The New York Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1868, Page 6

0 BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Volume XXXII... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humpry Doser, witd NEW FEATURES. BROADWAY THEATRE, QUEEN oF Scots. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—BaTsMan's OPERA Bourrr—BaRBe BLEUE. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and {3:h street SIMON BERNARD—DEaRER THAN Lire, Broadway—Maur STUART, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowoery.—FA12 PLAY—STRING OF Peagis. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway. —LAsr NtcuTs oF Foun Piay. Tammany Building, Mth , kO., LUCRETIA BORGIA, RA OPIAN MINSTER) KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, PIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE, & 0 Broadway.—ETH10- —~BAGBER Biv. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Eraio- TIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &e. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery. Como Yooatis, NEGRO MINBTRELSY, &c, THFATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.--Tar Gueav Ort GINAL LINGARD AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, 7! Broadway.—Afternoon und eveuiug Perfora oth street and nee. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway. Tur CELEBRATED SigNox Buz, 'S MUSIC HALL, QB atroet, corner of Eighth -McEVoy's HineRNicon. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN eventh avenue.—THEO. THOMAS’ POPULAR GARDEN Concent THE SI Houston st S—At No. 615 Proadway, near MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— A PLASIL OF LIGHTNING. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Hoonry's MINSTRELS—MABSA-NIELLO, O#% THE BLACK FOREst, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SorkNok AND ALT. SHEET. New York, Friday, September 25, 1868. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, September 24. ‘The French and English reports from Spain are contradictory. It appears, however, as if the revo- lution was still in active progress. Queen Isabella ts about to enter France. A royal general who marched against the rebels in Santander joined them. The Neet of St. Sebastian revolted. Prim was reported as having been arrested, but it is said he is on march on Madrid in company with Serrano. Duke de la Torre acts as civil head of the revolutionists, ‘The leaders are military officers who order attacks on the “people” traitors, Official reports from Mad- rid state that the rebels were defeated in battle at Granada city, The Captain General of Valencia was murdered by a “amob.”? The French government will re-inuforce tts posts ton and shortly afterwards hand a roll similar in appearance to Commissioner E. A. Rollins. The case will be resumed to-day, The National Labor elected Wm. H. Syivas, President; 0. H. Lucker, of thia City, First Vice Presi lent, and John Vincent, also of this city, Recording Secretary. Muss K. Molony was elected Second Vice President by an overwhelming majority, but on reterring to the constitution it was found that she was inciigible. A new constitution and platform of principles were adopted, and at five O'clock P.M. the Congress adjourned to meet at nine o'clock this morning. The Board of Counctimen transacted a large amount of business yesterday. They concurred with the Aldermen in extending an official welcome to General McClellan, in granting the use of the rooms occupied by the County Clerk to the Law Institute, in directing the Comptroller to issue $40,000 worth of market stock and to pay the Clerk of the Com- mon Coundil $3,600 for compiling the Corporation Manual, {2 the Court of Generai Sessions yesterday “Tommy Hadden,” the Water street revivalist and convert (?), Was arraigned on @ charge of felonious assault, His counsel addressed the Court, urging the necessity of Hadden attending to his prayer mneeting, and that he “had not time to be tried.” The Court allowed the case to go off for the term. Charles Meyer was seni to the Penitentiary for one year on a@ charge of grand larceny. Annie Baker was convicted of robbery and sent to the State Prison for five years, Pleas of guilty were made in alarge number of other cases and sentences were postponed, Mr, Bergh has addressed a note to Mayor Hoffman, in which he shows that by the reduction to tweaty five cents of the bounty offered for the delivery of dogs at the pound, foot of Twentieth street, the city has saved about $3,000 in two months, Number of dogs destroyed this season, 938; last season, 6,763. “But two cases of supposed hydrophobia were reported m the two months ending 1st September. * Edward F, Creech and Charles Dorsay were yester- day arrested on a charge of forging the name of Measrs Corbett & Clemens, 45 Ann street, to an order upon which they obtained of the Russell and Nrwin Manu- facturing Company goods to the value of $125. Seve- ral other parties, it is stated, have been victimized in like manuer with forged orders by Creech and Dorsay. Sergeant McCready and two private policemen of the Seventeenth precinct were yesterday before Judge Mansfield, accused