The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXIII............ aveceeeees ++ No, 273 AM 'SSMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th sirect— 31MON BERNARD—DEARER THAN LIFE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Daxk Hous Br- vore DaY—Forest oF Bonpy. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Last Niants oF Fou. Pay. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrpty DowreryY, with NEW FEATURES. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tar New DeaMa or LiAuiue. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—BirrMan'’s OPERA BOUFFE—BARBE BLEUE. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth street.—ETMIOP(AN MINSTRELSY, 40., LOCRETIA Bonata. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—ETH10- PIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE, 40.—BARHER BLU. LS, 585 Broadway.—ETHio- SAN FRANCISCO MIN: nd, DANCING: Ae. DIAN ENTERTAUNMENTS, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comio VOCALIGM, NEG20 MINFTRELSY, Ac, 7 COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Ta® Great Ort Oe ARE Cam avo VAUDEVILE COMPANY. ‘WooOD's MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternvon and evening Performance. DOPWORTH HALL, 86 Broadway.—Tu® CELEBRATED S1GNOn BLITZ PIKE'S MUSIC HALL, avenue —McEvoy's HinE! d street, corner of Eighth ON. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—THEO. THOMAS’ POPULAR GARDEN Concert. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— Srenarp IL, HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoo.ry's MINSTRELS—MAGA-NIRLLO, OR THE BLACK Forks. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— 3O1ENCE AND At. T. ww York, Tuesday, September 29, 1868. THES NEWS. ° EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable ts dated at midnight yesterday, September 23 The Spanish revolution was extending rapidly in the tnterlor. The insurgents were in march on Madrid and the Queen’s forces kad been ordered from Santander for the protection of the capital. Saragosa revolted and General Jean Pe- wulla, Count of Cheste, was killed. Valladolid pronounced against the Queen, Carthagena was bombarded by the rebel squadron, and ne last ship of the Queen’s navy joined the insur. its. General Novalischez was in retreat before servano. Prim had gone to Valencia. The Paris ‘ournals report the situation as very “grave.” Spamards are officially forbidden to pass through France on their way to Spain. Count Wallenski, the eminent French statesman, ‘3dead. The Czar of Russia visited the King of Prussia at Potsdam, after which the King set out ‘or Baden, Consols 9444, money. Five-twenties 73 in London and 754s in Frankfort. Cotton upward, with middling upland at 10d. Ureadsiuds aud provisions without marked change. MISCELLANEOUS. By the arrival of the steamship Al afrom Ae- pinwail we Lave South American news and our pecial correspondence up to September 14. The Alaska brings some of the oicers and men of the steamer Waterce and two survivors of the storeship Fredonia, Addiional details of the terrible scenes luring the late carthquakes are thus received by word of mouth from participants therein as well as oy mail. In Ecuador alone, it is now stated, he list of killed amounts to 40,000. In Peru the dead are yet hidden under the rutns of ouses in many instances, and a stench infests the ir which, it is thought, wiil produce a pestilence. A ‘and of robbers are roaming through the ruins rob- ving every one who has anything left. Our Panama ietter is dated September 19. The ine verior departments were still disturbed, and it was seported that government troops at La Vilia de los Santos had been defeated. The health of the city is ood, The news from the Central Ameucan States is unimportant. The fever had broken out in Guate- mala. General Thomas ©. Hindman, an ex-rebel ofMcer, was shot and killed at hs reatdence in Helena, Ark., on Sunday night. An old member of his command NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. The physician upon whose statement, after consul- tation with two other physicians, Mt. Cook was de- clared insane repeats his statement. és Another startling robbery took place yesterday. A gontiewan named D’Ariois was in the third inte- rior room on the second floor of No. 49 Wall street, having at his side on a table a bag containing $1,300 in specie. A young man entered the room, reached around Mr, D'Artois, selzed the bag, ran through the outer offices, crowded with clerks, down the stairs and disappeared in tne crowded street with his Plunder. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday a resolution directing the Street Commissioner to compel the re- Moval of the obstructions placed by the Elevated Railway Company on Cortlandt and Greenwich streets, was adopted. {n the Board of Councilmen ordinances were adopted for the paving of several streets with Bel- gian pavement. A resolution increasing the sala- ries of the clerks and officers of the two Boards— the chief clerk's to $7,000 and others in proportion— was adopted unanimously without debate. In the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, the motion argued a few days ago, before Judge Gilbert, for an order to restrain the Quarantine Commissioners from taking possession of the west end of Coney Island for quarantine purposes was yesterday morning dented, The Commisstoners are therefore permitted to proceed with the work of erecting the hospital and other buildings. In the United States Commissioner's Court, yester- day, before Commissioner Guttman, the case of the United States vs. Commissioner Rollins and others was resumed. The