The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HE RALD 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. me XXNITL. AM SEMENTs TI HIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broant, QUFEN OF SooTs tinee MARY Broadway Events H iN HAND. NIBLO'S GARDEN, —BATEMAN'S OPERA Bourek—Baxne BLEUE. ei at WALLACK'’S THEATRE, Broadway and Ish strecto BIMON Bernacy—DEARER THAN Lire. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Faim PLAY -JACK 0 ne Hear. NEW YORK THEA’ Broadway. Gant NIGHTS OF Foun Puay. Matinee at 2. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broatway. -(umere Dumery, wrrn New Fraruues, Matinee at Lig. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Grpxurprr Fosrem Building, 14th + OPI HOUSE, Ta! BRYANTS' OPERA RETIA BORGIA. street, -EtiiOvian Mine ?RELSY, & D Rroadway.—ETa10- REL 40.-—-Banock Bio. PHAN SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.--Eruto- Pian BNTALCAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOLNG, Ke. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUS pomre VooaLiam, NEGHO MINSTRELSY, TAVATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.--Tur Great Ort GtNAL Linc veo AND VAUDEVILLE Comvany, Matinee, M AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and woop's MU won and evening Performance. Bromaway. Tay CRLERRATED pODWé BiGnor B LL, 808 Broadway. aliuve at 2 WS MUSIC HALL, 38d Mobvov's HipeRNto CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.TuKo. Tuomas’ PortLat GARDEN ConcxRr. THR SIAMESE TWINS—At Houston sireet. No. 66 Broadway, near MR B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— &@ Fiasn oy Liou Tsine. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—HooLer's MIMGTRELS—MASSA-NIBLLO, THE BLACK Fornsr, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SormNon AND Ant, urday, September 26, 1S6S. SHEET Now York, THE NawWs. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated ¢s- terday evenmg, September 25. The Spanish revolutionista are described as par. ticulariy strong on the seaboard, holding many fort fied porta and fine commercial stationa, Two addi- tional regiments are said to have revolted against the Crown, Royal reports say that the rebels were driven from Santander and took refuge on the ships: fn the harbor. Seville was to be attucked by the Toyalista. ‘rhe London journals appear to doubt Minister Johnson's authority for his recent friendly assur- ‘ances. Russia is about to revise and alter her aya tem of State policy. Changes had been made in the Italian Cabinet. France claiins treaty interests in Nicaragua coequal with those of the U: id States. Consols 042; for money. Five-twenties io Lon- ou and 757% in Frankfort. Cotton flat, with middling uplands at 9% pene ‘Breadstui™ dull. Provisions and produce without marked change, MISCELLANEOUS. Gnenerai Sheridan telegraphs further particulars of the fight between Colonel Forsy*h’s little com- Mand and @ body of several hundred Indians iu Kansas. The Colonel has plenty of ammunition and Tule and horse meat, and but for bis wounded would cut his way through the enemy und return to Fort Hays. Lieutenant Beecher is dead and Dr, ‘Moore mortally wounded. The whole loss is two Killed and eighteeh wounded. Thirty-five Indiaos Dave been killed and a& many woun: Yesterday Silas aud Charlies T. James, cousins, suffered bie extreme penalty of the law at Wor- ceater, Mass. for the murder of Joseph G. Clark, of Boston, about six months since, The execution took place within the chapel of the prison, and was witnesyed by about fifty persons. The prisoners g@acended the scaffold with a firme, steady step and sad but composed look. Charles Jumes made an address to those present, arguing against capital punishment, but neither acknowledsing nor denying dys quit. A large republican meeting was lield at Kilgore, Ohio, yesterday, Which was addressed by Edwin M. Stanton. ‘The ex-Secretary reviewed the late war, its origin, progress and results, and adve dd the election of Grant and Colfax as the only means by which permanent peace could be restored to the country, justice done to all ¢: t the North as weil aa the South and national prosperity insured in | the fature, The report of Major Howard, Sub-Assistant Com- missioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau, upon the Camilla riots throws the blame upon the whites, aud gays the adair was sitaply a massacre. The mob pursued the fugitives ten miles beyond Ca- milla, shooting and killing them. The atidavite of | @ number of citizens, however, show that the negroes entered the town armed, and provoked, if | they did not realiy begin, the affray. | The correspondence of the Agricultural Bureau at | Washington indicates a large aggregate increase tn } the present wheat crop over that of last year. The general averaye is less per acre, but the greater num- ber of acres cultivated mukes total yield meh larger. Fight States report a dec sed produet and twenty-four give an increase. ‘The crop of Indian corn # generally reported in fue fon, and | most of it is 40 far matured as to be beyond