The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1868, Page 6

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Five-twenties 72!; in Lon- don and 7514 in Frankfort. Cotton easier. Breadstuffs and provisions without Marked change. By steamship at this port we have a European mail report in detail of our cable telegrams to the 8th of September. MISCELLANEOUs. Bids for contracts to remove the obstructiops at Fell Gate are to be opened on Monday. It is sup- posed that, notwithstanding the small government appropriation, the competition will be quite lively. Asa col quence of making Hell Gate the main avenue of communication with the open sea it ts Stated that the ends of Manhattan Island will be reversed—the business part being up town and the residences down—that the Saniy Hook passage will be limited to vessels from the Sout oast or the tropics, and Hell Gate will be used by the great Euro- pean steamers. Alexander Hi. Stephens is in Washington searching @mong the old Confederate records. He expresses himself as very dubious about a democratic majority in Georgia at the Presidential election, as there have been too many speeches made there. ‘The Water street converts appear to have gone back on their religion. Tommy Hadden, George Christopher and Kit Burns all demand money down for the use of their dens as praying places, and Johnny Allen, the original Wickedest Man, and his backer, Slocum, are reported to have got on a spree tn RALD, pudlished every day in the which there has been some anxiety, arrived.at Cowes on the 6th inst, ‘The property owners of Morrisania have unearthed ® heavy fraud upon them in the laying out of a pub- lic park. A joint survey by two engineers disclosed the fact that $5,000 more than was necessary had been claimed by the engineer employed for the work, and he has consequently been suspended. ‘The examination in the late Broadway theatre shooting affair was resumed before Justice Shandley Yesterday. The boy Chamberlain, who 18 now fully recovered, notwithstanding having been shot through the body, gave his testimony, and was fol- lowed by Mr. Jacks, the actor, who had not’completed his evidence when the court adjourned. The fur- ther investigation will not be resumed until the 20th last, ‘ * - ‘The stock market was active but irregular yeater- day. Government securities were strong. Gold closed at 144%; a 14414, Trade in commercial cfrcles yesterday was more active than it is usually on Saturdays, Coffee was duil, but quite steady, while sugar and molasses were in fair request and firmly held. Cotton wes in fair demand, principally for spin- ning, and prices were firm, closing weak, however, at 261¢c, for middling upland. On ’Change yas moderately active and prices were gener- ly steady, Wheat was in active demand, but lower, owing to the large advance in the rates of ht; fair No, 3 spring sold at $1 70, fair to choice d do, at $1754 $180, closing at $175 a $177, and No, 1 do, at $193 $195. Corn was in active demand and advanced 1c., closing at $1 20 for prime new mixed Western. Oats were in good demand and le, a 2c, higher, new seiling at 72c. a 75c. afloat, Pork was duil and unchanged, Beef and lard were quiet, but quite steady. Petroleum—crude was dull and heavy at 16c., while reflned was active and \c. higher, closing at 30° i re active and deeiledty higner, the in to Liv- erpool by steamer betas 7 and heavy. . Hiy of the Mouths fon of Our Polit es. ion of the Georgia Legislature in ‘oes from seats in its body and | from the jury box opens a complicated ques- tion, It is both unwise and ill-timed and may lead to serious consequences. In fact, the leading politicians and press of the South generally are acting most imprudently, and are provoking the dominant party in Congress to arbitrary and unconstitutional measures, which might be avoided. The moderate men of the republican party—and they constitute an over- whelming majority both in and out of Con- gress—want to have the reconstruction matter settled and the Southern States restored to perfect equality with the other States in the Union. But the party will hardly submit to such action of the South as will utterly sub- vert its policy and undo all that Congross has been doing for the last three years. The great object of the reconstruction legislation was to enfranchise the blacks and to give them an equal chance with the whites in all the rela- tions of life. The door to political privileges was to be open to them as well as to the white people if they should have intelligence and power enough to reach and use them. Yet in the face of this policy and legislation of Con- | gress the Georgia Legislature has drawn a | broad line of distinction between the two races and declared the negroes ineligible to sit as legislators or jurymen. The question is, what will or can Congress do under the circumstances? Georgia