The New York Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR JAMES Volume XX XMITM.....-+e+++ AMUSEMENTS THIS EV6. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Last NIGHTS OF Foun Puay. OLYMPIC THRATRE, Broadway.—Huurrr DometY, with NEW FEATURES. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Maky STUART, QUEEN oF SooTs. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—BaTEMan’s OPERA Bovrre—Bagbr BLEUE. WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and 13th street.— SIMON BERNARD—DEARER THAN Lire. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Fatt PLAY—STRING OF ARLE. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—TuE ComEDY oF CastE—TuRicE MA Vs bapa 9 | BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mih street,—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, &0., LUCREAIA BORGLA: KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720Bi PIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE, &0.—B. PMO SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 595 Bronlway.—Erito- PIAN ENTEGIAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING Ke. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO) 201 Bowery.—Comro 8 Voca.isM, NEGRO MINSTREL! ay,—Tut GREAT ORI eee VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. GINAL LINGARD AND WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirticth street and Broadway.—A(icraooa and eveniag Performance. DOPWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Tuk CELEBRATED S1GNon BLT’. PIKE'S M ayeuue —NOz HALL, 234 street, corner of Eighth ox's HIBERNICO! CENTRAL PARK GAR! ‘eventh avenue.—'T' THOMAS’ POPULAR GARDE: ne GREAT WESTERN CIRC corner Broadway und strecl. EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNASIIO QNTERTAINNE THE TWLNS—At No. 616 Broadway, near Houston stre MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— A FLASH oF Lr HOOLTY'S OP: MINSTRELG—M. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SOIENOR AND ART. SHEE The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- ter iit, September 23, h revolutionary movement was more aud extending. Espartero ts the fayorite for abeila could not reach Madrid | iu San Sebastian. General Prim ap- ave been the chief agent in efecting the change by the pronunciamtento off Cadiz, A revo- Jutionary army was moviug against Cordova, and the Queen had offered to abdicate if she could retain the regene, ihe Prince of Asturias reaches his y. er offer was rejected by the revolu- 4, who demanded the expulsion of the Bour- bons and a provisional government, A London journal says the English people are in- different toward the Cainese Embassy, and that the Queen's Ministers must see that they have “genuine coinmiasioners” to deal with. Minister Johnson de- livered a speech at Le ngland, in which he said that the matters of difference between the United States and Great Britain were “few and unimport- ant.’ I Admiral Farragut was entertained at an Austrian nayal banc The Peace C assemble in! The Paris Yoniteur ha: the peace assu es of the King of Prussia, The Newmarket (England) October turf meeting | Ws progressing very favorably. pt will yleld an “enormons” cotton crop. Quee! reste, e. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. Fourteenth street, to settle the arrangements for holding the primary elections, The result of the eliber tions of the committee was not disclosed. The dog pit revival at Kit Burns’ den was con- tinued yesterday with no more than the usual Success, Kit himself remaining obdurate and the congregation generally wearing too respectable an appearance to be classed among the new Issue of Christians, Johnny Allen was present at bis old dance house, and expressed himself as sorry that he had ever persuaded any of his women to attend the meetings, as they were taunted and shown up as the worst of women by the preachers until they Were shamed from repentance. A box containing $1,000 in currency was stolen from the driver's seat of an Adams’ Express wagon yesterday, in Broadway, near Dey street, while the driver had turned his head away to adjust some- thing. The thief was discovered and hailed, but he dived into the crowd and niade good his eacape. Joe Cooke, in former years prominently known as acircus clown, and for the past six years proprictor of the Sunnyside Hotel, on Long Irland, yesterday made an afidavit before Judge Manstleld, of the Essex Market Police Court, charging Henry H. Foster with his forcible abduction and confinement for five weeks in the Kings county Lunatic Asylum. He also charges the latter with attempted poisoning of himself and wife. The City Hall is heavily besieged by foreigners asking for naturalization. One hundred and thirty- five were made eligible voters yesterday. The North German Lloyd’s steamship Weser, Captain. Wenke, will leave Hoboken about two o'clock P, M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen, The mails for Europe will close at the Post Ofice at twelve o'clock M. The steamship Henry Chauncey, Captain Connor, will sail at twelve o’clock M, to-day for San Fran- cisco via Panama, Pi The steamship Eagle, Captain M. R. Greene, will leave pier No. 4 Norih river at three o’clock P. M. to-day for Havana. ~ The steamship General Barnes, Captain Morton, will leave pier No, 36 North river at three o’clock ’P. M, to-day for Savanaab. The steamship Saragossa, Captain M. B. Crowell, of Arthur Leary’s line, will leave pitr No, 14 Bast river, foot of Wallstreet, at three o'clock P. M. to- day for Charleston, 5. 