The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-07

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The Committee on the Aduteraton OF Liquors ana sns
Subject Of Prohibition will give audience 70 the liquor
dealers on Tuesday next
The seats in the smphtheatrs ct the Chittsnden
County Vermontl Fair gave way yesterday and precpi-
tatsd three thousand people the ground in mass.
Over afty of them were seriously and perhaps fatally
injured while many others came OF with broken limbA
The reservoir dam At West Hartford yesterday gave
way and enclosed rushed with rssstess force
over the country adjoining, carrying mills fences and
other things with it, The reservoir held two hundred
million gallons Of water and two miles OF country
flooded The loss to the city 10 500 OO0 and amounts
considerable among the private citizens in the flooded
districts The supply Of TO the city will not be
cut OF As the reservoir be fed by pumps from the
Connecticut river.
The boat race for the championship, between Ham'll
and Brown, which was to have come of at Newburg
yesterday was postponed account Of the high wind
which rufied the Hudson too much for their purpose
Between fifteen and twenty thousand persons attended
Further returns OF the California election show
jorty Of 200 for Haigh the democratic candidate for
Governor and returns from the interior continue in his
favor The democrats will have majority in tho Legis
lature and thus cut on all probability OF the election OF
q republican Senator to succeed CONFESS The new Gov
elect made speech Thursday night. accepting
the victory az protest against the Congressional plan
OF reconstruction. President johnson, 1t is said, Is
highly slatsd with the victory and believes that similar
results will follow the elections in the Atlantic States
The elections Canada yesterday resulted in riots at
Montreal Grifintown Clarence and other points. The
disturbances very serious though several per-
sons were badly injured At Montreal the Devln adhe
rents attempted to get hold Of MCGEE but they were
routed by q charge Of the Guards
The passenger train the Naugatuck Railroad broke
through bridge Thomaston, Conn. yesterday and
tho baggage fell into tho river carrying with it six
teen persona II swept over the dam and noated
three miles from the Of accident when It was
secured but only FIVE persons found clinans TO it.
The rest are supposed to have been drowned
Lutheran clergyman named Henry wendt, superin.
tendens Of the Orphans Asylum Germantown, Pa.
has been sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for out
RACES committed upon little orphan girls under his
charge He confessed his guilt
An insane claiming to be the Son Of God has sp-
peared In Washington, and declared that Andrew John
son has only forty Eight hours to live.
The yellow foyer has appeared IN Mobile and Pensa-
cola
Tho cholera has broken out among the wild savagss in
the Indian Territory.
The Politicians and the Presidency-Is There
TO BE an impeachment
If we were to accept the rawlings Of the
radical party leaders and their organs as a
faithful indication Of public sentiment, we
might expect violent convulsi0n in the
nation, ending in the overthrow of the c0nsti-
tutional government and the initiation of a
~ Chw thn hoak c0u11 Int
hope for the postponement of a revolutionary
outbreak until the assembling of Congress in
November, to be precipitated then by the swift
impeachment of Andrew johnson and the
seizure Of his office by the President of the
Senate, pending his trial by that body. But,
fortunately, experience teaches us that the
boldness Of political agitators displays itself
more freely IN words than in action; and when
We recall tn. impotency Of the angry threats
of impeachment and confscation so loudly
uttered on the eve Of the commencement Of
the three last sessions Of Congress, we are in
clined to believe that the present rage Of the
radicals will expend itself in "sound and
fury" and, SO far Is practical results are con-
cerned, will signify nothing.
There il, indeed, Q shrewd suspicion abroad
that the politicians of the party are very well
satisfied with the situation as it is, and that
while tn air wrath against President johnson is
vehemently uttered, it is only for the purpose
of keeping alive a popular excitement and
divertng the attention of the people from
other issues Their main object in the legsla-
ton of last winter was to dispose of all those
military officers whose popularity threatened
to render them dangerous competitors for the
prize of the next Presidency. In their efforts
to this end they displayed q great amount Of
political sagacity; but they would never have
succeeded so effectually IL Andrew johnson
had not by bis recent policy afforded them
material aid. The Supplemental Reconstruc-
his appointment to Stanton's Office by the
President drove the nails into his political
coffin. Sheridan might have been troublesome
as military martyr, but with Sickles and
Pope to share his crown he sinks into insignia
cance What more effective assistance could
the radicals have desired than johnson has
afforded them in clearing the Presidential field
| for their fvorite candidate, Chase?
Nor is this the only instance in which Johnson
has played the game Of the radicals The
distractions Re has thrown in the way Of recon
struction have alone enabled them to carry out
their settled design Of keeping the Southern
States out of the Union until after the next
| Presidential election, and at the same time to
evade direct responsibility for the continued
distraction Of the country. They point now u
| the President and his acts, and cry, "We ar
anxious for reconstruction behold the powe
that impedes and obstructs it." Why, then
should they impeach Andrew Johnson, or seel
to seize upon the government by an unconsti
tutional and violent actf BY leaving hin
where he is they keep up the excitement in tn
j ..;uas Of 4hoir colIayxcrs and ro into the ne 4