The New York Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1868, Page 6

ran NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Dec nnngagnencetll JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THEATRE, Broadway.—Homerr DcMpry, FEATURES. Matinee at 15s. Broadway—Tuk New Draws ED. OLYMPIC wits New WAY THEATR: of ianiwes runicn Ma GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Faust. Geet WALLACK'S THEATRE, Argntvay: and 18th atreet.— SHIRE Lass, BLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Mr. a JACK CavE. Epwin Forrest BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—CRimson SHIPLD; OF, NYMPHS OF THR RAINBOW, | PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Fighth avenue and 251 street. La GRANDE DocuERER. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave: Ang.--GENKVIEVE DE BRABANT. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street, —BAUSIR OF SBVILLE. MRS Nera; THEATRE, Brookiya.— CONWAY'S PAR OMAN'S CONSTANOY. ‘Tammany Building, Mth : TOL BETAUTS: OPERA F 7, £0. 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ALHAMBRA, 616 Broadway.--MUSICAT, MOMENTS Witt MERRY Momus, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.-Hoo1er's MINATRELS—FARCES, ATFalt oF Hoxon, & HOOLEY’S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Willixmsbury.— Hoo.er's MINSTRELS—BU Qur OPERAS, &c. ALLEMANIA HALL, No. 18 East Sixteenth at. TURR--EauTH AND MAN. Lro- NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.-- HEET. T R I P L E New Yor ‘Wednenday, October hist 1508, Europe. The cable reports are dated 10 Ociober £7. Minister Johnson was entertained at the Town Hall of Liverpool, and in his speech hoped that the United States would approve his conduct i Great Britain, ‘The Chamber of Commerce of Birningiam has also sent him an invitation. Mr. Bright has commenced bis Parbanmentary canvass in Birmingham. Shocks otf earthquake were felt in Cork county on Oeroer 26. Aanantity of arms and anuonnilion was forcibly taken from a house in Dublin by posed Fenians, ‘The provisional government of Spain has issued a manifesto to the nation. Decentraitzation of the ad- ministrative power Is advo and the supremacy of the constituent Cortes upty A party of liverals mdviae the sale of Cuba to the United States govern- snent a4 the means to abolish slavery. ‘The Reichsrath of Austria has passed the bill re- specting the war footiug of the army and navy, but ® fecret message from Minisicr Beust causes much uneasiness, In the event of war hetween #rance and Vrussia Austria will guard ber own nen- tality. AU buamess is stopped im Lavre and a general holiday observed on acconut of the closing of the Marine Exhibition. The steamer Ville de Paris ar- rived at Brest from New York on October 26, Consols, 4j, money, Five-twenttes, « Erie shares, 285;. Iiinois Central, Paris Bourse firmer; rentes, 70f. Cotton in Liverpool firm; | 9. middling uplands, Nd. Produce market in Liver pool Armer and advancing. | Cnba, i Avother battle has beew fough!, (ue ineiuygents be- | ing defeated by the troops on Contramisie river, fosing many horses and three vrisoners. They, how. | ever, carried away their killed and wounded, i Louisiann, ‘The reports of the St. Rernard rivis in Louisiana were exaggerated. The nm 4 did not kill any | women or children or fire the troops. Two | white men were murdered in New Orieans on Mon- day nigitt, and as they belonged to 4 club of foreign- ers the latter were mach exasperated against the ue- grees, and twoor three fights occurred, several of both parties being killed, The metropolian poltee | are demoralized, all the negro members liave been | diacharged, and General Roussean still has his troops | | | | up disposed throughout the city to prevent riots. Mayor Conway proposes (6 make General Stecdinan tempo- rary Chief of Police. Genera) Rousseau has telegraphed to Washington for inairactions as to how far his power in the pre- servation of peace extends, and informing the Presi- dent of the wish of Governor Warmoth to turn over the civil government to him. To this, after a Cabi- net consultation, a reply was gent that he was authorized and expected to take any action that may be necessary. Miseettaneous. Governor Sevinour spoke at Columns, Oia, ves torday. The Kepublican National Counnittes have pub- (ished a Atiring address to the party, which will be found ecisewhere in our columns {)\' K. F. Dickinson, who was chy Congreseman in the Sandusky, Ohto, district by th mocrats at the fate election, was arrested on Swurday in Cleve- iand on a charge of complicity in the mance of fraudulent naturalization papers with J. Hl. McArdle, the Chairman of the Democratic County Committee, who was arrested on the same me on the 17th inst, Dickinson at that time woe held as # witness tn the case, Mr. Atkinson, who is somewhs! noted for his re. vent controversy with Genera! Butler, writes to # Boston paper that the telegraph cierk who had let ont ‘8 certain private message of hix, so that General But- ler becume possessed of it, has been discovered, but it was deemed inadvisable to prosecute him because, in aeimilar cave 11 New York, the judge decided that, a# a committee of Congress tad axsumed the right to control private correspondence, an operator conld not be condemmed for the sare as«umption, Rey. Dy. James McCosh