The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New York Henatp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Velume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lire in Tar STREETS— ‘Sxow Bixp. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Last NicuTs OF Foun Pua, A OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humery DUMPTY, with New Featunes. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—ELIZABETH, QUEEN oF ENGLAND. WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street. LITTLE NELL AND THE MARCHIONESS. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—FRencn Comio OPERA— BagbeE biRur. DT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— BRYANTS' OPE: street. —Eruiorian Mi ELLY ¢ PIAN MINSY BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Brondway.—ETu10- PIAN ENTER? AUNMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, de, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 21 Bowery.—Com1o Vooaiem, NEGKO MINSTRELSY, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE. 514 Broadway.—Tur GREAT ORI- @1NAL LINGARD AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Aftornoon and evening Performance. IRVING HALL.—GRAND MOVING DIORAMA OF LIN- COLN'S FUNERAL ORREMONIRS, DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—THr CRLRBRATED S1enor Bir PIKE'S M HALL, 254 street, corner of Eighth avenue —McEVOY's HIBERNICON, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, & THoMAs' PorULAs GARDEN CONcR} th avenue.—THEO, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— New York, Friday, September 11, 1868. THES NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atiantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, September 10. Napoleon reviewed the French army encamped at Ohalons. Queen victoria was in Paris en route for tPTEMBER Ul, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. the treatment of the prisoners charged with the crime admits in substance that inhuman treatment was extended to them by the authorities who had them in charge. Some of them were placed in sweat- boxes, threatened with death in front of a cannon and refused conference with counsel. The negroes lately expelled from the Georgia Legislature have entered a protest against their ex- pulsion, addressed to the Speaker and members of the House. They say that they will appeal to Con- gress, The House refused to permit the protest to be entered on the journal. The Governor has issued ‘@ proclamation against armed organizations. Solicitor Binckley has reached Washington and is engaged in preparing a report of his proceedings in New York in connection with the internal revenue case against Commissioner Rollins and others, It is stated that the report when finished ig to be sub- mitted to the President. Commander Jeffers, of the United States steamer ‘Swatara, reports the detatis of his cruise along the coast of Liberia, The black republic shows evi- dences of civilization, but capital is wanted. The American emigrants from the Northern cities are not agricultural laborers and do not stand the climate, while the Southern plantation hands succeed admi- rably. The colony is, however, compellea to import provisions from the United States. Universal suf- frage is considered injudicious, and only educated persons are allowed to vote. It will be remewbered that the widow of General Eaton married in 1857, being then sixty-five years of age, an Italian dancing master named Buchignant, aged nineteen, A year or more afterwards, how- ever, Buchignani, obtaining possession of his wife's fortune of $73,000, absconded to Europe with a young lady, @ grand daughter o1 his aged wife. Mrs. Buchignani was left almost penniless. Recently the Italian returned to this city and was yesterday ar- rested at the instance of his wife, who demanded an allowance for her support. He demurred, but after being imprisoned for a few hours he agreed to pay $8 per week for her maintenance and was dis- charged. Two men were arrested in Philadelphia yesterday on suspicion of being concerned in the child murder and outrage of Sunday last. Nothing conclusive was found against them, however. A reward of $1,000 has been offered by Mayor McMichael for informa- tion of the criminal. In January last an errand boy named Morgan Ste- phenson, in the employ of A. E. White, broker on Wall street, was robbed of $1,100 in gold which he was conveying to the bank by a man who threw snuff in his eyes and fled with the money. On Wed- nesday night Morgan and another boy were arrested fora bold burglary in Brooklyn, and yesterday he acknowledged that he was an accomplice in the robbery of January last, that it was a made up thing between himself and the robber, and that he received $150 of the spolis. The firm of Zulueta, of Havana, which lost $300,000 by the burning of the Casilda warehouses, has sus- pended payment, with liabilities reported at $6,000,000, The Board of Directors of the Underground Rail- way have not yet decided on the time for commenc- ing work nor to whom the contract for building the road will be given. Three of the directors are in England consulting with the contractors of the