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SOUTH AMERICA. THE ALLIES CROSSING THE TEBICUARI, Rumored Atrocities of the Paraguayan Y Government. Foreigners Dragged from the Amer- ican Legation. ‘The steamer South America, Captain Tinklepaugh, from Rio Janeiro September 25, arrived at this port yesterday with interesting news from the Brazile and river de la Plata. BRAZIL. The Paraguayans Abandon Matto Grosse— Strength of Lopez—Movements of the Allies Against the Line of the Tebicunri—Mixed Up Strategy—Fetes—Telegraphy—Exchange. Rio JANEIRO, Sept. 25, 1868, The Paraguayans appear to have abandoned the province of Matto Grosso, as an exploring party saw no signs of them as far down the Paraguay as Albu- quergue and no signs that they had been up the river of late, so the Brazilian settlers were beginning to return to their homes on that river. Two small fron-clads are reported from the river Plate to have gone upwards into Matto Grosso to run the Paraguayans out if any still remained on the river. It is most probable, however, that the Paragayans will not be found, as Lopez has evi- dently determined to carry on all his fighting inland, where he can meet the allies away from their iron- elads and find opportunities for cutting off stheir convoys and for carrying on a guerilla warfare against them. A Paraguayan priest here says Lopez has 15,000 to 20,000 men yet, and that he can hold his own for years at Villa Rica unless the people rise up against lum and force him to leave. The allies report that he has shot 300 or 400 persons for a con- spiracy and has his brother in prison. The follow- ing is a summary of what operations have been effected since the news forwarded by the packet of ‘the 9th:— On the 26th of August the vanguard of the Bra- zillan army, crossed the Jacaré, a stream flowing Into the Tebicuari, and routed a force of 300 Para- guayan cavalry on the other side, killing forty-five men and making some prisoners, together with 126 equip) horses. On the 28th the same force at- tacked and carried @ redoubt on the bank of the Tebicuari. This work had a strong gate in the mid- aie, with a drawbridge across the ditch which sur- rounded the whole work, and was defended by some 400 Paraguayans with three small cannon. it was also protected by abattis, secured to the ground by ‘atakes. The assaulting force consisted of two brigades of infantry, a brigade and two half corps of cavalry, six cannon and a contingent Of sappers. The assault was vigorously made, the @itch was crossed on planks thrown over at various points, the abattis cut through and the parapet ined. The Straggle, though short, was severe, and official report gives the Paraguayan loss at 170 killed and 81 prisoners, and that of the Brazilians at ‘21 killed and 132 wounded. ‘The three cannon were captured, gg egg with arms, ammuniti horses and oxen. Four monitors were then ordered to enter the Tebicuari, which were able to go up two leagues without dimculty, and on the 1st of Septem- ber the crossing of the Tebicuarl was made and it ‘was found that the Paraguayans had abandoned all the lines there, leaving a dismounted cannon, large deposits of munitions and food, &c. The battery on the ‘aguay was also dismounted, the pieces being thrown into the river. In the march of the Brazilian army from Humaitd to the Tebicuari no less than 900 draught oxen were killed in the transporti id muni- tions, notwithstanding that much was sent b: It is stated that a number of bodies, variously stated at 20 to 400, were found unburied in a ditch in Tebi- cuari, victims, it is said, made by Lopez for hae ai against him, The last accounts say that the Bra- in army was crossing the Tebicuari, and that the ey vision was on its march northward and ‘would be joined at Angostura by General Gelly y Obes with 6,600 men. is gaid to have first gone from Tebucari to Vi on the Paraguay some distance eta, @ below Asuncion and a place where the river was shallow, but to be movil towards Cerro Leon and Villa Rica, places asserted to be strongly forti- fied, and to be raining the railway from Asuncion to Villa Rica in order to pp it serving the allies in ielr operations. He js also said to have num- horses and to have 15,000 m Toads RI th ites fo difficult for the ie its as hte a: prin part of squadron is leged to be gone to Asuncion and two of the small -clads on into the Matto Grosso waters. ‘ue American gunboat Wasp had gone to Asun- It is said a provisional government is to be set up The Brazilians seem terribly afraid lest Lopez should escape them by getting on board the Wasp. Unfortunately he does not appear likely to throw himself on the hospitallt ler of that gunboat, and if he did wish to do so he could not be ge ae as the re x. en oa receive i@ proceedings of Lopez ani les are not ‘clearly comprehensible trom the co} mdence received. On leaving Tebicuari he is to have ne nortii to Villeta, a river twenty-five miles inlater stated fo" be loaving it with his armyin the a Givection of yg and to be runing the Asuncion and Vi Rica potted motive for haben ‘a rightangle triangle instead roal, ‘were marching north, appa- rently with the view of establis! themselves at Asuncion as a base, and the fleet gone up to the game place. The roadfrom Tebicuari to Asuncion fs said to be very bad, it passing tl low flats and timber along the Paraguay, while f! Villa Rica from Tebiquary 1s stated to be @ 00d, dry road, which makes the movements of both parties still more iuexpiicable. However, @ few days will resolve the enigma, The united army of Allies must number now 36,000 men, as the gar- rison of Humaita had been reduced to 1,000 men, aud the matin to the number of 5,600, had marched to join the ilians, ‘The 21th of September was the anniversary of the eat of Pedro I., the first Emperor and father of the mtone. Funeral guns were firing allday. As Re was forced to abdicate because of wishing to wern despotically in spite of the constitution, the iberal papers are very industriously bringing the events of his reign before the public. The Diario do Povo published French articles for ite European edi- tion to go by the French eee yesterday. strong ® comparison was made in them between the Empe- ror Dom Pedro II. and Louis Philippe and Charles X., that it was current that the government had or- Gered the Posi office authorities to stop the numper, General Webb is urging, by desire of Mr. Seward, it is said, the proposal of the Cuba Telegraph Com- my to lay a cable to Brazil and along the coast iy Rio. ‘The public are in hopes the proposal will be accepted, and that it will be continued to the river Plate, It 1s true there is a Brazilian line down to Rio Grande, but it is utterly useless; not a message can be sent for even two haudred miles, and 7 Ln lines about the city are nearly always out of order. We hear the South American Navigation Company isin a bad way; its dock at Colonia, in the river Plate, a failure. It had great prospects and & ae of making money by charters from sechange rales at about 19 pence to the milreis, xchal re! sovere!; ne 