was, with appropriate and highly interesting exercises, yesterday inaugurated President of the College of New Jersey at Princeton, to succeed the venerable Dr. Maclean, who, after Afty years @eervice in the college, lias retired from the presidency. We give elsewhere a report of the Procession, congratulatory speeches wand tpangural address of the new President. Genera| Reynolds, commanding ip ‘Texas, reventiy ordered a judge to continue @ certain civil case, in- volving ® question of heirship, and tne counsel on one side have written to President Johnson asking him to prevent such interference. The President has replied that he cannot interfere, as hie bands are tied by the reconstruction laws and that the only who can give them relief is General Grant, Spencer Kirby has been nominated by Commis- sioner Rollins to be Supervisor of ihe Southern dis. trict of New York. ‘The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that hotel and restaurant keepers whose sales of Hauors amount to over $25,000 per year shall place orning. —_ssstesiemee cama nmemeemaaaaamtaal sylvania to Nebraska, bronght the conviction home to these spoilemen that Seymour and Blair were in a bad way; that New York NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. themselves in the category of wholesale dealers. and | moval; but failing also in this experiment, Must therefore exhibit the sign of wholesale dealers, ‘according to the provisions of the law. The republican members of the Lower House their copperhead organ proclaimed that hence- or | forth Seymour was the candidate of the demo- the Oregon Legislature have resigned and thus leave | cratic party and the authorized representative the House without a quorum. No appropriation bill | of its principles; that Blair was a cipher, a has yet been passed. Some time ago the Legislature | mere Tepealed its resolution ratifying the fourteenth arti- cle of amendment; but that this is the cavse of the Withdrawal of the republican members is only an inference, nobody on the ticket, and that his letters end speeches had furnished capital enough to the radicals, but that henceforward they would have to fight Seymour. Accordingly, it had Another shock of earthquake occurred in 88M | been arranged that he should make a tour to Francisco at midnight of the 26th, The operatives in the Philadelphia woollen mills have struck and 600 of them have ceased work. The the West, and in a series of stirring speeches, from point to point, against the abuses and trouble arises from the fact that thelr wages, which | usurpations of the radicals, compel them to had been increased fifteen per cent temporarily | drop Blair and defend themselves against during an advance in goods, was to be again re- duced fn that amount, The City. A grand political demonstration on the part of the democratic party of this city took place last night in and around Tammany Hall. The principal speech was one made by the democratic candidate for the Vice Presidency, General Frank P, Blair, Jr, in which le cast back upon the republican party the chage of being revolutionary, and declared that General Grant had a policy, and that it was identical with the party or Oilver © poieon, The expected debate on ritualism began yesterday Seymour. The plan was put into operation; but the managers had been counting without their host. General Blair would not hide his light under a bushel at their bidding, but maintained the fleld, bravely defending his Brodhead letter as the main plank in the democratic platform. To make the matter worse, not having the fear of the lukewarm Manhattan and Tammany romwell and Louis Na- | Hoffman clique before their eyes, the Brick Pomeroy, Jack Rogers red hot democracy in the afternoon session of the Protestant Episcopal | doubtless contrived this visit of General Blair Convention, It was very animated and interesting, but was not conctuded at the hour of adjournment in the evening and will be continued this morning. Many other matters of interest to the Church were disposed of, The Convention will adjourn to-mor- row night, and the concluding religious services will be held at Calvary church, northeast corner of ‘fwenty-first street and Fourth avenue, at half-past seven o'clock to-morrow (Thursday) evening. The examination of Benjamin Rosenberg for al- leged naturalization frauds was resumed before Comnussioner Osborn yesterday. District Attorney Courtney, for counsel for the prosecution, rested | termined to keep : the case. Counsel for defence then made a motion to dismiss the case, which was argued at length by hoth sides, and the court adjourned at the conciu- sion until to-day. Fourteen trunks, bing $6,000 worth of pro- were recently stolen from in front of Ball & where they had been sent in a car by Mra. Black on her return from the country, Six of them were afterwards recovered. On Monday night three more of them were recovered, one being found on ‘Thompson strect, another on Fifth avenue and av- other on Macdougal street, where they had probably been dropped by the thieves in a moment of alarm. The Coroner's jury yesterday found that John Con- don, a lad of fourteen, who was shot on pier 62 East river, came to bis death at the hands of Mrs. Fanny Seiner. One of the witnesses testified that Mrs. Seiner remonstrated with the boys for throwing mud at her, and suid she had orders from the policemen to shoot them if they did it again. She fired two or tree shots and eursed the boy after he was shot, Mrs. Seiner was commitied to the Tombs, having to say to the charge. 