The New York Herald Newspaper, November 10, 1868, Page 6

6 Gea ig Oe NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. (icineddamsnabeneenn® JAMES GORDON BENNETT, . PROPRIETOR No. 315 Volume XXXIIL AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Mns. D. P, BowRRS a8 Qurus Euzanera. cRY THEATRE, Bowery.—APreR DARK;! 0 enOWERY TEit LONDON NICODEMUS NOMLEG: PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and Phd street. —La BELLE HELENE, FRENCH THBATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue —GESEVIRVE DE BRABANT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Huupty Dusery, with New Fearuses. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Mns. F. W. Lan- DEL AG MARIE ANTOINETTE, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13h street.— Tar Laxcasurae Lass, . B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— CTE, THE LirrLe LKorARD OF FRANOE. UNION LEAGUE CLUB THEATRE, corner Madison avenus and Séth street.—TwELrrH NiguT. ™ Clear BRYANTS’ OPERA HOL mmany Building, 14th atreci. -ETMOPIAN MLSWTRELSY, £0. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—ETm0- PIAN MUNBTRELSY, BURLESQUE,—ORPHEE AUX ENTERS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETHI0- FIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Voca1ism, NEGRO ME OUSE Ql Bowery.—Comro ELSY, &c. THEATRE COMIQUB. 514 Broadway.—Tae Great Oxi GINAG LINGARD AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Brondway.—Afteraoon and evening Performance. APOLLO HALL, Twenty. treet and Broadway.— Jauvs TAYLOR AND ALF Bi t. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQuesTRIAN AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT. UROPEAN CIRCUS, corner Broadway and Sith st. EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNASTIC PERFORMANORS. * IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Mac Evoy's New Hr- BEENIGON. ALUAMBRA, 616 Broadway.—MUSICAL MOMENTS WITH Menny Moxus, ANIA HALL, AUTH AND MAN. jo, 18 East Sixteenth st.—Leo- Brooklya.—HOo.ky'’s ac. HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Willlamsburg.— HOOLEY's MINSTRELS—BURLESQUES—MRONAUTS, 40, ART GALLERY, 8&5 Broadway.—ExuniTI0n OF O1L PAINTINGS, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway} BOiKNOE AND Ant. New York, Tuesday, November 10, 1868. Europe. The cable reports are dated November 9 ‘The Court of Common Pleas in London has decided that the law of England does not give women the Tight of voting. * The London Morning Post regards the reciprocity treaty between Canada and the United States as the only sedative for the discontent in Nova Scotia and ‘egrets its postponement. Reports are current that Sir William Mane- Held, Commander-in-Chief of the forces in India, ‘will succeed Lord Straithnaira in the military gom- ‘mand of Ireland. Mr. Clarke, the American comedian, performed in London before the royal family, Minister Johnson and other distinguished persons. The emigrant steamer Palmerston, bound from Hamburg to this port, has put back to Plymouth, Weaky, after being six weeks out. Six thousand people foliowed the funeral of Mr. ‘Mountain, a prominent Fenian, which took place yesterday in Cork. ‘The London Times mentions the probability of the crown of Spain being offered to General Espartero. ‘ The decree nominating General Dulce to supersede General Leraundi as Captain General of Cuba was Issued in Madrid on Saturday. Marshal Serrano has nominated twenty-five coun- ,cillors of State. Justices of peace have been reap- pointed in the provinces, and the inhabitants of the Balearic and Canary islands petition for religious oleration. * London—Consols, 94%; five-twenties, 73%; Erie hares, 27%; Minois Central, 96%. Paris Bourse— FRentes, 70f. 72c, Frankfort—Five-twenties, 78%. ‘Liverpool—Cotton, middling uplands, 11544. Havre— ‘Cotton, low middling, aftost, 126f, Antwerp—Petro- feum, standard white, 52f. Paragany. ‘The dates by the Atlantic cable from Rio Janeiro @re to October 12. The allied fleet and army were Defore Asuncion and the fall of the city was hourly expected. It was reported that Rear Admiral Davis’ United States squadron was going up the Paraguay river o Asuncion to secure redress for the late outrages ‘by Lopez on the American Legation. . Sandwich Islands, * Dates from Honolulu areto the 2th of October. wFrequent shocks of earthquake were felt at Hilo. jA tidal wave had caused great damage in Hawaii. .