The New York Herald Newspaper, October 1, 1868, Page 6

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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brosdway.— BOILENOR AND A TRIPLE ‘SHEET. New seek Tuareday, October bad 1868. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated at Qidnight Yesterday, Sept. 30. The Spanish revolution was complete. Queen Isa- bella reached Bayonne, France, an exile. Madrid was revolutionized, the Conchas joined the people, & provisional junta was formed, the royal arms taken Gown and the city illuminated. The royal army un- der General Pavia was completely routed, Count Girgenti, son-in-law of the Queen, was made priso- ner by the revolutionists. Consols, 94% for money. Five-twenties, 739; in London, and firm in Frankfort at last quotations. Cotton upward in Liverpool, with middling up- lunds at 10',d.a 104d. sreadstuffs and provisions quiet. MISCELLANEOUS. General Gordon Granger has left Washington to relieve General Thomas, temporarily, of the, com- mand of the Department of the Cumberland, with headquarters at Nashville. Gengral Thomas comes to Washington a3 a member of the court of inquiry to investigate charges against General Dyer, Chief of Ordnance. The radicals in Tennessee claim that these transfers are made by the President for the purpose of having a democratic commander in Ten- pessee at the coming election. ‘The Treasury experts who haye been comparing Director Delmar’s statistics with the books of the department claim to have discovered yesterday two errors in his figures—one of $100,009,000 cash bal- ances, which he failed to include as assets, and another of $25,000,000, overstated expenditure in the Kavy Department. In the Louisiana Senate yesterday the report of a committee declaring the action of the Registration Board in refusing naturalization papers from cer- tain district courts in New Orleans to be entirely un- wurranted by law was adopted, and a bill confin- ing the registers within the law was passed to the Gret reading. General Schofield, the Secretary of War, in his in- structions to General Meade, endorsed on the re- solutions of the Alabama Legislature, directs him to exercise all the authority conferred by the law in order to preserve the peace, A terrific nitro-giycerine explosi»n occurred on & train of cars on the Atlantic and Great Western Rail- way near Urbana, Obio, on Tuesday. The engineer and fireman Were injured, and the train destroyed by the fire that ensued. A house a quarter of a mile from the soene was demolished by the concussion. A grand Convention of Boys io Bive holds forth in Philadelphia to-day. The city is aiready filling up with delegates, and numerous large delegations are on the way from other cities, ‘The rebei soldier of Hindman’s old command, who bad been arrested on suspicion of murdering the Geueral, has been acquitted at Helena, Ark. General Frank Blalr arrived in Washington on Voeslay uivht, and left yesterday morning for his father’s residence in Maryland, The brenks ip the Champlain Canal have been re- paired. ‘HE CITY. Yhe present system of quarantine is giving such great dissatisiaction to the merchants and citizens of New York that strong measures will be instituted during the cowing winter to nave the whole system modified and placed under the control of the general government. The charges for towing vessels in quarentine, for conveying passengers and packages quarantined vessels to the city, for the useless ous of fumig: nd for the official visite of the Health Officer have been made so exhorbitapt by the regulations of the Commissioners that itis proba- ble some of the victimized shipowners will claim restitution in the courts, A devision of Chief Justice Chase, in a case somewhat sitnilar in New Orleaus sometime ago, declared that such tolls as are levied on ships in this port by the Quarantine Commission- ers are entirely unconstitutional. Mr. George W, McLean, Street Commissioner, ix out again in a reply to the Citizens’ Association. Hia letter this time is directed to the Chamber of Commerce. He proposes that the latter body appoint fa capable and disinterested person who, in conjunc- tion with two others, shall examine the changes made against him and report to the public. Mr. Me- jean declares that the charges are made at the in- stance of one Nathaniel Sands, whom he character- (zea as well and not favorably known in commercial eircies in this city. ‘The Catholic Synod continaed its session yester- Gay. The debate on the decrees of the Baltimore WEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. Council was ; continaed, and one of them setting forth that immorality proceeded from pionios and dances it was resolved that there shall be no more picnics