The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1869, Page 6

mer eat se OAT NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN S'TEET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Allbusiness or news letter ana tetegraphic Gespatches must be addressed Nuw York Heracp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ‘ Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Woon's Mi Broadway MAND THE, pon and eve: NIBLO'S Tur RatLRoan zo 2 ACADEMY OF MUSIC, li TRAGEDY OF OFHELLO, BOWERY THEATRE, B In AND OUT OF PLACE. GRAND OPERA HOUS Gd wtreet.—Tuk Ska ov. 1 FORMOAAS OR, atreot, -SHAKSPRAME'S & Sooretsy CurRrs— en lv) avente and WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 72 Brow!woy.—A Geanp VARIETY UN TRRTAINNEN: OLYMPIC THEATRE. Bro UNOLE Tom's Cain, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 2édst., between iu and sth ave Bip Van WINKLE. WALLACK'S TAR AT: BOLON SHINGLR—Live THE TAMMANY, Fo Hraure—tuz Op Wo. DRAMA OF Broadway aut Uta street.— 1A mth stroet.—Tue QUERN OF Tuar Liven oi a 8208. THEATRE COMIQUE, SM Broadwoy.-BLow FoR Riow. CENTRAL PARK GARD: ~, vetwean 68th and oun ste, —POPULAR GARDEN TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HC B, 2 Bowery.—Comio Vooat195, NEGRO MINSTRELS! oO, CISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broaiway.—Eraio- KELSY, NEGRO AOS, Ao. SAN FRA PIAN Mi Brooklyn, -HOoLEY's 0» HOOLEY'S OPERA HOU! Mingruvus—TuR Lapy Riu! NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 614 Broadway.— Gorsnok avo ART LADIES' NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Brondway.—FRMALES ONLY IN ATTENDANCE, vr 10, 1899. HSB NSWS. Europe. Cabis telegrams are scant and dated only to September 8, the telograpn wires connected with the French and English cables having been 1n- terrupted by the late storm and working very Poorly. Madrid was again disturbed; 8 conisions having o red between t troops and the regular government f bishop of the English Church has resigned, Miscellaneous, Oue hunared and eight dead bo far been recovered from the Avondale © mine. It ig believed that thera are no more in the pit. The funeral of a portion of them took place with sad ceremopies at Scranton yesterday. Fadl particulars of the terrific gale that swept over New England oa Wednesday are given elsewhere in our Columns this mornimg. A melancholy joss of life and a great destruction of property are reported, The coliseum in Boston was unvoofed and severai eburches and other bulidings were damaged. The loss in Bostun and vicinity alone ts estimated at $1,000,000, Tho fancral of Secretary Rawlins took piace yes- terday in Washington. The procession, composed ali have 80 the diplomatic corps and the friends end relatives, ‘was a long and mmaposing one, wife, three children ana a brother of the deceased Secretary were present. ‘he body was interred in the Con- gressional burying ground. Genera! Ciarke and Captain Saylor had an tnter- view with the President yesterday in reference to affairsin Texas. The President expressed himself anxious for the success of the radicat republican party in that State, and declared uvequivocally his opposition to txe Hamilton movement, saying that between Hamilton and any honest democrat he ‘Would rather cast his vote for the latter. Attorney General Hoar’s decision upon the test onth in the Southern States gives great encourage- ment to the conservatives im Washington. Texas conservatives now urge the nomination of straight. out conservative tickets and cutting loose altogether from republican aiiiiations. The Commissioners of the Pa elected General Walbridge, presi Comstock, secretary of the Board. ‘The case of Comstock va. Woolrich, wherein the Validity of a warringe between a white end an wed, was decided ng declared Railroad have ad General legal and a subsequent marriage of Maan with a white woman, ts a and the offspring thereof illegitiw: Ayoong man named Robert Mid was found aik on Lake avenne, iu Saratog: terday moraing, ut auearly hour, 80 8¢ in- fured that he died soon aiter. Ilis tiougat by some that he fell out ofa ¥ it is said by others ‘that he was thrown ou’ nen, oe of Whom has been arrested. ‘he coron @ verdict of “accidental death. Mr. Danic! S Curtis, who “gently tweaked the nose” of Mr. Churchill in a Boston and to be illegal yee car tn Massactiusetts, some wees », and was im- prisoned therefor, bas nad lis ose pat out of joint by his application for pardva beiag wnaal- mousiy refused by the committee. It ta telegraphed ail the way from Hays Clty, Kansas, via St. Louis, that Lord Wa Lora Puget, English noblemen, tly killed two Dbuffaioes each during a hunt of five hours, they having made heavy wagers at home that they would kill at least one. The Labor Reform party of Massachusett @ocided to cali o State Convention at Worcester for September 28, to nominaie a State labor ticket. A fire in East Cambridge, ™ yesterday, a¢ Btroyed a block of wood working factories, causing @ das of $175,000. The Navy Department « orities deny the report of Amttiny on the Sabine. Letters received from the Sabin since the date of the alleged occurrence gay nothing about it. ‘The American Xeamer