The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXIII. No. 168 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. Panis and HELEN. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—The WaITR FAWN WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Wuz Lorrery or Lire. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—A FLASH OF LigHrnrno. pices | BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sons oF LineRrty— RIVER PinatRs OF NEW Yor«, | OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Humpry Dompry: NEW STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—MacreTu— Moor OF SICILY. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETH10- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, &e. KELLY & LEON'S MINST! EcoenrRioitirs, &e.—LA BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, atreet.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTREL: 320 Broatway.—B0xa8, many Building, 14th DWN TRIOITIES, &O. g THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BALLET, FAROR, 0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO! Vooaism, NEGRO MINSTREL 201 Bowery.—Comso CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—POPULAR GARDEN ConorRt, TERRACE GARD ¥—PorULAK GARDEN Concert, MRS. F. B. © TROVDEN DOW y'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— ) THE Lost CAGE. HOUSE, Brooklyn.—BURLFSQUE LYRIC HALL, Sixth avenue, —BLIND Tom. NEW YORK SCIRNOF ANE SKUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— No. 512 BROADWAY.—Won DERFUL FREAK OF NATURE. TRLEPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, June 16, a THE NWS. * EUROPE. The news report of the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, June 15. The London journals approve highly of Hon. Rev- erdy Johuson’s appolutment. * The North German navy is to be enlarged. ‘The Viceroy of Egypt contemplates judicial mea- sures for the protection of foreigners. Milan IV. is the title of the new Prince of Serv Con 947, for money, Five-ty T34g 13 in London and 77%4 a 774. in Frau Cotton tr- regular, with middling uplands at 104 a 10% pence. Breadstuils quiet. Provisions steady. By mati we learn that Mr. Disraeli was not defeated on Mr, Labouchere’s motion respecting the cost of the diplomatic service, the Cabinet gaining a pariia- mentary victory by 76 votes against 72. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the bill providing for re- funding duties erroneously exacted of certain New York merchants was passed, The bill to re- lieve certain contractors in the West was Slightly amended and passed by twenty-four to seventeen, Mr. Sherman’s National Currency Dill then came up, the question being on Mr. Morriil’s amendment authorizing a permanent with- drawal of United States notes equal in amount to any increased issue of the national circulation, which was rejected after a long discussion by a vote of 16 to 27. Mr. Davia then offered a substitute pro- viding for the distribution of any excess of national circulation in banks of one State or Territory among banks in other States or Territories having less than their just proportion. A motion to receive the Chi- nese Embassy on the floor on Wednesday was adopted, and pending debate on Mr. Davis’ substi- tute the Senate adjourned, - In the House the usual number of bills and resolu- tions were introduced and referred under the Mon- day call. The -resolution allowing civil service em- ployés of the government an additional compensa- tion of twenty per cent was passed by a vote of 71 to 58, Mr. Shanks, republican, of Indiana, offered a resolution instructing the Committee on Ways and Means to report a special bill revising the tax on manufactures and relative to the tax on distilled spirits and tobacco, which was passed after a long and excited debate by a vote of 74to 63, Mr. Schenck, Who contested the resolution hotly, then offered one that after the proposed bill is reported it shall be in order over everything else, and no other business shall be done, which was adopted under a suspen- sion of the rules. The Washington City Contested Flection bill was then passed by a vote of 94 to 20. Mr, Logan moved to suspend the rules to offer his resolution for the removal of the capital, but the House refused to supend the rules by a vote of 67 to 43. THE CITY. ‘The Board of Aldermen held a meeting yesterday, but did no Husiness other than referring resolutions introduced to appropriate committees. A communt- cation received from the Comptrolier shows that the city contingency fund will be deficient this year in the amount of $4,404. Inthe Board of Councilmen Several messages were recelved from the Mayor vetoing wooden pavement resolutions. The Board of Audit decided not to restore any claim to the calendar which is not answered when called up in turn, . The shaft of an ash cart atanding on Smith street, Brooklyn, penetrated one of the Coney Island horse railroad cars in passing yesterday, and tearing away several of the seata Injured two of the passengers, one of whom, it is thought, cannot recover. The Brooklyn Common