The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1865, Page 5

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A steamer flying the rebel flag, and supposed to be tho reboi pirate Shenandoah, on Ler way from the Arctic to destroy American vessels in the Indian Ocean, is re- ported to have been seen off the Cape of Good Hope, slecring oastward, on the 34 of September last, by those on board the British bark Hesperia, which arrived at this port yesterday from Shanghae Later and interesting news from the two flelds of inos- tilities in the Pacific republics of South America is con- tained in our Panama despatches brought by the steam- ship Meory Chauncey, which arrived here late last night, from Aayinwall on the 14th inst, The difeulties be- tween the Spaniards and € bad not yet led to the ex- change of shots, bus Parejs, the Spanish Admiral, wtill mantained the blockade of several Chilean ports, though in a rather ineilicient manner, To offset this the President of the republic had opened thirty-six new ports, at which importation and @xportation are to be permiited free of afl duties, | Pareja had not yet bombarded way Chilean town, but mill threatened to do so, The Chileans were doter- niined to resist the Spanish demands to the Inst, and continved (heir war preparations. A special commission Washington from the government of Chile arrived hor on the Chauncey. In Pera the #truggle botween the government and revolutionary forces bad not yet wemmated; but it was thought that a de ewive pattie must soon be fonght, s# the latter, nd in number, had marched to the ¢ capital, and must either fight or starve. left Lima to assume command of the government troops. In the republic of Colom! y revolutions in the States of there have been | ™ Candiarinerca and , in both of which the revolu- tionists seem to have got the worst of the contest. From the oiler South and Contral American republics there is vothing of particular importance. A tate Matamoros despatch reports that the Moxican Fepublicana raised the siege of that place on the night of the 8th inst,, some of them passing up the river and Others going towards the interi There were suspicions, however, that this movemen was only ® ruse, A Matamoros paper states that previou to leaving they were severely defeated im one engagement, having two of their generals killed, and theoo others, Including na, Wounded, A Gal vesion paper of a Inte date that despatches, the purport of which is mot known, were recently trans. mitted by General Weitzel, commanding United states troops in Texas, to the communder of a Frenc vousei at the mouth of the Rio Grande. tho arrival thore of a French squadron, heretofore given, is ropent od. A narrative of afnirs in Maximilian's dominions addie tioual to that published in Sunday's Hewat is containe’ in our cily of Mexico correspondence of the 2d inst Lieutenant Yaury, the new Commissioner of Coloniza- tion, bax heen authorized to establish agencies to induce emigration to Mexico in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, ag well as in our Southern cities, A com. war pany iv of » be organized in Paris to get up French ond Spanish colonies, The completion of the work of compiling the organic Jaws of the empire i@ offiewity announced, and they are shortly to be Published in severnt volumes. It is claimed by the im- Perialisin that the decree of the Sd of October, preserib- Ang the povalty of deuth for those found in arms against the empire bas had the good effect of causing large num. bets of republicans to cease hostilities and voluntarily purrender themselves. Three or four additional trifling Ianperial successes in different parts of the country are feported. Maximilian, in the midst of his martial opera- Ciossand his railroad and other internal improvement ontorprives, is pot disposed to neglect tho fostering of the fagta, and bas determined on the erection in the capital of a grand national theatre. In connection with the recently started report that the French troops are foon to bo withdrawn from Mexico, a condensed statemont of the heretofore de- olared intentions of the French government in reference to continuing its hold on Mexican territory is presonted im our Washington despatobos, Mr, Drovya de Luuva. The report of | ° “ “A « _NEW YORK ‘HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1865. eee - the Emperor Napoleon's Minister of State, intimated to | Important our Minister in Paris, some two years ago, that the French troops would be withdrawn whenever the United States was willing to recognize Maximilian, but that until such recognition was conceded France would feel herself in honor bound not to desert him, after having ‘been the moans of his assuming go delicate a position. The lower house of tho Mississippi Legislature has re- considered its previous action in passing the bill denying negroes the privilege of testifying in court against white men. AS amended and now passed, the bill permits them to testify in certain cases, It is supposed that the Senate will concur and the bill become a law. Provisional Governor