The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1868, Page 6

6 NE Ww YORK KH BERALD AND ANN STREET. BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be ro- turned. haideae aie: THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the wear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Dank Hour Br- Woes Day—Forgst or Bonpy. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway. —Last NiauTs oF Foun Pia OLYMPIC THEATRE, . Broadway. -Humety Dumerr, ‘wita New Fratvnes. ' BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway~Tax New Drama or L'Autue. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Bourrr—BaRse BLEUE. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street— Bimonw BERNARD—DEARER THAN sda Broadway—BatRMAN’s OPERA GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— JULIUS CAAT. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th atreet.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, &0., LUCRETIA BORGIA. 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Queen Isabella of Spain is said to have crossed from St. Sebastian to France and the revolution become general in the kingdom. The new American Minister in Vienna was pre- sented to the Emperor of Austria, An Austrian bishop was indicted for having issued a pastoral against the recent laws of the Diet. Consols 94%,, money. Five-twenties, 7 in Lon don and 76 a 76), in Frankfort. Cotton closed firmer, with middling uplands at 1od. a 10,4. Breadstuits and provisions quiet. vimship at this port we have a European m detail of our cable telegrams, to the eptember. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Valparaiso letter is dated September & The Kupreme Court had been arraigned before the Chamber of Deputies and a committee has been Sppointed to report upon the charges. Reports from Paraguay are to the effect that a mine had exploded at Humaitd, almost annthilating the allied troops, who had just taken possession, A truce between the contending parties had been partially urranged by the Chilean and Bolivian Ministers. It Was probable that the Argentine Republic would agree to the terms proposed; but Brazil, fushed with her late victories, would probably refuse any conditional peace. jonal intelligence from the scene of the late e te received, In Quito the stench arising from the unburied bodtes ts horrible. Pillaging was going on in Arica and Arequipa, Peru. ‘The artil- lery battalion at Arlea were at enmity with the people, who accuse them of robbery. The stores of the Wateree were being distributed to the needy in Arica, Shocks were felt as late as August 29. Some r le were still being dug out of the ruins aitve, poor fellow among them having been entombed for six days alongside of his wife's corpse. The Washington democrats are puzzled over the political status of the President, Although he pro- fesses a partiaiity for the democratic nominees his actions show an inclination the other way. He has declined to make diversions in favor of Seymour, whose stock seems to have rapidly fallen of late, and has done considerable in Grant's interests, He fe- lvih of weekly letter ahows that there wero 454 deaths in New York end 193 in Brooklyn during the week, A synod of the Roman (gt! ‘gy Of this dio- cese Was hell yesterday at St. f eathedral for the purpose of promulgating the decrees of the Plenary Connell held in Baltimore two years ayo, whieh have received the approval of the Pope. A procession headed by Arcthishop McCloskey entered the cathedral at (en o'clock, and the debate on the dectees wag commenced, After @ secret session the council adjourned until this morping. General McClellan arrived in this cit? yesterday by the steamer Cuba from Europe. No public demon- stration was given, in accordance with @ wish ex- pressed by him some time ago, but he was received by his personal friends, and With his family took up his residence for the present tn @ private house on Washington square. A meeting of workingwomen was held last night at the Wevkingwomens’ Home in Elizabeth street. Over 200 of them were present. Miss Susan B An- thony addressed them, favoring the formation of co- operative societies, The examination in the case of Deputy Sheri Moore, Leary and Hickey, arrested as the principals in the Broadway theatre shooting outrage, was re- sumed yesterday before Judge Shandley, in the Essex Market Police Court. Mr. Jack, the actor, fuished his direct testimony and was cross-examined at great length. The further investigation was then. postponed for one week. A report of the additional evidence taken will be found elsewhere, a8 also a letter from Mr, A, Oakey Hail, the District Attorney, in explanation of his uon-attendance at tho examina- tion, In the Court of Appeals, which was opened for the September term yesterday, in this city, before