1. P. Kiuck, who was detained in jail six days in 1886 On a charge of conspiracy to defraud the credi tors of the defunct firm of Folger & Tibbs and was then acquitted, yesterday received a verdict in the Supreme Court, Circuit, of $5,000 damages against luis former prosecutors for false traprisonment. ‘The coroner's jury in the case of James McAdams, who wa8 killed ina drinking saloon on Third ave- nue, rendered a verdict yesterday that he age! to his death at the hands of Michael Mulligan. verdict not being satisfactory, the foreman Se he belteved the killing was justifiable, as the deceased had given Mulligan some provocation, Thereupon Mulligan was released from custody. ‘The stealuship Russia, Captain Cook, will sail to- day for Liverpoot via Queenstown. The mails will close at the Post Office at twevie M. ‘The steamship Colorado, Captain Cutting, will leave pier 46 North river af noon to-day for Queens- town and Liverpool. The Black Star line steamship Marmion, Captain Faircloth, will leave pier 13 Norit river at three P.M. to-day for Savannah, Ga, ‘The stock market was Weak and unsettled yester- terday. Government securities were dail but steady, Gold closed at 1843; @ 124% _. Prominent Arrivuls in the City. Genera Frank P. Blair, Jy, Col, W. P. Wilson, of the United States Army; Major W. A. West, Colonel Charles W. Carrington and J. R. Thompson, of Phila- deiphia: General George P. Thrie, of Idaho, and ex- Governor George H. Thacker, of New York, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Cougressinan W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, and dudge Nelaon, of Poughkeepsie, are at the Si. Nicho- jas Hotel. Captain Join de Hart, of the United States Army: Captain Charles P. Uhle, of the United States Nav, dudge Charlies Kean, of Pennsylvania, and Captain Dawson, of the Canadian Rifles, Toronto, are at the St. Charles Hotel, Montgomery Blair. York Hotel. Mayor McMichael, of Piuiadelphia, and Colonel H, Ss. Curtis, of Washtugton, are at the Brevoort House. Major Boyne, of the United States Army, and ex- Governor L. Underwood, of Vermont, are at the Hoffman House. Ceneral J. Middleton, of Georgia, and Captain Jas, Young, of the British army, are at the St. Julien Hotel. of Maryland, is at the New Bair in New YVork—Tue ULunke- warm and the Red Hot Democracy. Frank P. Blair, democratic candi- date for the Viee Presidency, had a noisy and demonstrative welcome last night at the great meetiog in Tammany Hall. He made a speech of nearly an hour's length, defending himself Gener) General to New York, as the unflinching champion of their rights and the Tammany decla- ration that all the reconstruction acts of Congress are ‘unconstitutional, revolu- tionary, nul and void,” and of that other declaration, that the bondholders must be paid off, like the rest of us, in greenbacks. Thus we have developed here in New York city among the confused democracy a Se. mour faction of the lukewarm democracy de- Blair in the background, and a Blair faction of the red hot democracy who are quite as firmly resolved to keep him in the foreground—a faction contending that Blair is a marplot, a heretic, a disturber, an outsider and dead weight upon the party, and a faction glorying in him as the living em- bodiment of the democratic faith and the demé- cratic programme, There is at Washington a guerilla copper- head organ, supposed to be a sort of tender to the kitchen cabinet, which, joining in the out- sei in the demand for the shelving of Seymour and Blair, still keeps up the cry. But it seems 0 have had some inkling of the game of the Manhattan ring of bondholders and Bohemians, for it says:—‘“Mr. Belmont, recovered trom the fatigue of his long recreation at Newport, has suddenly become aware that something must be done to save, not the general election, but the State of New York, Hoffman and the Tammany ring. That little empire is of more importance to the stchems of Tammany then all beside. Governor Seymour is at this late hour made a stalking horse for this purpose alone.” And again this Washington organ demands the shelving of Seymour and Blair. This 1s democratic harmooy “with all the modern improvements.” Ye hardly know what to make of it. We think that, take it all together, it presents a Bad prospect, not only for Seymour and Blair, but for Hoffman, as the party most directly interesied in the New York election. About the only redeeming features of this democratic muddle are the manly courage and honesty of the red hot democracy of the school of General Blair, and the plack of Blair him- self in bearding his accusers in Tammany Hall. If any of them enteriained the com- forting idea that the mission of the General to this city would be immortalized by his mag- nanimous withdrawal from the democratic ticket they must try to bear their disappoint- ment. Nominated in the July Convention by acclamation as an out-and-out expounder of the democratic faith, General Blair no doubt feels that obedience to the clamors of a little clique of spoilemen and Bohemians would be treachery 40 the great mass of the democratic party. The effort