The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-10

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finally of at Newburg yesterday. "n'ie 'ouuu"s
| the stakeboat, Hamili being ahead was o"'
fouled by Brown who cut bis little smell 10 'esnuny
that ia was compelled TO seek safety In the &C
| eompanving outrgger. Brown continued 10 steer Tor
home and reached the end OF the course In foryons
minutes and nfty six seconds Hamli entered caim
OF foul Which, after long discussion was allowed by the
Judges and referee and he was declared the winner OF
| the race
HERALD correspondent, who had long conversation
with Wendell Philips Sterling, Mass, details the re-
suit in a letter which Is published this morning Mr.
| Phillips firmly believes that impeachment will follow
Immediately reassembins Of Congress, and that
President johnson would not persisenty court such
course he not prepared and determined to re-
sst it He believes that McCellans reported recall has
something to do with it. The late amnesty he considers
reasonable and effort TO build up another rebellion
He favors neither Chase sheridan for President but
Tbad Stevens is his choice
The inquest in the Roslyn homicide was concluded
yesterday, the jury rendering verdict that William
0Brsn to his death at the hands of some person
unknown, supposed TO be Edward Coughlin The &C.
cused is s at large and reward Of $500 offered FOR
his arrest.
In the Constitutional Convention last evening reso-
luton offered inquring into the expediency OF limit.
ing the tolls upon canals to amounts only sufficient LOT
repairs and improvements The committees reports on
finances aud canals was again resumed in Committee OF
| the Whole and the Convention adjourned.
General Sheridan arrived IN St. Louis last night and
was the recipient Of grand reception the hands Of the
radicals To their sore disappointment, however, ne
declined to make speech. He asserted privately that
he had taste for politics nor ambition for political
preforment tIu the evening torchlight procession
passed hotel where the General was staying, and
speeches by Carl SchurZ and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Smith. Sheridan merely returned thanks to tho
people for the demonstration, asserting again his In
ability to make speech. From twenty to thirty thou
sand persons assisted in the denomination He leaves
| for Leavenworth this afternoon.
Deputy Collector John S. Allen OF the Third Revenue
district, Brooklyn with three other persons was ar
rested yesterday morning, charge of fraud in the
| removal of two hundred and eleven barrels Of whskey
stored in bonded warehouse Mr.. 7. c. Calcott, the
collector for the district. also believed to DO
implicated, and warrant for his arrest was issued at
the same time but he had Saturday morning disap-
| peared from his hotel with all his papers.
Roxbury yesterday declared annexed to Boston by
the Of citizens both places decided major
y In very light iavoring the proposition BY this
accession Boston gains thirty thousand OF popua-
ton and becomes the fourth city in the Union instead Of
the sixth formerly She is next in population to
| our suburb, Brooklyn.
tro. of yesterday at the Fashion Course, be-
tween Mr. John Hazetrs gray gcding and owners sor-
rel JESSIE heats best three in ve in harness. for
| 5000 each. The first heat by Jessie. and the
second and third by tho gray gedng The driver of the
then changed and she the two Gnai heats.
The establishment OF line of propeers between St.
| Louis and New York is being again aga,ed by New
York parties in the former city.
| Eight persons in a wagon backed down
bankment forty-nve feet hgb near Cincinnati. yesier
l day. Two of them were killed, ono was MORALLY
| wounded and the rest are badly hurt.
| Private intelligence from Porto Rico states that
another revolution had broken out, that the Captain
General had fed and the revolutonsts have TO New
York to telegraph General Pm to place himself at their
| head
The British brig Cuba, from Matanzas, was recently
wrecked Battoras Light proving total loss Only
two of the saved the resi- six in ALL being
| lost
There were one hundred deaths from yellow fever in
| New Orleans during yesterday aud tho day before.
A full history OF the proceedings Of the Spirtuast
Convention at Cleveland will be found elsewhere In our
| columns This moIuiug.
The reported general insolvency among the merchants
| In Richmond is denied by the bank presidents Of
| that city.
Tho majority for Haght in California has been In
| creased to eight thousand.
| The Counter Revolution Coming at Last.
| 1t Is an old axiom that revolutions never 90
backward :" but 1t is none the less true that
| when a revolutionary movement is pushed be-
yond its legitimate ends the party concerned in
| it is demolished by a popular reaction. 1t was
so when the great French Revolution of 1889
fell into the hands of the Jacobins, and when
they attempted to shape it according to their
monstrous notions of "liberty, equality and
| fraternity" An equally decisive reaction fol-
| lowed the Purltancal excuses of the Crom-
wellian Commonwealth of England in the
| restoration of the monarchy and the Stuarts
| How the great American revolution, marked
| by the most gigantic and the bloodest civil
| war in the history OF mankind, and resulting In
| the extinction Of the late Southern laveholdng
oligarchy, with the abolition OF slavery is TO be
finally shaped IL O question for time to deter
mine. We think, however, from recent events
and all the signs Of the times, that it may be
safely assumed that this great revolution has
reached its eliminating point, and that coun-
ter revolution of public opinion against the
destructive schemes of the ruling radical faction
has fairly set in.
The remarkable results of the late California
election are but larger aud ripening devel-
opment Of the same underlying causes which
began to find expression at the Connecticut
election of last spring. The concurrent voice
from the recent Territorial election OF Montana
indicates the widening influence Of the same
general causes, and yesterdays election in
Maine substantially tells the same story. The
overwhelming success Of the republicans OF
Maine last year, on the largest popular
vote ever polled in the State, on the plat
form Of the pending constitutional amend
ment as the policy Of Congress against
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