The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1868, Page 6

6 io] — ev t 4 oo a NEW YORK Hi BRCADWANW AND ANN STI JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXX. Ne. 301 NTS THIS EVENING, ANUSE: YRENCH THFATRE, Fourteenth etrest aud Sixth ave- Que.—Genevinys DE BRABANT MoLyMpro THEATRE, Broaiway.—foxrry Dowery, wirn New FRATUges BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway -Tax New Drama Or LiAuins—Tusios MARRIED, . GERMAN STAD? THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— SBaxsTanns FEEUDEN UND LrivEn. ’ WADLACK’S THRATRE, Broadway and 13th atreet.— Tun LANCAsuIxe Lass, ' NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Mx. Epwiw Fonnzst as MACBETH. covert BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—C8imson SUIELD; On, Nyupus oF THE RAINBOW. " PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and Sai sireet.—LA Guanpk DUCHESSE. ) scapemy oF MUSIC, Brooklyn.—Mas. Scort SID- phys’ READINGS, ‘ BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, street. —Ergiorian ML mmany Building, 14th 0., LUCRETIA BoRGIA. * ERLLY & LOWS MINSTRELS, 290 Broadway.—E7mo. PIAN AUINSIREL6Y; BUKLESQUE, 40.—GRAND DUTCH “8, + SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Rroadway.—ETi10- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &c. ‘ s+ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 21 Bowery.—-Comic Vooatisa, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &0. * aS " THEATRE COMIQUB, 514 Bro: GinaL LixcagD any Vaopevit ‘ay.—Ta® GREAT Ont- Lk COMPANY. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Brondway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. ” BALL, 2% @veane —NeEvox's HineRNtc reet, corner of Eighth APOLLO HALL, Twenty-cighth street and Broadway.— @rnes TAvLOK, ThE GakAT Loxpon Comic, NEW YORE CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQussTEIan Anp Gyan asste ENTERTAINMENT, ! GREAT EUROPEAN CIRCUS, corner Proatway and 4th Si. EQUESTRIAN AND GYMMABTIO PRRFORMANCES. WAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—SRCOND GRAND ENG CONCERT. MustvaL MOMENTS WIT ‘Meguy Mow Fars. Fr. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. — Naya; O82, Woman's Constancy. E toounys OPERA HOUSE, MINstuRis—FARons, ATFATR OF Hox: |. -HOOLEY'S Ce S (E.D.) OPERA HOUSE, Wiliamsburg.— —-BUULESQUN OPERAS, &o. Lj MOOLE) Hoorry's Wauuewasta HALL, No. 15 East Sistoenth s—Lrc- TURR—Eanth AND MAN. ; ae Grew YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. 1, IPLE | &New York, Tuesday, October 27, 186g. ea BUREN EY ni thata line of steamers is proposed be- aly and New York. Mr. Gladstone has concluded his personal canvass { Sonth Lancasbire. wit is believed that the British Ministry will only Yetire before a large Uberal majority in the next Bonse of Commons. ‘The Swedish polar expedition hay returned, after ginotratng to eighty-two degrees north latitude. > Parnguay. By the Ationtic cable we learn that the United States steamer Wasp nad arrived at Montevideo from Asunctou with Minister Washburne on board. Mr. Washburne had entered a protest against the Veraguayan authorities for unlawfully seizing per sous at hie legation while they were under the pro- ection of the American fag. Cuba. +The insurrections in Cuba, according to our tele- graphic wea, are being vigorously atiacked by the govern i. troops. Two hundred rebels lad ‘swrrendered vear Manzanillo, and a battle on the outskirts of Tullas had resulted in the rout of the in- surgents and the capture of their cannon, flags and forrespondence, The negroes with the rebels, it is aid, had made servants of some white people and “were lording it over then in grand atyle. ; Miscellaneous. ‘The West Virginia election is claimed by both Parties. The radigals say thoy have carried the State certuin'y by a majority of 3,500, and probably (4.500, The democrats are not so certain, but ‘heavy gains in the counties heord from, whic ‘ane same ratio exists in the other counties, will give hem the State. )) The President has promulgated « treaty of amity, eace and commerce lately euterod tnto with Mada- gascar, Governor Seymour spoke at saght, ‘The republican majority in Ohio is officially stated Ot 17.972. General Butler, ina tuk with a correspondent of &@ Boston paper, conversed quite freely on the sub- fect of Gordon, the Lane contraband trading, Gene- al Grant and spoons, In relation to the latter sub- Sect, he dentes the accusations against him, and says that ® commanding general who could control Doulions of money would be accrsed of stealing Fpoons only by persons who know they would steal m if they had the opportunity. Ward and Melicn, two of the alleged Roston de- walters, were found guilty yosterday. A civil suit Jias been commenced by the Merciants’ Bank of that fity to recover $600,000 of the State Rank, on ac- «count of that sum having been paid to Edward ‘Varter, one of the firm of Mellen, Ward & Co.. and pupposed to be an accomplice in the empezziement, wn the certified checks of the cashier of the State Wank. Carier’a firm failed and he himecit is be- eved tg Lave absconded. iH Lonisiana, ‘Toe parish Of St. Bernard, jaxt below the city of row oricans, was the scene of a riot on Sunday, ip