Counct! decided upon a Programme for the celebration of the Fourth of July yesterday, which includes @ military parade, pyrotechnical display and firing of cannon. A large Saw and planing mill, together with four other buildings, owned by Mr. John S. Loomis, situ- ated in Wyckoff street, between Hoyt and Smith, South Brooklyn, were destroyed by fre last night. ‘The losses will amount to about $40,000, The Jerome Park races reopened yesterday with the usual fine attendance of tators, The first race was won by L. W. Jerome's filly Rapture, the second by Lancaster, the third by Local, the fourth by Urbana and the fifth by Nemesis, in each one of the races the favorites at the start being beaten, The case of Moore vs. Bonnell was before the Su. | perior Court in an interlocutory form yesterday, ‘The suit is brought by @ lady to recover damages against the defendant fer slander in asserting and repeating the assertion that he was married to her and circulating questionable rumors. The stock murket was firm, but quiet, yesterday Government securities were quite active and buoy- ant. Gold closed 140%. The offer of beef cattle yesterday amounted to 2.478 head—758 at Hudson City, 1,470 at Communi- paw and 250 at 100th street. Trade was slow and the following prices prevatled:—17), @ 18c. for extra, ©. TMC Tic. #17 sc. for prime, 154,¢. @ 16\%¢, for ordinary to B0d and Lic. a 15. for inferior, Milch cows—Com- Mon Were siow of sale and heavy at $45 a while fair to prime were steady at $70 a $95. Extras were were held at $100 4 $110, Veal calves were quiet and lower at lic. @12).0. for prime and extra, 8c. @ 10¢. for common to good and 6c. a te, for inferior, Sheep were in light demand and lower, extras selling at Tige. @TMe., prime Fe., common to good be. a 6c. and inferior 33g. @4}sc. Lambs were easier at 100. a l4c., according to quality. Swine were in vigor- ous demand and firm at 9c. a9 5c. for prime, 8 4c, @ 87,¢. for fair to good and 8c. 4 § for common, The total receipts for the week w: 4+ beeves, 8 milch cows, 1,515 veal Calves, 19,481 sheep and lambs and 16,456 swine, MISCELLANEOUS. Advices from Baraguay by the English mail steamer state that a combined attack had been made on the rear of Lopez’ position at Humatta and after a desperate battle the Paraguayans repulsed them, The siege of Humalté still c Our Richmond correspon ea. ents authorized to state NEW YORK that Chief Justice Chase will accept the democratic nomination on a platform embodying universal auf- “frage. The Chief Justice t# now in Richnond, and rece.ves humerous letters daily from republicans in the North offering to co operate with the democratic party in case he is the nominee and the platform is of the kind set forth. Henry A, Wise and the Chief Justice visited the African church in Richmond to- gether on Sunday and heard divine service. Chief Justice Chase yesterday pronounced a sen- tence of two. years’ imprisonment and a fine of $10,000 on John H. Anderson, a revenue collector of Richmond, Anderson is a nephew of John Minor Botts, A riot occurred between the members of the Moya- mensing and Washington Hose Companies, of Phila- delphia, yesterday, in which several flremen were in- jured by bricks and other missiles, Both companies have been put out of service until an investigation takes place. The Fenian scare in Canada has resulted in bring- ing the volunteers up to a high degree of efficiency. A draft is to be enforced in the cities which are es- pecially defended, and the volunteers now iu readi- ness are still being perfected in the drill. The State officials of Louisiana were to have been inaugurated at New Orleans yesterday, in accord- ance with the proclamation of the registrars, and a large crowd of negroes assembled at Mechanics’ Hall to witness the ceremony. The attempt was not made, however. The bark Astrea, of New York, from New Orleans for Havre, with a cargo of upwards of two thou- sand bales of cotton, &c., went ashore off Cape Hat- teras on the night of the ith inst. and went to pieces. Captain Sewall and eleven of her crew were drowned and four were saved on portions of the wreck, ‘The trial of John H. Surratt will commence in Washington on Monday next. * ‘The formal reception of the naval cadets by the army cadets took place at West Point yesterday, In the afternoon General Grant awarded the diplomas to the graduating and the annual address to the uduates was delivered by Prof. Coppee. The F yound up with a ball, at which the navies and their young army friends attended, A proclamation is td be issued to-day by Governor Holden, the Governor elect of North Carolina, con- vening the new State Legislature for July 1. ‘The canal men in Buifalo favor a canal State ticket as the surest means of bringing about reforms in canal legislation. The Political Situation in England. The Parliamentary situation in England is one of the most peculiar on record. To us in this country, who had been asked to believe in all the virtues of the English system, the situation is mysterious and perplexing. All our previous notions