has been restored to its privileges in the Union by the udir which the democrats are endeavoring to raise, that is simply absurd. Grant is a patriot and & good republican in the general and broad sense of that term, and would not venture to endanger the institutions of his country, and if he were crazy enough to think of doing 80 “he would be utterly powerless, He has been anxious all along from the day that he finished the war at the Appomattox Court House to see the South fully restored, and undoubtedly will bring restoration and peace should he be elected. Under all the circumstances he is the man to solve the question of our sectional difficulties, and the people should elect him by an overwhelming vote. Christian Barnuma, The quasi religious revival in Water street and its surroundings appears to have assumed an aspect which it is difficult to separate from profanity, and perhaps we might go farther without injustice to any one concerned ani say that it begins to touch very close! blasphemy. A low and vulgar traffic in the name of the Christian religion and its Founder has been inaugurated in those dens of iniquity without a probability of suppressing vice, but with a comparative certainty of making mon cy. This is about the whole story. To suppose tiat a single convert to virtue has been made by this absurd movement would be farther from the real facts than that the products of vice have been transferred from the dissolute frequenters of the Water street dance houses to the use of the teachers and preachers of morality who are pretending to work out « there. The latest feature in this wretched Barnumism is the engagement of Allen to undertake a preaching tour through- out the country at a fixed salary for the con- on reform the saints who have secured his services, It is said that he actually went forth upon his mission in the direction of New England, but upon reaching New Haven, Connecticut, the door of godliness, he stumbled upon a black bottle, when unfortunately its contents and his good resolutions evaporated at one and the same time, and had to return to his employers for a fresh dose of piety. This was a bad beginning for the Feejee Mer- maid of the Christian Barnums who manage the Howard Mission. Itis to be hoped that the woolly horse Kit Burns, the skeleton man Johnny Slocum and the Jersey lightning caleu- lator Tommy Hadden will do better when they go forth, with staff in hand and cockle shell in hat, to preach the gospel according to Water street. If they do not succeed in get- ting beyond New Haven on a chalked line we fear that the enterprise may be considered as gone up, as far as the travelling part of the exhibition is conterned. However, if it be true that the saints have hired Allen’s dance house and Kit Burns’ dog pit at a moderate montily rent for public wor- ship or practices of private vice, as the case may be, perhaps the investment can be made to pay after all. A metropolitan season of the pious drama ought to rival Black Crooks, Humpty Dumptys and opéra bouffe and drive them all out of the market. If it was only for its novelty sanctity ought to be a good he declaration of Congress, and is, therefore, on a footing, so far, with New York and other States with regard to the management of its own internal affairs. Still its Representatives and Senators have not yet been admitted to seata in Congress. Heretofore members from the Southern States were excluded because these States had not been reconstructed and declared restored. Will Congress now refuse to receive the Representatives from Georgia? Will it recede from its action declaring that State restored and reconstruct it again, in conse- quence of the conduct of the Legislature? Or will it admit that Georgia has the right to exclude negroes from the Legislature and jury box in defiance of its policy and reconstruction measures? In whatever way we look at the matter there are complication and difficulty. This imprudent and_ ill-timed conduct of Georgia, as well as the folly of the South generally, is leading the country to a central- ized despotism or military dictatorship. Con- gress may not give way on the negro diffi- a New Haven liquor den, while on an exhibition tour, and been ignominiously kicked out as hypocrites. The examination Into the alleged Gamble poison- ing case is still going on at Orangetown, Rockland county, New York. Several important witnesses have already been examined, and their testimony goes to show that Robert Gamble, the husband of the deceased, and a Mrs. Hujus, of Ciarkstown, at whose Jarmhouse the Gambles were staying early in Au- gust, when Mrs. Gamble died, were suspiciously fond of one another's company at that time. They are ‘both now in custody, Witnesses also proved that a faise certificate of the cause of her death was given © Gambie by his wife’s attendant physician and that she had