Prbich two negroes, one of them a policeman, were Killed and one white in was injured, At night he negroes burned do he house of 4 Spantard fn the neighborhood, killed bim, his son and his sister-In-law, and then burned down two other houses, In one of which four children are said Yo have been killed. A company of infantry was ordered down the river trom New Orleans yesterday @orning, and it was reported that ther w Atlacked. A large crowd of white men aszembled on the levee, aud chartered three steamers to take fiom to the scene of action, but General Rouasean Prevented their departure. Governor Warmoth Aendered the control of the State to General Rous- Senn, and he accepted it #o fur as maintaining the P< ace was concerned, the police having entirely dis- @) peared from the streets. The white clubs watted on the Mayor, and tendered their services to pat tic streets, but they were decline General Re @veu had his troops out. The City. Indianapolis last The political debate between the two jeoq. fing German politicians of book parties took piace test evening at Twmmeny Mall, but mot in the manner arranged. Mr, ©. Otten. dorier was detained by serious Hines, and at the dast Moment substituted Mr. Magnus Gross tn his place, The speeches were of the usual character, wither of the debates rising above the common fie. The audience wag Quiet, with occasional in- ications of applause, . b Judge Cardozo yesterday granted 9 perenpiory fnandamus compelling the registers of election 1 the Pourth district of the Fifteonth ward to register the name of Henry La Farge, who resistorcd on ioth inst., but had since taken up de teraporarily ootade the district and Wad found his name cracet therefor. in the Episcopal Convention yestertay sone die Cusion ensued on a petition from the Onelda In Giang for protection in their rights, They recused their present owes from the Church, and are most | | exactly what the republicans wanted; for they \ to the most decided opposition, and (under NEW YORK | of them Episcopalians, A motfon to eohedr vilth of Bishops in 4 to the Secreiary of the Loterior in thetr behalf was agreed to, ‘Tne reso- lution on the diverce question came bark, having meen passed by the House of Bishops, and wes passed by the Convention, A majority report of the Com- mittee on Ritualism recommends that no new canon on the subject be enacted, but that minisiers should continue the use of such vestments and cere monies as properly belong to them by use Or au- thority, avoiding the errors of excess or defect. The report will be discussed to-day. = A decision was given yesterday by Judge Shandley, of the Essex Market Police Court, grauting the mno- tion of counsel to discharge Deputy Sheriffs Leary, Quinn and Ward, arrested for alleged implication in the Broadway theatre shootlug affatr, The investi. gation as against Deputy Sherifs Hickey and Moore was adjourned two weeks, Recorder Hackett yesterday sentenced William Rooney to the Staic Prison fora year and a half for an assault, with @ dangerous weapon, on Daniel Kelly at a polling place during an eiection atfray last year. A meeting of the Women's Typographical Union and the Sewing Machine Operators’ Union met last evening and formed a central association of workingwomen by consolidating the two societies, with Miss Susan B, Anthony,a8 President. Miss An- thony announced that Anna Dickinson had offered to lecture for the benefit of the association, and said that it would be well to secure Cooper Institute, Steinway Ha!l or Tammany Hall for the occasion. She knew Tammany would give them the hall if Mr. Cooper or Mr. Steinway did not. Mrs, sunlic, wife of a captain of a coal barge, at pier 62 East river, being insulted by 9 party of boys on the pier yesterday arternoon, fired a pistol at them to frighten thom away; but the ball struck John Condon, @ lad of fourteen, and killed him almost instantly, Mrs. Sinlie was arrested, Two burglars were discovered at an early hour on yesterday morning loading an express wagon in Canal street with plunder, packed in six trunks and amounting to $6,000 in value. One of them was captured, but the other escaped. It appears they had rented the basement of the house, giving good references, and when opportunity afforded they broke through the ceiling to the apartments above. The Hamburg-American Packet Company's steam- ship Allemannia, Captain Bardua, will leaye Hobo- ken at two P. M, to-day for Southampton and Ham- burg. The mails will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. The stock market was weak and unsettled yester- day. Government securities were dull. Gold closed at 13414. Almost all of the live stock markets were depressed yesterday. Beef cattle were in large supply and but Moderately sought after, and prices were lower, prime and extra steers selling at 15¢..a 16c., fair to Good at 154:c. a 14% c., and inferior to ordinary at 9c. ‘Milch cows were in moderate demand and We quote:—Bxtra, $110 a $125; prime, $00 @ $93; fatr to géod, $75 a $85, and inferior and com- $403 $70, For calves there was a fair de- Mand at fall prices, v Extra, Lie, a 18)g¢.; good to prime, Itc. a 12}, and iaferior to common, 93,¢. a 103c. Sheep were only moderately active and heavy at 5c. a 63<c. for prime and extra, 4c. a 4340. for common to good, and gc. a 5%¢. for inferior. The supply was large. Lambs were selling at 64c.a 13c. Swine were in active request, but decidedly lower, owing to the liberal receipts. We quote:— Prime, 9c. & 93£¢.; fair to good, Bsc. @ 87ec., and common, §4C. @ 83¢c. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel H. Mann and Major J. E. Decker, of the United States Army, and John E. Owens, of Balti- more, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General W. J. Cullen, of Montana, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Coloue! D. Woodruff and Captain J. L. Rathburn, of the United States Army, are at the Hoffman House, Colonel H. B. Judd, of the United States Army; Judge J. P. ivan, of New Orleans, and General J, HL. Carrington, of Virginia, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Seflor Ignacio Gomez, Minister to Honduras, ts at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. Mazel, Minister of the Netherlands, and Dr. W.MM. Noah, of the United States Army, are at the Brevoort louse. Colone! James Baldwin, of Baltimore; Lieutenant Rogera, of the United States cavalry, and Captain Joba Baldwin, of Baitumore, are at the St, Julien Hotel. Miss Major Pauline Cushman, Colonel Thomas C. Davis, of Memphis, and Rev. George McWhorten, of Oswego, are at tle St. Charles Hotel. The Presidential Situation—The Great Demo- cratic Blander=The New Age of Steam and the Telegraph. The democratic flagship, bearing the broad pennaut of Seymour and Blair, is ‘‘hard on” among the breakers of Southern reconstruc- tion. The Tammany platform on this subject flatly declares all the legislation of Congress and all the reconstruction proceedings under this legislation ‘unconstitutional, revolution- sry and void,” and General Blair, through the Southern wing of the Convention, was made the democratic candidate for Vice President mainly because of his Brodhead letter, in which he declared that if he were President he would assume the responsibility and compel the army to undo its usurpations in the South, &e. Here was the great blunder of the Tam- many Convention, Here was a rare oppor- tunity wilfully and very stupidly thrown away. Upon the general issue of the shortcomings, wasteful extravagances, unparalleled corrup- tions, excessive taxations, &c., of the party in power, the democracy, with Mr. Chase eonspiendr Georgia poli alter all, “the South will be an in ” that ‘Jef Davis tuly said that although our cause is lost the principles for which we fought can never die.” From all this it will be seen that the man- agers of the Tammany Convention and the Southern democratic leaders are still delving among the fossils of a past age, Abandon these Southern reconstruction laws as “ revo- lutionary and void?” Has Congress, then, no power over a rebellious State after disarming it? If not, then the subjugated State, on its reserved rights, may go out again to-morrow and the war was 9 failure. The constitutional amendment fourteen is an encroachment upon the reserved rights of the States as they were before; but we cannot see how it is to be set aside except by another amendment or another civil war. It cannot be abandoned otherwise, for, with the official voucher of the Secretary of State affixed, we apprehend that it has passed beyond the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. Having made up their case upon these issues it needed no prophet to tell the conse- quences to the democratic party and their Presidential ticket of Seymour and Blair against Grant and Colfax. The idea, too, that the South will yet be an independent republic is a fallacy of the epoch before the deluge. Within the last twenty years the telegraph, railways and steamships have introduced a new testament among the nations and peoples of the earth. The old theory of a confederation of petty sovereign States is supplanted, and everywhere these new political forces of steam and electricity, together with universal education and an inde- pendent press, are operating to centralization. We have one example of this in the unification of Italy, another in the unification of the North German States, and yet another in the amend- ments of our federal constitution since the re- bellion against the pernicious dogmas of State sovereignty and reserved State rights; and these are but the beginnings of this new dispen- sation, With the telegraph the cities of New York and San Francisco are brought into im- mediate rapport, and with the railway the people of New York city and St. Louis are as near to each other as were New York and Saratoga fifty years ago. The splendid turn- pikes radiating from the Capitol were one secret of the commanding power of the Roman empire; but with his railways and telegraphs the strength of Napoleon IIT. at Paris reduces to a bagatelle the power of Augustus. ~~ In a word, we are in the midst of a new age of centralization under these tremendous cen- tralizing forces of steam and electricity, and powerful central governments, embracing hun- dreds of thousands and millions of square miles of territory, will take the places of petty municipalities and States