testimony submitted was not very important to the case and the prosecution rested. A motion by defendant's counsel to put the complainant, Binckley, on the witness stand was overruled, One witness was examined for the de- fence, when the case was adjourned over till Thurs- day at twelve noon, A descent was made yesterday morning by reve- nue officers on a large number of lottery offices sup- posed to be owned by McIntyre & Co., a warrant having been issued against the firm for carrying on the business without paying license, as alleged by Deputy Collector Matteson. Some fifteen persons were captured and five or six oMices seized. The case was called by Commissioner Osborn during the day, and, after the hearing of one witness was adjourned to Wednesday. There were 245 foreigners naturalized yesterday, A Naturalization Committee of Tammany Ilali are busy in Tryon row making out the papers ‘free of cost’? for those of democratic proclivities. Prominent Arrivals. Judge Gilmar, of Hartford; Commander J. H. Gillis an‘ Lieutenant Douglas Cassel, of the United States Navy; Captain Turpin, of Liverpool, and General S. B. Moore, of Maine, are at the Astor House. Congressman T. M. Pomeroy, of Auburn; ex-Presi- dent Fillmore; Colonel] Wm. Wall, of Washington, and R. R. Bridges, of North Carolina, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Commodore Temple, of the United States Navy, is at the Everett House, Baron Stoeckel, Russian Minister, is at the Claren- don Hotel, ; Sergeant-at-Arms N. G@. Ordway, of Washington, is at the;Albemarie Hotel. Colonel-E. P. Warner, of the United States Army, 13 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Gencral D. Vickers, of the United States Army, and Commodore Austin Pendergrast, of the United States Navy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General Sherman, of Texas; General Wright and Colonel Rooney, of Memphis, and General Buckner, of Kentucky, are at the Maltby House, General Van Vliet, of the United States Army, is at the New York Hotel. Commodore 8. R. Franklin, of the United States Navy, and General Hugner, of the United States Army, are at the Breyoort House. Colonel E. F. Townsend, of the United States The Spanish Insurrection and the Popular Cause In Europe. The Spanish uprising continues to make progress, but it does not appear to gain in definiteness of aim and purpose. The one thing which stands out with distinctness is that it is already creating a certain amount of alarm in France. All the accounts of the situation that come to us through France have acoloring the meaning of which is unmistak- able. It must not be thought in France that the people are powerful enough in Spain to effect a change of government. At least such a thought must not be encouraged. The only interest which we on this Conti- nent can have in this Spanish affair arises from its relation to the people's cause all over Enrope. If Spain is successful in emanci- pating herself from the present tyrannous yoke jiuas been arrested for the deed, but another report has it that he was assassinated by a political enemy. Colonel Bankhead’s report of the late fight on the Dry Fork of the Republican river corroborates former accounts of the severity of the conflict. Seventy-five Indians are supposed to have been killed, and their dead bodies have been fonnd at short intervals for a considerable distance along the route they took on withdrawing. A list of the oMl- cers and soldiers killed and wounded ts given. Army advices received at Washington state that the vicinity of Marshall, Texas, is overrun by free- bootera, and that a sharp war on the commissary trains and smail detachments of troops is kept up. A company of the Twenty-sixth infantry was be- aieged at Sulphur Springs and reiniorcements had been sent to them from Marshall. The name of the Jeader of the guerilla bana ia Bickerstaff. It 18 believed in offictal quarters that Jeff Davis will not be tried next October. A sheriff and his posse had a desperate fight with a negro near Helena, Ark., on Saturday. The negro ‘sliled the sheriff and wounded two of his posse. Ke then took to fight but was pursued and captured by citizens, who, ta a vote upon the subject, re- solved in favor of hanging him, which was done tm- mediately. The Repubiican Convention of the Salem (Mass.) district yesterday renominated General Butler to represent it in Congress. The Convention was large and a ballot showed all but four of the delegates in cavor of Butler. On receiving the news the General made a speech, in which he repeated his tieas on the ¢nanctal question and claimed that he was a warm personal nd of General Grant. Ale sler H, Stephens is rej orted to have said tn oonversat.on recently that the confederacy was not ysically overpowered in the late struggle, but tiat people saw, after years of fighting, that the power was gradually being concentrated in he lands of one or two of the leaders at Richmond and thereupon, by @ tacit understanding, the contest The Georgia Senate have tabled the bill declaring ‘Linen ineligible to office. A common carrier and Hegro equality bill was lost and another prohibiting ‘he formation or drilling of military companies was passed, A tunnel on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, which has been on fire for several days, caved in on Sunday, burying two men. A construction tram, in backing Up to the tunnel, ran over two handcars, on which were eighteen men, five of whom were ‘Siled and three inured, Morton and Thon son, the express robbers, have been discharged at Toronto, Canada, on the ground that thetr crime does not come under the extradi- tion treaty. A