The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1868, Page 7

NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. TULBORAPIIG NEWS | WASHINGTON. [72:7 -g Ee THE PACIFIC COAST. ment, and vice versa than the above. Let me prove an it be that this it. General B, F, Butler, in his speech delivered in jecency of the people. ©: ‘ : em General Grant art oti St, Louls, Mt i product or ex- [ptyle of journalism is @ true Com>:cacement of the Rainy Season—Call- = Se RRL Paty hl ge yg sent Wis a afiernoon, 5 Ne d:—** WI * *; * fornia Markets. NON OAS sald we must not. interfore Pith che nationaroanks | THe Dares @F 0104 to the Livingston county (N. Ya Ee 2 of any phase of our political Lify 2 co political discussion finally taken this hihape sour 14 | Mastin else should Aro we, with our boasted for all, thus intolerant of and dispute thet we deny that jany man can be decent, honest, virtuous, brave or intelligent if he does not agree with ‘gs in his political opinions? We are not pre- to believe that the people have come to 'ghis. No doubt there are men of positive con- P whose only political argument is, “Damn a democrat, anyhow,” and others who ‘are equally explicit in their readiness to “damn a radical, anyhow;” but there are not many of these, and they do not by any means give the tone to political dispute. On the con- ‘trary it can be seen everywhere, in the cars, ‘on the steamboats, waiting at the depot and in ‘the casual sentences heard along the street that the people themselves compare their views in quite another spirit, that they hear wiih courtesy and answer with a respect which ad- mits that very good men may still be on the ‘other side. Nay, if any ill-natured fellow at- tempts the other style he is soon left to have Bt allto himself, People shun him. This is what they will do with the newspapers that so outrage the common idea of propriety. Men will not long tolerate a press that keeps below their own standard of good manners, and if the scurrilous party sheets flourish now they may be sure it is through public curiosity, not public approval. They will be dropped all at ‘once before they know it. + the peers, noth* st among they wnishad for seer The Catholic Synod on Picnics. Among other decrees issued by the Synod of Catholic bishops and priests just held in this city. was one forbidding picnics in behalf of Catholic churches. There is no harm in this, because these picnics, although they usually ‘began in fun and good feeling, often ended in disorder. This is not a peculiarity of Catholic entertainments of this kind, for they were, per- haps, more respectably conducted than any ‘others of the same character; but all such ‘Public affairs, where people mix indiscrimi- ‘nately for the purpose of dancing, feasting and @rinking, have a tendency to induce riotous conduct, and the wisdom of the Synod in inter- Gicting them cannot be questioned. But have ithe reverend gentlemen gone farther and placed a banon the polka? Thisis no doubt ‘a very graceful dance, and its absence would ‘de felt severely in our festive halls; but if the ‘waltz is not permissible to the faithful why ‘should the hardly less lascivious polka be ad- mitted? We hope, therefore, that as the Synod have adopted so much of the old Puritan fpirit by repressing summer pleasures upon the green sward, including flirtation and broken heads, they have also severely interdicted the waltz, the polka, the cotillon and the Virginia feel in the ballroom. These amusements are odious in pious New England, where aH our ‘morality comes from and people are so en- icased with ribs of steel of the highest moral ‘temper that they never do anything nanghty. ‘Why, then, should they be tolerated in New "York, where we poor, weak humans are ex- posed to the temptations of the world, the flesh ‘and the devil? ANOTHER PosTPONEMENT OF THE DaY oF Jouvement.—If any one is alive this morning to ead this article he will be convinced that the Second Adventists are false prophets. Accord- Ing to the wisdom of this sagacious sect yester- day was to have been the doomsday of this terrestrial globe. The trumpet of the Arch- ‘angel Gabriel was to have summoned us all to the valley’ of Jehoshaphat about sundown and the whole firmament was to have been lighted up with a more tremendous illumination than the McClellan torchlight procession. Again, however, the Day of Judgment has been post- poned, and, despite the prophecies of the Millerites, ‘‘we-still live!” GenekaL Grant's Caninet.—Professor Dana, after providing that Greeley shall have the mission to England under the new dispen- gation from and after the 4th of March next, ‘has turned his attention to the appointment of ‘General Grant’s Cabinet. We presume, how- ‘ever, when the time comes, that General Grant fwill have a word or two to say upon this sub- himself, and that in his Cabinet appoint- ments, from his comprehensive appreciation of the man for the place, he will astonish a good many of the noisy electioneering politicians and ‘‘carpet-baggers” and “‘scalawags” and philosophers who are calculating upon the ‘chief seats in tho synagogue. Tas IrauiaN Mission To MExtoo.