of acts of most barbarous infraction of the rights of two citizens whom they beat and kicked and then confined in a station house ail night. The full particuiars will be found | in another column, An examination in the case is to be had to-day, The notorious Sophia Myres, recently pardoned out of the State Prison by Governor Fenton, has again turned up in the police courts, She was yes- terday committed hy Judge Mansfield to answer a charge of swindling. ‘The steamship City of Boston, Captain Roskell, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river at one P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Queenstown and Liverpool, The European mails will close at the Post Oftice at twelve M. on the 26th inst. The steamship Louisiana, Captain Forbes, of the Nationa! line, will sail from pier 47 North river at one o'clock on Saturday, 26th tust., for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The Anchor line steamship Britannia, Captain Laird, will sail at twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday), from pier No. 20 North river, for Glasgow, touching at Londonderry to land passengers, &c. The steamship Yazoo, Captain Hodges, of the Mer- chants’ line, will leave pier No, 12 North river, at three P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon, for New Orleans direct. The Cromwell line steamship Mariposa, Captain Kemble, will sail at three P.M. to-morrow, from pier No. 9 North river, for New Orleans, The Black Star Independent line sveamship Mont- gomery will leave pier 13 North river, at three P, M. on Saturday, September 26, for Savannah, Ga, ‘The steamship Gulf City, Captain Stewart, of C. IH. on the Spanish frontier, French otticers arrest refu- gees from Spain who cross the border, The Italian “rising” in Sicily aud Calabria ts de- nied from Paris, “4 Minister Johnson delivered a second speech in Leeds on the friendly relations existing between the United States and England. Consois 9134 a 944, money. Five-twe: 73 in London and 75% in Frankfort. Cotton dull, with midaling uplands at 10 pence. Breadstuis and provisions dull. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Surratt trial is ended at lust, and the accused set atliberty, Yesterday Surratt’s counsel pleaded in bar of judgment the act of Congress of 1790, statute of limitation, claiming that the indictment against the prisoner youd in consequence of not having deen found within two years from ihe time of the commission of the alleged offence. This plea was sustained by the court, and Judge Wylie ordered Surratt’s discharge. The District Attorney entered an appeal from the decision of the Court, and gave notice that he would prepare another indictment to meet the views of the Court and present it to the next Grand Jury. [t 1s believed, however, that no further steps will be taken in this case, m view of the great expense to which the government has been put in Surratt’s arrest and former trials. General Sully has administered severe chastise- ment to the Colorado Indians. He chased them south across the Texas border, whipping them badly in several encounters, kUling and wounding seventy of their number, The scout who left Colonel Forsyth's camp on the 19th arrived at Fort Wallace yesterday. He says the Colonel has plenty of ammunition, but the rations are exhausted and the command have to subsist on horse and mule meat, Twenty-five Indians are known to have been killed, and the redskins are eyi- dently sick of their bargain, as they hesitated to renew the attack. A writ of habeas corpus has been granted by Chie! Justice Draper, of Toronto, directing Frank Reno and Charles Anderson, the Indiana expres#s rob- bers, now confined at the jail at Windsor, Canada, to be brought before him. The discharge of the prisoners is sought on the ground that the charge (shooting with intent to kill) under which they are to be delivered up to the United States authorities does not come under the terms of the extradition treaty. Secretary McCulloch has reiused to commission Cojone! Goodlove, whose appointment as Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the State of Kentucky he ratified a few days since. The Secretary has con- cluded to wait until the conclusion of the investiga. tion now going on in this city before Commissioner Guttman before he commissions any more of Mr. Kollins’ appointees. Solicitor Binckley’s friends assert that he has se- | cured most important evidence in this otty, which will conclusively establish the complicity of Rollins and Harlan in the internal revenue frauds charged against them. The memorial adopted by the Alabama Legislature asking for federal troops to preserve order in Wat State alicges that there is little respect for the laws in Alabama, and that civil oMcers are prevented from discharging their duties by the peo- ple. ©» Wednesday @ meeting of the citizens was held in “Montgomery, at which resolutions were passed denyloy \\e truth of the alleged facts set forth in the memoria! ‘eciaring that the people never were more Peaceably disposed than at present and endorsing the letter of General Lee in reply to that of General Rosecrans, The Legisiature is boldly denounced for ite partisan spirit, extravagance aud disregard for the public interest. Yesterday two sisters, Mrs. Healey and Mrs. Sulli- van, of Waterford, Mass., in at pting to get upon Mallory & Co's, line, will sail from pier 20 Fast river to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon for Galvos- ton, Texas. ‘The stock market was on the whoie firm yesterday, Governiment securities closed strong. Gold closed strong at 14174 a 142, Prominent Arrivals. Senator 8. