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[ " c *TT^\\r vr\T)T7 TT1? P A T n I IXH/VV I UlilV 111'iiiajui^ BJtOADWAY A.NO A.N.N WTRKET. JAME"> GORDON BENNETT, I- JJ 0 P B I B T 0 It. ^ ? .. . -zz. ' - ' ' i ' Volume .V liXlT No. 43? A MIS KM i- NTS THIS AFTERNOON AND KVflNlNO. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THRATRIC. .treat and ^roadway Afternoon and nvaiiin: P?rfunu?n i. THEATRE COVJQITK. Ml T?r?nliv .V.-DAYID OARkiok-Pah he Fascination. Matinae at J. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Ftftli avoum atid Tw?ntjrfourth atrect.?Tlat. THE TAMMANY, Fourt'emU ?tr*ct,?TllR yrrKN or HKAttTD? fur Oli> Woman That Livid in a Siioi. KlhliO'8 'JAROSN, BroaJnrav.?Arhmi s v Pojui; on, Thk Wioki.ow WfkDImi. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.-M a b? <>, ,hf Mut*oakzoikjui'. GRAND Oi'RRA HOUSE, ourn'r ot Blgbth areiue and Kdilieet The SUA or lo*. WAVfSRI.ElT THEATRE. No. ' 'u Bro.lwaT.-A Ok<j?d Vaiihty Esn miainmfn 1. Matinee at i\. OLYMPIC! THEATRE. Ilr.mawxy.?DivjJ"f Dome. MaUnre at l)j. BOOTH'S THEATRE, U]ii? ba.wjeu MU vi I tith art.? 8if Van Winklk. WALLAv'lv'S THBaTRR. Hritlvir an I IHiti a'raet.? jotims-Tuk Pkopi,?.'8 Lawyfii. OHNTRAL PARK HARDEN. 7th ar., be v ja MlU and (fttiiis. -Vopulai: ilAiinK.N conobni1. TONY PASTOR'* OPERA IIiJ Mi. Jill B . *.?, v._r!<>?TO TooaUhm. luiiso Miiisilky, to. Matin** at 3>*. HOOLEY'3 OPERA HOUSK, Br oklyn. - hoolbt'b Minstkklh -Th;. Lawyer's Ci.bhk, . JTBff TOHit :t Rii'JM OK ANATOMT. 613 Br,a l?r??.gotifcr AM. AttT. LAMPS' NKW YORK MUSE > M OF A..\TOMY, 630 ?ro*dw?v.?I'KVOKU IN ATrEM>AN<lk. TRIP L E S If E T. Now V rki U'ediipsdayi Ao0!int I8<I0. vi . . L'ir.a ?ravjv-i. Fni'tipp. The cni'ic telegrams are dated August j, The rival 'ooat crews of the English ami American universities were out again lor practice ye-terday. The Harvard* dirt well In tuoir new boat. The betting la still esainst them. TUe York August races commenced yesterday. Tlie ZetlanJ stakes, tlio Couvivlal Stakes and the Yorkshire O.ks were run for. The loss of Cuba to Spatu, sars the London Telegraph, would be a ffnln to the mother country, j the colour and the oauue of mankind. I The Empress 01 the French and the Prince Imperial arrived yesterday at Lyons fit ro tie to the East. The Senate will hear the report on the sen at"* Conmltum to-day. Napoleou's amnesty to political exiles hns t'con enthusiastically recelvct. saivatori Pattl, father ol AaeUna, died on Monday tn Paris. Dlsjcusioas among the Spanish Cabinet Ministers Tm'otc mreatens to resign. The republicans de.iire better lood and quartet j for t!ie Carllst prisoners. The difl'-iencea between ltie Viceroy and Uiebitltan are in j fair way to be adjusted. The la if dry weather ha; favor, ii.Ly arreted the European harvest, prospects are so tt.-oa that advances Ui prices of all kinds of main have been checker Cuba. Tne insurgents are reported to have oeeu driven trom the neighborhood of Jaxuey (.rand, (ieneral Qaeoada lias not yet appeared before Santl Espirltu. The Peruvian Monitor*. Our correspondent with the Poruviau monitor fleet write* fiom Maranham. Brazil, under date of J^lf 12. Tne tiansport Marranop hud broken down ?t tbo Saint Inlands, near Cayenne, und had laid up there for repairs with the monitor Atahuaipa, while the Manco Cunac, towed by the Pachiua (formerly the Arago), proceeded to Maranham. Three Peruvian officers had there meet ttie fleet, ana report thut the people of Peru are incensed against Seflor Garcia, the Minister to the United States, for having negotiated the pnronaqe of the moniiors. The Arago, on leaving New YorK. it will he remembered, wus reported by a sen* itio.i t,i?r to have Bailed for i i;i>a in luo intercuts of tin. insurgents. iVfUerliititeou*. The President yesterday attended a clambake, given uy the Grand Army of the iiepublic. at Oceau Cottage, op N.irraganset Bay, thirty miles from Newport, ilUrty thousaud persons were present. The President will leave Newport this morning, and Bpend to-morrow night at Concord, N. II. On liaturday he aroes to Saratoga. It la not considered at all probable In Washington thut Colonel stokes will succced in bavtm; Congress convened to overthrow the election of Renter in Tennessee. It ia believed, however, tmit lie will aucceea in having all the federal oiiico-! oltlers who lav^rgd Seuter removed. <"* Governor Center, of Tennessee, has arrived in Waphifluton on his way to Sew Yoi k. He intends to seek an Interview with General ('rant. The Massachnseta pcmocratis state Convention mid at vVorchesier yd!t$f<iay and nominated John Qulncy Adams for Governor. Mr. Aoama accepted the nomination and made a epeefih. A series of WOiuttoiis waa adopted whtch will be lonfld published els'MT.iera ia our columns. We publisn on our triple sheet Hits morning a detailed acount of the recent double execution at llomphia. 