Hamilton, of Texas, has issued his proclamation appointing the 8th of January as the time for holding an elecifon for delogates to the State convention, which is to meet on the 7th of February. Items of Georgia news of interest are given in our de- spatches by the steamship Euterpe, Captain Eldridge, which arrived here yesterday, from Savannah on Wednes- The election for Governor and members of Congress and the Legislature took place on that day; but of course no returns are received, and, owing to the meagre mail and telegraphic facilities throughout the State, some time was expected to elapse before the com- day last. plete result would be known. A very light vote, how- ever, was anticipated. For Governor, Mr. Charles J. Jenkins appears to have had tho fleld all to himself, no opposition candidate having been nominated, while for Congress, as in other Southern States, several ex-officers of the rebel army were nominated, and have probably been elected. It is regarded as cer- tain that the Legislature will ratify the anti-slavery amendment to the national constitution with little op- Position, and also pass at an early day laws for the regu- lation of the affairs of the freedmen and the protection of those people in their civil rights. In some parts of the State much of the cotton and other crops, it is said, has proved a complete loss, owing to the inability of the planters to procure laborers, the negroes having deserted them, The activity in the ropair of the Georgia railroads continues, and it is expected to have the two principal lines—the Central and tho Atlantic and Gulf—completed throughout at an early period, Savannah is rapidly re- covering from the effects of the rebellion, and many branches of business there are quite flourishing. ‘The grand reception to Lieutenant General Grant will take place at the Fifth Avenue Hotel this evening, the ceremonies commencing about eight o'clock. The pro- gramme published in yesterday’s Hxraty will be fol- lowed, and the affair is oxpected to be yory brilliant, On ‘Tuesday an opportunity will be granted our people gene- rally to see General Grant. He will leave the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel at about half-past one o'clock in the afternoon of that day, and, escorted by the Seventh regiment and other military organizations, will proceed through Fifth avenue, Fourteenth street, Broadway and Cortlandt strest to the Jersey City ferry. The Fonian excitement reached fever heat in Toronto on last Wednesday night. During the day General Na- pier, commandin. the troops there, was warned by gov- ernment officials to be prepared for an attagk of the Fenians before the next morning, and immediately mill- tary preparations commenced, and all through the night tho streets of the usually quiet town resounded with tho rumble of artillery wagons, the clatter of cavalry, the clanking of sabres and the tramp of infantry. Our cor- respondent describes the place as presenting almost the aspect of a besieged city, cannomers standing by their pieces, riflemen laying on their arms, and civilians sleep- ing or walking the principal thoroughfares with pistols and bludgeons in their hands, in momentary expectation of the sudden apparition of the invisible Fenian army. Morning, however, dawned without the dreaded spectre having made its appearance. The citizens have oonse- quently breathed more freely since; but still the military arrangements to meet an attack are continued. It is said that the example set by the Canadian Orange- men in arming themselves is being followed to a consid- erable degree by the Catholics, Our Montreal corre- spondent states that the troops heretofore reported to be coming ovt from England amount to only three battal- jons. The Canadian Financo Minister stated in a recent fpeech that ifthe province should be annexed to the United States her share of our national debt would be three hundred millions of dollars, ‘As interesting in connection with Fenian affairs, we give this morning the recent article of the Times, of this city, headed “The Fenian Imposture,” and the corres- pondence which it gave rise to between the editor of that paper and Colonel O'Mahony and Mr. Killian, alluded to in yesterday's Henatp. ‘i An article of interest and importance to financiers, giving a history of the circumstances attending the sus- pension and resumption of specie payments in Great Britain, the report of the secret committeo of the Eng- lish Parliament on the subject in 1819, the opinions of prominent financiers, and numerous incidents and facta of an instractive character, in consideration of the pros- ent financial condition in this country, appears in our issue of to-day. Untinished counterfeit;fifty cent fractional notes, rep- resenting the Inrge amount of about eighty thousand dollars, together with a quantity of paper, tools, print ing press, eugraved plates, gold leaf and all other appa- ratus for carrying on the counterfeiting business, have nily been found in a house in the suburbs ot Phila- delphia by Treasury Department Detectives Lowell and Otto, of this