considerable property disposed of in her will. Dr. Cornelius Boyle, @ Provost Marshal in Vir- ginia under Beauregard during the war, has been Sued for $35,000 damages by A. H. Morehead, of ‘Washington, for having imprisoned Mrs. Morehead for three years. Boyle asserts that he only prevented Ber going north by order of Beauregard. General Santos Acosta, the Colombian Minister, ‘was formally presented to the President yesterday. © The Louisiana Senate yesterday finally passed the Hlouse bill prohibiting any persona! distinctions in Failroad cars, steamboats or in places of public ‘resort. » The Governor of Louisiana recently appointed one Gemocrat and two republicans as the State Board of Registration, it being understood that the same rule would be carried out in the appointment of local boards, but at a meeting of the State Board yester- day the my that they would not under any circumstances appoint a democrat on the local boards. Applications for the discharge of Enright, Duggin and Pagieson, arrested as accomplices of Whalen in the assassination of D'Arcy McGee, have been for- warded to the Governor General of the New Do- Minion at the instance of Mr. O'Reilly, Crown Coun The Canadians are despondent at the slight pros. pect of a new reciprocity treaty with the United States. They say the matier depends altogether upon Mr. Seward. ‘The committee sent from Toronto to England to Negotiate for the truction of the Ontario and Huron ship canal report that English capitalists ‘will invest in that enterprise as soon as the provin- lal government follows the example of the United States and donates ten million acres of public land to the work. ‘The opposition in Nova Scotia to the union with the Dominion ts unrelenting. The Provincial Legis- lature passed an act prohibiting the milida serving outside the province without the consent of the local government. A resojution was also passed autho. rizing the government to borrow half @ million of Gollars for rnforeseen purposes. The New Dominion Parliament has been further prorogued until the 20th of October. A party of Indians recently attacked a surveying Party on the Republican river, south of Fort Kearney, killing the flagman and capturing all the instru. ents. ‘The steamship Northorn Light, about the safety of culty raised by Georgia and reconstruct the State anew. In that case what becomes of the constitutional privilege of a State in the Union to regulate its own internal afairs? And if such action can be taken with regard to Georgia, why not with New York or any other State? Where would it end? Should Congress not resort to such an extreme measure and show moderation in this case, in consequence of the great principle involved, it will show more sense than the Georgians have shown. If, fortunately, se- rious difficulty should be avoided we shall have to thank Congress and not the foolish Southerners. The North had aright toimpose what penal- ties it pleased upon the rebels, for they were conquered in war. Their restoration was not a matter of right, but of policy, and as a mat- ter of policy we thought, and still think, it would have been better had the Southern States been restored immediately after the war closed. That would have prevented the political troubles of the last three years as well as existing difficulties. There was not the least fear of another rebellion. There cannot be another war between the North and the South. But Congress chose to reconstruct the rebel States in its own way, and we cannot go back, The true policy is to make the best of things as they actually exist. Congress will show more moderation, there- fore, than the stupid and imprudent Southern- evs have shown, At all events, the people should settle these Southern complications in the approaching Presidential election. Should General Grant be elected by an overwhelming vote we may expect peace and harmony. He is conserva- tive, and would carry the mass of the republi- can party with him in a conservative policy. The election of Seymour might reopen the reconstruction question and keep the country in a state of disorganization and political excitement. The Southerners would become more imprudent and add to existing complica- tions. The object of the republican party in its measures of reconstruction was political ascendency—to hold the power it had ac- quired—and if it should succeed, as in all probability it will, there will be no longer a necessity for holding the South under arbitrary rule. It can then afford to be magnanimous and moderate. As to the bugbear of military dictatorship should General Grant be elected We hope | paying stock, and no doubt the Water street philanthropists, converted and unconverted, know this full well. If they would only keep politics out. of the pulpits at Allen's and Slo- cum’s and stick to the preaching of the Word they would soon make grass