The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPR IETOR, Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S Basi BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. ov PEARLS. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.--Laer NiguTS oF Four, Puay. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humerr Dorr, with New Features, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—ELizawere, QUEEN On ENGLAND. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Don CaRios. TS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th STHIOPIAN MISSTRELBY, &0., LUCRETIA BoRGta. GARDEN, Broadway—FRrenca Comic Ores a— euE. —Foenom Spy—StRING KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Etmo- RIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE, &0.—-BansEs BLU. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ErH1o- YIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, dc. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Couto Vooaiem, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. Matinee at 24. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—-Ta® GReat Ort GINAL Lingarp aND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY, Matinee. Woop’s MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway Afternoon and evening Performance. IRVING HALL.—GRAND Movine Diorama oF Lrn- COLN'S FUNERAL CEREMONIES. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Tuk CRLEBKATED Sivnoe Gricz, Matinee at 2. HALL, 23d sireet, corner of Highth EVO'S HIDEENICON, TRAG PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—Taeo, THOMAS’ POPULAR GARDEN CONCERT. THE Wi ERFUL AMESE TWINS—Now at 6i6 Proadway, r Houston, for a short ti only, prior to their departure for Paris to be surgically separated. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brook!ya.— A Fiasu oF Ligntnine. “HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, arooklyn.—Hooury's MINSTRELS —MABSA-NIELLO, OR THE BLACK FOREST. EW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Uk AND ABT. 8 New Verk, Wednesday, Sepiomber 16, 1568. THE NSEWs. EUROPE The news report by the Atlantic esterday evening, September 15. Minister Johnsun presented his credentials to Queen Victoria at Windsor. The Queen of England wet out (or Scotland, Some of the London journals sitll anticipate the approach of a ‘great war.” Eng- land wae deeply excited by the news of the disasters on the coast of South America. Napoleon visited another French camp on his-way to Biarritz. The Labor Congress in Brussels adopted resolutions directiy hostile to war or war making by any of the Yowera. The King of Prussia was in Kiel. Consois 945,, money. Five-twenties 724g in Lon- don, and 75 @ 753 in Frankfort. Paris Bourse heavy. Covion again declined, closing at 97j. a 10 pence for middling uplands. Breadstutts steady. Provi- sions firm, By steamship at this port we have interesting Aetaiis of our cabie telegrams to the Sth of Sepiem- her. MISCELLANEOUS. Senator Morgan and Representative Schenck have issued a call on the Republican members of Congress Yo have a quorum present in both houses at the ses- fien commencing on the 2ist inst. They state in their call that there will probably be no business transacted beyond extending the recess. Additional returns from the Maine election state that 29% towns give a republican majority of 18,494, which last year gave a majority of 9,484, The towns yet to be heard from gave last yeara republican majority of 2,954, and if they show an increase proportionate to that in the towns already heard trom the republican majority will range near 233,000, cable is dated ras found guilty of the aasassination of yesterday and sentenced to be hanged on y of December. He made a quite elo- quent, although rambling, speech previous to receiv- ing his sentence, in which he strongly protested his D'Arcy tunoc On his return to his cell, after receiving his sentence, he danced a hornpipe and sang a song. Sehor Garcia, the new Peruvian Minister to this country, ander Col, Balta’s administration, present- ed his credentials to President Johnson yesterday and was cordially received. In his reply to Sefior Gareia’s speech, the President expressed strong sympathy with the people of Peru, now suffering unter the terrible calamity which recently befell them. Yostmaster General Randall still declines to sign the bonds of the New York Steam Navigation Com- pany, auder contract for the transportation of all the arrest ofher husband on a charge of abdncting and seducing her granddaughter, Mias Randolph. Buchignant has not yet been arrested. In the Board of Health yesterday the Metropolitan Gas Company was granted until December 1 to com- plete their pending experiments for purifying gas. Dr. Harris reported that there were 569 deaths in New York last week and 281 tn Brooklyn. ‘The Mr, Wells who, while an invalid, disappeared Mysteriously from his room in Ramapo, Rockland county, N. Y., last Thursday night, was found drowned on Monday in a pond nearat band. The Verdict rendered was death from suicide. Watson, who was stabbed by Tim Murphy in Ca- nal street on Sunday, died at the City Hospital yes- terday. He made a partial statement before his death, in which Murphy was destgnated as the man who stabbed him; he did not know why, asthe two were friends and had been boys together. Murphy ‘was present when his victim died and expressed the keenest aMiction at the sight, A man named Miller was struck in the face by one George Brown, as alleged, with his fist, in Cherry street, on Monday night, and knocked insensible. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he died a few hours afterwards, Brown was arrested. A tornado visited St. Peter, Minn., on Friday night, blowing houses and barns to fragments and scattering the harvested grain. Several persons were injured, one lady fatally. The examination in the case of the Broadway thea- tre shooting affair, in which Deputy Sheriffs Moore, Leary and Levison are the defendants, was resumed yesterday before Judge Shandley, at the Essex Mar- ket Police Court, Stephen Wilson, one of the scene shifters, who, it will be remembered, was shot in the head and leg, was the only witness examined. His testimony, which is clear and explicit in its details and not at all damaged or confused by the rigid cross- examination he was subjected to, will be found else- where. The examination will be continued on Sat- urday next, when counsel expressed a determination to finish up the evidence. ‘The stock market was firm and active yesterday. Government securities were steady, but quiet. Gold closed at 144, The Maine Election—The Qurreut of Thought. \ Although the democrats could scarcely have hoped to carry Maine, they labored hard for the moral effect of a reduction in the repub- lican majority; but the decision is so posi- tively against them that they must be very wilfully blind if they can find any comfort in it. Maine indicates that popular instinct has taken the full measure of the democracy. Democratic principles and purposes have been judged, not by the guarded phrases of careful party writers, nor by the nice negations of the party platform, but by such utterances as that spontaneous and thoroughly genuine out- burst with which Wade Hampton gloried on his return from the nominating convention to his home in South Carolina. Such utterances were felt to be sincere by the people who jealously watched every act of the returning Southerners; denial only deepened their effect by keeping attention fixed upon them, and the nation has determined that Seymour is only put in the front of the party as a dis- guise and cover to men who hold resolutely and desperately to the views of Hampton, Cobb and Toombs. The trick that made Seymour the candidate of the Fourth of July Convention was a poor piece of dexterity, for it destroyed the only chance his party had to carry the country. At the commencement of this canvass there were two courses open to the democrats. There was a positive popular distrust of the radical party and a clear desire on the part of the people to go a little nearer to the democracy, if the democracy would only come a little nearer to the people—that is, if it would abandon its hostility to what had been done by the people in the war and go with them in the future. The visible signs by which the democrats might indicate their disposition to do this were even recognized by every one. First, they had to make the fourteenth amendment the main point in their platform: and next, to nominate as their candidate for President a man in whom the people had confidence as one who had believed in the war. Had they accepted this course, and thus by a sublime piece of tact put behind them the issues of the war—those towers of strength for the party that was on the right side—they might have fought the campaign out to a good result ; for they would have hada clear field to thunder on the issue of the party corruption. With the war issues put aside the blunders of radi- calism and its corruptions, that had awakened the reaction of 1867, would have over- toreign mails. He is awaiting the opinion of Atiorney General Evarts on the mandatory character of the act of Congress granting the contract. Charges bave been preferred against Mr. J. F. Juice, tae American Consul at Aspinwall, that he charges two dollars for examining a passport and two dollars and a half for signing a manifest. ‘The Citizens’ Association is after Street Commis- sioner McLean again, this time in relation to the wharves and piers and the expenditures upon them, ‘The association intimates that Mr. McLean employs more workmen in repairing the piers than seems necessary, and that many of them do no work. As ai iliusiration they state that it appears from the Commisstoncr’s records that it requires four of these worktuen laboring all day to lay one dollar's worth of plaaking. It is also intimated that the Commis- #ioner pays exhorbitant prices for material, and that his roi of craployes is greatly increased about elec- tion times, inqnest in the case of the mysterious child ris stil goingon in i’hilsdeiphia, Several es yesterday testified as to the appearance of eed murderer and generally agreed ta the ne General Rousseau arrived in New Orleans yeater- @ay and assumed command of the Dep Louisiana and Arkansas, being cording to his brevet rank of maj neral, wnen takes command of the Distr of New Orleans met at Lafayette s esterday und demanded immediate relief of the having been t pay for eight mouths, The City Council are endeavoring to devise Inean paying them, but none of the loan au- thortzet islature has yet been taken up. Anew