city. A quantity of the bogus bills, repre- senting about twenty thousand dollars, had been finished and put in circulation. ‘The detectives also succeeded in capturing in Brooklyn, on last Tuesday night, aud com mitting to jail, the person said to be at the head of this gigantic swindling enterprive, named Charles J. Raberts, an alleged noted counterfeit engraver. The congregation of St. George's Episcopal church, Sixteenth street, destroyed by fire on Tuesday last, as- sombled yesterday in Irving Hall. Dr. Tyng, the pastor, conducted the services, and in his sermon altuded to the calamity which had temporarily deprived them of a place of worship of their own, Bishop Janes, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, preached yesterday forenoon in the new placo of worship erected by the Janes Mission, corner of Forty-fourth street and Tenth avenue. ‘There was preaching yesterday forenoon, afternoon and evening in the Church of the Pilgrims, in West Forty-eighth street, by the Reve. Thomas Dana and Adam George, Indians, respectively of the Oncida and Onondaga tribes, The former spoke in Eoglish abd the his native dialect, the sermon being interpreted to the congregation, They also, in company with an- other Indian minister, Rev. John Griffin, sang some hymns in their own language, Rev. Chauncey Giles lectured last evening to a large sewemblage of hearers, in Cooper Institute, on the claims of Swedenbory as a spiritual rece. The Rev. Dr. Moriarty, of Philadelphia, last night delivered a lecture in Irving Hall, to a large audience, on ‘The Harmony Existing Between Science and Religion." There was a considerable assemblage yesterday at Turn Hall, in Orchard street, to witness the gymnastic and athletic contest for przes of the members of eleven different Turner associations. In the evening there were musical and social exercises, Policeman Thomas Langan, of the Forty-fifth preeinet, was shot in the jaw and seriously, though it is thought not fatally, wounded, about four o'clock yesterday morning, by one of « party of burglars whom he was chasing in Eighth street, Brooklyn, K.P. When dis. covered by the policeman the burglars had just made their exit from the residence of Mr. James Ferguson, on he corner of Eighth and South Third streets, which they bad been ransacking, and it appeared that they had pre viously during the night made an woprofitable investi uation of the interior of another house in South Third street. They sueveeded in making their escape. a Kiworge Stephenson, who was private secretary to Dr. Kane in the famous Arctic expedition of that navigator died in Brooklyn on Thursday last, in the thirty-ninth year of bis age, His remains were interred in Green- wood. A dispute aa to which outranked the other arose on Saturday night in Washington, in the barracks adjacent to the White House, between Captaina Mahlenburg and Riley. Finally one ordered the other to be placed ander arrest, and the attempt to carry out the order led to a fight between the two companies commanded by these officers respectively, Several shots were fired; but none of the soldiers were killed. The disturbance was quelled by a detachment of General Hancock's Veterans, and Captains Mublenburg and Riley were both ar. ested. A Generous Fins-sater.—General Wade Hampton, the late rebel cavalry leader, who only the other day was run out of South Caro- lina by Kilpatrick, of Sherman’s horse—this same furious Wade Hampton—promises to stand by President Johnson so long as he stands by the rights of South Carolina as a sovereign State. Generous son of chivalry! Who comes next? these States—lately in rebellion--shall give ovi- dence of their earnest and cheerful toyalty; not by such speeches as are s0 common, that they submit to the arbitrament of war, but that they are willing to stand by and fight for the flag of the country against all its enemies, at home and abroad.” “the danger now is in too much precipitation. Let us rather make haste slowly.” sume that he is thus speaking the sentiments of repeats his “unshaken confidence” in President Johnson; applauds his course during the war, and, since the peace, in behalf of justice and fair play to “all men, both white and black;” and he is sanguine of the best results from “the great Union organization of the country,” in the hands of which the people “have placed the whole power of the government, executive, legislative and judicial, and reassured it by the brilliant victories of this fall.” exposition of his views and necessary measures of reconstruction the gentleman from Indiana has nothing to say of the radical shibboleth of negro suffrage. The conclusion necessarily fol- lows that he considers it unwise and inexpe- dient to touch upon this delicate, difficult and dangerous subject at this time. of this fall” have deubtiess convinced him that it is best upon this question to “make baste slowly”—that this thing requires “a good deal of mighty nice consideratiou.” speech of Mr. Colfax for a re-election as Speaker that the radical sine qua non of negro suffrage as a condition of Southern restoration has but a small party in the new Congress, Otherwise Mr. Colfax would not have so entirely over- looked it. But still this radical faction may be stronger than he supposes, and may give h'm some trouble. This speech was perhaps de- signed to head off ex-Speaker Banks and the Hon. H. J. Raymond and others of the semi- conservative, semi-radical school likely to stand in the way. unmixed radicals, and what has he to say? Greeley to be left without @ voice at Washing- * Tux Proper Man For oor Cotecror.