The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Cximson SHIELD; 03, NYMPHS OF THE KaINROW, PIKE'S OPERA HOUBE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘33d atreet.—La GRANDE DUCHESSR UE GEKOLSTRIN. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Tue Dxawa oF Our oF 1x STREETS, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—lvuuert Domery, wits New Features. BROADWAY THEATR: adway—Tak New DRAMA ov L'Auius. . FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—La GRANDE DUCHESSF. NIBLO'S GARDEN, RICUELIEU. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Wintiam Tev., Broadway—Euwin Fourest as WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway sad 1éth street.— Love's Sacgtrion. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—OLE Bouts G@xanv Concert. BRYANTS’ OPERA Fi atreet.—EruioriaN MINSTREL yamany Building, Mth + k0., LOORKTTA BORGIA. KELLY t LFON'’S MINSTRELS, 72¢ Brontway.—Ermio- PIAN MiNsTRELSY, BURLESQUE, 40.—BauneR Biv. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Eruto- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, BINGING, DANOING, ra TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comic Vooatiem, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE, 51 G@uvaL LINGARD AND V. Broadway. Tar GREAT Oat- DEVILLE COMPANY. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Tiirtieth street and adway.—Afternoon end evening Performance DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Tue CELEBRATED Sienon Buirz, PIKE'S MUSIC HALL, 98d street, corner of Eighth & SHEET. Isabella's birthday, as xe is one of her strong sup- porters, and has so far received nothing oficial in regard to the change, He will not trust the Spanish men of war any more than to let them have one day’s rations at a time to prevent their putting to 8ea, as they might otherwise do if they should con- clude to recognize the new government at home. ‘Santa Anna had been ordered to leave the Island in consequence of his Mexican complications, a Juarez spy having unraveled ail his plots. He was given thirty days to leave and 1s so poor that his fnends will have to pay his passage. From Venezuela the news comes that the campaign against Puerto Cabello had terminated. Monagas was at Caracas and a conference was being held with Sunderland, who was still recusant, The United States consul at Cape Town, Africa, re- Ports to the authorities at Washington the discovery of rich gold fields in the interior, about 1,300 miles N.N.E. of Cape sown, The specimens exhibited are very rich, and the whole colony is in a great state of excitement. The British and Dutch have taken possession, although a German mineralogist, who firat penetrated the colony in 1864, made the dis- coveries, Reno and Anderson, the alleged Indiana expreas robbers, who are awaiting a trial for extradition in Windsor, Canada, tried to break jail yesterday, but failed, Two attempts were also made during the day to shvot Detective Pinkerton, who has their case in hand, but both attempts failed. Arrivals from the Ochotsk sea state that the wha- ling fleet have been very unsuccessful during the present season. A bark with coolies on board was discovered in the Ochotsk, going southwest, the coolies, who had mutinied and set adritt every one Gut themselves, being unable, it is believed, to navi- gate her. The Session yesterday of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church was a very inter- esting one, The movement for a provincial system took definite shape, and the amendment for facili- tating the creation of new dioceses was debated at length, No conclusion on either subject was reached. ‘The stock market was strong and excited yester- day. Government securities were active and buoy- ant, Gold closed at 1377 a 138, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge Marvin, of Skeneateles, and General ff. L. Robins, of Binghamton, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, General E. W. Clark and ex-Mayor Richard Wal- lach, of Washington; Colonel J. Dillon, of Rondout; Colonel T, Henry, of Springfeid; Professor E. D. Cook, of Philadelphia, and Captain Edward Andrus, avenue —MOEVOY's HIBERNICON. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—FALLon’s STEREOP- ‘TIOON. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQuesTRran AND GYMNASTIO ENTRRTAINMENT. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—TuxKo, Tuomas’ PorvLaR GanpEn Convent. APOLLO HAL! gAPOLLO HALL, Twenty-cighth street and Broadway.— Conornrt. NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, Bighth st.— GBanp MUSICAL SORE. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S P, RK — uehes Sean A! THEATRE, Brooklya. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoorrr' MuxetRELs—Tus Post Box, on TUE StmENADING Panty. ALLEMANIA HALL, No. 18 East Sixteenth st.