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A Great Fuss About Nothing.

The newspapers are making great fuss, and
the Treasury Department pretends to be con-
cerned, because certain class Of American
securities have declined little in the London
market The 6ve-twcnties were quoted on the
9Th at 71s.. This is but slight decline on
former quotations, and, In fact, the fluctuations
have been not over few fractions, up or
down, for some time past There il not the
least cause for alarm our credit is good
enough and will remain so. II securities are
down, it is agood opportunity for the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury to buy them up with his
surplus cash. While they are lower why does
he not use the grecnback currency to cancel
them instead Of retiring the greenbacks at the
rate Of four millions a month! The would-be
fnanciers and the spectators are making q
great fuss about nothing.
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Shermau,s visit to washington.

There appears to be good deal of per-
turbation in Washington about Gener i Sher-
mans visit and his conversations with the
President, which are interpreted by the gossips
to mean q change in the Cabinet Mr.. Johnson
is taking long time to decide as to what he
shall do in this matter of Cabinet reconslruc.
ton. If he is going to make change, why
not do 1t at once, without calling his Generals
to Washington from all parts of the country,
over mountains and through valleys, at great
expense and loss Of time, and then doing
nothing after all? If the thing were well done,
IL we're well it were done quickly.
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The italian Observation-Disclosures DimcnIty

The Italian Situation-NapoIeon's Difficulty.
The state of affairs in Italy daily becomes
more alarming. Large portions of the Papal
gents Italy, from one end to the other, and
by the mouths of all ranks and classes of the
people, cheers the party Of action forward.
Coward to Rome" is on every lip, and if
Napoleon do not interfere we may expect at
any moment to learn that the aspirations of
the Italian people, and, indeed, of the lovers of
liberty and right and justice and progress
everywhere, have been realized, and that Rome
is the capital of Italy.
The cable news which we print to-day shows
that the case is hourly becoming more serious,
that the defenders Of the Papacy are helpless !;
and, what is more serious still, that Prussia is
not unwilling to throw her weight into the
scale in favor of Italy.
Napoleon seems to be at his wits end. The
Pope, by some means or other, he is bound to
protect. How is the great question which he
ends it difficult to answer. According to
late telegram he has informed the Italian gov
ernment that it may occupy with its troops the
lupdi tciIlloIy, Dut tIit ~ MuSC HOI ullOW
them to enter the city of Rome. The meaning
of this message we take to be that in the
interests of peace, and in order to hold the
insurgents in check, Victor Emanuel may
station troops il he chooses in any part of the
Papal States with the exception Of Rome ITSELF
The object is manifcst--Italian soldiers cannot
be trusted in the Holy City; the national feel
ing is TOO strong. In spite of any commander
it would break out into the widest enthusiasm,
and the protectors would become the captors
OF Rome.
We have yet to learn that the Italian govern
ment has sent any troops beyond the Italian
frontier. 1t is questionable whether they will
send any. Even if they do send them, it is
doubtful whether they can trust them. We can
hardly bclieve--such and so general is the
feeling in favor OF the movement on Rome--that
Italian troops within the limits Of the Papal
States would have any other effect than that OF
swelling the body Of insurrectionists. Rome,
50 far as we can see, is only 10 be saved by
French army but French army on Italian
or Roman soil viii light up the flames of war
which will rage from the Baltic to the Medi-
terranean and from the Bosphorus to the
Atlantic.
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Mr. Washburne, Of Illinois, has undertaken
to tell us good deal about General Grant /;
but his speech at Galena is very much like the
play Of Hamlet with the part Of Hamlet left out
He does not say whether General Grant is
willing TO be a candidate for the Presidency,
which is just the point that people want to know.
What he thinks about the acts and policy
of Congress, according to Washburne, amounts
to about this-that General Grant endorses the
constitutional amendment; and this we knew
long ago. In fact, he bore testimony to the
faith that was in him in his evidence before
the Reconstruction Committee, when he said
that she stood firmly by the Congressional
plan, and he was anxious now, as he had been
ever since the end of the war, for the early
restoration of the rebel States to the privilege
of representation in Congress-" This is just
what the country as well as General Grant
desired but it is not what Mr.. Washburne and
his radical colleagues wanted to see Hence
the attempt just now to make it appear that
Grant and the radicals are in full harmony.
General Grant is man to be judged by his
acts and net by speech. What little he does
say he says for himself, and not by deputy,
and we think we know as much about General
Grants opinions as Mr.. Washburne.
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the Bulgarian question are also, without doubt,
correctly indicated in the summary OF his
alleged conversation with Fuad Pasha. The
Car, in conclusion, reminds Fuad Pasha that
it is better to have q disinterested friend at
hand than doubtful friends at distance.
Finally, he warns him that, though conservative
and friendly, his friendship may be turned into
enmity, and then Turkey would find opposed
to her all the forces at his disposition. 1t is
manifest that Russia is still watching aud wait
ing for her opportunity.
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The Eastern Question.

