The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1867, Page 5

CALIFORNIA BUBBLES. Sines of he Wining Gok Basenes te “ Francisce- In the year 1637 commenocd in Holland, then the ‘gq@post powerful military aod at the same time most pros- (porous commercial nation in the world, a speculation ‘which resulted in a national Gnancial convulsion, and in (@e individual bankraptoy of all who participated in the enterprise, The business was called the ‘Bloemenhan- @el,” or “Flower Trade.” It is now known as the |SPalipomania.”” Tt was confined exclusively to the ‘@ultivation and sale of tulips, At Amsterdam three ‘bulbs of the denomination called the Semper Augustus ‘Were sold as high as 80,000 guilders, or $12,000, In 1710, in England, commenced the disastrous speca- ation called the South Sea Company. It was incorpo- pated by act of Parliament in 1716. Its gigantic prospects ‘were looked to as a means of redeeming the national @ebdt of England, snd Parliament passed another act in 2320 embracing that ides, thus influencing the coni- ‘@ence of individuals in the representations of the direo tore of the company by the co-operation of the govora- ment itself. The shares at once rose by reason of promises @f prodigious dividends from $600 to the enormous price of $5,250. The bubble burst, Thousands of fami- Yes throughout the country were reduced to beggary. Perliament again interfered, and in 1721 passed an act te punish the directors, seize their property and afford @allef to the sufferers. ‘In 1716 France undertook to emulate the example of ‘Wagland. She yielded to the persuasions of John Law. @he merged the private bank of that gon- fieman in Paris into the Royal Bank of Brance. She bestowed upon it a patent granting fhe possession of the country of the Mississippl. ‘It took the title of the Company o! Indies, andin ‘2719 the mint of France was turned over to this corpo- ‘mation in the form of a national assessment. Shares im- mediately rose to sixty times their original price, In }2720 the notes issued by this grand bank were discovered ‘to De $550,000,000. France became alarmed, issued an ‘edict reducing this paper in valug one balf, The com- ‘pany collapsed, immediate ruin followed, Law resigned se office of Comptroller General of France, was re- @nced to poverty and dicd in destitution. The foregoing aro perhaps the most illustrious in- ‘stances on record of the credulity, cupidity and folly of mankind. ‘The first occurred among @ people ever proverbial for ‘eheir imperturbability of chafacter; the second among a people: whose chief characteristics are sagacity in busi- ‘mess and immutability of opinion, and the third among ‘@ pation the individuals of which are the verieat op- ‘posite of the two former. In the month of May, 1848, gold was discovered in @alifornia, This discovery brought a population to Cail. Sornis which formed this Territory into a State, which ‘ongress admitted into the Union on the 9th of Sep- ‘tember, 1850. About 1860, the Placer diggings having ‘Decome exhausted to a great extent, attention was turned ‘te quarts mining. ‘The discovery about this time of the silver mines in ‘Washoe led to further discoveries in Esmeraldo, Coso, ‘Bayo, Colorado, Humboldt, Reese river, Owyhee, Boiso, ‘Ceotnes, Carrivoo and elsewhere, ) As the workings of the various mines discovered in ‘@hese respective districts have had their seat of opera- in San Francisco; as it has been there and there that many of them “have moved and breathed and Thad their being,” and have ceased to be, it is of that Perens uitet ek ole decline In the fall of 1861 the casual observer on Montgomery ‘rect, the chief mart of stock transactions in San Fran- ye@laco, would bear from classes of men such observa- (etons as these, “That they had specimens from the lode; ‘they bad seen them, it was very rich, it was just like She Comstock,” &c. A ths later these desul- observation: -_ ® controlling interest,” &c, Later age! at a company was formed—that it was incorporated.” merchandise brokers who had been among jobbers Be commense srerinortes ap-and (toc lesks in lontgomery and of and suddenly and pur refuge around some neighboring corner to negoti- . Then came unknown faces in broad be ped and ap signs, but they were few and obscure. Men were loudly to assert that “the mine the stock would be issued ‘was then selling at $— per foot ; would be it would go up to at least $— per higher,” sad. it did, The business ‘then to i i Hi BRIE He ube Fe i i | s \inen,”? gave it to be understood that found im the “busy mart of men,’’ Tight minds,’ and ready to direct the and great riches. The slaves of figures, ‘spent years in the counting room, telling over ‘and losses of prosperous employers, threw their pens, closed their ledgers and became secre- unto corporations and brokers before people, Grave counsellors were beguiled trom the dei Doctors threw Ipnet ocal | and “physic to doga, ‘end priests unto the Most High saw more sin in ‘‘great 7” than im “sudden woalth.”” In 4he spring of the mania became general. Day after day the County Clerk received in baptism pew born corporations, The word ‘feet was in the mouth of the multitude, The word ‘‘assessment”’ had then no terrors, and was a cheering rather than achilling idea, It was contemplated and admired, as Louis the XVI. contemplated and admired the guillotine, (It cut of bis head on the 21s of bg 1793, exeiting no | ome od plysical pain than “a cooling sovsation.”) The xorable guillotine, ‘ the power to assess,"’ possessed ‘and exercised by ‘the Board of frustees,”” bas done as sagf* ath cfs ii? & i ‘much for many an unforvunate stock old In the meantime the “Stock and Exchange Board’’ orably. Its ranks had been erous recruits, Its original had increased to eignty- geveo members. These members controlied the ke and the stocks controlled the pub- To