as to the virtue of the strangely complex machine which consisted of her Majesty's Ministers, with their following, and her Majesty’s opposition, have been curi- ously knocked on the head; and we now begin to see (the British people themselves begin to see) that a political deadlock such as that through which we have recently passed is quite as possible in London as at Washington. Had Lord Macaulay lived to see the state of things which now exists not only would he have modified his opinion of the excellence of the British constitution, but his love of justice and truth would have induced him to rewrite some of the best parts of his history. For the instruction of mankind in general, and of the British people in particular, Mr. Disraeli, by a series of the most daring experi- ments, has exhibited the British constitution in aspects in which, some months ago, enthu- siastic admirers of the same could not have believed it was possible to see it. Sucessive telegrams have informed us from day to day that Mr. Disraeli has at last made up his mind to call upon the Queen to dissolve Parliament and to ask the people to decide whether whigs or tories, liberals or conserva- tives shall be entrusted with the government of the British empire. This is what Mr. Disraeli ought to have done—and what, per- haps, no other possible English Premier under the influence of conscientious scruples would in the premises have refused to do—on the occasion of his first defeat on the Irish Church question. In following this course he would have been doing what Derby, Russell, Palmerston, Peel, Melbourne, Grey, Pitt and others had done before him, and what most honorable men would have concluded it was right to do in the circumstances. Mr. Disraeli, however, is a man of genius, and that, perhaps, sufficiently explains why he has acted differ- ently from all who have gone before him. On the occasion of the first defeat Mr. Disraeli neither resigned nor appealed to the country. This, however, but for what has followed, might have been satisfactorily explained. If the Ministry at some subsequent stage of the same measure had been backed up by the House, the Prime Minister might have been extolled for his pluck and perseverance. On some such result, perhaps, Mr. Disraeli caleu- lated. His calculations, as all the world now sees and as he himeelf is fully convinced, have been sadly at fault. Defeat has followed de- feat, not on one, but on many questions, with a rapidity and a weight which have been abso- lutely crushing. Nothing but genius could have survived such a series of misfortunes. Mr. Disraeli, however, does survive; and in spite of Queen, Lords and Commons, in spite even of the people, a son of Israel remains the virtual chief of the British empire. It has not for some generations been believed in Eng- land that any minister could defy the public sentiment of the country; it has of late years been a popular sentiment that the will of the House of Commons was supreme in the realm; but Mr. Disraeli has shown that both the belief and the sentiment are false. Without the con- ent of the people and in opposition to the will of the House of Commons he maintains his post as chief adviser of the Crown. | It is possible, however, to strain a privilege | too far and to misinterpret the patience of an | enduring people. There is a point of pressure j at which the spring will break. If it is Mr. Disracli’s intention to advise her Majesty to dissolve Parliament before the Reform bills for Scotland and Ireland have been passed, we take it that he is already beginning to fear whether the last point of patient endurance has not been reached, It is the conviction of many who at one time believed in Mr. Disraeli that by his persistent tenure of office he has hopelessly compromised both himself and his party. : We have already in these columns explained why a dissolution of Parliament and conse- quently a general election are not desired now either by the Ministry or by the opposition. If a general election were taking place now or any time before the new constituencies were created in Scotland and in Ireland it would take place in most exceptionable circum- | stances, A Reform bill has been passed for | England, In England, therefore, the repre- | sentatives would be chosen either by the old or | by the new constituency. If by the old, the | newly created electors would naturally feel HERALD, TUESDAY indignant. If by the new, a positive wrong would be done to both Scotland and Ireland. If, however, the difficulty in England can be got over, andthe election all over the three king- doms takes place under the old conditions, the new Parliament would be moribund from its birth, would not dare to be initiative and could not count on more than a few months’ existence. Any decision come to by the people in such circumstances would be worthless. It would be the decision of a doomed constitu- ency. No possible good could result from it, either to the government or to the opposition. It would put the country to vast inconvenience and entail upon