6. The stock market was on the whole firm yester- day. Government securities were dull. Gold closed at Prominent Arrivals. Speaker Col/ax is In this city. Chief Justice Chase, General Henitzelman and Judge Parker, of Albany, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Governor Burnside, of Rhode Island; Governor- Fenton, of New York; Baron Westerslidze, of France, and Congressman Oakes Ames are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Baltazai, of the Tarkish Legation at Washing- ton, 18 at the Albemarle Hotel. General Hooker, United States Army, is at the Brevoort House. Count de Turrene, of Paris, is at the Hoffman House, General Butler passed through this city yesterday morning en routs for Lynn, Mass. ee The Revolution in Spain—A European Crisis. Our latest news from the different European centres in regard to the revolutionary move- ment in Spain is of quite an alarming charac- ter. Gonzalos Bravo, the late Prime Minister, with all or most of his colleagues who were known to have fled from the scene of danger, had arrived in France. Queen Isabella, in consequence of the excited condition of the country, unable to pursue her way to Madrid, has been compelled to return to St. Sebastian, and has offered to abdicate on condition that the Prince of Asturins was made King and she was retained as Regent. This offer was refused by the revolutionists, who demanded nothing leas than the expulsion of the Bourbons and a provisional government. Township after township and province after “provinee were giving in their adhesion to the sols, 04%, Money. Five-twenties, 74¢ la Lon- | Movement and erecting the revolutionary and 73 in Frankfort, | standard, In Madrid the excitement was in- 4a jalddiing nplauds a! 19d, Pro- | tense. Everywhere republican principles Breadstulls without marked | rday the r of the i that Surratt The Court t the offence felony red by the amnesty. first judicial one yet made in re- ty under the amnesty. The 1 admission to amend the plea ned until to-day. ymmunittee yesterday examined General Aston as to the | tigation, Mr, Ashton said had no authority from elings, and his course committee adjourned to © in Us city on Thursday varts was to have started ning, probably to look after the is reported to have occurred in the s of oficers in internal revenue, 8 is said to have ordered that no keepers appointed by Secretary vestern States shall be assigned to urth “rs. Notwithstanding this ap- arent hitch ano’ pervisor was agreed upon and appointed yes! —Colonel D, 8. Goodloe, for the district of Keaulu A severe fight took place on the Repiblican river, Kansas, between a band of seven hundred Indians and a force of fifiy men under Colonel Forsythe, who were on an island, on the 17th, The fight was kept up until eleven o'clock at night, when two scouts, Who brought the news, escaped to Fort Wailave, ninety miles distant, to ask for assistance, Colonel Foraythe was badly wounded and Licutenant Beecher and Dr. Monroe mortally. Adespatch from Arkansas reports that Captain Mason, president of the registration board of Fulton county, was murdered onthe 1vth by the Ka Kiux, and that several negroes have been killed and churches burned recently by the same organization. Quiet has ben res‘ored in New Orleans. The riot of Tuesday night resulted from a democrat disturb- ing a republ procession, One negro was killed and quite @ number of whites and blacks were woun led, An attempt was made on Tnesday night to throw | from the train on the Trunk Ratt est from Montreal, by piling ties acroes It ts believed the deed was prompted by of killing Mr. O'Re! who was abot ir and George H. Pendleton made ralic mass mevling at India: jay. i ieave Warhin ime com’ ad of oa to inve Crown counsel in n case, ‘al Frank at the dem apolisgn Ga, to- haa received imswuci! riots, or Atlanta, | sdistriet, He igate the Camilla THE cry ‘The National Labor + res con $ sossion | yesterday. A report A th 2 on Co- | operation was brought up. It declares strongly against contests between labor and capital, aud was | on that account the subject of an ax in which the lady deiegates bad their vay. it was ried debate, uineness of this movement. | seems to have been thoroughly awakened. | racks, compelling seemed to be in the ascendant, and by uni- versal acclamation the veteran liberal Espar- tero was proclaimed President. It is impossible to refuse to admit the gen- At last Spain