& revolt had broken out in Hawaii, in which a sheriff and several policemen were killed. The whal- ing season ts reported good. A mutiny occurred on he Prussian bark Coyattin among the coolies, who ‘threw overboard the captain and crew, nine in ymumber, and then attempted to navigate the bark to China, but drifted into the North Sea. Some time yago, it willbe remembered, the HERALD published jan account of the discover; of an unknown vessel airifting about the Ochotsk Sea in the hands of coolies, who were unable to navigate her. Cuba. The insurgents are reported to have destroyed all Provisions and supplies in the neighborhood of ‘Tunas to prevent the troops from obtaining them. Robberies are numerous in the eastern portion of the island, and planters are unable to harvest their Tops on account of the depredations committed. Captain General Lersundi had been authorized by the Spanish government to suspend the death pen- ailty at his discretion in political cases. ‘The President Elect. General Grant visited bis headquarters yesterday ‘and received the visits of numerous friends, among them Speaker Colfax, the Vice President elect; Senator Wade, Secretary Schofield and General Thomas. In the afternoon Mr. Colfax dined with him at his residence in I strect. Speculations as to General Grant's future Cabinet ere rife in Washington. It seems to be a settied point that General Grant will appoint men to suit @he position without any consultation with party Jeaders, and that he has already decided in his own mind the names of the entire Cabinet. J. Lathrop Motley or Edwin M. Stanton, it is thought, has been chosen for Secretary of State Admiral Porter for the Navy and General Schofield for the War Depart- ments. A committee will wait upon the President elect to-day to learn his desire in regard to the intended Gemonstration of welcome, Miscellaneoun, According to our Washington correspondent the Proposition of England fora mixed commission to settle the Alabama claims was agreed to by Mr. Sew- &rd provided the commission should also decide as to the right of England to accord the rebels bellige- rent rights. This was declined by the English gov- ernment, and it is now stated that a new set of pro- posals has been made, which inclate a mixed com- mission. Serious trouble is apprehended in Arkansas, and Governor Clayton has authorized the raising of 60,000 militia in the State. All is quiet in Florida, no disturbance having yet arisen from the feud between the Governor and the ‘The arms recently thrown from the cars have in great part been recovered and are in the possession of the United States troops. Colfax and Wade will probably go West after Con- i NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. gress is adjourned to-day. There are only four Sen- ators and two Representatives in town to open the proceedings, ‘Treaties with about ten tribes of Kansas Indians have been proclaimed ratifiea# The Indians gene- Tally agree to go on their reservations, a portion dissolving their tribal relation and becoming citl- zens, While the United States agrees to foot any bill called for by the Indians. The Dyer Court of Inquiry, consisting of Generals ‘Thomas, Hancock and Terry, has assemblea in Wash- ington, OMelal information has just been recelved at the Intérior Department of the killing of friendly Mohave Indians near La Paz, Arizona, on the 25th of Sep- tember, An account of the same affair was published in the HERALD several weeks ago. Hon. Joseph Howe, of Nova Scotia, has given up the confederation repeal movement as useless, and great excitement has ensued in that borough in con- sequence of his defection. The Wisconsin State Bank has suspended, with heavy Uabilities, and a run commenced on Saturday on the Milwaukee Bank. Two greenback counterfeiters were arrested in St. Louis on Sunday. They had in their possession over $3,000 in counterfeit greeabacks and postal currency. The City, ‘The flagship Franklin, with Admiral Farragut on beard, arrived at this port yesterday from the Med- iterranéan, The Board of Aldermen yesterday adopted resolu- tions ditecting the trastees of the Cooper Union to account for all the receipts and expenditures on be- haif of the institution from its inauguration to the Present time; directing the Street Commissioner to remove forthwith the Loew bridge and place it at the disposal of the Central Park Commissioners; increas- ing the salaries of the clerks and attachés of the Common Council over the Mayor's veto; appointing an index clerk to the Board of Councilmen; author- izing the clerk to furmsh the Councilmen with badges and staves of office, and providing for the transaction of a number of otherer matters of less im- t. mon the Board ot Councilmen yesterday a number of general orders were passed, a number of up town streets were ordered to be paved with Belgian pave- ment and the resolution of the Board of Aldermen for the immediate removal of the Loew bridge was concurred in. Lady Yhorn beat Lucy at the Fashion Course yes- terday in threc straight heats for a purse of $2,000. The race was hotly contested, Lucy being the favor- ite in the pools at the commencement and generally keeping well ahead of Lady Thorn in the heats until they reached the homestretch, where the old mare immediately picked up and came in ahead. ‘The best mile was in 2:25, An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Mary Ann Riley, who was found dead on the second floor of No, 79 Ninth avenue with marks of strangu- lation about the throat. The jury found that she came to ner death from apoplexy, induced from being beaten by her husband, John Riley, on Sunday. The husband, in the preiiminary examination before Justice Dodge, made a straight- forward and apparentiy sincere statement to the efect that Mary Ann