danger from frost. A considerable reduction in number seen and weight of hogs a8 compared with the average of | former yoars is reported, expecially in the Soutvern States, Yesterday morning the Brainard House, at Dela. ware Water Gap, Pa., was robbed. ‘The proprietor, Thomas Broadbead, and his brother, Theodare Broadhead, started in pursuit of the robbers, aad coming up with them a short distance from the vil- | lage, undertook to arrest them. Ove of the burgiars | ception of circumstances than they have bad detween ‘he All Bngtand Kleven and the Canadian piuyers was not G@nighed and the game deolared a draw. The Ail England Slever.soored in the first innings ‘10 and the Canadians only 28. Yesterday # negro from Oaddo Parish was admit- ted into the Senate of Lousiana in the place of & white man who had heen elected over hus colored competitor, but was declared ineligible. Registration was opened in New Orleans yeater- day. Among the first acts of the registers was to refuse the registration of all foreigners naturalized by the Justice of the Fifth and Sixth District Courts since July last. ‘The Hanse Towns, Germany, having been merged in the North German Confederation, yesterday the acting Charge d’Aiaires called upon Seoreffry Sew- ard and delivered the formal notification of the with- drawal of the Hanseatic mission. ‘The Maine State Fair, which was advertised to commence on Tuesday next, has been postponed one week on account of the weather and bad condi- tion of the grounds, THE CITY. A fow minutes after two o'clock, yesterday after- noon, an Englishman named Balfour entered the banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Co., with a box containing $2,000 in gold, which he deposited upon a box near the door, While Mr. Balfour was inquiring for the officers of the bank a thief seized the box containing the goid and made off with it un- perceived, ‘The time of the National Labor Congress was yes- terday chiefly devoted to the subject of strikes and the discussion of the Mnancial question, The Con- gress appears to be in favor of greenbacks and plenty of them, A suit has been instituted in the United States Dis- trict Court for the Southern District of New York by the Messrs. Cushing, of Newburyport, Mass,, against Mr. John Laird, Jr., of Birkenhead, England, for loss sustained by them by the burning of their ship So- nora in the Straits of Malacca, in December, 1853, by the Alabama, which the libeliants say was built and Atted out in direct violation of the laws of Great Britain by Mr. Laird. Attachment has been issued against some funds owned by Mr. Laird and sup- posed to be deposited in the United States Sub-Trea- sury in this city. ‘The case of the United States against Commissioner Rollins and others was on again yesterday in the United States Commissioner's Court. The witness McHenry, on the stand on the previous day, was fur- ther cross-examined, but nothing to add to the ma- terial bearing of his testimony yesterday was elicited, Alexander Gropp, whose testimony was considered very Important, was briefly examined, his examina- tion being cut short by the intervention of a techni- cal objection. Mr. Anderson was the next witness, whose principal evidence related to the seizure of & distillery in Brooklyn and to show that one of the defendants in the case had released the distillery in question on the payment of a consideration. The examination on this point was objected to, but after long discussion allowed, The examination was not proceeded with and the Court adjourned till Monday. The steamship Rapidan, Captain Cheeseman, will leave pier 36 North river to-day for New Orleans. ‘The steamship San Salvador, Captain Nickerson, will sail from pier No. 8 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, Ga. ‘The steamship Manhattan, Captain Woodhull, will leave pier No. 5 North river at three P. M. to-day for Charleston. ‘The stock market was on the whole strong yester- day. Government securities were dull. Gold closed at 1424 a 1425, with a strong upward tendency. Prominent Arrivals. General Kilpatrick and General Doubleday, of the United states Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor Law, of Cornell's University, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman F. EB. Woodbridge, of Vermont; Galusha A. Grow, of Pennysivania, and Bradley T. Johnson, of Richmond, Vu., are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Surgeon General J, K. Barnes and Lieutenant O'Neil, of the United States Navy, are at the Hoitinan House, Px-Mayor Enpia, of Ponghkeepate, is at House, John A. Griswold, of Troy, republican candidate for Governor; L. A. de Padua Fleury, Secretary of the Brazilian Legation at Washington, and Colonel J. MeL. Taylor, of the United States Army, are at the New York Hotel. Senator John Conness, of California, is the guest of General McDowell in this city. Seilor K. de Aguilar, of Spata, is at the St, Denis Not Jeneral Robert Anderson, of the Udited States Army, is at the Clarendon Hotel. the Astor The Presideatial Canyass and the Case for the Future. Two