The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERAzy, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1868. NEW YORK HERALD]: AND ANN STREET. - JAMES GORDON ‘BENNETT, PROP AINTON Volume XXXL. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, FRENCH THEATRE, ‘Fourteenth strest and Biath ave- Bue.—La UKaNnne DUCHESS NIBLO'S GARDEN, “Broadway —SHAKSPRARR'S Tea- @kpy, Kiva Lew WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street. Tus SrRANGER. BOWERY THEATRE, Nyaeas oF THE Rarnpow, wery.—-CRiMSOM SHIELD; 08, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Tak Daawa or Our oF THR StKEETS. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaiway.—Humery Domery, With Naw FEAVURES. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broatway—Tar New DuAma or LAvate, BRYA! stroet.—, OPERA HO Ef, Tammany Bullding, Mth WLOPTAN MINBTRE: £0., Loonerta BORGIA. LEON'S MIN MRELSY, BURIED 1. BARBER BLU. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—E1m10- PIAN ENERUALNMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, &o, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowory.—Comto VOOA1ISN, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. THRATRE COMIQUE, BL Broadway, —Tan Gasat Ont. GINAL LINGARD AND VAUDEVILLE Compan WOOD'S MUSFUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Atiernoon and evening Performance. DODWONTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Tar CELEBRATED was read and referred to a special committee, Judge Comingham, of Pennsylvania, offered some twenty memorials praying for a canon against the unneces- sary ceremoniais that are being used in great part daring chureh service. He accompanied them by a Proposed new canon to that effect, A recess pre- vented a warm debate on this blow at ritualism, and the memoria! and proposed canon were referred to the Committee on Canons. A resolution appointing @ joint comumittes of the two houses as an organ of communication with other branchey of the Church on the subject 4? daily or synodical unions was unanimously passed. ‘The cage of the United States against John D. Mo- Heury, the principal witness in the late prosecution against Commissioner Rollins and others, was fixed for hearing yesterday in the United States Commis- sioners’ Court before Commissioner Osborn. The de- fendant is charged with having committed perjury in his evidence against Rollins, Harland and others, On application of his counsel the examination was postponed till Friday next, at eleven o'clock A. M. The East River Ferry Company were the defend- ants inasult for damages yesterday, beforé Judge Cardozo, on the plea of a little girl whose fingers were crushed petween the boat ana the slip on the Hunter's Point line, A verdict was rendered for the plaintiff allowing her $2,000 damages. The Court of Oyer and Terminer in Brooklyn was opened yesterday. There was not a sufiicient at- tendance of jurors present and a new panel was ordered. Several prisoners were arraigned and tho day of trial fixed. The Hamburg-American Packet Company's steam- ship Hammonia, Captain Meier, will leave Hoboken at two o’clock P. M. to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. The mails by her will close at the Post Oftice at twelve M. The steamship Leo, Captain Dearborn, will leave pler 16 East river at three P, M. to-day for Sa- BiaNoK Bi1i7 eae HALL, Inving pla .—-FALLON'S STRREOP- NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteonth slrect—EQUESTEIAN AND GyNNAGTIO ENTERTALNME! CENTRAL PARK GARI TUOMAS’ POPULAR GARDEN |. Seventh avonue.—TuRO, NOK. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S” PARK THEAYTRE, Brooklyn.— Tax Rep Soarr. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoorry's MINSTRELS—TuR Post BOY, OR THE SERENADING PARTY, NEW YORK ERO OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. ScIENOE AND At TRIPLE SHEET. nae Sha'st Tuesday, ‘October 13, 1868. EUROPE. The news report by the Alantic cable ts dated yes- day evening, October 12. Minister Hale's address to General Serrano in re- cognition of the revolutionary government of Spain ‘with the reply of the General were couched in the most hopeful terms for the people. The Cubans in Madrid are to send two members to the Junta, Gen- ‘eral Dulce is appointed Captain General of Cuba. Paris reports say that Prim favors a monarchy and aspires to be King himself. A new Spanish loan has becn taken. Additional measures of judicial and Social reform were announced in Madrid, A fatal riot took place at an election canvass in England. The Fenian State prisoners held at Dart- taoor, England, are to be released. Consvls 94%, money. Five-twenties 74% in Lon- don and 77% @ 773, in Frankfort. Paris Bourse strong, Cotion buoyant in Liverpool, with middling up- ands at 103,d. a10%d. Breadstui% and provisions quiet and almost unchanged, By steamship at this port we have interesting mail details of our cavle telegrams from Europe to the 1st of October. MISCELLANEOUS. The President has issued, through General Grant's headquarters, an order to the army and navy, citing extracts bearing upon the duties