The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1869, Page 6

‘6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. THE JAMES GORDON BENNETT, VROPRIETOR. Volume XXXIV INTS THIS AFTERNOON AND I No, 237 AMUS ‘ENING. WOOD'S NUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance, THEATRE COMIQUE, 5 Rroadway.--DAVID GAR- RIOK—PAS DE Pascinat 3, Matinee THEATRE, Fifth ua and Twenty+ ath THE 7. Y, Fi ns THR QotEN OF Beawrs—iurt Ory Woman Tuar FD IN A SHOR, NIKLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—ARRAu NA POSE; OR, Tar Wiowtow Wrppin -—MARCO, THE MOTR— BOWERY YUKATRE, Bowe Camrovour. GRAND 0 MEd Blreet. aor ot Eighth avenue and WAVERLEY THEATRE, No, 1% Browhway.—A GRanp Vawiery ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 24%. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brostway.—Htworae Divoowe Doo, Matinee at Vs. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28d Bit Van WINKLE. am WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broaiway ani Uskth street. — Viorrm8—-Tux Proria’s Lawyer. Ps has PARK GARDE! th dts. —POruLal GARDEN TONY PASTOR'S OPERA t10 Vooariim, NZono MINSTRELSY, HOOLEY'S OPERA MOUS MINSTRELS—THz Lawyer’: peiween Sth and 6th ava,— MW Sowary,—Gowto Matinee at 2. vklyn.— HOOLEY'S NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. QOLENOE AND Avr. NEW YORK M' MALES ONLY MOF ANATOMY, 629 ATIENDANOR. —— a a TRIPLE SH EET. st 25, 1809. Aug Now York, Wednesday, = The carte telegrams a ‘The rival boat crews of the and Awe universities were out again lor practice yeste ‘The Harvards did well in tueir new boat. betting ta still egainst them. The York August races commenced yesterday. The Zetiand Stakes, tho Convivial Stakes and the Yorksuire Oaks were run for, The loss of Cuba to Spain, says the London Melegraph, would be a gain to the mother country, the colony and the cause of mankind. The Empress of the French and the Prince Impe- pial grrived yesterday at Lyons en route to the East. The Senate wiil hear the report on th. als Con- sultum to-day. Napoleon's amnesty to political exiles has bcon enthusiastically received. Salyatori Patti, father of Aaelina, died on Mon in Paria, Dissonsions among the Spanish Cabinet Ministers opeanans qupove enceatens to resis ans desire better food aud quar prisoners. The dif tan are in ; ‘The late dry weather has favorebly atiected the European tiarvest. Prospects are so good t ‘vances in prices of all kinds of grain lave been checkea. pan The neces between the Viceroy and tie Sul- Cuba, The insurgents are reported to have veen driven from the neighborhood of Jaguey General Quesada has not yet appeared befure Santi Bapiritu. The Peruvian Mon‘tors. Our correspondent with the Peruvian monitor Meet writea fom Maranham, Brazi!, under date of sgly 12. The transport Marranop had broken down gf the Salat Islands, near Cayenne, and had laid up there for repairs with the monitor Atahualpa, white the Manco Capac, towed by the Pachitea (formerly the Arago), proceeded to Maranham. ‘Three Peru- vian ofiicers had there meet the fleet, and report that the people of Pera are incensed against Sefior Garcia, the Minister to the United States, for having megotiated the purchase of the monitors. The Arago, on icaying New York, it be remem- bered, wus reported by a sensal t to have Sailed for Cuba tn tao Interests of tie Wsutgents. Miscelinveous. The President yesterday attended a olambake, given by the Grand Army of the Republic, at Ocean Cottage, up Norraganset Bay, thirty miles from Newport. ‘Thirty thousaud persons were present. The President will leave Newport this morning, and Spend to-morrow night at Concord, N. H. On Satur- ay he goes to Saratoga. It ts not considered at all probavie in Washington that Colonei Stokes will succeed in haying Congress convened to overthrow the election of Senter in Tennessee. It is believed, however, tint he will succeed in having all the federai oitice-holders who Javorgd Senter removed. ,” Governor Senter, of Tennessee, nas arrived in ‘Washington on his way to New York. ie intends to seek an inttrview with General (rant. The Massachnsetts Democratic State Convention met at Wovchesier yosténiay and nominated Jonn Quincy Adams for Governor. Mr. Acams accepted the nomination and made a specch. A series of fesolutions was adopted whitch will be lound pub- lished elsewiere in our coiuinns. We publisn on our triple sheet this morning & Getatiod acount of the recent do execution at Momphis, ‘the wives of the condemned men wit messed their execution. The officers at Gettysburg went to work yesterday Gesignating the points of interest tn the frst day’s battio and the positions of the Eleventh corps. The spot where Reynolds died 1s marked by a tree with fn Ron it, General Hancock has written a letter fegretting that he cannot be present, ana it is now uncertain whether General Meade will come. Thomas L. Evans, an old gentleman, was shot and Kitled in Philadelphia yesterday by nis son, Marshall Evans. The family had for some time entertained doudis of Marshal's sanity, and yesterday morning ft was decided that the father should obtam a cert te on which to consign him to a lunatic asylum, . te about to leave the house for (his purpose Marshal shot him. He was taken into custody. A meteor, Which