120000 and goid 132, Adiniral Davis gives a grand ball on the 30th on board his flagship Guerriere. The Duke de Saxe and Princess Leopoldina, the Ministers, diplomatic corps ‘and ail ie upper ten are to be there, ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION. Reports of Horrible Atrocities Committed by Lope’? Government=Forcigners Dragged from the American Legation=The Best Families of Paraguay the Victime—Sume mary of the Situation—Cattle and Sheep Trade—Financial and Commercial. BUENOS AYRES, Sept 13, 1968, ‘The war on Paraguay Is closing with the bloodiest thapters of history. The defence by Lopez of his native land, rising to grandeur when it has béen marked by justice, is now assuming the relentless prucity and heartlessness of the tigers of the same Jungles. It appears now, as the curtain rises on the Interior, that the unanimity of the Paraguayans was as not only from ardent love of Lopez, but also from intelligent fear of him. His rule as President has been absolute, and as occasion offered he has not shrunk from inflicting punishments of any kind or degree, We have heard rumors of recent con- spiracies against him, but now we have the san- guinary details. While the Paraguayan army was at Tebicnart, on July 1, Lopez heard of an extensive conspiracy ‘against him at the capital, Asuncion. He Orst called to his camp the commander of the post, Captain Gomez, who was conveyed in irons, examined by torture ana died under its infliction, Colonel Denia, of Cerro Léon, was next arrested, and he and all his nates were ehot. On the same day two r8 Of Lopes arrived at headquarters In chains, and fhe aid-de-camp of one of them was instantly exetied. Many of the principal men of Asuncion NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. ia i Z #2 c 58 3 i B2Se ne ey reveled in their bloody ped insults of every kind on the . executions were preceded and ded by te most incredible cruelties and tortures. had abandoned, oy, varions modes, and hi buric in a itch, Th Were bodies of white persons, and the delicate hands and feet indicated 1 and other foreigners were ice _and from under the flag of ited States ition. Since the arrest of Presi- Lopez’ two brothers they have not been seen at large, and it is supposed that they are already exe- cuted or are incarcerated in one of the subterraaean Gungecns with which that country has abounded for the last fifty years, It is said that all the married sisters of Lepez are also in prison, as are also alarge number of the most respectable ladies of the country. These atrotities indicate the desperate condition of the country, and ure a sad reverse of the heroic de- fence made for these three years by the Paraguayans. ‘The present state of things may be very briefly given, Lopez, with the remnant of his forces, about 13,000 men and about sixty guns, is at Villeta, about forty leagues from Humaii ‘The fortuufication made on the right bank of the river Tebicuari was aban- doned by him and afterwards a smalier one at San Fernando, On September § all the allied forces left Pilar, their recent headquarters, and crossed the river Tebicuari, The land on the other side of this river is more solid, while generally on this side it is continuous swamp and impenetrable jungle. The war !s now near ita termination. Small stocks of supplies are kept, a3 no one knows what day the caving in may occur. One thing is now certain—the free navigation of the Paraguay river is secured be- yond all hazard and Bolivia has egress to the sea. ‘The arrival.of Colonel Domingo F. Sarmiento, President elect of this republic, from his long resi- dence as Minister at Washington has produced quite asensation, Heisaman of progress, and he has been for thirty years the great educationist of the river Platte. “He will be inaugurated October 14 prox. An English company has been formed for the pur- por of exporting live cattle and sheep to Europe. ‘hey intend to employ five steamers of 2,000 tons each and to carry away 5,000 cattle and 5,000 sheep monthly. They will obtain water by distillation and ‘use steamed food onthe way. They ask license and & monopoly for eight years. The monopoly will most likely not be granted. The national government here has offered a reward of $8,000 gold for the best mode of preserving beef for exportation. Money is now plentiful and cheap. Exchange on Bngland is forty-nine pence per gold dollar. ere 13 at present a larger number of American ships in port t! The number is twenty-two. The best passenger steamers on this great river were built at New York and Boston, The Allies Preparing to Attack Villeta~Ex- Minister Berjes Reported One of Lopez? Vice tims—Navigation of the Vermejo—Diplomatic Movements—Fine Harvest Expected. BUENOS AyneEs, Sept. 14, 1868, Since closing my letter we have hac a steamer from headquarters; but there is no news except of a united and vigorous march of the allied army on Villeta, the last retreat of Lopez. This is on a favor- ing bend of the Paraguay river, and he may plant there a battery of some force, as he has 13,000 men and over sixty guns. But he will be attacked by biked the number of men, seconded by nine iron- Bo ‘There is no reason to doubt the atrocious cruelties pat of Lopez towards his own former and best friends. News has just arrived that ex-Minister Berjes, of Paraguay, was one of the victims of Lopez in the conspiracy affair. Mr. Berjes was once spe- cial commissioner to the United States and was a fine scholar, a gentleman and an honor to his coun- try. He was one of the best men in South America. An agent has gone to the United States to bring out new light draught steamers for the river Ver- mejo, to make an outlet for Bolivia-to the Atlantic as s00n as the war closes. It is a grand siep of Tess. An expression has been made by the lower house of Congress averse to removing the capital of the re- public ee from Buenos Ayres. General 80 long the worthy representative of Venezuela at Washington, now represents that re- public at this capital. Mr. Worthington, the new American Minister to this country, was received yesterday by President Mitré, He was conveyed in the oficial coach, and on arti & guard of honor and a band of music aided in the honors. The speeches were the old stereotyped ones. “ Health good. Fine prospects for harvest. URUGUAY. The Allies Reported as Crossing the Tebi- cuari—A Triumvirate Appointed in Para- guny—Movements of. the Contending Are mies—Commercial and Financial News. MonrEvinno, Sept. 14—9:35 P. M, The mall steamer from Paraguay has arrived at Buenos Ayres, bringing the following intelligence:— The United States steamship Wasp has gone up to Asuncion. The Brazilian squadron is at Villeta, where Lopez is encamped on a range of hilis, occupying a very formidable position. The allied army is still cross- ing the Tebicuari. The general order of the day is to march on Asuncion, and the troops will only halt for a few hours on the right bank of the Tebicuari. A new Paraguayan government has been formed in Pilar; it is @ sort of triumvirate where all de- spatches, &c., connected