The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON , BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXUL.. sttee NOe 327 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, obgvear THEATRE, Bowery.—Mow Pircoms—Sresi APs. | MIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Biace Caoom, Mati- mee at 2 NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.= Norwoop, Matinee at 2. YMPIC THEATRE, Aroadway.—k Mipscuune Meus Danaw, Matinee at 136. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and lta street, Tus Bee's Stestscee, GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, and 47 Bowery.— Dix VRRLOBUNG BRI DRK Latenne, &C. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Ticxer of Leave Manx. Matioee at lig. FRENCH THEATRE, Docuxss. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM. Broad. way and Thirtieth street.—Devin's Avction, Matinee at 1, Fourteenth street.—Tus Granp NEW YORK CIRCUS. Fourteenth sireet.—Grausastics Equasraiamiam, &o. ince at 254. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 2and 4 West 24th street.— Mapra—Fit 10 as 4 Ducasss, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Warrs, Corrow & Smarriar's Minstaais. Matines at 2. SAN FRANCIRCO MINSTRELS, 885 Broad Btw Burzataixumnts, Singing, Dancing anv ‘Buacasaces. KELLY & L.KON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonca, Dances, Eccentaicrrias, Huriusques, &c.—Faust. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Comic ‘Vocatism, Nzcuo Minsrasay. &c. Matinee at 234. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Brosdway.— Bai.ar, Farce, Pantomime, Ac. Matinee at 2, BUNYAN BALL, Broadway and Fifteeath street.—Tas Pivonm. Matinec at 2 No. 806 BROADWAY.—Maaic, Miata axp Mrsvaer. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brootlya.—Ermtoruan Muvreaisy, BaLLads anv Buncesqves. SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY, Tompkins Market.— Concert. FINE ART GALLERIES, 645 Broadway,.—Exarsition oF Pamrines. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scunwca amp Ant, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourtecath street.—Rouzo and JuLIET—Macecrn. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable, dated yesterday evening, November 22, is Important, ‘Three of the Fenlans engaged in the recent rescue ‘and murder riot in Manchester, England, to be exe- uted this morning. The approach of rise toa tery serious agitation in the cities, Manchester appeared as if in a state of seigo, and barricades were throwa up for the protection of the troops. Parliameat refused to interfere, and public demonstrations in favor of and against the condemned men were held in Manchester and Birmingham. Queen Victoria gave a decided negative te @ memorial for mercy presented by a deputation from London. One of the convicts was respited. Riots occurred in Birmingbam, and tumultuous scenes re- sulted from assemblages of Fenian sympathizers. The Fenians in London were preparing to make an extraor- dinary funeral demonstration with hoarses and embioms of mourning, iu Hyde Park, London, on Sunday. Small parties of Garibaidians recrossed the Roman frontier; but they were quickly driven off by the Papal troops. Italy issued @ note denouncing the French invasion of the Papal States, The Italian Parliament will assemble on the Sth of December, The Emperor of Austria approves of Napoleon's plan of a Congress, The isiature was in session and the new Army bill Introduced. The term of military service ta extended to nine years, The time for the return of the French troops from Italy will be soon fixed. The “Yellow Book’’ was p inted, containing the usual official résumé. The British Parliament voted the Supply bill. advices in Londoa state that the ot T Official storm. Doctor Livingstove is said to be alive and jour- Deying in the interior of Africa. The English govern- mont does not guaraniee the bonds of the Honduras In- terocenaic Railway. Tho bullion in the Bank of England ocreased £2,500 in the week. The specie reserve in the Bank of France increased eleven millions and a half of franes in the week. Dr. Livingstone is reported alive and journeying in the interior of Africa, Consois closed at 94% for money in London Five- twenties were at 70% in London, and 75% in Frankfort. ‘The Liverpeo! cotton market closed quiet, with mid- Gling uplands at 8igd. The trade advices from Mav- chester are unfavorable, Breadstufls without marked change, Provisions e sbade lower. MISCELLANEOUS. Our specia! telegrams by the Gulf cable from Havana contain news of interest {rom Cuba, Porto Rico, st. ‘Thomas and Jamaica, ‘The President of the Health Board in Havana is re- ported to have been dismissed by the civil Governor during © controversy between them as to whether cholera was prevalent in the city. Twoappalling shocks Of earthquake were fett in Porto Rico om the 18th inet. The passengers and specie by the eveamer Solent were not transferred to the Socthampton steamer at St. Thomas during the late hurricane, and are consequently not lost, The apprehended disturbances ia Jamaica bad broken out. The nogro soldiers and the new police at Falmouth