The New York Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1868, Page 6

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The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated at ‘midnight yesterday, September 21. \{ The Spanish revolutionary movement 1s said to pas failed at some points, but progresses actively at jothers, ’ The Paris Moniteur says Madrid remained quiet, and that there was a change of Cabinet. ape Isabella did not visit Napoleon at Biarritz, and e “rebels” barred her return to the capital. + The Burlingame-China Embassy arrived in Lon- don, - } Peeing + ASouth German Military Convention met ip ses- lon in Munich, The King of Prussia had an énthu- lastic reception in Hamburg, where he repeated his jpeace assurances on the Bourse. The government ‘candidate was returned at an election in France. » Consols, 04, money. Five-twenties, 72% in Lon- ‘don. cy “ } Cotton lower, with middling uplands at 1014. Breadstufs firm. Provisions buoyant, without marked change. . By steamship at this port we have mall details of our European cable telegrams to the 11th of Septem- per, including some additional editorial remarks of the London press on the Burlingame-Chinese treaty and China treaty mission. CONGRESS. ‘The two houses of Congress met yesterday, a quo- rum of the Senate being present, while in the House there were but one hundred and five members—not quite a quorum. In the Senate, after the prayer, a resolution to ad- urn until the 16th of October, then to further ad- ain until November 10, and then still farther to the first Monday in December, was offered and agreed to by a vote of 33 to 1, Mr. Buckalew, the only demo- erat present, voting in the negative. Mr. Buckalew jotered a resolution inquiring if there was a quorum in the House, but it was not received and the Sena adjourned until the 16th of October. 4 1 In the House, after the prayer, a resolution of ad- Journ ment similar to the one passed by the Senate ,Was offered and agreed to. The vote showed that there was. no quorum present, but as no objection was made the resolution holds good. Three demo- rats were present, but declined to vote. Several democratic attempts to prevent the contemplated ‘adjournment by declaring no quorum present were defeated and the House adjourned until the 16th of October. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Rio Janeiro letter is dated August 20, and by it we have additional details of the situation in ‘Paraguay. The surrender of the Paraguayan garri- son on the peninsula near Humaité took place after ten days’ desperate struggle, when the Para- guayans bad been three days without food and many of them were prostrated by exhaustion. The conditions then stipulated that they should not be forced to serve against Lopez and should choose their own place of residence im the allied nations. According to General Osorio, Humaité was a very weak potut in its defences, and should have been captured long ago. The evacuation was going for- ward for nearly two weeks before it was discovered Dy the allies. Timbo is now the objective point, as the allies cannot reach Tebicuari without frat re- ducing it. Intelligence from Buenos Ayres is to the effect that a storin passed over the city on the 13th of August, the day upon which the terrible earthquakes visited the west coast, and was attended with the greatest ‘loss of life that has occurred there for some time. Numerous vessels were sunk in the harbor, and several houses were blown down. ‘The Surratt case was called up before Judge Wylie in the criminal court, Washington, yesterday. A nolle prosequit on the firat charge, the murder of President Lincoln, was entered. The case was then called on the charge .of conspiracy, but was post- poned until to-day, at the request of counsel for the aefence, in order to enter a special plea setting forth the amnesty proclamation as a bar to trial. The Ku Kiux are said to have invaded New Jersey. For some time mysterious warnings, with the sym- bolic cords, daggers, bloody heads and coffins, have been received by radical members of the military companies threatening them with death, but no notice was taken of them, except as @ series of stupid jokes. On Sunday night, however, Lieutenant Bynner, of Company H New Jersey Rifle corps, was knocked down by @ slung shot in Kearny, and when found was insensiole. Near him was a pistol, marked with Ku Klux hieroglyphics and other evi- dence of the presence of the Klan. The police are now on the track of the mysterious marauders, The yacht race for the Vice Commodore's prizes will come off to-day, the course being from a flag- ‘Ddoat opposite the club house on Staten Island to the buoy off the Southwest Spit, thence to the lightship and return. Five schooners and five yachts have been entered for the race, A riot occurred in Camilla, Ga., on Saturday be- tween blacks and whites of opposite parties. A re- publican meeting was fired into by some drunken fellow and the fight became general, but the negroes were driven and badly defeated, from fifty to seventy- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. high as $500,000 for the removal of both obstractions, | South German States which is so well pre- and another as low as $37,805, The time specified in the latter bid for the completion of the work is De- cember 16, 1868, General Newton, owing to this dis- pared that officials will only have to change their uniforms to make it complete; but he parity and to the