Drowsy, inactive for many years past, although sullen and disa‘fected, she has at length girt form the principal topics of conversation dur- ing the interview. It is not conceivable that Queen Isabella was ignorant of the state of her kingdom. It is notorious that Napoleon was then, as he is now, better informed as to the actual condition of Spain than Queen Isabella herself. What did Queen Isabella ask? What did Napoleon promise ? Not, however, to make too much of the interview—for it is scarcely possible, matters being as they were, that the interview could be other than a sham—what will Napoleon do? A revolution in Spain—a revolution especially in favor of liberal, even republican, prinelples—is manifestly not to his liking. The triumph of these principles in the Spanish portion of the Peninsula would not only make an end of the kingdom of Portugal and blast the hopes of the House of Baganza; it would revolutionize the entire kingdom of Italy, would convulse France and shake to its foundation every throne in Europe. It is not too much to aay that if this revolution is succossful in Spain the kingdom of Italy is virtuatty at an end and the throne of Napoleon is in serious peril. What, then, will Napoleon do? Will he passively look on, or will he interpose and att¢mpt to stem the revolutionary tide? This is the question which thousands are now asking. Spain has been many times in insurrection during the last fifiy years, as will be seen from the sketch which we give of the history of that country in another place in this day's Heratp ; but nothing precisely similar to this has hap- pened since 1 In that year, and while the Holy Alliance, giving effect to the decrees of the two separate Congresses of Troppau and Laybach, was, through the instrumentality of an Austrian army cruelly crushing out con- atitutional liberty in the south of Italy, an alarming revolution broke out in Spain. | The Holy Alliance again took alarm. The soy- ereigns (rembled. Absolatisi was fa danger, The Congress which had been dissolved at Laybach in February, 1821, reassembled at Verona in December, 1822. To France was entrusted the suppression of the revolt. While Austria was crushing out the hopes of Italy France was to crush out the hopes of Spain. The Dac d’Angoul’me, at the head of some hundred thousand French soldiers, crossed the Spanish frontier early in 1823, and a few months later bleeding Spain succumbed, but not without invoking the vengeance of Heaven on the Holy Alliance. From the blow then struck Spain has never properly recovered. The revolution which has now broken out is similar ia character and téndency to that of 1822, But there is now no Holy Alliance, It is not conceivable that anything which may now happen in Spain will combine in common league the princes of Europe. Neither Austria nor Russia nor Pras- sia can be said to have any direct interest in Spain, It is a matter of compara- tive indifference to Great Britain whether Spain is a monarchy ora republic. An alli- ance holy or unholy such as that which extin- guished Spanish liberty in 1823 is impossible. We are thus driven back to our question, what will Napoleon do? If he calmly lodks on and awaits the issue of events will it not be a per- ilous policy? If he interferes will it not be equally perilous? The republican spir{t tri- umphant in Spain, the republican spirit tri- umphing in Italy, the republican spirit bursting forth in France—that is one alternative. A French army of occupation in Madrid, a French army of occupation in Florence, probable in- surrection in France, and Bismarck complet- ing the unification of Germany—that is the other alternative. It isa difficulty for Napo- leon. It remains to be seen how he will act. Miuister McMahon aud the Paraguayan War. The departure of General Me’ day by the steamer Mississippi for Rio Je her armor around her and put forth her strength. It does not seem to have been a sudden and unlooked for movement. On the contrary, it appeara to have been arranged with consummate care and with great minute- ness of detail. It is diMlcult now to resist the conviction that the meeting of Queen Isabella with Napoleon at St. Sabastian furnished the signal for the outbreak; nor is it difficult to understand why such a meeting should by Spanish malcontents have been invested with such importance. It has long been known that the liberal and disaffected party in Spain were waiting their opportunity. General Prim is known to be in the confidence of that party, General Prim has of late made one or two unsuccessful attempts to hasten the general rising. The non-success of the General did not prove that he was fooled—did not prove that his countrymen did not sympathize with him; it only proved that circumstances were not sufficiently favorable—that the pear was not yet ripe. This time, so far at least as we are warranted to judge from the evidence before us, General Prim has not miscalculated. Directly the first symptoms of revolution