The New York Herald Newspaper, October 7, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. YORK HERALD JAMES. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New York Elerarp. ¥ Letters and packages should be properly “Bealed, , Rejected communications will not be re- turned. = THE DAILY HERALD, publishea every day tn the “year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. | THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five {CENTS per copy. Annual subscription pric One Copy.. Whree Copies. \wive Copies. “Jen Copies... oe 25 }: JOB PRINTING of every description, also stereo typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. Volume XXXIIL.......seseeceeeeeee ——= Seen AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. \ WALLACK'S THRATRE. Bi ®imon BERNARD—DEAKER TH ‘BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Caimson SHIELD, OB Nyarus or THE Kaincow, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Tas DuaMa OF Our or tue SruEETs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaiway.—Huurty Domery, ‘wits New Fraroses. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tas NeW DEaMa or LiAurue. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Tax Brtbz or MESSINA. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- fue.—La GRANDE Ducurssr, NIBLO'S GA BORE, Broadway—BaTEMAN's OPERA SBovrre—Baxoer BueU! ‘GERMAN STADT THE MENSONENMASS AND Ri BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Butlding, 14th Btreet.—ETHIOVIAN MINBTRELSY, &0., LUCRETIA BORGIA, KELLY & LEON'S MINST RIAN MINSTRELSY, BURL SAN FRANCISCO M PLAN ENTEGIAINMENTS, INGE RE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— DOoToR RouiN, S, 720 Broadway.—Ermo- B, &0.—Bazuce Biv. , 585 Broadway.—Ern10- DANOLNG, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 21 Bowory.—Couro VoocaLiom, NEGRO MINCTRELSY, &o. Matinee at 235. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Tar Great Ont- GivaL Lingarp ann VavprvitLe Comeany. Matinee. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth stroet and Broadway.—Afternoon and eveniag Performance. DODWORTH HALL, £06 Broaaway.— BioNOR BITE ‘Matinge at 2 per cesenaee PIKE'S MUSIC HALL, 984 street, corner of Eighth @venue —McEvoy's HIBERNICON, ‘IRVING HALL, Irving place.—FALLON’s SreRror- ‘r100N. ¥ i ' NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EqursTnian AND GYMNASIIO ENTERTALNNENT, Matinee at 24. ‘CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Sevanth avenue.—TuRo, Taomas! PoruLan Gaxnzn Cosoenr. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Taz RoMAntio Duama or Unving. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S i — Pinney PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. FOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, _ Brooklyn.—Hoor.rr's MINGTRELS—MAGBA-NIELLO, OR THE BLACK FoREst, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. BOIENOR AND Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. New Yorky Wednesday, October 7, as. EUROPE. By epectal telegram from Madrid dated Monday night and forwarded through the Atlantic cable we are assured that the provisional government, with yPrim and Serrano in charge of aifairs, may be re- rded as firmly constituted. General Prim reached ladrid on the 5th instant, Cortes will be assembled. ‘The majority of the people are in favor of a repub- lic, Espartero supports the provisional arrange- ment. | ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable ts dated yesterday evening, October 6. } | The King of Denmark in his speech to Parliament aid he desired to maintain peaceful relations with iProssia. The SchlesWig-Holstein negotiations with (Berlin had been, so far, without result. The Danish \Parliament postponed the ratification of the sale of )St. Thomas and the property to the United States for one year. { Consols 943% for money. Five-twenties 73% in London and 76% in Frankfort. Paris Bourse firmer, { Cotton easier in Liverpool, with middling uplands at 10%4. Breadstufs aud provisions without marked ‘change. { By steamship at this port we have very interesting mat! detaiis of our cable telegrams from Europe dated to the 20th of September. MISCELLANEOUS. The Spanish Minister at Washington, notwith- standing the revolution in Spain, will continue to be recognized by our government until the new gov- ernment of Spain shall otherwise determine. | Lieutenant Cusack, of the Ninth cavalry, recently attacked an Indian camp in Southern Texas, near Fort Davis, killed between twenty and thirty of them, destroyed the camp and recovered a large ‘amount of stock. The Kiowas and Comanches, who are on the Arkansas river, are reported by General Lazen to have joined the Cheyennes and Arapapoes. | Our Panama letter is dated September 28, James . Baldwin, a resident of Troy, N. Y., where he has ‘a wife and daugher, shot and killed Mr. Parker, Su- erintendent of the Isthmus Railroad. He then at- tempted to kill himself, but fatied and was impris- pned, Trouble was expected in Chiriqul. Marshal ‘Falcon, of Venezuela, had arrived on the isthmus, Where was nothing of importance from the interior. +) Additional particulars of the naval engagement in Haytien waters