—King ‘Victor Emanuel has appointed Signor Scovasso ‘Minister of Italy to the republic of Mexico, and Napoleon has commissioned the same gentle- tan to represent the interests of the French empire near President Juarez. Signor Scovasso has filled the post of Italian Ambassador in Belgrade, and is, no doubt, an able and accom- plished public servant, and as he is fresh from capital of Servia, he is likely to be thor- wughly posted (officially) on all matters rela- five to political conspiracies, assassinations, military murders, and so forth. THE ISLAND PARK RACES, ALBANY, Oct. 2, 1863. ‘The Isiand Park races closed to-day. The at- endance was large, the weather cloudy and cold and the track a iiitic sticky, There were two races, ‘The firet was for a purse of $2,000, free for all horses excepting Lady Thorn, Mountain Boy and Lucy, Inile heats, best three In five to harness; yd to first, $600 to second. $260 to third horse. The race Geol Wiikes second and George Paimer In each heat Hashaw, Jr., was entered, but did not appear. Time, 2:26—2:27 4—2:25, ‘The eecond race was fora purse of $600, for all that have never beaten 2:45 to harness or we revious to July 25, mile heats, best three in wo $76 to third. There were eleven . Beaty by Goldsmith Maid, in three straight heats, third arness; $00 Lo first horse, $126 to second, entries, er heats (Were trotted. ‘Tie race was won b; tersou, imax second and Westera New York third, Time, 33232 4 — 2 234 Si On the first heat of the second race the horse Tom Manning foil dead at the huif-mile pole, having rup- fured a Diood vessel. ie was owned in Boston and valued ai $3,500, THE STATE FAIT AT PORTLAND. PORTLAND, Oct. 2, 1908, The Maine State Fair, which opens here on Wuesday, the oth inst, and continues four days, ses to be the most successful exhibition ever eld in this State, Seventeen horses are already en- including the finest stallions in Maine, many which have arrived. The egtries of neat stock, @grioultura: impiemenis, &c., are very lar; and grounds ave in fine order. Governor amberiain will deiiver an address on Friday. ¢ entries for trottiag ciose on Monday evening. ‘The ratiroads in the State and from Massachusetts Dring stock and articles trey and passengers at hail FROM , ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. Spanish Elections for an Execu- . tive and Legislature. Marshal Serrano at Tarlanee wiih i*-+ Nation Guard and Demands for a Bepudi'e. AN ITALO-FRENCH MISSION 10 MEXICO. SPAIN. Elections for a Constituent Assembly—Gov- ernment Accord. Maprip, Oct. 1, 1368, Prociamations will soon be issued for elections to be held throughout the kingdom to choose members of adefinitive junta and delegates to a constituent assembly to meet at an early day in Madrid, ‘The leaders of the revolution are acting together in perfect accord. Public Order—A General for Trial. Mapnip, Oct, 2—P. M. The elections for members of the new junta are in progress. _ Perfect order is maintained. General Calonge has been arrested and sent to the fortress of Sahtona, where he will be confined until his triat commences. The Bourbons Declared Deposed=Prim in Catalonia. Lonpon, Oct, 2, 1868. ‘The provisional government has announced the deposition of the Bourbons, Generals Prim and Serrano have not yet arrived at the capital. At last accounts General Prim was in Catalonia. French Reporte—The Ex-Queen’s Health. Parts, Oct. 2, 1868. The Moniteur says that the reason Marshal Serrano has not arrived at Madrid yet is because he is afraid to leave the army in its present disorganized con- dition. It is reported that when the Queen of Spain left St. Sebastian she took with her all the crown jewels and royal regalia, together with twenty-three mil- lions of reals in gold. The National Guard and Army at Variance— A Republic Demanded. Panis, Oct. 2—Eventng. * “The latest reports from Spain state that Marshal Serrano will not go to Madrid because the National Guard, who hold possession of the city, refused to admit the troops of the regular army under his com- mand. It ts ramored that the republic has been proclaimed at Madrid. A proclamation has been issued in Catalonia de- Manding 9 federal republican form of government for Spain. ENGLAND. Minister Johnson and Lord Stanley. Lonpon, Oct. 2, 1863, ‘The American Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool ‘will give a banquet to Reverdy Johnson, the Ameri- can Minister, and Lord Stanley. the English Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the 22d of October. Fatal Colliery Explosion. LONDON, ‘Oct. 2, 1868, An explosion