The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1868, Page 6

6 —— NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPRIETOR ——————— — —__— -—__-_ } seeveves-NOe 304 =— Volume XX XIII. = AM CSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLAOK'S TIEATRE, Broadway end 18th streot,— Tas Laxcasuras Lass. O'S GARDEN, Brosdway-MR. EDWIN ForRest Ac RAS fit Dawos asp Brmmias. WERY THEATRE, Bowery.—ORtMson SUIELD; Om, Pet ‘OF THR RAINLOW, 1s OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and eal nivel bs UBANDE DUCHRSSR. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourtoenth street and Bixth ave- pne—GENEYIRVE DE Buapant. OLYMPIC THRATRR. Brow wirn New Frarcges, a BROADWAY THBATRE, Broadway—Dousry & Son— YOUNG ACTRESS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Govmmnon's Wire—Tuk Gueat LeoraRp. —Homrrs Dumery, GERMAN ATADE THEATRE, Noa, 45 and «7 Bowery.— Dis Soucey, MRS. F. 8. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— . STANCY. "8 © E, Tammany Building, 14th LOY, &O., LOCRRTIA BORGIA. 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OPERA HOUSE, Wiillameburg.— HOOLey's MEssTSkL6—-BusLESQUA Orenas, Av. NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway So1RNOD AxD ART. TRIPLE SHEET. Nuaws. Europe. ‘The cable reports are dated October 29, The Paris Mowitaur of to-day states that the Em- peror of Austria wiil not sign the Ariny bill recently paased by the Reichsrath, and adds that the Minis- ter of War publicly asserts that Austria is only arm- ing in proportion to her population. The Ministry ‘announces the false Interpretation put on Baron von Beust’s speech, as Austria's policy.is peace. The Diet has passed 4 b:li anthortzing the increase of the army by forty thousand soldiers, in order to bring the standing army up to the limit fixed bylaw. A subsequent despatch mentions that explanations ave passed between the Ministry and the Reichsrath respecting the streugth of the anny. The present active force ta not to be tucreased. ‘The lperal party in Great Britain are convinced of their majority in the coming elections, aud the fol- lowing cast for the formation of the new Ministry is binted:—Premler, the Hon. W, E. Gladstone; Foreign Secretary, Earl Russell; Home Seoretary, Mr. John Bright; Ctancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Culling Eardley Childers; Lord Chancellor, Sit Rowndell Palmer, and for Secretary of War, the Marquis of Uartington. The seasion of the North German Diet will be opened on November 4 by King William fo person, and semi-ofticial reports assert the peaceful tendency of the throne speech. Queen isanelia 18 expected in Parts on Novem- ver 6. Consols, 94%, Money and account. Pive-twentics orm, 73%. Ene shares, 204; Illinois, 97, Paris Bourse quiet; rentes, 70f. 6tc. Cotton, m Liverpool, middling uplands, lid. Spirits potroleam, tn Liver pool, 10d.; Antwerp, standard white petroleum, oaigt. South America. Our Panavs letter i8 dated October 20. Correoso, with three hundred mon, some of them conscripts, had started for Chiriqul, leaving Jaan Mendoza in the Presidential chatr. A portion of those pressed into the service were Costa Ricans and Nicaraguang who had just arcived in the Isthmus on @ contract to work on the rafiroad, Zurietta, Rasgel and Her- tera had been released, The rained Alstricts in Peru sre all to be rebuilt, with the exorption of Arica. Slight shocks of earth- quake are still felt. The Attorney General has pub- lished an opinion to relation to the claim of s French resident ja Tama wito had lost his property by the mob riots in January, to the effect that foreign gitlxens can ouly tecover by the pro- vesa of law, in the same manner a@ Peravians themseives. General Hovey, the American Minister, had immediately entered a protest against this opinion, and his example had been followed by the English, French dnd Prussian representatives. A case sirotlar to the famous Mortara affair bas oc- curted at Lima, and a Catholic bishop through the fhewspapers was urging the courts to decide in favor of the boy ramalning with the priesthood because his spiritual weifare is at stake. QOolonel Francisco Dies Canseco har been proclaimed Second Vice Pres- ident. Extraordinary phenomena have been observed tn the bay of Taletiaband, Chile, ‘The waters rose and heaved and became boiling hot, and the currents changed their courte. On the Chilean Independence Day, September 15, quite au outburst against the Ministry took place at the opera tp Santiege. The crowd shouted “Down with the Miniatry |’ and kept vp the ontery even to Ute Presi dent's mansion. In consequence of the appeals made by the official and seml-oficial press, military guard now attend the theatres, The Presi- dent atili keeps the same Cabinet and ia reported to be under the influence of the Miptacer of War, The Mercurio states that an envoy from Ecuador had arrived to negotiate a peace with Spala. Ecumior and Pera favor American arbitration; but Chile favors the Anglo-French plao of a trace, In Bolivia vhe treaty of limits with