inviting. Niblo’s, under the management of Messrs. Jar- rett and Palmer, will soon lose the sparkling Irma and the jolly Aujac, and exhibit Bouci- cault’s drama ‘‘After Dark,” which some peo- ple say has been stolen partly from Brougham and Daly. And here we must say that in the absence of international copyright and with no bond to restrain them but that of honor and generosity, our managers have proved them- selves far more liberal and just towards foreign authors and dramatists than London managers wave towards our playwrights. Barney Wil- liams, Lester Wallack and Harry Palmer have repeatedly indemnified foreign dramatists for using their compositions, but we have yet to hear of a London manager who has made any compensation to an American dramatist. At the Broadway Mrs. Lander is bringing back reminiscences of Ristori; ‘(Humpty Dumpty” still pursues his merry career at the Olympic, and Wallack’s will soon open with its accus- tomed series of old comedies, sandwiched between some choice specimens of the sen- ational drama. Maggie Mitchell ‘‘stars” at Wood’s Museum among the thousands of curiosities. Then we are to have Booth’s new theatre, a temple of art worthy of the growing architectural beauties of New York, which will no doubt engross a good deal of our best dramatic talent; and John Brougham’s theatre, in which we may safely calculate that the boards will fairly sparkle with wit, humor and originality. With the fine prospects of a fall trade before us, as indicated by the advertising columns of the Heratp, there is no reason to doubt that the theatrical season is going to be most pros- perous one, There will be more houses, taking the now with the old, open this fall than ever before, and probably a greater variety of attraction. People are coming home from the watering places with appetites keen for city pleasures. Salt water and EEE lusenren ask the protection of a force of United States troops against the Ku Klux Klan. The blacks of Georgia are in a state of effervescence in oon- sequence of the expulsion of the African mem- bers from the Legislature. In Mississippi and Louisiana the white democrats, on the other hand, appear to be making some progress with their free and equal barbecues in gaining over the blacks. In Arkansas and Texas, if we may believe half that we hear, scenes of vio- lence and murder are the order of the day and the night. In short, there is no peace in the reconstructed or unreconstructed rebel States. In the experiment of reconstructing them up- side down Congress has thrown them all inte confusion worse confounded, and probably, after all, we shall have to fall back upon the practical good sense of General Grant for a peaceable and satisfactory settlement of all these Southern troubles. YACHTING. English Opinion of the Defeat ef the Sapphe From the London Herald, August 28.' » * * Tt 1s only fair to add that the Sy pho's excepuanally, unfortunate position was due te the mischance which befel her early in the day, and it would be unfair to pe that she has done her best or quickest upon this occasion. Of course, lia- bility to such accidents as carrying away @ jlbboom is one of the risks of the race, and ability to avoid such Casualties is one proof of that smart seaman- ship which one expects to see shown by @ yact crew. Possibly the owner of the Sappho may con- sole himself with the reflection that his defeat is en- tirely owing to this untoward circumstance and that on some future day he may retrieve his lost laurels, But we must protest against this too flattering ex- lanation, idly enough the Sappho and the imara, which was to sail against her on ever terms, have both disappointed expectation. They were both behind their competitors when the| rounded Pembridge Point, which the: a reached in about an hour and a half and within three minutes of each other. Not tit three hours after the start did the accident Bazpen which put the Sappho practically hors de combat, but at no time did she show in front, or give any indication of that superiority to her English rivals on which her backers had so confidently counted. Still it is quite ible that she might have made a good third, an Cra Blof everybody was most anxious tosee what she could do, tt somewhat tant to lose the excitement of a well run race and a fair stand up fight. We may, however, be very well pleased to note the great im- proces which our naval architects and yacht- uilders have effected since the came over to put us out of conceit with our old ways, For smartness of build, and swiftness of sail our vessels are now manifestly superior to those our brethren across the Atlantic. but still only 8o much guperior as to both nations up to the mark, and to induce each to watch lest it be outdone by the other. This year the advantage lies with us, but should a false sense of security induce us te relax our efforts we shall very soon be convinced of our mistake, and shail once more sée the honors and rewards of pre-eminence in the ot = [From the London N« August 28.) e ion News, American yachtmen, who have always been on the best of terms with their English brethren, have really done ae age me not only by their spirited example in coming across the ocean, but