of army or navy olicers in reference to elections for President and Vice President. The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has de- cided that the Sherif of the county cannot exercise exclusive or paramount authority in that city for the Preservation of the peace, but that the power ts ‘vested soicly in the Mayor, whom the Sheriff is only authorized to assist. Judge Allison, of the Court, recommends to Mayor McMichael to have the Sherif arrested, and notifies him that tf a regular complaint is entered the warrant will be issued. Governor Borewan, of West Virginia, is in Wash- ington. He has applied to the War Department for troops to aid in preserving the peace in the State to- day, as the disfranchised rebels, be asserts, are tureat- ening to vote at all hazards. Lersundi, the Captain General of Cuba, has tssued Q proclamation acknowledging the sovereignty of the new provisional government in Spain and invit- ing all to join him tn fealty and allegiance to it as the lawiu! authority. The proclamation has been well received among the citizens of the “ever falth- Tul isle." Private accounts from Porto Rico state that the insurrections are not the insignificant affairs that the oMcials represent them to be, but are quite ex- tensive, and in addition an outbreak among the na- live soldiery is apprehended. Advices from Maracaibo, Venezuela, dated the 12th uit, state that government vessels had arrived be- fore the port and it was supposed a blockade would be ostablished, There was little probability that any arrangement could be made between the central government and that of Maracaibo, Gen- eral Perez has been repulsed by the troops from Maracaiio and has retired higher up the Cucuta river with his forces. The State of Trujillo has de- clared in favor of ihe central government, and it is expected that Merida Tahlira will follow the ex- ample. Late advides from St, Thomas state that extensive defaications have been discovered. It appears that for the last eight years the accounts of the Chief Justice of the colony bave not been looked into un- tl within a few days, when a deficit was found amounting to $15,000. He was immediately sus- pended by the Governor and then fled to Vieques. Tits name is Rosenstand, The “floating dock” 1s advertised for sale under seizure for the company's liabilities. ‘The sale will take place in De- cember. ‘The )anish ganboat Dianna arrived on the 230 of September, with his Excellency the Captain General, from St. Croix, Who came to investigate the case of the late Clef Justice. It left again with his Excellency on the 26th. The weather has been re- marcably fine for the last two weeks. There has been abundance of rain and fresh, cool winds. There con- tinues very little shipping in the harbor. The harbor at Kingston, Jamaica, according to Gates of the 12th ult, is being examined by a com- petent engineer, view to constructing a dock. Dates from Barbados are to the 6th ult, The crop of the curreut year had been shipped almost to the last hogshead, amounting to 64,065 hogsheads sugar, 23,643 puncheons ru, 1,915 hogsheads and 1,766 bar- rels of molasses. ‘The proceeding of Mr. Hale in recognizing the new provisional government at Madrid has been ap. proved by the Department of State at Washington, General George H. Thomas arrived in Washington yesterday, but will return to Tennessee tn a day or two, as the Dyer court martial, upon which he was detailed, has been postponed. Registration has commenced in Alabama, and the Governor has issued his proclamation for an elec- tion on the 3d of November for President, Cougress- men and State officials, after which no election will again be held wutil 1870. The Saco arrived at Key West from Aspinwall on Sunday. All well on board. ! THE CITY. The Kpiscopal Convention continned its seesion at Trinity chapel yesterday. At the opening the Psalms were read alternately by the ministers and Congregation, but were not chauted by the choir, A resolution dividing the diocese of Maryland was agreed io and approved by the House of Bishops, A memorial was presented by Dr. Stubbs from the Diocesan Convention of New Jersey asking an in- @rease of the pay of clergymen so thet thelr salaries fright Lo brongiit up to the standard of svecie whiol vannah. The stock market was variable yesterday. Gov- ernment securities were strong. Gold closed at 137% a 137%. The beef cattle market yesterday was only mode- rately active and pricos for all grades were in buyers’ favor, prime and extra steers selling at 15440. & 16)¢¢., fair to good at lic. a 153¢c. and infe- rior to ordinary 10c,a 1c, The arrivals were 286 head. Milch cows were quiet, but steady, at $100 a $125 for extra, $75 a $95 for fair to prime and $40 a $70 for infertor to common. For veal calves the de- mand was fair at former prices, viz.:—Extra, 12c. @ 1240.3 prime, 11c. a 113¢.; common to good, 10c. a lic.; inferior, 8c. a 9c, Sheep werg in zoo amanda, but with Uberal erriviis prices were lower. We quote extra, 64{c. @ 6c.; prime, 5c. a 6c.; com- mou to good, 6c. @ 54¢¢.; tmfertor, 4c. a43,0. Lambs were in demand, but