made themselves manifest Prim hurried to Cadiz, where he was joined by the exiled generals, the victims of Bravo's recent tyranny! The Spanish iron-clad Saragossa, then in the bay of Cadiz, welcomed the exiled generals and without delay opened fire on the royal bar- an immediate surren- der, were complete, for the generals sailed forthwith to the stations already assigned them. pathy; what with the help of eleven ships of war and the number constantly increas- ing; what with the revolutionary dame flying | with almost lightning spoed over the entire kingdom, township afier township and pro- vince after province unfurling the rebel ban- ner; what with the Queen locked up in St. Se- bastian and Bravo and his colleagues out of the kingdom, the insurgent leaders seem at last to have found their opportunity, If Spain does not now prove herself equal to the oceasion the world will have good cause to cease to believe in the possibility of her resurrection. recommitted, A resolution favoring fon of @ national labor political party Was carried Ly a unanimous vote. Iu the discussion Miss Anthony strongly favored the resolution, The Committee on Female Labor, of which Miss Anthoay ts chi " made a report urging Workingwomen ‘to learn & ‘and secure the ballot, demanding the applic: the Bight our law to women's labor aud vrging the | passage of laws securing equal wage: equal work to women employed. It was not acted upon, and the Congress adjourned until this moruing, The Tammany {all General Cominitice met last Might at their rooms in the new Tammany Building, The great question which naturally arises in the mind of every one who is at all familiar with the course of events in Spain, and, indeed, with the polities of Europe dur- | ing the last France do in fifly years, is, what will the circumstances? The question is all the more natural and, indeed, all the more portinent because of the recent interview of the two sovereigns, It is incon- ceivable that the state of Spain and the help- lessness of the Spanish government did not It appears that Prim’s arrangements | What with fourtecn thonsand soldiers already | at their service and the whole army in sym- | as Minister of the United States to the republics holding the mouth of the Kio de In Plata marks a period in the history of thi South American war. At this we have no reason to wonder. General McMahon has taken a gallant part in the settlement of a war very like to this in its main features, That settlement was in favor of our cause—that of republican institutions ‘in North America. There is every reason to believe that his pres- ent diplomatic mission will turn out as advan- tageously to the cause of those same institu- tions in the southern half of our Continent, The empire of Brazil has for some time been a bugbear to its neighboring republics. Even New Granada feared that the control of the Amazon valley, held by Brazil, would eventu- ally prove a stumbling block to the free com- mercial intercourse of that republic with Europe and the business world. But so soon asthe South Americatis realized the fact that the commercial centres of the world must be located outside of the tropical region the Euro- pean mercantilo interests centred in Brazil urged the imperial government of Dom Petro IL. to extend the frontics of the empire to the Rio de la Plata and there build up a second New York. The republics of South America were duly made aware of this policy, as well | as of the reasons thereof, and foremost among | these republics was the gallant little State of | Paraguay. Her neighbor, Uragnay, the | weakest of the South American republics, | overawed by the diplomatic and military powers of Br | and incorporated by the empire when Para- guay stepped forward and announced to the world what was the policy of Brazil, as well as the reasons why she and her sister repub- lies were determined to oppose it. She pro- claimed that the first unwarranted aggression on Uruguay would be met with hostilities on the part of Paraguay. It must be borne in -mind that at this time the west coast republics were embroiled in a war with Spain, otherwise the aid they would have given Paraguay ond Uruguay would have long since ended this war, and probably tho empire of Dom Pedro, However, the idea that underlies Genoral McMahon's mission is 4 magnificent one, It is none other than that the republies of South | America should bend together to secure the trafic of the Rio de la Plate for the com- mon good of the whole Continent, just as the Siates of our Union banded and fought to secure the great North American watercourse for the common good. Brazil showed her tact and abiliiy in so dividing her neighboring republics—and probably in get- ting up the Spanish war with Peru, Chile and thoir allies—as to have but one little republic to fight, The troaty of alliance of May 1, “1, was about to be overrun | 1865, is evidence of the ease with which the allies thought to carry their point, The weak- kneed