—We Collector of the Port of New York, President Speech His Platform for @ Re-election. the speech in question, if he ever has been, he Stevens, It is sufficient at all events that, as a candidate for re-election to the Speaker's chair, Mr. Colfax studiously avoids the radical heresy Southern restoration. The leading ideas which occur to him in re- ference to reconstruction and the course of the new Congress we will briefly reproduce. He wishes to see the Union fully restored; but ho says that “we cannot forget that history teaches Yorktown, in the Revolutionary war, though our fathers were of one mind as to its necessity, before the constitution was adopted and the Union thus established.” This means that some time will yet be needed to get the late re- bellious South into a proper shape for restora- tion. He is indignant at the presumption of rebels ciected to Congress in supposing they are to be admitted on the day of its organiza- tion. He thinks the President’s conditions of Southern restoration, adopted by him in the absence of a law of Congress, are “eminently wise and proper.” “But there are other terms” on which Mr. Colfax thinks “there is no divi- sion among the loyal men of the Union.” The emancipated blacks must be secured and pro- tected “in their rights of person and property, and these freemen must have the right to sue in courts of justice for all just claims, and to testify also, so as to have security against out- rage and wrong.” This means that the States directly concerned are to have some instrac- tions from Congress upon this subject. In the next place, Mr. Colfax thinks that the new constitutions adopted or to be adopted by the late insurgent States should bo ratified by the people, to make all sure. Next, he would hold their candidates for Congress to the test of the oath of loyalty passed at the last Con- gress, by which every man voluntarily support- ing the late rebellion is excluded from every office under the government of the United States. Lastly, Mr. Colfax thinkg that “the country lias the right to expect that before their members are admitted to a share in the general government a clear majority of the people of Jn other words, saya Mr. Colfax, We pre- the majority of the new Congress; that he knows it, and hence we may infer that the pros- pect of Southern restoration during the coming long session is exceedingly slim. The ex-Speaker, in closing up his remarks, But in all this “The elections It is thus, we conclude, apparent from this Who is the candidate of the Is ton, or has he surrendered? think that in Mr, Clinch, the present acting Johnson has the proper man for the position. We think it would be difficult to find another man better qualified for the difficult duties of this responsible office, or whose appointment would give more general satisfaction to our mercantile community. Mr. Clinch, in one position or another, has for twenty-five years been identified with the business of the Custom House. He understands it thoroughly; he has the record of approval by every administra- tion of the last quarter of a century. He is, moreover, a man of cultivation, of fine man- ners and pleasing deportment. He was one of that old school of New York literary men of which Fennimore Cooper, Gulian C. Verplanck, Francis Rodman Drake, Fitz Greene Halleck and such were the shining lights. We remem. ber meeting Mr. Clinch on several occasions many years ago at the house of Henry Eckford, with a number of those celebrities who were accustomed there to assemble for.a sociable evening. Mr. Eckford lived in those days at a place in the suburbs knowa as Love lane, now covered by Twenty-first sirect, Those early friends ayd companions of Mr. Clinch were not mistaken in bis good qualities as a man of business and a man of society. Since that time, in bis modest, unpretending way, he has faithfully labored in his vocation, and steadily advanced, till by accident he has reached his present position of acting Collector. We think that the public service would be wisely consulted in confirming him in this post, His rowuler avvointment im addition to the of Wx-Speaker Colfax The speech of the Hon, Schuyler Colfax, ‘delivered at Washington thd other even- ing to @ serenading party, an? which we published yesterday, is a thing of consid- erable political importance at this juneture. Mr. Colfax was Speaker of the House of Representatives during the last Congress. He proved a satisfactory presiding officer to the republican majority, without becoming ob- noxious to the democratic minority. He has heretofore been accounted a