Lon- don underground ratiway. A statement from the Board will soon be made public. A negro man named Robert Smith lives in Cincin- nati who is nearly one hundred and ten years old. He remembers when Washington passed with his NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, S England. The Sultan of Turkey accorded permis- sion, in the most “gracious” manner, to Admiral Far- Yagut to pass the Dardanelles. The London cab “strike” is ended. Garibaidi is said to have gone to army to the siege of Yorktown. His eldest child is a gray-headed woman over eighty years of age. He has twenty-four children in all. The Public Debt—Taxation of United States Bonds. There is @ great deal of discussion among the campaign stump orators and party news- papers about the public debt, how much it has increased or decreased, how it should be paid and whether the United States bonds should be taxed, These orators and newspapers generally know little of the subject and make it about as clear as mud by their discussions. Some maintain that the debt has been actually increased, though the figures do not represent it so; while a Mr. Atkinson, of Massachusetts, and several radical organs, taking the public debt statement just published as the basis of argument, make out that it has been reduced since the war more than eight hundred millions of dollars. Why did he not go back further and take the enormous amounts raised from the people and expended during the war as so much in liquidation of the debt? He might thus have carried up the figures to two thou- sand millions. One statement would have been just as reasonable as is the other. To estimate the proceeds of the war loans and war revenue as so much applied to the reduc- tion of the debt during the period referred to is simply absurd. We must come down to the time after the war was ended, when there was no longer any necessity for an expenditure on the war scale, and compare the expenditures of the government with the income to ascer- tain the truth relative to the management of the finances. By the official statement we find that the debt was, July 31, 1865, just at the close of the war, $2,757,253,275, and at September 1, 1868, $2,535,614,313. Thus the debt has been reduced nominally in figures during the last three years and one month of peace $221,638,962, The receipts of the govern- ment for the same period from different sources have been in round numbers over $1,800,000,000; that is, from internal revenue upwards of $800,000,000; from customs 550,000,000 in gold, which at the premium it has commanded during the past three years amounted to $840,000,000 in currency at least ; and from direct taxes, sale of government stores, premium on the sale of gold, sale of public lands and other sources nearly $200,000,000. Indeed, we have no doubt the total receipts have reached fully $1,850,000, 000. Out of that $221,638,962 of the debt has been paid, leaving over $1,600,000,000 for the three years’ expenditure, or at the rate of more than 533,000,000 a year. But it is said there was @ large sum due in July, 1865, for pay of sol- diers and other arrearages which ought to be deducted from the current and annual expendi- ture after peace was restored. We have no data from which to make an estimate of the amount, but it could hardly have reached the Presidency and declaring his adhesion to the Juarist cause. It is likely that this course was chosen from fear caused by his friend's murder. Poverty, murders, outrages and sui- cides comprise this budget of news, like all previous ones from that distracted country. Binckley Bowed Out. Mr. Binckley, “the distinguished gentle- man,” as Mr. District Attorney Courtney politely or sarcastically calls him, who came on from Washington some two weeks ago, and, without having the courtesy to inform Mr, Courtney or any member of his office of what he was doing, obtained affidavits on his own motion and caused them to be issued for the arrest of certain parties, has at length been bowed out of the case of the United States vs. Commissioner Rollins e¢ at. Mr. Courtney had waived this discourtesy on account of the magnitude of the interests involved in the investigation. He went into it with all his power and with the assistance of all the members of his department in the endeavor to ferret out the charges, whatever they were, but he found it “like drawing eye teeth out of this gentleman to ascertain what line of con- duct was to be adopted, what pursued, what testimony could be procured, what evidence he had obtained or upon what basis or theory he intertded to prosecute this case.” He dis- covered that Mr. Binckley had a sort of rambling idea that the Southern District of New York had jurisdiction over all the United States. A contemporary has printed in a letter from Washington an amusing account of an interview at the Astor House between the District Attorney and the Solicitor of the Internal Revenue. Ac- cording to this story Mr. Binckley asked Mr. Courtney “which side he had made up his mind to appear for in the investigation before Commissioner Gutman.” Mr. Court- ney told Mr. Binckley that he could not talk with him upon that subject, and