Hornet has been released by the Halifax authoritics, who consider themselves the victims of @ practical joke. A heavy bill of damages is expected, Prince Arthur, on his Inte husting excursion, failed to start a moose. Koopmansehap, the coolle agent, lias left San Yrancisco for New York and a tour through tho Southern States, The City. ‘The jury in the case of John Hickey, of No. 10 Roosevelt street, who was kicked 80 severely by Mar- faret Anderson on the 2d Inst, as to produce death, rendered a verdict accordingly yesterday, aud Mra. Anderson was committed to the Tombs. Clvaries Shay and @ Dr. Vondersmith, both living in the Bowery, were committed to the Tombs yea- terday by Coroner Flynn, the first charged with seducing Mary Boland and the latter wilh producing an abortion npon ber at No. 34 Stanton street. A Jury in the case rendered a verdict implicating Vondersmith, ‘The trial of James Lagan, who ts charged with complicity in the murder of James Haggerty in Brooklyn in April last, was commenced in the Kings county Court of Sessions yesterday, youig Haggerty wage woalthy citizen, who died in a fiafon ‘house bay from tnjuries recetved, it ts said, by being pushed ut of Eagan’s barrgoy Bee Policg rh T9SHOCUAY Modited Ye Rede SE ar Pe Sa ef aA ee NP ERE obnoxious uniform order to sass an exteut that It is virtually revoked. ‘The Board of Assistant Aldermen yeaterday passed resolutions tendering the hospitalisics of the city to the Harvard crew, and appolating a committees to solicit subscriptions for tue rolief of the families of the Avondale miners. The Inman line steamship City of Washington, Captain Jones, will leave pier 45 North river at ton o'clock to-morrow (Saturday) morning, for Queens- town end Liverpool. The European mails will close at the Post Oifice at eight A, M., 11th inat, The National iine steamship France, Captain Grace, will sail at nine A. M, to-morrow (Saturday), from pler 47 North river, for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The steamship Sherman, Captain Henry, of the Merchants’ line, wili leave pier No. 12 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, 11th inst., for New Orleans direct. The stock market yesterday was generally stealy. ‘The only excitement was with reference to Erie, which was readmitted to the cali at the Stock Ex- change. Gold closed finally at 1354. Prominent Arrivals in the City. R. R. Bridgers, of North Carolina; Colonet W. M. Wadiey, of Georgia, sad Major W. ©. seardsley, of Auburn, ave at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Colove! L. F, Bates, of North Carolina; Judge @. W. Noble, of ChicagofLieutenant Commanding G. W. Armentroth, of the United States Navy; Judge N. Fiagg, of Quincey, Iil,; Colonel B, F, Langley, of New Orleans; Colonel R. P, Smtth, of Wisconsin, and Colonel W. C. Bell, of Soath Carolina, are at the Metropolitan Hotei, Lewis Leland, of California; Colonel H. H. Spear- ing, of Penney!vania, and Major J. S. Paris, of Phila- deiphia, are at the $f. Charles Hotel, ©. Catacazy, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary {rom Rusaia to the United States, is at the Brevoort House, General J. J. Bartlett, Nichoiaa Marin, of Chile; General Owen, of Philadelphia, and Mr, De Graffen- ried and A, A. Powell, of Georgia, are at the Fifth Avenue flotel. Colonel A. Garo, of the Russian Army; Colonel B. Cannon, of Maryland, and G, M. Parker, of Mo- bile, are at the Hoffman House. Felix Foucou, of Paris; Charles 3, Robbins, of Mem- phis, and Alexander D. Campbell, of Philadelphia, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Lieutenant Commanding Yates Sterling, of the United States Navy; Coionel G. D. Raymond, Michael Meylert, of Pennaylvannia; Senator Graham, of Middletown, and General W. C. Squires, are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. Major William Gouverneur Morris, recently ap- pointed Untted States Marshal (or Callfornta, lett the city for his post, by the Pacific Railroad, on Thursday. This {8 au appointment that does honor to mie perception and judgment of the President, Major Morris is of the old Knlokerbocker strain, aud was a son of the late General William W. Mor- ris, of the United States Army, and a descendant of the foe old gentleman of Revolutionary fame whose name he bears. Although not brought up in the army he readily responded to the cali of the country for defenders tn the hour of peril, and gave to the nation five years of efficient and gallant service. He was educated at Cambridge and studied the pro- fession of law, and having been many years a resi- dent of California is thus eminently fitted for his po: uu by knowledge of his duties and acquaint- auce with his district. Judge Monell, for Newburg; Oleon Rangabe, Charge @Aftaires for Greece, for Newport; General H. for Boston; Colonel B, Draper, for Al- ajor E. Curtis, for Washington; Doctor M. and Colonel Whitney, for Philadelphia; 1. B. Birnbaum, for Cape May. i, Barke The Irish Land Question—The Boat of the Difficulty. The lively interest in the question of the disestablishment of the Protestant State Church in Ireland having in a measure abated since that question was settled by