had bade fight. The biacks were arrested and are on trial. The gorernmeut was afraid to call out the militia. Our Rio Janeiro correspondence is dated October 20. . On the 3d inst. the Pai were defeated at San Solano, losing, it is sai killed, The allves stt!l held Villa del Pilar, which they tntend to use a5 2 new dase of operations. Communication was main- wail ith the fleet. A In the Alabama Convention yesterday, ferred. A motion deciaring a debt paid to the State by the Alabama and Tennessee Railroad during the war in Contederate money (io be undischarged, was also re- ferred. A proposition to authorize the Legisiature te go further in disfranchising rebels was tabled, In the Constitutional Convention yesterday the report of the Judiciary Commitiee was considered in Com- mittee of the Whole, sod « proposition to bave the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals appointed by the Governor and Senate wat adopted Aman named Spencer, ond his wife, who reside im Paulsboro, N. J., appear to be of the highest re- epectability and are wo 1 f8 said, over $200,000, wore arrested in New Yor. oo Friday, charges sup- ported by aMdavite and evidence io the possession of Colonel Wood, of the detective force, of being the chiefs of @ gang of counterfeliers who have recently put the spurious sevea-thirty bonds on the market. Mra Speneer paid, casb down, $40, as bal! for herself and husband on the examination o1 Newark, where they wore taken, Several other persons sre supposed to be ongaged with them, and they are all reported to be very wealthy. Jem — arrived th Richmond yesterday, having quietly passed through New York on Wednesday night. His counsel deny that they intend to resist s trial be- fore Juage Underwood. In the Canadian House of Commons yesterday sotjce NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1867. 4 Montreal paper advises the people to leek ‘& raid om the day the Manchester Fenians are ‘The China and Japan mails by the Great Republic at Ban Franciseo are to be forwarded overland. The Grand Jury at Albany bave failed to find an indictment against State Senater Bumphrey on the charge of legislative eorreption preferred against him. ‘Tne radical majority ia North Carolina will probably reach twenty-five thousand. Several counties elected conservative delegates. . The Peterson abandonment cage was again up before Justice Mansfield yesterday, Several witnesses were examined, and it is probable the case will be concluded this morning. Prairio fires prevail very generally in Illinois, Missouri ‘and Kansas at present, and are even more than usually destructive, “ The Inman Line steamship City of Baltimore, Captain Leitch, will sail at noon to-day trom pier 45 North river, for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails for Ireland ‘will close at the Post Office at half-past ten o'clock. Several business houses were burned at Rockport, Ind., om Monday night, The lossis heavy. ‘The late meteoric shower was visible at Nassau, N. P. ‘The stock market was steady up to the second regu- ar board yesterday, when it became weak and closed ‘unsettled. Government securities were dull, but steady. Gold closed at 139 a 130%. Southern Elections and Conventions—What ie the Duty of Congress? The 80 far received of the reconstruc- tion elections in North Carolina, South Caro- lina, Florida, Mississippi and Arkansas, indicate that in each of those States the majority of the votes cast has been for a convention, and that a majority of the delegates thereto will be radi- cals, whites and blacks, as in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Lousiana. Texas still lags behind. In North Carolina, it appears, as in Virginia and Georgia, where the registered whites held the majority, they have permitted the elections to be carried by the blacks by Gefault. In South Carolina, where the blacks afte four hundred thousand against three hundred thousand whites, and where the registration of voters, from rebel disfranchisement, shows a much heavier preponderance of the black power, the vote appears tobe all one way, and, excepting a radical white straggler here and there, all of one color. The Southern white policy of “masterly in- activity” on this business of reconstruction, which was first developed in the Louisiana election, seems to have gained strength since the recent Northern elections, The idea seems to be that the next Congress from the North will be so far anti-radical as to completely de- molish the existing radical’ programme and restore the outside States on the platform of President Jobnson. But while the present radical House of Representatives will doubt- less be superseded by a conservative House on the 4th of March, 1869, the present radical Senate can hardly be upset inside of four years to come. The Southern whites of the outside States, therefore, while looking to the future for better conditions than those now before them, should be prepared to avail themseives of any reasonable concessions which may be offered from the present Congress, so as to get reinstated in the government as soon as possible. ‘ The recent Northern elections have