The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1868, Page 6

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TRIPLE SHEET. i New York, Friday, sentember 18, 1868. pl The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday evening, September 17, » Napoleon had a very enthusiastic reception in ‘camp on his way to Biarritz. The London Times lasserts that the English election canvasg reveals a more healthy. democracy in that country than what ‘eppears tn Anterica from the Presidential agitation, Napler has been admitied to the freedom of burg city. A special United States mission has jeft London for St. Petersburg. Minister Bancroft js in South Germany. Turkey keeps strict watch wainst excitement from Greece. A ® Shere Ali has been acknowledged Ameer of Cabool, Ynaia, Military movements contiuve on an extensive Scale in Japan. } Consols, 9435, money. Five-twenties, 72!¢ in Lon- Gon and 754; in Frankfort. Paris Bourse quiet. Cotton upward and active, with middling uplands Gt 10),d. Breadstufs unchanged. Provisions easier. By mai! from Europe we have special correspond- ence ly detail of our cable telegrams to the Sth inst. MISCELLANEOUS. The republican members of Congress now in Wash- ington are anxious that a quorum should be present on Monday, as they assert that the President ts only on hia good behavior in order to have them adjourn ‘over to the regular session in December. If they do o adjourn he will perfect several little plans for heir confusion in the November election. In case a quorum # not present on Monday the anxious mem- ‘bers propose to adjourn from day to day until the quoram arrives, » Our Richmond. correspondent has had an inter- ew with an influential gentleman who, being quite fotimate with General Grant and his family, pro- gesses to know the course the General is likely to pursue after he becomes President. He will be de- cidedly conservative, according to this gentleman's convictions, and will eifectually check the extrava- @ance of the radical party. He will be guided by judicial action in the matter of suffrage—although personally he is opposed to its extension to all classes and races—and he would be prompt and de- pisive in his measures for the protection of Union min in the South, » By the Atlantic cable we learn that Brizil has ten- dered an apology to the United States for tue deten- tion of the steamer Wasp. Our Mazatlan, Mexico, letters are dated August 11. ‘The news has very generally been anticipated by the Cuba cable. The proclamation of Lozada, the inde- pendent military chief in Jalisco, offering pardon to ail guilty of robbery who shall ask for it within thirty days, and promise to live peacefully in future, ## publisued. It declares that all who shail break their word after being pardoued shall be shot. ‘Lozada, it should be known, claims to have a sepa- rate republic in his State of Jalisco, entirely inde- pendent of the republic of Mexico. Our Havana letter ts dated September 5. The Panco Espagnol had remitted $28,500 to Washington to pay the interest on Spanish bonds eld by Aweri- can citizens, » The anniversary of Antietam was celebrated at the Cooper Institute last evening by an immense assem- biage, under the auspices of the Veteran Grant Clap. Senator Sherman and Generals Pleasanton, Sickles, | Kilpatrick and others made speeches. Large mect ings and a torchtight procession took place outside, In the Georgia Legislature yesterday the Senate took up the message of the Governor relating to the unconstitutionality of ousting the negroes. The House passed the bill excluding o es trom the jury. In the Alabama Legistature there was nothing | done relative to registration, The republicans are caucusing as to what they shall do, A large num. ber of them are opposed to having any election tn Novem!) r, and therefore do not believe in providing | for regi A fire occurred in Lynchburg, Va., yesterday, by Which eight houses at the corner of Main and West streets were totally destroyed The temperature of the last two days indicates a remarkable change in the weather, the mercury in the thermometer yesterday falling as low as 53 de- grees. The first frost of the season has appeared even as far south as Scranton, and at Sher. burn and Aurora, N. Y¥., there Was @ slight fall of snow on Wednesday. In the express robbery case at Toronto yesterday Dan Thompson was discharged and gave evidence to show that the robbery was effected by the co- | and to Montenegro, Bulgaria still suffers from of the Sultan is manifestly in the wrong. As | it is not our opinion that the Bulgarians will link their destiny either with Roumania or with NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, revolver without any provocation into # crowd, and Killed McCabe. The jury, however, returned 8 ver- dict of accidental shooting on