came home beastly drunk on Saturday night and struck her head against a table, and about two months ago had the delirium tremens. He was required to give bail to answer, Judge Nelson has denied the motion made on be- half of Theophilus ©. Callicott for a new trial on the ground that the indictment upon which he was tried and convicted was originally wrong, though afterwards corrected. The other points raised the Court ruled were untenable. The Rosenberg naturalization cases have been set down for trial on Wednesday next. The Bourbon Whiskey Company case will be finally put down for trial at an early day. Judge Barnard yesterday opened the Court of Oyer and Terminer and charged the Grand Jury on the violation of the election and lottery laws. He also called attention to the Excise and Emigrant acts, which he recommended the Grand Jury to in- vestigate. In the McHenry alleged perjury cases, Commissioner Osborn yesterday discharged the defendant on the charge made by Charles Loeb, but held him for trial in $6,000 bail on the charge preferred by Mr. 8. N. Pike. He gave bail and was released. ‘The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Cambria, Captain Haack, will leave Hoboken at two P.M, to-day for Hamburg, calling at South- ampton, The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. ‘The steamship Granada, Captain Harris, will leave pier 17 East river at ten o’clock this morning for Havana, Sisal and Vera Cruz. The steamship Leo, Captain Dearborn, will sail to- day at three P. M., from pier 16 East river, for Savannah, Ga. The steamship James Adger, Captain Lockwood, will leave pier No. 5 North rivemat three P. M. to- day for Charieston. The stock market was irregular yesterday. Gov- ernment securities were variable. Gold closed at 135 a 135%. With @ moderate demand and fair receipts the market for beef cattle ruled quite steady yesterday. Prime and extra steers sold at 15c. a 16c.; fair to good at 13X%c. a 143¢c. and inferior to ordinary at 10c. 9 18.; the major part of the offerings was com- mon in quality. Milch cows were mpderately active, the demand being chiefy for the better kinds, and prices were steady at $100 a $125 for extra, $90 | $95 for prime, $75 | $85 for fair to good and $50 a $70 for common and inferior. Veal calves were in fair request and steady in value. We quote:—Prime and extra, 12c. a 135¢.; common to good 10c. & 11}<c.; inferior, 8c. a9}. Sheep and lambs were in tolerably active demand and firmer. Extra sheep sold at 6c. a 6\c.; prime at 51{c. a 5%c., and inferior to good at 4c. a bc, Lambs sold at from 63gc. to 7c. The market for swine was fairly active and higher, prime selling at S83gc. and common to good at 8c. a 8%c. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Senator D. S. Norton, of Minnesota; General W. J. Cullen, of Montana; General John E. Smott, of the United States Army; General John A. Green ana E. B. Judson, of Syracuse, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. H. Pierre Pichot, of Paria, France; General Brice, of Washington, and W. Hemphill, of Honduras, sre at the New York Hotel. Dr. F. Le Moyne, of Pennsylvania, ts at the St. James Hotel. Senator E. D. Morgan, of New York; Bayard Tay- lor, Judge Balcom, of Binghamton; Homer Rams- dell, of Newburg; Major F. H. Horton, of the United States Army, and Captain G. B. Raymond, of New Jersey, are at the Astor House. Judge Dennison, of Pennsylvania, and Colonel J. Hooper, of Salem, Mass., are at the St. Charles Hotel. The President and the Revenue Frauds. Several days ago a number of” affidavits were placed before President Johnson, pur- porting to give o history of some of the fraud- ulent transactions in the whiskey business in this city, and charging complicity upon seve- ral prominent United States officials here and at Washington. These statements were of course in a measure er parte, and were to be regarded in much the same light as a present- ment toa grand jury. They bore upon their face evidence of. truthfulness, having been made under oath; and while it would have been wrong to condemn the parties implicated until they had been afforded an opportunity to be heard in their own defence, a case was made out strong enough to demand their trial upon the charges preferred against them. There appears to be a practical difficulty, however, in the way of the investigation. Many ot the persons embraced in the indictment are government officers, through whom the inquiry would have to be prosecuted if the pro- ceedings were to be conducted in the customary formal manner, and one of the main features of the charges we understand to be that these very individuals obstruct investigation and use their official positions to embarrass the prose- cution and defeat the ends of justice. It is very certain that enormous frauds have been perpetrated against the government, by which over a hundred million dollars have been diverted from the national Treasury into the pockets of individuals directly or indirectly interested in the whiskey business. This is 9 well established fact. It is equally certain that none of the