large fire occurred in Buffa'o yesterday, Messrs. Matthews & Warren, proprietors of the Commercial Advertiser, being among the heavy losers, The loss is oatimatod at $159,009. The train on the Virginia Central which the Twenty-ninth infantry had embar Railroad, on \ for Yashville, ran off the track near Gordonsville yester- day, killing four soldiers and wounding a number of others. THE CITY The charge recently made b nafield ‘ook against ce. and incare Asylum ar ain parties of abducting bisa in the Kings County Lat toutly denicd by the parties charged. and successful in establishing a wise and pow- erful government, there can be no manner of doubt that her example will prove contagious in the case of most of her immediate noigh- bors. Italy is not quite contented, and Italy will be induced by the succoss of Spain not only to express her wants, but to enforce her demands if possible. A revolution in Italy would be directed more against Rome than against Florence. But Rome in danger would lead to a French invasion of the Italian penin- suln. If liberals were successful in Spain the sympathy of Spain might reveal itself in the shape of actual assistance to the Italian insurgents. This could have but one result. Napoleon would be compelled to march his armies across the Pyrenses and send a portion of his fleet round to Cadiz. A French occupation of Spain and a French occu- pation of Italy, or rather a war in both penin- sulas, might prove too much even for Napo- leon. With the armies of France so engaged it is not conceivable that republicans or Or- leanists or legitimists would remain inactive, A French occupation of Spain and a French occupation of Italy would be certain to be fol- lowed by a general insurrection in France, Napoleon so crippled, what would Prussia, what would Austria, what would Russia do? If the German po; ions did not rise and seek to esiablish German unity on a broad and popular basis, Germany would have no choice, but become a unit under Prussian supremacy. Nothing but a general uprising of the people would hinder Bismarck from seizing the oppor- tunity to complete the work which he has suc- cessfully begun and which he hopefully con- tinues, A great German republic or a great German empire would be the certain result, In such circumstances as those we have ima- gined Austria, in the first instance, would be in great peril. The empire as it now is hangs but loosely together. It is at best but a hetero- geneous masa, and the mass is singularly com- bustible. Gallicia, Bohemia and some of the Southern provinces are even now with difficulty held in subordination. A little spark would set them on fire. If, however, Austria and Russia could agree there would be no great dificulty in changing the map of Europe to the advantage of both. By giving Anstria Servia, Bulgaria and Wallachia and so much of Mol- davia as would make her mistress of the Danube, Russia might enthrone herself in Con- stantinople and convert the Evxine into a Rus- sian lake, Turkey is too weak to resist with any prospect of ess, and Greece might be gratified by an addition of territory commensurate with her ambition, These may be regarded by some persons as vague and un- meaning fancies, but they are fancies which enter largely into the calculations of the Powers that be. Whatever be the result of this revolution in Spain, whatever be the general effect which it shall have on the other nations of the Con- tinent, however it may transform the map of Europe, it is almost safe to conclude that it will leave behind it a certain residue of benefit to the popular cause. It is good for the people to feel their strength even if they should not be wholly successful, The revolution of 1789, in spite of all its sins and follies, and in spite even of its failure, was a great popular gain. The cause of liberty had made no such sub- stantial conquests since the era of the Reformation. In 1815 the chains were again fastened upon the peoples by the treaty ot Vienna and by the other doings of the Holy Alliance. Still, it was impossible for the Holy Alliance to fetter them as they had been fettered before the revolu- tion broke out. The treaty trammels of 1815 have been impatiently endured from the first. The nationalities of Europe have groaned under the burden. It was a yoke which they could not bear and which they were unwilling to leave to their children. 1830 came and went, and though the people did not win largely nor even generally the gain was substantial; France won her consti- tutional rights; Belgium secured her inde- pendence ; Great Britain, by her vigorous agita- tion for reform, became more than ever the asylum of liberty; important concessions were made to the people by several German govern- ments, and one German prince was compelled to abdicate. When the excitement died away it was known that the people were stronger. The same may be said of the year 1848. The social upheaving was felt allover Europe; and although, with the single exception of France, the nations found themselves, after the violence had subsided, very much as they were before, it is impossible to refuse to admit that the year 1848 was a “white” year in the history of growing free- dom. In that year was sown seed which, in 1859, brought forth precious fruit in Italy, and in 1866 gave practical shape to the dreams of liberalism in Germany. At the present moment the popular cause is in the ascendant allover Europe. It has not yet put forth its full strength; but it is the will rather than the power which is wanting. Are we on the eve of another general popular outbreak? It would not berash, judging from present signs, to