The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1867, Page 6

-—~*By mail we have a very interesting special corre- at eg a ee 6 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. | ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatohes must be addressed New Young Hepatp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. XXXII v ANUSBMENTS THIS EVENING, WORRELL SISTERS' NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo- site New York Hotel.—Tas Franca Srr. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Srrivc or Pearus— | Daap Suor. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Biack Cnoor. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Rir Vax Winecr. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1310 street.—A Danexrous Gane. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— | Stavenses. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tas Dcxu's Wacar. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—Marim AN- Toimrrs. GRAND Ducuxss Matinee at 1 o’Clock. BANVARD’S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad- way and Thirtieth street.—Duvit's Avcnioy, NEW YORK CIRCUS. Fourteonth street.—Grunastics, Equrstuianisy, &c. Matinee at 244 o'Clock. 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New York, Wednesday, October 16, 1867. THH NEWS. EUROPE. By apecial telegrams through the Atlantic cable dated in London, Florouce and Paris yesterday after- noon, we learn that tne Italian revolutionary campaign in the Pupal territory has not ended, and that the opera- tions of the Garibaldians against Rome are being continucd actively under Menotti Garibaldi. Froquent skirmishes Occurred between the invaders and the Pontifical troops. A Papal force made up of cavalry and artillery attacked the command of young Garibaldi in their intrench- ‘ments in the province of Frosinone. After a sharp ‘fight the soldiers of the Pope were routed. The Paris Moniteur states that the Papal troops defeated three hun- dred Garibaidians. ‘The press despatches, dated yesterday evening, state that Menotti Garibaldi effected a junction of the revolu- tionary force under his personal command with the ivision posted near Vervla. Tue Papal detachment from Rome was assailod by the united body and routed with heavy loss, the Pontifical Zouaves suffering se- verely. Tho Garibaidians had five men killed and ff- teen wounded. Tho nows of tho Garibaldiaa victory ‘was received with great rojoicing in Florence, A Paris telegram states that if the situation around Rome becomes ‘‘critical,’’ the Pope will take refuge in Bavaria. The very latest telegrams from Florence and Paris Tepresens the situation of affairs in Italy as very excit- ing anderitical. Generai Joseph Garibaldi and Joseph ‘Mazzini addressed the Italians, the first advising the Ration to advance to Rome, and the latter calling on “ the people to proclaim a republic. From Paris we are informed that groat activity pre- ‘vailed in the naval department at Toulon. Consols closed at 937%, for money, in London, with the market rather weak. Five-twenties were al 7i\ in London, and 737 tn Frankfort, The Liverpool cotton marget was stronger at a slight advance, middling upiands closing at 825d. Breadstuffs quiet, Provisions almost uachanged, spondence from Europe, with newspaper details of our cable despatches to the 3d of October. THE CITY. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1867—TRIPLE SHEET. firmer, Wheat and cora closed firmer, with a fair de- mand. Oats were active and better, Pork and lard were dull and heavy, while beef was steady. Freights were active and firmer, Whiskey was unchanged. Naval stores wore lower, but more active, Petroleum was nominally 3c, lower, and wool dull and heavy. MISCELLANEOUS. We have special despatches from Cuba to the 15th, Porto Rico to the 24 inst,, and Venozuela to the 24th ult, There is no news of importance from Cuba or Bt, Do- mingo, The finances of Porto Rico remained ina de plorable state. More troops were expected from Spain. New revolts were expected in Venesuela, and the mi- litia was being thoroughly organized. The Indian Commissioners have arrived at§ Fort Larned, all well, on their way to meet the warriors in council at Medicine Lodge Creek. Two companies of mounted Montana militia, under Captain Hughes, had deserted, and a thousand dollars reward had been of- fered for the capture of Hughes. General Huasem Pacha, of Tunis, was introduced to the President by Blaeque Bey, the Turkish Minister, yesterday. In his address the Minister cited the fact that the Pacha had risen from the position of # Circas- sian siave to his present one, as an instance of the simi- | larity between this government and that of Turkey. An infant child of the Turkish Minister was baptized yesterday in the Roman Catholic faith, The coroner’s inquest in the case ol the riot homicide at Westfield, Mass., is going on, Several witnesses have testified that at the time the constables drod and Brooks was killed, the rioters were perfectly quiet and making no disturbance, The constables have hitherto claimed that the firing was done in self-defence, Major Pierce, tho officer who recently destroyod a printing office in Camden, Ark., for