immediately arose to depart. Mr. Binckley undertook to prevent Mr. Courtney from leaving the room by closing the door. In doing so he pinched Mr. Courtney’s fingers in the door, whereupon Mr. Courtney turned, and, striking out from the shoulder, got in such a blow between Mr. Binckley’s eyes as to send him ina hurried and confused manner to the sofa. After the prostrate Solicitor of the Internal Revenue had been sufficiently pounded he cried loudly for quarter, and two Deputy United States Mar- shals who happened to be passing came to his relief. Mr. Binckley said nothing further about which side Mr. Courtney should take, and the latter retired flushed with victory. We published yesterday a full report of the proceedings in the United States Commission- ers’ Court, in the course of which the valorous Mr. Binckley ‘‘defied everything that New interval tq December should contingencies re- quire it, in order to apply the breaks to ‘‘the man at the other end of the avenue.” Such is the proposition of General Banks, and we dare say it will be adopted. General Dix and Governer Seymour. A specisl correspondent at Paris, who speaks from his personal knowledge of General Dix's views of our Presidential contest, says that the General would ‘regard the election of Mr. Seymour at this juncture as a great calamity ;” that ‘the only hope for the peace and tranquillity of the country during the next four years ij in the firmness, good sense and patriotism of General Grant;” that the Tam- many Convantion platform on the five-twenties meansa violation of the public faith; that this platform ‘‘aad the indecision of Seymour as well as his conduct during the rebellion” and the elements making up the present democratic party ‘“‘ought to be decisive of the approach- ing contest.” These opinions at this time from our Minister at Paris are exceedingly interesting and suggestive. General Dix is known as a war demoorst. Asa party man he has never been identified with the republican organiza- tion. He was appointed to Paris, in fact, mainly becanse he was opposed to the extreme measures and programme of the radicals, and because he leaned rather to the reconstruction policy of President Johnson. General Dix, as a war democrat, before he left us was con- cerned ina movement looking to the recon- struction of the democratic party so as to bring it up to the new order of things—the fixed facts resulting from the war. Hence the HERALD, before the gathering of the late Tammany Hall Convention, submitted the ticket of Chase and Dix, a Western and an Eastern man, a conservative republican and a war democrat, as a ticket which would sweep the field, even against the great popularity of General Grant, because with this sound Union ticket the people would seize the golden opportunity for a wholesome change in the ruling powers of the government. But the democracy in convention assembled were ruled and managed by their old self-con- ceited and blundering Northern copperheads and Southern fire-eaters, regular Bourbons all, in learning nothing and forgetting nothing ; and hence the nomination of Seymour. But why should General Dix be so outspoken against this candidate? It is doubtless because Gene- ral Dix knows something more of the course of Seymour during the war than the rest of us, when Seymour was Governor of New York and Dix was the United States General in com- mand of this military department. The Gene- ral found the Governor, we suspect, anything but a cordial supporter of the war and more frequently an impediment to the Union army of the liberal grants of money and land made to the company. The Union Pacific Railroad may be called without misinterpretation essen- tially a government work, for the company is really put to no expense at all in building it, the subsidies of sixteen thousand do! thirty-eight thousand dollars and forty-eight thousand dollars a mile, according to the tract of country though which it runs, being suffi- cient to cover even the most extravagant out- lay. We trust, therefore, that a careful super- vision will be exercised over the work, so that when completed it will fulfil the purpose for which it was intended—a safe and speedy com- munication between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It will not do to accept loose reports from the Commissioners. It is the duty of the government to see that these gentlemen are earnest and vigilant in the performance of their commission, Jobbing Politicians in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Republican State Con- vention was held in Worcester on the 9tle inst. At the start there were two candidates for the Gubernatorial nomination; but on a canvass of claims and a count of noses it was deemed advisable that one should withdraw, and the nomination of the other was made by acclamation. The political history of the re- tiring candidate is very curious. An early coalitionist, it seems he has been at different times a Douglas delegate and yet voted for Breckinridge; that he opposed the republican party all through the late rebellion; that he dined with Preston S. Brooks after his assault upon Charles Sumner ; that the citizens of