The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches. must be addressed New York | Berar. Letters and packages should be properly | Gealed. | Rejected communications will not be re- $urned, Volume XXXII eoeeeeosoeses . No. 202 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. pol | NRW YORE THEATRE. Bousearva. Matiuec at site New York Hotel.— ROWFRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sraina or Pxanis— fon, tue AckomaT, '_ WIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Bcace Croox, Matinee Bi Lo'clovk. OLYMPIC THRAT! latines at 1b, o'clock. f Brostwar.—Rir Vax Wixeue, | WALUACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street. AB Dascenovs Gams. Nos. (Sand 47 Bowery — nix, Maisnee at 2 0’eluck, | GRRMAN STADT TH eR CLOReKNER VON N PROADWAY THFATRE. Broadway.—Lvorerta Borers, atiage at Lg o’clock—THe Dugx’s WaGen, FRENCH ‘THEATRE, Fourteeoth atseet.—Tae Graxo Diciisss. Mativcoat ig o'clock —M anim Anrorwettic. RANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM. Broad: fay and Thirtieth stroct.—Davit's Avction, Matinee at 1. NEW YORK CIRCUS. Bauestaianisa, do. Math teenth trent. —Granasrics, 36 o'clock, | VIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 2 and 4 Weet 2th street. — | Acavois, Tux Wonpearut 8 ke. | THE AB Suageier's t COMIQUE, S14 Broadway.—Waite, Corrox MINSTRELS. Matinee at 254 o'clock SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Ermio- Piax Esteqrainments, Singing, Daxcixa and BUKLESQUES, KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonas, | Dascas, Kecextmoriies, Berusacns, dc. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowe: Vooatism, Negro Mixstaetsy, do. Matinee ab 2 BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, (72. Broadway. — Basser, ance, Paxromime, Ac. Matinee at 2), o clock. OUSE, corner Thirty-fourih Matines at 235 0,ciock. FIGHTH AVENUE OPERA Otreet.—Minstnersy, Faxces, & . Brooklyn.—Eraroria » LESQUES, MOOLRY'S OPERA fOt Miracusisy, Bavcaps axp B: BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, Williarasburg.—Uspaa fae Gascicur, Matinee, BROOKLYS ATHEN &U Qt 234 o'clock. ‘us Hisansicox. Mallnee PINE ART GALLERIES, 845 Broadway,—Baarsition or Paistinos, AMERICAN INSTITUTE.—Exuisition of Narionat. Lx- Duseaiac PRovvcrs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Beience asp ARI ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Opora—Lre. M: at TRIP LE Fourteenth street.—Italian ‘clock=T: Nt 8 | while, on the other band, it h | number of witnesses that P. T. | vought, of attempted to buy, votes. to | | tions, | party will dare interfere with them in such 4 crisis, for | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1867.—-TRIPLE | “| jroasa of fravty and Megat vows xooush tess! | Butler, Chandler and thor followers isthe road | votes, tt is anid, are epecified to change the result. The Barnum Investigating Committee, after eitting three days at Falls Village, has gain adjourned toa future date not yet decided upon, The evidence thus far, while it shows clearly that money was lavishly spent by both sites, does pot establish direetly the charge of buying votes made against W. H. Barnum, Barnum's agents openly Hayti advices to the 23th ult, are received; bat the main items bave been anticipated by our special telegrams from Cubs, Financial matters were decidediy nving. The Cacos insurgenta bad beow completely -imon, Costa Rica, haa been opened to free trade yihing except tobacco and alcoholic liquors, nen were tojurod by a premature explosion of ng powder in Fairhaven, Vt., on Thursday ovening. ‘The Canadians are troubled with their regular Feolan attack, which thia time ig to take place in the nelghbor- hood of Potsdam, about the time of the New York elec- The occasion is chosen beciuse neither political fear of being voted out of oxistence in retaliation, Murphy, the St, Louis boat burner, who was sentenced by a military commission during the war to ten years’ imprisonment, was'discharged by order of the United States Cirewit Court, at St. Louis, yesterday, on the | ground of unconstituttionality in the court which tried Lim, He was, however, romanded until similur charges can be preferred against him in a civil court. Sharswood’s official majority in Penuaylvania is an- nounced as 922. There wore thirty four intermenta from yellow fever in New Orleans yostorday. Tho Howard Association, of that city, has sept fifteen nurses to Memphis to attend to yellow fover patients, There were two intorments from yellow fover yesterday in Mobile, A negro league club and a white debating society got into a disturbance at Pickens Court Hous, 8. C., several days ago, when a man named Hunnicutt was killed, The Reconstruction Question in Congress What Ought to Be Done. What eff:ct will the late elections have upon Congress? Will the two houses still adhere to their radical leader: and their extreme mea- sures, or be guided by the instructions of tie late elections? The voice of Ohio, for example warns the party in power of the rocks and shoals which lie before them as distinetly as the elections of last autumn point out the way, of safety