The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1868, Page 6

a NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages showd be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Solume XXXII... +.No. 283 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Tnm Duama OF OUT OF THE STREETS. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humptr Dumrry, with NEW FRATURES. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tas New Daaua or DIAviaR. ACADEMY OF MUSIQ, Irving place.—Racixe's TRa- OEDY, PHREDRA, FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- oue.—LA GRANDE DUCHESSE. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—UNvINE, THE WATER QuEEN. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1h strech SIMON BERNABD—DEARER THAN LIFE. BOWFRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Caimson SHIELD, OB NxMPHS OF THE RAINBOW. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— DER Sous DRE WILDNIBSS. 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HOOLES'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoo MINSTRK1S—MASSA-NIBLLO, OR THE BLACK Foret NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIKNOR AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New Yack’ Friday, October 9, 1868. £u2 “NaWws. “EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday evening, October 8. Gencral Prim was escorted to the Capitol in Madrid by an tnuuense crowd of joyously excited people. The provisional government of Spain has reduced the tariit vn all imports by one-third. Don Juan, cousin to the ex-Queen, resigns his claim to the throne in favor of his son, the Infant Don Carlos.) ‘The bnglish election canvass is still more ani- mated, Mr. Gladstone will, it is thought, be de- feaied in south Lancashire. but returned for Green- wich, The Prince and Princess of Wales had an en- thastasiic reception in Glasgow, where the Prince laid the corner stone of a new university building. Puad Pacha will visit Sicily from Constantinople ona six months’ leave for the recrultment of his heaith. Five-twenties 7434 in London and 76% @ 77 In Frankforl. Paris Bourse firm Cotton easier in Liverpool, with middling uplands at 10°\d. Breadstufs and provisions without marked change, MISCELLANEOUS. Brazilian advices from Paraguay by the Atlantic cable report that Lopez had falien back to Asuncion after his reported defeat at Sau Fernando. The iron- clads were on their way to Asuncion. The United ‘States steamer Wasp had already gone there to take on board Minister Washburn. Governor Wells, of Virginia, has commuted the sen- tence of a negro condemned to be hanged at Norfo.k to-day, for alleged outrage on a white woman, to imprisonment for life. His white accomplice will be hanged. This exercise of clemency is claimed by the Governor's opponents to be intended for political effect among the negro voters in Norfolk. Chief Justice Chase says that the newspaper re- Porta that he warmly espouses the cause of Grant and Colfax are merely conjectures of the writers themselves. It appears that General Gordon Granger, who has established his headquarters as commandant of the Department of the Cumberland at Memphis, Tenn., is not yet in actual command, although General Thomas has withdrawn. General Sidney Bur- bank, who ranks Granger in the line, is in actual command and an assignment according to General Granger's brevet rank is necessary to place him over Burbank. Inthe meautime the Dyer court of inquiry, which takes Gencral Thomas to Washing- ton, has been postponed till November 19, John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, was in To, N. C,, yesterday and addressed a crowd eClelian ovation in Philadelphia yesterday neral made an eloquent and patriotic speech, which did net contain a word of politics, It was directed entirely to his old comrades in the army. Complete and oMecial returns of the Connecticut town clections show that of 16% towns eighty- six are clearly republican, sixty-nive clearly demo- cratic and seven divided. The democrats gain the Registration Boards in five towns that were repnb- lican and the republicans in eleven towns that were democratic last year. A severe gale visited the northern lakes yesterday and several marine disasters are reported, no loss of life, however, having ocurred. A national convention of French Canadians in this | country was held at Springfield, Mass., yesterday and | adopted resolutions denouncing the new Confedera- ton and the coercion of Nova Scotia and favoring an- nexation or the adoption of a republican form of government for Canada, Silver Mountain, Cuiifornia, earthquake on the 6th afterwards being filled w’ James D. Martin, the alle; awlitug cashier of the Boston Hide and Leather Bauk, was found guilty on the main charges yesterday. ‘The case Will be carried to the United States Supreme Court, Seddons and Kelly fought oa the Isle of Shoals, of was vietted by an he alr immediately ke, LLL NK&W YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. sented and referred to the Cemmittee on New Dio- ceses. The plan for a federate council was referred to the Committee on Canons. Numerous standing committees were then announced. A motion to print 1,500 copies of the sermon of Bishop Lee, of Maryland, which was delivered at the open- ing of the Convention on Wednesday, was warmly debated, several members objecting to the doctrinal declarations contained in it. It was finally adopted. ‘The Convention soon after adjourned till ten o'clock this . In the National Unitarian Conference yesterday the representatives of the African Methodist Episcopal Church were invited to a seat on the platform. An Amendment to the constitution announcing that the expressions of the Conference are only the declara- tions of the majority and those who object to them are not committed to their defence by the adoption of them was agreed to after a stormy debate, in which Dr. Bellows expressed a determination to se- cede. Inthe evening session Bishop Payne, a col- ored man, belonging to the African Methodist Church, made a short speech, and on the appeal of Mrs, amy Bradley for money to educate the negroes South several hundred dollars were collected. Sev- eral other colored bishops then addressed the Con- ference, and an adjournment took place till this morning. The Congressional Committee on Retrenchment were in session in this city yesterday, investigating the alleged revenue frauds. Binckley was sworn, but only after repeated refusals, and was examined at some length. In regard to his authority and in- structions from the President he refused to answer. A republican meeting was held at Oooper Institute last night, at Which Senators Morgan and Conkilag made speeches, mainly reviewing the financial ques- tion. John D. McHenry, the alleged perjured witness in the Rollins revenue case, was released yesterday on $4,000 bail to appear next Monday. The steamtug Vim, while tied up at the dock foot of Twenty-third street, East river, yesterday, ex- ploded her boiler, killing two persons whose names are unkrown and wounding six others whose names are given elsewhere. Some testimony was taken yesterday by Coroner Fiynn in the alleged wife poisoning case in East Houston street. George Hubschmann, the brother of the deceased woman, testified to suspicious actions on the part of the prisoner, Henry Oxen- foyth, and the ex: on was furthér postponed. In tl of Edward Wilson, a boy of fourteen, who died from the effects of a horsewhipping at the hands of one Francis McDonough, the Coroner's jury yesterday found McDonough guilty. The whip- ping was done with the butt of the whip while the lad was assisting McDonough at his soda water stand. The little fellow went home seriously injured, but denied being hurt for two or three days, because he was afraid his father would give him another whipping. Coroner Rollins admitted McDonough to bail in $2,000 to answer. The Inman line steamship City of Paris, Captain James Kennedy, will leave pler 45 North river at one P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Queenstown and Liverpool. The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. on the 10th instant. The National line ateamship Helvetia, Captain Cut- ting, will sail at twelve M. on Saturday, 10th instant, from plier 47 North river, for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The steamship Europa, Captain Craig, of the An- chor line, will leave pier No, 20 North river at twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land passengers, &c. The steamship General Meade, Captain Sampson, belonging to the Merchants’ line, will sail from pier No. 12 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, 10th instant, for New Orleans direct. The Black Star Independent line steamship Mont- gomery will leave pier No. 13 North river on Satur- day, 10th instant, at three P. M., for Savannah, Ga. The stock market was dull and barely steady yes- terday. Government securities were dull. Gold closed at 1394 a 139%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel F. 8. Smoot, of Washington: Judge Carr, of Washington, and H. G, Radcliffe, of Albany, are ‘at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel W. Hunt, of Panama, and Captain Water, bury, of New York, are at the Maltby House. General Micheler, of Washington, and Charles H. Belden, of Now Britain, are at the St. Julien Hotel. General C. M. Sears, of Oxford, Miss., and Hugh W. Sheffey, of Virginia, are at the New York Hotel. W. F. Coolbaugh, of Chicago, is at the Brevoort House, Lyman Tremain, of Albany, and Joseph Burnett, of Massachusetts, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Craig Wadsworth, of omg N. Y., and George E. Baker, of the T: ment at Washington, are at the Alber le Bo General Y, ©. Preest, of Utied, dnd J. if. Barton, of the Gnifed Staves army, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Progress of the Revolution in Spain. Spain