his county—hardened sinners as they are, for they are the descendants of the original Afri- can slave traders in this country—actuallg “blushed for him;” that he stumped Penn- .sylvania for the democrats at the State elec- tion and for the republicans at the Presidential election the same year, and otherwise exhibited his adroitness at political circus evolutions aa ifhe were a veritable hippodromist, To crowm all, he had the audacity to ¢nter the field as a candidate of the dyed-in-the-wool Africas radicals of Massachusetts for ihe nomination for Governor. This is one of the breed of Massa« chusetts jobbing politicians who are ever ready to sell out their principles to keep on the winning side. It was so with Boutwell, Banks, Butler and others less notorious. When they were demoy crats they, with Henry Wilson, Burlingame, and a host of small fry free-soilers, coalesced, formed a junction with those patent abolition- ists, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillipa, Elizur Wright, Theodore Parker, Abby Foster and others of the true black anti-slavery stripe, and, with a batch of Know Nothings, wrested the State from the hands of the old whigs, leaving them and the old hunker de- mocracy clean out in the cold. The reign of over $300,000,000 in all. Taking that as the sum, and deducting the $221,638,962 of debt paid, the actual current expenditure of the government, including the interest on the debt, has been more than four hundred and thirty- three millions a year ; or, exclusive of the inte- rest on the debt and simply for running the ma- chinery of the government, about three hun- dred millions a year. This is rather under The Saratoga fair opened yesterday with an ad- dress by ex-Governor Horatio Seymour. The election in Colorado shows a republican gain. Mr. Bradtord, republican, has been elected delegate to Congress. The National Lincoln Monument Association have adopted the design of the American sculptor, Larkin G. Mead. An epidemic, something like scarlet fever, is pre- vailing among the children in Andover, N. J. Eighteen fatal cases have occurred within a few the Know Nothings in the interim was magy nificent so long as it lasted; yet this prime conjunction of incongruous political elements has been found a paying one for the jobbing politicians for one branch of the coalition of the other ever since its formation. It is true neither Lloyd Garrison nor Wendell Phillips nos the late Theodore Parker ever asked for or held: public office, but they held in their hands what Naples. Italy, it is reported, requests France to withdraw from Rome. Consols 94, money. Five-twenties 71% in London and 7544 in Paris. Paris Bourse dull. Cotton steady, with middling uplands at 10d. Breadstuits dull. Provisions improving. Our special correspondence by mail from Europe supplies very interesting details of our cable tele- Grams to the 29th of August. MISCELLANEOUS. York could bring against him ;” and after Mr. Courtney had read the telegraphic disavowal by the Acting Attorney General of any right of Mr. Binckley to participate in the prosecu- tion, except by sufferance on the part of Mr. Courtney, the District Attorney declared that his manhood and self-respect forbade any fur- ther association with Mr. Binckley. Mr. Binck- than a helper. Our Paris correspondent says that ‘‘in every form General Dix, mindful of the trials and sufferings through which our country passed during the rebellion, and with a full knowledge of the causes and influences that prompted it and carried it on so long and of the elements that are now ruling the demo- cratic party, is an avowed opponent of the We have telegraphic advices from Mexico city to the Sth inst. The Puebla rebellion had been put down and Lucas and Bonilla, who surrendered at discretion, were condemned to death. The rebels at Tetala and San Miguel had also been defeated. Negrete, Prieto and Dominguez had escaped. The President had ordered the arrest and trial of General Cauto for the assassination of Patont. Ortega has igsued a mauifesto renouncing all claims to the Presidency. It is believed that his life was also threatened by Cauto. ‘The conspirators against Juarez had been banished. Vallarta had resigned his portfolio as Minister of Governacion. An Ameri- can named Pierce, who was maltreated at Cordoba, had applied for redress to Mr. Plumb. Colonels Granados and Toledo had been reprieved. A town under a covering of lava like Pompeti is reported to have been discovered near Chalco. Advices from Port au Prince, Hayti, to September 5 state that the siege of the city had been abandoned and the Cacos had retired to St. Marx. It is again reported that Cabral, of St. Domingo, had been shot on the frontier, Our mail advices from Venezuela are to August 22, and contain an account of the capture of Pietro Cabello by Monagas. The event had greatly dis- couraged President Falcon, and he had given up all hopes of returning to the executive chair. Some of his war vessels, however, continue to blockade La- guayra. Monagas had found several opponents who Proclaimed against him, but it is believed that he ‘Will be able to crush all of them. It is not certainly