and rickety confede- rations of incongruous little sovereignties. The sooner our democratic politicians, North and South (but especially of the South), begin to build upon this idea the sooner will they begin to see daylight. republic ; The Excitement in Wall Street. The stock market was in a state bordering on panic all yesterday, and Erie suffered a further decline to 884, while other stocks began to show the effect of the demoralization which is rapidly spreading among the bull ranks. The fact is that prices are so far above the range of real values that they are liable to a heavy fall in any event, buat just now they have to contend with very severe monetary stringency, which, in the opinion of bank officers, is more likely to increase than to diminish during the next few days at least. The panic in Erie continues, however, to be the absorbing feature of the market, and the Presi- dent of the Erie Company officially informed a committee of the Stock Exchange yesterday that five millions of new stock have just been issued, and that five millions more are liable to be issued at any time in exchange for con- vertible bonds, while in the event of the pro- posed third rail being laid three millions of dollars will have to be raised by the issue of convertible bonds and stock. Ie also volun- teered the information that it will require the most strenuous efforts of the management to keep the road out of the hands of a receiver when its acceptances mature on the Ist of January next. Here, then, in this deplorable condition of the company’s finances we tind the real cause of the further decline in its stock to @ lower point than it has tonched for five or six years. How low the panic which is sweeping it downward will carry it is as uncertain as everything else in Wall street; but there has seldom been witnessed on the Stock Exchange so much real alarm in consequence of the critical state of affairs as is now visible on all sides. We have often as their cundidate, had the succession * within their grasp. Unfortunately for the cautioned the public to avold buying tho party, however, the Convention was too stocks which are now tumbling about the ears of their owners, and that the warning was not uncalled for is very evident. Our national securities are an exception to the rule, however, these being relatively cheaper than any others in the country, largely composed of the Northern Bour- bon coppyrkead and old Southern State sovereignty elements of the school of Calhoun, and the Southern wing, as befure the war, held the balance of power, And so it was that in the Tammany platform and in the nomina- and the disbursement of the November tion of General Blair the democracy were made interest on the public debt ospsganrs fail to Sight over again their batile of 1864 upon to stimulate the demand for invest- the leading idoa that the war was a fuilure. ment. However much, therefore, the stocks may decline, the is no Thus the Tammany platform and ticket were n why these should not remain firm. The further decline in gold to 133} has tempo rarily depressed them somewhat ; but with the election of General Grant they will doubtless resume their upward tendency. The banks are averse to encroaching upon their reserve for the purpose of relieving the prevailing stringency, owing to the fear of a run upon their deposits in consequence, and the atrin- gency iu the Wesiern money markets, as well as the prospective demand for currency to more the pork and cotton crops, admonishes them to be more than usually cautious in the course they pursue. Meanwhile Krie leads the downward movement in stocics, and Wall street trembles for the morrow, not knowing what a day may bring forth. could ask for nothing better than the battle of 1864 over again, combined with the great issue of the constitutional amendment fourteen, upon which they swept the country in 1866 against Johnson's policy of Southern resiora- tion. And bere we are drawn to a Mobile letter published io yesterday's Hurarn, giving some account of a conversation of Howell Cobb with our correspondent in August last val situation. From this letter it Cobb, originally a supporter of amendment fourteen, had changed his mind the inspiration, no doubt, of the Tam- many Couvention) demanded nothing less | than the “obendonment of every measure (adopted by Congress) of reconstruction 5 a recognition of every Southern as an Tar Covas Inscinerton,-The news from Cuba published in this morning's Hrratp shows that the insurgents about Manaa- equal of every Northern State.” As for this TERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1 The Alabama Clainr. 