The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. No. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENT NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Epwin OTEBLLO. (ain, Ha. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18h street. Masas anv Faces. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Crinson Sureip; on, | Closed at 13574 a 136. Nvuras OF THE RAINBOW. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 23d stroet.—La GRANDK DUCHEASE DB GKROLSTZIN. Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- RABANT. YRENCH THEATRE, nue,—GENEXIEVE DE WEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.--T: 0) mat way.-Tu@ DRAMA OF | greenbacks will do. ysuest as | The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office at NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, two other oMoers arrived. till this morning. b Henry Stanclif, a.comminsion merchant, tivingon | TPUblicans in the late Pennsylvania election. Twenty-aecond street, was arrested yesterday and And what to these men is Seymour, or Blair, comunitted to the Tombs on a charge of having | Or any other candidate, if they see that they paige horae blankets, worth $75, two years | will lose money on him if kept in the field and ago. Itis said he confessed the thet. A The’ Americas’ Jaobt Sappho; ‘Captain "Baldwin, save thousands of money if he is act aside in sated from Cowes, England, on the 7th mst, for | 8Ving their bots? As for the newspaper gyp- New York, and arrived «! Falmouth on the next day. sies and Bohemians concerned, they, too, like anne German Lioyd’s steamship Deutschland, | our model Aldermen, are always ‘‘on the Wessels, will leare Hoboken about tW | make,” But is this subordination to the fra- clock P, bl o M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen, ternity of ec amsall thing in tha di dation of the party press? twelve o'clock M. The stock market was unsettied yesterday. Gov- ernment securities were without improvement. Geid Tho San Francisco Earthquake. Yesterday morning at seven minutes before The democratic insurgents ar@ still urging their a plan fore change of front, with, however, & modifica- eight o'clock the great seaport of our western tion of the original programme. Seymour ts to be | Coast, San Francisco, was visited by a terrible oar tanatboer wae rape hepoiges dese to | earthquake. All that portion of the city east + in order to carry Pennsyl- | of Montgomery street is greatly dilapidated, ani vanin, which they assert Packer's popularity and | Vi not a single building in the Golden City Our or Tux BTEEx: oa but bas suffered more or less damage. The wiu New Fratusts, “oMws-HeMerr DeMrrt, | The Movement to Set Aside Heymour and | full extent of the calamity cannot, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tue New Deas Blair—The Gamblers Bohind the Scenes. of course, be so soon known, although ov L'AuiMe—THGICH MARRIED. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place,—rsrivat 1x Atv | of squaring the circle or what became of the Ov THB ROMAN CATHOLIC ORvHAN ASYLUM, BRYANTS’ OPRRA AOUSE, Tantmany Building, Mth street.—BEHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, 4O., LUCKETIA BORGIA, KELLY & BEON'S MINSTRELS, 790 Broadway.—Ermo- PIAN MUNSTRELSY, BURLESQUE, 46.—-Guanp Dutoa * BAK FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ErH10- PiaW BNTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANGING, &C. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comtc Vooa.isM, NEGRO MINGTRELST, &c. THPATPRE COMIQUE. 514 Broadway.Trm Great O21- GIWAL LINGAkD AND VAUDBVILLE Company. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and jroadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. ALL, 38d street, corner of Bighth TEERNICON, PIKE'S MUSIC avenue -MOEvor's APOLLO HALL, Twenty-cighth atreet 4 Broadway.— James TAYLOR, THR GERAT LONDON Co: NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteehth street.—EQumarRian AND GYMMASTIO ENTRETAIN MENT, GREAT EUROPEAN CIRCUS, corner Broadway and sth .-EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNASTIC PERFORMANCES. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— ‘Tauee GuaRDeMEN. one despatch states that a million dollara will cover it all; but numbers of lives are known to be lost. Some buildings in the made part of the city sunk a depth of several inches, and cracka were made out of which columns of water were shot up many feet. Business was suspended and intense excitement prevailed, and the whole population betook themselves to the streets, All the clocks were stopped at the hour mentioned above, and the telegraph wires ceased their working during the shocks. We are surprised that no sea bore accompanied the shocks; had such « visitor entered the Golden Gate the damage to the shipping would have been incalculable. The puzzle of perpetual motion, the problom ten lost tribes of Israel are questions not more difficult of solution than the late factious