act of Par- liament, a new thought has arisen to keep alive the discussion in British politics as to what Ireland really needs in order to insure the prosperity of her people and guarantee tranquillity. It is admitted that the disestab- lishinent of the State Church does not cover the ground; that, in fact, the trouble lies deeper than the sentiment which is involved in the fact that a majority of the people were compelled to pay contributions to the clergy of an opposite faith. This ‘‘grievance” lay very lightly, after all, upon the population of Treland, although it was a potent weapon in the hands of agitators. The indifference, in- deed the dissatisfaction, with which the Catho- lic people and their leaders, the hierarchy and the clergy, regard the so-called boon proves that the cure for Irish discontent has not been reached by the sagacity of the Gladstone ad- ministration in separating Church and State, The difficulty in Ireland is material, not sentimental. The question whether the man who cultivates the soil shall be en- tilled to a fair share of the products must be settled in favor of the cultivator, or there will never be a settlement of the Irish ‘‘difficulty,” because the root of it lies just there. Under the present land system and the existing laws the Ivish peasant enjoys no right to the pro- duct of his industry, If he improves his farm the value of the improvement goes to the land- lord, because in the majority of cases the tenant has no lease of the land, and he may be turned out at any time—body and bones, wife aud children—to make way for a tenant who will pay a higher rent, the advanced value be- ing te result of the industry of the poor fellow who is sent off from his homestead to seek a better fortune in America—to become, per- haps, a ward politician, or, for the matter of that, an alderman or member of Congress, it luck is on his side, The disestablishment of the Irish Church, as we have said, is only the removal of a senti- mental grievance, and doos not touch the root of the question at all. The old tithe system, under which the parson could claim, according to law, his tenth part of the farmer's income and could seize it by the aid of military and police, led to so much bloodshed and such scenes of desolation and horror that tithes were abolished. But how? Only to be shifted from the shoulders of the tenant to those of the landlord, and necessarily to be imposed by him upon the tenant in a new shape by increasing the rent, The disestablishment of the State Church, therefore, is a very small modicum of relief, and thus comes up the land question as the real remedy for discontent, and so ft is just now regarded by the press and the states- men of Great Britain. The Marquis of Hart- ington recently declared that all efforts to se- cure the existence of an undisturbed govern- ment in Ireland would prove futile unless the land system was remodelled, The press of England and Ireland, whether of the national type or the representatives of the ideas sup- posed to reflect those of the government, re- cognize the necessity of a radical change in the land tenure system, It is being realized now as @ part of the policy of government which was sorely falt by the people for more than a century that three milliozs of land cul- tivatora should not be absolutely dependent— for life or death almost—upon eight thousand landowners, Hence the newspapers which ’ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SKPTEMBER 10, 1 the landlords and generally hostile to the poas- antry are now the foremost to discover that the root of the Irish difficulty is not to be found in religious disqualiftcations or the ascendancy of one church over another, orin the riotous displays of Orangeiam and the frothings ‘of Fenianism, or anything of that sort, but in the substantial faet that the system of land fenure is all wrong. It is pretiy evident, judging from all the signs of the times, that disestablishnient is not the thing to put Ireland at case, or even ap- proximate to render her a contented “‘integral portion” of the empire. There is something more wanting, and that is fixity of tenure and moderate rent for the tiller of the soil; @ com- munity of interest, and not an antagonism be- tween the landlord and tenant, This is begin- ning to be understood, and the subject will most probably engage the attention of the Ministry at the reoponing of Parliament. It it should be approached intelligently the root of the Irish dificulty may be reached and cut into so deep as to disarm agitation and agita- tors for this generation at least, As far back as August, 1867, we said in those columns :— “Among the grievances of Ireland may be enumerated its present land system and. the Established Church. Any effort to abolish the latter without pulling down the former would be a perfect farce.. The abolition of the Church establishment would be but poor comfort to the Trish farmer or peasant, who stands every hour in mortal dread of the bailiff or the ‘notice to quit.’” That ia just the question of to-day, and it is pretty clear that public opinion in Great Bri- tain is waking up to that conviction. This, moreover, is