The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK IiERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR eee ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. —— ——=—= Volame XXXII. Ne. 319 eS AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, K's THEATR! we Pas eccrine ly oa gael ——~ "8 GARDEN, Broadway—MATILDA HERON AS N Oamr BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Arrer Dank; © BENE UN Live IN LONDON.” Matinee at 2 as a PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of ee avons and ‘88d sireet.—LA BELLE HELENE, Matinee FRENOH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—GENEYIkVE DE BRABANT. Matinee at 1. OLYMPIO Ti wits New Fr EATRE, Broadway.—Humerr Dumpty, URES, Matinee at 13. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—TroK MAN. Matines at ly.” ‘ ae UAE MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— THE FRENCH Sry—- Broken Sworn. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth Btreot. ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, KO. 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OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.— HooLEy's MINsiRELS—BasE BALL, &0. Matinee at 224. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. SOIRNOR AND ART. New York, Saturday, November 7, 1868. ee ait Brooklyn.—HOOLRY's Europe. The cable reports aye dated November 6. The London 7imes and Standard of yesterday ave articles commenting on Minister Johnson and tus expressions, of which we give extracts, . A deputation from the Freedmen’s Aid Union waited upon Minister Johnson last evening. Ina peech he assured them of the sympathies of the people of the United States. » Another dreadful railway accident has occurred in ‘Wales, Several passengers are killed and many ‘wounded, ‘The Liverpool autumn races commenced yesterday, The cup was won by Sir Joseph Hawiey's b. c, The Palmer. ) The Minister of Finance submitted a report to the ‘Prussian Dict showing Prussia’s share of the finan. Clal deficit to be £5,000,000, He also introdaced a bill for the confizcation of the property of the Elector ‘of Hesse. London, consols, shares, 275 3 five-twenties, 74; Erie Ilinois centrals, 97. Paris Bourse, rentes, 70f, 7c. Frankfort Bourse, Ove-twenties, 73g. Liverpool, cotton (middling uplands), 113d. Ravre, cotton (tres ordinaire), 140f. Antwerp, petro- ioum, slanturd white, 6245. Mexico. Telegraphic advices state that Genera! Cauto had arrived in Mexico city aad Lad been indicted for the murder of latoni. Strange defelopments are ex- pected as the trial proceeds, Juarez had ordered tue arrest of tne Vera Cruz Secretary of Sts ‘There are oars of another insurrection mi Yucatan. The Election. ‘The committee of the Union League to investigate due naturalization frauds in this city is composed of . E. Dodge, Horace erman, Isaac H. Greeley, Mo: Bailey, Mareha!! O. Roberts and Join H. White, * Mayor Hofman was serenaded by the Empire €tub last evening at the Clarendon Hotel in honor of his election to (he gubernatorial chair. Speeches were made by Captain Rynders and Kichard O'Gor- quan, to which the Governor An error in the Kings y returns has been cor+ recied, and thy yubilcans now have two Assembly auen instead of tung the delegation, South Carolina elects two democratic Congress- men. In Minnesota Ignatins Donnelly is defeated for Congress owing (0 the split in the party, and a dem- lect responded, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1868. in Putnam county, N. ¥., on Tuesday 1s false. | dustrious and commercial classes. Our na- | Repoustruction and the Party Leaders. Our City PuleveeMore Vigilance Necessary. O’Baldwin has beon for some time in this city, and Wormald is under bonds in Boston not to leave the State for pugllistic purposes. The City. ° The court martial for the trial of General Philip S. Crooke, of the State National Guard, was convened yesterday in ¢he arsenal in Brooklyn. General Crooke at the opening presented a “writ of prohibl- Uon,” granted by the Supreme Court, festraining further proceedings in the case, ‘The Court after de- Uberation adjourned until the 20th instant. The Rosenberg naturalization case was postponed ‘until Monday by Judge Blatchford yesterday, the de- fendant not appearing to plead. Dennis Fitzpatrick, who was charged with attempting to register ona fraudulent naturalization paper, was committed in default of $1,000 bail to await the action of the Grand Jury. The McHenry perjury case came up before Com- missioner Osborn yesterday, and after some evi- dence was taken counsel moved for the discharge of the prisoner. The Cqmmissioner resérves his dect- sion until Monday. The steamship Euterpe, Captain Gates, will leave pier 20 East river at three P, M. to-day for Galveston, Texas. The Cromwell line steamship George Washington, Captain Gager, will leave pier No. 9 North river at three P, M. to-day for New Orleans. The steamship Yazoo, Captain Hodges, for Havana and New Orleans, will cail at three P, M, to-day from pier 36 North river, The Black Star line steamship Montgomory, Cap- tain Lyon, will leave pier 13 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, The sidewheel steamer San Salvador, Captain Nickerson, will gal for Savannah at three P. M. to-day. ‘The steamship Empire, Captain Price, of the Ex- press line, will leave pier 15 Kast river at four P, M. to-day for Alexandria, Washington and Georgetown, D.C. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Schuyler Colfax, Vice President elect of the United States, is stopping at tue house of a fricnd in Twen- ty-third street, Prince Wurtemberg of Austria is stopping at the New York Hotel. Captain W. Ward, of the English Navy, ts at the Clarendon Hotel. Captain E. R. Saunders, Captain Holcomb and Major Driscoll, of the United States Army, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Congressman T. M. Pomeroy, of New York, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Generals S, S. Carroll and H. L. Robinson and Co- lone! Keed, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Finaucial Question the Important One of the Day. Now the smoke of political excitement is clearing away there looms up in the horizon a great and complicated question which will take years and statesmanship to settle. That is the question of our national finances. What we want is a reduction of taxation to a peace standard and to the lowest point possible; a revenue system simplified and divested of the present cumbrous and extravagant machinery ; a redrganization of the national debt upon a simple basis; a reduction, of the jnterest and the establishment of a sinking fund for the cdr- tain liquidation of the debt within a reasonable time, and the settlement of the currency upon sound principles, so as to give the country an ample, a steady and a uniform circulation. These are the reforms absolutely needed. The people will look to Congress and the adminis- tration to have them carried out, They can- not be deferred without incalculable mischief and ruin to those in power. We cannot go on in the loose, extratagant and eorrupt manner we have been going the last.few years. Nor will any piecemeal legislation or trimming aed answer. The subject must be grasped In all its length and breadth and be disposed of in a comprehensive, statesmanlike manner. It will by the force of necessity supersede all other subjects ; and if those in power, both ia Congress and the administration, should fail to comprehend and handle it they will be held responsible and driven from the councils of the nation the first opportunity. Our public men should study the financial history of other countries, and particularly the history of those which have been in a similar ation to that of this country. They may leara mach that is useful to know, though there are some things in the peculiar circumstances of the United States and the times that require special treatment. Still the fundamental prin- ciples of trade, finance and currency hold good now as heretofore. This is a commercial country, and the experience of other great commercial countries, as of Holland, from which the modern system of commerce and finance sprang, and of England and France, should afford us instruction, The experience of England, perhaps, after the exhausting wars with Napoleon, which ended in 1815, comes ocrat is eleviod. Negro suffrage was carried by 6,000 majority. Miscellancous. Jeneral Grant has declined the public reception tendered him in Washington, and it will probably ‘bo deferred until he has recoverei from the fatigues of travelling. The November statement of the public debt shows decrease during October of $7,614,166. The total Gebt at present is $2,641,002,572, while the amount én coin and currency in the Treasury 18 $13,873,019. A compfirison of the monthiy public debt state- ment issued to-day with the one preceding it shows ‘an tnerease in the debt bearing coin interest of $7,423,050. The debt bearing currency interest has decreased $11,156,990. The three year seven-thirty notes have decreased during the month to the ex- tent of $681,000; the matured debt has decreased $2,036,520; the debt bearing no interest has decreased $30,189. Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Com- pany since the ist of October have increased $2,560,000. The coin inthe Treasury lias increased $06,516,138, and the currency has decreased $2,900,061, ‘The announcement of our Washington correspond- ent that Secretary McCulloch would probably be re- moved is reasserted to-day, Developmeuts throw- ing light os the subject are expected at any mio- ment. Another supervisor, nominated originally by Mr. Kollins, has just been confirmed by tle Secreta- ry, and it ts believed ihat tue hitch in that matter ts permanently removed, The Surratt case came up in tue Supreme Court of the District of Columbia et Washington yesterday on motion to dismiss the appeal of the District Attorney from the decision of Judge Wylle, discharging the prisoner on the plea of the st ¢ of limitation. The appeal was dismissed aud the decision dis charging the prisoner was afirmed, Thus ends the Burratt case, The President has published in a proclamation the text of an extradition treaty with Italy. Governor Keed of Florida has been impeached hy the State Legislature for bigu crimes and wisde- mieanors. Two thousand stand of arms belonging to the Florida Stave Arsenal were seized by a party of un- known persons, while in transit through the State, on Thursday vigut and destroyed. Governor Crawford, of Kansas, has resigned