the part of the oMcer while in the discharge of his duty. The Coroner ob- Jected to the verdict and committed the prigoner to ‘Await the action of the Grana Jury. Henry Hamilton, a gunner in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, while on a drunken spree on the night of July 3, fired a pocket pistol at a conductor on a Myrtle avenue car in Brooklyn. In order to make an ex- ample in the case he was yesterday sentenced by Judge Troy to five years’ imprisonment, The British steamship Melita, which sailed from Boston for Liverpool on the 27th of August, was burned when five days out. Her passengers and crew were rescued by the ship Jacob A, Stamler and the bark Monequash. Whalen, who is under sentence of death at Ottawa for the murder of D'Arcy McGee, still protests his in- nocence and now says he knows who is the real mur- derer, Blackley, one of his accomplices, is believed to be insane, ‘Three soldiers in the Arsenal at Augusta, Me., have been arrested and committed on charges of setting fire to portions of the buildings in July and Augist last. The bark Clough went ashore near Cleveland, on Lake Erle, Tuesday night, six of a crew of seven being lost. The wife and son of Mr. W. T. De Voe, of this city, were drowned in Navesink river, near Rocky Point, on Wednesday while out in a sailboat. The Board of Health met yesterday and ordered that a public urinal be erected in Astor place at a cost of $1,100, ‘The internal revenue case came up before Com- missioner Guttman again yesterday. District Attor- ney Courtney asked an adjournment for several days, as he was waiting the assignment by the At- torney General of another prominent lawyer of this city to assist him, The Commissioner, however, de- clined to adjourn the case beyond to-day. The Inman line steamship City of Baltimore, Cap- tain Leitch, will leave pler No. 45 North river at nine o’clock to-morrow (Saturday) morning for Queens- town and Liverpool The maiis for Europe will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. on the 19th inst. The National line steamship Pennsylvania, Captain Hall, will sail from pier No. 47 North river at nine o'clock to-morrow (Saturday) morning for Liver- Pool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The Anchor line steamship Caledonia, Captain McDonald, will leave pier No. 20 North river at twelve o'clock to-morrow, 19th inst., for Glasgow, touching at Londonderry to land passengers. The General Transatlantic Company's steamship Napoleon IIL, Captain Lemarie, will sail from pier 60 North river at half-past eight o’clook to-morrow morning, for Brest and Havre. The North American Steamship Company's steamer Guiding Star, Captain Howes, will leave pier 46 North river at noon to-morrow (Saturday) for San Francisco, via Panama Rallroad, The steamship United States, Captain Norton, of the Merchant's line, will sail from pier 12 North river at three P, M. to-morrow (Saturday) for New Orleans direct. The Black Star Independent line steamship Mar- Mion, Captain Faircloth, will sail from pler 13 North river at three P. M. to-morrow, 19th inst., for Sa- vannah, Ga, The Eastern Question Revived—Iusurrection in Bulgaria. According to our latest news the disease which afflicts the European body politic has re- vealed itself in another sore. The Eastern question, which so long was the dominant question in European affairs, had for a time fallen into the background. Interest centred in the West, then in the South, then again in the West. The Cretan discontent commanded attention in certain quarters, but the insurrec- tion had been so completely put down that Cretan affairs had ceased to be of any general interest. Now, however, that all eyes are directed to the banks of the Rhine and that many eyes are directed to the banks of the Tiber, the apparently defunct Eastern question looms up, particularly on the shores of the Euxine, and commands the attention of the civilized world. If facts are to guide us we might feel justified in concluding that the disease of the European body politic is not only chronic, but, to all human appearance, incurable. This fresh outburst of anti-Turkish feeling in the East has a twofold significance. It raises an old question as to the chances of the con- tinued integrity of the Ottoman empire in Europe. It compels another question—how far all this disaffection is compatible with the prolongation of peace among the European nations. The first question is of less immediate im- portance than the second, but it is still of sufficient importance to entitle it to considera- tion. Bulgaria is one of the very finest pro- vinces of Northern Turkey. Lying between the Balkan range on the south ‘and the Danube on the north, and bounded on the west by Servia and on the east by the Black Sea, it covers an extensive tract of the most valuable