The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1868, Page 4

—_—Ssese semi a enamine malnnmnNnnmlann aii 4 NEW’ YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. ae 3 T R ALAS 1A confidence tn the Ministry was proposed and car- COLOMBIA | SANDWICH ISLANDS. RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SOUTH. doabtfu, 8 mach for eeonstruotion on a fraudulent route vis Torres Straits and the northern are soNRRE AU s const of Australias belug agitated, and irisprovubie | ‘The ateamer Rising Star, Captain Maury, from | Subsidence of the Southeastern Shore of Conavenious see Benet sna Oe are te ner eee in Texas? that the Queensland government will determme to | Aspinwall Octobver 14, arrived at this port yesterday. Hawali—The Land Gene Dewan Several Four Gress mere fleabite, except im the matter of expense, enone grant @ subsidy to any company that may choose to foto : Southora States—Its Abject and Miserable | that a puny, of national recon- caper ‘The following is the specie list per Rising Star: Feet—Lundslide—Facts for the Savans. Failure—Bird@’seye View of the Situation— an no more effect the destinies of that The Attack on Prince Alfred 4 lettcr from Rev. T. Coan, published in the Hone- | Missiesippl Handed Over to the Rebels, | Mighty a on 8 man’s VICTORIA. lulu Gazette, confrme the reports before made that / Youlsiana te Anarchy and the Blacke— nose can stop bis running a, foot race. Texas must the Result of a Conspiracy. the southeastern shore of Hawaii has subsided. Old! Arkansas Threatened with Internecine ee at aoe aierandl oo eee Reopening of Parliament—The Protectiouiste residents of Hilo state that the same occurrence was | War=Texas Left Out of the Unlou—Neces. ruction than Boutwell ever planned or Ste- eer el Again in Power. observed at that port, but not to the extent stated | sity of the People Taking the Matter Out wena eavocates @ pas into olect, Om until the harg ~ MELBOURNS, August 29, 1868. below, the greatest subsidence noticed there being of the Hands of the Politicians. aeran penne of © 2 peas fe ret eeu REMARKABLE TIDAL PHENOMENA In spite of the determined efforts made to defeat about eight inches. The fullowing is Mr. Coan’s HELENA, Ark., Oct. 8, 1868, ‘The politicians have tried reconstruction aud have A Man Killed by a Meteor and Hix- iraordinary Appearances. BEGISLATION AND TRADE. By mail steamship from Australia and New Zea- land at Panama, and thence from Aspinwall by sicamer at this port, we have the following special correspondence in full report of the situation and news in Australasia, dated at Melbourne, August 20, and Syduey the 2d of September. NEW SOUTH WALES. Revival of the Fenian Excitement—An Un- faithiul Conspirater Murdered=—The Politi- eal Condition—Extraordinary Natural Phe- nomenaThe Mail Route to Europe via San Francisce. Synvey, Sept. 1, 1868. It seems that the affair of the attempted assassi- nation of Prince Alfred is not yet at an end; and at the present writing it appears more than probable that the fanatic attempt of O'Farrell wili yet bear the melancholy fruit which was at first-expected to spring from it, Scarcely have the people of New South Wales recovered their equanimity and settled down into the conviction that the assailant of the Prince was an isolated enthusiast, lured on to the deed for which he suffered by an insane notion that he was the destined instru- ment of political justice, and scarcely has the belief in an organized Irish-Australian society for the sub- version of the British government faded from their minds when they are again plunged into 8 condition of the wildest excitement and anxiety by a sensa- tional speech of the leading spirit of the present ad- tninistration, the Hon. Henry Parkes, in which he affirmed not only that O’Farrell was the appointed agent of some “dark conspiracy,” but also that one of the conspirators, whose good faith had been sus- pected, had been foully murdered prior to the at tempt on the life of the Prince. Mr. Parkes thus makes a last attempt to fasten the odium of assassi- natton upon his political enemies. If the statement he has made be really true, it will undoubtedly have the effegs of destroying for many years the political Prospects of any party not professedly Protestant. But if, on the other hand, as is more than suspected, his allegations are based on the flimsiest possibie foundation, the result will, of course, be altogether diderent. In the meantime people are anxiously awaiting the production of the documents, and are wrought upto she last degree of excitement and suspense, Just before the solar eclipse of the 19%h ult. the inhabitants of the greater portion of the colonies were thrown into an extreme state of consternation and alarm by some extraordinary disturbance of the usual tidal flow. In Sydney it was high water about five o’clock on the morning of the 16th ult., and the tide was ebbing with considerabie velocity about eight A. M., When it suddenly turned, and the waters, as if impelled by some extraordinary in- fluence, returned up the harbor with great force. In Poe ate of the harbor the water seemed literal to ‘bOu, in others whirlpool eddies were formed, while at one time a tidal wave swept up Johnson's bay, snapping the warps of one of the Balmain steam ferries and compleiely stopping another while on her passage at eight or ten tiles an hour across the harbor. At one point the water rose two feet in five minutes, and then etbed out again with equal suddenness. For a couple of days the tide ex- hibited sintlar symptoms of disturbance, the water being greatiy colored. At Newcastle this phe- nomenon assumed @ yet more alarming form, and reat anxiety was feit fur the shipping in the harbor. ‘The Alexander was suddenly swept from her moor- ings, but after a while succeeded in anchoring in the stream. The Planter was shaken so much by the action of tue tide that the captain ex; her masts to fat. , Of 1,000 The American 2 Lucibe! tons, Was swung rapidly round four times, and the other vessels in the harbor were impelied in ali directions, ‘two steamtugs, the Warhawk and the Rapid were left stranded by the sudden retreating of the water, and the sandbanks in the channel were sometimes eft quite dry, aud at others as rapidly covered. A gauge showed a rise and fall of two and a half fect in fifvecn minutes, and the water con- tained at the time at icast five per cent of mud, Later accounts from a Queensland and New Zealand show that similar disturbances occurred simultanconsly all over the colonies, Two slight shocks of earthquake were felt at Wellington, and a bar of gravel was suddenly thrown up at the mouth of the \guhauranga river. - rs of eartuquake were also felt at Dunedin plueskin. The caxise of these phenomena seems generally to be regarded as an earthquake or voicanic wave, and itis icoked upon as extremely probable that some terrific convulsion of nature has taken place some- Where in the South Seas. Another island may pos- sibly have been added to the Polynesian Archipelago, anu, of course, it is equally likely that some unfor- ee or group of islands may have been sub- me! ‘Ou ihe night of the solar eclipse a great deal of elec- trical disturbance was opserved, and all ti the month meteors have been seen almost nightly. Just alter the eclipse one of the most singular incidents probably that have ever occurred took place. Asthe schooner Urania was passing