The New York Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1869, Page 3

WASHINGTON. CUBA’S ULTIMATUM TO SPAIN Text of the Propositions for the Pur- chase of the Island. SECRETARY RAWLINS IMPROVING. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 1869, The Cul Ultimatam—Text ef Minister Sickles’ Proposition and the Proposition of Spain—Timidity of the Regency. There has been a great deal published lately con- cerning the negotiations inaugurated by Minister Sickles with the Spanish government for the settle- ment of the Cuban dificulty, but it appears from oMcial documents on file in the State Department that very much of it is mere speculation and most of it wide of the mark. The origina: proposition presented to Regent Serrano and his Cabinet sets forth that “whereas there is now prevailing in the island of Cuba a devastating war, destructive of life and qproperty and inimical to the interests of trade and commerce, the United States in the In- terests of humanity and with a view to bring the sanguinary struggle to a close offer their services as amediator.” The propositions ubmitted by Gen- eral Sickles was in the following terms:— First—The Spanish government 1s to acknowledge the independence of Cuba without conditions. Secona—The Cubans are to indemnity Spain for the Spanish property on the island, such as casties, arsenals, foris, custom houses and other pubiic buildings, The aggrewate amount of indemnitica- tion, however, ts not to exceed $100,000,000, Tiurd—Slavery 13 to be abolisied on the island, Fourth—As soon as these propositions are ac- cepted by both parties hostilities are to cease, and the United States government will guarantee the fulfliment of the agreement to both partes, About two weeks ago Secretary Fish recelyed @ despatch by cabie from Geueral Sickles, which was the reply of the Spanish government to the above propositions, After stating that Spain accepted the mediation of the United Stafes, and thanking our government for the interposition of its good offices for the settlement of the difficulty between Spain and the “Ever Faithful Isle,” the despatch goes on to say that im leu of the basis of settlement pro- pored by the United States Spain offers the follow- ing:— Forst—The Cubans to lay down their arms, Second—Spain to granta general amucsty to the insurgent: Third—Cuba to pay. Spain for all the Spanish pro- perty on the island and for all the property of loyal Spaniards destroyed by the insurgents. eae to be granted to all the popula- ton of the island, so that the people may iave an opportunity to decide whether they will remain with Spain, or whether they preier to be separate and in- dependent. Fith—Spain will guarantee 1ull protection to such of the insurgents as uy be selected to come through the lines of the Spanish army, for the purpose of treaung with the representatives of the Spanish government for a settlement on the vasis of these Propositions, Sucth—The United States to guarantee to Spain eee of Cuba’s proporuon of the public dei In reply to the above Secretary Fish sent a de- spatch by cable stating that the government of the United States was glad to know that Spain ac- cepted its mediation in the diMculty which had arisen between Spain and Cuba. Inasmuch as the attempt at negotiation for a settlement had been thuf far successful, he trusted the Spanish govern- ment would deem it to be for its best interests to ac- cept the proposition offered by Minister Sickles. Mr. Fish in this despatch made no allusion to the substi- tute presented by Spain, which may be regarded as ® refusal on the part of our government to accept it or indeed to take any notice of it. The representatives of the Cubans in this country have already signified to Mr. Fish that under no circumstances will they accept the proposition of Spain. So far as they are concerned the basis of settlement submitted by General Sickles is their ultimatum. Since the reception of Spain’s substitute and the reply of Secretary Fish thereto about haif a dozen telegrams have passed between Minister Sickles and Secretary Fish. They are merely advisory of the situation, however, and re- port bo material progress. Juaging from their con- tents Mr. Fish is of optoion that Spain will ulti- mately accept the original proposition offered by the United States, It appears that recently Serrano, as well as a majority of his Cabinet, are convinced that the wisest and best thing for them todo is to take the Cabans at their word and get the hundred millions, of which poor Spain stands so much in need, The trouble is, however, that heretofore the Spanish people have been kept in profound ignorance as to the true proportions and condition of the insurrection ip Cuba. They have been led to believe through their press, which 1s controlled by the government, that the re- belhon was insignificant, and that in a short time everything would be quiet and Cuba would become once more the “faith- ful isle.” Serrano and his counsellors are In reality afraid toreveal the true state of affairs, which the acceptance of the proposition of the United States would do, It 18 thought, therefore, that, as already stated in these despatches, final ac- tion will be postponed until a king is selected. Condition of Secretary Rawlins. ‘The condition of Secretary Rawlins’ health this morning is improved, Althougn he has been very low his physicians think he will soon be abie to at- tend to his official duties. Dr, Bliss, one of his phy- sicans, says the Secretary 1s improving, but feels restive under his confinement to bed aul insists that he will go out to-morrow. Improving Condition of the Interval Revenue. Acomparative statement of the receipts from in- ternal revenue sources for the montis of July and August, 1863 and 1809, shows that during the latter the receipts exceeded the former $5, 705,. Duty on Ground Gannister. Acting Secretary Richardson has decided that ground gannister is Hable toa duty of five dolars per top. Gannister mixed with clay is used for lining fron furnaces. - The Indian Peace Commissioners. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has received a despatch from Commissioners Brune, Dodge and Bishop stating that they had Heid a council wita the Kiowas ana Comanches at Fort Sill, which was very satisfactory. They report more of the Kiowas and Comanches are coming in and quietly locating updn the reservations. Weekly Currency Statement. The receipts of fractional currency for the week ending to-day amount to $271,000, Shipments to the Assistant ‘Treasurer New York.... es 000 Shipments to the Assistant Tre: New Orleans... 25,000 To nationai banks and others. 5,000 The Treasurer holds as security for na- tonal bank circulation. ... < $92,000 And for public deposits... 