ascended vertically and then de- scended over the same course, was seen at Philadel- pbia and Washington last evening. It was not ob- gerved at the Naval Observatory in Washington, be- oause none of the astronomers have yet returned from thetre xpeditions to observe the solar eclipse. Twelve States have formaily ratified the new fMf- teenth amendmont, aud two have rejected it, Two otters, Kansas and Wisconsin, have ratifiea ttin a mannor that is classed as defective. ‘The New Jersey farmers are becomlug uneasy at the continued dry weather. Oid unused wolis are bing hunted up, and a general economy in water is ‘Being ovserved. Aferious riot between whites and blacks is re- ported in Macon, Tenn., in which the negroes threatened to sack the town, and it is said wounded Several of the Sheriff's posge sent to quell the dis- tdrbance, The riot grew ott ofa fight betweena wBegro and a white boy. Vincent Colfer telegraphs from San Francisco that tie proclamation of Governor Mitcheil, of New Mexico, declaring the Navajoes outlaws 19 unwise and will break up the school and agency at Fort Deflance. ‘The wars with the Apaches heretofore ‘were commenced by white men. Mr. Colyer left San Francisco on Monday for Sitka, Father McMahon, who was recently pardoned out ‘the Kingsyon (Canada) Penitenttary, where he was @ twenty years’ term, as one of the Fentans in the invasion of 1806, has arrived in Buf- atid ts the guest of Bishop Ryson. A large fire occurred in Philadelphia last evening, op the corner of th and Wallace streets, There ‘Wes but lite to throw on it, and the large batiding and four private dwellings were destroyed, tavolving a 1088 of $100,000. ‘A State convention of Universalists 1s in session at Watertow, N.Y, Rev. J. G. Bartholomew presides, The City. Bm the {pquest in tho case of the boy who was run thi . NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. : over and killed by car No. 1 of the Bleccker street sored two verdicts yesterday, having faulod . The majority exonerate the driver from 26 in the matter; but th. others, only two 8, censure him and the company, The driver leased on $500 batt, Im the Sapreme Court yesterday Ramsey and Van Valkenourgh against whom Judge Barnard had issuea attachments for & contempt of court, were up for examination. The hearing Was adjourned to eleven o'clock to-day. The examination of General Thomas W. Eagan, the Custom House weigher, for alleged frands on the government, was resumed yesterday before Com- misstoner Osburn, The Cunard steamer Scotia, Captain Judkins, will sail this morning for Liverpool. ‘The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past six A. M. The steamship Nebraska, Captain Guard, will leave pier 46 North mver at four P.M. to-day for enstown and Liverpool. 12 steamship Saragossa, Captain Ryder, of vy’s Ime, will leave pier No. 8 North river at three P, M. to-day for Charieston, 5. 0. ‘Yhe stock market yesterday was dal! and de-. clined, Late in the day the Vanderbilt shares an- derwent a sharp reaction on the strength of intellt- geuce from Saratoga that the consolidation mea- suros were again afoot. Gold 0 La8. Prominent Arri: the Clty. Count de Faverney, Chai Auires of France, aud Count de Turenne, of tue @rencd Legation, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Commander Lowery and Paymaster Foster, of the United States Navy, are at the Hoffman House. Colonel Duffy, of the United States Army, and J. G, Saxe, of Albany, are at the Astor House. Judge P. Mellon, of Cincinnati; Governor John Evans, of Colorado, and General H. L, Robinson, of Binghamton, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Count Wisconti and Captain Batchot, of the Italian Legation, and Robert Toombs, of Georgia, are at the New York Hotel. General J. Rawlins and Generai J, B, Fry are at tne Erevoort House. Judge W. Hinks, of Washington; Colonel F. 0. Jeffery, of Texas; George Ashbury, of the United States Army; Judge Henry Carter, of Portland; Col- onel J. A. Parker, of Quincy, are at the Metropoll- tan Hotel. Judge W. Black, of New York; Hamilton Harris, of Albany; J. Barrett, of Georgia; P. H. Lawrence, of London, and 8. W. Johnston, of Washington, are at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel. T. H. M. Bartlett, of Montres ton, and Thomas M, Smith, of Coieman House, 4. B, Kelly, of Bos- aitimore, are at the Prominent Departures. Commander W. P. Mo nb for Phitadelphia; Dre W. McDonald, Boston; Major D. Bradley, Saratoga; T. B. Tilien, Chicago; J. O. Kenney, Cincinnati; Ma- Jor 8. M. rtto, Long Branch; Professor Wiiliams, Lowe!!, Dr, Northrop, Newport, YoilemA Smashing Bombshell Preparation for Tammany Hall, Tammany Hall has “waxed fat and kicks.” Tt has become a mighty monopoly in politics and spoils and plunder. Long ruling this city, it now wields the balance of power over the State, and is moving to control and manage the democracy of the United States. A Tam- many Sachem in these days shines with the splendor of an East Indian nabob, and even the common Indians of the Wigwam soon rise to the dignity of dabblers in stocks and specu- lntors in real estate. Our city tax levy of twenty odd millions furnishes a bountiful mar- City iu gin for pickings and perquisites, and Tammany, in distributing them among the