Bragil, by ‘which sixteen thousand acres are ceded to Brasil in return for & few decorations and crogses for Presi- dent Melgarejo hag beon confrined. A portion of the ceded territory is claimed by Pera and a protest against the whole thing is belog prepared by the Peruvian authoritios, The Presidential election in Venezuela ts going on with consieratle warmrh, though there Is but litte doubt of the election of Monagas. Peuce bas been restored in Oumans, and Generals Rojas and Suther. land are said Ww be willlug to recognize the Mouagay gereramens Che. Ont Marana levior 14 dated October 24. The an- pineness of Captain General Lersundi is supposed to be the occasion of whe revolts inthe mterior. The people generally aro #trongiy in favor of the new homo government, Bi. ome regtiess uuder Lereundi'a apparent indute be. Me naa Analiy boen induced to prociaim in favor of the new gor- erument, however, audit making vigorous efforts to quell =thg rebellions =m the island, which, doring his ictbargy, were raplaly as suming the proportions of 4 revolotion. Martial Jaw has been practically established in the disat- fected districta and several vessels have been sent there with troops. A budy of rebels are reported to ve mercng 0 Spupawo do Cubs, aud privaie la NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1868,—TRIPLE SHEET, formation leads to the belief that the movement 1s More powerful than the government will admit. Mexico. Our Mexico city letter 1a dated October 10. The concession to the Mexico and Vera Cruz Railroad had been withdrawn by a vote of seventy-three to sixty-Ove, The vote is interpreted as a defeat of the government party, and has occastoned considerable excitement In Congress on that account, and among the masses because a greas many of the working People will be thrown out of employment in conse- qnence. Romero had published his report of tho Mmances. In accounting tor expenditures he 18 un- able to give details, but says that all the revenues are expended. The national expenditure incurred by the five years’ war against Maximilian and the French, yet unpatd, is only $8,834,807. Miscellaneous, Attorney General Evarts has published an opinion onthe whiskey distillation controversy adverse to Commissioner Rollins’ view hitherto. He holds that the law intends to attach a tax to the whiskey when it goes tothe receiving room for sale and that no separate tax accrues upon redistillation. This opinion, it is thought, will open to business @ multi- tude of stills that had ceased operation on account of the oppressive construction placed upon the law by the Commissioner. The great fight for the championship of the world, between Wormald and O'Baldwin, got fairly under way yesterday at Lynnfleld, Mass., twelve miles from Boston, without, however, being satisfactorily fought through. One round was fought, Wormald bringing the first blood and U'Baldwin achieving the first knockdown, when @ large force of police ap- peared, arrested both the principala and carried them off to Lynnfleld handcuffed. On veing taken before a justice they were committed to jail in de- fault of $5,000 bonds each to appear in January next. Mountain Boy and Lady Thorn trotted for a purse Of $2,000 ‘atthe Waverley Park, N. J., yesterday, Mountain Boy winning with very little exertion in three straight heats, his best mile being 2:27. Con- siderable dissatisfaction was expreased at thegrace, as the mare apparently did not or could not do her best, Governor Scott, of South Carolina, Bas tasued another proclamation enjoining the preservation of law and orderon the people, and citing the good example set by Wade Hampton and the Democratic Executive Committee of the State in their late ad- dress. The ship Bronghton arrived at San Francisco from Glasgow on the 2d instant and reports shocks of earthquake at sea on the 11th and 15th of September, accompanied by a fog and s smell of fire, Generai Miles, commanding in North Carolina, the officers of his regiment and the State Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureqy, having been stationed in North Carolina twelve months, have recently regis- tered in Raleigh, with a view to voting in the Presi- dential election. This is said to create a great deal of clamor auiong the democrats, who consider it a radical dodge. General Blair made a short tour through New Jer- sey yesterday, stopping for a sort time at Paterson and Wyckom, He feturned in the evening to this elty. The oMcigl statement of the Virginia State Trea- surer for the past year shows that there was on hand October 1 $173,000. The City. The regiatration 1s open in this city and Brook- lyn again to-day and to-morrow, which is the last chance for voters to register before the Presidential e.ection on Tuesday. A document, which we pub- lish elsewhere to-day, has been addressed to Super- intendent Kennedy by Judge Henry E, Davies, John K. Porter, Henry Hilton, William Fullerton and James Emott, stating their views on certain law points in connection with registration, The Protestant Episcopal