n accepted in the Lowisiuna Legislat Jokn 8. Harris, elected to the United States Senate, The Scheutaen Fest of the New York Scueutzen | * Wood y Washington, pating. atditional accounts of the great At Arica the shock was pre by a sound like that of a a the ground shook from south to nortl. remains standing untouched and the midst of the desolated eiry, a has furnished an oMicial report of the loss Wateree. The stores of the ship were be given to the destitute people. Five men were drowned in the fre menced at este Ap eoly het of Saturday night by the breaking of the Champlain Canal, Cheir | bordies were found on the levee on Monday, The Georgia House of Representatives has de- clared that negro members claiming one-ciguth negro blood are ineligible. Two boys, one aged only fourteen, were arrested yesterday and confessed to roybing the safe belong- ing to the Board of Brokers on Wall street of $700. A large amount of the money Was recovered and the boys were committed. Mrs, Buchignani, formerly Mra. General Eaton, ob- feiued w Warrant yesterday from Justive Dodge for - | over quare ant tempest, and then | whelmed it, The other course open to the democracy was to be consistent—we might say to be honest, if such a word as honesty had any application to the case—to stick to its text—that old formula of 1864, which declared the war to be a failure and a gigantic injustice. By taking this course the democracy would commit itself to a reac- tionary policy, and while it would command the intense admiration of itsextreme admirers would rally all its force around its strongest idea, in a democratic sense; it would drive into the arms of the republicans all men whose heads were clear as to our recent history. It was put on this course by the extreme men in the Convention who manwuyered the nomi- nation of Seymour and who represented the element that had opposed the government during the war. Buillied or cheated into com- pliance by these men, the democracy may now see in the verdict from Maine that the people look upon it as merely fighting the lost canse vain, and are as resolutely determined nat it shall not win as they were when the of that cause was the fleld of bat CH IN THE Pacirio.—Our y The F day s shows how active is the policy j of France in the Pacific. Napoleon does | himself with merely orn | His eye is ever open to the | interests of France abroad as well as to the | interests of the French at home or in Europe. | Te sees the immense importance of the Pacific | in the future of the world’s commerce, and is doing his best to secure for France a fair amount of ¢ England is even more active than France. The thousand islands in the South Pacific, all of them rich in agricul- tural and mineral wealth, are too valuable not to be cared for by the two most advanced of | European nations. The wonder is not that they are, but that the United States authori- | ties are so careless about what is manifestly | their own int We cannot be too active now. Indifference or carelesaness will be the source of trouble in times to come, ces, What Dows Mr. Tuorston Wanr?—We are informed that the British Minister, Mr. Thornton, has had another interview with the President. What is Mr. Thornton looking after? Is it Canadian reciprocity, or the Fe- | nians on the border, or an extension of time in the matter of those Alabama claims ? NEW YORK HERALD, WHDNUSDAY, Mesico and Ita Destiny. The news from Mexico is becoming very fat and insipid, yet what we do get shows the same disorganized and demoralized condition of the country that has existed for a long time past. In fact Mexico is going from bad to worse all the time, When it is not in the midst of anarchy and bloodshed, through the wars of rival chiefs and predatory bands, it is torn by political factions and brought to bank- ruptey by plundering officials. How can such & population of mixed and conflicting races, steeped in ignorance and superstition for the most part, and swayed first one way and then another by arich and powerful priesthood or by military chieftains, establish a settled gov- ernment? How can they understand or main- tain freedom and republican institutions? It is impossible. It would be contrary to the nature of things and all history, Mexico has passed through every phase of political exist- ence and failed in all. The civilized nations of the world are disgusted and tired with the spectacle, and pray for its removal by some means. The press of Europe calls upon the United States to put an end to the evil and to make Mexico a respecta- ble country. The trouble that country has already given us in one war and in the immi- nent dangor of another and greater one, our own peace, the highest considerations of a broad and statesmanlike policy and the public sentiment of our own country, all call for an- nexation or a provisional government over Mexico. We have had it in our power twice to ac- complish that object. Mexico was actually in our possession in 1847 and 1848, until given up in May of the latter year by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Mexicans wanted General Scott then to hold their country either by assuming control himself or for the United States. But the Southern politicians, who controlled the government of that day, Presi- dent Polk, the Cabinet, Congress and all, gave up