efforts of Secretary Seward at mediation encouraged them in the idea that Paraguay would be left severely alone; but this present mission of a gallant defender of republican institutions and free trade against the schemes and efforts of aristocracy and oligarchy, as well as monarchy, proves that the American government has at last awakened to the im- portance in South America of the*very cause for which we in North America have talked, voted and fought since 1861. The Pacific Railroad—Souitern Revival and Our Eastern Commerce. Within a year from this time we expect to see the Union Pacifie Railroad open from the Mississippi to San Francisco, The rapidity with which section after section is being re- ported as completed gives fair assurance that by that specified time the two ends will have met west of the Rocky Mountains, the links will be welded together and the chain of com- munication become perfected. Latest ac- accounts from the Pacific end: of the road, or Central Pacifie Railroad, report the line finished to two hundred and ninety miles from Sacramento, and bends have been issued by the government accordingly to the amount a $1,120,000, It is not easy, within the compass of ordinary language, to say what the results of this road will be to the commerce Papa general prospects of the whole couutry. Possibly the first result will be to open a sys- tem of immigration from the superiluous millions of China and Japan. Immigration from theso countries now is confined to the fic coast, and the theatre of foreign enter- » from Asia is limited to California and n. But what will it be when the Pacific ad opens up the whole heart of the coun- to the labor-and industry of these populous Eastern nations? It is safe to’ caleulate that laborers from China will come over by tens of thousands and swarm into the valley of the Mississippi, spread themselves over the Plains, and work their way into all the Southern States, there to supply the place of colored labor, which, owing to the present system of miscalled reconstruction, is nut available for half its nominal value. It is just this kind of impetus which the South requires to develop iis neglected wealth. It has rich lands enough, and a soil and cli.aate so varied that every product known to the American Conti- nent can be raised there. It has a magnificent water power, equal to any amount of manufac- ture, running wastefully to the Gulf of Mexico, But the South wants labor and capital, and when the former is abundantly supplied, so that the Southern States have help enough to make their own cotton fabrics, to dig out iheir own gold and coal, to smelt and manufacture their own iron, we may bo sure that capital will soon be found to pay the laborer, to work the mines, to put the water power in opera- tion in cotton factories, furnaces and machine shops. In Alabama and North and South Carolina alone there are coal and iron enough to keep the whole manufacturing industry of the South employed, while in every one of the Southern States copious streams carry down with them to the sea {mmense motive power which {s now going to waste. One of the consequences of the completion of the Pacific Railroad, then, may be to make the South greater than she ever was in her palmiest days if she does not throw away tho chances. The Pacific Railroad may prove the best reconstractor. To secure its good con- struction, three millions of the first bonds have been reserved for repairs on the road agit advances. Looking to the Pacific coast with a view to our commerce with China, Japan and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, how is the railroad going to serve us? We may safely say that its advantages must bear more fruits (han those of any enterprise in the history of the country. With the Pacific Rail- roadin running order the value of our new relations with the Eastern nations, of which the Burlingame Embassy is the embodiment, will be enhanced a hundredfold. Instead of the single monthly line of steamers running between San Francisco and China, comprising now only four vessels, we must have a dozen or more lines to accommodate our commerce; but we must take care that the shipping in- terests of the United States shall not succumb to British enterprise in this matter. It will never do to have American trade with China conducted in British bottoms, under a foreign flag, and all the profits of the carrying trade go into the pockets of owners of steamers built onthe Clyde. Fora long time the shipbuild- ing trade of this country has been declining in an unaccountable manner. Shall it be said that the new commercial steam fleet which will be required on the Pacific in a year from now must sail under the flags of European nations? Let the government and the shipbuilders look to this. We have said nothing of the advantages of the Pacitic Railroxd which must accrue to that western portion of the Continent lying between the present termini and the ocean, because they aretoo