General Convention brought Its session to a close yesterday, it being the twentieth day since its opening. A cable tele- gram was sent to the Lord Bishop of London, offer- ing the affectionate condolence of the American Ctfurch to the English Church on the death of the Archbishop of Canterbury. A new canon on the consecration of churches was adopted, and the usual auction sales of pews within churches ‘was condemned, A missionary bishop was elected for Nevada and Arizona, and, with the usual re- ligtous services, the Convention closed its labors, 4m extensive fire occurred about three o'clock yes- terday morning on Wooster street, in the neighbor- hood of Grand. Seven bulldings were destroyed, with an ostimated loss of $235,000, Feeney, the carman, who was arrested on Wednes- day, charged with the larceny gf @ case of goods which he was conveying to a steamer, was tried be- fore Alderman Coman yesterday and committed without bail, Two other carmen charged with the same offence were also committed for examination, One Leybeck, who was found in the premises of No, 143 Laarena street overhauling the stolen goods, escaped by jamping over the rear fence. Horace Greeley has deciined to run for Congress in the Fifth district on public grounds, believing, as he says, that be will help Grant and Griswold more by this course thau tf he ran. Simon H. Lesser was arrested yesterdayon tho charge of issuing illegal naturalization papers, A witness testified to having paid Lesser two dollars for one of them, he having been in the country only four years. Lesser was committed for trial. The stock market was unsetcled yesterday. Gov- ernmeut secucities were strong. Gold closed at 1544 @ 13444. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General 0. E. Babcock, Colonel ©, D. Mehaffy and General N, -A. Towers, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. J. M. Boden, of the United States Army, and Rev. J. Fisher, of Maryland, are stopping at the st, Chatles Hotel. Ex-Mayor Alexander H. Rice, of Boston, and Judge A. Rice are stopping at the Fifty Arenue Hotel. W. P. Gould, Colonel J. L. Swift, of Boston, and Judge A. Edmiston, of St. Louis, are at the St. Louis Hotel, The Couvtest in General Butler’s District— The Coming Conflict at Washington. Thgre is a division in Massachusetts among the repablicans in General Butler's Congres- sional district on the question of Butler's re- election. He is the regular party nominee, but @ considerable number of bolters have set up another republican (Mr. Dana) against him, and are pashing the canvass very actively for Butler's defeat. This prima facie is no extra- ordinary affair, and if it involved nothing more than an Intestine party squabble for a seat in Congress it would hardly be worth a passing notice; but from the peoullar talents and character, and from the prominent position of General Butler, it is a case which foreshadows 8 confilct at Wasbington in the republican camp which may rend the party into pieces, The Dana faction ia opposition to Butler set themselves up as the orthodox republicans, Butler, they say, is a heretio on the money question, in proposing to pay off the bomlbold- ers of the five-twenties in greenbacks, although this was the identical doctrine of the lamonted “Old Thad Stevens,” only the other day the all- powerful radical leader of the House of Repre- sentatives, Unsoandaess on the money ques- tion, however, is @ mere pretext against Butler by the Dana faction, The simple truth is that Butler stands in the way of numerous other parties who aspire to bo among the leaders of the next Congress. They have found out that in catching bim they have caught Tartsr, and they are anxious to got rid of him. We do not suppose that either Boutwell or General Banks would weep very bitterly over Butler's defeat, aud wo guess that such men as Sohenck, of Obio, and Elihu B. Washburne, of Mlinois, would be glad to have Butler shelved. He isanable man, ® resolute man, a keen lawyer and © shrewd strategist and tactician in Congress, although he was not 40 accounted ot Big Bethel, Fort Fisher. Bermada Hundred and Dutch Gap. He gave us a touch of his quality in the impeachment trial, where, from his superior capacities as a crose-examiner, and from his tact, audacity, geal and activity, he cut out all his competitors of the House Com- mittee of Managers, and made himself, backed up by “Old Thad,” the master of the prosecu- tion by general consent. Now, such a man in the next Congress, with his decisive character and his great experience and skill in the management of men, and with his peculiar ideas and crotchets on the money question and on other questions, would be a hard customer to deal with by any other man or set of men attempting to lead the House on anotber tack. Hence the desire among various aspirants for the leadership, or some leader- ship, in the next Congress to oust Butler. And what has carried General Kilpatrick into Butler's district to assist the bolters in their movement to defeat him? It is surmised that Kilpatrick goes by