41,000 Mutilated bank notes burned dur week. . Total amoun’ c Currency issued for }) ine week ‘Total amount issued therefo Balance due for mutilated not see Bank circulation outstanding at this date Fractional curreucy redeemed and de- stroyed during Lie week lis destroyed during 249,200 New Yorkers to Retarn Home to Vote. The citizens of New York State resident here held a meeting this evening, public printer Clapp Presiding, the object of ¥ ich was to facilitate the return to New York of hier eitizens at the coming election. A Committee on Organization was chosen, as Well as one to ascertain the names of New Yorkers employed inthe departments. It t# expected that a Permarentorgani zation will be effected, BLOODY AFFAAY IN THE EIGHTH WARD. Last evening a colored man named Abraham Jones, dwelling at No. 49 Laurens street, entered the oyster saloon of George C. Scott, No. 22 Thomp- fon street, and there became involved in an altercation with the proprietor. The negro w fearfully beaten, had his nose broken, both eyes closed effectually, his scalp cut by a chair in several places, was kicked in the face and re- ceived other injartes that in the case of a thin- ie Ae ty ote renee are im death. Scott ‘wal arree' by oMicer of the Kighih ct wpa locked up. Dantes THE WAR WIDOWS. Raid of the Deputy Marshals Upon Poor Women—Widows With Husbands Living Drawing Peasions trom Uncle Sam—How the Game fs Played. At an early bour yesterday morning a special omer, W. J. Newcombe, together with a number of deputy marshals, was directed to make a raid upon a number of female pensioyers who had assembled at the Pensiom OMice, Exchange place, to receive their monthly payments, Itts charged that a number of these war widows have been married, and that they are not, therefore, entitied to the amounts which they receive. More- over, it was alleged that some of the worthy dames generally came down in carriages and presented no evidence of being in poverty. In fact, the majority of them, it is said, looked extremely weil, and far from being dependent on the government for sup- port. Rumor has it that the frauds in this depart- ment are immense. The officers made this raid by special instructions from the Pension Bureau in Washington. ‘The orders were sustained by an affidavit fled in the office of United States Commissioner Shields, and made by a clerk in the Pension OMice, charging a number of Women who have been receiving pen- sions as “widows of soldiers deceased during or since the jate war for the suppression of the rebel- dion” with having “been married respecuvely, a8 de- ponent Is informed, since the issuance to them of said pensions,” and with having made oath to the fact of their present widowhood. ‘rhe widows’ and mothers’ jon agent is ex- Brigadfer General William Hudson Lawrence, & new incumbent, and the pension agent of the soldiers is Colone: George M. Van Buren. General Lawrence paid about $40,000 yesterday before closing his office, and will pay $1,000,000 belore all bis pensioners receive their dues, Colonel Van Buren will have paid near $30,000, His payments, m all, will amount to $6v0,000 or more. At seven o’clock last mght, when the Commis- sioner’s ofice closed, the deputy marshals had not made any report, and it was not determined Wiether they had made the arrests or not. The Daiues of the parties mentioned 1n the aflidavit are lor obvious reasons suppressed, The pension agents Lye began paying the hait yearly pensions to Wounded soldiers and sail- ors and widows of the dead warriors in ‘awlul money,” otherwise kuown as currency, and the con- sequence Was Liat crowds besieged the doors of the agents’ offices during tue whole day, from hait- Past six in the morning till long ater sundown. The men are paid in a little dingy ofice on the cellar floor of the Sub-Treasury, and the women in @ small room under the Custom House that has an entrance by means of a large archway from Exchange place. The scene under the Sub-freasyry yesterday was not at all of the most agreable kind, Not that the one legged aud one urmed fellows, who tried to push their way throuwzh the mass of their comrades, wedgeg in the narrow passage ways as closely ay herrings In a bar- rel, had not enough of the glory of the past about them to make them objects of interest to the patriotic; but the appearance of poverty that almost every one gave evidence of, either in dress or person, was to a ceriain degree appalling. Many bobbled along hatess and with coais that could scarce keep their crazy stiches together, while others were barefooted and had no coats at all. Several of them were under the mfluence of liquor, and there biding their tura for “that little ha’p’orth”” dozed away the duli minutes in a dark corner of the room, where the perspiring clerks were figuring and recording fact, aud in many cases ction, con- cerning the widow of this man Who was killed out- right im battle and that ope who came home wounded and was left to die the death of a “savior of his country,” unattended by the govern- ment he had fought for, Under the Custom Hoase the scene was, If anything, more disagreeable. ‘The majority of the women were but ily clad, although but few of them were in mourning, having, no doubt, gotten bravely over that eccentricity of the sorrowlng 80 [requently observed shortly alter the close of the war, It may be that many of them had been at ove time of that class called the ‘respect- able poor,’’ but the general appearance of the whole gathering carried with it such an epitome of want and misery that the beholder could scarce look upon them without shuddering. There was in mauy instances the severest type of dissipation, unmuis- takabie in {ts characteristics, as was the peculiar state of two red-noged old women who, with their knees drawn up under them, tried to sleep themselves sober all the after- noon, but failed miserably in the attempt. The crowd ‘was not without its pleasant feature, however. In the midst of the mass that surged toward the office duor from the yard there was & paie-faced woman with a litte child in her arms, Who disregarded the pie of the impatient women behind her, as well as the curses of the more profane and reckless, She turned neitber to the right nor to the left, bat clasped her child vo her bosom and kept one hand extended with her papers, as if imploring the clerk to take compassion on her and bear her witness that it was not her fault that she had got into such boisterous company. Perseverance and probably an interesting face gained the day for her. Her little pittance was doled out to ber and she went away rejoicing, followed by the scow]s of all the other women who had yet to wait their turn. It may be said, in conciusion, that the manner in which the payinggoff of the pensioners is conducted is a dis; . The agents Know very weil what amount of work they can do in a day and should be mindful to notify a certain number of per- sons to call for their money at a certain time, and not have a crowd of poor women, many of whom, doubtless, forget their first meai inthe morning in their eagerness to be at tue office, to pass a whole crowding and hing one another to death, ytogo away at night without having gained thetrend. Verbum sap. TAL SPANISH GUNBOATS, Progress of the Fitting Out of the Mosquito Fleet—Rumors of Armament—The Cadans Keeping an Eye on the Vessels. Work on the Spanish gunboats ts progressing with great rapidity, and the scenes about the Delamater Iron Works remind one very forcibly of war umes, when every arsenal and shop in the country was taxea to the utmost in furnishing vessels, arms, munitions, &c. Fifteen of the thirty gunboats con- tracted for by the Spanish government are completed by the shipvuliders, Messrs, Potllon, of Brooklyn, and Thomas Siack, of Greenpoint, and are lying at the Delamater Iron Works, foot of Thir- teenth street, North iver, awaiting their machinery, the last of which was completed in the ships yesterday. The other fifteen vessels have been built at the shipyard of Mr. Mallory in Mystic, Conn., and the last of the number was launched yesterday. They will be immediately brought to New York to receive their machinery. Ail ot the gunboats will be completed on the Ist of January, and will then be turned over to the span- ish omiclals in New York. One of the vessels is already finished, with the exception of sails and a litte light work, and will make her triai trip next The contractors for the gunboats do not an- any further trouble from the United States es, and expect to turn over the vessels to the Spanisn agents on the lst of January without aincrance. A rumor ia in circulation that arms and