points develop themselves pretty clearly in the Presidential canvass—first, that Grant, as identified with the policy of sustain- ing the principles of the war, will carry the whole North and West and be elected Presi- dent to a certainty; next, that in view of this certainty the democratic leaders are fighting, not for Seymour, but for a result beyond this immediate canvass—for principles and political points that have relation to the future posses- sion of power in this country. Grant will carry the present contest almost without division in the North. Such is unmistakably the temper of the country. The distinction of record, of principles and of declared purpose betweerm him and his opponent are so definitely seen by | the people that they do not hesitate in the judgment even the which man they will war itself left men in less doubt what t ought todo, And it would seem as if the Southern leaders of the democracy saw that they must inevitably be beaten this time, even when they began in the Fourth of July Convention to take a hand once more in the grewt political game for supremacy in the nation, In that Convention they had a pecu- liar part to play. Looked at superticially they seem to have played it as badly as possible and to have lost through passion and blunder- ing; but if we sean their conduct more closely we shall see that they acted with a better per- take. Not credit for—that they acted on broad ideas, | which seem, indeed, to be the peculiar property | of Southern men in our political history, and | that, having determined what they would do, | they bore themselves with the same bold, open, resolute spirit in the political arena that formerly marked their career ina bloodier one Unquestionably the primary idea with the Democratic Convention was that the democ drew a revolver and shot Thomas adhead in the face and side, when he was seized by Theodore Broadhead, whom he shot through the body, killing bim instantly, The villains were arrested yoster- day afternoon and fully identified. every exertion on the part of the Sherif and a strong guard to prevent the populace from executing summary vengeance upon the murderers. The forthcoming statement of the public debt for the month of September, it is believed, will show an increase of $2,000,000. ‘This ix attributed to the heavy expenses of the War Wvepartient and surpris- ing diminution of internal revenue re Ota H. Horton, of Roxbury Ma family and left for parts unkHOW!. ‘aking with him Florence Cameron, a girl in bis eu poy. Previous to feaving he sold his house avd stock of goods and pocketed the proceeds, Gerritt Smith addressed a large repubiiova mee. ing at Kimura, N. Y., Taursday afternoon. @tanding the storm the wigwam in which (he meet. ipts. deserted his Notwith. ing was held, and which will hold 4,000 persons, was | filled to overflowing. He took Aecided grounds in favor of the election of Grant and Colfax, * The Canadian government has despatched aapecial nt to Labrador to inquire into the distress among tne inhabitants of that inclement country. Owing to the rain the cricket maich at Montreal required | racy could carry the country; but it must have | occurred to the clearer heads there present to j doubt such a possibility, How could they | | suppose that so soon after the war the country | could commit itself to a direct negation of all the principles involved in that great struggle ? The men of true political aagacity in that body saw that it was folly to hope to elect their can- | | didate in the first fight of a revived democ- | racy, but that the object of the Convention | should be to make up a case for the future, to prepare a canvass for the hould come after Grant, and that they should | busy themselves only in securing a standpoint | | tor that ultevior struggle. Hence the ener- getic assertion of their peculiar views by | Southera mea here and on their return to their homes, | gloried in having put a party before the coun- try on principles that must surely rule it through the next half century. While success with @ coudidate like Chase would have been NEW YORK fill President who | They had no fear to damage @ candi- | \ date in whom they had no hope, but they | of liitle present advantage to these men, it would have been ultimate ruin to their hopes, since it would have sacrificed the stronger points of their position; and though they had no thought to win with Seymour, defeat with him would leave them no worse than they were and would give them fair occasion to assert for their party the principle of positive hostility to the political record since the war of the party now in ‘power; for to the party making that assertion they felt that the people must come by and by. Under cover of Seymour, therefore, and the democratic deadheads of the North the saga- cious politicians of the South are waging the Presidential battle of 1872, and they make the people sympathizers with them in the struggle by taking as their point of attack the radical reconstruction of.the Southern States. Recon- struction was carried through in its present | shape not only without political wisdom and | without regard to the future safety of the party carrying it, but without conscience or even 4 decent regard to human nature, because it was | all done with one idea in view. Republicans | only sought to secure for their party the negro | vote, and, making their laws for that single | purpose, were indifferent to the fact that those | laws were collectively the greatest iniquity of the age. They defied the national sentiment of justice, thinking their object more important than all other things. Now the negro vote, in ZALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1868, ero whites are hostile to the syatem of arming the blacks with deadly weapons, drilling them in disciplined organizations for political uses and clothing them with the franchise. people of the North, he argues, would not aub- | mit to such @ condition of things, and why | should the white men of the South be de- nounced as traitors and rebels for resisting it? Willing as the Southern people are to submit | to insult and not appeal to force unless it be- comes necessary for the protection of life, pro- perty and family, they appealed to the Gov- ernor and the Legislature for relief, the result of which was a proclamation by Governor Bul- lock forbidding all armed demonstrations. Whether the Governcr was sincere or not this proclamation was law, and it appears that it was under its provisions the Sheriff and his posse-comitatus at Camilla .acted in their at- tempt to disband the armed negro mob led by three white radical politicians and officeseek- ers on the occasion of the recent bloody con- flict near that town, From all the facts which have lately come to light with regard to radi- cal rule in the Sonth we are constrained to be- lieve that the story of this Southern man is correct, and that it is the Southern people after all who willinevitably reconstruct themselves. Spain and the Revolutionary Elements of Europe. The situation in Spain at the present moment the natural course of events, falls to the other | side and will go with the general Southern | vote, because even the negro can see that it | will be suicidal to act on national issues | aguinst the interests of the community in which he lives; and the party that so tarnished | its record in the hope to secure that element | of power must stand responsible before the | nation for the offences involved in its efforts. These offences, when the people view them calmly and aside from all relation with the war, will give power to the party most per- sistently and absolutely in opposition to the | reconstruction policy, and hence the course of the Southern leaders. ‘The National Labor Congress. A congress of operatives of different trades and occupations has been in session in this city for several days past. It is somewhat re- markable that a convention representing such important interests, sitting in our midst, should have excited no larger share of public attention than it has. Closely examined it will be found that the proceedings of this Labor Congress possess a more vital interest and a more general importance than those of any convention, political or otherwise, that has assembled in this country for many years. The relations of labor and capital here have never been properly understood. For years there has been a struggle between the two interests, and both have suffered more or less in the encounter. In the deliberations of this Congress, however, we discover the existence of a spirit among the intelligent and influential of the representatives of labor at once broad, liberal, enlightened and philosophical. They display a loftier appreciation of the question than was evinced by the proceedings of the European Labor Congresses which have been lately held, particularly those in Germany. This American Labor Congress spurns the tricks and claptrap of demagogues who go about the country in the pay of political par- | ties arraying the laboring man against his employer, creating ill feeling, exciting jeal- ousies and prejudices and getting up strikes | which end in ruining the employers, starving the workingman and paralyzing business gen- | erally. Their principles discard all these yexa- tious and disturbing elements, In their plat- form and resolutions they take statesmanlike views of the whole subject of labor and its relations to capital, and while vigorously sustaining the claims of the former do not hesitate to accord proper con tion to the rights of the latter. They take a prescient view of the financial questions of the day, the connection of the national banking system with the burdens the work- ingman has to bear, the necessity of taxing the non-producing equally with the industrial classes in the support of the government and | lera- the payment of the public debt; favor the | taxation of government bonds, denounce land | dethronement of Charles the Tenth and the ap- naturally enough compels attention to the revo- lutionary elements now existing in Europe. Whether Spain shall or shall not be successful in her present