io order to accept the coloneicy of the regiment of Kansas Volunteer cavalry just ralsed for service against the Indians, An election for members of the Legisiatare took place tn British Columbia on Thursday. Foreigners of three months, residence were permitted to vote. ‘The ticket favoring confederation with Canada was Buccoseful, Earthquake shocks are of daily occurrence tn San Franclaco, ‘The report that Wormald and O'Raldwin fought nearest to our case just now. England was burdened with an gnormous debt as the conse- quence of those wars, as we are from the great rebellion, Her credit and currency were depreciated as ours are. A desperate struggle commenced and was kept up for more than eight years between the bondholders and the commercial and industrious classes on the question of forcing specie payments. A like struggle began here shortly after the war closed and continues with increasing intensity. There the government was in the hands of the bondholders chiefly, As a natural conse- quence several attempts were made to bring about a resumplion of specie payments, but they failed until the end of the year 1823, when resv 1 was accomplished. The Bank of Engtind eld this anomalous position — that while it wis 11 4 great measure under the control of government and bondholding capital- ists it was still subject to public influence and the interests of the commercial classes. Wil- ling to resume specie payments ander the pressure of the government and bondholders, its own safety and thé public interests held it back from that final step till eight years or more after the war. But even then, ql during and after that eight years’ struggle, the country suffered terribly in consequence of forced resumption, The history of that poriod is one of wild excitement, monetary disor- ganization, bankruptey end general suffering. It was from the first a fight between the bond- holders and great capitalists, who wanted to raise the value of theit property, and the com- mercial and industrious classes, whose debts were increased and moans reduced, The former were made richer at the expense of the latter, The poor became poorer. Financial crisis after crisis occurred every few years after, and the mass of the English people have been steeped in irrecoverable poverty ever since, Such, in brief, has boen the result of the financial struggle and forcing specte pay- ments in England, A similar conflict, as we said, exists here between the bondholders—who would force re- sumption in order to increase the value of their property thirty por cont or more—and the in- tional banks, taking different ground to tbat of the Bank of England, are allied with the bondholders and arrayed against the people. Nearly all their capital is in bonds, and if specie payments could be forced their wealth would be increased a hundred millions of dollars at least. Unfortunately, these banks have had great influence in Congress and over the administration, The Secretary of the Treasury has been nothing more than their agent. His stupid attempts to force resump- tion and the equally stupid efforts of Congress @ year or two ago to do the same may be all traced to the influence of the national banks and bondholders, Had it not been for the in- dependent press and pressure of public opinion, we should now be suffering as great evils as England ever suffered. The currency has been reduced from a thousand or eleven hun- dred millions to six or seven hundred millions within four years, Still this does not satisfy the resumptionists. The stringency in the money market and high rate of interest in con- sequence of the urgent demand for currency throughout this widespread country and through its rapidly increasing business do not open the eyes of these selfish or blind theorists. They would place the whole com- mercial and industrial interests of the country at the mercy of a few capitalists and the note- shaving banks, It is the duty of Congress, then, to protect the people against the clamors and efforts of this new and great moneyed power that has arisen in the country. It should see that the people have an ample, steady and uniform circulating medium—one that will be flexible, too, according to the wants of trade in every section of the republic, by making it convertible at will into government stocks and these stocks again to be convertible into cur- rency at the pleasure of the holder. Thus wo should never have a stringency or a currency too redundant, It would regulate itself ac- cording to the wants of trade. This is one of the first measures to which Congress should turn its attention, There are, however, other important financial measures to be taken up, such as a speedy reduction of expenditures and taxation, thé creation of a aiuiple, cheap and well organized system for raising revenue, strict economy in every department of govern- mentand a.reduction of the interest on the national debt. Mr. Johnson, during tlie ré- mainder of his term of office, should study and inaugurate these necessary reforms; General Grant should make himself acquainted with them and urge them upon Congress, and Congréss itself should carry them out without delay, All other questions sink into com- parative insignificance now. The financial question is the importayt one