not merely an Irish question. There are a good many hitches in the land tenures of England and Scotland also that re- quire legislative overhauling, and the people there will doubtless have some claims to pre- sentin that regard. It is questionable, indeed, whether the whole system of primogeniture will not get a good shaking up and sifting and raking out before this land question is settled. We are only at the beginning of it. The Avondale Horror—Rolief for the F lies of the Victims, Mayor Hall yesterday addressed a commu- nication to the Board of Aldermen, then in session, on the sad subject of the Avondale mine calamity. His Honor recommends to the Common Council that that body ‘‘should hold asossion for the purpose of attesting, by an official act of our municipality, the sympathy which all classes of its citizens feel for the be- reaved and penniless families” of the victims of the Avondale catastrophe, and recommend- ing, alao, that ‘‘a committee be appointed for the purpose of expediting private subscrip- tions in the nature of a family relief fund.” The Mayor further states that he has called a meeting of citizens for the same purpose. The Mayor has done in this matter what his con- stituents of the great city of New York would have had him do. The official recommenda- tion and the public call for a meeting of the citizens will both be responded to with s hearty sympathy that will attest how deeply the citizens of the metropolis feel and deplore the afflicting dispensation with which the fami- lies of the unfortunate Avondale miners have been visited. Rewizg ror THE Famiry or SECRETARY Raw11vs.—The subscriptions set afoot for the relief of the family of Secretary Rawlins have resulted In the collection of a handsome sum of money. The movement is another illustra- tion of that high sense of justice towards a faithful public servant which characterizes the American people; but in such cases as that of General Rawlins the government should pro- vide for his family. We have seen, however, enough of the meanness of Congress, in its savings at the spigot while wasting at the bung- hole, to justify the opinion thet nothing in the relief suggested {s to be expected from that quarter. The failure of tho proposed pension to the widow of Abraham Lincoln furnishes a fair Mustratlon of the paliry pojicy of Con- gress in these matters. And yet it is a shame only to the government that even General Grant has found it necessary to accept the generous offer of private citigens to secure his family againat the chances of pinching poverty. Tur Copan Question my Maprip—Wnrat Geygrat Stones Sain.—The Jmparcial, a newspaper of Madrid, says that the American Minister has not sent any note to the Spanish government pointing out the probability of the recognition of the Cuban insurgents by General Grant under the pressure of public opinion ; but that what General Sickles has said ia this— that the filibusters have made immense pro- gress in gaining American sympathy, and they do not relax their efforts to obtain recognition for the Cubans. Well, this is something; but we expect soon to hear that General Sickles has been speaking a little closer to the main question, and to some purpose. Tae Fire Comissiongrs ox Kzroseng.— The Metropolitan Fire Commissioners passed e resolution at their last meoting to prosecute number of dealers In kerosene oll who have been found violating the law by selling that dangerous combustible below the standard proof. Allright. There are more miserable deaths of women and children resulting from kerosene explosions than occur from any other cause, It is time that some check should be put upon the sale of a poor quality of this article, which is liable at any moment to pro- duce explosion and all its horrible conse- quences. GeyeraL Canny's ProoLaMaTION oN THE Resvct oF Tae Virotsta Exnortion.—We publish in another column General Canby’s proclamation on the result of the recent elec- tion in Virginia. From a perusal of the docu- ment as published it will be seen that Provi- sional Governor elect Walker will be installed on the 21st inst., and that the Legislature Is called to assemble on the 5th of October next. It is to be hoped that this is the beginning of the end of a needlessly complicated affair, which has #0 long distracted the people of Virginia and kept a noble State from her proper position in the Union. Tue AVONDALE Disaster.—‘‘Stop all work, run the trains free, take charge of the funerals and pay the expenses,” This is the humane order of Mr. Samuel Sloan, president of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway were supponed to reprogeps views favorable t || Company. ih .