The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches Herarp, must be addressed New York BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Fatnon Sry—STRing OF PRARLS. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Lasr Nignts oF Fout Puay. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hompry DcnrrY, wits New Frarunss. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—ELI7AbFTH, QUEEN or EnGiann. —FRENOH Comte OPERA— many Building, Mth FerEeeay tO LUORETIA BORGIA. THIOPIAN MINSTE KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRE PIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQU street. —E SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 545 Broadway.—Eviro- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANULNG, &C. 2 QW Bowery.—Comte TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. Vooatism, NEGRO MINSTRELS’ 514 Broadway.-Tar Gruar Oat » VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. THEATRE COMI Grewal Lingamp 4. MUSEUM AND THEA’ —Afternoon and eve , Thirtieth street and erforinance. IRVING HALL # DionaMa or Lin- COLN'S FUNERAL DODWORTH HALL, £06 Broadway. SiGNOK BiiiZ PIKE'S MUSIC HA avenue —MCLvoy's H ‘Tur CRLEBRaTry Md street, corner of Eighth NICO, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—Turo. Tuomas’ POPULAR GARDEN Con: % iREAT WESTERN CTRC| |. EQUESTRIAN AND ¢ ner Broadway and 4% WOOL Minern 'S OPERA MABSA-N URI HO: Brooklyn. —Hoonny’s VHE BLA Fi NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANA BolkNor Asv Ant. TRIPLE SUEET. ‘ork, Thursday, September 17, 186%. TOMY, 618 Broadway.— THE NaWs. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, September 16. ) American hay will not be perinitted into England @xcept under government license from London, M. (Guizot advises Napoleon to reduce the French army. The King of Prussia will review the German fleet at Kiel. Count Bismarck goes to England by advice of his physicians. The English judges decided that ‘women cannot be registered as voters uuder the Reform bill. The speech of the King of Prussia produced no excitement in Paris, Berlin reports ave peaceful. The Turkish troops fought a severe battie with the Bulgarian insurgents, defeating and driving them to the Balkan mountains. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, wor we t ray SEPTEMBER 17, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. writer gives several amusing instances of the dodges they aim to practise upon the unwary, in one of which @ lobby man attempted to represent himself personally as Ben Butler, Mr. Binckley, it is said, has resigned his position 48 solicitor in the Internal Revenue Department, but the resignation has not yet been accepted by the Secretary of the Treasury. The international cricket match between the Ail England Eleven and twenty-two of New York was commenced yesterday at the grounds of the St. George’s Club, The Eleven won the toas and went in first, At the call of time seven wickets had fallen for 127 runs, Play will be resumed this morning. ‘The case of Martine and Rae, charged with forging @ promissory note for $2,985, was continued before Justice Dowling at the Tombs yesterday. A motion of counsel for the discharge of Rae was denied, and an examination on the part of Martine was waived. ‘The case was then adjourned until to-day. The Councilmanic committees, in company with General Viele, yesterday inspected Washington and Fulton markets, The North German Lloyd's steamship America, Captain Ernst, will leave Hoboken about two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen, The mails will be closed at the Post Ofice at twelve M. ‘The steamship Herman Livingston, Captain Eaton, will leave pier 36 North river at three P. M, to-day for Savannah, The steamship Monterey, Captain Ryder, of Leary’s line, will sail at three P. M, to-day from pier 14 East river for Charleston, 8. ‘The stock market was strong and active yesterday, Government securities were dulls Gold closed at M4434 ality, The New York State Election—1°67 and 186s. The result of the State election in New York last fall astonished everybody, From the general falling off of republican majorities in the early elections and the turning over of two or three States to the democrats it was evident that au apathy prevailed among the republicans growing out of with the violent measures of C issatisfaction and the admitted incompetency, extravagance and corruption pervading the government. But there was no anticipation anywhere that New York, after the steady republican majorities she had cast almost uninterruptedly for years, would be so completely revolutionized as to give, as she did, on a full vote, a rousing fifty thousand democratic majority. The sweeping character of their vietory was probably the worst misfortune that could have befallen the democratic party. It checked the growing desire for a reorganization and combination of all the conservative elements in opposition to radicalism, inspired the old party leaders and politicians with false hopes, gave