of the day. The Earopeau Press on Our Presidential Election. HRS In nothing is our growing importance nation seen more distinctly than in. the creasing interest which is manifested by Euro- pean journalists in the public affairs of this country, Time was when it was far other- wise, But we march on 48 9 People with a rapid and state iy step, dnd the sound of our footsteps commands attention, Not only can we no longer be ignored, we must be watched and studied. Our growing power is a source at once of wonder and of alarm. Our attention has been called afresh to this feature of the times by our bulky cable de- spatches of yesterday, in which were condensed the sentiments of English and French jour- nalistson the result of our Presidential elec- tion. The claims of both parties, it is now manifest, were earnestly canvassed, Our democrats and republicans have each their friends on the other side of the Atlantic. All the more influential and impartial journals, both in London and Paris, as they were pre- pared for, are now satisfied with, the result, One English journal says of the defeat of the democracy that “is was richly deserved” for their folly in pre! ng Seymour to Ch Another English journal that “Grant has fairly won his high rank vy hard work, real devotion to his country and services which will live long in its remembrance.” The French press saya that ‘Europe applauds the decision of the re- public,” that ‘Grant is a worthy successor of Washington and of Adams,” and that his ac- cession to the Presidential chair means peace. One French journal, a little out of tune with the times, thinks it singular that the great re- public of the West should have elected a soldier at a time when Europe is so anxious for peace. It would not be dificult to show that our contemporary does not thoroughly understand the situation, We are as anxious for peace as Europe can be. Grant and men like Grant are the best conservers of peace, because they are always well prepared for war, No man hated war more than the late Duke of Wellington. Few men are more desirous of peace than the Emperor Napoleon. It is the civilian, who knows nothing of war, not the soldier, who has tasted of its bitterness, that precipitates conflict. In Grant we have a man who will cultivate friendly relations with foreign Powers, but who will never forget the nation’s dignity, In the eyes of Europe the quiet and orderly manner in which this elec- tion contest has been got over is a triumph to republican institutions. o, says Tuk Pasto is Wait Sreeer.—The stock market opened and closed in a panic yesterday, although there was a rally in the interval, and the indications are that we the Stock are entering upon a violent cris Exchange the end of which cannot be fore- seen, The monetary stringency continues without material abatement, failures are oc- curring and some of the speculative stocks are falling at the rate of from ten to twenty per cent a day, The banks will, therefore, do well to call in their loans on such securities, Reconstruction is fairly done with as a national issue, and it will be mischievous to attempt to keep it on the boards in that char- acter any longer, whether the attempt come from any Southern party that, being in a mi- nority, resorts to Congress against the majority, or whether it come from radical agitators of the North. Reconstruction is a fact in all the States but three, and suffrage, government, law in all those States must for the future be as strictly a domestic concern as in any Northern State. Except on this view there can be no peace and no safety anywhere, for except on this view there are no States. Georgia has acted on the Congressional re- quirements, has established a government republican in form and has by law been ac- cepted and declared a State in the Union, and there is no power anywhere to go behind this record and dive into her history to find any difference between her status and the status of Pennsylvania, Those Southern com- munities that have acted on the reconstruc- tion laws have the full right now to govern themselves, and must do it. They must make their own laws, and these laws, whether they suit Northern men or not, must express the will of the majority, The nigger has been given political power as a grand thing to protect him in the places in which freedom, with scarcely volition on his part, has come tohim, Let him stand on that, There can be no new interference, on any pretext, that this protection is insufficient. Having made the laws for the Southern people as we chose while we had the right, we must stand by them even if they fail; for if we go further now—if we claim that tho nation has a power to discriminate against certain States in their domestic concerns and interfere—then we ob- Iterate the last right of States and the last safely of the people. The nigger, therefore, is in the hands of his neighbors and in his own hands, and must fight out his own destiny at the polls, in the fields, in the schools, in the workshops. He has the ballot; let it protect him, & Tho Southern people must understand that reconstruction as they have it in their seven States is a finality; and in the assiirance of ‘this they must go forward in the physical de- velopment of their resources, They will find