The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR I AS Sasso Velume XX XIII... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—CB(M80N SHIELD, OB NyMPus OF THE Rarynow. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuz Dama oF Our oF Tux Srzxets. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homrrr Dumerr, with New Fratures. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tax New Deawa oF L'Asiun. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place,—DANIRL sx Bavy- LON. ‘ FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- Bue.—La GRanpE DUCHESS? NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—BaTEMan’s OPERA Bourre—Barbe BLEUE. * WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18h street.— LOVE'S SACRIFICE, BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th ttrest.ETUIOPIAN MIRSTRELSY, &0., LUCRETIA BORGIA. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Brondway.—ETH10- . 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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.» BoIRNOE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. | New York, Thursday, October 8, 1868. = = THE NEWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, October 7. 3 The provisional government of Spain will free the children of the blacks held in the colonies in view of ‘the anticipated abolition of slavery by the Cortes. Prim and Serrano were named honorary Presidents, ‘and Sefior Aguirre acting President of the govern- ‘ment. Prominent royalists were being converted to ‘the people's cause. The Carlists are agitating the ‘Basque provinces against Serrano, } Mr. Deak, the Hungarian statesman, is to have a complimentary address from the foreign ministers (to the court of Vieuna, Mr. Bancroft, American ‘Minister in Berlin, aiso signing. The English gov- ernment will, it is said, take up the Irish land tenare ‘question, with a view to reform, at an early day. A a fatal explosion occurred in an English manufactory ‘of flreworka, } The English yacht Deerhound, which rescued Cap- sain Semmes after the Alabama was sunk off Cher- bourg, was lying in Southampton water, close to the ‘American yacht Sappho, on the 26th of September. } Consols 945, money. Five-twenties quiet and Steady in London and Frankfort. Paris Bourse er, Cotton easier in Liverpool, with middling up- lands at 10%{d. a 107d. Breadstufls and provisions ‘without marked change. MISCELLANEOUS. The Emperor of China has opeued the port of Chifau to foreign trade, ‘The steamer Eagle, Captain Greene, from Havana October 3, arrived at this port yesterday. All news of the insurrections in Spain is suppressed by the authorities. The French Consul General, M. Alfred Faul, had died of yellow fever in Havana. His fu- Deral took place on September 28, with great solem- nity. } A Havana despatch of yesterday says that Santa Anna has been ordered to leave the island for rea- fons as yet unknown to the public. * Advices from Brazil by the Atlantic = % state ‘hat Lopez had been defeated by the allies in Para- @uay and compelled to withdraw from the position at San Fernando, which he had taken up only a few days previously. ( Mail advices from Hayti are received, dated the 26th ult, Inthe naval engagement off Petit Grove two American sailors belonging to the Pétion were @rowned, An insult had been offered to the French Consul, but it was sternly discountenanced by Sal- pave. | It is now probable that there will be no session of (Congress this month, but that @ quoram will be present on the 10th of November. 4 General Sherman has telegraphed to Washington that he must have more troops immediately if the (country does not wish to be plunged into a jong and disastrous war with the Indians, #® Under a contract recently made with the Post (OMice Department at Washington, the Florida Rail- Company will despatch a steamer to sail from New Orleans every Saturday, Havana every Tues- day and Key West on Weanesday. The Postmasters ‘At New Orleans and Key West have been instructed (to send mails to Havana by this line, and the Consul at Havana, as Post Ofice agent, will despatch return ‘mails to each port, forwarding all such matter as an be expedited in its transmission by this route, feporting amount of postage by each mail, Several executions for murder had taken place on the island, +. Our official report of the late disturbance in Ope- fousas, La., states that two whites and five negroes vere killed. ‘The whole trouble is attributed to the indignation of the negroes at an unprovoked assault ‘by three men on the white edior of @ radical Newspaper. The Secretary of the Treasury has called on Col- Jectors of Customs throughout the country for the names of untrustworthy or incompetent gaugers aud tuspectors, in order that they may be removed, age Read, of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania, has taken ground against the issuing of paturalization papers in blank by the Supreme Court, It ts thought a majority of the Court will agree with him atthe meeting on Monday in Pitts. ‘burg. The Gamble poisoning case was continued on Tuesday and Wednesday, Margaret Winkler, the German domestic, being further examined. During the proceedings some difficulty occurrea, in which the counsel for the prosecution advised the inter. preter to thrash the counsel for the defence. & Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, in