some offensive arti- cle published by the editor, has been sentenced by court martial to forfeit his pay for one year, to be degraded in rank to a captaincy and to be reprimanded in general orders, The yellow fever is abating rapidly everywhere, In Memphis there were only seven doaths up to noon yes- terday, The Secretary of the Howard Association at Now Orleans has telegraphed that no further contributions are needed, In Vicksburg there have been no deaths | within forty-eight hours; in Galveston there wore only four during the samo time, and in Mobile there wero only two yesterday. The recent trouble of the Virginia and Tennessee Rail- road Company with the government has been settled by representations of tho directors’ committes, and the age a ; E o t the $ AMERICAN TARATRE, 472 Broadway.— | company will go on with the election of officers at th adjourned meeting. A white radical candidate for the Virginia Convention, named White, became involved in a row with the colored adherents of another candidate, colored, at Wil- Mamsburg, Va., recently and was compelled to flee for bis life He had his enemies finally bound over to keep the peace. Aman fired at tho ring mastor of acircus in Eaton, Ohio, Monday night, during some disturbance, but the Dall missed him and killed a young lady. Governor Swann reviewed the Firat division of the Maryland National Guard at Baltimore yesterday. The force numbered five or six thousand men, and the crowd upon the stroots through which they paraded was immense. A mob recently tore up a private tide dam at Sheeps- cot, Me., because, as they alleged, it injured navigation, The Presidential Question—The Uprising of the People for General Grant. Like a dazzling castle in the clouds, the gorgeous and imposing Presidential structure of Mr. Chase and his followers has suddenly melted away and vanished. From its turrets to its foundations it has disappeared. The late emphatic verdict of the people of Ohio against immediate and universal negro suffrage has, in a word, set aside Mr. Chase as a Presidential candidate for 1868, and brought the great soldier and champion of the Union cause con- spicuously in the foreground as the central figure on the canvass, around whom all other Presidential availables or aspirants are secon- dary and subordinate characters. As it was with Cesar, so it may now be said of Mr. Chase—* Yesterday he might have stood against the world ;” but now, looking to the succession among practical matter-of-fact men, “there are none so poor as do him reverence.” Yesterday he had, apparently, the game in his hands against all competitors, Standing on the platform of universal negro suffrage, and strengthened on every side by his financial system, including his national bauks, holding within his grasp the control- ling machinery of the republican party, believing bis ruling idea on suffrage, a- foregone conclusion, and having, a3 hé sup- posed, neutralized the claims of Grant, Sheri- dan, Stanton and other heroes of the military department, by jostling their heads together with that of “Andy Johnson,” the rank and file of the republican party were silenced. They saidacthing, because they saw not clearly any way of escape. Mr. Chase, to all appearances, was the coming man. This was his attitude on the morning of the 8th of October; but the next rising of the sun found him in the position of General Lee at Appomattox Court House, and Grant the master of the situation. What do we now see? A general uprising of the conservative masses of the great Union An oxperiment was mado in Whiteball street last night with the now electric light recently invouted by @ | Frenchman, with whieh be claims to bo able to light up the city with a single lamp more completely than gas companies can do, The. light on exhidition Inst evening | ‘was s0 bright as to be painful to the naked eye and cast | bright glea: | over the bay. } Tho Board of Excike held their regular weekly trial meeting yosterday afternoon and disposed of fourteen cases. ‘Three licences were revoked. It has bosn de cided by the Board of Excise that a liquor dealer who | has been tried and acquitted before acourt of compe. | tent jurisdiction of a violation of the Excise law cannot be tried (or the same ofleuce by the Board. ‘The annus! meetivg of (he sharobolders of the Belt | Railroad Company was held yesteraay, and the financial statement for the past year, as read by the President of the company, showed a loss over ali rece:pis of $29,521. A now b ard of directors was elected, together with three inspectors of election. ‘There wore only 37,944 voters registered in this city and Brookiyn yesterday. ‘Tho races at Jerome Park opened yesterday with an exciting programme. ihe first raco was a hurdle ‘which was won by Julius. At the second burdie the black mare, Negrita, turned a somersault, falling ily ‘on bor rider ad killing him instantly. The second race ‘was a handicap for all ages. The brown horse, Captain | Moore, mado the mio and a quarter in 2:12\%, but ‘was ruled by the Judge for baving crossed the path of Enchantress, who was thereupon adjudgod (o be winner. | | fwo other races wound up the day's sport. Kentucky _ will not start in bis maxch against