radical; but, from has evidently ceased to be one of the ultra abolition school of Sumner and Thaddeus of immediate negro suffrage as a condition of that it was eight years after the surrender of securing of a capable and reftable officer, would at once dissolve and scatter to the winds all those petty eliques of party wirepullers and lobby jobbera which in every change of the New York Collector, in their clashing intrigues for the office, have been, as they are now, but little better than a public nuisance. Mr. Clinch, at this juncture, would be a welcome and com- plete relief against these disturbers of the ad- ministration. Financial History—Suspension of Specie Payments in Engla: This day’s edition of the Heratn, as will be seen, is partly composed of un epitomic history covering the suspension of specie payments in Great Britain from 1797 to 189, including re- commendations for final resumption in 1821, embraced in a report to the Britisi Parliament, which was presented on the 6th of May, 1819, by a secret committee appointed for the pur- pose of ascertaining what legislation was neces- sary to alleviate the serious consequenees that would be likely to follow a forced sudden re- sumption, or to report an act extending the time for a restoration to the metallic standard. By this report it will be observed that the firat law authorizing the Bank of England to suspend specie payments for its notes was passed by the legislators of Great Britain and received the sanction of the Third George as monarch on the 3d of May, 1797; and that by supplemental acta of Parliament, to the num- ber of eleven, the suspension was legalized and extended until May, 1821—embracing a period of twonty-four years. When the bank was first authorized to decline the passing of mint issues over its counter in redemption of the notes, upon all of which the “promise to pay” was prominent, no panic was created thereby, and no financial disturb- ance heralded the event. Paper money, which became practically the legalized “coin of the realm,” was as plentiful then there as now here, and the prospective success of the people elicited the admiration of the world. Every- body was flush with bank issues, the spirit of speculation was rife and rampant, the burdens of the war which was then raging with France were lightened, and prosperity seemed to fringe the entire kingdom. But when the public began soberly to consider upon the frailty of paper wealth, to seriously con their condition, and to look upon the thousands of speculative schemes engendered by the eager- nessa for easily acquiring fortunes, through the lenses of reason, their precarious posilion be- came apparent. Then commenced that series of financial disasters which drew ecliptic sha- dows over England’s advancement. Panics and reyulsions, riots and bloodshed, running through a decade of years, succeaded, which shook the old kingdom, as by a Peruvian earth- quake, from centre to coxzfines. The report being an authentic history will be found to contain matters of interest to philosophic writers on domestic economy and financial propagandists. It contains the senti- ments of some of the most prominent financiers in England at that time; and as the monetary condition of that country was somewhat simi- Jar to that of the United States at present, some profitable ideas may be obtained bya careful perusal of the evidence of those men. Mr. Alexander} Baring, it will be observed, was of opiuion that the operation of a reduction of the currency necessary for the purpose of re- sumption would be accompanied with restraint and inconvenience to every branch of indus- try in the country, and that, if it were forced with a rapidity at all approaching to what would be required for the resumption within a year from the time (May, 1819) at which the evidence was given, the injury that would be occasioned would be intolerable. further says that the “consequences of a con- traction or expansion of the amount of moncy in @ country scem more felt during the pro-, gress of such contraction and expansion than from any positive amount of money at any one given period portance what amount of money may exist in any country; but the question of whether it is on the increase or decrease is one of great importance to every branch of its industry.” Mr. Haldimand, one of the directors of the bank, thongtit that by a sudden reduction of the currency every possible and inconvenience to the public would arise, and be therefore recommended a gradual con- traction. Mr. Gladstone, a prominent East India merchant and member of Parliament, gave an opinion that the influence which the reduction of bank issues would produce would be of secondary nature ; in ordinary times, he said, the retirement of two or three millions of paper wonid not be felt, but that in the then existing state of trade of the country, after two or three years of much overtrading (or speculation, he might better have said), whatever would tend to narrow the meaus of circulation would have a very depressing effect. Mr. Gladstone speaks of # contraction of two or three