and success. If the republicans would settle this business of Southern recon- struction on a fair and enduring basis, if they would retain the power which they hold to the finishing of this great work of restoration, the way is so plainly marked before them that he who runs may read it. On the other hand, the road to swift destruction is not less plainly ndicated. Which road will the two houses take? What will Congress do? The experimental measures of the last three sessions on negro suffrage for the reclamation of the rebel States; as'far as submitted to the bar of public opinion, have been condemned by the loyal Siates. The developments of Southern universal negro suffrage under the five Southern military commanders, pointing, as they clearly do, to Southern negro political Saturday, October 19, 1867. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable ig dated to midnight yesterday, October 18. ‘The news from Italy is important. Napoleon impera- Lively demands from Victor Emanuel a strict observance ofthe September convention, and the French fleet at Toulon ied only the reply of the King to sail for the Roman ports, Goneral Garibaldi is said to have escaped from Caprera on board an American ship. A revolutionary force appeared in the western portion of the Roman territory and commenced active operations, fearing up the railroad and cutting off communication Deiween Rome and tho port of Ostia, Genera! Menott: Garibaldi had reached near to Rome ‘With a considerable force aud was still advancing. Vol- Unteer reinforcoments, recruited in France and Spain for tho Papal, army had arrived in Rome, The plan of in- Surrection within the city of Rome was discovered aud bho loaders arrested. ‘The troops of the King of Tlaly still guarded the froatier, and suspected Garibaldians were arrosted. The Cabinet Ministers of England were ontertained at dinner in Manchester, Earl Derby made a spoech in which he defended the course of the government on the | Toform bill; Lord Stanley, Foreign Secretary, alluded to | tho war agitation on the Continent, and expressed a Lopo that peaco would be preserved pothwithstanding the threafoning appearance of affairs, The Alabama claims | Begotiation with the United States, Lord Stanley added, was stil open, but time was soothing the irritation | Which had grown on both sides of the Atlantic on tho | ect, Admiral Farragut entertained the Lords of tho | ; an amendment of tho State constiution. sh Admiraity on board the Franklin. Mr. Camp. the firm of Campbeli & Sous, of Liverpool, has | Deon arrested for an alloged fraud on the National Bank | fu volving £10,000 storing. | THE CITY. Aboiler at the head of the dock, pier No. 44 North fiver, exploded yesterday about noon, killing the engi- oer, Mr. Gory, and the fireman, Mr, Kelly, almost in- #:anily, and seriously injuring five others, A son of the engineer is missing, Tue buildiug in which the boiler | ‘was contained was on old shed, which was (orm com- | piotely to pieces by tho explosion. Miss Osborae, a young lady in Weat Fifty-second a@treet, commitied suicide yesterday by shooting herself. Bho had been ill and in excruciating pain for several | @ays, aud took thu method of relieving herscif of her Viacont Cody, for manslaughter in killing John R. ‘Livingstone, in Jefferson street, last April, was esen- teuoed yesterday by Judge Iugraham to imprisonment for life, Thomas A. Lambert, for araon, was sentenced to imprisonment for eleven years and six months, A curious breach of promise case wag tried in the Su- perior Court yesterday, The plaintiff was a young and pretty widow, the defendant a Broadway tradesman. Damages were laid at $25,000. Defendant had broken of the match because, as be said, two other ladios had Prior claims on Lim, and one of them he had promised fo warry before he became a widower. Plaintiff's coun- fo! avowed that her object in brimging the action was to @xpose ber {alse suitor, No decision was come to, the jury beiug unable to agree on the amount of damages. In the Court of General Sessions yesterda; Baldwin was convicted of forgery im th nd gontonced by Russel to the St five years, Bald sald to be a notor forger, well | koown to the authorities of Pennsyivanis and the mill- | tery officers im South Carolina While serving asa cap. | | tain fo the army he represented himself to be an agont | of the Freedmon's Bureau, and by forged papers awin- lod persons out of a large amount of money, ' Tho General Transatlantic Company's steamship Perei eo, wil pier 60 North | ¢ Brest and Havre, | be Post Oillce at eight nt and for Great Britain and | Tretand 6 + Olce at half-past ten tais | Moraing, and wili al! be taken by the Inman steamahip | Chiy of Baltimore, which sails ai v000 to-day for Quoens- town and Liverpool The popular eidewhoo! #teamaip Alabama, Captain Limebneser, of Leary’s line, wilt leave pier 14 Bast Fiver st (tree P.M. towdey for Charieston, eonaseting | ‘with tue Florida ports and the Soath and Southwest, \ | MISCELLANEOUS. | Ads ices ftom the Mexican capitis! to the 19th inst. | @0d Vera Cruz to the 14th are received. The banish. | moat of Sante Ans te