Crowdy Head about half an hour after midnight on the 13th uit, a me- teor, described as being “like a ball of fire,” fell im- mediately over the vessel’s stern, exploded with a loud report like that of a heavy piece of ora. nance and killed the steersman, a@ man named Sales. Everyone on board felt a violent shock like that of a volcanic battery, but no one except Sales was seriousiy injured. Sparks of fire were scattered all about the deck, and the flash of the meteor was 69 briluant that the steward, who was lying in a berth below, saw the fire through the caulked seamsof the deck, His cabin was at the same time filled with smoke, which blackened some papers lying about. The paint on ail the aft pert of the ship was dicolored, similariy to what it inight have been had the shtp been “smoked with charcoa!.”” A peculiar, indescribable smell was perceived for some time after the explosion, and a quantiry of flakes like the soot from @ steamer’s funnel ‘were scattered abot the deck. The meteor apparently travelied with tue wind, which was from the south. The body of Sales, the man who was killed, appeared to be blackened, but showed no other marks of injury. Sales was @ young man, about twenty-three years of age, and is described as a emart seaman. Captain Young, of the steamer Lady Young, also reports having seen @ fireball passing ahead of his suip about midnight on the 17th ult. 1s ts rumored here, though on somewhat uncertain foundation, that an American steamship company are going to start aline from the colonies to San Francisco as soon as the Pacific is com- = The project 18 said to contemplate Mel- bourne a8 the Australian terminus of the line, the vessels to touch at Sydney, Brishane (the metcopolia of ~ ee Auc! (the lead city of New Zealand), the Fijis and Honoluiu., if an arrange- ment can be made with the steamship line from Japan to Honolula the latter company are to forward the mails, passengers and freight the remainder of the way to San Francisco. No doubt the various colonies would ee to grant moderate sub- sidies to a line of such a characcer, and it would hosing absorb nearly all the passenger tramc be- ween Great Britain and Australia, if conducted on American principles. The P. and 0. Company are in very bad odor with Australians, who couplain that as soon as they get to Point de Galle their com- fort and interests are disregarded, the India pas- sengera getting the best cabins aud all the attention. The ships for the new line are said to be already in course of construction. They are to be le sleamers, on the American model. The “snobocracy” of Sydney have been onee more badly sold. Two or three months ago a foreign gen- tieman, announcing hinself as the Count Von At- toms, and blessed with a very distingve and aristo- cratic appearance, made his appearance in Sydney and very #0on became the lion of the polite soctety of New South Waies. Fetes and balls were given in ‘his honor and the belles of Australian apperiendom Dung themselves lauguisling at his feet. Although, however, his European resources were something fabulous, he needed ready money, and, thanks to his powers of address, he found litte difticulty in raising some £5,000 or £6,000. At last he bought a yacht called Hamlet's Ghost, and repeated the same a. Brisbane, r: an additional £1,200, By ¢ arrival Of the last mail the discovery was made that tie distinguished foreigner was an impostor, that the real Count Von Attems was dead, and that pay i —_ atone at — his BS 4 gantic squatting company shortly Soated on the London money market, under the titie + Of the ‘‘Austraitan Pastoral Compai’." Prince Alfred's birthday was ceiebrated by the of fifteen miles of the Gieat Southern Rail- now reaches to within # few miles of The Lyster Opera Company have at length, after an absence of seven years, returned to Caufornia. ‘The closing night of Beason was an extremely enthusiastic occasion, QUBENSLAND. ‘The Queensiand Pariiament was opened on the ith August by the acting Governor, Tie ade Assembiy was of the usual hurd yum cb Ou the second dav of the session a motivn of want o way, Ww! the members of the new McOuiloch Cabinet on their appeal, in the usual consdtutional course, to the constituencies they represented, the Ministry were in every instance successful, and the “‘party of pro- tection” again holds possession of the reins of power. Parliament reassembled on the 7th instant, and it was at once apparent that the close of the Darling-Grant question had failed to alter the politi- cal complexion of the House. The free traders now number less than twenty votes, while the “friends of colonial industry” rejoice in the possession of forty. It is said that a further advance in favor of “native manufactures” is shortly to be made, and that the tariff is to be considerably increased. The people of Victoria have already discovered that their mate- rial interests are scarcely identical with those of the home country, and they certainly display no inclina- tion to make their purses suffer for any sentimental attachment they may entertain for the “tight little island.” So long as the freedom of trade coincided with their own prosperity they cheerfully supported the English doctrine; but now, after they have satis- fied themselves, rightly or wrongly, that their own welfare demands the protection of English goods out of the market, they have developed into the most rabid and persistent of protectionists. The special articles on which an increased duty isto be imposed have not been announced; but American buggies, kerosene, paper, glass and wines will pro- bably be included In the list, In 8 short debate the other day on the aboriginals possibly the most amusing incident that has trans- pired during the deadlock was brought tohght. It seems that the eae ay of sonpues had at one time the effect depriving the black fel- lows of their customary government allowance of tobacco. After a powwow the niggers hit on a renious plan for securing their rights. They that if there was to be no more ‘’baccy” thore should also be no hallelujah, meaning, of course, that they would give up their Christian ob- servances. The missionaries at once interfered and special exception in this particular case. e results of missionary efforts among the Austra- lian aborigines. The improvement in trade produced by the ter- mination of the deadlock has been but temporary and evanescent. Business of all kinds has into its former state of depression, and the mer- ehants still sadly bewail the duiness, The expendi- ture for the present year by the government is esti- 000, and the total receipts will not, according to one estimate, exceed £2,275,000. A de- ficiency of £600,000 is thus to be expected, and will have to be met by a new loan. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. There is scarcely ‘ing to chronicle. The Leg- tslature has met, and is of course, after the manner of Australian Assemblies, having a stormy and very animated time. ‘The financial statement of the treasurer will, it is said, be of @ very gloomy and discouraging char- acter. Earthquakes in New Zealand. (From the hats Sie Independent, Sept. 8. Two sharp shocks of carthquake were felt in Wel- lington on the morning of the 17th of August. The motion of the first shock was from east to west, and in a few seconds was followed by another with a transverse motion. The following telegrams, fur- nished by the government, will show that the puisa- tion was general ees New Zealand. NAPIER, 9:55 A. M. ‘0 alight shocks; direction north to south, WAIPUKURAU, 9:55 A. M.