The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1868, Page 6

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EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, September 22. The advices from Spain, by way of Paris and Lon- don, although somewhat contradictory, indicate that the revolution 1s progressing rapidly and becoming more republican in its character. The Queen re- oained at San Sebastian. It was said that the re- Volted suilors had fired on Cadiz. . Admiral Farragut assured some Cretan exiles at Trieste that America would aid Crete, if necessary, in her struggle, Extensive furloughs will, It is said, be granted in the French army. ‘The King of Prussia returned to Berlin. Armed bands, chiefly of mounted mon, plunder houses for firearms in Ireland. Some Fenian convicts have been pardoned. Consols 9454 a 9434, money. Five-twenties 72% in London, and 753 in Frankfort. Paris Bourse steady. Cotton declined, closing with middling uplands at atl0d. Breadstuifs quiet. Provisions and produce without marked change. By steamship at this port we have our special Fu- ropean correspondence in interesting detail of our cable telegrams to the 12th of September. MISCELLANEOUs, Wo have telegraphic advices trom Mazatian, Mext- co, to September 9. Cauto had quietiy delivered up bia command to Guerra, and is now under arrest for the murder of General Patoni. The authorities are determined to punish the murderers with death, Active operations are to be commenced against Lo- zada, the independent chief of Jalisco. The latter was preparing for resistance. Toledo and Granados, the Sinaloa revolutionists, were condemned to badly burned that they will not probably recover. The force of the explosion was sufficient to drive @ large portion of the building 100 feet in the air. ‘The structure then caught fire and was severely damaged. The loss is about $30,000. Dr. Harris’ weekly letter, read yesterday in the Board of Health, shows that there were 515 deaths in New York last week and 233 in Brooklyn. An old man named Benjamin Teachout, who 1s sixty Years old, has been seutenced to be hung on the 18th of November next by the Wyoming county (New York) Court for the murder of his wife, He is well to do farmer and a member of the Baptist church, but his wife being a confirmed invalid he considered her a burden and made way with her by @ course of gradual poisoning. A disturbance occurred late last night in New Or- leans between nine political clubs, in which vlows and shots were exchanged, but no one is known to have been hurt. The city was considerably excited, however, and fearsof @ further disturbance were entertained, ‘The republicans held another mass meeting at Cooper Institute last evening, which was attended by an immense assemblage. Speeches were made by General John C. Freemont, John A. Griswold and others. 4 A funeral procession was crossing the Erie Rail- way near Elmira yesterday when an express train ran into it, A sister of the deceased was thrown on the track and badly injured, and a chila of the same was killed, Two children, aged respectively five and threo years, died of hydrophobia recently in Brooklyn. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Louis Marasant, for burglary, and Henry Duboise, for grand larceny, were sentenced to the State Prison for five years. John Murphy, for stealing @ watch, was sentenced for four years, Three other prisoners were remanded for sentence and John Styles was acquitted of a charge of stealing. The Cunard steamship Russia sails to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails will close at the Post Office at ten o’clock A. M. The steamship Nebraska, Captain Guard, will sail ateleven o'clock A. M, to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool. The fine screw steamship Mississippi, Captain Slocum, will leave pier No. 43 North river at three o’clock this afternoon for St. Thomas, Para, Pernam- buco, Bahia and Rio Janeiro. , The stock market was on the whole strong yester- day. Government securities were very strong and active, Gold closed at 14454 a 14494. %. The Contest in Pennsylvania—The ‘ssue Life or Death to the New York Dee mocracy. All eyes are turning towards Pennsylvanta. What is the prospect in Pennsylvania? is the universal question among the politicians. Is there any hope for Seymour in her coming Oc- tober election? None, from all the signs of the times. If, then, on the 13th of October the republicans in the State elections of Penn- sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa carry the day, what hope will there be fur Seymour in the general national election of the 3d of No- vember? None in the world. Will the repub- licans in October carry the States indicated, including Pennsylvania? We think they will, and by handsome majorities, from the tone of the Northern pulse as indicated in Vermont and Maine. What then? Why, then the Presi- dential