principal parties engaged in these nefarious transactions have been brought to justice, and that whenever a prosecution has been attempted it has been obstructed by the very persons who ought to be tho fore- most to protect the interests of the govern- ment. Binckley’ commenced an investigation in this city some weeks ago, and at the outset he was met by opposition from government officials. His authority was called in question, and it was soon discovered that he had the whole Revenue Department to fight as well as the suspected criminals against whom his pro- ceedings were directed. A similar case has recently occurred in Richmond, Virginia, where John A. Gilmer undertook to act as a special agent of the government to investigate the fraudulent transactions of the whiskey rings and their allies. Froma lengthy corre- spondence in our possession we learn that Gil- mer met all manner of opposition from the government officials, high and low, and that eventually the Treasury Department virtually repudiated his action and ignored all the evidence of fraud that he had accumulated. Judge Fullerton, an able lawyer, an honest man and a good republican, is the party through whom the affidavits to which we have referred have been laid before the President, and further evidence which he has collected will, we believe, be submitted to-day. We understand that the substance of Judge Fullerton’s developments has been already brought to the attention of the Cabi- net, but that he is there met by the oppo- sition of McCulloch, Seward and Evarts, who unite in preventing any action from being taken upon his report. Thus we find at every step obstructions to the investigation of the frauds that so notoriously exist in the Revenue Department. They meet us at every turn—in the Cabinet, in the departments and in the courts. Now it is a. Cabinet officer, now the head of a department, now the head of a bureau and now a district attorney, a judge jor a marsiial, who rises up as a barrier between the criminals and the law. It is a significant fact, too, that at the very moment a disclosure of rascality is threatened the Seward organs open their batteries against the parties supposed to be instrumental in the movement, and the Congressional com- mittee, which has been for months lying dormant, reappears upon the scene and be- comes suddenly active in the business of in- vestigation. But while everything is thus muddled and confused the people bear in mind these leading facts:—First, that enormous frauds actually exist in the Revenue Depart- ment; secondly, that honest officials would cheerfully avail themselves of any means, regulgr or irregular, authorized or unauthor- ized, to discover the offenders; and, thirdly, that there is an evident infonsistency in allow- ing the parties accused of complicity in these frauds to have anything whatever to do with the prosecution of an investigation into the fact whether such frauds really exist. President Johnson is the only man who now has it in his power to cut the Gordian knot and set all these mattera right. It is useless for him to appeal to his Cabinet while three of its members are resolved to prevent any recognition of Judge Fullerton’s charges. While in sonty’ moveménts he is bound to consult his Cabinet he can in others act independently of their co-operation or advice. The Tenure of Office law gives him the power to suspend, if not to remove, certain officers of the government. Enough has been brought to his knowledge to justify him in suspending five or six of the leading officials implicated in Judge Fuller- ton’s charges. Indeed, if he suffers them to remain in office he defeats the investigation at once; for it is directed against them, and they are the parties officially empowered to conduct it. If he will remove them out of the way a fair and thorough investigation can be made, but not otherwise. We call upon Presi- dent Johnson, therefore, to throw himself back upon his honest impulses and ‘to rid his admin- istration in its last hours of the stigma that rests upon it through the corruption with which it is surrounded. The world, which gives him credit for sufficient courage, will be disposed to question his inclination to purify the government unless he forces a thorough in- vestigation into the frauds now brought dis- tinctly to his notice. If he should falter or refuse to suspend all suspected officials, high and low, until the charges against them have been fully tried and disposed of, he will seri- ously damage his own reputation, but will afford little protection to the parties he screens from justice. The work he hesitates to under- take his successor will thoroughly perform. General Grant will beyond doubt make a com- plete cleaning out of the Revenue Department from top to bottom as soon as he succeeds to office. The new administration will rise in the light of purity and honor, if the present one should set in the darkness of corruption and disgrace. It is for Andrew Johnson to say whether such a contrast shall live on the page of history, or whether he will yet do an act that will fasten