a full bench, the Appleton divorce case was up on an ap- peal from an order of the Court in General Term re- versing an order previously granted at Special Term allowing allmony. The Court reserved decision. The Cunard steamship China will sail to-day for Liverpool via Queenstown, The mails will close at the Post Ofice at twelve M. ‘The steamship Manhattan, Captain Wilitams, will sail at two P.M. to-day for Queenstown and Liver- pool, The stock market was weak and unsettled yeaver- day. Gold closed at 1415 @ 141%. Prominevt Arrivals. Judge Daniel Colby, of Taunton; Lieutenant Com- mander Brown, of the United States Navy; General George A. Drew, of the United States Army, and Judge EF. D. Harmon, of California, are at the Metro- politan Hotel. General Chtz, of the United States Army, ta at the Hofman House, General 4. B. Tower, of New York, ts at the Albe- marie Hotel. Colonel Grigsby, of Kentucky, t@ at the Maltby House. Colonel § York Hotel. Judge Amasa Parker, of Albany, and General T. E. Marvin, of Washington, are at the Brevoort House. Sefior B. Medina, Secretary of the Peruvian Lega- ey, of New Orleans, {4 at the New ceived the radical committees from Tennessee and Alabama s0 cordially and has acceded to their de- mands 0 cheerfully that the Washington democracy are convinced that he has gone over to their enemies, ‘The War Department has tesued orders for depart- ‘Ment commanders to furnish the names of all oMcers incapacitated for duty by reason, among other f habitual intemperance or regular attend- gaming places, Secretary McCulloch has several clerks engaged comparing Mr. Delmar's statistical report of the finances with the books of the Treasury. Colonel Forsythe and all his wounded have arrived at Fort Wallace from the scene of their late fight ‘with the Indians and are doing well. Six hundred Yndians, driving buffalo before them, have crossed ‘the ratiroad near Monument and are supposed to be reparing foraraid on all the stations in reach. ¢ band is probably the same that attacked Colonel Forsythe. ‘The citizens are armed and fortifying. General Sherman telegraphs to army headquarters that General Sheridan has bis cavairy well in hand ‘and hard at work to catch and destroy the savages. Another letter from General Dix was received by a gentleman in Galena, IIL, a few days ago repeating his intention of supporting General Grant. It is Stated that he intends returning to the United States next spring. Hubbard, a republican candidate for Congress in the St. Paul (Minn.) district, who was running against Donnelly, also republican, has withdrawn, It is thought, however, that his friends will nomi- pate some one else inimical to Donnelly. Tt is settled that Richard H. Dana, Jr., will be Dominated in opposition to General Butler for Con- gress by the Republican Convention at Salem, Mass., ext Monday, Judge Cooley’s mandamus compelling the New Or- Jeans Registration Board to receive his name asa voter has been granted by the Fifth District Court of that city, and the Registration Board has obeyed tt. ‘The court is one of those Whose action in issuing Daturalization papers was declared to be i\iegal. » General 0. 0. Howard, Commissioner of the Freed. men's Bureau, delivered a lecture on his tour through the South in Washington last evening. THE CITY. In the Board of Health yesterday the report of the Sanitary Superintendent showed that a large amount of garbage had been removed under his superintend- ence from the public streets at a cost of $10,678. This ‘work bad been suspended for some reasons, but by order of the Board it is to be resumed. Dr. Harris’ tion, and W. Bodi: Secretary of the Russian Lega- tion, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Dr, James R. Wood arrived in this city from Bu- rope a few days ago. The Cotton Crop—Cotton Supply—Businoss Prospects. With all the drawbacks to the cultivation of cotton, compared with the means and facilities just before the war, the crop of the present year is large and very valuable. It is now generally estimated at two million five hundred thousand bales; and it must be re- membered that this is not the estimate of cotton speculators, who are often interested in misrepresenting the facts, but of the planters themselves and of those who prepare careful statistics of our productions. The cotton generally is of as fine a quality, too, as in the most favorable seasons. Thia year's crop, therefore, will be worth, if the present price and sugar peers 8 revived in Lonisiana. ‘as never as valuable to England as the outh to this country. Only think of cotton ne—that single production—which as an | arti cle of exportation, to pay for the balance of trade against us our liabilities abroad, | is worth three times over the gold produced in all the States and Territories of the paaiblicl to aay