election will be reduced to the mere formality of casting and registering the popu- lar and electoral majorities of General Grant. We suspect that General Butler was more than half right in the opinion that the New York managers of the late National Democratic Convention, in contriving the suffocation of the Chase movement and the nomination of Seymour on Wade Hampton’s platform, delibe- rately contrived a democratic defeat. We think, too, that the Pendleton men of the West took the imitiative im Ceymour’e numinativu with the same idea, By giving the field to Seymour in 1868 they kept it open for Pendle- ton in 1872, But the New York clique of managers had their immediate profits in view even in Seymour's defeat as their Presi- dential candidate. They calculated that tho names of Seymour and Hoffman would in any Marquez is re- Ported on 28 Way to join Lozada. Me Additional particulars of the Georgia riot de ‘pot much alter the complexion of the first re" ort, ‘The Sheriff of the county has made 8 5” orn statement in relation to the affair, from “hich it appears the gegroes were armed andi", procession, and that he attempted to disperse them under the Governor's proclamation. Sevn negroes were killed and from thirty to forty ¥ ounded, the white leaders escaping. General S!*jiey, of the Freedmen’s Bureau, how- ever, ‘Yeports that the three white leaders were “wounded. The Governor's message suggesting rat troops to maintain peace be asked of the Presi- Gent was discussed in the Georgia Legislature, but after a sharp discussion the suggestion was not accepted. General Schofield had a talk with the President on the subject ‘and will probably issue orders to the General commanding in Georgia to make @ thorough investigation. The Congressional Committee on Retrenchment yesterday investigated the troubles between Secre-* tary McCulloch and Commissioner Rollins in relation to nominations for revenue officials. Both the Secre- tary and the Commissioner were examined. The former stated that he was not influenced in his ac- tions by President Johnsen; but that he declined to confirm Mr. Rollins’ nominations because he thought it for the interest of the government to do so, To- day the commuttee will investigate the Binckley charges against Mr. Rollins. Mr. Binckley, it is stated, will return to New York with full authority from the President to continue his investigation. Ip the National Labor Congress yesterday Mr. L. C. Hine, of Ohio, made some remarks in reference ‘tb the proportions of labor and sabes \d of the taxation to which the two were éubjec' Acom- mittee of five was appointed on his motion to re- port on the expediency of reductng taxation. The regular committees were then appointed, the lady dolegates having a fair representation on them. The committee on credentials reported that they were unable to decide on those presented by Mrs. Eliza- beth Cady Stanton from the Women’s Suffrage Asso- ciation, A warm debate followed, in which Mrs. Anthony and Mrs. McDonald took part, and Miss Stanton was admitted by a large majority. The brown gelding John Stewart yesterday after- noon, at Fashion Course, trotted twenty miles, to wagon, in fifty-nine minutes and twenty-three seconds, for a wager of $2,000 against $1,000 that he could not make the distance in an hour. He trotted quite evenly, his quickest mile beiug in 2:49 and his slowest in 3:07, and he came out of the long trip 60 little wearied that the last mile was made, appa- rently without exertion, in 3:02, This feat is said to be unparalelied, and the betting, which on the nineteenth mile was 100 to 15 in his favor, at the ‘commencement was 100 to 60 against him, ‘The yacht race of the New York Yacht Club for the ‘Vice Commodore's prizes, came off in the lower bay yesterday, the Phantom winning the prize for schooners and the Addie V, for sloops. The examination in the Gamble poisoning case ‘was resumed, Mrs. Stotfel, the nurse, being further examined, Nothing of importance was elicited, and the case was postponed. A decided opposition to a renomination of General Butler for Congress has sprung up in his district in Massachusetts. A strong party of republicans are opposing him, on the ground that he is a personal ‘enemy of General Grant and has himseif raised fasues that are inconsistent with the true republican idea, It is supposed they will make @ separate nomination if the regular convention does not agrew ‘with them, and that General Schouler, a persiswat Opponent of Butler, will be nominated. \, A boiler ina petroleum refinery on Prospect and Fouth Bighth streets, Jersey City, exploded yester- ay Uy the contact of naphtha in the kettles with the fame underneath, One man, the engineer, was event enable them to secure complete control of New York, city and State, and that with this substantial capital to work upon it would be an easy task to manage the Democratic Convention of 1872. In other