munitions of war are being placed on board the gunboats at Mystic, but this report ts somewhat uaprovable from the fact that the vessels are as yet mere hulks, and are to ne brougut to New York for completion. In their present condition there are no means for concealing arms on board, and even if there were, it would be very haz rdous to place arms in the vessels before receiving thett machinery. ihe Cubans have an eye upon the work, and will of course spare no means to prevent the departure of the gunboats from New York, This they expect to accomplish, and Spain may pos y not get possession of her cruisers until after the exigen- cles which necessitated their construction shall nave ceased toexist. Atthe headquarters of the Cuban Junta, No. 71 Broadway, the usual activity prevails, but the exact nature of the business tran@acted by the many military looking visitors remains a mystery to the uninitiated. These operations, however, are not without importance to Cuba, as a very few days will demonstrate, No news has been received by the Junta from the revolution since the last Cuban intel- ligence published in the HkRatLp. Dr. A. T. Simmons, a resident of Ontario county, this State, is among the recent arrivais from Cuba. He has been in the habit, for several years past, of passing his winters In Cuba on account of his heaith, and had combined with his sojourn the practice of medicine, At the breaking out of the late rebeilion he states that he was practising medicine at Santi- ago de Cuba, but had gove temporally to Puerto Principe to attend upon @ patient, While at the latter place he was arrested, his trunk, private papers, $1,500 in American and twenty dollar gold pieces and a rifie taken possession of by tne authori. ties, aud himself thrust into prison. After seven months’ imprisonment, the latter part of tt in the city prison at Havana, and during which time he asserts he endured all the pains and penalties of @rigorous prison life, he was finally released and allowed to come to the United States, His trunk and @ portion of his papers were returned to him, but restoration of his money and rifle was refused.’ He asserts that there were no justiflabie grounds for his arrest and keeping his property. Since his return he has written letters to President Grant and Secre- tary Fish, laying before them the facts of his treat- ment at the hands of the Cuban authorities, ana asking that our goverament demand an indemuiti- cation for his losses. PROBABLE MURDER AT YONKERS, At ten o'clock last evening three Jerseymen, named John Fitzpatrick, Thomas Datly and Charles Foster, visited Yonkers for the purpose of marketing. On their way home a quarret occurred among the hucksters, which ended tn Foster being very severely beaten by his two companions. Fos- ter Was taken to a private residence in Dock street in a critical condition. A physician who was called in reported that the man’s skull was fractared, and bis recovery is doubtful, His assailants were ar- Tested by roundsman Austin, CITY POLITICS. The Work of the Past Week—Activity Among the Politiciane—The Supreme Court Vacancy and the Candidates—The Senatorfl Cone test—The Assembly and Aldermanic Field. The past week has been one of continuous and vigorous action with the various classes of candt- dates for the offices to be dispensed by Tammany in the coming election. The candidates are legion. They present in fact a perfect chaos of interests, claims and services upon the ring that holds within their hands the nominations for the democratic ticket. There has been also during the week an un- usual amount of stir and activity among the other organizations, The allusion conveyed in @ late article as to the indifference man- Mested by the recognized leader of the democratic Union pariy since his arrtval among his political friends has stirred that gentleman, Mr. Smith Ely, Jr., mco action, in fact into stating his position and defining his attitude. He goes the whole hog with the only party that gives hima chance of notoriety, and the “Unions” having only iim to stand by are prepared to accept him as the Gestined Moses that is to lead them—that 1s a few of them—into the promised land of fat oMces, The Big Judge, an orginal chief, made conditions, and ultimately got a big thing out of it, Why shouid not his late political confréres, with palms equally itchy—savage Waterbury and the rest of them— tick to the democratic Union party, the only politi- cal party in this city of any standing that has ever been ‘“gulled? once and showed @ willingness to be gulled again. The earnest work- ingmen of the party say they do not want these trimmers and speculators; but it is, unfortunately, Hobson’s choree with them—they must take them or be no party at all, These would-be leaders are the barnacles that stick to the political craft after a long Voyage, in which it has met with all sorts of adverse winds and currents, and has been from time to time deserted by captain and officers. There ts still some sail and headway lett on her; but at each favorable moment those who undertake to navigate her desert her iike their predecessors and shift for themselves. ‘This 18 about the present condition of the demo- cratic Union party, and tt will require ail its new chieitain’s tact and diplomacy to put it in a state even to call a parley with Tammany and ask for cynditions, The republican party nas made a spurt; the rival organizations have been “spurting” at each other all the time, but now an efort is being made to unite and to draw a bead line upon the enemy. No unaninity, however, has been effected, and the party, a8 a political body, ts as hale Gy disorga- nized and disunited as their best friends (?) could wish them. Eight years of intestine strife over the federal spoils have rendered the republican party m- capable of uny great straggle ia tne future, and in the coming State campaign—uniess Fenton, the only in thatcai 1e.waken a spirit of emulation in it, or cin tupartfrasi ambition iavo ‘the party, comes to the rescue—there is an end of republican supremacy in this State for some time to come. THE STRUGGLE FOR STATE SUPREMACY, The grand fight of the campaign wili be waged In the State Senatorial and Assembly districts, Here im the city the result 1s a foregone conclusion. The ‘Tammany State nominations when made out wiil be the sesame to the lucky ones nominated to the Senate and Legislature. There is no difficulty on this point. From the city composition of the two houses ‘ast year there is in the complexion of the coming Legisiature on this point not much to gain, but, as the Scotchman says, “Hvery little makes & muckle,”? rhe fight for the majority must take place in the several districts of the State, and from a carefully prepared digest on this point, which we propose giving in a future article, it will be appar- ent that the democrats will have a majority in both the Senate and Assembly. On this question, whether this may turn out so or not, will ninge to @ great extent che Presidential question of 1872. THE HOME STRUGGLR—A SKELRYON IN THE CLOSET. ‘the bhatt oligarchy, yin? all its preenee Wes past success and promise Of tory, bu’ Rimost overcome ail fOreten Take, aS eat & dare gerous element to contend against within tiself. It is sid thatevery household ¢ 0set contains a skeleton. The Tammany Wigwam, illustrating the assertiol has its skeleton or skeietons, if the rival conte: ants who appear to convey the idea may be so re- garded. The faci 1s that im the absence of Peter Bis- marck Sweeny the old feud between the rival houses of Comptrollor Connolly and Police Commissioner Matthew 1. Brennan has broken out again and threat- ens to give immense trouble to the