The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD ROADWAY AND ANN STREKT. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIE1 ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor HeEravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—ELtzaurti, QUEEN oF ENGLAND. N{BLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Faenon Comic OPER A— Bags Buse. Ata edi ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Fxwats Deracrive— Bruna OF PEARLS. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.-Lasy NIGHTS OF Four Puay OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—lluaerr Duwrry, wirh New FEaruxss. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th sireot.KTMIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, &C., LUCRETIA BonGia, NEW YORK UBRALD, TUESDAY, SKPTHMBER 15, 1868.—TRIPLS. SHEET. Advocates for the defence and crown. The judge charged the jury and they retired. An anxious and excited crowd waited till a late Rour outside the court room after the adjournment, but no verdict has yet been rendered, A aalf-witted negro named John Hawley, Was Cap- tured in the woods near Stratford, Conn., OD quoter in the act of outraging a girl named Anna Kulter aged twelve years. He acknowledges haying coun muted the same deed --, -veral occasions while she ‘Was on her way to Sunday school, The negro is held under $3,000 bonds, William J. Rae, 2 commission merchant at No, 30 Broad street, and William M. Martine, a lawyer at 76 Nassau street, were arrested yesterday on a charge of forging and passing a promissory note for $2,985 on Samuel R, Jacobs, a notebroker in New street, Lavnsing, of the American Exchange National Bank, testified to paying Martine money on a check of Mr. Jacobs, in the presence and on the voucher of Rae, with whom he is well acquainted.. The case was here postponed and Rae and Martine were com- mitted. Grasshoppers are doing great injury to the crops on the eastern end of Long Island. John H, Surratt’s second trial will probably take Place next Monday, Secretary McCulloch has issued additional instruc- tions in regard to customs on the frontiers. Sealed cars are to be passed only on the certificate of a United States agent at the point of shipment that they were loaded under nis superintendence, and evidence at the first point of arrival inside United States territory that the seals are intact. Mr. Jacobs testified to the facte, and Mr. Therefore is it that leaders like Wade Hamp- ton, Forrest, Toombs, Henry A, Wise, A. H. Stephens, General Gordon, Judge Campbell and hundreds of others distinguished for their political influence in the South are pakavering with the negro voter, joining with him in bar- | beoues, etting dnt thé Haine platform with hin and showing him as clear as noonday on wan side his bread is buttered. The Southern political leaders are most acute and audacious fellows. They are the greatest politicians that ever existed. Even their generals, headed by Robert E. Lee and Beauregard, seem to be us skilful and prudent in the politicians’ closet as they were brave and cool on the field of battle. This was seen in Rosecrans’ interview with them at White Sulphur Springs. Take them all together, ships in foreign ports, in bringing foreign capitalists to their aid, in obliging foreign humbugging old European diplomats, proclaiming themselves the truest, purest, whether we regard them while conducting the government for more than half a century, or observe them in the work of breaking up the Union or in carrying on a rebellion upon & most gigantic scale, in building great war courts to give them a guasi recognition, in or whether we look at them after the war is over the Paraguayan camp, which tend towards confirming the general impression that the close of the war is not far remote, and that, how- ever reluctantly we may assent to it, Lopez | sa his brave Paraguayans must ere long, gator a most heroic ate.” sd ounmlt to the oy 4 SBR, | inexorable ley of might vergug right, The South American Calamity. Hitherto. earthquakes have shaken Owl cities or swallowed them and devptated neighboring districts for many miles ; 4ut the recent earthquake in South Americ is per- haps the first recorded one whose 4sastrous influence has been felt nearly tfough the extent of a whole continent. a pe equator to Patagonia the peop) 18 west coast of South America havesuffered from this visitation, and the effec /f the disturb- ance as conveyed by the s/ long the coast has been felt at Southern (lifornia, in North America, giving upwardyf seven thousand miles as the extreme Pit, $0 far as now known, on one line of th perceptible influence of this tremendous diAtbance of the earth’s crust. We certainly 4V@ not yet heard the whole story. From /* in the Pacific we hear of the disturbance®t Honolulu, and for months to come wall hear of calamities in the innumerable 20d groups of thé South fhat the Spirit of the Lord is most needed. ‘These are the places where the enemy has. his /atrongholds and which should be most vigor- ously assailed. Salvation may be a very easy matter in a nicely cushioned pew, with damask upholstery, soft kaeeling stool and gilded prayer book; but the battle is os a0 2asily fought in the