move- ment in the democratic camp against Seymour and Blair upon any presumption of party ex- pediency. The proposition was put forth simul- taneously from a copperhead journal in New York and a copperhead journal in Washing- ton, and was so promptly responded to by sev- eral copperhead journals in New Orleans, Richmond and elsewhere in the South and Wert as to suggest a common understanding among them all. The reasons advanced for the motion to cast Seymour and Blair over- board and to try # new ticket headed by Chase One account states that the vibrations of would have been somewhat plausible, with a | this earthquake were from northwest to south- margin of two or three months of time to work | ¢ast, whereas another affirms that they were upon; but coming forth within three short | from east to west. The two accounts weeks of the Presidential election, the propo- differ but two minutes as to the hour of the sition naturally excited among the honest | shocks. If we accept the notion that obtains democratic masses suspicions of lunacy against | in South America, that earthquakes are felt the guilty parties or ot treachery, bribery and | only in the regions of volcanoes or immediately HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.-—-Hoourr's MinetaaLs—TuRN Hin Our. ” BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, corner of Atlantic and Clin- ton ste.—THR STRREOPTIVON. ALLEMANTA HALL, No. 18 Kast Sixteoath st.—Leo- oi TA HALL, ast Sixteoath st.—Lro. UM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, Octeber 22, 1568. MISCELLANEOUS. A terrible earthquake visited San Francisco, Cal., yesterday morning about eight o'clock. The shocks were tremendous and the vibrations were prolonged. corruption. connected therewith, it would seem more The reasons assigned for this absurd and | likely that the shocks came from north- suicidal movement were that General Blair's | west than from east. Several volcanic Brodhead letter had ‘‘played the very devil” | vents are known to occur along the with the democratic party in the late Pennsyl- | coast range, but their size, in comparison vania, Obio and Indiana elections; that but | with those of Peru and Ecuador, would not for Blair and that fatal letter the democracy | warrant so great a shock as the one yesterday ight have carried at least Pennsylvania and | morning. We make these remarks to call the Indiana; that Blair was the deadweight | attention of the scientific men resident in San that broke the party down in October, | Francisco to the thorough investigation of this and would certainly, unless removed, break | calamity and its probable origin. Let our it up in November. It had therefore become | army and navy officers especially take the animperative necessity to cut off Blair and | matter in hand. Both corps have done noble substitute a man perfectly clear of his damag- | service in the cause of acionce, and here is a ing heresies. But to ‘‘make assurance doubly | chance for adding new lustre to the regular ‘The case was adjourned | erable money, they say, by belting on tho sure” in this change of front it was further proposed to substitute Chase for Seymour in army and navy. Earthquakes have been com- mon for centuries in other countries, and yet The portion of the city east of Montgomery street is | order to gain over the conservative balance of | we know nothing of their causes. Let not the completely wrecked, some buildings having fallen entirely, others being rent from foundation to roof, and others still having sunk several inches. There has been some loss of life, but how much isnot known. The shocks were felt all through the State. Governor Seymour made his firat speech of the canvass at Rochester last evening. Advices are received from China to the 15th of September and Japan to the 2d of October. The name of Jeddo, the capital of Japan, has been changed to Toakel, which signifies the Eastern Cap- ital, Negate had been bombarded by two vessels ‘pelonging to the confederate Daimios and the palace at Nagasaki was totally destroyed. The Prussian Chargé a’Affaires had demanded reparation for a gross insult offered him by a native escort of the power from the repyblican camp. In short, some great event was needed to challenge at once the public attention and divert the our- rent of public condemnation from Blair and his obnoxious letter to the shortcomings of the radicals, and nothing would suffice to do this but the change of the democratic ticket from Seymour and Blair to Chase and Hancock, or Chase and Hendricks, or Chase and Johnson, or Johnson and Chase, or something of that sort. Such was the demand made upon the Na- tional Democratic Committee and such the Amorican savans wait so long. At all events, get the authentic data while the event is fresh. Seymour te the Rescue—Salting the Birds. The case is desperate and Seymour himself is called to the rescue. He made a little speech last night at Syracuse, where he stopped for salt, in which little