—Lxo- ‘TUEE—EARTH AND MAN. WEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SCUBNOR AND ART. pig TRIPLE SHEET. York, Friday, October 16, 1868. THA NIWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable ts dated yes- terday evening, October 15. The administrative centres, forty-eight cities, of Spain vote the monarchical principle by a large majority; all vote the abolition of the religious orders, and seven against the clergy generally. Cortes will assemble in December, Cuba and Porto Rico sending representatives. Two bishops had been removed by the Junta for encouraging Carlist demon strations. The English press appears to regret the election triumpus of the American republicans. Mr. Glad- stone was on the “stump” in Liverpool. Edinburg city tenders a public compliment to John Bright. A damaging petroleum fire occurred in Antwerp. Vesuvius was still in active motion. The Atlantic cable tarim will be again equalized. Admiral Far- ragut’s movements attract, it is said, the attention of some of the Great Powers. Consols, 94%, money. Five-twenties 72); in Lon- don. Paris Bourse firm. Cotton quiet in Liverpool, with middling uplands at lod. Breadstuffs and provisions quiet. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Washington correspondence makes the im- portant announcement that a movement is on foot among prominent members of the democratic party to have Seymour and Blair withdraw in view of the eertainty of defeat in the Presidential election, in order that a new and more available ticket may be eominated. It is stated that Mr. August Belmont has been advised with in the matter and that a com- mittee will wait on Governor Seymour at Utica to- Gay. The nomination, itis also said, has been ten- dered informally to Chief Justice Chase, who has ¢x- pressed a willingness to accept. The returns continue to come in from the recent State elections, some of them offictal and others only partly so. The results in Ohio and omayivania are not changed by the fresh returns, exeept that Phila- delphia is claimed by the radicals; but in Indiana everything seems to binge upon the returns yet to come. The accounts conflict so that it is hardly pos- sible to decide in whose hands the State will be found. The radicals claim a majority estimated variously at from 1,000 to 3,000, and the sanguine demccrats claim the same for their own side. In Nebraska the republican majority is from 2,000 to 2,300. Advices from Rio Janeiro by, the Atlantic cable state that the allies had taken Tevicuarl, Lopez had abandoned the capital and gone unattended to Villa Rica, a small village in the interior. Our Panama letter is dated October 6, The news from Chiriqui was #0 unfavorable to the State gov- ernment that the Isthmus was placed under martial law and everybody was called to arms. Many of the citizens hid themselves, and the police were ordered out to enforce a conscription by pressing every man they could meet into the service. The Chiricanoes refused to acknowledge Correoso’s goverument, had raised 300 men well armed and har badly defeated the troops sent out for their subjugation. Our Lima, Peru, letter is dated September 28, Shocks of earthquake are still felt in Arequipa and Arica, but the cities are so throughly ruined that no further damage can be inflicted. A recurrence of the yellow fever was appreended at Lima and Callao, aud strict sanitary measures have already been introduced, Baita had issued a proclamation pardoning all the officers whom Canseco had ban- ished, and returning them in their rank and giving them their back pay. This includes among others Prado, the deposed Preeident, who has been exiled in Chile, At’ Buenos Ayres, August 25, freights were ail, but beginning w impro Business generally (he same, On the 16th of August the Con- gress de or Sarmiento Pre 1 Sefor Alsina Vice President, Since the surrender of cue | garrison of Humatta there is nothing new from the seat of war. Our Valparaiso, Chile, letter is dated Septemt 16. Groat fear prevailed that a disastrous ¢ quake like that of August last is about to visit Ch as the aame circumstances that preceded that terri calamity in Ecuador had been observable for | days. The people of Valparaiso had in con- sequence of this apprehension voted, according to custom, fora patron saint and had elected the Ba- viour. From Bolivia it is reported that Président Mulgatejo had threatened to have Deputy Cabrera, one of the members of the House, shot, for a speech he had made denunciatory of the President's policy in surrendering the banks of the Para river to Brazil, and was only prevented by the urgent advice of the Speaker of the House from having persons flogged who had applauded Cabrera. Our Havana correspor is dated October 10. The Captain General geld lis usual lovee on Queon of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain Judkins, of the s.eamer Scotia; E. Lee, of Paris, France, and T. A. Labadie, of Vera Cruz, Mexico, are at the New York Hotel. Mr, Charles E. Cortwright, British Consul at Phi!a- delphia; John M. Canomesse, of Athens, Greece, and Lieutenant Commander Yates Sterling, of the United