the magnificent prize, holding only Califor- nia and New Mexico. These politicians were narrow-minded and short-sighted. They were haunted by the bugbear of slavery and the fear of acquiring a vast territory in the southern part of the Continent that might be erected into free States. They were incapable of looking beyond their own day and narrow sphere. They could not see the inevitable destiny of this country or of Mexico. They lost a glorious opportunity. The next time Mexico was within our grasp, without the danger or cost of a great or pro- longed war, was when the French and their ephemeral empire was forced ont of the country by the moral power of the United States. The intervention and war in Mexico were, as General Grant said, parts of our rebellion. He wanted to send Sheridan or to go himself to finish the rebellion on and over the line of the Rio Grande. He wanted to make a tho- rough and clean job of the whole matter before our large armies were disbanded. A small force at that time could have taken the whole country and have given that peace, stability | | } } of the United § and prosperity which Mexico needed and still needs so much. But the fur-seeing and states- manlike views of General Grant did not suit Mr. Seward. The trimming and timid policy of the Secretary of State prevailed. Seward and that cunning little half-breed Indian, Ro- mero, defeated the grand programme of Gen- eral Grant and as a consequence plunged Mexico into prolonged anarchy. It was not the Southern slaveholding politicians that held back the destiny of Mexico this time, but our short-sighted and weak Secretary of State.’ But forbearance with Mexico is exhausted, and both humanity and policy now demand either the absorption of that country or a pro- tectorate over it. Absorption would be best, because that has to come sooner or later, and would put an end to further trouble, Should General Grant be elected President we have no doubt he will inangurate a policy looking to the annexation of Mexico, That would be in accordance with the views he has expressed already and with his lofty patriotism, It would satisfy the ambitious aspirations of our people, would give employment to swarms of restless and adventurous spirits, and would allay politi- cal and sectional asperities at home by turning public attention in another direction. Such was the policy that ancient Rome always pur- sued to unite her people and to give peace among her own citizens. Our destiny is to become a continental Power, from Central America or the Isthmus of Panama to the Arctic cirele. Mexico is now ripe and ready to fall into the lap of the United States. By and by Canada and all the British American posses- sions will follow. It would be folly to delay in the case of Mexico, Annexed to the United States that country would become in a few years richer than any other on the globe, It would soon eclipse California, with all the snrprising resources and progress of that State; for the wealth of Mexico in minerals, richness of soil and variety of productions is almost boundless. Our commerce would re- ceive a wonderful development and the general wealth would be vastly increased, The Mexi- cans themselves would rejoice at deliverance from anarchy tnd at the grand future openéd to them, In every point of view, therefore, both for the w of Mexico and the interests . the absorption of that try has become a necessity. ‘To accom- plish this should be the leading and fixed policy of American statesmen. Tok Exreror’s Srecon at Caatons.—-The British press, it appears, is being exten exercised about the Emperor's speech on leav- ing the camp at Chilons. The Emperor, it seems, has given up speechmaking. ‘He would not,” he said, “say more, as the public prints would be sure to draw prophecies of war, however moderate his words might be. This is a triumph to the public press and a positive gain to the public at large, Better have no speeches than speeches which darken counsel or which mean nothing. ‘Speech is silvern,” said an old divine, ‘but silence is golden.” Napoleon hath chosen the better part. Long may he cling to it. We are all very much tired of speeches, Tuk Deapweienes or vig Demooracy— The chiefs of the rebellion, who assumed again last July to dictate the democratic ticket and platform, who assume to expound again the constitution according to Calhoun, and to restore the old antediluvian Bourbon epoch of poor Pierce and Buchanan, SEPTEMBER 16, 1668.—1KiP LE Roebuck Rampant. Mr. Roebuck, Member of Parliament for Sheffield, would not be recognizable in his public or private capacity unless he indulged in snarl, The peoullarity of carping at somebody or something marks his identity. His latest known effort in this direction was at the dinner given to Reverdy Johnson by the cutlers of Sheffield, upon which occasion he served up his dish of compliments to this country and its new and unpresented repre- sentative in England with a very highly spiced sauce of sarcasm. Mr. Roebuck probably, then as at all other times, thought that he would not be a fair representative of Sheffield if he was not as sharp as her razors and as finely pointed as her carving knives. A bitter opponent of the spirit of Union which animated the North during the war which became neces- sary to keep this country together, it is not