speech he drew the democratic gospel mildly. He hoped that whoever shall win in this political struggle the result may be such as to elevate and restore the honor of our government—evidently re- garding such a consequence as possible, even Minister of Foreign Affairs. An Americanom™cer be- | reasons submitted for it by the copperhead | if Grant be elected. This is so mild that peo- Jonging to the Oneida had been killed at Hioga while organs concerned. A change of commanders ple will wonder if he is not in fact with- io 8 drunken scuMe with the Mikado’s officers. An American citizen named Gilmore, formerly a sea- man on board the Hermaun, but latterly, according to the Japan Gazette, a loafer about Yokohama, died iu the streets on the morning of August 21. Ross Browne, the American Minister, arrived at Shanghae, China, on the 15th of September. The English newspapers were bitter against Mr. Burlin- game and his mission. An anti-forcign riot had occurred at Yung Chow, and the tissionery prem- tses were burned. The English Consul immediately demanded and, it is said, received reparation. Cap- tato Johnston, of the British gunboat Bustard, had vombarded the city of Choochi for some small of- fence against free traders with his vessel. Intelligence from Mazatlan and Colina, Mexico, to the Sth inst. 1s received by way of San Francisco, ‘The people were excited over General Rosecran’s mission, as they understood he is instructed to en- force @ protectorate. Genera! Canto claims that the murder of Patont was committed by private orders from the supreme government, Patoni’s friends in Durango had pronounced for Santa Anna, having heard that he was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico. Lozada is sirengthening bis position. Four divisions of the army are to be ordered against him. A Chinese doctor, who killed @ patient in at- tempting to cure him of rheumatism, bas been un- prisoned for murder. Mall reports from Peshawur, India, dated the 20th of August, announce that at seven o'clock that morning Peshawur was visited by an earthquake, Is was at first gentle, but afterwa One bastion of the Baia-Hissar aud one gateway were shaken down. The sentries and chowkeydars raised agreat cry. Three of them were buried beneath the wall, but were yet alive. In the city, towers and walla, especially old structures, fell in numerous in- stances, but no lives were iost. General Reynolds, commanding in Texas, has called an election in three counties of the State for a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. In an order of instruction to the registers the General directs them to permit no one connected with the re- bellion oMictally to vote, whether pardoned specially or by general amnesty, unless he shall have had his disabilities removed by act of Congress, The Post Office Department has formally made ar- rangements with Wells, Fargo & Co. to carry the overiand mail between the termini of the Pacific Railroad until a junction is made, The roads it t* confidently thought will be compieted within # year’s tine, ‘The Louisiana Legistature has adjourned sine die, Seven fishermen were drowned tn Boston harbor during the gale on Saturday. THs CITY. In the Episcopal Convention yesterday Lie order of the day was the election of a missionary bishop for Oregon and Washington ‘Territory, Dr. B. W. Mor. | ris, of Pennsylvania, was nominated by the House | | forthwith and a change of base were the only things that could save the party from a crush- ing defeat in November. Mr. Belmont was right when he said in reply that a change of the ticket under the circumstances was imprac- ticable—yea, impossible—and if made ‘‘would be equivalent to disbanding our forces.” The prime movera, however, involved in the scheme, we may safely assume, cared nothing for this. They doubtless expected that the promulgation of the proposition from several democratic papers at once, and [rom the cliques bebind them, would create such consternation in the general camp as to compel Mr. Belmont and his committee to change the ticket at all hazards. But why should these disturbing cliques be so desperate, clamorous and per- sistent in this project if they cared avthing for the consequences ? We think we can answer this question. ‘These men were not bought to do this thing by the ‘bloated bondholders,” nor by republican money. The republicans all along felt too sure of their game to waste their greonbacks ia any such useless investments. Bat we have no doubt that the sporting circles, the ancient York, Washington, Cincinnati, Richmond and New Orleans, did this thing. How and why? We remember a story of the Baltimore Demo- cratic Convention of 1852. While the Conven- tion was blindly hammering away upon Cass, Buchanan, Douglas, Marcy, Houston, Lane, Dickinson and others, an outsider remarked to a friend, “it's no use, old fogies. All the heavy gamblers of the United States are in town, and they are all for Douglas first, and second for any young