nioré powér in cotton than in agitation, and will digcover that their best ally in all regards ig’ good crop. For men at tho North my fancy that reconstruction is not worke out and who _ insist on keeping up the fuss wo hardly know & . gure. We aro sorry to see that Ben Butlor promises to he one of these, We had a botte# opinion of his perceptions, since wo have so often séen that in mlugh apparent vagary and ex- trqvagance there was a practical point pearly \ ‘in wha . _ fis } cece bal oem Wants grace alt courtesy, and is altogether ebelasia nd narrow-minded, He may have to be toll. t bs di not scgeed in keeping busy soldiers of far less strategical capacity than Grant—as Boaurégard, and évéh poor old Magtudef, He may also have to be teminded that his own fnajority is in Massachusetts only, while Grant's is over the whole country. He will make a great mistake to agitate anew the issue of reconstruction, There is a topic, however, to which he may with profit turn all his thoughts and which will give scope for all his ingenuity. We allude to the national finances. National finance is a subject as to which our public men are lamentably igno- rant, and yet it is tue most important in our history, Our debt and its management are to concentrate all the attention of this people for many generations to come; and we advise Butler to study this subject, and can promise that if he only master the great facts of finan- cial history and get at the elementary princi- ples he may be the first man in his party for a long while. Fuss and Vary After the Ulections, The radical organs in this city and Greeley narrow-minded blockheads of the Loyal League are raising a great deal of fuss and fury over the result of the election in this State, and are making themselves generally ridiculous by talking about contesting the election of State officers who have been chosen by twenty- five or thirty thousand majority. Greeley, who always takes the lead in such follies, declares that every State whose electoral vote is cast for Seymour and Blair has been carried by fraud or terrorism, and attributes a radical minority, wherever found, to repeaters or the Ku Klux Klan, This is all balderdash, Poli- ticians on both sides, republicans and demo- crats, generally get in aé many bogus votes as possible for their candidates, and we have no idea that they were any more scrupulous in the election just over than in any other that has been held for the past quarter of a century. Grant has been chosen by a handsome major- ity; the people are well satisfied, and it is a paltry business for the Union Leagues to be expending their wrath upon Justice Shandley because he worked faithfully for his party or debating whether Pat Keenan or Dennis O'Raf- forty had one person or a dozen registered from his residence. The radicals would be more profitably em- ployed studying the true lesson of the election, The people elected Grant because they have confidence that he will secure to the nation the peace for which he fought on the field of battle. They gave the State of New York to the opposition and deprived the republicans of their two-third majority in the House of Representatives because they disapprove the violent measures and extreme policy of radi- caliym, The sooner Union Leagues and repub- lican Congressmen understand this fact the better, Now ror A New Ma The clection of the present Mayor of New York as Governor of the State makes a vacancy in the former for the protection of their depositors, aa it is better that slockjobbers should snffer than the public at large. These stocks are still highly inflated and liable to fall suddenly from fifteen to fifty per cent further, and, therefore, the danger attending the banks holding them as collaterals for loans is apparent, ——— Drorrey In—The distinguished New York boy, Schuyler Colfax, from the West. He will find that the city, like himself, has been getting up in the world since his departure as a poor lad to Indiana in search of his fortune, Industry conquors everything. office which is to be filled next month, We hope whoever the new Mayor may be that he will turn over a now leaf and favor all those great improvements so much needed in the metropolis, If a man of broad views and sound sense should be placed at the head of the city government we might hope for the construction of iron or stone piers in place of our present dilapidated structures, for the es- tablishment of spacions markets commensurate with the wants of the city, and for the open- ing of broad avonies relievo the crowded travel on Broadway. tho politicians give ua gugh 4 man? — AN USEMENTS.. Finro’s Ganpen+Ciosind Nig? OF Epwnr Forresr.