—Very strong shock. CasTLE Point, 9:56 A. M.—Very strong shock, from south to north. GREYTOWN, 9:55.—Severe shock. PRATHERSTON, 9:55.—Severe shock. Wurre’s Ba: .—Severe shock. Wuire's Bay, 44.—A second shock, BLENHEIM, 9:55.—Severe shock. Kataror, —Severe shock, from north to south. leo CHURCH, 9:56)4.—Strong shock, from east west. LYTrLETON, 9:57.—Strong shock, north to south, With oscillation of tide. Hokitika, 9:58.—Violent shock; also feit at Grey- mouth, Port CHALMERS, 9:55.—No shock, but oscillation of tide still going on. NELSON, 9:57.—Two smart shocks, so severe it was deemed prudent by the operator to leave the office: gotinto the road and felt five or six distiact waves from east to west. The Markets. SyYDNBY, Sept. 2, 1963, American goods of all descriptions, with the ex- ception of Kerosene, are in small supply, with a slightly increased demand at former quotations. ‘The tobacco market remains in exactly the same condition as when the last mail left. Complaints are made by merchants of the inferior quality of recent tobacco shipments from the United States. For hardware and mining tools better prices have been obtained. The market is bare of Oregon tim- ber, but other descriptions of American luuber are obtainable. 2 THE FEJEE ISLANDS. sArrangement for Tiquidatin tho American Debt—Quarrel Between the British Commo- dore and a Native Town—Increase of Emi- gration. SYDNEY, Sept. 2, 1968, An arrangement has been completed by means of which, as the United States government has avowed its disinclination to possess itself of Fejee, the debt of$ 45,000, due for the last fifteen years, will be satis- factorily liquidated. Notwithstanding the fass that was at first made over the establishment of the new Fejee Trading and Banking Company it has at length succeeded in getting a charter from the King which is satisfactory to themselves, the King, the British Consul and Dr. Brower, the reappointed representa- tive of the United States government. The present charter, while it certainly curtails some of their rights and privileges, gives them a splendid chance to make plenty of dollars. They now agree, as before, to pay off the American debt, and the remainder of the first instalment of £2,250 is to be paid within twenty days of the date of writ- ing. The only hitch in the agreement was the ques- tion of the interest on the debt for the current year, from which Dr. Brower refused to release King Tha- kombau. Dr. Brower stated that on failure of a personal guarantee being given by the delegates that they would hold themselves responsible for ite pay- ment, whether the Company was formed or not; he could not give his oficial consent to the charter being granted them. The delegates finally consented to accept this responsibility, and the whole matter has therefore been finally adjusted. It seoris that after all the victory obtained over the Navosa tribes was not so decisive us was at first reported. Fejee, in fact, is the Mexteo of the sonthern: hemusphere; it is always in a state of hopeless an- arcliy, and the most stupendous lying is perpetrated about the fighting. Thakombau did really obtain a victory, and he did really capture a number of pris- oners and kill @ great many of his enemies; bat lia own losses were extremely heavy, and a remnant of his foes, who may in the course of a few years be- come excessively troublesome, are still lurking among the mountains in the intertor. A dispute has arisen between Commodore Lam- bert, of her Majesty's ship Chalienger, and the inhabitants of a native town on the Rewa, only partly under the control of Thakombau, in consequence of some alleged want of respect being paid to the Brit- ish flag. ‘The gallant Commodore has accordingly taken his ship up the Rewa to destroy the town and the inhabitants of it, too, if they are fooliwh enough to attempt to defend it, . ‘The Tongese flag, that has been flying on some of the Fejeean islands to the eastward of Viti Leva, has been taken down by order of King George of Tonga, Maafu, the former chief of them, pod been ay inted successor to the vaua of the Friendly Islands, The only flag now waving in any part of Fejee, theré- fore, is that of King Thakombau, ‘Tie settlement of Fejce by Europeans rapidly pro- gresses. About 150 new-comers have arriyed durin the past couple of months, mostly from New Zealand. A newspaper is shortly to be established at Ovalau, and the type and paper have already arrived. Lana is rapidly rising in value, and the lots about Ovalau are attaining the value of real estate in more civil- ized countries. The cocoanut ofl yield for next season will, it is said, reach 600 tons—the largest quantity ever made in @ single year, The crop of cotton ‘will also be very heavy. Sea island ts the only variety now grown. Machinery for Chg | Sugarcane wiil soon arrive, and more attention wil thea be paid to sugar culture. Many of the setters vo the | have large quantities of cane stored up waiting for the opening of the mills, SUBMARINE OISTURBANCE IN JAPAN. {From the Yokohama (Japan) Gazette, August 21.) About three o'clock. (i the afternoon of the 16th {nst. a very extraordinary phenomenon occurred in the creek. ‘The water wuddenly seemed drawn rapidly out of the mouth, taking the boats at the sides that were not securcly moored with it, and as rapidly returned like a nutive bore; and this occurred several times within afew minutes. We Witnesr.d tt just above the first bridye, opposite to the Yokohama iron works, No vibration was felt ashore, and we could perceive no apparent cause for | fl, but believe it must have arisen iron terraneau disturbance pail Status of Foreignors—Death of Captain Hill. PANAMA, Oct, 14, 1368, In the political world we are getting deeper in the mud than ever. The news from Chiriqui announced in my last, that a strong legitimist party held out there and had organized a government of their own, has thrown our government here into a quandary that they find diMculty in getting out of At the moment the President wanted to charter the little steamer Montijo and send a force up to suppress his enemies but two obstacles presented themselves— first, the owner of the steamer wanted $8,000 for the charter, cash down, and that was more money than the government is worth; and, secondly, the soldiers refused to go unless Correoso went with them, in which case he would have to turn the Presidency over to some one else. This he is rather afraid to do, kuowing how frail hamanity 13. At length a dodge was resorted to for the purpose of raising the wind. A dozen influential natives were invited to the government house, there they were corralled and kept all night until next morning, they agreed to loan the government $6,000. The follow- ing is a list of their names, with the amount they were called on to pay:— Vincente Hurtado, for Hurtado & Co. J, A. Arango. N, Obarrio. F, Arosemena. '. PUSCs. 