nothing of its Lexfiense value to our own manufacturers. However much the Southern people may be condemned for the suicidal act of attempted secession and the terrible warin which they involved the country, or for their folly since, we must say they have shown remarkable energy and power of recuperation, From the lowest state of depression and under the great- est difficulties they are rapidly rising again to wealth, This is characteristic of the Ameri- can people. The courage, industry and perse- verance of the Southerners under the most trying circumstances should induce among the people of the North forgiveness of the past and make them proud of such fellow citizens; for they are of the same race and the same flesh and blood. When we speak of the Southern people we do not exclude the blacks, for they. evidently have done much by their labor to restore the productive interests of the South ; but it must not be forgotten that these ignorant people have been controlled by the intelligence, capital and industry of the white population. Nothing is wanted to develop the teeming natural wealth and varied productions of the South beyond what has ever been seen before but peace, restoration, harmony and fraternal fvel- ing between the two sections of onr common country, We notice at the same time with this reviv- ing material prosperity of the South a general revival of business throughout the country, and both an abundant supply and activity in the money market. The advertising columns of the Heraup, which may be regarded as the barometer of business, show that the fall trade is opening favorably, notwithstanding the usual depressing effects of a Presidential cam- paign and political excitement. The flow of currency to the West has almost ceased, the people there have obtained nearly all the money needed to remove the crops, and the return lide will soon set in. Very soon, too, we shall have the productions of the South in our market, and our merchants and tradesmen may expect a considerable demantl for goods be kept up, about two hundred and fifty millions of dollars, There is reason to be- lieve the price will be sustained, or that it will decline but little. The stock of our American loug staple on hand in Europe is very limited and there is a large demand at home. The crop will realize, probably, more than any previous one has realized ; for when it reached four and five millions of bales, as in the years just before the war, the market value per pound was not half what it is now. England has been making extraordinary efforts for many years past to stimulate the growth of cotton in India, Egypt and other parts of the world in order to make herself tn- dependent, to some extent at least, of the United States for this article. The money ex- pended by the British government, by the government of India and by English capi- talists and manufacturers for this purpose amounts to an enormous sum. The war in this country which cut off the supply to Eng- land and which at one time threatened to break up and revolutionize the vast manufacturing bus'ness of that country alarmed the British people and government. At this crisis they redoubled their former efforts to get a supply elsewhere, and they did increase the produc- tion vastly in India, and, to some extent, in Egypt. Still, as soon as the war was over here and American cotton could be obtained again, the demand for it was greater than the supply, and it continues to be so even at the high price of twenty-two to twenty-eight cents a pound, Why is this? The answer is plain. The cotton of India is a poor short staple article and badly prepared for market; the cot- ton from Egypt, though better than that of India, and said to be equal in quality to some of the best American, is raised only to a limited extent, and the crops ure very unreliable. It has been said that Egypt would produce two or three millions of bales a year with sufficient labor and skilful cultivation; but there is neither the labor nor skill to obtain such a vast production. We doubt, however, if anything like that amount could be raised under any circumstances. The truth is, our Southern States are the only reliable cotton producing region yet discovered in the world for the best qualities, and there is no fear of other countries rivalling this in that production. Our soil, climate and labor, and, above all, that beneficent Gulf Stream which sweeps round our coast, giving the needful showers alter- nately with a semi-tropical sunshine, give us for all time a monopoly of cotton culture and the cotton markets, When we look at the terrible destruction of property in the South during the war, at the universal poverty of the planters and of all classes of people, at the breaking up of the whole previous labor system, at the political and social