state that the batteries at Petit Go- pve were silenced by the Galatea, since named the Alexandre Pétion, aud the troops on shore stormed ‘aud took the place. ! By Atiantic cable it is reported that President Lo- 7 of Paraguay bad arrived at San Fernando with {20,000 men, Villa del Ptlar, the chief port of Para- guay, had been occupied by the allies as a base of “operations against Tebicuarl. ‘The propeiler Perseverance, Captain Fitzgibbons, lying on Lake Ontario between Oswego and the Welland Raliroad, was destroyed by fire a few miles off Pultneyville yesterday morning before daybreak. ‘The captain and nineteen persons, including a mother and her daughter, perished, The lower house of the Georgia Legisiature yester. day adopted a report of the Committee on Eligibility declaring that after a full investigation they had found @ republican member named Beard to have in his veins more than one-eighth negro blood, and thereupon Beard was ejected. After this decision the House adjourned sine die, ‘ @ue Corporation Counsel of Richmond, Va., has furnished an opinion to the City Council to the effect ‘that the small city notes issued during the war can- wot be paid, as the State constitution forbids the payment of any of the rebel war debt, { Adecision was rendered yesterday in Toronto in relation to the Reno-Anderson extradition case, ¢ prisoners, who are alleged express robbers, con- hhected with the gang in Indiana, of which a portion was hanged last spring by vigilance committees, > General Grant was present yesterday at the laying ‘of the corner atone of the new State House at Spring- eid, 1. al Save ‘ The American Board of Commissionets of Foreign Missions met in Norwich, Conn., yesterday. The Alabama Registration bill has been signed by Governor Smith and an election bill has been passed Which wakes it a misdemeanor to challenge a voter, NEW YORK YWERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1868.-TRIPLE SHEET. pent await the warrant of the Governor General for their extradition, THE CITY. ‘The fall meeting of the Jockey Ciub at Jerome Park opened yesterday with four races, The first was won by R. B, Connolly, the second by Bayonet, the third by Lonnie Lass and the fourth by Stonewall Jackson, The yachts Mystic and Lc!s, of the Atlantic Club, raced for the championship yesterday; but tue w:2 ‘Was so light that neither sailed over the course in the prescribed time, and the race was declared otf, ‘The Board of Health met yesterday. Dr. Harris’ letter shows that there were 472 deaths in this city last week and 196 in Brooklyn. The sentence of Thomas Fitzgerald, who was con- demned to be hung on the 9th inst. for the murder of Miss Ellen Hicks in Westchester two years ago, has been commuted to mprisonment for life, In the Conrt of Appeals yesterday tho case of Mangam, an infant, respondent, against the Brook- lyn City Railroad Company, was argued on appeal from a decision of the General Term reversing an order dismissing the complaint at the Circuit and and ordering a new trial. The action was brought for the recovery of damages for personal injuries on the ground of negligence. Decision reserved. The Rollins Internal Revenue investigation was concluded yesterday before Commissioner Guttman, except so far as to allow McHenry to put in testt- mony as to his veracity, several witnesses having sworn positively that they would not believe him under oath and that his reputation was bad. ‘The stock market was irregular but on the whole firm yesterday. Government securities wero strong. Gold closed at 1403¢ a 1404. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Congressman J. F. Farnsworth, of [!lnois, and ex- Mayor R. M. Bishop, of Cinclonatl, are, at tho St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge L. W. Hershfield, of Montana, and General 8, G. Heimtzelman, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge Conyngham, of Pennsylvania, is stopping at the Albemarle Hotel. Major Campbell, of the Royal Canadian Rifles, Mon- treal, and M. H. Thomas, of Calcutta, are at the Hoffman House, Governor Stevenson, of Kentucky, is at the New York Hotel. General W. B. Franklin and Colonel Franklin, of the United States Army; Commodore Franklin, of the United States Navy; Judge Mitchell and Genera! Walcott, of Columbus, Ohio, are at the Brévoort House, General Trenholm, of Charleston, 8. 0., is at the St. Julien Hotel. Dr. C. Daregar, of Charleston, 8. C., is at the St, Denis Hotel. Reginald Bright, of England, is at the Clarendon eet HL W. Mathews, of Rochester; J. S. Simp- son, of Kentucky, and George Maxwell, of Connec- ticut; Colonel 0. Osborne and Major C, 1. O. Carter, of the army, and Colonel Wiillam Hunt, of Panama, are at the Metropolitan. The Question d*Orient. The question @' Orient, so long the problem of diplomacy and so often the pretext of wars and rumors of war, offers a new phase in the question recently raised by Mr. Kelley in Con- gress concerning the free passage of the Dar- danelles and the Bosphorus, A communica- tion which appeared in the Hgracp on Satur- day gave an intelligible analysis of tho ele- ments of Mr, Kelley's question, and an interest- ing history of the recognized right of the