--One of the solid, old time @ ¥dlences ase Sembled at Nrblo’s last cyening to greet he great tragedian on his last appedrance and to wir 468s bis masterly impersonation of the crafty, crookea Duke of Gloster. The entirely origtual expression, + “the house* was packed from pit to dome,” mW truly conveys the iden of the numben* Present. It was withal @ most respectable, intelligent and appreciative audience. Its respecte ability was evinced by the fact that the masculine Portion generally did not rush out as soon as thé curtain was down after each act and then come tramping back at the most interesting portion of the Succeeding act; and that it did remain so quiet was Noteworthy, as the orchestral performance was enough almost to compel a person to seek an oppor- tunity to escape from its infiictions, That it was ine telligent and appreciative was plainly shown by its evident acquaintance with the plot and dial of the drama and its hearty recognition of proper rendering theongions, Such an assemb!; Was enough to inspire an artist and stimulate hia toexcel, Thatit had such an effect could not be The attempt to rob the Manufacturers’ and Merchants’ Bank on the night of the elections, with the murderous assault on the janitor, is one of a class too common of late not to excite the warmest indignation. Robberies to a large amount are of almost daily occurrence in this city. Organized gangs of thieves ad murder- ers prowl about our streets by day and night and make property, and even life, asinsecure as if we lived in a half-civilized state of society. Who are answerable for this? Th: leniency with which such criminals, when convicted, are treated {s one cause of this shaneful state of things. The law has few terrors for them. The very men who left Fergusson beeding and insensible are probably walking trough our public thoroughfares plotting sony new vio- lence and fearless of detection. Tf our police are incapable of nreting effi- ‘. doubted, as all the perf 5 t ciently this public danger let thei) power be | iioteq to wpeaking paris, acquitted. thew strengthened. No money is better spent than | most commendable style. Mr. Forrest port the brutally ambitious duke and read the part in manner which added undeniable testimony to hig claim as being great, Mr, Clarke, too, as Rich- mond, added another to his lately but well won lau- rels; and Messrs, Warwick and Donaldson, altho! still suffering from that abominable catarrh, wi the others of the company, did remarkably well. Miss Lillie, as Lady Ann, looked exceedingly charm- ing, but she is rather “light” for the part. "Madame Ponisi looked and acted the Queen; and Mrs. Grat tan made a venerable looking and pleasing Duchess of York, Little Blanche Mortimer as the boy fduke was remarkably fine, The piece was fairly mounted and generally well worked. The only fault found was in the dream scene. The peculiar construction of Richard's tent hid the vision from almost one-half the audience, and marred, to a certain extent, the general effect of that portion of the play. ‘Take it all in all, the performance was very good. At the close the entire audience stood up and most heartily compelled Mr. Forrest and also Mr. Clarke to appear, as themselves, before the curtain. Mr. Forrest was recalled, and on reappeari thanked the ladies and gentlemen present for th favor they had shown, and expressed the hope thi he and they might shortly mect in, The audl- ence was well pleased with the performers, the pers, formers evidently well pleased with the audience, and the manager plainly well pleased with the audt- ence and performers. Jt was indeed a most fitting and happy closing toa brilliant and successful en- gagement. ‘ Tue Stapr THEATRE.—The first appearance of Mme. von Biirndorf (Baroness von Schoultz) at the Stadt theatre attractea yesterday evening a large and appreciative audience. Scribe’s “I'rauon- kampf” afforded but few opportunities for tho dis- play to any great extent of the capacity of Mme. von Birndorf as an actress; but in “Die Schausplélerinn,’® éspecially towards its conclusion, her undeniable genius was amply evinced, Throughout both pi inevery movement and every attitude, in the tones her well modulated but not very powerful voice, in her majestic form, in her expressive countenance and in her happy unlon oj pivectiy and naturaln with fidelity to stage traditions, she showed hersel to bea consummate artist. She held the audien what is judiciously laid out in mganizing a thoroughly efficient corps of detectires. Some- thing must be done to stamp out the evil we complain of. In our Western citie: the citizens would have organized, in circunstances like ours, a vigilance committee and (ther driven the ruffians from their midst or committed them tothe tender mercies of Judge Lynch. We do not propose this as an example, That is the dernier ressort when everythig else fails. But in the meanwhile, we reped again, this lawlessness has proceeded to ach a length that for the security of life and poperty some more vigorous steps must be taker to put down, and at once, these organized banls of thieves and assassins. Advertisement—Wanted, a Kits, or President for Spdu. Spain, in its new position of adisenthralled monarchy or an unreconstructel republic, is sorely in need of a ruler, The ex-King of Portugal, Ferdinand, it is said, ns somewhat contemptuously declined the homr, declaring his preference for the Panama hat which he wears while superintending his lvxurlant vino- raising farm in Italy above thecrown of Isa- bella Traviata, Prim has abanioned all his aspirations in that direction, Sspartero has not pronounged in favor of the position, though his friends in sothe yortion of the Emperor county havé suggested his nime, Prince | spell-bound ipo closest attention, which was i : fs ¥ terrupted only by frequent applausé and showots Alfred of England, whose namo has