grow at the doors of the churches, But the Christian Barnums know their business well enough without any hints from us. Menken and the Bohemians, There is a great pother making just now in certain portions of the press over the genius and other extraordinary qualities of the re- cently deceased actress, Adah Isaacs Menken, and there is a volume in more or less circula- tion bearing her name and filled with queer, spasmodic poetry, illustrated in a vague and would-be startling style. All this is the work of those irrepressible fellows, the Bohemians. They made Menken in one sense, and in another sense they made her what she was. Now that she is dead and gone they cannot let her pass away, giving her up to the rest and the charity of silence and shadow, but they must do what they find possible to make her famous. Thus they cast upon her career the glare of a certain sort of glory, every little ray of which betrays its artificial origin and suggests the gaslight and reflectors of the Bo- hemian apparatus. So vulgar and common- place are they in all this that they have gone down to that stale dodge of the cheap book- sellers and presented the Menken poetry with a commendatory letter from Charles Dickens, as the sellers of anti-bilious pills print on the boxes letters from old men who have never used any other nostrum. In this process of making Menken famous what the Bohemians do—and mean to do—is to celebrate themselves, and they make her the sacrifice, burnt on the altar of a mean vanity. When the light is thrown on the ca- reer of any woman with especial persistency, and all society is called upon to take especial note of that career, it will very certainly see in it what predominates there. It will not see what the exhibitors desire and be blind to all the rest, taking note only of this or that acci- dental point inthe story. We need not say, therefore, that every career will not stand the process; and when the world is called upon to give its attention to the history of Mistress Menken because she was not an ordinary wo- man—hecause she wrote verses—because she committed to paper screeches of literary deli- rium, or because some Bohemiam did the said screeches to be sold in her name—the very prosy but important body in question sees so little genius and so much else—so small a part to praise and so great a part to blame—so lit- tle of thought not theatrical and so savagely fierce an appetite for the wilder irregularities of illicit life, that it must necessarily condemn all, not so much on account of Menken, who is gone, as on account of the women that re- main, There is no power more potent for drawing good enough women from the dull but better course of domestic life than the illu- sory brilliancy cast around the career of such a woman as this latest victim of Bohemian debauchery and brain rot. And this is the snfficient reason why the world must put Men- kenJower than need be—because it is the only way to silence voices that to saye to fame the one dead would ruin a thousand living. There can be no other result but reaction version of sinners and to the great profit of | NEW YORK HK#KALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1868.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Bohemians know this too, and had they, therefore, the good name of the woman at heart they would have left her in silence. They merely make this the occasion to glorify irregu- lar life generally and sing the pwan of their particular histories in the hope to make us all believe that there is nothing admirable but scorn of the conventionalities of social inter- course. This effort has been tried before. The world has heard of such meteoric brillian- cies as the history of Lola Montes may suf- ficiently indicate, and it has so little dread of being convinced that it does not even plug up its ears as did that simple old wanderer and greenhorn, Ulysses, when he pulled his boat past the house of the syrens. The Jewish New Year. It is notat all impossible that many hundreds of those into whose hands this paper may fall are totally ignorant of the fact that a very large and rapidly growing section of our population are engaged in the celebration of an important religious festival which is at least as old as the days of Moses, On Wednesday last at sundown commenced the year , according to Jewish calculation. The festive New Year season lasts for ten days, and is supposed to be devoted to fasting, charity and prayer. With the old orthodox Jews the two first days of this season are specially sacred. With the new school Jews the first day only is specially singled out from the ten, The remaining days with Jews of both the old and new schools are days of penance and atonement. We know no reason why we should not express the wish that when the penitential season is ended our Jewish fellow citizens, one and all, may have