occurred yesterday in @ colliery at Rhiwabon, Wales. Eleven persons were killed and many injured. The Abergele Railroad Disaster. ABERGELE, Oct. 2, 1868. ‘The jury in the case of Samuel Eaton, the station master at Llanddulas, who was prosecuted for man- slaughter in the matter of the Abergele Railway disaster, acquitted the prisoner yesterday. The trial was attended with much excitement, FRANCE. The Bank Return. Paris, Oct. 2, 1863. The bank statement was made public this morning. ‘The amount of bullion on hand is 24,000,000 franca less than last week. GERMANY. Emigrant Money Orders. BREMEN, Oct. 2, 1863. The Weser Gazette says the federal government of North Germany has made a contract with the North German Lloyds Steamsmp Company establishing a Money order system between the United States and Germany. New Minister to Mexico. FLORBNOB, Oct, 2, 1858, Signor Scovasso, present Consul General at Bel- grade, has been appointed as the diplomatic repre- sentative of Italy to the Mexican republic. Signor Scovasso has been empowered by his gov- ernment to act for France at the Mexican capital. EGYPT. The Attempt on the Life of the Viceroy. LONDON, Oct. 2, 1863. Advices from Cairo confirm the report—telegraphed specially to the HgRALp from Alexandria yesterday— that there was a@ futile attempt to kill the Viceroy recently by an unknown person. The assassin threw @ murderons missile at the Viceroy from the roof of a building, but, missing his mark, made his escape, THE PARAGUAYAN. WAR. Marquis de Caxins Marching on the Tebiovart Entrenchments=Timbo Evacuated—Lepes Reported to Have Fallen Back—Humaita Net Yet Razed. Lonpoy, Oct. 2, 1968, ‘The mail steamer from Rio Janeiro brings the fol- lowing news from the seat of war on the Rio Para- guay:— The Marquis de Caxias, with @ select column of 3,000 men, was marching directly on the fortifica- Uons at the confluence of the Tebicuarl and Paraguay rivers, with the intention of making an immediate attack. It was reported at Rio Janeiro that Marshal Lopez had left his entrenchments there and was marching with his entire force on Cerroleon. Timbé, after a bombardment of five aays, was abandoned by ita garrison. Twenty two guns and other material of war were left within the fort, The fortifications of Humaité have not been en- tirely demolished. A considerable portion of the Paraguayan works aro held by @ strong allied force. CUBA. mann Benner (Havana, Oct. 2, 1868, ‘The following are the closing prices of merchan- dise for the week ending to-day:— ‘The sugar market is dull, No. 10012 is quoted at 7% @ 6 reals per arrobe; NO. 15 to 20 at 8% @ 10 Teals; muscovadoes dull; fair to good refining, 7% a Sreals, Lard i@ firm at 200. for tierce and 2250, in 25 pound tins. Flour is steady at $11 60 a $12 50, Hams, 2c, per pound for dry salted and 2%o, for sugar cured. Lumber, $26 per 1,000 feet for white Pine and $29 for pitch pine, Hay, $3 ® $3.60 por bale of 250 Ibs. Exchange on London, 13% @ per cent pre. Mium; on United States, 60 days’ sight, In curroncy, 26 27 per cent discount; on United States, 60 days’ sight, in gold, 343% per cent premium; short sight in gold, 354 @ 4) per cont premium, | SAN Francisco, Oct, 1, 1868. TRG Past rain of tho soXson in this elty occurred ‘aet uignt, Ficor s tn good demand at & $5 250 $6 3. wheat og a $1 63a $1 9, good shipping. Legal tencers, VinGINIA, | Excitement in Portsmonis Over the Delay in the Execw ef John Perkins and Ben. J<fereon, PortsxoDy'&: Oct. 2, 1868. Daring the entire forenoon quite # complleated state of affairs existe here in regard to the fate of the two criminals condemned to be hanged fF the outrage committed on Miss Sarah E. Ford, Jn this county, in June last. The Sheriff received last NIAMS A notification by telegraph from Governor Wells of @ respite for the condemned until Friday next. Thi had never been solicited until four P. M. yesterday. and then by @ despatch from an individual bre named Depass, whose record 1s that of a rebel desert” and subsequent spy of Ben Butler's, totally unknown to Governor Wells. The sheriff, sworn to execute the sentence of the law duly In his possession, which stated that John Perkins (white) and Ben Jef- ferson (colored) ahonid be hanged by the neck until dead, between the hours of eleven A. M. and two P.M. on Friday, the 2d of October, was undecided whether to act on the despatch of the Governor notifying him of the respite or execute the sentence. Aware that the oficial document granting the re- spite could not arrive till long after the hour for the execution had passed, doubts as to the authenticity of the Governor's message were entertained, and again and again the telegraph was called into requisition to knqw 1f respite was granted, receiving eaoh time an aflirmative answer in reply. Meantime a large crowd had assembled without the jail yard to be as near as possible to