The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-19


England of SCOTLAND and the balance of various for
eign countries
A correspondent who is we'll informed the matter
Of which he writes makes statement, in a communica-
ton which he sends from Fort Jefferson, on the
Dry Tortugas regarding the occupations to which the
assassination consprators have been put DR.. Mudd Ia
prison hospital nurse, Arnold is clerk in the Provost
Marshals ONCE. and Spangler and OIaughlin work
ing their trade carpenterug, in the eng depart
ment
Eight convicts escaped from the Auburn State Prison
last Friday evening They pursued, two shot
and killed. four surrendered and only two succeeded in
securing their freedom.
The first street horse railway in Halifax, Nova Scotia
nauguated Saturday last with considerable core
mony and display persons OF high official and social
positions In the province taking leading part
The stock market was extremely dull and fraction
lower yesterday Governments were steady Gold was
firm and closed at l43X.
There little change In the commercial status
yesterday compared with Saturday. The movement
in trade was rather slow, and there not much
buoyancy noticed during the greater part Of last
week. Foreign goods we're generally quiet, while do
nestle produce heavy, in exceptional cases.
Breadstus depressed and lower Cotton steady
Groceries were steady Petroleum quiet Provisions
were quiet Lard was hrmer whiskey was hrmer:
President johnson and the Political
Parties OF tho Day.
The leading party journals Of the North, re-
publican and democratic, are sailing under
short Canvass like ships adrift in fog. They
have lost their reckonings and their landmarks,
they are uncertain as to their latitude and
longitude, and are moving cautiously. On the
republican side, in general terms, they endorse
the administration of Andrew Johnson, while
on the democratic side, in most cases, they mix
up an approval Of his Southern reconstruction
policy with a rehash of the democratic prin-
ciples which may be numbered among the de-
funct distractions of the rebellion. On both
sides the managing politicians and their Or
gans, while carefully holding the administra-
ton within hailing distance, are awaiting some
further developments from Washington.
There are certain hungry democratic jour
nails, however, which, snufing the delicious
odors of the kitchen, are fattering themselves
with the idea that they will soon be restored
to the enjoyment of the rich feast from which
they have been 80 long excluded. They are
delighted with the "irrepressible conflict" be-
tween the abolition radicals and the President
They contend that there must either be a break
which will serve the republican party as the
split from John Tyler served the old wing
party, or that Andy johnson will be compelled
to yield to the pressure of the radicals, and so
open wide the gates for the return Of the
democrats to the power and the spoils of the
national government But we are strongly in
clined to the opinion that all such calculations
are delusions, and that they will SO be proved
before the close of the first session of the ap-
preaching new Congress.
The abolition radicals are just now trying
the same game Of intimidation and coercion
which they tried so vindictively against Presi-
dent Lincoln. But they found in his case that,
as the mountain would not come to Mahomet,
Mahomet had no alternative but to 60 to the
mountain; and over he went. So, when these
noisy and threatening Jacobins, Thaddeus Ste
vens, Charles Sumner and nearly all the rest
discover that Johnson is no more to be fright
ened from his course than was Lincoln, they
will stop short, and consent to follow, instead
of persisting in their fruitless efforts to lead,
him. If they break with him they Lose the
Offices, and they will not do that for all the
rights Of all the negroes under the sun, while
there is chance to hold on to the spoils.
The Presidents course is perfectly clear be-
fore him. The issues upon which he was elect
ed on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln, except
ing the Monroe doctrine, were settled with the
collapse of the rebellion. There is no dispute
and no ground for dispute with him in regard
to the Monroe doctrine; for no intelligent man
can entertain doubt Of the soundness OF An
drew johnson upon this subject This is all
that remains TO be carried out of the Baltimore
republican platform, for the other two great
issues thereof-the suppression Of the armed
forces of the rebellion by force Of arms, and the
removal of the institution of slavery from
the length and breadth Of the land-are
things substantially accomplished. Presi-
dent johnson, therefore, is under no party
obligations or written engagement TO in
reference to his policy of Southern recon-
struction. He is perfectly free TO take his own
course, and no man or set Of men Of either
party or either section has any authority to say
that he is bound to go 10 the right hand or the
left. nn
The shrewd managers of the late Massa-
chusetts Republican Convention were doubt
less influenced by this idea, as well as the con-
viction that the administration is their only
ark of safety; ana, il the abolition Jacobias are
thus rendered powerless in Massachusetts,
what can they do anywhere elscf Their game,
we may say, is already played out The MEM
bers elect to the new Congress are as free 70
choose their own course as the President, for,
like him. they we're elected upon issues which
are settled. II is hardly probable, therefore,
that they win accept the new issues Of negro
suffrage and universal Southern confscation,
raised by Wendell Phillips, Sumner and Thad-
deus Stevens, as the republican platform
We expect, rather, that the imprudence Of
these abolition Jacobins will be promptly re-