made to hide him from the public eye was @ trick of cowardice to which a true soldier could not consent, and the agreement of # clique to iguore him and bully him into a resignation was a device which in our New York November elections will he very apt to rebound like the gun of Hudibras— Which, almed at duck or piover, Kicks back and knocks the owner over. The Continued Excitement in Wall street. The panic-like state of feeling which has heen the leading featare of Wall street affairs since the break in Erie last Friday afternoon continued unabated yesterday, and the mone- | tary stringency was even greater than at any time within a week past, The damaging statements made by the president of the Erie company have had the effect of still further in- creasing the indisposition of money lenders to from the charge of being a revolutionist, cast--| receive Erie stock as a collateral for loans, ing back that charge upon his political enemies of the republican party, and declariug emphat- ically that General Grant had a poliey—one that would prove fatal to the constitution and the country—a policy like to that of Cromwell and Louis Napoleon. General Blair's appearance in New York at this crisix, while Seymour, the head of the ticket. is “swinging round the circle” in the West, is a remarkable event, ax his speech in the Tammany wigwam last night was a re- markable speech. In the copperbead organ, which assumes all the airs of the dandy and chief *‘medicine man” of the democratic party, not even a passing allusion was made yester- day morning to the coming of General Blair, The Seymour and Hoffman faction here, por exveclence, Vad not, in fact, send for General Blaiy, and did not want him. Their game in the Tammany Convention, whatever it muy have been in the beginning, war in the final struggle reduced to the simple purpose of saving New York and of getting a Governor | and Legislature subordinate to our Corpora- tion rings. The October elections, from Penn- would probably be lost, and that the case was so desperate that nothing but the desperate remedy of a change of front and a change of the Presidential ticket would save the party even in New York. ‘This remedy was boldly proposed, and the dead weight of General Blair was urged from day to day for a week or more through the copperhead organ aforesaid, as involving an imperative necessity to change the ticket. But Mr. Belmont, the head of the National Democratic Executive Committee, promptly rosponded that this thing on the verge of the great battle “would be equivalent to disband- ing our fotces.” The conspirators against General Blair then demanded at lonst his re- and as soon as the Enylish holders realize that five millions more of new stock is likely to he thrown upon the market shortly, and that there is no limit to ifs increase through the issue of convertible bonds, the effect may be in | agined. 4t is reported that two millions more | of greenhacks have been withdrawn from the | bunks and that nearly a quarter of a million was sent South yesterday, so that the indica- tions are against any relief from the prevailing stringency. Bank officers are unwilling to encroach upon the reserve of their respective institutions in view of the approaching demand for cnrrency ta move the pork and the cotton crops, and they say they can obtain no benefit from exchanging their three per cent certifi- cates for currency, as they alveady count the former in their legal tender reserve, and the withdrawal of currency from the Sub-Treasury | | | | will only compel the latier to seek an equivalent iu increased sales of — gold. The main cavse of the — prevailing distrust in Wall street ix, however, the great inflation of prices, which last are so far above the range of real values that they excite appreheusion even among the most sanguine of the bulls. | The collapse of the present bubble of stock speculation would exert rather a salutary effect than otherwise, and whether money becomes ahandant or not this will assuredly take place before long. We have often warned the public of the danger of huying the inflated speculative stocks, and it is now clear that our warning was not uncalled for. It is not likely that the present crisis on the Stock Exchange will cul- minate in a general panic; but it would not be surprising if a further heavy break took place in the highly speculative stocks, whether the money market becomes more stringent or not. To those who are out of Wall street we say keep out of it, while we admonish those who are in to take in eail and prepare for » stormy time, The Mayor and the Collectors of Assess- | The Presidential Shortcomings of the New mont. We published yesterday a statement from Greeley’s journal in relation to Mayor Hoffman and the collectors of assessment, but took the precaution to disclaim at the time any respon- sibility for its truthfulness. We publish to-day a letter from Peter Bismarck Sweeny, which seems to show clearly that Greeley is not a correct accountant, and that he has made some serious blunders in the accusations he has brought against the Mayor, so far as the street opening business is concerned. It remains now for Greeley to explain his charges more fully, if he can, and to prove that they are not merely electioneering dodges, got up, as most such stories are, for political