000020» + 500 B. Vallarino, for Ruata & Co. 600 M. J. Diez. or 400 8, Maldonado, 400 M. J. Diaz, for Diaz & Co. 200 Weare informed that the best security will be given for this money, and two per cent per month interest paid thereon. The two who held out were finally released, Mr. Obarrio on payment and Mr. M. J. Diez without paying anything. By this time, however, the Montijo owner had con- sidered matters and raised his price to $12,000, and so the thing stands. Meanwhile the President has declared all the ports of the State closed, and re- fuses a clearance tothe Montijo even for Costa Rica; 80 she, too, is corralled. It is not unlikely an attempt may be made to take her by force; but this will no doubt be resisted, as she is an American vessel. Sunday night we came nearly having a big time. The commander of the forces—Coionel Pernet, a Carthagenian—got drunk and fell down ina fit of apoplexy, or something like it. At once the idea was circulated that he was poisoned. The military ‘was called out ; revolution rang from one end of the town to the other; sentinels were stationed all over the city, and there was the Old Harry to pay for an hour or so, when a physician, who was called in to relieve the gallant colonel of the poison, declared he could find nothing but rot-gut brandy, and so things subsided. Yesterday an armed force of some sixty men was sent out to examine the Ainerican steamers and look for political re‘ugees on board of them. They made an attempt to board the Nevada, but the captain found it convenient to be repairing his side ladder about that time, so the braves were unable to get aboard. The principal person they were looking for was Don Manuel Dtaz, the station master of the railroad. Those they have caught, in- cluding the purser of the Salvador, are kept in a cell in solitary confinement, but no charges have been brought against them. A few days ago an armed force invaded and took temporary possession of the Chronicle, an American journal published here. No explanation has been made of the Kahoode ap it is sup- posed they were looking up the be emt editor. A number of our most respectable ci ms have beet obliged to fly from the city to avoid being pressed into the army, On Sunday the store of P. N. Merino & Co. was en- tered by the authorities and some 300 stand of Amert- can arms, the property of Ribon & Muiioz, of New York, taken possession of and carried otf to the bar- racks, These arms have been here for sale for up- wards of @ year. ‘The following has been issued in the official bulle- tin of this city:— LAW DEFINING THR CONDITION OF FORKIGNERS, THFIR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The Congress of the United States of Col mbia ileorees:— ARITOLE 1. Foreigners) transiont or resident, shalt enjoy in the territory of the Union the guarantecs treated of tn ar- ticle 15 of the constitution, without further limitations than those recognized by international law in case of foreign war. ur. 2. Foreigners resident tn the United states of Solom- bia, who have not the simple chy r of transient according to international law and practice, and who have not been naturalized according to the third paragraph of article i of the constitution, shall enjoy the same guarantoos aad civil Fighta as Colombians; bus they shall be subject to the same obligations in their persons and properties. Air. 3. Foreigners thus resident shall, nevertheless, enjoy the exemptions conceded by public treaties, and. those th are enjoyed by Colombians in similar cases vy the laws and Practices of she country to which the foreigner may belong. Ani. 4, The declaration of a foreigner before a political au- hority ‘of the country of his desire of becoming a resident in it will be gullctent to consider him Included in the provialone of article yr. 5, The following will be considered as presumptive evidence of the intention of a foreigner to become a resident of the United States of Colombia :—Firat. the voluntary and continual abode in the territory of the Union for more than four years, without any diplomalle or consular character, of as agent or commissioner of merchants resident’ in other " countries, voluntary acquisition and possession of real estate tn the territory of the Union, provided always that ihe owner or possessor resides inthe country. Third, the residence in the territory of the Union in commercial biisiness and with an established house, provided always that the foreigner has not the character of ‘an agent or commissioner for merchants residing in other countries. Fourth, to have contracted marriage with a na- tive and voluntarily fixed his abode in the territory of the Union for more than two consecutive years. | FitUh, to have ed and filled voluntarily public employments in the service of the country. in the foregoing arti- ‘Ant. 6. The presumptions ex cle place the fareiguot under tho. Obtigation ‘of Westin the nal taxes and contributions which law may impose ond, ll personal imposts or taxes, employments, military services, loans or forced exactions in a state of peace or of war, save the restrictions recogoized by international law and practice. Paragraph, But if the laws or ces of a foreign country subject Colombians transient or resident to any of the obligations mentioned in this article the concession in favor of the foretguer aball cease. ‘Aut. 8. Foreigners not invested with any diplomatic capa- city. who losing their neutral character by taking their own free will, in the civil or International contests of the country, aball be considered identived with the natives in for the purpose of su ing the burdens (eof war, jum as well a the consequent to persons as in their erties, Ant. #, The law of the 19h of April defining the condition of foreigners, their rights and obligations, becomes annulled. Given at Bogota, the Lith of Juno, 1868, The President of the Senate of Plenipotentiari: AQUILEO PARRA. The President of the House of Representatives, JULIAN TRUJILLO. ‘Tho Secretary of the Senate of Pienipotentiaries, "AURELIANO GONZALEZ ‘The Secrotary of the House of Representatives, FRANCISCO V. DE LA ESPRIELLA. Bogor, Mst June, 1866, Levit be ‘published and executed. T, C. DE MOSQUERA. The Secretary of the Interior and Foreign Afni JOSE MARIA ROJAS GARRIDO, PANAMA, 10 de Octubre do 1808, Ea traduccion. —El Luterprete publico, MANUEL DE J. BERMUDEZ. General Smith, United States Consul at Panama, has returned to his post from the United States. ‘The Cocos Island humbug has again been revived by the California company who got up the specula- tion in San Francisco some months ago. A few persons, I believe, started for the Islands 3 few days ago. ‘Captain Amos A, Hill, a native of Conway, N. H., and for a lengtit of time connected with the Howard House, Aspinwall, died on the 10th inst. He had an extensive acquaintance In the State and California. The Orrin Circas Company have satied for Central America. “Jeems Pipes of Pipesville,”’ has just dropped in on his way irom China to New York. He goes up this mail, ready to spread himself as soon as he lands, The Rising Star arrived at Aspinwall on the 10th. - ~eer-o0 left for San Francisco on the same nigh ere is flo word yet. of the railroad company’s missing steamer Parkersburg. The Santiago de Cuba, trom New York, reached Aspinwall this morning. the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamship Constitution arrived this morning with 321 passen- gers and $240,992 in treasure, which leaves Aspin- wall for New York this evening on the Rising Star. The purser reports that William Harrison, a sec- ond cabin passenger, —— overboard October 6, in the port of Manzanillo, but was pickea up. On the 10th, at one o'clock P, M., juinped overboard in at sea. Ship was stopped and two boate sent after him, but they were unable to pick him up, @ very heavy sea running at the time. NATURAL PHENOMENA IN CALIFORNIA.