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, and Colonel P. Hannay, of Washington, are at the Mt. 1olas Ifotel. General L. P. Graham, of the United States Army, is at the New York Hotel. Congressman Thomas E. Stewart, of New York, is at the St. Denis Hotel, Mrs. ex-President Tyler, M Jules Renard, of Paris; Mr. Binekley and Congressman Burt Van florn, of New York, are at the Astor House, Attorney General Evarts is in the city. Mr. Coifax is still in this city, and has visited the rooms of the National Committee at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ile will leave for home on the morn- ing train to-day. ‘The Indges of the Court of Appeaia have a consul- tation room at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Revolution in Spain and ‘its Possible Consequences, Spain is evidently up. The rising, which as first described might have been a mere émeute, proves, as now more completely chronicled, a movement vital and vigorous with the impulse of the whole national will, The people are in it with unmistakable purpose, and thus it cannot stop short with the accomplishment of any mere Ministerial game, with the putting of one man instead of another in charge of the government machinery, nor yet with any such royal fiction as an abdication that would permit Isabella to hold all the power of the’ crown while she relinquished merely the name of Queen. It has been a common feature of Spanish politics that the Ministerial adven- turers who were out played at revolution with those who were in; and by this means change has often been brought abont, and the an- nouncement of a change in the Ministry coming #0 patly with the early accounts of the disturb- ance and appearing so prominently as an important event in the story cast some sus- picion that this movement also was only another of those games. It appears now that the decree for the change of Ministry was issued in the desperate hope of | quieting the disturbance by indicating the | Queen's readiness to accept the national idea | Gf it could be compressed into the shape of a | new Ministry—a fact that indicates how en- tirely ignorant she was of the state of the coun- | try and the minds of the people. The Queen | talks ofa change of names—some new name for the President of the Ministry, a new name to appear on the royal decrees—and the nation talks of such changes in institutions as go to the very foundation of the political fabric, using the phrases ‘‘constituent assembly” and “‘aniversal suffrage” and the ‘expulsion of the Bourbons.” When the difference between sovereign and people is so wide the two can never come together and must fight for the su- premacy. In such cases the only question is, can the people get a start against organized @ railroad train while in motion, fel) upon the track, the cars passing over them, crushing the legs of one and the feet and arin of the otier. The jnjuries of both are fatal. THE CITY. The Internal Revenue investigation was resumed yesterday before Commissioner Guttman in the | United States Circuit Court room. The witness J. b. McHenry was further examined and went into the details of the transactions between S. N. Pike and Deputy Commissioner Harland, in which witness swears he saw acheck fora large amount handed by Pike to Harland, McHenry also testified to having feen Charles Loeb, @ distiller, of this city, fold up @ | power? This they already have in Spain, and | it seems hardly possible to doubt that the throne must go down. And what then? The republic. Spain has | monarchy with the Bourbon name and all abuse and tyranny in government with mon- archy that nothing but a republic will quiet her, She will scarcely believe that she has completely driven the Bourbon out while there remains @ vestige of the machinery used by France, Italy and Spain as if this Bourbon family had beon permitted to flourish as an instrument to rid the European world of mon- archy by showing the nations to what extremi- ties of abuse that form of government might be carried by selfish voluptuaries, That family has amply fulfilled its destiny in Spain, and once it is driven out the republic is inevitably the next idea; for this thing’ has been fer- menting forty years, and in the meantime Spain, crushed by the potentates and the Church, has seen sluggish Italy arise and nearly conquer that freedom of which both nations were de- prived in 1822 by the power of the Holy Alli- ance. Spain is eager once more to try her career in that struggle, and the time is ready. With Spain thus winning a real freedom Italy will be aroused again; for although Italy