effect, and calou- lated to benefit rather than to damage the parties against whom they are directed. It will be seen that Bismarck Sweeny, while entirely demolishing Greeley’s indictment, pitches into the radical philosopher in a very mild and gentlemanly manner. He does not resort to Greeley’s usual mode of argument, and say bluntly, “You lie, you villain!” but takes moderate, courteous and unexceptiona- ble method of proving that the assertions of the radical leader are unfounded. ' We expect, nevertheless, that Greeley will come back upon Bismarck Sweeny with his accustomed vio- lence, and will heap upon him all the epithets to be found in the radical vocabulary. It is to be hoped, however, that the disputants will not wholly annihilate each other prior to Grant's election. So far as the Church street opening is con- cerned we know from personal experience that we have paid three thousand dollars assess- ment on a small piece of property em- braced in that work before the first spadeful of earth has been disturbed for the improve- ment. This may be all in accordance with law, and we suppose it is, All we make out of Bis- marck Sweeny’s communication, however, is that Mayor Hoffman's father-in-law gets only one-seventh of the percentage allowed on these collections, instead of the whole amount, and that his offige has been worth only about three thousand dollars a year, outside of the Church street job, instead of one hundred thousand dollars. We learn also that Mayor Hoffman's father-in-law is, in the dignified language of Wall street, a ‘“‘retired merchant.” Well, all we can say is that if he will retire also from all street opening jobs he will save Greeley the trouble of telling any more such fibs about the Mayor, will prevent the Mayor from being taken to task about the doings of his father-in- law, and will spare Chamberlain Sweeny the necessity of apologizing and explaining for the Mayor. Will Starkweather retire ¥ ? The Chief Justice Denies the Soft peachment. Despatches from Washington state that Judge Chase pronounces as a forgery the letter said to have been written by him to his friend, Mr. Alexander Loug, of Cincinnati, declar- ing his willingness to step into Governor Seymour's shoes as candidate for the Presi- dency. As matters have turned out it is not asuhject of the slightest importance whether Chief Justice Chase is charged with having accepted or refused a proposition of this kind, the fact being most probable that no such proposition was ever made to him, as the whole story of a change of candidates is now believed to have been # scheme of the radicals to weaken the fuith of the demo- crats in Seymour and Biair. That this letter, purporting to be signed by Chief Justice Chase, was a part of that little trick, is preity well understood. Had the Chief Jus- tice been nominated by the Democratic Con- vention in July he might have been a for- midable competitor to the radical candidate. His position in the contest since that time has not been of much importance, although the curiosity of many people may* be satis- fied hy knowing how he stands in respect to accepting Seymour's old clothes. Thnk Erections iN Great Broram.—The extracts which for some days we have been giving from our English files show that the present election contest is one of the most wonderful which the British isles have ever witnessed. Mr. Gladstone and his friends are turning up heaven and earth to make Itberal- ism, which for the present means the abolition of the State Church, a success at the polls. Mr. Disraeli, taking a broader view of the situ- ation, remains in digaitied silence, The situa- tion in England recalls the situation at home, In Gladstone we have our Seymour, In Disracli we have our Grant. li will aot be wonderful if in both casex the November elec- tions turn out in favor of the mun who is at once the most dignified and the most silent. If it should be so it will only be one argument more in favor of the old saying that “speech is silvern and thet silence is golden.” Tie Aumep Ni Autry or Ausra. —The | passage by the Reichsrath of the ministerial bill fixing the basis as to the numbers and uipment for the army when on a war foot- ing, is a significant indication of the chronic state of insecurity to which the great Powers of Europe are condemned by their mutual rivalries and jealousies. {n the speech of Baron von Beust in secret session, urging the | paseage of the bill, the Prime Minister is said to have alluded to the good relations which exist between Austria and the other great Kuropeon Powers, but he also intimated that in the event of a rupture between Prussia and France Austria must be ready to guard her own neutrality. Tur Sranisn Crown—-The Casptoares, From the news which reaches us day atter day we can gather that if Spain is not to become a republic, and if the Bourbons are to be hope- lessly cut off, there are but three sources from which «a royal chief can be drawn, These sources are ftaly, Portugal and Great Britain, Ench of these has a peculiarity. If the second son of Victor Emanuel is chosen there is a probability that hoth peninsulas will come under one Power. ff the futher of the King of Portugal is chosen there is « pro- ability that the Iherian peninsula will become a unit, Wf Prince Alfred of England is chosen the presumption