renewed life to the secession element of the South and the copperhead element of the North, and induced the belief that the loyal people of the Union were prepared to forget all they had sacrificed and suffered and to entrust the life of the nation in the hands of the men who had so recently endeavored to destroy it. If the democratic leaders had beea far-see- ing statesmen instead of mere narrow-minded ward politicians they would never fave fallea into this fatal error. They would have known that the great change in the vote of New York was entirely disconnected with national ques- tions, and could not be accepted as evidence that the people who had steadily supported Consois, 04 for money. and 76 in Frankfort. Cotton improved, With middling uplands at 10d. | Breadsiufs quiet. Provisions aud un: | changed. MISCELLANEOUS. Telegraphic advices from Mexico city to the 12th inst, state that Congress had assembled, a quorum being present. The question of allowing De Tejada Yo hold his place on the Supreme Bench and in the Ministry at the same time was declared in his favor, Lozada was concentrating troops at Barrancas and Ixtlan, Our Mexican letters are dated Mexico city, August 29, and Vera Cruz, September 5. An official aceount of the murder of General Patont in Durango is pub- lished. The President had immediately ordered the arrest of General Cauto and the trial of the muarder- ers, who belonged to Cauto’s brigade, by military commission, A vigorous search is still kept for Negrete and Mandez, the leaders of the Puebla re- Dellion, which has been completely quelled, General Ortega has renounced absolutely all claims on the Presidency and given in his allegiance to Juarez. | The news from Hayti by the Cuba cable ts to the efrect that the Cacos were again concentrating their forces, It was thought that the northern part of the republic would secede and forin an tudependent government. Our Havana correspondence is dz. The fines imposed on the American steamers Liberty and Cuba have been revoked. Considerable excitement had been occasioned im Santiago by the discovery of a Chinaman addicted to child eating. Governor Brownlow, of Tennes: nas issued his proclamation calling for ioyal militia to put down the armed conspirators in the State. The YVifth Five-twenties, London, produce dated September Untied States cavalry passed through Lynchburg, | Va., yesterday, on their way to Nashville, Tenn, The Alabama Legislature met in extra session at Montgomery yesterday, and a message from Goy- ernor Smith relative to providing a registry law was received, In the Georgia Senate yesterday two new members were sworn in to take the place of the negro mem- Yers recently expelled, The House still has under discussion the bill probibiting negroes from serving on juries . Despatches from Fort Wallace state that the In- Gians recently made a dash on the cattle herd with. in haifainile of the fort, but the herd was driven Anto the corral before they could reaeh it, Hostile Dands had been hovering around Pond City, four mites from the fort, and had stampe an bat wore overtaken by th troops aud thelr y ‘The ancient festival on Salisbury beach county, Mass., came off with g notwithstanding a slight rain. were Dr. Loring, General Bat pnd others, Politics were ignored. Ata republican mass meeting im Ka Yesterday, Governor Holden and hs se Hawley, of Connecticut, and others made speec lard ebampionship of America was won at 0 last last evening by McDevitt against Dion of Me The 1,500 points, and MeDevitt ade a run of 1,462, winning the game, When Dion had only counted 403, aeore was The political campaign tn some localities outside of the Southern States appears to be assuming a nt asp A Grant civb in ‘Troy, while in Procession, on «lay night, was wsaailed by a hid. den enemy, and two of the members were se y injured. A republican meeting in a hall at New London, Covn., also assailed, stones be ing harted through the window A republican ciub in Philadelphia was attacked bw a crowd of roughs, and a fight en 1, in whieh sand axea were used, five rep f wounsted When the steamer W. ( ploded on the Mississippi, over two years 4 belo Adams Express Company wo ational currency. After two the safe it was recove t the New Orleaus Wrecking Company several ago. A Washington attorney ¢ curious insight into the working Capitol, He says the lobbyists are simply gamblers, who risk nothing. They have no infuence what ever with Congressmen except to prejudiee them fyainst any claims they may favor. The shrewdest ones never go pear a Congressman, although they may profess to the victim to be manipulating hs cluim, but they simply wait, and when the clati ts ing to ” for with 200, 1, with the me & Vermont pay of the lobby int granted, although through no influence whatever of tuelt own, they auletiv demand their share. The | a glass of beer to a thirsty man, captured, 1 the war and poured out their wealth so freely for the protection of the nation were prepared, in the first Presidential election after t sup- | pression of