time wali! the track is | 4m better order than it ts at present. | ‘Tho new iron structure which spans Harlem river will | ‘be oponed for the transit of foot passougers aud velii les | ‘There wore 434 deaths in Now York last woek, and 291 in Brooklyn. Robort M, Kennedy, the drug clork who administered am overdose of morphine to Mrs, Matilda Webster, from hich that lady died oo Satard as yos- ted to jail by the Coroner, a jursjof inquest dict charging hor death to bis iguo- carelessness, ‘The Grand Jury of the General Sessions yesterday Presented an indictment for alloged nusiance against (he Presidentand Directors of the Park Bank, charging tbat ‘the columns of the new building on Broadway obatract the public highway, The defendants were notified of ‘the action of the Gra jary, and they will furnish the Fequisite amount of bail for their future appearance ‘answer the charge, ‘The stock market was weak and uneetiled yesterday. ernment securities wero weak, Gold closed at 143.4 143%. While thoro continued an active export aeiness in almost all other party of the war in the name of General Grant. From Maryland to Missouri, from Massachu- setis to Montana, from the Delaware to the ento, public meetings and resolutions ing General Grant for the succession » order of the day. At one of these at Philadelphia the other day a touching upon the popular of gratitude for pre-eminent public services in the field of war, said that Grant, like Washington, and Jackson, and Harrison, and Taylor, was sure of his reward. Butit might have been added that | while the people of the loyal States remember that the armies of the Union, scattered about over eight hundred thousand square milos of territory, eclipsed, under Grant, the grandest combinations, battles and victories of the great Napoleon, it will be folly to talk of other can- didates for the Presidency if Grant is in the field. Nor, in practical statesmanship, has any one of the leading politicians of the day proved himeelf the superior or the equal of General Grant in the management, for instance, of this | dificult business of Southern reconstruction. In this view, then, as o statesman, on his first appearance as a Presidential candidate before the country, he will stand in comparison not only far above Taylor or Harrison, but much higher than Jackson himself; for in tho outsot General Jackson was known in the Eust only as the hero of New Orleans, and of some Indian fights in Alabama, and of the hanging of six militia men, and of that fatal duel with Dick- son, and of ® bloody rough and tumble fight, pistols and bowle knives, with Colonel Benton and other parties, on both sides, in Nashville. This was so; yet, when put to the test, “Old Hickory” proved himself more than a match in statesmanship for Clay, Calhoun, Webster nd Nick Biddle, separately or combined. Grant presents none of these attributes of the ferocious backwoodsman, amiable, modest little man. He is a puzzle to experts in character and to the keenest poli- ticians, and yet he stands, like King Soul, a head and shoulders above all tho host of te of trade was vory quiet; prices, however, no change except in a few cases, Coffee was > Colon was ia fair demand and 40, per ld, | mighty men of Israel, The republican party has been garrying too and to bring his army into the battle in clean fighting trim. The heavy caravan of camels and donkeys, with all the traps and trumpery of Chase, Stevens, Sumner, Butler, Phillips, Greeley, and their set, will have to be left be- hind. The result will probably be @ separate camp of the intractable “manhood suffrage,” Sunday prohibition liquor law, and women’s rights people, and other moral reformers, after the manner of the old abolition faction in their day. Let them go. The people who carried the country right side up through the late tor- rible war have their own notions of reconstruc- tion, and Grant is their man. The dominant party in Congress, and the republican leaders outside, must fall into line or clear the track. Otherwise they will be run down and de- stroyed. The democrats will probably concen- trate again upon General McClellan, and, if relieved of Vallandigham, he will serve as well ag any other man to hold the party in position in view of the campaign of 1872. The prelim- inary skirmishes for 1868 have swept out the radical Jacobins and their revolutionary schemes. They must now drop into the rear or join the guerillas, The vote of New York, in November, will only give a new impulse to these popular movements for Grant, so that, with the reassembling of Congress, the fact we expect will be recognized in both houses—that the reign of the radical Jacobins is ended, that the reign of common sense is at hand, and that General Grant is the coming man, The Commissioners of Emigration and the Affairs at Castle Garden, The Commissioners of Emigration owe it to thomselves and to the public to put a stop at once to the indecent and suspicious squabbles that have been going on for some months past between their Genoral Superintendent at Cas- tle Garden and the agents of the several rail- road companies, who have heretofore been admitted to the Garden for the purpose of sell- ing tickets to the emigrants