Tammany leter, who builds, not upon a rock, like his namesake of old, but on @ slate, and to whom Is given the new power by that slate 10 make and unmake at his pleasure. But Peter B—, carrying out the simiie, 18 pugnacious, and whgn he reiurns he will smite on the ctive ears of Matthew T., and Dick G. with an admonition to behave better in future in his absence, THE SLATE—THE SUPREME COURT. It being decided that Judge Clerke will not receive the ‘‘ammany renomination, and a vacancy consequently accriung, there are many candidates, for this honorable and tmport- ant office. ‘We have hitherto refrained from giving the names of the candidates, being satistied that the selection of a truly competent man, and one who would be unanimously accepted by the ople as worthy of the high office, must be in the hands of the Tammany leader, and that no party combination or political expediencies would be taken into account by him in his choice for the sut- pig ok the people therefor, Ex-Judge Leonard, ofthe Supreme Court, an old law partner of Gov- ernor Hoffman, has, of course, the es of the Executive, Mr. James H. Coleman, it 18 said, is sirovgly pressed for the vacancy by Judge Barnard. Abraham R. Lawrence, Jr., 18 a 80 in the fleld, And against these three, with the best support of ail, that of the entire bar of New York, is Mr. Joseph J. Marrin. Mr. Mirrin, though a life-long democrat, and for years a stanch supporter of Tammany, hs never hitherto been a candidate for oiice, and only now comes forward at the earnest solicitation of the most influential members of the legai profession, by whom he ts intimately known and esteemed, and Who are anxious to seea man of his standing mn their midst the representative of their body on the beach. Long experience in the most important and intricate references, in trial of causes which have been submitted to him and in the decisions thereon, in which he has been inyariabiy sustained by the courts, peculiarly qualify Mr. Marrin to fill the coming vacancy on the bench oftthe Supreme Court. THE SUPERIOR COURT VACANCIES. There is very littie to add to tne report in the vacancies occuring In the court from last week's report, Mr. William M. Tweed, Jr., it 18 said, is not a candidate, Judge Curtis, of the Marine Court, 1s prominently presented and confidently spoken ofgs the successor to Judge Fithian. “Justice DeMs Quinn, of the First District Court, 18 also spoken of AY. candigate, ‘There are DO changes on the slate of candidates for the vacancies in the other courts, and our previous report presents all the facts with regard to the candidates and their prospects then Pasta THB SENATORIAL SLATE. There will be a big Nght over the Senatorial slate. In the Fourth district Senator Tweed wi! ceive the Tammany pomination. The Democrati Union party will present the ablest and most popu lar man in the district that they may induce to ac- @ept the doubtrul honor of running on their ticker. colonel James E. Kerrigan ts spoken of tn this con- nection, and a more thoroughly popular man among the Ceitlc populatton—the majority of the voters oi the district—the party could not select. in the istrict Mr. Norton, retiring on his lative is, seeks the retirement of the more a candidate for Albany noto riety. His place will be contested for by two aspi rants of the same kidney, Mr. George H. Purser and Ben Wood. How happy the district would be tf both the dear charmers were away, There is another candidate hoiding back who may come in between and carry off the pri’ In the Sixth distri who so ably fulfille: Senator Thomas J. Creamer, the duties of a iegisiator, last year, is in the fleid for reaomination. F 3 strongly opposed by ex-Senator Co: bat he the Inside track, and if no expedten: mbinations are entered into against him he will carry the day. Mr. Creamer has the unanimous support of the del gations from the Tenth and fleventh wards General Committee, Cornell nas only the par support of tie d@.egation from the Seventeenti ward at present and even thas, it is said, will fall oi trom nim t tore the time comes for choosing inspectors, Mr. Creamer has had a great advaniage over all who might have been induced to oppose fim in the patronage he possessed as Tax Commissioner. | his, Judiclously exereised, las rendered him invincible. In the Seventa district Senator J. J. Bradley wilt be renominated. in the Bughth district Hitchman, former Speaker ef the Assembly, will oppose Senator ‘he wards controlling the nomination are the Twen ty-second, manipulated by the Biz Judge, Mike Con- nolly, aud the Nineteenth, controlled oy Teren Farl These are heart and sonl for Hitchman. ‘The Twelfih ward will give Genet @ delegation, but not strong enough to procure him the nomina- tion. He, however, tireatena to take the stump if unsuccessful with Tammany, but in this he witl be but Knocking his head against a post. THR OTHER FIELDS OF CONTEST. The Assembly and Aldermanic and Asstatant Al- dermanic coniests will be very bitter within the democratic ranks until the slate is declarea, aiter which the unsuccessful Candidates will collapse and endeavor to make (he “best of a bad bargain.” ‘The names of the candidates aad their prospects must stand over for another articie, The Tweed-Belmont War—Fourteenth Ward Germans Join in the Fray. A number of German citizens met last evening st Kein‘s Hotel, No. 23 Spring street, for the purpose of organizing a political organization under the aua- Pices of the Tweed Central Democratic Association. The following preamble and resolutions were adopted :— Whereas we, the democrats of the Fourteenth ward, desire te Join ta the grand crusade agaiuat bondhoiders aiid tueir chief already {naugurated by the Ceniral Tweed Democratic ‘Association, Kesolved, That we deem August Belmont unfit to be Chair- wan of the National Committee, Resolved, That we consider William M, Tweed an emi- yy proper person to fll the position now occupied by said Boimont, Resolved, That we invite all German demooratic clubs {9 this and other wards to join us in raising t) ihe navional chairmanship the Graud Sachem of Tamroany. Addresses were made by Edward feiwann, Cap. tain Mittnacht, Mr. Greer and others. The perma- hent organization was perfected by the election of Anton Klein as president; Edward Reimann, secre- tary, end Captain Mittnacht, treasurer, and a fuil set of delegates were sent to the Central Tweed organization, meeting at No. 68 East Broadway. The Eighteenth Ward Democrats Present Their Candidates, ‘There was a large meeting of the Eighteenth Ward Democratic Association held last evening at the New York Assembly Rooms, Twenty-second street and First avenue, the President, Mr. Joseph Jen- nings, in the chair, The President and several others speakers addressed the meeting, urging the nomination of none but honest and capable men to oitice, and by resolution the followiug gentlemen were nominate ‘or Senator, seventh district, John J, Bradiey; for Assembly, Sixteenth district, Patrick A. McBride; for Police Justice, James Ir- ving; for Civil Justice, Thaddeus H. Lane, The names of the candidates were received with ap- plause, and, after some other unfinished vusiness, the meeting adjourned, The Supervisorship=The Tenth Ward Speaks for Walter Roche, A numerous meeting of the citizens of the Tenth ward took place last evening at McLeod's, 43 Bowery, for the purpose of advocating the election of Walter Roche for Supervisor. The meeting was presided over by Alderman Cuddy. Mr. McLeod offered the following resolution, which was unani- mously adopted :— . Resolved, That the democracy of the Tenth ward pledge their undivided support to Waiter Roche, a true and tried friend of “old Tammany” in ail her