struggle, whether, as the result of that struggle, she will settle down in the form of a republic or in the form of a well guarded constitutional monarchy, are undoubt- edly important questions ; but they are, after all, | only secondary to this other question: What is likely to be the effect of this movement on the rest of Europe? It is notorious that Spain for the last forty-five or fifty years has been the object of the solicitude of all the liberal centres of Europe. Nor is this much to be wondered at. Spain, while she suffered more from the great French revolution, has reaped | from it less benefit than any other nation on that Continent. From causes into which we cannot now enter Spain came out of the ordeal of those years of blood and sorrow which fol- lowed the revolutionary movement in France not only not in a better but in a worse and weaker state than she entered it. Blood, trea- sure, trade—all had been sacrificed to find her- self more hopelessly than ever under the heel of despotism.. That Spain was herself largely to blame for such a result no one can deny; but the fact remains as a warning to all future time. What Spain by a little more wisdom might have secured at the restoration of the kingdom in 1814 all her efforts, all her struggles, all her sacrifices have failed to secure for her since. 1830 came and went, leaving her no residue of benefit. It was the same with 1848, which made the people for a brief season triumphant over the greater part of Europe. Let us hope, now that Carlists and Christinos no longer divide the kingdom, that on this occasion n will have a better fate. ‘The history of modern Europe, if it ha’ read us any lesson, has certainly read us this one— that the liberal and revolutionary spirit is subject to periodic outbursts. Nor are these outburats local, but general, and as a rule almost simultaneous. Not to go too far back, it was so in 1789, The fall of the Bastile in Paris awoke responsive echoes in every capital in Europe, St. Petersburg and Constantinople alone excepted. Joy was scarcely less in London than in Paris, It was quite as great in Vienna and Berlin as in either. It is not too much to say that but for the excesses of the French revolutionists at that lime Europe might have been emancipated some eighty years ago. In spite of ail these excesses—and they ought never to be forgotten—ii was the sympothy of the peoples with that Jib- erty of which France was supposed to be the exponent that made the victories of the First Napoleon not only possible but easy. The same may be said, though with less em- phasis, of the revolution of 1880, Had the Sy | pointment of his successor been less adroitly monopolies, deprecate strikes, encourage co- operation between workingmen, pledge their support to the working women, advocate in- tellectual improvement as well as improve- | mentin the dwellings of the laborer, recom- mead setilement upon the public lands as a | remedy for insufficient work, demand the abolishment of convict labor, and that the gov- ernment shall give the working woman the seine wages it gives the workingman for the same service, declare that Congress has no consti- tutional power to charter emigrant companies to control the price of home labor, and finally advise the formation of‘a new political party | based upon the principles set forth in th plaitorm, We are glad to witness this ser movement on the part of the workingmen of the country, They have the power to liberate trade from many of the encumbrances that embarrass it, and they have wisely determined to use that power discreetly and prudently, vir le of the great industrial question might be adop- ted by our Solons at’ Washington and politi- cians generally with infinite benefit to the trade and business prosperity of the whole countey te Georgin Riot, loman—H. B. Uiil—has ter concerning the late riot at . Which bas the merit of being nd honest in its utterances. Ac- cording to his statement—and the writer seems fun on the £ writien 9 Camilla, very bold to speck of wha he knows--the white portion i | of the population bad been long aware that the Hegroes Were being armed and drilled for the double purpo: would appear, of opposing the democratic purty at the coming election and of ting disturbances which might war- rant the employment of military force upon the plea of keeping the peace, but really to control the elections. It is the especial interest of the democratic party, says Mr. Hill, to keep the peace, because it is the families and the pro- perty of the white democrats that would suffer most from the prevalence of violence and riot. If the negroes are to be occupied with politico- military organizations the crops would not be gathored in, and as it is democrats whd own the crops, they would be utterly impover- ished if they are not secured, * Phe writer honestly admite that the South- | over Europe might have | serious than the upri | litical fabrics burst forth simultaneously all | over the Continent. | but shook ‘o its foundation, | in Vienna and Berlin, f by the people | Thetr philosophical