denis and slums ot the ity, whore week buman hearts and wavering resolution are surrowided by the fascinations of vice and gin. It is in these places and with the classes who fre- quent them that the efficacy of religious teach- ing can be best tested. Therefore, when we hear of a preacher discoursing on crime in New York and its causes to a congregation which is probably acquainted with the sib- jects under discussion we may expect that some good is likely to come out of it. We notice, too, that an Indian chief addressed a congregation touching the condition of his own people, and told some wholesome truths when he said that they had been taught ‘the reli- gion of rifles, powder and whiskey.” .He might, have added that the red man is tanght the creed of duplicity and lying by the exam- ple of his white brethren, and he would not have overshot the mark. It is evident that religious revivals have KELLY & LEON'’S MINSTRELS, 730 Broadway.--Ermio- PLAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE, &0.—BAKBER BLU. Warehouses, six wharves and a rafiroad depot were burned on Sunday. Greater damage than at first reported was caused SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, $85 Broadway.—Erito- Pian ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, Ac. * TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery,—Comio Vooatism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &e. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Tir GuEAT Ont- GIWAL LINGARD AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. also reported at Ooveville. 'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Atternoon and evening Performauce. 3 afternoon, the loss approximating $250,000. IRVING HALL.—GRanp MOVING DIORAMA oF LiN- ©OLN'S FUNERAL CEREMONIES, DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Tuk CELEBRATED SiaNow Buirz, PIKE'S MUSIC HALL, Q5d street, corner of Eighth Bronue —McEVOy's HisgRNICON, reported the previous week. Of the dead 80 were men, 65 women, 126 boys and 90 girls. Lewis W. Caswell, a clerk in the Post OMce, was yesterday charged with embezzling @ letter belong- ing to the United States containing money. Commis- sloner Osborn admitted him to bail. In the Court of General Session yesterday, Judge Russel, presiding, delivered opinion in the case of the People vs. Moses E. Luddington, The defendant, who is a resident of Chicago, was charged with hay- ing obtained goods to the value of $3,000 from a firm in this city. An indictment was found against him in this district, and on @ requisition made on the Governor of the State of Illinois Luddington was sur- rendered, he being at the time in the custody of the Marshal of the United States for the Northern district of Illinois, Judge Russel decided that the defendant, being in custody under the several charges, could not be legally taken out of the custody of said Mar- tAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—TuRo, >’ PoPULAR GARDEN CONoERT. THE WONDERFUL SIAMESE TWINS—Now at 616 acway, near Houston, for ® short time only, prior to zB their departure for Paris to be surgically separate, MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. A FLASH oF LIGHTNING. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hooury's MINGTEKLS—MASSA-NIRLLO, OR THR BLACK FOREST. NEW YORK MURBEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— The James River Hotel at City Point, Va, four by the recent heavy rains in the northern part of the State, A canal boat was swept on the flats by the breaking of the Champlain canal. Another break is The print works of the Washington Company at Gloucester, N. J., were destroyed by fire yesterday ‘The total number of deaths in Brooklyn during the past week was 281, a decrease of 12 from the number assumed a new shape and have broken out in new places. If there be any earnestness and sincerity in the parties engaged in them, whether those who preach or those who are preached to, some good may come from it. The churches, however, will have to look to their laurels, or the Allens, Slocums, Haddens and Van Meters will strip them bare, most uncontaminated of Union men, lauding the constitution as if they had never raised a finger to disturb it and professing to be better lovers of republican institutions and better friends of human freedom than those who fought to defend the one and procure the other, we see them the same bold, impulsive, plucky, vehement, presumptuous and auda- cious political leaders. In sagacity and cunning they out-Machiavelli Machiavelli. They play the game of the astute and subtle old Italian statesman better than he could himself, and in a way, indeed, to charm the very bones of that ancient political philosopher out of theirtomb. The bitter feuds in Italy excited by Machiavelli, the arraying of one side against another, the sharp corners he turned in his diplomacy, his intrigues, combi- nations and machinations, afford no parallel to |/requipa the disturbance did not end with the the keenness, energy and intensity of the juin of the cities. Those who climbed to the Southern political philosophers of our day. hills above these places counted the shocks all They do things on a grander scale. They can night, and