good reason to conclude that their names are written in the Book of Life. The return of this Jewish festival compels attention to a subject which does not receive from us that amount of attention to which from its intrinsie importance it is so justly entitled, To say that the history of the Jewish people is one of the most peculiar on record would be true; but it would not be an adequate expression of the truth, for the history of the Jewish people is virtu- ally the history of the human family. How much of the history of the world would be worth remembering away from its connection with that people? The call of Abraham and the patriarchal history that followed, the bond- age in Egypt, the deliverance and the subse- quent wilderness wanderings, the conquest, occupation and strange history of the kingdom ; the disruption of the State which David and Solomon had so laboriously built up, the de- cline and fall, the appearance of Him who claimed to be the long promised and long looked for Messiah, the crucifixion and the miraculous events which immediately fol- lowed, the destruction of Jerusalem by the sol- diers of Titus and the consequent and final dispersion—how largely these things enter into all that we know or care to know about the history of the past. It is the highest claim which can be set forth on behalf of Christian- ity that it is the complement of Judaism. However much Christians may differ from Jews, or Jews from Chrtstians, in doctrine and in sympathy, this nich at least must be ad- mitted—that each has an equal right to claim aninheritance in the precious memorials of the same glorious past. The history of an- cient Israel is theirs; but it is ours scarcely less than it is theirs. To Jewish sources must be traced whatever there is of value in our moral and religious opinions. If we are not Jews by blood we are all of us to a large ex- tent Jews in intellect and feeling. On one oc- casion the present Prime Minister of England said :—*‘One-half of Europe worships a Jew ; the other half worships a Jewess.” The say- ing was not the less true that it was daring and impious. 1t is impossible for ua, even if we would, to be wholly indifferent to the condition and pros- peets of the Jewish people. Time was when it was the supposed duty of every Christian to trample them under foot. There was no species of indignity to which they were not subjected. There was no coarse or ingenious cruelty which they were not compelled to undergo. The history of their wanderings in all iands for the last eighteen hundred years is a history of suffering and sorrow which finds no parallel in the history of any other people. Anything was good enough for a Jew. With what measure he meted it out to the founder of Christianity with that measure every Christian deemed it his duty to mete it out to him. But the Jew was not to be destroyed. In spite of apparent neglect the Lord seemed to be with them, as He was with their fathers of old. In all lands they grew and multiplied, and wher- ever they were found they were found to be the possessors at once of wealth and of intelligence. Times are now greatly changed. The Jews are outcast and despised no longer. The days of their expiation and sorrow seem to be ended. The sun of prosperity again shines upon them. In all the great civilized nations of modern times they are the objects of royal, imperial, or,t what is better still, national favor, Wherever opportunity is given the intellectual character of the race reveals itself. In all departments of human enterprise and ambi- tion they compete successfully with their Gentile neighbors. In literature, in the fine arts, in politics, in finance, they carry off the highest prizes. By their rapid accumulation of the wealth of the world they threaten to become the kings and princes of the future. While, however, it is not to be denied that the condition of the Jew has been ameliorated in all the civilized nations of modern times, it must still be claimed on behalf of these United States that the sons and danghters of Abraham find their true home here. In no other country in the world are they so fully admitted to the rights of citizenship. In this country only do they feel that they are citizens by right, and not by favor or privilege. Disqualified neither by race nor religion, every office in the republic is open to their ambition, and there is no reason why a de- scendant of David should not yet sit in pride in our Presidential chair, The advantages we offer them are fully appreciated, not merely by those who have already castin their lot with us, but by their brethren all over Europe. The result is that Jewish immigration year by year increases. In proportion as we attract Jews to these shores so do we attract the wealth of the world. In all our large com- mercial centres Jewish enterprise is conspicu- against even charity to! this