quashed this extreme radical theory of universal negro suffrage. If it will not go down in the North it canhot be made to stick in tho South. In 1866 ® constitutional amendment declaring the equal civil rights of citizens of all colors; de- elaring the sacred obligations attaching to the national debt; repudiating all rebel debts and all claims for slaves; de- claring the disfranchisement of certain lead- ing rebels, subject to a two-thirds vote of Con- gress, and providing that suffrage and repro- sentation shall go together as the several States may elect “restricted or universal suffrage, was ® programme which swept the country from Maine to California. In 1867, wherever in th North this new test of universal negro suffrage has been tried, it has been signally rejected, and most signally in the most radical States, such as Obio and Kansas. Now, if we are not mistaken, this constitu. tional amendment of 1866 has been ratified by three-fourths of the States represented in and constituting the government of the United States. All, therefore, that is needed to give it effect as part of the supreme law of the land is a resolution or bill from Congress de- claring the ratification. The required number of the States having ratified the amendment, it is even now “ valid to all intents and purposes as part of the constitution,” requiring only a change of the law proclaiming the fact. As the law stands it is the duty of the Secretary of State to make the proclamation. Mr. Seward, however, stands committed to the Johnsonian theory, that three-fourths of all the States, inside and outside the general government, are necessary to ratify. So, under Mr. Johnson’s coercive Southern reconstruction policy, s sufficient number of the rebel States were forced to ratify the amendment abolishing slavery to make up three-fourths of all the States. Then Mr. Seward proclaimed the rati- fication, But as Congress has since rejected as illegal and void all Mr. Jobuson’s acta of reconstruction, all these Southern ratifica- tions go for nothing, and if the amendment abolishing slavery, therefore, is not a part of the constitution by the voice of three-fourths of the States adhering to the national govern- ment, then slavery is not legally abolished, and Maryland ar New York may revive the instita- tion to-morrow, and Congress cannot touch it. Why can’t we have the views of “ Old Thad Stevens” upon this question? It will not do to shirk it; for, if not in this,in the next Congress it will come up for settlement, and it will have to be settled. The Great West India Storm. We published yesterday the details of one of the terrible series of hurricanes which havo swept over and desolated the West India islands. Our telegrams are proved to be quite correct in general foatures, and the pic- tures of wreck and death presented through thom are fully confirmed by our correspondence. In Porto Rico the gale raged with great fury. More than three thousand six hundred families were left destitute, and more than two hundred persons were found dead after the storm bad passed. Plantations, coffee crops and ma- chinery were all ruined and the eastern districts of the island made a desert. The hurricane here is reported heavier than those which swept over the isiand in 1825 and 1837. Among the poor people who occupied huts in the fields the suffering has been great, and most of them are left destitute, Fifty towns are said to be ia ruins. The rivers overflowed so rapidly and tushed slong with such violence that human deings as well as cattle were swopt away in the floods before they could reach places of safety. One bold act attempted during the height of the tempest deserves especial notice, Three brave fellows, headed by M. St Martin, the mate of the French steamer Cacique, put off in & boat to save the crew of @ wrecked vessel, Dut all save one of them were drowned by an immense wave which swamped the boat. The number of hurricanes sweeping over the whole world is extraordinary. Can our scien- tife men discover no laws by which they can calculate their approach and warn the people to prepare for them? Petor Cooper’s Charges Against Heflman— A Sido Defence by O'Gorman. The terrible attack of thet shrewd political general, Peter Cooper, upon Mayor Hoffman, as the head of the plundering “rings” who have run the city expenditures up to twenty- four million dollars a year, has stirred the blood of Corporation Counsel Richard O’Gor- man. The dashing, eloquent and poetical young Irish patriot, with the true spirit of his countrymen, rushes gallantly into the scrim- mage and gives the venerable Peter Cooper and the Citizens’ Association a taste of his “gwate Irish shillelah” with a rollicking enjoy- ment of the fun delightful to behold. So far as his letter is a defence of himself against the Peter Cooper indictment, it is entirely unneces- sary and might as well not have been written. No person blames him for making a good round sum out of the fat office bestowed upon him by his sympathizing countrymen. Indeed, he would have increased his popularity had he bluntly declared his intention to make five hundred thousand dollars out