or waltzing among the Catholics of this diocese, The Commissioners of the Elevated Railway bave set aside the action of the Common Council in refer- ence to it, by approving of the works now in pro- gress in Cortland street, as according to the law creating the company the Common Council cannot interfere with the construction of the road after the Works have been approved by the Commissioners. General McClellan kept himseif very secluded yes- terday. In the evening he was-entertained Ly Mr A. Belmont. This afternoon the Common Council resolution will be presented to him, and to-morrow & public reception at the Fifth Avenue Hotel will be tendered him, under the auspices of the McClellan Legion, Lady Thorn and Mountain Boy trotted on the Union Course, Long Island, yesterday, for a purse cf $2,000, mile heats, best three in five, in harness. Lady Thorn beat the Boy in three straight heats, her best mile being in 2:24. In the series of races be- tween these trotters, which commenced last year, Lady Thorn has come out winner six times and Mountain Boy four. A large fire occurred in Brooklyn yesterday on Water street, near the Fulton ferry. The Empire stores, United States bonded warehouses, owned by Nesmith & Co., with @ large amount of stored property, were destroyed, involving a lossjestimated at $1,500,000, ‘The inquest on the body of James Hamilton, who died from the effects of oxalic acid administered in @ dose of medicine procured from Edward Rogers & Son's drug store, in this city, was postponed until Saturday, and the Rogers, father and sop, were committed without bail. An electric light was displayed on the deck of tlie Havre steamship St. Laurent at her dock in Jersey cl.y on Tuesday night, which made the river and shores almost as clear as at noonday. The light is used by the St, Laurent at sea, and will penetrate the densest fog for a great distance, ‘The Irish Republicans’ Campaign Club of this city held a mass ratification meeting lastevening at the, Cooper Institute. The affair was a great success, large and enthusiastic crowd being present, Telling speeches were made by Senator Conness, of Cali fornia; Attorney General Lynch, of Louisiana, and othersin favor of the republican candidates for Presl- dent and Vice President. The Westchester County Court of Oyer and Ter- miner commenced its session yesterday at White Plains. An extra heavy criminai calendar was pro- sented. Two pleas in cases of homicide were ep- tered, and the trial of Burns, alias “ Brickley,” and Whittington, two Sing Sing convicts, for the murder of the double murderer and convict Jefferds, was ad- journed until Friday. The trial of Jonn Doran, implicated with Thomas Fitzgerald and others in the murder of the young girl Ellen Hict's in August, 1866, was commenced; but when a panel of 150 jurors had been exhausted only seven jurors were obtained. A new panel was ordered for nine o'clock this morning. Considerable miscellaneous criminal business was transacted. Another case consequent upon the production of the drama of “Foul Play’ was discussed in the Court of Oommon Pleas yesterday. Mr. William Worrell had sued out an injunction against Mr. J. T. Lloyd restraining him from the further use of the New York theatre for the production of the piece, on the ground that it was no longer mutually profita- ble. The Judge decided that “mutually profitable” Was a very uncertain term to make use of in a con- tract and declared the injunction dissolved. The lottery cases came up before Commissioner Osborn yesterday. It was shown that the policy business as carried on by the defendants was en- tirely distinct from lotteries, with which they had nothing to do. A motion for the Gismissal of the cases on the rendering of this evidence was denied and the defendants were held for trial. These exa- minations are preliminary to the main cases, which come up on Saturday before Judge Blatchford. The North German Lloyd's steamship Hermann, Captain Wenke, will leave Hoboken about two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The steamship Rising Star, Captain Maury, will sall at twelve M. to-day for San Francisco. The steamship Morro Castle, Captain R. Adams, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three P. M. to- day for Havana. ‘The steamship Herman Livingston, Captain Eaton, will sail from pier 36 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, Ga, ‘The stock market was unsettled yesterday, but closed steady. Govgenment securities were rather heavy. Gold closed at 14034 a 1405. Prominent Arrivals. Ex-Governor Cox, of Maryland; J. T. Davis, of Syracuse; Rev. J. Brown, of Newburg; W. A. Davis, of Poughkeepsie, and Captain Dwight Sturtevant, of the “Hub,” are at the Astor House. General