and etatesmaniike views | ‘02 Shown them by the people wa managed—in other words, had the. struggle assumed more gigantic proportions or been for any length of time protracted, the uprising all been scarcely less ing in 1789 and immedi- ately subsequent yea As it was the revolu- tionary impulse was felt far beyond the con- fines of France, It hastened the settlement of the reform question in England and encour. | aged the Poles to make another determined, but unfortunately fruitless, effort. It is scarcely necessary to remind our readers of that ‘year of revolutions,” 1318. The pent- | up fires beneath the crust of ihe social and po- Nota throne in Europe Everywhere the peoples were triumpbant, and if the monarch fled from Paris monarchs were on their knees it will redound to the lasting disgrace of the dynasties that the merey The | amefully requited, that the trast then reposed in them was heartlessly betrayed. Have we reached another of those revolu- } tionary epochs? Is this Spanich uprising but | the premonilor heaving all over the Continent? If it is so, what are the chances of the peoples? 1s the attempt agvin to prove abortive, or is it to be crowned No one ean say the populations of Europe are contented. No one can say that a general uprising is im- lt is not to be denied, th lasting success? however, the last few years in the South and in the centre of Enrope have let off a large amount of revolutionary steam. When governments have become reasonably responsive to the will of the people the probability of revolution is | considerably le: Although matters are not quite What they ought to be in Italy, in France, in Austria, in Prussia, the people have become couscious of their growing im- portance and power, Of late years they have gained something, and the tendency ia still in their favor. Considering all these | things, the chances are less than they would | have been some years ayo that this Spanish spark will set Europe ablaze. If, however, the conflagration should become general the chances are greater that the people will remain ( Dormanont masters of the situation. 10 a crisis ts which have taken place within | symptom of a general up- | —TRIPLE SHERT. like the present, where the slightest scoident may change the whole aspect of affairs, we do not forget that speculation is comparatively vain. Whatis, we know; what may be, we can only guess. r General Grant and the Bausiace: Interests of the Country—“Let Us Have Peace.” With the announcement of the ticket and platform of the Democratic National Conven- tion gold began to go up andour national secu- rities began to go down. The Vermont elec- tion checked this upward tendency of gold, and since the Maine election the Wall street gold gamblers, operating fora rise, have been reduced to a very narrow margin of incidental fluctuations. There was some degree of un- easiness among the holders of the five-twenties and the ten-forties, but it has ceased to exist. There were some misgivings among capitalists and merchants touching the safety of money investments, involving in their profits or re- payment the hazards of a revolution in our financial system, as one of the probable conse- quences of this year’s -political elections for ‘the next Presidency and the next Congress; but all such misgivings since the Maine elec- tion seem to have disappeared. Among all our financial and busirtess classes a sense of security appears to be felt in the future which can only be explained upon the basis of a pre- vailing confidence in General Grant's elec- tion. - But why this confidence in General Grant? it is because from his proposition for peace— ‘Let us have peace”—the people believe that with his election there will be peace. He does not contemplate any violent collision nor any embarrassing conflict with Congress; he has no idea of any attempt to upset the Southern reconstruction acts of Congress according to the policy of Johnson or the policy of Blair. On the contrary, from General Grant's letter of acceptance of the Chicago nomi- nation there is every reason to ex- pect that on the money question and the reconstruction question he will be content to wait a while before disturbing the existing order of things, leaving Congress, trade and the political troubles of the South fora time to contracted, a8 @ free expression of popular opinion, by their appearance i teresa as or near the polls. The volunteers oan vote, bet must not strut tothe bustings as dual voters in uniform. Tho publication of this order refloots great credit on the Disraeli Cabinet, as it proves that, although anxious for a retention of place and power, the Premier will not descend te mar a grand measure of enfranchisement er derogate from citizen duty to secure it. The example is worthy of imitation in Washington as furnishing a precedent for official reply to our hungry politicians who become daily more clamorous for the march of soldiers into the Southern States as the day of the Presidential election approaches. General Grant will, per- haps, take a note of it with respect to the many itinerant