of the city, to turn it into gold and take it over to Ireland to aid in getting up another “rising.” . Other Fenians have been guilty of the contemptible meanness of robbing the poor Irish servant girls out of their scanty wages, and it is rather to O’Gorman’s credit that he prefers to make his money out of a corporation rich enough to squander twenty-four million dollars a year upon all manner of municipal cutpurses. Mayor Hoffman is the real culprit in all this reckless expenditure of the people’s money, whether in the shape of pensions, expenses and fees in the Corporation Counsel’s depart- ment, or of the notorious new Court House jobs. The city charter makes it the duty of the Mayor “to. exercise a con- stant supervision over the conduct and acts of all subordinate officers,” and not a dollar can be drawn from the treasury until the warrant that calls for it has been countersigned by the Mayor. This is a wise provision of law, its object being to give the one responsible head, the Mayor, the power to check all extravagance and corruption and protect the treasury by finaliy withholding his signature from a warrant if he should have any reason to believe the account fraudulent “or unjust. The exercise of this powcr is the highest duty devolved upon the Mayor, and bence it is that the charter requires him to ex- ercise a constant supervision over the conduct and ects of all subordinate officers. His veto of measures passed by the Common Council is @ mere bagatelle compared with this, The veto can be overridden by a two-third vote. The refusal to sign a warrant drawn for any of these corrupt jobs puts a final stop to them, and cannot be overcome unless by an appeal to the courts, involving an exposure of the rascality. A mayor who writes a Paritanical veto message for the eyes of the people, and then aids the rascals bo has denounced to draw their plunder out of the city treasury, com- mits a fraud upon the community. Cant is no fair equivalent tor cash. The taxpayers should bear in mind that every dollar plundered from the city treasury must be first allowed and approved by the Mayor, and that all the corrupt jobs and ex- travagant charges by which the taxation of the city has been run up to twenty-four million dollars a year have been approved and en- dorsed by Hoffman. It is for this service that he is made the candidate of the Tammany ring, the Supervisors’ ring, the Aldermen’s ring, the Councilmen’s ring, and every other ring about the City Hall. They aro his warm supporters now because they know that be will sign their several war- rants next year, while any other Mayor will withhold his signature and break up all their schemes of plunder. They bave compelled him to sign for six or sven seven millions more this year than last. They would compel him to sign for six or seven millions more next year than this, Every respectable man who desires to save the city from ruinous taxation should support John H. Anthon for Mayor, and finally break up all these rings and secure an honest chief magistrate for the next two years, Darling should make Peter Cooper's terrible indictment against Hoffman the basis of his withdrawal from the contest, and exhort all his political friends to support Anthon. He is called upon as a patriot, a reformer and a good Grant man, to decline to embarrass the present contest between honesty and respecta- bility on one side and all the big and Jitile rascals of the city upon the other. If he will respond to the call Anthon will be elected Mayor by s magnificent mojority, Fernando Wood will be driven to shave off his white mustache and fight out his Nassau street lease controversy with Comp'roller Connolly, Hoff- man will open a small law office, the “ rings” will have to work for a living, and O'Gorman will be able to enjoy his champagne and cheroots in elegant retirement here, or to return to ould Ireland, buy himself a farm and keep as many pigs as he may please. The Trial of Jef Davis. It is reported that the counsel of Jeff Davis will protest against the trial of the: ciient be- fore Judge Underwood, and also a:ainst nigger jorymon. In this they will have public sym- pathy. It would be an outrage on the decency of the nation if a man like Underwood should preside at this trial. On euch an occasion, if ever, the bench should be graced by a man of learning, @ man conscious of the dignity of his office, aman of probity, and one whose lite has not been draggled in all the filth of party passions, Therefore Underwood is the wrong man. If Davis is to stand before a nigger jury what becomes of the notion that a man is to be tried by his peers? His peers—to cut the thing as closely as tho greatest leveller could de- sire—shonld be citizens of the United States ; and no Richmond nigger was a citizen of the United States when the events occurred on which Davis is to be tried. But it remains to be seen whether Congress will not cat short all this farce and declare by statute the punish- ment of the public enemy. If it falls to do this it will fall in ite daty, * Correspondence. ‘Tt was long the reproach of journalism on this side of the Atlantic that the