The Eastern question, which continues to
overhang and darken the European horizon
like thunder cloud, is perpetually assuming
new shapes. Its latest phase is presented by
the alleged conversation between the Gar of
Russia and Fuad Pasha, on the occasion of the
mission Of the latter to Liva. This converse
ton, which was published on the 23d of Sep
TENDER in the Nen Free Press Of Vienna, has
been reproduced, but with "great reserve" as
TO its authenticity, by the Paris journals. II APP
peared in the HERALD yesterday. and, although
we cannot vouch for its authenticity, yet infor-
nation already received from other sources
justiies tho assumption that 1t offers correct
view of the Cars opinion OF the situation, and
OF the advice which he either has or would fain
tender TO the Sultan. The Gar processes that
he is an entirely disinterested friend to the
Sultan and the Porse He declares that the
object Of his policy has always been 70 pre-
serve the integrity Of the Ottoman empire,
and to reconcile tho interests of the Christian
population C'os which, says the Gar, al am
the natural protector''), with those Of the Otto.
man government He advises the Sultan gen.
crously to give up Gambia TO Greece, asserting
that the Ottoman empire is vast enough not to
feel such sacrifice, and that in offering this
advice he Is prompted solely by friendship to
the Sultan and his own interest in the main
tcnance OF the Ottoman rule in Europe; for
he Is reported to have said, I am, OF course,
conservative on principle" The Cars views
on the rectifcation Of tho Servian 6ontier and
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that which their former masters now occupy.
We have formed five military dictatorships and
homanized ten States We have thrown the
burden Of government and its financial support
upon the Northern half Of the republic We
have made Tenure of Office bill, that one
element in power may control all the others.
we have centralized until the centripetal forces
give the mass an impenetrable solidity. In fact,
the republic of 1861 is not to be recognized in
the republic of 1867. Many of these measures
have been the result of those forces which,
created by the demands Of war, had to spend
themselves in after political action. They have
had their full sweep. They have forced ele-
ments into play which now threaten to produce
reaction to that healthy point upon which
the nation must finally balance ITSELF In this
reaction the common sense Of the country is
showing ITSELF 1t has calmly weighed the
merits and dement's of the political forces, and
will now decide upon the future changes to be
desired. Congress must listen to the people
and watch their will. Failing to do this, they
will go down and give place to representative
men. Ohio and Pennsylvania are to speak
through their elections to-day. 1t will be but
the prelude to the great Presidential contest
approaching. II the people in these elections
decide that the radical wave must still roll on
ward, there will be no power to resist it. Should
they decide that laws are wisest when made
by two nearly balanced parties. we must also
acknowledg the great principle that their will
is law. Thus our revolution, still progressing,
will, as its results are weighed by the people,
be urged onward if it be needed, or checked in
its course. To suppose that we think Of war
again is to underrate the common sense Of the
country. The rumble which we hear is nothing
but the march Of the intelligence of the land
20 its political rescue.
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Tho Park Bank Raid Upon Our Chief Public
Highway.