political generals who are juss now troubling the country, North and South. The Quarantine Lawe—A Reform Needed. It has frequently been suggested during the sessions of Congress that the control of the quarantine business belongs of right to the United States, and not to the States, and sev- eral attempts have been made to secure the passage of laws whieh would insure a uniform system throughout the country in this impor- tant branch of the government. This has been in a great measure owing to the objection- able character of the New York statutes in relation to quarantine as interpreted by the State authorities. Under the pretence of regulations necessary to the protection of the public health the broadest license has been taken by the State officers to compel the commerce of the port to pay tribute to the Quarantine Department in every conceivable direction. It has been maintained that the Health Officer of New York possesses the arbitrary power to hold any vessel arriving in the harbor, whether with or without a clean bill of health, subject to all the Quarantine rules and restrictions, and to entirely prohibit all communication between her and any other craft, save such as may be authorized by him or his deputies. Under this construction of the law the press has been debarred from col- the natural laws of gravitation. Nevertheless there is a powerful impression abroad that General Grant, from his well defined conserva- tive character and liberal opinions, will not countenance any further radical extravagances or excesses in money matters or in political matters, but will with a firm band hold the two houses to an honest interpretation of the Chicago platform and to a general line of policy which will give us peace. The ‘Tammany Convention, we say, under the acceptable banner of Chase, in satisfying all the conservative business classes and inter- ests that a change inthe government would bring no violent change in business affairs, could have carried the day even against Gene- ral Grant as the representative of the radi- cals. But with a degree of folly and stupidity which exceeds almost any foolish thing record- ed of the Bourbons, the jugglers of the Tam- many Convention contemptuously cast away the prize within their grasp. A powerful body of the conservative republicans stood ready to join the democracy under the banner of Chief Justice Chase, in opposition even to General Grant as the radical candidate, and for the purpose of putting an end to the corruptions, spoliations and usurpations of the radical party by putting them ont of power. But the Tam- many Convention would not have it so. They preferred, under a representative peace demo- crat during the war, to fight over again their disastrous campaign of 1864, on the platform that the war was a failure, and that ia laying down their arms, after a four years’ struggle against the constitution, the rebel States, as if nothing had happened but an election riot, were restored to all their rights in the Union on the same footing with the loyal States. Upon this issue the republicans are con- dueting the campaign, and we see that the Tammany ticket and platform, and the demo- cratic journals, leaders and stump orators, North and South, in their belligerent threat- enings, have furnished the necessary political capital for the election of General Grant. The democratic organization, with the odium revived against it as the peace party of the war, has placed itself under the additional stigina of the war party against the peace in proclaiming all the reconstruction acts of Congress growing out of the war ‘‘uncon- stitutional, revolutionary, null and void.” The Union party of the war, therefore, thus challenged again upon the issues of 1364 and 1866, have rallied and are rallying, as under Lincoln, around the banner of Grant. This fact being apparent on all sides, the conclusion is inevitable that Grant must be triumphantly elected. Our financial and business men see that such is the drift of the popular tide, and in the record and the character and conserva- tive ideas of General Grant they feel that un der him the interests of the people will be safe, that this Presidential election will be fol- lowed by nothing like a financial panic, nor | by political chaos, but by better times, as- anred prosperity and a substantial peace. Tlence there are no unusual excitements from day today in Wall street, and no appreher sions to disturb the business operations or | calculations of our bankers, capitalists, mer- chants, manufacturers or agricaltnral classes, The English Militury and the Elect! The Secretary at War of England has iss an order addressed to the Lords Lieutenant of counties forbidding the members of the citizen | volunteer military companies from taking part | as soldiers in any election for members of Par- liament. Sir John Pakington says :—“‘In view of the approaching general election, and of the | proceedings preparatory thereto, I think it right to remind you that volunteers in uniform should take no part in any political demonstra- | tion or party