the notorious corruptions of his administration upon his radical enemies and leave his own reputation for honesty and integ- rity untarnished. More Rumors Abeut the Alabama Claims. The subject of the Alabama claims is a standing dish for the correspondents of the press. We have had something about it every day or two by cable telegrams from Europe and occasionally a despatch from Washington. The last rumor is from the federal capital, and said to come from Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, to the effect that the English govern- ment had proposed again to submit the claims to arbitration and that our government had refused, but had offered to commit the whole subject to a mixed commission. Now it ap- pears to us that there is a great muddle about these Alabama claims, and that no definite arrangement has been’ entered into for the settlement of them, notwithstanding all the fine speeches of Reverdy Johnson and Lord Stanley. From the positive expressions of tho President against the proposed mixed commis- sion and general tenor of his views on this subject, it looks as if Mr. Seward and Mr. Reverdy Johnson were acting upon their own responsibility and not in accordance with the President's ideas. All the fuss about arbitra- tion and mixed commissions amounts to nothing. It is mere bandying of words and can bring no: satisfactory result. The people of this country understand the question and they cannot be humbugged by diplomatic palaver. Mr. Seward must settle the Alabama claims in accordance with public sentiment and justice or not at all. Let them stand over if England is not ready to settle them. We donot want the money, and in case of trouble we have payment within our reach. It is not a question of money so much as one of international law, and it is more to the interest of England than of ourselves to have that question settled. If England is to let loose piratical vessels to de- stroy our commerce in time of war with im- punity this country can do the same, and quite as effectively, as soon as the British go to war again, John Bright Off the Track. The stump speech of John Bright to the electors of Birmingham, which we published yesterday, is a remarkable specimen of dema- gogism—the more remarkable because it was uttered by a man who had obtained for himself the reputation of a reformer, and for whom was claimed the character of a statesman. We do him no injustice when we say that there is more claptrap than statesmanship developed in the oration referred to, or that, with all his experience of the British masses, he must hold their intelligence at a very low estimate when he could address them in such a fashion in such acrisis, In referring to the policy of the two parties, liberal and tory, he talks like a Bour- bon, remembering only the past and forgetful of the prominent facts which the present has realized in the new Reform bill and the preced- ing legislation of forty years. He goes back, for instance, to the days before Catholic eman- cipation in 1829, when neither Dissenters nor Catholics could sit in Parliament. He repro- duces the time of the “rotten boroughs,” too, wherewith to confront his adversaries. Doubt- less all these are historical facts, but they belong to the dead past, and have no more to do with the present crisis in England—except in so far as Mr. Bright’s re-election to Parliament and prospective seat in a new Ministry are con- cerned—than the nullification laws of South Carolina in Calhoun’s day or the insurrection of Governor Dorr, of Rhode Island, have to do with our pohtical situation to-day. But the greatest absurdity of Mr. Bright's speech is to be found in his allusions to this country and our late war. The comparison between the recently enfranchised voters of England and the Southern negroes is most un- happy, because it is not only offensive to the intelligence of British voters, but it shows that Mr. Bright is ignorant of our affairs, and entirely off the track when he assumes that the enfranchised negroes would not vote for the democratic party. We know now that they have done so by thousands. When Mr. Bright-says that the Irish Church is a griev- ance, and one of the many obstacles in the way of reconciliation between the empire and her Irish province, he is quite correct; but per- haps no one knows better than Mr. Bright himself that the Irish Church is not likely to be disestablished, no matter whether Disraeli re- tains power or Gladstone obtains it, even with Mr. Bright in his Cabinet. The disestablish- ment of the Irish Church would be but the pre- cufsor of the abolishment of the Established Church of England, of which the Queen is the acknowledged head, and that once accom- plished, the power and patronage and many of the rights and privileges of the aristocracy would be virtually given up; and we may be assured that these will never be surrendered except to the exigencies of revolution. Is Mr. Bright or Mr. Gladstone, any more than Disraeli, prepared for a revolution? As- suredly not, though Bright and Gladstone may use a party cry with some effect for