correspondence of even the best journals in point of general ability fell far short of the correspondence of the great London papers. The war did much to take from us this reproach. The impetus then given has continued, and now it is not too much to say that the correspondence which from time to time appears in the Hznatp and one or two of the other papers on this Conti- nent is quite equal to the best correspondence of the London Times or of any journal in the Old World. Those who reaf in yesterday’s Henatp the letters of our special correspondent, |. who was present at the late struggle between the Garibaldini and the Papal troops, will admit the correctness of our assertions, The fulness of our special telegrams had, it is true, taken freshness from the correspondence ; but there are hundreds of thousands who will read and prize the letters for the fulness of their details and for the graphic character of their descriptions, It is manifest from the letters of our correspondent that Garibaldi had miscal- culated. The whole affair, never promising from the outset, ended unbappily for Garibaldi and for Italy. The real merits of this Italian question, however, have not been affected by the failure of Garibaldi. Failure always brings to 3 cause 8 certain amount of discredit, Had Garibaldi been successful he would have been worshipped as a hero. Because Garibaldi has failed he is loaded with disgrace. It is not to be denied that the hopes of the party of action have for the present been blasted; but it is not less true that the desire for the complete unification of Italy is now all over the Penin- sula more a passion than ever. It is ex- ceedingly difficult to predetermine how the matter is to be finally settled. The reluctance evinced by the other Powers of Europe to take part in a general conference aggravates the awkwardness of Napoleon’s position. The paragraph in the Queen’s speech on the occa- sion of the opening of the houses of Parliament which referred to the Italian question encour- aged the hope that the feelings of the Italian people would be respected and that ‘he French occupation of the Papal States wou! | not be unnecessarily prolonged. A telegram which we print in this day’s Heratp is not so reas- suring. The Italian people are greatly excited, and the sitdation as between the governments of Italy and France is critical in the extreme. Hon. James Brooks in a New Light. Finally, the mountain has come to Muhomet. Mr, James Brooks, we suppose, stands where he always did as to the Union, the constitution, the war and the democracy; but such have been the queer freaks of the radicals in the party manceuvres, that things have come round 80 tar that the member from this city is able to stand up in his place in Congress and oppose ths admission of a radical member “on the ground that he had given sid and comfort to the rebellion, had made speeches in behalf of it, had lent his aid and support to it, and bad made @ speech in which he urged young men to enlist in a rebel company and defend their homes and firesides.” It is of no consequence that some of these points might be advanced agalast Brooks himeelf if it were a question on his admission. It indicates exactly how little sincerity and honesty there is in radicalism, that it is open to such an assault; and it is the funniest thing of many seasions that a man with Brooks’ record should stop a republican member at the door of the House with such charges. Mr. Brooks also opposed the admis- sion of the whole Tennessee representation on the ground that Tennessee has not a republi- can form of government, The making this point may perhaps open the eyes of Sumner and his adherents to the fact that this their great argument on reconstruction may cut both ways, That, they said, is not a republican form of government in which the negroes are without votes and the whites wield all the power; but is that any more a republic in which the whites are disfranchised and the nezroes wield all the power? Here is a ques- tion that the people have answered pretty well, and if Brooks pushes it smartly he may yet make Congress understand it. It is to be hoped that he will follow up with a will also bis point against the member, and keep the House pure from the presence of rebels and those who “aided and abetted” the attempt to “defend Southern homes.” He must feel queer in such & position—but the republican will feel still more queer to see him there, American Prime Denne ia Earepe. The successful début of Miss Kellogg at her Majes:y’s theatre, London, has given rise to some sensible, though tardy, acknowledgments on the part of the English journals of the im- portant contributions made by America to the lyric stage of Europe. They admit now in the most emphatic manner that we have sent them artistes who have no superiors at any of the leading opera houses, and that we were the first to recognize the high talents of a Malibran and « Bosio. Adelina Patti and her sister Car- lotta, Mrs, Jenny Van Zandt, Morenzi and Laura Harris are also mentioned in terms of gratitude towards the country that supplied them to the operatic centres on the other