land in Europe. The estimated area is some thirty- three thousand square miles and the popula- tion close upon three millions. It is manifest at aglance that such a people are powerless to contend with the immense forces which the Sultan can bring to bear against them. Were it possible for the Hospodar of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia to lend the Bulgarians a helping hand it might be more serious for the interests of Turkey. The peculiar position of Prince Charles renders it impossible for him to lend the Bulgarians any such help. Besides, there is but small natural affinity between the inhabitants of Bulgaria and the inhabitants of the prin- cipalities. Speaking as they do the same nguage with the Servians, the danger is much greater that Servia and Bulgaria would unite, and, including Bosnia, seek to form another and more powerfal principality than that which is known by the name of Kou There is one injustice — which Bulgaria is compelled to endure, and it is well thot all civilized governments. should look | to it. While Moldavia and Wallachia enjoy, under the name of Roumania, a practical | autonomy, and while a similar autonomy has boen granted by the Porte separately to Servia manin. the blighting rule of four separate pachalics. In maintaining this inequality the government Servia, and as it is undesirable that this dis- affection be allowed to continue, the presump- tion is that the Bulgarian difficulty will be got over by the government of the Sultan granting | this kind should be indulged ia by the unthink- SEPTEMBER 18, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. put down and followed by just and reasonable concessions it may do much to fan into fierce flame the war spirit now seeking expression in many other parts of Europe. The Eastern question is one of the most delicate of all the questions which periodically agitate the nations of the European Continent. It remains a per- petual source of trouble, because most of the nations fear to approach it and because no one nation will allow any other to attempt its solu- tion. Russia, though less impatient than she once was to enthrone herself in the city of Constantine, continues to regard such a re- sult as her manifest destiny, Austria, now that she has become less of a German Power, looks more earnestly eastward, and it is not to be denied that the acquisition of Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, and probably Wallachia, would be sufficient compensation for the losses she has sustained in the West. But the advance of Russia across the Pruth or the occu- pation of Belgrade by Austrian soldiers would set Europe ablaze from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. It is this fact which gives European importance to these Bulgarian troubles. In the event of war breaking out between France and Prussia it would not be difficult for Russia to detach Austria from France by a proposed partition of Turkey north of the Balkan range. In pros- pect of such acquisitions both Russia and Austria could afford to be indifferent to the fate of the Rhine provinces, Great Britain and France are both of them pledged to main- tain the integrity of the Ottoman empire; but in such a case as we have supposed the hands of France would be more than full, and it would be hard for Great Britain at once to protect Holland and Belgium in the West and to re- sist the encroachments of Russia and Austria in the far East. It would be curious if, amid the general confusion, Napoleon were com- pelled to purchase the alliance of Victor Emanuel by yielding up Rome to the Italians. It would be scarcely less amusing to see Italy and Spain fighting over the ruin of the tem- poral Power. Surely if we are not to have war we must have another French proposal for a congress, The Terrible South American Calamity— Help for the Suffering. The late terrible and disastrous earthquakes in Ecuador, Peru and Chile have left hundreds of thousands of people not only houseless but utterly destitute. They are suffering from one of the most fearful if not by far the most ex- tensive and destructive series of earthquakes in human life and the monuments and savings of labor fn the records of mankind. The con- dition of those people calls for immediate relief. The city of New York, ever prompt in her re- sponses to such appeals, is called’ upon from every consideration of humanity to answer this cry for help which comes up to us from the ruins of those twenty odd overthrown cities and towns of South America. We would therefore suggest to our fellow citizens, espe- cially our leading merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, bankers and men of capital, an early public meeting, say at Cooper Insti- tute, to initiate a movement for some speedy assistance to those destitute South