'ihe wives or the condemned men wit eased their execution. The ofiloers at (iottysburg went to work yesterday designating the points of interest In the first day's bottle and the positions of tbe Eleven!U corps. The pot where Reynolds died is marked by a tree with to R on it. General Hancock lias w ritten a letter regretting that he cannot be present, ana it is now nnoertalu wnether General Meade will come. Thomas L. Evans, an old gentleman, was shot and killed in rniladelphla yesterday by ills sun, Marshall Evans. The family had for some lime entertained douots of Marshall's s.iniiy, and yesterday morning It was decid i >nat the rattier should obtain a certlQcatc on which to consign Mm to a lunatic asylum, while about to leave the house for this purpose Marshal shot him. He was taken into custody. A meteor, which twctndefl vertically and then de ceuaed over the sumo course, was seen at Philadelphia and Washington last evening. It was i.ot observed at the Naval Observatory in Washington, because nono of the astronomers have yet returned from theire xpodltions to observe the soiar eclipse. Twelve States have formally ratified the new fifteenth amendment, and two have rejected It. Two others, Kaunas and Wisconsin, have ratified It In a manner that Is classed as defective. The New Jersey farmer* are becoming uneasy at tpe continued dry wcaiher. Old unused woils are bhing liunied up, sud a general economy In wuter Is being observed. A lerlous riot between whites and blacks la reported In Macon, Tenn., In which tho negroes threatened to sack tbe town, and it is said wounded Mvetal or the Sheriff's posse sent to quell the disturbance. The riot grew oht of a flgtu between a negro and a white boy. Vincent (Jolfer telegraphs from San Francisco that the proclamation of Governor Mitchell, of Now Mexico, declaring the Navajoes outlaws is unwise and will break up tbe school and agency at Korl i/QUHuuu. a tic vi mm ivnu mv npntuoo hvivivivi? were commenced by wblto meu. Mr. eolyer left Han Francisco on Monday for Sitka. Fattier McMahon, who was recently pardoned out pt tb$ Kingston (Canada) Penitentiary, where tie wad frU i mi a twenty years' tcrtn, an one of the Penlann Offtfted in the Invasion of 1806, has arrived in Uttftalo, Mid u the gnest of Bishop Ryson. large lire occurred in Philadelphia last evening, M tlM corner of Nltjth and Wallace streets. There WW bat Utile waftr to throw on it, and the large banding and four private dwellings were destroyed Involving a loss of f100,000. A State convention of (Jnlversallsfs w In session at Watertown, N. Y. Rev. J. O. Bartholomew presides The City. to Ik* lp?aeat la tb? case of the boy who was rui NKW YOIi ovpt and killed by cur No. 1 or the Blec Vcr street lino, near Ablution aqitare, on Wednesday la.-.t, the , Jury rom.jred two verdicts yesterday, havinx fatlod | to agree. The majority exouerato me driver ironi all blame in (lie matter; but 11. othtv-H, only two ineinbora, censure him ami the couipauy. The driver was released 011 J500 ball. I11 tho Supreme Cour: yeaterdav Karnsey and V an Vulkonmirgli against whom Judge llaruard had j I**nea attachment* Tor a contempt of courf, were . up fur examination. The hearing waa adjourned to eleven o'clock to-day. Tlie examination of General Thomas W. Eagan, the Custom House weigher, for alleged frauds ou the government, was resumed yesterday bet ore Commissioner Osbi.ru. HieCunard steamer Scotia. Captain Judklns, wilt sail tins morning for Liverpool. The mails will close r.l the Post Offlce at half-past six A. M. l'ho steamship Nebraska, Captain Guard, will leave pier 40 North river at four P. M. to-day ror Quoenstown and Liverpool. The steamship sarauossa, Captain Ryder, of Leary'a Hue, will leave pier No. S North river ai three P. M. to-day for Charleston, s. 0. The stoek market yesterday was dull anil ile-. clined. Late In the day the VanderbtU shares underwent a sharp reaction on the strength of intelligence from .Saratoga that the consolidation measures were again afoot, (.old rose to i?t. Pioniincnt Arrivals in i'ju City. Count de Faverne.v, Ohan: d'AiKiires of Prance, auJ Count tie Turenne, of ilie l'rencji Legation, arc at tiie Albemarle Hotel. Commander Lowery and Paymaster Foster, of the United States Navy, are at the Hoffman House. Colonel Duffy, ot the United States Army, and J. G. Saxc, or Albany, are at the Astor House. Judge P. Mellon, of Cincinnati; Governor John Evans, of Colorado, and (ienerul H. L. Itobiusou, of Btnghaiuton, are at the Si. Nicholas Hotel. Count Wiscontl and captain Batchot, of the Italian Legation, and Kobert Toombs, or Georgia, are at the ! New Vork Hotel. General J. Rawlins and General J. D. Fry are at tne Erevoort House. Ttwi.rn ir IUnt?i f\r Wnatiinartnn ; PAlrtnAl P. fl. Jeffery, of Texas; George Ashbury, of the United States Army; Judge Henry Carter, of Portland; Colonel J. A. Parker, of Quiacy, are at tho Metropolitan Hotel. Judge W. Black, of New Yoifc; Hamilton Harris, of Albany; J. liarrett, of Georgia; P. II. Lawrence, of Loudon, and S. \V. Jolinstun, of Washington, are at tho Fifth Avenue notel. T. H. M. Bartlctf, of Montrea'; J. It. Kelly, of Boston, and Thomas M. Smith, of Baltimore, are at the Coleman House. rroininent Departure#. Commander w. p. McOaun for Philadelphia; Dr. W. McDonald, Boston; Mhjor L?. Bradley, Saratoga; T. B. I'll .en, Chicago; J. O. Kenney, Clnclnnail: Mnjor S. M. Hnrtln, Long Branch: Professor WiIIiuqm, Lowcii, and Dr. Northrop, Newport. City Poltlrs?