with the provisional gov- ernment of Paraguay are attended to. Timbo ia abandoned. The base of supplies has been established in Pilar, About 1,000 Brazilians, and Commander Morales, with his batallion, remain in Humaitaé. Currupaiti ts deserted and the town shut up. Osorio, with the vanguard, is ten leagues north- west of the Tebicuart. Le ae according to. Coronel Martinez, has about 14, men, the very flower of his army, and also a large cavairy force and immense supplies of ammunition. He retreats to Villa Rica, where it is thought he will make his stand. The railway is destroyed. Two small tron-clads have gone up to Matte Grosse to clear the river. In Buenos Ayres is discussing a new Cus- tom House bill, The export duty on live stock has been abolished. Exchange on Engiand 49, per sup- plementary mail. National bonds have falien some- what. The last price 1s 5214. Gas rhares 90, soid at 60 per cent premium. Hides and wool, no transac- tions. Tallow firm and large arrivals from the coun- uy. Money easy. Discount rates 9 to 12 per cent premiuin, dragges out of the of dent VENEZUELA. The Claims Commission of the United States— Maracaibo to be Attacked=Ill Health of Monagas. CARACAS, Oct. 6, 1868, Our political world is quite devoid of Interest at the present moment, as the elections commenced on the 4th and it is generally understood that General José Tadco Monagas will be elected President, ‘There is an on dit in the city that the government will repudiate the acts of the mixed commission for arranging international claims between Venezuela and the United States, owing to the discovery of seri- ous underhand acts on the part of one of the most prominent sqents. rt still asserts that General Venancio hy bf 1s to attack Maracaibo, and that the government has chased the Pioneer for that purpose. This steamer Ras been trading for some time between Ciudad- Bolivar and Laqueyte, and is far from being adapted for a veasel of war, She has been provided with six small guns and will shortly receive two thirty-two pounders in addition. Since fining the navy her name has been changed to the Mona; General apg ig suffering from iii health and is the village of El Valle, about five miles from Caracas. THE CUNARD STEAMERS AND BOSTON TRAVEL, (From the Boston Traveller, Oct, 19.) ‘We are authorized by the partics themselves to state the substance of an interview that took place last eat) view was di “Your a Mr. said, “TE now sending one steamer a week thero.” ‘But,’’ said the merchant, “we desire more than that. We wish to load your steamers back.” “No use,” said Mr, Cunard, “we have tried that; an ounce of experience is worth pounds of advice. You may talk as much as you have & mind to; Boston can never control the business of the West;” and upon this he tore the card of the banker ae ‘at want — soneret them Ly the floor. any one indertake je that Mr. Cunard has “snubbed Boston.” We have the satisfaction, however, of faving that certain arrangements are in progress through which Boston Mord to be tnbependent can it even of the Cunard line, and when these eae are perfected our merchants can adord to turn the coid shoulder on this would-be monopolist, and trust to their own a” to vindicate the commercial importance of joston, an at any one time for many years. * POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. APPEALS TO THE DEHOCRACY. Address of the Demoeratic National Come mittee to the Conservative Voters of the United States. » New York, Oct. 20, 1868. FeLlow Cirizens—It is a privilege and duty to address you on the eve of the great battle which we are to fight, and which ts to deeide whether the gov- ernment of this republic is to remain four years more in the hands of the radical party or whether by an energetic, united and last effort you will wrest the power from its grasp and give to us, under a democratic conservative administration, a govern- ment based upoy principles of justice, economy and Constitutional liberty. ‘The issues of the present campaign are plain and self-evident. They appeal to the intelligence and patriotism of every voter in the most unmistakable terms. They have been ably discussed by distin- guished orators and leaders of our party sinee the nomination of our candidatea, What the democratic party intends to do, if placed in power by your suffrages, 18 to restore peace and union to our country; to heal the wounds and sufferings caused by the rebellion; to give to the people of the South the rights to which they are entitled under the constitution, and by which alone we can bring back prosperity and quiet to that distracted section; to reduce materially our military and naval establishments, kept up now on an. hense seaie and at an enormous cost; to intro- duce into every departinent ef government the strictest economy and to develope by an equitable system of imports and taxation the growing re- sources Of our country, and thus to place the feteral finances on a solid and stable footing and to pave the way to a gradual and safe return to specie payments. We are charged by the radical party, the party of violence and usur- pation, which for the last four years, to prolong its own existence, has set at nought the constitution and the fundamental principles of our government, that we intend revolution and deflance of estab- lished Jaws, The accusation is unfounded and ab- surd; it cannot be enteriained for a moment by any intelligent voter who has even the most superficial knowledge of the history of his country. The demo- crate party can proudly point to every page of its record. _ It has never violated a single obligation of the fundamental compact by which these United States entered into the family of nations. Its watchword, in peace, a3 in war, has been and will always be the Union, the constt- tution and the laws. And no man, nor any set of men, however high they might be placed by the suffrages of their fellow citizens, can ever expect to receive the support of this great conservative Toe in any revolutionary attempt agaist established laws. The ballot box and the supreme will of the American people are the only means of redress to which we ce Fellow democrats, you are fighting for a good and righteous cause. You have for your leader a tried statesman; a patriot who stood by the Union in its darkest hour; aman equally beioved for the purliy a Le private character as honored tor his public e8, Opposed to you are the men who have subverted the structure of their own system of representative self-government, vindicated to the world by more than half a century of prosperity and greatness; the men who have increased our enormous debt by pro- fligacy and corruption unparalleled; the men who in two successive Congresses have demonstrated their incompetency to diminish our burdens by economy or Co sub op ‘them with equity; the men who have so distributed our burdens as that they press with ex- cessive ween upon the labor and industry of the making rich men richer by making poor men poorer, . Opposed to you are the men who have denied for three