the execution ifthey could nof see it. Legal authority was con- sulted by the sheriff, but this even fatled to dispel existing doubts as to the propriety of the execution within the hours specified in the sentence. Soon, however, the perplexities of the sheriff, attorney and the condemned were relieved by the arrival of & military oMcer, who bore the following order, about which there were no doubts whatever:— LRADQUARTERS MILITARY COMMISSIONER, SECOND DistRIct, STATE OF VIRGINIA, fi NorFOuxk, Oct. 2, 1868. S1n—You are directed to suspend the execution of Perkins and Jefferson until further instructions from these headquarters, Very respectfuliy, your obedient servant, HENRY C. SMITH, Brevet Major Military Commission. Thus by a single stroke of a military pen the doubts and fears of the sheriff and lawyers were removed and the lives of the criminals prolonged unti! Friday next, when they will certainly expiate their terrible crime upon the scaffold already prepared for them. ‘The entire community are greatly incensed at this exercise of Executive clemency, and lynching is freely threatened should the sentence of the law fatl to be carried into effect. GEORGIA. Legislative—Prevention of Frauds at Elec- tions—State Aid to Railroads. ATLANTA, Oct. 2, 1868, Both houses of the Legislature have passed a bill to make uniform all tickets used at elections, in order to prevent frauds. Both houses have also passed bills giving about $3,000,000 to aid the railroads in the State. ir. De Graffeneyck, the present Rexceney: of State, has been nominated for Senator from the Fourth district by the republicans. MISSOURI. Bloody Shooting Afray—The Board of Regis tration Fired Upon—Two Exerebel Soldiers Killed. WELISVILLE, Oct. 2, 1868, The following are the particulars, as far as can be ascertained, of the shooting affray which took place at Martinsburg, in this county, on Wednesday last:—White the Board of Registration was in sessien a returned rebel soldier, named Sam Fletcher, handed a letter toa Union man named Reed, order- ing him to leave town in fifteen minutes. Reed showed the letter to the registering oMcers, who, to revent an outbreak, ordered the arrest of Fletcher. When the constable attempted to serve the warrant Fletcher refused to be arrested, and drew a revolver and called upon his friends for assistance, Mr. Gal- loway, one of the registering officers, ordered the constable and the men suinmoned to his aid to dis- arm Fletcher. A brother of Fletcher then interfered and drew a revolver on Galloway; but when just in the act of firing Galloway shot him dead, man named Marshall then shot Galloway = wounded him, but recelved a ball in head in return. Meantime the Sherif interfered to prevent Fletcher from using his pistol; but when the firing began he ran away, and, after run- ning a@ short distance, turned and shot at the officers. They then fired at him, giving him a mortal wound, from which he soon after died. Quite a number ot shots were then directed towards the officers by per- sons concealed in butidings and by unknown parties im the crowd, ‘The registering officers and the constable and his posse surrendered themselves, a ve bonds to appear at the next term of the cour! th Fletcher and Marshal were returned rebel sol- diers, and were desperate characters. The affair created great excitement. Yesterday about forty armed ex-revels collected near Martinsburg for the purpose of wreaking vengeance upon the registerit oflicers, but the eltizens rallied to their suppor have (bus far prevented any other lawiess acts, PENNSYLVANIA. Naturaltzation Frands in Philadciphia—Arrest of Saspicious Characters, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2, 1868. The record of thes Supreme Court up to the 24th ult., though noone day is complete, show that in nine days 1,310 persons were naturalized, and that twelve persons vouched for 332, or one-fuurth of the whole number. In the Supreme Court a rule has boen applied for agains: Snowden, the Prothonotary, for an investigation as to the isaue of papers in blank with the sanction and seal of the court, A sensation was caused this morning by the arrest of twenty-one Baltimore rougha at she depot, ona charge of coming here with the purpose of peta med assessed and voting. They were march uw ® guard of police through Chestuut street, at that hour of the day crowded with citizens and strangers, and will be heard this afternooty @ NEW YORK. ‘The Improvements for tho Harbors of Bufe falo and Dunkirk. BUFFALO, Oct. 2, 1868, Great progress has been made this season on the improvements for the harbors of Buffaio and Dun- kirk, Under the management of Colonel Franklin Howard and Walter Griswold, of the United States Engineers, the works at the entrance of Buffalo harbor will be completed this month. As soon as suMcient ice has formed the wore on the harbor of a