States Navy, are at the Brevoort House. Judge Munger, of Rochester; Lewis Kinsiey, of New York, and A. B. Cornell, of Utica, are at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Rev. Dr. G. W. Porter, of Drewsville, is at the Hoitman House. Tae Late ElectionsThe General Condition of the Country. The late elections have opened the way for a new impulse and a new epoch in the mate- rial interests and prosperity of the country. The pulse of Wall street indicates a healthy and vigorous condition of our financial affairs and confidence in the future, resting upon the satisfactory assurances from Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, of General Grant's election as our next President. The people have al- ready chosen him, and the November national election will be only a formal registering of his popular and electoral majorities. The people have decreed that, as with Washington, he who was first in the war shall be first in the new dispensation of peace. Satisfied that in General Grant we shalt have a safe, sound, conservative President, all the financial and business classes and business interests of the country are preparing now and will soon begin to extend their operations. No apprehensions are entertained in any quarter of any financial shock under Grant's administration ; no fears of any new Southern disorders from any vio- lent or revolutionary experiments of Southern reconstruction. The masses of the people North and South, of all parties, races and colors, have an abiding faith that under Grant his acceptable proposition, ‘‘Let us have peace,” will be peace, genuine peace, and a new era of prosperity and progress utterly eclipsing our greatest advances under any preceding administration. The intelligence of the American people is equal to all emergencies. ‘‘Education,” said Edmund Burke, ‘‘is the cheap defence of na- tions ;” and here we have it so thoroughly dif- fused through the body politic as to make ours the strongest national government on the face of the globe. If all the republics of the past—of Greece, Rome, Venice and all the rest of them—were failures they failed because the masses of their people lacked the intelligence necessary to govern and protect themselves. Looking at these precedents, however, the European enemies of the ‘‘Great Republic” with the outbreak of our gigantic Southern rebellion, pronounced the Union dissolved, and with it the downfall of popular ideas in both hemispheres. But, much to the astonish- ment of the Old World feudal aristocrats, kings and kaisers, our Southern rebellion was suppressed, and with the abolition of that old trouble of Southern slavery the Union has come out of this fiery ordeal tenfold stronger than ever. We are indebted for all this to the patriotism and intelligence of the great body of the people of the loyal States. Had there been the same general diffusion of education among the people of the rebel States—taking only the whites, if you please— there would have been no Southern rebellion. It was not Lincoln who carried our loyal peo- ple through the war; but it was this people who carried through Lincoln, Congress and the Union canse. Lincoln was not the leader, but the follower of the people. Soin these late elections, the democracy having set up an objectionable ticket and plat- form for the Presidential succession, the people of the States known in the war as the loyal States have pronounced still another judg- ment against the old secession leaders, dog- mas and dangers of the democratic party. From the year 1860—yes, from the year 1854, and from year to year down to this day—in sharper or milder terms, as the case required, the people have set their faces against these old here of the Southern secession leaders | and their Northern followers. So when, in 1868, these old secession leaders assume their old pla nthe front seats of the democratic sanctuary, the intelligent people of the North- ern States seize the first opportunity to reject them and send them all adrift, leaders and fol- lowers. This is very perplexing to our Bour- bon democratic politicians, They have not as yet got out of the old ruts of the Albany Regency of thirty odd yeara ago, In those good old times a little junta at Albany, a little junta at Richmond and a kitchen cabinet at Washington, with their special newspaper organs, managed all the business of the demo- cratic party, the government and the order of thesuccession, That was the old silurian epoch, and even at this day tho fossils of that day are well preserved curiosities, but they cannot be galvanized into life again. That old close corporation system of the Albany Regency was discovered to be a swindle with the establishment of the inde- Pendent press, and from that time to this the independent press has grown with the growth and expansion of the independent masses of the people. The locomotive, the steamship and the electric telegraph have since been in- troduced into the active service of the