endeavors, and the onty fitting candidate for Supervisor, DEMOCRATIC UNION GENERAL COMMITTEE, Hard Knocks at Tammany Hall=The Chair- wauship of the National Committee. The regular monthly meetttig of the Democratic Union General Committee was held last evening at Masonic Hall, Thirteenth street. There was a large attendance, the different wards being fully repre- wented, Mr. Smith Ely, Jr., presided, and called the meeting to order. The calling of the roll and reading of the minutes of the previous meeting were unanimously dispensed with. Mr. Evy, the new Chairman of the Committee, on rising to address the meeting, was received with loud applauee. Maving rewrned thanks, he expressed the pleasure he felt at being Present, but regretted that the condition of his voice would not permit him to make any extended remarks. He would, how- ever, take a very early opportunity of doing 80. He could only say now that he was glad to find his o.d political friends still engaged fighting, vigorously fighting against Tammany Hall. (Applause.) And he was perticuiarly glad to find that none of the energy Which had characterized the committee had been relaxed, while the enthusiasm which marked the present meeting augured well for its success, From what he learned since he returned the days of the corrupt organization of tammany Hall were num- berea. (Applause.) feretofore it had been content with the ordinary plunder of the public treasury, Lt was generally known and nobody seemed to care much about it. But during the past year they had commenced to med die with great private interests and really nothing in the Community was now sale. Every man’s property was endangered, Having the con- trol of the courts nothing was safe. Everything was grasped. The merchant or bauker went to lus gies of business in the morning and found that uring nis absence his safe was broken open, his money and propérty carried away and nothing to show what had become of it. He probably thought it was the work of burglars, but he soon ascertained that the robbery was done under the orders of the Tammany ring from whose clutches it was im- tegen to escape; he found that in order to recover his pee, he must satisfy their rapacious de- mands. ‘ne courts had mere appendage of Tammany Hall. Some- times when a judge refused to do what ‘Tammany, though the judges generally did their bidding, yet sometimes when a judge declined to submit to them and preserved ‘lus independence, ‘Tammany refused his nomination, a3 in the case of Judge Cierke. (Applause.) He thought, notwith- standing this, the great evil would work its own cure—the magnitude of the evil would cure itself. Under such circumstances the fight against Tam- Many must be strenuously prosecuted, and in the end a triumph would be achieved, They must re- main and struggle for seif-preservation. (Applause.) Mr. Ely concluded by stating that he had just re- turned from a lengthened tour through some of the great cities of Europe, but of them all he thougnt none such advantages aa the city ot New York. (Applause.) But he must aiso say that not one of them had such a municipal govern- Ment like this. Indeed, if such @ one as that wiuch existed in New York were allowed in any of the cities of Europe for three months there wouid surely foilow a bloody revolution. (Applause.) Mr. Roswe.t D, Hate, Chairman on Contested Seats, recommended the admission of the tickets from the sixteenth ward, headed by Mr. 5. F. Killen; from the Nineteenth ward by Mr. Hugh Mitcue! and from th In omens With the request of Mr. O’Keilly, the names of the delegates were read, and on the motion of Mr, Michael Murphy the report was tnani- mously adopted. Mr. JAMES GIBBONS observed that a mouvement had been started by the Street Departmeat, realy by the Street Department through outside in- fluence to secure @ series of public meetings throughout the city with the view of displacing the present Chairman of the National Committee and substitute for him a distinguisned citizen of New York, William M. Tweed. Now, while ther solution he was aoout lo offer netiher defended nor approved of any errors pursued by Mr. Beimont, it at least deprecated and denounced any atiempt to corrupt the democracy of the nation by means of corrupting the democracy of New York by Mr. Tweed or others. The speaker then offered the following reso- jutioa, which was unanimously adopted :— Whereas the Tammany faction are endeavoring to secure the chairmanship af the National Democratic Committee tor Mr. William M. Tweed, @ person so unpopular that when he for Supervisor last year he ran 30,8¥1 votes be associates on thi veratlc ticket; therefore, Resolved, That, in the opinion ‘of this committer, M Tweed bas no qualitication for the high position be seeks, and his elevation to It would disgust the democracy of this city and greatly damage the democracy of the nation. Mr. OWEN MURPHY then moved a resolution to the effect that the Executive Committee of Uns organiza- tion consist of one from cach Assembly district, and that the members of this Genera! Committee residing in each Assembly district be reauested to report in writing the names of the committee, The resolution was carried unanimously, and on motion of Mr. GIBBONS the meeting adjourned, now become a ‘Twenty-first ward by Mr, Michael Fay. bis Tie dress of the vention in Chic United States, Prior to the final adjourament of the tate National Temperance Convention in Chicago, Gerrit Smith presented the following address to the people of the United States, which was unanimously adopted:— ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE CONVEN- TION, WELD IN CHICAGO SEPTEMBRE 1 AND 2, 1960, HE PROPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. ¥ 18 gone, but drunkenness stays. There ) of drunkards in our land. Counting $ and children aad parents and brothers their wi and sisters, there are at least 5,000,000 of our people the museries of drunkenness, One 4 family is enough to make the whole le, Our involuntary slaves are set at our millions oO: voluntary slaves still clang chains. The lot of the literal slave—of him whom others have enslaved—is indeed @ hara one; nevertheless it 14 a Paradise compared with the lot of him who has enslaved himsell, especially of him who has enslaved lumself to alcohol, The noblest of souls may dwell beneath chains which others have imposed, but self-imposed chains strike debasement through and through the soul. Happy, too, may the literal slave be ifonly he has kept his nner man— his essential self/—unconquered, but no outward ad- vantages can bring happiness to the victim of alco- to him Who has killed lis own soul. fhen, too, ave does harm to no one, W the self-ni re of whom we speak is @ curse vo his kindred, @ burden upon all, and, in no small share of the cases, a terror to all. What can we do towards saving our million of drunkards? Just what we have been doing. We are to continue to iry the power of pereuamon with them aud the power of prayer to God for them, Ant what ean we do to prevent the recruiting of the ever rapidly thinning ranks of drunkenness? None of the recruits come from those Who abstain from intoxicating drinks, The “temperate drinkers” (ur- nish all. Our work, therefore, at this point ts to warn and beseech the rising youth to take not the first step in the pathway, the second in which sinks the unwary and ijl fated traveller in drunkenness, itis, in over words, to warn and beseech them to ‘touch not, taste not, handie not” the drinks which transmute more than one-tenth of the “temperate drinkers” into drunkards. It 1s, we might add, to persuade them—yes, and the old as well as the young—that there 1s no security trom drunkenness bot in total abstainers “trom all intox cating drinks. Totel abstinence from = intoxt cating drink’, you and you only, are safe from this greatest calamity, this most sweepmg ruin, ‘A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee.”’ God be praised that this priceiegs safety is obtained by means so simple; and that the application of these meahs is atiended with pleasure instead of pain, with comfort instead of discomfort, We proceed to ask whether government may be calied upon to advance the canse of temperat While many say that it may, many say that It may not, and there is no need im this case of calling upon it to exercise doubtful, or even at all reasonably, doubtful, powers. We have no occasion to question the conclusion of those who hold that government has not the right to espouse the temperance reform’ or any other moral reform, For two suificient rea- son4, nevertheless, we call upon government to sup- press the dratashop. J\73t—The province of government being to pro- involved in drankard in family misi i NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. tect person and property it is clearly its duty to for- bid the existence of the dramshop, That abomina- tion 1s the great peril to person and property. for it is the great manufactory, not of paupers only, but aiso of incendiaries, madmen and murderers. Not a few of its frequenters go forth from it to bura or to kill, Government is surely very false to its trust and very delinquent in its duty in licensing or per- mitting the dramshop. By this falseness and delin- quency it proves itself unworthy to be the consti- tuted protector of the persons and property of its sudjects—unworthy, indeed, of the name of civil government, Second—The other reason for our calling on guv- ernment to rid the land of the dramshop ts that the cause of temperance would, though but incide! tally, be nevertheless immensely benetived by tl Measure for protecung person and property. To those who deny that government has the right to undertake to help the cause of temperance we reply that, however this may be, this cause has nevertle- Jess most certainly the right of being metdentally benetited by any of the confessedly legitimate a tons: or government Moreover, Wf tt must be ad- mitted that government-has no right to make the benefting of the cause of temperance one ol its ob: jects, it nevertheless must also be admitted that gov- ernment has no right to Linder that cause—most em- phaticaily no right Lo stop its way with the insuper- uble obstacle of the dramshop. But tt is said that the government will not respond to the call to suppress the dramshop uniess it come from a great political party. {his is but too possivie, notwithstanding that, in all matters which involve questions of fundamental morality, the ruler is bound to consult, not the will of the people, but the willof God. “The ruler,” say the Scriptures, “is the minister of God.” He 1s, whether it does or does not please the people, to act tn accordance with the divine will. But too possible, also, 18 it that both of our existing political parties are in such bondage to the interests and policies which cluster around and uphold the dramshop that neither of them wilt ever consent to demand its suppression. Hence 1s it that we are assembled in this convention to de- clare the necessity for a new political organization, aud to call upon our countrymen, North and South, Kast and West, to come into tt, And our call is not to the friends of temperance only; it 1s aiso to all the friends of righteous government—to ali who would have government faithful to tts duty to pro- tect person and property. Just here, woere we have been speaking of the high and sacred migsion of government, is the place to enter our uiost earnest and solemn protest against the scheme called “local option” in the sche:ne for wovernment allowing the dramshop in those locail- ties which uke it and disallowing tt in those locali- tes which do not like tt. Would the friends of this “local option” have it adopted im the case of theft or of getting goods under false pretences’ Cer- tainly not. ‘they would have government forbid these offences everywhere, and entirely irrespective of the popular choice anywhere. Why, then, would they have the action of government in regard to dram selling turn on the popular will ? ‘these offences, in the comparison of their effect sink into mere peccadilloes by the side drain selling. Why, then, are they so inconsistent asto have govertiment forbid these and spare it ? ‘The solution of this inconsistency 1s, that while peo- pie are educated (and chiefly, in such ¢ by the mightily educating power of the law) to regard these Otlences as crimes, they can hardly be brought to regard as crimmal that which is shielded by the laws, and 1s so far made sacred, This con- ditioning the action of government on the popular will in the case Of 80 great a crime as draw selling—this sinking of government from its divine commission and absolute authority into a mere ser- vant and tool--could not fail to go far to cheapen and disgrace it and render it ineffective against all wrongs. Government should not be so degraded. On the contrary, it should be so magnified that not slavery, nor drain seiling, nor, indeed, any other com- mon crime, could make headway under {ts forms, By the way, there is nothing that the people mc need than a higher esteem of the sublime and sacred functions of governmeat, But this can come onty trom right action on the part of government. Let the peo, le see it sweep away the dramshop and it will at once wear a new aspect in their eyes and command their highest esteem; and then, too, wiil the dramshop, in the light of this indynant action of the government against it, appear tar more abominable, We are not unaware of the well-nizh insuperable obstacies in the way of building up au independent political party in the face of long esiablished poiltl- cal parties, “Men quit such parties with great reluc- tance. A very lamentable evil is the education of the people into the belief that a permanent political party 13 a great good; and thecefore thatysuch a party ag the republican or democratic ougnt not to be broken up. But a permanent political party with the constant tendency of any such party to destruc. tion is @ heavy curse; for it plants itseif with great and too frequently with mvincible power in the wey of ail progress, and clings for its own existence tu the wrongs with which it ts identufied, No other but temporary political parties are justilable—no other but such as occasions call for, Right was it ia Englishmen to form an anti-siavery party, and right was it in them when they had disposed of slavery to form an ant-corn law porty; and right aiso is it in,them to form, as they are now doing, an anti-dramshop party. Kight was it in Americans to form an anti-slavery party, and right is it now for the 0 to pass on trom the overthrow of slavery to an anti-dramshop party. We give this name to our party because none more suitabie—none more sit- Dificant por more truly descriptive, could be given toit, One argument in favor of our taking this name of the ani-dramshop party ts that It leaves to our opponents, and will fasten upon them, their manifestly and deeply infamous name of the “drau- shop” party. We speak of them as one party be- cause they will manifestly tend to such uniiy as fast as the true temperance men and true iriends of righteous civil government shall forsake their old Parties to join our new one. The American anti- uramshop party aud the American dramshop purty wi'l, from this good hour, go on to divide between themselves the whoie American people, Many believe that instead of forming