members untold expense. If Mr. Disraeli can hold on to October, and the reform measures be not then completed, it is difficult to discover reason why he should not be allowed to hold on a month or two longer, when, the new constituencies being in full blast, “ a general election will have a meaning and a determining character, and the popular voice will make itself heard as it has never before made itself heard in the British Isles, If Mr. Disraeli does not follow the example of his predecessors in office and yield up his place to the leader of the opposition it remains to be seen whether the opposition will not force him, by ‘a vote of want of confidence, either to resign or to appeal to the country. Mr. Disraeli’s colleagues have hitherto been singularly steadfast in their adherence to their chief. Their continued fidelity is more a ne- cessity now than ever. A break in their ranks would be fatal to the party. Extraordinary Democratic Reaction in South Carolina, The telegraph informed us yesterday that the democrats had gained a majority of the dis- tricts in South Carolina at the recent local elections, having secured sixteen out of the thirty-one districts. There are about five white districts in the State—Spartanburg, Oconee, Greenville, Anderson and Chester- field. But this gives only a faint idea of the extraordinary reaction in the popular vote in the State as compared with the vote on the new constitution. We find that in Union county the democratic gain has been nearly two thou- sand, in Kershaw over seventeen hundred, in Laurens over thirteen hundred, in Chester over one thousand, and so on throughout the State. These local elections show the strength of the conservatives in South Carolina, and are indicative of what they are capable of doing when they bring out their entire force. Be- side the practical benefit locally of the con- servatives in the South polling a full vote, the moral effect in the North and West is highly important; and we suggest that hereafter, at every election, there be a united effort in all the Southern States to bring out every con- servative vote that can be relied upon. We have always believed that the white: conserva- tives, with such sensible colored voters as are not under the thumb screws of the radical car- pet-baggers and submissive to arbitrary mili- tary direction, are capable of controlling every State in the South. It would be a curious but to us a not unexpected event to find the Southern States instrumental in electing a democrat as the next President of the United States. They can do it if they try. The Soldiers’ Messenger and Despatch Com- pany. It will be seen by an article and affidavits published with it in another part of the paper that the officers and men of the Soldiers’ Busi- ness, Messenger and Despatch Company of this city have got into trouble with each other, and from the evidence produced it appears to us that the poor maimed and wounded men have reason to complain of the well paid officials. However, the statement of the difficulty speaks for itself. We regret to see a quarrel or any complaint about the management of this benev- olent and useful association. Our disabled soldiers and sailors should be taken care of by the general government, by the States, coun- ties and town authorities. It is a disgrace to’ the country to see so many of them begging in the streets. Let asylums be provided where , JUNE 16, 1868.—TRIPLE Chase aad the Party Men, It is altogether to the honor of Mr. Chase that the possibility of his nomination by the democrats alarms the politicians as much as it pleases the people. It alarms the party men of both sides. Radicals fear the effect upon the people of the presentation of a candidate whose whole public life has been a contest for popular rights against oppression of every sort. They know the strength that this ally was to their owa party in the days when that party pursued nobler objects than it now aims at, and they fear that to have this distinguished name now leading the people against them will indi- cate with a too terrible distinctness the great changes they have suffered ; they fear to have it pointed out so plainly, and by a witness of this integrity, that they are no longer the advocates of those principles for the support of which they were first trusted by the people. On the other hand the mere politicians of the democratic household fear the nomination of Chase for a reason always sufficient to the absolute party in- triguers, He is a man they cannot use. He is a man who will be a candidate honestly or not at all, and will not come down to the level of their bargaining. A candidate to exactly meet the wishes of the mere politician should be a candidate whom the politician can approach on his own leyel—to whom be can make any pro- position, however shameful—with whom he can drive a small bargain for an office in the event of success. Over such a candidate the politician can shout party hallelujahs with a gusto commensurate to the value of the office he expects. We need hardly say that Chase is nop