Americans. We would further suggest that at the meet- ing of Congress on Monday next, if nothing else can be done because of a danger of a costly and unconstitutional precedent, that the two houses by a joint resolution, as in the case of the Irish famine, authorize the President to detail a ship of war or two for the transporta- tion of such supplies as the people of our sea- board cities may think proper to contribute for the relief of those afflicted South American States. Under the peculiar circumstances no other incitement than the claims of humanity, we are sure, will be necessary to bring our gen- erous people to the rescue; but still we may say that the contributions of a great commer- cial community in such gracious charities are always amply repaid. We may say, too, in consideration of the friendly sympathies of those South American republics for the great cause of our Union through our late civil war, that they have something more than the claims of common humanity upon the people aad the government of the United States. Turbulence in the Politi Campaign. At the opening of the campaign it looked as though things were going to be very flat and stupid. It was hardly anticipated that the gay scenes of 1840 would be repeated. The campaign songs of to-day prove to be poor and wishy-washy compared with those which the inspiration of hard cider and the nemes of “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” had produced. But within the last week our electioneering movements have assumed livelier tone and a somewhat belligerent one. In various cities of the North processions of politicians, intent upon glorifying their favorite candidates, have been attacked by showers of brickbats and stones, levelled at them by their opponents. Such things have occurred in Troy, Philadel- phia and New London within a few days to processions of radical patriots, which is all wrong; for although such arguments as bould- ers and brickbats convey may be forcible, they are not logical and do most harm, to the party using them, Can it be that the democrats are getting so desperate in the anticipation of de- feat that they resort to turbulence and brick- bats on the occasion of republican demonstra- tions’ We hardly think so. They must have sagacity enough to know that such measures will‘avail bat little in a contest where the free exercise of opinion, intelligence and the right of franc! are the controlling influences which will decide the election. At the same time it is not to be wondered at that disturbances of ing crowd when the leading partisan news- papers on both sides, some claiming to be highly respectable, philosophical and moral, and others claiming their title to. indecency in language that fully establishes their claim, set examples of violence and bad feehing such as have never before been witnessed in « political to the ancient kingdom similar autonomy to that now enjoyed by its immediate neighbors. In this way, unless insurrection becomes gen- operation of Brown, the messenger, and was, there. fore, nothing more than embezzlement, which is not extraditional. The robbery, it will be remembered, occurred some tile ago on a Hudson River Railroad train. ‘The inquest on the body of Thomas McCabe, who ras shot on Thirty-second street and Second avenue ‘on Tuesday by officer Kiernan, of the police, was concluded. Considerable testimony was taken, Which weut to show that the prisoner had fired tls | it iv not to be denigd that if it is aot speedily | aay good,” eral all over the Turkish provinces, both north and south of the Balkan, the present disturb- ance is likely to be healed, Europe is not yet fully prepared to drive the last Mussulman across the Hellespont. At the same time, while we do not see in this Bulgarian disturbance any proof of the immediate disruption of the Turkish empire, campaign. We suspect, therefore, that bad example and bad whiskey combined have had a good deal to do with the late political ebul- litions on the part of turbulent foixs 'n come of the Northern cities, Resowiwe AMone ime Carrer-Bacarrs— Over the call for the reassembling of the two houses of Congress on Monday next. We guess, however, that the profits will be ab- sorbed by the Washington hotels and boarding houses. ‘“‘It is on ill wind that blows gqhody Tho City Markete—A Nuisance and the Remedy. The committees of the Board of Aldermen and Common Council have personally inspected two of the leading markets, and their experi- ence was given in the HgRaLp yesterday. There are very few people in the city who do not know as well as the committees that the markets are a disgrace and a nuisance; that they must be regarded as a disgrace to a vast city like ours, with its wealth, its domestic comforts, its ambition to be the handsomest and cleanest as well as the greatest