words, Mr. Sey- mour and his confederate New York managers, in canvassing the chances in the late Tam- many Convention, concluded that so far as their immediate political interests were con- cerned a national defeat in this contest under Seymour would be preferable to success under Chase, inasmuch as the nomination of Chase upon new ideas, new issues and new leaders. But if Seymour was thus deliberately set up to be knocked down, of what importance to these New York managers is the coming Octo- ber election of Pennsylvania? It is simply a matter to them of life anddeath. If these men lose Pennsylvania in October the moral effect will carry New York in November against them, and their plans under Hoffman as Gov- ernor, with a party Legislature of the Tam- many stripe to back him, including Tilden’s election to the United States Senate—in short, all their fat will be turned over in the fire. Twenty-five millions as the spoils and plunder of this metropolis is a good round sum; but with Hoffman as Governor, with a Tammany Legislature behind him, tiese spoils, with the additions from the State under the Albany fobby, may be easily enlarged to fifty or a hundred millions. This immense prospective political capital for future opera- tions depends upon this coming Pennsylvania October election, Our Tammany maragers have a lively sense of the delusion of that forty-seven thousand majority by which they carried New York last fall. They know that Grant's nomination has reduced the New York democracy to something like Seymour's strength of 1864, and they know that, with Pennsylvania against them, the floating balance all their golden schemes and calculations. What, then, is to be done? In 1856 the roughly impressed with the necessity of carry- ing the Pennsylvania October election for Bu- chanan that, on the earnest petition of Forney, they raised an electioneering fund for him of one hundred thousand dollars, more or less; and with this New York fund Pennsylvania was saved to ‘Pennsylvania's favorite son” by sone two thousand majority. Robert J. Walker or George Sanders or Forney could tell all about it, This, then, is the main ques- tion. To secure New York will it be better for the New York democratic managers to invest all they can raise in the Pennsylvania October election or to save their funds for the New York November contest? We think that Pennsylvania calls for the investment; but we think that a hundred thousand will not be enough, The Internal Revenue Depart- ment, including the whiskey rings, andor tho would involve a reconstruction of the party | of power in New York will be lost, and with it | New York democratic managers were so tho- vigilant eyes of this radical Fortieth Congress, may be counted on the side of General Grant. President Johnson, here and there, may get his finger in the pie; but his Seymour plums are few and far between. The republicans have the money and they will use it freely to carry Pennsylvania, The New York demo- cratic managers, to make any impreasion upon the Keystone State, must raise a fund of say two hundred: thousand dollars; and if to raise it they have to sell not only their extra house- hold kitchen and stable equipments, but even their “‘old clo’,” we must still say that the stupendous consequences depending in New York on the October result in Pennsylvania demand the sacrifice. And let it be remem- bered that if it required a pony purse of a hundred thousand from New York to save Pennsylvania to Buchanan in 1856 it will re- quire at least two hundred thousand to giye a show of success to Seymour in 1868, The Spauish Revolution. The news from Spain, by way of Paris and London, reporting the progress of events on the peninsula to noon yesterday is apparently contradictory, but yet sufficiently explicit in utterance to show that the insurrection against the government was extending, assuming shape and a distinct line of action and becom- ing hourly more revolutionary and republican in character and sentiment. ‘‘The sovereignty of the people” and ‘‘appeal to the’ nation” have been adopted both as the war ory of the people and their advice to the. sovereign. Queen Isabella remained shut up in San Sebas- tian, until midnight on the 2st instant, the condition of the country rendering it unsafe for her Majesty to travel towards Madrid, and our latest special telegrams do not account for her progress on the journey after her departure from the fortress. General Espartero was named President of a provisional government which had been declared in Seville. The rev- olutionists ‘counted in their force fourteen thousand soldiers and five thousand sailors serving in eleven vessels of war. Gene- rals Prim and Roda, indeed, are said to be on the march to the capital, from which Gonzales Bravo, who resigned the premiership, had fled with the intention of leaving the country, A rumor was current in Paris to the effect that