conclude that we are. We have one peninsula in arms and another appa- rently ready to follow. We have France stand- ing on the verge of a slumbering volcano. We have Germany in a state of suspense. We have Austria working her way through a severe ordeal. We have Belgium and Holland trembling at the prospect of being swallowed up by some one or other of their powerful neighbors. We have Great Britain in the agony of reform. How it shall all end we know not; but of this we are fully convinced, that the result will bea gain to the popular cause, The Abuses of Quarantine—A Coutemplated Reform. A movement is on foot among the merchants and shippers of New York to induce Congress at its next session to pass a general quaran- tine law for all the ports of the United States, and to place the administration of all quaran- tine rules and regulations in the hands of United States officers. At present the States make their own laws; but as quarantine is one of the most important features of commerce there is no question of the right of the general government to take control of the matter, un- der the power ‘to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States” vested in Congress by the federal constitution. The proposed change in the system is desirable for many reasons. The health of a large port of entry is of general as well as local impor- tance, for passengers arriving there seldom remain in one city or State, but spread abroad over every part of the country. While quar- antine regulations are left to the several States conflicts are certain to arise between them, as in the case of New York and Now Jersey, which would be avoided under laws enacted by the United States. The cost of quarantine would be greatly diminished if ita duties were performed by United States employés in con- nection with the customs department, instead of by a separate and independent body of off- cers, and the expense would be distributed fairly over the country instead of being an un- fair burden on one locality. Tho greatest advantage from the contem- plated change, however, would accrue to New York, for the reason that her quarantine laws as at present administered take the form of oppression and extortion. The Health Officer is invested with ample powers for the efficient discharge of his duties, but he exceeds his legitimate authority ina manner unjust to individuals and injurious to the interests of the city. He is authorized to prevent any person except a pilot from board- ing or dealing with a vessel subject to quaran- tine before he shall have examined her; and while this provision is clearly inserted for the purpose of preventing boarding house keepers, baggage smashers and agents of all kinds from mixing with the passengers or crew and car- rying disease into the city, the Health Officer improperly uses it to obstruct the collection of shipping news by the press as it has been collected for fifty years past. He is author- ized to run a steamboat “for the transportation of persons to and from Quarantine and for visitations and burying the dead.” This is, of course, designed for the convenience of the Quarantine authorities and the proper execu- tion of their duties; but the Health Officer uses his steamer as a passenger ship or ferry- boat to convey passengers and their baggage from steamers arriving in the lower bay up to the city at a charge of two dollars a head, which he puts into his own pocket. By what right does he ply this trade? Has he a com- mon carrier's or ferry license ? The law empowers the Quevantine Commis- sioners to license such “lightermen, steve- Gores and Jabovers as may be found necessary for the care and purification of vessels, mer- chandise, baggage, &c., in quarantine.” This, of course, contemplates the employment ot these men simply on such vessels as may be infected and quarantined; and the law in another section specially provides that the Health Officer ‘‘may permit captains and owners. to employ lighterage and men on thelr own account, But the Health Officer forces vessels, whether quarantined or not, to employ his own lighterage and men at a cost of thirty to fifty per cent more than they would pay to other parties, For instance, the Health Officer charges fully forty per cent. more for lighterage than any other person would charge, and the following comparison will show his rates for stevedores as compared with the rates at which the Ship- owners’ Association offers to do the stevedor- ing :— : Health nanos Rencene $17 00 1 00 oBBoRSESEESE He This will give some idea of the extortion practised upon shipowners and merchants under the State quarantine laws and of the large profits of the Health Officer. It may be asked why submit to such an imposition? Why not insist on the right to employ lighter- age and stevedores independent of the Health Officer? Simply because the law unwisely gives the Health Officer a dangerously large “optional” power over vessels, their cargoes, passengers and crews. He can, at his ‘‘option,” detain a vessel at Quarantine that has no sick- ness on board. He can subject a certain class of merchandise, sugar, silks, linen and cattle, to an “optional” quarantine. He may admit merchandise immediately to pratique or trans- fer it at his option to the Quarantine ware- house. Leta shipowper resist the extortion of Quarantine rates and it is easy enough to punish him by an ‘‘optional” detention, more expensive to him than submission to extra charges and other impositions. The quarantine laws of New York clearly need revision and amendment, and unless a radical reform can be made in the manner of their administration the State will