side of the Atlantic ; and the discrimination, taste and judgment of an American audience will be henceforth regarded as the most severe and satisfactory test that a prima donna can en- counter. The narrow-minded prejudices and red tape system that often retard the progress of a really great artiste in Europe at the com- mencement of her career find no counterpart here. In the American metropolis a prima donna bas need of ability only to win a recog- nition of ber claims from the public. But at the same time an audience here will give the same emphatic judgment of operatic charlatans. Ifa manager attempts to carry on Italian opera with wornout artistes and insufficient matériel he will discover to bis cost that he reckoned without his host in trying to deceive our public. Hence the utter failure of an impresario for these reasons does not entitle him to com- pastion or support. It is a simple business matter that a merchant or manager must supply his customers with the commodities they require. If a modiste were to insist upon showing her patrons styles of the last genera- tion and her grandmother’s Leghorn hat as the latest Paris fashions, she would soon be compelled to close her establishment, and the unanimous verdict would be “served her right” If 9 dry goods merchant wore to offer his customers worthless prints, cotton velvet or old fesplonet goods, no one would question manager need not be afraid to incur any ex- pense in obtaining first class artistes; but they promptly frown down any imposition or hum- bug. Managers should know this, and derelic- tion of duty on their part and consequent failure should not entitle them to pity. The Obie Railroad Disaster., A fearful disaster occurred on a railroad in Ohio on Thursday morning. An express train, while endeavoring to get out of the way of a freight train, was run into by another freight train, set on fire by the upsetting of the stoves in the passenger cars, and reduced to ashes, Five lives were lost. and a number of passen- gers were seriously injured. The scene is described as horrible in the extreme. Four of the victims were ladies, all sisters, re- turning to their home in the South, Here is another addition to the long list of railroad murders (we cannot call them accidents) that disgraces some o! the railroads of this country. In nearly every case the cause of such trage- dies has been traced to gross negligence or carelessness on the part of the company or the employés. A coroner’s jury appointed to in- vestigate such matters has a task of serious respon: :bility to perform and should hold the guilty parties to a strict account. It is too momentous a subject to decide upon lightly and without careful deliberation. Let the jury in this case in particular act prompily when izo culprits are discovered, and retusm, no whitewashing verdict. A stern, just and un- compromising rebuke of carelessness in rail- road management by a coroner’s jury, and the following up of the matter to the uttermost limits of the law by the Grand Jury, will make railroad murders in this country very scarce. It is a subject of interest to every citizen, and therg is an opportunity now to have it settled at once. If a few of {be delinquents by whose negligence or cafelestiiéss those horrible casualties occur were accommodated with a halter or permanent lodgings in a penitentiary the travelling public would not be constantly exposed to death on a railroad. Let every coroner’s jury, and particularly every Grand Jury, look to it when such cases are brought before them. THE SEVEN-THIRTY COUNTERFEITERS AR- RESTED. Impertant Discoveries of the United States Detectives—Over a Millien of Dollars Iteal- ized from the Disposal of the Bogus Bende— Nine ef the Alleged Operators in Cust ody, ‘It was recently stated in the Haracp that arrests bad been made by the United States government officials which were of an exceedingly important character, bat the particulars of tho affair wore for various good reasons withheld. It can now be safely siated that the counterfeiters of seven-thirties and five twenties who bave caused trouble throughout the country aro now in custody, Since the cougterfelts were discovered at Washington Mr, William P, Wood, chief of the secret service division of the freasury Department, has been actively engaged with his subordinates n en- deavoring to apprehend the counterfeiters. His atten- tion had been called, previous tothe discovery named, to counterfeit issues of $100 compound interest notes and $50 legal tendera. After weeks of persistent and earnest labor, in which he was assisted by United States detective Nettleship, residing in Newark, he was on- abled to trace the authors of the latter counterfeit to the small village of Paulsboro, Gloucester county, N, J., and subsequently ascertained that the work of en- graving and circulating the legal tenders was done at that village, as is alleged, by William Spencer, alias Willam E. Brockaway, and seven confederates. He then pro- coeded to gather sufficient evidence, with a view to fasten the guilt without doubt upon the parties named, and while engaged in this later work he discovered