they were still felt on the 16th, and keep up continual feuds among their oppo- at one place as late as the 22d. At points nents ; they can attempt to break down a gov{ high up in the Andes on a line with Arequipa ernment one day which they swear the ne/| the convulsion was felt, but no harm was done. they are the only saviours of; they can arrai/ | From the cities in Ecuador immediately under Pacific due to #* loss of equilibrium. We should not be as/shed to learn that mariners, on their way / 9nd from that volcanic world, had encount¢? newly thrown up continents in their cau’. The eailit definite date of the disturbance is four my*es past five on the 13th of August, when th/hock was first felt at Arequipa, a city in®out the eighteenth degree of south latitud/ ing between the Andes and the sea, and /@ hundred miles from the sea. At Iqu#®, @ city two degrees further south on theast, the shock was first felt somewhat Ja‘—at seventeen minutes past five. Possi- pdifferences in timepieces might make these gultaneous, At Callao, sixteen degrees rth of Arequipa, and still on the coast, the fock was first felt at ton P.M. At Arica and General Muddle in European Afiuirs. Since the Luxemburg affair in the early months of 1867 Europe has been inno such muddle as she is at the present moment. The only visible and tangible difference is that then there was a casus belli and that now there is none. France is equally menacing and equally loud in her assurances of peace. Prussia is equally calm, but equally dignified and determined. Our latest news from the various European countries shows that doubt and uncertainty have taken a firm hold of the public mind, and that in the probable continu- ance of peace no one has faith, All French officials, from those of the highest to those of the lowest grade, are as loud as ever in their protestations of peace ; but while France cries “Peace” and Prussia reduces her army the RIPLE New York, Tuesday, ere 15, 1868. pew THE NOWs. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atiantic cable is dated yes- terday ovening, September 14. The London Times says the Alabama claims bill “is as good as settled’? and that Minister Johnson will be paid the amount. Napoleon in his speech at halons said the press always prophesied war from his words, “however moderate.” Mrs. Lincoln was 4n Paris. Austria is reinforcing her garrisons near the Bulgarian frontier. ‘The Ozar of Russia has not yet signed the treaty of Peace with Bokhara. Consols, 94 money, Five-twenties, @nd 754 @ 75% in Frankfort. Cotton dull and downward, with middling up- Jands at 10d. a 104d. Breadatuts dull. Provisions steady and upward. By steamship at this port we have a European Wail report in aetall of our cable telegrams to the 4th of September, including the speeches delivered by Minister Johnson and Mr. Roebuck, M. ., at the Vatlers’ (in Shemeld, England. MISCELLANEOUS. The Maine election came off yesterday, and the Tewurns sbow a complete triumph for the republi- cana by @ majority of 20,000, a gain of between eight and nine thousand over the majority of last year. A steady gain on the republicans was apparent in | nearly every town heard from so far. The steamstip Henry Chaw Japtain Connor, | from Aspinwall September 6, at ten A. M., arrived at this port yesterday. She brings her usual comple- nent of passengers and cargo, with $401,048 in trea- sure, By the Henry Chauncey we have additional interesting details of the territic earthquake that con- vulsed the west coast of South America in the middle of August, A strange phenomenon ¢ night preceding the earthquake, in the appearance 72 in London of # brilliant light in the northeast, which was sup- posed to be a conflagration or a volcanic cruption, An enormous develop uent of electric fuid fillea the air, In Bi during the latter part of July a me- leor was observed, which disturbed magnetic instru- ents very greatly, the compass oscillating fifteen es from north to west. ) the Atlantic cable we have additional advices from Hraziland Paraguay. The Brazilian Ministry had determined to carry on the war vigorously and refuse all Lopez had tweive thousand men oo O |. The iron-ciads had gone up to Asuncion, Sarmeneto, the President elect of the Argentine confederation, had arrived at Kio Janeiro. Urquiza’s rebellion had been quelled. We have telegraphic advices from the Sandwich Islands to the 29th of August. Business was dull, Whe Japanese emigrant laborers had strack, de- tmanding their full pay every mouth, The Board of Vmigration agreed to the demand, although the former payment was according to contract, We have correspondence and mail advices from fyuney, New South Wales, to August 2, incinding a fy nopsia of the news in ihe other districts of Austra- dusia. Troubles had again arisen with the blacks in Queensiand, and thirty of them had been deliberately slaughtered by the native police. The aystem of ob- taining South Sea Isianders for the culture of cotton nd has become a species of legitimatized Wanting In few of the horrors of the factual African system, The new Ministry had come into power in Victoria, the troubles with Sir Charles Marling having been adjusted. A general confedera- tion of the