confirmed AM the prin pal of the (nbartor had returaed @ majority tor Juares ‘dens. y worary of the Tre y futends mating « 4e Yoand for reclamation imurdinely upon those persons from whom he spurious seven-ihirty bonds were re. coived A man named Cooper has been arrested ( Gileged complicity in inanutactaring and pastog the bonds Tie defontad candidates foo min Gbiytaia Me Cownencod conte: pat oMege in Pitta Ue weet ig yn 98 (ud | of Congress. | under ft, and why not the others of supremacy and to a negro balance of power in our national affairs, bave stariled the public mind of the North, and its first warnings have been heard in these recent elections. If this radical programme is adhered to by Congress these warnings will assume a bolder form of expression, and in the elections of next year the party deeming ilself too powerful to be dislodged will be shattered into fragments and dismissed in disgrace. There will be a politi- cal revolution in the settlement of the Presl- dential succession as remarkable and decisive as that which broke up the old pro-slavery democracy at the Charleston Convention. Mr. Stevens, the impracticable radical leader of the House of Representatives, thonks God for these late elections, as involving the proper rebuke to the republican party for playing the coward’s part, He is mistaken, for in Penn- sylvania, where this universal negro suffrage issue was avoided, the party substantially holds its own ; while in Ohio, where the friends of Mr. | Chase distinctly presented this issue in the form of an amendment to the State constitu- tion, they are torribly defeated, and by repub- lican voles. We may expect a similar result on the same question in New York in Novem- ber, thongh here the republicans, anuffing danger in the air, have postponed the issue as | “Old | Thad” and Wenlell Phillips, and all their disciples of the radical school, are all wrong. They would charge bayonets agsinst an im- | passable stone wall; but in a council of war, if | common sense is to provail, their foolish in- | strnetions will be rejected, ond they, too, will | be set aside, The constitutional amendment submitted from the Thirty-ninth Congress, first session, and ratified by a sufficient number of States to make it part of the anpreme law of the land, is the true policy for the Fortieth Congross. All these subsequent measures pushing to the gy ultimatum of universal negro suf- rage in the work of Southern reconstruction ought to be repealed and the conservative republicans and democrats of the two houses have the power to do this thing and to re-estab- lish the conditions of this aforesaid constitu- tional amendment. What are they? They are— First, that in all their civil rights citizons of the United States, of all colors, shall stand in all the States upon a footing of equality. Second, that suffrage and representation in Congress shall go together, as each State for itaclt? miniy “étect; that where there is any abridgemetit' of what is known as universal suffrage thore shall be « corresponding reduc- tion in counting the people for representation. Third, that certain leading rebels shall he disfranchieed and excluded from offtce until absolved by atwo-third vote of each honse Fourth, that the national debt and soldiers’ bounties shall be held a3 sacred obligations ; but that all rebel debts and all claima for slaves shall be void. Fifth, that Conzres# shall have power to enforce (hese provisions of the supreme law. Is not this plan of reconstrnetion enough? | All the Northern States have emphatically approved it; Tennessee has been restored the rebel States? Beosuse they rejected it? «Try them again, then, and they will be wiser. They will be glad to tako it, on the sober second thonght. Thus, within six months from the meeting of Congress this whole businoss | | way be settled, and permanently, too—civil rights, suffrage and represeniation, rebel dis- abiifties, revel debts and claims for slaves, and the national debt and soldiers’ bountics and | ail--in being fixed in the federal constitution. | We must bave some of these things in the con stitution, or we shall have no eecurity for the | future, Thia great amendment, then (already ratified, if we are not mistaken), is the policy for Congress and the party in power, while the roa us, Wade, Suaner, Phill nas bean sworn tobya | ens the interest in the Roman question. to dissolution, revolution, anarchy, baukruptcy and destruction. The Roman Question, Our cable telegrams dated in Florence and Paris yesterday bring intelligence that decp- Menotti Garibaldi had reached the inimediate | vicinity of Rome with @ considerable force, and was still advancing. Inside of the Eternal | City the plan of insurrection was discovered | by the authorities and frustrated. King Victor | Emanuel had not moved, but was still guard- | ing the frontiers with bis troops, The Pope’s ‘army had been increased by a number of | volunteers recruited in France and Spain, An , imperial fleet of iron-cluds and transports was | equipped and ready {o sail to the relief of Romo. | Itwas oven reported to have reccived orders to sail, but