the rebellion, to restore to power | the men who had for four years offered every possible obstruction to the Union cause. But they were blind and obstinate, and are now paying the penalty of their folly. The fact is that the election in New York last fall was con- trolied entirely by two interests strictly local and temporary in their character ; first, the anti-liqnor law interest, and next, the anti- Fenton interest. The radicals at Albany had indulged, as they always do when in power, in sumptuary legislation. They sought to con- trol the appetites and recreations of the masses by laws restricting the sale of liquor and lager and providing pains and penalties for any per- son who should violate the Sabbath by selling They passed one law for the cities of New York and Brook- lyn and another law for the rest of the State, inaking fish of one portion of the citizens and flesh of another, At the same time Greeley, | Wendell Phillips and other ultra radicals were | opposing and denouncing General Grant ; the conservative republicans, who were Grant's friends, were insultingly kicked out of the State Convention, and the State ticket was made up wholly out of the Fenton radical ranks. The election of 1867 was fought in New York upon the issues thus formed. Every | German and Irishman who rebelled against the oppressive aud absurd License law joined the democrats at the polls without regard to politics and voted for their candidates. The | friends of Seward and Weed in the. Custom | House, the Post Offices, the Internal Revenue Department and in every school district in the | State voted against the radical ticket. The | Grant men everywhere either remained away from the polls or voted with the democrats. Yew York city down to twenty-six thonsand the State by fifty thousand majority. Ke lection of 1868 in New York presents a different aspect. The last r, after securing a majority in one branch islature and possessing the power democrats to foree | Governor « valuable modification of the Metro poliian Excise law which would have removed all and offensive betrayed their friends and obstructed any al tion of the law in order that they might retain it as political capital for another cam- The liquor men, howe are hard to mid time, and it is now impossi- its oppressive © a se ble r excitement of last fall, espectally when the great champion and patron of free lager is a candidate for Governor on the republi ticket, , dent, aud , Phillips and the radicals, | ae well ag all the conservative republicans in | the State, are giving him an ardent support. The elections in Vermont and Maine hav shown his great str Ohio, Ind Pennsylvania and Towa will shadow of a doubt, to ana, put his success beyond th bvery Seward State who last t voted against the Fenton ticket will this year vote aud labor for Grant and Griswold. The Germans, who were ham- bugged last year on the lager question and who have again had to pay thelr exorbitant license fee, will vote for Griswold, the Gam- brinus of free lager, who will give them | speedy relict, La this city aloue the republican vote will be fully doubled, and everywhere there are unmistakable indications that on the question of loyalty, on the question of policy, on the question of morality and on the question of whiskey and lager beer the State of New York will go back to her old position and cast a heavy majority against the copperhead democracy. The Troubles in Tennessee—Governor Brown- low’s Proclamation, Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, has just issued a proclamation calling on the loyal men of the State to raise companies of loyal militia, to report to him at Nashville, for the purpose of protecting the State from the depredations of the Ku Klux Klan. He hopes, of course, that the new force may not be called into the field; but in case they are he proposes to meet the enemy with a force and in a manner that the exigency may demand, whatever may be the consequence. The fact that General Thomas, commanding the department, had recently received instructions from the President, in view of the depredations alluded to by the Governor, to call for a sufficient force of United States troops to maintain order, is an incident that does not cause the Governor to be any more moderate than he would other- wise have been in the number of militia that he calls for. In fact, he expresses a doubt of the General being furnished with sufficient troops to maintain order; and if his doubt should be incorrect and the federal troops should prove sufficient he proposes to co-ope- rate with them, The Fifth regiment of cay- alry—probably a portion of the troops called for—passed through Lynchburg, Va., yester- day on their way to Nashvi Vighting on the Line of the Danube, fhe Torkish troops serving in Bulgaria, aided by reinforcements recently despatched from Constantinople, have met the insurgent After a fierce fight, provoked by an attack of the Bulgarians on one of their forts, the imperial soldiers were victorious, They repulsed the rebel