authority of General Grant, or with his consent, from mistrust of Butler, to bottle him up once more. But assuming that General Grant has nothing to do with this affair of Kilpatrick one way or the other, it is still full of mischief, It is, in short, the be- ginning of a conflict in the republican camp forthe mastery, which probably in the next Congress will break up the party so far as to open the door of the White House to the do- mocracy in 1872, The smash-up of the democratic party in the Charleston Convention of 1860 may be traced to a factlous movement against Douglas some- what resembling this factious movement against Butler. Douglas, on his squatter sovereignty policy in the Senate, made himself ob- noxious to the Jeff Davises, the Masons and Slidells of the Southern slaveholding oligarchy. They accordingly superseded him ip the Senate as Chairman on Territories, and black-balled him in every way they could, At the Charles- ton Convention they resolved to shelve him at all hazards, and in carrying out this resolution they broke up tho democratic party, and in bringing on the rebellion biought about their own destruction ag the ruling oligarchy of the United States and established the republican party firmly in power. Such were the conse- quences to the Southorn oligarchy and the democratic party from the sectional war in the party camp against Douglas and his dogma of squatter sovereignty—that is to say, that the people of the Territories respectively had the right to settle the question of slatery or no slavery for themselves. The South consented, under the leading of Douglas, to try this ex- periment in Kansas, but after Kansas they were done with and dead set against Douglas, and hence the smash-up at Charleston. General Butler, who in that convention voted some fifty-seven times for Joff Davis, can tell the whole story. At present, how- ever, we say he holds in his party a position somewhat resembling that of Douglas when the Southern oligarchy first began to black- ball him in the Senate. The conflict in But- ler’s district means a similar conflict in the next Congress. It is apprehended that But- ler, on the financial and some other questions, will, if not headed off in season, create a good deal of trouble and dissaffection in Congress, and that he may carry off the balance of power in the House, either for or against the admiuis- tration of General Grant, against the policy of the dominant wing of the republican party. The best of it is, however, that whether But- ler is defeated or elected in this Massachusetts contest, these apprehended troubles, disaffec- tions and squabbles in the next Congress are sure to come. In the defeat of Butler the emall fry will get rid of a giant, but it is not by any means certain that they will defeat him. The chances are in his favor, and ff re- elected his first care, perhaps, will be to pay off the outstanding balances due on his books to the Dana coalition. In any event, however, Butler or no Butler, the inauguration of Grant's administration will be the signal for a terrible struggle for the high places in Con- gress. Herein lies the meaning of the present contest in Builer’s district, and we go for Butler. Tho Alubama Claims in Washingten, It appears from our Washington despatch published yesterday that the President knows nothing about the arrangement said to have been made by Mr. Reverdy Johnaon for the settlement of the Alabama claims. It seems, too, that he does not credit the statement sent by telegram from England about the mixed commission and the arbitration of the Em- peror of Russia, believing that Minister John- son would have promptly informed Secretary Seward of any such reported important nego- tiations. From this it is evident that either Mr, Johnson and Mr, Seward are proceeding in the negotiations without informing the President of what they are doing or the state- ment is untrae. We hopo the President, with his clear head and firmness, will prevent the country being overreached in this matter. The public mind is made up about these Ala- bama claims, and the servants of the people should carry out their will, No mixed com- mission or arbitration by a foreiga Power is needed to settle these claims, whatever there may be as to other claims on either side. We want the principle of neutrality settled now and for all time to come, and the way to do that is for England to acknowledge bor re- sponsibility by paying the money. It is not simply a question of dollars, but one of deter- mining international law in this and all such cases. It {ts for the interest of England as well as for this country to have the question settled promptly on this basis. The decision would be the international law for both in all time to come, Briontssixe Prosrxcrs or tax LipgRat Party 1s Enoiany.