lower, selling at 63¢c. a Tc. The swine market was rather easier, though quite active. Prime sold at 9Xc., fatr to good at 9c. a 93s. and common at 8c. a 9c, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel C. W. Thomas, of the United States army, and F. Bragglotti, of Boston, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Judge J. K. Portor, of Albany; General J. A. Za- briskie, and Colonel Sheldon Sturgeon, of the United States army; W. 8. Smith, of Detroit; Charles Blackie, of Washington; Congressman Boutwell and Dr. L. J. McBride, of Boston, are at the Metropoll- tan Hotel. General Hunter, of the United States army, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator Whyte, of Maryland, ts at the New York Hotel. General W. D. McCalish, of the United States army, and Oaptain A. H. Luck, of the Eighty-fourth regiment British infantry, are at the Brevoort House. Ignacio Gomez, Minister of Nicaragua and Hon- duras; W. Bodisco, Secretary of the Russian Lega- tion at Washington, and Dr. W, Bourne, of Calcutta, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Judge J. 8, Clarkson, of Montana; General Hagner, of the United States army; General John L. Swift, of Boston; Congressman N. P. Banks, of Massacbu- setts, and Judge P. Sullivan, of New Orleans, are at tue Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Grants Administration. Believing that the State elections of this day will not shake the prevailing impression of General Grant’s election in November— believing, in other words, that General Grant is to be our next President—we are naturally drawn to consider the difficulties, the advan- tages, and the probable policy and conse- quences to the country of his administration. The first difficulty confronting him, if not in the meantime removed, will be the Tenure of Office law—that law under which the execu- tive branch of the government, as previously recognized under the constitution, was re- duced to a mere appendage of the Senate. Before that law was passed the President, in his discretion, could at least remove any un- faithful, refractory or unsatisfactory subordi- nate in any of the executive departments, and the Senate had not the power of enforcing his restoration. But under this Tenure of Office law no executive subordinate whose appoint- ment requires a confirmation by the Senate can be removed by the Presidont without tho consent of the Senate. Mr. Johnson, for in- stance, in the absence of the Senate, may sus- pend any executive subordinate; but at the first session of the Senate thereafter he must give his reasons to that body for such suspen- sion; and if the Senate shall vote that such reasons are insufficient the suspended officer is reinstated, The case of Stanton, as Secre- tary of War, culminating in Johnson's im- peachment trial, and in his escape from a con- viction of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” and from expulsion trom the White House by one vote, is @ fine illustration of the intent and working of this Tenure of Office law. President Johnson, with his narrow escape from that trial, discovered that the law in question was a dangerous trap, and that, with the addition to the High Court of Impeach- ment of some thirteen or fourteen radical Senators from the South, it would be wise on his part not again to put his foot init. Wo see what has followed. is subordinates, especially those engaged in the collections and disbursements of the Treasury Department, go their own way, engage in their own schemes and rings of corruption and spolia- tion, and snap their fingers in the President's face. He cannot touch them, for before them is the triple brazen shield of the Tenure of Oflice law, and bebind that is an anti-Jobnson Sen- ate. Furthermore, as the law stands, the Cabinet of Johnson may continue for one month after his inauguration to hold their places as the Cabinet of Grant, unless the Senate concur meantime in a change. But it may be said that this law will be no difficulty to General Grant, inasmuch as he and the Senate, of the same party, will be of one mind {n the matter of removals from and appointments to office, How do we know this Within six months after Grant’s inau- guration the preseat party lines in the Senate may disappear and newlines of division may be formed which may make the agreement on Tom, Dick or Jarry as dificult between Grant and the Senate as it is between the Senate and Jolnson. In any event the manacles with which Congress, in its violent partisan hos- tility, has locked fast the hands of President ment which, with the reassembling of Con- gress, ought to be removed. Thus relieved fram the shackles fastened upon Johnson, General Grant will be in a position, in the reorganization of the personnel of his administration, to act with some degree of independence. Otherwise he will be in reality the subordinate and under the thumb of the Vice President at the head of tho Senate, as Johnson is now under the thumb of “Old Ben Wade.” Relieved, however, of this Tenure of Office law, we may look for an in- dependent broad guage administration from General