various processes that were sub- may reasonably expect to balance that aggran- mitted, decided not to assign the contract without | dizement of Prussia by a vigorous use of the mature deliberation, Bishop Duggan (Catholic), of Chicago, has had a rupture with some of his priests, and in consequence has suspended four of them, one of them deing the Vicar General of the diocese. -++ magnificent army of France in the Iberian peninsula. From any point of view revolution in Spain is ominous to the peace of the whole Conti- The National Labor Congress opened its second | nent. It is so universally thought that there session in Germania Hall, Bowery, yesterday. Its object is to institute reforms in the interest of the working masses. A woman’s delegation, consisting needs but a beginning to light up a general war, the present state of Europe is so com- of Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs, M.K. Putnam and | monly regarded as merely provisional, that Mrs, H. M. McDonald, was present, and was ad- | these very facts keep alive the elements that mitted on the report of the Committee on Creden- | tend towards change. Should the revolution tials. The usual routine business was transacted and an adjournment took place until this morning. A large democratic mass meeting was held at the new wigwam in Brooklyn yesterday. Speeches were made by Senator Murphy, Mayor Hoffman and Allen C. Beach, The Alabama Legislature has resolved to ask the President for federal troops to preserve the peace. The Louisiana Legislature is discussing a bill to deprive the State courts of the power to naturalize foreigners. In consequence the courts of the State mediately. are crowded with foreigners seeking naturalization. Lady Thorn and Mountain Boy trotted at Albany yesterday, Lady Thorn being beaten three heats in four. The Boy’s best time was 2:25. Four women, mostly servants out of place, were arrested yesterday, charged with being concerned in the death of an old woman named Fagan in a tene- ment house on)West Twenty-eighth street. It seems all the women lived together on the Fourrier prin- ciple, each one supplying a certain share of the Hécessaries of life, while Mrs, Fagan, the hostess, paidthe room rent, Whiskey was in general use among them, and in one of their orgies, it is said, they had a general row, in which Mrs. Fagan was so serlously injured that she died soon after. A revival was held in Kit Burns’ rat pit in Water street yesterday. Kit, however, was in nowise con- verted, and his Christian advisers had hardly cleared his doorway after the exercises were over before his dogs were killing rats on time in the pit. The Inman line steamship City of Cork, Captaln Phillips, will leave pier 45 North river at one o’clock to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, calling at Halifax, N. 8., to land and receive mails and passen- gers. ’ The Hamburg American Packet Company’s steam- ship Holsatia, Captain Ehlers, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day, for Southampton and Hamburg. The mails for Europe will close at the Post Oftice at twelve M. The steamship Cleopatra, Captain Phillips, will @eave plier 16 East river at six P. M. to-day for Savan- nah, Ga, The stock market was irregular yesterday, but closed steady. Government securities were strong and active. Gold closed at 143%. The Revolution in Spain and the State of Europe. The story of the disturbance in Spain comes over the cable in items as meagre as they seem grudgingly given; but the items afford reason to believe that the revolutionary fire smothered so many times by Isabella’s government has broken out at last with such power that it may likely defy her Majesty’s efforts. Isa- bella on the French frontier in conference with the Emperor Napoleon, the head of her navy pronouncing against her in the South, all the banished generals returning as by a pre- concerted signal, the government in ‘‘parley” in Spain maintain a contest with the govern- ment, or should it displace the government, France, for one reason or another, cannot keep out of the quarrel. France once en- gaged, Prussia will consolidate her power. This will but heighten the rivalry of prestige between the two nations, and with the war fever on the contest will come surely and im- France cannot be worsted in Spain, and she will come out in a position to use the whole military power of that country. Italy must then fall into the same line, and the nephew will pursue the policy of the uncle in making war with foreign blood, giving spirit only to his military masses with the purely French part. Russia, on terms already fixed, will rally to the assistance of Prussla, and England is already weighing which side she must take in such a contest and doubting if she will be able to keep out altogether, Such is the future that cannot be far distant. It is only doubtful at what point the train will be fired, and this revolt in Spain may as likely apply the match as any other event. The Hon. Jack Rogers and the Manhat- tan Ring. The democracy of this city are cut up into a good many factions, cliques, rings and coteries ; but on the Presidential issue they may be re- duced to two grand divisions. One of these embraces the fat and sleek managers of the Tammany ring and the ‘‘bloated bondholders” of the Manhattan ring—the four-in-hand, jew- elled, powdered and perfumed aristocracy of the party; the other division embraces demo- cratic masses of the school of which Brick Pomeroy, the