has reached the second phase in her revolution. The uprising of the people in conjunction with the army and navy and the flight and deposition of the Queen was the first phase. The organization ofa provisional gov- ernment is the second. Now the interesting question is, what will be the third, fourth or last? How much depends upon this! The monarchs and statesmen of Europe would like to penetrate the future and shape their course accordingly. They are uneasy, doubtless, under the uncertainty. The revolution thus far has been as effective and complete as it was sudden, showing there was a powerful and widespread undercurrent of revolutionary feel- ing of which neither the government of Spain nor moral and political earthquake which has over- thrown the last Bourbon dynasty extend? Are the other monarchies of Europe resting on the same disturbing elements? The Spanish pen- insula may be only the focus of a more wide- spread or general upheaval on the Continent of Europe. Such thoughts as these occupy the public mind of both the Old and New Worlds, and lead the people to watch with in- tense interest every movement that takes place. The organization of a provisional govern- ment, with Generals Serrano and Prim as hon- orary Presidents, with Aguirre as acting Presi- dent and with Bibero and Vigo Armigo as Vice Presidents, is a republic for the time being. These Presidents, as they are called, are a sort of Consuls, with powers similar to those of the revolutionary Consuls of France or the Consuls of Rome. It is significant that Gene- ral Prim, who ts believed to be a republican, is one of these Presidents, and takes a very prominent part In the revolution. Weare not informed yet what the political sentiments of the others are, That old revolutionary leader Portamouth, N. H., yesterday, for $1,000. Seddons | won. ‘Matt reports from India state that a shock of an earthquake was felt pretty generally in the Punjab on the morning of the 20th of August, at twenty. eight minutes past six o'clock. At Lahore, Am- ritsar, Jalandhar, Amballa and Simla the shock was experienced, but nowhere severely. The telegraph cable under the Mississippi, at Mem- phis, was recently taken up owing to the trregu- larity of communication through it, and on exami- nation it was discovered that about four inches of the conducting wire nad beeh warned out, Nowith- standing this want of connection despatches were forwarded through, although somewhat irregularly. THE CITY. The Protestant Episcopal General Convention opened its first business seasion yesterday at Trinity chapel, on West Twenty-gfth ages The memorial for a division of the jo ot New York was pre- and former Viceroy of Spain, Espartero, was mentioned a day or two ago as likely to take a prominent position under the new order of things; but he is not named in the provisional government, Probably he is either set aside on account of his great age or because he may not be in full sympathy with the broadly libe- ral or republican tendencies of young Spain. Taking all these facts into consideration there certainly appears to be a disposition favorable toarepublic. That other movement, too, of the Provisional Junta to free the children of the negro slaves in the colonies, ds the firet step towards the total abolition of slavery—a movement made in advance of the representatives of the people assembling in the Cortes—indicates that the revolution is radical if not republican in character, Like the first revolution in France, it strikes at the ; the Antilles should be turned over to this most abject poverty, the people of [those oid countries must feel deeply the impulse “of “sich & fFéPointiog as that in Spain. There Is, doubtless, a the outside world dreamed. How far does this: root of existing institutions, and is more likely to advance than to stop short by the adoption of moderate measures. With regard to Spain herself the question arises, are the people prepared for a repub- lican government should it be the purpose of the leaders to establigh one? The impression has been general throughout the world, out- side of that country, that the Spaniards are too ignorant, priest-ridden, unacquainted with self-government and unstable to establish and maintain a republic. Has not the world been deceived? The Spaniards have shown them- selves in former times to be a great people. Their wars, conquests, extensive commerce, colonies, literature and high state of civiliza- tion before they were broken down by bad government show that the original stock pos- sessed the highest qualities of the Caucasian race. These qualities may be there yet, though latent, and may be brought out again. At all events, the manner in which the present revolution has been effected proves great power, intelligence and resolution in a large portion of the community, if not in the low- eat strata of society. It is impossible for us to see at present, and perhaps the Spaniards themselves cannot, what will