Grant, including a Cabinet and a policy adopted without the intervention of a Senatorial caucus. We shall look to Grant for the speedy removal of all the disfranchise- ments of the Southern ex-rebel whites under the fourteenth amentiment, and then for the restoration to the democratic party of all the late slaveholding States with the acquisition of the balance of power from the negro vote. We shall expect a reorganization of our finan- cial and taxation systems on a sound basis of retrenchment and reform, and for the setile- ment of the Mexican problem, and all our out- standing foreign accounts to the honor, glory and prosperity of the Great Republic. In the herculean work of cleaning out the Augean stables of the Treasury Department we shall look to President Grant for the saving of at least one hundred millions of money now lost to the Treasury, through the existing whiskey rings, tobacco rings, iarift rings and all sorts of plundering revenue rings, insiders and outsiders combined; but to enable the President to reach these fellows this odious Tenure of Office law must be repealed. Wall street and all its affiliations have been and are already actively discounting on their estimates of the good time coming under Grant’s ad- ministration, upon the general idea that his Cabinet will be a good one, and that his finan- cial policy, his Southern policy, his forcizn polley and Bsnsrai policy in the matter of appointments will be safe and sound and eminently practical and conservative. There is a prevailing feeling that instead of any shock under President Grant to any of the business interests of the country every- thing, with the government in his hands, will go on smoothly and prosperously, and that all sections will share in the profits—that, for example, with the restoration of law and order and a staple system of things in the South, Southern lands will rise in value and Southern agricultural products will recieve a new im- pulse equal to hundreds of millions added to the general wealth of the nation. But all these reasonable expectations, rest- ing upon the known character of General Grant as & man possessing an uncommon fund of first rate practical, honest common sense, may be marred and spoiled, unless in advance he is re- lieved from the shackles which under this Ten- ure of Office law make the President the mere creature of the dominant faction in the Senate, ren his The Southern Electoral Vote~The President and the Military. President Johnson yesterday issued an order to army officers in command in the several Southern districts, defining their duties in re- gard to the elections and calling their atten- tion to those provisions of law forbidding any interference or intimidation on the part of the military or naval forces at such times, In this President Johnson is right. Many of the military commanders have entirely misunder- stood their duties and made themselves ridicu- lous. Their province is to preserve the peace and aid in suppressing riots. If the people of the unreconstructed States choose to vote for Presidential electors the military have no right to interfere. Whether the votes of such States will or will not be counted is altogether a different matter. But the blundering folly of military commanders and uneasy politicians who are making so much fuss over the elec- toral votes of the South lies in not compre- hending the fact that the majority for General Grant in the loyal States will be so over- whelming that it could make no difference in the grand result if every ex-rebel State, re- constructed or unreconstructed, were to be counted in favor of Seymour, Such a con- cession would only make Seymour's ,vote a little more respectable in point of numbers than McClellan’s. The loyal States will de- cide this election with a unanimity even greater than that with which they re-elected Abraham Lincoln, and the Southern electoral vote could not alter the verdict wero it to go to Washington, to Texas or to a hotter place in the effort. The Cuban Question in Spain. The Cubans resident in Spain at the moment of the outbreak of the revolution against the government of the Queen appear to have been fully alive to the importance of the occasion, as affording a grand opportunity for the obliteration of the distinctions of citizen class as between colonial subjects and those resident near the seat of authority. On the exile of the Crown they immediately demanded that the inhabitants of the island should be represented in any legislative body called to consult on and shape the future executive destiny of the country at large. Kuowing their rights and “daring to maintain” them, they have been completely successful. Our cable telegrams from Paris, dated yesterday, state that the Cubans now in Spain will be permitted to choose two members of the Central Junta of government; #0 that, the essontial of the legislative representation being secured, there is no doubt that Cuba, Captain General Lersundi having officially recognized the Junta of government, will hold constitu- tional elections, send members to the Cortes and be represented