—The leaders of the liberal party in England are confident that in the com- ing elections large majority of liberal mem- bers will be returned to the new House of Com- mons, They are oven beginning to nominate the members of the future Cabinet, The fol- lowing cast has been quietly named in liberal circles:—Premier, Right Hon. W. B. Glad- atone; Foreign Secretary, Earl Russell; Home Secretary, John Bright; Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Cullen Eardley Childers; Lord Chancellor, Sir Roundell Palmer, and Secretary of War, the Marquis of Hartington, Gnaxp Baty.—The boys in blue will hold ® grand meeting to-night, and will be ad- dressed by General Sickles, We hope the boys will not got blue gn the occaqion, Frank Blair and His Pintforms The republican party organs and stump orators have been heaping a vast amount of unreasoning denunciation upon Frank Blair on account of some pretended rebellious senti- ments contained in his famous Brodhead letter, and one ingenious ally of republicanism in this city goes into an elaborate argument to com- pare the Missouri soldier with Benedict Arnold, the Pennsylvania insurrectionists, Aaron Burr, Calhoun, Hayne, Lee and other persons who have @gured in revolutionary movements against the United States government. There is no sort of analogy between the cases cited and the position taken by Blair, nor is there any just ground for the charges made against that gallant leader of the Union armies. He has never proposed to betray his country as Arnold did, but has risked his life in its defence when other men who might have enacted Arnold’s part have kept themselves safely athome. The policy he avows is neither one of insurrection nor of nullification, The Pennsylvania insur- rectionists committed individual acts of open treason against the government. The South Carolina nullifiers claimed that the States had the right to disregard such of the United States laws as were objectionable to them, and so un- dertook to nullify the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 and to resist the collection of United States dues. Although Andrew Jackson, with his fron will, declared his determination to up- hold the laws, and although- the ‘Force bill,” as it was called, was passed to strengthen his hands, Congress thought it begt even in that case to recede from its position on the tariff question, and South Carolina only repealed her ordinance of nullifi- cation after the compromise tariff law had been enacted. But Frank Blair's proposition is altogether a different thing. He declares that if he were elected President of the United States, holding the power of the government in his hands, he would protect the people of the re- constructed States In their right to remodel their State constitutions if the majority desired to do so, and to that end would subject the re- construction laws to the test of the Supreme Court of the United States. In other words, he would cease to hold the South under mili- tary subjugation, and would afford the people the opportunity to form their own organic law without the coercion or interference of the gen- eral government, putting them upon an exact equality under the federal constitution with all the other States of the Union. The attempt to classify this position with the treason of Arnold, the whiskey inzurrections, nullification or secession fs all balderdash, and makes a muddle of fact and law which shows an entire ignorance of the subject ora wilful design to pervert Blair's meaning. If the voice of the people should elect him President and give him the popular branch of Congress at his back it would be an endorsement ot the policy he proposes. He would then be justi- fied in carrying it out. And this is in fact the sum and substance of his much-talked-of letter. The treason of an individual, nullification by a single State or the secession of a combination of States would be a very different piece of business. fu the one case it would be the general government acting in accordance with the expressed will of x majority of the people; in the other it would be a minority acting in rebellion against the general government. Outside the prejudices and bigotry of party, indeed, we belleve that the gonerons senti- ments of the Western soldier will meet uni- versal approbation. {[t is probable that after the election of Grant the democratic party will plant itself upoa this very platform of the abolishment or repeal of all such parts of the reconstruction laws a3 make distinctions against the Sonth, the remodelling of the Southern negro State governments and the future per- feot equality of ull the States in the Union, We should not be surprised to find Frank Blair the successful candidate of the democratic party on just suck principles in 1972, if, indeed, Gen- eral Grant, backed by the conservative repuab- licans, doea not himself adopt them as the policy of his administration and thus give true peace and stability fo the country. Tho Fass About Registration Frauds. Some ofthe republican politicians are making @ great outcry about election frauds in this city and ere threatening to interfere with the registration of naturalized citizens to-day in a manner calculated to obstruct the registry business and to prevent the full vote of the city