millions of pounds sterling, which is only about ten or fifteen mijlions of dollars, which at this time, when considered in connec- tion with the aggregate circulation in this country, seems but a very small amount; but it must be borne in mind that trade has increased immensely since that day, and that now the commerce of the United States alone requires Mr. Baring It is not of great im- disadvantage more capital than was necessary at that time to move the entire busines of the world. We do not propose in this article to summarize the report to which we refer, but merely to call attention to it as being acurious document and applicable in many respects to the present financial condition of this country, and we think we can safely claim for it a careful pe- rusal, Ovation To Grenat, Granxt—The brilliant reception of General Grant takes place at the Fifth Avenue Hotel this evening. It will un- doubtedly be one of the grandest affairs of the kind that has ever transpired in this city. Un- like the gathering at the Cooper Institute early last summer, it is not a demonstration of the politicians to glorify themselves under the shadow of General Grant, but an ovation under the auspices of our solid men, who desire to honor the great chieftain of the war. The modest Lieutenant Gencral will on this occa- sion receive the marks of esteem, appreciation and gratitude of the people of this metropolis irrespective of party, and, totally free from ‘all political clogs, a sincere and hearttelt welcome. Before leaving this subject we would respect- fully renew the suggestions which we mede yesterday: that our wealthy citizens add to the interest of this important occasion by present- ing Generel Grant with a purse of sufficient size to pay for his house at the ‘mn rerbee Tn doing vals it will be shorn that tics are not augratefuh, The First Warlike ar Fierce Fenians. It will be seen by the correspon. tence which we publish in another column this ms "ning that the Fenians are now in fighting order. \"resident O'Mahony is up in arms and eager for ithe fray. Mr. B, Doran Killian, whose very name is "88°" tive of slaughter, is also full of martial ardor. Their first warlike demonstration is not made against the English directly, but is a grand atra- tegical movement against one of Englamel’s allies and advocates—the celebrated and m>- doubtable Chevalier Raymond. Itappearsthm’ this chevalier had the impudenee to assert inhis newspaper, the Times, that Fenianism is “am imposture;” that its managers are “a set of scamps,” and that the issue of Fenian bonds is & “swindle,” concocted for the purpose of sup- plying a lot of idlers with “notoriety and patent leather boots.” To disprove these statements Of the Times is a very easy task. The British government and the Canadian authorities have already recognized Fenianism as a terrible reality; the gentlemen entrusted with the management of the organization are well known to be persons of honor and integ- rity, and the recent purchases of arms and ammunition show that the Fenian funds are employed for other purposes than providing “notoriety and patent leather boots” for the Brotherhood. The facts of the case being so very clear and the objects of the Feni- ans being so publicly proclaimed and frankly avowed, President O’Mahony and Mr. Killian, the representatives of the organization in this city, naturally felt aggrioved at the Chevalier Raymond’s misrepresentations, and the corre- spondence to which we refer is the result. If the bold Fenians are spoiling for a fight we can congratulateqhem upon having selected the proper person with whom to commence their quarrel. The Chevalier Raymond is a warrior of no common order. Hethas studied military tactics upon the gory battle fields of Sol- ferino and Bull run; illustrated the noble art of strategy by his brief but glorious campaign upon “the elbows of the Mincio, formed by the sympathies of youth;” dined at the same table with the veteran General Scott and repeated all the conversation afterwards, and served as a high private newspaper correspondent on the Peninsula under McClellan. He was chased by a phantom Austrian hussar during the Italian war, and fled courageously from the imaginary Black Horse cavalry at the com- mencement of the recent rebellion. There is no editor in the country who bas won more victories on paper than the gallant Chevalier. He conducted the late war to the perfect sat- isfaction of himself and his friends, and he cap- tured Richmond and broke the backbone of ‘the rebellion more_often than General Grant. In his fracas with the Fenians he will be backed by the whole power of the Albany and Washington lobbies, led by the famous Thur- low Weed—the man who winds up the sun every day—who served asa drummer boy in the war of 1812, and to whose merits asa rough-and-tumble fighter the Hon. Horace Greelcy will cheerfully certify. On the other | |, hand, President O’Mahory and Mr. Killian are supported by innumerable Fenian circles, in this country, Canada, England and Ireland, and an unlimited amount of money in the form of Fenian