in the home Parliament, thus marching suddenly far ahead of the people of British North America in that vital matter of the relations between the governing power and the governed, News reports as to the stato of feeling in Cuba with regard to the change effected in the government of Spain reach us almost daily from Madrid, London, Paris and even Berlin an unusual state of affairs, showing the ad- vantages of a prompt use of the Atlantic cable— and in this category we have the assertion of a Paris journal of yesterday's date to the effect that General Lersundi, hae given “his adhe-~ sion to the revolution,” o fact stated in our Johnson should not be transferred to the hands of Grant. It is a degradation of the Presiden- tial office utterly unjustifiable, even against Johnson, and an excrescence noon the govern- Havana cable telegrams of the samo date. General Lersundi has great experience in official matéers, He is, however, to be ro- lieved by Goneral Duleo. Progress of Civilization and the Jockey Club Races. When, a few years ago, the American Jockey Club was organized it was confidently predicted that it would lead toa rapid develop- ment of civilization in the United States, and particularly in New York. The prediction for a while seemed likely to be fulfilled. The spring and fall meetings of the club were largely attended by representatives of the cultivated classes of society in our great metropolis, The press lavished all its rhetoric upon glowing descriptions not only of the races, which proiised to awaken a national interest in the pleasures of the turf and to rosult in improving the finest breeds of that noblo animal, the horse, and of the undeniably delightful rural scenery in the midst of which the races took place, but also of the splendid variety of vehiclos, equally light, strong and beautiful, in which our fashionable men and women drove to Jerome Park, and of the ravishing toilets which the ladies displayed on the balconies of the club house or on the benches of the grand central stand. Wealth and beauiy and fashion seemed to become acenstomed to regard the Jerome Park as a fuvorite rendezvous, Y But at the fall meeting this year aii unac- countable interruption of this course of pros- perity appears to have afilicted the American Jockey Club. On tho first day, although a bright October sun shone most propitiously, and although some of the best running ever made in this country was to be witnessed, there was a deplorable lack of attendance, both on the part of the great public and of the Jeunesse derée of New York. Even the mem- bers of the club failed to appear in fall force. The second and third days were characterized by the same absence of numbers and enthu- siasm, On the last day, indeed, the rgges at- tracted a larger and 9 gayer crowd than during the Fast ofthe week, hd even then a 4 doleful falling off from previous meetings was ré- marked. This falling off has been ascribed to different causes. Singularly enough, there are not wanting tongues so malicious as to aver that a certain suspicion of snobbery, of an affecta- tion of Pharisaic ‘‘I-am-holler-than-thou” pretensions, sufficed to deter many who would gladly have joined in the festivities of the oc- casion if the management of the races had been more liberal and less exclusive. There are also complaints, more or less loudly whis- pered, that the President of the American Jockey Club—genial, good-tempered and in- telligent as he is—has never acquired the ac- complishment of speaking English with a fashionable American accent. We presume that none who thus complain have ever applied to him for a bill of exchange on those world- renowned bankers, the Rothschilds. Other- wise, they would hardly impose on the Presi- dent of the American Jockey Club the burden of responsibility for the comparative failure of its fall meeting. It is said that certain members of another superlatively fashionable club, the Manhattan, in which also it has been the fate of Mr. Belmont, as Chairman of the National Demo- crativ Committee, to be called to act as a pre- siding genius, begin to object to his overrul- ing influence. It is added that, grieved, if not disgusted, at the want of appreciation betrayed by these objections and complaints, Mr. Belmont seriously contemplates resigning the presidency of the American Jockey Club and retiring from his exalted position in the Manhattan Club, If he should thus resign and retire suitable resolutions of regret would doubtless be unanimously voted by both these clubs. After all, however, we shall suspect that the resignation of Mr. President Belmont is but preliminary to his entering upon some grand, splendid mission (similar to that with which Mr. Burlingame has been entrusted by the Em- peror of China) to the principalities and Powers of Europe. Mr. Belmont has had the advantage of diplomatic experience, inas- much as he has already figured conspicuously asa United States Minister to a foreign court. It must be in order to prepare for astill higher post, im case Mr. Seymour should be elected President of the United States, that this prominent ornament of two of our metro- politan clubs contemplates withdrawal, Like Mr. Van Buren, who never got off the donkey on which he used to trot along behind General Jackson without getting on to some- thing better, Mr. Belmont will be perfectly justifiable if the want of appreciation on the part of the exquisites of his two clubs impels him to exchange the positions which they have conferred on him for a position better than anything within their gift. One thing at least is cortain—if the prosperity of the American Jockey Club does not revive after his resigna- tion it will not be the fault of Mr. Belmont. Tae Srate Eteorions To-Day.—Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska hold their State elections to-day, including their delegations respectively to the next fed- eral House of Representatives and a Legisla- ture, which in Pennsylvania is to elect a United States Senator in place of Buckalew (democrat) and in Indiana one in place of Hen- dricks (democrat), whois running for Governor. The republicans are pretty sanguine of carry- ing all these four States; the democrats are not without their hopes of carrying two or three of them, but they have left no stone unturned to save Pennsylvania. Whatever may be the results in these four States to-day we do no not expect that they will disturb the prevailing opinion in reference to the grand November election, Any further speculations in reference to this day's work in Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, Indiana or Nebraska are super- fluous, in view of the fact that our readers will have the actual results laid before them to- morrow morning. Morrissey TO Conorkss AGaAIN,—John Morrissey is up for Congress again and proba- bly will be returned to the legislative halls of the republic again, And why not? Is he not arepresentative man of a large class in the community ? The gamblers, pugilista and roughs generally are no small portion of our population, Since he was elected to the pre- sent Congress an extraordinary impulse has boon given to the civilization of the prize ring, As a natural consequence he bas become more popular than ever end bis chances for re-election greatly improved. The prize ring has been driven from Ragland and was rather declining hero; but with the —TRIPLE SHEET. elevation of such a distinguished member of {t ma Political Horoscope—Massachasetts and to legislative honors all the pugilists of the world are flocking hither. Hence we seo a great revival of the civilization of the prize ring among us. The Tammany Primaries and the County Nominations. The giants are arming for the great battle of the present week—or, to speak less figura- tively, the Tammany ‘‘pugs” are peeling for the primaries which are to be held on Thurs- day next. There is a pleasant political fiction that the delegates then chosen have the power of nominating candidates for the several of- fices, Congressional, Legislative and local, to be filled in November, and as the enormous democratic majority in the city renders a nomination by that party equivalent to an election considerable interest is felt in the re- sult of Thursday's preliminary proceedings. Wo say @ “pleasant fiction,” because those con- versant with the inside workings of Tammany are very well aware that the primaries are nothing more than the carrying out of a form regarded as necessary in order to keep up the show of party action, and that the dele- gates to the nominating conventions, like the members of the General Goi iige, are, in fact, only the mouthpieces oF ina inaster minds that control and govern the ancient and eflicient organization, It is, therefore, in reality, of not so much importance to know whether Patsey O'Rourke goes as a delegate to the County Convention from the First ward, or whether Mickey McSlane is sent to the Con- gressional Conventioz from the Bloody Sixth, as it is to discover whose mames are on the slate in the new City Hall, or what candidates find favor in the eyes of the Bismarck of the Chamberlainship and the rotund and jovial or- ganizer of the Street Department. ° The p! to be distributed this fall aro valu- able Bano: to fade the ‘faterest 7 in the poltical lottery. The Registership, made Yaddnt by the wntortunate death of the gallant Miles O'Reilly, is of itself worth a fortune. Its three years’ term is good for a clear one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, over and above all political assessments and out- goings whatsoever. There is a Supreme Court Judgeship in the market, and a City Judgeship, which, in the hands of a sharp, avaricious man, can be made largely remune- rative. There are Congressional and Assem- bly districts to be filled, with all their prospec- tive lobby profits looming up grandly in the distance. There is a Supervisorship vacant, with its comfortable pickings and its valuable influence. It is not surprising that with such attractive bait a shoal of hungry fish should be making desperate efforts to secure a nibble, and that the action of the political anglers who stand at the end of the rod, ready to land in their baskets