Porte to absolutely forbid the passage of any foreign vessel of war and to levy a toll on merchant vessels of all nations. The closing of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus to all foreign vessels of war and the levying of toll on all merchant vessels were among the restrictions which Turkey placed on her extraordinary concessions to England and France and subse- quently to Austria and Russia, in the midst of her most brilliant conquests, when all Europe was trembling with apprehensions of being in- vaded by the conqueriug Sultans, Another restriction, which, however, has been lately removed, prohibited the possession or acquisi- tion by Europeans of territorial property on Turkish soil. Now, the United States government has only a commercial treaty with Turkey, and has never signed the treaties between the Ottoman government and certain Powers of Western Europe—treaties which confirm both the im- munities formerly granted to some of the great European States by the Sultans and also the restrictions imposed by them, The political relations of our government with Turkey are, therefore, similar to those of Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Greece and other second class Eu- ropean Powers that enjoy by tolerance those immunities and are subjoct to those restrictions. American citizons resident in Turkey are al- lowed the right of consular jurisdiction, ex- emption from taxes and licensos, the uni- formity of duties on our merchandiso that pays only six per cent on entry, and numerous other privileges. Oa the ground that we have signed no political treaty with the Ottoman empire Mr. Kelley urges our right to claim all the privileges without submitting to any of the restrictions of treaties the stipulations of which have been admitted and accepted by the Eu- ropean Powers. It is true that our govern- ment is at liberty to renounce the advantages accorded to its citizens resident in Turkey, and atthe same time to decline the obligation of submitting to the accompanying restrictions. But our correspondent insists that it ought then to take the initiative in considering Tur- key as absolutely independent and in treating with her on conditions of the strictest recipro- city in all matters of political and international right. ‘Then, and only then,” he adds, “‘can the government of the United States demand of the Porte, in the hope of being listened to, the overthrow of the barriers that at this moment prevent Admiral Farragut and his squadron from visiting the ruins of Scbastopol or even those of Sinope without hindrance.” The recent courteous and friendly reception of Admiral Farragut by the Sultan has strengthened the good feelings subsisting be- tween Turkey and the United States. The numerous and important reformg that have lately been inaugurated in Turkey, as well as our rapidly multiplying commercial relations with its population of thirty millions, who offer us a new and vast market for our productions, have the same tendency. There is no good reason why the American should inherit the medieval prejudices and hatreds of Western Europe against the Turk. The many noble traits of the Turk have been recognized even by his worst European enemies, ‘‘He has,” testifies an American traveller in Turkey, ‘a substratum of honesty and integrity which even his enemies must admire—a dignity and noble independence which contrast strongly with the low cunning of the Greeks and the servility of the Bulgarians.” What could be more noble and generous than the response of the late Abdul Medjid to the haughty demand of Russia and Austria for the surrender of the Hungarian refugees? “What, then, will be- come of the anclent hospitality of the Ottoman Porte? The laws of the Koran and the convictions of my own heart forbid mo to give them up, whatever may be the consequences.” The traveller whose words we havo cited learned enongh to prompt him to exclaim:—‘‘May the freedom of speech and liberty enjoyed in Turkey never be supplanted by Cossack violence! Firmans declaring all men equal bofore the law, though imperfectly executed, are infinitely preferable j to despotic ukases asserting tho divine right of absolution, and wri fneada be, in hu- man blood.” Our traveller might have been still more emphatic in his expressions had he not underrated the Turkish reforms and failed to anticipate the development which they have since attained, thanks to the system of public instruction entirely remodelled in 1847, to the education of many sons of rich Osmanlis in Paris and other western capitals, and to the partial introduction of those mighty agents of modern civilization—the printing press, steam power and the telograph. Who shall predict what the common schools, colleges and newspapers in Turkey may yet effect in modi- fying its internal political and social condi- tion! Notwithstanding the startling rumor which the ocean cable brought yesterday, that a conspiracy had been discovered to dethrone Abdul Azis, the reigning Sultan—a conspiracy doubtless instigated by stubborn and fanatical opponents of the party of progress—it is cer- tain that the reforms initiated in Turkey can- not be permanently obstructed. Meanwhile the