be s member of the “Board” was at that time to be looked upon as a respectable citizen, = man of character, of substance, and as somebody. ‘The price of membership nad risen from to $500 Mmitiation fee, and a seat was worth $6,000. ‘were aaily, from twelve sf. to one P. M. ‘bay, no one would sell stock the ned, and ibe oracies had declared the prices. At the of the adjournment of the Board of all @lasses would crowd Montgomery street, eager to learn how prices ruled ; some ready to sell, others to buy, and ns engaged in the business the number limited for mem- 3 tt HH i B fal i i i depicted of opty bottles and empty sheives, and wore Jular repositories for a desk, a safe and @ broker. These searpariaveasd were rented, and eageriy taken at prices varying trom $30 to $300 per Meth, those which had a front exposure being gar- ed with green! stock certificates and id. Cigar siands y| to the high premiums paid immediate possession of the limited promises. The frowt windows of other places of business on Moat- 'y atreet fell into similar use Maing eek, Te and mixed, found read, il rer ™ hardy sdveuteree wae guddeniy found himseif by yy offers for his ‘‘feet”’ in sums far beyond his dearest expecta- fions. His laborious and tardy efforts in discovering odes of mineral were rewarded by ices, con- generous piantiy a ig and ever reedy to be paid. Like Byro K Pe fo 4 Bienes * not famous, but cl v@ teal rehant, the mec, a the iaborer, th: lawyer and his cilenta, the doctor ai’ bis patie: the clergyman and his congregation, tbe employer avd ibe employed, the master and the servaut, il | i | th i i i i i B i f i : ie j i nt FEES i ; ta i i tt 8 } E Hi f [ Ee : i z ca RY ul li "i ofa Til 58 i H e fi - = s H of the different mines, real or supposed, of their ive companies. Assessments with which to t expenses were aa re Jous, asse-sment-paying stockholders, Instead of bullion came reports that ‘‘another tunnel would have to be run ke the lead at @ more avail- able and successful angle;” or “is bad been deemed best by the new superintendent to sink ashaft ‘right down on the top of the lead itself;?”’ or ‘that the mill was not of sufficient capacity for the power of the engine, which has knocked {t ali to pieces 1m three hours’ run;’ or that the bed plate bad been cracked ; or that the boiler had been found defective; or that the shaft had given way; or that the amalgamating process was not suited to that quality of ore, and that Varney’s pans would have to besubstituted; or that the ‘free gold” escaped jand so it did, freely, with a die on 1t) and was lost through he interstices of the bed plate and the pans; or that the firat rock was of an inferior character; or that the ore would not pay for working; or that an injunction ad been lald on the further working of the mine by some adverse claimants; or that the work hands had laid an attachment upon mine and mill for their wages, and that a receiver was in possession of both; or that somebody had “jumped” tho mine (which means taking possession with or without force and without process of law—Ep,) ‘Farewell, a long farewell,” if not for ever, to bullion and dividends, A meeting of the trastees ts called to act upon the report. hatever cours» may be decided upon there was one inevitable alternative—an assessment to pay existing liabilities and to meet the exigency in hand. Stockholders called upon the Secretary, wiked with the President or trustees in the street, and rejoiced that such er such impediments had been discovered at so carly a day. They would pay their asseasmenis—certaioly they would, confidently and cheerfully—and would not now sell out for $50 per share stock that had originall them perhaps less thaa $5 per share. 8 wero speedily collected, the Money remitted to the superintendent, the infirmity is cured, the hopes of the stockholder are rekindied and bis doubts reassured, Que, two, three months roll by, and everything looks flattering. ‘This particular mine is certain to turm, out rich. Suddenly a morning paper announces an extract, taken from some other paper published nearest to the mine, that the Indians bave attacked the miners, killed the su} itendent and enginoors, three or four of the work ds, driven off the stock, robved the camp and burnt down tne mill; or that tne late rains have washed away the mill and out buildings and filled the shaft with water. A general disgust is inspired by the occurrence of these accumu- Javed disasters, and an opinion inclining ta.a disbelief in the stability of sublunary affairs and mining speculations in particular. The matter is taken into .sérious consid- eration by the stockholders. It is ascertained that this mine will not pay, 80 they turn more nopofully to their investments in others, The true gambling spirit was abroad, and the successively losing card ried at ‘a time it was about to win for another wl was open to the uncertainty of tailare or success. There were thousands of companies before the publig, each present- ing prospects of most flattering results, The cautious and the prudent. even, haye neither —_ excuse nor inclination for reflection, bésiation or lay. “To bein doubt was tobe resolved,” and they counted it ‘death to falter, not to die.’’ It was but necessary to observe the movements of the times, their neighbors ahd the stock reports, It was necessary to Tetrieve by new investments losses made by bad ones. The conventional hours for the sessions of the several boards and the the members in a of business at the offices of time were not enough to meet the day demands of the public in its inexpressibie frenzy to bu; ‘eng sell stocks, Informal meetings of the brokers an “ouuiders’”’ were held at the Bank Exchange, eee transactions were protracted at times until eignt and nine o’clock at night. The danger resulting from upadvised sales became to be seriously { ieterforing with the regular mode of business amoi the brokers, and were discontinued, and afternoon ses- sions of the boards substituted in their stead. By this course the business was kept more immodiately within conflned especial the contro! of the brokers and to their els, Bull the enthumasm did not abate, New companies were being formed oa most gigantic scales, and seem- ingly under most favorable auspices. The richest men in country were publicly lending their names, their personal, social, fimancial and official influence, their Services and money w these new zations. , with a mominal capital stock of $5,000,000, divided into Mfty thousand shares. Every company that was formed found sale for at least ‘&@ portion of its stock at some price beyond cost. Profit was to be made on all purchases, no matter at what cost, if peraons would sell in time. And to forbear from par- ticipating im the geceral opportunity offered for making money, or to remain unaiected by the overwhetming ‘mfluence which it exerted over the whole community, would have been to havo illustrated an instance of a firmness of character which human nature has never been known to possess, and which is peculiar to a cer- tain animal which has never been Known but once to have spoken. On the 224 of June, 1363, the day on which the sun had reached the acme of tae summer solstice, that planet in the imagination of men deaiing in mocks, the ** Gould and Curry '’ reached its perihelium. On thas day it was sold for $6,300 toot It had been the leading star in that illusory hghted it on from nothing yw about to decline, but still for a while many of its companions were to fade, to grow dim, to die out and to disaj forever. its degradation was gradual, but that companions was sudden, and, to wniort and inter- eated observers, terrible. Assessments Rot save them; money borrowed with which to pay su ous dividends could mot save them. fell, and fell luted it with many victims, Sales for ‘become an epidemic. Every day the knife descended and cut off the delinqueui’s title to stock and bestowed it upon those who would pay The Tea iy oy ed, gua mew year o! open @ ° Men over their losses in bad po sullen the past, and lost hope in the future. They spoke despairingly, they looked worse than they spoke; they felt worse than they looked, and ausgespielt stared from tite ee E ! & H 4 MH 3 43 Al —| March, p| #0) Suiy, $2,305) 1.400] Vugast, 31 609} 1,40 | une 27.82.7001 22, $0,500) The dechine which ie exuidited to have jakep piace jo this table in the rf to all otk or stocks, in they were 44 if | Nr ‘ sf i Hi u iL | H i e vey i?ee fr i fe et 1H yea etek a & i i E § . i j Fe 3 3 i i: i the at z i 4 H [ irsuits of pleasure and travel, relying upon saypoeh judicious {nvestments and certain videuds, were inter- cepted to their fe by a tole- gram of * 1 note?” and Upon the “To be, or not to be, ' native hue of resolution” in the victims was o’er with the pale castof thonght,”” The remembrance of the and the awful certainty ory sent, were cleaver and keen knife, with which of late he bad but in the ‘intrenchent a fed gave bloody welcome to the work of renewed ghter, The man of drags, with saddened and subdued coun- tenance, moistened with « sympathetic tear the bruised herbs and aromatic gums he brayed with his pes:lo 0 his mortar “ for others’ ie The tonsor, with his towel, smiled in bitterness of irit, while his soporific fingers traced the outlines of belathered ‘face divine.’” ‘The man of figures again told and toiled over the gaine of new employers at reduced salary. The man of law found comfort and rejoiced in a new field of litigation growing out of what had ruined others, The man of medicine smiled more biandly, and looked and spoke with more sympathy in the sick chamber, and if his bills were smaller his visits were more frequent. The man of prayer and precept stood up before his congregation with greater sadness and statelineas, and urged upon his flock to look not to the goods of this earth (with a mental ret t to certain illusory min- ing ground), but to go in for an indestructible in- vestment, where burglary was unknown, and in- herent decay impossible and assessments uncollegable, And if, when he peared his voice trembled when he asked not to be led “into temptation,” it may have been more in “sorrow than in anger” that his own deflection in that direction bad not yn more puccessfal; and when he came down to the charities he charged his au- dience with inexorable emphasis to negotiate all their loans indefinitely to the Lord. . ‘The man of leather and the last wept ovor lost profits, ‘and tingeringly and lamentingly retarned to his awl The men of fruit and vegetables, ‘with mechanical to ‘unclean bands,” like Ephraim, “returned to their ols, The waves of a ‘“‘sea of troubles’ had broken over the shattered fortunes of those who bad ventured beyond their depths and dissipated their hopes and their aspira- tions among the vapors that floated above its heaving a, Some went mad, some committed svicide, some emi- |, some became dissolute in habits, and others woked the charitable clemency of the law, which, boo “a sweet, oblivious antidote,” wiped out their debts forever, HAYTI. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. English Reports of the State Affi Haytl—Prejudices of Color—Financi: sure—Lawlessness of the People—Foreianers ‘Warned to Keep their Opinions to Them- selves. Havana, Sept, 21, 1867. The ‘latest intelligence from Port-au-Prince, to the 8th instant, arrived in Kingston per steamer Crusader, and was received here by ihe Spanish steamer Mocte- zuma yeltorday, via St, Jago de Cuba, The following items are to hand:—The government is characterized with hesitation, and it is truly painful to see how evident it is that the Executive fears to do any- thing, bat it should thereby develop the revolutionary sentiments that are smouldering everywhere. The country is reported in the most extraordinary state of agitation, and its affairs in a more lamentable condition now than they have ever been known since the estab- lishment of Haytian independence. The prejudices of color seem to have become greater, and were the authorities to take notice of this the country would be im a blaze, How all is to be smoothed down; how the people are to be pacified, unity promoted, and prejudices removed Salnave cannot define, snd his government may be said to be thoroughly af their wits’ end. We are fecling the offects of = wretched Soon rane weer sena 22 count ly change they have made. The uncertainty which sur- moment every thing e may be overturned by another revolution—for we 4 really on the v. of one. Whatever the government may say and ‘the cou taking the fact that the en! Rave on bis arnyal pt bona ay od dor DG high and low now strongly sympathize with cot aye Sap ky rad, willingly see him retura bere for the restoration of order, the establishment of peace, the development of com- meree and the resources of the country. The financial affairs are worse now than in the wildest days of the Em; Soulouque. Goid w fabulousl bigh—tbirty-four tian Senet deters for one Spanieh silver dolar. Provisions are scarce and high. Ten days ago flour was $16, gold, per barrel; now it is $20. The people are positively starving, and misery staiks 4! very streets of the capital. Several mercantile firms ha Deen obiiged to stop payment, others have ciosed up in consequence of the unsettiod state of affairs and left the istand for America, Delmarie, a town in the south, has been pillaged, and the Cacos (a boay of men opposed to the. presidency of Salnave) are still in arms, moving about with that persistency and determination of purpose which proves that they are in earnest, and bave many sympatoisers to support and encourage them. The ‘erninent has sent out all ite availabie troops after , but these have neither had the effect of disarming them, nor in- spiring them with fear. Tt way be interesting to your readers to know that the word Cacos is not “evord of . The armed forces wi der this name are chiefly colored men, and the black parrots which are blacks of yey in are still in arms the ment in the neh The lawless benevion of ‘he people indt- cates an DEPARTURE OF STEAMERS YESTERDAY. The following Eurepean and coastwise bound steam- ors ioft this port yesterday: suROPEAN, ‘The Arago, of the New York and Havre Steamship "gline, left pier 46 North river, for Havre, calling at Falmouth, with the United States mails, pas pengers, $30,400 in specie and a full general cargo. i end a full of bacon and cheese. The Iowa, of the Anchor line, left pier 20 North river, for Liverpool, with thirty-eight cabin and two hundred tite piel #382 Bee a Ho | into, of the Empire line, left pier No. 13 + for pavannab, with eighty-five passengers cargo. The Alabama left pier No, 14 East river for Charleston, with thirty-five passengers aod a full cargo, The Manhattan left pier No. 3 North river for Charles. ton, witn seventy-one passengers and a full cargo. The James 8, Green, of the Express Steamship line, loft pier No, 15 Fast river for Washington and George- town, D. C., with a full cargo of aacorted freight. RECAPITOLATION. Four Earopean and six coaatwise steamers. seven hun- dredand (ifty-five passengors and $54,710 in specie, He i |MEXICO. he would to all ueations “Dot political, ! | Fae tT Bere ers I hi ‘ Ha Hi ae lin f }—lmstnypotonares them to wi fore, The Fiscal of the court, after admonisbing the prisoner, Tepeated the charge twice to him, without obtaining ‘an answer other than the above, ‘Having been asked and warned to answer the charge of having come to second and put in execu- tuon the plans above referred to, of the Freach govern- ment, without any title than that which the ermed force of ths same government and a few votes which he pre- tended to call the national will, notwithstanding that such ex] of the national will was false in its form and substance, as noone can deny; for the Mexican republic was established and remains under the fundamental charter of 1857. The only jegiti- mate expression of the will of the peuple is that which is defined in the same charter and regulated by the electoral Jaws in conformity with the same, being the form established by the same supreme law and respec- tive regulations; the pnly legitimate one through which the sovereign will of Mexico may be made known, and not the votes of a few persons, cast in a fo particular unta de will of the people, pretending to make their acta express tho consent of the people, quteraing the republie into the so-called Mexican empire, an becanse whatever might have been the causo for the proclamation of the monarchy and Maximilian, and tho Votes obtained in the ce of an armed force can- not be considered as the deliberate and spontancous will of the people. The false representation of sald national will was already planned by native traitorous Mexicans and foreigners from the beginoing of the war of intervention, as it was known to the world and pro- tested against by the press of Europe and America, and algo the plans of a few wicked Mexicans, such as Al- monte, Gutierrez, Estrada and the diplomatic efforts of the Cabinet of the Tuileries, which aimed to destroy at any cost the republican government of Mexico, and form by main force a Mexicad monaroby, at the head of which ‘the French government had resolved to place a prince who would accept the crown, and did piace that prince bere present, Maximilian replied as —— already done to the Prine Fistal repeated the charge twice, to which Maxi- 0 re e charge wi ax milian made no other answer. Third—That the Archduke Maximilian accepted, vol- untarily, the responsibilities of