J, R. Chambers, of Memphis, is at the Maltby House, Judge Craven, of Alabama; Baron Hartstein, Aus- trian Minister, and Blacque Bey, Turkish Minister at Washington, are at the Brevoort House. Colonel W. F. Schaeffer, of St. Louis; Major George N. Vernon, of the United States Army; H. S. McComb, of Delaware, and W. Claflin, of Massachusetis, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. W. Lacey, of Albany; ©. M. Pond, of Connecticut, and HI. Lippitt, of Pravidence, are at the Hoffman House. Judge McCunn, of the Supreme Court, arrived in this city on Tuesday from his Beropesn tour. Reunion of the Northern and Southern De- mocracy=The Party of the Future. It was hardly within the limit of possibility that the democracy could triumph in the pend- ing canvass, for, in the very nature of the case, their position was such as to awaken the mis- givings of the people. They necessarily stood before the country in an attitude of hostility to the party that could with some show of justice claim the conduct of the war as a portion of its record ; and the popular intellect, which gene- ralizes on broad facts and does not weigh nice points, could see no difference between oppo- sition to the party of the war and opposition to the war itself. This was made worse by the impenetrable stupidity of democratic writers themselves confounding the same things and arguing as if the best way to expose the follies and blunders of the Northern war party was to glorify the Southern armies and depreciate the courage of the national soldiers and the abili- ties of national generals. Thus, by the popular view and by the coppery instinct of its own writers, the democratic party was at once debarred from assuming that attitude in which alone there was a possible victory for an oppo- sition party—the attitude, namely, of a party that, acknowledging and accepting the result of the war, wages its strife against the abuses and shortcomings of a political organization corrupted by the possession of too much power. Thus debarred from that only sure course, the democracy was from the beginning doomed to defeat, Certain of the democratic leaders saw this— not the Northern ones, for they are fellows rich in bully and braggadocio and the mean eunning of jobbery, just in proportion as they are poor in that true capital of a party—edu- cated thought applied to the solution of politi- cal problems. Northern democratic leaders were summing up the total of spoils they would gather when they won, ax the beggar of Bag- dad counted the price of the chickens that were in his basket of eggs; and while they were thus busy the Southern leaders—the same men who raled our aystem by superior sagacity in days gone by—were weighing the chances of the conflict and devising the means by which victory was to be secured sovner or later. These men saw that the contest of their party in this canyass against » name that so carried the story of the war as Grant’s did was hopeless, and turned their thoughts to what might practicaly be done this year. They gave up the candidate to be named by the North on condition that the Nor‘h would give them their vital points of principle in the plat- form, This was a cheap victory. They could afford to let the North name the candidate, for it made no difference who he might be, since it was so nearly an absolute certainty that he must be beaten, while in securing the platform they were enabled to identify a new consolidated democracy in the very hour of its birth with that policy in regard to the Southern States that must eventually have the sympathy of the whole people. They gave up the candidate and the New Yorkers named him. The position of our city democrats on the Presidency is this: if there is a man in the White House whom they can manage they would like to have a democratic President; but if they cannot manage a democratic President they would rather have a Prosident of the other party. This is all in regard to the city spoils, A President they can manage will put their own men in the Custom House and the Post Office, and all will be harmony between the national plunderers and the municipal plunderers of this free metropolis; but if the President is one who will put other kinds of democrats here to distress the municipal stealers and provoke division on tickets, they would rather have a President to put in republicans, from whom they will be safe. This is their political philosophy, and in the contrast between it and the political ideas that moved the Southern leaders we see the true difference between the two classes of men. The Southern leaders are looking, therefore, in this fight solely for its effect on the future. They know that they cannot win this year— they must apprehend that they may not