external relations of Turkey will doubtless be changed by causes which have been but very recently set in active opera- tion, and which, together with the oauses at work on the European Continent, as manifested, for instance, in the late Spanish revolution, must ultimately affect all international relations throughout the world. We allude particularly to such events as the approaching completion of tho Paciflo Railroad across our Continent, the opening of steamship and telegraphic com- munication between San Francisco and the ports of Ching and Japan, and the inauguration of intimate diplomatic and commercial intercourse between the United States ond the East, These causes, which wil eventually make the United States the grand central Power among tho nations, will necessarily tend to change the traditional Policy of Russia so completely as to divert the eyo of the Czars from Constantinople, that long-coveted prize lying at tho union of two seas and two continents, “like a diamond between two sapphires,” and to fix it upon those remote Asiatio possessions which are either to be retained or won. The Russians, “those flaxen-haired children of the North,” have long hoped one day, from Achalzik, on the southern slope of the Caucasus, to descend in one direction to the mouths of the Tigris and the Euphrates, and in another to the Mediterranean and the Bosphorus, They have been ambitious both ‘to water their horses along the Hellespont and to shake'the rupee trees of India.” But in view of the great international changes which must be wrought by the new Chinese-American policy, the Rus- sians will be constrained to sacrifice one of these ambitions In order to satisfy the other. Thus Turkey will cease to be a bone of con- tention for the Powers of Western Europe, and the much vexod Eastern question will sink and disappear beneath the flood of changes which is destined to sweop over the nations of the globe, A Propiem.—If the one hundred lots along the south front of the Quarantine Grounds on Staten Island are worth three thousand dollars each, what is the value of the remainder of the twenty acres? General McClellan and the Democracy. The democratic jubilee on Monday night was & great success in point of numbers, enthusi- asm, transparencios, Chinese lanteras, Roman candles, brass bands, torches, ragamuffins, fuss and flummery. It was a success even in this largely democratic city as a political de- monstration, and all attempts of the opposition party press to decry it are absurd. Neverthe- less, tho democratic leaders are not wholly sat- isfled with its results, and for good and suffi- cient reasons. Their great object was to avail themselves of the return of General McClellan to enlist him actively in the campaign, and to make use of his loyal antecedents to nullify the unfavorable record of Seymour during the war and tho recent revolutionary expressions of Blair, They expected McClellan to preside at their meeting, and they looked to his pres- ence as worth many thousand votes to them in the approaching test elections in Pennsylvania and the West. But the leader of the Potomac army declined to appear at the great Tammany gathering, and signified his determination not to take any active part in the campaign. He addressed a letter to the Executive Committee, itis true, signifying his intention to support the democratic ticket as a private citizen; but his communication is a warm endorsement of the republican candidate and a severe rebuke to those stupid copperhead organs that have been abusing General Grant as a drunkard and assailing his military reputation ever since the contest commenced. General McClellan writes like a soldier and agentleman. He pays the highest tribute to General Grant for the great services he has rendered to the country, but objects to the radical policy as ‘‘a continuation of strife.” In this opinion a large majority of the people will coincide ; but their confidence in Grant is suffi- cient to assure them that measures of violence and vengeance will meet with no countenance from him, but that his administration will be one of conservatism, gonciliation and peace. They will elect him as the natural opponent of the extreme men of both sections upon his own plain platform—‘“‘Let us have peace.” The rufflanly attacks made upon him by the silly copperhead organ in this city have only served to enlist the people more heartily in his cause. Had the campaign been from the firet conducted by the democracy in the spirit that breathes through McClellan's letter they might to-day have been in a more hopeful position before the country ; but ‘Little Mac's” excellent communication has the misfortune apparently inseparable from all its author un- dertakes—it comes too late. old Quarantine Grounds on Staten Island and how much was paid for that property, which has been estimated to be worth over a million of dollars? Reat Estate DEALRRS AMZ ANxI0v8 TO BR Inrormep—When the Quarantine property on Staton Island w9s advertised to be sold, The Gamble Case. On Sunday, August 2, Mrs. Margaret J. Gamble was ‘dead asa hammer;” so the old woman said who came to lay her out, who must be regarded as an expert for such cases, and who