the revolted sailors serving in the squadron off Cadiz had opened fire on tho city. The Queen’s Minister at the French Court acknowledged the existence of a very alarming state of excitement, but claimed that Madrid remained tranquil. Martial law was proclaimed in the name of the Queen all over the kingdom; but as the telegraph lines SEPTEMBYR 23, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Muddle in the Son bern States, Everything appears to be getting into ‘he worst kind of a muddle in the South. Tennessee is in an almost inextricable muddle about Brown- low's militia, the violent doings of the Ku Klux Klans, the distrust and distraction of people in remote districts, the fierce struggle for power among the partisan leaders, and a generally uncivilized condition of things all over the State. The President has been appealed to to send down United States troops to preserve the public peace. This he has agreed to do, and we suppose we shall ina short time hear of something like the restora- tion of order in Tennessee out of the present chaos, North Carolina is im a muddle about her State bonds and the general mal-administra tion of the civil law. With Holden, a radical of the Brownlow pattern, to lead the ultras, there is very little courtesy or common de- cency to be expected in the campaign going on, But North Carolina does not seem to be quite as bad off as South Carolina. There the reign of disorder seems complete. Deputa- tions have been sent to Washington composed of her first citizens appealing for protection from the depredations of bands of armed niggers. Think of a proud, imperious South Carolinian craving from the ‘“‘rotten old wreck of & government” ‘at Washington defence against the ‘‘cussed nigger!” South Caro- ling is like a beautiful coquette with a favorite lover. One day she does not like the military and dismisses them; but the next the brutal blacks menace her with outrage, she regrets her decision, prays for the return of the military and implores their protection. In one case the blacks, it will be seen, have just taken the law into their own hands, and were about administering justice to one of their color according to their own notions of* right and wrong when they were interfered with and prevented. Armed bands of negroes are roaming about the country and have regu- lar organizations on the islands adjacent to Charleston. In giving them in their ignorant condition the right to vote they have been made the victims of the flatteries, bribes, temp- tations and trickeries of every soulless wretch of a politician who would use them to attain a political position which he has no just, native or Christian right to possess. The negro there- upon conceives himself to be allowed to run wild in his career of riot and licentiousness, to defy the laws, insult white people, and be shielded in his crimes and insolence by the whole power of the nation, This is not only true of South Carolina, were thrown into disorder we have no account of the effect, if any, produced by the resort to this governmental extremity. The advices are, indeed, from this latter cause, somewhat uncertain, but, taken in a group, must be regarded generally as reliable. The Spanish news, which has thus become sufficiently lively, forces upon our attention the condition of affairs in the Peninsula in 1822-3, In 1822 an alarming revolution broke out simultaneously in the kingdom of the Two Sici- lies and in Spain. The dynasties again seemed in danger. The Holy Alliance had not yet given up its mission. A congress of all the great Powers assembled at Verona—a con- gress which fully represented the sentiments of the Holy Alliance, with Alexanaer of Rus- sia atits head; and the principal result of that congress was the authorizing of a French invasion of Spain with a view to put down the insurrection. Early in 1823 the Duc d’An- gouléme, at the head of some hundred thou- sand men, crossed the Spanish frontier: The royalists, or the party of the faithful, as they were called, joined the French forces, and the cause of liberty, already successful in Spain, was cruelly crushed out. The blow struck in Spain killed the cause of liberty in Europe at that time. Again we have Italy disaffected. Again we have Spain in revolution. We have no Holy Alliance. We can have no congress of Verona. But Napoleon the Third, the incar- nation of the revolutionary principles of 1789, is the friend of the reigning dynasty in Spain. It will be a curious thing to find the child and heir of the revolution figuring as the defender of the Bourbons and as the destroyer of the hopes of Spanish liberals in 1868. History does not always repeat itself. The Spanish question is much more vital to the continuance of peace in Europe than some few weeks ago some of the readers of the Heratp imagined. Insurrection in Italy. At an early hour this morning we received by cable telegram from London the