years of peace, and will continue to deny until your votes arrest them, self-government to the ple of ten States; the men who have taken away the power of our Onter Mazistrate to insure a faithful execution of the laws or to command the army and the navy of the United States; the men who did their worst to expel the President from the White House for obeying faithfully the behests of your supreme law; the men who, being conscious of their crimes, dreaded to have the Supreme Court declare their fee and therefore ab! its jurisdiction and silenced its voice; the men who have usurped and are grasping and wielding powers not sed to-day by any monarch among civilized nations. Against these men and all their despotic purnoses, which General Grant would be as powerless to hin- deras he whom they elected four years ago has been; against these men, thelr crimes in tne past, their nefarious designs in tlie future, you are soon to make one final and determined onslaught. Four years ag we failed to expel them from power, though we predicted then, as we now predict, their incompetency to eo tothe people ee; declaring then, as we now declare, the revolut purposes of their most active leaders, who rule the party as they would rule the country—with a despot! ve Et Fe i E 8: 2 FI : # ‘worst pi rc What we feared they have done. The revolution has made steas Onve more we call every to join our ranks. Ifthe people will now rise in their ty and might they can save their institutions and rebufid them. If they are supine and regardless of their sacred interesta, so much in the last four years has accom} and so much in the next four years may sy be et no obstacle then remaiming, that the revolution wilt become a’ fixed fact, the structure of our government will have been completely remodelled. It may be a govern- ment, still it will no longer be your representative self-government. For this final struggle, then, fellow-democrats of the United States, let us invigorate every inuscie and nerve every heart. The time is short. The foe is stubborn and desperate. Our victory would be the death blow to the republican party. could have been held together by no other nomination. It can- not survive your successful assault. One victory is enor Your triamph in November will finally re- establish the Union and the constitution for another generation of men. It will restore perce and good order to the South, ity to the North and a wise and frugal rule to both. The great prize is worthy your most strenuous endeavor. Our ranks are unbroken, our courage ts unabated. Once more to the breach, and this time victory. For the Democratic National Committee, AUGUST BELMONT, Chairman, Address of the Democratic State Committee. New York, Oct. 20, 1363. To THE DEMOCRACY OF THE STaTE Or New YoRK— The results of the October elections demonstrate the fact that large accessions to the democratic party have been made since the last Congressional elec- tion, in 1366, In Indiana we have reduced the republican major- ity from 14,516 to a doubtful claim of 800 majority. We have done this on the largest aggregate vote ever givoa in that State and in what Schuyler Colfax confesses to be “the severest political contest ever fought in Indiana."’ Even by the showing of the re- publicans a farther change of one vote in 750—cf one-eighth of one per cent—would have completed @ political revolution. We have also gained one | member of Congress, and perhaps two. In Pennsylvania we have reduced the republican majority in 1866 about one-half. A further change of one vote in 140 would have given us a complete vic- tory in that great commonwealth, We have done this in spite of vast patronage and means of corrup- tion; systematic frauds, skilfully organized by the best masters in that art; and in spite of the unjust ex- clusion of the votes of citizens of Irish and German birth by a party which claims the suffrage for the negro, as a natural and sacred right, me practically gives him a supremacy over the whit an ina large portion of the republic. We have also gatned several members for Congress. In Ohio, in the Congressional election just held, we have rejuced the republican majority more than one-half—irom 40,000 to lieve cea e Congres. sional election of 1866, and have gaiided three mem- bers of Congress. Never has the indomitable spirit and herotc ene’ of the democratic party been more nobly mani- fested. You have driven in the repnblicans to their bag- ong wagons. You have almost routed them, low democrats, is this a moment for doubt as which we are advancing? We know that we wiil deserve victory. We resolve to attain it, the noblest for which men ever im to restore the republic as our fathers created it. We would pacificate the South, Tt fs caluminous to say that we would restore an; form of human slavery. We respected the local treatment of a local evil, and we awaited the ual rocesses Of civil and christianizing influences, agencies, an eens ore young men our own race than all those of the Same age and sex who were held in sla’ . But we never sanctioned servitude of any human rors oan, waever ne : ho te r ever oug' revived. We, and our fathers and nd- Sioa becal atas, Sara aeeanet e sacrificed political er in Lo the States, counties and towns in our Mick in the vain effort to avert civil ‘and when failed we have shed blood In the war, which we sought to avert and which our political advel than they gave to the same cause. And to- ther in our ranks more— an all the republicans can boast, Those gallant veterans are for ification, and we are for pacification. War is no necessary. The animosities of war have no pears. We want re five back self-govern- of our country, and believe that it We want our costly armaments reduced, now that a are no longer necessary. We the North to be revived in order that our business may be improved and our taxes lightened, We want labor relieved from the unnecessary burdens which weigl it down, many more—of the scat survivors of the cot soldiers. of That war th bileane want trade to be liberalized, and ali our maduairies to be ouce more enfrancuised. We want the prosperity for our wile people which is the natural fruit of the institutions of our fathers, Feilow citizens, it 19 a false calumny that we de- sire to overthrow the pernicious systems of our ad- versaries—their government by foreé or by fraud in over te wile slusen “ay aup wat tae peaceful fu eitizen— e peacel - edy of the ballot box. We resist by lawful and eaacetet measures the practical revolution which le republicans are gradually accomplishing. We and our candidates are pledged to restore and not to destroy the republic, Fellow democrats of New York, we call on you to a grand and final rally. Your standard-bearer in the national contest, who would wal a tala down Who honor a a hig ta ved, advances wi! our forefront of te battie. We ‘appedt to the 400,000 democrats of New York—one and all—to gather around bim. Our example will animate to new vigor our comrades in other States. Two and a haif millions of democrats, uader our chosen leaders, with