examined the body at the request of the husband to try if she could feel the heart There was evidently a desire not to bury the woman until her hewis had coased its pulsations—the only trace of humanity iz the husband that the evidence reveals. Nobody, therefore, had authoritatively pronounced the wife dead before the old woman was called to prepare her for buria!, Even the husband was not sure that life was extinct, and if we inquire why in such circumstances he sent for some one to lay the body out we can only go into his thoughts, conjecturing that he had some reason to suppose that if his wife was not dead she ought to be. No doctor looked on at the last hour, speculating possible remedies. sympathizing friend sat by the bedside to catch the last word, and no relative—though the woman had many—was present. Only the husband and faithful Mrs, Hujus were there. What were the relations of the husband and wife, and who was Mrs. Hujus? Mrs. Gam- ble had inherited a large property from a for- mer husband, and Mr. Gamble appears to have been without any, so that it was no doubt said very early in the history of their union that he married her for her money, They had a ‘‘cat and doglife.” Mr. Gamble threw his wife in and out of rooms and off sofas and beds without any fear that he might hurt her, and threw her baby (two months old) to the floor with such violence that a Sister of Charity present thought he had killed it. And towards women who seem to have had rather superior personal charms to Mra. Gamble he observed quite a different style. Mrs. Hujus was the woman from whom they bought the place in the coun- try. They went into the country on account beat, of Mrs. Gamble’s health, as to which, of course, her husband was solicitous, Why they went to Rockland county rather than anywhero eisé doos not appear in the testimony; nor does it appear whethor the husband and Mrs, Hujus had any acquaintance previous to the purchase of the farm. But when they were once together they got on very well—so well that though Mrs, Hujus had sold the farm to Mrs, Gamble she did not go away; 80 well that when some one, referring to her position, spoke of her as “the woman” (meaning the housekeeper, apparently) she said she was “not the woman, but the head.” Nay, they got on 60 well together that one of the wit- nesses dotails very minutely the facts which induced her to believe that Mr. Gamble and Mrs. Hujus slept in the samo bed, Mrs. Gam- ble being ill and Mr. Hujus away. Away, therefore, from the interference of all friends and relatives, alone with this man and this woman, Mra. Gamble died after having signed a will bequeathing all her property to her husband. But of what did she dio? What was her disease? Her husband and Mrs. Hujus said that she died from the immoderate use of liquor—‘“‘drank herself to death.” Her relatives apparently hold that she died from poison administered with intent to kill her; but we cannot be too careful how we accept the view of these relatives, for they may be only eager to set aside that will and come in for the money. What do the doctors say? There are many doctors on the scene. The first is the country doctor who was called to attend Mrs. Gamble in June and saw her on several occasions between that time and her death in August. He is twenty-seven years old—a defect in a doctor for which time does wonders, but that, meanwhile, is serious. He saw Mra Gamblo and could not make out that she had any disease, but thought (agroeably, perhaps, with Hujus and the husband) that Mrs. Gamble used too much liquor and suffered from it. He gave her morphine, He came in and looked at her from time to time, he being none the wiser for it and the woman none the better; and notwith- standing his opinion that she had no disease she might have had any one of a dozen. He gave ber morphine, opium and podophyllum, and unless she was taking more morphine than he ordered the podophyllum should have purged her pretty freely. Therois no evidence whether it did or did not. He gave enough morphine to embarrass the question whether or not the woman died from that poison, sinco his giving it might bo used to account for any found. As to the question whether the woman drank herself to death, it seems to be the theory only of the husband and of Mrs. Hujus. No one of those who knew Mrs. Gamble well and saw her frequently ever saw her under the influence of liquor. The domestics in the country never saw her take it except when her husband poured it out for hor. What became of the bottle from which he poured it? Indeed, the evidence may be accepted as conclusive that she did not die from the use of any alcoholic stimulant, Tho best part of this evidence is the post-mortem examination. Liquor taken in such quantities as to finally destroy life leaves neither stomach nor liver in such condition as those organs presented in the dead body. They with whom she died alone in that room in the country house give, therefore, a very lame reason for her death, when they were not called upon to give any, All the thoracic, ab- dominal and pelvic organs were found in tolera- ble health, The brain was so far decomposed thatan examination could not be made, and