Hon. Jack Rogers and such are the leading advocates; and this division may be properly styled the red hot democracy. We learn, too, from several well informed sources that this aforesaid division of the per- fumed aristocrats have about the same affec- tion for the masses of the red hot democracy as the old Bourbon nobility of France enter- tained for the ‘‘liberty, equality and frater- nity” boys af the red hot Jacobin Club. For instance, the managers of the organ of the Tammany ring of Corporation spoilsmen and of the Manhattan ring of ‘‘bloated bondholders” turn up their dainty noses in affected contempt of Jack Rogers and Brick Pomeroy, while actively laboring in various underhanded ways to suppress them. Neither Pomeroy nor with army rebels, and Prim on-the scene as the head of a general movement against the throne, the nucleus of which movement is of course the disaffected soldiery—such is the picture the news presents. With her army and navy against her, with the people either indifferent or hostile and herself taking coun- sel with the hereditary enemy of her race, the case of this unmistakable Bourbon would seem desperate indeed. Will the advice she re- ceived at San Sebastian help her out of the difficulty? It is doubtful if any advice can save her dynasty if all the news be true, and it is very likely to be even worse than we hear it. Her policy has been necessarily destruc- tive, and finds now not embarrassments to be set aside, but only its own limit. Such was the attitude of the government in Spain that opposition was not possible within the limits of the coun- try. Opposition in every shape was met with a decree of exile. This simple plan was car- ried so far and used so freely against the whole leading mind of the country, which is in the army, that the balance of intelligence, courage and purpose was fairly against the government, and the accumulated opposition in exile had but little more to do than fix upon the day when they would come home and be supreme. Moreover, the use of this decree of exile had demoralized all men who had wit- nessed its operation, for each felt that he might be the next victim. Thus the men who feared for their future were the allies of those who were out, and no doubt this fact has finally put the navy side by side with the army in its hostility to the Queen. In Spain the army and the navy are the nation, and the nation now bars the Queen's return to Madrid. Out of this Spanish trouble arise important considerations for Europe at large. Was there an alliance of any form made in the meeting at San Sebastian the other day, and do the con- ditions of that alliance now take effect? Will this uprising be a dilemma for Napoleon or only his opportunity? It is hard to believe that the head of the Bonaparte family and this last of the reigning Bourbons met to confer on trivial topics, and perhaps equally unlikely that there should be another such conference as that with Victor Emanuel, which was the prelude to one war, or that with Bismarck, which was the prelude to another, Napoleon would be chary Spain might easily ‘prove another Rome or another Mexico, Even the first Emperor found Spain an embarrassment only less seri- ous than Moscow. But there might be a case alone. All the Spanish revolutionists are republicans, Successful revolution, therefore, would not mean a change of sovereign or dynasty even, but a change in the form of | government, perhaps in the social fabric ; and in this age such a movement gaining headway among « people cannot be stayed by the bound- aries of States and is not limited by language. | Napoleon, doubtless, might better fight revo- lution south of the Pyrenees than in Paris ; but what would become of his prestige as the five of them being killed and wounded. Colonel Pierce, the republican candidate for Congress, and Captain Murphy, an ex-Bureau agent, were seriously injured. Twenty negroes were arrested near Columbia, s, G, recently for belonging to an un) ganization which had been carrying tdrror to peave- able neighborhoods by riots and high handed out- rages, They were brought to Charleston and re leased on their own recognizances. ‘Ten bids for the contract for removing Frying Pan Reef and Pot Rock, in Hell Gate, were opened at General Newton's office yesterday. There was great Giavarity in the sums demanded, one bid rangipg as ful armed or- | head of the French people on the day when he sustained the throne of the final Bourbon with the soldiers of France? Moreover, should he | be found with his hands full in Spain we shall soon see the last sentences written in the chap- ter of the somewhat despotic Prussification of Jermany. But here the case would, perhaps, | become his opportunity. He must long since | have given up the German game. He was not He may not | | | | 80 much beaten as cheated in it. hope to prevent (hat absorvtion of all the in concerting definite policy with Isabella, for | in which he would not dare to leave Spain | Rogers can get a hearing through the organ of the ‘bloated bondholders,” and the whole coalition of these democratic aristocrats seem to be resolved to silence or drive off every out~ spoken red hot democrat or to put him down. Now, in behalf of fair play, we have to sub- mit that this is a shabby business, and that when a clique of ‘‘bloated bondholders” undértake to put on the silly airs of a Monsleur Mantilini, what Mantilini would call the “demnition total” on election day will be apt to turn