our organization unbroken, with our masses compact, with our old and honored fiag floating proudly over us, will join in our final and, we trust, victorious struggle for constitutional government and civil liberty, SAMUEL J, TILDEN, Chairman of the State Commiltee, Ww. Oaserpy, Secretary. Horatio fe: ur to Fake the Stump. Urica, Oct, 20, 1868, Governor Seymour leaves here to-morrow for Buf- falo to take the stump for the democracy, He will speak in Buifalo on Thursday, Appointments for other States not yet made, Mayor Hoffman on the Proposed Change of Candidates. Warkins, N. Y., Oct, 20, 1868. Mayor Roftman addressed a large assemblage here to-day. In the course of his speech he said the newspaper proposition to change the ticket was made without his knowledge and without consulta- tion with the Central State Committee or any leading democrat of New York; that the democracy of the city of New York would stand firm to Seymour and Blair and give them the largest majority ever given to any candidates, The Disorganizers Rebuked—Address of the Erie County Democracy. ¢ BUFFALO, Oct. 20, 1868, The Erie County Democratic Committee issue an address this morning which, after alluding to the recent elections, contains the following significant paragraph;— Under these encouraging circumstances we are asked by a handful of treacherous politicians in the city of New York, whose God is gold, and whose organ is the World, to haul down the flag of thirty- seven equal States; to desert our standard bearers and to abandon the contest. The answer to this cowardly proposition has been one emphatic “No! sprung from every democratic heart, and spoken by every democratic voice from Maine to Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. “No! a thousand times “No! Surrender on the eve of battle aud of victory? Never. Our cause is our country’s, ever; our platform is the Union and the constitution; our candidates the deliberate choice of the representatives of the democratic masses—men tried, trusted and true. We will stand by them and the republic we fight for to re-establish so long as they bear aloft the banner committe to their keeping. This shameful conspiracy to turn back the swelling tide of democrating strength and to aad New York to the remaining list of doubtful States, should rouse every democrat to action and move every democratic arm to strike heavier blows. Clad in the armor of truth; bold in the advocacy of right; invincible in a fair fight, we are not to be betraye into the hands of our enemies or sold in the mart where capital in its seeks to enslave the working millions to a centr cf toli that 1t may shane the rustle of its greenbacks to tife clink of co! CITY POLITICS, Grand Republican Demonstration at Cooper Tnstitute—Addresses by Gerritt Smith, Ate torney General Brewster, of Pennsylvanin, and Others. ‘The large hall of the Cooper Institute Building was last night crowded by a large and enthusiastic au- dience, embracing a goodly proportion of handsome and elegantly attired Iadies, for whose especial ac- commodation front seats had been reserved, The occasion was @ mass meeting of the Union Republl- can Presidential Campaign Club, the Griswold and Cornell Central Campaign Olub and tne Central Grant Club, im combination. The hall was, a8 usual, handsomely decorated, and the Union Glee Club and a brass band discoursed fa- vorite music. Charles 8. Spencer, Thomas Murphy and Rufus F. Andrews, Presidents of the respective organizations under whose auspices the meeting was held, acted as chairmen. Gernirf SaiTH was introduced as the first speaker, and in ap elaborate and characteristic address pro- ceeded to discuss the questions Involved in the pending canvass, After dwelling at some length upon Congressional reconstruction, which he Samana at aes” af Mt Pie and sat viewed course of the democratic resent fallen from the canvass of 1860 down to the crisis in its history, and claimed that it and forever. There might be democratic parties, he said, in the future worthy of the name of democrats and capable of great power and use- fainess, but he meant that with its | ere principles Seeley pee a gee tape oe a jave me the great tap-root of the iy was gone, and t the patty itself 1 must soon Witter le. Nothing short of slavery could sustain so bad a thing as this democratic » It could not survive @ year, @ day, unless it had the carrion flesh of slavery to upon, or, at least, its bones to pick upon. ‘The only thing the party could do to recover itself was,to seck to conctllate the ex- slaveholder. by Ket Bae it could to put the whole political power of the South into the hands of the ‘whites of the South, This was what Andrew John- son tried, and that moment the democratic party and Johnson and the South became one again. By the force of democratic dogmas the feeling of the oid siaveholders of the South, never kindly disposed to- ward the negro, have been supplanted by au undying hatred for him. The immediate results of their policy was the murdering, plundering and outraging of loyal men, black and white, by hundreds, and then it was that the great repablican party alowed is themselves to resist t infernal policy. The fourteenth amendment to the con- stitution he held to be wrong to the a | black man and to the nation, in ee that | where 9 State disfranchises @ race it shall have no representation in the councils of the nation for that disfranchised race. To disfranchise @ race, especi- ally when all other races were franchised, was to outlaw that race. He also severely rebuked Presi-. dent Plerce’s course during his administration as encouraging the sentiment that ultimately ripened tuto rebellion, by his inaugural address and bis first message to Congress. And when Pierce uttered those sentiments he (the speaker) resolved never to know him, never to take him by the hand or darken the doors of iis mansiou,and he had kept that resolve. He could not do otherwise, by he ashe did A constitu y Who believed in human rights, under whatever color of skin, and who elected Lim that he might staud up straight for our grand common hu- manity, The speaker then proceeded to review in a caustic manner the record of the democratic Prest- dential candidates, and compared their career politt- caily with that of the republican nominees, closing with an able appeal for the support of the principles and men of the republican party. The Union Glee Club then eng the republican sen- sational campaign song, “The Union Oath,” amid great applause and enthusiasm, after which BenJa- MIN H, Brewster, Attorney General of Ponnsyiva- nia, and ee een addressed the assemblage, The meeting adjourned at a late hour, Congressional Nominations, ‘The Constitutional Union Convention of the Sixth Congressional district met last night and nominated 8. 