from being polled. The democrats, on the other hand, are uttering loud threats of tho terrible deeds they will do if the freedom of the ballot box is unnecessarily interfered with. So far ea frauds are concerned there is not a pin to choose botween the two parties, and we have no doubt that both will cheat just as much and just as often as they can do so without danger of detection and punishment. But while every care should be taken to pre- vent fraudulent registration and voting on either side, it would be a dangeroua and wicked experiment to offer factions opposition to the polling of the legal vote of the city, and it ts to be hoped that no one will be reckless enongh to attempt it. So far as the registration of naturalized citizens is concerned the law is clear enough. The certificate of the court is evidence of the fact of legal naturalization, but the registrars can require proof to be sup- plied by sufficient evidence or by the oath of the party offering his name for registration that he isthe person mentioned in the certifi- cate. Ifa man hay committed fraud in the procurement of the certificate or commits per- jury before the inspectors of registration he can be arrested and punished, The inspectors of registration and election are bound to do theirduty and to obey the law. It is all very well for silk stocking, kid glove committees to ait in the parlors of club rooms and fashionable hotels and instruct the inspec- tors what course to pursue; bat sach aristo- cratic politicians would neithor pay the penalty of a violation of Jaw nor risk the hard blows of ariot, The inspectors should do their duty firmly, but without partisan bias, and it should be their objectto facilitate rather than to ob- | struct the polling of a fall logal vote. The } election of Grant and Colfax is certain, and so | far a the local vote of New York is concerned | it amounts to very little in the general result, The men who endeavor to get up diMoaltios and disturbances at a few polling places here wnd there, and suppose they are inaking them- selves very useful to the winning party, are a sot of mischievous politicians of small calibre and sovaller honesty, and we cautign them in tiara tnt advance that while they might succeed in | Our culty Amusements—A Prosperous Fall making serious trouble in this city they will not stand the ghost of a chance of reward or even of recognition from Grant’s administra- tion. The Prices of Coal and Brendstufts. The ups and downs of trade could not be better illustrated than by reference to the scale of prices for coal and breadstufts at this time, While we find that the price of the former hag gone up enormously within a few weeks—say from six and a half dollars to nine and 4 half Per ton—we refer to the kinds commonly used by families—the price for breadstuffs has re- ceded largely in the Western markets, with a prospect that the downward momentum will be felt by consumers here in due time. We ean very readily account for the reduction in the market value of breadstuffs in the West. It is owing to the grasping and hoarding dispo- sition of holders of grain, who have been bor- rowing from the East for a long time upon the credit of their stored up wealth, but, owing to the existing financial tightness, are unable to borrow further and are obliged to throw their gtala upon the market in such quantities as to create a glut and a consequent fall in prices. But why coal should risa so greatly in price at this time is almost unaccountable. It is a problem which can only be solved by ascribing it to the combinations of greedy speculators— to absolute conspiracies among men who, if they were workingmen acting the same way to secure an advance of wages, would be brought before the courts or made to suffer and their families, perhaps, perish by a prolonged deprivation of employment. It is absurd for these coal monopolists to plead that the reduced supply occasions the present advance. It is insulting to the common sense of consumers to affirm that the strikes at the mines last spring or summer produce a de- ficiency at this time. These things were known four weeks ago as well as they are now, and if they were operating upon the supply then why was not the price correspondingly advanced and maintained up to thistime? No. It is nothing but the exigency of people laying in their winter’s stock at this juncture, thereby creating temporarily a lively business in the yards, that has led these coal conspirators to advance the price so outrageously. Our ad- vice to consumers is to stop purchasing while coal is at the present exorbitant rate, believing that it will be less in the month of January than it is now in the latter part of October. Pacific Indications of tho Latest Austrian and Prussian News. Ilstory shows that there is often something suspicious in the ory of peace! peace! on the lips of European rulers. Thiscry is sometimes uttered most frequently and most loudly on the very eve of war. But in modern times the pressure of public sentiment bears more di- rectly than ever