those who swallow the hook, should be watched with intense anxiety, We feel bound in Christian charity, however, to advise all who are wasting theic time and their means in attempts to make a little ward capital here and there in the hope that it may help them'to secure or retain a good fat office, to save their labor and their money and turn their thoughts to godliness and legitimate work. The men who manage the Tammany organization and dispense its patronage are shrewd, far-seeing and self-reliant. They have already made up their minds to the policy to be pursued this fall, and their plans cannot be shaken or thwarted. Tri- umphant over the strong combination made to defeat them in the last Democratic State Con- vention, they have since that signal victory been laboring to heal up the wounds of their former adversaries and to renew combinations calculated to reunite the party and secure the benefit of its full strength in the election. It is Well known among those behind the scenes that the November county offices are already parcelled out, and the rumor {is that the places will be adroitly sandwiched between inside and outside politicians. Judge Barnard is certain of renomination for the Supreme Court bench, as his promptness, independence and wonderful executive ability render it impossi- ble to dispense with his services. But another judicial office, it is said, remains to satisfy the active young blood and strong Irish element of the city combined. Tweed must go back tothe Board of Supervisors; for is not his rotundity an indispensable requisite to the formation of a perfect ring? But there is still the large tub of the Registership, it is argued, to throw to the whale that has just floated into the Tammany harbor. For two of these four county offices at least, say the wiseacres in political mancuvring, mnst be found new, active, vigorous candidates—candidates who will satisfy Irish Americans and American Irishmen; candidates who will bring outside strength into the organization; candidates who have not already made themselves rich out of the offices. By no other policy can Tammany entitle herself to demand, as she will, the renomination of all her special cham- pions of last session for the Legislature and, with one or two exceptions, for Congress. We may make up our minds, then, that the four county offices, all the Assembly nomina- tions and most of the Congressional districts are already assigned in conformity with the policy and purposes of the managers who hold these matters in their hands and are reaponsi- ble for the results, good or bad. We have no doubt they will do what they consider best for their party, and their great success as leaders will induce the rank and file to endorse the arrangements they make, however much grumbling and cursing may be heard in the taverns and saloons over lager beer and strong whiskey. But as we remember that the late Dean Richmond set the example of leaving one of the nominations on a State ticket to the Convention, we may yet hope that where an old Congressman is not renominated the wishes of the people may be studied and that some such representative as Charles O’Conor or Hosea B. Perkins may by this means be secured to the city, This, probably, is the most the people can expect, after the division of the four valuable county offices between the pre- sent incumbents and the new aspirants on the half-and-half principle, and if they secure this they may think themselves fortunate. In the meantime we advise all interested in the distribution of the spoils that the primaries of ‘Thursday aro very important events and that they will have to look higher than the cropped heads of the broken-nosed delegates if they desire to discover the real dispensers of the county nominations. Seuth Carolina. General Grant is to be next President of the United States, and his election will be the signal for one of the most tremendous political Convulsions ever experienced on the American Continent. Underneath the surface of the Pending contest there is at present going on a grumbling and rumbling which tell unmls- takably of the conflicting nature of the ele- ments at work in the bowels of the old organi- zations. The loyal portion of the democratic party find themselves, by the action of thoir National Convention, drawn into association with the anti-war sympathies of the wily Seymour and the bold revolutionary proclama- tions ‘of his more manly associate, Frank Blair. The radical Jacobins in the republican ranks are compelled by the force of circum- stances to rally around the standard of a leader who has no share or sympathy in their policy of violence, malignity and hate. The defeat of Seymour will utterly destroy the present democratic organization and set free the strong inside power that has long been dissatisfied with the rule of the old line lead- ers. The success of Grant will result ina gongervative reaction in the republican party an the Repareion therefrom of the Butlor wing of Congress, together with Wondoll Phillips, the anti-slavery societies, Gerrit Smith, Garrison, Susan B, Anthony, Horace