against them. Pomeroy, Rogers and their colaborers of the red hot democracy stand upon the platform and preach the principles and dogmas of the National Democratic Con- vention, They support Seymour as having accepted that platform, with no evasions or reservations. They cannot understand that there is a cheat in their platform or their ticket, and so they fight their fight without mincing matters in favor of bondholders, money lend- ers or democratic aristocrats of any sort. Nor are they to be shut up or put down in being ignored or set aside, or refused a hearing by the managing rings of the city democracy. Mr. Jack Rogers, for instance, in simply stating his case before the democratic masses from point to point, may, if he thinks fit to do so, get up such a hue and cry against these dainty, kid-gloved cliques of democratic managers as to bring them to terms on a very short notice. He is a good speaker and an out and out democrat, who speaks from the democratic platform without dodging, and the democratic masses are with him; and if these kid-gloved masters of the ceremonies will not give him o fair show he has only to run as an independent out and out democrat for Congress to prove to the Tammany and Manhattan rings that when they presume to sell out the principles of the democracy for five-twenties, payable in gold, they are presuming too much. State of Affairs in Japan. Our news from Japan does not warrant the hope that trouble in that country will soon be ended. The government is still in the hands of the Mikado party, but the Mikado party has already itself given birth to a revolution. Not finding the young Mikado quite to their mind they have removed him and placed his uncle on the throne. While such is going on in the | North the Southern princes are up against | the new Mikado and demand his resignation. The ex-Tycoon seems to keep aloof from the | contest, and it will not be surprising if he | ultimately marches to power on the ruins of | both parties. The truth is, Japan is in | a condition almost identical with that in which Europe found herself when | the old feudal system began to break | up and before the present States system had yet taken practical shape. There was a time when there was general confusion and anarchy. Leaders had not yet appeared. The only form that stood out with distinctness was that of the Holy Father. But even he was powerless in the circumstances. The empire on which he leaned had crumbled to pieces, and it was in vain that the suc- cessive occupants of the Papal chair tried to bring order out of the universal chaos. It is precisely so with Japan. In the person of the | Mia they have their Pope. In the person of the Mikado they have their emperor. In the person of the Tycoon they have their mayor of | the palace. The mayor of the palace has not | yet been successful, but we have no reason to conclude that he will not come off in the end victorious. When the end comes—come when | it may—Japan will be the better for the Assassination a New Element in American i \ Politics. Ben Butler has discovered a new element in American politics. A few years ago the old | constitutional limitation of the term of office and the power of making a change quad- rennially were sufficient to satisfy those of our citizens who happened to be opposed to the political sentiments of a President of the United States and to stand outside the pale of his tempting patronage. But this is a pro- gressive age; the world moves, and the hero of Fort Fisher, with his accustomed shrewd- ness, perceives that four years will in future be too long for men to wait for the removal of an obstruction to their personal advancement. The process will be altogether too slow—as tedious and unsatisfactory as the digging of a Dutch Gap canal—especially when the knife, the bullet and the poisoned cup offer such sure and speedy relief. The assassination of Lin- coln is looked upon by Butler as a precedent that will not fail to have its influence upon our political future, and the success of that rebel experiment he believes will prove highly encouraging to those who may hereafter find themselves the friends of the second in power in- stead ofthe first, The weak point in this reason- ing appears to be the error in supposing the assassination of Lincoln to have been a benefit to the rebels, Had Lincoln lived the indica- tions are unmistakable that he would have carried out a broad policy of generosity, libe- rality and forgiveness towards the Southern people; and he would have done so without encountering any serious opposition from his own party and without drawing upon himself the pains and penalties of tenure of office laws, impeachment and protracted Congressional sessions. The Southern States have realized nothing by Lincoln’s death except military rule, starvation, carpet-baggers and negro supremacy, Johnson's friendship has been to them a curse rather than a blessing, and if their experience. since he succeeded to the Presidenttal office is to be regarded as a fair specimen of the benefits they are to reap from the policy of assassination it will be long be- fore they desire to enlist any more Booths into their service. If Butler’s philosophy were sound we should witness a marked and singular change in our whole political system. Our ward politician, instead of being represented in woodcuts with @ patch over his eye, a broken hat on his head and a whiskey bottle in his hand, would take the character of the Spanish