surprising that Mr. Roebuck ld be found reminding his auditors of many unpleasant facts concerning us, and doing so with his proverbial irritation of temper and causticity of language. But, while there were some unpalatable truths in the gentleman's speech, the discreetness or good taste of selecting that time and occasion to give utterance to them is very questionable indeed. What Mr. Roe- buck might have found it desirable to say to his constituents upon English politics is a matter which concerns himself; but wo hardly think that in the presence of the American Minister, an eminent politician and time long Senator of the United States, was the proper place to state that the politics of this country were in the hands of ‘the buccaneering portion of society,” or that a large part of its population was composed of ‘‘a feculent torrent of almost all the vice and turbulence of Europe.” Mr. Reverdy Johnson responded to this latter sentiment on the following night at the Corporation dinner too moderately when he said that ‘‘whatever ignorance there might be among emigrants arriving in the United States, it would soon yield to a well devised and almost universal #ystem of public schools.” Had our ambassador not been too exuberant and good-natured in his friendly mood toward England just then he might have administered a well deserved rebuke to the honorable member for Sheffield, who was present at the banquet. It would have done Mr. Roebuck no harm to hear many citations of vice, bad fuith aud intrigue on the part of his own coun- ‘yymen during our domestic troubles, of which Mr. Johnson is as cognizant as any other American. The rampageous tirade of Mr. Roebuck is well designated by the Pail Mall Gazette a piece of ‘‘petulant insolence.” foreign Commerce of the United States. The report of Mr. Delmar, the Director of the Bureau of Statistics, on the foreign com- merce of the United States shows that we are not making the progress we ought to make in extending and enlarging our commerce. The imports from foreign countries for the year ending June 30, 1868, were $370,559,737, over twenty-one’ millions of which were re- exported, and the exports, including specie and bullion, were $352,359,639, As compared with 1860 the imports were only about eight millions more and the exports were nearly twenty-one millions less than in that year. As compared with last year, ending June 30, 1867, the imports have fallen off over forty-one mil- lions, while the exports have increased eighteen nillions. This is not a very flattering condition of our foreign commerce, considering that more than three years have passed since the war closed, and that our population and resources have greatly increased in the meantime, Rela- tively to England, France and some other countries we are not making the progress we should make in this respect. The foreign trade of England and France particularly has been rapidly increased within the last eight years. From the reports of the British Board of Trade we learn that the foreign exports of Great Britain last year amounted to over six hun- dred millions of dollars, which, though a falling off from the previous year, vastly ex- ceeds ours. But in addition to this amount the exports to the colonies reached about a hundred and twenty millions. The foreign imports for the same period were over five hundred and thirty millions, and colonial over a hundred millions, The foreign imports and exports of France approach those of England. The Paris Zemps says that during the first half of the present year France has imported merchandise to the amount of 1,738,000,000 francs, or about three hundred and forty, mil- lions of dollars. This is at the rate of six hun- dred and eighty millions a year. The exports were something less, but still very large. ‘The question arises here, how is it that the United States, which have a population larger than that of Great Britain and nearly if not quite as large as that of France, and greater resources than both, are so far behind these countries in foreign commerce ? Why, the sur- plus of our cotton and gold crops which we ex- port amounts to two or three hundred millions a year, to say nothing of tobacco, rice, wheat, corn and other productions. No country is so favorably situated for commerce with the rest of the world, and none has such resources or a more enterprising population: yet we are far behind in the race, This showld not be. There is something wrong, evidently, in our faws and ia the manner in which Congress legislates with regard to commercial interests. Nothing shonld be left undone to promote the comm of the country and to bring it up to that of Great Britain and France. This ought to be the first commercial nation on the globe, and doubtless will be at no distant di but that period may be deferred by bad legislation, and, in the meantime, we may lose much by neglecting this great interest aud the opportu- nities we possess. Tne Vorr or 1866,—-The republican majority in Maine falls some thousands below that of 1866, when they had a majority of some twenty-seven thousand on the Congressional poliey of the constitutional amendment, article fourteen, against the reconstruction policy of Andy Jobnson, In that year, however, in addition to the direct issue of that amendment, the republicans made considerable