—An amus- ing instance of the absurdity of jumping at conclu- sions from observations on synchronous natural oa is given by the people of Ajpine county. it seems that the late earthquake which shook up the inhabitants of that region happened to come along just as the smoke or fog which has been at tracting attention throughout the State was settling down over Alpine. The local papers attribute the smoke to the earthquake, and anuounce with trepi- dation that Indians (whose word, by the way, would not be worth four bits in @ civil suit fora pocket- handkerchief) ‘do not Know what to make of it.” The Alpiners will be surprised to learn that the smoke trom their little local earthquake was gener- wy, — over the State.—Alfa California, letter:— ‘The south shore of Hawatl has subsided from Hapoho (east cape), in Puna, to Kalae —_ cape), in Kau. The subsidence m some places 1s from three to four and in others six to seven feet, It is proved by the trees once on dry land, but now stand- ing in the sea, and by rocky islets onee in five feet of water, but now submerged. These marks are so dis- tinet that no difficulty exists in Aes meas- uraments of the subsidence. I found the lava dis- fae te at SER It is very pepe there ve patches on a longitudinal ine ures, ‘The lava oozed up from the fissures and the Lpry 2 pahoehoe. I explored eo landslide at Keaiwa, It is nota mud eruption, but started he terri uake four lateral branches ot ku at their termination at Kaulike, and then followed in of the great stream to its source on the wooded T juage it to be from nine to ten miies long by a mile and a half at its greatest breadth. I could not get the exact measurement, ag the men engaged in running the line across failed 6n account of al fissure in the way. ‘There is a great deal of sm tm Kilauea, but little fire is visible. In Hilo, Puna and Kau, from one to five ei juakes occur daily; not heavy, but enough to remind us of the volcanic forces, and keep alive conjecture a3 to what may happen. The tation of the sea at Hilo on the 14th, 15th and 16th instants was remarkable. For three days the sea rose and fell once in ten minutes. The rise was not high, say from three to four feet, and no damage was done. We would like to learn from any of the residents of the northwest coast of Hawaii whether any change has been observed in the level of the shore between Kailua and Waipio, and if go, where, what and how much? MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, Inspection and Muster of the Ninety-sixth Regiment, National Guard, State of New York. Itseems to be well understood in the National Guard just now that there are chiels about Tomp- kins square each day whose business it is to be taking notes and who have the best possible reason itor printing them. Certainly it is evident that the members of the different regiments reviewed and inspected in the square pay more attention to their duties and the officers are much more particular. Yesterday was not one of those Indian summer days that fayl poets rave about, but the classic locality of Tompkins square was nevertheless flooded with its usual float population of ragged children, ama- teur base-ballers and native roughs. A tal review ought to be no novel spectacle to the faan- ionable denizens of the locality, but it seems that militia affairs have taken quite @ hold on the atten- tion of the people who acknowledge the vicinity of ‘Tompkins as their home. ‘ho Ninety-sixth regiment, N. G.S..N. Y., was inspected and mustered yester- day at the square. General J. H. Liebenau, of the Governor's staff, was present on the ground and Major Godfrey, the Inspector General of the brigade, mspected and reviewed the regiment. Line was formed shortly before two o'clock on the east side of the square. The pee ren a very good appearance, ‘the men seeme to be andor good control and the marching was not very bad. The ceremony of the salute to the reviewing officer was faultiess, but it cannot be sald that the review was conducted as it should be. In the first place the marker on the flank of the regiment was not properly placed, and in conse- quence the column, in marching by in review, nearly brushed the reviewing officer and his staif from their places. The Adjutant, Lieutenant Gerit- zen, Was not in his right position on the flank of the column, having taken post on the centre instead of on the left of the second company, and most of the officers saluted very carelessly. The Scrgeant Major saluted with more grace and elegance than any ofticer in the battalion. Lieutenant Colonel Unkhart knew his duty and performed it well. The arms and accoutrements of the regiment were in good condition and the men appeared to be well disciplined. The condition of tue regiment is credit- able to Colonel Krehbiel. As the other regiments Ui el have been criticised for the blunders of their officers it is proper to say that the company distances were not well preserved in the march past, and when the regiment was wheeled into line 3 were observed which might have been avolded if the commandants of companies paid proper attention to their duties. ‘The marching of the men was, how- ever, good, and in steadiness and military deport- ment Se regiment was very little behiad any organi- zation yet paraded. At the conclusion of the inspeetion and muster, which was rather hastily conducted by Major God- frey, General Burge7, the commandant of the Second brigade, who had arrived on the ground, was ten- dered the honor of the review. The very ‘same mia- takes which were so visible in the first review char- acterized the movements in this. The column, in wheeling from the first point of direction, overrun the marker,the adjutant was out of place and the col- onel did not take position at the proper moment. The distances between the companies were some- bn Hace? preserved. At the conclusion of the re- view the Bowery and dismissed. The following is the strength of the regiment present:— PV ElS15 = = a a Ce ee pe Non-commissioned staff. n — —| Company A.. 2) 6} 7] 43 Company B... 3} 6] 6} (40; Company ©. ed ee) Company D.. 1 4 7! 30) 2] 5) «6 46 3] 6) BCG 8} 6) 6) a8 3} 5) 6} 83 Company I, 3) 5} BI 46) Company K. 3] 6} 8] eal Total present. —| =| —| — The rolls of the regiment were not in good order and none of the company commanders seemed to be sure of the number of men in their commands. The drum ow ol which is not counted tn the above, re- fused to do duty under the drum major, and General Liebenau directed the colone tlo have them placed under arrest. It was understood on the ground that they will be court-martialed. The members of the National Guard and citizens who feel an interest in the efficiency of our local army will hope that the mutineers will be publicly drummed out of the State service. It ts understood that several of the cap- tains of companies who encouraged the insubordi- nation will be brought toacourt martial. It cer- tainly should be done, These men shouid be made to understand that while they wear the uniform they are soldiers of the State and must obey the orders of their superior officers. If discipline cannot be enforced it would be better to disband the regi- ment forthwith. Military Fotes, Lieutenant Cusick, of the United States cavalry, who recently had a good hearty fight with