that sort of man. These fellows cannot make their game with him and tl.orefore cannot ‘“‘see” his fitness for the sup- port of the democrats. It is to the reproach of the nation that facts like this have kept some of our most distinguished men out of the Presidential office. They could not be nomi- nated because they could not stoop to making the necessary bargains with the party trades- men. We do not believe it will keep Chase out; but it explains the objection to him that is entertained by some copperhead sheets that pretend to speak for the democracy. Chase will be nominated despite the disap- pointment of these political middlemen—these fellows who stand between the man and the peo- ple and pretend tospeak for each without author- ity from either, caring nothing for what is done ornot done save as they secure a profit; he will be nominated because the men who really “guide the course of the democracy are men of some reason, and are capable of seeing the fact that Chase is the only candidate with whom they can defeat Grant. Suppose they nominate Pendleton, what chance has he to win? All the Southern States, with seventy votes, would be definitely and unequivo- cally against him, All the New England States, except Connecticut, would be certainly against him. All the positively republican States of the West would then be cer- tainly given to Grant, and States that are now well regarded as almost in the list of cer- tainties against Grant would be floated out among the doubtful ones with a tendency his way. Indeed, we are not sure ‘but such a decision would be pronounced against Pendleton as would give altogether new vitality to radicalism and seem like a reaction against the reaction. His nomination on the day it was announced would put in the list of certainties for Grant enough States to make him President and render the remainder doubtful. But suppose Chase the candidate. What then? He would secure every Southern State; for, having the conservatives, he would have with their vote a radical vote large enough to determine all. He would secure all the States like New York, Pennsylvania, In- diana and Ohio that are disgusted with the rad- ical tendencies. He would fairly divide New England and the Western republican States with the radical candidate. In short, while Pendleton’s nomination would at once give to Grant all States now doubtful and make doubt- ful those now counted as certainly against Grant, the nomination of Chase would imme- diately decide against Grant all the now doubt- they will have comfortable homes and where by proper management nearly all of them could earn their living in some way or other, without injuring their health or subjecting them to humiliation. There are very few but could do something, and reasonable employment would be a benefit physically and morally. Those utterly incapable should be provided for at the same time. Let a general movement be made, then, by all the local authorities, as well as by the government at Washington, to relieve the condition of all our disabled soldiers and sailors, and thus prevent begging and oppres- sion by selfish companies. Toe Question Settitep.—A copperhead journal of this city, after getting a few raps over the knuckles from several other copper- head journals, changes its tune and sings in a lower key on the Presidential policy of the democratic party after this fashion:—‘‘There has never been any likelihood that he (Chief Justice Chase) would receive the democratic nomination.” ‘‘We should be glad to see Chief Justice Chase follow Mr. Blair and Senator Doolittle into the democratic party; but as he regards negro suffrage as a blessing instead of an atrocious, though, perhaps, irretrievable blunder, we do not see how he and the demo- cratic party can have any bond of fellowship. We did not object to a parley ; but it was cer- tain from the beginning that the mountain would not go to Mahomet, and it appears Ma- homet will not come to the mountain.” This would-be Sir Oracle is an ignoramus, who knows nothing of Mahomet or the mountain, He is looking for a democratic mouse, but he will probably be wiser by the Fourth of July. Ovr New MINISTER To EN@LAND.—Our cable telegrams of yesterday's date from London report that the leading journals of the British metropolis endorse the President's appointment of the Hon. Reverdy Johnson as United States Minister to the Court of St. James in terms of decided approval, the London 7imes express- ing the opinion that he is most eminently qualified for a satisfactory discussion of the delicate questiogs pending between the two nations. Notice To Snerivan Snoox.