obvious, There is a vasi desert to be reclaimed in that immense region—a desert in some places, it is true, not well disposed for agricultural purposes, but rich in minerals and covered with large tracts of grazing country. All this is to be redeemed by the Pacific Rail- road, as the eastern portions of Kansas and Nebraska have already been bencfited by the growth of new (owns and the location of fine farms westward and southward towards Colorado and New Mexico for a distance of nearly eight huadrod iniles, In whatever way we regard this great national highway, there- fore, we see in it a grand national enterprise, which is destined to assist in the fulfilment of our mission as a free and a commercial nation. Part of that inission is to exchange, as it wero, our civilization for the wealth, the industry and the labor of the Asiatic countries, and another part is to extend that natural protec- tion to the weaker Slates of the South Amori- ean Continent which it behooves us to do in an especial manner as their strong next door neighbor should; to seo also that European influence does not rob us of the values of the old Spanish republics lying close beside us, or that the Monroe doctrine shall not be set aside by foreign interference, All these things the Pacifle Railroad will help to accomplish when the eastern and west- ern verge of the Continent and its great centres in the Middle States are united by steam and eloctricity, the twin civilizers of the world, The Miemanagement of the Campaign by the Democratic Leaders and Organs. Beginning with the Tammany Hall Conven- tion,.the Presidential campaign on the part of the managers, leaders and organs of, the de- mocracy has been a budget of blunders. The Convention was offered a fair ficld for glorious victory over the radicals in the nomi- nation of Chief Justice Chase; but, by & “coup de thimblerig,” a8 @ disgusted Western democrat has expressed it, the Chase move- ment was extinguished, Pendleton was slipped away and Seymour turned up ‘“‘the little joker.” With the ink hardly dried of his printed speech against Pendleton, he accepted the Pendleton platform, with Wade Hampton's revolutionary reconstruction amendment, and thus, in overleaping himself, the blundering Seymour found himself fighting the . ‘lost cause” of 1864 over again against the cham- pion of the Union war party and the conqueror of the rebellion, From this departure of the Tammany Con- vention the popular reactionary movement of 1867 against the radicals was instantly stopped and a new reaction comménced in favor of the republican party and General Grant on the great issues of the war. To make the matter worse for Seymour the managers, leaders and organs of the democracy undertook to strengthen their desperate cause by personal abuse of General Grant and by the most silly and preposterous attempts to prove Grant an ig- noramus, destitute alike of any of the qualities of a statesman and of any merit as a soldier. Indeed, they would have it that he was only a remorseless butcher and blunderer in the war and only a cunning trickster in the Cabinet. Holding up the rebel General Lee as the model of military leaders, they have still contended that the conqueror of Lee blundered along from the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House. Of course this sort of party warfare rapidly rallied “the Boys in Blue” and the loyal people of the war standing behind them around the banner of Grant, as the same campaigning against General Jackson rallied the honest masses of the people around him forty years ago. —~ R In the noxt place, the constellation of the political and military leaders of the rebellion who figured so largely in the Tammany Con- vention were permitted from the outset to proclaim that in the election of Seymour “‘their lost cause” would be regained; and accepting this appeal from Appomattox Court House to the Tammany Convention the Union party of the war are allin line again and are resolved to reaffirm, under Grant, the settlemont of Lee’s surrender. And yet, again, in the outset of the canvass the independent press was favorably inclined towards the democratic party in view of the excesses and wasteful extravagances of the dominant radicals. But certain self-sufficient and basely envious demo- cratic organs undertook the absurd experiment of a moral crusade against every independent journal which would not fling up its cap and hurrah for Seymour according to instructions from the Manhattan ring. This absurd experi- ment, like that of the scandalous abuse of Gen- eral Grant as citizen, civilian and soldier, has only operated to plague the inventors. The independent press still flourishes as the repre- sentative of an independent public opinion, while the self-sufficient democratic organs aforesaid are evidently falling into the sere and yellow leaf before the first frost. It is “‘passing strange” that in this campaign our democratic managers, leaders and organs appear to have