will be commenced. Cribs will be laid on the ice, baliasted and sunk on the re and by to vessels entering'a safe harbor. Paine bulkhead weat of Dummy Light at Dunkirk has been comple- ted. The contract for the butiding of the buikhead ‘west of Dummy has been en! into, and opera tions will be commenced early in the spring. TELEGRAPHIC POLITICAL ITEMS. Republican Demonstration in Syracuse. Syracvar, N. Y,, Oot, 2, 1868, ‘The republicans had an immense demonstration here this evening. The “Boys in Blue” and the Glorious ward clubs were in the line of the pro- cession, which was nearly a mile in length, and was composed of at least twenty-five hundred torches and fiambeaus. The bee ge very itposing. A meeting, embracing 6) persons, Waa held at the Rink, and was presided over by C. T. Longstreet aud addressed by Mr. Join A. Griswoid and Chauncy M. Depew. The republicans are very cheerful over the demonstration. Soldierw Reanion at Cairo, Il. CarRo, Oct, 2, 1868. An imménse reunion of the soldiers of the Thir- teenth district took place here to-day. Generay Logan, Governor Oglesby and others made speeches. BOOK NOTICE. ° THR BACHELON OF SALamaNca—from the French of Le By, Jamea Townsend, Vols, 1. and IL. Philadelphia: Thomas W. Hartley. 1863, Le Sago outiives fashion and change by his hu- Manity and good nature; and editions are always acceptable to the public when, like the present one they are printed clesry aad tn little, portable | and Secretary McCulloch’s Reply to Mr. Delmar. ‘The Treasury Department to-day fulminated their promised exposure of Director Delmar’s erroneous statistics tn rezard to the CCaaimen of the nations) fnances. The sratemenis ons seml-official, glven to press DY HE OM 9.5 jn pha Seoretary’s office, altho” they are not published as 9” bee peabeed houncement. Coming as they do from -- ~ tary's oMoe, however, they-appear to be autho. wad by him, and such is the understanding. This state- ment charges, first, that Mr, Deimar, in giving the estimated resources of the government for the Present fiscal year as $321,620,000, and the expen- ditures as- $475,959,902, omitted to include ip the resources a cash balance on hand, June 30, 1868, of $105,000,000, which reiluces the deficiency at the close of the fiscal year, ag stated by the rector, to $49,389,902. Second, that the estimate of the receipts from customs for the first six months of the present fiscal year, as made by the Director, 1s very wide of the mark. Mr. Delmar estimates these receipts at $70,000,000, whereas the actual receipts for the first three months of the six were nearly $49,000,000, The receipts for the remaining three acronths are estimated at about $40,000,000, and the rea ipts for the fiscal year are estimated at about $1754.00,000. The Director estimates the receipts for the year # $150,000,000; and tho dirrerence in these estimates, 9°25;000,009, being added to the resources of the govern. tent, reduce Mr. Delmar's deficiency to the comparativ<!Y Small sum of $24,539,902, As this Treasury statem,2¢ {8 not officially published by the department, it 1g 2° probable that Director Delmar wil! make any wy. If an oMelal an- nouncement 1 made, the Director says that he is prepared to fnrnistr siisfaotory reasons why the cash. balance of $105,000,000 was not included in the statement of «\stimated recelpts for the fiscal year, while he did Incitude it in the statement of the probable condition of thi) Treasury on the 1st of January next, He also state® that he 13 fully able to maintain his position with rc ward to his estimates of receipts from customs. The Forthcoming Publie D’ebt Statement. It is learned from good authority in the Treasury Department that the public debt statement for the month of September, which will be isswed on Mon- day next, wil! show an increase in the public debt of nearly $4,000,000, “Government Expenses for September. ‘The expenses of the government for the month of September were $23,485,839. This amount does not include the interest on the public debt. Registration in Arkansns. A letter just received here from a prominent citi- zen in Arkansas states that the registration in that State ts progressing rapidly, that it will be very full, and the vote in the coming Presidential election will be the largest ever cast in that State. He says the democrats are confident of electing the three Con- gressmen and of carrying the State for Seymour by @ majority of 20,000, In Jefferson county, he says, the democrats will obtain two thousand negro votes. This county when the constitution was voted upon went largely republican. In Saline county 800 men are registered, only thirty-seven of whom are repub- licans. Arrival of Collector Smythe. Cotlector Henry A. Smythe. of New York, arrived in the city this morning, in obedience to a request of the President, it is said, and will have an interview at