agricul- turisis, and, emerging from their works, pur- sued them to their shelter in the Balkan moun- tains. The Turks sustained a heavy loss, our telegrams from Belgrade reporting two hun- dred of the Sultan's soldiers killed. This oceurrence will produce great excite- ment in Constantinople and inflame all the populations bordering on the Danube, inaugu- rating, it may be, a military and _ political crisis calculated to give vent to the war feeling which so deeply agitates the Old World. Tur- key will endeavor, no doubt, to ‘‘crush out” the Bulgarian rebellion, but it may be ques- tioned if Russia will stand by with folded hands and permit the still further sub- jugation of such steadfast adherents of the Greek Church, particularly as it is alleged that she has already encouraged them towards a final struggle for disenthralment from the rule of the Porte. Hungary, and consequently the Austrian government, will feel much in- terest in the national fate and future of her provincials in battle. | Eurigration and that carried the democrats into power in | ancient territory, while Moldavia, Wallachia, Bessarabia and Servia will watch the result with an impatient anxiety. Austria will now tara her attention to the Balkan range, and an “Eastern question” war in a new shape may float her flag from the plaia of Sophia to the border of the Black Sea after involving most of the great Powers in conflict. The September Meeting of Congress. Mr. Morgan, of the Senate, and Mr, Schenck, of the House of Representatives, in the exer- cise of the discretion reposed in them, have issued a call for the reassembling of the two Houses of Congress on Monday next. They do not propose to enter into any business, but they wish a quorum to be present promptly at noon in each house, so that they may at once provide for another meeting if necessary in the interval to December. But why these ex- traordinary precautions to meet contingencies ? This question may be answered in two words— Andy Johnson. The two houses distrust Andy Johnson. If he had declared himself in favor of General Grant it would lave been all right; buat Mess Morgan and Schenck have their misgivings of ‘the man at the other end of the avenue,” looking at him as a supporter of Mr. Seymour, With a free course before him till December there is no telling what this belligerent Johnson might do. He might, ac- cording to the carpet-baggers, turn Rollins and all the radical officeholders out neck and heels; he might play the very deuce among the Southern negroes and get up such a fuss generally as to throw the whole election of November into chaos. Hence Messrs. Morgan and Schenck have thought it wise to keep a tight rein upon Andy, though we dare say he cares very little in point of fact whether Grant or Seymour is elected, inasmuch as neither Seymour nor Grant is the et which he had cut out for this campaign, | It was all this that ran the republican vote ix | Keform=—A Good Idea, Tt appears from our Berlin correspondence from the other branch and from the | features, | | the whiskey and lager beer | i- | and crew, subject sonet th, and the elections in | that the Prussian government has decided upon & most effectual method of reforming the emi- gration system and protecting its people from the rapacity and heartlessness of shippers and The plan proposed is to com- | shipper of emi nis to insure the | ‘y adult passe r tor two bundred thalers and for one handred rs, the amount to go to those of the ly who are left behind upon the death of any passenger during th the shipowner | the health am culated to secure of the betior good doc and a more ft is well tors efticien ine ches wn that after the ¢ s weighed the steerage grant “hip passengers are at the morey of the captain nes to despotism and | cruelty such as are to he | other circumstances. Ther | this German sug y prominent relovn in found under no e we loo and a resent much ml system of emigration it will be carr many, but in © count a potitiefan in the | Rowpyisa.—The rowdies » city and its surroiwndiogs seem to be holding a | sort of revival in opposition to the religious revival of Water sireet, and still the question recurs, what ‘are our city authorities about ? They are simply proving the necessity of plac- ing the city for a time uuder some special authorities of the State, nd rafiaus of the upon | France and the Peace of Europe. Day after day our cable and mail news renders it more and more difficult to believe in the continuance of peace in Europe. The Pall Mall Gazette, one of the most enlightened and cautious of English journals, has at last been compelled to acknowledge that war is more than probable before the end of the year. Napoleon's attention to the army in- creases. In the International Congress of workingmen at Brussels the probability of an early war seems to have monopolized both attention and time. The King of Prussia in his tour through the northern provinces receives addresses and speaks out with a bluntness which is quite refreshing, although it does not encourage hopes