view of General Thomas’ disposition of the regular troops, thinks that the militia may not be needed, ‘The Governor has respited Canta and Burke, who ‘were to have been hanged to-morrow for the murder of Miss Ellen Hicks in Westchester county, two years ago, until the 1oth of November. A republican torchlight procession was attacked by roughs last evening and a serious fight ensued, Ciubs and pistols were used and several persons, the Mayor among them, were severely injured, THE CITY. The famous revenue case. in which Commissioner Rollins and Deputy Commissioner Marland were the defendants, was dismissed yesterday by Com- missioner Guttman, not a scintilla of evidence being brought forward against them. John D, Mefienry, pn whose information the charges were made, has Om arrested on two charges of perjury made by ir. Loeb and Mr. 8. N. Pike, and was committed to Bnswer in default o: bail. ‘Bue General Convention of the Episcopal Church NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OUTOBER 8, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. of the United States and the New Dominion opened at Trinity church yesterday morning. All the dio- ceses are represented, there being 320 delegates Present, of whom forty-two are bishops. Bishop Potter officiated at the opening and Dr. Alfred Lee, of Delaware, preached the sermon. Five hundred communicants had the sacrament administered to them, Rey. Dr. James Craik, of Kentucky, was unanimously elected president, and after nis address the Convention adjourned until to-day. The National Conference of the Unitarian and other Mberal churches commenced in Irving Hall yesterday. Mr. T, D, Elliott, of New Bedford, pre- sided, Recorder Hackett yesterday directed the Grand Jury to investigate the nuisance which builders are guilty of in encumbering the sidewalks with building materials, and also to inquire if there really issuch an orgapization as the Citizens’ Association, and if the charges which they fulminate against the public officials does not render them lable to indictment for libel. Juage Nelson, of the United States Circuit Court; in Admiralty, has rendered a decision in the case of the owners of the bark Caroline against Thomas Thatcher, garnishee, afirming the decree rendered below. Mr. George Opdyke delivered an address last even- ing before the National Club, at their parlors in the club house, Union square, on the ‘Financial Issues of the Present Canvass.” The meeting was presided over by General W. H. Anthon, and a voteof thanks ‘Was tendered the lecturer at the conclusion of his remarks, Willem Slade, Jr., Iate Consul at Nice and United States Commissioner at thé Paria Exhibition, left for Europe yesterday in the Cuba on official business connected with the government, which will be prin- cipaily conducted in Paris, Vienna and St. Peters- burg. ‘ — * The Mayor has vetoed the résolution oft he Qom- mon Council increasing the salaries af its oMficera. ‘The conclave of Knights Templar of this State con- cluded their annual session yesterday by the election and installation of omcers for $he ensuing year. The North German Lioyd’s steaiiisiip Union, Oap- tain Von Santen, will leave Hoboken abduttwo P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails ict Europe will close at the Post Office at twelve M. ‘The steamship General Barnes, Captain Morton, will gail at three P. M. to-day from pier 36 North river for Savannah, The steamship Saragossa, Captain. Crowell, of Arthur Leary’s line, will leave pier No. 8 North river, foot of Rector treet, this day, at three P. M., for Charleston, 8. Cc. Prominent Arrivals, F. M. Stone, of Pittsburg, and Austin Denham, of Hartford, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, General Poe and Colonel Hildt, of the United States Army, are at the Hoffman House, Colonel H. E. Peyton, of Baltimore, and @. W. Thatcher, of St. Louis, are at the Maltby s10use. Mr. Richard Wallach and George Micheler, of Washington, and Dr. J. C. Leaning, of Baltimore, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Captain Lewis Castelman, of Frankfort, Ky., and Mr. Johnson Barbour, of Virginia, are at the New York Hotel. Celestino de la Fartente, of Havana; Rey. Dr. Hutchinson, of St. Louts, and E. Nicholson, of Lon- don, England, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Governor Fenton, of Albany; Baron Wetterstedt and Marquis Bourand, of France, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Spanish Re tion—Repablican vs. Napoleonic Idens. One of the cable telegrams from Madrid which we published yesterday declared—“It is daily becoming more and more evident that the great majority of the people are in favor of @ republican form of government in Spain.” This telegram was dated October 5. A later telegram, dated at London, October 6, an- nounced that the reorganized constitution of the provisional government, embracing among its members Generals Prim and Serrano, with Sefior Olozaga, is ‘‘an accomplished fact.” A telegram of October 7 reports that the Provi- sional Junta will free the children of the blacks, in anticipation of the total abolition of slavery in the colonies by the Cortes. The rapidity with which the Spanish revolu- tion has been effected has surprised all Europe. But it is still more surprising that so despotio &@ government as that of the ex-Queen Isabella has so long been able to withstand the pressure