its actual departure was delayed, | awaiting the reply of Italy to an imperative | demand which Napoleon has made on the | Italian government for tho strict observance | of tho convention of September, Meanwhile, | itis rumored that Garibaldi has egain escaped | from Caprera, and that be left tho island on | board of an American ship. The Garibaldians had appeared in the western disincta betweon Rome and the sea, and had torn up the rails of the road from the city to the soaport of Ostia. In fine, the beginuing of the end approaches, — One of the possibilities to which we alluded twodays ago has atl but become a fact Na- poloon bas resolved to “ intervene immediately in the settlement of the Roman question.” Directly on his return from Biarritz a cabinet | council was held, and, as the result of their deliberations, Napoleon bas undertaken the seitlement of the Roman question, with the distinct understanding that he is not to act “in conjunction with the Itstian government to that end.” hat thore may be no doubt as to the character of that intervention, the Moniteur, on tho evening of the same day on which the council was beld, came out with a leading editorial denouncing the Italian government for “violating the law of nations, disregarding | the obligations of solomn treaties, and fostering a dangerous spirit of republicanism in Italy.” The meaning of all this is plain at a glance. It is in perfoct harmony with what we have said on the last occasion on which this subject was discussed, Nanoleon fs not wholly cee indifferent to the welfare of tho Papacy, but he is fearful of the regeneration of republioan- ism in Europe, especially ia the South. In this particular case, and not without good reason, his fear is more powerful as an impelling motive than his indifference. Emperor of the ¥rentt; the elected chief of an entire people as he is, he has no desire to see the masses again in the ascendant. The party of action is too mach identified with Mazzini, and Mazzini is too much his natural enemy for Napoleon to wish. that party success. Itis one of the vices or virtues of popular olection (whether a vico or avirtue depends much on the point of view trom which we look at it) that the fuvorite of to-day is not necessarily the favorite of ten, fifteen or twenty years hence. This Napoleon well knows, and, champion of the pcople though he bo, perhaps there is no ruler of the day less willing than he to submit his position to the decision of a popular vote. 1: but little affects the correctness of our argument to say that he is not the first who bas epurved the ladder by which he ascended to power. ‘The great popular chicf of the age, the man who owes his position to the popular voice, is at the pre- sent moment more fearful of the popular voice than any of the chiefs of the ancient monarchies of Europe. If by force of arms the Emperor of tho ;French does interfere in the settlement of this Roman question, we may iake it for granted that his interference is prompted by some pros- pect of auccess. He may give to the world what reasons he pleases, but the only reason which can be satisfactory to himself is that he inter- | teres as the champion of Catholic Christen- dom, not so much that he loves the Catholic | Church as that ho believes success points in that direction. Faith has lille to do with the policy of the Emperor. Faith demands sacri- fice ; but sacrifice bas never been characteris- tic of Napoleon or of the House to which he belongs. If he interfere in Italy by force of arms his policy will simply be the result of a calculation of chances, He interferes because ; he believes he will be successful. Napoleon's calculations, however, have been wrong more than once. It is not impossible that they may be wrong in this cave also. We do not deny that there is & sentiment in Spatn and Portu- gal, 8 sentiment in France, a sentiment in Ausiria, a sentiment in Italy itself, from which he derives encouragement; but we doubt whe- ther this sentiment is powerful enough to ren- | der success certain. In a}!l those countries the Catholic nentiment is strong; but it may be fairly questioned whether the liberal sentiment is not the stronger of the two. In all Catholic countries. there is visible respect for the Church and for the person of the Holy Father; but there is also in all those countries a deep and a grow- ing undercurrent of feeling in favor of liberty, civil and religious—an undercurrent of feel- ing which finds itself checked by this anti- quated Church sentiment, which chafos under the resistance {t meets with, and which uiti- mately, sooner or later, must triumph over every obstacle. It is not tmpossible that at | the present moment this feeling is greatly | more strong than Napoleon imagines. Italy, it is certain, will resent his interference with indignation, feeling it to be a fresh national insult. With one heart and soul the nation de- mands Rome for its capital, and every Italian knows that Napoleon is the only obstacle in the way of the ne ‘onal will. Spain has offered Napoleon encour, ot; but wo do not for- get that Spain re and narrowly escaped | revolution, end. that even now the liberal | party there is watching ite opportunity. Austria, devoted as slo is to the Church, can searcely be govnted upon in a Catholic | demonstration. (he temper of Austria, in fact, may justly | ¢ inferred from the language of the Empero’, who has just reminded the reactionary party, with the bishops ‘at their bead, that he “is* a constitutional prince as well s@ 9 true son of the Church.” This is not all. in France itself there ie a powerful and active party which has but little sympathy with the Church, and even lees sym- | pathy with Napoleon bimself, It ie notim- | | probable, thercfore, that the would-be Charle- | magne may have misca'oulated, and that when | | itis too tate he may find himself in « miserable | minoril Vicor Emanuel has, dowbitess, beca stow, | but be has had a most diffoult part to play, and the world does not withhold from him its sympathy. As to the oonduct of Napoleon, public opinion is undivided. The conviction ia universal among intelligent thinkors thit his interference is uncailed for and unjust. Tho landing of Frenoh troops on Italian soll will be the signal for a burst of disspproba- tion which shall resound from the Euxino to the Atloatic, and from tho Baltic lo the Medi- terranean. feation aad Railroad Consoli+ dation. We published yosterday an account of a meoting at Cooper Institute, which had for tts object the facilitating of freight transportation throughout the United States, Broad and valuable resolutions were passed, the whole tending to aid tbe national railway bills before Congreas. Now linca are, however, scarcely required between the Missidsippi and the Atlantic. A consolidation of tho existing ones is the proper-meaaure for private and Congrea- sional effort When railroad building was in ita infanoy little waa understood o! our trade development aa a@nation. Commercially, as well aa politi- cally, ideas were contracted to State progress and State trade, The result naturally followed. Exch State made its own laws relative to internal commerce. If they conflicted with those of tho adjoining province it muttered not, for trade- to. them waa Iccal, not national, Again, within the States themselves there were no comprehensive plana formed relative to the flow of land traffic. The valley courses, the mountain ranges and all the governing topo- graphical features were never taken into consideration. All was left to the petty rivalries of small companies, who built thoir lines of road to accommodate the little local interests which the road controlled. Evon in the largest corporations these {nflu- ences were more or loss the governing forces, which, once gaining posseasion, never ooased thelr action. To go beyond State boundaries to reach a more distant trade it became nocos- sary to connect, in most cases, with new cor- porations, each with its own managoment and each subjoct to a State charter, which was, in many instances, antagonistic to that of the ad- joining State. Moreover, great difficulties arose in fixing « tariff of prices for transportation. Every ton of freight paid the cost of two or more managements, and the whole interchange of products throughout the country supported 8 host of useless officers, whose local manage- mont was as petty as the road itaolf. But there “was a still greater evil. Ench State was, by its railway system, collecting duties by an indi- rectly established syatem of internal customs; for the more States a ton of freight passed through the more tax it paid, on account of territorial divisions, or rather imaginary boundary lines, We have drawn this picture in the past that it may be tho more easily bronght home to our people as something that should be of the past. It is, however, the general rule of the present, as it was of twenty years ago. Whatever gigantic results have arison from the unrolling of our Euro- pean-born, but American-nurtured, energies, we havo signally failed to make the best uso of our powers, To-day the railways of the United States represent a money value of about two thousand millions of dollars, It may be safely said that five oundred millions of this amount have beon expended foolishly in lines which have no bearing in a comprehensive system such as would to-day, were it possible, be designed to sult the internal commerce of the country and bo consistent with @ wiyg employmont of capital As a splendid proof of what un- governed individual effort produces in the United States, nothing can be more salient ; but how much greater might have boon the results had thes efforts, under a wise direction, been continental in their grasp? France, very wisely, has a commission ap- pointed to report upon every railway project. If it in any way conflicis with the great pria- Intorcom: . ciples which are laid down for the best inter- nal development of the trade of the empire, it is discarded. Not so with us; a road may be built wherever promised profits may raise the capital. The result has been that but very few of our railways have ever paid a fair in- terest on the investment, This narrow system will no longer anawer our purposes. The only method