faithful, has become so strong-as to laugh at all opposition and smile in derision at all complaints of her spoliations. And wy uvt, vten Tammany can muster her fifty, sixty or seventy thousand majority in this city, as the electionsnay require? Why not, when she can buy up or kill off any disturbing faction, and when to the masses of the island democracy to hear her is to obey? But still her tenure of office Is uncertain, and unfore- seen dangers are constantly springing up. A great danger now threatens her from a power- ful and neglected quarter. The strength of Tammany Hall has been and is the Irish ele- ment and the German element of the city. For a long time the Irish element so far ex- ceeded the German that the Germans were hardly considered as calling for any special cultivation. But of late years the influx of Germans has so far exceeded our Irish acces- sions that the German element in numbers is overtopping the Irish, andin our mercantile and finanolal establishments is a visible power on every hand, But still, in the division of our city offices and spoils Tammany has con- tinued to dispense her favors upon the Irish- Americans, and to such a degree that the “sons of the old sod,” with few exceptions, make up the catalogue of our City Fathers. This fact stands out in such bold relief that some wag has suggested that New York ought to be called New Dublin. . The Germans have made this discovery of the favoritism of Tammany Hall, and, know- ing their power, they intend to have some changes in this business, They can have them with or without the aid or consent of Tammany, and hence the danger to Tammany ; for the Germans are already moving in the matter. They gave us an inkling of their strength some years ago in the Mayoralty election (Godfrey's cordial) between Boole, Gunther and Blunt; but that was nothing compared with what they can do now. Tam- mang, however, is still safling on the other tack—the Tweed movement, for instance, to oust August Belmont as chairman of the na- tional party committee. Belmontisa German, and the German democratic element lies behind him. Tweed is backed up by the Irish element, and upon this issue and others there is a ‘Teutonic bombshell in preparation for Tammany Hall. The three great divisions of the population of this city are the native American, the German and the Irish born. Politically the first against the other two combined is utterly powerless, It is only a balance of power against the German or the Irish division; but as a balance of power the native American vote (mostly republican), in a split between the Irish and German divisions, will go the German. We think so because outside of this city and State the German, as the rule, is a re- publican, while Irish republicans are hardly more numerous anywhere than Irish Protest- ants. The Germans of this city, then, have only to take the field against the party despot- ism of Tammany Hall in order to upset it, and, from the German movements afoot we expect this thing Is coming. How can Tam- many displace Pat to oblige Carl? It can't be done; for if done Pat will have something to say. Butif not done Carl will bolt. It is coming to this, Lastly, they say that the re- publicans are meditating an out and out German city ticket {n order to head off Tam- ny, 80 that, look at it as we may, there are 8 of an approaching terriflo explosion in cratic camp of this city, with the up- Ine, near Abingdon square, on Wednesday last, the | rising of the Germans for a new division of the spoils against what they are beginuing to name as the “Irish monopoly of Tammany Tall, Marshal Nici and Napoleon. The bulwarks of the second empire—the | tried and trusted friends of Louis Napoleon— ave rapidly disappearing from the field of action. Marshal St, Arnaud, Duke de Morny, Duke de Malakoff, Marshal Magnan, Count Walewski, Fould, Mocquard and Troplong have passed away within the last few years, and now Marshal Niel, one of the stanchest friends of imperialism, has yielded to the inex- orable decree of death, While Paris and all France, bedecked in gayest holiday attire, celebrated the centennary of the birth of the first Napoleon and the great national fete of the empire there was one at least whose heart was sad—one whose affliction was so great that the military festivities of the Chalons camp had been hastily abandoned for the seclusion of St. Cloud, and one who, in mourning the death of another of his early companions aad con- federates in the great move which raised the second empire from the d¢bris of the republic of '48, must begin to realize that his time, also, in the course of human nature, and already presaged by the growing aches and ills of age, cannot be far removed. In the political revolution now agitating France and effecting the incorporation of ad- ministrative reforms in the government which necessitate no inconsiderable sacrifice of im- perial prerogative, the Emperor will sadly miss the counsels and devotion of the late Minister of War. France owes much of her glory and prestige to the genius of Marshal Niel, and to him redounds the credit of a mili- tary equipment and efficiency second to none in Europe. In the ministry, the tribune and the camp he was distinguished for his devotion to Napoleon and the