be greatly benefited and the interests of commerce pro- tected by the transfer of the whole quarantine business to the hands of the general govern- ment, Brick on a Stump. Brick Pomeroy made a speech to the dem- ocrats at Dunkirk the other day, which we give elsewhere, and which is especially notable for the contrast it affords to political speeches gen- erally, whether delivered from the stump, the floor of the House or the pulpit. It is so quaintly simple in its style—so natural, direct and plain—that it is at once funny and forci- ble; for while it must have, through its plain statement of political points, convincing effect on many minds, the manner of telling a story by anecdotes is always essentially comical. Brick tells stories. They are not such good stories as President Lincoln used to tell, have not the same point, and are nothing like so well adjusted in the argument; but we cannot but fancy, in view of Brick’s stories, that if he had known Lincoln they would have gotten on very well together, and Brick might have been saved doing himself the harm he has done by certain of his utterances. Note as a-point of their possible congeniality the phrase that Pomeroy lets fall as to their agreement on the great tune of ‘‘Dixie.” It is a good peculiarity of Pomeroy’s ora- tory that he takes nothing for granted. He lays his own foundation. Other orators as- sume that the people have a general idea of the party position. Republicans credit their hearers with faith in the republican idea. Democrats credit theirs with faith in the demo- cratic view. Brick does not go on credit at all, but pays cash down, tells his own story of the war and its genesis simply and clearly, and then tells the people what they ought to do. He does not even go into the political diatribes of the party orators who labor their vitals away convicting each other of falsehood. He puts himself on a level with the workingman and draws his argument all from the obvious facts of the workingman’s position. He takes the oppressed condition of the workingman as the natural basis of the political fight, and de- velops that in all possible phases and forms. This is something the people understand and of which they want more. It is true popular oratory. One of their number, standing in the centre of an eager group explaining to his fel- lows the political harangue of one of the broad- cloth, hifalutin speakers, could hardly hit the very point of the workingman’s percep- tion better than Brick docs, The Revenue Investigation—Juidge Fallerton. The investigation now going on with refer- ence to the whiskey frauds is likely to prove one of the most remarkable disclosures of modern times, President Johnson is evidently going to probe the action of the “whiskey rings” to the bottom. His radical enemies haye been charging him with all kinds of complicity in this business, and Mr. Johnson appears to be determined to set the matter square with them by eliciting all the facts through the ju- dicial inquiry now in progress before United States Commissioner Guttman, For this pur- pose, as we already know, he has placed the matter inthe hands of Mr. Binckley and Mr. Fullerton, and the case is therefore being con- ducted on an independent basis, without re- gard to the routine services of district attor- neys or other officials who may or may not be interested in the questions before the court. Mr. Fullerton, like Mr. Binckley, is from Ohio. His first legal acquaintance with New York, we believe, can be traced to a suit in one of the courts out West in which he was opposed to Charles O'Conor, and by the able management of his case obtained a verdict for hia clients against the advocacy of that distin- guished New York lawyer. Mr. O’Conor, with a sagacity and a megnanimity peculiar to him, took the man who had defeated him by the baad, represented to him that talents like his could find their best field in New York, and finally succeeded in making him a partner in his business here. Tois was some years ago, but though the part- nership has ceased to exist the prescience of Mr. O'Conor is sustained by the career of Mr. Fullerton, who is only second in legal knowledge to the acknowledged ‘‘Father of the Bar” himself. This is the man who, in connection with Mr. Binckley, Solicitor of the Revenue Department, has been selected by the President to work up the whole of these revenue frauds. Mr. John- son is resolved to fight the matter out on this line until his term of office expires next March, and he has time enough, and, as we understand, material enough also to show up the whole nefarious bnsiness in which radical politicians have been deeply and profitably implicated, while at the same time they have been charging the President with collusion with the whiskey rings, and so forth. The press, too, will come in for its share.of ex- posure in this business. The testimony to be produced will probably show that the 7’ribune, the Times andthe World have all been reap- ing their little advantages from the extensive revenue swindles which Binckley and Fullerton, acting under the direction of President John- son, are about to rip up from the bottom. Mr. Johnson, however, is evidently going to see the thing through to the bitter end. The Muddie About the Finances—Mr. Delmar’s Statement. Some people have an idea that figures do not deceive; but they will find themselves mistaken if they look at those of the financial doctors who pretend to represent the condition of the Treasury and national finances, We have had the statements of Mr. Wells, of the Treasury Department, and of Mr. Atkinson, of Massachusetts, a volunteer exponent of our