brigand, with the slouched hat, the black mask, the picturesque cloak and the poignard. Our office seeker would no longer approach the Presidential mansion with a subdued air, a clean shirt col- lar and a full wallet, but would force his way into the presence with a defiant demeanor and the handle of a bowie knife sticking out from the back of his coat collar. Our Presi- dential dress would cease to be the highly re- spectable broadcloth coat, black pants, white shirt and vest of the same color, and our Chief Magistrates would receive at the White House arrayed in full panoply of steel, with breast- plate, gauntlets and closed vizor. Butler's idea evidently is that the days of imperial Rome are to be re-enacted in republi- can America, and that our future Presidents are to be knocked over one after another, like so many pins in a bowling alley, after the fashion of Cesar, Caligula, Domitian and the whole string of rulers in the later days of the empire. He believes that a President's life will not hereafter be worth an hour's purchase unless his constitutional successor should hap- pen to be a little more objectionable than him- self. In this view of the case it will be a mat- ter of self-protection for a Presidential nominee to insist that his associate on the ticket shall be the meanest scalawag to be found in the coun- try. But we are not inclined to believe in this new doctrine. Assassination may be an essential element in some governments, where a ruler who is detested by the people must be endured during a lifetime, be it long or short ; but under our own system, with a chance of getting rid of an objectionable Chief Magis- trate in a more peaceable and less hazardous way at the end of a brief official term, we have no fear that the knife or the bullet will come into general use. The experience of the past the whole British system there is in a muddled situation, and the unity of the New Dominion is by no means established. The new proposed reciprocity treaty, too, seems to be ina bad way. Mr. Seward hangs back from it, The seductions of the British Minister, Mr. Thornton, have not prevailed with the Secretary of State, as, indeed, they ought not, because we need no reciprocity treaty with Canada. The expired treaty was worthless to us, and its revival would be simply stupid. If Nova Scotia, any other British province, or the whole of them combined, want two years is of itself fatal to Butler's theory; for it has been seen that with all the inclina- tion in the world to get rid of Andrew Johnson the radicals have failed even to cut him off by impeachment, to say nothing of assassination. Ofcourse the great political panacea prescribed by Dr. Butler, if used successfully by one party would not be discarded by the other; yet we feel no apprehension that Grant's con- servative course as President will shorten his life, even though so strong a radical as Colfax will be second in power and his successor in case of a vacancy. We should not object even to insuring the life of Horatio Seymour during his term of office should he be elected Presi- dent; but this is such a remote contingency that the best wish we can offer to the Deerfield farmer is that he may never die till he gets to the White House. A Muddle in Nova Scotia. The disjointed Confederation of British North American colonies known as the New Dominion appears to be greatly perplexed about the action of Nova Scotia. That discontented province will neither go into the Confederation nor annex itself to the United States, thus attempting to maintain a kind of hybrid con- dition. Attorney General Wilkins declared in his late speech that Nova Scotia was about? to assume a position of practical indepen - dence, would take care of her own revenues and so forth; but when questioned as to his meaning by the Lieutenant Governor of the Dominion he announced himself as ‘‘truly loyal” to her Majesty’s government, and de- nounced the thought that he favored annexa- tion to the United States—in truth, he de- tested the idea, For all this it looks as though Nova Scotia was disposed to play the same game that South Carolina did with regard to our government in the days of Cal- houn; but she is not advanced any further on the road to success than was the Palmetto State when Jackson put his foot down on her aspirations and threatened to hang her leading chieftain. There is no harm in the politicians of Nowa Scotia keeping up the agitation, if they only do it within the limits of the law, and, thns conducted, agitation may lead to annexa- tion by a very easy path, There is plenty of discontent with the new order of things in all ordeal throuzh which it ghall have vassed, “’ the Britiah provinces to helo it along. In fact admission to the United States, that is a fair question. There is no obstacle in the way. The door stands wide open for them. The Paraguayan War. The details of the evacuation of Fort Hu- maita by the Paraguayan forces, published in this morning’s HERALD, show that the allies have still a hard and long road to travel. In- stead of capturing the whole garrison and thus ending the war, as Marshal de Caxias sought to do, they have merely gained some ground at the expense in men and money of a three years’ war. And the Paraguayans carefully fell back to as strong a position along the Rio Tebicuari, where the past campaigns must be fought over. There will be this other stum- bling stone in the path of the allies, that the shore in front of the Tebicuari