be the end of this movement. Time alone will show whether they will have a republic or a monarchy. It has yet to be seen whether they can maintain either or are launched into a sea of prolonged revolutionary trouble. It does not strike us that they have made the best be- ginning in the formation of a government, with all these presidents and vice presidents. Itisa hydra-headed affair and rather indica- tive of weakness. Still it is only provisional. The Spaniards may learn and improve as they go on, and succeed in establishing a good and strong government. With regard to the colonies, the revolution- ary government should not embarrass itself about them. With the abolition of slavery, which now appears inevitable, the colonies in the West Indies will be of little value to Spain. They are more likely to prove, as St. Do- mingo proved to France under similar cireum- stances, troublesome, expensive and a weak- ness to the mother country. The best thing that could be done now would be to sell Cuba, at least, or all of them, to the United States. They may be lost any way amidst the contagion of revolutionary excitement. They may be plunged into the horrors of civil and servile war, as St. Domingo was. To prevent such evils, to save the honor of Spain in the event of the colonies heing torn forcibly from her, to secure the friendship of America and to put @ good round sum in the Spanish Treasury at a time when it is much needed, the colonies of country, We call the attention of Mr. Seward, the President, our Congress and the govern- ment of Spain to this matter while the times are favorable. In looking at this Spanish revolution in its possible effects upon the rest of Europe it seems to be pregnant with the most important consequences. In the present enlightened age, when the magnetic tele- graph, railroads and the press diffuse ideas everywhere and with electric force, and when the masses of mankind are moved by such revolutionary shocks, as the crust of the earth was lately agitated by an earthquake far away from the focus of action, is there not reason to believe that France, Germany, Italy and other parts of Europe will be profoundly disturbed? Oppressed with stupendous debts and the heaviest taxation, crushed to the earth by extravagant royal governments and enor- mous standing armies, and suffering the deep undercurrent silently at work now in favor of political and social emanci- pation. Should the Spaniards establish a republic or remain in a disturbed state how will it affect France, that centre of revolu- tionary fire, and the dynasty of Napoleon? Will the Emperor of the French stand still while the movement is going on? Or will he, to save himself, attempt to stem the tide or plunge Europe in war to keep his subjects occupied and distracted through the sentiment of military and national glory? Would not Prussia under such a state of things push her conquests in Austria and make a grand con- solidated empire of all the Germans? Would not the revolutionary fires in Italy be re- kindled? In whatever way we look at this extraordinary movement in Spain it may prove especially embarrassing, or even dan- gerous, to the Emperor Napoleon. However, the shadows of coming events are not suffi- clently defined to judge of the future. We must wait further developments. Virginia and West Virginia. There will be some nice arguinent sooner or later on the rights of the State of Virginia to take part in the Presidential election and to have her vote counted, and in this argument the question of new States will come up in a shape different from thatin which it has hitherto so much agitated the country. There is a recent law of Congress under which Virginia is regarded by allradical authorities as distinctly ruled out of this contest, because she has not gone through the patent double shuffle of re- construction which the law requires all South- ern States to have done before Congress can count their votes. As Virginia is tolerably certain to go for the democrats we cannot ex- pect a radical Congress to abate one jot of this radical rule. But then there is another law of Congress quite different in tendency and under which Virginia has a clear right to stand in full sisterhood with all the States. This latter act was passed in December, 1862, As the two laws are necessarily irreconcilable it will probably be held that the latter repeals the former, Jn this case Congress will have to do more than reycct the vote of Virginia, that will doubtless be for Seymour ; it will have also to reject the vote of Wost Virginia, that will be for Grant, since the very existence of West Virginia as a State and tive presence of her Representatives in Congress im ly and neces- sitate the validity of Virginia as p State and her right to take part in all acts done by the States collectively. If Virginia is not a State Weat Virginia is cot a State, and if West Vir- ginia votes in this Presidential canvass old Virginia must vote