>A Sinaoliiiuf Bonibahcll iu Prrimrulion tor Tammany Hull. Tammany Hall has "waxed fat and kicks." It lias become a mighty monopoly in politics and spoils and pluuder. Long ruling this city, it now wields the balance of power over the State, and is moving to control and manage Ihe democracy of the United States. A Tammany Sacliem in the-e days shines with the splendor of an East Indian nabob, and even tho common Indians of the Wigwam Boon rise to the dignity of dabblers in stocks and speculators In real estate. Our city tax levy of twenty odd millions furnishes a bountiful margin for pickings and perquisites, and Tammany, In distributing them among the faithful, has becomo so strong as to laugh at all opposition and smile in derision at all complaints of her spoliations. And nuy uut, Tanimany can muster her fifty, sixty or seventy thousand majority in this city, as the election may require ? Why not, when she can buy up or kill off any disturbing faction, and when to the masses of the island democracy to hear her is to obey ? But still her tenure of office Is uncertain, and unforeseen dangers are constantly springing up. A great danger now threatens her from a powerful and neglected quarter. The strength of Tammany Hall has been and is the Irish element and the German element of the city. Tor a long time the Irish element so far exceeded the German that the Germans were hardly considered as calling for any special cultivation. But of late years the influx of Germans has so far excoeded our Irish aoces siona that the German element in numbers is overtopping the Irish, and In our mercantile and flnnnoial establishment a Is a visible power on evry hand. But still, in the division of our city offices and spoils Tammany has continued to dispense her favors upon the IrishAmericans, and to such a degree that the usons of the old sod," with few exceptions, make up the catalogue of our City Fathers. This fact stands out in such bold relief that bOiue wag has suggested that New York ought to be ctilled New Dublin. . The Germans have made this discovery of the favoritism of Tammany Hall, and, knowing their power, they intend to have some changes in this business. They can have them with or without the aid or consent of Tammany, and hence the danger to Tammany; for the Germans are already moving in the matter. They gave us an inkling of their strength some years ago in the Mayoralty election (Godfrey's cordial) between Boole, Gunthcr and Blunt; but that was nothing compared with what they can do now. Tammanf, however, is still sailing on the other tack?the Tweed movement, for Instance, to miaf \ 110list. Rplriiont. aa chairman nf thn n?. tional party committee. Belmont is a German, and the German democratic element lien behind liiin. Tweed is backed up by tbe Irish element, and upon this issue and others there is a Teutonic borabslie.l in preparation fur Tamm*ny Hall. The throe great divisions of the population of this city are the native American, the German and the Irish born. Politically the first against the other two combined is utterly powerless. It is only a balance of power against the German or the Irish division; but as a balance of power the native American vote (mostly republican), in a split between the Irish and German divisions, will go the German. We think so because outside of this cuy anu Maic me Merman, as tne rule, is a republican, while Irish republicans are hardly more numerous anywhere than Irish Protestant*. The Germans or this city, then, have only to take the field against the party despotism of Tammany Hall in order to upset it, i and, from the German movements afoot we 1 expect this thing Is coming. IIow can Tammany displace Pat to oblige Carl? It can't be done; for if done Pat will have something to i say. But If not done Carl will bolt. It is > coming to this. Lastly, they say that the ra' publicans are meditating an out and out German city ticket In order to head off Tara, many, so that, look at It as we may, there are gljWis of an approaching tcrriflo explosion In i thAlemocratlo camp of this city, with the up K HERALD, WEDNESDAY rising of tbe Germans for a new division of the spoils (igainut what they are beginning to name as the Irish mouopoly of Tammany Hall. Murahal Nlcl antl The bulwarks of th# second empire?the tried anil trusted friends of Louis Napoleon? are rapidly disappearing from the Held of action. Marshal St. Arnaud, Duke de Moray, Duke de MalakofT, Marshal Magnan, Count ur..innr^!ri Fitulil Mnnnunrri and Tronlouflr have passed away within tho last few years, and now Marshal Niel, one of the stancheat friends of imperialism, has yielded to the inexorable decrco of death. While Paris and all France, bedecked in gayest holiday attire, celebrated the centennary of the birth of the flrst Nupoleon and tho groat national file of the empire there was one at least whose heart was sad?one whose affliction was so great that tho military festivities of the Chalons camp had been hastily abandoned for the seclusion of St. Cloud, and oue who, in mourning the death of another of his early companions and confederates in tho great move which raised the second empire from the debris of the republic of '48, must begin to realize that his time, also, in the course of human nature, and already presaged by the growing ache* aud ills ot age, cannot be far removed. in the political revolution now agitating France and effecting the incorporation of administrative reforms in tho government which necessitate no inconsiderable sacriflce of imperial prerogative, tho Emperor will sadly miss tho counsels and devotion of the late Ministor of War. Franco owes much of her glory and prestige to tho genius of Marshal Niel, and to him redounds the oredit of