civilized world ; and through all these instrumentalities for the general diffusion of knowledge the vo- cation of these little old-time cliques of jug- gling politicians and their party organs is completely gone. Could anything be more ludicrous, for example, than the ridiculous at- titude at present of certain would-be potential party organs hereabouts in reference to these late elections? How very absurd and im- potent they appear! Here are two of them, each assuming to be master of ceremonies and each berating or turning the cold shoulder upon the other with the imperious air of a flunky. They, in their impotent and ridicu- lous fashion, are imitators of the mouthpieces of the Albany Regency, from whom a party edict was the law and gospel to the State of New York or Pennsylvania, Yes, things have bravely altered during our experience as the conductor of aa independent American press. If our success may be recorded as among the marvels of modern journalism, it is mainly due to that simple but grand idea to which we may credit the marvellous success of Lincoln's administration—that ruling idea of watching and following the drift of an enlightened pub- lic opinion. So, too, we believe with Lincoln that, resting upon the patriotism, intelligence and sagacity of this great people, our govern- ment ‘‘of the people, for the people and by the people will not perish from the face of the earth.” And such is the meaning of these late elections, The people have advanced to the front, and our party politicians on both sides have been put back into the rear. from Washington—The Demo- cratic Dilemma. The most superficial observer of the drift of public events cannot fail to have observed that the nominations of Seymour and Blair, as the standard bearers of the democratic party, failed to awaken any degree of enthusiasm throughout the nation, and the recent elec- tions in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana plainly indicate the sentiments of the people in these States. That the late news has gravely affected the political managers of the democracy is evidenced by the movements that have taken place in this city and Wash- ington within the past twenty-four hours. Private meetings have been held, committees appointed for one purpose or other, tele- graphic communication opened between the leading democratic leaders in different sections of the country, and all this on account of the failure of the party in the States above named. A rumor prevailed in Washington last night that Chief Justice Chase had been waited on and had consented, in the event of Mr. Seymour's withdrawal, to accept his place on the ticket; another was current that a com- mittee was then on its way and would meet Mr. Seymour in Utica this afternoon to talk over the situation of affairs and sug- gest his withdrawal from the canvass. Still another rumor prevailed that Mr. Belmont was telegraphed to call the National Committee together for the purpose of nominating new candidates; but when Mr. Belmont was inter- rogated in relation to receiving such a despatch he most emphatically stated that he was in entire ignorance of any such document. With these reports fiy- ing round and the acknowledgments of the copperhead organs the democratic man- agers are certainly in a most unen- viable position. Blair and Seymour, they say, are too much to carry, even with such splendid principles as the party boasts. Blair and Seymour, they argue, ought to have the magnanimity to resign. But what then? Here is the dilemma. No man who could by any possibility win would take a nomination after Seymour. Only a political adventurer would accept the chance, and with such a man the democrats would be in no better position than they are. They must face the music. Important The Telegraph in Diplomacy. We see that the magnetic telegraph has been used by our Secretary of State for diplo- matic purposes. The correspondence, pub- lished in the Heratp yesterday, between Mr. Seward and Mr. Hale, our Minister at Madrid, relative to the Spanish revolution and the re- cognition of the revolutionary government, is beautifully short and to the point, How our verbose Secretary ever brought himself to dispense with long-winded despatches on such an interesting occasion and to use this short and quick method of communication is a mys- tery. However, we give him credit for his good sense and taste for this new and unique specimen of diplomatic intercourse. It is really a model of brevity. This mighty agent of mod- ern civilization—the magnetic telegraph—is destined to make a revolution in diplomacy as in everything else. It will be the end of red tape diplomacy and all its subterfuges and in- tricacies, It will save a vast amount of labor, loads of writing paper and the services of numerous clerks. Better than all, it will let the public know promptly what may be going on in international affairs, We do not see, in- deed, why, by ita use directly betwoen govern- ments, the army of diplomats, ambassadors, ministers resident, diplomatic breeches and all may not be dispensed with, Surely this is an age of progress when Mr. Seward can be brought to transact the business of the State Department in such a curt, prompt and sensi- ble manner, Revervy Jomnson Art Rrowt.