that is the only organ that would indicate any trace of the action of a sufficient quantity of morphine to cause death. Dr. Doremus did not find morphine in the stomach or intestines. It would have been strange if he did—as strange as if a chemist should find in a man’s stomach on Monday the single glass of cham- pagne that ‘‘went to his head” on Saturday night. Morphine must be absorbed and flow in the current of the blood before it can be either beneficial or harmful, and thus while Doremus’ examination fails to prove that the ‘woman was murdered by that drug, it doos not prove that she was not. But to recur to the doctor in the country, we find that he made out a certificate of death, declaring that the woman died from congestion of the stomach, liver and brain—n great many organs to be congested at once. He knew “ais certificale—without which the woman could not have been buried—to he fulse. Why, then, did he make it? He mado it at the golicitation of the husband, The husband, then, wanted the death 5 be accounted for, ao that the body, doad without disease, might bo hurried under ground without the intervention of the Coro- ner. The husband, who had the money secured in the will—the freedom of whose actions was embarrassed by a wife too evidently in the way—and who felt over this wife’s remains in the first instance only a restless anxiety to know that she was really dead, and who gave, as accounting for her death in the neighbor- hood, a reason 32 0 doubt know to be false, could only be “satisfied” wi. *feeble-minded doctor had furnished him with a certi.:**? of death that would prevent immediate inquiry. Here are circumstances enongh to puzzle a jury sorely, if they feel disposed to set this man at large merely because the chemist does not find in her stomach enough morphine to cause death, especially as morphine that caused death could not by any possibility bo found in the stomach, Wit Governor Fenton Inroru Us?— What are the shares respectively of the pur- chasers of the Quarantine Grounds on Staten Island? What interest has the ole clo’ be er seller in the property? Reaction in the Sonth im Favor of Gen- eral Grant. We give to-day an article from a stanch democratic paper, published in Louisville, Ky., advising the Southern people not to act too rashly in view of the election of General Grant tothe Presidency; but to take the situation philosophically, satisfied that what they con- sider will be the rulo of a despotism will be better than the rule of a mob. It is quite evi- dent that the Southern press, as well as the Southern leaders generally, are beginning to realizo the fact that General Grant will be elected, and are putting their houses in order accordingly. This sentiment is spreading in Virginia, where General Grant is regarded as an object of 7, such hideous mien ag they have baan ni-3 Thera th~~ °°" ae aoa joe 8 ~~ sav POuULticians are cast asido and tae Asie @ are beginning to turn their attention to railroad ana 2°mmercial en- terprises, to local, agricultural and otter im- provements, so that we may in a brief period again see this fine old Commonwealth, shorn, perhaps, of a portion of her broad domain, but still the ‘‘Italy of this Continent,” bloom and prosper as she has in her palmy days. In North Carolina we notice that the probabilities of Grant’s election are not creating so much alarm as was exhibited somo time ago, and that quite lately a prominent demo- crat and a distinguished Confederate offi- cer have come out in his favor. In fact, throughout the South, instead of the planters adopting the advice of some silly peo- ple and abandoning their plantations and homes in case of Grant's election, wiser coun- sels are prevailing, and they are beginning to think that that event will not bring so much of a shower after all. Upon one thing we think our Southern friénds may rely, and that is, in case a contest should arise as to which race shall have the supremacy in the South and General Grant is called upon to decide, Sambo will have to go to the wall. Altogether, we believe it would be well for the South to regard General Grant as a friend, a mediator and pacificator, rather than an enemy, a des- pot and destroyer. A Question From Dasot’s ARITHMETIO.— If Mr. Canard offered half a million of dollars fora dock on the water front of the Quaran- tlue Grounds on Staten Island, what is the whole water right worth ? Pushing Telegraph Enterprise te the East. The cable news from Europe informs us that the new deep submarine telegraph direct from Malta to Alexandria, Egypt, had been success- fully laid. This isa vast improvement upon the former telegraphic connection, and will save a great deal of time in communications to and from Egypt, India and the East generally. The British are pushing telegraph enterprise in that direction with all their might, witha view to reach China and every part of Asia, 80 as to have control over the news and mar- kets and to monopolize the profits of telegraph- ing. We learn from good authority that the parties interested in the Atlantic cable, and even some Americans, are aiding these efforts to give England a monopoly of the telegraphs, news and markets of the whole of Eastern