5 The late tatement in regard to the Ala- bama claims is the most ridiculous of all, and touches the topmost point in the scale of absurd rumor. It is tot! effect that questions of in- ternational law that have arisen in this discus- sion are to be left to the arbitration of the Ein- peror of Russia, and that the claims of Ameri- can citizens for indemnity shall, with the claims of Englishmen against the United States, be haggled over with diplomatic solemnity by a mixed commission of sixteen men, eight to be appointed by each government. Such a “‘set- tlement” as this was proposed by the British government two or three years ago, and our government was then sufficiently in sympathy with the spirit of the people to reject it as scarcely less than an insult, Are we, then, to accept it now? We hope not, and for this reason—it fs only a proposition to cover evasion. For the Ameri- can people at large the whole point of the Ala- bama claims lies in the question of interna- tional law and right. There is nothing else of it. The money that may be paid is important only as its payment will be a recognition of the justice of our claims. We claim that while we were engaged in a great war for freedom England came behind us sneakingly, in the spirit of a coward and an assassin, and made war upon us under the cover of mercantile transactions, pretending that she was selling ships, but making her dockyards, her ports and her ar- senals bases of operations against our com- merce. There is nothing in this on which we want the opinion of the Emperor of Russia. We will not so far admit a doubt on our right in this claim as would be implied in asking any sovereign’s opinion upon it. We want this claim conceded straightforwardly by England, and the money paid, as an unmistakable evi- dence of the coficession; or we want England to definitely reject the claims—not under cover of any phrases from the Emperor of Russia, but openly, so as to commit her to the declara- tion that such transactions as the Alabama piracies are not violations of neutrality. It is obvious that we can afford to be indif- ferent which alternative England shall choose; we only require that she should commit her- self one way or the other. Should she stand on the interpretation of law by which she holds she is not responsible for the depredations of the Alabama, then, of course, we in the future would not be responsible for ships of similar character that should cruise from our ports again&t British commerce, and we would pay her off handsomely in her next war. As to the commission of sixteen that {s to decide on the claims and hear every claimant personally or by counsel, when would it reach the end of its labors? These claims would go down through more generations than the claim for the destruction of the General Armstrong. There is a State prison full of claimants on the other side—fellows who were arrested here during the war for all sorts of petty delinquen- cies and misdemeanors, and who went home aud made claims for damages. It has been actually shown that some of these worthies were imprisoned for larceny. These are fine claims to offset against the Alabama outrages, and if the government degrades its claims to this level it will do an unworthy and disgrace- ful thing. ‘The Opening of Church Street. It is already known that many property owners have been aszessed rather heavily for the opening of Church street. Yet, singular to say, there has not been the first shovelful of earth turned up there. [t has been a matter of surprise that as so much moncy has been raised upon property from the Battery to Four- teenth street nothing has been done towards the opening of Church street. The Z'riduse affords some explanation of the matter in the following extract from an article published in its columns yesterday. That paper says :— The Church street opening and extension case is familiar to the public. We atl know of that gigantic Jov whereby three aud a half milion’ of dollars were allowed to somebody for damages, and the assess. ment to pay. tt extended all the way from the Bat- tery to Fourteenth street, between roadway and the Hudsou river. The iniquity originated in the days of Gunther, and was part of his legacy Tm. The commissioners were John Scott, clerk to the virtuous Tweed; Henry W. Arcula- rus, brother-in-law of Gunther, and John B, Haskin, who dissented from the action of his colleagues, When Hoffman owas elected he openly ceciared himself opposed to this scheme. On the 2ith day of June, 1867, voth Boards of the Common Council repealed the ordt- nance to widen and extend Church street. There- upon Hadman got from O'Gorman—the serupaious Corporation Counse|—an opinton that ihe repeal was invalid, because tt — & three-fourths vote; and upon that gromnd Hotfnan vetoed the repealing ordinance, at the same time declaring himself in favor of it. Was he in favor of tt, or had he a scheme of his own in connection with this big job? Lei us see. The Common Counell afd not repass the ordinance over the veto, and the commissioners went on with thelr work. In December, 1367, the Supreme Court confirmed the ort of the commissioners. A few mouths atterwards one Henry Starkweather was appointed Collector of Assessments, Stark- weather's bond was filed Murch 16, 1568, and his bondsmen—for the stail sum of $25,000—were John ‘tT. Hoffman and an obscure individual, not much known in this city, named Peter B, Sweeny, Who Is Henry Starkweather? He ts the father-in-law of John T. Hoffman, What is the value of the office of Collector of Agsessments? Anything the ring choose to make it; but, taking one year with another, it ts setae J not less thaa $100,000 perannum. By the rporation ordinances of 1857 the compensation of the Collector of Assessments