Australian colonies is talked about. Qifeen Emina nare, Of the Society Islands, has re- turned to Tahiti and recetved a warm reception from her subjects. The French Governor of Tahiti was discovered to have been a convicted criminal, find the Queen's chiefs had petitioned for bis return, Ho bad had a dimeuity with the members of the pro- fectoral government, and they had been ordered back u Hie hud also seized on the King of Hua- independent island, and compelled him to anew Prench treaty. Our Mazatlan, Mexico, correspondence Iq dated August | ar xcitement was oceastoned by the receipt of a telegrain from San Franc announc- tog that Secretary Seward had succeeded in pur- chasir aloa and Sonora. ‘The news was gener- ally \, the facts of the withdrawal of nearly all the M an t from the two States and the arival of (wo high Custom House oMcials to take charge at Maz one of whom i# an American and both of Whom speak English, being considered confirmatory evidence of the truth of the despatch, Ap iron steamer called the Dumbarton, which has been fitting ont at various piers in this city and Brookiyn, sailed under very mysterious circum. stances from this port about #ix weeks ago, Infor- mation in the hands of United States Marsiial Murray has led lim to believe that her object ts to take a cargo of slaves from the coast of Africa to Cuba or Brazil, There was no evidence tangible enough to | authorize a seizure while she was in port, but tater information has confirmed the Marshal in this belief since she satled, It i9 thought that she will stop at one of the small Nova Scotia ports to take in addi- ional supplies, Another vessel is fitting ont here at | present, intended, it is snpposed, for the same pur- pose. Whaien’s trial, for the assassination of IArcy Metiee, closed at Ottawa yesterday, with powerful Av@Ming Up arguments on the parts OF the orincipAl | Southern leaders shal. The defendant was then discharged, but was immediately rearrested by the Sheriff of New York county, when @ violent struggled ensued, the Illinois Sheriff manfully fighting for the possession of the prisoner. The bystanders joined in the melee on eather side according to their respective sympa- thies, and an uproarious scene ensued. The New York Sheriff secured the prisoner, however, but a writ of habeas corpus was immediately applied for and will be returned this afternoon. The stock market was on the whole firm and moderately active yesterday. Government securities closed strong but dull. Gold closed at 144% a 144. The market for beef cattle yesterday was only moderately active, and the offerings were quite liberal. Prime and extra steers sold at 16c. a 16c., and fair to good 16e. 8 154 c., and superior to ordi- nary Ilc. @ 143,¢.; the quality of the major part of the offerings was fair to good. Milch cows were in better demand, and prices were quite steady, at $100 a $120 for extra, $9 a $95 for prime, and $75 a $85 for fair to good, $60a $70 for common and $454 $55 for inferior, Veal calves were selling ‘quite freely at full prices, viz.:—lle. @ 12c. for prime and exira, 94;¢, a 104;0. for common to good and 7\gc. a vc. for infertor. Sheep and lambs were in quick demand, and with light arrivals prices were firm, We quote prime and extra sheep at 6c. a 7c.; common to good, Sc. a 5340. and inferior, 4c. a4%c. Lambs sold at 7igc. & 9c. Swine were in fair demand, in light supply and firmer, closing at I1¢, a 11'4¢. for heavy prime, 10) ,c. a t0’,c. for fair to good, 94ge. a Lc. for inferior. The Southern States—Radicnl Reconstruction >on Its Last Legs. Our readers will have noticed that in most of t pe of prominent Southern leaders, recently delivered, the colored voter has formed a theme of more than mere passing in- terest. To-day we add to the number extracts from a speech delivered by a distinguished re- presentative of ‘* Young South,” General James B. Gordon, of Georgia, and from a letter on the subject written upon the more mature judgment of Mr. James 8. Campbell, of South Carolina. These appeals and warnings cannot be without their effect upon the colored popu- lation of the South, and that they are destined to produce a revolution in the minds of the colored voters in favor of their former masters seems to be as clear as the fact that the influ- ence of the Northern adventurers over the freedmen is fast waning. There is nothing at all extraordinary in this. The un- tutored negroes have discovered thaf the promises of their newly found Northern ‘riends are shams and delusions, and their natural instinct leads them to distrust all who have once deceived them. In no instance have the pledges of their radical allies heen carried out. At the outset they promised them forty acres of land and a pair of mules if they would vote the radical ticket. They obeyed instructions, but have never seen either land or mules. They were assured that they should possess the confiscated houses and lands of the rebel leaders. This the radicals failed to carry out from fear of the indignation the atrocity of the act would create throughout the North. They were told that they should hold seats in Con- gresa, in the State Legislatures and in the city councils, and in all respects enjoy every civil