win for two or three campaigns to come; for, in view of the vitality that Grant will give, in view of the development of political purposes that will characterize his administration, it is at least possible that his party will receive from him an impulse that may carry it triumphantly many years into the future. On the ther hand it cannot be con- cealed that it is a party naturally tend- ing towards early disintegration. It is full of elements that are essentially conflict- ing, and that can only act together while some idea or will altogether dominating keeps in abeyance the natural tendency. Already this inevitable divergence of the elements of that party may be seen as it appears on one great topic in the comparison of the views of differ- ent radical leaders on the subject of national finances, And while this is true it is certain that the Southern democrats have placed their party right for the future on the subject that is to determine the fate of many candidates, the reconstruction of the Southern States and the relative position of the different races of men under this government, The Spanish Rebellion. Our latest news from Spain warrants the conclusion that though the end may yet be afar off the revolutionary party has victory within its grasp. Nothing but the most intense bungling can prevent them from becoming masters of the situation. The two Conchas, the civil and military heads of the government, have both pronounced for the revolution. The royal army under General Paiva has been completely dispersed. The unpopularity of the Queen in Madrid is evinced by the fact that the statue of her Majesty has been dragged through the streets of the capital. The most important item of news is the an- nouncement of the appointment of a Pro- visional Junta. The hopelessness of the Queen’s cause is further proved by the fact that there is no resistance offered to the insurgents, and that in spite of civil war order reigns, From a variety of circumstances it is abun- dantly manifest that the governments of Europe have become deeply interested in the situation. It has already induced Napolean to send for his cousin that bird of evil omen, whose ap- pearance at the Tuileries is always cause of alarm. It has also induced the Czar of Russia to make o special visit to King William of Prussia at Potsdam. When birds of such feather flock together trouble is certain to be brewing. Now that even the Moniteur has been com- pelled to admit that the cause of the Bourbons is lost, the question next in importance is how and by whom is Spain to be governed? In the event of the revolutionary party being suc- cessful the first thing which will command general attention will be the assembling of the Cortes. It is difficult to believe that foreign intrigue will not be busy with the Cortes and that the councils of the same will not he seri- ously distracted by conflicting interests. The presumption is now that a Provisional Junta has been formed and that Espartero will pro- bably be compelled to come out of his retreat to act as temporary President. Spain, how- ever, is not republican. The ‘“‘titulados” or nobles, not the burghers, must for some time to come be the rulers of that country. It will therefore be the chief business of the Cortes to decide upon a successor to Queen Isabella. If it be true that the Bourbons are doomed, then there is not the shadow of a chance either for the heir of Don Carlos or for tho Prince di Girgenti, who is now a prisoner in the hands of the insurgents, The chance of the Prince of the Asturias, implying as it does a regenoy for w protracted period, must be considered emall, To the Sponish mind the word “regency” is quite as offensive as the word “Bourbon.” The Duke de Mont- pensier may be a favorite in Spain; bat heis both a Bourbon and an Orleanist, and thus doubly offensive to one man who, afier all, must have something to say in the settle ment of this question. Napoleon cannot con sent to the appointment of a son of Louis Philippe to the throne of Spain. Some people have imagined the possibility of the appointment of Prince Napoleon to the Spanish throne; bat thie cannot for a moment he we riously entertained. There is one possibility which, as events are now shaping themselves, rises more and more to the region of the pro- bable, Itis long since it was known to be « pet project of the Kimperor Napoleon to give the Iberian peninsula unity under the House of Braganza. Now is the opportunity, If Spain is sick of Bourhoaism Spain van scarcely ~authority-that. almost object to an arrangement which will give her @ grander place in the family of nations. To such an arrangement there is no reason at all why the European Powers should object. If this should turn out to