fearlessness with which he invariably sustained the imperial policy. Although more a specialist in debate than the versatile and gifted Rouher, his earnest and powerful efforts were not alone confined to tho questions of his department, the war budget, the reduction or increase of the army and the like, but were often felt when a determined re- sistance to the encroachments of the opposi- tion was called for in the legislative forum. What immediate influence this new misfor- tune may have upon the Emperor we cannot presume to say. Whether grief will tend to sour or soften imperial temper remains to be seen. It is said that his Majesty is quite im- pressionnable to scenes of affliction and moura- ing, and his better feelings on such occasions rise superior to personal ends and ambition. It is related that while passing over the battle fleld of Solferino he was moved with in- expressible pity at the sight of the dead and dying that strewed the ground, and this impression was so profound it acted power- fully on him for the conclusion of peace. The fate of Maximilian induced the Salzburg inter- view from which sprung a friendship for Aus- tria, that Baron Beust yet congratulates his people upon being most sincere and satis- factory. Willhe in the loss of a faithful friend be moved by a sentiment of true affec- tion for his people and an earnest desire to aatiafy their aspirations? In the successors of thooe who stood by the Kmperor since 1502 are we to see new men more in harmony with the progressive tendencies of the nation and less blind in their zeal and devot{fon to imperi- alism? To them at least we are to look for the peaceful development of liberal ideas and institutions, or the commencement of a long and uncertain conflict between authority and opinion which may eventuate in revolution. So far all promises well for a more liberal policy on the part of the government ia the future, The Senate is busy with legislative reform, M. Rouhor seems less obstinate and absolutist, the Emperor appears conciliatory and in commemoration of the hundredth birth- day of Napoleon I., graciously published full and complete amnesty to all press, political and other offenders. Let us hope that Napo- leon, as well as Rouher, Schneider, Granler de Cassagnac and the yet remaining champ!ons of personal government may see fit to ‘‘ crown the edifice” with greater liberties and accord all those reforms which shall prove ‘ popular enough to go.hand in hand with liberty, and at the same time strong enough to resist anarchy.” An InternationaL Ockan Yaonr Race.— Late advices from London state that the Eng- lish yacht Cambria and the American yacht Dauntless will start on an ocean race on the Ist of September. The course will be from Cowes to New York. The challenge of the Dauntless was unreservedly accepted by the gallant owner of the Cambria, Mr, Ashbury, Ergot or CugaP Fretcurs.—The city is quite full of merchants from St. Louis and other points in the West, who are here for the pur- pose of taking advantage of the very low rates of freights to replenish their stocks of goods from the well filled warehouses of our principal dealers and jobbers. This is a good sign. It does good all around. It is a benefit to Western merchants as well as to Western consumers, to New York dealers and others engaged in the movement of merchandise. It makes money fly that would otherwise be hoarded up on account of the cry of “hard times.” Everybody is benefited except, per- haps, the railroads; and it would not be sur- prising if even they should in the end reap the benefits of a moderate scale of freight charges between the metropolis and the marts of the Great West. Nosoto@y IN Massacntvserrs.—A lawyer in Massachusetts has been sentenced to two months’ imprisonment in the common jail for tweaking another lawyer's nose in a railroad car, Thisis not the first time one lawyer has put an opponent’s-‘‘nose out of joint,” but in a Pickwickisn sense. The incarcerated law- yer will now have time to reflect upon the danger of allowing his angry passions to rise, and, as a Massachusetts paper remarks, if he is of a literary turn, he will have leisure for an article on “The tweaking of noses as a science.” Wortuiess Looks IN THE TREASURY Sargs.—The matter of the worthlessness of the locks in the safes in the National Treasury is being talked about in the papers. Would it not be as well to flnd out how money gets out of the Treasury through subsidies, jobs, in- trigues and corruption, without the unlocking of bolts or bara of any kind? The Eastern Mission of the Eugenie, The ocean telegram has announced the de- Empress parture of the Empress of the French on | Monday, the 23d Instant, on her Eastern tour. Our Paris correspondent had already informed us that the Empress Eugénie is expected to arrive on the 30th of September at Constanti- nople, where the palace destined to be occu- pied by her is being fitted up with Oriental splendor. She will remain at Constantinople ten days for the fétes to be given in her honor. Towards the 10th of October she will visit Smyrna, where, if we mistake not, her Scotch grandfather, Mr. Kilpatrick, was American Consul during three Presidential administra- tions. The dates of her subsequent excursions are not yet decided