-TRIPLE The Wisconsin Democracy—A-ftep Forward. | City Politicoe=Movement of Parties and The Wisconsin democracy in their State Convention the other day resolved, among other things, that ‘the democratic party of Wisconsin rejoice in the extinction of slavery and inthe prompt and general acquiescence of the Southern people in the results of the war,” that they rejoice, toe, “in every well directed effort for the enlightenment and ele- vation of oppreased humanity at home and abroad, and in every measure compatible with good government and public order to broaden the basis of suffrage and extend the blessings of free institutions to all classes of tho people.” “Broaden the basis of suffrage.” They have the suffrage now in Wisconsin to all free white males over the age of twenty-one—this broad- ening, therefore, applies to ‘the almighty nig- ger.” The Wisconsin democracy, taking the broad hint from their Southern brethren, sim- ply give up the fight on negro suffrage, for they have had enough of it. The democrats of Ohio, in their emphatic resolutions against the nigger and against the fifteenth amend- ment have made an issue upon which, with the national administration emphatically against them, they will have up-hill work to upset General Grant's majority of last year. In New York, from the general tone of the demo- cratic journals, the party fight this fall, as in Ohio, will be against negro suffrage, and par- ticularly against the fifteenth amendment. In the approaching Democratic State Convention, however, this old party hostility to the negro may be somewhat softened down. The ques- tion is, that as the Southern democracy have taken a new departure shall the Northern de- mocracy join them or stand alone? The Wis- consin democracy, with their faces south, have answered by a step forward, because thoy have found out that it is useless to keep fight- ing on the back track. The Hosplitalitics of the City te Be Ten- dered to the Harvard Boys. It is a matter of extreme gratification, and will so be felt by all our citizens of every nation- ality, that the corporation of New York city at their first meeting since the international boat race have resolved upon extending the hospitalities of our city to the brave boys of Harvard on their arrival here. At the meet- ing of the Board of Aldermen yesterday after- noon a preamble and resolutions to this effect were presented and unanimously adopted. The preamble and resolutions, which will be found in another column, have tho right ring inthem. After justly eulogizing the manli- ness and skill with which the boys of Harvard have illustrated Americanism abroad the first resolution concludes by tendering to the repre- sentatives of Harvard in the late contest “‘the use of the Governor's Room, in the City Hall, for the reception of their friends, who may desire to meet them during their stay in this city.” Their frionds are the universal Yankee nation, from Maine to California, and all men of whatever nation or clime who can appreci- ate such manly qualities as have earned for the Harvard boys the gighest encomiums of their late opponents. Our City Fathers hardly meant to include so wide a circlo of their “friends,” but let them ,be prepared to do the right thing in the matter, and the Governor's Room never was the scene of such a levee of admirers and friends as that which will assem- ble in response to the resolution of our Common Council to do honor to the brave boys of Harvard. City Fathers, ‘‘go in and win.” Keepers for Tenement Houses. The Board of Health has made a good re- commendation in regard to tenement houses— one that owners should have the sease to act upon, but that if not thus taken up by them should be enforced by law. It is that there should be a person resident in each with authority from the owner to have charge of the premises and keep them in order. This is the great point that keeps this system up so well in France that the best class of people can live on the economical plan that here is aban- doned to the very poorest. No doubt if there were not a concierge in the large houses in Paris the carelessness of some residents would soon reduce those establishments to such a condition as to drive out those having more regard for decency. But the concierge pre- serves a certain average of order and cleanli- nessat all(imes, Those tenement houses here that are put in charge of some person aro much superior in all sanitary respects than those abandoned to the tenants, Landlords will be shy of this measure, becauso they will lose the rent of the apartment fn which the housekeeper lives ; but they ought to consider that there will bo an account on the other side in the preservation of the property and in the fact that less will be lost by delinquent tenaats. No Mistaxz Azour Rawiiss.—Among the last dying words of Secretary Rawlins were these:—‘‘Yes, I have something more to say. There is Cuba—poor, struggling Cuba. I want you (the members of the Cabinet and others around his bed) to stand by the Cubans, Cuba must be free. Hor tyrannical enemy must be crushed, Cuba must not only be free, but all her siator islands, This republic {s rosponsi- ble. Iam passing away; but you must look after this.” So spoke the dying patriot, and his words have the ring of the gonuino silvor. We boliove, too, that he spoke the mind of General Grant; for It is impossible that the two mon, so harmonious upon other quostions, should be discordant upon this. We take the dying words of his confidential friend Rawlins as a foretaste of the West India policy of General Grant, Mextoan Briganpage IN Montana.