won enough to make the Spaniards contrast their condition bitterly with hers, she did not win all that either nation hoped for. She ex- changed a domination that she hated alto- gether for one that she hated only half as much. She got rid of the Pope and his Bourbons only to fall into the hands of Victor Emanuel, with France behind. France is now not so evidently behind that royal captain of cavalry, and the advantage to Italy of the change she made is that she got a master whom she can send adrift whenever she pleases instead of one whose hold for ages was so desperate that it seemed like the grip of death. Every step, therefore, that Spain takes towards a republic will stimulate Italy to arise and finish what circumstances compelled her to leave half done, and the year may close on an Italian and a Spanish republic: Can France be kept quiet with such a storm raging in the neighboring countries? It has been held by many flatterers of the French people, and the present Emperor among them, that it is one of the peculiar glories of their character to feel, above all others, the move- ment of ideas—the intellectual character of the age in which they live. Whither will this peculiarity lead, at the present juncture, the people whose first revolution was in great measure a consequence of sympathy with oc- currences on this side the Atlantic, and who have since abandoned an Emperor who had betrayed their cause and driven out two kings? Such a people, proud, brave, sensitive and without perception of consequences, can never quietly see Spain and Italy attain that freedom for which they themselves fought nearly seventy years ago and which they have not yet secured. France may revolt, and quite probably will, and if there be no abso- late revolt the nation will assume such an atti- tude that the Emperor will be content to see the worthless dynasties, his neighbors, fight out their own causes with the people and keep his troops at home. Even England, boasting her own freedom, will not be able to play her traditional part of putting a heel on the free- dom of others. The days of Pitt and his policy are passed, and the people have now in England a real power to prevent the govern- ment oppressing the world at their expense. It is quite possible that there may be still such vitality in the reds of Germany that Prussia will be compelled to look on only, And thus Russia will be the one great force with free hands, and it is hardly possible that the North- ern giant, finding such an opportunity, will fail to stride down and take possession of Con- stantinople, the ‘treaty Powers” to the con- trary notwithstanding. Monetary and Commercial Prospects. The most notable feature of financial affairs just now is the active demand for our national securities at advancing prices, both at home and abroad. Five-twenties have risen one per cent in London and Frankfort within the last three days, and from the growing investment inquiry for them in Europe it is fair to suppose that they will continye steadily in the ascend- ant. The home demand is also increasing, and prices on this side of the Atlantic bid fair to advance more rapidly than on the other. There is no more profitable employment to be found for the idle capital of the nation than is afforded by these bonds, and it is a good sign that confidence in them/is increasing, and that capitalists are beginning to appreciate the fact that they are the cheapest as well as the safest securities in the country, There is no pros- pect of Congress ever legislating upon the vexed question as to whether they are redeem- able in gold or greenbacks, so that it is not likely to be settled until the resumption of specie payments, five or ten years hence, far- nishes @ practical solution satisfactory to all concerned. But because United States stocks are in the ascendant it does not follow that gold should decline in the same ratio, the two being to a grent extent entirely independent of each other. Gold has declined rapidly this week because the speculators, who seek to control it, are operating for a fall with the view of buying at the decline preparatory to an upward movement; and thus the market is kept in a see-saw state, and values of all kinds, but par- ticularly those of imported products, are con- stantly disturbed by the operation, The inevitable consequence of the present artificial depression will be an equally sharp upward reaction, and all these fluctuations are mis- chievous and damaging to the public credit a8 well as to the interests of the people at large. | Money continues unprecedentedly abundant, | loans being made at three and four per cent, and the indications are against monetary stringency at any time this year, although a six per cent market is likely to be expe- rienced before long. The bull cliques on the Stock Exchange are availing themeelves of this condition of affairs to further inflate prices; but the public should take warning in time and avoid the speculative railway shares, as they are neither more nor less than pitfalls for the unwary and may break down at any time. The general trade of the country is good and