of peace. Mean- while we find the British, the German, the Dutch and the Belgian press full of specula- tion in relation to certain movements of the Emperor, having for their object the establish- ment of a French Zollverein, Holland and Belgium to be included. ‘ These various items of news, all connected more or less directly with the west of Europe, do not exhaust the alarming rumors current all over the Continent. The threatened Franco-Spanish alliance has already produced a not unnatural excitement in Italy. The Italian government, resigned to its fate, has been quietly going on and somewhat success- fully doing its work since the unfortunate affair at Mentana. A continuance of the present aystem of quiet domestic government, tending as it does towards the development of the re- sources of the peninsula, might at no distant day render a solution of the Roman question as easy and peaceful as it would be satisfac- tory to all concerned. The relations which have sprung up between France and Spain have infused new life into the party of action, aud Garibaldian threats and Mazzini letters and rumored movements of large bodies of men towards the Papal frontier are now filling men’s minds all over the Italian peninsula, In the event of a war breaking out in the North and a Spanish soldier touching Roman or Italian soil, or a Spanish war ship anchor- ing in Italian waters, Italy would burst into one general blaze of patriotism which nothing but a deluge of blood could quench. So is it in the South. Matters are scarcely less alarming in the East. The Greeks, what- ever we may say of their success, are siill as full of ambition as ever. The Cretan patriots, in spite of the apparent hopelessnoss of their cause, still look forward to the time when the Greek race, reunited, shall resume their once lofty place in the great family of nations. The Servians and other members of the so-called Slavonic family hesitate in deciding upon incorporation with Russia or upon the establishment of a separate Slavonic empire which shall embrace all the non-Gre- cian Christian subjects of the Porte ; while the Poles, the one Slavenic people who detest the idea of incorporation with any Power, long more intensely than ever for their ancient national independence. Europe 13 thus seen to be ia a peculiarly combustible condition, It requires but the application of the match to produce a general and destructive conflagration. It matters little where the match is applied, whether in the West or the South or the East, it is all but ab- solutely certain that the flames will spread until every nation of the Continent is wrapped in their ruinous embrace. Suppose, for ex- ample, that the forces of France and Prussia were to come into collision on the Rhine, and that Spain were to attempt to garrison Rome, is it not certain that a war to the death would break out between Italy and Spain? Is it not just as certain that the Cretan insurgents would feel encouraged to make a fresh effort for their independence? Can it be doubted that Greece, and after Greece Russia, would exert themselves to the utmost to fan the flame of rebellion throughout the Christian provinces of the Turkish dominions? If Rus- sia had not already joined Prussia against France Russia would at last have found her opportunity to march on Constantinople and make good her pretension to be the natural successor of the great Roman empire of the East. Supposing England to have refused to fight for Belgium and Holland, would she re- main passive and see the iron-clads of Russia domivate the Dardanelles? Great Britain in the fray, where, how, when will the matter end? Who can answer? The only thing that is certain now is that Burope is on the eve of a great and serious crisis, Health of the City. The latest report of the death rate in the city indicates the good effect of cooler weather, the very high figures of the severely hot season having fallen nearly to the usual average. Nevertheless the report still shows that our sanitary condition is inferior to that of great European cities—even London, and therefore that there is plenty of room for the amelioration of the life of the poor by means within the power of the Board of Health, Comparing only London and this cily in regard to situation. temperature and the social con- dition, one can hardly escape the conclusion that our death rate ought to be much the smaller ; though we do expect, a8 soe persons apparently do, that this Board can change the laws of life and avert otherwise essary mortality, though we do not expect that it can do much agai those great causes of mortality—the ignorance and recklessnes charged with tl dren—yet the done that is fairly within the r commission. — Perla must hasten slowly in this busines Our people are not used to being “governed” as much as some others, and they are apt to the hand of authority upon them in any unusnal way. In European cities sanitary legislation is complete, and the sanitary author- ities seldom encounter so long stood in the way of the removal of