and forwarding them to their destination without subjecting them to the danger of going outside and find- ing their way to tho several railroad offices in the city. It appears, from some unaccountable motive, that the Superintendent has taken it upon himself, or has induced the Commissioners, to exclude from the Garden all railroads except the New York Central, and the emigrants have, in consequence, been driven to purchase tick- ets over that line or to obtain them outside. The agents of the Erie and Pennsylvania Cen- tral railroads have thereupon obtained a mandamus to compel the Commissioners to admit them to the Garden, and the whole thing will probably result in all the roads withdraw- ing their agencies from the depot, and selling no emigrant tickets except at their outside offices, Under their present management the Com- missioners of Emigration appear to be studying how not to protect the emigrants. Last year they prevailed upon the State Legislature to authorize them to collect an additional amount of commutation tax, and they now receive two dollars and a half for every emigrant who | higher, Flour was in active demand, and generally | much baggage. Grant is the man to cast it oif | The Roman Revolution and Crisis in Italy. Our special cable despatches from Italy indicate that the revolution is rapidly pro- greasing to a.serious crisis. Young Garibaldi has not been taken prisoner, but is at the head of a large body of insurgents and gaining ground, An engagement of quite a serious character has just taken place in the Papal province of Frosinone, upon the Neapolitan frontier, about forty-eight miles southeast of Rome, in which the Pontifical troops were badly defeated. Large bodies of insurgents were also ekirmishing in different directions. The greatest excitement existed in Europe, and throughout Italy the revolution is the great centre of interest. The Pope, it is supposed from 4 rumor in Paris, will leave for Bavaria, where he has been offered an asylum. It is difficult to imagine a more complicated condition of things for Victor Emanuel and Napoleon. If the Pope leaves Rome the Italian people will force Victor Emanuel to take pos- session of the Holy City and the States of the Church. The Italians, so determined to effect the unity of their countfy, would other- wise force a revolution against thelr King. Louis Napoleon will also be obliged to show his hand, and ff he be determined to protect the Roman Pontiff in his territorial rights we may expect such complications in the Roman question as may result in a general European war. The very latest advices indicate that the Ttalo-Roman situation is rapidly tending to this result, The elder Garibaldi and Joseph Mazzini have each addressed a manifesto to the Italians, urging a national advance on Rome and the proclamation of a republic, while from Paris we learn that great activity prevails in the naval department at Toulon. Greeley on Grant and Military Popinjays. Greeley is in a dreadful state, and is threat- ened with another terrible spitting fit. It will be remembered with what emphatic froth be expectorated his wrath on the platform of his party when it nominated General Scott, and he now gives “timely notice ” that he will “spit” with more fury than ever upon the nomination of Grant He perceives that the nomination of Grant is inevitable, and gives the case up in advance. He feols and knows that the popular movement for Grant is so strong, so full, so absolute with the national will, that no party machinery can resist it, and that there- fore all old political speculators and bullies of his particular stripe must give place to practi- cal men. He sees that the future is for the men made by the war, not the men who made it, and he declares his intention to give up the struggle. Alas, poor Greeley! He was a fel- low of infinite vanity—a fine fancy for twist- ing things into false lights. Where be now all his quips of statistics, and his gibes of the bad motives of others? It is amusing to note with what characteristic display this great politician, “like a tom cat, dies by inches.” He goes out with an indulgence of impotent insult and vanity, empty philosophy and an almost tear- fal declaration of his humanity. His insult is to the whole American people. He declares that lands at Casile Garden. They have an enor- mous balance of money on hand, which does not appear to be of any advantage either to the emigrant or to the public, and, with every facil- ity for doing a great deal of good, they seem only to multiply abuses and causes of complaint by their ineffizient and extraordinary manage- ment. Every day we hear of some case of neglect of or imposition upon emigrants in the institution especially established for their protection; and yet the time of the Commis- sioners or their employés is so wholly occu- pied in squabbling and fighting over the rail- road commission business that they suffer these daily outrages to pass unnoticed and | officers connected with that He is a quiet, ; | of Castle Garden are little better than a farce, make no attempt to apply a remedy. It is clear that there is somothing radically wrong at the bottom of all this business, The Commissionors of