known that he will run for the Presidency in Octo- ber, and Delia Costa, Governor of Guyana, will prob- ably be chosen, The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and con- curred with the Aldermen in directing the Committee on Markets to investigate the condition of the public markets with a view of making needed improve- ments. In obedience to a writ of mandamus issued by the Supreme Court a resolution was adopted di- recting the clerk to place the names of Messrs. Ivans, ‘Lamb, Heinrich, O’Brien and Perley on the roll. The Board will now be composed of thirty members till the close of the year. A resolution in favor of con- Structing piers at the foot of Bank, Bethune, Weat Twelfth, Jane, Horatio, Gansevoort and Little ‘Twelfth streets was laid over. The Board of Supervisors yesterday confirmed the county tax levy, the amount of which is $13,173,047, Of which $10,875,047 18 to be raised by taxation. The corrected assessment rolls for the county were re+ Ported, showing the total asse valuation of real and personal property to be $9 529 and the rate Of tax 266-100 per centum. Donations of $15,000 to the House of the Good Shepherd and $95,214 to the payment of revenue bonds were made, and a resolu. tion to pay interest on wages due the laborers on the Court House was referred to the Special Com- mittee. ‘The Indian war in Idano is reported ended by the capture of Eagle Eye and his entire band, which was effected by soldiers from Fort Boise. The Indians in the neighborhood of Camp Warner, where General Crook commands, were coming in and surrendering, Most of them being in a starving condition, The murderers of the Pearson family had been captured and hanged. General Lialleck after @ special investigation re- ports a bad state of affairs in Alaska. The Russian Fur Company had assumed a patriarchal govern- Ment over the natives which the American coinpany does not maintain, and the natives are dissatisfied ‘and perplexed over the new responsibility of taking care of themselves, The agents of the company im- pose upon them and have impressed them with the idea that the military will punish them if they sell furs to any one but the company. The Americans in the territory, also citizens and soldiers, have been instructing the natives rather in the vices than the virtues o! civilization. {The trial of Whalen was continued yesterday, the case for the defence being opened. The evidence was intended to impeach the testimony of Lacroix and Turner. The verdict will probably be rendered on Saturday. Whaien himself has given up all hope of an acquittal. Rey. John P. Hubbard, an Episcopal clergyman, in charge of Christ church, Westerly, R. L, is on trial at Grace church chapel, for alleged violation of the canons of the Church, in permitting one Fred- erick Denison, not an ordained Episcopal minister, fo officiate in the pulpit of Christ church and to pro- Dounce therein the declaration of absolution; weeks, and over a hundred criticai cases are re- Ported. see recently. in the case of Moser vs. Polhamius and Jackson, in which it will be remembered startling revelations of the perjury of witnesses were made in July last by the witnesses themselves. stay execution on a Judgment for $126,000 against the plainti®. The Court denied the motion, and the A snake was found inside a watermelon in Tennes- Mr. Justice Cardozo yesterday rendered a decision The motion was to papers regarding the perjurers will be sent to the District Attorney for his action. The Court of General Seasions met yesterday for the transaction of business, Judge Russel presiding. The Grand Jury having been sworn retired for de- Mberation and investigation of such cases as might come up before them. There were several arraign- ments. Theodore J. Weaver pleaded guilty to grand larceny; sentence postponed, Michael Frazer pleaded guilty to attempt at burglary; sentenced to one year inthe Penitentiary. John Mark and John Williams pleaded guilty to grand larceny and were sent to the State Prison for four years, ‘The Inman line steamship City of London, Captain Brooks, will leave pier 45 North river at one o'clock P. M. to-morrow for Liverpool, via Queenstown. The mails for Europe will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. on Saturday, 12th inst, The National line steamship France, Captain Grace, will sail at twelve o'clock to-morrow (Satur- ay), from pier 47 North river, for Liverpool, touch- ing at Queenstown to land passengers, The Anchor line steamship Columbia, Captain Car- naghan, will leave pier 20 North river at twelve o’clock on Saturday, 12th inst., for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land passengers, &c. The steamship San Francisco, Captain Deaken, will sail from pier 17 East river at ten o'clock A. M. to-day (Friday) for Havana, Sisal and Vera Cruz. The Merchants’ line steamship General Grant, Cap- tain Quick, Wil! sail at three o'clock P. M. on Satur- day, 12th inst., from pier 12 North river, for New Orleans direct. The steamer George Washington, Captain Gager, of the Cromwell line, will leave pier No. 9 North river at three P. M. on Saturday for New Orleans, The Black Star Independent line steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, will sail at three P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) from pier 13 North river for Savannah, Ga. The stock market was dull and drooping yester- day, except for Erie, which was steady. Govern- ent securities were strong and closed with an up- ward tendency. Gold closed at 144 a 14444. The English Elections—Disracli’s Prospects, The tone of the English press, as will be seen by the extracts which we have been giv- ing from time to time, is becoming more and more decided. The opinion is now general that the direct and pointed policy of Gladstone is to be successful at the polls. The London Times and the other leading journals are trimming their sails for the change. It is not desirable to be out of favor, and as the Disraeli chances seem smaller than they were the journals are preparing themselves for the new authorities. It will not surprise us to find that Mr. Disraeli’s enemies have miscalculated, and that out of the rich resources of the Jew Premier something may come which will defeat all calculation. We are by no means satisfied as yet that Dis- racli must be defeated. After all, however, it matters little which shall be the successful party. The great fact in which the world is interested is that the revolution inaugurated by Disraeli is bound to go on, come into power who may. Whether Disraeli or Gladstone is successful is @ small question in comparison with the great fact that the world marches on to new and nobler conditions, and that Great Britain is furnishing and is destined to furnish more and more striking illustrations, This election campaign in England will be one of the most interesting and instructive on record, but it is not yet time to give a final judgment Goueres dvau’s Leyorb ul tins aaiveis wdices oad | 00 lbs mgsile, than over the amount. amount the government cost just before the war. cal rule. This is five times the It is the peace expenditure under radi- These same newspaper organs and campaign speakers that make ‘figures lie” in order to blind the public and to help their own politi- cal party are opposed to the bondholders being taxed, and labor incessantly to force specie payments, so that the wealth of the bondholders may be increased thirty to forty per cent. They look only at that interest and lose sight of the crushing burden of the debt upon the industrious classes. They demand payment in gold for bonds which cost on an average only about fifty cents on the dollar. The bondholders are drawing six per cent interest in gold on the original investment of fifty cents, which amounts in reality to twelve per cent on the dollar, or fourteen to fifteen per cent in currency. The exemption of the bonds from national and State taxation favors the bondholders to the amount of five per cent probably on their investments, as compared with the burden every other kind of property has to bear. Thus we see the bond- holders are making about twenty per cent in all on the capital originally invested in the bonds. Yet the bondholders and their organs cry out repudiation, national dishonor and all sorts of evils when it is proposed to tax the bonds. They hold up the law and the constitution as a defence and entrench themselves behind these. They are grasping and selfish, and care not who bears the enormous burdens of the country if they can escape. But why should not those who are drawing so much from the government help to sustain it? Why should not this kind of property bear a fair proportion of the public burden, both national and State? It was never intended by the framers of the constitution or makers of the law that they should not. If there appears to be a difficulty in the decisions of the Supreme Court against States taxing national securities, or in the laws of Congress exempting the bonds from direct federal taxation, the bondholders can be reached in some other way. The people of this country will never consent to have such @ vast amount of wealth exempt from taxation while they themselves are heavily burdened, particularly as the bondholders are drawing enormous profits from the Treasury on their investments. Congress must devise some plan to reach this privileged class, to equalize the burdens of the country and to satisfy the people. Tuk News rrom Mexico.—Ftom the telo- gtaphio news published in to-day’s Henaup it will be seen that the Negrete rebellion in the sierra of Puebla has been put down by Gene- ral Alatorre’s forces. The rebels have been defeated three times, losing heavily in men and material. Generals Lucag and Bonilla surrendered at discretion, were sentenced to death and at length reprieved. General Ne- grete, together with Colonels PHeto and Do- minguez, had taken refuge in the mountain fastnesses, Governor Cuervo, of Jalidoo, has been reinstated, and government had ordered the immediate trial of all concerned in General Patoni’s assassination. [t now appears that General Ortega bad had reason to fear for his own life and preferred to remain in his prison. He issued @ manifesto renouncing all claims to | ley then took his hat and cane, and, shaking the dust off his feet, solemnly