electioneer- ing purposes. Therefore we regard the stump speech of the eloquent Quaker and politician at Birmingham as an ingenious sham, and Mn Bright himself is perhaps entitled to be desig- nated by no more dignified term. Situation in Spain—A King Still Wanted. We print this morning a cable despatch from London to the effect that the crown of Spain will probably be offered to Espartero, the veteran Duke of Victoria. This piece of news is traced to the correspondent of the London Times. It will be observed that it is spoken of only as a probability. It will not surprise us if it be found to be an empty rumor, having not the slightest foundation in fact. It is not, however, without a certain significance. It shows that the revolutionary leaders are still bent on crowning the edifice with a royal figure- head. It shows more. It shows that they have not found among the princes of Europe a candidate at once acceptable and willing. Prince Alfred of England, Ferdinand of Co- burg, Amadeus of Italy, all seem indifferent to the empty bauble. Prince Napoleon is not to be thought of, and the Bourbons, younger and older, are ineligible. In such circumstances itis difficult to see what Spain can do but fall back upon her own sons. Resolved to have a king, and failing to find one out of the king- dom, the next best thing she can do is to seek one in it. If a royal figurehead must be had, Espartero will do as well as any other. It is very desirable that we should be able to sus- pend judgment until the elections are over. It is impossible, however, to do so. Spain is in 80 critical » condition—with the church party irritated, with the finances desperate, with the future form of government a questio vexata, with 6o many interests already conflicting, and with so many smouldering fires ready to burst forth on the first opportunity—that it would not be wonderful if the revolution, hitherto so suc- cessful, should eod in a great catastrophe. All may yet turn out well, but the horizon does not brighten as the hours advance. Miss Broker aN» Women’s RIGHTS IN Exatanp.—A cable despatch which we print this morning gives the decision of the Common Pleas in the case of Miss Lydia Becker. The judgment, in which all the judges concur, is that the common law of England gives women no right to vote. The question bas thus been settled that as the law stands the suffrage does not belong to women. Miss Becker and her friends could scarcely have expected any other decision. Now, therefore, that they have nothing to expect from the law's interposition the presumption is they will make a vigorous onslaught on the lawmakers. Nothing like being in earnest, although the earnestness might be devoted to a better cause. The —rnaeseaeeeseaetieieniiseimatalieiaceabsithacasim the truth, and it is well both for Cuba and Our Opera Houses—Mom Changes. We learn that Mr. James has actually Spain to look facts in the face. Spain cannot bought Mr. Pike’s beautiful opira house, at the | 4° better than sell. The United States cannot corner of Eighth avenue Twenty-third do better than purchase. . street. Many rumors upon subject have The Troubles of Hayti and St. Domingo, For some time back these two nations of black republicans have been the scene of con- flict and anarchy, Outside of the island few people seem to take much interest in what has been going on there. Those Americans who have taken the bother to interest themselves in either republic waited until an ingenious financier, under President Salnave’s authority, put his hand on the coffee crop and asserted the doubtful right of the Haytien government to monopolize this commodity. All at once the Haytien government was enabled to’ pur- chase, fit out and man in the United States some men-of-war that are now fire and destruction along the Haytien coast. In this whole matter the policy or interest of the United States seems to have been left in the background. Whose interest has been pro- moted we leave to the State Department to find out from Minister Hollister. Meanwhile the department will do well to bear in mind that President Salnave had other objects in view than the sale of Mdle St. Nicholas when he threw all his weight in the balance to defeat our purchase of Saman4. However, with General Grant at the head of our government we shall have peace on this Continent and adjacent isles. If we can- not have it, it were better that Dame Nature shake up that part of the earth’s crust under the Antilles and engulf the anarchical black republicans that are eternally spilling black blood which has long ago begun to stink in the nostrils of civilized people. _ been current for several day}, and it is quite as well that the public should|know the exact truth of the matter. In the fit place, Pike's Opera House is to remain an pera house for all time, and is not to be to any pur- poses of trade. Mr. Bateman; who at present holds the lease, is not only t} remain in pos- session during this season, bi is to continue no effort to make his n consummation the plans for of the Twenty-third stre¢ ferry and of the new railway wi is to pass the