a military equipment and efficiency second to none in Ivurope. In tho ministry, the tribune aud the camp he was distinguished for his devotion to Napoleon and tho fearlesinoss with which ho invariably sustained the imperial policy. Although more a specialist in debate than the versatilo and gifted Rouher, hia earnest and powerful efforts were not alone confined to tho questions of his department, the war budget, I the reduction or increase of the army and tho like, but were often felt when a determined resistance to the encroachments of the opposition was called for in the legislative forum. What immediate influence this new misfortune may have upon the Emperor we caunot presume to say. Whether grief will tend to sour or soften imperial temper remains to be seen. It is said that his Majesty is quite impremonnable to scenes of affliction and mourning, and his better feelings on such occasions riaa uiinar!np fn nAPonna 1 an A a nnH nuiKil w\n It is related that while passing over the battle field of Solferino he was moved with Inexpressible pity at the sight of the dead and dying that strewed the ground, and this impression was so profound it acted powerfully on him for the conclusion of peace. The fate of Maximilian induced the Salzburg interview from which sprung a friendship for Austria, that Baron Beust yet congratulates his people upon being most sincere and satisfactory. Will he In the loss of a faithful triend be moved by a sentiment of true affection for his people and an earnest desire to aitinfr thnir asDiratinnn? In the successor*, of thooo niio stood by tho fcmperor since icoa are we to see new men mora in harmony with the progressive tendencies of the nation and less blind in their zeal and devotion to imperialism ? To them at least we are to look for the peaceful development of liberal ideas and institutions, or the commencement of a long and uncertain conflict between authority and opinion which may eventuate in revolution. So far all promises well for a more liberal policy on the part of the government in the future. The Senate is busy with legislative reform, M. Rouhor seems less obstinate and absolutist, the Emperor appears conciliatory and In commemoration of the hundredth birthday of Napoleon I., graciously published full and complete amnesty to all press, political and other offenders. Let us hope that Napoleon, as well as Rouher, Schneider, Granler de Cassagnac and the jet remaining champions of personal government may see fit to " crown the edifice" with greater liberties and accord all those reforms which shall prove " popular enough to go hand in hand with liberty, and at the same time strong enough to resist anarchy." An International Ocean Yacht Race.? Late advices from London state that the English yacbt Cambria and the American yacht Dauntless will start on an ocean race on the 1 st of September. The course will be from Cowes to New York. The challenge of the Dauntless was unreservedly accepted by the gallant owner of the Cambria, Mr. Ashbury. ? V' v " rru " ' Epfeot of Cheap Freights.?The city is quite full of merchants from St. Louis and other points in the West, who are here for the purpose of taking advantage of the very low rates of freights to replenish their stocks of goods from tho well Oiled warehouses of our principal dealers and jobbers. This is a good sign. It does good all around. It is a benefit to Western merchants as well as to Western consumers, to New York dealers and others engaged in tho movement of merchandise. It makes money fly that would otherwise be boarded up on account of the cry of "hard times." Everybody is benefited except, perhaps, the railroads; and it would not be surprising if even they should in the end reap the benefits of a moderate scale of freight charges l.?tmnan 11... 1.1 M r,.. .nl i u nlt.1 tt.yi 1. ll,? Great West. Nobologt in Massacn n.-irtts. ?A lawyer in Massachusetts has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment in the common jail for tweaking another lawyer's nose in a railroad car. This is not the first time one lawyer has put an opponent's "nose out of joint," but in a Pickwickian sense. The incarcerated lawyer will now have time to reflect upon the danger of allowing his angry passions to rise, and, as a Massachusetts paper remarks, it he ie of a literary turn, he will have leisure for an article on "The tweaking of noses as ti science." Worthless Looks in the Tbeahubi Safes.?The matter of the worthlessness ol the locks in the safes in tho National Treasury is being talked about in tho papers. Would 11 not be as well to And out how money get* on i of the Treasury through subsidies, Jobs, Ini trigues and corruption, without the unlockini of bolts or bars of any kind ? , AUGUST 25, 1869.?TltfPI Tlio Eastern .Ti.iluti uf dui 5ui?rM? Knjoulo. The ocean telegram has announced the departure of tli? Empress of th? French on Monday, the 2.W1 Instant, on her Eastern tour. I Our Park correspondent had already informed us that the Empress Eugenie is expected to arrive on the 30th of Septomber at Constantinople, where the palace destined to bo occupied by her is being lltted up with Oriental splendor. She will remain at Constantinople ten days for the fetes to be given in her honor. Towards the 10th of October she will visit Smyrna, where, if we mistake not, her Scotch grandfather, Mr. Kilpatrick, was