by improving our lines of construction and teaching us how to cut and how to set fore and aft canvass. In- deed, English yachtmen have so profited by these tructions as to make the of America, to the least, p under ‘ny circumstances and conditions, The od poe. her arrival in i) Solent, a arenas 4 ming symptome of superio we her pinay OT le on met her morning without serious misgivings. The loss of her jibboom of Ventnor does not a} to have contributed in any appreciable degree to the result of the contest. The American was Ing astern even at her own best point of sailing, off wind, and she rather lost than gained ground after rounding Pem- balaee Ledge, when her power of reaching to wind- ward was on its trial. In short, this big. American schooner seems never to have had achance with either of the English finish of the race; and there is no reason to suppose rable casualty at any time, snd. particularly Gatoag je casualty at any time, an TOAg- ing to the trim and andiness ‘as Well as the speed of such a craft as the Sappho, had any appreciable in- fluence on her real chances of success. ‘Whethor the Sappho was not in her best trim on this occasion or the wind waa not strong enough for her juire- menta, or whether a longer course would suit her better—these are questions which will proba! be discussed wherever yachting men are mi together, ‘That nothing was wanting to her success in the way she was piloted and handled on Tuesday is happily beyond a doubt. Per! in a match from Cowes road, around the Eddystone and back, she might find ampler room for the assertion of her seagoing capacities. Assured!y the owners of the English bn its would be glad to give their American guest the earliest esha | of vindicating her reputation on her own terms. may be that Captain Baldwin had somewhat miscalg culated the pi bilities of such a contest as he has crossed the ocean to encounter, and that he was not prepared to meet such Soropetioass as (to take the schooners only) the Cambria and a match around the British islands or across the At- lantic would not, we are dis] to belfeve, reverse the result of the race on roy Ce transfer the laurels from England to America. the absence of the Cambria we fancy the Aline would suffice to up- hold the credit of the English build yards, although the cutters might be overpowei on the longer voyage. From the Hants (Eng.) Telegraph, August 28, ry * * The American yacht was now ae OF and the result was generally looked upon as hi as maintaining the su) rity of iit, yacht neral ing qualities the re- a a eee into ee oe er English yachts were loudly cheered on Egypt Point and making for West Cowes. ike cent of spectators awaited the arrival of yachta, and the keenest pone interest was manifested to know the result, Yackting Notes. The Phantom has gone to West Point. ‘The Rambler is rambling up the Hudson. The Fleetwing is still off the Club House, States Island. ‘The Eva is at anchor off Mr. Loriliard’s counteg reatdence. ‘The Sea Drift and Nettie are consorting near White- stone. ‘The Flenr de Lis is going to the West Indios thts winter. Mr. Voorhis, the owner of the Gracie, modofled, built and sails his own boat. Mr. Shippen, of Bog ne a very fast sailer ia the Nettie, . ee Pierre Lorillard, we taderstand, will bait next winter a yacht of about two hundred tons Ou the lines of the Phantom. It is rumored that several vessels of the New York Yacht Olub will form @ squadron for the purpose of visiting Baltimore this autumn. Is it true? ‘The lish papers are rather severe the ay ho. at a Bite the Palmer, or the Phantom, or the Idler, or the Fleetwing, or the Challengss or ten other vessels of the New York Yacht Squadron were not over there to participate in the rage and to share with the Sappho the sting of the dePeat or rather the glories of a certain victory! Four gainst one was ar fair. ‘The owner of the Cambria, so we are informed, will come over here and sail his yacht if our: actit- men will only make the consideration ( enough.” Cannot the owner of the Palnwr, Fleet- wing or Idler accommodate him? This young man is quite anxious to go at the Yankees n, and he should be furnished with an opportunity to gratify his laudable ambition. The Bayonne Yacht Club intend holdin; regatta shortly. Most of the fleet are at lying off the club house, and comprise the gallant little Mattie, Coney, Annie Mac, Elida, Sea Flyaway, Gretta, Waterfall, John Vernon, wr. The date of the regatta has not yet been decided upon, another present YeLLow Fever tN THE Orry.—About five o'clock last evening a sailor named John Hartwick wag found lying sick of yellow fever in the tenement house 96 Greenwich street, and when qusftioned re. garding his case told in simple language that he had been put ashore from the schooner —— §; recently from Charleston, 8, C., and at that time inthe stream. It is hardly necessary to add that preparations wore immediately made for his re. moval, and to the Bellevue Hospital he was at once conveyed, The question now arises, what heartless wretch thas sent a man sick with an infectious dia ease adrift, and what authorities are responsthia that his cage was not discovered until the haaith of the city is thus jeopardized? mith, lying