on the minds of royal person- ages and gives shape and color to their acts and their speeches. The disposition of the powers that be to quiet popular apprehensions in view of threatened war is manifested by the pacific indications of our latest nows from Austria and Prussia, The Paris Moniteur, the official organ of the Emperor of the French, hastens to publish the assurance that the Emperor of Austria will not sign the recent Reichsrath Army bill, adding that the Anstrian Minister of War has said publicly that Austria is arming only in proportion to the extent of her popula- tion. Telegrams from Vienna give the an- nouncement by the Ministry that the interpreta- tion put on the late speech of Baron Boust is false, and that the policy of Austria is peace. They also state that the Diet has passed a bill authorizing the government to recrult forty thousand additional soldiers, Baron Beust having made a formal assurance that the men to be enlisted will merely fill up the defictency in the standing army and not swell it above the number fixed by law. The news from Prasaie is equally tranquil- lizing. It is asserted on semi-offictal authority that the speech of King William, by whom the sessjon of the North German Diet is to be for- mally opened on the 4th of November, will be of reassuring and paciflo character. The Boston Prizo Fight, Yesterday morning, it appears, O'Baldwin and Wormald, with their friends, contrived to meet, not in Canada, nor the Isle of Shoals, as was expected, but in the neighborhood of the Hub. Blood was drawn ond a knock down given; but before either of the combatants had fairly put forth his strength the police appeared and Wormald and O'Baldwin wera arrested, handcuffed and conveyed to jail. Massachusetts has done well. It was daring and impudent in the extreme on the part of those fellows to encamp on the pure soil of Massachusetts, the home of piety and saintly wisdom. Daring and impudenco have so far met their proper reward. The authorities in that State have secured a prize—s prize of infinitely more value than one hundred thou- anand dollars, and compared with which Jeff Davis sinks into insignificance, It is in the power of Massachusetts now to give the death- blow to prize fighting in this country, Tho offenders are in their hands, and it requires only that they exeoute the Inws already on the statate book to enable them to give an ex- ample to every other State in the Union, and to make @ practical end to one of the worst forms of rowdyism, It is competent to the powers that be in the Bay State to send O’Baldwin and Wormald to the State Prison and to dne them heavily besides. We implore them to put the law in execntion. By doing 40 they will do the entire Union, but partion- larly tho city of New York, an immense service. If these scoundrels ara let loose they will be certain to find their way back to thie city, and our candidates for Congress, already too numerous, will be so multiplied that it will be impossible for us to know how or whom to choose. If Massachusetts would prevent New York from sending the pugilists to Congress she must honor them with a place in the State Prison. A word to the wise. PROCLAMATION OF THE GOVERNOR oF Soot Canrouisa.—Tha proclamation of Governor Scott to the citizens of South Carolina ia a timely and forcible warning against the out- rageous and nmurderons excitement which par- tisan apirit has kindled throughout the South. “Bear and forbear” is the maxim which the Governor rocovamends men of all parties to adopt in order that the peace, prosperity and houor of the State may be maintained, Season. The present week began with ments at the head of our ea./rlal columns of no less than twenty-eight places Of amuses ment open ona single evening. The growth of any population in numbers and in wealth has its surest index in the multiplication of its Places of amusement, A philosophical statistl- cian would therefore not be likely to err if ho Were to infer from the unprecedented figure buss our daily list of announcements of such Places has reached that New York is rapidly spproximating and, in fact, ts Bidding fair to surpass the metropolitan characteristics of the very greatest cities in the world, The aggre- gate of the sums invested in the ision of provision of entertainments for all classes of onr com- munity must be immense. A most tibe ral ro- turn for these investments is found in ‘aa vast amount of money expended by the forty t\ou- sand frequenters of our operas and theatn >, and concert halls and lecture rooms, In add- tion to the price of tickets of admission the total of incidental expenses for gloves ana! other articles of toilet, for Carriage hire, for dinners and suppers should not be omitted by the political. economist who would ascertain what 9 prodigious impulse is indirectly given by our city amusements to many an important branch of industry. These amusements daily quicken that healthy circulation of money on which the life and prosperity of a great city 80 largely depend. It must be conceded also that