the liter honses from this city, Our lawa, there- , are framed to respect the individual free+ dow as much as 1 : but they have got to be much less dainty with it to be effective, In regard to the tenement houses this is especially trne. Here in July, with the population of the city reduced perhaps by two hundred thousand absentees, the death rate was doubled, and it is in the tenement houses, in the homes of the very poor mainly, that this increase takes place. When our laws are not content with seading some inspector to look after au and therefore, not care even of their own ehil- ach of a sanitary resist such obstacles as have * the teaement house parents | is apparently much still to be | odd drain here and there, but can boldly take up this subject in the right spirit and require that every house rented for tenements shall be constructed for the purpose and in a way to insure that it can easily be kept clean, and that light and air shall have free access to every apartment, then, indeed, a particularly hot night in the homes of the city poor will not be as destructive to life as a battle, and the rate of mortality will keep much nearer to & good average. The Street Commissioner and the Wharves and Piers. The communication from the Citizens’ Asso- ciation to the Street Commissioner which we published yesterday reveals a very extraordi- nary state of affairs in relation to keeping our wharves and piers in repair. According to the statements of the Association the work is most loosely and extravagantly done ; and they assert that they do not make these allegations upon mere presumption or guess, but that they have had the piers and wharves surveyed, and thus what they state is a matter of fact and actual calculation. They charge that more workmen are employed than necessary, that four men in a day’s work only lay one dollar's worth of planking, while their wages amount to ten or twelve dollars, The Association fur- ther charge that in the months during which elections take place, or pending elections, four times as many men are employed by the Com- missioner as at any other time, but that less work has been done on the wharves by the larger than by the smaller number, thus imply- ing that the men are used for other purposes than attending to the wharves and piers. They further complain that the Commissioner charged the city from thirty-five to thirty-seven dollars a thousand feet for lumber, when the market price was only twenty-five dollars, and that an aggregate amount of one hundred and seven thousand feet of lumber charged for has never been accounted for in the work done. Now, Mr. McLean may be an average good Street Commissioner, as our public officers generally go, but it seems strange that all these facts should have to be brought before any official having control of his own depart- ment by a volunteer society of citizens who took the trouble to find out facts and frauds in connection with a public department of which, it is to be hoped, its official head knew nothing. The charges of the Citizens’ Association are not general, They are specific and minute in detail. To their communication Mr. McLean replies that he is grateful for their suggestions and will look into the matter. One might well ask the question why he did not look into the matter while the alleged frauds were being committed. If the charges are true the Street Commissioner must be either derelict in his duty or his subordinates must be too smart for him. Mr, McLean promises that he will give the subject presented an immediate and a thorough examination and communicate ac- cordingly. While we trust that he will be able to explain the matters which the Citizens’ Association have brought to light, it is to be regretted that he did not take measures long ago to render the presentation of such charges unnecessary, if they should happen to be proved true. The Coming Opera Season, In the coming opera season Italian opera, it seems, is to be conspicuous only by its ab- sence. Mapleson has decided not to come to New York until next year, and has written a request to be released from his engagement with the stockholders of the American Acad- emy of Music. One reason, perhaps the prin- cipal reason, assigned for this important change in the programme is the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of securing first class tenors, A tenor has always been a rare bird, and now that Mario is too old, that Stigelli has just died in his Italian villa, and that Mazzoleni has buried himself alive in his, Mapleson despairs of finding a successor for either of these emi- nent artists, and is constrained to decline com- petition in New York with opéra boujfe under the energetic and successful management of Bateman and Grau. These enterprising im- presarit will therefore have it all their own way this fall and winter, unless, indeed, Signor Albites should be encouraged by his nu- merous friends and admirers again to enter the field and to renew the proposition which he lately made to the stockholders of the