be the proper solution of the difficulty it will show that Count Mon- tholon, who did bis master such good service some few years ago at Washington, has not been laboring in vain in Lisbon. The Indian War—Its Causes and Remedy. The troops under command of Colonel For- sythe, who were attacked by the Indianslately, have arrived in safety at Fort Wallace. They must have given the Indians a severe lesson, for, although they were only fifty against seven hundred, they kept the savages at bay and lost only five men and had only fourteen wounded, while their red enemy, after discharging ten thousand rounds of ammunition from our very best Henry rifles, supplied to them by the gov- ernment, and covering the ground with clouds of arrows, had to retire with a loss of seventy- five, many of whose bodies were found on the Plains by Colonels Bankhead and Carpenter as they advanced to the relief of Colonel For- sythe. It appears from the latest news that the Indians are moving south of the Kansas branch of the Pacific Railroad, in the direction of Texas and New Mexico, driving herds of buffalo before them, General Sully, how: ever, is located in that direction and ready to meet them with five hundred cavalry, posted seventy miles south of Fort Dodge, on the Ar- kansas river. These are the latest facts, officially confirmed, from the Indian country. Raids upon the railroad stations are talked of, and Captain Clouse, who commands near Mon- ument station with a very small force, is said to be preparing to resist them. Now, as to the cause of all this trouble. We would trace it, as we have said before, directly to the bad management of the Interior Depart- ment and to the correlative fact that the govern- ment is the ally of the Indian and furnishes him the means to murder our soldiers. A gen- eral officer now on the Plains, holding a promi- nent command, writes to a friend in this city thus:—“‘All the Arapahoes and Cheyennes are on the warpath. They are splendidly mounted and have extra animals enough to re- mount two regiments, all stolen from the whites this year and last year, animals which the Peace Commissioners told them that they might keep, provided that they did not steal any more.” We have it on excellent ery warrior who at- tended the council of ers last summer was mounted on a horse or mule stolen either from the government or from some white settler, and some of them rode thoroughbred horses known to have been stolen from army officers, Yet, as the correspondent referred to says, they were permitted to retain these animals. Despatches state that the In- dians who attacked Colonel Forsythe were armed with Spencer and Henry rifles. Of course they were furnished by the Indian Bureau at Washington, They could not have come from any other source. In confirmation of this statement the general officer alluded to says: ‘They (the Indians) are all well armed, some with the latest patent firearm (breech- loading Henry rifle), and have any quantity of ammunition—at least so I should judge from he way they fired—lately presented to them by the Peace Commissioners.” What com- ment shall be made on authentic statements like these? It is through such nefarious man- agement in the Interior Department that Indian wars are brought about. How can we expect anything else but war when the government supplies the means and literally subsidizes the enemy? it is well known that. bands of In- dians who have kept faith with us hitherto are actually to-day reproaching their chiefs in such language as this: “See how rich and proud the hostile tribes are and what fine presents they have received from the Peace Commission, while we, who are at peace, are poor, starving, and receive nothing. Let us also make war and become rich.” This is no exaggeration, It is true of the Cheyennes, the Arapahoes, the Sioux, the Kiowas and other tribes in Kansas, where the present dif- ficulty exisis. When the government withdrew the troops from the frontier during the war with the the South the savages grew bold. The first Indians who roved from their reserva- tions were attacked by the Territorial troops, and the last war on the Plains was in- augurated by the terrible ‘ Chivington massacre” of November 29, 1864. From that time the Indians and settlers were al- most daily engaged in fights until the govern- ment in (866, relieved from its harder struggle with the South, was able to send General Han- cock with sufficient force to bring the Indians to terms. Hancock, however, knowing no- thing of Indian warfare, approached the enemy in regular line of battle, as if he was fighting with white men, with his cavalry, and infantry flanked by batteries of artillery. The Indians laughed at this mode of warfare, but of course were wise