right and prerogative possessed by the white man, In all these promises they have been deceived and cheated. They have neither Jands nor mules; they possess no confiscated plantations; they hold no seats in Congress, and only a few days ao a batch of their co- lored brethren were expelled from a Southern Legislature by the vote of nearly every white radicalinft, The sensible portion of the South- erncolored population begin to realize that those Northern adventurers who have located among them have no lands to give; while on the other hand they seo that their late masters have and that those masters are disposed to treat them with kindness and with a proper consideration of their newly enfranchised condition. Hence it is no wonder that the Southern colored voter is in a political position which, with very little adroitness, can be tarned to the advantage of their old masters, leaving the troacherous car- pet-baggers to their fate. Now, then, comes the opportunity of the With the assistance of the voles of the colored population they can secure ascendancy in nearly every one of the Southern States, and that accomplished down goes radical reconstruction of its own volition and up goes the era of Southera restoration, for almost crimes the leader of the armies t¥ conquered them; they can cajole or coer/® great political party into nominating a c¢!- date of their own selection for the Presid/Y; they can win to their side the support oh in million human beings whom they have #! in bondage for centuries ; in short, they cj PeT- form deeds which, compared with tho! the old Roman or Italian politicians, is lif ¢°D- trasting the tremendous volcanic erup#$ 3nd earthquakes of the American Continet > the popgun explosions of the volcanoes ¢ Hrope. These are the political leaders w} itl872, no matter what they may accomplish 1 the meantime, will restore the ententevorale of the great democratic party, snash p the republican party, elect Frank Bair « Pen- dleton to the Presidency and pive # way for a century's permanent ascetdanc in the government of the United Stat#. The Maine Election Yesterday—Avolitical Earthquake. The annual election for State flicers in Maine occurred yesterday. At will tseen from the returns that the repubficans lve carried the State by a largely incr’ased mority over that of last year, and tht a sort! political earthquake has swept oy't the Pin(ree State. From the returns, so far as recced at the hour of writing (three A. M.), weudge that the majority for Gov/rnor may be t down as about twenty thousind, or betwee eight and nine thousand gaiz upon the vote clast year. The entire Congressional delegatio is repub- lican, as last year. ‘The Legislaturis largely republican, _ Englund Rendy to Pay p. * The Lowlon Times published yéerday an editorial résumé of the many excelnt ressons which the American people have hi for being “angry,” as it is termed, with bglani for her policy and action towards the Lion during ks days of peril by civil war, sting forth more particularly the grievances nd losses which we sustained by the depredaonsof the Alabama privateer. The writer in 1e jondon Times, speaking for Great Britain, pesto the diplomatic confessional with, apparnty, sin- cerity and contrition, and having mde a “clean breast of it” appears to find ondlation in the knowledge that the Queen's givinment can make an immediate money resftion by payment of the Alabama claims bill WMinis- ter Reverdy Johnson. The London 7Z'iimes appears to he just ascertained the fact, which we intimate lately in our columns, that Mr. Johnson hasie bill, neatly drafted, in his pocket, and willjresent it immediately after his recognition { court. As the government in Washington jd not require the cash ‘“‘right away” our reers will be agreeably surprised to learn, on theuthor- ity of the London Times, that the hbama claims question ‘‘is as good as settled Legal points will not stand in the way. ‘b only thing to ascertain is the responsility of England and to fix the proper indpnity.” The cash will be useful when handed ¢r with auch a good grace. eee et The Parnguayan War. The despatches from Rio Janeiro yich we received by the Atlantic cable and plished yesterday report the unconditional srender of the Paraguayan forces left in the Gri Chaco after the evacuation of Humaita, the #ing to the ground of the fortifications of Humtd, the commencement of the march of th: whole allied army to lay siege to the fortifiedosition of Lopez on the Tebicuari river and tharrival of the iron-clads opposite the entreniments, against which they had opened ao |gorous bombardment, These reports, inddl, are given on Brazilian authority, which ¢ have learned to distrust, so often have ij state- ments been subsequently contradictd. But our Rio Janeiro correspondence, datedAughst 8, which we also published yesterday as well as our letters from Buenos Ayres, dad July 27 and 29, and extracts from the Anglo- Brazilian 7imes. present details of thervacna- tion of Humaité, the siege of Lopé's new position on the Tebicuari river by th entire allied army, and the rumored consiracy in the equator our accounts are as yet less defi- nite than those from Peru. Disturbances were felt there on the 13th, but