is that Gibraltar will be given back to Spaln. There ie but one moral to be drawn from this statement of the case, What is the moral? It is simply this: that Napoleon is master of the situation, and that whichever arrangement is to be most to his advautego, that arrangement will suc- coed, Pen SRE SS ec EE as Dec SE ee Sn ae eee eae ae, Seer aaa Yerk Democracy. To go back no further the New York de- mocracy committed a serious blunder in con- senting to the supplanting of Martin Van Buren in the Baltimore Convention of 1844 by the two-thirds rule, Had they in the outset made his nomination their ultimatum they would have secured it and saved themselves and the whole party a world of troubles and disasters. They saved Polk in 1844, with the understanding that in 1848 Van Buren should have another run for a second term; but in 1848 they caved again at Baltimore, which resulted in Van Buren’s third party ticket, through his determination to take his case into his own hands against the Southern oligarchy, which he did, and so swampedthem. In 1852 a firm and united stand at Baltimore by the New York democrats would have resulted in 8 better candidate than poor Pierce, In 1856 they did as well as could be expected, perhaps, under the circumstances; but in 1860, at Charleston, the men of the New York delega- tion were mere playthings in the hands of the Rhetts, the Yanceys and Slidells. So in 1864 they were twisted around the finger of Vallan- digham, asin 1868, with all their fine tricks in convention jugglings, they were twisted around the finger of Wade Hampton. Thus, since 1840, the leaders of the democracy of the Em- pire State have played second fiddle to their Southern masters, and Seymour, it is to he hoped, will be the end of the chapter. The Progress of Seymour. Seymour has gone ont West and Blair has come to the Empire State—a very practical change of places between the candidates. This democratic manceuvre is the whole and only result of the terrible resolution of the Manhattan Club men that ‘‘something must be done.” It seems to admit, it is true, that the candidates were respectively in the wrong places. People said that Blair was in Sey- mour’s place and Seymour in Blair's. So the managers of the contest have gone to work boldly and literally and put Seymour where Blair was and Blair where Seymour was. This is as far as they have got in their efforts to impress a change on the character and prospects of the campaign. For our part we should have thought things bad enough as they were. The atmosphere of this city is not good for Blair. It was here he wrote the Brodhead letter; and, therefore, we should vegard it as of the first necessity to keep him where the atmosphere is dry. It is possible, we suppose, that there may be something worse than the Brodhead letter. It so we are in a fair way to get it. As to Seymour's going to Indiana, if any man supposes that our urbane Governor, who is 80 smooth that he is nearly polished away, is the person to stir up and invigorate’ those rough giants— the Western democrats—that man is wrong, Seymour's progress toward the West, theré- fore, is toward the final setting of the demo- cratic sun. Judge Barnard and the Erie Railroad War. Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court, is the democratic candidate for a re-clection. His late services in the work of naturalization have raised a radical hornet’s nest about bis ears. They are resolved to defeat him if they can at the polls, and failing in that they threaten to impeach him. Among the charges raised against him is that of certain alleged corrupt and improper practices asa Judge in the late Erie Railroad war. As a simple mat- ter of fair play in reference to this charge we submit the following document to the public :— I hereby cortify that at a meeting of the directors of the Erle Railway Company, held on the 10th day of July, 1868, the following action was taken:— Whereas # certam action is now pending in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in favor of the Erie Railway Company and James 8. Whitney against George G. Barnard and others; and whereas the complaint in said action charges the said Barnard with corrayt and improper action and conduct in his official capacity as a Judge of sald Conrt; and whereas “we have become convinced, after a most ample snd complete investiga- tion, that there i# no foundation whatever for auch charges; therefore Resolved, That the said chu are hereby withdrawn as whol Resolve be and the same jy eroundless. That the said action, we against the said Georg: arnard, he abandoned so far as this cont- pany is concerned as # party plaintif, and that our attorneys be und they are hereby instracted to dis- continue the same accordingly. 