—If our new Minister to England makes a naturalization treaty with that government based on our view of citizenship, as he seems likely to, and another fixing the British neutrality and the Alabama difficulty in accordance with our known views, as it also seems probable he will, then he will be none the worse for the clamor against him raised by the English “outs” and echoed here by their radical sympathizers, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1868.—TRIPL The Telegraph Business—The Value of Competition, The progress of the telegraph for the past twenty years has been something truly won- derful, and shows how important a part this powerful commercial agent is destined to play in the future business of the world. Ever since lines were first established in the United States the increase of their earnings has been steady and large, and enormous fortunes have been made by all who have become actively interested in the business. As a speculative investment telegraph companies have paid probably larger profits than any other enter- prise in existence, and this despite the most selfish and extravagant management on the part of the inside “‘rings” by whom they have almost invariably been controlled. Scarcely a line has been built out of the construction of which large fortunes have not been made by some combination of original projectors or stockholders, The working expenses have been swelled to double the legitimate amount, in order to leave sufficient margin to satisfy the greed of directors and their friends. Jobs have been concocted in the purchase and con- solidation of lines which have taken millions of dollars out of the pockets of stockholders for the benefit of favored individuals, Yet for all this we find the original stock of telegraph corporations doubled, trebled and quadrupled by the process of watering, and the lines yielding a profit which, under judicious management, would pay dividends of twenty or thirty per cent even upon the inflated capital, Notwithstanding the rapid increase and profitable character of the business, however, telegraphing is yet comparatively in its infancy among us. It has had many draw- backs in the United States. Monopoly has held it in its iron grasp and, as usual, impeded its progress and crippled its energies. Prices have been kept up, and the gen- eral public have thus been in a great measure shut out from its benefits. A policy has pre- vailed injurious to the stockholder and calcu- lated to retard the growth and success of the business. But for these evils, against which telegraphing has had to contend on this Con- tinent, there is no doubt that at the present time the use of this rapid and valuable medium of communication would be in general use all over the United States and the returns of the compagies, large as they are, would be more than doubled. Asit is we find that the pro- gress of the business is astonishing, and that it has continued to increase year after year, independent of the fluctuations in the commer- cial condition of the country. In 1846 the gross earnings of all the telegraph lines in the United States were only a little over four thou- sand dollars. In 1867 the gross earnings reached nearly eight million dollars, and the following table will show the steadiness of the increase :— ‘1846. 1847, 1848. 1849. 850. 1851. 1853. The same results are observable in other countries as well asin our own. In Belgium the proportion of telegrams to letters was as one to 218 in 1860; in 1866 it was as one to 37. In Great Britain the proportion in 1860 was one telegram to 296 letters; in 1866 one to 120, and this, too, with the number of letters in the meantime nearly doubled. The most striking feature of telegraphic statistics, however, is the fact that the increase in the profits, as well asin the amount of the business, has been largest at those points and in those countries where the rates have been lowest. In Belgium, where the charges have been very moderate, the ratio of increase in telegrams to letters has been about six hun- dred per cent, while in Great Britain, where high tariffs prevail, the ratio has been only a little over two hundred and fifty per cent. The experience in this country illustrates yet more forcibly the benefit of low rates to the stock- holders, as well as to the public. Within the past eighteen months most of the paying points on the Western Union lines have been reached by its great rival, the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, and to these places, under the wholesome effect of competition, the rates have been decreased from thirty to sixty percent. The increase in the receipts for six months in 1868 under low rates over the