enough not to give battle, while at the same time, being alarmed at the display of force, they were cunning enough to see that the hands of the govern- ment were free to send any number of troops against them; and hence, with the additional persuasions of Father De Smet, the Indian missionary, the treaties were brought about. But our Commissioners committed the error of not dictating the terms. They were too conciliatory and liberal, too prolific of promises, too prolix in their peace talks, too generous of gifts and too extravagant in their appropriations, The Indians were led to be- lieve that we were over anxious for peace. General Sheridan has expressed the opinion that they began their present depredations with the idea and hope of forcing us to give more presenta and make further appropriations for their benefit in order to maintain the peace. It is already evident to them that they have made a mistake. It is now apparent that the new policy which must be pursued against them is to he one of war, and not conciliation. It is to be directed by the War and not the In- terior Department, and to be exeented by Sherman and Sheridon, and not the Indian agents and traders, ‘The Indians must be forced back to their reservations and kept there, and General Sherman may agcomplish this before the snow falls, One thing is quite certain—the Western a@tlers and Indians can- not live in peace in the sume Territories; the Pacific Railroad wack cannot forever run parallel with (he Indian warpath, 1 Fall AmusementeTho War ef the Bouflers. Every season the amusement horoscope becomes interesting and exciting. Last win- ter we were called upon to record the history of the direful war between tie rival opera houses, Pike's and the Academy, which ended in the temporary extinguishment of the former and the total annihilation of the latter. Now the tocsin is sounding on the west side, and on the Sixth and Eighth avenues the legions of Grau’and Bateman are gathering for the conflict, while the Irving place monu- ment is silent and deserted, The irrepressible Grau flies his standard from the battlements of the Théitre Frangais and the unconquerable Bateman fortifies himself in the stronghold of Pike. The approaching conflict promises to eclipse even that &f Peter Stuyvesant Stra- kosch and Jan Risingh Pike. The forces on either side are strong in voice, cunning phrases, laughable action and cuncan, and are commanded by veterans scarred with the marks of a hundred battles, on whose brows victory has set her seal, Foremost among the ranks of the Frangais ‘“‘bouffera” are three prime donne—Rose Bell, Desclauzas and Fon- tanel—the “tenor Carrier, the extravagant Beckers and the gendarme Gabel; against whom Bateman marshals Irma, Tostée and Lambelé (threo amazons fair to look upon and well versed in the devious paths of Offenbach), Aujac, representative of the jolly Mormon; Le Duc, Lagriffoul and Duchesne, Offenbach will be the guiding spirit of both armies, and the public and the Bohemians are in ecstatic anticipation, The Théitre Frangais has been entirely recon- structed and beautified and Pike's bas not yet lost the sheen of its first decorations. The result of the conflict between the rival Grand Dachesses probably will bo that when Field Marshal Grau’s five years’ term of command expires he will be able to spare something from his accumulated millions to purchase the Théitre Frangais from the stockholders and present it to the city, like a second Peter Cooper. Major General Bateman may emulate the example of Astor and donate the metropolis with some equally valuable gift. Meanwhile the world of fashfon is in a flutter between both houses, and the modistes are in a quandary to furnish their fair customers with appropriate colors to suit their predilections in the direfal contest. We, or at least patres familias, dread the expenses of this war and the many appro- priatioas which will be demanded at their hands by the fair adherents of either Grand Duchess. We know that the Théitre Frangais will be resplendent with beauty, fashion, diamonds and incalculable toilets, and we are confident that Pike's will not be behind- hand. Then the purse strings of the smiling Grau are already loosened to their fullest ex- tent and the money ebbs and flows in Bate- man’s treasury like the tide of the sea. The redoubtable Field Marshal Grau proclaims from his headquarters at the Théitre Frangais:— Jat des gens portant haliebardes, Jai Fpl a us portant mousquetons, zal io régumens de ines gardes, Jai 08 pone et mes dragons, éclaireurs i mes sapeurs [ Bateman fearlessly replies from his present post at Niblo’s:— Pif, paf, pout, tara, Ps poun. Je Suis,’ mol, te aéi am. Thus the armies are situated at the present writing, and