disorganization, at the wornout condition of all the implements and appliances of industry, and at the want of capital, the large cotton production now is as surprising as it is gratifying, But that is not all, The South has taised this year a vast and an unusual amount of corn, wheat and other cereals, with almost everything else necessary to sustain the popu- lation, independent of outside supplies, In- deed, we should not be surprised if the South should have a surplus of provisions for expor- tation, Bosides, there is a fair tobacco crop, and expenditure of money from that se Altogether the country is in the best condition and has the finest prospect before it as re- gards its material interests. If the govern- ment will practice economy and the politic let the country govern itself we shall soon re- cover from the effects of the war, the debt will waste away and hardly be felt as a bur- den, and a glorious future will be opened to the republic, Stanton’s Speech and Ite Omissions. When ex-Secretary of War Stanton ad- dressed his friends and fellow citizens of Ohio, near Steubenville, the other day, in, the centre of the agricultural district which surrounds the bridge uniting the Buckeye State with West Virginia, he said a good many excellent things; but he left a good many other things unsaid, which may be regarded as of some im- portance in the history of the war which he ap- parently attempted to illustrate in his discourse, For example, he did not say anything about the outrages upon the rights and liberties of citizens, directed by himself and. carried out under his instructions during his term of oflice. He was solemnly silent about the numbers of American citizens locked up in Fortress Mon- roe, Fort Lafayette and Fort Warren without warrané or without any charge of crime being registered against them. He had no explana- tion to give about these matters, but skimmed them over as gracefully as a swan goes over the water. In the same way he skilfully avoided telling by what intrigues be procured the office of Secretary of War, or to what extent he cheated and deceived everybody in order to keep himself in that’ position so long, despite the will of the Executive and the desire of the people, Now, all these little revelations would have given considerable zest to Mr. Stanton’s speech, because the public would naturally like to hear by what means, and more especially for what purpose, he kept the authority of the Executive at bay, and only condescended to acknowledge the existence of General Lorenzo Thomas, the President's appointee to the War Department, by inviting him to take a drink, while he kept the key of the War Department archives in his pocket and defied the authority of the President. None of this, although people would be delighted to hear the fairy tale from the lips of its author. Mr. Stanton gives in this speech a Homeric picture of the services and valor of the gene- rals engaged in the war. He forgets that the public were as watchful observers of their career as Secretary Stanton, and know just how to allot to each their full modicum of praise for services well rendered to the re- public. What Mr. Stanton omits to explain in his speech is the reason why so many private citizens were seized and incarcerated by his order while he was Secretary of War ; upon what charges they were so incarcerated and a minute description of the pains, penal- ties and indignities they were compelled to suffer at his direction, This would have made the most interesting speech of the cam- paign if these points were supplied, and there is no one so competent to deliver such a dis- course as ex-Secretary Stanton himself. The chief Jesuit among political Jesuits, the feeble but mischievous imitator of Machiavel, aspir- ing to the rank without possessing the q ties of the bold, bad Italian politician, Mr. Stanton has attempted to follow the Machia- velian policy, forgetting that the atmosphere was wholly uncongenial for the growth of such a plant. He undertook to grapple with the press; but he took hold of the irresponsible subordinates and dared not touch the principals. Reporters were the game he sought for the exercise of his spite. The proprietors of leading journals which did not sustain the weakness and ocor- ruption of the War Department he may have threatened, but did not attempt to punish. Now, to have said so much in his late stump speech about the war and the generals who fought it out so gallantly, which everybody knew be- fore, and not to say 4 word about all these facts which we have indicated must be regarded as & grave sin of omission on the part of Mr, Stanton } Sent the current history of the progress of the ' NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. Tho Spenish Bevolution. The news reports from Spain, telegraphed by