moderately active for the season, al- though a disposition is shown on all sides to avoid overtrading. There is literally no specu- lative movement in trade, and the large foreign balances which have been allowed to accumulate here in consequence of the glut of capital in Europe are reserved solely for come #0 thoroughly to associate the idea of | employment in Wall street loans, and it is | partly owing to this accumulation that the rates of foreign exchange are at their present rather low point. All things considered, we have a more promising future before us than the political condition of the country would have justified us in anticipating afew months Jarge roll of greenbacks at Widard’s Hotel in Wash. | that atrocious family to oppress the Syenish | ago. people, It would seem in the history of | ‘The {dian Wer—A Disastrous Svetom. Our latest .24¥8 from the Piains is but » con- firmation of the o; ions we have many times expressed—that the policy pursued by the Interior Department in its deslings with the Indians is all wrong, in fact, if not a part of & machinery utterly corrupt, is only to be ex- cused by the plea of supreme incompetency. What is this news? It is not probably very accurate, coming as it does from Fort Wal- lace, with which there is no direct connection by railroad or telegraph; but it is sufficiently distinct to inform us that a party of fifty United States soldiers were beset by seven hundred Indians, that nearly all their officers were either killed or wounded, and that at latest accounts they were hemmed in by the savages, the wounded and dying and unhurt of the command alike subsisting upon the flesh of their horses. This occurred at Dry Fork, on the Republican river, near its head waters and ninety miles away from the camp at Fort Wallace. Colonel Forsyth, a member of Gen- eral Sheridan’s staff, was on a scout with this small band of fifty men, which we need not say was wholly inadequate for the service, as the result proved. Without going into the de- tails of the fight here, it is only necessary to say that the system of dealing with the Indians on the part of the Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Browning, and of President Johnson, who, instead of wasting his time on petly political and personal squabbles, ought to see that this branch of the government is properly con- ducted, is most scandalous. Let us take, for example, the fact that the Indians are supplied by the government with arms and ammunition to be used against our own troops, and fur- nished with means of subsistence which in many cases are better in quality and larger in quantity than the United States soldiers receive who are expected to contend against them. What can we hope from a conflict between seven hundred Indians, supplicd by govern- ment with Enfield rifles and abundance of am- munition, and fifty soldiers not better supplied ? If we arm our enemy to combat ourselves, what else can we hope for but defeat and butchery? In this last fight the army has lost a brave young officer, Lieutenant Beecher, a nephew of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, a gal- lant soldier, who has won a reputation as one of the foremost and most efficient scouts on the Plains. Colonel Forsyth, another active offi- cer, is also reported as dangerously, perhaps mortally, wounded. It is not uncharitable to say that President Johnson and Secretary Browning are respon- sible for all the,blood shed in these unneces- sary conflicts. The widows and the orphans of our murdered soldiers must hold them ac- countable for the cause of their sorrows. The Interior Department, as General Sherman re- cently said, is a constant check upon the oper- ations of the military. If a commanding officer interferes to arrest the Indian attacks upon settlements or trains he is rebuked. According to red tape rule he must only punish the perpetrators after the crime is com- mitted. This is absurd, and the result of such a policy is manifested by the late disastrous outrage. ‘I am doing all Ican,” says General Sherman, ‘‘with my little army, but to suppose that I can do all that js expected of me, hampered as I am by the routine of the Department of the Interior, is asking too much.” We do not know what the exact force on the Plains under Sherman's control is, but we do know that the number of men under General Sherman's particular command, where many of the late disturbances have occurred, cover- ing a distance from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Wallace and Fort Dodge, including Forts Riley, Harker, Hays, Larned and Zarah, was recently not more than nine hundred. This stretch of country is occupied at intervals by probably thirty thousand roving Indians, friendly perhaps to-day, hostile to-morrow, according as they are well or ill treated by the agents of the government. We need not say that the military force allotted for service on the Plains is wholly inadequate to keep these uncivilized bands in order when they become exasperated, as we are afraid they do become too often by the deliberate design of white traders and Indian agents. If the Indians are