what a week or two will bring forth every critic is awaiting with impatience, pen in hand, like the spear of Ithuriel. But we must not lose sight of the other places of amusewent in view of the war of the “bouffers.” The west side of town will have three other strong attractions. Wood's Museum, where Lydia Thompson delights crowded houses nightly with her sparkling burlesque ; Boot!’s new theatre, which will lay claim to the title of the home of the legitimate drama, and last, though not least, the bijou establishment of John Brougham, in which the rollicking manager intends to ‘‘spread himself” to the fullest extent, will divide the patronage of the public in that quarter. The Broadway managers farther down town are also girding on their armor and preparing for a successful campaign. Niblo’s, after two nights’ Saturnalia of ballet and Black Crookism, will again return to the legitimate or sensa- tional (which in these days, we believe, mean pretty much the same thing), and the new Management promise unutterable things for the future. Florence is winning Iaurels at the Broadway; the inimitable Lingard has made the Comique « fashionable resort; Wallack’s is again in its usual course of standard favorit- ism; ‘Humpty Dumpty” still rules the Olym- pic, and the minstrels are surpassing all their previous efforts. The ‘Black Crook” takes refuge in the Bowery, where it will be re- ceived with open arms. Ard amid all this- turmoil of amusements the Academy stands deserted and alone, and the stockholders re- fase to be comforted even bytheir irresistible neighbors, Dan Bryant ai the Circus. Steinway Hall, frescoed, plinted and re- modelled, claims the conced and oratorio public, as before, and there isiothing left for the poor Academy but to like Ariadne, because the modern Theseus, Mapleson, has forsaken it. ‘Sweet are the! uses of adver- sity,” and we hope that the ow hundred and ninety-nine and a half stockbo¥ers will profit by their present misfortanes, Whe Is to Represent the District ¢ The most exciting local quesion among the politicians at this time is, who s to represent the Fifth district in the next Chgress? John Morrissey, the famous banker,is the present representative. He was el two years ago on the same ticket with Goyrnor Hoffman, the difference being that M y came out ahead while Hoffman was deft There is now & breach between them, while Hoff- man is again a candidate for Gotrnor there ap- will receive the Tammany mmiation for Con- gress. George Francie Thin jas put bimeelf into the field as an aspirant for Congressional honors, and will have all the Influence and ability of the strong-mindé females to back him. An ambitions coroner named William Gover manifests an inclingon to go to Was! ington to hold an inquest h the body of Ho- ratio Seymour, who is likelfto die of an attack of copperheadism in the eaty part of Novem- ber next. But the most ptmising candidate | hitherto mentioned is John® Allen, of Water street renown, and generay known as the wickedest mau in New York As the republi- cans contemplate running Thodore Allen, one | of their prominent leaders, for Congress, pro- ably the demoorats of the 7ifth district oan- not do better than to pit Johnny Aiea against him. With two Allens in the field the wickedest is sure win. The Spanish Revolution and Its Effects im Seuth America and Cuba. The effect of revolutions nowadays may be Compared to that of an earthquake. Indeed, a revolution shocks only such people as are like to those from'whose midst the trembling starts. South America and Cuba bear a strik- ing likeness to their mother country, Spain; 60 do the United States to Great Britain. There is, however, this ce, that after having cut loose from our mother country we forced her and all mankind to treat us as a full grown nation quite willing to respect others’ rights and able to make them respect our own. Neither South America nor Central America has ever been able to do this; and it is a question whether Cuba ever will be able to claim a man’s estate in the family of nations. Certainly none of the South American repab- lics has yet been able to maintain such estate, though all have claimed it more loudly than this, the only full-grown republic of the world. One of the strongest proofs of this truth may be found in the still unsettled war between Spain and the west coast republics of South America. The stubbornness with which Spain refused to acknowledge the independence of her colonies showed clearly that the first chance would be seized by her to regain control over them, ‘This she has been trying with the above men~ tioned republics, and she has failed, as was just that she should. But now the shock of revolution which parted her and her finest | nine