the White House to-morrow. Attorney Genera! Evarts, A despatch was received from Attorney General Evarts to-day announcing that he would not be able to return until about the middle of next week. The Attorney General had expressed his intention of starting for this city on October 1, but he has been unexpectedly detained by being called upon for a legal opinion in relation to the internal revenue fraud case now pending in New York. Internal Revenue Appointments. ‘The following Internal Revenue appointments were made to-day:— Storekeepers—Horatio ©. McCorhtll, Fifth Ken- tucky; Thomas W. Pritchett, Second Kentucky; Her- man Blodget, Twenty-ninth New York; Bernard Biglier, Eighth New York; Samuel A. Pearce, Pirst Rhode Island; C, 8. Woodrich, Third Maryland; John Shissler, Second Pennsylvania; Oscar F. Linsley, Sixth Ohio; James A. Dall, Fourth Maryland, Gaugers—Bvron P. Cordwell, Oregon; 0. B. Gib- son, Oregon; Solomon Goodrich, Thirteenth lilinots; ©. M. Patterson, L. Wright, P. B. Davenport, William Jennings, CO. F. Childs and James J. Felter, Fourth California; Samuel Rover, Second Kentucky ; Geory W. Jolly, Second benogeuy French McDowell, Six- teenth Pennsylvania; D. b. Anger, Tenth Ohio; R. ©. Algri, Seventh Tennessee; C. 0. Wilber, Fourth Tennessee; R. C. Tomlin, Fourth Missouri; F. H. Vandeburg, Fifth Michigan; John M. Hanck, Fourth Maryland; P. B. Hunt, Seventh Kentucky; E. P. Wells, Fifth Kentucky; G. M. Borth, Fifth Kentucky; William 5. Hilleory, Fourth Maryland, Samuel Babcock was to-day appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second district of Connec- ticut, vice Woodruff, deceased. Personal. Rey. Jonathan Edwards, D. D., President of Wash- ington and Jefferson Colleges, Pennsylvania, arrived here this morning to oMciate at the funeral exer- ciges of the late Rev. Dr, P. D. Curley. Dr. Edwardo while in the city will be the guest of Dr. J.C. G. Kennedy. Mr, John M. Brodhead, Second Coimp- troller of the Treasury, who has beon absent in Europe several months, is expected to resume his oficial duties at the Treasury Department next week. Commissioner Rollins is expected to returm to Washington next Wednesday. Working Hours in the Treasury Department. Secretary McCulloch to-day issued an order pro- longing office hours of the Treasury Department until four o’clock in the afternoon. Navy Gazette. Surgeon W. E. Taylor, United States Navy, ho been ordered to Mare Island, Cal., to reYeve Surgeon Browne. TLE NATIONAL BANKS. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 1868, Sinoe there ts so much intentional mystification of everything relating to tho national banking system a few facts—piain unvarnished truths—bearing upon the subject cannot be out of place at the present time. ‘There are in Congress not less thanthree (perhaps many more) national bank presidents—Mr. Senator A. G, Cattell, of New Jegsey, president of the Corn Exchange National Bank of Philadelphia; Mr. Rep- resentative James F. Wilson, president of the First National Bank of Fairfield, lowa; Mr. Representa- tive Daniel J. Morrell, president of the First Na- ttonal Bank of Johnstown, Pa, It cannot be supposed that Congress would grant especial to houses presided Petes er cot wi take the least favored of fuese imatitutions as an Leh the ns ad the government and are a benefit to the le. Lat us see. Take, for example, the N jal Bank of Johnstown, Pa., of which Daniel J, Morrell, M. C., Js Prosident, Tt has di ited here in the twenty gold bearing bonds, drawing cent interest ann in ee from the peop! Freasury tax free. When was $2 75 these bonds drew sixteen and one-half per cent interest in cur- rency, tax free, or equal to twenty J cent. When gold is $1 60 they of course bear nine per cent inte- rest, tax or equal to twelve cent; for you | must count the tax — equal to from three to four per cent. Besides these favors in the way of enhanced rates of interest the bank receives from the ‘Treasury Department $54,000 in bank notes, without interest, for circulation. In other words, Mr. Roa ih many) Morrell's Na tional Hanking Aascciation sy ty of bonds here and deposits them in the uty and takes 000 The difference remainity in the ity 18 therefore but $6,000, currency value, which constitutes really the entire ald rendered the by the bank, and for which it receives , ‘oof Tee free, equal a Lor currency If you pi je average premium on at fifty cents and the tax emenption a three per cent. 1 wish to be very careful not to misrepresent this matter, for I remember one of the Heratn's invaria- bie efales is rere make mi ron BS ‘me there! it, by quoting 8 printed tabular form now before me, and prove its truth by one of the Serpent lawyers io the United States, The statement is as follows:— deposited in United States Treasury by Nat of Johnstown to secure Currency nsued by United States government — i First Rational Bankot Jonnsteriern 54,000 Difference, being the amount loaned to gov- wn Average premium, er anyoer ts, Valine or tax ‘oxemption om $00,000, ‘Total value of advantage derived by bank from government annualiy.......... 