a usurper of the sov~ ereignty of the people, constituted as a nation free and independent, for the acceptance of which responsibilities he is severely condemned by the laws of all nations, os- pecially by the laws of the Mexican republic, one of ‘which is that of the 25th of January, 1862, still in force, ‘ne Fiscal repeated twice the charge, with the same result ag beiore. ‘Fourth—With having disposed, by the violence of an armed force, of lives, rights and interests of the Mexican ople. hfs eo Fiscal repeated the charge twice, with a like re- It. sult. ‘Afth—With having made war against the Mexican Tepublic, aided by and in many cases under the direction of the commander of the French army in Mexico; con- senting to, authorizing and committing oppressions and atrocities of all descriptions, to tyranize over the Mexi- can people and compel them to accept the will of a ince elected by the French government to ruloin lexico. Here the Fiscal caused to be made a list of the fright- fal number of executions by the courts martial of Maxi- milian of Mexicans who defended the cause of the re- public, and also the pillage and burning of entire towns throughout Mexican territory, especially in the States of Michoacan, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaul! i The Fitcal rep ited it twice, and passed to the ‘i ete aving — in oe rise aoe , Gard ing war, inviting and enlisti foreigners nations, principally Austrians and Belgians, jubjects of Powers which were not at war with the Moxican republic, The Fiscal twice and passed to the Seventh—W ith having published and carried into exe- cution against the Mexicans who did not submit to bis authority the barbarous decree of October 3, 1865, giv- jog power to any commanding officers of the so-called toy) army to execute on the spot, without any for- trial, all prisoners without regard to rank or denomt- nation, of the organized body they formed, or cause they defended, not excluding those w! though un . oes them, or the citizens who aid them directly or The Fepeated the twice and passed to the Bighth—With ia the ble of his barbarous decree the persons of constitu. tional government of republic had abandoned the Mexican territory, and from this false asser- deducing tion consequences favorable to his tyranny and oppres- sion of the Mexicans who were defendi: fing. Tepeated over the charge and passed to Ninth—With having attemptod to sustain his false title of Emperor after the retreat from Mexico of the French army, and after he saw the entire republic rising inst the Vip empire, for which object be sarrounded bit with men who, during the civil war of Mexico, became fan through their violence and crimes of all description. He (Maximilian) employed means of violence, desolation and death, in order to check the victorious march of the republicans of the north to this place, and did not surrender bis sword until the besieged place was taken by the cone where he bad shut bimself up, accompanied by two ol his generais and a handful of officers, and after his forces were dispersed or taken prisoners and when be had lost all hope of further resistance. This charge was twice repeated, but Maximilian did not reply. Tenth--With having abdicated his false title of Em- peror of Mexico, not when he could have done it by hie own free will, but when he found himself: overcome and compeiled to abdicate by force of arms. ay was also repeated as the other charges, with no result. Eleventh—With pretending to be entitied to the con- sideration due to ® sovereign overcome in wi hen for tho Mexiean people he has not been such, neither of nt, because of the illegality of his title of Emperor, which he abrogated himself, nor in fact because be was unable to sustain his title by his own forces. Here the following facts were read to him :— That he (Maximilian) was unable to establish peace under his rale even with the assistance of the French army; that from the complete evacuation of Mexico by the same army to the fall of Maximilian, not even three months have government notwithstand- against the French intervention and against the so-called empire, the ideal of said intervention, has been maintained without ces- sation for more than five years, always in the name of and under the direction bia f wore considered ifersed, and the trial ended with charges signed by the Fiscal, Maximilian and the clerks, MANUEL ORPEROS, MAXIMILIAN, Done before me, Jacinto Mruaspea, The Exiled, Fined and 4 Imperialiats. ‘The following imperialists having been found within the republic since the fail of the empire, tnoy are notified through the press that they aro fined for disloyalty, The fine was to be levied vy sale of their property, in case it was not paid before August 16, ‘The fines are:—Macario Belle Cisneros, $15,000; San- del Puerto Vicario, each $3,000; Maria , Joes Ruiz, Juan San Miguel, Francisco Villavicencio, each 32,000; Joaquin Castillo y Lanzas, Juan Cervantes nillo, Manwet Dublan, Juan Marfa Flores, Francisco Gomez Lamadrid, Urbapo U. Lassepas, J. B. Lozano, Patricio Mori, Antonio Mendoza, Cayetano Orozco, Joss Marfa Ochoa, Juan N, Pastor, Bi ORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. ‘Aiojo Barteivos oss Mara 5 - Paya Duarte, each $500, and Mig. ‘The fotlowing impenaliste have been sentenced to ban- tabment:— notable and Counsellor of the Em- notable and Under Seoretary | Sexteen are pat on the limits for two years and eleven others for one year. Ove hundred and ten are allowed their but subject to the vigilance of the authorities, ny are Lhese well Known notabies of the capital: x“. Luis Landa, Francisco Lasuerain, Patricio Murph: Dr, Moreno y Jove Teepe Under Serene: tor Foreign Affairs; Nicolas de la Px Minister of War; Joaquin ‘Torres Larrainzar, Minister of Treasury; Estéban Vi 4, Orenaoilee and Under Secretary of the Treasury. ‘wenty-six others are sentenced to four yoars of im- ale gaed Among them are Felix Eloin, Maximil- 8 Private Secretary; Pedro Tescher, ditto; Tomas Morphy, Uoder y of War; Oérlos Sohaiier, of the Imperial Postion Gaaed, “i $ Imperial Treasury Account for Two Years. The Siglo XLX, pablishes the following account of the receipts and expenses of the empire from July 1, 1864, to June 80, 1866:— FROM TAXES. Nuevo Leon. ca, Talancingo. 