effort at apotheosis, | ously revealed. All over the oountey, but particularly in certain portions of the West, they are extensive holders of real estate. In contradistinction to the Jews of Europe, taste and elegance go hand in hand with the accu- mulation of property. Regarding this country as their home, they are no unwilling or nig- gardly contributors to the refinements and ele- gancies of life, and in not a few of our cities their princely mansions and gorgeous syna- gogues attest alike their taste and their munificence. We know no reason why we should not, after our own fashion, wish our Jewish fellow citizens all the compliments of the season. Napoleon’s Position and Critics. The freedom with which the French writers have come to criticise not only the system of rule and policy, but even the every day per- sonal habits of the Emperor Napoleon in the daily press of Paris, affords ample evidence of the anxiety of the millions as to the political future of the nation as well as of the fact that the public mind appreciates either a culmina- tion of his power as to permanence or the near approach ofa governmental change. In contrast to the assaults of the members of the legisla- tive opposition in the Assembly and at the election polls we have just now the extraordi- nary utterance of his friend Girardin, who, either in the shape of advice for reformation or as an announcement that France cannot thrive by his direction, states in his paper that the Emperor is given so much to the use of tobacco that he views the situation merely through a haze of smoke of the weed; in fact, that he has become dreamy and that the is in a great measure narcotized in con- pire sequence. In an article published in the Livert?, which we reproduced in our columns yesterday, M. Girardin says:—‘‘To smoke is to dream awake, The Emperor smokes an immense number of cigarettes, and when he smokes France appears to him as grand as it appeared little to him under Louis Philippe. And be- cause France seems to him to be great he per- suades himself that she is great. Sincerely believing that the greatness he is dreaming about he has realized, he cannot understand how there can exist minds sour enough to prefer the shadow to the booty—in other words, individual liberty to national great- ness. This is not ill meant on the part of the Emperor; it is a simple delusion. The mo- ment this illusion—which is kept up by the drunkenness of tobacco—ts dissipated France will become free; not partially, but wholly free.” Considering that M. Girardin and Louis Napoleon have been regarded as very good friends hitherto, it is somewhat difficult to arrive at a feasible conclusion as to the motive which prompted this publication. Was it intended as an advice? Is the sentiment of France tiding towards a current unfriendly to the Bonapartes? When the great Napoleon came to make military ‘‘mistakes” France herself was the first to proclaim his errors and thus hasten his fall. Can it be that her people are to-day repeating the premonitions of history and her journalists seeking either to reform the Executive or render a transi- tion more easy ? Political Manngers—New York Ahead. A great deal has been said and written about the adroitness and efficiency of Wash- ington politicians, Albany politicians and Western politicians, and controversies have arisen in regard to their several merits. Years ago, in the time of the original Albany Re- gency, the palm might properly have been awarded to our own capital; for there were political giants in those days inthe Empire State, and they held the destiny of parties in the palms of their hands. Later we have had less powerful but still famous leaders, with headquarters at the other end of the Hudson, and there have been those whose partiality has regarded Dean Richmond, Thurlow Weed and their immediate associates as on the top round of the ladder of political fame. The politicians of Washington have always had their warm admirers, while even so late as the meeting of the Democratic National Conven- tion in this city we were assured from several quarters that the Western men in political management could turn all others round their fingers. Nevertheless we are willing to back the politicians of New York city against the field and to stake any reasonable amount that in cunning, adroitness, boldness and all the qualities essential to political success they are not to be beaten on the prairies or at any cap- ital, State or national, in the Union. The men who now rule Tammany have won real, sub- stantial victories ynder circumstances that would have baffled many leaders whose names have become famous, and they have time and again shown their superiority over their coun- try cousins, While the State has been largely republican and has given us from time to time the Central Park Commission, the police, the Fire