We publish in another part of to-iay's
HERALD report Of the vote in the Common
Council allowing the Park Bank to encroach
upon the sidewalk in one of the most crowded
parts of Broadway. In other words, showing
how the bank corporation has been permitted
to advance its columns, or to make raid into
one OF the ciiy's street lines which should have
been protected by all the power Of the munich
pal government. BY this Common Council
ukasc the Bank can advance its right and left
pillars eighteen inches, and its central or porch
pillars no less than four feet into the crowded
thoroughfarc. This is an inroad upon the
pedestrian rights Of our citizens which should
not and must not be tolerated. For the present
we will simply call the attention Of our citi-
zens to the pernicious precedent which this
invasion of their "eminent domain" will
establish in all parts of the city where
wealthy bank or other corporations desire to
take advantage Of it. 1t is authority for any
rich landhoIder to advance his building upon
sidewalk to almost any extent We have seen
how tie grant has worked in the case of this
Park Bank. That corporation commenced
with an encroachment Of eighteen inches and
ended with four feet and it will not be re-
markable il some morning the pedestrians on
Broadway shall find that their right of way has
been obstructed even to the curbstone. How
is it that the Mayor interposed no veto upon
this gross violation of plain provision of the
city charter, which prohibits the public pro-
perry from being used for private purposes
And how is il that we find Mr.. jackson S.
Schultz, President of the Metropolitan Board Of
Health, whose duty 1t is to prevent obstruc-
tons of the public highway, and 10 abate
nuisances, should, as one of the directors of
the Park Bank, be found engineering this
fraud upon the public through the Common
Council? Mr.. Schultz has interposed his po-
tental authority to prevent the erection of
booths at certain points on the sidewalks, with
the consent Of property holders, to enable vete-
ran and armless soldiers 10 transact the business
of city messengers, vendors Of newspapers, &C.,
to avoid their becoming public paupers, yet he
not only does not object to this stupendous
Park Bank nuisance, but gives 1t his counte-
nance and support We are pleased to learn
that public spirited citizen has caused an in
junction to be laid upon the further prosecu-
ton OF the work, and that there is reason to
hope our citizens will not finally be subjected
to the evils consequent upon this Park Bank
raid upon their chief public thoroughfare.
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The Associated Press and Newspaper Enter

Vhc Associated Press and Newspaper Enter.
prise.
The Associated Press recently passed reso-
luton suspending one of the rules that regulate
the relations OF the members OF that body.
The rule suspended was the obnoxious one in
relation to special dispatches, which reads as
follows :-"No member of the Association, and
no party receiving news from the Association,
will be permitted to receive regular telegrapbic
dispatches from his own private correspon-
dents, nor can he make arrangements to re-
ceive any special news by telegraph, without
first informing the other members Of the Aszo-
citation, and rendering a participancy in it to
them" Upon the vote six members declared
themselves in favor Of suspending this rule, and
only one opposed it; and, as simple majority
is sufficient, the voic, OF course, suspends the
rule Bat We might fairly question the right
to vote Of the one member who stood alone.
This was the prop gictor of the World who was
formally expelled from the Ass ociation some
months since, and is now not rensated except
by courtesy, and must stand on the same foo.-
ing as the proprietor of the Commercial .4drsr-
User, WIZ lttGltIs tut icN5 Va TIE -ASSuclttLlDQ
but is not entitled to a voice in its management.
The suspension OF this rule comedies a great
point for which we have struggled. 1t con-
cedcs the principle that newspaper enterprise
is free. Hitherto the rules OF the Association,
of which the above is a sample, have been
such as to repress entirely all that energetic
spirit that has made the newspaper press of
the country what it is to-day. Those rules
attached penalty to individual effort and
oppressed those attempts to excel that are the
life Of any business which appeals to public
Judgment as the ultimate measure of success.
In suspending this rule the Association has
begun in the right way to put itself in better
relation with the spirit Of the age. We shall,
while members OF the Association, avail our
selves of all the freedom that the suspension
of this rule gives especially in regard to
European dispatches, using the ocean cable
literally, as the progress of great events in
Europe shall require.
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the Tammany Party and the Mayoralty.
Tammany, or the spirit that presides over
the traditionary Wigwam, has resolved, from
present Appearances to play losing game at
the next December election for Mayor. Hari
kari is to be substituted for the time-honored
scalping process Of immolati0n in the person
OF It's chief "'Tis true, tits pity, and pity tits
Ills true" Hoffman, the last Of the reigning
dynasty Of sachems, has willed it, and the
blind spirits who aid him, Sweeny and Tweed,
are bent on joining in the sacrifice which
is TO deprive the city Of its present Mayor IT'S
rule or ruin with them; the first is denied
them, and the latter they cannot but accept.
Hoffman claims to rule the roast, and from his
throne in the kitchen Of the Lunch Club, away
down in the caverns of the City Hall, issues his
ukase which brings on the inevitable doom.
The first and last Of the Hoffmanites would fam
make big thing Of it, and, like another Sar-
danapalus, involve the whole party in his ruin.
But some Of the former spirits of the
ring don't see it in that light, and
they positively decline to go to the Hades Of
played-out politicians, even in the company Of
Mynheer Won Hoffman himself Mclean,
Street Commissioner, and Connolly, City Comp
troller, erst two potent genii of the ring, read
ing the political horoscope Alright, see that the
reign of corruption is fast drawing to close,
and, like prudent men, are casting about for q
means of escape. They know that with all the
influence of the party they scarcely secured
for Hoffman courteous recognition at the late
State convention at Albany, and further, from
the shadows of coming events, they foresce
that he has not ghost of chance for re-
election in December. In this, the true state
of affairs, it needs but coalition among such
leaders as O'Brien, Fox and Shannon, with
Mclean and Connolly, to dispose of Hoffman,
Sweeny and Tweed by consigning them to
oblivion, and by this timely remedy save them
selves and the party from utter humiliation.
Let the leaders of the Tammany organization
DIN the peoples party" whose standard
bearer will be Mr.. John Anderson, and in De-
cember next rally en- nsasse at the polls, with
the watchword, Anderson and City Reform"
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TINE QUICKEST PASSAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