American Consul during three Presidential administrations. The dates of her subsequent excursions are not yet decided upon up to the departure for the inauguration of the Suez Canal on tho 17th of November. The Empress will be accompanied on her tour by the Prince and Princess Murat, by three ladies of honor and two chamberlains. For the celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal?an event pregnant with momentous political and oonunorcial oonscquenoes? the Viceroy of Egypt has made the moBt extensive preparations. Tho Empress Eugt'nio will doubtless be the cynosure of all eyes on that memorable occasion. The magnillocnt historical scene of which she will be the central figure will forcibly call to mind the judicial combat which the genius of Sir Walter Scott has painted in indelible colors as the cauBe of an "assemblage of various nations at the Diamond of the Desert." not far from the locality where the opening of the Suez Canal is to be oelebrated, and as having taken place in the presence of Queen Bereugaria, Edith Plantaganet and their attendants, a bevy of veiled Eastern beauties, the Archduke of Austria, the Grand Master of the Templars, Richard Coeur de Lion and Saladin himself, with his tuvbaned host. A banquet similar to that which the Soldan offered to the prlnoes of Christendom after that combat, in the most gorgeous fashion of the Eust, with carpets of the richest stuff and luxurious cushions, with cloth of gold and silver, superb embroidery In arabesque, shawls of cashmere, muslins of India, unfolded in all their splendor, with different sweetmeats, ragouts edged with rice, colored in various manners, and all other niceties of Eastorn oookery; "lambs roasted whole, game and poultry dressed in pilaus, piled in vessels of gold and silver and porcelain, and intermixed with large mazers of sherbot, cooled in snow and ioe from the cav ems or mount Lieoanon ?sucn ft Danquet win probably be prepared by the Viceroy of Egypt, supplemented with all the refinements of French and English cookery, of which he has lately learned to be an excellent judge, and offered by him to his European guests. It Is even possible?so great changes having been gradually wrought since the age of the Crusades?that Ismail Facha may not so modestly as Saladin object to receiving the thanks of Empress | Eugenie for her princely reception. Saladin declined the invitation to receive the thanks of Queen Berengaria, because, he said to royal Richard, "the blood of the East flows not so temperately in the presence of beauty as that ?<r jour land. "VYnat saitn tne boon ltaell f Her eye (s as the edge of tho sword of the prophet. Who shall look upon it?" But the Empress Eugenie may not so easily as the Queen Berengaria "content herself with seeing and laying aside the still more exquisite pleasure of being seen." The innovations, however, which this crusade of modern civilization, headed by the Empress of the French, may introduce into Oriental etiquette, are inHignifiount In comparison with those which her mission to the East may directly or Indirectly introduce into the political relations of the Western and the Eastern world. We shall therefore watch with Interest the progress of her tour to the East and the development of the results to which It may ultimately lead. ( etlrabnrg Monuineuis. TLc officers' reunion at Gettysburg seems (o have found little favor with the ez-Confederatc generals. General Robert E. Loe pleads bis engagements as au excuse for non-attendance ; but as be adds Immediately after that he thinks it wisest "to obliterate the marks ol civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered" few readers will fail to assign an additional reason for his absence. General Fits Hugh Lee replies in a similar spirit to the invitation sent to him, and we can hardly doubt that the large majority of exConfederate officers will view this matter from the same point of view. It is certainly easy enough to understand thoir repugnance to take any j>art iji thi^ demonstration, but It is by no theans so easy to see either the necessity or the expediency of so imposing a gathering as we find of Union officers for the purpose of going over details, about which they will never ugre?, ui ino i.urce uayn lerriuic couuioc ai Gettysburg. For our part we think the old Greeks were wise whoa they enacted that neither stone nor canvas nor monumental trophy of any sort should ever perpetuate the memory of their civil wars. Such ware are like family quarrels, beat forgotten. What Greece did Rome did as regards her civil wars, and we And that the much coveted honor of a triumph was refused to a general, "when Romo was free," whose victory, however Important, was only over Roman citizens. Perhaps it was from some traditional policy like this that we find that the civil wars of Spain, France and England, however sanguinary while they lasted, have left no monumental trace behind them. In fact, it is far better, far wiser, that it should be so. What nation is not ashamed of its civil wars? Could history itself bo made to forget them and "blot them out forever" it would be better. We hav<5 certainly no wish to blame the Union i officers, whose military associations, carrying them back to a stirring and most critical period i tn the history of our republic, suggested this i reunion; but we submit, nevertheless, that , some consideration should be made those who, wishing to forget all about Gettysburg and to prove themselves true and loyal citizens, yet nV>iiu>t tfi linvp t.hn mnrnnrv nf llu Hefflftt nnrl r disaster thua unpleasantly thnist upon them. t Mcoh Ado Anotrr Nothing.?The newst papers are making a great fuss about the re. cent marriage of Commodore Vanderbllt. Had [ not the Commodore as much right to get married aa other man la the countrj t jE SHEET. ^ 1 11 - 1 Po'ilicitl A(T.:!ra It! (ho ?and t,je Aduiiulrttrnteou. ' Political matters ia the Si itb, particularly in Tennessee, Virginia and Mississippi, are a very muddiad condition. And the administration at Washington is in about as great a muddle about them as the local politicians themselves. The moBt remarkable feature is that with a most intense rivalry and even bitterness between the radical and conservative factions they are both for the administration. Or, perhaps, it would be better to say they are both for Geueral Grant and cling to him as the representative man of the people and choice of the nation. This was evident in the (ate elections and is becoming more apparent since. The Walker party in Virginia, the Senter party in Tenncsseo and the Dent party in Mississippi raised the name of the President on their banners to rally the people to their support, and the radicals in these States did tho same. Yet no two parties were ever more bitterly opposed to each other, and, in some respects, were never mora widely apart in their policy. The hoBtillty of a few individuals of the conservative party to the President, as in the casa of Andy Johnson, Is personal and does not represent the status or wishes of parties in the South. Both tho conservative and radical factions, as was said, claim and desire to represent the administration and to act In accordance with it. Tho question that forces itself upou ub here?and it is one which tho President will be compelled to seriously consider?Is, can this state of things last ? Can both be administration parties and yet be ao hostile in policy and feeling? It is Impossible. The President must take his choice with one or the other. He cannot ride on the backs of both. No political horsemanship is equal to such a task. What, then, will General Grant do? If wo go bacK to Ms anteceuents, 11 we can to mind his conservative views when ho closed up the war and wished immediate harmony between the two sections and restoration of the South, and if we may judge from his known deaire for peace, we oould have no hesitation in saying ho will make the conservatives of the South the administration party. Nor have we any doubt that his own unbiased inclination would inclinc him to such a course. This, too, is undoubtedly the wisost policy; for the result of the late electious shown that neither the administration nor any other power can make the Southern people swallow radicalism. Should he, unfortunately, take the side of the radicate in the South?that is, should he place himself in hostility to the large majority of the people and public sentiment In that section?he may cause a great deal of trouble, but will not bo able, with all the machinery of federal power and patronage, to make the Southern States radical. Indeed, the very effort to do so would only swell the majority against him and his policy. Wo have an example of what would take place in the meddling of the radical members of his Cabinet in the Tennessee election. The interferonce of Boutwell and Croswell only Increased the vote agiinst Stokes, the radical candidate for Governor. We aduiit that the President is In a very trying situation. Some of his Cabinet are inourahle radicals and will usa ail yieip influence over him and his policy in their elforts to sustain their faction in the South, while the rest are indifferent or mere political nonentities. There is no nnity, and, as a consequence, the administration is at sea floundering about among dangerous breakers. Should he listen to the defeated radicals in Tennessee and Virginia and to the same party in Mississippi, and endeavor to overrule the expression uu- ku ..i x 01 me (muiiv yuiw, mo ^upuinniy uauuui save bim. The people of the North, even, would not sustain him in such a course. Military domination, as in the case of General Canby in Virginia, and General Ames, of Mississippi, who has just suspended the writ of habeas corpus, cannot bo tolerated by the mass of the American people. They want peace, restoration, and the war closed up. They are tired and disgusted with the pretences of reconstruction for party purposes and the substitution of military rule for civil government. Any fresh attempt to defeat the popular will in the South by the action of the administration or the radical party would produce a terrible conservative reaction. What, then, is General Grant to do ? Follow the instincts of his own nature and good seDse and throw overboard the radical mnrplots in his Cabinet. Yes, let him remodel his Cabinet and make a new one of able conservative men who will be united In policy and act in accordance with his own views. The people are with him now and they earnestly desire to nil Tf? -.a. arwl o< ill to the hope of the republic. But the prosent ia a oritical time, and his future popularity will dep nd upon the action ho may take in the political uffairs of the South and tho