also. The constitution provides that no new State shall be formed or erected within tho jurisdic- Ee Ra PERS PR) aR Ri alae 8 Be el BRE eek PS Dh SR i a Dae Mt Ele A <0 al gc sd Spc Db lM ag itil I Na NBN A EL SAT AND TE NOEL ILE: EEE CRM BN e tion of another State without consent of the States concerned. As a naked piece of reason- ing, therefore, we see that as West Virginia has been made a State since the commencement of the war—since secession—Virginia herself must also have been a recognized State since that time, as she could not have given a valid con- sent as such, It may be said that Virginia had lapsed and that the new State was not formed within the jurisdiction of another State, but from a district having only territorial status, But the trick of the radicals by which West Virginia gained her separate existence heads off that plea. They made a bogus gov- ernment in West Virginia which claimed juris- diction over the whole State, and as Congress has power to decide between governments, it decidgd that the Richmond (or rebel) govern- ment was without authority and that the radi- cal bogus government of the State was alone to be recognized. That was a Congressional recognition that Virginia was in full possession of all her faculties as a State. That government recognized by Congress, then, gave consent to the creation of the State of West Virginia, and the consent was acted upon and the same government subsequently held authority in Richmond. Congress, there- fore, has recognized Virginia as a State in the Union by the provisions of a particular law, and if her government was good and valid for one purpose it is for another. That recogni- tion was part of a radical trick, but the radical party must stand the consequences of its own tricks when they take the shape of laws. John Quincy Adams and Wade Hampton— Massachusetts and South Carolina, General Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, and others of ‘‘the State Central Committee” (democratic) have addressed a letter to John Quincey Adams, of Massachusetts, inviting him to come down to Columbia and address the people “in behalf of our common country.” They promise a large audience, and they ask, “what stronger reply could there be to the mis- representations of the radicals than to hear John Quincy Adams talk of union and fraternal relations on the soil of South Carolina? Would it not be as the past speaking to the present ?” They invite him “‘to a consultation upon living principles of our free institutions,” for, they say, “it is no longer with us a question of party, but a question of social life.” They hold that slavery is dead and that the South wants peace, and they “‘hope that God in His wisdom may turn the hearts of those who know the right but still pursue the wrong, and strike the scales from the eyes of others who are really in the darkness of ignorance and therefore easily the dupes of their better informed hearers.” Mr. John Quincy Adams (a grandson of the President that was, of the same name, and democratic candidate for Governor of Massa- chusetts), in his reply, pleads that he repre- sents only a powerless minority in his native State, considered hardly less objectionable by the majority, though more insignificant than Hampton and his party in South Carolina. He pleads, therefore, that his visit to Columbia cannot have much influence upon the North, nor does he think he can say those things which the South Carolina democrats would be most delighted to hear. He then, like a judge upon the bench, proceeds to give his opinions to General Hampton and his com- mittee. He tells them, among other things, that their ‘fate is involved by the inexorable of events in a most bitter political strug- ” that there can be no dispassionate con- p aa of their case till after the election ; that it is declared, and, ho fears, ‘is widely believed, that the spirit of secession still fires the Southern heart and works through ‘¢ the democratic party ;” that if this party is de- fated in this canvasa “‘it is because the peo- ple fear ifs success would jeopardize the sub- stantial results of the wal that slavery, to be sure, is stone-dead, but that “the hasty and inconsiderate legislation upon the subject (negro vagrancy and the sale of negro va- grants) in two or three of your States lately in rebellion did more to fasten universal suffrage (including negro suffrage) upon you than any other one thing,” that upon the plea of ne- necessity “the Northern States pardoned the palpable usurpation of power by Congress,” and that the terms of reconstruction imposed upon the South have been dictated more by fear and distrust of the Southern people in- volved in the lute rebellion than by malice or revenge. But still Mr. Adams, in order to inform himsolf on the true situation of affairs down South, and to do what good he can in behalf of peace, says he will go to Columbia, and he is probably there at the present time. Now, this sort of