TO THE EDITOR or THE HERALD.
GENERAL TRANSATLANTIC CoxrASr, So BRoApwAv.l
NEW YORK, Oct Z. 1851 I
You will notice the extraordinary passage Just COM
peted to-day by the famous steamship Persire being
eight days and twenty-five hours from Brest which port
she lef, on Saturday September a. At four o'clock r
This time Is the quickest record by several hours
The Pereirs has made twcntyone trips across tho At
isnt,r az which two exceeded days only BY few
hour while seysraI trips wero made undor nine days
from dock 10 dock The vile DO Paris belonging 70 the
same line Is, IN all respects the equal Of the Peree-
w,,A nes, man ks In advance, am much Obliged
""- 80 GEO. MACKENZIE
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LEGISLATIVE NomsArloxs IN MARYLAND.

BALTrMoRF, Oct 7, 1867.
Tho following Legislative nominations were made BY
ths Democrats Convention to-day
sonasors--For the First Senatorial district VIM KIM
mel; second district, Henry Snyder; Third district
Isasc N. Denson.
House Of Delcgates-First district James B. sanner,
John b. Wen,z, John A. Robb, Thomas W. Moore, John
Bake VIM. A. stewart; second district General Fer
dinand G. Latrobe, James Portland, Morris Bond H. N
smith, George Cotton; Third district Dr. Cbaslev,
James Ncrlroy D. l. Harip, VIM. T. MARYLAND, John u.
Marshall aud Feiier 8. HcblitxelL
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Volume NXXII. No. Isl
AMUsEMENTs THIS EVENING.
.woRREiL SISTERS NEW YORK THEATRE oppo.
site New York lo'el-sREScH srr
BowERY THEATRE. Bowery.-Lous XII, &c
NIBLo's GARDEN, Broaaway-BLAcx CROOK
OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway-Rrr VAN wrsKLr.
wALLAcK's THEATRE, Broadway and 18Th st-Nso's
DfrKRsios-BiAcK- EYED SUSAN.
BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway.-MErAxon..
GERMAN sTAnP THEATRR Is and Al Bovyerv-Etx
NKRfoLcIK USSCHuLD
FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth sreet-Tur GRAND
DUcaEss.
BANvARDs OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad
way corner Of Thriieth street-DEviL's AUCTION.
NEW YORK CIRCUS. Fourteenth street-GrxsAsrros
EouEsrRIAsIsM, &C.
FIFTH AyENgE THEATRE aqnd West eth street
THEATRE coMToUE, 5l4 Broadway -walrr, corros
sHAEPLEY's MiSsTRELs-
san FRANCISCO MINsTRELs ss5 Broadway-Eruro.
rlAN EsrEH1AiSaESrs SINGING, DANCING BcRLEseUEs
KELLY ( Icons MINsTRELs. TO Broadway SONGS.
DANCES, EccEsrRicrriEs, BURLEseuEs 80
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE. 2oi Bowery-conrc
VocALisS, NEGRO MISsrRELsY.
BrTLER's AMERICAN THEATRE. Az Broadway
BALLET FARCE, PASToMIsr. kC.
EIGHTH AVENUE orERA HOUSE. corner Thr,y.fourlh
street-SNGING DANCING &c.
BUNyAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street-rur
PILGRIM
HooLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brookiyu.-Erao rIAS
MissrnELsY. BALLADS AND BuRLEsoUEs.
AMERICAN INSTITUTED OF NATIONAL In.
pusTgIAL PgopUcrs.
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY CHS Broadway
SCIENCE AIT.
TR p L r SH E e. T.
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JAMES RIVER axo KAuAwaa CANAL CASE.