8. Cox by acclamation. ‘The Gongresstonal Convention of the radical re- publicans of the Seventh district met last night and nominated General Joseph R. Pinckney, The Union ublican Congressional Convention ‘of the Seventh district met last night at No, 21 ave- nue D, and unanimously nomtina' General Joseph x ream for Congressional representative of that Assembly Nominations. ‘The following nominations of candidates for As- sembly were made by the radical republicans last night:— First District—Bartholomew Grifin, terband, jinth District—J. 8. Rit enky ares District—Robert C. Brown. ‘The Conservative Republican Convention of the Ninth Assembly district adjourned to Friday night without making @ nomination, Mozart Hall County Convention. Pursuant to the call of the General Coumittee, the County Convention of the Mozart Hall democracy met at their headquarters last evening and organ- ized by the election of Mr, George Shea as chairman and Messrs. John Mitchell and William K. Edgerton as secretaries. A motion was carried that a com- mittee of seven be appointed to offer a list of names of nominees, for the consideration of the Conven- tion at its next meeting, and Messrs. McCoole, Cor- nell, O'Callahan, Heath, McLaughian, Rosenberg and McCarty appotl to act a8 Buch com- mittee. The following resolutions, offered by Mr. William & Lee, chatrmen of the General Committee, were 10] Lad Teno ved, That the recent State elections, Le Bond slender Majorities of the republican party, though sustained by the temporary Aide of political patronage. and intimidation, We | to return the envernment af the country lato clearly demonateate the fnereasing cispoaition of the peopic the time hon- ‘ored guidance of the national democratic part. vi he ‘setaneaa of purpose and uuconquershie will edinee t oe party. ta those elections declare with rent” emphasla that exeinyt from mutability and decay, that fo- | herent power which made it for more than half a’ century | the national organization through which aad ty wigan ato reopl themselves dicecty ruled ihe Union in peace and pros. | Resolved, That it ia the sense of this convention, in v | the comparatively small majorities by which the pA ed have succeeded and of the means by which those majorities | were obtained, and our greatiy increased vote, the dewo- | cratic party can enter upon the approschiny election with every reasonable assurance of continuing Its governance in | Shia mmuntelpality nat | and regaining it throughout the State and | The Mass Meeting of War Democrats To- Night. The meeting of war democrats to-night at the Cooper Institute will be @ prominent event in the Present Presidential campaign. The call has been signed by nearly 100 of our most influential citizens, all of whom were war democrats, It is believed it willensure General Grant many thousands of yotes in this State. ‘The demonstration will be one of the most Hupeaing ever witnessed in this city. Ex- Mayor W. F. Havemeyer will be present and speeches will be inade by ex-Judge Pierrepont, Francis B. Cutting, H.G. Stebbing, Henry Mott and others. KINGS COUNTY POLITICS. Ticket of the Kings County Democratic Asso- clation. The following are the nominations made on Mon- day evening by the Kings County Democratic Asso- clation in opposition to the regular ticket:—District Attorney, ex-Judge Daniel P? Barnard; County Trea- surer, James M. Seabury; Superintendent of the Poor, Third district, Captain Theodore Chappel; Fifth district, James Campbell; Coroners, he tcraetine Murphy, Twelfth ward, and James Lynch, Thirteenth ward; Justice of the Sessions, Stephen 1. Voorhies; Comptroller, Levi B, Faron; Auditor, Brigadier Gen- eral Eugene Kozlay; Collector of Taxes, Henry Harteau; City Treasurer, Nathan B. Morse; Police Justice, James Cornwell; Justice of the Peace, First district, Richard B. Leach; Second district, Michael Wallace, Twelfth ward; Sixth district, T. O'Connor. The nominations for Congress in the Second and Third districts were deferred for consideration until Wednesday evening, Meeting of the Democratic General Com. mittee, The Democratic General Committee of Kings county met last evening at their headquarters, Court street, James B. Craig in the chair. The regular ticket, as nominated, was read and endorsed _unant- mously by the committee. It was announced that a democratic ratification mass meeting would be held at the Academy of Music on Wednesday night week, at which Horatio Seymour, Senator Buckalew and Mr. Pendleton will speak. It was resolved to adver- tise the nominations in the county papers and the committee adjourned for one week. BLAIR. General Blair on General Grant. The following is the text of the remarks of Gene- ral Blair in regard to his prediction of the assassi- Ration of General Grant in the White House, about which the radicals are making some little capital:. The point to which I desire to bring you is this, that in this struggle we have everything at stake; that it is the flnal and last struggle for the preserva- tion of free constitutional government in America— that if we failin it the repubiic falls with us. It becomes the inere appendage of the military chief- tain who 18 elevated to power in the name of the Presidency. But he never will leave the Presiden- Ual mansion as long as he lives. Ihave nothing to say against him personally; [have no intention of derogating from his great merits as a soldier, and 1 have no desire to tarnish any of the laurels which he won in the services that he gave to the country during the late war. But I have {oat a8 little design of surrendering absolute power into the hands of any man, no matter how illustrious he may have made his name in this great war. Ie came back a conqueror, and has by treating those States, in violation of the constitution, as mere pro- vinces, shown his intention to treat the whole people of this country as mero dependencies—appearances indicate, if we may judge from the treatment of the Southern States by the faction he represents, to make the Presidency a mere stepping stone to abso- lute power. ‘That is my judgment of his character and his design, and we can argue well what the in- tention of this party is from what this party has already done, Letter from General Blair=The Meaning of the Brodhead Letter Explained. The following letter has just made its appearance in the Lafayette (Ind.) Courier:— Fort SANDERS, WYOMING TERRITORY, August 24, 1868, } To Mr. James Howes, Lafayette, In DEAR Sir—I have received your letter in which ou ask me if would endeavor to have the consti- utionality of the reconstruction acts tested by the Supreme Court before proceeding to treat them as null and void. Jn answer I say that the vital prin- ciple of the reconstruction acts has a, en decided to be,unconstitational, null and yoid by the Supreme Court, the whole Bench concurring in the case of Milligan and Bowles, which went up from the State of Indiana on & writ of habeas corpus, In that case it was decided, in the plain language of the constitution, that the government could not establish marti law in time of peace or try a citizen by military commission or court martial. The reconstruction acts, so-called, stand on martial law and nothing eise. It is the essence of these acts. They were prepared and put in exe- eution in time of profound ¢, in defiance of the