bonds, which will shortly be on sale in every quarter of the world, including China, Australia and Japan. The colors of the com- batants are already chosen and displayed; for President O'Mahony sports the green above the red, while the Chevalier Raymond is in favor of the black above the white. The Fe- nians have their headquarters at Union square, and the Chevalier Raymond has his at the City Hall Park. On the whole, therefore, we con- sider this a very pretty quarrel as it stands; and we have no doubt that, if it be carried to the bitter end, a couple of continents will have to be drenched in blood and devastated with fire and sword before we shall be able to de- finitely decide the numerous wagers laid upon the contest. Unquestionably this fight will be more fatal than the cholera. Under ordinary circumstances it might per- haps be suggested that President O'Mahony should have thrown his glove to the British Ambassador to this country, rather than to the Chevalier Raymond. The British government has uttered more impertinences in regard to the fierce Fenians than the New York Times, and the British Ambassador represents his gov- ernment just as the Chevalier Raymond repre- sents his paper. But it happens that Sir Fred- eric Bruce is a diplomatist, and not a fighting mun, while the Chevalier Raymond is equally skilled in diplomacy and in war. Besides ‘this the Chevalier has been an open ally of Eng- land, and President O’Mahony’s demonstra- tion upon him is, therefore, a flank move- ment upon the enemy’s works. The Che- valicr Raymond is English in his tastes, his habits and bis sympathies. He wears mutton-chop whiskers and raiment of the Lon- don style. His paper is named after the London Times; and his most elaborate speech in our State Legislature was a defence of the infamous conduct of Great Britain in the Trent affair. These circumstances may be slight in them- selves, but they show the animus of thé Cheva- lier, and have not been overlooked by Presi- dent O'Mahony and the sanguinary ‘Killian. The careful reader of the correspondence will have observed, also, that while Mr. Killian’s let- ters are of the straightforward Irish shillelah school, the Chevalier Raymond’s are quite Eng- lish in their tone. The first of them is evidently modelled after Earl Russell’s despatches, and professes a sort of British neutrality in regard to the Fenians, although they had been abused as impostors in the Times of that very morning. Just as Earl Russell first let the Alabama sail, and then asked for such information as would enable him to detain her, so the Chevalier Ray- mond first printed his article condemning the Fenians, and then asked for “the submission of fych facts” as would lead to a change in his opinion. Not less thoroughly English is the second letter of the Chevalier, in which he cautiously inquires as to the meaning of Mr. Killian’s vty frank note, with the obvious in- tention of handing President O’Mahony and Mr. Killian over to the police if they admitted that they had sent him a challenge. In his third note the Chevalier simply refuses a retraction, but does not say whether or not he intends to fight, thus leaving the sfbject in the very posi- tion in which Earl Russell left the Alabama question when he declined compensation and arbitration, but would not say what le was going to do about it. Still, ia spite of bis Britieh atyle of correspondence, we will guar- antee that the Chevalier Raymond monns busi- ness. He is asmall man, but he has a great mili- tary reputation to sustain: and we oqn assure tho p Patter of the | bold Fenians that they have met with no ordinat#? adversary, and that the world will witness no Sian eee concerning then ramen oa quire a Homer ora He. s the combatants, and whether ons °P°Fer will need a horse or a telegraph to keep up With he Chevalier Raymond’s rapid movements. Radical Doctrines in the West Indies and in the United States—Their Conse- quences, By the late news from Jamaica the public may once more see of what atrocities infuriated ne groes are capable. * Murders, butcheries of the most horrible description were the jests, the pleasantries, the pastimes of the maddened wretches. All the inconceivable cruelty of a cow- ardly race was concentrated in this revolt, No account of a war dance and feast in Central Africa—no account of vanquished negroes of one tribe, busned by the hundred or thousand for the pleasuse of victorious negroes. of an- other tribe, is flied with more intense or terrible barbasity than fhe simple accounts of the sets: of these Jamaica negroes. Hithertoithasbeem = the fasion to say that acts of a kindred ehargo- ter were the results of slavery—that slaves; r getting the up; and for a time, vented upow the whites only revenge for years of fl! treatment that made their atzocities seem @ shade less frightful. Bat that cannot be said: here. This was not a question of slavery or freedom. Let this country take notice that the question which excited these Jamaica flenda was a question of social status and political rights. Let the people take notice also that the negroes were