forgotten, not only the lessons of the war as givenin the general run of the elections since 1860, but the instructions of all our great elections of the last forty years. Their budget of blunders embraces the blun- ders of the Adams party of 1828, -the blunders of the Van Buren party of 1840, of the Cass party of 1848, the blunders of poor Pierce and Buchanan, the blunders of the Southern oli- garchy at Charleston in 1860 and'of the North- erg wing of the party at Chicago in 1864, all rolled together. With such a load upon his back what hope is there for Seymour, nomi- nated to fight over again the last and most dis- astrous campaign of McClellan? Echo answers, none, The Season of Opera Boufie. The fall season of opéra bouffe is about to bloom, It is budding at Niblo’s. It is to burst into full blossom at the Théitre Frangais on the Gth' of October. Between Grau’s new company, who arrived from Brest on Tuesday, and Bateman’s well tried company on Broad- way we shall have a delightful variety in this kind of entertainment during the coming winter. To Italian opera, with all its charms, its faults and its mismanagement, it appears that we have bid farewell for the present. The Acad- emy of Music killed the opera and the opera killed the Academy. If we look for the reason we may find it in the persistent efforts to im- pose upon the public in the matter of talent and management for some years past. Such management of opera as might have been tolerated twenty years ago, when people were satisfied with an occasional star at Castle Garden, will not suit the advanced intelligence, increased refinement and accumulated wealth of the present population. It took ten years of bad management to kill off Italian opera. It died, in fact, by slow poison, and it may take many years to revive it again. Italian opera music is now about to find its solitary repre- sentative in the concert rooms of the provincial towns under the direction of Max Strakosch, with Kellogg as the prima donna, and the wandering troupe of Maretaek, who are peram- bulating the Wostera cities on the borders of civilization. We are sorry for the stockholders of the Academy, because they might have secured better managers than it was their evil fortune to alight upon; but these things cannot be helped now. The mischief is done, and it may be some consolation for the stockholders to know that the house is still available for balls, lectures and charity faira, which, by good good management, may bring in a moderate return, In the matter of opéra douffe we shall not want. We have Bateman, the pioneer, the Cortez of this enterprise, who, although ope- rating so far down town as Niblo’s, with all the down town disadvantages to contend with, 1s making out a flourishing season, Now comes into tho field Grau, tho Pizarro, ripe for conquest, clad in the po‘aoply of # con- queror, but more polishad and refined than his Spanish prototype. He brings to us some of the best artists in Europe, many of them heralded by a, European fame and all of them equal to the task for which this irrepressible and fortunate impresario pledges their reputa- tion. There is plenty of room for both com- panies, and no doubt success and a plethora of profit will attend each of them. Before the curtain rises upon the first opera at the French theatre Grau’s pocket will be drawn upon for some eighty thousand dollars between the ad- vance salaries of the artists, the costumes and the scenery. It will not take long to get that sum back, of course, because opéi'a bouffe is going to pay here this season; but the mana- ger is not the less entitled to credit for his enterprise. The people will enjoy themselves immensely over such operas as ‘‘Genevitve de Brabant,” ‘Barbe Bleue” and tho revived “Grande Duchesse,” and New York may for the nonce imagine itself a little Paris, The New York Commercial Navigation Company. The New York Commercial Navigation Com- pany seems to be very uneasy at the comments $f the press on their project for establishing a steamship line, to Europe, or rather on what has been said with regard to the act of Con- gress loaning the company its credit for three millions of bonds. The company complains that injustice has been done to it, and asks us to notice the matter editorially. The following lotter from the President of the company has been sent to us by way of defence :— New You«, Sept, 10, 1868. To THE EDITOR OF-THE HERALD:— In the September 12th ciition of the MmraLp is an article copied from the Boston Posty headed “A Grand Plundering Scheine Wxploded’* (the heading belng the gratuitous notice of your own), Now, this article reflects upon the Com- mercial Navigation Company of the State of hew York in a most unjast manner. It is scandalous, une true and libellous in its ¢haracter, and the attack upon our agent, Mr. Jewett, who is a private citizen in whom we repose our confidence, is certainly out- rageous, have called twice at the editorial rooms of your wide read paper to expiain the unjustness and false- ness of the article, and to ask that you might ex- amine the subject and do justice to our incorporae tion, composed of our best and most worthy citizen who are endeavoring to establish an American mail and emigrant steamship line to Europe under the act ot Congress passed in that behalf.