colonies is felt at home. Whence comes it? How far will it reach? No one can tell for sure, All that we can say is that the power of Spain had better be gathered for use at home than be wasted in an idle trial to make people abroad wear a yoke which subjects at home are struggling successfally to break. Such must be the end of this revolution. The war against Peru, Chile and their allies, Bolivia and Ecuador, must be ended at once, and the Cuban as well as Porio Rican fond- ness for the political mode of life followed in this neighboring republic must be gratified. If not done those two gems of the Antilles will slip into the quiet hands of a people able and willing to set them where they belong—in the diadem that crowns the brow of this liberty- loving republic. We need not pry into the causes that have given the final shape to this Spanish revolution. If, we trust the best sources of knowledge, the whole affair is an earnest and hearty move to overthrow the French moneyed aristocracy which, under the government of Isabella IL., has been for some time sucking the life-blood of Spain. This same aristocracy wheedled the Queen’s government into the outrageous seizure of the Chincha Islands and the Pacifie Ocean campaigns. They did the same in the Mexican intervention case, under the lead of General Prim. The very men who are now at the head of this Spanish revolution tried to save their country from falling into these errors, They failed; but now they seem de- termined to succeed. They mean to drive from power those men who would let Spain be the tool of France, both at home and abroad. Hence the success of the revolution will insure peace to the South American republics, arelaxation of the reins so'tightly held over Cuba and Porto Rico, and a complete change in the American policy of Spain. Obstructions in Streets. Of the many obstructions which are con- stantly to be met with and overcome in the thoroughfares of this city, and often at hazard to life and limb, none are so unsightly, un- necessary and disagreeable asthe materials for building which constructors and architeots, as if actuated by malice, manage to obtrude on @ patient, long-suffering brick-and-mortar rid- den public. Were it impossible to pile ia convenient places stone and lumber, sand and lime—as on a vacant lot in the immediate vicinity of what is facetiously called an ‘‘im- provement,” or in the usual excavation within the boundaries of the land—there could be no objection raised against the occupation of a moiety of the roadway and the whole of the sidewalk to the general misery, It is not pleasant, especially on blustering autumn days, when the wind in fitful guste sweeps 8 thoroughfare where many buildings are in course of erection, as is the case at the present time in nearly all the avenues og the east side of the town, the Fifth especially, to pass up or down them and have your ears and nostrils, mouth and eyes filled with pare ticles of unslacked lime and exceedingly sharp- edged, flint-like bits of sand, to say nothing of the injury your cuticle and your garmenty alike sustain. It is very pleasant indeed to witness the rapid growth of our beautiful city and watch the increasing evidences of ite wealth, both real and personal; but because palaces are being erected by whole blocks @ that an excuse for ‘seizing the highways by builders and seriously interfering with or wholly excluding from them those who have the first and best title to them—the people? Those engaged in putting up buildings have an idea which they probably derived from long years of lax administration of the mani- cipal laws, that the half of the street opposite the lot on which they are engaged is theire while they deem it essential to the progress of their work. Nothing can be more absurd. If it were the case those engaged in erecting honses on opposite lots in the same avenne could unquestionably close it to the public and to commerce, It is full time this indiscriminate and unlaw- ful interference with the roadways were put an end to. The ordinances of the city, if properly enforced by the police, would in # little while wholly abate it, to the ploasure and well being of the citizens. Any one who walks or drives through Fifth j avenne—and we cite this thoroughfare becanse it is the general resort of vehicles going to and from the Park—on # gusty after- noon particularly, cannot but be convinced that the occupation of half the pavement, sometimes for an entire block, is a real and sury evil. There are acres of vacant land which could be occupied, and as con- veniently for those engaged in manual labor on the adjacent edifices as is the avenue ; and these should be compelled to place their ma- terials and mix their mortar there or olse