talk may not be palatable to Wade Hampton, but Mr. Adams, for all that, deals in good and wholesome truths. He pleads that time, reason and patience can only settle these Southern difficulties, which is true as Holy Writ; and when he wrote that “‘it is widely believed that the spirit of secession still fires the Southern heart” he doubtless remem- bered some of the fiery, revolutionary boast- ings and threatenings of Henry A. Wise, For- rest, Semmes, Toombs, Cobb and Hampton him- self, and other Southern orators and ex- rebels, directly after the Tammany Convention, They were entirely too fast and too wild, and the consequence was that they killed with kindness the ticket of Seymour and Blair from the start and made this Presidential canvass substan- tially the battle of 1864—a battle for the re- sults of the war against the old Chicago fallacy that the war was a failure. But the most curious thing in this corre- spondence is the appeal for help from South Carolina to Massachusetts, from Wade Hamp- ton, of the old Palmetto chivalry, to John Quincy Adams. Many of our readers will remember the time when John Quincy Adams the elder, on the right of petition, was the special target in Congress of Henry A. Wise and all tha Southern chivalry, and what a terrible and protracted battle “‘the old man eloquent” had to fight against them. Perhaps even John Quincy Adams the younger may remember the mission in slavery times of Judge Hoar to Charleston, in behalf of the constitutional rights of certain Massachusetts citizens of color—seamon who, on entering the city, were taken off and locked up in the calaboose for sate keeping till the departure of the vessel to which they‘belonged—and how Judge Hoar, at his hotel in Charleston, was taken in hand by @ vigilance committee and packed off with- out ceremony and on avery short notice. But his own revenges. So we find Greeley and Gerrit Smith going bail for Jeff Davis; Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, appealing for help against the radicals and South Carolina negroes to John Quincy Adams, of Massachu- setts; McClellan turing the cold shoulder upon Seymour, and Andy Johnson apparently as indifferent about Seymour or Grant as was the old Tennessee woman about the issue of the fight between her husband and the bear. We like the fearless patriotism, however, and the manly generosity of Mr. John Quincy Adams in this South Carolina business. Though on what appears a different tack, he is a chip of the old block, and ‘“‘when this hurly-burly’s done” he will loom up into bolder relief in Massachusetts than he stands to-day. He is now casting his bread upon the waters; but he is sowing the seed which in due time, he may be sure, will yield him a full and generous harvest. Mr. Van Dyck’s Defence. Mr. Van Dyck, the Assistant United States Treasurer in this city, has published a letter in vindication of the course which he and the Secretary of the Treasury saw fit to pursue about the time of the recent monetary strin- gency, and a more lame and impotent reply to serious charges we have never read. One of these was that the Treasury sold five-twenties as well as gold at the period referred to; but to all inquirers on the subject Mr. Van Dyck flatly denied having sold any, although the last statement of the public debt shows that three million six hundred thousand dollars of new five-twenties were issued in September. To this charge he makes no reference whatever in his letter, but he goes back to July, 1865, when he assumed office, and tells of what he considers the wonderful performances of him- self and Mr. McCulloch in funding the debt, achievements for which he seems to claim the gratitude of the nation at large, whereas it is well known that the work was badly and by no means economically done. Mr. Van Dyck admits selling two million three hundred thousand dollars of gold be- tween the 22d and the 30th of September, but gives no satisfactory reason for so doing and thus playing into the hands of the clique Saya eae, PRONE eI EER PPPS eT ET ETT PTE OLS ee RN REY UPR POR RIL Le -oa conformity with law. The Binckley fissco proves the hopelessness and danger of invoking the protection of the courts against these strictly legal speculations. The Quarantine job takes eight hundred thousand dollars directly out of the pockets of the people, but learned counsel assure us that it is all ia accordance with law, and so we ought to be satisfied, Certainly we cannot expect the Quarantine ring ever to make restitution to the government in the shape of conscience money. The small swindlers who rob the Treasury in a sort of petty larceny manner return occasion> ally sams of money varying from five to one hundred and fifty dollars, and these amounts reach in the aggregate nearly one hundred thousand dollars a year. But there never was atime when a grand larceny operator who could pocket half a million or even fifty thou- sand dollars of the people’s money was pricked