upon up to the departure for the inauguration of the Suez Canal on the 17th of November. The Empress will be ac- companied on her tour by the Prince and Princess Murat, by three ladies of honor and two chamberlains. For the celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal—an event pregnant with momen- tous political and commercial consequences— the Viceroy of Egypt has made the most ex- tensive preparations, The Empress Eugénio will doubtless be the cynosure of all eyes on that memorable occasion, The magnificent historical scene of which she will be the central figure will forcibly call to mind the judicial combat which the genius of Sir Walter Scott has painted in indelible colors as the cause of an “‘assemblage of va- rious nations at the Diamond of the Desert,” not tar from the locality where the opening of the Suez Canal is to be celebrated, and as having taken place in the presence of Queen Berengaria, Edith Plantaganet and their at- tendants, a bevy of veiled Eastern beauties, the Archduke of Austria, the Grand Master of the Templars, Richard Coeur de Lion and Sa- ladin himself, with his turbaned hest. A ban- quet similar to that which the Soldan offered to the princes of Christendom after that com- bat, in the most gorgeons fashion of the East, with carpets of tho richest stuff and luxurious cushions, with cloth of gold and silver, superb embroidery in arabesque, shawls of cashmere, muslins of India, unfolded in all their splendor, with different sweetmeats, rngouts edged with rice, colored in various manners, and all other niceties of Eastern cookery; ‘lambs roasted whole, game and poultry dressed in pilaus, piled in vessels of gold and silver and porce- lain, and intermixed with large mazers of sherbet, cooled in snow and ice from the cav- erns of Mount Lebanon”—such a banquet will probably be prepared by the Viceroy of Egypt, supplemented with all the refinements of French and English cookery, of which he has lately learned to be an excellent judge, and offered by him to his European guests. It is even possible—so great changes having been gradually wrought since the age of the Crusades—that Ismail Pacha may not so modestly as Saladin object to receiving the thanks of Empress Eugénie for her princely reception. Saladin declined the invitation to receive the thanks of Queen Berengaria, because, he said to royal Richard, ‘‘the blood of the East flows not so temperately in the presence of beauty as that uf your lend. What saith the Kook itselt Her eye is as the edge of the sword of the prophet. Who shall look upon it?” But the Empress Eugénie may not so easily as the Queen Berengaria ‘‘content herself with seeing and laying aside the still more exquisite pleasure of being seen.” The innovations, however, which this crusade of modern civili- zation, headed by the Empress of the French, may introduce into Oriental etiquette, are in- significant in comparison with those which her mission to the East may directly or indirectly introduce into the political relations of the Western and the Eastern world. We shall therefore watch with interest the progress of her tour to the East and the development of the results to which it may ultimately lead. Gettysburg Monuments. The officers’ reunion at Gettysburg seems to have found little favor with the ex-Confederate generals. General Robert E. Lee pleads his engagements as an excuse for non-attendance ; but as he adds immediately “after that he thinks it wisest ‘‘to obliterate the marks of civil sirife, and to commit to oblivion the feel- ings it engendered” few readers will fail to assign an additional reason for his absence. General Fitz Hugh Lee replies in a similar spirit to the invitation sent to him, and we can hardly doubt that the large majority of ex- Confederate officers will view this matter from the same point of view. Itis certainly easy enough to understand their repugnance to take any part in thig demonstration, but it is by no fneans 86 éasy to see either the necessity or the expediency of so imposing a gathering as we find of Union officers for the purpose of going over details, about which they will never agree, of the three days’ terrible conflict at Geitysburg. For our part we think the old Greeks were wise when they enacted that neither stone nor canvas nor monumental trophy of any sort should ever perpetuate the memory of their civil wars. Such wars are like family quar- rels, best forgotten. What Greece did Rome did as regards her civil wars, and we find that the much coveted honor of a triumph was refused to a general, ‘‘when Rome was free,” whose victory, however important, was only over Roman citizens. Perhaps it was from some traditional policy like this that we find that the civil wars of Spain, France and Eng- land, however sanguinary while they lasted, have left no monumental trace behind them. In fact, it is far better, far wiser, that it should be so, What nation is not ashamed of its civil wars? Could history itself be made to forget them and ‘‘blot them out forever” it would be better, We havé certainly no wish to blame the Union officers, whose military associations, carrying them back to a stirring and most critical period in the history of our republic, suggested this reunion; but we submit, nevertheless, that some consideration should be made those who, wishing to forget all about Gettysburg and to prove themselves true and loyal citizens, yet object to have the memory of its defeat and disaster thus | unpleasantly thrust upon them. Mvox Apo Anout Notaina.