very important intelligence that the people of Ituly have been excited to insurrection against the monarchy and that the inhabitants of Cala- bria and Sicily have pronounced in favor of an Italian republic. Advices from Paris confirm the news, adding that there is g “‘rising” ip the southern portion of the kingdom against Vic- tor Emanuel and the monarchy. Some of the Paris journals assert, however, that the repub- lican idea is merely shadowed forth to cover a reactionary movement in favor of the ex- | Ring of Sicily. Be this as it may, it is quite evident that | the fire which has been lighted on the Iberlan | Peninsula is inflaming, as in former years, | the Italians, and bids fair to warm {up the Latin masses of the Conti- | nent—a contingency which will prove | exceedingly critical to the thrones and may bring danger to Napoleon. The crisis will in any event require the exercise of all his tact and energy. France can scarcely remain | still, How will she decide? Reaction, pro- gress or war? A Goop Svupsect ror Brngvo.enck.—In July last a noble fellow, named James McGee, while endeavoring to save the lives of the woman and children who were drowned in a pond on Fifth avenue, Brooklyn, lost his own life in the attempt and left a widow and three children unprovided for. In the terrible rain storm of the 3d inst., which swept away large portions of that section of the city, the home of the poor widow was destroyed, leaving her and her children homeless and destitute, thus ac- cumulating misfortune upon misfortune. An appeal for relief has been made to the Corpo- ration of Brooklyn in her behalf, Surely, if ever there was a case where public and private benevolence could be exercised with justice and mercy this is one. We hope that the Brooklyn Aldermen will respond to the appeal ‘pgy, auc. tw lasing, and taree oiberp ary gg | Tenure of Odeo Inw, gud Rolling gpd tp | grqumpllr and epnaronely, at but of every other Southern State where the radicals have been using their in- fluence to retain their grasp upon the reins of government, with its fat money bags and untold stores of plunder, rather than to restore peace and order and to establish anew a substantial and well adjusted system of local au- thority. Georgia has got herself into a curious muddle. It appears that the radicals have been expelling negroes from the Legislature, whereat the colored population have become indignant and are about holding a State con- vention to deliberate upon what they shall next do. If the democratic leaders in Georgia manage rightly—and they are sharp and auda- cious enough to do anything—they can turn this negro expulsion business to their account, and, by dividing tue ucgeo vote, defeat the radicals and easily carry the State for the democracy. The latest reports from Georgia represent a horrible and bloody muddle of whites and blacks, in which it is difficult to ascertain at present who were the wrong- doers. Probably both parties. A proposition made by the radicals in the Legislatute to call upon the President for United States troops to preserve the peace was voted down, making another muddle precisely the opposite of that which prevails in South Carolina on the same point. Alabama will always be in a muddle so long as her democracy are led by the light of the firebrands now at their head ; but they are gradually becoming toned down and are not half so ferocious, but yet, perhaps, more wily than they were three weeks after their return home from the Tammany Conven- tion. The negro vote seems to be inclining democraticward in Alabama, while in Arkan- sas the latest report is that ‘‘intelligent negroes are going against the carpet-baggers.” Thisis a good sign. In Louisiana the demo- crats are making superhuman exertions, and may be assisted, by the Warmoth muddle, about negro processions, negro outrages, negro murders, white persecutions, and the like, which is disturbing the radicals. Florida seoms to be luxuriating quietly among her orange groves, now and then excited by some local muddle about offices and carpet- baggers. Poor old Virginia, with Mississippi and Texas, are in a muddle because they are left out in the cold. In the case of Virginia, however, there appears to be a muddle among & portion of the blacks, who have held a Con- terms, the Britisi; government would change its whole previous poitey up ‘o within a recent date with regard to China and the East gene- rally. We see the struggle going on through the English press between the old system and old ideas and the new order of things inaugu- rated by Mr. Burlingame’s mission. The Em- bassy will have, probably, some upbill work to do in London, Still we think the govern- ment will in the end see the necessity of con- forming to the new policy. The progress of the mission and the disoussion of its object and character by the press of Great Britain will be vention and passed resolutions declaring