by his conscience sufficiently hard te induce him to disgorge. The Quarantine plunder may therefore be regarded as hope- leasly lost to the State, as are the millions stolen by the Internal Revenue rings to the nation. Ben Butler and Beelzebub in Trouble. The case of Ben Butler (not to mention his friend Beelzebub) is curious enough. Here are Bingham and Boutwell and Banks and all the rest, who so persistently urged Butler for- ward as a leader in the impeachment of Presi- dent Johnson, leagued together against him in his contest for a seat in the next Congress. Nevertheless, even-handed justice requires that, against all odds, he should win. It is disgraceful that the Zimes and the Tribune should go back on him after having urged and stimulated him to the utmost efforts to bring about the impeachment of the President. It ia particularly mean on the part of Greeley, the editor of the Zribune and a great stickler for regular nominations, to abandon Butler. It would be the height of folly for demo- crats to join the radicals in opposition to Butler, inasmuch as he, if anybody, can claim to be an original democrat. What more can the most obstinate copperhead ask for than a man wha in the Charleston Convention voted sixty timea in favor of Jeff Davis and: nobody knows how many more times in favor of Breckinridge? of stockjobbers and gold gamblers whose interests were notorlously subserved there- by. Evidently smarting under the lash of public opinion he falsely attributes all the censure which has fallen upon the de- partment to the “bulls” and ‘‘bears” of Wall street, whereas all disinterested persons were unanimous in their condemnation of these Treasury sales of gold and bonds at this particular crisis in the money mar- ket, and considered them, under the cir- cumstances, a public outrage; and when he says “‘both Secretary McCulloch and myself have the right to ask the confidence and sup- port of right-minded citizens, however we may share in the denunciations of the selfish and venal,” he assumes a right which he docs not possess. Moreover, it is an equally false assumption on his part that in any event the conduct of the Treasury would have heen censured in the public prints, which he elsewhere speaks of as the organs of Wall street. We mentioned a current Tepe: that the Treasury had loaned gold to some favored brokers opérating for a full ; but pers . tune ovier unpleasant questions, tad by denouneing what he considers to be his traducers he hopes to hide his own and Mr. McCulloch's mismanage- ment, if nothing more. We regard this attempt at whitewashing a very dirty looking affair as a failure, under the effect of which the reputation of Messrs. McCulloch an and Van Dyck in this connection is not likely to be cleared from the suspicions which Jinger {6 the fublle inind. ; these officials were in league with a Clique of gold gamblers and stock speculaiors at the perlod referred to and used their official position to serve their personal ends is the general opinion of the public, and this letter bas done nothing to disturb this belief; and when we called upon the President to remove Messrs. McCulloch and Van Dyck from office we expressed the sentiment of the disinterested portion of the entire business community and not of “the selfish and the venal,” as Mr. Van Dyck is pleased to call them. Mr. Van Dyck had better stand down. The Quarantine Job—A Legal Swindle. The counsel of the Board of Ojticers by which the sale of the Quarantine ground on Staten [sland was made addresses us a letter, which we publish elsewhere, purporting to answer certain inquiries propounded in the Hegratp in regard to that unctuous job. All that we gather from his communication is that the sale of this State property at less than one- fifth of its value to a ring of sharp Quarantine speculators was strictly in accordance with law. The ‘‘counsel of the Board of Officers” takes the trouble to supply us with a fall re- view of all the acts that have been passed by the State Legislature at the instance of the Quarantine lobby for a number of years past with a view to the consummation of this swindle ; but we do not see that he betters the case or furnishes any satisfactory reply to our questions. He shows that the rings formerly existing failed to carry out their scheme of plunder, and that the present ring, as sharp as Shylock and more fortunate than that skil- ful operator, has been successful. The fact still remains that property belonging to the State, which would have realized over a mil- lion dollars if properly advertised and sold as a private estate would have been sold, in par- cels, has been handed over into the hands of a gang of obscure speculators for a little over two hundred thousand dollars, The “counsel of the Board of Officers” does not, we trust, expect to persuade any individual who has cut his eye-tooth to believe that Fenton, Swin- burne and other distinguished officers have had no finger in this