Asis, Is it not time that our government, merchants and people waked up to the impor- tance of these movements? The proper, best and direct course for telegraphic communica- tion with China, Japan and the ports of Asia bordering the Chinese seas and facing the Pa- cific Ocean is to America and from America to Europe. It would bo shorter, quicker and cheaper. Tho East India Telegraph Company, which is an American company, has the privi- lege from China to lay cables all along the Chinese coast from Canton to Shanghae, @ distance of nearly nine hundred miles, and connecting all the principal ports and trading centres of the empire. This company is now preparing to accomplish that highly important object. A proposition is be- fore Congress, and we believe was sub- mitted during the last session by Mr. Collins, of Russian telegraph fame, and his associates, to connect the Pacific coast of the United States with China and Japaw by telegraph lines and cables by the way of Alaska, the Aleutian islands and Kamschatka. The route is perfectly practicable and through our own territory a great part of the distance. No one cable would be required more than five to six hundred miles in length, The climate and all other conditions are favorable. But we are too slow about the matter, These American enterprises should be pushed vigor- ously, We have every advantage in our favor for making this country the centro of telegraphic communications between Asia and Europe; but we may lose much by delay and give England a monopoly of that which should belong tous. We call the attention of Con- gress, our merchants and capitalists to these significant as RN Moe Isrormation Wantep.—When did the au- thorized sale of the State property known as the Quarantine Grounds at Staten Island take place 2 > Groretary Sewarp Not tN Possess1ox.— The Danish Legislature, or Rigedag, in session in Copenhagen, has resolved to postpone the ratification of the sale of the island of §t. Thomas and other territory in the West In- dies to the United States for the space of one year, How ts this? Who knows what may occur during thy interval—more earthquakes or a change of Cabinet in Washington? “a Tiz Spanisn Revo.vtion.—It appears from our cable news that important changes have taken place in the provisional goverameat ia Madrid, Despatehe.) dated October 3 informod us that the new Cabinet 234 boea formed, with Marshal Serrane as Presideny; Mados, Minis- ter of Finance; Aguirre, Minister of Justice; Olozaga, Minister of Foreign Afairs. It now appears that Aguirre is President and that Serrano is appointed Gencral-in-Chief of the army. Telegrams dated In Madrid on tho 5th instant state that Generals Prim and Serrane had been requested by the Junta to take charge of the government pending the assembling of Cortes, and that Espartero and the Count of Cheste give their support to tho provisional arrangement. The majority of the people are said to be decidedly in favor of a republic. Olozaga has declined a position in tho new Cabinet. Prim reached Madrid yesterday. These conflicting reports only show that even at headquarters matters have not yet settled down into a perfectly stablo condition. Wao Kyows?—What is the trade mark of the firm of Swinburne, Fenton, Fibel & Wie- ner, at the Quarantine Landing, Staten Island ? REATION IN ConNEcTicuT.—The town eleo- tions in Connecticut on Monday last show a decided reaction in favor of the republicans since last spring. It is useless for the demo- crats to say there is nothing in these local elections or that they only reflect the senti- ments of the people upon local questions with- out regard to national topics. Ina crisis like the present, on the eve, as we are, of a mo- mentous Presidential election, these little signs. indicate the bent of the popular sentiment upon the great issues of the hour. The groat republican gain of fourteen hundred in the city of New Haven is especially significant. Altogether, we are bound to take this result ia ~--~--ttané oa the first manifestation of the, VOMMetULuy we. -. approach of that immense tidal wave whica will sweep over the whole country in favor of General Grant in November next. Wantrp to Know—Who were the bidders and what was the highest bid at the sale of the Staten Island Quarantine Grounds? TAXPAYERS ARE InQuininc—Where tho purchase money for tho State property on Sta- ten Island has gone. YACHTING. The Atlantic Yacht Club—The Champton Pen- nant—Contest Between the Lois and the Mystic—No Wind,.No Race. Attended by singular 11 luck, this race, 60 anxiously looked forward to, came om yesterday; but the distance not having been completed within the required time no decision was arrived at, More than ordinary interest had been attached to the re- sult, for not only were the competing yachts almost on 8 par in every respect, but it was intended that this should be the final contest, thereby bringing the season of the Atlantic Yacht Club to a successful close, It will be remembered that the Lois was the winner in the recent contest for the champion pennant of the club. The Mystic did not enter in that race, but subsequently offered @ challenge ¥to the owner of the Lois, who, waiving his claim to thirty days’ possession, at once cheerfully responded and set down yesterday for the contest. The morning was quite favorable to the brighest anticipations of a capital race, The course lay froma stakebaat in Gowanus Bay round the Southwest he ‘and retura, tho distance to be completed within five hours. The Los was the first to show at the starting point, having oa board a3 judges Messrs, Thomas Ball aud J, Mani orolook dro) with oth half.past Muchor ii fae the A iystio soon. afte soon ors readiness, iF on The boats stood at the stake us s 8... man, Mystic. . J. F. Sparkman, 05. 