of liberal ideas. Its recent arbitrary acts, the exile of generals and the execution of journal- ists, the forced departure of the Duke of Mont- pensier and the daily severities against the press precipitated the very revolution which these measures were intended to avert. The fate of the Spanish government has emphatically illustrated the axiom of La Liberté, M. de Girardin’s journal—‘‘Whoso ruleth by force shall be overthrown by force.” M. de Girar- din himself, experienced prognosticator as he is, hesitated to venture upon the wide field of hypotheses, projects, plans and programmes opened by the Cadiz pronunciamiento. The elevation of the Duke of Montpensier to the vacant throne, abdication in favor of the Prince of Asturias or to the profit of the Count of Montemolin, the dictadura of General Prim, the annexation of Spain to Portugal—all these form but a small part of the combinations sug- gested. “Of all the claimants who are about to dispute, who are already disputing, the spoils of Isabella II, there is one,” says De Girardin, ‘‘whom none will scarcely think of admitting to a definitive share, althongh, in- deed, her name is inscribed on the banners of every party; this claimant, who shrinks with horror from the sword and who never demands her triumphs from military conspiracies, is Liberty!” But it is not impossible that the appeal made by every party to the name of Liberty may awaken a spirit which, however feebly it may be burning in the Spanish heart at present, will suffice to kindle @ flame that shall not only de- stroy the plans of the instigators of the revolution in Spain, but also set all the European monarchies on fire. Tho Guudois, a well informed French journal, has already uttered a warning voice. ‘Take care!” it cries. ‘When revolution falls upon any one point of Europe it is like a drop of oil on the map, which keeps spreading and spreading.” The French journalists are awakening to the dangers threatened to the Napoleon dynasty and to Napoleonic ideas by the recent events in Spain. They begin to suspect, and not without reason, the sinister influence of the King of Prussia and his astute Minister, Bis- marck, of having been promoters of the Span- ish revolution as a powerful agency in under- mining the French government. It will require all the subtlety and all the power of Napoleon to counteract the influence of his Prussian adversaries go as to direct himself the whirlwind of the Spanish revolu- tion, We shall see whether, through the agency of General Prim or through other agencies, the Emperor of the French will be successful in controlling at Madrid those fiery republican elements of the revolution that Bis- marck and the King of Prussia, even at the risk of a general European conflagration, may try to fan into a flame in order to compass hig destruction, At Paris Napoleon has done all that ingo- nuity can do to guard against a republican revolution, For sixteen yoars he has been fortifying himself against insurreetion, while he has been embellishing Paris and making it the most splendid city in the world. The grand boulevards, which have brought light and health into the most dismal and dangerous lurking places of disease and discontent, are but superb military roads, macadamized in such a way as to render old-fashioned barri- cades impossible, and forming, together with the railway around Paris and numerous well garrisoned barracks and fortresses, an admit- ablo provision for speedily concentrating a hundred thousand men upon any given point within the walls of Paris. »*- Safe, however, as Napoleon may feel himself to be against Parisian émeutes, who shall ven- ture to predict that he is safe against all other perils to which he is exposed? Even if the French people patiently endure his prolonged resistance to the steadily ingreaging popular hatred against Prussia, which has taketi the placé of the dying-out traditional hatred against England, who shall ntee the Emperor against a revolution % be initiated by the French army similar to: that récently initiated by the Spanish navy? . With both army and navy revolutionized against him Napoleon III. could not rely upo# the loyalty of the people with much mote confidence than Isabella II, Hitherto the Emperor of the French has strenuously opposed tho ilar feelings expressed or indicated by such out- spoken journalists as Emile de Girardin. But the time seems to be approaching when he must either prepare to resist domestig revoly- tion or to turn its fury aside into the channel of a great foreign war. The Spanish revolu- tioz must directly or indirectly affect the deg- tinfes of thé French empire and of all Europe. If Bismarck plays adroitly the cards which it puts in his hand Napoleon will be icokY indeod if he prove to be the winner, pest tanct pee The Connecticut Town Elections=Thoe Drift of the Popular Tide. The returns of tho late town elections in Connecticut show, in the summing up, a hand- some republican majority on the aggregate popular vote. In New Haven alone the dem- ocratic majority of two thousand two hundred and fifty three of last April has dwindlod down to 9 majority of nine hundred and thirty- one, and the democrats are generally the losers in the strong republican towns and in the strong democratic towns. Tho arithmetician of the special organ of our democratic Man- hattan Club of ‘“‘bloated bondholders” gives us an