Academy of Music. If they conclude an arrangement with him it is to be hoped that he will carefully avoid all the quicksands on which his predeces- sors have been shipwrecked. Especially will it be indispensable for him to profit by the happy experience of Manager Grau and Man- ager Bateman, who have conclusively proved how heartily the New York public appreciates a determination to supply it not only with cele- brated and gifted leading singers and actors, but with stock companies admirably qualified to support them, Grau and Bateman have already reaped the first fruits of the harvest which only such skilful and liberal manage- ment as theirs can promise. They are begin- ning to roll in wealth that California or Peru might envy, and ere long we shall doubtless have the pleasure of chronicling munificent contributions from them to our various city charities, while we shall be subjected to the painful necessity of publishing occasional news of the melancholy privations and wanderings among our Western Indians to whieh a very opposite policy has condemued that fM-futed Boheinian, Max Maretzek. | If neither Mapleson nor Albites shall opea the doors of the Academy of Music during the approaching season, perhaps the Howard Mia- sion may secure the vast and cavernous build- ing for noonday prayer meetings, which Allen, and Hadden, and Slocum, and Maretvek, and other “wicked men” in New Yors, will be cor- | dially invited to attend, PuNssyi.vanta vue Deowive Test.—The | Maine election points to the election of Gene- ral Grant by «a majority something like Lincolu’s majority of the electoral vote of 186, The October State elections in Penn- sylvania, Ohio and Indiana will settle the question, From all the developments before us Ohio and Indiana are already back again in the channel of the campaign of 1864; but we have nothing very definite as yet of the drift of public opinion in Pennsylvania, although it will doubtless be carried by the general popu- lar pressure, Last year, on a vote which fell short of the vote of 1866 some sixty thousand, the democrats carried the State by niae hua- dred majority. In 1866, on a full vote, the re- publicans eleoted their Governor by seventeen thousand. The same issues being up again now the same result may follow in the coming October election, and if so the Presidential, election will be settled and the general election, of November will be reduced to @ mere for- mality, The British Press on America and the. American Minister, Our new Minister to England, Mr. Reverdy Johnson, has put the British preas and people in the most amiable mood. They are greatly hurt just now at any unkind expressions: towards the United States. Mr. Roebuck, who ventured to say some rather severe things at the Sheffield dinner, has brought down upon himself an avalanche of censure. Yes, we are cherished as tenderly as the apple of the eye by our English brothers and cousins. Even their own orators must not speak of us harshly orunkindly. We are all English at the core on both sides of the Atlantic, notwithstanding the numbers of Germans, Irish, Spaniards, French and people of other nationalities who come to America, The English element and influence here, they say, absorb all the reat. In summing up this complacent and beautiful eulogy the leading British organ exclaims, “The result is all English.” It is proudly claimed that the people of the two countries have @ common nature, common language and literature, the same fundamental political principles and institutions, and, in fact, that both are wonderfully alike in every respect. What a change has come over the spirit of our British cousins! Well, this is all very agreeable. The com- pliments to Mr. Johnson both by the people and public men of England and the prompt and flattering reception of him by the Queen are fully appreciated on this side the Atlantic. ‘The tone of the press and public feeling gene- rally is also gratifying. It is really overwhelm- ing, and we cannot, under this state of things, revert to the past or argue the question of identity of character, nature and institutions. We are fairly subdued by this outburst of fra- ternal feeling. It is to be hoped Mr. Johnson will be as successful in drawing out of the British a settlement of the Alabama claims and other unsettled matters as he has been in touch- ing their hearts, England seems to have re- served the full outburst of affection for her offspring till it arrived at the strength and dig- nity of manhood. We are great and powerful now, and hence the superabundance of affec- tion lavished upon us. This is assuredly the era of good feeling, and we hope it may con- tinue forever. HorrMan.