Emigration, as a public body, have two plain duties to perform—to foster the interests of the port of New York, and to extend information and protection to the emi- grants. At present they do neither the one nor the other. They should at once set about reforming their management, and their first step should be to clear out each inefficient or incompetent officer in their employ and fill his place with a competent man. They have some- thing else to do than waste thoir time in dis- gracelul squabbles over railroad matters, If they fail to make these necessary reforms, the general government should take the emigrant business into its own hands, and a law of Con- gress should be passed giving the whole con- trol over emigration to the United States bureau. At present the State Commission and the affairs snd the whole business is disgraceful to the | State and an injury rather than a benefit to the emigrant. Southern Railronds. Our Washington correspondent informs us . that a number of prominent Soutbern railroad men, including Generals Beauregard and Mahone, have been in consultation with the War Department with reference to obtaining an ex- tension of time for the payment due the govern- ment for rolling stock purchased after the close of the war. It is too well known that, unfortu- nately, since the close of the war, these railroads have not been in a prosperous condition, In travelling over the Southern railroads one sees that the amount of travel, and even that of the slowly increasing freight, is insufficient to pay expenses. In many respects tho railroads have shared the misfortunes of tho people at large. Short crops, floods, pestilence, and political un- certainties still more fatal in their influence, have all combined to aggravate the situation. This state of things demands the sympathy of well-disposed persons of every shade of politi- cal complexion, North and South. It is obvi- ously the true policy of the government tq : favor inevery way the development of ihe ma- terial prosperity of the South. This largely de- pends upon the prosperity of the Southern railroads. The government well understands this, and it is gratifying to know (bat General Grant, to whom the representatives of the Southern railway interests have appealed, will lend his influence in their favor, The Henan, which has always strenuously advocated all movements tending towards reconstruction, | does not hesitate to advise q liberal pole with reforenéé fo the Southern tailroads. It fs | of no little historical interest to find distin- | guished ex-generals of the Coufederate army | consulting with General Grant upon the best | means of promoting the welfare of the South, and, consequently, of the whole country. | bery. Here ia the code of political ethics by the great soldier who saved the nation is a mere military popinjay. He drags an ancient poli- tician from the grave to throw this insult over his shoulder. Greeley and Granger, it seems, were wondering for what they had been toil- ing just after Seward’s election, Greeley being then as uncertain of his purposes as now. Thus, as the wise men wondered, there came in a popinjay, “in all the bravery of brand- new uniform and epaulettes,” who had just been appointed on the Governor's staff. “There!” said Granger, “I have wondered for what I have been toiling, sweating and worrying in political strife these twenty years ; but now I see; it was to make that young man feel as well as he does to-day.” And Greeley applies these words to his present situation. Grant is the popinjay and Greeley the great man. Greeley modestly admits that he made the war; that he conducted It to a successful issue ; that he alone carried the country on his shoulders, “toiling, sweating and worrying ;” and now, after all this, he sees that popinjay Grant, that mere vanity of the popular will, “in uniform and epauleties,” striding into the Exec- utive chair. What wonder that a great man, taking this view of life and history, should fall to cursing and express his readiness to die—some death not very painful. Having reached this heroic point in his resolution the poor old fellow indulges the philosophy of the “outs,” and lays down the heads of a chap- ter on the advantages of failure. He would rather be beaten than not, which shows a wonderful peculiarity of disposition on his part | that he should “ toil, sweat and worry” against | the result that would be most ogrecable to him, “Personally,” he says, “we have an easier time, with far less anxiety and trouble, | when our party is out of power.” Here he | goes into a sirange confession, telling the | world with bold impudence that when a party | he opposes is in power, then, if “public money | is stolen (as stolen it is and will be), we can | pitch into the powers that be for putting thieves into office, or keeping them in—an easicr task than to defend them.” Here is an exact measure, on the best authority, of Greeley’s honesty. Here he confesses, lays his whole soul bare and tells the people what his motives | are and always have beea, and what is hi: standard of public virtue and the duty of a journaliat. It ts a party business entirely. Thieves will rob the public treasury any how; if the thieves