way of Paris and London and through tho Atlantic cable, which wo publish to-day pro- | Pevolution against Queen Isabella to a late | ‘hour yesterday ovegiay. The moyoment had i become general throughout the kingdom, and the friends of the Bourbon in the French press expressed despair of the royal cause. Santan- der was retaken by the rebels, Carthagena was in active revolt, the division of the royal army under command of Marshal Paiva was completely surrounded by the insurgent forces and on the eve of surrender, and it was believed in Madrid that General Concha would soon de- clare against the monarchy and unite with Serrano under the flag of the people. Strength- ened by their sudden and very complete suc- cess with the naval arm of the government service, the revolutionary leaders proceeded to proclaim an executive act of serious import— the declaration of the port of Cadiz as a free port. General Prim had not appeared off Bar- celona with a squadron, but was hourly ex- pected. The city of Barcelona had not pro- nounced for the insurrection, but it was thought that it would do so immediately after Prim’s arrival. The Marshal Duke de Vittoria, Espartero, declined the political field in conse- quence of ill health, Queen Isabella remained at St. Sebastian during ‘a part of the day at least, in the dis- charge of her sovereign duties, and appa- rently unyielding and inflexible as ever. She summoned a council of State to meet her in the fortress, where she was attended by Sefior Carlos Marfori, a member of the Gonzales Bravo Cabinet and the political enemy of the Conchas. Seiior José dela Concha, Premier in Madrid, and General Manuel Concha, com- manding a royal army in the field, forwarded resignations of their respective commissions to the Queen, alleging asa reason for their de- fection from her service that ‘the refusal of the Queen to return to Madrid unless accom- panied by the Minister Marfori had destroyed all hope of checking the insurrection”—a plea which, if correctly reported, tends to suggest the inference that had Isabella been, up toa certain time, more prudent in the midst of ministerial squabbles and accommodating to the prejudices of the majority of a Cabinet distracted and demoralized by partisanship, personalities and the ‘‘spoils,” she may havo tided over her throne difficulties for the pres- ent. The resignation of the Conchas was ac- cepted, and we are told that General the Count of Cheste Pezuela was commissioned to form a new ministry, a statement which, if correct under date of yesterday, contradicts the tele- gram which reported his death in battle the day previous. A rumor prevailed in London at a late hour last night to the effect that Madrid was in arms and that the Queen had taken her de- parture from St. Sebastian and crossed the frontier to France. How this great movement may terminate is very difficult even of surmise, our knowledge of the actual situation existing on the penin- sula being based on statements which are, to a very considerable extent, interested as they are contradictory. It is quite clear, however, that the Spanish revolution is rapidly approach- ing a crisis either of success and confirmation and acknowledgment or of collapse. The very act of declaring Cadiz a free port through armed insurrection will test the feeling of the surrounding governments, It will even em- barrass their rulers. Commerce will avail itself of the opportunity. Will the customs authori- ties of the other nations acknowledge the rebel trade transactions or credit the duties to the Queen? Or will they adhere to the English rule lately enunciated and ignore all dealings with an insurgent people before they ‘sustain themselves” fally in the field and ‘ possess the capital of the country ?” Ben Butler’s Nomination. There is a great deal of significance in the almost unanimous renomination of Ben Butler for Congress by the republicans of his dis- trict. Butler has been forthe past two or three years the acknowledged leader of the extreme radical wing of the party, and all the violent measures of Congress, including mili- tary rule over the South, negro suffrage, the Tenure of Office law and impeachment, have in a great degree owed théir success to his un- flagging energy. He was originally a bitter opponent of the nomination of General Grant as the republican candidate for the Presidency, and withdrew his opposition only upon the un- derstanding that Grant had irrevocably com- mitted himself to the radical policy. His re- turn to Washington under Grant's administra- tion means that the radicals have not given up the fight, and that their programme of rebel disfranchisement and disqualification during the present generation, universal negro equality, North as well as South, centraliza- tion of power in the legislative department of the government, and the creation of an oli- garchy composed of the banks, the railroads and the telegraph, all of which have been taken under the radical Congressional wing, is to be fully carried out. In a word, the radi- cal phalanx, headed by the hero of Big Bethel and Fort Fisher, intend to hold as tight a rein over Grant as they have held over Andrew Johnson, and are prepared to avail themselves of the Tenure of Office law, and even of im- peachinent itself, should the next administra- tion evince a leaning towards a conservative policy. Tag Deatn or Count Watewski.