been also borrgneta, 3 rites she Would have na ae ne hy } st impression she decide menfigaéa in conndction with the throne of the | frente ee eer newton she. will as Monday evening—or in “Maria Stuart,” which will enable her, on Schiller’s Festival, to justify thé highest eulogies pronounced upon her acting by the most competent Gern an critics. asieal gid Theasrical Notes. Macon, Ga,, hag Q circus, i last of thd Botirbohs, is going on a rollicking expadition all over the world, ox hoard of the Galgtea, taking in the Cape o? Géod Hope ahd the Foojee Islafids. Don Carlosis reported to be thé choice 4 ole 4¢ NevolfogSignt é may bes strong ¢andida’ ut Spain his aot yet spoken upon thig poftit. Victot Emanael’s gon, the Duke of Agate, also 10 thé claim- sale, we Gvident that hetirech thet afl Spain tg ‘Gthharraiged nnd ékelted, and porhaps the SAblest tode to obtain what she ree is 16 advertise id the New Yore H@Rard, tinder the head of “Wanted,” and no doubt a suitablé applicant could be had, Meatitime We dliggost tht we have twd or three Presidents gat of place who might be most happy to take the éffice. There is Jeff Davis, fot instance, or Horatio Seymour. Either of these gentlemen might respond to the advertisoment with success if Spain is to be a republic. THE ALABAMA Cuatro Revorwine Too Soon.—We have the very delightful intelli- gence from the other side, through the cable, that the London Z'imes infers from the moon- shine speeches of our Minister, Reverdy Johnson, that the important question of the Alabama claims has been brought to a satis- factory solution, We guess, however, that this inference of the Z'imes is wide of the mark and that Mr. Johnson is not the diplomat to bring this matter toa settlement satisfactory tothe American people, In the next place, we are happy to learn that from Mr. Reverdy Johnson's assurance to the British people that our national debt will be paid to the last dollar the gratifying conclusion is drawn that our first class statesmen here preach the policy of honest men. Our transatlantic cousins have yeta great deal to learn touching this country, its institutions, its politicians and people, Skoretary McCuttocn’s STATEMENT oF tur Nationa Dest.—From this November statement for the month of October it will be seen that the national debt is still twenty-five hundred millions, though the October reduc- tion is at the rate of over ninety millions a year. We expect to do better with a general overhauling and reconstruction of the Treasury under President Grant, Just Like Him.—General Grant does not like the idea of a noisy ‘‘hail to the chief” blow-out ou his return to Washington. A CiLRAR Case—Doolitile | has not done much in this Presidential fight. NOTES ABOUT TOWN. were We saw yesterday, getting into a Broadway stage, apyramid of hatron a lady's head, ‘fearfully and wonderfully made.’ It loomed up over the fanchon in a style that brought to our mind rural reminis- cences of hayricks and corn shucks, Nobody hurt. Cannot some efictent substitute be devised in place of those beastly boxes which are deposited on the sidewalk to recetve the ashes and garbage from tenement houses? They are not agreeably odorous, and when upset, as is often the case, the portion of the pavement Which they cover is generally left vacant by pedestrians, The Bowery, after midnight, is not an over cheer- ful promenade to belated jtravellers. One will mect at every corner somo “party by the name of John- son,’ who is very inquisitive and obtrusive, and, we Might add, impecunious, The police Keep at a ro- spectable distance, and one might be robbed and murdered in this street for all they know or care, The horses of the Broadway stages should be pro- vided with skates for the new pavement when the frost sets in. We wish distinctly to inform country cousins that the board fence around the new Court Ho is not the Academy of Design. They seem to think 80 to judge from their admiration of the illustrated posters there, THE PRIZE RING, Wormald-0’Baldwin Fight--False Rue mors of an Engagement. The rumor circniated in the evening papers of yesterday that Wormaid afd O'Baldwin had fought on the morning of the election in Putnam county is entirely groundicss, It was stated that soon after the fight commenced Wormald hit O'Baidwin a terri- ble blow, cutting his face from chin to ear, when OMeadorin, rhilieu aud by n heavy aud well directed bioW won tho battle, ane, yd atfair is a hoax, wn perhaps, the bua ists Mahy have fought by tele- yh, for OF eawia heen in this ot For nome ay iwibe wore 1 remains in Bos! hi thé encounter 09 4a lace there vi ty Ug; BOL SYD Lng a plage aso 10k WARNER The th , Pittsburg has a eirchd atid a minstfél company. Miss Kellogg openéd in Boston last evening. ‘The “Lottery of Life” is drawing prizes in Bh Louis, 4 “After Dark” bas béon produced at the Boston. Misé Chatlotte Thompson ts playing the “Lady of Lyons” in Atlanta. t New Orleans boasts of two poor varletics shows and one good theatre, \ Fanny Kemble and Mrs. Yelverton are both ready ing to slim audiences in Lonisville. 4 Mr. Wm. J. Florence plays Obenreizer in “No Thoroughfare” in Boston on the 16th inst, instead of in Washington. eal “Génevidve de Brabatit” holds her first matinée at the Théftre Frangais this afternoon. 