—It is rumored that General Ben Butler's forthcoming report on the impeachment bribery ring will be o document only surpassed as a legal argument by that touching his investigation of Fort Fisher, ful States and make doubtful those that his supporters regard as certain. It has seemed obvious to every one watching the political probabilities that the democracy must necessarily nominate Chase; and so posi- tively has this thought asserted itself that many have fancied the only difficulty would come from the other side—that Chase could not accept such a nomination as the democrats would give. But as a matter of fact the great principle on which the democrats now stand and must stand is one to which Chase is thor- oughly committed; and, indeed, it is because he fearlessly asserted and sustained that prin- ciple that he is not now the candidate of the other side. Thus in the changes of the day things have come round so that the democratic party is once more his party. Chase is hated and feared by the radicals because he regards the whole safety of the country as involved in the supremacy of the law and the discontinu- ance of military government, and if there is arly democracy in the land to-day surely this is the very first principle of its existence. The principles by which Mr. Chase stands are suc- cintly indicated in a despatch from Richmond given elsewhere. General amnesty, civil gov- ernment, the supremacy of the law—these are the points, and they are the points on which the republicans must be opposed, because they are the only ones on which they can be beaten. Chase is the only statesman who now conspicu- ously embodies before the people this honest opposition to the party in power, and he is therefore the legitimate candidate. His ideas on negro suffrage are not found an insuperable objection by Mr. Vallandigham, who can hardly be accused of radicalism in that direc- tion; and whatever they are it is not now the policy of the democracy to go behind any fact that has beep already established as a step to- ward settling the condition of the Southern States, Time must first show the step to have been a bad one. Tue West Point Mitrrary ACADEMY.— Yesterday was quite a lively and interesting day at West Point. The cadets there first received the midshipmen who had gone up on the United States practice fleet for the pur- pose of paying their land comrades a visit. After their reception the corps of cadets was formed in line and General Grant presented the diplomas awarded to the graduating class, which numbers fifty-four members. Altogether the day was most pleasantly and entertain- ingly spent. A larga number of army and -of his original forces, and his confidence is SHEET. navy officers was present to witness the cere- monies consequent upon the sending out of another company of the future heroes of the republic. Financial Legislation in Congress Yesterday. The proceedings in the House of Represen- tatives yesterday were of a rather remarkable character. , After voting away between one and two millions of dollars for additional com- pensation to the clerks of the different depart- ments Mr. Shanks, of Indiana, offered a resolu- tion declaring that ‘‘it will inflict a serious loss in the national revenues to delay the revision of taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco,” and instructing the Ways and Means Com- mittee to ‘‘report without delay a sepa- rate bill for the revision of taxes” on the articles named. After a somewhat lengthy debate, during which Messrs. Schenck, May- nard and Niblack spoke in opposition thereto, the resolution was passed by a vote of seventy- four to sixty-three. Subsequently another resolution was adopted, providing that when the separate bill shall be reported ‘‘no other business shall be in order.” It is thus appar- ent that before the adjournment of Congress for the summer season the tax on whiskey and tobacco will be materially reduced. Whether the reduction will tend to increase the revenue.to be derived from these sources is a question which can only be decided by the practical operations of the law after its passage. It is, however, stated that a delegation of distillers now in Washington .have promised that the government shall receive forty mil- lions of dollars immediately after the reduc- tion of the tax from whiskey held by them, but which they have not been able to place upon the market by reason of the swindles of the ‘‘whiskey ring.” If this large sum of money can be placed in the Treasury in a short time, as promised, then the proposed revision of the tax will be of material benefit to the country. In the Senate the Currency bill was taken up, and Mr. Morrill offered as an amend- ment that ‘‘on the issue of any increase of retired circulation” the Secretary of the Treasury be “‘required to permanently with- draw an equal amount of United States notes.” To this Mr. Morton gave notice he would move to add that the notes thus retired ‘shall not be obtained from the sale of bonds, but shall be taken from the funds in the Treasury, collected in the ordinary way.” After a lengthy debate, during which the Senate re- fused to lay the bill on the table until after the Presidential election, Mr. Morrill’s amend- ment was rejected by a vote of sixteen yeas to twenty-seven nays. This result is signifi- cant, as showing that the Senate does not favor any further contraction of the currency. Our Spanish-American Neighbors=The War in Paraguay. The letters which we published yesterday from our