city in the Union, and regarded as a nuisance because they are fruitful sources of filth and propa- gators of disease. While we are not particu- larly indebted to the municipal committees for any additional knowledge—any fresh infor- mation—as to the condition of the markets, we look to them to recommend such remedies as, for example, have been proposed by a competent engineer like General Viele, who has given much time and study to sanitary science in connection with the health of the city. He suggests that ihe area covered by Washington Market shall be enclosed under a Mansard roof, supported by iron columns, leaving free ventilation, both from above by ventilators and skylights, and from below by an open entry at each end, instead of the misera- ble entrances now in use. It is evident that this is just what Washington Market requires in order to convert it from the present abomi- nation into a clean and decent place where one can procure the necessities of the table without being disgusted at the market stalls. In Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New Orleans and nearly all the Western and Southern cities the markets are objects of public interest ‘to strangers, whose attention can be directed with some pride to their peculiar advantages as public marts, their cleanliness and the con- veniences they afford to the residents; while in the first city of the country, if we should desire to convince a visitor that we were living in the great metropolis of the great republic, having some regard for hygiene and domestic comfort, we would carefully chaperon him as far from our markets as possible. There is no reason why this should be so. There are no better opportunities for good sewerage tobe found anygvhere than in New York ; and yet the refuse of the two principal markets on the North and the East rivers— Washington and Fulton markets—is discharged into these streams, to rise and fall with the tide in increasing putridity and fill the air with poisonous miasma, instead of being deposited in sewers and coffer dams running along the water front, as is done 4n London and other riparian cities in Europe, to the great improve- ment of their sanitary condition. That the city of New York should be behind all the other cities of the country in this matter may be attributed to the corruption of our municipal government, the system of jobbing which pre- vails and has prevailed for years in all its departments ; and the management of the mar- kets has not been thegleast fruitful source of profit to the Corporation jobbers. If the committee are sincere in their pur- poses they can do much good in obtaining a reconstruction of the markets upon the plans suggested to them. The disgraceful structures now in existence should be all swept away and something worthy of the city erected in their place. Not only in a sanitary point of view is this desirable, but the interests of the dealers who occupy the markets would be immensely benefited by the change. The Condition of Tennessee. Governor Brownlow has issued a conditional call for troops to keep the peace in case the peace shall happen to be broken and to put down a new rebellion if anybody can get one up. He says, ‘I call upon the good, loyal and patriotic white and colored people of every county in the State to proceed without delay and raise companies of loyal, able-bodied men;” and further, whether any of the companies so formed will ever be called into actual service “will depend entirely upon the conduct of the people in the several counties.” He prefers that “‘these troops shall be raised in East Ten- nessee,” where the people are mostly of one way of thinking politically. The point of Brownlow’s proclamation, therefore, is that he wishes the men of his party tohave an organi- zation more or less military in character, and gives them a fair pretext for forming them- selves into companies and regiments and drill- ing, by declaring that he fears for the public peace, though he does not see that it is in immediate danger. The man who thus delibe- rately prepares for a public disturbance under pretence of an effort to prevent it can never be at a loss for occasion to use his troops as his temper may ‘direct when they are once ready. Brownlow himself is the real source of trou- ble in Tennessee. If that State is less quiet than others of the Southern States it is be- cause Brownlow has made it so. No doubt there is a strong secesh element there, and there is quite as little doubt that the vaporings of Wade Hampton and the attitude of the Sey- mour party have encouraged the old rebel element with the notion that their day had eome again. But there are the same reasons for uneasiness in every State that was in the confederacy, and we hear only from Tennessee ity to enroll troops, The reason of this difference