a want of confidence in the Radical Executive Committee, a muddle which may prove ser- viceable to the democrats when the proper time arrives. On the whole, we have reason to still think fhat our prophesy that a majority of the Southern States can be carried for the democratic candidates will be fulfilled. But it will not affect the general result. The North and West will settle that. Nothing at this moment visible in the canvass can prevent the election of General Grant. But by working zealously in the South the democrats can secure and organize a number of States there which will form a splendid nucleus around which they can rally in the grand struggle for the restoration of their party to power in 1872. The Chinese Embassy in London. The Chinese Embassy has arrived at the Brit- ish capital. Mr. Burlingame will find, probably, that the serious and heavy work of his mission is now beginning. It was all plain sailing in a smooth sea here, Mr. Burlingame was at home among his friends, who were proud of the high honor conferred upon him as an American citizen, As a natural consequence all the éclat possible was given to him, his associates and the mission, Besides, the United States would readily accept the new policy with regard to China, having no established policy to reverse by such an act, and much, possibly, to gain by it. With England it is very different, To accept the treaty made with ws, or qpe in the same apirit aud similar watched with interest on this side the Atlantic. The Park im the Fall, Every change of the seasons appears to add more beauty to the Park. In the win- ter there is the pure and unsoiled carpet of snow on the ground and covering the branches of the trees, the gay and joyous crowds of skaters and others on the numerous lakes cov- ered with ice, and an endless panorama of bril- liant equipages and aleighs moving in every direction, with ladies robed in the brightest and most varied colors adapted to the season, and contrasting beautifully with the matural scenery. In spring we have, under a sky as clear and transparent as that of Italy, and with an invigorating air, all the inspiring influences of returning life which the bright green grass and the budding trees and shrubs in endless va- riety can give. When summer comes the mind is delighted and bewildered with the exube- rance of nature, the density of foliage among the forest trees and plants, both native and ex- otic and the beauty of flowers in full life. In reality the vast area of two miles anda half in length by more thana half a mile in width is the most beautiful combination of gardens, woods, shrubberies, lakes, wild, natural scenery and the highest park-like cultivation. But of all the seasons the fall, perhaps, is the most beautiful in this charming spot. Already we begin to see the autumnal tints, and very soon the leaves will present the most gorgeous and varied colors. Our country has become famous all over the world for the exceeding beauty of its fall season, and nowhere can this be seen to greater advantage than in the Park; for there we have by high cultiva- tion the ground covered by the brightest green, while there is greater variety of trees, shrubs and plants than can be found elsewhere. But we said every season appears to be more beau- tiful, and that is so, not altogether from the pleasure or illusion which changes bring, but because the Park grows rapidly in beauty. There is from month to month and year to year a surprising improvement going on, and within a few years it will be the most superb spot on the globe. The people of New York may well be proud of their Park and daily crowd its walks, avenues and roads. Disraecli'’s Baptism. An earnest supporter of Mr. Benjamin Dis- raeli, his place and principles, has published a copy of the certificate of his baptism as a Christian in the parish of St. Andrew's, Lon- don—a very curious and interesting document, which we have reproduced in our columns. The future Premier of Great Britain en- dured this sanetifying rite on the 3ist of July, in the year 1817, being then twelve years ofage. The British nation is now assured of the fact with the view of proving that the affairs of the Established Church are in safe keeping in his hands, and that on all matters, spiritual and temporal, connected with its en- dowment by the State he is as trustworthy if not a more honest counsellor for the Queen than Mr. Gladstone, who does not, perhaps, recollect the circumstances under which the water of grace was poured on his infant head. The contrast may tend to recommend Mr. Disraeli to many a ‘‘Christian eye” during the election canvass and the polls of the great Parliamentary contest which is just at hand in the United Kingdom; but in our opinion it should be accepted rather as an evidence of the rapid demoralization of the political system of England. to find a son and direct descendant of Abraham, Moses, and