correspondents at Rio Janeiro, Bue- nos Ayres and Vera Cruz, show that our Spanish-American neighbors are in what ap- pears to be their normal state of military and civil confusion. The latest intelligence that we have from the seat of war in Paraguay is contained in a cable despatch published in to-day’s Herartp. The allies had assaulted the rear of Humaitd for the purpose of gaining possession of the forest of the Gran Chaco and thereby cutting off the communications of the Paraguayans. They were repulsed at every point and were compelled to abandon the assault. The siege, however, continues, the fort being closely invested by land and water. Lopez himself is strongly fortified on the river Tebicuari, with an army of ten thousand men. He is not intimidated by the loss of four-fifths evidently unskaken in his people, who adhere to him as firmly as in his palmy days, though they are obliged to dress in skins and live on fruits, with fresh beef roasted at the camp fire and with native tea, drunk from native gourds, tor their only drink. The satisfaction of fighting for their country is their only pay. Their heroic résistance, whether successful or unsuccessful, will be forever memorable. The rumors that the government of the United States intends to interfere and demand that there shall be no change of government in Paraguay without the consent of the people themselves, are gaining credence and tend to sustain the courage of the Paraguayans. President Mitre, of the Argentine Confede- ration, will probably be impeached as soon as the Congress shallassemble. Meanwhile, as he is at the head of the army in a foreign country, and as the acting Executive is his especial friend, he will be apt to postpone his return for trial until the exigencies ot war permit. His impeachment would, in all likelihood, open an embarrassing revolutionary period for the republics of the Platte. But what most directly interests the people of the United States is the revolutionary con- dition of our Mexican neighbors. The pronun- ciamiento of Rivera, of which we published yesterday a full translation, is but one of many indications of the concerted opposition against President Juarez as a usurper on the part of the very chieftains who united with him in suc- cessful efforts to drive away from Mexico the imperial invaders led by Maximilian. Juarez is soundly abused in the proclamation of Rivera as having, ‘through unutterable misfortune,” attained power in a time of turbulence and re- volt; as having governed always dictatorially, with no other limitation than his own will and ambition ; as having purposed and successfully endeavored to destroy the constitution, and as; having continued in command of the people without authority from the people, ‘‘without legality, without election—the fountain of all legitimate power—making the republic his patri- mony and Mexicans his slaves.” Tho chaotic and revolutionary condition of Mexico could not be more strikingly. illustrated than by thie pro- clamation of Rivera against Juarez, supported as it is by the open or the indirect sympathy of almost all the leaders of the so-called liberal party in Mexico. Thus our: latest news from Mexico confirms the opinion which we have often expressed—that in dve time the Mexicans themselves, admitting their incapacity for seif- government, unless subjected to the enlighten- ing and strengthening influence of’ the republic of the Unite’ States, will invoke annexation to this great republic as the final remedy for all their woos, Poviormen’s Civns ayn Crrizeys’ HRaps.—- Another policeman was fined twenty-five dol- lacs on Saturday last for unwartantably assault- | } ‘ing « citizen with his club, A few more cases of punishment for the abuse of an authority which, it must be admitted, has of late beea too frequently abused, will, it is hoped, con- vince the offenders that citizens’ heads have rights that must be respected, and that police- men’s clubs are not always trumps. A Chance for the Sorosis. A ladies’ eating club of the ancient and honorable order of blue stockings is one of the last sensations of this metropolis. This club— the Sorosis—held a meeting up town on Satur- day afternoon last, en grande tenue, assisted by an excessive force of whiskered Bohemians From all that has appeared of the proceedings of the interesting occasion the business of the meeting was dining and wining and mutual ad- miration, and the grand object of the sorrowful sisters is that of a mutual admiration society— “only this and nothing more.” There was, “once upon a time,” a gay old beer-drinking philosopher, whose creed he thus expressed :— Back and sides go bare, go bare, Hands and Jeet go cold; Give me good ale and I don’t care— Jolly good ale and old, But this society of the blue stockings for- swears all such ‘‘thin potations,” they say, and in solids and fluids, pecans and pastry, has set up the splendid banner of ‘‘equal rights” with the old rib roasters of the Manhattan Club, We submit, however, that the Sorosis ought to strike higher than the Bohemian’s paradise