is that other States are gov- erned more or less discreetly by men who make some allowance for the passions, even the vanities, of human nature, and look upon it as idle folly to attempt to gag even offensive bravado. ‘Tennessee is the only State that is in the hands of a born swaggerer and bully—o man who has no conception and no care that the surest way to cultivate disturbance is to be always defying it, to be always offensively irri- tating those from whom it may come and to desire nothing so much as to crowd pride into the last possible corner. From the account of our correspondent trav- elting through parts of Tennessee that have the worst name in the mouth of radical censure we are satisfied that the State is in a condition that would insure quiet and complete obe- dience to law on the part the people if it were law that the authorities endeavored to admin- ister, and not political passion and private hate. In any community and in any time there are always lazy men, discontented men, fellows generally at war with society. Just now these fellows in Tennessee take to the political dodge, and, rushing to Nashville or other centres, re- vort themselves as victims of Ku Klux outrages; and this is the capital that Browilow worls upon, because he desires to work in tfint way. Society has pests enough in the quarrelspme people who cannot carry the results of their fll nature beyond the domestic circle. It is a pity that the quiet of the country should be threat- ened by the prominence of such a character in public life; that the country should hear the murmur of war, eventhough faintly, simply be- cause an irritable, ill-natured, narrow-minded and pugnacious man happens to be Governor of Tennessee. Our Mexican News, We published yesterday a number of in- teresting letters from our correspondents in Mexico, besides telegraphic news from that country by the way of Havana. Mexico was, in manner, photographed for our readers. The letters were from the capital, Cordoba, Vera Cruz, Merida and other points, and re- flected fully the events and condition of every part of the republic. The readers of the HeraLp know more about Mexico than the Mexicans themselves. The rebellion in the State of Vera Cruz had failed and that in Yuca- tan had been suppressed, though there was likely to be trouble with the Indians on the peninsula. Civil warseems to be at an end, for atime at least; but the bandits were active all round, and it was a serious question with the government as to what means could be used to’ keep the roads clear of them. The ministerial crisis, as it was called, had ended, and Lerdo de Tejada was to hold the portfolio of Foreign Affairs as well as tp keep his place on the bench of the Supreme Court. Of course there is the usual batch of murders, robberies, sui- cides and outrages, including the foul assassi- nation of General Patoni, which created great excitement. < On the whole, Mexico appears to be in a better condition than for some time past. There seems to be a sort of reaction from the terrible ordeal of civil war and bloodshed through which the republic lately passed. This, however, can only be temporary. The evils of Mexico arechronic and too deep- seated to be cured by the native authorities, There is but one remedy, and that is annexa- tion to the United States. Mexico cannot maintain an independent existence. She has tried it for fifty-eight years, and has been going ‘from bad to worse all the time. Every con- sideration of humanity, of the welfare of the Mexicans themselves, the development of the vast wealth of that country and of a broad and comprehensive policy on the part of the United States calls for the absorption of that country. The great American republic must become a continental Power, embracing the whole of North America. The time has come when a policy should be inaugurated to carry out this destiny, beginning with Mexico. General Rosecrans should be instructed to commence the work, and the government at Washington should follow it up vigorvusiy till the object be accomplished. ‘The Hon. Jerry Black on Secretary Seward— What's in the Wind Now? The Hon. Jerry Black is the chief legal ad- viser and Washington lobby man of certain citizens of the United States who claim pos- session of the little guano island of Alta Vela, in the Gulf of Mexico; but there is an opposi- tion company in the interest of the Republic of Dominica which is in actual possession of said island, Mr. Black’s clients having been forcibly removed. To reinstate them he applied to Pre- sident Johnson and was referred to Secretary Seward, and the Secretary, after a laborious examination of the case back to the first voy- age of Columbus, made known his decision in a heavy pamphlet, including numerous maps and charts, showing that the island belongs to