Greeley, Cady Stanton, and all the strong-minded women -and weak- minded men who gre bound to keep society in perpetual hot water. In short, there will be a toppling over of old organiza- tions, a swallowing up of old policy, a caving in of old leaders, a wiping out of old land- eae and a & general political shaking UP, nualled on only iy by the ‘adit ‘wighiy ouvalsion - nature along the whole westeri const of. South America. In the events which must follow this politi- cal earthquake the South is destined to play an important part. The radical policy of reconstruction is now an accomplished fact, and the great folly of the democracy lies in refusing to recognize it as such. The States readmitted to representation in Congress are equals in the Union with all their Northern brethren, and there is no power in the North or in the South, in republicans or in democrats, to turn them out of the Union:or deprive them of their constitutional rights, The worst of reconstruction is over for them. They have rid themselves of military rule, the oxperi- ment of negro suffrage has been tried and has resulted in the adoption of better State consti- tutions than might have been anticipated, and now there is every indication of the power of the old masters, with their intelligence and means to control the negro vote. The men of the South recognize these facts, and as statesmen they are preparing to avail them- selves of the opportunity to recover their old political power and influence in the councils of the nation. It is absurd to suppose that eleven million whites, possessing all the intelligence and all the wealth in the Southern States, will not in the end, under any form of reconstruc- tion, obtain complete political mastery over four million blacks. But in the effort to eman- cipate their States from partial laws, restrictions and obligations not enforced against all others, the statesmen of the South will receive the aid and sympathy of conservative men of the North, This will form the great issue between future parties, and the reconstructed Southern democracy, raising the banner of equality under the constitution for all the States in the Union, will sweep like a tidal wave over the country and be the successful party of the future. One of the first Northern men to forosee these results in the ‘inexorable logic of events” is a Massachusetts statesman who bears an honored historical name. John Quincy Adams, in his letter to the State Central Executive Committee of the democracy of South Caro- lina, the text of which we republish elsewhere, shows at once a boldness and independence of views that smack of the spirit of his grand- father and a shrewd appreciation of the fact that the true policy of the future must be a renewal of the old Union sentiment and a de- termination to live together in peace as per- fect equals under the constitution. It is a singular and striking event, this plain talk of @ Massachusetts descendant from revolutionary sires to the once hot-headed chivalry of South Carolina, the persistent followers of the ignis fatuus of ‘‘States rights” and the bold advocates of secession. It may be that in the progress of events the great capital possessed by John Quincy Adams in his honored historical name may gain for him the leadership of the recon- structed democracy, based upon the solid foundation of the united South and stretching out its strong arms over the North and West. It may be that in the old antagonists, Massa- chusetts and South Carolina, we may yet find the nucleus for a practical and perfect union of the States. Two years ago we had an arm- in-arm convention in the City of Brotherly Love whose fruits were not of the most pro- m‘sing description. More recently we have witnessed an arm-in-arm gathering in this city productive of scarcely any better results. But there may be an event in store for the country inthe future similar in character to these, but grander in its results; and we may yet witness, four years from next March, the spectacle of a thoroughly restored Union, symbolized in the persons of John Quinoy Adams and Wade Hampton—Massachusette and South Carolina—marching arm in arm into the White House to take possession as its legitimate occupants for the next Presidential term, Reatsrer.—The registration of voters com- mences to-day. Every one otherwise quali-~ fied to exercise the elective franchise right must bear in mind that unless his name is on the registers’ list he cannot vote. Soarcrry or Vorgrs iN IrgLaNp.—The Fenian convicts held in Dartmoor State Prison, England, under rule of sentence for all sorte of treasons, felonies and murders are to be set free immediately. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘The United States frigate Fravktin was at Lisbon on the 224 ult., awaiting an exchange of her oficors for those of the Ticonderoga. ‘The Ticonderoga lay at Gibraltar and was expected vo No ah for this couutry about the 20h of Une present’ moni ‘The United States screw steamer Swatara left Lis bon about the 22d ult. for ia ‘The Canandaigua, at ladb accounts ia Havre, 16 of dered home.