announced, ‘I will appear again in New York.” This prediction seems little likely to be fulfilled. The case, so far at least as he is concerned with it, appears to have collapsed. The general opinion now is that of all the developments of the Internal Revenue imbroglio the Binckley affair is the richest farce. The question is agitated, who is this Binckley? Is he the Head Centre of the Ku Klux Klan? Is he the founder of the Knights of the Golden Circle? Is he the father of the Sons of Liberty? Whoever he may be, he must be convinced by this time that he got hold of the wrong customer when he tried to browbeat Mr. Courtney and ventured to intimidate him by threats of politi- cal decapitation. He may have succeeded in fooling Andrew Johnson, but, notwithstanding his big, swelling words of vanity, the public can look upon him only as a scalawag and a carpet-bagger. He has gone back to Wash- ington, and we cannot advise him to ‘appear again in New York” as a volunteer representa- tive of the United States government. Toombs’ Arraignment of General Grant, We publish to-day a full report of the speech of Brigadier General Robert Toombs, of Georgia. delivered at Cedar Town on the 25th ultimo. It will be remembered that a short time since we published a brief extract from this speech and stated that if it be intended as an electioneering document to assist the radicals in the North it ought to be published in full. This, it will be seen, has been done, and so far as the objectionable utterances con- cerning General Grant, which we quoted, are concerned, we find that in the revised edition the sentiment remains, while the coarseness of the language is toned down. He does not broadly accuse General Grant of being a “liar,” and ‘‘doubly lying” to screen himself from the effects of his “treachery,” but a ‘‘want of veracity” and so on. He, further- more, arraigns General Grant as responsible for the Chicago platform in all that relates to hostility to the South, Such an arraignment, We think, would come with a better grace and with far more effect from either a war demo- erat or from a Unionist or non-combatant in the South. What would have been thought if General Lee had stood in the place of Briga- dier Toombs and brought the accusations the latter has against General Grant? The South- ern cause would not have stood for a moment in the North. As it is, this Cedar Town speech of Brigadier Toombs will be taken for what it is worth; and whatever is good, bad or in- different in it is at the option of those who wish to use it either one way or the other. THe Question oF A SEPTEMBER SESSION OF Con@rkss.—Speaker Colfax and party, by our latest advices from the far West, had left Cheyenne and were coming eastward, bound for Chicago by way of Omaha. We understand that the Speaker has been summoned to Wash- ington, with other chiefs of Congress and his party, to consult with Representative Schenck, of Ohio, and Senator Morgan, of New York, on the question of a September session of Congress, In all probability, considering the anarchical condition of Southern reconstruction and the still belligerent tendencies of Andy Johnson against the policy of Congress, the two houses will be called together on the 21st instant, but with the understanding that they are to do nothing but provide for another meeting in the party, its leaders and candidates in this cam- paign.” This ‘‘full knowledge” of General Dix no one will dispute. He knows, we have no doubt, many things which others only fear in connection with the position assumed by the democratic party in this campaign, and in reference to Seymour and the war and such lit- tle episodes as our July riots of 1863. And when General Dix, as our Minister at Paris, and in the face of President Johnson’s adhe- sion to Seymour, boldly declares his opinion that Seymour's election would be a great ca- lamity, his example will certainly have a pow- erful influence upon the war democrats of New York and the whole country, because of his unflinching patriotism from first to last, and be- cause of his intimate knowledge of many things behind the scenes affecting Gov- ernor Seymour of which the public know little or nothing. And Reverdy Johnson, they say, and most of our other Min- isters abroad are likewise for Grant. Here is matter for a Cabinet council at Washington and for a special meeting of the Tammany sachems and the fasting brethren of the Manhattan Club The Union Pacific Railroad. There seems to be a difference of opinion between the government Commissioners and one of the directors of this important national work as to the mode of its construction. The Commissioners, Messrs. F. P. Blair, Bauford and White, declare that the portions which they have examined are built strictly accord- ing to law, while the dissatisfied director says that the road is miserably built and that the culverts are imperfectly bridged. It is stated also that the road has been run many miles out of its direct track in order to avoid the expense to the company of bridging ravines and cut- ting through mounds or elevations in the prairie, while at the same time the govern- ment subsidy per mile is claimed and