profitable job. So far as the legal feature of the transaction is concerned we have no doubt that the law fully justifies the swindle, Indeed, laws are made by the lobby for the express purpose of robbing the public without risking a sojourn in the State Prison or Penitentiary. The people know that the national Treasury is depleted of hundreds of millions of dollars by combina- tions of outside and inside plunderers in the Internal Revenue Department, and the radical politicians admit that the sum of one hundred million dollars annually is stolen by the whis- Time, in the whirligig of politicn, brings about | key rings; but af course it is all done in Butler is, beyond doubt, a good fighting cock, and as we want as much fun as possible in the next Congress we want to seehimthere. Mores over, Butler is now a thoroughgoing radical. His later record is sufficiently explicit on this point. If the contest in Massachusetts should be reduced to a fight between all the radical rascals on one side (including the fortunate author of ‘Iwo Years Before the Mast”) and Ben Butler and Beelzebub on the other side, it is altogether likely that the latter would win: On the whole, it would be a great pity to have Butler defeated, were it for no better reason than that assigned by the wise sachem who snc- ceeded in making Sam Ward subside in his opposition to the hero of New Orleans and New York by saying, ‘“‘Let Butler alone; he is our best card. Two years more of him will smash the radical party.” No one in full communiom with the democratic party could do it so much good in Congress as Ben Butler. “Tho New Rebeliion,” The radical papers are beginning to fume about what the eail the ‘now rebellion fr the South.” ‘Tuay Zoulte the ebullitions of some crazy democratic editor, recall the ute rages of the Ku Klux Klans, the assaulté upon processions, the turbulence, riots and bloodshed that have recently occurred Nashville, New Orleans, Camilla aad lately in Opelousas, parish of St. Landry—in short, they point to the unsettled and menacing condition of thinga throughout the Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Lois! Cry and 1 Teaay eal all over the South, as eviden that a new rebellion ido bes been inaugural and the people are warned to prepare for the consequences, Now, we admit that a state of alarm, confusion, anarchy, quasi-rebellion and quasi- war, if you please, exists in the South. We admit that cociety there is plunged into a con- dition of chaos from which it may take years to recover; that business is prostrated ; that the agricultural, commercial and all in- dustrial interests are paralyzed; that distrust and discredit prevail; that education and the cause of religion are languishing; that the people are in a great measure strangers te any law except lynch law, and that order, the first law of God, is utterly unknown. But what is the cause of all this public disorder and social derangement? Who are to blame for precipitating upon this rich and fertile land this gigantic fusion of evils? The an- swer is plain. They arise from a wild and utterly preposterous attempt of the radicals to establish in the South the supremacy of a race utterly unprepared, unfit and incapable to as- sume for years to come any other position in social and political life than that sanctioned by & condition of semi-barbarism. If the white and black races in the South had been left to themselves, as they are in New York and in all the North, there would have been none of this anarchy, none of this bloodshed, none of this ‘‘new rebellion,” as the radicals call it, In this effort to elevate the black race above the white the radicals have excited in the former visions of ease, plenty and equality which they know can never be realized in this age. They have awakened in the negro’s mind an idea that he is greater and more powerful than his late master, and that when a question of justice or right arises be- tween them the influence of the black must kick the beam. But when the ignorant negro finds that the promises of his white radical friends are not fulfilled he becomes an alto-. gether different creature from what he was even in astate of bondage. His savage ank cruel nature is developed. He becomes a ma-, rauder, ® ravisher, an incendiary, a debasedl and inhuman animal. White citizens are them obliged to defend themselves against the depre-" dations of the blacks, and naturally « collisiom’ occurs in which it would be singular if some-: body were not hurt. All this springs from a violation of the laws of nature and of the statute in regard to the status of the two races which the radicals insist upon carrying out in the South, and which would be followed by similar deplorable occurrences wore ® like attempt made in the North or in any community where the blacks have settlement in any numbers,’ Hore, then, is # solution of tha question as to whom the existing reign of vio- lence in the South should be ascribed. Now tates of