cor- responding months of 1867, when there was no competition, has been over three hundred and twenty thousand dollars, or over two thousand dollars for each working day. These facts are conclusive as to the profit- able character of the telegraph business, They prove that any well conducted line in the United States must pay dividends larger than can be realized in any other enterprise. But new lines in especial must be remune- rative, because they are built of the best and most approved material, equipped in a su- perior manner, and touch only paying points, thus avoiding the heavy drawback of non- paying offices. The Atlantic and Pacific lines, for instance, representing only five millions capital, constructed in the best manner, free from debt, and touching only paying points, could pay a handsome dividend upon the amount required to satisfy the interest on the bonded and miscellaneous debt of the Western Union, a company which represents forty-one millions capital, is hampered with old, worn- out lines and equipments, and burdened with thousands of expensive non-paying offices. The Atiantic and Pacific Company have been in operation one year, and their business has increased in nine months over two hundred per cent, They will be open through to Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul this week, and to Cincinnati and St. Louis before November. They will then touch every paying point reached by the Western Union, and connect with other independent lines all over Canada and the United States. They now offer their stock for sale, after having withdrawn it from the market for six months, in order that they may secure the means to double their present wires for immediate purposes to mict the pressing demands of the business, and thus double, also, their receipts and profits. Their stock to-day is more valuable than any repre- senting old, used up, dilapidated lines, and offers an excellent investment for capitalists. It ia to be hoped that the company will put up additional wires everywhere without any de- lay, and thus meet and accommodate the wants of the business world, The Policy of the New York Democracy. The New York democracy is a power in the State and should be a power in the nation. The party depends upon the democratic vote of the metropolis for success in a State elec- tion, and without it no democratic victory could ever be secured. With skilful and shrewd management, therefore, the democrats of this city would be able to accomplish much good and to shape the policy of their party all over the Union, The trouble hitherto has been the selfishness of their leaders and the remarkable stupidity of their organs, through which their strength has been frittered away and their influence over the councils of the party rendered exceedingly limited. They have been broken up into factions among themselves and have been more occupiéd in fighting each other than in making battle against the common enemy. They have had papers enough on their side to ruin any party. There bave been in the city a red-hot demo- cratic organ, a white-heat democratic organ, an organ of the unterrified democracy, an organ of the independent democracy, an organ of the sweet-scented Mantilini democracy and an organ of the unwashed democracy. The consequence has been that the organization has been split up into fractions; politicians in the same boat have been pulling different ways, and asa matter of course no headway has been made and nothing accomplished except the personal ends of a few of the leaders. For the past two years, under the leader- ship of Peter Bismarck Sweeny and William Machiavelli Tweed, there has been a con- solidation of the organizations and a corre- sponding increase in the influence of the New York democracy in the party councils and conventions. But the blundering folly evinced by the Southern and Western delegates in framing the national platform and ticket destroyed all their chance of success in the Presidential election, and the recent disas- trous defeats in Pennsylvania and the West have utterly demoralized their forces. It is the part of a good general under such circum- stances to change his base and endeavor from some other point of attack to regain the ground he has lost; and this is precisely the plan of campaign upon which the New York leaders should now determine. They know that the cause of Seymour is lost beyond a hope of redemption. They must feel that Hoffman’s chances are desperate with the moral effect of a certain victory for Grant in the scale against him. They should, therefore, disregard the foolish ad- vice of Mantilini organs and Frangipani rings, place themselves at the head of the hard- fisted democracy, boldly give up Seymour and Hoffman as bad jobs, and set themselves to work in earnest to secure the return of sound conservative members of Congress in this city and all over the State. By this means they will force a recognition from Grant's administration and will hold a con- trolling