Department, the Croton Board and other blessings for which the city shbuld be grate- ful, these city politicians have contrived always to head off any legislation adverse to their own immediate interests, and have managed to preserve their own large power and profits untouched. They have also succeeded in obtaining supreme control of their own organization, and, whether the prize has been a police commissioner, a Presidential nominee or a Governor, they have not failed to appropriate it to themselves, despite the dissatisfaction, grumbling and curses of the rest of the party. It is rumored now that these shrewd New York politicians are looking as sharply as ever after their own interests, and will be found coming out of the Presidential contest all right, whatever may otherwise be the result. It may be that Seymour will be swept out of the field by the October freshet, and that Hoffman's chances may thereby be so seriously impaired as to render his success hopeless. Yet we are well assured that even in that event the New York managers will contrive to escape serious damage, and that they are already considering the prudence of certain side arrangements by which a secret movement in favor of Grant and Griswold may leave their own nice pickings in this city intact. It may be that the republican victories in October will render that party so indepen- dent as to incline them to reject all advances and to prepare for a grand seizure of the municipal perquisites and plunder as well as of the State and federal spoils, Their leaders and cappers already exhibit dangerous disposition to carry things with a high hand. But even then we will back our accomplished and keen city political wire- workers to force some sort of a compromise from the winning party. They will manage to retain possession of their local twenty million placer, even if in order to do so they should be compelled to offer up another victim on the shrine of a madhouse. Tae Best Taina Ovr—The congratulatory address of the Democratic State Central Com- mittee of Pennsylvania over the glorious democratic gains (over the left) in Maine. Republican majority in 1867, 11,000; in 1868, only 20,000! ‘The Maine democracy have cov- ered themselves with glory,” and Pennsylvania is expected to do likewise, Ben Butter iN Crover.—Of all the politicians at work in this Presidential cam- paign General Ben Butler is, or ought to be, the happy man. He has been spending the summer at seaside clambakes and inland Methodist camp meetings, and in the festivities of his reciprocity mission to Nova Scotia, re- turning to share in the delights of a grand seaside festival of twenty-five thousand of hia Congressional consfituents at Salisbury, Mass., where he fought all his battles of the war, from Baltimore to New Orleans, over again, but had nothing further to say of the impeach- ment of Andrew Johnson. Unbottled, since he made his peace with General Grant, Butler flourishes like a green bay tree. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he is the happy man, Don’t Sze Iv.—Brick Pomeroy don't see the glorious democratic victory in Maine as figured out by Brick Barlow and Company. Pomeroy unfortunately belongs to the old cop- - perhead school, who believe that a few more such democratic victories as that of Maine will leave Seymour and Hoffman high and dry. He has not learned the new democratic doable rule of three. OBITUARY. John Sefton. Wallack’s theatre lias lost another of its tea with the past, another of the links of the present that hold us to the past times of the Park theatre—those Utopian periods that we hear of, but have no means of realizing by actual experience. Yesterday Mr. John Sefton, familiar as a modest member of the Wallack company, suddenly expired at his residence 1n this city. Mr.,Sefton will be remembered as an excellent low comedy actor, performing in Wallack*s what are known to professionals, but never distin- guished by the public ,as second low comedy parta, Mr. Sefton was born in Liverpool in the year 1805. He began his professional career at the age of aix- teen, when he appeared as a dancer at the Liverpool theatre. He practised extensively in the provincea and then sought the haven of all poor actora— America. In the year 1827 he came to this country and was engaged for two seasons at the Walnut Street theatre, Philadelphia. In 1828 he elevated himself from the second business by obtaining an engagement in New York, where he supported Celeste, playing Strappado to her Dumb Girl and similar lines to offset her peculiar business, This was getting on very well fora young actor; buta long interval of stock performances here and there through the country now intervened between this era and that in which Mr. Sefton became suddeniy famous. Mr. Webster, of the Adelphi theatre, London, had written a comic drama, called “The Golden Farmer,” and