13 Tuxpan.. > 80,519 Valle de Mexico. 6,589,780 + 867,036 23% Guaymas.. ’ Manzanillo, 1,006,601 2°523'240 2,038,076 orm RECEIPTS, From the Mints, $392,188 Profits on Ex- Taxes in the Val- change drawn ley of Mexico. 642,829 on Paris, sold Post Office..... 405,546 by Govern. RevenueStamps, 194,002 mont........ 40,036,252 Tolls........... 120,168 Imperial Household. $52,638 Miolatry of State. .. 271.156 Ministry tor Foreign Affairs. 751,552 Ministry of Interior 8,205,192 Ministry of Justice. 1,583,757 Ministry of Comms 6,462,935 Ministry of Public Instruction 646, Ministry of War... 40,319,493 Ministry of Treasury. 28,836,705 ‘Total expenses. ++ $81,129,492 The Executions Under the October Dec ree. The following is a list of liberals, not officers, executed by the imperial authorities under the decree of October 8, 1865:— REPORTED BY MAXIMILIAN’S MINISTER OF WAR IN OFFICAL Month, October. . November. Janus Februsry. Mareh. November, The estimated number shot on the field of battle with- out the trouble of court martial 1s 8,500, These figures are estimated from returus from battle fields. Many un- judiced who have been here during the revolution imate the number at double or treble the above. Whole number of killed of liberals during the interven- tion at over 60,000. Claims of American Citizens in Mexico Agal the Mexico and Vera Cruz Rail- rond. To the Hon. Marcus Orrenpouns, United States Minister near Mexico:. Sir—In behalf of about two hundred Americans, in- cluding myself, I desire to call your attention to their claims against the Imperial Railroad Company, com- posed of foreign residents in England, which company ‘was for the pul of constructing @ railroad within the territorial limite of Mexico, Said oomnpany obtained a certain concession from Maximilian to build said road; after which they contracted with one G. B. Crawly to + — soy work for them. said Crawly au worl various parti whom are the foregoing Americans, Said Crawly is now in England, Mr. Lioyd, former it in Mexico for said company, is also in England. He is said to have loft th! bya | ewivorrsapagd = by ap wo protect! person from arrest, Crawly likewise left da: the rebellion and be- fore the organization of the courts, The amount due to sald Americans and others is not far from the sum of 000, a little more or less. I think about one thou- laborers are interested, directly or indi- rectly, in this amount. It is contended by said railroad company thet m0 lien can attach to the iy or in- vestments which said company have already made in Mexico, 80 far as to satisfy said claimants’ demands; and, while they are unwilling to provide for the liqui: dation of the said debt, they ask the present govern- ment to make new concessions or reaffirm the by Maximilian. If, accord- to the laws of Mexico, ‘there is ‘mo tacit mortgage which creates a iten for contractors who have furnished material, aud for laborers who have expended their labor sald road, then the express mortgages in favor of dwelling houses eut out the con- tractors and laborers, although the property may bo of far moro value than ‘the amount covered by tho expreea mortgages, because poor men canact discharge said mortgages for want of funds, And, again, the owners and contractor are foreign and non-residents, and al- though they may be worth mitlions the jarisdiction of the Mexican courts cannot extend over them nor their property. Now said company are not demanding posi- tive legai righta, but are soliciting from this government equitaole rights in consideration of their prior vast ex- nditures. It is a clear principie of equity in all civi- lized countries that he who asks equity must do equity—that is, he must show, as re- gards the subject matter of his demands, that he acted according to equity and good conscience. There is another principle of law that very sovereign will protect the residents within his jurisdiction as to ail Jost demands against property thereio. And persons who absent themselves and will not piaco themselves ‘within the jurisdiction of the sovereign court are actiog fraudulently toward the residents thereof, and are not to be protected bh’ said sovereign. Mexico should by all means er own citizens upon every principle of law which exists between the and the erned ; and principles of nations, Itis faith will osuty the Mexican government in gran! the favor solicited by said railroad company, unless the concession therefor shall contain the express condition that all contractors and laborers baving domands against sald railroad company for material, work and iabor ex- pended thereon be first satisfied, paid and discharged. OBITUARY. Protewor Oharles King. A cable telegram announces the death of this gentie- man at Frascati, near Rome, on Friday, the 27th inst ‘The deceased was a native of New York, where he was born in 1780, and was the second son of the late Hon. Rufus King. During hie father’s residence in England as Minister to the Court of St. James he was sentio Harrow school, and subsequently to a preparatory schoo! In Poris, Returning to New York he married, in 1610, Eliza, a daughter of Archibald Gracie, a leading mer- chant of this city, with whom the deceased was associ. ated in busioem, In 1813 Mr. King was « momber of the Legislature, and aithough a federalist in politics supported the war with Great Britain and served as a voi- ‘unteer daring the autumn of 1814. The failure of the firm of which be was s member, in 1823, caused him to aban- dow mercantile parsuite and to engage in journalism, for which he had mach taste and ability, Ia compan: with Johnston Verpianck he established +! 