10 N, OTIS, Secretary. Attest. HORA’ Here we have a settlement of this matter, and as for this threat of impeachment in refer- ence to these naturalization proceedings, it may be “a good enough Morgan till after the election,” and is only intended as an election- eering Morgan. As one of our most fearless, independent and efficient dispensers of justice, we dave say that Judge Barnard ia sufliciently well known to rau ahead of hia party vote. Vhe Sale of Coban the United Staten. In the thronging multitude of questions re- vived hy the Spanish revolution the question of the sale of Cuba to the United States naturally orises, According to the latest tele- graphic despatches from Madrid some Spaniards of advanced liberal ideas advise the sale of Cuba to the United States as the most direct and speedy method of solving the ques- tion of the abolition of slavery. Now, the number of “Spaniards of advanced liberal ideas” is still comparatively small, not- withstanding the increase of the leavening in- fluences which a few sympathizers with the leaders of the democratic and republican move- ment in France and Italy have been able to in- troduce into the popular mind and heart in to Spain. Bri no longer ago than at the date of the memorably abortive confer- ence of Messrx, Buchanau, Soulé and Maxon, at Ostend, even Spaniards of the most extreme liberal views were aK violently opposed to the sale of Cubs to the United Statex as royalists of every party. Times, however, change, and men change with them. 1 ix not impossible that the Spaniards may eventually cease to regord the sale of Cuba ae equivalent to the sale of Spanish honor. But it is hardly to be expected that Mr. Seward, before retiring’ from office, will add the purchase of Cuba to the other real estate speculations which have signalized hia administrati THe Trovnnes is Lovistana.—Although it appears by our latest telegrapbic despatches from New Orleans that former reports of the troubles in Louisiana were somewhat exagger- ated, it is nevertheless manifést that the condi- tion of affairs in that State, and particularly in New Orleans, is sufficiently critical to justify the prompt ineasures which the authoritios at Washington have taken to prevent « general outbreak and to put as speedy an end as pos- sible to the scenes of violence that have lately become go frequent ang slarmipg. a paar ini ghana aeaarennatrceasomeotnresonasiegitiesinmaiocimmsinitsahitlciaainsilg cenibiheaniece : NOTES ABOUT TOWN. Grapes do not hang so high nor are they so sour as they were a couple of weeks ago. They can now be obtained from reasonable-minded dealers at from six to seven cents per pound. The vast freight depot of the Hudson River Raw- road Company, which covers the entire site of what Was St. John’s Park, is rapidly approaching complie- tion, It will be the largest building of its kind on the Continent, Earnest, benevolent women, knowing the needs of thelr fallen sisters, are about to open @ Night Refuge in this city, where all who enter it will be treated with respect, and employment offered them that in time may wean them from the paths of sin in which, with sorrowing or hardened hearis, they now, curs- ing and cursed, walk to death. Inquiry has shown that of the 3,000 persons resid- ing in and near Water street, and within two min- utes’ walk of Allen’s dance house, not twenty ever attended the Van Meter prayer meetings; and yet to keep them alive upward of $10,000 was expended. Water street, if anything, is worse than before the missionaries visited it; and there is good reason for it, The concert season onthe Mallin the Park will soon be brought to aclose. It is not so pleasant now as afew weeks ago to stand and listen to the splendid music of Auber, Verdi, Rossini and that later genius, Offenbach, even if rendered by Dod- worth’s unrivalled band. ‘They had a visitation from Jack Frost at Yorkville the other morning—a premonition of “the good time coming” for skating. When the lake, like an indu- rated old rock, 1s congealed from shore to centre, won't the steels ring out a merry tune, responsive to the laughing voices of the thousands who love to rollic and glide on- the glittering plain, polishéa, smooth and reflective as{a mirror ! “Vital Statistics” of the Board of Health is conva- lescent, and will soon be strong enough to stand on his pins. He had the pleasure of recording, last week, 380 marriages and 213 births, Exrce signun, ‘There 1s great pother about fraudulent naturaliza- tion papers just now, and Marshal Murray is in his glory; for there ts nothing he desires so much as a political row in which his name is mixed up. Murray should be an alderman or a supervisor. Target excursions are all the go just now. It te astonishing the quantity of cheap pewter, tin and Silver plated ware that is worked off in the cours of aseason a few weeks antecedent to an election by these valiant “sojers;” and how candidates for the Assembly, street sweeping, Aldermanic boards and keepers of dog pounds suffer in pocket by these chaps until their fate is decided. The streets on the west side of the town, uear and parallel to the river, are ina beastly condition. The attention of “Vital Statistics’ is invited to an in- spection of West and Greenwich streets, from the Battery to Canal street. He will therein, lke his penographs, find everything pretty thoroughly muddled, SERIOUS AFFRAY IN BROOKLYN. A Wowan Shot by a Deputy Collector. A serious affray occurred in Brooklyn yesterday, and, as is most generally the case, poor woman Who was in no way concerned was shot. It ap- pears, 80 far as can be ascertained, that three of the deputy collectors, whose names sre Frederick B. Lawrence, Charles C. Swaine and William Buck- land, started out with the intention of looking up some illicit stills in what is known as Irishtown, in the Fifth ward. ft is only @ short time since that a corps of marines were