financial condition in behalf of the radicals, and now we have the statement of Mr. Del- mar, Director of the Bureau of Statistics. These statements differ widely and leave the mind bewildered with a matter that ought to be as plain as the nose on one’s face. They have been manufactured for political effect and to throw dust in the eyes of the people. We have heretofore exposed the garbled misrep- resentations of both Mr. Wells and of that stu- pendous financier, Mr. Atkinson ; but the cop- perhead press has exaggerated the errors of these gentlemen for partisan purposes. The radical organs, on the other hand, are furious at Mr. Delmar’s exposition, and, while care- fully abstaining from any attempt to answer it, they endeavor to weaken the effect by satire, slang and personal abuse. Now, whatever little errors Mr. Delmar may have fallen into in his details, or whatever may be his feelings with regard to our radical Con- gress and the radical party, his statement on the whole is correct and far more reliable than those of Mr. Wells and Mr. Atkinson. He shows by figures what we have repeatedly said—that the income of the government Is fall- ing off greatly while the expenditures are in- creasing, and that the cash in the Treasury is rapidly wasting away, threatening to bring it in the course of a few months toa bankrupt condition. Nor do we think Mr. Delmar is far from the truth in his estimate of a deficiency of a hundred and fifty-four millions of dollars at the end of the year, June 30, 1869. His ex- hibit of the finances was published in the HERALD yesterday. It may be seen there how he reaches this result. He takes facts for the foundation of his arguments, and his conclu- sions, in the main, are incontrovertible. What a deplorable state of things for the people of this country to contemplate! Enormously taxed as we are, there is likely to be one hun- dred and fifty-four millions of deficiency added to the debt at the end of the present fiscal year. Such is the consequence of incompetent and radical legislation and of the mismanage- ment of the finances by an incapable Secretary of the Treasury. The expenditure for the War Department and for carrying out the recon- struction measures of Congress is stupendous, and there is the greatest extravagance in everything. Atthe same time the taxes that have been taken off in favor of a few manufac- turers and the enormous losses by frauds in the revenue, arising from the deadlock be- tween and disorganization of the executive departments of the government, must leave the Treasury bankrupt unless new taxes be imposed or a loan be made. In any case we do not see what is to prevent the Treasury being drained of its cash and the debt increased. What the country wants now is another and abler set of men in Congress than those who have brought us to this condition. That is the only hope or remedy we see, and it remains with the people to determine at the approach- ing Congressional elections whether this remedy shall be applied or we are to go on in the same disastrous course. NATURALIZATION. The crowded appearance of the Supreme Court chamber and the Court of Common Pleas yesterday indicated a great shivering of dry bones in the ranks of the unterrified democracy. A stream of candl- dates for citizenship poured into the City Hall at an early hour and blocked the entrance to the offices of the Naturalization Bureau. Judge Barrett took his seat on the bench at twelve o'clock to hear applica- tons and immediately after the court was filled to its utmost capacity by candidates from Ireland and the Saxe's and Hesse’s of Germany, anxious to be re- ceived within the fold of Uncle Sam. The Naturali- zation Committee of Tammany Hall commenced op- erations in Judge Gale's ofice, No, 1 ‘on row, and the candidates made it their’ rallying point thronghout the day. small red cards were put into the hands of each asp!- rant for the honors of Citizenship who was deemed staunch in the faith of Saint Tammany, on which was printed an order to some party, not named, to naturatize the bearer, In a lager beer sa- loon im Centre street papers were made out for Germans and people of other na- tionalities, denominated Dutch, “free of cost,” and the duties of citizens and demo crats were duly instilled into the minds of the ‘Teu- tons amid the clanking of lager beer glasses and the roaring, yelling and thumping which seems to be an indispensible accompaniment to excessive indul- gence in that delightful boverage. It was expected that a committee of democratic notables, on the ways and means of putting ee through the naturalization mill, would sit in Tammany Hei for the accommodation of the’ faithful, but the com- mittee rooms of the wigwam were untenanted by chief or brave, and those who waited all day for their return had to join the crowds in the City Hall and take their chances, ‘The scene in the Court of Common Pleas at two o’clook Was enough to make a know nothing faint. Fully four hundred irrepressible democrata, princi- pals and witnesses, occupied the Court, fairly sweating with impatience to grasp within ther horny hands the crisp certificates of United States citizenship, while hundreds more thronged the hall vainly waiting for their turn to arrive. That the franchise is valued by the new citizens their tm tence to secure the right of voting atthe coming election fully proved, An old man named McGrath, who with his son presented himself before the judge on Friday, and who was tord that he was just one day too soon, was present Bmp at the opening of the court and received his certificate of citizen- = with evident delight. The process of naturali- zation