to be governed by force then there should be an army kept on the Plains sufficiently large to control them. It will not do to have our troops cut off in detail by com- panies, hemmed in, starved out and annihi- lated by an overwhelming force of savages armed by our own government with weapons to be used against our own troops. The whole system is disastrous and disgraceful. If the Interior Department cannot do better with the Indian question than make profitable places for its agents and needlessly shed the blood of our brave officers and soldiers in a hopeless effort to subdue the hostile tribes, the manage- ment of this business should be taken out of its hands, If the Secretary of the Interior does not comprehend by this time from all the facts at his command where the source of the evil lies Re is not fit for his position. If Presi- dent Johnson continues to permit an important department of his government to neglect one of its most solemn duties he deserves the opprobrium of his countrymen, and he will assuredly receive it. Bad Adyice from Mr. Pendleton. A letter has appeared in the newspapers from Mr. George H. Pendleton to a friend in Texas, in which he says :—‘‘About your being allowed to vote, be not alarmed; we shall see that Texas is represented. Vote by all means,” Now it strikes us that this is bad advice from Mr. Pendleton. At the late long session of Congress a law was passed which substantially provides that no rebel State not recognized by Congress as duly restored to the fellowship of the Union shall participate in this Presidential election. Virginia, Missis- sippi and Texas have not been and will not be recognized by Congress this side the Presi- dential election, The law, therefore, will shut them off. Should an election be tried in Texas according to the advice of Mr. Pendle- ton it will be love's labor: lost; for the very Congress which passed this law on the subject will be the judge and jury in the counting of the electoral votes of the several States for President and Vice President. What, then, does Mr. Pendleton mean when he says we “‘shall see that Texas is repre- sented?” Should Congress cast out the vote of Texas submitted on this pledge, how does Mr. Pendleton propose to ‘‘see that Texas is represented?” His letter is dated August 21, and from Bangor, in Maine, but that waa NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SHPTEMBER, 25, 1868.-TRIPLE SHEET. several weeks before the Maine election. He thought, perhaps, at ths time that there was a good prospect for SeymoNr, and that if the votes of the unreconstructed 5,stes would elect him it would be well to have them ay. But what then? Mr, Pendleton must have ™eant that the refusal of Congress to count these votes wonid bring President Johnson, °8 Commander-in-Chief of the army, down upon the two houses in the réle of Cromwell. If this letter, then, means anything, it means the possible contingency for another civil war. We guess, however, that the votes of the Southern States, if all counted against Grant, will not be enough to upset his election, and that accordingly the vote of Texas will practi- cally amount to nothing, though Mr. Pendleton may see that she is represented. Our Piers and Wharvee—The Street Com- missioner and the Citizens’ Association, We publish in to-day’s Heraup a long com- munication from Street Commissioner George W. McLean, in which that officer meets and satisfactorily disposes of twenty-one of the charges recently made against his department of the city government in a letter signed by Peter Cooper and purporting to come from the Citizens’ Association. The Street Commis- sioner lays before the public a mass of evi- dence which seems effectually to clear his skirts of the offences alleged against him by the venerable reformer; but not contented with this he carries the war into Africa, and promises some rich and racy developments in regard to the manner in which this so-called Citizens’ Association is managed and the char- acter of those who run the machine. Peter Cooper himself he regards as a highly respect- able, innocent and confiding old gentleman, whose infirmity is that he is too ready to sign documents foisted upon him by designing parties, who, under the guise of reformers, use him and his name for their own purposes. We have no doubt that the disclosures promised by Street Commissioner McLean will be as in- teresting and as spicy as the recent develop- ments in Water street, and as he hints ata Vincent Crummles of the Citizens’ Association who seems to have a history, he had better let the curtain rise at once on the manager and allow us to discover whether there is in that famous company a real rival to Johnny Allen in his great part of ‘the Wickedest Man in New York.” It will no doubt be an interesting fight all round. So far as the piers and wharves of the city are concerned it is very evident that the pica- yune reformers of the Citizens’ Association are incompetent to grasp the importance of the subject with which they are mgddling. We want no tinkering and patching of our docks at all, and the true economy is to adopt the policy