paid on some portions of the track where at least sev- enteen miles to the hundred have been added to the direct route. All these allegations it was the duty of the government Commission- ers to investigate and report upon. That they have not done so, but, on the contrary, have represented the work as done in an entirely satisfactory manner in compliance with all the provisions of the contract, may warrant At- torney General Evarts in deciding that the only legal evidence which the government can receive is the report of the government Com- missioners, and the subsidy must be paid ac- cordingly. But the idea is suggested whether these Commissioners have faithfully performed their duty ; whether they have been wide awake during their survey of the road ; whether they shut their eyes while passing over the imper- fect bridges and trellises, supported only by @ bank of sods, where there ought to be a but- tress of stone, It is the duty of the govern- ment to see that the Commissioners are not negligent or too easy in the performance of their duty. It is undoubtedly desirable that the Union Pacific Railroad should be completed as soon as possible, for it is a magnificent enterprise. There is hardly an interest in the country that is not involved more or less in its success, and this is an additional reason why it should form the subject of special attention from the government, and why its safe and economical construction should be insisted upon. in view was more potential—the political fate of such pliant instruments as Boutwell, Banks and Butler ; and the mighty events of the past eight years in this country have demonstrated the strength of that silent influence. In regard ta the unfortunate coalitionist who was extina guished at Worcester on Wednesday last it ig charity to say he seems to be too ambitious, He may be a good judge of ruta bagas and @ capital doctor of horned cattle, and no doubt can discourse eloquently about pleuro-pneu= monia and all that, but as a political manager or leader he seems to be about as skilful and felicitous as the elephant Columbus would bé in a dance on a tightrope. A New York ward politician would give him odds and beat him easily at any job he might put up. SPAIN AND QuEEN IsaBELLA.—Queen Isa- bella, we see, is in great trouble. Her peo; ple seem sick of her. We do not much wonded at it. Under the present goverment, which is rotten to the core, there is no hope fos Spain. The best thing the Spanish people can do is to ask the protection of Napoleon at once. Napoleon is the only one who cag give Spain what she needs—a strong govern4 ment. The protection of Napoleon would bé worth the protection of ten General Prima or any number of Gonzalez Bravos. AGeEvNERAL RzEACTION.—The returns from the Territorial elections of Colorado and New Mexico indicate the same general reactiog against the reconstructed democratic party and its ticket that was revealed in the recent elecg tions in Vermont and Delaware. Such mov ments of the public mind seem to operate over the country at once and in the same direction, as by @ sort of spontaneous com- bustion. Maine comes next. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. The board of directors of the proposed undor- ground railroad will soon issue a statement of the Progress of the undertaking for the information of the stockholders and the public. It is not decided as yet when active operations will commence or ta whom the work will be entrusted. Three of the directors are now in England conferring with the parties who constructed the London Underground Ratiroad and others with the view of agreeing on @ plan by which the New York directors may benefit by the experience gained in the construction of the London road. The board here is in telegraphic coma munication with its representatives on the other side, but it ts not yet known whether the offer made by the contractors of the London Underground Rail- Toad some three months since, to build a similar road in this city, has been accepted. TWE FRENCH TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Messrs. Duncan, Sherman & Oo., who are the agents of the French Transatlantic Telegraph Com. pany in the United States, closed their subscription books some time since, the stock having been all taken up on the other side. The stock is now selling ata premium in London and Paris, The company made arrangements to have ho stock placed in tha market here for the purpose of giving our citizen an opportunity of skaring in the new enterprise, bu¢ before the agents could fully publish the particwara concerning it the entire amount of stock was sub. scribed for On the other side. The London Money Market Review regards the establishment of the new line a@ certain of accomplishment, an opinion ta which our toerchants fully coincide. No allotment of shares has yet been made, THE PRIZE RING. Parties in Cincinnati are still authorized to put ap 4 forfeit for Heenan to fight McCoole for $2,500 a side, by Ahad A ge be bg! to a head, ingiish and Sellers, fh gulity toan indictment for engaging in thiveme at @ recent term of the Kent county (i. 1.) Supreme Court aud were ned gagh #200 and coats,