unanimous dicision of the Supreme Court, to whici Lhave referred, and they and all that has been done under them are nuil and void. case was made under these acts—the case of McUardie, of Mississippli—and brought before the Supreme Court, and it is well known that the Court was ready to deciare these acts unconstitutional, when Congress passed another act to deprive the Supreme Court of its jurisdiction, and openly attempted to intimidate the judges by threats of re- modeling the court. ‘The Supreme Court, in another case—that of Cum- mings, of Missouri—decided that the disfranchise- ment of the white people of the Southern States by an act of Congress was a bill of attainder and an ex post facto Yaw, both of which were forbidden in express terms by the constitution. Even the radi- cais admit, in thelr Chicago platform, thatthe States alone have va right to decide who shail be entitied to sui ‘ith the States; and yet Congress hag assumed to take the right from the wiute peopie and give it to the negroes within the Southern States, The reconstruction acts violate the consiitution in all these particulars, hasbeen already so decided by the Supreme Court, The constitution says tie military shali alway be subordinate to the civil authority, bat these acts have superseded all civil authority, and erected military governments at the South. Do you want a decision of the Supreme Court to show that this is unconstitutional? Are those who say that the mili- tary is subordinate to the civil authority revolution- ists? Are those who demand the restoration of the trial by jury, which has been suppressed im the South by the reconstruction acts, revolutionists? Are those who claim the benefit of the great writ of right, the habeas corpus, which is denied to eight millions of our fae 4s by the infamous reconstruc- tion acts, to be branded as revolutioniste? Shall we be calied revolutionisis because we pro- claim, in the very a. of the constitution, that Congress shall pass no bill of attainder or ex post facto law? or shall we be thus branded for claiming what the constitution concedes in express words—that the States shall regulate Suffrage for themselves ? Do we want more deci- sions of the Supreme Court on these points? The truth is that the radicals are the real revolutionists and have subverted the fandamental princtpies of our government and converted it into a mean and ba = oligarchy, sure to relapse into @ military jespotiam. To restore the government and the great guaran- tees of freedom contained in the constitution and inherited from our ancestors ts “revolution.” To execute the will of the people, whom the fragmen- tary Rump Congress has put at defiance, ts “revolu- tion.” Tocarry out the decisions of the Supreme Court is “revolution.” This revolution is at hand. The peoplo’s will, the judgment of the court of the highest jurisdiction, will be enforced against a usurping Rump Congress. ly, your f 1am, most respect bedient servant, is RANK P, BLAIR BORDER AGRICULTURAL FAR. Virginia and North Carolina Agricuitural Fair—Sound Advice from the Presideut of the Society=—Characteristic Address by Exe Governor Vance=The Races—Arrest of a - DANVILLE, Va., Oct. 20, 1868, The fair of the Border Agricultural Society of Virginia and North Carolina commenced to-day, ‘The exhibition of stock, machinery and useful ar. ticles is very fine. The fair will continue four days, Seven thousand persons were present eo various States, Colonel William T. Soul President of the society, delivered an address, He — sald disposed to in despair unless their own polltioal views prevali all such would say, let the approacht for Prest- dent go as {t may, you cannot to’ in business uniess you put forth each int dividual for himself, We hope that may reasonably in any event we have seen the worst of our trouble. We have nearly if not quite reached bottom. The pe Ad of ware anal ii be upwards, The country cannot ai more enduro a paraiyzation one Bec: tion than the human bod, now disabled and paralyzed, must be restored :0 SS CA hope tent whe must perish, La ed HOt 0 whoever ma; a the high Pd of President of the, thier’ atts will so far forget party as to view with patriotic | eyes his whole country and adopt a policy that will | speedily place all the States of the Union on an eq tal looting, and use his power and position fn restoring the country to prosperity and peace, This was an | Undertaking that would command the contlience 3 and support of all good people in every portio: of the country, and would not fail of mucceak It it shouid prove that these opinions ave well founded and the le of the South met the qnostion in the proper of conciliation, we may then look for- ward hopefully for the dawn of a brigiter era. Governor Vance, of North Carolina, then delivered the annual address, He sald: The first thing that appeared to me as worthy of Srave consideration was the great change which the wbolition of slavery brought about for the southern farmers, At first, It struck a deadly blow a* the sy_-= tem of large farms, The breaking up of larger farins, nto sinaller ones and the substitution of wuite labor Would inevitably drive the negro from the land, There is danger, too, that our people, in their changed condition, will embrace the idea common|y Worshipped in progressive communities, that money {s the god of this life, and the accumulation of it the chief end of man, ‘God forbid that the Southera ae should ever be bound to the chariot wheels of Jen. Franklin und learn fp. cotenn his picayune ‘el maxims above the apothe; of Bacon. the; never, never establish a Mecca Cape Cod oF Buazard's Bay, or, worse, to ailow the odor of Weathersfield ontons to’ ascend ffom their altars of sacrifice, (Appiause.) Change in labor is equally Pregnant with lmportant changes to our People, Small farms were never used to much negro labor. Tue demand for white labor is the be- ginning of immigration, and the beginning of immi- gration is the beginning of the end of the negro, The political privileges accorded him will ouly hasten his ruin by increasing his idleness and fill- ing him with dissatisfaction towards tie humble pots of labor for which he is fitted, He is told that @ should not only control the destinies of a great Union at the ballot box, but is eminently gifted, without knowing the alphabet from a steam engine, to frame and organize the laws of a le whose statesmanship 1s enriched with the experience of four thousand years, and believes he can spin out conatitutions equally as well as split rails. Nor will he work for ten dollars per month wheu he one per day as a framer of constitur called, Both addresses Were enthusiastically applauded, In the race for a purse of $200 Harvey's Fiyaway beat Paxon’s American Star, Time, and 2:46, Bradshaw's Virginia Girl beat Crampton’s Benicia Boy and Harvey’s Ploughboy in 8:06 and 3:09—fifty dollars premium for best gentlemen’s ditving hor: J. W. Matiory, of New York, wusear ed committed to jail for picking the pocket of Stanley of $250, EUROPE. The Fronch transatlantic mail steamship