now is to try and bring a little order out of the railway chaos, and this can alone be done by consolidation on the lines of tho great trade currents, These lines are quite numerous, but all of the utmost importance (o our natioual greatness, The most northern one must run from Port- land through Canada ond across the Continent. From Boston runs also a groat artery to tap the vast products of the interior. There the prin- ciple of consolidation has already been forced upon tho Great Western Railway Company, which has just united with the Boston and Worcester, making a single corporation to conuect with the New York Ceatral, of which itehould form a part, We next como to the New York Central and Erie roads, which should both have an unbroken management from New York to the heart of the West. Fortunately, thote is at tho head and front of these ideas one of our greatest railway kings, Mr. Vanderbilt, who, dully alive to the importance of consolidation, is labor- ing hard to effect tt in the case of the New York Central and its connecting links. To succeed te to bring a barrel of flour from Chicago to New York in two days; while it will inaugurate a rapid and cheaper system of transportation which can hut bring inestimable benefits to our metropolis and ths whole coun- iry at large. Much has been done in tho Erie road toward consolidation of lines; but wo must urge the movemont onward. From Phila- delphia, Baltimore and Norfolk grand trunk lines must also extend Pacifloward, and tho quicker this is done the better for the country. English capitalists have niready detected this total lack of organization which exists In our railway ayatem, and, as in the ease of the Atlantic and Groat Western, havo taken ad vantage of our faults to organize enterprises which oan but fill English coffers. There ts magnificent outlet in the United States to-day for the immense accumulations of money lying in London. If one English friends will but toize the opportunity they may become the ro- organizers and controllers of the principal American raiiway lines. Hut it is time that the general government opened its eyes to tho necessity of organizing a ! national transportation aystem. National tole tellway aad caus laws sould be | colyes the faterest and what becomes of (1?! tiona oa rafuse to unite fa his donial, graphic, ' | | | established. Railway lines, which are naturally tho motherarteries of our internal trade, should be forced to consolidate ; and for tho general national benefit all local interosts should stand aside. The Gtrugate tn Pa Our news from Buenos Ayres is of great interest, Tho allicd floet hay reduced Fort Curupaity and is now in front of the famous stronghold of Humaits. In the demolition of Curupaity the fleet showed some excellent fighting qualities, which give promise of bold movements in the future, It must be under- stood, however, that Curupaity was a mero advance work of the groat main fortification of Humaiis, This has been fortified with all the akill that could be brought to bear by Para- guay. Foreign engineers have labored ardu- onsly in adding auxiliary works. Guns of very heavy calibre aro mounted bebind its thick parapets, and every precaution which has been available has been brought to bear to miko it formidable, Chains have been streiched across tho river ané torpedoes obstruct the channel. In fact, the allied fleet has need of all ita@kill and courage to make the slightest impreasion upon the works. Treso aro at least ten times as strong as Curupaity, and we bolieve lmpregnable to anything that the allies can bring to bear upon thom. se In tho meantims tho allied land force, stretohed out in a thin line, forms a erescent.- One arm of this rests on tho northern bank of the Parana, just above ila junction with the Paraguay river. The other thoy are vainly endeavoring to throw against the Paraguay river above Fort Humaité, and connect with ‘The President of the Broadway Bank js one of the largest subscribers to the new radioal organ enterprise in this city. Does Chamberlata Sweeny generously patronize all parties alike, radicals aa well as Tammany democrats ¢ If the Broadway Bank is the custodian of a sinking fund for the benefit of the old Tammany ring, into which the one bundred and fifty thousand dollars a year interest goes, then Chamberlain Sweeny and bis associates ought to be able to getalong without bleeding John Morrissey, who can afford it, and assessing month after month the poor clerks and employés in the various elty departments, who cannot afford it. The fund ought to be enough for all political pur- poses, and the undersirappers who do the hard work should be allowed to pocket, without de- duction, their full month’s pay of seventy or a hundred dollars each, to buy bread and clothes for their families and whiskey for themsolves. The Tammany Couaty Nomincos—What te Their Position ® The Tammany democrats have made thelr nominations forthe lucrative county offices to be filled at the election in November. Their candidates are Jamo. O’Brien for Sheriff and Charles E. Loew for County Clerk, These ame the principal positions on the