—The late highway robberies of stages and wagons in Montana of their consignments of gold show that among the adventurers in that Territory are brigands pretty much of the same order as those of Mexico, reckless vagabonds, who have adopted brigandage as the easiest and shortest way to fill their empty pockets, This is bad ; but unless the Territorial authorities proceed at once to hunt out these banditti their num- bers and their bold atrocities will increase, Tue VaNpeRraiit MoxumExt.—The 28th {nst., we believe, is the day appointed for the unveiling of the ‘Vanderbilt bronze” to the public, As a magnificent work of art and a splendid ornamont its proper place would be some commanding position in our great Park, 8 & monument not only of @ distinguished oitizon bab of the age we live in, Factions, As will be seen from our usual résumé of movements in city politics, published in another column, there is a regular rough and tumble fight over the spoils falling into the hands of the victors in the coming campaign. From tho state of parties—the disintegration of the republicans through their intestino dissensions over the federal pickings in this city, and from the disorganization into which the democratic Unionists, the citizen Union associations and the Mozarters have fallen into through the treachery and abandonment of former leaders— the Tammany party has the best of the fight from the present standpoint view of the whole field, But Tammany itself is split into fac- tions, and a general chaos prevails, The offices are numerous, but the candidates for each and every one thereof are legion; and individual aspirants are pressing their claims with a temper and persistency and a support to their back that bodes no good to the great ring. Under the leadership of their new political Messiah the Democratic Union party are entering the lists against Tammany, and if they oan only effect a coalition with the republicans and the outside democratic organizations and present a fusion ticket for the suffrages of the citizens they may compel Tammany to make a change of front on some of the more important questions at issue, and thus give them an opportunity of striking a blow in a vulnerable spot to that party. No positive steps to this end have yet, however, been taken, and the fleld of contest presents a perfect chaos of. opposing candidates for office, the Tammany- ites being vastly in the majority, but striking right and left without regard to friend or foe. This state of things with regard to the Tammany party, however, has been principally due to the absence of the great slatemaker, Peter Bismarck Sweeny, who returned yesterday from his European travels. Itis expected when he resumes the reins of power that there will be a pretty general collapse among the Tammany aspi- ranta for office, and that most of them— having ventilated their claims and got their names as prominently as possible before the great dispenser of place—will as patiently as may be await resulis. The great political prestidigitateur will quickly evolve order out of the present muddle and present a clean slate for the electors, and upon that slate and its general acceptability to the citizens the oppos- ing organizations will have to decide upon their course of action in the campaign. Confi- dence very often begets blunders, and a watch- ful foe is seldom at a loss for an opportune mo- ment to strike, Tammany's strength may prove her weakness, and if the leaders of the opposing factions are really in earnest in con- testing the election they have now the oppor- tunity of uniting upon a strong ticket, of pre- senting the same to the judgment of the citi- zons, and on it and relying on the discrimina- tlon and wisdom of the electors, give battle to Tammany at the polls on the day of election, Upon this line the coming battle is to be fought. Open the lists, gound the charge, and may the best man win. Meeting of the Shipowners’. Association. The main object of the meeting of the Ship- owners’ Association on Wednesday was to con- sider the best means of promoting the repeal of the law which now prevents American citi- zens from purchasing ships wherever they can do so to the best advantage and sailing them uader the American flag, and the reduction of prohibitory duties on shipbullding material. Facts and figures were presented at the meet- ng which prove that such measures of relief are imperatively requisite in order to enable the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States to compete with the commerce of other nations on the ocean and in order to restore our merchant marine to the proud position which it held previous to the war of rebellion. The carrying trade of the world is at present almost entirely in the hands of foreign nations. It is humiliating to witness how few of the vessels {n our own port now fly the American flag. A Heraxp correspondent lately chroni- cled the fact that at the date of his letter our national flag could be seen on only three ves- sols lying in the Mersey. When such is the case at these two great commercial centres— New York and Liverpool--Mr. Nelson, ono of tho speakers at the shipowners’ meeting, may well be justified for urging the association “to horry up” in laying the matter before the Amer- {can shipping interest, or thore would soon be no American shipping interest left. Tho State taxes on ships were denounced by Mr. Brett, the chairman of the meeting, as unconatitu- tional. ‘The constitution provides that no State shall levy any tax on commerce, and these taxes were certainly taxes on com- merce.” We hope that when Congress shall be memoralized by the shipowners it will give due consideration to these questions, which are of vital importance, not only to American commerce, but also in manifold ways to the other elements of our natlonal prosperity. Tre Error w rue Mines.