—The news- papers are making a great fuss about the re- cent marriage of Commodore Vanderbilt. Had hot the Commodore as much right to get mar- ried as any other man in the country? ae ae gagth and the Political Ataire tho Admiulatration. 5 ~ Political mattera in the So ith, particularly in Tennessee, Virginia and Mississippi, aré ia a very muddled condition, And the adminis- tration at Washington is in about as great a muddle about them as the local politicians themselves, The most remarkable feature is that with « most intense rivalry and even bitterness between the radical and conservative factions they are both for the administration. Or, perhaps, it would be better to say they are both for General Grant and cling to him as the representative man of the people and choice of the nation. This was evident in the late elec- tions and is becoming more apparent since. The Walker party in Virginia, the Senter party in Tennessee and the Dent party in Mississippi raised the name of the President on their banners to rally the people to their support, and the radicals in these States did the same. Yet no two parties were ever more bitterly opposed to each other, and, in some respects, were never more widely apart in their policy. The hostility of a few individuals of the con- servative party to the President, as in the caso of Andy Johnson, ts personal and does not represent the status or wishes of parties in the South. Both the conservative and radical factions, as was said, claim and desire to represent the administration and to act in accordance with it, The question that forces itself upon us here—and it is one which tho President will be compelled to seriously consider—is, can this state of things last? Cap both be ad- ministration partied and yet be so hostile in policy and feeling? It is impossible. The President must take his choice with one or the other. He cannot ride on the backs of both. No political horsemanship is equal to such a task. What, then, will General Grant do? If we go back to his antecedents, if we call to mind his conservative views when he closed up the war and wished immediate harmony between the two sections and restoration of the South, and if we may judge from his known desire for peace, we could have no hesitation in saying he will make the conser- vatives of the South the administration party. Nor have we any doubt that his own un- bfaased inclination would incline him to such a course, This, too, is undoubtedly the wisest policy; for the result of the late elections shows that neither the administration nor any other power can make the Southern people swallow radicalism. Should he, unfortunately, take the side of the radicals in the South—that is, should he place himself in hostility to the large majority of the people and public senti- ment in that section—he may cause a great deal of trouble, but will not be able, with all the machinery of federal power and patronage, to make the Southern States radical. Indeed, the very effort to do so would only swell the majority against him and his policy. We have an example of what would take place in the meddling of the radical members of his Cabinet in the Tennessee election. The interference of Boutwell and Creswell only increased the vote against Stokes, the radical candidate for Governor. We admit that the President is in a very trying situation. Some of his Cabinet are in- curable radicals and will use all their In- fluence over him and his policy in their efforts to sustain their faction in the South, while the rest are indifferent or mere political nonen- tities. There is no unity, and,as a conse- quence, the administration is at sea flounder- ing about among dangerous breakers. Should he listen to the defeated radicals in Tennessee and Virginia andto the same party in Missis- sippi, and endeavor to overrule the expression of the public voice, his great popularity cannot save him. The people of the North, even, would not sustain him in such a course. Mili- tary domination, as in the case of General Canby in Virginia, and General Ames, of Mississippi, who has just suspended the writ of habeas corpus, cannot be tolerated by the mass of the American people. They want poace, restoration, and the war closed up. They are tired and disgusted with the pre- tences of reconstruction for party purposes and the substitution of military rule for civil gov- ernment. Any fresh attempt to defeat the popular will in the South by the action of the administration or the radical party would pro- duce a terrible conservative reaction. What, then, is General Grant to do? Fol- low the instincts of his own nature and good sense and throw overboard the radical mar- plots in his Cabinet. Yes, let him remodel his Cabinet and make a new one of able conserva- tive men who will be united in policy and act in accordance with his own views. The people are with him now and they earnestly desire to support him all through, He was and stillis the hope of the republic. But the present is a critical time, and his future