in this court is necessarily slow, ae Bar- rett being very particular in interrogating applicants as Well a9 witnesses in order to guard against the passage of fraudulent papers, If parties do obtain certificates who are not properly entitied to them ft is only by the hardest swearing. The rate of progress is about tifty per hour. In the Supreme Court there was more bustle than usual yesterday, the oMcials being kept “ buay in preparing certificates of citizenship and declara- tions of intention, The number naturalized was forty-nine, Of the entire number of applications in the Court of Common Pleas thirty-six were rejected for want of sufficient evidence of residence in the county or service in the army. Total number naturalized yesterday, 245. Previously naturalized, 1,771. OBITUARY. Count Walewski. z A telegram dated in Paris yesterday announces the death in that city on Sunday last of Florian Alexander Joseph Colonna, Count Walewski, the eminent French statesman, lately member of the Privy Council of the empire, Minister to England in 1854, Ministef of Foreign Affairs in 1860, one of the most trusted friends of Napoleon tie Third, and be- lieved by many to have been the illegitimate eon of Napoleon the First. iT Count Walewski was born on the 4th of May, in the year 1810, In early years he manifested @ precocious activity of intelligence in his education. He went to London at the of nineteen to undertake nego- tations in favor of Poland with the most eminent statesmen of England, who afterwards remained in friendly relations with him. After the revolution xs July he was honored by the friendship of the Duke Orleans, and had great pres of rapid advance- ment in the army, in which he held the rank of cap- tain; but getting tired of the idle life of garrisons he applied for and obtained his dismissal. He migas algo have attained considerable political distinction through the newspapers and by literature; for he was well known at that time to Parisian society as a man of the world, a publicist and a dramatic author, Among other works which he produced = be clied ‘A Word on the African Question”’ (1831-32) and “The English Alliance.” He was ono of the edliors and founders of the Messager. In theatrical circles he peavet as the colaborer of M. Alexander Dumas in the piece cailed ‘Mademoiselle de peli Isle," of that celebrated French author and novelis (1839) ). He soon after published under hisown name ‘L’Ecole du Monde, ou la Coquette Sans le Savolr,’? comedy in five acts, to which the actress Aubert, accordl to La France Litleraire, which we her a singu qualification, must have ren- ered very im it assistance. This piece was re- presented in the Théatre Francais on the 8th of Janu- ary, 1840, and was but p: lly successful. The same year M. Walewski entered into the diplomatic career. M. Thiers became President of the Cabinet on the 1st of March and juired the Messager, but gore its editor a mission to Brot Under the Minis- ry of M. Guizot M. Walewski also received several missions, and he was attached to the pie Ayres when the revoluton of i843 broke ont after the election of the 10th of December Boang Walewski's relations with some of those men wl Were most devoted to the President served his for- tunes. In 1849 he was sent to Fiorence with the title of Plenipotentiary and Envoy ‘traordinary, whence he was removed to Napies. In 1854 he be- came Ainbassador to Great Britain, On the 7th of May, 1855, he was called to take the place of M, Drouyn de Lhuys, who resigned in his favor, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and it was he who had the delicate mission of arranging all the relations of Frauce with the different Powers of Europe during the latter period of the Eastern war, as well as th honor of presiding as Plenipotentiary of Fran over the conferences at the Paris Congress and of signing the treaty of the 30th of April, 1856. He prey sided also over the numerous conferences which took place in Paris to arrange the detalls of the ap plication of the treaty of July, 1853. Count Walews! entered the Senate on the 26th of April, 1855. He w: from the 3d of December, 1852, a grand oficer of the Legion of Honor. As the principal exponent of the views of the Emperor on European atfairs his remarks were with great interest, ’ Tn the month of January, 1868, Count Walewski 7) tired from the position witch he occupied as head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, to which post he was succeeded by M. Thouvenel. The cause of hig retirement was ascribed to declining health and desire for travel. He quit the ofice, however, load with marks of his sovereign’s favor, by whom he was always held inthe highest esteem, and his amplé fortune enabled him to satisfy, to the fullest extent, the gratification of his desires in whatever direction they tended. Being a member of the Privy Council, he Was placed in the possession of an annual incom of 100,000 francs, a decree having been ordain: about the period of his retirement that all member of the Privy Council should receive that sum nually. ne mark of the high esteem in which the Count was held throughout Europe he posséssed decora- tions, medals and crosses from nearly every govern) ment of the Continent, Of late years he has retired comparatively from the excitement of public affan yet it is we!l known that he was the constant an Confidential adviser of the Emperor of the French, and as a member of the Privy Council he also wielded inuch influence among his co!aborers. Aé the time of his death ne was a few montis over fiity- eight years of age. Thomas C. Hindman, A telegram from Memphis received last