of a good feed, and that the time is at hand for a grand flank movement upon the democracy in behalf of women’s rights in our political affairs. Mrs. Susan B, Anthony, we tinder- stand, has been appointed a delegate in behalf of the women’s rights women to the National Democratic Convention, She should not stand unsupported in that Convention by the Sorosis. She ought to have as her escort into the new Tammany Hall on ‘‘the glorious Fourth” the whole force of this society of the sorrowful sisters. By this grand move the Presidentess of the Sorosis may become more famous in the great American revolution of the nineteenth than was Madame Roland with her coterie in the terrific French revolution of the eighteenth century. Otherwise, the Sorosis, we fear, will be but a briefly flickering fiasc: Passage of the Washington Municipal Bill. By a vote of ninety-four to twenty-six the Senate bill relating to contested elections in the city of Washington was passed by the House of Representatives yesterday. After the many shameful acts of this radical Con- gress nothing that it now does can surprise the country. The billin question was intro- duced and carried through for the sole purpose of enabling the radicals to control the munici- pal affairs of the capital. In attempting to legalize the illegal act of the City Register, in giving certificates of election to three radi- cal Councilmen, who were not elected, and to whom he had no power to give such certificates, the bill is clearly unconstitutional ; for although Congress has sole control over the District of Columbia it cannot pass an 6x post facto \aw which will apply to that territory. But aside from that point the bill gives the Register the sole power to decide who is or who is not elected, and if that individual can, without a shadow of law to sustain him, cast out some one hundred votes polled at the re- cent election in an Aldermanic district, he cer- tainly would not hesitate to disfranchise any number of voters where his own election was the stake. The action of Congress in this matter is another indication of the dangers which beset the country by a continuation of radical rule, REVOLUTION IN Hayt1.—Our correspondence from Haytiisinteresting. Salnave had assured the Foreign Ministers that no damage would be done to the capital except that inflicted by the enemy; at the same time he announced his determination never to yield. The: Cacos made an assault upon the city on the morning ot the 3d inst. and were repulsed with heavy loss. All of the prisoners captured were butchered by the troops in the most expeditious and approved negro fashion. Salnave had endeavored to effect a compromise with the Southern revolutionists upon the condition that they should unite with him in repelling the Cacos. The proposition was indignantly re- jected, and the happy and highly civilized negro republicans were still vigorously at work slaughtering each other at the last accounts, TuE-Proposep REMOVAL OF THE NATIONAL Caritat.—It is understood that any one of the Western States, from Ohio to Kansas, to which the capital of the United States may te transferred, will pay all the expenses of re- moving the present public buildings from Washington or the cost of putting up new ones. If it comes to that New York cam do the same thing and go ten, twenty, fifty or a hundred millions better, with a hundred acres in the Park or on Washington Heights to build upon; and New York, the London of America, is, after all, the proper place for the national capital. However, Mr. Logan’s resolution failed in the House of Representatives yester, day, and the probabilities are that the ques- tion wil] not be brought again before Congress: for some time to come. ie Mexico aNp Orner NorsaNces..—Whenever anything gets in a bad way it takes.to: abusing the Heratp. That is what they ars-at ‘iy Mex- ico nearly all the time. They resently began it in Hayti, having got into.a revolutigna quite Mexican in character. They do the-sa me way here in all enterprises more eages,’ to make money than careful how it is made. It is the way adopted just now by a so-called 4 Soldiers’ Messenger Company that is re® orred to in another column. A Jon ror THe New MINIsTes: t0 ENGLAND. — The Hon. Reverdy Johnson, it is said, wil go out to England with expre ss and ample instructions for the settlement of the Alabama claims, If so, Mr. Johnsom, of the White House, as well as his Minis? or Johnson, may come off with flying colors; for the present British Cabinet is not in ® condition to chaffer any longer over that little bill. Orr Nationa, Smovrittes Sem iw Tne ASCENDANT.—There was great excitement in the market for government securities yester- day, the demand for home and foreign invest- ment being very heavy, and a further improve- mént of about @ half of one per cent took place in all the issues, while five-twenties advanced in London to 73}. 734. This speaks well for the public credit. WIseR, THAN Bartow—Horatio Seymour, in recotamending Chief Justice Chase as the democratic candidate (or the aegt Presidency.