capital out of those Memphis and New Orleans massacres and the August Philadelphia Johnson Conven- tion, to say nothing of that famous Chicago pilgrimage and those immortal speeches of the President and his Premier on the blessed consti- tution and the art of ‘‘swinging ronnd the circle.” But still the republican majority in Maine in September, 1868, on a much larger aggregate | SHERT. vote than that of 1866, will do as an indication of the general result in November, especially if it be true, as Greeley has it, that the democratic organization sent into Maine ‘its last man and its last dollar ;” but Greeley is too enthusiastic. The democrats in 1856, after the Maine State election, had still some money left for Penn- aylvania, and according to Forney it saved Buchanan. A September Seasion of Congress. Senator E. D. Morgan and Representative Robert ©. Schenck have, in pursuance of the resolution of Congress, called an ad- journed session of the national legisla- ture, the members to assemble in Wash- ington on Monday next, the 2ist inst. The official summons, which appears in our columns to-day, sets forth that Congress before its adjournment directed the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, by resolution, to adjourn the two houses until the third Monday in Septem- ber, and thence, unless otherwise ordered by Congress, to the first Monday in December. As the day first named approaches, the repub- lican members of Congress requested Messrs. Morgan and Schenck to call the Parliamentary body together then, and in accordance with that request they decided to act in the affirma- tive. , The consequence is that Congress will meet next Monday, Senator Morgan and General Schenck, who sign the call, by the way—the one as “Chairman of the Union Republican Committee” and the other as ‘Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee”— recommend that there be a full attendance of members on the 21st instant at noon; although they assure the Senators and Repre- sentatives that it is not expected that ‘‘general logislative business will be entered into at that time” or ‘that the sesssion need be longer than to provide for another adjourn- ment.” They regard it as important, however, that members should attend so as to insure the presence of a quorum in each house, and the assemblage, although likely to be of very brief duration, will be looked for with inte- rest on account of the rapid evolation of political affairs, Financial and Commercial Prospects, The most notable feature of affairs in Wall street at the present time is the extreme abun- dance and cheapness of money, which causes loans to be made at three and four per cent perannum. This is attributed to too great an extent to the foreign balances held here for employment. These are undoubtedly large, but not much more so than they have been for several months past, and although they fur- nish capital they do not provide currency, and it is the supply of and demand for the latter that regulate the rage of interest. Apprehen- sions are expressed that later in the fall strin- gency will take the place of the prevailing ease and that unscrupulous stockjobbing com- binations will be formed to lock up green- backs. In our opinion there is nothing in the present aspect of affairs_ to justify these apprehensions. The supply of money at this centre during the remainder of the year will, it is more than probable, be fully equal not only to the legitimate wants of trade, but to those of Wall street, although it is rea- sonable to look for an advance in the rate of interest to six and seven per cent for a short time after the full effect of the drain of cur- rency to move the grain and cotton crops bas been felt. The business of the country has become adjusted to the volume of the circula- ton, now that contraction has been so long sus- pended and greenbacks are no longer hoarded through distrust of everything else, as was the ease fora long time after Mr. McCulloch de- livered his Fort Wayne speech, while trade is devoid of speculative features. The next most notable feature is the return- ing confidence in our national securities, which suffered a check when the project of taxing the interest on bonds was discussed in Con- gress and when the democratic convention framed its platform. The supply of these has stopped, while the demand goes on unabated and will doubtless increase from year to year, the natural result of which will be a gradual advance in their market value. Just now the home investment demand which would have been felt in July but for the causes referred to has set in, and large purchases are also being made on foreign account, one consequence of which is that the tendency of prices is strongly upward. With respect to gold it is clear that its price has of late been depressed by speculative influences, and that before the Presidential campaign is over speculation will turn in the opposite direction, and that a higher price will be the result, while ap- poarances indicate that the market is already about as low as the bears can succeed in get- ting it under existing circumstances. But as all violent fluctuations in gold, whether for a rise or fall, are productive of evil, the specu- lative manipulation of the premium is to be deprecated., The general trade of the country is mode- rately good for the season, and the grain move- ment is going forward actively. There is a prudent disinclination shown by traders of all classes to do other than a conservative busi- ness, and hence trade is on a sounder and more healthy basis than when long credits were in vogue. Finyncially and commercialiy, there- fore, there is much to inepire confidence both in the immediate and ultimate futare of finan- cial and commercial affairs. Tue Kixe ov Prvesta on THR Evrovean Crimis.