man against any old fogy.” And this is the power from which this anti-Seymour and Blair movement has ema- nated—the democratic fraternity of gamblers. They have their headquarters and their news- paper lacqueys in Washington, New York and in other places. They are in the whiskey rings, the tobacco rings and all the other rings. They had made heavy bets upon these | late October elections, which they lost; but | they had heavier bets depending upon Sey- mour aud Blair, on the geveral result and on New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indians Of Bishops, and afier @ stient prayer the Convention | in the grand November election. Their Octo voted iy ballot, unanimously The errs Commitive on Christian Banat nq | ber losses they might stand, but their bets for importan report, Which was made a special order | November of the same character would awamp P iY order for to-day. Reports from commuitiees on the inem- | them, and there was no help for them but in ciency of clerical were received. ‘There was quite a large meeting last evening in st Ann’s church, in West Eighteenth @treet, near Pitty avenue, of bishops, clergymen and others of Episcopal Church favoring the free an support and the provincial aystem movement, Addresses in fa of it wel eliveret by Bishops Quintard, of Tennessee; Armitage, of Wisconsin; Neely, of Maine, and Whipple, of Minne sola. Robert McCready, # sergeant of (he Metropolitan Police, was atraigned before Judge Barnard vee terday for alleged assault and battery ip club- bing and otherwise beating one Micliael Banst, a German saloon keeper on Third atreet, whom he was trying to arrest on,the might of September 23. The prosecution gave evidence to show that Baust was knocked (own and beaten by McCready and another oMficer in an affray about politics. The defence showed that Baust and his frienis were wetting the best of the fight, when the withdrawal of Seymour and Blair. | the movement to get this ticket set which would set aside all bets made apon it or upon either of these candidates This, we dare say, is the avorot of this anti Seymour and Blair movement, and here we | have a glimpse of the parties behind the scones, This explanation, too, is coherent and consis tent throughout. It presents an object in large amounts of ¢ash, to be saved simply with the withdrawal of Seymour and Blair—an object which has nothing to do with the consequences to the party. Tho democratic sporting gontle- men go into a Presidential contest as they go into the business of a Taro bank or & keno table, They go into win. Thus the Hon. Jobn Morrissey, ® good derverst, won consid- Hetioe drawn. But that cannot be, as he is to go on with his stumping. He will be at Buffalo this evening, and thence will stump it to the end of the battle, striking out boldly from Buffalo into Pennsylvania to rouse up the sluggish democ- racy in that quarter. His great strength is on the finances ; but whether he will henceforward take the side of the “bloated bondholders,” as | he did the day before the meeting of the Tam- many Convention, or go the whole Pendleton and Ben Butler greenback theory of the Tam- many platform, we cannot tell. It seems to be understood that General Blair is to keep out of sight of Seymour, and, according to Bel- mont’s proclamation, being entirely ignored therein, Blair is expected to be off or be mum. Mums's the word, General. You have already said as much as the Governor can unsay this side the election, and if you pile on more be will have to give it up as a hope- less job. Remember, democrats, Seymour in the foreground and Blair in the background. Keep him back and keep him still, He preaches the democratic gospel, but he scares off the shy republicans. Seymour is the boy to put salt on the birds’ tails, for that is the is very violent. | .nq powerful fraternity of gamblers of New way to catch them. And so he has gone forth by way of the Syracuse Salt Works for a good supply of salt. Democratic Excuses and Kxplanations—A Hint to General Blair. The pronunciamiento of Mr. Belmont to the democracy of the United States in behalf | of Horatio Seymour is rather a lame excuse for the present forlorn condition of the party ; } but the most curious feature about the docu- ment is its reticence concerning General Blair. It exalts Seymour to the skies, but says never a word about Blair. Is this a hint to the General that his company is nolonger wanted ? | Is he to understand Mr. Belmont as pointing at the door ? Next we have a manifesto of Mr.. Tilden to the New York democracy, from which we see that he isa great democratic arithmetician, who figured up such glorious democratic gains in Vermont aad Maine, but who was struck dumb as an oyster for about a week after the Penn- sylvania, Ohio and Indiana elections. The ex- tions of this present manifesto give us some additional examples of cipher- vatem of Mother Gooae: } cuses and expla Damaces can be re vl from parties who block up the streets with