ticket, and are both considered fortunes to those who are lucky enough to secure them—provided the incumbents are pormitted to put a good abate of the fees and perquisites into. their owa pockets, and are not subjected to a wo heayy blackmail in the shape of divisions and por ~ centagé. Tho reat of the offices do not amount to much more than living salaries and empty honors, Mr. O’Brien is a respoctable, capable and energetic young man, and far preferable the floot whon they shall have run the batteries | to the old party hacks who were entered for of the great fortification. It will thus be seen that in tho new campaign thoy have staked their fortunes upon’ their flest instead of their army, tho latter playing, for tho moment, a the race, and who have been distanced by him. Mr. Charles E, Loow is as great a disfigurement and encumbrance to the ticket as his famous iron bridge is to Broadway, and they should secondary par The army occupies @ very | both be cleared away and demolished. The dangerous position, Stretched farto the north and westward, and receiving its supplies by reat of the nominees are fair men, and, with the exception of the originator of the bridge nui- the flank, it affords a splendid opportunity | sance, we shall be very willing to give them for Lopez to fall with a small compact force upon its left wing, cut off its communications our support. But we require to know, as 4 preliminary, and isolate the whole army so completely that | what is their position regarding the Mayoralty nothing but a miracle oan save it from capture. election, which follows in December the State The genoralship displayed in the handling of | election in November} If they are pledged to tho allied troops has, from the inception of the | foist Hoffman von the people as the Tammany war, been very Inferior. The very strongest | nominee ut the bidding of Sweeny and Tweed, point in the Paraguayan torritory was sclected far attack, and éaoh new phase of the allied plans* has exhibited additional weakness in the military head that controls. From the day that the allies drove the Paraguayan troops from the soil of Corrientes matters have been going on from bad to worse. Tho first campalgn a failure, they never had any ‘farther hope; and were it not for the secret clause of the treaty of alliance between the Ar- gontine republic, Brazil and Uruguay, they would have withdawn from the hopeless con- test long since. Ithas cost them already three hundred millions of dollars. The energies of half of South Amerioa have been wasted. There is not a single oivilizing principle at stake in the contest. On the contrary, it {s a war purely for national and personal aggran- dizoment. It is a war which had its birth in the onslaught of the European monarchical Powers to overturn the republics of the Western World. It was born at the same timo and took shape from the same brains that conceived the Mexican expedition, that planned tho on- slaught of England and France against New Granada, the spiteful dash of Spain against her old colonies of Chile and Peru, and it hinged more or less upon the great battle Which we fought out in the United States against the ignorance which atiempted to ride inv power upon the ruins of intelligence. The allies may overthrow Paraguay if they bave an indux of Kuropean treasure, but tho results will be valueless to them. - A more exhaustive war would immediately break out between the traditional and morial enemies—Brazil and the Argentine ropublic—over tho division of the spoils, We havo little fear, however, of this result, for without foreign aid the allies no longer possess tho elements for the conquest of a country which of itself is 4 natural forti- fication. Declining the Honors. Congressman ©, T. Hulburd, who was nomi- aniod for Comptroller by the radical republi- cans of this State, declines the nomination and withdraws his name from tho ticket. He pro- bably reads a leason of wisdom in the recent elociions in other States, and fels no disposi- tion to go to the dogs with the rest of the radi- cal candidates. We regret Mr. Hulburd’s with- drawal, for it has spoiled several rich and racy paragraphs in which we designed placing be- fore the electors his varied qualifications for the office of Compiroller, as evinced by his dis- tinguished services as Congressional investi- gator. Who so fit to smell out canal frauds as the incorruptible radical Roman who” dragged to light the famous forty-cents’-worth-of-candy corruption in the New York Custom House? What more vigilant watch dog could be placed on guard at the door of the State Treasury ? We futended to show how easily and com- fortably the whiskey revenue thieves robbed the government of millions of dollars under the very nose of Congressman Hulburd’s famous forty-cont committee, and how securely all the accummulated evidence of enormous frauds slopt in their committee room. All this capital is now lost, unloss, indeed, we can induce Congressman Hulburd to recall his declination on the consideration that we start @ subscription to pay the expenses of the cam- paign. How much will he take to run? The City