are ours—if our party put them in, says this pure sage, this lecturer of public morals, then it is oar duty to “defend them;” if the thieves belong to any other party than ours, we are at liberty to “pitch in” and clamor with might and main against the rob- which this saintly creature trims bis course. We doubt if those who have thonght the worst of Greeley ever thought anything so bad as this. Three Card Monte on Wall Street. We yesterday published an interesting letter on the perils of Wall streot. The instance given where a young business man from St. Louis tried to make a corner is only one of the numerous tricks which are played upon unsuspecting travellers, who fancy that for- tune awaits investments in the bubbles which glitter at the broker’s touch. A man may try his band among tho old gray wolves at the stock board. They will welcome him, He may. go among the cayotes at the gold room, aud they will soon convince him by their howl- ing that they have the choicest morsel to pick that can be found in ail the range of specula- tive investments, In any oyent be will ond | in the Consistory at Rome, on the 20th of Sep- en” that money is a curse (9 ~ sreenborn on Wall street. Some one will tell lnc® 0 buy short; he does it and loses, He ts very Confidentially advised, by a friend, that he did wrong, but if he only buys short on Erie he will win heavily. Mistrusting the advice, he goes in for a rise, and, as intended by his friend, fails to make his pile, Taking advice or not taking it, he is sure tolose. It is a notorious fact that nearly all the stock brokers who have figured for fifteen or twenty years in the stock market have come out as poor as they commenced. In fact, Wall street is an extensive three card monte table. You are willing to bet your whole pile that you can tell where the right card is; you stake heavily; the cards are turned up and—* you’ve lost !” The Opening Day of the Jockey Club. The opening day of the American Jockey Clab’s autumn season was ushered in yester- day with all the splendor of October sunshine, lighting up the panorama of nature in which the Jerome Park is centred. Nature, more brilliant in ite animated form than the mantle of foliage that enwraps the Park, was there too, reproduced in the thousands of beautiful women who thronged the stands, filled the carriages, and helped, with delicate and jew- elled fingera, to empty the plethoric baskets ingeniously stowed away to supply those material comforts for which neither the beauty of the weather nor the excitement of the occasion can provide a substitute. Fashion held its place, and curiosity was abundantly satisfied. All classes were represented, and people of all tastes found room enough to indulge their peculiarities. Tho scene, upon the whole, was one of those kaleidoscopic viewa of Now York life peculiar to our metro- politan civilization—gayety in its gayest cos- tume, and sorrow in its most sombre robes. But as there is rarely to be found in human life a chapter unalloyed by some gloomy incident, so the races yesterday left one item upon their record throwing a cloud shadow behind it—a jockey was killed riding over ahurdle. That was the only drawback to the first day’s pleasure. There are many more days to come, when, no doubt, the sport will bo quite as attractive; but let us hope that it will not be interrupted by the untoward accident of yesterday, The Whiskey Seizures in Philadelphia. The whiskey bibbers of the City of Brotheriy Love are sorely troubled by the United States authorities at the present time. On Monday afternoon the revenue officers, assisted by a large force of marines and police, started on their weekly raid against tho illicit stills in which Philadelphia seems to abound. The guerilla patrons of these lawless establish- ments hovered around the attacking force, but used no other weapons than scowling looks and tongues well trained in invectives and curses. The whiskey army was neither clean nor respectable, and the fair sex was misrepresented on the occasion by ragged and unfeminine looking specimens, who dragged along still more wretched looking children. The casualties were confined to the demolition of hogsheads of “molasses mash,” and the trophies were two tin pails and some stills, One Irishman alone made a stout but unavail- ing resistance, and the expedition returned crowned with curses instead of laurels, Many of the troops suffered severely in the olfactory organs, for “molasses mash” is not particu- larly sweet scented. There isa great difference between the plan of campaign adopted by the foes of illicit whiskey in the Quaker City and that in vogue in this city. Instead of a charge of bayonets, we capture the enemy by a charge of greenbacks, and our revenue officers are received with smiles and outstretched hands instead of frowns and uplifted weapons, The receipts of the Internal Revenue may not be aided as well as by the Philadelphia tactics, but then both parties are in better humor, and the officers of the government pocket a great deal more money. The hogshead of “molasses mash” is not spilled on the ground, but only emptied into the stomachs of the hostile forces, and illicit distillation goes on and revenue