choice he may make between the parties there. There is no evading this alternative. Nor ought the President to hesitate. lie is master of the political situation. Should he take the ultra radical ground that Boutwell and Creswell in his Cabinet and tho extreme radicals of Congress urge he will plunge his administration into a sea of trouble. Should he take a conservative course he will carry the bulk of the republican party as well as all tho conservative people both South and North with him; for they have nowhere else to go, and he will continue to hold the politics and destiny of the republic in his hands. Will General Grant, see his opportunity and what the people expect of him ? That is the question. It cannnt. llA i1<tfi>rrnd Tim tlmn has nnma fr\ w /1a_ cision, and it must be decided now one way or tho other. srekon of TriK Democratic Candidate for Governor of Massachusetts.?Yesterday Mr. John Quincy Adams, Jr., was, for tho third time, nominated for tho office of Governor of Massachusetts by the Democratic State Convention held at Worcester. In accepting the nomination he delivered a speech which will doubtless attract considerable attention in political circles and from the people at large. He declared it the duty of the democracy to abandon dead issues by accepting the established fact of universal, unqualified suffrage, and to turn their attention to other and more vital issues. Mr. Adams then referred to these living questions of the day by saying that "the price of coal Is an outrage, the duty on iron a swindle and the tariff an abomlna tlon." ITe spike of t!is condition of (lie work- ^ in..,' classes as being worse thau it was in 18C0, aiivj oppressed his belief that a return to hard mono/ wa? ,t!'0 P?n?ee* for oxisling ills. Referring to th<? prohibitory liquor law, Mr. Adams wa - bold in opposition to it as an Infringement upon the personal liberties of tho people, and spoke Ba*fir',*ft'br manner in which it was enforot^- Tl, ! resolutions adopted !</ t!je Convention.1 ar(3 01 saina ^ tenor us was the speech. Tl?e tHiernational Boat Siuoe the great fight between He*, Sayres we hare had no flimilar internal*^ sensation as that which is now furnished b> the approaching oontest between Harvard and Oxford Universities. It is not to be denied any longer that the Harvard crew, in their anxiety to get up a match, made great and almost unexampled sacrifices. For a time it scorned as if Harvard oould have no ohance. It now appears, even from the tone of the English press, that the Harvard men have a fair chance to come off first in the contest. Should the Harvard men win, what th^n? It will be an immenso cause of rejoicing In th* United States. It will be a source of gratification to Europe generally. All the world will then see that England Is not neoessarily queon of the waters. It will iooreaso tha prestige of the United States. Europe ii ulready bowing to us. Witness the conduct of Spain. Europe will then bow to us more and more. Such a victory will oalm and sootho Senator Sumner, for It will be a Massachusetts victory, and it will be a handsoino otfeot to the Alabama depredations. Commendable Rivalry.?As in New York, the construction of a new post office building has been commenced in Boston. There will now Iia a aronarmia rivntrv between the architects of each to see who will present to the people the best structure, at the earliest period and at the most economical rate. This is a rivalry that should be encouraged. Neither the government nor the people will lose by it. Tlio preliminary work is being pushed forward with (he utmost vigor in our City Hall Park, as tho openi' oits are viewed from the Herald office wimiun'9. CRUSE 01* r?S'VV YORK P I.OIB. Sxi-iinIdii Around l.oua bland?A Call on tho AmericMa Cla!i?A Uuud Time Generally. For several years past a rather sclflsti movetnonl hm trainc(l ground among a cortaln class of the mercantile community to attempt to deprive that body or men termed "riaudy Hook pilots" of their ieea collected for offsnoro pilotage, by making sundry representation* to members of tho Legislature and attempting to have tho present law governing the pilots changed. The only course left the pilots wag to refute the statements of the mercantile men, and the boat way, they thought, instead of attempting any lobby games, was to appeal to the good sen-e of the 1 eglslators and insurance men by getting up sort of an excursion annually during the summer, and Inviting such as could spare the time to take "pot luck" with the m, and by actual demonstration during a week's residence on some of the pilot boata. see the fallacy of the arguments of the merchants who would deprive tltem (the pilo 1st ol tiielr hard earned waged. In accordance with this plau a number or invitations were sent and ou Friday last the pilot boats Edmund Blunt (No. 2), Charlotte v, ?i>b (No. &), J. O. Jones (No. 15), lay off pier No. 1 North river, gaily ?* ??