interesting explanation of these losses. He says that in the towns where the democrats were largely in the minority they allowed these recent elections to go by default, and that in other towns, where the democracy were sure of @ majority, they made no effort to bring out their: full vote, and that thus they were the losers in both cases, But, to cut short the argument, this aforesaid arithmeti- cian, who figured out great democratic gains in ® republican majority of twenty thousand in the late Maine election, flatly tells us that these Connecticut town elections are of ‘no sort of consequence.” This will not do. We think they are very, very significant, and our reasons for this opinion may bo briefly stated. In the Prosidential year, and especially in the heat of the contest, State elections, county, elty and town elections, are all controlled by the Presidential issue. Thus, it was Grant against Seymour in the September State elec- tions in Vermont and Maine, and both parties went into those elections upon that idea. The result in each of those States was accord- ingly accepted as a pretty fair indication of the drift of the popular tide, not only in Ver- mont and Maine, but throughout the States identified with the cause of General Grant against the rebellion. The results of these little town elections in Connecticut are sub- ject to the same interpretation, The demo- cratic leaders and managers understood, too, the importance to their Presidential ticket of holding Connecticut in these town elections, but their followers failed to come up to the work. General apathy has evidently fallen upon them. The energy and enthusiasm which marked their contest for Governor of last April have died out, and so they have per- mitted these October town elections to go by default. But why? It is because of the blunders of the Democratic National Conven- tion of July in regard to both the party ticket and platform for the Presidency. With the announcement of Seymour as the democratic candidate on Wade Hampton's revolutionary platform, the popular reaction which in 1867 set in against the radicals was arrested and the popular Union elements of the North which had rallied around the banner of Lincoln in 1864, against the democratic Chicago pronunciamiento that the war was a failure, began to rally again around the banner of Grant. All our political elections since held, from Maine to New Mexico and from Colorado to Connecticut, tell the same story, and wo expect that from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska the popular ver- dict on Tuosday next will settle the question of the succession, Tie Steer Commissioner ann THe Crt zENs' AssociaTioN.—Peter Cocper and the Citizens’ Association appear to have got hold of a troublesome customer in Street Commis- sioner McLean, That officer is evidently ca- pable of writing letters almost as long as those that emanate from the Association, anda great deal more spicy in their tone. In one, which we publish to-day, the Street Commissioner pours hot shot into his assailants, If tho As- sociation is going to get any more such con- troversies on its hands it had better use ite funds to establish a paper of its own, and then it can publish as long-winded communications as it pleases without inconvenience to the daily press or annoyance to the pubic, Tae Sepewick MeMontat.—That splendid piece of monumental statuary, Launt Thomp- son’s bronze full figure, life size portrait of General John Sedgwick, of the Sixth corps, is to be dedicated on the 2ist of this month at West Point. This statue, it will be remem- bered, is paid for by subscriptions from the men and soldiers of the gallant force that Sedg- wick led 80 well in so many struggles, and is made from cannon captured in battle by that force. It will furnish to the future one of the most interesting as well as beautiful memorials of the war. The official notice of the ceremony is in another columa, Real Estate axd tho Faturo York. With the termination of the long vacation end the return to the city of those who had been seeking rest and recuperation at the various summer resorts the real estate market, which, during the interval between July and September, was comparatively dull, has re- sumed its former activity. With the completion of the Pacific Railroad across the Continent, stretching from New York to San Francisco in an unbroken line, and which even now in its progress has brought these two cities, thousands of miles apart, to within fourteen days’ mail communi- cation of each other, a brilliant era presents itself to New York. Through this city the trade of three conti- nents must pass—the products of the manufac- tories of Europe to America and Asia, and the material wealth of India, China and Japan, with our own cereals, to Europe. To provide for this dovelopment great changes must en- sue in this city, affecting both its landed and building interests. A iow passage for out increased tiarinc Will he opened up in the removal of the obstructions” at Hell Gate, while incidentally to the transfer of commer- cial business to that vicinity, new docks and capacious warehouses will require to be built, both enhancing the value of real estate along the entire river front on the east side. House room being rendered scarce by the necessity of ptoviding for the addition to our population thus bropght about, the southern and eastern end