rubbish, brick piles, old stones and so j forth, cutting off the sidewalks from pedes- trians who have a legal right of thoroughfare there, and damaging horseflesh to a ruinous extent? The statutes and ordinances pre- seribe the damages affixed to this groan viola- tion of law, but no one seems disposed to press a charge or obtain an Indictment, What are the street inspectors doing? What is the Jorporation Attorney—whose special duty it is to proseoute cases of obstructing the streets— attending to, that this great nuisance gannok be comoved? AMOUNT oF fiat cor x OCTOBER 2%, 1868,—TRIPLK SHKET. The Speech of Mr, Motley. The speech of Mr. Motley before the Parker Fraternity in Boston on Tuesday night was reported in full yesterday by the Hega.p. It Is the first political speech ever made by the illustrious historian of the Dutch repub- lic and of the great Protestant struggle in the Netherlands. Notwithstanding the sneers of certain copperhead journals, Mr. Motley is no less thoroughly conversant with the history of his own country and government than with that of foreign nations. As United States Minister at Vienna ho proved himself to be an able diplomatist. Occupied in the closet not with elegant literary pursuits alone, but chiefly with the most difficult problems of history, philosophy and practical statesman- ship, he is eminently well qualified to address his fellow citizens on the live and palpitating topics of the day. What a man of his superior mental discipline and culture says is surely entitled to respectful consideration. His maiden political speech isa lucid and masterly exposition of his opinions in refer- ence to ‘‘the four questions for the people at the Presidential election :”—Whether the wilt of the American people, constitutionally ex- pressed, is the law of the land? Whether in the United States all mou are endowed with aqual rights? Whether it is just and reasona- ble to pay our debts or to repudiate them? Whether economy and constitutional purity of administration will, on the whole, be best se- cured by the election of Mr. Seymour or of General Grant? Whatever difference may exist, even among: members of the republican party, asto some of the financial theories of Mr. Motley, intelligent men of all parties must admire the lofty and patriotic point of view from which his histori- cal studies and his prolonged absence from the heated and noisy confusion of actual political conflict enable him calmly to survey the whole field of observation. Without entering into a minute analysis of his speech it will suffice to aay th..« Mr. Motley expresses his belief that the results of our late civil war have incontrovertibly proved that the United States are a nation, and not merely a “something called a confederacy; a league of corporations; a system which proved fatal to the only great republic which has preceded our own in modern times—that of the United Netherlands.” He is not terrified by the bug- bear of a consolidated, centralised tyrannical power, nor by that other bugbear of negro su- premacy. He insists upon the binding obliga- tions of the reconstruction laws and upon the validity of the public debt. In conclusion, he Iavishes all the resources of his rich and forci- ble rhetoric upon an incomparable eulogy of General Grant and Schuyler Colfax as candi- dates for the highest offices within the gift of the Amprican people. In the course of his speech Mr. Motley pre- sents a vivid picture of the contrast between the horribly cruel reprisals which have fol- lowed every European civil war and the ex- traordinary lenity of the United States gov- ernment towards the conquered rebels of the South. He indulges in no fanatical preju- dices in favor of universal suffrage. Indeed, he is manifestly opposed to it, and is in favor of qualified suffrage—of ‘‘an educational suf- frage for the whole population, whatever may be its colors.” At the same time he doubts “whether, in present circumstances, any better way of protecting the freedman in his civil rights can be found than by giving him the vote.” And he here repeats the somewhat Jesuitical maxim, ‘“‘the end justifies the means.” The part of Mr. Motley's elaborate speech which is Ukely to exert the most immediate and the most widespread influence is his elo- quent eulogy of General Grant as a candidate for the Presidency. ‘‘Iam,” he exclaims, ‘‘no hero worshipper, and it has always seemed to me that the true hero of this most importanc epoch in our history is the American people. Whatever was greatest and best throughout the war was done by the people. And it is exactly because General Graat is a singular embodiment of many of the most prominent characteristics and best virtues of that people that he seems the fittest man to be chosen our Chief Magistrate.” Almost all the signs of the times foretoken that the American people will enthusiastically endorse at the coming Presi- dential election the deliberate estimate which Mr. Motley, a profound student