influence over legislation in the next House of Representatives. This is a policy worthy the ambition of Bismarck Sweeny. He has proved himself to be a genuine practical reformer, 80 far as money is concerned, and in this respect stands head and shoulders above all our politicians on both sides. Let him now show himself to be superior to all petty political schemes and intrigues, and use his influence and means to secure a powerful con- servative delegation in Congress. If he should succeed in this it would not be more than a year before the New York democracy would receive a valuable recognition from Grant’s administration. They can manage for that time to live upon their present local patronage and pickings without troubling themselves about the picayune spoils of the State government, and without losing flesh or suffering for the want of whiskey. The Good Fairy. What a charming figure in every childish faney is the Good Fairy! How many pretty thoughts, sweet remembrances and brilliant hopes arise at the simple mention of her name, and have arisen since the earliest ages when “fairies were kind to country jennies and in their shoes put silver pennies!” If a pretty, poor little girl, wants to go toa ballin a silk dress, is not the Good Fairy always ready to arrange it? (See Cinderella.) If an honest little boy, trying to save up for Christmas, goes to sleep wishing for anything, does not the Good Fairy bring it before he awakes? (See two hundred pages in everybody's recollection of juvenile literature.) Well, we have a Good Fairy in our city. He is the editor, manager and more or less of the stockholders in a pretty little journal that we believe shines for all. Weare the more inclined to the notion that it shines forall because, brilliant and warm as are the rays it sheds, they are so scattered, scattered with such splendid indif- ference to special points, that no man can say they take any particular direction. Once a week this Good Fairy makes a general distri- bution of gifts. In his profuse liberality men of all sorts have a share. He has on one occa- sion put a splendid foreign mission in one of Horace Greeley’s old hats. General Grant has several times waked up to find all the little stumps of cigars removed from his window ledge and Cabinet officers of the most magnifi- cent kind in their places, Such are the quaint and happy caprices of the Good Fairy. Even we ourselves have been startled into more or less hilarity by surprises similar in their nature, It is very pretty—a most dainty generosity! Our hope is that these rich gifts will not wax poor as fairy gifts sometimes do when the day- light comes ; that it is not all the simple frost- work of fancy; but, alas! alas! these good fairies are very dreamland creatures. We hope also that the open hand may be filled the fullest, and that the editorial Good Fairy in care for others will not neglect to make abun- dant provision for himself. ‘Tue Biack Man In Grorata.—The negroes turned out of their places in the Georgia Legislature are going to work very practically to agitate the final question of their right to hold office. They have organized a society, held a convention and published an address to colored voters, In this they say:—‘‘The action of the General Assembly in expelling the colored members from their seats, merely because they were colored, was a gross infrac- tion of our constitution and a plain violation of the very letter of the law, It was extra judicial, arbitrary, unjust and oppressive. Such an act, in utter violation of the constitutign and the laws of our State, perpetrated by a body of our own creation, should awaken colored voters throughout the State to a sense of their great danger under democratic legislation.” The moral of all is no doubt a movement to prevent the black voters, falling into the hands of the democrats, as they have seemed likely to. In this view the action of the Georgia Legislature is a good card for the radicals, Final Coliapse of Santa Auna. Santa Anna is again in trouble. Ever since his exile by the Juarez government this head- less rooster has excited the pity of the world. All the arts of revolutionists have been ex- hausted by him in the vain effort to get an egg from which to hatch a full-blooded revolu- tion in Mexico. Every one of them, however, has proved addled. The old hero’s cork leg evidently can no longer bear a spur, and the atrategy of the cockpit will not avail with slippery customers like the greasers, Santa Anna should have profited by hia experience of the last few years in the United States, He came here with the belief that his revolution- ary plans would be aided and abeised by the American government. This was natural, for the policy of our State Department has been and atill is one of irrepressible conflict. But Santa Anna did not prove irrepressible. He showed himself to be a headless rooster, fit to be consigned to the care of Mz. Bergh’s soeiely for the prevention of crueity to