David, after apostatizing from the faith, printing the record of his religious backsliding in order to please the congrega- tions of one of the modern, if not the most modern, of the Christian churches. It is worthy of Rachel ‘‘mourning for her children” and “would not be comforted.” Politicians suffer considerably for office in all countries. The Prize Ring. The fight between the late Tom Sayers and Heenan, its attendant circumstances and the result, rendered the prize ring shaky as an in- stitution in England, and the vigorous action of the Queen's magistrates against Goss and Allen in the matter of prevention of the ar- ranged battle for the championship during the present year may be accepted as final to its close. Joe Gogs, indeed, himself ‘threw up the sponge” in person to the law in the Bow Street Police Court, London, the other day, when he promised the presiding Judge not to fight again, accompanying his apparently re- luctant agquiescence to guthority, however, with an éjaculatory pairiotic anticipation of coming évilé to the country, delivered in the words that ‘he hoped nothing worse would happen in England when fighting with the fists was put down.” The active practice of the ‘‘manly art” has tended to demoralize the middle and lower classes of Britain to a very great extent, while it is evi- dent that the more aristocratic patrons of the “ping” have of late years degenerated in sen- timent and feeling to such an extent that the “affairs,” as they have been termed, were rapidly assuming the character of games of “thimblerig” in project, betting, the collection and payment of money, the sale of “colors” and of rum, gin and other et cwteras. With a knowledge of such facts the prize fighters of England of every degree of repu- tation, from the most distinguished down, per- “haps, to the “‘elastic potboy,” have commenced an emigrant exodus to the United States, and quite a number of the members of the fraternity, in ‘good” and indiffer- ent ‘‘standing,” as the case may be, have already arrived in our cities. With the view of saving future trouble and for the better preservation of public morals, it is to be hoped that the police and other public officials in this country will “begin at the beginning” and put a stop to prize fighting at once and at all points in the territory of the Union. Let Mike MoCoole, John C, Hoanan, the ‘Irish Giant,” Coburn and the ext be arrested and made C croatia Iau Neti retain are one amens~!e to the law whenever they attempt to break it in Gtucinnati, New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia 04 other centres of “muscle.” Let the magis."ales act in each case without ‘fear, favor or au ction,” as in Indiana and London. By this me208 the “ring” cannot mature in our midst, and the growth of a very formidable public evil will be prevented. A Ship Caual Through Darien. President Johnson, in his interview with General Acagta, the newly accredited Minister from the United States of Colombia, took ocoa- sion to advert to the importance of a ship canal through the Isthmus of Darien. He very properly directed the attention of the | South American Plenipotentiary to the fact that while the republic of Colombia had granted certain privileges to citizens of the the Isthmus of United States of America on the Isthmus of Panama in perfecting the Panama Railroad, it would be greatly advantageous to her interest and her glory to give encouragement.to our people in the construction of a broader inters oceanic communication through the Isthmus of Darien. He reminded him that this neck of land is only thirty-four miles wide betwoon the Gulfof Darien and the Pacific, and that the highest elevation was only forty feet. If sufficient protection and encouragement is afforded to our citizens, said Mr. Johnson, in substance, they will have that long desired ship canal open for navigation in two years, and thus supply the inadequate transit now afforded to the nations of the West and the East by the Panama Railroad. The Presi- dent further remarked that American enterprise was already supplementing the connection between the Atlantic and Pacifia through the Union Pacific Railroad from New York to San Francisco. ‘Please say this for me,” said Mr. Johnson, ‘‘to the President, Congress, statesmen and people of Colombia, and all of them, that Japan, China, India and the whole East are needing that communica- tion not less than the Western nations are earnestly desiring its achievement.” Just so. While the Union Pacific Railroad is bound to prove of incalculable value to the country and highly advantageous to the gov- ernment, which, notwithstanding the appa- rently large subsidy paid for its construction, it is estimated will turn out to be a very mode- rate expenditure compared with the saving in transportation of military supplies and troops by the old wagon routes, yet a water commu- nication between the two oceans