of human uature as well as of history, has set upon one of the greatest generals of the age. Affairs in Wall Street. Affairs in Wall street look rather squally just now. On Monday there was a heavy decline in railway shares, and government securities partially sympathized with the | downward movement and its main cause, | which is artificial monetary activity. A strong | combination has been formed to make money tight and to break down prices on the Stock Exebange, and so far as railway shares are concerned considerable success has already attended the efforts of the conspiracy. Most of these stocks are selling 40 much above their real value and they have recently advanced so rapid- ly that it is not surprising that some of thein should now be tumbling about the ears. of their owners; but government securities are comparatively cheap and there is no good rea- son why they should decline, contidence in the public credit having been greatly strengthened by the result of the elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska, while a powerful impetns has been imparted to the investment demand in consequence, and we predict a sharp upward reaction for them as soon ae the money market becomes easier. A decline in the market for the speculative stocks will have rathar a salutary effect than otherwise: but this furnishes no justification ‘of the conduct of the members of the com- | bination referred to, who are deserving of severe punishinen nd it is to be regretted that our laws cannot tonch sach conspirators against the publie welfare, They have already, it is ascertained, withdrawn be tween seven and eight millions of cur reney from circulation sinee Monday morn- ing, and it is reported that they will try to withdraw several millions more, thus aggravating the scarcity of lownable funds, Under these circumstances it seems to we the duty of the banks to relax their rule of not encroaching upon their legal reserve aml defeat the combination by lending freely at seven per cent. The most { that the Oomptroller of the Gurrancy could do = ao dhe «anal Rent Sn ae a mene aren Seer Soe under such circumstances would be to notify the banks short of their reserve of the defi- ciency, following which they would have at least thirty days in which to make it good before any penalties could fall upon them, and, meanwhile, public opinion would justify them in the course they pursued. Should the banks not see fit to act upon this recommendation the bear com- bination will make capital out of the distress occasioned by the difficulty of borrowing the funds necessary for carrying stocks; and the effects of stringency are not confined in such cases to Wail street alone, but extend more or less to the business of the entire country. But in any event the extreme pressure of yesterday cannot last more than a day or two longer, and the knowledge that it is artificial disarms it of half its terrors. Tho Lozada Campaign in Mexico. The vews received from Colima via San Francisco, published in to-day’s Hexaxp, is important. It shows that the government of President Juarez is straining every nerve to put in the field a force unmistakably strong enough in numbers to dislodge the Indian chief Lozada from hig stronghold at Tepic, where be is reported to have about fifteen thousand well appointed men under his com- mand, The States of Durango, Sinaloa, Ja- lisco and Querétaro have been summagned to furnish all their spare men to fill up four divi- sions for the approaching campaign, which will begin whenever the sickly season of the terra caliente shall have passed. These heavy de- mands for men, it seems, Rave aroused much discontent with the government. This ill-feel- ing might have been expected to show itself, in Jalisco especially, at the first opportunity, since the impeachment of Governor Cuervo for his action in putting down bandits. How- ever, the determination of the government to suppreas Lozada seems to be so firm that with an officer like General Ra- mon Corona at the head of the expedi- tion it fs difficult to see how this Tepic rebellion can end differently from the Yucatan and Puebla insurrections that were put down by General Ignacio Altamirano. Lozada made a mistake in not forcing matters in his own favor while the government had its hands full in Vera Cruz, Puebla, Querfaro and in the Valley. That portion of the news referring to fli- bustering makes the affair look, however, as if outsiders have a hand or money in the matter, and the report that General Leonardo Marquez had arrived at San Blas with a fighting party almost brands the Lozada movement as 4 part of Santa Anna’s late revolutionary scheme. The reference to the encouragement of filibus- tering might he passed over did it not afford an opportunity to state that the American government cannot and will not encourage any such undertakings to obtain either the northern frontier States or any other portion of Mexico. Ifthe good order and peace of this Continent require