the counterfeit seven-thirties and five twenties, and com- pared the work upon the fraudulent boods with that of the other cougterfeits, and became satisfied that both counterfeits were the work of the same artist, Acting upon this theory be went quietly to work to fasten the crime upon the suspected parties, Hav- img (thus been fortifed by evidence sufficient te corroborate the aillegations, Mr. Wood made aMdavit on the 19th inst, before United States (ommis- sioner Whitehead, at Newark, against William Spencer ‘and Hanoab, bis reputed wife, alleging that they were the principals in tho extensive frauds upon the govers- ment, and thet they had been assisted by five other law at St. James’ Hotel, in New York, om Friday, November 15, where they were preparing to leave for Burope. They were taken to Jersey City and placed in a. room in Taylor's Hotel, at that place, whore they were gmaarded, the authorities pot being able to make the ex- ammation in the case at that time On mern- tng last they were taken ‘o Commissioner Whi 1,000 to women the amoant samed on her lly produced it as bail The Pauls! in operation ago ae July, 1865, and “a yon that the parties LJ ve dollars. The spurious weues of the arrest Saugnifcent renidence yu Phiiadelph magn ‘2 ‘worth at leart $200,000, When tak States‘ ommissioner at Newark be fashionably dressed, accompanied by a col who bore in her arms aw infant child alleged counterfeiters. The appearance of ad ‘Woman was very respectable, Spencer is a tall, intelli. gent and mmo td ‘man, and bie wife, in ap. The government oficial are now encaged in searching for the presses, &c., upon which the work was exocuted, and the probabilities are that (bey will be found to-day or to-morrow, There are still many items of interest connected with this crime which are withheld and which wil tera ho puble. lat arrested com} wert appeared not in the least ed. and coolly took from bis pocket led to comb bis matntai great Hit mantfeated tee SOUTH AMERICA. PROGRESS OF THE WAR IN PARAGUAY, The Paraguayans Defeated in Another Battle. — ‘The steamship Guiding Star, Ceptaia Slocum, from Bie Jancivo om the 26th ult, arrived at thie pert yes- terday, with a number ef passengers and a large cargo of merchandise, She brings our correspondence to the 20th of October, —— SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALS. ‘The War in Paraguay—Villa Del Pilar Stile Held by the Allies—A Movement te Occupy of Peace—Ancther Bat- tle Between the Allies ba the Brazilian Diplomatic Corpe—Trade Dull. Roo Jawamo, Ost. 28, 1967. In spite of the strenuoss efforts of the British officioes Secretary, Mr. Gould, in bringing about peace between ‘Lopes and the allies, the war goes on, and now with better prospect of an early termination. ‘Villa del Pilar, reported in my last as probably aban- Goned by the allies, 1s, 0m the contrary, still eld by them, and Is to serve now as a basis for new operations, which, if successfully carried out, will soon place the allies in Asuacion, and drive President Lopez te the mountalas or out of the country. All preparations are Deing made by the Brazilians to penetrate to the very, centre of Paraguay by this new route, leaving only @ corps of observation in front of Humaité, and the fleet to watch the enemy from Carapaity to Tuy-u-cué, and from this place to Humaité, For the present but little is Known of this new move. ment, and the army continues ostensibly the besieging operations around Humaité, while the fleet keep ups bombardment, which, if not effective in silencing the enemy, is at least useful in keeping off, for the time being, the thick swarms of gnats and mosquitoes that infest the river at every change of the wind to to the north. = The fighting»on the 24th ult,, reported in my last only afew minutes before the Marmion ieft for New York, resulted in a loss to the Brazilians of five hundred mes hors de combat and part of their train of provisions, am- munition end cattle, Elated with this success, the Paraguayans again attempted, on the 3d large number wounded and 200 prisoners, out of e foree of nearly 5,000 men, with which they commence the attack, Sipce the 84, mo other movement of im- ace bas been made: Grande do Two battalions of allied troops, stationed on ern bank of the vay, maintain the communication mule al Kenia ee expensive te E He : i | uli: i « HH mel, James Rey: BK. Ma Eignth Ly . Bernard Galligaa, James Cunningham, Jr., John Rey: Bei The republicans im the Second district last might nominated Charles 8. Mozart for Schoo! Commissioner, down to Messra P. & G. jiiard. The 0: for- merly tne Stephen Cloud, was built by Messrs, Pusey, Jones & oe, of eammene. es and 1s 150 feet long, 23 feet 6 inches breadth of im, aud 410 tous burden. Dre ov His Ixscnie&. —Jobo Blair, who was tojured in the head by the explosion of & pistol which he was repairing op Micwatren | afternoon, at his blacksmith shop, corner of Atlantic Classon avenues, died yesterday Hospital. Coroner Lynch will hold an im The Official Canvass in Kings County. The official canvass of the vote for Secretary of State, Mayor and Justices of the Peace has beea completed: —