1054 At forty minutes after one the Lois boomed forth the signal for departure. The B Gat were somo- what dilatory in getting of. i¢ Mystic was the first to swing around, and, with every stitch of can- vas set, headed smartiy forjthe Narrows. Beii somewhat slower in preliminary movements the Lo ‘was not fairly under way unttl the Mystic had shot ahead nearly fifty yards. A welcome breeze the northwest now gave some impetus to the craft and astern chase was kept up for overa mile. At starting Mystic was to the windward and succeeded in retafaing that tion to adv: for the Lois was now gradually creeping ere was uO favorite in the contest, and nothing remained te determine the event but the wind. which of course affected the yachts ina slightly diferent manner. It was thought that should the breeze freshen the Lois would probably come oif victorious, while should it continue comparatively slight the Mystic would carry off the honors of the day. Headi for, the Narrows the sight was pretty in the oxtreme. Mystic led beautifully, and was hotly puraued by the Lois, the distance between them being avout twenty yards, and the latter apparently crawling upon hor opponent. Bright anticipations were eutertalned of a fresh breeze outside the Narrows, but all hopes ia that reapect were doomed to disappotntment. Up to the present the yachts had done good work, Owl's Head having been passed within fiteen minutes from the time of starting. Outside — the kK indi who Narrows matters looked very and =the anxious competitors, has hitherto proceeded briskly, now dradged along like lazy schoolboys. The same positions were main. tatned during the Iull, ually @ puff of wind would swell out the lapping sails, and just when the yachts were abous to bend to their work a calm would ensue and bring nothing but disappointment, ‘There was not the slightest variation up to the turn. ing at the Spit, When within a couple of miles of it, however, @ favorable wind set in and the yachts again appeared to move smartly. The Lois had lost somewhat during the frequent frotics of the wea- ther now began to gain slightly upon her woll- matched adversary, and the race bezan to assame @ very interesting inoue After a capital chase the yachts turned the Southwest Spit in tne follow- ing order: . Me Mystic 3 = 3 be seen that the contest had so far been very even, the vicissitudes of the weather having acted impartially towards the contestants, Havi got completely round @ splendid race ensuod. was almost such a breeze as suited both yachts and away they sped in excellent oe Mystic made. the first tack and headed in the direction of Bayside, while the Lois adopted the opposite tack and for the West Bank. Such being the case at the close every “turn about’ the yachts crossed each other's, bows certainly within less than twenty yards, hav- Ing been apart on some tacks over a distance of three miles. It should be observed that both yachts were very skilfully handled, and parores: Te point was taken advantage of. It was tac! and tack to the windw between West Bank and Staten Island. Unfortunately the wind now nto die out. Up to thia time the Lois had gained a littie and in potn! tos, wards the Narrows had = considerably, She was ene uy on her course, but when near ing Staten Island iight she became almost becaimed, The Mystic, however, still moved slowly on and grad ne the distance, and when near the mouth of the Narrows slowly glided Darknes@ had now set in, there was nota breath of wind an the prospect was goomy in the extreme. To appearance both yachts were becalmed, and the Prospect of completing the distance within the re juired time was at anend, The Mystic arrived at the stakeboat @ few minutes before eight o' while the Lois did not come in untii afer ten o'clock, having remained perfectly still outside the Narrows for over two hours. The race will probably over again on a more at sincerely noped the e! prhorrtaeowencwiclleminct 5 AD FOR THE SUFFERERS BY EARTHQUAKES AMERICA, Sr, ‘The undersigned beg to intimate tq chose who are desirous of contributing toward’, the relief of the sufferers by the late earthquar.e in the republics of Peru and Eouador, South rica, that subse ription lists for that i open at thelr offices. Subscriptions recelved willbe handed to the reavien Y.iniater at Washington for remittance to Perr, and Ecuador in such proe tions As Bubs «bers may direct. Tho Legg] day newapanes towiedge we receipt of sums in Wo belie? (ite his work of charity will com: to all. Mend tse; BROWN BROTHERS & CO. ha Rostdent vartn cy evn Poe tn the Dnitaa rartner , States, 49 Soath street.