of Westchester gounty will be rapidly overrun, as, with tho dons! ction of an under- ground railroad as proposed, here will be the most convenient residence for the working- man, while lower dowil the fecessitles of local trade and tho varied efterprise of a Cosmo- politay “hopulation will davalon and extend, a ing for the culture and comfort uct alone of this eity, but of the entire country, # Sheltered from the turmoil and bustle, dust and dirt inoident to the conduct of these nu- merous meroantile and manufacturing inte- rests, and presenting in the midst of all this commercial progress a quiet, elegant retreat, with superior natural advantages of situation and scenery, for the satisfaction and enjoy- ment of refined taste, the neighborhood of the western upper portion of the city seems especially marked out to be the fashionable quarter of the great metropolis. Here on these magnificent heights, overlooking the lordly Hudson, towering to a purer atmosphere than that of the lower land of the city proper, is presented suitable sites for the grand houses of our merchant princes. The steady and in cases remarkable appreciation of real proper- ; ty extending in this direction, and the intro- duction into the market thus early of an extensive tract here situated give signs of a speedy realization of this fature. This tract consists of one hundred and twenty-eight acres, being a part of the estate of Isaac Dykeman, deceased, well known as the ‘Fort George property,” and containing some unsurpassed sites for villa residences. It extends from Broadway, or the old Kings- bridge road, which forms its western boundary, to the Harlem river, which forms its eastern boundary. It is to be sold in plots of @ little less than an acre each, and from previous sales of less de- sirable property largo prices aro anticipated. In this the managers may, however, be disap- pointed, as in auction sales much depends upon trifling circumstances on the day of sale; but even such an event, while possibly delaying, cannot prevent the certain appreciation of real property in this city and Brooklyn any more than it can alter the manifest destiny of New York to be the great commercial centre of the world. ms How England Loved Us During the War. Ex-Secrotary Stanton delivered a rather im- portant speech in Carlisle, Ohio, on the 3d in- stant. In reviewing the questionas to whom the government was indebted for the sinews of war to enable it to fight the rebellion, Mr. Stanton stated that ‘it was known in official circles in Washingion that 8 house in London that had been dealing to the extent of millions of dollars with our credit belleved our cause 80 hopeless that on the sacred Sabbath day their agont presented to the head of the Trea- sury Department a bill for a small balance that was due them,” and, as the speaker believed, invested it in Confederate bonds. It was for- tunate for the country that we had not to go abroad for money to carry on the war, and, more than all, to trust to such hereditary and treacherous foes as England and her banking houses for assistance. We have seen how the goverament of Great Britain permitted the building and fitting out of piratical cruisers to prey upon American commerce during the war, and have taken into consideration the im- mense depredations they committed ; for all of which a ‘‘little bill” against the British gov- ernment remains outstanding, and the liqui- dation of which we hope Mr. Seward will take early steps to secure, provided he does not select any ‘‘sacred Sabbath day” in the hour of England's tribulation to do so; but it re- thained for this disclosure in an obscure town ina Western State to fill the cup of British meanness and hypocrisy. When the day of settlement comes what an enormous balance Uncle Sam will have to present against John Bull! Reper War Destsa—A Sansone Orric1aL Oprsion.—The Municipal Attorney of Rich- mond, Virginia, gave an official opinion to the City Council on Tuesday to the effect that the city small notes issued during the war, amount- ing to a quarter of a million dollars, cannot be paid under the existing constitution of the State, which forbids paying any such war debts. This is allright, and in conformity not only with the State constitution, but also with the con- stitution of the United States as amended. The sooner the Southern people utterly abandon the idea of any of the rebel debts being paid, except those strictly of an individual charac- ter, or between individuals, the better, They should make a clean sweep of them all into the abyss of oblivion and burn all the notes. To do otherwise will only embarrass them and keep up sectional feeling, litigation and trouble. Let them abandon the past and build up on a new foundation agrecably to existing circumstances. of New Bex Borrer Corxerrp Again, — Under Richard H. Dana as anti-greenback bond pay- ing candidate for Congress the republicans DST Pee Seas eee ree ee Butler have got him, as Beauregard had him, in the corner of Bermuda Hundred, and it is possible that he may again be bottled up. Butler, however, is making a more vigorous fight than he made at Big Bethel, Fort Fisher, or on his original advance upon Petersburg, and may came out yet with flying colors, Pendleton's thongh they are, In the event of his election we may expect rare sport in Con- gress, and so we advise the republicans of Butler's district, and