4 rt & oonservative newspaper much influence, After the retirement of M: payer waul she pebtication wae diecsatinoss, wher ‘On! jon jacon' editor of this paper he remained until 1849, during which year be was elected President of Columbia col- a ie position was Oiled with great ability and ith satisfaction to all concerned, the wealth and use- prositeuey. "Mr. hing hed! passed. his soveaty.ciguih Mr. Ki is neventy.eigot at the time of his Pg wen of decided ta and trrepproachabie c! h most kind hincerely regretted. by the: meny friends, be posvessed, i man , and by the literary public geared ASSEMBLY NOMINATION IN DUTCHESS COUNTY, Reegerck Station, Sept. 28, 1967. Alfred T. Ackert bas been unanimously nominated for member of the Assembly by the Democratic Convention held at Rhinebeck for the Becond Assembly district of Dutchess county. THE REWILL MURDER CASE IN MAINE. Lewiston, Mo,, Sept. 28, 1867, José Maria Quinones, Judge Walton has continued the hearing on a motion Hipolito Salazar, Juan N. Vériiz, Amtouio Ayesteréo, | for » new trial ta the Newll murder case until next comb $1,000; Bruno Aguiar, >evanian Camacho, Oipria- | Ja CUBA. ‘The steamer Missouri, Captain Palmer, from on the Zist imet., arrived at this port yesterday. pureer wil! please accept our thanks for prompt delive! of our despatches and flies, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. je Cable Owice—S! nd Free a ed in Cuba—ii a Loan in London—The Banco Esp Speculators—Brigandage—A Blo of Catholic Devotion—Negroes and Costrasted, Havana, Sept, 21, 1867. | ‘THE CUBA CABLE. i “There is a screw loose” somewhere, for althoughy there is no difficulty in geting our messages to Pi Rasa and thence to New York, scarcely a message coi from the latter. One of tue 17th came yesterday, I amy told, But I believe it will be ail right shortly. A Sppeared to-day in the Diario de la Marina, purportli to be from several merchants, compiaining tha\ had not had any reply yet to messages which they sen’ to New York on and after the 11th inst, We are told ‘that the office in New York is not yet prepared ta re- ceive messages, (anthatbesot The Havana office id #o busy that in order that each should go in turn therg 1s a delay sometimes of one, two and even three hour@ in passing a message; they seem too short of banda and practice will do them no harm. 4 ‘The comparison of the relative advantages of free and of slave jabor is not only @ vopic of the greatest imports ance to Cuba, but it isa question of life or death. But the absence of statistical mformation on a mattor of such vital interest arises from the fact that the produo~ tion of {ree labor is found mixed up with that of slava! labor, and consequently it is not only dificult to sopae rate but impossibie to form an accurate appreciation and correct comparison of those advantages, But by look ing into such notes as I have taken from time to time, and comparing the production of the principal localitiog of the island wiih the siave popuiation betore me, I find that in those where the proportion of siaves is larges@ u lative production is not more than one-balf of tl where free labor abounds and is in majority, Now thid is an astounding fact, which must even faterest other, countries than Cuoa, and it 8 worth corroborating. ACs, cording to an interesting statement published in the Jmparcial of ‘Trinidud de Cuba, the esth value of the production of this year | $2,426,598. The terriiory in question ia only five hu dred square miles. Its population is assumad at 37,000, of which about 10,000 ure slaves. Without pretending td form a basis from the above da‘a, I wiil at once go on td my own estimates, derived from the notes before al- luded to, The fo:lowing is a list of th piaces wherd slave labor is in majority, showing the value of product tion per head of each siave:—Cardenas, $420; Colo! $400; Matanzas, $300; Havana, $250; Guanajay, $270 Santiago de Cuba, $240, ri The places where free labor 1s 1m_ majority and th timated value of production of each slave are follows:—Puerto Principe, $730; Villa Clare, $700, an Pinar del Rio $670 per head. “Facts are stubborn things,” In submitting the feed lors, I wi Habana’ and vi going to your numerous and intelligent only ask now what will the ‘Prensa de la confréres have to say after reading the above results in your columns ? Before I eave this Interesting subject I ought to mark that Trinidad owes a good deal of its present rap! prosperity to the late introduction aud application of the ‘steam plow, the adoption of a regular system of drain, age, and many other improvements from abroad. course all this is due to the energy and perseverance its merchant planters. Trinidad has produced this year, nearly 40,000 hogsheads and 4,500 boxes of sugar, worth! $1,876,500; 15,000 hogsheads molasses, wortn $225,000 4 1,100 pipes rum, worth $24.200, In tobacco, cvofleey wax, honey and other jucts it bas rendered $300,898, T understand that the majority of the Hav pality contemplate seeking to contract « loan to enable them to attend to the urgent necessities of this bod Although the corporation Is scarcely i road, at least not as far ag ite fuancial capacity condition, I may state that its revenses are not f from $1,500,000 annually, and 1t is to be hoped that th Body may succeed in the above project. The fribunal of Commerce has just given a verdict absolving the Regla Stores Company from the suit which: has been pending for four years, established by the Compafiia Territorial Cubana, who claimed from the former the value of @ quantity of sugar that was com sumed 5 Oeil took place on the premises in the year 