popularity will dep:nd upon the action he may take in the political uffairs of the South and the choice he may make between the parties there. There is no evading this alternative. Nor ought the President to hesitate. He is master of the political situation. Should he take the ultra radical ground that Boutwell and Creswell in his Cabinet and the extreme radicals of Con- gress urge he will plunge his administration into a sea of trouble, Should he take a con- servative course he will carry the bulk of the republican party as well as all the conserva- tive people both South and North with him; for they have nowhere else to go, and he will continue to hold the politics and destiny of the republic in his hands, Will General Grant. see his opportunity and what the people ex- pect of him? That is the question. It can- not be deferred. The time has come for de- cision, and it must be decided now one way or the other, Srgeon oF tHe Democratic CANDIDATE FOR Governor or Massacuusetts,—Y esterday Mr. John. Quincy Adams, Jr., was, for the third time, nominated for the office of Governor of Massachusetts by the Democratic State Con- vention held at Worcester, In accepting the nomination he delivered a speech which will doubtless attract considerable attention in political circles and from the people at large. He declared it the duty of the democracy to abandon dead issuos by accepting the estab- lished fact of universal, unqualified suffrage, and to turn their attention to other and more vital issues, Mr. Adams then reforred to these living questions of the day by saying that ‘the price of coal is an outrage, the duty ‘on iron a swindle and the tariff an abomina- te, Wibesiraeidiiciinigrebiinaipeocntih tion.” He spoke of the condition of the work- ins classes as being worse than it was in 1860, and expressed his belief that a return to hard money wae the panacea for existing ills, Re- ferring to the prohibitory liquor law, Mfr. ‘Adams was bold in Uls opposition to ttas an infringement apor the personal liberties of tho people, and spoke soativically of the manner in which it was enforce ‘The resolatigns adopted by the Conventio.® 8° of the-enne tenor ag was the speech, The International Boat "°° Since the great fight between Hee” pit: Sayres we have had no similar internat. sensation as that which is now furnished by | the approaching contest between Harvard and Oxford Universities, It is not to be denied any longer that the Harvard crew, in thelr anxiety to get upa match, made great and almost unexampled sacrifices. Fora time it seemed as if Harvard could have no chance. It now appears, even from the tone of the English press, that the Harvard men have @ fair chance to come off first in the contest. Should the Harvard men win, what then? It will be an immense cause of rejoicing in the United States. It will bea source of gratifi- cation to Europe generally, All the world will then see that England is not necessarily queen of the waters, It will inoreaso the prestige of the United States, urope already bowing to us, Witness the conduct of Spain, Europe will then bow to us more aud more, Sucha victory will oalm and soothe Senator Sumner, for it will be a Massachusetta victory, and {t will be a handsomo offset to the Alabama depredations. Commenpasie Rivatry.—As in New York, the construction of a new post office building has been commenced in Boston. There will now be a generous rivalry between the architects of each to see who will present to the people the best structure, at the earliest period and at the most economical rate. This is a rivalry that should be encouraged. Neither the gov- ernment nor the people will lose by it, The preliminary work is being pushed forward with the utmost vigor in our City Hall Park, as tho opera‘‘ons are viewed from the Heratp office window's, RU! SE OF REW YORK P LOTS. Excursion Around Loug Island=A Call on the Americus Club—A Good Time Generally. For several years past @ rather selfish movemens haa gained ground among a certain class of the mer+ cantile community to attempt to deprive that boay of men termed ‘Sandy Hook pilots” of their fees ‘collected for offsnore pilotage, by making sundry representations to members of the Legislature and attempting to have the present law governing the pilots changed. The only course left the pilota was to refute the statements of the mercantile men, and the bost way, they thought, instead of attempting any lobby games, was to appeal to the good senze of the legislators and insurance men by getting up @ sort of an excursion annually during the summer, and inviting such a8 could spare the time to take “pot luck” with the m, and by actual demonstration during a week's residence on some of the pilot boats, see the fallacy of the arguments of the merchants who would deprive them (the pilots) of their hard earned wages. In accordance with this plana nuinber of invite- tions were sent and op Friday last the pilot boats Edmund Blunt (No. 2), Charlotte Webb (No. 6), J. De Jones (No. 15), lay off pier No. 1 North river, gag decoratea with bnnting, ready to receive thoie guests, the management ofthe a fair being onérustod to pilots Harbenson, Jounson, Yates and Fryer. Tae rather irreverent text of a Brooklyn divino, “Is a a—a hot day,” met with a h