meeting, Lhave further to re- | quest that you will also inform them that they are not to assemble their corps for drill or any | other purpose between the issue of a writ and the termination of the election in any coun! or borongh in the neighborhood of their head- quarters.” Officers and men of the regu- | lar army of Great Britain have al- ways been diafranchised as voters when | on service, and the present oficial circular is issued in a spirit of broad and comprehensive | constitutionalism so as to bring the vast vol- unteer force now enrolled in the kingdom, | when appearing as military men, under the same rule, lest it might be said that the action of the uew reform bill waa impeded or | he lecting marine news, except in such manner as the Health Officer may please to direct, and the merchants of the city have been subjected to much inconvenience, annoyance and un- necessary expense. A ship arriving in the Lower Bay is stopped by the Quarantine authorities, and the owners and consignevs are made aware that she cannot go to hor dock or discharge her cargo until she receives the permit of the Health Officer. At the same time they are notified that the Quarantine lighters can be employed if desired, and while it is of course entirely a voluntary matter with them whether they will or will not engage these boats, they have to choose between the imposition of about thirty per cent additional lighterage and the delay which the Health Officer may otherwise occusion them in the dis- charge of their cargo. i This tax upon commerce is justified under the plausible plea of protection to the publie health. But it is very well known that this ery of danger from infection is raised for self- ish and sordid purposes, The men employed upon the Quarantine lighters and tugs scatter over New York, Brooklyn and Staten Island after their day's work is ended and pags to and fro on the crowded ferryboats immediately after their contact with Quarantine vessels. The ambulance sloop employed by the Health Officer to transfer the sick from vessels arriv- ing in the harbor to the hospital ship and to transport the dead to the place of interment was constantly, before her seizure for smug- gling, brought up to Washington Market during the sickly months to procure provisions for the lower Quarantine station. She has also frequently visited Brooklyn and the differ- ent landing stations on Staten Island, and hor hands have mixed unreservedly with the citi- zens at those places. The pretence of danger to the public health from communication with homebound vessels is therefore clearly traceable to mercenary motives, and the Quarantine laws are strained and per- verted for the selfish purposes of those engagod in their enforcement. These impositions upon commerce are likely to prove of serious injury to the port of New York unless speedily checked. If the State laws cannot be amended so as to clearly define the powers and duties of the Quarantine autho- rities Congress will have to take the matter in hand and pass general statutes regulatiag the whole business and placing it in charge of United States officers. This will probably be the best method of getting rid of the present difficulties. As now conducted the Quarantine regulations in the harbor of New York are simply an unnecessary burden upon commerce and wholly ineffectual as 4 means of protecting the public health. Americaus in Trouble tu Britain. Mr. Hiram Fuller, a oewspaper editor and American, appeared in the Court of Baok raptey, London, on the t2th tnat., to seek his discharge as an insolvent. Mr. Fuller sued in Jorma pauperis, asking to be released from the total of two bankrupt schedules, so that his creditors should have a chance of being paid at some future day by the profits of his literary labor, which could not accrue if he were kept sin prison, Mr. J. G. Harding, a detaining creditor, having a claim of five bundred and | eighty pounds sterling, could not be induced to | accede to this arrangement, so Mr. Fuller was remanded. On leaving the court the bank rupt, as reported in the London press, said “He had continued to stroggle for his eredit- ors, bat there was now no hope for them, as was hound hand and foot.” On the other side of the channel, in the historic Marshelsea, or debtors’ prison, of Dub- lin, we find citizen George Francis Train alse “bound hand and foot,” through the efforts of some stupid or envious persons, who allege that he owes them money, Mr. Train not being able to convince the Judge having charge of such affairs to the contrary. Minister Johnson, in the fulness of his philanthropy and comprehensiveness of ides of race brotherhood, has just stated that the difficulties existing hetween England and the United States are ‘few andunimportant.” Mr. Johnson will certainly correct himself whew he reflects that here are two free Americans— one an accomplished New York Colonel and fascinating advocate of women’s rights, the other @ candidate fap the Presidency ané promovant of the Pacjfic Rallroad—bound hand and foot in © Careiga prison and forced to wiih