greater ones on the 16th, and those latter did much damage. Simultaneously with the disturbance at Arica the sea rose, and, rushing inward, overwhelmed the land, and a tidal wave, the result of this movement, reached Talcahuana, on the coast of South America, thirty-six degrees south of the equator, on the 14th, the Sandwich Islands on the same day and Southern California on the 15th. Shocks of earthquake were also felt in the Sandwich Islands on the 14th. At the point where the shock was first felt— say from Arequipa to Arica—it is on the @ast line and the sea that all the commotion appears, and the Andes are at rest. They felt a jar- ring impulse, but apparently even the volcanic members did no worse than respond in mud. The blow came from another direction, and probably the first disturbance was under the sea, far out between the continental coast and the volcanic groups. There a volcano arose that may have pushed its head above the sur- face or may still be a submarine mystery ; but that it emitted enormous quantities of sulphur- ous or other gases and heat is probable from the appearances on the water and the change in its temperhture reported from the Chincha Islands and from the ship Guayquil, lying at Talcahuana. At Arequipa the first movement of the earth was distinctly lateral, as it might be with the force applied to the edge of the crust. This first blow was felt by communica- tion as far north as the equator on the 13th; but the later shocks in that region were per- haps secondary, the results of that disturb- ance in the equilibrium cansed by the disaster of the 5th. It may not be impossible in the future to determine the exact point of original erupiion by calcula- tion of the time at which the tidal wave reached different points and comparison of the dis- tance. It was perhaps equidistant from Lower California and Honolulu, and much nearer Talcahuana ; for though it reached Talcahuana and Honolula on the same day, it had twelve times as much force at the former place. From remote ages men have believed these phenomena had an influence on the destinies of the human race, and modern science admits that this is not an idle superstition. Mind has its influence over matter, but matter far greater influence over mind. Man's growth depends upon where he grows, and the extent and way in which he grows affects ultimately what he does. Any poison may be vaporized and borne on the air, and the gases set free by earth- quakes are ouly vaporized poison and may inflict illimitable calamity. If there may be vaporized poison, why not also a vaporized stimulus, driving nations, as if with epidemic drunkenness, to such furies of crime as the reign of terror? But perhaps we have little to fear in the present case, If, as we suppose, the main disturbance was submarine, the gases given forth are mostly held in solution by the Pacific Ocean ; and this, while all the better for common humanity, may be all the worse for the whales and those juterested in the whale fishery. i Jy Oe Religious Revivals in the City. Religion has taken a new phase in this city of late. The ancient templesof worship—and we use the word “ancient” only relatively to our national existence—have almost fallen into desuetude, have become obsolete and stale in the contrast with open air preaching and dance house worship. One might suppose from the religions proceedings of last Sunday, and, indeed, for some time past, that our legitimate parsons were altogether behind the age, and that for the good of human morals they might as well not have been ordained at all, Johnny Allen and Johnny Slocum, the latest converted Saul, and Tommy Hadden, who it is said veiled the iniquities of his barroom with the sanctity | of the American flag, are apparently cutting the ground from under the preachers. Before Jong there may be more white cravate in Water street, Mercer street and the Five Points than in the saintly precincts of Plymouth cuurch, Old Trinity, Grace church or St. Albans, But after all it iain inet anch vlaces world refuses to be deceived, and the monetary balance trembles ominously in Paris, in Lon- don and at Frankfort. ‘‘No fear of war, but war possible to-morrow,” is the not unjust verdict of every political and monetary centre in Europe. Among the suggestive and rather alarming rumors of the hour one is to the effect that an alliance offensive and defensive is about to be concluded between France and Spain, and another is that the opinion is entertained that Baden, without delay, will be annexed to Prus- sia.. Napoleon, we know for fact, has left Paris for Biarritz, where it is generally ex- pected he will honor Queen Isabella with an interview. It is also well known that if an interview does take place the real object of the interview will be some such alliance as that above mentioned. Queen Isabella, it ap- pears, is desirous to figure as a defender of the Papacy, and promises in the event of the Franco-Spanish treaty being concluded to send forty thousand men and a naval squadron to the assistance of the Holy father, thus set- ting Napoleon at liberty to pursue his designs in the North. It is notorious that the Prince de Girgenti, brother to the ex-King of the Two Sicilies, and