a new politt- cal party we should remain in our old ones, and put up, here and there, now and then, anti-dramsnop men against the dramshop candidates presen ed tous, Boiting at “regular nominations,” and mak- ing other nominations in their stead, is a good expedient where tne object 18 to select men frd the party who wiil represent its fundamental pri ciples and essential characteristics, But the expe- dient 8 @ poor one, and must ever be unsuccessful Where the obj Js to select men trot the party who Will go counter to those pr! ter. For years abo.uonists cluag to thetr p ery parties and soughs (alas, how vainly!) to revolu- ionize them by accepting now and then, bere and there, @ nomination, No leas vain wili be any simi lar atiempts to revolationize our dramshop par- ties, What if some oi their members sh oceasion- Ally vote avainst the “regular nominations’ It wil) avail nothing toward changing the current and character of the parties, Innumerable eddies tn the Niagara are, in tuetr little or larger circles, turning portions of it up stream. So long as the pre: ent Parties are rum parties—and they will be unti they are broken up—any little counter movement within them for temperance will be of no account. ‘Tne mighty ram corrent will bear all before it; and, what is more, even the friends of temperance tin these par- fies Will out barm tastealof te pny the cause; for by continuing their names to tiese parties they will continue to strengthe these parties boing the most em that power, oi course, we readily that meabers adit ol political parties can remain in them and yet work successfully to chanwe many things in thom. Nevertheless, they cannot change their ingrained and essential charact rhe parties nged can take pla A Wil! break up ere su pro-siavery political party caunot become slavery party. It will break up before it can becoine the sulject of so radical achange. And, indeed, it 1# #0 even in the case of an ecclesiastical party. The Mcthodista, Baptists aud Presbyterian churches pre- ferred being scattered into fragments to becoming anti-slavery. Our present political parties inay con. sent to undergo changes in respect wo tariff, inter nal improvements ana many otuer things. But they not give up their vital connections with tie dram shop without giving up their existeaco—ays and rum-soaked parties they cannot fail to be ah long as they continue to be partie: And those of their members who would escape from their guilty responsibility for the dram svop and tis horrid work cannot do so without sundering their connections with them. To all such penttent ones our uew party will be a welcome and a lappy refuge. We shall, of course, have to encounter continna- ally and everywhere the utter bus effective false hood that tn asking government to put away the drain shop we are asking. Jt to enact that most odious of all laws—a sumptuary law. How tnyidi- ous, as weil a8 disingenuous, to confound with ao sumptuary law a law ecnactet for the pro ton of society from the dram shop—the manufactory of madmen and inurderers—from perit to person and property far greater than the sum total of all the other perils which they lecur! In the legislation we call for we do not propose, as does the sumptuary law, to interfere ‘with the housenold. We do vot propose the searchiag of famines, nor the hinuering of them from drink. ing ther domesuc dvinks or eating thet led mueats or sausages, Marte, if they prefer, of cats and dogs. Hus we do propose that they shali be effectu- ally debarred from bringing their dram botcles into the public markets a8 they are from bringing into it n meats and sausages. As temperance men we »pposed to intoxicating drinks any and every- ‘AS such We would do all in our power to rauade every home to relieve itself of the pres. 2 of this pre-eminent a of the home, As temperance inen We alm to make milions of rum-ruined and unutterably wretch. ed homes the paradise they would have been but for this evil presence—the pura dise they would have been had not the devil entered them. But notting of all this domes- Uc beauty and biessedness will be the object of our new political organization, This organization will run upon rum selling only. [ts care, however, will be upon all ram seiling—upou that in the fashiona ble as weil as the unfashionable hotel—upon that in 4 gilded parlor, as well a8 that in the dirtiest trish den, What drinks do we propose to have government roscripe, None by their names, aad such only as ve power to intoxicate or maduen tae drin pt the laws leave it to the jury vo decide wheter the drink ip question 18 OF 18 HOtaa intoxuwatiig or mnukdening one. The leaving of this chief question to a jury, to people drawn directly from the iwass » the people, would be @ popular, as well ax proper feature in these laws, A very common objection to forming the ne party ts that ite members, being required to agree in but one thing, it will therefore be buta one-sided party. Most absurd objection! and yet tt las proved itself to be no less widely deluding than deeply absurd, The members neither of the demo- cratic nor of the republican party are required to agree in so much as ene thing; and hence, by this logic, which makes the new party only a one-idew party, the other parties are indeed no-idea parties, But the fact i# that within these no-idea parties are many ideas, and some of them warmly cherished. Within the new party will, doubtiess, be quite as many and quite as tenaciously held ideas as (here are in either of the other parties, Moreover, the central idea, to Which it expressly commits itself, being the duty of government to protect bravely aud faicafuily the persons and property of its subjects, and @s- pecially from the dram shops, Which prowivently fails them, tt may reasonably be expected that the party, certainly the great majority of its members, Will not only adopt many an idea which is worthy to be associated with its grand central idea, Abd tins, We conciude that our new party will not ouly not lack objects to pursue and ends to secure, but that these objects and ends will be emmently wise and proper. And then, too, as it begius In a brave and uncom- promising regard for tue right, aud strikes its very first blow at the mightiest power in the land—the rum power—and takes its place in a minority 80 small as to incur the scorn and ridicule of the ma- jouity, the party may weil hope to be distinguished, not only for the wisdom or 1ts measures, but for the courage and integrity with which it wil aaopt and maintain them. What if our new party were to accomplish nothing more for tae protection of per- sons and property —that first, if not, indeed, the sole work of government—than :biting up tie dram shops ¢ Would not tis be doing immeasurebly more for the country than all which the democratic and republican parties aim aty The dramsiop suppressed—this reat feeder of the vice of intemperance no longer fr being, and the task of making men sober would be a comparatively easy one, But the good of being sober people consists not alone in 1tseif—not alone in the comfort and pleasure of soberness. It is a good which begets well nigh every other good, When the voters of our country, @ small proportion of whom are drunkards, shall be sober, our govern. ment will, in wil its departments, be sober, honest and wise—a change which cannot come sy long as the dragnshop Is left to its great part in fashioning: the [ectake aed of both the people and the govern- ment, We are urge to wait until the political parties have disposed of other and more imporiant matters beore we organize politically against the dram shop. But these parties have notiwag in band that is at all so important as the shattiog