a party of about 200 Apache Indians, in Northern Texas, is himseif an Todian of the Tuscarora tribe, and was born and brought up on the reservation in Niagara county, near Lewiston. ‘The inspection and muster of the Cavalry brigade, N. G.,S. N. Y., having been postponed on account of the weather, the First regiment will parade on the 20th, the Third regiment on the 22d and the battalion of Washington Grays on the 19th, at seven P. M., at the State Arsenal. The Board of Oificers of the Twenty-second regi- ment, N. G. 8. N. Y., have determined to present a prize to the company which shall be found at the end of the present season to be the best drilled in the regiment. The details have not yet been ar- ranged. The officers of the Twenty-second are infe- rior to none in the National Guard in spirit and en- ter . The example set by them in making an encampment at Long Branc! in the summer and instructing their men in rifle practice at ine ‘was highly commendable. It is to be hoped that t exampie they have set will be generally followed. ‘The Twenty-second eg G. S..N. Y., will be a and inspec on Wednesday, the 28th nit Faneral of Lieutenant Churchill, United States Army. Company K, Seventh regiment National Guard, assembled yesterday at the armory, in Sixth street, fat half-past one o'clock, and marched to the Calvary church, in Fourth avenue, to escort the remains of Lieutenant John Lawrence Churchill, United States Army, formerly a member of the Seventh, to their last resting place in the Bowery Bay Cemetery, Long Isiand. The band of the regiment went with the company, and the ceremony of interment was very impressive. bia ae A TorKisH ConsuL IN New ORLRANS.—Colonel J. O. Nixon, of the has been recognized a8 Tarkish Consul at New Orleans, Aggood Turk is supposed to have an extensive harem and to drink no wine. To prevent public maisappretenston we deem it proper to state that a Turkish Consul is not neces- sarily a Turk, and may without impropriety enjoy monogamy and el any other member of We press.—Vew Orleans Republican. iment was marched to the armory in the | “swallows up the worthy and the unworthy and keeps every name in motion,” seems to have absorbed a letter mailed more than a fortnight since and in- tended as @ sequel to former communications re- specting the riots and outrages of the Southwest. ‘The tenor of that despatch might have been to some extent explanatory of recent events—of the disturb- ances at Opelousas and Shreveport, the feverish sus- pense and expectance in New Orleans and the almost open hostilities in some parts of Texas and Arkan- 8as, of the rumors of plots and counterplots, of revel before attempted to show—viz., that whatever has happened will happen again, and in a constantly in- creasing degree. Whatever has occurred was ex- pected to occur, and is only the natural sequence of cause and effect. By the time this letter is published the Presidential question in all human likelihood will have been dis- posed of, As affecting the general issue of the elec- tion it will not matter a continental which way Loui- siana or Arkansas cast their votes, nor whether Mis- sissippi and Texas cast their votes at all. Freed from the warping bias of a great political struggle the people can now look at the great question of re- construction by itself—their only object to see how these vast and fertile territories of the South are being fitted to resume their places in that great union of States which used to form our government, The inquiry will develop some startling results, and will not be entered upon one day too soon. It tg hardly ex: ion to say that some sections of the South are at the present moment in @ condi- tion more dangerous to the general well-being of the country at large than they were in 1860, They have been so tampered with, physicked and bled by char- latan quacks; they have been such obstinate, pig- headed patients themselves, insisting upon taking the right medicine at the wrong times and the wrong medicine at all times, that they are really in a bad way and almost be fin hope of recovery. It must be remembered that the whole process of Southern reconstruction has been deliberately forged, twisted and shaped with a view to controll- ing the Presidential elecon by the vote of the South. ‘The requirements of the country, the condition of the people. the general good were never taken into consideration. Radical votes were all that were wauted; everything was made subservient to that one necessity. It is curious commentary on this unscrupulous policy thatthe Presidential suc- cession has virtually been decided without refer- ence to the South. The house has been burned down, but the egotists who fired the building have not even succeeded in roasting their one paltry erg in the flames. Reconstruction remains a tortuous, shallow, 81 channel constructed to carry off a watercourse Which has cut itself a bed in another direction—a Dutch Gap canal, with the Mississippi rolling ouward to the Gulf placidly, unconscious of its very existence; while the States which have been thus pl upon stand to-day in the most melan- choly possible condition of entanglement and an- archy. Though all are alike cast down, each State has a separate history. There is no uniformity except in the disproportion between the pitiful resuits attained and the enormous and costly means employed. That Par eve here. In the four great States of ississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, over which my own inquiries have in part been pursued, el ead presents in no two sections the same tases, B In Mississippi the old slaveholding whites, adroitly led, control the colored vote. They defeated a negro equality constitution with negro ballots and could re-elect Jefferson Davis to Congress next week if they chose. Reconstruction has done the Dog- berry business in Mississippi and made itself fe gira ridiculous, It has thrown the pe cal power of the State back into the nds of tne very men who conceived secession and forced it upon the other Southern States. The men who, above all othera, ought to be capives of pga ae rights and privileges {f proscription is to enforced at all, now control the political destinies of Mississippi-by means of their negro suffrage pro- scription, which was to humble the pride of the bloated Southern aristocrat and secure the perpetu- ity of radical rule. Instead of rejectin; the dose the shrewd, astute statesmen ol Mississippi — swallowed and digested it, They proy inscribe ‘nigger suffrage” on their own banners in future as the readies: mode of regaining her old Leip go 4 ‘The State has thus been brought toa deadlock. As the radicals can’t reconstruct it in thetr own way they won’t allow the le vo reconstruct it inanother way. They matn- in the army of occupation with ail its attendant evils and drawbacks to the industrial and com- mercial prosperity of the community. This is what a reconstruction has done in Mississippi. ‘n Louisiana reconstruction has fanned into a blaze all the sectional hatred and distrust which the war left smouldering; it has bribed resident citizens to declare themselves ‘Untonists” and left them at espe! it has sown the seeds of a St. Domi tant country parishes, and now finds Jess to lay the evil spirits it unnecessarily raisea; it has squandered a million of pares money upon a small ring of carpet-baggers, leaving a hungry, tur- bulent, di rous crowd