night an- nounced the death of the rebel General Thomas C. Hindman. It is said he was snot whiie sitting in company with his family in his own house at Helena, Ark., on the night of the 27th inst. He was bbeper | in the neck by a charge of gunshot, from the et of which he died about eight hours after wards, Another report says that a map named Robbins has been arrested on sus picion of having committed the deed. At pres- sent there secins to be a veil of mystery obscuring the whole affair. But one point, however, appearg to be settled—that is, his death was the work of an assassin. About three years since a report was cur- rent that Hindman was shot by rebel soldiers in ‘fexas while on his way to Mexico with a large quan- uty of tobacco and valuables, but the report proved incorrect, as subsequent events have shown, Hinds man’s fativer Was a native of Connecticut. The son was born near Knoxville, but early removed to Ar kansas, where he married a relative of Jet Davis, Since attaining manhood be has been before thé country in various capacities, having figured somé time as a member in the United States House of Representatives and of late as a brigadier general in tne rebel army. He left Congress in 1860 and ree turned to Arkansas. Wnen the war broke out he raised the “Arkansas Legion,” of which he was commissioned colonel. Me was, with the regiment, sent, in September, 1861, to Bowling Green, Ky. Here he remained until the evacuation of that piace in the following “age hf He turn up = at Shiloh, where he was made a brigadie! neral. eShortiy after (June, 1862,) he assumed command of the trans-Mississippi district; but it was done i some manner so unofficial and irregular that ti rebel War Department subsequently repudiated hi action, His acts were so despotic and oppressive that in July, 1862, Albert Pike entered a protest against his usurpation of authority, which was ad- dressed to Jeif Davis, and which rosulted in the dex puting of Lieutenant General Theophilus Holmed to examine into the charges against Hin man, and the subsequent assertion of tl Secretary of War that Hindman had nev been sent to Arkansas and had never bee tnt in command of the trans-Mississi Department. The consequence of the examinadog of the complaints was that Holmes relieved Hind. man and sent him east of the Mississippi river td Bragg. who put him in command of one of his di visions. t In this capacity he was engaged (September 11, 1863.) in the aifair at Dog Gap, near Lafayette, G in which General James S. ester completely ou manceuyred both Buckner an andi: and for which fatlure Bragg arrested the latter. Hindman repaired, under arrest, to Atlanta; but, with Polk, Who was also arrested about the’ same time, was shortly after sent to Mississipp! to oppose Sherman's raid in that State. Here he remained during the winter of 1863-4. In May, 1864, when Sherman ad vanced on Resacca, Ga., Polk was called to Joe Johnston's aid, and Hinds man, who was then in command of one of Polk's divisions, also repaired to that point. He was ‘at Resecca May 14, and sul uently at oth ints in front of Atlanta. He was, however, relieved fore the fall of the “Gate City,” and, indignant left the service. In November, 1864, he crossed th Mississippi at Catfish Point, below Bolivar, an started for Mexico, declaring that “there was not the slightest hope for the success of the confedet racy,” and resolving to offer his services to Maxim lian. He returned to his native State some tin since, and has kept rather quict of late. It is sup. posed that ils death Was brought abyui by poittical eremies. General Pezuela. A telegram from Madrid, by way of Paris and through the Atlantic cable, received Idst night, any nounces the death of the Spanish General Jeag Pezuela, Count of Cheste, who was just killed itn a battle incident to the isi of the city of Saragossa in favor of th revolutioniats. He was at one period Captain General of New Castile, to which position he w: succeeded by Generai Lersundi. For a short time poi ho prominent poeition, but his fine abilities and in‘uence at the Spanish Court soon brought | into notice and secured for him the distinguish position of Captain General of the island of Cul General Concha succeeded on his departure for Spai In this sithation he remained for some time, di capes the onerous duties of the post with mark ability, On his retirement to his native Cg A devoted himself mainly to literary pursuits, many of his works have attratted considerable ate tention in the world of letters, Lately he did n mix prominently in pubtic affairs until th: outbreal of the present revolution, when he cast his lot with the revoiutiontats. T. A. D. Fessenden. Yesterday morning, after a brief iliness, T. As D. Fessenden, forinerly a representative from Maine to the Thirty-seventh Congress, dicd at his residenod in Lewiston, Me. He was born in Portland, January 23, 1820, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1845, He was a lawyer by profession, and was 4 member of the Convention that nominated General Fremont, In i860 he was elected to the Maine Legislature, and he subsequently oceupied a county office, which he held until his election to Congress. He was past forty-two years of age at the time of his death, Abner Greenleaf. In Portsmouth, N. H., yesterday, Abner Greenteag, formerly editor and proprietor of the Vew Hampshire Gazette, one of the oldest journals tn the country, died at the good old age of elghty-three years, Chartes H. Gratton, The death of Charles H. Graffen, a journa'ist con. nected with one of the Philadelphia papers, is ans nounced to have take vDlace yesterday in Phila deiphia.