door of the theatre. It is easy to foresee how strongly public atention will be drawn toa locality which is to become the headquarters of a business like that of the Erie Company, and the sole quality which Pike's Opera House lacked—that of holding conspicuous and commanding position—will at once be conferred upon it. Of the future of the establishment we can say that it has been determined to continue the successful repre- sentations of opéra bouffe thtoughout the pre- sent season. When “La Belle Héléne” is withdrawn ‘‘Barbe Bleue” is to be restored to us, and after his career the last production of the liveliest of modern composers will be brought out, with a number of novel and in- teresting accessories. ‘La Périchole” will be accompanied by a new opera for Tostée, who will appear on the same nights with Irma, Aujac, and, in fact, the entire company united. And after ‘‘La Périchole” the full troupe is expected to carry the season through in an opera which requires the presence and calls for the best exertions of all of them. Looking still farther ahead, we find schemes for the reappearance of Miss Bateman, with her new drama and a new company, and for the introduction of French and Italian operas ona scale of magnitude never before under- taken here. We may as well allow these pro- jects to take care of themsdves. They are seriously entertained, But they are in the dis- tant future, and time may caise some altera- tion in them. It is sufficiently satisfactory to know that we are not to lose the most brilliant theatre which the city possesses, or the ser- vices of @ manager,of Batemnn’s ability and experience. Meanwhile Mr. Grau, who, like General Grant, makes no speeches, but whose acts are more eloquent than words, continues his unre- mitting labors to make the elegant remodelled Frenoh theatre, on Fourteenth street, a popular and fashionable resort. For the present no change appears to be necessary in his pro- gramme, since ‘‘Genevitve de Brabant,” with its superb mise en scdne, the delightful singing. of Rose Bell and Declauzas, the admirable acting of Carrier and Beckers and the inimitable drolleries of Gabel and Bourgoin, is certain to satisfy the public for a long period to come. When its destiny is fulfilled, as in course of time it must be, Mr. Grau has other and. equally agreeable novelties to offer the community, lot only in the form of opéra bouffe, but also in that of the moro refined opéra comique. While considering the present and the future successes of two of our leading opera houses it is impossible to reflect without regret upon the melancholy fact that the establishment which was once the real home of lyric art stands to-day a deserted shrine. Its former glories are utterly effaced by the Presence of mountebanks aud gyttinastd of all grades, and even these have been forced to abandon it. Its failing fortunes will hardly be restored by the advent of Max Maretzek, who comes in, it is said, from the wilds of the West for a week with the intention of once more trying his chances in the metropolis, but who is quite prepared, in case of a failure, to resume his gypsy wanderings beyond the Rocky Moun- tains. The Proposition to Sell Out the Deme- cracy. Some politicians, hungering for a bite at the spoils of the federal government under the coming ‘régime, have proposed that the Seymour electors should cast their vote unani- mously for Grant in the Electoral College. There is not the slightest necessity for any such left-handed compliment. The pretence is that by so doing General Grant would be re- lieved from any obligation to the radicals for his election, whereas everybody knows that he is under no obligation at all to the extreme portion of that party, and that he was only theirnominee by necessity. If he had not bee’ made a candidate by the radicals in Chicago he would in all probability have been taken up im New York last July by the democrats. So that he is to-day the Presidenf elect of the country upon his own merits as a successful soldier and a sagacious citizen. He will enter. the Presidential office a free agent, looking’ only to the general good and untrammelled by party favors or promises, The real object of the proposal that the Seymour electors should vote for him is only a bid to sell out the posit tion of the democracy for the sake of a slice of the spoils. Nor is there the slightest chance that any euch, absurd suggestion will! be adopted. General Grant does not owe his election to the radical party, because thousands of democrats, disgusted with the mismanage- ment of their own party leaders, voted for, him. Nor is he pledged to carry out the miss chievous policy of the radicals. He stands outside and above every policy that would re- tard the restoration of substantial peace and the restored prosperity of the whole country. Tne Criticat Aspgzot or AFFatrs IN WALL Strret.