line belongs to Bolivia, and tue allies cannot work there as in the Chaco region of the Argentine Confederacy, opposite Fort Humaité. Should they attempt it Bolivia will take a hand in the fight, and probably draw in the west coast republics, who protested so energetically against the allied policy on the River Plate. . -- This contest, which has been waged so vigorously for the control of the chief South American watercourse, should be brought to an end as soon as possible. For the sake of the world’s commerce one Power should control said watercourse. But that Power must be republican; nothing else can be allowed to govern the destiny of South America. All obstructions to free trade must be done away with, as well as the Power or Powers that will seek to raise the like. No such state of things as has prevailed under petty European governments, where tolls and taxes were levied at almost every city gate, and which still holds in Mexico, can be longer tolerated on this Continent. Paraguay made treaties with all the leading maritime nations securing the free navigation of the Paraguay river; and the sole reason why she took up arms in this contest was to prevent Uruguay, her weakest sister, from falling a prey to Brazil, the latter on frivolous pretexts having sought to overrun Uruguay and thus get con- trol of the River Plate’s mouth. The same policy that governed the United States in our purchase of the territory at the mouth of the Mississippi, and that banded our Western and Northwestern States together to prevent the Southern confederacy from controlling said mouth, will eventually bring the South Ameri- can republics to the rescue of Paraguay. Riot ix Gzoreta.—Our despatches this morning contain an account of a riot in Camilla, Ga., on Saturday, which appears to have been an affair of sufficient import to serve both parties in political capital until the October elections. Two accounts of the affair are given, one evidently from a rebel and the other just as evidently from a radical point of view. Our readers may have the estimable privilege of taking their choice. The gist of the affuir seems to be that a radical meeting was held in Camilla, at which a drunken democrat made a disturbance, fired a pistol and started a train of evils which re- sulted in heavy loss to the republicans, some fifty to seventy-five of them being killed or wounded. The republican candidate for Con- gress was dangerously shot. No democratic casualties are noted. THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS ASSOCIATION. An Agreenble Evening Discussion—Miss Susan B. Anthony in Her Editorial Sanctum—An Interesting Gathering. ‘The editorial sanctum of the Revolution, that mild- ly designated pioneer of women’s rights, was selected last evening by a small, comfortable coterie of ladies and gents for the free ventilation of views, on the knotty point of women’s claims in the arena of poll- tics and the field of labor. The apartment is ex- ceedingly snug. The presiding genius is Miss Sasan B. Anthony, the lesser lights are Mrs. Annie Tobitt, Miss Susie Johns, Miss Gussie Lewis, Miss Elizabeth C. Browne and Miss Julia F. Browne. These names form the nucleus of the Working Women’s Association No. 1. Last night was their second mecting; Mrs. Tobitt acted as President, and acted her part charming. She showed a little embarass- ment at first, but it soon yielded to an easy self-pos- session which well became her fair round face and melting smile. Miss Lizzie Brown, 2 fragile, nervous, iden haired girl, who walks in the footsteps of iss A., read the minutes with a naivete of style and manner quite delightful to witness. For instance, she read first a page of manuscript and then turned to the columns of @ lglg ml for the rest of the pi the point of the joke being that she recited for the edification of her hearers all the badinage of some facetious reporter inte:spersed in bis account of the meeting. Miss Anthony, whose movements have all the grace and agility of a fawn, literally floated around the room during the proceedings, picking up the broken thread of dircourse here and there and keep- ing things alive and stirring. There were three male sons in the room, With black whiskers and glit- teri spiritualistic eyes. Three ladies of uncertain age, three or four detidedly youthfal and good look. ing, and about a dozen others, male and female, of the ordinary run. Miss Gussie Lewis, encouraged by Miss Anthony, ventured to speak for fifteen minutes. It was a serious venture for a lady, but no mishap occurred, She Co aa with Miss Anthon, on the question of suffrage, didn’t thin' it was necessa to the comfort of wo- men; thought iss A. had ventured over @ perilous chasm on something like a tightrope in place of going around it by @ safer though more circuitous way. Miss Gussie, in the fullness of her gushing heart, pleaded for rights which wo- man sought outside of the baliot box—the right to sell her labor to the best advantage, the right to ob- tain labor where she is able to perform it, and the right to many other matters which appeared by no means unreasonable, Miss Gussie spoke sitting down, in curtain lecture tones that sent @ creeping thrill through the nerves of her masculine hearers. Miss Anthony smiled approvingly: from under her highly becoming pair of spectacles, and when Miss Gussie conned ‘her gentle utterances called for the experience of some other il-requited member of the sex, Mrs. Barne; ke up, and thus delivered