is fixed at two and a half por cent on his collections, The fees of the Collector of Assessments, in the matter of widening end exiending Church street, will amount to the enormous sum of ninety thousand doilars! Just think of ninety thousand dollars for giving receipts for and putting into the banks something over three miilion five hundred thousand dollars, the whole labor being performed tn an office furnished by the city, and by clerks patd by thecity! Mr. Hoffman nominally gets seventeen thou- sand five hundred dollars for his services as Mayor, and he says himself that the office ta one of paltry powers and small responsibilities; but what matters it Whether his sary is large or small, if he can put one hundred thousand dollars a year into the pockets of his wife's father? And with such offices in his gift, or within his influence, Mr. Hoftman's pretended oppostiion. to such jobs as the Church extension, and hia actual efforts fo put it ¢ reconciled differences and become per- gible. If Mr. Starkweather is to receive ahalf per cent on all asecssments, what Street job will Mr. Hotfaian ever oppose ¢ Now, such is the etatement of the Zrihune; but we can hardly believe it, because just at this moment the Z7ridwne is laboring under an unusual state of excitement, being elec- tion time, and the facts here presented may, after all, be what Greeley would call in his elegant language a —— lie—that is, if anybody else said so of a political opponent of the re- publican party. Now we would ask, merely for information, whether there are any facts to sustain these allegations concerning Hoffman and his father- in-law in regard to the opening of Church amendmen’ fourteen, “he considered it the | nillo had surrendered, and that those who | street. Tf Peter B. Sweeny, who, by his Most dangerous encroachment mpon the re- | had raised the standard of revolt near | straighiforward and generous dealing with the served right of the of any yet at- | Tafias had been defeated by the ernment | city treasury in surrendering the interest on the tempted by the party in 5 tr. He | troops, Except in the wbove imentioned dis- | public receipts, has established bie reputation | thonght the prospect for urs election | triets the whole island is quiet. ‘The strange | a8 one honest man in the ring, will give us his | wae bad—that the revoint wt reach tte} annouticement is made that ia some of the | say upon this point we may, perhaps, rely climax, and exprested a high opinion of Me, | hands negroes have white servants, over whom | upon his statement, | Bennett's political eagacit iit the wat | they lord with the bratality that marks the ¢ If the allegations of the Triiune bo trie, emphatically expressed opinion of tha late 4 black race when in power, Me. Hoflinan, instead of being elected Governor 868.—-TRIPLE SHEET. of the State and sent to presi ought to be sent to the other p statements are true ‘he is a pretty fellow to be candidate for Governor of the great State of New York. Revolution in Spain—The Powers. The revolution in Spain is no longer a some- thing to be spokeh of as a possible success. It is already a fact which has compelled, if not the approval, at least the recognition of the greatnations ofthetime, Great Britain, France, Prussia, Italy and Portugal have formally recog- nized the provisional government. It is added that the French Minister and the Papal Nuncio have expressed a desire to maintain friendly relations with the new government. This news is most important, It shows that in the estimation of the European nations, or rather in the estimation of the governments of these nations, the Spanish revolution is a suc- cess, When we remember the past, such ac- tion on the part of the great Powers is a revo- lution in itself, Nothing could prove more clearly that the divine right of kings is a be- lief of the past, and that the sovereignty of the people is a fact of the present. The time has gone by when nations will Oght in the interest of dynasties. The press, the railroad, the telegraph, have broken down the barrier walls between nations, and have, more than apy other cause or causes, created a world-wide sympathy which knows not, and ought not to know, national barriers. ‘One touch of nature makes the whole world kin” is a saying the truth of which is only beginning to be fully understood. This is a trath which is infinitely more powerful than the loudly talked of docirine of nationalities, Spain has long suffered; the world sympathizes with her in her sorrow, and it is the common wish of all free nations that Spain should become one of themselves. It will redound to the lasting honor of the government of the United States that it was the first to extend the brotherly hand of welcome to the Provisional Junta, Our example has produced good fruit, We have reason to feel prond, and Spain ought to be grateful. oe" ~ This recognition of the Spanish revolution ought to read a Jesson to all the governments of modern times. What the great Powers have done to Spain they are prepared to do to France and Italy or any other Powter to- morrow. When the French army deserts Napoleon or the Italian army deserts Victor Emanuel, asthe Spanish army has now