quiet enough—content with what they had; that they did not agitafe,’ though free; that they made no noise at all; but that all the noise was made by white men—white men, miscreant demagogues,y clamored for negro rights, though they did not , care a filbert for the negroes; but this noise excited the black race, and brought on these butcheries. Oniy ambitious white men are re- sponsible for it all; and the prime mover said an hour before he was hanged, “If ever I get out of this I'll never meddle with polities again.” In Hayti there is now in progress betwoen various portions of the people another chapter of the war that has raged there almost without cessation ever since white demagogues in that island also put the notion of perfect equality with the white man into the heads of the ne- groes. Upon the establishment of the French , republic St. Domingo was quiet enough, and the Frenchmen on that island adopted the principles of the republic. It seemed that they were to have their emancipation’ from the an- cient tyranny without any of the terrors that accompanied the change in France. But there were men in St. Domingo not satisfied with the result. They were radicals. They wanted to carry the change a little further than others. would venture to carry it. They whispered to the free mulattoes, “You have rights also; des 4 mand them, and we will help you.” They uttered just such crazy harangues as Wendell Phillips utters now and then, and so they started the storm. The clamor was begun with the free mulattoes, it extended, to the slaves, and it brought on the massacre that almost annihilated the white population z and that is not done with yet, though there has been a black republic and empire, too, as the result, We have in our own country all the elements of just such terrible occurrences as the St. Do- mingo massacre and this later butchery im Jamaica. We bave throughout the South a white population, made up in a great measure of women and children—able-bodied men be- ing especially scarce. We have there an an- settled population of ignorant, brutal, cruef negroes, and we have a miscreant party of white demagogues preaching to these negroes the very doctrines that brought on the insur- rections and revolis in the West Indies. Shalt we have a war of races too, with its horrors of murder and mutilation? What else can the country expect if the radicals are permitted to go on and carry out the programme and the theories that they announce through the radix cal press and through such orators as Wendelt Phillips? . . Tae Crry Census any State ExumeRators.— ‘The demand we made a few days since for the + report of the committee of the Board of Super- visors in relation to census frauds in this city has been promptly complied with, This docu- ment certainly presents many remarkable facts, such as may well astound some of our esey going citizens, who can perceive no corruption, no fraudulent transactions until the facts are placed in staring capitals directly before their eyes. The important business of taking the census of this city, on which both repreaenta- tion and taxation are based, is one in which every inhabitant of Manhattan Island is inter- ested ; and when such palpable evidences are - given, as are in this report, of the utter neglect of duty on the part of the State enumerators, it not of clear and evident fraud, it is high time for every person to awake to such infamous procecdings and shake off, if possible, the ince- bus of corruption with which the whole city seems tainted, and which festers into rank and unsightly sores whenever touched by the wand of official power at Albany. The pretended census of the city, latety taken by State officials, proves to have been so census at all, and Mr. Depew's enumeraters seem to have been selected for their worth ag politicians, not as staticians. These fellowa might as well bave made up their ennmeration = / from last year’s directory or the city poll books. There are hundreds of houses which they never went near, and in others where there were seventy or a hundred tenants they have becm put down as less than a dozen. Such roguery, or neglect, if frequent, is simply outrageous, re~ sulting in reducing a city.of amilliomor more inhabitants to about seven hundred thousand, By this report it appears that in ‘those of the =, smallest districts in the city the county enu- merator finds two thousand fivey hundred and five more inhabitants than the State enumer- ator reported—an excess, fhe propertion of which holding good in all the other districts, would make the population of the city what every sensible man sup poses it to be, consid. erably over # million. /We can do our readers no greater service than by calling their aticn- tion to the SupervAsors’ report, and would © urgently suggest, hat the work so woll com- menced be cor.({nued, and the whole city re- enumerated b.y the county suthorities. We know that 0,e Legislature will take the census? as returner, by the Stato enumerators asa basig for fatury, representation. Wo in this respect are (q?v¢ defrauded. of course—that evidently