her- selfs sin my qrotsesion I-can compete with any man that ever lived. Of all the fellers I've come across Joe Phan We] only one that came a nigh scarin’ rae in m; wera y what rf your business?” delicately inquired Miss A. “py ma‘am,” spoke up Mra. Barney; pe nursed. aiongaide all kinds o’ men, and wh 6 they got double my pay there was none on ‘em worth beans attendin’ a rate siek patient.” Mrs. Barney was emphatic. She wore a fancy hat over her brow, and had other evidences around her of a genuine liveliness of thought and temper. Miss Peers, adeticate young girl, with a sweet, sad smile, spoke of her labor and remuneration as © compositor Gh A newspaper. she read a few pages of crumpled note paper containing her views of woman’s rights and her remedy for woman's wrongs. Her low, plaintive voice spoke sentences of touching truth and pathos and her mild blue eyes appealed for justice and generosity to iT school teacher, a Yankee gal in every enprena oer ber face and voice, put inher rotest: against man’s injustice to woman. In fact, airs spel and that a Gelegate to the Na- jonal Labor Congress felt his of hearis af- fected, and whi'e so influenced made a speech that swelled from Re \tence to sentence in volume of exuberant’ votl o to the cause of woman until It culminat d tu . yroposition to secure representation Sor all Se todos present in, the sacred and jeaious ion. Migs ‘Anthony fooked, on delighted, smiling her most dissolving smiles, while Miss Browne, the lden-haired secretary, threw coquettisn glances at ie bold, manly and chivalrous representative of the Typographical Union, @ Held was now clear for all the male orators preeens, Miss Anthony sandwiched in a remark and there between the speeches of the mascu- line portion, and thus sens the ball unceasingly roll- ean operation which had a very happy effect, When all around had satisfied themseives they had passed a very pleasant evening the windows were opened, @ cool breeze invited into the apartment and the pi brought to a refreshing termi: AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MusIC.—A new American comedy, in four acts, on the events of the present day, by George Marlow, entitled, ‘1863, or the Bride of a Politician,” wag produced for the first time last evening, under the management of the Worrell Sisters, at the Acad- emy of Music. A highly respectable and numerous audience was in attendance, and it is seldom, per- haps, that a new domestic play has been presented under more favorable auspices. The piece abounds with absurd interviews between a number of politi- clans of a pettifogging stripe, “strikers,” and several ridiculous creations of the author's imagination, whom he has been pleased to designate as editors and proprietors of news- eee The e, for some particular reason, is alinee tee Ny 1 ed one Sa a ony told, ly politics, lol, briefly and so far as itcan be discerned: i that a young heiress has the misfortune to be the niece of an unclo who js badly beaten as a candidate for election to Congress through the manipulation of his friends. Florence Hampton, the heiress, is desperately in love with George Burke, @ young politician and editor of the » and 1s supposed to take satisfaction by buying out that journal through whose influence her uncle was defeated, presenting it to Burke and— marrying . ‘The comedy (?) was destitute of co- herency of dialogue or merit of any description, and the audience sat patiently through nearly two acts, expecting something to develop. t last they began to leave in twos and threes, and the third act was vociferously hi to its close, when two- thirds of the spectators left the house. Almost eve one was asking “What is the plot?’ but no one could tell. Nearly ali the new sensational plays depend for success not so much upon the author as upon scenic artists and machinists, but ‘1868 lacked any feature of even mediocre interest ia this line. The piece is billed for the week, but will, in all prob- ability, be withdrawn early. It is but justice to state that the Worrell Sisters did not appear in the cast and, 1n fact, are no; in the city at present, and no discredit should attach to, the players in the cast ist this performance. There'was nothing for them 0. Woop’s MvUsEUM.—Miss Maggie Mitchell was greeted by a large and appreciative audience last evening at this establishment in her favorite char- acter of Fanchon in the five act play of that name. Miss Mitchell’s name has become 60 thor- oughly associated with this drama throughout the whole country, and her rendition of the playful, hoidenish and pathetic character of the Merry Cricket is so famillar to all playgoers, that an ex tended notice or attempt at crivicism at this late day. might justly seem the work of supererogation. Suffice it to say, therefore, that Miss Mitchell is Fanchon and Fancnon is and always will be Miss Mitchell. The same chirping laugh, the same sud- den transitions from wild delight to moods of deepest pathos, the same unstrained and natural deportment and modulation of voice and gesticulation, and the selfsame shadow dance, with its inimit- able witchery and enchantment, characterized her performance last night in the role of the Cricket as upon hundreds of previous occasions, and her etforts to please -were frequentiy rewarded by the heartiest rounds of genuine applause. Mr. J. W. Collier ably sustained Miss Mitchell in his original role of Landry, and acted throughout with his ac- customed ease and grace. His ‘twin brother” in the piece, Didier, was assumed by Mr. Louis Mes- tayer, but justice compels us to admit that the twins resembled one another in nothing but their dress and could not fail but to provoke a smile of compas- sion from the more observing of the audicnce. Miss Mary Wells as Old Fadet looked and acted the witch to the very life. Tne remainder of tbe cast were only mediocre. ‘This is thetast week of Miss Mitchell in this city, and during that time she will continue to interest New Yorkers with her unrivalled imper- sonation.of Fanchon the Cricket. As she convem- plates an early departure for Europe, under engage- Inent to the Lyceum theatre, Loudon, the present will probably be the last opportunity offered. for some months at least, of seeing her in this her prin- cipal character. BowERY THEATRE.