clamoring outaide; it has mortgaged the credit and property of the State on many militons more to like purpose; it has not only set class against class—that was to be expected—it has even been clumsy enough to divide the colored race against itself—to array mulatto against negro in irrepressible conflict. Brownlow has not been more successful in my 3 antagonism between white man and white man in Tennessee than have the reconstructionists of Louisiana in black man against the light colored man. TI! rence is that Brownlow makes his game by it and the re- constructionists of Louisiana endanger theirs; they have had uncontrolled possession of the immense re- sources of the State for a long time; they have sacri- ficed their wives, uncles and cousins in the cause of “lolity” with ‘more than Spartan fortitude; they have martyred their Hahns and Durants as the Lon- don brewers boil down a drayman now and then to give body to the beer. And the sum and substance of all this reconstraction under the most favorable auspices in Louisiana is just simply this:—That the democrats, with one-half the sagacity and self-deniat manifested by the democratic leaders of Mussiesippt, with one-fourth of their pradence and good judg- ment in the selection of candidates, might sweep the State from Balize to Shreveport. To attain this result the people have been defrauded, taxed and goaded to the verge of insurrection, the landed property of the State has been depreciated seventy-five per cent in value and education and civilization have been brought to a standstill, As the upshot of It all, the negro oli- garchy which the reconstractionists raised up turns restive and unmanageable in their hands, and the State in October, 186s, is as far off a stabie, settied, responsible government as it was in May, 1862, when Butler assumed command of New Orleans. So much for reconstruction on @ negro basis in Louisiana. In Arkansas the progress of reconstruction has been marked by frauds and baliot stuffing which would shame an Albany lobbyist and draw a biush through the black mustache of a Tammany sachem. The elections were held not simultaneously, but on consecutive days, and the radical voters were moved right along and voted as often as occa- sion seemed to require; the ballot boxes were placed in charge of the reconstruction candidates, and a couple of polling districts were held open till the votes cast in the other districts could be counted, so a3 to see how many extra radi- cal votes were uired. All these prudent precau- tions, however, falled to carry the State and the desiied result was finally obtained by the lagenious proceas of transposing the returns from one pre- cinct. The parisn of Columbia had voted 260, ‘ainst and 800 odd for the Con- vention. In the offictal report the vote was given 300 and odd against and for, The differ. ence of 1,200 votes carried the day. Recently the leading republican newspaper of Arkansas, in dis- cussing the prospects of the campaign, has inno- cently restored the proper reading—v60 900 for in Columbia parish. The foothold thus ob- tained by fraud has since been insecurely held coercion. All Arkansas is now agog wai arrival of 6,000 stand of arms from Mem. his for the army of the negro The indignation called forth by this incend! sure is intense. ‘+I will not fight the United st \d said General Churchill, ex-Major General of the con- federacy, to me yesterday; “1 have had enough of that; but those who put arms in my negroes’ hands to support a State government which the people re- at the ballot boxes and to coerce and intimt- date me in my rights asa citizen shall have the full benefit of such strength as this oid arm still pos- sesses.”” A dozen brawny and brave veterans of the rebellion echoed the General's words. istra- tion is now going on in the State, To toil of all the arbitrary and tyranntcal restrictions imposed upon the white applicants would swell this letter ‘ond all reasonable limite and must be left over for a future communication. As examples I may mention that one qualified voter tration because during the war anket to his brother, who was an officer in the Confederate army. This was con- strued into ‘‘givil aid and countenance.” In Johnson county of 290 qualitied white men (many of them ex-federal soldiers) only fourteen have been allowed to register. The rest were ited by Fitch, the Supervisor, because at the last election had voted against the constitution, All this, dition to other oaths every candidate for registration is required by the constitution to swear that he recognizes and will defend at all times “the a bod oo Ca om all Pp under in and pen: of violates "this obligation. ‘bn woul Mthink that with such an oath and sach a registration Arkansas would, at least, be safe for the reconstractionists. Not so. Two out of three Cony ional Lepreseata. tives will be domocrat, and the negro’s are ‘9 ing sides With such rapidity that the Whole State 1s ally and miserably failed. The people must now the matter in haad. ALABAMA. The Political Situation—Passage of a Regise tration Law—Extraordinary Provisions—The Legislature Averse to Holding an Election Signs of Fraud, Montaousry, Oct. 4, 1968. After @ considerable length of time had elapsed, and but one day before the period allowed by law expired, the nondescript assembly at the capital called the State Legislature of Alabama, passed @ registration law. As the torch and turpentine ma- jority, which is clamorous for casting the electoral, vote itself couid net trust Governor Smith, the Secretary of State a Maine Yankee named Miller have been, by the act, given absolute power in the premises. He is to be the omef of registration, and trom his and his appointees’ decsions there can be no appeal. The law itself is a most remarkable one in many particulars. It was not unnatural that, after providing for the registration of voters, & should require every white man in the State to take an oath contained in the constitution to the effect that he ‘‘accepts’” the “civil” (this means sociag and political equality of all men, and will never attempt to deprive them of any rights or privileges they now enjoy. This was to be expected; but very few persons supposed that a clause would be, as i¢ has been, introduced making it a felony for any person to take the oath fraudulently. How fraudulently? This is undoubtedly the most oxtra- ordinary clause I have seen fora long time im @ legislative bill. No person is disfranchised in Alabama, therefore the only way fraud can be com- mitted in connection with taking the oath is by the swearer taking it and nevertheless rejecting the dogma of the “civil and political equality of alt men.” But how is the judiciary of the State to find out the secret sentiments of men. If this clause of the law can be enforced, then at least ninety thou- sand white Alabamians will be convicted of felony, for about that number will take the oath while firmly believing that a negro is not their equal, either socially or politically. Another clause in this pre- cious law disfranchises forever all persons who shall not be registered on the day Of the “first gene- ral election in 1868.” Is not this @ rich idea? Sup- pose a man is sick, or suppose business calls him ont of the State from this day till after the Presidential election, is he to be forever deprived of the privileges of the elective franchise? This and the other clause