Dominica. Whereupon Mr. Black became wrathy and got up a big pamphlet to prove the Secretary of State an ignoramus, and that this guano island, with its guano placer, said to be worth a million or more of money, is the right- ful property of his clients. Mr. Black went farther. Chosen in the outset as one of the President's counsel on the impeachment, he submitted to the President that unless he would agree to send down a ship-of-war to onst the other party holding and working said island he (Mr. Black) must withdraw from the President's defence ; and getting no satisfactory answer to this sine qua non he did withdraw. We had supposed that this would be the last of this guano imbroglio; but this idea was a mistake. A letter of Mr. Black of the 29th of last July to the President on this fragrant subject has just appeared in print, and it is a letter of such an extraordinary character as to call for a passing notice. After a statement of facts to show Mr. Seward’s ignorance or con- tempt of the law touching this guano island, Mr. Black proceeds to personalities. He says to the President :—‘‘And you keep this drivel- ling charlatan in office. Nay, you keep him at the head of the administration and give him an influence only equalled by that which in for- mer times some old strumpet might have exercised over the mind of an imbecile monarch ;” and then he says that ‘‘Madame de Pompadour used her power with Louis XV. to fill the bastiles of France with the best and most innocent men of that generation,” but that even ‘she would have blushed to invent false excuses for foreign robbers of her coun- trymen ;” and that ‘the King of Bavaria, in the most infatuated hour of his life, would have turned Lola Montes from his bed and board if she had dared to urge upon him an act of in- justice so gross as this” of the Secretary of State in his decision on this guano case, Nor does the excited Mr. Black in his wrath stop here. He demands the removal of Secretary Seward ‘‘at once and forever,” and says that “he has brought innumerable woes upon the country;” that ‘he will never be faithful to the right ;” that he is not even a fifth rate lawyer, and “has always been a mere sneak;” that ‘“‘he is a convert without conviction” and ‘will be a backslider upon the first temptation ;” that “all men, in proportion as they love justice, must despise him,” and more to the same pur- port. The dispassionate reader will say that in this letter Mr. Black proves himself to be less than a fifth rate lawyer in substituting violent personal abuse for sober argument; that, in fact, in throwing his guano by the shovelful at the head of Secretary Seward, the Hon. Jerry Black deserves to be dismissed by his clients, But this is not the point we are driving at, We should like to know why this ferocious let- ter of Black is published at this time. It is understood that Mr. Seward has backstiddos from Johnson and Seymour to Grant and Col- fax, Is the’ publication of this letter intended 48 a lever with which to pry the sage of Au- burn out of the Cabinet by getting him into a rumpus with the President? After the disclo- sures of the Binckley prosecution against Rol- lins we are prepared for almost anything, and Mr. Johnson is such a funny man that there is no telling what may next turn up on the carpet. ‘The Irish Land Laws. The recent shooting of Mr. Scully—who ie described as a landlord of the most tyrannical class—with the very significant verdict of the coroner's jury in the case of the murders per- petrated at the time, and the potato riot, as it is called, in Cork, help to raise the question of Trish tenant rights to that prominence it once held. ighteen years ago that question was the popular one in Ireland, scarcely less so than the repeal movement had been. The teaders of the agitation | were able men; but some others whe had been returned to Parliament pledged to support the measure wanted their honesty, and for the love of place broke the pledges made to their constituents. Confidence was de- stroyed, the people grew disheartened, and the agitation ended in nothing. Since then Ireland has struggled on through hardships, decreasing in population, wretched and poor as ever ; and as to disaffection, the rapid spread of the Fenian movement and the sympathy it awakened proved sufficiently the unpopularity of English rule in Ireland. But what drove the peasantry to swell their ranks or offer them sympathy was the iniquity of the land system; nor can we understand how English statesmen suffer an evil that threatens in the end to overturn their empire togo unchecked. _ It is an evil peculiar to Ireland. In other countries of Europe, even in Russia, the cul- tivators of the soil have some legal tenure of their farms and improvements. In England and Scotland the farms are held by long leases of ninety-nine