through the Isthmus of Darien is a want which the com- merce of the West and East has been waiting to see supplied for many years. The geographical location of this isthmus is admira- bly suited for a ship canal. It is one-third less—measuring the land route—than the Isthmus of Panama, because the fine navigable bay indenting the Pacific side meets the termi- nus of the proposed canal nearly one-third inland, thus leaving the length required to be engineered only thirty-four miles. If the Colombian government adopts President John- son’s suggestions this route will supersede the Panama line, the proposed route of M. Lessup and all the other modes of communication between the Carribean Sea and the Pacific. MUSIVAL AND THEATRICAL NOTSS. Edwin Forrest opened in Buffalo on Monday night. Wallack’s opens for the regular season this evea- ing with two new plays. The Florences will give the Brooklynites the com- edy of “Caste” this evening, with the original cast of character, at their Academy of Music. The Worrell Sisters are again delighting the good . people of Rochester with their English version of “La Belle Héléne.”” Mr. Gustavus F. Hall, the distinguished baritone, 1s engaged with Ole Bull and will sing at the Boston Music Hall next week. Harry Sanderson and Mrs. Jenny Kempton have organized @ troupe for a concert tour through the West, Eugene, tho prima donna of the Bryants’, has ro- covered from his indisposition. Mrs. Fannie Kemble reads in Rochester on Thars- day and Friday evenings this week. “Hamlet” and “The Merchant of Venice” have been selected by her for the occasion. Miss Jean Hosmer was the recipient of a splendid benefit at Willard’s theatre, in Boston, last Friday night. She appeared as Queen Elizabeth, and was supported by Frank Roche and Mra. 0. M. Walcot. he Worrell Sisters with their travelling company open in Baltimore next month for three weeks, thence to Philadelphia, where they delight the Qua- ker City for two weeks, and finally to ton for a brief period. In December they return to this city, where they remain throughout the winter, The steamer St. Laurent, which arrived here last evening from Havre, brought to our shores the entire ra company of Mr. J, Grau, numbering gar’ eight persons. Prominent among them are Mme, Rose Bell, Miles. Decianzas, Fontanel, Villa and MM, Carrier, Beckera, Gabel, Bourgoin, &c. They ‘Will inaugurate the season of 1865-69 at the recon- structed and handsome Théatre Francais, on October 5, probably with “La Grande Duchesse,’” ‘ Who Has the Academy of Music? To THR EpiTon OF THR HERALD :— see by an article in the HERALD you state that the Academy opened on Monday evening under the management of the Worrell Sisters. Will you oblige me by contradicting the same, as the Worrell isters are not lessees of the Academy of Music, eir names having been used without bn ye or authority, and Relther they nor myee wil ig ibie for accruing in connection there- L *~aeiir! WM. WORRELL. Fines LAST In Etoure AVENUE.—About half-past five o'clock a fire occurred in the stable in the rear of No. 638 Fighth avenue, owned by John Galli and occu- pled by several cartnen. It was ext hed with trifing damage, about $100; not covered by insur- ance. A half an hour later a fire was discovered in the two story brick building in the rear of 653 | avenue, occupied by Smith & Sills as a flour and feed store, which ccastoned damage to stock before it was ts out to the amount of about $450, Insured pd llows:—$600 in the l’iremen’s Fund Insurance mn , $2,000 in the Knickerbocker and $2,000 in the Central Park. $700 ‘The building is insured ia the Firemen’s Fund, but was not damaged. In Wes? THIRTY-SIXTH STREET.—About o quarter past seven a fire occurred at 207 West Thirty-sixth street, in a stable owned by Owen Benman, causing damage to the amount of $ No insurauce, Founp DRowNeD.—The body of an unknown woman, apparently about thirty-five years of age, dressed in black, was found in the East river at the foot of Grand street last evening. FATAL ACCIDENT.—About eleven o'clock last night Eugene Sullivan, sixty-flve years of age, while in- toxicated foil from the roof of his residence, No, 143 Leonard street, and was instantly killed. Lost His Wits.—An unknown man, about thirty years of age, a foreigner, supposed to be insane, was found in the Bowery last night and taken —o of by the police. When questioned he refused make any reply. Car Casvatty.—John Morrissey was run hat eed evening at the corner of Fifty-third street and - avenue by one of the cars belonging to re lia % ‘ road, smashing one of his feet. He ~ his home, at the corner of Bighth street and ave: nue A. , ATTEMPTED Svtcrpg.—About eleven o'clock last | night an unknown woman attempted to commis suicide by jumping into the vit oft hea eames ferryboat Warren, She was, however, D omcer Walsh, of the Thirteenth precinct, and aller, being resuscitated sent to Bellevue Hosnt