earty response as the Webb and Biunt sailed past the Battery and into the East river, the Jones being left to bring on some of the dilatory guests, When opposite the Cob Dook Battery, at the Navy Yard, the booming of a thir- teen gun salute startled the par ty, and on counting noses to see Who could be entitied to such an honor and no one in the com pany, composed of tnsurance men and other guests, among whom were ex-Senator Robert Christie and As semblymen John C. Jacobs, DeWitt C. Power, Andrew B, Hodes, of Brooklyn; J. Gold, of Dutchess county, Dr. Sullivan, School Commissioner, of New York, were found to “rate’? such honors, as @ sallor might say, and at length Brigadier Geaeral Zellin was discovered in @ tug laying off the cob dock awaiting the salute. Salling along with @ light, but favorable breeze the party were soon abreast of Fort Schuyler, listening to the experiments with a new fog bell just placed at thas point, which can be heard a distance of ten miles. At seven o'clock on Friday night the waters of Indian Harbor, Greenwich, Conn., were reached, and no sooner Were the anchors dropped than a party of the Americus Club, marshalled by Vice Comi lore H. Hall, came off and extended an invitation to visi¢ the club house, The invitation was accepted aud Friday night spent tn the hospitable care of the olub. Although the club is composed mainly of democratic politicians they do not permit their pleasures to be invaded by such a disturbing element as politics, and Whoever gets an invitation to visit thom—be he Jew, Gentile, republican or democrat—after eating of their galt will be treated ag one of themselvos. No “ionizing” is allowed, and were Preaident Grant to visit Indian Harbor they would receive bim like any other citizen and no doubt see that he would have a real enjoyaole time, but it wouldn't in the least be allowed to interfere with the regular groove of pleasure taking. Once a red-hot politician of Tammany Hall, wha wanted the nomiation of Alderman in his ward visited the Americus boya and plainly set forth the object of his visit, and what he would dofor the club in the event of his election. The embryo Alder- man was invited to take a sail over to ‘Tweed Island,” being informed that the club could do nothing for him uniess he was made a member, and & portion of the initiation was to go through certain ceremonies on the island, ‘The poor fellow was leit over there an entire day, in a broiling sun, with noshing to eat or drink, and taken away at night @ wiser if not a beiter man. He did not get the nomi- nation, and his sobriquet of “alderman of Tweed Island” did not please him at all, there beipg no fees, contract or pickings attached. to the ‘‘posish,!? ‘the uniform of the club 1s showy and expensive, P At consists of navy blue sack coat, cap, and paut trimmed with gold lace, and embroidered cap orna- ment. “Grand Bashaw” Tweed was not present when the pilots and their guests called, ashe had business in some other quarter, laying out poor Belmont. Mr. Grafulla, the popular bandmaster of the Sov- enth regiincnt, has a prominent residence during the summer among the Americus boys, being an active aud promluent member, Once a year he gives @ Jesta, and the subjomed order will exptain itself: GENERAL ORDER NO, 8, HeapQuarts2s DEPARTMENT OF THE sooxh} A Tn com orders, from Wiis Bt Two's Coms mander, Stat” will agsemble in uniform Headquarters, o'clock A. M., to celebrate Quartermaster Ingersoll will provide trans; Jy from Vbe depot to the dock, on the arrival of tt gm New York, at 10:20 A. 1° under comma Capt reudeavous at the dock at 10 o'clock A. M., for escort duty. os geo Eugene Durain are detalied for duty at the depot, and will receive ‘and escort the guesta to the dook. Captain Kearney, commanding battery, wil cause a salute 1o'be fired on the tion and report for duty to Captain wer Joasph Southworth Kearney. By order. LAUDIUS 8, GRAFULLA, Major General. on Friday, August $7, at 10 ration for train of thirteen a Evorsr DuRNrx, Adjutant General, An examination of the roster shows all aro om- cers, the only one set down aa a@ private being Joseph Shannon, the Clerk of the Common Councti, who “has the privtiege of promotion.” Under a salute of two puns, dipping of colors, &c., the pilot boats sailed out of Indian Harbor on Satur- day morning and were ht in the storm on the Sound in the afternoon, but owing to the skill with which the boats were handled no ible was expe- rienced, except some of the lawmakers paid tribute to Neptune instead of bagging saytuing for them. seives. Owing to light and baMing winds New London was pot reached until Monday morning, when tho party landed and visited Groton Monu- ment, Regent House and otner notable spots around New London. The schooner yacht Addie V. was found here, with irty of the Americus Club on thetr return from Newport, ‘‘pusted” and disgusted with Newport, General Grant and his party and ail hands, ‘Tho ‘boys” say a commendable feature of the place is that Champagne can be had for tree acti pilots will vist Newport, q e pilots will visit Newport, the camp meetin at Martha’s Vineyard, take a run out at ny Sore ing some of the indound vessels to show the legisla tive guests in what manner th form daty, and return via Sandy Hook about ry