Chamboriain. wo shall oppose them as part and parcel of a corrupt politioalring. If they are independent on the Mayoralty question, and are willing to aid in the nomination of an honost, independ. ent business man, such as John Anderson or John Kelly, and the deieat of all manner of rasoals, magnificent and insignificant, with black mustache or white mustache, then we shall do all in our power to secure their suc- cess at the polls. We shall ask them this quos- tion every second day from now until the Sth of November: Are they in favor of Joba Hoffman for Mayor, or are they not? Thea Southern Prose on tions. We notice in the Southern press a dispost- tion to attach an importance and significance to the late elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio which the circumstances do not fully warrant. Ic is true thera is in the reaults of these elec- tions much cause for congratulation to the Southern people, as well as to-those-ef: the North who have become tired and sickened with corrupt radical misgovernment. But our Southern friends should not go off at a tangent upon these signal evidences of a returning senso of reason among the radical majorities of tho North. Thoy shonld not hurrah before they are out of the woods. They should keep calm and collected—we will not say “sub- dued,” for they have acknowledged themselves so already, They should not be too exultant ; they should uttor no taunts, make no throats, nor do aught else to arouse anew the spirit of relentless persecution with which they have been pursued by the radicals since the Con- gressional project of reconstruction was first broached. The end is not yet. Much remains to be done, and it behooves the Southern people to tax still further the measure of their patience, until the clouds that hover over them are entirely dispelled and they are again blessed with a serene poliiical sky. the Late Elec. Buchanan—Tho Pret and tho Future. Ex-President Buchanan has been visited at Wheatland by the United Hose Company of Philadelphia and the Union Fire Company of Lancaster. He has been made an honorary member, it appears, of two fire companies. In his address to his friends, the firemen, he told them that he looked to the past rather than to the future. But the chief engineer of a fire department beyond that bourn from whence no traveller returns might have warned him that he cannot avert his eyes from a futare which will be the necessary corollary of his past. He is bound to be hauled over the coals for having neglected to quench the fires of civil war when first enkindled. Not all the fire companies of Philadelphia, which the Sage of Wheatland eo warmly defends against what he calls the charge of provincialism brought against it by the New Yorkers, can save either him or his associates or his prede- cessors, including poor Pierce. By the time poor Pierce shall reach the inovitable future the coals may have cooled somewhat, but bis aged successor cannot hope to escape a speedy and « dory ord Political Party Assessments. President Shaler, of the Fire Department Commission, publishes @ card in which he very positively denies that any assessment has been made upon the members of the Metropolitan City Chamberlain Peter B, Sweony is a | Fire Department as a contribution towards the clear-headed man of business, and be makes | expenses of the republican party in the pend- proper explanation, in reply to letter from ing campaign, 1¢ is just as natural that Pros!- the Citizens’ Association, of the various oner- | dent Shaler should publish this disclaimer as ous and fatiguing duties of his office, and of | that the assessment should be made, Botl the manner in which he earns the comfortable | proceedings are in strict conformity with the salary of twenty-three thousand dollars year possessing similar qualifications, and what they desire to discovor is the use to which some one established usages of political organizations, | paid him by the city and county of New York. | and are carried out according to the regulac | But Peior Cooper is also a-cloar-hoaded busi- | programme. Every party assesses its oficehold- hess man, and his associates aro gentlemen | ers for political purposes, and every party mam. is always ready to deny the fact. President Shaler is, therefore, only following the tradi- hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, re- | tions of the past fa making @ formal contradio- ceived for interest on the city deposite, Is put by Chamberlain Sweeny, This amount Cham- berlain Sweeny does not account for in his law- tion of the statement that the whole fire brigade, from chief ongineer down to coal shovellor, is to be compelled to hand over a percentage of yer-like reply to the polite inquiries of the | the next month’s wages to the republican Citizens’ Association, and it le precisely this point that most needs clearing ap. Tho fact that the deposits go to the Broad- committee of ways and moans; and he fs per- feotly safe from coniradiction, for the poor fei- lowe themselves who are onlled upon to pay way Bank is vory well known; but who re- | the money might as well throw up their post.