the annexing of that republic to our own it must be done through legal war or purchase, And prudence dictates that our government await the information which our new Minister to Mexico, General Rosecrans, will be able to transmit after he shall have had ‘an opportunity to become familiar with the state of that distracted republic. From our Mazatlan despatch it will be seen that the idea prevails there that Minister Rose- crans’ mission has for aim to place a protecto- rate over Mexico and obtain a cession of its northwestern section. Such reports are cal- culated to confirm the notion that such a pro- tectorate and cession are desired by the in- habitants of that part of the republic. The Mexican people, however, cannot but look upon the appointment of General Rosecrans as the best assurance on the part of the United States that the cause of legal authority, law, order and the interests of both republics will be fairly supported. Wade Hampton Dodges. There is a man out in Wisconsin who does not understand Wade Hampton's position ‘as to the issues, results and consequences of the war,” and who has a notion that there is a “‘wide- spread misrepresentation” on this momentous subject. He accordingly has called upon the dis- tinguished son of South Carolina, by letter, to come out and ease the mind of Wisconsin and the nation by telling his political hopes and fears. This certainly is not complimentary to those speeches in which Hampton thought he made himself sufficiently clear. Nevertheless, he has come out. Southern men never refuse to come out. He informs Wisconsin that the issues involved {n the war were secession and slavery, that both are forever done with, and he is glad of it. As to the declaration that certain laws of Congress are ‘unconstitutional, revolutionary and void,” he does not boast so much in this letter as he did in the speech he made at Columbia soon after his return home from the Democratic Convention. On the con- trary, he is rather disposed to deprecate the readiness of radical journals to accord him all the honor due to the authorship of that phrase. He takes it as quite unkind that they should believe all he said about it in his first speech and refuse to believe what he has said about it since, and hopes that the North will learn to confide more in the honor of the South. THK ALABAMA CLAIMS—ARBITRATION BY gre Evrxnor or Russta.*-It is reported in London that the differences pending between the United States and England relative to the Alabama claims are to be referred to the Emperor of Russia for arbittament. We do not know what foundation there is for this | report, though it appears to be regarded of sufficient importance to be telegraphed to this country. Now, if there should be any arbitra- mont at all inthe matter, the Emperor Alex- ander would be probably the best and fairest arbitrator. He is friendly enough to the United States to see that justice be done to us and independent and hovorable enough not to do injustice to England. But why arbitrate at all? [tis a simple question of a bill of jnst domands, and the shortest and best way to aettlo it isto pay the money. We hope Mr. Reverdy Johngon is not going to yield under the pressure of British palaver. Whar ts Reoorper Hackert going to do about the obstructions in the streets to which he drew the attention of the Grand Jury? We hope he is not going to let the matter rest there. From his previous position in the service of the Corporation he must be posted in all the points of law relative to thip matter, and knows how to deal with it, The Eucumbrance of Public Theroughfaree, At the opening of the present term of the Court of General Sessions Mr. Recorder Haokett in his charge to the Grand Jury especially directed the attention of that inqui- sitorial body to the undue encumbrance by builders and contractors of the sidewalks and roadways of our public thoroughfares. While admitting that owners of property enjoyed ® certain limited right to the use of the streets, or portions of them, when engaged in works of construction, repair or alteration of their premises, he observed that this privi- lege, which had been wisely bestowed, was subject to gross abuse by the builders, and that no adequate remedy existed in the hands of the municipal authorities, from the fact that the police was beyond their control. There are, however, many of these breaches of per- mission which are indictable, and the power of the police to remove the obstructions to a proper place and assess the cost of removal upon the owners of the property, was con- ferred by section twenty-five of the act of 1864, amendatory of the Metropolitan Police District act. Such being the law, there can exist no reason why some measures should not be al onca adopted to abate these nuisances, which are evidently, to any person enjoying the sense of sight, becoming daily more intolerable aud audacious. For the past year Fifth avenue, the boast of New York in point of the