his young wife, daughter of Queen Isabella, have been of late the objects of con- siderable attention at the French Court. An- other suggestive rumor is to the effect that several fighting regiments have recently been recalled from Algiers, as if Napoleon meant action, At the same time, as if Russia were becoming more interested in coming events, we have it announced that General Lebikoff has been despatched on a special mission to the Court of King William. The muddle is as complete as it well can be. We are not disposed to place implicit faith in all the details of all these rumors; but that they rest on a basis of truth is not to be denied. We cannot believe that a treaty precisely such as Queen Isabella would wish will take prac- tical shape; but that some treaty will be signed between the two Powers is now all but certain. It wil certainly be one of the peculiarities of the times as well as the peculiarity in the history of the Bonapartes to see the heir of the First Napoleon in the réle of a defender of the Bourbons. However this reported interview may issue, whatever shape these treaty arrangements may ulti- mately assume, this much at least is now cerlain—the present relations of the Courts of Paris and of Madrid do not encourage hopes of peace. We do not believe that Prussia will provoke war by the forcible an- nexation of Baden; but if Baden voluntarily secks annexation we have no notion that Prussia will refuse to accede to her wishes. But the annexation of Baden, forcibly or by voluntary consent, ia not possible in present circumstances without war. Napoleon cannot consent to such an arrangement without ob- taining adequate compensation, and adequate compensation means the incorporation of Lux- emburg, Belgium and Holland with the French empire. Thus while European difficulty is becoming daily more and more general it centres on the Rhine. On the old battle field of Europe the question of supremacy must again be contested and determined. | It does not much surprise us to find the | Prussian journals openly calling for an alliance with Russia and declaring the neu- trality of Great Britain impossible in the event of French troops entering Belginm and Hol- land. If an alliance offehsive and defensive is concluded between France and Spain, Italy, indignant, will rush into the arms of Prussia, A Russo-Prussian alliance may be considered certain, The position of Austria is doubtful, and, in the event of war, preg- nant of danger to herself. No European Power has more to gain by peace, more to lose by war. As the complication increases interest becomes intensified. Much now de- pends on the result of the Biarritz interview. A Skpremper Sksston or Concress Doust- FUL.—The latest reports from Washington say that Senator Morgan and Representative Schenck will most probably decide against s Seotember session of Coagtess, under the im- Pression that Andy Jobnson is nab disposed to Grant will be elected though all the recon- structed States may be turned against him. Within a day or two the question will be settled of a session in September or no ession till December, i A Great Musiciaa on Professor Dana, of the Sun, is « man with maiy irons in the fire, perhaps too many, and @ great musician on many instruments, With his reconstruction of the Sun it was doubtful for some time whether in this canvass he would turn up ultimately a flaming radical, a moderate republican or a war democrat; but he has at length taken his position, and it is that of chief engineer of both parties and chief dispenser of the spoils on both sides. He has assumed the special guardianship over Mayor Hoffman and carries Brick Pomerey under his wing. He looks occasionally to the interests of Seymour, and is not neglectful of the claims of Griswold. He patronizes Gen- eral Grant as the coming man, and is already beginning to cast about him in reference to the division of the choice places under his admin- istration. With a high consideration for the claims, the merits and the modesty of Grealoy, the last nomination of Professor Dana is that of the chief of the Z'ridune philosophers for the mission to England. In behalf of this appointment the admiring Dana says all that could be desired; but we guess that in this magnanimous appointment he has in view the grinding of numerous axes of his own. It is possible that under General Grant's ad- ministration Greeley, if kept at home, may take the place vacated by Thurlow Weed as general manager of the powers that be, and especially as master of the kitchen cabinet and king of the lobby. Hence with Senator Conkling, Dana and their ring it becomes an object to get Greeley nicely out of the way; and to this end they accordingly offer him the finest plum in the basket. We know, however, that Greeley has his kinks and crotchets, from which it is hard to divert him, and that for years past he has had his eye fixed upon the chair of the Postmaster General at Washing- ton, mainly for the purpose of regulating the franking privilege and the transportation of Congressional books by mail, together with the regulation of the mileage of members of Con- gress. From these great objects we fear Greeley is not to be bought off even with the mission