Pereire, Captain Duschene, from Havre the 8th and Brest the 10th of October, arrived at this port yesterday even- ing atter an excellent voyage, bringing a report in detail of our cable telegrams dated to the last named day, as late as the mails on board the Cunard steam- ship Russia from Liverpool. Constantinople papers to the 30th of September have come to hand by way of Paris. The Levant Herald writes as follows on the ministerial changes consequent on the absence of Fuad Pacha:— The even temporary retirement of Fuad Pacha from the councils of his sovereign cannot but be gen- erally and.deeply regretted both in the East and the West, as well on account of the loss to the states- manship of the empire and, we may say, to the diplomacy of Europe, at a not uncritical juncture, aa on personal grounds for its cause—a protracted ill- ness which has at length utterly incapacitated bis Highness from contluuing to discharge those impor- tant and onerous services Which he has rendered to the State for many years past with such conspicuous ability, tact and amenity, 5 ‘The death is announced at Montpellier of Colonel Dupin, whose dashing conduct ia command of the French counter-guerilia formed one of the most tell- ing episodes of the late Mexican campaign. M. Guizot completed his elghty-secoud year on the 6th of October. Within the last few days, says Galignant’s Messen- gev’ of the 16th instant, several papers have been cir- culating a statement to the etfect that Count Walew- ski left his heirs a large fortune. We have reason to believe that the deceased statesman died in very moderate circumstances. It 1s true that the Em- peror gave him a large estate in the Landes, but ex- tensive works have to be carried out before the pro-' perty, which has never brought in anything, can sup- ply his heirs with the legitimate income which the Emperor wished to secure to the honest man whose tenure of the highest positions were never turned to account to increase his fortune. The hotel In the Avenue Montaigne is not by any means the vast mansion that is represented; it is a simall private house, very tastefully bust at Count Walewski’s own expense. As regards the tivo other estates, one is a small country house at St. Germain-cu-Laye, the other a very modest chalet on the bauks of the Lake of Geneva, near Evian. SPAIN. Carlist Renunciation of the Throne, The foltowing is the text of the renunciation of a Henry the Infante Don Carlos of the Spanish throne, dated Paris, Octol it is to Bay, the prosperity of my beloved by abdicate ali my rights to the Crown of Spain in favor ber 3, 1865:— na, no ambition except for tie welfare of oy Ae its prestige abroad—[ consider it uty to abdicate, and these presents I do ot e,. well-loved son, Don Carlos de Bourbon and * JUAN DE BOURBON ET DE BRAGANZA. Marshal Serrano’s Cabinct Manifesto. The Madrid Gazette publishes the following pro- clamation from Marshal Serrano, Captain Geueral of the Army, to whom the Junta confided on the 3d of October the formation of a provisional govern- eat:— SraNiARDSs—Invested with the supreme power and ch: to form a government which is to rule the country until it shall itself be definitively constt- tuted, I have the ee and honor of announcing to the le of Madrid and Spain that | proceed immediately to fulfil the duty which the country has entrusted to me. Men identified with the revolution will compose the provisional government. Let tran- quillity continue, let confidence not be weakened, nor the iicent spectacle admired by Europe be interru} . The wi and discipline of the entire ariny, its fraternization with the people and tie patriotism of ail will complete the revolutionary work by avoiding at once the impulsion of the reac- tion and the discredit of disturbances. MADRID, Oct. 4, DUKE DE LA TORRE. Serrano’s Speech to the People, ‘The foliowiug is the text of the speech by Marshal Serrano, from the balcony of the ed in Madrid ow te day of his entry lato the capi- PEOPLE OF MApnID:—The revolutio: umphed, thanks to the patriotism of the navy, the edforts of the army, (0 the civic virtaes aud judgmens of the people, and above ali to tie aid of Divine Providence. The national rising was just, and the Almighty has given strength to our aris to over. come the tyrants wio were oppressing us. The rev- olution has so far only Coy yeen its first stage. ‘To be consolidated completely in order Urat it may bear the fruits we have reason to expect, great sacriices and great virtues are necessary. Seif: % egotis- tical tendencies and exciusivenesa, of wislever nature it may be, would be fatal to us. Let ua be guided by tie sacred love of couniry; tus be inspired by the recollection of our glorious traditions; let us remember that Spain nation of St. Quentin, of 1908, of 1554, a. only to contribute ourselves @ liltle to hor gi completely change the aspect of tat gener country, 80 worthy of a bet! out to you the path of liberty fidence, but ia advancing with pruden out for one moment departing from the o y of the laws. We shall be the first to r+ 1 and we feei confident that you will follow our ex ample; let each man do his duty; confidence will be reciprocal, and the whole of Europe wiil see that the people, said to be so degraded, is able to give ational ull the have 13 fate, We will point foliow it iu all con- and Ww lessons of patriotism and grandeur to ail tio nations of the Do not forget that Iiberty must he accomplished by order; those two principles mutually supporting cach other render tinpossitie all aon. ihove or below. Tpcomse you that Individual ri sl scrupulously respected, and that all py and ‘economical, administrative or political interests shall be ted and favored by us who represent the revolt 'y Movement. As sincere patriots we must unite together, and you will seo within the sphere of the goverument men so intelligent, 80. a it and mated with such bop your favor will not be able to abstain from aiding and them. — Eugenie’s Mother and the New Fia.:. (From the Paris Constitutionnel, Oct. 10.) The J Of Madrid, has stated that one of tha fret banners hoisted in Madria was a ayes from the mansion belongs. to ihe Cort. ess the mother of the press, ‘The ex- } countess ia in the coun. the revolutionary Junta of the quarter, house, hang out its of October 7, states that the Junta has received the cons residing in the capl- tal. That in 1 ly —An opportun!ty having occurred for the two ren com ‘tac! Mfaty be assui that Spain sympathize ons, While the Junta hopes that (is Bisonk selton ‘Will Ond in the Italian people a faiti- ful friend of liberty. English Neutrality. (From the Memoria! Diplomatique, of Paris, ce a A rumor bas been in circulation that Le Pi ord overnmicnt had interfered actively 1 polit vo the fall of Queen Isabella, fa favor of & princely ete didate. We believe we can state, on fhe ie tak that trom the first day sit Jolin Cramptou, 4 ti resentative of Angland, received fom Lon . rind instructions to abstaia wholly from any intervention in spanioh aitairs

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