—The best as well as one of the most prominent men who in France connected the living present with the coup d'état and the re-establishment of the empire is no more. How few of the first counsellors of the Second Empire remain! St. Arnaud, Persigny, Pélissier, Mocquard, Walewski—they are all gone. Napoleon has already outlived his generation. He must feel somewhat alone. The terrible secrets of the Second of December, unless committed to some safe but obscure place, are very much in his own hand and heart. Fleury, it is true, still remains; but Fleury is little likely to peach either in life or death. Perhaps, after all, Guizot is right—that Napoleon has enough to think of without involving himself in the meshes of snother war. A Sense Resovvtion—That of the ex- febel General Gordon, of Georgia, to submit to the will of the people, oven in the lection of General Grant, ee A Splendid Chance for President Jobnson. | Riots und Reconstruction ie ‘eo South Does President Jobnsoa desire to go out of office head up, drums beating and colors fly- ing, like Old Hickory, or would he prefer to bo regarded like Captain Tyler, of 89 little conse~ ¢ home ag w find himself, with his housel; i deities, goods and chattels, too late for the steamboat? He can still choose the one alternative or the other. He has no favors to ask of either of the two great parties of the country, and nothing to fear trom them. The republicans have cut him adrift, and the democrats have swindled him. Seymour's juggling with the Chief Justice in view of the democratic nomination was a shabby trick; but it was a mere bagatelle compared with the swindiing of Andy Johnson by the democratic politicians and spoilsmen. From the day that hp was proclaimed by the lamented John Van Buren the right man for the democracy in 1868 the hungry democratic politicians, in their demands for office, harped’ upon that string, down to the Tammany Convention, and then, with a few fine words of flattery, they turned their backs upon their benefactor and whistled him down the wind. But ‘“‘fine words butter no parsnips.” Mr. Johnson has found it out, and yet the democratic spoilsmen are pursuing him and badgering him as if the glory of his administration depended upon the election of Seymour. On the other hand, with their Tenure of Office law and their threats of impeachment, the radicals, in the matter of the spoils and plunder, seem to be working to some purpose in their efforts to prevent the President from doing anything at all. One would think that they had really frightened him, and that from his narrow escape in his late trial the once bold and plucky Andy Johnson has become a little weak in the backbone. Surely, if it were otherwise, he would not keep dilly-dally- quence or ing and shilly-shallying from month to month with such Executive subor- dinates as McOulloch, Rollins = and all the corrupt internal revenue rings and cliques and combinations from which the Treasury is depleted at the rate of a hundred millions a year. We submit that tho Presi- dent’s true policy, regardless of radical threats or democratic badgerings, is to make a clean piece of work in behalf of a reforma- tion of these Treasury abuses, including a new ad interim Cabinet out and out if aecessary. The Tenure of Office law still allows him the privilege of suspending objectionable subor- dinates. Let Mr. Johnson, then, try the remedy of a batch of suspensions, beginning with McCulloch and Rollins, and get his reasons ready to submit to the Senate on the 16th of October, and let us see what the Senate will do with them. While he is in for it it may be as well for a sheep as a lamb—as well for a large batch as a small batch of these in- competent revenue officials and Treasury rob- bers. Next, in making his changes, let not Mr. Johnson call in the thimble-riggera of Tammany Hall, or any clique of democratic loafers around the White House, but call in General Grant and ask his advice as to the proper substitutes for the unsatisfactory of- ficials to be suspended. In this way, by heading off the extrome radical managers, Wade, Sumner, Butler aad all the rest of them, and by giving General Grant the inside track against them President Johnson may not only snap his fingers