000 Oonatessman Morrell caanot make a fairer because they pabrioticaliy heiped us during Upon that I take tsaue with each and ey a of the banks. On the contrary, wey ped then- selves, not us. It is said they loaned money to the government. How did they do it? Let me state a ‘Way a national bank got itself in existence In New England during the war, when gol't was 200, and five-cweat es were at par in currency, or nearly thas, | A company of men got tomer’. be ve 4900 in Yaad ANY iim, eu woue ov the Regier OT the Treasury @ the 7 te With goid “at 200 and bought United States Qvetwenty ve par. ‘They stepped. intu uty bonda #* pal hey ae “a the oMee of the Comr Cenie and asked to be tablished national bank and received from, ‘aim $270,000 in gurrenoy, without In- terest, fpon picdging ‘these boads of the United States they had just bought with chear $200,000 of the game kind of money. Now, let us balance the books, and how docs the account stand? Why, £he United Stages government receives. $30,000 in natal bank billa more from the banks than ft gave them ‘0 bills; in other words it borrowed of the pank $30,..90 In currency, for which, in fact, it paid $18,000 a yea. 1 gold interest, equal to 356,000 in currency, for Le use of shis $36,000, Let me repeat, ‘The difference between what the United States received and patd out was only $30,000, and for the use that. the government pay on the bonds deposited ¥, the com- Pany, bought with the same Kind of money, $ a ar interest tn gold, equal to $36,000 in curre! Describing the depository banks, like Senator Oat- teil's, for instance, General Butler went on to say:— But the thing did not stop there. The gentlemen wore shrewd financiers, ‘Thoir bank was a good one; they went to the Secretary of the Treasury and sald, “Let our bank be made a pois depository.’? Very weli; it was. a good bank, the managers wero good men; there was no objection to the bank, It was made & public depository, and therenpen the commissaries, the quartermasters, the medicat director and purveyor and the paymasters were all directed to deposit their public funds iv this bank. Very soon the bank fonnd that they had a line of stendy deposits belo to the ‘government of about a million dollars, and that the $270,000 they had received om the Comptrolier of the Gurrency would substantially carry on thelr daily business, and as the government gives three days on all its ‘drafts, If the bank was pressed it was easy enough to go on the street if they had good securiiy. ‘They took the million of government money so de- sited with them and loaned tt to the government lor the government's own bonds, and_ received therefor $60,000 more interest in gold for the loan to Poor Hows? containing 100 tons of hay, were de stroyed 7 ave Thursday night. The loas is $75,000. Rs ¥ » Thursday night destroyed one of the work- a os and a warebouse of the Monroe county (N. YQ venitentiary, involving & loss of over $15,009, General Stoneman has ordered 9 investigation Into vie S290 of the acsailent on the Virginia Geu>” tral Raiiroad by which some of the soldiers of the Twenty-ninrsh iafanirg wore killed and wounded: ‘The republicans of the Twentieth district of Penn- ayivania have nominated Mr. 3, Newton Pettis, of Crawford county, to fill the umexpired term of the late D. A. Finney, deceased, im the Fortucth Con- reas, The house of C. F. Sargent, in Yarmouth, Me., was robbed on Thursday night $10,000 im goverumens bonds, &c. A reward of $1,600 has been offered for the conviction of the thieves and the recovery of the property, A shooting affair occurred pests A ht between two negroes, named Jei Logan and Bob Pleasants, in Chelsea, Tenn., fa which the former was shot through she body and mortaily Wounded, Pigasants waa @r- rested, i ‘Tho $ial of James O. Martin, Isic cashier of the Hide an& Le ther National Ranke of 1.~ahoD, Coma. menced yaRterday before the United States Bistrios Conte, ae gest oharzed with defrau- the bank of over $500,000, and he acknowl deficit of $180,000, connate THE WEEXLY HERALD. ‘The Cheapest and, Best Newspaper in the Country. ‘The Wergi.y Hxenanp of the "present week, now ready, contains the very iatest Kuropean News ty the Cable up to the hour of publication; Telegraphie Despatches from all parts of the world; The Revola- tion in Spain—Queen Isabella in Exile in Franca; News from Mexico; Negro Political Kiot in Nashville; The Trial of Surratt—He is Discharged undor the Statute of Limitation; Conflagration in Brooklyn; Crime in Westchester County; Arrival of General MoClellan; Particulars of the Burning at Sea of the the government of its own money, which tn