de- serted Queen Isabella, Napoleon and Victor Emanuel and the rest of them will have no reagon to be in doubt a8 to what will follow. Tho Foreiga ae President Johnson on the Debt and Taxa tion—A Flemish Account. The letter of the President on the national debt and taxation, which we published yester- day, is to the point and every word true. In fact he was careful not to overstate the astounding extravagance of the government and the burden of taxation, and took the aggregate official statement of the Treasury Department for the last three years and the estimate for the present fiscal year. Had ho gone more into details, and had he shown that, enormous as the revenue of the government is, it does not represent the entire burden of taxa- tion, he would have made the case much worse. Besides the four or five hundred millions a year actually carried into the Treasury, there has been a hundred millions or more a year stolen through the revenue frauds and by plundering officials, Then, the burden of taxation is vastly increased upon the indus- trious classes by the exemption from taxes of that enormous amount of capital invested in government bonds and by that infamous law of Congress which relieved the manufacturers of New England from their share of the na- tional burdens. -- ‘ It is idle for the radical newspapers to deny the facts set forth by Mr. Johnson or to at- tempt to explain them away, They stand out in alarming proportions, so that every one can see and understand them. The expenditures, as he says, during the last three years of peace have been, successively, five hundred and twenty miilion dollars, three hundred and forty-six million dollars and three hundred and ninety-three million dollars, while the amount estimated for the present year, ending the 30th of June next, is three hundred and seventy-two million dollars—that is, during four years of peace the expenditures of the government amount to over sixteen hundred nillions. In comparing this with the previous expenditures of the government the President shows that, from the 4th of March, 1789, when the federal governinent went into operation, to the 30th of June, 1861, a period of seventy two years, the sum expended was only seven- teen hundred millions, In the last four years of peace the expenditures have been as much, within a hundred millions, ‘as in seventy- two years before. Let it be remem- bered, too, that during these seventy-two years the republic had to bear the debt of the war of independence, amounting in 1789 to seventy-five millions ; the cost of the war of 1812, with an addition of eighty-two millions to the debt; the war with Mexico, which added sixty-four millions more, besides the costly Indian wars and the amount expend- ed for the purchase of Louisiana, Florida, California, Arizona and for the indemnity to Texas. These extraordinary expenditures of the government amounted probably to over two hundred millions; so that, in fact, the current and ordinary expenses amounted to less in seventy-two years than they have during the last four years of peace. What a startling picture is this for the people to con- template! What a comment on radical legisla- tion and rule! The gigantic civil war we passed through and the vast sum required annually to pay the interest on the debt contracted by it are referred to by the radfcals as the cause of such monstrous expenditures, Without adverting to the fact that we had no civil war till the radicals came into power, there is this other fact standing out against them, that they have had the control of the government ever since the war commenced—yes, since peace was restored—and to them, and | them only, are the enormous expendi- | tures to be charged, The nation had | costly wars before, ax those with Great Britain and Mexico: but no such extravagance and mismanagen: were known then, Had the war aud fluaaces beea properly managed dur- coming to th sible excuse ce hundred millions a year? Is it not evid that the radicals are incapable of governing the country? Is it not clear that nothing bub ruin must follow their government? Admitting that it is necessary to pay » hundred and forty witlions a year as interest on the war debt— though there onght not to have been any such debt or interest—what necessity is there for ex- pending two hundred and sixty millions annu- ally for the current support of the govern~ ment? Half that amount would be too much. A third would be enongh, and more than was ever expended before the war. on the debt need not } it is, But leavii sof peace since, there be for expending four ab The question arises, what is to be done to remedy the evil and to return to a system of economy? How are the burdens of taxation to be lightened and the national debt put in a process of liquidation? By turaing out those men who have brought the evil upon us. General Grant will be elected President, no doubt, and, though the candidate of the radi- cal party, he is patriotic and conservative. He will look to the interests of the country and not to party. The remedy is to be found in having a conservative and able Congress ta support him, elections should elect new and better men to the national legislature. All those