—It fills many with horror to reflect that but for the great error of forcing alr Into the mines some of the miners might have been brought out alive, This is a pang the sympathetic may spare themselves, It {a true that the burning of coal sets free the most deadly of gases; but the coal was burning before thia air was forced in, and had got free gas enough to smother all within, no dowbt. Their only chance to es- cape from that danger was the going out ofthe fire, and that would only go out when the oxygen was oxhausted, and all human life would fall at the same moment. Oonvior Exsucranrs,—Our German oml- grants are @ source of riches to the nation and furnish an excellent class of adopted citizens, for which reason it is espectally dostrable that the stream of emigration from the fatherland shonld not bo contaminated by the drippings of the social pestholes—the prisons, We are glad to notice the activity of the German member of our Board of Commissioners of Emigration in preventing the landing on our shores of German convicts. Dent Nominatep.—Dort is nominated for Governor of Mississippi,and on the winning ticket, too; and we are. glad that that State is to have an Exeoutivg #0 competent to put her before the world Ip, the most satiafactory light, dl The New Dorntuion, The speech of Sir John Young, the new Gov- ernor General of the Dominion of Canada, at St. Johns on the 4th inst., forcibly exprossed the English view of the union of the British North American provinces. Sir Johu alluded with good humor to those opponents of the confederation who lay at its door every pos- sible grievance, “from a slackness in the demand for coal to a partial failure in the crops, the competition of fron with wood-built ships to a misdirection in a shoal of mackerel.” He enlarged upon the rich, undeveloped ele- ments of greatness and prosperity of which the confederation may reasonably boast, and indicated the glorious career which it may pursue, not only unmolested, bat, as he be~ lieves, “with the complete good will of its powerful neighbor, the United States, and with the support and applause of England and of Europe.” No doubt the blessings of unton are incalculable, and the full develop- ment of the resources of the New Dominion will be prodigious, But it is equally certain that the vast territory of the Dominion tends by a kind of natural gravitation towards an- nexation—in due time and with all the wealth of its perfect development—to the great republic of the West. The “powerful neigh- bor” of the Dominion can well afford to wait patiently for a consummation so devoutly-to be desired by British North Americans, New Carroaism vor CxerKs,—Evidontly the administration wants to know who hold the clerkships at the capital, and no doubt the country will sympathize with the desire. We are glad that the clerks have the opportunity put before them to show what excellent citi- zens and patriots and what virtuous men they are, Let them respond to the catechism hand- somely, and thus silence the slanderous whis- pers that they were all rebs in the war. AnoTuRre Monument oN THE Movs.—Work- men are engaged in tearing down the old North Dutch church in William street, The price of the lots was too much for the vestry at last. Covrr or Sxssions SENDING Tazm Ur.— The accumulation of wretches that tho hot weather has left us is being rapidly cleared out in the short, sharp and decisive style of Judge Bedford. Tue Vermont Evxorion signifies nothing ;. but the October result in Ohio will go far to shape the democratic Presidential programme for 1872, MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. “Patrie” will be revived at the Grand Opera House on Monday night, with Miss Lucille Western tn the role of Donna Dolores. ; Mile. Carlotta Patti, the celebrated cantatrice, ar- rived at this port yesterday afternoon, per steam- ship St. Laurent, accompanied by her man- ager, Max Strakosch, Jean Prume, the violinist, an@ ‘rheodore Ritter, pianist, Mlle, Pattt will appear at Steinway Hall about the 23d inst, An extra matinée will be given on Wednesday next at the Grand Opera House, tendered by Miss Lucille Western, James Fisk, Jr., and tho entire company ard orchestra of that establishment for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the vic tima of the late terrible disaster in the Avondale coal mines. “East Lynne" is the piece selected for the occasion. The report so industriously circulated by some Mischievous person to the effect that Jim Jubiice, Jr., owned @ controlling interest in Booth’s theawe ig flatly contradicted by Mr, Edwin Booth himself. Mr. Barney Williama is slowly recovering from @ severe indisposition, watch has confined him to hig bed for soveral days. He is in hopes of belng able to. fulfil his Boston engagement, which commences om the 21st inst, Mile. Cartotta Patti and the irrepressible Max Stra- Kosch arrived here yesterday per steamer St, Laurent from Havre. Mile. Cariotia Patti, who haa recently been meeting with much success in Enrope, will appear on or about the 20th instant, ina series of grand concerts at Stcinway Hall, assisted by Messrs, Theodore Ritter and Jean Prame. “Dreams,” the pretty five act romantic play now on the boards at the Fifth Avenue theatre, is one of the few dramatic novoitiea now on the stage in thi city which enjoy the gure advantages of a supel cast and really magnincont scenery. The piece itscif 1s exceedingly sparkling and enjoyable; but four out of the five seb svenes Which divide the play into as many acts are among the handsomest pic. lures ever placed upon the stage on this side of the Atlantic and ore nightly hailed with acclamations of delight by the audience. Tue reguiar {all dramatic season will be inaugu- rated at Wallack'’s theatre on Wednesday evens next, when Sueridan’s comedy of “The School to Scandal’ Will be presented with on excellent cast, Including Mr. John Gtivert as Sir Petor Teazic, Mrae Madeline [enriques.Jennings as Lady Teazle, Mc. Charies Fisher as Sir Oliver Suriace, and Mr. J, W. Wallack as Joseph Surface. A new comedy by Mr. 7. W. Robertson is now in active preparation at tus house, and will be produced at an ha day. A re- vival of “Caste’’ 13 algo hinted at, alter which @ bumber of new comedies and dramas will be brought out in Mr. Wallack’s characteristic style. The Worrell Sistera ave receiving large audiences nightly in Pittabarg. Next week they appear there ja Ben Baker's operatic burlesques on the ‘Grand Duchese” and “La Belie Héiéne.” After leaving Tittsburg they proceea to Akron, Ohio, where yd play for three nights, Pawn vege | September 20, thon three nights at Springfield, Ohio, after whtok they go to St, Louis, where they open on September 27 for two weeks Mauager Gosche, of the Contra! Park Garden, Is to receive a benoefis next Thursday, September 16, on which occasion, in addition to the giand orchestra aud totlitary bands, a numer of othor attractions will be offered to increase ihe public delectation and hus own profits. “4 Protessor Herrmann, the “‘prestidigitateur,’? who last performed before our citizens some four and @ haif years ago, returned from Europe last week with an entirely new repertotre of deceptive feats and tricks of sleight of hand, with which he proposes opening at the Acaaemy of Music on next Wednes- day evening, Having heard of the frightful calamity at the Avondale mine Professor Herrmann has gener ously volunteered to devote the entiro proceeds of his inaugural performance to the relief of the wido' and orphans of tho unfortunate miners who tos' their lives in that sad disaster, He has set our the- al managers a noble example, and one which the public wiil be certain to appreciate. The great “jiusionist” return to us with a rich programme of strange and curtous “things which seem to be and yet are not,” and he will be certain to oveate a furor this time even greater than that which marked his dobut years ago im our city. The entertainment will ne entirely new from beginning to end, not so much ‘ag even one of the tricks evor before Ltd, Ro ate tempted in this country, Last event ‘rofessor Herrmann gave a private oxbibition of bis sxlil toe. emall circle of friends at the Westunnster Hotel, and it 8 bat fair to state that he astonished every persom Preseat by his marveil HOME AGRI,” Return of Mr. Peter B. Sweeny, Peter B, Sweeny, City Chamberlain and vounty ‘Treasurer, arrived home again yesterday afternoon from the foreign shores over which ho has been rambling during the summer months, Mr, Sweony'a numerous friends and admirers will be delighted to learn that he has enjoyed his holiday amazingly, and that in addition to the large stock of valuable in- formation he has acquired in his recent travels he i to pick up somewhere noar ten pounds of Toan The une ut other climea” have imparted a rich healthy tinge to the features of the Americ! Bismarck, and the delights of travel nave amooth off a few of the wrinkles from his mah y brow. ‘While away he has been constantly on the move. The particuiars of the conversations Mr, Sweeny had with the “princes, potentates and powera’’ of the Old World have not yet been made pudiic, Mr. Sweeny returued on the French steamer St. Lanrout, which vessel arrived abreast her wharf at. pier 60 about six o'clock last evening. Prominent orcng 26 distinguished party which Wont off to St, Laarant on the reventio cutter to welcome Reet AA Cael od gi a ae or i us jowling, Deputy Chamberlain Sm! ant District “Atiofuey Hutontns and. Mr! ard crear. Mr. Sweeny landed abont seven o'clock and was w ‘arral, roogired, by the sarge an bled on the pier. he abovo name gentorane au od him + bis residence, | | | | |