RICHMOND. Va, Uct Z 1857.
In the United States Circuit Court to-day the suit Of
McMahon vs.. the James River and Kanavhs Canal CON-
pany, 10 throw the company into bankruptcy, dis.
missed, The pnues having settled Tho matter out of
court
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AL business news letters and teegraphic Dispatches
must be addressed NEW York HERALD
Letters and packages should be properly sealed
Rejected communications will not be return
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woRREiL SISTERS NEW YORK THEATRE. oppo
site New York nosel-FREScH SIR.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

Volume xxxu...................... No. Isl
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-04-13
e. w. RICHARDS, Agent.
Statement OF the Condition

sess-. -, :
OF TIE =.
ORTH AMERlGAN EIltE lNSUR-
ANCE COMPANY 81 NEW YORK
On the an. -. :, -. ,sss made to the Auditor
oi ono Parsumt 70 sne ststWe OF u1A. ''e
CAPITAL. "a ooo -
The amount ofits Capital Stock al paid Hps s'Voo "
AssEIs; rd and ~
oash Ud 0 'ns s osnts ana other persons $3.50 81
Bonds and stocks owned secured ss @ by MORTGAGE 90
}t. Dsp.s ans so LIE sepcnIcd TE 80 9S00 90
DeSts DeSts ~ S..In nrera;nms II s6s 95
An other securities rites 8 0ag9a .
Total assets of the Company, ss55057 n
IVA -.---.-.-...
.sasz', .,..:I LlAn'..'. ..As feA
Amount OF LiaWites. uue of NOT oue to .er ooo %
banks ana 9tnes creoIors. Sz2g ~ ~ ~
Losses ad1assea INV Aos ads.S og
Losses 70 snspense awaiting further proof $500 90
All osiicf eaihs ssains. tue company oo'e -
ro,., I;.h;,;.;., ese oso (,
s's st31s MISCELLANEOUS
The (reatest aYouuf iusured in any risk $4,000 90
The greatest amount allowed by the rules to1 -
be insured in arv one c;tv town or Village ~
and the greatest amount allowed to be i-i NO hue,
IN any one block
- ed In sny other M state AZ security for losses
= therein Observation-Disclosures. 5000 90
Deposite made In Ohio required. x fu
4 f,Yrry .Hn y e conNry IN OF NEW YORK. IS.
JAMES W. ,Orrs. President and JOHN w BLEEcKER,
secfeiary, Of the North American Fire INSURANCE Com
that the Ss at
are the above described officers ssTsef aTs President
..ss slaf r. w BIEECKER5 5Secretar
sr.., - u..,.- ..s,' = az. ,o.,, T. - rr,,
fsnAI'i ruary. isS7. THO. /. THORNHIIL.
on rur igSaT%p Go%%ss9nes ion E fOr DRiG.