years, and compensation, if not secured by law, is guaranteed by custom. Im France peasant proprietors hold and oultivate the greatest part of the country, and the crops raised there are far more abundant than were raised under the old seignorial system previous to the revolution. The case is similar in Bel- gium and all over Germany. But the Irish farmers are tenants at will. Instead of grant- ing leases, many landlords serve all thoir tenants with a legal notice to quit every haif year, Not that tho landlord always or im most cases intends an ejectment, but the rod is thus held immediately over the heads of tenants, who live in terror—a state of mind which the ‘and- lord finds serviceable in times of a general election. Can we be surprised that such a system : is not found favorable for the develop- ment of modern improvements in agriculture ? + So far is this from being the case that Irish agriculture compared to Scotch exhibits a dif- ference of some centuries. But those who blame the Irish farmer for neglect of improve- | ments either forget his circumstances or ex- ' pect him, with a glorious self-abnegation they would not practise themselves, to act contrary, to the plainest maximsof economy. We never, ) find a prudent merchant investing his capital’ in @ speculation where the hazards are very | great and the profits, if realized, very trifling. And why should we expect the Irish farmer to expend his capital—whether of labor or, money, or both—in improvements which an immediate rise in the rent, as experience has often shown, would probably render of no profit to him, and which the law in every case appropriates to the landlord free of compensa- tion? The Irish farmer is content to* jog on as his fathers have done, with Damocles’ sword hanging over his head in the shape of a legal notice to quit. The evictions which sometimes result from this insecurity of tenure are a real and by no means, as some say, & sentimental grievance. The last official re- turns we have of this kind are from 1860 to 1866. These show that during that period st 37,164 families were ejected, which, allowing five to a family, gives a total of 185,820 human beings, or an average of more than 30,000 a year. Imagination cannot picture the aggre- gate of wretchedness that these figures repre- sent. But could we draw the veil aside and seo the grief and sometimes maddening de- spair we can only guess at, we should not won- der that there are 80 many agrarian outrages in Ireland, but that, considering the provoca- tion, there are so few. We believe Irish fen- ant right to be the radical cure for most of the miseries of Ireland, and we are not without hope that the new Parliament, when it hae disposed of the Church question, will finish the work it has begun, and by an alteration of the land laws begin a new and brighter era in Irish history. Tue Last Horr or Seymovur—The hope that he may be saved by Pennsylvania in 1868, as Pennsylvania, after the loss of Maine in 1856, saved Buchanan in her October election. But then it must be remembered that Buchanaa was ‘Pennsylvania's favorite son,” and that even then he only escaped by the skin of his teeth. NOTES ABOUT TOWN. That's a lively contrivance, invented in Albany, they have on Broadway, and which is especially de- signed to prolong the agonies of business men om that thoroughfare—the new pavement. Like a hen dancing the hornpipe on @ hot griddle it jumps about in a most surprising manner, Within a couple of weeks—having expended its spite on the roadway between the Battery and Reade street—it has leaped 7 from Stewart's store to the south side of Canal street, leaving the old pavement in statuquo, Where it will go next is only known to those who believe ia the mutation of the cobbie and the exaltation of the Relgian stone. We believe tts travait ends at Union aquare, somewhere near the site selected by the members of the Union League for the statue of “our martyred President,” which is never to be erected. It pays to do a “square job" for the Corporation or any of the bureaus of the thousand and one commis. sions which “gentlemen from the rural districts,’ at Albany, have imposed on us Gothamites. Whase just been ventilated, the to taxpayers pleasant litte fact, that to repair a dilapidated pier costs the nice little sum, for the labor of “laying tt down’? only, of $11 per plank. We don’t know how many boards there are on the floorings of the docks that line our rivers; but of this we are persuaded, If alt , cost @ like sum of money, “walking the plank’? Would not be an agreeable enjoyment for property holders. If you would have swearing done Ap “in ofiginal and portable parcels,” visit and converse with the =, “fallen women’ who attend prayer meotings daily ag Johnny Allen’s mission, ip Water avreet. Lt a adifr~ ing to hear thom.