The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-28 00:00:00

PARTIES 1N 711 E STATES.

There is a split among the Germans of New York
on the question of the Excise law. The Democratic
Convention condemned the law as interfering with
social and religious cnstoms ; and the German Re-
publicans who want their beer on Sundays feel
strongly inclined to go over to the enemy. One
portion under the leadership of Dr. Schultz have
made principles conquer creature comforts, resolving
to stand by the Republican party, whether deprived
of their Sunday lager or not. The other has ap-
pointed a committee to probe the intentions of the
Republican candidates on the "so-called Excise
law." It is on such local issues that the Republi-
can party has lost so heavily in the late electiouF.
They considered themselves so strong that they
could set opposition at defiance, being alike in-
vulnerable against the reaction of unpopular
measures or open corruption. In a leader of
the London Times on Wednesday last, the
Radical leaders are accused of shaking public
confidence in the United States Bonds by hoisting
the repudiation flag. We were under the impres-
sion that Mr. Pendleton, a Democratic leader,
was the author of that mischief. But it
is the fashion to fix every injury on the
ruling party. The Times adds :—" We may well
credit the statement of an American writer that if
his countrymen knew all the details the end of the
Republican reign would be very near." These
details are the means by which the white citizens
have been thrust down, and the negroes thrust up.
It is clear that the American writer must be a De-
mocrat, and must himself know these shocking
details. It is a pity, then, he does not publish them,
and thus end the Republican reign. Like every
other party which has enjoyed a long lease of power
during a period of more than ordinary difficulty,
the Republicans have made mistakes, from which
we see no better means of retreat than that sug-
gested by the Times, " iu the restoration to power
of die moderate and able men included in its ranks."
The Hon. Joseph Segar, of Virginia, addressing
the electors of his State, endeavours to rouse them
from their apathy regarding registration, to act
their part in the conflict. They await intelli-
gence of the returns from the North ; but he points
out that he will concede that iu the next Presiden-
tial election the Democratic party will carry
the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New
York, together with California, Connecticut,
Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, and New
Jersey. But what of this? Congress must
remain in pssession of the Republicans for the two
years following next December—that in the Pre-
sidential contest, if the South be not in the Union,
supposing the three great States to be swept by the
Democracy, still the Republican majority in the
Electoral College would be 33 votes. Thus the
party is secure of a lease of power which gives them
time to reform, and leaves no hope to the whites
who wish to postpone reconstruction till Northern
sentiment changes. In seven out of the ten Southern
States there is an overwhelming majority of negro
voters. In Virginia the result of registration gives
the number of delegates to the Convention elected
by a coloured majority at 59 against 46 who will
be elected by the whites. Mr. Segar says it would
be easy for that convention to enact that persons
not registered shall be disfranchised. The whites are
in a majority of 13,000 to 14,000 in the State, but
the electoral districts are so arranged that the
negroes may return a majority of delegates, if so
disposed. For these reasons Mr. Segar denounces
the apathy with which the whites regard registra-
tion, abd advocates the best and most speedy re-
construction attainable. In Louisiana two-thirds
of the registered voters are coloured. In Florida
there are 15,234 blacks to 10,804 whites. In
Mississippi the negro majority is 17,865 ; in South
Carolina, 24,845 ; in Texas, 10,000, as estimated.
In Alabama, at the recent election, about 2 per
cent. of votes were given against a convention, 5
per cent. for anti-Radical candidates, and the rest
for the Republicans. North Carolina has registered
a majority of 4,000 whites, but there are more
Radicals among the whites than this majority of
4,000 ; as far as can at present be told, Georgia
and Arkansas alone have a clear majority of
whites. The strong vote in Ohio against the Equal
Suffrage Amendment is but an indication of the
feeling in the Northern States. The others will
follow suit when the absurd position will be seen of
negro ascendancy down South and negro repression
up North—that is, the exact reverse of the former
position. Yet this is to what events tend, and the
North having, by the force of arms, suppressed the
Southern aristocrat and elevated the negro, may
have, by the force of arms, to suppress the negro
and elevate the white. As Congress must, for over
two years, remain Republican, unless a number of
the members can swing round the circle, there may
be presently seen in the United States a representa-
tive body not representing the people. The Repub-
licans will most likely split, as those who have been
dragged along by the energy of the leaders who
advocated extreme measures will no resist. To
go on against the clearly expressed opinion of the
country would be madness—to halt is to separate.
—Anglo-American Times.

ROYAL SPORT IN WINDSOR GREAT PARK.--
•Saturday was the first day's shooting in the royal preserves
of 'Windsor Great Park, the game having been specially
preserved until the return of the Prince of Wales from the
Continent. His royal highness, accompanied by his
Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, and at-
tended by Count Gleichen and Colonel Koppel, came to
Windsor by ordinary train on tha Groat Western Railway
at 11.5 a.m. Tho Queen's break had been sent to convoy
the royal party to the coverts in the park. They were
received at Cranbourne by Major-General F. 11. Seymour,
deputy-ranger. They commenced shooting in ono of the
preserves near to Cranbourne Tower, and afterwards beat
the ground in the direction of the statue of George 111. at
the top of the Long-walk. Having had seine excellent
sport iu this neighbourhood among the pheasants, hares,
and partridges, the royal party retired to Rutter's deer-pen
at two o'clock, where theypartook of an excellent luncheon
which they had brought with them from Marlborough-
house. After luncheon they returned to Windsor by the
Long-walk, and paid a short visit to their Royal llighnesses
the Prince and Princess Christian at Frogmore Lodge, who
had arrived there in the forenoon. The Prince of Wales,
with Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar and attendants, drove
to the Windsor station, and returned to town by the 4.35
p.m. train on the Great Western line.