cur- > British Steamship Melita; Speech of Robert M. Doug+ rency was equal to $120,000, Se that when we come finally to balance the books the government ‘Is pay- ing $156,000 a year for the loan of $30,000, And this is the systenr which ig forever on the country as & means of furnishing a circulatiag medium. This, only using round numbers for the purpose of illus- ‘tration, isan actual and not @ feigned occurrence.” ‘can quote half @ score of republican and two score of democratic Congressmen to prove the cor- rectness of this description of the operation of the national banking system—the most nefarious ever saddied on any people, free or slave. There are nearly 1,700 of these eleemosynary in- stitutions in the United States. There are twice a3 many banking institutions that receive no more ald from the government than men engaged in any other business. If the eleemosynary banks furnish the people with any better accommodation than the less favored stitutions the fact is yet to be dis- covered, “ Jam aware that politicians do not like to face these facts pending an election; but the people like them at such times better than ever. l observe that the republicans have in many in- stances refused to renominate members of Congress who have proved to be partisans of the national bank infamy. In the few Congressional districts where bank partisans have managed:to secure re- ublican renominations the friends of Grant and jolfax will consult the best interest of their party and the people by electing honest democrats to Con-+ gress instead of * national bank republicans.” SANDWICH ISLANDS. The Rumors of War from the Society Isler The Coolies at the Bottom of the Trouble. HONOLULU, August 29, 1868. By a recent arrival from Tahiti we hear of wars and rumors of wars. The coolie system, or, as the govern- men styles it, the emigrant system, is at the bottom of the difficulty. Ina former letter I mentioned the barbarous and cruel treatment of laborers on a large cotton and sugar plantation near Tahiti. The infor- mation given in your columns created some little excitement, andthe commandant at Tahiti was in- structed to appoint a commiasion to examine into the matter and report to the French: government. A commission was appointed who reported that they could not discover any cause for complaint among the coolies and So uth Sea Islanders employed on the plahtations, and here the matter rested fo: a time. The cruelties practised, upon the Chinese particu- larly, caused them to make attempts to escapo from bondage, and one party of fifteen crossed the channel and reached Huahine, The success of this party led- others to make the trial. ‘’ne managers of the piantation tried to arrest the deserters, but the natives of Huahine re- fused to give them up, upon which the managers ap- pealed to the commandant for assistance, alleging that unless an example was made of the parties who escaped it would be useless to work the plantations, The commandant tried, but failed in the attempt, and found that unless he could secure an extradition treaty from the King of Huahine all mild efforts to secure the runaways wguid be useless. Soon alter the King of Huahine mate a@ visit to Tahiti to see Queen Pomare, and upon proceeding to board his schooner to return to his domain he found himself detained by the commandant, Count Emile de la Ronciere, and cot led to go on board of the French war steamer Guichen, which put to sea for a time, be Bebe the King signed a treaty. The King was then permitted to return to his island. Upon learning what had been done the natives of Huahine named a new king and at last accounts the adherents of the two monarchs were waging & fierce war. The Ordonnateur—Lieutenant-Governor, who is also President of the Supreme Court of ‘Taniti—has never been in sympathy wits the managers of the plantations, nor in fact have any of the subordinate omicors Of the government. Fresh outrages having been perpetrated upon the laborers the members of the courts determined to bring the’perpetrators to justice, and preliminary steps were taken, when the commandant stayed pra- ceedings by calling @ council of curing which the inhuman ment of the woi that slaves was discussed, together with other matters of greater or less notoriety, and the commandant found him- self without a supporter. The judges of the courts, AttorneyGenerai and every official in fact, refu: to be led, and so the council broke up. Finding that the officials would not be coerced the which was soon accomplished. imprisoned and the rest of the gov- ernment were ordered’ on the trans- Bury: and the captain insttucted to e them to Francisco, en route for France. A new set of officials was appointed, without re; to ability, so long as they would obey the mandates las, Eldest Son of the late Stephen A. 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