—King William of Prussia, in the course of his tour of inspection of the forces | of North Germany, arrived in the Holstein , port of Kicl, in the Baltic, yesterday. Visit- ing the Kiel University the King received an address from the heads of the institution, in which they referred to the peace now preva- lent in Europe and expressed the hope that it would remain undisturbed. The bluff old monarch replied that he did not “see any cause for disturbance,” adding that ‘“‘the army and navy—the vigor of Fatherland—have proved that they do not shun the combat, and if compelled to enter into a conflict they will fight it ont.” This language is certainly frank, plain, Ger- man, and consequently exactly to the purpose, King William cannot see 9 ‘“‘cause for disturb- ance,” but if the army and navy of Germany are “compelled” to a ‘conflict’ they will “fight it out.” The questions now remain who will cause @ disturbance of the peace of ¢ With good eifect, to a crowded house, ge Enrope? Who will compel Germany to. tho conflict and to “fight & out ?” Where will the “line” of contest be ? Heavy Garms.—The nowspaper organ of Messrs. Belmont and .Barlo claims heavy” democratic gains in the Maine election, and that proportionate gains will give them the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Yaodiana by handsome majorities. If a frog at the bottom of a well jumps up four feet and falls back six every jump, how many jumps will bring bim out? AMUSEMENTS. Pakk THEATRE, BROOKLYN.—‘“A Flash of Light- ning” was reproduced for the second time in Brook- lyn at this popular theatre, before a numerous and appreciative audience, with thrilling effect, last evening. Mr. W. Harris as Jack Ryder, J. Z. Littie as SkiMey and F. Chippendale were admirable tn their respective characters, as was also C. Bur- roughs, who took the part of Fred Chauncey. Misa Florence Noble made her first appearence a8 Bessio Falon and well merithd the liberal share of applause bestowed upon her impersonation thereof. Viola Crocker as Rose Falon and. Mra, Yeamans as the the irrepressible Mra. Dowderry were excellent. The properties and stage appointments are very fine, and the piece 1a (in upon the boards in a man- ner deserving of the liberal patronage bestowed by a discrim! Ang public. Musical and Theatrical Notes. Ristori, in a Turin paper, finds fault with the cll- mate of the United States. ‘This is the last week of that incomprehensible and highly flavored drama, “Foul Play,’ in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Bill Lake’s “Hippoolympiad” and mammoth circus, consisting of two hundred and forty horses aud meu, pitches its tent to-morrow in Louisville. Mr. James Taylor, the “Champion Comique"” of Engiand, is delighting the “Hubites” at the Theatre Comique, Boston, with his inimitable personations. The Great Western circus, with its acrobats, clowns and bareback riders, will open its tent for the admission of the public to-morrow afternoon. ‘The “show’’ will be given on the corner of Broadway and Forty-second street, and will remain ia this ctiy but a few day It is announced that a new drama by Mr. Lester Wallack is at present in active rehearsal at Wood's Museum, Chicago, The title of the plece has not yet been made pubic. : Miss J. Benson, now performing at the Var' ties theatre, Pittsburg, challenges aay female danc in the world, for $1,000 a side, to dunce a clog dance with her. The Arch street theatre, Philadelphia, opened for the s n on Saturday evening, under the able management of Mra. Join Drew. Mr, Barton Hitiie engaged to play the leading male characters at this theatre. Edwin Booth commenced a short season at the National, Cinciriuati, on Monday evening, appearing as Hamlet, with the accomplisied Miss Blauche De Bar as Ophelia. Sooty Pittsburg is waking up. It is enjoying itaeit at present with a varieties theatre, a parlor me- nagerie and a wonderful inagician, who distribuves umong his audience genuine twenty dolar gold pleces every night. Mr. E. L. Davenport's engagement at the Salt Lake City theatre has been very renunerative. [He is now panne way home to Massachusetts by. “‘atage’ over the plains; but tatends returning to San lrancisce about the latter part of October, where he is to assume full charge of the business department of the Metropolitan theatre. The Richings English Opera troupe gave the “Bohe- mian Girl” jast evening at the Arch, Philadeiphia, Mra, Seguin, the charming contralto, so it is reported, recently had a little episode (female), but has so far recovered. Trom its effects as to be able to sing again. Mr. Bateman's travelling opera bouge pa tah have opened in Chicago with great success, Mlle. Tostee sustains thetdle of the fair but fickle Hé . Mille, Lainbelé assumes the tights, the riding whip and the Tsing-la-la of the jolly Orestes, with M. Decré playing the part of the unconscionable Paris. “La Belle Héléne” will be followed by the “Duchess,” which in turn will be ousted from the boards by “Barbe Bleue.’ All4his will occupy two weeks and will probably satisfy the gay Chicagoans for a year at least. Mrs. D. P. Bowers is delighting the San Francia- cans with savory slices of tragedy and highly favored sensational dramas. ‘Antony and Cleopatra” now go hand in hand with the ‘Belle of the Faubourg” and “Meg Merrilies,”’ while ‘Natalie, or the Death Barge of the Loire’ serves at times to Moat our charming and popular actress pleasantly upou the sunny streain of success, THE SCHUETZENFEST, The Eleventh Annual Festival of the Now York Schuetzen Corps—The Prizes Won Yesterday—What Will be Done To-day and To-morrow—The Regulations for Shooting. The New York Schuetzen Corps commenced their eleventh annual Schuetzenfest yesterday. It will continue to-day and close to-morrow. Jones’ Wood has been selected as the place, it being the most accessible, and since the improvements made by the committees of the great American Schuetzenfest of last July, the most advantageous locality in the city for such a festival, Early in the morning the dete- gation from New Haven, Conn., was received, and later those from Baltimore, Washington gud Phila- deiphia. An honorary escort was detailed to receive them and they were all brougnt to Central Hal on the Bowery, where Captain. Join F. Gerdes made the welcoming speech. At at in the morning the whoie sion marched to the residence of Captain Gerdes, when Mra. Gerdes presented the delegations from abroad with handsome bouquets of ‘lowers, and then calling and taking in charge Mr. Henry Brummerhop, on Forsyth street, the gentleman who was made king at the last Schuetzenfest, they marched to the foot of Market street, where they embarked on a steamboat for Jones’ Wood. At eleven A. M. the shooting commenced, The reguia- \ions for the shooting are as follows:— 1. Shooting off-hand; distance three hundred feet. 2 Where c: pyear doubtful, or whenever an erroe F of the committee (Shootingiias: 8 disinterested jail pro- ‘get to decide the point, rahi a 8. All discharges of the ritles above the stand, when in the hands of the owner or uny other person fronting the tar; will be taken in account and entered; but ail dischar; the rifle while yet on the rout stand or shelves shall be co- garded as acckiental. 4. It is expressly prohibited that the rifle or body lesn on or against any support whatever; to load, cap or discharse capa anywhere but on the stand: to gn’to the targots aind jer refreshments to the marker; to use rifles with apy- ry telescopes or diopters, to smoke within the shooting gallery’; no ontaide shooting for practice or otherwise will be allowed on the ground. 5. To prevent acckieats gentlemen are respectfully and ear. neatly requested to nae all dite precautions, always keeping the rougzie of their rifles upwarda. 6, The opening oa each day will be at eight o'clock A. (except the Ara: day at Il o'eiock). ‘The closing will be at six o'clock P.M. 7. The measuring of shots will be made by the committee to that effect, aided by some of the mombers or shooters, All not provided for in the above requiations to the decision of the committee and three disiuteremed members. These regulations are for the targets. There is star shooting aud bird shooting besides, The iatter was most patronized yesterday. The bird is the oid double headed representative of imperial y. With it# three crowns, W: The following r" mr lett hag, P. U. Bi sceptre, J. H. Die . ‘The apple was next in or and though many shots hit ttand half of it was be away by them, tt would not fail by the time the non announced the end of the shooting for tir it sliould be noticed that at the opening of t ing Captain Gerdes, fn obedience to custom, fired three shots, one for the United States, one for tue President and one for himself, and hit the bull's eye the prizes to be shot for amount to about 1° fortunate shot that brings down tie of the bird will be crowned as shooting yesterday Mr. G. W. the first and last bull's eve and the fthem during the day. This mora- ing will commence at nine o'clock, and shooters from Charleston, 5. C., WhO at- i ulght, Will participate. OBSEQUIES OF COMMODORE E. A. STEVENS. the funeral of the late Edwin A. Stevens will (axe place to-day, from St. Paul's Episcopal chatch, cor- ner of Hudson and Third streets, Hoboken. It wilt be attended by the memoers of the New York Yachs Club, of which Mr. Stevens was formerly the com. modore. ence SD SINGULAR ACCIDENT ON THE BOSTON ANO ALBANY fa'L2040, ‘To THE Eprror OF TAR HERALD? A singular accident occurred Monday afternoon om the Boston and Albany Railroad, between Canaaa and East Chatham, about thirty miles east of Albany, ‘The westward bound train at @ crossing ran intoa bi ing Mr. and Mrs. Beebe, quite agea pe fo welt Knew in Chatham, The horse had Crossed the track and the hind part of the buggy was struck by the engine. The cy ad was thrown up and caught on the platform in front of the engine, the old people remaining in it and being thus carried two-thirds of a mile before tho train was ped. The old lady was nearly dead, old gentleman was not so badiy hurt, although the extent of his injuries was not known, a brother of Judge Deebe, of this city,