“Could you nob see us’ And should you not asa public journal- ist examine into the subject, and if injustice has been done us endeavor to counteract the harm of 80 unjust an article by editorially noticing the company and the attack made, and awarding to it what you may deem due to so important an enterprise as that we are engaged in? I am, with res} ” pours tral, JOH . BAXTE Ly. President Commercial Navigation Compaay of State of New York. It can hardly be necessary to say to Mr. Baxter and his associates that we are always in favor of anything of a legitimate character that will tend to build up our mercantile marine. Every mercantile and shipping man in New York and every reader of the HERALD knows that we have never failed to advooate the establishment of American steamship lines to Europe and other parts of the world, and to promote the commercial and shipping interests of the ,country generally As to this particu lar company, we know nothing of its means or intentions, but if it is going to revive our de- pressed shipping interests and establish an American line of steamships to Europe ina fair way of competition, we say God speed. But the government is right in taking precau+ tions that the aid it may afford shall not be misused. It should have the most satisfactory guarantee that there is no job in the scheme, and that the bonds loaned for the purpose of building the steamships and carrying out the enterprise shall be used strictly for that pur~ pose. We are opposed, however, to special legislation or appropriations in favor of any particular company or individuals. That is opening the door to unlimited extravagance and corruption, and in the end would paralyze ‘steamship enterprises. Whatever aid the government can fairly and legitimately give should be of a general character and open to competition. All our shipping capitalists should haye an equal chance. Rivalry in this, as in everything else, is the life and soul of business ‘and leads to suc- cess. The government should do what- ever it can in giving the proceeds of the mail service to steam lines carrying the mails, and in taking off duties and taxes that bear upon shipbuilders and shipbuilding materials, The government has no right and is not ina condition to make loans or subsidies to par-' ticular companies or individuals, and the only way to promote shipbuilding and steamship lines is by such general legislation and action as we have suggested. The British govern- ment is giving up its system of subsidies, yet the numerous lines from England to this coun- try are successful. The English have aban- doned the old sidewheel steamers and are using propellers, with all the recent improve- ments. In that lies the secret of their success to a great extent. Let the matter be left to individual enterprise and capital, with all the incidental aid the government can legitimately give, and this country may soon rival Englaad again on the ocean. Internal Revenue Frauds and Their Inves- tigation, There seems to be inextricable confusion all round about internal revenue matters, and as a consequence the hundred millions of dol- lars or more that the government acknow- ledges to have lost by frauds are likely to swell up to two hundred millions before the disgrace- ful muddle is settled. Those pious and virtu- ous officials, Mr. McCulloch and Commissioner Rollins, will neither do anything themselves to check disorganization and frauds in the in- ternal revenue nor let the President or any one else, Congress legislated away for politi- cal objects and out of spite to Mr. Johnson the executive power over this important branch of the public service and left it without any responsible head. Commissioner Rollins, backed by the radicals, defies the President, but will do nothing to put an end to the embarrassing and ruinous state of things. Mr. McCulloch is equally as impracticable and obstinate. The internal revenue thieves and rascally officials are de- lighted at this deadlock and are making a rich harvest. Never before was there such @ disgraceful spectacle seen in this country. One would think the loss of a hundred millions of revenue by frauds and the prospect of losing two hundred millions through the continued quarrels and hostility between the heads of tho government ought to arouse Congress and the people to a sense of the enormous evil; yet from all that has occurred and is ocowry ring there appears to be the most astonishing supineness and indifference. Such is thy, power, too, of the whiskey and other ringys of defranders: that what efforts havo beop made to reach the evil have been defeated, Though the hauds of the ProgMient have