which the agents and lobbyists of the Association defeated last winter. Let the city take into its possession all the piers and wharves along our whole water front, rebuild them of stone and establish a system of dock- age commensurate with the enormous com- merce which in'a few years must flow through our port. At present all the Street Commis- sioner or any of the city authorities can do is to repair the rotten wooden structures as well as they can, and the general testimony is that under the existing management this is done better than for many years past. The proof of this is to be found in the fact that the rents are collected with greater regularity than they have been for the past eight years and that a decent revenue is at last received from this source. But our taxpayers should insist that a fund of a hundred million dollars, if neces- sary, shall be raised to give us handsome granite docks. This is the sort of reform we need, and Peter Cooper and his associates will do more good by advocating its adoption than by frittering away their time in picayune at- tempts to discover whether Tom, Dick or Harry has managed to make a few dollars too much out of a city job. Mexican Affairs. Again we have news of a fresh rising against the government of Mexico. This time the famous Indian chieftain Lozada is on the rebel warpath. He has, it is said, made large purchases of Colt's best firearms in San Fran- cisco, has laid in a great quantity of provisions and grain and has gathered all his armed fol- lowers of the west coast at Tepic, in the State of Jalisco. General Escobedo, who went back but recently to his telegraphic under- taking at San Luis Potosi, is again ordered to take the field. But he will wait until the rains and fevers that are so abundant in the tierra Caliente have ceased, as both would prove most dangerous allies of General Lozada. The report that General Marquez, of imperial- ist fame, has gone to join the Indian leader will probably turn out to be unfounded. There is no doubt, however, that the bad feeling of the people in Jalisco, caused by the treatment of Governor Cuervo in Congress, will greatly aid the rebels and make the approaching cam- paign more disastrous to the national arms than either the Yucatan, Puebla or Querétaro insurrection did. The province of Lower California and the States of Sonora and Sinaloa are also much embittered against the government, and the people begin to envy the prosperity of the Upper Californians, Hence annexation has become highly popular. Internat Revenve Fravvs—Bixck.ey on Hanv.—Mr. Binckley, the Treasury Solicitor, is on hand and has commenced his work of in- vestigation into the internal revenue frauds in this city. It is reported, too, that Attorney General Evarts came on from Washington im- mediately after having had an interview with the President, for the purpose, it is supposed, of aiding the investigation. All this looks like earnest work. We may expect, therefore, some extraordinary developments within a day or two; for there is undoubtedly an enor- mons amount of rascality to probe and expose, Mr. Binckley is on the right track, and now that his back is up, from the scurvy treatment he received at the hands of the whiskey rings and officials here, we hope he will spare none of them and make a clean job of the business he is engaged in. Geygrat Mgapge Bouxp ror GgoretA.— ‘The administration, it appears, has resolved to send General Meade back again to Georgia to keep the peace, Under the circumstances this alternative is, perhaps, the best that could be adopted in behalf of law and order. We fear, too, that in Georgia and other Southern States General Meade and his co-operating generals will find sbundant employment fill after the Presideg/ial election, , — GPAs The Women as a Political Rioment. For come timo past political society, pathic meetings and the plans of political pipelayers have been greatly disturbed by the attempted introduction of the female element into Politics, Women knock at the gates of political wig- wams and demand admission in the name ef the sex. They claim little rights for crine- line and none at all inthe name of the Grociaa bend. It is the right of euffrage they want, and the right to scold every one according te the “patriotic” inspiration of their temper. Some of them are married and have changed their habiliments—in a metaphorical sense, of course—for those of the other sex. Others are unmarried, but are patriotically inspired te get husbands, although perhaps they are not going exactly in the right way to accomplish their ends by attending political meetings and by abandoning the care of their kitchen utea- sils and the darning of their brothers’ stockings to make speeches at conventions and edit newspapers, The idea of this class concern- ing what they call the sphere of woman appears to be a good deal mixed up. If we were disposed to be unkind and heap coals of fire upon the heads of those ladies we might recall the picture of Martha Washington with her distaff, a comely and honored’ matron at the head of her household; of the angelic Quakeress, Elizabeth