architecture, taste and magnificence of its residences, has been outrageously ob- structed at its northerly extremity, but par- ticularly so from the vicinity of Fortieth street to Fiftieth street. That portion of this thoroughfare is actually rendered un- sightly by the huge mounds of brick, mortar, sand and stone that lie promiscuously about or cover the sidewalks, and in most instances extend over one-third of the roadway. Where, as often occurs, buildings are being erected om directly opposite sides of the avenue the ac- tual passage left for vehicles is so narrow that there is ‘danger of collision when carriages attempt to pasa.each other in these gorges, end pedestrians, too, frequently are compelled to cross to the other side or walk in the centre of the carriage way to avoid sinking ankle deep in sand or plaster or running the risk of falling into area excavations and stumbling’ and perhaps breaking their. limbs over blocks of stone and piles of brick. And apart from these personal risks, the defacement of this elegant and much travelled avenue is a matter of public concern. There is no justice in the act of individuals who, while embellishing and enhancing the value of their own property, thus mar the beauties of property upon which large outlays have been made to render it attractive. In Paris, Vienna, Berlin and other European capitals, distinguished for their ele- gance and neatness, such a state of things would not be tolerated for a day; yet here, in the metropolis of America, these things fasten themselves for years as eyesores upon the community. We call the attention of the Grand Jury | particularly to this branch of the charge by the court, and refer them especially, in common with other localities, to the portion of Fifth avenue above spoken of, assured that in the enforcement of the trusts and duties to the people confided in them they will not fail to make en example which shall result to the benefit of our citizens and to the credit aad taste of the city at large. A Policeman tm a Coart of Justice. While we have hittle fault to find with the police generally, and have a good many reasons to be satisfied with our well balanced Board of Commissioners, there are cases in which we do not regret to see members of the force made amenable to the law, like other citizens, when they step beyond the bounds of duty. Such a case was that of patrolman Callory, who was condemned in the Marine Court to pay 4 fine and costs amounting to sixty-six dollars for using unnecessary cruelty to a woman while making an arrest. There is too much of this kind of violence practised by the police. In some instances the use of the club may be found necessary for self-protection or to enforce obedience, but surely not upon a woman. This case of Callory may suggest to people who are maltreated by the police that a court of justice is the proper place to make their com- plaint if they want swift justice rather thae before the Police Commissioners. It remains now for the Commissioners to decide whether an officer adjudged guilty of such an offence by one of our courts is @ fit person to rotaim his position on the force. We should regard the ruling of Judge Curtis as testimony ipso facto that the accused party is not qualified by temper or discretion for the important dutice required of a member of the police force. Trovnie tN CrinaA.—There are some inte- resting points in the news from China relating to the proposed changes in the matter of inter- course between the Middle Kingdom and the outside world. First we hear from the British press in China growls of dissatisfaction with the Burlingame treaty, because by that treaty China makes no new concession. Next we have a Chinese row ‘“‘against foreigners”—a sort of Chingse Know Nothing demonstration — and then comes in that ever ready figure, a Britieh man-of-war, demanding reparation. All very pretty. When we rememsber that the London Zines set forth the fact that if Kng- land were likely to lose by Burlingame treaties she cotld at any moment get ap @ war and take possession of the country, we inay look with some suapicion on the origin of disturb- ances that so veadily introduce British mea+ of-war. Me. Giapsroxe’s Eneerion Sppitess. —The address of Mr. W. K. Gladstone to the electors of Southwest Lancashive, seeking the honor of representing them in the reformed Parlia- ment of Great Britaio, which we publish in ertenso to-day, ombracea the political platform of the radical reformers of England. As an able party leader, he joins issue temperately, yet squarely, with Mr. Disraeli, while as a British progressist he gives encour- aging hope to the people ia the significant line: —“Rest as we are, by -ommon consent, we cannot, Duxjoxsreation or TH WAR Demoorara,— The ‘weather last night waa rather rough om tha war democrats, and prevyonted the im- mense open air meeting that was counted, upon ; but there was 4 goodly gathering inside, Cooyer Lustitute that very onthasiastioallg® af ‘