to England—not, at least, until at the Court of St. James the cut of the diplomatie coat and breeches of the American Minister shall have been established according to the fashion of Greeley—white coat, white hat, short pants and cowhide boots. Our musician of many instruments, therefore, although, like a stgeet professor we have seen, able to play at the same time a hand organ, a reed instru- ment, a pair of castanets and a bass drum, will, we suspect, hardly be able to play upon Greeley with success the air of ‘‘ Over the Water to Charlie.” , THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE EDWIN A. STEVENS. The funeral of the late Commodore Edwin A. Stevens wil: take place to-morrow at one o'clock from St. Paul's Episcopal church, Hoboken. His re. mains are to be interred in the cemetery at Berges, ana will be followed to the grave by the entire civio and military bodies of Hoboken. The New York Yacht Club, of which the deceased was one of the oldest and most popular of the members, and over which organization he at one time presided as Com- modore, will also attend the funeral in @ body, im pursuance of the following order tssued yesterday by Mr. H. Morton, the Secretary of the lub, by order of Couunodore H, G. Stebbins:— OFFICS OF THK SECRETARY OF THR New York YAcuY CLs, perty Serger, New York, Sept. 14, 1368, pedor of Commodore H, G. Stebbins the oMicers mbers of the New York Yacht Club are re- i to meet on board the ferryboat at the foot of Barclay street, on Wednesday, the 16th inst., at half-past eleven A. M., for the purpose of attending the obaeqnies of the iate Commodore Edwin A. Stevens, bsq. By order, il. MORTON, Secretary, N. ¥. Y. 0. NOTES ABOUT TOWN. We liave found out ali about that monstrosity, the “Grecian bend.” We saw it in all its nudity at Stewari's one day last week. It isa “crinoline,”’ peut panier, and wears the astounding ttle of the “Flite Grecian Bend Skirt.” The thing is made thus:—Imuuediately in the rear and just below the waist the steel hoops are combined Into a broad belt, which, w covercd, looks like a pillow bunched. This is the bump. To give the bump due promi- nence on every possible occasion @ steel combt- nation tongue of about three inches in length is fastened in a peculiar manner to the belt or waist of the skirt. This tongue rosts on the small ofthe back and is an admirable con- trivance for cansing spinal disease. Altogether the petit panier crinoline, for the encouragement of medical science, should be introduced into every family—worn by every woman. Mr. Bergh has not, notwithstanding the pressing invitation of Kit Burns, “come to the scratch yet by giving “his boys’’ a lecture on cruelty to animais. ‘The great philanthropist must not sleep at his post when the wicked Johnny Allen and Tommy Haddca are being “put through a course of spiritual sprouts.” Take a hand, in Mr. Bergh, and crown the great work of reformation in Water street by drag- ging Kit Burns, his followers and his ‘dogs’ from the “pit,” which the missionaries, pray they never se loudly, cannot do. Sachem Tweed desires & correction of the para- graph which appeared in the columns of the Herate the other day, in which it was stated that he was deciphering certain characters on an Indian stone found burted on the site of old St. Tammany. He says that the work on which he ts really engaged ts & Greek treative of the pre-Homeric age, to the original Celto-Greek, in which It will be clearty de Monstrated that the only aborigines of this country were the ancestors, a long way back, of the moderns, who didn’t fight at Missolonghi. Ho ta hard at work preparing this important document, as it is the desire of his friends of St. Tammany and of the Supervisor's ring to have it “ready for ciroula tion’? before the elections. He does not like to say more about it just now, but he expects the “voys ov the Coanctimaniec Chamber ‘li Dlare like blazes” about it in November and December and carry “the party’* upto Harlem bridge with sixty thousan’ majority fer the reguiar ticket, “bedad.’* TW PATERSON RACES—OPENING DAY, The Paterson races open to-day with hurdles, aevea horses, all good ones, being entered, It is donbtfut, however, if all of them will be ready at the aturt. 16 is thought that Climax will not be prepared to put in an appearance, Lobelia, the winner of the second hurdle race at Saratoga, is the favorite against the field, Starlight and Horry Booth stand in good favor also. The latter won at Saratoga the first day, beat- ing & good ficid. There are eleven entries for the second, a two-year old race of a mile, which ought to make @ good fleld. The third race, for whieh four enteries were made Phot is for all ages, mile heats, Last even! nderwood opened his pools at 1,160 Broadway an brought around him quite a crowd of horsemen aud owners of horses. As usual on the eve of a race the betting and bidding were shy, The following will serve to show the estimation in which the horses were held by the racing HURDLE Wal $8 Stany Lnatyumonte, 100 120 «150 100 0 65 80 4D TWO YRAR OLD RACK. Cottrel.$100 210 100 105 10050100 Cameron 70 116 2 oe Littl. 18 26 “us THIRD R. Stonewall Jackson. 20 28 Colossus filly 100 09 Lord Monmov wm Gopstoam. + ow