4 “La Belle Héléne" likewise holds her first daylight, réception this afternoon at Pike’s Opera House, com- mneRFarehA™ tO be prodaced at the Lyrique in h pe “Martha” is to be produced at the Lyrique in ho! of M. Flotow’s visit to Paris, * ‘The Caicutta orchestra—five fiddies and a piano— is rivalled by that at Buenos Ayres—a piano, clario- net, violin and trumpet. * Maiame Met ua Scheiler, having completed successfal ment in Montang 1s dally ¢ back to Salt Lake City, where the “Saints,” largé and s:aall, are anxiously any for hor coming. + Chanfrau 14 advertised in fartford as “Now York's favorite dramatic son.” .This may not be very agonizing to Sam, but it certainly is to some clover young actors in this city. * Joe Jefferson ts playing Rip Van Winkle to crowded houses in Detroit, where his artistic dozing among the canvas mountains on the staze preveats the audiences from dozing in their seats. i A novel enterprise has been Pimen fo Vienn: The grand room of the Baths of Diana ts converted! into a theatre, the whole of the persons connected) with whtch will be of the fair sox. Not only will tue orchestra be composed of ladies, but the male parta will also be played by actresses. There was genuine sport atthe Charleston theatre on Tuesday evening last. Miss Alice Vane attempted to play “Pocahontas” and read the election returns to the mild-mannered “fire-eaters” at ene and the same time; but we are sorry to add that she gave het auditors more satisfaction in the former than in tad latter. fi George Boniface as Asa Trenchard, the “cute Yan- kee,” in “Our American Cousin," is winning golden’ laurels in Toronto, Laura Keene supports him her original rote of Fiorence Trenchard, and 18 als lughly ae of by the “Kanuck” critics. ‘che “Holy Land and Paradis@ Lost,” on 144,000 feet of painted canvas, is travelling west thro the Canadas. It is at fied hee on exhibition in Toronto, where the ‘“Alloghanians’ are ilkewise Ee ge the quarters from the sturdy tnhabi- ants. Salvatore Tagtionl, ths Nestor of Ttatian dancers, | breathed his Inst at Naples on the 5th of October. He produced a great number of ballets, some of which were extremely successful in Italy. From him are descended the celebrated dancers of tho same namé so Well Known thro’ it Kurope. Gottschalk has just got back to Montevideo, hav- ing brought to a close his tour in the Argentine Rez public, He announced a series of céncerts, the fit of which took place on the 18th of August at the Theatre San Felipe. He played a new grand gtr of his own composition, whose title is “Bat te. Then his celebrated “Tarentella,’? with orchi y accompaniment, “Le Dernier Amour,” “La Mort’? and “Ojos Criglos” excited, as they never fail to doy the test enthusiasm, and it is almost néodiesa: to add that the celebrated pianist was calicd back’ after each piece. “ Miss Kate Reignolds ts making a brilliant tour f the provincial English theatres. This was ajmost foregone conclusion after her great success in Loné It is@ noteworthy fact that this American actress (for though Miss Reignolds is English birth her theatrical career fs altogot American) has made a deep impression in the stand- ard characters, whose acknowledged representatives are adhered to among British playgoers with a big oted tenacity unknown tn America, A plece of news given in the Court Ciroutar is cal- culated to misrepresent the art tastes of British roys alty, It was stated that tho Christy Minstrels had been summoned to Balmoral, People may have sup osed that her Majesty may have desired to solace her lonéliness with the banjo and bones. It ts there. fore only fair to add that it has since transpired that the niggers were sent for merely to add to the amuae~ ack es a servants’ ball annually given in tne royal household, don last spring. YACHTING NOTES. The yachts Dauntless and Restless arrived at Nors folk on (he 4th inst, from New York, via Sand Suoat Inlet. ALLEGED FORGERY, A Wedding Tour Spoiled. For some time Messrs, Arronson & Brothers, of No, 248 Canal street, have had in their employ a young man named Frederick Bondey, an Austrian, who has held a responsible position in the firm and as such has had access to the check book of the firm, tn which, as in all commorciat honses, the checks are signed in blank. ‘thoy recently charged at the Central office that Mr. Bondey had embezzled a suin of money and in addition of being discharged for that offence, had sereptitiousig ebtained six Of their checks from the book upon Which he had obtained $500, by sting In the amour xs in the body of the check. The exact amor ng obtained tpon the name of the firm was not asc srg tained unfll last night. The case was put tr, ‘tug hands of detective Sintth by Inspector Leouar 4, of the Central Office, to work up. f ‘ ‘On Thursday night Bondey was married ‘4 4 po. table uptown lady, purchased | tlkets for himseif and wife x California “out of the proceeds of the amount *fonred on the checks, and had all preparations martg, to leave When Smith yesterday s'¢ooped dow! upon the newly made bénedict an’, took him inti at , Yeate was taken bef Tinea when he Sabnivied ovte hing gions pe aoe checks nin nated Fhat dispos!jon he had made o the money, He will bier a d beforg the couré’ this and po dor, ‘ho wedding tour ta maine te ey