alluded to only show what a delightful rule the white people of Alabama are compelled to submit to. Ihave reason for saying that the bill has been signed Governor Smith, only because if he had ie 4 there would have been no election by the people at all, When I say “signed,” I mean that it will be. ‘Tne Governor only arrived from the North to-day, and I presume has not yet had time to sign the docu- ment. Although this registration bill has passed, the Legislature is trying its best to prevent the people from voting. Day after day long discussions take lace over the election bill, and the prospect is thas the whole of the present week will be consumed im almost endless discussions, The extreme element, which is largely in the majority, docs not wish an election. They desire to cast the electoral vote, and would have passed their bill for that purpose oves the Governor’s veto if they could have obtained @ two-thirds vote. Some of them have said in the presence of your correspondent that just as sure as the people are allowed to vote Seymour and Blate will carry the State by from 000 to 40,000 major- ity. Governor Smith is abi by them in unmea- sured terms, but they dare not come to an open rup- ture thro fear utterly destroying their party. ‘They will, however, delay as lor as possible bef they pass the election bill, if only to spite the mod- erate wing of the party, the members of which are anxious to get through with the business and retura home. These extremists are reckoning withoug their host. If they fail to pass an election law, = they pass one of outrageous a character tt be vetoed, and a vote will be taken all the same. the old code of Alabama, which has beem opted, should the Judges of the Probate Court not order an election anv three frecholders in each vot- ing precinct can do s0, open the polls, receive the votes and make returns to the Secre of State. Thus, if the Legislature delays much the whites of the State will have absolute control of the 1s. poe is currently reported that a scheme has been re- solved upon by means of which serious trouble may ensue, as it is designed for the express § pu ie of carrying fhe State for the radical ticks Ala- bama, a8 in all of the Southern States, one-half, or very nearly so, of the counties have an overwhelm- ing majority of whites, while the remaining ones have heavy me populations. The plan is to have the votes registered in all of the n counties: where the strength of the republicans lie, and to re- tard registration in those localities where the whites, or democratic element, preponderate toa considerable extent, until the day of election arriv when, of course, one-half or more of the voters be virtually disfrancnised. I can scarcely believe that the carpet-bag Secretary of State will counte- nance such @ transparent, shameful fraud. if he does and the whites are prevented from votiny thereby, there will be sertous trouble, and how will be met God only knows. If a fair election ie held the democrats will carry the State by a v Jarge majority. This fact can easily be ascertain by any person of ordini intelligence who will notice the current of public sentiment. a jority the wi in pet Muetly ema to the commission of a bareiaced fraud designed to hose yt diego Peg nye ‘They have and are quietly submitting to the most onerous rule they ever knew. Laws which no honest, liberty lov- ing man can feel a particie of respect for they silently obey; the presence of negro legislators, negro county officers, policemen, &c., they tolerate—in- deed the white people of Alabama have displayed a wonderful amount of forbearance Sa without having further outrages to submit to. It is to be hoped that at least a decent respect for the opimons of the Northern voters wiil influence Mr, Miller to re- gret this most infamous plot to deveat the will of the people. Since the great row in the State Senate the radicat party of Alal has been utterly disorganized and demoralized, So confident were the leaders t iat the Legisiature would cast the electoral vote that they made no eo whatever towards canvassing the State. Meanwhile the democrats were hard a6 work organizing and have now brought their party up to # high state of efficiency. The defections of near- ly all the respectable native radicals, the Intense ani- mosity existing between the carpet-baggers and sca- age as also the hercuiean e} being made by the whites to control the negro vote, are the causes which have operated to inure the radicals. If an election were held in Alabama next week the demo- cracy would triumph 7. sixty thousand majority, and principally because their opponents have no or- ganization worthy of the name. If, however, this disintegration ts analyzed it will be found that it is caused solely by the absence of the power which made radicalism formidable in the South, Take away the bayonet prop from these reconstracted States and down goes the radical party here. It was born of military rule and has been in a dying condt- tion ever since Generals Meade and Sheppai to give ita tacit if not an open support. And this fatiure of the radical party tn. Alabama to support itself unless backed up by the bayonet ts not caused by those astonishing “rebel outrages’? which certain newspapers of the North are so fond of publishing for the delectation of their sentimentally philanthro- Pic readers. Rather let it be truly stated that radt- calism dies here because the wealthy, the intelligent and the virtuous are as nearly unantmous as can be against it—because it was and is, with a few honor- abie exceptions, led by men who are mere advonte- rers—men without character or ability, as bankru; in pecuniary circumstances as they have been for peny years in reputation and ail their lives in tntel- igence. Banes tx THR Woops.—A correspondent of the Portsmouth (N, 1.) Times sayssthat the town of Atkingon was thrown into excitement on Monday afternoon Ws the anhouncement that two lite children of Rufus Morse, three and fout and one-half years, were missing since early that morn- ing, and though dozens of people had searched for them several hours, no trace could be found of the misting babes. Before dark nearly all the im habitants of Atkinson were en; in the search, young and old, rich and poor, all turned out. The moon set that evening about eight o'clock, but until about eleven the search was continued, bat was fruitiess. The parents were nearly distracted, but all efforts made failed to bring the slightest cine to the lost ones. When nearly all had given up and no bopes were entertained of their being found that night, a Hampstead man, named Tris- tam Littie, plunged into a swamp about one and @ half miles trom the home of Morse, and there, im about afoot of mud and water, found the little ones exhausted and almost dead. The three year old was abcut haif immersed tn the water, and Was siceping with its head resting on a log. How they came they cannot tell, except that the four year old saya he kept going and thought he saw a light, which tried to reach. Wet, cold aud hungry, these babes in the woods must have slept the sieep of death had the search been given over until the followtag day. Scrcior AY A Moapamrer.—William Kidd, the murderer of Miss Kate Jordon, of Glew ilaven, Grant coun';, Wis;, in June last, Committed suicide on the cars near Boone, lowa, on the 14th inst., by taking siryohnine, Te was wader arrost at the times,