the democrats, if neces- sary, to make sure that they run him in. The War of the Tubereses. Opéra bou fe is still a dainty excitement to the popular fancy, and none the less that manager Grau has begun to deploy his forces. Grau’s movement of Monday night opens ac- tively the operations of the season. He has taken bold ground, and if he shall still hold it when Lord Bateman and his Tostée are fairly installed at Pike's his fortune’ will belie some present appearances. It was hazardous to try the “Duchess” again, especially with a new Duchess, If the public of this distracted, irrational, but very natural city havg a par- tioular fanoy for any Duchess, it is the Duchess they know, It fs @ thankless office to be an image breaker among those who worship images, and we closs our ears resolutely, against the best of reasoners, who tells us that all our pet theories are false, and who, horror of horrors! wants to expose out most darling delusions. We—meaning the public—are just a little bit like Paris still, despite our living a few thousand years later. Pallas, we know, is wonderfully wise, and Juno a gorgeous creature. They have charms that we ought to prefer; but Venus shall have the apple in spite of those old girls, no matter if we may not say why. What is the reason that our dear, nonsensical Duchess prefers Fritz to Paul? Paulisa pretty fellow, quite polite, and evidenuy ‘has taste. He who gai toll this shall tell also why ine dear coe resents the imputation that it has been u.. WTong-in giving its heart to a Duchess who is the yoty soul of all that is deliciously ridiculous; why IS gb- jects to hearing that the Duchess has moré dignity and elegance than it thought and is a beiter singer. He shall explain why it listens coldly to all this, and he shall have his ex- planation for his pains. Grau’s initiative, therefore, still leaves room. There is some apathy, and the public waits to take the practical measure of com- parison in seeing what Bateman will do for its pleasure. It is only one fact that it does not want a new Duchess. Perhaps it may want whatever else it can get. Genevicve ‘de Brabant may prove a atill more charming créature than any damsel of the whole ro- mantic catalogue, and as our public have no preconceptions regarding her character the field is fair for whoever will embody and create it. Some things can be done as well as others. Caprice is ‘so capricious and whim is so whimsical that we may by and by have the same reason to wonder that the pub- lic-is as wild for one woman in Geneviéve as for another in the Duchess, Between the Fifth and the Eighth avenues there is space fortwo women. Let us see how Bateman will advance to his second season. He has a great troupe with Tostée, Aujac, Duchesne and Guffroy, and a troupe that established the best sort of entre-nous-ship with the city public. He can do wonders with the Duchess, but he cannot go through the wonder with her if the other house flanks him by new positions in new pieces. No doubt the contest will turn on the charm of new pieces, and the sooner they come the livelier times there will be in the theatre, in the parlor debates and in the fashion shops. Vive la bagatelle / Tne MonTory STaTEMENT oF THE TREA- sURY DEPARTMENT.—Mr. McCulloch comes out @ little better than was expected in his Octo- ber statement of the financial condition of the Treasury. The total debt, less cash in the Treasury, on September 1, 1868, was $2,535,- 614,313, and on October 1, $2,524,642,718, It is less, therefore, this month than at the last by $970,595. This, of course, is gratifying 80 far as it goes; but we cannot judge of the financial condition of the Treasury by compar- ing the statements of two months.. We must ran through @ longer period; for temporary and accidental causes may give a rosy color to things while there may be rottenness be- neath. The main fact that the country has to look to is that the debt has been increased within the last year nearly forty-two millions, and that three years after the war closed and when the revenue of the government ap- proached five hundred millions a year. Noth- ing in this month's statement shows that with the present enormous expenditures and extra- vagance, and with the reduction of revenue, wo shall not find the Treasury still farther behind and the debt still more augmented at the end of the fiscal year. Win ow Samant Tae Istanp or Cusa.—There was a rumor in Wall street the other day that Secretary Seward was negotiating with the Spanish revo- lutionary government for the purchase of the island of Cuba. Many rumors start in Wall street, but not often one that all could so much wish true as this. It is, however, doubtful if the revolutionary Junta would, with its hands #0 fall at home, enter just now on the ques- tionable proceeding of selling the last relic in this hemisphere of Spanish greatness. The Junta could scarcely do this unless pressed by the immediate need of money; and it is not in want of money. Moreover, if it were, this government is not very prompt in its pay- ments, as may be seen in the history of the Russian purchase, and it would hardly come here for ready money. If, however, there is an opportunity to purchase Cuba the whole country will agree that it is the best investment in land we can make. CONNECTICUT TOWN ELECTION. Watenery, Conn., Oct. 7, 1868. The republican gain in this city Is over