he presented a copy of it to his friend, Sefton, This drama contains the great part of Jemmy Twitcher, with its “Oh, Mowses,” and its “Vel, vot hof it?? which Mr. Sefton first acted im Philadelphia, in 1834, without making any particular sensation. But ina short time after, Manager Din- nefort built the little New Franklin theatre, in New York, and engaged Sefton as his low comedian, The first season at the New Franklin proceeded very quietly, until, at three days’ notice, “The Golden Farmer’? was produced. Mr. Sefton did not then care much for the part of Jemmy Twitcher. Indeed, it was one of the only two charac- ters he ever refused to play. 3 from its first night in New York it was a decided hit. The whole town was crazy about it. At that time, when a play,was deemed successful, it ran a week. “The Golden Farmer" was repeated at 102 performances and was followed up with “Jemmy witcher in France.’’ From the profits of these per- formances Dinnefort was able to build the old Bowery theatre. For many ye.rs afterwards Mr. Sefton’ used to star Jemmy Twitcher through the country when the regular season was over, and it never jailed to draw crowded houses and enthusias- tic fe ce Sefton happened one evening to sing a comic song at Niblo’s for a benefit. It made such a sensation that the manager offered him an engagement. He accepted, and Dinnefort, despairing of ever gainin; success in his Bowery theatre without him, cl in the depth of despair, Afterwards he took a trip to Europe as the agent fora travelling menagerie; then returning, he easayed the business of Pantaloon. at Niblo’s with the Ravels, When Niblo’s was burned down, Sefton acted aa stage manager at the Astor Place Opera House dur- ing the performances of an Italian company and during the celebrated Macready riot, Afterwards he Was stage manager at Richmond; at the Walnut, Philadelphia, under Marshall; at Charlesten and Co- tunbia, 3. C., and at New Oricans, under Placide. At the conclusion of his New Orleans engagement, tn 1859, Mr. Sefton returned to New York, subscribed considerable money towards the erection of Wal- lack’s new theatre, and although neither he nor his el Res for employment, they were the first The great success of this actor was the rote of Jemmy Twitcher, as it was, indeed, the fore- runner of the se ion plays which have stilt flooded the stage, having one character only for their bright point of admiration. He managed to secure through these means a com; ive compe- tence, and at his residence at the Navesink High- lands played the host to all comers of whatever creed or standing with a recklesness and bonhommie peculiar to actors tl orld over. His last appear) ance was di the latter part of the month of October, 1867, at the Broadway theatre, for the bem efit of Barton Hull, when he appeared in the charactet which was the greatest success of his entire life~ Jemmy Twitcher, in the drama of ‘The Goldes Farmer.” This was his last aes aoe on an; pol Let us hope that conscience has enabi my Wrap tho drapery of the couch about bim And Le down to pleasant dreama. YACHTING NOTES, The yacht Nimbus, flying the flag of Rear Commo- dore of the Atlantic Yacht Club, anchored in Gow- anus bay, off the club house, on Friday afternoon. The Nimbus has just returned from a pleasant cruise to the eastward. The schooner yacht Sadie has been recently par- chased by J. B, Herreschoif, of the Atlantic Yacht Club, and changed into a sloop. It is reported that she has chalienged the Addie to a race, and she wiil enter for the champion pennant at the next regatta of the club, The Jennie Cable, which won a first class reputa- tion a few years since, when owned by Commodore Whiting, has been bought by L. F. GriMth, of the Atlantic Club, and added to its Meet. ‘The Whitecap, the property of Mr. Livingston, has boen added to the feet of the Atlantic Yacht Club, ‘The Martha and the Hermit have both been sold out of the Club, the owner of the latter having pur- chased the Florence, a much larger vessel. Mr. Schell has lately become the owner of the Marion, formerly the property of the secretary of the club, On Thursday next there will be a regatta of the Atlantic Yacht Ciub for “champion pennants,”’ an- the auspices of the commodores, The judges will be William McMonnies, Charles Condit and William H. Douglass, There are five pennants to be run for, and it is expected that all yachts having any pretensions to speed will be entered for this contest. There will be no allowance of time, SAFETY OF THE STEAMSHIP NORTHERN LIGHT, In regard to the steamship Northern Light, of the New York and Bremen line, of which apprehensions were feit of her safety, Mr. Baby, the agent of ihe Pacific Mail Steamship Company, yesterday received @ letter from the purser, in which he says the veasel arrived ia Cowes on the 6th of September, after o Dieasaut and orosverous vorage