at the cry of impesch- ment, but may do a great deal towards «hap- ing the policy of General Grant's administra- tion, Seriously, we submit these suggestions as worthy the immediate attention of the President, and as an invitation to a splendid stroke of policy against the tricksters and traders and knaves and imbeciles of both the republican and democratic parties. Mr. Johnson goes out on the 4th of March next, and he must do something in tho interval that will make a deep and lasting impression or he will retire at once into the obscurity of the utterly cheated, defeated and used up politi- cian. Detmar iN WALL Street. —There has boen a great deal of talk in Wall street about Mr. Delmar’s letter on the state of the finances, but the speculators have failed to act upon it in any of the markets, and the price of gold declined in the face of all its dis- couraging, not to say alarming, figures. It met, indeed, a very similar reception to that which was accorded to Mr. Atkinson's statisti- cal speech on the same subject, and while this has been dubbed the radical exhibit the other has been stigmatized as the copperhead review. But there is far more truth than poetry in what Mr. Delmar says, and although his esti- mates are exaggerated, he is in the main far more correct than Atkinson. Allowance must be made for error and misrepresentation in both cases; but it is obvious that the Treasury is drifting in the direction indicated by the former, and that there will be a large deficiency to provide for at the end of the fiscal year. Mr. Delmar’s letter came upon the gold market, however, in the midst of a bear movement, and it was to the interest of the bears to dis- credit and pooh-pooh it, and some allowance must be made for this fact. There are none 80 blind as those who will not see. Taw Crrizens’ Assooration Versus THR Sereet Commisstonee.—Under date ‘Septem- ber 28" the Citizens’ Association has addressed an unpardonably lengthy communication to Street Commissioner McLean, expressing the | utmost dissatisfaction at tho manner in which that gentleman has replied to the many “serious” charges made against him. After occupying some nine or ten closely written foolscap pages in recapitulating ‘‘all the charges” and giving summaries of all the re- plies thereto, Mr. Codper is considerate enough to append a summary, ‘‘briefly made,” of the recapitulated charges and replies, and then, in order that there should be no mistake, set forth the charges again with explanatory remarks and caustic criticisms on those of the replies which are considered particularly un- satisfactory. The opinion of the Citizens’ As- sociation on the defence made by the Street Commissioner is that, allowing all his statements to be correct, only $60,000 has been wasted instead of $73,281, ‘the sum mentioned in the No Mistaxe, —Whatever may be the oxact position of Horatio Seymour on reconstruction and the finances just now, there is no mistake about Gonoral Frank Blair. He is one of the red hot demooracy, and General Jack Rogers and Brick Pomeroy are his prophets. Every lay we have to chronicle some dood of violenge and bloodshed in the Sonby arising from the disturbed state of the public mina upon the subject of politics. At one time the Siate of Tennessee is in terrible commotion, and the Ku Klnx assassinations there are, ao cording to the Brownlow papers and proclama- tions, fearful in number and attended with savage atrocity. Then the soil of Arkansas becomes blood-stained with daily and nightly murders. Next we have the New Orleans negro procession riols, attended with san- guinary resulta, and, finally, for the present at least, comes the Camilla tragedy, with its accompanying horrors and widespread excite- ment and alarm. Naturally enough each party ascribes the origin of these turbulent proceedings to the other. Each can find witnesses to swear the other was to blame, and each story is believed to be true or false according to the predilec- tions of those who listen to one or the other. The truth is, these outrages arise from natural causes, They are to be attributed to the sys- tem of reconstruction which the republican party insist on forcing upon the people of the South against their will and consent, and, in a measure, both parties are to blame—one for the manner in which the obnoxious laws are attempted to be enforced and the other for the mode adopted to resist them. It is « struggle on the part of the democrats to possess power and on the part of the republi- cans to retain it, ‘It isa contest between the old Southern rebel democracy who, with all their force of character, self-reliance and audacity, are striving against the republicans of the North, who, on their side, with their usual unscrupulous shrewdness and cunning, desire to establish the domination of the