up of the dram shop, Nay, there has seldom, if ever, been a time when the issues between the great political parties of the country Were noe more strongiy defined and more engrossing than they now are, It is true that portions of the democrats and portions of the re- publicans express their preference for this, that and the other measures, But what the democratic party a3 a Whole or the republican party asa whole de- sires it is not easy to toll, ‘The members of neither agree in respect to reconstruction, to suitrage, tari, or in resp to the currency and its kindred questions. So far as regards the state of politieal parties— their ioosened hands aid their indefinite and uncer- tain aims—no betier time than the present could have been chosen for organizing the Anierican ani dramshop pariy. ‘hose members of them who Itke to see guvernment protect the people, and who look upon any people as emplaucally unprotected among whom the dramshop 1s allowea to pour out destruction and death, wil fad it easier than ever before to break out of thelr parties, ‘The present 18 also ®& happily chosen time for making political war upon tae dramshop, for the reason that the camp of temperance never stood more in need of tie incidental benefits of such a war than now, When the late horrid sirife between the North and the South has opened wider the (vod- and especially drunkenness. da ure ended, We may not succeed in shutting up the dramshop, but we will work very faith fully and very hopefully to this end. And then, even though we siail have utterly failed of our ob- ject, and the dramsnop shail remam a# vide, and deep and fixed @ curse upon poor humana’ as ever, i success Will nevertheless Ye ours—the great sess of having done our daty, POLITICAL NOY “Cancanbyism’’ is the the term applied by the Louisville CowrerJournad to the course of General Canby m Virginia, about enforcing the tron-ciad oath, It is a pretty kick of authority, and no mis- take. Grant's father has been interviewed by an enter- prising Western reporter. Way not try his grand- father? The movement to break up the radical ring in Chicago, by inaugurating a people's party, is pro- gressing favorabiy. A cheering blast from the Golden Hora—the cor rupt “ring” in San Francisco has besa smashed up. ‘The Chicago republican papers unanimously re- pudiate the idea of Gerrit’ Smith’s national prohivi- tion party. Very properly the champion knight errant of the ladies of Maryland 1s a “knight of the quill.’ But was it so very degrading to the ladies of Maryland to have them compared to the ladies of the North? It ig stated that the temperance men in Maine look calm and determined, and as if they had marked out @ road they meant to travel in, all of which has @ prostrating if not a demoralizing effect upou the republicans proper. Southern men are arciving in Now York from the Northern watering places. ‘They prefer to ual arrt- culture and fluance, being entively satistiod Lo let politics alone if the North williet them, fhia Is par tucularly the case with the democrats, who almost, toa man declare that they are angoyed by their democratic iriends ta the Noreh, who olfer gratat- ‘tous advice aDoUL What they should and should not do. They deciare that they are capable of judging for and taking care of themselves. One planter averred that 10 his county alone (in South Carolina) $1,000,000 in gold was already winassed, wich the new crop coming i, and @ big one at that MUSCAL AND THEATRWAL NOTES, The Worrell Misters commence a two,weeks’ en- gagement in Wittsburg to-morcow evening, appear- ing In their burlesque of “Lalla Rookh.”? Captain Jinks-Liagard opens lis new theatre, the Adelplii, in Boston to-morrow evening, with the Duriesque of Kenilworth.” selwyn's theatre, Boston, opens for the season rrow, the piece selected for the opening rhe Wonder, @ Womau Keeps a Secret.” I following ladies aod gentlemen make up the “boc at this establisiment for the easutng season :—M Thomas Barry, |. t. Davenport, b. M. Municr, ¢ Grimins, aud Misses Virginia Buchanaa, h ard, Mary Wells, Mary Cary, Athena, Dantorth, Gri tiths, La forrest; and Messrs. Frederic Robinson, C. K. Thorne, dre; C. ti. Vand om, H. FP. Daly, Staart Robson, ‘how ry, H, Pearson, George IM, Grit. fiths, W.d. Le M 0, ILL. Basen ), Steadman, J. B. Bradford, 0. A. Dinsmore, fT. Graham, GP. Kenway and J, W. Hague. Pantomime, afver 601 consecutiv representations at the Olympic theatre, last night came to a full stop, And this was ail done with but two pieces “cumpty Dumpty? aud “Hiecory Diccory Dock’ — rmer having been given 485 times and the 41s, This is ord waich y canoe vs else in the 5 world, Tt 8 a glorious chapiet of hovers for Mr, George L. Pox, to Wtiom 18 due, both as ductor of the mirth-provosing pieces and as clown, the principal credit. of tien immense sur As clown Mr, Vox 19 stinply ininucable, and he to-day stinds as the greatest exponent of “dumb show” and enjoyable nonseyse im the profession, Last night the pantomime Was extinguisted ina periect blaze of spiendor— ae in har mmious wCcord ¥ enthustasin being undoOUNde This, was (0 be expected, cousidering that tt Wag Mr. Fox's last ap: a role in whleh, for nearly two years, he has tickled the town with his laughable pranks ant irresistible dvoliery. It may be many monti again have the pleasure of witnessing tar clown th pantomime; but ‘ance tor with her thousand tongues, has that r. Mr. F bas now a “bran new" grand spectacular pantomime in prepa: ration, Which Is expected to surpass all his former eforts In Wis pardealar line, aad which wil be brought out at (ue cosey Olympic about the Christ. mas Holidays. The Thetre Frangals, the doors of which have barred agalast the unagprecitive public ever e the sudden demise of the eifervescent opera vous, 18 about awakening to a new, and it is to be hoped, tor the sake of the enterprising management, ® more prosperous life, During the summer the theatre has undergone & thorough renovation, and has in various ways been aitered and improved. Maueger Grau, Who has in contemplation a sensa- tion which ts expected to eclipse even the Kistort furor, goes to Europe early ta October for the pur pose o1 secing and heariag tor Limeell certain artists with whom he i even now in negotl tion. There is certainly needed at this particu lar time some veh = splurg as the one hinted at for the TheAtre Franyais, to reinvigorate theatrical afairs in tiis vicinity and to give them @ new linpetus, and Mr. Grau is just the man for the occasion. Mr. Grau, instead of entrusting his business to au agent, will himself judge of the merita of such people he proposes to bring to this country fi vad when he returns it wil be, Wo are assu ib such novelties and sense. tions a8 cannot possibly fail wo prove attractive to the public and reumunerative to the management, in the meanwhile the theatre opens on the Lith inst. for a season of three weeks of grand English ‘a, which is to be followed by four weeks of legitimate drama, after Which we are to have one month of grand classical German opera, which in tura will be followed by @ Short season of French medy and opera, These entertainments will tead, jn a measure, Lo prevent (he patrons of this fasbto: vole esfablisumment fom rusting UOul Mr, Grau'a return, S| EAMSHIPG SAILED YESTERDAY. Not less than thirteen steamers left this port yee. terday, as follows:—Por Laverpool, the City of Brook. lyn and the England; for Havre, the Percire; for Gias- gow, the Britannia; for Galveston, the Mary M. Roberts; Tor Charleston, the Manhattan; for Mol Hie, the Mercedila; lor New Orieans, the George Crom: Secayhe tis te * Bienville; re eceroee the @ Montgomery; aud for Wilmii ton, the Rebecca cide ‘ og