animals. With the full determination to again bleed his native country the old gamecock went into the arena only to be bled himself. He got entangled in lawsuits for the equipments necessary to a first class filibustering raid, left here in tow of his heartiest enemies, to get up a pronwnciamiento in Vera Cruz, was captured and would have forfeited his life but for the fact that the Juarez government knew him to be a headless rooster. Not deterred by his bitter ex- perience the old hero would venture oa slippery ground again, presuming on the American stability of his game leg. This time, again, he took into his confidence emissaries of the very government he was seeking to overthrow. Colonel Cosme Garcia Padilla pumped the whole secret out of Santa Anna, General Ta- boada and the rest of the interventionists. who have their headquarters at Havana., Accord- ing to the revelations made to the Mexican Congress Santa Anna was to restore the lawa of the late empire, renew relations with Bu- rope and give the United States to understand that their annexation policy should go no fur- ther. His addresses to the Mexican people were to set forth that the United States wanted the northern frontier States of Mexico in con- sideration of our assuming the foreign debt of that republic. The late mission of Minister Romero was to be marked as the opening wedge of Uncle Sam in the dismemberment and eventual annexation of the republic. But all this fine scheme failed; Padilla got the secret, divulged it, and Captain General Ler- sundi ordered the headless rooster to be re- moved from the Havana cockpit. Without a doubt Santa Anna has been cruelly treated in all this business. He needs and will get the sympathy of many in our com- munity. When such a society as Mr. Bergh’s can prosper here there must certainly be a large class of sympathizers with one go cruelly treated as Santa Anna has been. We fear, howover, that he is mostly to blame himself; although it is undoubtedly cruel to encourage an old headless rooster with but one leg te enter the arena with a cock that is lustily crowing over having pulled feathers from the eagle of France, and drawn blood from a scioa of the Hapsburgs. : Sweeny and Hoffman—Damon and Pythias. “That's a fine statue of General Casa,” said one of a group of men, once upon a time, standing in front of a certain brown stone effigy in the City Hall Park. ‘‘My dear sir, you are mistaken,” said another; ‘this is a statue of Sir Robert Peel, sent over from Eng- land.” “Both are wrong,” said a third person, “for this figure is intended for a monument to Silas Wright.” What the thing was intended for we have never learned; but as we are about to propose a statue for Bismarck Sweeny we would suggest, first of all, brown stone, white or blue stone—a likeness which shall speak for itself. Sweeny is no ordinary man and isa very extraordinary New York politician. There is not another likehim. He stands alone in his glory. He has, as a public officer, had money to the extent of hundreda of thousands of dollars at his discretion, either to put in his pocket or the public treasury, and he has turned it over to the treasury—thousands upon thousands of dollars. This is something new under the sun. This makes our honest Sweeny a public benefactor, although a democratic officeholder and a head manager of the Tammany ring. Won- ders will never cease, We shall have the sun rising in the west one of these days. More- over, we are credibly informed that churches and asylums and other benevolent institutions have been liberally remembered by Mr. Sweeny. He is, therefore, a benevolent man whose modesty is only equalled by his merits, for he does not care to get on top of the new Court House to blow his own trumpet. We have never seen his good deeds emblazoned ona democratic transparency nor heard hia fame sounded through the lines of a torchlight procession, Yet he is truly a great man in Gotham and deserves an enduring monument. Like all other great men, however, Bismarck Sweeny has his peculiar weakness, As Dr. Johnson was the weakness of Boswell, as Dom Quixote was the weakness of honest Sancho, as Thurlow Weed was the special weakness of Seward, so Johnny Hoffmar is the weak- neas of Peter the Great. Hoffman reposes securely upon the strong arm of Sweeny, and Sweeny thinks oll the time that the hoot is on the other leg. He is working like a beaver to make Hoffman Governor, when Peter himself would be a better candidate, But there was onze a powerful party man ia Connecticut nasaed Pratt, who labored for years and yearsto make something of Thomas H. Seymour, and at last had to give him up as a bad job, Henoe, considering the late eteos tions, we would advise Mr. Sweeny to give less attention to Hoffman and more to the democratic candidates for Congress from this city and State. Here isa good field of labor for Peter and Paul, and we would urge him to cultivate it for many reasons which will suggest themselves, But. anv how. to come '