black race and its recognition upon a standard of equality or rather of supremacy in every re- spect over the white in the South. Of course this utter destruction of the whole social and political relations of the Southern white people cannot be tolerated by the masses of the whites, neither in the South nor in the North, for any length of time, evenif it should be ab- solutely permitted for a day. It is, briefly, a race between both parties as to who shall win the black vote, and the Southern democrats stand as good a chance as the republicans. The former are well understood to mean what they say and intend to keep the promises they make to the blacks. The republicans are fast losing whatever hold they had upon the affec- tions of the colored people by repeated acts of fraud and deception. The democrats are ac- tively at work getting up conventions, public meetings, mingling on terms of political fair- ness with the blacks and making them under- stand who their true friends are. On the other hand, the republicans are only making head- way with the blacks by endeavoring to instil into their minds a fear that their former mas- ters intend to reduce them again to a state of bondage and by making them believe they mean to confer upon them every prerogative enjoyed by the whites—to sit in Congress, in State Legislatures and the like—while they tell altogether a different story at the radical hust- ings in the North in those radical States which have:pronounced against negro suffrage and negro equality. So far as the carpet-baggers are concerned, it is a game of double-shuffle all around. They are shuffling with Sambo in the cabins at the South and shuffling with the anti- negro equality republicans in the North. But in the end we do not believe the Sambo shuffle willwin. It is a too broad-fuced choat and } humbug, of which the sensible blacks are not likely to be made the permanent victims. Hence, with the Southerners successful in se- curing the vote of the black population, their triumph in every Southern State is assured, and with that influence they will rally the old democratic party all over the country, obtain a restoration to that half century of power which they unwisely surrendered in 1860, and the nation will again have a trial for another half century of the regular old- fashioned Southern democratic rule. We do not believe the Southerners will ever undertake again to break down the government. They have had enough of that. But they will start anew upon the plan of government which, with but one or two exceptions, they knew how to oarry on 60 well for so long a time, and which, now that slavery is forever extinct, was just about as good a government as the country ever had. So placing these Southern riots to the account of the efforts of the republicans to establish an atrocious system of reconstruction in the South, we see in them, while holding both par- ties more or less responsible for the outrages committed, only the natural result of a strug- gle between two political parties—the one to retain, the other to possess power, with the negro vote as the prize to the viotors. The South American Earthquakes. By our recent news from the scene of the earthquakes it will be noted that after the lapse of a month the surface was still not definitely @irm and that shocks of variable power and small extent were constantly felt.. The expla- nation of these later manifestations probably is that sections of the surface, in a general change of subterranean conditions are insuffi- ciently supported and settle to new places, changing their position suddenly and, of course, with some vibratory effect. We have heard but little of the change of level on the Continent, while from the Sandwich Islands we hear that extensive districts are some foot lower than formerly. It is noted, however, as a startling incident in the continental story, that the streams changed direction and flowed toward their sources in the mountains. This is an indication of change of level, but it indi- cates that the coast line was lifted. Another fact signifying the same thing is that sound- ings taken since in the harbor of Arica show only seven fathoms of water where there were before thirty fathoms. While districts far out in the ocean then are lower, parts of the South American coast are higher than they were, and we infor that the depressed districts are nearer than the others to the central disturbance, It will be remem- bered that on the first reception of the news of the earthquake we argued, from its extent and the directions in which it was felt, that ite cause was an eruption under the South Pacific. Except on that theory we see no explanation of these later facts, If we suppose at » given point an eruption discharging immense quaa- tities of molten matter and gueeg we cau 600