eighty. Tho democrats elected most of their ticket by @ majority of 240 against last year’s majority of 316, They elect their Collector by a majority of sixty-three against last year’s majority of 319—a loss of 266, ACCIDENT ON THE LAKE SHORE RAILROAD. From the Evening Telegram of yesterday. : CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct, 7, ‘bes, A collision occurred on the Lake Shore Rattroad at Mentor, Lake county, at seven o'clock last evening, betweon two freight trains, One was stationary, its locomotive taking in water, The other was an extra, fo ca naeagemen | from the west. The bngineer of the moving train says he missed bis landmarks, owing to the darkness. The station ry train's oaboose took fire from the counting @nsine and was destroy. ed, with six other Cara, ‘The other train was loaded with stock, A large P“imbor of aheep and cattle were killed and WUred. ‘Total loss tully $90,000, No human) a | belore tue assombingo Urowe up. opposed to the re-election of General Ben | lives ‘ere tost. SESS LEE 8 MASONIC. Koights Tomp:1rs’ Annual Conclave=Secsend Day. ‘The Grand Commandery o; Knights Pemptars of this State resumed labor at ten o’civck yesterday morn- ing, R. E. Sir Pearson Mundy, Past Grand Com- mander, in the chair, a full representation of the dif- ferent subordinate commanderies being in attend- ance, The minutes of the previous day’s proceedings were read and adopted. ‘The special order, being the election of oMcers for the ensuing year, was now called, Sir Knights McCredie and Lytle acting as tellers, On counting the different ballots the follow: Sir Knights were foeunoene elected as Grand ‘Ofhcers for the ensu- ras ir John A. Lefferts, R, E. Grand Commander. ee, Clay Preston, V. E. Deputy Grand Com- Sir George Baboock, E. Grand Gi Sir Robert N. Brom E. Grand Cay Sir Rev. Charjes H. Platt, E. Gi H Sir Frank L, Stowell, E. Grand Senior Warden. Sir Willlam B. Crandall, E, Grand Junior Warden. Sir John 8, Perry, E. Grand Treasurer, Sir Robert Macoy, E. Grand Recorder. Sir Mead Belden, B. Grand Standard Bearer. bir A. E. Lytle, &, Grand Sword Bearer. Sir James A. Reed, E. Grand Warder. Sir Joseph B. Chaffee, E. Grand Lecturer. Sir John B, Hunter, E, Grand Sentinel. ‘The chairman of the Gommittec on Time and Pisce Annual Conclave reported that they had de- clded that the Grand Commandery shoud meet in the A of Buffalo October 7, 1869, which on motion ‘as adopted. ‘The special committee on the Grand Commander's oa made their report, which was received and opted. lentials of representation from the Grand Com- mandoriga of Lepee and Pennsylvania were ro iiulaed the re orts and accounts of the Recorder and al | Batya os no Hi fa iif premises, the Bp ES TT aa ral service 10 grave, ie The Commandery of in the forming of tus snscouslon would aot, if nb alas oavort and precede We The remainder of the morning session was Ooct- pied with labor in the new Code of Statutes and Re- gulations, and amo: the most important sectiong adopted is the one relating to the fees for conferring the orders of knighthood in the subordinate com- manderies in this jurisdiction, which makes it’ Op lugaiory upon the ren} commanderies to charge tiie sift of thirty doliars for conferr.oe CORT uring the morning session R. E. Samuei ». Past Grand Commander of Louisiana, was recelyed with full knightly honors. Labors were suspended at half-past one o'clock until the afternoon sessio! Afternoon Session. The Commandery labors were resumed at three o'clock, Sir John A. Lefferts in the chair.' The fur- ther consideration of the new Code of Statutes and Regulations was taken up and finally adopted after many careful and judicious alterations, and the former code was repealed. rf Several visiting Sir Knights representing the Grand Commanderies from different States were re+ ceived with knightly honors. } On motion of Sir Joseph B. Chaffee a warrant was issued to Poughkeepsie Commandery, No. 43, located at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, The special comunittee appointed at the last an- nual conclave to procure a suitable testimonial f resentation to their Sorel | Grand Commandet, ir Pearson Mundy, reported that they had Yana formed that duty, and the presentation of a Grand Commander's jewel, together with a hand- somely el set of resolutions, very beautl- fully framed, was then made by Sir John W. Simons in a very handsome manner, coupled with pertinent and pleasing remarks, The recipient was equally happy in his reply. resolution for perfecting the charter of Palestine Commandery was introduced and adopted, ‘The irstallation of oMcers then took place and he dery closed in due form. The Knights Templar Grand Banquet and Re- ception. out The banquet and reception given to the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the State of New York last night, at the Metropolitan Hotel, by the Knights Templar of this city, was one of the grandest and most splendid ovations which tox place here for some time. 4s At seven o'clock P. M. the Knights and officers as- sembled in full regalia in the principal reception room, and, having formed in line, together with their invited guests, in the main hall, they marched to the dining chamber, where the preparations. made for their entertainment were of a most extensive char- acter. Immediately in front of the chairman's seat a splendid piece of emblematic