officers build themselves brown stone mansions in con:e- quence of this convenient mode of wartare. We fear very much if some of the Philadelphia revenue authorities were to come here with their force of marines they would be aston- ished to find their brother officials and the distillers hobnobbing together, and the government cheated out of thousands of dollars every day. The votes of the whiskey population of Gotham, and expected douceurs, have a great deal to do with this state of affairs, The Pope's Allocution, In the Heraup of yesterday we printed the text of the allocution delivered by Pio Nono, tember last. The Pope, poor man, feels sore because of his position. His enemies! He begins and ends with them. On the suo- Alpine government he lets fall his heaviest malediction. It is curious to notice how easy and indifferent Catholic Italy feels under the anathemas of the Holy Father. Even Victor Emanuel endures excommunication with wonderful equanimity. The Pope talks of his right to avenge the Church's wrongs, In the mouth of the Vicar of Christ the word avenge is unfortanate. What government now fears his vengeance? How changed are the umes since the Emperor [rederick Barbarossa humiliated himself in the public square of Viterbo, by falling on his naked knees before the English Pope Adrian IV.! But Pio Nono and his advisers will not admit the change. They still live, or rather believe they live, in the Middle Ages. From our point of view we wonder that tie Holy Father should plaguo himself with such baubles as the temporal power and Italian Church property. Theso are not essential to the existence and even suo- cess of the Papacy. Pio Nono, good and amia- ble as he is, is too old to learn, Of this the allocution before us is sufficient proof, With the advent of his successor we may expect the commencement of a new era in the history of the Papacy, The Park Bank Encronchment. The Grand Jury having cognizance of the subject, have agreed upon the presentment of the Park Bank encroachment as a nuisance. We may s00n, therefore, expect decisive action against it, We bave, at all ewonis, no reason to doubt that the nuisang will be removed and that the builders 3-, the meantime are building in vain on p’yhlic property. The Steanveat Richwond Disaster. The farce of an i2uest, held up the Hudson river, over the remains Of one of the fremen murdered by the “culpable negligence or wilful design” of the officers of one or other, or both, of the steamers Dean Richmond or Vanderbilt, should not serve to divert the public mind from that disaster. It amounts to nothing at all. A few witnesses on one side were examined, the verdict of the Coroner's jury put the blame on the other side, and the other side comes out and denies its culpa- bility. It 1s just such « trick as is frequently resorted to in similar cases to make the pub- lic suppose that some sort of » conclusion bas been arrived at, that the affair has not been suffered to pass unnoticed, and leaves the guilty parties unpunished, while each side sat- isfles itself with its own explanation. The people care very little about the con- troversy between the rival lines, as to which boat was the most to blame for the collision. They know that it was the result of wicked and criminal carelessness, and that it wasa disaster that, but for a miracle, would have been attended by a terrible loss of life and have spread sorrow into hundreds of happy homes. They demand, for their own protec tion, that a thorough investigation should ba made and the guilty parties brought to pun- ishment. Tiey will be contented with nothing less, It is in the power of any person who was a sufferer in any way by the disaster to bring the matter to an issue in a suit for damages against the company owning the Richmond; and this, we learn, will assuredly bo done. It appears that the inquests upon the bodies of the victims are all to be made mockeries of justice. Let us see if there is not power in some of our courts to secure a thorough in- quiry into the affair and to decide upon whom the criminality rests. The Cuba Cable. The Cuba telegraph is now complete and in working order, and messages are sent to and fro between New York and Havana. Thus one more step is taken in that great march of pro- gress that is girdling the earth with electric fire, and promises soon to put the life and thought ofthe remotest districtsin active sympathy and | real contact with that of the great cen'rea of civilization. Ashley and Forney. Congressman Ashley, the great impeacher, has been signally rebuked by the people of his Congressional district in Ohio, and the Chee valier Forney, the radical head manager of the republican party in Philadelphia, has lost the State by turning over the city into the hands of the democrats. He had five thousand majority to play upon, and lost it all. These are ine structive examples of radicalism run to seed. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Mvsic on THs Park Lake To-Day.—The Park Com- missioners announce that, if the weather bo fine, there will be mustc on the lake at tho Park to-day, com- mencing at three o'clock P. M. Tux Boar of Avpit.