* * wiih hnntlnor. rPA<1 r In rnnfilVO ttlOlf guests, tne management of the a (fair hein? onttaateu to pilots Ilarbenaon, Johnson, Yates and Fryer, lias ' rather irreverent text of a Brooklyn divine, "It's d?a hot day," met with a h oarty response as tho Webb and Blunt sailed past the Battery and into the East river, the Joues being let t to bring on some of the dilatory guests. When opposite the Oob Uook Battarv. at the Navr Yard, tho booming of a thir teen gun salute startled the par ty, and on counting I noses to see who could be entitled to such an tiouot I and no one In the com pany, composed of lusuranoc 1 men and otner guests, among whom w ere ex-senator 1 Robert Christie and As semblymen John C. Jacobs, | UeWltt C. Power, Andrew B. Hodes, of Brooklyn; J. Uold, of Dutchess county, Dr. Sullivan, School commissioner, of New York, were found to "raw" such honors, as a sailor might say, and at leugtD Brigadier General ZeiUn was discovered in ?lug laying oif the cob dock awaiting the salute. Sailing along with a light, but favorable breeze the party were soon abreast or Fort Schuyler, listening to tbt experiments with a new fog hell just placed at that point, which can be heard a distance of ten miles. At even o'clock on Friday night the waters of Indian Harbor, Ureenwloh, Conn., were reached, ami no sooner were the anchors dropped than a party of the Amcricus Club, marshalled by Vice Commodore 11. Hall, came off and extended an invitation to visit the club house. Tho invitation was accepted and Friday night spent In the hospitable care of the oluU. Although the club Is composed mainly of democratic politicians they do not permit their pleasure* to be iuva<ieJ by .such a disturbing element aa politics, ami whoever gets an Invitation to visit them?be he Jew, (icntiie. republican or democrat?after eating of ttielr salt will be troated as one of themselves. No "lionizing" 1s allowed, and were President Grant to visit Indian Harbor they would receive Htm like any other ciiizeu and no doubt see that he would have a real enjoyaolc time, but It wouldn't In the least be allowed to interfere with the regular groovo of pleasure taking. once a red-hot politician of Tammany Ilall, who wanted the nomination of Alderman in his ward, visited the Americus boys and plainly set forth tne object of his visit, and what he would do for the club in tho event of his election. The embryo Alderman was invited to take a sail over to -'Tweed Island," being Informed that the club oould do nothing for htm uuicss he was made a member, and a portion of the initiation was to go through curtain ceremonies on the island. The poor fellow was left over there an entire day, In a broiling suu, with nothing to cat or drink, und taken away at night a wiser if not a belter man. He did not set the noun nation, aud his sobriquet of "Alderman of Tweed Inland" Jul nor please him at all, there belgg no fees, contract or pickings attached to the "posuh." ilie uniform of the club Is showy aud expensive, it consist* oi navy blue sock coat, cap, and pauta, trimmed with gold lace, aud embroidered caD ornament. "(irand Bashaw" Tweed was not present when the pilots and their guests called, as he had business in some other quarter, laying out poor Uelmont. Mr. orarnlla, the popular bandmaster of tho Hoventh regiment, him a prominent residence durlug tne summer among the Amerlcus boys, being active aud prominent member. Once a year ho gives a festa, ami the subjoined order will explain itself:? OKNKRAf. ORIlin NO. 8. 1Ii:aI>UCAKTR3S DKI'ASIMI.NT Of tof Sou-<d,? A uguet 15,18'itf. I Iu compliance Willi orrtrra from William M. Twee I, Coinmamlcr'tn-Chlef, 1 1'be Stall" will auembla in uniform at Hi>adqui>rter?, Indian Ilarbor, on Friday, August 27, at 10 o'clock A. M. to colebrate the "Gencral'e Llay. Wuartcruiaater Ingeraoll will prorlde transportation for guenta, fromllie depot to the dock, on tha arrival of tUa train from Kew York, at ioi-jo a. M. _ Tha Fleet, under command of Captain Qaorga Mann, will reudeivoua at tho dock at ltl o'clock A. M., for eacort duty. Colonel Frank Vauderbeck and Adjutant General Eiiuona Durnln are detailed for duty at tho depot, and will tacelrn nil eacort the gue?te to the dook. Captain Keninev, commanding battery, will oauae a aalutn of thirteen nulla to he fired on the arrival of tb? gtieata. Ordnance Oillrcr Joseph Sootliwnrth will rurnlali ammunition and i '1)011 lor duly to Captain Kearney. By order. CLAUDIUS 8. ORAFULLA, uaj'ji wcuviai. BcunNT Diunin, A<l|ii*.?nt Ueneral. An examination of Hie roster show* all aro officers, Hie only one act down as a private being Joseph Hliannon. the Clerk or the Comiuou Council, who "has the privilege of promotion." Under a salute of two guns, dipping of colors, Ac., the pilot boats sailed out of Indian Harbor on Saturday morning and were caught In the storm on tlto sound in tho afternoon, but owing to tbe skill with which tho boats were handled no trouble was experienced, except some of the lawmakers paid tribute to Neptune instead of.bagging anything for themselves. Owing to light and baffling winds New London was not reached until Monday morning, when tho party landed and visited Uroton Monument, Regent House and otner notable spots around New London. The schooner yacht Addle V. was found here, with a party or the Amerlcus Club on their return from Newport, "ousted" and disgusted with Newport, (Jeueral Uraut and his party and ail hands. Tho "boys" say a comoienaablo feature of the place Is that champagne can be had for three dollnis a bottle. Tlie pilots will visit Newport, the camp meeting at Martha's Vineyard, take a run out at soa, beaming some of the inbound vessels to show the legislative guests In whal manner they poriorm duty, and return via Handy Hook about Friday noxU J