confec- tlonery, representing the R. E. Grand Vommander in the Temple, was piaced. Opposite the Vice Prosi- dent’s chatr _anotner piece, of confectionery, repre+ senting the V. E. Grand Prelate in the ‘'empie, stood, while along the side tables were other appropriate decorations. eodore Thomas’ orchestra was stationed at one end of the room and enlivened tae proceed! with ita harmonies, The cl was taken by E. Sir Alexander B, Mott, of Cour de Lion Commandery, supported on either side by R. E. G. C. Sir Joun Letieris, P. G. OC. Sir John W. Simmons, P. G. M. Robert D, Holmes, Deputy G. M. Jobn H. Anthon, Deputy G. ©. Sir He Clay Preston, G. 0. G. Sir Robert N. Brown and P. E. O. Sir E. P. Brude. The vice chair was ocoupied by E. Sir Knight Thomas C. Cassidy. Grace having been sail by Grand Prelate Charles if. Piatt, the company, which, including invited gueats, num- dered about 50 persons, commenced to do justice to the excellent bill of fare placed betore them, At the conclusion of the repast the chair called the Knights to order, and very neatly welcomed the Grand ‘Commandery to the banquet. He said, in welcoming them, hecould not express one tithe of the pleasure tt afforded to the commanderies which he represented to receive their distinguished guests onan occasion which might not occur again for many years, but the memory of whitch should alw: be cherished by them, It was gratifying to him see that tho spirit of the Knights of old still lin; around them. But he might say the devotion to the = cause was even greater now than in tiose past jays; for at present, although hundreds of miles separated the fae regardiess of all personal sacrifices, they left their homes, business and friends to meet together for the purpose of furthering the one great object—the good of the human race, by bainging $0) ther men who, under the discipline of the Order, became kindred spirits, working for the same end, with the sublime principle of the Order, faith, hope and charity, leading them on. He greeted the Sir LT ee present with @ cor- sc A which words could not expiess. Le then gave the First regular toast—“The Grand Commandery of the Siate of New York—As the supreme legislature for templar masonry in the Empire State we are proud to recognize its conservative tendencies and earnest devotion to the best interests of the order.” R. 0. Grand Commander J. A. Leiferts responded and con- ulated them on the vast amount of work which Frey had accomplished in the past two days, and also on the harmony which had marked their deiib- erations. He returned thanks to the New York Knights for the kind and cordial reception the Grand Commandery had received at their hands, The second toast was:—“The Grand«Encampment of the United States—Under its banners we are united in a national organization undivided and in- divisible. We cheerfully Blodge our’ unswerving feaity to the constitution and regulations.” R. BE. Sir Jobn W. Simmons, in responding to this toast, re- marked that he accorded to bapa hi organization the incontrovertiblo right of attending to its own internal concerns without let or hindrance. (Cheers.} He believed that when their own domestic att had been attended to they could then unite in a unt- ‘versal bond of unity and fmendshtp as wide and ex- tended as the political or geographical mits of the country. : The chairman then annonnced the third toast:— “Royal Arch ee ee in ite custody the keystone of the Masonic arch It unites the interests of quarry, hill and temple.” This toast was re sponded to by Sir Knight ©. F. Page. The fourth regular toast, “The Grand Lodge of the State of New York—our Masonic Alma under her forecing, care the 640 lodges and Masons of New York march forward in tho wo! brotherly love, relief and truth," was responded to by Deputy Grand Master John H. Antuon. ‘The following are the remaining toaste:—“The Army," responded to by ier General H. B, Clits; “The Lag ad responded to by Rear Admiral, Godon; “The Maso’ lergy,"’ by Graad Preiat Rev. Charles H. Platt ¢ Bench and the Bar,’ | Charles A. Rapalio; “The Press,’’ by P. G, M. Rob, D, Holmen 1 0 Grand Comninnders of oar Siraer tates,” by General Geor, 01 y “rhe Visiting Sir Righty Bin lane ‘Cliaries Roome, and ‘The Ladies,” by P. E. 0, Breede, THR RECEPTION. The dinner ceremonies having terminated the, Knights formed line and marched into the tat dining hail of the hotel, which had been sot + for the general reception, This magnificens roows, was beautifully decorated with several symbolic Templar embiems, Along the sides were cavers, suits of ancient Knights Templars’ armor, Ww: from the baicony in the centre the banners of thé city. commanderies drooped >, Uh Splenis, did Monton banner, LY ote | Jerusalem ya tie) distance, with Knights Templars in fuk armors’ inthe, foreground, being pinced in Vie centro of the other flags, At the ena of the ‘inait were placed the tents of tho three guards, ‘ihe Grand Commandery having bee"; again formally received here the hall was “quickly filed by the troops of fair ladies, WhO, 9 magnificent evening costumes, had been GU" ing the latter part of the evening Py noe the Falta in anxious expects tion of the hour W'yen the mazy dance would take possession of "ae floor, and in a brief period gay Spirits were gracefu noving to the exiiiaraltng sirain® of Sirauas, Lenore and Labuizky. The “ancing was kept up far ato the “wee saa’ hours” ; 4