—The Board held no moeoting ostel noon, @ quorum not appearing, and an ad~ journment until this noon was had, Tax Sreeet CieaNinc Commission.—The Street Clean- ing Commissioners met yesterday noon, Mayor Hoffman in the chair, After auditing and allowing the regular gem)-monthly payment to the street cleaning contractor, the Board aujourned. ALtzcgp Homscips Br 4 Porter.—Christian Kreitzer, &@ residont of Baltimore, died on Monday evening as Bellevue Hospital, from injuries received by pushed down a flight of iron steps at the Frankfort House, corner of ‘Wiliam and Frankfort streets, by the hotel porter, Juhn V. Donnovan, who was srw de you. terday. Coroner Gover held an inquest at the M yesterday, when Charles Kelly, an employé at the Toom opposite the Frankfort House, testified that ae saw the accused on Saturday morning come out of the hotel and push the deceased out of the door, as he was intoxicated. Kreitzer fell with great force on the pave- ment, his head striking on the curbstone. Several other witnesses also examined, and they fuily corrobo- age. He slated trary way from iy-nine years of age. Axorsen Accipgst on Tus New Havew Ranzoan— John Gibbons, a young man, while crossing the track of the New Haven and Harlem Railroads, at 125th street and Fourth avenue, was knocked down by the locomo- tive of the 5:30 P, M. New Haven train going north and was Sf seriously injured, He was taken to St Luke's Hospi Stanpixa Ayvnay,—John Morrisey, of 55 Willett street, while in a saloon at No, 24 Elizabeth street yesterday afternoon, was stabbed, it is alieged, in the thigh by James Britt, of No. 15 Elizabeth street, without apparent Saaoe. Britt was arrested and ° Morrisey’ wound was dressed and pronounced to be but sligut. Scppen Deata tv tas Station Hovse.—About half. past three o’clock yesterday morning officer Hutchin- ‘son, of the Eighth precinct, found a man lying tn Spring street in an insensible condition. He conveyed bim to the etation house, corner of Prince aad Wooster sti bus the stranger ve shortly after being brought ia, From papers found on bis person it was learned that his pame was Peter Pew and bis place of readence No 26 Desbrossos street. He was about thirty years of age and leaves a wife, but no children. Atresprep Scicps—Tue OLv Story.—Late on Mon- day night, Lutine de Aubort, alias Jenny Hutton, about 108 West Twenty~ 0 Hosp tal by Oflcer Bradley, of the Twenty-seventh Precinct, having ate tempted suicide by swailowing two ounces of jaudanum, It appears she had been conducted to this city by some party from the neighboruood of Rochester, ia this State, under promise of marriage, but on arriving hero, after repeated delays and excuses, found hersel{ aione, wholiy desutute of friends or means, aud ashamed to acknowle edge her position to those who could and would allevi- aie her misery, she concluded to rid herself and thom of a burden alike irksome for all concerned, She was, however, soon afier taking the fatai draft, fouad, an: her condition being known, prompt measures wore used to counteract the poison, and after considerable exer- tions and trouble to the surgeons, she was pronounced out of danger. Propasty Fatat Resvit or Icvoraxce-—Yosterday morning officer O'Connell, of the Seveath precinct was called upon to have Julia Murphy, an elderly indy, ree widing at No, 35 Gouverneur streot, removed to Beli Hospital, having been found in bed in an insensible dition, having, in place of turning off the Ce blow: out, and tn (his state was yesterday found by some the neighbors, She was promptly cared for, but it is the opiuion of the surgeons that having iahaled so muck of the gas, in all probavility it will be the cause of death, as different methods have been already applied to recuperate the dormant faculties, Presentation TO a Retiniwa Cunormas.—On Monday night tho Rev. Father O'Hara, of St. Columba’a church, in West Twenty-fifth streot, was the recipient of a handsome gold watch and chain at the hands of Mr. James Daily, who made the present on behalf of nutner- ous parishioners desirous of thas expressing their re- jor the reverend Cage . {4 tJ p< peat inisiered to their spiritual welfar Called to the charge of another parish, at Goshen, im Orange county. Tux New Yor Cornnos or Dextistry.—J. Smith Dodge, M. D,, delivered the introductory address before the New York College of Dentistry in Fifth avenue, near second street, ast evening. Dr, Eleazar eo occupied the ch The science of dentist. g was olucidated by the , who was followed by che Rev, Dr. Duryea in & seh aren remarks. The audience was very se! ind comprised many gentie. mea of the medical profession, The regular Course of the college commenced yesterday and Will coguaue th March 18, 1868. Fine w Munoenay Starst.—The alarm of fire abosly before three o'clock yestorday originated from 18 Mul berry atroet (the signal etation rung by “ine pelis was ‘No, 131, James slip and East river), on » floor, The premises are occupied by wo Manufecturing Cor ge (Merriam “6 Go, e! oommenced near or © Yaraish room. ‘The ® Bh hi oy ramp fie five with mage to the stock by fire 497. water will be about $0,008 | for $5,600, 19 "ng Hamilton, st, Mark's and American, Balimors The building is owned by William Phelps) ti de%uaged abous $9,000 and 8 fully