Fry, carrying to the pri- son and the hospital the true balm of woman's charity and devotion; to Florence Nightin- gale in her camp and battle field pilgrimages; to the thousands of womes whose voices are only heard by the sick bed and in the garrets of: the poor, whom we call, appropriately enough, ‘‘Sisters” of Mercy and Charity; for if they cannot claim relationship with these attributes who can? None of these felt it neces- sary to demand the right of making speeches at conventions or joining in the queue at the polls on election day. Think of Martha Washington, or Mrs. Fry, or a Sister of Charity, or any one of the thousands of the sex, the wise and modest guardians of our households, maidens, wives and mothers, pre- senting themselves as recruits in the grand army of voters on election morning! It is astonishing that the class of women whe aspire to political influence should find any favor with intelligent people or respectable news- papers. Théy are really becoming--and we are sorry to be obliged to say so—as great a nuisan e as the wicked men of Water street. They force themselves into notoriety more po- litely, of, course, but if they persist in their present designs to make public spectacles of themselves they must be regarded as a humbug which deserves to reprobated and set aside. The strong-minded women are about to hold a national convention for the assertion of their “tights.” We need not say that such a gath- ering will become the subject of ridicule to all sensible people, who, unlike somo of the news- papers, are not disposed to encourage these poor women in neglecting the duties which properly belong to their families, their sex and their station, with the vague hope of obtaining a notoriety which can only prove, mischievous to themselves and to society. The Reign of Confusion In the Sonch. The whole South is ina state of confasion, excitement and alarm. There is distrust, doubt and uncertainty everywhere. One State cannot trust another, and the feeling of dis- quietude has spread to local communities and even to domestic neighborhoods, The alarm- ing frequency of unspeakable crimes, the lax administration, or father the non-administra- tion, of any law except that of Judge Lynch, the unprotected condition of remote districts, the savage nature and open threats of the race just liberated from bondage, affright the timid and abash the courageous. But above and beyond the black clouds that now enshroud the South there is a bow of promise which be- tokens a bright and happy future. The truth is, the reconstruction policy of Congress in the South, under which all these evils have arisen, has failed. The recon- struction laws are fast becoming, if they are not almost already, things of the past—null, void and inoperative—dead letters, politically and morally. The radicals relied upon the negro vote to carry out their policy, and now they feel that they are fast losing their grip upon Sambo. The ambitious colored Demos- theneses are disappointed. They boil with in- dignation when they reflect upon the treatment of their fellows by the radicals in the Georgia Legislature—their ignominious expulsion therefrom—whereas not a single Northern adventurer would have found a seat there- in had it not been for the black vote. They have been promised houses and plaa- tations and eminent political position, and have been deceived and befooled. They have been formed .into secret leagues and armed bands under the delusion that such organizations were mneressary to enable them to preserve their freedom against the injustice and encroachments of their former masters. But they are }ecoming awakened to the motives of their vrhite radical leaders in forming them into tletia bodies. These white radicals, as an intelligent South- ern contemporary observes, wanted a ‘‘mcans of binding the negroes together:, of giving the political league power for attack and aggres- sion and of protecting themselves, if neces- sary, against the people whom they had out- raged and wronged.” But, adds the same au- thority, “it remains to be seen whether they will be able to so direct the birze machine that it will always move or be still at their bidding. There is danger that the whi‘e radicals may be hoisted with their own petard. Their toola will sooner or later learn that the justice of the Southerner is safer than the partiality of the needy adventurer. They already know that they have neither land nor money nor office to expect from their white leaders. They are aware that their armed organizations are in appearance a gigantic power, And they may ere long be tempted to ‘take up arms to secure their share of the spoils of war, their share of pomp and state, their share of profit- able plunder. Every day lessens the danger of a serious collision between the negro and the Southern whites; each day increases the hazard that the poor negro worm may turn upon and wound the miserable knaves who now tread him in tie dust.” Here then, we see the bow of promise of which we have spoken. The reconstruction laws of Congress having failed to preserva order and protect persoas and property in (he en ns