1863. ‘The directors of the Banco Espanol have made appli- cation to the government to sanction their rawing the maximum rato of interest, whch aécording to the charter 1g not to exceed eight percent per anoum. It has accordingly been submitted to the deliberation of tu “Consejo de Administracion.” The bank has obvious reasons for doing so. When the ent rates of interest vary here from teato twenty-four per cent, and the bank, from exceptional circumstances, has B@ power to influence the money market, royal restrio- tion i# detrimental to the interests o/ geen | without any benefit to the cémmudfty; the money the bank being immediately taken by. speculators who Joan it out at a much higher rate. In the articles of rogu lations which are to be obtained for the total aes. of the sia ¢ trade, I notice that the old system is to be resiored, of giving ceduias, oF warrante, to the colored popuiativn, which in the on ‘an unequivocal f of the condition of the slav: and obviates any kind of investigation on the part the subaltern ities as to the *y "? of slave. The owners of slaves, curaies and physicians are moreover warned to give immediate notice of the death of any slave within four days after the cecurrence under very heavy penaities, quite severe enough to compel them to from the greut responsibility it entaila, provided the law is strictly carried out in good faith. A daily bulletin is about being published in San! de Cuba, at eleven in the morning, comtaining tue news, which will be hence, fhe subscription is $2 per month. The Custom House collector of Havana bas ordered that on and after the 19th inst, ali dockets of goods entered inwards shali be required to state the marks, the nambers of tue packages, and the covteats and ciass of merchandise each coutains, in accordance with article seventol the actual tariff. Not long ago I told your reaiers of an itinerang brotherhood of robbers and pilferers that existed herg under the cognomen of ‘Hermanos de la Luna.’ id it was supposed at the tim e defunct. But such is not th case, and people are ag’ rmed enough noi to walk the y hour. A night ortwo aco an aged, inoffensive m: found siaobed. The murderer Jumped juto the water, disappeared, and ali atiempts ta ‘se:ze bin were found unavailing; probably be managed to hide Limeelf in some subterranean mook under the wharf and escaped subsequently, Bus continues excessively dull Hardly any Vesseis but the regular steainers arrive, and the :reight- ing business is cousequentiy very iimiled; no charters to tho United ctaies dave trauspired for somo days, The tranvactions in sugar have boen very moderato; the basis of price hus not varied, being nearer to $54 re. than thao toSrs, tor No. 1% Slering exchange i firm at 193g premium; currency at sixty days, 25 to 2549 dita count, and three days cold drafts 94( per ceat premuu: The Right Rev. Bishop of Havana arrived to-day 1 the Spauish mai steamer from Cadiz, 1 was @ tolerably large number of colored people on the wharves, in order to greet the reverend gentleman as he landed. Wuy should they not do so? Some people say that the negroes aro the only imbabitants that show any real deg Yotion to the Cathoiic religion, and there are vot a fomy persons who suppose that the negroes are hired (as 1 Insh were where, not far off. nor very long ago) for tne purposes intended; for else, they add, Bishop's arrival woaid unnoticed. He this'as i may ({ have no ¢inion of my own to offer on such mate ters) the col people are said to be profoundiy d voted to the Catholic faith, particularly the “old ‘uns but whether this arises froma fear of “the my: future frog which po traveller returneth” (I have no Shakespeare at my eibow), of whether it is from a beatie comprehension of that future, is beyond my prom vince to divine. What Ican add is that when there ® ‘white eoul in church there are sure 10 be, black men or colored women th Pnamoraics can speak of this better than your own corg — je temperature bas improved amazingly since the last few days. The thermometer this morning was at eighty degrees Fahrenheit, The aed fover still prow vails, particularly in the barbor, but it is of a mildes ‘@ature then it bas been The change of weather hag created in! fevers, which the natives m are attacked by; they are very common at certain sons, and their name changes in accordance with tl latest novelties; for example, when the ‘Guardia Civil" juatalied ‘the afor fever was called by thad of 1857 appeared it wag iat the contribution is the, fs called the contribug ‘uppermost in the public ton fever. OR. HARRIS AND THE “UNKNOWN DISEASE.” TO THE EDITOR oF THR ALD. Dr. Harrie, m his report to the Board of Health on the disoase brought here by tho steamer Minnesota and now prevailing at the Lower Quarantine, stated that. {t was somewhat like cholera and typhus, and yet it wae neither, but a disease “unknown to the physicians of this country.” I have too high an opinion of the Regis, trar of Vital Statisties to think that he was unable tq make out the disease, or that he would willinglp causo alarm among a certain class Of people, Already there is mach ercitement about the ‘new diseaso,”” ag several havo called it, and I doubt got but that mang look forward to our baving a raging epidemic of it, Now, I id ask, what is the nature of this disease? Im ble other diseases ? How.does {t originate and sproad Is it dependent upon some poieon, aod if #0, what ts natore of that poison, and is the disease spread by dissemination? think an answer to these would soon cleat up all doubts as to the nature bame of the disease, and would certainly relieve mucty anxiety on the part of the ‘The Tepid socceesion und prevaience of ease, smallpox, cholera, rt their production. much exeltemen| which, perhaps, af' epidemic or serious: typhoid fever? y turn out to be no racter then our ry,