the directors of our places of amusement exhibit for the most part a commendable desire tu supply the demand of the public for greater variety and higher excellence than have ever been previ- ously offered. Our population has become ag cosmopolitan in its tastes as it is in {ts origina, The class of educated and cultivated Ameri+ cans who have profited by the advantages of travel in foreign countries is yearly increasing, and this class includes many of the richest and. most enthusiastic patrons of those enterprising managers who have invited to our shores the most distinguished Italian, French and German as well as British artists. Moreover, the varis ous classes of foreigners now in our midst aré so large that managers can begin to count with certainty upon thelr encouraging efforts to establish here on a firm basis at least the French theatre and-the German theatre, Especially is this true of our German popula- tion, which is now 60 numerous that New York has been described as ‘‘the third German city in the world.” Otherwise the Stadt theatre could not have made so liberal an engagement as it made last winter with Mr. Dawison; nor would Mlle. Janauschek and Mr. Hendrichs and Mme. Biirndorff have been teropted seek on this side of the Atlantic a repetition their triumphs on the other. Mme, Birndorff—} the Baroness Auguate von Schoultz—is a native of Berlin, who has figured with distinction at the Court theatre in St. Petersburg, as’ well as the Royal theatre of Hanover. She arrived here s few days ago, and will arpear for the frst time at the Stadt theatre on November 6, in Soribe’s ‘‘Damenkampt” and ‘Die Schau- spielerin,” by Friedrich. Our two French theatres—if such they may be strictly called—are at present wholly de« voted to opéra bouye, which is not likely tg abdicate so long as both are thronged by the admirers of Mile. Tost‘e and of Mme. Rose~ Boll and Mile. Desclauzas, ‘‘La Belle Héléne® will be revived at Pike's, more brilliantly than ever, next Monday evenlog. * vidve do Brabant,” at the French theatre, in Fourteenth strect, is steadily winnin public admiration by the finest artis scenery ever witnessed on any stage, | by, the delicous serenade song, the pie song, the “Tyrolienne,” tho farandole, the “Departure of the Crusaders,” and, above all, the irresistl- ble fun of the gendarmes, Gabel and Bourgoin, Miss Kellogg’s successful reappearance at the Academy of Music indicates that, after all} the taste for Italian opera survives, Mrs, Scott-Siddons, in her readings at Steinway Hail, shows herself worthy of her illustrious name, Mr, Forrest restores and sustains the legitimate drama at Niblo’s. A now play hax been bronght ont, or rathor another Englisi play bas beea vewly brought out at Wallack’s this week. At the Broadway theatre “‘Nq Thoroughfare” proves to be the dramatic bit the season. “‘Hampty Dampty” holds its own; asugual, at the Olympic, The beautiful new dances in “Crimson Shield,” at the Bowery, are as artistic as they are popular. Lydia Thompson's troupe still attracts the town to Wood's, Léotard, the unrivalled gymnast, made his first appearance at the Academy last. evening. All the minor theatres are nightl crowded. Two circuses dispute the su ! of children of larger and of smaller growth, 4 fine, notwithstanding all the outdoor political. distractions of the week, it has been a meme rable one in the history of our city amusements, The fall season is decidedly prosperous, Mexican Finances, The report of Minister Romoro, in charge of} the Mexican Treasury Department, the subs stance of which is published in to-day’s. Heratp, is worthy of some study, According to the Minister Mexico spends all hor income, and will have smaller receipts this year thaa she had last year. With this fact staring bim in the face he gives Congress no advice, neither as to whore the outlays can or should be cat down nor how the income can be increased, He is more of « statistician than a financier, He figures tho receipts of tho last fiscal year at: about eighteen and « half million dollars, but regrets having had to forego any effort to get: at the expenses for that same yoar, It was too dificult to get data on which to frame any true statement. He hopes that such will not. be the case when he will make his next report, According to him ‘the interest in knowing the amount spent by the government would be merely to know tho details.” Precisely; the’ Moxican people might be willing to know what the Yucatan expedition cost, the outlay for the late Prosidential election and some few othor {tems of expense, We say this in all friendli- ness to Mexico and with a full wish to cheer on her Treasury Department ta the effort to get’ the republic out of its prosent financial slough. ' Bat we consider the figure of eighteen million dollars yearly revenns an not flattering for a country abounding in such resources as Mexigo and would like ta know whet it costa to keep a government that draws #0 little profit from #o great a capital, All we got from Minister Romero is the vague statgraent that