who have misrepresented the country and brought on the stupendous extravagance, corruption and taxation should be driven to the obscurity they deserve and more capable representatives returned in their place. next Congress will determine whether radical misgovernment and frightful extravagance are The people in the approaching: The character of the to continue or whether the nation may hope fora change. It remains with the people ta say what we may expect in the future. The State of Affairs in Lonisiana. Another riot has occurred in Louisiana, snd, from the telegraphic accounts, appears to hava been attended with more bratal scenes, al« though with probably the loss of fewer lives, and to have occasioned more deep-seated ins dignation and excitement among the whited than any of the previous ones. In St. Bernard parish, just below New Orleans, on Sunday, an affiay took plage between negro apd white Ms in ‘which, as usual, the negroes were the heavier losers in killed and wounded, two of them being killed, while ove white man was wounded. At night, how- ever, the blacks wreaked their demoninc ven= geance on the innocent and helpless, burning three houses and killing a man and woman and,' it is believed, five children. ' a The excitement in New Orleans on the re- ceipt of this intelligence yesterday was intense. Large crowds of white men assembled on the levee and chartered three steamers to ga to the scene of action; but General Rous« geau, having already sent two companies of infantry, promptly interfered and pre- vented their departure. By this act he very probably prevented a wholesale massacre, which would have even surpassed the atrocl« ties committed by the negroes. i Last night the white clubs marched to the Mayor's office well armed and offered their services to patrol the town. But after speeches by ex-federal and ex-rebel generale the offer of the clubs was declined, General Rousseau having again taken the matter in hand at the right moment antl ordered hiv cavalry to keep the city in its charge for the night. Nota policeman was to be seen in the streets, and the negroes, cowed by the visible indignation of the white men, were all closely housed, their usual rendezvous beiug entirely deserted, vl The Naturalization Frauds—The Last Dodge of the Revenue Rings. The party organs are making a great deal of fuss one way and another over the naturaliza- tion fraud sensation recently got up by United States Marshal Murray, Marcus Tullius Cicero Stanley, Theodore Allen and other managera on the republican side of the house. Accord- ing to the republican papers the democrats have been preparing all sorts of rascalities to increase their majority at this end of the State, and according to the copperhead journals the boot is on the other leg, and Marshal Murray and cohorts are only raising a tremendous dus in order to conceal the contemplated frauds of their own friends. Well, we have no doubt that the politicians on both sides will crowd im as many repeaters and bogus votes as poxsi- ble on election day, and if the democrats get the best of the game in New York the republi- cans are ceriain to beat them out of sight ia Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and other States, All this will amount to very liitle,' however, as the legal votets will give Grant such an overwhelming majority that all the fraudulent votes that can be cast on either sida will make no difference in the grand re- sult, Indeed, from the character of Marshak Murray's detectives the whole sensation seems to be nothing more than an attempt on the part of certain United States officials to hold on to their places under Grant's administra- tion by rendering themselves .super-servicea- ble before election. They will be disappointed. General Grant knows that the government departments are rotten with corruption, and one of his first acts will be to clear thom all out, from cellar to garret—revenue ringe, whiskey rings and all—and to fill the public offices with honest men. NOTES ABOUT TOWN. ‘There will be no war dance in Tammany Hal next wonth, Paint is “skurce,” and scalps will be few auc of uo account. Like the money market, the therraometer is vert able just now, it goes up and down without a rea. son, to the great discomfort of everybody except dealers in “cabbage” and clothiers, It is sald that the intimation to resign suggested to # policeman by the President of the Board of I’o- lice Commissioners, because of lis expressiog hia politica! convictions while off duty at a pubite meet ing, was only a plece of actin’. 4 It 19 whispered around town that the secret meet~ ing recent.y held at the Astor [Louse by the officers: of the express companies was for the purpose of giving freighters a touch of their quaitty in the chotion of a tari that will make thent stare. pense” and not “expresa’ Is the proper termi to ap- ply to these associations. Lamppost receplactes for teiters are very conve. nient, but their nae might be greatly extuded, At the foot of the post a box shonid be ply ception of newspapers, In conse packages prepared for the wails, son them, are mather@s by the chifonie . eilye ts this right, lor the re. f thi ue the ole the t Nt te want aot old