—At this house there was pro- duced last night a new four act nautical drama, en- titled “Fair Play; or, The Shipwreck of the Pelicon,” the principal parts being sustained by Mr. A. Fita- gerald, of the Australian and California theatres, who appeared in the role of George Trueheart,'a sea- man of the romantic school, and Mra. W. G. Jones as the heroine, Miss Ellen Underwood. The plot of the play is simple and is based on the saving from an adventurer in Mexico of the young lady by the sea man Trueheart, her subsequent rescue from ship- wreck and the machinations of pirates, her marriage to Trueheart to save her from a worse fate, her de- sertion of him and return to New York, where in the midst of opulence and after many incidents, she is reunited to her husband, who is now Lieutenant Trueheart, The play, considering it asa first night and many of the characters required prompt went oif very well. On the falling of the curiain Mr. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Jones were called before it and complimented by the audience, a large one. Mr, Fitzgerald, in response, briefly stated that he, many years ago, had made his first appearance on that Stage aud since had “been round and round the world,” and ciosed by thanking the audience for the courtesy extended to him, ‘Te amusements were wound up with a romantic drama entitled “String of Peurls,” in which Mr, Whalley and other favorites appeared. ‘Tony Pastor’s.—Crowded, as usual, this temp'e of janceasing varieties was the scene of much amuse- ment last night, as indeed it is at all times. The bill of fare was new, choice and very entertaining to the audience, who throughout manifested loud tokens of approbation. To ,enumerate the various items would be atask of no small difficulty; they were such as to attract and hap om | abounding as they did in humor, wit, songs and the most comical of characteristic dances. ‘The interest of the evening, however, was concentrated in a high flown bur- lesque entitied, “Wide Awake; or, A New York Boy in China,” in which several Chinese dignitaries are represented and wherein is introduced the cele- brated “Grecian Bend," with all the attributes ne- cessary for its complete production. It was re- ceived with applause and will probably run as lo! at Tony’s us tue graceiul curve itself will have mirers. NcW YORK YACHT CLUB. The Race To-day for the Vice Commodore’s Prizes. The contest for the Vice Commodore's prizes—one for sloops and one for schooners—comes off to-day. Perhaps no event so far in the yachting season has excited more interest, for none will probably be more favored by those circymstances that contribate to success. It will bea race wherein skill and ca- pacity will be thoroughly brought to the test, and should the breeze continue the merits of the yachts will be decided. That a good nor’wester will blow steadily there is every prospect, if one can at all judge by premonitory symptoms. No better portion of the season could have been selected for the event, and altogether @ well contested race may be safely anticipated, With such an excellent feet—for the entries include some of the fastest sailors in the country—with a knowladge of their previous per- formance, few yachtmen being unacquaiuted with their powers, a regatta, in the real sense of the term, must unquestionably be anxiously looked forward to. on to the present eleven yachts, five schooners six sloops have already notified the secretary of their inteution to. run, but the number may be consideraliy aug- mented as the committee wull start any yacht be~ longing to the club that anchors in poration tas morning. Circumstances permitting the boats wtil start ten o'clock. A fagboat will be anchore@abreast the club house, about half a mile from. the shore, west of which the sioops will anchor in line, about for- ty yards apart, and the schooners in jing, about two hundred yards north of the sloops, about fifty yards apart. The signal for starting having been given, yachts will — from the anchot of the Southwest Spit, south and thence to the ward and all the buoys on the West Bank are to be Passed to the eastward. There is no allowance time, but in order to make the race the distance must be p in sevem hours e one yacht of either class. The committee's for the accommodation of the mermbers and their friends will leave the foot of Desb'.oases street this morning at oie ang nen tae ee bw as tes as yachtmen desire the “sachting club must resuit in @ br’, t rendering of the final act of the season. The following are ‘dhe names of the yachy on- tered:— : ofr Palmer, q Phantom, = White Cap, Silvie, Addie V., Eva, Gracie, Wi Neitie, White Wing.