—The Maine election has univer- sally given a new impulse of enthusiasm and confidence to the republicans and has corre- spondingly depressed the disappointed democ- racy. They may now not only consider the prospect of Seymour's election as the next thing to no prospect at all, but they may very well feel anxious as to the safety of Hoffman as their candidate for Governor in the Empire State; for the same causes which defeated Seymour in 1864 and Hoffman in 1866 are again uppermost. Even the lager beer question of 1867 is played out. THE BAYONNE YACHT CLUB, A Terrapin Dinner—Honors to the Mattie A Pleasaut Time—The Civsiug Hop of tho Season. Yesterday was a gala day in the annals of the Bayonne Yacht Club; and its oficers and their friends enjoyed the festivities of the occasion with true zest. In order to commemorate the victories of their now celebrated feet little clipper Mattte, Mr. John G. Armour, a member of the club, gave @ terrapin dinner yesterday to the officers of the ctub, the owners of the yacht, the designer of the litle vessel and to several friends at the La Tourette House, New Jersey. A run of fifteen minutes on the New Jersey Central Railroad brought the invited guests from New York to the Pamerop station, and a walk of a few minutes past neat and beautiful villa residences and through pleasant lawns placed the magnificent view of New York Bay as seen from the club house balcony before them. Riding gracefully at anchor in the calm waters of the cosey noox at thelr feet lay the yachts Susie, Annie Mac, Lyda, Black Crook, Jane Vernon, Gret- ta, Sea Mew, Seamoer and others; near by was the north shore ‘of Staten Island, while further beyoud the LongJsiand shore closed the prospect, The of io cond Jobu ©. Gunther, Vice Commodore Van Winkle, Rear Commodore Vam Nostrand, Secretary Hopkins, ‘Treasurer W. Elisworth and = Measurer Ellsworth, and following committee of five representing the club— Messrs. John G. Harrison, J. ft. Mallery, P. MoGie- han, J. 0. Seymour, J..0. Roieson—assethbled in full uniform at the clu! ouse at the appo ted hour, three P. M., and embarked on rd the Matte, which was nicely decorated with flags. A pleasing sail from the club anchor » the Kills, passat the yachts Flyaway, of the onne Club, and the White Cap, of the New York Yacht Club, at anchor of New Brighton, after being saluted by the various steamboats met and on the trip, brought the excursionists in view of their destination, the La Tourette House. When the Mattie was seen approaching the national colors were run uw ou the hotel flagstaif, and the numerous gues' assembled on the plazzas and in the windows of the hotel and as the voyagers landed received them with waving handkerchiefs and other demon- strations of Welcome. Several members of the club, jncinding the president and the Messra, Hol of Newark, Were also awaiting the party. Having taken an paged at the bar dinner was serv with litte delay, and as ihe clear sea alr had gifted the sailors with appetites calculated to honor the occasion for @ time, at least, the ae Jest, the live! repartee and the jovial song, which had follow each other quickly during tae morning, gave way to the equally pleasant sound to the wayfarer- lively clatter of kaives aad forks and the jingling giasses, ‘The chair and vice chair were filled by the Com- modore and by the President respectively, and deco- rating the table were two magnificent bouquets of lowers presented + the lady guests of the hotel, When the cloth had been removed toasts and spee were in order; and aficr an exceedingly pleasant time was enjoyed by all present, and after several witty, patriotic aad exceilent addresses had been made by Commodore Gunther, Mr. Van Win- kie and the other members, tie party separated ox. evedingly well pleased with their day's amusement, and thankful to their host, Mr, Armour, for the kind atvention he paid tiem. As they departed the re- fratn of the Commodore's song came back ayain and again on the might air, antl i fimatly died away in the distance, TAR Hor. hop of the season at the site House Jast nignt. The spacu oom Wad <d with tile fags of all nutt the other arrangements were sueh as enhanc leasure of all pa Nt AUX, conple were Grafulla’s hours. OW, JOHN A. GRISWOLD AT POUGHKEZPSIE, The republican candidate for Governor, Hon, Joba A. Griswold, arrived at Poughkeepsie by the one o'clock down train yesterday. ‘There was a large crowd awatting Its arrival to give him a hearty wel- com As the train approached a small cannon Placed pon the heights overlooking the depot waa repeatedly discharged. Eastman’s ‘College Band, under the leadership of Mr, D, ‘T, Morgan, borrowed a litte time from the ema tion celebrauts then rining at the wharf, and were on the ground, and Mr. Griswold descended from the cars and pro- md Lo the depot siruck up “Lo! the Conquertag Hero Comes.” Mr. Griswold was surrounded by a host of frlends-—indeed, ali on the ground appeared 1o be his friends and supporters, if tue hearty cheer. ing With which he was greeted was to be taken asa criterion. While he atays he will be the guest of Congressman John H. Ketcham, SERENADE TO Mit. GRISWOLD, Mr. Griswold was: in the evening at the Poughkeepsie Hotel by the Kastman Band, engaged jor the purpose by the citizens. There was au im- mense crowd on the open space in frout of ube hotel. Mr. Griswold made a brief address of thanks (rom tae piaana of tie