called out in this section of the city to protect officers of the Internal Revenue Departinent in mak - ing # descent on some places where illicit stills were supposed to be in fall operation. This course was deemed rather imprudent, from the fact that the appearance of the military caused a great excite- inent and nearly resulted in losgof life. Yesterday the deputy collectors mentioned. above brought up at Riley's liquor store, at the corner of Gold and Ply- month streets, where they stopped, as alleged, to take a drink. As they happened to be known tu the locality and ther business there being suspected, a large crowd gathered outside of the place ready to give them a greeting when they made their appearance. On making their fa aon they were hooted and yelled at by acrowd of men and boys, and had proceeded bat @ short distance when they were assaulted with sticks, stones and other missiles, Lawrence was quite severely in- but his companions escaped with @ few es, They found it necessary, in ordor eacape from the mob, to take refuge in pr pay on tihery, at the corner of John and streets, Lawrence, however, — continued wes John street, followed close by his pursuers, and, fearing that he might not be able to get away without further injury, suddenly turned and fired a revolver indiscriminately at the crowd, A woman, named Maria orl who was just stepping out of her door, N 2 John street, to visit a neighbor, received the bail in her breast. The crowd then became alarmed and dis) . The in- jured woman was taken into her house, where Dra. Gilfillan and Young extracted the ball. Her wound is not considered of a dangerous character. Several olicemen arrived at this point and took Lawrence into custody. He was taken to the Forty-second pre- cinet, where he was detained to answer. Opinion of the Attorney General on the Datios of Boards of Registry and Inspection. ‘The Attorney General of this State, having been in- terrogated as to the dutv of boards of registry and inspection, answers, under date of October 19, as follows: — STATE OF New ronm | inba.t ATTORNEY GENKKAL'S OF FLO, ALTKANY, Oct. 19, 1 has prevented ma Measte, NUV-TON AND MONTANYE: — * ir fr vom anetre rig the inquiries contatned In your letter of Sep- 5 KMEN-—Absence feom the elt; tember #) ant!! ih ‘The law dors i to present hi of Tnspectora on ol answer all etfonm a auth under that oath. Ib ass 0 hie nitimate right to” vote ‘Te answers snob questions, if he does not refive to answer such. He fs, althongh the ctiallenye be not witudrawn, still entitled to vote, the general oath, ‘which must be ad- cannot, on inking such oath, for cute, Myicrenitcr of the preliminary oath te to eliel fects upon which the person of his ¥ot he advised as to. Ui rights, Hut such ‘The the elector to judy if be in wwilliny ceived by the Board. The Board, when inet to make tration of voters, have require the production of the naturalization papers alized eitieen oftering himeel? for registers. Yon ingpectors have the rig itvarily to rejectthe wolee because of Amaro enspicion that the ps pera were wrong?" If audi ure of the Clerk and of ovinion that the If they should rigue th way cate and Fojeck er the names they would do #0 wt perl and render bens liable, fi the person re- sits very didicath to tinaping o.com HK wookd be a pradeut ora proper exercise of oficial mi, andl refi The prineipte ie fundamental, as applied to ail juatetal pro, cradings, that the ser! of thé court from which the record gmanaiee implies ihe abeoln © verity of the record, and makes of naturalization, ander the seal of @ court 9 von rindiction, J do not baliove can be dist At the more caprice ok the Board; and it trary and illegal exercise of powar to mst eo Inpreaeed wae torent os er nna " INTERESTING To guar DEALERS. In answer to certain inquiries of Collector of tn- ternal Revenue Clephane, of Washington city, Com- missioner Rolling sends him the following:— Treasury Departs OpPtCe INTERNAL REVENE WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 1808, Sin-—Your letter of the dist inet, in relation to the accounts and signs of wholesale liqnor deavers, has been received, In reply, I have to say that the books prescribed in section forty-five of act of July 20, 1868, must be kept by all liquor dealers who core within the definition of hg dealers. They will not, however, be requ enter im detali any sale of spirits of less avant? than is required by section atts ven of saia act be star ped—that ia to a packages of more them five gallons.” Sales * pimaller quantities aud eo may ~ eaten fines = aS M your question refe pe! deatere’ nigne, required by section seo of tad act, Tcan onlgaay that the reqnirements seem A be plain and positive, and there nee be no way - eseny TOR liqaor Sa ip <a rad within the cates himee! 0" (4 . ty. The da dealer, except by payiug makes no distinc Tot between the classes oF auch dealers and no power has been con! on me ta make any or to relieve any person from the plain re- quirement of the = ‘A. ROLLINS, Commiarioner. k Gonector, Washington, D. 0. tthe is cunrmast h is in anawer to tho question whether hotels, w! Prone sales at their bars make them wholenal dealers, should have the sign, ——— Nquor YACHTING. ‘the yachte Dauntless and Resitess wore seen on the 0th inet. five miles south of Yarnegat, steering south, ,