—Wall street was further excited yes- terday afternoon by semi-official ‘stockjobbing rumors from Washington, and the feeling of in- dignation against Mr. McCulloch for lending himself to schemes to alternately bull and bear the markets for gold, government securi- ties and railway shares was very great. It is administration, and it is the bu President to direct his attention to the incon- sistencies of his stockjobbing Secretary. » stock market is demoralized and the bull f are moving heaven and earth kee prices, but PranpaDyadiraiety By ie to real values, and prices repel oH three hundred per cent sbove real values in! most instances, We are entering upon a period of financial depression like that which overtook England before the resumption of specie payments, and we warn the public to avoid Wall street and caution the banks against lending their money on stocks. Th ery will soon be—stand from under and the Devil take the hindmost. °The Mayoralty Election. We. understand that Street Commissioner George W. McLean declines to become a candidate for Mayor in the December election, and we therefore suggest the name of Peter B, Sweeny for that office. Chamberlain Sweeny has shown himself to be an honest politician and atrue reformer. While others who have sometimes denounced him have been talking about economy and reform, he has gone prac- tically to work and given up to the city the fees of the office he fills, amounting to some two hundred thousand dollars a year. He has thus put a stop to a great abuse, initiated by Fernando Wood and kept up for many years, and has laid the foundation of a fund which will eventually amount to millions, all of which, but for his action, would have been lost to the taxpayers. His shrewdness, ability and honesty would be of great value to the city in the office of its Chief Magistrate. He is familiar with the workings of all the depart- ments and would know exactly where money could be saved and the present enormous tax- ation reduced. It would be a credit to the city and a well deserved compliment if all parties, irrespective of politics, would unite on such o candidate and elect him to the Mayoralty by a unanimous vote. : Sr. Domineo.—It is a singular fact that all the earthquake troubles for the past two years which we have had in different directions, and especially in the West India islands, have not touched St. Domingo. Government and peo- ple, or rather what now come under the head of people, are evidently too vile for a decent earthquake to touch. It would be a blessing if some moderately dirty tidal wave would take that direction. Postmaster Kelly is about to put his letter carriers in uniform—mitigated expression for livery—under the belief that letters will be delivered more uni- formly than heretofore. ‘The streets in the lower part of the city—south of Trinity church—are in state of unmitigated filth, A broom or shovel has not been seen in Beaver street, it is said, since June. Hurry up the sweepers, Mr. Street Inspector, or soon, by the rapid acoumula- tion of dirt, thapportion of the town will be lost to the world. ‘The “graybacks” in the Park, with the graybacks not tn uniform, are pntting the lakes im order for the winter campaign. During the ice season these gen tlemeh are expected to be exceedingly frigid to vist ors who go to the Park for glacial purposes. A normal school building will soon be commenced in Sixty-first street. Before the foundation is reached, however, the Board of Edacation propose having, on an outlay of several thousand dollars, & grand biow-out of—rocks, Fifth avenue will soon be open to vehicles. The debris by which builders choked the carriage-way, making it all but impassable, is being rapidly re- moved. It is wonderful what a presentment by a grand jury will sometimes accomplish. why pik the police make them skedaddie? We allude to the perfumed exquisites, idle scamps and Pickpockets who loiter around church doors on Sun- day, and who string themselves two and three deep slong the curbstone while the congregations are being dismissed from divine service. “Indian summer" burst upon us yesterday morn- ing with ail ite enchanting loveliness, and Broadway and the Avenue were, 48 & natural consequence, crowded with fair pedestriennes rigged out in all the fantastics waggeries of fashion, including the panier, watteau and trail. The latter did excellent nervice in sweeping the sidewalks, Latest From Cupa.—The external aspect of affairs in Cuba does not improve as time advances. Under the guise of evolutionists bands of robbers are devas- tating the country. These depredations are confined chiefly to the eastern portion of the island. Such, however, is the effect pro- need there that planters are unable to har- vest their crops and that famine is dreaded. In the disturbed districts the mails within the last few days have been frequently seized. Captain General Lersundi has been instructed by the home government to exercise his dis- cretion in dispensing with the death penalty in the case of persons condemned for political offences. Cuba is manifestly in a bad state. So far as we can see at present her case must become worse and worse unless she cuts connection with the mother country and links her future destiny with the United States. It is scarcely kind so to put it, but it is ' °]